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J. T. HERSHMAN, Editor. FRIDAY, FEBUARY 98, 1861. Kershaw Guards. Capt. Warrkn expects to return to camp next week, and will bd happy to take letters or small packages for any of his men. The distance of the company from the railroad, and the inconvenience of transporting boxes and bundles, renders it inconvenient for him to carry large packages. Letters left at his residence, on DeKalb street, or at this office, on or before Wednesday next, will bo carried with pleasure. Twenty-eighth of February. 'i' .1,... u.. ti.. i) JLU-Uiiy UCIIIg St'b npui b UV IIIU 1 luaiuviib VI the Confederate States for Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer, service will beheld somewhat sim. ilar to last Friday, .and we hope to see the day as well observed. Let all unite in earnest supination to God, that as a people, we may heartily repent of our sins, and have grace to discharge our duties in every sphere of life, that we may meet the trials that surround us; be delivered from our enemies, and enabled to drive them from our soil. Address to tlie People of Georgia. We call attention to this admirable address, which will be found on our first page. Its striking truths and forcible arguments are just as much worthy the serious consideration *1 1.. ( < 1:.,? 1.^., i ui iiic pi'upiu yji oimilii v> < i w1111<? m i State, Georgia. Let it be carefully read and acted upon, and we have no fear of the final results of our present contest. Friday Last, In accordance with the wish of the citizens through our municipal authorities, was observed by the entire suspension of all business. Services were held in the Presbyterian Church* morning and afternoon?the congregation of that church and the Methodist and Baptist uniting. Addresses were delivered to large and devout audiences. A deep spirit of solemnity was manifest, and all united in prayer, that God would deliver us from our enemies, give wisdom to our valor, and courage to our soldiers. Services were held in the morniner o in the Episcopal Church also. Tlic News of llic Week. There has been little of importance from the scat of war that may be relied on, during the present week. The news from every quarter has been unsatisfactory, and we shall have to be on suspense, as to results, until we can receive official reports. The Yankees seem determined to make the West their great military headquarters, and where they will no doubt concentrate their best available forces, with a * ? * ilv a mopf nnt cf kaii/v > IC>Y IU bUV IllUOb lllipv/l UIUI Obiv/llg. holds between Louisville and Xcw Orleans, on the Mississippi river. Everything seems quiet on the Potomac?nothing of interest has been received from that quarter since our last issue. From all points of the compass fighting is the order of the day. The Gorilla Government is making desperate efforts to retrieve its sinking fortunes. Preparations on the most gigantic scale have been made, and armies whose equal in numbers the world has rarely seen, have been hurled against our comparatively weak points. That we should suffer defeat occasionally under such circumstances, is no marvel; it is more wonder that we have not oftner met xuitli rouoruot Tt lit rl iniilil n/Iiur>>.iir. age us. We arc fighting for home, property, liberty, life?everything. Subjugation means annihilation?nothing less. Better far to die in the field, contesting every inch of ground ? O y C with the villianous horde who are attempting to destroy us, than submit and die by lingering torture, degraded slaves of the most damnable despotism that ever cursed the earth. Now is the crisis of our fate. Now the decisive hour is upon us. " IIo who dallies is a dastard, Aud he who doubts is damned." If you love your freedom ? if you love your U ama/v ? C TT /Ml I Al'ft VAIIt' tlflt A n*>. I nlnl/l it/irt ? 4* JiUllii; >1 V V" IV* V JVUI " III' ?IMI V.INIUI I'll J| you love your God, strike, strike quick, strike hard. If whipped everywhere else, we will fall back to the mountains, and the swamps, and there build an altar to God, and solemnly ' y swear upon it never to lay down our arms but . with life, and never to make any terms with the vile wretches who invade and destroy our li<-vmna And wo. will ninl-n mir p.hildrnn nml our children9 children swear undying hatred and never ending hostility to the whole accursed Yankee nation. Cavaliers and Croakers. If there can be anything ridiculously annoying to sensible people in this hour of our young nation's trouble, it must be the continued croaking and editorial rooin effusions of the would-be hcros of the quill, concerning the inactivity of our army, the inertness and want of energy of our military leaders, and the inefficiency of our Congress to provide all that is necessary for the success of our independence. The absurdities of the course on the part of many journals in our Confederacy, must be cvi dent to all honest and candid men, since the editors of papers in general cannot be expected to know more aboutcommandingan army than the offi *ers who now hold the reins of our Government. They grumble because the army is not marched immediately into the enemy's country, his army annihilated, and his cities razed to the ground. No doubt this would be . ' most pleasing to us all ; but it is something which requires time, in order to bring about its accomplishment. Our Generals must have sufficient time to enable tliem to have all their plans fully matured Ltbre commencing often - ! sive operations, else it may be disastrous to our j arms. W e would all like to bear of our glori- | j ous flag floating from the dome of the Northern eapitol. and the exit of Abraham the first in his favorite costume, together with all his contemptible and cringing hirelings but the et- 1 fort to accomplish this object must not be un. I dertaken until everything is prepared, and our | armv in the most perfect condition possible.? I It is the duty of all good citizens to wait pati- j ently and silently until our generals, to whose j keeping we have confided the defence of our common country, and the achievement of our i independence?shall deem it advisable to adoi?t ! tbc aggressive policy?confident that when this j onward movement is being inaugurated, our ! arms will be crowned with success. Let our generals and Government not be intimidated by these carpet-knights of the quill. Their little opinions will be scattered broadcast to the j world. 44 Like the boy with the cent, it burns him until he has it expended." It should be borne in mind that journals do not always represent the opinions of the mass of a community, but their own individual views. Croakers? the Richmond Disjxitch calls them "Tribulation Trepids"?are to be found in every community, who delight in looking upon the dark side of everything in human existence. They are to be found in ffont of the nost-oflice. around the hotel doors, at the corners of tlie streets, ami are never so comfortable as when uncomfortable. They find a luxury in woe as epicures do in tainted viands. Thcv love dark colors and are like ducks, finding high satisfaction in rainy weather. They can espy the outlines of a thunder-storm in the brghtest sky, and if their predictions are realized, and the growling of the elements is heard, they utter the triumph i . .. i %. t ti 'iii t j i ant exclamation, "Uhin t i tell you so; 11 they were elevated at death to the seventh heaven, instead of sending up songs of gratitude, they would at once institute a rigid inquiry as to the possibility of tumbling down from so lofty an altitude. 'Nothing in particular" is ever the matter with such men, but everything in general." They are honest and sincere enough, hut the shadow of the sepulchre is always upon their spirits. They would never paralyze the councils of the brave with treason, hut the most hopeful can scarcely escape a shiver of ague in their presence. In religion, they are always despairing of their own salvation, and not very sure of that of any body else ; in polities, they are certaen of defeat; in enterprises of moral reform, they declare "it's no use," Immunity j is doomed, ami may as well he permitted to g< to the devil its own way. Individually a> .1 physically, something is^ always wrong with! them. They were horn for had luck, and no one can convince them to the contrary. It they have friends, what is to keep them from dying? If they have good health, how long will it last ? But good health they will not permit themselves to have. They are afflicted with disDensia. trout, disease of the heart, inein i i . ' ~y r | lent eniicer, consumption. "They die a thousand deaths fearing one." In war, these melancholy men give full scope , to their peculiar talent. A dozen victories do not compensate for one defeat. They see McClcllan in their dreams. They expect to die by the first Millie ball in their first battlo-field, j or to be swuug to a lamp post by the triumphant Zouaves. The grim old archer might well chuckle over this curious delusion. Let the croAkers console themselves. Death will have them, either hy McClellan or otherwise. It matters little whether Death gradually chokes a man in his l?ed or dismisses him summarily by a bullet. Let the despondent desist from their Dismal Swamp melodies. Let them cease from interrupting the jubilant strains of Hope's inspiring anthems with their doleful and discordant croakings. School Notice. We are requested to say that the exercises of Mr. C. II. Peck's Camden Male Academy, will be resumed 0:1 Monday next. Severe affliction in his family having caused his absence from the school room for the past few days. ? ? 3 1;. r' v..:uraI Address of Frc^nU iK Davis Deiocuii on the 22d ii.st., which we will i endeavor t?> publish next week, is marked l>y j the usual ability which characterises the dis- j tinouished statesman. It will be held sacred I . . ! as the views of the first President of the Con- j federate States. The Distilleries. The action of the Executive Council in regard to this great evil, meets universal approval. Public opinion could not reach those determined to convert grain into a curse ?every bushel being needed to sustain our ar niies 011 the battle field, au<l our soldier's ! wives and children at home?to such the love j of pain was paramount to every consideration [ of virtue and patriotism. The stronp arm of the la v comes most opportunely, to apply the needed remedy. Fvaeimf ion of Memphis, February 2 I.? Major-* renernl Polk on Wednesday, issued an order for the evacuation of Columbus, Ky. This order was issued in obedience to the directions of (General Beauregard, who thinks the point could be flanked and attacked in the rear by the Federals. The evacuation commenced immediately upon the issuance of the order. The troops arc falling hack upon Fort Pillow, on an island 4."> miles below Columbus. The planters along the river have furnished one thousand negroes to work on the fortifications of the island, and Beauregard is giving the work his personal attention. Nearly all the army stores and anmnition have been removed and brought safely to Fort Pillow. The rumor was current here to-day that the Federals were advancing in large force upon Columbus having knowledge of its evacuation, Tliis movement is highly approved here. I.ATEK. The Memphis Appeal c?t* a later date says: We are enabled to stale, upon the good authority of < Jen. lleauregard himself, that he has not directed the evacuation of Columbus. The rumor to that effect is a mistake. The position will be held, we presume, from present indication, at every hazard. , Important from HIi?*ouri. Advices received from St Louis mention that Gen. Siegle, the great German commander, had been killed in a battle which took place near Springfield, between bis forces and those of Gen, Price. The Memphis Appeal publishes the following, despatches.?Mercury of the 2tith instant. Foijt Smith, February 10.?We have all ' -n receiving news that, our forces were I lie enemy near the line, which is huty miles North of Faycttville, on tin? Springfield road. The fight commenced about one or two o'clock; as well as we can ascertain, Col. Herbert commanding the Arkansas forces, had his regiment of Louisiana troops. It does not appear ftom the despatches that more than one Missouri regiment was in the fight. An Iown regiment was totally cut to pieces. Wo lost only about one hundred men, the enemy seven hundred. Gen. McCulloch loft early this morning for the fit Id of battle, and will he there in time to follow up the successes. lie thinks he will bag the whole party, as tliev cannot stand a defeat so far from assistance. South Carolina will soon have in the field, over 35,000 men, which is about 10 per cent, of her white, population. Important from Savannah?The River Closed by the ?nemj. We get the following from the Savannah lie pub I scan of yesterday : A rcconnoisanec by the steamer Savannah, yesterday, brought to light all the movements of the enemy in our river. They have crcetcd three batteries which effectually cut oft communication with the fort?one of four guns 011 Venus Point, one of the same number of guns on a small marsh just above Long Island and commanding the South channel, and the third j on boats moored in Mud lliver. The three arc located in t.lifi form of a trinnrrtn nnd conlit ? not be passed l?y any vessel in our service. The guns are all of a heavy calibre, most of them throwing shot to the distance of three miles. A number were tired at the Savannah but they all fell short. From Savannah.'?Passengers by the Savannah Railroad train yesterday afternoon report taat the heavy firing heard in that direction on Saturday, was the firing from the enemy's gun-boats do one of Commodore Tatnall's steamers whilst making a trip to Fort Pulaski. The bloekadcrs oil' the coast fired a salute on Saturday in honor of Washington's birth? o day. A report was in circulation on Friday that a skirmish had occurred at Gardner's Corner.? We could not learn particulars. Charleston Courier, 24 th. The Nashville Baptist says that the last desperate stand for the preservation of Nashville, from present appearances, will be made upon a line of fortifications within four miles of the city. The same paper, of this clay week, says that it learns from an entirely trustworthy source, that Commodore llollius, with the Manassas and a fleet of iron-clad gnn-boats, are on their way to Cairo, having already passed Memphis. liesides the fleet, a force of fourteen thousand men is also on its way to Columbus from Now Orleans, as a reinforcement to the garrison there. Nashville to uk Held at all Hazard.? Dispatches have been received at Nashville from President Davis, instructing (Jen. Johnson to hold the city at every hazard, and informing him that reinforcements will be sent to him immediately. Accordingly, our army, ^hieh was retreating towards Murfrcesboro, commenced to reeross the Cumberland Monday night, and to make a stand north of the city. Fort Zollicolfer, three miles below?a strong position recently erected?will also be occupied and held, so as to prevent the approach of the gunboats. 1\umber of llio Human Raec. It is strange and much to be regretted that authorities should differ so widely as to the population of the globe. Strange, because excepting Afriea, the number of human beings on each continent is now known with tolerable closeness. It is a matter of regret, because ?i... __ ii -- ii. -...-i ; uii* |Hiii<(iii 111 u|>i!>i iijs ?un na* Kiuucni is puzzled by so large descrcpancics. A few years since the received estimate was that of Ilassel, giving the world about G80,000,000 inhabitants. A popular geography, now before us^ fixes them at 8G 1,000,000, assigning to Asia 4 50,000,000, or but little more than China alone is believed by all the late foreign etnbasies to possess. The old, nice looking figures of 33:1,000,000, they discard as far below tho truth, and take the last Chinese census as substantially correct. Some of the geographies, too, give Europe but 265,000,000, which others swell to 276,000,000, and to America but 55,000,000, when it is undoubtedly 70,000,000, Meantime, the American almanac estimates mankind at from 1,162,000,000 to 1,302,000,000, according to what number, between GO, 000,000 and 200,000,000, shall he allowed to Africa. All late explorers find Africa much more populous than had been supposed ; and and it has probably over 100,000,000 inhabitants, as dark mostly in mind as in color. ? - \ nni'tiem nl" flin ni-rwnmlc cnln^tn/l f.-\y tlm grand industrial exhibition of 18G2,at London, has been set apart for the Confederate States. What we will have to exhibit that will compete with European manufacture is not said, but it is a significant fact that this appropriation to the South lias heretofore been granted only to recognized nations.?Richmond JJisprttch.