The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-20 00:00:00

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Mom the Mama Telegraph end Co.fsimats, Sept. 24.)
Wise and °mileage. Friends and Fellow °Aimee,—
It would have gladdesed my heart to have met you in
prosperity instead of adversity. But friends are drawn
together is adversity. The son of a Georgian, who fought
through the het revelattea, I would be untrue to mi=
if 1 should forget the BMW in her day of petit
though misfortune has befallen our arm' from Decatur to
Joiseaboro, our came is not lost. Sherman emoot keep
up his lam line of sommunication. and retreat sooner or
later he most ; and when that der comes, the fate that
betel the army of the French empire in its retreat hem
Moscow will be masted. Our cavalry sad ewe pmple I
will harass and destroy his army as did the Comeeks that
of ?Imola°, ; and the Yankee general, like him, will escape
with only• body guard. How can this be the most speedily
effected? By the akesateee of Hood's army retaining to
their posts; aid will they not ? Can they see the
exiles ; me they hear the wail of their suffering country-
women adahildrue, sad not some? By whet Weems
they are nude to stay away it is net seminary to speak. If
there is one who will stay away at this hoar he is an-
worthy of the name of Georgia.. To the women so ap
peal is meeseary. They are like the Spartan mothers of
old. I know of one who bee lost all her scam, except am
of eight years. She wrote that she waisted me to reserve
a place tor him in the ranks. The venerable °mural Polk,
to whom 1 red the letter, knew that woman well aad
said it was characteristic of her. But I will
not weary yea by taming aside to rebuts the
various leakiest' of giving up the last son to the mem
of our country known to me. Wherever we go we Gad
the limns sad hands of oar sable women eelielled. They
we seen wherever the eye may fall or the step turn. They
hare one duty to perform—to buoy up the heart' of oar
people. I know the deep dig u:4 felt by Georgia at our
army Whop beak from Dalton to the interior of the Stale.
Bet I was not of those who considered Atlanta lost
whim oar army crossed the Chattahoochee. I resolved
that it should not, sad I thee pat • man is summand
who I knew would strike • manly blow for the city.
and many a Yankee's blood was made to nourish the soil
before the prise was woo. It doss not become m to re.
verb to dimiter. Let the dead bury the dead. Le. es,
with one um and one effort, eedeavoar to crush Sherman.
lam going Is the army to confer with our generals. The
'ad meet te the defeat of oar enemy. It has bee. said
that I &Madam' Georgia to her fate. Shame epos mash
Manhood I Where could the author bare been when
Walker, whoa Polk, and whim Gmeral Stephen D. Lee were
met to her ambeance ? Miami* mea! The man who uttered
this Ina a scoundrel. [This refers to Governor Brown of
Georgia, who declared- that Jeff. Davis had abandoned
Omega.—ED. Herald.] Be was SO/ • VISSI to save OW
country. If I knew that a gemral did not posers the right
qualities to command would I not be wrong if he wee net
removed ? Why, when oar army wee fallen back from
Northern Georgia, I even beard that I had mot Bragg with
maims@ to VON it to Cuba. But we must be charitable.
The man who can speculate ought to be made to Mks up his
musket Whim the war is over and oar indepeedeoes me—
sad we will establish oar indopeodeme—who will be our
aristocracy ? I hope the limping soldier. To the
yogi, idles I would say, that whoa Mamba, boa-
tman an empty sleeve and the man who had
remised at home sad grows rich, always take
the empty sleeve. Let the old man reassia at home
mamas breed. Bat should they know of say young ems
limmiag away from the service, who maws be made to go
my other way, let them write to the executive. I read all
Wen sent me from the poop* bat have not the tiros to
,sly to them. You have not many men between 18 and
451eft. The boys, God bless the boys, are, se rapidly sa
they bosoms old enough, gain to the Said. The city of
Meese is Mod with atom, sick earl wmacied. It mast set
be ateedosed, when threatesed ; bet when the many
eases indeed of calling upon Hood's army for defeats,
the eid men mast fight. end when the mealy is
driven Woad Chattanooga, they boo ma join in
tie general rejoicing. Your primes,* are kept as •
sort of Yankee capital. I have heard that use of their
rizierale said that their manage would defeat Um-
ma. I have tried every MOOS, sounded everything to
effect se exchange, bat to so porpoise. Butler, the
Beet, with whom so Comminsiener of Kuban' would
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bold inteverause, had published is the newspeper; that it
we would corset to the exchange of mercies all difficulties
might be removed. This isibried seas effort of his to
est bleed( whitewashed by intensiorw with gentle
men. If an exchange could be acted I don't know but I
might be induced to feminist. Butler. But in the future
every effort will be given as far as possible to effect them*
We want our soldiers in the field, sad we oast the sick and
wounded to retnrn home. It is sot proper for me to speak
of the number of men is the field, but this I will may,
that two-thirds of our men are absent—some sick, some
wounded, but most of them absent without leave. The man
who repents and goes back to his commander volunterily
weals strongly to executive clemency. But suppose he
sky* away until the war is over, and his comrades
return honer, and when every maces history will be told,
where will he shield himself? It is upon these reflections
that I rely to make men return to their duty ; but, after
conferring with our generals at headquarters, if there be
say other remedy it &hall be applied. l love my friends and
I forgive my enemies. I have beam asked to seed reinforce
moots from Virginia to Georgia. In Virginia the disparity
in numben is just se great es it is is Georgia. Time I have
been asked why the army sent to the ftheoandoth valley
was not sent here. It was because as army of the enemy
bad penetrated that valley to the very gates of Lynchburg.
and General Flatly was sent to drive them batik. This be
not only swedes' ally did, but, crossing the Potomac, came
well nigh capturing Washington itself, and forced Giant to
mod two corps of his army to protect it. This the emery
demesdnated • raid. If so, Sherman's march into
Georgia is • raid. What would prevent them
now, if Early were withdrawn from taking Lynchburg
and outlaw • complete cads of mew around Richmond?
I counselled with that greet awl grave soldier General Lee
upon all these points. My mind reamed over the whole
field. With this we can emceed. If ooe-half the men
sow absent without leave will return to duty we can defeat
the enemy. With that bore lam going to the front. I may
net realise this hope ; but I know them are men there who
have looked death in the face too often to despond now. Let
so one despond Let so one distrust ; and remember that
if genius is the bean ideal, hope is the reality.

seism AT AtIGUSTA.
(From the Charleston Courier, dept. 24.)

Hie EzMlleocy Preeidset Davis passed through Augusta
on Thursday afternoon. Os his arrival at the Augusta
and Pancosh Railroad depot he was greeted by a large
concourse of citizens, who loudly cheered the respected
chief magistrate of the ration at his sppearsoe• from the
car a which he iris towelling. lo owner to them meal-
ferketioas of popular &Weems be appeared on the plat-
form of the car sad made a few remarks, ie which he
said he was happy to greet so mazy of his fellow-citizens
of Georgia ; that it is so time now for deepair or despoo-
dewy ; that the enemy mast be drives from the soil of
Georgie. and that the rose of Georgia mast aid in the peat
work. They must leave for a while their wives and chit-
drea, sad cast their gold to the winds, and help to drive
beck the insolent foe from their borders. We are strag-
gling, mid the President, to preserve the heritage be-
Tumefied to us by our fathers—the right to gorses our-
milme—the right to be fresems. If we succeed we shall be
happy and prosperous; but if our Confederacy should fall,
constitutional government, political freedom will fall with
it, and we shall be subject to such outrages as that lately
emceed at Atlanta, in the banishment of women' sad chil-
dren from their homes—an outrage which would surely
bring down upon the perpetrators the mageanoe of a great
God. He exhorted the people. therefore, to be era sad
faithful, and all would yet be well.

011MAZ PALACII.... Oxi SHILLING DAY.-
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