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E3P Announcements of Marriages or Deaths ; Notices o! Religions Meetings published GRATIS and solicited. Tributes of Respect rated as advertisements. ByObitnary Notices exceeding one square in length wflTbe charged for the overplus at regular advertisinf rates. VPersons] Communications, when admissl ble; communications of limited or individual interest, oi recommendations of Candidates for offices of honor, prof it ortruat. will be cbargedforat from 3 to 10 cents per line farh|. THE BATTLE-CEY OP THE SOUTH. IV JkXZB R. RiSDiLL. 'Arm yourselves and be valiant men, and see that we be in readiness against the morning, that ye may fight with these nations that are assembled against us, to destroy u? - and oar sanctuary. For it is better for us to die in battle than to behold the calamities of our people and our sanc tuary.?[Afceco&ro 1. Brothers! the thunder-cloud is black, And the wail of the South wings forth; Will ye cringe to the hot tornado's rack, And the Vampires of the North ? Strike! ye can win a martyr's goal; Strike! with the vengeance of the soul For your bright, beleagured land ! To arms! to atms! for the South needs help And a craven U be who flees? For ye have the sword of the Lyon's Whelp,* And the God of the Maccabees Arise ! though the stars have a rawed glare And the moon has a wrath-blurred crown? Brothers 1 a blessing is ambushed there In the cliffs of the Father's frown: Arise! ye are worthy the wondrous light Which the Sun of Justice gives? In the caves and sepulchres of night Jehovah the Lord King lives ! To arms! to arms! for the South needs help, And a craven is he who flees? For ye have the sword of the Lion's Whelp; And the God of the Maccabees! Think of the dead by the Tennessee In their frozen shrouds of gore? Think of the mothers who shall see Those darting eyes no more! But better are uiey in a heros grave Than the serfs of time and breath, For they are the Children of the Brave, And the Cherubim of Death! To arms! to arms! for the South needs help, And & craven is be who flees? For ye hare the sword of the Lion's Whelp, And the God of the Maccabees ! Better the charnels of the West. And a hecatomb of lives, Than the foul Invader as a Eucst, 'Mid your sisters and your wives? But a spirit lurketh in every maid, Though, brothers, you should quail, To sharpen a Judith's lurid blade, And tne livid spike of Jael! To arms! to arms! for the South needs help, And a craven Is lie who flees? For ye have the sword of the Lion's Whelp, And the God of the Maccabees ! Brothers, 1 see vou tramping by, With the gladiator gaze, And your shout is the Macedonian cry Of the old, heroic days! March on.' with trumpet and with drum, With rifle, pike and dart, And die?if even death must come? Upon your country 's heart. To arms! to arms! for the South needs help, And a craven is he who flees? For ye have the sword of the Lion's Whelp, And the Go 1 of the Maccabees ! Brothers! the thunder-cloud is black. And the wail of the South wings forth ; Will ye cringe to the hor tornado's rack, And the Vampires of the North ? Strike! ye can win a martyr's goal, Strike! with the vengeace of the soul For your bright beleaguered land ! To arms! to arms! for the South needs help, And a craven is he who flees? For ye have the sword of the Lion's Whelp, And the God of the Maccabees * TDe surname oi ine jreai .naccaoees. jptieb & An Appeal to the Mechanics of Oa. His Excellency Gov. Brown has issued the following timely proclamation, wbicb appeals to the patriotism of the meobanios of Georgia: Executive Department, Milledgeville, Ga. Feb. 20,1862. To the Mechanics of Georgia : The late reverses which have attended our arms show the absolute necessity of re newed energy and determination on out part. We are left to choose between freedom at the end of a desperate and heroic struggle, and submission to tyranny, followed by the most abject and degraded slavery to wbicb a patriotic and generout ? i n i_ people were ever exposed, surety wt cannot hesitate. Independence or deatb should be the watch-word and reply ol every free born son of the Sooth. Oni enemies have vastly snpeiior numbers, and greatly the advantage in the quantity and quality of their arms. Including those, however, which have, and will be imported in spite of the blockade, we have guns enoagh in the Confederacy to arm a verj large force, but not enough for all th< troops which have been and must be callec to the field. What shall be done in thii ? * .1 emergency f l answer, use tne "ueorgu Pike" with six feet staff, and the side knife eighteen inch blade, weighing about three pounds. Let every army have a large reserve armed with a good pike, and a long heavj side knife, to be brought upon the fielc with a shoot for victory, when the contend ing forces are much exhausted, or wher the time comes for the charge of bayonets When the advancing columns come withii reach of the balls, let them move in doubh quick time, and rush with terrible impetu osity into the lines of the enemy. Ham to hand, the pike has vastly the advantagi of the bayonet, and those having the bay onet, which is itself but a crooked pik' with the shorter staff, must retreat befori it. When the retreat commences, let tb< nnvonif rnni and if the enemv thro? ? ? down their guns, and are likely to outrai us, let us, if need be, throw down the pik and keep close at their heels with the kuife till each man has hewed down at least od of his adversaries. Had five thousand reserves thus armed and well trained to the use of these terri ble weapons, been brought to the charg at the proper time, who csn say that th victory would not have been ours at Foi Donelson ? But it was not probably important that state here the use to be made of that whic' I wish you to manufacture. 1 have alread a considerable number of these pikes am knives, but I desire within the next month ten thousand more of each. I must bav them, and I appeal to you aa one of th most patriotic classes of oar fellow-citizeG * to make them for me immediately. I trat every mechanic who has the means of turr ing them oat rapidly, and the owner c every machine shop in this State, will i once lay aside, as far as possible, all othc > basiness, and appropriate a month or tw to the relief of the country in this emei genoy. Eaoh workman, who has the meat of turning them out in large numbers witl * out delay, will be supplied with a prope i pattern by application at the Ordoanc Office at Milledgeville. j" Appealing to your patriotism as a clas; and to your interest as citizens, whose a i is at stake in the great contest in which w r are engaged, I ask an immediate response 1 In ancient ''mes, that nation, it is saic 3 usually extended its conquests furthee , whose arms were the shortest Long rang ! guns sometimes fail to fire, &Dd waste a ' hundred balls to one that takes effect; bo t the short range pike and terrible knife t when brought within their range, (as the can be almost in a moment,) and wielde by a stalwart patriot's arm, never fail t r fire and never waste a single load. I am ~ """"" ~ c i very respectfully, your fellow-oitizen, JOSEPH E. BROWN. Drafted Men. There are men who will be drafted t whom no odium should attach. The oil cumstances under which a man is drafte should determine what is to be thought c , him. If there has been nothing to preven | bis going into the army but the fear of hi being killed, or a selfish desire of remain ing at hpme in ease and idleness, whil others are fighting and bleeding and dyinj to keep the Yankees off of his worthies carcass, and away from his mean; pioayun soul, and under these circumstances he i J? rv.j ? l r?1 uraneu, mcu uc uu^ut tu icci >nj uiehu and others ought to thick very meanly c him, and rejoice that he has got his de serts. But if another man does not volnntee because he is the only one left of a faruil to take oare of the women and children and make bread, or because be has a larg family on his* hands dependent upo: his labor for a living, and nnder these cii oumstances he is drafted, socha man shoul< not be jerred or sneered at; and the Com mander.in-Chief, if practicable, should re lieve such a man, either by disobarginj him, if he can legally do so or by givinj him all the rights of a volunteer, if com patible with his authority to grant thes privileges. There will be men drafted who are jus as patriotic and just as eager to serve thei country as those who volunteer, but whou circumstances have compelled to remain a home. If full justice oaonot be done theu by relieving them of a draft, they ought a least, to have partial justice rendered them * c a:.i. ID S TlUUICkUUa Ul tut; uuursc nuicn kiic have been compelled to pursue. Some men there are almost absolute!; compelled to stay at home, but yet wh< have so much pride about them that rathe than submit to the possibility of a draft tbey feel almost irresistibly impelled to vol unteer. Others, again, have neither pridi or patriotism, and hang back to the ver; last, never serving in the army nntil forcei to do so, and feeling no compnootions what ever at not doing so. Now, it is plain tha if the former olass of men, in order tore lieve themselves of the odium of being draft ed, volunteer, and thus prevent a drsft i i their respective counties, sacrificing every thing to pride and patriotism, they wil thus relieve not only themselves, but th mean-spirited people of the latter class Thus the latter class will never be reached and so they oan eat the fruit of their rnear . npss 1 We believe that every able-bodied ma who can possibly do so should voluutec to defend bis country. But if there shoul be, as there are, many who cannot voluc teer, owing to the peculiar circumstance by which they are surrounded, and yet wh feel impelled to do so rather than run th ' risk of being drafted, and incurring th j odium of a draft, while many others wh ' could volunteer will not do so, having n p sense of shame about them, no pride an 1 no patriotism, and caring nothing for th ' odium of being drafted, then we would sa * to those who desire to serve their countr 1 if possible to do so, hold back ; and then you go, some of the trifling fellows wh ' bang back will be drafted too, and be coti 1 pelled to fight contrary to the impusle ( their cowardly Torry hearts. .But if yo ' volunteer, you leave these craven-hearte 1 creature at home, and go and do their figh 1 ting for them. If inforcing their duti< f upon them, and compelling a draft, yoi 5 too, should be drafted, all well and goo( 1 No man should think the less of you for i * The Countryman. I MM* 5 Late from Nashville. ' By passengers we have additional net* r xr._u_.-M- f -11 irum nasuYU'Q, tus luuuwo. There are only three Lincoln flaps flyin J in Nashville. The business houses are a 1 olosed, and the greater portion of the pei - pie have left. All the newspapers, forme 1 ly published at Nashville, have Buspendec and most of the proprietors escaped. Tb 1 Lincoln soldiers appear to be much su 3 prised and depressed on account of the ii - tie sympathy exhibited for them. So ft i from finding Union men to welcome then 3 there is an unmistakable feeling of aversio - and hatred every where to be seen. Tb B redoubtable Captain Morgan continues t B harrass the enemy. On Thursday nigl B last, he captured ninety Federals, an * scarcely a night passes that some of tb ? Federal pickets are not killed or capture* e The Federal piokets have extended the ? operations as for as Franklin, about tweut 6 miles south of Nashville. All citizens i Nashville are permitted to return to Nasi |, ville?all others are exoluded. i- The army under Gen. Johnston le e Murfreesboro' a few days sihoe, and a e falling back toward the Charleston railroa -t and in convenient supporting distance i the army above. We have heard his preoii I looation, but as he may be after the Fede h als who come up the Tennessee river, it y not necessary to state it. Our people mi d rest assured that Gen. Johnson has no idi i, of leaving this section of Tennesse in a d e fenceless condition. e Last Friday there was a skirmish ne c ft*r y . ib Savannah, the county seat of Hardin coun e ?t ty The Federals who have been trading ? i- and making friends in that section, came t >f off their boats, and while prospecting a- a it round, onr force came upon them, killing | ir eighteen of them. We lost four on our f o side. No further particulars are given. a r- Passengers who reaohed the city from e is j New Madrid yesterday, report, that Gen I j. IJeff. Thomson, with two hundred of our e jr i cavalry, were driven in by the advance c :ej guard of the Federal army on Saturday a | night. Jt appears that General Tbomspn, s ' ' *? * ? - j l.j t t 9, WHO toe iorce anove named, uau guuc uuk i II to eodeavor to get behind the advance v e guard of the Federals, to cut them off?but t ?. failed of his object, and found that the [ I, Federal advance, consisting of about one s *t thousand cavalry, were too much for him. t e The oonsequence was, he had several of b n bis command taken prisoners, and he es- s it caped back to New Madrid minus his hat! C >, The Federal army, about 20,000 strong, o y is said to be within two day's march of t d New Madrid. The Confederates are in c o force at New Madrid, and contantly antici- o i, patiog a battle, in which Col. Gantt is con- a fideut of his ability to triumph. n Since the above was written, we learn c that Gen Thomson killed twenty five of s the enemy, and lost six men and two small o rifle cannon.?Memphis Avalanche, 3d. '-I m>. d The Confederate Congress. j The Columbia Guardian of the 6th inst. f tisays : We have not room for the entife * 8: proceedings of Congress on Monday. Af- o '* ter some diseussion upoo minor points, and e e the introduction of bills find resolutions, n K which were immediately referred to the tl ? various oommittees, Mr. Ralls, of Alabama, e e offered a pieamble und resolution as follows : t' 8 Whereas the United States are^waging 'f war against the Confederate States, with o the avowed purpose of compelling the lat- 81 !* ter to reunite with thejn under the same J Constitution and Government; and whereas r the waging of war with such an object is v y in direct opposition to the republican max- a t irn that "all government rests upon the c 0 nunipnt of the Governed." and can onlv n D tend to consolidation in the General Gov- k ' eminent, and the consequent destruction v d of the rights of the States; and whereas, si ' this result being attained, the two sections !* can on I j exist together in the relation of ? S the oppressor and the oppressed, beoause of g S the great preponderance of power in the '* Northern section, coupled with dissimilari- B! 0 ty of the interests; and whereas we, the ? representatives of the people of the Confed- t< 5 erate States, in Congress assembled, may " r be presumed to know the sentiments of said e 3 people, having just been elected by them, b 6 Therefore, be it il 3 Resolved, That this Congress do solemn c 6 j ly declare and publish to the world that it > :is the unalterable determination of the peo- d pie of the Confederate States (in humble j reliance upon Almighty God) to suffer all s; F" | the calamities of the most protracted, war, 0 but they will never, on any terms, politi- 41 r:oalry affiliate with a people who are guilty > |of an invasion of their soil and the butch i cry of their citizens. fi e | The yeas and nays upon this resolution c f | were called, and it was unanimously adopt * i ed. d r I Kesolutions calling upon the President e ^i to communicate to Congress what addition- v "jal men and means are necessary for the c public service, and inquiring into existi g s n ; relations between this Goverment and the '".foreign consuls accredited to the United b " ; States now living in the Confederate States, f e I were agreed to. o A resolution was also agreed to, instruct- t 'j J ing the Committee on Naval Affairs to in- h '* 'quire into the expediency of placing at. the disposal of the President five millions of a D; dollars for the purpose of building gun- c !I\ boats for the defence of the Confederate * ^ States. i- i ? ?> ?? -- '81 Lord Lyons. > oj The British Ambassador at Whashing- c C;ton (says the South Carolinian, of the 7th j e I instant) has presumed to dictate to Great i o Britain her course towards the Southern } o Confederacy, and that too, in the language t d of impertinence. We had on the general { e principle thought that he was a gentleman t 5 representing a high toned Government, and j y to its policy so favorable in Great Britain j t if but we are mistaken. Great Britain is r 1 * * 1- 1 ? *.1. _ - ft j suffering upon vast numbers or our owu i re;worfeiog people. But still it must ever be e >d ! repugnant to our feelings to be intimate re- 6 of .lations with a confederation formed on the t 3e, avowed principle of perpetuating, if not f r-i extending, slavery. Unless the seceding 3 is States can be induced to act with modera?y tion upon the question of slavery, they may ?a rouse a feeling of indignation aud horror < e- in Great Britain, which will overpower all 1 I considerations of material interest. Of 1 ar 1 (bis many of their leading men in the pres- j - 1 - 0; clearly opposed to us, ana not ouij tuu i ?- ministry have shown it, but Lord Derby, i >f representing the opposition, indicates that c d the masses are not politically disposed to f d favor us Our Commissioners have been t t- cajoled and made to believe that we would c is soon be recognized, while the positive ac- t tion of Government and the representatives t 1- of the peoble are against us. \ t. We have erred in placing any confidence e in our aucient enemy. We must achieve t oar independence by our own individual i means, and we will value it the more and \ >b be better entitled to position among the a natious of the earth. \ g We refer to the views of Lord Lyons in c 11 our present issue, which show that he is c 3- an Abolitionist of the Seward type. c r_ j 1, Lord Lyons' Opinion of the South- t ern States.?Lord Lyons, uuder dute of t r- nMamhcr 18 f.hn* pmrcsspH his oninion of r t- the Southern Confederacy : j ir J <?This overweening notion of their own j J,(importance may lead to very serious incon- j u ; venience if they should succeed in estab- j ie | lisbing their independence. Our need of 1 o' their cotton is quite great enough to render a it j it extremely desireable that we should be 1 d>on good terms with them, and encourage ie any disposition which they may show to t 1- place their commercial relations with as ou [ ir, a mutually advantageous footing. We might 1 ;y i be willing to consider that a quarrell with ? of ; them would give us no means of ameiiora- t a- j ting the condition of their slaves, where it t Twould bring a great deal of hardship and t ;ot movement do not seem to be aware.? Some of them even talk openly of reviving he "African slave trade." An attempt ictnally to do this would, it may be snp>osed, be at once put down by the united orce of the Northern States, Great Britain, ,nd of civilized Europe. But, on the othr hand, it might be extremely difficult to >ring any of the slaveholding Statea to relounce, in principle, the right of trading in tegroes, or to induce them to enter into ny treaty engagement on the subject. Any uch engagement would be regarded by hem aa an admission that they were in the rrong on the question on which their oonest with the North has so ioflamed their tassioDs that they have lost sight of all reaon. How could they bind themselves not o extend to larger number of Africans the ilessing of the institution of American lavery, which they hold to be ordained of Jod for the happiness and improvement f the negro race ? It is to be apprehended bat we shall have very considerable diffiulty in placing our relations, commercial r political, on a satisfactory footing with people imbued with such sentiments, imuense as is the importance to us of prouring a cheap and abundant supply of their taple commodity." Cursing a Deacon out of a Bushel of Corn?A Story for the Times. Id illustration of a theme so full of painul interest just now, when the granaries of he land are groaning beDeath their hardens f corn, and wheat, and rice, and sugar, to,; when each succeeding price current otes an "advancing tendency" in most of bese articles, wo append the following ancdote, whichns said to have ocourred about be time of the first revolution : Two farmers were chosen deacons of the hurch, and their obituaries have since assrted that "they adorned their profession." ustat the olose of the war the district in rhich the; lived was visited with a grieous famine, and the farmers were generHy keeping their corn for the contingenies of the future. Those who could offer o other excuse for refusing to sell, "were eeping it for seed 1" A poor man in the icinity went to one of these deacons and lid: "[ have come to buy a bushel of corn.? * --- mnnan if in ftKntlf 011 T Attn leie id tuc iuuucj , ?? au ?wuv mm a Vmm ather." The good deacon told him he could not pare a bushel for love nor money. He fas even stinting bis own family in order > have a large supply for seed ! The poor ian insisted?urging that his family were ven then suffering from want of bread; ut all in vain. At last he said, (<Deacon, you do not let me have the corn, I shall urse you." "Curse me 1" replied the deacon; "how are you do a thing so wicked ?" "Because," said the man, "the Bible iy9 so." "Nonsense!" exclaimed the deacon; there is no such thing in the Bible." "Yes, there is," replied the poor man. "Well," said the deaoon, "if you can nd such a text I'll give you a bushel of orn." They went to the bouse, and taking own the family Bible, the poor man turnd to Proverbs, 11th chapter, and 26th erse, and read, "He that withholdeth oro, the people shall corse him ; blessings hall be opon the head that selleth it." The deacoD was fairly caught, and ta:ing the man to the corn-crib, gave him a all bushel. As he helped him to pat it n his shoulder, he told his poor neighor1 o "go over to Deacon Clark, and "curse" lim out of a bushel I" .1 Will not somebody take a Bible in hand, nd visit the speculators in various staples if army aud domestic necessity on a similar uission ? ?? ?. ? ' Detention of Yankee Prisonersarrest of a Hospitable Peterbburjer.?Another detachment of Yankee trisoners, numbering in all aboat 190 men, Deluding Col. Corcoran, of the 69th New fork, and several.other field officers, reachl">?? f*nm Smilli f!orn!inii nn Friday VI IICIO tiuUl UVUVM VWIV (WW VM . - ? J ivening, en route to Newport News, where, ogether with the two or three hundred who receded them to this city by a day or two, hey are to be released on parole. The jrisoners were detained some hours at Pe-i ersburg by the failure of the trains to coniect, or some other ciroumstance, and revived, it is said, some marked attentions rom a number of citizens, who invited hem to their homes, and were warmly lourteous, if not friendly, in their hospita)le demonstrations. This excess of hospiality was telegraphed to Gen. Winder, vho at onoe ordered the liberty of the Federal officers to be restricted, and one of heir entertainers?a Mr. Scott, it is told is?to be arrested and brought to this city, vhich was accordingly done; the "oitizen tuspect" arriving here in the same train vith the prisoners of war, under custody >f officer Peterson, of Petersburg. This sircumstance, together with others of re sent occurrence in ttiis city, an tending to ustify the suspicion for some time enterained, that valuable information has, through the machinations of torics in our nidst, been carried North by released jrisonere of war, induced Gen. Winder to jostpone indefinitely the departuj*^ tje federals, who were to have leNew>ort News yesterday morning, and to prolibit all communication between citizens ind the prisouers during the staj of the atter in Richmond. Upon reaching this city from Petersburg he prisoners were searched, and in their >osses9ion was found maps of Richmond, Virginia and Manassas, together with sev>ral letters of a treasonable character, obained, it is thought from parties in Petersburg. The disoovery is likely to lead ;o further and more dangerous developnents of treason in our midst. It is prop;r to say here that in thus receiving and lecreting thi^ treasonable oorrespondenoe, ka nffinnra Mnnn rohnm if. W?H fflUnd hSVO UUi^.D upuu " _ lagrantly violated their paroles.?Richnond Examiner, 3d. VST It is rumored that the seat of Government is to be removed from Richmond ;o Raleigh. We don't know what truth, if my, there is in the rumor; but we give it For what it ii worth. ? A Gallant Deed The New Orleans Delta, of the 23d nit., records the following instance of the heroism of a German citizen of Louisiana. His deed is worthy to be raoked with that of Jackson, the slayer of the marander Ellsworth : A few days ago a nnmber of launches from the blockading squadron in the Sound succeeded - in capturing several fishing smacks off the fishing banks. One of these smacks happened to be the property of an honest German, who, after surrendering his vessel, proceeded to entertain very hospitably the two Yankee flhilors, or soldiers who were left aboard to guard the prize.? In the midst of their jollification, the German getting possession of the musket of one of the Yankees, suddenly brought it in juxtaposition with his cranium, fired and blew the top of his bead off. He then charged bayonet on the other Yankee, who surrendered, and permitted himself to be tied np with a rope. The German then waited until it was dark, and setting all sail, slipped off from the sqnadron, and sailing up the lake, reaohed Fort Pike in safety, bearing the stars and stripes, union down, from his mast head. He delivered ' * to the commandant of the fort one dead and one live Yankee?the former was buried at the fort, and the latter was brought over by his captor-and delivered to Gen. Lovell. All honor to the brave Teuton.? We regret we have not his name, ;but the facts here stated are vouched for by the most responsible persons. The honest fisherman deserves, and we hope will receive, some substantial token of appreciation aod consideration of his vigorous and effective mode of disposing of Yankee invaders. Congressional. "*~ Richmond, March 6.?In the Senate, Mr. Barnwell, of South Carolina, from the Committee on Finance, reported a bill fixing the pay of Senators and Representatives at $2,500, per annam, and mileage at 20 cents per mile; the President pro "f tlio Kanofo nhon ontino 99 annh. Ul bite uv/uutvj nuvu hvvih^ * *? ww?*j to receive the pay of the Vice-President; and the speaker of the House to receive double the pay of any other member of that body. The bill was ameoded, on mo of Mr. Oldbam, of Texas, by striking out $2,500 and inserting $8,000; and further ameoded by providing for the deduction from the pay the amount of each day's absence without leave, and passed. The pay of the officers of the Senate was fixed as follows; Secretary, $2,500 per annum ; Assistant Scoretary, $2,000; two Clerks, $1,500 each ; Sergeant-at-Arms, $2,000; Door-beeper, $1,500; Assistant Door keeper, $1,200?each payable quarterlj in advance, and Page $2 per diem. The House had also under consideration the bill for the destruction of cotton, tobacco and other property, as reported by the Military Committee, which passed by yeas 71, Days 11. The bill reads as follows : The Congress of the Confederate States dfl enact, That it shall be the duty of all - ? .1 ? _ _ / aL. military commanders in me service 01 me Confederate States to destroy all cotton, tobacco or other property that may be useful to the enemy, if the tame cannot be safely removed, whenever, in their judgement, the said cotton, tobaoco and other property is about to fall into the hands of the ene! my. Mr. Miles, from the Committe on Military Affairs, offered a resolution instructing the Committee on the Judiciary to inqu re into the expediency of reporting a bill for the compensation of a loyal citizen whose cotton, tobacoo and other property may be destroyed by the military or by themselves, to prevent its falling into the haods of the fiismt The resolution was agreed to? ' o yeas 61; nays 19. Make Bread and Meat. Mr. B. H. Bigbam, Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture in the Georgia House of Representatives, has addressed a communication to the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, from whioh we extract the following paragraph. We earnestly invite the attention of the planters of this State to the facts he presents lor consideration : "Before this war began we drew many of our family supplies from the States Northwest of the Ohio, and many from Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee. Now the war is upon us?Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee and Virginia are its present theatre. Instead of drawing supplies from them, we must supply them, by the command of every manly sentiment of fraternity, if we be men. From the census tables and other best sources of statistical information at my command, I hod that those four States have i very near as many acres of improved laud as the remaining Confederate States altogether. I find, also, that they yield during Deace more of corn and -wheat (selected because they are the leading oerala) than all the other Confederate States. Thus it appears that Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee and Virginia have, in the aggregate, of improved land?aores 24,442,073 Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas 27,149,557 The four States first named yield during piece in corn and and wheat, in the aggregate ?bushels 200,374,146 The nine Sttates last named 166,091,211 Here, farmers of the South, is the plain fact staring you in the face. Nearly half of the improved land of the Confederacy is already the theatre of war; much of the productive force is drawn from all, and other portions not now trodden by the foe may be desolate before the year oloses.? From your hands, wherever they may be undisturbed by the invader, our brethren are to be supported. We all have a common fate whioh shall be shared by all.? The channels of our commerce are cut off, and we mast provide ourselves the means of subsistence or die, for the thought of subjugation cannot be endured. 19* The Qaartermaster-General has no discretion in the matter of allowing compensation for horses id the public service. By law, he is restricted to allowing compensation for those only that are killed in fiotioo. Beauregard's Sagacity.?A Richmond correspondent of the New Orleans Orescent, relates the following singular instance of the sagaoitj of the brave Beanregard : As for Colnmbas, I repeat my confidence in the genius of Beauregard. If the place can be held by human pluck and skill, be will hold it. To show bis military intuition I will tell you a fact which oame to me lately from the Chief of his Staff. Do you ? ntsivCT in fVia Vanton natMM ft. ICUJCUIUQ1 d ovuy 4U vuv a wuhvh ? boat aa interview between MeOIellan, Lincoln, and a third person, whose name was not given 1 MeOIellan told Lincoln of the trap he had laid to catch our forces at Mason's and Munson's Hills, and said that it must inevitably have succeeded, but for the treachery, of some person who threw up rockets to give the rebels warning in time to get out of the way. '"Only two persons," added MeOIellan, "knew of this plan; one is myself, the other is now in this room." This other person is believed to have been Adjutant General Thomas, who, aboat that time, lost his high position in the United States army. In truth, though, poor Thomas was as innocent of treason as an unborn babe. ' When the Yankee advance upon Munson's Hill began, rockets were thrown op by the various divisions to notify each other that they were in motion. Of course this was at night. General Beauregard, seeing the rookets, suspected something was iD the wind. He therefore caused his Chief of Ordnance, Capt. Alexander, to be waked up, and told him that, while he was entirely ignorant of the meaning of these rockets, he was satisfied that we ought to throw up rockets too. Alexander threw up the rookets, the Yankees suspected foul play, became alarmed, and took the back track. , Hence the mysterious story concocted by the Chinese imagination of the Yankees. By the last flat; of trnce to Norfolk the Examiner received the latest Northern papers, among which are the Herald, of the twenty-seventh of February, the Herald and Tribune, of the twenty-sixth and twentyfifth. The most important things that we fiod in tbem are the representations of the rapi^.l" growing distress of the European manufacturing olasses, and ihe calculations of the New York money market. In these we have the explanation of the military movements that have been lately going on. Here we have the reason why the campaign has commenced so much earlier than any one expected or than MoClellan intended. Here we learn why such a sadden and determined effort has been made to get possession of Sontbern Tennessee and Mississippi. The Yankees find that they must get cotton, and get it at once, or encounter the European pressure, long deferred and put off by their repeated promises to furnish a supply of cotton oheaper tban-the planters would sell it. They fully believe on the exchange of New York that they have succeeded, and that ?-11 +-C liao ninon fhoril t.HA trim mil Ut l/UUDIOUU nu gll?u uuvuj ... command of a region fail of ootton, whence they are soon te obtain six or seven hundred thousand bales, at the lowest estimate. And they will do it if neither the Government or people have sufficient spirit and sense to destroy all the cotton in Tennessee at once. It cannot be moved. It will be worth nothing to tbe proprietors It is salvation to the North, and worth to the enemy and more than all the gold in California. Every bale ought to be burnt within ten days.?Richmond Examiner, 3d. A Yankee in Cow's Clothing. The Lynchburg Republican gives the following extract from a letter written at Romney, Va., by its army correspondent: The first night after Gen. Jackson's command reached this place, one of the guards placed near a spring of water was attracted by the peculiar sound of a cow bell. It seemed to ring faster than it should, and its wearer approached towards the spring, and when "halted," stopped a few secondsand raised its head, and started in the direction of the voice, and then started on towards tbe spring, All seemed natural, except the too fast ringing of the bell. Uo this accouut the sentinel felt hicuself justifiable in compelling any thing, even a cow to halt, and walking up he thrast bis bayonet under her belly. This was enough, and to the surprise of the sentinel, the cow, like Balaam's ass, spake?"Am I not thy prisoner?" We have often heard of a person in "sheep's clothing," but never before heard of a person in cows olothing being sent out as a spy. He was making his way to the spring, evidently with the intention of poisoning our soldiers, for a considerable amount of arsenio was found upon his person. Can any one doubt what should have been done with such a person ? I do not know what has been'done with him, but no doubt he has or will meet his deserts. Many acts, however, of the most atrocious kind, have been perpertrated upon unoffending citizens, even to burning their houses and shooting them down. A. The Medical Staff.?We regret to announce the resignation of Dr. E. B. Turnipseed, lately surgeon of Col. Dunovant's Regiment, South Carolina, on the coast line of defence. His departure from service will be a loss, as we have few Surgeons, who have enjoyed his opportunities of experience, observation, and instruction. As readers of the Courier know, from our Crimean Correspondence, he was in the Russian service as operating Sargeon, during the Crimean war, and received from the Czar on retiring, many flattering testimonials, including several orders and badges and titles, for his professional services and qualitioations. Fortified with these credentials in addition to his original diploma, Dr. Turnipseed deemed it unneces- i sary and improper to submit to an examination before an Army Medical Board.? He conaeived that the appointment of an Examining Board involved some discrimination, and was only designed (o apply to oases of new appointments from oivil life, and to young and unknown Surgeons.? The order, however, has been oonstrued an/) Y*\a mairrnitiAn nffppAfl nn Ilupuiaiuoij auu uta twoi^uwvtwu V??>v ? ? this condition, has been acepted.? Charleston Courier. Late from Columbus?Persona who reached the city by the mid-night train state that the Federals, d0,000 strong were reported at Milfbnrne, eight miles above Columbus. on Thursday. They were waiting for re deforcements preparatory to an attack upon Colutnbns. They propose, it is reported, to move down with an immense army upon the rear of Colnmbns, to surround it, and thos capture it. All their plans have been projected on the largest scale, and they entertain no doubt of the result. As to what arrangements are making to receive them, it does not become us tospeak. We have reason to know that Gens. Polk and Beauregard are aware of the enemy's movements, and are making the best possi ble disposition of their foroes for the emergency. The reports about the evacuation of Columbus are premature. It has not been evacuated. But whether it is or not, our readers may rest assured that reinforcements will be sent forward in sufficient numbers to enable onr army to make a decisive stand, and to contest every inch of ground. All the recent movements, aboot which there have been so many reports, are designed to strengthen our hold on the Mississippi Valley, and that they will have that effect we have no room to doubt. In tbe meantime, let all who cao do so, go at once and report for doty to Gens. Polk and Beauregard. Major H. W. Fry's P. P. C. to the Yankees at Roanoke.?From Saturday, the day of the surrender of Roanokej till the following Wednesday, Major Fry was confined in a room in the house of Doctor Ritters, on tbe island. In this room the Major discovered a portion of a keg of powder, the private property of Dr. Ritters.? On Wednesday morning, understanding that be was that day to be removed ou shipbeard, the Major took about twenty pounds of the powder and rolling it in a sbeet, made a sort of cartridge, and rammed it up the pipe of a stove that stood in the room. Io the coarse of &u hoar after completing this job, the Major was removed, and his mind being otherwise ocoapied, thought little more of it. From some of our wounded, who had been left at Elizabeth City, and who arrived here last night, we are informed that one rainy day last week the Yankees, for the first time, built a fire in the stove. In a few minutes the explosion took place, blowing the house to ruins and killing and wounding fifteen or twenty Yankees. Ibe accuracy of the above ia beyond question.?Richmond Examiner. Guard the Foundariea. The Vicksburg Whig, of the 25tb, says: We bad a call, Saturday, from Theodore Bland, Esq., of McLennon county, Texas, who has just arrived from Louisville, Ky He sajs a merchant of Louisville, whose namo wo /In nnt di>Ain if. nnlif.lV. to nut in "v "v ??? ? i? ? r.? # ? print, requested him to make known, on bis arrival in the Sooth, that a band of scoundrels bad been organized by the Federal authorities and sent South, for the purpose of burning and destroying all the foundries in the Confederacy. The loyal citizens of a certain city contributed about three hundred dollars towards defraying the expenses of messengers to go South and warn us. One of the messengers bad arrived in Louisville the day before Mr. Bland left the city, and others had been sent in other direction, to endeavor to get South with this intelligence. Let this news be heralded throughout our land, and the people put on their guard. Murfreesboro,' Tann. Murfreesboro', Tenn., where Gen Sid- i ney Johnston's army have made a stand, is situated in Rutherford oonnty, immediately on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, and about 32 miles southeast of; Nashville. It is located in a beautiful plain, surrounded by a healthy and fertile country. The Union University at this place is a flourishing Institution, founded by the Baptist in 1841. There is also a female Iastitae, under the direction of the Baptists; one Bank and five Churches.? Two newspapers were published here pre vious to the war. The people are wealthy, highly refined and well educated/ Murfreesboro' was the oapitol of Tennessee from 1817 to 1827, when the Statehouse was oonsumed by fire. Many have expressed the opinion that the place is less defensible than Nashville, but we suppose military men knew everything, and civilians must therefore defer to their superior opinion. Late from Cairo.?A gentleman just from Paducah reports that the Federals have upwards of one hundred thousand troops between Cairo and that place. He says that last Wednesday, while at Padacah, be saw.forty steamboats' loaded with troops leave here. They went up the Tennessee river a short distance, and then returned and started down the Mississippi. All the gun boats, except two, were disabled in the fight at Fort Donelsoo. Tbey admit their loss was twelve thousand, while others estimate it as high as twenty thoasand. A forward movement was talked of at Padncah, and no donbt was entertained that the force above alladed to was destined for Columbus or New Madrid. They declare their purpose to oome down with an overwhelming force, surround Columbus, starve it out, and thus oat it off from communication with Memphis. Let them try it. Tbey will find that their theory won't work in practice. Prayer to the God of Battles. We must remark the painful evidenoe of the loss of the sense of our depepdence on God as the war has progressed. It did not commence so. The oity of Charleston is aoi^ fn haaa hnnn nn fchfl ava nf thfl battle of Fort Samter, like one vast altar, from which asoended the incense of prayer.? The whole nation, from Virginia to Texas, commemorated oar early and brilliant victory at Manassas by thanksgiving in the ten thousand sanctuaries of the land. But there has lately been a marked relaxation of this sense of our dependence on the God of Battles. It has been impiously said that the Battle of Belmont was won by the energetic oaths of our officers. There has . .J. ^ >. been a wretched plausibility that haf? ? -*-^^3 preached in favor of immoral indulgence* ^ * 5j in our army, that has given eclat to profatri- 1^3 ty of officers in battle, and that has winked at drunkeness in the camps by questioning the military virtues of water-drinker^ We have a great work before as. Itffiu? wHU not be assisted by the mere cant and* whines of religions pretension j batit oet- > tainly will be assisted by that hearty and reverent sense of dependence on Divine Providence, and that carnal and preciiealt ^*3% habit of religions supplication which ; j strengthened onr fathers To the times jjjg, .. their trial, and has everywhere left their evidences of reward on the pages of history. ' ? J Richmond Examiner. . Feenandina Occupied.?-A despatch * ' ' received here, yesterday, states feat the en- .. r|i etny had landed on Cumberland-Tslahd, and sent forward a detachment to ooenpy the ? town of Feroandina. Most of the oitisent abandoned the place some weeks ago, ?nd b ..jsj miliUnr mo BitliJnsn. fmm Amalio' . -d Island (on which Fernandina is situated) about ten days since; consequently no r * , ^ :j sistanoe was offered. If the enemy should not bum the place, they are weloome to it, r as they will reap but little benefit from its _ possession.?Savannah Republican, 4th. > * What is Thought of Our Caus* A- 1 broad.?As an instance of the confidence ; J with whieh the moneyed men of England look to us to achieve the great revolution ; which we have begun, and of their faith in ^onthern credit; we may mention that a a ' 4 letter from a bank in Liverpool was reeeiv- 4 ed yesterday, offering to place to the credit 'jS of one of oar Charleston banks the sum * ?J'"* ?20,000, which, at present rates of ex- J change, would be worth nearly *150,000. [ 1 ?Charlttton Mercury, 4th. '> . Richmond, March 4.?The steamship Arabia arrived at Halifax on Saturday, \ bringing dates from Liverpool-of the 15th and Qaeeostown of the 16th ultimo.--. The American question was occupying maoh attention in Parliament. Attention'' _.j has been called to the stone blockade and the distress in the manufacturing districts, and the Government was busy preparing Jj all the information relative to the bldok&de - j fn lav lufnM Parliimanf W l?J WAVAV A HI tIMIMWUWt >3 . ' -A . 1 Late advices from Nashviile represeat ooiy three Unioofiagfl flying there.-? The Lincoln soldiers are surprised aad ohagrined on account of the little sympathy exhibited. Capt Morgan captured ninety f\ Federals on Thursday night. Every night several Federal pickets now extend their operations to FrankKts, twenty milee.Sooth ^ c; of Nashville. : * ' i '' A skirmish occurred at Savannah, neagr '-"t.v Eastport, on Friday,when eighteen Federals from the gun-boats were killed. Font were killed on oar side. . / . 3 Late prom Nashville.?Oar latest accounts from Nashville are to the effect that the Federals have arrested about fifty ' . ;~l prominent Southern men as pnaoueft, the ; j, object being to intimidate and strike terror among Southern sympathizers. Buell and Foote had formed a janotioof having nine* teen gan-bosts and some fifty thousand men. The United States flag has been H ainflj an tk a qtafa flanuof ^ laifou uu vuv viimivv wh|/*?vi< -j '*$6 . S Jt@" As an instaoce of the good feeling of the English towards us, and of their confidence in oar cause, it is related1>y an officer of the Nashville, that ?400,000 N sterling?(2,000,000?was at one period v advanced to the Nashville, by a single England mercantile house. 'AUolasses areloud 1 and earnest in their ezpressioos of sympa- A thy for the Confederacy, and of detestation of the "Yankee Nation." V " . ,1 Wae Upon the Distillbrms.-^Gov. Brown, of Georgia, has issned a proclama- v j tion, commanding every distiller in the J Sta te to cease manufacturing ardentspirits afb.'r the 15th March instant, under a pen* alty of seirnre of the property thus employ* ed. In case of distillers refusing to obey this order, their stills are to be seised and manufaotared into cannon. '4 Twe Trtar Way nv Draptimo.?The counties of Parker, Palo Pinto, Jack and Young were requested to furnish a company of one hundred men for the Frontier Regiment. Parker County waa called on for twenty men, and one hundred were at the rendezvous, 75 of whom had to be drafted out to stay at home. ->1 Memphis, March 3.?Jonas Liebbets, who furnished the Union flag to the Federals and pointed out the leading Secessionists and property in Nashville, was arrested by our troops and brought to Van Buren in strong irons last Friday. The work of purgation in and near Richmond, under the operation of martial law, commenced very properly with the arrest of John Minor Botts, who ought long since to have been sect Northward or upward. Horrible.?A clerical gentleman, who shall be nameless, gets off the following: Why is Mrs. Lincoln like Lazarua ? Give it op ! Because she rea'a in Abraham's bosom! Out upon him! The Mayor of Augusta has directed that all the stores in that oity be olosed at 3 o'clock, p. m, in order that the merchants and their clerks may unite with their fellow-citizens to drill, and otherwise receive military instruction. Writing Paper ?The proprietor of one of (be paper mills of Greenville District (the one formerly onwed by B. Danham, deceased) will in a few days commence the manufacture of writing paper. Under the proclamation of martial law in Richmond, the Government is about to seize all private arms for the public defence. ' Run the Blockade.?The steamer General Miramon, it is stated by the Mobile Register, has made a successful entry at New Orleans with arms and munitions. 19* Five hundred Yankee prisoners on their way from Alabama to be exchanged passed through Augusta Sunday morning en route for Riohmond. 19" The Federal General lander is dead* Gen. Shields suooeeds him.