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SENATE.
President—Alex H .Stephens. of (Georgia.
Olerk —1 II Nash, of South Carolina.
Sergeant-at-A rmz“-Lafayette Fitzbugb, Ky
AI.AIIAM A. MI&SMSIPW.
Clement C Clay, Albert G Brown,
Robert Jemison, James Phelan,
AP.KA.VSAS. SOUTH OUtOMSA.
Robert W Johnson. George Davis,
Clia« IS Mitchell, IV' T Dortch.
CAROI.^A.
A E Maxwell, ’ Robert W Barnwell,
James M Baker, James L Orr,
OEOPOIA. TENNESSEE.
Benj H Hill, J,andon C Haynes,
Horschel V Johnson, Gus A Henry,
KENTCCKr. MISSOURI.
II C Burnett, John B Clark,
W L Simms,
LOUISI VNA. _ TEXAS.
Edward Sparrow, Louis T Wigfall,
Thomas J .-femmes, W S Oldham,
VIRGINIA.
It M T Hunter, Allen T Caperton,
house of represe : tat i yes.
Speaker—Thom;, Boco, k, of \irginia.
Clerk--Albert K Lamar, of Georgia.
Kergeant-at-Arms —R II Wynn, of Alabama.
ALABAMA.
1 Thomas.! Foster, 6 W PChilton, .
2 Wm R Smith, 7 David Clop ton,
3 John P Ball, « James L Pugh,
4 J L M Curry, 9 E S Dargaa,
0 Francis S Lyon, . ,
ARKANSAS.
1 Felix I l’atson, J Aug II Garland,
2 Grand D Royston, 4 'ihos R Handy,
FLORIDA.
1 James li Mawking, 2 R B T’ilton,
GEORGIA.
1 Julian Hartridge, 6Wm W Clark,
2 Chas J Munnerlyn, 7 Robt l’Trippe,
g H Lucius J Gartrell,
4 Augustus II Kenan, '■> Hardy Strickland,
0 David W Lewis, JO Augustus R Wright,
KENTUCKY.
1 W B Machen, 7 II W Bruce,
2 J W Crockett, BGB Hodge,
8 HE Reed, 9 E M Bruce,
4 Geo W Ewing, 10 J W Moore,
f> J S Chrisman, 11 It J Breckinridge,
6 T L Burnett, 12 J M Elliott,
LOUISIANA.
1 Charles J Villere, 4 Lucicn J Dupree,
2 Charles M Conrad, 5 Henry Marshall,
3 Duncan F Kqpner, 0 John Perkins, jr
MISSISSIPPI.
1 J W Clapp, 6 0 R Singleton,
2 Reuben Davit, . C E Barksdale,
ii Israel Welch, 7 John J Mcßae,
4 H C Chambers,
vissaqiti.
1 . 4 A H Conrow,
2 Thomas A Harris, 6 Geo G Vest,
3 Caspar W Bell, 6 L W Freeman,
NORTH CAROLINA.
1 W H N Smith, (1 J It McLean,
2 Robert It Bridges, 7 Thos B AsAio,
3 Owen It Kenan, 8 Win Lander,
4 F I) McDowell, 9 B S Gaither,
6 Arch A Arrington, 10 AT Davidson,
SOUTH CAROLINA.
1 John McQueen, 4 W D Simpson,
2 W Porcher Mileß, 5 Jas Farrow,
3 L M Ayej, 6 W W Bfiyce,
TENNESSEE.
1 J BHeiskoll, '' 7G W Jones, '
2 W G Swan, 8 Thomas Menees,
:i W W Tebbs, ’>» J D C Adkins,
4W L Gardenhire, 10 John V Wright,
6 H S Foote, 11 David M Currin,
6 M P Gentry,
TEXAS.
1 John A Wilcox, 4 F B Sexton,
2 Claib C Herbert, 5 M D Graham,
3 Peter W Gray, 0 Wm B Wright,
VIR3INIA.
1 M R li Garrett, 0 David Funsten,
2 John It Chambliss, 10 Alex R Boteler,
3 James Lyons, II John B Baldwin,
4 Chas F Collier, 12 Walter It Staples,
A T S Bocock, 13 Walter Preston,
G John Goode, jr 14 Sam A Miller,
7 Jas P Holcombe, 15 Robt Johnson,
8 DO DeJarnette, 16 Chas W Russell,
THE SECOND CONGRESS.
'lke lirst session of the Second Congress will
commence on the 19tli of February next. The
foil »ng is a list of the Senators elect, and
those holding over with tiio year annexed in
-wlvch their respective terms of office expire
(18th of February each ye n-;) also alistof the
members elect of the House of Representatives,
as far as ascertained:
SENATE.
ALABAMA. MISSISSIPPI.
R Wilde Wulke, 1870 JW C Watson, 1870
Robert Jamison, 1868 Albert G Brown, 1866
ARKANSAS. MISSOURI.
R W Johnson, 1870 1870
Chas It Mitchell, 1868 1866
FLORIDA. NORTH CAROLINA.
Jas M Baker, 1870 Wm A Graham, 1870
A E Maxwell, 1860 Wm T Dortch, 1866
GEORGIA. SOUTH CAROLINA.
11 V Johnson, 1870 James L Orr, 1868
Benj II Hill, 1866 R W Barnwell, 18C6
KENTUCKY. TENNESSEE.
HC Burnett, 1868 L C Haynes, 1868
LOUISIANA. TEXAS. «
Edw Sparrow, 18G8 W S Oldham, 1868
Thos J Semmes, 1866 L T Wigfall, 1860
VIRGINIA.
It M T Hunter, 1868 A T Caperton, 1866
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
ALABAMA.
1 Thos J Foster, 6 W P Chilton,
2 W RSmith, 7 DaviiClopton,
3 W It W Cobb, 8 James L Pugh,
4 M H Cruikshanks, 9 J S Dickinson,
6 Francis S Lyon,
ARKANSAS.
We have no information of the election ot
Represensatives to the next Congress.
FLORIDA.
ISt George Rogers, 2R B Hilton,
GEORGIA.
1 Julian Hartridge, 6J 11 Echols, .
2 W E Smith, ' 7 James M Smith,
3 Mark li Blanford, 8 George N Lester,
4 Clifford Anderson, 9BF Bell.
6 J T Shewmake, 10 Warren Akin,
KENTUCKY.
No election for next Congress.
LOUISIANA.
1 Chas J Villere. 0 • 4 Lucicn 1 Dupre,
12 Chas M Conrad, 5 Henry Marshall,
3 Duncan E Kenner, 6 John Perkins, jr
MISSISSIPPI.
1 J A Orr, 5 Ottao R Singleton,
2 W D Holder, 6 Ethel Barksdale,
3 Israel Welsh, 7 JTLampkin,
4 Henry Chambers,
MISSOURI.
The present delegation were elected to hold
office until their success ire were elected. The
question of qualification will be decided by
the next Congress.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
1 W II N Smith, ti John A Gilmer,
J EC Yellowin', 7 Sami Christian.
3JT Leach. ‘ . 8 James G Ramsey,
4 Thos C Fuller, 9 It S Giutjier,
fi Josiali Turner, jr 10 Geo W Logan,
SOITE OAUOI.I.N A.
1 Jas II Witherspoon, 4 W D Simpson,
2 W Porclier Miles, 5 James Farrow,
3 Lewis M Ayer, 6 WW Boyce,
TENNESSEE.
1 J BHeiskell, 7 James MoCullam,
B- Wm G Swan, S Thos Menees,
3 A S Colvar. ‘J J D C Adkins,
4 John P Murray, 10 John Y Wright,
| 5 H S Foote, 11 David M Ciirrid.
6 E A Keeble,
TEXAS.
* 1 John A Wilcox, 4 Frank B Saxton,
2 Cla!b G Herbert, 5J U Baylor,
SAM Branch, 6 S H. Morgan,
VIRGINIA.
* 1 R L Montague, 9 David Funsten,
2 Robt II Whiten, Id, 10 F W M Holliday,
3Wm C Wickman, 11 John B Baldwin,
4 Thos S Gholson, 12 Walter R Staples,
6 Thos SBocock, 13 Fayette McMullen,
C John Goode, jr 14 Samuel Miller,
~ Wm C Lives, 15 Robert Johnston.
8 D C DeJarnette. 10 Charles W Bussell.
Governor Brown has issued a proclamation
vailing attention to the act passed by the Legis
lature "to punish any persou who may hereaf
ter conceal or assist any deserter in resisting a
legal arrest in this State." The punishment
inflicted upon any party found guilty of this
crime is a flue not exceeding two thousand dol
lars or imprisonment not exceeding six months.
We learn that a fire occurred iu Sparta at 2
ci"clock Sunday morning, which destroyed four
or five buildings. The particulars we have not
fteceslained.
188 mum (.'ON AUOI I Di ll
LETTER OF HON. JOHN MARTIN.
[From Vm Dublin Irishman.}
KILBSONEY, ROSSTREVOR, NOV IS.
Dear Sir: — If all the people of Irela.uivrcTe
of one mind upon the question ol th ‘ j - L
the war which the United States ate M'-T'o
against the « unfed, rate .States, it might be
needless to discuss before them the policy of
that war and iw hearing upon the national m-
Kr. si, of Ireland. That which we believe to
be uni ust we cannot conscientiously pronounce
to be "good policy. We dare not seek to advance
the interests of Ireland by approving and abet
ting injustice. Neither gratitude for past favors,
noi expectation of favors to come, binds an
honorable people to do wickedness at the bid
ding of tbeir benefactor—stiil less to setve on')
benefactor by robbing and murdering another.
If, then, my feliow-eounlrymen were all con
vinced. like me, that the Northern States are
waging an unjust war, they would, like me, re
fuse their sympathies to the Northern cause,
even though, as politicians, they desired to see
ail the States of North America under one flag
and one government, and considered trie sepa
ration of the States to be an event of evil outen
to the national cause of Ireland.
I am far fiom supposing that my friends, the
O’Doiioghue, Mr. Smyth, and General Meagher,
would deliberately and wilfully counsel their
countrymen to do injustice. I would be fur
ther girl! from supposing that these gentlemen
could, for a moment, entertain the idea that
our countrymen who have obtained an asylum
and been admitted to citizenship in the Nor
thern States, are thereby bound to do the bid
ding of American masters, or to consult the in
terests, the ambition, the -hatreds of their
American fellow-citizens otherwise than as
freemen and equals. Certainly, the Northern
States—like those of the South—gave an a y
lum to the myriads of Irish whom English op
pression caused t<» fly from their native land.
They received, and they continue to receive,
our exiles with hospitable welcome. And
gratitude, as well as duty, commands the Irisii
settlers in America to be good citizens there,
and loyal Americans—as they are. Ireland,
too, is grateful for the asyiurn granted to the
children who have left her, and she gives her
friendliest sympathy to the country which her
children have adopted for their own. But there
is nothing in the relations of < ur exiles with
other American citizens, nor in the relations of
Ireland with America—Northern States or
Southern States—to warrant anybody in ex
pecting them or us to forget our proper’dignity.
And, while we eagerly acknowledge the fact
that the Northern States —as well as the South
ern— have al ways received our emigrants with
open arms, and have allowed them civil and
religious liberty, and the rights of citizenship,
and opportunity to live prosperously by hon
orable toil, let not our gratitude ignore the
fact that the Northern States—as well as the
Southern—served their own interests by their
hospitality to the Irish, and have been reward
ed a thousand fold lor all their benevolence.
If our fellow-countrymen have been freely
admitted as settlers in America, have they not
given an equivalent for the favor, in lolling Ihe
American forests and tilling the American soil
and digging and building the American canals
and railways? The hospitality, bestowed upon
our emigrants has proved a very profitable in
vestment on the part of the Americans. It
has enabled America tq advance in wealth and
in national strength and consideration with
portentous rapidity. It has yielded returns by
covering -tjjie American wastes with corn, and
filling the American ports with ships and the
American pockets with dollars. The benefit
was not to one party, but to both. If the Irish
victims of English oppression gained leave to
live in comfort and honor, the American hosts
f;ained immeasurably more; while Ireland lost
mmeasurabiy—lost the numbers, the strength,
and the courage, that, remaining indignant at
home, must have confronted the foreign upptes
sor as we see him confronted in Hungary and
in Poland, and other countries, which have no
America .at hand as a safety valve for their
disaffection.
My friends who have taken the other side iu
this unhappy controversy most probably agree
with me in thus interpreting the relations of
Ireland and America. I know very well that
they would neither counsel what, they believe
unjust, nor admit for their country a position
which they considered unworthy. But in pol
itics wo are all disposed to think so much of
serving the interests of our party by our coun
try, that we may attach our sympathies to a
cause befora we have dt- passionately examin
ed into its justice. We have all a marvelous
facility in > leonciling our minds to whatever
tends to advance or support our own teal or j
fancied interests. Thus honorable .ami ju.-t
men in feel no scruple against missa
creing the Poles, in order to keep them in sub
jugation. Honorable and just men in England
feel no scruple against, massuercing or even
starving the Irish, in order to maintain EnarlisL
supremacy over this country. And it is not
wonderful if Irish politicians who have formed
such strong opinions as Gen. Meagher, the O’-
Donoghuo, anil Mr. Smyth, of the advantages
which out national cause may obtain from the
rule of one great power in the American Stales,
and of the ruin which separation of* tiie Stales
may bring to our cause—it is not wonderful if
they think it just to establish tbe authority of
that one great power by this wbr. and wicked
to resist a war whose success may lead to such
valuable consequences for Ireland.
I propose,, therefore, to examine briefly (he
grounds upon which they argue that Hie inter
ests of our nil I ional cause would suffer by the
failure ( f the Northerners to conquer the South,
and that the triumph of the North would be a
gain for Ireland. An argument vehemently
urged upon us by all those three gentlemen to
enlist our sympathies for the North is the th sire
of England for the overthrow of the Union.—
Mr. O’Brien has given the correct representa
tion of the desires of English policy and Eng-,
liwh national jealousy. The war serves Eng
land's policy, the war gratifies the malevolence
of England’s jealousy,, by weakening America;
by k Ring countless thousands of the men, and
wasting ttie lands and destroying the wealth
that were the sirengtli of America ; by sowing
the seeds of rancor and vengeance that will
grow up hedges of lasting divisions between
family and family, and State and State. No
doubt England desired the separation. But it
needs a patient temper to answer an argument
drawn merely from England’s sentiment,
against the right of an Irish patriot to form Iris
own judgment. If would be quite as intolera
ble to nie to be compelled to think as England
does not, as to think as she does. If I did not
desire the separation of the Slates four years
ago. 1 desire it now; and 1 des.ye it neither
more nor less firmly, whatever may be Eng
land's opinion in the matter. I desire the sep
aration because the people of the Confederate
States think proper to separate ; because the
restoration of the Federal Union is impossible,
except by means utterly destructive to Hie !ree
dem of America; because the subjugation of
the South and the maintenance of Federal
authority over the conquered provinces would
be ruinous to the prosperity and the power of
sll America; because the triumph of the North
well'd be a very unpropitious event for the na
tional cause of Ireland.
M_v friends who deny the l ight of the people
of the Southern States to separate from tha
North, and tioiu a confederation ot their own,
have brought forward only one argument that
has a plausible appearance. This is, that no
serious grievances have been alleged bv the
Southerners as reasons for their determination
to quit the Union. In fact, the people ol the
South resolved upon separation rather in anti
cipation of grievances than iu consequence of
them. And in that respect they Lave an impor
taut advantage, both in dignity and in means
C f resistance, over all other smuggling nation
alities. They may boast that the enemy has
vet been able to conquer and oppress them ;
and they possess .‘or the defences ot t ie nation
the moral and material forces ot their country
uncorrupied and unbroken vv a state ot sub
jugation to the foreigner. The U -Boaoghtie
draws a different inference front the fact that
the Confederates, unlike the Foies and t te
Irish, have never yet been conquered People
that have teen brought under the yoke, and
that have tevu robbed, insulted, corrupted,
weakened bv foreign.rule, are entitled to revolt
iu the O'Do'ioghne's opinion. But he refuses
his sympathv \o a people who take up arms to
prevent the yoke from being placed upon their
necks. If, indeed, the Northerners should
succeed in this war, aud should conquer the
Southern States, and hold the country by mil
itary force, then, I Suppose, the OTYmoghue
would admit the right of the Confederates to
rebel. It is much wiser for lhe Confederates
not to wait for such a situation, but to fight *s
they do fight, to render such a situation im
possible for their country.
Yet there are grounds for deeming that a
restoration of the Union was* possible, had the
Northern Government refrain, u from the at
tempt at military coercion. After the seces
sion of South Carolina, the present Yice-Presi
dent of th ' Confederation, Mr. Stephens made
a remarkable speech to persuade his own State
(Georgia) not to secede : aud several other
eminent statesmen of the South expressed,
about the same time, similar sentiments. The
votes of the citizens, a'soriu many of the South
ern States wore opposed, in considerable ma
jorities. o secession. Y> Ith such a state of op n
ion at the South, it seems not unlikely that a
reconciliation might have been accomplished,
and the Union preserved. Bat the attempt at
coercion, the invasion of the Southern tetritory
; with the bioedsbod and all tha ravages of war
in its train, see n destroyed all Lopes of recon
ciliation, and divided the States into two hos
tih. .v-ions. Restoration of the Union is hern •„•-
forth imp- :.‘ib!e It may be that the superior
resources of the North, and above all, the naval
Siipei ferity which practically shuts out the Con
i' -ieralcs for foreign supplies, while it enable
the Northerners to obtain continual and vu.-t
reinforcements in men and muni!ion?, will iu
the end prevail. It may be that the North
eras in a few more yeais of such a war as we
wilne.-s, will succeed in killing all tha men of
fighting age in the Confederates State.-, in burn
ing the cities of their old fellow-citizens with
Greek fire, and laying waste the homes and
the fields of eight millions of people, and of
the territory equal to the fourth part of Europe.
If they succeed, farewell to freedom in Ameri
ca. It will be a lamentable vic orv.
My friends upon the other side, of this ques
tion make prodigious use of the desire which
they think, England exhibits for the separation,
-vs, I hav e a.ready remarked, it is not so much
the separation of the Status that England <>’-
sires, as the v.aste and destruction of the re
sources of the States. England is in'that un
happy situation as uu empire and a grand com
mercial and industrial firm, which makesh r.
pi asperity in great measure depend upon the
decline and weakness, and misfortunes of oth-r
States Tiie losses cf others are lier gain. She
makes money by destroying the Sndustr- of
millions in India and C lina. She is at present
attempting to destroy the industry of the Ja
panese for the same purposes, she has made
Ireland a starving pauper for the same pur
poses. the makes mu:k money by the Ameri
can war; and though one of the "lie-t results
was te reduce near half a million of Engl s h
working people to pauperism, it is well known
that (be profit- of trade have never been c: eat
er in Lancashire than since the war commenc
ed, anil this year is said to be the most prosper
ous season that English trade has yet seen.
But my friends will admit that the relati-'iis of
France to the American peopie, and to all tiie
people of the world, is very different. France
can be prosperous without robbing other peo
ples. France can live upon her own resources.
France is the friend of the Americans, North
erners and Southerners. Truly yours,
• John Martin.
A Northern Opinion' or tit-; Irish Contro
versy about our Civil War.— The New Fork
Metropolitan Record ia commenting upon the
position taken by Hon. John Martin, Smith
O'Brien, and other leading Irishmen, upon the
civil war in this counlry, remarks thus:
These gentlemen take the true view of the
case, which is, that the General Government
has not the power under the Constitution to
coerce even refractory or disobed cut 8t it.es.
There is no fact more clearly set forth thimth s
in the history of the Convention that framed
the Constitution. In fact.it is'repugnant to
common sense to suppose that sovereign States
would enter into a compact by the terms of
which they could lie not only denuded of theii
sovereignty, but converted into mere depend
encies, as is the case at present with tiie bor
der slave States, which, under the operation of
martial law, are p('evented from exercising the
vote by billot, unless its citizens agree to vole
for tho administration candidates. It was nev
er intended by the Fathers of tiie Republic
that the Union should be held together by
force, and Alexander Hamilton, iu speaking
upon the subject, made use of the following
memorable words:
•• Tho coercion of Stales is one of the mad
est projects that was ever devised. A failure of
compliance will never be confined to a single
Slate. This being the case, can we suppose it
wise to hazard a civil war? Can any reasona
ble man be well disposed towards a govern
ment that makes war and carnage the only
means of supporting itself—a government that
can exist only by tile sword.”
But it is not only .lie language of the fram
ers of the Constitution that is in evidence
against the present sanguinary policy of the
Administration. It is their acts. When tre
quent attempts were made to commit the con
vention to coercive measures, every resolution
that was presented for that purpose was laid oil
the table, and never taken therefrom. No
men aro more thoroughly conversant with
these facts, than Mr. Seward, the present Secre
tary of State, Mr.Everott, Mr. Dickinson, and a
number of other vigorous proseeution-of-tbo
war men. It so happens that we have their
own testimony on the subject. Mr. Seward ac
knowledged it in a letter to Mr. Adams, our
Minister to England, before the war broke out.
In that letter he said. “ the Federal Govern
ment could not reduce the seceded States to
obedience by conquest, even though lie (the
Lro-sidelit.'l wm- to mioaliou the pomo
sition. But, in fact, (ho continues) the Presi
dent willingly accepts it as (rue. Only an im
perial or despotic government could have the
right to subject disaffected or insurrectionary
States. The Federal republican system of ours
is, of all forms of Government, tire very one
which is most united for such a labor.”
Wc will not stop to criticise the language in
which this admission is clothed, but m i eiy de
sire so show how absurd it is of Mr. Seward to
stale that ‘‘only an imperial or de*ix>lic Gov
ernment could have the right to subjugate dis
affected or revolutionary States.’’ Does that
right exist in a Government because it is "im
perial or despotic?” If tills proposition be
granted, then it must be ’admitted that the Ad
ministration have long since established their
claim to tiie exercise' of that ‘-right” by the
conversion of the Government into a despo
tism.
So much for Mr. Seward. Now, let us see
what Mr. fid ward Everett has to say in re
gard to the matter. In his letter of acceptance
of the Union nomination for the Vice-Presi
dency in 1800, he expressed himself as foliows:
‘•The suggestion that the Union can be
maintained -by_ the numerical predominance
and military prowess of one gee-ion, exerted
to coerce the other into submission, is, in ray
judgment., as self-contradictory as it is danger
ous. It comes loaded with the death-smell
from .fields wet with brothels’ blood, if the
vital principle of all republican Governments
is the “consent of the governed,” how much*
move does a union of coequal sovereign States
require as i!s basis the harmony of its mem
hers,'and their voluntary co-operation in its or
ganic functions.' *
As for Mr. Dickinson, another prominent
war man, be has put himself on record in the
following emphatic language:
“No amount of force can e* er maintain the
Union,” and “that all paper laws we have are
the strength, force and power of the Constitu
tion. The army and navy, the national Legis
lature, and the executive pow< r of the Gov
ernment, are not worth a single rush to compel
a single State to remain one hour in the Con
federacy longer than it chose to remain.”
The simple fact is thisf that a monstrous de
ception has been practiced upon the people by
their so-called political lea .era, by the men
whom they elev -ted to high political positions,
and who enjoyed their fullest trust and con
fidence. It is about time the fraud was ex
posed, that the mask was torn off and the fea
tures which mark this unnatural strife, this
fatricidal conflict, were exposed to the view of
the whole world in all their hideous deform ty.
Messrs. O'Brien and Martin are right in their
statements, it is an unjust war, :u?d muse end,
as Senator Douglas and other statesmen of the
republic predicted, in a dissolution of the Un
ion or the establishment of a military despo
t ' sm ■ || w
A Precaution. -We pub! sh the following
for the benefit of all concerned :
Office Commandant of Post, j
Dalton, Jan. 4, 1883. j
Many soldiers and ethers haying been roboed
at th : s place by the thieve,, who congregate
about the depot of the army, 1 have adopted the
following plan as best calculated to prevent
anything of the sort in future. All t fiicers. sol
diers and others arriving here with heavy bag
gage and boxes belongng to or intended lor
j officers or soldiers, can deposit them with an cf
j fleer detailed for the purpose, who can be found
! at all hours of the day and night, at the saloon
j in ih« centre cf the e r shed, who wdi give a
! c hcek foi each article so deposited. This room
i will be guarded d-v and night, and goods
i placed there will besafemni! they are removed
I ivory dibit will be made to proved*' theh
of articles not thus i.ored. but persons arc
warned that their goods wifi not bo safe unit --
they are deposited as above. No article in
tended for sale or speculation wifi be received.
Newspapers throughout the uth will do
good to the service by giving thi arrangement
publicity. ’ - y - H. Comm.
Colonel Commanding l’ost.
An iron company has been organized at Ani
ens. and w 11 commence operations immediate-'*
lv. ’ The location of the works will be a*, some
point above that place. Some of the ft -•khohl
ers agree to pay their stock in provisions, inis
i is an important item, in these times of scarcity
| aa d difficult transportation. The company
start with flattering prospects of success.
The Mobile Tribune learns that one of our
Confederate Quartermasters has been discover
c | to lie a defaulter in the small sum of >
000,00 b. The investigation ct his d.H< lions
had not been completed when this huh- '-u-fi. it
was discovered. The Tribune thinwr it is not
improbable that another cipher will finally
have to be added to the shortness of his cash
j account.
; Col. Toombs’ regiment has been ordered to
rendezvous at Savannah, as infantry.
i tv * : - m- -.apiuri or iue Sieamer
! **», Anna.—Capt. Bonneau, late com-
I . 1 onfederate steamer Ella and
Lr 1 Vi 1 " V- “ account of his capture
: i’;. -T- _ appears that he did*a!’in
v 1 * '" vo * A^r - an extract from
After n detention of a month in Bermuda to
■ h l the shipinth *
I ”V : v; 1 u t! -v u : ! September, we sailed for
i 'V; ' "A'l 1 -- 0 '’I 1 ' November, in company
|X i ILI ;Vt ; ' Lee -" , liic Eil £ anJ Anna had
' "" n«iyi?3» cargo that has ever left
i : V. limington or Charleston since
tm; ..o ic.Liicc commenced, amounting to thice
hanqivu a-, ninety tons of dead weight, all on
Governmei.: account. The weather was fine
anq clcr ii.es a scit oin dn?. ag the p . j.
or until fee ...ay cvcaing, when we arrived c>n
ihe ‘‘Loo,” for the
):r ‘‘** ;1 * ' • ir dej artave. parted company
v-Au u-. ia.ulhig away to the Northward ot our
® ours ' ,, ‘ A} sunset we were eighty-five miles
from V> i;:cing-.,;n Bar. At seven o’clock the
wind, which Pad been light lr m the North
umi Wes:, suddenly sprung up, and iu the
C urse of cue hour blew a gale, causing an ugly
cross £ea. and reducing the speed of our ship
from elev.;i kn .ts to live and a half, which
Yeas the utmost we could get out ol her with
thiriy jiountis of gleam.
Things i. -gan (o look squally as to our being
aide to_ nuke the run in .time, but it was too
Ljte to think of turning back. * * * Just
as day was dawning we touched the beach
slightly, but did cot stop, and while hauling
away from it, saw a gunboat standing directly
across our bow—she most evidently have heard
our wheel-—and was t ted ring so as to cut us
oii from the beach. We being in three fathoms
of water,.l was much surprised to find a boat
tur.mcg boldly lor us. To pass outside of
him would be to lose my ship, for lie would
theu cut ice off from the support I expected
from our own batteries in a few miles more. To
run my ship ashore at this point would have
been m.; dness, for the beach here is an outer
o the sound extending i-siile of it for miles,
ani; con- uuently 1 could expect no protec!ion,
and mi* bole ship company would either be
destroyed on this belt! beach, or taken by the
enemy prisoners To turn back and run to sea
was to give the ship to the enemy without an
nllort to rave her. I therefore determined to
try and ;.c -- in.-!:ore of tho bend or over him—
not drenu.'ug that he would dare to run into
eighteen ;-. Aof water. This matter was Soon
decided. we approached each other rapidly,
and 1 coin.; hear the noise of his«nen prepar
ing f;.r ac ion, &c, and when about one hun
dred and fifty, yards from him 1 hailed him, tell
ing him he would be afoul of.me, hoping to in
duce ibe thought ikat I was one OLtheir own
ship:-: tm; v.cs soon made aware of my mista
ken opinion by a broadside of grape and canis
ter, accompanied by a volley of musketry. I
then ordered my ship pointed for I er, and
hoped to strike her just forward of her waist
boat. Liipj'.liiriatcly he perceived this move
of mine, and shitted his helm, causing his ves
sel to swing away from me. and making it im
possible to strike lair.
Our ships came together the next moment
with a tearful crash, carrying a way his star
board. boat rail and part ot his stem and cut
water. My engine was kept working to its lull
capacity, ns I had but one chance of getting
clear of him in case I failed to sink him, and
that was to force my ship past him before he
could board, as I distinctly heard him call
away his boarders. In this last attempt I fail
ed, as the ships were both going ahead, atnl
aa;l now swung broadside on, and he firing
broadside after broadside into us while in this
condition, and almost at the same time board
ing us on the port quarter and wlieelhouse
guard. Then came a scene which none but an
eye witness would believe. Officers and men
rushing along our tie: k, shooting and cutting
at'every I king that came to sight, and even
shooting, in their mad career, one of their own
men--and ia the t.-.-.e of Jany, of my ship,
shooting him a s he was coming up the hatch
way to give himself up. J laving satisfied them
selves with this—co urn geo is charge—they
went below and broke open every thing that
came to sight, siaie rooms, trunks, boxes, Ac.,
officer - a::-, men quart cling over trunks for the
contents and the owners standing by. This
robbery and carouse was kept up until the ar
rival of Commodore Uidgeiy, in the flag-shin
Shenandoah, wbeq-it wav quickly- put a stop to
by .he appearance of Lieut. Ske.ritt, to whom
it was reported—Lieut. Skarritt is an officer and
gentleman ot the old navy—not one of the otli
lli cers.
.red, having received
h>' -til, and sent to Bean
xi our passengers anil
cried Nortli, destina
1. - noanl me j.. ..
t ~ . Tbc ox<f otherwise
v osport. Newbtrn.
,he favorite ship Ella
and Annie. A more cowardly and murderous
fire a vessel was never subjected to, and the
conduct of ihe boarding the most unheard of
barbarity upon record. Tiie officers of my
ship behaved, as we all had a right to expect
of them, cool, determined and ai their p'osts
albof them, as they had often said if they were
killed tbeir bodies would be found at their sta
tion-in their engine room. Stange as it may
appear, h- - engine was not struck, although
the bails are to be seen sticking iu tiie wood
work of tho gallery frame.
o,v*e or Senator Bayard, of Delaware.— lt
will be remembered that Senator Bayard, of
Delaware, refused to take the oath of allegi
ance under the act of the United States Con
g-,, .a, reaui-ingall officers in the civil, naval
and milii'.i!y depi.vtnienfs, before entering upon
tlscir dudes, to take the prescribed oath, swear
ing that they had never borne anus against the
United Slates, nor given aid and comfort to the
“rebellion.'
On Dec. 18, the new rule of Mr. Sumner,
requiring Senators to take the oath, was taken
up.
Mr. Satiislmry said a Senator is not a civil
officer under the Constitution, aud moved to
refer the question to the Judiciary for their de
cision.
Mr. Trumbull argued (hat the law was appli
‘cable to Senators and representatives. As near
ly all the Senators had taken and subscribed,
the path of allegiance to the country, he
thought it* was too late to inquire whether the
until properly embraced Senators. He did not
want the Toombses and Davises to come here,
and, alter swearing to support the Constitution,
to take their seats and the • perjure themselves.
He claimed'the right to say they never should,
with his consent, have seats in this body. He
would require Senators to take the prescribed
oath that they had not been engaged in rebel
lion, aud if they committed perjury', l>e would
convict them under the statute.
Mr. llayfad remarked that the ordinary
course was to refer grave questions, although
S'enut is might assume tha* matters were very
clear, and tnerefore if was idle Iq refer. The
law' v t pushed July 2, Iso2. At the last* ses
- •si of the Senate, Mevrs. Field and Wall, of
New .mrsey, and Arnold of Rhode Island, ail
look theit “cuts without reference to the law,
and 1 id them without a word from any Sena
tor until the end of th- ir respective terms. At*
the o-g miz Uion of the present session the Sen
ators weie sworn to support the Constitution,
and admitted to their seats without reference
to tiie law. When the question was first raised,
he made n- motion to postpone the considera
tion. owing toil, gciivity, trout the extra ses
sion’ until now. He had a right to take it for
granted that the decision had been waived,
thre-* Senators having remained here without
inking the oath until their terms expired. It
eould not be that the Senators have made up
their minds. He was unwilling, without a de
cision of the Senate, to voluntarily take the
oalii. His past life and conduct ought to be
suSkient to protect him from suspicion. Bar
ring bis views as to the dangerous unconstitu
tion.iiity of the law, he could as readily take
the oath as any member of the. Senate. He
niaictuii.ol that it bad been decided that a
Senator was not a civil officer under the consti
tution.
Mr. Ten Eyck said if disloyal men were not
r .-aired to take the oath, great injury and det
riment might occur, it did not strike his
mind that because certain Senators did not
take t'.e oath, others were not required to do
so.
The quo. .ion was taken on Mr. Saulsburys
mota.n **» refer, and decided in the negative
by 15 Teas to it; nays.
' Mr.‘Bayard desire.} to be heard on the ques
tio: . as it we- one cf interest to him, but, as
the Senate ic.journert pending the debate, the
case of the stubborn
Senator is not given.
V. ihv.ingtou i» of .-peei ii interest to both the
ii derates and Li . ...: . jt is the only
port of any importance left, as the enemy is
w. 1! aware. His blockading fleet has lieen
lai; eiy increased, ana im. orts are becoming of
rare occurrence, but the peculiar approaches are
such r-s to forbid hope of a comple te stoppage
of bk-ckad- running, save by the capture f>(
the eiry. The Richmond Whig thinks this has
been iefinitely agreed upon by the Cabinet at
Washington, and already the premonitory
visible. It-is believed thdt But
in n at Washing
ton. N. C., and a fe-w days since the salt works
son..* twenty miles from Wilmington, were de
s ;iio tfi: t, tnumbers now twenty-six
sail.*and the Whig is of the opinion that it
awaits only the arriv.al of the Dunderburg and
other irc-a clad-, and additional men to com
mence operations,
caxFkaaa.vr4 states co.vjhess.
. senate— dig. 29.
I ;ie President laid before the Senate a com
munication trom General Hardee, and other
General officers, relative to the organization of
the artny. Referred to the Committee on Mili
tary Affairs.
Ihe bill to repeal the act regulating the
granting of furloughs and discharges from hos
pitals, was taken up, and, after some discussion,
passed.
Ihe bill to repeal tbe act authorizing iliC de
struction of property as a military necessity
was next taken up, and discussed till the Sen
ate went into executive session.
house —me. 29.
A memorial was received from the Army of
Tennessee, signed by prominent Generals in
the army, which after some debate, was refer
red to Committee on Military Affairs.
The morion made on yesterday to reconsider
the vote by which the bill to prohibit the cir
culation of United States paper currency was
passed, being the first question in order, it was
taken up. The motion to reconsider was lost.
senate —dec. 30.
The following were referred : Resolutions of
the Georgia Legislature relative to tho right of
soldiers from that State to elect their officers;
resolutions of the Mississippi Legislature tel t
tive to substitutes, etc.; a bill to provide for
the auditing and payment ot certain claims of
the State of Mississippi.
The Committee of the Judiciary reported
back the House bill amending tho act relative
to impressments, with amendments. The bill
and amendments were ordered to be printed
and placed upon tbe calendar.
’lhe same committee also reported back, with
out amendment, the House bill to provide ful
filling vacancies in Congress, iu certain Indian
nations, which was forthwith read and passed.
The Senate bill to repeal tho act regulating
the destruction of pioperty under military ne
cessity, was taken up and passed—yaas 11,
nays 7. ,
The House bill to put an end to tho exemp
tion from military service of those who have
heretofore furnished substitutes, was taken up,
discussed, amended and passed.
house —dec. 30.
A resolution was submitted thatthe Commit
ted on Military AlTalrs iuquire into the expedi
ency ot repealing all exemptions from military
service now allowed by law to any white male
resident of the Confederate States between the
ages of 18 and 45 years, except exemptions for
disability, of Ministers of the Gospel, persons
holding office in or under the Confederate or
State Governments, or employed in State Ord
nance Departments, State troops as now allow
ed by law, and also to report a bill regulating
details. Referred.
The following were also referred : A bill to
provide for the preservation of Government
bills; joint resolutions of Florida Legislature
on Hie sublect of exemptions, the tax in kind,
and the increase of the pay of soldiers ; mem
orial from the Adjutants of the array, asking
an increase of rank and pay to that of captain
of cavalry ; relative to the establishment of an
asylum to be called tho “Veteran Soldier’s
Home to ammdan act to organize military
courts to attend the army in the field and to
dffiio tho power of said courts, and a bill to
create an invalid corps ; to provide for the re
duction of the currency; to repeal the act crea
ting the office of Assistant Secretary of State ;
to indemnify certain losses of the command
of Gen. Marcus J. Wright ; resolution that the
President inform the House whether command
ers in the field had ordered assessment of dam
ages to be paid by ofiLers with the adjudica
tion ot courts mar.ial or a board of survey ;
Senate bill to repeal an act regulating the
granting of furloughs and discharges in hospit
als.
A message was received from tho President
announcing his approval of the bills to repeal
the potatoe clause of tho tax act, and to com
mute ihe tax in kind of bacon with its equiv
alent of salt poll#
A resolution was introduced instructing the
Committee on Military Affairs to inquire into
tiie expediency of providing by law, that all
persons co iiiected with Railroad and Express
Companies; the Assistant Quaitermasters and
Commissary Agents and employees of every de
seription; Justices of the Peace and Military
Officers within the age of conscription, be im
mediately enrolled in the army, and said Com
mittee declare that it shall not bo lawful to
detail from the military service; any person to
work in any cotton or woolen factory, forge,
furnace, foundry, or for any company or indi
vidual enterpr so whatsoever, except for the
army in the field. Adopted.
A resolution was submitted instructing tho
same committee to inquire into the expediency,
the bill lor the rapeaToiTEe iff]
relation to substitutes, in the event of that bill
becoming a law, certain classes ot persons who
have heretofore employed substitutes on such
ground of e notable arrangements as said com
mittee shall deem judicious. Agreed to.
The bill to prevent the procuring, aiding and
assisting of persons to desert from the army,
was taken up and passed.
The bill to grant a special copyright to W. J.
Hardee and S. 11. Goetzell, for Hardee’s Rifle
and Infantry Tactics, was taken up, and alter
being amended so that the act shall not have a
retroactive effect, it was passed.
The bill to allow commissioned officers of tbe
army rations, and tfie privilege of purchasing
clothing from the Quartermaster’s Department,
was taken up; and pending the consideration
of tho amendmums, the House adjourned.
SENATE —DEC. 31.
A message was received from the House, an
nouncing tho signing by the President of sev
eral biiix.
A resolution was adopted, instructing the
Committee on Military Affairs to inquire into
the expediency of authorizing the appointment
of chaplains for battalions in the army.
On motion tho Senate went into Executive
session.
After spending considerable time in Execu
tive session, the Senate adjourned till Satur
day.
house. *
The Speaker announced the Special Commit
tee on the resolution in relation to establishing
a soldier’s Home. The select committee on tho
currency repoited a bill in relation to that sub
ject.
The bill was read by its title, and the House
then went into secret session.
senate—JAN. 1.
The Senate was not in session 10-day.
HOUSE.
A resolution was adopted that on and after
Monday, January 4th, the House me t at 11
o’clock" A. M., until the bills reported by the
Committee on Cmrency are disposed of and that
the morning between 11 and 12, be devo
ted to the ordinary business of the House.
The Senate bill to repeal tho act to regulate
the destruction of property for military ne
cessity and provide indemnity for the same,
was taken up and referred.
The Senate bill to provide for tiie compensa
tion of certain persons therein named (extend
ing the compensation of certain detailed men
to }he Ist of January 1863,) was taken up,
advanced to a third reading and passed.
The Speaker laid before the commit
niegtion from the Secretary of the Navy, in
relation to the disbursements of sundry appro
y>riutinns which was referred to the Committee
on Naval Affairs.
senate— jan. 2.
Tbe following joint preamble and resolutions
were unanimously adopted ;
Whereas, the campaign of the brave and gal
lant armies covering the Capitol of the Confed
erate Skates during tho two successive years of
1862 and 18C3, under the leadership and com
mand of Gen. Robert E. Lee, have been crown
ed with glorious results—defeating greatly su
perior forces massed by the enemy for the con
quest of these States ; repelling the invaders
Kith im nense losses, and twice transferring the
battle field from our own country to that of
the enemy ;
And, whereaA the masterly and glorious
achievements rendering forever memorable, the
fields of “Seven Days of Great Battles,’’ which
raised the siege of Richmond ; as well as those
of riedar Run, Second Manassas, Harper’s Fer
ry, Boons! ioro, Sharpsburg, Shepherds town,
r r’ederieksburg, Winonester, Gettysburg and
Chancetloisvillc, command the admiration and
gratitude'of our country ;
And. whereas, these, and other illustrious ser
vices rendered by this able commander since the
commencement "of our War of Independence,
have especially endeaied him to the hearts of
his countrymen, and have imposed on-Congress
ihe grateful duty of giving expression to their
fC Resolved! Bv the'congrc-si of the Confeder
ate States of America, that th e thanks of Con-
Less are due. and are hereby tendered to Gen.
Robert E. Lee, and to tbe officers and soldiers
of the Confederate armies under his command,
for the great and signal victories they have won
over the rast hosts of the enemy, and for the
inestimable services they have rendered In de
fence of the Liberty and Independence of our
Resolved, Thau the President be requested
to communicate these resolutions to Gen. Rob
ert E. Lee, and to the officers and soldiers here-
was referred: A bill for the
establishment and regulation of territorial com
mands in the army. _ ~ .
A resolution was adopted that the President
be requested to inform tho Senate whether the
taxes hj—o been assured in tho Confederate
States in conformity with the requirements of
an act entitled '-an act for the assessment ami
collection ot taxes.” approved May Ist, 1863,
and, if not, in which of the Btat> sos the Con
federacy have they noi, been assessed, when
were they assessed, and when will the assess
ment be completed in those sections of the Con
federacy not occupied l y the arms of the ene
my; and that he further inform the Senate
whether tho taxes have been collected in any
and which, States of the Confederacy; and if
not in whole, what portion ot the taxes in any
State, and in which State, have been collected
in accordance with sad act, and when the col
lection of the same will he completed in the
sections of the Confederacy not occupied l>v
them. J
'diie Committee of Finance, reported a bill to
increase the compensation of certain c vil olli
ceis and employees in the civil departments of
the Government iu Richmond for a limited pe
riod. Ihe bill proposes to increase from Ist
January to Ist July the compensation of those
employees receiving sl,s6o‘per annum one
hundred percent, and those receiving $3,000
and ttpvr aids, fifty p r cent. The bill was dis
cussed ttii the Senate went into executive ses
sion.
HOUSE.
The following were passed : A bill providing"
for the appointment ol a Third Auditor of the
Treasury—salary $3,000; authorizing the can
cellation of certain Confederate States bonds,
and the substitution ol Olliers for them; amend
ing an act in relation to the receipt of counter
feit Treasury notes by public officers, so as to
embrace postmasters in its provisions .; to au
thorize the appointment of an Assistant Sec
retary of the Treasury for the Trans-Mississip
pi Depirtment.
A bill in relation to duties on imports was
laid on the table.
A bill to appropriate SIOO,OOO to the Chero
kee Indians, was referred to the Committee on
Indian Affairs.
The Committee on Military Affairs, reported
back favorably a bill to provide for putting in
to the military service, on and after the Ist of
May, 1864, ail persons in the Confederate
States claiming to be citizens of the United
States, but giving the President power to ex
empt such as in his judgment he may deem
proper. A motion to •strike out the proviso
giving tiie President power to exempt was lost.
An amendment as a substitute was adopted,
that ail residents, ou and after the first of Feb
ruary next, between the ages of eighteen and
forty-five, shall be liable to serve in the attny
without regard to any p’ea of non-re idemcc or
alienage, and providing that it shall not repeal
any existing exemption law. The bill was dis
cussed to adjournment.
An Ancient Speech. —The following extracts
from Livy of a speech delivered in a fnlloissem
bly of the Roman people by the Consul JEmil
ius Paullus, at his departure for tho Macedonian
war, is so applicable to a large class of our
citizens at the present time that it may be well
to publish it :
‘•Romans : In every circle, and truly at ev
ery table, there are people who lead armies in
to Macedonia; who know where the camp
ought to be placed; what post ought to be oc
cupied by troops ; when and through what pat#
M icadoni.a aiim.u - mmmi, \vncre m tg&-
zines should be formed : liow provisions should
be conveyed by land and sea ; and when it is
proper to engage the enemy ; when to lie quiet.
And they not only determine what is best to bo
done but if anything is done in any other man
ner than what they have pointed out, they ar
raign the consul as if he was on trial before
them. These are great impediments to those
who have the management of affairs: for
every one cannot encounter injurious reports
with the same constancy and firmness of mind
as Fabius did. who chose to let his own
authority be diminished through the folly of
the people rather than to mismanage the public
business with a high reputation.
“lain not one of those who think that com
manders ought n >t to receive advice the
coat ary, I should deem that man more proud
than wise who regulated every proceeding by
the standard of his own single judgment
What then is my opinion? That commanders
ought to be advised chiefly by persons of knowl
edge ; by llio-e who have made ilia art of
war tbeir particular study, and have derived
instruct!': n from experience ; from those rfiio
are present at the scone of action ; who see the
country, who see the enemy ; who see the ad
vantages that occasions offer, and who, like
people embarked in the same ship, are sharers
of the danger. If, therefore, any person thinks
iv.« war whiiilt fam frNMtiwttiSfaili'cu' '■miiy
prove advantageous to the public—let him rult,
refuse his assistance to the State, but let him
come with mo into Macccdouia. He Mini l be
furnished with a ship, a horse, a tent—even his
traveling charges shall be defrayed.
“But if ho thinks this too much trouble, and
prefers the repose of a oity life to the toils of
war, let iiim not on land assume the office of a
pilot. Thq city itself fiunishes of
topics for conversation ; let it confine its pass
ion for talking within its "own precincts amt rest
assured that we shall pay no attention to any
councils but such as shall be framed within our
camp.”
MEXICO
Tbe latest advices from Mexico aro not very
favorable to the National cause :
Queretaro,.the capital of the State of that
name, wa- occupied by Gen. Mejia, in the inter
est ot the French, on The 15th of November,*
and Mejia, with the French General JJonai, was
to advance upon San Luis de Rotosai, the pres
ent seat of the National Government, an im
portant city in tho State of Michoacan.
Gen. Bazaiue was inarching upon Guanajuato,
the capital of the State of which Doblado is
Governor, and anticipated an easy conquest;
and jbe cit y of Guadalajara was besieged by the
Mexicart allies of the. French.
It is also report, and that Vidatmj, one of the
ablest leaders of the Liberal party, and at pres
ent Governor of ihe States ol Nuevo Leon and
C’oahuila, has gone over to the French.
Gen. Cumonfort, the best and most reliable
General in the Mexican service, is dead, and
his loss will be severely felt.
A brisk guerrilla war is maintained against
the invaders ; but that will never turn them
aside from their purpose of conquest. Altogeth
er, the prospect for Mexico is sad, and that for
the French very good.
The New York Herald publishes later news
from Mexico, which gives a very sad picture
of the disunity and helplessness ot the Juarez
Government. If we may rely on these ac
coiftus, ii would seem that Juarez is now ready
to take his flight from Sail Luis Rotosi, having
packed up his archives and treasures, icady lor
the expected migratory movement. The French
forces were gradually pushing into the inte
rior, . and the star of empire seemed to lie as
cending to tiie zenith. The Heraid’s corres
pondent says “Mexico is dead, and not a'l tho
telegraphic bulletins from California, or ail
the sympathy in the United States, can galvan
ize her into life. We now find tbe national
army broken into fragments, the chiefs at vari
ance with each other, the people divided, tiie
treasury empty, and the constitutional head of
the Government flying from town to town for
safety.”
FROM NORTH MISSISSIPPI.
A 00... ~,por.3utlf •• M,rt,11,-
writes from Oxford, Mississippi:
The days of Yankee rule iff Noith Mississip
pi a! ‘d West Tennessee are numbered, and tru
ly no people were ever more entitled to be re
leased from such thraldom. They have evinced
their loyalty and sa rificing patriotism upon
every expedition we have made into their lines,
knowing that destruction would ensue, if the
enemy became aware that they had given us
comfort. It is a sad reflection. -in passing
through North Mississippi, to see the evidences
of destruction. Where elegant mansions once
stood we behold nothing, save here and there
a chimney towering over the blackened debris,
a silent monitor of the past. But what does it
speak ?—volumes. I was most forcibly struck
on this point in passing through Holly Springs.
This must have been a lovely place before tho
war, bat at present it reminds one very forcibly
of the pictures that preserve the rains of anti
quity, cities that suffered when lire and sword
raged in the ancient days.
X was told that tbe majoi ity of this destruc
tion was done by Van Dorn last winter when
he surprised and captured the Yankee garrison
there. Grant had accumulated a large lot of
supplies there preparatory to a move South,
and he had taken these houses. The citizens,
with Spaitan devotion, yielded their estates to
the flam's for the jmblic good, many assisting
in the destruction of their own pioperty.
Thanks to the energy of General Chalmers,
the railroad from Grenada to Oxford has been
reconstructed.
——r I—rr1 —rr
A report is in circulation that the Yankee
blockaders of St. Marks, Florida, made an at
tack, ad ay or two ago, on a vessel loaded with
cotton lying in the tit. Marks river, succeeding
in capturing her, and were attempting to carry
her out when Capt. Blocker, with his command
and two sections ofGamble’e artillery, came up
and made so vigorous an attack that tbe Yan
kees were compelled to abandon their prize,
not, however, before setting fire to the vessel,
which, with the cotton, was entirely consumed.
The City Council of Richmond havo voted
ex-Governor Letcher a sword.
*! UOM fh.iiilksto.v
< i ..o year closed in Charlnct „ u ■
one of those acts of courtesy o ! n harbor w 'tl
rydneUH.&
on Black’s Island : ’ a,um au d the enem;
o l'
eenriy erected upon Co-e s Island * f °
•of affairs on J^ffin’sD^nd’' 18 ' 0 ‘ D the situa,io!
«t.nl!oa!s e onc hS ,0C - ** tnr *** Hr
on « having in tow three barges fill.
aVsoVflled wm a tUR Witl * tvvo other bare
.u o tilled w i'll men. were observed coming i
obL l) V!Uli and fcwtwanl. suppose
m b ,°? a raconuoitering an.l snnwin
tom of Long Hand and Dewees’ inlet.
< n Sunday afternoon the Foderals fired twelv
Mi el is into the city.
The late gales have done considerable dan
age to Lie enemy’s batteries- ou Morris Islam
Lt.mng the storm a number of vessels wet
round mto the Stono for shelter.
Two heavy guns have Ren dragged Iroi
Ov>ter l oint toHattery Gre^g.
On Monday there was but little firing on e
t.ioi siJc owing probably to tho foKffv weatl
er.
The enemy fired sixteen shells at the eilybf
tween ten o’clock Monday night and half par
five Tuesday morning, averaging one shell alien
every half hour.
The number of shells tiied at tbe city fro:
th,. c0m,,,.. in August last, is about fun
Diinnren ami flfty.
i lie I irst North Carolina Hospital, a larg.
building on ihe corner of Marv and Amerie
streets was burned Monday. The sick were al
saiely removed. Nearly all tho furniture, bed
ding, stores and medicines wore saved. Th
bunks were mostly consumed. The buildin
was entirely destroyed.
I he \ankecß were still at work Tuesday, ri
pairing damages caused by the late storm".
Jwo more embrasures were also opened a
Gregg Tuesday, one bearing on James Bland.
With the exception of the exchange of a fee
stiots between the opposing batteries, Wednes
day was an unusually quiet, dav.
On Wednesday afternoon indications of soir
grand mililary parade and unusual ceremoni,
were observed among the Yankees on Morn
Island. Music was heard, tiie Yankee b'atteri,
fired a salute from all their guns, and the slop,
ol (he 7 ankee works at the southern portion
the Island were tjironged with men. A Rtcai
er. with more than the usual amount of deco
ution, lay at tho landing at Lighthouse Ink
The cause of the demonstration is unknown.
The enemy opened fire from three guns sirn
ulfaneously upon the city, between ten at:
eleven oVock, Thursday morning. Six she
were thrown, with little effect, and injuring
one. Our batteries returned the fire brisk
During tire afternoon tiie batteries on Jam,
Island and Fort Moultrie opened on tiie enei
at work on Gregg and their new fortifies'io i
opposite Soecssionville. The Yankees replif
(U.-o.w-p tiir,;. muetijr at Haiteiy Tatll
and Seces-flouville.
On Thursday thore was no firing. Tho
ccssant ram and cold weather preventing ai
owt-door military operations.
Tho number of vessols inside the bar w
somewhat le-s, the strong Easterly wind hr.'
ing driven them into Stono and Lighthoi e
luiet for_ shelter.
During last week a negro, who says h v r
tiie servant and cook of General Gilmor
captured on John's Island by a servant of <
of the nreinbors of tho “Rebel Troop.”
states that he had been sent from Folly lair
to dobu’s Island to bring off somo pumpku
for General Gillmore, but that lie hadJost
way and had been out exposed to the Rev ,
weather for several days previous to liis < i
ture, when he was discovered by the sen au
above mentioned and brought in a prise l
lie was much emaciated, and when capt .
was badly frozen and exhausted. Hu was
to the hospital on John's Island. In tilt
count the negro gives of himself he says
he belonged at one time to a Virginia pla
who gave him his freedom when he was tw
years of age, and that he then went to
York. He has been in the employ of Gel u-a.
Gil more for fourteen years and accomp:
him from New York to Hilton Head. P
states that he has heard General Gillmo:,
that iie despaired of ewer being able to a>
that it was his intention ti i
- irc.ut General Gillmore, he siu
lias about nineteen thousand troops ir I
whole department.. Tho negro believes
will be no further demonstration ag: i.
Charleston, but that from what ho has heard,
thinks they meditate an attack by way c the
Ogecchcc river, upon Savannah.
POUEIiHI uvkmh.
The scarcity c.f specie in both England and
Fi ance, and the consequent increase in tli« rate
of discount of the banks of both cour tri ::
has awakened a very great and alarming at
est among financiers, who,.aithuugu av*»t. t . ,
the evil can at present be controlled as . !.;:.,
been before, by legislation, admit that it* radi
cal cure is thus impossible, and at best w 11 -al
ly postpone for a time the impending c. is
The Nassau Herald says it docs not yet seen- to
have pierced, their intellects sufficiently ,iet y.
(o make them aware that the great loss of ' v
bor —which is national wealth—the >vh< l. ;
world has suffered for three years, is, after nil.
the real cause of this state of affairs, am that
it can only Be effectually cured by th- w de
ment of the American war, and the con •quei *
rd-establishment of the old productive, •>
labor. The spokes cannot be taken f uni tie
wheel of trade, without creating an ‘ upset ”
sooner or later.
The new Confederate steamer Rappahannnc*.
is upwards of 1,000 tons brutben built of wood
with engines of three hundred horse po- , r
The London Times speaks of her thus : W
tho Admiralty sold the Victor, it w„- st;: > and
that she was intended for the China tu.de u. I
she was ostensibly fitted out with that view,
while her name was changed to Scylla. of Lon
don. Several suspicious circumstan -, how
ever, occurred, and the deck-yard oft'rials felt
it their duty to mane a report to the Admiralty
The result was the receipt of an order Sbm
ness directing her to be stopped. The order
however, arrived a few hours too late
in charge of the vessel evidently suspiu,
intention of the Government, and ' ‘ be
taken out of the harbor a few nights f
immediately afterwards hoisted the Cc r * - >
flag. Owing to some slight defect ii the -o:i
sfruction of her eng nesaud roach e' y. iv.-r
rate of steaming was never very bg- win “
was tiie principal reason for the Adi
recting her to be sold. A special '?,-•• • v
been made to tho Lord of the Admin *; 1 4 '
circumstances under which she lefl " H '
dockyard.
The. London Post says (hat dunn "
her last 7.158 persons sailed fromC- *■'
to the United States, among when ’• 4re
not 700 cabin passemrers. Os this ■ L-rt- •••••;<
her 2,279 were English. 327 Scotch, *•
696 other countries. The total n
ir.g the country was 8.421, being
over the same month of last year o >
TU f.-r.m T -Veronp] *n Law ••
months, amounted to and acu 1
of figures shows that the increase of .- .
1863 over the whole of tho year 1802 ~
to 71.681. being double and nearly ~
than the total exod”" frou ‘ tl ‘°
Winter does not seem to cheek the tic -
United States appear to swollow up t xmj
ity of the cmigranta.
The speculation of tbe French poop
ceived anew impulse by the order of
ister of Marine to complete the iron
all the ships on the stocks or in the doc
in three months, extra hands to be t »
for that purpose.
The committee to whom tbe late
body left £150,000 to improve the and
the London poor, havo succeeded
nothing, as yet, except write letter,'
the donor.
” NS*6 SUMMARY.
It is stated that no more passpo
suo 1 from tfie Department of fcm
pending war to any male citizen 1
plicant produces and filwin the
certificate from the proper milita'
that he is not liable to duty in t- r ;
It is stated that there is a ma- " ” Q u -
C., who is older than his mtrf . •
forty-eight and he fifty. If 111 .
miracle worked by theoonsctip
ket on the shoulder might lesse ' 1 ' ;
Chief Justice O’Neal, of 8. ' aH j
residence near Newberry Cos - j
Htfaj. Gen .Jubal A. Earl/, b
to the command of the Dep& r ’ ‘ i '
ley of Virginia, with bis bead --• ’’.a . . f/
ton. Brig Gen. Harry Hays,
Brigade, succeeds Gen. E. in .mm .ud of
his old division on the Rapida
Col. Blanton Duncan has c hi i bated • t
ling billfor two hundred porn ‘ lO t ' ,K -’ ’ t
statue association. _
Ihe Senior Editor of the F -yy’ * ’'’“P -’ j
Observer, enterg this New Y* * upon •
tieth ys*r of hi* coaaiotivß I v -
sc s • ■
•>«» at
i-.'-usl;
:.* 'L. ,’ Brain- the Brit - HI
\\ ;u. -ut a4m ■’
•it 1 : '.H
- to
l-’ieilhiff; ■
Ir .1-1 I .1" . :.--"'.i!ittoll 6
■! .Mr. I.a: :, rto ' !•*'
-i-ii.- I the !:i'
h,- p ur j.rnftvdon a,* s:i
- - •• i' hi- r.-in- vili
--1 at the ti-io• ■
-nilroad map.
j ever inn " ...I V* Ling liorti’e to the'!■
j fiersoa than ti.-.-f* .v b -f Fort
I fl.ver..l negix - •• i been i.rreste-l Hi I
;■ 111-. ■ • :ii.u-u -I*. LV B.v.c.l'vrs \ll!!l.l jeb' 1
■' !:• tin ' . . ... -I .’.be
I not bvn H,dirad, W.h-r. I’m Lffi.v u
s i:p,i :.. 1: . " ise to \ ers.-cute wiii’e 1
! ’ :y ' PW * th * r Col3Dltn<e v
, ()-d\ r-vdon x;till is Tit..,- lut.niog V ,j
j ti,,. a sirecch a* f.iopor L.s ii-i'e
j - - : .1 riot
| IVosideni w j.rBI bo elected.
iMe '.V ishinui,.;. Chrofiiele pays >t 1
, >•■ i•’ v.i n \ll mi by t .. • >r
a cost ~fa million dollars, now that'-? 1 ’
an r, fitted an 1 put in order, ’ iWy to
‘■'fly lesa !armi,table than the Ironsides.
,at tiie Phi: . d-iphia Ntny-ym ’> '” ’ ;
I ’ r-a down to Charleston to" K<e the !'••’ Cl
i \tL> » ; li-.!. t!
.ii.-ti:-ei-.. 8-:,i- :s :i;-ain ir. :ii >
I ia-I.'ie PI and -VI wdl iie nt. sc.a.
t <> Lqp. -Gi’.e .‘.-uinal denies lb- ’"H|
-'.dement, Hi H
at ( > -e'KI
■ '■< cc-ir r.ny !> i.s “a .‘bip'ol tho eld b’HI
full of tre son Every one who *Hfl
HI
n
■ 1, in : e,; t, .> (’•.niederat •< it. .’•-•'jHH
pi. 1 1 Mb, lan m ier Unit t*c will Bang a
i,i,, each time bis telegraph wires a „ ■
ty ' ■ rncr ly. ■
Some of tho ’A st Tinli t papers anucip-l
ranch !?,--.or pr:<-... for futme sugar cr , I
be '
■
enlafli.a. i-f uq^H
in grrwi ■
<H
| datuag H
The H
fl
I
view wiii, . anti c ,G. i.eial McNeill. ■
L Two, e I
I* ed two . r ol ' . 1 ' nois reg .1
near Do oia, »c • wl-eu Mu fiurtirfi •
. tacked tiadr c.qit, ’.i110.l c-nc ou{rig«. 1
[ ihe other one till. ■-* i -.-rnsible and '
* escaped.
< n r©[
I Big!-- ria it, v. e.-i \. Ha
I year.-
| A man arrested ’at I’ i. Cnriada.
i being cone- rued i.i a- *: j>, ,iy ~vas oh
ly innocent if to lo 1 ' -ved, .or i.c sai«
had not Uin.-d a mat at non- > bus. Deeiu
I ty cool—that.
Throughout ii, ■ .a, 1 in, city vm
luc- dugs are K i.:,c ■ ■ . y botd t,
the quoiu of iroup-i -. itL'n.'. i be ,’raft.
B’. -ox - ilm - . • ■ Id: ;i . and li»r
of *\ -ituckv to (lev .so sou, - me; n:i I
| th. di-att may b, vidc-d.
j !he imPibei- ol -.ui ;rants ari : tret Id..
I >■'•-> 186 b at tie- • -;rt of New Ytrk i« 1
i against ’ 1. 158 lost, yea-
I He I. **;-■, sc.v 1.-.a*
I the stiv- t: of ilia; ite io i> x
! starvation.
Several m-v- ■ av- oren arre?
j BGHe. Iri;.. • ndravvj’ir.g t -
, ,:i lieAvi.- *•„ . -,-! -.a yu. st '
I era! authorities.
I '* ! -. : ; :i '.‘V •’<’■« O!" ICorf
; ■■■ ■.. :he h- 1 l ' “
j -; . u„. : . u e pj
! ..ecu at vvib emo.-P; <’■ > - si *’i'p'Dg.
I »<.. iv.l.ro 1,-,.- bi-or, »d(lyy’*g s-'. .
!G- >■!•!( dcrai-, prtvar.a-r •>■<
I' ■ Hows th .-; out V .Is .; av v 11b.
j •'or.. • ,'.'• o! ..• ;’ ;d ri .-- ». . v oiv b.i/p ,
:>
tb iv, in her pot ■ i-iog the '
’'hi, 1862 and. lh‘.’ '--‘iiiiics of X* g*
t.v'e - I’-.i -..a-.ii i-’.. '
show 1 tl; ox;. a' . 1
1
o' i in ti. ; resent . . uhfe * i> . I
- ban ilit I -i ke 1
ri-it be infiilTed, the ,ukee3 sold thel >r.
i •■! !!y rtpossibic; an rout tbeS*Hhß a
lb! V • . .. . rkC fj
t > say noth',;,.; about the niimb-.r sold in
places.
A train of o.intbii- is rain ,ng from th;
Bobj salt in*n.'s 4, irpin'.a I. ■V, Calbun.i,.
!.•-"■/- D;'. * * -.ti.. and. ,t ib Com pan,
Phis, sio ■ : i ' -ip mo,:. .t, .i?po-,-ta
iimt Lae. - me! is aide to pack from eigh
, ,mired >•: ii . Jiouiu! . It costs no
hiog to ket p tbe ; < ; s.,>y v. ill fat <
-in, , and gras'.-ivoo,|, gad the deserts
re s’ Hard on lne-cs , ’• mules are p ,
cam l :; t'l.'ive on.
The Norther; pr.p r. -re , • yyifi
tives i inf. ny, il-Ut i. ■•>', non crirnt
shows ibat ;« ; 1 • -»•»> of s.«ciety iu Iri
dominions are I- ■•am •>.. o.i;-ii|,i and J,
ized. Tbe h : . b,.' > iuinn.-. of the t,
nnls coutali- n-.taet notices for yo -i; ,
who have been enticed away n tbeir
and !, <1 astray by ,h.signing vilfians.
theii paper i oa/s "i' b« war con tint:
longer, the people will lie so thoroug
bunched that (here will be little worth ig
iu tbe nation.”
The New York .nows says that in pul. _ad
in private, upon Loren; j!.fates mil in soc.rl cir
cles, at all times and iu >lj p ares, where citi
zer.s are accu tomed to speak U,*-ir miuds lieei
ly, any man who no*. —-Ulullj or ii.tns.lia
deaf may hour Abraham I.in Mr, -Icnounceq .
a low,. uniting f-.:, die, an umxiapulout pc,aLi
an and a perjured magistrate.-'
Both wings of the Federal ftp (ol at V; a
iagton arc now connected by t, graph.
A resolution L, s p. -ect tlUnifed Btf ts
Hot.s, <a !>p. n;.il,v . r«-qr- ir.- g it, *
C-ommission-r of Exchange Iboy enar.e,
will. Judge Oukl, for the e-c.uega „
man for wuitc ni .ti, leavfiig all othe.-s f, r
arrangements. I hi- is rather ignilicf
goes ti p i,ve, to some extent, that th» aro ;
needoff.t pii.-.onet:- w- boll.
Tho Federal newkpaper "nk tbs' aer»
Rrice is moving on Li* ,cpck. \,-k.
■RLi- Fedora’ ' ~gu.. ard , falling ? '-at ,p
iffi/pal vidvicf-v from Grdnt do -not * llcut
"1.0 Del;- .cruli ■>- -, - o j;. f ;
Cot.y t, s arc trying to form ap! at form o: ai
(.; c-ppnn- .. -of I. -jin io sLu., : : i„-r
Th.- Governor- ofm.tiy o' ihe Nether
(.rot..-- t;..u rctiea 1 of ifi
1 ’■■ Rritish v. if-rit. ,
tcerina t., r. of the Che -apeak*- ~au>a.
'Mic- - - tl., mafic -le*
TL -.ai,■ California baa inc^eafp
Ho-A-r wiv sword.
\ aw c'-nt. anti B. soon lo bt <
’•seven tt>, ad v u n-* , u ».»
lately iuTne -a.
Federal papwrs say Lor... rent is ki u
his army surri-uudcti
Ti)-: Re- n. ;.y urj star ,- r „ •
fear of another Confedt".ate raid. -' •'
The railroad is in operation, 3,,rth of r. I
- I
tion from Loudon to Ch ;o,,<i. ■
Francis ilenrv Ei-j. s ; a pyn , H
Elder, Esc. of Detroif, h,-.« ‘icc-ntiv
aling considerable soi -ation among .„ J H
clubs and <he r -c ueri.- «• - . the V il
played with the Bt Basie:if ls ‘H
H
I
od ch-tss-ulavers of tfi.u n T* ’^l
■
/amts s-u.iub , oL , ,q. .- . Hg
* M
ty gantCs w ri - ~)*.•'
with Me phy ,t I Lai-.,-, ' -y. M
der has show. : L t
Northern Slate: a,thca-;b Uo )
two years cf age ~•*.
Metuph" fottoo - •
middling seventy-.-, ce e:tt»
4 line, fair <«tty- v t r4t r H
a ' -t