Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-09-16
THE EVENING STAR.
BUDGET OF sourHKRN NEWS.

We have Q large number OF Southern papers
Of late dates, from which we CLEAN the Iolo"-
ing:
The RALEIGH IN. o. Daily Progress OF Sep
nmber Sth Rae a very responding article on
.Ths late GENERATIONS in Georgia" IL says
.The fan OF Atlanta and the death OF Gen.
Morgan are EVENTS calculated to make our
neonie anIions and thoughtful. The fact is,
he Ehermap) must be driven out OF the State,
or me Confeoeracy is in great peril, for SHOULD
nsssee. the blow would hardly be overcome.
But sherman seems to be pressing forward,
and what is 20 be done must be done quickly,
and every man in Georgia and the Confed-
eracy must do his duty. We may talk of the
ineficiency of generals, but the real secret OF
our disaster in Georgia was the want Of men.
The whole fighting population OF Georgia,
Alabama and Mississippi must take the field,
or they viii be over-run, aRd thar not long
hence.
are NJ doubt doing all they can, but Peters burg
and Richmond are threatened By an immense
army, and the army OF Northern Virginia has
10 strain eVerY nerve 10 keep the insolent foe
from the gates OF the Capitol, and if Georgia
and the states beyond would save themselves
from devastation and ruin, they must raise up
an army from their own people and drive the
invader back. And they must remember that
IL is now or never. Ever since the enemy in
Vaded Tennessee we have been told mat their
race was nearly run and that soon they would
be met and crushed, bat instead OF driving them
back, the people OF that section have suffered
Them TO penetrate the very heart OF Georgia and
OCCUPY one Of its largest cities Where to and
how much further are we to retreat This in
vasion not only destroys property but demon
aliZes the people, If we are to judge by the be-
havior of those between Atlanta aud Nashville,
and if not checked can end in nothing but sub
Jugation. No use 10 talk Of wearing the Yam.
Eees out II we continue to retreat, for the re-
verse will be result and they will wear Us out
The loss of Atlanta OF itself don't amount to
much we know, bot where is il to stop Are
We 20 hold Macon, Augusta, and Savannah!
1--WE must fight the enemy some time, and at
come nlaPP. RhOniH q ya
stood a much better chance by compelling him
TO fight before he reached Atlanta. But that is
with which we have to do. Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, and Tennessee are able to throw
one hundred thousand men in the field in thirty
6ays, and they must do 1t or abandon their
dream of independence Sherman's army must
be destroyed and driven back, or he will pos.
sess and held Georgia.
Further disaster in Georgia will be ruinous
to that State, if not destructive to the cause
itself, and we nope her people will at once put
forward their whole strength and drive the
enemy from their SOIL"
A writer in the Richmond Sentinel contrasts
the merits Of iron-clads and submarine defen.
ces, for protection Of harbors He admits that
neither of the systems was effective at Mobile
The defence Of the IRON clads, he says, aprac.
iically amounts to nothing, This admission
must be poser TO the London Times which
paper glorifies the Confederate iron. clads in
That action so tremendously ED STAR and
must settle the question of their ineffi cheney in
INC VI HdTDOIS where SucQ q weight
and Galore OF metal can be brought against
them; and 1t proves conclusiyelY that the con-
struction Of or iron ciads at least, is not such
as TO resist successfully guns of such heavy
cahore as nave lately been brought into use.''
Gas to the rant of defense of the torpeaoes
and submarine defenses, it was not their fault
mat owing TO the want of judgment, not to use
6 harsher term, Of those who had the control of
placing them, the enemy's vessels did not give
the opportunity of again pro wing their effective
for most unfortunately. as iS
portion OF the channel was left open for block
ade runners, which the enemy became cogni-
passed through this opening in the torpedoes
and other detenses without coming into contact
with but one Of them"
The writer then proceeds to argue that tor
pedoes are far more effective for harbor defense
than are iron-clads, and he claims that had the
channel not been left open, Farraguts fleet
could not have entered the harbor. He says,
too, that the most istinguished engineer in the
Confederacy, and one having the best means
Of knowing, asserts 6. that had it not been for
the torpedoes and submarine defenses of
Charleston harbor, that city could not have
been successfully defended, for the vessels of
the enemy could have passed the forts-in short,
thas the torpedoes saved Charleston, what the
nsEs hsen cOuaa NOT nave DONE as they would
enormous missiles OF the enemy's vessels, as
has now been thoroughly proven on several
occasions"
In view of the fact, therefore, that the tor
pedoes have saved Charleston and Savannah;
have retarded Union operations in the James
river, and would have saved Mobile but for
the open channel, the writer urges upon the
rebel authorities the necessity and importance
Of securing more OF these extraordinary imple-
ments of war.
The Richmond Enquirer OF Sept. 10th has the
following in its city intelligence
Charles Havenner, lieutenant in the 2ith
Virginia cavalry, was arraigned, charged with
a.: pting to pick the pockets Of Joseph Smith
and Warner d. Payne, on Thursday night, at
fhof Nnnr uSo q cir 40 How Sr,nt& tota
that he was lying on his bed, when the accused
came In and sat down by him, and believing
witness to be asleep commenced feeling about
his person, as il In search OF money or jewelry
Finding nothing, the accused got up and went
over TO " here MIR. Payne was lying, ard en-
deavored to rifle his pockets. That gentleman,
however, awoke before the accused found his
peck book, and raising up excitedly in
quired, 4" What the de vii are you doing ~ Ha.
venner tnereupon started for the door, but be-
fore making his exit was caught. Accused
thereupon commenced to make out that he was
crazy.
Mr.. Radcliffe said he had known Havenner
for some years and always believed him to be
a very exemplary young man. He had, how
ever, for several days past been on a heavy
spree; and thought he must certainly have
been laboring under some hallucina ton OF
mind al the time of the occurrence
AS the offence at most amounted to misde.
meanor, the Recorder decided to send the &C.
cused to the Provost Marshal rather .nan keep
Inc three Soldiers from their commands-ail
being here on short burroughs.
Printers in Augusta, Georgia get 81 90 per
thousand ems Confederate money! for type
setting
The Petersburg Express Of the Sth, says Of
the Chicago platform proposition for a cessa-
ton OF hostilities and an amicable adjustment
Of difficulties, Upon the basis of a return Of
the South to the Union through the agency of
a con ven ton of all the States, is q position no
less absurd than impracticable under the Con-
federate Constitution
The Express Of the 10th says that sin making
Mcclellan their standard bearer, the Democra.
cy virtually endorsed his high handed viola
ton of the Constitution in the arrest and i'm
prisonment Of the Maryland Legislature, and
also endorsed the war, in the advocacy and
prosecution Of which he has won all the dis.
tinction he enjoys"
Confeceracy' says Mobile abounds with
spies and traitors. That such Is the fact is no.
torious. 1t is even said that traitors can be
readily pointed out