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re.lderi last w.■ c’: V; h,\ huTcd in vatu
through its a* si«:l« to end a . it, 1, tr«« ,4 mo
her, ta,tie.-t r> -; ...ill op, or , .-in •!. •■•. !t di-hue,l
or sensible ,rbj.‘. tim to th I nuim-nt. Aft'-i
a thoronsh t:■ n, u, vv. 1,,..'; . n uu.lbid to ,1L
cover avert the ;.t ■>, •umcfit or H,
Jh&dow *»»' a t.inrible it.j . > ~i th ■ ;..ih
t ,f tin; lues-a o In It, •: ■ 4 ilo- . it.,- i.-.01.-i i
treated Iu tl t i--1!..I tlij,|,in; 1.1. ti• V,itlioili
|xiiut or relev.-m.-y.
G.mtiunpt-iour dojuiviaiioii i ntnt.il,it oil
for h»!r ctilicltin An I an air o! nil',vie,! rn
|ii.iiorlty id a-.-m., ,1 i > i io.i'l ti..- -,.i il-.-i-i -. |„»v
«# ly ol uigimir :.! ) m ~i, •• 11,.- • inns ,u
tin, reader tli F be i ; nil > ■ i -!!.-, 1 nil i- inti i-utu
patftl With whom Jntn'-ph K. Brown inn ill
trilleetiiu! |,i ?Miiy.
He also all -, l-i nli 1,-mi y i'.i ri.R.'ii nn -i that
eannot endure Hi • plain It.!- Gem'hunt :it > to ill
ituc worthy Governor.
•It/,, Constitutional: •! l. t|,,i t i;i:-,i (lie toin.-vi
tv of Gov. Blown i-i daric to il .-o! t;,.ift :t v.-
<otllii!<'i)(lali,Jli of Hit* I'rc.sol.-oi, or io in.,inil.-ilo
that !h liai;on.;lltUt!oi.al I. pji .-!,
bit ; ve tiarvet mo i tovl.-.l l.v ,li mi-i i- lons
protttiiltv. it ttouiil hit*, ,* tl.. jot.* pi,,;,,1^,1
ilcfcrrtUi'O pji.! to 1,-voiy opini ~ | ntto. slice
of ttio I’ro’Moot. 11l i, piM hv 1 1 -.*. ft sll in
coiirtioih to u:i oi i .i.i.il pii:,: It cumnt <ni
tture th.lt too ul-,! tool. . .t i ... n , linn o| tbd
opiuioii:) milt ij ~i ,|i itM -:j il t:<•-, uli, to
W tii-t, we to.ivo hoi Otoil.l 0 I .Oita lllvll.st.nl:, ,i..it
•claiui.i lm thi. ;,i no .-Jriin li :i i, -m nil oriti. i :iii
te,t it mis-lit in- ooiHii fi inio on iinpiitsiloi;
upon tiio wi.s.l. iu ,i [ .1 1 i..t i- in , ' 110- l*io. int
With t lie intcmpivstii Mint « r..-,v o.aivei t’
Maims lor it-! idol Ho' nttiil .-I iulstli
tiility; mi. xempilou ii.mi tin- oiitio.ii;. frailti ,
ami error* of Ininisii:’ v.
- p irti. iihuly ~‘c<‘ro
on Oov. Blown, tor Inn in-f imli t.-.t a no ■e
to the l.esleSiltinc, tii-vi-litto its ntfenlloti to
it ft' •■fin >< tin 1 |>;iiilio wol.'src, which in
iin ji!i|.;iii,‘llt itein,nulcil lio-ir i-oiisicionilinn
and their in tion, c.:. a tii.ii* win'll ii,,> ciii-niy
wns tin' Bt.'.M, ami appu'-iu-hiu;; lit*
espitol. 7U*mi y,< ,.'.t mo hir :n to imiliuuiotiiift
at sui !i a moiiient. of iinminenl peril to tin?
I’omiuoiiwcalfh. for :!,!;«! , ; hi; lo the
State,hostoppeil to ir.ilul,-;.' fi ■ 1 i:■ os o: pei -oniil
acrimony to'eaial i tile I‘i , i-.i'.,1. nt. <>ur u.-: ;!i
--lior apeaLs of the ftovernnr as n eoiiit-il 'ini
•fhmppoiilti'il in ah, animal i ! I.y | ~ aul jsirjuo
utt.l animosity naain.- t ft., i c«' V> e
wottlil like to know wli.'-.* :a he I •'.!■• • o rlB .p.-
jiolnteii, or v. li it i a.-, i. tie !u -to int i tain nn>
etli'ii IVeliii'-.s tOiV.tr ! i I',, i.ieiil l' .vi He
has te.eivcil ail lh.il tic twei a.-kr.l ul tin* Imitih
nt the people, am I certainly Ins nr>, a i.ei a a
Fiippiiant ior i-iei iilii, ia,,o. Ait Hiie mi
rmu'Ole about tlh-app->irji 'l :ie. l t,;tt,>n ue r,; mi
ua ignore vhet 'ivicni il wuisti i > • i.ii vt to
tins st-iui oih'oil p’oillip nuu ,■ ta.e-l to ,-r
--i\er foi t!ic irov; iiunent oi in.
Sileh a. • li.tr- , , in o.ily lie i,",i!ili'if vi’nii
lieilsion l>y tli'He who i. oov. ; - Hiii . o tloV
t'.iOWli, of Ills parity ailil oi purpi -a.
i{oi,t tiia entile mol ;u ile ' lie\ o!o»ll '• ■ l pi ;
tie .O'lvfee, no t Hi- .1 • ■ ol l.i • i or y
Tile ilislnnxiiou th it h-< il l' li a i-!.- a.
this eiitha' maju. a', io in in! '- in personal
jiitjUrt, i.i fli.' Ilf", hit of !!:•> if ‘iilt. e t>i lln
Dtutd again :i tlif ('<lllllll'li i ii< lay, i :m|-lA
pt'ep'WtOl'itns. Hi 'i| .'Hlli.il l i li 1:1 ill bile.'
liut every available 111 ill ill lilt' S'.tin i,> i, ii j
the aJvan..M.t :'lierin.-iti. .i ;.in>-.iii ynd ip
jil'Ci lilted by .-.'l yvilOii" '.I :«!.•<•[.!> l.n.i'l
Hi. cd ill 1. 1 "i.;ii ; .' 1 )' I iminii"'lii pal'll'’ fly I
it? Out fpc-llt* I:! i la.il-.f I" Ill'll Coll I'i ill t
ot tilai. On Ihi-i .ml lul l lli.-s I. -'ml i.lu ..
Ibeii i..i fit flliti.'i.l .11 > alii i " i ■'> I;'
treat weak ot esielln. i! iinmiii Iminimi
r.oil They cuWli.ieiitt> I.ml i.» had i. iHifU
n<?» ttr y J * *»!•■ I’.- in to «i*
Telit Eli : till.lll. A lit alf 111. IK. ! ulli.il Ir
liaS liti.i.'i lit l : i Uni. i.Ai and al- Late
*<aiOnt the m.iat li. iMiai.l yi.k i y . i ; hr* mu
l-.Oii.
But the Cain iiiiyii..ii.i.i. A elite.Ay fail. dt ■
teke lasue with the x iii.-u i.t i!.i m.-.-*..;--.
whi-h it UiiJfi t.yl.i-l i ..'I I’ i;i; i.t l!.'
«(U«dUotiu mutrr it’.:i ■: i H In- i.i thim* to
ii;ty ulmilt theiiiMniiii'n ia l .iilii r. ii., !‘:■ i.lt-m
10 repeat all esimptten • i.| i■!;.• .• •. if j-ei vns.
•auit to rift ill li'iii Hi** di-vu li. ii la i!t tail nil:
* UM» of lelieion, cditots i.;*.l printers ui I'.-yy;
papers, Hint nieu ttie i ll'., ii t ii i Still..' guv
eminent, to pursue theii |»: . . i,.! di-i
otiuree their official «lnt>> s. W. -Lout.l Hi.-.' !<>
hear trow our ihsUihl- ron ii. r ; ,t., i>
it iu lavor of delailin.: >di’—. and primers;
of subjecting the pit :.t to tbi dt-giading vas
salage; of' this hip'ii han’t <1 invaoiotl oi ils tree
|4tH ’ I* ii «iiihr wear collar,
to bow lo t’ e yohf ot executive ikonmatitov,
amt to bold its cliai tor to cxi-.i ;'.t the d-. re -
. tiOU «Utl bidding ot the i'rssf' D i* toe.
*on this sut'jett, lenvii'■ u« to i; hr ;. ii
11 eree assault upon the C..i\> i m i » u'e
that it is cue of the (< yv unyipiipen. in the
South which are willing I- :i:.Ci.i.> ’.he Hee
tiom of the press, and r< di;Cv if t. .civile de
pendence ou 11.i k..ai i v.ui.
I’.. it alter ilevotiti“ oves a ■ -iuna of nt isO
to the message, the Go,i .it - 't,.naii?. yyia.lt up
with the declaration t'uat it shut! lint have an
Insertion hi its columns, hat that its rentiers
uiay look for the document t !seyy here. cur
neighbor was yvo’t aV. Aie tL. A tii" ui.* it
•elf would present the uioat . ompiete ir int,.
f iou of its virulent alts. I; , and was evidently
fluid that it ’would o*ury com i lion to the
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY jMOItNING, DECEMBER H, 18(>4.
in.is of ibyreaders if permitted to serif, is
■ Hi-; a sample of the treatment which even
(h.veiT'Ors of States are to receive at the hands
ul a dt,ailed ptess —Uwir messages abusrvl md
■ mi a. [ueseuted wilhout stint, and at the .same
I Imr withheld from the public eye? if so, it
will I. ■ i.eeessaiy for the£Ut( sto uphold
’ ihr fierjom of the press in their own defence.
Thi : fdaiing install' ~ of unfairne i .and iijus
ti,.,' is only a iiesh proof of th,' nee sity for a
h-iii resistance to the attempt now heiug
H ide',.l subject the piess oi't.ke country so the
i.rnti 1 of the President, and the prnpiicty of
Hov, rinu i’.iovvn's protest at this time.
• ii'.T , (lav v. vs Fvcboted.—The Postmaster
1 1 eii. id i.a< made a long report. This is what
■ 1 1. i.i a ppvfect right io do. H was just what
was expected. In it he chows that he has
ia.!.- 11:.' Post efti-'e Department pay into the
iieaoury a profit of ovt'i a mHiion and a liall
ot Jolla, >. from the picayune course puistfed
by t:iiQ th- past year this was just what was
V v pi!titl'd Also.
Persons unacquainted with the internal ar
raurcmenl of the I’cst office Department,upon
leading Mr. Reagan's c.iaiempjit and looking
■if. l.is figures, will think him some on manag
in''. Init those viiio know bow the department
li , been conducted, know full well that he is
ii<> manager at all. His department has late
ly tree'll allowed ti) run itself, and the only
rear.hi why there is a surplus above expenses,
i~ imply because many oi' the contractors ar ( .
n.'t allowed scarcely any tmng for cariyii'g the
mails, and the clerks me not g’ven salaries
enough to keep body and sold together—to
.iv nothing of their families, Just think of
it ! a faithful clerk who understands atnj. di.f
ebai;ii\< the duties of hi3 office, with a family
to look afl.r, receiving the enormous sat
iny o. about’eight hundred a yesr in Confeder
ate Treasury notes. Outrageous to say the least.
Old vvh \t makes such treatment the more oni
i-agcais, i.s lids fact ; the man who is guilty.of
-nt h conduct boasts over, it in his official re
port by trying to make the public believe he
ia r preat tu.uiaeei. Thys endeavoring (o
(i,m li i m.-.'l f hipli in Hie eat! mail on (>f xuo pea"
pie when if the truth was known lie would he
• l-'ipi ell by every person who doer not be-
I eye in Kussiau despotism and llussianserfdom.
Here is another tiling to be' considered alrc!
I'::e I’ost oiiice Department in all rountrus
has hitherto been regarded as a public con,
vj'jih nee. But the controllers of it in the Cna
leiieracy appear to look upon it as a money
nuking machine. The way it lias been man'-
.'P's-i! .d;o«s that they cjirc nothing for the peo
ple In point of facility and despatch it, has
iiiii.ipi jili-J at least two ci‘rititrit'B since the war
• ■ .hi. And the u:■ ion is simply Htjeause the
I'.'.iiant ivi' ticnctal desires to show a.bigsui'’,-
p!us in hi., ( fiii ia! report. N *
We sp/rgest that be issue a supplementary
r.'.iiit oi 1 facts, showing the public how l.e
gives contracts lo mentor one cent—which
in ordinary times cost thousands, said men of
(* Huso not caring whether said contract is fid
filled faithfully or not, as long as their end is
.', vod. !!•' should also tell how lie compels
nii’ii with families to live on eight hundred dol
lars of Confederate Treasury Notes a year; in
connection with this facta treatise on house
hold economy word'd not he out of place. He
old also ti ll the- people and he could do sf?
.uni keep (mill on his side—that during the
pad v ear in many of his post cilices, mads we)e
i ii,l over for weeks, simply because the few < m
pii’.yi i, .1 said cliices could not work more than
twenty-four hours in a day, ami also because
Ik- i (mid not allow any more help to said chi
ii ■. ll he had done »o his big figures showing
.a it profits would lie reduced somewhat. In
i imnc.-iiou with this, he might let ns have a
I ti.'ali: c upon the endurance oi human nature,
bitcri-peiM'd with a foiv paragraphs showing
■ ihe I”- tunny of while slavery. Ha might also
uhl hi his report this f act—if the public had
: hern .u i oniiiicdatcd as it ought to have been,
Hit r.! would be no surplus at all.
io , imclii.-.iiiii we will remark—a great many
of tti, ,' < fecial report}! would appear in a very
di (. lent- iyi»t, if all the facts iu_lhe case were
;c lull'll v, ilh them.
Tu it Psk.« axt> GoU. Brown's Late Calx.—
The following correspondence i.s published in
order ti) present to the Press of Georgia Gov.
R own's decision in regard so the Slate Press,
: under Ida Into call. Tbo first despatch was
IY.-.-ived lioiu tlm Press of Coiambus.
".si,all the Press ot this city be suspended,
' an,! its members report for duty at Macon .*"
Ihe Govcniov's answer : “It is not mv in
tention t, interfere with thopublication of any
uvw-p.ipi r or public journal in Georgia. No
i* iitoi ,a- other person actually necessary for
G:ai p.iij-oso is required to report for militia
dm v JosKrtt 13. Bkows.
■ ~me id tii.'supporters of the administra
l,,\e been so uncharitable as to accuse
. Lmwn of interfering with the Press of
G ■•-; -ia in hi.; late message. Here they have
Id-, own answer to their charge. Will they
„.., v have ihe manliness to retract .'“.Unless
tl„ uv more L.ir in tlii.? case than they have
l.reu io numerous others, we fear they .will not.
Bv the %ay what a contrast leave wo here
f,*'i v.vcu the course pursued by Gov. Brown
and the course pursued by the President. The
latter desires to crush out all freedom of the
: ih ess. and m »ke that mighty lever of power
siibseivieut to advance his own schemes of
,7 aisgrandizcmsnt and to abjectly do liis
bidding. Gov. Brown on tlie other baud shows
i v his acts that lie neither intends or desires,
to do any such thing., 110 is willing his acts
.should be criticised by his opponents. Rul
: ing the State of Georgia according to the con
. stitutiou thereof, he fears not his accusers,
ft other parties in power confined themselves
fi Fully to their legitimate sphere, they would
not be quite so eag-r to crush out free speech,
ldi tussion and free press.
A MOVEMENT iS THS UIQOT DIRECTION. —GtU|
in-'k Taylor has issued au order that all prop
el ty taken by our troops upou the line of the
ret ent mai. 'n. shall upon identification by the
owner be immediately returned. This is a
move in the right direction. We think the
people oi Georgia are fortunate in Laving a
if-neral in their midst who respects the ri ghis
in the c'iti.'.eus, &ud who is determined that his
soldiers shall respect them also. Long may
he he allowed to remain among us.
Hou J. H Johnson, State Senator, died at
tis ie;iden.e. October Pith, ot fjphoid le
ft J.
TUB BA I t 1.15 OP li<).\BY 1111.1..
The S.iv*:inah Hepiihiintn terms t H .« kite
light at lir.'diainviile. S. (1. the battle of lion
ev Hill, nnd give, the ciHiexed detailed ac
count of th'.' affi.ir ;
In onr account of this ;.ii,i'tr. in Tiuirsday
moinin i■ -',(*, v. c ; (■: ■* of it ;vs a “drav.oi
battle, !- ■!’i armh , i t med thi
tight until dark. Vi e wrote with the i.fiicinl
despatch of Don. Smith before us. in which his
modi -tv, which i iv'. 4to 1 1 i H-’.it, led ns
into error by witli'-.oV.’.- g i . ■ ::ue i-harat-ier • f
the contest odli ■ r ! r::a i itilde o, lis - vit -
♦ory--for such it was, and, for the r.nmber.--.
engaged, one of (homo l hrdmi.l amt i:tp..-r
--taut ol the v. .i., It w-is chiuiy a. looveirn-i,*
on toe part of the co■ air tu-co o;n iate with
Slierimin: so ] >r,;•> a tore,, ■.. o■ 1 mvr 1., ve
been sent uirnpiy l ■ cut th-' Mo .d> •• o l; -,i>
rpai), wlien the Vs: k- es be’: -. ! '.! !> bed o
fej.dcd only by I! i-oniji.iny of in.
11-Tu-y Hill i- about two and a half raih s
cast o! tin- villagv ol (~ ..hsmv'i'e, Beaniort
Idstiiet. On tile ci'i.-t of I ids. where lie., read,
or highway strikes it, i. a .-•:-nii-i-irc-iit-ir line of
eurthivorks, ihdect.ve though in cioruructior.
as they are too h gh for inianti-y and have lit
tie or no exterior eopn. TliesV works formed
the celitu, of our line on Wedne.sdav', whilst
our it-fi, reached up into the.pinc lands with
out protection, nnd our right along a line of
fence that skills the swatnii Mc.v tlm batteries.
'J'hey Collin.anded fully Da: road in front os it
pissvii through Hp' swamp :.t the bjse of the
Iti 11, and only s.une tilort.iiiy yards distant.
Through the B va.iiiji, du;hil!:,' •,visit.■, mouths
runs a small ere-it, wlnVu spreuds up and
down the road for ri me tidily or torty ytu ’f,
but is ijuite shallow the vnUre di lan.’ -. Son.'
sixty yar,’.-:beyond this creek tin l main roti'.l
turns off to the left, making an. obi ns-, angle,
whilst, another and smaller road in ikes off .to
the right Ircm the same point.
The enemy came, by the former road, anil
turned the angle apparently beloiv they were"
aware ol'the presence cf an oppc.dng foice.
They eon, used of I'.mr regiments of vvlutiu ar.d
the s:;me niiinber oi bkuirs. I’jis .ucrs, of
which teu or twelve tire i# otir j. r-.e a'on,
state that thi,. Im , v.as . u led .y ■ eiu ■ -
al.s Porter ar.d ti ileli; i'- of than -iy tdaie;
al Foster v;as also present as ctiii'f of command.
The negroes-', as usual, f'.’t'ni- and the advance,
and had nearly ren 'hed t!ie creek when our•
batteriesoptnod i.pon iheoi down Hie roail
witli a terrihie voih.-v Of' .-pherioai case. This
threw them nil i temporary eonfusion, tint ihe
entire force, estimated at live thousand, war
quickly lcstored In order and thrown into a
jin}} of baHle parallel with our own, up and
down the juiu-gic of the '■'.vamp. Thus the list
tie raged, from It a. in. till dark, 'i he . inany s
centre ami left were most, expose 1 and saif.u
e 1 te'iiWy.
Their light was jiostigl behind nil old darn
that ran through Hu: swamp, and k maint-in
ed its position till the close.of the I'vht. Our
left war very much cxprse/l jnd an a;tempt
Wasoiicc cr Iwii.e inade by the -. ueciv to turn
it by ftdvai'iciny; ihrmigli th., .••.vamp and up
the hill,'but they were liiivcn back \viihout a
prolonged struggle.
'The cant re aud left of Hie enemy fuf :ht with
a desperate iai nestuei-.s. ir.-v.'iv.l attempts
were made lo charge our batterie-: arid many
got r.e:i«'ly aero,s fkd sf.'iimiv, but v.ae. in
SVl'iy iuc.tiume, f.m-id I'll, kbv Hus , liii'ig il! t
poured iqli Hicm frurn our lint's. V/i made
a visit to the lield the day following e.aq.fomn}
Hie swamp and road literally Htrewi: with theiu
uv-ad. fionn, e'giit or ten bodie.i vveio tpauting
iu the Water where ike road crosses, ami in a
ditch on the roadside just beyond, wc saw six
negroes piled <mc.ou top flu, ulvt. a Cnl
ermi of -one of the negro regiments, wil.ii lis
horse, was killed vv I,i 1- f ftrii ie.-sty leading his
men across the creoi; in i charge.
With that exception, all the dead and wound
ed officers were ca' iieii . if by the enemy dur
ing the night. Jiinytrai ,; were left, where
they wwe dragged from the wu-sk is (he road
and thrown into ambulance* or “carts. We
counted come six iy or seventy bodies in the
spin.e of about, aji act'', many < f which wi re
horribly mutilat. and by . ii. i , m'ldc with iiait
their heads shot ott'ar.d oth.-rs completely dis
embowelled. The m tide; y v.i . , ,*rv«il vvitls
great accui-acy* and we doubt if any battle
lield of the war pivo iTts such bavi.u: among
th.- tie-,; am) shrubbery . Jm:n"U«f> iijpes ami
other growth wen, cut siiorhoii or torn into
shreds.
From all indications it is estimated that (lie
loss of the enemy is fully fire or dx hunSred.
This.is the lowest estimate we have heard
Many officers are of the opinion :luii iln i'r loss
cannot be less than one thousand.
liars was eight kili.al ouhight and thirty
nine wounded, tine m four moitady. W'c
give elsewhere all the c uumitks that liny.;
been able to procu e. T’lis oiiaiiy tougl.t lo
some disadvantage, us they ilr-’.l up lull and
most of their shots rai god to'i high.
.Our infantry liebavod with too greatest val
or; throughout the prouacF- i sluigglo there
was iitllo'or no siragyjlii::;, nearly every mm
Btanding tivndy to his pest of duty. The ticor
;,ia Brigade was conu.i .udi'ii by tt-d. Willis,
whose behaviiv on the fe id Id.-iiiy . ..-c
meudable. The Athc;-..-; Baii.ilion under iliaj.
Cook, ar.d Augusta liattr.lion, Maj. Jackscn,
stood manfully to their walk.
” The South Carolina Artillery also act, and most
handsomely and saved their guns with tlm
skill ol veterans. Great. prair.e is 1. stowed by
the i inking officers oh C- pt Sle\ the
Beaufort Aitillery, guns, ami on Karl's nnd
Kanapaux s batteries, each oi which had a
gun in the action.
As before slated, (lie general eou.tr.nnd v.-ns
vested iu Mrjor ii.cr.cia 1 Giubavus .Smith, of
the Georgia State fa As, though the ii,x?' was
imiuediatelv under the c:r 41 of (!•>!. f ,1-
cock, wli«-c conduct on Lie occi.-io', i.s !.;=n
of as bey,,n I all praise. The galioui Fed. Gon
ziles ?»,.s an active- participant in tlm light,
and iniglir- have bts.u s cn everywhere along
the line pasting Hu-guns,an,l encouraging the
troops.
So lunch for the 1 .rifle o! IT,moy Ifi'il. T!,e
enemy were whipped L , t b dor • Its cbut
they wain and ; ;■ ;ht to ave'th fro a
• dipastcr in lln-ii' red,-a*. s-.,i,n al'ier (L:!.. ihey
111 de 01T with all pO'S!!,!” .y en, and, as n, :
evident', ? show, with the v.-dde ( li glit no 1
confusion. Nearly ,■: vv ibrown
away iu their flight. The road and woods for
miles was ftlrewed with clothing of every des
cription, • anted
wbil'-t ia ilieir camp, al«7ut two m'd> s*from the
battle-field, they test everything. Any quan -
tity of provisions, hottii’s of liquor, preserved
meats, blankets, overcoats, A .. wore aban
doned in their hasty reive.;. With the excep
tion of shelling trout their gunboats next day,
which was harmless, nothing bus been heard
of them since their •railing defeat an,l inglo
tlous tliglit.
Roreuils in Alabama. We -have heard ;
within the fast fe-.v days of several cas sos j
most barefaced vohh.i v in this cberoke
county; the first some six or eight miles east*
of this plane, and the second near Cukwna, n
Cherokee, by armed b.imU of fruin four to •
eight, supposed to be desert-;-.-, stragglers and
tones. In one instance a man was robbed -:n
open daylight ot s2,oth>. Their object seenae’l
to l»e chiitly money. A ponion of Cnpt. Hol
lingsworth s company, we were Informed. ~
ceedtd in arresting two «,l !:..,seia the iielgj -
borbood of Caloma, and were pifrsning othcia.
A iaorous measure- should In taken by the
County Reserves, and armed cith. -ns to nip
this thing of robbery in the lvid, or it will i- p
idly increase; ami in every Ti tmice wheo
they are detected the most e -ndign punish
meut should be iuilicte.l.—Tdc/cv-./d'i.’.’f J.’.,.' -
I+CUIt.
Ex-Governor M. ». Derry, of Florida. hv<
been f> r some time past lying seriously dl at
his residence in the county of Alachua, trom
au attack of dropsy.
I . i ;:n>i 7.OUm u rbt ceokwi v.
: .1. I'll:: .\,>Tn}iliM'.a VSIIWOKTH AKO UIS
liUIMAMI.
We had.heard -ntn ; time ago of the entire
■rn ot-t’.-d.-' l i'.diAy’,. expedition tSgainst
i ’,.* i:o' rb-■ -. » Tory band under Ho'. A.-hivorili,
•Jio.'■ iluevuiv" I.,lining and other depreda
tions Jmd b"> u si-exvii ive in the upper coita
tics. ' • ’ .
We now liti i’C before ng, says the Alliens
Wai, b.nian, Col, T’indley'., oflliial report, and
as v,v ii mol give so clear an idea of the man
lier ia w'.lieK In* broke hp tlm rohbef reginmnt
by a 1 ndsnsed statejnimi, we publish It is re
port en'.ire. if lie seen that the atiair was
well : 1 limed .laid executed.
Wc :<■ plcuscd to i. ’ii ilrat (ad. F haf'
Ilf,n pt'O-notCd' :a t!ih tunic of Brigadier Gen
i.r.al. :
lisAoq’RS Ist Rro. State Cavaj.uy, i
Ctunp Big Nwantmlr. Ua.. Nov. 8, ISo l. )
C0,,1 ■/. B'.. bMi/.-cs. B, .1. i-i.
Oaer : —On- Wnb isday nisht. the 2d iuat.,
Cent. R. N. AhUluic. comniaii,'ling the lower
sqiu.lr- a of my command, dispatched by enur
in', to llcadqri:,rs,s.i at D dilonega, a uoiW of
an approach ot Ihe ciu-iny, under Col .1. II
Ashworth, ill fb.e diroetion of Dawsonfille.
Col, AlisivorUi resides and was a prtM'i’c’ng
physician in Dawson -county, ami not long sin- n
starii'.i io raise a regiment composed ol ileser
ter,; from omr army an t'tori,s, calling ihem
.fives | iiffle guahis,- Ibr f’clevai proti'ptioq.
lie lias siua-e.-deii i-i ii sing his Regiment,
>bfi h : . styled the Kt Keg (J.r. State Troops,
it :d has ,sr,b*rs *■> ohmmau'd the whole coun'ry
Non Is of the CliaU dmovh.ie ri vet'.
As rai ly h' poembte-un Tliiirr’ilay morning,
the fid iPi’t., ! started from Daiilonega with a
portion of (fiapt. CarterM company, under colu
mned of ideal-. Horton, and pro'ct-eded rapidly
to join Ciipt: McClure, who was collecting his
m u gather ne irfSiilloli camp ground. Daw
*oa county. . tun-, llit: mt.rch l gave orders to
M.tpt. -I. M. Wii lcbel, ciar,landing Cos. 13 of my
eriinmaud, tq n.-. and i umediately to collect
his men mul. join us or. t ie.to ilowieg m 'filing i
< >ii Hie way 1 met Oupt. Thomas i aimoDson, o!
Hen. W!,e ler's eoilnn ,ilB, who .agreed t,-> join
me at the sa.iueHima. Inly on the morning
of the Uh ■ iiist ~lmvi(ig .been joined by Capt.
Wiielchcl, I started iron camp lor Dawsou
vißc, ffi'hile Ifere, ia. Jiorton i ur,ie.i'orei^iis
mmand io Lieut- TVilsim. i was here joined I
by Cant. Edinonaoi,. cod id.-,, t>v < 'apt li-ifSetl.
of luy cjiurnymb Tile ci uuiand now consisted
of the greater portion o! six companies, num
bering one bundled and. twenty-eight guns.
Vit in; iniii aH: ii tja,e. in PqwKonyillo, I
maved out in the dlrecvjijn.of iin-enemy. Capt
Kdmcnetou was s.ont in Tm.at a;t advance guard.
When foe afinfii.iO’t reueehod Amiealola
camp ground, nine miles froin DavvsonviHe.
Capt Udimm-.i.ii Icurn-.-d. '.but Col. Ashwoth,
with hb; iivs. wftk'tbi'ii -at the liou.-e of a Mr.
ftp 11 ■ fi- ift J mile • i:,t i- ilf V|6yon,l. j
J in:in diale'y iiiet,l at a rapid speed and
upon auvving at, fipiiyas,’ , J found that Col.
Ashworth had' beep gone. hlkmU two hours.
,fi.icis were id o.uce -j'iyi'ji.foe pursuit, and Ins
trail v, as IbiloWe'd h,i far.'a a the idol ofAniaea
lo'a mountain-'by diri;., i was. here eom
pelto.t 11, (est.aiid .s live li.e-sow were in
a Y. aii’ied (undili'oj'iM.'id if being quite dark '
and. stormy, it \v :s itnno'srjbie to cros" . tl:e
movdilsi.il viviii-g ilh* uiglij.
By d,iy!i/;1,,t on tlie.olb just we were on the
move; and cf.-.ssud ilie mouqtnki will,out in
tenuptio". The n.-p »f. tin; mountain war
coverod w:Th, ,-now abiuit. an .ioeb deep, whilst
the limber was loaded ,vilh tie. We advanced
an rapidly as j.on-silde. and about. Id o'clock
the advance,! nnbrd, spied tin' enemy at !.■ e
horiac of qr« fjcriry V,.eav.,';- in Bui'qiowii. My
fiiivie wa- now some vv.Ha.i- dimiuistied, ;»:• I.icut.
Wilson, wish C spt. Carter * m .'u, let) ns the
night before
A charge was at oncb i.rd-.g'ed, and, at (lie
same lint,'. V older,,<l li ink move rents to lie
made on ibo right'ami 1,-lt ol tiidlunise . The
.movement by-1 lie. .le.lt lli.nl; was,Hie in.ore. eip.;-
re.irful, as me eoamy nmatty icliviiled in that
direction. Alter.a Ip-Uk. lighi,. Col. Ashworth
surrendered with his men. Of-Vim enemy four
were killed, lluve. wounded and twenty-one
captured, out of twenty cjgpt,. nmu. -iqcludiv.g
Col. Ashworth aipl tyifil v. . kjcCraiy
among tiie c ipUn, ;1, tq property we captur
ed twenty-,'' fill horsy,, and limbs, most of
which had !.,"<"i'‘stolen from niy men, nnd
which 1 returned to their owners, twenty-live
guns and twenty revolvers, with a ooirs'der
able portion p, m'uuiindtion. . 1 .sulfeveil po
loss, either in Ijillid. '.yqiyided or pyieone-rs.
Al'l-r .-.v uriiig I lie ] 'i-oours atpV taking lnany
valuable paj'crs frnin'Coh Asbwoi lli, I inadu
pi'i'par.ilions to V.ifi.utji, and iv eiossc.j th,,
mount:.in slowly. i
T in' natiire of fi:.: contents of the papers re
ceived from Col. Ashworth, it is thought- advi
sable tv.vi to reveal at-.present, but it is intend
ed io make an ciifiic e.\.;v.b',miti m as soon aa
some iiii ta-r dcTclopnv-ni.; can he made. We
ivuclk''! l>uvso.aviJ.l« on the inavoing of the
lii.ii inst. A' ill's ptaey I i':iu»f,l..to lie all,Med
live, it v,! i. tor some.time, bare been en
gaged in secret negotiations with the enemy,
i c fir ii-.iim : v.Cu-orgv'. R R«b,-i lsoii, Sheriff
Dawsou coup.ty.'Cleveland Andrews, -I.
tobn Fouls. J. !’, Lindsey Vaiighters and Hi
ram .Brooks. Thesm i.dvsuo you to have re
tained U'-i you if- Sir (rdiu me again, ,
] rem-iiueii in Darysonvilln liii the morning
ol th" 7th inst., an.d roach,si our prcs--ut camp
on tire ,-veiling of the same day.
In conclusion.'.l Veg vim to njl,wv me to refer
: to ihegrilat.try of my rueii. .Many *»f them
are now troop ~ ami had never been engaged
in a tight hotO’.o. Note,itlis'.aL l ,ling this, thev
♦.ii ac-o'd iike • ddiers aod vek ,aus. and charged
tin, enotey with a ,f„t,.-iini:ialioii not to ho vviih
-!:1 -l i m will pardon hie for saying,
never nn-n stiow nun ,- deter mined gallant
ry than have Ui-.se' I have- th,* honor to com
mand. L ,1. I'Tmu.hy. Col.
T S. The p.hoye report was w'ritte%lin'c<
ifi'-'vlv. nd in the rcnfngSoiroccasioned thereby,
i neglected slate i large majority of Col.
Ash'verth's regiment arc- deserter* frojo our
a-my, and, at t.liq ■ tinnv ,-i tin- engigenient
above report-’,I wer« scattered in different di
r , iiovis through theV'i iiuiry, robbing and plun
dering fiom oil loyal eifi ".is in their-reach. —
This a,:,'mints lor the sinai! nuuihcr of men
with iiiiu. ... -r. .i. r;
LIST OF Ot'kßHl fcfis ' \ptpCEfi.
Corp. AAt NiX. co j'Tl (iu Reg; Tliomas
P>hn<»iKon, co ! : . 30th (Ja C iv; Thomas lil
monson, co D. .'»2d fi i lleg; Jordan Stone, co lb
AM Ga Reg: James Him v, K, ;;uih Ga JJatt.
; av; Aaron f. Brooks', co U, yth (la ilatt: John
A Ileid. co i> Ist'Ga Sharpihooters: Daniel
Blackwell. Capt. Ctow's eo'i'Ath Ga: James M.
Weaver, co <>. Stub Git Reg; Thomas W.
' Davne. co G. 3Ufh Ga Gav: Williaqt J. Berry,
coil. 2:'!d Ga Rot?.
Kii.'nr >u^sisaii*i*i.
The Canton O’tizen. ot Nov Ifi says that a
| fight took pile.’ on the other side of the Mis
sissippi river, between, MiUikeii's Bend and
j Pecan Gi' ive. f.-w day# since. The (confeder
ate troops were ifhdtw the commaud of Col.
11 irrison. and the entire garrison of the enemy
were ei ll .- killed, wounded or captured.
-n.-pect that two boat loads of wounded that
1 passe ! down tee river a few days since, and
! reported to be from White river, is the result,
rather of this 6gh*.
i Indictments have been, found against per
i sons .V Jackson, Mi.-*., for trading iu'green
backs.
A private d’-mteh front Canton, says the
Miseisrnplan of the 25th, says the Yankees are
at Big liiack A.nOfl strong. Ihe commissary’s
and ii'iurl-miaster's stores are tieing removed
j from Canton. It is probable the will
undertake to -weep through the State, taking
; Jackson and Canton in their raid. Governor
Clarke’s MiUtia ought to be able to gobble
] up 5,0J0 Yuakees.
VOL. LXXVIII.—-NEW SERIES VOL. XXVill NO. 7.0
Thr Finix, ,: Birr..—TJie following bill was
reported from the House of Representatives
iast; week from the Committee on Wavs and
Means:
A hill to lie entitled ‘ An act to provide more
efteetnally for lire reduction and redemption j
of the currency.’'
M iiei'iMs, the recovery of the currency from
•its depreciation, and ihe leassuiance of the
public of its ultimate navment in full, would
be an estimable beueiit to both Oovernmont
aii'l citizens: and as a means ior a, I'ompiish
mg tiiis end it 7, expedient lo exempt the
same from taxation, and to pledge the public
faith, not only against any addition to th.'
amount of ihe currency now authorized by
1 iw, but also to the reduction of it. br can
celling annually a material pait thereof, and
lo tiic dedication of an ample fund for re
deeming tare residue to lie applied to that pur
pose from and after the close ol the existing
war : Therefore.
The Congress of Hie Confederate States of
America, do enact: 1. Hereafter, and until
the full redemption of ih. s * Confederate States
Treasury notes, now outstanding, and of such
as are authorized br existing laws, to be issued,
except those issued prior to the .seventeenth
day of February, eighteen hundred an,! sixty
four, shall be free fir-in all taxation whatever.
2 a’ending the war one iifth'of the Treasury
notes annually received into Hie Treasury
in payment ot taxes, shall he thereupon can
celled until the amount outstanding shill have
been reduced to one hundred and ijfty millions
of dollars.
2 Upon :> declaration of peaceffiet ween Ihe Con
federate States and the t r.ited States America',
of the annual crops ot produce of cotton,
(oilier that} Bea Island cotton, wheat and corn
iu the ratio oi lour ninths of cotton, four-ninths
■nl corn, and one-ninth of wheat, shall be ap
plied to the redemption of the-Treasury notes
in circulation until tile whole shall be re
deemed; the tithe of cotton being valued at
titty cents abound, qf corn at; two dollars a
bu-Uel, and of wheat, at four dollars a bushel,
and being deliverable by the Government
at one or more shipping ports in
each of tiie (V;i;l'o,Watrt ' Lutes to be
.elected ivy the [Secretary of the Treasury :
provided, however, that, til,: tithes, n fort said,
or any part therof. may, by consent of the par
ties entitled lo receive the same, be delivered
elsewhere than at a shipping port: Provided fur
ther, that" ihe cotton to be delivered under the
ft.itboi ilv ~i inis act shall be equal io cotton
classed ami held as‘'middling coWrm" in Ihe
port where such cotton may be delivered.
! That- all acts and parts of acts now infforce
providing lor Hie aves-m Alt ami collection of
tax in kijpl of cotton, corn and wheat l,e, and
the same are hereby re-enacted, and shall con
tinue in force until all Treasury notes issued,
or authorized to be issued, by “ an act to re
duce the currency and to author; c anew issue
ol notes and bonds," approved February ifitli,
1m; t, shall have been redeemed in frill, and'
the persons paying tm<«, in kind under this
*f.t. iv-osti aud altar tlm ratilication of a treaty
Os peace shall receive credit for the then mar
ket valiu of any cotton, corn and wheat de'iv
ered after the termination of the war, so as to
to| ua!Do their taxes with other tax-payers, the
value lo he appertained at the time oi delivery
in ihe mode prescribed by law.
v. ihe hob let's Ol I'reawiiiy nwU.iv. .l-vvivin"
leceive the tithes aforesaid in payment there
of, shall conve.it Up! satqe into Treasury cevti
ijcatys, being gu interest, of six per rent, per
annum, which shall he issued by Hie Secretary
ol the Treasury in exchange tor sai.l notes.anil
shall express on their lave the object for wnich
they are intended, the holders of which said
certificates shall be entitled to receive payment
therefor iu the tithes aforesaid, ut Up, v.xfv of
one tilth ol' the amount qnnnxlly : provide,l,
hoy/eyer, tl,ut more than one lift,h of the
amount of tithe due upon any such-certificate,
or tin* whole of such amount, may bo paid in
any year at th.' election of the Secretary ol the
Treasury.
fi. All planters or farmers liable to ii.e tax
in kind shall be permitted to, .ayfisty the same
by payment of such certificate;, as aforesaid.
V. (fiertili ate* Fsned under the authority of
this act shall be in the following propositions,
ito-v.it .: four ninths, in a separate certificate,
payable in cotton; Inru'-nhUhs payable in corn,
and one ninth payable in wheal; lint the
nmoufik to be made payable-on the face of each
cfi.'tilicaxe shall be such as the Secretary of the
T reasury shall judge to he most suitable ond
convenient lot the purpose of this act -which
said cmlilicater: shall he assignable in writing
in filch form and with such authentication ah
the Secretary ot the Treasury may proscribe.
The public faith iv? hereby pie i:;e,i to the im
mutable , h.ervance ,and the provisions here in
above contained, and to the collection of the
tax on wheat, coin and cotton, in kind, and
ihe application th roof as aforesaid until the
redemption of thc cunency, as: above provided,
shall have been completed,
it. This act shall be in forty from the passing
IlieFCot.
Heh iinin,: ft due. —Refugees on the line of
tlm Macon and Western Road arc returning to
1 heir homes.
From Fi.tx'i'ox.- AY,: hear but two houses
in Clinton were burned by the enemy. One
was the dwelling of the Enrolling officer of
•loin's county, R. \V. Bonner, and the other an
old shop n*',l as an-office by tiie late Dr.
Bowen.
Ma,:,>\ is are happy to announce
that Macon is considered safe. The Comman
der of the Post has declare,l the city upon a
}MSi?ee fooling and th ■ order of Major General
Gobi),.ordering out every mail capable of bear
ing arms is withdrawn.
, Gen. urn's Plantation —The enemy, in
their recent march, destroyed everything upon
Gen. Cobb’s plantation, wita the exception of
his negro cabins.
A.Wax ion On rack.—Mr. H igh Trcanor,
a r.s pe, table citizen of Miliedgev.lle. was wan
tonly killed in that city while tlie enemy had
possession ,sf it. We (earn that a party of the
enemy went to his lesidexicc and demanded his
gold and si Iver, and when informed by him
lie had none, one of Ihe party revolv
er. ar.d shot him iu tlie heart. fiouWthe effect
of which lie died in a short time.
A c.oonCArnjtE —Captain J- B. Morris, 20th
Gn. Rcgt.. with eight men, while on a scout
yesterday morning, about a mile trom Gordon,
saw a drove of beef cattle following the rear
ot the enemy’s forces, lie immediately charged
the drivers, captured four prisoners
and the whole drove of cattle, numbering iwo
hundred ami twenty.
Hu;!! Price <f\ Wood.—We noticed upon the
street Friday, a one horse wagon containing
exactly six sticks of pine wood, for jvhich, the
modest sum of thirty dollars was demanded.—
Martm Jtlnjrnph.
1 he Wav Xunßors abktreateh iiv YankkkV
—We learn that a salt maker captured by the
Yankees in their late raid on this place, and
paroled at Pensacola, states that after the ene
my iiad got some distance from here they'tied
the negroes together, and that some of them
pelting tired of their treatment were shot in
attempting to escape. At Pensacola they sent
the negro men inti, the armv and told the v.ro
meh, who where encamped on the beach, that
the mm yvere sent to Vermont to provide
homes for them. It is thus, with their lying
propensities, that they induce our negioes to
leave their comfortable homes. We presume
that er’e this the negro women have been .-ent
to New Orleans to werk on the Yankee Louiai
: ana plantations, or sold in Cuba. —if ir^irma
1 -Yr lev.
j £_Snpw fell at AShville, N. C.. Nov. 24.
' Oovfebki’ah-: Fix faces. —The following com
! munications from the Secretary of jthe Tren
j uuy were presented, on Monday, in the House
t "f Representatives:
TT'.rasorv Dei'ahtmkxt. r S. A.. /
Riciimoxi), November 2:t. 1.-,; I ( .
Jlo,i T/„,.< S. /;■>,m, 7, ■. Sp,■„!.;>■ or ih* Os
Jlfprf-stnlalirrt :
Su: —The resolution passed by the House of
Representatives on the 21st instant, calls for
the following information : ■ Whether the „!d
issue oi Treasury notes is being exchanged for
the new, and il not, why .’ a'so, what arrange
inputs h:i\v bt»f*u made to that end.
I have now tile honor to furnish the informa
iion required.
idle amount of new issue paid out in ex -
change ior old. from Ist April to is! October,
is 5i2i.0:;5,7!)0.
Siui'o tin: Ist ot October the exchange of
botes hts been continued with activity,*all the
Assistant Treasurers and Pay Depositaries, as
well as many of the Transient. Depositaries,
being supplied with the new issue for that"
purpose, .still farther to promote the conven
ience of the public, the following regulation;:
have been adopted :
1. The Treasurer. Assistant Treasurer aid
Pay Depositaries have been, author!/ cl to re
ceive the old issues (except the filial bills) iu
payment of non-taxable bonds at titifi cents.
2. They have been author!/.),! to receive
them in like manner, on call, nl. 4 per ceut,
and in hypothecation of non-taxable bonds.
•">- They aud all the Depositaries appointed,
for funding, numbering in,ail over two hun
dred, have been authorized lo receive them
and register (he names of ihe depositors and the
•■aims deposited, and after the L I of .1 inuaiy to
forward copies of the registers to Richmond,
when tlie new issue will be sent to pay deposi
tois. G. A. Tmcx'ii,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Mir.iTAßv K.xi'Esmmißs ax<> uamuthw.
T lie following report from the Seevelaiy of
the Treasury was read
TRRASI’IU DhI'AUTUKXT. (J. S. A . I
Rk'imioni), November 21, imil. )
lion Title, s. /vxv,(•/.•; Spl’ol.fi- of ilf Units,- cl
i iiV/uvis'cnbi/fiYx'.'
! 'Sin in obedience to the resolution adopted
by the House of Representatives on the 21:;!
iUKtAirt. 1 hare the honor to communicate the
following information :
The sum of the Requisitions received in this
office since the Ist ot April last, fox the pay
tlie Army, is . .. s.s;3 1 22!i,1.'»2 27
A larger number have only been
received in the last few days,
viz... . j \ ..' . ll.iWl 470 00
, Os thftio previously received,
amounting to., j -T7l ,!».>7.1 -2 27
The following has been satjstied .">l. 141.1.M', 27.
For the purchase of ’subsistence,
the sum of the Requisitions
made during the same period
is. j . . 125,000,02!* *>2
Os Y7kich there has been veceixed
in-tlie last lew days requisitions
for ; if,,:;i;ii,S7l Sfi
The amount previously receive,l
was...: iO!),(;tii,o:.i 72
Os this amount lia- been
. satisfied !*7,*72,1 fi.’>
The delay in the receipt of the requisitions at 1
ibis office has arisen chiefly from the inlernip
lion of the work in the Bureau of the Second
Auditor, occasioned by the frequent cal!:; for
military service made upon the clerk.?.
The deficiency in satisfying the requisitions
| arises iroin the insufficiency of the means nl the
| disposal of the Treasmy.
The amount of unpaid accounts on the 1.-4, of
i April was estimated to he *77,,i)00,(mfi
j Tlie,expenditures from Ist of April
I to Ist ,). toiler was estimated at :'.2 1,000,000
j *■ tltltl,ooo.ooo
■ The amount of new Treasury notes
applicable to expenditures was
about 200,000,000
And the remainder had to be provided from Ihe.
sale of 0011, is and other resources.
Under these cireumstaflees the several De
partments adopted the plan of indicating the
requisitions, which the exigencies of the public
Service demanded should lie first .satisfied, and
: those to which precedence was thus d
; were the soonest satisfied.
<}. A. Tjieniiomi,
Secretary ol’tlie Treasury.
From Goiuman akdGbi»woi.i>vii.t,k. —-The Mr
con Telegraph of Nov. 2.oth gives (lie annexed
items from (Tor,ion and Griswoldville :
A reporter whom we sent to (Jordon for 'tie
purpose of furnishing iw with reliable intelli
gence has-returned :m,l reports the whole coun
try laid waste from Griswoldville to the Oco
nee river, ill .a track from twenty to Unity
miles wide Tlie plantations in most cases
i were entirely destroyed, and in some rare pi i
! vate dwellings were burned. All stock In.-gs,
j horses, cattle and mutes, were either taken oli
or killed. A great deal of stock was killed
; and left on the ground—the purpose of the
enemy evidently being to reduce the people to
starvation. All carriages, wagons, buggies,
in short, all means Os transportation wore ,1,-s
troyed. Corn, fodder, and provisions ~l' every
kind were taken. Every gin bouse was
burned and tire arms ol every description des
troyed.. Covers, blankets, pillows, Ac., were
torn up or burnt. In some cases, muttrasses,
pillows and bolsters were cut, open and their
contents scattered to the winds.
The enemy carried off a large number of
able bodied negroes, many of whom, however,
have returned to tbeir masters. All good look
ing colored girls were carried off by the ot'si
! err.?. 111 one instance a girl, nearly white,
was taken, and when her husband, a slave, a*
tempted to follow and reclaim her, he was
| ruthlessly killed. She was free and under th n
1 control Mr. .1. li. Joins, the hotel .keeper at
| Gordon.
; “in some instances Churches and M.a onic
Lodges were burnt. The church at Gviswold
ville was burnt and tfie Masonic. Lodge, at Gor
, don abated Hie same fate—with all the record,?,
’ jewelry, l tc., belonging to' the Lodge, 'ihe
Wayside Home at Gordon was also destroyed.
: 1 tne young lady ot good family was ravished
• by negroes with the army, and in two other
; instances attempts to commit violence were
made.
Mr. David'Sulomon, an old and respectable
citizen, was twice rating up. in his own house,
to make him reveal where his money was hid.
He at last informed them.
They'carried oil some live thousand dollars
in specie, irrnl burnt a large amount of ' on
; federate money. His loss was heavier than
I anv other citizen of the place.
' They also robbed the estate of J. H I‘oiuijj
! tain of MOliO in specie, besides a large amount
oi Confederate currency. .
Mr. Baker's house, two miles from (.ns
woidville was ' occupied by the enemy as a
hospital. Their wounded were . pmrtered there,
and Mrs. Baker turned out ot doors. When
the Yankees left they burned the house, giv
in" a-a reason torso doing, that it yvas de
! sorted.
The entire people through Hie section pa«
,<1 over by the enemy suffered alike. They
destroyed everything they laid bauds on.
Gen. Howard said to 1 tie people that lie was
sorry to destroy their property, hut that he
thou "It t it the best thing he could do. That ou>-
leaders had to l>e convinced that thov must ,-nc
cumb,and the surest way to compel their retmh
to the Fnioit was toireite such distress .unou ;,
rh<t people, as would cause them to demand re
construction. He said lie thought he was do
ing God's woik.
He also took down the names of thosawhom
he ha-l despoiled, and promised to -end them
provisions as soon as he reached Havauntji.
He reiijalYd that by that lime they would be
■ übmi'-five and would then ve that »tlijy
did not st’.!!!T.
The Railroad between Uiiswoblville and
Gordon is completely destroyed. In some in
stances the rails vv,-iv li 1 7 y yards noin the road,
broken aid Liunt.
, Tite enemy r; mained camped four days at
Gordon.
They claimed io have .t tore of forty thom;-
and them, and the r-.’.e fore* at MiUedgc ■
viH.‘. They stated that they intended going
to Savannah and Fort Rn 1!. but eueunisL ecsi
might eoir.p.'l them to go to Brum wick.
(•'boat HOOD'S .tt;;: .
The Richmond Examiner of Thumday speak a
tin,? of tjie movements of Hood’s army :
Du Tbiusday or i-Tfi!,.f la t week Gar era!
Hood's fore- were at. or war Columbia, '.li.i
-<Uo Tcnn-v-.,',•••!« wl.-et ..it vs uippnsed,
(]iey would move in .be dixeedou • , Na-ffivilffi
us the dismiKv m be travel:, i xvasi c rtly In mill.?,
ihe prevailing idee.!,';■; that tlie Capital or
1 enuc*'. ee was the pr'.nx.uy ‘'oi'jecUve point 1
of.the ce.mpai m. But it is not dear liotn the
'at,at.reports shat lb*,.| de.fipes to attack
Nashville, it. i; now H ted 11; .r lie. is limviiig
due east,, towards Shclb-y.vill, a.ul Wartrace
the lalt, v is'situai, and mi L ■ N ~-l,\ille au.l
i'hnttano 'ga re, ilioatl. i.iiy jive axil.■.- soutlieaiit
of Nashvillo.Ti:,! eqimcted with ill*
by a Branch l'uu,!. , : fia! miles in length.—*
From Golumhje. to Wart,ecc ii,.- di.dance ii
twenty liv a or thirty ,\T e edit I no.
report of ibis movemeaL a., it is xvefil .known
that Na-livillo is strongly fortified and it ia.
doubthil it the recapture ol'that place would
compensate lor the 1055,,, life which would re
sult from any i'.U, nipt to dislodge the enemy
Horn the del.- ib fifi ot tlib eity. it b. ; in; i La,
geti.ml value.
. We conn- ?. however, ih .r v.o have not vet
been able t,» di--,rover the w . ndeifnl advantac#
of this campaign in TVimessee. H ii was in
tended to draw Shen-e.e.n out ui ,ia ,t
lies mxmifcstly faiieil, and the only re.-iilt : o>,
far has I con Hie devavlaii-'U of :i 1.-u port it iv
ol that Btate. Even after the era .mat ion of
Atlanta in a panic, Shon. mi might have bee i
incapacitated from luriis r mi.-a biet by U;a,
operations of the army in bis iieigibfioihooil.- •
On its l'ernoxe.l into T*'um-» 'ce v..,s : oppose,f
perhaps that ho w,mi,l follow -:r-; Meade diet
Lee into R,:m . .1-,ania. or as Bilcii did Ikuggi
into Kentucky. Itixt, Ihe c.i.-cs v,, rc not ;>urod •)
Id. Tin? amae nec.vsit'. - did ucr. exist. As tu
tin 1 restoi’atioa of Tenm s'lCe. llcotl may march;
without formiduhie , ;q-cM: ;,.n through the cn -
tire State, but he cannot imriison tiie towns.
and t!)i'].'.'!,,)v cannot di-;her the country: nor,-
can he devastate the country as Shuman doeaq
Georgia, for if L: the eountry ot Iriemls. li thuj
disenthraiment ql Kentucky i- imped, it must.,
rest on a general npiising of tlie people, nunvt
determined Ilian any yet, known iu u suljuga f.
te,V State. What else can bo done’is not now
easily seen.
From other son rev:, we gather the annexed
news :
The Oolnmlui?, Miss., Republic, of Nov. IV;
says, that nil account!; from Hood'* nxmv stale
that it i ? advancing. '
Gen. IToqd has issued an order IV.vbii’diny;
impivsenieid':? c f anything on this side ot tie
Tear.,' l!'. r. < >!;' cr- ,;n.f ru.m in i’ll,.
■Rpirits. butvvkai direction Iheanny intended to
take was kept :x jirofound secret.
The Fedcial General Thomas is ,vi’V,'; ented j
to lie at fo::if point on the Nashville and
(fliaGanoo;.;,. ailnad, with 25,000 raea, prinei
pally composed ofrecruim.
A coircspoDdent from the anay of Tennes
ncHsee reports that duviag the first fourteen
days of Hie campaign, eomuieucin at Ctiat-v
taboo dice, an awrage inarch o! nineteen miles
per day was pei formed. ab-ont thirty miles ot
rail road track torn up, and over cue thousand';
prisoner*. captured. The march, under Om?
ii retime tancc.-. was an evtruordinary one.
A correspondent of the Montgomery Mu if
gives the annexed account of the crossing of,
Ihe *ienticvsee river : On the .".4|u (4 Itetober ,
lyepanitfons wci,: made by Lieut. Gen. Lee, /
whose corps was opposite Florence, tn cross,
the liver .it i!i,T point in pontoon boats and’
capture what force there was at .that placo,
pr-qiaratory to patting down the pontoon 1
Inidgft Tiie Yankees showed liiemsclvcs very,)
boldly on the pi, .-is ,4 the r 1,1 railroad biiclgt).'
and a battery of nrlUlcry war, placed on th«A
blulV, whose ti,: ! gun .was to be flu: signal for?
lannebing the first hoat.s and pulling across.!
Wholly coveied from observation by timing-;
ge,l bluff and the steep ravine- - the Louisian. ,
brigade common, led by Iliig. K. g. Gibson. <
stood with boats already manned, waiting for
th* signal gun. to rush out from tbeir cover t<>i
the liver, launch fo.th. their j>ontoon boats.;
and “ftway over the lioriler. At the given,
aigiml ail eyes were watching the mouth of thev
ravine and almost simultaneousiy appeared^*
-one after another in quick succession, quite a...
licet of pontoons, twenty men to each boat,
and witivgreat regularity and composure they
wore, launched and ntai• <;< 1 directly aoror.? tht?-
river in single , olaiixn. The scene was one of.
vivid and cxeil mg interest. (I. had bt-eßj‘re*,
ported that the enemy had a tialtery and
lnnxlred men in Florence, und warm work was?
anticipated as the boats neared the* opcosito
shore. Onr battery kept, up a biisk fire, under *
cover of which <snr boat; landed, the men de-f *
ployed as skirmi:liciv. afid advanced up lhehill /
through the town without, ncountering a ho«-»
tile shot. The hoastii g cowards, v.’lro an hour.?
before had been cursing defenceless women,/
robbing home.s and citi/. -os, and desecrating'-
(thinches. bad t!;'d incontinently. Aft the? o!,l f
Louisiana btigtule in;hi ! on above amtj
up the bill, Gen. Lee exclaimed. “There goe<*.
. the Louisiana brigade! Florence is oms!
Wc understand, says the Montgomery Muii
of the 2(>tb, that an officer of Gen. Hood',; RtaiT.
lias reached the city (lit -t from the front, v.'Jio ,
states that tbo Army of T* n?-s ce js once more,
advancing. H started fonvsx.d from Floicimo,
on la t Saturday in fine trim, and the troop : iu .<
pnthurdafitie Kjiirits. Gen. Ilocd and G«u.f
Foiled both addressed* H:o ?< idieis. Ger,.-
Hood trlis liis men he will not turn Ixxck.f
lie has taken up the pontoon bridges, and lor-,
wan! is tiro word.
Ili; I. tanck to l.i*’ j.n K,c aiPTtox Act.
A violent alt? rcutiop tcokjxlace in the vil-'
lag,- of Glierryvill". ffont-nlcn comity, N. J.,. ;
on Saturday v/. ■k, , .iiisod by if.e attempUil
arrest of a dc. 'Her nanusl Baa R ll pie, .a hotel
'keeper in the tillage. Iftipl* was drafted in
May last, and ~bf-.ii y a!',, ,' jofi the country for
Canada, but i,;t:i> ric-d about the lu-t OfScptnn-?
)„■)■. 'the Frovost Marshal then cent Deputy)
.1 M Morris and B Slater, of lif'/. ibeth, to arn st
lijixi Hu refused to go, and said that nn 01-.
gani/.ation oh ted tie which was . of., -it ntfy
numerous an,l powerful to prevent an attempt.
io arrest any of their numb r, and that th c
officers would have, but a few days move to ,
make rixch tirrerdit :ts their ••p ure would ks j
up’’ alter McClellan was elected. The deputy i
thereupon drew a revolver, and raid that lm
-should be com,,, tied to take him dead or alive.,
rhereiipon Rnple made as,; iden spring 'at thu
officer, grasping '.he revolver and wxenching it,
from him. His bar keejn-r at the same time
iKsailed the officer, knot king hi;n dowu«vitb a.
slung idiot, and can, ing insensibility. He booh
recovered, however, and turned upon the bar
keeper, when a third arsaii-ipt appeared and' *
struck Mo,ris with a is, ivy sr: ne, after xvhit h
ail (KCaju-d, taking with them Moni.-s' revolvcih
.md otiu r V.npons. The ollicexs- pursued, huf,
were Uuvatoned with being t,hot incase ot
Liter iiov, meats, and were finally compelled to
-top from weataxci-i c.m-', and by their injuries.
reward of one hundred dollam has been effia, ~
tor the arrest arid delivei y of Rup'.« H t th.v
lieadquarteis by tl,e l’rovo?t M<u nnal.- VvrlU
ffil Payee
ihe cotton crop in 'J t-<iu, like that in Leu •
Liana, is raid to boa failure, the plant ha-, ing
been destroyed by woitns ; bat the yield
com wv Very abutt-Uai.