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rr,tm. rascnssion on the bill occupied tie
morning session. On the passage of the bill
the ayes wfcwl 5, nays 17. So the bill was lost.
HOUSE.
Tuesday A. IL, Nov. 23.
The courtesies of the House were extended
to Hon. H. V. Johnson and Hon. Clifford An
derson.
Capt. Phillip, the member elect from Rich
mond county, appeared, and having received
the oath of office, took his seat.
On mo An. 2,000 copies of the report of the
Georgia Reliet & Hospital Association were
ordered printed.
A biil was reported to amend tljp 3d section
of an entitled an act to amend the revenue
laws of this State.
The went into committee of the whole
on the special order—a bill to appropriate mon
ey for tho indigent familiesS»f soldiers—and
spent morning in
V SENATE.
Wednesday A. M., Nov. 25.
The Senate was engaged this morning in dis
cnssing a resolution to provide for the indigent
families of soldiers.
HOUSE.
** Wednesday, A. M., Nov. 25.
The House took up tho bill for the relief of
the indigent families of solditrs—which was
under consideration at tho close of my last re
p'ort—aid having amended and perfected the
bill, it passed unanimously.
At 11 o'clock the -enato met the House in
General Assembly, and proceeded to the elec
tion of Confederate States Senator.
The names of Hon. R. Toombs, Hon. T. But
ler King, Hon. L. J. Gavtrell, and Hon. H. V.
Johnson, were announced.
On calling the roll, the result was as follows:
Firstl!ai.i,ot— Johnson 79, Toombs 43, King
29, Gartrell 31, Cobb 5, Jenkns 4, H it Jack
son I—total 192; necessary to a choice, 97.
Second Bvt.lot —Johnson 92,Toombs 47, King
24, Gartrell 19, Cobb 4. H. V M. Miller 4, H.
K. Jackßon 1, Jenkins I—total 192; necessary
to a choice, the same as before.
Third Balt.ot -The name of Mr. King was
withdrawn. Johnson 115, Toombs 51, Gartrell
15, Cobb 3, Miller 3, Jenkins 4, Jackson I—to
tal 192; necessary to a choice, 97.
Hon. 11. V. Johnson having received a ma
jority of the votes cast, was declared elected.
The General Assembly then proceeded to
elect a Bank Director for the Bank of the State.
On the first ballot Solomon Cohen, Esq., was
elected.
i lie Sculite then retained to their chamber,
and the House adjourned until3 o’clock P. M.
HOUSE.
Wednesday, P. M., Nov. 25.
The following bills were read first time ; A
bill to deliue what property shall bo held by
elaves; to punish Lhe refusal to take Confeder
ate money—debars persons so refusing from a
judgment three yeais after the war; to author
ize certain -persons to practice medicine ; to
change tho line between Heard and Coweta
counties; to incorporate the Newaau Savings
Bank; to suspend the city charter of Marietta
during the war; for the relief of Daniel Gray,
administrator, &c.; to amend the charter of the
Macon & Western Railroad Cos.
The followi g bills were passed : A bill to
prevent illegal impressments makes it felouy
to impress without authority, punishable with
live to ten yearn imprisonment; to appropriate
Iliads to the use of the Georgia Relief and Hos
pital Association; to amend the charter of the
Traders’ and Importers’ Bank; lor tho relief of
the heirs and legatees of Win. Hogan; to amend
the oath of tax payers—requires them to affix
values in Confer erate money ; to provide for
tho lining of grand, petit and talis jutors.
Tho House—having read the bills for a sec
ond reading—adjourned to ten o’clock to-mor
row morniug.
SENATE.
Wednesday, P. M.. Nov. 25.
Tho Senate was not in session this afternoon.
T made no report Os the morning session. Noth
ing was done but the discussion of a motion to
reconsider the bill to prevent extortion in cot
ton yarns, tc—to fix the price of yarns and
manufactured goods. Tlie motion prevailed.
A resolution in reference to a tithing tax for
the support of indigent soldiers families, was
referred to the Committee on Finance.
The Senate then went into the House to elect
a Confederate States Senator, alter which it ad
journed to 10 o’clock to-morrow.
ai-.r* air,.
Thursday Morning, Nov. 26.
The special order—a bill to restrict cotton
planting- taken up, and, on motion, re
ferred to a spec.Al < ommittee °l live.
The following bin’* were P&*»e<l: A bill to
amend the 2480th section of Code ; to relieve
the banks of tne penalties of suspension.
The. following bil's were lost : A bil to pre
vent the milking of rauge cows ; to compensate
owners for slaves who died while impressed ;
to incorporate the Spaulding Savings Bank ; for
the relief of N. S. Walker ; to change the penal
tv for simple larceny to public whipping.
HOUSE. X
Thursday Morning, Nov. 2".
A motion to reconsider the bill to punish
violations of the impressment law prevailed.
A motion was in ide to reconsider the lost
bill to increase ii>o pnv of ordinaries, &c. The
motion was discussed; but did not prevail.
The committee on c!}e new State beal, ap
pointed at the last session, reported that tlie
new seal is prepared, of which the lollowing is
a description: The face of the seal is two
inches in diameter, and contains three pillars
supporting an arch on whieh the words Con
stitution, 1861," are inscribed. This device is
emblematical of the Constitution supported by
the Legislative, Judicial and Executive Depart
ments. The pillars are on wreathed with a
scroll with tro v ords “Wisdom' ou one pillar,
“JusMce’’ on the next, and “Moderation on
the thin'- The motto of the State—“ State ot
Georgia, 17*76." The report was spread upon
'fie chairman of the Judiciary Committee, to
■whom was referred the biiiS to prevent distil
lation of'grain, reported a bill declaring vio
lation of the distillation act a nuisance, and
requiring the sheriff to arrest parties suspected
of its violation, and at the expiration ot twenty
days, to bring ti*cmto trial before a magistrate,
and if the evidence is conclusive, the sheriff is
required to seise and destroy the still as a
nuisance. The bill passed. r lhe committee
also reported a bill to prevent distillation,
which was read first time. ,
A biU t 0 pay the 4th Brigade the full amount
due for their services. This brigade went into
cau’o at amp McDonald under the agreement
with ife Governor that they be paid half wages
While in eq'np. Tiler at the end of two months
went into at-tivC service and it is deemed just
that they be paid frC™ the time they went into
camp in full, l’iie bill passed.
A bill to repeal the section pf the code which
prohibits the marriage of second cousins, wag
passed
SENATE.
Thursday, P. M., Nov. 26. _
The Senate was occupied this afternoon in
the consideration of bibs oa their passage.
The following biljs were passed: A bill to
prevent owueis of slaves from allowing slaves
to hire their time or live apart from their
owners: to repeal the triad section ot Code, to
allow 7 soldiers to vote at all elections: to amend
the divorce laws of this Scate allows the de
fendant to recriminate; to allow Ordinaries to
draw educational funds for the counties; to re
peal parts of the 2509. 2610, 2512 and 3018
sections of Code— relates to the time of publi
cation in executing titles to estates where the
maker is deceased; to incorporate the Confed
erate Coal Mining Cos. in Dade Cos.; to amend
the act in reference to the jurisdiction of Jus
tices of <he Peace in Savannah.
The following were io.-t: A bill to amend
the 67tu section of Code; to regulate .he dis
posal of writs of haoeas corpus founded upon
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Senate hills a second time and House o.uis urst
time, aud avljourued.
HOUSE.
Thursday P. M.. Nov. 26..
n'he HonW thi» afternoon passed a Senate bill
to increase the salaries of the State Treasurer,
Comptroller an* Secretary of State. aud Gov
-1 It makes the salaries ot i
officers $3,000. of the last j
* Jhe iwlnnc# of the evening iession was #j*nt j
in reading Senate bills first and second time
and House bills second time.
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SENATE.
Friday, A. M., Nov. 27.
A motion prevailed, after some discussion,
to reconsider the lost bill to prohibit auction
sales.
The following bills were introduced: A bill
to extend the corporate limits of the town of
Lawrenceville; to change the name of Union
county to Forrest—in honor of Gen. Forrest.
The balance cf the morning was Bpent on
the militia biil.
HOUSE.
Friday A M., Nov. 27.
The following bills were read first time : A
bill to impose a tax on non-residents who have
cattle running at large ; resolution asking
Congress to grant furloughs to soldiers
who have sick families ; to allow all free
persons of color to choose a master ; a bill to
repeal the act authorizing the ordinary of
Charlton county to keep open his office at
his residence ; resolution to introduce no more
new matter and to adjourn on Thursday next ;
a bill to regulate the election of county trea
surers ; to allow the Board of Education in
each county to increase tuition for poor child
ren ; to amend the charter of Fort Valley ; to
increase jailors’ fees ; to incorporate Fort
Valley Insurance Company ; to appropriate
money to the Lunatic Asylum ; to repeal all
special road laws in Lincoln county.
Tho committee on the State of the Republic
made a report in reference to the right of sol
diers to elect their officers, &c. A minority
report was also made.
The following additional bills, &c., were
read first time : A bill for the relief of L. B.
Evans ; resolution asking the committee on
Iron Supply to report ; bill to facilitate trans
portation ; to authorize guardians to keep to
gether the property of their wards ; to change
the line between Stewart and Quitman coun
ties ; to exempt from taxation property owned
by the Confederate Government in this State ;
to dispense with the call of the counties after
to-day ; to alter the 408th section of code—to
have but one Justice of the Peace and one Con
stable in each county during the war ; memo
rial from citizens of Troupe county; bill to
allow the seizure of cars and railroads in cer
tain cases ; to suspend the statute of limit a
tions.
A resolution was introduced declaring that
no resolution calculated to raise party Issues,
or divide the people, be considered by this
body.. After considerable discussion, tho re
solution, with the resolutions from the commit
tee on the State of the Republic, were made the
special order for Wednesday next.
A bill to increase certain salaries was taken
up, and the salaries of the Governor’s Secre
taries were fixed at $2,500.
The House then prooeeded with reading of
bills on their passage, but no progress was
made worthy of note up to the hour of adjourn
ment.
rOUKION ITEMS.
The French bishops have received permission
to collect subscriptions in their churches for
the Poles.
Numerous engagements continue to be re
ported in Poland. A large number of ladies
were arrested for wearing mourning. The
Pol sli Town Captain Warsaw, issued a procla
mation advising ladies to cease wearing mourn
ill;;, to avoid the brutality of the soldiery. The
exasperation of the population was extreme.
Warlike preparations continue in Russia. An
immense recruitment has been ordered through
out tho empire; earthworks and stone forts are
being constructed at St. Petersburg, Cronstradt,
and other places; the old fort at Constradt is
to be covered with plates of 12-inch iron; ten
or twelve monitors and iron clads have been
ordered, and large quantities of cannon, shot
and shell, have been ordered from England.
Mr. Lindsay, M. P., combats the doctrines
advanced by “Historious,’’the Times’corres
pondent. Mr. Lindsay elaborately attempts to
prove that England favors the North at the
expense of the South, and maintains that if the
same measure of justice is not meted out to
both belligerents, the professions of impartial
neutrality by England are mere empty words.
“Historicus” replies by saying no act of Parlia
ment forbids manufacturing cannon for bellig
erents, but there is an act expressly forbidding
the equipment of vessels of war.
Z. C. Parson, the English shipowner who fur
nished the most famous steam blockade runners
was still in bankruptcy. In his statement of
assets, lie claims, as duo to him, £87,000 from
the Union Government for illegal captures,
and £93,000 by the Davis Government for
breaches of contracts.
Mr. W. O. Jewett has returned to Europe to
renew his agitation in favor of European me
diation in our war. He has published a letter
from ML Vallaudigham, advocating the same
views.
The United States steamer Vanderbilt was
at Mauritius when last heard from, probably
in search of the privateer Alabama.
Two very large and powerful steamers, des
tined to run the American blockade, put into
Cork harbor during the recent galo.
Laird ’B rebel rams had been valued by or
der of the English Government. El Toussouu
is said to be worth £106,000, and El Monassir
£BO,OOO. It was thought that the Government
would purchase both vessels.
A dispatch from Paris, posted at Lloyd’s,
Liverpool, warns English traders to cease ship
ping goods—contraband it is to be supposed—
to Matamoras, Mexico, as the “blockade is ef
fective.’ ’
The Emperor elect of Mexico will set out for
Mexico City about February, 1864. Two Aus
trian war vessels were ordered to make ready
for a long voyage, and it was supposed they
were to convey Maximillian, the Archduchess,
and their respective suites across tho Atlantic.
The Archduke is to review his former com
mand of the Austrian Navy, by way of a fare
well.
In regard to the divorce case in which Lord
Falraerston’s name figures so conspicuously, it
is stated that his honor is perfectly safe and
that the whole charge is solely denied.
The London Westminster Review contains an
article ou Mexico, which caused it to be seized
by tho Ministry of tho Interior in Paris. On
the bookseller endeavoring to reclaim the
numbers ordered by his subscribers, they were
delivered to him minus the Mexican article.
- The Confederate loan was at 63(<£65 in Lon
don on November 7th.
FROM THE TRANB-MIBSIBSIPPI.
General Richard Taylor expresses his fixed
determination to stop trade on the Mississippi.
He has planted heavy batteries at different
commanding points, and we may soon look
for stirring times along the banks of the father
of w aters.
There has never been the like of the crops
in Texas this year. 'The country will not con
sume half the gram which has been gathered
in Owing to the Federal occupation of Louis
iana the planters of Texas cultivated this year
large fields of sugar cane. Though not of
larger growth than common, the cane is full of
juice, and yields an extraordinary quantity of
saccharine.
Gen. Magmder is using with no niggard
hand, the immense resources at his disposal,
in strengthening the defenses of the Texan coast
aud frontier. He does, his work thoroughly
and much to the gratification of the people.
George W. Kendall, Esq., writes under date,
Boeme, Kendall county, October 24 : Stock
of all kinds in fine order in the mountains, and
ground in good condition for putting in fall or
winter grain. No Indians being of late in this
immediate neighborhood, but North and West
of us they are committing many depredations.
Our time may possibly come next.
The Yankees are undoubtedly in possession
of Brownsville, but this is a matter of no great
moment . They cannot, under existing circum-
I stances, advance into the interior ; nor can they
I interfere, to any material extent, with the
1 blockade running, which still continues, the
noini landing on the Texas side, being some
thiHv miles l, igher up the Rio Grande.
'is admirablv fortified ; three thou
sand negroes are constant!* 3. workat Sabine
Pass, and should the Yankees ventre thither
again, thev will find more than ‘ forty-two men
and a mud-work" to greet them.
At the battle of Sabine Pass six gun* were
fired 107 times in 35 minutes. So iwpid was
the firing that the Federals thought there must
be two guns to each port holo» gups wfiro
manned by six »ea each,
FROM TRANS-MISSISSIPPI.
The following is the official vote of Texas at
the late election : For Governor—Murrah,
17,517 ; Chambers, 12,455 —majority, 5,602.
For Lieutenant Governor—Stockdale! 11,152 ;
Darden, 8,083 ; Gentry, 4,498 ; Kittrell, 4,163.
The following members for Congress have
been elected in Texas : Wilcox, Herbert,
Branch, Sexton, Baylor, and Morgan.
The Houston, Texas, Telegraph, comments
as follows on affairs west of the Mississippi :
The enemy appears to be ehassezing about in
Louisiana with no definite object. First he
makes an advance on Opelousas, and then
sidles off towards the Calcasieu. What his in
tention is, we are not supposed to know. It
may be to hold the Attakapas and intermediate"
sugar plantations till the crops can be saved.
It may be to keep Green and Majors away irom
the Mississippi river. And it may be, and very
likely is, all intended as a mere feint to draw
troops out of Texas, in order to facilitate the
landing of some other expedition on ourshores
If this is the design of the enemy, he will find
his tactics vain. Enough men will face him
wherever he turns in Louisiana for all practical
purposes, while he will find ourshores bristling
with bayonets at any point he may approach.
Sabine Pass was a hard nut for him to crack,
but it wasn’t a circumstance to whatl he can
find, if he is at all persistent in his search. If
he is spoiling for a fight, he can pick one up
almost anywhere. In fact, they are laying
around loose all along the borders, waiting for
him. Besides, we have plenty of accommoda
tions for his officers at our prison corrals in the
interior. The troops now watching along the
border are determined that Texas shall bo
kept free of the foe, as it has thus far been, no
matter how strong and confident he may be.
Let him come along. We have guns, we have
powder, we have lead, we have *men, all in
sufficient quantities to do the work. And what
is more, we have got a General who knows
what to do with them.
The editor of the Meridian Clalron has been
shown a letter from a gentleman in Gen. Price’s
army, who was with Quantrell .and his com
mand when they passed through Missouri some
time last month, on their way to Gen. Price.
It appears that Quantrell’s forces were about
350, that they encountered Maj. Gen. Blount
and his escort, and after a running fight of
several hours duration, succeeded in killing
Blount, three Majors, two Captains, three
Lieutenants and about eighty men. Burnt all
their wagons, but brought away the mules,
Gen. Blount’s carriage and servant. Gen.
Blount’s sword was given to Gen. Price. Quan
trell’s loss only one man killed and three
wounded.
A most daring and successful incursion was
made by Col. Jo. Shelby into Missouri. Start
ing about the last of September, with 600
men, he captured the Federal garrison then at
Fayetteville, Arkansas. He went from there
to Neosho, Missouri, from thence to Warsaw,
where he surprised and captured several com
panies of Federal militia. From Warsaw he
went to Boonville, where he also captured a
number of prisoners, confiscated a Yankee
bank, destroying also a large amount of Fede
ral property. He proceeded from Boonville to
Marshall, Sabine county, where he had a severe
engagement with a suporior force of the ene
my and was compelled to fall back. lie re
cruited his numbers to such au extent during
the expedition, that on his return to Arkansas
he had over three thousand men, and during
the whole raid had captured and destroyed
more than two millions of dollars worth of
property. *
A gentleman just from Texas says Gan.
Price’s army is now at Washington, Ark.
Gen.s Taylor and Magruder are on tho coast
of Texas and Louisiana with a fine army.
Every citizen under fifty in Texas is enroll
ed, and about seventy-five per cent, of the
men are now mounted and armed. —.
A gentleman just from Louisiana states that
Baton Rouge is entirely free from tho Yankees.
The headquarters of our cavalry pickets are
now in the town. Some time since there was
a grand fight thero between the niggers and
the whites. The niggers clamored for pay,
and, when paid, declared they were not paid as
much as their white-skinned brethren. The ill
feeling created a row; lhe darkies fired upon
the whites, killing about fitty, when the Yan
kees formed, pltcnea Into me sable crowd, and
massacred the greater portion of them. Those
who survived were disarmed and ironed. Two
days aftgr this occurrence, the Federal force at
Baton Rouge left, horse, foot and. dragoon,
for Natchez.
Kirby Smith is at Shreveport, Taylor is be
tween Opelousas and Washington, and Price is
near Little Rock. The number of men be
- to their commands we consider contra
band, but they are amply sufficient to whip any
force the enemy can bring against them. They
have plenty of ammunition, shoes, clothing,
&c., and everybody is in fine spirits. ■ Red
River, and in fact the whole country, is strong
ly fortified.
It was rumored, and generally believed, that
the Yankees had evacuated Little Rock, after
blowing up the State House, Penitentiary and
Arsenal, and the force had all been sent to re
inforce Rosecranz.
The Yankee Gen. Blount issued an order
sometime • since calling upon all loyal citizens
to aid the soldiers in capturing tjie rebel Quan
trell and and his band of outlaws, and ordering
Quantrell to be hung as soon as captured.
Quantrell heard of the order, and laid a trap
for the capture of Blount. He had but a short
time to wait, when the Yankee scoundrel and
his staff and body guard stepped into the snare
set for them. One mulatto boy is all that ,ia
now living to tell the tale of their capture.
Maj. Ezell thinks there is not exceeding 80,-
000 Yankee troops now in the Trans-Mississip
pi'department.
The General Council of the Choctaw Nation
have resolved that any person speaking senti
ments of a character tending in any way to
destroy the confidence of the Choctaw people
in the ability of the Confederate States to sus
tain themselves in the present struggle, and
advising the people of this Nation to take any
steps tending in any manner to induce the peo
ple to occupy a position of neutrality, or with
draw their united support from the Confederate
States, shall be deemed and considered an
enemy to this nation of people and a traitor to
his common couutiy ana interest, and deserv
ing the death of a traitor, &c.
The chief credit for the signal repulse of the
enemy at Sabine Pass, is accorded to an ord
nance officer named GWie, who happened to
be riding in tho vicinity. Our brave fellows
held their fire until the fleet was in almost
point blank range, when they opened, but too
high. The officer saw the shots strike the tip
per works, or pass over harmless. He started
down as fast as his horse could go, dismounted,
and directed the gunners to depress their pieces
so as to strike the water twenty or thirty yards
from the ships. Then commenced the fearful
work of destruction. The amazed and frighten
ed Yankees slackened speed, then stopped, and
then, putting all steam, hurried off iu wild dis
may.
Gen. Magmder has sent the colors captured
at Sabine Pass to Richmond, in charge of one
of the Irish heroes who drove the Federals
back. This brave fellow, we understand, is a
private soldier, whe was conspicuous for his
conduct in the engagemeet.
The State Military Board of Texas have re
ceived for distribution 30,000 pairs of cotton
cards, of European manufacture. They were
sold by the State Board to the counties at ten
dollars per pair.
There are about 6000 French troops at Mata
moros, and four or five of the Emperor’s men
of-war off the bar, but no armed vessels of the
Yankees. The Frenchmen manifest the most
friendly feelings for the Confederates, which
they give vent to publicly on all occasions.
There ie a prospect of some fighting for them
with the Mexicans about the Rio Grande ; but
when that is over, their demonstrations in our
favor will be of a more active and positive
nature.
It is stated that the following gentlemen were
elected at the late Stato election in Louisiana:
Brig. Gen. H W Allen, Governor; Hon B W
Pearce, Lieutenant Governor; P D Hardy Scc
retiury of State; P S Goode, Attorney General;
H Peralta, Auditor of public accounts; B L De
freeee, State Treasurer; and W H N Magruder,
Superintendent of public education. For mem
bers of Congress, the old delegation has been
elected—Messrs. Charles J Ylllere, C M Conrad,
D F Feaper, L J Dupre, Henry Marshall, John
Jerkins, jr,
FOREIGN ITEMS.
The subject of the coronation of the Emperor
and Empress of the French appears again to
have risen up and to occupy the attention of
the Courts at Paris and the Papal power at
Rome. The Empress desires the sanction of the
Pope to her coronation ceremonial, but the
Holy Father is said'to have some scruples upon
the matter, which at present be is unable to
overcome. As an inducement to comply with
the imperial wish, the Pope has been offered
the restitution of two of his provinces, if he
will go to Paris to crown the Imperial pair, and
this offer has created considerable discussion at
the Vatican.
The- Supreme Tribunal at Madrid has recent
ly given final judgment iu a suit which has
been under litigation two hundred years, and
which involved the succession to the inherit
ance of Francis Pizarro, the famous invader and
conqueror of Peru, in 1535.
The American ships John "Watt and Bold
Hooter, had been captured by the privateer
Georgia. A dispatch from Falmouth, England,
says : The John Watt, from Moulmein, has ar
rived here. The John Waft was probably bond
ed by the Georgia. The Georgia had boarded
over’ninety vessels before she arrived at Cher
bourg; so it was expected that some heavy loss
es to American shipowners would be reported.
Lord Palmerston, in a speech at the Lord
Mayor’s lianquet, deplored the American war.
He said England would have interfered, but
for the belief that it would have been in vain.
He, therefore, would yield neither to blandish
ments ifor menaces, but would remain strictly
neutral. Regarding Poland, he said England
had done her duty by remonstrating; but, al
though these remonstrances had failed, he
hoped Russia would cease to pursue an offen
sive course. Lord Palmerston’s reception was
Biguificanlly enthusiastic.
Mr. Yilliers, a prominent supporter of the
government, had been speaking in defence of
the Federal government.
Paris telegrams say that Matamoras is not
blockaded, but contraband of war is not allow
ed to be landed.
Tbeßutizh Government had declined the
invitation of Napoleon t<? attend the proposed
Congress of Powers. Ffteen-had been invited
and, it was supposed, the greatest number
would acquiesce. Napoleon’s letter has been
published. He sayshis sole object is to arrive,
without a shock, at the pacification of Europe.
The English Attorney General, on November
5, applied to the Court of Exchequer for a rule
lor anew trial in tho Alexandra case. The
English Attornev General accepted the condi
tions stipulated and argued in favor of a rule
being granted. The court .acceded to the ap
plication. ‘ .
The Prussian, Belginm and Saxon Chambers
were opened by their respective sovereigns in
person. The King of Prussia expressed an ear
nest wish for a termination of the differences
between the government and the Chambers.—
The Upper House voted an address in response
by a small majority.
Tho Grand Duke Constanstine had been re
lieved of his functionsas Lieutenant Command
er of Poland, and the Czar trusts that he will
resume his task after the re-establishment of
order.
. The London Times has a leading editorial
article on the fruitiessness of diplomatic inter
ference with Russia. The efforts, it says, of
the three Powers have not dried a single tear;
but they havo made it a point of order with
Russia to put down the rebellion in Poland
with tho utmost severity. They have made
mercy appear in the light of a concession of for
eign dictation. The whole hopes of Poland,
therefore, repose entirely on the prospect of as
sistance from Franco, since it is not probable
that Austria will take up arms for Poland, and
it is certain that England will not. Perhaps
the Emperor Napoleon may think it a lesser
evil to embark alone in all the uncertainties of
a great European war.
Continued activity on tho part of the Polish
insurgents was reported, and strong bands were
said to be crossing the frontiers into Poland.
The Paris Opiniono National, of the 21st ult.,
learns that, in conformity with* the opinions
expressed by all the Southern Pro-Slavery
Press, the Government at Richmond has, for
the twentieth time at least, sent to its agents
in Europe, and ©specially to Mr. Slidell, very
formal instructions to make no concessions—
not even to listen to any discussion relative to
the subject of slavery.
St. Helena advices of the 27th of September
give the reports of quite a number of vessels
arrived at the island from the Cape which had
been boarded and overhauled by Confederate
privateers. Some of the rovers gave names
not heard of heretofore in the rebel fleet.
Gen. Mouravieff has given orders to trans
port all the small nobility in Lithunia to the
remotest part of Russia; and as there are en
tire villages occupied by this nobility, these
villages are depopulated, and the inhabitants
transported into Caucasus. The civil governor
of Wilna has, in pursuance of Mouravieff s or
ders, instructed the military authorities to
transport ten thousand of these nobles, guilty
or innocent.
The rebel steamer Georgia arrived at Cher
bourg, for coal and provisions.
The London Herald says the capture of the
steamer Sir Robert Peel off the Rio Grande by
the Federals is exciting attention, and it is
alleged that there was not the slightest ground
for seizure.
Tho London Times publishes a letter by the
■well known correspondent, Mysterious, com
menting on and showing the importance of the
seizure of the steam rams in the Mersey, and
expressing the belief that the public will stand
by the Government in its determination to de
feat fraudulent controversies.
St. Petersburg accounts say it is the general
belief that there will be a serious rupture be
tween Russia and the Western Powers before
Christmas.
‘The London Times has an editorial holding
up iu strong terms the threatening position of
affairs throughout the world, and urging that
it is the plain duty of England to seize and use
all the opportunities of her position, and, as
arbitrator, make and keep peace while she can
The Array and Navy Gazette considers the
Southern cause more hopeful now than lor some
lime past, and thinks that, if similar apathy
or non-success on the part of the Federals
should mark the glose of the year, there will
be a great chance for the South to obtain an
armistice, and that an armistice will lead to an
adjustment of the present difficulties.
A Paris correspondent of the New York
Herald comments thus on the position of the
French Mexican affairs : “The intrigues of the
Emperor of the French in the Mexican ques
tion are not successful. Even the young Prince
whom he thought to make a tool of has prov
ed too cuuning for the wily sovereign of
France. Prince Maximillian hfis had an angry
correspondence with the French government,
because the latter will not guarantee the pro
posed Mexican loan ; and the next thing we
shall probably hear will be that the Austrain
utterly renounces all idea of a throne on
which, should it ever be erected, he would
have but an uneasy seat. That France should
refuse to guarantee the loan shows little con
fidence she has in the whole affair, and is a
premonitory symptom of the bursting of that
great bubbie, “the regeneration of the Mexi
can people under anew government.”
The Mexican Consuls at Paris, Bordeaux and
Havre had been compelled to cease the disj
charge of their duties. The Consuls of Gua
temala were acting for them.
The Austrian army is to be reorganized. I
is to be divided into 100 regiments, and pro
motions are to be influenced by the knowledge
of foreign languages possessed by the officers.
The Paris correspondent of the New York
World writes thus : There is an important
movement on foot to induce the Pope to come
out with a bull, an edict or gome sort of a pro
nuncinmento, the ol ject of which shall be to
turn the tide of Irish immigration from the
United States to Mexico. In the former coun
try they are used as “ food for powder in
the latter they will be promised “free farms,’’
exemption from taxation for a certain stipula
ted period ; and they will also receive the es
pecial blessings from the Rope for giving prefe
rence to the land of the Church. Already the
Mexican emigration fever is becoming an epi
demic. The last steamer that left St. Nazaire
for 5 era Cruz took out 625 passengers, and re
fused, for want of room, almost as many more.
The odd proposal has been made to turn the
Great Eastern into a floating hotel, and anchor
siong 5 Cott ® B 10 pm excur-
NORTHER* NEWS.
Seward in a speech at Gettysburg, Pa.,
thanked God for the hope that when slavery is
abolished the country will be again united.
The notorious Forney, in a late speech, de
clared that he was in favor of Lincoln’s elec
tion in 1860, but did not want it to appear so,
that he might the better accomplish tho break
ing np of the Democracy.
The New Orleans coriespondent of the New
York Herald expresses the- opinion that the
blockade of the Rio Grando would lead to a
difficulty with France.
The United States Consul at Monterey has
communicated to his government the informa
tion that a few days before the capture of
Brownsville, by Gen. Banks; a large cargo of
Enfield rifles, enough, it is reported, to arm all
the militia in the State, had been landed there.
The Austrian government hw recently pur
chased machinery for making rifles, of a firm
in Hartford, Connecticut.
The New York Herald has just made a most
important discovery. According to that paper,
it costs double the amount to shoe a negro
regiment that it does to perform the same ope
ration for a white one—cause, the difference in
the size of the ieet.
The Mariposa property, California, about
seventy square miles, yielded gold to the value
of $412,290 iu 1562, aud with the present im
provements in machinery, over a million an
nually is expected hereafter.
Meagher is to be made a Major-General, and
to command the old Irish and Excelsior brig
ades, recruited to the full standard.
Governor Gamble, of Missouri, has commis
sioned and sent two agents to Europe to en
courage emigration to that State, to fill up the
vacuum occasioned by the war and the eman
cipatiou scheme.
It is believed New York’s quota of volun
teers will be raised without difficulty. A mass
meeting in favor of recruiting is to be held
next week.
Tho property of Ex-Governor Aiken of S. C.
in Wisconsin, has been confiscated.
The Louisville papers say that large numbers
of troops are passing through that city for the
South.
Lincoln has appointed H; G. Plant*, of Ohio,
United States Attorney for the Southern Dis
trict of Florida, to supply the vacancy occasion
ed by the promotion of Mr. Boynton, to tho
J ndgeship.
Maj. Myers, chief of the United States signal
corps, has been relieved and exiled to Memphis,
Tenn.
The bounties offered by Lincoln for the 300,-
000 men that he has just called for are : $402
for volunteers who have seen service, and $302
for raw recruits. If he gets these men, and pays
them, the cost will be about $100,000,000.
The Federal Navy Department thinks that
the blockade at Wilmington has been made
effective.
The New York World says Meade has been
ordered to advance ; but that his own judg
ment is against it, and if a revetse occurs the
fault will lay at the doors of Lincoln and Hal
leck.
The New Hampshire Gazette, claiming to be
the oldest paper in America, completed its oae
hundred and seventh year on the Ist of Oct.
Northern accounts announce the success of
the endeavor to construct vessels to move with
equal facility iu either direction, ahead or
astern. They are called double enders. One
named the Sassacus was landed at Boston, three
or four weeks ago, made nine knots easily, in
creased it to ten and twenty for a time, and
went backward as well as forward. Twenty-six
others of them are said to be now preparing
for commission. Their great advantage is that
they can go up and down channels of just their
own width, as there is no necessity of turning
them. Nothing is said of the manner in which
they steer.
A shooting affair occurred in Lafayette Ind.,
a few days ago, between Lewis W. Fagan, a
United States detective, and John W. Mul
lany, a coal merchant, both of Danville, Illi
nois. The trouble grew out of the arrest of a
deserter, both claiming the custody of the runa
way. A number of shots were fired ou both
aideflK but no on© hurt, and in tlio moloo
the deserter escaped.
The Johnson’s Island plot has loomed up
into a conspiracy of gigantic dimensions. Maj.
General Dix, who was ordered to Buffalo, N. Y.,
arrived there’ on the night of Nov. 15. A large
force of infantry and two batteries of artillery
were sent to Johnson’s island on Thursday,
and eight hundred men of the 12th Ohio caval
ry left Cleveland on Friday for the same place.
A report obtains in Buffalo that a tunnel had
been discovered from the prisoners’ quarters
on the Island to some woods several hundred
feet distant, and about six hundred muskets
found concealed in it. The plot is said to have
been to seize tho United States stoamer Michi
gan and two of the New York Central propel
lers, and make a raid upon the shipping. Ad
ditional information shows their design to burn
and lay waste the cities of Buffalo, Cleveland,
Detroit, and every other town from Ogdensburg
to Chicago, and to obdterate entirely the c< m
merce of Lake Erie. Vallandigham, James
Clay, and Marshal Kane, are said to have been
the “arch-conspirators.” Reports from San
dusky say that everything is quiet in that
vicinity, and tjiat all the preparations are made
to guard against danger, 'ihele were no in
dications on the part of the rebel prisoners at
Johnson’s Island of an intention to oscape.
The Washington Star says that Hon. Preston
King was dispatched to Montreal on the 14th,
to confer with Ihe Canadian authorities rela
tive to the alleged plot. A Washington Dis
patch says the scheme was as follows ; First
to open the prison doors for captive rebels at :
Sandusky bay. Second—To arm and equip
these veterans, over two thousand in number.
Third—To seize as many propellers on Lake
Erie as were needed, and arm and man them.
Fourth—To mt'ke Buffalo a heap of ashes, and
her vessels in port charred skeletons. Fifth—
To bum Cleveland. Sixth—To wipe out the
commerce of Lake Erie. Seventh—To consume
Detroit, aud in effect to destroy tho commerce
and cities of the Lakes, from Ogdensburgh to
Chicago, almost at a blow. Lord Lyons got
out of bed after midnight to communicate the
news to Mr. Seward, and afterward the Secreta
ry of War was got up and got to tho wires ot
the military telegraph. The secession paper
at Toronto, Canada, admits the failure of tho
plot, and says it was the intention of those con
cerned in it to surpriso the Federal garrison on
Johnson’s Island, liberate the prisoners there,
and convey them into Canada. They did not
intend to violate British neutrality, but only to
rescue two thousand men from such wretched
quarters, designed to kill them by slow degrees.
Halleck is said to favor the Federal army’s
going immediately into winter quarters, and
Secretary Stanton the same course, while the
President and Gen. Mead propose to take ad
vantage of the completion of the bridge over
the Rappahannock to force a fight on Gen. Lee
at the nearest possible point to the Rapidan.
The New York World editorially says the
probabilities point to the cessation of hostilities
in Virginia. Opinions, however, prevail that
Meade will try to force his way to Gordonsville
or to Fredericksburg.
Judge Gray, of Des Moines, lowa, has de
cided that a negro can sue out a writ of habeas
corpus, though a white man cannot.
One of the Northern journals says that
Rosencrans was not removed on account of his
defeat at Chickamauga, but was removed on
account of some statements published in a
work entitled “Annals of the Array of the
Cumberland.” These statements reflect se
verely on the Federal War Department, and
are supposed to be from the pen of Gen. Ro
sencrans.
The St. Louis Republican, an abolition paper,
thinks it about time for the Northern ministers
to preach religion rather than politics, war,
bloodshed, and devastation.
The citizens of Chattanooga are all to be
sent North to shift for themselves.
Thomas has dismissed several officers from
his army for neglect of duty.
The New Orleans Era nominates Lincoln for
President in 1864, and the Memphis Argus says
that it is the prominent expression of the lead
ing abolition journals.
Federal guerillas are stripping the people of
Middle Tennessee of everything they possess. J
Judge Catron hag decided that the banks in I
Nashville must redeem their currency either in j
par funds, |
NEWS SUMMARY.
Much is said upon the subject ©f anew r™
gress, and what it will do. it has been rem£w '
ed, among other things, that the new member i
are nearly all fresh from the people, aud will I
reflect the interests of the country. How these
expectations will turn out the sequel of the fu
ture can alone disclose, but they are founded
upon a mistake iu reference to the time when
the next Congress begins its career. The term
of the present representatives does not expire
until the 22d of the coming February. Unless
a special law is enacted, or the President con
venes an extraordinary session, the just elected
members do not take their seats until the fol
lowing December.
Mrs. Simmons, a widow lady of Jasper coun
ty, Miss., has made during the” present year 300
bushels of corn, 100 bushels of potatoes, with
peas and pinders enough to fatten her hogs.—
She did all the ploughing herself, and did it
with an old wind-broken pony. Her two little
daughters, aged twelve and fourteen years, did
the hoeing. She has also mado 100 pounds of
tobacco, now id press. Since her crop was fin
ished she has done weaving enough to buy bet
salt and a pair of cards, and hits some njoney
left.
A notorious tory named Jake Wofford, has
been captured and hung at Mount Yonah, Whittf
co., Ga. i
The new Congressional delegation from North
Carolina stands thus : WII N Smith, re-elect
ed; K R Bridges, re-elected; J T Leach, new
member; T C Fuller., new member; J Turner,
new member; J A Gilmer, new member; S H
Christian, dew member; J G Ramsay, new
member; B S Gaither, re elected; G W Logan,
new member.
There ii very little doubt that Capt. Henry
Bernos, Assistant Adjutant General of Louisi
ans,, haa been sob&iod by Uu> Yankee gunboats
on the Mississippi river. Capt. Bernos was sem,
to Richmond in July last with important offi
cial papers from the Governors of Louisiana
and Texas, and was to return with a large
amount of Treasury and State issues. These
issues are variously estimated at from three
millions to ten millions. The Treasury issues
were all properly signed, the State issues wore
not. The captain had been several weeks on
the bank of the great river, awaiting his oppor
tunity to cross; bnt he must havo been closely
watched, as he was completely surrounded from
above and below when about the middle of tho
stream.
The Adjutant General of Virginia has issued
an order, that all “ members of militia com
panies who fall or refuse to attend the weekly
drills, must be brought by a file of mon detail
ed for the purpose and compelled to go into
Rev. E. P. Walton, Agent of tho Alleghany
College, has set on foot a movement looking
to the education of the maimed soldiers of Vir
ginia, who have been disqualified in tho ser
vice from earning a livelihood by labor. He
proposes to educate them for teachers or the
ministry, of ail denominations, free of tuition
fees, or to qualify them for pursuits of any
other profession, whereby they may be render
ed independent of public charity, at one-half
the usual expense of similar institutions.
Col. Thos. J. Wells, of Rapides Parish, La.,
celebrated as a turfman, died recently on a
journey to Texas. lie is the only American
who has bred a winner of the Goodwood Cup
and Cessarwitcli stakes in’England, for Starke
and Prioress were bred by him.
The conscription statistics of North Carolina,
excepting the first district, show the number
of militia officers exempted to be about 1,000 ;
number of magistrates 115. There are only
2,040 substitutes.
The question is mooted in Richmond, as to
where they shall move tins Federal prisoners
from the Libby and other prisoners of the cap
itol. Since the cowardly Yankees have com
menced firing upon the women and children of
Charleston, we suggest that city as an appro
priate location for the Yankee prisoners. Let
them be lißerally distributed throughout tho
city, iu the most exposed buildings, aud every
time one of them is knocked oil the head by a
.Yankee shell, send word to his frionds in the
fleet by flag of truce.
James Wood, the founder of a secret union
league in Tallapoosa and Coosa counties. Ala.,
was nung some or me memDers mr a cavarry
company last week. Among the ignorant in
some portions of Coosa and Tallapoosa, ho had
disseminated his treasonable sentiments to a
considerable extent, and a good many had join
ed his band of traitors.
The boys of Perry county, Ala., between the
ages of 14 and IC, have organized themselves
into companies to relieve the able boded men
doing guard duty at Selma.
The steamer Cronstadt, which wag captured
by the Yankee gunboat Rhode Island, has been
sold at Boston for SII,OOO.
The Mexican army in the Northern States of
Mexico is being supplied witli arms, munitions,
and supplies by the Federals.
At Cole’s creek, in Jefferson county, Miss.,
reside two wealthy planters, David Servis and
Dr. New. These gentlemen, like tho Vicar of
Bray, were ever ready to sevve both sides—
but their preference was for the Yankees. Ono
of them had lately sold the Yankees one thous
and bales of cotton. Our cavalry burned
their cotton gin on the 14th iust.
The Mobile Register says the planters are
using a good deal of industry and promptness
in sending forward their assessments, or tax in
kind.
The next regular term of the District Court
of the Confedei ate States tor the Southern Dis
trict of Georgia, will be held in Savannah on
the first Wednesday in April next.
The wheat orop along the lino of the Virginia
and Tennessee railroad looks uncommonly thrif
ty, and promises well. A larger breadth of
land has been sown this year by those who had
it in their power to put in a crop of wheat, and
many are now at work at it.
Gen. Winder has been directed to examine
the papers of all officers sojourning at Rich
mond. Such as cannot show good cause for
absence from their commands will be returned
thereto and their case reported to headquarters.
The Board of Directors of the Wilmington
and Weldon railroad, design to aid in the erec
tion of a rolling mill for railroad and other
iron.
The Cotton Factory of Messrs. Richey & Mc-
Millan, and Machine Shop of Richey & Dickin
son, at Fife, in Talladega c0.,A1a., were burnt
on the night of 16th Nov. It is supposed that
the fire was tho work of an incendiary. Tue
loss is estimated at one hundred thousand dol
lars. No insurance.
The Raleigh Standard has heard, from a re
liable source, of a slave who has been within
the enemy’s linos in the eastern part of the
State since the fall of Nowbern, who has paid
over to his mistress the sum of three thousand
dollars, the proceeds of his own labor, hqving
regerVed only enough to pay higown expenses.
The Yankees have robbed the citizens of the
Albemarle and Chowan region, North Carolina
of a large number of slaves within tho last
week or two. They go up and down the rivers
visiting the farms and plantations near them,
stealing all the slaves they can lay hands on.
Gen. Bragg has requested the Atlanta papers,
through Maj. Gen. Cobb, to abstain, for the
present, from giving news of movements m
front, particularly East Tennessee.
Messrs. Dickson, Nelson & Cos., of Alabama
are now making three hundred guns per month,
and will soon make fiye hundred. The arm is
of the Mississippi Rifle pattern, with inch bands
similar to the Enfield Rifle. It is pronounced
by good judges as being in every respect equal
to arms of like description made by the old
Government.
It is the opinion of many of our planters,
that “it will not pay” to cultivate the common
sugarcane in middle Georgia. To prove that
this is an erroneous idea, wc give the experi
ence of a planter of Washington, Mr. James
Reynelds, the present year. He planted two
acres, of common upland, in what is known as
the striped cane. From this he has sold to his
neighbors, for planting purposes, one hundred
and fifty dollars worth of cane ; made two hun
dred pounds of good sugar, and fifty gallons of
syrup, which at market valne is worth SBOO ,
which added to the amount received from sale
of cane, makes S9OO from two acres of land—
besides cane reserved for planting next year.
The Federals hare burned Trenton, Dade
county, Ga.
Mr. J. L. Brown, at Charlotte, N. C., adver
tises in the Democrat for one hundred thousand
dog skins, tot which he will pay $2 to $6
apiece,
FROM TEN ESS E. . |g||
After the battle of Nov. 17tb. Burnside
order and breakfast at the house of a piou
Southern mau, whilst on t:ie retreat,
it was ready a couriet ias lied up to him,
Abe information that the rebels were pressing
Tear guard. He bid - good morniug’’ toH|
the iwuily, with the remark: --That he formed
'• xe “’ rY'gstreet's acquaintance on the Potomac,
to meet him that morning, ■
u that In would retiro in the direction of H
Knoxville. ’ And off ho went, iu a double*
and J* tu M behind his line of fortiflea ■
Ucns near knoxvn e . • ■
™ ?° ral . WtW \ OU5 ' loaded with clothing, ■
Hi- , h ' l . e ' lxz we(l roaJ - bv °®'- I
Lai., of the toxtb Georgia >y. v 17th Tiwcc I
and' Uko nu '” bpr <lf blanket* I
and pants, were captured. A n~> vv rain was ■
turned back to Kentucky. So wetw ihree lrovM I
ot stock for the Federal army. “”** Iro *®* I
Mrs. Lonas, an aged lady of 1
winters was murdered near Knoxville because I
she simply asked a Yankee to leave her enough I
cabbage heads to make seed the ensuing sea- B
6on. s B
Thousands of negroes infest Knoxville who B
have become more insolent in their insults to B
the Southern citizens than the abolition sol- I
diery. B
The tvraunv of Burnside during his short I
reign in East Tennessee should consign hi* ■
name to eternal infamy. Old unoffending ,*>o- B
pie of both sexes, have been stripped of all B
they possessed—clothing as well as eatables ■
The conduct,qlf the Federal officers at Knox- I
villa, it is stated has bee t insulting to civiliza- ■
t>on. ' ■
Among the many things captared by oar I
forces lately in East ennessee are one bun I
dred wagons well loaded with clothing com I
missiUV stores, fee. I
The only mute for non-com hatants to leave I
Knoxville, is by cro sing the river or going m> I
the Hqlston by John Williams’ n the direction I
of Dan <1 rid so. I
It is stated that Thomas’ army is „hort of I
ammunition as well as food. 1
Gen. Grout bits.refused to permit, anv more I
letters to be Sent into the abolition lines by flar I
of truce. . I
Apirtvof Wheeler’* scouts were captured I
in Murray county. Tenn.. recently and sent t< I
Nashville j
It is stated that the people of Knpwlli© f m I
ten and 'ys past, have been suffering all the hor I
rors of famine.
Wo gather the annexed items from tho At
lanta papers.
From the movements of tho Federals, it ap
pears thal tbeii object is not only to provide
tor the dally supply of their troops at Chatta
nooga, but to amass largo stores in order to
carry on the.coming campaign.
Tt is reported that Burnside’s courier was
captured with a dispatch to Grant, stating that
Burnside had ten days rations and that the j
were entrenched behind their works.
At Marysville, Gon Wheeler captured about
all of Woolfeid's cavalry, that were on the
south side of the ilolstou, and attacked two 01
three brigades of infantry and ran them into
Knoxville. *
Longstreet effected the passage of the rlver,-
near Loudon, by a ruse dc querre. He sent •
pretty heavy force some miles up the river, and
occupied a position near it, in view of the
enemy, thereby demonstrating a purpose to
cross there, and, during the niaht, rapidly
withdrew all but a small force, aud tb'ew them
across at a point several miles below. Th* '
enemy, under Burnside, finding that lie had
crossed, engaged him for about an hour, and
then retreated towards Knoxville. Our lore**
pursued aud several pretty hoavy skirmish**
took place in their progress.
A lady, residing between Loudon and Knox
ville, reports that she heard’Burnside say that
his troops were so demoralized that he could
not make them fight.
We learn that before Longstreet had reached
Knoxville, Burnside bad gathered there *
large supply of corn and wheat, and that two
mills of the city have been for some time past
br£d
and water, and hence the stronghold cannot
bo reduced by famine, IA addition to this sup
ply of provisions, tho enemy have collected
in the place six thousand hogs.
The Federals have been unablo to bring
across the t mountains any guns of heavy cali
bre ; and iu this Longslioot mußt U&ve a great
1 advantage over Burnside.
If Brownlow’s counsels bo respected, the
starving people of Knoxville will be confined
to their homes and the place reduced to ashes.
Burnside lied hurried off bis wagon train be
fore our forces reached them, towards Cumber
land Gap, and they had made their escape,
with thu exception of 60 or 60 wagons loaded
with clothing blaukets, &c. Two regiments of
our cavalry clothed themselves and got two
blankets each.
Our guerillas are doing good work on iha
Camceriand river, firing in;o steamers that run
to Nashville.
Col. James Trimble, of Nashville, is raising
a negro regiment at Gallatin, Tenn.
We learn that in a recent fight near Knox
ville with Burnside’s forces, a Yankee legimcnt
gave the nonce of surrender, . upon which Col.
Nance’s Third South Carolina Regiment
odup to receive them. When a few paces off,
the dastardly wretches under the order ot their
Colonel, fired upon aud killed fifty-four of»nr
men. Vfhat summary justice was meted out
to the villains who had thus forfeited their
livos, we have not heard.
Tho@tiffev.rl commander of the post of Nash
ville has issued an order closing the distilleries
in Davidson,Cheatham, Robertson, Montgomery
and Stewart counties. Xenn.
The Federals have over iifieen hundred con
trabands now engaged in the construction of
the Northwestern Tennessee railroad. The
work is being vigorously pushed forward.
Fit II - OAST.
It has been ascertained that activity
prevails amon b tho enemy at Beaufort and
Hilton Head A large number of vessels are
in Port Royal, and heavy accessions have been
made within a lew days to the troops on Hilton
Head. Tuesday afternoon the vessels were
moving about with groat activity between
Hilton Head and Be ufort.
If has recently been scertained that th#
Yankees have pretty ireli abandoned the crast
of Georgia There are lfbne on St. Simons,
Cumberland, or Jokyt Islands, aud very few,
if any, on the islands higher up tho coast.
They keep a gunboat in most of the
Most of the Federals are probably congregated
at Hilton Head.
Eleven Philadelphia consciipte deserted fiwm
the Yankee garrison at Feruandina last wsek,'
and found their’way to Lake City, where thy
gave themselves up to the Confederate authori
ties and weie put Id confinement. They state
that they left behind two hundred and seventy
“of the same sort," who ure resolved never to
fight for the “nigger,” and aie not allowed tho
use of arms, for tear of misuse.
. FOKKIUV ITEMS.
Richardson, Spence & Cos., announce their
intention of running a line of first class screw
steamers between Liverpool and Philadelphia
short y, to supply the. place of the sailing ships
that have been withdrawn. ,
The crew of tho American ship Webster
broke into mutiny in the Mersey, and were all
conveyed to prison beloie doing much damage.
Napoleon had Issued letters inviting the
sovereigns to a European Congress.
Efcenan and King were in active training for
the great £3090 match still* . w
The United States cervette StLouU had
gone from Lisbon to Cadiz. The Niagara was
expected at Lisbon.
The English steam rams stiF remain in cus
tody of tho Government for<* which took pos
! session of them, aud so far the Messrs. Laird
have taken no steps to 'ecover tho property
wrested from them. (»e of Laird’s organs,
however, a paper in Rrkenhead, declares that
when the time arrive 7 they will be able lo prove
that the rams never were ordered by, or intend
ed for, the Confederate Government but that
they are at this/noment b ma fide French prop
erty, and as s*ch will eventually have to ba
given up, wiri swinging damages to all partis*
concerned fit the -L** ... .* ; ’
they have