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SPEECH OF HON LO.VG OF
We copy from the Cincinnati Enquirer of
the Oth of July, the speech of Sir. Long at the
reception accorded to him by the people of
the Second Congressional district of . Ohio.—
The meeting was held eight miles from the city
of Cincinnati, and was cowpoßed of large
number!) of farmers as well as residents of the
dfty-
Hon. Wm. Corry delivered the reception
speech, from which wC make the followiag ex
tracts, and regret that we have not space for
the whole of his remarks ■
Freemen and fair iKxajhtersOKU): .
It was eminently fit to invoke the blessing
of God on this scene. It is seldom there is
such a union of heavenly and earthly b.essmgs
—a faultless day, and such an organized as
sembly. We are assembled to do honor to
oar worthy representative by a public recep
tion; and I am the organ of the constituency
who'are, bent earnestly on this duty, and who
ordered me to speak, surrounded with these
emblems. Here are the stars and stripes—
thirteen—and thirteen as they went through
the revolution. But here floats an inscription
over rr.y heed which is the key note of this
grand occasion, “Peace, sod for State Bights:"
The last ter. syllables explain alike the victorv
and the institutions of our fathers. S'ates’
Bights is the vital spark of the Federal sys
tem ; to extinguish which is to destroy it. It
is the the ancestral creed. “Peace'' in the de
vice of heaven itself, and if the white winged
and dove-eyed angels preside oversuch scenes,
they wan'd feel tla‘ they might slumber among
their fellows as mortals leep when the days is
done. But to the occasion itself.
Fellow Citizens: We come to do ourselves
honor in honoring Alexander Long. Congress
man of the second district of the sovereign
State of Ohio. He was not only our proxy,
but our true representative in all he so boldly
spoke for peace in preference to the extermin
ation of the Southern people, and for the im
mediate termination of the war He has been
censured for (his discharge of duty. We are
here to share the censures with him, by sol-'
emtily assuming the very same responsibility.
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Sir : You have done more than simply dis
charge your duty. That would have been
enough, but by good-fortune you have gone
much lurther.' Tho thickening elements to op
position of Lincoln and despotism were power
less and feeble, until your peace speech m
Congress, like a great lamp in darkness, show
ed our feet the way of escape irora the cave oi
Polyphemus ; and you are the glorious pioneer,
who, by a stroke ot geniui, has saved hi: coun
try. What was considered hopeless, has be
come feasible ; t.nd what you first announced
three mouths ago, is now popular ; u is what
half the people believe, if they dared to say it;
and what all will ultimately perceive to be
their greatest good, and their highest difry ;
the only solution jf torrible crisis in human
affairs is your own discovery- And for this
wo honor Alexander Long.
With your position of public and recognized
benefactor, surrounded with a large aad'in
cressing body of friends ; the founder of anew
and noble policy, which lias already legions of
Christian professors is our own Democracy,
and in the cations of civilized Europe, we
should first of ail congratulate you that the re
ward of integrity .has trodden on the very heels
of the heroic dead which proved it. Nothing
could crown the most protracted career with a
higher trophy than you had wou at the outset.
Let it but. be the glorious first step in a public
life, which we ardently hope may be long,
happy and illustrious.
Fellow-citizens, we may well also congrat
ulate ourselves that our implicit trust in our
member’s virtue and intelligence should have
been so-entirely vindicated. We took up a
young advocate from the walks of his profes
sion, who had made his way entirely through
obscurity, proverty and self-denial, from the
plough, the village school, first as pupil then as
teacher, but who belonged first and last to the
ranks of the people ; and. we give him out - con
sent to represent this large and important dis
trict in the Federal council at a time when ve
terans (periled, au(l i statesmen only saw the
Tight to pursue the wrong. 0 * ' 0
MR. liONG’6 SPEECH.
When this dist iii gnkboil champion of Free
dom and leading advocate of peace presented
himself on tho platform, the vociferous applause
which greeted him excelled any thing of the
kind ever witnessed. After the cheer upon
cheer had subsided, Mr. Long commenced as
follows :
Mr. Chairman and Follow Citizens—lt is not
in tho power of language tor mo to express
the deep sense of gratitude I feel in listening
to the eloquent terms in which* you, sir, (turn
ing to Mr. Corry,) have referred to myself, and
at beholding this demonstration n’{ popular
opinion; and, sir, although you have endea
vored by the power and iorce of the English
language, of which you are so perfect a mas
ter, to attribute it to myself personally, lam
not vain enough for one moment to believe it
is so intended. It is the true expression of
popular sentiment in favor of a principle,
which, by your suffrage, and your kind par
tiality, ray fellow-citizens, I have been ena
bled to give utterance.to in the councils of the
nation. It means Peace ; peaceupon Ihr terms
it can l>e obtained, that would be satisfactory
to honorable men, but in any event peace,
even if it costs the recognition of the separate
and sovereign independence of the Confede
rate States.
I am deeply grateful for this manifestation
of approval of my course upon tho all excit
ing question of the day—a question that sinks
in insignificance all iho events of our past
history.
I see before me the representative men of a
large portion of my constituency—men whose
esteem I highly prize, and for whose political
judgment I have always had tho 'greatest re
spect and regard.
In pronouncing for peace, which is a pain
ful but stern necessity, upon the basis of rec
ognition of tbe Plates composing the Southern
Confederacy, although 1 would make any per
sonal sacrifice to induce them to return, if
such a thing were possible, to the principles of
1776, expressed in tho Declaration of Independ
ence, that all just governments derive their
power from the consent of the governed, I was
fully aware that I took upon myself great per
sonal risk and hazard.
1 knew that lor the last three years freedom
of speech and the press had been , to a great
extent, suppressed, and that most of the con
stitutional safeguards which formerly surround
ed, the people and the rencsentatives in Con
gress had been broken down I knew that in
declaring against luither prosecution of this
infamous war I should subject myaelf to tbe
frowns of arbitrary power- -a power far great
er than ever raised its head before upon this
continent —a power, relentless, inexorable,
and unscrupulous—having a million of bayo
at its back and disbursing billions of what
passes for money per annum—a power support
ed by an influential public press.and by a most
mighty and potent organization among the
people.
The prison.* and dungeons of the country*,
from the Atlantic to the IV.-rific, her - jsoF.u
choly evidence ot the penalty tiffs despotism
had visited upon thc-v brave and courage-.'us
men who before had dared to condemn its poli
cy acd publicly express a disagreement of
opinion with it
Had I consulted my personal ce.so and sense
of security, to say nothing of my personal inter
est, I should have remained silent, and not
given expression foray sincere and conscien
tious convict or.?. In this war, from Tits begin
ning, the frieuds of peace have been threatened
with severe punishment, by mobs, or by the
Government, if they continued faithful to their
conscience—and they have been rewarded with
money, with office, with contracts and patron
age. if they would apostatize and become the
Mowers of the war trumpet, and he ‘.he minions
ot power.
The weak, the corrupt and the vascillating
■went over to the ranks of the Administration.
It is the good fortune of these who, upon
those terms and at these risks, pronounce for
peace, that they have no hypocrites among
them, and that no better evidence of hones;y
and sincerity can be afforded than to o, pose
this contract-giving and thieving corrupt dv
naoty.
I remembered that I was the representative
of a brave and patiiotic constituency, and that
it was my duty to pronounce in t'ieii behalf,
what I believed to be true, upon the floor of
Congress.
So great has been the excess of power hv
this Administration, so bold and audacious its
violation of everything connected with purs tri
al liberty, that I presume you were net sur
prised when, for thus delivering my views and
yours. I was threatened with the "pciuishment
of expulsion from my seat in the House
Indeed, the time lias long since passed when
anybody should be astonished at any outrage
this Administration cox mi is upon public lib
erty and personal rights..
That the Honorable Speaker of the House
pliould bo tie mover of tile disgraceful, unjust
and anti-constitutional resolution of expulsion
will forever remain upon the pages of our con
-fi'utional hiatorv as another remarkable evi
dence cA the blindness of party rage and the
terrib'e vindictiveness of political passion.
It will not be expected that I shall now refei
in detail doctrines I have advocated as
your repreaßatteeupon the floor of Congress,
during the eventful session that has just closed.
* You are familiar with my position, and I am
rejoiced to know, as I have been informed by
the eloquent gentleman who has just spoken
in your behalf, that it meets with an approval
at your hands, and finds responsive hearts in
the bosoms of the intelligent and patriotic
constituency which I have been so highly hon
ored as to represent.
Three montirs have passed on yesterday,
since, as your representative, I assumed the
responsibility of declaring the deliberate con
victions of my judgment, in support of the
principles and doctrines I then asserted, in op
position to the further prosecution of the war
lor the coercion of sovereign States, by the
use of such arguments as God had enabled me
to employ, and J stand before you to day to
say that (hey are true ; true and unchangeable
as the hills are everlasting.
Tbe lapse of time, subsequent events and
much additional reflection, have only Bt-rved
to convince me of the justice of the views I
then expressed.
That there is no ether alternative in this
war (ban subjugation and extermination of the
Southern people on the one band, or the re
cognition of their Confederacy on the other, is
beyond question; and how can any sensible,
humane and liberty loving man hesitate in
preferring the latter ? Every day’s bloody ex
perience and slaughter only serve to show that
there can be no other termination of the con
test.
The terrible evils to ua as well as to them,
of subjugation and the unparalleled cruelty of
extermination, are so well known and apprecia
ted, that it is hardly necessary to allude to
them to this audience. I would fain believe
that those who cry out for the extermination
of’tight millions of Christian men, women and
children, the descendants of those who fought
with us in the war in Independence, are either
insane, or in the boat of passion give vent to
a feeling that they would be the last to carry
into effect. If they are sincere and sano, they
are monsters who would be too highly honored
by terming them fiends, their idea is as impos
sible as it is wicked and devilish.
Two friendly republics have a common ances
try, common glories and recollections, lying
side by side —having-a laudable emulation in
running the race of national freedom, prosperi
ty and greatness are infinitely preferable to
one; proud and splendid but gloomy despotism
resting like a dark shadow upon the future of
the Am: rican continent.
When Mr. Lincoln called upon the non-sece
ding Stales to furnish him seventy-five thou
sand men, to he used against tho States which
had receded, ho announced, in effect, his in
tention to destroy tho old Government; and
when certain of the States acceded to his de
mand, they declared also that they were will
ing that it shout;! be destroyed. None of tlie
conditions requisite to make a revolution In
the Government complete were wanting The
officers ol State, whose sworn duty it was to
protect and dehmd the old Government, for
sook it, and abandoned it. From
that moment i t ceased toexist, and we have been
living lor more than three years under a now
gov-rnment, one necessarily despotic, because,
the Constitution beiSg set aside, the man who
iuloß over us is absolutely without restraint of
any kind, except that, imppsod by his own will.
We iiave not even the benefits of those .restric
tions upon power, which in other absolute gov
ernments have been imposed by ancient and
long established usage. Our lives, liberty and
property are wholly at the mercy ol Abraham
Lincoln. The thirteen colonies, while depend
ent upon Great Britain, were wholly independ
ent ot each other, existing under separate char
tors, or royal grants, and having each Us own
Governor, Legislative Assembly and Courts of
Justice.
When these colonies declared themselves in
dependent of the Mother Country, 'they each
became a separate and independent State or
Nation, and were subsequently recognized by
name as such in 1783, by the only government,
interested in the denial. The articles of con
federaiioii which were entered into by the
State governments during tho revolutionary
war ot 1777, remained in force until the adop
tion of tho Federal constitution, which went
in to operation in 1786. 11 did not impair the sov
ereignty of any one of these States or nations,
any mo:e than did tbe offensive and defensive
treaty of France and England, in tho war with
Russia, diminish the sovereignty of either of
those nations. The Federal Constitution, as
framed by.tho Convention, which met in Phila
delphia, on the.2GCh of May, 1787, did not, nor
have any of the amendments subsequently
mado thereto, impaired or taken away, sover
eignty from any State by which it was adopted.
The people of each State retained their sepa
rate existence and nationality, as completely
after they had severally adopted the Federal
Constitution as before. There was in the Con
vention—as appears by the Madison uppers,
and we are informed by Luther Martin in
Ids address before the Maryland Legislature
a semi-monarchical or consolidated party, and
this parly was of course in favor of centraliza
tion, but when it found, as it soon did, that
the remi-monarchical idea was wholly im
practicable in the then, state of feeling, both,
in ami out of the Convention, it abandoned
along with it the idea of consolidating a terri
tory so vast, with so great a variety of soil,
climate, production and material interests,
and in which the habits and character of the
people in the different localities must differ so
widely under one Republic, as an absurdity
too great to be contemplated for an instant.
Two separate attempts were made in the
Convention to consolidate. The first, by Ed
mund Randolph, of Virginia, who proposed in
his sixth resolution to confer upon the Govern
ment of the United States the poewr to coerce
a disobedient or refractory State. The second,
by Patterson, of Pennsylvania, who submitted
a similar rcsoulution, though couched in dif
ferent language.
Ihe folly and dangers of these resolutions
havingjbecn fully exposed in the Convention
by Madison, Hamilton, Mason and Martin, they
weto voted down unanimously, each State
casting one vote. These Were the only attempts
which were made in the Convention to consol
idate the people and to transfer their sovereign
ty.to anew nation, proposed to be created
by the Convention. Their failure was most
signal and complete.
Tbe Philadelphia Convention was a body of
delegates from each State, only authorized to
dm it a/Constitution and not empowered to give
it tbe least validity.
The draft of the Federal Constitution was re
ported by Washington to the Confederate Con
<n\ ;. and by its order submitted for adoption
to the people of the -separate States, as a
separate community or nation, and, of
course, derived its powers, within a State, from
the consent of the people thereof, to whom it
occupies tbe same relation us that held by their
separate State Governments.
i ; !r-:inn Io -rhioK I sn-luo is, that the
people of,each State constitute substantially a
■ s viW-ign nation, that each one, by the adop
tion of the Federal Constitution, created for
itself two distincUGovemmenis of agents, upon
each of which iz conferred certain specified
powers, an-1 that tiio powers of one or both of
the a agents may be revoked by the peeple of
any Str e themselves whenever, in their sover
gn will, each revocation aav become desira
ble.
Having, as I think, shown that each State is
ready Sovereign, and this is the main
principle, the very corner stone of our system
of government, it necessarily follows that the
call of dir. Lincoln for scventy-ftve thousand
men, and the acquiescence of certain States in
that call, the men to l>» used in a war against
States which had asserted their sovereignty,
and solely because they had asserted it, was
not merely an infraction of the Constitution,
but a total nullification of such instrument—it
was a stab at the heart of our political system,
and created an overshadowing centralized pow
er. My fellow citizens, beware of centralized
power. It was the great source of anxiety to
our revolutionary fathers when they created
our Federal system. There was nothing which
they so much dreaded, and against which they
put so many safeguards in the Constitution.
Centralization of power does Jot iead to des
potism. but is despotism itself. The Federal
Government is the agent of the States. It was
created by the States, with a few well defined,
delegated and limited powers, and was forbid
den by the States to exercise any authority not
expressly conferred by them. The great muss
of power was left to the States, who are the
principals to the Constitutional compact.
It is the great effort of this Administration,
and it will be the result of this war if it is not
speedily stopped, to reverse all this, to destroy
permanently, all State sovereignty and local
juris! item, and make the Federal Government
as omnipotent and supreme as that of Austria
or Ru-*>i •, which even now are its only patterns.
It mav be a splendid and powerful despotism,
but splendor acd powbr for the few are hut a
poor consolation tor the impoverishment- and
degradation of the many, and for the loss of
all their liberties, ali that ennobles life and
dignifies manhood.
The States when they created the Federal
ysiem, as I have already shown, expressly re
fused to confer upon it the power to coerce a
sovereign State, or party to the compact.
one then dreamed or supposed that after
this explicit refusal to place this power in the
hands of the Federal agent, that the latter
would ever have the temertiy and audacity
to seek to exercise It without such a delegation
of authority.
If it had beeh so believed not one single State
would have ratified the Constitution and joined
the Union.
This no one will deny who is conversant
with the debates in the Federal and State con
ventions that ratified the Constitution.
Force and coercion of a State were out of
place and inappropriate in the form of govern
ment they designed—a form resting entirely
upon tho mutual consent of each and all the
parties to the compact No Union bat a
voluntary one could be republican, and they
would have no other. North Carolina and
Eh ode Island refused to come into the Union,
(find were treated by it as separate and indepen
dent nations. If George Washington had been
Abraham* Lincoln, (and I cught to ask pardon
for thus coupling their names together.) he
would have collected an army and invaded
those States, who, parties to toe Union under
the articles of Confederation, refused to be
members of it under the Constitution that
colleagues had formed: and he would have
sought by force and civil war, to have made a
hated and detested Union—a union only in
name, but not in fact;
General Washington was a statesman as well
as a patriot, and the men of his day would
have almost unanimously spumed any attempt
to bring into the Confederacy an unwilling
or conquered State. The new lights of Abra
ham Lincoln had never busvt upoa their vision.
Fellow cilizens, of all the wild vagaries that
ever afflicted a reasonable and intelligent man,
the idea that this voluntary Union of equal
and Sovereign States, which had been sunder
ed by alienation of feeling between them, could
be restored by the power of the sword and the
bayonet, and by a gigantic civil war, is the
grealest.
Posterity will wonder that a madness so ex
travagant and palpable could crer have seized
hold of an intoilligentjand civilized people.
The madness combined -with the fanatical
and unnatural idea of placing tho negro upon
the level with the white has deluged this land
in blood, has impoverished u 9 with debt and
taxation: and destroyed the constitutional li
berty bequeathed to us by our ancestors.
Calamities of which we previously had no
conception have been visited upon these un
happy States which have already expiated in
sorrow and misery the consequences of the mad
and fanatical policy of their unfortunate and in
sane rulers.
The question for us new. my follow-citizens, to
consul r, is : whether wo are willing that this
sbrte of things shall continue, wether this new
Government set up by Mr. Lincoln in place of
the old, free Government shall remain, or whe
ther we can overthrow it in its turn at the
election, and re-establish in tbe remaining
States in its place the Government of our fa
thers.
I confess to you that (his, to my mind; is a
question of great doubt yet I believe, that If
the proper effort is now made, and if the gi eat
conservative element which exists among the
mas e3 of the people, and is on the increase
daily, is now given an opportunity to unite up
on a clear, positive and unmistakable platform
for peace immediate peace upon the best and
most honorable terms it can bn obtained, but
peace, the man who now rules by the power of
his own will, and the multiplied thousands who
swarm around him, in and cut of office, and
who have grown rich upon the spoils, as the
heart’s blood of their countrymen has been
and still is being poured out like water, can be
hurled from power jn the legally constituted
mode, through the ballot box.
I believe the people, the great mass of the
people, who neither hold office or are in any
way benefited by government contracts, or
government patronage, are for peace; they
have waited patiently for the end of this bloody
contest, they have confided in the promises so
frequently mada, that the end of the war was
near, they have seen their sons, their brothers,
their friends, their neighbors, and their
countrymen go forth, either voluntarily or in
voluntarily, as each call has been made for
more troops, and driven like bullocks to the
pen to be slaughtered. They have borne up
under the pressure of taxation and were willing
to m ike one more effort, at the opening of the
campaign of the fourth year of the war, assured,
as they were at the commencement of. each
previous campaign, that it only required one
more effort to put down the ‘'rebellion,” end
the war, and restore the Union.
But. alas ! they have again been doomed t'o'dis
appointment: they were soon advised of disaster
to Banks and Steele in the Souih v/. st. In
stead of Sherman marching straight into At
lanta in the South, there is a protracted strug
gle, obstinate resistance, great loss, and doubt
ful results. Ricbmqpd is yet in the possession of
the Confederates, aitoi' two months desperate
fightings, masterly flank movements, and tbo
loss of over an hundred thousand men, and
while we are assembled here to-day,Washington
is again in-danger, and tbe President calling
upon New York and Pennsylvania for the mi
litia of those States to save the Capital All this
the people have been doomed to witness less
than three months, and before tho campaign is
scarcely half over. Not only this, but tiie peo
ple now wait in hourly expectation to v hear of
anew call for three hundred thousand more
men to be drafted, and from which there is no
escape by the payment of a commutation.
The question now presents itself squarely to
the people : Will you allow yourselves to be
all butchered, and the entire nation to-become
a common wreck, to perpetuate the power and
grari!y the insane and futile attempt oi the man
who now occupies the. place once filled by
Washington, to subjugate eight million of peo
ple, whoso offence, whatever- it may have been,
was simply putting into practical operation the
doctrine advocated and taught them by Mr
Lincoln himself, upon the floor cf Congress, in
a speech which he delivered on the 12th ot Jan
uary, 1848 !—See Congressional Globe and Ap
pendix of that session, page 94, where he is re*
ported as follows :
“Any people, anywhere, being inclined and
having the power, have a right to rise up and
shake off the existing Government, and form a
new one that suits t.iera better.” ° ° “Nor
is this right confined to cases in which the peo
ple of any existing Government may choose to
exercise it. Any portion of such people that
can may revolutionize, and may moke their
own so much of the territory as they inhabit.
More than this, a majority ol any portion of
such people may revolutionize, putting down
a minority intermingled witli or near about
them who may opposo their movements.”
Now, my fellow-citizens, I repeat, shall the
work of human slaughter and devastation go
on until that ucmiLof fanatical foily and in
sane cruelty shall bo reached—until the last
dollar and the last man lias been taken.
I cannot beligve, in this enlightened Chris
tian nge of tli3 world, it will he permitt ed. I
am against it—l intend with God’s help to in
terpose my feeble efforts legitimately and con
stitutionally as becomes a good citizen in the
way of its further progress. The fierce hounds
of fanaticism, urged on by fawning sycophants,
who count their gain by millions, as the war
progresses, may bark at ray heels, and the cow
ardly minlOUß ot power -who P ar open iliscna
sion, shut themselves up in loyal leagues and
plot treason at midnight, may aim at my throat,
but I despise them all. I would rather die a
freeman than live a slave.
But, gentlemen, let rae not be misunder
stood. I counsel no violence, I advise no re
sistance to law or legally constituted authority
but obedience and submission thereto. There
is yet- a mode left us, whereby, a« peaceable,
law-abiding citizens, we may redress ihe many '
wrongs and outrages perpetrated by those in
power, stop the wholesale slaughter and
butchery now going on before “the last man' - ’
and “the last dollar’' is reached, and reclaim
and re-establish a portion at least of the liberty
bequeathed us by our fathers and our grand
fathers.
The first step to be taken is to declare for
peace. Let it be bcld, manly, dignified, but
emphatic; so clear and comprehensive that the
commonest intellect cannot be mistaken. Let
it be a declaration as positive as the Declara
tion of Independence, and let it, be signed and
adhered to with as firm a determination as ac
tuated the signers of that instrument and the
work is half done. Go to the people in this
election upon the issue, war on peace; give
them a free ballot, (and that they will determ
ine to have if you will give them the issue of
war or peace,) and I have no fear for the re
sult. They are not willing to yield up their
liberty and become slaves; they are not willing
to sec hundreds upon hundreds of thousands
of their fellow-men slaughtered, merely to
gratify the desire, or perpetuate the power of
any one man.
This is the issue I desire to see. In the name
of ail that is sacred is it not high time that
thit sanguinary and cruel folly should be ar
arrested 1 Has reason entirely fled to bruiish
beasts ; and have the American people lost that
sagacity and that intelligence for which they
were onas distinguished among the nations ?—''
Can it he possible that any considerable good
can result from the prosecution of this war, and
from father immolation before the bloody altar
of juggernaut ? Do thev not discover that in
the vertex of ruin which the war has
created, the material prosperity and wealth is
sinking along with the proud American free
dom which was once our boastaud our pride ?
From the administration ot Mr. Lincoln no
wisdom or common sense can be expected. It
will continue to tread in the downward career
of folly and crime in the hope that upon the
bloody car of revolution which is crushing- the
masses to death, its chiefs can ride to pc mna
of imperial splendor and individual y •;
In the dark \isia of the future ft".;. : -
oae single ray of hope if the hie; o f
peace does not so n ascend the nr..ion u
zoniandshed its effulgent rays i- , .....
Do not, my foilow-er izens, t- fr>Bpf .
worse than will of the wisp ”
I quest and subjugation, which ... . 4-
country deeper and deeper into the -,d
mire of national degradation and im. t us
be just and generous. Let us stand . the
Democratic principle, that al! just Govern
ments derive their powers from the consent of
the governed. Though every thing else lulls,
let us have no other Union than that based
upon the consent of each and every State com
prising it, and let us spurn with infinite disgust
and abhorrence the idea of a Confederacy
“pinned together by bayonets” and only sus
tained and upheld by arbitrary coercion and
despotic powers.
HABEAS courts I V UTLS3S CHM V AT
CHAMBERS, 28TH JULY, ISS!.
John V,’. Cleveland [ Brien Maguire,
Appl’t vs. ) Capt. &c. Resp't.
This case comes before me for decision on
the following statement of facts, prepared
and assented to by the applicant -and respon
dent JohaW. Cleveland. Applicant was arrest
ed on the 17th day of October. 1863. being at
that time the duly appointed Tax assessor
for Wilkes county, (District No S3) by Wm. J
Callaway, sub-euroiliugofficer for Wilkes coun
ty and on the 2-‘ i day of October, 1803. pro
cured from Judge Thomas a Writ of Habeas
Corpus returnable Nov. 10th, ISG3, atEiberton.
This writ was claimed on two grounds set forth
in bis petition, one that ho was the Confederate
Tax Assessor for Wilkes county, appointed
by E. G. Cabiaess, Chief' Tax Collector, 24th
June, 1863 ; the other that he was not liable to
enrollment, having been duly enrolled and dis
charged at the Camp of Instruction 24th June,
1802. Ou account of the long illness of Judge
Thomas said writ was never disposed of by
him, r.nd is a matter still pending for deci
sion by me, and only delayed in its determina
tion from inability on my part and that of the
sub -enrolling officer to procure the papers,
(the petition, exhibits, writ, &c) While his ca.e
was thus suspended Capt. B. Maguire, an offi
cer duly appelated by Governor Brown to en
force ids proclamation in Wilkes county, on
the 25 th July, 18134, in said county, arrested
said Cleveland for tho purpose of sqpding him
under guard to Macon, Georgia, to serve with
tiio State Militia during the present emergency.
Upon being so arrested Cleveland filed a peti
tion in proper form claiming the benefit of the
writ of Habeas Corpus on several points; one
that he is .still under the- arrest of the sub
cnrolliug officer for Wilkes county claiming
him for military service in the Confederate
array; one that he was and is still the
tho Confedeftte Tax assessor for Wjlkes
county; one that said writ is illegal because
the requirements of 24 th section of the Militia
Law passed 14th December, 1863, liavo not
been complied with, ho Cleveland being at the
time of his arrest only 23 years of age; one be
cause he could only be arrested upon a warrant
founded upon oath or affirmation; and one be
cause he was examined, and discharged 4th
March, 1862, from militia service, by a medical
board appointed by the Colonel of the militia
to examine men preparatory to the draft To
this petition aa answer was filed by Maguire,
admitting the arrest of said Cleveland, and its
continuance by the sub-enrolling officer of.
Wilkes county-as set forth iu his petition to
Judge Thomas, and ip. the subsequent petition
to me; also, t-.rf said Cleveland w-i . as alleg
ed in h'l3 different petitions, and still is Confed
erate. Tax Assessor for Wilkes county; also, that
said Cleveland was examined and discharged
as stated bviliim, 41ii March, 1862; also, that
said Cleveland was c.ily 23 years of age at- tijp
time of his arrest. Whether the 24th section
of the militia law applied to the case of tiie ap
plicant, ;md whether applicant coaid not be
argested without warrant founded upon oath
or affirmation, said Maguire submitted i:i iris
ans wer to the Judge holding tho .-habeas corpus
court, as also the sufficiency in law of the
other grounds to exempt • lb-m military duty
in the State service. Those grounds of the ap
plicant will be reviewed and disposed 6! in an
order different from that set forth in the peti
tion. The discharge as it is termed of tbe sur
geons appointed by the'Colonel of the militia
in March 1862, is totally worthless. This dis
charge was then granted by a body of men
unknown to tho militia law, and only granted
to exempt from the draft of that year; and
whatever discharges may have been granted
by the Surgeons ol the Regiment in 1862, equ
uot uow boused to protect any porno;! from
military duty, as the recent act of 1863 pro
vides lor anew board of examinin g physicians
and recognizes this ce: tifleato only as a ground
of exemption. The grounds assumed by the
applicant that he can only be arrested by a
warrant founded on oath or affirmation" is also
untenable. The provisions of the Constitution
in relation to warrants, and which the appli
cant seeks to devise support* from, has no re
ference to arrests by a superior officer of a
person failing to perform military duty. It
refers to arrests for alleged crimes. Such has
been tho uniform construction of this provision
in England and America, and such it must bo
in the very nature of the case.
Nor did the Legislature at its late session
object to arrests by military officers without
warrant!, &.C., under the Conscript law on the
ground of a failure to perform military service,
but to the effort to suppress any inquiry in
behalf of the person seized by the civil Courts
as to the (liability to military duty. It is true
the Legislature protested against the seizure
of the people tor alleged crimes and by mili
tary officers on orders issued from the’ Presi
dent and Secretary of War, and this protest in
behalf of liberty and law saved us as I believe
from collision and conflict, ruinous to the
noble cause in which weave engaged. As to
, tije ground of applicant that being within the
Conscript age, he must be discharged under
24th Section of act of 1863, I think in his
particular ease this ground is valid. This sec
tion clearly intended to give the Confederate
.Government preference over persons liable to
conscription and to restrain Stake officers from
any interference with such prisons until cer
■ tain acts had been performed by the State
officer to ascertain whether the Confederate
officers claimed the person. While Ido not
■believe that the Slate officers in - collecting
men for State service in the Militia, are bound
to follow the words of this section when the
Confederate officers have renounced their pref
erence and have declared in the most deliberate
. manner that they do not desire certain per
sons in the miiitaiy sendee by giviog exemp
tions and details uud furloughs pending ap
plication for detail and other projection, I
must hold in the present case that the State
officers cannot arrest and place in the militia,
a person clearly liable to conscription in rela
tion to whom the Confederate officers have
done nothing io signify any waive of claim
for miiitaiy service. Ido not understand the
Governor in his proclamation to mean that his
officers shall interfere at all with the Confede
rate officers iu their efforts to place in military
t: A
- complaint of the Confederate Gov
ernment is that* without securing We n rj
sense; ot large classes of persons in the
Slate, it has attempted by the new system of
details, ’exemptions; furloughs, &e., to impair
the-power of the State to protect herself from
invasion.
In the case before me the Confederate offi
cers have not waived in any degree, even the
.-slightest, their preference secured by the Con
script law and the Act of 14th December,
1803, bn, have faithfully endeavored and are
still endeavoring to place the applicant iu
military service. It appears from the state
ment of facts that Cleveland was discharged
from military service in June, 1862, end ap
pointed Tax Asee-sor in June, 1863, under the
Assessment. Act of May, 1863, allowing the
chief Tax Collector to appoint persons who
had been examined and discharged properly to
the office «rs Assessor. Notwithstanding tins
slate of facts the' Enrolling officer arrested
him and ordered him to the camp
ction in October. 1843, and have ptrsuca him
unremittingly from ts-at time until the present
time to place him in the “bullet department.
This case is then one where the Confederate
authorities are to be allowed preference and
protected in their efforts. As toon as this ef
fort .-.hail be relaxed or given up the State offi
cers can interfere.
1. therefore, do order said Brien .mignire to
discharge John TV. Cleveland, the applicant
fidm custody, and that each party shall pay
one-half of the costs, and that this opinion bo
entered oa the minutes of the Superior Court
by the Clerk of said Court.
’This 28th July, 1864.
William M. Reese, J. S. C. N. C.
A true copy from the minutes Superior Court
Wilkes County. „ .
G. G. Noemax, Clerk.
—
Tee Railroad Gap ix Alabama.— we are
pleased to learn that arrangements have been
made to bridge the gap between Cfiehaw and
i Onelika. and that wo shall soonAe piacenin
daily communication with theWVest. Tea.
enterprising institution, the Southern Express
Company, is removing its wagons ano teams,
lately "on duty” at Atlanta, to Opelnta, and,
in a day or two, will be prepared to put things
through in regular Express style, Coi'.'.mous
Enquirer.
NORTHERN XKWS.
Confe; 1 crate raiders have made their appear
ance within eleven miles of Nashville.
The New Orleans Picayune, which has been
upended for spine time, has resumed publi
* An. Its publishers announce their intention
priori tho government of the United States,
•Vvi to steadily advocate all measures for tho
o-establishment of its authority in all parts of
the country.
A despatch from Portland slates that a steam
er Merced for six guns, has just sailed from St.
Johns. It is thought she is intended for a Con
federate cruiser.
Northern nepers say the Confederates drove
five thousand c '.rile and one thousand horses
from Maryland.
A train with eight hundred and fifty Confed
erate prisoners on board celliued near Sbohola,
Pin. with another train, July 15. It i#d one
hunch odprisoners were either killed or wound
ed.
Confederate guerillas arc busy iu Missouri
and are being Slice;. slul in their movements.
Genera! McCook, General Payne and Gener
al Donblecby have been relieved from duty in
tho Department of Washington. Gen. McCook
will report to the Adjutant General for instruc
tions, and Generals Doubleday and Payne will
resume their posit ions on. general courts mar
tial. General Hodden has been ordered to re
sume the command of ills division, garrisoning
the defences of Washington north of the Poto
• mac.
The New York Herald is sorely troubled be
cause George N. Sanders has arrived at the
Clifton House, Canada, off Niigara fails. The
Herald grows very severe over this little
event, and charges that Sanders, “with some
twenty or thirty rebel politicians and officers,
is plotting and scheming in behalf of Jeff Da
vis uml hi* villainous cause. It makes a great
tirade against the peace party, an i -charges
that ai: -p conspiracy is on foot looking to
tbe meeting of the Chicago convention.
Several typos connected with tho St Louis
Democrat, have been Arrested, charged with
disloyalty, shouting for Jeff. Davis and curs
ing all the Yankees.
It is expected that the Peruvians will soon
have 100,000 men in tiie field io repel Spanish
aggression. The Spanish Admiral offers to
give up Iha gna.no islands and all reprisals
when Pern pays what she owes Spain. Pern
offers to pay when Spain gives up all reprisals.
Rev. W. McNuit, formerly pastor of the
Baptist Church at Cleveland, Tenn. lines been
arrested by ’ he military authorities on account
of Confederate preelivites.
Capt. Cal. Morgan and Maj. Caenoworth,
who went with flag of truce from Oyuthiana in
charge of G-en. Hobson and the prisoners cap
tured by'Motp'.n at Cynthiana, liavo been de
tained aa prUoudrs of war, and are now impri
soned in Indiana. This is a breach, of faith
that no nation, Varbarous or civilized, has ever
been guilty of, uxcspt tho Yankee nation.
The New‘Fork Herald speaks thus of affairs
west cf tho Mississippi: Our private ndvices
from tiio Lower Mississippi represent affairs,
there to be in a most ‘ unsatisfactory state.—
TV 3 may consider Iho whole Western bank of
the river ass one lapsed into Confederate
hands once more —lost to us by the inconceiva
•blo mismanagement of tho administration.—
Now Orleansls all that is left to u.sj'and the
i cason is apparent enough. Wc have lost all
: that’country just as an army is cut to pieces,
when, having won a battle, it loses all or
ganization. and gives '(self up to a wild liot of
plunder, white its enemy .rallies and returns
to tbe fight, ivo sooner was Inis Mississippi
country in possession than it'was fairly
deluged wlih plundered nutkr the designation
of treasury agents, ua.y agent;-., army, agents,
nud all other orts't f agents. Hordes of these
men were everywhere, and they had no thought
but to make money. Bribery was as common
I as the air, and a universal demos qlizition iul*
|od and mined ,us- Great disasters will yet
: come to ns from this very quarter, if the PreSi
j dent does not change bis policy in relation to
; ii,. But to change ids policy he must change
Ibis Cabinet.
I The Cincinnati Enquirer in speaking of ITun
f ters ret». at r al the suffering of the Yan-
I kec soldiers Was terrible. Tim Enquirer says:
I a half a dozen of soidiers'dio J per hour during
; tho last two days from starvation, fatigue and
I exposure. The retreat was long, horrible and
| disastrous in the extreme.
i The New York papers are complaining of
! the,high and rates of living iu that
j city. *
! Some of the Republican press want Lincoln
i to go to war with tiagland, unless that-nation
; ; will deliver up. Capt. bemmes.
\ Avcriil reports Hiat he encountered part of
i the Confederate forces -under Early at Win
chester, Va., billing end wounding shmc four
hundred of then), and capturing four pieces
j of artilelry and about two hundred prisoners,
j Mosby’s guerillas have made their appear
! ahee within six miles ci Alexandria
j The result of tlia municipal election in Mem-
I phis shows that Gen. Washbu'me b»s little in
■ lluenc*. lie publicly announced that Parle
, should not, if elected, take his seat as Mayor
' again, arid forced tiio voters to take the mea.u
--i est of all o.dhs—Andy Johnston’s. Park was
! re-elected by over 400 votes'over Wasbburne’s
| candidate. -A majority of the aldermen be
j longed to the Democratic ticket headed iy
j John Bullock.
| Only about forty men of (he eighth Missouri
• Regiment have re-cniisted,
j Tin Yankee papers state that a body of
; Southern sympathisers have assembled on the
j Eastern border of Maine to do deeds of violence
j and plunder in that section of that State,
j The latest advices from Missouri are exeit
! ing. The guerrillas are increasing in that State.
!to an unprecedented extent, and it is now
confidently asserted that fifty thousand men
j under General Price,, have also entered the
] State.
| It is calculated by competent authority that
i tluj. United States has one square mile'of coal
! ficid to every 15 square miles throughout her
, vast territory of 5,000,000 square miles. Great
j Britain has one to every 50 miles of surface,
i Belgium has one io every 22,} of surface, and
j France lias one to every 200 miles of surface.
! Major Gen. A. J. Smith has sent a dispatch
[to Gen Washburn, iu command at Memphis,
| stating that he encountered ilia c mbined for
} ces of S. i). Lao, Forrest nd Walker, at Tu-
I pei.o, end having whipped th'-m badly in three
! several engagements, was ihsu on his return
j to Momphic bringing back everything in good
; order. - it was previously reported th it Smith’s .
I force was sent from Memphis to co-operate
| with Sherman.
| G«n Hunter Jus asked to-bo relieved from
his command of the Department of Western
j Virginia, in ccnscquence of his troops having
j been transferred to the command of Gca
j Yvright.
j One cf the moat piecing indications in Yan
: kee journal • is glV> Seeling of insecurity ccc.a
--• sioaiji by the bold return cf VaHandigham
1 and ms defiant attitude. The party which he
represents must indeed be strong in mind and
matter, v/yen i. .. irr- a position.
Lincoln appears to bave a great deal of dif
ficulty in getting State militia to rush the res
i cue.” An effort -.asm-ton: to semLon to Wash
j ington tiro -Fifty F-Ixih regiment New York
j State MSRia without snw.ss. The. regiment
j belongs to Brooklyn, YVhen drawn up in line
| last evening, at Fort Green, -41 any of them
I declared that they would not leave the State,
j When they reached the arsenal some broke
• ranks and ran down Poo tiand avenue, hooting
I and yelling; otii: r-; who i. vl been driven into
j the building at the point of the bayonet jump
j ed out oi toe windows and made good their
! escape. Several lights took, place between
I tho officers and me 1.
' In boring for f-n.lt water at Peoria, Illinois,
j some interesting observations were made. The
i drill had reached the deprii of 776 feet. At
j 120 feet a five foot ream ot coal was found; at
; 207, salt wafer: it 255. a-vflher stratum of c and
j three feet in. thickness; af 3!7, more salt waV
ter, of about the a cuatii of ocean water; at
J 34, q large steam of water impregnated with
sulphur. This - ter flot-.s upwards with such
force as to lift the heavyweights attached to the
drill and discharge 75,000 gallons every twen
ty-fouo hours.' it her, been carried in pipes
sixty-five feet above the surf-ice, and it is
thought on be applit-l to mechanical purposes.
General Bin-bridge h i.: sued an order ot re
taliation upon the guerriias for the cruelties
perpetrated by them upon the citizens of Ken
tucky. For every Union man murdered by
them, he orders toe instant execution, as near
the scene of outrage as possible, of four gue
rillas, to bo selected from prisoners in the hands
cf the military authorities.
Tiie New York Tribune says the telegraphic
stories about peace conference at Niagara Fails
have a slender foundation.
Tbe Baltimore American calls on Lincoln to
fight the balance of the war with negro troops.
Great excitement has been caused in Ports
mouth. X. H , by the appearance of the yel
low fever. It was tain n there by the DeSoto,
and thirteen fp.tal case- have occurred.
Fifteen carloads or Mormons passed through
Rochet: r recently enroute f*r the Saints’
j Rest at Salt Lake, City. They were a savory
lot of individuals, as persona of this unique
persuasion usually arc.
Brig. Gen. Dan McCook has died from wounds
received at Kennesaw Mountain,
NORTHER* NEWS.
Two years ago last January the New York
Tribune said that if the rebellion was not sup
pressed by the ensuing May, it could not be
subdued by the force of arms.
A New York weekly paper remarks : For a
gentleman to speculate in Wall street, at pres
ent, te j,i S t s foolish as to play euchre against
three Western blacklegs, with a Confederate
standing behind your chair and telegraphing
What you have in your hand. “Do you under
stand that ? ” -
An actor named Hamilton has been convict
ed at St. Louis of persistent avowals of rebel
sympathy, and sent to Alton to remain five
years, one year of which he is to wear a chain
and ball. The court sentenced him to wear a
chain and ball for live years, but Gen. Rose
cans remitted that part of the sentence lor
four years. ■
Dr. Bellows delivered the Fourth of July
oration at San Francisco. lie denounced the
establishment of thrones on the Western Con
tinent.
Confederate raiders are creating quite aa ex
citement in Western Kentucky. The Federal
forces at Hopkinsville are reported whipped.
Four hundred factory girls, working in the
cotton factory'at Roswell, Gi., were arrested
by order of Sherman, the unfeeling boast, and
sent north of tiie Ohio river, penniless and
friendless, to seek a livelihood among a strange
and hostile people.
Senator Halo, of Now Hampshire, says that
the stealings under tho Lincoln administration
are more than the entire legitimate expenses
of the government.
Yankee Postmaster General Blair became
quite infuriated at ihe destruction of his house
by the Confederates, and accused Gen. HaJleck
of incompeteney for allowing tho raiders to do
as they pleased. A quarrel between the two
is the consequence. Washington' correspond
ents say one of them have to resign.
Lincoln states that he thinks his caH for live
hundred thousand more troops will cause dis
satisfaction—but lie says lie must have more
men some how.
The emigration across the plains was never
so large as it is tills season. The St. Louis pa
pers state that accounts from all tho territories
agree in speaking of the emigration as being
beyond all previous report or calculation. At
one time the during the month of May upwards
of one hundred thousand people were journey
ing westward, in all sorts of conveyances,
between Dover City, Julesburg, and the Mis
souri frontier. The steamers between New York
and San Francisco never did so large a busi
ness.
New Orleans correspondents state that fifteen
thousand, men will soon leave that city. The
letter writers say the troops are to take fifteen
days’ rations, and an ammunition ship accom
panies the expedition. There are nosv a large
number of additional gunboats iqjt-akc Poucli
atrain, and morn vessels have been added to
tlui fleet off Mobile. Some think this expedi
tion is intended for the captme of Mobile, ro
as to possess the Alabama river and establish
a base of supplies for Sherman at Selma, while
other;; believe tho troops are destined for For
tress Monrco. Thisfo:co maybe designed to
co-operate vfitk Gen. Slscpm’s expedition from
Vicksburg, which has been reinforced, and is*
again marching to the interior of Mississippi.
The weather -last week was the hottest ex
perienced in the city of New York for the past
ten years. Four days tho thermometer stood
03'deg. to 95 deg in the shade.
Trains have agaip commenced running on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
A letter from Washington to tho Tribune,
says the total number of patients in all the
military hospitals throughout the country is
about ninety thousand ; iu the camp hospitals
fifty thousand—making a total of ouo hundred
and forty thousand.
NEWS SUMMARY.
The New York Express, in speaking of, tho
financial prospects of the North says: If three
years of war lias..produced an p.dditonnl ex
penditure greater than the entire cost of the
Government, witli the Urge adiitions of terri
tory added, since its first formation, three years
more of war, with the price of everything ne
cessary to carry it on doubled, trebled, quad
rupled in price, by the depreciation? of the le
gal tender currency, must involve a wreck of
everything financial. There seems to bo but
one single hope for-the country, aid that is in
peace, and that hope must soon be realized if ;
we would bave anything left us worth saving, j
On Monday night, July 22 a robbery was j
perpetrated at No. 2 Central Ita’li-oad, on the j
premises of R. G. by three negroes be
longing to the Cciitial Railroad company.
They entered Mr. Wade’s house, from the front
and rear, while tbe family wi re asleep, and
stole jewelry, clothing and other property, to
the value of some $15,000. They committ and
other robberies in (lie same neigborhood. One
of the party was caught in Savannah while en
deavoring, through the agency of a free ne
gro, to dispose of his plunder. His arrest iod
to a discovery Os his accomplices, who have
been arrested and are in custody. It becomes
our people, especially in the country, in these
loose times, to keep a sharp lookout for rob
bers.
A subscription to raise funds for the presen
tation of a battery of light artillery to Gen.
Forrest, has been started in Seima, Ala.
A bridge and culvert between Tiail and Bald
win, on tbe Florida Railroad, were burned
on Monday night, July 22—supposed to be the
act of-incepdiaries. Our peopie should be on
tiie lookout for rogues along the lines of our
railways, whenever there is anything exposed
to invite the incendiary torch.
Tho Marietta hospitals have been located at
Forsyth, Ga.
Under the late call of’Gov. Brown, Sumter
county lias sent over three hundred men to the
front. This is a noble response to the Gover
nor’s prpclamatapn.
The Montgomery Advertiser learns that
planters in Pontotoc county, Miss., are cou
trading to deliver their wheat at two dollars
per bushel, such unusually heavy crops have
been inode there.
The drought continues throughout the North,
and is becoming, according to a Philadelphia,
paper, a serious question, “in view of tbe high
prices demanded fr om the Government. ’ ’
Secretary Stanton is said to have remarked
the other day, “Butler is admiaabio in hatch
ing a rebel clergymen or intimidating a secesh
scliool madam, but lie isn’t a great general ”
The Indiana Banner relates ihe case the case
of a mother in the neighborhood cf Terre
Haute who, whilst her son was asleep'upon a
sofa, put out his eyes with a burning coal, in
order that he might l#: exempted from con
scription. '
Sixteen deserters entered Troy Montgomery
County, N. 0., a few days.since, and carried off
a quantity of Government bacon, captured and
carried oft the arms of the guard which were
stowed away in the building which contained
the bacon. They also committed other depre
dations in the vicinity.
FROM TRANfriMISSIIS3IPIM.
Mr. V/m ren Adams who reached Richmond,
July 20th from Houston, Texas, which place
he left on tiie 4th of the present month, re
ports all quiet in that quarter. He is under
the impression that there is not now a Yankee
iu tho State of Texas, if it be true, as was. re
ported and believed, that they had evacuated
Brownsville. There are no Yankees in Ar
kansas. Banks’- forces have nearly all left
New Orleans—it was supposed for Fortress
Monroe.
The crops—in Texas especially—-are magnifi
cent, the oldest settlers not remembering a
more prolific yield of '-verything. The people
and the trans-Mississippi army are in the finest
spirits. •
lie also brings the gratifying news that, on.
the 2d inst., a large steamer loaded with med
icine and powder, reach 'd a Confederate port
not of ten visited by block oder -.
The blpdkade on the 2d consisted of ihe flag
ship side-whele steamer, three-masted propel
ler, live gun-boats, two supply vessels and
p.rizi-Fchooner.
Le speaks encouraging of our prospects
in Arkansas and Missouri, ands tys officers in
command are fully alive to the importance . of
driving the enemy from Arkansas and carry
ing the war into Missouri, where they arc as
sured thousands eagerly await their coming.
Orders have been issued, placing 001. Per
sons’ regiment in the service of the conscript
bureau, under Gen. Greo-r. All the reserve
corps of the department will probably be
placed io the same service.
Gen. Greer is of opinion that, with the proper
means at his command, be can increase the ef
fective miiiiary force of tho array .by at least
10.000 men from Texas alone.
In Galveston, Confe ’erate paper was com
manding, on the 4th iff#t., 50 per cent, more
in gold than it did on the first of Juno.
Six per Cent. Boxes. —We are pleased to
announce that the Secretary of tho Treasury
has given orders that tiie coupons of tho non
taxaide six per cent, bonds due January, 1865,
should be received now in payment of public
dues. By this step, which is, of_ course, a de
claration that the Government is disposed to
anticipate its indebtedness, the value oi thi se
bonds must beat once greatly enhanced. Here
be-rmneth the first chapter of that sound and
upright policy which we may expect to eman
ate from the large and honest brain of our
present financial head.—(Witi»W« Carolinian.
Fitnan-LORiDv.
The Savannah News that n
o •ii-red at Li.;n.!y Lmil. Florida.
saiidavmorning ist i! oenemy
o"or S,. Mary’s river, ;i
Ali rlit t ok
batted
result is not known.
On Florida cavalvy^^H
Lte'd Col. Mc*\>rai.'k. i r,traced the
Bi inly last aeoouuis
was still progressing.
Gen;'; fan m Anderson has h.vu
in Florid.>. and
An iv neral
assure of the
ii q s men; and !• arrived at he
V'e learn that our
SM'iicleat to repel 'any
'•semi • Tho prose; t a!v.i:-e^B|
mure
>troy bridges and..-n
perty.
ibol “k • 'by (' 'te-uV in of TVednosda^H
IF ' to.ring in relation to the raid: --
The irain.on .Monday led ior Baldwin
usual hour, but 'returned very
•n .lit back tr'ding nows that tko^H
tie across the Si. Mary’s liter was on
■ it t o guard stationed there was missinj^H
their camps bunted. The train again
down ’i the afternoon with a detachmer^H
roop.- and a more thorough examination
had. ■
It was r.sccrtaincd that both erFF of H
trestle were burned and the work of
tion was completed with the axe. It is tS
the work was done by a raiding party who
from Middluhurg au l crossed th.e country!
the St. Marys to the rear of Baldwin,’ wber!
portion of cur forces wove stationed. We I
derstand that Ove transports came up to k!
dleburg and lauded a force, numbers unkuofl
They separated into two parties. It is si a I
one of these parties wits engaged by Major!
TV. Fcott’and his command with good succifl
the particulars we have not ascertained, ’ll
general impression seems to be that thq. rul
was cut to prevent our forces from overtakil
and punishing them. I
Tbe impression in military circles sccmsl
prevail that we have force sufficient to re!
them. ■
Sinqg the above was written the train ll
again returned from below, and loam that tl
trestle at St. Mary’s had been again set!
lire. A prisoner who was captured states til
the raiding forces consist of four regiment!
negroes, five pieces of artillery, and about ll
white troops. That their intention was not!
cross the St. Mary’s river, but to cut the roal
and that all the Yankee troops had left Jael
soLville. Their evident intention is raiding!
South Florida. 1
. .-* AatKF.fjarjsAyjOH HI
. Cltol’.G! O: l-HOKPE Ct.U.NTY^H
t ”A\ r- A. Ijltr: fkJ.p’iTOrii tO Il'G for
"i »’•: * w'lt'.t’i’! !>;;vill r. ChrT<toi>hvr.^BE|
OfcC.’Usk
I •; - ■< •• Rte-i ;vi»nr.r :\A and »
tV .v.i..!tv.i a; and vr* - *'d •l-;v,»;-fd, io Im.‘ and : i ] , |"’-ni^^M|fJ*s
• v !•.'•», w show cniis^HH
kti i in* nr.lli'n* L
t". i p.rii.r i.iy li-.i-u uiil'iitl Flpfir.t in l this . ii and
Jul ’, ,to i. O. &UA(jKELn>ri!\^^H
_Ordir>ai^^|
v;T/-7 . ov t isonm*-, * ounty.
li IrilJ”. v - f..',’ •PtlvTS < |
> ;*!!•• -t y • i ! oußi \ .. Uooiyla 4 ,
iii'ii*'»■ <•»' 'I tots Uamrit Y,
•» h ill 1 ,:• cd
;■ f s* : d Minor**, to iind api»i*tir nt
•»y .>!tovv cause, if
■ I'-v f Luitt ra :Ll<HiPi isut I.;* limited.
” ip! iini t-;’ 1 ’ U : teiriU:.ro’ at office in
p’iiiu lid* 1 :'d;!i day of June, iiSCI.
jn tiw2*; W. r,r . SHIELDS, Ordinan^^J
qV.-.Ti: OV ' (} ■j.LK N* I2 UTY."
I".'! . .‘i.iry Y,. :..i v- n ji.-lilions f'r
a- . ’.hi- of :;-cv.u!’L Aua rsoii, into ol'
county, dc; cosed.
J: .*, to (',* ' :v*d ndm-'nisli all, and h
• !ic. Ifomi.cd c s ; i.i .’p. »r«*d, to show c tu»e.
uteyt'i i I •’ ipu bd granted, at
( 111 :; i. i c’r*iiiu ’• * li*. iti in kiid iur said county, ou
first Monday in K l ton b r next.
< ve:i under in’, a n.u, at cfd- c in » ! iv- iics?:oro\ July
1564. JbiUCrihiSiL'S li. KING,
j y 19 4 wOrdinal
(to, i ITiiXTu]'vxl'Y.
When-?.*, V, ;• anjdi.”* ior let*cm of (tiianiia^^B
i tr. ana i.i.a n.ri.'-iiy ol the minor:? of F M. 1 ull^H
deceased,
T.' • a;’.!, teiie.n.d H iriVU'aii all, and
t: ( UunlikdaiMi fob -Jsof sab; Hi >rs t>» be amt appear ai nnl
teidvf. a it..m i:• • ij.ii” j'.-fM-rihiid j.\ iaw, to shaw canac, it
U.cy I. ••••*•, !•> mv'.j, tsliouid notne^»rtided.
, fo.VGC .'.t ’ ”li ; iG, at Office 111
j:!i;vr, this JCiii GiH'orJu.y, JSfot.
J '. r .yr. .‘ Jim,PS. Ordinary^M
(iTA'I’K OF OKO!Ufo>, t'iLriVNlq COUNTY.
\ViK*r.”*a, t.v c.dp.tG . li/ iii uii Or.i'it, a f.cc i
color, !a-o.*f: ".’Udy, •!. is umvi'.rr»sf*nit*d :
. •- nr- t.-v: rav, t - c;»v ;.'.d fd ao’iL-ii al: p«rtioi:«
e; .t ■ s:.r •c - ; I why ttir. :nlmdust ration ot said e.«*a*»* sliuiliH
do* 1.0 vc.-tr. ' is tiie Olevk of the buparior Oonxt, or in
ether ti'- and proper vcr.’CD, t i.• Court, of Ordinary to
in and idr .said c*.mdy on t lie tbr* Monday in hTyterriber text
n Mi :e- my ha..d at old j. it Oreencstmio, June *2&%
KUG l;:-. XU &L. KIN O, ■
.IrJYfiPv’- 3 Ordioary.
foj TATrfoOi’ « EOIiGIA. KtCHMONJ) COUNTY. B
\3 VV heroas, LU 'I ustio, Guardian of *4 ihiam ii. Shicck,
n*»r, (now of aye) applies to mo f-*r Let!ers of Pisndtsion ■
Pheso tue. thsuctoro to cite and a.inionißh all and
iiic ki'.d'ud a; J tilmU of .-aM mliiOT, to be and appear
:t, loH
5.h ) 7 eau-io, if :.ny they have, tvliy said letters should not
grrnted.
(foivcu ud-vi my Inna and oHlcial-dgnature, at office in AuS
gushi, tin.-’ Yih day ol July, I?*T. K!
jv7 J)AVID U.ROATII. Ordinary. H
NOTICE ■ " 1
TO OSO-TOStS AN® CREDITORS. ■
■TtTOT.'JE TOOKiSDITIIKS A A D DECTOKS. !
Georg'-a, Oreen flounty.—Notice is hereby Riven to &>■
perr/ina t.dvinc <1 •maudsa* di.st r Kiop, deceased
rc-i.d .rin an account of the F iUie t * tiie undersigned, iucc
}n;4 Vo i.iw, r.i.d a l persons indebted to said and. cua-.e i will n akfl
im uediale payment. U. B. KING,
Executor of Alexander King, decoesi and. H
jy jri ■
ofuufcFx 'T> :TufoN^TNi7foitEl;.iroits. B
Stale of Geo aa, Li r - o!n county—Notice is hereby®
given t.o ail pair.ii n L.i'ton;-:demands against l'liillip Dill, latcH
-of said county, decorsed, t.» pic r-ut them to me, pro]»erly madeH
j out, within the time presaibed by law, so aa to hhow their■
i tha:r.e'.er m.d amoum.. And all persons indebted to said de-B
; cuased are ho a-by required to make in.mcdiaie payment to ■
I J. M. DILL, ■
• Adm’r. De bonis non with the will adnexeil ol Phillip l ib. ■
)y jo 6w29 ■
ivroriCE. I
XI /• t>i'-llcation will be mndd to il enourt of Ordinary of I
imieolnc 0- i tiio flint regul r term alter the ex- I
l)!itoli«*u o f Tv/o Mon hr from this notice, for leav« to sell Ihe I
Ln-i. n i n-isroe b to tbe M-it-it-. of Phillip Dill, late of 1
r*i-! c lfhtvde u-a-cd, ior the benefit of the heirs and creoltv is I
of sjht decoito-xl. J. M. DILL, A dm*.
de berns non with the will annexed of Phillip Dill. |
julvlG BwSO
TWO JIOJWTMB WOTIOEft
(I EOHGIA, GREENE, (JUUNTY.
X Two mput !h after date, V> wit: at the next October term
ci ihe Courtr of Ordinary n : ,:d county, apphcat’cn wlh be
i-iacG I ' .ri u <Jf;Urt, for leave to sell a lot of Und contain!ug
four acre-:;, Tn. re or loc*, in the corporate limits of Greenes
boro, belonging to ihe estate of John P. Scott, deceased, for
the benefit of tue heirs md civdltora of paid decoesc l.
ISAAC ii. itacL, Adm’r. of John P. ttcott; dee.
ly U BwS» -
f'\ EORGIA, (JREENr. COUNTY.
\7T Two i’; » ul; after to wit: At the next August
Term of toe < a-urt of Oidtum-y of raid county, application wilt
'be muae to r. id court for leave tp sell u tract of land in said
corin'y, co>:i:- ; itiif.o rciris. inory .--r less, belorging to tiie ei
tale-01 Sarah ttotitheriard, d-’ceased.
GKGKO T J. SOUTHEBLAKD,
junc 2 8w2.3 Adm’r of SariX Syutherland. deceased.
(J IA ) • «: Komi . COLUMBIA COUNTY .—To th
H Hcj n •, tic .'iipo'i' r Court f sold county: The pe
‘ . ■-' of Jo. ii Li. Vv .scn, Jo.dali Stovajl, Stephen brains
m-.' mh .i;-. i k Wi?- ■ , !*-l r Jot:and William A
< • off. : .a *;.i county, Henry Moore, German T bortic,
/!u;TTn , i"', L'jfitif, Wn.i.m 1< Goodrich, J; mes brown, John
boi W,. . IZ J.-j. n, Andr -•/ 'I Jackson, Hobart F
i.'v •: , iai .i r •... - ; n1 1 -*ur W ilium cJc sup, Chat lea
H M-.'T.y, j . j in il v. u . <; M ( buries A i owland, Porter
i- . ! 'uci •>*ti r in'.;-, • ■ -m S Roberta. James«M
j ; ■' .o /_■ M T..*:?/, i .» ilto’- 1J lit* hrlan, Thomas P
Stovall, Adnan «/ i*n . J .ah Sibley, Robert A Ke»d and
Jfvrru.-) M ye,, f*, < !'.•'<id <ity, Vince ll li Tornny. t, f
Iwvr.Mi cm./i-v, ruM ,v ill am \V Kvc-rct, of Oglethorpe County,
f-l.'* W“
(th, \ t, i.h M«:o':* t• !' •:./ c. i’ed a body p Itfc, with*
r in*• o-r; j... . );•» ,;i , they have :• oebted them- #
t /• .1 1 h*g*->!.ci i*»f * . purpCnyot n.unuht 'inn# • Jot Lon Garda,
:.?• 1 rr.pir.ing fr-m :• rei-.n countrea :dl the materials, rr*a
ciill ry and her ail'dr-snecL »ar,' for carrying on naid bush
• • . and ail other buiineis sir ..ar in character or Incidental
H ere o.
Th-htsaid • U'! r .e.-r. is to he carried on in the county of 00-1
1 inxn, and State aiorc. aid, under the name and style of “The
}J'’H(*bV’lle Ms :.::H.tu.io;' 'Jompnnv,” and that the nihounLof
f.ap’nal t.-> J.e employed is live Hundred thousand dollars, to be
and.. d'd iotn rki.-'.s of one thousand dt.l'ars c*acb. of which
capital there hr..; been-paid lathe sura of one hundred thou*
sand dollars. .
j... : ore your petitioners pray that to enable them to carry
cm :• i r ! ..-.r.os as a.'oresald, an order may be passed at the
)!«•:,t U* -n\ or raid C-oor', m pursoauce to'the atatute In such
made ami provided, and. lari ;* your petition-: ip application
, .. : ■ .and con .H.utinp them a. and their successors a body
; g tic and corpora*e for *be purpose aforesaid, u - d.?r the nar..e
acd :l I* of 44 rhe bou63Vi:l(* ."Janufacturing.Company * tor the
•' r.n o: t.j.dty yeussiroih the first day ol June, eighteen Lun
died nnd ■ .Tiy-four, “ .
*•' no 1; - il.- -n Ch-tries F McOay
Jod'-h J ? tov 1 x } er.jimiu U Warrrn
iit-.-p'DHi Dram: -* 1 < harlea A Itowjund
.'vta'uc; \V t . i r y Porter FI mining
ames R Wilson Iwdrocji* ( iraray
«
Wi. A ( ’ IT-jis Jamcri M Kobeitfl
Ht*nry Moore George M Thew
Gc.u'aln T Jiortic IlaxMio; H Hickman
Edward Adrian <J Ivch
WilUarn II Goodrich Jo.*: an Sibley
Jumea brown Robert A Kcid
1 :. r.-jL c. 5 Jarnc - M bye
v'v itnarn fc-Jackson Vincent It rornney
Robert F lj oaba-t Wiiliam Vi Everett
Thomas ;V Gfiichcster Jlarshad ii Welbom
WilLf.m (j JcoSup Thomas P Stovall
A dre w M JackL*.n #
Os ATE OF OEOKGIA, COLUMIiIA COONT Y_Ferion-
J 5 ally utnre-l, John K. i's-.n, who K-m* duly §wora,
says that ,-t - the Vre-iilc-.*. of "Th- I bw ihe Alanufactur
in;: Conai env,” located in t he county r.r- 1 State ai; eeaidand
emjyi'iT in ’Hariulaciuring Cotton Cards and importing from
foreign the nece.:-ary materiau, machinery and
wiSarti-;.'" ‘Tf.lt .fe V/t-oni of;- -.1 actual :y paid In
and -n pi -cl by . • - Co>. ; ■■• Vat U . -.o la ope hundred
G<jiiar- v.-Vrh if- !u vested in machinery, stock
and real entJ•: v.’orth the sura ol one hundred anu twenty-five
thWud jjto. E. WILSON.
sworn toand ?. : before me June 28d, 18:4.
V P c*' Af. P
/: true c .tr-.rt from the record of Columbia Superior Court,
*&***' GKO. \V. QUAY, r.'lerk.
ABMIMeTBATOR'S SALE.
f-jv’ virtu'* of *n ord *r fr m rt e Honorable (Jcurt of Ordina
»y ; c-oiumb:-’. cvuiry, wiii b- cold on the first TCES
i» iV in S ptri.j'j’: next, :• for the G urt H‘ us? and or at Apt
lYtiuii in fa'.d c unty, ail tNeg-c s bel:*nping »othe estate of
J.,* nH i ?;- , d-c i’ ti. Sobi f-r th benefit of the heirs and
cr ditois if -aid deceased Terms on day of sale,
jaiy’ 7 6w2'i RICHM(/Jt'b HARRIS, Admr.
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