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THOMAS RAGLAND, Proprietor. 'VOLUME XXXVI. A STRICT CONSTRUCTION OV THE CONSTITUTION—AN HONEST AND ECONOMICAI. ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT. 75oUjVBUsT?KO^^ OFFICE—RANDOLPH STREET. Dumber 9. the daily enquirer IS PUBLISHED AT Right Dollar* per ami. lu Advance, fl.00 fir Six Months; $*-3.00 for Three y.r.utb*: i 1 * 00 for Otic Mouth. Ai»TK*TIfTKhunts eonspicuonsly inserted at the osoal rates. the weekly enquirer j* published every Tuesday Morning. TERMS—* 3 00 per annum, paynblo mtxiria- bl# *n nrivancr. •1.50 for Six Months, pavahle in advance. ADVERTISEMENTS IW; IcO'insly inserted at On* Doll at. per »<inw. for the first insertion, and Kirrr Cunts f JT ere*y subsequent insertion. A squaro in the .,uircr i« devon line* in email type, or one hundred word?. Obituary notteee over eight lines charged ae adTepUlnnicmts. All Gommuniontioas ot a personal oharacter, , .r intended to promote the private cuds of Corpor.'ttione.Pncietiee, Schools or Individuals, will be charted v advertisements. The Mcitgle Exemption Ilill. We have not yot soon a copy of the bill in which it pas sod tho Senate; Lnrs noted correctly the vari- >n - amendments made, tho following arc Its chief variations from tho act of last : On plantations or forms on which o are twenty or inure slaves, tho solo property of a minor, a person of unsound a' person absent from homo in the military 'or naval sor- ioe of tho Confedorata .Status, otto man L exniapted n9 oversoor or manager ; provided tho exempt was employed and m ling a* overseer prior to the 16th of Apriilasi, and that there is no white mule adult on tho plantation not subject to military duty; and provided further that no mail suitable for such a post, not ’. able t<» military a.tty, can bo obtainod. Miu.uf;.- turnr* aro exempted, but more stringent provision is made to limit the prices of their produets. Railway ox- emptUtiQ are reduced in number, and From the Cincinnati Commorolal. Speech for Stopping the War, Deliterednn the House, of Representative* at Washington, by Mr. Conway, an able Represent a tin from Kansas. —lie Pro poses the Aeknoiefetigment of the Con federate States—A Radical View of the fposiion. A few days ago Mr. Conway, of Kan sas, onooftho most ultra, as woll as ono of the ablest of the Republican members of Congress, made a strong spooch in favor or peace and tho stoppage of the war. The speech is said to havo the ap proval of Gov. Andrew, Charles Sum ner. Wendell Phillips, Horace Greeley, and other lending Abolitionists, who hold n caucus in Wn-hington just before itwas delivered. It i* a very important de monstration. Wo take tho following extracts from it, which show its charac ter: HE IS AGAINST HE-UN10N. Sir —l am not in favor of restoring tho constitutional rotations of slaveholders to tho Union, nor of the war to that end.— On tho contrary, 1 am utterly und forever opposed to both. I am in Favor of the Union as it exists to-day. 1 am in favor of recognizing tho loyal States as tho American nation, based as they aro on the principle of freedom for ail, without distinction of race, color or condition. I believe it to he the inanife.-t dostiny of the American nation to ultimately control the Arnerioan continent on this principle. J conceive that, therefore, tho true ohjectof thiS wur is to revolutionise the national S ivcrmnout by resolving'thu North into m Nation and tho South into a distinct public body leaving us in a position to pari-no the latter .i -eparntc or the war to perversion oi it. ealcu- * very object it was do* dlt bo o rc ludispensal ew-papar, at: nrploy,« ».* Ono editor for each Mid such printers or other are nocQsi&ry lor its publi- H exempted. bill having failed, and there option bill of its own in progwij* owucussion by tho House, this bill of the Senate will bo tho first measure of the kind noxt to bo ; assed upon. Tit ■ Yankee ('eiiMcrlptlon. Instead of fooling alarm at the proba ble passage by the Federal Congroil of tho Cott4ortptlon bill referred to in our Telegraphic dispatches, wc think such n sure should bo regarded as a very dangerous experiment for Lincoln, and ; that t» likely to hasten to a culmimi- tion tiic tiiwm lions that prevail his do minions. It is evidently an earnest of the Black Republican purpose to hurry on the final issue of tho war before the Dem- ernts obtain power in cither department f the Government. As such it must be ugardod by tho Northern “oomorva- ive«,” ami wo shell presently know from their response to it what the Northern difference* in res poet to the war will amount to. If the conscription is ucqui- ‘ - I in, we or.n hopi for nothing from the Northorn "po*»o" denominations; if it is resisted by force, this resistance will destroy all hope of a longer vigorous prosecution of the war by the abolition- in. We aro glad that this test is in all pr,V ibility about to bo appliod. The de velopment* that must follow it will ad vise our Government nnd people, unmis takably, iw to the magnitude of tho fu ture work they will havo to do, and prepare them for it. If the conscription "u iicquiotced in and is carried out, must dismiss all speculations as to from tne dbsontioi.s of our enemies, must “gird up our loins" to meet them in greater strength than ov*f before. Rut if there is a settled purpose on tho part of ny portion of the people of the North stoop peso the further progress rnr t j K , abolition programme, this id Intensify tlicrup- lated t- signed to effect. H1S UNIONISM, 1 Lave never allowed myftolf to indulgo in thntaupnrstltinuh idolatry of tho Union so prevalent among the -implo but lion- r-.t people, nor that political cant about tho Union so prevalent among dishonest ones. 1 have simply regarded it as a form »«f government to be valued in proportion merit* >»- an instrument of national prosperity and honor. TIIK SOUTH 1NPKI’KNPENT, war winch ha* coin o in hetwcon tho North and the South for the past two has made a revolution. It has sub stituted in tho South another Government that of the Union. This is the fact, and lli" fact in such a matter is tho impor tant thing, Itsottl. stlio law. No tuoh- nleii erlv di*si • North and the eparnto and 1 ’ This taiid. connection butw South, and rendered the independent poweis in tho world es.-iiry legal elfoet of civil .war anywhere. It makes the bolligeront par- lepcndcnt for the time being, ami, th" oim sin- um bto the other, they ue independent of each other for* The principle ■WV, til re; and we slmv so < of “a house divided * »the weakm at itself. The Yankeca in t nano Pa»a. Krmn the newspaper statement form the opinion that tho Yankee vo have not yot made their way through this l»au into tho Yazoo river. We come t. the conclusion that thoy aro in the pass which i^. perhaps some twenty miles ii length between tho Mississippi and th \ axon, and. that when they get through thoy will enter the lattor river above ou batteries. But wo aro glad to find th stntvmcpt made that the Confederates have obstructions in the pas* am confident of their ability to prevent the A an hue vessels from . getting Enough Tho following is a Yankee report of tho commencement of their enterprise of re opening the Yazoo pass. After hinting that the water was lot in, by cutting Ui< )<KiMWf on the 8d inst., a 1otter t< Baltimore Sun says: A navigable .i.annol will thus bo . ed to the rear of Vicksburg, In a direction which is not fortified by toe rebels, ''an #cc Homing to prevent our mosquito Hir'd ksbu threaten n this direction r unit in their final discomflturo throw. Gen. Grant, in the tneunwhilo, not idle. In the midst of obstacles « parontly fn*nrm-mutable, lie is laboring on, controlling circumstances, and will, m my opinion, finally overcome nil oppo id take possc-sion of Vicksburg. The The of this Kind f*d tho itsolf overwhelm tho Administration par ty, and sink it dcopor than pluminot over sounded. But the Democrats, in my judgment, safely calculate that they can tako on any of tho hundred necessary in cidents ot tho war, and defeat their oppo nents by a large majority. TIIK PROCLAMATION* A FAILURE. Many suppose that the effect of tho Proclamation of Emancipation will so thoroughly, speedily, and completely an nihilate slavery, that tho slaveholders will no longorjiavo a motive to act to gether. This is an egregious mistake.— Tho proclamation will havo no such ef fect It can not havo any such effect. Its constitutionality is denied. It is still . and in the meantime, it is to bo the controlling issue in a popular election for I’rosidont This state ot things will un doubtedly inspire the slaveholders with a more resolute purpose than over. The effect will not, as heretofore, l>o to pre vent the Abolitionists from freeing the slaves, as a distinct nnd speculative prop osition, but to rescue him from the grasp Of tho enemy already laid upon him. It will redouble their will, and bring out every lutunt onergy. SIT M X Kit HIS MAGNUS APOLLO. Th?. sbumior front Massachusetts (Mr. Sumner) who has lately been re-elected to serve another term of six years in tho body ho ro long ndornod, should, in this crisis, point us to the proper action, llis purely Northern character, his great abilities, his lofty aspirations, his sacri fices for freedom, the on tiro confidence of bis State, so spontaneously bestowed upon him, and that State the noblest in America—all single him out speak with ) also in tins II - ords - lid entloi onto the the country will listen to with honorable member from iVnn-ylvnnm, (Thnddcus Stevens,) ono of the truly great men of America--full of learning" and wisdom tried by long years of ar duous service in this cau-p.wIio ha- cover faltered, and is now re-elect- d in hi* dis trict by overwhelming numbers, stands " ‘ ‘ ’ i tho Nation nifthjmu their .! tribute of toxtilo material. ’ lltutcu, thoy add— and this Tht* -k-nmihin A.ia, O-M-tain Shun nun, i- H»>-■l-r... l.rulio point, the viut knot from Liverpool, itl einht A’olook. on tl... “ r r -f j.m oil morning oftlio Slat uft., mol from Quoonr- I " ,t » lovv yoursolvcs tu ho ovnrivholmed town on tho ovaning <,f tho l.ttn«t.,nr- ’>> tho trainjf flood of di»iro«. Iho riv.^m this port ynstordny (8..^) \TaVlulZ^ .. ,, «>f tho agricultural operation* in April Pan., <„m»i.ni„lenee oftlio N. 1. Uorshi. .tuponds tho Into of our workman. Not The Mediation Despatch to M. Menu> e in | u moment is thorolore to lo lost. The Washington published in the MonitaLr | ( ahinet of Washington must be acted on the Emperor supposed to be pledged \ n t any price, peace must be imposed on tn Recognition ij it fails—Comments of • tho men of the North, and the great tht Imperial | division nin.i be Hlioled, nvon woro At length the oracle ho» spoken. In its ; America to a'.tcrwnrda perish in conse- i-sue of Wednesday morning the M mi. (|Uumv. Kndcavors are, therefore, being (ear published the despatch from M. made with redoubled onergy to.bring Drouyn do I'llu.'- to M. Mercior. which \ about an immudiato and energetic in- left hero on the 10th of January. In spite I tervention, and it is wished to lend tho of its apparent fairneas, and it? admission i Emperor Napoleon uml the British Cub- of tho contingency of a restoration of the iiiet to that step. As to tho question of Union, it is more than ever boheve.l here • right, of principles, and of the future, now that the Emperor i* committed to the ' they aro litllo thought of; tho interests of Mouth, and that tno failureofthisntteinpt, the 1-resent inoiiunt are only attended if it fails, will be followed by the ,v-Mgai- j to. l'he French governiuent compro- tion >■:'. he "<' .>i,*u'r nicy," always in tho ! bends the situation in udifforoiti manner, loterc-t of “liuinaiiity undeoLtoti. If it • and \v<i c. ngratulate it on so doing. It partially succeed*, and our Government donlores the ilnaMers of tho American accepts the proposition bo for us tho up- war, ex|>rc"os wishes for the re-eatab- pointment of commissioners is concerned, liHhmeni ->i peace, and gives counsels to and if these commissioner* foil to arrive the Washington Cabinet which will, wo at any (settlement, thou hi- Majesty, it is , hope, b. \ orubly r«-»-eivcd. The French supposed, will consider that he lias ox- \ govornmt»nt thiiiK* thit n recouno to the liHUstod his efforts and his jiatience, anil iricndi.v «*llicc* of one or more neutral will still recognize the t •■nn-.L :n- », »a..t •' ‘ m. • •* 1 i.; v <«npuliVdc wMi perhaps aid her, if need !••-. l’he general j the legitimate | - lo «>; a great nation. It impression hereU| tlintthodespHtcli means | does not do-puio th<- right of the Federal mischief. governnioni u> decline the co-oparnlion It is positively stated that a dospatcli "f the great luaritimo I'owors of Europe ed a 1 M. Morcicr. in which the French Kmbi states his belief that our Government is now ready to receive mu:Ii a proposition as has been made, and tho official journal, the Mnniteur, is hopeful on the subject. In it* i-sun of the morning following tho publication of the dospatcli, it suvs ; The dospatcli from the French Minister of Foreign A ffairs, calling tho attention of tin- Washington Government to the nceohsity of devising iiu-nin of putting an I It only U'k.s whet In | foreign intorvouth ('abinot iiiaj- no 1 ' i ot dire-t cm litie; who r.-| >f Fn , will, foremost among those of wlv will expect deliveraiico Irom tl>< which encompass it. Let tin- ■ such as the*", speak and tell tlm country | Th what to do in this hour of peril. No thcloss, I cannot refrain from expre-. from my individual oj»inion that the tV tv the Unit, d Slate-. York, which give that tho ipii -tioii i* lay, both lit the N than ig the Iriendly offn riling to all appe; d woll prepaic w - to tho loth, | N. v tho Washington honorably accept the icn-nco with the au- • rcsont tho Southern The New Yankee Military Hill. In the United StaloH Senate, on the Dili inst., a bill was reported from the Military L'ommiUce, “tor enrolling and calling nil the nali-'iial forces and for other purposes. > - ion four provide* that ill persons between the.agc* of eighteen i■■ 1 ' r:y-livc -ti.-ili perf->rni military lut.v v.!i--n i i-led upon )>y the President "delates. Tiie exempts aro as ofth policy of the North is to* tor mi unto the waratonco. The longer it coniinues the worse our situation becomes. Let the houses of Congress adopt tho follow- ing r olutioi Who o 1>h laid dependent, and no l.» . g a common superior; the State is di Ivod, and the .war between the t\\ irties stands upon tho same ground, i •cry respect, as n public war bet wee two different nations.-—Boole 11 U chant' 28. 11 is not to bo wondered u therefore, that so learned and profound the honorable member froi ania (Mr. Stevens) should o: same opinion. jurist Pc THE IlUMo< I Tim d. nn.c 0 separation SfsMdvoUie 1 be banged whether t lie Unii Tb- I.-pro: simply on it*. nt the Li-sla tlm Pi the atloii.— uncou th ing lissourl F cut’s 1 Tool a motion of Em The-o measures they proli stilutional, deny the validity „ or to be done, In pursuaiieo of thorn, iu it ion to this, they attack tho ad ministration on a- - ountof its suspension f the writ of habeas corpus, false im* upti'-n, imbecility, &c., prison tnc tho \ 1 a tho id t h. .1 other incidents. But Integrity' of tho Union, aniant itself. They claim r the sake of the Union, but to be for compromise rather than war. Thoy say very truthfully that tho repub licans have tried force for two years, and exhausted tho country, and Upon this claim tlm adoption of their method a* all that is loft to be done. This is tho manner in which tho politician* of tho country propose lo terminate this great st ruggle. THE GREAT flONK KltV AT I V K l’VHTV. An alliunco seem-, reeontly to havo been effected to tliis end- betwoon certain olu- nts hurotoforo hostilo. The border ,t" politician* arc the remnant of tho \S nig and Known.itliing parly, who. th.-ir !i\ o , cherished an intense hatro.l dc-mocmev. Tl ty t.> effect this ukjeot. 'J’liu ro- is of tlm Albany school, under ,cions leadership of Mr. Weed, long years long lit the Van Burcii ana dually brokeitdown through the agency of free soil, arc also linml in glove with tli-ilr old "ppo'i nt* Thus tho army <>f the democracy take* the field for tho next groat political Puttie, sup ported CMl the left by the follower!! of (.'lay and Crittenden, and on the right by the special frion.U o< Win. II Seward.— Such a hoit may well '--el confident. It is a combination for victory. The ele ments have been well -tiaped. Not iu vain have the border Sm*e |»-•!itic i.tii.- thranged tlm ball of lh« Prcsi-li ntinl mull:.ion. Not : • vain the di-i reel Resolved, by tho Senate and House of Beprcaentativea, Ac., That the Executive lie, and ho is hereby requested to issue a ircnornl order toall cmiimandors of forces ral military Departments of tlm United State*, to discontinue further iffonsive operations against the enemy, iml to ad for the future entirely on the Rcodrrd, Thai tiio Executive be, and » further ronuosted to enter into negotia tions with the authorities of tho Coiifcd- Static with reference to a cessation of lioslllitie*, ha*odon tin* following prop- onitions: 1st. iteeogniliou ot the ln.le- pendeaco of the Co 15.1. Fn'. 4th. Frc rm kv-tem of duties 11ado between the t > navigation of tin ill. M ut nisi adoptioi ii imp! i State roe dootr CAN LIVE TOliETlI Kit, 1 ontiroly disagree with those who as sert, that it is impossible that the North and South could live peaceably side by < lu. boeauso tnei e aro no natural I oun.i- uries bwtwoon the two, such as tho 15 - L.v Moiiiitiiin* or the Atlantic Ocean. 'I tu. is a bugbear with winch we impose upon r ursclve Tn-people of tho North and uli i f Ib id in tho South Was) jnii YaHalid[g hami 's'ji. i'l.e h Alls • physically, i dial ion and an arbitn 1 n tb" Legislature of tho Slate of New Jersey, a proposition was presented, call ing for an armistice and the meeting of a convention to discuss the terms of an amicable arrangement between the North and the South. The press is also exam ining the question, the urgency of which overy dny increiiM *. I give you herewith extracts from the principal 1’aii-journal.-, «•!' articles writ ten * lien the put'licntion oflho ib>|-alcli. It, will be si-.-n they all sire written hi a mild tone, hut on" of them l that of ha France) containing nothing like menace. La Nation (individual organ of tho tIio desperate war which continue* in gulllcieiitl; eral l one t.i a part in th-* res; are in it* result. Knghuid and tlm authority ..f which, ad dial Frai.cr, would have had grni and, according to ali uppi public •> entitle I ibilitic v i-tible Washington iu. 1 ilic task to which they \» cru invite Public "pinion will prop ;ly appri- governinunt The the ' Ii other, in the souse in which tbo ch and English and Kussinns are. i sprung from the same origin, that pa pub! ioi tho *at ,vho fo pen*o with the - whilo they silc. current which i s ith the tide for lack of ■•Id well afford lo dis- lau»u iff the radical*, • i ire< led that undot i gigantic they mid other l*i i of troops, The following dispatch to tho Mobile Tributes oontains the latest intelligonco from that quarter Grenada, Feb. 20.—Tho Federal gun boat Fore-t Rose and thc ram Lancaster arc among the vessels in Yntoo l'a««. . Thoy tnaka but .-low progress in remov ing the obstruction*. ^•ft-Tho Mobile Tribune publishes tho list of parsons between the ago# of 18 nnd and 40 years, w ho have taken the oath as alien* before the unrolling officor at Mo bile. Tho li*t is a formidable one, num bering between 000and KXX) pornons, and we suppose that, should persons between lio called out, it would be larg. LMCd. Tliis publication is a timely and proper ‘•no. Catmot similar lists bo published in k ! the other cities and towns? It is ’U'ht that our people ebou d kuow, after the war is over and trado is re-establish ed, who repudiated the duties of a citizen during the trying hour of tho country in whic h thoy enjoyed protection and rpado their money. Those who evadosueh du- now should be uvoidod boreaft(*r, in tho «li*|mn*Htioii of patronagu and favor. grappl . dcMitinl election. Tho conservatives will triumph. Tho chief clement in tho accomplish- vnent of the reactionary movement is the war which the Imin -'rati-oi i- eonduct- ihg fort)." r>-'<irat:■ i- **f tlie Union.— The war i? indeed ilio trump card of tho Democracy; not war l -r couqiiist, but Mr. Lincoln's war for tbo restoration of the Union. They have no four it will servo the end of Abolition. It ha* pa-sod that stage. Ii* results arc nowin their keeping. All they wish i* it* (prolonga tion. in the first place, it hold* the na tion pledged to the principle that tho Union i.* intact, and tho Constitution open to amendment through .Southern votes. In the next place, tho responsibility of it, being with tho Republicans, it weakens them *ui!ly in the elections. In tho tiiird place, it >• to wear away and doprivo the slaveholder*, and dispose thorn in favor illation. Tho war, in whatever aspect it may bo presented, is an udmira hI the rebellion, the slaveholder* will be brought back ju*a in time to join them in the election. If iti-hould lag and accomplish no results, ns now eeins like ly, this will inevitably injure them a triumph in tho populur vote, 'i heir theory is-—and it is n sound ono—the two force.*, Abolition and Becosvion, now in deadlv conflict, have only to bo permitted to con tinue the fight long enough to wear each other out, and cause the political waters to subside to their former level. TUB ARMY CONAKRY ATI VK. Nevertheless, without refer nice to tho result of tho war, I consider the chances of the Consurvati vos, in the election, far superior to that of the Administration.— Great reliance is placed by ttm latter on the vote ot thesoidior; but, in my opin ion, this is _ delusive. The soldiers will bo a fleeted in liko manner with tho rest of tho people, anJ moreover, will ho tired of military service, and anxious to return homo. They will bo dfr«ntisAed from thou*ntid enuflofr, and dr*ir« a change.- Tim sufferings and indignation, yet to bo The speak the same language, pot nion literature, inherit similar politicsiind religious views, and inhabit regions close ly connected by natural and artificialities. They will therefore both Im American.— The only great difference between thorn Is of asocial and political nature, namely, that which arises from the existence of African slavery in one. and the absence of it in the other. This fact, however, offers no ohstnole whatever to such a sep aration as i* involved in independent po litical jurisdiction; on tho contrary, it greatly facilitate* it. Boforu the Federal Union an* established, all the States weie uidem-ndciit, and associated underartiulus of Confederation, in the iiaturu of a treaty. The arguments now adduced to show tlm impracticability o| present separation between the North and Mouth, go with equal force lo prove the impos-ihilily of what then actually existed and was ac cepted in the <-n»e of the thirteen original States of th" Union The latter stood to ward each other, preci-ely n.* the North and Mouth would stand should they stop the wur and outer into a treaty. It would simply be resolving tho North Mini Mouth into confederate Mutes, resuming a > to them tho old buns of tlm Uonfo-lcration. This would bo the whole of it. It is there for!* a very simple operation. 1 do not suggest this, however, on the idea that should it over bo adopted, tiio separation it implies would he pbrinunout. I believe til at it would insure an ultimate re-union on an Anti-slavery basis. I have confidence in tho inherent vitali ty of Northern civilization I havo no four tomtit in competition with Lin-Mouth. Let them pr.a . - -I -ide by side in tin* race of empire, and wo shall sec which one will triumph. I^roiu Vicksburg. In reg.ir I io tho situation at Vick burg, a correspondent of the Mobile Kcgi-tcr writes fr--m there « n tho I Itli as follow- : The pr '"poets bid very lair lor an n«- •atilt irn111iidlately upon tlm city from tho river in front in met, this i» tho only possibly ipsouroeloft to thorn. The whole Hoot. oi*n prising gunboats and transports, may iiiumimii assault on tho city and al leluia t-< land at the wharf- if unsuccess ful iu tlii* tho vessels can steam <*r drift down sti.-am, which will accompli Ji tho object of getting below. Either thin plan will have to be adopted ! tho /let | fly doi. of running the gauntlet at all Iihz If an advance takes place it will no doubt bo made early in tlm morning, taking ad vantage *f the cover of darkens* to "irate their forces ami bring the s* forth" ) the : th" cause of liu- geimral, and that of labor in particular, niHioienlly merit ieiludu to make it appear not unworthy to him l>» make now ••Ifort-. lie denial*.i h ■ M. Drouyn d" I’ltu.V . umwing hi- attempts in favor oflho rc- ilab ii t of p ii loaves no p< Ibli retro*t to thi 1 I h if th got eminent of Mr. Lincoln if it is Morion*. th"llrsl instance. M Drouyn do l’Uuys lenvi-.* 1" the Anioric.ins alone 1 tlu- right of judging if the inaintoiinnre of the Union is proper and | ilil«*. and upon wlmt bi-i* future iirriiiigcineiits, whatever limy b", shall repose. Ue coniine-* liim- to tlm expression, a'wny* with a per- ig conviction n| tho belief in the pol ity ami propriety of preparing tlm the basis lor a future arrangement, with - ttspondlng on that account tin* nt the war, if tho government oi' Mr. Lincoln think* llnil it- continua tion can tui ii to tlm profit of hi- cause. We must hope that public o'*iuion in the United States and the Government "l Washington will yield to tho honorable and legitimate pr« , .**uro *.f humanity and good :.eii>" ^-diking by the voic of France—and that while penuilting the military operations to follow their coiirn-, if tlmy so desire, the statesmen of the North will not i'oiVi-ulq examiii", inde pendent of all foreign intervention, tin* moans of rendering peace to Americanml activity to European labor. This n- w attempt wa* nee- *-arv. W**feU* iti«t" the Froncli Govi-rninent ll|»on having made it. and history will he tho judge of the obstacle* which may be the means of par alysing Hiich noble intention-. ha France (organoftlio Empress tally, or morally unlit for service a.- are ncccs-at.) for the support of aged ami infirm parent.*, orphans or helpless children, and the only son of aged par- en: \\ there an- two son* of aged parents .’labli-todo duly, tin-father or motlici -hall i*l«*«-t which • I tliclii shall serve tho other shall bo exempted. Tho only brother of orphan children under twelve year* of »go, undali fathers having two or more children, not over fourteen yearn ol age, w lio may lesido oil a farm of tu>t more than titty acre**, on which they are dependent lor Mippnrt; ns also cun- vics and felon.- an exempted. A hill was introduei'd to lurnisli addi- I "iial t mop-, winch provides that every ahle-hodiud male hcl wen tho ages of 18 ami yein**ot A11 cun de-oeiit, made free by the <'unlinciitioii Act. or Urn Kmnnci- patnm 1‘roelai.mlion, -I,all be enrolled t" M-rve during the win . I In* number to be enrolled i* not to exce ddisi uni men. and oil their ill.. Iiargu the private- are to receive tell and I In* coiniiu--*ioi>"d '.•fllcer.: twenty-live in i •• "I land, to be locatudon tliu coiifineatcd laid of tin. rebel-. Tiik Inihan Legion.— Major Thomas, commanding tho Legion of Cliorokoo In dian-, who havo rendered much service to th" Gun federate cause in East Tonne*- ", wa* in mir city yesterday. Tho .\1 nj<*r ia n- w with hi-aboriginal allies in tie mountain- "II th" border between this lie i* The Militia Officers Called Out. STATE OF GEORG I A. ) Adj’t A Ink Gbnkral’k Ovfirk, r Millodgovillo, Fob, 2J, 1863. j General Order 1 N»>. 1. ) 1. Amoving appoul having boon nd- 1 roRSod lo tho pooolo of Georgia by Gon. Beauregard t«» rally for the defence of Savannah, and a call made also upon tbo Governor to tarnish all tho assistance in his power for tho same purpose: His Excellency, as tho readiest nnd most ef fective manner of mooting the Goneral’s uiosL and of contributing us much ns him lie* to tho protection of Georgia's commercial capital, from thchordo ol ab olition ommiosuries seeking to wrest her and her constitutional ri^lit* from tho ami guardianship of the State and oftlio Confederacy, hereby orders all tbo militia offleors of tho State (oxcopt thoHO already tendered to and iiOOQptod by Goncral Beauregard) including General, Field, Staff and Company othqora, t»: ro- pair forthwith -without hesitation or de lay - -to tho city of Savanna), atul report to Gen. Beauregard, to bo organized under his direction into companies, as boreinaftor directed, nnd for duty in tho defence of that city until their service can bo dispensed with. 2. The otliecrs of tho thirteen military divisions oflho State will bo organized at Savannah into, atul will constitute thir teen cninpaiii"*, to be officered ns follows: the Major General of each division will net a Captain of tiio Company formed of his division, with his Brigadier Gen erals, anil so many of tho Field and Staff and company otllcor*, according t<> grade ami rank, II* may lx* requisite, acting as liis Lioutuiinnts, Sorgoants and Corporals, allowing four Lieutenants, six Sergeants and six Corporals to a company. Thu otHcors taking position according to the dai" nf their comuiis.-ions in their grades, and tho supernumerary officers falling into the ranks a? privates. Should a di vision bo without a Major General, as may ho tho caso in two or three divisions, the’Senior Brigadier (tenoralbf it will act ns Captain, and so on in the order of uo- nioritv according to grade. 'fhe transportation to Savannah will be furnished, to tho militia offieora on reaching the line of any railroad, on their exhibiting t" tho ngonis or conductor* of the trains their commissions, or if their commissions bo lost, on a certificate pre viously drawn out, setting forth tholr rank, and tbo district, rogimont, brigade or division to which they aro attached, furnishing al-o their name.-. Which in- formation will bo noted by tho agent or conductor and forwarded to thinollice for eoiupariroii with it records, lo firm a basis of settlement by the (^unrtormnater'a 111 I• i 1 .i ■ ’ K. i.i ■ i •uipniiios will scrutinize carefully tho coinuii'-ioiif and certificates of all claim ing to bo militia officers. inch officer will take with him to nali, a blanket, shot gun, or rifle, er serviceable weapon. But that n < the l."t v Excellency, the Mil hi* the no Thus, - whi This deppatch days pr "pu- ’Cil, the iinmtidiul but only for tho npp«)lutnn.ntofilcl"guteh fr.un tiio two pariie-, win* -Imll im ol for thu ditcu .-ion «>f the questions which di vide the North and the Mouth, and the honorable im mi,- of terminating the wur. Tlm despatch of M. Drouyn do I’lluys i; inspire.l by tho iim-l g. m n»u- sciitiiuent- ol humanity uud tlm livcliot and must sincere syimuitliy lor Nurth America It-eerie iiii|>"«sihbj to us tlint tlm loyal word )f Fram e .-hull bo without Irifim-imi; at VVa^liiiigton. Tho intcr.tiorin which direct it cannot bo suspected— France cannot bo accused of arru re jtrnsr> - con trary to tlm pro-perity and grandeur of American-. What -lio wishes j„, to r«- e-lablish concord bclwoeu cstraf-goU iirethren— to bring tlmin together (f pos sible; to regulate upon equituhlo basi--, the conditions of their separation, if, a- overy political mind clearly see-, the They are the lie* aiuMu nc" tlm go COlllulislind aim* an I hush-whack. Tiioums’ 1 min'"* try t • any i in tortw", c mimunicali'd I n order with relig irupulousiy rospeot ,iere are no reports of i" they nra encamped. -cuts in tho world, • i that tuny liuvu ac- g thu mountain lories - A notion that Muj. ire in a section of emm- :*• m the ilodgars nt oimo, ft»r w that hiding out will not avail lu- < lieri*:.* By tlieir aid tlm I, without bloodshed, a ii hi* corps of sappers have thus been convert- •v.uis lories and bush- ployed!* of tlie ili-rnlc Got criiment. Tho Mnj if tin* war In-1 -. will yul bn of in Aid to -ervice to tin Govorninonl. — Knoxville Register, 21 t. SlatiiN of the North-West. The Mobilo Ailvorlinor 6c Keg., writing no uoubt <«n th authority of Gen. Price, win* wi- if' ii iu tlio city diroot from Itichiii"i'd, . We have private infoniiation from Kid iid i - the effect that tiio quobtion • •I the 'N"rtliwc-t' engages a large share of Hli' i'Siui iu high qiiaitdrs at the seat of <i«'\vrnn. r.» It b believed that over- mi., hnv. boen made by leading men of belli panic- of the Stale* named, uccom- puniu l by u—uruuees that if they could bn received into the Mi'Uthern league their troop* would ho recalled and tho stepped iii twenty four Imum. Thu pro position, it i- further said, liu* many friends among public men in Richmond, and h Urn subject of debate in secret .4" -ion of Gufigrcs*. 'l'he army of Gen. Lee i* mid to bo decidedly ill favor of the measure, as the price of peace ami vengeanc* on the F>u-turn Yankees. Those htatemonts como to us from r most reli-ble source, ami wo give thorn at their value, for tho information of out thor . prepn all that report with weapon, with which, suggents, Im can 1 friends." will take with hi food hiuuolf until ho porting an otllciuit lighting a- (»nn. Boauregurd kill his oiiuiniori or Knell mail moreover provision* enough to roaclio* Muvannali, , . lie will bo subsisted by t Iin Confederate authorities. As tlm companies are organized, Ui’ci ply with the view of carrying troops below, it will no doubt take place in tho nigLt- I have already furnished you by tele graph an account of thepassage of another gunboat i»a«t_ our batteries on Friday night. Trio displuy of signal lights und rocket- among tho enemy gave us to un- dorstand that an advance might bo in contemplation. Our batteries were mann ed by watchful sentinels, and tho guns immediately opened, hut tlm effect could not ho discovered. The darkness was too great to sec tho boat, and our gunners had to bo guided entirely by by tho noiso of tbo pulling Htoam. By this passage ono part of tiio pro gramme isdomonstrated—that of running tho boats below ; consequently tho ex pected assault upon tho city is not now so imminent as before. Tho Jackson M i*sissippian of tho 11th instant, says : “Among tho distinguished guests, now temporarily located at the “Flag of tho Union," is a dried specimen of humanity who rejoices in tho sobriquet of “Monkey Jew." It is alleged, that for tho tTifling considoratlon of sixty thous and dollars, ho agreed with tbo Yankees at Baton linugoto have all the guns nt Fort Hudson, La., well spiked, so that tho Federal fleet could pass up tho river, nnd connect with their brethren at Vicksburg. By snmo means forever 1; e bean worthy oftlio <>tli r« t<* second tho French G" 1 thi- work of rccnnciliatior ot complain of being nfonc jM'iiccful alb.it, and nru proud this tlie role. v. Iiicli matter. It s difficult to predict tlm re ception which tlie-ij impoiLwit proposi tion* will receive in America. However, \yo have a right to cuint upon the pruc- licat reason of tho Federal Government and tho good sonso of President Jollorson Davis. Wo count particularly upon tlm pro gress of moderate ideas to prevent tho French proposition from being refused by a simple reflection of it. All civili/ud countrie* -utl"r, ull tho laboring popula tion are reduced, to misery by the fault and the separation of the North Ameri can*. It will roquiro only good faith on their part to abridge the term of these sufferings. In truth wo have a right to usk, in tho hypothosis'of a new refusal, If the European Power* will not havo the right to enforce at la«t, what Franco now counsels und solicit* in terms so amicable ami which so little resemble an interven tion. Tho Opiniuuc Nntionale (organ of Prince Napoleon) says: A -y nip tom has appeared in certain English and Fronch Journals to which it desirable to call attention. Thus. nncM.ec. We learn from a lady who lull Nash ville live day* since, the position ofafluir* in that vicinity. Mhu was refused u puss- port, and watched her opportunity and • lino out by Lebanon, Alexandria, nnd Eil. rty, and them <• by road between Woodbury and M«Minnvillo, avoiding ■■ tuit'iiiv * pi* k"i* tlm wiiole route. The i»eopb* of N'li-liviilo are not suffer ing now for tlm n very desponiling subjugated. Flour I* "idling in Nashvillo at three ib*Bn*> per hundre«l, sugar ten cents, und cidlbo fifty cent- per pound. Kuscncr.ni/.'" army has a plenty of sup- pli"-. brought down tho Louisville uml Nu-hvitlo Railroad, which was completed within Hire weeks alter its destruction. Tin -uiemy have been heavily rein- foji • J. ami the main army is in advance of N ishvilb*, there being but few troops in iu.-I about Hie city. This being the. situation of affairs in tho front, we look for an early advance now, and a great battle firing the next two weeks. Tliero wore a number of pontoon bridges lying outside of thaonomy’s linos near Nashville for aonio time, which were not guarded, nnd it is a groat pity our cavalry did not learn tlie facts in limo to have dostroyod thorn. However, it is too late now, as tho Abolitioniata have removed them to Murfroosbr under an oscort of five thousand which is further proof of their llctin, 21.x/. From keuturkj' "Wo learn from a reliable source that the Kentucky Convention will surely come oil'on tho 21st, of Fobruary, and the object of that Convention will lie lo make the Mtato go with thu Mouth. Our information is from such a sourco a- to place it beyond doubt that tho (Jun- rcully assembled yesterday at cl thorn will lie made out the Captains for payment or other purposes: tin* olliocr.* and men being paid iib (’i.ptain-, Lieutenant*, Sergeant.*, Corporals uml Private.- according to tho potiiona actually hold by them iu tho companies while in service. 6. Any militia officer not obeying thin summon.* and reporting immediately ns herein ord« red, will, if within thu age fur i rn-. ription, bo no lunger exempted, but will bu repotted to tho proper officer for enrollment m the Coiitedunite survico; ami if lie bo beyond thu conscript ago, he will be tried by Court Martial, for diso bedience of orders. That them may lie no excuse for disobedience, ou the plea of ignorance of the order, newspapers throughout tho Statonro rouuosted togivo it immediate publicity, oneh will insert oiicn and aorul in bill, and patriotic citi zens nru urged to make it known through their counties. 7. All able bodied citizens, whether subject to militia duty or not aro earnest ly invited to volunteer, till the emergen- eg t* passed, in answer to (Jon. Beaure gard 1 .* eloquent uud patriotic appeal. Ali who volunteer will be expected to con form for tho time tlieir norvicos nro Hood ed to tho rules which govern troops in service, and to nuch organization as tiio commanding General may find it nocos- sary t • order. To facilitate their Journoy to Muvannali tlo; Railroads will ho author ized to pa.-o uli volunteers who present certificate* of militia officers that tney tiro volumcer-mi tlieir way to Savannah.— The certificate must, in oat h case, givo tlm inline *d tho .volunteer and hi* place ol rcsidomv, und must give the name and rank of Ine officer, with tho county of Ills re-idem or it will not ho rocognizod when preseiitml for pnymont. h H thi* order is promptly carried out, it i* expected that from two to three tUuc.-und able bodied effective men will Im added t" the forces at Savannah lima to a**ist iu repelling the assaults of tlm miomy. Tho high character, intelli gence uml military training of thu per buns of whom this force will be coittnos ed, justified the expectation entertained by tlm Ceiuiiinndur-in-Chief, that they will not only render the State tho most olfoctive service in this hour of trial, but will d upon the make them invincible, and will satisfy all llutl. injustice has been done tlie mili tia officers of Georgia by those who have louhtod tlieir willingness to sacrifice their lives, if nooil be, in tho defence of tlieir Statu. By order of tho Gommamlor-in-Chlof. II KNRY G. WA YNE, Adjutnut and Inspector General. Tlie Alabama—Her Capture ot' the llattcraM—Ovation to Capt. Scmmos. Tho arrival of tho Alabama a K/nu- slon, Jamaica, nftor hor exploit in sink ing tho Hatleras, has boon published.— Tho Florida is also there, and, a.* tho Yankee papers report, "is wutchod by tho U. S. stcnmorsli. Jt. Cuylcrand San tiago do Culm." Tho Kingston Standard, of tho 20th ult, says : The Alabama is consigned to Messrs. Charles Levy & Co., of this city, and is now receiving coal, &c., nt. Port Koyal, from Me.ssr*. T. J). Pass Co. Mho called into this port to receive casual re pairs. Capt. flommos, we loam, waited — llis Excolloncy, tiio Lieutmunt-(Jov- ernor, in Spanii-h Town, yesterday.— Several of tho Confederate offleors wore ashore in gray uniforms, ord wo loam tlmt tho prisoners will bo loft in charge of tho Amorioan Vico Consul hero. Wo understand that in tho encounter tho Alabama received some damage, and that sovoral ship-wrlghts and caulkers have boon dispatched to Port Royal to repair tho damages. AVo gather tho fol lowing additional particulars: On Sunday tho lllh inst., at about 21 o’clock, the Brooklyn, sloon of war, 21 guns, Com. Bell, lying at Galveston, Texm, discovered a anil, which she sup posed to ho a merchantman running tlie uloekiulo, nml immediately signalized tho Hattoras to givocliaso. The lfntteras puraiio.i her until dark. The Alabama then hove to and awaited hor approach. Tho Hattoras was prepared, aqd ull the non wont to quarter.*. She bespoke the '.ranger, who replied she was “Her JJri- tannic Majesty’s steamer Petrol." Cunt. Blake, of the Hatteias, rosjionded. In the ra sun time tho Alabama attempted to nmmuuvrn to tho stern of tlie Hattoras.— While off thu port quarter Capt. Blake said lie would aond bin lmat on board, and while in tho act of lowering the boat tbo Alabama sent a blank cartridge Astern of tlfo llattorus. Mho bailed her and said she need send no boat, us she was the Confederate steamer Alabama. Captain Blake lb on gave tho ordor to lire, and tho engagement ensuod. In about ten min- a hole was discovered between wind und water in tlm Matt eras. Fire also broke out in the fore peak in tiio lower dock, but was put out. A shot \vu* sent through her steam-chcst. She then sur rendered, being completely disabled.— The Alabama nent nil her boats to take tho crow off and in a few minutes nftor this sho sunk. Only tho ship papers were saved. The Alabama made Port Royal in eleven days. A boat’s crow from the Hattoras. seven in number, is missing, supposed to havo gone back to Galves ton. Little personal injury was sustained on both sides. Capt. Seinnios had a reception at tin* Commercial Exchange, at Kingston, which whs given to him by the merchants of tlmt city, ilo was lustily cheered. Tho American Consul hail chartered the ship Borrodino to bring tiio crew of the Hattoras to tiio United Mint* *. Pcoplo must have corn It must he grown on plantations. Negroes must plant and cultivate and gather it. I King Cotton attempts to starve tho peo ple, lio is in (lunger of sompthing worse than a short crop. The standard of selfishness may lio set too low for self-proservution. It inuy, in thu ond. provo better lo have planted all corn in 18(1)1, and realize no profit from it, Limn to have planted all cotton and made a fortune. Wo appeal to the patriotism of tho country to plant Corn ! Corn! ! Corn ! I ! Let uaJiuvo corn to feed tho soldiers, and to food the people. Let cotton bo fot alone wbile our soldier* are hungry. Citizens, untry is bleeding at every pure. Mho luiplor*'.* you tu save her. Mha points you to the chain n tyrant 1ms forged tor her. Mho points to the gunut and hungry strikou men who stand butwosu her and the tyrant. Mho points to tlieir families about you, Can you be indiU'oront? Can you still pursue your Bilflsh purpos- Then, God have mercy on your souli*!—Houston (IV.ras) Telegraph. Harper’s Weekly for the current week givo* tho Prosideat a hard hit. Lincoln is represented a* a theatrical manager buforo tho foot-lights. Hit attitude is obsequious in tho extrema. The follow- g is his litllo announcement: Malinger Lincoln—"Ladies and Gon tlonion. I regret to say that tho Tragedy entitled ‘Tho Army of thu Potomac/ has boon withdrawn, on account of Quar rel.* among tbo lending Porforinor*, und l have substituted three new Farce* or Burlesques ; ono, entitled Tho Repulse at Vicksburg, by thu well known popular favorilo, K. M. Mtnnton, Esq., nnd the others, 'Tho Loss oftlio Harriet Lane'and nloits of tho Alabama’—a very aw cot tiling in Farces 1 assure you—-by the Veteran Composer, Gideon Wollos. Enolihh Feeling on the American Wail--The London Times nays tlmt wo have all learnt the doctrine of indepen dence, und there is scarcely a peer or a person ho much of a Tory amongst us a* not to sympathize with Washington against George lli. Wo sympathize with every community sufficiently unanimous and strong, with sufficiently good causo to assort and establish Its independence. Much a community wosoo in thoMuuthorn Hiatus. What uli desiiu warmly and un- reiorvodly is the earliest possible agree ment to divide, and tho comidetod possi ble healing of all mutual injuries und sores—that ia both a more practical and a pious wish limn that which forma I’Mr. Bright's Imr- intnndfed paragraph is taken i tho New York Tiuu taring crisis infinitely more serious than j A friend of ours bus rocoivod a letter thoMi of Lancashire und of the Heine* J from Frankfort, tlie contents of which ho . . inforieure, and in devising tiio means of 1 will not disclose to us, but assuros us that L*lr brethren at Vicksburg, warding off that scourgo they exclaim, | tho above intelligence is eorroct. or other befell among our j "The causo of the evil ia in Amoru-ti, ami j slates further, that tho troops tlmt .... i, who packed him away for future it is from that country tliut tho infallible Mtato have all boon withdrawn, and go reference. A single glance at his hard- ! remedy must bo demanded. Cuuso tlie I to Nushvillc, to reinforce lloaencranz'a ened phiz would go far to convince a the- blockade to bo raised, nnd you will soon j army. ologisn as to tho doctrine of total deprav- I have tho 8 million halos of cotton which ! The advance of Ghcnauit's rogimont is lty. He is now anxious to bo released on arg piled up in the warehouses of the j now at Stuignll'a Ferry, a point " ' 1,r ’ ’ j ‘fouibornStates. Jle-oeublish peaco, and Uiimburlund 1 writ of habeas corpus. river, fifteen miles from u late numbor New York Times: Tlie boat from Ml. Louie just in brings intelligence of the arrival there yesterday oi tho rclnd pii*.«ncr#from Arkansas Post. A11 intelligent pas*ongor informs me that there wa- u very numerous gathering u|»-»n thu luveoto witness, and, iw it pro ved, "ii the part "f hundreds of upon sympathizer*, to welcome their arrival, uud to make tin* occasion a kind of ovation to treason. Finding to many friends the dock, und so many matiitestations of sympathy, tlie rebel prisoners gave t"*liouts an I savage outcries of doll which tom rc*poiult.d to from the landing. Duo of tin* private*, 11u.ru impudent and longucy than thu ru*t. volunteered to l Rpoke-rnun for the crowd, and, mounting a temporary rostrum, harangued tho as sembly for an hour iu thu mo»t oxciting nml treasonable language. He applied to the Yankees every term of abuse and contempt which his peculiar vocabulary could furnish, without thu slightest inter ruption from tho officers in cliargo.— Barrels of apples were brought down to the dock, their bonds stove in, uml their content* .showered among tlie prisoners. And Lliia is thu way we receive in a l'nion Tho Winchester Bulletin of tho 20th has been informed by one of our (fonfodoruto Judges, who has just arrived from Mc Minnville, that news bus reached that place from Kentucky, which ho con sider* reliable, that the Legislature of that Mint.* pa**cl resolutions on tho 12th inst., calling 011 their Governor to issue a proclamation calling nil the Kentucky troops in tho Federal army home at once, to u-hi«t in preventing Lincoln from car rying eut his emancipation proclamation. Curb for Uiiii.lh.—A lady subscriber to tlie Winchester. Toni!., Bulb-tin thinks it would bo woll for us to inform our readers and the public generally, that the marrubium vulgaris plant, commonly called hoorhound, Is a certain euro. Boil it in water and drink freely of the lea, which though vory bitter !i a sure reme dy. It cured her. CoS FEDERATE COTTON WARRANTS anu FeukkalGrkkn Back*, in Lon don.—Thu 1.on*Ion correspondent of the Munclioter Uunrdiaii, in -pointing oftlio value of Confederate Cotton Bonds and Federal Green Hacks in London, says: Whib- the enormous now i*«uei of p«- por money by the Federal Government announced by the liixt mail nro tho sub ject of very unfavorable comment, and while the credit of tho North in tho London money market is down to zoro, it is stated positively tlmt there is no difficulty found in tho negotiation of Southern cotton Warrants. I boliovo tlioio cotton Warrants, which derive 11D thoir value from tho assumption of tho certainty of recognition at no very dis tant period, cru being very largely used at this moment, both in the London and provincial iimrkoU, in the pnrchn*c of ship* and . Lore* by the (foilfederate Gov ernment. The tlirco millions and a quarter hales of cotton still ill *toro in the South scoins to bo a perfectly safe security, and the idea of “repudiation'' doc* not seem to suggest itself to those who tli 11 a constitute themselves creditors of the Mouth. On tho other hand, it is difficult to find any ono who believes that the Federal government can bo trusted • ‘.o rcpudlnto oven its debt to its A Form 1 daiii.k ConkkdkkarK.—-The following is from tho No v York Herald of the 1 Ith : The steam or Goorginna, tho tender of the Alabama, was in tiio harbor of Holy- hood, England, and wont to sea on thu 24th of January, bound Ibr Nassau. Mho has a foriuidoDlo crow of rougli-lcokitig man of almost ovory European national ity. She mounts twenty-eight guns, and carries out a quantity of ton uud other nec essaries for tho uso of tho crow of thu Al abama. A letter from Holyhead say* : “Her crow—rather numerous, by the way- wore nil bearded like jmrds' and ruininded tho hystandur.s forcibly of Cooper's heroes. She is bound for Amer ica, and looks just tiio thing for running tho blockade.” Ou tho 2i)th of January thoclippor ship Eliza Bonsai I, Captain Stalker, arrived at Liverpool from Nassau, with about 1,600 bale.* of cotton. Thu cotton was brought to Nassau by tho “blockade broakoi A Goon W001. Dye.-—A gontlomun in Terrell (fo., G.i, * ays a good dye for wool, or woolen cloth, may bo made of whito oak and Spanish oak bark. Mako a strong decoction of these barks, nml lot tho good* remain in it n day or two, and then not tho uyu by dipping them in u wuak linio water. Unwritten History -General Burnside before tho Investigating Committee —Startling Developments, ypoclftl Dlxpat&ll to Philadelphia Iuquiror. Washington, Feb. 8.—Gen. Burnaido was before tiio Committoo on the Conduct of thu War, to testily in response,to tho resolution of thoHoimto inquiring of his having boon interfered with in his plana for tho taking of Richmond. His testi mony rovoalcd s.une startling facts; nono of tho committee doubted Iiih word, and yet thoy were slow to boliovo tlmt more than one General has boon guilty of troaion. Charges now hung ovor tho heads of Boveral offleors, which, if truo, any othor Government than our own would order thom to a military exocutiou forthwith, Hia testimony will probably not all bo reported to tho Sonata at pres ent. Perhaps it. will not bo published to tho world until after tho war is ovor. Tito difficulties that General Durnsido ha* hud thrown in his way sinco liis taking command, from the day tho pon toons were nut forthcoming, as per agree ment with Gons. Hallock and Meigs, to the day ho resigned, woro of all lunda. Imbecility, cowardice, apathy and troa- aun met him at ovory turn. His orders wore net always oboyed just when they should bo; officers irom whom more should havo boon expoclod, shirked their duty; treason in our own camps oxposod his plans to tho enemy as rapidly as thoy were formed, nnd jealous officers suc ceeded more than once in preventing a forward movement at tho opportune mo ment. It is boliovod that tho court martial of General Franklin will bring many facts to light, and show to tho country why wq have again failed to take Richmond mid destroy tho rebel army of tho Poto- Uoncral Burnside has again demanded tlmt a command bo given him where ho can ho of some vrviou in suppressing tho rebellion, or In* will resign hia commis sion. Tlie statement which 1ms boon go ing the round* of the press that ho has *uid Gon. McClellan is the only man who is competent to lead tho army of thu Po tomac, i* ontiroly false. Men claiming to bo the especial friends of Gon. McClellan Imruproved to be the worst onurnios of General Burnside and of tho country. After Gom-ml Burnside had given his testimony before tho committoo ho was invited upon thu floor oftlio .Sonata by Senator Chandler, and received tho con gratulation* of many Moimtors. Ho wan then introduced to thu floor of tho House by Hun. Jolm Oovodo, and amid much excilument, he received the congratula tions of all tho members oxcopt a few “copperheads," for his gallunt aorvloei. lie then went into tho Speaker's room, d a general rush took place from tho lies’ galleries and take him by AN ACT to prevent. an«l |>iinbJi tho planting und oiiltivntiuir it\ th<* Mtato of (luorf tii, over a certain iin.-iMity i.r land lu Cotton, duriua tin* war with ttm Abolitionists. Mic tion 1. The General Asssombly of Georgia do enact, Tliut it shall not ha lawful f<»r any person or persons, whether fo plant and cultivate in any < < unty In this Mtato, by tliom-ehv.-, their agents or employees, or allov. tkw bwduu", a a renter num ber of acres -if luiid'iii notion than (11) throo acres fur each bund uwnod or employed by them between the age* of fifteen and thirty-live; and when said person or per sons inny own or employ hands ovor fifty- . livo years of ago and under sixty-five, or ovor twelve years of ago und under flf- 1.oon, two of *uid hands shill) ho counted as ono hand; and therefore eaid person or perHuiia may cultivate and plant thrno acre- of land in cotton, and no more, for every two uf said hands owned or am ployed by them. Hr. '. 2. That overy violator of this law shall bo guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shnll bo flnod, for every aero ao planted more than throe to thu haml or hands, or six to tho two hands or hands, or nine acres to t he throo liuiuls or hand*, and so an in proportion to the number of hands employed, tho sum of live hundred dollars for oach and every acre s" plautud above Uie number •pecifiod ; "tie half of w’hlchaum shall be, in rases where there is a prosecutor or in former, paid to said prosecutor or inform er, niul the other half paid to tho Inferior Court«f tho county whore tho conviction take* plnoo, for tho benefit of indigent fioldicr*' fntnlliott in said county. Mk< That any person or persona who may intend <*r dcsiro to prosecuto any person <>r persons for the violation of this Ad, inny, upon application to any .rUfltico of tho Inferior Court of said county, supported by an affidavit tlmt ho has good reason to boliovo that said law has been violated, obtain an ordor requi ring tho County Surveyor, or his lawful deputy, to enter tho promises of said person, and iriuko a survey of all tho land* so planted and cultivated iufootton, and said porson shall pay'suid Surveyor for making said survey, his usual fees, which shall be.taxed in the bill of costs on tho final adjudication of tho sAnio. Meg. 4. Tlmt all owners of slaves or omphiycos shall give in, to tho Tux Re ceiver, th" number of bands owned or employed by them, between tho ages of twelve Kin] fifteen, and fifteen and fifty- five, and fifty-ft vo and sixty-five, each year during said war. Meo. 5. Tlmt tho Judges of tho Huporior Courts ho required to givu this law spe cially in charge to tiio Grand Juries, at oach term of thoir courts, during said war with the Abolitionists. Assontod to Deco mo or U, 1862, Circular. Headquarters District Ga., ) Savannah, Feb. 22d, 1863. | Tho Brig. Gen. Commanding having ibcoived Irom tho patriotic citizens of Gorgia, numerous tenders of service, and learning that many others are onx- iou* to delond thi*, thoir chief oity, now threatened with attack, heicby announces fur tho infbrdiation of all concerned, that I,.1 tics ires nil able-bodied exempts in Georgia, fo organize themselves into com panies "f not lo-* limn twenty; to choose tli"ir officers; to arm thouiHolvos with doublo barrel shot guns, or such weapons as they can obtiin ; to provide themselves with nil the ammunition they can secure: and tu hold themselves roady to respond to-hia call. They will not be summoned here until the actual approach oftlio Abolition forces render* t heir aid accessary. Transporta tion to Mavaiuiah will bu furnished ; thoy will be provided with rations whilo hor©, and. a- far as possible, with tents and ammunition; tha supply of tho two last, however, being limited, every tent anil every ounce of ammunition that can bo obtained must ho brought. Arms cannot bo promised. All corn- panic* that may bo organized will bo re ported, with iliunuriiborofmunand arms, the. quantity of ammunition and other supplies, npd the address of tho officer in c .irtinnnd; thoy will be summoned when tlm emergency arise*, and will be return ed to thoir homes the' moment it has passed. Tlm Brigadier-General commanding hereby return# his hearty thanks to tho many patriot* who havo tendered their unsolicited aid ; to those nion of wealth, who, like Thomas S. Motculf, of Augusta, have, iu this hour, sustained the Mtato with tlieir tro.;-ure: and to those hun- d rod fluff others wu» und nothing to offer but Ifo ir Iff I. II" beg- that this notico may be recolvcl a* a reply to many let ters which public duties provent him from answering explicitly. Tho Mtato of Georgia hav- reason to bn proud of tho spiritofhor people. Through all these day* of poiil she has not lagged behind tho foremost of hersoveroign sis ters ; and in till*, her hull/ of trial, she.is not recreant to her old and honor oil name Never wa.* hor devotion to principle mid duty sterner, and hor great heart pulsates stil l with nn flagging zeal. The Brigadier General Commanding is well assured that thoUBnridfl of patriot citizens will organize and proclaim them- •holvos roady to dofond tho gatoway to their State, or to fall, if need bo, in tbo breach beside the bravo soldiers of tho Confederacy, who, through long axd weary months, Often darkenod by priva tion and wasting disease, havo cheerfully waited hero to meet thu oneffiios of their country, By command of Gon. M ercbil Geo. A. Merger, A, A. Q*