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TJIIiOWi * 1 orr TIIK WiU .Dos Ma-«ucl>'i*-its hDi u< idly 't.tro du<<d resolutions into the donate ol the i nited State* looking to the abolition of Statu line* •anil privileges, and I In' con olid db n ol l“>'vei Eli the builds of the President and the oati n.u I im, Uad such a preposi fn-en made five v aiv ago. il would bave been scouted most indignantly by the whole coun try. Even at the beginning ol tbo war, no prominent man would have imperilled iiis itp utation by such » suggestion. I»ut the adroit Abolitionists of the North have not been edu cating li.o public mind so long to no purpose. And tin y have now readied a point where they judge that pnrposcs long cherished may he UVOWt'd \ The Northern ied'lers are fully aware that ( the since, H of the Confederate States will be the precursor of ihe.further d-sintegiatiou of the United Slates. In a letter addicted by (Jen. McClellan to Lincoln on the Tib of July, 1H62, the principal ic.ison for which heuiges the vigorous pruseeulion of the war b- ( that other secct.'ious would certainly follow it li e existing rebellion was not overthrown. As nearly three years h tve proved insulli ieiil. tor this latter purpose, and as some ol the hereto fore hopeful among our enemies are at least doubtful of ultimate success, they are seeking to gu il and against the evil of further dismember ment by a coup d'etal which shall strip the Htales of their constitutional rights and make them the mere vassal* ol Federal power.— Wilson’s project is n ithing less than a dcliher -11 te proposition for the subversion of republi can government. The Shiles which have giv. n l.irtli to the Kideval I’ower are to be? ahol shed, uml there will remain no longer any tribunal I to which the creature or servant will lie ameii aide tor the abuse ol liis tru.t. and itli the mas ter destroyed, tin: servant may take the helm and direct the ship of State ai liis pleasure. It Is worthy of remark that the proposition in question comes from a Black Republican and a New Knglander. If a despoti-mi is to I e inaugurated in the North, the party which can the sceptre in Ihe beginning has a good pros pert of retaining it imleliuitcly. The peo ple umv be allowed every four years to go through the form of ail election, but the pow lers (hat be w ill not suiter their authority to bo invaded. Where moral . atuion eaun-r .0r.., t. t tlmir purposes, more potent the shape of intimidation and otiipulsion will not be wanting. The • vine power which has been Mde to torture Maryland and Missouri into Wd.vek Republican States, at a time when a ma jority ot their people were unquestionably Southern ill their feel lug, will lie strong enough when it«ucquitvs the strength which Wilson ' proposes to confer upon it to crush out any other opposition.’ In the campaign of 'tiO, Seward leiuarked that slavery had ruled the . country for forty years past, and that lor the future Ireedom should bo master. Uy freedom, he meant the Abolition party, ’i he proposi tio.ns of the Massachusetts Senator supply an appropriate commentary on the prophecy ol the Yankee IVcmicr. Tli.' fuel that a New Englander in tin. cham pion of tlm scheme f>»r centralization, in not without moaning. It is to the interest of the manufacturing districts of f!:-> North that for eign g mils be excluded from the market. IVith a high tariff, the New England manul’iic turers must make rapid and enormous fortunes. H„t nothing so certainly secures such a tariff' as a heavy public debt. It the United States should owe at the end of the war Ihteo or four thousand millions of dollars-.an amount not at all improbable -two hundred and forty millions of dollars will be u.ee-sary t." pay the Interest. And if we put down the eurr-ut, ex penses of the government at one hundred and sixty millions per annum a very small allow ance when the Increased size of permanent ar my and navy is considered this \Oio make four hundred millions annually required by , the government. To raise this amufitit every ai tiole of imported goods will be taxed, and the amount disposed in such a way as to enrich the in ami fact it ring audio impoverish theaqicul tuiwl districts. From such an arrangement the West will inevitably secede, unless they are bound baud and foot by tin* consolidation scheme which is now on the carpet. The only hope for constitutional liberty on ~.j. ~ mtinuut is in the success of the t’oufeder- ZS2. «« * <w»t liussian depotum will ’*> >epeat.xi under a different name it may l»a—but with line spirit on this continent., let us prepare to resist the tide which is rising in the Northt lot us con ntruct around our country a breakwater wliich its angry waves shall seek iu vain to overcome. Wn.tr Wb Most Need, at the present time, is a grand triumph of our arms—a signal, bril liant, decisive victory. Our lato reverses at Chickumauga. coupled with other causes which induced the belief that the war is to be indefi nitely prolonged, produced a feeling of despon dency and gloom almost amounting to despair. Among our troops this depression did not ex ist to any great extent in fact, they have al ways kept up their spirit* hotter than the peo ple at home: hut the gloom pervading all classes of the latter has no dou t bad a par tial influence upon til* soldiers. 1 lie result 'pas been a general At of the *• blues which there is one thing would immediately dispel, t.ive our braves a big victory over the vamial.foe. and it would run like au electric thrill through aruiv and people. New life, new spirit, tie.-li elm, energy and determination- would he man ifest every where. The change would be in stan taueous si ml beneiicial. Ihe prestige it would give to our army, the hope it would iu cplre in th» hearts of the people, cannot bo over estimated. A victory would be better for us now than the safe arrival of a legion of blockade ruuneis with cargoes on “Govern ment account.' 1 Prom present indications, there w ill soon be an opportunity to cross swords wi h out antag onist. The gathering and concentration of his men arid ships at New Orieaus and vicinity are evidences of a hostile movement, and wetliiuk Mobile to be the point of attack. Sherman has drawn off the garrisons from various utiiui jiortaut posts at the West, and transports laden I with blue con's have been parsing down th« ! Mississippi—besides a big ‘ three-tier ” gun I boat, as Ihe telegram informs us. McPherson is moving towards Jackson with a large force. Portions of Missi-sippi and Louisiana aie just now alive with Federal troops. A fleet of gHß boats is hovering about Pascagoula Bay. A land anil water assault upon Mobile is highly probable liefore long. We a r e glad to notice that, with this busy note of preparation by the enemy, there mingles a sound ol activity in our owncampi. Our legions are getting ready to inert them. If I lie struggle comes, we shall see one of the fiercest contents of the war. If a victory- great and glorious—is vouch safed to our troops in this battle, as we before dated, it will have a remarkably vivifjing es JeCt upon all Confidence and energy wil! alike be infused throughout the army and peo- j pie ; and, with the animus acquired by the suc re.-', we may gj on '• conquering rml to'con quer,” until the foe is driven in discomfiture beyond our borders. So mote it be. Sl vtMOn C Ac, ION AT THE NoBTIL —AII the symptoms of the body politic and financial al I •Le North arc spasmodic. Every thing ap pears to he in an unsettled state. What is te tier, matters are growing worse, instead of improving. To-day a prominent leader wants 100,000 men raised al once to crush the Con federates. To-morrow the same man wants 1 000,000 men for the same object. One leader thinks to day that nin -ty days will finish up mutters ‘satisfactorily ; and to-morrow the same man comes to the conclusion that the war wil! be protracted for an indefinite period One demagogue wants this policy adopted ; another that policy ; and a third wants an cn-. tircly dilterent one than has yet been suggested by any party. in the financial circles in Lincolndom tl.e same uns-dtled state of things exists. To-day gold gm s lip ; to-morrow it g- es down a little; and in a few-days after it shoots aiji hinlier than ever—warning tin- powers that be that they cannot control the market, and that a fi nancial t-rasj! will come so lief or la es- Lincoln aud liis advisers see these signs of a crisis. They are well aware that they portend the coming storm. Their own acts show that they leel uneasy themselves. HencelU ir great preparations tu eru.-li tho South Die coming spring, if jmssible. They know their fate it the war continues much longer. Tho Squill has only to hold her otvn, and to rope! the further advance of ti,e foe, iji order to gain success, and ensure ills inevitable ruiu. 'pie Republican dynasty of the North, founded , ift ft him hinoi and crime, is tottering. If the South is true to herscli it will fail, and over whelm in its litius those who were instru mental in bringing our pie3eut troubles upon us. John Mixon Burrs’ Lkttsk. —A Mr. G. S. Smith, treasuref-of the Bogus} Virginia State Government lias written aletterto John Minor Bolts urging on behalf of "Gov.” Picrpont iiis acceptance of the position of U. 8. Senator from Virginia. Mr. Butts has written a reply, declining the proffered “honor.” A Yankee wri (.,.■ aB .•« a summary of the letter : lie states that he is fully aware of the respon sibility of a United States Senator; that the po sition is one which ought :o satisfy the aspira tions o! any lit nlerate man, but that ho is com pelled at present, by solemn conviction of du ty, to decline accepting any office from either ot the nnuierouH Governments of Virginia rep resenting. or professing to lepresept that Statu. His unsi Ifish motives, lie states, might he im pugni-d, but he nevertheless believes that the time is not far distant when he may be able to aid in healing the bitter animosities of the two .sections, lie charges tlie leaders of the rebel ion as having, with “miscalculation upon mis calculation, and blunder upon blunder." brought ruin aud destruction upon the “old Mother of Statos,” aud closes by saying that neither wav, nor want, uor suffering can Inst forever, aud that, when the proper time ar rive s. he believes lie may be instrumental in the work of union aud reconciliation. " The letter writter also says that Mr# Holts in a conversation stated that : Never in a single instant .lining this war has he 'doubted the trial result, llis opinion of George 1!. Me Cleilan is not at all complimentary to that gentleman, whom he regards if not possively disloyal at heart, at least in the light of an ambitious asplraitt for undeserved honors. Mr. Ilotts stated that he believed that the majority ot the rebel army regard McClellan as being as truly devoted {o their interests as Robert K. t,ee! and that a man who would not- when his named was used in connection with Davis, Yal landiiibtim. Wood, and others, of the same pol itical complexion, come out boldly and dis claim the assoc/alion, was totally unfit to be commander of a Union army. Mr. Roths says that of a|l the promises made to the Southern people by the leaders of secession, only one mat Ite realised.—The promise referred to is the'ease of Mr. Toombs, of Georgia, who, it will !"• ieraembet'ed, said ho would yet call t.ha roll of liis slaves at the foist of Ranker Hill Monument-. Mr. H. thinks that if President j Lincoln will collect the slaves of Mr. Toombs, j and permit him to visit the North the proph ecy may be fulfilled. Tub Wav Morgan's Omoms ark Treated.— A correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, writing from Columbus. Ohio, gives an account of the cruel way Morgan’s officers now '•du rance vile are treated : Morgan is not yet caught, but his officers in the penitentiary are weft caged. If we can't get- tin' chief to punish, we can punish his Colo nels, Captuinq and Lieutenants he left Mbbind him. Every one of his officers is in solitary confinement, in a stone cell, seven loot long bv three and one-halt feet wide, cold and dark at that. Here their exercise m walking a plank six feet long and one and a half broad, laid lengt ii wise on the floor of the cell. Three s'.ioi t steps forward— wheel to the right about three steps the othni' way— about again, march three steps forward, and s#> they exercise until the short ; steus make them dizzy, when they are glad to 1 rest themselves on their tom. We are punish I iinv them liecause they didn’t escape, o,- begaqse 1 Morem and half a doz nos their number did. Anyhow we are punishing them. Nor do we | allow them to receive shirts or clothing from friends or relatives. We eomolaiu of the way our Union prisoners at Kichm nd are treated. I guess the rebels 1 can't beat our Ohio Penitentiary, uorthe West- : ern l’enitemiary of Pennsylvania at Allegany : town. Solitary eoiilinement la a narrow coll j will soon bring prisoners to the lunatie apart ment, or mother earth. The history of all bas tiles proves that. General Neal Dow anil Com- : miss’ioner Meiedith say that the rebel Govern ermnen'. allow our Union prisoners in receive 1 what our friends choose to send them. Nor it any of them escapes are those that remain shut | up. each man by himself, iu a solitary cell, either by way of punishment or wantin'. I acts like these need no comment. They speak for themselves. They also show iu the right light, the vindictive teeliag of those who are trying to subjugate us and ruin our country. The Nbw Draft it tub South. —Lincoln has issued the annexed order for drafting five hunreci thousand more men from among his subjects. It is dajed Washington, Feb. 1 : Ordered. That a draft tor live hundred thous and men. to serve for three years or during the war. l<e made ou the 10th day of March next, for the military service of the United. States, crediting and deducting therefrom so many as may have been enlisted or drafted iuto tbe serv.ee prior to the lust day ot March I and not heretofore credited, AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17. 1864. ; tITiZHS MIfKTLYIi AT COStiltT II ALL SPEY Lit OF GEV COHIS At the meeting called at Concert Kill on j Saturday to take into consideration the regu j latioa of t!ie prices of supplies for the army, j and to hear the speech of Mr. Cobb, lion. E. Starnes was called to the chair, and James j Gardner, Esq , i (-quested to act as Secretary. Judge Starnes, on taking the chair, stated : the object of the meeting to lie two -fold : First to listen to the remarks cf the distinguished statesman and soldier, who, having counselled • resistance tooppr&ssiol, and incurred a weighty j responsibility in tbi step, has bared his bosom | to the shock of war. and perfonned faithfully ; and well the duties assigned him. Another ob ject of the meeting was to take into considera tion the regulation of prices for siippl'cs fertile army. The impressment act had not been sat isfactory in its operation, an i it was important that the planters should voluntarily make a tender of their surplus, at prices that would he remunerative, without taking inio considera ti >n the market value, or waiting lor tlie un pleasant exactions of ti e impressing officer. 'i’lie following is the substance of Gen. Cobb's rema.ks. We regret that our space prevents us trorn pteseuting it in full : Mr. Cobb stated that if anything was mccen sary to add to his embarrassment, it was the over-kind and fl ittering manner in which he had been introduced to an audience where in other davs he had been privileged to address them. His object was not to present any ex ample or precept of his own, but to state pal pable truths «nd pr.sent t!ie example of others. IVe are engaged in a struggle in which all is involved, and we cannot afford to fait. We have had days of sunshine and gloom. Per haps we have had.no more gloomy period, than that which iias prevailed for six months previous to the last thirty days. A manifest change is apparent now—a more hopeful spirit is being aroused. i he lesponsibilities of the times bave aroused the stein manhood of the people, and despon dency is giving way to hope)ultiess and faith. You see it on your street corners, and in the private circle. Unkind and ungenerous criti cism of our generals is not so current, ihe small critics and croakers (whose censures are as harmless a- the cooing of a dove, and whose burial ground rr;ight life conveniently kxated on the point of a eamurie neeute) are not* soklop, heard. He wou and not emun-rate evidence of this reviving hopefulness, but would refer to tile army lie bad seen the brave veterans amid the camp tires, and sitfeo the commence ment of the war there has übt been a more con fident or deteimined spirit. Recruits are being added—high spirits prevail, and the merry Uiugh rings around the glowing bivouac. Why then should theie bo despondency among the people ! When the soldier bears his trials so cheerfully, there should be fio flinching or com plaining among those enjoying, undisturbed the comforts ot home. lie hud thought that the people of Georgia, having not learned the sufferings of the war in the school us experience, laid not fully appre ciated the trials incident tit a revolution. If they will be true to lite cai se, they never need learn thfui as they have been learned by the brave sons and daughters of the Old Dominion, and other border iittttfti. He would commend their sacrifices, and heroism—he would paint to the homeless refugees—‘victims of outrage and shameless inhumanity \yho arc in our midst, and in commendingjthem to the highest consideration, paipt them ;J.s noble examples of patriotic devotion. *■ He had not come to hold up bright pictures !>r prosperity tint to declare that tins times demand liberal and manly sacrifices for tin cause of liberty and indopontLmca. IB would speak first of the duly of farmers and planters, lie would appeal to tiiemto put foith liberally of their provisions. Tplll me, gsml pe—you, whose granaries are full—[whose haulers groan with abundantn how is the army tube fed? You point to the ofiiceis of the govemment to the commissaries -to your .neighbors, the large planters—but the appeal conies tu evpry man, who can spare a tithe of his abundance. We are told in the press and elsewhere, that the planters demand and should receive just compensation. Such is your h-gal right. But mid ho, l am not here to counsel the best means of obtaining just cbmpeusatlon, or lpar u't price, but i come to ask you,* whose sons ire baring their bosoms to the storm of war, whether yon will permit them to suffer for food, while you are stickling for your plain constitutional rights and for just compensation. A citizen has a right to ujo market value or liis supplies; but when the* country needs them, aqmtriot will not demand it. Are sous, and protection, and home, lots dear to yem than the products of your labor? Where is the just com pensation to the intelligent soldiers who till the ranks of the army at eiei’en dollars a month, ot to the officers, who, at inadequate salaries, are bearing the responsibilities of their positions? Are not tln-ii wives and children as dear to them as yours? Where is the just compensation for their trials and sacrifices ? Go to the hos pital, and see tip- eptac-iaied form of the brave man who has sickened it ujer t}ie exposure ot the camp; what is just! compensation to him, lor a wrecked constitution, and the blighted hopes of vigorous manhood ? Go to the hearths desolated by the blatVearnage of tlte struggle, and would you in-mlt the anguish of widow hood and orphanage, by offering them just compensation 1 These legal exactions are a reproach to men seeking to he free. The hour that such consid erations prevail will be latal to us all. The pkAter justifies himself for his exactions, be cause the merchants charge him exorbitant prices. He knew not to what extent avarice may pieyail iu our commercial circles, but lie urged the planters not to follow the perniciai s ex.mple of the huckster in codfish and calico. He had heard of no women who had refused to knit socks for the soldiers because the mer chants charged tpn or twenty priir s for knit ting needles. Catch inspiration froifi the a tbps set up around your own firesides by the noble women of the land. We have been told that we have not the re sources on wh ch to feed tb“ people. It had been demonstrated to him— -ml he had exam- I iued the question with c me —that if our plant ers will do their whole duty, we- can subsist gr in v and people. We are met with the charge that quartermas ters ami cumin Learies are robbing the govern ment. He was not here to defend these officers: but if they are true, will it be any consolation to you to ieel that the cause waS lost because you were afraid the commissaries might specu late on your surplus products ? It' you will come forward with your supplies, there will be : less chance for speculation. lie would com i mend the example of the people of Sumter ! county, who hail resolved to furnish their sup j n'os at any price the government could pay. j What is id be weighed in tne scale against lib j erty ? He urged the high duty of economy up i on all. Let no oae waste of his abundance, but rather sace it for others who are in need. . Liu had been criticized as counselling a dis regard lie would ponJI to his whole life in evidence ol liis sacred regard for all legal rules and regulations—but when the army is starving,* and the granaries of the exloi doner and engrosser are to be found, the array must take it. The soldier who is a marauder is no better than an extortioner, and he would coun i tenance no lawlessness on the part ol tioops. t Ilis owp comm mil bad seldom been charged with such acts —yet lie had taken supplies lrcui those who would not sell, and to feed his hun j gry soldiers he would do it again, i lie referred to old Morgan county, as one having a abundance, m whicli the plant ers had resolv ed to furnish all t hey could spare, and it was surpri. ing to see the atnount of pro visions that were icing forward. Look at t';e fair fields and luxurious homes all along our borders, whereyer the Yankee army has penetrated, and see the outrages perpetrated. Think not that by with*.hiding ad from the cause, or by cherishing a misera | bits union sentiment, that you will buy exemp i tion Iroui their outrages. * ! He especially commended to the consuiera t'en cf ti. >se at home, the widows and orphans ot those who have fallen in the struggle. Go and see ibem—a word of consolation will cheer their ti'solution, and their children will rise up aud call you bles-ed. Mon, said he. are apt to see the short com j ings of others. Let us endeavor to see our- selves as other see us. It will not answer for us to stand at tue comer of the stieeta and denouuce speculators and extortioners. Go from one end of Broad ■‘treet to another, and you will not find a man who is not willing to sell his supplies for just compensation. What t-etter than they are you. if you withhold from the market what is needed to feed the army and people ! Ho would give a higher and nobler example. Some men denounce Yankees and Jews, and seem to think in so doing that they have dis j charged their duty. Some of the noblest sol diers in our armies were men of ts'ort! era birth, and some of the vilest extortioners ho had ever known were Yankees of native growth. And he had found noble soldiers among the Jews, while some ot the vilest in the land are uncircumcised ShyUaks at home. It is not at the shortcomings ot others that we should h-ok, or st-qi to exact the utmost farthing from our bleeding country. Tt,e farmers have ev,-r been regarded as the purest classes ol society. Extortion, it must lie admitted, had penetrated their ranks, hut he was proud to believe that the infection was not deep seated or general. This is no time to estimate gains—or seek for profits —it is the hour when lioeity is to la won or lost. There is another consider dion. This is no time for shirking military duty. Every man is needed. At an earlier day. when our sist -r states were invaded, the volunteer spirit pre vailed. How is it now that our very gates are threatened ? The Virginians, Caroliniaus, the men of Tennessee, Florida and the West, are in the ranks, and shall Georgians falter, wait for conscription, or rely on exemption acts? He would put the question to the conscience and pride of every able-bodied man, regardless of age. or liability to the service—are you willing to stay here in luxury and ease, until the tread of the toe is heard on your streets? He had been asked if we had army enough. He could not answer the question. It was not his province to answer it. We have formed a government and (elected a leader. No matter whetln r we approve ail liis acts or not—the cons itution Makes him the judge of the men and the means necessarv. The President may have erred in judgement -who has not? but that he has been false to liis trust, his bitterest foe lias never dared to whisper, lie is devoted and true—stand by him and give him the men and the means that he requires. He revered the habeas corpus act—but the man who is aide to go into tho service, and seeks to shirk it under the subterfuge of a writ of habeas corpus, is unworthy the name of freeman. The army contains snipe of the lean est of the iean, and fattest of the fat, and when he saw a man running to a lawyers office, for a writ of habeas corpus (he said with all deference to a profession of which he felt honored to be a member; it threw both lawyer and client into suspicion. He would not deny the writof ha beas corpus to an injur and citizen—but for an able bodied man to seek it as a shield from yielding the service he owes to his country is a reproach to humanity. He referred to the dream of foreign interven tion which had been indulged tbo long. Europe is .against us. We must rely on our strong arms and on the Just Ruler who presides over the destinies of men. Nor must we look to the North. Conservatism there is dead, and the veriest serf in the dominions of the Czar yields no more trembling subserviency than that ac ccy led to the Autocrat at Washington. If any think he had presented a gloomy pic ture lie would dispel such an impression. He lia I never felt more hopeful. The people—the men mui women of Georgia—arc coining up with a- spirit of unanimity arid harmony 5 and faith, which confirms his belief that \ye shall, in God’s good time, be a free, independent and happy people. Gen. Uobb took his.soatjamid a perfect storm of applause. Judge Jenkins then arose, and stated that Due soul-stirring appeal oi Uie distinguished Geor gian who had addressed the meeting, called for an expression of opinion from the citizens of Richmond county. lie therefore offered the following resolutions : In view of tho magpitnueof the war in which the Confederate States of America are engaged, and vast consequences, for weal or for woo, de pending on its result, the citizens of Richmond county here assembled, do resolve : 1. That, the reconstruction of flee dissevered Federal Union, would bring to us political sub jugation, and moral debasement, and should therefore be regarded by our whole people as an impossibility. 2 That if true to out selves, with the aid of Divine Providence, gratefully acknowledged in the past, and devoutly implored lor the fu ture. onr triumph will surely egrne. 8. That the circumstances surrounding us, require the presence in the field of every man capable of hearing arms, and not otherwise en gaged in the indispensable service oi the coun try. 4, That however great the numbers, bravery, and discipline of our armies, they can not keep the field, in defence of our nationality, without supplies; and that the Confederate Govern ment, organized in a time of war, without a treasury, without munitions; and without com mercial faeilitito* is eminently entitled to all possible aid from tli s individual enterprise and liberality of a patriotic constituency. 5. Tha* every citizen remaining at home at tending to bis ordinary bus ness pirrsuits has his appropriate \yotk, in extending this aid; That those having supplies, are in duty bpujpl to appropriate their surplus to the necessities of the Government at prices simply remunera tive; that those having money anil no supplies are equally bound t > promote the financial policy of the Government, by investing in its securities, not omitting to give Liberally where giving may avail; and that the largest contri butions from both classes will bear no compa rison with the toil of the Fair, and the blood qf the Rrave. 0. That, in the hope of insuring supplies to the'extent of our means, and avoiding unpleasant controversies with the Government as to price, a committee of three from each district with out- and each ward within the city, to be com posed ot planters, and deulem in afticlcs spited to army subsistence, be appointed by the Chair man, whose duty it shall be when convened by him. to agree upon and publi-h a schedule of fail fv remunerative prices for such articles, and that holders thereof are earnestly request ed, promptly to offer tq the Commissary of the post, what they may be able to spare at those prices. Judge Jenkins stated that the resolutions, though prepared without conference with the speaker, had been supported by him with an •arnestne.-s, eloquence, and power, which ren dered any further remarks unnecessary. He therefore’submitted them to the meeting for action. On motion of Gen. Evans, they were unanimously adopted. The following are the names of the- Committee appointed in accor dance with the resolutions . COMMITTEE . One hundred ami ni leteenth District—Thom as Skinner, Samuel Walker, E J Dozier. One kuudred and twenty-first District—Jas McNair, Janies Brandon, Jro Murphy. One him Ired and twenty-third District—J E Burch. Alex Dear, Charles DeLaigle. One hundred aud twenty fourth District tiob ert Allen. Joseph Ware. Jeremiah Winter. City, First Ward—E W Doughy, Jno Foster, James M Spnythe. Second Ward—Turner Cianton, W J Owens, J T Ijoihv/ell. „ , Third Ward —Pr T 13 Tuinizy, Jas M Clara, A A Beall. Fourth Ward —W II Goodrich, W A Itamsay, Zach McCord. Arrivals from tub North. —A number of Confederate officers arrived in llichmond on Friday night last, J m. 29th. the most ot whom have bepu prisoners for months past in the hands of the enemy. A noug the names of Confederates who had been confined in Fort McHenry, hut are now at Point Lookout, are | the following Georgians, who desire that their frienls be informed that they were sate and 1 well: I Capt. R- 11. Miller. Cos. D. 59th Ga.; Lieut. ! J. B. Trammel. Cos. E, 6th Ga.; Col. William j Gibson, 48th Ga.; Lieut. G. J3. Smith, Cos. G. I Gist Gib j Umbo Ktaies FlnanOA.—Some of the cut i spoken Northern press have commenced sbow j ing up the condition of The Federal finances ■ and the ruin which lias been wrought by the | Black Republicans in their insane ambition to j get possession ol the Government. It will be j seer, from the annexed, article taken front the j New Yoik News that Chase has dug a fmaucirl j abyss* beneath the feet of his people, into ! which they are soon to fall. The temporary expedients by which lie has delayed the final catastrophe, will but make it the more terrible. The seeming prosperity in which Ids people re.- joi.e, is ficitious and delusive. The nation is j feeding upon itself—is holding wild carnival with it3 wealth and resources. The day of doom is coming a-.nl is nearly at hand. Exces sive importations are hurrying on the final crash. Let us be firm, and patient, and brave Through lb- operation oi vu i “.v concurring causes, our deliverance draws nigh I Here is wh.it the News says of the Federal expenses, and the means of paying them : We teccnlly mi te some remarks upon the immense taxation that awaits the people of the Northern States as the inevitable result of the present Government expenditures.—The figures start [ed sum • of our Coteinporar* s, and we hope set some of them tb thinking. At any rate it is quite time that the people laid earnestly to heart the alternative flow inevita bly before them of the most crushing taxation that any people ever i ndured, or the frightful evils of national bonkruptev, and a repudiation of the whole of the existing debt. The debt, if paid, must bo discharged pro rata of the pop u'ation and wealth of the country. It mases, as far as the payment goes, very little differ ence w ether tire means are extracted from a direct tax on property, or from taxes on con sumable goods, the people wiil in either case be compelled to pay the whole amount in the rise of rents, and in prices of necessaries of life. The taxes on consumable articles are the most popular, because they are disguised in the juices of the things bought, and because they may, to some extent, lie avoided by non use of tlie taxed art eles. This can be done only, however, within a certain limit, because the necessary amount of money must be raised, and if the articles are not consumed in suffici ent abundance to yield tiie money, other menus must be used to get it. 2The expenses per annum on the return of peace will be 537b,0Q0,Q00. This sum must be raised oift of the net profits of the. industry of the country, 'the proportion of this which must be raised in the city of New Y’oik may be given in illustration Toe Federal debt, should peace be restored in eighteen months, will lie, according to official estimates, $2,8.70,000,000, which will give an annua inter, st of $180,000,- 000 in gold. M e know it is stated by the Ad ministration papers that no more stock paya ble in gold will be issued. But that is simply a threat of repudiation, because if the country exists and pays its debts at all, it must Le in gold. Eviry greenback and scrap of paper now so recklessiy issued will bo pi iced on pre cisely the same footing as the Five twenties stock. Whether that is paid or repudiated, we now assume that it will bo paid, and the amount required will lie as stated. The pension list will he over $80,000,000; it is already $7,000,- 000. We assume that it will be $80,000,000. The army, in 1860, numbered twelve thousand men and cost $16,000,000. It will never again be under one hundred thousand men, or its ex penses less than $120,000,000 per annum.— The navy was composed in 1860 of eighty ves sels, paitly in commission, aiul cost $12,000,- 000 per annum. It will be seven hundred ves sels, and will cost $7)0,000,000. The army .if tax collectors, civil list, miscellaneous, etc., will cost $80,008,000; or thus-; <7iVil !:Cl., clO- U 0 .000,000 Arne 120,000,000 Navy . 50,000,000 Interior, pensions, etc 80,000,000 Interest on debt 180,000,000 To|.al stio,uoo,ooo This must be raised by taxes. The customs, revenue, excise, income, direct or in any other shape, will only have the ultimate effect of be ing jiaiil by the producers of wealth. There is no other mode of paying. The Fe leral Constitution prescribes that nti direct taxes shall be levied except in propor tion to i‘( presentative numbers. Now, accord ing to representative numbers, the relation of New York to the existing debt is as follows : Interest and expense per annum. Federal debt, sl2l.OOfi.flftO $28,00(1,000 Ftate debt, 8.000.000 City debt, 20,7)10,000 11,000,000 Total, $1012,510,000 $37,000,000 Personal cstat■*, 17-1,031,00(5 43.000,000 'thus the amount required from the city will be $230 per fam ly of live per ons, and the in come of the city is $250 per family, at the high est point. The real amount of surplus capital that ticcumnl ites in a year it is difficult to do tormine. The capital that is produced in a year is nearly all expended in its production. Taking one year with another, however, a small portion is saved for perm .mint invest ments iu stocks, goods, re 1 estate, &c. the -amount of tim e savings in the city of New Yi vk may be approximated by taking the assessed value in, say, 18-4 R, and comparing’it with that of iHl> 1, as follows : Valua- Popula- Value tion, fion, per head. 1840, $214,952,004 434,000 §SO f 1861, 571,078,79. 841,000 tiTO The. 15 years, 320,120,791 410,000 112 Inc. per an’m, 21,741,370 28.300 7J It is no doubt the case that the assessed value is short of the true value, but this was the case at both periods. r lhe undervaluation was less however, at the last than at the first periods, owing to more thorough means adopt ed of reaching the property, ii results, then, that the increase of property iu 15 years was $320,120,701, or sll2 per head cf ihe«|>op;;la tion. In the same time, $38,411,755, were paid iu taxes, which would make the real increase $414,338,549. This was in a time of immense prosper.ty. The large exports of bieadstuffs from this city began in 1817, followed by the discovery of gold in 1850, which swelled the commerce of this city to an enormous extent; while the immigration was nearly 3,000.000 of souls into the country through the city, and new western railroads were constantly open ing new commercial connections with the city. All this sufficed to to increase the city w- alth $22,000,000 per annum. If now the same state of prosperity is re stored in its full vigor, the accumulated wealth iu the next ten years will be 8217.000,00 ) ; but the required taxes will be $370,000,000 ; de ficit $153.000,000. In other words, the whole of the existing personal property will he swal lowed up. The prosperity cannot be restored, however, for a century "to come. With the war tax the present Government expenditure of 3.000.000 per day will cease. Wha ', then, will be the condition of the South, which was cur iormer customer $300,000,000 per annum 7 Thp | robabihity isHhat the city earnings will be less than half what they were before the war, and that the payment of the debt will be en tirely impossible, even at this focus of the na tional wealth. Mr. Chase urged in favor of the issue of paper money and of his new national bank scheme that the paper would bind iiie people to the cause of the Union. The Confederacy has the same reason for paper money issues, and the two together have issued 5 5000,000- 000, or the official value of all the personal pioperty in the country. This is the price najd by the country to force the rule of a dom ineering minority upon the majority of the people. The great mass of the people were al ways on the defensive against those who want ed bank, or protection, or bounties, or internal improvements, or special privileges of some description.— 't he whole people presented a solid phelanx tailed the Democratic party. The restless minority took a now name with every fresh attempt upon the Constitution and pop ofi V lights. For twenty years they steadily tormented that sectional discord wbch was in tended to give them power at anx cost. The Constitution, the whole wealth of the country, the liberties of the people, were as nothing in the scale against their criminal ambition, and when, in lsGl. the Peace Congress was pueued with delegates from Republican cliques pledg j (T to defeat any peace measntos that might l>e j offered, the wh-de proderty of the country wa< ' otiered up to cement in blood the ill-gotten j power of a party born in treason and foster i cd in treachery. j A Fatriotk- Aim-bal. —The Provisional Gov ernment of Kentucky lately appointed a com mittee to issue an address to the soldiers of that State in the Confederate service. Tuo docu ment praises the soldiers for their courage and dating deeds: speaks of the coming election of members to the Confederate Congress : shows up the despotism of Lincoln and iiis satellites in controlling the list election in Kentucky by the sword and bayonet; and concludes with Ihe annexed p itriolic appeal ; in view of the ruthless desnotism (-reeled over the ruin of your firesides, your altars and tour homes, your destiny remains to bo fixed alone by the stern arbitration of the sword. Your civil and politic.)] right.- ignored, and ox iled from your homes, a laudable ambition prompts you to strike for your lost liberties. With more than .Spartan %• al the breast of bin is tired, whom truth ami justice prompt ti crush the yoke of wrong unwillingly thrust itpou his neck. Though t’o/- a time tint pros peet of regaining homo he veiled in gloom, a just cause must triumph in the dc stiny of na tions. The Union for whieii the war is waged can never be restored. Its common bond -- the Constitution - is broken, and no power can ev er cement its severed links. Kentucky’s des tiny is with the South. Nature, affinity, race, language, law and institution, have made them one. The despotic power by which Kentucky is governed, lias neither root nor branch in the affections of her people. They spurn it as the adder’s lure beneath which lurks tiro sting of cleat fi. Soldiers of Kentucky ! to you whose valor is attested by a hundred battlefields, we turn with conscious pride ; and thiough your identity with the armies of tile Confederate States, we trust at length to fix the destiny ot our native State. Thousands of hearts at home beat high in unison with yours, and though distant from you, they look forward with confiding hope to the day when they will be united with you again. Though subject to deprivations in a trauger land, your condition is not altogether -r unpleasant one. The Executive, the Oabi t, and-(he Congress of the Confederate States . , . e your friends. Tho people of the South love and respect you. In you. they behold “ the noblest Romans of them ail.” To be a soldier of Kentucky is a passport to their generous hospitalities. Since freedom or slavery are the conditions between which you choose, let “ liberty or death’.’ be your watchword. Stand firm to the cause you hive espoused.- Freedom and inde pendence are worthy of all sacrifice. The time is not far distant when your State will he re deemed from the grasp of ty fanny, beneath which now lowers her once high and lofty prowess. Then yours will he tli<xprciul satis faction of reviewing the myriad battle-plains over which your steady steps have marked the way to home aii I victory. Though many hard ships note the soldier’s life, to him the future will be fruitful of reward. The freezing blasts of winter, as they pierce his .tattered clothes, bear to his ears a voice melodious with the notes of peace. The marble monuments of after-time will chronicle his deeds, aud each succeeding geneiation yield ftesh homage to his name. Clothing fob the Soldiers. —The following official order has been issued by Ajutant Gen eral Cooper, dated the 2d iust. AYe give it for the information of ail concerned : I. In the event of the ioss of company re cords, and the consequent inability of the commanding officers to certify therefrom tiro vlothing accounts ol soiuiers, sn.nl accounts nmy be -(.ltie-1 iVoiii memory : provided SUCH statements arc supported by Ihe affidavits ol tho soldiers interested. . 11. When, from the casualties of war, compa nies have bt-eu entirely deprived of their offi cers. in the adjustment of clothing accounts the affidavit of the soldier, together with those of two of bis comrades, will-be esteemed suffi cient evidence te authorize a settlement with him, it the statement shall be approved by the regimentul commander. HI. Hereafter, thf- articles of clothing issued during the year will bo stated opposite the name of sneii soldier, upon the muster roll of his company, at the annual settlement directed, in,Gon ral Orders No. 100, Ajutant, and Jn speetor Generals’s Oflios, December Btb, 1862. IV. The attention of company commanders is called to the requirements of the above quo ted General Orders. By failing to account for clothing received by them for issue to their men, (hoy render themselves liable to be charged with its value, and a stoppage of their pay to the amount. V. From aud after Ihe Ist February, 1801, instead of supplying company commanders will, clothing for their men, officers oft lie (juar lennastei’s Department will issue it to the sol dier upon the requisition of his immediate commanding officer. VI. In making payments to soldiers upon Descriptive Lists, officers of the Quartermas ter's Department will be careful to endorse thereon the amounts paid, and, tho time for will h they have been |>aid, returning the. same to them for delivery to their company comman ders, and tiling with their accounts a certi fied copy thereof. % Rather of a Shrewd Ofhration’. —The Rich mond Examiner gives the annexe 1 account of a shrewd money making operation which late ly occurred in tiiat, section. Resides pocketing quite a handsome sum, the operators wifi ac complish what they intended ti do—-escape from the clutch‘s of a conscript officer : The. lat3 escape of a vessel from the port of Richmond, with a cargo of one hundred anil fifty boxes of tobacco, has given rise to sever al stories as to the parties concerned and the destination of the ciaft. The vessel, a single mast schooner, had been heretofore engaged in the humble service of hauling wood to Rock et's from below, in charge of ain in. who, ac- I c riling to one story, hired or sold himself and. | ve. sel to five or six Jews, among them one | Henry Jeuks, living on Church Hill, to carry a I cargo of tobacco to Petersburg, 'the tobacco was shipped from the auction house of Messrs j Robinson, Adams & Cos., put on board, a regu lar clearance obtained, ami the man in charge of the’cralt set sail, obstensihly, for the ‘ cock ado city," as his port of destination, it b.ing under.-tooil that the consigners oi the cat go, or tbeir agent, should proceed to Petersburg by rail, and await the ariival of the vessel and to bacco. But iastern! of steering into the Ap pomattox river the “supercargo” kept on with all the speed that wind and sail could lend him, thinking, doubtless, to find a hotter tobacco marine at Fortress Monroe than in Petersburg, with the advantage of cash in greenback". The story is, that six Jews accompanied the craft as crew : that the plan was made up be forehand, and that vessel, cargo .and Jews are gone. _ The above is the first regular clearance from the port of Richmond since tire war. A Mexican' Joan D'Aut: —Among the Mexi can prisoners taken to France, is a young In dian woman, only twenty yiteirs of age, who was Lieutenant Colonel of the Regiment cf ZacateiSis, and who, in the course of seven years, rose step by step from the ranks 1 y iicr courage and talents. She followed her husband to the army, anil was soon promoted to the rank of 2d Lieutenant for her distinguished bravery. 'The death of her husband, kilietl m action afforded her an opportunity of aveng ing him and of rising amther step, ino French defeat at Guadaioupe, on the nth May, 1862, obtained for her the rank ; °• M m in j Colonel, second in command of a 1 7. 7 j lllar wumiin IMrfto «» •*"'.] »•* i r,. n ciu-'-ini<i»ter. and she made htr-.d noi o.uj i respected but feared by h. r soldiers wuo 100 - I,IV her as a supernatural Afo.r j Ortega surrendered at oit-cr tion ... 1 •><-• ■ ! was brought to Vein Cruz, and lodged «m Wd ; the Rhone until that vessel sailed lor li.i.i' i.. i } { cr or ,ier of exnbarcation mentioned nor r irnr. and gives her a right to sit at the field officers' table. . , , * She is said to be of agreeable personal ap ! pearance, although, as m ght be expected. rather more masculine in her ways than .ultu- I gether becomes her sex, VOL. IXXVUL-—NEW SERIES VOL. XXVIIJ (T —— .. . ' * ' • t i (OXFEDBIUTK STATES COAL HESS. SENATE -FK!!. 2. Ti c chair laid before the Senate a communi cation enclosing proceedings of a meeting of Company- B. Twentieth Alabama artillery, at wnieh meeting resolutions of re eulistuieut for ine war and recommending a re-election of company and field officers were ad -pled. The communication and resolutions were referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. The Military Committee, reported back, with Hie recommendation that it pass, the bill to establish a bureau of polytechnics for the in spect ion ami trial of warlike inventions, which was ordered to be printed. Tlit-s ame Committee reported adversely upon die memorial ol Alfred T. Mann and others, of the annual conference of the Methodist Episco pal church of the State of Georgia, t raving the passage of a law authorising commissaries and quart- rmasters to sell rations and forage to all duly accredited missionaries in the army at the rates at which they are issued to officers, and .••1 lowing each army chaplain to draw forage [ i,-r one horse. . The same Committee reported adversely upon the bill to punish absence from the army. The Military Committee reported back favor ably tile House joint- resolutions of thanks to ('apt. Odium, Lieur. Dowling and the men un der their command, for skill and courage dis played at Sabine bass on the Sth of September, I b'-ti.’!. 'The resolution was unanimously eouc-ii red in A number of bills passed by- the House w-ere appropriately referred. A bill was introduced to. amend the acts reg ulating the increase of pay and rank of the corps of engineers of Ihe i’rovisionnl Army—refer red; also, a bill to amend tile act to provide and organize engineer tloops to serve for the war—referred. tiocsn. the House took up Die bill reported from the Commil-t"e on I’ostoffices and Post Roads, to establish certain post routes therein named, ami the Ijjll was considered and passed. The Committee on Claims, reported a joint resolution for the relief of Wellington God-tin. It authoiizes the Committee on Public Build ings to raise the >enl of the building occupied by the Po3loffice Department to such an amount us may be agreed upon between the commit tee and said Goddiu. Tin; question being taken on postponing and placing on tile calendar, no quorum voted. — Another vote was taken, and resulted—ayes 28, noes 84. On motion, the House went into secret ses sion oil the special order. SENATE--—l-Klt. 8. The following wore passed ; lb-solutions of thanks to Gen. I’at. Cleburne and the officers and men under his command, for distinguished services at Ringgold Gap, Ga.; bill toprov.de and organize a general staff for armies in the field, to serve during the war—Sth and Cth sec tions stricken out; to amend an act to auttior ize the appointment of an agent of the Treasu ry Department; 'o create the office of Ensign in the army of the Confederate States; to pro vide compensation for officers who tnay here tofore have perfonned staff duty under orders of their superior officers. The bill to provide an Invalid Corps was re ported from the Military Committee without amendment, and ordered to be printed The House bill, amendatory of an act enti tled “an act to put an end to the exemption from military service of those who have here tofore furnished substitutes,” approved Janua ry otli, 1864, was reported on adversely by the Military Committee. * House bit), making additional appropriations for the support of the Government of the Con federate States of America, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 18(14, was reported, with amendments, by tho Finance Committee, and ordered to be printed. T 1,., \I ,lll,n-i> fl 100 n.Lot) to I). .1 it-. .1. o,• (i, cd from the. consideration of certain resolutions passed by company B, 20th battalion Alabama artillery, te enlisting for the war, and asking permission l’or all who do likewise to elioore (heir field and company officers. The Committee on Claims reported adverse ly on the bill for the relief of Capt. Win W. Paine, Assistant Quai t.a master of the Ist Geor gia regulais. Th i bill an limiting the issue of certain bonds of the Confederate States, and making the coupons a inched to the same a legal ten der in tlm payment of debts, was laid on the table. . HOUSE. The following were referred : A bill to le peal the act authorizing the discharge of cer tain civil officers from the military service; to regulate furloughs in certain cases; resolutions in reference to including negroes in the ex change of pi Loners; to exempt certain persons from the payment of the tax in kind; to in crease the pay of non commissioned officers and soldiers. Resoluti .ns of thanks to Gens. Longstrcet, Roiles, Raui“eur, iflnl the officers and men of their commands, were offered and a l opted. SENATE —FEU. 4. Resolutions of thanks to certain Confederate troops were adopted. No other business of importance ; the Fen ate went into r.ecrol session on the currency bill. HOUSE. Tl*e resolution from the Committee on claims for the relief of Wellington Goddin, was taken up, discussed, and laid on the table. , Certain other relief bills were passed. On motion the forty-second' rule, which re quires bills to lie over two days before being sent to the Senate ; anil also the rule which re quires Senate amendments to House bills to be referPed to committees, were suspqpded for the remainder of the session. The following bill was passed : * “The Congress ol the Confederate States of America do enact, That hereafter the follow ing salaries and compensation shall be paid to the several officers and clerks hereinafter named, instead of the sums now authorized by law : “The Treasurer of the Confederate States four thousand dollars. ‘•The Assistant Treasure at Charleston, four thousand dollars. “The Secretary of the Treasury may divide deposit;-, ies of th ■ Treasury into classes, the commissions in which shall be limited as fol ows : 11 the first class not to exceed four ahous'-intl dollars ; in the second class, not to oxcoed t .vo thousand five hundred dollars ; and. in 'lie third class, not to exceed fifteen hundred dollars a year, according to the characters of the duties now requ red of them, anil subj*-ct to the other conditions now imposed by law. “Each clerk employed in the office of any assistant Treasurer or Depositary, shall receive a salary to be fixed by the Secretary of tho Treasury, not exceeding fifteen hundred dol lars. ‘ That the increase of salaries allowed lo llib clerks and employees in the Treasury Depart ment at Richmond, fie and the same is hereby extended upon the same conditions, to the clerks and employees of the same department at Columbia, S. C,’’ • , The committee on Military Affairs reported a bill to authorize the President to ditiona! military courts. It liioposestocome Saval AHiirj, report*! hack witboufiamendment, and witn a recom mendation that it pass, Senate bill to amend tlie act to establish a volunteer navy, approved Air'd 18. 1863. • The bill was taken up and passed. senate—ran. 5. - Tim committee on Military Affairs reported back ihc House bill to increase the efficiency of the army by the employment of free negroes in certain capacities, with the recommendation that it pass—placed on the calendar; also, a bill to amend the several acts in regard to mil itary courts for divisions of cavalry—placed on the calendar : also, a bill to amend the act to provide and organize 'engineer troops so as to authorize two quartermaster sergeants instead of one- passed ; to aid any State in communi cating with anil perfecting records concerning ifs troops—passed. The appropriation bill was taken up, aoiend | ed and passed. - , | The following were referred: A bill lor the j relic' of persons wlc. have been H | who have paid the tax upo i cotton mt.J d ’ ° l ' ly destroyed bv Hie Gwernmem ! -‘ Sl> >B , ent j th , < |,P a >‘»' "i “f claims of deceased s'oldknx “ J Ihe House bill to exempt farmers who have unnshed substitutes was taken i;j>. and on L. ion. made the special order for Tuesday next.' HOUSE. Resolutions of thanks to the officers and ■m-n of, McUlung’sbuttery for re enlisting, were A letter was presented from Cant, Henry H Loulton, ol the Troup Anillery ot Georgia, at inSuUons: ''“l"’Hcin S the follow " Whereas. This is a time when every true try*service"* 1 ' 1 ' I ' OUIJ , ”‘ prou ' 1 ,0 lio hiscoun troonHim!!; , Th:,< twelve months ti oops, do hereby re-enitst in the Confederate aniiy until an honorable jteace shall have been conquered.’ * The following were referred: Memorial , from the officers of Battle’s Brigade. „*v n ,<- tnc ro-oroauizatiuii by ihe men, Ne. ; petition from officers and men of the iOlh Alabama regiment ; memorial from the officers of East term. & \ . R. U. ; memorial tram Press Asso ciation ; resoTut ons of Georgia Legislature - memorial ot certain route agents for an incietue ol pay ; providing for the equalization ol grade of officers of the Confederate navy ; letter from the Ist Team regiment ; resolution to appoint one member of Congress from each House, to beariu person the thanks of Oongu-ss to tho several bodies of troops to whom Iheyare ad dressed for their noble conduct in re-enlisting for tho war. A resolution was adopted requesting tho Prsident to communicate to the . House the dis tribution of the several Hospitals in and around the city of Richmond, according to Slates, aud the number of Surgeons and Assistant Sur geons employed therein. * The Committee on Military Affairs, reported bake favorably a bill to provide an 1 organize a general staff for the armies in thy field, to serve during the war.- Pending the consideration of the bill, tho House went into secret session. SENATE. FEB. C. Mr. Hill, of Georgia, after reading a telegram announcing the re-enlistiuent, for (he war, of Gordon’s Georgia brigade, offered the follow ing joint resolutions, which were unanimously agreed to : “L Resolved by the Coagress of the Confed erate States ot America. That tho thanks of the Congress are due, and are hereby tendered to the troops of the Provisional army of the Confederate States, ftom the State of Georgia, who have so promptly aud so gallantly re-en listed for the war. ‘•2. That the action of those who, from the beginning, have stood in the front of danger and endured every hardship, in thus so cheer fully resolving to remain tho vlountary bul wark ot our country VNlefence, is commended by the Congress to*all the people of the Con federate States as an example worthy of patri otic emulation, and should be accepted by eve ry one as the signal for renewed devotion to the eausSJ and for increased and universal en ergy in the prosecution of a struggle, on the issue of which depends, not only Confederate and State independence, but the very existence of Constitutional government in America.” House resolution of thanks to MeOlung’S battery, who had re-enlisted, was considered, and passed. House bill to establish a military court in North Alabama, passed ; House bill to author ize the issue of certifica es of interest on tlia fifteen million loan, passed bill to provide for the auditing aud payment of certain claims against,, the Confederate States, lost; House resolution in relation to the claims of McDaniel and Ewing for compensation for sinking the U. S. gunboat Cairo, vm tho Yazoo by means of a torpedo, concurred in. .101.5 t,. The Speaker bail before the House a com munication from the Secretary of the Treasury iu answer to a resolution of the House, adopt ed on the 9th ultimo, asking what progress has been made by the Department in the col lection of the tux imposed by the first section of the tax act of last session, and the amount of same assessed and collected in the cities of Eicnniond, Augusta and Mobile. The Secre tary ene'oses a report of Thompson Allan, Commissioner of Taxes, from which the follow ing is an extract : • “Owing to the onerous labors devolving upon the assessors in listing the taxes imposed, upon the business community of the Confed erate States, in accordance with the fifth section of the same act. (the registration of business anil Uie assessment of quarterly sales,) which first [occupied the attention of the assessors ; and owing, also, to tlwgieat difficulties encoun tered in endeavoring to procure suitable books, and to print and to distribute the necessary forms, the assessment of the tax under section first has been very much retarded. So far as informed, however, the work of assessing and collecting this lax is now being prosecuted vi gorously in all the States of the Confederacy except Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Texas, from which no reports upon this subject have been received. It is impossible, however, from the information in possession of Ihis of-, lice, to present at this time any satisfactory re port of the general condition of this t-vx. ‘•The collection of this tax in the cities of Richmond and Augusta was not commenced until late iu the mouth of Recc,,fiber last; in Mo bile about the middle of October. In the for mer city, the copies of the general lists, taken for this tax. have not yet been returned to tho Stale collector, but from the statements of tho District collector, as reported by him, it is as- certained that the amount of tax. under said first section now appearing on the assessment rolls for the city of Richmond, is about $1,190,- Ot)0, to which is to be added a few individual assessments; the tax on the assessments of to bacco in .certain warehouses belonging to tho State of Virginia, which will amount to about 4$ lso,ooll, and the tax on the assessments of de posits in most of the hanks of Richmond ; but these asse sments will not probably add much to the amount of tax which will be actually col lected, as much of the deposits in these banks have been already assessed to individuals, and are included in the above SIBO,OOO. The total tax will probably be 51,250,000, of which there had been collected, .to the 25th ultimo, about $400,000. *The actual amount assessed in Mo bile and Augusta is not within the information of this olliee, as no copies of the assessments have been received from either place. The to tal amount collected to date is as lollows ; Richmond, say, Augusta, "say, 320 000 Mobile, say, 320,000 'Total, 8970,000 “There is every reason to believe that tho total amount of tax which c^ f e t i ie tllX ‘""The communication was laid upoS the tabla “S'nilo amfind an ’act to authorize the at 1 joint ment of an agent of the Treasury De nartment west of the Mississippi river, passed; Senate bill to provide compensation tor officers heretofore doing staff duty by order of their su perior officers, passed; to authorize the Presi dent to appoint qu irtermasters anil commissa ries to army corps and divisions, and to fix the r rank, lost; to repeal the laws allowing commutation to officers for forage, fuel, room rent, Ac., recommitted; resolutions of thanks to 10th Mississippi regiment for re-enlisting, pass ed; House bill providing fuVlher appropriations to carry on the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1801, with Senate amendment, refetred. The Speaker laid before the House a commu nication fr >lll the President, in response to a resolution of the House, adopted on the doth ultimo, tian.-mitting a communication from the Secretary of War relative to the steps taken to carry out the provisions of the act of Congress in relation to the arrest and disposition of slaves re captured from the enemy. The Sec retary incloses Order No. 25, current series, of the War Department, to show what steps bavo been taken in regard to the matter. «td say* that no returns have been made from the camps of in«tru tion in relation thereto. Laid upon the fable aud ordered to lie prm tC Tl,e Sne kcr also laid before the House com mindentions from the Secretaries of the Treas ury and War m response to a resolution con veying information relative to the amount of money forwarded to the Irons Mississippi De partment since the adjournment ot Longwgg,