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BY N. g. MORSE &CO. Cjjnmklt £ Sentinel TKRMS. iHE WEEKI.V tHrIOAICLK 4 SEVIJVEf. IS PC7BI ISHED I VERY WEDNESDAY AT FOUR DOLLARS FOR SI X. MOM MS. ALWAYS IN ADVANCE, WEEKLY ADVKR'rKMAO RATES. As'. fETism',:/. ;.i;L:t4#d in tli* WveWf wiff t.f- ch'irg*:(l twenty flvt* c*nt« Klint-ea* -h insertion. y<rnrfi w i|] In* c thirty fvu*« a imr for each insertion. Mißßui.n, I>£%TffSftnd FrKKß*i. Noticm or* and liar, hap Oan t Aur Nctigfs foitv r-otaper lint* fur one limertk-i. la either Daily or Weekly. Whore Obituary Notice aia.-uM ert’n hoth Dall> and Weekly*— nlx‘r cents per Hr «. The Negro Imp«kasme\t Order. —'flic for lowing instructions liii c irern published by Adjutant General Cooper for carrying into ef fect the 9th section of the act of 2Gth Watch. 1*63, “To rcgukfte impressments in respect to labor on the fortifications and other public works in states in which provisions have not been made on the subject.” I Tire 'Commanding General, or tin* Officer Engineers in charge of the work, shall have jmwer to decide upon the necessity for mak ing impressments of j laves for this purpose, after making Mutabe cubits to secure the nec essary lalror l>y eon tract. lie must l>e satis 16x1 of tins necessity of the measure before he resorts to it. 2. lie may authorize the impress neat of male slaves between the age of seventeen and fifty years, but before the first diyr of Decem ber next shall abstain from in.pr. Hsing slaves from plantations exclusively devoted to the production' ol grain and provisions without the consent of the owner, except in eases of urgent necessity. 8. No impressments sisal! be made of the slaves employed in the domestic aud lamily service exclusively, nor upon farms or planta tions where there are not more than threeslavoa of tho age specified, am! not more than live per cent, of the popnl itidn of slaves shall lie impressed in any county at the same time, un less the necessity is very great, and altar con sultation with the Department or* the Govern or of the State in which the impressment is to lie made. 4. The ordinary period for impressment shall he sixty days, Imt if Who owner of- spy slave shall tail <o bring the slaves impressed to tho place of rendezvous within five days after the time appointed, tho slaves So withhold may be detainee for ninety dajs, and for n longer term ot ten days Coreveiy day of default, un less a reasonable excuse he given for tho de lays that have occurred*. 6. It siiall be the duty of the Commanding General in charge of any lines requiring for tification, to acquaint himself with ,the resour ces of slave labor, within ids department, and to consider with care thy m nner in wlih h he may obtau control of whatever is necessary for the public service by fair and equitable ap portionment among the owners of such prop erty. lie will consult with the Governor ot the State and other State authorities da the best inode of proceeding, no thatjbis Impressment may cause the hast . mbarra xment to the in dustiial pursuit a of the community 6. Notices aball be given of the number and character of the .-.laves required, the .time and placed' their delivery, the time for u!i eh the service is required, and of the mrangement a made for the ml sistonce, management niiil cus tody of the slaves to required ; and if the masters of staves shall rpruo to furnish subsis tence for’their slave I ', and a suitable overseer or agent to superinti nd the.rn. they shtll have tho privilege of so doing llutsil*h overseers tduill'be subject to the idilril of iho officers In charge, and may t e ilismi ed for any mis conduct by him 7. The sum of twenty dollars.per month lor each slave dell)nod in pur nance t.> icqnisb tion, and fifteen delta* ; per montli tin enih slave held in consequence of fiiilmv of his master to obey iv.quixiLioii m tde as herein" be* fore pidviided, shah he paid l>\ the e’onn jotate Mates, and • Roldii is' rations,, uiedn 'n'b and medical attendance furni lied, and the value oT all such slaves a.-: may die during their time of service or thereafter froiii injuries rr, rived or diseases contracted in sucif sen h.-e or may not he returned, rhuil be paid by the Ouiiiederate. StateV Such value-.ball he conclusively is tahlished ly a forma! apptiliement by n Board all injuries to slaves arbimrTfom the net. of the public cnejavy or front alfv.inittry.arising from a want ofdue Experts mutually agreed upon at flic tiiueThe slaves are received into tlioContederate service. Oompensatibn shall also lie made for diligence on the pat tof the authorities of the Confederate States, r ut the Confederate Juries will not be liable for any slave not- returned by reason of fraud or Collusion on the part of the owner or hid agent, or the overseer selecteo by him to superintend them, nor if bis death should lie caused by tlic not ol God, or by dis ease existing when the slu e is received by the Confederate authorities. 6. Subsistence and provisions furnbhel by the owner -ball l>e commuted lor at Hie rates allowed soldiers in service. All Daves sent voluntarily to the <’’onfederate authorities, and accepted bysthem without othc r special cell tract, shall stand on the same footing as those delivered under roqdtistthin, and the oivnets of all slaves delivered or talon under requisition shall be.entitled to regard tbe Confederate States as contracting vvilji lie m to comply with tbe obligations and conditions herein express ed. !t. Incase there should ho any sliv-igreonient on tlie su ject of the value of any slave im pressed, or in case the impressing officer shall not be satisfied of the af curacy of any valuation or valuations, the appraisement shall he refer red to the appraisers appointed under the sth section 01 the act concerning th impressments, according to the provisions of the act. of 0o.i : gress approved ‘.’7th April, 1863. and published Jn Ordenj, No. 53. current .-;eties. Okn. Hu l's Taryino Audrkss —An exed is the parting address of (Jen. D. II Hill to his corps on ts' iug. leave of them : Having b -eu relieved from duty with this corps, tin* undersigned cannot part with the troops whom he lias had the honor to command in battle, without expressing his appreciation of their h’'gh soldierly qualities and his honest conviction that the corps’ has n j equal in the service. Your courage in the field, your patience on the march, your subordination in camp, your cheerfulness under privation, hardship and trial, have challenged the admirat-on and won the confidence of him who parts from you with po much regret Soldiers, may your part rireer be but the earnest of a more glorious Future, may our ab horrence of the Yankees, your faith in the jus - tiee ol vour cause, your determination to he free, grow in strength from clay to day. until your heroism and your toils arc rewarded with an honorable peace. » Tuk Coxthderatb Loan is' Engl anil —The London Herald of Oct 1, in speaking 6i the State of the Confederate loan in England re marks thus: The stock of li.e .Confederate lean wa?on September 30. quoted rather firmer in tue advan ced hours of business, vie to 26 J discount; very late it was even better tnan this price. A variety of small iuve iments are being made, which are giving strength to the quotation, and bow the load may be considered as fatty paid up. It id probable a further advance aw take place. ! K.wu-n I’ujiA.XTHROFY.—Thi- in a hackneyed ' ol*jset somewhat, yet it is not void oi interest under existing clrcumstancei Thc-re are many facts oonnectej with the slave trade which the so called'* Earl Russell and his apologists might remember with interest. The 00l ambus Sun publishes the annexed list: Slavery was introduced into this country by Englishmen, acting under the sanction of toe English parliament. in 170*5, the committee of the House of com inoris reported : ••the African stave tiado is im portant. and ought to he tree.’' The same committee reported, in 1711, that the “American pluntaliots ought to bo supplied with negrots at reasonable rates.” The next year Queen Anne congratulated Parliament upon her “success in finding, in Spanish America, anew market for slaves.” in 1729, King George li. granted supplies to African forte, for the protection of ships engag ed in the slave trade. The petition of the Liverpool Merchants, in 17-18, reads : "The African slave trade is the great pillar anil huppurt of the British plants- i tions in America." Between 170*1 and 1750 the British ports were Ailed with slaves. And during this period of fif ty years, over 1,500,000 negroes were kidnap ped in Africa— or«; eighth of whom perish' I oil the voyage to America. The bed ot the . jean beneath-the slayer's track has been paved with flic |iones of tho negro by Englishmen. ' * Under the reign of William and Mary the House of Commons resolved to open the trade in negroes, “for the lietter supply ol the planta tions in America.’’ The following sentence is found in England's S'aluto hook.;; "The fsluve) trade is highly beneficial and advantgaeous to the kingdom arid colonies.” England's Kings and Queens derived pin mo ney' from the slave trade for more than n centu ry and a halt, and royal decrees gave it support for many years later. A full century of sueces sjvc Ministries voted for it and gave it support. in 1797, South Carolina made complaints against the “vast importat on of negroes” by* English traders. Governor Oglethorpe notified the British Ministry tiiat “ifstaves were brought into Georgia, lie must leave the State.” In 1719. England removed the royal restric tion on tbo slave trade, and it was- opened to public competition -“for,” reads the Statute, j "the slave trade is very advantageous to Great Britain.” Adout the saint' period oneot the highest civil tribunals known in tho English Code decided that “negroes were lawful merchandise.” It is proper to state that this decision was made in order that England could have the entire trade to herself, as stipulated in tho treaties. According to the Abolition Bancroft, three mil- Horn of negroes were imported into this country by tin century previous to 177(1; uud tiro hand it<! ard/fly thousand uriu thrown into the .Atlantic ocean while fit iransifu. Only think of it, British ship owners, acting under the authori ty of the British Government, have thrown into the sea •more than bait tho population of Liver pool, in Ali-lean captives! Tins is English “phil anthropy.” President Madison once said that the “British Government constantly checked Virginia's en - deavor to stop the slave trade.” Compare these facts with Ear! Russel is late - peechi's, ns itippired by Exeter Hall, aiul then admire British consistency. Oft a: v'tjovs Before C«ari.e3to.\—Kxw.niwifxT xo with “GitEtK. Finn.” A letter in the New 'roik Time*, lioin Morris’ island, Rays: A uumber of experiments with Gieek fire have 1 ei n ieemtly made by Me. Short, the in ventor, in presence of several offleeis ot rank, j with a view of e ntradicting the impression that the lie'll i roiita'inirig tile lire exploded pre maturely. the gun was placed in position on the bench, ntui pointed seawa and. Ten tin tubes, eavh oi which is three inches i t leagi-h and three* torn ihe *rtilt inch in diameter, and filled with tnivteiiul composing tho Greek file, were then dropped in a nuucji sit it ami filled round with powder, 't he first shell* thrown exploded pre mat.aivly.4n e msequence’. it is said, of a defect in the tn-e. Tho shells subsequently tilled had white lead placed round tho fuse-cap, and, with perhaps one or twoVxeep imis,,!'ully accomplish ed all that had been claimed foi them. A dozen shells were tired, nine of which exploded at a distance oi 1200 raids. To -how the powerful effect of I lie Greek fire. h number off ih'es wye ligated and submerged in water, whore they w ere allowed to remain un it! ncaviv horned, and then taken out. but the bright idite llama was not extinguished. Other tubes were lighted and completely buried in moist > ind, which was closely packed, but this also t.iih-d to quench the tire. 'I lie tubes burn for about n inmu'e and a half. When first ignit ed the. lire issues from oue end of the tube w Uh a tierce, rushing sound, not unlike that which accompanies the flight of a rocket, and extends tbo distance ol a y ard, but it soon sinks down Urn dt /.hug blue tlame oi'about two inches in lenght, losing i's peculiarity of sound, and thus continues to bum to the end. Ail ignited tube in a basin of water gives the latter the appear ance ot boiling. It emits a heavy sulphurous smoke in large quantities. SkcaKTAB? Ciiase on Foreign Affairs.— At a I,tie great Repiihlican meeting in Cincin nati, Secretary Chase made a king speech ill which he allude. 1 to the foreign affairs of Fed cfaldwu in the following sign!tic lot terms : We are showing our strength to the nations of the earth, and if we simply go on showing our'strength there will lie no danger whatever of intervention. There will be no danger, be cause it will not pay. It, is true that Great Britain has behaved very unneighborly. We used to think this great Anglo-Saxon family was to stand together the world over to estab lish freedom of the press, freedom of the bal lot -box. freedom of thought, freedom of speech, and freedom for all; but of late years we have seen manifestations of a very unkind and nn friendly spirit: and sometimes l have felt as if I wanted to take old mother England 'by the ha l r and give her a mighty good shaking. 1 am not sure that this i« the wisest plan; but of this I feel tolerably sure, :hat England will not send ativ more pirate ships out against ns; and I think that when England thinks the matter ‘nv.-r < ajroly when site reft* is of the Alabama,, fitted out in a RritDh p..rl, manned by British seamen, armed by Itriti.h guns, and ever since roving i ver the seas, plundering meroh int ves sels, without bringing a single one Into any port—win n <he> eorne to look over these things, they will conclude it is host to pay the American merchants lor till tbe pillage the Alabama bos done. W-e have get a sort of new empire upon our bor-leisin Mexico. Well , gentlemen, I ara not much disturbed about th it. Empires will not last long in Central America. 1 don’t know how long this empire-—if it gets l>orn—will last. 1 here was an attempt to make an empire in Mexico some time ago, and, if 1 am not m’s iakin was no .areal- success. Ido not know fiat this Austrian Emperor will find his bed of roses there, but 1 am strongly Inclined to think I hat the roses will be very few mid the bed verv hard. lam witting to trust to the future; and I am perfectly Sure, taking all things into consideration, that the European mouarchs will. In ttie end, think it best to keep tneir in stitutions at home. lam confident of this. I do not propose any particular measures just now. It is never wise to advance what you are g, dug to do a great while in advance of doing it; but I think the time will como when the world will reconsider these thing--, and when this Republic of ours will be established from tbe Gulf towards the Pole, and from the At lantic to the Pacific, based upon freedom and liee tabor, gathering strength from our pres ent contest, and rising from It grander than ever. AUGUSTA. GA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 11, 1863. ' Fr cvce axo thr CoTTO.x Suppi.v.—.Some of 1 the-principal French cotton manufactures, who i have been greatly inconvenienced in oonse* j qaenee of tire difficulty of obtaining raw col -1 ton from the United Statesrineethecommenae ; riiant of the civil*war determined to seek tor a supply elsewhere. With that view they Com missioned M. DroUet, uu experienced traveler, to proceed to Senegal, to ascertain the practi cability ofculti vat mg cotton in that colony. M. Drouet has executed his commission, and has addressed a report to the Committee of Mauu lactui es. He arrived in Goree in October last, and having obtained a gro it deal of information from traders from the interior, lie left for rit. Louis on the 11th of November. He commenc ed operations at St. Louis by purchasinga small quantity of cotton there offered for sale at a high price ; and his appearance in the mar ket induced many native grew era to bring fresh supplies to ids house for su’e. The Governor placed a gunboat at his disposal to eu ihlo him to navigate the river Senegal, au ! ha commen ced an interest!, g journey at the eud of No vember, ascending the river as far as I’odor, seventy leagues from St. Louis. In the course of his journey he visited in succession Richard Toll, the nursery of the I government, in w rich there is a cotton plnntu ] tioijj the Island of Tood, in which a Europe ! an ius planted one hundred and twenty acres | with cotton, :«ul is preparing to extend t he cui ; tivation annually ; Havana and Podor; huidiim ! places on the banks of river, and several viil.a --t ges of which the chiefs promised to cultivate j cotton, and to encourage others to do so. .ie observed that wherever cotton had been plant !ed it succeeded admirably. At Daker Bango, near St. Louis, locusts had injured the cotton crop this year, tint they seldom make tneir ap pearance in that country more than once in tweu ty or thirty years. Hitherto the natives on the banks of the Senegal have suffered the cotton plants to grow without cultivation, and having obtained sufficient for their domestic purposes they left the remainder to rot on the ground. It has been ascei tained that the extensive pro vince of Oualo in the neighborhood of fit. Louis possesses immence plains of wild cotton. French officers who commanded a late expedi tion into the interior gave M. Drouet a veiy encouraging description of the country, and of its capability for producing cotton, j M. Drouet is of opinion that the natives who have already commenced thecultivation of the plant ought to be encouraged by large pur chases for Europe, otherwise they may become disappointed and abandon it. M. Drouet re tained to Goree in December, utter-having left orders with agents to continue to make pur chases of raw cotton at fit. Louis and ou the banks of the liver o! Senegal. Hesuhscquont ly visited the valley of Signofil in company with the Governor of Goree. He recommends thi.*; valley a fit place to cultivate cotton ou a urge scale. lie also went to Joal, accompani ed by the Bishop of Seneganibia, who lias es tablished a cotton plantation about forty miles by sea from Goree in a favorable position.— Since the reception of M. Dronet’s report the Minister of Marine and tho Colonies lias made a grant to the manufactures by whom he was employed of 3,500 acres of land, to be im mediately cultivated by them, in the valley of Signotfil, in Seneganibia. Gk\. SiBOKi. on tub Win —Gen. Siegel, one of the mouth pieces of the Federal ndajinstra tion, has been making a speech ou tlie War at Wheeling Va. Here is his opinion: My friends, this is a sacred war -a war wag - ed for the last hope of man. It is a war between iroedom and slavery -between humanity and iu humauily —bet wen progress and barbarism Loving freedom as Idid in my-fatherland, and having long known and felt that division and discord was weakness and despotism, I shrink horn the thought of seeing my adopted country divided and made the pray of tyrants. The same great battle for the onward inarch of free - dom is being fought in America now that has been repeatedly fought in the old world ; the same that we fought ill England under Charles I—in France under 'Louis XVl—in Germany during Du* thirty years' war. It is the same that was fought in Switzerland when the south ern cantons of that now happy land r* belled.— it is tltd same that was lately fought in Rely un der the lead of Garibaldi, who broke down the tyranny of the kingdom of Naples and drove, but the hated born bon. The rebellion is the Naples of America. There can be no. liberty, to composute, no peace until it is crushed. My 1 fiends, this Is the same war of 1771!. — Thisiiation then went to war to estsbish the rights of man. filie is now at was to maintain them. It is not a plaything to put down Midi a rebellion as this. lam afraid we do not all see the full extent of the dangers that t ireaten u?, and although it may Mot be policy in me to point them all out. yet we should not deceive ourselves in regaid to wliat may be in the future. This gi'i'at republic, where ail o( us have so long been free, and happy; and prosperous, is threatened with more dangers than one. Look at England —look at Fi ance—look at Mexico—look at Jeff. Davis—look at the Copperheads in our midst.— all are working to the same end ; all are in uni on to destroy this great and good Government. What means the editing of Maximilian a eeion of the tyrant house ol llapslmvg, to Mexico?— Does it mean liberty ? No ;it means white sla very, just as Jeff. Davis’s rebellion means black slavery. Napoleon who lias destroyed the lib erties of France, ndw threatens ours. Perfidi ous England, who lister dose anything boidly nor openly :*s secretly at work in alliance with the cotton planters of the South, filie is at tho head of the scheme for establishing Maximilian in Mexico. Some of you complain that tfccFederal Govern ment is tyrannical. lam of those who believe it is too lenient. I am so because I see, the gieat dangers which it has to meet. It must s*ve itself from tin* hands of its destroyers. It it cannot reason with them, it must arrest them. Severe discipline is always a mercy ; it is always good policy. Do not be deceived by those Who cry peace in your ears. It is the effort of the | enemy to break you down. Federal Civilization. —The similarity of tastes existing liewteen those humane and c-iv liaed kin of Africa, governed by Fix coi.N.’s .brethren, the Kings of A shanlee and Dahomey, is fully illustrated in the warfare carried on by the Yankee Government against the Confederate States and tlie Western Indians. The Yankees poison their bullets ; their Afri can brothers, not so far advanced in science, use poisoned arrows and spears. Tlie Africans cut the throats of their prisoners, and drink their blood Hie Yankees, it seems, are going to kill and scalp some of theirs, whether taken in battle, or as non-combatants. The following paragraphs are from the Chicago T imes. The Governor of Minnesota has offered a bounty for Indian scalps. If any Indians ;re Taken prisoners, he may find in Fox’s Book of ! of Martyrs ingenious methods of torture, which, Kji" app ied, will be in happy aecord w-ith the : scalping lie promises to reward. In adopting : Indian me*hods of warfare, he introduces ?mong civilized people a barbarism which the brture of prisoners would fitly illustrate. The j Lincoln Administration, in ordering the.Hig gensen and Montgomery raids in Florida adop ! ted the Sioux stjfe of war, In the murder of j prisoners already commenced by the North, in I this civil wai, how much are we behind the I Sioux ? We are Christians, i According to the Troy Whig, the United States Government is engaged in manufactur ing poisoned bullets. Farther comments on such barbarities are utmaawsary. F.xpfkiknci: ix A Ebdkhar. Pri ot.—A Sottll.- ei n goptidiian, who was on ids wav from Eng land to Dixie, last summer, through the United States, was air. sled in Cincinnati and thrown into prison. In a lelttr to the London Index lie gives his experience in a Federal prison.— Some portions of his story are truly revolting. Annexed will be found extract* trout his let ter : a H'\" Rout my sick couch f was escorted to miJitai v prison, placed in the top or sixth story ol an oh] furniture factory. 1 wo lamps were dimly burning in quite a large room, where some hundred and titty oth er prisoners were wrapped in sleep, Being ve ry ill I was completely exhausted, having had to walk nearly a mile with the guard. Enter ing this horrible abode t was firs' awed at the ghastly sight of human beings stretched pro miscuously on a AoOr loathsome with grease and fit 1 1 ; the odor, too, from the sleeping mul titude, together with the stench from tlie adja cent water closets, made the scene and feeling* thus experienced Iho most her rid that imagina tion can well picture. Escorted to my “berth.” with the tiUVy Ho..j* for my ln-d, the same for my pillow, 1 \v.» invited to "test.” Asking to be excused from participating in this “hospi tality,” I was allowed the privilege of resting my exhausted person on a broken down chair with three legs, which was the only piece of furniture in the room. Placing the chair scant agadwt a large support beam, I made it an swer tin* double purpose of supporting my back as well as the chair while watching for the dawn of day. The stench of the room, thcfiltli of the place and prisoners, by no means tended to shorten tin* hours which counted as weeks to me. At last (he dawn apnearod. Several of tbo prisoners, half a bait and chain attached to their legs, and one poor fellow, be cause he refused to perform some menial of fence, was'gagged 111 the foam came out of his mouth in large quantities, and he finally rolled over, supposed, by many to be strangled to death ; he afterwards recovered, however, though at the lime his life was despaired of.— Poor fellow, he excited universal pity, even horn the guard, as his mouth was forced open and the gag placed tightly in it. Thought are we translerml to the regions of demons ? or are tiie awful tragedies of tho past to lie re enacted in this once peaceful and happy oottn * * * 'The history of this war, when it is written, will prove that the “women catchers” and the “women lightens'' have ptoved them selves incompetent for any other business.— Take, (or instance, Butler, Hooker, Mitchell, Burnside, Milroy, Hunter, and a host ol other more insignificant brutes, whose claims to gen eralship or Christianity is hardly so just as the baboon who claimed that because ite wore a gentloni in's hat, ho must at least be a gentle man. The Effects of Lincoln’s Oppressive Policy in .Missoultr.—The wtio are loyal to the South have at last determined to bear tamely tlie oppressive acts of Lincoln and his satellites no longer. They have organised themselves into guerrilla bands, aud are visi ting upon the Lincolnites a fewof the miseries which have licet visited upon them. A cor respondent of the New York Tribune narrates some of their doings thiis : Meanwhile, Confederate guerrillas, bush whackers and outlaws are having it pretty much their own way throughout Missouri. Men are shot down in their houses for no other rea son than that they are l uion men. Morses, barns, and even towns are burned. So general and so common are these conflagrations that no mention is made of. half of them. Due paper in the Northwestern part of tin* State says that tin* midnight sky is constantly illumina ted by tbe Muz i of burning buildings. Out side of St. Louis no Union man is sure of his life flout one day to another. All sorts of nameless acts are committed day by day, and in many portions'of the State society is drift ing into anew barbarism, tenfold worse than the old oue which once shrouded the world. The civil government is powerless and mak- s no pretensions otherwise. Nobody fears it ; nobody respects it; but everybody laughs at it as the incarnation of imbecility and conserva tism. The militai;y, though adorned with the paraphernalia of strength, seems to make but little progress toward the suppression of out-' lawry and tlie rcstoiatjon of prime 11141 order. When.tho Union men of Alissouri were mur dering the Southerners, and plundering and burning their property, the Tribune thought it was all right, and cheered them on in their fieniFsh ivoik. But now. “the boot being on the other leg,” Greeley changes his tune, and shrieks and howls most piteously. If the Union men of Alissouri are robbed of all their possessions, no one can be blamed but them selves. Tney will simply have the measure meted on! to them w.iieh they have meted out to others. Important Decisions.—’ Two appl cations un der xyrits of habeas corpus have recently been made to Chancellor Inglis, on the behalf of persons held by the enrolling officer of Marl borough District, S. C. as conscripts, for dis charge from custody on the ground that the applicants hiul heretofore been exempted from service upon furnishing substitutes, in each of these cases Hie substitute was not within tlie age of ((inscription when mustered into the service, but, has become so by the extension of the age, and is embraced within the hut call of the President: The Chancellor refused the applications and remanded the petitioner in (Rich case to the custody of the enrolling offi cer, holding the permission given by; Congress to render militai y service by substitute is a mere indulgence, and necessarily upon condi tion resulting from the very nature of substi tution, that tile Substitute does not himself owe the service which he is rendering for another ; that the 9ih section of the Act of April 16, 18G2, containg tbe grant of the indulgence, up on a proper construction of its terms, affirm this general principle, aod the several Genet al Orders of the Secretary of Mar on the subjec’, beginning with No. 37 ol May 19th, 1862, more clearly roitente it, and that, theiefore, when ever one acling’as a substitae, tier I ones from any cause in lrs own right bound to the service which lie is rendering t (| r another, although when received he not liable lor duly, the sub stitute must instantly cease and the principal being r.o longer exempted by reason of the substitution must fulfil his uncompleted term of service. In one of tfie cases it is said further ground for tlie continued exemption of the applicant was taken, that tlie substitute is a free negro, and *o “not liable for duty." The Chancellor, while holding that upon the evidence before , him ho must regard the substitute as a tree white roan, signified that, if it were otherwise, he should feel compelled to treat the substitu tion as void, as in his judgement, free negroes ■ could not legally bu received as substitu’es. j Official Vote for Governor. — We give be low the official vote for Governor of Georgia. The entire' vote cast is 62.293 iu the counties reported, which exhibits a large decrease from the last vote polle i for Governor. The coun ties of Fannin, Gilmer. Camden, Charlton and Emanuel, not having reported up to the time the following official vote was received by ns, it is not likely they will come in at all. 'The following is the vote : County vote—Brown, 21,95 T ; Hill, 12.684 ; Furlow. 0,562. Brown’s majority over both, 2,738. Army- vot'—Brcwn, 13,454; Bill, 4,664; Furlow, 2,797. Brown’s majority over both, 5,992. majority for Brown oyer both, 3 " Zte-—.AiUnta Intelligencer, Awcdoti sor Guv b'oisKcsr.— the Atlanta Confederacy publishes tin* annexed anedotes about Gen. Forrest : AX' OLD WOMAN CDAKGRS OX It EX FORREST. It is well known tiiat lor ten davs previous to the battle oi Chickaraatiga. General Forrest was busily engaged, in skirmishing with Ilose cranz’s advance forces ns far South as Tunnel Hill. At lliis pcint Crittenden’s command, 15- 000 strong, was feeii *g its way cautiously, and being constantly picked off from trees on every hill. Just above Tunnel Hill a large body of-Fed erais moved up. and Foin stj who Lad at the time only 400 men with him. ordered them to fail back in double quick. Here they met sin old woman, riding a gray “critter,'*’ who, feed ing indignant- at wluit she considered a father hasty back step of tho rebels, pulled off her sun hornet, and galloped up to General For rest where he wqs phicing.some men in ambush and railed out. Stop! Stop I yon cowardly ras cals. Why don't you fight? Where are* you' running to ? Who ate you afoard of !’’ The General seeing and hearing (lie old lady soolUlug so haul, said in his quiet, cool way, “Madam, you had better ride back . yon may get hurt.” “Hurt I Dont care if do. 1 wont run. 1 wish to God Ol I Fun eat was hole', lle'd make you stand, and light too.” fio saying, she dashed on in the direction, of the Federais, who soon came in range of the guns of the men who had just been concealed, when down came four or five of the Yankee advance. The old lady tacked, and came gal loping back and in a half cry said, “ My God, 1 never did see the like I them men are just killing one anotlrcr-like dogs !” “Every body will get killedand on she rode, but a few paces when her critter received a shot in the n ck, and was dead in a few mo ments. The old* lady, by the assistance of some soldiers, got her bridle and saddle off. and shouldering them put out for homo on foot, crying as she went' "gracious me : every body will get killed.” GEN, FORREST A It A If. SPLITTER. Many plantations have been ruined, and much .unnecessary 'damage done to farms all over.«the country where troops luive been en camped, in consequence of the too thoughtless an I often real wanton burning of fence rails. Not long since, General Forrest’s command encamped near a nice and well enclosed farm. After night, the General, as is his custom 1 took a little s roll around and among tlie camp tires, where he discovered large piles of good rails brightly burning, ■ and this, too, in the immediate presence of two. Colonels and alt the Captains. He observed it all, but said notliing- A significant smile played'over his stern fea tures which the boys interpreted to mean, pile 'em on, and the rails were brought with alacrity, ami the cheet'ul blaze was much en- joyed. Early the next morning tho old farmer came out and discovered his rails were nearly all gone, and were still being offered up as a burnt offering. lie sought tlie ; resenpe of ’General Forrest, and being justly indignant, exclaimed, ”1 have hearn of you a heap, and that you was a good general, and a good tar mer, hut you are neither. No good man would burn his neighbor’s rails.” The Genera! said but little, and all his boys were surprised at bis not pitching into the old man, who used language plainer than was com mon for anybody fou.se to tlie great fighting man of Die army. After exhausting himself, the old man re turned indignant and in disgust to his resi dence. On the-thhd morning the last rail of a twen ty acre field was ill ashes, when an order was issue,l for a detail of men to press axes from the surrounding country. It was a strange ri der. hut was obeyed, and by 13 o’clock hun dreds of axes were in camp. Order No. 2 tin'll came, which ordered every man and officer, under (lie immediate supervision of the two Colonels, to take a hand in felling trees and .splitting rails, in twenty-four hours a bran new ten rail fence, well put up, enclosed the plantation. Since that big rail splitting, the General's command always look around in the woods for fuel. oi.pTUk our Troops—Provide for their fami lies—A correspondent of Ihe .Richmond En quirer in Northern Virgiania writes thus about ou soldiers and their families; Os course the men are well fed, and, in she main, com’ort ibly clad—the only articles need ed being shoes and blankets. The first article, I am told, is much needed, and I hope a lull sup ply w ill soon be sent the men by voluntary con tributions’from those portions of the country which have suffered least and made the most. Let not the brave defenders of our country's honor be made to feel the biting severity of frost and snow upon’their unproteced feet in a land ahouning in plenty, and they -themselves! fighting for a people whose em'y misfortune is a super abundance of means. And let not our peo ple wait to see the foot tracks cf their brave de fenders imprinted upon the snow, and ice of this rigorous climate ;but let contributions pour forth at once—contributions that may be grateful to the soldiers, creditable to the donors, and hon orable to the country. Shoes are needed, and we shall soon see if shoes are' forthcoming. Blank ets, too, are ingreat demand, and the need must increase as the weather grows colder. Tho no - hie women of the count)y ought to send for ward at once suph supplies of these articles us they can gather. Especially, ought they to do this for those who, like Hays’ gallant Louisian ians, faltered not. though cut off from home and Iriends and kindred—There is another subject which, though a home matter, yet, as it concerns the army, I will venture a word in reference to it—l mean tlie question of taking care of the families of soldiers during the coming winter. Jtisa question of deep ami vital importance, and oi.e that should claim serious attention. It is idle to expect that our soldiers, brave as they are and patriotic as they have been,-wifi bfe cheerful or bold if tlie wives of their bosoms, the children of their loins and tlie parents of their infancy are permitted to .uT'er, whilst they themselves are uobl v doing and daring to save the cause' and the substance of those who are hoarding their wealth, ami enabled to protect it by the sacrifices of the men in the field. Now, more than ver. to be successful, this mu t he a c .nun.>li r-nuse, or cl -e all may be lost -'J he for mer air i Ihe merchant, whose property has l ecu plotectcd and whose coffers have been tide I, must divide with the wives of the soldiers who have been lighting without money and without ' price, for the liberties of the country, or all must be involved in hopeless ruin. Brownlow Again. —Brownlaw is again in the field, with another letter. The bitterness of this old renegade appears to increase with his age. In a recent manifesto he remarks thus : 'The meditation 1 advocate is that of tbe can non and theswojd: and let there be no armis tice, on sea or land, until all the rebels, front and rear, North and South, are subjugated or exterminated. And then let condign punishment lie speedily rneeted out to the surviving lead ers of this unholy crusade against civilizatio i. My motto is, Greek fire lor tfie masses and bell fire for the leaders. And none but the loyal should be consulted in the great casting up of these accounts. , Hog Cholera.— Speedy and Effectual (/are. — Tar and grease mixed in equal proportions is a certain antidote for this prevalent and fatal disease. The made of trea ment is as simple as the remedy itself. Catch the infected animal, turn it upon its back, gag it, and drench it with ; nearly a gill of the mixture. The effect is almost instantaneous. In a few hours the animal re- I gains its appetite is seen busily engaged in quest of food. , \OL LXXVIf—NEW SERIES VOL. XXVII. N 0.45 | Directions fop. CoLLEt’iTNis axu DnYtxit Med i ICI.VAL SI’BSTAXCtj.OK THE VEGETABLE KIXUOO.MC Dr. J. I’. Porcher. in his Botanical Resource* give* the annened directions, for collecting and drying medicinal substances of the vegetable kingdom : All leaves, flowers and herbs should be pre ferably gathered in clear, dry weutlnT. in liie morning, alter the dew is exhaled. The roots of medicinal plauts, although more advantageously gathered at certain periods, to be hereafter specified, do not lose their medicin al virtues in consequence of being dug in mid.- snmmer. It is .probable that most of those im ported are tints collected by savages of ignorant persons, when the plant is in full leaf, it beiitj then more easily recognized. Plants, Annual, should be gathered at the time when vegetation is most vigorous, which is generally from the time they begin to flower until their leaves begin to change. Plants, Biennial, should, in most instances, be gathered in tlie second season of their growth, and about the time ot flowering. Boots of Annuals are to be gathered just be fore the time of (lowering. Boots of Biennials are to be gathered aftei the vegetation of tbe first year has ceased. Boots of Perennials are to lie gathered in the spring, before vegetation lias commenced. Boots should be washed, aud the smaller fibres, qnlue they arc the, part employed, should be thense parated fi'om the body of the.root, which, wessh "of any considerable size, Ts to be -cut in saves previous to being dried. Bulbs are to be gathered after tbe new bulb is perfected, and before it lias begun to vegetate, which is at the time, the leaves-decay. Those which are to be preserved fresh should be lurried in dry sand. Barks, whether of the root, trunk or branches, should be gathered in tlie autumn, or early in the spring. The dead epidermis or outer bark, and the decayed parts, {should be removed, t>f some trees (as the elm) tlie inner bark only Is preserved. Leaves are to be gathered after their full de velopment, before tlie fading of flic flowers. The leaves of biennials do not attain I heir per - sect qualities until tlie second year. Flowers should, in general, be gathered at the time of their expansion, before or immediate ly after they have fully open; some-as the Rosa Galliea —while in bud. Aromatic Herbs arc.to be gathered when in flower. A Scene for ax Artist. — A . correspondent of tae Atlanta Intelligencer sketches the fol lowing impressive scene: A few nights ago we bad a fine sermon from the chaplain of tlie sixtli Georgia, Bov. Mr. Thompson. An empty flour barrel served as bis pulpit, and the broad expanse bis boose of worstin' By the dimly burning faggots jf our camp-fires *he read his text and hymns; the pale rays of a silvery cresenfc hanging in the heaven high, now and then crept through tbe heavy I'oiloge of the swamp ; tile stream wind ing round our camp murmured tnusieallp as it hurried itself on to the sluggish waters of tin' -Obiekamauga. The men were all squatted tailor fashon on Ihe ground, in a circle round tlie uvnister, and our horses were tethered near clcse by, tlie drowsy sentinel paced his weary beat—at once a soul-stirring* hymn broke forili, and for tlie first time, perhaps, the pi ice re sounded with the notes of Christian worship, ft was a novel uud inpressive 'scene, and one that would have furnished a painter a prett v job. What Abolitionmji ms nose for the Nobth. The Chi*ogo ’limes in remarking about the “fruits of Abolitionism” sums up what Abolitio administration has doiwt foj* the North thus : Tb* first abolition administration lias sup plied us many things of which we were never before posssed. It lias given us thousands of widows and orphans ; filled our streets with manned and broken huma’n beings ; erected for oitr accomodation numberless military prisons ; furnished us lavinhTy with military authorities, spies and informers, after ihe manner of Aus tria; has blessed us with an army of tax gatherers and hungry officials, who consume the substance of the people ; entailed upon us a nat’onal debt to which that of England will soon be a mere circumstance ; lias demonstra ted that America can excel the world iu thievery and corruption, and lias finally en-‘ abled us to realize the beauties of a military conscription.—These are a few only of the favours for. which we are indebted to Ibis abolition administration. As an offset to the desirable gifts.it lias relieved us of the habeas corpus, tlie right of trial by jury, and other medieval superfluities, for which we .-Jiould all be still more grateful. Decision of the French TrilUsai. in the Case of the Alabama.— The following highly important official decision in regard io-ihe Con federate steamer Alabama is taken from a. leading French journal : In the eyes of France, the Northern. States and the Southern States of the American Un ion are belligerents, that is to say, two nations in a state of war. The Union not having accepted the decima tion of the Cutgress of Paris abolishing priva teering, has a right to issue letters-of-niurque. The vessel Alabama, carrying the Hag ol the Southern States, cannot be regarded as a pi rate, but merely as a privateer, since she rep resents neutrals, and makes use of force against none hut the enemies of tho Confeder ates. Hence, the burning at son of a ship and the merchandize it contains, constitutes an- act, of warfare for which the insurers are not respon sible without a special, agreement. Receipt- for Dyking. —Take red oak hark sufficient to make four gallons of very strong dye, boil very strang, then strain it, and add two table spoons full of blue stone, then dry your thread in the dye, then in strong lye, re peat it for four times, then-hang out and let it get half dry, and rinse in clear water. Blue Dye. —Take one quarter of a pound of j extract of logwood, pul in to four gallons of wu j tt-r. lioii oue half an hour, add two table spoons full of bine stone, put in your thread or cloth, | boil one half hour more, tako it out and let it air fifteen minutes longer, take out and wash out in warm soap suds, thou rinse in dear water. Black Dyf,. —But a quarter of a pound of ex '.lacto logwood in three gallons ot water, boil it thirty minutes, add two table spoons lull of copperas, put in your thread, boil fifteen min - utes, take out, wash in strong soap suds, then air and rinse in clear water. Yellow 1)yi:. -Take of each ajlot of sassafras, swamp bay, and butterfly root, j.nt in four gal lons of water, bail until’strong, then strain and put in your thread or cloth aiid'ljoii thirty min utes, tako out and air fifteen nt incites then rinse in clear wa er and let it dry. Five pounds of thread can be dyed in an y of these. _ Cure for Chills ash Fever. -Mr. km l ’)... Bv inserting the following receipt lor -Ue one of chills and fever, in your paper, you c in fer a great benefit upon the piiolu-. ‘ - a remedy I hare used lor years, « •<! gve found it in many cases more ettKaumt quinine. , ‘ Receipt.— Mix with a wine glass of viii«ga> the seed* taken from the pods oi three red peppers and drink one hour before the ei.poct £d return of the chills. A Physician. Gen. Armstrong is to take command ca the division lately commanded by Gen. forrdst in Bragg’* army.' ! PCPCLATIO 1 Au. I'ROi CCIR V F UtCOnQiA. Tlie Comptroller General, in his report, cflvya tlie following valuable statistics : White’popu lation. 596,998, being sn increase of 75 42g over the census of I860; slave population’ 168,540, an increase of 76,358; total 1,055,538; an increase of 149,353. The population of- !t --‘vanunh. 22,292, an increase of 6.258; August , 12,843, an increase of 740; Go! uni bus. 9,621, an increase of 2,679; Atlanta. 9,554, an increase ol 0.892; At aeon, 8,247, an increase ot 2,597. 1 his was the status in 1860. fiince that time, the populat ion ot the cities have been affected by the fortunes of war. Some are larger and some are smaller. The value of improved land, $7,948,292, an increase of $1,569,818; unimproved land, 818,055,866, an increase of $1,612,956; cash value of farms, $154,683,981, an increase of $58,930,536; value of farming implements amt machinery, $6,682,137, an increase of $687,- 987. Number ot horses, 128.744, a decrease of 22.557; ot asses and mules, 100,722, an in crease of 43,343; of milch cows, 293,669. a decrease of 40,554; of working oxen, 73,620; an increase of 334; other cattle. 619,199, a decrease of 70 820; total numher of cattle, 936,488, a decrease of 111,040; of sheep, 500,- 971, a decrease ot’ 59.464, of swine, 2,001.004, a decrease of 157,618: value of live stock, $37,161,884, an increase of $11,433,468; bush els of wheat, 2.506,702, an increase of 1,418- 168; bushels of rye, 105,374, an increase of 51,624; bushels of*lndian corn, 30,213.819, an increase of 133,720; oats. 1,’215.627 bushels, a decrease of 2,604,417; 58,377,613 pounds of rice, an increase of 19,426,922; 925.093 pounds of tobacco, an increase of 501,169; 697,935 bales of ginned cotton: 400 pounds each, au increase of 198.544;»914.916 pounds of wool, a decrease of 75,103; 1,733,023 bushels of peas and beans, an increase of 596,612; 289,568 bushels of Irish potatoes, an increase of 62,189; 6,511,105 bushels of sweet potatoes, a deereaso of 475,333; 15,176 bushels of barley, an in cieasc of 3,675; 1,590 bushels of bn*k'vheat, an increase of 1.340; value of orchard pro ducts in dollars, $175,066, an increase of $82,290; 26,476 gallons ot wine, an increase of 25,680; value of produce of market gai ilens. $191,271, an increase of $114,771; 5,296,- 603 pounds of butter, an increase of 656,014, J 4,813 pounds of cheese, a decrease of 32,133; 3,159 pounds of flax, a decrease of 2.228; 110 bushels of flax seed, a decrease of 672; 8,236 pounds of maple sugar, an increase of 3,187; 932,000 pounds of came sugar, a decrease of 7)0,000; 269,746 gallons of molasses, an in crease of 413,586; 64,690 pounds of beeswax, an increase of 15,756; 944,885 pounds of honey, an increase of 201.205; value of tome made manufactures, $1,445,682, a decrease of $333,280: value of animals slaughtered, sll,- 031,788, an increase of $4,695,026; acres of land returned, 83 345,299; aggregate value of bind returned, $161,761,955; average value ot land $4 85 per acre. This comparison is made between the returns of 1860 and 1850. l'be exhibit contains find tot* reflection. It demon si rales that the capacity of Georgia has never been fully tested’for producing food crops. The number of acres of improved land in ten . years increased but 24 per Cent., while the in crease in the value 01 tarns amounted to 6i pet* cent. Tho production of cotton increased 39 per cent., juvbile tiiat of com was not quits one halt of 1 per cent., Cot beginning to keep up with the increase of population, 16 per cent. Although the production of peas and beans in creased' 52 per cent., rice 49 per C? ll *., wheat 130 per cent., there was a decrease *.T ■all animal food used for the support of man, swine decreasing near, 8 percent., and cattla II percent, the increase of slaughtered aui mats was 74 per cent., but a part of them were brought from other States. The increase in tlie value of live stock of 74 per cent., was due to tlie decrease of the number of live stock. Horses decreased 15 per cent., and mules in creased 75 per cent., showing that the pe .pla bad neglected the raising of horses and mules, and bad purchased largely of the tatter front Kentucky, Ohio and other States. With every facility of soil and climate to raise all our bread amt meat, we have been guilty of the stupendous folly of making cotton and depend ing upon others to supply us. Thu Report contains also a mortifying expose of the manner in which the State Income Tax lias been dodged aud evaded to such an extent as lo whittle down tiro anticipated revenue of $1,500,000 or 2,000,000 to some $500,000.—- This disappointment lias been brought about I)3’ manufacturers and dealers adding their profits to theii capital stock, and thus making out a fraudulent or deceptive return of their taxable profits. Tbe law taxed tbe profits of of woolen aud cotton goods and leal her, distillers of spirits, dealers in merchan - cjize, provisions, &c., according to the following schedule : Profits of 20 per cet., 50 cents on the $100; of 30 per cent., $1.50 ou the $100; of 40 per cent., $2; of 100 percent,, $5 on the SIOO, Ac. But it seems that most, of the business thus tax'd has avoided just returns in the manner above indicated—by exhibiting an increase of capital stock commensurate with their profits. Tlie Comptroller instances three factories, whoso capital stock was returned in 1562 at $25,908, $162,531, and $4.4,462, respectively. 'lhcir profits this year have been $70,000, $450,190, and sßß,ooo’ respectively, which, upon the same amount of capital, would have exhibited profits ranging from 97 to 270 per cent. But they avoid the payment, of taxes upon such enorEI Q BS profits, by ret irniDg their capital slock for this year at $118,238, $1,500,458, and $150,000, re spectively. The Comptroller pertinently remarks that this great increase of capital stock is rather remark able, considering that we have had a blockade nearly all the time, and that even had the fac tories needed and desired a double or treble supply of machinery, &c., they could not have purchased it. To show the wonderful irregularity and dis proportion of profits and capital stocks, we copy those of a few counties from the report : * CAPITAL PROFITS TAX Bibb - 3,297,581 1,388,302 40,174 Chatham . 2,870 423 1,234,328 48,412 Clinch 89,881 127,357 50,597 Decatur 68,392 33,062 01,224 Fulton 1,807 800 991,450 81,280 Muscogee 6,550,938 2,426,965 59,213 Newton 278,188 266,684 19,719 Richmond 8,433,175 3,149.460 132,876 Cobh 2,330,066 840,323 1,975,394 Spaulding 806,958 363,442 1,053,461 Bryan, Camden, Colquitt, Eelxils, Fannin. Glynn, Harrison, Erwin, Miller, Milton, Pierce, Stewart, Tattnall and Wayne counties made no retntu. There are. four default cases, viz: one in Clinch, one in Decatur, one in Fnlton and one in Richmond, and each have been charged $50,000 for being in default..--Atlanta Register, Sorghum: Syrup. —Some of our larmers ap pear to have been in too much of a hurry in fre tting their syrup into market. The specimen we have examined are quite rrudo, and refiects but little credit on tho manipulator. They savor strongly of the vegetable acid, and are coveted with fioth, which is. full of specks and small nieces of tbe cane. These are defects which might he so easily corrected, that our friends will take it kindly if we submit a few simple directions in the matter. ft is absolutely necessary for the good keep ing of the syrup that the acid should be neutia lizi-d : and every firmer has tbe means at hang lor doing It. While the syrup is boiling, pour into it from time to time a small quantity of ley, which is to he repeated as long aa there is any effervescence or foaming—skimming each time, so as to reject tlie matter that rises to the surface. And continue to boil until the syrup becomes thfek. ’This may be ascertained by taking up a small- quantity in a spoon it .and letting it cool, when the-desired consistency willbe readily ap parent. Better to have ten gallons of rich, thirst syrup, of "golden color, than'twelve, or even fifteen ol a watery consistency, which no one will buy as long as be can get a superior article — Pet. Ex, •