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ATLANTA, GEORGIA:
«SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 1863.
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Examination of General Greta’* Flan of
Finance-
NUMbIr IV.. ;
it U one qf tbe conduriona of General Green
ibat the inSmenie public debt of England is
easily borne by the people of that country be
cause they are themselves the “debtors as well
as the creditors," and the immense sums paid
by them as taxes are received by them as divid*
ends* In his pamphlet containing (he proceed
ings of the Macon Convention appears the fol
lowing passage:
“This fact is so important as illuatrating the
capacity of an industrous and intelligent peo
ple to absorb a domestic public debt that we
give a table, showing the number of persons
entitled to receive dividends on the public debt
of the United Kingdom, which proves that, large
as that debt is, it has has been absorbed and is
held by the masses—by the persons of small in
comes—by the people, who have placed their
surplus earnings in that fund, as a safe and per
manent investment, and who have thus become
inte'ested in the stability of the government. 1
The fallacy involved in this reasoning lies in
assuming that because a large debt is u domes'ie
debt, and is due from one portion of the people to
another, it is less an incuptbrance than if due
from the same people to a foreign country.. If
England bad borrowed capital abroad for pro
ductive purposes, or one portion of her people
had borrowed' capital iro n another, no question
could arike as to the beneficial effect of such an
operation; But the inode or manner in which
the capital is applied makes all the difference
in the result. The British debt represents a
capital wasted, much the greater part of it, in
war, and had been drawn from the people in
taxes. If the sums thus abstracted 'from pro
ductive employments in taxes, and distributed
as dividends, a part may be reasonably supposed
to be returned to the channels of productive em
ployment, but much the larger part is unpro
ductive^ expended’, while the portion expended
productively has been diminished by the charges
incidents! 'to. the collection sf taxes. But in
whatever way the dividends may be employed
the capital baa been irretrievably sank, and the
people are annually taxed to pay the interest on
the debt. Not only would there have been a
larger fund for profits and wages, but there
would have hoen a greater surplus for the main'
icnance of a more numerous population, or the
subsistence of the tame population in greater
physical comfort. The income from the capital
that has. been sunk would not have assumed the
lo/arof dividends, but would have been'distrib
uted td. a larger number of recipients.
General Green adverts to the fact, familiar
to those who have looked into these subjects,
that a large number in England have invested
their surplus earnings in the British funds
“as.a safe and profitable investment, and
who have thus become interested in the sta
bility of the government." The evidence that
if % large public debt exists, it is better that
the proprietors of tho stock should be more
than less numerous, is conclusive. It
much more desirable that 498,152 persons
who hold stock should be entitled to divi
dends from $25 to $500, than that 42,104 per
sona should hold stock entitling them to div-
dends from $1,000 to $10,000 and upwards,
bat this is not the principal purpose for which
this' fact’has been cited.- ’It was to show
connection between the large number of per
sons in England receiving dividends of small
sums on the pubUo debt, andj the proposition
of General Green that the debtors were, the
creditors—that the payers of taxes wero the
receiver* of dividends, thus identifying them.
If this were the case, it would only furnish
another exemplification of the old saw, tak
ing money out of one pocket to put into
another. The same class are, however, not
both “debtors and creditors”—the sums
“paid by themselves as taxes, are not received
by themselves as dividends." Some of the tax
payers may be dividend receivers, but th6
much greater numb r of the peoplr are tax
payers in another form than that of direct
contributors to the Treasury in money. They
are contributors,.as -producers or consumers,
either in diminished profits, if the former, or
- in the increased price of the taxed artiole,
the latter, according to the ratio of demand
to supply. It is not a question, therefore, be
tween the payers of taxes and the receivers
of dividends, but a question between tne re
ceivers of dividends and the whole body'ot
the British people. The rationale of this sub
ject is-easily understood with a little atten
tion. V ; -o = ■-
The British Government issues offers for
loan, we will suppose, of £10,000,000 at 5 per
cent; per annum. This sum is borrowed and
sunk, we will irasgine, in the expanses of wsr,
or in any way that dors not reproduce the value
destroyed. All the reproductive power which
would have existed if the amount borrowed
had found its way into the channels of produc
- live employment is, ot course, annihilated. An
additional sum of £300,000 is to be annually
collected for interest. This would constitute
a perpetual mortgage and lien on the whole in
dusuy of the country. But this is not
whole extent of the burthen or lost. It teaches
not only tbe.tsx payers, but every mao, woman
and child in the Kingdom, in the deprivation
some portion of material comfort, according
the degree of their wants or necessities,
us suppose an increased Excise placed on Malt
which being an important material ia the man-
- niactbre.of Beer, almost a necessary of Ufa with
the British working classes, must inevitably
raise its prioe, unless the supply exceeds t
demand, and then the tax tails on the Brewer _
the diminution of his profits. As the whole com
inanity are included in the class either of pro
ducers or cemsumers none can escape one or the
other ol the imposts imposed, in one shape.or
other, Excise, Direct lax or Duties. Now asihe
receivers of dividends on the Public debt con
stitute but a small proportion, however numerous,
the whole community, it is easy to determine
the truth ol General Green’s remark, that the
xes levied In England to pay the interest on
her Public debt, Ik a contribution “from them*
selves to themselves”—that they are Loin "debt*
or* and creditors,” in an identical sense.
General Green adduces the l&rge number of
deposits in the Savings Banks in Great' Bri
tain, as an additional illustration of the read
iness of the people to invest in the public
stocks, at a low rate of interest, the number
of depositors being 1,304,833, and the sum
deposited, in 1855, being $181,315,075. The
people who deposited their savings in tho
Banks taking charge of them, had no option
on the snbject, for Parliament took entire
control of the deposits, and ordered them in
vested in the public debt, if they had been
invested in the shares of ibe Bank of Eng
land, or those of the Joint Stock Banks,
nearly the whole of them would have found
their way to the general public for JVofitsble
investment, at a higher rale of inters t than
was received, bearing only 2 94 per cent
'that they had to aocept of a loner rate than
they could have obtained, was not a volunta
ry act, bat forced on them Bat the purpose
for which General Green cites this circum
stance, is to show that this large investment,
with that made by other classes in the British
public debt, affords a measure sbowiug how
large a sum may be absorbed for a paper car
reuey. It affords no such measure, and can
not, in the nature of things. The only rela
tion known and recognized between the quan
tity of ourrenoy of any kind and its value,
is that of demand—demand influenced by
the number , of exchanges to be performed
and payments to be made. There is no con
ceivable connexion between these circumstan
ces and the amount of dividends on a public
debt, in whatever way those dividends may
be distributed.
Banking and the use of credit, as explained
by General Green, will next engage our at
tention. C.
Our Special IUcliinon.il Correspondence.
Congressional Faille*—The Imprest incut Bill—Important
Decision ti the Attorney General—Kentucky; Her
Spirit crushed—Ttiat young hero—Habeas corpus—
Cilioline icfloecco In Congress.
Impressments.
The following bill was presented to Congress
some time ago to regulate impressments when
it became necersary. It has not yet Become a
law:
A Bill to b* entitled a* act to authorise and reg
ulate impressment of private property for the
use of the army and other military purposes.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact: Any officer of the
Confederate States, commanding a military dis
trict or department, inty authorize the impress
ment by an officer of a grade not lo-ver that!
captain under special order, of property other
than the property of a State of the Confederate
States for the nse of the army or other military
purposes, by order in writing, whenever he is
satisfied that the same cannot be procured in
due time, exept by impressment.
Sec. 2. Where slaves are required to labor
on iortificationS or other public works the im-
E ressment shall be made in accordance with the
iw of the State where they are employed and in
the absence of such law in accordance with rules
and regulations not inconsistent with iheproa
visions of this set, to be prescribed Itiiiii time
to time by the Secreniry af War: Provided, no
impressment of slaves shall be made where
they can be hired at the usual market rates.
Sec. 3. In no instance shall any 'individual
be deprived by impressment of tho amount of
provisions required tor the comfortable wupptiri
For his family, nor except under circumstances
of extreme urgency, to be declared in the order
of the commanding general, shall any individ
ual be deprived of the grain, forage, slaves or
other properly necessary for the use of his
plantation.
Sec. 4. In all cases of impressment, just
compensation shall be made tor tbo property
seized, whether the absolute ownership, or the
temporary use' or hire only thereof is demanded.
If the owner and impressing officer cannot agree
upon the amount of such compensation, it shall
be ascertained and determined bp the judgment
of three loyal and disinterested freeholders of
the city, county or pariah in which the impress
ment is made; one to be eelected by the owner
one by the impressing officer, and the third t
be chosen by these two. The persons thus se
lected, after taking an oath to appraise the prop
erty impressed, fairly and impartially, which
oath the impressing officer ia authorized to ad
minister, shall proceed to assess the full value
of the property seized, as well as the amount of
cempensation for its tempoiary use or hire
where that only is required : and also to deter
mine upon the application- ol the impressing
officer, which application is to be made only in
extreme cases, what amount ol provision would
furnish a liberal support for the family ol the
owner. And it shall be the duty of such per
sons to make out a certificate to be signed by
all the parties, in which the violations herein
provided for shall be declared, and the property
impressed, where its temporary use or hire only
is demanded, described' with such minuteness
as to identify it,-and to deliver one copy thereof
to the owner, and one to the impressing officer.
Sec. 4. Where property has been impressed
for temporary use or hire, and is lost or destroys
ed witnout the fanlt of the owner, the Con
federate States sh >11 pay the lull value thereof,
as ascertained under the provisions of this set.
If such property, when returned, has, in tlie
opinion of the owner, been injnred*whilst in the
public use, the amount of damage thereby sus
tained shalL be determined in ' the manner pre
scribed in the fourth section of thia act; the
officer returning the property, being authorized
to act on behalf of the Confederate States, and,
upon such inquiry, the certificate of the value
ot the property when originally impressed, s mil
Le received as conclusive evidence thereof.
Sec. 6. Any officer of the Confederate States
impressing properly in violation of the provis
ions of this aot. shall be liable to each punish
ment as the military court of the district or de
partment to which he be'ongs may in his dis
cretion inflict, unless compliance with the re
quirements thereof be prevented by the owner of
the properly, or by the public enemy. And in
the latter event the impressing officer shall he
liable to the penalties of this section, unless he
shall cause the property seized'to be appraised
m the manner pointed out in this act as soon as
practicable, or if this is impossible by reason of
the occupation of the enemy, then by an ap
praisement in the city, county or parish most
convenient to that in which the property was
impressed.
A Righteous Judgment.—The examina
tion of Capt. James W. Henley, of Acahf-tyt,
V*., who shot and killed Robert A. StapVs,
at Fararille, on the 27th of January, com
menced before the County Coart of Prince
Edward on Monday week, and waa eonolnde i
on Wednesday last. The aceuied plead,
d. fence of the killing, the aeduetiou of b
wife by the deceased while ha was absent
the service of his country. The evidence
folly sustained the plea, and the court unset
mously decided that the homicide was jnstifi
able, and discharged accused.
Oca Terms.—Daily, $12 per annum; Week
ly. $4-
Richmond, March 2,1863.
The proceedings of Congress have been slow
and unimportant during the past week. Indeed,
it would almost-'seem that the war spirit had'
not reached that august body yet ; au much time
-s occupied in the introduction, discussion and
uevitable rejection ot matters which might be
supposed to have an 'object,'even it a personal
one in time of peace, but have no earthly rele«
vancyto the present pressing demands of the
country. If Congress were to fix upon a day
for adjournment;' say two weeks hence, more
actual and necessary business would be trans
acted, within that brief period, than is likely to
be accomplished during six months in the pres
ent “free and easy” mode of procedure. If
members were to think more of the daily aug-
ementing emergncics that are pressing upon us,
from every quarter, and reserve for a more
proper occasion such explanations as they may
feel themselves bctpnd to make to their constit
uents, much of the complaint that is heard
would be immediately hushed.
Again in tite Senate much preciohs time has
Aeen wasted in lofty denunciation of the Press
of the Confederacy, and resolutions offered and
personal explanations paraded which are neither
intcuded to nor could effect any possible legisla
tion. Even a committee has been raised to report
whether the Senate is not “tho highest legisla
tive tribunal in the country," and as sach,
whether it be consistent with its high character,
to admit into its sacred sanctuary the represent
atives of the Press at all t God knows how
many days will be wasted in discussing the re
port, should it ever come in, and yet, no legisla
tion can oe framed or passed that can affect the
subject matter in any degree. Indeed, if the
committee will only do the sensible thing, they
will report that the preamble is nonsense, and
that resolutions would be suicidal, if adopted ;
for indeed the Senate is not the highest legisla
tive tribunal in the country. It is even denied
some of the prerogatives of the House. Let
Congress scout these petty subjects, and address
itself to the present alarming state of the coun
try and the condition of its defenses, or adjourn
and go home.
The Impressment bill is still under consider
ation in the S nate. Mr. Hnnter, of Virginia,
offered a substitute proposing the appointment
ol three Commissioners—one by the President,
one by the Governor of each State, and by these
two, a third as umpire when necessary. These
Commissioners shall lay off each State into Ap
praisement Districts and announce every two
months the ruling prices of all articles of sub
sistence, or lontge. In case of difference between
the owner and the impressing officer, an appeal
lies to this board who shall fix the- prices. The
expenses and salaries of these boatds are to be
l>aid by the Confederate states: Oh Saturday
,Mr. Hunter desired to withdraw las substitute
on the ground that it would conflict with a de
cision said to have beeii given by the Attorney
General in reference to the constitutionality of
the mode of appraisement proposed, t herein.—
The decicsion of the Attorney General was,that
the Government was bound by the Constitution
to give the market value lor property impressed
at the time and at the place of impressment.—
Mr. Hunter did not concur in this decision, but
he was unwilling to raise a question of Consti
tutional right. The proposition' *o withdraw
was objected to, and the whole subject was pass
ed over to give way to the bill, to provide and
organize an Engineer corps to. serve during the
war.
Mr. Miles very properly reported back from
the Military Committee a bill (introduced by
Mr. Machen, of Kentucky,) entittled an Act for
tbo acceptance ol troops Irom Kentucky and
Missouri for a term of service less than three
years—namely one year, and asked that the
Committee he discharged from its further cbn-
eideration. The bill, Mr. Miles was ii\at{uqied
to say, would bo impolitic and unjust. Mr.
Machen, in reply, said that men who had come
out of Kentucky to join the Confederate army,
when they found they had to serve three years,
turned their backs and went home. And a pretty
home they had to go to. There are but two
thousand Yankee troops stationed at Frankfort,
ami yet the conventi-m that recently met there,
•impt-i »< d and sent to their homes by a
■el and his staff! Crittenden still rules
Kentucky. When they are ready to’ he free,
then, perhaps, they may be willing to raise thcr
right arm, and expel the usurper. But I* fear
the time is not yet.
The bill reported by Mr. Gartrell in the House,
providing for the more thorough investigation
of matters referred to Soeciat Committees, and
to punish false swearing befo'e them, wia, on
motion of that gentleman, taken up and passed.
1 ought to have stated in nty last that the
name of the young gentleman whose gallant
deed in one of the battles before Richmond, I then
recored, is Eugene Bibb Anderson, a grand
nephew of the Tate Chancellor Bibb, ol Ken
tucky. I give his names as the future historian
will need it.
Mr. Barksdale introduced an important
bill empowering the President to suspend the
habeas corpus in any town, city or military
district where the public may require it, but
to be applicable only to military arrests, for
offences against the Confederate States.—
Though the rules were not suspended, which
require a two third vote, it received a major
ity of fifteen votes. When it comes up’in
regular order, it may stand a fair chance of
-being passed. A bill has been introduced,
and could the rules have been suspended,
would have passed the House, giving the
Clerks in the Ladies’ Bureau five dollars a
day. Most of those Ladies thus employed
are the wives, daughters or sisters of gentle
men employed in the Executive Departments;
while the wives and daughters of our splliers
in the field work their finger ends off on gov
ernment clothing, for one fifty to two dollars
a day. This would be classification with a
vengeance. But I object to it because it
would be the entering wedge of that crinoline
influence in the Halls of Congress, which, in
Washington, proved to be at once a scandal
and a curse. CHEROKEE.
jgy The following portion of an editorial
from tho#ichmond Examiner of the 4th, so
nearly acoords with tho views which wo have
heretofore advanced, that we lay them before
our readers: * - r
While it was possible to regard the Union
as a republic, governed by the representatives
of the people, it was also possible to believe
that the evils of wsr would create a parly
among the people, lhat would force the Gov-
. V Is eiwmfffla nn rp.HSOn-
ernment to terminate the struggle on reason
able terms and within®a limited time. But
now tbst tbo Government has rendered itself
entirely independent of tho people and «»
representatives, now that the last relto of the
Republican Constitution has been abolished,
and absolute power declared by Congress and
proclaimed by the press to have been openly
substituted, it is beyond question that the
duration of ibe war depends on the will ot
Lincoln and his conselloro. None need be
told lhat these men cannot and will not con
sent to any terms of peace. Setting aside
considerations of passion, it is enough to
know that Lincoln has been invested, with
sovereign power over one of the greatest
countries of the world, on the expressed
ground that ho will destroy the Southern
people, and take their property for distribu
tion among his followers. The moment he
departs from this purpose, the sword and
purse will drop from his hands, and he will he
torn to pieces by his own dogs Therefore,
while be stands on the bad eminence where
he is now placed, he will fight us with an in
veterate determination and with unohangabie
cruelty. While Lincoln is President-dictator,
and the North contains a man or a dollar,
they will be used to carry on the war.
It is certain that the war will last' as long
Lincoln's Government. How long will thaL
be? Those who suppose that his term is ne
cessarily limitel to the 4th of Maroh in the
year 1865, are indeed a simple people. Lin
coln has. been made Dictator because a Con
gress has been elected which was opposed to
tis will. That Congress is annihilated by
this coup de’etat. Can any -one doubt that a
popular election, which would be certain to
replace Lincoln with a ruler of different prin
ciples could and would be prevented, or ren
dered inoperative, with cq tal ease and oer
laiuly ?
It is the first step only, that costs. The first
siep has been -made with perfect sucres.—
The second will be made in time. The ear
vants of this monarch represent to the populace
that they are secure against such perpetuation
ol his power by his entire want ot ambition
the simplicity and homeliness of his character
Did any usurper ever seize a throne without
similar protestations l Lincoln repeats by his
pimps ol themreaa, the very language of Crom-
tlzi “
A Negro RegimenI in Virginia.—We
learn from an intelligent gentleman who
succeeded in makingnis escape from Win
chester that General Milroy—who is in
command of the Federal forces in that
department—has actually in service a regu
larly organized and enrolled regiment of
negroes, abont 600 strong. This, no donbt,
suits the natural taste of Milroy, and is
but in keeping with the barbarity of the.
system of warfare which he has been carry
ing on in the valley.
Our informant also states that Milroy
continue-£his system of terrorism. Not satis
fied with stripping* the people of their
property, he has lately sent his wagons ont
to scour the country and bring in all ne
groes that can be lound, seizing all the
meat and provi ions on the farms for their
subsistence, and whatever other booty they
can carry off. Many of the largest farmers
have been thus robbed of their slaves. It
is to be greatly deplored that our Govern
ment can extend no adequate protection to
this unfortunate section of the country,
which has not only been scourged by the
ravages and devastation of war, but whose
people have, been subjected to every con
ceivable Outrage and atrocity of the ene
my.
At the time our informant left—some
eight or ten days ago—General Milroy bad
his headquarters at Winchester.—Rie/untmtl
Examiner, Mar. 2.
Subscribe for tbe Confederacy.
well, modernized to the capacity ol his subjects
A temporary dictator ! What man in modern
history has gained by force or fraud the posses
sion of absolute power and laid it down of his
own choice i
But one thing will end the reign of Lincoln—
violence—force—revolution. It the Northern
States regain their- their liberty in this genera,
tion they will do so by an appeal to anna,which
can only be successful because Lincoln is not
Cromwell, not Napoleon, not even a Francis ;
but a fool and a coward who has undertaken “a
job" for which he is incompetent. That tbe
Northern people will make that effort is in the
last degree improbable. The unanimous servil
ity with which this consummation of an organic
alteration oi the government has been recieved,
may not prove that it is universally liked by the
country, but it does that the spirit ot the nation
is reduced to such a temper that it is fit for slav
ery and incapable of resistance to a master.—
Hereafter, when the grinding tyranny of arbi
trary power comes to be generally felt, there
will be spasmodic attempts at revolt, They
will be suppressed by terrible executions, bloody
massacres, and procriptions. This has been
the course of such things in all other times and
in all other countries. Why should it not haps
pen so here t Already the population oi New
York is disarmed.
Adversaries whose feud is endless and whose
bate is immortal, now grapple oh this continent
A Republic andan Absolute Monarch, a Gov-
ernmen by Law and a Government by Arbitrary
Power, have a death hold on each' other. The
South can survive only by adhering to its organic
principles. The moment the Executive ol the
Confederacy is converted into an imitation of
tbe dictator ot Washington, and the the Gov*
ernhlent becomes a despotism like [that of Lin
coln, the struggle becomes a matter of mete
physical force, and the South will sink. Let us
keep our liberty and prepare lor battle.
Military Movements in Northern Vir
ginia.—On Wednesday last, Brigadier
General Filzhugli Lee, with detachments
from the 1st 2d and 3d Virginiajcavalry,
numbering five hundred men, crossed the
Rappahannock seven miles above Fred
ericksburg, and fell upon a cavalry encamp
ment at Hartwood church. The enemy
wero dispersed with little resistance, and
were pursued until they found refuge be
hind a heavy'body of their infantry, our
men killing, wounding and taking prison
ers upwards of 200 of their number. Our
troops then beat a retreat, bringing off
their prisoners and a number of horses,
and having loBt in the affair only one man
and one wounded. One hundred and fifty
of the .prisoners among whom were two
captains and three lieutenants, were
brought to this city on Saturday. They
represent six different regiments of cavalry
and the 14th Massachusetts infantry.
pn the same day, General William E,
Jones commanding a brigade in the valley,
attacked and routed two brigades of the
enemy at Edinburg, forty miles from Win
chester, killing one hundred and taking
between three and-five hundred prisoners.
In this charge the Yankees are said to
have offered but the feeblest resistence, and
to have surrendered with evident feelings
of satisfaction. Hardly had the attack
been made than their white handkerchiefs
were seen flapping in the wind, and the
fire of our men arrested by this miniature
display of the “white flag.” It is said that
nothing can exceed the demoralization of
their army, and that their men are so dis
affected and disgusted with the war, that
they refuse to fight. The promptness aud
alacrity with which this party besought the
immunity of the “white flag" would go to
confirm the stories we have of their demor
alization.—Eichmond Examiner, March 2.
After all tne repots and rumours we
have had of Hooker’s army ‘‘changing its
base," it is now believed that the bulk and
strength of its forces are yet above Fred
ericksburg. It has been ascertained that
material subtraction has been made from
the army operating there, and that, with
the exception of 15,000 men—sent to some
unknown point—the Yankee force is quite
as strong and formidable in numbers as it
has ever been. This gives a now place to
the situation about Fredericksburg, and
will again make that old borough the
centre of interest.—Bichmrxd Examiner Mar.
2/- ’"V; ' ‘
From the Mobile Tribune.
From tbe Confederate Sffcamjr Florida.
EXTRACT FROM'A l’RIvjTS LATTER
Nassau, Jan. 26;
My Dear Father-.—Owing to hurry, I
was unable to write you from Havana, and
even now I am very much hurried. We
ran in here this morning to coal, and ac
cording to the Queen’s proclamation, will
have to leave by to-morrow morning. _ so
you se© one has little time to do anything
at all. So far we have been very successful
in our depredtions on Yankee commerce.
We have burnt three brigs and their car
goes, and had not the rascals hugged the
coast of Cuba so close, could have captured
a dozen more at least. One brig that we
burnt seven miles from the coast, fan dead
before the wind into the harbor of Car
denas, and I. am fearful it may cause some
complication between ourGovernment and
that of Spain. We have already gone
through a great many perils and doubtless
there are many more in store for us, but
we have a very fast and powerful little ship,
and in any event I feel that she can give a
f ood account of- herself. The chase from
Cobile was fruitless on the part of the
enemy, though the Oneida and the C'uyler
did their best. We passed the Brooklyn
or sdme vessel of her class, but fortune so
favored us that she did not notice u3,
though at that moment the Oneida was
about five miles astern in hot chase. You
know we went out of Mobile bay at 3:30
o’clock, a. m., 16th, under a bright star
light. There was a moderate wind from
the E. W. I suppose we took the'Yankees
by surprise, as we brought all three ot
them on the bar to bear abaft the beam,
before they signalized each other and at
the instant they burnt their blue lights, we
let fall oiir canvass and sped away at the
rate of sixteen miles per hour, which soon
carried us* Out ol reach of them all. The
third day out we burnt a beautiful brig,
laden with sugar and molasses, bouud' to
Boston, and subsequently we captured and
burned two more, laden with the same.
There is probably a very brilliant cruise
before us, aud as there are more places
than one in the world where New England
can be ipjured, there is no telling where
we may be next. I ain in hopes that we
will make a descent on the Northern coast
and burn some of their towns, and wreak
retribution on them, in order to pay for
devastated sugar and cotton plantations
It is stirring to be in the vicinity of so
many large men of war, and feel that we
can depend alone on our speed, aiid.we
know that our deeds have to be daring to
be effectual.
|aP”A Windfall.—A poor carpenter,
named Cyrus Holmes, living in Platteburg,
Ohio, has lately fallen heir to a property in
Westchester county, N. Y., value at $214/
000. '
New Ad v ertisements.
FOR HIKE.
GOOD COOK, WASHER AND 1F.ONER. Apply to
matS-tf lot F H. OttMG.
TO RENT.
WO NICK PL ASTI RED ROOMS, in the Cottage llorse
on College etrret, Kastofathe FemaleCollege. Apply
' ' [mar : -2t] MRS. MARY K. DAWSON.
COOKING STOVES.
A NOTHERINVOICBof those ceKhratod “Iron Witch"
Ccokirg Bio es, tome extra large m'zob, with all the
n«cea.try turuiloro, boi'era, griddles, psua, pole, kittle*
Ac.. Ac, jn-t leceivnl an ) for sale by
P. G. BK38SNT,
(Jummleeion Merchant,
m*>84t Whitehall at; oppjtiteGaK K bait;
. 800 GROSS
STAR STEEL PENS,
. THE BKST ARTICLN. for rale by
nuno-tf J. MoramtSON A CO.
WHITE SULPHUR SPBIN G3,
MERIWETHER COUNTY, GA.,
A HARK CHANCE FOR A GOOD INVESTMENT!
T DK INTEREST IN TU:8 VALUABLE Pit -PARTY,
formerly held h, my i.> U| M «J ;.t. It. Morki r i-i l.e
purikasou 04 gned terms, it appliot Joreoon. Tho cou-
ce n 1* hi good wcrklug contlth-u, aud ff rni g. odop n-
big for o 1 mi not mui. A splendid tractor Land for
tanning, well fixed with all notel'ul building*, *0, can be
had with the Spiings, if desired
Addrist by mail, or apply on the premlte*. to
It. X. MSI!its.
newTgoods
FOCHET AND TABLE CUTLERY, &c.
1 PA LBS SKULian SEALING WAX
LU" Aid it* l'hotphorn*
1,0 0 yd* Ula.k Enamelled Cloth
90 grot* Confederate' Staff lSuttou-, (Knaluh
make)
100 boxes E g leh C 3 Soap
80 keg* Bl Curb Sola
too doiea Pocket Knt i
*00 d- ten Toble Knlvej and Fores
2,000 pair No. 10 Leaf Cotton Card*
16 doxm 8 inch Hand Saw bite.
On consignment and for. > alo l>>
3 SOLOMON * UUO..
tnors-tr » Comtniaeicn Meiclmuts.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
• IN PRESS: •
THE CONFEDERATE j
- By a South Carolinian.
TANHAVSKR 5 .
By Young Bolwer, and sun of Ljrd Wo tmorolaod.
SILAS BARBER;
THE WEAVER OF RAVELET1 •
By II la* Evans, of Loudon.
RAIDS AUD ROIIANCB
OP MOKGAN AND HU MEN I
By Sollle Eocheiter Ford, if Linistil'.o, K<ntn ky
GREAT EXPECTATION! s
'By Charles DicHea* (Boxy
GREAT EXPECTATIIN8j
IST" We propose to bring out iu thirty number* at lo
cents a number. Sub--e.-ij.tiou pri 0 for the whifo work
ti CO, s H GOETZEI. A CO,
Publisher* and Bookseller*.
toiRSt Mobile Alabama.
\T EW RICE.
LV Shirt! ug,
^ aaZO tf
FOR SALE.
Fine Syrup, Cotton Yarn,
— Corn Meal,
Stock Pea*, Salt,
Rio Coffee,
Wholesale and Retail.
McCROSKY A EAR' K8T.
AUCTION SAUtS.
BY CRAWFORD, FRAZER & 0.. •
S. J. SHACKELFORD, AUCTIONEER.
r an REGULAR AUOTION SALKS ol oar n
hereafter be ou “ouee.ui
TUESJ)\YS, THlfR DlVS AVD SATURDAYS
OF
EVERY WEEIi,
AT HALF PAST IO O’CLOCK.
An Goods, War** a uJ .Chattels ahould be sent intt
evening before, dr early In tho morning of sale day
Steak sale* of
Horses, Mules, &c M
will commence at 4 o’clock on each regular tale day.
jan‘i8-3m
50 KED 8BA W«» WAX, |.Ht
ceived I jr
msil-tf
J McPherson a Co.
1 nn llff *** BoutfS, freuff.ie English Coming Ik
AUU p*c,fc*,9*W»4tacho, * *
m “ 1,ir i. UoPHBft ON A CO.
HOLLOW WARE.
TOOK sale at tho Novelty Iron Works Ccmrauy, a I
JE Oven*, spider*, Ac. hid tsstei lag* mode to ifar—
Apply at tbe Company’* Work?, nproffte the Buts simp.
nnuS-6t
BLUE 8TONE-COPPERA3 ,
Y710R SALE BY THE PACKAGE, BY
■E ... «*>. .SWMLAaem.
Cleveland
novU-ffm
AUCTION SALES.
FXTENSIVE CATALOGUE 8«LE
OF
IMPORTED GOODS
D. MAYER, JACOBE & CO.,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
OS
Tuesday the 10th of March 1863,
J. JACOBK, Auctioneer.
X nfUl YARDS ELEGANT LAWNS
J, '* ’ 8,000 yard* Mnarniug Mu* iu
6 OCA yard* English Calicos
lOoQO yard* Bleai-hed Sheeting '
5,CO > yard* Bleached Shlriiag
4.run Reached Shirting
1 coee Bleached Shirting
1.006 yard* plti'i and dotted Bwis* Muslin
2 caio* p aid Gin ham*
1.000 yard, elegant O eidmwes
4 <m*hi regatta Cudm. re*
2 000 yai d. hinny Flannel
1000 yard* white »td t.d Flannel
i Pa-e plain and black Wool de Laine
Cf 0 dozen Ci.ttou Handkerchiefs
800 it<«uo Liuea Catub 4c Handkerchief
t00 dca-m Mnriun Half Horn
100 dozen La lieu’ English White Ho*o
li 0 dozen Ladies’ Expansion Skirts
2.0 0 d zsn Wellhead dOu ynrrti Spool Cotton
10 0 dizaa Brooke’ 2u0 yard*'Spool B .ttun, block
1 600 lbs Pattni Thread, iu Spools and Skelu*
• 00 lbs B'ack 8eaiog silk
000 dozen Horn Fine C. m*w
800 dozen Ivory aud Quit* Perch*Combs
L0 dozen Tooth Brushhs'
lfO d zen Crimean Fane, Over Shirts
100 dozen O-ntmero and Plautiel thirt*
HO dozen Merino and Shetland Uadersnirtz
100 dozen Merluo aud Shetland Drawer*
1.000 In* Kugltfch Shoe Thread
100 Oil Cloth Over Ooa's .
WO yards hiih Liuon
24 dnzen suspending
A Rue lot ol Miliuery Gcals
600 pilra Ladies aud Mines Gaiter*
Boots and Shoes
500 name Commercial Nut Paper
- 10 sack* Liverpool Salt
16 sacks A'l-Sp!ce
3 bbls QUnltor Salts
600 pairs '’bite Linen Pants
LOO pairs Cats!more Panto
■ 00 H ovy Over Coat*
2 0 fine Cssslmero Otat*
loo black Frock Cant
A fine assortment of Voids
2 0JO U«j Snacking Thbooco
900 boxes Tobacco
200 boxes London Dock Brandy
lOd boxes floe Champagne
10,000 Imported Havana Cigars
500 ll.s R fl i Powder
luu Carpet B >gs
And quiteMyiuarher of other good* tco numerous to
uient i m
I'alatrgues at Sales Rooms
Sales Pcahivt
Terms cash. marl-td
NO MOKE OF THE SAME SORT.
| HB SL AVE KUdSKLI. hts been for fifteen years tho
• body servant of Col Win F Sanrford, Of Alab ima, and
ha* had >uch a training n but few servants hove received
•inoe the day* «.f - JOHN” und ‘-JUBA,” the trusted
a. d far-famed bo ’y to. v.iutsoi John Randolph of Itoon-
ke.
Hi)F8KLL in a he^liliy,likelrendvlgorru*man; about
23 year* of age; intelligent, energetic and polite; a 8C-
p*hioa CuaCbuax. Paelokkb, Dirinq Rock ard Kudt-Sas-
vaxv; agoodp-ain Pointer, and also a good Barber.—
Russell Is un ooxtuT end r.itnrut rervant, without any
immoral habit*.
HB IS SOLD FOR NO FAULT.
Kef, r to Col William f S.uaford, Auburn, Alabama.
Whoever -»y bo in want of a find class servant, of
established character and superior qualifications, will do
Well to examine this boy. Price, $3,003.
if not arid at private s da before the 10th prox., Russell
will bn sold ou that day to the highest bidder.
fob26-ltit CRAWFORD, PRAYER k CO
JUST' RECEIVED FROM BALTIMORE,
And tor Sale Low Yor Cash,
OK kkob soda
“G Jlo B>* Indigo
>0JO Sis Green Pdint
3v00 tb> Venetian Rod
600 Bk< Yellow Point
200 lb* Verml :i a Red
400 Sis Block Pepper
803 lb* Clovei
. 260 lb* thee
26 doz. Mustard.'
• ALSO
. 103 ozs Quinine'
60 - zt. Morphine
60 Bis Opium,
Together wl h a fine Msortment of All kinds rft Medl-
cioci—Lh<-6p for Cub
S. R. KRAMER,
Sfgn of the Gotden Mortar.
Whitehall street.
feb2A8m
LIFE INSURANCE.
THE Kk'ORUlA HOUR lafSUBAKCK U0MPAI
Capital $250,000.
DR. JVS. P. BOZEMAN, Prendem
D. W.
Secret
Life Department at Savannah.
AARON WILBUR, Actuary.
DR. R. D. ARNOLD, Consulting Physic
it* persoi b,
he aecnrit
and get all cese. sary informs
and taka a Policy oa year life.
8. D. NILES, Agen
S£LL1N£ OUT
Without Reserve.
£|Q TIKRCK* NEW RICE
16 hogihead* Sugar In store
4o hdgehesds Bugar to arrive
M gross imported Matcbe* -
— too tnahel*C»rn .
940 bushel* Med, Ac. At
fcW-tt
BDWARDYS.
SHOK-aAKEUS WANTED.
II )( ) °<*>D SHOEMAKER* can find empktfm
IV/Lf the Government Shoe Factory nndcr iiiy
too d this Post. Nona but e-T/X bauds need ar
'SsasasjSiss tSMSs:
ru.ure their uwo detoUwfrur.i their .-oa.mauJinKc
icM3-lra ’ ’ ~ CUNNINGHAM,
a S. AKs.Xii, Atlaxta. Oa,\
March Sd, 1613 I -
0 N 0 B P. 000 BRASS MOULDER, and a few good Gun-
Smiths, can get employment at this Arsenol-
' ' M. H. WH.'GHT,
- nmr4-lw Major Artillery, Commanding.