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[From the 'hxv.-n C -ler t-cy ]
KXBMPT»O>H FROM VO »KKI)KRAI K *ER*'
Vli K »V STATE AtITHOKII V.
The Richmond Enquirer, which is usually
*
at Richmond, on receiving the telegraphic
gynopnii of Gov. Browns mee-age, indulged
in a string of ill-natured, scurrilous and unjust
remarks about him and the Slate of Georgia,
shall take occasion hereafter to no
tice. For the present, we shall consider only
the subjoined extract from the article ;
While Gov. Brown pretend < that there tire
only 14000 exempts in the State, and most of
these over age, the records of the Conscript
Bureau exhibit 8229 > eX‘ nHitioUß ot able-bodied
men, between the agesot 18 and 45, exempted
hy State authority rn the Si,tie ot Georgia as
annexed :
Jindices of the peace 1850
Tax Collectors • 1350
Militia officers 2751
Clerks, etc,, of Courts 1581
Governor and State officers 270
Justices inferior Courts 000
Deputy Clerks Superior Courts 101
Total 8,220
This is a fair speiiincn o: the xecklessn -a
with which the Adm umtration jMcsis o Vir
ginia persistently misrepresent 05v. llrown
and the people of Georgia. We have not the
records ot the State before us, not do We know
the precite number’ot persons exempted Iroin
Confederate servi jh—w>t by the Governor, tor
he does not make the exemptions— hut y the
Legislature, which ‘has dec!»red who iiili
be exempt.
Home time since thy Got fernor published a
letter which he had addressed to i lon. \Val
ter U. Htaples, of Virginia, that gentleman
had stated, in his place in Congress, that
Georgia hud exempted liile»n thousand men
from conscription, iucluduig the militia. He,
too, got his figures from the records of tae
Conscript Bureau, iu his letter tlie Covered
showed that the whole number exempt'By
the Htate from military service was i. o. ui 115(1
Now a Virginia editor <r, .»< -i iit.-s ex
erupted 8221) oflicers. *5.:. -i leave but,
<5771 militia, according to Nlr.- Htap.ori, when
we all know that the Governor ima some 10,-
000 organized, lhat Conscr.pt Bureau,
must have several sets ot records so as to suit
any occasion. The Governor m rep y to
Staples, showed tlmt only about 1150 were
exempt from military service by Htate au
thority, and that these were made so by the
Legislature, not him. Let us now examine the
Enquirer’s exhibit.
To show its utter untruth fulness, in all re
spects, it is only necessary to notice two of die
items, which are but specimens TJkj organ
editor asserts that the records of the Conscript
Bureau show that there are 1350 lux Collector
exempt. Now, every man in icorgia knows
that wo have only ouo Htate Tax Collector in
each county and that the.e are but 132 comi
ties in the Htate. bake 132 from 1350 and iii
leaves an error of 1218,' w ich the editor
makes against the Hint , in a single item..
But the error Is greater than tills; for it is well
known that a large proportion ol these 152
Tax Collectors are not able bodied men, but
are invalids, wounded imd disabled soldiers,
or men over conscript age.
Another item is 1581 “Clerks, etc., of
Courts.” Now vv e have 132 counties. Bach
county has a clerk of (be Superior and a ciesk
of the Inferior Court, which lit must could be
only 264 ; but it must be recollected that in a
largo number of the counti ts—probably* a ina
joruy of them—these two cieikmbps are liiiod
by the same man, and he often over military
age or distpialilied for service by wounds or
other disability. Wo s say tin re is in
this item, an error against the iitate, which
cannot possibly be less than 14000.
We give the foregoing as a . ... obac i illus
tration of the conduct oi those pusses m other
States which abuse Gov. Brown and his ues
sage—some of which will uofpubhsh the mes
sage, and all ol which are afraid ot the power
ol truth uud will not let their readers a* v
They tjre elthtr very badly posted üb.mt. Geor
gia alwirs or have uoregaul loi author pro
priety, as exhibited in ihoir wanton a- mils
upon the Governor and people of ; - ..do Ui.u
bus given more blood uud treasure to luo Con
federate cause than any other Hi at.
We advise the Enquirer to post itseil'better
on its laets, make a heavy tall on its ligures,
and not make any more state-luents about, i:
matter till it ascertains the correct number ol
exempts in Georgiu, declaim to bo mu. 1 .-, not
by the Governor, but by ihe Legi i tuie ami
the Hupreme Court ol the State.
TUB COM II l« l'. *
00V. BROWN ANl> Tilt* PRESIDENT—TUB RK'.iUDY
PROPOSED BY EACH.
At th« commencement of Che sp< <■ ial h. ion
of the Legßlc.ture.wliioLi has but jus: dosed,
Gov. Ilrowu in his message gave t; ■ 1, gisia
ture and the people of Georgia a s-’ .m, . e ol
thesituation of the whole. Confederacy. This
statement of facts was necea-tuily gloomy and
disCout aging, and in this hour of pent to tu*
country, he advised that a. Convention of the
people bo called, that they, whose lives, liber
ty and property were at stake, jnb.Ul advise
what was best to be done. When the Gov
ernor's message was published, tlioso men who
live upon the patronage and enjoy i'no special
favors of the President, were very indignant
They iinmediatly declared (ho Governor a
traitor for having taken such a gloomy and
discouraging view ol our national affairs ; sard
his message was calculated to discourage our
people and make our soldiers desfrt. and that
the Governor ought to be hanged as a tom—
In a hip weeks President Davis -.. ■* te> Con
gress a special message iu 'which he takes a
more gloomy view of our public • cun
Gov. llrown did, and the same mo who de
nounced the Governor lor ar-v; :> < x >r
* situation to the enemy aud to the worm, onol
aud praise the President to the kks for \-
ing done the same thing, and in their
tion what was (reason and deserved -i. iu o r in
the Governor, was magnanimity and m: .me
patriotism!! in the Pi evident, t-u-nis can
dor aud such the consistency of tin o.e
ou Presidential favors-
But let us look at the remedy by
the two meu. Gov. lirowu .vc *
proposed to refer the whole nusx , «•.*.,
veutiou of the people. Th de -
poses that Congress suspend ;: ■ V : li
beoa Corpus, abolish all class cm- a.«• . mi
leave him to decide who s'ua.i he -, t
publish a newspaper, : > pre ,c'. . to
doctor tile tieK, to te. c y ■ • .-. V : .
oversee she plantations. m - . uu
liberty of eviSry uian in the Oe. - o’er uis
disposal, and vivo him ; :o
ward his friends, and pnuwh oy
detailing the one to,
and sending the others to!r e : • ,U 1
this enormous stretch of po’.vi . to
the strength of our armies ‘ r*
shown by Congress, it wduid c., y . ..ce
It. The classes now exempt
sippi. embrace only about t ide t‘: u . u
men, whilst twenty-two thou»n-o mv;- •?«
detailed by Executive j • f J
has passed an act revoking t v cno, * ; .. i.v
and have left the class cxen p t«’. • ,»y •
saving to the ;umy thirteen .
Congress also pased ;t lav, . bo >- L j
Commissaries and post Qua, , ■ -i t
puttuug in their place bonded a . « .
account «jf age or infirmities. :i) ,
field service.
This act had long been dv-tnat: : »-d ;> v - . :
people, aiid would have put f eve: a
able-bodied men in the army, bn ,y, , .
dent fearing that this would',. ,
er and patronage too much, t, , 1 ...
Not only has the President ask ;
mom* powers over the liberty m v. e - . ...
but he has also asked Congress to g • * ,
power to take the property of 1 ;>
ever and wherever lie sees tit, win.
any compensation except to give a <;
for the value iu specie, to be paid iu com as . ; .
a treaty of peace
In ehort the PrSuient asks C : ir s in V,,b L
stauce to put the liberty.and pr- .u- :y of the
people at his di»po.-al ami nmSe ,tn, in .
a dictator, and tbe rwesidenti e. to ares ait coy j
out what sublime magu . ,i:tt: ;n -.. . i’re-i
dent ( Behold th.* difference . , th, two mo:i :
the Governor calls tor aCq *.. douol the peo
ple to consult ou these import .•* ;ii .; <h»J
President asks that Cong o k .
unlimited powers to liim. We v a; or
trust the people than the Pic-ident. Jii
title Union. ;
‘ ill. K BK> > V.”
[From Columbus Hun.3
Sen&tor B 11. Hill has again “appeared in:
print” His letter addressed to a young ladv
; ,j| Mobile, mis a column aud a halt in some of
om exchanges. H“ is a generous patron oi the
daily press. Editors should feet under re
i newed obligations to this young Senator,
i |y should make the customary ackuowl
edgemtnts He would not destroy the
press. Mejwouid conscribe it, and place ft under
I the die';* urn of the Hecretary of War. He
I vvculd . tablieh a censorship over it He
would have H to speak oniy the language of
I unqualified eulogy. It must hot aspire to
| freedom of thought and open discussion. It
| must learn ta bend the supple knee topo wer that
| ‘thrift may foliown tawing.’’ He maybe right,
I but herein we differ : We concede Lia right,
j under our system of government, to entertain
I and express nis individual opinions, however
j much they may be at Variance with our own.
iHe would deny tbi- privilege to the press.
| His reasons are, substantially, that all editors
| and others who write for the public press can
j not dissent from the opinions entertained by
I himself and Mi. Davis without working great
injury to the cause. But to his last epistle.
W e extract:
“Since my arrival I have been almost con
stant ly engaged going, talking and speaking,
to antidote-the poison of our Governor’s late
message.”
I his js the only count in his bill Os indict
ment -against Gov. Brown’s Message It is
••poison ' Mr# Hill happens to be * Senator.
He takes it for ‘granted that any assertion
which he may see proper to make, needs no
,specifications or evidence to support it. ihe
young lady to whom he writes will believe
whab he asserts, ihe public will of course be
i'-veit. Why trouble himself to controvert
utements, produce facts, or dedif ••,; argu
ments.' He did not come to Georgia to analyse
the “poison ” Hi? simply came ,to “antidote
Hie poison”'by “going, talking and speaking.”
in this, he says he has “reason for tjie eomior
iuh.-u belief t .at he has been of some service
to the, people of the dear old Hi ate.” •
Further on, in this epistle, Mr. Hill says;
“Burdens have been heavy,and must he hotv
;<‘i. | he. recreants, even now, are as two to
the laitaful one; and the first will increase,
and the latter-diminish.
ivory an l : “A mean sipited, cowardly
wn;toh; one who yields in combat and cries for
mercy.’’ Ye gods! and two -Hurds' of the
Southern people—especially those ol Ge rgia
--are of this stamp ! Woise stili, t hose two
thirds “wui continue to increase.” while the
faithful third “continue to diminish ” *This
must bo true, for un honorable Senator hath
asserted it, and who would dare to question
the correctness of any assertion he msy make?
•Alas, then, tor our boasted-“chivalry.” Well
may Mr. Hew.-iil file tills epistle away along
side with the President’s Macon speech. Os
course it, will give no “aid and comfort to t,lie
enemy.” ■
Further on Mr. Hill says that :
.“We have native traitors apd immigrant
spicii in cur midst holding high offices and
editing ou? papers,-and adroitly, earnestly,
sowing i he,seeds ol disaffection and disunion
among our people; and these traitors and
spies will iocri use in number and boldness.”
Cannot Ur. Hill be a little more specific in
hischirge? ••Native trailers.”. Vice Presi
dent Stephens and Governor Brown aie both
natives of Georgia. Did he mean those two
gentlemen by “native traitors holding high
offices ” ll not, whom did he mean ?•
Again: Among the nine editors connected
with the leading ptesses ot Georgia, we can
find but otu; who was born North of the line
Why, then, does Mr. Hill employ the plural
form? Among the five Georgia editors who
have committed the unpardonable sin oi clit
f; ring with the President concerning the vs
•lorn ol ttie policy set lorth in his lute Message,
(>■ ' the propriety of certain appointments to
office, we find but one wfio is not a native
Huuthrou i tuee of the five are- native G- or
giaus. The great grandfather, paternal and
maternal, oi <>• I'oui.tlCSvas
glorious “Did Dominion " ' Toe fi Atory ol n
- mimed; it* ancestors is identified with
the settlement, and > aily political history of
one ot the adjacentH6‘ltUiem States. The lilih
i , we bofieVt , a native of Connecticut, bid that
fact will not y.me convict him of being uli
“emigrant spy.’’ But Me ‘Hill must not be
expound to group evidence. The jury mu t
accept fiis assertions tu the opinion of Mr.
Dili, nli men ‘vvrni express op mens dissVuting
Iroin those of himself and President Davis ai,
either “native traitors” or “emigmht spies ”
Therefore, th •■to' are five ,‘emigrant spies ,ed
Ring our papers” in Georgia. Monstrous.
mu tutu. — 22 — 1
Posmwis Ilimp nv FAvoiutes A corns
pomtref <f she Mobile Aciveruser writing fivui
this ciij. ; ;>mnien(H llitis on the abuses which
exist on account of ihe riumerous Cbnftxloniie
bomb-proms created for-viffloial favorites’:
ihe •bjiyc:* of ten ih.itisand unnocessarv of
ii.-s provided tor m ikis country, are 'more-
P‘v,m'm<mtiy di.-played in (his city’ than has
come u;id«w_niy notice' in the ten ihoutand
places into-which my >"ootste& have carried
me during this revolution of 'retreats and
ebadgns of ba.se, in the * gp-eiitor number of
which it has been my peculiar lortvuie to be a
participant. It is no woiider to mo thatm'h
oulci y, Ilk*' a waiyff mourners’ iii a hired fun
erarprm’.; ;’.."ion. arises frohi-the people of *!>■.•'
Gonfeo v-oy nguiust the abuses and outrag . .
of f’ne eou'sciflpt and bonib profif system g*Tu>-
eruily. IVe daily see erippWdj worn, broken
down men discharged frfim service, because o.
wound;, received cm a hundred fields, brought
before Coiis'Crlpt officers who have never seen
a day’s sevvice, au-: confronted by a 'horde o!
offi •' al iacin-e, who because they are the scion?
of .iftlneut .amiubs, and are tender, baautiiui
y. ung fellows, are kept on fancy duty and
ane ;vcd from the terrors uud horrors of war.
The sick and wounded, and worn out veteran
is-sefit. ftvtlve fictfi, nmi (tie nice young man
l’ciupinein toe bombproof, to revel In- the lux
uries of the city and .eventually enjoy the
rich ho n the scarred and veteran soldier has
GfrinnUy uad nobly won on ihe field. M’e,
1 at s sotdieis of ihe Confederacy, the broken,
w,. .:i root tom veterans of the army wilt never
■ e. the-low and admiration tor our lhlenq
and -beii.-vo that justice id fairly meted unto
: -ot rlie army until these Augean'
si.- bits, a- ootubproofs of the country, arc
'■'if.tuoa- ands oi useless ornaments,
(fit. tboris; os. ul tUBUQc-SBary and cowardly,
•.oi*- .m*i....i*:Ki tohut-.. who are sheltered and,
m r.iic.i v*y tiie mlluence of p’orchased and
parlies m control. May Heaven’s
! dirci u. curse rest ou tire men who have
'•*' this injustice i« tkc hope of the
: a, i* t (*so has served hi a four years ot war
•>ud sorrow and misfortuue. ;
■B r, I’RKrIDKN IviISK.iKTONBS Ovßi DITT.
I —i'.'O--' ; e... nos no;. and ttovewae, a man to
| rouse d;e • i: .»:s?ut or aifoetioa.of the people ;
I u *' - messiges which he takes
■ :ut * i 4» ' e. rv..d we»i lie writes'* good
! i: - gosh,-ana the >cuoiarsuip aud eleganoo
j u>spiays iu ins efforts have made ior him
,-uu-n ivputatiou • especially when compare* 1 ,
j | v|; a lire hootch- work, babbie and jargon wh:< K
I Liu-.v mi. But the* is hia chief repui -
i.tfou* lb? raioiy tail#, to say something tin'?
• *s iU uisc.cx'i. or that gives Ufciiii&takab.t:
i tip ace oi lu» iack ol true g He re no.:
j ; Cw mao- toss the etteie. and wo must n t her and j
j his d.f Lutes, or comply with his demands? till S
jwe ha, d euyeatigated and ;ouud them to: l«e i
ri igh’ VW must datly refuse to a-’opwhis sug- |
j g.itt.sus when ihey are unwise. I 1 would
j 'save been wvii for the country if we bndT • t? !
j mu- wi.-e mdMs iu Congress and not allow.;-*
them to go to the field’ so they might Lave •!
; urpe and.. wise policy and compelled hin io
C"ny ir. out An election ior Cong .-asm n j
»<oou come off again. We hope the peopl •
<Ol Heir wisest and best men. and i
« < i thru body again assembles, it will .
“• -.yd I-., by Use i’ce-'iden , a? it ha* *
: .{ '.y e v:: i; nut. will dictate to him what he I
. : * a,t ke does it. A PivHdetrt
! .' 1 “ ”/*' ' mighty work before him ; sud aM
ccuipjieat and sulwervieni Congress,- i
an ' i ’ “ ay yel Pt’vve our j
A maannmed Gui<ekj?r w was killed, by a n «- •
ue-otgiO Was tuugd4 anoihung. The
a man muuwa H.h ( H :,p w but i :
r '“' ' t. *uer m another cornu v, 1i
\ atK it tne place where the niurd. ; *
MT r[ in,J W tl i Luug aiso ' ® uitch*. r! i
« i v‘ * wa l !ted u i he got it : but : 1
uiu not Uve to enjoy «. i ,
1 Ji-)Vt ha VAAVAH a ad the coast.
i.“-- Macon ioiegrapfi has st-eu a gentleman
ju.-t -tom Savannah. From him it collects the
annexed news:
■mvacmah is garrisoned by four regiments cf
ii<v~oes aud nearly one ol whites —about tour
-usapo men in ail The darkies siaud guaid
over B nkee stores, uud the white men do pro
vii aid picket duty Tho negro soldiers art
not allowed to be insolent to the white people,
au ’ o rely ever speak to them, but those not
under arms are quite the reverse.
ID are many hundred ot runaways in
the cd y anxiou; to le.arii, but they are made
to b. . hi' Wecler'i men kill all whom
they capture out' ue of me lines.
rhreo or (uni gunboats a .. anchored »if the
the city.
There aro ptenty of dry goods and provis
ions of all kinds in town. OT winch the citivens
and the market men are allowed to purchase
under such restrictions as are prescribed by
the military author ties /
No one cun get a pas:, to come out without
(iking an oath, and giving such etkei evidence
ot loyalty ast the military sutraps may think
necessary. Jlaiiy, however, elude the pickets
an l par- <jut, but they are obliged to move
•light; Heveml merchants and “blockade run
ners’ Bom the mte ior hav*^gone in, and are
held there; Messrs. Gowles and Beldeu. of Ma
con, among the rest.
Whenia man going in,'‘arrives at the outer
picket lin-' -me mile fiom the city—he is ask
ed if he . :i:h t,» cme out again; and if ho
answers in tt.c affirmative, c is arrested aim
taken b fae the Provost Marshal, and by that
functiauaiy required to swear eternal ’alle-
giance to the Yatikee Government, but if the
ply is i. the negative, and he attempts to get
out and is caught, he s arrested, indicted,
ric ! m.'vl convicted of being a liar and a spy
Fio’y is worth sl4 per barrel, boots ssa6
p c pair, • nits of black jeans clothes $20a30
nd eve>«'thing elsei m proportion. All the
; . ; . mulsh >p? are open and in full blast;
but ar- g.-in tally 'in the tmtsds of Northern
'to*-chant-c ’ ■ -
r "' "iimb'ed n.wuo reciuits hud arrived a
.’••r£ u«.-c;i fs -tu Gluirleston In charge of a
Y -nkm- '. Menu, who received SSO per head in
■■■ Indie* Nearly the whole of them had
I’ for--e<i enlist iu o der to reap the re
Wav !
ihe YutA-.n have (;?>nptruoted splendid
u !'v«» at Port Roy a', hut the amount of bu
is entirely conßoed to sutlers and them
Pm.-Aki teiie), Savannah, charges $2.50
[v !' day , - . '
Tatts-tiiHsissippi .
A '‘-H of Louisiana, recommends in
u>.s fiK - Hsn<r . that one btmdrq.l thousand do) -
■ ■ oprop: iated tor tfie purchas 'of school
“I;, • I, distiib.itial anting the poor chil
(i.,ll ol the Hiate.
, lie L' O’ oiture of Louisiana has repealed
<- ict of sci m-r kcs iioo, disiranebising those
w.-o w: re compelled to take the path of alle
ffi.iuce to i:>.r Yankee Government during the
(t upaticy oi.a part of that territory by ihe
(:. •oty
’ ’*'• ; papers state * b it. preparations
! being made I'm i vigorous, delence jtf (he
’’ 'v ,State I attacked.
: h Mofi Advertiser & Rngistor Iws in-'
; a l„, reiitible nature, tbit General
Ku-py Hmrt. hug, ( wo o,i fi.e (hqusand black
V Vl ‘i". a:| d qutpped, aud qiganized tin
i . musters, iu ihe. Traes-Misstssippi
•- pin id. ,■
■o.ocka*! ! unniaig on tip; coast of Texas is
■ i 1 ’ Gy f • r-MSiuc i'lie hlearner Granite
■ v * •eeni- y esttap- (1 frotu Esealou bay with
■ • : > qf cotton.
i ! • uumper o; Louisiana planters have
: :i Deo to l XUS.
i"‘uy frrr a huge cotton factory ar
-I!V;’diiin i Texas about the middle ,qf January.
V ■ t Bom Brazys Saciiugo, of the 3d
’’< to tho New Orleans True Delta, savs pro
‘ un a, 1 ..i all kjnds are extremely
rtf..l ‘'••-to—iL** ai irqxtf «w.fi
F-. MM CM Ait Lrfr-'i’ON,
*’ A- G '• okay, _i ho fan, ms , au
" • •>; b. •:t appointed by the Yankees In
"• 1 reels, y. i) lyirk, J. T. Mili
■ .ct •.•.i.tKiior, and G. Phi tiger, his asstsx
ants.
Yankees are purifying the streets—pre
.i.:.-y lor the sickly season.
Uo liH- nig!.'i t'f the 1 Otli a tire broke out in the
warehouse :>f John Frazer & Cos , on the wharf, 1
wii-ch ties oyc<l the entire block.
Tire tir.-l m-gro commissioned by the Federal
Goverioiicm, Murtin E. Dehmy, has been or
•' ■>t to iept-i to General Saxton tit Hilton
Head, with ihe rank of Major.
The courier has a sensation story headed
, ; -a h.-ealv-nul” aud says thatour*Quiet
peopk-lire quaking jn thoir slides feajfiU ol
mooting the jut t andeserved doom that bo
i ■ ommbi.a. They sfaie t fiat tlife city ''is I pri
t c.tmuiea i y !:oett smalt otivalfy brigades,
tk- - may bf-t M>-itred at atij-’.iay—that float- is
s -k-ig- at S2oo‘o per bll,, board'is SSO per day '
| cvervthiii,; exorbitantly high
A g-;- o. malty persons from the Southern
I . : ii Oitr j.'tua aie d.iiljj arriving in Charles
toa. VO !iitlli. _ with _ the Yankees. The road
w.-.b t. '.* i• ‘i whites and blut-ka going ou
, foot to* id jo i tv.
-i - ■ < 'harlesion have. Keen brotigbt
j|- -i otter a Court, charged with seli
•i;,- ' f v ct-uts per loai. They wore.
-T sic..- l j;0 each. Mr, UiiScay, for spiling
flo ii ;u 4-4.0 pe: |!bl: \v,v; fined $25. ’ / - * '
4tßm» — . , .
FROM MI»SI8SII>1*|.
/i.ti i organized companies of the reserved
• -c-=*s ol t'Jtssissippi, are ordered to report at
•>t:ee «• kdCfia tor'equipment aud pay.
Gen. Davitiffii is in command at Natchez.
It;: p.-ckH lilies < xfcend one mile from the city.
» g-oiit t ued with nejgro troops.
A 't v thing is.quiet in the vicinity of Yicks
oo ; : o'Ciiiit.-n Citizen thinks that'the jen
emy c:u:t;::i ad-.nice lu that directioh for some
.t-inn*. '>'he B-: Binck la in such condition: as
• • pr- • Auk .am munber of troops crossing
- - Even if they crossed on port
t- on.--, - ne C'uiuinhm ol the roads would render
i ,( v p --sr-ge very difficult.
\ - Bio- li-tnveil Tcdegrfiph reports the eue
m>'. u- 0.-.ige i- -rCe, botweeu Liberty and Clin
t* llotfire, with Cols. Powers' and
r.im * -g'uneuts. are In position at’ Beaver
cree, tw* ve m tvs l.om i'.ibe* ty, prepared to
give t'.-em warm reception.
4he \ uui-e, nit-amer Jnaies Watson ran into
the bank on the night- of March 2 and sank
immediately Khe liad on boat'd eigtity sol
di.-.s and one hundred ami twenty pusseoirfers,
on v rbij-ty-- o-t whom were- *aved ; . •
• Gr;er.-iu_ has gom* back irom the vmtoilV of
i upelo to Memphis. He declined tire greeting
I*orre-c or, pared to give hitu.
!i ‘ e 1 : : e . ra A s *' aVi ‘ done great damage! to
he Me-sti-stept anc Tennessee railroad above
(.xf-luuui. I mv« bridges are down. It will
' " i! " s»« w., kc. to repair damages.
.; . A V; ~Nl' **«!» «r Vicrouitg-
V“ ‘." ! v T? ae : of , ufofrr jtfoldic
- . s■ • deiniiralikation Is the absence .'of * 0
- lL , ; irom melt- cotfiiharidg TheV : are
. 011 ]'? i'i shoal s in all our towns
~:V , ■ A r, f 0 of itu-'iii in our
-na ~.-r % -..*• and other ndohsand*'corners
wscr, tney can sport th*ir brass button* to adl
' r: -'‘ ; the most part, love eick
; mu . and oasmug who moriopoiise
’ r.™ u '% ,;t l ¥ 80t ‘ er ®es. They hare been
- -erg a:, oxang ever since this strn?gle*cem
.n. ::c 1. and K.-o»t*» of them hifv’e wdii laurels
i -h war, of besides whicl? Si
: a “«? circnmstance'. Indeed. • they
h ' n : i -+ a un,t tl . me wte ae
so much more corner? able to sit nna sofa and
!is tea to a piano, than to take tt.e
j tumble of a herribie vienr
' <T - «* muehofW pem-
H.m-u shomd, by all rheans. Kedrin thorn
• from die held oy the witcherr of their smiles
?7>; should they- let them go whefb’dntv calk
t: em. tooy mfght never return! m
the .m) >' worth'two in thebushl Ye* keep
them near you. ladles—th a t fe the way to snb
ir.ccte them in more sense than one ? Sdraa
Report*?. -' - .i
■ Tim postmaster of Mobile announces, that
for t Lie present the mail wiii ba*
uc-m l hut city to Montgomery and joints, .-fee
y. . fby br-it. In preparation for any unitor*
c< ncv. the rolling stock ot the Mobile and
Great Northern Kaibroad lias been move.3 to a I
place of safety. ]
Exoa&sutr* Pbisoxub op War— [mpohtant
Orders.- -Th** imueSCd orders in reference to
exchanged p; < mus of war have been issued
by the Adjitant ami lu-pcetor General. The
first is 6peciai orders No. 2)1, dated Februa
ry 24. as fallows :
XXI Leaves o! absence will be granted pa
roled prDoiers until dt>*ir exchange, provided,
they will report within thirty days in perton
at Richmond, Va., unless previously notified ol
their exchinge. * ' ;
XXII. Vhen the exeia ;go of such soldiers
has been dtclared, those who belong to com
mands serring north of ihe Southern bounda
ry line of Novth Carolina and in Erst Tennes
see. wili ifhmediateiy report to them ; all oth
ers will fce temporarily asrigned ta commands
their own state serving in North Caroli
na,-East Tennessee and Virginia, or they may
volunteer in auy such comuiand for temporary
service tr> terminate when they are able to re
join their proper commands. r
XXIil. As the communications South and
West of the southern boundary line of North
Carolina are cut off, leaves cannot at this time
be granted to soldiers who desire to go beyond
that lm« ; but, when the lines of travel are re
estabnsieil, they will not he excluded by this
order.
XXIV. The Quartermaster's Department
will furnish paroled prisoners the transports
tion indicated by these orders, and wili pay
them and as soon as it is possible to furnish it.
will alio issue them clothing
By command ot the Hecretary of War.
John Wiihers, A. A. G.
The following is special orders No. 53,
dated March 4th ; *
XXVIII. The following Exchange Notice is
published for the information of the Army :
“Ail Confederate officers aud men who were
delivered in James river, Virginia, at any time
before March Ist 1865. ate here declared to be
exchanged.”
" XXI-X. All furloughs granted under Special
Orders, No. 4fi, M. atffi I G. O (current se
ries,) to enlisted men who are above declared
exchanged, are hereby ordered, and all enlist
ed met who are exchanged, will at once re
port for duty those whose commands are be-'
yond the North Carolina line, selecting com
panics, temporarily, in accordance with Special
Orders above referred io.
Commissioned officers exchanged will report
to their respective commands without delay.
By command of the Hecretaiy of War.
John VV. Rielt, A. A. G,
The Dimimbhino Exemption Bill — The an
nexed is the oill to diminish the number of
exemptions and details:
“The Congress ot the Confedeitrte States of
America do enact, That so much of the ‘act to
organize so- e@ to serve during the war,’ ap
proved Feb nary 17, 1864. as exempts one
person as erseer or agriculturist on each farm
upon which there were, at specified times,
fifteen able bodied field hands, between the
ages of sixteen and tiiiy, upon certain condi
tions, is hereby repealed, and said persons
shall be liable to military service upon the
expiration *» the t ine for which Gey secured
exemption iy reason. of having executed
bonds tor cue yei-.i from she date thereof:
Provided, That exemptions of persons over
forty-five years of age rn >y be granted under
Die provisions of the act aforesaid.
“Beciion 2. That no exemption or detail
shali.be granted by the President, or Secretary
cf Wuf, by viinio of said act, except of persons
lawfully repotted by a board of surgeons as
uuable to perform active service in the field;
poisons over th age of forty years, and % of
artisans, mechanics, laborers employed in the
Nitre and Mining Bureau, in localities where
slave labor cannot, with safety, be employed,
and persons of scientific skill, employed by, or
working for, the Confederate or State Govern
ment, and shown by proper testimony to be
such laborers, meehanices or parsons of scien
tific skill: and with the same, exceptions, all
exemptions and details heretofore granted by
itw: President or Secretary of war bv virtue of
aid act. ar«?n«rct>y fevotjtea. • *
“Section 3. That all skilled artisans and
mechanics whi are engaged ill the employ
ment of the Government ot the Conlederate
States are hereb r exempt from all military
service during the time they are so employ
ed. ’’
General Orders erom Gen. Lee,—Gen. Lee
has issued the following orders to the nrray of
Northern Virginia, dated at, his headquarters
the 16th of February :
General Orders, (
No. 4. \ !
I. Generet Ordois No 2, Headquarters Ar
mies of the Conlederate States, having been
this day promulgated to this army, it is here
by announced that iu accordance with its pro
visions, all enlisted men of this army who are
improperly absent from their commands, ex
cept those gqilty oi desertion to, or arrested
in the act of do ci ting to the enemy, or who
deserted after haviug been once pardou
ed so. the name u.fente, or who shall hereaf
ter desert ov absent themselves without i au
thority, who snail wdtiiu twenty days from
this date voluntarily join their commands or
deliver themselves to any regularly appointed
enrolling officer, provost marshal or other
officer on duty, to he foi wanted to their com
mands, shall be entitled to and receive! the
benefit of the pardon promised by the General
in Chief on the author it y of tlis President of
the Conlederate Htates in the order above
quoted.
11. General Orders No. 2, Haadquartera Ar
mies of the Confederate States, applies to en
listed men undergoing sentence or trial c uader
charges, or in arrest for desertion or absence
without leave, with the exceptions hereinbe
fore menlioj-ied; and all men who, nnder this
paragraph, are entitled to pardon, will he at,
once released flout arrest and restored todjtty.
By command of General R. E. Lee. ! J
W • tl. Tatlok. A. A. General. ,1
Don’t Give it L p So. —ls we were to judge
of the fiuai issue ol this revolution by the opin
ions of some editois and correspondents ol the
press, we should be compelled to decide that
there was no hope of success, because Gov.
Brown disagrees with President Davis flush
ing some of his acts relative to the military
affairs of the Government of the Confederate
Htales. Now, to say the least of it, th{,; is
child’,; play Mr. Davi-ti is President of the
Confederate States, aoci Mr. Brown is Governor
ot Georgia. Ii both these officials were blot tod
out or existence, i? would not affect the gen
era, result ' How fooliaii, then, to put the
issue ou ihe triumph or either of these nfen.'
The people are ye. supreme. They can bring
either of these office is xo th- level of them*.
seiVes, Whenever they bo* proper*to do sp -
Keep Pool, Ihe iulers of tin; people are-their
servants. Thu people will yet settle the quea
tion. We are willing to i«ave it to them., If
they decide wrong, then your liberty and
property, and our liberty and property, go
down, .and all sutfei aliku. If you say the
peoptc are not competent to settle this ques
tion--this great question —tabu we ask, who ,
is? We do not take the gloomy view of af
fairs that some rneii take We know that the
effiopie arc better a%} e to jqdge of their rights
and property than any an* man in the Cons ed
eracy therefore, we say, don’t give up the
fijtht because ou ieaders disagree. It is, our
duty and our inter, jsttb put our leaders rigiyt ,
Who can do it? The * people Nobody ;bat
the people can do It. W r e are willing to trust
«b*rpeople with all ou, rights and ail our Mb
ertins. Who is not t—MUiedgeviUe Union :
Tauovg io THj Poiur.—l he effionterv ex
hibited by some cd u»e occuoants of tomb
proof positions is absolutely astounding r 0
hear a.man fIfeHRL. fked a g UQ mlkiasT
of wagmg to the M id aSS.
ing ail who do notjush to the front, is matfei
abiy nauseating. It is very right that ail wfro
can should shoulder a musket aud hein fieht
it oct; rmt he who has not bm» k, the hSarSU
of during the war should not n£i%
Wmaelf conspi ms m shouting to othere.KO'
go ! while he nurself stays behind. It not
only looks bad tor a man thus to act, but it
u, ot unmitigated kuaveiv
Men ought to be rallied to tho front, but the
voice of the stay at koine ought not to be
loudest in the outcry for a greater sacrifice of
blood. Let us have a little more fire, and not
quite so much smoke. Action k what we
need, amj not gas.— Selma Dispatch.
Michael Hahny the Yankee Governor of •
Louisiana, has resigned.
l»OI\r» DE 'ia fiftfl I’IIE HCPKSCMS
COURT OF USOKUia, AV JIAt Ot. MAKCRT&I'.M, 1M1.%
Oobb vs. Black d-iboas Corpus.
1. In .u equity oase. the Judge having, un
der tiieC'Ue. appointed a receiver in vma
tion, and'ordeieii Lhc dwfendnut to turn ovet
to him the assets iu disptfte, may irft-i iu vaca
tion, niiiorce obed e. ee to the- order by litU.u
ment tor contempt
2 Such attar-huk-nt is not privative merely,
but remedial, uud therefor* the imprisonment
ot the party umivt n may , mlu ■. ioug »>s
the party continues disofildient. i'Uc iiui.tatidns
fixed oy the Code to the ti u of impiiseumeut
for contempt generally, are Svi uppiicabio.
Hall vs The State. Simple larceny.
1. Vv Ben the prisoner owned a cow similar to
the one whieu the iniicaneut charged him
with stealing, and the question w&s whether
he had by mist .ike andm good faith valieu and
disposed of tfie latter believing it to have
been tfie fonm r, evidence is admissible to
show that some ciuie titer the transaction he
went to the other owner and said that the cow
taken was his, he, the piisoner, fia<i made a
mistake, and then offered to pay, and but pay
the other for It.
2 Tue verdict in this case was contrary to
the evidence.
Smith vs. Green it Purteli. Certiorari.
1. Garnishment founded on a void action, or
on a void judgment, is itself void
2. A distress warrant tor rent cannot t.« she
foundation for a garnishment.
Alderman vs. Gheste. Iu equity.
The distributees of an estate clear ot all in
cumbrances, may agree among themselves that
one oi them ehait have and enjoy during her
lile, such past of the property se
lect, u"d lhat after her death the entire estate
shall belofag to the other distributees ; and
thuugh sued agreement be made orally and
never reduced to writing, it will be enforced
by a Court ot equity alter the fife interest con
templated has been tolly enjoyed. The con
tract hi not void under tip s statute of fiands,
nor does it contravene the rule ol law against
creating lemainders in personality of parol.
Persons exempted from Confederate service
as managers of their own (arms are, nevertho
loss, liable to serve in the Htate militia.
Thornton vs. Towns; Application lor Injunc
tion.
On a mle to show cause why an injunction
should uot be granted, the answer of the de
fendant to ihmallegations of the bill, and the
affidavits sup*rting the answer, were held
sufficient to warrant a relusal of the injunction.
Leonard vs Acee, Habeas Corpus.
A tax assessor of the Confederate Htates is
exempt from military service in the militia.
Brock vs. McCiusky,)
Mclaue vs Collins, )
Soldiers belonging to the Confederate Htates
Resrvea, who are attested ior felony by the civ
il authorities <jf <he Htaite, and admitted Lo
bail, are liable to oe ordered back to their
command while going at large, and to be put
again on duty. These cases are controlled iu
principle by the cases of Alford
cided at Mi Hedge ville, in November last.
The Governor for the use 1
of Huthford vs* Half t- Habeas Qorpus.
and others ~ J
Action on Sheriff’s bonce
An Attorney who, by negligently suffering
the money of his client to lie iff Ihe hands of
the Sheriff, makes himseif liable for it, and (hen
without the. compulsion of a suit, pays up the
debt, has a light of action on the her iff'a bond
ior his reimbursement. It is the Sheriff’s
duty to pav over the mouev without demand ;
and if the omission of that duty work aa»injury
to the Attorney, he, by the express words of
the Statute may support an action on the bond.
The statute itself creates whatever privity is
necessary to the maintenance.,#! such action.
White &■ Rowland vs. Sellars, » Habeas Cor
pna.jp
A soldier cannot obtain his discharge from
the army by Habeas Corpus because he has
been elected and qualified as a Constable since
he enteied the service.
otunti' «*. nnrris; t naueas corpus.-
Morgan vs. Bonham, j
Under the Act of Congress, of . Feb. 18(14,
men between the ageß of 17 and 50 years, ami
none others, are liable to military service ; and
a conscript in the Reserve Force who, since the
passage of that Act, has attained the age of 50
years, may, if still held for. service, be dis
charged by Habeas Corpus.
Parker vs. Raughmunn—Clark vs.. Brady :
Habeas Corpus.— L. The power of Congress to
raise armies by conscription is nut restricted
to men able for a five service in the field, but
extends to such also as, though unable for that
service, are capable of performing the duller of
“provost or hospital guards, or clerks, or
clerks’ guards, agents, employees ar laborers
in the commissary, quartermaster or ordnance
departments, or ol clerks or employees of navy
agents, or the djuttes requisite in the execution
6t the enrollment Acts, or other similar du
ties.” The Bth section of the Act of Feb. 17,
1864, entitled “An Act to organize forces to
sejrye during the war,” is therefore constitu
tional. .
2. In executing that section of the Act, It is
necessary that the report ol the Board of Sur
geons should 1 specify the particular duty for
which each man is capable. A report in gen -
eral terms, fbat the conscript is fit for light
duty, Is not sufficient. In administering the
military statutes of the country, a strict con
formity to their provisions is requisite.
Cowart ye* Williams—Ejectment.
A judgment establishing a copy of a lost
deed, rendered on notice to the hehfs-at-iaw of
the grantor, but without notice to one claim
ing the laud as decisive under his last will, is
not conclusive upon such devisee, or upon
those olaimiug under him.
Amos vs. the State, i Indictment for gura
‘Mcßryde vs. the State, ( blingn
Though the indictment, iu charging’ the 01-fonse,
-fonse, lay it on a day subsequent to the time
jfcvhen the new Code went into effect, the de
fendant may nevertheless bo convicted on evi
dence of having played or betted on a day*
prior to that time.
Raiser Pointed.— The Augusta cdfrespon
dent of the Mobile register in commenting on
matters and things makes the annexed remark
in regard to speculators and the hew conscript
bill :
It is strange how commercial transactions
ara moved by fancy speculations in Aiqyusta.
Gold is evidently an article used by stock job
bers on which to game One day it is seventy
for one ; an ther day fifty, and no One !e able
to explain Vhe cause of the fluctuation. Ihe
hermetically sealed conditio apf our phi-fa at
last has caused an extraordinary rise ifi the
E rice of all kinds of goods. Some dealers
ave jmhped prices so rapidly that (hey teem
to lie frightened at their own temerity. Spool
coftofi, for example, went up in two days
from five dollars a spool to fiheen, and other
cotton goods in proportion. It is evident Miat
the few who have stocks of goods for sale in
tend to make the most of them. There being
no demand for gold for foreign purchases, ti e
fancy speculations in it do not indicate the
valuation oY Con federate moueyk We hoppthe
nov cohseript bill may have the effect of lot
ting a large number of these gentlemen, who
fight th« currency and bleed their neighbor*,
now have a chance to try their gouging ! pro
pensities on sanguinary fields, where the ene
my will make better game for them. •
The Whi«*et Bill Defeated —The bill
passed bythe Legislature allowing three gal
lons of whiskey to be made for each family in
the State, was vetoed by the Governor on the
‘ground that bread is too scarce to allow that
.quantity, and that if such a law were parsed,
it would, in future, be impossible to correct
an£ yiceTn .ymy, cage for Illegal diatillajtion.
/w» have heardT of a case in one of the ooufities
of the State, when it was understood suth a
law had pawed, where one rtoman, the head
oLa family, sold her right to make the ten gal
-14,0b* to each of fifteen distillers. The House
of Representatives attempted to pass the bill
over the veto but failed.— Mttledgevitie Ufdon.
The st 'tttfng of the port of Wilmington against
English bl, runners has been a fearful
blow t Taa. 1° ite harbor, on the 2d in
stant, lucre w. * r ® tying idle over thirty steam
etß and a about • hundred sailing vessels, re
cently engaged ii_ 1 **»• contraband tratio, an- 1
warehonsee are fill for there Is no
market. The Unite States gunboat Hcmda
ras arrived there on t 31st ultimo, and her
commander asked perm t( > a&«hu r 111 ttie
harb vs was refused, ''
iGlu-oniclf I Skntuin.
AUGUHTA, GA. -
UtSPKKHDAV MOKKINU. APKIL *.
**, Always slop the Chronicle & Sentinel at th
lh« time for which it Is paid, of which the
moscriber will receive notice in the paper, so that if you wish
to (.‘outinue it, it w* r -1 he well to renew your subscription a
.eastLwo weeksl>elo_ hetimeexpires.
n.ldress of a subscritieruultstlie
<iVfrW(Bhi3tormer;u. weli.ishis presentadilteas.
Weekly Hates. —The price of the Wsvikly Chhoj/iclk
e Svxtisbl issix dollnrsto) three months, twelve CoUnrs for
sis months.
Bags! Hags! '. Rags! I!-The payer makerswant rasrs—
rags ot cotton men, flax, old rope, etc. la every village there
oughtto hear ig merchant, who should buy every pound of
rags he can get from all the surrounding country. \Ve would
like te hear from any who will undertake to buy rags to make
paper for the Cubonici-s and: rttmti. On receipt
w* will state price, etc.,etc.
- -—r* ——• .■. -fc • ■ ;
DHkStOE VT IIWIU' SPECIAL MESSAGE.
We Lave refrained Jiitherto from any ex
tended comment ou this remarkable document,
oec »use we first desired to spre'ad it before our
readers iu our own columns, in order that they
might the bettor judge of our proposed stric
tures. Haviug done this in a late issue, we are
no w ready for an intelligent aud .dispassionate
discussion of its merits.
Some men seem to be “bora out of due
time.” Ca.irles I. ot England, aud Louis XVI.
of France, are memnraVito
truth. i’Ut: former, iu the age of the Tudois
aud Fiautaganeta, would have been esteemeil
i model monarch ; and the latter, at almost
my other-period than the latter half oi the
eighteenth century, wmdd have ranked with
the most illustrious sivereigns of France, Be
ing misplaced in point of time, they both
brought ruin on themselves, their adherents,
and their country. We fear that impartial his
tory will place President Davis in the same
category, yet we trust with a train of le§s dis
unions results. No man can ilse up from a
perusal of his late special message without a.
profound conviction that he has well nigh de
spaired of ihe Republic ; and that he is wholly
incapable of grappling with the tremendous
issues of this great struggle.' Despite the cus
tom.uy prophecy of ultimate triumph, there ia
iu the message a virtu tl oontessiou ot our
weakness ; or, rather we might say, an acknow
ledgement of disappointment and failure. Such
an admission, coming from that quarter, can
not but have a depressing effect on the whole
country ; and already.we are told that the
Nei thern press is jubilant over the ingenuous
utterances ot this unprecedented document.
Having stated the perilous condition of tho
country without reserMfc or mitigation, he pro
ceeds to urge the adoption of a series of meas
ures, the least of which can only be justified
on the hypothesis that the Government itself
ia on the brink of utter overthrow.
A single glance at them will satisfy the
most servile partisan of the President that they
arc incompatiblg with any or all constitutional
limitations of Executive power, and render
him is fact if not in form aB absolute as a Ro
man Dictator, or even a Russian Autocrat.
Two of these measures would lor him
the unlimited control of the whole military
power of the country ; the reserved militia so
necessary to the execution of the laws of the
State, and deprived of which it hardly pos
sesses evon the semblance of sovereignty, is
claimed as a matter of strict constitutional
right. Furf-hermoie, Congress is asked to re
peal all class exemptions, which would em
power the President by a well arranged sys
tem of details, to regulate the pulpit and press,
rendering these grand moral iustrumentalitiee
wholly subservient to Presidential designs.
Again, he asks for such a modification of the
impressment policy as will enable him to ap
propriate to the use of the army such portion
of our agricultural piwducts as he may deem
necessary. Nor is this to be done upon pay
. ment of just compensation, as the constitution
requires, but, as we conceive, in a manner in
the last degree arbitrary and oppressive. Mr.
Davis him ?elf allows that this measure is ob
jectionable, but thinks it jus.ified by au impe
rious necessity.
Another measure is urged upon Congress,
which is evidently a forced loan under color of
a Tax Bill, it levies a tax of twenty five per
centum on the coin in the Confederate States,
to be paid iu kind; and this in addition to
the other grievous burdens already imposed
ou the capital industry of the country. It
needs no elaborate argument to show that as a
strictly revenue measure, such a Tax Bill de
feats itself. Every possible shift and evasion
will be resorted to for the purpoao of escaping
its enormous injustice; and it will turn out that
its oniy financial value will consist i l the loan
which may be obtained from heavy capitalists
and our various moneyed corporations.
Lastly, he renews aud presses with earnest
ness hiri application for authority to suspend
the writ of habeas corpus. He asks for this,
however, not only for himself but in behalf
of every District and Department Commander
—thus placing the personal liberty of every
citizen of the Confederate States at the mercy
of a host of irresponsible officials. The base
proposition shows what alarming progress we
have made in the direction of centralized and
absolute power. Ail the grievances which our
section,endured under the old Uuion, and they
were r.oUlifr few nor amall, were trifica in
comparison with such an act of tyranny as this
would prove, Verily the little finger of Rebo
boam would be mightier than the Sol
omon. Shell an act of tyranny would reach
every firesidq m the land, ‘and convert every
County and State prison Into a bastile as
dreadful as the dungeons of the Spanish In
quisition.
This batch of measures we do not hesitate
to say would revolutionise our Government.
Whatever might be its constitutional form,
it would in sot,, r truth become a monarchy
as absolute -ts the Stuarts or the Bourbons
ever desired Thank God ! that there was
sufficient firmness in the Senate to reject some
at least of these odious measures, and that
there was honesty enough at the same time to
administer a most withering rebuke to the au
thor of them. Let us cherish the hope that
this timely admonition will induce more mod
erate ecu use la thau have lately prevailed at
Richmond, so that in future there may be no
occasion for such criticisms as we have now
written ‘more in Sorrow than in anger.”
AC* nok.-—We leam that Gen. W.
gomery Gardner, has been assigned to duty as
Commandant of Consoripts for Georgia, vice
Col. W. M. Brown, relieved. The headquar
ters of the Department will be amoved to Ma
con to-morrow.
Geoegu Railkoad.—The Atlanta Intelli
gencer has been informed by 001. L. P. Grant,
the superintendent of repairs on the Georgia
Railroad, that the cars will probably n»a to
that city by the twentieth of April.
Jhe Macon & Western Railroad. —About
seven rqiles of th 9 track of this road has to be
laid to complete it to Atlanta.
. WHO .VOOTKK I ,
lhc o Jy .a-to ius- we !wvj seed at all upon
the subject ot, reconstruction have been fri m
papers tiro i >vor the views of thoGonfederatn
admin*!rath a. It i* true that all those aiti
’ t«eo rt'-riclioii. but yet f
flier*- such a party they have c mated it.
How? We answer that if there l*e a rtcoi ■
struct ion party in.t he South, it hits been etc
afed by the advert! eu ent that it already ex
isted
lhere always been traitors iu the
country, autj, uiei\ .opposed, .to the and
the toVohfi:au. Spun- .of j.Uem;,tq stHl )heii
own con sciences, and to prevent huspicion.
have been the lo ide.-.t oi
Yankees; hrtd--yelled to show their
own patriotism and hide their owu treason.
Many ol these men have even gone so far ss
to accuse Gov. Brown, lion. A. H. Stephen
Gen. Toombs, Hon. Joshua Hifi aud (other
prominent sons of Georgia Os being disloyal
All cuch charges against the truest men U. J
yet allows to breathe, are false as tho hea ; •
that make them and the lips that breath
them.
Wo do not charge that this has done at \
harm, becam e ihe lellows who started the ta
have not oply failed to injure the true jiu ,
assailed, but have evain Jailed to tom,
we thffik ibey no ended to harm —the eamm
Some little time stare, aouie boys took -.
fancy to throw stones at she sacred -iohs tirr
adorned a church. the boys had a mind
do damage, but the cross was u>u
* The names of Stephens, Toombs and BrQ*>,
the grand tiuunviinto ol Georgia, will live w,;...,
the martdo above the glares oi their detract, ;
itself has crumbled into dust, it is only
Ir u.it trees t hat rogu. s throw stones ; and fools
criticise great- melt, that they too may l•>
thought smart.
These men have never yet dared
to eater the ranks of tho brave defenders .
their country. ’They dare not face in bats,;.-
the YAukces they so love to abuse, and prefw
the talking bureau to the bullet department
They show the courage they possess In reviliow
true ami brave men, who are far too high
above them to uqlico the hoWliug and bark
ing so far below ; and the courage itself is ,i
compound ol safe distance, immeasurable in
feriority, and govctqment whiskey. A thou:
and dogs hark at the moon—-but tho moon i.
older than the dogs ami will live longer.
But false thoughts are generally born of false
hearts, an,l ihe men who tell falsehoods about
better men than . themselves, that they may
abuse them to prove their own loyalty, are apt
to lie as bad as they describe others.
We were not horn iy the South, nor were
some of the truest spirits of ihe first revolntii n
bom in tho United Slates, These Georgia amt
Southern born heroes who boast their birth as
evidence that they are true, had best remem
her that Benedict Arnold, the traitor, was bom
in the country he tried to betray !
Tu tho old play, toe cunning servant says
“l dou’t expect you to give me anything,” as
a hint to the forgetful guest that he had best
do so ; and half these holy Y'ankee haters talk
of others as traitors as a hint that it ia J time
somebody was, and they wb h not to peril
own necks.
Thoy walk the streets aud curse the very
name ol the Union, and all Yankees, often in
cluding their otvu father- .-,,,.1 mothers who.
were bom North.
Tiuj men (rust to God and posterity to re
cord (heir virtue, Traitors and fools wish to
create a reputation that, they did not inherit,
do not deserve and will never transmit to the
hands of the future. •
But enough ot this. To the parties who
abuse us we say as Undo Toby said to the
officious fly as he put it out of the window,
"“Do thy way, poor insect, tfipre is room enough
in the world for me and for thee.”
Why DO THEY lIiCFU ;H TO PUBLISH IT?-W 6
have not seen the correspondence between
Governor Brown and the Sectetary ol War iu
reference to the Militia, published in the col
umns of a single paper in or out of this State
which actively supports Mr. Davis' policy.
Why is this? The correspondence is a highly
important; one, upon a great Constitutional
question of present practical interest. It
seems the ft dministraf ion journals aranot pleas
ed with the the manner in which the Secretary
of War succeeded in this discussion. The truth
is the Secretary, acting under the direction of
the President, was on the wrong side, and was
badley beaten in the argument, and ihe organs
of the aduiiniatuiti jn do not care to have the
people read the discu sion. They suppress it
as many of them have Governor Brown’s mes
sage. They abuse the Governor soundly for
telling the truth, but are afraid to r let their
readers see the message and read it for them,
selves. ' Geutlemen—if you are gentlemen in
deed—just publish the documents before* you
revile further. It is simple justice that you
should so do. Common courtesy reqUifes such
a course on your part.
PRotatuds of the AcE.—Tiirt Columbus
Times is rather severe in its strictures on the
action of a ladies’ meeting lately held in that
city. The fair sex amongst other resolutions
undertook to regulate tire matter of exemp
tions. They very kindly volunteered the sug
gestion that preachers, editors, doctors and
other exempts ought all to go to the front in
double quick time. It will be seen that in this
their fir3t effort at legislation they take issue
with the Conf,-derate and slate Governments,
who have widely adjudged that certain classes
had better remain at home. Whether the
“dear creatures” will be able to earry out their
programme we will not venture to decide.—
There is certainly as much wisdom their
suggestion as iu ;ome others that-have -found
favor iu the high places of the land,---” V'ive
la Bloomer." .x:.
Will Speak ior Himself.— Some of the
North Carolina papers are making much ado
about Vice President stumping the
State of Georgia for a vigorous prosecufjon of
the war. do this in order to deceive
those of Mr. Stephen’s friends among their
readers that he is what bei3 not. Statements of
Administration papers should always be record
ed with caution and much allowance, They have
got so in the habit perverting .facts, of
distorting the truth in supporting there favor
ites, that it almost comes a second nature for
them to continue to .do so.
We say to the war North Carolina papers
as we did to their Richmond edtempbrariea
some time since—when Mr. S. concludes to
stump Georgia for a “vigorous proseention of
the war” the people will have the announce
ment officially. - ~»>
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Active Gp§ratiovs in the 'West.—A 'mem
ber of Congress, from ftrcbmoiid'rb'is In
formed the Macon Telegraph has
ordered Kirby Smith to move with his whole
army into Missouri.