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

(Front the Charleston Courier.)

The editor of the Macon Con federate has received a pri-
vate letter, dated September 26, from an officer in the army,
containing the following item : —" The President reviewed
the troops in bivouac to-day, and some of the men in
Cheatham's and Bates' divisions called out to him to send
Johnston back, and proposed and gave three cheers for 011
Joe." The writer also states that the officers, having re-
ceived information that some such demonstration was to be
made, issued orders prohibiting it, and threatening to punish
the offenders. Some of the men, however, were bold enough
to set the order at defiance.

(From the Augusta Constit2dionalist)

As public curiosity is much exercised concerning this dis-
tinguished hero, and more particularly at present with
regard to his assumption of command in Georgia, we are
permitted to give the substance of a brief colloquy between
a gentleman and President Davis :
Gentleman—Mr President, se have heard here that Gen.
Hood has been superseded. Is it so ?
President—lf so, I have not heard it, and do not know it
to be so.

Gentleman—We understand that General Beauregard
was to assume command,

President--General Beauregard will take any command
to serve his country. He will pass through Augusta in a
few days.
The quidnuncs aro welcome to draw whatever conclu-
sions they please.

(From the Charleston Courier Sept. 24.)
His Excellency President Davis passed through Augusta
on Thursday afternoon. On his arrival at the Augusta and
Savannah Railroad depot he was greeted by a large con-
course of citizens, who loudly cheered the respected Chief
Magistrate of the nation at his appearance from the oar in
which he was travelling. In answer to these manifestations
of popular applause, he appeared on the platform of the car
and made a few remarks, in which he said he was happy to
greet so many of his fellow-citizens of Georgia; that it is
no time now for despair or despondency; that the enemy
must be driven from the soil of Georgia, and that the men
of Georgia must aid in the great work. They must leave
for a while their wives and children,
and cast their gold to
the winds, and help to drive back the insolent foe from their
borders. We are struggling, said the President, to pre-
serve the heritage bequeathed to us by our fathers—the
right to govern ourselves.--the right to be freemen. If we
succeed we shall bo happy and prosperous ; but if our con-
federacy should fall, constitutional government, political
freedom will fall with it, and we shall be subject to such
outrages as that lately enacted at Atlanta in the banishment
of women and children from their homes—an outrage which
would surely bring down upon the perpetrators the ven-
geance of a great God. He exhorted the people, therefore,
to be firm and faithful, and all would yet be well.
(From the Montgomery Mail.)
_ . .

Mr. Davis began by expressing a sense of gratitude for
the occasion, which the kind attention of the Legislature
had given him, of appearing before them, and assuring the
citizens of Alabama from that Capitol in which the first
notes of our existence were issued of his remembrance and
sympathy. He would not attempt to conceal the fact that
we have experienced great disasters of late. The enemy
have pressed our armies backward into the centre of Georgia,
threatened the border of Alabama, and occupied the bay of
Mobile—but the city still stands, and will stand though
every wall and roof should fall to the ground. He had been
disappointed in all his calculations in Northern Georgia.
After sending forward to the army at Dalton all the rein-
vilanMceistshisrsoiupgphi, Tennessee into Ken-
t that instead of the forward move-
ment our arms would have retired to Atlanta, he would
o
have left his old, lamented and venerable friend,Gen. Polk,
ett
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to have assailed Sherman upon his flank by North Alabama.
Hadrdo
he N
thought
successfulor
ut hgaedhr
But he had yielded to the idea of conoentration, and the
sequel was anything than what he had been induced to hope.
Yet we were not without compensation for our losses. In
Virginia, despite the odds brought against us, we have
beaten Grant, and still defiant hold our lines before Rich-
mond and Petersburg pure pure and noble patriot, that
great soldier and Christian, General Lee, although largely
outnumbered upon his flanks, commanded a body of men
who had never known what it was to be whipped, and
never stopped to cipher. The time for action is now at
hand. There is but one duty for every Southern man. It
is to go the front. Those who are able for the field should
not hesitate a moment, and those who are not should seek
some employment to aid and assist the rest. and to induce
their able-bodied associates to seek their proper places in the

army.
Mr Davis adverted to the part he had himself endeavoured
to bear in the war, of his repugnance to the office of chief,
and his desire for the field, incident to a military ambition
and some faith in his capacity for arms. Ho also alluded to
his long political career, and the animosities and ill feeling
which an active part in the affairs of the country had engen-
dered, Ho bad feared, ho said, that old prtjudiccs in others
might be turned against.s him, and that old feelings in him-
self action
and in the same hall
where
; but that he could declare to-
day,
wfour
ee before
eoyearshlr ofh
IghH experience,
eaven to support the constitu-
tionma
he 'gt ehr
swore
influence
of his country, that so help him God he had never
been induced to any course, public or personal, by any con-
sideration of the past. Ho felt that it was not time, and ho
was not the man, to have any friends to reward or enemies
to punish. There be some men, said Mr Davis, who, when
sea a speck upon it. lam of
pwceairntahoanelneyotO perhaps, but I have striven
l and candid temperance of
to them the most rigid test, am the
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naeffe sun, can
m
mheoarret,caonndfidaepriptlytihneglonger I behold the progress of the war
and reflect upon what we have failed to do, we should
marvel and thank God for the great achievements which
have crowned our efforts.

He next rapidly surveyed our history for the past three