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tteottaary to saw the productive powot of the
pianting'iaterest from the damage* which may
ensue from the enforcement of the chi cm; of
the act in relation to the tax in kind, which re
quire* planters within a certain distance of the
railroad, to deliver the taxes in kind to Gov
ernment depots.
The unfinished business of yesterday, being
the motion to reconsider the vote by which the
bill to fix the time for the assembling °t the
next Congress was adopted, (making the time
the first Monday in April.) was taken up. and
on motion recommitted to the Judiciary Com
mittee.
SENATE — JAN. 22.
The following were referred: A bill to or
ganize military courts to attend th** army ot
the Confederate States in the UelJ- the object
of the bill i» to correct an erroneous construc
tion of the a< t by the Secretary of War, under_
which the authority of the commander of an ‘
army, so far as affected by the military courts,
ii transferred to the corps commanders; to con
fer additional power upon courts martial and
military courts; to increase the compensation
of the Commissioner of Patents to $4,500, t«>
be paid out of the patent office fund; to punish
absence from the army. *
On motion, it was ordered that when the
.Senate adjourn, it adjourn until Monday next,
at Tbe Committee of Military Affaire, reported
hack, adversely, the Mouse bill tqtix the rank,
pay and allowances of Adjutants or regiments
nnd independent l»attaliou*i. ibe bill was laid
upon the tafile. ...
The Mouse bill to prohibit dealing m the pa
per currency of the enemy was taken up, and
after some debate upon the constitutionality of
the measure, was passed nem. con., with an
amendment, incorporated in the liill when it
was under consideration oil 1 uesday last.
The Senate bill to provide for the investiga
tion and settlement of the transactions and ac
counts of quartermasters, commissaries, con
tractors, and other financial and disbursing
officers, agents and employees of the Couted
erate States was taken up, considered and
passed.
Tl*; Senate bill declaring persons owing null
tary service to the Confederate States,and who
seek to avoid such service by removing beyond
the control jurisdiction of said States,
alien enemies, and subjecting their property to
confiscation, was next taken up. The bill was
under discussion when the Senate went iuto
executive session.
HOUSE.
The Committee on Military Affairs reported
back the bill to authorize the assigning of
Judges of Military Courts from one court to
another, as occasion might require, with the
recommendation that it -pass. Ihe liill was or
dered to a third reading ami passed.
The same committee reported hack, with tho
recommendation that it pass, the bill to authoi
|ie commandants of corps and departments to
detail field officers for military courts in cases
where consanguinity or other sufficient causes
disqualify tlie iucumbeuts tor said duty, the
bill was read a third time and passed.
The same committee reported back, with the
recommendation th it it pa«s, the joint resolu
tion of thanks to Maj. Gen. l’atrick li. Cleburne
anil the officers and men ol his command, for
gallantry at Ringgold Gap, Georgia, in Novem
ber last. The resolution was taken up, and
passed Unanimously.
The same committee, reported back the bill
to create an invalid corps, with the recommen
dation that if pass. Ordered to a third reading
and made the special order for Saturday.
senate —Jan. 23.
The Senate was not in session to-day.
HOUSE.
The following were referred : Joint resolu
tions of the Senate relating to Judges of Con
federate District Courts in Virginia; Senate
hill in relation to authentication of chums
against the Government not provided tor ;
Senate liill providing for the investigation and
settlement of accounts of Commissioners, Quar
termasters, Commissaries, Contractors, and Oth
er financial agents; House bill with bciiate
amendments to regulate impressments and to
repeal an act amendatory thereof—the bill was
utter wards taken up and returned to the ben
ate; ’ supplementary to the several acts in rela
tion to the public printing ; to authorize the
appointment ol additional artillery officers for
ordnance duty; resolution that iuquiiy he
made into the cause of the .delay in 0
meat of claims of deceased soldiers ; bill sup
plementary to the several acts in relation tc
military oourts ; in reference to the expediency
‘The Senate toll To e^eo4' pn-Tisions ol
an act in relation to the receipt of counterfeit
Treasury Notes by public officers, approved
May Ist 1863, was taken up for consideration
mid passed. The bill extends the provisions
of said act to the Ist of January, 1864. _
A resolution was adopted that the Committee
on Public Printing inquire into the practica
bility of an analytical digest ot the Acts ol
Congress under the Provisional and lermanent
Governments, and a digest of the naval and
military laws for the use of the government.
Tho following resolutions were unanimously
adopted • ...
• • Resolved, That tho thanks of Congress are
hereLv tendered to all of the brigades and
other troops in service, who have taken the
patriotic resolution to re-enlist for the war.
“ Resolved, T hat the manifestation of such a
spirit ic our armies is a happy omen of tiie ul
timate triumph of our struggle for independ
ence, indicative as it is of the fixed determina
tion of our people never to lay down their arms
while our soil is exposed to the hostile tread
and barbarous ravages m' our malignant ene
mies.” . ,
The bill to eonacribe free negroes and slaves
as teamsters, cooks. Ac., for the army was taken
tip aiul discussed till the House went into se
eret session.
SENATE — JAN. 25.
The Committee of Fiuance, reported t>a< k,
without reoommendution, a House bill to au
thorise tiie issue of certificates of the fifteen
million loan, the sline Committee also report
ed back, adversely, the bill to authorize cred
itors of the Government to receive their dues
in eight per cent, bonds; and the bill to au
thorise the issue of coupon bonds, and making
the coupons a legal tender.
The Committee of Militaiy Affairs, reported
the House bill for the' establishment of a
“Soldiers’ and Seameu's Home,’’ with the re
commendation that it do pass. The same < om
jnittee also reported hack the following bills :
Senate bill to confer additional power upon
court martial and military courts. To amend
the act to provide for the organization of mili
tary courts. To amend the 65th article of war.
To provide and organize a general staff for ar
mies in the field to serve during the war. All
the foregoing hills were placed upon the cal
*mdar, in their older.
The following were referred: A bill to amend
the act to punish drunkenness iu the army: to
sunend the sequestration act.
The Chair laid before the Senate the follow
ing communication from the Secretary of the
Treasury .
“hon. 1!. M. T. llaater, President of the
"Senate Confederate Stab sos America :
“StR In response to a resolution of the Se
nate, of the 20th instant, 1 have the honor to
submit herewith —
•‘Statement showing aggregate amount of
funded debt on Ist of January, 1864. exclusive
of call certificates ;
“Statement showing aggregate amount of
call certificates outstanding on Ist of January.
1564 ;
“Statemeut showing aggregate amount of
non-interest bearing Treasury notes, exclusive
of those below the denomination of five dol
lars, outstanding on Ist of Janu-try, 1864;
• •Jiotoment showing amount of interest
i. surv notes outstanding on Ist of
•bowing the amount of Treasury,
ae denomination of five dollars,
. ut-ei 11st ot January, 1864.
save the honor, &c..
“C. G. Mkmmixger,
“Secretary of Treasury.”
*• icing the Funded Debt of the Con
• oil the Ist January, 1804.
a .nd Stocks :
\ct «. u' 28, 1861, 8 per cent., $15,000,000
Mav T “ " 8.774,900
A ,gus» I. “ “ 100.000,000
vprii 1 1862 - “ 3,612,300
1- • 20,1803, “ 95,7 83,000
- t 20. 1803.7 percent,. 03.615,730
, 1863, 6 per ceut,. 2.831,703
v -i 1803. (cotton interest
•oupon) 0 percent., 8.252,000
.. o call certificates issued under
eembei 24, 1801, and March 23,
rely, it is deemed proper, on ac
•ir peoulitp eh iracter, to exclude
ent showing the funded debt. It
e. from the material available to
ascertain what amount of them,
mmed the charm ter of a perrna
r been so converted.
"Robert Tyler. Register."
. v n.t awing the amount cf CUI Certificates
ter the set'eral acts authorizing the
ami L lading on the Is? January, 1864.
... of mber 24, 1801, 6 per
mt §40,981.270
h 23.1803. 5 per cent., 48.222.50(1.
$89,200,770
- v*th peg aid tv tl»e first Hew above,
Q Is propei to sUrio, that If docs not, la
represent the amount actually outstanding. It
is highly probable that nearly the whole of it
has either been redeemed with money directly,
or converted into bonds. The lack of the ne
e -aary material prevents this office, therefore,
from making a greater seduction on this ac
count than that stated. 'lbis office is in pos
scnsion of no data by which it might ascertain
whether any order under the second bead above
was redeemed previous to the Ist instant, or
not, and hence the total amount issued to that
date is given.
“Robert Tyt.er. Register.
“,S tatementtheming the amount of non-interest bedr
tng Treasury 'notes oulttandiru) Ist January,
1864. .
Act of May 16, 1801, payable
two years after date $8,320,8 1 5.00
Actof August 10. 1861, gene
ral currency 189,719,151.00
Act of October 13, 1861, all
denominations 131,028, .Wic
Act of March 23, 1861, all de
nominations 391,829.702.00
* Total m $720,893,095.5$
‘Jn’ote —*The_ above statement is hot tiasefi
upon what is actually outstanding, but only
upon that which this office may lawfully take
cognizance of, namely, the notes cancelled and
redeemed if? pursuance ol the warrant of the
Secretary of the Treasury. The division in this
Department having charge of the notes return
ed for cancellation, had, it is understood, some
thing upwards of $37,000,000, of all issues,
uncounted on the Ist of January. It is,doubt
less, tho fact that there are several millions
more, still in the hands of Depositaries, unre
ported. In the matter of tho notes of denomi
nations below five dollars, those issued under
act of April 17,1862, have been excluded from
the above to form the basis of another
statement. Tor reasons which will appear in
that statement, those issued under acts of Oc
tober 13, 1862 , and March-23, 1863, are in
cluded. •‘Robert Tyler, Register.”
“Statement showing the: amount of interest bearing
Treasury notes outstanding on the Ist January ,
1864:
Act of March 9, 1861, $3.65 notes, $537,050
Act of April 17, 1862, $7.30 “ 101,928,400
$102,405,450
“Robert Tyler, Register.”
“ Statement showing the amount of 'Treasury
notes, under the, denomination of fine elollars,
owlstanding on the l.sf of January, 1864; ,
Act of April 17, 1862. Denomi
nation of $1 and $2, $4,660,277.50
“Note. —As these were the only currency
notes issued undqr this act, the returns cover
ing those cancelled lor redemption have been
made with accuracy. Such is not the case with
the small issues under the acts respectively of
October 13, 1862, and March 23, 1863, where
notes of all denominations have been issued.—
They have all been classed under the general
heads of “October 13th,” and “March 23rd”—
but would not reach $500,000. It is deemed
proper, therefore, to give the issues entire to
January Ist under these acts. They are as fol
lows, to-wit:
Act of October 13, 1862. Denomi
nations of $1 and $2, $2,344,800
Act of March 23, 1863. Denomina
tion of 50c., $3,419,000
$5,763,800
Robert Tyler, Regisler.
On motion ot Mr. Semmes, of Louisiana, the
documents accompanying the Secretary’s com
munication were ordered to be printed.
The bill declaring persons owing military
service to the Confederate States, who seek to
avoid such service by removing beyond the
control and jurisdiction of such States, alien
enemies, etc., was debated and finally recom
mitted to the Committee of the Judiciary.
The bill -heretofore reported from the Com
mittee of Finance, to provide for anew issue
of Treasury notes, etc., was considered and
indefinitely postponed.
•HOUSE.
The following resolutions were adopted:
That the Doorkeeper be instructed to furnish
tho President and Heads of Departments with
a copy of each document printed by the House;
requesting the President to communicate to the
House what progress has been made under the
Act of Congress, ot October 15th, 1862 in -fic
tion to the arrest aad disposition of Slav- re
captured from the enemy; what number o; de
pots have I een established for their safe y ;
ing, and whether public notice has beets Liven
in •'turn imesi us sum act requires; tha' uu
Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads in
quire into the expediency of providing bj
for settling on equitable terms, theaceoun of
mail contractors, prevented from carryini
mails by the ar t of the public enemy; that the
Committee on Claims inquire into the expedi
ency of providing by law for paying accounts
against the government for horses impressed
and received into the service, but rejected by
the Pay Department on account of some infor
mality in the appointment of impressing offi
cers, or in the certificates of the officers ma
king the impressments, that the Committee on
the Judiciary inquire into the expediency of
authorizing by law, Military Courts in the De
partments of West Tennessee and North Misis
sippi.
The Senate bill in relation to the collection
of the tax in kind of Tobacco, approved April
24th, 1863, was taken up for consideration.—
’1 he bill was ordered to a third reading and
passed. It provides thatothe tux in kind of to
bafieo shall be collected by Agents appointed
by the Secretary of the Treasury instead of by
Post Quartermasters.
The Committee on Post Offices and Post
Roads, reported back the bill to authorize the
appointment of a Special Agent of the P. O. De-»
p.irtment for the Trans-Mississippi Department
with an amendment authorizing the Post Mas
ter General to order the transfer from the of
fices of Assistant Treasurers west of said river,
with whom funds belonging to the P. 0. De
partment may bo deposited, to such Postmas
ters as he may desiguate, and to subject such
funds to the draft of said Assistant Postmaster
General to pay the liabilities of his Depart
ment. The amendment was agreed to. The
bill was then ordered to a third reading and
passed.
FROM MISSISSIPPI.
Vicksburg is getting to be a rendevous for
robbers, it is said to be dangerous fora re
spectable person to be out at night iu that
city.
At Vicksburg the negro population are suf
fering greatly—half frozen and half starved.
Every thing is high in the food line. A gieat
many fires have occurred recently in the city,
and much property has been destroyed.
A battery of ours at. Greenville, Miss , has
been doing A ankee commerce considerable in
jury by blockading the liver.
The Meridian Clarion publishes a letter, giv
ing some particulars of the killing of the Fed
eral by negroes at Red Rone, in Warren coun
ty, Miss., a short time siuce. It seems that an
officer of a negro company rebuked one of his
men rather harshly for carelessness in drilling,
and took his gun tor-the purpose of instructing
him iu the manual of arms. The negro said
that he would not stand such language, he be
ing as good as an officer that was over him.
whereupon the officer struck the negro over
the head, instantly killing him. The negroes
immediately riew to arms ai-d killed a number
of the whites—over one hundred in killed and
wounded. They then took possession of the
artillery, but did not know how to use it. Re
inforcements were immediately dispatched to
the ground, who on their arrival charged the
negroes, took tire cannon and turned loose with
grape and canister, killing about six hundred
of the negroes. •
The steamer Ben Franklin was brought up
to Vicksburg recently by a gunboat, with all
her officers in irons. She bad been detected in
crossing ordnance stores to the Confederates
across the river. She had made two trips suc
cessfully and was caught on the third.
Many transports from Memphis to Vicksburg
are reported missing. Somebody, supposed by
the Yankees to be Quantrell. is on the other
side of the river. Whoever he is, he is said to
take no prisoners.
A report was current at Meridian that two
gunboats and fifteen transports had been sunk
near Milliken’s Bend by our artillery.
Nearly all the Federal garrisons along the
Mississippi river consist ol negro troops. Pen t
Hudson is garrisoned by fourteen negro regi
rueuts m infantry, four cavalry regiments of
whites, and a regiment of heavy a'rtillery
Baton Rouge lias 5,000 troops, anil is defended
by 42 pieces of artillery. There are about
3,000 negro and 800 white troops at Natchez.
Atdarger garrison of the same mixture holds
Vicksburg.
Lt. Gen. Polk has issued a circular notifying
all paroled men la-longing to the garrisons of
Vicksburg and Port Hudson, to report at En
terprise. Miss., for duty, within fifteen days, or
be treated as deserters.
An Underground Mail from Vicksburg was
recently detected at Big Black river and de
stroyed. Since then, it is said, a woman has
been stationed by the Y ankees at the river to
examine those adroit smugglers —Confederate
women.
TheHerald’sWashiugton correspondent thinks
there will V>e as much excitement iu that ccx:-
tipu the u«*t few monthss as any other.
ViiailAici alCtt'E.
The Xan.au wuarJtau «* aeccunt ra j
the cbu&iug of the British .teamer Hanna, be- I
tween Abaeo and that port, by the Vanderbilt.
The Hansa was chafed into Six feuilliug
nel, and was forced to throw oveiboard about
70 bales of cotton. The chase lasted two
hours, during which time the "Yankees kept up
a cont'nuons fire, firing one shot at the llausa
after she had ran inside of Bix Shillim reef
The Guardian savs : We are informed that the
captain of the schooner Dart, of this pmjt. picked
up some of the cotton, and was threatened
by an officer in one of the four boats belonging
to the Federal vessel, engaged in tee same
pursuit, that if he continued to do so, he would
shoot him, at the same time holding a pistol
towards him. The Federal commander also
threatened to run him down if lie should cross
his bows. The capiain ot the Dart (Curry), re
plied that he ithe Federal commander) was in
Ilritish waters, and had no business there.
Washington correspondents of several of the
Northern p ipers are condemning Lincoln, and
using very bitter language about the course
pursued by him on the exchange question.
The Louisville Journal thinks there is no
hope o( justice being done either to the North
or .Souttl as long as Lincoln remains in power.
The Democrats of New Hampshire have nom
inated E. W. Harrington for Governor.
The Yankees are persuading their troops to
re-enlist by promises of large bounties and
land warrants, to be located in East Tennessee.
Our people can here see what their fate will be
if they allow themselves to he overrun.
In the New Y'ork Legislature the Republi
cans elected their officers in both houses.
• The Pennsylvania Legislature cannot do anv
business until the release ot Senator White
now a prisoner m our hands, is obtained. They
are at a dead lock.
A correspondent of the Memphis Bulletin
gives the annexed picture of affairs at Crat
tanooga : At Chattanooga the shortness of
transportation lias induced an order from
the “Commissary Generals to the effect that
no more citizens be allowed rations, either by
tr.urchase or otherwise —an edict that must
bring starvation to almost every household.—
Provisions cannot be obtained elsewhere than
from the public stores; and how the unfortu
nate, wretched females here are to livo, God,
not man, must know. They were reduced low
enough when the)’ had Government support.—
What they will come to now, let the reader im
agine.
The Senate of Maryland have passed a reso
lution appointing a committee to wait on Lin
coln to protest against the operatious of Gen.
Birney in seizing slaves in Maryland. The
House refused to concur.
The Washington Republican announces from
high authority that Gen. Grant will not be a
candidate for the Presidency.
The Yankee loss at Chickamauga is put down
as follows : Killed, 2,299; dangerously wound
ed, 4,780; slightly wounded, 10,500; mi sing,
1,950.
While five hundred Yankee conscripts were
passing through Cincinnati recently, twenty
live deserted, notwithstanding they were under
a strong guard.
A bill has been introduced in the Federal
Congress, by Tbad. Stevens, the consideration
of which was postponed till February next,
which provides that “within all the territory ot
the so-called Confederate States, which has been
or may be conquered and subdued by the Fed
eral arms, all laws and parts of laws which per
mit slavery are henceforth abolished, and that
slavery shall never again be established within
the said territory; and that hereafter no por
tion of it shall be admitted into the Union as a
State, or lie represented in its Congress except
by delegates, if the same should be authorised,
until the people within the territory forming
such State shall by its organic law, forever pro
hibit slavery therein.”
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette,
writing from Chattanooga, says: Grant’s head
quarters are at Nashville, and will be there this
winter. This indicates that offensive operation
are, at present, suspended. The work to be
done just now is feeding, repairing and recruits
ing, ami until this is completed little can lie ac
complished.
An organization to aid emigrants from Ku
rope to come to the United States has been
i farmed iu B-> ■.
The F>- •• ‘‘V ament has purchased the
J captured . “ bh-.-kiule steamer L-n
--j sheo.
! I\'.’cci-.-mi.- from 'ew Orlr,-m? . k.w
• 'hat a combined Federal stui wiil soon be
! mmb. on Texas. •
; The radicals In the Federal ’ ; ; ni\, in
j iinducing the bkckesr kind ot Abolition hills.
In the New Y'ork Market Southern stocks
stand thus : Virginia sixes, 55 ; Tennessee
sixes, 56 ; Missouri sixes, 681 ; North Caro
lina sixes 55.
In the U. S. Senate, Mr. Carlisle, (opp.,) of
Y r a., offered resolutions setting forth that this
is a compact ot States, and that each State lor
itself adopted the constitution of the United
States as it did its own constitution ; that in
the operation of its powers it is federal and
not national, and in its extent it is national not
federal; that it is not competent in the Presi
dent or any military commander, in any State,
to impose' obligations interfering with State
laws ; that the Government was for the pro
tection of minorities, and there was no such
power as the war power known to the Govern
ment of the United States optsjie of the con
stitution j that it is the duty of the people to
put the tebellion down, and the whole
power of the Government should be used,
not against the States as such, but against
the armies of tiie rebels, &c. Ordered to lie
on the table and be printed.
The Y'ankee War Department has ordered
the postponement of the draft to the 151 h Feb
ruary. Lincoln recommends to Congress a
modification of tho act recently passed for the
diminution of bounties, so that the old boun
ties (s3o*) may be paid until the first of Feb
ruary at least
It is thought by many at the North that
Senator Wilson’s new conscription bill will
pass, which embodies the views of Lincoln.—
Under it, all males between twenty and iorty
five, except Federal and State Judges, are lia
ble to draft, and a man drafted must eitlier go
or pays s3oo—no substitutes being allowed. —
Old soldiers S4OO bounty, volunteers S3OO. —
Negroes enlisted in rebellious States to get a
bounty of SIOO.
The trunks of two trees have been sent from
the battle field of Gettysburg for the Massachu
setts and Pennsylvania Historical Societies.
They will attest the fierceness of the conflict
there, one of them having 250 bullet boles in
the space of twenty-one feet, and the other
having 110 in the same space.
Gen. Thomas reports favorably of the condi
tion of five thousand negro troops' at M illiken s
Bend, and says that by spring there will not
only be negroes enough in toe field to guard
the banks of the Mississippi the whole length,
but also to give a large surplus for duty at
other points or in the field.
Gan. Ellett lias also received orders from the
Federal War Department to recruit for his
brigade in all the Western States.
The Federal Navy Department has received
information that “An expedition or series of
expeditions, under the direction of Acting Mas
ter Browne, of the bark Restless, had explored
the waters of Lake Ocala and the West St. An
drew’s Bays, landiog repeatedly, and destroy
ing the very extensive salt' works front which
the Confederacy has mainly received its sup
plies. Neatly two hundred of these salt boil
ing establishments, with their boilers and man
ufactured stock were destroyed, and the value
of the property is estimated at $3,000,000.-
The town of St. Andrews, which was occupied
by a rebel force, was shelled aud burned to ash
es. In the Suwanee river, the United States
steamer Fox had surprised a blockade running
steamer, which sho could not bring out, and
was compelled to burn. The Fox had also cap
tured the British schooner EJwiu in attempting
to run the blockade.”
The Rev- Mr. Shine. Chaplain of the House
of Representatives, in the lowa Legislature, ou
the opening of the recent session, prayed thus:
••Bless Thou, the young and growing State of
lowa, her Senators and Representatives, the
Governor and State officers. Give us a sound
currency, pure water, aud undefiled religion—
for Christ's sake. Ami n!” Iu that exordium
Shiue certainly outshone the lesser lights of the
Yankee clergy.
A gentleman from Bath, Maine, says that
shipbuilders and owners of that city have sold
ships enoughto Europeans since the commence
ment of the war. to amount to $3,000,000 in
goLd. Os this sum $2,000,000 is still on deposit
in Europe.
Rev. Charles Beecher has been elected to the
Massachusetts Legislature. This is the same
man who was recent!y thrown overboard bv his
congregation and the Essex North Association.
He was proved to be deplorably unsouDd in
the faith, but is doubtless "sound on the goose;
and that covers a multitude of sins in the sight
of Y'ankeedom.
Federal papers acknowledge that Forrest
was very successful in his operations in \V est
Tennessee.
Home guards are being formed iu sections of
Tenuyssee exposed to Confederate raid*.
Jltiß'Htt.nSi
A dLj.if.cU icon. SivUiiiiiky. Ohio, dated Jin.
17th, says that aseopt had just returned trom
thorough rcconnowance towards Point Pelee.
Canada, and reports two or three thousand
rebels at Point l’elce, preparatory to a dash
upon Johnson’s Island. The strictest vigilance
is maintained on the Island, and several bat
teries are in position. I’oi‘lt Pelee is thirty
miles from Jobiitou’s Is anil. It is apprehend
ed that the Confederates will attempt to cross
on the ice.
Colonel Wm: McNeir, for many years official
printer to the Maryland Senate, diedju Phila
delphia on the 17th iust.
The Confederate steamer Florida is lying in
port at Brest. France, making ready to leave.
She is lying near the U. S. gunboat Kearsage.
Meade lias returned to his former command
of the army of the Potomac.
In the U. S. senate Wilson has introduced a
bi : l tor a consolidation of the States of the
United States. Mr. Blair wants the General
Government to assume the war debt of the
various States. Mr. Rogers wants the war
prosecuted vigorously, but at the same time
asks for peace, conciliation and aompromise,
so far as consistent with honor, and most ear
nestly recomumft'ling the co-operation of the
President and Senate in sending commissioners
to Itichmon I, in order that the war may be
brought to an honorable close.
Gens. Hancock and Burnside are to recruit
their old corps to 50,000 men each.
Ten Federal soldiers were frozen to death ; t
Bridgeport, Ala , Dec. 3d. .
Gov. Bramlette, of Kentucky, has issued ...
proclamation ordering military commandant .
where loyal citizens are taken off'by guerrilla..
to arrest at least live Confederate sympathize!
in the vicinity of the outage.
A fire occurred in New Y ork on Saturda
week destroying property to the amount o.
$230,000.
A War liingtoudispatch states that Gen. Earl)
with five brigades of Ewell’s corps, perbap
5000 men iu all, besides the forces of tinboden,
Mi'Miles and other Confederate leaders, and
als > Fitzhugh Lee’s cavalry, are in the Shenan
doah valley, and west of it toward Petersburg,
A body of Federal cavalry have been badly
routed near Eeclortown, Ya.
In Nashville and Memphis the villainous
Federal aiUho ities after liberating all slaves
and enlisting thousands in their mongrel ar
mies. still require the owners to pay the taxes
heretofore, levied upon the negroes. Asa ques
tion of theoretical morals, the slaves are free
men; as a moneyed Issue they are still prop
erly.
The Nashville Union says that the deserters
who reach that city are .the moanest.looking of
all specimens of the Southern, soldiery. Truly
they are, and worse than appearances indicate.
They are both knaves and fools—villians to be
tray their country’s cause and stupid fools to get
into the clutches of Federal conscription.
No less than twenty-five different propositions
to amend the conscription law were presented
in the Federal Senate ui one day.
Advices from Madras, dated Oct. 27, state
that the Confederate steamer Alabama was
soon expected at that place.
Washington letter writers state that Lincoln
is endeavoring to have slavery abolished in the
Indian territoiy.
A Democratic organ is to be started in Wash
ington to lie called the Constitutional Union.
The New York Herald says Fremont is de
termined to run as an independent candidate
for President, and fears the canvass will be car
ried on to ‘scenes of violence, bloodshed aud
confusion.
The Nashville papers state that the Federal*
have ten regiments employed in regulating the
civil administration of Tennessee.
Gov. Cannon, ol Delaware, announces offi
cially that the enlistment of ik gro troops has
been authorized in that State.
Both Gens. Grant and Sherman are at pres
ent at Nashviile.
The National Union Conservative Conven
tion have nominated Gen. McClellan for Presi
dent, and W. I>. Campbell of Tennessee, for
Vice President.
Tllio hundred and twenty-two
i wore received in Oh:-ago dermq o;io w.— r
j Intel),
! L.le military c •<,•:•<= !u the district of Mem-
I j-li-r will probably « it three thousand inili
i til* Lit.; 'be service of U ::»*“<» Rimes, for
! home defence.
I A mortgage was lately put on record in Illl
| nois, which bad SI,OOO Worth of Government
j s:amps altueaed to it.
By order of Gen. McPherson the .infantry
regiments in the Federal Mississippi Depart
ment connected with his command are being
mounted on captured stock, thus proviug more
effective against the guerillas.
The number of disasters that occurred on the
Western lakes, from the Ist of April of last year
to Ist of December; were 350, being an increase
o! fifty over 'lie number for last year, and
seventy-five over the number for 1861.
The Mississippi rives is frozen across as low
as Cairo thick enough to allow cavalry to cross.
The river is gorged as h>w as Memphis.
Several arrests have been made in New York
of persons charged wiih complicity with the
rebels —among them Mr. Segur, formerly United
States Minister to San Salvador, aud a British
Lieutenant. All the parties were sent to Fort
Lafayette:
The affair of the Chesapeake will probably
prove a very interesting question. Lord Lyons
had a very lengthy intetsiew with Secretary
Sewarl on the matter a snort time since.
The Louisville Democrat, says that four
hundred of the 115th, 117th, and 118th Indiana
six months volunteers were ordered to report
at Indianoplis, their term of service having ex
pired. They were marched over the mountains
from Tazweil, some of them without shoes aud
with but little clothing, and with a scanty sup
ply of food. Jn one party of 102 twenty-four
died before reaching camp Nelson, and fifty
men died in a few hours after their arrival.
Out of 500 men who left Tazweil, 150 died from
exposure and the want of food and proper care.
One night two men of Cos. A, 115th Indiana,
fell by the wayside and died front absolute
starvation. As their term of service had ex
pired Lincoln had no further use for them, and
turned them out to starve aud die.
The Washington Chronicle says' at a Metho
dist Church in Newark, New Jersey, a member
who had formerly large Southern connection,
proposed that the church should make Jeff..
Davis a life member of the Sabbath School Mis
sionary Society. Even the boys and girls hiss
ed the proposition, whereupon the member
threatened to throw them out of the window.
The “muscular Christian’’ subsequently apolo
gized through the public prints.
The Federal Secretary of War. in a letter ac
companying one < f Lincoln's special messages
to Congress seems to doubt the «ecessity of
increasing the military force for tin* speedy
termination of the rebellion.
A young lady of-Patterson* .N&ar Jersey, cn
Christinas day,”skated all the way from that
city to Newark and back, a distance of thirty
miles.
• • iwtS'
Diabolic at. Outrage ox a Lady, and the Os-
FENiiEu Punished.— We are informed on the au
thority of a passenger, that on the night of the
23d, a negro slave, approached the residence of
a lady residing in Ware county, a few miles fie
low Screven Station, on the Atlantic & Gulf
Road, and after throwing billets of wood at the
front door, and finding that there were no male
inmates, forced open tha door. On being threat
ened bv the lady from within that she would
shoot him. lie then fired off lii3 pistol through
the passage .and forced the back door. Here he
demanded meat and money.
The lady recognising the negro, went to her
smoke house to give him meat, when the negro
struck her on she back of the head with a stick,
making an incision about three inches in
length, and to the skull. As she turued she
received another blow on the forehead. Hav
ing a cleaver in her hand, she attempted to de
fend herself, but it broke in two. The negro
caught her by the hands and drew her into the
building, where he accomplished his hellish
purpose. He then dragged her out of the house
and choked her into a state of insensibility,
when he withdrew
On recovering, at two o’clock in the morn
ing. taking her child in her arms, she sought
protection lrotu the neighborhood, and after
w adicg a creek and passing over marshy ground
lor one mile, she reached the residence of Mr.
i ’ men. who, together with a few other nelgh
bors, with Uieir dugs, struck the trail ot the
Say*-', pwsuit. They succeeded in
catching him at eight o’clock Sunday morning,
hve mi.es trom Ma> nesville. He was hi ought
to Screven statiou, where a jury of citizlns
were empanelled on Monday for the purpose of
nnesttga.mg the charge. Ihe interrogatories
o: the lady by Oapt. Reddick, and the admis
sions made by the negro, were read. The jury
rendered a verdict of guilty and recommended
that the offender be burned to death between
the hours ot 13 a. m. and 2 p. m. of that day.
The sentence was accordingly carried into exe
cution. —Savannah Rejmbliom.
Five pGtinds of thread can be dyed in any of
these.
SSWU »i.iPUK(.
iu rcTipoaeo to a rosoimioa of the Housa ot
Representatives, the Dresideut transmitted a
communication showing the number of officers
and men, including the jiolice an l mounted
guard, employed in executing the conscript law
in \ irgiuia, North and South Carolina and Geor
gia. These States are under the jurisdiction of
the Bureau of Conscription at Richmond. The
number of officers in the four States engaged
iu the Conscript Offices and Camps cf Instruc
tion. are 107 ; number of Officers, State Offi
cers and Soldiers in tho Enrolling Department,
1,084; number of Conscripts engaged, 1,516 :
number of Surgeons. Assistant Surgeous and
Physicians, 98 ; makiug in the aggregate, 2,-
813. The number of Police and Mounted
Guards included in the above, are 1,516. ,The
aggregate number of officers aud men engaged
in executing the law in Virginia, Col. J. C.
Shields, Commandant, is 943 , in North Caroli
na, Col. Peter Millett. Commandant. 870 : in
South Carolina, Maj. C. D. Melton, Command
ant. 219 ; in Georgia, Maj. Chas. Harris, Com
mandant, 781.
The grand lodge of the Masons of Florida
was in session at Tallahassee, Jan. 11. The
following are the officers elected for the pres
ent year; Thos Hayward. G M; DP Holland.
1) G M; N T Scott, G S W; A J Lea. G J \V;
T P Tatum. G Tr. asurei; II A Corle'-. G Sec
retary; RevCdum ius Smith, G Chaplain; F. R
Ives, G Lecturer; James Ellenwood, G Mar
shal; W G Hendry, G Pursuivant, W II Aran
dell, G Sword-bearer; E W Jones. G S 1): 8 H
! ' 1,1 ■ in
i 1 .apt-' - to .--en in session in the same !
! ~Hy. i;. -l i *■! ait •heoih-ei ej.raqi
j George 1 irxnf Piiesi, Juui-i j
| Ellen wood. Da tv . an.. Priest; Thos!
I < 1 '“>• Grar ' ■ ,-g. '• . If Aron-1011, I
• Trimas • - Grav.l Trva- ,
! » >r> , 'jd Secretary; Coiuue j
GonM Chaplain; J FBvuezet. G 0H;
Jones, G ” 4 ' (Turn Lav s, GR AC W
; lie -uy N T at aud T P Tat mi.. G Master
jot Vail*; j--. i Grand .Marshal; D 1
j ' aft, Grari't Tyler,
j Ms. J. W, hear o'
through tho • elegrapu, a convention of the
planters of Georgia, to determine in concert to
plant heavily for provision crops, leaving cot
tion out of the question, and to agree upon a
schedule of low prices at which they will sell
their surplus. Mr. F. s lys that ho has confer
red with several of the largest planters of Geor
gia, who concurred witli him in ttiis recommen
dation, and urged him to make the call. He
thinks that planters can, even in the present
state of the country, make money by selling
their surplus corn, peas and potatoes at $1 per
bushel, pork at 50 cents'per pound, and wheat
at $2 per bushel; and he announces that he in
tends to sell his surplus at those prices, let oth
ers do as they may. He thinks he cah safely
calculate on havingto sell, of this year’s crops,
8,000 to 12,000 pounds of pork, 5,000 bushels
of corn, and other produce in proportion.
Ex Gov. Alston, of 8. C., has presented a
thorough bred horse to Gen. Morgan.
The kale of real estate in Richmond in 1862
amounted to s2,3oi>)oUi); last year to $2,100,-
030.
Since the establishment of General Morgan’s
camp at Decatur he has received several Inin-,
dred new recrufts, and more aio daily coming
in.
The Quartermaster who is a defaulter to the
trifling sum of $5,000,000 is said to hail from
Mobile. Who i<he ? Such enterprise should
not go unrewarded. Ills name should be passed
round.
The postoffice in Mobile is supplied entirely
by female clerks.
The Postoffice at Duutonville, Edgefield Dis
trict, S. C. is abolished.
The Sinner. S. C. Watchman says there are
thousands of bushels of corn rotting at the
various railroad depots in that section.
Mr. James B. Pace is about to put in opera
tion another woolen factory in Danville, Ya.
Letters from the army continue to crowd in
upon us, giving accounts ot the re-enlistment
of regiment alter regiment, and brigade after
brigade, for the war. . If the Yankee Congress
think anybody is scared by their recent boast
of a million reinforcements, let them notice the
eloquent action of these brave veterans, who
would scorn to cower before even ten million
of Yankees
There are - --•••ge number of small pox eases ;
at Wiled, gton
A meeting of citizens has* been held in Rich
mond, for the purpose of inaugurating i% move
t,. racial arms'and legs to oar '
. ok;ier.- who have f eu deprived of those limbs
by the casualties of the prescut war.
The office, storehouse, and boarding house,
"■ h ■ ‘-’lh their entire contents, belonging
to buu .uagueUc iron Works Company, at
Cherokee Ford, Union District, 8. C.. was de
stroyed by fire on tlie night of the Bth in-taut.
The loss is estimated at SIOO 000. No insu
rance. Supposed to be the work ot an incen
diary.
The Charles! on Courier announces that the
Charleston Importing and Exporting Company,
Henry Cobia, President, have fortunately -e
--cured an unusually fine ar. 1 fast steamer Stir
ring and pleasant news will doubtless soon be
disseminated among the stockholders of the
Company.
'The Senate has passed a bill to provide for
the investigation anti settlement of the transac
tions and acccuutsof Quartermasters aud other
disbusrsing- officers of tho Confederate States.
The bill provides that it shall be the duty of
the District Attorneys, in their respective Dis
tricts, to investigate the conduct, transactions
and accounts of such person who, during the
war, has acted, or shall act as Quartermaster,
etc., and when the. District Attorney has reason
to believe, or is informed that any such person
has received, or directly or indin ctly made or
realized more than the salary allowed him by
law, it shall he the duty such District At'or
liey to institute proceedings against every such
person for accouut and settlement. As an in
centive to the performance of this duty, the
District Attorney is allowed a commission of
ten per cent, on all sums actually collected
by virtue of the said proceedings.
Toe Mille.lgeville Union says from the best
information it can obtain, those who apply for
a detail of overseers in Confederate service,
.will have to address their cases to Col. Harris,
at Macon, who will forward them to Richmond,
for final action. Under the new militia organ
ization of •Georgia, no details will be made, we
understand; but overseers will be permitted to
remain at home, until an actual emergency
shall demand their services elsewhere. In that
case, they will be duly notified.
A letter from Huntsville* recently received
by an officer, states that about three hundred
families were di awing rations from the enemy.
Before the war there were about seventy-five
papers published on the soil of Mississippi;
now there are, we believe, only nine.
A cave containing several deserter and run
away negroes has been discovered near Atlan
ta, and the parties taken in charge.
From the Ist of October to the 31st of De
cember, the State of North Carolina delivered
to the Confederate Governmen:— Jackets, 32,-
482- Pants 11,556; Shirts* 39,060; Drawers,
]■) 212; Blankets, 17,940; Hats. 1,316; Shoes,
-13185; Socks, (pairs) 22,}6i); Haversacks, 2,-
500; Leather, (lbs) 2,102. For this the Confed
eracy paid $1,203,144 08.
Ecuador, 1 against which the United States
have declared war, is a little republic in South
America of which Quito, snugly bil among
the Amies is the capital. It has 218,000 square
miles, about 600 miles of sea coast, and a little
less than onejmillion inhabitants. Guayaquil,
the principal seaport town, numbers about
05 oiiO people. No riyers penetrate the interior,
and behind the Andes the Equadorians piay de
fy the United States forever.
The cause of war is supposed to be connected
with the question of guano.
Gen. Hardee and lady passed through Mont
gomery on Sunday.
Shooting and robbing still continue to be
the order of the day in Atlanta.
A Mr. Dudney, of Quincy. Fla., while cor
recting a slave, a few days since, was struck on
the head with an ax' hv him and killed. The
slave is iu jail- •
The interest on the foreign debt of Alabama,
due iu Lpudon. has been paid up to and includ
ing the dividend due on the Ist instant. The
interest annually accruing in London, with
eight tier cent, exchange added, amounts to
«)fo ;j7O 13. To meet the foreign interest for
another year, the State Treasury holds about
*70,G00 in coin, and the Commissioner recom
mends a loan of coin from one or more of the
banks to cover the deficiency. Alabama is de
termined to maintain untarnished credit abroad
as well as at home.
Go op Reasoning . —There is a good deal of
sound seme at times in the remarks of insane
persons. At a Lunatic Asylum, a few
since a patient was asked if he_wau» foa4 ofdid
ing on horseback .' ‘-No. sir, I nde a hobby. _
• There’s not much difference between the two,
carelessly remarked the gentleman. ‘'On ■ yes
there is;” said the patient, ‘ and it. is this ; it
you ride a horse you can stop him and get on,
but when you mount a hobby you can t stop
and you can’t get off.”
In some sections of Wisconsin, this season,
the mercury has stood forty degrees helpw aero.
PRO M fits i V?uj.Vj’.
A keitsr.i! ~uii-t pervades ilia encampment ■>!
the Army of Tenhessoo in front. The infantry
are iu winter quarters, and ti e cavalry are on
the outposts, engaged in almost daily skirmish
es with the enemy.
Colonel Dibtell, who was wounded on the
hip and right arm, o.i tiie 2d of December,
while leading his Brigade in the charge at the
Clinch River tight, lias so far recovered as to
be able to again as-ume command of flis gallant
troops, who had been engaged in some pretty
hard lighting in East Tenuessee. On the 30th
ultimo they had a .•onsiderablesk’rmish. killing .
seventy-eight and wounding 138 of the enemy,
and capturing several prisoners. Our loss,
howevi r, was considerable, principally captur
ed. We drove the enemy three miles, and our
ammunition becoming exhausted, were com
pelled to abandon the pursuit. Generals Martin,
Armstrong, and John T. Morgan, commanded
our cavalry force.
The enemy are encamped at Mossy Creek, and
our pickets are between that and Panther
3p ring.
A negro from near Sparta, Term., who came
into our lines a lew days ago, reports that Gen.
McCook's cuvalry division, from Middle T en
nessee, has arrived, and ill their route spent
four and ivs at Sparta, destroying much property,
burning a number of houses, including an ex
tensive tannery, and bringing off nearly all the
negroes—men, women and children in .the
vicinity. He says t.iat Lieutenant-Colonel
Dougherty, of DibreiUa Regiment and Msior
.it 4th, pitched into them etui killed
| t'lft end captured mil destroyed .bent half
i their w«go« . dn.» Tee. toot all ~i < clone!
1 Dlbreti's corn, pork and cattle, and b Might off
i several n ■a-.-m* ami horses.
i (’he ve-< Tdriwn at of tho sahib - goes brave
* ' . eiic t laithusiasra prevails. T.’-'-g
it i oole •cl bv Tennessee inaugurated ills
h ;•« r..v and immediately
jto * 'I., third. a:ul so on ii;’--'ijirh the
j «u; ■ e. b. - has been followed in
iff evei ■
j iwn thirds of the army have enrolled the.,,
J * for the wfei
.-v ixeuuicKy colonel informs the Dalton Con
federate that parties who have recently come
from Kentucky, represent that a vast change
has taken place among the people of that State,
in reference to the war—that a large number of
citizens, formerly opposed to the Southern
movement for Separation and independence,
have changed their views, and the Southern
cause is stronger than it ever was, and is get
ting stronger every day.
About 600 mounted Y'uhkees passed through
r r near Summerville Friday evenintr, went
through Gore’s Gap, and stopped at about sun
set ou Gore’s farm, about, sixteen miles from
Rome, where they remained a short time re
freshing themselves and animals, when they
moved off in the direction of Culberson’s
camp. A. B. Culberson’s Battallion of State
troops were camped near the Gap, aud doing
pieket’duty at that place. Some of the pickets
weie captured, atvl at about 7 o’clock I’. M.,
the camp was surprised, captured and burned,
together with a considerable portion of the
camp eqnjpnage, and perhaps a few of the men
captured. We have heard of no one being kill
ed or wounded on either side. This being
done the Y'ankeeo moved off in' the directon of
Summerville, and are now supposed to have
gone back to Chattanooga. It is reported that
a considerable number of wagons attended the
expedition, and lienee it is supposed that one
of the objects was to obtain forage. Only two
of Culberson’s men are missing ; they all ran
without even forming a line of battle—they
had very little ammunition.
Several gentleipen have recently readied
Dalton from Williamson county. They state
that the people in that county have.a plenty to
eat, and have been molested by the Y'ankees less
than might have been expected. During
Christmas week there was a negro regiment
at Eagleville, near the Rutherford line, engaged
in conscribing tho negroes ol the neighbor
hood, and suceeded in adding throe to their
ranks, the rest having taken to the woods, ex
cept such as were “honorably dischaiged,” af
ter having been examined by a surgeon and
pronounced unfit for service.
The Atlanta Register is informed by an in
telligent gentleman, an officer iir the army at
Dalton, taut many of the men who deserted
our ranks about the time of the tight on Look
out Mountain and during the retreat- from
Mission-ivy liidgc, were arrested on their way
,n Middle. T ennessee by the Yankees, and sent at
once to Northern prisons. The Registers inform
ant state.- that so tar as he lias been able to learn
the fa te of theß : deluded men, and he has heard
fe<»m iji:i;e a number of them, not one was per
mitted to ' lake the oath. ” hut were immedi
ately nt North and imprisoned. On their
way through Nashville, they were met by some
of the!; mds, who attempted to prove their
ffoyal'y, aud get pernrisripn for them to take
-the oath and go home, but in vain. Those who
went to Chattanooga and gave themselves up,
shared the same fate.
The Dalton Confederate is informed thatMfci
the first twenty days of this month—notwith
standing the excessive severity of the weather
—the net increase of Hardee’s corps was about
nine hundred; one thousand three hundred
and fifty hiving returned to dnty, and four
hundred and fifty having left on furlough. We
understand that the net increase in Hindman’s
corps, in the same time, was about seven hun
dred.
FROM Ifl'to KAKT TK.WK-SFSC.
The following extract from a private letter
explains the late movementltof our army un
der L eut. Gen. Longstreet : .
* The Y’ankees came up in fine spirits, a few
days since, proclaiming as they advanced that
they were about to drive Longstreet out of
Tennessee. The Fourth Army Corps, a part of
the twenty-third, and their entire cavalry force,
moved up to a point between Dandridge and
Morristown. Our forces were moved down to
meet them ou Dec. 14th. After placing his in
fantry, Gen. Longstreet, with his staff, moved
on to the trout, and, joining the cavalry, per
sonally superintended its movements. The
enemy endeavored, by a flank movement with,
their cavalry, to get into our rear. The' quick
eye of the General so arranged matters as to
throw Jenkins’—late Hood’s—division iu their
front, and he ordered Gen. Martin to throw a
portion of his cavalry iu the rear and press
them upon Jenkins. Marlin gave the order.
The enciny, without being crossed, came
unex|>eeteilly on Jenkins, and weie driven
pell-mell, as we supposed, on Martin’s cavalry.
But, alas ! the cavalry, by some mistake, had
gqpe around to the front of the enemy;'and to
the rear of Jenkins, and, ot course, the way
was open lor their escape, of wliiffh they took
the earliest advantage, and went on their way
rejoicing.
There is something wrong about the cavalry
officers. The materi ris is as good as can fie de
sired, but the discipline is wretched, and it is
almost inefficient in consequence. A striking
instance of tills occurred in the present move
ment. Harrison’s brigade was ordered to make
a certain movement which promised the slice ss
ful capture, of about one thousand horses from
which the enemy had dismounted. The move
was made, the horses were actually captured,
the men in charge shot down, but, instead of
turning back the horses under a sufficient
guard, our cavalry became a mob of plunder
ers, cowuuucrJ.rilling I}ie bolsters.of pistols,,
loaded themse'ves with spoils, and, in the midst
of their confusion, a brigade of Federal cavalry
dashed in, recovered the horses and scattered
our men.
Had the cavalry been efficient this would
have been the last week for Federal forces in
East Tennessee. Wherever they met our men
they showed that they were utterly demoral
ized, and depended entirely on their fleetness
of foot for safety. Our infantry could not fol
-1 w them -the roads are wretched—the snow
almost constantly on the ground, and many,
many of the men unshod. The in far try did all
that it went to do—resist the advance of the
enemy. The pursuit rested with the cavalry.
Had it been led with the dash and boldness
that the occasion demanded, the whole Federal
force, wagons and all, would have been in im
minent peril. As it is, the movement has been
full of fruits. We now occupy or conti of that
part of East Tennessee capable of sustaining
our army.
We are at present well fed. The Yankees
are on half rations, and driven hack to the
neighborhood of Knoxville, their bill of fare
“will grow small by degrees and beautifully
less,” until at last they must retire from this
portion of the State.
Our men are well hutted, in fine spirits, well
fed, and, in a few days more, will be well cloth
ed.
' Lincoln’s Offer of Peace to tug South.-
Here is what the Chicago Times, the organ of
the Conservatives of the Northwest, says fit the
proclamation of Lincoln offering pardon to the
Confederates, and as to how tne Confederates
ought to receive it :
Perhaps the South will consent to these
terms. If she does, the degradation they offer
will not be halt as severe as should be inflicted
upon a people who could acc- pt that degrada
tion. If she does, she is not fit to he in the
Union upon any terms of equality with other
States, or to exercise any political privileges of
any name or nature. If she does, her people
should be compelled to change situation with
the slaves, aDd governed only by the overseer’s
lash. No true American could propose such
degradation to fellow citizens, anil the fact that
they have been made is proof that their author
is either insane with fanaticism, or a traitor who
glories in his country’s shaffic.
n . i , , Vlfitmj.t.
in in uu address at Dau
!‘.'7n V‘" Ula r LU ,;Uo ’Sttinowali” Jackson
l l .Vn tia' 01 00n< fiK'ting this war under the
black flag, and so expressed his sentiments to
him seven days after the secession of Virginia,
proposing to set the example himself by first
eury.ngthat flag m the fac* 0 f tl* enemy.
The Richmond Dispatch says it is stated that
members ot city tire brigade. „ot over con
senpt age, will not be exempted bv the War
Department. Cities, for their protection must
organize brigades of men over forty-five.
It is thought that the Federal**rt making
preparations to move up the lower Virginia
valley. They are in considerable force ataund
Charleston and Martinsburg.
she Federal* still continue to commit acts nf
vandalism in those sections of Virginia they
occupy. Some three weeks ago when the
body of Captain Blackford, of the Confederate
service, who was killed at Newtown, was taken
to Jefferson, it was delivered over to his friends,
who came to Charlestown for it. That night
two farm houses, in one or the other of which
they believed his body to belying, were burned
to the ground. Both of these houses belonged
to aud were occupied by widow ladies and their
familcs —one of them a sister-in-law of Black
ford.
Tiie bands of robbers along the Shenandoah
river iu Jefferson and Clark comities have been
broken up.
Ja all the election districts ol' Jefferson
county, enrolling av 1 ecruiting offices have
be,-.. In vbe Ya • oes, and tiie names ot
icgrous who Had fled, <• l their masters who
are", the Confederate -ervice. are being re
corded.
■ ■; first shad of the season,” three of them,
v. i. .„.dJ in Savannah at $5 each.
FROM THE tIdAST.
| k seems from the following,
jv e ’»ke trom the -avan ah News of the 27th.
! have larded on ,v bitmarsh Island:
'"i ,av morning a Federal transport,
-ai 1 v a gnnhest, a proftebed Whtlmarsh
isnuia, wnen tho latter commenced shelling the
marsh, which they continued for some time.-
The enemy soon landed from the transport a
number of troops, consisting of white and black
infantry, .supposed to number about three hun
dred. Our pickets fired on them, which was
returned by the enemy. The gunboat opened
a furious shelling, which, however, had no ci
ted except the slight wounding of one of the
pickets, who is a memb r of the lTm-nix Regi
meat, llis name we have been unable to as
certain: hut learn that the wound is very slight,
by a grape shot. Our pickets fell back, and
the enemy, at last accounts, were still on the
island, but we have no doubt that measures
have been taken to repel them from this impor
tant point.
No-dispatch from YVhitmarsh has been re
ceived up to twelve o’clock this (Wednesday)
morning. A soldier who arrived in the city at
eleven o’clock, infoims us that the enemy had
thrown several shells at Thunderbolt battery,
and that the shelling was going on when he
left.
General Beauregard, who has been in the
city .for several days, visited rhunderbolt abont
ten o’clock this (Wednesday) morning, and we
understand that a force has been thrown across
on Wliitmarsh for the purpose of dislodging
the enemy.
FROM TRA,\S>-MIBBIKSI*IM.
Some thieving Yankees, who had been com
mitting depredations upon planters in the vi
cinity of Tunica, La., conscripting their slaves,
killing their stock, &c., were suddenly pounced
upon a few days since by an Alabama Regi
ment, under command of Col. Maury. The re
sult, we learn, is summed up as follows: 47
Y’ankees and about 80 negroes weie killed,
while 22 Yankees and three negroes were cap
tuied. Our casualties were ouiy three men
slightly woffnded. We understand that the
Colonel says, had he known the geography of
the country as well as he does now, that he
would have captured or killed the whole band.
The Confederate array beyond the Mississippi
is said to be in splendid spirits and under good
discipline.
Gen. Sibley has been ordered lo report at
Richmond, and Brigadier General P. O. Her
bert has been ordered to Texas, in tho Engi
neer’s Department.
The Yankee forco now upon the Rio Grande
c insists of two thousand troops, one thousand
of whom are negroes, with about three hun
dred Mexicans and renegades, enlisted since
the arrival of Banks. The Y'ankees are enlist
ing Mexiiaus on both sides of the river.
FROM \K\V UIItKAXS AM) \ l« I.VII V.
The Mobile Tribune collects the annexed
news from a gentleman from the vicinity of
New Orleans:
Yankee force at Madisonville, La., is about
2000, of all. They are there for tho purpose of
establishing a permanent post for tiie purpose
of facilitating trade and getting ship timber,
in Nerv Orleans the Y'ankees are building boats
and a dry dock and it isfrora the country which
this post is designed to protect that the best
timber for these purposes is obtained. It in
cludes the section between Madisonville and
theN. O. and Jackson Railroad. By'keeping
up a line for twenty-live miles, they can seeme
thenlselves in this object. The Jackson road
is completed as far as Manchac and in good
working order. A bridge across the Manchac
has been finished.
Capt. Greenlee is operating against tiie ene
my in that quarter with a great deal of vigor.
The post at Madisonville, besides being intend
ed for the protection of the timber getters, lias
also the design of protecting the cotton which
the enemy gets from that quarter. Captain
Greenlee’s services come iu here. He has so
annoyed the cotton sellers that they have le
peatedly complained, and to protect them
against his raids is one of the purposes of the
new post. 110 is represented as being very ef
ficient—has burned considerable cotton .which
otherwise would bavo gone to New Orleans. —
At Covington recently there was a largo
amount of Yankee naval stores, tar, &c. This
Capt. G. pounced on and entirely destroyed.—
lie also destroys everything which there is a
probability of falling into the hands of the en
emy—saw mills, &c., which they now have so
great use for.
Spies are continually carrying information
to tiie Federals at New Orleans.
RICHMOND UOBBIP.
The Richmond correspondent of the Charles
ton Mercury writes thus ;
it is understood the currency hill lias passed
the House. Something is whispered about a
tax of five per cent, monthly in Confederate
notes. Whatever may be the features of the
new bill, it remains to be seen whether the Sen
ate will concur. Hillierto there has been con -
siderable disagreement between the two bodies,
and it is hard to say when or how their views
can be made to harmonize. Cotton and tobac
co men are anxious to pump members on the
disposition to be made of those staples as bases
of the new issues.
The Georgia delegation were much
up on Saturday by a telegram from Gen. Joe
Johnston announcing the necessity of putting
the State road from Atlanta to Dalton in his
possession, in order to feed his army. Other
wise, he must fall back. An interview with
tliu l'jxmiJvnt. w»u bail, and it was decided to
leave the matter to the good sense of Governor
Brown. «
FROM EAST TE.WEBBEE.
There are no Federate at Athens. The regi
ment stationed there has gone to Knoxville.
The Federate are taking all the meat and
horses they can feed, both from the Union as
well as the Southern men.
There is a Brigade of Yankees at Charleston,
and Hiwassee is picketed up to the Mountains.
One regiment is at Loudon. No others between
the Rivers. A few at Maryville. It is reported
that a Provost Marshal office wi 1 be opened at
Madisqnville. The Union men in East Ten
nessee are very much frightened, expecting a
raid.
"Gen. Cobb’s Speech at Americds. —Gen
Howell Cobh delivered a speech at Americas a
few nights since. The Republican speaks of it
thus :
“His theme, of course, was the war, the
state of the Country, the dangers that threaten
us and the means of relief. It was a most pa
triotic and eloquent speech, such as lew men in
the Confederacy could equal, and none surpass.
Ho said our destiny was mainly in the hands of
the farmers, and that our success in this terrible
war depended upon them to sustain our army.
And to ‘piove his faith by his works,’ he pro
posed to sell the Government 20.000 lbs. of
bacon, and 40,000 bushels of corn, at just
whatever price it was disposed to pay him, and
if the Government could pay him nothing, give
it to it. The Government should have it, price
or no price.
He also agreed to let the Inferior Court of
this county have 10,000 lbs. of bacon at 25
cents a pound, and 40,000 bushels ot corn at
50 cents a bushete for the soldiers’ families of
the county.
After the address the planters of the county
held a meeting and passed two resolutions .
Ist. That they furnish the Government with
all their surplus corn and bacon at the gov
ernment price, leaving it entirely with the gov
ernment to fix the price. .... ,
2nd. That they will furnish the soldiers
families with com, at 50 cents a bushel, and
bacon at 25 cents a pound. The speech had
the desired effect on tha planters of Sumter.
Aitur,! *r mg Ncaxu.—Ti e -.shn
cot-respondent of the Cincinnati En
a few facts concerning the present
matters at the North, aud also some . ;■
ed speculations concerning the futu p- ~-pc
in that section. We trust his pm • is ■
prove correct. Whether they do or imt. i“
reasonings arc good, and full of cb ring h "
for our cau«e. The letter is dated V; xshi-.igt-jy
Dec 20. Here it is:
The Republicans are becoming T v : ,
and more divided as to the oxti- n.
which it is now apparent, the Ad' . ,iT >
wishes to puisud.ou the slavery qm u-n > !
border l%Ltcs men. though elAt'ed ’•*' •>
force, and their States ineghc posse fen of I' C
military, are at heart opposed to i > 'final*,
but dare not fraternize with the s>t inocrats
though they know that on them i G u chief
dep-ndence. 1 !ef ore Congress close press ill.
session there will be a fusion of tlit* e. 'cents oi
opposilrin against the rad.cals. G en
on the patt of our aimies would strength
opposition. Tiie iiunncial jinbamwsmt > o’
the V- an try will have the same Unde
1 hose oiubarrassraents mv about to be ii
ed from the distress in the moneyed ch s >
branee and England. You will luivc oh ,
very large sales ot g"M in New Y'oik, tu i ■
vy shipmc!d*in tho lari few days-of th at.
ole. This arises fivin the ho o exports'
by Kngland Tl> ln.li > f.cotbm. 'Topi -hi- *
800,000 bales of c.-tlon in ti:e last year.li: in
lias paid more lean 5!.,-had to pay left • m
war for three and a half millions of b •>’
that comniod’ty. Gobi sent to India n»
turns. The 800,0i:0 hales lJanufactw on ?
sufficient goods to'clolhe her ovm |»eopl>
The three and a half millions »t' bah., f: IB
Amrrini supplies hot colonies mid Euro]
cotton labrl' .i, cmploya her ' hipping, hr Is
her the raw mail rial of every country, „i,d
place of I iking her gold, causes it lo lli ;ta tk
contiuied-ireaiu iutp France an J Jng uii
rhert is a wide iu the results *. »m IT
a change of circumstances. II there Jn.d i ceif
a short crop of grain in these countri
year, anil England had hceu under tin ai.-c<*-|
si tv of shipping gold for Hot h cotton am sin,j
the biv-ks of Eugiand and Krtmce wcul . have
Vieen compelled to suspend specie pa rot ids ,
which those over-populated nations re; ! ic j
the worst of calamities. England is ,i u ;
workshop. She must support tier tlili - mil
linns Yiy laanuliicturcs, vviir h cannot b-- <T ■• ■
without cheap cotton. She will do wi
as long as possible, but eventually, sli. em-i
have it. By the last two ivt’ ■; in
formed tout the banks in Frauo.e and l.e !. ad
have raised tfic rate of interest to nine ] enl
to arrest the flow of gold from them,' . ! »
• prospect of a stiff fmtlwr advanee in li van e
of money. W .
No wonder England tells Napoleon fun ■
der rlo eircMimsfiVnccj will she go to wn
land or fe-r an idea* an I will not even i s H" }.
a-result by sending a 111 gate lo Iri.s j o .»•.
’Congress of nations. The principal pa m '
Euiopean exchurqre sold in New Y’ml: ...a I
oql of sixty-day hills drawn against sli ■> n-nts
of prod'ice to be led i: conn led in Em .-d
Well this can be done. Gold rolls lov \ th
exchange, proportionaldy. Now it i ;he .
verse, and will remain for sometime V
York. Gold is higher than exchange,
bill drawer ; on Europe will not take j . !uei>
bills. They cover the exchange they and :.»« .
large extent by shipping gold, which ■ i.;
vanced the price of that article, and it
ti m at present rates.
T here lias recently .appeared article ■oc
Russian otfieiai journal in St. tatershu a
ded to in tiie jourmr's here) stating tlm ifi
cau only be attached to Russia by fore ~v ff.
makes her a source of weakness and un
strength. This is regarded as an ii.do
that Russia wishes to avoid war, an '
compromise will be made to avoid it
all apprehension on this score is run
Europe, and a few months more of o>
and paper money-, reflation has cooled
sion* a little, tho probability is that Fi am .
England will write, in a little note to
ing your quarrel is an intolerable nu
your neighbors, end must be abated. "
fermoreby it than we can do by goin
with you. We have been-expecting y 1 - ale
either have succeeded or become sati I '
fore now, a'id something must Redo:
By that, that- wu.sc.all have sent toi .'x>
most of our gold to them to pay for
imports we have made to satisiy the
gancc caused hv our ahnndance of gr.
The new national hanks will be in fail last
flooding the country from Nebraska >
ehusefts w ijii :uiirr; nev of uniform
Ttie farther issue by the ffroal filial \i,
Chase, ot a few hundred millions ol i; .■■■-
hearing note::, said now to he in com
paratiou, which ere not legal tend' .- ■ l
tor their face —will have so inflated p - jt
the biggest fool among tho limutical i.b ii ■
ists will begin to pause and calculi.t
quences. Mr. Chase says in his Treasi;;; -e-tun;
on the finances that he does not expei t
to make any further issues of legal ten ' >n
This may he, set down as mere Bpe< :.i ,
ing. It is said there is now preparin intues'
bearing notes, which arc not a legal t ff
the amount of four hundred million i ,h
It is also said these notes are not < i
go into circulation, hut will be hoard' the
interest on them, hut as they me a leg : . mlor
for their lace, it is prolmblp they will
way into circulation without regard •> it
terest they bear, as the aluio.-.t entir It.v
depreciation of the currency will cans . (>
pie not to be very particular, afterafev >e.iiis
about a little inter' ;l. The great ol v>
he to get something of real value for 1 ip.
depreciating irredeemable paper cu < i t
'l’liat will he th*‘natural feeling as fs . c
begin to recoveraom the big drunk >v
we are now indulging. Worn that is r
the headache and prostration flint fm v
got rid of, we shall probably aw;.k
sciousness, and find ourselves a sadfioi bni
wiser people.
The Fuewu Hkskn iv Mexico —1 • fan.
correspondent of the Army and t Navj .zsttt
writes under date of December 17th :
Marshal Forey, who is DowalComp - u. , ha
no doubt by this time informed bis •upcri-ii
master of tho real state of affairs in
The French columns sent up country,
have been expected, have encount and
serious difficulties. This is equivalent - su
ing that their search after J uarez and C *•
net have been fruitless, and that tl - m
marched all the way so Quorotaro t< !•• tin
birds flown, and the enemy impalpahh or
ers have captu ed vessels laden with . <•
tempting to break the blockade. The ••»
have been taken to Matumoras. The >
opinion here that. troubles may u. vi.
Banks cn Hie Rio Grande. Bunks is
to have some mission to aid the Mexic a;
several French steam frigates (to be
f'resse) have been detached to watch b
ments. War vessels are nbo 1 eing di
to the Pacific coast to render (lie bh<
all Mexico cij'ccti ■-•(;. The itcinocrati o
still continued to denounce this war a.-
t trie jc-mu and blames it becai
000.000 francs are now demanded to
I tenses of distant expeditions. All w .
money, and those very persons who mo.-
ly blame French interference in Mexico and <
chin China, favored the Crimean and
i i»ni»ai;rna. and cry out to-day fur nnotl
sian war. r l’he Constitutioimcl Exposes'
ujeut views on this unpopularsuhiect. 1 p.
per shows that the real object of Franc
vading Mexico, was to prevent the extra
Yankee power. The stars and st ripes m
float over Vera Cruz and Acapulco, and
Mexican empire will then merge into tb
American Republic. So formidable an i
of power would menace Iho liberty am ;>
of the world. When such sentiments a; p ■
lished in a‘semi-official paper, when tin .
icau expedition is clearly owned to bed j .
more against what the States may becon •
what Mexico was, it is ime for French • •
to look with alarm on every movement ■
may bring Washington and Paris into i
collision. Gallic eagles hovering aloi
amorfts, and the fciid of fieedcm on t)
Grande, are in dangerous proximity.
Morals is Yaxkeedom. —The Norther ■.
pers are continually titled with incidents .
show that the morals of that section and
world are not improving vciy fast. Here
account of an allair which occurred recen
Indiana :
Jacob Scbriner and A Jam Snowberger,
married man. lived near neighbors, and
said that Schrincr has been living in crintin
tj m . ~y with Snowbcrger’s wife Agnes. J
three weeks ago Snowbeiger suddenly c
peared, and on inquiries being made as t
whereabouts Scbriner replied that he supj
that hp had gone to the army, or to Oki
visit his father. A few days since Schri
wife Elizabeth, died very suddenly, and w
buried the next day. Suspicions of foul
were aroused among the neighbors, and S ,t
ner was arrested. Seaich was made, and Si
berger’s body was found in a brush h
twenty or thirty rods from Schriner’s ho
hjs head split open with the sharp edge o
axe. Schrincr confessed that lie killed Si
berger while working together. He says
he was put up to it by Snowberger’e wife ;
he was to kill Snowberger, and she to kill
(Schriner's) wife. Mrs. Snowberger has l er
arrested on the charge of poisoning Schrin
wife, and both she and Schrincr were brou
here on Tuesday evening and lodged in
county jail. We have not learned whet
Mrs. Schriner’s body has been disinterred i
examined.