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(•ball not apply l" f-»iM«r* and planters engaged in tbr roar 1*62, in agrknltura. pur-ai * ■> their own labor or in supeuatending ttia-ot others, under certain conditions. various amendnienta were proposed, and the bill was discaased till the Senate wen* into secret ses sion. The chair laid before the Senate a commu nication from Col. Gorgas, Chief of Ordnance calling the attention of Congress to the neccsi ty of making an appropriation for the use of his bureau, and showing that it was now in arrears $20,000,000. norue House oil Is were taken up and refer red to appropriate committees, after which the Senate went into secret session. HOUSE. Resolutions were offered against the policy of holding secret sessions, which, on motion, were laid on the table. A bill was introduced to give increased com pensation to non-commissioned officers and pri vates in the army- proposes to increase the pay of each non commissioned officer ami private in the military service of the Confederate States for the war, 100 per cent. Referred. A motion to reconsider the vote ny which the House passed the hill to change the, time of the meeting of the next Congress, was los:. A resolution was adopted instructing the Committee on the Medical Department to in quire into the expediency of increasing the rations of sick and wounded soldiers in the hospitals. The following resolutions was tabled : “Resolved, That, the President be respect fully requested to inform this house whether uny officers of the regular or provisional army or of tlie navy, or in the civil service, appoin ted during the exUUuce of the Provisional Government, and confirmed by the Provisional Congress, are now holding cilice without hav ing been nominated and confirmed by the Sen ate, under the permanent Constitution, and if so, the name* of said officers.’’ A bill was introduced and referred to pro vide uniform rates of compensation for me chanics and laborers employed by the various executive Departments of Government. The Committee on Military Affairs, reported a bill to establish a Department of Inspection and Censorship. Placed on the calendar and ordered to be printed. The bill proposes to transfer to the new de partment all duties of inspection now belong ing to the Adjutant and Inspector-General, or any other department or officer, and to place it under the command of an Inspector-General, with the rank, pay, Ac., of a general. The de partment to be charged with the duty of dis covering, exposing, prosecuting and bringing to punishment all offences and delinquencies on the part of officers of the army, of whatever de partment or rank, and of seeing that the di.s cipline of the army is maintained. One of tin; standing duties of the Inspector General shall be to recommend, from time to time, such modifications an 1 amendments of the laws anil regulations of the army as will, in his judg ment, improve its discipline and efficiency. A resolution was adopted requesting the President to cause the House to be informed whether the report of the operations of the forces of Gen. J. R. Williams, ut Blue Spring, Henderson's, and Rheatown, Tenn., is in the Adjutant General s office, it not, that steps be taken to have it forwarded. A resolution instructing the Military Com mittee to bring in a bill doubling the pay of soldiers ill the field was voted down. A reso lution was subsequently adopted instructing the committee to whom was referred the bill to increase the pay of soldiers IGO per cent, to inquire into the expediency of increasing tired pay to thirty dollars per month. A resolution was offered that all legislative business of the House be hereafter considered in open session, except such as relate to move ments of our armies and diplomatic concerns, and no secret session shall hereafter occur ex cept by a two -thirds vote of the members pres ent in favor thereof. Lie&over under the rule. A communication from certain officers asking for such legislation as will allow troops to elect their own officers—motion to refer lost. Tiie bill to create an invalid corps was made the special order for to morrow morning. A joint resolution of thanks to Gen. 0. A. Rattle’s brigade of Alabama troops for their promptness in re-enlisting for the war, was passed. SENATE — JAN'. 30. The following were referred: A bill to be entitled an actio aid any State in communicat ing with and perfecting records concerning its troops; to place all male free persons of color between IS and 45 in the military service of the Confederate States for the war, as laborers, nurses, xo,; petition from the Georgia Confer ence; also, one from the l’ress Association. A communication was received from Colonel Gorgas. Chief of Ordnance Bureau, stating that the deticiency in the Bureau was not twenty millions, as stated, but two millions. HOUSE. The bill to amend an act amendatory of an act entitled “An act to put an end to the exemption from military service of those who have heretofore furnished substitutes,” was taken up, amended and passed, as follows: Sec. 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, Tint the above re cited act shall not apply to farmers and planters engaged on the sth day of January, 1861, in the production of grain and provisions by their own manual labor or in superintending the la bor of others: Provided, The exemption here in contemplated is granted subject to the fol lowing conditions; 1. That the peison availing himself thereof shall devote himself and the labor of which ho lias control or superintendence, exclusively to the production of provisions and family sup- plies. 11. That there shall be paid and contributed front the farm, or it more than one farm, from each of the farms which the person thus ex empted owns or superintends, in addition to the tithe required by any tax law, an addition al tenth of the pork or bacon product on said farm, or farms, (beginning with the product of last year,) for the use of the army. 111. That the person thus exempted, will, it no required, sell all his surplus provisions, now on hand, or hereafter raised, for the use of soldiers' families, or for the use of the army, at prices not greater than those fixed for the time being by the commissioners appointed under S'lMtpressmeut act. J f. That the person seeking to avail himself of the benefit of this act shall h ive furnished a substitute not liable to military duty, who is now in the service, or who Las been legally dis charged therefrom, or who has died therein. V." That the benefit of this act shad not ap ply to persons on farms or plantations ou which there is any male adult not liable to military duty. Bee. 11. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed sis limiting the power of the Presi dent. under existing laws, to exempt such per sons as he may deem proper, on grounds of equity, justice, or necessity. The following bill was passed : A Biu, to be entitled “An Act to provide for disabled officers, non commissioned officers, musicians, privates .andßeamon.” Section 1. Thtj Congress of the Confederate States of America, do enact, That all officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates and seamen, who have or shall become disabled by wounds or other injuries received, or disease contracted in the service of the Confederate States and in the line of duty, shall be retired or discharged from their respective positions as hereinafter provided. But the rank, pay and emoluments of such officers, and the pay and emoluments of such non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates and seamen, shall continue to the end of the war or as long as they shall continue so retired or discharged. Sec. 2. That all persons claiming the bene fits of this act shall present themselves for ex amination to one of the medical examining boards now established by law. Upon the cer tificate of such board that such permanent disability exists, such persons shall be retired or discharged as aforesaid. See. 3. That ail persons l etired or discharged as aforesaid, s hall, periodically, and at h ist once in six months, present themselves to one of said boards for further examination, the re sult of which examination shall be reported by such board to the Secretary of War. And if any such person shall fail so to report him self to such Ixiard. whenever he shall be requir ed so to do. he shall be dropped from said re tired or discharged list, and become liable to conscription under the terms ot the law. unless AU'h failure shall be caused by physical disa biliiV. Sec- +. That the Secretary of War may as sign such officers, and order the detail of such non-commissioned officers, musicians, privates and seamen tor such duty us they shall be qualified to perform If any such non-commis sioned officers, musicians, privates and seamen, shall be relieved from disability they shall be restored to duty. Sec. 5. That the Secretary of War shall make all needful rules and regulations for the action* of the medical boards, as aforesaid. Sec.fi. That vacancies caused by the retire ment of officers under this act. shall be filled ns in case of the death or resignation of such officers. Bee. 7. This act shall be in force tvoin its passage. SENATE —FEB. 1. Resolutions of thanks to the gallant troops ' from the State of Louisiana, in the army of . Tennessee, were passed unanimously, and or- j to be sent to the House. The committee claim* reported back favorably joint resolution* for the relief of Capt Walker Anderson, whi h wore passed. The House bill to provide for wounded and disabled soldiers and eaatn an asylum to be called the Veteran Soldiers Hume, was taken up and passed. HOUSE. The Speaker laid before the House a commu nication from the President, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of War, covering an estimate of the additional sum ne cessary for the engineer bureau, and recom mending an appropriation of the amount. Laid on the table and ordered to be printed. The Speaker also laid before the House a communication from the President, in response to a resolution of the body, transmitting a state ment of the Secretary of War, showing the state of t ie question pending between the Confede rate Slates and the United States in relation to the exchange of prisoners. Withdrawn, to he presented in secret session. The following was read a third time and passed : “A bill to be entitle An Act to allow com mis-ioned ’officers of the army rations and the privilege of purchasing clothing from the Quartermaster’s Department. ‘ Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That from and af ter the passage of this act, all commissioned officers of the armies of the Confederate States, shall be entitled to rations in kind, in quantity and quality the same as are now allowed by law to privates, and shall draw and receive the same under such regulations as may be pre scribed by the Secretary of War. “•Sec. 2, Re it further enacted, That all com missioned officers of the armies of the Confed erate States shall be allowed to purchase cloth ing and cloth for clothing from any quarter master at the price which it cost the Govern ment, all expenses included; Provided, That no quartermaster shall be allowed to sell to any officer any clothing or cloth for clothing which it would be proper to issue to privates until all privates entitled to receive tire same shall have been first supplied; Provided, That the officer offering to purchase shall give his certificate on honor that the articles are neces sary tor his own personal eomlbrt and use. and in no case shall more than one suit per annum be allowed to be so purchased by any officer : Provided, That nothing contained in this sec tion shall be construed as depriving commis sioned officers of the privilege they' now enjoy ot purchasing subsistence stores from the com missary dep utment. •Rec. 3. Re it further enacted, That this act shall be and continue of force only during the present war.” The bill to increase the efficiency of the army by the employment of free negroes and slaves under certain circumstances, was taken up, and passed in the following form : *‘A bill to be entitled An Act to increase the efficiency of the army by the employment of free negroes and slaves in certain capacities. “ Whereas, the efficiency of the army is great ly diminished by the withdrawal from the ranks of able-bodied soldiers to act as team sters, and in various other capacities in which free negroes and slaves might be advantageous ly employed ; therefore, “Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate Staten of America do enact, That all male free negroes, not including those who are free under the treaty of Paris of 1803. or the treaty with Spain of 1819, resident in the Confederate States, between the ages of eighteen and fifty years, shallJbe held liable to perform such du ties with the army, or in connection with the military defences of the country, in the way of work upon fortifications, or in Government works for the production or preparation of ma terial of war. or in military hospitals, as the Secretary of War may from time to time pre scribe : and while engaged in the performance of such duties shall receive rations and clothing and compensation at the rate of eleven dollars per month, under such rules and regulations as the said Secretary may establish : Provided, That the Secretary of War, with the approval of the President, may exempt from the opera tions of this act such free negroes as the inter ests of the country may require should be ex empted, or such as lie may think proper to ex empt on grounds of justice, equity or necessity. “Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the Sec retary of War is hereby authorized to employ, for duties similar to those indicated in the pre ceding section of this act, as many male ne gro slaves, not to exceed twenty thousand, as, in his judgment, the wants of the serv'ce may require, furnishing them while so employed with proper rations and clothing, under rules and regulalions to be established by him, aud paying to the owners of said slaves wages at the rate of eleven dollars per month for their use ami service, and in the event of the loss of any slaves while so employed, by Hie act of the enemy, or by escape to the enemy, or by death indicted By the enemy, or by disease contract ed while in any service required of said slaves, then the owners of the same shall be entitled to receive the lull value of such slaves, to bo ascertained by agreement, or by appraisement under the laws regulating impressments at the time, to be paid under such rules and regula tions as the Secretary of War may establish. “ Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That when the Secretary of War shall he unable lo pro cure the services of slaves in any military de partment in sufficient numbers for the necessi ties of the department upon the terms and conditions set forth in the preceding section, then he is hereby authorized to impress the services of as many male slaves, not to exceed twenty thousand, as may be required from time to time to discharge the duties indicated in the lirst section of this act, according to the laws regulating the impressment of slaves in other cases: Provided, That slaves so impressed shall, while employed, receive the same rations and clothing in kind and quantity as slaves regularly hired from their owners, and in the event of their loss, shall be paid for in the same manner, and under the same rules estab lished by the said impressment laws: Provided, That if the owner have not one male slave be tween the ages of eighteen and fifty years, he shall not be impressed without the consent of the owner. “Sec. -1. Be it further enacted, That impress ments of slaves shall, as far as practicable, be made in counties and districts, the productions of which are least available for the use of the army, or remote facilities for transportation; and shall he apportioned, as nearly as practic able, among tlie owners, according to numbers of laboring hands; Provided, Th.it in making impressments, not more thau one in every five male slaves, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, shall be taken from any owner: Provided further, chat free negroes shall be first impressed, end if there should be a deli c enev it shall be supplied l>y the impress ment of slaves, according to the foregoing pro visions." Senate joint resolutions of thanks to the troops of the State of Louisiana serving in the army of Tennessee were taken up and passed unanimously. Senate -joint resolutions of thanks to the North Carolina troops re-enlisting for the war, were also unanimously passed. Position' of Affairs in France.— The Paris correspondent of the New York Herald writing from that city under date of Doc. 18, says that the French Emperor lately sent for Senator Gwin who is now in that country, and was closeted with him for some time. There is much speculation in regard to the matter. It is thought that some good to the Confederate cause will grow out of it. In speaking of Mexico, and the position I ranee now holds towards that country, the Gerald's correspondent remarks thus : The Mexican plan is' now understood to have been entirely changed. The Archduke Maxi millian is no more talked of or thought of in Europe than though he did not exist. It is well known that he absolutely refuses' to run the risk of losing his beautiful head of hair, unless he is furnished with money and troops to protect him, and has a guarantee given him that he shall not be rousted from lbs throne.- These guarantees shall not be given him, aud it is Believed now that that the Emperor has about decided to arrange his plans for the fu ture. with the view of linking Mexico a pure rrencli colony. It is understood that Mar siar torey, who, immediately upon reaching 1 aris. proceeded to Compiegne, recoinmeuds / ,lea: Preparations are certainly i it, made for the transportation of troops .UKl.nuuUKms of war. The steamer which ' Nazaire tairred out a number ot offi ceis. and the war ship Souveraine. carrying titty six guns, is being put iu order as rapfolf as possible at Cherbourg, to 'follow the Nfo toirc. which left Brest a few days since for the i acinc coast, to blockade Acapulco aud Mazit- At a caucus held among the opposition mem bers of the French Legislature, at wLieh twen ty-two were present, the only point upon which they agreed to make a united action was in the demand that the French troops should be immediately retailed from Mexico. Thiers opposed the idea of urging a war for Poland, and upon general matters was decided that each member ol' tire opposition should be left free to act individually, proposing such amendments to ad Government measures as would tend to a larger liberty. But against the Mexican swindle a determined un ted op position, led by M. Thiers, is to be made. tAtftnk-l-osnkJtif nKTHtHcx i\b vMHIH.A AtJot f ftlti's!*n xH iiUb ITS. The Northern papers publish the diplomatic c-orrehjpondence between Seward and Russell, upon the subject of the cotton loan. Confed erate cruisers, steam rams, &c. To show how completely England has been bullied by the Yankees in this matter we print a portion ot the letters. With such timidity as i.s shown by the Rtitish Government, we may well be satis fied that nothing has been further from its in tentions during this war than the “recognition” of the Confederate States : THE COTTON LOAN. MR SEWARD TO MR. ADAMS. Department or State. ) Washington, April 10, 1863. f o * o » 'jffiis Government has hear 4 * with surprise and regret that a loan has been made in London to the insurgents! with condit ions of security and payment openly hostile to the United States, and it has good reasons for assuming that most or all of the moneys thus loaned are paid to British subjects residing in Great Britain for advances in money, labor, arms, military stores, and supplies used in fit ting out those hostile expeditions in violation of the Queen’s proclamation and of the enlist ment acts of Great Britain, as well as of treatis and the law of nations. The President does not for a moment believe that her Majesty’s Government have lent or will lend any sanc tion or approval to these proceeding-; of her Majesty's subjects : but be regrets that he is tin able to perceive that any part of those trans actions so inimical to the United States, and ap patently so universally known in Great Riit ain, have arrested the attention of her Majesty Government, cr encountered any opposition, or eren any manifestation of its disapprobation or censure. The loan made by European capitalists is a direct engagement with the armed insurgents who have assumed to control supply, and de liver cotton for the reimbursements of the money advanced, with interest. You will give notice to E irl Russell that this transaction necessarily brings to an end all concessions, of whatever form, that have been made by this Government for mitigating or alleviating the rigor of the blockade in regard to the shipment of cotton and tobacco. Nor will any tittle of any person, whether citizen of the United States or subject of a foreign power, to any cotton or merchandize, which tittle is derived from or through any pretended insurgent au thority or other agent hostile to the United Statess be respected by this Government. It would be to evince a want of frankness and good faith if we should fail to inform Great Britain that in this country the proceedings to which I have referred have come to be re ;ard ed equally, by the people and the Government, as tending to complicate the relations between the two countries in such a manner as to ren der it difficult, if not altogether impossible, to maintain and preserve friendship between them —a result which the President believes is as far from being desired by Great Britain as it is from being the policy or the wish of the United States. After the resort to the courts of the United Kingdom which the President has spe cially authorized as a sequel to the anticipa tions and remonstrance which yon hat e made, thus far without any effective result, this Gov ernment is not aware of any other measures re maining within its power to arrest the ten dency I have described and to avert the calam ities I have deprecated. If it be in the power of the British Government to suggest anvthing further that it may he thought possible and proper for the United States to do with that view, the suggestion will be received and con sidered with the utmost candor and respect. Y'ou will, in such manner as shall seem most proper, bring these views to the knowledge of her Majesty’s Government. EARL RUSSELL TO MR. ADAMS. Foreign Office, April 2, 1803. Sir—Her Majesty’s Government have not failed to consider, with the attention it deserv ed, the letter which you addressed to me on the 14th ultimo, in reply to my letter of the 9th ultimo, on the subject of the intercepted cor respondence which you had alleged went to show a deliberate attempt to establish within the limits of the United Kingdom a system of action in direct hostility to the Government of the United States. I have now the honor to observe to you that, whil e you withhold your acquiescence in the opinion expressed by me of that correspon dence, and state that you shall transmit a copy of my note, with profound regret, to your Gov ernment. you, nevertheless, do not controvert the principal positions assumed in that note. You do not deny, first, that it is lawful for her Majesty’s subjects to lend money on secu rities, or otherwise, to either belligerent, or secondly, that it is also lawful to sell, to either belligerent, munitions of war. Upon this subject I beg to call to your no tice that no longer ago than the 20th of last November, in answer to the remonstrance of Mexico against an alleged organized system in the United States of aiding France in the war in which she is engaged with that republic, but in which the United States are neutral, Mr. Seward replied by this, among other citations : [After quot'ng from Mr. Web-tor’s dispatch to Mr. Thompson, Earl Russell proceeds) : It seems clear, on the principle enunciated in these authorit'es, that, except on the ground of any proved violation of the Foreign Enlistment act. her Majesty’s Government cannot interfere with commercial dealings between British sub jects. and the so-styled Confederate States, whether the subject of these dealings he money or contraband goods, or even ships for warlike purposes. MR. APAMS TO EARL RUSSELL. Legation of the United States, ( London, April 6, 1803.. | o a o i have given to all the passages presented by your lordship the same profound attention which I habitually pay to everything from the same source. I cannot, however, per ceive that they have any effect in disturbing the positions which have been heretofore assumed by myself. The sale and transfer, by a neutral, of arms, of munitions of war, and even of vessels-of-war, to a belligerent country, not subject to blockade, at the time, as a purely commercial transaction, is decided by these authorities not to lac unlawful. They go not a step further, and precisely to thal extent I have myself taken no exception to the doc trine. But the ease is changed when a belligerent is shown to be taking measures to establish a system of operations in a neutral country, with the intent to carry on a war from its ports, much in the same way that it would do, if it could, from its own territory, when it appoints agents residing in that country for the purpose of borrowing money to be applied to the fit ting out of hostile armaments in those very ports, and when it appoints and sends out agents to superintend in those ports the constructing, equipping and arming of ships of war, as well as tire enlisting of the subjects of the neutral country, to issue forth for the purpose of car rying on hostilities on the ocean. These are the points to which I desire to call your lordship's attention in the intercepted dispatches. I affirmed that they went to show a system of operations to the extent thus de signated. I did not affirm that they absolutely proved the fact. But I did mean to be under stood as affirming them to furnish strong corro borative evidence to sustain alt other proofs which I have been in the habit of laying before your lordship for a longtime past of the abuses made of her neutral territory for the conduct of the war directly from her ports, without the intervention of time even for the vessel 5 to gain the semblance of a national ckara ter. ******** LAIRP’S RAMS. MR. ADAMS TO EARL RUSSELL. Legation of the United States, ) London, Sept. 3, 18ti3. j My Lord: I have the honor to transmit copies of further depositions relating to the launching and other preparation of the second of the two vessels-of-war from the yard of Messrs. Laird, at Birkenhead, concerning which it has a 1 ready been my disagreeable duty to make most serious representations to her Ma jesty’s Government. 1 believe there is not any reasonable ground for doubt that these vessels, if permitted to leave the port of Liverpool, will be at once de voted to the object of carrying on war against the United States of America. I have taken the necessary measures in the proper quarters to ascertain the truth of the respective state ments current here, that they are intended for the us ' of the Government of France or for the Pacha of Egypt, and have found both without foandatiom At this moment neither of ttyose Powers appears to have occasion to use ion cealment or equivocation iu regard to its inten tions, had it any in obtaining such ships. In the notes which I have the honor to address to your lordshsp on the 11th of July and 14th of August. I believe I stated the importance at tached by my Government to the decision in volved in the case with sufficient distinctness. "'Uce that late I have had the opportunity to receive from the United States a full approba tion of its contents. At the same time 1 feel it my painful duty to make known to your lordship that, in some respects, it has fallen short in expressing the earnestness with which I have.been in the interval, directed to describe the grave nature of the situation in which both flCttßirUai f£ptf» is tlioiivOpt f»f of i; l*;i.u , ltd g gah t the Govern ment and people of the United Stales by either of these formidable vessels. I pray your lordship to accept the assurances of the highest consideration with which I have the honor to be, my lord, your most obedient servant, Charles Francis Adams. Right Honorable Earl Russell, Ac., &c. EARL RUSSELL TO MR. ADAMS. Foreign Office, Sept, 8, 1863. Lord Russell presents his compliments to Mr. Adams, and has the honor to inform him that instructions have been issued which will prevent the departure ot the two iron-clad ves sels from Liverpool. THE FITTING OCT OF TIIE ALEXANDRA. MR. SEWARD TO MR. ADAMS. Department of State. )_ Washington, July 11th, 1863. ) Sir ;—Y'otir dispatch of the 26th of June. (No. 438; has been received, together with three paper books containing a report of the trial of the Alexandra. c- o c- e e e « If the Jaw of Greff Britain must he left with out amendment, and be construed by the Gov ernment in conformity with the-rulings ot the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, then there will be left tor the United States tio alternative but to protect themselves and their commerce against armed cruiseis proceeding from British ports as against the naval forces of a public enemy; and also to claim insist upon in demnities for the ir ; all such expe ditions have bffherto mitted or shall here after com- again- uoveruinent and the citiz o tlrs end this (- .verunmnl is r av preparing a naval force v ti tb< idm: •„ vigor and ii the nation al navy, wfi-.-l, it is r ifrlly creating, shall not be suffidenl for tb - aency. then the United States mast.brim:’ i „ach pri vate armed nai .a for , t mercantile ma rine shall atmrd. British ports, domestic as weil as colonial, are now open, under certain restrictions, the visits of piratioai vessels, and not only furnish them with coals, provisions and repairs, but even receive their prisoners when the enemies of the United States come in to obtain such relief from voyages in which they have either burned ships which they have captured, or have even manned and armed them as pirates'and sent them abroad as auxiliaries An the work of destruction. Can it be an. occasion for cither surprise or complaint that if this condition of things is to remain and receive the deliberate sanction of the British Government, the navy of the United States will receive instructions to pursue these ene mies into the port which thus, in violation of the law of nations and the obligations of neu trality, become barbers for the pirates? The President very distinctly perceives the risks and hazards which a naval conflict thus main tained will bring to the commerce, and even to the peace, of the two countries. But he is obliged to consider that in the case supposed the destruction of our commerce will probably amount to a naval war waged hy a portion, a't least, of the British nation upon the Govern ment and people of the United States—a war tolerated, although not declared or avowed, by the Btitish Government. If, through the ne cessary employment of all our means of na tional defence, such a partial war shall become a general one between the two nations, the President thinlcs that the responsibility for that painful result will not fall upon tbo’Unit ed States. ENGLAND f) RESPONSIBILITY. EARL RUSSELL TO MR. ADAMS. Foreign Office, Sept. 11, 1803. Sir—l have received your let’cr of the sth inst., and have read it with great regret. It has been the aim of the Government of Great Britain to maintain a strict neutrality be tween the parties who for two years have car ried on a civil war of unusual extent and loss of life on the continent of North America. Her Majesty’s Government have, for the most part, succeeded in this imparted course. If they have been~uiiable to prevent some vio lations of neutrality on the part of the Queen’s subjects, the cause has been that Great Britain is a country which is governed by definite laws, and not subject to arbitrary will. But law, as you are well aware, is enforced here, as in the United States, by independent courts of justice, which will not admit assertion for proof, nor conjecture for certain!' In the case sli r ending of the iron-clad steam rams at I '' Seward with his knowing . ■: of judgment, cannot f,' ■- to;, that to was necessa ry to ah At these . rele were built« • it; vu pc s • war. but also tfia li.hhu--! -w so-called Con fed era With a v ~i3 evidence on this head it v >.- prove that the iron clads weie not ior the French Gov ernment, or for aeba of Egypt. With re spect to the Frenc.i Government her Majesty’s Government have received, upon inquiry, as surances. through Earl Cowley and the Mar quis ot Cadore, that the French Government have nothing to do with the Birkenhead iron clads. In respect to the Egyptian Government, it was only on the sth instant that her Majesty’s Government received a dispatch from Mr. Col quhon, her Majesty's Consul General in Egypt, which is conclusive on this subject. Ismail Pacha refused to purchase these ves sels. From this example, and that of the vessel* built for the of China, whose name was alleged all over the United States to be a mere sham to cover the real destination of the vessels, (lie President will ga'her how necessa ry it is to be dispassionate and careful in inqui ries aud statements upon subjects involving such great interests, and affecting the good faith and character of a Power so honorable as Great Britain. These matters will, no doubt, be duly and dispassionately considered by the Government at Washington, howevetr they may have been understood in London. I deem it right however, to observe that the question at issue between yourself and her Majesty’s Government relates to two separate and distinct matters—,tho general international duties of neutrality, ami the municipal law of the United Kingdom. With regard to the gen eral duties of ageutral, according to internation al law, the true doctrine has been laid down repeatedly by Presidents and Judges of emi nence cTf the United .States, and that doctrine is, that a neutral may sell to either or both par ties any implements or munitions of war which such belligerents may wish to purchase from the subjects of the neutral, and it is difficult to find a reason why a ship that is to be used for warlike purposes is mpre an instrument or im plement of war than cannon, muskets, swords, bayonets, gunpowder, and projectiles to be fir ed from cannon and muskets. A ship or musket may be sold to one bellig erent or the other, and only ceases to be neutral when the ship is owned, manned, and employ ed in war, and the musket is held by a soldier, and used for tbe purpose of killing liis enemy. In fact, the ship can never be expected to de cide a war or a campaign, whereas the other things above mentioned may, by equipping a larger army, enable the belligerent which re quires them to obtain decisive advantages in the war. Then, again, as regards the employment of the subjects of a neutral by either belligerents it is obvious that even if the whole crew of a ship-of-war were composed of tbe subjects of a neutral, that crew should have less influence on the results of the war than whole regiments and brigades employed on land, and composed cf the subjects of neutral State. Q 0 ° ~ Q ° New York as Seen* b? a Bkitisu Eve.—The correspondent of tiie London Times, writing from New York, gives a long description of (hat city. After speaking of the great pros perity heretofore and still enjoyed by it, the writer says : Tha calamities which are desolating the South and crippling the West, have thrown many a windfall into the lttp of this great Eas tern emporium, whose shouts of joy have each oed back the groans-of New Orleans and tho cries of distress of St. Lou s. All America in flocking to New York. I have heard ,of_ Euro pean travelers in whose opinion New \oik is a representative city—the pattern and summa ry of all Americanism. The city, however, is in bad odor with the natives themselves, even the dwellers therein, who look upon it as the sink of all alien misery and corruption—the sylutn of lawless Irish and godless Germans, of all the worst set of adventurers from the Old World. Few of the New-Yorkers profess to be at home in New York. They are all peop'e who have come to make their fortuue, or, hav ing made it, only tarry till they ’realize.’ It is a floating, fittiug population, wiih no roots to the soil, and but few of the mutual ties which bind man to man. The city is but a shop, a thoroughfare—a place to make money and to spend it in, but not one in which to enjoy one’s leisure, or to close one's happy old age or to rear one's children.” In the Seventh \ankee Missouri Regiment, camped near Vicksburg, but ten men have re enlisted for the war. The rest declare they are sick of the war and will go home and stay there. In the late Federal raid in North Carolina, most of the troops employed were negroes. SOKTIiKIiS ftttvvs. The Momptii* papers say Bank Bills at e Roil ing in that city at the following rates : The Planters'and Union notes of Tennessee were firm at 82 cents, with only a limited supply by the,brokers. who freely offered 80 cents ; Bank of Tennessee notes brought 61 and sold at 64 ; sales of some of the Georgia and South Carolina Banks at 23 cents in the dollar; but Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, Central Rail road Banking Company, Bank of Middle Geor gia, Bank of Mobile and Southern Batik ot Ala bama were selling better. The Northern Bank of Alabama, at Huntsville, had advauced fully 50 per cent., with considerable inquiry, but brokers had sold them for 48. Cotton is advancing both in New York and Liverpool. Just now the usual producers ot the article are engaged in preparing to raise a magnificent corn crop, so that further advances may be expected. The Kentucky Legislature has a resolution before it to remove the capital from Frankfort to Louisville. It is thought that it will very probably be adopted. There are now in construction in the United States twenty-five armed vessels, at a cost of $363,000 each. They are to be done in six mouths. Dr. Mackenzie, a well-known citizen of Bal timore, died last week. The battery to be carried by the U. S. steam er Niagara is to consist of four eleven inch, and twelve two hundred pounder rified guns—the heaviest ever placed on any ship. The Niaga ra is not an iron clad, but is said to be the most beautifully modelled ship in the world. At last accounts cotton at Nashville wasquite dull, with light receipts and no sales. Brice from sixty to sixty-five cents per pound. The small pox is raging badly at NAshville. The Washington correspondent of the Cin cinnati Enquirer says; “A statement has been priuted this week in the London correspondence of one of our leading journals, that Alexander Baring, of the firm of Baring, Bros A Cos., and a member of the British Parliament, is in close communion with the leading spirits of British Southern recognizers, anil also that he is an active member of a Committee, formed With the express object of obtaining an official tecog uition of the Southern Confederrcy by Parlia ment. This is considered here, among financial circles, as a most remarkable statement, if true, and has given rise to much comment in influen tial circles. The Federal athorities at Nashville announce that no more passes will be granted to go South. The Washington correspondent of the Cincin nati Enquirer, speaking of the corruption at Washington, says; I was going to say it is surprising—but I will not, considering who is in power—the enormous stealing that is going on under the Washington Administration. The greater the abolitionist the greater the propen sity to plunder the Treasury. They got this from long practice stealing niggers. There is how they lost their moral sense, if they ever had any. They now go it strong- stealing themselves rich in the name of liberty. All 1 can say is, go it Abolitionists while you can, you may not have another-chance in a hundred years. The Yankee war vessel Marblehead, which recently ventured into Stono River, S. C., and was badly riddled by our batteries, has reached the Brooklyn Navy Yard, in a crippled condi tion. The Chamber of Commerce of Milwaukee, have passed resolutions condemnatory of the Canadian reciprocity treaty The company owning the gas works at Nor folk, Va., having refused to light the city, Gen. Butler has seized their works. llig Washington Chronicle cOmeß out strong ly for Lincoln as the next President. Gens. Hancock and Burnside, of the Feder al army, have been authorized to raise forces for ‘‘special service.” No intimation is given as to the nature of this service. Gov. Camming, of Utah, has had his last quarter’s salary stopped by Lincoln on the ground of disloyalty; he must take the oath or lose the money. A dispatch from New York, says that at a meeting of the Republican committee, it was unanimously voted to hold the national con vention in Chicago on the 4th of July next. It will be remembered the Democracy lmd previ ously selected the same time and place. The Democratic State Convention or meeting at Concord, N. 11., passed the following resolu tion : Resolved, That the freedom of the bal lot must and shall be maintained sacred and inviolable ; and that we, the Democracy of New Hampshire, will unite with our brethren ol other .-cites. l>y force of arms it need be, in resistance to every attempt, from whatever source it may come lo overrun, or abridge, by menaces or direct interference by military force the independence and purily of the ballot-box in the ensuing elections, State and national; and to this end we pledge each to the other, and to our brethren of other States, our lives, fortunes, and sacred honors, being firmly re solved to maintain at all hazards our rights as free and patriotic citizens of the American Union, Geueral Heintzelman has been ordered to the cqmmand of the Northern department, comprising the States of Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, with headquarters at Columbus, Ohio. The Federal Secretary of the Treasury has under consideration the question submitted by numerous parties living along the border of the States of Tennessee, Alabama and Missis sippi, of an unrestricted trade in cotton. It is proposed to allow all persons, regardless of their loyalty to bring their cotton within our lines, and sell it for greenbacks, and return, if they choose, but not to be allowed to take sup plies of any kind with them. The Yankees want more of the staple than they have thus far been able to obtain. Jim Lane’s popularity is suffering an eclipse in Kansas; the Senate and House have appoint ed officers adverse to his viewy. Butler has prohibited the sale of wine and liquors in his department under the penalty of fine and imprisonment. Late accounts from Peru state that great at tention is being paid to the culture of cotton in that country, and the yield bids fair to te large, and one that can be greatly increased from year to year. There was exported through the Peruvian ports of the Pacific, last year, 1,680,000 pounds. The Federal papers have commenced howling over the man who was hung in North Carolina, in retaliation for the hanging of one of our men. A letter from a gentleman who has resided in Wisconsin, near Milwaukee, since 181#, says that the late spell was by far the severest he has known since his residence there. He says: “A man could not live out doors more than fifteen minutes without being frost bitten. Thermometers refused to indicate—the mercury would run down in the bowl almost as soon as exposed. I froze my ear in going forty rods; and a neighbor, in exposing his bare hand three minutes, froze his fingers. The hostler at the hotel froze his fingers and ears in trying to hitch up a horse, and then had to give it up. It was fortunate he did, for if the driver had started, he would have frozen to death.” Cotton in New Orleans is selling at seventy five and a quarter cents per pound. The Chicago Times states that there are thirty negro regiments at Port Hudson. Late news from St. Domingo states that the insurgents have been defeated at all points.— The insurgents are now burning and plunder ing indiscriminately. Two vessels loaded with arms, &c., for the rebels have been captured by tbe Spaniards. Senator Sebastian, of Arkansas, says a cor respondent of the St. Louis Bepublican, denies that he ever participated in the rebellion ; though he was expelled from the United States Senate, from his supposed affiliation, declares in favor of a re-union on honorable terms; that the President’s proclamation had made him a poor man, and averred that he had no seat in the Senate and would not go to Washington -as a mendicant, begging for one. Dr. Mitchell, the other Senator regularly elected from Ar kansas before the war, is an ultra secessionist. A question affecting the banishment of Clem ent L. Vallandigham came before the Supreme Court of the United States on Jan. 20th. It was original, ex parte. Vallandigham being the petitioner. The motion for a writ of certiorari to the Judge Advocate General was argued by ex-Senator Pugh in support of, and was sub mitted on a printed argument by Col. Holt, Judge Advocate General, in opposition thereto. The Northern Congress is Calking about con scripting free negroes from sixteen to sixty. There has been another very severe snow storm throughout the North West. The cold was also intense. The losses by the late fire in New Yoik amounted to about $ 1,000,000. Hon. I. Rogers, of New .Jersey, introduced a resolution in the Federal House, that the Gov ernment should appoint commissioners to meet rebel commissioners as equals and to concoct measures of peaee with (hem. The resolution was rejected, but received forty-two votes in its favor. The price of coin is represented by-a Yankee paper to l>e higher in the West than it has been for forty years. MJSWS HtIMAIIV. MU* Ut-uvoa Cox, of Amite county. Mlssis sAppi, a littie K'll about, thirteen years of age has sent to our soldiers within the past two years, over two hundred yards of jeans, several home made blankets, and many pairs of socks, mostly the work of her own fair hands. She has set a most noble example and deserves much praise. Mr. IV. W. Hankins, of Lafayette county, Florida a lew days ago killed two bears, weigh ing four hundred pounds each, and four large buck deer, in the space of one hour of time.— The same gentleman some time previously caught with a hook and line fifty fine trout, and killed three wild turkeys, iu less than one hour. A good section that to live in, especial ly in these times. Gen. Wharton, one of our most brilliant and dashing leaders, is so far convalescent, as to be able to leave his room in Atlanta, where be has been confined. It is rumored that lie is to be ordered to a high command in Texas. Nellie Bryant, and three other female Con viecs. who escaped from the State Penitentiary on the 23J of Jan. were cipturcd, near this city on the 23th, by an officer of the Penitentiary who went in pursuit of thorn- “Nellie" made an attempt to join a company, but before her arrangements were perfected she was captured She was dressed in soldiers vuiform. The New York News asserts that Fernando Wood is for peace, and speaks as follows of the Democratic Congressional caucus lately held in Washington City ; At that caucus the speak ers were Senators Powell and Saulsbury. and Messrs. J. C. Allen, Robertson. Ilolmau, Cox. Pendleton, Fernando Wood and others, of the House of Representatives. Not one of these gentlemen advocated or intimated a desire for a war platform. On the contrary every allusion made to the subject was against the war. Sena tors Powell aud Satilsoury and Mayor woou denounced it boldly, and no speaker took op posite grounds. The steamer Laura, in attempting to make a Confederate pert, was chased twelve hours l>y the blockaders and captured. In her effort to escape site broke one of her wheels, when she was beached. She had but one boat in which the Captain and ten men made their escape, and have arrived at Tallahasse, Fla. Six of the crew were captured with the vessel. The schooner Carolina Gertrude, in attempt ing to run out from the Florida coast a few days since was captured. She was loaded with, cotton. The Milledgeville Recorder understands that the increased number of machines constructed in the Penitentiary, for the manufacture of Cotton Cards, will do much toward supplying a great public need, and that Cards may now be had at the sale-room at the old price of six dollars a pair, half in skins, and the other half in money. This is a change of the former rule, which required the whole price to be paid in skins. For the benefit of those desiring cards on these terms, and in no other way can they lie obtained at the Penitentiary, wo again state the quantity of skins, and the price, to buy a pair of Cards: For sheep, goat, dog or deer skins, raw, the price allowed is 25 cents for twenfy-lwo inches in length and five inches in width; and for tunned skins of the same de scription. the sum is 50 cents. Tiie skins must be sound, and without holes. It will take from two to three skins, according to size, to bring three dollars in exchange; the other three dollars will be received in money for a pail- of Cards under the present regulation. A now factory for the manufacture of cotton yarn has been established at Lynchburg, Va. A rumor prevails in Richmond that many of the Yankeos in the Valley, have thrown down their arms, returned home and declared their intention to fight no more against the South.— No doubt exists that there is a great deal of disaffection in the ranks of the enemy, that they are tired of and see the hopelessness of I he struggle and would be disposed to stop the war if in their power to do so. The amount of duties ou imports collected in the Confederacy last y< ar i.s said to have been about $1,600,000. Tliis, we suppose, was mainly collected at Wilmington and Charleston; a little at Mobile and Brownsville, and some at Richmond on goods run through the block ade across the Potomac. The editor of the Columbia South Carolinian has been shown a turnip twenty four and a half inches round, which weighs six pounds. A Senator now in tha Confederate Congress, writes home to a relative in South Carolina that in two months from this time our curren cy will bo worth more than it lias yet been du ring the war, to buy little and cautiously and to sell freely. Every body will ha 1 with joy the event tue nouiii Caiciiim cj.. S u K , prophecies will come to pass. A turtle was captured near Jackson Lake five or six miles from Montgomery, Alabama lately, which measured about two feet in length, and weighed some two hundred pounds. A portion of our troops captured a man nam ed Dooly in Winchester., Va. He was a re cruiting officer of the Federal army, and had on his persou a commission which authorized him to raise negro regiments in the Valiev. Upon his arrest the Yankees arrested Robert Y Conrad, E-cp, audit is said P. Williams, Esq., two of the ablest lawyers and most prom nene citizens of that section and hold them as hos tages for Dooly. This is unfamous conduct and under the position of our government most delicate. Ex-Gov. Andrew B. Moore, of Alabama, is taking the stump, stirring up the people for the relief of soldiers’, families and war contri butions generally. R. S. Shevenel, of Athens, Ga., lias devised, a truss which lias been largely approved by surgeons who have examined it, as cheap, neat anil durable. Incendiaries are at work in Atlanta. Sever al tires have occurred lately. Street shooting has become tbe order of tbe day as well as night in Atlanta. The whole number of Yankee prisoners in Richmond and Danville is nearly fifteen thousand. Confederate bonds ff long dates, says tlie Montgomery Advertiser, of Jan. 30th, were sold in that city at 120, and some of short dates at 110. This class of securities are certainly ap preciating. The steamer Denbigh in endeavoring to run out of Mobile harbor run ashore. The steamer will probably fie lost. Cargo saved. All.tbe passengers and crew were also got off safely. A dinner was given to Gen. Bragg at Mont gomery last Wednesday, by a number of the citizens of that place. Eighteen car loads of coffee passed through Petersburg, Va., on Friday, en route, for Gener al Lee’s army. Two more steamers, the Pet and Heroine, have arrived safely at Wilmington. The Richmond Whig contains the particulars of the death ol Major Charles Hill, a gallant young artillery officer of Richmond, who for some months past has been serving in Texas.— While holding communication with the enemy, under flag of truce, at the west end of Mata gorda Island, one of the perfidious Yankees en deavored to take him prisoner; but Major Hill, being strong and at hletic, drew his revolver and killed his would-be captor, whereupon he was attacked by overwhelming numbers of the foe and fell, shot through the heart. The Richmond Enquirer learns from a gen tleman direct from Bermuda, tb.it Yankee greenbacks were selling at that place for sixty two and a half cents on the dollar, and Con federate giavbacks at seventy cents, the latter being seven and a half cents more valuable in the estimation of the Bermudians than the “promise to pay” of the Lincoln Govern ment. The Richmond Sentinel says that the suc cessor of Archbishop Hughes will not be the Federal paitisan aud envoy, in which char acters that prelate exhibited himself in the earlier part of the war; nor will he even mani fest the subdued favor into which Archbishop Hughes’s advocacy afterwards subsided. His voice and counsels will be for peace. The mul titudes, also, of Catholics of the North cannot fail to be influenced by the sentiments of the Pontiff, and will become less willing to cry war while lie counsels peace, and less eager to deny our right to a separate name and place arnon j the nations, when it is so frankly conceded by one commanding their reverence in so eminent a degree. Gen. Duff C. Green has left with the Eutaw (Ala) Whig, a sample of thread spun from flakes of cotton without the usual process of carding. The specimen is equal to any coarse thread made from the carded roll, and tor mak ing coarse cloth will answer the same purpose. If once tried by our farmers, we think they will be induced to abandon cards entirely in the manufacture of negro clothing. The following is the modus operandi of preparing the cotton : ’Gin the cotton slowdy, so as to throw large flakes through the flue, w rich are caught in a hamper basket placed under the flue, and take to the spinning wheel, without pressing the cotton.” The Importing and Exporting Company of South Carolina, through B. Mordecai, Esq., have presented Gen. Morgan and the members of his Stff with seven of the finest saddles, bridles and trappings in appieciation of the distinguished services. num intki um.. * Cm. Win-A'i-ttui. lun ju.t returned from a Utiguing and partially successful trip in Lou isiana and South Missis6 ; ppi. „ Skirmishes daily occur between the advance pickets of both sides, on the Big Black river. A successful attack was made on the Federal troops at Rodney by our forces, Jan. 18. The three year’s troops in Mississippi are re enlisting for the war. The Meridian, Miss., Clarion says that it is ascertained that a federal spy has made a com plete tour of Alabama and Mississippi—ob taining much information of the disposition made of troops in the department as well as of the warlike preparations made at Mobile. A gentleman just from Vicksburg gives the Mobile Advertiser the annexed particulars about the negro revolt which lately occurred near that place. He says that a Colonel of an African regiment, while’ drilling it, found one of the men obstinate, and taking his musket from him used some haish language. The ne gro replied insolently, and the commander killed him. This excited the anger of the rest of the regiment, and they" rushed on the whites and slaughtered several of them.— They also charged a battery, took possession of it, and turned it on the whites. A courier was immediately despatched to Vicksburg for rein lorcements. Two brigades were sent on a double quick, to the scene of action. They charged and retook the battery from the ne groes, and turning the guns ou them, managed by grape and canister to kill and wound l>o •tween four and five hundred. Nearly all of the negro soldiers have been sent up the Missis sippi. Col. Ike Harrison had captured some twelve or fourteen Yankee transports at Milliken’s Bend, and destroyed them, after taking out such stores as he could conveniently carry off with lilUi. Nearly all the Federal garrisons along the Mississippi fiver consist of negro troops. Port Hudson is garrisoned by fourteen negro regi meets of infantry, four cavalry regiments of whites, and a regiment of heavy artillery.— Baton Rouge hits 5,000 troops, and is defended by forty two pieces of artillery. There are about 3,000 negro and 800 white troops at Natchez. A large garrison of the same minions holds Vicksburg. The Meridian Clarion speaks thus of the prospect in that section; “Several important Federal expeditions are on foot,” and in sixty days the expeditions are to start simultaneous ly—perhaps sooner. The Yankees are iu high glee ut the prospect of occupying Mobile and the Alabama and Tombigbee rivers. Troops are already moving down the river for tlxis purpose, as well as au abundance of the arti cles of war necessary for such a campaign.- Gen. Sherman was iu Vicksburg about the 18th of Jau., ou important business, and after remaining there a couple of days started down the river on a gunboat. His situation, or the nature ot his business, could ndt be ascertained, but it was generally believed he was going down to consult with Banks relative to the at tack ofi Mobile. Avery large bridge is iu course of construction on Big Black, and wi’l soon be completed. When finished, the Yan kees intend moving out and occupying Jackson, and then strike up to Grenada. It is thought a force will be sent up to Grenada by way of tbe Yalobusha river ou small boats to co-operate with tbe force coming from Big Black, aud that Yazoo City will be occupied und garrison ed at the same time. Yankee officers high in command, declare they intend making ail ef fort to hold alt the territory west of Pearl river, and once permanently fixed iu Jackson, they will be able to extend their lines still further. Gen Polk is very active at this time, inspect ing his command. He is now on the front, seeing that all is right. He has taken mea sures to prevent travelling through his lines, or trading with the Federals. Affairs are improving rapidly, uuder Forrest, in North Mississippi. He has established his headquarters at Como, Panolo county. He is some distauce north of the Tallahatchie. This tuct evidences his confidence in his ability to lueet the foe successfully. He is iu a po i tion where he can make an advance, or the enemy approach him, without either having a considerable stream to ford, all the bridges on which have been destroyed. Orders have been issued lor the repair of (he bridge on the Missouri & Tennessee railroad, over the Y iPabusba, at Grenada. This accom plished, and anew field from which to obtain needed supplies for our troops will bo once more accessible. The Fedorals on the West bank of the Big Black, Miss , are estimated at 12,000 —includ- ing infantry, artillery, and cavalry—under nnmmutul ni‘ Thftv ar6 Oil' camped on a lofty range ol hills, near the spot where E iwards Depot once stood, but now de signated solely by heaps of ashes and the usual remains of conflagrations. Gen. Jackson has his headquarters at Can ton. Gen. Wirt Adam’s Brigade is at Liberty, about sixty miles South of Brownsville. It is an excellent body of troops composed of Ten nesseeans, Mississippians and Arkansians.— Gen. Boring's infautiy are still in winter quar ters near Canton. The Cavalry in Mississippi has been divided into two parts; all nortti of Grenada and in West Tennessee is under command of Maj. Gen. Forrest; all south of an imaginary line running through Grenada east and west and in Louisiana, is under command of Maj. Gen. S D. Lee. The Jackson correspondent of the Mobile Ad. vertiser gives tlie annexed news : The movements of the Federals in Western Mississippi indicate that they are determined to open the campaign at once, for the complete possession of the Mississippi Valley. It is certainly ascertained that Gen. Sher man, with his entire corps, has arrived at Vicksburg, which together with the forces pre viously concentrated there, will enable him to take tbe field with from 15,000 to 20,000 rn«n from that point. It is also ascertained that a Federal column, estimated at 10,000 men, are advancing from Baton Rouge and the Lake, and that they are uow menacing Tangipoha, and are thus overrunning Eastern Louisiana.— It is also probable that with the evacuation of Corinth, the Federals will make Grand Junc tion their northern base of operations, and move down the Central road by way of Ox ford. A Federal brigade of cavalry hag al ready advanced up the west bank of the Yazoo on Mechanicsburg, where they were met and forced back by the Second Texas Cavalry. The Big Black has b en pontooned in several pla ces, and every advice received brings tidings of an immediate advance. In Vicksburg they openly proclaim that they intend taking and holding Jackson, Grenada, and all the country along the lines of the New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern, and the Mississippi Cen tral Railroads. For the Federals to secure complete posses sion of the Mississippi Valley, it will be neces sary for them to establish a chain of fort lied posts from Memphis along the Charleston road to Grand Junction, and thence down the other roafis to New Orleans, this will require more men than Lfincoln can furnish. There is every confidence in the ability of Gen. Polk and liis Lieutenants to successfully beat back and thwart this movement. That there will be hard fighting, and that the Fed erals will gain some few advantages, are to be expected, but they will not sucoeed. Sherman will be met and defeated. The Federals are landing at various points on the river, and foraging on the alwmdoned plantations. One day tills week a Wisconsin regiment landed near Bolivar, after r>.OOG bush els of gathered corn. They were met by out cavalry and whipped off, and the corn burnt. All the valuable property in Jackson is be ing removed. The Government has removed nearly all the cotton in exposed situations to places more safe. The weather is mild and pleasant -the roads are getting in excellent condition, and military movements on a large scale can be made. The Federals have within the last few days become very strict on the Big Black. No per son can now enter Vicksburg to trade or other wise without taking the oath. Gens. Polk, Loring, Lee and Gov. Clark, have been in consultation in Jackson. Our Generals in command have the full confidence of the people. A correspondent of she Atlanta Appeal writes from Como, Gen. Forrest’s headquarters, as follows; Affairs in Mississippi are emphatically im proving. The people have plenty to eat aud the stock are all fat. Cows and hogs ate abun dant and the country is well supplied. What the people wanted was patriotism, and tins they have, in the presence of Gen. Forrest ami his command. ... Gen. Forrest, by his energy and strict at pline, is bringing order out of chaos. - every day coming in and reporting so 5 ■ In a rimrt time he will have ten effi cient vien, well mounted ’ * command has plenty ol arms, subsistence is abundant, and it never atyi m one pi ce fomr enough for the men to get sick, me Serai is now engaged in building bridges and working on roads, and has scouts thrown out in every direction. The people of West Tennessee are represent ed as being more loyal aod determined to stand by the South than ever before. They furnish anything they have, that is wanted, caring nothing for r „ 0 „ or <. urrotu . v . v Vo . . oaum , r .,m might umn.ro, ft,, b ,” 1 man in the Coufedeiacy ‘ c r ■ The Brandon, Miss., Republican A p.0.-eut there are about 1 \ m Vicksburg. Munv • ,00 ° ,dU ‘ - dition. Large number ° m * a suirer: old honiedtaSW t 0 rtiturr ’■ them to do so Ftdera,s will n->t • : Ya 1 ul“iaB„ C ’ ,rre “, t in r ’™dou ,h . KlrTituY threu . columns, are cros another threatenin'! Jacks” 00 '' 0 " 01 mu” . t “™ h *■*'' We arc indebted to rw pi the following information of tiffX • chantcsviHe twenty mile™,- Jackson, lie s .ysthat very heavy ca was heard at Canton in the direVi, chamesvile, and that h-avy skit-mi going on last Tuesday and Friday! orri prisoners were captured ou ,s' ur by Gen. Jackson s cava'rv at Yazoo blnbw t ,a n he ene3ly is f«‘mfoi largt.y smee the evacuation of Can't Georgia Treasurt Ob»tificatw of Georgia during the years 186‘* issued Treasury Notes, 'not heath hut made ptyable iu specie or eight - cent State Bonds, six month* after peace. There Treasury Notes were V a current y and were paid out at the -. N par, but. sufli was the high credit they would not circulate, but as *■ ■ out from the Treasury were song . , bought up by capitalists and othe A small premium, and latterly, at a lijj n > " for investment-, ttfl* twin# ite i some oi me holder* of these note ~ convert their $5. $lO, S2O. SSO, an - q. into larger sums, so as to be more and safey kept until after the dos fft, the last Legislature passed an Ac the Treasurer and Comptroller Ge i , the supervision of the Governor, t ury Certificates of Deposit of m $5,000 to be given for the sum , ' Treasury Notes which are to be c burned after being redeemed b cates—said certificates to “be ma the same manner as i.s i xpressed the motes tlis canceled.” In compliance with the Act o lure we ierrn that the Treasuierau r General have hid engraved and 1, • • * for issue, tin? certificates for ft en- Treasury Notes. Ju si/.e, the..- lour and a half by seven and , - inter inches, are printed on Bank Note I , u -o of the deiiominat ons of $5,000, . e ~-,1 $20,000. The following is a cop No. STATE OF GEORG 12 Treasury Department Milledgevilie.... i ■ t 3 Whereas in accordance with an 1 9 C< ■ oral Assembly entitled an “Art t.i ;•>, ~o r portions ol'the' Georgia Tivusu issued by issuing Treasury Ceriiiii.» posit, aud for oilier purpose!, "a Dec r. 11, 18(io .will, b provides hat ... Ucatcsshall “bo made payable id. • • ,u her as is expressed in tbe face . uid no the sum of TEN THOUSAND U U.LAI;> ,i Guorgin Treasury notes of thor to iam < lotb 181.2 lias this day been retinue ■ ;o;L.r -o partment aud caceltad. For in const’era:ion whereof 11 j Sl;nu ot Georgia will pay the bearer TE : O’’ \; I> DOLLARS in Eight per Cent tmi Bonds specie six months after a treaty p.-ace or wii > the Banks ol .Savannah and Aug resume ■ <ie payment if before that tiui such bed • the obligation expressed in t t tfo Treasury notes so returned and .ceb-d. ROISTERED. . Tr usurer 10,000. Comp!roller Go-,.,,. We learn that the certificates tor the six oar cent Treasury Notes will also l, c a lv for in a few days. In a late Augusta paper, wo !!>:<: the Georgia War 't ax Bonds beari sen o >„•. . ». a t interest, are selling S3OO lor sl< r :.(!(].< .en' premium, wh:l- the Georgia ••.tM t , i cent Treasury Notes only sell for $175 - y $ •;«j or seventy-five per cent premium in > . a i only 8110 for SIOO, or 40 pi. ; ullK Why thin great difference boivwu a nd, aud tbe Treasury Motes we cam 1 is true the Bonds bear interest, wl ■,. . . . iM . ury Notes do not, and wiil nol lie; i■ st un til six month. l ; after a Xr. dy o ;.e ...- 'put un less capitalists and others thud war may last fifteen or eighteen yen rs, t! re is uogood re sou for this different . Were 1 . ir to Lid on vm 9 «ur longer, the Bond.-. ■ ••-til. a* to be worth only ten aud ah: . j ■ .. „• ,}. I, . ing the interest for 16 monli ; in il eight per cent notes, and alx;.:> I .ore than the six per cents. Were it, . J the difference ought to be onto ;v; . r cent between the eight per 0.-ets , about ’ percent' between Ihc six pci - '.d i; : - war were to continue live ye inference between the Bonds aud the ei . snt Tr-aa ury Notes ought not to be and in tlie Cs the diffeience m i t be over 60 or 55 per cent. wliei '. mds „•>*• Bell for $125 on the (100 m per cent, and $l6O more o sß)'> jthm tbe six per cents. We are i .e i 'ru.j way, in the matter, but cons . securities arc of the same 1 -s. -iic things looks father curious that thi war may last many > Union. The I<O.Nf!STREF.T AND F ■>; DEHCK.— A tew days since v ; tha Northern papers, cori ■ . took place between Gens. 1 Eos ter. Tho Federals, howeve f « so; tlie letters writen. Here i.- • t ..j.t by the former to the Vanke iule Jt sentiments do honor to its .... •.. > . m mander: Deadouaiiters Df.f'nt op E i. ■ . ) J .ary. ’ .to I. ’ Sir—l have the honor t . dgv the receipt of your letter of! . v with its enclosure.-;, &c. The disingenuous manne* .1 h you u misconstrued my letter of , d.-q, pointed me. Tlie suggesti< i a., adopted was in words as U in: sumo, however, that the g a'. 1 • t in view waste hasten the) pectf.illy suggest 1. r you propriety ol eommunijali . .v- tl . your Government may li i. '• t to! cm through me, rather than I an id. mi , to ted amongst the soldiers.” This sentence lepudiat n. term, the construction which yo j< , o it. Let me remind you, to and t .u«J tone of mv letter were to timent. The absolute want of p i 1 i o • struction of the letter ini >es ii ish you against trifling ov •' - . uii great war. You cannot protend to tin letter in tho spirit oi frani and yet it is bard to be tba commanding an a.imy ol w '•! <•••<> whoso shoulders rests, in tie t- > . <<. destinies of empires, cot fa • he gbt of this great urge -.! betray the dignity of 1 . . fall into a contest of je.* *■ j ji;.■ ■ I have read your ortk vorable term on which —rt /wfed ! by y* violation of the rules of < farms have been desire children have been rob a have been pillaged and laid your plans and worl t duce wholesale murder l And now, the most igi 1 . r<, pose to degrade the him soldiers to dishonor an< v - - Soldiers who have met many honorable fields — storm of battle, iri and« totv their families’ and then years, have a right to. ex < : : even in their adversries. I beg leave to return t) clamation and your order I have (he honor to reu n ance of great respect. Your most ol« ■ , * Lieut. Cm Major Gen. J. B. Foster --emunfo .g , of the Ohio. i John Ford, of Norfolk, fl lating his oath of alfegiai .9 with Confederates within •<, . I and endeavoring fraudul y I cation of Confederate pre . ffi been sen'enced by Butle I bard labor in Norfolk jail I wear a twenty-four poum , fl bis right leg by a chain t! fl be employed in cleaning , , H hard lobor ; anil at the e . c ..ic <-u H sent beyond the limits of M to return. Marshal Kane, of Bal Confederates, mostly es~.t , erg Johnson’s Island and Cam- t v bee on the 23th by the Gi »ud '1 - BADo lor Revier du Loup, to ta •„ u > . r.jtui tor H| to Halifax, 9
