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- r- n i . i . . - 1_ O " ——— nn 12&2B££!&BSB!B££BS£S&3^£ BY N. Si MO USB & CO. (Mnmirfc & JSentitidL sj TERMS. THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE Ac SENTINEL 18 PUBLISHED EVEKY WEDNESDAY THREE MONTH* OO • SIX MO.M HH . s (K> always in advance. WEEKLY ADVERTISING RATES. OumSABT Advkktisekkki* [ubliahc'l it the Wetkly w. : ch'ir*i> twonty-fiYf?cents a line MchinwatiM.. SrxoTAL Nuticxs wUlbech&rged thirty cent* alineforeadj , lajertlon. WARnt.wjiA.DsATnaand Fpnzati. soT7'i*oticdollarc»rh : DirTUAaT N(, ticks forty cents per line for ore Insertion. . eTner Deilyor Weekly. Where Obituary Notice ore joV iehert in 1 ill y ant Wei itiy —Sixty cents per Ion?. A« I VDEPKYDK.NCE WITHOUT RAILROADS tow of our readers, we apprehend, have considered how essential to the success of our cause are the railroads of tlie Confederacy. A people contending as we are with an enemy whose means of transporting troops equal any thing known in modern times, mi st labor un der a great disadvantage if they enn command only those facilitiet for the movement of troops which were employed before the era of rail* roads. Without railroads we could not have won one important victory in this war, and without these the hope of prosecuting this war to a successful termination would he chimerical indeed. By means of the railroad Gen Jolrn et< n was able to effect that juue'ure with Gen. Beauregard which resulted in (lie first victory at Manassas. By means of the iron track, Gen. Long-drect made that union of his troops with Gen. Bragg which enabled our armies to triumph at Cliickamauga. Jt was the rapid concentration of our forces at Savannah ini mudiately after the Port Itoyal disaster which doterred the enemy from striking impor tant city at a time when the assault might have been successful. But it is unnecessary to specify particulars. Every page of the his tory of this war shows tho connexion of rail roads with our triumphs. If these tilings be so, it is surely the dictate of sound policy to guard most carefully against any legislation which may impair the efficiency of this right arm of our power. AVhcn the late Congress passed a bill levying a tax upon railroads five times as onerous as tho tax on real estate, negroes and othor substantial in- j (crests of the country, they committed them- j selves to a policy most suicidal as well as arbi trary. If the measure is insisted upon by their successors, who are now convened iu Rich mood, it will simply bo impossible to preserve for many months longer even the present effi ciency of this means of transportation. The stockholders will not only lose, under the law of February 17th, every dollar of their income from their investments, but they must make a serious infringement upon the capital to meet the levy. How they are, iu addition, to And funds for repairing at the present ex orbitant prices, the constant waste, to which ! these roads are subjected, is a question which must bo solved by the solons who made tho law. They will And it a moro economical ar rangement to surrender the roads for the time being to the Confederate Government. When ; this is done they will soon cease to be of any ■ beneAt to the country. Our railroads, » nco the war, have labored under great and constantly increasing unbar-! rassments. Iron, the great staple of their sup- i port, has been very scarce and high--indeed it j has been simply impossible to procure it in j such quantities as tho exigencies of the roads demanded. They are alt sutlering a, ihe pre sent time, severely, for the want of this>article. Then again there are portions of locomotive tnnchioeiy which canuot be obtained in the Confederacy, and which have not been supplied j from abroad in quantities at all equal to the demand. Besides, this labor has been so scarce I that even when the material has not been whol- j ly wanting,’the skill to use it effectively has not a) ways been within reach. But notwithstaiul- i iug these and other embarrassments which might he mentioned, our railroads have per- j formed their duty well. They have transport- j ed troops for the government at a cost largely reduced, have rarely, If in any case, more than j doubled their charges for transportation, though they have had to pay for everything which j they have consumed prices varying from five hundred to five thousand por cent, above the yates of peace. after such behaviour these institutions deserve better treatment than they liavereceiv- : ed at the ffi.’nds of the They may well remonstrate at the oppressive and unwise discrimination which has been made against them. They may with all propriety warn those who are charged with the guardianship ot ah the interests of the country, that the legisla tion which undermines their efficiency will re coil with terrible effect upon that treasury which they are proposing to supply with their life blood. Election, ok Militia Officers. —The election of Militia Regimental officers took place on Sat unlay. We are now enabled to give full re turns, as follows : FOB COLONEL. Augusta. 121st dist. 124thilist. Total R J Wilson, 24 39 52 115 •\VB Griffin. 74 1 00 75 Harris, 00 1 00 1 FOR I.IEI'T. COLONEL. C V Walker, 72 ' FOR MAJOR. WT Timmerman, 10 40 41 97 J A Dortic, OS 00 00 OS Recapitulation. —Colonel, R'J Wilson; Lt Colonel, C V Walker ; Major, W T Timmer man. No polls were opened in the 119th and 123d districts. Save Your Tags. —l)o net forget to save i j'our rags. All the paper mills and newspaper j publishers are in a strait for the want of ma terial. it costs nollli,1 S to save rags and high prices are paM f° r them. If the money the rags bring in is not an inducement to take care of them, then do it for the purpose of keeping the newspapers from suspending. White rags of course are preferable, but colored ones will do j to make paper of some soft- Cotton or liueu tags of any description will make good paper. Therefore we say again save your rags and 1 bring or send them to this office. The highest price will be paid for them. Tub Distances in Virginia..— The following distances may be acceptible in assisting to un derstand the operations near the Rapidan : From Orange C. H. to Fredericksburg is forty one miles. The road crosses no river. Pro osediog from Orange C. H. we come, it ten miles, to Veroiersville; ten mile-* [nrther brings us to Parker's 6tore ; six miles further to Wilderness : five miles turther to Cbaueel lorsvillo ; ten miles mow to Fredericksburg. A ILK PRESIDENT STEPHENS f'r c Lynchburg Virginian publishes a very able and incontrovertible defence of Vice Pres ident Stephens and flic course pursued by him. j Tbe slanderers of this distinguished statesman, i wil! tin ' l in if - au answer for all their uncalled ! lor vituperation and abuse. We do not sup pose however, that the journals which have attacked the high and patriotic course of tbe | \ ice President, wish to he convinced of their ! °rror. They have long since departed from (ho paths of rectitude and moral patriotic hon esty. They have hitched tbeir non-paying presses to the party who holds the public purse strings. If they cannot conduct their journals in such a way that Use people will support them direclly. they are determined the people shall support them indirectly. The admin istration shovels out its promises to pay to therefrom the Confederate Treasury, and the tax pavers foot the bills. Rich way of doing things. But we started to give our readers the opin i ' oa °f the Lynchburg Virginian on the i course of Vice President Stephens. Here it is : Some of the Administration journals, ip (heir supem-rvicealde zeal, if not from excess of patriotism, are indulging very fierce philiip ics against the above named functionary, the j second officer in the government. Some of tl; "in have gone so far as to intimate that the Vice President cannot be Ousted ; which, ic ing interpreted, means, we presume, that lie is a traitor. This is a grave insinuation to make against a man who has always enjoyed the reputation of singular purity in private and public life ; a patriot beyond question and above reproach. It seems 10 us too, that the crimes whereof Mr. Stephens stands charged do not partake of the nature of those that ate usually com mitted against the public liberties, involving that of treason. Quite the reverse. If to dif fer with the President, and to disapprove an act of Congress which transfers the liberties of the citizen to the keeping of the Bxecutive be j treason, then the Vice President has been guil !ty of ilds high crime. But we do not so tmder- J stand the case. Them are millions of people I in the South who think, with Mr. Stephens, that i the President should never have asked for the i suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, and feat Congress did wrong to grant his request. But these people are not traitors unless it be povible for a majority to be guilty of treason lo their country. And the case of Mr. Stephens does not stand alone in American, histoiy.- Timm is another not altogether unlike it. When Gen. Jackson was President of the ; Dirited Stales, and Mr. Calhoun the Vice I’res j ident, I hose two functionaries disagreed and i quarrelled outright. The I’res’dent afterwards I issued h Proclamation and Congress passed a | lore" Bill, that Mr Calhoun denounced; and j such documents would be denounced by more | man nine-tenths of the people of the South - now. The men who were in favor of vvhip ! ping South Carolina in the Union, in accord ance with the programme of Old Hickory and ids Congress, called tbe great Carolina patriot, j John Cala'ine Calhoun, and accused Him of | treason to the country. They abused him quite as much, if not more lhan rue Administration journals now abuse Mr. Stephens. But, cau any body, at this and iy, lxdieve that Mr. I’alhoun was not as pure a patriot as Gen. Jackson wa«, though he differed with the latter, ami with his Congress, and openly proclaimed his opposition by the des potic measures which they respectively recom memfi-d alidsut on fool, We leave those gen tlemen. who iisfiri-.to proclaim their adherence, to the Calhoun school of politics, but who seem to have suddenly become converts to the consolidation theories of Gen. Jackson, to traco the agalogy in the (uses cited and make the application for themselves But further re.-pcsting Mr. Stephens. He 1 commenced his political crater as a Whig In that capacity he repr anted iiis District in I Congress lor years ; yet his party feelings were not so ttroug then iui to render hiim unwilling to abandon party for the sake of country. Seeing what, perhaps, many other Whigs did nut see, that the nomination of Winfield Scott in 1852, was a dangerous in concession to the Se wai\l wing of the Whig party, he opeu'y pro claim ”1 his determination to support his op ponent. Frank tin Fierce, the candidate of the Deei'icratio party. He united in a card with Hove, vi other Whig Congressmen warning the Souiti against Scott, and the Northern party which forced his nomination. Since that time he has acted wdh the Democratic party. And do the men who now abuse the Vice-President censure him for preferring Fierce to Scott? for dissolving his party relations rather than support a recreant son of the South, who has since proven himself to have been unworthy of our support! He was a better Southern man then than those who supported Van Baron, ('ass, and Buchanan, but who now abuse biin ; and he is as true and loyal to his native South at this time as they can he. But, suppose Mr. Stephens did. iff the exer cise of his undoubted right, declare his op position to the repeal of the habeas corpus ? That could not make him a traitor to his State, if his allegiance is to that, for iis legislature had jut before avowed its opposition to themeasure and recommended the restoration of the great charter ot liberty. Ami now Mississippi, the President's own State, has by a unanimous vote of her Legislature, declared that the act iu question is ‘-dangerous to the liberty' of the ciUa< ns, unconstiutional in some ot its features, tends to make the civil power subordinate to the military, aud establishes a precedent of a doubtful and dangerous character, and should j bo repealed.” Mississippi endorses, not tho comseof the i President, but that of the Vice President, — i The precise view taker by Mr. Stephens is that j enter mined by the Legislature ot Mississippi. I Has the President's State then joined itself to | the traitors and repudiated its honored son? No! No ! but as sovereign States these have given their calm utterances against the expediency of the late experiment upon the temper of a free people. If States have the undoubted right thus to - speak, then it follows that citizens thereof can with impunity, express their opinion respecting the policy of a law of which they disapprove, and the remarks of the Vice Pres ident on this subject should nut have provoked the comments that have been made upon his conduct and character. We opposed the suspension of the habeas cor pus, and we think no better ot the act of repeal now than we did at the time it was passed. It was an ill judged unnecessary measure, lt put a stigma upon the loyalty of our people that was undeserved, and it gave aid aud comfort to the enemy, in that it induced the belief that their sympathisers were so numerous in the Confederacy that there was no other means left to overrule' and keep them in subjugation Nor have wo been disappointed or sorry that the measure lias provoked the criticism of the Press and of State Legislatures. Had it been otherwise, the world might have supposed that there was some show of reason for the charge which onr foes make, to the effect that we are submissive to the most arrant despotism. The opposition that has been manifested to this measure— -which wo are free to admit, does not so iu as yet to have been abused by the Prcsi ! dent—shows a healthy slate of public senti \ meat, ami proves iiieoutestibiy that we are not j disposed'to submit to domestic or foreign ty rants. We should reinstate the great charter Sos treedom. Mr. W. A. McDonald, of Mclntosh county, was killed ea April 27. Between nine and ten o'clock. Mr. McDonald's attention was call to one of bis negro houses, about fifty yards from his dwelling hoi.se. by au unusual noise in the negro house, and en arriving at the spot, found j a white man dressed in soldier’s clothes, and j ordered him oft his premises. ?dr. McD. walked out of the negro house iu the direction of his own dwelling, and when about ten yards from the negro house the man shot him down, the ball entering his right side. He lived about two hours, and sail he was siiot by a soldier, ! but did not know him. Mr McDonald was one of the m .st benevolent meain the couutv, aged about sixty-five years. file Selina Dispatch lean s from gentlemen from Demopons. who arriv'd in that city that a courier arrived at Gen Polk’s headquarters | \\ ednesday morning, b aring a dispatch from I Col. tteotl. aunounciu.' ti e capture of Banks land his entire aruty by Gen. Smith's forces. JjgCoL-iderable hail foil in sandersville, Ga. aud viciuuy, on Saturday, April 30, AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 18, 1864. AN IMPORTANT LETTER FROM GOA. DROWN. [From Mi'dedgeville Union.] Heap Q’ns. Anderson's Brigade, ) Near Zollieoffer, Teen., j- April 14th, 1864. j To his Excellency J. E. Brown, Governor. fsii —ln accordance with resolution to that elh-ct. I have the honor to forward to you a copy ot the proceedings of a meeting held in tliis Brigade yesterday, for purposes set forth therein. I am sir, very respectfully. Your obedient serv't, Geo. T. A ndeeson', Brig. General. Executive Department, ) Milledgeville, Ga., May 2d, 1864. j Brig. Gen'i. Geo. T. Anderson : fJ,: —1 hereby acknowledge the receipt of your lettev of the 14th uit., accompanied by the resolutions which purport to have been . almost unanimously adopted” by the men composing your Brigade, condemning my ac tion in convening tiie legislature in extra scs -ion in March last, and denouncing my message aud action of the legislature as ‘unwise and unpatriotic’’ and intended to “subserve partisan interests.” The preamble also speaks of the willingness of those whom you denounce to sacrifi.se everything to “self aggrandizement and personal ambition’’ and of “prostituting tbe dignity of high office to the accomplishment of unholy ends.” those who deal thus with the actions and motives of others should be prompted only by the mostlofty patriotism, and the purest mo tives, and should themselves bo above suspi cion of “personal ambition for self-aggrandize ment, or of a desire to “subserve partisan interests. How will the motives and acts of those who were the originators and managers of this meeting and who covered the President with laudation so fulsome as to be offensive to mod est merit, while (hey denounced the acts aud impugned the motives of the Governor and legislature of their own State, stand the test of the just rule above-mentioned? Iff mistake not, the name of the chairman of the meet ing, who Is a Brigadier General, has been men tioned by his friends for promotion to the po sition of a Major General. Neither the Governor nor Legislature of his btate has any power, under the acts of Con gtess to grant the promotion. It can come Irom the President alone. The Secretary of the meeting, himself a Lieutenant Colonel, can be mane Colonel only at the will of the President' ike orator ot the occasion, now a Captain, cannot expect promotion lroin the State au thorities. The ?ame may probably be said of most of the others who were prominent in this meeting. White Ido not charge upon them a desire to “accomplish unholy ends’ ’ tbr “seif •'ggrandizement - I must leave it to others to say whether the judgment of condemnation pronounced by them was entirely unbiased by “personal ambition’’ and a desire for self-pro motion, 1 apprehend the way-worn private soldier upon his weary march by day and his lonely watch at night, who serves his country only tor his country’s good, and while be meets the enemy in deadly conflict at the hazard of his lile, can look for no peisoual promotion trom the President which will give him high command or historic fame, has taken a more just and less excited view of this subject. liie helpless families so dear to many of the gallant men whom you command, as well as of thousands of other Inave sous of Geoigia no y v in military service, were dependent upon the action of the Governor and legislature of >oiir St .te tor bread. The act of Congress wfiieb.von so. hi.'ffiiv anm/.y*? h-* ;■ ■■■' ■- the Confederate currency iu thb Treasury of the State, till it would uo lunger purchase the bread which they must have or they must die of hunger. In this condition of things the extra session which you denounce was called — a currency with which bread cau be purchased was provided, and provision wastnado which it is hoped will secure its transportation to them aud sare their lives. Was this an “un- hallowed purpose” and did ii; accomplish ail “unholy e,d ? ” lam willing for the hardy sons of toil who obey year orders, and whose wives and little ones at home are dear to them, to judge, aud lam content to abide their de cision. The Governor and legislature of your State whom you denouuce have appropriated for this year nearly ten millions of dollars to feed and ciothe the sntleriog wives aud widows and or phans of soldiers, and to put shoes ttpon the feet and clothes upon Lie backs of soldiers themselves, who are often destitute and cannot get supplies from the Confederate Government. Is this an “unholy end” for which they deserve your denunciation ? But you and those who act with you, com plain of the resolutions passed by the legisla ture in response to my message, on the subject of the suspension of the habeas corpus, and those relative to the terms upon which peace should be sought. Whatever may be the opinions of those offi cers who managed the meeting over which you prt sided, 1 venture to say, that not one private soldier iu every ten in your Brigade, believes it is right for Congress to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, aud authorize the Presi dent to arrest the people, and send them in irons to the Islands or dungeons of other States; anil confine them at his pleasure, and deny to the Courts the right to inquire into the cause of the imprisonment, or to place the case upon the docket, and give the accused the benefit of the speedy and impartial trial guaranteed to him. by the Constitution of his country. This is not the Constitutional liberty which so many Georgians have died to defend. He who pos sesses this control over the people, has in his hands the powers of a, monarch, call him what you may. Again I apprehend the private soldiers un der your command, whose official promotion and self importance, do not depend upon the continuance of the war, will be unable to dis cover any dishonor in the resolutions of the General Assembly of their State upon the sub ject of peace. The Legislature has declared negotiation as well as the sword, has its prop er part to perform in terminating this bloody struggle. The terms of adjustment proposed by the Legislature, are the identical terms by which South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, and the other States of the Confederacy stood the day that each seceded from the Union. If they were right then, why are they wrong now ? What soldier who wears no stars, and has no office would not be glad to see the struggle transferred upon these principles, from the bat tle field to the ballot box, as proposed by the Resolutions of the Legislature of your State, which seem to meet your hearty condemnation? In conclusion, permit me to' remark tint I have the most reliable information from your Brigade since the meeting, that what purports to be the almost unanimous action of -those who compose it meets the sanction of but a very small fraction of it. The Resolutions were, as 1 am informed, prepared by some of the officers before the men were convened. When called for to ratify what the officers, without consulting them, had concocted, a compara tively small part of the Brigade attended 1 , and of those present, a smaller part voted, anti of that s nail number, part voted against the Res- I olutions, and the meeting adjourned amid i cheers which resounded through your camp lor him whom it was uie purpose of the managers of the meeting to condemn. All know the great advantage which the Officers have over the men in the management o! an affair of this character. The officers are accustomed to command, the men to obey. They can not meet t-seir officers upon an equal ity and condemn their action, but it seems they can. by spontaneous acclamation in the camp, when they feel that injustice has been done, tes tify their disapprobation without being indi vidually marked by those who have the po-.ver | over them. Begging you to assure the men under you j command, t’hat i shall continue to do every j thins: in my power to protect and defend the great principles of Constitutional and personal | liberty for which they are fighting and to*clothe : and feed their helpless wives and little tiles in their absence and to relieve their own wants when they are suffering for clothing which they can not get from the Confederacy. I am very respectfully, Joseph E. Rp.own. \ The number of Yankee prisoners at Camp I Sumter. Ga.. is 9,306; in Riciucond, 1,943; in [ Danville, 1,619. | AN ANTI-ABOLITION MEETING. IN NEW YORK The birthday of Thor? Jefferson was cele brated in New York las' week by a snppe r among the admirer? of t.‘ - deceasid, who have banded themselves in a -ociety known as the ••Anti-Abolitionist Socle-/.” The ol ject of the association, as its name indicates, is direct hos tility andjopposition to tl „• present A.im'nistra tiou, accompanied by a resolve to do every thing in its power to elect a Democratic Presi dent for the next term, Alter the usual display of fine dishes, deli cate and savory to the palates of epicures. The Chairman annou ced thu- the Hon John McKeon could ne‘ attend atl a let ter explaining the ready,, .uw-ahterbs'. The following is a list o the regular toasts of theevening in the order in which the v came ; 1. The memtfry of 1 homes Jefferson- Standing in silence. 2. The Coastitutipn of the United States— Interpreted by the resolutions of 1798 and '99; sustained by the State rights Democracy for sixty years : overthrown b> Abolitionism since 3. The supremacy of the civil power over the military. Let us hope that the repeated violation of this principle with impunity by Abraham Liueolu and his minions has been but a temporary ascendancy ot brute force over freedom of opinion among a people who were born free. 4. Tiie Dred Scott decision-The enunciation 'or the great tru:h that this is a white man's government. Palsied be the arm that tries to destroy it. The Nominee of the Chicago Convention —May he be a . Democrat—.» inan who will faithfully represent and sustain the groat American prineiale of sell government in opposition to the European coercive principle of despotism. 6. The Presidential -contest of 1864—A fair vote or a free fight. 7. New Jersey—The star that never sets. She never broke the bargains of tbe Constitu tion which broken on one side, were said by Webster to be broken on all sides. . 8 - New York—Overrun, conquered and sub jugated by New Eng! and ism. Let us redeem her. J. Gur Government as it should be—Not a Government such as we now have, making the rich richer, and the poor poorer ; but one which would extend equal protection, equal rights aud equal laws to both rich aud poor. iO Forts LuEayette, Warren and McHenrv— The shame of America. 11. The Peace Clergy. jgl2. The Peace Press. 13. The Peace Ladies. VOLUNTEER TOASTS, Freedom of Speech in Congress—May it be Long before it is again fettered. The Slates—May they remain as distinct as the planets in the Heavens, aud again become us liavmoriiuus in their orbits. Hon. Clement L. Yadandigham—The Cham pion of Liberty, the victim of Despotism. Ex-Governor Seymour, of Connecticut, on being presented, said that he was unequal to t he occasion —not from the want of will or abil ity, but from fear that he should not be able to fulfill the expectations entertained of him. He wished that Mr. McKeon had been present, so that he might follow rather than precede him. In the darkest days of the country they were hoping and would hop 5 for better times ; they would, as he believed, soon redeem the coun try trom the arbitrary rule that now oppresses everything in it. He hid always honored his flag, but he would be excused for (faying that it was to him uo longer the same it vg until it shall Jvicome. the. symbol i ■«. ". •'•;*gb..»- uear t-je American name, lie called attention to tlie tlißt month of tho present administra tion, when men first began to talk of war They then opposed the idea of going to war with those whose blood ran in our own vein-. The fathers of the Constitution established the fact that the rights of States can never be put down by armed force. Until the present desolating war was stopped be said there can be nothing like constitutional freedom. In the face of such important cir cumstances, it was proper that tho memory of Thomas Jefferson should he remembered and consecrated. He spoke ot Mayor Gunther as a peace man, and recited the most promin ent complaints of the American revolutionists against George 111, drawing a parallel between the revolutionary war and our civi'. contest. — He went into American history at great length, to elucidate and explain the intellect, the power, and the patriotism of Jefferson, lie expressed himself more in favor of peaceful ‘counsels than in (he flaming sword. An hon orable peace, by believed, was far butter than a desolating war. England lost, ihe colonies because the King denied to the people the rights guaranteed to them by the great British constituion, aud so the North are losiug ,-nd destroying the unity of the country by neg lecting to observe the compact which the la thers of the Republic had bequeahted unto us If ever we hope to re-tstabiish lire Union, we must lay aside the sword and take up the olive branch. There was no other hope for the country : no other way in which we can from This nettle danger Pluck the flower safety. He regarded the peace proposition as the on ly one that can restore harmony, and he was glad that this kVa was the prominent oue per vading the minds of the majority of the Amer ican people. The war now be g waged has not become general because of the long suffer ing of the American people. Every day of the continuance of this wav brings us nearer to a despotism. The training of the American peo ple requiics freedom of speecn, of religion, and of the press, and by the blessing of God they shall have it. Mr. Van Leon was the next speaker. lie was called upon and at great length responded to the toast referring to the Dred Bcott decision. His speech was a verry effective one to judge from tiie loud applause with which it was re ceived. Alter sotue other toasts were disposed of, Mr. Chauncey C. Burr made some eloquent remarks in response to the fifth toast. Alluding to a rental 1: of Cicero, he said that meu should not only speak the truth, but tlm whole truth. The country, according to all human eyes, is now in the throes of death, and the fitting in scription on its tomb must be, "Died by the cowardice of the Democratic party.- The Re publican party had been as true to its revolu- tionary principles as the Democratic party had been false to its principles. During the last three abominable years they have every day been abandoning the doctrines on which that party was founded. He then spoke oi the coming Chicago Convention, and expressed a doubt whether it would he a Democratic as semblage or something else. What is the mean ing of the woid conservative ? Merely miti gated abolitionist, or a whole coward, there are but two forces in the contest —absolutism. and the right of the people to rule. There was no difference between peaceful self-government and coercion ; no alternative between Lincolnism and distinct Government. Though the Democratic party may change, democracy itself can no more change than the principles of motility cm be altered. 1*J C leaders may be frightened off, but the principle I itself remains immutable as at. the moment j when the country was plunged into a vortex of fratricidal blood. He would undertake to say that the present Administration was a total depravity. Mr. Lincoln had no right to use the army and navy to compel or force any un willing State into the Union, any more than to force an unwilling State out of it. Mr. Burr 3 remarks were very sharp and caustic, and iro qttently elicited rounds of applause. The Richmond Whig corrects the impression that prevails that the full sum required for the Jackson Statue has been furnished in England, produced by the statement of Commissioner Mason to the governor of Virginia. The am- unt referred to by Mr. Mason, relates to a i marble figure of heroic size, intended as a present I by Great Britain to Virginia, and not to the co lossal bronze equestrian stame, proposed under i the ausrtiees of the executive committee, of i which President Davis is chairman. It is not the intention of the committee to procure sub scription from any foreign land, but- tha 1 the statue snail be provided by the free will offerings i ot our own people. Thus f. r the army has oou • tributed four fifths of what La,- been'received. A terrible tornado, accompanied with rain and bail, passed over a portion of Jackson l county, above Jefferson, May 1 Houses, fences and trees were blown down, and the hail seri i ously damaged the growing crops. j Lincoln on the Negroes and the War.— j The following letter from Lincoln appears in j a correspondence, published in the Franklin, K y.> Commonwealth : Executive Mansion, [ , , Washington, April 4th. j A- G. Hodge3, Esq., Frankfort, Ky.: Mj Dear Sir : Touaskmeto put in wri ting the substance of what I verbally said the other day, in your presence, to Gov. Bram- I Ue tud Senator Dixon. It was about as fol- "I am naturally anti slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot re member when I did not so think and feel. And yet I have never understood that the presidency conferred upon mean unrestricted t'gbf to act officially upon this judgment and teeiing. It.was in the oath I took, that 1 would, to the best of my ability, preserve, pro tect, and defend the Constitution of the Uni ted States. 1 could not take the office without taking the oath. Nor was it my view that I might take an oath to get power, and break the orth in using that power. I understood, too, that in ordinary civil administration, this oath even forbade me to practically indulge my primary, abstract judgment on the moral question of slavery, I had publicly declared this many times and in many ways. And I aver that, to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judg ment aud feeling on slavery. “I did understand, however, that my oath to preserve tbe constitution to the best of my ability, imposed upon me the duty of preserv ing, by every indispensable means, that gov ernment, that nation, of which that constitu tion was the organic law. Was it possible so lose the nation and yet preserve the constitu tion ? “By general law, life and limb must be pro tected ; yet often a limb must, be amputated to save a life ; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I leel that measures, other wise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the nation. Right or wrong, 1 assumed this ground, and now avow it. I could not feel, that to the best of my ability, I had even tried to preserve the constitution, if to save slavery or any minor matter, I should permit the wreck of government, country aud constitution all together. When early in the wav Gen. Fre mont attempted military emancipation, I for bade it because I did not then think it an in dispensable necessity. When a little later, General Cameron, then Secretary of War, sug gested the arming of the blacks, I objected, bo cause I did not yet think it an indispensable necessity. Wheu, still later, General Hunter attempted military emancipation, I again for bade it, because I did not yet think the in dispensable necessity had come. “When, in March, and May, and July, 1862, 1 made earnest and successive appeals to the Border States to favor compensated emancipa tion, 1 believe the indispensable necessity for military emancipation, and arming the blacks would come, unless averted by that measure. They declined the proposition, and I was, in my best judgment, driven to the*alternative of either surrendering the Union, aud. with it, the constitution,’or of laying strong hand upon the colored element; I chose the latter. In choos ing it, I hoped for greater gain than loss ; but of this I was not entirely confident. More than a year of trial now shows no loss by it, in our foreign relations ; none in our home popu lar sentiment; none in our white military force; no loss by it anyhow or anywhere. On the contrary, it shows a gain of quite a hundred and thirty thousand soldiers, seamen and la borers. These are palpable facts, about which. as facts tbauA- - • *»•“«• .. u } uki —»u.t we could not have had them with out the measure. “And now, let any Un'on man, who com plains of the measure, test himself, by writing down in one line that he is for subduing the rebellion by force of arms, and in the next that he is tor taking three hundred and thirty thousand men from the Union side and pla.c ing them where they would be, but for the mens ire he condemns. If he cannot face his cause as stated, it is only because he cannot face the truth. “I add a word which was net in the verbal conversation. In telling this tale I attempt no compliment to my own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled events, but oontess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years’ struggle, tbe nation’s con dition is not what either party or any man de vised or expected. God alone can claim it.— Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complici ty in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest, and revere the justice and goodness of God. “Yours truly, A. Lincoln.” A Yankee Estimate of the Neoro. —Federal military authorities at Natchez, in their efforts ■to preserve the health of the city, have devel oped the hypocrisy of their philanthropic dec laration for the unfortunate negroes they have enticed away from their masters. In a late number of the Courier the followiug order is published, l>y which, it will be seen—after characterizing the negro as “idle,” “lazy,” “profligate,” “thriftless for the present, reck lessly improvident of the future,” —regulations are prescribed for the government of the con traband, much more stringent than the negro was ever before subjected to. It is a curious document, worthy of being placed upon re cord : To preserve the general health of the troops stationed in the city of Natchez, and of the in habitants, and to guard against the origination here, and the introduction of pestilential dis eases the ensuing summer and autumn, it im peratively requires the prompt, vigorous and steady enforcement of the sanitary regulations heretofore prescribed in this city. It is ot the first and greatest importance and necessity that all causes tending to the engen dering and dissemination of pestilential disea ses here, so soon as their existence is known, shall be at once abated or removed so far as practicable. It is to be apprehended that se rious danger to the health of the city will re sult from the congregation within its limits of the largo numbeis of idle negroes which now throng the streets, lanes and alleys, and over crowd every hovel. Lazy and profligate, un used to caring for themselves, thriftless for the present, and recklessly improvident of the future, the most of them loaf idly about the streets and alleys, prowling in secret places, and lounge lazily in crowded hovels which soon become dens of noisome filth, the hot-bods, fit to engender and rapidly disseminate the most loathsome and malignant diseases. To prevent these evil effects it is hereby or dered that after the first day of April, 1864, no contraband shall be allowed to remain in the city of Natchez, who is not employed by some responsible white person in some legitimate business, and who does not reside at the domi cil of hts or her employer ; and no contraband will be allowed to hire any premises in this city for any purpose whatever, and no other person will be allowed to hire such premises j for the purpose of evading this order, nor al | lowed to hire or harbor any contraband who cannot satisfy the health officer that he or she needs the services of said contraband in some legitimate employment. All contrabands re maining in the city in contravention of this or der after April Ist, will be removed to the con traband encampment. The word “contraband'' is hereby defined to mean p.R persons formerly slaves who aro not uow in the employ of their former owners. Any evasion of this order will be punished more severely than the direct infraction of it, and all persons renting buildings to contra bands, will be held responsible. Persons drawing rations from the United States Government are not supposed to need many hired servants. The number allowed to each family will be determined by the under sgned. We have reliable information of the safe ar rival at a Confederate port recently opened to blockade runners, of four vessels heavily laden with stores, doming, arms, ammunition, &c., ;of immense value to the Government. Among the provisions brought in was three million l pounds of bacon and five hundred bags of cof lee. VOL. LXXVIII. —NEW SERIES VOL. XXV ill. NO. 20. Frbnch View op Yankee Finances. —The Courrier des Eials Unis, in au article on the American war. makes the following comments upon the financial affairs of tbe North : The spectacle presented at Ibis day by the United States is a perfect illustration of that exhibited by England at the commencement of this century, during the reign of paper money issued to defray the expenses of the war against France. There was the same exuberant pros perity, the same superabundance of capital, the same-excess of wild speculation, and the same foolish extravagance. The following par agraph from Alison, the historian, will show tbe result of that dazzling experiment: The employment of paper money by Great Britain, permitted, no doubt, only in order 1,, carry on a continuous war aud to maintain for several years the largest armies ever be/ore raised by a nation. But to this system must also be attributed the final results which are as disastrous as the first effects were beneficial and glorious, the augmentation of prices, the di minished value ot money, the increase of ex penses, the propagation of ambitious ideas and extravagant habits amongst all classes of soci ety, reckless speculation, prodigal living and frequent financial reverses, immense wages, a general appearance of prosperity aud demoral ization among the laboring classes, a fluctu ation o( prices without parallel at any period of the world, the creation of certain fortunes and tbe destruction of certain others, in fact a universal disorder which in its consequences are almost equal to the disaster of revolution. If a more forcible sketclr is desired, here is what was written by the illustrious Cobbett in an official letter, wherein he reviews the causes of the distress, without precedent aud without remedy, by which England expiated its ephe meral opulence of the preceding years : The progress of our ruin has not been as ra pid as was expected by some ; still yet the number of. our poor has been increasing since the year 1793. The farmers and merchants had the appearance of prosperity, but it was a de- lusive appearance, produced by the bloated paper money. The increased taxes and pau perism it entailed carried destruction to the very heart of the community. The small far mers have become day laborers; the day la borers have gone, one after the other, to the poorhouses. The little farms, formerly the witnesses to so many scenes of frugality, industry, morality and happiness, have seen, one after the other, the misery of their occupants; the lafid of which they were formed have gone to swell the domains of the large proprietors or the parks of the lately enriched. The cottages of the la borers have become sheds for cattle, or have fallen to ruins; meanwhile the roofs of the bouses of charity are to be seen throughout the country. During the reign of Pitt and of his successors there was an immense increase in the mansions and villas around the metropolis, but during the same period how many thou sands of peaceful hamlets have been abandon ed 1 All this has come from the pernicious system of taxes and paper money. Tup Crisis at tuk North. —The loading Re publican presses of the North are becoming alarmed at (he existing state of monetary mat ters, and at the rapidity the Yankee govern ment -is rushing towards bankruptcy. The Springfield Republican, the leading Abolition paper in New England after asking “Have we a Congress?’’ remarks thus ; 1 hings begin to look squally. A govern ment dollar is worth but fifty-five and ~ a half cents ; speculation is running up the prices of eminent paper runs down ; ltic*"»vealtix Th tl# country is passing from the many to the few, and tho laboring classes arc becoming- dis pirited and sullen ; and Congress has neither the wisdom nor the courage to adopt the mea sures that are essential to avert the crisis to which all theje things tend. Congress has been more than four months in session; what has it done? What solilaiy practical measure of any importance has it perfected? It devotes oco day e\cry week wholly to bunkum speeches, aud uses up near ly every other day tho same way. It is ready enough to pass fine resolutions against rebel lion and slavery, and to pledge the resources ot tho country to put them down, but when it comes to practical measures, without which there can be no success, it halts and stumbles and postpones, and acts as if it did not know what must be done, or knowing hal not the pluck to do it. Let a tax be levied sufficient to save us from impending national bankruptcy, and then Con gress may eithef adjourn or amuse itself with President making at the expense of the peo ple. But let the i ssential thing be done, and at once, or the people will soon lie praying for a Cromwell to drive the national legislators from their seats and take in hand the work they persistently neglect. The New York Tribune uses still stronger language in regard to the same matter : “The Nation is drifting steadily toward bankruptcy. Wc arc now in the grandest crisis of our national history ; and wc choose dwarfs to do the work which might well employ an gels. Something must be done to stop the ten dency to ruin, or the country is lost beyond redemption.” This is strong language to come from party organs. But who is to blame for allowing “the nation to drift into bankruptcy.” The admin istration have had things all their own way, not an obstacle has been interposed by the people of the North. After conducting a war for three years under such circumstances, the Tribune now admits that there is danger that the “country will be lost beyond redemption!” There may be one hope left. 'The time for a change is coming, and the people can, if they will, place men at the head of the Government, and in Congress, who are not dwarfs—men who understand the principles upon which the Gov ernment was founded, and who will endeavor to restore the Union. Another Opinion of Hon. A. H. Stephens’ ( Speech. —The Conservative, anew paper just started in Raleigh, N. C., which supports the ' cause of Gov. Yance, publishes the speech ot our worthy Vice-President in full with the annexed remarks: At the earliest practicable moment we has ten to re-publish the speech of the Hon. A. 11. Stephens, of Georgia, on the subject of habeas corpus. It will be found an able and patriotic pro duction, breathing the most unwavering de votion to the cause of Southern independence and replete with true conservative sentiments. While all loyal men deplore the slightest variance between those in authority, and deep ly regret the circumstances which have placed the Vice-President in a position of open an tagonism to the government; but few in this State will deny that the principles enunciated by him, accord with the true spirit of our in stitutions, and constitute, in fact, the very “foundation stone’’ of all real liberty. The bought up Richmond Presses, and their cotemporaries in other sections of the Confede racy, have been claiming that the \ ice-Presi denfs speech gave comfort and aid to Ilolden and his friends. The press of North Carolina which supports Gov. Vance think otherwise. They are not paid for expressing their opinions. We therefore think what they say is entitled to more credit, and should have more weight than the remarks of the subsidized press. A party of men from the Eleventh South Carolina took after some Yankee fishermen in Broad river, S. C. a few days ago and compel led them to leave their boats and take to the rnarsh. Our men got three shots and reported J two killed and one wounded. The Richmond Enquirer announces that the engineer corps of the Confedei ate army is to undergo an important modification in its organ ization. All telegraphic operators in the ser vice of the Government will be attached to the engineer corps and be required to study and learn engineering: andal. engineers will be re quired to study and learn telegraphing. Tele graph operators willthen rank as captains and lieutenant-, and be under the control of the chief of the engineer bureau. Layayette, Ala., was visited by a frost suffi cient to kill Irish potatoes on May 3. The Yankee Senate are afraid to pass the res olution passed by the House protesting against the course of the French iu Mexico. [From Montgomery Advertiser.] COUACIL OF TIIK METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. The Council of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which is in stead of the General Con ference. that cannot l>o convened from all pints of the Church on account of the state of (he country, convened in Montgomery, May 3. There wore present Bishops Andrew, Paine, j l.arh and Pierce. Bishops Soule and Kava naugh, being within the enemy's lines, cannot be present. Rev. Dr. Summers was appointed Secretary. There have arrived since, Rev Dr M vers. Ed itor of Christian Advocate, of Augusta, Ga., who is also one of the Treasurers of the Mis sions.v Society; l’.ev IV I. M Lee, of Virginia, a member of the Book Committee; Rev Dr A D Green, of Nashville, Teun ; Rev Dr Me Per rin, the General Book Agent ; Rev J)r Shipp. President ot Wofford College, S C ; Rev 0 K Marshall, DP. of Mir .issippi. well known in connection with hospital benevolence since the war began ; also Rev A M Mitchell, 1)1) ; Rev Jos Hutchinson, Rev Mr Rose, Rev 0 R Blue, Rev Dr Camp, Rev C D Oliver, Rev E C Wex ler, of Western Virginia; Rev Dr Cross, Army Missionary; Ilev Dr Sassnett, President Au burn College ; Rev J S Scobee, of Kentucky ; Rev RJ Harp, of Louisiana; Cols Bransfoid, and Litton, of Tenn, and other of the clergy and laily. J The venerable Dr. L Pierce lias also arrived. Rev. L. W. Sehon, D D., Sec of the Missionary Society, who has seen the inside of a Lincoln penitentiary for his devotion to the South, is in his place. Rev. Dr. McTyeire, pastor of the Methodist Church iu Montgomery, is a mem ber of the Missionary Board, as one of its Vice Presidents. Rev. Mr. Wilson is the only mem ber from Florida. Rev. W. C. Johnson comes from tbe moving cavalry camps of Celt. S. I). Lee. Others are expected. Bishop Andrew, (the senior iu the absence of Bishop Soule) took the chair and called the meeting to order. Most of the b life ness of the day consisted in raising"committees and refer ing various subjects of interest to them—the principal of which are on missions *o the army, the state of the Church, publication of tracts mid religious books, and the building and en dowing oi Soldiers orphans’ asylum in every Conference in the Confederacy. Dr. McFerrier, who lias been operating as missionary in the army of Tennessee, made an interesting report of his labors. FOREMAN STEMS. A privy council was held in London, at Downing street, on the 6th of April. Queen Victoria came to London on the 10th ult., tor the purpose of holding a court at Buckingham Palace. Lord Ashburton has retired from the firm of Baring Brothers, London. The Right Hon. E. Cardwell was re-elected without any opposition for Oxford on the 10th instant, lie succeeds Mr. Stansfehl as Secre tary, of tiie English Admiralty. Mr. Cardwell, in his speech at Oxford, said that he thought tbe conference on the Danish affairs would lead to a satisfactory result, and strongly urged neutrality in the American war. Placards were issued iu London, on the 10th of April, by the city police, offering three thousand pounds reward for informal ion res pecting certain cases of gold supposed to have arrived in Loudon lroin San Francises forming part of the twenty-live thousand pounds, por tion of the treasure iu the wreck ot tho Golden Age supposed to have been stolen. The Conference of the European Powers had not yet assembled. The Archduke Maximilian received a Mexi- HP sa,?i\tiut as tiie resolution of tho uotabies of the country, as. well as the Government of Fi ance, guarani ies the inde pendence of Mexico, and tic had received the aid of Austria, he solemnly declared this accep lance of the proffered crown, and pledged him self to govern constitutionally, and for the benefit of the people. He claimed the united support and good will of the people, and ex pressed his gratitude to the Emperor of the French, who has brought about a solution of this difficulty. Maximilian was confined to bis bed, on the 11th, by a slight fever. His departure fur Mexico, was therefore, considered uncertain. The Emperor of Austria permits the forma tion of six thousand volunteers, and a naval corps of three, hundred sailors, for the aid of tiie new empire in Mexico. Anew Mexican loan of eight jnllions ster ling at fid will be opened on the loth. The bombardment of Duppel and Sander burg continues but feeble. The allies have ex tended their trenches and traced another par allel. The Danish representatives to the Confer ence have arrived in London, but there was no other indications of the meeting. A committee of ihe German Diet had recom mended the Diet to send a representative to the Conference. There was renewed activity among the Pol ish insurgents. The Confederate steamer Florida was well received by English authorities at Bermuda. The Portuguese officials will not allow her to coal at their ports. The Spanish officials allow her to remain in their ports. The Viceroy of Egypt did, it is now said, or der the Alexandra to be built. The loss at the capture of Duppel was very great, It is said Prussia lias determined to occupy all Jutland. ‘ The Persian Gulf cablehas been laid through out nine hundred miles and works well. The demand for Yankee securities is greatly limited. There is no political news of importance. The London Times thinks the use of the Con federate securities was caused by tho action of the Yankee Congress on the Mexican question. Cotton has advanced in Liverpool. Provisions quiet. Consols !)i |aOl jj. An Aiteal io tub Friends 0* the Soldier. —At the late meeting of the Bible Society of the Confederate States, the following was passed : Whereas, we have heard and would heed the calls made from the Army for Bibles and Tes taments with which to supply those soldiers, whose homes are within the lines of the enemy, and others who ate destitute; but finding gieat difficulty in meeting this demand by either pub lishing or importing the Scriptures, therefore. Resolved That the Board of Managers be in structed to issue a Circular Address to ministers of all denomiußticus re piesting them.to collect from their congregations such Bibles and Testa ments a3 may be spared, and to send taer to the Bible Depositor.' for distribution in the Army. In conformity with this resolution, the Board of Managers would now appeal to all ministers to u3e such means as are most likely to be suc cessful, to obtain from the members of their respective congregations whatever copies of the Scriptures, they can spare ; and to forward them to the Depository that they may be sent to tiro Army. Indivdiuil3 are also soli Hod to observe thus call for the Eoripturc.;, and to give what a ,! > they can by sending single copies (even uy mail,) or by collecting and forwarding as many as they can obtain. Boxes and packages may be sent by Express at the expense of the Board. Direct to. Geo. M. Tiiew, Augusta, Ca, The Confederate Senate. —The following is a list of the members of the Confederate Senate now in session : ALABAMA. It. W. Walker, Robert Jemison, Jr. ARKANSAS. R. W. Johnson, Chas. B. Mitchel. FLORIDA. James M. Baker, A. E. Maxwell. GEORGrA. Benj. 11. Hill, H. V. Johnson. KENTUCKT. 11. C. Burnett. Wm. E. Simms. LOUISIANA. T. J, Semmes, Edward Sparrow. MISSISSIPPI. A. G. Brown, ' J. O. C. Watson. MISSOURI. Waldo. P. .Johnson, One vacancy. NORTH CAROLINA. Wm. T. Dortch, William A. Graham. SOUTH CAROLINA. Robert W. Barnwell. James L. Orr. TENNESSEE. Landon C. Haynes, G. A- Henry. TEXAS W. S. Oldham, Louis T ’ Wlgfal * VIRGINIA. TT . A, T< Caperton, R. M. T. Hunter, CONFEDERATE STATES CONGRESS. SENATE —MAY 3. The following standing committees woro ap pointed : Foreign Affairs—Messrs Orr of SC. Wig fall of Texas, Caper ton of Va, Johnson of Mo.Siuuns of Ky. i Finance—Messrs Barnwell of S, Hunter of Va, Semrncs of La, Graham of N C, and Jemi son of Ala. Commerce—-Messrs Oldham of Texas, Dortch of N C, Maxwell of Fla, Haynes of Teun, Wal- ker of Ala. Military Affairs—Messrs Sparrow of La, Wlg f.vli of Texas, Burnett of Ky, Henry of Tenn, Johnson ot Arkansas. Naval Affairs- -Messrs Brown of Miss, Baker of Fla, Simms of Ky, Graham of N C. Johns m of Ga. Judiciary—Messrs Hill of Ga, Haynes of j Tenn, Walker of Ala, Watson of Miss, Semin >a of La. Indian Affairs —Messrs Johnson of Ark, Johnson of Mo, Oldham of Texas, Caperton of Va. Post Offices and Post Roads—Messrs Mitchell of Ark, Jemison of Ala, Il iyues of Teun, Old ham of Texas. Public Lands—Messrs Baker of Fla, Henry of Teun, and Johnson of Ark. Patents—Messrs Maxwell of Fla, Hill of Ga, and Haynes of Tenn. Claims—Messrs Barnett of Ky, Baker of Fla, and Johnson of Mo. Territories—Messrs Wigfall of Texas, Mitch ell of Ark, and Barnwell of S G. Accounts —Messrs Caperton of Va, Dortch of N C, and Simms of Ivy. Printing—Messrs Watson of Miss, Orr of SC, and Haynes of Tenn. Enrollment and Engrossment—Messrs Dortch of N C, Maxwell of F,a. and Caperton of Va. On motion, two hundred extra copies ot the President’s Message were ordered to bo printed. Oil motion, various parts of the Message wore referred to the appropriate committees. HOUSE. The following resolutions, bills, &c., were introduced: Resolution calling for the appoint ment of a special committee to investigate charges of disloyalty against W. R, W. Cobb, member of 3d Cong. Di.-t., Ala., adopted; bill providing for the repeal of the act passed at the last session for the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus; resolution directing the Committee on Ways and Means to inquire into the expediency ot amending the act passed at the last session, so that the agricultural pro duce of the year 1864, aud not that of 4803, is to be credited on tiie five per cent, tax levied on property employed in agriculture; also, that the five per cent, tax levied on property em ployed in agriculture is not to be collected un til the value of the tithe to be deducted there from is first assessed —referred; resolution di recting Committee on Military Affairs to in quire into the expediency of allowing officers of the army to draw one ration and purchase another from the Government; bill for the re demption of the old issue of Treasury notes held by certain Indian tribes; letter from Maj. Gen. Wilcox in relation to the rations of sol diers—referred; bill to amend the act passed at tbe last session, levying additional taxes for the support of the Government and for the common defence; resolution to iuquiro into the power of the Secretary of tbe Treasury to pre vent the sailing from C infederate ports vessels owned or chartered by any of the States of the Confederacy, because said vessels have not complied wirii the regulations established by virtue of tue act passed at last session, for the T««&caH»rt iuTvffiniglbr "oTtE pay of soldiers of the army; providing for the in crease of the pay of certain civil officers of the C. 8. Government and members and officers of Congress; to amend tiie act providing for the levying of luxes lor the support of the Govern ment; lesoiulion in regard to the paying of claims belonging to persons iu the Traus-Mis.-is sippi Department without first forwarding them to Richmond; to allow officers in the army to draw rations and t uichase clothing from the Government; to organize a corps of scouts for the Trails-Mississippi Department; to provide for the enrollment and conscription of certain commissioned officers and privates: lor mak ing additional appropriation for the Depart ment ol Justice; resolution to so amend exist ing laws as to provide more effectually for the relief of persons whose property has been injur ed or destroyed by the enemy; resolution di recting the Committee on Ways and Means to reporta bill to pi event 'rauds hi the Treasury about to be made by persons engaged in the purchase of Confederate Treasury notes of old issue east of the Mississippi and sending them west to be funded; thanks of'Congrdss to 34th, and 38th North Carolina troops for re-enlisting for the war; authorizing the Committee on Ways and Means to inquire into the propriety of amending the currency act so as to put five dollar notes on the same footing as new issue; to amend the law passed at last session for the support of the Government; to provide rations for officers of the army, referred; resolution of thanks to Gen. Forrest, referred; to amend the currency act passed at last session; to amend the act to levy additional taxes and aid in carrying into effect the laws passed on the 17th of February, 1864; and also to amend tbe act providing for the common defence, and the act authorising anew issue of notes and bonds; resolution directing Committee on Mili tary Affairs to report a bill authorizing Briga dier Generals to appoint courts martial to try privates and all officers below the rank of field officers; to exempt from taxation all property held by religious or benevolent corporations, referred; as to the propriety of amending tho law regarding foreigners woo have not taken part in our struggle for independence, referred; authorizing Special Committee appointed at last session to investigate certain charges oi malfeasance in office, to resume their labors and make report; authorizing- Judges of Dis trict Court for the North District of Georgia to change the place of holding said Court. The following resolutions were adopted : Ist. That the Committee on ways and Means inquire into the expediency of amending tha law imposing taxation on wool. 2d. Authorizing the door-keeper to appoint an additional assistant. 3d. Authorizing the Committee on Military Affairs to inquire into the expediency of allow ing the appointment in the Invalid Corps of officers who have resigned their position in the army in consequence of permanent disability incurred in the service ; and also of allowing the enlistment into said corps of non commis sioned officers and privates who have been discharged from the service for the same rea sons. 4th. Directing the Committee on Ways and Means to inquire into the expediency—■ First.—Of impressing by law an additional tenth of all products taxed in kind, to be paid for at assessment prices, aud to be collected by the agencies provided for the law impressing tax in kind. Second—Of prohibiting all impressments ex cept through tire officers charged with the col lection of the taxation in kind, and of equaliz ing, as far as practicable the operations of im pressment for the supply of the army. Resolved, That the President be requested to inform this House whether any instructions have been issued impressing officers and agents in addition tb or different from tbosc contained iu General Orders No. 80, from the Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office, bearing date on the 7th day of March, 1804; and, if so, that he be respectfully requested to communi cate the game to this House. The following jointresolutions passed by the Legisture of Louisiana, were ordered to be srnead upon the journal : Whereas, The United States continues to wage war againt tire Confederate States with ruthless barbarity and in utter disregard of the rules of civibzed warfare ; and whereas, the despot who wields with absolute power the des tinies of that Government has manifested in all i,j s messages and proclamations a malignant ha tied ot the people of the South, and a disposi tion to heap insult upon injury and outrage ; an ,i whereas, this course of conduct lias strengthened us in our determination to main tain our separation from the Government and people of the North ; therefore, . l. Beit Resolved, by the Senate and House of Bepresentatiues of the State of Louisiana, That t.ie barbarous manner in which our ene mies have waged war against us deser> es tho execiation of all men, and has confirmed and strengthened us in the determination to oppose, to the last extremity. Jape-union with them, and mat the spirit of our people is unabated in the.