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ibe constitutional esisteuce of bqpr.
'[ lies.- are our opinions, briefly expressed.--
We >lo uot plead for ourselves, but for Liberty
Social Order, and the Constitution of the coun
try. The adoptUn of the above measure would
radically change the character of our govern
ment, and launch us on tbe full tide of tm
i ridled military despotism. We trust the Leg
islature of this State will speak out in the
boldest terms on these subjects.
[from tbe La Grange Reporter.]
Whenever Congress makes an attempt to
pla. e a censorship over the press, it wouJ.l be
n . a time that the people should drive these
men from the legislative halls of the eountry.
i’lmy would be unfit to represent a free people.
We have heard ignorant men, though mak
in- some pretensions to intelligence, make the
foolish assertion that the press has- done more
injury to our cause than it has done good. It
may be that there are a few of this class of men
in Congress. If there he such we would warn
them against the storm that would ensue from
an iudiguant and outraged people should they
attempt any movement looking to a muzzling
: of th-' press; aud the sooner the press speak out
! on this subject perhaps the better it will be in*
j order that if there boa maa in Congress so un
' iin*, to liberty as to make an attempt to place
a . i-usoiship over the press, he may receive in
I advance that measure of anathema due a trai
‘ toi to the cause of constitutional liberty.
In thi-absence ot au untramineled and a free
pvi . corruption aud min would run riot over
the country, and despotism would soon assume
tbe'place ot civil liberty.
[ from Macon Intelligencer. ]
Our Congress, doubtless, long since indi
cated to (’resident Davis the course which lie
propoves in his message. It has been long
iri.l. r-tond that a powerful attempt would bo
made to entirely change tbe couscriptiou act,
aud that no exemptions shall be allowed. The
pur.v-.uph ot the message which suggests the
abrogation ot class exemptions, if acted upon
literally, will strike a death blow at the liberty
of the press aud the civil power. Then au an
lofiatic military despotism will be the summit
of the aggrandizement of power, which such a
course seeks to establish. Then farewell lib
crly, oven though honest men do hoid the
reins of power and wisdom be exercised iu the
administration ol justice.
Cut tbe I‘resident has not hitherto sanction
ed t lie constriction of the press; on the contra
ry, ho-has always asserted that its freedom is
;:uarnutoid by certain inalienable rights of the
people. Yet if class legislation is annulled, the
vigorous intellects and the machinery of the
pic s will bo bold at the disposition of the
powers that bo in authority, or lost to the Ue
public. Tyranny aud disgrace will follow all
nob legislation, for tiio despotism that con
trols, shackles or Huhorns the press, will stran
gle tiie best principles of a honor and
existence, and move all to the OTing will ot its
Master. ft
Intellectual eminence then will ho brought
low and he submissively obedient to the will of
a ili. I rior, or retire to the secrecy of unut
terod IJiougbt, to die from inanition. Tbe soul
j ..f liberty will die and the great minds of the
a.-b* bo guillotined by the registration of their
| bullies for menial or militaiy service. Then
Mho obscure parasite with despisablo fawning
aid idolatrous worship, will assume and occu
py the places that guide the opinions oftho peo
ple and assort the decrees of the autocrat.
May Clod in his goodness avert the doom of
igoranco and prejudice, that will be the heir
loom of our loved country, if the press is shack
led by the cold and heartless arrogance of pow
er, that t hreatens to curtail it of its influence.
[From La Grange Bulletin.]
President Davis favors the repeal of all ex
emptions. by classes, for special pursuits, and
the detail of- such mon ns are needed. The
power to grant these detail is to be vested in
; him and his subordinates, who are to deter
; mine who shall or shall not be detailed. The
■iggostion of the President gives much pain
lo those who liavedefended him against the at
, lacks oi what has been deemed il liberality iu
I supposing he desired omnipotent power. We
I halo to'see such a suggestion from our favorite
imikr spirit of the Confederate States-—a sug
■ zest ion that strikes at the very root of civil
' liberty, and places all power in the hands of
; .me man. W> do not object to seeing one man
' lave power for the purpose of winning our suc
. but to say tiiat the (’resident shall detail \
tuen to conduct newspapers— what a farce. It
i. a burles.|ue upon the liberty oi the press, and
| lur one we say good bye to freedom if Presi
dent Davis’ message is to be the guide of Con
lint il will not be. Tiie people will not
submit to a law that would deprive them of
all chance to be heard where they felt them
selves aggrieved or outraged.
The very proposition is too absurd to think
of for a moment. No detailed editor cap be
an independent editor, mid wherever such a
sham is attempted to be forced upon the peo
ple of Hie I'onlederale States, then indeed have
we room to believe that repulicanism is dead,
ami the war a failure, if liberty was the boon
for which iA was inaugurated.
[U'rcmthe Montgomery Appeal ]
The Constitution of tlienCoufederate States
; o pic ;iy provides that “'Congress shall pass
; j:o law abridging the freedom of the press,"
aud the more we reflect upon the subject the
: mure we are supprised that President Davis
j should c.iil upon that body for the enactment
iof MH'U a law. lie has taken a solemn oath to
j support, the Constitution, and we maintain that
us an honest and couscientous man, he would
beTiOimd to veto such a law, should it bo pass
ed by Congress. It will hardly be argued by
] ihe President and his supporters in this suicidal
policy, that such a change in the law as is a3k
cd for docs nut come within this prohibitory
clause ot i iie Constitution It does potoulygo
to the extent of abridging the freedom of the
pr. •. but it places its very life and existence
at the mercy and caprice of tbu President and
i his military subalterns.
This i- a qudstiou in which the people at
ii; are deeply interested as tbe members
■ ana conduetc!'* l v’f press themselves ; for
; without a free aud iinlfoemlCPt press to guard
md prohvl them, tho liberties Cf thejfeopiiJ
mil soon tie undermined and swallowed ui).—
Bui we hope and believe that Congress will
; prove too mindful of its high trust to yield
; obedience to the Kxecuttve’a behest in this in
j stance.
1 he question now to be deteraiined in a very
plain and simple one, ami easily disposed of,
viz Would the Southern press be free uudea
the restriction proposed by the President?—
Vr c unhc.-.ikitiirgly atlirm that it would not aud
! could not be free in the ueiy condition in which
in would be placed. It would be but the slave
of the government which could exercise an al
mo.-;t unlimited control ever it,for if the military
, authorities acting for tho government, woie to
-be invested with the power of detailing only
“‘editors and journeymen printers” as iu their
judgment might be thought advisable, it is
pertectly certain, that the relationship of the
pr. ' tuwards'the Goverment wquid be that of
depi u.lenee —aud if so where would be its
; boa ! te.l “liberty t" Military necessity could
be easily made the cloake for all manner of
restrictions aud arbitary prohibitions The
; freedom of the Press, in, fact, would be en
! tombed.
[From Wilmington Journal.]
It i in no factious spirit that we enter our
protest against a proposition, the effect of which,
i! £,.ms to us. must he the suppression of the
j , utle*tn press or the forfeiture of its indepen
dence. It the press is to be conducted by the
detailed appointees of the Confederate Execu
tive, then, of course, it ceases to he a free
press or the press of a free people ; and yet
a h ;s tiie only inference to be drawn from the
j President's endorsement of the recommenda
tion.- of ike Secretary of War, as well as from
! subsequent debates in Congress.
> ene gentlemen in Congress, oPrer gen
uC'-eu in cilieial position, though notiqCon
j press, in.ay think lightly of the press and take
pleasure in showing that they do so. We do
not say that the conductors of i£e press are
ail tbai iboy ought to be, of all iJjgf the re
sponsibility of their positions would seem to j
ri quire rl.at they should he. We suppose they
are not much better and not much worse than
their neighbors. As individuals they are euti
t ■ .1 to neither exemption nor immunity. They
; pen in a representative rapacity. They
.ivc utterance to public opiuiou, they com
bine and energise public edort. They are the
!* . i ibis of our in.siein civilization, aud as such
iher otiice iz sacred, aud the preservation of
iisputiti and independ-urce a matter of far
more moment to- a people jealous ol their
rights, than the smiles of executive favor or the
frowns of executive wrath. Os far more mo
ment than the irritation of some honest but ex
citable martinet, or the contemptible wrath of
some fourth-rate politician elevated suddenly
into the title of an M. C. and the dignity or
an honorable.
We shall remarks to offer
upon this is more
foie us. the Pr-.siileut, cut
this power of agnTluSsßg a free press in the
Confederate that ought to Le
conferred uponnqjjEmk'UMhat eve 1 ? breathed;
and of course the pres’-- chases to be free when
its thinking and speaking is dene by detailed
men. We would not give the right of appoint
inz apd removing the editors of The South to
an inspired Apostle, much less to a man like
unto ourselves. Itl is *,Well we
are taught in th? prayer of prayers, to pray
to be led not into k temptation but delivered
from evil.
[From Richmond Enquirer.]
The Constitution of the Confederate States
'extends to the Press]the aegis of its protection,
selecting it out from all other profes
sions, gives it an honorable security against
even the'Congress of.the Confederacy. Uoup
lingjit with the free worship of Almighty Goil,
the Constitution connects it also with the
right of the people peaceably to assemble and
to petition the Government for a redress of
grievances. Its pi nee in the Constitution is
between the Vox Zb ; and Vox PopuU—subor
dinate td the one, superior to the other.
This could not have been mere accident,
there must have existed soiuo reason for tfiis
protection, and for this immediate conjunction
with religious and popular petition. We liutl
this same protection given to the press Jr. the
10th article of the Bill of Bights reported by
Mr. Wythe, of the Virginia Convention, on the
Federal Constitution, as follows: ‘‘That the
freedom of the Press is one of the greatest bul
works of liberty, and ought not to be violated”
What sort of a bulwark of liberty would the
press be with detailed editors—the underling
of an underling ? It is to this degraded posi
tion that the President has deliberately recom
mended the Congress to reduce the Press. IB:
does not say that the army needs their services,
hut that the exemption by law should bo re
pealed, and that a ‘‘discretion should bo vest
ed in the military authorities” to detail the
editors, whensoever and wheresoever those au
thorities may regard them as “essential to tho
public service.”
Editors as individuals, deserve no more con
sideration from the Congress than “shoemak
eas, tanners, blacksmiths, printers, millers,
miners, physicians and telegraph operatives;”
but as the Press, without editors, would be
playing Hamlet, with the part of Hamlet
omitted, there is something dus to tiie intelli
gence of the people, which demands at the
hands of Congress that tho Press of the coun
try be not wholly prostrated at tho foot of the
Executive power, and forced to petition for ex
existence, and to receive it upon such condi
tions as the Executive, or lira detailing subor
dinate, may choose to impose.
_ Exemption by law gave an honorable posi
tion to the press, secured its independence,
and left no rod suspended over its head, but
such as the people raised by their support or
rejection. But an editor emerging from that
cesspool of corruption, the detail system, would
be an object of offence to tho virtuous people
of these States, uud the paper he conducted
cease to be an organ of public opinion, uud be
come the miserable conduit of those to whore
favor he owed his exemption from the ranks.
No! for God sako put us in tiie army, the
trenches, any where; but save u:: from the de
graded position of a detailed editor.
Did the President, when he recommended
this degradation to the Press of his country,
know that neither “telegraph operators, work
men in mines, engineers, shoemakers, tannt#s
blacksmiths, and millers,” were exempt by
law, and that his recommendation pointed on
ly at professors, teachers, physicians and the
Press of the country?
Tiie exemptions by the law of February 17,
1804, are; Ministers of religion at the time of
the passage of tho act; suberlntendents and
physicians of asylums; one editor for each
newspaper and employees certified on oath to
be indispensably necessary;’ public printers of
Confederate and State Governments, and such
journeymen pi iutcrs'certilied on oath to be
indispensable; skilled apothecaries, of date
Oct. 10, ISG2; physicians over lit) years of age,
and of sevou years’ practice, presidents and
teaehers of colleges, engaged as such two years
before the passage of the law; overseer rr ng -
riculturalists of 1;> negroes; presidents, &c„ of
railroads, and mail contractors. These are all
the ‘‘classes” exempt by law. There is no ex
emption in the law for ‘‘telegraph operators,
workmen in mines, engineers, shoemakers, tan
ners, blacksmiths, and millers,” and if any of
these “classes” have been exempted, it is the
fault, pot of the law. but of its administration.
Tue law alto djspretiomyry power to the Presi
President under the “public neer ssity clause, to
make ‘‘additional exemptions/’ but is it ne
cessary to destroy the Press of the country to
repair the evil consequences that may have
erisen from male administration lather than
defective legislation! ' ~
There can be no frauds where exemption is
granted by law; but when the dekql system
or the “public clause is substitu
ted, tue door is opened wide to every species
of corruption. The widest latitude of exeinp
tiou by law does less jjijqry than the closest
system qf detail. The one is open to the in
spection of every official aud of every citizen;
the other is known only to .the detailed man
and to the officer. There can be no fraud in
the former; there has been much in the hitler.
Had the President recommended the Congress
to abandon alt details and substitute a wider
range of exemption, he would *»*ve suggested
a measure for the suppression of fraud and
corruption.
For-a xty years the PJchmon ! “Enquirer”
has existed a newspaper, free, uabough j , un-
Ohasable, and never shall it exist otherwise with
our consent. The support wo have heretofore
given tho President umi the pause has been
conscientious and free; ho other support can
we ever give. If the Congress considers that
tiie hoffe aud muscle of the Press are worth
mcr e than its brains to the cause, send us all
to the ranks—We may do some service
to 4»e country— but us u/f'i’led editors, we
may become tho tools, the minions of power,
hut v.e should eease to he agencies of expres
sion for a free people.
The Press is not a “class,” it is an institu
tion, as such recognized by enlightened opinion
all over the world, and guarded, as we have
showed, by the power cf the Constitution
Neither shoemaking, or tanning or blacksmilh
ingy nor milling, or any of the ‘ classes” with
which the President has connected the Pres
have any constitutional recognition Leira ion
and the Press, aud Popular Petition is’the
Trinity protected by thu Constitution ’ When
the President shall have succeeded in striking*
the central essence from this triune cu-ird ot
public liberty and deprive! Rolieio’n' of its
organ and-jßopular petition of its voice he will
have adileir not a hundred men to the arm v
but darkness will over the land illumin’
ed only by the rush light of pensioned and
purchased papers edited by details
The first step towards despotism will have
been taken when tho press of tho country is
put under the control of the Executive details
The army will uot receive one hundred recruits
for this recommendation to substitute detail
for exemption ol the Press, but the world wtli !
soon learn what value to set upon Hie voice of 1
a Press whose conductors owe their exemption i
trom service to tbe favor ct a detail I
Let it he remembered that unlimited and
unrestrained power corrupted even the Psalm
ist of Israel, and that under the •VniversaHV
recognized permanent political duty of every
member of society ' to serve in the army Uri
ah, the Hittite, was sacrificed to the guiitv
passions of King David, who sent him to the
army with a letter to the commander
“Set ye Uriah in the forefront otethe hotte“i
battle, and retire y from him, that he may be
smitten and die * ’—a fate easily visited bn
sn obnoxious editor under lbs detail system.
f Under the Virginia Bill of Rights tiie free
dom of the Prass is guaranteed. We do'not
believe tiiat the St-itd of \ irgima will quietly
permit her Press to be wholly destroyed. The
only pleasure yet left to the conductors of the
Press is the kind and cheerful support given
them by the people. They have uncomplain
ingly bornp with all the embarrassments that
hare beset tine Press;'aided and sustained .us
in all our difficulties. We do uot believe they ]
will permit this last disgrace to be visited upon ;
the Press. j
LKTfEII titO.VI Ml DISOX,
[spec! ai, cOukespoxdem'k chkonicle * sextintiP
Our JMoJfevMe Corespondent makes a Flank
Alorchtenl— Ikxtj, Yankees in Morgan and
J uliV’i.t 2 crrible Destruction of Properly
Ihelr Probable',,\Deslinallm—Effect on the
dun, da; *.
.Mxwsox, Nqv. 24, 1564.
My last fetter rare yea a hurried account of
the k of the. Legislature. After
the p.d';toUncient on frujay night, there was
much uncertainty as to the most safe and prac
ticable means of-getting- home. The Yankees
were reported near-Giinton, and it was feared
that the "Maconstrain would be captured.—
Still, nearly all the members, save a few who
had private mean's of conveyance, took the
Saturday.’* train for Gordon. Reaching there
at daylight, their fears.of an interruption of
the ro;ui were realized No train had left Ma
con on account of the rupiored approach of
the Yankees on Griswoldville, via Clinton.—
The train, immediately returned for Miliedge
viile and Eatoutoa, bringing some who hud
gone down but a few hours before. They re
j ported tiiat some took the “ people’s line,”
jon foot, for Ilawkinenlle; some took to the
! woods, and some remained with Mieawbei like
serenity at Gordon, waiting for something to
turnup: and that is tiie last intelligence that
| your special l:as of. th: panic stricken ilehat
| lag society which topk. such hasty leave of the
I capitol.
in company with a few residents of this
section, 1 took the train for Eatonton. In
avoiding Scylla \ve. soon found out selves run
ning up on C'harybdis, for when within a mile
ot Eatonton. a courier came galloping out to
stop the train, and announced that the enemy
were within a few miles of town, and were ex
pected every moment.
A number of us took to the woods, suppos
ing that the train would go no further, but
alter a little delay, to our surprise, it moved
ou for town. We-deiei mined to move ucro.-s
the*fields'and woods several miles to the Mad
ison road, and having in the party a native of
the county, who knew, every cow path, he took
the lead. After several hours oi’ very heavy
marching, we sat down to rest and deliberate
on the situation. A waggish member of the
party declared that he felt perfectly secure if
the Yankees did get him, as he had a copy of
tho Peace Resolutions in his pocket! Another
—a country esquire—consoled himse.f with
belonging to tbe “Judiciary,” and thought
neither the Governor, nor the Yankees would
hurt liim. The number of tiie Legislature
felt sure tiiat body had done nothing especial- •
ly offensive to any Yankee who was reasona
ble. While each was thus deliberating jocose
ly of his probable kite should wo fall iuto
their vile hands, we moved on, and after tug
ging valise, trunks and bundle for several
miles more, wo found ourselves ox 'ran kail
koai) a mile below wliure we left it. So ranch
for a pilot who “knew tl*p country.”
Disgusted with the success of this, our first
flank movement, wo moved ou to Eatonton to
ariothei, which, as the sequel will
show, was a brilliant success. We found Ea
tonton agitated. The streets were thronged
with horsemen, come moving out to look for
the enemy, and some prudently moving Die
other w-;fy. The windows-and piazzas were
lined with ladies and children—many of the for
mer arid all tbe lalter.yery pretty and all dload
ing the advent of the vile vandals whose despic
able character is best illustrated in the fact
that they are tho terror of the helpless and
pure. A village waiting for the Yankees, is
a picture worthy a Hogarth. Leaving our
baggage, we took a hasty dinner, determined
lo keep the road to Madison, until our pickets j
should nofify us of the approach af the Yan* !
Uees. About three p’clock a scout came dash- !
ing down the road at a Gilpin speed, crying
“to the woods"—“to the' yroods,” and wo
vvoodod. Waiting several hours in the rain,
under a rail pen improvised for tho occasion,
we determined lo go out on the road and see
avliat was going on. We had not travelled a
hundred yards, before a party of cerulean clad
equestrians cvmo dashing up, and in a very
polite and insinuating manlier briefly request
ed ns to halt. The request was accompanied
with most slgnijjjrant cocking of carbines and
pistols, which, brought to a horizontal alti
tude in ('tie’s front are veiy persuasive, espe
cially to an unarmed.civiiifui—and we hal
ted* After a brief and hurried talk, in which
we Were questioned very' closely about tho
country,' troops in the vicinity, &c., they
drove on. We gathered from their actions
that they were tho advance guard of the 1-rrce
from Madison, aud were expecting to meet
another fyice, from Monticello at the fork near
by. ,
Apprehending that, our Overcosts and small
residue of cash and other personal effects would
not he safe in the motley crew composing the
Yankee army, we resolved to keep the woods,
until -they should pass. We therefore returned
:mour pep, ami staid until morning. We then
proceeded ihtough the woods, within hearing
distance of tin: road. Lite ou Sunday their
main column commenced passing, aud we foued
it very difficult to avoid them. They swarmed
through the fields shooting cattle aud plunder
ing indiscriminately, until lutein the night.
We were in more dread of being shot as lmsli
whaeke't s, than we lmd been of being plundered,
and probably should have kept Die road. But
we now had no choice but to avoid them if
possible. T heir wagons were rumbling along
the Mouiicfello road on our.left, and on the
Madison road cu tbe right, while they swarmed
in the country between. We could hear them
lalk, and hear their caps explode, as they
passed within a few feet of us. The night
was intensely cold, wet and dark, save when
the distant gleam of a burning house lighted
tip tin: jjliorrzon. Their gmain columns were
passing from about two o’clock on Sunday af
ternoon, imlil about, nine o’clock at night.
The next day they were passing during the
morning, and wo Continued in the woods.
This Was our Ihijd day out, during tyhleh iitne
it hod rained continually, aud wp had subsist
ed on parched corn.
On 'Tuesday morning we deteimined to take
the road aud j.ush on. Going to Mr. Credel’a
place we found his line house in ashes and Ids
gin house burned, uod every horse and mule
gone. In his lot were about one hundred horses
lying dead. They looked like good stock
and were evidently kiilyd to deprive planters
ol them. A number of Mr, (As. negroes were
goup. Proceeding on, we found every planta
tion Off tho road sltuiiarlv devastated, except
that no other dwelling uOuaos were burned
until we reached the fine farm of Hon. Joshua
Hill. This is a perfect wreck. A large gin house
fall of cotton, corn crib3, dwelling—ail a
smouldering ruin. His loss was greater than
tiiat ot any planter in this section. Besides
the cotton several thousand bushels of corn,
potatoes, se%*ml hundred of wheat, aud muc h
other valuable property, with every horse and
tunic an*l many negroes, are gom*. No
farm on thou 'to place, aud as far as
we can hear towards Atlanta escaped their
brutal Ravages. They rav#ged the country be
low here to the Oconee river. The roads wero'i
strewn with Uio debris of their progress. I
Dead horses, cows, sheep, hogs, chickens, corn,
wheat, cotton, books, paper,, broken vehicles,
ijqtl’ee mills,-and fragments of nearly 4 every !
specie of property that adorned the beautiful j
farms of this county, Strew tho wayside,
monuments ot Die meanness, rapacity, and i
hypocrisy of the who boast that they j
are nqt robbers at.d do uotjuterfeie with pri- j
vate property. . j
j . In MaJirioo, they burned the depot and one
I or two old warehouses, with the jail and mar
ket house. They gutted every store, and
plundered more or less on every lot. They
fired the drug, store stnd several -other houses,
and their officers-, with a show of magnanimity,,
aided to put out the flames. Many families
have’not a pound of meat, or a peck of meal
or flour. Many negroes were enticed away
from homes of comfort to >}rare the uncertain
fortunes of a winter march - ' to the coast, and
then—freedom to starve. Families of 'jvealtdr
have )»t a house servant left, aud those who
were the most trusted were often the flirt to
leave.
The Yankees entered the house of my next
door neighbor, an old man ol over three score
years, and tore up his wife's clothes and bed
ding. trampling her bonnet on the floor, and
robbing tho house and pantry of nearly evsry- j
thing of value. There was no provocation for j
any of these acts, for everybody treated them |
civilly, and offered them all they wanted to j
eat. Their excuse is, that thty eaunot control j
their men. Many* of them, including their ofli- j
cers, behave civilly ; aaci my humble domicil I
escaped any eeiious depredations.
Those citizens wfco rcimdr and at homo, and
watched their nveuris,- ~ i.-,t Hit;*save horses,
food and stoek. Those v.Lo, froni’kjiy c.*.u>e,
chanced to bo away, Leu all. A 1.-.-.H*-c.a the
Eatonton road, whoso father is Li ;ffe
feeling afraid to- stay ut homo, went to the J
bouse of a neighbor, and on returning found
every plate broken, every knife ana fork aud
spoou gone, and he;’ own clothes stripped to
shreds and scattered about the lot. '
tV>definite estimate can be framed of the
plans or fouire movements of the enemy, or of
their numbers. Those who passed through
here, were said to consist of Slocum’s corps,
tinder command of Gen. Williams, end were
estimated at 8,000 tj 10(AO. They were
chiefly infantry, with three batteries of artil
j lery. • They hail quite a large wagon train with
pontoon bridges. They boasted that they
were now wiping us out effectually : that they
wottli destroy Macon, Augusta and Savannah,
aud. then go into South Carolina, aud end the
war at Ohailesion. They evidently went
through Milledgevii'te. and "their other column
has doubtless by this time reached Macon.
From all that I c-an learn, they left Atlanta
i with foui' corps, of about tIA.OOO men, neatly
half of whom are raw drafted men, who have
no stomach for the war. They are being cap
tured in the vitality continually. Several
have come in to day, who have been lying in
the woods until their rearguard left, in order
to desei t.
By the* time they reach the barren pine
belt below Miliedgeville, they will find Geor
gina hard road to travel, uud if we can confront
them with a email levee, aud harrass their flanks
vigorously, they will meet few ships to greet
them when they reach ’ho coast. It is a des
perate game, and in this fertile belt, they can
play it successfully, but the swamps will bo
fatal to them- They have unquestionably caused
much suffering—and to nighifamilies who lmd
an abundance last week, have EcwChly a day’s
subsistence. Tho greatest inconvenience is
horses. ’There is pleutv in the country yet, but
there is no horses to haul it. Our citizens are
in distress also for wood for the same reason.
I fear I have been a little prolix. The theme
is a suggestive one. I could fill your paper
with facts and incidents connected with the
reign of terror tiiat marked the Federal visit
lierey. The came in on Friday and left on Sa
turday. They evidently intend to visit Au
gusta, anil will teach there soon. Are you
ready to receive them?
. Aristides.
N. B —Warn your non-combatant readers
not to. leave t heir homes when the Yankees are
expected.
——"BSK»»=
CO.WEDEB.VI’K STATE:* (!»XUKSSI&S.
SEXATK NOV. If).
Resolutions were adopted—That arrange
nionlt be made with the military authorities
of the United Slates whereby tobacco rations
may be furnished to our soldier: - . he*d prison
ers by them; to provide for the sequestration of
the property of all persons why have left or
may hereafter leave the Confederacy without
sanction of the Gun federate authorities; to ex
tern! the lime for. tbe (stah!!shir.cnt ami pay
ment of claims fora cart.-.in divriptiou of prop
erty taken or unfairly impressed for the use
of the army.
The following were referred : Resolution of
inquiry as to whether order No. 77, revoking
detaiis of all men b; tween tho ages of 18 and
15, requires any modification by legisla
tion to preserve the producing and industrial
interests; bill to exempt era-goes of vessels
owned by States of.tin* Confederacy from ex
isting restrictions upon exports.
A bili to repeal the act authorizing the pay- *
ment of debts due to alien enemies in bonds of
the Confederate States, passed.
ItOUSE - xov. 15 .
Tho bill to prevent frauds against the Gov
ernment of tho Confederate States, &c„ was
made the special order fpr Thursday, 25th.
Resolutions wore adopted expelling W. R.
W. Cobb, of Alabama, from the House
Convicted of disloyally.
- The House concurred in the President's rec
ommendation to observe Wednesday, tho 10th
inst, a, a day of public worship.
* KEN'eTK—xov. If.
The following were referred: A bill, to
amend tho law in relation to lira receipt of cer
tified Treasury notes ; memorial of banks of
Savannah, Ga., asking bar lain idoiiiiicattens of
the currency and tar: ueh; of February and
June, 1801; to author!ilie President to re
ceive Into the military service organizations
composed of perrons who are not citizens of
the Confederate States: to’extend the time
within which holders of Treasury notes of the
old issue limy exchange Ih : same for notes of
tin: new issue ; to prevent Th ;: il impressments
and to punish lawlessness.
The followingmolutionn were passed :
I-lesohred. That the President be requested
to inform the Senate, in open or secret session,
ns he may deem advk -..ble, whether he lias in
formation that any State of tho United States
has, through any' of her recognized authorities,
directly e-r indirectly, expressed a willingness
to go into oonvcn’ion with the States of this
Confederacy for the puipc.-;,: of negotiating a
peace, or consulting on the best method of cf
leetiug a cessation of hostilities ; and to com
municate such information to tho Senate, il
not the public interests.
Resolved, That the President be requested
to communicate to the Senate the number of
persons in each State exempted from military
service upon tho certificates of iiu: Governors,
respectively, that they are c'.lfioo.r,-: necessary
for the proper administration of the govern
ments of said States.
Resolved, That Committee on Military Af
fairs he instructed to inquire into the expedien
cy of a reorganization of tbe cavalry in tho
Confederate service, aud of mounting and
equipping them at lire expense of the Govern
ment,
. HOUSE— Nov. 17.
I '■’The following were referred : A message
; from the President trim; mil!ing the estimates
jof the Secretary of War-for Die further proSe-
I cation of the war; alee, a nicrsag;; containing
J a report of Gen. G. T. Beauregard relative to
| the operations on Morris Island.
Resolutions declaring the cxpulsiqn of \Y.
R. W. Cobb, of Alabama, wore adopted.
SENATE—NOV. LS’.
The following were referred to appropriate
committees: A bill to amend an act to es
tablish the Judicial Courts of tiie Confederate
States, approved Match Iff, t 0 unread
the act providing for the ouubli.-im-nt and pay
ment of clainis for a certain description of
property taken or informally impressed for the
use of the enemy; petition playing that tfie
owners Qf registered bonds oi tiie 15 million
j loan be authorize 1 by law to exchange the
j same lor coupon bonds.
Just resolutions were.'adopted defining the
| posion of the Confederate States and deohir
-1 ing Ike determination of the Congress and »va
| pie thereof to prosecute the u-m .mtil tneir in
dependence is achieved.
Resolutions were adopted -that imputes be
i rna# whether tho mililary officers j n com -
nsand of department,; h-no untLoriiy undei ex
! biting laws, to impress negroes, wagons, trains,
[ »kc , lor tue purpose o* bailing irepairing
railroads, belonging to private companies,
•\O. luat the omiiinnttee on Foreign Ail'aiis
report the facts relative to the seizure of the
1 Florida and what action should be taken by
the government in relation thereto.
Bills were passed, of civil
officers in the Tram Missi-slppi LVici i.ient • to
extend the time within which the old notes may
be changed fra- new to July 1, ■ to extend
to post masters the provisions ol the bill in Re
lation to tbe receipt of counterfeit treasury
notes.
HOUSE—NOV. 18.
The following were introduced: A bill to
define tee conspiracy the Confederate
states; to provide ter the payment of horses
lost in toe military service; to regulate the
1 compensation of tbe Marshal of the Confederate
i States tor tfaeKasiern District o( Va., memo
rial that Culpepper to., Va., in view of its de
vastation by rile ravage of war, tha Confeder
ate States tax of that county for 18GJ be sus
pended; resolution that tho 'President trans
mit to the House a copy of Gen. John
ston’s report of his campaign in ihe sum
mer of 18G3; that the President be requested
to furnish the House with copies of instructions
given to officers to impress brandy, &c,; to
provide for the impressment of iron ..i.tite-enls
ftc., when needed by raili to re. j
the salaries of certain office ' • . }
to amend au act providing I■> -is . - .ti. - ..! j
certain properly when impr- - Ibe re
lief of the Confederate pri“< ,i tusio '
dy by the United States ant fire chat the '
Military Committee inquire into the expedi
ency of repealing that portion of the exemp
tion law that exempts all persons working fif
teen negroes bet ween the ages of eighteen aud
forty-five; resolution condemning the practice
of secret sessions; that inquiries be made as to
■NiKjexpediency of putting the marines on the
Siune- looting as the infantry of tbe military
forces; to amend the act to organize forces to
serve during the war; that inquiries bo made
what. legislation is necessary to secure a better
d'stribuaon ot hospital suppliis among tbe e-a
tients. or
SENATE—XOV. 19.
The following bills were passed : A bill ex
tending to officers, soldiers, sailors and others,
who had resigned or been honorably discharged
from the service before the passage of the act
establishing the invalid corps, the provisions of
the said act; to authorize tho transfer of the
registered bonds of the fifteen million loan for
coupon bonds of like amounts and character
in regard to terms and times of payment: to
suspend for sixty days that portion of the fifth
section of tiie “ Act to organize forces to serve
during the war" which provides that tho re
serves shall not be required to perform service
out of tbe States iu which they reside.
A resolution was passed inquiring into the
expediency of so amending the currency act
of Feb. 17,1804, as to substitute the certifi
cate oftho cashier of the hank or branch bank
of any State, verified by his affidavit, in the
room of the certificate therein requited of the
Governor, of the amount of Treasury notes re
ceived and held by any State, before said notes
become taxable under said act, and on deposit
with said cashier to the credit of any State or
the Governor thereof.
HOUSE—NOV. Iff.
The committee to which was referred a reso
lution directing an inquiry into the expediency
of applying to the several States for such a
modification of tho action of the States as shall
have the effect to decrease the number of ex
emptions from military service of State officers,
reported that they considered it highly expedi
ent that an appeal be made to the several
State Legislatures to modify their exemption
laws so as to leave subject to military service
State officers between the ages of eighteen and
forty-live years whoso presence at homo may
not be essentially necessary to conduct, aud
carry on the operations of their respective
Governments. The committee recommend tho
appointment of a joint committee to consist of
one member from each Staie, on tho part of
the House, and such raembeis as may be up
pointed by tho Senate, whose duty it shall be
to ascertain the number of officers in each one
of the several States exempted by existing
iaws from military service in the armies of tho
Confederate States for the purpose of carrying
on the Government of said States, and if the
number bo larger than the public necessity
shall seem to require, that the committee pre
pare and report to tho House an address, ap
pealing to each of said States to so modify
their respective exemption laws as to render
liable to military service all able bodied men
between eighteen and forty-five years whose
services in their several offices may be tempo
rarily dispensed with without detriment to the
Government of such State*
The resolution was adopted.
UXOUUIA I.UUIHLATtHK.
Second Segx-'on.
[SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE cnKONICLF A SENTINEL. ]
HOUSE—NOV. 15.
A bill to relieve all blind persons in the
State, who are not worth more than ?20CO,
from taxation of all kinds, passed.
A bill to allow widows to possess one third
of all -the personal property, of which their
husbands may die seized, as in case oi' dower,
lost.
A bill was introduced allowing las collectors
and increasing their fees fifty per
cent.
A resolution was introduced to the effect
that owing to the fact that there is a scarcity
of blttoUßßitths in some of the counties of the
State, the Governor be requested to detail
blacksmiths enough to do the work in such
counties necessary for agricultural purposes.
’ Thfe STonse being resolved into a Committee
of tho Whole, tho General Revenue and Ap
propmtion Bill was taken up by sections, but
was uot finished.
The committee on so much of tho Annual
Message, as relates to exiles, reported and of
fered a bill to provide for the sustenance and
maintenance of exiled families and persons re
quiring the males and females, who are able to
be employed iu some worts, ami making all
necessary regulations.
A number of House and Senate bills were
read a second time.
SENATE—NOV. if.
Motion to reconsider bill to relieve ware
housemen from tax ou cotton burned ; carried.
Mutton to reconsider resolution In reference
to the impressment of breeding cattle; carried.
A resolution was introduced to appoint a
join! committee to confer with the Governor
iu reference to an early adjournment, owing to
the threatening advances of the.eneuiy. Adopt
ed. Messrs. I’ottle, Query and Barr Were ap
pointed. •
A bill reliaving from taxation property over
run or destroyed by the enemy; passed.
. A resolution -authorizing treasurers to re
move publie funds and documents to place to
safety; passed.
A resolution authorizing tbe Governor of
call out all the able bodied men in the State
and place them in the militaiy service for the
period of thirty days.. Referred to the Milita
ry Committee,
The reconsidered house bill exempting ware
housemen from paying tax ou cotton burned,
passed.
A bill to regulate tho tax on slaves was dis
cussed.
The Senate then repaired to the Ilall of tiie
House for the election of Stale Printer.
HOUSE—nov. 17.
The bili to allow Ordinaries to make returns
and charge for same was re-ronsidered.
The State Treasurer was authorized to remove
public funds to a safe place.
The following bills were passed: a hill to add
Worth county to the SoiTth Western circuit;
for tho relief of the bank of the Empiro State;
to amend the militia laws, authorising the ap
pointment of a Boani of Surgeons to consist
of three members in eacli Congressional Dis
trict, instead of one Surgeon in each District,
aud to give men the opportunity of an exam
ination in their own county.
Tiie following bills were Introduced: a bill
to allow refugees to vote out of their own
counties; to allow tho appointment of a county
administrator; to repeal the act to abolish the
office of county treasurer in Stewart county;
for the pardon of Terry L. Cox
A resolution was iutrodum-d to establish a
tri-weekly mail line from Dublin to Mount
Vernon.
A resolution was introduced to eppoint a
joint eoramittee to confer with the Governor
as to adjournment, on account, of the advance
of the enemy, was adopted—Messrs. Long,
Langston aud Liam were appointed as the com
mittee on the part of the House.
The Message of the Governor in reference to
the purchase of cotton wa3 received aud re
ferred to the finance committee.
'The message from the Governor in reference
to the appointment of aids, was received. It
states that in addition to those appointed itn
der tne militia bill, and those usually rteeded,
he has appointed Col. Schley to go to Europe,
and Messrs. Wilbur and Lamar to attend to
blockade interests; tnat Col. Lee and four as
sistants liave been employed to collect the
“Roll of Honor’’ of Georgia soldiers; and that
he has been obliged to appoint one in each
county to assist the district aids in enrolling
and sending forward tbe militia.
The message in reference to the Card Fac
tory was also read. It forwards the report of
the Superintendent.
At 12 o’clock the Senate convened with tbe
House in the Representatives Hall and pro
ceeded to the election of State Printer. _
The names of Messrs. Broughton, Nisbett,
Barnes & Cos., and of Messrs. Orme & Son.,
were proposal. On tbe first ballot, Messrs.
Broughtoh, Nisbett, Barnes & Cos., received !)3
votes, and Messrs. Orme & Son, 55 votes. So
the present printers were re-elected.
Without the prestige of a West Point edu
cation, but by sheer dint of merit, William
ohnson Png ram has risen from the ranks, at
the age of twenty-three, to the posiiion of
Brigadier General in the Provisional Army of
'be Confederate States.
FitOM TUI AL 411 AM A FOUNT,
Tho Montgomery Mail, of Tuesday* gives
the annexed news from the Alabama front:'
A gentleman attached to the 4rmy of Ten
nessie has just arrived, the reliability cf
whose information can be vouched for. The
entire army h;;.. eivo.tod the Tennessee River at
Florence. Luc’s corps crossed first. The oth
er coins crossed ou last Sunday.
it is further stated tii.L while portious ol tiie
auny wore on each side ol the river, a party
of bold 1 ode:cl raiders came down the river
in r-k.r-i and cut the pontoon bridge in two or
throe place.-?. Three of the river raiders were
captured, and hatchets wave found in their po*->
session. wLh winch they did the cutting. Ths
rest oi tlte party escaped. It was one of the
boldest attempts of the Yankee raiders during
the campaign.
The bridge was soon repaired and tho* re
mainder of the auny crossed. Our informant
furth. i state--, that the baggage and transpor
tation of the army has been materially reduc-
G:.o v :• ;o-i ;ri ora is allowed to each heaii
• pv.Ttora, oven im-iz-Lug the transportation of
Dm C-cmaueder in chief. The best mules and
hm.-v. mw! :tg.■!!« have been placed in tho
rnpp’.y Irma. The direction of the a*my is
! not-known *
j A late pi-ivoto klter from tbo army inf. rma
u-’hi -. "ovc u,x»pa are in .splendid condition.
..I:*.': v. lo are daiiy returning, express their
.(tono:.-; .is in its tom j thu ram-: tumy, they left
iit June:.boro' or Palmetto- Everything seems
to portend a magnificent winding tip of this
arduous campaign.
P.wsi nyvrs report that an engagement lias
Already taken place between Hood and Sher
mas. Results not known.
T he Columbus Times of Saturday, publishes
the following:
YYe have late and reliable intelligence from
Tuscumbia. An officer who left that place
last Sunday, tbe 13th inst., reports that For
rest had reached there durfr-.g the preceding
week, having dealtoyed everything ou the
river from. Fort Hindman to Tuscumbia. For
rest’s cavalry ami ( 'heuChain’s corps crossed,
over to the north side on Sunday morning tho
llith, aud Stewart's corps in the afternoon of
the same, day. Lees corps was already across.
Our informant represents that the army wu*.
being rapidly reinforced froittboth trout aud
roar.
llccruHs from Middie Tennessee were flock
ing to it in large numbers, it was thought the*
Hood would immediately move up to Coh'.m
bia. The baggage of tho army has beep, much
1 educed aud sent to tho rear. Tho troops were,
in light marching trim, iu the highest spirits,
and eager iortlse advance. Goo. Beauregard
reviewed that portion of the army which was
on the south side of tho river on Saturday the
12th inst. and was full oi hope at the pros
pect before it.
It is reported at -Selma, Ala., that Hood ,bail
1 met Thomas on the Nashville and Decatur
Railroad, and alter two days hard fighting
the Yankees were routed.
A lei ter was received in Columbus Saturday,
from Palmetto, a point on the West Point and
LaGyauge railroad, stating that Kilpatrick
witn :>,o(!d Yankees was advancing -down the.
country on the Alabama sido of the Chatta
hoochee, burning and destroying everything
I'ltOM ViltUi.ltA-
Nothing of interest hss occurred in Ibe vicin
ity ot Richmond or Petersburg for several
(lays. *
A large number oi the rttizens of Winches
ter have been arrested and sent North.
Mostly has executed a number of Yankee
soldiers ia retaliation for the murder of seven
of his men l>y order of Gen. Foster sometime
since.
Tiie enemy are very busily engaged in re
pairing tin: road leading from Harper’s Ferry
to Wine-heater ; and have removed tho iron
from the Manassas ic-a ins low down as Gaines
ville, which is within eight miles of the juDC-y
tion with the Orange and Alexandria roaii.
The Peteisbmg Express says a large number
of deserters -upwards of seventy—came into
our lines at different points, recently. Wo
hear it stated thu! an enihe company of Yan -'
kees —officers and all—caine ovor, and that*,
when the roll was called, inside our lines, uot
a man was found missing.
I! is reported that Sheridan,’ with two corpt
of his army, hud l-eiuforccd Grant, wlis, it
was expected, would soon detach him upon a
stupendous raid into North Carolina, or to
wards Lynchburg by the south-side route.
Gen. Early’s forces at last, accounts were
- pushing closely alter tho retreating forces of
the enemy, whose pickets were between New
town and Winchester, lit last, accounts. .
Owing lo the great mortality and suffering
among the prisoners just exchanged at Kavan
nah. the Commissioners have agreed to con
clude the exchange, under tho present arrange
ment, at City Point. , . *-
Officers in Gen. Lee’s army are of opinion that
the campaign in Virginia is over.
Grant hus received heavy reinforcements,
from Sheridan.
A Federal Colonel recently captured in Vir
ginia, after firing tho contents of his live-shoot
er at the Confederate Lieutenant who called
upon him to surrender, pitched into him in reg
ular Tran Ifyer stylo ami knocked him down,
A hard ti Ted robe! private coming to the rescue,
the pugna- ions Colonel surrendered.
* -xMtgV
. 1-TtOJU CAST TEAXHHSEE i
Gen. Early lies promulgated stringent or
ders against straggling to plunder during ac
tive op; rate as in the iii Id. if lbs officers in
<mr at my will only set the example of strict
dh’Bipthu: and sobriety, and enforce proper man
agement in the commissary and quartermas
ter's ih-p -.it.:,units, they will have no reason to
complain of the conduct cf tho men.
It ia stilted that the Federals hoc not ad
vanced further than Hend rsori’s, a short dis
tance this side of Greenville ft thinks that
they do not intend to advance as far qs Bristol,
and that, cjinif they were to attempt it they
vtouhl find veiy seiicus obstacles iu their way.
Tho force ot the Yankees are estimated bc
twnea three aud five thousand.
The Yankee forces in Upper East Tennessea
hare: been sent to Sherman.
Gen. Ueckenridge lias taken command in
person in East Tennessee. Absentees are re
turning, ne w recruits daily arriving, more rigid
di.scipiin, is being enforced, and all is union
and harmony.
Gen, I'.riekimiJge iris : aarß'd a proclamation,
granting complete protection to tiie East Ted
nessear.s who may to lay down their arms
and become pe •.-■cable and quiet citizens.
The Bristol Gazette stales that our forces
are stjll pursuing tin; enemy in East Thennes
see, and securing tiio fruits of their victory.—
The total number of prisoners captured is re
ported to be eight hundred and fifty. Fifty
wagons a-qf teams, in addition to those already
reported have fallen info our hands. The en
emy in is some force at Strawberry Plains, eigh
teen rnife; from Kqoxvillc, aria it is said that
Gen. Vaughn is again in their rear.
Among other things captured is a largo
train loaded with commissary stores. Also a
wagon train. ’ .
MIOSf iVOUTII CAROLINA
The Iredell Express has learned that the
house of a Mr. l!u sell, iu Wilkes county, was
surrounded by a band of tories one night last
week, tiio house robbed of guns*- and other
property and then fired, which happily was af
terwards extinguished. The same rascals then
proceeded to the residence of a Mr. I.aws and
burnt his dwelling. The name .paper containa
an account of a light which took place between
the Home Guaid of Watauca county, and a
party of deserters, on the lid inst. ’ihe tight
was in the woods and was conducted L in regu
lar Indian style, huffing from sunrise until Ks
o'clock. Tho Home Guard had one man mor
tally wounded, who died next day, another se
verely wounded, and two slightly. The bush
whackers wore commanded by one Jim Hart
ley and are a band, of deserters from botte
armies. The deserters had eight killed and
several wounded.
Uxfohtsxath iou 'i ii ic Cacsh. —GeD. Joseph,
h, Johnson has arrived in Columbia from \ta
con, and will for the present make c jty
bis home. It is peculiarly unfortunate "that at
an hour which demands the best military ex
perience and judgement, two anch officers as.
Uens. Johnston and Lovell should he living i»
comparative exile n out midst, their tine Abil
ities unemployed and they energies wasted —.
Columbia Carolinian.
The draft is to 1* ieaumed Washington
three hundred more men-are needcd'tiom.
that city.