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Mksbaoh of the Governor op South Carolina.
—The message of Gov. M. L. Bonham to the
South Carolina Legislature, has been submitted
to that ho<ly. It is an able, patriotic and lucid
State paper.
The message opens with a resume of the
situation -the state of the rnnntr>> *i—»
hartest, Ac., and the necessity of continued
vigilance and perseverance on the part of the
people to achieve their independence.
In regard to supplying slave labor for const
defences, he Is in fjivor of authorizing “ the
Governor or State Agent, or the Confederate
General commanding the department, if it is
preferred, to Impress, through the Commission
er of Boa is. fir two months service, the equal
proportion of every slaveholder owning more
than eue road hand.”
Ho copies with approval the plan of Gov-
Brown of raising regiments of State troops. He
recoinm< nds that at least one tegbaentbe
raised, to be put in the field when needed, and
wholly, or partially furloughed, when not
The law prohibiting undne distillation, ho
states, has c> ntributed largely towards keeping
down the price of breadstuff's, especially Indian
corn If the Confederate Government would
receive its tithe, and postpone impressments
for the pr sent, ho believes the breadstu/fs in
the country would bo amply sufficient for the
people and the army.
In reference to the question of conflict be
tween
Acts, the flotlrmr cites a recent decision of
the Circuit Court, “ 'hat neither t io ordinance
nor the act amendatory of It, eontc-mplated ex
emption from any service besides militia ser
vice in the State, and so neither is in conflict
with the Conscript laws,’’ nnd remarks :
I think it is our true policy to amend our ex
emption laws, so as to make t uni conform as
nearly as practicable to those of the Con edo
rate government Tide may be done without
yielding the right of the Stato to exempt
such portion of her population as she may
choose, .and when she may choose, for police
and other purposes. If tho Confederate Gov
ernment will put into the fteid the most of the
able-bodied men between eighteen and forty
five, now occupied as Quartermasters and Com
missaries' Purchasing Agents, Enrolling Offi
oors .and Impressing Agents, and in other s rni
lar positions, the grout mass of whose places
can lie as well, in many, and in some instances,
better filled by disabled soldiers, and tho State
governments will conform thoir’s to tho Con
federate Exemption Act. the Confederate gov
ernment can command a force that will drive
beyond our borders all tho armies the Aboli
ion govern met) I can congregate for ihe fur
ther prosecution of this unooly war.
The Governor is decidedly in favor of the
repeal of all laws, whot’u r Slate or Confed
erate, allowing substitution.
'lhe Message 3hows that Gov. Bonham has
been active and efficient in procuring cotton
*nd wool cards; and having rnado a purchase
of several card-malrfng machines, ha liopc3 to
relieve much the wants of soldiers’ families,
and other needy families Ho recommends
that tho cards be distributed according to the
actual wants of art the districts, to bo deter
mined by tho present population. ,
The Governor alludes to the saltpetre, lead
and iron mines of the State; to tho Deep River
cool mines; to the manufacture of cßrbines and
orduance; to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at
Cedar Springs; tho Citadel arid Arsenal Acade
mies, Ac. with oonolsu and judicious remarks
upon each.
An increase of the salaries of all public offi
cers whose salaries are not limited by the Con
stitution, is recommended.
He commends the subject of a volunteer
navy to tho favorable consideration of the
Legislature.
He refers to the Richmond Agency for the
assistance of South Carolina soldiers, estab
lished ill January of tho present year; to the
nil important question of the currency, and
trnstu that some moans nmybe devised to im
prove iti conddion; recommends an amend.
Biant of "the act to onablo citizens of tho Stato
who are engaged in military service to exer
cise tho right ot suffrage;" recommonds that
the office of Pay master General bo abolished,
and the duties of .lie position assigned to the
Quartermaster General's Department, &c.
In conclusion, bo concure with the joint
resolution of tho Georgia Legislature setting
apart the loth day of December as a day of
tasting, humiliation aud prayer.
RfTVFT Os TUB GBOROU RkMEF AVD HOS
rtm Association.- -We have on our tablo the
"Report of the Board of Superintendents of
tbs Georgia Relief and Hospital Association
to the Governor and General Assembly of
Georgia, with tho Proceedings of the Board,
convened at Augusta, Ga., October 2S, 1863.”
The doings, present condition and future pros
pect* of this magnificent public charity are of
the deepest interest to every patriot and phi
lanthropist. Fostered by generous State appro
priations and aided by individual donations
and labors, it* biessings-subMantial and
princely—are scattered broadcast throughout
the South, bringing comfort and healing to
many a area and suffering soldier. \Ve pro I
eeut a brief synopsis ot the contents of the
Report.
By an act of the General Assembly passed
Thsj. 12, 1862, tho snm of #IOO,OOO was appro
priated and set a par, for tho uses and purposes
of tho Association. The amount expended
from Oct. 20, 1862. to Oct. 10, 1663, was $472,'
166 79; cash on hand Oct. 10. 1668, 36,013 26;
balance in State Tre.i-nry Oct. 10,1663, #20,-
000—total, $498,160 05.
The total amount of receipts for account of
State Fund from Oct 20, 1662, to Oct, 10,1863 —
Including sales of materials, premium of State
Treasury notes, and private donations to Way
fid© Homes—was $515,056 66; expended for
State Fund account during the same period,
$509,048 80.
The balance on hand from private contribu
tions. Oct. 10, 1868, was $25,142 28. Total
resource® ‘ eft the Association at that date
$51,155 54.
The proceeds of the lectures delivered be
fore the Association the past Year were
$7lO 26.
After the battle of Chiohamanga. donations
foj the wounded were made, amounting to
$15,925 30: and provisions, &c., sent to At
lanta, $2,400. Balance on hand, $16,525 ,30.
Tables follow showing the large quantities
o clothing which been manufactured aDd
distributed at various points for the destitute
soldiers. Also, the number of yards of doth
used up in manufacturing, the quantity sold,
balance on hand, Sc., Ke. Our readers who
may obtain copies of the Report, will doubt
less be glad to refer to them more in detail
than our space will allow us to publish.
The statements adduced by the several offi
cers and agents of the Association, fully show
the large are* of its benefactions, the practical
workings of the plan for relief adopted, and
ho zoal and energy of the employees in their
several capacities.
It is specially interesting to note the good
which has been accomplished by the establish
ment of Wayside Homes, wh'ch have proven
•‘inns'’ of comfort to passing sick and wounded
soldiers. The Keport of the* Committee on
this branch of their labors shows that they
have performed their task faithfully and hon
estly. Many a weary wayfarer from our ar
triiou vt.Ul l.i™ *>-. I —iilmluu vr it ayBIUO
Homes.
Reader, if you hare a spark of patriotism
and Christian benevolence in your composition,
you will peruse the tecoids of this noble or
ganization w ith a thrill of pride at the good
work R is dally doing, aud not only lend it at
all times your influence, but contribute, as your
means will allow, to its necessities.
Ax Important Decision.— Wo have been fur
nished by one of the Judges of the Supreme
Court, with the following note of the principal
points decided by them at the late Kjiledge
rille Term, in a case of impressment of sugar
in the hands of a merchant:
1. The Congress of the Confederate States
have the constitutional power to authorize, by
statute, tho accumulation of supplies for future
use of the army by impressment, where holders
refuse to sell at fair prices, provided, “just com
pensation’’ be made or tendered to the owner.
2. l’roof that the schedule price previously
affixed to the articles of tho same kind as tjiftt
imp leased, by the Commissioners appointed
one by the President of the Confederate States
and the .other by t)ie Governor of Georgia, to
rule for a specified time in tije future, was ten
dered to the ow r ner, is not sufficient evidence of
a tender “of just compensation.”
3. In stiQh a case, in the absonce of other
proof that the prico tendered, was just compen
sation, and especially (as in this case) with
proof that it was not go, the impressment can
not bn sustained.
4. Just compensation should bo ascertained
by the appraisement of the property impressed
at the time and place of impressment, by ap
praisers fairly and impartially appointed.
6. Where there is no sufficient evidence that
just compensation has been tendered (except
in case of urgent necessity admitting of no de
lay) the officer will bo held to have taken the
property "by violence, unauthorized by the ex
isting law, and a proceeding by possessory
warrant, under the act of 1821, is an appropri
ate and rightful remedy.
Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.—
A Northern journal says that Wendell Phil
lips, who has just returned homa frotji a short
sojourn in England, stated in a late speech
that Lincoln admitted to him last January that
“tho greatest folly of his life was issuing his
Emancipation Proclamation.’’
Yes, the proclamation was not only a folly,
hut a crime. Its foolishness, howover, sink
iuto insignificance in comparison with its tur
pitude. No thanks to the tyrant who issued it
that tho scenes of St. Domingo, over the record
of which the reader shudders, were not enacted
in every vic.nage in the South. It was the di
rect and designed tendency of that paper, to
subject six millions of people, men, women and
children, to the horrors of a servile insurrec
tion and the beautiful land in which they dwell
to a frightful waste. But the fieudisli purposes
of the despot who issued it. have equally
failed—-and ho seeing how impotent has been
his malignant contrivance for bringing about
a wholesale butchery of his fellow creatures,
acknowledges to one ot liis bosom friends, who
is eyery way as black hearted and unprinci
pled, that tins “greatest folly of iris life was
issuing his Emancipation Proclamation.”
•Advice to Planters. —'l'ho recommendation
has boon made, that the planters should imme
diately take measures for winter crops to re
lieve the demands forgroin and provisions, and
that they should make their own clothing and
supplies. The advice is pertinent. Wo have
a war of uncertain length before us, and conse
quent hard times. Provisions, clothing, shoes,
&c., arc high and In demand. These things our
planters can make,
Lot the planters enlarge the grain crop; sow
wheat, rye, barley; make their own clothing
for family and negroes; and save hides and
make shoes for themselves and slaves.
Everything that can sustain life in man or
beast ought to be produced as abundantly as
possible. Our future political salvation de
pends upon this thing. It is now a clear ease
that the enemy cannot whip our brave armies
in the field. Their cannon, swords and muskets
cannot subjugate us—but starvation may !
This is the great danger ahead, and it remains
for the farmers to say whether It 6kall be done
or not. The destinies of the country are in their
hands.
As Eva THAI OUGHT TO BE Remedied.— We
regret exceedingly to see the spirit of selfish
ness and sordidness which has long prevailed
among certain classes of our people, on the in
crease. It is truly lamentable to witness this
feeling. It shows a bad state of things among
our people, the results of which must fce de
plorable In the end. Some remedy must be
forthcoming, or desolation and ruin will soon
state us iu the face,- and our glorious cause
must suffer thereby.
If wo expect to succeed, our people—our whole
people must make up their tninds to assist
i * ach otl »er at every sacrifice of comfort, money
and fortune. No other principle can Sustain ns.
. If tills struggle is to be much longer continued
' All energies and all reasonable sacrifices of the
j people are necessary to save us from subjuga
tion and ruin, and we may ns well open our
eyes to that fact at once and act accordingly.
Tax Value of Slaves.— We have selected
from the returns of 1853. ten counties giving
ia the largest Slave property, and ten giving
in the smallest, in Georgia, as follows :
Q) unt i*s. Largest. Counties. SmcMegt.
Burke, $12,143,925 Fannin, $98,310
Houston, 11,224,900 Colquitt, 123.260
Troup, * 10,379.246 Union, 125,220
Monroe, 10.066,866 Towns, 167,716
Talbot, 9 224.350 Gilmer, 170,728
Thomas. 8.523.262 Rabun, 190,350
Richmond, 8.278.250 Pickens, 257.190
Hancock. 8.068.276 Dawson. 275.700
Meriwether, 7.972.000 Pierce, 319,935
Coweta, 7,796.860 Lumpkin, 321„760
Total, f9e,f132,99* $2,050,150
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9, 1863.
Husband the Corn. —The Columbus Times
observes that there is great carelessness in the
manner of feeding by the people of these Con
federate States. Corn has heretofore been so
abundant and cheap in comparison to present
prices, that nothing was thought of doing other
wise than opening the crib door and throwing
out corn for the hogs on the ground, about
two-thirds of which was eaten .»nd the balance
wasted. If our planters and farmers, and
evecy one else raising hogs, will boil the corn
until it is well done, and then feed it in troughs
they will find a large saving in the fattening
season, and the pork be just as good as if allow
ed to eat corn uncooked. Now that we are so
scant of this staple article of life, every means
known to save it should lie adopted, 'ihe same
rule holds good in regard to feeding cattle.—
Some still persist in throwing their dry or rough
food upon the dry ground, half of which is
eaten and the other half trodben under foot.
Every man who has stock should prepare com
fortable shelters, with racks, in which the hay
or fodder should be fed ; and if shucks be fed,
let them be cut uo and placed in a wide trough;
elevated above the ground. By adopting and
following out this plan, cattle will be better
red with about half what is now used. Let
every man’s motto bo to husband well the
present supplies in the country and make dou
ble the quantity the next.
Public Sentiment at the North. —lt is very
evident from all accounts we receive from the
North that a majority of the voters are opposed
to Lincoln, and would so express themselves, if
they were only allowed to do as they pleased.
But Lincoln shows by his acts that be does not
intend to permit any movement derogatory to
him or his course to bp made. Where he can
carry his point by compulsion, bribery and
fraud, he does so ; but where he thinks these
measures will fall, he intimidates by the bayo
net.
As far as the South is concerned it does not
seem to matter much whether the North is for
or against the war. The masses have about as
much influence on the war policy or the manner
of conducting it as the masses in Russia have
upon similiu' questions. Despots do not ask
the opinions of their subjects upon either their
foreign or domestic policy. It is for the mas
ter to command—for the slave to obey. If the
North es 1863 Were the North of 1776, these
things could not m.
The Feelings op tuk Abolitionists towards
the South.— Chase, the Federal Secretary of
the Treasury, when Governor of Ohio, said to
a citizen of Alabama, who took a family of ne
groes. who had been set free by the will of their
owner, to settle then; there ; “We do not want
the slaves free because we love them so much,
but because wo bate tho master”—aud lie ex
pressed himself decidedly opposed to the ne
groes settling in Ohio, and upheld the statutes
of that and other Northern States prohibit ne
groes settling there.
'1 Ire feelings which Chase expressed govern
ed his actions. They aro the feelings of nine
tenths of all Northern Abolitionist. But fanat
ics have uo real Joyo tor the negro- They nev
er had. The with to set the slaves free and
ruin our fair land simply because they hate the
master. They ate envious of his prosperity,
uud mean to impoverish him if possible. This
has been their object for years, and it is the ob
ject for which they are now fighting.
Saving Stock. —Planters and others who own
stock, and those kifficials who ate impressing
beel and Logs for the use of the armies i:i the
field should remember the importance of pre
serving a sufficiency of animals for breeding
purposes. In some sections of the country
nearly all the milch cows have been taken Tor
beef cattle, and in others scarcely a hog is to
be fottud. If tho war continues two or three
years longer—as it probably will—the great
mass of the people will be compelled to live on
little or no meats. In order to do this they
ought to plant out orchards and vineyards, cul
tivate all kinds of vegetables extensively and
devote great caro to the raising of poul try of
every description. To come out of the long
wasting way successfully those who are not fit
for the Held service must determine to live fiu
gally, and to spare no efforts to feed and clothe
the soldiers who have to do the fighting.
Sorqhum Syrup. —The Columbus Sun says
that a great deal of the Sorghum Syrup that
has found its way iuto the market has not been
sufficiently cooked, and hence after it is a few
weeks old it becomes thin and sour, while no
donbt much of it has this acid taste from not
having been properly made. A great deal of
it that we have seen will, if constantly eaten,
turn the teeth black, and must be deleterious
to health.
To make this syrup properly, it should be
well boiled, and to prevent tbe acid which
stains the teeth, soda, lime or ley shonld be
put in it while being cooked. Some who have
made it have spoiled it by being afraid to cook
sufficiently lost they’ should thereby’ diminish
the quantity, while no doubt others have done
the best they knew how. Let these boil their
syrup over again, and they will still have an
excellent article.
More Butchery in Missouri. —The Federal
General Schofield, now in command in Western
Missouri, appears to be as blood-thirsty and as
cruel in bib disposition and purposes, as his heart
less persecuting predecessor. Nothing seems to
satisfy his vile insatiate appetite, but rapine, and
devastation. According to a Federal letter writer
a few days since he caused six of tiie respecta
ble citizens of Jackson County, who had com
mitted no offending act, to be shot in cold
blood. The people of that section, alarmed
aad terror stricken at tho threats of the hard
hearted villain, are flying from their homes,
leaving all behind. Nothing appears to be too
atrocious for some of Lincoln’s Generals to
commit. Their barbarous deeds, have aston
od the civilized world, and put to shame the
acts of uncivilized savages.
Every Max Should be Useful. —ln times
like these every man who is at homo—let him
be rich or poor, old or young—should be en
gaged in an occupation beneficial to 'the cause
our soldiers are fighting; in a word, every man’s
actions should be directed to the public welfare.
M ere the energies of every person, not in the
field, concentrated to the public welfare our
condition would be relieved much sooner than
it will be if we continue to tolerate the existing
diversions therefrom actuated by sloth, avarice
and pleasure. Had the Southern Confederacy
none other among her citizens than those who
are striving to achieve their independence, there
is no doubt that we would have ascended the
ladder of success to a greater height than we
have during the present hostilities. Such a
policy is tha-true road to success.
Late New Orleans advices report the river to
he again blockaded and no shipments to New
Orleans on private account are allowed to be
made,
THS PRISON «RS QUEST! vN.
, Judge Ould recently received a letter from
Brig. Gen. Meredith, enclosing a communica
tion from Major Gen. Hitchcock, of which the
following is a copy ;
Washington Citt, D. C., I
November 13th, 1863.)
Brig. Gen. S. A. Meredith, Commissioner for Ex
change of Prisoners:
Sia : —I am not yet informed whether any,
or how far, relief may have reached onr un
fortunate prisoners of war in Richmond and its
vicinity under tho orders of the Secretary of
War to send supplies to them of both food and
clothing.
Mr. Ould should be notified, for the informa
tion of his Government*, that whatever steps
may have been, or may be, taken to extend re
lief, (to the prisoners of war in Richmond),
must, on no consideration, be appealed to by
the enemy to relieve him from the obligation
to treat prisoners according to the laws of civi
lized warfare. If, in other words, our prisoners
in Richmond fail to receive such supplies as the
laws alike of humanity and war require, the
authorities in Richmond must- bo informed
that it wiilnot be considered a valid expla
nation or excuse for them to appeal to the
‘fact, should it exist, tjjat supplies from us
li we not reached them.
The action of our Government on this mat
ter is dictated purely by humanity, and is only
an effort to relieve our prisoners* of sufferings
inflicted upon them .contrary to the claims of
botli humanity and the laws of war, and must
not be understood as relieving the authorities
of Richmond from responsibility to the Chris
tian world in the premises.
If the authorities in Richmond will send us
these prisoners we will not only feed and
clothe them, but will continue to supply food
and clothing as heretofore -to such prisoners as
mav be in our possession, and you will propose
to Mr. Ould that in this case we agree, without
any reserve, to respect the parole they may
give according to the laws of war, from which
they shall not be relieved in view of the past
differences or pending questions on the subject
of exchange, without the previously obtained
consent of the authorities represented by Mr.
Ould, as agent for exchange under the cartel.
You will please lose no time in communica
ting a copy of this note, certified by yourself,
to Mr. Ould, and will urge upon Him its accep
tance as due to the most solemn considerations
in tho face of the eivilized world,
Very respeotfqljy,
Your obedient servant,
E. A. HtTCHCycK,
Maj. Gen. Vols.,
Comm’r for Exchange of Prisoners.
To thK proposition Judge Ould replied as
follows :
ItrcnMoND, Nov. 18th, 1863.
Brig. Gen. S. A. Meredith, Agent of Exchange :
Sir —The letter of Gen. Hitchcock ha? been
received. Until the Confederate authorities ap
peal to be relieved “from the obligation tb treat
prisoners of war according to the laws of civi
lized warfare,’’ or "offer, as an explanation or
excuse” for sufficient food, that supplies have
not been forwarded by your Government, it is
entirely unnecessary to discuss what will be
the views of your authorities in either contin
gency. Statements, most infamously false,
have recently been made and circulated at the
North by persons whose calling shotild have
imposed a respect for truth, which their own
personal honor seems to have failed to secure.
Our regulations require that prisoners shall re
ceive the same rations ng soldiers in the field,
Such your prisoners hqve received, apd will con
tiuue to receive, Do you ask more? If go,
what do you demand ? We recognize, in the
fullest iorm, our obligation to treat your pris
oners with humanity, and to servo them with
the same food in quantity and quality as is
given to our soldiers. If the supply is scanty
you have ORiy to blame the system ot warfare
yon have waged against us. * There U nothing
in the action of the Confederate Government
which gives any sort of countenance to the
charge ol cruelty or inhumanity to your priso
ners. In the first place, we have importuned
you to agree to a fair aud honest proposition
which would secure the release of all of them.
When that waß rejected, you have been per
mitted to send, without stint or limitation, all
kinds of supplies to them.
Gen. Hitchcock requests that the prisoners
now in our hands be leturned to your linos.
This is not accompanied with any proposition
to release our prisoners now in your Lauds. So
far from that being the case, he promises “to
continue to supply food and clothing as here
tofore” to such. Gen. Hitchcock need not
have urged you to “lose no time in communi
cating” his letter. No degree of haste would
have secured the assent of the Confederate au
thorities to a proposition so flagrantly unequal.
We are ready to relieve your Government
from the burthen of supplying “food and cloth
ing as heretofore to our people in your hands,
and if they are sent to us, vourg shall be re
turned to you—the excess one side or the other
to be on parole. 1 hope you will “urge’ ’ upon
Gen. Hitchcock the acceptance of this propo
sition “as due to the most solmn consjdera ions
in the face of tjuJciyilirsed world,
We are content that the “civilized world”
should draw its own conclusions when it con
trasts the two offers. I will thank you to for
ward this communication to Gen. Hitchcock,
or inform him that the Confodorate authorities
decline to accept his proposition.
Respectfully,
Tour obedient servant,
Ro. Oulu,
Agent of Exchange.
I.YTK IK!KITEI) CORREBPONDENCK.
The Northern papers publish two lptters
which were captured on the steamers Ella and
Anna, by the blockaders. The letters were
written by Mr. Ed. De Leon to President Davis
and Secretary Benjamin. The Federal journals
state that there were several more letters, which
have been sent to Washington, these they say
will be given to the puhlic as soon as Lincoln
is through with them.
In his letter to the President, in speaking of
the withdrawal of Mason from England De Leon
says:
A general measure would have sown suspi
cion between the two great powers. Each would
have feared secret negotiations with the other.
Now it is an open game, and Louis and Pam,
both see each other’s hands. lam not a proph
et. and may be deceived, but as far as 1 know
and can see there has been and is to-day as lit
tle real intention of speedy recognition by
France as by England. That we may be made
a pawn in the Mexican game, I think very pro
bable, but the detected intrigue in Texas, (Mr.
B.’s denunciation of which was intercepted and
published iu New York and English papers)
does not inspire confidence in that very astute
gentleman who now is an arbiter of Southern
and Mexican destinies, the retention of Sir.
Mann in Belgium not being remembered by the
public. Judge Rost, who is here now, entirely
concurs in my views, and he adds, further, that
Mr. Dayton declares he has never had any com
plaint from Washington regarding French in
tervention in Mexico. If Seward, therefore,
acknowledges Maximilian's empire, the ground
on which our actiou seems to have been pre
(licated.is cut away from under our teet. Even
should S. make a protest (for he cannot medi
tate a war with France.) we still will be held
as a power, and have the shadow of a favor,
while our enemy enjoys the substance of non
intervention. I abhor asking for money; but.
as I do not appropriate a penny for myself,
have given Mr. B. a reminder that a small sum
in treasury drafts is not a Fortunatus’ purse,
ever filling and ever full. At the expiration of
eighteen months, “France wants money’ 1 liter
ally, and not figuratively. They are a far more
mercenary race than the English, and we must
buy golden opinions from them if at all.
In his letter to Mr. Benjamin, Mr. De Leon
remarks thus on the feeling in Europe gener
ally:
The withdrawal of Mr. Mason from London
has had the good effect of reviving an inter
est in the Southern question, and awakening
the public in England from the dream of con
i! n .’j. a \_ non '’ nterTen ti° 11 . The sympathy of the
British people for us grows stronger every day,
and in the same ratio as their antipathy for the
i ankees. 'i o fogter and increase these favora
ble dispositions, I have caused various pubU
cations to be made in England on the topics of
cotton, slavery, the oath of allegiance. Federal
fabrications, and kept up a running thruufb
the English press. Some of these publications
shall be sent you by the first opportunity
winch presents for sending packages.
After the disposal of the Roebuck motion
the rapid increase of Federal recruitment in
Ireland attracted much attention, and I deemed
it advisable to visit that country to see if any
thing could be done to check it. The number
of actual recruits thus obtained from Ireland
tor tue past year, up to August, cannot have
exceeded twenty thousand able-bodied men
but has probably reached that figure. When
the harvest time is over, the Yankees hope to
make a grand haul, but we hope their nets will
not hold. The only party favorable to the
laukees is the silly and mischievous clique of
demagogues who style themselves “Young
Icelanders, ■ of whom Gen. Meagher, used to
be one of the shining lights; and these men
make themselves busy in selling their country
men lor the laukee shambles. No step has
been or will be taken by the British Govern
ment to stop this vvholsale deportation for two
reasons:
1. From the difficulty of proof of actual en
listment, and
2. Because of the unwillingness of Lord
Russell to wound the susceptibilities of Mr.
Seward, of whose conduct he has “no complaint
< make.”
The press the priests, and public opinion
may supply the shortcomings of the govern
ment in this respect. At least the attempt is
making and shall continue to be made.
Here in France I see no change either in the
attitude of the government or in the popular
sentiment. In fact, until the arrival of the
Florida at Brest, allusions even to the Conied
oracy (except thos; supplied by our friends in
tfie p ess) were becoming very rare. The Po
lish question and the Mexican entirely ob
scured ours, in which Frenchmen have really
felt but little interest.
The withdrawal of Mr. Mason from London
makes the Emperor more than ever master of
the situation, the only rivalry ho feared being
thus withdrawn. He can amuse us with Mexi
can alliances in lien of more practical interven
tion, in the belief that we shall continue to be
very grateful for very small favors. Neither
the British parliament nor the French Cham
bers will meet until tebruary next, .and until
then the same is entirely in his own hands.
Earl Russell’s speech having relieved his mind
of any change in England’s inactivity, I sin
cerely hope that the intentions of tho Emperor
may be more practical; but I can only judge
bj? the lights before me.
Beecher's Opinion or the Feeling in Exo
land. —Beecher, having returned from Europe,
had an ovation, of course, on reaching home,
and told the people whe t he difj sain and
saw among the big bugs of England, and what
was thought there of the existing troubles on
this continent. After a characteristic fanatical
harangue, he gave the following impressions
as to the state of public feeling in England,
which, coming from so prejudiced a source,
will probably be considered satisfactory by our
readers:
In Great Britain Americans are Northern or
Southern much more strongly than we at home.
There was a Southern Society all over England.
He was sorry to find that the Dissenting Cnurch
there was in favor of the South, although a
sjnall proportion of its members were in sym
pathy with (he North. The Southern men in
Englandjiad used much more ability in push
ing forward their cause among the people of
England tfiaq had been shotyn by the chatn
piofis of the North in that country. The South
had more men, more books, more influences at
work than the North, to gain the sympathy
and aid of the British people. And yet, in
spite of these facts, he believed that the great
heart of the British nation was with the North.
The commercial men are against us. There is
a cia«B, too, there, who have seen its business
stopped by the war, wflich is also nothin favor
of the North. It demands that the war shall
stop immediately. The most influential cler- 1
gyrnan are also against us. They say that tha
Nortli is not sincere, anq that war, a i beat is a
sip. They are horrified at the war. The En
glish nobility as a class, are against us, and for
obvious reasons. We are not accustomed to
estimate our influence upon European institu
tions. They feel our tread, and to defeat our
influence in England, thp nobility of that
country are fighting us there. They knew that
the revolution set a revolution going all
through Europe, and they now fear the effect
we will have in Europe as soon as we have put
an end to the war. If a vote in Parliament
were taken, there would be five votes to one
against the North. A portion of the govern
ment has always been ready to go to war
with ujj.
He was happy to say, however, that the sove
reign of Great Britain had always been an un
flinching friend of the North. Opposition to
the North is based upon commercial interest,
class, power, and upon the fact that we are too
large and strong as a nation. He had been
frankly told by a distinguished Englishman
that we had been growing too strong for them
oyer there, and that they must take qs down.
They are, therefore, glad to have the South do
the work for them. They thought we had
grown proud with sudden growth—full of
threats, &c.—and they desired to see onr power
destroyed, at least so far as it affected them.
The speaker said that the conservative intelli
gence of the country wait also opposed to the
Notth. He desired to state why this was the
case. It Was because of the hot-bed of preju
dice that forms the basis of all English hate
of the American nation. He believed, how
ever, that this is kept in abeyance by the un
wealthy, and, to a great extent, the unvoting
classes. The myn who qo not vote have the
power of controlling those who do yote. Self
preservation taught the privileged cl ass not to
goad the unprivileged class to madness.
Mr. Beecher continued irfthis strain for some
time. The common people of England, he Said,
are the allies of the North. They would al
ways Btand by the Government, and would
never give their sympathy to the South. He
referred to tne recent action taken by Lord
John Russell relative to not permitting any
more privateers to leave the dockyards of Great
Britain. Parliament dare not vote against the
North for fear of the power of the common
people. He read a letter from Cobden, setting
forth the idea that the middle classes of Eng
land sympathized with the North.
Georgia Prisoners in New Orleans.— The
Mobile Advertiser and Register publishes the
following list of prisoners who have died or
been transferred from tbe St. Louis Hospital in
New Orleans. It is said to have been the dy
ing request of many of them that their fami
lies should be informed of their fate :
Died, J M Douthier, Company A, 62 Georgia,
July 21. W M Moses, Company H, 4lst Geor
gia, June 25. D P Wilkins, Campany B, 52d
Georgia, July 24. W D Hall,Company D, 57th
Georgia, July 25. W N Clecker, Company K,
39th Georgia, July 27. WK Mitchell, Com
pany K, 89th Georgia, July 27. Wiley Ballard
Company E, 39th Georgia, July 27. J M An
derson, Company K, 57th Georgia, July 28.
M L Watkins! Company A, 36th Georgia, July
38. H T Bioodsworthy, Company 11, 57tn
Georgia, August 13 Levy Free, Compauy C,
57th Georgia, July 29. Drury Brodrick, Com
pany C, 39th Georgia, July 22. Perry Wilson,
Company E. 34th Goorgia, August 2. James
Seymour. Company A, 34th Georgia, July 22.
G M Yarner, Company K, 29th Georgia, July
22 E R Perkins. Company I, 57 th Georgia,
August 3. Daniel Bruce, Company C, 42d Geo
rgia, July 24. E L Kinney. Company I, 57th
Georgia, August 3. J F Chids, Company I, 41st
Georgia, August 13. RT Bullock, Company G,
42d Georgia, July 21 D M Steel, Company B,
42d Georgia, August 11. W D Doutlut, Com
pany H, 52d Georgia, August 22.
Transferred.—Lieut Sylvester Worley, Com
pany I, 39th Georgia, to care Mme Dunbar,
Rampart street. J B Humphries, Company K,
41st Georgia, to care Provost Sheriff.
A meeting of tbe Presidents and Superinten
dents of a majority of the Railroads in the
Southern Confederacy was held in Macon, last
Thursday, 25th inst., for the purpose of regula
ting the rates of government freight. Mr. R. R.
Cuyler was called to the chair, and A. L. Tyler,
Esq., appointed Secretary. The rates fixed
upon will be published, we understand, at an
early day. All the roads in the State of Geor
gia. with the exceptiun of the State Road, were
represented, aDd a majority of the railroads in
all the States of the Confederacy, except Vir-
YOL. -LXXVII. —NEW SERIES VOL. XXVII. 0. 49.
Treatment of Coxfedki' vte Prisoners at
Fobt Delaware.— The editor of the Richmond
Sentinel has had a conversation with a Con
federate prisoner who has just escaped from
Fort Delaware. He gives a truly piteous ac
count of the horrid and brutal manner in w hich
our brave soldiers are treated in that filthy
Vankee prison. Words aro pot slrong enough
to apply to such nefarious conduct. Here is
his account:
When he was imprisoned, on the Island in
July, there were over ten thousand prisoners ;
but at the time lie escaped, the number was
reduced to two thousand.
Two small crackers, a piece of pickled beef,
frequently spoilt, not exceeding three ounces
iu weight, and one-third of a pint of coffee, was
the allowance for breakfast. For dinner two
crackers, three ouncos of meat, and soup, that
the prison inspector, himself, declared was
nothing b it dirty water, and which produced
diarrhwa on all who used it. In July and Au
gust the drinking water was taken from the
Bay, in close proximity $o the water-closets.
The soup and coffee were prepared from tho
same water, first pumped into ditches by the
nrisoners. *
The situation of the fort is low and marshy,
and that, with bad and insufficient food, ne
glect and cruel treatment, produced a great
amouqt of sickness and death. Iti answer to
the protests of our Government, Gen. Schcepf,
who commands the post, stated that from the
Ist July to the 19th of August, 1863, the num
ber of deaths were one hundred and eighty.
Our informant, who is a very intelligent gen
tteman, says the number who' died during the
period specified by Schcepf, was between eleven
and twelve hundred. That from the Ist day
of July to the 31st day of October, 1863, he
was informed by one of the Federal surgeons,
that between twenty-three and twenty-four
hundred prisoners had died. The most* fatal
diseases were small pox, diarrbcea, scurvy, and
erysipelas. That a great part of the time medi
cines wore not to be procured. The men had
no medical attendance except in hispital and
had to lie in barracks until a vacancy occurred
in hospital by the death of a patient, n (his
way from fifteen to twenty-live dead men
would be removed of a morning, and the same
number of sick and dying taken lropj the bar
racks to places made vacant by death.
Tlje principal jailor is a brute by thfi name
of Wolf, a Lieutenant. Previous to the war
he was a Yankee pedlar in Georgia. This
drunken beast was in the constant habit, while
under the influence of rum, of assaulting and
beating the prisoners. He would throw stones,
bricks, &0., at them; and if the least resistance
Was made the guard would shoot them.
Another scoundrel was named Adam—a
Dutchman—who, for cowardice at tho bailie of
ManasSas, was sentenced to Fort Delaware for
five years. This fellow had charge of the
workuig parties.
The prisoners were made to work on the de
fences of the fort, mount mins, repair and clean
out the diiches, Ac.; and’this brutal scoundrel
would force them to work, and strike hem
with a huge bludgeon he carried in his hand.
The Federals w«ild permit our men to he
thus bmtally treated—half starve them; tell
them there would be no more exchanges of
prisoners; that our people wore disheartened
and defeated, and the war virtually at an end,
au d then urge upon the ragged, hungry and
sick men the oath of gllegiance to Lincoln
when they would be permitted to return homo.
Upon taking the oath they were immediately
placed tp themselves, good clothes given them,
and three full meals per clay, with coffee for
breakfast and supper, furnished them. The
next move would be to,induce them to enlist,
by offering large bounties and pay; and in this
way prevailed upon about 500 to enlist iu the
Yankee cavalry.
We have given but a faint account of the in
humanity, meanness and lying of tho wretches
who have control of our men iu Fort Delaware,
as related to us by one of the sufferers.
Scenes. —There appears to have
been no exaggeration in the accounts already
given in regard to the condition of the negroes
at the various contraband pumps in th,o Miss
issippi Valley. Congregated at these depots,
without employment, deprived ot the find to
which they have been accustomed, and often
without shelter Jer medical care, these helpless
creatu es perish as if swept off by pestilence.
Wm. D. Butler, a delegate of the United States
Christian Commission, writes to Rev. Dr. W. G.
Ellic.tt us follows, respecting tee negroes who
camo into Vicksburg after the surrenderof Gen.
Pemberton, mostly from beyond Jackson :
The military authorities became alarmed lest
a pestilence should breakout among them and
extend to the army. Peremptory orders were
issued to at once remove across the- river all
negroes, of every age and sex, whether siok or
well, who were not in some employment.
One morning I went out to inform Lieut. TV.
who, with an inadequate force, was executing
the order, that one of them in the Baptist
church, was dead, and that another, a woman
was lying behind the fence dying. Ije told me’
that he had detailed, for thy purpose of remov
ing the negroes, twenty army wagons; that he
huuleq them, well, sick and doad, with all
their traps to the river, where he had a steamer
to convey them across to a point opposite the
lower part of the city ; that he had one wagon
to haul the dead, and that some days he found
■as many as twenty that in one houso he found
six dead bodies with Ijying ones sitting and
lying argqmj them apparently unconscious of
their situation.—Holes were dug on the river’s
bank and the dead buried. The searching out
and the removal of the negroes consumed about
fifteen or twenty days. About three hundred
wore thus removed to the low grounds opposite
Vicksburg, and there loft in the Woods without
any shelter, under the care of a man who was
appointed to organize them into a camp, and.
separate small pox cases from the rest in gen
eral to do what he could for their relief. lie
was soon taken sick, and a chaplain. He told
me that these negroes had suffered and were
still suffering untold want aud wretchedness ;
that nearly 400 had Hied since he had taken
charge of them; and Wat from sixteen to twenty
die daily. Sornotimes they would crawl out in
to the weeds and die, where their bodies would
be found only by the stench which arose from
their decay. That once they were five davs
without receiving any food, and the negroes in
their despair threatened to kill him, thinking
the fault was hi*. He also stated that they
had no tents or shelter except brush to shield
ti.em from the sun, or storm, or dews of night.
Captain A. stated to me that there were in the
camp 2,000, at Young’s Point 8,581; on Papaw
Island, where he purposed gathering most of
them. 2,800 ; and on Black’s plantation on the
Yazoo, 2,400 —in all over 10,000. One morn
ing I went among the wretched masses where
they were hauled to the bank of the liver, pre
paratory to being sent across. I tried in vain
to find some women who were able to work, as
we wished their labor at our house. All were
either sick or taking care of the sick. I raw
nothing but one sad scence of misery.
A Spectacle in Washington.— Some of the
Washington letter writers are beginning to
think from the sights they are continually wit
nessing in that city, that the present war is
not exactly what Lincoln and his satellites
claims it is for. Here is what one of them
says :
The present war is waged for freedom, as the
radical papers and orators of the day are al
ways telling us. I would not doubt anything
they say for the world. But a sight that I wist
nessed iu the city, had a tendency to shake my
confidence in the aforesaid proposition. I saw a
company of black soldiers strutting about the
side walk smoking, looking impudent, swear
ing about the ‘copper-heads" and talking lov
ingly about ‘Stanton while on the other side
of the street a dozen white conscripts with
gyv#3 upon their wrists were being marched to
the tented field under a strong guard of bay
onets. Now, if the people of this country, the
solid yeomanry everywhere, enjoy this kind of
spectacle, no reasonable spectator ought to
object. .But to my mind it is not funny.
non. Thomas V. Freeman, of Missouri, and
Hon. Mr. Sexton, of Texas, members of Con
gress, have arrived safely on this side. They
give very cheering accounts of the condition
of our army and the spirit of our people west
of tbe Mississippi river.
Ttie Tobacco Market at the North. —The
Philadelphia Inquirer, in speasing of the to
bacco trade at the North, remarks thus :
The war inaugurated anew era among ihe
tobacco dealeis. Tho old tobacco fields of Vir
ginia had always furnished the supplies which
formed the material for tho obacco trade, but
when the war broke out the crops of Virginia
were ent.rely cut off. The attention cf farmers
m the Moslem States, and portions of the
Middle and Eastern belt, was directo.l towards
the produetionof this staple, and the States of
Missouri and Kentucky were sown almost ex
clusively with chewing tobacco, ’ihe tobacco
thus raised has furnished the market with a
supply.
Ihe smoking tobacco is raised in Pennsylva
nia and Connecticut.‘with an occasional contri
bution ironi Neiv Jersey. The high p ice paid
tor this staple has rendered its cultivation ex
ceedingly lucrative, and the production ot the
seed leaf has become a matter attractingthe at
tention of many of the leading iarmeis" of this
and adjacent Sta;os. The crop foi tho present
season has just been harvested, and there is
good reason to expect it will exceed, in quantity
that of the previous season The high prices
have presented in.luccra.i.ta to n « plant ere to
.-.»vo ..li, and all tliat would have been damaged
hv frost l-.its been carefully housed. That cut
anterior to the calamity of the 19th of Septern
l>er is said to have proved ot far bettor quality
than that of several previous years, and the
bulk of the crop is at, the seaboard.
The prices received for tobacco now are but
tittle different irom those for the correspondin'*
period, in 1562. Os ) irginia tobacco there is
none m the market. Kentucky factory lugs
are quoted nt 9to 10c. per pound. This a now
article ; the fields of Kentucky never having
produced any ol that particular kind of the
staple before. Inferior Kentucky is 10.} to He.
against 14 to 14Ac. for last year ; middling 14 to
16c. ; good at i«to2oc ; scie lions, bright and
sweet, 22 to 28c. ; selections, heavy export, 25
to 2§c ; Maysville, 1! to 2(>c The-e average
from i to 3c. per pound less than lire fait prices,
of 1862. *>
The present stock or. hand is moderate, and
the trade is not us active as i, has been in past
seasons The tobacco is exported largely. Im
mense quantities are shipped to England, Ire
land and Continental Europe. The principal
port to which it is consigned is Bremen, where
the trade of Baltimore is almost enti.ely di
rected. Antwerp, Hamburg and other Euro
pean citbs receive large mportations from New
York and Philadelphia, and Spain, the Medi
terranean ports, .Australian, and even China
and Africa, are in reception of heavy cargoes.
Ihe W est Indies are large importers of Ameri
can tobacco, >nd many an invoice ofsegars re
ceived from Havana ami exhibited in the ware
houses of our tobacco n-crch; i.ts is manufac
tured from Pennsylvania or Connecticut seed
leaf
Ihe i’RMENT Condition if Fredebicksbcku
and Vicinity. A nur p mie. toi ti e Rich
mond Disjn th, writing tom Eiodericksburg,
V.r., gives the ana ssq pasture of the present
condition of that cty an! vicinity:
OI the numberless accounts of devastation
and ruin lieie which have boon published, none
have, conveyed the slightest idea of what has
been tho loss, and the extremity to which the
inhabitants of this city have been reduced, by
the ruthless baud of the incarnate demons
who turned loose the tornado of shell aud shot
on the unsuspecti g inhabitants at a silent
hour of night, while they were wrapped in un
conscious slumbers, little dreaming when they
retired to their couches that before the morn
ing sun broke one-third of the city would be a
smouldering mass of ruinß, and the remainder
of the houses penetrated and torn by the num
berless shot and shell which was rained on
that devoted spot. I have traversed the entire
limits of the city, and cau safely stare, with
out contr idiot ion. that there is scarce a house
to be observed which has not been struck with
from oie to twenty shot or shell; iu many in
stances, where the shells would . xpScrie in
side. the entire interior, together with tne fur
nil lire. would be- torn nnd shattered in frag
ments. After all the inhabitants but the few
left pad been driven out of the city, and the
bombardment had ceased, then came the wind
ing up or finale of the fiendish outrage which
was being enacted. The entire horde o Yan
kee fiends wire let loose and entered the city,
and such a scene of devastation and plunder
has ueror been equalled in the records of his
tory—-even in the most barbarous ages. Every
house was broken opeu. enter and, and gutted
from eeliar to garret, furniture of every de
scription, and the fixtures, together with goods
in the store-*, were either carried ofrorsmashed
o pieces and left lying on the floors and in
the streets. These m tters are not mentioned
as items of late news, but in order to be re
corded faith folly and impartially, as a matter
of history. The details of this barbarous c.'.ui
heinous transaction, as related l-y eve witness
es, are affecting in the extreme, and" the condi
tion of the sufferers is enough to awaken the
sympathies of the most callous and uncon
cerned, and a volume might be written on the
subject, which would serve to hand down to
posterity, and to illustrate to the world the
deeds of our kind and loving brothers of the
civilized aud enlightened North!
A Soldier’s Letter.— Lieut. Gen. Smith,
having been invited to address the people at a
barbacue near Shreveport, La., wrote a very
patriotic letter in reply. From it the annexed
extract is taken ;
lam no speaker. The rostrum would he as
nnsuited to me as the building of fortifications
would be to you. My life and thoughts have
been those of a soldier. If flic people will take
care of affairs at home, I will attend to those iu
the field and which devolve upon me ns a De
partment commander.
I shall observe the laws but punish disloyal
ty ; I shall respect the laws of the State, hut
shall rely on them to sustain me. The people
must be true to themselves, find we will con
quer. We have men and means on this side
the Mississippi to hold the country. It is to
deploy and draw the enemy into the interior :
it weakens Irm and strengthens us. Individ
ual distress may follow in the tracks of his
inarch, but this is inseparable from war, and is
felt on the other side greater than on this.
Our people there are buoyant aud confident
of success ; it is in the Trans Mississippi De
partment alone that men despair ami fear for
the result. The very colnmus of flic enemy
which threaten us and strike fear inlo the hearts
of our citizens, and are so many assnrances of
ou* ultimate triumph Every soldier they
send west of tho Mississippi river, weakens
their armies where the battles that decide our
independence must be fought.
Siir up your people ! Bring back our ab
sentees to their colors ! and we will g ve full
occupation to our invaders here, while our gal
lant country men there are achieving those
victories which bequeath stability and perpe
tuity to our Government
Yankee Outbaoks in East Tennessee—Tho
Yankees are committing all eorls ot excesses
in Tennessee. A coi respondent, who has travel
ed through the country n*-ar Knoxville, says :
A the Yankees drop down the country they
commit all soils ot depiedations They are
taking all the wi.- at. corn, hay ad hogs they
can find, and lay'ns? waste ev.-iythmg before
them. At lb g ravill they ha- , ci sumy and all
the fencing for ml!* s C . onel G.-orce It. Dow
ell. »ashler of the R-ai.-.-h hf.i k of Tennessee,
they have almost ruin..-, and ruin bersof others
of the same vicinity. Captain Gammon, who
was for a long time quart* i master at Knoxville
they have stripped ; and they went so far as,
to order his'excellent lady to cook for them.
But. like a tiue Southern woman, as .-.he is, she
told them to begone. As they go crowds of
Union people, including women and children,
'go with them, and it is said that Cumberland
Gap is blockaded with them.
Cure for thf Hog Cholera.—A gentleman
furnishes the Petersburg Va., Express with a
simple recipe which he says can be r lied on
as an effectual lemedv for the h*-g cholera.
With it be has cured many hogs that w.-ie falls
ing under this di» ase a- ' i-nev* r snown any
to die to which the m.dicin. h - b-en udmmin
tered. . ,
Take equal propo tions of par tops n*l
polk root and b-»ii down :o a -’>■ lj s ea. to
(very five gallons oi me tort ad<l a > ole spoon
ful of copperas and a naif pup of salt.
This is a remedy tnat is withia the reach of
every one, and we advise its trial.
GEORG! V LEGISLATURE.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE CHRONICLE & SENTINEL.
SENATE.
Friday, P. M., Nov. 27.
The Senate was engaged this afternoon on
the bill to re-organize the militia.
HOUSE.
Friday, P. M., Nov. 27.
Tite House was engaged this afternoon on
House bills on their passage. Tho following
were passed : A bill to change tho time of
holding the Inferior Court of Miller co.; to
change the line between Clay and Early ; to
regulate advertising sales by administrators,
executors and guardians—allows them to ad
vertise in a paper having a general circulation ;
for the support of the Academy for the Blind ;
to re-organize jury boxes ; to authorize Clerk
to State Treasurer ; to authorize payment of
taxes in Confederate currency.
The following were lost : A bill to alter the
3232d section of Code; for relief of Dr. De-
Graffenreid; to Increase tho fee3 of county
officers; to incorporate’, Spaulding Savings
Bank.
Senate.
Saturday, Nov. 28.
In the Senate to-day soveial motions were
made to reconsider sections of the military bill
adopted on yesterday, and tho Senate went
into Committee of the 'VVliolo for their con
sideration. After a general discussion, the
motions to reconsider were all lost. General
Wright moved to strike out Hie 21st section in
reference to exemptions, and offered an addi
tional section that uo person liable to conscrip
tion be appointed to any position under this
act, except in time of actual service, which wan
adopted.
The bill, with other slight amendments,
passed.
HOUSE.
Saturday A. M., Nov. 28.
A motion prevailed to reconsider the refusal
to print the majority aud minority reports on
the State of the Republic.
A motion prevailed to reconsider the line
between Early and Clay.
The unfinished business—a bill to amend tho
stay law—was withdrawn.
The Finance Committee reported a bill to levy
a tax on net incomes, and to punish parties who
refuse to give in property. Provides that profits
amounting to SIO,OOO, shall be taxed $5 per
$100; profits over sl().ooo.and under $50,000,
S10per$100; over $50,000 and less thiuisloo,-
000, S2O per $100; over SIOO,OOO, s2son every
SIOO. Failure to make returns c rroctly is
punishable in the Penitentiary one to fivo years.
The entry of profits on the extension of stock,
or any other evasion of the bill, punishable two
to six years in the Penitentiary. Tax Deceiv
ers a e required to prosecute all who violate
the provisions of the bill.
The following bill was passed: A bill to con
fer certain powerson the City Court of Augusta.
A bill to allow Inferior Courts to make im
pressments for the support of soldiers’ families
was postponed indefinitely.
A message from the Governor was taken up.
It referred to a contract with certain distillers.
Major Lock recommends that the law prohibit
ing the distillation of grain raised within twenty
miles of a railroad be repealed, so as to enable
contractors to supply the amount needed. The
message was taken up and referred to tbe Ju
diciary Committee.
A bill to prevent the destruction of breeding
stock was lost.
A bill to punish the issuing or passing of un
lawful sbinplasters. Subjects any per on or
corporation issuing such currency to penalty of
imprisonment of three to twelve months. I’or
sons passing such bills are subjected to tho saino
penalty after Ist April next.
SENATE.
» Saturday. P. M„ Nov. 28.
Nothing of interest transpired in tha Sonata
this afternoon.
A communication was received on the .suV
jecr or raising sheep, which was referred toUm"
committee ou petitions.
Col. Gaulden moved to reconsider the Mili
tia bill passed in the morning. He wished to
be heard on the bill, which had been denied
him by the call of the previous question. The
President ruled that by the rules of tbe Sen
ate a motion so reconsider on the day a bill is
acted on, out of order. Mr. Gaulden appealed
from the decision of the President aud re
viewed the rules of the U. S. Senate and House
to show that reconsiderations may bo made tho
same day. The decision of the President was
sustained.
SENATE.
Monday, A. M., Nov. 30.
Mr. Adams moved to roconslder the Militia
bill passed on Saturday, for the purpose of
offering some amendments. On taking tha
vote the motion prevailed.
Gen. Wright suggested that the views of tha
Senator could be met in a supplemental bill,
and be withdrew tho motion.
Gen. Wright then offered the following reso
lutions, which he sustained by an able
speech:
Whereas, tbe Bliarp heol of the oppressor emta
the soil of our State, the homes of our people
made desolate—their property destroyed — their
fields laid waste. An infamous and barbaric
foe, powerful in numbers and unscrupulous in
conduct, threatens tho very heart of the com
monwealth. Their track is marked by theft,
rapine, robbery, arson, and murder; they in
sult and outrage onr women, and incite our
trusty and c in tented slaves to insurrection an<l
insubordination.
Impelled by the brutal instincts and passions
of a fl -praved and corrupt lace, they seek to
desecrate our altars, overthrow our govern
ment, and destroy our liberties' and enslave our
people.
The peril of our people is imminent —the Is
sue, is momentous. All that makes existence
desirable to a gallant and free jieoplc is now
imperilled by the horde of savages who swarm
in our northwestern valleys.
3 Action — prompt — quick— thorough—decided
—powerful action, is now required to meet this
pressing exigency. Those who would not bo
slaves must fight to be free.
Be it therefore Resolved, by the General An,
sembly of Georgia, That his Excellency the
Governor be and lie is horeby requested to or
der under arms and cause to be enrolled imme
diately, every able-bodied male inhabitant of
this State, over the age of 15 years, who is not
now actually in the service of the State or of
the Considerate States.
Resolved, further, That the troops thus or
dered under arms and enrolled, shall be or
ganized into companies, battalions and regi
ments, und* a- the laws now of force ia this
State, and shall be ordered into active service
for the defence of the State, at such points and
for such length of service, as the Governor may
direct : Provided, that at ‘least one fifth of tha
male inhabitants thus enrolled shall be kept
on duty as a police and patrol guard in their
respective counties.
Resolved, That the Governor be requested
to call upon the General commanding the State
Guard, immediately, and request him to order
the whole force known as the State Guard,
(including those who have taken territorial
umits)*into active sei vioe for the defence of our
Northwestern boundaries, and place such Guard
under the order and control of Gen Bragg;
and ia case any portion of this State Guard
; sh ill refuse to go beyond their limits or to any
j point which may be designated by Gen. Bragg
for the defence of the Slate, that Major General
Cobb be requested to disband such portions of
iraid Guard, aud thru they then be immediately
enrolled in the militia of the State, and order
ed into active service.
The resolutions were unanimously adopted.
The following bills were introduced : A bill
to change the line between Mclntosh and Col.
quitt ; to amend the 12!)2d and 1294th sections
of Code, aud to repeal 1295, 1305, 1307 and
1308 sections ; for the relief of Peter Woody
to authorize Ordinaries to turn over trust fund
The following was passed ; A bill to ex ten
the limits of Lawret* eville.
The following was lost: A bill to change tha
name of Uni an county to Forrest.
HOUSE.
Monday A. M., Nov. 30.
The following weie read first time : A bil’
’ to prevent tbe obstruction of road-: to pu’- ls h
persons for forging substitutes or exemutien
papers k
The following was passed : A bill to enlarge
j the powers of Notaries Public ia Savannah.
; The following were lost: A bill to regnlat*
I advertising estate sheriff sales jto regulate tk*