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: V N. S. MORSE k CO. <£"» M'ttfk & > K MS .” jh;-, .u:i;w,i < m. i\i< ;.i. ,t h.viim:i, AT I’OI II IIOMAIi- !'!(» MX MUYTIIi AT WAY.® IN A LiVAiICE. WCKIiI.I I It \ 11 '»> ' ■'■■■ ■■ -. ,i. 1!,. W. Yly will <*ac .iii' *rifou. p> «!;•»>»: I b. ‘ tl.irly.:in*3 a line-tor fadi ' au l' /rt> '•cr.h* prr in.' for or*lnM-rlJotj in < \\ S* I>Ii*HOVK TftlC Cl HUES! Y f U’.j rn.jo m. Jl ii ■ :o<Js attention—wise leu is tioti. It is in a very critical conditkn. lint tie- cac: in tint de-perate. Ii may be reached ami renn died if our i.tiblic . n«i.-i Uavu tiieencigy and tie: nerve In apply the pioper correction. Certainly'no question of greater moment call claim tiieireoinaderation. We ire exnoKerl to no evils more serious than those 1 whi- Ii t lireaten us f’t < m tlic enormous in Mat ion of om circulating medium 'J hit will beadaik hour for tie- Republic when < iovernmeiit ii-nes ecu e to command tin- ivspecl of tin: people.— If it, e pos-ihi , l iv any legislation, no mat ter hoi, !, i-e tie' p" mii.ivv sacrifice may lie, to av.-i t so,.a a c-t.e-Uoptic by all means Ictus lia-ei at Urn v ry earliest day. for ihe i.i C.ree mouths the newspapers have to U.\: i w ,;h hem t exhibiting more oil* lot Job v , .and la'iinii! i proposing mens nr-.s toi tie ai r<st of the evil which every one feels I- be so groin and growing. Among these voluntary (■as.iyisis on financiering wc'find very little luiririony. We bavu seen no schedule « hi' h. if adopted, w ould make the eoinmereiiil machine to run in such a way as to carry us through our embarrassments. Ti e plan -it :gesl-d by the Hank Convention held a. this eii v a . inn r- tli it the nceessities'of ” f-i p ipi would cii i ad them to lend the gov 1 ei atrn-nf a thoii.-,.nd of dollars, and I tu.it thi ■ entire innotiut w' ttld he taken up at il eaiiy day’. ! ns may or tnav not In" so. If j the latter, then the scheme fails in a very ini- j pm taut feature, viz ; the conversion 6f treasury notes into loan. I. it succ. ed some months— say six must clique before tile investment could lie nude. Meantime the current expenses of tin Government art- progressing; and these at three million a tiny and .at present prices laey are not much le would reach (he sum of S4WUH'K),OOO hy the time the loan was ef fected. It would th 'i lie mtassary to imfko another large loan to ale rb the redundancy which had ncciinuiliited whilst, the lit t loan wu b iin ' tfi - ted. Tim the lirit loan, ::igm tie a- ill. e. would be iifrobtctoiy to a second, a ul third, A Besides .•■nine tu:, paver who would boumlcr tliu noire!- • ty of paying Audi per aimum to the Confederate Government. might find it quite iriTpossililo In procure the £’>ooo worth ofbonds which iiiir-t be pm: ■..••• sod in onlcr to obtain the coupons which would he received by the gov ernin'id M> ol : m ill means must hoi the coupon: without ili hoods, ot o heavy premi um, p. . m.i in :i> ii lux oinvi onerous ill ju. po. o he - -i’"' n>'-s of their resources Bn- ur 1 > :td il i' '- i no scheme which can 1.-. • in- vr>li s' -n ; objection* M»v n«» h - ' • I \\ ■> liud it In easier to di-.-i.vi" in ili- -Hi s arcs of relief which hftv. : ■ U"1 ‘mu to devi-e one which S !,;dl . ,i.".v ::>:.able \V. t.-Ust the vis do,:, :/i may prove cqml to the oiuor geio-;. i-'i • mu - i\..vt see but one -mimv of c-ii« I ; and liat is luxation to the utmost extent compatible with t e pivscrva'ion of our industrial interests. It is nor ti> be presumed tha: even this Would relievo it of all tho dilii cullies > y wa'u •wr uc cavil id. No people can\ iug . :,v war i,: at h dr l.misions as that »i ■ a -a i on nit, - tion, call ho cx p, rl.-d to ih-lrai, whilst tin- v. a is upon them, all the cxpcu-ii:r : imit t" : l progre v. After we have iiiipos, ii - u ourselves tho sovoieH tavation much no. t remain for our successors to litjni !:rt> ii imi.-r he remembered, how ever, tinit the gov orntnin ! cannot ho sustained nnloss a pm'tiou of cur cun lit expenses sutli cientiy large tj a a ,and some promise of the ul tima!. pas tiieiii '.lie whole, bo now met. I'l'um li., beginning of tlie war the people ha\ lami in advance of their legislators on the subject of taxation. The patriotism of the former has been equal to the crisis, and would have relieved ns under wise legislation from, flic ills which now threaten us from the col lapse of tho currency, (lentrally, complaints are heard against those who impose taxes. Now tho complaint has iieeu that Congress has not been up-to tho public sentiment and the na tional demand on this subject. We hope that when Congress meets they will adopt those measures to which tl.o people arc willing to submit, and which seem so imperative for the salvation of the country. The Way 0 mei'eratk Prisoner? mu: Treated is W fsrratv Prisons. We have lately published several accounts of the inhuman manner Confederate prisoners are treated in Eastern phies of eenfinement. \ member ol Morgan's cavalry who lias uianaped to eseape from u Federal ba.-i.ih- in the West pires an ae eoimt of the maMier in which Confederates are treated in that section. Here is what he says . ••1 would advise my comrades to make it the last, the very last resort, to surrender them selves to the enemy The indignities, barbari ties and suiTeritips which they are subjected to are little preferable to death. Their blankets, money, ovi reoats and all personal property, are taken tiotn them, and they are stripped of such clothing as will protect them from the chill Northern blasts ol winter, in order to force them from necessity to take the hated Yankee oath, and even the most strenuous ex ertious are made to force them into the Yankee army, the promise of their enlistment in the enemy > ranks beiug dui si the only alterna tive from freezing to death. • Not long belore i left the prison there was ; an occurrence timk place that shows their cowardly tttanuei of treeing dv.etuelcss ami : unarmed uien. A’-out the time the battleot * Chickamtumawas taking place thvi. flag, tree- ; ted in the centre of the pris n s.ptare, was) blown to pieces by the wind and tell to the prouud. About twenty of c-nr boys who were j prisoners wi tn s?ed it, end e nsidering it otni j nous ot ill success to tbo lsinner of iuvtisiou. | gave a lusty cheer tzburth after, a Yankee captain made }.;> appear .zee with a squad ol armed men, anil ovdeied the pi is nersiuto line, lie then called them onudrt is and cursed tlieiu for some minims. using the most abusive language his Vile tongue could otter, and wound up by ordering the guard to tire upon them. When the guard refused to execute the infamous order, this pink of Northern chivalry «£aiu resorted to ttis vocabulary of abusive epithets, and announced tiiat if the victims of his wrath otfended again, he would turn the gari i>on loose upon them, and not be responsi ble tor the result." The latest New 5 orb papers continue to re late the prigrers of "strikes" amongst all sorts of artisans. Even day the moaemeut seem? to resell anew time or employment, wcuita axe huw aroused, Vantthe CUriTAt Safb.—Emerson Eth ridge, tlic renegade East Tennesseem, has been '-tilted by the Yankee Government, and ha i become very strong in liis opposition to it in < o i-'-iuence. In u Sei jis' of letters written to J the < hicago Times, he attempts to show the j Northern people how they are humbugged. j Tlic satirical rascal gets off the following on tlic* ‘•-safety of the Federal Capital i At present, however, the capital is safe, and I the army is sate. This amazing statement is 1 made by the administration organs, and the 1 people are expected to he jubilant over the fact. Safe ! Shameful, humiliating confession. Safe ! from what? Safe from capture by tlioConfed j erates whom we have been lighting for nearly three years I Safe from capture hy theConfed | era-es whose ports we have blockaded ; whom | we have deprived of mails and medicines ; j whose backbone we have broken more than a j dozen times; whom we have l idit filed as rag j ged, starving and dirty; to whom we at first | I'etiiM-d to accord the rights of belligerents; with whom, for a long time, we refined to ex i change prisoners; whose privateersmen, we I loudly boasted we would bang as pirates ! | S ib- from i lit iii'o 1... 11.. < '-..ureJeialeS, whose military power, us Ms. Seward lately assured : the world, was broken and entirely exhausted I ! Safe from capture hy the Confederates, to con i' '{tier whom we are Called upon to raise the pit | il ul number of three hundred thousand more then, in addition to the seventeen hundred thou ;:aiid whom those pesky Confederates have al ready kept so actively employed. Safe! safe indeed ! üb, shame, where is thy blush? Will we. ever compter the Confederates at this rate 1 He 'ides, how are we to emancipate, confiscate, subjugate and amalgamate by remaining ‘'safe" in our capital ? Omu n os Gen. \V. H. T. Wai.keb— On re suming command of bis Division, Gen. Walker issued the follewing order : Headquarters Waj.keu’s Brtoa HE, \ November 27. 1803. j [General Orders No.—] In resuming command, the Major General commanding desires to express his high ap preciation of the gallant and steady bearing of the division in the recent engagement under the gallant Gist. He will have the proud sat isfaction of knowing that liis gallant division did all that brave and honorable men should do all to avert the disaster which Ims befallen our arms. Recollect that freemen are never coiupiered uud let us, one and all, resolve to choose unlioii orublo soldier s grave to submission to anarro gunt, insolent and merciless foe. All officers are enjoined to keep up the strictest discip line, ami an appeal is made to the men io stand by their’colorsand theircountry through evil am] good report. Re not discouraged hy this defeat. We will yet send these robbers howling Lack tojheir caves. All that is neces sary is that we be true to ourselves. Honor, glory and iiheity will crown our success ; in famy, dishonor and eternal disgrace wait upon our defeat.. Strike, then, for your liberty and your homes! (Signed) W. 11. T. Walker, Major General Commanding. [Official.] .1. B. Gumming, (-aptiin and A. A. 0. (Official] B. Burgh Smith, Major and A. I. G. ‘•NkatC.itrim” and tub (.'onfedbbatk Tax.— The Commissioner of Taxes at Richmond has a, w ritten the following to the Tax Collectar at Charlotte, N. 0., which gives some informa tion to tiie public : In reply to your letter of the 7lh instant, yon are informed that the term “neat cattle” means a!l cattle of the bovine species, and in cludes hulls, ulcers, cows, heifers, milch cows aii.le.b.t an t all these an: to be valued and taxed mid r section twelve except working oxen actually employed in the production of articles taxed in kind. The law contemplates only the cattle held or owned on the first day of November, and does not include beeves killed and consumed by the tax-payer prior to that lime. You are not allowed to exempt any thing that the law does not exempt, no mat Pi what they are intended for, nor is any other horse stallion, mule or mare unless act ually used and employed in cultivating the firm. When tho amount of cotton is so very small as not to lie worth the trouble or expense of assessing, it should not be noticed, upon tho principle of tie Minimis non curat five. Gbx. Wish’s Financial PLAXN.-sden. Wise h-is published a letter to the Hon. J. E. Holmes of South Carolina, in which be treats of the disorders of the currency, and the remedies.— The i liter lie sums up thus : 1. Repeal the laws reducing any interest once promised on loans. 2. Impose the direct, and indirect taxes —the one by the l u!e of apportionment and the oth erby the rule of uniformity. IS A total prohibition of importations, and breaking up of the blockade running. 4. A heavy tax on passports with the exemp tion of Government officials or agents only, sent ont or coming in on official business, civil or military, with special authority. f>. Confiscation and its proceeds. C, The repeal of the taxes in kind. 7. The collection of all taxes in the Confed erate currency. 8. The repeal of all sumptuary laws. ;i. Severe v penal statutes against forestall iug the market. 10. Punish by fine and forfeiture, and test by oath, all hoarding of specie atul products. 11. State bonds for currency and Currency for Confederate bonds. 1”. A sinking fund, as established l>y the United States, to pay public debt. 13. Increase soldiers" pay at a rate reasona bly proportionate with prices, and make good in money the deficiency in their rations and forage. I I Reform the commissary and quartermas ter's department. Remembering that howev er else the Military Academy and Institutes may have prepared soldiers, they have not taught their pupils the lessons of administra tive economy. If,. Don't allow measures to be talked to death in tlio Legislatures aud in Congress. — Act ! actl act! Eemabkari k Escape from Prison. —Mr. John It. Cunningham relates to the Rockingham Register the manner of his escape from Camp Chase, Ohio, where be was held a prisoner : Hu conceived the plan with some nineteen members of Morgan’s command. They were occupied for three weeks, night and day, in digg.ng the tunnel through which they escaped their only tools being common case knives ! The tnunel was sixteen feet in length, with an entrance of six feet at each end. The guards were walking round on the parapet of the pris on at the time they canto out. The night was a bright starlight one, and the escaping pris oners would wait until the guards met on the parapet walls anil turned their backs to each other, when they came out of the tunnel, one at a time. Captain Ross, who was an engineer in lir.iag’s army, did the engineering tor the I tunnel, showing the exact point at which the i '‘underground railroad" would admit the im- I prisoned and restive Confederates to daylight The Polks i\ F.xvmple ro is—A Berlin letter to the London Times professes to have intovmation a in Warsaw that “the whole Pol ish insurgent force under arms does not num ber mere than 15,000 men. while fully ten tinu s as many Russians soldiers are engaged in rest:air.t and suppression.*’ The letter also states that the seizure ot arms and supplies have been so extensive that every weapon now in I the hands of the patriots may be looked upon : as having cost twenty times its origins* price, .and the frontier is so' strictly watched that a rather considerable corps, which has been for : nted on side of it. was lately compelled to aban don the idea of crossing. Theflettcr further ; adds : Still, the determined spirit of the pop ulation seems in no degree to tiag. even under the unexampled rigors of the Russian military government, of which we have just had fresh examples in the confiscation at Warsaw, of the Gntbowski bouse, and in the imprisonment of the Bernardine monks, in whose convent a chest of gunpowder pas alleged to have been found. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER hi, 1863. I The Duty of the Horn.—Under thi head the t Atlanta Confederacy gives it- readers some j very reasonable advice. We think it very good j for ali sections. Here it is : Never before in the history of the present revolution have the affairs of the Confederacy assumed a more critical condition. Our army retreating before a superior force of the inva der from the Tennessee; the enemy making de monstrations and advancing for battle across the liapiilan; the immense exertions of the Fed eral fleet towards the reduction of Charleston; another fieice battle imminent around Knox ville; the Siezing of the Confederate rams in Europe, all alike conspire to mike us feel for the time somewhat discouraged. Hut our trials haw not yet readied their climax. We have not alI yet begun to feel the severities and trou bles incident to hostile invasion. We are hy no means such martyrs to Liberty’s cause asth'e first American revolution produced, and we fear, many of us, Hill never quite become such unselfish patriots. We must lie prepared to ex pect reverses. We must cease to be only sun shine patriots, an 1 learn to welcome ''clouds as well as fair weather, as the inevitable fortune of genuine rebels determined to free ihemscl it mu tyranny, at ail hazards and to the hist ex tremity. Now is the time for men to prove th-mselves. The hour is at baud when the courage, patriotism and souls of men are to be tested. The united endeavors of a united South put forth in one mighty effort more, would bear us swiftly, safely over the breakers, and the ordeal is passed. Evety man must to the field whose hands is strong enough to pull tho trig ger upon the invaders of his home. The pres ent armies of the Confederacy arc hut a trifle in number ol its arms bearing population. In the name of Southern chivalry, and lor the honor of the South, let not a few brave men he borne down by Dutch hirelings for the lack of reinforcements. A Federal Decision -According to (he New York World, Judge Bells, of IT. 8. District Court, has reduced f.be execution of Lincoln’s robbery or confiscation Law, to a very simple process. Charles Gould, of New York, lodged information “for the forfeiture of a large amount of railroad stock, and of some $50,000 due on coupons of railroad bonds, the property, as alleged, of Mr. Le Roy M. Wi a well known and highly respected merchant, former ly of New York, but- also a cotton planter in Alabama, which ho called Ids residence, and where he was accustomed to vote at elections." The law, it will be seen from the annexed extract, requires all persons interested to appear and state their claims to the property proposed to be confiscated : “An appearance can only be made by the presentation and tiling of a formal answer to the information in writing. If no such answer is filed, the default o( al! the world is taken, anil the property is condemned without tile necessity of proving a single allegation contain ed in the information. Upon au answer being filed, the case is brought lo trial before the court and a jury, in ordinary courts.” Judge Betts, however, has decided that the fact ol Mr. Wiley’s being “a resident of an in surrectionary State,” precludes him from ap pealing in a United Stales Court. All that Lincoln's officials have to do now is simply to inform against- the property of a citi zen who lives in Hie Confederacy, and it iscon fiscated without any further ado—all such lit tle things as proof, trial, &c , being dispensed with. This makes the job of plundering a very easy one to our thieving oppressors. The Federal Winter Programme. —The Macon Telegraph in speaking of the existing position of matters in North Georgia, oom inents thus on the “winter programme” of the Federal commander: Now that Grant with an array of a hundred or a hundred and twenty thousand men. lias successfully established his base at, Chattanoo ga, according to the programme laid down in the New York papers, wo should be willfully blind to close our eyes to the extreme proba bility that the remainder of their plan of op erations will he attempted during this winter. This was to push down heavy raids of cavalry into Georgia, for the purpose of laying waste the country, destroying stock and supplies, cut ting railway communscations, and burning the government stores, workshops, armories, arsen als and powder mills Georgia is regarded by them as the key stone in (he ateli of tho rebel lion, and they have determined to devastate her lenilory so completely, as not. only to dis able her for all purposes of resistance, but to bring lier people as starving beggats at the feet of tlie Lincoln army fora morsel of food to keep them from starvation. This purpose was solemnly avowed to the unhappy denizens of Wills’ valley, when their farms w- *e laid waste and their stock shot down befoie their eyes by llosecrans’ soldiers. As if ashamed and half induced to apologize for the wantoon spoliation, tlio officers said to one of tho victims : “We sue sorry for you, sir. but such nve the orders.” With this prospect before us, and with the knowledge that Grant lias twenty thousand mounted men, ready tor such enterprises, there is no way of escape, other than by immediate prepaiation for self-defence. No time should he lost. The nl most diligence may, in truth, leave us behind the real urgency of the case. The de vastation of Georgia would he a no less to our comfort and security, thaw to the Confederate cause itself. Han Sickles on the War —ln a speech de livered in New York lately by Han Sickles, that infamous and unscrupulous demagogue remarked thus: The time lias come now for the peopio of the North to make one more groat effort, such ns becomes them, to end this struggle. When wo see how such an enemy treats our prisoners, eau we hesitate? They have claimed to lie par excellence the chivalry of this country. From what ho inis read of chivalry he supposes Jhe first lesson was to respect a bravo enemy. The Confederates have thousands of our men whose courage and chivalry they have tested on many a bard fought field, and today they me doing their best, by starving them, to com pel our Government to humiliating conces sions. Shall we demand of our Government to yield, or rather shall tlm people say to the Government. “Stand your ground, insist upon wliat you believe to bo right, and trust that the people of the North will rally to your stan dard and avenge the outrages put upon our soldiers?" He lias officers and men now star-' ving in the Richmond prisons. Even yester day*' lie had a letter from an officer of Ills staff, a Hungarian by birth, wlio wrote: ‘ General, as much as 1 have suffered since I have been in the hands of the enemy. I have learned more than I ever knew of the infamy of the rebellion and of the desperation of their thoughts.” It is by false and absurd statements of this stamp that the brutal and fiendish spirit of the North is kept up. After the effects of one lie has subsided a little, another] more barefaced is manufactured, Climax of Tyranny. —The Federal General in command of West Tennessee has ordered all the citizens of Memphis to be enrolled in the Federal army. The Richmond Dispatch I comments thus on this outrageous conduct: The order of the Federal General Ilnrlbut, directing the enrollment of all ablebodied Con federate citzens in the Memphis district in the Federal armies, caps the climax ot the hideous cruelties practiced by the most accursed despo potisrn of the earth upon a suffering people— to take up arms against their own brethren is a refinement of cruelty which tills the last drop iu the c tip of bitterness. Those sections of our country which have thus far escaped being ov errun by the enemy may see what they have to expect if they fall into their hands. There is no salvation for them but resistance to the death to the worse than savages who are bent upon destroving us trom the face of the earth. We can expect no mercy, no happiness, not a foothold upon the earth, unless we fight these fiends with all the energy of our natures, and mete out to them at every opportunity the game uiuftiutc they mete out to us, j Lord Palmerston ox the American and I Polish Questions.- —At a late banquet in Lon don, Lard Palmers'on made a speech, in the course of which he alluded thus to affairs in America and Poland : There have been occasions when it was the lot of tlios.- who had to explain the state of af- Uirs to congratulate you on the tranquil eondi lion of the civilix and world. lam afraid I can not do that in the present instance ; for. al though I trust there is no hing in our horizon which can grow into a cloud of war, yet there are on all sides, in the far West and distant East, struggles going oil of Hie most lamenta ble character, and scenes enacted which make us shudder for humanity, ami excite our deep compassion lor the countries in which they tiro occurring. In th it far West we see a nation of the same face, the same language, the same religion. Hie same manners and literature as ourselves, split into two, slaughtering each other hy lnm ' I reds ol thousands, and carrying oil a contest Hie result o, which it is impossible to foresee, and the end ot which now. after more than two years deration, he would be a bold lnun bid' t who - -t-.tiujyi to predict. Lamenting that state of things, the Government ol this country have felt it their duty not to yield either to the entreaties or the objurgations of the one parly or the other. Blandishments on Hie one side and tin eats on the other have equally been fruU-lc,;s lo effect our course. We have felt it our duty to abstain from taking any part in that deplorable conflict. If, indeed, we had thought it had been in our power t put an end tbit by friendly interven tion, no effort would have been wanting to ac complish so holy an object. lhit we felt that our interference would have been vain, and wo deemed it our duty, and in that 1 am sure we but followed the wishes of the country, to maintain a strict watch and impartial neutrali ty. In the East, also, scenes of a lamentable character are taking place.’ We there see on the one side a barbarous system of deliberate extermination carried out, and on the ott.er side revenge venting itself in acts of murder and assassination. We endeavored to enlist the feelings anil opinions of civilized Europe in a joint remonstrance against that which we thought unjust. These remonstrances have failed’ We have done our duty; and we can only hope shat those who‘have the conduct of affairs in Hießmsian empire may at length cease lo pursue that course which has drawn upon them the condemnation of Europe, and that peace may he restored upon terms of equity and justice in that unfortun ate country. Well, things abroad look ill, and much misery and calamity are sustained, this country forms a happy exception to that which seems to lie tlic prevailing condition of nations. We have been blessed by Providence with an abundant harvest; we have been preserved by the conduct of the Government and the sense of the country from the misfortunes of war : our population are contented and loyal and they feel that for a long course of years the Legislature has been occupied in remedy ing grievances, in removing defects from our laws, in sweeping away these obstructions which the less enlightened policy of former tunes had placed in the way of the productive industry of the nation. By alt these means. I am happy to to say, I believe that the com mercial and material prosperity of the country has reached a point which il never attained at any former period. Action or tub Mississippi Legislature. —The following resolutions have been adopted by both Houses of the Mississippi Legislature : Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate states of America, continues to possess our confidence In Ids ability to man age the liehn of State, in his patriotism and devotion to the cause of Southern liberty and independence, and in his integrity to the prin ciples which severed our connection with the North, and which form the imperishable base of this revolution and Confederate government. Resolved, That notwithstanding the misfor tunes of wav have given over to tlio ravages of a ruthless foe some of the best and fairest por tions of oiir devoted Mississippi; notwithstand ing our fitends and brethren have been plun dered of their property and driven fiem their homes, and our wives, mothers, sisters and children have been subjected to the brutal insults of a brutal soldiery, and deprived of those comforts and that independence to which birth, education and habit had accus tomed them ; and notwithstanding devoted Vicksburg and heroic Port Hudson suffered, en dured and passed from our possession, and Mis-‘ sississippi bleeds at every pore fiom the re verses of the year, we believe Mississippi’s fa vored son was not wanting in purpose or cher ished desire to keep the poisoned chalice of Federal occupation from our lips and hearts, or failed to avail himself of the most effective means at bis command to triumph over and re pel the invader. Resolved. That we continue to cherish a firm and an unwavering confidence in the justice of our cause, anil believe God will bless our ef forts and vouchsafe to us independence and a glorious and prosp> rous future. Resolved, That in our reassurance of confi dence in his Excellency as a ruler, patriot and statesman, and of our purpose to sustain him, as well as of the continued devotion of Missis sippians to him, to tire end of which we are struggling and to the original purpose of eter nal separation from the North, we ask that he will continue a strict and earnest observer and follower of file constitution, so that our people may grow in devotion to their government, and, when peace shall he restored, the noble and grand spectacle will he presented of a na tion’s birth amid the throes of a desperate revolution, not ruined by war. but lovely aud strong in the embraces of religious and civil liberty and constitutional preservation. Gov. Vance on the Position of Affairs. —The conclusion of Gov. Vance’s late message to the North Carolina Legislature is occupied with the present position of our affairs. He says : “The noisy are silent—the faint of heart be gin to despair, and the disloyal, though few, to grow bold in the. presence of national ills. The restless and the discontented strive, of course, to imbue all others with their own forebodings. The great mass, thank God. continue hopeful and earnest. Let us all labor with one accord to sustain the nation's hope, and to show that we are worthy of independence by being will ing to pay for it the price which every people has had to pay since liberty was known among the sons of men—suffering and sacrifice. The hope which animated many of our people, that our enemy was eoming to the sober second thought, and that many of theta wore favorable to pacific overtures, lias been dashed to the ground, and the originators of that hope, at the North, are trampled under the feet of reckle.se and blood-thirsty majorities. Solar from treat, ing with us on the basis of onr independences or even of reconstruction, the arrogant people of the North are tauntingly proclaiming on the hustings that no peace can be made with ns— no peace talked of—till the last rebel has laid down his arms! An insulted and outraged people will yet make them regret this haughty language, which wrongs humanity and outrages civiliza tion. The lion which has crouched in their path to Southern conquest l'or near three years, is still there : and though driven back a littie. he lias grown more watchful, and will fight more fiercely as he approaches his lair. We know at last .precisely what we would get by | > tl-mission, and-t’. -rein has our enemy done ns g .ml > of slavery, confiscation of property,.and territorial vassalage ! These are the turns, to win us back. Now, when our brothers bleed au-i mothers and little ones cry for bread, we can.point them back to the brick-kilns ot Egypt—thanks to Mr. Seward ! plainly, and ,-liow them the beautiful clusters or Eschol which grow in the land of Indepen dence. whither we go to possess them. And we can remind them. too. how the pillar of fire and the cloud, the vouchsafe! guidon of Jeho vah. went ever bi-iore the hungering multitude, leading away, with apparent cruelty, from the fullness of servitude. With such a prospect before them, our people will, as heretofore, come firmly up to the full measure of their du ty. if their trusted servants do not fail them ; they will not crucify afresh their own sons, slain in their behalf, or put their gallant shades to open shame, by stopping short of full and complete national independence, li. NixDo Mood on the War.— Fernando Ii " cl New I oik. attended au entertain met;, -hen by the “Peace Democrats” of Bene a county, New Jersey, Nov. 24th, and iit ele a speech o.i the war. If Mr. Wood and his eoaikutors will only carry out in the Fede ral Cong-ess the principles of the-platform he has laid down, we may soon look for—yes, and there soon will be a strong and powerful oppo sition party to Lincoln organised at the North. \\ e hope for once tuat air. Wood will act upon principle, and have the courage to take a firm and unyielding position on the side of tight and justice. His whole political and business career ha- however, been so corrupt aud dis honest that we have no faith in him. We want to see him act before we believe ho means what lie says. His professions amount to nothing. There is one thing certain. If he has in:; ! • ' p liis mind that lie can gain any thing, poi” - ally or pecuniarily, by stopping or Tying ty \ inis war, lie win «u do. ne is a man who looks out for self alone, and when lie j himself is to be benefitted lie bends liis whole I untiring energies to the task lie has laid out to accomplish. Here is Mr. Wood’s speech on the war as published by the Northern papers : Whatever may be the secret or avowed grounds on which a prosecution of this war is urged, rest assured my friends, it leads to a re sult that will oiigult all alike in one common mmlst-roin of destruction. I care not whether it be prosecuted Jlbr patriotic purposes or not; the objects of men or of Hie Government are nothing in view of the fact that file effect, ten dency and catastrophe will of necessity ho fa tally disastrous. It is folly to prate of motives, however high and ennobling they may ostensi bly appear, when the results which accrue from those motives are destructive and debasing. It. may boas wi ll said that a man is justified in jumping from an eminence, a fall from which is certain to break Ids neck, because he did not design doing an injury to himself. Whatever his intentions may have been, he perishes in the act. So with this war. Whether we will or no, its continued prosecution is certain destruc tion. There is no such thing as rebellion under the institution upon which the Government of this country is founded. Suppose New York chose to secede, who dare attempt topi-event her? Virginia hid the same right as New York. War is disunion and disintegration. No man in liis senses disputes this. Every man who fa vors it, directly or indirectly, favors the disso lution of the American Union—promotes the establishment of a centralized despotism, and advances the fortunes of the most desperate and unscrupulous knaves that ever cursed a country. The advocates of the war may well be classed as: the “evil disposed” and the •‘sim ple-mi uded.” * * * * The present delusions must subside. Like he French Revolution, the dreadful era of car nage and fanaticism must run its course and have its termination. Ail civil wars founded on social or moral ideas Lave produced the same excitements, been pregnant with the same popular outbreaks, and culminated as this-will, in the downfall and extinction of the men or party which advocated them. Rely on this. History will repeat itself in this instance as it has in a thousand others— r our nature has not been changed; men are now as in tho days of Robe-’pierve and Cromwell—bloody, treach erous, fanatical, selfish and unpatriotic. lie believed that when the President called for troops, if only one State Executive with biainand nerve had done his duty under the Constitution, the war would have" been stop ped before now With 100,000 qndpr Lee threatening Washington, neither Stanton nor Lincoln would have had courage enough to turn and face the fire Uiey would have felt in the rear. It is the duty of the people now to refuse to give - ..other man or another dollar for the purpo..- of carrying on the war. A ref erence made by tho speaker to Mr. Vallandig ham was received with the most boisterous applause. Ex-Governor Price, of New Jersey, followed Mr. Wood. lie endorsed all his most ultra de monstrations of Copperhead doctrinism. He believed the only salvation of the country lay in the restoration to pov,er of the Democracy, and lie was not very scrupulous as to the means by which the Democracy secured the necessary lease of power. Other speeches were made by C. Chaunoy liurr, Judge Van Loon and others, and a letter from lion. J. P. Singleton, of Illinois, was read. Why tub South is Unconquerable.— The Now York News makes some very sensible and truthful remarks upon the subject “Why the South is Unconquerable.” Annexed we give an extract which contains the substance ol' the conclusions drawn: It cannot he said that the Federal govern ment has made no thorough application of tho resources of the country, for warfare furnishes no parallel to the completeness and extent of the armies, navies, and general machinery of war that have been used in this yet undeter mined struggle. That influence which has made null all our past efforts is one which in tensifies as the strife proceeds, and will always he found equal to any physical force that we can bring into the field. It is the soul of en lightened manhood which, although it may be cowed in individuals, can never be conquered in a people. It may fail in aggressive, but never in defensive warfare. Where the issue is some question that affects only the dignity or interests of a nation, it may yield its point to physical superiority; when it is aroused to the vindication of the principle of political ex istence, it is indomitable. No enlightened peo ple. educated to freedom, have ever been es sentially subdued. Their territory may have been overrun, their armies destroyed and their capitals occupied by invaders, but tiiey have always preserved the spirit of national inde pendence which, however shackled, awaits the hour of its redemption. If our statesmen would hut give their intel lects some, respite from preoccupation upon the military situation, they might appreciate liow futile must be the attempt to subjugate the will of such a people. What signifies the con quest of their territory if the spirit of repug nance to political companionship with the North is unrestrained? We have to conquer physical resistance, which lias thus far defied our utmostgefiorts; and which, being conquered, will give us but so many disaffected provinces to be controlled by military agencies, to the destruction of our republican institutions. Another Federal Robbing Operation. —A late Northern paper exposes one of the infa mous schemes resorted to by Federal officials to rob. Those who have 1 een engaged in- it have held places as ‘‘Secret Police of the Army ol the Cumberland.” “Secret rogues 1 ’ would be a much more appropriate title. Here is an account of the way they operate : Soon rfter Truesdall's appointment and the organization of his Detective Bureau, a grand scheme was projected ami carried into effect, whose character may b- inferred from the fact that the parties engaged in it were known as the Cotton Association. Capital was subscribed, j a regular organization was formed, whose I workings wore managed by the members of the • police, anil by whose efforts the field was clear j od of ail legitimate operations. A favorite plan was to send out a person to engage all the cotton in a certain neighbor hood, who a little later was followed by an other member of the police, who in iho guise of xx c* mment otiiciul, v/ould, upon some pretext, declare the transaction illegal, threat en to arrest the planter, but finally would i leave him, felling him to wait until the govern | ment had taken action iu the matter. Shortly ' after, another member of the police, in the j shape ol a cotton buyer, would at rive, who i would agree to take the cotton and run all | risks of government displeasure if the planter | would le. him have it at a half or a third its | ruling value. j By this means, and others of a similar char | acter. the Cotton Association, alias the Army . police, secured enormous quantities of cotton, j upon which they realized immense profit? and i seturud for many individuals gigantic fortunes. VOL. LXXVII. —NEW SERIES VOL. XXVII. MX 50. WHAT OI K EAKSHES H WE SAIL' We quote from the speeches and publications of our enemies before the war : ! liesolved, That the rapid dovelopements of the last five months nave rendered the exis tence of the Southern Confederacy an historical fact; that excepting by the free spontaneous act of the separate members composing it, its independent nationality can only be interfered with by violence; and that we are opposed to every form of menace, restraint, or coercion, under whatsoever pretext- of enforcing law. col lecting revenue, or retaking property, which may lead to a conflict with the seceded States.” --John Cochrane at Mv~aH Halt. Auril 1801. When the rebellion broke out Mr. Chase held this language: "The South is not worth light ing for.” Mr. Seward wrote to Mr. Adams as follows : “The President is not* disposed to reject a cardinal dogma of the South, namely, that the federal government cannot reduce the seceded States to obedience by conquest, even although ]j<> waro <1 to J' Os o.'l io rpioatuin tßrvt l• 1• '1 I 'JSj 11*'■ I« , But in fact the President willingly accepts it as true. Only an imperial or-despotic government could subjugate thoroughly disaffected and in surrectionary members of the State. This fed eral republican system of ours is, pf all forms of government, the very one which is most un fitted for such labor.” Mr. Tremaine, a New York, now a war Dem ocrat, said in 18G1 : “Gentlemen, we must not forget that tho South has had the most terrible provocations to which civilized man was ever subjected. ° * * I wish to say that, traitorous though it may he, I stand here to oppose the policy of war with the South, now, heroattcr and forev er. ” D. 8. Dickinson in the winter before the war held this language : “I know there are those among ns who say that the South do not intend to secede ; they say that this is an unnecessary alarm; they say they can be coerced and driven back in their position. All that is necessary is firmness. But the South have seen for years these little rivu lets of opposition forming upon the hills and forcing down through the gorges until they form the black and hitter waters of one great sea of abolition, which threatens lo ovmwiulm and engulf them. Let those who believe that this evil can lie averted and that the Union can be preservoff hy force, attempt that method; hut let good men, every true patriot , set to work to correct the public sentiment of the Nor h. Ihe public sentiment of the South has been goaded until it has arrived, in a good de gree, at a point of desperation. Tho South cares little about the mere election of Mr. Lin coln—they view it as the development, of a public sentiment as a last and final evidence of the sentiment, of the free States.” It is related of one of the ancient Philips that he was one day guilty of an act of gross injustice towards one of his subjects. The King was intoxicated at the time and tho in - jnred man waiting until he became sober, com plained of tho treatment he bad received. " “I appeal for redress” he said, “from Philip io Philip”-—from Philip in a passion to Philip with reason restored. Wo would make, could it be of any avail, a similar appeal to the men who are now so furiously crying for the blood of our citizens. We would ask Mr. Seward to contrast the language which ho used before the war began, when reason was calm anil clear, with the efjjpvts which he is now making to destroy our government. With what con sistency can Daniel S. Dickinson, tlio recent supporter of JJr. Buchanan’s administration, the man who, previous to the election of Lin coln, fought SO manfully for the defence of his Southern brethren—declaring that they had received from the Abolitionists of the North provocations which would amply justify the most extreme measures to which they might resort—how, we ask, can this same man, now that an oppressed people arc seeking to shake off the yoke which they found so galling, de nounce them as traitors and rebels, aucl join the mad cry for their subjugation. And if in the judgment of the Secretary of the Treasury “the South is not worth fighting for,” on what principle does be justify the expenditure of so many hundreds of millions of dollars and so many thousands of lives to effect their restora tion to a partnership which they have most solemnly repudiated ? “O judgment thou hast fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason.” We know how easily snch men can ignore their former principles. When the published doctrines of the past cry out against their pre sent outrages, they may say “the South began the war, and wo are only defending our flag but their wicked and cruel inconsistency can not be concealed from any discerning mind. Though such extracts from the speeches of our enemies may prove of no avail in arresting the war, we are nevertheless glad that such senti ments are recorded against them. It was be cause some ot our prominent statesmen be lieved that these men—the accredited expo nents of public sentiment at the North—were in earnest, that they declared that there would be no war resulting ifrom secession. Lulled into security by such principles, tho only prin ciples as it seemed which could be deduced from the Constitution of the United States, our Congress at Montgomery adjourned without raising such armies as the exigencies of the times demanded. The truth is that the men whose'won’s wc have quoted as the preface to these remarks, know now, as well as they knew then, that to make war upon a State for withdrawing from a confederacy into which she had voluntarily entered, was altogether repugnant not merely to the Constitution of the land, hut to the very essence of all Republican institutions. Rut what signifies Constitution ? “We are twenty millions ; you are only eight.” Might makes right. Tiie Northmen want our cotton and our trade, and have it they will—if they can. But their nefarious designs arc not yet execu ted. When they have fought us three years more, they may be willing to recognize ns as an independent, as they have been compelled to acknowledge that we are a belligerent power ParticTlabs or Defeat axd Death of Fed eral General Blunt. —From a letter address ed to a member of Congress, the Richmond Examiner is permitted to give an extract or two. It will be sc<*h that the statement of the Yankee General Blunt and his men having been surprised and cut to pieces by Quantrell is here confirmed : Quantrell arrived at Washington Ark., a day or two since. On his way out, he met General Blunt, his staff and escort, and killed every one of his party, save 25j who escaped. lie killed Blunt, and all his staff, together with 130of his escort. lie brought all Blunt’s commiss ions. clothing, papers, brass band, ambulances, trunks, Ac., into camp with him. Quantrell came into our lines at Post Gibson. In pass ing through tire Pin Indian country ac kept Blunt’s stars and stripes flying, the Pins rally ing to ths flag, and Quantrell killing every one that showed himself. In one day he killed ISO In coming out, including Blunt, his stall and escort, he killed at least six hundred Yan kecs and Pins. Blunt’s line sword Quantrell has given General Price. A. W. Jones, of Inde pendence, was on Blunt’s staff, and was killed bv Quantrell. When the boys came on Blunt, he was sitting in his ambulance, enjoying a quiet =moke. When Quantrell charged him, he jumped out of his buggy, and took it about through the prairie gra.-s. He had run thirty yards, when one of Uie boys emptied forty buck shot in bis back, killing him instantly. He had ill his pockets S2sff in gold, and 6700 in green backs. Quautreil brought out luff men with him,” ,„ju ***■*»,, V\ iiat the Federal-; intend to no.—Some of the citizens of IVarren county. Miss., soon af ter the fall of Vicksburg, wrote Gen. Sherman, the Federal commander, a letter upon the con dition of matters in that section. His reply shows what course the Vandals intend to pur sue in those portions of tho Confederacy they get into their clutches. Here are some extracts from it : Your preamble, however, starts out with a mistake. Ido not think any nation ever un dei took to feed, supply and provide fertile fu ture of the inhabitants of an insurgent district. I contend that, after the filing on our steam boats navigating our own livers, alter the long and desperate resistance to our armies at Vicks burg, on the Yazoo, and in Mississippi gene rally, we are justified in treating all the in habitants as combatants, and would be perfect ly justifiable in transporting you all beyond tiie seas, if the United States deemed it to her interest. In due season the nr -zoos in this district will ’-v l.ti V a, V .1. X v\ I< * ll.v. Ctu\ *.-t I.liiciil. (»1 IL moved to camps where they can be convenient ly fed, but in the meantime no one must mo lest them or interfere with the agents of the United States entrusted with this difficult and delicate task. If any of them are turned it is for self-defence. We cannot hire servants for the people who have lost their slaves, nor can wc detail ne groes for such a purpose. You must do as we do, hire your servants aud pay them. If they do not earn their hire, discharge them and employ others. 1 advise till citizens lo stay at home, gradu ally put their houses and contiguous ground in order and east about for some employment or make preparations on a moderate, scale to re sume their former business and employment. 1 cannot advise any one to think of planting on a large scale, for it is manifest no one can see far enough in the future to say who will reap what you sow. Those who die by the bullet are lucky com pared to the poor fat,tiers and wives and chil dren who sec their ail taken from them, and themselves 101 lto perish or linger out their few years in ruined poverty. • Here is a programme laid down hy one of the leading Federal Generals. If is a plain one. All who read, can understand it. If it means any thing it. means this ; “We Eedorals intend to do all in our power to rain and devastate the country wo are t rying to subjugate.” This fact now stares our peop'e more plainly in the face than ever, and ought, to stimulate them to re newed exertions. If they submit, they will be stripped of their all. ff they are defeated they can only be stripped of their all. If by re newed, exertions they gain the day—as gain it they surely will if they only act aright—they will secure to themselves the peaceable enjoy" tnent of their liberties, and the undisturbed pos session of their property. A Member of Parliament on American Af fairs. — Wo find in i ur English files the speech of C. P. Villiers, Member of Parliament, on the foreign policy of the British Government, made on the 9th instant at Wolverhampton. Mr. Villiers defended at length the policy of non intervention, and said in conclusion : “Non-intervention was the great household principle of minding your own business ap plied to nations at large, where it was as useful to be observed. He only wished that, forbear ance could be carried still further, and that nations would he somewhat more careful in tiie language they employed towards each other. It arose frequently from ignorance quite un warrantable, and censures wereollen unreason able in those who cast them. lie thought herd measures had been deatt <>ut both to the 1' ederais and the Southerners in this country. The most hitter reproaches had been cast, upon the President for desiring to retain the Union, and against the Southerners for desir ing to retain what they called their property. Yet iie could not help remembering that for the first ten years that he was in Parliament, one of the prominent questions of tiie day was the repeal of the Union with Ireland. Yet he never remembered one English member who was not for it, or one that would not have voted any means to maintain it, or any minister who would not have been called a traitor who had thought of yielding it; and he did not know to what length they would not have gone to retain tho Union, had the eminent man avlio agitated that question so pcrseveringly not died. Again, for some years before he went into Parliamant he remembered well tiie kind of language that used to be held towards Lord Brougham and others who sought to , emanci pate the negroes that belonged to Englishmen, and he doubted it it was very different from that which the Southerners addressed to the Abolitionists now. They, however, as English men, would have been indignant if other na tions had interfered with their internal . dis putes, and not allowed them to settle those questions as it seemed best to them to do, and which, in fact, they did to their own entire sat isfaction. Why, then, should not the Ameri cans 1,0 allowed to settle their affairs in the way they think right, without being so severely condemned by other people ? From Utah.— A correspondent of the N. Y. Post gives some interesting notes from Great Salt Lake City, under date of the 27Ui of Sep tember. The present population of Utah, he says, is some SO,OOO, not including population of the present season, estimated at 7,000 more, with an immense immigration of miners and Mormons going in, some of the for mer stopping in Colorado, others going to the Bannock gold mines in Utah, yet others to Ne vada and California. The territory, he remarks is greater in extent than all the New England Slates. The Rost's correspondent writes thus in re gard to matters in tlio territory : 1 found President Young an agreeable, affa ble gentlemen, apparently not over forty-five years of age, although lie is really upwards of sixty. The war, be thinks, will be continue! till a great part of tho North and South is used up, or, to speak more plainly, till they are an nihilated. The desolation caused by the war, he regards as the judgment of the Lord for the persecution of the “Saints.”, The ventilating of his private school-loom, where Ids own children, numbering some sixty, are educated, appeared to be a favorite subject of conversa tion. The ceilings of these rooms are eighteen feet high, ventilated from the tops of all the windows. 11 is own residences- there are sev eral buildings—are large anil airy, with double doors, and ceilings twenty or thirty feet in height. One large building is principally oc- cupieil by his wives. Brigham sleeps alone undents his meals alone Whenever he wants one of his wives he sends for her. A dozen or fifteen children are abent his premises at play at all times, apparently happy enough. Brigham Young, jr., a son of about twenty-two years old -a pretty fair chip of the old block—has just returned from Europe whither be was sent on a mission. Brigham is friendly disposed toward the overland mail companies. The spy system here is equal to that in Vienna or Paris. There is little doubt that the mountains which surround the valley of Balt Lake areas rich in the-precious metals as California or any portion of the country bordering on the Pacific. Gov. Doty has a large collection of specimens of gold ami silver which have been brought to him by friendly Indians, who have picked them up in the mountains and gulches, hut refuse to tell where. The Mormons themselves have large quantities of the richest gold and silver quartz, and large pit c- sos pure gold anil 'rich washings. Brigham Young has boasted that he could see more silver and gold from the door of his house than would equal tie- whole currency oi the world. These mines are not allowed to be opened. The effect would be. according to Brigham’.- ideas, to bring near the “City of the Faints” a large mining population, which he would find exceedingly hard to rule. He is probably not far from the truth. When the l nited States Government gets a suffice nt number us tro >]. there- not less than ten thousand—the Federal officer of the Ti r~ litoiy may thru assert some little authority, which Uo-.v it is not prudent to attempt, f i'e R ight Spirit. —Our flowery sister, of the Southern Peninsula, is not only represented by brave soldiers in the field beyond her ratio of population, but has at home good citizens who will take care of the soldiers’ families. The citizens o! Alachua county have called a meet ing for this purpose, and in advance of the ac tion of that meeting many citizens have signed the following pledge : Me. citizens, planters of Alachua county, whoso names are hereunto attached, do pledge ourselves to furnish to soldiers’ families and those who are. not engaged in speculation, vv hatever supplies we may have to spare, for f onfedevate money, and at the prices that may tie assessed from time to time by the Govern ment ( cinmissioners for this State. Wc fnrther agree to furnish free of charge, to such soldiers’ families as are unable to pay—feeling that it i* no charity hut a debt due from us to our bravo soldiers. This is the right spirit. Would that every "■'■u i._, give naa possessed ot such a disposition. Then, the cry of want and distress would go up from our midst no more. Then, truly, we would he a united people. Asqcark Fight. —The Sunday Transcript, of October sth, 1802, a paper professing neutrali ty in politics, but with Republican leanings, published in Philadelphia, contains the follow ing in its editorial column ; “The present contest is a contest between the white and black race for supremacy. Presi dent Lincoln and the Abolitionists have made it so. At the North the white race is represent ed by the Democratic party—the black race by the Abolition Republican party. The tact can no longer be disguised. The simple ques tion to be decided is, whether tho white man shall maintain liis status of superiority, or be sunk to the level of the negro. Equality of races is demanded by Hie Abolitionists ; they claim that, socially, civilly and politically, the black man should be equal to the white. The Democrats deny and oppose this. It is a fair and square fight between tho Caucasian an<r the African. Federal Brutality in East Tennessee.— A correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser writing from near Loudon, speaks as follows o the appearance and condition of tho country over which the Federal vandals had control si few weeks only : The people of this vicinity give woful ac counts of the manner in which the Yankees have treated them during their occupation of this country. They have acted more like fiends than men, having taken all the grain, cattle, hogs, horses, sheep and everything else of value that they could lay their hands on, not even sparing the clothing of the ladies and children, hut taking them and burning them before their .eyes. I could fill several columns in relating acts of brutality that the citizens here have suffered at the hands of those rascally invaders, but it would be use less, for your readers surely do not need any more evidence to convince them of the charac ter of the foe they have to meet. Railroad Traveling in Tennessee.— The cot? respondent of the New York Times, writing from Thomas’ army complains that railroad’ travel over the Southern lines in possession of’ I he Yankees, is attended with considerable peril* He says: Some idea of railroading and travel in genera? in this section may he formed from Ihe opera tions of last week on this road hence tq Nash ville, a hundred and twenty five miles. Four; engines have been destroyed. One ran off tho track down the embankment near Lavergue, supposed accidentally. A second ran off near E.-tioli »j the otrnltby <Jonfcdciutc£S widening the rails and laying in ambush, ams then firing on the terrified passengers as tha cars ran off. A third was exploded by a torpe do placed on tiie mils near the tunnel of Cow an, and a fourth was damaged by collision* Besides these perils to the traveler, the enemy, whose prate about civilized warfare is so loud,, indulge in the highly civilized practice of throwing rocks down the chimneys of the tun nels, aud placing obstructions on the track* Since Wheeler passed over the river the track has been torn up once by a smaller band. It is very evident that our guerillas in Ten-' liessee are “up and doing.” lowa’s Quota of Federal War Debt.—, Some of the lowa newspapers have been figur-. ing out the portion of the Federal war debt which that Stale will have to pay if the wac stops now. According to the figures, if al? the property in the State was sold at its high est estimated value, there would only be about $30,000,000 left after the Federaf mortgage, was paid. Tho New York News in comment ing on this fact remarks thus : And if it lie true—and without it is a veritable fact—that tiie public debt is a mortgage on the property of every individual in the nation, it is here seen that the greatest capitalist in lowa has a mortgage upon his properly for move than eight-tenths of its value.. Making the “nigger squeal” lias proved expen sive music. Those who deny that the debt lias not been incurred because we have made tha “nigger squeal,” will do well to study the de claration of Col. Stone, recently elected Gov ernor of lowa, that “this is an abolition war.’* Those who dance must pay tiie fiddler. A Yankee Speech in New Orleans, — A. Yankee lawyer named Earhart has been mak ing a speech to a Yankee meeting in New Or leans. According to the report published in the New Orleans paper he disposes of the inuctr talked-about Southern negro in this manner : Five hundred thousand of them could bot armed with Enfield rifles and sword bayonets and be sent to Mexico to whip out Napoleon.. He wanted to see every slave in the army ; it would prove ttie most etlectual method of stop ping slavery agitation. Once soldiers, and no one would think of asking them to he sent hack iuto slavery. Every hoe should be laid down, and a musket substituted, and thus let them save the Union. It was their war, and ho. believed in letting them fight. The negro was. a natural soldier, and in his opinion they would yet be hailed as the suppressors of tliu lebellion. LIST or CASIALTTES OF AVIUM HI’S 111110- AI)K In a Skirmish mar Verdiersville, Va., November ■Mh, 18015, sent by A. A. Gen’l J. K. Evans. Lt J K Evans, A A A Gen’J, contused wound of the neck. Sergt Francis Tye, Cos 15, -ml Ga Batt, fleslr wound of the left fore arm private F M Beetles, Go A, 48th Ga Regt, wounded through bowels badly. Private IVm Phillips, Cos A, 4bth Ga ltegt,, chest, badly. Private M B Hubert, CoB, 48th Gaßegt, faca badly. Private L W Barksdale, Cos B, 48th Ga Regt, concussion, by shell. Lieut J W Mathews, Cos E, 3d Ga Regt, liesil wound of the scalp, slightly. Lieut O M Ro:-sum,Co C, 22d Ga Regt,woun ded through the left shoulder, very severe. Private Jas Hicks, Cos C, 22d Ga Regt, con tused wound of the thigh. Private -J C McDade, Cos G, 3d Ga Regt, fleslr wound of the linger. Private Francis Bland, Cos G, 3d Ga Regt,, wound in the right fore arm. Private J T Trapwell, Cos 11, 48th Ga Regt, killed in action. Private Henry McCarthy, Cos B, 2d Oa Batt, killed in action. Recapitulation, (11) eleven wounded; (2)tw* S. I’opb, Sen. Sur. Wright’s Brig. Verdiersville, Va., Dec. 1- The United States District Court for the Eas t ern District of Virginia has just decided that tfc cannot limit the sale of Confederate estates un de,. the Confiscation Act to the term of the trai tor’s life: that such limitation is not the intent, of the act of Congress, and in the case of Hugh Latham, the Corn t. by Judge Underwood, or ihn il a sale and an execution of a deed in led by the sheriff tv tiie pnrclm*. __