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Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-08-20
Faith. Hone and Courage.

During the Rsvol ltionary war; the Augusta Chronicle
and Sentinel says the British had possession of nearly
oil Of o promiR ant cites. They hs1 under their ba.ed
rue Noah carolina, South Carolina, and good portion
of many other States. They captured Philadelp hia,
which was then the capital cf the LaiOn and dispersed
the Continental Congress- Cpr armies Fetreated and
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-08-20

SUCCESSFUL ACTION OF PARTIAL RANGERS.
correspondent Of the Mobile Register gives the
suhioned account of cavalry skrmish which recently
took place near Rienz Miss 1t appears hat marsu-
ding band numbering about 400 of the 9th Ohio cav
airy, which had lately arrived Corinth from Memphis
determined to make their debut in their new field Of
operations, and sailed forth upon their mission of out
rage and destruction The writer thus states the result
of the expedition:
Having penetrated down the Mobile and Ohio road as
far os Guntown much to the disturbance Of quiet
cavalry and the denzans Of 0kaopa and the surround
ing country they thought it prudent 10 about face
and return TO their coffee ard hard biscuit scarce
y hoping wishing for dish Of ham. At about ten
o'clock Saturday night the jolly fellows were wend
ing their way through the forest in the vicinity of Ri
enz making the old woods Tesound with their wild ca
rousa and being their camp, feeling perfect
curity, when from out the meshes Of aDg ID theket
eapt line of fire-cracked three hundred rifles, de
throning many careless rider while half score were
tramped beneath the spurnDg heels Of yengeu seeds
The surprise was irighttu and complete, res ing
the vandAls in fancied security, that their
maRder made attempt to rally them and their light
precpiate that forces no. afforded the
pleasing chance Of giving parting token.
Upon examination, it was found that six of'the van
dals had fought their last battle, and fifty had been
wounded by buck and ball and by the steel clad heels
of their horses twenty OF the latter, together with nine
prisoners falling into the hands of the command OF Mai
Ham, who had smbushed and surprised them The horse
of the Yankee Colonel commanding the patty was
wounded and fell toto the hands of Hams par tRans
who, by unanimous vote, resolved 10 present the
splendid saddle bride and trappngs ornamented with
yelowthe cavalry co.or-tO General GhClson. All the
killed. wounded and captured wers of the 9TH Ohio cav
airy. Major Ham commands body of Mississippi ram
gers who have for time been upon the hard but
thankcss service of picketng and scouting in Nsho-
ningo and ItRwamba counties.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-08-20
COMMISSIONERS SALE OF LAND
IN CHE5TERPIELD,

4 S Commissioner of Chesterfield County
"A Court in the chanc0ry suit OF Henry Whock John
Norris, shall for SALE auction, ut Chester field
MONDAY the Hh day OF September (bepg Court day
TRACT OF LAND,
contain log two hundred and twenty 22 Acres Swift Or
and tn Glover Bill r. about 81 ue from the oour. House
10 mil IS from Richmond 10 miles from Petersburg aud mil
from Che,e pepot the Richmond and Petersburg H. Ga
this tract is excellent
FRAMED DWELLING,
With Kitchens Stables Ice House, &C. Also Orchard Of choice
young Fruit Trees.
The Land good and susceptible Of high improvement. The
loo alton healthy and the nghb good. II Is good
chance for investment ha ac tiles for market not easily met
with.
Persons dercus Of vi wing the place, will call on Mr. saS
OheaihAm, at the Court House, who will show the premts
TERNsCash and usual the sale TO be approved by the
Court
aug2o-2aw2w w. AMBER, oem'r
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-08-20

SPECIAL NOTICE.
We Will add to our Grocery Sale TO DAY
10 Kegs Soda,
8 Bbs Old Bourbon Whisky,
Bills Old Jamaica Rum,.
3 3bs Potash,
Port Wine,
Manufactured and Smoking Tobacco,
Ots large Wall Tent
Tin Cups,
Matches,
A large Lot Of
Letter and Note Paper,
Fancy 30 ,ps,
And many other articles. TARDY WILLIAMS.
au2)-lt
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-08-20
SMALL FARM FOR SALE,

A YOUNG Lady, of the country, of good
IA family good opportun acquiring education, two
years. Teacher fathers family, and oonpe
ten. TO give In Music the Piano, French ana
usual English Branches present Of the country Wnen
there Southern teachers Is willing to contribute L
mile In behalf Of education situation private family or
school Of not more than twelve preferred Should fall to
safacton in any respect would wish to know IL; and
would be htI pleasure 70 leave.
AeeieNSS.. A'fNsN @1 s''S-' Miss NJ L. ",
oo ,row, Eek I52, 4 chmond.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-08-20
PROGRESS OF THE DRAFT AT THE
NORTH.

despatch from Albany \. Y, dated August ls,
says
An official report Dads by Adutaut Gen. Sprsgus to
furnished from the beginning Of the war, 1928 men
in excess Of oil her quotas, not counting 20s5l men
sent by her on of sudden peril for the defence
of the National Capital
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-08-20

EE- We are authorized to announce Major
JAMES w. GREEN oand date all the vacancy the repre-.
sentaon Of the Senate ia Dsc composed Of Of
Madison Cupeper Orange a2d Greene death
OF Co.. W. 7 Patton auRlS %
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-08-20
SPECIAL NOTICE 4:

A.nt!On called the ss of WOODBURY., THIS DAY, at
II O'Clock.
special train OF cars will lea We the Fredericksburg Depot at
10 o'clock prec,ey Fare for s round tip g. Passports me-
su20-1t Dol J. LUoIUs DAVIS.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-08-20
ASSISTANT QUARTERTAsTIR GENERALS OFFICE.
RICHMOND, VA, Aug. 20, 1858.
TAX IN KIND.

/. PRODUCERS WHO DELIVER THEIR
city, under the circular from this Office CT 18Th
last. Ci. &c ed rs follows:
Wool be delivered Captain w. g. Ferguson, Cary
atd 18th streets
oorn Oats Rye, Hay Fodder Mejo Robert Archer.
BAcons Quarter Branch Major Maynard the
Yard, on 8 h street.
Wheat, to Capt p. A. Wexford, A. 0.S.
All other articles Of food TO Capt. Y. Myer, A. a. g.
H. QiartermAsers luced TO give similar notices In
their localities for the Information OF farmers
LARKIN SMITH,
Gue0-2w Assistant QIa-termaster General.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-08-20

GAIT, WHISKY, SUGAR, &C.
- 200 sacks Salt,
10 bbls. Whsky
8 chests superior Black Tea
20 bbls. prime sugar.
80 bags do. do,
40 hail.bbis. Molasses,
IS casks London Ale, as. AID PTS;
80 boxes Genuine CASTLE Soap,
$50 lbs Indigo, for sale by
auls-Q. oaAs' T. WORKMAN 4 co.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-08-20
yIncINIA VOLUNTEER NAVY COMPANY.

HAVING secured the services of Comman-
der OF ten years. Naval experience the Beard has deter
rned operations forthwith and for that purpose
require. he Subscriptions T. b. paid up Immediately
Persons bscrbe urged 10 do 10 wnout dy'
As the books viii be the capital made
sne1ets J. H. AfPERsoh, IT.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-08-20

GF- WE are authorized to announce HENRY
oanddsts represent 9th Senatorial
composed Of the Counties OF Madson Cupeper Orange
and Geel The Election will take place the first THURSDAY
In September au20- sw2ws
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1863-08-20
IL PHILADELPHIA.
From the Ledger, Aug. 1871

In the several Congressional Districts in Philadelphia
where Boards Of Enrolment engaged in hearing
claims to exemption average of rs substitutes for
each district is received daily. As soon as squad OF
200 collected together the men forwarded to the
Army OF the Potomac, under sufficient guard In view
OF the fact that from otherpa Of the Stale,
az well as from other Safes going forward the army
will soon be filed In a short time the drafted men Of
Philadelphia will requiredto report Tor duty, and the
additions TO the army will prove q large one.
The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer., 1863-01-30

of order, He appealed from the decision
of the Clerk and commenced to speak
again. Finally Mr.. Fields proposed to
adjourn, and then to take a vote at noon
on the day following without further de-
bate. This was acceded to, and the house
adjourned.
No one can understand the reason of
Mr.. Callicott's apostacy His friends
blame tim, his colleagues refuse to recog-
nize him, and there are some who threat
en- to lynch him.
This morning the House is crowded.
A vote will be taken early in the after,
noon. NJ.
The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer., 1863-01-30
WAR NEWS.

The command of the Army of the Potomac
has again been changed. II appears that when
Gen Burnside was in Washington on Saturday
last lie was, ii! his own request, relieved of the
command, and Gen. Hooker appointed to sue
coed him. The retiring gencr i issued parting
address to the army on Monday, and took leave
of the superior officers, and turned over the COM
mand to his successor. Gen. Burnside has been
at the head of the army since the 9th of Novem-
Der, when Gen. Mcclellan was relieved. 1t is
understood that Generals Sumner and Franklin
have also been relieved of their commands of the
right and left wings of the army.
An arrival from New Orleans brings advices
to the 18th inst, and from the Texas coast, by
the way of Key West, to the l7th There is no
news Of the advance of the Banks expedition up
the Mississippi. On tile 18th inst, there were
six Federal steamers off Galveston, and on that
day a Confederate steamer, supposed to have
been the Alabama, attacked and sunk Federal
transport, and notwithstanding pursuit was i'm
medately made, she succeeded in making her
escape. The transport carried four guns, Of
light calibre.
1t is reported that the Confederate Generals
Forrest, Stevens and Wheeler, with their forces,
were at Franklin, eighteen miles south of Nash
vile, on Saturday. The Confederatcs attacked
the bridge guards on the railroad, ten miles be-
low Nashville, on Sunday.
Further particulars of The sinking of the Fede-
raj transport IIatteras near Galveston, show that
In lvp nd boor tho fir
ing, went to the relief of the Hatteras, but ouly
in time TO pick up boats crew and discover that
the Hatteras sunk in nine f,thoms of water.
A New York journal, which claims to be pos
ted, says that General Butler is to be reinsta-
ted in his command at New Orleans. and that as
soon as he arrives there General Banks will pro-
ceed with the great feature of his original exped-
| tou-the invasion and possession of Texas.
Advices from Hilton Head report the sailing Of
an iron-clad and other vessels from that point
on the Oath instant. Gen. Hunter had arrived
and taken command Of the department. The
Confederate iron-clad Atlanta lies in Ossibow
Sound, in 'ull view of the Federal blockading
fleet.
1t is again reported that the Confederate steam
cr Orcto has run the blockade at Mobile.
On Sunday last the Confederate General
Wheeler's cavalry made dash at II train of cars
on the railroad between Nashville and Franklin
aud succeeded in destroying two cars. Confed-
crate cavalry continue 10 hover about the Fede-
raj army in Tennessee, watching opportunities
to interrupt communication. Gen. Garfield has
reported to General Rosencrans for duty In
tercepted Southern letters show that the Conted-
| crates are receiving reinforcements.
The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer., 1863-01-30

and the people thereof; or embodied in
the literature handed down from genera
ton to generation tu our own time, the
two original and distinct lines become
more or less mixed, confused, or confoun-
ded; and nothing has tendency to do
this moro than the word government. 1t
is hardly proper word to be applied to
Republic. Before the American Repub-
lie had an existence, the term goUernment
was properly used, both by kings and sub
jects, for the kings governed and the sub.
jects were governed. The word then was
applied in its true meaning. AS it has
not lost its original Specification in COM
mon usage, but it is only wrongfully ap-
piled, the old idea is naturally conveyed
along and wrougfully applied to that to
which it is not applicable. Though wo
use the same terms to convey our ideas
that monarchists use, we must avoid to
convey the same monarchical ideas they do.
BY the old idea of government is meant
something entirely different to Republic
in the strict sense of the old idea; for Re-
publicis nota government, but simply VOL
untary association of independent individ-
uals; for the leaders arc no: governors but
the servants of the people. A confusion
of opinion arises from an attempt to make
an old word Of certain established mean
ing convey new idea Of the very contra
ry meaning; for what Two things could be
more the reverse of each other than Re-
public and monarchy? In the true sense,
we have no governors; we only have SER
wants and the people themselves are the
sovcrcigns or real governors If we can
not well abandon established language,
we must try and abandon the old IDEAS -
La this particular, we should cling more
to what We mean than to what We say.
The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer., 1863-01-30
Robert J. Walker on the Financial Sit
uation,"

The Abolitionists, of late, have been in
clined to swear by the Hon. Robert j.
Walker His financial ability has been
much laudcd by all parties. AS Secretary
of the Treasury, under Mr.. Polk, he was
marked throughout the world as an able
inancier. In the forthcoming number of
the Continental M0athy, magazine
which he edits, will be an article, written
by him, in which he says:
Our national finances are involved in
extreme peril Our public debt exceeds
S720,O00,000, and is estimated by the
Secretary of the Treasury, on the lst of
July next, at 81, l22, ,297 ,4O3, and on the
LIST of July 1864, at S1,744, ,665, ,5S6.-
When we reflect that this is nearly one
half the debt of England, and bearing al
most double the rate of interest, it is clear
that we are approaching u fatal catastro,
phe. Nor is this the most alatming symp-
tom. Gold now commands premium OF
thirty-two per cent, as compared with le-
gal tender treasury notes, and, with large
ly augmented issues, must rise much.
higher, with corresponding increase of
our debt and expenditures.
Indeed, should the war continue, aud
there be no other alternative than addi-
tional treasury notes, they will, before the
close of the next fiscal year, fail to COM
mand forty cents on the dollar in gold,
aud our debt exceed several billions OF
dollars. This would result from all i'm
mense redundancy and depreciation Of cur
rency, and from the alarm created here
and in Europe as TO the maintenance of
the Union, and the ultimate solvency Of
the Government. Indeed, our enemies,
at home aud abroad, the rebels, and their
allies IN the North and in Europe, already
announce impending national bankruptcy
and reputation, and there are many devo.
ted patriots who fear such catastrophe.
That the danger is imminent is truth
which must not be disguised. Hero lies
the great peril of the Government. 1t is
the alarming increase of the public debt
and expenditures, and the still more apal-
ling depreciation Of the national currency,
that most imperil the great Republic.
In another place he says:
On also with the necessary measures in
Congress to save our finances. from ruin,
arrest the depreciation of our national
currency, and restore the public debt
We are upon tho verge of ruin. We are
hanging over the gulf of an irredeemable
paper system, and its spectral shade, re-
pudiation, is seen dinly in the dark abyss.
The present Congress may save US; but
what Of the next? Would they, if they
could? Who can answer? Can they, if
they would No +! no Il will then be
too late. Never did any representative
assembly encounter SO fearful response
bility as the present Congress
The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer., 1863-01-30

PosToFFlcE ATFAIRs.-The Post
master General has ordered the following:
VIM Fl. Pierce is appointed postmaster
at Abingdon, Hartford county, Nd, vice
VIM. Hunter, resigned. VIM. E. Nichols,
Postmaster at Aberdeen, Hartford county,
Nd, vice J. Colby Smith, resigned. II.
NJ Hays. postmaster at Ceciton, Cecil
county, Md, vice George B. Pennington,
resigned. Cub Hill postoffice, Baltimore
ounty, Md, and Longwood, Hartford Co.,
Md, are discontinued.
The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer., 1863-01-30


A CHANGE OF ToNE.-The New York
Tribune, which prophesied such great re-
suit from the emancipation proclama-
tion," exhibits recently wonderful
change in sentiment since the 1st of Jam
uary. On Thursday last under the head
of "Our Notions of the War; 1t thus
announces purpose and a willingness to
accept dlsunion after fixed date
"We know that our soldiers will fight.
We know that they can beat the rebels if
we'll handled. We know that there are
Generals in our service who know how to
plan batteries to fight them and win. If
three months more Of earnest fighting shalt
not Scrpe to make a serious impression on
the redels-if the end of that term shall
fiud us no further advanced than its be-
ginning-if some malignant fate has de-
creed that the blood and treasure of the
nation shall ever be squandered in fruit.
less cfforts-7et us 6ow to our destiny, and
maize the best attainoble peace"
The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer., 1863-01-30

"WHEN SHALL WE HAVE. PEACE ?"-
The Portland Atlcc,tiser, the leading Re-
publican paper in Maine, asks this impor-
tant and interesting question, and answers
it as follows. We commend the answer
to the careful attention Of those N ho are
SO free with their charges of treason
against every Democrat who speaks of
peace:
eve answer, when Congress shall be
persuaded that reason, not force, is the
Divinity of the age in which we live
When Congress shall be persuaded that
history furnishes no example of six mil
lions of people, educated, Tree and inde-
pendent, being subjueated, to captivity,
and ruled against their consent. When
Congress shall be persu ded that no ma
tion on earth has proved themselves pow
erful enough in arms, or in wealth, to es-
tablish and maintain, indefinitely, mill
tary dcspotism over six millions of white
men accustomed to freedom, and to a rep
rescntatiye government"
The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer., 1863-01-30

1r3-The &c Southern Egis'' has a more extended cir
cuiaion among the intelligent farmers and business men
OF Hartford, than any otlier paper in the county. No
Jck Hospitnln on other obscene LOtery' adver-
tisemenls will appear In our columns at any price,
large number OF Subscribers pay for their paper in I'D
vance, and consequently Gs the class advertisers de-
sire 10 reach.
The attention of respectable aud legitimate advertisers
Ia directed 10 The above facts.
The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer., 1863-01-30
To Correspondents.

All communications for publication must be accom-
pinied with the zeal name OF The author, atten
ton will he paid 10 them. The real OF tile author
will not be published unless desired, but we cannot
insert communications unless we know The
writer.
The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer., 1863-01-30

Aas- A young man, writing from the
war, tells mournful story about his be-
ing sick. and concludes "I recovered,
thank God, though ] haven't go, any hair
on my head" This may be called put
ting in a qualifcr.
The southern aegis, and Harford County intelligencer., 1863-01-30

In Baltimore. on the lst of January, 1863.
OLIVIA TURNER, in The 18th year Of her age
only daughter of Andrew and Mary Ann Turner,
of Hartford county.
Then, is she dead? No, no, she dwelis
In yondcr hlissful plain
There music sweet forever swclls,
In one unceasing strain.
Let us her last request obey
prepare to meet thy Ged r.
That when from Garth we're called away,
We may go TO that best abode.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-08-29

CoRYDoN, Iowa, Aug. S, ls63.-Pursuant
to call of the Central Committee. the
Union men of Wayne county met in dele
gate Convention at the M. E. Church, in
Corydon, and was called to order by w.
Hartshorn, chairman of the Central Com
mlttee; after which the Convention was
organized by electing w. Hartshorn chair
man and w. w. Thomas, Secretary.
On motion, E. w. Fullerton, d. w,
Clark, and d. Peachin, were appointed a
Committee on Credentials. In the absence
of the committee, the Convention was adj
dressed by DR.. E. Glendening and Elias
Hollowday, young soldier of the 10th
Kansas Regiment, now at home on fur
Tough. He gave the Copperheads the most
complete SHINING that any set of poor fell
ons ever got; they felt it, too, from the an
pearance of their faces. . ..-........ =
The Committee on Credentials reported
that the Townships were all fully repre-
scented. @HH ta
On motion of E. w. Fullerton, DR.. E..
Glendening was declared the nominee of
the convention, by reclamation, for the
Legislature. Humphrey May was nomi-
mated for Treasurer and Recorder Marshal
Nelson for Sheriff, A. A. Pener for County
Judge, David Kirk for Superintendent OF
Public Instruction, Burris Moore for Sur
veyor, and Benjamin Barker for Coroner.
Greenwood Wright, w. w. Thomas and
Il. Giendening, We're appointed to wait up
on the Hon. Z. e. Esteb and ask him if he
would allow his name to be presented be-
fore the Senatorial Convention, to be held
at Charlton on the 18th inst. Mr.. Esteb ap-
peared before the Convention, and, in few
eloquent remarks, returned his thanks for
the protfered honor, but declined to allow
his name to be used, and stated, as his rea-
son, that he expected to cross the Plains
next season; but that while he was here he
All Il oil 1oT
gies in trying to put down the rebellion
whether carried on by rebels in the South
or Copperheads in the North. . 49,.
w. w. THOMAS, Secretary.
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-08-29
RingOld County Union Conven

Agreeable to the call Of the County Cen
trail Committee, the Convention assent led
at the Court House in Mt. Ayr, August
1868, 18th, ut one o'clock p. M, for the pur-
pose of placing in nomination candidates
for county offices, to be supported at the
ensuing election.
The Convention organized by electing
VIM. Elliot, Esq. President Thos. Ross,
Vice President, and r. B. Kinsel, Secreta-
fy. tE4 g.
Upon motion I. S. Beall, VIM. T. Laugh
lin, and John G. Walter were appointed
a committee to draft resolutions expressive
of the sentiments of the Convention. Said
committee reported the following resolu-
tons, which, on motion, were adopted
without dissenting voice.
WHEREAS, The Government of the Uni
ted States was established upon the prin-
ciple that a majority of the legal voters
shall rule for the time prescribed by the
Constitution and laws made in pursuance
thereof, and, Whereas, the Declaration of
Independence asserts that all men are en-
titled 20 certain inalienable rights, among
which are life. liberty and The pursuit Of
Happiness, and whereas. There is in exist
enca in our country and in opposition to
the regularly elected and qualified author
ties, an armed rebellion which boldly and
shamelessly denies to mankind the rights
above mentioned, and which seeks through
the aid of foreign despotic governments as
well as through political demagogues in
our midst to subvert our time-honored
government, and to establish upon its ruins
a monarchy Of the most odious type, there
fore be ii
Res0fued, BY the citizens of this county
in mass convention assembled that we /
here re-asssrt our undying and unco1,di-
t5ondi loyalty to our beloved government
and country in this its darkest hour.
ReSoL0ed, That we recognize in Abraham
Lincoln our present Chief Magistrate and |
his subordinate officers the only govern
ment for these United States until their |
term of Office shall constitutionalfy ex-
pire, and that all who do not are rebels at |
heart, if not in action.
Resotved, That the Constitution of the |