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(•ball not apply l" f-»iM«r* and planters engaged
in tbr roar 1*62, in agrknltura. pur-ai * ■>
their own labor or in supeuatending ttia-ot
others, under certain conditions. various
amendnienta were proposed, and the bill was
discaased till the Senate wen* into secret ses
sion.
The chair laid before the Senate a commu
nication from Col. Gorgas, Chief of Ordnance
calling the attention of Congress to the neccsi
ty of making an appropriation for the use of
his bureau, and showing that it was now in
arrears $20,000,000.
norue House oil Is were taken up and refer
red to appropriate committees, after which the
Senate went into secret session.
HOUSE.
Resolutions were offered against the policy
of holding secret sessions, which, on motion,
were laid on the table.
A bill was introduced to give increased com
pensation to non-commissioned officers and pri
vates in the army- proposes to increase the pay
of each non commissioned officer ami private
in the military service of the Confederate
States for the war, 100 per cent. Referred.
A motion to reconsider the vote ny which
the House passed the hill to change the, time of
the meeting of the next Congress, was los:.
A resolution was adopted instructing the
Committee on the Medical Department to in
quire into the expediency of increasing the
rations of sick and wounded soldiers in the
hospitals.
The following resolutions was tabled :
“Resolved, That, the President be respect
fully requested to inform this house whether
uny officers of the regular or provisional army
or of tlie navy, or in the civil service, appoin
ted during the exUUuce of the Provisional
Government, and confirmed by the Provisional
Congress, are now holding cilice without hav
ing been nominated and confirmed by the Sen
ate, under the permanent Constitution, and
if so, the name* of said officers.’’
A bill was introduced and referred to pro
vide uniform rates of compensation for me
chanics and laborers employed by the various
executive Departments of Government.
The Committee on Military Affairs, reported
a bill to establish a Department of Inspection
and Censorship. Placed on the calendar and
ordered to be printed.
The bill proposes to transfer to the new de
partment all duties of inspection now belong
ing to the Adjutant and Inspector-General, or
any other department or officer, and to place
it under the command of an Inspector-General,
with the rank, pay, Ac., of a general. The de
partment to be charged with the duty of dis
covering, exposing, prosecuting and bringing
to punishment all offences and delinquencies on
the part of officers of the army, of whatever de
partment or rank, and of seeing that the di.s
cipline of the army is maintained. One of tin;
standing duties of the Inspector General shall
be to recommend, from time to time, such
modifications an 1 amendments of the laws anil
regulations of the army as will, in his judg
ment, improve its discipline and efficiency.
A resolution was adopted requesting the
President to cause the House to be informed
whether the report of the operations of the
forces of Gen. J. R. Williams, ut Blue Spring,
Henderson's, and Rheatown, Tenn., is in the
Adjutant General s office, it not, that steps be
taken to have it forwarded.
A resolution instructing the Military Com
mittee to bring in a bill doubling the pay of
soldiers ill the field was voted down. A reso
lution was subsequently adopted instructing
the committee to whom was referred the bill to
increase the pay of soldiers IGO per cent, to
inquire into the expediency of increasing tired
pay to thirty dollars per month.
A resolution was offered that all legislative
business of the House be hereafter considered
in open session, except such as relate to move
ments of our armies and diplomatic concerns,
and no secret session shall hereafter occur ex
cept by a two -thirds vote of the members pres
ent in favor thereof. Lie&over under the rule.
A communication from certain officers asking
for such legislation as will allow troops to elect
their own officers—motion to refer lost.
Tiie bill to create an invalid corps was
made the special order for to morrow morning.
A joint resolution of thanks to Gen. 0. A.
Rattle’s brigade of Alabama troops for their
promptness in re-enlisting for the war, was
passed.
SENATE — JAN'. 30.
The following were referred: A bill to be
entitled an actio aid any State in communicat
ing with and perfecting records concerning its
troops; to place all male free persons of color
between IS and 45 in the military service of
the Confederate States for the war, as laborers,
nurses, xo,; petition from the Georgia Confer
ence; also, one from the l’ress Association.
A communication was received from Colonel
Gorgas. Chief of Ordnance Bureau, stating that
the deticiency in the Bureau was not twenty
millions, as stated, but two millions.
HOUSE.
The bill to amend an act amendatory of an
act entitled “An act to put an end to the
exemption from military service of those
who have heretofore furnished substitutes,”
was taken up, amended and passed, as follows:
Sec. 1. The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact, Tint the above re
cited act shall not apply to farmers and planters
engaged on the sth day of January, 1861, in
the production of grain and provisions by their
own manual labor or in superintending the la
bor of others: Provided, The exemption here
in contemplated is granted subject to the fol
lowing conditions;
1. That the peison availing himself thereof
shall devote himself and the labor of which ho
lias control or superintendence, exclusively to
the production of provisions and family sup-
plies.
11. That there shall be paid and contributed
front the farm, or it more than one farm, from
each of the farms which the person thus ex
empted owns or superintends, in addition to
the tithe required by any tax law, an addition
al tenth of the pork or bacon product on said
farm, or farms, (beginning with the product of
last year,) for the use of the army.
111. That the person thus exempted, will, it
no required, sell all his surplus provisions, now
on hand, or hereafter raised, for the use of
soldiers' families, or for the use of the army, at
prices not greater than those fixed for the time
being by the commissioners appointed under
S'lMtpressmeut act.
J f. That the person seeking to avail himself
of the benefit of this act shall h ive furnished a
substitute not liable to military duty, who is
now in the service, or who Las been legally dis
charged therefrom, or who has died therein.
V." That the benefit of this act shad not ap
ply to persons on farms or plantations ou which
there is any male adult not liable to military
duty.
Bee. 11. Nothing contained in this act shall
be construed sis limiting the power of the Presi
dent. under existing laws, to exempt such per
sons as he may deem proper, on grounds of
equity, justice, or necessity.
The following bill was passed :
A Biu, to be entitled “An Act to provide for
disabled officers, non commissioned officers,
musicians, privates .andßeamon.”
Section 1. Thtj Congress of the Confederate
States of America, do enact, That all officers,
non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates
and seamen, who have or shall become disabled
by wounds or other injuries received, or disease
contracted in the service of the Confederate
States and in the line of duty, shall be retired
or discharged from their respective positions as
hereinafter provided. But the rank, pay and
emoluments of such officers, and the pay and
emoluments of such non-commissioned officers,
musicians, privates and seamen, shall continue
to the end of the war or as long as they shall
continue so retired or discharged.
Sec. 2. That all persons claiming the bene
fits of this act shall present themselves for ex
amination to one of the medical examining
boards now established by law. Upon the cer
tificate of such board that such permanent
disability exists, such persons shall be retired
or discharged as aforesaid.
See. 3. That ail persons l etired or discharged
as aforesaid, s hall, periodically, and at h ist
once in six months, present themselves to one
of said boards for further examination, the re
sult of which examination shall be reported
by such board to the Secretary of War. And
if any such person shall fail so to report him
self to such Ixiard. whenever he shall be requir
ed so to do. he shall be dropped from said re
tired or discharged list, and become liable to
conscription under the terms ot the law. unless
AU'h failure shall be caused by physical disa
biliiV.
Sec- +. That the Secretary of War may as
sign such officers, and order the detail of such
non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates
and seamen tor such duty us they shall be
qualified to perform If any such non-commis
sioned officers, musicians, privates and seamen,
shall be relieved from disability they shall be
restored to duty.
Sec. 5. That the Secretary of War shall make
all needful rules and regulations for the action*
of the medical boards, as aforesaid.
Sec.fi. That vacancies caused by the retire
ment of officers under this act. shall be filled
ns in case of the death or resignation of such
officers.
Bee. 7. This act shall be in force tvoin its
passage.
SENATE —FEB. 1.
Resolutions of thanks to the gallant troops '
from the State of Louisiana, in the army of .
Tennessee, were passed unanimously, and or- j
to be sent to the House.
The committee claim* reported back
favorably joint resolution* for the relief of
Capt Walker Anderson, whi h wore passed.
The House bill to provide for wounded and
disabled soldiers and eaatn an asylum to be
called the Veteran Soldiers Hume, was taken
up and passed.
HOUSE.
The Speaker laid before the House a commu
nication from the President, transmitting a
communication from the Secretary of War,
covering an estimate of the additional sum ne
cessary for the engineer bureau, and recom
mending an appropriation of the amount. Laid
on the table and ordered to be printed.
The Speaker also laid before the House a
communication from the President, in response
to a resolution of the body, transmitting a state
ment of the Secretary of War, showing the state
of t ie question pending between the Confede
rate Slates and the United States in relation to
the exchange of prisoners. Withdrawn, to he
presented in secret session.
The following was read a third time and
passed :
“A bill to be entitle An Act to allow com
mis-ioned ’officers of the army rations and
the privilege of purchasing clothing from
the Quartermaster’s Department.
‘ Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact, That from and af
ter the passage of this act, all commissioned
officers of the armies of the Confederate States,
shall be entitled to rations in kind, in quantity
and quality the same as are now allowed by
law to privates, and shall draw and receive the
same under such regulations as may be pre
scribed by the Secretary of War.
“•Sec. 2, Re it further enacted, That all com
missioned officers of the armies of the Confed
erate States shall be allowed to purchase cloth
ing and cloth for clothing from any quarter
master at the price which it cost the Govern
ment, all expenses included; Provided, That
no quartermaster shall be allowed to sell to
any officer any clothing or cloth for clothing
which it would be proper to issue to privates
until all privates entitled to receive tire same
shall have been first supplied; Provided, That
the officer offering to purchase shall give his
certificate on honor that the articles are neces
sary tor his own personal eomlbrt and use. and
in no case shall more than one suit per annum
be allowed to be so purchased by any officer :
Provided, That nothing contained in this sec
tion shall be construed as depriving commis
sioned officers of the privilege they' now enjoy
ot purchasing subsistence stores from the com
missary dep utment.
•Rec. 3. Re it further enacted, That this act
shall be and continue of force only during the
present war.”
The bill to increase the efficiency of the army
by the employment of free negroes and slaves
under certain circumstances, was taken up, and
passed in the following form :
*‘A bill to be entitled An Act to increase the
efficiency of the army by the employment of
free negroes and slaves in certain capacities.
“ Whereas, the efficiency of the army is great
ly diminished by the withdrawal from the
ranks of able-bodied soldiers to act as team
sters, and in various other capacities in which
free negroes and slaves might be advantageous
ly employed ; therefore,
“Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate
Staten of America do enact, That all male free
negroes, not including those who are free under
the treaty of Paris of 1803. or the treaty with
Spain of 1819, resident in the Confederate
States, between the ages of eighteen and fifty
years, shallJbe held liable to perform such du
ties with the army, or in connection with the
military defences of the country, in the way of
work upon fortifications, or in Government
works for the production or preparation of ma
terial of war. or in military hospitals, as the
Secretary of War may from time to time pre
scribe : and while engaged in the performance
of such duties shall receive rations and clothing
and compensation at the rate of eleven dollars
per month, under such rules and regulations as
the said Secretary may establish : Provided,
That the Secretary of War, with the approval
of the President, may exempt from the opera
tions of this act such free negroes as the inter
ests of the country may require should be ex
empted, or such as lie may think proper to ex
empt on grounds of justice, equity or necessity.
“Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Sec
retary of War is hereby authorized to employ,
for duties similar to those indicated in the pre
ceding section of this act, as many male ne
gro slaves, not to exceed twenty thousand, as,
in his judgment, the wants of the serv'ce may
require, furnishing them while so employed
with proper rations and clothing, under rules
and regulalions to be established by him, aud
paying to the owners of said slaves wages at
the rate of eleven dollars per month for their
use ami service, and in the event of the loss of
any slaves while so employed, by Hie act of the
enemy, or by escape to the enemy, or by death
indicted By the enemy, or by disease contract
ed while in any service required of said slaves,
then the owners of the same shall be entitled
to receive the lull value of such slaves, to bo
ascertained by agreement, or by appraisement
under the laws regulating impressments at the
time, to be paid under such rules and regula
tions as the Secretary of War may establish.
“ Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That when
the Secretary of War shall he unable lo pro
cure the services of slaves in any military de
partment in sufficient numbers for the necessi
ties of the department upon the terms and
conditions set forth in the preceding section,
then he is hereby authorized to impress the
services of as many male slaves, not to exceed
twenty thousand, as may be required from time
to time to discharge the duties indicated in the
lirst section of this act, according to the laws
regulating the impressment of slaves in other
cases: Provided, That slaves so impressed
shall, while employed, receive the same rations
and clothing in kind and quantity as slaves
regularly hired from their owners, and in the
event of their loss, shall be paid for in the
same manner, and under the same rules estab
lished by the said impressment laws: Provided,
That if the owner have not one male slave be
tween the ages of eighteen and fifty years, he
shall not be impressed without the consent of
the owner.
“Sec. -1. Be it further enacted, That impress
ments of slaves shall, as far as practicable, be
made in counties and districts, the productions
of which are least available for the use of the
army, or remote facilities for transportation;
and shall he apportioned, as nearly as practic
able, among tlie owners, according to numbers
of laboring hands; Provided, Th.it in making
impressments, not more thau one in every five
male slaves, between the ages of eighteen and
forty-five years, shall be taken from any owner:
Provided further, chat free negroes shall be
first impressed, end if there should be a deli
c enev it shall be supplied l>y the impress
ment of slaves, according to the foregoing pro
visions."
Senate joint resolutions of thanks to the
troops of the State of Louisiana serving in the
army of Tennessee were taken up and passed
unanimously.
Senate -joint resolutions of thanks to the
North Carolina troops re-enlisting for the war,
were also unanimously passed.
Position' of Affairs in France.— The Paris
correspondent of the New York Herald writing
from that city under date of Doc. 18, says that
the French Emperor lately sent for Senator
Gwin who is now in that country, and was
closeted with him for some time. There is
much speculation in regard to the matter. It
is thought that some good to the Confederate
cause will grow out of it.
In speaking of Mexico, and the position
I ranee now holds towards that country, the
Gerald's correspondent remarks thus :
The Mexican plan is' now understood to have
been entirely changed. The Archduke Maxi
millian is no more talked of or thought of in
Europe than though he did not exist. It is
well known that he absolutely refuses' to run
the risk of losing his beautiful head of hair,
unless he is furnished with money and troops
to protect him, and has a guarantee given him
that he shall not be rousted from lbs throne.-
These guarantees shall not be given him, aud
it is Believed now that that the Emperor has
about decided to arrange his plans for the fu
ture. with the view of linking Mexico a pure
rrencli colony. It is understood that Mar
siar torey, who, immediately upon reaching
1 aris. proceeded to Compiegne, recoinmeuds
/ ,lea: Preparations are certainly
i it, made for the transportation of troops
.UKl.nuuUKms of war. The steamer which
' Nazaire tairred out a number ot offi
ceis. and the war ship Souveraine. carrying
titty six guns, is being put iu order as rapfolf
as possible at Cherbourg, to 'follow the Nfo
toirc. which left Brest a few days since for the
i acinc coast, to blockade Acapulco aud Mazit-
At a caucus held among the opposition mem
bers of the French Legislature, at wLieh twen
ty-two were present, the only point upon
which they agreed to make a united action
was in the demand that the French troops
should be immediately retailed from Mexico.
Thiers opposed the idea of urging a war for
Poland, and upon general matters was decided
that each member ol' tire opposition should be
left free to act individually, proposing such
amendments to ad Government measures as
would tend to a larger liberty. But against
the Mexican swindle a determined un ted op
position, led by M. Thiers, is to be made.
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ITS.
The Northern papers publish the diplomatic
c-orrehjpondence between Seward and Russell,
upon the subject of the cotton loan. Confed
erate cruisers, steam rams, &c. To show how
completely England has been bullied by the
Yankees in this matter we print a portion ot
the letters. With such timidity as i.s shown by
the Rtitish Government, we may well be satis
fied that nothing has been further from its in
tentions during this war than the “recognition”
of the Confederate States :
THE COTTON LOAN.
MR SEWARD TO MR. ADAMS.
Department or State. )
Washington, April 10, 1863. f
o * o » 'jffiis Government has hear 4 *
with surprise and regret that a loan has been
made in London to the insurgents! with condit
ions of security and payment openly hostile to
the United States, and it has good reasons for
assuming that most or all of the moneys thus
loaned are paid to British subjects residing in
Great Britain for advances in money, labor,
arms, military stores, and supplies used in fit
ting out those hostile expeditions in violation
of the Queen’s proclamation and of the enlist
ment acts of Great Britain, as well as of treatis
and the law of nations. The President does
not for a moment believe that her Majesty’s
Government have lent or will lend any sanc
tion or approval to these proceeding-; of her
Majesty's subjects : but be regrets that he is tin
able to perceive that any part of those trans
actions so inimical to the United States, and ap
patently so universally known in Great Riit
ain, have arrested the attention of her Majesty
Government, cr encountered any opposition,
or eren any manifestation of its disapprobation
or censure.
The loan made by European capitalists is a
direct engagement with the armed insurgents
who have assumed to control supply, and de
liver cotton for the reimbursements of the
money advanced, with interest. You will
give notice to E irl Russell that this transaction
necessarily brings to an end all concessions,
of whatever form, that have been made by this
Government for mitigating or alleviating the
rigor of the blockade in regard to the shipment
of cotton and tobacco. Nor will any tittle of
any person, whether citizen of the United
States or subject of a foreign power, to any
cotton or merchandize, which tittle is derived
from or through any pretended insurgent au
thority or other agent hostile to the United
Statess be respected by this Government.
It would be to evince a want of frankness
and good faith if we should fail to inform Great
Britain that in this country the proceedings to
which I have referred have come to be re ;ard
ed equally, by the people and the Government,
as tending to complicate the relations between
the two countries in such a manner as to ren
der it difficult, if not altogether impossible, to
maintain and preserve friendship between them
—a result which the President believes is as far
from being desired by Great Britain as it is
from being the policy or the wish of the United
States. After the resort to the courts of the
United Kingdom which the President has spe
cially authorized as a sequel to the anticipa
tions and remonstrance which yon hat e made,
thus far without any effective result, this Gov
ernment is not aware of any other measures re
maining within its power to arrest the ten
dency I have described and to avert the calam
ities I have deprecated. If it be in the power
of the British Government to suggest anvthing
further that it may he thought possible and
proper for the United States to do with that
view, the suggestion will be received and con
sidered with the utmost candor and respect.
Y'ou will, in such manner as shall seem most
proper, bring these views to the knowledge of
her Majesty’s Government.
EARL RUSSELL TO MR. ADAMS.
Foreign Office, April 2, 1803.
Sir—Her Majesty’s Government have not
failed to consider, with the attention it deserv
ed, the letter which you addressed to me on the
14th ultimo, in reply to my letter of the 9th
ultimo, on the subject of the intercepted cor
respondence which you had alleged went to
show a deliberate attempt to establish within
the limits of the United Kingdom a system of
action in direct hostility to the Government of
the United States.
I have now the honor to observe to you that,
whil e you withhold your acquiescence in the
opinion expressed by me of that correspon
dence, and state that you shall transmit a copy
of my note, with profound regret, to your Gov
ernment. you, nevertheless, do not controvert
the principal positions assumed in that note.
You do not deny, first, that it is lawful for
her Majesty’s subjects to lend money on secu
rities, or otherwise, to either belligerent, or
secondly, that it is also lawful to sell, to either
belligerent, munitions of war.
Upon this subject I beg to call to your no
tice that no longer ago than the 20th of last
November, in answer to the remonstrance of
Mexico against an alleged organized system in
the United States of aiding France in the war
in which she is engaged with that republic,
but in which the United States are neutral, Mr.
Seward replied by this, among other citations :
[After quot'ng from Mr. Web-tor’s dispatch
to Mr. Thompson, Earl Russell proceeds) :
It seems clear, on the principle enunciated in
these authorit'es, that, except on the ground of
any proved violation of the Foreign Enlistment
act. her Majesty’s Government cannot interfere
with commercial dealings between British sub
jects. and the so-styled Confederate States,
whether the subject of these dealings he money
or contraband goods, or even ships for warlike
purposes.
MR. APAMS TO EARL RUSSELL.
Legation of the United States, (
London, April 6, 1803.. |
o a o i have given to all the passages
presented by your lordship the same profound
attention which I habitually pay to everything
from the same source. I cannot, however, per
ceive that they have any effect in disturbing the
positions which have been heretofore assumed
by myself. The sale and transfer, by a neutral,
of arms, of munitions of war, and even of
vessels-of-war, to a belligerent country, not
subject to blockade, at the time, as a purely
commercial transaction, is decided by these
authorities not to lac unlawful. They go not a
step further, and precisely to thal extent I
have myself taken no exception to the doc
trine.
But the ease is changed when a belligerent is
shown to be taking measures to establish a
system of operations in a neutral country, with
the intent to carry on a war from its ports,
much in the same way that it would do, if it
could, from its own territory, when it appoints
agents residing in that country for the purpose
of borrowing money to be applied to the fit
ting out of hostile armaments in those very
ports, and when it appoints and sends out agents
to superintend in those ports the constructing,
equipping and arming of ships of war, as well
as tire enlisting of the subjects of the neutral
country, to issue forth for the purpose of car
rying on hostilities on the ocean.
These are the points to which I desire to call
your lordship's attention in the intercepted
dispatches. I affirmed that they went to show
a system of operations to the extent thus de
signated. I did not affirm that they absolutely
proved the fact. But I did mean to be under
stood as affirming them to furnish strong corro
borative evidence to sustain alt other proofs
which I have been in the habit of laying before
your lordship for a longtime past of the abuses
made of her neutral territory for the
conduct of the war directly from her ports,
without the intervention of time even for the
vessel 5 to gain the semblance of a national
ckara ter.
********
LAIRP’S RAMS.
MR. ADAMS TO EARL RUSSELL.
Legation of the United States, )
London, Sept. 3, 18ti3. j
My Lord: I have the honor to transmit
copies of further depositions relating to the
launching and other preparation of the second
of the two vessels-of-war from the yard of
Messrs. Laird, at Birkenhead, concerning which
it has a 1 ready been my disagreeable duty to
make most serious representations to her Ma
jesty’s Government.
1 believe there is not any reasonable ground
for doubt that these vessels, if permitted to
leave the port of Liverpool, will be at once de
voted to the object of carrying on war against
the United States of America. I have taken
the necessary measures in the proper quarters
to ascertain the truth of the respective state
ments current here, that they are intended for
the us ' of the Government of France or for the
Pacha of Egypt, and have found both without
foandatiom At this moment neither of ttyose
Powers appears to have occasion to use ion
cealment or equivocation iu regard to its inten
tions, had it any in obtaining such ships. In
the notes which I have the honor to address to
your lordshsp on the 11th of July and 14th of
August. I believe I stated the importance at
tached by my Government to the decision in
volved in the case with sufficient distinctness.
"'Uce that late I have had the opportunity to
receive from the United States a full approba
tion of its contents. At the same time 1 feel
it my painful duty to make known to your
lordship that, in some respects, it has fallen
short in expressing the earnestness with which
I have.been in the interval, directed to describe
the grave nature of the situation in which both
flCttßirUai f£ptf» is tlioiivOpt f»f
of i; l*;i.u , ltd g gah t the Govern
ment and people of the United Stales by either
of these formidable vessels.
I pray your lordship to accept the assurances
of the highest consideration with which I have
the honor to be, my lord, your most obedient
servant, Charles Francis Adams.
Right Honorable Earl Russell, Ac., &c.
EARL RUSSELL TO MR. ADAMS.
Foreign Office, Sept, 8, 1863.
Lord Russell presents his compliments to
Mr. Adams, and has the honor to inform him
that instructions have been issued which will
prevent the departure ot the two iron-clad ves
sels from Liverpool.
THE FITTING OCT OF TIIE ALEXANDRA.
MR. SEWARD TO MR. ADAMS.
Department of State. )_
Washington, July 11th, 1863. )
Sir ;—Y'otir dispatch of the 26th of June.
(No. 438; has been received, together with three
paper books containing a report of the trial of
the Alexandra.
c- o c- e e e «
If the Jaw of Greff Britain must he left with
out amendment, and be construed by the Gov
ernment in conformity with the-rulings ot the
Chief Baron of the Exchequer, then there will
be left tor the United States tio alternative but
to protect themselves and their commerce
against armed cruiseis proceeding from British
ports as against the naval forces of a public
enemy; and also to claim insist upon in
demnities for the ir ; all such expe
ditions have bffherto mitted or shall here
after com- again- uoveruinent and the
citiz o tlrs end
this (- .verunmnl is r av preparing a naval
force v ti tb< idm: •„ vigor and ii the nation
al navy, wfi-.-l, it is r ifrlly creating, shall not
be suffidenl for tb - aency. then the United
States mast.brim:’ i „ach pri
vate armed nai .a for , t mercantile ma
rine shall atmrd. British ports, domestic as
weil as colonial, are now open, under certain
restrictions, the visits of piratioai vessels,
and not only furnish them with coals, provisions
and repairs, but even receive their prisoners
when the enemies of the United States come in
to obtain such relief from voyages in which
they have either burned ships which they
have captured, or have even manned and
armed them as pirates'and sent them abroad as
auxiliaries An the work of destruction. Can it
be an. occasion for cither surprise or complaint
that if this condition of things is to remain and
receive the deliberate sanction of the British
Government, the navy of the United States
will receive instructions to pursue these ene
mies into the port which thus, in violation of
the law of nations and the obligations of neu
trality, become barbers for the pirates? The
President very distinctly perceives the risks
and hazards which a naval conflict thus main
tained will bring to the commerce, and even
to the peace, of the two countries. But he is
obliged to consider that in the case supposed
the destruction of our commerce will probably
amount to a naval war waged hy a portion, a't
least, of the British nation upon the Govern
ment and people of the United States—a war
tolerated, although not declared or avowed, by
the Btitish Government. If, through the ne
cessary employment of all our means of na
tional defence, such a partial war shall become
a general one between the two nations, the
President thinlcs that the responsibility for
that painful result will not fall upon tbo’Unit
ed States.
ENGLAND f) RESPONSIBILITY.
EARL RUSSELL TO MR. ADAMS.
Foreign Office, Sept. 11, 1803.
Sir—l have received your let’cr of the sth
inst., and have read it with great regret.
It has been the aim of the Government of
Great Britain to maintain a strict neutrality be
tween the parties who for two years have car
ried on a civil war of unusual extent and loss
of life on the continent of North America.
Her Majesty’s Government have, for the
most part, succeeded in this imparted course.
If they have been~uiiable to prevent some vio
lations of neutrality on the part of the Queen’s
subjects, the cause has been that Great Britain
is a country which is governed by definite laws,
and not subject to arbitrary will. But law, as
you are well aware, is enforced here, as in the
United States, by independent courts of justice,
which will not admit assertion for proof, nor
conjecture for certain!'
In the case sli r ending of the iron-clad
steam rams at I '' Seward with
his knowing . ■: of judgment,
cannot f,' ■- to;, that to was necessa
ry to ah At these . rele were
built« • it; vu pc s • war. but
also tfia li.hhu--! -w so-called
Con fed era
With a v ~i3 evidence on
this head it v >.- prove that the iron
clads weie not ior the French Gov
ernment, or for aeba of Egypt. With re
spect to the Frenc.i Government her Majesty’s
Government have received, upon inquiry, as
surances. through Earl Cowley and the Mar
quis ot Cadore, that the French Government
have nothing to do with the Birkenhead iron
clads.
In respect to the Egyptian Government, it
was only on the sth instant that her Majesty’s
Government received a dispatch from Mr. Col
quhon, her Majesty's Consul General in Egypt,
which is conclusive on this subject.
Ismail Pacha refused to purchase these ves
sels.
From this example, and that of the vessel*
built for the of China, whose name
was alleged all over the United States to be a
mere sham to cover the real destination of the
vessels, (lie President will ga'her how necessa
ry it is to be dispassionate and careful in inqui
ries aud statements upon subjects involving
such great interests, and affecting the good
faith and character of a Power so honorable as
Great Britain.
These matters will, no doubt, be duly and
dispassionately considered by the Government
at Washington, howevetr they may have been
understood in London.
I deem it right however, to observe that the
question at issue between yourself and her
Majesty’s Government relates to two separate
and distinct matters—,tho general international
duties of neutrality, ami the municipal law of
the United Kingdom. With regard to the gen
eral duties of ageutral, according to internation
al law, the true doctrine has been laid down
repeatedly by Presidents and Judges of emi
nence cTf the United .States, and that doctrine
is, that a neutral may sell to either or both par
ties any implements or munitions of war which
such belligerents may wish to purchase from
the subjects of the neutral, and it is difficult to
find a reason why a ship that is to be used for
warlike purposes is mpre an instrument or im
plement of war than cannon, muskets, swords,
bayonets, gunpowder, and projectiles to be fir
ed from cannon and muskets.
A ship or musket may be sold to one bellig
erent or the other, and only ceases to be neutral
when the ship is owned, manned, and employ
ed in war, and the musket is held by a soldier,
and used for tbe purpose of killing liis enemy.
In fact, the ship can never be expected to de
cide a war or a campaign, whereas the other
things above mentioned may, by equipping a
larger army, enable the belligerent which re
quires them to obtain decisive advantages in the
war.
Then, again, as regards the employment of
the subjects of a neutral by either belligerents
it is obvious that even if the whole crew of a
ship-of-war were composed of tbe subjects of a
neutral, that crew should have less influence on
the results of the war than whole regiments
and brigades employed on land, and composed
cf the subjects of neutral State. Q 0 ° ~ Q °
New York as Seen* b? a Bkitisu Eve.—The
correspondent of tiie London Times, writing
from New York, gives a long description of
(hat city. After speaking of the great pros
perity heretofore and still enjoyed by it, the
writer says :
Tha calamities which are desolating the
South and crippling the West, have thrown
many a windfall into the lttp of this great Eas
tern emporium, whose shouts of joy have each
oed back the groans-of New Orleans and tho
cries of distress of St. Lou s. All America in
flocking to New York. I have heard ,of_ Euro
pean travelers in whose opinion New \oik is
a representative city—the pattern and summa
ry of all Americanism. The city, however, is
in bad odor with the natives themselves, even
the dwellers therein, who look upon it as the
sink of all alien misery and corruption—the
sylutn of lawless Irish and godless Germans,
of all the worst set of adventurers from the Old
World. Few of the New-Yorkers profess to be
at home in New York. They are all peop'e
who have come to make their fortuue, or, hav
ing made it, only tarry till they ’realize.’ It
is a floating, fittiug population, wiih no roots
to the soil, and but few of the mutual ties
which bind man to man. The city is but a
shop, a thoroughfare—a place to make money
and to spend it in, but not one in which to
enjoy one’s leisure, or to close one's happy old
age or to rear one's children.”
In the Seventh \ankee Missouri Regiment,
camped near Vicksburg, but ten men have re
enlisted for the war. The rest declare they are
sick of the war and will go home and stay there.
In the late Federal raid in North Carolina,
most of the troops employed were negroes.
SOKTIiKIiS ftttvvs.
The Momptii* papers say Bank Bills at e Roil
ing in that city at the following rates : The
Planters'and Union notes of Tennessee were
firm at 82 cents, with only a limited supply by
the,brokers. who freely offered 80 cents ; Bank
of Tennessee notes brought 61 and sold at 64 ;
sales of some of the Georgia and South Carolina
Banks at 23 cents in the dollar; but Georgia
Railroad and Banking Company, Central Rail
road Banking Company, Bank of Middle Geor
gia, Bank of Mobile and Southern Batik ot Ala
bama were selling better. The Northern Bank
of Alabama, at Huntsville, had advauced fully
50 per cent., with considerable inquiry, but
brokers had sold them for 48.
Cotton is advancing both in New York and
Liverpool. Just now the usual producers ot
the article are engaged in preparing to raise a
magnificent corn crop, so that further advances
may be expected.
The Kentucky Legislature has a resolution
before it to remove the capital from Frankfort
to Louisville. It is thought that it will very
probably be adopted.
There are now in construction in the United
States twenty-five armed vessels, at a cost of
$363,000 each. They are to be done in six
mouths.
Dr. Mackenzie, a well-known citizen of Bal
timore, died last week.
The battery to be carried by the U. S. steam
er Niagara is to consist of four eleven inch, and
twelve two hundred pounder rified guns—the
heaviest ever placed on any ship. The Niaga
ra is not an iron clad, but is said to be the most
beautifully modelled ship in the world.
At last accounts cotton at Nashville wasquite
dull, with light receipts and no sales. Brice
from sixty to sixty-five cents per pound.
The small pox is raging badly at NAshville.
The Washington correspondent of the Cin
cinnati Enquirer says; “A statement has been
priuted this week in the London correspondence
of one of our leading journals, that Alexander
Baring, of the firm of Baring, Bros A Cos., and a
member of the British Parliament, is in close
communion with the leading spirits of British
Southern recognizers, anil also that he is an
active member of a Committee, formed With
the express object of obtaining an official tecog
uition of the Southern Confederrcy by Parlia
ment. This is considered here, among financial
circles, as a most remarkable statement, if true,
and has given rise to much comment in influen
tial circles.
The Federal athorities at Nashville announce
that no more passes will be granted to go South.
The Washington correspondent of the Cincin
nati Enquirer, speaking of the corruption at
Washington, says; I was going to say it is
surprising—but I will not, considering who is
in power—the enormous stealing that is going
on under the Washington Administration. The
greater the abolitionist the greater the propen
sity to plunder the Treasury. They got this
from long practice stealing niggers. There is
how they lost their moral sense, if they ever
had any. They now go it strong- stealing
themselves rich in the name of liberty. All 1
can say is, go it Abolitionists while you can,
you may not have another-chance in a hundred
years.
The Yankee war vessel Marblehead, which
recently ventured into Stono River, S. C., and
was badly riddled by our batteries, has reached
the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in a crippled condi
tion.
The Chamber of Commerce of Milwaukee,
have passed resolutions condemnatory of the
Canadian reciprocity treaty
The company owning the gas works at Nor
folk, Va., having refused to light the city, Gen.
Butler has seized their works.
llig Washington Chronicle cOmeß out strong
ly for Lincoln as the next President.
Gens. Hancock and Burnside, of the Feder
al army, have been authorized to raise forces
for ‘‘special service.” No intimation is given
as to the nature of this service.
Gov. Camming, of Utah, has had his last
quarter’s salary stopped by Lincoln on the
ground of disloyalty; he must take the oath or
lose the money.
A dispatch from New York, says that at a
meeting of the Republican committee, it was
unanimously voted to hold the national con
vention in Chicago on the 4th of July next. It
will be remembered the Democracy lmd previ
ously selected the same time and place.
The Democratic State Convention or meeting
at Concord, N. 11., passed the following resolu
tion : Resolved, That the freedom of the bal
lot must and shall be maintained sacred and
inviolable ; and that we, the Democracy of
New Hampshire, will unite with our brethren
ol other .-cites. l>y force of arms it need be, in
resistance to every attempt, from whatever
source it may come lo overrun, or abridge, by
menaces or direct interference by military force
the independence and purily of the ballot-box
in the ensuing elections, State and national;
and to this end we pledge each to the other,
and to our brethren of other States, our lives,
fortunes, and sacred honors, being firmly re
solved to maintain at all hazards our rights as
free and patriotic citizens of the American
Union,
Geueral Heintzelman has been ordered to
the cqmmand of the Northern department,
comprising the States of Illinois, Ohio, Indiana
and Michigan, with headquarters at Columbus,
Ohio.
The Federal Secretary of the Treasury has
under consideration the question submitted by
numerous parties living along the border of
the States of Tennessee, Alabama and Missis
sippi, of an unrestricted trade in cotton. It is
proposed to allow all persons, regardless of
their loyalty to bring their cotton within our
lines, and sell it for greenbacks, and return, if
they choose, but not to be allowed to take sup
plies of any kind with them. The Yankees
want more of the staple than they have thus
far been able to obtain.
Jim Lane’s popularity is suffering an eclipse
in Kansas; the Senate and House have appoint
ed officers adverse to his viewy.
Butler has prohibited the sale of wine and
liquors in his department under the penalty of
fine and imprisonment.
Late accounts from Peru state that great at
tention is being paid to the culture of cotton
in that country, and the yield bids fair to te
large, and one that can be greatly increased
from year to year. There was exported
through the Peruvian ports of the Pacific, last
year, 1,680,000 pounds.
The Federal papers have commenced howling
over the man who was hung in North Carolina,
in retaliation for the hanging of one of our men.
A letter from a gentleman who has resided
in Wisconsin, near Milwaukee, since 181#, says
that the late spell was by far the severest he
has known since his residence there. He says:
“A man could not live out doors more than
fifteen minutes without being frost bitten.
Thermometers refused to indicate—the mercury
would run down in the bowl almost as soon as
exposed. I froze my ear in going forty rods;
and a neighbor, in exposing his bare hand
three minutes, froze his fingers. The hostler
at the hotel froze his fingers and ears in trying
to hitch up a horse, and then had to give it up.
It was fortunate he did, for if the driver had
started, he would have frozen to death.”
Cotton in New Orleans is selling at seventy
five and a quarter cents per pound.
The Chicago Times states that there are thirty
negro regiments at Port Hudson.
Late news from St. Domingo states that the
insurgents have been defeated at all points.—
The insurgents are now burning and plunder
ing indiscriminately. Two vessels loaded with
arms, &c., for the rebels have been captured by
tbe Spaniards.
Senator Sebastian, of Arkansas, says a cor
respondent of the St. Louis Bepublican, denies
that he ever participated in the rebellion ;
though he was expelled from the United States
Senate, from his supposed affiliation, declares
in favor of a re-union on honorable terms; that
the President’s proclamation had made him a
poor man, and averred that he had no seat in
the Senate and would not go to Washington -as
a mendicant, begging for one. Dr. Mitchell,
the other Senator regularly elected from Ar
kansas before the war, is an ultra secessionist.
A question affecting the banishment of Clem
ent L. Vallandigham came before the Supreme
Court of the United States on Jan. 20th. It
was original, ex parte. Vallandigham being the
petitioner. The motion for a writ of certiorari
to the Judge Advocate General was argued by
ex-Senator Pugh in support of, and was sub
mitted on a printed argument by Col. Holt,
Judge Advocate General, in opposition thereto.
The Northern Congress is Calking about con
scripting free negroes from sixteen to sixty.
There has been another very severe snow
storm throughout the North West. The cold
was also intense.
The losses by the late fire in New Yoik
amounted to about $ 1,000,000.
Hon. I. Rogers, of New .Jersey, introduced a
resolution in the Federal House, that the Gov
ernment should appoint commissioners to meet
rebel commissioners as equals and to concoct
measures of peaee with (hem. The resolution
was rejected, but received forty-two votes in its
favor.
The price of coin is represented by-a Yankee
paper to l>e higher in the West than it has been
for forty years.
MJSWS HtIMAIIV.
MU* Ut-uvoa Cox, of Amite county. Mlssis
sAppi, a littie K'll about, thirteen years of age
has sent to our soldiers within the past two
years, over two hundred yards of jeans, several
home made blankets, and many pairs of socks,
mostly the work of her own fair hands. She
has set a most noble example and deserves
much praise.
Mr. IV. W. Hankins, of Lafayette county,
Florida a lew days ago killed two bears, weigh
ing four hundred pounds each, and four large
buck deer, in the space of one hour of time.—
The same gentleman some time previously
caught with a hook and line fifty fine trout,
and killed three wild turkeys, iu less than one
hour. A good section that to live in, especial
ly in these times.
Gen. Wharton, one of our most brilliant and
dashing leaders, is so far convalescent, as to be
able to leave his room in Atlanta, where be
has been confined. It is rumored that lie is to
be ordered to a high command in Texas.
Nellie Bryant, and three other female Con
viecs. who escaped from the State Penitentiary
on the 23J of Jan. were cipturcd, near this city
on the 23th, by an officer of the Penitentiary
who went in pursuit of thorn- “Nellie" made
an attempt to join a company, but before her
arrangements were perfected she was captured
She was dressed in soldiers vuiform.
The New York News asserts that Fernando
Wood is for peace, and speaks as follows of the
Democratic Congressional caucus lately held
in Washington City ; At that caucus the speak
ers were Senators Powell and Saulsbury. and
Messrs. J. C. Allen, Robertson. Ilolmau, Cox.
Pendleton, Fernando Wood and others, of the
House of Representatives. Not one of these
gentlemen advocated or intimated a desire for
a war platform. On the contrary every allusion
made to the subject was against the war. Sena
tors Powell aud Satilsoury and Mayor woou
denounced it boldly, and no speaker took op
posite grounds.
The steamer Laura, in attempting to make a
Confederate pert, was chased twelve hours l>y
the blockaders and captured. In her effort to
escape site broke one of her wheels, when she
was beached. She had but one boat in which
the Captain and ten men made their escape, and
have arrived at Tallahasse, Fla. Six of the
crew were captured with the vessel.
The schooner Carolina Gertrude, in attempt
ing to run out from the Florida coast a few
days since was captured. She was loaded with,
cotton.
The Milledgeville Recorder understands that
the increased number of machines constructed
in the Penitentiary, for the manufacture of
Cotton Cards, will do much toward supplying
a great public need, and that Cards may now
be had at the sale-room at the old price of six
dollars a pair, half in skins, and the other half
in money. This is a change of the former rule,
which required the whole price to be paid in
skins. For the benefit of those desiring cards
on these terms, and in no other way can they
lie obtained at the Penitentiary, wo again state
the quantity of skins, and the price, to buy a
pair of Cards: For sheep, goat, dog or deer
skins, raw, the price allowed is 25 cents for
twenfy-lwo inches in length and five inches in
width; and for tunned skins of the same de
scription. the sum is 50 cents. Tiie skins must
be sound, and without holes. It will take
from two to three skins, according to size, to
bring three dollars in exchange; the other
three dollars will be received in money for a
pail- of Cards under the present regulation.
A now factory for the manufacture of cotton
yarn has been established at Lynchburg, Va.
A rumor prevails in Richmond that many of
the Yankeos in the Valley, have thrown down
their arms, returned home and declared their
intention to fight no more against the South.—
No doubt exists that there is a great deal of
disaffection in the ranks of the enemy, that
they are tired of and see the hopelessness of I he
struggle and would be disposed to stop the war
if in their power to do so.
The amount of duties ou imports collected
in the Confederacy last y< ar i.s said to have
been about $1,600,000. Tliis, we suppose, was
mainly collected at Wilmington and Charleston;
a little at Mobile and Brownsville, and some
at Richmond on goods run through the block
ade across the Potomac.
The editor of the Columbia South Carolinian
has been shown a turnip twenty four and a
half inches round, which weighs six pounds.
A Senator now in tha Confederate Congress,
writes home to a relative in South Carolina
that in two months from this time our curren
cy will bo worth more than it lias yet been du
ring the war, to buy little and cautiously and
to sell freely. Every body will ha 1 with joy
the event tue nouiii Caiciiim cj.. S u K ,
prophecies will come to pass.
A turtle was captured near Jackson Lake
five or six miles from Montgomery, Alabama
lately, which measured about two feet in
length, and weighed some two hundred pounds.
A portion of our troops captured a man nam
ed Dooly in Winchester., Va. He was a re
cruiting officer of the Federal army, and had
on his persou a commission which authorized
him to raise negro regiments in the Valiev.
Upon his arrest the Yankees arrested Robert Y
Conrad, E-cp, audit is said P. Williams, Esq.,
two of the ablest lawyers and most prom nene
citizens of that section and hold them as hos
tages for Dooly. This is unfamous conduct
and under the position of our government
most delicate.
Ex-Gov. Andrew B. Moore, of Alabama, is
taking the stump, stirring up the people for
the relief of soldiers’, families and war contri
butions generally.
R. S. Shevenel, of Athens, Ga., lias devised,
a truss which lias been largely approved by
surgeons who have examined it, as cheap, neat
anil durable.
Incendiaries are at work in Atlanta. Sever
al tires have occurred lately.
Street shooting has become tbe order of tbe
day as well as night in Atlanta.
The whole number of Yankee prisoners in
Richmond and Danville is nearly fifteen
thousand.
Confederate bonds ff long dates, says tlie
Montgomery Advertiser, of Jan. 30th, were sold
in that city at 120, and some of short dates at
110. This class of securities are certainly ap
preciating.
The steamer Denbigh in endeavoring to run
out of Mobile harbor run ashore. The steamer
will probably fie lost. Cargo saved. All.tbe
passengers and crew were also got off safely.
A dinner was given to Gen. Bragg at Mont
gomery last Wednesday, by a number of the
citizens of that place.
Eighteen car loads of coffee passed through
Petersburg, Va., on Friday, en route, for Gener
al Lee’s army.
Two more steamers, the Pet and Heroine,
have arrived safely at Wilmington.
The Richmond Whig contains the particulars
of the death ol Major Charles Hill, a gallant
young artillery officer of Richmond, who for
some months past has been serving in Texas.—
While holding communication with the enemy,
under flag of truce, at the west end of Mata
gorda Island, one of the perfidious Yankees en
deavored to take him prisoner; but Major Hill,
being strong and at hletic, drew his revolver
and killed his would-be captor, whereupon he
was attacked by overwhelming numbers of the
foe and fell, shot through the heart.
The Richmond Enquirer learns from a gen
tleman direct from Bermuda, tb.it Yankee
greenbacks were selling at that place for sixty
two and a half cents on the dollar, and Con
federate giavbacks at seventy cents, the latter
being seven and a half cents more valuable in
the estimation of the Bermudians than the
“promise to pay” of the Lincoln Govern
ment.
The Richmond Sentinel says that the suc
cessor of Archbishop Hughes will not be
the Federal paitisan aud envoy, in which char
acters that prelate exhibited himself in the
earlier part of the war; nor will he even mani
fest the subdued favor into which Archbishop
Hughes’s advocacy afterwards subsided. His
voice and counsels will be for peace. The mul
titudes, also, of Catholics of the North cannot
fail to be influenced by the sentiments of the
Pontiff, and will become less willing to cry war
while lie counsels peace, and less eager to deny
our right to a separate name and place arnon j
the nations, when it is so frankly conceded by
one commanding their reverence in so eminent
a degree.
Gen. Duff C. Green has left with the Eutaw
(Ala) Whig, a sample of thread spun from
flakes of cotton without the usual process of
carding. The specimen is equal to any coarse
thread made from the carded roll, and tor mak
ing coarse cloth will answer the same purpose.
If once tried by our farmers, we think they will
be induced to abandon cards entirely in the
manufacture of negro clothing. The following
is the modus operandi of preparing the cotton :
’Gin the cotton slowdy, so as to throw large
flakes through the flue, w rich are caught in a
hamper basket placed under the flue, and take
to the spinning wheel, without pressing the
cotton.”
The Importing and Exporting Company of
South Carolina, through B. Mordecai, Esq.,
have presented Gen. Morgan and the members
of his Stff with seven of the finest saddles,
bridles and trappings in appieciation of the
distinguished services.
num intki um.. *
Cm. Win-A'i-ttui. lun ju.t returned from a
Utiguing and partially successful trip in Lou
isiana and South Missis6 ; ppi. „
Skirmishes daily occur between the advance
pickets of both sides, on the Big Black river.
A successful attack was made on the Federal
troops at Rodney by our forces, Jan. 18.
The three year’s troops in Mississippi are re
enlisting for the war.
The Meridian, Miss., Clarion says that it is
ascertained that a federal spy has made a com
plete tour of Alabama and Mississippi—ob
taining much information of the disposition
made of troops in the department as well as of
the warlike preparations made at Mobile.
A gentleman just from Vicksburg gives the
Mobile Advertiser the annexed particulars
about the negro revolt which lately occurred
near that place. He says that a Colonel of an
African regiment, while’ drilling it, found one
of the men obstinate, and taking his musket
from him used some haish language. The ne
gro replied insolently, and the commander
killed him. This excited the anger of the
rest of the regiment, and they" rushed on
the whites and slaughtered several of them.—
They also charged a battery, took possession of
it, and turned it on the whites. A courier was
immediately despatched to Vicksburg for rein
lorcements. Two brigades were sent on a
double quick, to the scene of action. They
charged and retook the battery from the ne
groes, and turning the guns ou them, managed
by grape and canister to kill and wound l>o
•tween four and five hundred. Nearly all of the
negro soldiers have been sent up the Missis
sippi.
Col. Ike Harrison had captured some twelve
or fourteen Yankee transports at Milliken’s
Bend, and destroyed them, after taking out such
stores as he could conveniently carry off with
lilUi.
Nearly all the Federal garrisons along the
Mississippi fiver consist of negro troops. Port
Hudson is garrisoned by fourteen negro regi
meets of infantry, four cavalry regiments of
whites, and a regiment of heavy artillery.—
Baton Rouge hits 5,000 troops, and is defended
by forty two pieces of artillery. There are
about 3,000 negro and 800 white troops at
Natchez. A large garrison of the same minions
holds Vicksburg.
The Meridian Clarion speaks thus of the
prospect in that section; “Several important
Federal expeditions are on foot,” and in sixty
days the expeditions are to start simultaneous
ly—perhaps sooner. The Yankees are iu high
glee ut the prospect of occupying Mobile and
the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers. Troops
are already moving down the river for tlxis
purpose, as well as au abundance of the arti
cles of war necessary for such a campaign.-
Gen. Sherman was iu Vicksburg about the
18th of Jau., ou important business, and after
remaining there a couple of days started down
the river on a gunboat. His situation, or the
nature ot his business, could ndt be ascertained,
but it was generally believed he was going
down to consult with Banks relative to the at
tack ofi Mobile. Avery large bridge is iu
course of construction on Big Black, and wi’l
soon be completed. When finished, the Yan
kees intend moving out and occupying Jackson,
and then strike up to Grenada. It is thought a
force will be sent up to Grenada by way of tbe
Yalobusha river ou small boats to co-operate
with tbe force coming from Big Black, aud
that Yazoo City will be occupied und garrison
ed at the same time. Yankee officers high in
command, declare they intend making ail ef
fort to hold alt the territory west of Pearl river,
and once permanently fixed iu Jackson, they
will be able to extend their lines still further.
Gen Polk is very active at this time, inspect
ing his command. He is now on the front,
seeing that all is right. He has taken mea
sures to prevent travelling through his lines,
or trading with the Federals.
Affairs are improving rapidly, uuder Forrest,
in North Mississippi. He has established his
headquarters at Como, Panolo county. He is
some distauce north of the Tallahatchie. This
tuct evidences his confidence in his ability to
lueet the foe successfully. He is iu a po i
tion where he can make an advance, or the
enemy approach him, without either having
a considerable stream to ford, all the bridges
on which have been destroyed.
Orders have been issued lor the repair of (he
bridge on the Missouri & Tennessee railroad,
over the Y iPabusba, at Grenada. This accom
plished, and anew field from which to obtain
needed supplies for our troops will bo once
more accessible.
The Fedorals on the West bank of the Big
Black, Miss , are estimated at 12,000 —includ-
ing infantry, artillery, and cavalry—under
nnmmutul ni‘ Thftv ar6 Oil'
camped on a lofty range ol hills, near the spot
where E iwards Depot once stood, but now de
signated solely by heaps of ashes and the usual
remains of conflagrations.
Gen. Jackson has his headquarters at Can
ton. Gen. Wirt Adam’s Brigade is at Liberty,
about sixty miles South of Brownsville. It is
an excellent body of troops composed of Ten
nesseeans, Mississippians and Arkansians.—
Gen. Boring's infautiy are still in winter quar
ters near Canton.
The Cavalry in Mississippi has been divided
into two parts; all nortti of Grenada and in
West Tennessee is under command of Maj.
Gen. Forrest; all south of an imaginary line
running through Grenada east and west and in
Louisiana, is under command of Maj. Gen. S
D. Lee.
The Jackson correspondent of the Mobile Ad.
vertiser gives tlie annexed news :
The movements of the Federals in Western
Mississippi indicate that they are determined
to open the campaign at once, for the complete
possession of the Mississippi Valley.
It is certainly ascertained that Gen. Sher
man, with his entire corps, has arrived at
Vicksburg, which together with the forces pre
viously concentrated there, will enable him to
take tbe field with from 15,000 to 20,000 rn«n
from that point. It is also ascertained that a
Federal column, estimated at 10,000 men, are
advancing from Baton Rouge and the Lake,
and that they are uow menacing Tangipoha,
and are thus overrunning Eastern Louisiana.—
It is also probable that with the evacuation of
Corinth, the Federals will make Grand Junc
tion their northern base of operations, and
move down the Central road by way of Ox
ford. A Federal brigade of cavalry hag al
ready advanced up the west bank of the Yazoo
on Mechanicsburg, where they were met and
forced back by the Second Texas Cavalry. The
Big Black has b en pontooned in several pla
ces, and every advice received brings tidings
of an immediate advance. In Vicksburg they
openly proclaim that they intend taking and
holding Jackson, Grenada, and all the country
along the lines of the New Orleans, Jackson,
and Great Northern, and the Mississippi Cen
tral Railroads.
For the Federals to secure complete posses
sion of the Mississippi Valley, it will be neces
sary for them to establish a chain of fort lied
posts from Memphis along the Charleston road
to Grand Junction, and thence down the other
roafis to New Orleans, this will require more
men than Lfincoln can furnish.
There is every confidence in the ability of
Gen. Polk and liis Lieutenants to successfully
beat back and thwart this movement. That
there will be hard fighting, and that the Fed
erals will gain some few advantages, are to be
expected, but they will not sucoeed. Sherman
will be met and defeated.
The Federals are landing at various points
on the river, and foraging on the alwmdoned
plantations. One day tills week a Wisconsin
regiment landed near Bolivar, after r>.OOG bush
els of gathered corn. They were met by out
cavalry and whipped off, and the corn burnt.
All the valuable property in Jackson is be
ing removed.
The Government has removed nearly all the
cotton in exposed situations to places more safe.
The weather is mild and pleasant -the roads
are getting in excellent condition, and military
movements on a large scale can be made.
The Federals have within the last few days
become very strict on the Big Black. No per
son can now enter Vicksburg to trade or other
wise without taking the oath.
Gens. Polk, Loring, Lee and Gov. Clark,
have been in consultation in Jackson. Our
Generals in command have the full confidence
of the people.
A correspondent of she Atlanta Appeal
writes from Como, Gen. Forrest’s headquarters,
as follows;
Affairs in Mississippi are emphatically im
proving. The people have plenty to eat aud
the stock are all fat. Cows and hogs ate abun
dant and the country is well supplied. What
the people wanted was patriotism, and tins
they have, in the presence of Gen. Forrest ami
his command. ...
Gen. Forrest, by his energy and strict at
pline, is bringing order out of chaos. -
every day coming in and reporting so 5 ■
In a rimrt time he will have ten effi
cient vien, well mounted ’ *
command has plenty ol arms, subsistence
is abundant, and it never atyi m one pi ce
fomr enough for the men to get sick, me
Serai is now engaged in building bridges
and working on roads, and has scouts thrown
out in every direction.
The people of West Tennessee are represent
ed as being more loyal aod determined to stand
by the South than ever before. They furnish
anything they have, that is wanted, caring
nothing for r „ 0 „ or <. urrotu . v . v Vo . .
oaum , r .,m might umn.ro, ft,, b ,” 1
man in the Coufedeiacy ‘ c r ■
The Brandon, Miss., Republican
A p.0.-eut there are about 1 \
m Vicksburg. Munv • ,00 ° ,dU ‘ -
dition. Large number ° m * a suirer:
old honiedtaSW t 0 rtiturr ’■
them to do so Ftdera,s will n->t • :
Ya 1 ul“iaB„ C ’ ,rre “, t in r ’™dou ,h .
KlrTituY threu . columns, are cros
another threatenin'! Jacks” 00 '' 0 " 01
mu” . t “™ h *■*''
We arc indebted to rw pi
the following information of tiffX •
chantcsviHe twenty mile™,-
Jackson, lie s .ysthat very heavy ca
was heard at Canton in the direVi,
chamesvile, and that h-avy skit-mi
going on last Tuesday and Friday!
orri prisoners were captured ou ,s' ur
by Gen. Jackson s cava'rv at Yazoo
blnbw t ,a n he ene3ly is f«‘mfoi
largt.y smee the evacuation of Can't
Georgia Treasurt Ob»tificatw
of Georgia during the years 186‘*
issued Treasury Notes, 'not heath
hut made ptyable iu specie or eight -
cent State Bonds, six month* after
peace. There Treasury Notes were V
a current y and were paid out at the -. N
par, but. sufli was the high credit
they would not circulate, but as *■ ■
out from the Treasury were song . ,
bought up by capitalists and othe A
small premium, and latterly, at a lijj n > "
for investment-, ttfl* twin# ite i
some oi me holder* of these note ~
convert their $5. $lO, S2O. SSO, an - q.
into larger sums, so as to be more
and safey kept until after the dos fft,
the last Legislature passed an Ac
the Treasurer and Comptroller Ge i ,
the supervision of the Governor, t
ury Certificates of Deposit of m
$5,000 to be given for the sum , '
Treasury Notes which are to be c
burned after being redeemed b
cates—said certificates to “be ma
the same manner as i.s i xpressed
the motes tlis canceled.”
In compliance with the Act o
lure we ierrn that the Treasuierau r
General have hid engraved and 1, • • *
for issue, tin? certificates for ft en-
Treasury Notes. Ju si/.e, the..-
lour and a half by seven and , - inter
inches, are printed on Bank Note I , u -o
of the deiiominat ons of $5,000, . e ~-,1
$20,000. The following is a cop
No. STATE OF GEORG 12
Treasury Department
Milledgevilie.... i ■ t 3
Whereas in accordance with an 1 9 C< ■
oral Assembly entitled an “Art t.i ;•>, ~o r
portions ol'the' Georgia Tivusu
issued by issuing Treasury Ceriiiii.»
posit, aud for oilier purpose!, "a
Dec r. 11, 18(io .will, b provides hat ...
Ucatcsshall “bo made payable id. • • ,u
her as is expressed in tbe face . uid no
the sum of TEN THOUSAND U U.LAI;> ,i
Guorgin Treasury notes of thor to iam <
lotb 181.2 lias this day been retinue ■ ;o;L.r -o
partment aud caceltad.
For in const’era:ion whereof 11 j Sl;nu ot
Georgia will pay the bearer TE : O’’ \; I>
DOLLARS in Eight per Cent tmi Bonds
specie six months after a treaty p.-ace or wii >
the Banks ol .Savannah and Aug resume ■
<ie payment if before that tiui such bed •
the obligation expressed in t t tfo
Treasury notes so returned and .ceb-d.
ROISTERED. . Tr usurer
10,000. Comp!roller Go-,.,,.
We learn that the certificates tor the six oar
cent Treasury Notes will also l, c a lv for
in a few days.
In a late Augusta paper, wo !!>:<: the
Georgia War 't ax Bonds beari sen o >„•. . ». a t
interest, are selling S3OO lor sl< r :.(!(].< .en'
premium, wh:l- the Georgia ••.tM t , i cent
Treasury Notes only sell for $175 - y $ •;«j or
seventy-five per cent premium in > . a i
only 8110 for SIOO, or 40 pi. ; ullK
Why thin great difference boivwu a nd,
aud tbe Treasury Motes we cam 1
is true the Bonds bear interest, wl ■,. . . . iM .
ury Notes do not, and wiil nol lie; i■ st un
til six month. l ; after a Xr. dy o ;.e ...- 'put un
less capitalists and others thud war may
last fifteen or eighteen yen rs, t! re is uogood re
sou for this different . Were 1 . ir to Lid on
vm 9 «ur longer, the Bond.-. ■ ••-til. a*
to be worth only ten aud ah: . j ■ .. „• ,}. I, .
ing the interest for 16 monli ; in il
eight per cent notes, and alx;.:> I .ore than
the six per cents. Were it, . J
the difference ought to be onto ;v; . r
cent between the eight per 0.-ets , about ’
percent' between Ihc six pci - '.d i; : -
war were to continue live ye inference
between the Bonds aud the ei . snt Tr-aa
ury Notes ought not to be
and in tlie Cs the diffeience m i t be
over 60 or 55 per cent. wliei '. mds „•>*•
Bell for $125 on the (100 m
per cent, and $l6O more o sß)'> jthm
tbe six per cents. We are i .e i 'ru.j
way, in the matter, but cons .
securities arc of the same 1 -s. -iic
things looks father curious
that thi war may last many >
Union.
The I<O.Nf!STREF.T AND F ■>;
DEHCK.— A tew days since v ;
tha Northern papers, cori ■ .
took place between Gens. 1 Eos
ter. Tho Federals, howeve f « so;
tlie letters writen. Here i.- • t ..j.t
by the former to the Vanke iule Jt
sentiments do honor to its .... •.. > . m
mander:
Deadouaiiters Df.f'nt op E i. ■ . )
J .ary. ’ .to I. ’
Sir—l have the honor t . dgv the
receipt of your letter of! . v
with its enclosure.-;, &c.
The disingenuous manne* .1 h you u
misconstrued my letter of , d.-q,
pointed me. Tlie suggesti< i a.,
adopted was in words as U in:
sumo, however, that the g a'. 1 • t
in view waste hasten the)
pectf.illy suggest 1. r you
propriety ol eommunijali . .v- tl .
your Government may li i. '• t to! cm
through me, rather than I an id. mi , to
ted amongst the soldiers.”
This sentence lepudiat n. term,
the construction which yo j< , o
it. Let me remind you, to and t .u«J
tone of mv letter were to
timent.
The absolute want of p i 1 i o •
struction of the letter ini >es ii
ish you against trifling ov •' - . uii
great war.
You cannot protend to tin
letter in tho spirit oi frani
and yet it is bard to be tba
commanding an a.imy ol w '•! <•••<>
whoso shoulders rests, in tie t- > . <<.
destinies of empires, cot fa •
he gbt of this great urge -.!
betray the dignity of 1 . .
fall into a contest of je.* *■ j ji;.■ ■
I have read your ortk
vorable term on which —rt
/wfed ! by y*
violation of the rules of <
farms have been desire
children have been rob a
have been pillaged and
laid your plans and worl t
duce wholesale murder l
And now, the most igi 1 . r<,
pose to degrade the him
soldiers to dishonor an< v - -
Soldiers who have met
many honorable fields —
storm of battle, iri and« totv
their families’ and then
years, have a right to. ex < : :
even in their adversries.
I beg leave to return t)
clamation and your order
I have (he honor to reu n
ance of great respect.
Your most ol« ■ , *
Lieut. Cm
Major Gen. J. B. Foster --emunfo .g ,
of the Ohio. i
John Ford, of Norfolk, fl
lating his oath of alfegiai .9
with Confederates within •<, . I
and endeavoring fraudul y I
cation of Confederate pre . ffi
been sen'enced by Butle I
bard labor in Norfolk jail I
wear a twenty-four poum , fl
bis right leg by a chain t! fl
be employed in cleaning , , H
hard lobor ; anil at the e . c ..ic <-u H
sent beyond the limits of M
to return.
Marshal Kane, of Bal
Confederates, mostly es~.t , erg
Johnson’s Island and Cam- t v
bee on the 23th by the Gi »ud '1 - BADo
lor Revier du Loup, to ta •„ u > . r.jtui tor H|
to Halifax, 9