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Terrible KllreU of Ike r ollon Famine
In •:ii»laiid->-Fiielb, Vlgurv* and In
eldent* of ike Ml Herlng.
We give herewith from our latest English tiles
.ome interesting information concerning the na
ture und exlcnt of the suffering in Europe from
tiis ciiecls of tho war in A rtoricn, und especially
from the want of the gie.it staple of cotton. The
'lutre is in England in growing to an alarming ex
ten*, as shown iij* the facts, figures und incidents
wo giro below:
I TAUVATION TURSATKNSD IN SNQLAND.
[From the London Times.\
i’lio prospect darkens each day, aud unfortu
nately, there seems no chance of a break in it.
Itusinuss in tho Manchester market is virtually at
.1 stand still, i mt notwithstanding the recent arri
vals of cotton, tho course of what trade there is
steadily tends to a diminution of consumption. It
.s drliitfull to foresee in whuti|uaiter n way o
salvation cau be opened for the next four or live
months at least, lor, anomalous us it tns*y seem,
ilie announcement of a speedy settlement ol the
American ditlioulty would probably have thecll. ct
i.l throwing out ol uinployeut a large proportion
ol those who urn fortunate enough still to he in
receipt of wages.
Mr. (Hailstone's speech at Newsaslie, which by
many was looked on us a sortol s>ini oliicia! loro
shadowing ol something being about to hapten
which might possibly liheiato the .Southern en't u
crop, is said to bare created quitealitl'e panic
here, and induced many inauutacturcrs to jstup
the.r nulls altogether. If we could only have a
perfect assurance that the war would Jast another
twfilremonth, or that no cotton would come Irani
Hie .South for two yours or eighteen months hence,
WO might hope, spite ol the large accumulated
stocks, to son one at least ol the giant chtmn ys
which ut present boar witness to IVrc bly to toe
stagnation of the district, set a smoking again,
and euch week the pressure on the charitable fund
would lighten, instead of iccreuiiug. !( tin
durution of the war could only have been ft resuet:—
it Ic s faith had been placed in Mr. Lincoln's
“ninety duys”-thiugs would noicrhuvugo’ io
tlieir present desperate paai, a ,and it may be tut just
to the mill owners to Hay that probably they
would have made adequate prepa' ationa lo meet
tho necessities of their work-'people had they
anticipated anything but a temporary crisis tin
uow it is in a great measure til ■ uncolt unties ol
the American conll ct —the diced of being cungli
in full work with high priced cotton by sadern
arrivals from America—which tie Itieir hands.
MU. COBDKN ON THE UtllHlS
At u Idle meeting at Mancher.t r, Mr. Cobdea,
utter roviewmg the statistics of distress, sid ti nt
lie hud always been of tho opinion that, the prtTii
tioti which was throuteuing the district must be
cumulative; und it had proved so to a degree tin’
very few foresaw The means of meeting the dif
ficulty would diminish just m proportion as the
ddliciilty increased. Mr. Furncll hud told them
that one third of the rateable prop' rty would 'a I
out ol extslauce were, and future lutes would
have to ho levied out ot the remaining tw i-thirds.
That, however, wHuld bo by no means the tueu
sure of tlieir condition three mouths hence, because
every additional rate forced out of exisluucc
a large amouut of rateable pro; city, and tho more
they increased thtrrate the 11101 o they diminished
the urea over winch the rates would be pioductive.
I'hi i view of the care bu t an importaut bearing
also upon the comti'.iou of the shopkeeping c uss,
as well us the mill owners and manufacturers who
hud not a large amount ol lloating capital. There
w,t.i no doubt that a large number ol theshopkaep
m class were rapidly lulling into the sum: condi -
lion ns those who suffered from unemployed labor.
Mr. (Jobtlen then quoted an instance where a poor
woman was obliged to sell Ibe Sunday clothes ol
her son to pay her poor rate. Shopkeepers gen
orally, he aa u, were in great distress Also clerks
in the counting houses and warehouse■ The
sutiering uow existing in Eiiglaud ha t no para I
lei m all history. There hint been nothing like it
m the history ot the world for its onditeuii". s
und tor the impossibility to vl. nl witii it und utun
nge it iu the way of uu effective remedy.
LOUD OttUiKNK ON THtt UUI'FRUINQ
Many persons will, I have uo doubt, assort that
the alattuueuts of Mr. Cobrien, ns to tbo prt-uonl
amount ol destitution, and that amount which is
jot to be expected, are overdrawn. lam not ot
that opinion. I feel satisfied myself that no one
can calculate the lull amount ot utter ruin which
must fellow ou the present stale of things. Ho
much destructive dement is yet iu sure course of
development, arising from the disturbance ot nil
the ordinary actum ot commercial industry ; there
are yet so many interests directly uud ludiroctly
involved iu this stoppage of the mills that lliu
uftuul destitution of ilio un i hands, all appalling
iu itself, forms hut a pint of what has yet to be
played nut in this grtat domestic tragedy.
Lord. Osborn, also stated that nearly all ot the m >
ohauics',tUuiihea m Laucoshiio had been obliged
to pawn, with uo hops of redemption, not only
ailicles of luxury, hut useful and necessary ar
ticles. They are not paupers now, but distressed
human beings utterly destitute. They have lost
iudepeudeuci; they subsist on charity,
rua Nil Ml) Kit SUFFERING IN THK MANUFACTURING
DISTRICT,
Oa October ‘J , there was 203,623 persons received
parochial relief, being above lour times the mini
bei of those relieved last year, aud more by 63,-
■1 ■ than the return for the last week in August
last. We are further 'old that 143,372 persons uol
in receipt of parochial relief were aided by local
commitees. Os 360,751 operatives in the twenty-lour
l umas upbu which the pressure is greatest, but
, 4,63s are working lull time, 110,712 ure “shorl
timers," and 132,401 are thrown entirely oulof em
ployment. %ho weekly lose of wages is estimated
at ,6136,004, and tlSO.oi't a week is more than
U7,< a year Nor does Unsprodigousßu.il
represent the whole I bii incurred by the districts,
lor the odinary receipts of a manufacturer must be
such as so cover sot only wuges, but the expense
of the muchiuery, and the interest of capital sunk
in buildings ami laud, beside a handsome protit.
The Umoral Relief Committee, in their report
lor the lasi week in October, say that the nuui
her ot persons n receipt of parochial relief, in 24
Unions of the district, hud riot n to 205.728, an ad
dition of 45,222 during th ■ month of October;
aud further, 143,870 persons, not m receipt oi
parochial relief, were aided by local committees
The number if operatives in the same district iu
lull work is now reduced,tof -'.i .s, while the num
ber working short ti ne is increased to 119,712,
and 182,401 are thrown entirely out of employ
ment. 'l'ht loss of wages is estimated at TlB6,
024 per •vfek. aud th< re is no doubt that the sa
rings of the working classes are almost |exhaus
ted. 11 v the close of the first week of September
the reports show that the number of operatives
entirely unemployed hud risen to about 256,000.
KXTKNT AND GUOWTU Or THK FAMINE.
The returns from the Boaid of Guardians show
that for the eight weeks from November 1861, the
increase has been at the rate ot trom eOuO to 2,000
per week, and the figures of the Relief Committee*,
if they were complete, would give eveu a more
ttartling proof of the rapid spread of destitution.
The elf cts, too, of the long-coatianed stoppage ot,
employ ment are making themselves visible m many
new quarters. Kach week’s destitution makes
more rapid strides among these various classes of
tradesmen who, though not eouuled in the num
ber of mill hands, live entirely on their wages,
aud to whom the withdrawal of 41186,000 from
weekly circulation means little less than total ruin.
Tailors, shoemakers, bakers, miliners. beer house
keepers, aud all such persons whose customers
tns.uly belosg working classes, are now
making the.r spy evince in large numbers on the
books both of the guardians and the relief com
mittee. The stagnation o' business in Manches
ter, too, is being felt in various ways. In many of
the warehouses every opportunity is taken of Keep-
ing down expenditure. Some hive reduced thetr
stab of packers, porters, and &U employees of a
similar class; in others they have been pat on
half time, and it is feared that, should there be no
speedy improvement of trade, there will soon be
many of a higher class, such as clerks, bookkeep
ers and warehousemen thrown out of employment,
and already many have had to submit to a reduc
tion of salary. It is a rare thing! uow to see any
o' the great warehouses lit up at uight, for where
there is nothing to do, it is better to lock up at
dark and saveVhe expense of gas.
The Alabama salt works ate said to be in >
nourishing condition.
Claims us Deceased Soldiers.
We publish below the following circulars, pie
paid in the Second Auditor’s office, with the
1 r< galj'iom,” referied to, as those papeis give in
formation on the subject of the pay, Ac., of de
emed solci-ris, that wil! interest many numbers
of our readers :
Treasury Dai'ahtksnt, CoriSokrata States, i
Secoko Auditor's Offics, -
November 5, 1862. )
To Claimants lor Ai rears of Pay, Ac , due to De
em nd Oifictra and Hold.era ot the Army ot the
Confederate States :
In compliance w tb the provisions of the hrst
srctiou ol Act No. 30 ol the Coulcderate Congress,
approvid October rtth, IBtJ2, trie uudertigued has
prepared i ulcs and regulations lor payment to
Ibeir proper representatives oi tho amounts due
deceased otiicerj and soldiers ot the Confederate
armv, which huve been approvid by the Secret iry
of War, a printed cop.y o; which may be obtained
on application to this allies, by mail or in pertoa,
by any one directly intei csitgj therein.
Claio un 'romoto their owry".t'—.*sts and
bare exp’D -o aDd delay by observing the tollow-
ing suggcuiiona:
1. No agent or attorney at the s at of Guveiu
mentor elsewhere ia neco.st.ary, as they cannot by
their personal attendance end solicitation at ibis
oli.ee obtain a more speedy sattlca.enl of cluima
ol this character than the claimants themselves,
though tlm latter may live a thousand miles off.
2. Claimants should by tio means, because ot
delays thut areal present unavoidable, k .11 or pa. t
with their claims. They cannot know tbeamount
due, which in all cases wiil he ascertained by u
regular audit, and remitted to the parti a entitled
us soon us it is possible to do so.
3 Them is no neccrsily tor claimants io incur
expenses und loss of time in attending to their
claims peisouully, indeed their ; resence eftener
causes delay than otherwise. The iiiuiis, or acci
denial private conveyance villi be found all sufli
cient, us well for the presentation ot claims us re
mittances of amounts foun t due
4. Claims will always be takeu up aud settled
according to the dales of tlieir presentation. This
will he strictly observed without respect to any
pi rsou whu’ever, so tiiat parties iu the most remote
s ctious ofthe Contederucy may he asauied thut
their business will he us certainly attended to, ua
if they were personally present.
5. Tho printed regula ijus and torms approved
by the .Societaly ot War, before referred to, will
givo every information ncccseary.
Address W. 11. S. TalLoh,
.Second Auditor Confederate States,
Richmond, Va.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, C. S A. I
Ssconu Auditor's Optics, >
Richmond, Va., November Ist, 1862. )
Regulations lor the payni nt ol claims for urrears
of pay aud allowances due to deceased officers
and toldiers ot the Confederate Army, f'er Act
No. 402, approved February 15th, 1862, and Act
No 80, approved October, ‘Bth, 1882.
The first section of the above named Act pro
i ides ‘ lint the pay and allowances due to any
dece ted volu i cur, uou-corauiissioned officer,
musician or private in the army of the Confede
rate .States, shall be paid lo tho widow of the
deceased, it liv.ug, if not, to the children, if any ;
and :n da an it ol widow or children, to the father,
t' living, and il not, to the mother ot such deceased
volunteer ’’
Tho first s-iction 6f Act No. 30 provides “that
c: amis du ; to deceased non-cwmmssioned officers
ami privates lor pay, ull -wance and bounty may
bo audited and paul when there is official evidence
ol the amouut due, satisfactory to the second
uudi'or, under such regulations as he has, or may,
pretenbo, with the approval ol the Heoretary of
War." ,
liy section 2 of tho suite Aclil h provided that
“tho claims of deceu&ed tommiasioued officers
shall bo paid to their heirs or representatives in
th i ia no m.tuner as .- i-nilar c'a'tns o| uou-coui
inissio ned officers and privates arc now, or may
bo directed by Itwto be paid ” I’ayment will be
made accordingly under the tollowiug rules:
Ist. 1! the child or children bo minor, payment
will be mude to the guardian, upon the produc
tion ol the proper certificate ofsu .rdlonship under
tho a -'lit ot the Court
2d Tbs claimant must produce his or her
affidavit, ut.l that ol one disinterested witness,
station the relationship. For instance, it the
claim.ni be a mother, the affidavit must state that
there is living neither wife, child or father ol the
deceased-il the father, that there is neither wile
0.- child; and if the child, that there is no widowed
* The magistrate or other proper officer must
testily the cicdibility ol the w ttuess, and the clerk
ol ihe Couit must certify, under the teal ol the
same, that he is such magistrate.
The foregoing inetruc ions must Be strictly
complied with. Rowers of lutomey or assigu
m ut, w hich will seldom be necessary, may lie ex
ecuted More a magistrate or in tho presence ol
two respectable witnesses. Claims prepared as
herein directed, and transmitted u. the second
auditor by mail or otherwise, will receive as
motupt attention as the business of bis otho will
allow, aud always in the oril- r oi their pieaou.a
--t on. The urn -uuls lound due will he leimt ed
by the audit oi to the p,.itr.-s^nlitlvd they may
utt l . Second Auditor.
War Dkfabimrnt, 0. S. A , (
November sth, 1862. )
i ... , , l)v . the tmveoiug vu'.ea and regulations.
lai * (i. W. Randolph,
Secretary ot War
l‘lu attention ot claimants re called to the lot
to., mg lonm. iu preparing Ifioir affidavits, an ob
h.rvuuce ol Which will save lime, trouble aud ex
1 11TA1H I 1 [ ,° n l **!l 1 •
County lo nH S «iy ol—lso
lursona 1/ appeared before me the subsc.nl or, u
lußlice ot tlio peace in and for the Comity aiore
aotl - who, after bung sworn according to
law, and. poses and says, tna'. ns tin -of
.. . teceosed, who wui a"• Captain—-
Company Regiment of volunteers, com
manned by Colonel .in the service ot the
Confederate States iu the prescut war with the
United Slates ; that the raid entered the
to, vci at in couuty and Stale ou or
about ih. -lay of- lSil - aud died at on or
about th. Jay of 186— leaving That
makes this deposition for the purpose oi obtain
mg tioni the Uovciumeut of 'ho Confederate
States whatever may have have been due the said
at the time of hia death (or pay, bounty or
o.h>• r allowances lor Ins services, as ——aforesaid
Sworn lo and subscribed be- ( (.Signed)
fare me, J ■ M. I ...
And on 'be sane day and year aloresaid, also
apn ured before me'justice of t ie peace, as a ore
said , a lo is well known to me, and whom 1
hereby certify to be u pu ton ot veracity and
ciedibility, who having been by me duly sworn,
ouoaih, that is well acqoa.u’cd with— the
Qlaimaut, and also well kuew, for years,
tiie deceased soldier herein mentioned, aud that
the statement made uudor outh by said , the
claimant as to relationship lo the said de
ceased sold er, is true aud correct m eveiy par
ticular to the beat of—knowledge aud belief,
au.l that , the said— ,is wholly disinterested.
Swot n to aud subscribed before Signed.
State of 1
Couuty to wit; j
l hereby certify gentleman, before whom
the foregoing affidavits of and , appear
lo have been made, and whose gcnuiue signature
,s subscribed thereto, was at the time ot making
aud signing the same, a J ostice ct the Peace in
an ' lor the Ccuutv and State aforesaid, duly com
mission and and awirn, and lo all whose official acts
as such, lull lu.lh aud credit is aid ought to be
given as well iu Courts of Justice as thereout
I lestimouy whereof, 1 have hereunto set my
band, and affixed the Seal of Coun
ts*' 1 - | (jgurt, this day of , Anno
Domini eighteen hundred and sixty
of County Oouit.
if within their knowledge, claimants should
sla'e where the officer oi soldier was born, and
when and from what cause he died, distinguish
ing 'Wo who were killed in buttle, or died of
wounds received in battle, from those who died
of di&Qftne. . .
Wt.cu there t* aa administrator, a certiUcate c i
the i act by the proper officer of the Court granting
the same, nnder his seal ot office, will be all that
is uecessary.
The law and these regulations applying as well
to . snscripts as to volunteers, with respect to the
former claimants and witnesses, will be required
to swear to the conscription and the regiment and
commander to which the conscript belonged.
They will name the captains and companies when
they can do so, as this information will greatly
facilitate the settlements.
Claimants should always endorse on their pa
pers their address, uaming postoffice, county and
State.
The foregoing forms, etc., have also been ap
proved by the Secretary of War.
v W- ri.H Tatlok. Second Auditor, t.S.
No Passfoets —Tfie attendants from a dial; nee
on the auction sales in this city yesterday were
considerably exercised in consequence of orders
said to have issued from headquarters, forbidding
the giving ot passports to leave the o.ty until fur
ther notice. The reasons for this step are be
lieved to be to ascertain how many conscripts
there are who can be brought up to add to the
strength ot the army, and also for tae purpose ot
arresting those who may attempt lo pass counter
feit money. We learn that a Court of Inquiry,
will set this morning at the Provost Marshal a
| office for the investigation of all such persons and
cases as may come before it. The telegraph of-
I fice last evening was thronged with visitors, send
-1 .ug dispatches tor exemption papers.
Charlttion Cournr, Ao*. 4.
AUGUSTA, GA., TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER Iff, 18(12.
I Aibocities or rag Fci-ebal Noldiebs. —Many of
the Northern papers sneer at the stitemects pub
hshed in the Southern press concerning the out
rages perpetrated by the Federal soldiery, ar.d
claim thut they are false aid unfounded. Others,
however, announce the naked 'ruth about the
matter, and condemn the uaitcenEC-d brutalities
committed. The latter class, cf course, would not
make out things worse than they ready are, for
fear of being ‘ hauled over the coals’’ by the for
mer. Here is an account of what the Federal soi
diers done in Northern Mississippi and Western
Tennessee, given by a correspondent of the Chi
cago Times:
In my last I ro-trred to the burning of fences
crops, heuros, Ac . along our line of march be
tween this and K 1 var, hut the half was not told.
Kveu now, I m ttlraid and asl ftqaed to stats one
hulf that came under my own observation, to say
nothing cf what I heard from officers and privates
ia every quarter. Afraid I-st your readers should
uccus; me of a di sire to say unkind things of tha
men composing the armv, or tha officers com
manding it; and nshamed beyond expression to
recoid tnat Ame'lean soldiers—citiAn soldiers—
should he guiliy oi the offsicss against law and
order, and a!i the pi -nciples o! right, which lorra
the basis of civilized governments, and are the
foundations ot all iatv. Ytt these offences were
committed ; acd, if not a laded t > by me, doubt
less will be by others »Nd possibly in harsher
terms
The troops under General Hamilton committed
the most inexcusable devastations on their march
Iroto Corhith lo Grand Junction, and it wi'l take
a long list ol valorous deeds to atone for the aijts
of these three days. Fences were tired uialtct
cu.ly, und the whole line ol march lighted by
conflagrations Houses were entered and pillag
ed by bands of straggler:-, aud almost every ci u
ceivubie indignity heaped on the fumilies without
regard of age or sex. A large church, well
finished inside, wa3 set fire to and consumed.
Uouses and bares shared the same fate. Proper
ty of no earthly use to a soldier was often taken,
and sometimes, if not taken, destroyed through
pure vmuictiventsd. la one caje a squad of
soldiers entcied a house where the matron was
cncicnte, aud were guilty, in addi ion to other
IhiDgs, ot breaking open her drawers and trunks,
und cari > ing away uad destroying the clothes
prepared lor her uuborn child. My heal-t
sickens to such recitals, and I had well nigh de
termined at one time to pass them by in silence;
but the people ut homo should know that such
acts are perpetrated.
“All agree that such proceedings are due to the
influence ol curtain newspapers, which, for long
months, have been inculcating doctrines that
must inevitably lead to just such results, and
have sometimes opeuly c.dvocated them. Where
they have not been guilty ot tho latter ofl'ence
against humanity directly, they have accomplish
ed the same purpose by abu.iiug and villilying
every commander for attempting to res tram ex
cesses, until no officer of any grade who cared
for his standing at heme among his fellow-men
dared to exercise auy authoiity over his men in'
this matter, llow often have you heard the sneer
against Gen. Buell, for instance, “that he employ
ed his men in protecting rebel property, instead
of lighting rebel urmies” And was not Gen.
Buell deprived of hia command on thut account
tuaiuly ?”
An Rnulish View on the Exploits on rm Al-
Au.tMe.—Tlie Rond u Times, in an editorial upon
the New Yoik Chamber of C tinmerc) and the
Confederate steamer Alabama, lakes the ground
that no blame can attach to t e British Govern
ment because such vessels are built aud litted out
iu England. We copy n portion of tho article.
We cannot shut up oui shipping yard), but all
the world is Iree to buy iu them We do not fit
out shins ts war, but vve sell all the component
materials to any one who wli buy. It is fort ern,
at theirown risk, to tuke them away and put thm
together. Iu doing this we follow very high ex un
r.ie, and sue covered by vei v high authoiity. In
1855 when we were at war with Russia, some of ua
bait arm o lorlisti notion that we ougUt to have
the sympathy of a kindred race and a tree govern
ment. We were inclined to rxloatuiate when we
found ’America selling to our enemy the chief
materials by which he c rrird on tho war. But
what did Mr. President Pierce answer?
He showed at once how wrong we were, lie
professed the purest neutral policy. * *_*
We have never gone beyoud, or even stepp;d
fully up io the bounds of American theory. That
theory, however, is perfectly sound, and therefore
it is ill .t we sell unarmed Bbips to all the world,
“regardless,” as Mr. President Fierce so aptly
says, “ol the destination of those articles.” The
Ne-v York Chamber ot Commerce had better send
Capt. Wilkes after the Alabama. We cinuot un
dertake to capture this one Confederate cruiser.
We are very sorry that the Brilliant was burnt,
and so wo are that towns on the Mississippi were
burnt, and that murder and dishonor of men and
women at Alabama took place. These to mes «re
sai l to h ive suggested the name ot this terrible
cruisnr ; but we known out- duties us neutrals, and
vve sit as disciplt s at the feet of President Pierce.”
Lincoln afraid of Assassination.— The editor
oi the Chicago Post ricsutly visited Washington.
Us thus wlit. ato bis j mmal ot the protection of
Linco'n Irom the danger ol assassination:
■‘Wo spent a few days, recently, in Washington
City, uud while there, ua.v many things an.l beard
many things which to us siemed very suggest've
tvultace of llie exli aoidiuaiy progress with which
the nation is i ushiug onward in its history. The
presence ol an urmed guard at the gates of the Kx
ecutivc uuneiou.every morning, and the care ta
ken lo keep stiangera outside of the approaches to
the building, was to us something new. Ihe
Presidmt's urrivul and departure from the execu
tive mansion are, uotwithstandiuig the melancholy
suggest ons they render, peculiarly remarkeblo. —
We saw him leave the building once, and though
the sight may be witnessed every day, it was a
character too wretched to invite as second visit.
We saw him leave on Sunday afternoon, aud the
manner wua as follows: About half-past five in
the atteruooD, a mounted guard, numbering some
thirty or more troopers, alt armed with drawn sa
bers, exu naive spears, dangling and rattling scab
bar.'s, liciCd beards, aud revolvers stuck iu their
ho st, is, dashed furiously through the streets, and
entered the ground north ot the President’s house.
At the steps m front of the door, and under the
archway, was a carriage. The officer, or one of
tbe officers of the mounted guard, alighted and en
tered the house. In about teu miuules he ap
pi ai cd at the door, aud giving the signal, the c-tr
r age door wasopemd, the guards put themselves
in martial attitudes, cominauds were given, and
then the President uppotredwitn a portfolio under
his arm, aud with one or more soldiers at each
side walked rapidly to the carriage and entered it.
Two officers jumped in also, the door was slam -
med, the guard galloped iuto position, and the
carriage, containing the President ot the United
States, was driven off, preceded by troopers, fol
lowed by troopers At a very rapid pace the
parly lelt tbe ground, and upon reacfi'ng the avo
uue proceeded at a Laid gallop out Fourteenth
street.”
None but despots are obliged to have a body of
aimed men about them when they appear in pub
lie. Aud the fact that the President of the United
States is compelled to guard his person with an
armed force whenever he wishes to go from one
place t i another, shows that the ouce free North
has already sunk to a level with the. despotic
powers ot tbe old world.
Thurlow Weed’s mission to Eußors —The
object of Thurlow Weed’s mistion to Europe is
thus referred to by the New York correspondent
ot the Philadelphia Enquirer ;
"It is a well ascertained (act now that Mr. Thar
low Weed is going to Europe on some sort of a
Government mission, all the reports to the con
trary notwithstanding. He will probably sail
about the lOlh of December. The particular na
ture of hi» errand, of course, is a profound secret
to everybody but himseif and the Government,
but there is good reason to beiieve that he is es
pecially instructed to keep an eye ou the f nglisti
shipyards, and report what vessels are there in
preparation for the rebel*. He will also be au
thorised to go as far as Ht. Petersburg, and confer
with tbe Czar on matters pf mutual national in
terest. Theee statements are made on the authori
ty of Mr. Weed Himself.
Torsion Intervention. —There is more truth
than poetrv in tbe annexed remarks otthe Rich
mond Dispatch about Foreign Intervention in the
affairs on this side of the Atlantic.
"Let our people be satisfied. Tfiey are not go
ing to be recognized by any European Govern
ment until they establish their owu independence
by hard fighting If any such Government be so
disposed, England will prevent if she possible can.
That Gevernment is hand and glove with the Yen
kees, and Seward is as powerful atSt. James as
be is in Washington As foi England itself, it is
more probable that she will join the Yankee* in
oppressing us than that she will recognise our in
dipendence. She is is the hands ot smalt men,
and those small men are in the last extremity of
old age —drivellers and dotards—from whem it is
rain to expect a liberal or manly pokey. Interest,
fear and gpnility are all against us."
It has been suggested, in vi w of the tact that
the Abolitionists have stolen and carried away old
tombstones at Jamestown, that the Virginia Legis
ts are cause to be erecied on the spot, at some fu
ture day, a monument inscribed with a record of
the atrocious vandalism perpetrated by those who
professed to be fighting for a “restoration of the
Union,”
How to Have Cheap I.katiieb. tVe tiud in
the Athens Watchman a communication Irom Dr
Daniel Lee, which contains Lints aud suggestions
which every p'antcr should know. Naiu'o, he
says, has suppliel us with a great abundance o'
oak timber and the test tanbaik in ti e world. It
also gives ua uncommon lac iities tor raising calll:
and hides ; so that no peop’e at the noith it else
where Lave advantages for the cheap producti-i
of leather over those of Georgia We quote from
the Doctors remaiks:
We cannot hare plenty oi hides and leather no
less we produce them , and we cannot rai-e tine
cattle without g-.ass, nor urn leather largely and
cheaply, without we husband our oak balk. In
riding over Clarke county I see fai mers wasting
tan bark everywhere by cutting down green oaks
in autumn ; nwinter for firewood and rails,
when the bars will not separate from the wood
and is lost. A large tree yield a cord oi bark
in the spring, which will tan Three hundred pounds
of good leather, worth six hundred dollars at pro
sent prices. Think of a community destroying
bark enough to make a thousand tons of leather,
and then paying two dollars a pound fjr sole leath
er, which can be manuiacturod at twenty cents
a pound and give a fair profit I I speak from a
good deal .of observation when 1 say ihat, full
three 'ourtha of all the oak La k suitable for tan
ning, which Old placed.in this errantry bus teen
Ihoughllesdy wasted. It is in the very nature of
things that such improvidence shall be puuished.
Let the people everywhere save aud husband all
tanjbaik, aud encourage cattle raising, and shoes
and boots will be as plenty as feet to wear them.—
With cheap bark, a tanner can give a farmer a
pound of leather for a pound of dry hide, and in
the end, make a fortune by the operation, as
thousands have done in t e State ol New York. —
It is alarming to witness the universal destruction
of tan hark by,the felling ol forest trees when the
bark will not peel, and of course is not laved.
He concludes by sayiDg that our true policy is
to save our bark, rear tine fat cattle for their
hides, meat aud tallow, and thus be independent
of ell loreigu nations tor shoes, boots, harness,
saddles, and other aiticl :s made wholly or in par
of ieather. Let our agricultural friends ponder upt
on these things and act accordingly.
Fhom Naw Oblbans.—A steamer lias anived at
New York from New Orleans, with late dates from
that city. A correspondent of tin New York
Times gives the news of the day thus :
“she property within the District recently pos
sessed by the C. H. forces under Gen. Weitzel to
be known as the Lafourche District is declared
seques'ered, and all sales or transfers of it are for
bidden This District comprises nil the territory
of Louisiana lying west of ttre Mississippi, except
ing the parishes of Palqueuiinc and Jefferson. A
Commissioner is appoint 'd to tuke possession of
the Distr c’, a id the sugar plantations ore to be
worked by them where they are not worked by
their owners, and li'igrce i or white laborers may
be employed ut di c etiou. A'l property belong
ing to disloyal persons is to be inventoried and
sold tor the benefit of the Government, uud4r the
provisions ot the confiscation act. Another order
suppresses distilleries and other manufactories of
stroug drink. Another one suppresses the news
paper known as the National. Advocate, for an
improper publication
Still another prohibits ih; arrest of any slave
unless the person arresting knows thut such sluve
is owned by a loyal citizen. Gen. Shop ley, as
Military Governor oi the State, has also issued
two orders. Oao directs an eiection of two mem ■
bote of Oongr. ss Iron; the First aud Hecond Con
gresaiouul Distiictsol the Hiute. The election is
appointed lor the 3d ts December, aud is to tilU
vacancies in the Thirty seventh Congress, it ap
pears thut the money ssiz.d by Gen. Butler at
the trench Consul's, and which wa3 returned at
the direction cf Hon. Ucverdy Johnson, actually
belonged to citizens ol New Orleans, and was
takcu change of by tho Consul to pay for cloth in
Havana, awa’ting to run the blockade, to be used
by the Confederate Government, aud thai the
moixojr, bas been »ctu»!lj eont ITOIE N m
Orleans to Havuns, within a short peiiod.on board
the Span sh wai stesmer Blanco do Garay. Tho
Delta says that seven members of the fighth Ver
mont Regiment who were taken prisoners by the
Confederates in September last have beta shot
by them because they enlisted iu Now Otleuns.”
\\ hv McClellan Diu’nt Follow Lre, and wot
liuRNsiDK uas a “ Hakd Road ro Travel.”— The
Washington correspondin', of the Chicago Times
pays a deserved compliment to Gen. Lee, the Con
federate commander in Virginia, and tells some
thing ot tbe difficulties to be encountered by
McClellan’s successor ile says :
Toere is another idea of which the public mind
ought lo be disabused us soon as possible. Great
pa lis Lave been taken lo produce the impression
ibut all that was utc.ssary in order to bring on a
general engagement was ior our army to march
towards the rebels. Never was there a greater
mistake it is idle to deny that the events of the
last four months have demonstrated that General
Lee is a master of the art of war. One of the
principles upon which that is loonded consists in
avoiding battle whenever it is desirable to do so.
U lias been desirubl IVr the rebels to do so ever
since the buttle of Autiolaw. They desiie to draw
our army as far Irom Washington ap possible, and
as near tr their liueol defensts on the Ruppahun
nock as they cun. It is in General Lee’s power
to decide when aud where be wilt fight, aud no
General ou our side, even if be bad advanced
against him a month ago, could have forced him
to tight except at his (Lee’s) owu time, and on
ground of his owu choosing, It will be lo now.
Toe. battle, il one takes place, will be fought just
where Gen. Lee wishes it to be, and uot until ha is
leady. This is a fact ler which no one is ortiau
bo to blame. When we make war in an enemy’s
country, we have to accept all the conditions, of
war. Aud it is one of these conditions, Jnd an
imperative one, that au army occupying the po
sition held by General Lee caunot be forced to
fight until they wish to do to or until they have
retired to their base.
The Condition of the buna wav neoroes at the
North —The Cairo correspondent of the Chicago
Journal, an Abolition paper, thus describes the de
plorable condition of about one thousa id negroes
that have either run away or been stolen by tbe
Abolition army and sent to that place :
The fugitives are placed in the c-mptj barracks
buildings more open than many Northern
barns with uo place tea- fire, and with no wood to
make a tire of. Halt naked aud bare looted wo
men and children may be seen a half a mile away
pickiag up bits of bark, chips, or stray bits of wood
to cook their rations with, or to keep warm in
their, shivering frames. Some have carried dirt
into their shanties, forming rude hearths, on
which a few embers can be placed, the smoke ee
caping into the building, almost blinding iu its
density. Water is carried from tbe river—distant
trom u halt to three quarters of a m te. Os course,
there ure no mo.lilies for washing, cooking, or
other house-hold work. Many of them are sick,
aud others have died from exposure. Mothers,
with from five lo eight children, sit from day to
day crouched in these dreary, cold buildings, try
ing to hold ou to warmth aud life by means of
personal contact and the few rags they brought
from the land or their captivity. How they pass
these cold nights, God only knows, as they have
no .bedding worthy the name. Th s they are
“ ra gg' u g a oag in utter wretchedness, and suf
fering morejhanpen can express.
Difficult! between Gens Halleck and Burn
bidb.—lt appears Irom au article published in the
New \ ork Wcrld, that there has already been a
tittle “family jar” between Gen. Burnside and his
superior, Gen. Halleck. The World states that
“lhere is sail to be good authority for the state
ment that when Genera! Halleck was visiting the
Army ot the 1 otomac last week he ordered Gen
Burnside to make an immediate advance, for
political reasons. General Burnside replied that
so long as the army was under his command its
movements would be governed exclusively by
military necessity ; and if he wag not to have the
control, he would prefer to have someone ap
fy Mrre'” hUP * ftCC ’ Ua “ er ' 7hjlC wonlJ cheerful-
Th« two Presidents.— " Ora,” the Western war
correspondent of the Mobile Register, nas lately
visited Richmond, and reports
1 had the pleasure ot an interview with Presi
dent Davis, who is looking remarkably well and
notwithstanding his cares and laborious duties’
enTinces all the tire and energy with whieh he led
bis troop# to battle in Mexico, a&d in alter years
with his lervid eloquence, hurled his thunderbolts
against tfie abolition foe on the ti or of the old
Senate Chamber ot the now “so called" United
Slates. In alluding to the speecn ot ex-Governor
Morehead. in London, detailing the conversation
ot the Eentncky Commissioners with Lincoln the
President characterized it as a most terrible’ dis
closure. There is certainly nothing so far in Lin
coln’s career more damning, false and lntamous.
The cause of such of a creature can receive the
support of neither God nor man, and his igno
minious fate must soon overtake him.
Geos Hit- —The Sumpter Republican says in
reference to the rejection of the “Dog Law” by
the Legislature
It is ail right to seize the factory or shoe shop
ot a citizen, but it is a stupendoas wrong to de
prive him of the villainous cur, that devours
nightly, it may be, a thousand times his value, of
sheep
Msssai.s of the Governor of Florida. —We
have not space for the excellent Message of Gov.
Dunlop tc Ihe Legislature of Florida, but con
dense i's principal statements. It commerces
with a denunciation oi Lmcolu’s emancipation
mea-t* s, closing this part of his Message with
ihi.wiji.wing spirited uni patriotic lunguag.- .
T’ii| proclamation has been regarded by the
peojf . 1 the Confederate Staten with scorn and
coffb } t, and the effects produced by it opou the
mini ’./'.enlightened aud patriotic statesmen in
ibejL se.l Stales and Europe, have presented to
tbc4»nsideratiou of President Lincoln his own
deeMsubte character as a peijored usurper aud
utnfljmaDt tyrant. Thus placed hors dt combat
WjSohe judgineut ot civilized nations, his pitying
'iMHkthiz -re, to relieve the distinguished Presi
dwßroa) thq,iiisrepuiuble position, have insinua-
he issued the proclamation to convince
*pestitVous tauat es ot their folly,- as uu uucient
King of KuglauU aud Denmark did when, “to
confuund bis tldtercrs, he seated himself upon
lbs . t ad and commanded the waves to retire.”
But*, Qnlorlucately lor his Excelleuey, his Procla
rna ion illustrutos the wicked folly of Belshazzar,
raihtr than the wisdom of Canute. Belshazzar
sacrilegiously polluted tho golden veste's that
were taken out of the house of Goff which was at
Jerusalem Lincoln, with a tiatei’s ambition,
Las desecrated the Coustilutuu of his country,
which was levered as the palladium of civil iibeity
and tho ark of its political safety. Under the
r-ghieotis condemnation o. all statesmen o! intel
ligence and patriotism, President Lincoln now
trernb ingly beholds written “upon the plaster of
the Wall,” MKNK, MENU, TEKBL, UPUARSIN
The Governor adverts to the impolicy of the
ac ion ofthe Horida Convention iu adopting ihe
o:dinance disbanding tha Slate forces, the effect
us which was the abandonment of Apalachicola
and other important positions, the Governor hav
ing vninlj Hpplied for assistance to the Governors
of and Alabama and to the Confederate Govern
ment.
The conscript law thea comes under review
The Governor forbears the expression of any
opinion in its constitutionality deeming it a judi
cial question. Ho thus patriotically expresses
hints If on this topic :
God forbid I that you, or 1 should do, directly
or indirectly, aught to impede the victory of our
uruiy. Let us do all in our power to animate our
brave aud sutteriug soldiers and to expedite the
glorious triumph which awaits their deeds of
gbrious daring. Let Florida always be ready to
yield upon the allar if the country her last sou
and list dollar to maintain the struggle against
usurpation of the United States in attempting to
degrade the women, children and freemen of the
► South.
l'he amount of the Wur Tax was promptly paid
and tlat required to pay the regiments ordered
from Floiida in the stivice of tho Confederate
government advanc.-d in Florida Treasury Notis.
Os th» Treasury notes authorized to be issued
1500,C00, only $233,000 have been issued, and the
Oovernor recommends the deposit ot suitable
funds m solvent bunks in other States to sustain
tkeir credit.
The policy of suppressing the distillation of
spiritsfrom graiu is strongly urge ias ntcestivy
in the view of a deficient corn crop, and for the
prevention of the arts of i peculators and monop
olists js well a? the preservation of the morals
of the roldiery.
The me: sage closes with a notice of a contro
versy that has arisen in Florida of a precisely
similar character to that which has taken place
ia Sou h Carolina, as regards the assumption ot
legislative aad executive power by the Florida
convention. The Governor expresses the opinion
that ibis asumption was an usurpation
SsiztntKS op Cohn. —We find the following in the
Sumpttr Republican, which indicates that the
property of m rchants alone is not to be taken,
but the planters are to be made to seller gome:
We are informed that a Government agent
paestd down the South-Western Railroad, a few
days ago, and seized all the corn at the various
depots, 3tored on individual account. The Gov
ernment has on baud, and is fattening a large
cbui < v ci noga, ana wu suppose vuul iliiu corn 13
to be used in that way. We think it likely that
operations of the kind, will occur soon, off of the
railroads.
In confirmation of the above, we iiad the follow
ing letter from Marietta, in the Atlanta Intelli
gencer, which exemplifies how these seizures lend
aid end countenance to extortion :
Cora in this seclion ot country sells for two dol
lars am twenty-tiva cents per bushel. To-day,
there is not one pound of meui in turn market for
sale, at any price, and there are several families,
to my certain knowledge, who have had no bread
in their houses tor many days
1 have sent to Americus, Ga , and b night <SOO
buiibels of corn, for my oun uso, and the use oi
soldiers’ families of this city, to whom 1 have
promise! to tell the corn at eosl, delivered here,
which would not be cversl 50 01 $1.75 per bushel.
1 have just received a letter liom my agent at
Anieiicus, saying that a portion ot ti e corn had
been sized by a man calling himself a Govern
ment egent. Now, Mr. Editor, where is thejas'ice
in this castV and why can’ ttheGovernment agents
go to Southwestern Georgia and buy what ciru
they want? There is plenty there at <rom $1 to
$1 15 per bushel—they can ship it. Ia fact no one
else can, the road being entirely under the control
of the Goyerament.
1 am i»o speculator, and think it a great crime.
My okjec ■ was to get corn for my own use, and
lor the suffering families in this city. The farm
ers in this pait of Georgia—to their shame be it
1 aid—are holding their corn for five dollars per
bustnl and it corn cannot be shipped from South
western Georgia, what is to become of the poor
people in upper Georgia? These are questions
ihat 1 hope the proper authorities will consider.
Can our ie islature do nothing in tho matter i
Cannot our railroads iurnith cars enough to bung
corn to this section V There are a lot of empty
cars passing here daily, and I am told t.iere is a
largo amount oi freight in your city tor this place.
!f the seizing is not slopped, and corn allowe'. to
come through to this section, our already sunn
ing people .vlll suiter
From Cobbs’ Legion.-We are permitted to
make the following extracts from a letter of Ser
geant B. H. Watkins, of the Richmond Hussars,
Uo. 8., to his parents in this city. It gives a pic
ture of destitution which is harrowing to think of.
It s dated
Camp 15 Miles trom Culpepper, Va„ r
V Nov. 24th, 1662. i
Dear Pvrrntsi-As there is a mail going off
this morning, EN I thought 1 would let you know
where wc are, and what we uie do ng. u g
ade is now picketing the Kaprdau aud Ruppa
hangock rivers, m ihe rear of the enemy, who are
now at Fredericksburg in large force- be citizens
say the largest that lias ever been in Vireiuia
before. Yon hare heard ot our fights through
the mountains at Barber’s Cross Koaos and L,t le
Washington—two of the closest places th-t s,. i 1
have b en m- but thank God, we cams out : a.e.
I had the satisfaction, at Barbel s truss R a ts,
ot faking o pistol out ot the bauds ol one lei'ow
who was in the act of using it. He got a s Hire
cut over his head tor his trouble, lie s*i a'-er
be was taken that he did uol mind bring '..aen
prisoner, but be cid not tike to be disfigured Lr
file which he certainly is. * * 1 have noi uud
a chance to write before-we have been moving
all ihe time, and have never been where we mala
send a mail off. We are kept in tbe rear scon mg
and wat-bing the enemy’s movemeu's. We ,au
notstay here lung; our horses are staivmg U>
dta'h now ; there is no corn in his country at a l.
I hope we will leave before long. I suppose you
have l>3en looking for ui. I am atraidyouiv.il
look in vain. We have given up a,l hope ol gel
ting home now ; there are too rnuuy I anks here;
Cobb’s Legion is needed too much. Onto 702
men in the Regiment, we have not more .hau 1/2
tit for duty. If we are uasd much harder, we will
have lo go into Infantry, cr the Government will
have to famish horses—for tbe men sweaj tuey
will not bny any more. We have not received
any pay or winter clothing yet. You never saw
a more naked set in your life —barefooted and
bareheaded—don’t you know we cut a pretty hg -
ure? The weather here is very cold —so cold that
the water freezes while washing yonr face. Some
days we get something to eat, and some days we
don’t—but that’s nothing when you are used to it.
I our son, R. H. W.
A Horrid Mobdsr. —On /Saturday night last
Confederate Slates Marshal for Georgia, Thomas
1,. Ross, wag shot dead at the Kennesaw House in
Marietta. It appears that four young men, all
citizens of Atlanta, went to Marietta to have a
spree. After getting drunk enough, they went
into the hotel and raised a difficulty with the pro
prietor. One of the party, Dick Hammond, cut
the hotel man severely in seven places. Dnrmg
the fight Mr. Ross, who was a most excellent offi
cer, as well as a clever gentlemen, commanded the
peace, when someone of the party put out the
' light, and Joe Harrison put a pistol close to the
body of Mr. Rosa and shot him dead. The party
attempted to escape, but being too drunk to effect
it, they were alt arrested and brought to jail. This
party consists of four youag men—Joe Harrison,
Dick Hammond, Dick Stegall, and Jimmy Loyd,
all of them, except, perhaps, Stegall, were mem
bers of the Gate City Guards.
Atlanta Cam;tderacy.
Tbe terrible gunboats of the Federals are meet
ing with disaster alter disaster. It is clear that
they cannot operate in narrow rivers whose banka
are inhabited by bold and determined men. Two
casee have occurred in North Carolina. In one,
Capt. Newkirk’s cavalry, with a piece of artillery ,
captured an iron steamer in New river, N. C., and
in the other, Capt. Whitford’e Rangers captured a
gunboat and her entire crew in Bay river, N. C.
More Halt Sfring *. — A correspondent of the
Macon Telegraph says that iu the county of Cobb,
thirteen miles from Maiietta, and fourteen from
Atlanta, there are live springs or places, once used
by the Indians for obtaining salt. Two gentlemen
have obtained a lease of the property, and have
been at work some time sinking a sha't through
the solid rock, which is now 30 feet deep, and from
which about 12,000 gallons of salt water is obtain
ed daily, which will yield by boiling, about thirty
bushels of ijeautifal salt, equal to any made in
Virginia or elsewhere, in saving meats.
The correspondent also says that there are five
other places where saline water issues out of the
ground, which if worked down, would, doubtless,
yield plenty of salt water. That the water in the
shaft of thirty feet, has been found stronger every
foot as they have gone dowu, and he has every
reason to believe, when carried to the proper
depth, will be os sait as the water of the Kanawha
Works iu Virginia. That the people round about
the place have come end used the waste water
for curing their meat, and, finally, that he is sat
isfied if the State will take hold of it and erect the
necessary engine power and place hands to work
at the dfl'erent spriugs or issues that p euty of
salt could be made there to answer the wants of
our peop'e. He thinks the same plan of making
sal: on the Kanawha iu Virginia, should be adopt
ed at this place. This plan is both simple and
rapid is done by evaporating the wate by iron
oipes, which lie in copper vats and through which
sot steam is forced by an engine. The salt wa
ter being first pumped by the engine into a large
capper vat, under which a furnace is fixed and
fire enough keptup to heat the water to a certain
degree, but below the boiliug point—thence drawn
off io other copper vats, the bottoms of which
havo iron pipes arranged to evaporate the water
by the hot steam forced through them by the en
gine, leaving tha salt dry and beautiful.
Atlanta Market.—Sugar—common lo good
common 35 iBS; fair to fully fair 40a42; prima to
choice 4554S ; yellow clarified 50, whits clarified
hO Molasses - $2.25a52.50 per gallon ; stack light.
Flou ■ m sacks, Superfine S2O, Extra Family $22
aer hundred; in barrels, Superfine S4O, Extiu
Fam !y $42u543 per barrel. Wheat $« 50u#7 per
bushel, stack light. Corn $1.35 per bushel by tho
carload. Oats $2a52.25 per bushtl. Rye $6.50
»$7 per bushel; very little iu the market I’eaa
$1.85 per bushel; stock light, demand good. Rice
—Middling 5)4 cents per pound, prime 6 cts. Salt,
Virginia salt HO ce.ds per pound ; stock on hand
very limited since the seizure. Bacon—Sides 60
cents; stock light, demand good. Pork in demand
at a good price. Lard 45 cents per pound ; de
mand good, stock light. Butter—Good country
$1 per pound, off' wagon. Caudles—Tallow in
demand at $1 25 per pound. Coffee $3 per pound;
stock light, demand good. Baggiug—Very little
in market. Cotton Rope—sl per pound ; stock
very light Whisky—Pure country distilled $lO
asl2 per gallou. Peach Brandy $lO per gallon.
Cognac Brandy slSas2s per gallon. Tobacco 50'
cents to $125 per pound; stock good, demand
£Ood. Hides—Dry Salted iu demand, but few
leie. Nails s6oas6s per keg; stock light, demand
good. Osuaburgs— cents per yard. Shirt
lug, %, 60 cents per yard ; none here. SheetiDg,
4-4, 7o cents per yard ; none here. Cotton Yarns
$6.50 pt l bunch ; stock light. Tu low, Beeswax,
Honey, Chickebs, Butter, Eggs, Ac, from the
country always in demand at good prices.
Confederacy, Dec. 9.
Seizures in other Cities—The Atlanta Con-
Uderuey gays:—The Goaerament Agent here
seized the woolen goads, Osuuburgs, Shoes,
Thread, lla's, aud euch articles us come under
their bill ot instructions. So far as we have
heard, some of the agents who were employed
to perform this duty, have performed it in agen
mauly way, aud softened its hard places by courte
sy and a willingness to give as little trouble as
possible. Such has not been the deportment of
the Ageuts of the Confederate Government.
The Columbus Times of Saturday, has the fol
lowing
Yesterday was u brisk, though not a profitable
business day iu our e ty. Gov. Brown, under
authority gizen him by tho Legislature, through
hia ageuts—tho sheriff aud others—seized all the
osnaburgs, shirting, sheeting, cotton yarns, wool
ene, loixtho- uoa hlio'.-u, in inorchubl’a hands in ilio
city. We understand that the same thing was
done in'every other city, town and village in the
State,- .What fate the factories shared we did not
learn. '.Well this is a cheap way to clothe the
army, apd would he justifiable if it were necessa
ry, but.it is a terrjbly dear process to the poor
who are at home. tVhere they will now get any
of these articles of necessity is a question we are
unable td solve. They will certainly look to Gov.
Brown to supply their wants, and we trust that
the Governor, out of the abundance of his re
sources \yiil be üble to meet their just expectaliong.
Thi. Blockade Auctions —Lively Times. —An-
other of the heavy cargo sales, which have become
so mm ked a feature of Charleslou business since
the blockade began, took place yesterday, at the
warorooms ot Mr. D. H. Silcox, King-st., Mr. J.
G. Miluor acting as Auctioneer. Avery large
concourse of biddeis had assembled from all parts
of the Confederacy, and the goods went off' at
prices which were generally uigber than those
obtained at previous auctions. Coffee brought
$2 72X per ft ; salt, 80@85 cents per lb.; and cali
coes $2 per yai and The Government bought nearly
ull the flannels and drugs. During the sale, some
sensation was caused by the announcement of an
officer, speaking in behalf o! the Government,
that an article upon which he was bidding would
be impressed by the Government at a price which
he named. The owners ot the goods having mani
fested a disposition to dispute the impressment, a
message was received from the Commanding Geu
eral, through cue nf his Aids, to the effect, that if
the Government tailed to obtain the goods, which
it needed, not a bale of cottou should leave this
port iu the steamer which had brought out the
cargo from England.’ No further opposition was
offered to the purchases of the Government Agent.
Chas. Mercury, Dec. 4.
Confederate Bonds in England. — W e have Been
a letter from a convalescent Mobile soldier, who is
RojouruiDg in the family of a hospitable citizen of
Richmond, a wealthy capitalist, which gives the
particulars of a conversation he recently had with
his best.
This gentleman, in the coarse of bis inquiries
us to the menus of remitting a considerable sum
to England, was introduced to an Eug'ish gentle
man now in this country on a collecting tour
for one of the largest English hardware establish
ments, ol which he is a partner. He has collected
upwa-da if a m’liioH dollars in Confederate eight
per cent bonds at par, which he says wi*l now
sell readily in England at 75 to 110 cents in the
dollar, and the day the Confederacy is recognized
as a nation they will go up to 125 or 150. Many
large houses, he says, have hundreds ot thousands
of dollars of these bonds, and consider them a
splendid investment. As to recognition, it is sure
to take place n a lew months.
Inquiries being made respecting the Confede
rate navy reported to be building m England, the
gentleman said that nothing certain was known.
It is a fact, however, that a good many large
steamers - re building, but for what purpose no
body can tell, ihe shipyards are kept locked and
no one is allowed to visit them.
| Mobile Advertiser.
The Jeans Brought from Kentucky, —We
have heard so many different, uud all ot them
extravagant accounts, ot the quantity ot Kentuc
ky i;ans brought from that State, when it was
evacuated by our svrny, that we are gratified at
seeing in the Mobile Advertiser & Register, a
statement from its correspondent “Ora, ’ which
tells the truth m regard to the matter, and which
shows the quantity not to be so great as as has
been repor ed. The writer says the whole
“amount received was 150,C00 yards, which would
make sai a for 25,000 men only. Oi t-is amount,
Gen Kirby Smith received 0 ',OOO, and Gen. Bragg
23 000 yards.’' [What became, we wonder, ot tue
other 47,000 yards?) There were also brought out,
“Ora,” says, about 50,000 yards of calico and
The same wilier says, “ ot captured property,
bv Gen. Kirby Smith’s army, theie are 6000 pairs
of shoes 3000 blankets, 2000 overcoats, besides
shirts socks, and pauts, with camp equippage
worth’*loo,ooo.” He also says the clothes lor
Smith s army are being made in kuoxvdie, Tenn.,
and Dalton, Ga. Those for Bragg s army are be
ing made in Augnsta. —Atlanta IrdtUitjenur.
Nssao Patriotism.— Benj. Marrable, Esq , of
Halifax county Va„ has tour negro men who, tor
somefttme, have been engaged working on the
fortifications at Richmond. A few days ago they
came up home on a visit, and finding good warm
olething, excellent shoes and sooks made for them
they genefnusly declined them, on condition that
rheir master would send them to the suffering
soldiers who, they said, needed them much more
than they did. They had seen suffering soldiers
and it touched their hearts to comnaasion, besides
they want t e Bouth to conquer. Wow, how many
miserable i.the hides
W f*h e Contrabands would have been as self-sac
ofthese nimoug? Notone!
nficing, generous, an k colored
The at the
men would buy ® many “white” men think
t^t^^d^ng te tb t^Red’
l0 “ 1 'pn“ ners s.nce Aug. 7, is 75,»70.
wounded, P omitted the loss in the
In nawba Talley M?s“uri and the battles of
p“ * b h inka and Hatchie, which will probably
?nTu up to“ or *O,OOO. Since the Ist inly, the
AboUttonisU have placed 600,000 new troops m
the held 400,000 volunteers, and 200,000 drafted.
General Wm. B. Trotter and ed Nov. l«th at his
reedience in Quitman, Miss.
VOL. LXXV. —NEW SERIES VOL. XXV. NO 50.
Correspondence of Chronicle tfe Sentinel,
How to uve Pork with little Skit. |£
Millbdobvillk, Dec. 6tb, 1862.
Mr. Editor: In your Daily of this date I find
an extract from the Montgomery Advertiser in
which a correspondent of that paper gives a mode
for preserving pork. As I am prepared, from
actual experiment, not only to endorse every
word in the extract, but even to recommend a
still smaller amount of salt to the 1000 pounds
than is therein indicated, and as I have been I
questioned frequently by citizens of my own I
(Green) county and others, it is due the country, I
in this apparent salt famine, that I give the result I
of my experiments last winter. And I flatter I
myself that those who know me (especially in the I
absence ol any motive to deceive) will give me I
credit for veracity. Last winter I saved my meat, I
at two killings, with the following proportions
and quantity of salt and ashes from green hickory
wood : viz, half a bushel of salt aud one peck
ashes to the 1000 pounds pork. My first killing
was a* ,a very unfavarable time, as it turned warm
the first night thereafter. Several of my neighbors
who killed the same time, and salted in the usual
way, using one and a half and two bushels of
unmixed salt had some of their joints spoil.
None of mine was even tainted 4nthe least degree.
Another of my neighbors following my suggestion
succeeded also in saving his meat. I used Liver
pool salt. What quantity of coast or Virginia
salt is necessary, etnera can judge as well as my
self, as I have never used either.
W. M. Lbwiß,
Os the 19th Senatorial District, i
Report of the Legislative Committee
upon Hon. T. Bauer King s lTltssio.ii.
The Special Committee to whom was referred
the communication of His Excellency the Govern
or, on the subject of the mission ofthe Hon. Thofn
as Butler King to Europe to secure the establish
ment of a line or lines of steamers from European
ports to the ports of Georgia, under the act ofthe
General Assembly passed Dec, 1860, with accom
aanying documents, beg leave to report that they
luve given the same a careful consideration, ans
that they have been exceedingly gratified at the
manner in which Mr. King has discharged the
duties of hia mission.
He #as charged with power to offer a subsidy
to parties in Europe who would establish and run
a line of steamers between European ports and the
city of Savannah, or other ports in this State,
which he succeeded in accomplishing according
to instructions, under many difficulties. The mer
chants* aud people of England, France and Bel
gium, were found to be quite ignorant of the com
mercial resources and power of the Southern
States, having heretofore almost entirely received
the productions of the South and shipped her
supplies through Northern ports. It became
therefore necessary for Mr. King to collect aud
publish such facts and statistics as would en
lighten the commercial mind on the subject; and
for this purpose be wrote and published, ana di»-
tribuied over most ofthe European countries over
five thousand copies of hiß letter addressed to Lord
John Russell, published in English, and memoirs
to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, in
French, on the character ol the blockade, besides
an elaborate aud well digested argument on the
American blockade, also published in French, be
sides many other articles written for French pa
pers on thß state of our political affairs. Iu addi
tion to this, he also concluded a contract with
Messrs. Sabet & Cos., of Liverpool, for the estab-
lishment of a line of steamers from Liverpool to
Savannah, with the subsidy of one' hundred thou
sand dollars per annum, as provided by the act
under which he was commissioned, which is here
with submitted.
The result of Mr. Kiug’s labors in this behalf is
seen and felt in having secured the change of a
law unanimously by the Senate, Corps Legislative,
and Imperial Council, of France, granting a large
subsidy to a company in Parts tor the establish
ment of two lines ot first class steamers, one from
Havre to New York, aud the other to the West
Indies, whereby those were changed, the one
from New York to the city oi Savannah, and
tho other from the West Indies to the city ot New
Orleans. This was a triumph of the intelligence
and labor of our representative.
To enable Mr. King to accomplish this task, it
became necessrry to ineur much expense in em
ploying a Secretary and translator, and in secu
ring such quarters and living as became the rep
resentative of the State of Georgia.
It will be remembered that Mr. King left the
State ot Georgia about tho first ot March, 1861,
before hostilities commenced, and was in Europe
when the blockade was established. It was not
contemplated by the Governor or the Legislature
that it would require more than two or three
months to accomplish the purpose of his mission ;
but soon after the blockade was established, and
it was impossible for him to leave Europe until
November, and he was detained two months in
Havana, and did not reach his home until eleven
months aud seventeen days from the time of his
departure, after enduring the perils of shipwreck.
Iu consequence of this delay, the expenses were
largely augmented, and in addition to the SB,OOO
appropriated for the expense of his mission, Mr.
King was driven to draw upon the Governor for
$2,500, which the Governor met upon presenta
tion.
Y’our Commi tee have great pleasure and pride
in saying that Mr. King has not only ably and
faithfully accomplished the purposes of his mis
sion, but has done more, much more, in securing
the two French lines referred to, to Savannah and
New Orleans, to be put in operation as soon as
the blockade is raised. And more, ihe Commit
tee is ol opinion that the abie documents referred
to have done more to place the real political con
dition and commercial resources of this country
before the European people than any acts or paperß
which have fallen under their observation during
our troubles ; and that the people of this whole
country are much indebted to him for his pro
ductions.
It is shown by the bill rendered by Mr. King,
that bis actual expense of living, traveling, and
preparing and publishing the papers referred to,
has been *5,000, being four hundred dollars more
than has been paid to him; and the Committee
recommend that Mr. King be relieved from all
liabi ity whioh he may have incurred by drawing
the draft referred to, that he be paid the balance
which he has expended, and that he be allowed
the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars in compen
sation for his very valuable services to the Btate
and the country while in Europe, and that his able
report to the Governor, and his memoirs on steam
navigation and the American blockade, witu this
report, be printed ; and wo forbear asking the
publication of his letter to Lord John Russell only
because it has already been published in moat of
the newspapers of the country, and the people
have had an opportunity to see it.
la consideration of the change of the circum
stances of the country since the contract was
made, and the eatablisment of the French lines,
which will subserve all the purposes of the Leg
islature, we agree with the Governor that it would
not be wise and prudent at present, to ratify the
contract negotiated with Messrs. Babel k Cos., of
Liverpool, as provided in said contrast.
All of which is respectfully submitted,
A. E. Cochran, Ch'n Special Committee.
News Summary,
The Houston Texas Telegraph states that it ia
rumored that our forces under Hindman had en
gaged the Federals at Boston Mountain, been de
feated, and were retreating to Little Rock, having
given up Fort Smith, Batesvllle aud Pocahontas.
We trust this report will prove to he merely a ru
mor—without any foundation.
The excitement about the Abolition conspiracy
in Northern Texas has subsided.
At an auction Bale in Richmond on Dec. 1, the
following prices for tobacco were obtained : Dark
sweet, 85 to 60 cents ; common grades, 3o to vO
cents ■ good, 74 to 85 centß ; very sane, 90 cents
to *l.lO.
Mr. Hansford Tall-y, of Hanover, Va., was
brutally murdered by a negro Nov. 8.
was caught, carried to the spot where the deed
was committed, and hung. The negro was a run
away, and was trying, when be committed the
deed, to make hiaway to the Federals—his friends
w ho would have applauded and Bhieldea uim
had he reached them.
General Jerry T. Boyle, of Kentucky, who
commenced life as a murderer, is concluding
it with a series of unmanly and inhuman
deeds ihut will render his name immortally in
famous, and who is now in the Federal army.
Alt-r the battle of Perry villa, the friends of -.h -
South in Louisville raised the sum of s:x thou
sand dollars for the relief of Southern wounded
soldiers in the hospitals. The Union people of
the same place contributed one thousand dollars
for their wounded allies. Boyle thereupon seizwl
the amount contributed by the southern sympa
thisers, and appropriated half of it ,o the \ ankee
soldiers. Such infamous conduct is just what
might be expected from a man who is a murderer,
who has persecuted aud imprisoned women, and
who. in company with Goi. Leonidas Metcalf,
imbbed hundreds of Kentuckians of thousands of
dollars under the pretence that it was. to replace
the losses of Union men and then quietly pock
eted the whole sum.
The young lad Moore, from Warren county,
whose conviction of robbing the mail we noticed
last week, has been pardoned oy the Pres.dent,
The Abolition Governor of North Carolina has
been trying to have a meeting with Gov Vance,
b order to submit some propositions to him.
Gov Vance told the Abolitionist if he wishes to
make any proposition, to treat directly with the
Confederate authorties at Richmond. North Caro
lina, he also states will fight till the last drop of
blood is spilled.
Our late accounts from General Pemberton’s
army represent it in fine fighting order—full of
spirit, courage and confidence, well organized and
I drilled, and, for our service, well equipped.
Special Correspondence of Chronicle & Sentinel.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
MILLIDGIVILLI, DeO. 4.
SENATE.
o
before each branch, as follows easiness
r “ ‘hf House, bills read first time 41
D ~. “ “ second time...'.' .181
Resolutions not acted 0n.... **
Senate bills read first time.. ... .. . 96
“ “ second time ' *gc
“ not read. ,t g
Senate resolutions not acted on.!!.*’ 14
Bills on the table for the present 16
sis
Senate bills 28
House bills 20
Senate Resolutions 6
House “ ' 4
A - «R
Total business pending 877
I The committeee recommend a reoess after
Thursday next to the Bth of February. Mr.
Harris moved to strike out Thursday next,
and insert Monday 15th inst. Mr. Seward
moved to postpone the resolutions and
| amendment indefinitely, and called the ayes
and nays, which stood ayes 14, nays 21. Mr.
Seward then moved to make the resolution the
special order lor Monday next. Mr. J. R Brown
offered a proviso that members shall not reoeive
milage in taking the recess. Mr. Jackson de
clared the motion for bancomb, ayes 10, naya 25.
The law already prescribes that milage shall not
be paid in taking a recess. The previous ques
tion was called, and the vote was on the report of
the committee. It was lost ayes 16, nays 19.
A bill for the relief of Elkanah Tally, was taken
up and passed.
A bill io restrict the planting of cotton in this
Slate for 1863 was taken np, a substitute was re
! ported by the joint committee, restricting the
growth of cotton to three acres, and providing a
tax on every acre over that amount. Mr. Jackson
argued that the bill proposed to raise revenue,
and to tax parties for other purposes than those
contemplated in the constitution.
Judge Gibson offered a substitute, limiting the
production to two acres to the hand, and 50 acres ta
any one planter, and making the penalty mis
demeanor—half the penalty to go to the informer.
The bill and substitute were re-committed.
The house having refused to coucnr in the
| amendment of $8,000,000 to the bill providing
for the relief of soldier’s families, the bill was
taken up, aud the Senate refused to recedo from
its amendment.
A bill to vest in the Superior Courts the power
to grant certain charters, in pursuance ofthe Cth
section of the 2d article of the constitution, passed.
Mr. James Hilliard offered a series of resolntions
requesting the Searstary of War to institute inves
tigations into the oo duct of the Quartermasters,
Commissaries,jSurgeons, Agents and other officials
connected with the government, whioli was passed.
There is doubtless great need of reform in the con
duct of many officials in all these departments.—
Peculation, corruption, fraud, and neglect creep
into the details of all army regulations, and can
only be prevented by the utmost watchfulness by
the war Department. More men have died
through the neglect of Surgeonß, Commissaries
aud Quartermasters, than by oasuaities of battis,
A bill supplemental to the act to prevent distilla
tion was taken up and discussed until the hour of
adjournment.
The reports of the committee on Federal rela
tions—the resolutions on the Conscription law—
were made the Special order for to-morrow at
11 o’clock.
In the afternoon, the supplemental distillation
bill was passed. It ullows those who already
have contraots with the Government is distil
within twenty miles of railroads and navigable
streams, provided they get tlieir corn twenty miles
from such lines of transportation. It provides
that such contracts shall not exceed 1,000,000 of
gallons, and the parties to be sworn not to vio
late the conditions of this bill.
The Senate refuged to oonc ir in th« action of
the House, in resolving to take a recess after
Thursday. The vote was, ayes 16, nays 17. It
will probably be reconsidered in the morning, as
members are getting very anxious to go home.
HOUSE.
In the House this morning, Judge Cochran
moved to reconsider the vetoed bill regulating
the manner of granting charters by the Superior
Courts. He argued that the Legislature hud no
power to limit the terms under which the Courts
should exercise the power given them bytheCon
stitution, and urged the passage of the bill over
the veto of the Governor. Toe motion to recon
sider prevailed.
Gen. Black moved to reoontider the action of
Uonse, in refusing to concur in the $8,000,000
amendment of the Senate to the bill to provide for
soldiers’ families. The vote was, ayes 67, nays 69,
So the motion to reconsider was lost.
Mr. Washington moved to reconsider the bill
changing the line between Lumpkin and Haber
sham, which was carried, und the bill was taken
up, amended, and passed.
The House took up the report ot the Committee
on the business before the General Assembly. A
long discussion ensued on the clause to take a re
cess after Thursday next, and various amend
ments were proposed, and voted down. The re
port of the Committee wag then agreed to, 85
to 51.
A number of Senate amendments to unimportant
bills were taken up, and concurred in, when the
House adjourned to 3 o’clock.
In the House this afternoon a clause amenda
tory to the resolutions authorising the seizure of
factories and manufactured goods lor the use of
the soldiers was taken up. It defines the bill to
mean, that the Governor may pay the prices
named, or suoh other sum as may afford a reasona
ble profit to the holder. Mr. Candler offered a
substitute that the Governor be authorized to
pay holders 10 per cent profit, and require them
to make oath to the cost of goods held—and au
thorizing the payment of 86 per cent on the oost
of manufacturing, where goods are seized from
factories. Mr. Cabiuess offered a substitute re
scinding the resolutions authorizing the seizure of
goods. Judge Cochrane and Capt. Raiford sus
tained the motion to reacind, and alluded to the
mischievous operation of the law. Mr. Barnes
spoke with earnestness and eloquence in favor of
rescinding. He had opposed the resolutions on
their passage. It was unwise in a time of revolu
tion, and in ail other times, to interfere with the
laws of trade. It was the most injurious and
outrageous legislation ever adopted by a delibera
tive body. In the French revolution —in whose
history there is more of praotical experience for
oar guidance at the present time than in the
whole century beside—the attempt at seizure had
been mischievous and ineffective in relieving
scarcity. Mr. Stephens rose to defend the policy
of seizure. The act was designed to catch specu
lators —and notwithstanding the evidences ol their
squalling he was not disposed to back out.
“There never was a thief who felt the halter draw,
Who had a good opinion of the law*”
The reeolations had not fully met his approba
tion, but there was evidence that it was working
with effect, aud would eoon furnish a supply of
goods for clothing and shoeing every soldier from
the State. Gentlemen are, he argued, a Uttle in
consistent—they favor the seizure of white men
and negro laborers, and yet shrink from touching
the goods of the speonlator. He did not object to
impressing white men-if it is done by the proper
authority, and had made no objection to the seis
ure of slaves. Wherefore all thi* eqneamishnees
about property—property- property—when yon
don’t hesitate to impress free white men. Why
this discrimination between liberty and property?
Judge Stephens argued at length, and with muoh
earnestness against the motion to rescind.
Dr. Muikey sustained the motion to rescind.
Mr. Barnes returned with renewed spirit to the
discussion. We are told that the speculators are
squalling. It is not the speculators that come np
here with a supplementary bill; it is not he
manufacturers that are squeamish—but the agents
appointed to execute this obnoxious law who come
ruuning to us for protection. The gentleman
from Hancock congratulates himself that the seiz
ures have already Becnred a large amount of
goods It is very bad economy which feasts and
fattens to-day to starve to-morrow. He believes
the true polioy to he, to invite the people o! the
whole Confederacy to bring goods to our borders,
instead of driving what goods we have, by arbi
trary interference with the laws of supply and
demand, into cellars, swamps, and across"!*
rivers into other States He called elcqacnEy
upon the House to rescind the mischievous reeo
Tatum followed in a
which he alluded to tb ® th emee—reminding
ment, exemption, and !H“dred opponent
me ol the Western orator wh° a.m qM
had “ripped "”. tb . a 0 1 1 r d old/Dioinedes.”
G M* h Washington sustained the motion tcreecind
The Go “»or\ agent had called him aside de
claring that he had struck a anag in Columbus,
lad wanted the Legislature to come to his aid.—
He thought Bnagi would be struck all over tbs
State, which it would cost endless trouble aud lit
igation to remove.
Mr. Dubose made an impassioned appeal
m defence ol the policy of seizure. Pictured the
suffering of the troopß and people, which it was
our duty to try to relieve. Allusion had been
made to snags. He thought the Governor could
remove them. Like the doctor, who threw his pa
tients into fits before he cured them—the Govern
or was death on snags I
Mr. Sheats offered an amendment that the Gov
ernor go into the market and boy on the best
Washington offered an amendment, that
the operations of the resolutions authorizing «>iz
ure cease after the 25tfa lost. The resolution*