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Our Mllledgevine Correspond
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B " iT .7/eld E '?rom Dr. B. Ki*V
A cooß«si'* t, ““ ini fire*[?*»
in re.nrencs “> * £ P tbe military Committee,
which »“« r !!?T consists of *n srriingomeßt ty
Tun improvcmti dit . c bartred every SSOOBd,
which L. pm®* "■ ~ ore guns are discharged at
I.nd hy whie »* ntor b „ s lwo models es his K«B
* lime \ |C They weigh about 80 pounds a
on f*h . a four ounce ball. Six of them
P ,e **’t“d ag light field artillery would do terrific
on 'infantry. They have been Us ed
** fonnd to s’oot with great accuracy and pow
er three fourths of a mue. He proposes to sell
the State MM right, or obtain aid to manufacture
1 Mr. Dyer introduced a bill to amend the law in
relation to the selection of jurors in civil and
criminal cases.
Mr. Furloivr, a bill to add an additional section
to the penal code, —relates te combinations, or
conspiracies, or “strikes" among workmen.
Toe Special order, the bill to endorse the Con
federate bonds, was taken up. Mr. Vason offered
an amendment to strike out 1500,000,000 and in
sert 1200,000,000, and to strike out, as Georgia’s
share, $58,130,425 68, and insert $28,255,813 05.
Mr. Seward offered an amendment, providing thet
Cong, ess levy tax annually sufficient to pay the
interest and provide a sinking fund, and providing
that the endorsement shall be null and void should
the Union be reconstructed.
Major James R. llrown proceeded to a long and
able aigument against the bill. Dr. Beasley fol
lowed in a succinct and forcible speech in lavor of
endorsement.
The special order was then postponed until 11
o’clock to-morrow.
afternoon bbssioN.
A bill to amend the 20415 t section of the eode—
re>a es to the duty of railroad agents to forward
goods, and makes delay without cause subject to
penalty, passed ; a bill to incorporate the town of
Fort Gaines, passed ; a bill to incorporate the
Trader’s and Importer’s Bank.
The Committee to investigate the Quartermas
ters and Commissaries accounts, reported that
th“y had been to Atlanta for the purpose, but had
b, en prevented by the prevalence of small pox.
The Committee on Impressment reported that
the several committees appointed have failed to
agree, and they recommend that the resolutions of
ttio last session be rescinded, and that the Gov
ernor bo requested to notify Gen. Mercer to pro
ceed wi'.b bis call for laborers in accordance with
the late act of Congress.
The Bsna'o then adjourned.
BOUSE—APRIL 2.
The House opened with prayer by Kev. Mr
Ulark.
An act to incorporate the BlanoeviUe Slate Com
pany— passtd; a bill to incorporate the Griffin
Fire and Murine Insurance Company ; the reso
lutions instructing tbe Governor to secure the in
cre.,se of pay of employees on the W. A A. Rail
road was laid on the table lor tbe balance of the
session.
A bill to charter the Lewis Iron Company; a
bill to prevent associations to monopolize busi
ness, nr to promote “ strikesa bill to amend
the 17'J(Hh and 17915 t sections of the Code.
| it ib due to Mr. Adams to say that I was mis
taken in saying, a few days ago, that be had ofier
ed ao amendment to tbe bill fixing salaries, which
provided that tbe salaries of the Superior and hu ■
promo Court Judges should not be raised. He
opposed railing the salaries of the Judges of the
Superior Courts. J
A bill to amend the charter of the Muscogee
Railroad. „
The House concurred in slight Senate amend
ments to the distillation bill.
A bill to change the line between Campbell and
Fayette—pussed.
The bill to endorse Confederate bonds wag
taken up. Mr. Stephens presented the following
resolutions, as a substitute lor the minority re
port, which Maj. Bigham accepted:
RESOLUTIONS OFFERED BT HON. UNTON STEPHENS.
The General Assembly of the State of Georgia
do Resolve : Ist, That Georgia respectfully de
clines to accede to any of the plans which hare
been proposed by some of her sister Slates, or to
any plan, tor the assumption or endorsement of
Confederate debts by the several Slates—not be
cause she feels any distrust of the success of the
Confederate Government, for she entertains a
lirui confidence in tbo invincibility of a nation de
termined to be free ; nor because she feels any in
difference towards the common cause of inde
pendence, for she regards her own honor and ex
istence a-i inseparable from the triumph of that
cuu -ii; hut, first, because she believeß that ns the
whole property of the people of the States is al
ready subject to all the debts present and future
of the Confederacy according to the Confederate
Constitution, State endorsement cannot add any
thing to the security of the debt or tueconfidence
telt in its redemption in any event, except the
single improbable and inadmissable one of dis
solution end reconstruction, and she is unwilling
to provide security for payment in that event,
since to do so would present to the capitalists who
might be the holders of the debts so secured, a
temptation to favor reconstruction, in order to
stop the war, aud the consequent accumulation of
debt before the point may be leached where pay
ment would be impossible and repudiation be
oome a necessity. Secondly, because she is un
willing to violate the spirit of representative
government acd the piinciples of sound economy
oy separating, in any degree, the responsibility
of payment from the power of contracting debts;
and third, bcc -.use she is convinced that the credit
of the Confederate government is to be maintain
ed, not by endorsement, but by payments—by the
inauguration of such a system of payment as will
inspire conS-f-noe in the early reduction of the
public debt, and in its ultimate entire redemption.
Bd. As the legitimate aud only possible means
to etdab ish such a system of payme t, she points
tirst to taxation, equal, just, and judicious, but
firm and vigorous taxation. Not only will she sub
mit to it, but i nvi tee it, and pledges her people never
to shrink from their due share of it, and scouts at
all idea of repudiation, tfeoond, to cotton, to be
purchased bv the Government from the people of
the Confederacy, at a liberal prioe, which will in
sure ihe requisite supply, and sold at the largo
profit which it commands in the markets of Eu
rope. The only obstacle in the way of this pro
cess is t e difficulty of delivery ; and this obsta
cle enn be surmounted by obtaining, in the drat
instance, advances upon a pledge of the cotton,
and theu using those advances in procuring a
fleet which shall open, and keep open at least one
Confederate port, where the cot’on can be reached
by neutral ships, without any breaoh of the law
of blockade, and whence it can therefore be car
ried to its destmuiion under the inviolable protec
tion of neutral Sags. ,
HRNATS —APRIL 10.
In the Senate this morning, a bill to declare the
liability of the Western and Atlantic Railroad for
damages, aud to declare sails brought since the
udoption of the Code, valid. Passed.
A communication was received from the Gov
ernor in response to a resolution of inquiry as to
the necessity of continuing Adjutant General’s
office. Toe Governor regards the office indis
pensible to the administration of onr military
affairs. G-meral Wayne is a man of great ability
and rare military aptitude and acquirements, and
tho i* solution was proposed not in hostility to
him, out in the belief that his military knowledge
would be more available to the country in the
held.
The following bill wag read the first time: A
bill to extend tho charter of the Washington r ire
Company of Savannah.
The following House bills were passed : A bill
to change the fine between Harris and Talbot
counties, a bill to raise the fees of jailors—allows
60 cents a day for fee ing a negro, and T 5 cents
for a white man ; a bill to repeat an act to com
pensate the muuagers of elections in Chattooga
county; a bill for the relief of Andrew Hamilton,
of Whitfield county ; a bill to change the line be
tween Lee and Schley counties ; a bill to allow J.
W. C. Cook and others to navigate the North
Oconee river; a bill to declare the liability of
railroads.
Tbe following Senate bills were passed : a bill
to repeal the Slay law ns far as relateeto interest;
a bill to make uniform the payment of Grand and
Petit Jurors.
Judge Gibson otlered a resolution that the State
troops oe furloughed from May until November,
with the exception of three companies to guard
railroad bridges. It was amended so as to leave
it to the discretion of the Governor, and passed.
It may not be generally understood that since
th.se troops went to the coast they are subsisted
by the Confederate Government, and will contiiue
to be eo long as needed there, which is not likely
to be longer than May or June, when Gen. “ Yel
low Jack," with his marsh allies, wilt afford am
ple protection for the coast.
A Senate bill to charter the Mechanic s baying*
Association ot Colum.us was passed.
A bill to allow a number of persons to practice
medic ue was lost.
The unfinished business —bill to endorse Con
federate bonds was taken up. A number of propo
sitions were submitted, when Mr. Lewis moved
as a subst late a resolution, requesting the people
at tbe Uetober election, to endorse on their
tickets "endorsement or no endorsement.” He
sustained his resolution iu a speech of some
length, and was followed by Judge Gibson against
the resolution. A running debate followed, and
when tbe vote was taken the yeae were 25. navs
10. Those who voted in the affirmative, ' were
Messrs. Benson, Boyd, W. M. Brown, J. R
Brown, Fletcher, Gaston, Gordon, Griffin, Ha a .
sell. Hill, Jas. Hilliard, Tbos. HUiiard, Jacks n,
Jamison, Killen, Lewis, Mcßae, Mitchell, Seward’,
Simmons, Smith, Stephens and Swearingen— 2s.
Those who voted in the negative were Messrs.
A exander, Beasley, Dyer, Furlow, Gibson, Ken
dall Moselv, Pmcksrd, Shewmaker and Vsson—
-10.
BOCSB —APRIL 10*
In the House this morning, Mr. Adame, of
Clark, introduced a bill W amend the cotton cul
ture act of 1562.
A billVi amend the charter of the CassrlUe
Female College, As. P ssed.
A resolution asamg Congress to raise the pay
of pflTate soldiers to #2O a mouth, and non-com
missioned officers in proportion, was adooted.
The unfinished business— the bill to endorse
#2oO,OOt),(X l O Confederate bonds was taken up,
when Mr. Lester entered upon a brilliant argu
ment in favor of the bill. I will send you a report
of bis points lo my next. It was a speech of rare
eloquence and power. Mr. Bloodirorth followed
Mr. Lester ag&iust endorsement.
Tbe question was postponed until afternoon.
Qa motion of Capt. Raifcrd, the resolutions of
the last session, authorising the seixure of facto
ries, Ac., were rescinded. . . .
A bill to allow Coroner and six jurors to horn
inquests in Chatham county. Passed.
The resolution on adjournment was taken np,
and ita consideration postponed until Wednesday
next.
In the afternoon, Jadge Stephens responded to
Capt. Lester in a critical review of his arguments
and reiterated bis objections to the bill.
He was followed by Judge Cabiness in a brief,
clear, end logical argument in iavor of the policy
proposed in ihebiiL
The vote was taken on the resolutions of Mr.
Stephens, as a substitute to the bill, and was yeas
60, nays 61.
sawAra— apbil 10.
The Senate waa opened with prayer by Rev.
Mr. Hawkins. The bill lost on yesterday, pro
viding for certain persons to practice medicine
waa reconsidered and amended so as to apply to
T. C Daniel of Harris, and passed.
Mr. Thos. Hilliard introduced a bill to incor
porate tbe Georgia Agricultural Implement and
Lumber Company.
The Committee to whom the message of the
Governor in reference to the office of Adjutant
General reported, approving of the Governor’s
Message, and declaring the offioe necessary during
the war.
A bill for the relief of deceased soldiers’ wid
ows, was amended so as to apply to those who
remove from one county to another, was lost.
A bill to amend the laws in relation to th 9 se
lection of jurors in civil and criminal cases—pass
ed.
Mr. Lewis offered the following resolution which
was unanimously concurred in :
Resolved by tbe the Senate and Honse of Eep
resentatives, That the ability and success with
which tbe Chief Magistrate ol the Confederate
States of America hag discharged tbe duties de
volved upon him by his high and responsible of
fice, have commanded the admiration and secured
tbe confidence of bis countrymen, and Georgia
hereby pledges herself to furnish all the means at
her disposal to enable him to bring to a success
ful termination the cruel and unjust war now be
ing waged upon bn citizens.
The military committee to whom was referred
the Governor’s message in reference to the militia
laws, reported a bill to repeal the laws contained
in the code on the subject, and to re-enact the
laws of force previous to the adoption of the code.
They also recommend that the Adjutant General
be appointed to prepare a system ot militia laws
lor the consideration of tbe next General Assem
bly. The resolution was adopted.
A bill to define tbe qaalifioation of voters in the
city of Columbus, passed.
The Senate, having disposed of all tbe business
before them, adjourned until Monday, 10 o’clock.
HOUSB—APRIL 11.
In the Honse this morning several motions to
reconsider were made and lost—among them one
to reconsider the vote rejecting Mr. Stephens’
substitute for the bill endorsing Confederate
bonds, and one *o reconsider tbe resolntion post
pon.ng the consideration of the question of ad
journment until next Wednesday.
The unfinished business —the bill to endorse
Confederate bonds, was taken np.
Mr. Jones offered as a snbstitue a bill referring
tbe question to a popular vote, to be had in June.
Capt. Burk offered the Senate resolutions, re-
S nesting the people to endorse on their tickets in
otober, “endorsement, or “no endorsement.”
Mr.Ado ms offered an amendment,providing that
the bonds endorsed shall not be sold in foreign
countries, and providing that interest on the
bonds shall ont* be paid to citizens of the Confed
erate States. The object of these provisions was
to prevent foreign capitalists from obtaining a
dangerous power over us.
Mr. Lester offered an amendment providing that
bonds shall not be sold at less than 120 in curren
cy or 75 in sterling exchange, and providing that
the endorsement shall not be made until Congress
shall provide for the payment of the interest on
the public debt, and a sinking fund, and provided
the other States shall adopt a like plan of en
dorsement.
1!' The substitutes of Messrs. Jones and Burk were
withdrawn. The previous question was called,
and Mr. Adams’ amendment was lost. Mr. Les
ter’s was agreed to. On tbe passage of the bill,
the yeas and nays were called, and were nays 64,
nays 58.
A bill for the relief of Turner Brown, passed; a
bill to increase the salaries of county officers was
lost.
The Committee on Finance reported resolu
tions relative to the purchase of thread for the
poor.
A bill to prevent monopoly and extortion was
lost.
The following bills were introduoed: a bill to
incorporate the Georgia Aericultural Implement
Company; to repeal the 178th section of the code
—restores the old mede t of electing Door-Re per
and Messenger; a bill to provide revenue for
1b63.
The following bills were then taken ap for a
third reading; a bill to amend the oath of tax pay
ers—relates to value of property in Confederate
notes—passed; a bill to incorporate the Griffin
Fire and Marine Insurance Company— pas3eu ; a
resolution authorizing the purchase of cotton
thread from the fund for soldiers families, to be
distributed by the Inferior Courts—passed; a bill
to authorize the Governor to refund to parties or
corporations any sum expended in obstructing
rivers—passed; a bill to incorporate the West
Georgia Insurance Company; a bill to legalize the
tax returns of Floyd Superior and Inferior Court
—passed ; a bill to amend the 3d clause of 739th
section of the code—inserts the word “ white”
between free and person ; a bill to change and fix
time of holding Supreme Court—fixes it at Mil
ledgevillc 2d Monday in November, at Macon 2d
Monday in March, at Atlanta 2d Monday in July—
parties have the privilege of carrying cases to
either Court, provided it do not postpone the suit;
a bill to repeal the act allowing compensation to
the managers of elections in Emanuel county—
passed: a bill to provido for the execution of
titles to land in certain cases.
The House adjourned until Monday morning at
9 o’clock.
Our Milledg9ville Letter.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF CHRONICBB* SENTINEL
The Weather—lhe Poor School Mill—Cotton
Harding Bill in the lioase —Seizures by Wo
men, &c , ifee.
Milledgevills, April 9.
The weather is delightful and vegetation is com
ing forward rapidly.
The gay belle and beaux of the metropolis had
another cotillmn party at the Milledgeville Hotel
last night, whioh was quite numerously attended.
Col. Huson continues to make his house attrac
tive and his guests comfortable. It is rumored
that he designs giving up the house, and return
ing to his plantation on tho Etowah. It is to be
hoped that something may turn up to reverse
this decision.
The bill to allow teachers of rommon poor
schools 60 per cent, on former rates was advoca
ted by Col. Boyd, who argnes the importance of
keeping up our schools, and the injustice of ask
ing teachers to Well at old prices, which for the
poor school fund has always been low. Mr. Mit
ohell proposed to amend so that none subject to
military duty enjoy the provisions of the bill. Mr.
Killen opposed the bill, and it was killed.
When the Oonted rate Bond Endorsement bill
came up in the Senate, it was ably advocat and by
Judge ‘Gibson. His speech occupied an hoar
and a half.
In the House, when tbe Cotfon Planting bill, re
ported by tbe Majority Committee, was under
consideration, it was opposed by Judge Stephens,
on the ground of its unconstitutionality. He also
urged the importance of raising all the cotton
possible in addition to an abundant supply of
food. He favored the minority report. Judge
Cabinesj followed, maintaining that the power to
tax for revenue was granted in the Constitution,
and that this bill would raise revenue, and was
therefore constitutional. Mr. Bigbam opposed
the bill, and agreed with the position of Judge
Stephens. Mr. Candler urged the propriety of
forcing the production of provisions by law, if the
public gsod requires it.
A most painful scene has occurred on the
streets of the city this morning, which it is proper
to refer to. Tbe poor women of the s rronnding
county cams iu early this morning, some on foot,
ad some with carts, and about 11 o’clock made a
descent upon tbe Store of Gans A Cos., a fancy
Dry Goods Store, —helping themselves to mus -
lias, calicoes, parasols, cotton thread, and any
thing else id their way. They were (Aout to pro
c ed to tbe store of Wei' zfelder A Cos., who aie
also interested in the Factory here, but Judge L.
L. Harris appealed to them to desist from their
lawless course, and their wants should be sup
plied. He denounced those who had instigated
the outbreak is tbe severest terms. A subscrip
tion was made on the spot of some two thousand
dollais, to forniah nay who might be in want,
with goods. The goods taken were chiefly re
turned, and as I writs tbe crowd is dispersing.
From Texas,
A correspondent of tbe Houston Telegraph writ
ing from Fort Brown, March 4th, says: There is
news of importance. The Mexican troubles are at
present quiescent, bat by no means settled. It is
useless to disguise the truth, they don’t love us,
and are working into tbe bands of tlte Abolition
ists as much as they date do so.
General Bee has done much good for our cause
since he came here ; and, backed as be is by a
pretty large force, commands a respect from the
other side which no other man could hare ob
tained.
There are a large number of vessels off the
mouth of the R ; o Grande, with valuable cargoes;
but the market is but poorly supplied with goeds
at present, and the process ot discharging is alow
and uncertain. The winds have been high, and
several vessels have been wrecked.
Geivesfou ia now said to be well fortifi*.
r-- v pSSS v* °L e ? ooter6el Confederate notes just
ti?Ul ?,ew ' ork h * Te been arrested at Brcwns-
Cottou sailing at Brownsville f or twenty-six !
cents per pound. } ■ 1
A letter from Washington county Texaa i
March W.h. soys: "Our mospecisVere ne "r w '
ft‘ this season for abundant crops. The planters '
ore planting heavy crops ot corn; acd therb never '
was such a project for pock in the State. Our !
wuitsr has been very we bare had no scow j
for two winters, and very little cbi' ! we*‘her- Tbe J
corn crops is nearly all in the ground.
The Legislature of Texas, is now in session '
They have passed a bill to punish speculat ion
and a bill assuming its proportion of the indebted
ness of the Confederate States. They are aise
going to repeal the Stay Law of the State, J
Our Army Correspondence.
special coaoßSPoinjEircz cr tu* chboui-li akd sea run el.
Position of Affairs in the ITlin.isnippi
VallC7. a*.
Federal gunboat not sunk—The disabled" gunboat
The weather — Eng tgemeni at Warren ton —
Condition of the federal aid Oir.fe b.ra's a-tnii e
—lbsition of the federal — lf is future operations
—His complete failure thus far — Their Snyde - ?
Fluff expedition—federal Steel Eagou expedition
—failure of their Caual project—Another
expected on fort Pemberton—Speculation abou
i future operations of the federols, &c., Ac , Ac.
Vicksburg, April 11.
It is unfortunate that after ail the blowing about
the Yankee gunboat being in a sinking con
dition, Ac., it should turn out-that she did not
sink, and is not likely to. Reports had been cir
culated that her bow was under water and the
whole craft would soon disappear, but she still
persisted in keeping above, and on Sunday the
enemy was discovered at work on her, and steam
was raised to carry her through a break in the
levee to a sheltered point beyond tbe range of onr
guns. It is believtd that tbe name of this boat
is the Monarch, end cot Monitor, as was reported
by a Y ankea deserter. I have no idea that she
can be fitted up lor the service again at the pl.ee
where she 13 now, but being beyond oar reach we
are debarred from tbe privilege of destroying
her.
The boat which was disabled and floated down
the river is believed to have been the Lancaster
No. 3—both of them were rams, of the old fash
ion, and not is formidable as some of their late
iron clads.
II Com. Porter hes no objections we should like
for him to send down a few more of his boats,
while our gunners have their hands under good
trim.
We have had a very bad Spell of weather for
several days. On Saturday night we had a storm
which resembled a young tornado in violence,
annd played smash generally with the tents of
the soldiers. These on picket duty suffered con
siderably, and eleven were killed by the fallmg of
trees. The wharibont and ihe hail of the steamer
Vicksburg were both torn from their fastenings
and drifted down ihe river. The former was
lodged against tne shore a short distance below,
but the latter kept on her voyage down with the
current, and for all knew may be going yet.—
Among the Yankees opposite there must also
have been considerable damage, as the gunboats
were very busily engsged next morning.
Since Saturday the atmosphere has been cold,
and the prospects of a total destruction of fruits
in this neighborhood ore very threatening. It is
to be hoped wo may escape the disaster of having
the fruit nipped in the bud during these famine
times in every other article of provisions. Unless
we secure better transportation, the people in
this community will be put on short rations be
fore long.
Early Monday morning Admiral Farragut en
gaged our batteries *t Wamnton and kept shell
ing them heavily lor some fifteen minutes, when
he proceeded on down the river, with the Harilord
and Albatross.
Commodore Porter, of the upper Mississippi
fleet, must he vexed by his attempt to join and re
inforce Admiral Farragut who is now between
Vicksburg and Port Hudson, and can neither get
up nor down without running through a storm of
iron.
We have no doubt that Grant and Bunks and
the whole lot of them are perplexed, and begin to
be hopeless of the success o! their expedition,
which was begun with so much presumption and
so much vain glorious boast.
A general disgust seems to prevail among the
whole Federal army ot the Mississippi, extending
from the mouth of the Ohio to Vicksburg.
'lhe Confederate army at Vicksburg is in splen
did condition, so far as health is concerned. Ra
tions are sometimes short, but aot enough to cause
any generaleompiaint. Great confidence is placed
in the officers commanding here, and everybody
seems happy at the prospects of whipping the
Yankees at this place.
April finds the enemy still in front of Vicks
burg in precisely the same position he occupied
on the first of February, v> ith the exception of
the loss of four of fcia gunboats and thousands
of his tioops—tho latter being carried off by
the band of death in the sickly swamp where
they are located.
What the enemy intend to do 13 yet a mystery,
and at the present moment involved in more im
penetrable obscuritythan on the day wheu he first
arrived here. His well laid plans, like “tho best
laid schemes of meu and mice,” hove all been
frustrated by the ceaseless vigilance of the Con
federate officers at this point; and now, btfflid as
he is in every quar cr, iic ts left to philosophise
as to his future course of operations, without the
least particle of hope in any way he may turn,
and the object of his exped.tioa s’.hl unaccom
plished, without any possible show of future suc
cess, mast rentier his puriiten imminently disa
greeable, hopeless and un'Grlunute,' to say noth
ing of the prespeetu ot the entire annihilation of
his army.
The expedition aga’nst Vicksburg thus far has
proved not only uusueceps'ul, but highly disas
trous to the enemy. His inability to reduce the
place, and compelled an he is to keep a large army
here to threaten us and to guard his main base is
a work af vast magnitude, a'id in itself sufficient
ly costiy to bankrupt the most wealthy and pow
erful nation. A simple calculation of the amount
of aubsistenc: required lor an army of eighty
thousand men, ana a fleet of one hundred an«
twenty steamers upon which to transport tbe
tro, ps aud supplies, end added to ! hßse a ftoet of
thirty clumsy and unwieldy gunboats, most m«ke
this one of tho most expensive traveling menag
eries that ever started out to exhibit the wonders
of nature to the unsophisticated country villages.
Besides these there are an unknown cumber of
rafts and fiats ca led mortar boats, which have no
propelling power, and mad be taken in tow by
the steameM, and placed in proper position, be
fore they are ot any advantage, and even then
they do us no ha'm.
And what has all this immense farce accom
plished V Nothing! Every day that passes over
us renders their chances lean and les3 certain,
while their troops are becoming dispirited and
demoralized, weakening not cnly the physical but
also the moral power of ttieir army; and if they
keep encamped in the swamps until the hot season
approaches, the nat’.vo malaries will assert their
sway and reduce the Federal army to a mere
skeleton, aud the miserable wreck that may es
cape will be shattered and racked and unfit for
service in the military arm or any other. It mny
be safely asserted that the army which is sent
against Vicksburg will be a total loss to the Fed
eral Government. If it connsts of oiie hundred
thousand men, then there will be just that number
of diseased, crippled, cruaumptive men, (minus
those who die,) left wliea they are through with
their work. Even if they should succeed in cap
turing the place, climatic di’eares would carry off'
two thirds of them; bn aa it is without any ac
commodations, the whole army will be irretrieva
bly ruined, physically and morally.
It appears at present almost impossible for the
enemy to make any demoustrat.on azainst this
point. His exposition through the Yazoo Bass
has evidently proved a failure, and no and übt a
heavy one, or wa should be informed of it through
the Northern press. The attempt on the Sun
flower is also checked and the enimy is now in a
straightened place, and don’t know whether to
advance er reireat, and our force? are driving
them very closely. Soldiers operating in the
country bordering on \rzoo river should partake
of the amphibious nature, so as to live both on
the land and in the wale-, as the character of that
country does not al'ow much cf terra linn* to bo
visible at this seasen of the year, and when t' e
water subsides the gunboats v. ill be left on dry
land, and enable to escape from the clutches o:
the Confederates.
It is certain that th~y have cot yet approached
within striking di-tares of our fort ticatiocs at
Snyder’s Bluff, and neither is it definitely ascer
tained that they intend an attack there, but the
present movements point lo that place ns the
point of hostilities. The enemy vr li labor under
great disadvantages this time—much gr»at»r than
when the former attack was made in December.
Now the t.ater submerges all the surrounding
country, and no approach can be made in any
other wav thau by the gun-boats.
It is probable that wen. Grant has concluded
that oar defensive works at Bnyd r’s, on the Yt
xoo would be susceptible of redaction much easier,
and involving 3 less amount oi trouble acd loss of
life thau any other point around Vicksburg. If
he should succeed iu silencing the guis in the
batteries, he might land bis troops and march
them straight to the rear, cat cur railroad com
municaifon, and com[<; a surrender of the place.
But these are a:i Yankee speculations and calcu
lations j and' thong. the e have been in our midst
all the time dangercu- persons and spies, it is
still very evident that they know nothing of the
character of eur traps, which are set and ready
for them, or they wouid net be so anxious to rush
into them They have am sed themselves by
bantering our * r. on the river, until they have
lost several boats od now they are satisfied that
nothing can be do t in that quarter, and so they
turn their atteati* c cur rear w.ih the hope that
a weak spot may oe found where to recover the
lost fortunes ot th- vast, and to chastise the re
bellious city for its i nccocuptable obstinacy.
It is now reported that Gen. Sher i an has re
ceived large rein'o'ccments up Steel’s Bayou, and
1 that be is stdl de"redating in ; e Doer Creek
country. But the nature oi the low, marshy land,
which "is now mostly under water, renders his
movements extremely diffica’t, and hard to find
out. Both the Federal tad the Confederate ar
mies are working in that vicinity, and perhaps
within a short distance of each oilier, and yet
neither knows the exact position cr intention of
the other, owing to the peculiar oh .trawler of the
country. The last I hear from D:er Creek, is
ttat Gen. Sherman has a force of some ten tLou
ssou troops and a fits. of s'x gunboats in that
vicinity. The strength and mesas of operations
of theConfedcrates u would be improper to state,
j but it is amply sufficient to hold in check, or even
I destroy the lores brought opsin si therm My own
opinion is, that no vary unpartial results will be
attained by either pari;, &» the abundance a ra
ter will prevent me armies from conung^together,
a.d when the water fai’s ths enemy wiii hare to
retreat to save his boats.
The last Ysekee weioitntß from Memphis report
the caoui as a dead fediors—the flood, instead oi j
washing it out, has it up, ?nd our guns ;
com2*n®*g us diihtucU b=i*' 0 ' prevent them I
from resunl’itg worx on ii, so that the j
labor and gas wt-lc 1 * hp* been consumed will an j
fruitless of results.
Another attack is expected at Fort Pemberton
near Greenwood, but it is fully believed that Gen!
Loring will be able to check them in every at
tempt, and if they fail next time, that expedition
will be a total failure, i. vo'vlog the loss of a num
ber of boats some hill dozen of the transports
beirg sunk and wrecked in the passage through
Fazio Pass. And if they make another attack
the probabilities are that we mev he able to de
stroy some of h a host gunboats, and perhaps tut
off* me re.r-at of the bclcnce. The enemy them
selves acknowledge that nothing can be accota
plis'vd by that route, and enrse the day and the
man that led them into that horrible country.
The iorce sent up through Steele’s ilayou to go
through the Sunflower river into the Yazoo, be
tween Hain-.’s Bluff and Taioo city, is also’cou
fessed to be a failure, and the beats are trying to
woik their way back into the Miss asippi.
The enemy has therefore come down to the
simple point of military etiquette, that he must
either attack onr fortifications at Snyder’s Bluff
on the Yazoo, or our batteries in front of the
town. These are the only two points Lit against
which he can operate, and they are the same
which he has been trying to avoid for the last
three months. When he first arrived these were
the only points susceptible o' assanit, but wishing
to flank them he has wasted three mont 1 a time,
lost a number of gunboats and Iran spars, ana
many thousands ot his troops, and vet in the end
will be compelled to make the attacks in precise’y
the same manner that he eoula have done on the
first day he came here.
Tbat'tbe enemy intends to make another attack
on Snyder's Bluff, on the Yazoo, there can bo no
doubt, and by the last accounts received here it
appears that a large body of reinforcements is on
the way down the river, composed of some fifteen
or twenty gunboats and seventy odd transports.
It was reported that they had arrived at the point
above, but the closest observations I could make
fa-led to reveal any Bigns of their presence, and I
think the announcement of their arrival must
have been premature. But this does not detract
irom the probability of an intended attack at an
early day.
At headquarters I learn that a vigilant eye is
kept on the movements of the enemy, with the
expectation that an advance may be attempted
almost at any moment, either on the Ytzoo or at
Vicksburg. If they should effect a landing be
yond the ranged our batteries on the Yazoo, and
get on to tbe high land, they would hare a good
road to the city—a distance of cooui twelve miles;
snd tcis is what they intend to do. But these aie
Yankee calculations, and the old adage, “there’s
many a slip ’twixt the cup and tbe i:p,” in most
appropriately applicable here; because if they
should succeed in effecting a landing they would
get sight of a great many elephants before they
reached the city by that route.
But it is no improbable that they may make a
simultaneous attack on the fortifications it fioat
of the city; It is believed that the movement up
the Yszno is intended partly as a feint, and partiy
in earnest. By making a reconnoisance in force
and pretending to make a demonstration in that
quarter they might hope to draw off part of onr
forces from town to reinforce there, which would
leave a weak spot here; and it the reconnc-issnce
should discover a weak spot then a foothold might
be secured at once belore the point could be
strengthened. But whatever the object was no
thing has been accomplished except to double
our energy.
Our affairs haw been so well managed here
that the enemy is compelled to accept our own
offer ol battle or retire. All bis effc rts at flanking
the point have failed, and he must either come
and attack the works which we have prepared lor
him, or abandon the siege. This is his last alter
native, and though tbe idea of assaulting our river
batteries with a view of stormiDg the city is so
obnoxious to him that he has been laboring for
three months to find some plan by which to avo’d
it, he will in the end have to accept it as the only
possible chance for him to get off without losing
the prestige upon which he so much plumes him
self, and which would eternally disgrace hi m
It is to be supposed that the Confederate Gen
erals iu command here, knowing how to defend
the place, know how it must be assaulted in order
to meet with success; .nd with this knowledge,
they have placed their defe ses at those points
which afford the only hope of ingress, and conse
quently the enemy will fiad the taking of the city
a very precarious undertaking. The Yankees
know this, and for this reason, they have resorted
to every imaginable expedient to get by or around
the place, wiihout a fight, at Vicksburg.
In military circles the plans of the enemy seem
to be well understood, tnd the proper preparations
have been mads to meet hint in a becoming man
ner. This point has been much discussed in this
place. W .en the foe was operating in entire dif
ferent quarters, apparently paying but little at
tention to Vicksburg, the officers here were un
ceasing in their eudeavors to hurry up our de
fenses here. It appeared strange that when no
enemy was threat'mug, such preparations should
be made at a point uoi likely to be attacked ; but
tho officers understood their business, and com
prehending the Whole field of operations, knew
that this must, in the end, be the main point of
assault.
In regard to the time no one feels much con
cerned iurther than the impatience of wasting for
the transaction ot uncertain thing?. Our troops
are all at their peats, and defenses all completed,
and everything is in readiness to give them a good
drubbing whenever they leel disposed to come and
take it. Many Yankees will no doubt succeed iu
getting to Vicksburg, but they will come as pris
ons/s of war and not as victors; and many of
them will no doubt enrich the so 1 which their
presence has polluted, ana others, like thesr
aboard the Lancaster and Cairo, will make food
for caifish.
Nothing has besi heard from ihe Greenwood
‘expedition through Yazoo Pass, ex ept what we
learn from the northern papers, w hich represent
it ns a great success, but the ear marks stick out
30 pain that we can rely upon it that, it has prov
ed an utter failure. Thß report in town
is that another fight has taken place at Fort
Be . bi rLou, and it is qsite likely that such may.bo
the Case as another attack haa bsen expected for
some days past. No apprehensions whatever are
felt about it, and universal conldenfce -is reposed
in the ability of Gen. Lorinsr to drive them back,
if not to cut off and capture the whole exptdition.
The gunboats have been making reconcoisan
ces in the bayous and lakes in tbe neighborhood
of Chickasaw Bayou within the past few days,
and as the water is now high enough to permit
them to enter into the numerous lakes iu that
vicinity they have pretty well scoured the whole
country bordering on the swamps and marshes
about the month of the Yazoo, connecting with
the different lakes and bayous. Where the Dattle
of Chickasaw Bayou was fought, the gunboats
are now navigating over the battle held. This
being the case, there will of course be no hope of
landiag troops in that vicinity.
Com. Furragut has got cawn below Natchez
with hia boats, and is now in the vicinity of the
mouth of Bed river. Perhaps ha is looking after
our fleet, and perhaps he may be watching an op
portunity to get away from it. Nothing is known
of Gen. Banks at Baton Rouge, but it is believed
that he is afrair to make a demonstration against
Port Hudson ; and is reported to have said that
he could not carry our works by a land a tack.
Aunon.
From Tennessee.
It is rumored that Van Dorn captured two reg
iments of Yankee cavalry, belonging to the com
mand of the renegade Stokes, who was acting
Brigadier.
By way of Cumberland Gap we have a report
that Col. Clark's cavalry had possession of Mt
Sterling, whsie.be bad captured some two hun
dred prisoners, and that Humphrey Marshall had
joined him at that point.
Rosecrars has sent five regiments of infantry to
Ken'uoky, aud has ordered all tbe cavalry from
that Stale to his army, here and is mussing his
troops cn his left—our right—doubtless to pre
vent aGy movement on cur part into that State.
Among the prisoners lately captured in Tennes
see with a putry of bushwhackers, is a negro Lieu
unant. He boasts of having killed three “secesh”
wan his own band. The guard who esoorted him
to jail coo Id scarce refraiu from lynching him at
this avowal, lie either ought to be hung at once
cr coupled with n ball and chain and put at
work on our tonifications in the hottest portion
that can be found.
A large number of bushwhackers have lately
been captured near Big Creek Gap.
A regiment of Gen John H Morgan s command
was surrounded on Saturday April 4 near the
town ot Woodbury.lt succeeded in cutting its
way out, but after much hard fighting and some
lots.
The rumors of a fight and defeat of a portion of
Morgan s command near Liberty are untrue.
Capt. T. J. Fmnie, of the Nitre and Minina Bu
reau of East Tennessee, recently shipped to our
powder works fif'.y-two thousand ands x hun
dred and seventy-five pounds of Nitre.
From Louisiana and Arkansas.
The Yankees are committing all sorts of de
predations on the Louisiana shore just below
Port Hudson, burning houses and destroying pri
vate property, and stealing negroes, in retaliation
for the sinking of the Misgitsippi.
News from Arkansas is of an encouraging char
acter The change in the commander is already
having a fine effect. The True Democrat ™
that the health and morale of our army at Little
Rock, are improving ; absentees and" deserters
e sp a iX e ’* nd “ ,earmyißin ™d
General Price was at L’ttle Rook, March 1« and
wul soon take the field with General Hindmand “
army. °
Gen. Kirby Smith’s headquarters are at Shrieve
port, La. v
There are cow in operation at Camden Ark
factories tor the manufacture of cotton ’cards’
spinning jennies and power looms. ’
Gen. Hindman in bis farswc I address to h ; s
troops says he applied to be relieved and ordered
eisewncre.
The Federal commardnr, Gen. Herron at Prai
rie Grove,. Ark., gave instructions toicsatam
H. D. Hart trtera a town where h.s mafcar
ners had been fired ott; also, general instructions
to take no prisoner*. HsTvas captures by o nr
men, and these instructions w-re tound upkm hia
pcr»an; whereupon he wa* hanged forthwith.
From the Coast.
Six Yankee prisoners and one negro arrived in
Savannah on the 6.h from Florida. Five of the
men are members of the 7ih New Hamp
shire regiment, and the other is a member of a
Connecticut regiment. Tee latter gays he is a
deserter irom the Federal army. Xha negro
claims to be a British subject, ard says be ran the
biooksde from Nassau, ini* party were captured
near at. Augtotme by some Florida troops. They
were ail committed to jail to wait further order*.
——• Confederate Congress.
- - .SENATE —APRIL 7. “ '
The follow-'ng bills were introduced and refer
red : A bill to authorize the issue of eight per
rent, bonds or certificates of stock m certain cases;
to faciti ate transportation for ths Government;
e, b'H relative to the navigation of tbe Mississippi
river which was placed upon the calendar aud or
derei to be printed
The Committee on Indian Aff.vrs, to whom was
referred the bill to amend an act to establish the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, reported back the same
without amendment. Hesse<l.
A message was received from the President of
the Confederate States, announcing that on the
2d instant he had approved aud signed “An act
to authorize tbo discharge of cemiu civil officers
fro n the military service of the Confederate
States.
HOU9B —APRIL 7.
The Speaker announced the following Commit
tee of Conference on the par* of the House, on the
disagreeing vo-e of the two Houses on tho bill to
exempt mail con’-racto s, Ac.: Messrs. Chilton of
Alabama, Holt of Georgia, and Atkins of Ten
nesses.
Tbe veto messag# of the President relating to a
bill to increa e the stringtii and efficiency of the
heavy artillery for sea coast defence, was taken
rp for consideration. The bill had paistd the
Senate over the President’s veto. The question be
ing shall this bill become tbe law of tbe land, the
veto to the contrary notwithstanding—after soma
direuesion, the rote wa3 taken on its passage, and
decided in the negative. So tho.bil! was detested.
Tne Military Committee reported back a bill to
abolish Begging in tbe army, with a Senate amend
ment, recommending that the same be concurred
in, with an amendment. The House agreed to the
bill as amended.
It prohibits any court martial or military coart
from causing any soldier to be punished by whip
ping, or the infliction of stripes , and provides
that officers aud so.diera who have received pay
or who have been duly enlisted in the service,
shall, on conviction of havirig deserted the service,
suffer death, or confinement in tbe penitentiary
with or without hard labor for a period not less
than one year nor more tr.au lire years, or such
other punishment, not inconsistent with the act,
a? tho court martial cr military court may deter
mine.
The Military Committee reported beck a bill to
amend an act to provide for an increase in tbe
Quartermaster’s arid Commissary Departments,
approved February 15, 1852. The amendment
provides that no Quartermaster or Commissary,
or their assistants, shall employ as clerk any one
liablo to military duty, and that details from the
ranks may be made of such persons as are neces
sary for tne service. The bill wai farther amend
ed by providing that only disabled soldiers shall
be detailed, where one can b 8 found, for such
service. The bill, as amended, passed.
Tbs military Committee repotted a bill to pro
vide compensation lor persons employed by com
manding Generals aud Provost Marshals, Irom
civil life, which was placed on the calendar.
The House resumed the consideration of the
bill to provide for holding elections for Repre
sentatives in the Congress of the Confederate
States, in States occupied by the forces of the
enemy. Tbe bill was under consideration m the
alternoon and night sessions, and various amend
ments were adopted or rejected.
The following bills were passed: A Senate bill
to authorize an increase of compensation to route
agents, and to increase Iheyier diem allowance to
special agents of the Post Office Department; A
Senate bill to establish a preferred mail across
the Mississippi River.
BSNATB—APRIL 3.
A bill to provide for the completion of the print
ing of 8,000 copies of the Provisional and Permi
neut Constitutions, and of the public acts and
resolutions, and trtaiies of the Provisional Gov
ernment of the Confederate States. Referred
The Committee on Naval Affairs was instructed
to inquire whether any lurther legislation is neces
sary to negotiate the distribution oi prize money
in the navy,
The said committee reported back, adversely,
the bill to create a provisional navy; also the bill
relative to the purchase of a site lor a laboratory.
The Committee of Foreign Affairs reported back,
adversely, the Houss’bill to repeal tho 4th section
of an act to organise the Department of Stai:,
approved Feb. 21,1861.
The bill to aid committees in the investigation
of matters refeired to them, was recommitted to
the Committee of th? Judiciary.
The Senate Exemption Bill having been return -
ed irom the House, with an amendment in the
form of a substitute, Mr. Sparrow moved that the
Senate disagree, and. ask for a committee of con
ference. The morion was agreed to, and Messrs.
Sparrow, Phelan and Mitcheldesignated a3 mana
gers on part of tho Senate.
The (ollowing Senate bills were read and'pass
ed : to amend the act entitled an act to regulate
impressment. [The bill provides that said act
sha 1 embrace she impressment ot supplies re
quired for the Navy]; to Tprovido for the transfer
of persons serv.ng in the Army to tbe Navy ; to
provide for having the laws relating to Military
and Naval Affairs digested and published.
The Senate then went into secret hgislative
session on the Tax Bill.
HOUSE— APRIL 7.
Nieht Session. —The following were passed :
A.Senate bill to authorize an increase of the com
pensation of route agents, and to increase the per
diem allowance to special agents of the Post Office
Department; Senate bill to establish a preferred
mail across the Missouri river.
HOUSE —APRIL 8.
The following were passed: For tho relief of
the Brunswick and Albany railroad in the State
of Georgia; to amend the several sets prescribing
the mode of publishing the law3 and resolutions
of the Confederate States; to prevent the absence
of officers and soldiers without, leave.
The Committee on Naval Affairs, repo, ted a bill
to authorize the distribution of • bounty money
granted as a reward to the officers and men serv
ing ou board the V.rginia, tbe Jamestown, the
Batriok Henry, the Kaeigh, tho Beaufort and the
Tcazjr, tor their gallantry and courage in the en
gagement in Hampton Roads, on the Bth and 9th
of March, 1862. Laid upon Uao table and ordered
to be printed.
The Housr resume 1 the consideration of the
bill to provide for holding elections for Represen
tatives in ihe Congress olf the Confederate .States
in States occupied by forces cf the enemy. A mo
tion to postpone till the second Monday in next
session was lest.
The bill to provide just compensation in cases
of past impressment was taken up, as the pending
business iu o der in the call of committees, and
debated till adjournment.
Northern Items.
The Republicans have carried the State of
Rhode liland. Smith was elected Governor by
2,000 majority.
The expenses of the Federal Government are
now stated to be over $2,000,000 per day.
Within the past year the Federal mercantile
marine has been diminished by the number of
565 vessels, valued at $7,1J6,000—a large portion
by Confederate captures.
The New York Herald savs the completion of
the Atlantic telegraph is uow insured. The amount
of fresh capital required is £600,000 sterling, of
which £200,000 have already been subscribed in
London, and of £50,000 allotted to ihe United
States. About two llnrds.has been taken in New
York.
A gold speculator at New York, who jumpped
in and out at the right tim, during the day when
there wera the grtu.est fluctuations in the go'd,
made a net profit of SIOO,OOO ia about two hours.
It is said that the news from Vicksuarg, though
untavorabie, had a-cerded with the general pub
lic expectation. The mishap to the steamer Mis
sissippi caused a derangement of ths entire Yan
kee programme.
Frum tbe New York Times we learn that the
original plan c.f the attack upon Charleston was
to take the batteries at St jno, whies being doue,
it wa3 believed that ihe city coaid be reached
without assaulting Sumter and Moultrie at all;
“while these forts owing to our occupation of the
city would soon iail into our possession without
the loss of a man or a vessel.”
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger
says that it will not bs very long before the army
of the Potomac will m .vo under the direction of
its third commander, Gen. Hooker.
The Yankee Gen. Schenck has issued an order
to the effect that any confederate soldier hereauer
found within the Federal lines ia C. S uniform
or any portion thereof, “shall be treated and dealt
with as a spy.”
The New York Herald says gold ha3 fallen be
cause of an expectation of an eany peace.
Another Indian war is expected in Minnesota.
Little Crow is at Dev.i’s Like with three hundred
warriors and plenty ot ammunition. The Chip
pewas are behaving insolently to the white peo
ple.
The privateer Florida has again been seen, and
reports having been chased by the Vanderbilt
near tiarbadoes, which vessel she eluded by a
cunning device. She afterwards captured the
Star of Peace and the Aidsbaran, of Rockhaven.
The Northern papers admit that Sherman’s ex
pedition up the Upper Yazoo bad avcoaipnthed
nothing. Obstructed channels and Confederate
sharpshooters was the cause.
The Federal army of the Potomac is represented
to be engaged in “horse and bardie racing, ouch
jump ng," and other warlike paoiimes.
The New York Journal ot Commerce thinks
that the new radical experiment of Lincoln’s Ad
ministration has proved worse,than a failure.
Cotton has suddenly advanced in New York
market neriy 21* cents per pound. Sales were
made at 72*74 cents, with an upward tendency.
Kx-Presideut P.erce, of New Hamshirs, has
puhlubed a letter denouncing Lineo.a’s adminis
tration.
Greeley, the incomprehensible, has again oeen
ca i fog out in favor of arb.natioQ in case the
"RebeUicn” is not crashed out in ninety days.
He expresses his willingness, in tua. event, to .
submit the wnole controversy to the arbitra ion I
ot some neutral power, and prefers Switzerland, j
He thinks teat it the south is not conquered in
thrie monlha tie North ought to “acknowledge i
the corn”—'this isms expietsion—and abandon j
the conan -stl Taese vi.ws ne advanced in a let- I
for aifora&sed to ifouriow Weed, and published by j
riquesi.
A meeting •! t.e c.uxros of Dattss county, Ala., j
was held at rieima, on Saturday last, to foke some ,
action in regard to me poor of the country. About
$13,000 were raised on tne occasion.
Cftrsrade £ grated.
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Tbe Connecticut Election.
The Yankee is proverbially “cute.” It might
be correctly said that he is scrupulously so. His
passion for overreaching amounts to a monoma
nia, and if he can only accomplish by snbterluge
that which might be attained, ever so essily, by
fai means, he oiaims the more credit for himself;
a3 proving tho possession of those attributes of
which his race is ever proud. From the very out
set of this war he has strengthened his hands by
duplicity and wiles. He first broke bin faith with
us; then involved his own people in war by cun
ning artifice; and has sincs carritd the war on
against tbe pull c will and welfare by gross deceit
and misrepresentation. In such manner be has
formed public opinion, encou; aged hopes that
have ou : y been blaßted, and led tho people on to
csrtain ruin.
Bat of all his numqrdjfe strategical efforts, we
remember none that finds a parallel with, or that
has been so eminently successful, as tbe Charles
ton Rocrb tek to influence tho elections in Connec
ticut and Rsiode Island. The importance of car
rying those States for tbo Administration was
roost seriously felt at the Yankee capital. Upon
the result of those eltcticno depended'in a greet
measure the complexion of the controiiug mejority
in the Federal Congress. From tbeso States that
had already mad's returns, the members elected
stood poiitionfly a “tie,” leaving cut those classed
with the Opposition, but whose Semi-Republican
proclivitios made them unreliable ler either side.
The requisition of the six members from Counec
ticut aud Klicdo Island wag, therefore, of great
importance to each, respectively. The elections
came off on Monday last; and on the Thursday
previous came the remarkable announcement that
Charleston had fallen I
\Te imagine the chuckling exultation of “hon
est old Abe” end his foxy coadjutor Seward, as
they rubbed their hands over this precious
scheme. They knew, as well as we do, the mer
curial temperament of the Yankee nation ; how
marvellously excitable and credulous they are;
how often they had been encouraged before by
hopes that had thereafter proved cruelly delu
sive ; how easily public opinion, now oscillating
between hope and despondency, could be influenc
ed by victory or disaster ; and they decided upon
the only means within their power to insure suc
cess. How well they played their card3, the re
sult haa shown.
We conies? ourselves disappointed as to both
States —but especially as respects Connecticut.—
Rhode Island had twice given anti-Repuul can
majorities within the past year, and the result of
the annual town elections of Connecticut, which
were held lest autumn, showed a considerable
Democratic majority. It ia true that Seymour, ns
na unconditional peaco candidate, must have lest
considerable support from the “ war-for-the-
Union” men, but we relied upon causes that have
been operating throughout toe North during the
pa3t few months, to balanci sush aloes.
One lesson we have learned from the intelli
gence before us, viz. the vital importance cf
crushing victories on our side to secure a speedy
peace. Lot us bnt soundly th-a3h the foe at
Charleston, and we open the gates for onr deliv
erance. The very realization by the North of the
cheat teat has been practice! upon them, will in
ure to our advantage, and the schemes of Seward
& Cos , but ‘ return to plague their inventors.”
The Yankee Conscription Act.
Fernando Wood, ia a written reply to Senator
Wilson, states that “notwithstanding the odious
features of the Conscription act, if it shall be de
clared valid under ihe Constitution, we will re
spect and obey it.” Oa the other hand, the Worid
affirms that ihe citizens iu parts of certain States
are arming to resist it, and warns the Adminis
tration of the nature of the work they have done
and arc stiff doing. A military fores has already
been sent to Noble county, Ohio. In Montgomery
county, 111,, resolutions were adopted at a public
meeting denouncing the act as “ an open avowal
of the Administration at Wasbingtou to compel
the people of the States to prosecute a war against
the people of the other States, whether the objects
of the war meet their approval or condemnation,”
aud countenance g resistance to it.
Crowds of people &ro daily arrivi-g in the
B.- tish Provinces to avoid the impending draft.—
A single steamer brought six hundred.
An Exciting Time.—A number of women, how
many we do not know, made sundry demonstra
tions Friday, which, for the time, excited con
siderable interest and furnished the topic of con
versation for the town. We understand that they
proceeded to a store m ai the Upper Market, and
inquired of the proprietor if he had for a
dollar a pair, and caiien at fifty cents per yard, as
those wove the prices they intended to pay. The
storekeeper, becoming alarmed, doubtless, at the
demonstration, and thinking some viofcnce was
designed, recollected that he had pressing busi
ness at one of the banks, and closed hia doors in
haste. The crowd* we learn, went to another
store, but no violence was used, nor any articles
taken. One woman was hoard to say that she
had bread enough—that it was meat she wanted ;
and clothing seemed to be more sought aR;r than
either.
The Mayor was called, who, with the police,
speedily restored o d;r, and the crowd dispersed.
One man only was arrested and taken to <he lock
up, for telling the women they did pirfestly
right.
On inqn’ry, we learned that there was but cne
soldier’s wife among the party.
Augusta is proverbially charitable to the poor,
—no city in the Confederacy is more so—snd
there would seem to be no need for any violent
measures to obtain the necessaries of life.
Captured Negro SoldiEßs.o-One among the
most important measures that need to be put into
operation immediately is the disposition to be
made of negroes captured with arms in their
hands. These negroes are much needed to work
on fortifications and perform the labor now being
performed by the slaves who have remained faith
ful, and whose masters are needing them to woik
in the fields and prepare food for our soldiers.—
They could be so secured with bail and chain, or
with chains in pairs, that they could not escape.
At the close of the war, they could either he
bought by the Government a-d kept employed oa
the public works, or sold to the sagar planters of
Caba—the amount thns realized to be distributed
among those who have lost their slave property
through Federal vandalism. In this way negroes
who are taken, who nave learaed e«d manner* of
tie Northern Abolitionists,could be made sei vice
abie dur.ng the war, and after the war is over,
coaid be disposed of m a snro way, and be put in
a position where there would be no chance for
them to he troublesome to us. If this plan was
adopted, mo at of tne free negroes of the North
wouid te deterred from enlisting in the army of
the Abolitionists, and what fe w did eniiat, if cap
tured, couid he made useful and profitable to the
Confederacy.
The Iron-t lada ofl-cuarfttton. 1
The iron-clads cow before Charleston are: tbe
Passaic, the Nahant, Patapsco, Weekawk n Cat
skill, Nantasket, Mantauk, and tbe ‘ New lrou
sidas.” The latter, tbe flag ship, has an arma
ment of fonrteeu 11 inch guns end two 2bo pound
rifles. Tbe Keokuk has b r en disposed of.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Presss- y3 I
that the prime cause of tho delay in the atreck
has been “thi presence in tbe harber -f the tor
pedoes, with which, it has been Moni
tors are unable to cope unassisted." Tho va’ue
of the assistance of the “Devil” for removing
these obstructions, is therefore apparent, aud the
loss of this import: nt machine ;n the l'te engage
ment accounts for tbe delay in resuming the at
tack. It was an invention of Ericsson, of New
York; and, according to the above correspon
dent, there were four of them sent South, three
of which were lost in a gale. The arrival of still
another machine at Charleston, as lias been an
nounced, would, however, indicate an error as to
the number originally sent, or of those lost at sea.
The “devil,” as he is, is thus described :
An iron frame, floated to tbe water’s edge bv
iron sponsons is pushed ahead of the Menu r as
she runs in. Its length from the bow ot tie M ni
ter is from twenty to thirty feet. An sppertare is
made next to the vtstel of the shape of her bowe,
intended to receive it. Tho length of the “ob
struction remover” as it is call: and, is twelve feet,
tbe Monitor drawing b-ififrom eight to ten feet
water, thus reuderieg it impossible for any torpe
does over which this “obstrcction remover” pass
es to injure tbe vessel.
A number of iron bars are used, not only to
form a net work, so as cither to push forward ev
ery torpedo less that twelve feet under water, hut
also to steady and strengthen the masts. At the
bottom a heavy tie bar unites the two vertical
rods, upon which rests the percustiou torpedo con
taining seven hundred pounds of powder. T!.c
experimei ts made npon this machine at the North
have demonstrated the fact that it is a complete
success, and a greater amount of powder than has
ever been proposed for any torpedo before, caus
ed no itj iry to the vessel, aud indeed and and not dis
turb any of the tics ot the “obstruction remover.”
It, will be readily seen that underno ciroume tanoes
can any strain he given to the Monitor ; for, sup
poring tte apparatus to be destroyed, as it C. a s
independently of the Monitor, supporting itself, the
worst that can happen is its loss.
A correspondent of the Baltimore
has announced this to be the plan oftheFedorsL:
“ To await the li gh tides to enter Btono Inlet,
and so proceed by that route, if not to Charleston,
so near it as to make them unpleasant neighbors,
ana to render the occupation of Jame3 Island by
the rebels impossible with the batteries tboy have
in position. Our enemies will have no time to
change the useless batteries they have placed on
Morns and Sullivan’s Island—useless because we
would have to go eut of our way to attack them.’
Salb Day. —The following sales of real estate
were made at the Lower Market House Tuesday.
W. B. Griffin & Cos. sold 168 seres of tbo D’Anlig
nae estate, on tbe Savannah Road, for sllO to
$220 per acre, divided into lots. W. Y. Ke.‘ A Cos.
sold a boose and lot on southeast corner of l amp
bell aud Ellis streets for $10,200.
The following negroes were also sold : By W.
B. Griffin A Cos., man Myatt, 28 years old, $1,810;
Dawson, aged 35, $1410; Morris, aged 25, black
smith, $2650; Eliza, aged 17, SIS3O; Clary, aged
30, ard 4 children, $5260; Martin, blacksmith,
$2,050; Celia, aged 15, $2210; Harriet, aged 35,
unsound $S10; Mary, aged 16, $1525; Mr.rthio
aged 26, and 6 children, $5,000; Joe, aged 10,
$1180; Mary, aged 28, and child aged 3, $1725 ;
William, aged 26, $2130; Jane, sged 15, $1600;
Hannah, aged 26, $1425; Tabitha, aged 50, $300;
Linus, aged 26, $1250; Jemima, aged 17, $1800;
Frank, aged 21, lame, $1560; Snowden, aged 23,
unsound, $1260; George, aged 17, $2150; boy,
aged 17, unsound, $1375; Pompoy, agod 21, $2515;
Alfred, aged 26, $2150; Rachel, S9OO. By Haul
ferAMayer: James, aged 25, S2IBO ; Mary, aged
22, $1425; Thomas, agod 25, $1850; Daniel, aged
15, SI9OO. By W. V. Ker A Cos.: Robert, aged
24, unsound, $1200; JordaD, aged SO, $1400;
George, aged 19, $2125; Peggy, aged 35, $llBO ;
Jim, (African brought by the Wanderer) $1775.
B3F" A number of the papers of the North are
endeavoring to show to their readers that the
“rebellion'’ may soon be brought to a close by the
appearance of starvation ia the Confederacy
They are impressed with tho idea Shat the people
and the army are already suffering from want of
food, and believe that if they can before many
weeks succeed in obtaining possession of the sea
ports of the country, and eontinua to hold the
country at present under their control, the Con
federates will be compelled to submit or sinrve.
Our planters should do their best to disappoint
the expectations of the Frdcrals. Lit it not be
recorded in history that the Southern Confederacy
was “wiped out” of existence by the Abolition
hordes of the North because of the unpatriotic ac;B
of the agricultural portion es its community.—
Planters of the South I Tbe fate of the Confede
racy is in your hands. See to it that you do your
duty. Plant largely of the things that will feed
the army in tbe field, aud Iheir families at home.
From the Fortt-Eighth Georgia.—Wo havo
received a letter from a member of the Georgia
Light Guard, of this city, belonging to tbe 4S;h
Georgia Regiment. It bears date “ Camp near
Guinea’s Station, Va., March 30th,” and states
that considering the unsettled state of the weath
er, the health of the regiment was fair. Tho G.
L. G’a are in good health, with only one or two
exceptions, and they are imrroviDg. The writer
speaks in favorable terms of the kind attentions
of the Surgeon of the regiment to the sick, and
also of tbe many kindness bestowed upon them
by the citizens. Among the latter, our friend
speaks in strong commendatory terms of Mrs. A. P.
Chandler, who has kindly tendered a home and
bedding for our Biek men. It is most gratifying
to know that such ministering angels abound in
nur midst.
The regiment is in very comfortable quarters,
with plenty of food, fuel, aud other comforts. Se
vere snow storms had prevailed, but the men bore
the hardships and exposure with fortitude, and
even cheerfulness. It was thought ths spring
campaign would be an active one.
The Polish Revolution. —The Federate nre
now comforting themselves with the idea that the
Polish revolution brings to an end all chance cl
intervention by France in American affairs. While
this is tbe opinion in Y,Mikas land, the opposite
theory has been started on our side, that French
and piotnacy had, ia fact, prepared the Polish and
Hungarian mind for this revolution, at this par
tieuiar time, in order that Russia and Austria
might have v» irk nearer home at tbe moment when
the Emperor might provoke hostile relations with
the Yankee Government, in the prosecution of his
American commercial policy, and his political
views in Mexico. Who knows? European poli
tics is all strategy, and this would not be out of
keeping with such a system.
Thb Despotisw that Exists at ths North.—
Seward’s whole official correspondence has been
printed by order of the Federal Congress. A sim
ple extract from a letter to LordLyous will show
the despotism which now exists at the No th.—
Mr. Seward says:
“My Lord, I can touch a bell on my right band
and order tbo arrest of a cit zen in Ohio. I can
touch the belt again and order the imprisonment
cf a citizen m New York ; and no power on earth
but that of the President can release them. Can
the Queen of England, in her dominions, do as
much ?”
We trust that ths time is not tar distant when
the blood-thirsty adviser of the Northern despot
will find out to his sorrow thas he has rung ihe
bell he speaks of too many times. Ha is worthy
of a felon’s doom, and ought to receive one.
£8?” The Richmond Ex iminer states that Sencr
Moncada, Spanish Comml at Charleston, just re
turned from the North, brought official dispatches
of an important nature to the Con'ederate Gov
ernment, the purport of which was sot made pub
lic; but the Senor said it wai “good news,” and
would be announced in a day or two.
13?“ The Y'aukees cannot ge on with their ope
rations against Charleston at present. Bemuse
why ? It seems that the “ Devil” gave them the
slip! tnd when he deserts them, their cause mutt
be indeed hopeless.
Th® Wilmington Journal in spenking of the
present tr.als cf newspaper publishers and t eir
slim proi-pects in future, says "th si ere times
ta-t try men’s souis, pockets and acd
they are getting no better fast. We xjx the pray
ers of the congregation.”
The Ricaoiond Examiner sptaks oi the “steel
punch of the Broox gun”—a new Confederate in
vention, —as having done good execution id the
recent tigai at Charleston. Tne sunken “Keokuk
bears testimony to the efficiency of this projec
tile. * <
1 us Ccßßitxcr Acr.—The foilowirg is a synop
sis of the Currency Aot recently passed by Con
gress :
Ths Currency Acihcs divid 'd all treasurvnotea
in n three class <-.
1 Th .-e l. iwd before Ist I) 'cr ruber, 1862.
i 11. .* hes- j su-d between lit December, 1562,
and 4 b April, 18C3.
i U '„ Th n SS ' Est ” l a " er April, 1863.
A ‘ lA ® * lrat t and able in 8 per cent, bonds
Z - Jv * Un;ii “ 2( * 1&S&; filter that day in 7
r lsl after which they
cannot be fuodfcd at nil
P are fundable in 7 per cent.
tuev rr’ fundMd«“u AuciUt ' 1863 ' afler which
, y ~,. m 4 per cents.
*. Ihe third Class are fundable in s x per cents.
5* T W f V , h a n 6 ye « frn » the first day of
t.ie mon.hot their issue. Af.tr one v ear they
Ere iundabie m f«nr percents. To distirgusb
the njtrs and fix tne period of one year the
i.-otna in wauh they ura isru'jd ia btamped across
the face ot tbe notea.
It will be seen, therefore, that no 8 per cent
bonds will he is-neu aUer the 28d April, and no
severs alter Ist August, so that all holders, who
desu-e *c at cure these, ra’es, must present their
notes to: funding within the periqct above named.
S x per ceut. Call Certificates are no longer
to t- re.z and ; but instead th-w of, five per ceut.
u,a': Con,final, - m-;> be bud for any of the notes
o- toe th ; and cL.es, wh ch v ill entitle the holder to
reconvert the same at any time within six months
ri o n' l ;;' ! < * ate oi ’’k e °id*at of ihe notes which the
Certificate represents, end to receive inter
cst until reconverted. If not reconverted, the Call
Certificates may at any time be funded lu six per
cent, bunds.
The four per cent. Bonds issued for the notes
of the 2.1 and Sd liars may be exchanged at any
time for Gall Certificates, which will entitle the
holder to reconvert the same into notes of the
same character, and to interest at ,our per cent,
until recc'eveitid.
The six per cent. Call Certificates now in the
hands of holders moy be redeemed in the notes
wh ch they represec at any time before let July
18G3; alter that date they become six per cent,
bands, payable at uny time, not exceeding thirty
years.
A Federal Naval Officer’s Opinion of Iron
Clads.—A naval officer whose letter is publish
ed in tbs Albany (N. Y ) Argu3 says:
The irbn-clads notwithstanding they possess
many dtf.cts that arc difficult to'remedy, are re
garded by him as quits succsas ul, aa far as their
fighting qualities are co c racd, As seagoing
vessels they are regarded to be eo yery unsale
that tbe writer d-.-c,er«s that he “wtuid rather
go into ten tctions than to make a pafsoge at
sea in one of them.” On the question ot their ef
f c ivensES in tbs reduction pf fortifications he
says: ”1 would f uarantre to hold a sand batte
ry hike that at Genesis Point—Fort McAllister—
agatnat a dezen ff them. Two ot them would de
molish Fort Sumter, or any square case mated
s'orc or brick l'ort iu two hours. But sand forts
are different things is dated and far apart, and
protect!d by high thick aid earthen traverses.
The shell bury in tbe sand and throw it about prom
isuously ; but unless you hit the gnu itself no
great damage is done beyond occ isioually kil -
liug ft gun’s crew, whose pliice can be supplied
if us a- fenders are in earnest.”
55?" Cnpt. A. C. Webster, of Pierpont’s (West
ern Virginia) army was hung in Richmond on
B’nday, the 11th inst., cccotding to aentenoe. —
Permission was grunted him at bis own request,
to give the Btv.mil for the drop to fall; which he
did. He seemed to die easily. His crimes wer#
the murder o! Capt. Simpson, of the Confederate
army, violaiieg his parole, arson, and herse steal
irg. ,
On the same day, Michael La Voi, alias Keiner,
was exfeuted at Savannah, for attempting to de
sert to the enemy on the ninht of 22d of January
last. He was shot, and died almost instantly.
Resignation of Hon. P. Clayton. —We re
gret to learn that Hon. P. Clayton has resigned
the position he so abiy filled under the Govern
ment, of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.—
For twelve years he held the position, first as
Auditor, then Assistant Secretary under the old
Federal Government, and made an enviable repu
tation for ability and fidelity as an officer, not
alone in Washington, but throughout the country,
so that when our Confederate Government was
established in Montgomery, bis valuable services
were required.
13?“ A letter from a member of the Forty-fourth
Georgia Regiment, now stationed near Freder
icksburg, Va., says that there ie much speeula
tioa among Ihe troops as to who is to be the next
Governor of Georgoa. The letter also states that
the ranks cf the Forty-fourth are full; that the
whole army is in a good condition to meet Hooker
vandals if they advance, and that Jackson’s “toot
c.iva'ry” will soon again bs on the move. We
hope that they will give as good an account of
themselves as they and <1 ths last, campaign.
12?“ A gentleman writing us from Cook coun
ty, East Tennessee, icys that the wheat crop in
that section bids fair to yield abundantly. He
also states that the people are planting nothing
but corn, and that if a good crop is raised, there
will be more hogs fattened in East Tennessee the
coming fell than ever.
1(27“ The Planters’ Holm was sold at auction
Thursday, by W. B. Griffin & Cos., for $109,000. The
lot is ninety feet on Broaa street, running back
the same width to Jones street.
EtsF* We notice in some cf our exchanges that
a general convention of druggists and chemists
will be held ia this city on Wednesday, May 6.
Neiva Summary.
Pens Fold in Lynchburg, on tbe Bih inst., for $5
per qimt, Using $169 per bushel. He who buys
P a3 per quart, now, should mind his P’s and
Q's.
An education convention has beers called to meet
at Columbia, S. C., on the 28th April.
An artillery officer writing from Port Hudson
says the cannonading there was the heaviest of
the war; about three hundred large guns and
mortars were belching forth their terrible thun
ders at the same time.
The cotton cord manufactory is turning out a
better article than those formerly purchased in
Yankee land. There are numerous other articles
sa can make better than t&e Yankees if we would
only try.
Kentuckians absent from their State, in any
State of the Confederacy in which the conscript
act. is m tores, have been decided to be liable to
enrolment as conscriptj in tbo same manner as
othar Citizens.
Tbe fruit trees in Virginia were not far enough
adranc.-d to be injured much by the late cold
snap.
Tba wheat prospects in Alabama nre rep
resented as very flattering. A great breadth of
laud is being planted in corn.
It is said-that the late freshets in she Chalta
boochie river have accumulated a raft sghinst tbe
obstruc ins which wi re placed in tbe water by
tbe military r u hcritiea, which the Yankee navy
conid not remove in six months.
The new Federal iron clad has been armed as
fellows : forward turret, one 15-mch smooth-bore
gun, m and one 250-pound rifle gun ; middle turret
(an Ericsson Monitor nrmnmen*), one 11-fnch
smooth-bore gur.; after turret, one Dabigresn
16 inch undone 20b pound rifle gun—total, three
15-incu, cue il iucb, and two r_fi.i guns.
Advices from tbe West Indies state that Admi
ral Wilkes, is blustering around iu that section
with his usual bravado. He has transferred hia
flag to the Vaneruerbilt. It, is evident that be
will again get the Federal Government in difficul
ty with England unless he changes his course.
Rinogad s thieves and Abolitionists are com
mitting outrages on the border settlers.
Intelligence from Washington, N. C .states that
General Udi has the town completely invested,
and if not surrendered, it was thought it would be
speedily attacked. The enemy are 1,500 strong,
and have two block houses anti a Sort, but no long
range guns. Hill commands the river with his
guns.
The horses, mules, harness and arms captured
by McNeii’s Rangers, in their recent dash upon a
Yankee train, near Romney, were sold in Harris
burg, Virginia, and brought the handsome amount
of tnirty-aix thousand dollars ; the chare of each
member being nine hundred dollars.
The women have also become ram pant in Colum
bus, Ga., having attempted on Thursday last, to
apprepr aie. ihspkeepera’ goods to their private
use. Two or three oi *he nugieaders were ar
rested, and the rest, like the Yankee fleet at
Charleston, abandoned further effort for the pre
sent.
Gen. E Ki -by Smith has ssinmed command of
the Confederate forces waet of the Mississippi.
Under an set cf the L gisiature, the State
Treasury of Georgia bas commenced tbe issue
of one million doi.ars in bids of small denomina
tions, a 03. 1 yof one dollar, pad various smaller
amounts. A few of those of five and one dollar
are in circul .tion, and the ones are printed and
nearly ready to he iisi^d.
Thecit z-ns of j’easaeoia are living in stsbies
at Warren ton.
The Knoxv.Ue Register publishes the details of
Peg-ram's excursion into Kentucky. It seems to
h ive b«-n a nattiodore and -huttlecock fight with
He enemy, each ala raatuiy rati eating and pnr-
Lu.m , tbeeoemv getting the worst of it, however,
and P. gram finally reerossmg the Cumberland
with Li- command to Monticello, where be now
j a . He brought with him from Kentucky some
600 head oi catile.
A letter from B.owurviffc to the San Antonio
(Ttxa-1 Herald men ions an imporian; capture of
„ Yoax«.e sh p, lat*y wr«cze« upon our side of
tne itia Orran-e, wfiej eby we obtained 1,50 b sacks
of com, 1,500 barrels 0 iLur, a foi of hats,
Ac. Tne crew were also captured and sent to
Brownsville.