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liY N. S. TRRM9. TRE WBEKL.Y CIIIIOMCLK A SKVTIMCL I« rUBMAUKD EVERY WEDNESDAY THREE MONTHS ||(w NiiMinrHh * H o© ALWAYS IN ADVANCE. WEEKLY AUVKRTMIKO RATES. OlDi**m» AuriHnsviKT* paMDtod In Us Weekly wi: be churxelt*e*>f’<>'ec*nti*lia*eachioeertlon. Srfciex. Nonou will tie chargel ftilrty '«n'i nlmefor e*eb inert km. OnrxffAßT Ni>7ici« forty cent* f*er liee f or one insertion I •ttbcr Deliyor Woekly. Where Obituary Notice sispub tubed In 1 tatty end Weekly_S.xty cent* nrvADINU THE ENEMY’S COI NTRY. Home of our cotemporaries are again urging, with more zeal than wisdom. in our view, the policy of invading the Northern .State#—or a# they classically term it, “carrying the war into Africa.” An officer of the army writing for the Montgomery Mail, draws a gl jwing'piclure of the advantages to be secured by transfer ring the war to Northern soil. He thinks that if Gen. Leo’s army should invade Ohio and Gen. Johnston’s aiuiy should move through Tennessee and Kentucky into Indiana and Jill nois, whilst Gen. Magrntler advances also from the trans-Mississippi department, that the result would be : “First—To free the whole Mouth from the presence of the Federal army. Second—To supply us with all the horses, equipments, clothing and articles of every kind needed by our soldiers. Third—That it would ond the war in our favor in one year.” Now, if wo believed all this, we should hold up both hands in favor of the invasive policy. But there is another side of this picture which the correspondent of the Mail does not present. What if our armies are unsuccessful < What if Gen. Johnston should light a battle in the vicinity of Cincinnati and be defeated ? The distance from his bare, or rather his distance from home, implies that all communication with his rear is cut off. Surrounded by ene mies, the loss of a battle involves the destruc tion or capture'of his whole army. It is sure ly the dictate of wisdom to regard a reverse as possible and to be prepared to meet it. To light under such circumstances that the loss of t ie battle is the loss of every thing, is desper ation. It is madness iu the extreme. What the gallant Morgnn suffered on bis last jour n*y into Ohio may ix> tuken as a promonition, o c w hat would befal our whole urmy iu the event of a disastrous engagement iu the ene my’s land. I vet UK be admonished by experience. We Lave already tried the policy of Invasion, un der olrcutrtsijrucos as favorable as we cau hope for hereafter, urtd it has failed. Gen Lee went into Maryland with a large body of troops, Hushed with repeated victories. Every thing promised sueoes* for the adventure. The sea son was favorable, tho enemy whom he hod to meet were suffering under the demoralization of recent defeats; the best generals in the ar my, Including tho invinciblo Jackson, Were oounected with the expedition ; hut the result was an Indecisive engagement and our forces were retired. Last year Pennsylvania was en tered with a force larger and better equipped, and under circumstances even more hopeful than those which had marked tho enterprise of the preceding year ; and the result was another indecisive engagement and our troops fell back. I« It wire to repeat an experiment which in two nioet conspicuous instances has been so utterly devoid of fruit? gpt it is asked, “Did not Napoleon fight all EurojiO successfully for tifteeu years, and did he not coujitautly Invade tho country of his' emamiea and intdw» them feed, clothe and pay hia armies, and furnbli them with soldiers?" We answer yes, he did, But Napoleon was contending with men who were decidedly his inferiors in the art of war. His military gen ius eclipsed that of every soldier of his day. And we can draw no conclusion in regard to car own policy from till exploits of a man who won triumphs liecause of the superiority of himself and Boldrors to those who opposed him. We believe our generals and soldiers taken man by man are superior to those who are ar rayed against ns. But the difference is far from Being so marked ns to justify us in adopting the Napoleonic policy. We are lighting men of the same race.with ourselves—soldiers who are better fed, better furnisher! with all the ap pliances of war, with better moans of trans portation, and led on bv men who were edu cated In tho same school with our generals.— In all these respects, Napoleon’s circumstances wore very different from ours. Besides, it was the Invasive policy which destroyed him at Lvt. Hi* military glory culminated as he en tered Russia. That fatal campaign ifito the enemy’s country marked the beginning of its decline. Iu addition to military, there are other rea sons to which we may refer hereafter, why we believe that our tine wisdom is to act on the delensivo. Let us continue to fight, if tight we must, around our own homes and altars.— The enemy cannot always attack. His re sources, great «s they are. have a limit. Every day is bringing him nearer to his last expedi ent. Whoa he spends a few more hundreds of uiII lions of dollars, and loses a few more thou sands ol men, he will begin to think that the conquest of the Confederate States iR too costly mi enterprise to be prosecuted tart her. The Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel, of March 25th, gives the world to understand that it regards newspapers as purchasable. JiichnwnJ (Sentinel. Yes, we do. Some newspapers—not all. When we see journals support au ad min is tr ft lion—whether right or wrong—whoso editors kohl fat administration offices, or whoso col umns are tilled to overflowing with administra tion advertising, it is very conclusive evidence that such journals aro subsidised. This is our opinion in the matter. And we are happy to say j this is the ppiniou of all independent thiukiug tnen in this as well as in every other coinrnu tilty. Furthermore. We are glad to perceive that the public are regarding the opinions of these journals as paid for. As opinions not to be trusted. As the opinions of the subsidizer— not of the subsidized. The subsidized in this gase being merely used as supple, willing tools ready to do any work no matter how much of the subservient order it may savor. Byroo, all will admit, was decidedly a free thinker. He would sell his talent* to no one— although it must be confessed he did not al ways use them as he ought himself, lie held in the utmost abhorrence those who sold tne gifts bestowed on them by the Almighty, to Kings and men m power. We think he bad in view a subsidised administration editor in a country where the people claimed to be free when he penned the following : *'£o«n<l Mia wiU find ; T'wTC rtnk !oto hU tciial *»ul ILL? lcto i bt deep—And bring up slim a. Anti mud. AcU oorr ux», from tfc* Nrtt m, a* the iee*i doth With iUgreMKfci uoderfbmtuin." Mr. MeCrea, a Y aun.ec Missionary at Beau fort, 8. C_, for converting the negroes, has been put In jail for selling them whiskey. WhyE.vound favors tukNorth. —The qute t'ons have been often asked “ Why England favors the North, especially in regard to ma fine matters?” Also, “Why England does not interfere in the Danish question as she ought ?’’ La France, a leading French paper, and a semi-official organ of the Emperor, has, we think, answered both these questions. That paper announces that England does not take a decided stand in favor of Denmark because she knows it will involve her In a war at once both with Prussia and Austria. This is very evident from the twaddling, two-sided policy adopted by her leading statesmen. The rea son why England wants to keep on the right j side of the United States pn all matters per | taining to naval affairs, is now also very plain. I She team her own commerce may be destroyed She fears she may finally be forced into a war | by the complications now existing in Europe, in event of this thing happening she wants the Federal administration to be under such weighty obligations that no privateers will be allowed to leave Northern ports under Russian or Austrian flags to prey upon her commerce. Herein lies England’s great anxiety to prevent Confederate rams from sailing from her ports. English merchants want war at no price.— They will not have a war if their influence and money can’prevent it. The example of the Confederate steamer Alabama and her consorts, proves the immense damags which quick steamers can inflict on merchant shipping. Disturiii.vo the Pbaub.—Got. Brown, of Georgia, Mr. Stephens and others, thinking that certain meisures of the Confederate gov ernment militate against the sovereignty of the States and endanger the liberties of the peo ple, have had the independence to say so. For this, remarks the Richmond Whig, they are reprehended in certain quarters as the disturb ers of the public tranquility, and breeders of discontent and distrust. Perhaps they will ao cept the impeachment. They may be old fash ioned enough in their devotion to the rights of the States and citizens to fuel that it is pa triotic duty to excite discontent and distrust when these are threatened. They (bay feel as Burke felt, when he said : “I am not of the opinion of those gentlemen who are op posed to disturbing the public repose. I like a clamor when there is an abuse. The fire-bell at midnight disturbs your sleep, but it keeps you from being burnt in your bed. The line and cry alarms the country, but preßoives all the property in the province.” It will lie a sail day lor us when the coun try lacks men to raise an alarm, when they think the public liberties are at stake. Misueoenatjon at the North. —The admin istration at Washington—in fact the whole of Yankeedom—is committing itself more and more every day to the doctrine of negro-equal ity and all that it include*. Lincoln even, in reply to the Working Mod’s Association, ex presses sentiments highly miscegonetio, and declares unequivocally in favour of the equality of the white and black ’Voces. We quoted a day or two ago a most remarkable article on the subject from the New Yrrk Times, but the following report of remarks made by leading Republican genorals is still more significant. It occurred at a dinner commomorating the victory of Pea Itidge. We quote from a report in the St. Louis Democrat: “General McNeil responded, and in the course of his remarks said that hereafter the elective franchise should be extended to all who fight for the country, without regard to nationality or colour. [Geneial Gray aud Itosecranz—‘That is right; that is right!’] "General Itosecranz said he fully concurred in what hod been said about black soldiers. General McNeil has told you he thought that every black man who fought for the country should huvo a vote. So do I, so do I,” Ac. *n ero are three Yankee Generals, in promi nent and responsible positions in the army, who openly avow their intention of giving the blacks precisely the same political privileges as the whiles. Social equality, including, of course, miscegenation comes next in order. Amount Funded.— But partial returns have as yet been made to the Treasury Department of the amount funded in various sections of tho Confederacy. As far as heard from the recapitulation of the States stands thus : Virginia $43,455,700 North Carolina 17,008.600 SouthJCarolina J 28,680,600 Georgia 66,437,700 Florida 1.983.200 Alabama 37,732,600 Marietta, Ga., (J. Thomas,) 1,560,000 Total $196,883,600 It will be seen from the above that there is no return as yet from the States of Mississippi or Louisiana. Move than half the offices in Alabama, Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina, besides a number in Georgia and VirgLuia, are still to be heard from. Anexed we give the returns of those receiv ers in Georgia who have made their reports : Augusta, 15,700,000, Savannah, 11,334,500, Atlanta,-8,800,000, Macon, 13.200,000, Colum bus. 7,265,000, Griffin, 1464,300, Albany. 1,496,- 900. Manuf <S l’la., 15k, Sava’h 2,824,500, Mil edgeville, 1.117,500, Lagrange, 1,145,500,New nan, 401,500, Rome, 979,700, Washington, 150,000, West Point, 258,500. Municipal Election on Mondat. —The elec tion for Mayor and Members of the City Coun cil of Augusta was held in the several wards of the city Monday. On consolidating the vote, the members of last year's Council were found to be unanimously re-clected. Below we give the result : Mi von. Wards: No. 1. No.f. No. 5. No.«. ToUl. Robert H, May. 75 44 « 64 «1 Corson,, lx! TTorrf. John F< »ver, 45 4‘J W • 1 Lt-wis, 74 4i 48 64 -33 John U. Meyer, 76 4S 4J « 380 I * A I>U.- s 76 43 47 *3 K* SLUOteau? 74 « 47 « MS W.J Owens, 4. W WJ id Ward. „ ' *v, .loin D.Smith. i4 45 4, 64 Win A. Kim fay, .0 45 4. Cl J.B. Carter 75 43 47 14 ISS Wm. 11 Goodrich, 74 43 4S 64 577 Harder C. Bryson. 73 43 43 ** *** J.w. Horton. 76 43 43 _34 331 Seaiienng—One vote (for Mayor) in the t iret Ward. Grand Jurors. —The following arfe the Grand Jurors of the Richmond County Superior Court, to serve for the first week : Stephen D. Heard, Foreman ; James Godby, John Kirkpatrick, Samuel C. Mustin, George \Y. Duvall, Frederick A. Whitlock, Council Chavers, I.Cman S. Catlin, John Coskery, Isaac A. Little, Alfred Baker. John W. Collins, Wm. A. Avrett. James W. Burch, John Winter, Samuel B. Clarke, Charles Carter, Eugene Ver dery. An Opinion or a Soldier.— A soldier of the sixth Georgia Regiment, pow in service in Florida, in a letter expresses the opinion that -if the administration would keep all in the army who belonged in the ranks, there would be no need of taking away more men from their occupations at home.” The soldier con tends. that as matters now s*and there Is no more men at home than is needed to carry on the various branches of business necessary to keep toings in order and moving. A hat manufactory has been started in Statesville, N, C. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 20, 1864. The Presidential Campaign—Mk«tin’g is Nrw Yohji in Favor of Fbbmont—'Tub Plat form; of the Fremont Parti.— General John Charles Fremont was last week formally nomi nated for the Presidency by a meeting of his friends in New York. The President of the meeting took strong grounds in favor of Fre mont. He urged that Mr. Lincoln had not fulfilled the mission entrusted to him. Horace Greolev was among the speakers. He said the meeting was a proper movement; but he did not believe it was in the right of General Fremont to press his claims by means of dissensions. For his own part, he thought that the friends of Fremont were moving too early. It would be far better to postpone all nominations until about the fiigl of September, when united action would properly he made. The meeting wound up, after considerable speaking, with formally nominatingjthe great “Pathfinder” for the next Presidency, and laying down the following as their platform of principles : A vigorous, cousisteht, concentrated prose cution of the war against the insurgent armies in the field, with adequate penalties for trea son, and no amnesty except to absolute submis sion. The right of suffrage to he regulated by leg islative bodies, and not prescribed by the Ex ecutive. No restoration of civil rights as an induce ment to forswear themselves. No initiation of serfdom by attaching the per son of the laborer to the soil. Absolute equality of all men before the law, without distinction of race or color. Extension of the beneficent principles of the Homestead law, and a liberal distribution of bounty lamtrjfiEong all soldiers. Paramount nationality as opposed to a sedi tions application of the doctrine of supreme State rights. The rigid mainteinance of Ihe Monroe doc trine, so as to vindicate the republican integri ty of tbs continent. A reformed and thoroughly American foreign policy, without regard to the opinions or men aces of foreign powers. A liberal system of foreign emigration. The one term principle for the Presidency, so as to secure the integrity of the incumbent till the last hour of his office, and pre\ ent the distribution of his patronage for tbs subjuga tion of the constituency by office-holders.— [Cheers.] The meeting here adjourned, to meet next week. Southern Lands to be Parcelled Out t 6 Negro Soldiers. —Last week there was pre sented iu the Northern Congress the petition of citizens of Brooklyn and New York, asking that “the lands of the rebels may be confisca ted and divided into parcels ot one hundred and sixty acres for distribution among soldiers and loyal men.’ 7 In the House of Representa tives Mr. Julian, of Indiana, has introduced a bill from the committee on Public Lands, ex tending the principles of the Homestead act to persons in the naval and military service on “confiscated and foifeited lands of rebels.’’ The New York Herald, speaking of the bill says, “in plain terms, it is intended by this measure to divide the forfeited estates of reb els among our colored sailors and soldiers.” In speaking in the support of the bill, Mr. Ju lian said : £7 This had been justly styled the slaveholder’s rebellion. We bare token measures for the chastisement of traitors by confiscation of their lands under the rights of war. For trait ors the constitution has censed to exist. We should deal with then} a3 a conquered people, simply under the laws of war, untraimneled by the constitution. It was a war of subju gation. Our triumph is not near at hand, as some supposed. The rebels will resist to the (fbath, and we must employ all our weapons to suppress them. Wo must take away the fee simple of the lands from the rebels, aud totally confiscate it : and ho was advised that the President is prepared to aid them in such a measure. Should Congress and the courts staud in the way, the wrath of the people will consume those who fail to execute the national will. The estates divided into farms would at tract the settlement of loyal men aud soldiers. Tne New Draft at the North. —The follow ing is a statement exhibiting the quotas of the several States, under Lincoln’s call for 200,000 men, dated March 14, 1864, with all oredits deducted from or deficiencies added thereto, excepting the enlistment of veteran volunteers, up to March 1, 1864 : Maine. —Quota under the call for 200,000 men, March 14, 1864, 4,721 ; number to bo credited, none ; deficiencies to be charged, 1,- 920. Total to be furnished, 6,641. New Hampshire.—Quota, 2,588 ; credit 170; deficiency none. Total, 4,428. Massachusetts.—Quota, 10,639 ; deficiencies* 9,953. Total, 20,592. Vermont. —Quota, 2,300 ; credit, 2,130 ; de ficiency none. Total, 170. Rhode Island.—Quota, 1,388 ; credit, 525 ; deficiency, none. Total, 863. Connecticut.—Quota, 3,168 ; credit, 594 ; deficiency, none. Total, 2,574. New York.— Quota, 32,794 ; credit and de ficiency none, (not yet computed.) Total, 59,230. New Jersey.—Quota, 6,704 ; credit, none ; deficiency, 7,520. Total, 14,224?“ Pennsylvania.—Quota, 26,302 ; credit and deficiency, none, (not yet computed.) Total, 74,127. Delaware.—Quota, 985 ; credit, none; defi ciency, 691. Total, 1,676. Maryland.—Quota, 4,317 ; credit, none ; de ficiency, 17,411. Total, 21,728. West Virginia.—Quota, 2,061; credit, none; deficiency, 1,139. Total, 3.190. District of Columbia.—Quota. 1,702 ; credit, none ; deficiency, 3,153. Total, 4,855. Ohio.—Quota, 20,596 ; credit, none ; defi ciency, 18,628. Total, 39.233. Indiana.—Quota, 13,008 ; credit, 9,939; defi ciency, none. Total, 3,069. Illinois.—Quota, 18,524 ; credit, 30,960. Michigan.—Quota, 7,821 ; credit, 634 ; de ficiency, none. Total, 7,187. Wisconsin. —Quota, 7,941. Total, 15,402. Minnesota.—Quota, 2,180. Total, 5,437. lowa. —Quota, 6.439 : credit, none, deficien cy. 4,701. Total, 13,140. Missouri.—Quota, 3,925 ; credit, none ; de ficiency, 4,962. Total, 8,887. Kentucky.—Quota, 5,7 87 ; credit, none; de ficiency, B,OSS. Total. 15,472. Kansas.—Quota, 1,409 ; credit, none ; defi ciency, 1,118. Total, 2,597. Habeas Corpus Case.—A habeas corpus case, involving the rights of one of our citizens, came up for adjudication before Judge Hook, in the Superior Court, yesterday. We copy the fol lowing statement of the affair from the Consti tutionalist : A writ of habeas corpus sued out by Jesse A. Ansley, Esq., was returned before the court, at the morning session, and some of the testimony in the case heard. In the afternoon the court sat to hear the argument in the case.- It ap peared from the testimony that Mr. Ausley was ordered to report at the conscript office some time gince. and there ordered to report to the Board of Surgeons for examination. Believing himself exempt as a member of Capt. Bearing's Cavalry Company of Local Troops, the Wheel er Scouts, being mustered in for the war, be sued out the writ It also appeared that sub sequently to his reporting to the Enrolling offi cer he was notified by that officer that he would not be detained until the War Department at Richmond could be hear , from relative to the status of the local troops in this city. The court having heard the testimony and the argu ments of counsel on both sides, decided there was no arrest, no detentions, and, therefore, no case to be tried; and accordingly the writ wag dismissed. Judge Hook in delivering his decision, said that he was jealous of the citi zen's rights and would protect them to the ex tent of his power and ability : but he would, j also, where the Government was involved, see j as far as he was able, that justice was done to I the Government also. H. W. Hilliard, Esq., 1 appewed for Mr. Ausley, and Frank H. Miller, Esq., for the Enrolling officer. (Facts for the Times. —Many persons are un der misaapprehpnsion, or in an uncertainty as to the several points connected with tj>e cur rency, taxes, claims upon the government, &c. We find the annexed statement in the Rich mond Sentinel. As that paper is the paid organ of the Administration, whatever it gives out in regard to administration matters must undoubt edly be correct. All taxes due to the Govefnraent, whether they are the taxes of 1863, but not yet paid, or the taxes assessed under the law of 1364, may be paid in four per cent, bonds, or in the cer tificates on which the four per cent, bonds are to issue. Where a certificate is greater in amount than the tax proposed to be paid with it, the tax collector will issue anew certificate for the excess—the tax-payer making ftp sj; fractional parts of SIOO in money. Five dollar notes will be received in payment of taxes of all kinds, or may be funded at par in four per cent, bonds, until the Ist of July next; at which dime they also will be taxed one third. • Nothing can be done with notes for a hun dred dollars but to fund them in four per cent, bonds at two-thirds of their face, aud subject also to a tax of $lO per month on each from the Ist of April. Notes under $5 are subject to no tax or limi tation, but remain current, as heretofore, at their full amount. Notes of S2O, S2O and be paid iu taxes or funded in four per cents, or exchanged for new notes, at two-thirds of their value, until die Ist of January next, at which time ail (hen outstanding will be worthless. The idea has gained considerable circala tion that claims against the Tieasury, existing. prior to the Ist of April, would be paid in the reduced currency, unless presented and collect ed before the Ist of April. This is an error.— It is only true of such claims as had beep ad justed and a warrant or draft issued for the payment. The settlement had then become a part of the public records, and the holder of such draft was of the. nature of a depositor is the Treasury, and if he failed to draw his money, it became liable to the tax on the Ist of April. But claims unsettled, or for whioh pay ment had not been tendered, will follow the usual rule of being paid in currency at par at the time of payment. Yankee Recruiting in Ireland. —Capt. R. G, Atkins, of tho Confederate army, now in Eu rope, has addressed a letter to the Rt. Rev. B. Moriarty, Bishop of Kerry, Kill Carney. In it he urges him to engage his influence to discour age the enlistment of Irishmen in the Yankee army. His appeal, whatever it may effect with the powerful dignitary, will at least, with the help of print, not be lost upon the quick per ceptions of his countrymen. We take tho fol lowing passage irora the letter : “Is it not sad, my Lord, to witness the flow er of onr peasantry, at this moment in America, imbruing their hands in each other’s blood ? Why does the Irishman, who craves for liberty at homo, and who complains of mis-government here, support, at the risk of his life, the most degraded despotism the world has yet seen? and why does he (becoming forsooth fascinated with the flowery rhetoric and persuasive powers of Mr. Ward Beecher, et hoc genus oinne) enrol himself under the “abolition banners” of Abra ham Lincoln, and congratulate himself that he is on a crusade, to grant an unsolicited freedom to three millions of “Africans,” who are better clothed, better lodged, and beyond all better fed than he is himself? I shall answer these questions briefly. No feeling of animosity against a people gallantly struggling for liberty, .influences the mind of the Irish peasant, when he sails to America; no sympathy with despo tism actuates him to enlist in tho Northern army; no hatred of the institution of slavery prompts him to join the fanatical legions of the invader, and makes it the greatest object of Iris life to carry fire and sword, lust and rapine into every Southern home. What reasons then actuate him to tight for a despotism which his soul abhors? His own adventurous spirit—the distressed condition of his native land, and then by far the greatest inducement—the enormous bounty paid by the Yankee Government for fightmg material. What spirited young fellow, who perhaps never saw a five pound note in his life, can stand the golden bait of seven hundred and seventy seven dollars? As seven was a fa vorite number iu Holy Writ, it is to be infer red that tlie legitimate descendants of the cant ing Puritans of England regard that number with a sort of religious revcreuce. The cotton, tobacco and cornfields of tho South must, in deed, be a much coveted prize to the consistent worshippers of the “almighty dollar” when seven hundred and seventy soven ‘shinplasters’ are to he the reward of-thq Irishman who‘un dertakes’ to ‘serve an ‘ejectment.’ Why does not the Rcdtßepublican of New England, aban doning the shelter of his counting house or factory, lead bravely to tlje field of carnage these hordes of Irish, Dutch, Germans and free niggers whom he so persistently treats to the sound of that music which has no harmony for him - that is, the whistle of Southern bullets ?” Action of the Ohio Democratic Conven tion. —The Ohio Democratic Convention, which met at Columbus, on the 23d of March-, declar ed in favor of McClellan for President. The following resolutions, offered by Judge M. Burchard, were adopted without a dissent ing voice: Resolved, That the Democratic party is now, as it has ever been, devoted to the Constitution as transmitted to us by the framers- of that in strument, and expounded by Jefferson, Madi son and Jackson, and as construed in the Vir ginia and Kentucky resolutions of 1798 and 1799, and as construed in the report thereon in the Virginia Legislature; aud that for the main tenance of that Constitution and the preserva tion of the Union founded under it, we here, as did the farthers of the republic, pledge life, fortune, and sacred honor. Resolved, That we would hail with delight any and every honorable effort toward a res toration of the normal condition of this 'Union to wit: internal peace and harmony, and fia ternal affection between the several States com prising it; and we regret that the measures of the present administration prevent such desi rable results, and we are therefore uncomprom isingly opposed to it3 continuance in power. Resolved, That we are opposed to the prose cution of the war for the subjugation of States, or for the purpose of depriving them of their sovereignty, or impairing their constitutional rights, and being satisfied that its continued prosecution foi such objects will in the end prove the utter destruction of civil liberty, we, therefore, demand the immediate inauguration of peaceable means to attain an honorable set tlement.and the restoration of the Union under the Constitution. Resolved, That the mob spirit uow abound ing in our lapd-is the natural and inevitable result of the violations of the Constitution and the laws by the party now in power, and we deem this a proper occasion to renew to our people the warnings of Washing ton against lawlessness in government and people. The tyranny of the present administration has sown the seeds from which we are now reaping a harvest of crime. The Consolidation Programme of the North ern Abolitionists. —Senator Pomeroy of Kan sas has promulgated lately the platform of his party. Annexed is that part of it which refers to tho rights of the States; Such subordination of the several States to the General Government as shall secure a ho mogeneous and undisputed nationality, while not destroying the rights reserved to the States, s<> that allegiance to the national Government shall always be regarded as the highest fealty, and the title of American citizen the proudest that can be borne; believing him to be an American who has an American heart in bis bosom, no matter what has been the accident of his bkth or education: for he is likely to be' as truly an American citizen who becomes enc froni choice, as he who is compelled to be one from necessity. We trust she Confederacy will never follow in the footsteps of the Abolition North. And we also trust that some within her borders who lay claim to the name of statesmen will retrace the steps they have already taken in that di -1 rection. Conscription in- Mississippi.— Gov. Clark, of Mississippi, has, by proclamation, taken the same position with regard to the exemption oi the civil officers of that State from military du ty. as that announced by Gov. Smith, of Vir ginia. Ihe only difference between the two is simply this : Gov. Clark’s list is rather larger than that of Gov. Smith's. Gov. Clark's list embraces : All State, district and county officers elocted by the people, in pursuance of the provisions of the constitution and laws of Mississippi, including the governor, State treasurer, secre tary of State, auditor, attorney general,'dis- Uict attorneys, judges of the high court of errors and appeals, judges and clerks of the circuit and probate courts, members of the boards of police, county treasurer, sheriffs, tax assessors, justices of the peace* and con stables. Also, appointed office!#, and such as are chosen by the Legislature, as follows : The public printer, the reporter of the decisions, and the clerk of the high court of errors and appeals, registers and receivers of land offices of the State, commissiners appointed by boards of police under the act to provide for the re lief of destitute families of soldiers, the pri vate secretary of the governor, the assistant auditor and all clerks authorized by law, aud appointed in the State department, the general salt agent, and all agents appointed by the gov ernor or by his authority, the commisioners ap pointed by the Legislature to examine the au ditor and treasury departments, the clerk of said commissioners, the keeper of the peniten tiary, of the lunatic asylum for the blind and for the deaf and dumb, the sergeant and the guards of the penitentiary, judge and clerk oT the criminal court of Warren county. The proclamation, also embraces the follow ing military officers and men: the major-gener al of the State, the staff of thy commander-in chief and of the major general, all clerks and agents in the staff department; and, until’du ly discharged, all officers aud men who were unlisted as volunteers, and in the army of the Suite in service on the 17th of Februaiy, A.D. 1864. A few of onr cotemporaries appear to be afraid that there will be a collision yet between some of the State Executives and the Adminis tration. Tjiere is no ground for such appre hension, unless the Confederate authorities un dertake to usurp powers not delegated to them by the States. In that case they alone would be to blame. The State Executives thus far have only done what they have a perfect right to do. Aud they, would be traitors to their trusts did they not attend to the best interests of the Commonwealths over whom fhey have been called to preside. the Administra tion only use the powers delegated to the Gen eral Government; all will then go on smooth ly aud harmoniously. But the moment it un dertakes to usurp undelegated powers and over ride the rights of the Slates, it should be re sisted firmly and unyieldingly. This war was commenced to protect the rights of the States and the citizens, and should be carried on on the same policy. Our motto should be “Liberty nowand forever.” The Inconsistency of the North on the In stitution of Slavery. —Despite Mr. Sumner’s denunciation of slavery as a relic of barbarism, the “institution’ ’ seems to have thrived and -been much encouraged in his own State. The Boston Herald finds among some of its old musty papers tho followiug rebuke to those who now prate so much of the enormity of slavery : Slavery in Massachusetts.— ln the New England Journal of April Bth, 1728, published in Boston, appears the following advertise ments : “Avery likely Negro Woman, who can do Household Work, and is fit for town or country Service, tweuty-four years of age, to be sold.— Inquire of the printer hereof.’’ • “Avery likely Negro Girl, about thirteen or fourteen years of age, speaks good English, has been in the country some years, to be sold. Inquire of the printer hereof.” A copy of the above paper is in our posses- sion. Interspersed with these advertisements, is an announcement of a’sermon on “The Na ture and Necessity of Repentence.’’ The same paper under date of October 27th, 1729, contains the following advertisement: “Four fine yoHng Negro Men, who arrived on Saturday; also, two young Women and a Girl, to be sold on credit with good security.’’ This same Hugh Hall, the ancestor of highly worthy citizens yet resident iu this city, was himself a man of character and note, a grad uate of Cambridge College, and intended for the ministry, but eventually became a mer chant. He died in 1773. We have heretofore brought down this questiou of slaveholding and the sale of slaves in Massachusetts to a much later date, showing, in fact, that the practice was kept up without reproach to a period immediately preceding the revolution. A Northern Opinion of Nigger Troops.—. An Abolition sheet having remarked that Lin coln now had “ something over fifty thousand colored troops in the field fighting the betray* ers of our land’ ’ —the Chicago Tribune com ments thus on the statement : In what “ field” are these gallant thousands “ fighting the betrayers of our land ?” At Chat tanooga and Chickamauga, at Knoxville, at Vicksburg, on the battle plains of Virginia, at Gettysburg, is this “field” to be found?— Gen. Wilde latelj went down into North Caro lina, where the penpie are mosrioyal, and, at the head of a body of negro troops, burned, plundered and ravaged, without fear of aught worse than thfi curses of the _ feeble women whose homes they desolated." Is this the “field” referred to, or was it located at Milll ken’s Bend, where the opportune arrival of an lowa regiment only saved the negro garrison from dying from exhaustion, induced by the frantic race they were making for life and the will to get away from rebel bayonets ?. Is the “field” at Fort Jackson, where the dusky recruits illustrated their new found lib erty by the massacre of their officers ? or was it Port Hudson, where, at best, we have contra dictory evidence as to the gallantry of the "ne groes : We want information. We want to know where that “ field” is where those gallant 50,000 are “ fighsing the betrayers of our land.” An Impassable Golf. —The New York News gives the War Democracy no comfoit. It de clares them out of the party now and forever. Let no War Democrat cherish the illusion that he is a Democrat in anything but the name. He is simplj an Abolitionist, and with an Ab olitionist the Peace Democrat has no fellowship, as witness the News : Ihe War Democracy of its own accord has foresworn our company. It has passed within the unhallowed circle of Abolitionism, and there assuredly the Peace Democracy will not tollow. It is now impossible lor peace men without ihe sacrifice of their own consistency and principle, to resume the companionship thus cancelled. Henceforward the Peace man and the *> ar Democrat are twain. There is no tie between them, there is no identity of pur pose between them, there is no conformity of action. The I eace man cannot stand shoulder to shoulder with an abolitionist in political battle. Distract, antipathy and antagonism are now the political condition that exists be - them. . Pf-L 'Pp' M- Hamsay, of East Tennessee, writes t 6 the Ohmlian Observer that the Federalists had stolen or burne i his library, the best his torical collection in the State, his manuscripts, embracing volume second of the History of lenn«B6ee, an intellectual labor of ten years, a correspondence of forty years with many of the most distinguished men of the country, the library, collection and museum of antiqui ties and cariosities of the East Tennessee His torical and Antiquarian Society, and a collec tion of autographr from General Washington down to the pioneers and emigrants of the State and the West. VOL. LXXVIII. NEW SERIES V<)L. XXVill. N't. 16 Very Appropriate Lines. —The annexed Ode, written years ago by Sir William Jones, of En gland. are exceedingly appropriate to the ex citing times in which we are now living. It seems that there has been other statesmen be sides those of Ihe South, who believe that to “constitute a State, men are needed who know their rights, and knowing, cfere maintain.’ The Ode is beautiful as well as appropriate. Heie it is : Whit conpliHite? a State, ? Not high-rai<e«l battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moaw*d cate ; Not cities proed with spited and turrets crowned; Not bavs and broad armed ports, Where .'aughine at the storm, ru-h navies ride ; Not starred and spaugl- and courts. Where 10-v browed ba-eness wafts perfume to pride. No: Mcu, higb*miDf ed men, Wilh powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, . As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude— Men who their duties know, Bui know their rights, and k» owing, dare maintain, Prevent the long aimed blow. And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain; These constitute a State ; And >overeiga Law that State’a collected will. O’er th ones and globes elate Sits Empress, crowniug good, repressing ill, Sinit by her sacred frown The fiend Intension like a vapor sinks; And e’en the all-dazaling crown Hides his faint rays, and at her bidding shrinks. Such was this Heaven-loved isle, Than Lesbos fairer and Cretan shore ; No more sha’l freedom smile ? . Shall Britons languish anti be men no more ? Since all must hie resign. Those sweet rewards whi n decorate the brave * Tis folly to decline. And steal inglo ious to ihe silent grave. AX INTERESTING LETTER FROM WEST ERN VIRGINIA. [special COERESFON'DEXCF. chronicle a sentinel.] We have news from Kentucky of a recent date. Lately one of our officers arrived in camp just from Mt. Sterling. He informs us that the Yankees bavo,determined to enforce the conscript act, in that State on the fifteenth of April, and that whiles and blacks all to gether would be compelled to shoulder arms. Much excitement among the people and sol diery of Kentucky, and they proclaim open'y that they will not submit to this tyrannical law of Abe Lincoln’s. Gen. Woolfovd’s men and the Indian’ans go together, ami they camp together ; and their hatred for the Michigan soldiers has risen to that point where it’is feared that an emente will break out between them. Wooilord’s men kill all the negro soldiers that they can find or that they catch on duty. Gen. Woolford has made another speech in which he announces that he will join Morgan's standard if Lincoln enforces his conscript act in Kentucky on the negroes. Woolford remains under arrest, and we have heard it rumored that he is now Ivingin the Penitentiary. We cannot vouch for the truth of the last statement. Affairs in Kentucky are working fine for the Confederacy, and the people have at last ar rived at that position where they can shake off the Lincoln incubus, and come out on the side of truth and justice, without a doubt resting on their minds as to the intentions of Lincoln and his cohorts, as to their rights in the Union under the constitution. At least such is my opinion of the present political crisis in that State, and we believe the people will resist the encroachments made upon them by Lincoln. We learned indirectly, the other day, that fourteen hundred Yaukee cavalry, stationed at Charleston, in the Kanawha Valley, organized themselves outside of their officers, and with their guns in their hands marched homewards, asserting as they went, that they wer.* tired of the war before they came in, that they were worried wilh it now, and had determined to quit it, believing that it was an impossibility to conquer the .South. There is a disease nmong the Yankee sol diers in Virginia aud Kentucky, which is kill ing many of them, called the black tongue. The mountain counties of Kentucky are re ported full ot forage and subsistence. There are but few bushwhackers iu the mountairfe now, and those that are there have stopped their outrages. Maj. Chenonite was at Whitesburg two or three days ago, and caught a notorious mountain ranger named Calhoun. We have not heard whether he was killed or not. The Yankees have fallen hack from Bull Gap, and have gone below Strawberry Plains, towards Knqxville. Easter Sunday we understand was a great day among the young iolks at home in Ken tucky. We would like to have had one dozen of the colored eggs inscribed to Lieutenant. Jim Lane’s Speech in New York.—Gen. Jim Lane of Kansas notoriety and United States Senator from that State, delivered an address last week before the Central Union Lincoln Campaign Club. Two hundred and eighty seven people were assembled to hear him. The Glee Club sang a campaigu song, the burden of which was for “Lincoln aud Union, we’re marching along,” which was replied to with a contraband melody. His speech was. charac teristic of the man—bluster and bravado. AVe copy a few passages of the report made of his speech by the New York World : The speaker said our victory over the South was not complete until they are compelled to bow their proud heads beneath the yoke of Abraham Lincoln. Ho thought the South de served the retribution of a second term of Lin coln, to compel the wretches to live under his administration. He liked the way this war was being carried on now. So far as he was concerned he was willing to make this war a permanent institution. He referred to the time when he first went to Washington at the commencement of this re bellion. Some men wanted to move’ the arch ives of the Government to I’hiladelpha; some wanted to recognize the South. There was one man calm and collected through it all—that man was Abraham Lincoln. He met a gentle man in the cars the other day who said to him that there were a considerable party of politic ians rather against the election of Lincoln. He had replied that that politician, or set of politicians, who seek to thwart the will of the people in the determined effort to re-elect Abraham Lincoln President of the United States will fall as flat as if an elephant had stepped on them. He referred to the charge against Mr. Lin coln thft he did not issue the emancipation proclamation soon enough. Why, said Mr. Lane, we lost the elections of Ohio and Indiana, and came nigh losing the balance of power in Congress because that proclamation was issued too soon—do you know that ? The public sen timentof the South had to be agitated up to the point of preparation before that proclama tion could be issued. I tell you that Old Abe’s heart was just as deeply involved in the desire to issue that proclamation as Jim Lane’s was. Mr. Lane continued by advocating bis idea of buildiug up a separate country in Texas sos the neetoes, and letting them all live there by themselves, under the protection of the United States. Mr. Lane went on to say that he wonhl sup port the nominee of the Baltimore convention, whoever it was. He had heard the names of Chase, Fremont, Butler, Fessenden and otheis, and to either, if he was the regular nominee, he would give an energetic support. Three cheers were called from the platform and given for Lane and Lincoln; and three cheers from the audience for Fremont was re ceived with cheers and hisses. During tin meeting a bust of Lincoln occu pied the front of the platform. The Alabama in the Indus Seas. The an nexed extract is taken from a letter receive m Bichmond from an officer 0:1 board the -on e erate steamer Alabama. It is dated Singapore, Straits of Malacca, Dec. 20, I&G3 ■ ■ Twenty for sale. No Ihe people arol people, and tieir wnole L are in glorious cause- All the for hearta are USj aad the English Gov ernment is bitterly opposed. Yankees are held “ t contempt, and their lying newspaper ieDorts not at all credited by t.e people. A Yankee ship is rarely now to be seen in this part of the ocean. Ali are in good health and spirits on board the Alabama. The enlistment of negro troops still continues n Maryland. FOR BIG X GOSSIP. The Taris correspondent of the New Yorl- Herald says that Maximillian is going to have secession nobility, and writes thus ai out it LeUers from Europe report that all kinds of titles ot nobility aie to be conferred by Maxi miiian on the secessionists, who in large num bers attend him from Paris to Mexico. Dr. Gwin i9 to be a Duke. Perhaps this would inter Ive with a little plan which our Southern friends in Paris state had been arranged for providin'* a good berth for Dr. Gwin, and securing the recognition of the Southern Confederacy by the new Mexican empire, and the formation of an offensive and defensive alliance between the two countries. The Doctor, I have been sev eral times informed within the past week, is to accompany the Archduke to Mexico in the ca pacity of a general counsellor and adviser. The doctor, who is a large property holder in Texas, and is supposed to have considerable influence there, has frequently recommended the cession of this State of the Confederacy, or r ■ thee “reannexation'’ to Mexico as the m ice of tliis league. It was for this, if for any thing, that the doctor was to accompany the Archduke to his new empire. The London correspondent of the New- York Herald records the movements of Confederate Commissioner Mason, as follows : It is to be noted in connection with these movements that Mr. Mason, the Southern Com missioner, lias been instructed to return to Lon don. There is a rumor of some new diploma tic movement of the Emperor, and, in spite of the news of the Federal victories, the Confede rate stock is rising, and is being exchanged for the Mexican. It is said, with a degree of fidence which certainly surprises, that Mexico an i Fiance will and must acknowledge the independence of the Confederate Slates. Ido not see the grounds for the assertion, and it may rest entirely upon supposed necessity—the necessity of interposing a lrieudly power be tween the Mexican Empire and the great Northern Repul die—the necessity for a balance of power on the Western continent. A recent letter from Paris relates the annex ed incident about the Prince Napoleon : At the last reception at the Tuilleries, the Emperor was con versing-with someone on the American war, when his little son" approach ed. “ Prince,” said the Emperor, “ you have never heard of the American war, have you?” “ Oh, yes,” said the royal scion. “ Well, which side are you in favor of ?” asked the Emperor. “ I take the side of the Confeder ates,” replied the child. “ Why so ?” said the Emperor. “ Because they are the weakest, anu tight the best,” said the boy. The Paris correspondct of the London Star does not admire the new empress of Mexico. Hear him : The future empress of Mexico is not at all handsome* She is very round shouldered, and of royal build and physiognomy, although 1 have been told by persons who have beeu pre sented to her that she is not devoid either of sense or wit. The Memorial Diplomatique, a leading French paper, remarks as follows about the treaty be tween Napoleon and the new Mexican Em peror : The draft of a treaty was agreed upon at the Tuileries, to be ratified so soon as the Em peror Maximilian I. shall have ascended the Mexican throne and announced his accession to the court of the Tuileries. If wc are rightly informed, the treaty definitely settles two im portant questions—firstly, the French occupa tion, and secondly, the claims of the French treasury on the Mexican Gov“rnment. It is already known that the pay and maintenance Os the troops engaged in the expedition have, since the Ist of January, 1864, been borne by Mexico ; this will continue until their recall, which will gradually be effected as the regi ment lists of the Mexican army are completed. Three battalions of the foreign legion, each 2,000 men strong, and composed of enrolled volunteers, will remain in the service of Mexi co. The desire of French officers to enter this service is so great that for some weeks past the number of aspirants lias far exceeded the ranks to he filled up. The Mexican debt due to France comprises, besides the pecuniary claims of private indi viduals duly acknowledged, tlio costs of the expedition and the advances made by the French Government to the*Mexican treasury to defray the expenses of the army of occupation. The debt will be paid by fourteen annual in stalments, each probably amounting to twen ty-five millions with the option of previous liquidation, should the condition of the Mexi can finances admit of it. It is stated on the authority of a Yankee Paris corresondent that Maximillian had con sented to an interview with Minister Slidell, but that Napoleon objected. Inhumanity to Confederate Pbjsonf.rs.— The Joliet “Signal,” a North-western Demo cratic journal, publishes the following : AVe learn that two of the Confederate pris oners, on the train conveying them to the Rock Island prison, a few days ago, were frozen to death before the train reached the city. The prisoners were crowded together like swine, in freight cars, mid were, from all appearance, suffering both for the want of clothing and vic tuals. Indeed, it is said they were starving as well as freezing. JBut the most shocking pait of the whole affair was the heartless manner in -.which the dead were treated by the guards. We have been informed, by good authority, that tlie body of one of the frozen rebels was taken off the cars at Michigan City and dragged over tlie snowy groarid, feet foremost, like <•. dead animal, some distance to a warehouse. It is not known what disposition was .made of it afterwards. Such acts are a di- grace to our country, and can only result in retaliation on the part of our enemies. Is it possible we live in a Christian land ? Such scenes as have bv-en recently witnessed surely deny it. AVe are drifting into barbarity with a tearful rapidity. Such are the results of this cruel war. Valuation or Property in Georgia for Taxation in 1864.—The Milledgeville Union publishes the annexed news in regard <0 the valuation of property in Georgia in 1864 : The Legislature in December last, passed an Act requiring that all tax payers shall value their pioper'y for taxation this year at what it would nave brought in Confederate Treasury Notes on the Ist of April, instant. Inconse quence, however, of the passage by Congress of the Curreucv Act taxing said currency 33 1-3 per cent, after the Ist day of April, many tux payers are under the impression that they are to value their property at what it would have brought in Confederate Notes on the Ist of April, after deducting 33 1-3 per cent. We learn that the Governor and Comptroller Gene ral have decided that all property must be re turned at its value in Confederate Treasury Note-son the Ist oi April without the deduction of the 33 1-3 per cent. The Governor Comptroller decide this to he bo c> State law, but they contend that J be old issue *» He “ly £ £ ol April.or It. Act »I O«S' mlll said currency 33 l--» P CI Ist of April. m Pennsylvania Railroad Company have and are about to lay down, at ter- "here the wear of the rails is and rapid, one hundred and fifty r Bof steel rails. Rail, made entirely of steel, <1 also a kind made of iron and steel capped, are used already on most of the railroads of England and France; and experience proves that steel rails last more years than that of iron last months. A test made on the Derby and Midland Railroad showed that while iron rails endured, at the termini only six or seven months' weir, cast steel rails wore many years, and are still in such condition as to promise four or five years of longer use. The steel rail, wears down fairly, the iron rail, as everybody has noticed, splits, and thus becomes useless, and what is worse, dangerous. Assuming that steel rails will last ten years, it is estimated that in one hundred tons there will be a differ ence, in their use, over iron rails, of $25, 100. or averaging of $961 per mile, each year. Gen. Lew Wallace, the Federal commander at Baltimore is a tyrant in every sense of the world. He says that a Confederate has no po litical rights. The late foreign advices state that the high rates of discount and the apprehension earned by the German war have depressed silks and caused a fall of prices at Lyons. ,Yi*\V(s summary. Confiscation of property is the order of the day in those sections of Viiginiain p*. . < ma of the Federals. Win. Duncan Esq., of Sumter couti.y, Ua., lias presented the Government wilh >c hurl ced bushels of corn and two hund and pounds of bacon. A liberal gift. The lad named Evans, thirteen yeais old. who killed a soldier in Atlanta, St* o time since, ha? been sentenced to St te Pi ’soa for nree years. A petition is iu circulation for his pardon. Ot the tax in kind ia Sumpter count- Q,*., there has alr ndy been paid in .’ :slu Is ot Corn, w.orth S2S<M(OO It Bacon, worth sl3 j.t.Vl Ihe bacuu b.,, , u been brought iu during the month of March, and there remains aa much moi e to be brought in. lion. T. L. Clingman, of N C., has written a letter declining the nomination for Governor, and endorsing Gcv. \ mice He further de clares that “ our reasons for continuing the wav are a 'housandfold stronger than they were for embarking in it original y " A few days since the superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum at Milledgeville iouud W. II Stokes, one of ihe inmates lying upon his bed with his head frightfully gashed, the brains coming out, aud upoi investigation, John Go bin, one of the inmates, confessed very coolly that because Stoke,, had cursed him he he lmd wrenched oft a small iron door, about six inches square, covering the ventilator, aud struck the deceased iu the head! Gen. Fields who was wound*«[ at the second oattlo ol Manassas, and since that time untill his recent appointment to the rank ot Major General, has been unfit for field duty, has been appointed to the coramaud of Gen. Hood's old division, in place of Gen Buckner, who re sumes his old command. Ily a late Nassau paper we notice the arrival at that port of the schooner J. Davis, twenty thfee tons, Captain Gordon, from Wilmington, N. C., with thirty-six bales cotton and thirty’ six bbls. tar and pitch. Leaving the Yaukee blockaders wholly out oi the account, it was a bold thing to venttie upon the voyage at this t me of the year in such a tiny cockleshell. Paducah, Ky.. the scene of Gen. Forrest’s recent exploit, is a thriving city o 5,000 or 6,000 inhabitants, situated upon the Ohio River at the mouth of the Tennessee, aud is the Fed eral depot for army supplies, intended for points upon the Tennessee River. A gentle man who was for a time a prisoner at Padu cah, says that it is the depot of depots of sup plies for all the South-western armies. A year ago the value of grain and other supplies there was estimated at fifteen millions of dollars.— Since that time the amount is said to have in creased to some twenty millions. The city is sixty-five miles from Cairo, 111., about 150 miles from Nashville, and 200 miles from Memphis. It was largely engaged iu various branches of manufacturing, .having one or more rolling mills, an extensive nail factory, candle facto ries, a ship yard, marine ways for elevating vessels requiring repairs, and may other establishments. If the city has been de stroyed, as is reported, the blow has been a very heavy one to property holders, and we have no doubt that the Yankee gun-boats are alone responsible for its destruction. May Gen. Lee says the statement made by the Federals that Duhlgreen’s papers weie al tered, after they were taken from his body, is false. In the city court of Mobile, Jacob Rieliond has been convicted of the crime of extortion. He was lined $50!) and sentenced to three months imprisonment in the county jail. Steps are being taken to cheapen provisions in the Savannah market in spite of tlie huck sters Captain Wetter and the City Store are distributing meal in small qualities at the rate of $8 per bushel, when the market price is nearly double that amount, whilst a loading butcher has proposed, if not interrupted by the military authorities, to supply beef at a less cost than $1 per pound. Gen. Wm. P. White, of Georgia, late Colo nel of Cavalry in the Confederate service, died at Georgetown, South Carolina, cn Wednesday. April 6, from the wound inflicted by tlie hand’ of a hired assasins in his own command, some three weeks since. A statement is going the rounds of some of tlie papers in Georgia, to tlie effect that a hom icide lately ocelli red at_ the Lunatic Asylum at Milledgeville, Ga No such homicide as al leged has occurred at the Asylum at Miiledge ville. We learn that a homicide did occur a short lime since at the Lunatic Asylum, at Columbia, S. C., the particulars of which' are the same. Gen. Scott has nearly completed his autobi ography. tracing his personal history down ward from the earliest period to the latest pub lic acts of his life. The Richmond Examir?er mentions a rumor prevailing in that city, that, tho President, having been very influentially approac ed and importuned in the care of R. D’Orsi y D'Ogden, of the new Richmond, theater, has expressed his willingness to exempt that tragic delinea tor and twelve others ot tho proses-ion to run tlie tragic and comic machine at the above t! .eater. The members of one other theatrical company in the South —possibly Mobile—is to be exempted, and all the rest broken up and sent into the army. FOR. lum 11 I MS. An English paper announces the conversion to Christianity of Joseph Barker, long known on both sides of tlie Atlantic as one of the ablest and most malignant defemors of the Bi ble and those who believed in it as a divine revelation. It is stated that certain parties have recently effected insurances in London, on the life of tlm Empress, to the astounding amount of two hundred thousand pounds (a million of dol lars!) There may be no sinister meaning in this, but it is perfectly well understood that her connubial life is not of the most agreeable character. A bottle has b:en recently picked up at the Kangaroo Island, South Australia, which was thrown overboard in 36deg. 39 min. south lat itude. 66 deg- 7 min. cast longitude, from the Dutch frigate Princess Amelia. The bottle was carried three thousand three hundred miles in fifteen months, at the rate of seven and one half miles per day. This proves that there is a current from west to met, across the base of the Indian Ocean, which tends slightly to ward the north current. At Paris, Rossini’s Moses has been revived at the grand opera, Adelina Patti has made her grand entree, and anew comic op c,a >y Auber, has been produced. The la«*r made a grand ance ol ki.lLr end a shaving duett with or cheatral torcpiesent the **crap jng oi the barber’s razor upon the King’s ehin. Defers from §t. Petersburg slate that in the Southern provinces of Russia a large extent of country has been tapped, yielding very fine petroleum. The Spanish Government will appoint a Minister to Mexico as soon as it receives of ficial confirmation of the crownmg of Masi millian. The numerous submarine telegraph cables no.v at work in Europe are in the aggregate up wards of 5,600 miles long. These cables range from four miles to 1,500 each in length, and they are in water varying from 90 to 9,400 feet in depth. FHO.M TE.WR&sEE- It has heretofore been stated that a Convec tion has been appointed to be held at Knox ville. It is claimed that the people of the thirty-one counties east of the Cumberland mountains had, in a legal manner, announced theii preference for the Northern Government by a majority of twenty thousand votes ; and as that section of the State contained the re quisite numbewof inhabitants prescribed by the Constitution to insure admittance into the Union as anew Stats, this Convention, in their memorial to the State Government, claimed the right of separation from the old State, and admittance into the Qnion on an equal footing wiih Kansas Tenitory. This isno doubt apian of Lincoln to count another Sta'e in toe elec toral vote. The same is true of Western Vir ginia. The game at Washington is a very transparent one, and it will doubtless be dis puted by all of Lincoln's rivals, and these raw States are supposed to be under his influerce and at the beck of hia Presidential aapiratioLs