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U’.j rn.jo m. Jl ii ■ :o<Js attention—wise leu is
tioti. It is in a very critical conditkn. lint
tie- cac: in tint de-perate. Ii may be reached
ami renn died if our i.tiblic . n«i.-i Uavu
tiieencigy and tie: nerve In apply the pioper
correction. Certainly'no question of greater
moment call claim tiieireoinaderation. We ire
exnoKerl to no evils more serious than those 1
whi- Ii t lireaten us f’t < m tlic enormous in Mat ion of
om circulating medium 'J hit will beadaik
hour for tie- Republic when < iovernmeiit ii-nes
ecu e to command tin- ivspecl of tin: people.—
If it, e pos-ihi , l iv any legislation, no mat ter
hoi, !, i-e tie' p" mii.ivv sacrifice may lie, to
av.-i t so,.a a c-t.e-Uoptic by all means Ictus
lia-ei at Urn v ry earliest day.
for ihe i.i C.ree mouths the newspapers
have to U.\: i w ,;h hem t exhibiting more
oil* lot Job v , .and la'iinii! i proposing mens
nr-.s toi tie ai r<st of the evil which every one
feels I- be so groin and growing. Among these
voluntary (■as.iyisis on financiering wc'find very
little luiririony. We bavu seen no schedule
« hi' h. if adopted, w ould make the eoinmereiiil
machine to run in such a way as to carry us
through our embarrassments.
Ti e plan -it :gesl-d by the Hank Convention
held a. this eii v a . inn r- tli it the nceessities'of
” f-i p ipi would cii i ad them to lend the gov
1 ei atrn-nf a thoii.-,.nd of dollars, and I
tu.it thi ■ entire innotiut w' ttld he taken up at
il eaiiy day’. ! ns may or tnav not In" so. If j
the latter, then the scheme fails in a very ini- j
pm taut feature, viz ; the conversion 6f treasury
notes into loan. I. it succ. ed some months—
say six must clique before tile investment
could lie nude. Meantime the current expenses
of tin Government art- progressing; and these
at three million a tiny and .at present prices
laey are not much le would reach (he sum
of S4WUH'K),OOO hy the time the loan was ef
fected. It would th 'i lie mtassary to imfko
another large loan to ale rb the redundancy
which had ncciinuiliited whilst, the lit t loan
wu b iin ' tfi - ted. Tim the lirit loan, ::igm
tie a- ill. e. would be iifrobtctoiy to a second,
a ul third, A
Besides .•■nine tu:, paver who would boumlcr
tliu noire!- • ty of paying Audi per aimum to the
Confederate Government. might find it quite
iriTpossililo In procure the £’>ooo worth ofbonds
which iiiir-t be pm: ■..••• sod in onlcr to obtain the
coupons which would he received by the gov
ernin'id M> ol : m ill means must hoi the
coupon: without ili hoods, ot o heavy premi
um, p. . m.i in :i> ii lux oinvi onerous ill
ju. po. o he - -i’"' n>'-s of their resources
Bn- ur 1 > :td il i' '- i no scheme which
can 1.-. • in- vr>li s' -n ; objection*
M»v n«» h - ' • I \\ ■> liud it In easier to
di-.-i.vi" in ili- -Hi s arcs of relief which
hftv. : ■ U"1 ‘mu to devi-e one which
S !,;dl . ,i.".v ::>:.able \V. t.-Ust the vis
do,:, :/i may prove cqml to the oiuor
geio-;. i-'i • mu - i\..vt see but one -mimv
of c-ii« I ; and liat is luxation to the utmost
extent compatible with t e pivscrva'ion of our
industrial interests. It is nor ti> be presumed
tha: even this Would relievo it of all tho dilii
cullies > y wa'u •wr uc cavil id. No people
can\ iug . :,v war i,: at h dr l.misions as that
»i ■ a -a i on nit, - tion, call ho cx
p, rl.-d to ih-lrai, whilst tin- v. a is upon them,
all the cxpcu-ii:r : imit t" : l progre v. After
we have iiiipos, ii - u ourselves tho sovoieH
tavation much no. t remain for our successors
to litjni !:rt> ii imi.-r he remembered, how
ever, tinit the gov orntnin ! cannot ho sustained
nnloss a pm'tiou of cur cun lit expenses sutli
cientiy large tj a a ,and some promise of the ul
tima!. pas tiieiii '.lie whole, bo now met.
I'l'um li., beginning of tlie war the people
ha\ lami in advance of their legislators on the
subject of taxation. The patriotism of the
former has been equal to the crisis, and would
have relieved ns under wise legislation from,
flic ills which now threaten us from the col
lapse of tho currency, (lentrally, complaints
are heard against those who impose taxes. Now
tho complaint has iieeu that Congress has not
been up-to tho public sentiment and the na
tional demand on this subject. We hope that
when Congress meets they will adopt those
measures to which tl.o people arc willing to
submit, and which seem so imperative for the
salvation of the country.
The Way 0 mei'eratk Prisoner? mu:
Treated is W fsrratv Prisons. We have lately
published several accounts of the inhuman
manner Confederate prisoners are treated in
Eastern phies of eenfinement. \ member ol
Morgan's cavalry who lias uianaped to eseape
from u Federal ba.-i.ih- in the West pires an ae
eoimt of the maMier in which Confederates are
treated in that section. Here is what he says .
••1 would advise my comrades to make it the
last, the very last resort, to surrender them
selves to the enemy The indignities, barbari
ties and suiTeritips which they are subjected to
are little preferable to death. Their blankets,
money, ovi reoats and all personal property,
are taken tiotn them, and they are stripped of
such clothing as will protect them from the
chill Northern blasts ol winter, in order to
force them from necessity to take the hated
Yankee oath, and even the most strenuous ex
ertious are made to force them into the Yankee
army, the promise of their enlistment in the
enemy > ranks beiug dui si the only alterna
tive from freezing to death.
• Not long belore i left the prison there was ;
an occurrence timk place that shows their
cowardly tttanuei of treeing dv.etuelcss ami :
unarmed uien. A’-out the time the battleot *
Chickamtumawas taking place thvi. flag, tree- ;
ted in the centre of the pris n s.ptare, was)
blown to pieces by the wind and tell to the
prouud. About twenty of c-nr boys who were j
prisoners wi tn s?ed it, end e nsidering it otni j
nous ot ill success to tbo lsinner of iuvtisiou. |
gave a lusty cheer tzburth after, a Yankee
captain made }.;> appear .zee with a squad ol
armed men, anil ovdeied the pi is nersiuto line,
lie then called them onudrt is and cursed
tlieiu for some minims. using the most abusive
language his Vile tongue could otter, and
wound up by ordering the guard to tire upon
them. When the guard refused to execute the
infamous order, this pink of Northern chivalry
«£aiu resorted to ttis vocabulary of abusive
epithets, and announced tiiat if the victims of
his wrath otfended again, he would turn the
gari i>on loose upon them, and not be responsi
ble tor the result."
The latest New 5 orb papers continue to re
late the prigrers of "strikes" amongst all sorts
of artisans. Even day the moaemeut seem?
to resell anew time or employment,
wcuita axe huw aroused,
Vantthe CUriTAt Safb.—Emerson Eth
ridge, tlic renegade East Tennesseem, has been
'-tilted by the Yankee Government, and ha
i become very strong in liis opposition to it in
< o i-'-iuence. In u Sei jis' of letters written to
J the < hicago Times, he attempts to show the
j Northern people how they are humbugged.
j Tlic satirical rascal gets off the following on tlic*
‘•-safety of the Federal Capital
i At present, however, the capital is safe, and
I the army is sate. This amazing statement is
1 made by the administration organs, and the
1 people are expected to he jubilant over the fact.
Safe ! Shameful, humiliating confession. Safe
! from what? Safe from capture by tlioConfed
j erates whom we have been lighting for nearly
three years I Safe from capture hy theConfed
| era-es whose ports we have blockaded ; whom
| we have deprived of mails and medicines ;
j whose backbone we have broken more than a
j dozen times; whom we have l idit filed as rag
j ged, starving and dirty; to whom we at first
| I'etiiM-d to accord the rights of belligerents;
with whom, for a long time, we refined to ex
i change prisoners; whose privateersmen, we
I loudly boasted we would bang as pirates !
| S ib- from i lit iii'o 1... 11.. < '-..ureJeialeS, whose
military power, us Ms. Seward lately assured
: the world, was broken and entirely exhausted I
! Safe from capture hy the Confederates, to con
i' '{tier whom we are Called upon to raise the pit
| il ul number of three hundred thousand more
then, in addition to the seventeen hundred thou
;:aiid whom those pesky Confederates have al
ready kept so actively employed. Safe! safe
indeed ! üb, shame, where is thy blush? Will
we. ever compter the Confederates at this rate 1
He 'ides, how are we to emancipate, confiscate,
subjugate and amalgamate by remaining ‘'safe"
in our capital ?
Omu n os Gen. \V. H. T. Wai.keb— On re
suming command of bis Division, Gen. Walker
issued the follewing order :
Headquarters Waj.keu’s Brtoa HE, \
November 27. 1803. j
[General Orders No.—]
In resuming command, the Major General
commanding desires to express his high ap
preciation of the gallant and steady bearing of
the division in the recent engagement under
the gallant Gist. He will have the proud sat
isfaction of knowing that liis gallant division
did all that brave and honorable men should
do all to avert the disaster which Ims befallen
our arms.
Recollect that freemen are never coiupiered
uud let us, one and all, resolve to choose unlioii
orublo soldier s grave to submission to anarro
gunt, insolent and merciless foe. All officers
are enjoined to keep up the strictest discip
line, ami an appeal is made to the men io
stand by their’colorsand theircountry through
evil am] good report. Re not discouraged hy
this defeat. We will yet send these robbers
howling Lack tojheir caves. All that is neces
sary is that we be true to ourselves. Honor,
glory and iiheity will crown our success ; in
famy, dishonor and eternal disgrace wait upon
our defeat.. Strike, then, for your liberty and
your homes!
(Signed) W. 11. T. Walker,
Major General Commanding.
[Official.] .1. B. Gumming,
(-aptiin and A. A. 0.
(Official] B. Burgh Smith,
Major and A. I. G.
‘•NkatC.itrim” and tub (.'onfedbbatk Tax.—
The Commissioner of Taxes at Richmond has
a,
w ritten the following to the Tax Collectar at
Charlotte, N. 0., which gives some informa
tion to tiie public :
In reply to your letter of the 7lh instant, yon
are informed that the term “neat cattle”
means a!l cattle of the bovine species, and in
cludes hulls, ulcers, cows, heifers, milch cows
aii.le.b.t an t all these an: to be valued and
taxed mid r section twelve except working
oxen actually employed in the production of
articles taxed in kind. The law contemplates
only the cattle held or owned on the first day
of November, and does not include beeves
killed and consumed by the tax-payer prior to
that lime. You are not allowed to exempt
any thing that the law does not exempt, no mat
Pi what they are intended for, nor is any
other horse stallion, mule or mare unless act
ually used and employed in cultivating the
firm. When tho amount of cotton is so very
small as not to lie worth the trouble or expense
of assessing, it should not be noticed, upon tho
principle of tie Minimis non curat five.
Gbx. Wish’s Financial PLAXN.-sden. Wise
h-is published a letter to the Hon. J. E. Holmes
of South Carolina, in which be treats of the
disorders of the currency, and the remedies.—
The i liter lie sums up thus :
1. Repeal the laws reducing any interest
once promised on loans.
2. Impose the direct, and indirect taxes —the
one by the l u!e of apportionment and the oth
erby the rule of uniformity.
IS A total prohibition of importations, and
breaking up of the blockade running.
4. A heavy tax on passports with the exemp
tion of Government officials or agents only,
sent ont or coming in on official business, civil
or military, with special authority.
f>. Confiscation and its proceeds.
C, The repeal of the taxes in kind.
7. The collection of all taxes in the Confed
erate currency.
8. The repeal of all sumptuary laws.
;i. Severe v penal statutes against forestall
iug the market.
10. Punish by fine and forfeiture, and test by
oath, all hoarding of specie atul products.
11. State bonds for currency and Currency
for Confederate bonds.
1”. A sinking fund, as established l>y the
United States, to pay public debt.
13. Increase soldiers" pay at a rate reasona
bly proportionate with prices, and make good
in money the deficiency in their rations and
forage.
I I Reform the commissary and quartermas
ter's department. Remembering that howev
er else the Military Academy and Institutes
may have prepared soldiers, they have not
taught their pupils the lessons of administra
tive economy.
If,. Don't allow measures to be talked to
death in tlio Legislatures aud in Congress. —
Act ! actl act!
Eemabkari k Escape from Prison. —Mr. John
It. Cunningham relates to the Rockingham
Register the manner of his escape from Camp
Chase, Ohio, where be was held a prisoner :
Hu conceived the plan with some nineteen
members of Morgan’s command. They were
occupied for three weeks, night and day, in
digg.ng the tunnel through which they escaped
their only tools being common case knives !
The tnunel was sixteen feet in length, with an
entrance of six feet at each end. The guards
were walking round on the parapet of the pris
on at the time they canto out. The night was
a bright starlight one, and the escaping pris
oners would wait until the guards met on the
parapet walls anil turned their backs to each
other, when they came out of the tunnel, one
at a time. Captain Ross, who was an engineer
in lir.iag’s army, did the engineering tor the
I tunnel, showing the exact point at which the
i '‘underground railroad" would admit the im-
I prisoned and restive Confederates to daylight
The Polks i\ F.xvmple ro is—A Berlin
letter to the London Times professes to have
intovmation a in Warsaw that “the whole Pol
ish insurgent force under arms does not num
ber mere than 15,000 men. while fully ten
tinu s as many Russians soldiers are engaged in
rest:air.t and suppression.*’ The letter also
states that the seizure ot arms and supplies have
been so extensive that every weapon now in
I the hands of the patriots may be looked upon
: as having cost twenty times its origins* price,
.and the frontier is so' strictly watched that a
rather considerable corps, which has been for
: nted on side of it. was lately compelled to aban
don the idea of crossing. Theflettcr further
; adds : Still, the determined spirit of the pop
ulation seems in no degree to tiag. even under
the unexampled rigors of the Russian military
government, of which we have just had fresh
examples in the confiscation at Warsaw, of the
Gntbowski bouse, and in the imprisonment of
the Bernardine monks, in whose convent a
chest of gunpowder pas alleged to have been
found.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER hi, 1863.
I The Duty of the Horn.—Under thi head the
t Atlanta Confederacy gives it- readers some
j very reasonable advice. We think it very good
j for ali sections. Here it is :
Never before in the history of the present
revolution have the affairs of the Confederacy
assumed a more critical condition. Our army
retreating before a superior force of the inva
der from the Tennessee; the enemy making de
monstrations and advancing for battle across
the liapiilan; the immense exertions of the Fed
eral fleet towards the reduction of Charleston;
another fieice battle imminent around Knox
ville; the Siezing of the Confederate rams in
Europe, all alike conspire to mike us feel for
the time somewhat discouraged. Hut our trials
haw not yet readied their climax. We have
not alI yet begun to feel the severities and trou
bles incident to hostile invasion. We are hy
no means such martyrs to Liberty’s cause asth'e
first American revolution produced, and we
fear, many of us, Hill never quite become such
unselfish patriots. We must lie prepared to ex
pect reverses. We must cease to be only sun
shine patriots, an 1 learn to welcome ''clouds as
well as fair weather, as the inevitable fortune
of genuine rebels determined to free ihemscl
it mu tyranny, at ail hazards and to the hist ex
tremity. Now is the time for men to prove
th-mselves. The hour is at baud when the
courage, patriotism and souls of men are to be
tested. The united endeavors of a united South
put forth in one mighty effort more, would bear
us swiftly, safely over the breakers, and the
ordeal is passed. Evety man must to the field
whose hands is strong enough to pull tho trig
ger upon the invaders of his home. The pres
ent armies of the Confederacy arc hut a trifle
in number ol its arms bearing population. In
the name of Southern chivalry, and lor the
honor of the South, let not a few brave men he
borne down by Dutch hirelings for the lack of
reinforcements.
A Federal Decision -According to (he New
York World, Judge Bells, of IT. 8. District
Court, has reduced f.be execution of Lincoln’s
robbery or confiscation Law, to a very simple
process. Charles Gould, of New York, lodged
information “for the forfeiture of a large
amount of railroad stock, and of some $50,000
due on coupons of railroad bonds, the property,
as alleged, of Mr. Le Roy M. Wi a well
known and highly respected merchant, former
ly of New York, but- also a cotton planter in
Alabama, which ho called Ids residence, and
where he was accustomed to vote at elections."
The law, it will be seen from the annexed
extract, requires all persons interested to appear
and state their claims to the property proposed
to be confiscated :
“An appearance can only be made by the
presentation and tiling of a formal answer to
the information in writing. If no such answer
is filed, the default o( al! the world is taken,
anil the property is condemned without tile
necessity of proving a single allegation contain
ed in the information. Upon au answer being
filed, the case is brought lo trial before the
court and a jury, in ordinary courts.”
Judge Betts, however, has decided that the
fact ol Mr. Wiley’s being “a resident of an in
surrectionary State,” precludes him from ap
pealing in a United Stales Court.
All that Lincoln's officials have to do now is
simply to inform against- the property of a citi
zen who lives in Hie Confederacy, and it iscon
fiscated without any further ado—all such lit
tle things as proof, trial, &c , being dispensed
with. This makes the job of plundering a very
easy one to our thieving oppressors.
The Federal Winter Programme. —The
Macon Telegraph in speaking of the existing
position of matters in North Georgia, oom
inents thus on the “winter programme” of the
Federal commander:
Now that Grant with an array of a hundred
or a hundred and twenty thousand men. lias
successfully established his base at, Chattanoo
ga, according to the programme laid down in
the New York papers, wo should be willfully
blind to close our eyes to the extreme proba
bility that the remainder of their plan of op
erations will he attempted during this winter.
This was to push down heavy raids of cavalry
into Georgia, for the purpose of laying waste
the country, destroying stock and supplies, cut
ting railway communscations, and burning the
government stores, workshops, armories, arsen
als and powder mills Georgia is regarded by
them as the key stone in (he ateli of tho rebel
lion, and they have determined to devastate
her lenilory so completely, as not. only to dis
able her for all purposes of resistance, but to
bring lier people as starving beggats at the
feet of tlie Lincoln army fora morsel of food
to keep them from starvation.
This purpose was solemnly avowed to the
unhappy denizens of Wills’ valley, when their
farms w- *e laid waste and their stock shot
down befoie their eyes by llosecrans’ soldiers.
As if ashamed and half induced to apologize
for the wantoon spoliation, tlio officers said to
one of tho victims : “We sue sorry for you,
sir. but such nve the orders.”
With this prospect before us, and with the
knowledge that Grant lias twenty thousand
mounted men, ready tor such enterprises, there
is no way of escape, other than by immediate
prepaiation for self-defence. No time should
he lost.
The nl most diligence may, in truth, leave us
behind the real urgency of the case. The de
vastation of Georgia would he a no
less to our comfort and security, thaw to the
Confederate cause itself.
Han Sickles on the War —ln a speech de
livered in New York lately by Han Sickles,
that infamous and unscrupulous demagogue
remarked thus:
The time lias come now for the peopio of the
North to make one more groat effort, such ns
becomes them, to end this struggle. When wo
see how such an enemy treats our prisoners,
eau we hesitate? They have claimed to lie par
excellence the chivalry of this country. From
what ho inis read of chivalry he supposes Jhe
first lesson was to respect a bravo enemy. The
Confederates have thousands of our men
whose courage and chivalry they have tested
on many a bard fought field, and today they
me doing their best, by starving them, to com
pel our Government to humiliating conces
sions. Shall we demand of our Government
to yield, or rather shall tlm people say to the
Government. “Stand your ground, insist upon
wliat you believe to bo right, and trust that
the people of the North will rally to your stan
dard and avenge the outrages put upon our
soldiers?" He lias officers and men now star-'
ving in the Richmond prisons. Even yester
day*' lie had a letter from an officer of Ills staff,
a Hungarian by birth, wlio wrote: ‘ General,
as much as 1 have suffered since I have been
in the hands of the enemy. I have learned
more than I ever knew of the infamy of the
rebellion and of the desperation of their
thoughts.”
It is by false and absurd statements of this
stamp that the brutal and fiendish spirit of the
North is kept up. After the effects of one lie
has subsided a little, another] more barefaced
is manufactured,
Climax of Tyranny. —The Federal General
in command of West Tennessee has ordered
all the citizens of Memphis to be enrolled in
the Federal army. The Richmond Dispatch I
comments thus on this outrageous conduct:
The order of the Federal General Ilnrlbut,
directing the enrollment of all ablebodied Con
federate citzens in the Memphis district in the
Federal armies, caps the climax ot the hideous
cruelties practiced by the most accursed despo
potisrn of the earth upon a suffering people—
to take up arms against their own brethren is a
refinement of cruelty which tills the last drop
iu the c tip of bitterness. Those sections of our
country which have thus far escaped being ov
errun by the enemy may see what they have to
expect if they fall into their hands. There is
no salvation for them but resistance to the
death to the worse than savages who are bent
upon destroving us trom the face of the earth.
We can expect no mercy, no happiness, not a
foothold upon the earth, unless we fight these
fiends with all the energy of our natures, and
mete out to them at every opportunity the
game uiuftiutc they mete out to us,
j Lord Palmerston ox the American and
I Polish Questions.- —At a late banquet in Lon
don, Lard Palmers'on made a speech, in the
course of which he alluded thus to affairs in
America and Poland :
There have been occasions when it was the
lot of tlios.- who had to explain the state of af-
Uirs to congratulate you on the tranquil eondi
lion of the civilix and world. lam afraid I can
not do that in the present instance ; for. al
though I trust there is no hing in our horizon
which can grow into a cloud of war, yet there
are on all sides, in the far West and distant
East, struggles going oil of Hie most lamenta
ble character, and scenes enacted which make
us shudder for humanity, ami excite our deep
compassion lor the countries in which they tiro
occurring.
In th it far West we see a nation of the same
face, the same language, the same religion. Hie
same manners and literature as ourselves,
split into two, slaughtering each other hy lnm
' I reds ol thousands, and carrying oil a contest
Hie result o, which it is impossible to foresee,
and the end ot which now. after more than
two years deration, he would be a bold lnun
bid' t who - -t-.tiujyi to predict. Lamenting
that state of things, the Government ol this
country have felt it their duty not to yield
either to the entreaties or the objurgations of
the one parly or the other. Blandishments on
Hie one side and tin eats on the other have
equally been fruU-lc,;s lo effect our course.
We have felt it our duty to abstain from
taking any part in that deplorable conflict. If,
indeed, we had thought it had been in our
power t put an end tbit by friendly interven
tion, no effort would have been wanting to ac
complish so holy an object. lhit we felt that
our interference would have been vain, and
wo deemed it our duty, and in that 1 am sure
we but followed the wishes of the country, to
maintain a strict watch and impartial neutrali
ty.
In the East, also, scenes of a lamentable
character are taking place.’ We there see on
the one side a barbarous system of deliberate
extermination carried out, and on the ott.er
side revenge venting itself in acts of murder
and assassination. We endeavored to enlist
the feelings anil opinions of civilized Europe
in a joint remonstrance against that which we
thought unjust. These remonstrances have
failed’ We have done our duty; and we
can only hope shat those who‘have the
conduct of affairs in Hießmsian empire may
at length cease lo pursue that course which
has drawn upon them the condemnation of
Europe, and that peace may he restored upon
terms of equity and justice in that unfortun
ate country. Well, things abroad look ill,
and much misery and calamity are sustained,
this country forms a happy exception to that
which seems to lie tlic prevailing condition of
nations.
We have been blessed by Providence with
an abundant harvest; we have been preserved
by the conduct of the Government and the
sense of the country from the misfortunes of
war : our population are contented and loyal
and they feel that for a long course of years
the Legislature has been occupied in remedy
ing grievances, in removing defects from our
laws, in sweeping away these obstructions
which the less enlightened policy of former
tunes had placed in the way of the productive
industry of the nation. By alt these means. I
am happy to to say, I believe that the com
mercial and material prosperity of the country
has reached a point which il never attained at
any former period.
Action or tub Mississippi Legislature. —The
following resolutions have been adopted by
both Houses of the Mississippi Legislature :
Resolved by the Legislature of the State of
Mississippi, That Jefferson Davis, President of
the Confederate states of America, continues
to possess our confidence In Ids ability to man
age the liehn of State, in his patriotism and
devotion to the cause of Southern liberty and
independence, and in his integrity to the prin
ciples which severed our connection with the
North, and which form the imperishable base of
this revolution and Confederate government.
Resolved, That notwithstanding the misfor
tunes of wav have given over to tlio ravages of
a ruthless foe some of the best and fairest por
tions of oiir devoted Mississippi; notwithstand
ing our fitends and brethren have been plun
dered of their property and driven fiem their
homes, and our wives, mothers, sisters and
children have been subjected to the brutal
insults of a brutal soldiery, and deprived
of those comforts and that independence to
which birth, education and habit had accus
tomed them ; and notwithstanding devoted
Vicksburg and heroic Port Hudson suffered, en
dured and passed from our possession, and Mis-‘
sississippi bleeds at every pore fiom the re
verses of the year, we believe Mississippi’s fa
vored son was not wanting in purpose or cher
ished desire to keep the poisoned chalice of
Federal occupation from our lips and hearts,
or failed to avail himself of the most effective
means at bis command to triumph over and re
pel the invader.
Resolved. That we continue to cherish a firm
and an unwavering confidence in the justice of
our cause, anil believe God will bless our ef
forts and vouchsafe to us independence and a
glorious and prosp> rous future.
Resolved, That in our reassurance of confi
dence in his Excellency as a ruler, patriot and
statesman, and of our purpose to sustain him,
as well as of the continued devotion of Missis
sippians to him, to tire end of which we are
struggling and to the original purpose of eter
nal separation from the North, we ask that he
will continue a strict and earnest observer and
follower of file constitution, so that our people
may grow in devotion to their government,
and, when peace shall he restored, the noble
and grand spectacle will he presented of a na
tion’s birth amid the throes of a desperate
revolution, not ruined by war. but lovely aud
strong in the embraces of religious and civil
liberty and constitutional preservation.
Gov. Vance on the Position of Affairs. —The
conclusion of Gov. Vance’s late message to the
North Carolina Legislature is occupied with the
present position of our affairs. He says :
“The noisy are silent—the faint of heart be
gin to despair, and the disloyal, though few, to
grow bold in the. presence of national ills. The
restless and the discontented strive, of course,
to imbue all others with their own forebodings.
The great mass, thank God. continue hopeful
and earnest. Let us all labor with one accord
to sustain the nation's hope, and to show that
we are worthy of independence by being will
ing to pay for it the price which every people
has had to pay since liberty was known among
the sons of men—suffering and sacrifice. The
hope which animated many of our people, that
our enemy was eoming to the sober second
thought, and that many of theta wore favorable
to pacific overtures, lias been dashed to the
ground, and the originators of that hope, at the
North, are trampled under the feet of reckle.se
and blood-thirsty majorities. Solar from treat,
ing with us on the basis of onr independences
or even of reconstruction, the arrogant people
of the North are tauntingly proclaiming on the
hustings that no peace can be made with ns—
no peace talked of—till the last rebel has laid
down his arms!
An insulted and outraged people will yet
make them regret this haughty language,
which wrongs humanity and outrages civiliza
tion. The lion which has crouched in their
path to Southern conquest l'or near three years,
is still there : and though driven back a littie.
he lias grown more watchful, and will fight
more fiercely as he approaches his lair. We
know at last .precisely what we would get by |
> tl-mission, and-t’. -rein has our enemy done ns
g .ml > of slavery, confiscation
of property,.and territorial vassalage ! These
are the turns, to win us back. Now, when our
brothers bleed au-i mothers and little ones
cry for bread, we can.point them back to the
brick-kilns ot Egypt—thanks to Mr. Seward !
plainly, and ,-liow them the beautiful clusters
or Eschol which grow in the land of Indepen
dence. whither we go to possess them. And
we can remind them. too. how the pillar of fire
and the cloud, the vouchsafe! guidon of Jeho
vah. went ever bi-iore the hungering multitude,
leading away, with apparent cruelty, from the
fullness of servitude. With such a prospect
before them, our people will, as heretofore,
come firmly up to the full measure of their du
ty. if their trusted servants do not fail them ;
they will not crucify afresh their own sons,
slain in their behalf, or put their gallant shades
to open shame, by stopping short of full and
complete national independence,
li. NixDo Mood on the War.— Fernando
Ii " cl New I oik. attended au entertain
met;, -hen by the “Peace Democrats” of
Bene a county, New Jersey, Nov. 24th, and
iit ele a speech o.i the war. If Mr. Wood and
his eoaikutors will only carry out in the Fede
ral Cong-ess the principles of the-platform he
has laid down, we may soon look for—yes, and
there soon will be a strong and powerful oppo
sition party to Lincoln organised at the North.
\\ e hope for once tuat air. Wood will act upon
principle, and have the courage to take a firm
and unyielding position on the side of tight
and justice. His whole political and business
career ha- however, been so corrupt aud dis
honest that we have no faith in him. We want
to see him act before we believe ho means
what lie says. His professions amount to
nothing. There is one thing certain. If he
has in:; ! • ' p liis mind that lie can gain any
thing, poi” - ally or pecuniarily, by stopping or
Tying ty \ inis war, lie win «u do. ne is a
man who looks out for self alone, and when lie j
himself is to be benefitted lie bends liis whole I
untiring energies to the task lie has laid out to
accomplish. Here is Mr. Wood’s speech on the
war as published by the Northern papers :
Whatever may be the secret or avowed
grounds on which a prosecution of this war is
urged, rest assured my friends, it leads to a re
sult that will oiigult all alike in one common
mmlst-roin of destruction. I care not whether
it be prosecuted Jlbr patriotic purposes or not;
the objects of men or of Hie Government are
nothing in view of the fact that file effect, ten
dency and catastrophe will of necessity ho fa
tally disastrous. It is folly to prate of motives,
however high and ennobling they may ostensi
bly appear, when the results which accrue from
those motives are destructive and debasing. It.
may boas wi ll said that a man is justified in
jumping from an eminence, a fall from which
is certain to break Ids neck, because he did not
design doing an injury to himself. Whatever
his intentions may have been, he perishes in the
act. So with this war. Whether we will or
no, its continued prosecution is certain destruc
tion. There is no such thing as rebellion under
the institution upon which the Government of
this country is founded. Suppose New York
chose to secede, who dare attempt topi-event
her? Virginia hid the same right as New York.
War is disunion and disintegration. No man
in liis senses disputes this. Every man who fa
vors it, directly or indirectly, favors the disso
lution of the American Union—promotes the
establishment of a centralized despotism, and
advances the fortunes of the most desperate
and unscrupulous knaves that ever cursed a
country. The advocates of the war may well
be classed as: the “evil disposed” and the •‘sim
ple-mi uded.” * * * *
The present delusions must subside. Like
he French Revolution, the dreadful era of car
nage and fanaticism must run its course and
have its termination. Ail civil wars founded
on social or moral ideas Lave produced the
same excitements, been pregnant with the
same popular outbreaks, and culminated as
this-will, in the downfall and extinction of the
men or party which advocated them. Rely on
this. History will repeat itself in this instance
as it has in a thousand others— r our nature has
not been changed; men are now as in tho days
of Robe-’pierve and Cromwell—bloody, treach
erous, fanatical, selfish and unpatriotic.
lie believed that when the President called
for troops, if only one State Executive with
biainand nerve had done his duty under the
Constitution, the war would have" been stop
ped before now With 100,000 qndpr Lee
threatening Washington, neither Stanton nor
Lincoln would have had courage enough to
turn and face the fire Uiey would have felt in
the rear. It is the duty of the people now to
refuse to give - ..other man or another dollar
for the purpo..- of carrying on the war. A ref
erence made by tho speaker to Mr. Vallandig
ham was received with the most boisterous
applause.
Ex-Governor Price, of New Jersey, followed
Mr. Wood. lie endorsed all his most ultra de
monstrations of Copperhead doctrinism. He
believed the only salvation of the country lay
in the restoration to pov,er of the Democracy,
and lie was not very scrupulous as to the means
by which the Democracy secured the necessary
lease of power.
Other speeches were made by C. Chaunoy
liurr, Judge Van Loon and others, and a letter
from lion. J. P. Singleton, of Illinois, was
read.
Why tub South is Unconquerable.— The
Now York News makes some very sensible
and truthful remarks upon the subject “Why
the South is Unconquerable.” Annexed we
give an extract which contains the substance ol'
the conclusions drawn:
It cannot he said that the Federal govern
ment has made no thorough application of tho
resources of the country, for warfare furnishes
no parallel to the completeness and extent of
the armies, navies, and general machinery of
war that have been used in this yet undeter
mined struggle. That influence which has
made null all our past efforts is one which in
tensifies as the strife proceeds, and will always
he found equal to any physical force that we
can bring into the field. It is the soul of en
lightened manhood which, although it may be
cowed in individuals, can never be conquered
in a people. It may fail in aggressive, but
never in defensive warfare. Where the issue
is some question that affects only the dignity
or interests of a nation, it may yield its point
to physical superiority; when it is aroused to
the vindication of the principle of political ex
istence, it is indomitable. No enlightened peo
ple. educated to freedom, have ever been es
sentially subdued. Their territory may have
been overrun, their armies destroyed and their
capitals occupied by invaders, but tiiey have
always preserved the spirit of national inde
pendence which, however shackled, awaits the
hour of its redemption.
If our statesmen would hut give their intel
lects some, respite from preoccupation upon the
military situation, they might appreciate liow
futile must be the attempt to subjugate the
will of such a people. What signifies the con
quest of their territory if the spirit of repug
nance to political companionship with the
North is unrestrained? We have to conquer
physical resistance, which lias thus far defied
our utmostgefiorts; and which, being conquered,
will give us but so many disaffected provinces
to be controlled by military agencies, to the
destruction of our republican institutions.
Another Federal Robbing Operation. —A
late Northern paper exposes one of the infa
mous schemes resorted to by Federal officials
to rob. Those who have 1 een engaged in- it
have held places as ‘‘Secret Police of the Army
ol the Cumberland.” “Secret rogues 1 ’ would
be a much more appropriate title. Here is an
account of the way they operate :
Soon rfter Truesdall's appointment and the
organization of his Detective Bureau, a grand
scheme was projected ami carried into effect,
whose character may b- inferred from the fact
that the parties engaged in it were known as
the Cotton Association. Capital was subscribed,
j a regular organization was formed, whose
I workings wore managed by the members of the
• police, anil by whose efforts the field was clear
j od of ail legitimate operations.
A favorite plan was to send out a person to
engage all the cotton in a certain neighbor
hood, who a little later was followed by an
other member of the police, who in iho guise
of xx c* mment otiiciul, v/ould, upon some
pretext, declare the transaction illegal, threat
en to arrest the planter, but finally would
i leave him, felling him to wait until the govern
| ment had taken action iu the matter. Shortly
' after, another member of the police, in the
j shape ol a cotton buyer, would at rive, who
i would agree to take the cotton and run all
| risks of government displeasure if the planter
| would le. him have it at a half or a third its
| ruling value.
j By this means, and others of a similar char
| acter. the Cotton Association, alias the Army
. police, secured enormous quantities of cotton,
j upon which they realized immense profit? and
i seturud for many individuals gigantic fortunes.
VOL. LXXVII. —NEW SERIES VOL. XXVII. MX 50.
WHAT OI K EAKSHES H WE SAIL'
We quote from the speeches and publications
of our enemies before the war :
! liesolved, That the rapid dovelopements of
the last five months nave rendered the exis
tence of the Southern Confederacy an historical
fact; that excepting by the free spontaneous
act of the separate members composing it, its
independent nationality can only be interfered
with by violence; and that we are opposed to
every form of menace, restraint, or coercion,
under whatsoever pretext- of enforcing law. col
lecting revenue, or retaking property, which
may lead to a conflict with the seceded
States.” --John Cochrane at Mv~aH Halt. Auril
1801.
When the rebellion broke out Mr. Chase held
this language: "The South is not worth light
ing for.”
Mr. Seward wrote to Mr. Adams as follows :
“The President is not* disposed to reject a
cardinal dogma of the South, namely, that the
federal government cannot reduce the seceded
States to obedience by conquest, even although
]j<> waro <1 to J' Os o.'l io rpioatuin tßrvt l• 1• '1 I 'JSj 11*'■ I« ,
But in fact the President willingly accepts it as
true. Only an imperial or-despotic government
could subjugate thoroughly disaffected and in
surrectionary members of the State. This fed
eral republican system of ours is, pf all forms
of government, the very one which is most un
fitted for such labor.”
Mr. Tremaine, a New York, now a war Dem
ocrat, said in 18G1 :
“Gentlemen, we must not forget that tho
South has had the most terrible provocations
to which civilized man was ever subjected.
° * * I wish to say that, traitorous though
it may he, I stand here to oppose the policy of
war with the South, now, heroattcr and forev
er. ”
D. 8. Dickinson in the winter before the war
held this language :
“I know there are those among ns who say
that the South do not intend to secede ; they
say that this is an unnecessary alarm; they say
they can be coerced and driven back in their
position. All that is necessary is firmness. But
the South have seen for years these little rivu
lets of opposition forming upon the hills and
forcing down through the gorges until they
form the black and hitter waters of one great
sea of abolition, which threatens lo ovmwiulm
and engulf them. Let those who believe that
this evil can lie averted and that the Union can
be preservoff hy force, attempt that method;
hut let good men, every true patriot , set to
work to correct the public sentiment of the
Nor h. Ihe public sentiment of the South has
been goaded until it has arrived, in a good de
gree, at a point of desperation. Tho South
cares little about the mere election of Mr. Lin
coln—they view it as the development, of a
public sentiment as a last and final evidence of
the sentiment, of the free States.”
It is related of one of the ancient Philips
that he was one day guilty of an act of gross
injustice towards one of his subjects. The
King was intoxicated at the time and tho in -
jnred man waiting until he became sober, com
plained of tho treatment he bad received. " “I
appeal for redress” he said, “from Philip io
Philip”-—from Philip in a passion to Philip
with reason restored. Wo would make, could
it be of any avail, a similar appeal to the men
who are now so furiously crying for the blood
of our citizens. We would ask Mr. Seward to
contrast the language which ho used before
the war began, when reason was calm anil
clear, with the efjjpvts which he is now making
to destroy our government. With what con
sistency can Daniel S. Dickinson, tlio recent
supporter of JJr. Buchanan’s administration,
the man who, previous to the election of Lin
coln, fought SO manfully for the defence of his
Southern brethren—declaring that they had
received from the Abolitionists of the North
provocations which would amply justify the
most extreme measures to which they might
resort—how, we ask, can this same man, now
that an oppressed people arc seeking to shake
off the yoke which they found so galling, de
nounce them as traitors and rebels, aucl join
the mad cry for their subjugation. And if in
the judgment of the Secretary of the Treasury
“the South is not worth fighting for,” on what
principle does be justify the expenditure of so
many hundreds of millions of dollars and so
many thousands of lives to effect their restora
tion to a partnership which they have most
solemnly repudiated ?
“O judgment thou hast fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.”
We know how easily snch men can ignore
their former principles. When the published
doctrines of the past cry out against their pre
sent outrages, they may say “the South began
the war, and wo are only defending our flag
but their wicked and cruel inconsistency can
not be concealed from any discerning mind.
Though such extracts from the speeches of our
enemies may prove of no avail in arresting the
war, we are nevertheless glad that such senti
ments are recorded against them. It was be
cause some ot our prominent statesmen be
lieved that these men—the accredited expo
nents of public sentiment at the North—were
in earnest, that they declared that there would
be no war resulting ifrom secession. Lulled
into security by such principles, tho only prin
ciples as it seemed which could be deduced
from the Constitution of the United States, our
Congress at Montgomery adjourned without
raising such armies as the exigencies of the
times demanded.
The truth is that the men whose'won’s wc
have quoted as the preface to these remarks,
know now, as well as they knew then, that to
make war upon a State for withdrawing from a
confederacy into which she had voluntarily
entered, was altogether repugnant not merely
to the Constitution of the land, hut to the very
essence of all Republican institutions. Rut
what signifies Constitution ? “We are twenty
millions ; you are only eight.” Might makes
right. Tiie Northmen want our cotton and
our trade, and have it they will—if they can.
But their nefarious designs arc not yet execu
ted. When they have fought us three years
more, they may be willing to recognize ns as an
independent, as they have been compelled to
acknowledge that we are a belligerent power
ParticTlabs or Defeat axd Death of Fed
eral General Blunt. —From a letter address
ed to a member of Congress, the Richmond
Examiner is permitted to give an extract or
two. It will be sc<*h that the statement of the
Yankee General Blunt and his men having been
surprised and cut to pieces by Quantrell is
here confirmed :
Quantrell arrived at Washington Ark., a day
or two since. On his way out, he met General
Blunt, his staff and escort, and killed every one
of his party, save 25j who escaped. lie killed
Blunt, and all his staff, together with 130of
his escort. lie brought all Blunt’s commiss
ions. clothing, papers, brass band, ambulances,
trunks, Ac., into camp with him. Quantrell
came into our lines at Post Gibson. In pass
ing through tire Pin Indian country ac kept
Blunt’s stars and stripes flying, the Pins rally
ing to ths flag, and Quantrell killing every one
that showed himself. In one day he killed
ISO In coming out, including Blunt, his stall
and escort, he killed at least six hundred Yan
kecs and Pins. Blunt’s line sword Quantrell
has given General Price. A. W. Jones, of Inde
pendence, was on Blunt’s staff, and was killed
bv Quantrell. When the boys came on Blunt,
he was sitting in his ambulance, enjoying a
quiet =moke. When Quantrell charged him,
he jumped out of his buggy, and took it about
through the prairie gra.-s. He had run thirty
yards, when one of Uie boys emptied forty buck
shot in bis back, killing him instantly. He
had ill his pockets S2sff in gold, and 6700 in
green backs. Quautreil brought out luff men
with him,” ,„ju ***■*»,,
V\ iiat the Federal-; intend to no.—Some of
the citizens of IVarren county. Miss., soon af
ter the fall of Vicksburg, wrote Gen. Sherman,
the Federal commander, a letter upon the con
dition of matters in that section. His reply
shows what course the Vandals intend to pur
sue in those portions of tho Confederacy they
get into their clutches. Here are some extracts
from it :
Your preamble, however, starts out with a
mistake. Ido not think any nation ever un
dei took to feed, supply and provide fertile fu
ture of the inhabitants of an insurgent district.
I contend that, after the filing on our steam
boats navigating our own livers, alter the long
and desperate resistance to our armies at Vicks
burg, on the Yazoo, and in Mississippi gene
rally, we are justified in treating all the in
habitants as combatants, and would be perfect
ly justifiable in transporting you all beyond
tiie seas, if the United States deemed it to her
interest.
In due season the nr -zoos in this district will
’-v l.ti V a, V .1. X v\ I< * ll.v. Ctu\ *.-t I.liiciil. (»1 IL
moved to camps where they can be convenient
ly fed, but in the meantime no one must mo
lest them or interfere with the agents of the
United States entrusted with this difficult and
delicate task. If any of them are turned it is
for self-defence.
We cannot hire servants for the people who
have lost their slaves, nor can wc detail ne
groes for such a purpose. You must do as we
do, hire your servants aud pay them. If they
do not earn their hire, discharge them and
employ others.
1 advise till citizens lo stay at home, gradu
ally put their houses and contiguous ground in
order and east about for some employment or
make preparations on a moderate, scale to re
sume their former business and employment. 1
cannot advise any one to think of planting on
a large scale, for it is manifest no one can see
far enough in the future to say who will reap
what you sow.
Those who die by the bullet are lucky com
pared to the poor fat,tiers and wives and chil
dren who sec their ail taken from them, and
themselves 101 lto perish or linger out their
few years in ruined poverty. •
Here is a programme laid down hy one of the
leading Federal Generals. If is a plain one.
All who read, can understand it. If it means
any thing it. means this ; “We Eedorals intend
to do all in our power to rain and devastate the
country wo are t rying to subjugate.” This fact
now stares our peop'e more plainly in the face
than ever, and ought, to stimulate them to re
newed exertions. If they submit, they will be
stripped of their all. ff they are defeated they
can only be stripped of their all. If by re
newed, exertions they gain the day—as gain it
they surely will if they only act aright—they
will secure to themselves the peaceable enjoy"
tnent of their liberties, and the undisturbed pos
session of their property.
A Member of Parliament on American Af
fairs. — Wo find in i ur English files the speech
of C. P. Villiers, Member of Parliament, on the
foreign policy of the British Government, made
on the 9th instant at Wolverhampton. Mr.
Villiers defended at length the policy of non
intervention, and said in conclusion :
“Non-intervention was the great household
principle of minding your own business ap
plied to nations at large, where it was as useful
to be observed. He only wished that, forbear
ance could be carried still further, and that
nations would he somewhat more careful in tiie
language they employed towards each other.
It arose frequently from ignorance quite un
warrantable, and censures wereollen unreason
able in those who cast them. lie thought
herd measures had been deatt <>ut both to the
1' ederais and the Southerners in this country.
The most hitter reproaches had been cast,
upon the President for desiring to retain the
Union, and against the Southerners for desir
ing to retain what they called their property.
Yet iie could not help remembering that for
the first ten years that he was in Parliament,
one of the prominent questions of tiie day was
the repeal of the Union with Ireland. Yet he
never remembered one English member who
was not for it, or one that would not have voted
any means to maintain it, or any minister who
would not have been called a traitor who had
thought of yielding it; and he did not know
to what length they would not have gone to
retain tho Union, had the eminent man avlio
agitated that question so pcrseveringly not
died.
Again, for some years before he went into
Parliamant he remembered well tiie kind of
language that used to be held towards Lord
Brougham and others who sought to , emanci
pate the negroes that belonged to Englishmen,
and he doubted it it was very different from
that which the Southerners addressed to the
Abolitionists now. They, however, as English
men, would have been indignant if other na
tions had interfered with their internal . dis
putes, and not allowed them to settle those
questions as it seemed best to them to do, and
which, in fact, they did to their own entire sat
isfaction. Why, then, should not the Ameri
cans 1,0 allowed to settle their affairs in the
way they think right, without being so severely
condemned by other people ?
From Utah.— A correspondent of the N. Y.
Post gives some interesting notes from Great
Salt Lake City, under date of the 27Ui of Sep
tember. The present population of Utah, he
says, is some SO,OOO, not including
population of the present season, estimated at
7,000 more, with an immense immigration of
miners and Mormons going in, some of the for
mer stopping in Colorado, others going to the
Bannock gold mines in Utah, yet others to Ne
vada and California. The territory, he remarks
is greater in extent than all the New England
Slates.
The Rost's correspondent writes thus in re
gard to matters in tlio territory :
1 found President Young an agreeable, affa
ble gentlemen, apparently not over forty-five
years of age, although lie is really upwards of
sixty. The war, be thinks, will be continue!
till a great part of tho North and South is used
up, or, to speak more plainly, till they are an
nihilated. The desolation caused by the war,
he regards as the judgment of the Lord for the
persecution of the “Saints.”, The ventilating
of his private school-loom, where Ids own
children, numbering some sixty, are educated,
appeared to be a favorite subject of conversa
tion. The ceilings of these rooms are eighteen
feet high, ventilated from the tops of all the
windows. 11 is own residences- there are sev
eral buildings—are large anil airy, with double
doors, and ceilings twenty or thirty feet in
height. One large building is principally oc-
cupieil by his wives.
Brigham sleeps alone undents his meals alone
Whenever he wants one of his wives he sends
for her. A dozen or fifteen children are abent
his premises at play at all times, apparently
happy enough. Brigham Young, jr., a son of
about twenty-two years old -a pretty fair chip
of the old block—has just returned from Europe
whither be was sent on a mission.
Brigham is friendly disposed toward the
overland mail companies.
The spy system here is equal to that in Vienna
or Paris.
There is little doubt that the mountains
which surround the valley of Balt Lake areas
rich in the-precious metals as California or any
portion of the country bordering on the Pacific.
Gov. Doty has a large collection of specimens
of gold ami silver which have been brought to
him by friendly Indians, who have picked them
up in the mountains and gulches, hut refuse
to tell where. The Mormons themselves have
large quantities of the richest gold and silver
quartz, and large pit c- sos pure gold anil 'rich
washings. Brigham Young has boasted that
he could see more silver and gold from the
door of his house than would equal tie- whole
currency oi the world. These mines are not
allowed to be opened. The effect would be.
according to Brigham’.- ideas, to bring near the
“City of the Faints” a large mining population,
which he would find exceedingly hard to rule.
He is probably not far from the truth.
When the l nited States Government gets a
suffice nt number us tro >]. there- not less than
ten thousand—the Federal officer of the Ti r~
litoiy may thru assert some little authority,
which Uo-.v it is not prudent to attempt,
f i'e R ight Spirit. —Our flowery sister, of the
Southern Peninsula, is not only represented by
brave soldiers in the field beyond her ratio of
population, but has at home good citizens who
will take care of the soldiers’ families. The
citizens o! Alachua county have called a meet
ing for this purpose, and in advance of the ac
tion of that meeting many citizens have signed
the following pledge :
Me. citizens, planters of Alachua county,
whoso names are hereunto attached, do pledge
ourselves to furnish to soldiers’ families and
those who are. not engaged in speculation,
vv hatever supplies we may have to spare, for
f onfedevate money, and at the prices that may
tie assessed from time to time by the Govern
ment ( cinmissioners for this State. Wc fnrther
agree to furnish free of charge, to such soldiers’
families as are unable to pay—feeling that it i*
no charity hut a debt due from us to our bravo
soldiers.
This is the right spirit. Would that every
"■'■u i._, give naa possessed ot
such a disposition. Then, the cry of want and
distress would go up from our midst no more.
Then, truly, we would he a united people.
Asqcark Fight. —The Sunday Transcript, of
October sth, 1802, a paper professing neutrali
ty in politics, but with Republican leanings,
published in Philadelphia, contains the follow
ing in its editorial column ;
“The present contest is a contest between
the white and black race for supremacy. Presi
dent Lincoln and the Abolitionists have made
it so. At the North the white race is represent
ed by the Democratic party—the black race
by the Abolition Republican party. The tact
can no longer be disguised. The simple ques
tion to be decided is, whether tho white man
shall maintain liis status of superiority, or be
sunk to the level of the negro. Equality of
races is demanded by Hie Abolitionists ; they
claim that, socially, civilly and politically, the
black man should be equal to the white. The
Democrats deny and oppose this. It is a fair
and square fight between tho Caucasian an<r
the African.
Federal Brutality in East Tennessee.—
A correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser
writing from near Loudon, speaks as follows o
the appearance and condition of tho country
over which the Federal vandals had control si
few weeks only :
The people of this vicinity give woful ac
counts of the manner in which the Yankees
have treated them during their occupation of
this country. They have acted more like
fiends than men, having taken all the grain,
cattle, hogs, horses, sheep and everything
else of value that they could lay their hands
on, not even sparing the clothing of the ladies
and children, hut taking them and burning
them before their .eyes. I could fill several
columns in relating acts of brutality that the
citizens here have suffered at the hands of
those rascally invaders, but it would be use
less, for your readers surely do not need any
more evidence to convince them of the charac
ter of the foe they have to meet.
Railroad Traveling in Tennessee.— The cot?
respondent of the New York Times, writing
from Thomas’ army complains that railroad’
travel over the Southern lines in possession of’
I he Yankees, is attended with considerable peril*
He says:
Some idea of railroading and travel in genera?
in this section may he formed from Ihe opera
tions of last week on this road hence tq Nash
ville, a hundred and twenty five miles. Four;
engines have been destroyed. One ran off tho
track down the embankment near Lavergue,
supposed accidentally. A second ran off near
E.-tioli »j the otrnltby <Jonfcdciutc£S
widening the rails and laying in ambush, ams
then firing on the terrified passengers as tha
cars ran off. A third was exploded by a torpe
do placed on tiie mils near the tunnel of Cow
an, and a fourth was damaged by collision*
Besides these perils to the traveler, the enemy,
whose prate about civilized warfare is so loud,,
indulge in the highly civilized practice of
throwing rocks down the chimneys of the tun
nels, aud placing obstructions on the track*
Since Wheeler passed over the river the track
has been torn up once by a smaller band.
It is very evident that our guerillas in Ten-'
liessee are “up and doing.”
lowa’s Quota of Federal War Debt.—,
Some of the lowa newspapers have been figur-.
ing out the portion of the Federal war debt
which that Stale will have to pay if the wac
stops now. According to the figures, if al?
the property in the State was sold at its high
est estimated value, there would only be about
$30,000,000 left after the Federaf mortgage,
was paid. Tho New York News in comment
ing on this fact remarks thus :
And if it lie true—and without
it is a veritable fact—that tiie public debt is a
mortgage on the property of every individual
in the nation, it is here seen that the greatest
capitalist in lowa has a mortgage upon his
properly for move than eight-tenths of its value..
Making the “nigger squeal” lias proved expen
sive music. Those who deny that the debt lias
not been incurred because we have made tha
“nigger squeal,” will do well to study the de
claration of Col. Stone, recently elected Gov
ernor of lowa, that “this is an abolition war.’*
Those who dance must pay tiie fiddler.
A Yankee Speech in New Orleans, — A.
Yankee lawyer named Earhart has been mak
ing a speech to a Yankee meeting in New Or
leans. According to the report published in
the New Orleans paper he disposes of the inuctr
talked-about Southern negro in this manner :
Five hundred thousand of them could bot
armed with Enfield rifles and sword bayonets
and be sent to Mexico to whip out Napoleon..
He wanted to see every slave in the army ; it
would prove ttie most etlectual method of stop
ping slavery agitation. Once soldiers, and no
one would think of asking them to he sent
hack iuto slavery. Every hoe should be laid
down, and a musket substituted, and thus let
them save the Union. It was their war, and ho.
believed in letting them fight. The negro was.
a natural soldier, and in his opinion they
would yet be hailed as the suppressors of tliu
lebellion.
LIST or CASIALTTES OF AVIUM HI’S 111110-
AI)K
In a Skirmish mar Verdiersville, Va., November
■Mh, 18015, sent by A. A. Gen’l J. K. Evans.
Lt J K Evans, A A A Gen’J, contused wound
of the neck.
Sergt Francis Tye, Cos 15, -ml Ga Batt, fleslr
wound of the left fore arm
private F M Beetles, Go A, 48th Ga Regt,
wounded through bowels badly.
Private IVm Phillips, Cos A, 4bth Ga ltegt,,
chest, badly.
Private M B Hubert, CoB, 48th Gaßegt, faca
badly.
Private L W Barksdale, Cos B, 48th Ga Regt,
concussion, by shell.
Lieut J W Mathews, Cos E, 3d Ga Regt, liesil
wound of the scalp, slightly.
Lieut O M Ro:-sum,Co C, 22d Ga Regt,woun
ded through the left shoulder, very severe.
Private Jas Hicks, Cos C, 22d Ga Regt, con
tused wound of the thigh.
Private -J C McDade, Cos G, 3d Ga Regt, fleslr
wound of the linger.
Private Francis Bland, Cos G, 3d Ga Regt,,
wound in the right fore arm.
Private J T Trapwell, Cos 11, 48th Ga Regt,
killed in action.
Private Henry McCarthy, Cos B, 2d Oa Batt,
killed in action.
Recapitulation, (11) eleven wounded; (2)tw*
S. I’opb, Sen. Sur. Wright’s Brig.
Verdiersville, Va., Dec. 1-
The United States District Court for the Eas t
ern District of Virginia has just decided that tfc
cannot limit the sale of Confederate estates un
de,. the Confiscation Act to the term of the trai
tor’s life: that such limitation is not the intent,
of the act of Congress, and in the case of Hugh
Latham, the Corn t. by Judge Underwood, or
ihn il a sale and an execution of a deed in led
by the sheriff tv tiie pnrclm*. __