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K*v \[ of our • luteimioiariea, wo perceive,
have Urn di, <a.rii.,: tho qiii-ntioii which we
li;:rp ;.lje-,i Ja the capl'mn. and have pretty
-.rumtmxteiy co-ictiric-Ito the oStinUii
pp**ynt grout upheaval ha* ’ ’ > ’■•> t •».
either in field or cabinel <■ :■•■»• *° ~1* “
emergency. If by great men > **' ,v
stood those who areabl >to :. ;ff a- ttioti t.>r
every difficulty, whether in '! <’t'.ril " r niili
tary department of the revolution, those
whose intellects ate so c*>mplet< !y overmas
tered tli it ordinary minds everywhere <ou
redo th«ir superiority. and accept their con
clusions without c m.-.ng them to pass un
der any examination, t! cn it must lie ad
mitted that this druggie lias thus far devel
oped no mind worthy ol the epithet great,
but if hv ’■ rout., wo ineaiT men who have ex
hibited Killitary qualities of the highest order,-
who have repeatedly carried the day in the
battle-field against large odds, and whose gen
eralship has commanded the admiration of the
European world and even extorted the highest
I'lioomi’inis from our enemies themselves, then
the Confederate side of this struggle has pro
duced more than one man eminently deserving
of the name.
I 1 la dtftioult whore a popular commotion is
in actual progress to say who, after the storm
h m ele tied away and light and order h ive been
evolved from the temporary chain, was the
muster spirit ol the occasion. There is now
no dissent lrom the opinion that in the JLnglisJi
revolution of two hundred years ago, Crom
well was the ruling genius, an l that Washing
ton was tho treat mm of the revolution of the
last centuiy. And yet. (!«• verdict pow s<>
unanimous would not have been rendered by
their oontempomries. especially in the ease ol
Washington, ft is well known that after the
repeated disasters which he had uiU'erod in the
Middle Stales there was a strong party in favoi
of dislodging him fioin the supreme comm rad
And installing in that position (dates, whosi
successes in the North had been more valuabh
nml brilliant than anything which Washington
hu<l achieved. It required all the firmness ol
Congress, and tin; constancy of his friends, to
nave him from being biijjoi ceded. There was
not loss diversity of sentiment in regard to
Cromwell among Ids fellow i itizens ; but lie
was far from being the great man in their judg
ment which a culm review of the whole scene
demonstrate' him to have boon to those who
are in circumstances to judge impartially.
Accepting the two names which we have
mentioned a the most eminent in, a military as
peel in the eras Lqwliieh we h v>. .> mi ml, n Is
not difficult to show that our struggle has
brought out men who, us soldiers, would not
softer in a comparison with either of them.—
(Jen. Jackson, in all those ([Utilities which ait
deemed essential to success was, at least, the
equal of Oliver Cromwell. < me secret ol the pow
er of the latter was tin perfect confidence which
his men reposed in him. I hey believed his
judgment to ho so accurate that they obeyed
unhesitatingly all hisordeis. l»ut no devotion
could exceed that of the soldiers of Stonewall
Jackson to their gallant leader. Wherever he
appeared, lie awakened the utmost enthusiasm;
and whenever lie issued an order, though they
,-ould not always discover the reason of it, yet
coming from him they accepted it as the best
direction which could ho given. 1 licro cau be
no doubt that Cromwell's religious faith was a
very great element ot his power. Ills religion
-was of the puritan type, and it was a potent
auxiliary in securing discipline and effective
ness for his army. Asa religious man our
Jackson's reputation is without reproach. His
torians have often questioned the piety ot the
English leaders. But neither friend uor foe has
had ought to allege against the Christian char
acter of Jackson. In intellectual gifts gener
nlly, iu u vigorous, tat' reaching mental grasp.
Cromwell had few superiors in any age of '.lie
world. But iu the qualities which lilted hint
for the battle held, lie has exhibited nothing
superior to those which were displayed by om
own countrymen in the Virginia campaigns.
It'success be a criterion of merit, it must be
conceded that (Jen. I.ee has evinced a general
shtp not inferior to that which was displayed
by the immortal Washington. And whatever
mav transpire in the futuie, ids past triumphs
have secured for him a name which his contem
poraries, without the grossest injustice, must
pronounce great, and which posterity will be
iconstiaitied to honor.
TllF. QUESTION OF SI'BSISTENi'E for our troops,
now being rapidly augmented by volunteers
awl enrolled men, is of vital interest at this
time. We are tain to believe that there is
food enough still in the country, if husbanded
carefully and judiciously, to last us till
another harvest. Inefficient and improvident
officials we fear have done much to foster
the belief of a scarcity, and indeed to give
some truthfulness to that belief. Thousands of
bushels of corn have been allowed to mould
or rot, simply for the want of care at the prop
er time. It there had been promptness in re
moving the grain at the first symptoms of in
jury, many a soldier might have ofteuer had
his hoe cake or corn dodger Excuses of the
lack of transportation may ho mised. It is the
dutv of the government to sustain and strength
en our hues of communication for this very pur
pose, that supplies maybe sent I rom one point to
another with facility and safety. The truth is,
there is vet an abundance ot v. heat and corn in
thw country, enough to subsist the army of peo-
pie. Therefore let the farmers *lo their duty
in telling to the government at a reasonable
compensation : let the officers who are empow
ered u> raise their supplies, not exceed the
strict limits of {be statute in their dealings
rvilh the planters ; let the railroads be kept in
a good stale of repair and a sufficient force ex
empt from military duty to keep them in order
let the greatest care be exercised iu regard
to the place Where grain is to be temporarily
stored, avoiding damp, exposed locations ; and
our word for it. the cry of scarcity in the army
will cease, at leist as far as bread is concerned.
As for beef, we do not suppose there js on
abundance of cattle ; but the number of hogs
is great, and there will be and already is any
•quantity of bacon. Give the soldiers enough
to eat ; and with the help of the profusion of
» >?etab'o9 which everybody is go'ng to raise
spring, we shall get on wrll enough until
.•mother harvest, both at home and in tho
field.
1 PEACE AM) BKWIUIATIOf.”
| On the first day of this year when the Empe
ror of the French was holding the levee ens-
I tomarv with trim at such times, he is reported
! to have expressed to Mr. Dayton—the Federal
Minister in attendance —the wish that the pre
| sent year might witness ‘-peace and reconci'ia
! tion” between the contending powers in Amer
ica. As the Emperor's words at these New
Years receptions nre regarded as peculiarly sig
nificant, it has beeu thought by some persona
that the brief remark to Mr. Dayton i3 indie»-
live of his fu’ure policy in regard to the contro
versy now raging in this country. The diction
ary has been consulted for the meaning of the
word “reconciliation.'' It has been discovered
to mean “return to union, “a restoration to
imity previously existing,'' arid sundry oilier
thing-’, all however more or less distinctly iiu
'l) ing “union." From all this >t has been
... <u-» Ijvmrs mqfeTe
on intends to intervene in the interest of the
Nor them government—that as a hint on a like
n. c ion, quite as brief, indicated lire Crimean
war which followed, the present intimation
must be taken as premonitory of armed inter
vention. if need lie, oil the Am ricau Conti
nent !
For our own part, we can c< njecture no such
uon*lroiis operations from the brief words of
the Emperor. We know not indeed that he
used the woid '’reconciliation” at all, at feast
my expression which would justify such a ren
dering into our language. We have only the
recount of the interview supplied by the Yan
kees; and they doubtless would put such an
interpretation upon the whole allair, as would
be most agreeable to their own view. But
even conceding that tho identical phrase in
question were employed, we car. see in it noth
ing more'than the wish which a polite gentle
m m in his own house would express when seek
ing to say something which might be agreea
ble to his guest—perhaps without premedita
ting a word.
II has been thought liy some that the course
of Napoleon of late has been less friendly to
wards the Confederates than it appeared to be
a few months ago. The facts that we he ,r
nothing more of-‘private intei views between
'.lie Emperor and the French," that nothing has
ooen hinted looking to our recognition, iogeth
••r with tho detention of our war vessels, have
awakened the suspicion that bouis was our
friend only so long as no serious disasters had
befallen our urfiis. But let us do him justice,
lie has on one or two occasions very unmis
tukeably manifested sympathy in our favor;
and there is as yet, no satisfactory evidence
lull lie lias changed his mind. It is very cer
tain that our enemies do not consider him to
have espoused their quarrels. The tone of the
Northern press—a fair reflection of the opinion
of tho Northern government and people—is
more denunciatory at the present time, per
haps, of (lie French than of the English au
thorities. There is nothing like an alliance be
tween Napoleon and our enemies. A short
time ago a resolution was introduced—and we
believed leferred—in the Yankee Congress that
it was the duty of the United States to expel
from Mexioo tho French troops. This would
indicate anything but a cordial feeling between
the Bowers. Wo believe the disposition of the
Emperor towaids ourselves is unchanged. We
do not, indeed, believe the rumor which at this
moment obtains some currency, that President
Davis is in receipt of a dispatch from him fore
shadowing recognition at an early day—for
such news must have transpired ere this. But
we do believe that when his personal offices are
exerted in regard to the American controversy,
we shall have nothing to regret in tho interfer
ence. In the meantime, it is well for us to
guard against disappointment by expecting
nothing whatever from any European quarter.
On our own energies, favored by a kind Provi
dence, must we depend for success. If foreign
help should come, we may accept it as an ad
ditional stimulus to our own efforts—remem
bering that the display of vigor and persever
ance on our part will, more than anything else,
dispose them to succor us. Foreign Powers re
sernble in this respect what the ancient pagans
said of their Gods—th-y help those who help
themselves.
COHPEIUIEADS OA LIATOLVg AMNESTY
PH OCLAM ATItW
The ‘‘Copperheads" of the North, or as they
style Ihomselves, the Conservative Democrats,
have recently spoken out in strong denunciation
of the amnesty proclamation which His most
Gracious Majesty. Lincoln, was pleased to make
to us rebels in connection with his last annual
message. Our readers remember that all can
didates for the amnesty were required in that
document to repudiate entirely all allegiance to
the constituted authorities of the Southern
States, and to accept the Powers at Washington
as having a paramount claim to their obedience
and respect. And to ma’ e their humiliation
complete they were then required to* take an
oath that they would co-operate with the North
ern Abolitionists in their wicked crusade against
the institutions of their own country. This
done they were tbeu to l>o forgiven for the
crime of secession and to be allowed to occupy
au humble place at the Federal board.
No man knew better than Abrabam Lincoln
that in such overtures, he was proposing
impracticable terms of settlement. No man
would have been more surprised than he, if a
people who for three years past had deported
themselves in the most chivalricand self sacri
ficing maimer, had humbled themselves so far
as to be \v filing even to entertain the question of
adjustment upon any such terms. We aie glad
to see that there are persons at the North who
have discernment enough to detect the shallow
artifice of their Chief Magistrate, and who have
the manhood to speak of it in fitting terms.—
An Illinois editor has very truly remarked that
"if the South has become so utterly lost to all
spirit and honor as to submit to such terms,
they will richly merit all the degradation and
infamy to which they will lie subjected by the
act." Mere recently we notice that conserva
tive members of Congress who really love the
l uion and are still clinging to the idea of its
restoration, notwithstanding t!jg gulf of blood
which rolls "between the two countries, have
remonstrated most earnestly against any such
l" opositions tor bridging the chasm. We have
not seen or heard from any quarter the slight
est disposition at the South even to consider
Lincoln s offer. Even those presses which have
,cen thought to be less Southern in their tone
than was required by the claims ol a .genuine
patriotism, have condemned in the most earn
est terms the amnesty proclamation in question.
Aud it is at least agreeable to discover that
there are Northern subjects who are willing to
denounce the proclamation as unparalleled and
monstrous.
The truth is the party now in power in the
United States do not wish to see the Union re
stored as it was. Such a reconstruction of the
shattered fragments would inevitably involve
the destiuction of the Republican party; and if
the leaflets piust elect between the salvation of
the country with the oreithrow of their party,
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 10, 1864.
j or permanent disunion with the salvation of
their pjrty, they would unhesitatingly choo.-e
the latter. The abolition party of tlie North
have never been distinguished for any devotion
to the late Federal Union. Who does not re
member that when tiie patriots Os the land,
both at the North and the South, entreated
them to desist from purposes which if success
ful would inevitably disrupt the country, that
they laughed at the idea of considering disunion
an evil which was to scare them baCk from tire
execution of their designs ? Who has forgotten
the derision and contempt wh ch they heaped
n[ion a ’’Union Committee” which once existed
in New York, ami pronounced the ‘‘Union
shiiekers,” as they were pleased to term this
Committee, as men bought up by Southern pa
tronage? Now, however, it is quite convenient
for these demagogues to erv Union! Union!
Down with the rebels Rut lt,<iy tv.ro the orttne
people notwithstanding. There is really no de
votion to the Union save as it may contribute
to the power and permanency of tho Black Re
publican party.
\ORTHKKA PROGRAMME FOB THE PRES
IDENCY.
Though several mouths must yet transpire
before the arrival of the time when nomina
tions for the Presidency have usually been
made in the United States, enough has already
transpire 1 to indicate the probable course which
events will assume when the Abolition nomi
nating convention assembles. It is pretty cer
tain that the present incumbent of the Presi
dential chair will be the nominee of bis party.
He has already been proposed by the Black
Republican members of the Legislatures of
several powerful States. This will place him
before the Convention under very (avoiable
auspices. In addition to this, the difficulty of
uniting on any other person, amid such a host
of aspirants as will immediately urge their
claims, may dispose many who have no partic
ular preference for Lincoln, to escape, by ac
cepting him, the dilemma into which they wouid
be thrown by his rejection. When besides it is
considered that he has the prestige of office to
recommend him, there can be very little doubt
that he will be the choice of the party now in
power. It has been said, we know, that Fre
mont will run on his own account, and it is
probable that the more radical wing of the Ab
olition party may threaten the Republican fra
ternity with schism Ain less one of their own
men should receive the choice of the Conven
tion. But these are but the ordinary tactics of
politicians to acquire office, and will intimidate
no one who has been familiar with such me
naces. They will not oppose the nominee who
ever he may be.
We think it almost certain that Lincoln will
be tlie candidate of the abolition party. He
will enter upon tiie race backed by the gigan
tic patronage of his office. This, on a peace
basis, is considered a handsome capital with
which to enter the contest. But when war has
swelled it to a thousand millions of dollars per
annum, it furnishes the man who wields it with
an argument nol easily overcome. Every man
in civil life, and every man in military life,
who holds office by the authority and during
tlie pleasure of Lincoln becomes, with very
,' v „ ,i,ni., (tn mlvovaie ror Ills ie-eleotion.
This gives him an army of electioneered which
must of itself go far towards securing his suc
cess. Again, as the South has made the elec
tion of Lincoln the occasion of their secession,
tlie party who invested him with office in the
lirst place, will take pleasure in re investing
with office if they can, the man whose original
election was so offensive to those who are now
their enemies. They will avoid any tiling
which wo.lid look so much like a concession to
us as the relinquishment of Mr. Lincoln, even
for a man of the same political stripe. Seward
has already said that Lincoln has not yet been
President of the whole country, and it is doubt
less their determination to keep him in power,
even should it cover eight, twelve, or sixteen
years, or till the Federal flag waves over every
State in the Confederacy, or until our obsti
nate and bloody resistance demonstrates the
impossibility of their success.
That there will be a powerful opposition to
Lincoln there can be no doubt. But what
form exactly this will take, whether a Demo
crat “pledged to the vigorous prosecution of
the war," or a conservative man willing to
cease on some equitable terms the desolating
strife which has so long raged, wo cannot yet
ascertain. We have a rumor that a number of
the prominent men of the anti-administration
party are anxious that Franklin Pierce should
lead the opposition. Grant has also been
named as the champion of the Democracy.—
Whoever the nominee may be, he has but
slight chance of success, unless it is afforded by
the triumph of Southern arms. If in the en
gagement which is impending in North Georgia
and East Tennessee, we can administer a defeat
to the Federal armies which will compel the
evacuation of that country whil-t Gen. Lee
compels Meade to make another hasty march
towards Washington, and Beauregard continues
to defy his assailants at Charleston, the North
ern masses will grow yet more weary of the
war and begin to turn their attention to a can
didate who will stop the enormous flow of
blood and treasure.
It cannot be too earnestly impressed on every
man in the Confederacy, that the re-election of
Lincoln means war, obstinate, sanguinary, re
lentless war—and that the only way in which
we cau do anything to prevent that election is
to damage his armies, aud defend our own
rights. By such a process we may hope to
turn the attention of our enemies to thoughts
of justice and of peace, and to induce them to
instal as their Ch es Magistrate, a man who
will at least seek some method by which scenes
of carnage may give place -to conduct which
is more befitting the character of rational be
ings.
Home Manufactures. The capital of the
Richmond, Va„ Glass Works is SIOO,OOO. —
Notwithstanding a large share of the profits
were used to increase the works, a dividen of
ten per cent, was declared ou the business of
the first month. It is expected the establish
ment will pay for itself every month. Facts
like these are eueouraging. They show that
manufacturing enterprises in the Confederacy
are and can be made profitable. While those
who engage iu such pursuits are benefiting
themselves, they are a'so benefiting the public,
by supplying them with much needed articles.
Wo trust that our capitalists will take courage
and form companies for the manufacturing of
many other articles that our people stand in
want of. Better, by far, make the things we
use at home, than import them. By pursuing
the former course we are truly independent—
while it we adopt the latter, we shall always be
dependent.
A despatch is published by the Raleigh pa
pers aunouncing that the fine steamer Ad
vance. belonging to the State of North Caro
lina, has l>e-n got off the shoals on which she
had been grounded, aud is now safe.
| The “Lose Star State.’’ —The military s:t_
| ua ton in Texas, although apparently critical
I at present, is full of encouragement and iDtei
est. The people—sturdy, staunch and loyal to
the Confederacy—have shown a devotion to the
cause, and a bravery in times of trial, worthy
of emulation. On all our battle fields her sons
have borne a conspicuous and honorable part.
Whatever of renown attaches to our military
annals in the past, must be shared with the
Texas troops. All honor to their noble heroism!
Since the enemy obtained nominal possession
of the Mississippi, they have become isolated
in a measure trout the rest of the Confederacy.
But though geographically divided by the foe,
they are still of us and with us, heart and
soul. All the people— from the mere youth
fresh in his teens to tottering elcl—manifest a
true spirit of loyalty. They rally to the stand
anl of Jlagruder with the greatest promptness
and enthusiasm.
Texas is not only self-sustaining, but has
furnished a large quantity of supplies for the
army and people east of the Mississippi. Her
land is of inexhaustible fertility; immense
crops of all kinds of cereals cau be raised ; the
forests and prair es abound with game, and the
finest beef cattle in the world roam her fields.
No wonder the Yankees c ivet the possession of
so rich a prize. The confidence of the Texans
has at no time been shaken k in the ultimate
success of the Confed-racy. The currency has
3tood and still stands nearer par than in any
other portion of the South. Our late reverses
did not depreciate it, nor spread despondency
through the State. It would seem that the
hour of sternest, fiercest trial for the people
has come. Bunks—not much of a general any
way, but with a formidable force to help him in
his dirty work—will try his best for her siibju
gation. Armed bands are hovering upon her
borders, ready to pounce upon her, and bring
her recusant sons back into the Uniou fold.
What with hostile Indians, Mexicans and
Yankees, all their energies will Lave to be put
forth to keep them back. But Texas is equal
to the occasion. No brighter constellation
exists in our Southern galaxy than the “Lone
Star ” In her vocabulary there is no such
word as fail. Let us imitate her fortitude, her
bravery, her patient endurance, her noble en
thusia m.
Banks’ Movements in Louisiana.— Banks, the
abolition appointed tyrant oyer Now Orleans,
;ind sue# parts of Louisiana as Di»k Taylor has
not whipped him out of, has issued his procla
mation, in pursuance of authority vested iu
him by Ids master at Washington, inviting the
‘ loyal citizens of the State qualified to vote iu
public affairs”—that is to say, the imported
Yankees and the Yankeefied natives—to as
semble at certain precincts for the purpose of
casting their votes for Governor, Lieut. Gover
nor, Secretary of State, Treasury, Attorney -
Gem ral, Superintendent of Public Institution,
Auditor of Public Accounts.
Banks takes this step, "being fully assured
that more than a tenth of the population de
sire tlie earliest possible restoration of Louis
iana to the Union.” In otlift words, he is
carrying out Mr. Lincoln’s idea of self-govern
ment, which provides that a tenth of the peo
ple of a "rebel State' ’ may set up a Government
good enough for abolition purposes.
What these officers are to do, and with what
powers invested when elected, muster Banks
is kind enough to inform them as follows :
“Tlvy shall when elected, for the time be
ing, and until others are appointed by compe
tent authority, constitute the civil government
of tlie State, under the Constitution and laws
of Louisiana, except so much of the said Consti
tution and laws as recognize, regulate or relate
to slavery, which being inconsistent with the
present condition of public affairs, and plainly
inapplicable to any class of persons now exist
ing within its limits, must be suspended, and
they are therefore and hereby declared inoper
ative and void. This proceeding is not intend
ed to ignore tho right of property prior to the
rebellion nor to preclude tlie claim for cbm
pensat on of loyal citizens for losses sustained
by enlistments or other authorized acts of the
Government.’’
Banks is further good enough to promise that
arrangements will be made for the early elec
tion of members of Congress for the State, and
also
In order Prat the organic law of tho State
may-be made to conform to tbe will of the peo
ple, and harmonize w.th the spirit of the age,
as well as to maintain and preserve the ancient
landmarks of civil and religious liberty, au
election of delegates to a convention for the re
vision of the Constitution will b ; held on the
first Monday of April, 18t>4. The basis of rep
resentation, the number of delegates and tlie
details of e'ection, will be announced in subse
quent orders.
Here is a specimen of Yankee despotism that
the people in every State wherever Lincoln’s
armies get a foot hold wilL have to submit to.
He being a minority ruler himself, is determin
ed to make minorities rule wherever he can
compel submission.
Reorganization of tub Army.— The reorga
nization of the army of the Confederate States
is just now attracting the liveliest attention in
Congress. On Friday last, Jan. 29, Mr. Foote
presented a number of memorials aud letters
from officers and privates in the army, insisting
upon securing to the men the right of making
anew election of officers, as an indispensable
condition of the reorganization of the army for
the next active campaign. Another important
question in the reorganization of our military
forces is that of consolidation, The Richmond
Examiner says :
Tiiere is no doubt that our strength in offi
cers is largely in excess over that of our
strength in privates ; this being, generally, the
result of the casualties of war. Our brigades
are said to average four to six skeleton regi
ments, which might be as well commanded if
reduced to two regiments. Each regiment thus
obliterated by consolidation would relieve from
duty, or render unnecessary, three field officers,
one adjutant, one sergeant-major, one commis
sary sergeant, one quartermaster, one quarter
master sergeant, one ordnance sergeant, two
medical officers, one hospital steward, and forty
captains and lieutenants, making in all fifty
two men. Thu? brigades composed of six
skeleton regimenfs could relieve or render un
necessary to the service two hundred and eighty
officers ; andjfbrigadesjcoinposed of four regi
meuts half that number.
The result of consolidation, if this stiteraent
is correct, would be to give us qn tea laige
force to occupy other positions in the ranks. —
Although it would no doubt be objectionable
to those officers who were deprived of their
posts and eaioluments, yet it would materially
lessen the expense of the service ; and, if they
are true patriots, such officers ought not to
complain that they arc reduced to the ranks,
it the efficiency of the army is thereby en
hanced.
A letter from a gentleman who resides near
Winchester, Ya., states that the Yankees con
templated a raid up the Valley a few days
since, but that several Y'ankee regiments.whose
terms of service had nearly expired, positively
refused to march. The writer says several
New York and Pennsylvania regiments have
left tor their homes, their terms of enlistment
having expired.
Flour is selling in Richmond at $240 a bar
rel. So we go. Congress wasting precious time
and every thing on the highway tp ruin,
j Good News raoa our Armies —The Rich
mond papers state that Lee's army is in the
best condition it possibly can be. Clothiug
and food are abundant, the soldiers are in fine
spirits, and confident of success the coming
campaign.
Longstreet’s army is also said to be in the
best of spirits. Some of the men have suffered
sever ly for the want of blankets and shoes,
but the people and t! ■„ Government have come
to their relief, and complaints have ceased.
Any way, naked or not, Longslreet's men are
plucky and stout enough to drive the enemy
within four miles of Knoxville.
With regard to Gen. Johnston's army, we
have the following assmaace from the Atlanta
Confederacy :
Every indicnj in which reaches us from the
army in--hecilt «. not So much that the
troops are comparatively comfortable in their
rude lints, nor yet that a single, universal sen
timent. of confidence exists in favor of General
Johnston The chief feature that arrests our
attention anil our pleasure is that the troops
are re-enlisting. The noble example was set by
the Tennesseeans. These exiles have held
meetings among themselves, and have resolved
never to go home except with muskets on their
shoulders. The Kentuckians followed suit, and
the whole aryiy is now readily subscribing to a
new term of service. With the new levies
which will be poured ill after the first of Feb
ruary, we shall he able go meet and tepei
Grant's advance in the spring. If every one
in the rear will put his shoulder to the wheel,
and contribute whatever he can to the proper
equipment of the army, especially in the way
of blankets, there would be no more suffering.
We confess frankly, that the apparent apathy
of the country had excited some grave
ings within our hearts, after the retreat trom
Missionary Ridge, but the heroism of tho sol
diers restores us'to a perfect faith, and we now
look upon the advent of hostilities with san
guine spirits. There is no use mincing words
about it—we must defeat the next forward
movement, preserve Georgia from invasion, and
save the Confederacy. With this result, the
coming elections in the North will go against
Lincoln. Another party introduced to power,
and then comes negotiation. With negotiation
comes peace.
An Amusing Stampede. —A correspondent of
the Richmond Examiner, describing the late
raid of Fitz Hugh Lee’s cavalry into Hardy
county, Virginia, says :
As the head of the column pmerged and
came in view of tlie Patterson Creek Valley,
to the astonishment and delubt of every one,
a train of forty wagons was discovered mean
dering "its s’ow length along.” On it came,
right into our ravenous jaws.
In the rear of the train marched ail infantry
guard of one hundred men. As so.>n as they
passed our front, Rossers’s brigade darted
down tlie mountain side after them, leaping
fences aud ditches in their course, and gallop
ing with headlong fury over tholrozen swamps
that filled the valley.
Any one who lias ever seen a wagon train
stampeded will admit that the war furnishes
nothing more profoundly entertaining to a
philosophic spectator, or more amusing to any
body. There seems to be a soit of inexplicable
electric chain of communication between the
different drivers of a wagon train. Let the
hindmost one discover danger, and at once the
foremost driver knows of it, as it were, by in
stinct. The mules, always keen observers, are
not slow to catch the general panic, and soon
become more frightened than their tenrified
drivers, who. with frantic screams at them to
hurry up. and with spasmodic application of
tlie 1 ish, endeavor to escape the doom that pui
snes them. The wagons themselves seem for
the -tii'iii ndoivi . vitality, .'limy plunge
and rear wi ll a kind o. despciate energy that
makes them seem animated ; while a whole
train thus moving some fast, teams running
into slow ones, wild teams running out of the
road through tho fields, and some contrary
ones trying to turn round, presents a dioram
ic view of life that must be seen to be appre
ciated.
As it happened upon this occasion, every
wagoner in the train could see Rosser, with his
brigade, dashing d;uvn the mountain side after
them, with a war whoop that echoed and re
echoed along the valley. Presto, change, and
immediately, as if by the power of a magician,
the unsuspecting train that was pursuing the
even tenor of its way became a surging
chaotic mass. ,
Driver after driver leaped from his post of
duty and ran to the woods. The mules, how
ever, in many cases, did not abate their speed
but. as if shunning it iate that consigned them
to the short rations ol Dixie, redoubled their
energy and refused to be halted . All the
guard, who at first ran without firing, until
they had gotten a position on a hill-side flanked
by an impassable ditch, and here they made
qiiite a stubborn resistance for a while.
The Cotton Question and Confederate Loan
in Enjland. —The Liverpool Journal of Com
merce of Dec. Iff, speaks thus of the cotton
question and Confederate loan in England.
The cotton question and Confederate loan
both continue to excite grave attention. In
reference to the former, tlie London Times has
p lblished another important letter, in which
the chief view urged is, that the public at large
should not blind themsqlves to the effect the
absorption of money in the cotton trade must
produce iu all other trades. As at the places
of production it will lessen the*cultivation of
other articles—coffee, sugar, lu mp, wool, tobac
co, etc.—so at home it will, by the high rate of
interest it occasions, put a check upon many
of our leading brancr.es of occupation. The
charge of eight, nine, or ten per cent for capi
tal can be borne ii>any field of biasness for a
month or two without appreciable inconveniene,
but there ere many departments of trade to
which its long continuance would almost put an
end. If we are to send out unprecedented suras ■
to India, Egypt, Brazil and elsewhere, we can
raise those sums*only by the forcing of our
goodi on the one hand, and by restricting our
inportations on the other. We must take less
grain, less timber, etc, and just in proportion
as this process goes on, aud our stocks become
exhausted, must be the future advance in the
prices we shall have to pay for their replenish
ment. Sound and prosperous es tlie commerce
of the country has been, and is, a few mouths’
prolong ition of the existing state of the money
market will probably create a much greater
contraction of operations than has hitherto
been contemplated.
Iu reference to the Confederate loan, the
Morning Herald has published a letter from
Mr. C. J. Macrae, the financial agent of the
Confederate Government in Europe, which
shows that the authorities at Richmond are
taking measures to support their credit. Tne
publication of this letter, no doubt, produced
the improvement which was observable iu the
stock on tlie exchange yesterday.
Gold Fields in Arizona. —The Estrella de
Oceidoute, of Ures, Mexico, publishes the fol
lowing letter in relation to the recently discov
ered gold fields of Arizona :
All : he information which we have received
on the newly discovered gold field testifies
that it is very rich. The fietd is north of the
villages of the river Gila, in Arizona, on the
other side of the river Balado, which empties
into the Gila. From the wbitehouse which (he
Americans have erected amid the Piraos. on the
river Gila, to the new mine, is thirty miles, and
from thence to another mint more northward,
fifty miles. In the new field, which is nearest
to Sonora, there are about 2(K> yards of ground
on e ich bank of the river, of which a company
of Americans, who are the discoverers, have ta
ken possession. This company, consisting of
nine persons, are obtaining about twenty-five
pound- a day. All the field which
these possessions is worked by Mexicans, and
about fifty miles more to the north is the new
mine, where the native Americans are. All the
land is in the neighborhood of the Rio Sals do,
within the possessions of the Apaches Tontos,
who arc said to be very well behaved towards
the miners. It is believed that gradually gola
in the other mountains in the villages o
Apaches will be discovered. All the go < ,s
coarse grains, and most of it is fotm t
surface. The blade of a knife or a bavone
the instrument* generally used for removing
the earth which covers the gold.
VOL. LXXVIII. —NEW SERIES VOL. XXVIIL O. 0.
Tun South Cannot re Subjugated.—' The
London Standard in remarking upon the pre
sent position of affairs in this country, and the
futujre prospects of the Confederacy, remarks
thus :
The South seeks for disunion. It wishes to
lie lelt alone as a separate people. It does not
desire tho conquest, it does not aim at the hu
miliation of the North. It never will be satis
fied with anything less than disunion—withthe
complete and unreserved recognition of the
State rights guaranteed by the Constituti; nos
the late United States. Disunion is inevitable.
If every army of the South were dispersed ; if
the Northerners were to gain a hundred battles
it every city in the Souta were garrisoned by
Northern troops, every river swept by North
ern armaments, it would delay for the time the
accomplishment of the end, which is about as
certain as the situ rises and sets. In the war
of Independence the English drove the Amer
icans about like sheep, and occupied evejy
strategic point in the States for months together
They were obliged in the end to give way to
indomitable wilt ot a people determined tube
free.
The Americans at that time were but a hand
ful in comparison to the Southerners of to-day.
You cannot hold down by any known force,
ten millions of people who have sworn to ac
hieve their independences. The armies of Lee
and Johnston might be disbanded to morrow ;
they uii.lit go, like Israel, “every man to his
tent,’’ and all the operations of the Confed
erate Government be suspended. The Federal.*
would be as far as ever frouf the conquest of
the South. There would still bean enemy in
every cottage, a rebel in every field. To re
duce this whole population to a condition wors
thau that of negro slavery would be a task be
yond the stiength of the mightiest nation on
earth. It is not in the power of the North to
make the South the Poland of America, nor,
if it could be done, would it ever prove prof
itable or pleasant.
The time has now arrived when the politi
cians of the North are alive to the truth of
what is told us byevety man of Southern blood,
that there is now between North and South so
impassable a barrier ok hatred, that never un
der any circumstances, can they he reconciled
and reunited. It is perhaps within the power
of the Northern belligerents to drive their an
tagonists to such a last extremity of despair as
that which maddened the people of Carthage
when their extermination had been decreed by
the Roman Senate. When every city has been
sacked, every village given to the dames, every
farm laid waste, when every Southern man has
been slain in battle, every woman has offered
herself up on the altar of I er' country, when
every State south of the Potomac is a desert of
ashes and of corpses—then and then only, may
the North take possession. Those who think
that there is a Providence that rules the world
wi 1 not believe in the possibility of such a ca
tastrophe.
The people of tho North are all jubilant just
now at ihe late successes of their armies. The
disastrous deteats of the armies of McClellan,
Pope, Burnside aiul Hooker, plu' ged them not
very long ago into (lie depths'of despair, in
presuming on tlie subjugation of tlie South be
cause Lee has retired aud Vicksburg has fal
len, they are as much in the wrung as tiiey
were in regarding these Southern victories as
decisive of the war. With such power of rais
ing armies, and with so vast an extent of
ground on which to employ them, the w ir must
go on indefinitely, so long as either North or
South chooses to continue it.
The fall of Vicksburg, of Poit Hudson, and
tlie opening of the Mississippi to the Federal
armaments, are great calamities to the Confed
erate cause in the West, because they cut oft'
from the rest of the Soutli those Stales which
are west of the river. But, as in all contests
where naval forces are brought into play, the
North has an immense advantage over the
South, these occurrences cannot bo said to
have been unforeseen. The defense of Vicks
burg is one of tlie most heroic feats 1 ecorded in
history. It is one of those struggles, which,
successful or unsuccessful, goto form the char
acter and mature the spirit of the people. It is
perhaps well for the South that it should meet
with misfortunes, and undergo heavy trials. It
might have presumed too much on an unbroken
tide of success, and, in its presumption, rushed
upon its ruin. Its manful struggles have
earned i'or it the sympathy of Europe and a
place in history.
Centuries after it has emerged from its bap
tism of fire, and taken its proud place among
the nations, the Southern lather and the South
ern mother will narrate to their children, by
the fireside, iu burning words, the story of theii
ancestors’ prowess, aud bid them emulate the
deeds of tlieir fathers in the olden time. They
will (ell their sons of those conquering vete
rans of Virginia, those dauntless defenders of
the blood-stained Mississippi bastions. Th°y
will tell their daughters how women of Charles
ton tore off their jewels for tho war, how tlie
women of New Orleans hurled defiance at the
Northern tyrant in the midst of his troops.—
Those sons and daughters will then grow up
into a people that will he worthy of those from
’whom they sprung. To us here in England
there will be an abiding regret.
We did not once stretch out a hand to aid
the combatants in this uoble struggle for inde
pendence. Even Northerners tell us now that
we might hive stopped the war long ago by
the simple recognition of tlie- South. We might
have made these brave mea our brothers and
friends, detached them forever from their sel
fish kinsmen of the North. As partners in
commerce, we should have -become the provi
ders of the world, when New York and Phila
delphia were as desolate as Tyre and Sydon.—
We have left the South alone to win its spurs.
Our neutrality is designated as selfish. If
lightly understood, it is unselfish in the ex
treme—but it is also uuwise and cruel.
The Coming Campaign.— Every thing tends
to show that the coming campaign this spring
will he an active one. It will be conducted by
the North with extraordinary energy. The
rulers of that section will put forth their whole
remaining strength. Every effort that interest
or malice can suggest will be made by them to
bring every man possible into the field. It will
be the effort of a body of fanatics maddened
by repeated failures—and desperate at the con
templation of the ruin which another will
bring upon theifi.
Let us then prepare for the last grand strug
gle. Inspired by the glorious achievements of
the past--by the example of our veterans—by
the cause for which we fight, let us do all that
can be done to strengthen our armies to wring
from an nuwilling an 1 merciless foe, our birth
right of ireedom. Let all at home do their
whole duty. Let them furnish the army with
all that it needs; exert themselves to send back
to the field those who are absent; throw no
impediments in the way of our leaders; banish
causeless apprehensions and unmanly fears ; be
united, resolute and determined. Let all at
homo do this ; aye and more too, if possible.
Then indeed shall we present aboldftont to
our invaders, and the next campaign will be a
brilliant and victorious one for us.
A Patriotic Citizen. —A cilizeu appioaching
his three score years and ten—whose only son
well fitted for military service is, and has been,
in active service from tho first, and w ose oth
er sons are doing anything else except specu
luting on the war, and are ready for the field i
properly wanted— writes as follows from Lnlge
wav. S. C., to the Charleston Courier:
T sim not vet discouraged about our cause.
T never was in better heart about it than I am
1 1 r Weaieiust about beginning to be in
nOW ‘ f' The first year of the war we flattered
earne r ,l - [w the rile Yanks would not fight;
we congratulated ourselves that
England and France would interfere in our
n, half- and now we are just waking up to find
that we must rely upon stout hearts strong
s and the blessing of God only. I never
i etieved nullification or secessionconstitution
al remedies; but I believe most heartily in the
n e 'essity of a final separation from the whole
Puritan Yankee stock, and only regret that 1
am disqualified by age to contrilmte my mite
in the ranks in a cause that I believe just and
good,
A Federal Opinion About Lincoln's Un
constitutional Act* and nts Future Designs
—The Washington correspondent of the Chik
cago Times tala out quite plainlyabout Lincoln’s
constitutional acts, and the future designs he
aud his ad users are endeavoring to accom
plish. It shows up the corrupt designs of the
fanatical clique which now- rules the North
in the annexed language :
It is time that the eyes of the people wore
fully opened to the vast extent and the full
depth of the atrocious designs of the Adminis
tration, in reference both to the next Pr ’siden
tial election and to the manner in which they
have determined to dispose of the lands euibra
ceil within the territ li il limits of the South
ern States. On both of tlii’se subjects, new
facts arc coming to light every few days. There
was a great deal of meaning in that speech of
Mr. Seward, made some time ago, in which he
spoke us Mr Lincoln's having been elected
President of all the States for four years, and
having been robbed of his right to act as Pres
ident in fifteen of them. It will be remem
bered that Mr- Seward declared in that speech
that the people owed it to Mr. Lincoln to re
elect him. so that lie could have his rights!
One of the Republican Representatives from
Illinois advanced the same views in a public
address delivered in Washington a few evenings
ago. But he put it upon the ground that
•‘Lincoln ought to be allowed to complete the
great work which he has so well commenced.”
Let the readers of the Times observe well the
language and sentimt nts of those men, and all
those of Greeley, mentioned at tlie close of my
last letter, All these men are intimates of the
President. They have his ear daily. They
are imbued with Lis views. There is a perfect
accord between what they fay and what tho
President intends to do. And, in all that they
say, there is nothing about the constitutional
obligations of the Federal Government towards
the States ; nothing about winning back the
love of the people of the Southern States by
securing to them their rights by constitutional
guarantees ; nothing about restoring to the
people of the North tlieia lost liberties ; noth
ing, even, about “our dissatisfied fellow citizens
of the South,’’ as Mr. L'ncoiii at first called
them.
About all these things Lincoln and his ad
visers cure nothing. What they care about is '
to enrich themselves by prolonging the war
and retaining themselves in power. What
they talk about is the nigger. Their war for
the negro will only result so far as tlie latter is
concerned, in the misery and starvation of
thousands of that unfortunate race. It would
result in the extermination of the whole race,
but for the tact th it it will never reach one filth
part of them. All their loud professions of
philanthropy for the negro are only used to
cover up their own sellih purposes. Wendell
Phillips wants the estates of all the Southern
people to be confiscated and divided among tlie
negroes of the South. Mistaken zealot though
he be, he, at least, is si'-ceie. But it is not so
with the Sumners, the Groeleys, the Beechers
and the Lovejoys, who direct aud control the
action of the President. These men clamor for
the same thing. But they know that, even if
the Southern people are subjugated and exter
minated, and their lands parceled out to the
blacks, the latter could not retain them long ;
and they trust that ultimately, by some legis
lative republican jugglery, those lands will re
vert to them. That is tlie secret motive with
all the men who are clamoring for the whole
sale robbery of our fellow-citizens at the South,
and for tho division of their estates among the
negroes.
A Succinct Statement of the Violations of
the Constitution by Lincoln. —We have
nowhere seen a more succinct and concise
statement of the violations of the Constitu
tion by the Lincoln Administration, than is
contained in the following, from the Camden,
(New Jersey) Democratic Association. They
thus speak of the tyrannical acts of the leaders
of the Black Republican party :
I. The freedom of speech has been violated
by tlie arrest and imprisonment of a number of
persons, charged with no crime, and whose on
ly offense was the utterance of sentiments dis
tasteful to the men in power.
11. The freedom of the press has been sub
verted by tbe suppression of a number of news
papers.
111. The right to security from arrest when
crime is charged, has been disregarded in the
arrest and incarceration of a large number of
persons,'denounced by the parasites of the Ad
ministration as ‘ sympathizers with the rebel
lion.’’
IV. The right to security from unlawful
searches and seizures, has been violated in nu
merous instances, iu which domiciles have
been visited, and papers, etc., seized without
legal authority.
V. The right of trial by jury has been refused
in the cases of citizens arrested anil imprisoned
or banished by military orders or court-mar
tials.
VII. Tlie freedom of every citizen has been
taken fiom him by the illegal and unnecessary
suspension of tlie right to demand the writ of
hah das corpus.
VI[I. The right of property has been abro
gated by tlie emancipation proclamation and
the confiscation act.
IX. The inviolability of contracts has been
destroyed by the act which makes depreciated
treasury notes a legal tender for all debts.
X. The freedom of religious worship lias
been violated on repeated occasions by the in
terference of military .officers.
XI. The right of States to the management
of their militia has been takeu from them by
the conscription act, which places the whole
military power of the country at the disposal
of the President.
XII. The formation of the State of "West
Virginia ” was a violation of tlie fid section of
the 4th article of tWs Constitution.
XIII. The heretofore undisputed right of
the people to elect their legislatures and rulers
has been taken from them, aud the will of ma
jorities and sregarded, as is abundantly manifest
ed in the manner in which elections have re
cently been carried by tho grossest corruption
in Northern States, and military orders in the
border States of the South.
Contraband Correspondence Between tiie-
Nortii and South. —. The Philadelphia Press,
alluding to the correspondence between the
Confederates and the outside world, by means
of the blockade runners and the British naval
steamers between Nassau and New York, says:
Certain measures have been adopted which
will tend to break up this correspondence, llow
the end is to he brought about, the public may
not ascertain until the forces brought to bear
have been thoroughly tested, or the a- sired
result attained. Suffice it at present, that the
authorities have awakened to the necessity of
some specification in the matter —and it will
be peculiarly appropriate lor the disloyal to
know that the business letters which they have
been unsuspectingly mailing their colleimues at
Nassau and the South may, one of th -swtlays,
be procured as evidence against them. ’
It is now acertained that nearly all tho let
ters which huv(*been sent North by way of
Nassau have been opened. Many friends of the
South in Lincolndom have been found out by
this means, and the plans formed to-assist us
frustrated, but people cannot be too careful in
their correspondence with residents of the
North. Lincoln has as complete if spy system
in operation, as exists in despotic Russia. Let
ters of importance should only be sent by those
who will see that they are destroyed if there is
any possibility of their falling into other Lands
than the writers intended.
Georgia and the Habeas Courus.—The State
of Georgia, at the last session of the Legisla
ture, passed the following resolut on unani
mously. arlfl it was assented to on the 11th of
December, 1863:
An act to amend the IPJjeas Corpus laws of this
State. *
Sec. 1. The General Assembly of the State
of Georgia do enact, that when any person
shall apply for the writ of foibeas corpus to any
Judge of the Superior, or Justice of the Inferi
or Courts, whose duty it is to grant said writ,
such Judge or Justice so refusing to grant the
same, shall forfeit to the party aggrieved the
sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, to be re
covered in auv court of law in the State hav
ing jurisdiction of the same.
Sec. 2. Repeals conflicting laws,
COYFKDIiRVFE STATES CONGRESS.
SENATE—JAN. 26,
A preamble and joint resolutions were unan
imously passed, extending the thanks of Con
gress to the Tennessee troops who have re-en
listed for the war. They were ordered to bo
sent to the House.
The Judiciary Committee, to whom had been
re-committed the bill declaring to be alien ene
mies. and subjecting their property to confisca
tion, all persons who go beyond tho control
and jurisdiction nf the Confederate States, for
the pnrposo of avoiding military service, re
ported the same back with an amendment re
storing the words, “shall be deemed and held
alien enemies,” and recommended its passage.
The following were referred : A bill to pre
serve the efficiency and extend the usefulness
of old lire companies ; House joint resolution of
thanks to Gen. Pat Cleborne, officers and men,
for their gallant conduct at Ringgold Gap, Nov.
27.1 Stiff.
The Committee on Patents, reported back,
with au amendment, and the recommendation
that it pass, the bill to increase, to four thou
sand five hundred dollars, the compensation of
the commissioner of patents. The amendment
is unimportant, striking out the words “first of
January” and inserting “for the year.” Tho
hill, as amended, was passed.
The following resolutions of the Military
Committee were adopted:
“Resolved, That, in the opinion of the Sen
ate. A. 0. Myers is now Quartermaster-General
of the Confederate States army, and is by law
authorized and required to disebargo the duties
thereof.
“Resolved, That A. R. Lawton is not author
ized by law to discharge the duties of said
office.’’
HOUSE.
The Speaker laid before the House a Com
munication front the One Hundred and Fifty
fourth senior Regiment Tennessee Voli nteers,
near Dalton, G:t„ in which they declare their
resolution to remain in the service until tha
last vandal foe is driven from our soil, and re
quest Congreis to preserve the old organization
of troops in its legislation. Laid oil the table
and ordered printed.
The Speaker laid before the House a memo
rial from a large number of junior officers in
the array of Northern Virginia, praying that
officers rendered unfit for duty, by reason of
wounds or physical debility, may be removed
or retired, without loss of rank and pay, to
give place to the promotion of oflicers capable
of performing the duties. Laid on the tablp
and ordered to be printed.
A bill was introduced to enable the Govern
ment to procure cotton for the purchase of arms
and army supplies for the army of Trans-Mis
sissippi; referred also, a hill to authorize the
impressment of meat for the use of the army
tinder certain circumstances—placed on the cal
endar and ordered printed.
The Senate bill to change the lime of meet
ing for tlie uext regular session of Congress,
came up as unfinished busine s. After a leng
thy discussion, the Senate hill was passed—so
the next Congress meet., on tlie first Monday in
May. _
• senate — JAN. 27.
The following bills were passed : House bill
to authorize the President to assign judges of
military courts fivin one court to another;
House bill to authorize commanders of corps
and departments to detail field officers as mem
bers of military courts in certain cases; to au
thorize the issue of special bonds for payment
to the Alabama & Florida Railroad.
The following were rejected ; House bill to
amend the act in relation to tlie receipt by pub
lic officers of counterfeit Treasury notes; House
bill to fix the rank, pay and allowance of ad
jutants of regiments and independent battal.
ions; to establish and regulate territorial com
mands in the army.
The following were referred : Communica
tion from the clerks in tlie post office at Mo
bile, asking an increase oi j ay; hill to continue
in the Confederate States service during the
war certain companies therein named; tp re
peal tho laws allowing commutation for forage,
fuel, room rent, Ac., not actually needed; ta
declare certain persons citizens of the Confed
erate States; to provide for holding elections
for representatives in the Congress of tlie Con
federate Stales from Arkansas; to amend the
act to regulate impressments; memorial front
officers ol the Fifth South Carolina Regiment,
asking permission to reorganize for the war,
under certain conditions; to authorize the
President to establish additional military
courts; to punish theft, marauding, pillage
and robbery, when committed by persons be
longing to the army of tlie Confederate States.
The Committee on the Judiciary, reported
back, with a recommendation that it pass.
Senate bill to amend an act to provide a mode
for authenticating claims for money against
tiie Confederate Stales, not otherwise provided
for, approved August 30, 1801. The bill was
taken up and passed. It repeals so much of
said act as requires that Attorney-General to
make report to Congress.
The same Comu ittee reported back, with a
recommendation that it pass, the Senate joint
resolution in relation to the salaries of the
Judges of the District Courts of the Confeder
ate States for tiie State of Virginia. The reso
lution so defines the act of tiie Provisional
Congress as to make tlie salaries of the said
Judges the same as those of the highest judi
cial officers of the States in which they respec
tively reside, and the Legislature of Virginia
having recently fixed the salaries of the highest
State Judge at S'), 000, ihe resolution provides
that the District Judges shall receive $5,00(1
also.
House—jan. 27.
Night Session.—A resolution was adopted
limiting speeches for the remainder of the ses
sion to ten minutes.
Tlje special committee to whom the matter
had been referred, reported back the Senate
bill increasing the compensation of clerks and
employees in the Executive Department and
the President’s office, witli an amendment in
cluding the legislative department. Alter va
rious propositions and amendments, the bill
was passed. It provides that all salaries below
$3,000 shall be increased at the rate of otia
hundred per cent, from the date of the act to
the 15th of May, provided that such incroasa
shall not raise the salary above $3,000 per an
num; and all salaries above 53,000 are increased
at the rate of fifty per cent, per annum.
The House then adjourned.
SENATE—JAN. 28.
A resolution was adopted directing the Sec
retary of State to furnish the Heads of Depart
ments witli copies of bills aud other publics
documents.
The committee on Military Affairs reported
back favorably tho hill to amend the 65th arti
cle of war. Placed on the calendar.
The Senate hill to increase the compensation
of the employees of the Executive and Legis
lative Departments of the city of Richmond,
having been returned from the House with
amendments, the said amendments /were con
sidered and agreed to.
On motion the Senate resolved into secret
legislative session.
HOUSE.
Ihe following were passed : A bill toexempt
from the operations of the act to which it is an
amendment, all persons who furnish, by con
tract, supplies for the uriuy and navy; hill
amendatory of an act to organize military
courts to attend the armies of the Confederate
States in the field; joint resolutions of .hanks
to Gen. Beauregard and the officers and men of
his command.
The Judiciary Committee, reported adverse
ly to the bill to repeal so much of the act to
establish Judicial Courts, as to authorize
Judges to name the time and place of holding
the same. The committee thought it inexpe
dient to change the law in the present condi
tion of the country. The bill was tabled and
ordered to lie printed.
The Committee on Pest offices and Post
roads, reported back the hill to establish cer
tain post routes therein named, and asked that
it be laid on the table.
The same committee reported adversely to
the bill to authorize free white persons fourteen
years of age to carry the mails.
The Committee of Military Affairs reported
back the bill to exetn; t from the operation of
the act repealing exemption by substitution,
persons engaged in producing food, by their
own labor, or in superintending that of others,
with a substitute, which provides that the pro
visions of the act repealiug the substitute law^