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BY N. S. MORSE. <%oiticle £ Sentinel. TERMS. THF; WEEKLY .CllKtliflCLK & SENTINEL Is Published Ever) TUESDAY, AT TIIUEK DOLL A lib I’LL AiVv W, ALWAVK IN y|I>VAN« U. Uateafoi Weekly Adverllneuieitt*. UueiNAKr Advertisements, published c uue a r/eek,in Daily, or Weekly, seven and a h Us cents per line, for each insertion. ’ Kpsoial Notices, ten ctnlt per line for llie first usertiun, and eijht cents per line for each subse -4 uent insertion. U Mfuiiu Auvsrtiasmsnts, ten cents per line ir euch insertion. MyauiAoss, Dsaths und Funeral Non /Iffy cents each. Obituaries, <<» cents oei ~ne. 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*