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BY JAMBS GARDNER.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1863.
THE PRIZES.
The report of the Committee of Award on
the Prizes offered by the Proprietor of this
paper, will be found in another column. The
equal merit of a number of the papers submit
ted has induced the arbiters, after critical ex
amination, to adopt the plan sometimes pursed
m literary institutions, and divide the honors.
The Committee express just gratification
to find many meritorious productions among
those which have been unsuccessful in com
peting for the prizes, and we hope we shall be
permitted to present them to our readers during
the year. The authors of some of the prized
articles—though writers of decidad genius—
have not authorized us to make public their
names in this connection; though we trust we
shall be allowed to reveal them when the
prize papers are published. One of the Prize
poems—and if our space will permit, an essay
also —will be published next week. One of the
Prize Stories will be commenced three weeks
from this date, by which time the admirable
sketches entitled “Five Chapters of a History,”
will have been concluded. We regret that the
“Partizan Ranger,” and an essay on the “Past,
Present and Future,” were received too late to
be placed in the bands of the arbiters.
The following are the titles of the articles
submitted to the committee:
NOVELETTES.
Wild Tale of Southern Waters.
Mara Sheppard.
The Randolphs of Randolph Hall.
Lorahrash.
Heart Leaves.
India Morgan; or the Lost Will.
Constance.
Lucy Bently.
, Destiny.
8 mike.
Bhe's a Conch ; or, which is the Heroine.
l’eniua—the Sister’s Yow.
Fannie Raymond.
Passages from the Diary of a Physician.
Myra Bruce.
Sherwood Allen.
Lulls.
POEMS.
The Judgment Day.
The Deserted Cottage.
Astra Castra.
The Soldier's Farewell.
Trust.
The Conqueror.
The Rainbow Dream.
Original Lines.
In Tenebris.
What is Genius.
The Young Dragoon.
Marching to Death.
The Poet’s Pledge.
Lament for Mumford,
The Young ltepublie.
My Brother's Memory.
Little Sister May.
Sonnet.
To Birdie, on her Birthday.
La Campagna.
ESSAYS.
•‘The Sin that doth so easily beset us.”
The Uses of Poetry.
The Characters of Poetry.
Phonography.
Gleanings, &c.
We congratulate our readers ou the success
of the offer of these prizes. It has brought
out a large number of most creditable efforts,
aud brought to our notice the existence of much
literary talent, whieh will be made available for
their entertainment during me year.
—— mi
The Press Convention which met in Macon
last week was very thinly attended, and ad
journed to meet in Augusta on the 4th of Feb
ruary. It is probable that an advance in the
rates of advertising will be recommended by
the Convention. The Charleston and Savan
nah dailies have already raised their rates to
$1 per square for the first, and 75 cents for
each subsequent insertion. In Macon, Colum
bus, Atlanta, and other cities, they are $1 for
the first and 50 cents for all otbers. This is
jast double the pate charged by the dailies of
j Richmond and Augusta. It would seem proper
that advertisers should bear a portion of the
increased charges necessary to sustain the
press, since those who advertise now are usu
(l ally those engaged in profitable pursuits.
THE SOUTHERN FIELD AND FIRESIDE.
EVENTS OF THE DAY.
Tbe great bailie of Murfreesboro’ continued
with varying results, during the 31st of De
cember, and the Ist and 2d of January. On
tbe 31st, our left wing drove the enemy’s
right back upon Stoae Run. We captured
about thirty pieces of artillery, 5,000 small
arms, and 4,000 prisoners. The enemy held a
strong position on his left, which we succeeded
in carrying on the Ist, but could not hold it.
On the 2d, a desperate assault was made upon
it, in which General Breckinridge’s Division
moved across Stone Run, and assailed the
enemy in his flank, but were compelled to re
tire with terrible loss, leaving their guns.—
Finding it impossible to carry the position, aud
learning that Rosencranz was being reinforced,
General Bragg withdrew his army toward Tul
lahoma, bringing off all his stores with the
prisoners, guns, and munitions captured. This
battle is the m ost bloody conflict of the war,
resulting in the loss to us of 7,000 to 9,000 in
killed and wounded, while that of the enemy is
estimated at 20,000.
Gen. Stuart recently made a circuit of Burn
side’s army, destroying large quantities of stores
and capturing several hundred prisoners. From
Burke’s Station he telegraphed to Quartermas
ter General Meigs, at Washington, as follow*:
“In future you will please furnish better
mules. Those you have furnished recently are
very inferior.
J. E. B Stuart, Maj. Gen. C. S. A.
Tho Federa’s seem to have paid dearly for
their late raid into East Tennessee. A corres
pondent of the Atlanta Confederacy says that
they were met by Gen. Mitchell, near Kings
port, Tenn., and after a severe engagement,
routed, with a loss of over 400 in killed’ and
captured.
Gen. Magruder, on tbe Ist of January, at
tacken the abolition fleet and garrison at Gal
veston, Texas, capturing the Harriet Lane, two
barges and.a schooner, and 600 prisoners. The
rest of the fleet stole off under a flag of truce.
From Vicksburg the news is cheering. That
heroic city still holds proudly out—the enemy
having been terribly repulsed in his recent at
tempt to carry our entrenchments. Gen. Pem
berton says he can and will hold the place
against any attack that may be made upon it.
A correspondent of the Savaanah ltepubli*
cun says that Gen. Morgan has safely returned
from an expedition in which he destroyed the
Nashville railroad to within four miles of Louis
ville, aud tore up also the Lexington and Cov
ington road.
The Federals have, it is stated, evacuated
Island No. 10 and New Madrid, spiking their
guns and blowing up their magazine. They
have gone to Fort.Pillo w. Gen. Jeff. Tho mpson»
who was near New Madrid with a strong force,
is supposed to have caused this sudde u “ chaage
of base.”
Cincinnati papers state that Floyd, Marshal,
and other rebel Generals are advancing into
Kentucky with 35,000 troops, and that that
stale is to be the great ba’tle-ground.
A Washington dispatch states that an at
tempt was made, a few days ago, to assassinate
Lincoln, which resulted iu wounding his coach
man. Similar authority declares that the old
Gohl a is about to take the field aB commander
in-chief. We trust this is true.
A writer in the Charleston Courier, signing
himself ‘Cassandra,’ places on record the pre
diction that bofore the Ist of March next the
Emperor of the French takes possession of the
mouth of the Mississippi river and the city of
New Orleans by conquest. He says the Em -
peror will give as reasons for (he act the fact
that the great fertile valley of the Mississippi
is the inheritance of France, for it was first dis
covered, explored and occupied by Frenchmen.
The political and military exigencies of Eu
rope aud America have occasioned frequent
transfers of it for slight remuneration. At
length it fell into the hands of the United
States of America. That nationality beiig
thoroughly demoralized, split up and fallen into
utter anarchy and savage internecine war, in
which French subjects, residing in the eld
French Province of Louisiana have been gross
ly insulted, severely maltreated and subject to
great losses.
France assumes by force, sanctioned by the
the civilization of the age, by inhumanity, in
the interest of all the nations, her ancient pos
sessions on both banks of the Mississippi
i Without placing any credence in this predic
. tion, we copy it as a part of the war gossip of
the day.
SOLDIER’S REGISTRY.
For the information of soldier* and tbeir
friends, we publish the following in reference
to the registry of soldiers' names at the office
of the Adjutant-General:
STATE OF GEORGIA, )
Adj. and Insp. Genl’s Office,
Milledge villa, Jan. Ist, 1863, )
By resolution of the General Assembly, pub
lished below, it is made the duty of tbe Adju
tant-General to prepare and deposit in the
Archives of the State, Registries of all persons
from this Slat e who have entered or may here
after enter the military service during this war,
and of those who have been wounded and
killed in the war, and died from the effects of
their wounds.
In order, therefore, tbat these Registries
may be as complete as possible, persons hav
ing relatives or friends in the war, are invited
to send me at this place the name of the rela
tive or friend with the fallowing further infor
mation, and in the ordes here specified.
1. Name in foil and county.
2. Company, Battalion and Regiment joined
and rank at the time of joining.
3. To what grades promoted subsequently,
if promoted at aIL
4. Wound or wouads, if any, in what battle
or battles received, and in what part of the
body.
5. If died of wounds, when, where, and at
what age.
6. If killed in battle, in what battle and on
what day and at what age.
The rolls of this office, and of tbe regiments,
and of the War Department in Richmond, will
supply mainly the information desired, but that
there may be none omitted who have given
life, blood, or service in defence of State Sov
ereignty or Constitutional Liberty in this terri
ble war now waging, I invite information from
all who may take an interest in these memo
rials of gallantry and Honorable service.
As it is my intention to furnish the Clerk of
the Superior Court of each county, with the
roll of his county, for deposit in bis'office, I re
spectfully ask the co-operation of county offi
cers, (so far as their duties will permit,) in fur
nishing information themselves or getting
others to do so.
RESOLUTION.
4th resolution. That the Adjutant-General
shall have prepared in his office a Registry
containing in alphabetical order, the names es
all officers and privates who have entered or
may hereafter enter the service from this
State, during the existing war, designating
their residences and the Companies, Battalions,
br Regiments of which they were members,
which Registry shall contain, so far as can be
ascertained, a list of those wounded in battle
but who survive. In a separate volume shall
be preserved a list of the gallant and lamented
dead, who fall by the hand of disease or from
wounds in battle, which Registry when com
pleted at the end of tbe war shall be deposited
in the Archives of th) State, there to remain a
sacred memorial of gallant names and glorious
deeds.
Approved by the Governor, November 26,
1862.
By order of the Governor and. Commander
in-Chief. Henrt C. Watne,
Adjutant and Inspector-General.
January 10
Southern Currency at the North. —The
Richmond Enquirer learns from a gentleman
just from the United States that the notes of
Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina and South
Carolina banks are at a discount of only five
per cent, and tbat Virginia bank notes are
from fifteen to twenty per cent, discount.—
This is a great improvement on fifty and aixty
per cent, discount, and indicates that a feel
ing of early peace is entertained by the bro
kers of tbe United States, the best barometers
of national storms. The same informant says
that he was told that Confederate notes would
be at about the same discount of five per cent,
if they could be dealt in.
|iF“ On the arrival of the President at Jackson
Mis*., a <■ -mmittee of the House of Representas
tives visaed him and invited him to address the
Legislature. His reply was that he had come to
work, not to speak ; but that he would do in
Mississippi wbat he would not anywhere else.
He would meet the Legislature either publicly or
privately, advise with the members in secret
session, or deliver au address m the Hall to the
people.
Commercial circular* roin Japan, of the
25th of October, sav that a revolution uas broken
out there, bat ot what character, tue published
reports do not make clear. Tbe power of the
Tycoon has been greatly restricted, and a policy
adopted adverse to foreign interests. Mr. Rich*
ardson, a prominent English merchant, had been
assassinated by the servants ot a Japanese
Prince.
|3F“ General Lee, in speaking of the late bats
tie, said that in him it was a doable victory—
over Barnside and over his own troops, who, for
tbe first time, were cured of straggling. Only
six cases were reported. Compare this with
Sbarpsbnrg, where there were 80,000, and yon
will see the fores of General Lee’s remark. His
army is now disciplined as it should be, and the
world has never seen its equal. It has fought
mors battles than any army ever fought, ana it
* has never been defeated. Always brave, it bad
bat this single vice of straggling, and now that
has been conquered.
pT Ten thousand sheila werte «ent to Burnside
by General Meigs, of the ordnance department,
when the former waft about to cross the Potomac.
Upon examination it was ascertained that not
oaa in tan was luely to explode; sand having
been substituted tor powder. Bnrnside seems to
be rather unfortunate. When bis expedition first
left An&polu, he discovered that a large quantity
of the cartridges urnished him were actually
witbont powder.
A singular feature of this war is the youth*
tulivesv of many of our distinguished artillery
officers. The “gallant Pelham,” as General Lee
ealls him, is an Alabamian about 20 years old ;
Pegram, oi the Purcell Baltery, ‘is hurJly 21;
Latmar, the Captain of she Letcher Artillen, ia
only 17 ; and Deariag, of L&tb&m’s old battery,
is not above 22 or 23.
JsgT* Woiking men iu some sectious o( tbe
North are getting to be ,-carce. In Conecticut,
farmers are obliged to pay sixty dollars a month ;
the price in former times was lOout twelve dol
lars a month.
mr Gen. Bnrnside was a tailor's apprentice
m early youth, but became the protege of Secre*
tary Smith, then a member of Congress from
Indiana, by whom be was sent to West Point.
fg" The Louisville Journal says that the Mili*
tary Governorship of Tennessee is given to Gen.
Hurlfiort, of Memphis, and that Andy Johnson is
still Governor of Tennessee,
A negro regiment at Port Royal is highly
commended by Northern papers, in their tele
graphic columns, for stealing 200,000 feet of
lumber.
nr It is stated on good authority that the
Yankees filled the ice houses at Fredericksburg
with their dead, in order to conceal, as lar as
possible, the evidence of their losses.
pT The marriage ceremony on the occasion
of the marriage of Gen John H. Morgan, was
performed by Lieutenant General and Bishop
Leonidas Polk.
PT The Chicago Prairie Farmer denies the
truth of the statement going the rounds, that the
cotton crop of Illinois tor 1862, will amount to
20,000 bales. It says the quatity will not exceed
200 bales.
The British and Foreign Bible Society
have voted a credit of £3,000 in favor of the
Bible Society of the Confederate States.
sr An old lady, ten miles from Knoxville,
made from an “asbhopper,’’ filled repeatedly with
earth taken from beneath, S9B worth of Saltpetre*
far At a large agricultural show in New York
there was exhibited a pumpkin weighing 270
pounds, and a bunch of squashes, from one vine,
weighing, all together, 125 pounds, or averaging
nearly SO pounds.
The Florida Legislature has extended to
all the Confederate States the privilege of manu
facturing salt upon the coast of that titate.
Col. Marks, of the 21st Louisiana Regis
ment, has been appointed Commandant at Vicks
bnrg. Among the first orders issued by him is
one detailing squad daily for the arrest of every
man found drank upon the streets.
1883. THK ~ 1883
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