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GRASS ItEl'tJltTElt.
WILLIAM CLINK. EDITOR.
THOMASVII Ll'.. CIA:
MATUESDAY. II i> SB. ISFO.
Ee iters for Peusnrola.
All letters for tneinbers of eompatiies who liav<»
gone to IVnsaeol.'i should be addressed to Montgom
ery, Ala., and endorsed “for I’ensaeola or Warring
ton.” A mail is made up nt Montgomery direct to
these latter places, where the soldiers receive their
letters. The letter, besides the name of the person,
should be endorsed with the name of the company
to which he belongs.
Lv' M e call the attention oi our readers to the
Curd of Messrs. CARHART A Bro. Merchants, of
Macon, Georgia. Messrs. Carharts are Georgians,
but were doing business, until recently, in the citj
ot New York. The abolition liny at tin* North has
induced them to return to their native home, and
they now solicit tin* business of their old customers
and Southerners generally at their eatab ishment in
Macon. Mr. Risseli . whois extensiv <ly know n
over the South as their affable ami gentlemanly
travelling Agent, is still attached to the firm, and
will be pleased to see his old acquaintances at the
Store.
Webb, of the New York Enquirer, has taken
back all his abuse of Maj. Anderson. He says,“the
charge was based on falsehood and lying.” No doubt
of that, and Col. Webb Limselt the author.
The Boston Herald says, one hundred young
men have left that city tor the South w ithin a few
days, as recruits stir the army of the Confederate
States. We do not believe a word of this. It is
one of the thousand falsehoods which daily enie
nate from the Northern press. But should it
prove true, look out for spies and deserters. Not
one of them should be accepted, but be immediately
ordered home again. V\ e have no reference to
Northern men w ho came hero before the war, but to
such as shall come as above stated.
Two more Stars added to tlae South
ern Constellation.
SECESSION OF TENNESSEE.
MONTGOMERY. At.a . May 7.—A dispatch receiv
ed here from Hon H. W. Hilliard, announces that
the Legislature of Tennessee has parsed an act of
Secession.
This act to be submitted to the vote of the people
on the Sth of June next.
SECESSION OF ARKANSAS.
Montgomery. May 7 —T he Convention of Ar
kansas has passed an Ordinance of Secession. The
act is complete in itself.
That terrible Proclamation of•• Mr. Linklmrn”
seems to be doing the business of the Southern
States admirably. The people of two more States
have “gone home,” as appears from the above, and
no doubt will behave decently and orderly. As to
remaining quiet and passive, that may depend upon
Mr. Linkhorn’s own deportment. If any of his
raggamuflin soldiers come that way, they may feel
themselves under the necessity of bucking them
down and paddling them, if not inflicting a worse
treatment. They will be bucked and paddled cer
tain.
President’s Message.
The reader’s attention is invited to President
Davis Message on the first and fourth pages. It
fully meets the occasion, and, in our opinion, is an
incomparable state paper, giving a just exposition of
the principles ot true republican liberty as transmit
ted to as by our fathers. If the Northern people,
in t.'u-i” p--b 1 i <,-..1 ai.d uol,itiv«l "'ii'liii’l, hart
properly understood that Liberty as limited by c< n
stitutional checks, and protected by State Rights, i
the woild would now be 1 spared the unnatural spec
tacle of a fratricidal strife instigated by the fiery
demon of fanaticism. The South has ever resisted ;
the central.z:ng doctrines of the North, and resisted
them successfully up to the election of the Kanga
roo President at Washington, and because we will
not have him to rule over us, he and his infamous
party are compassing land and sea for preparations
to cut our throats. This he expects to do in ninety
days we believe, which is an easy job on paper.
Patriotic Aclio a.
It seemed, a short time ago, a matter of some dif
ficulty to arouse the people of Thomas county to a
sense of the true position of the Southern States,
and assume action to meet the emergency. That
time has gone by, and old ami young now appear to
be making up for lost time. We have received three
communications during the last week, sounding pa
triotic notes of preparation for the contest, with
all of which we are highly pleased. One comes
from the ‘ Seventeenth” and another from the “Thir
teenth and Fourteenth” of this county. We cheer
fully give them an insertion, and recommend t. tie
other counties in South Western Georgia to “go and
do likewise. ’ Brooks, w e think, led the way in this
commendable organization:
Rally I To Arms!
Thomas County, Ga., May 3, 1861.
M ould it not be well for the citizens of Thomas
county to think well upon what ground they stand ?
There are a number of our young men who have
volunteered to go off to the “wars,” and will leave
us soon, no doubt. There are others that are equal
ly patriotic that would (and will go if the occasion
requires it) volunteer. But suppose we take <df the
entire? verting population of the county—which we
could do—what would become of our home affairs ?
Would it not be well f„r our citizens to organize
Companies, and drill at convenient times, for the
protection of our homes and firesides? I have
heard it said by numbers of persons that they could
Whip ail persons that would land on our shores with
double-barrelled Shot Guns. It is true the citizens
of Baltimore put to route one famous legiment of
Massachusetts, but the “price of liberty is eternal
vigilance.'’ and to be completely on our guard we
must meet and drill regularly at least once a week
It may be that none of those who enlist in this
“Home Guard.” as it may be called, will have to leave
the county of Thomas, but if there is a call, “who
is so base as to refuse the call ?” I hope for the
honor of Georgia, the justly styled Empire State of
the South, that there will not be one that will re
fuse to spill the last drop of his blood foi ■ our homes,
iamilies and firesides. Secession.
Boston, Thomas County, Ga., May 3, 1861.
Owing to the present crisis, the great danger that
pervades our country, by the threatened invasion of
the Vandals of the Noith, who are increasing their
will, envy and strength every day, tor the purpose
of overrunning and subjugating Southern soil, and
aiming a deadly blow at our institutions, we, as a
“hl men ol T homas county in the
thirteenth and I'uurteenth Districts of said county,
are desirous of funning a company called the old
mens Company or Guards,” incase our
young men should b,. chl |,. (l iht „ K(;rvice , , h( , G(( .
,_e»noi i‘ eeotgni,and leave our homes unprotected.
Me desire an all the old men so in
clined. at a meeting to be held nt Seward’s Depot, on
Wednesday the Lrt!, day of May the purpose of
organizing aud ejecting or appointing officers, &c.
Many Old Men’
Men of Duncanv’Te To Arms! To Arms’!
.... . . DUNCANVILLE, Ga., May Bth, 1861
I lie citizens of Duncanville District’ who have not
joined either of the Military Companies, now or
ganized in Thomas county, are requested to meet at
Duncanville on the li-th instant, for the purpose of
forming a company lor the protection ot our fire
sides, homes, honor and liberties, and to take the
field in case of an invasion . Come one come all'
V’e regret to find that we were under mistake in
announcing that Gen. Scoit had resigned bis com
mission as Lieutenant General and (h.mmander-in-
Chief of the military forces of the I’uiled State s
He still retains that position, and we r.ppn hend is
likely to retain it. The fact is, Gen. Scott, in com
mon parlance, is a Gen. Scott man; and. ait hough he
, has done the I nited States some service, he always
fought for Captain or Colom 1 or General Scott.—
After he hail done fighting, honor, fame and pretty
, fair pay were not sufficient to satisfy his ambition.
He aspired to the Preside ncy, but bis vatilling pre
tensions were defeated, ami to (he Southern vote lie
ascribes that detent. Gen. Scott is vindictive as
well as ambitious. He will never forgive the South
ern people for this delete. 110 no doubt feels that lie
■ r.wes them a deft, and is anxious to pay it. Ills pre -
fence of adhering to his oath ofotfi. e is till nonsense
He has too much sense not to be aware l that every
Southern eir z n has been relieved from bis oath of
office 1 long ago. by its repeated violation by the major
ity of these in whose 1 favor the oath was taken. “A
compact broken on one side is bimken on nil sides”
is as wed) know n to Gen. Scott as it was to Daniel
Webster There is another trait m Gen, Scott’s
character. If he is as brave as the Duke l of Marl
borough he is also as avaricious. We have seem
it stated that his pay and perquisites as Lieu
tenant General of the 1 United States army fall
but little short of forty thousand dollars per
annum, and he is well aware that his services
would not be valued at more than a third or a
fourth of that sum by the government of the
Confederate States. It may be 1 said to be humilia
ting t<> a brave soldier to suppose? he would w eigh
his sense of duty in the scab l against dollars and
cents, but—“also poor human nature!” Soldiersas
well as sailors are “but men.”
The BiaiH
This seems to be the l childish order of the day,
with many, on berth sides of the Potomac. On one
side we hear that Lincoln is about to descend on the
South as an avalanche, fem r h mid red thousand stimuli,
devastate us with fire and sword, and apportion out
our territory among his followers—that he is about
mustering one innumerable force at Washington,
and another innumerable force l at Cairo—that they
are 1 to sweep the country throughout the length ami
breadth of our unfortunate l land, ami come to n focus
at New Orleans. The Wide 1 Awakes were muster
ing by tlmiisand ami tens of thousands. and were 1 to
come South and swallow us up without chewing or
pinning our ears back, but of late they are as mute
and harmless as sick kittens When we acquire
courage enough to lift up our eyes upon this terrible
picture, we find a few thousand starvlings, the very
dregs of society, congregated around the President
of the I nited States at Washington, and can hardly
tell which is the most alarmed, Lincoln or bis rag
ged, forlorn troops. We find another small force
destroying an immense amount of public propertv
at Gosport navy yard, lest it should fall into the
hands of the Virginians—who had just declared for
secession, and were wholly unprepared for < ffensive
w a;lure—and running away as soon as they had ac
complished that daring feat, before they had seen an
enemy. Another handful of troops may bn seen at
Cairo, whom the Kentuckians threaten to drown out
like rats, by letting in the swollen Mississippi upon
j them with its deluge of waters. These? are the
mighty hosts of Linen In. Among his people every
one is losing whatever little confidence they had
in him: and already threats have gone forth from
his own press of supplanting him with a more effi
cient governmental head. His Cabinet place no
confidence in him nor each other; while Granny
Scott and Granny Wool, his two principal military
, Llu-. u —t— .. ..re hrtntl. trmt ar last
accounts the Lieutenant General, who wears the
largest feather, ordered the Major General, whose
■ feather is shorter, to leave the city of New York
and be off to Lis own quarters at Troy, ami not to
meddle in future with military matters unless so di
rected by him. And lastly we see it stated that Eng
land has offered arms, ammunition and troops to the |
L nited States, to assist ter in conquering fur rebel
lious States. This is the state of the brag game on
Lincoln’s side. How is it with us ?
M ell. Ben McCulloch bad, some time ago, be
fore Virginia took her noble stand w ith her South
ern sisters, ten thousand troops enrolled in that
State, ready to march upon Washington City at a
moment’s warning, and Mrs. Davis had invited Mrs.
Lincoln t<> join her in a cup of tea at the White
House in that city at short date. Where is Beu
i McCulloch’s “bugle note” ami his “ten tlmiisand
I men'’ now? We hear nothing I’m ther of them. A
short time ago Genera] Bragg bad a larger number
i <>f men than he needed, now he is asking for three
i thousand more. Gen. Pillow only wanted permis
; sion to raise fifty thousand Tennessee troops, and I
they would spring up like dragon’s teeth, ready-made !
soldiers, armed and equipped for battle. Gen Pil- I
i low’s force is yet confined, as far as we can learn, to
one Tennessee regiment. Virginia too, had sixtv
i five thousand men in the field, ready to du or die at
: command —in fact the Governor had to order them
i to stay at home, as he had already more than enough
j troops. Where are they? Then there were the
1 “Knights of the Golden Circle,” a Southern “secret
i organization,” which were like the Italian Illumi-
I nati, to carry the glittering stiletto or poisoned
bowl to the vitals of abolitionists under the noonday
I sun or in the gloom of midnight. “The organiza
j tion,” writes a New York correspondent, “numbers
i now over twenty thousand men, good and true, who,
! under the form of an oath, with all the sanctions
' which can attach to an obligation, have pledged
! themselves to thin out the ranks of these Yankee '
I scoundrels before they reach any of the seceded
j States”—“l heard,” continues this writer, “one of
! the most active members of this organization say to
i day, that the plans of the organization, if effectual,
'would stiffen the joints of two hundred thousand
! Yankees at the? very lowest calculation.” It ap
pears the plans of the organization were not eflec
j tual, for we hear nothing of this terrible slaughter.
■ And we are rejoiced we do not. The people of the
’ South are not assassins. Give them a broad field
| and a fair fight with their enemy, and they desire no
I other advantage.
Now all this bragging and swaggering and Fal
! staffian fustian is net only in bad taste and useless,
j but is worse than useless. The gaze? is too trans-
I parent. It is seen to be the vapouring of a brag
: gat'd, and usually of a coward We have got to
; face the realities of a matter of fact war, and the
I sooner the Southern people make up their minds to
the stern reality the better. Slaves we never can
be. A despot can never rule over us. We must
j prepare and deport ourselves worthy of our beauti-
I ful heritage. We must conquer in the fight or lay
our bodies upon the’ ba'tle field, and we should make
up our minds to do this without swaggering or blus
tering Let the enemy boast and brag their fill, it
can do us no barm. We will stand to our arms, and
j tell the tale after our work is done. We have not
a doubt that we shall have brave men in the field in
abundance, whenever the Confederacy needs them,
' such men as are not to be alarmed by the idle vapour-
I inged Northern editors, or their ragamuffin scarecrow
[ mercenaries who may be sent to subdue us.
No war news of any note th s week.
[ " The following is an extract frotn tiWer re-
i eeived by the Editor of this paper from his son, late l
Mayor <>!' tin? town ol Griffin. It is pnldislied ns
showing “the very age and body of the? time, its
form and pressure.” With such feelings, what can
< Lincoln’s minions effect at the South? and this let
- ter embodies the universal feeling of the Southern
• States:
4 GitirriN, Ga , Muy 2, 1861.
I address you a few lines, my dear father, to in
lorm you that I shall leave in a few days for the sent
ol war—l presume l for I’< nsaceda, tlioinh I am not
. certain w here our destination w ill be Igo ns Se
cond Lieutenant in the Griffin Light Guards, and if.
an opportunity offers, 1 slmll be certain to make my I
' I mark in elefence of Southern Rights and Southern I
e 1 lidepciidence.
j I shall leave Mary Alu [his wife] at home 1 , soli- ;
t tary and alone, and commit and commend
| her to your care and pixgtectimi, know ing that you;
■ ; will be a father to her. aiielglo all in your power for I
her comfort nod mippiness. She is willing, under]
I In 1 circumstances, that I shouleLgo, and is as much
j satisfied as I could expect. AViTte t<> her often.!
1 ami come up and spend a portion ol the summer ]
■ I with Imr.
j Our company is orderml to rendezvous .at Macon j
i on Tuesday next (7th inst.) preparatory to leaving.
Should anything occur worthy ol note, on our route
I or in camp, I w ill give you the items.
A Itfiwksud for ;»jb Oliver.
Vi o accidentally struck upon the following corres
pondence between 11. M. Chastain, Post Master
Ii m Thomasville, and a New York merchant. The?
impertinent presumption of the one and the “beauti
ful square-off ” of the 1 other, are too good to be lost,
so we publish them for the edification of our readers. '
New York. April 27,1861. j
11. M. Chastain, Thotpasvilie, Ga.
Dear Sir:— Since' the I 'commencement of (iWFwar,
I suppose nothing w ill be allowed to pass into the
• seceded States, as all ports are to be 1 blockaded.—
An army w ill also be on the move soon, of perhaps !
I 5(10,000 men, ordered out to put dow n rebellion, and
the slave States will have to return to their allegi-j
, ance and give up government property, or they will
be ruined. May God save our country. lam griev
ed at the thought <rt‘ the future 1 , and I am fearful
im Southern triends do not nor will not realizctheir
danger till it is to<> late; for the Northern people stand
to-day as one man, sworn to avenge the outrage upon
the flag of our country, at Charleston, and will fight
twenty years rather than give l up an inch of territo
ry belonging to the United States. And, my dear
sir, if the 1 war continues long, slavery will be wiped
out of every Southern State. Mby people can tints
rebel against their governmenit and bring ruin upon
cannot see*. Os course 1 , I think you to
be l a man I'iyal t<> the United States Government, as
you are* one l of its officers, is the reason I w rite you
thus, as you are aware I w ish the South well, being
a native of the old Stat'? of Tennessee. Southern
is only worth fifty cents in the dedlar here
now. As soon as our difficulties are settled I hope?
to be in receipt of your oidcrs. Should be glad to
bear from you, and how things are 1 getting on in your
State. Respectfully,
M. S. BYRN. I
P. S.—Your premium, either in pen, pencil or
socket, is ready, how can I send it ? 'I he mails may
be stopped at any moment —in fact they are so much
obstructed now that there is no safety in sending
anything. Ido not know how to do, but will try to
send it if you say do so at your risk. B.
Southern Confederacy, 1
State of Georgia, >
Post Office, Thomasville. May 6,1861. )
Dr. M. S. Byrn— Sir:— Y'our favor of the 27th
ultimo is received and contents duly noticed.
i “5U>,000 men !” You say “slavery w ill be wiped
out,” Ac. M’ell. your Northern fanatics may do all
this, but you will find that talking is much easier
than doing; and by the time they ha r e accomplished
this they will not feel like making another wipe soon.
Our fears are not to be excited by Black Republican
threats. We are united, and when they have exter
minated us they may boast, and not before. We will
welcome yu'\v paupers and insane populace, who
think to make a pleasure excursion b? mareiiing into
the S.mtii. We are waiting for them. An army of
negroes could bi l raised sufficient to light our battle’s
for 2) years. A free negro of this town contributed
one hundred dollars to military companies in this
place on the 25tb April. This was a voluntary act
<it his w itb.eut selieilatien. What think w«u <>t ?
Sir, 1 am surprise I at you who e laim Tennessee as
your birth place, to talk about wiping out slavery.— ;
Now, Sir, you may understand from this time forth, ■
that my loyally is altogether to the Southern Con
federacy. I owe no allegiance to your Black Re
publican and infamous re.xeruiueirt. 1 want miinore l
of your goeais, gifts or any t iiiii” that you in ve, fori
lock upon you as a Traitor to your native State. If
the co'.eminent is ruined it is done by the 1 insane l
policy ot Northern demagogues and the ciluiinal
blinelness of then’ delink'd feeilowers. who have neg
le-eteel their e>w n Imsinets f <> meddle with ours which
did not concern them, and deai ly will they pay for
it. We will w elceimt l your o'rtl.lrtfO met; nay - 5.(i(i0,-
(.'tfii it you will, with ‘‘hospitable hands io bloody
graves.” Respeetfiillv,
IL M. CHASTAIN.
-* t “Fi ty per emit, more? corn,” says an ex- ,
change, “has be-en plantnl in South Western Georgia I
this year, than was planted last year.” Not sei fast, J
brother, twenty per cent, is about a fair average*. —
But less or ineire, wheat, euits, corn, nay the* whe>le
vegetable growth never loeeked more preimising. It
is toe? early to determine the yield of the sevetal
crops, but if they heeld emt as the y have started they I
will all be abundant.
The Possliosi ol SAeastßßfky.
Hein. James B. Clay, son of Ilen’ y Clay,
lias issued a card declining to be a candidate
for a seat in the Bordet States Convention,
lie sees no piospect for such a Convention to
beheld. We copy as follows from his card:
“It is my fluty to yon, and to myself, to
inform you that the change in circumstances,
to which I referred, has caused ine to change 1
my position. As soon as I was satisfied that
V irginia had dissolved her connection with
the Northern Union, I made np iny mind that 1
Kentucky ought no longer to remain a mem- 1
her of it; that her only plain, unmistakable ’
duty is now to take immediate steps to array '
herself alongside her Southern sisters. I am 1
now for a united South. i
Our friends who have heretofoio opposed
us, now take l the position that it is necessary 1
to arm the State. We begged and implor-e'l 1
them long ago to do so. But for what do
they now propose to arm the State ? To main- 1
tain, as they say, an armed neutrality. What 1
is neutrality ! It is a position assumed by !
one foreign State ns between other foreign ’
States. Is Kentucky foreign both to the 1
North and to the South ? With the bayonet
of Northern hordes at the breast ofour broth- L
ers; with the blood of our friends flowing; ■ 1
with towns burned and eities threatened, Ij 1
can eompieheud well that theNortb is foreign; |
but 1 know no recognized Southern Confed-' 1
eracy against which we can occupy a position
of neutrality. I he ide i is absurd in law; the
argument is adchessed to our fears and not to
our patriotism. Because it is possible Ken
tucky may furnish once again a battle field,
we are to assume a position of positive inac- ,
tion. Such idea and such argument does not i
suit me, nor do 1 believe, it will suit Ken- 1
tucky. It is our duty now to take position
oneway or the other. We cannot remain ;
’ idle spectators of such contest. ,
1 am fully aware of all the difficulties and
of all the perils of the position which 1 have
taken, and which I advise you, people of
Kentucky, as in my judgment, it is your du- I
ty now to take, the earliest step possible to
place your State with your Southern breth
ren; but I have a full and perfect reliance in
that scripture which says “the race is not to
the swift nor the battle to the strong.” Uni- '
ted, we may hope to stand; divided, wc will
surely fall.”
C’os-p.Ji! Corn! I
No one can compute, remarks the Macon
Telegraph, the disaster ami misery which
will come upon us as a people, should we fail
to produce this year the most abundant grain
cri p—not such crops as have been called
abundant heretofore—but such a yield as
will admit of waste in the ordinary operations
of war, and perhaps some considerable de
struction from the enemy. A short crop or a
failure may be our ruin as a people, for we
cannot starve ami light. A scanty corn crop
is far more to be dreaded than anything our
i enemy can do to injure, us. Tim planter
j who is insanely neglecting Ids corn crop for
I cotton now is unwittingly fighting the Ent
itles of Lincoln. A good hand in the field is
worth as much to our cause as a good soldier
in the ranks, and the planter who is using a
hundred such hands to produce only corn
■ enough to feed them is striking a fell blow
lat the cause of his country. If you are not
sure you are. doing your part towards an
abundant corn crop set about it in God’s name.
One, of our correspondents says "plow up the
cotton.” Yes! plow it up, if need be. Look
out for corn first, last and all the time.
The Imtcst Xcws.
Montgomery, May s.—Congress was in
secret session all day yesterday. The in
junction of secrecy was removed from an act
passed providing for the formation of a Regi
ment of Zouaves.
j Resolutions were adopted, allowing all
; persons in the, slaveholding Stales desiring
patents to file their caveats with the attorney
General.
General Beauregard and Mr. Ri ssel of
the, London Times, have arrived here.
Richmond, May s.—New York, Philadel
phia and Boston, aie reported to be, in a wild
state of excitement, owing to an alarming re
port which had gained currency that an or
ganized plan had been laid to burn those three
cities. Special guards were immediately
placed all over these places.
The N orthern papers urge an immediate
attack on Harper’s Ferry, Alexandria ami
No;folk, before the people of Virginia have
time to ratify the ordinance of secession.
The Maryland Legislature has appointed
five Secessionists on the committee to super
intend the arming of the State.
Gen. Wool has been ordered from New
York back to Troy by Gen. Scott, in a brief,
sharp and snubbing letter. Wool is request
ed not to interfere with Scott’s orders.
Several persons have been arrested in the
neighborhood of Annapolis as spies, and some
had made accurate, surveys and minute de
tails of the operations there.
The Railroad between Annapolis and
Washington is guarded by Federal troops.—
The Baltimore ami Ohio Railroad w ill soon
be made a military road.
Mr. Faulkner, has had an interview with
the French Foreign Minister, Thou venal,
who said that the practice now was clearly
understood to recognize all Governments
when clearly established beyond dispute, and
that when the new Ameiican Government
arrived at that point, he presumed it would
be recognized.
Thouvehal then demanded information on
the subject of a low Tariff, which, he said,
so deeply affected the French commerce.—
Faulkner ansn ered this. He said the tariff
would be modified by an extra session of
Congress.
In New York, on Friday, a seizure of a
million of boxes of percussion caps was made.
'l'lnse were destined lor Charleston.
1 lie frigate Niagara sailed eaily this morn
ing on secret service.
The papers all agree that on Monday be
gins the offensive opciations by Lincoln.—
Noifolk, llaipei s Ferry, and Alexandria, are
points designated. The New York Tribune,
says: "On Monday, at farthest, let the coun
try be prepared tor a proclamation from the.
President. He. has determined upon active,
instant, decisive and comprehensive action.
The time has ariived when, in accordance
with the, doctrines he announced in bis in
augural, Z/?c President ti'ill proceed to repos
sess the property of the United. States."
ort 3-3 l* t b•
Col. Harvv Brown, who now in:s command
of Fort Pickens, is doing everything in his
powei to prepare his soldiers for what he im
agines to be a "hard fight” with our soldiers,
Gen. Bragg, a gallant soldier, full of nerve
and full of pluck, and with the sagacity
of Beauregard, is equal to any emergency.
He is watching the movements of the enemv
and making his preparations accordingly. It
is thought by some gentleman who ariived in
th’s city, that Brown intends to land some of
his men near Pensacola, and take charge of
the Pensacola Railroad, and also the city of
Pensacola. Whether this report is reliable,
we are not able to state; but the fact that
General Bragg had sent an order for two
thousand more men, leaves the impression
upon our mind that he anticipates an effort
of this kind on the part of Col. Brown. The
arrival of the large U. S. steamer Illinois,
crowded down as she was with men and pro
visions, looks as if an energetic effort is being
made on Santa Rosa Island to put the United
States soldiers in a defensive position.
Gen. Bragg shows what he is about, and
desires to be t horoughly prepared and strength- I
ened before any demonstration is made. If
Brown’s idea is to take possession of Pensa
cola and the Railroad, then it is absolutely
necessary and important that the two thou
sand men which Gen. Bragg sends for, should
be on the line of march at once to the corm
templated seat of war.— Montg. Confed.
JE3F = ’Tlie military bill hasbeen passed in Tennessee,
calling tor 55,000 troops, and appropriating $5,000,-
OOu, two millions positively and ihiee millions con
ditionally.
The statistical reports of the batteries engaged
during the bombardment of Fort Sumter, show that
the number of shot and shell thrown, make a total
of 2361 of the former and 98 ) of the latter.
Pickens.
The steamship Atlantic, which returned to New
York last week, reports that the ieinforcement of
Fort Pickens was mostly accomplished on the night
of April 16th, but the landing of horses, artillery,
ammunition, provisions, and all kinds of supplies oc
cupied the fleet till the 23d.
It is a suggestive circumstance that most of the
ships arriving at New York from Europe come
in empty. The war is having a crushing effect up
on the Northern shipping interest. The imports of
foreign goods show a woeful falling off.
An Irish Regiment.
We learn that Major Cavanaiigh, of New Orleans, ’
has arrived in this city, for the purpose of offering
to the Secretary of War the services of a Regiment
to be composed entirely of Irishmen. He says it
will be the desire of his comrades, should the Regi
ment be accepted, to be placed directly in front ”of
the boasted 69th Irish Regiment ofNew York when
ever the line of battle is drawn, so as to show' them
the diflei ence between those who are fighting on the
one side as mere mercenaries, and on the other for
their firesides and their liberties.— Mont. Advertiser
' i
The Confederate Congress has accepted Lincoln's
war measures.
From the Savanmih Republican, 7lh inst.
'E'er! i’»Ee Acrtcßcn! eat Steamer.
Lieut. Nekon MortaHy Wounded— -Col. Miller Gneve
Seriously Injured.
W t arc pained to record a most melancho
ly occurrence that took place on our liver,
late vesterday afternoon, bv which a gallant
' young Lieutenant of the Georgia Army was
fatally. a prominent and much loved citizen
horribly woiuided, find another citizen of the
' up country .severely lacerated.
As the steamer Habersham was coming
up fiom Fort Pulaski, with a considerable
party of officers and visitors on board, as she
neared F<nt Jackson a small iron swivel was
brought out and loaded for a salute—unfor
tunately over-charged. The fuse being ap
plied, the, weapon burst to atoms, the frag
ments flying in every direction. Though
sad as is the result, it was fortunate, that it
was no worse. One of the pieces of metal
struck Lieutenant William Nelson, of the
Georgia Army, and son of the bite Gen.
Chas. 11. Nelson, i jflictinga fatal injury from
which it is impossible for him to recover.
Die wound is on the light side of
just above the eye, iaeging npward,vn)d back
ward. The flesh is much lacerated and the
skull broken for a considerable space. He
lias not spoken since the accident, and his
case is considered hopeless, though he is still
alive as we write, 7 p. m
Our old friend, Colonel Miller Grieve, of
Milledgeville, is the next sufferer., lie was
standing some twenty feet from the gun
when it exploded, and was struck on the left
cheek, just below the eye, and passing back
ward inflicting a terrible gash anil probably
breaking in the cheek bone, if not destroying
the sight of one eye. The flesh is literally
tom up from the bone and thrown back,
presenting a frightful spectacle, while his
whole person seemed ’ soaked with blood.—
, He had not been thoroughly examined when
!we saw him. It is Imped that this is the on
ly injury, and that his valuable life is not
endangered. He is entirely sensible. He
has a son in the service at Fort Pulaski, and
had just been down to visit him.
Mr. Marshal] Perkins, a citizen of Burke
county, who had been down on a visit to
friends in the service, received a severe gash,
to the depth of some two inches and three or
more in length, on the back part of his left
thigh It ie purely a flesh wound, and he
will doubtless soon recover.
U.S.—IOP.M. Lieut. Nelson has been
trephined and is somewhat revived, but very
little, hope is entertained. We regret to hear
that upon examination Col. Grieve is rseer
tained to be, far more seriously injured than
was at first apprehended. The hones of his
face are crushed op to the base of the brain.
He has had several spasms, and his condition
is considered hopeless.
The Republican of Wednesday the Sth contains
the following in respect to these unfortunate gentle
men:
Ths Victims of the Explosion.
We regret that we are unable to give any
more favorable accounts of the parties in
jured by the bursting of the cannon on board
the II tbet sham, Monday evening. They
arc all though yet alive.
At mne o'clock last evening Col. Giieve
was comparatively quiet, with nomateiial
change in nis condition. No favorable symp
toms have presented themselves, yet, as then l
is no apparent decline, his friends are enconr
: age to hope for some favorable turn in his
Lieutenant Nelson was in a dying condi
tion, ami it was not thought that lie could
survive the night.
Mr. Perkins’s injury being only a flesh
wound, though severe, he took the cars for
home Monday night.
DsalSa off JLjeut. Aeisoj?.
V\ ( > regret to record the death of Lieuten
ant Vv illiani Nelson, of the Georgia Army.—
He expired 7 o'clock yesterday morning, at
the Pulaski House in this city, of the wounds
received in the late, explosion on board the
steamer Ha.hersham. His body left here for
Gordon county by the J o’clock train, under
an escort < f a detachment fiom his comrades
in asms. Ihe event has created a deep sad
, ness in this community, to whom he was a
stranger
We were gratified to learn last night that
Col. Grie’.'.e, ti>e other sufferer from the, same
calamity, was considered better. There was
a manifest improvement in his symptoms yes- ;
terday, which gave much encouragement to
his friends.— Republican 9th.
Die Charleston "Mercury” sees peace
looming up above the. heavy war clouds in
the Imrrizon. The “Mercury” thinks, we
suppose, that the darkest hour is just before
day. It says:
Let the great, end of a union of the fifteen
Slaveholding States be accomplished, and
war by the North upon the South is a fla
grantabsurdity. Paradoxical as it may seem,
the avoidance of fighting was certain war,
and fighting was the only way to obtain
peace. Hence, we longed for a collision in
our bay, as opening the only avenue to
peace.
The press and the people of the North ap
pear to be furious for war. The abolition
Government at Washington appears deter
mined to conquer the South. These are ;
necessary for peace, because they are necessa
ry to arouse and unite the Soul h. The mine de
cided the demonstritions of hostility from the
North, the better for the great cause the of the
Soutern ledemption and independence. Here
tofore we have been too slow in action—too
forbearing—for Southern union; we must await
their coming. I’he Confederate States should
be, in their preparations for war, equal to »he I
United States; but they should not perci
pitate conflict with the Unted States, unless
in counsel with the Frontier States, where
the conflict must rage,
\ iiginia signalizes her independence with
her wonted bravery, She seizes Harper’s
I’erry and the Custom Houses, and will soon
make the gleam of her bayonets tell her de
termination. Give the illustrious Old Com
monwealth time to wake up her strength and
rage. Let her glorious daughter, Kentucky,
shake the bloody land with her martial tread;
l and the steady columns of Tennessee, which
I marched on in the streets of Montery, when
swept through with grape, without a pause
in their step, have time to form. Maryland,
in the streets of Baltimore, forbids Federal
troops from passing over her soil. The
work goes bravely on. The South will soon
be invincible by a union of the South, and
command peace by her invincibility. We
repeat, “’Die day breaks, and the sun of
Peace tinges the black clouds of War.”
1
for the War.
I am now preparing to leave for the war,
and earnestly request all who are indebted to
me to come, forward and settle.-- Those hav-
1 ing accounts will be expected to give their
notes in all cases where they cannot pay me
, the money. I desire to leave iny business
in a tangible form, and trust all who are in
debted to me will at once come forward.
F. 8. BOWER.
24cntiirky— gEflhons, cliivalic Ken
tucky—
Is coming up to the work, and meeting the
“great occasion” of the hour, in a protind de
fiant spirit, which might be expected of the
brave Heroes of New Orleans—the gallant
"Hunters” of 1815. Last Winter the Gen
eral Assembly deviated that whenever the
Nmiliem States attempted the invasion of
the. South for coercive purposes —
"The people, of Kentucky, uniting with
their brethren of the South, will as one man
resist such invasion of the soil of the South
at all hazzatds ami to the last extremity.”
In view of this resolve,‘well may the Lou
isville “Courier” tell them that
“Lincoln has not men enough at his"
command to penetrate fifty miles into the'
inteiior of Kentucky. Legions of gallant
men will spring up, armed with the :
“Kentucky rifle,” and mountains of the'
. slain invaders will arrest the march, anti
it may be protect the retreat, of, the minions'
of fanaticism, should they have the temerity
to accept the invitation extended to them by
the Submissionists among us.”
Well may the Journal, remembering Ken
tucky’s record, and the deeds of her brave
sons, remind them that.
“Xerxes and his millions were driven back,
by a few little Greek States, whose whole
Territoiy was not as large as the State of
South Carolina. Prussia, not larger than
Kentucky, successfully maintained a war
against all Europe combined for seven
years. The Ameiican colonies, poor, weak,
unarmed, defenseless, exposed on one side
to savage ferocity and on the other to British
invasion, held at bay for seven years the first
power in the world, and succeeded in secu
ring their independence. Texas, sparsely
settled, without an army, and unaided, nobly
achieved her independence of Mexico, and
took her place among the nations of the
world. With the means at her command, the
loyal sons of Kent ticky, if it were necessary,
could, alone and unaided, successfully defend
her soil and protect their homes against any
power the enemy can bring to bear against
her.”
THE CLOSING YEARS OF LIFE are often
rendered wretched by ailments which are trifling in
themsvlvi s and are easily cured if fallen in time
i Affection of the liver, stomach, and other organs
concerned in digestion, are the most frequent.—
'I hey naturally make the sufferer nervous, irritable
and complaining, and relatives and friends are forced
;to b-ar the brunt of their ill humor. The use of
Hostetter’s Celebrated Stomach Hitters will prove
<in efficient remedy for this evil, it will riot only
strengthen the whole physical organization, but en
tirely erne the most obstinate cases of Indigestion,
, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, and Liver Complaint. The
first physicians in the com.fry are loud in their praise
ol this preparation. Another recommendation <>f
the Bitters is that it is so palatable to the taste that
it may be used even as a beverage. Sold by all
druggists.
J “•————
e would call the attention of tlime suffering
from Consumption, Bronchitis, Ac., to an advertise
ment in another column of this paper, of an in por
: taut discovery for the cure ol those diseases, now
introduced foi - the first time to the Ameiican public
by Messi's. Leeds, Gilmore A Co., of New Yolk.
New
(LATE OF YOBX,)
T i AN r. returned to this place, where they will be
pleased to see their Friends. All communica
tions w ill be promptly attended to.
Store in Ralston’s Rock Building, Third Street.
A.' S ' ° I WM. B. CARIIART.
Aia.-om March I>. ]BGm
Caution !
fJMIE public are hereby cautioned against trading
1 with my w ife, or any other person on my »c
--emmt as 1 will not pay any debts of their contracting
alter tics date. JORDAN HARDY.
<»iLOgJCiaA—Thomas <’o:iaty.
Court of Ordinary, May Gth, 1861.
REAS John C. lieymdds makes applicr,-
» V tn.;: to this court for letters ofguardianship, for
the persons, property and effects of James M. Wm.
11. and George J. Reynolds, minors of said county—
All persons Ini. rested are therefore notified to silo
their objections in sai-1 court, otherwise said letters
j will be granted to said applicant at a regular term
ot said court, to be held at the court house in Thom
asville, said county, on the first Monday of June
nC i : B-30d HENRY 11. TOOKE, Ordinary.
<xEO2Z<S2 A—Thomas County.
A LL persons interested are hereby notified that
\Viii; t,le administrator on the estate of
i l ' h<,| ‘ is - deceased, of said county, will
■ipplj to t ie Honorable the court of Ordinary pf
Mmleouuty ata regular term of said court, on the
hist Monday of August next, for an order
ami judgement of said court, granting leave and
authorizing the sale of all the real estate and lands
of said deceased.
.r P JOHN C. REYNOLDS, Adm’r.
Thomas County.
A niH’ersons iudebted to William H. Reynolds
1 k Lite of said county, deceased or Lio x \ Kld8 *
requested t > come forward and make i " are
claimetiail.st Ids'l'- a “ d aH '
\[ !lV g u C. REYNOLDS, Adm’r.
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