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WiU .Dos Ma-«ucl>'i*-its hDi u< idly 't.tro
du<<d resolutions into the donate ol the i nited
State* looking to the abolition of Statu line*
•anil privileges, and I In' con olid db n ol l“>'vei
Eli the builds of the President and the oati n.u
I im, Uad such a preposi
fn-en made five v aiv ago. il would bave been
scouted most indignantly by the whole coun
try. Even at the beginning ol tbo war, no
prominent man would have imperilled iiis itp
utation by such » suggestion. I»ut the adroit
Abolitionists of the North have not been edu
cating li.o public mind so long to no purpose.
And tin y have now readied a point where they
judge that pnrposcs long cherished may he
UVOWt'd \
The Northern ied'lers are fully aware that (
the since, H of the Confederate States will be the
precursor of ihe.further d-sintegiatiou of
the United Slates. In a letter addicted by
(Jen. McClellan to Lincoln on the Tib of July,
1H62, the principal ic.ison for which heuiges
the vigorous pruseeulion of the war b- ( that
other secct.'ious would certainly follow it li e
existing rebellion was not overthrown. As
nearly three years h tve proved insulli ieiil. tor
this latter purpose, and as some ol the hereto
fore hopeful among our enemies are at least
doubtful of ultimate success, they are seeking
to gu il and against the evil of further dismember
ment by a coup d'etal which shall strip the
Htales of their constitutional rights and make
them the mere vassal* ol Federal power.—
Wilson’s project is n ithing less than a dcliher
-11 te proposition for the subversion of republi
can government. The Shiles which have giv. n
l.irtli to the Kideval I’ower are to be? ahol shed,
uml there will remain no longer any tribunal
I to which the creature or servant will lie ameii
aide tor the abuse ol liis tru.t. and itli the mas
ter destroyed, tin: servant may take the helm
and direct the ship of State ai liis pleasure.
It Is worthy of remark that the proposition
in question comes from a Black Republican
and a New Knglander. If a despoti-mi is to I e
inaugurated in the North, the party which can
the sceptre in Ihe beginning has a good
pros pert of retaining it imleliuitcly. The peo
ple umv be allowed every four years to go
through the form of ail election, but the pow
lers (hat be w ill not suiter their authority to bo
invaded. Where moral . atuion eaun-r .0r.., t.
t tlmir purposes, more potent the
shape of intimidation and otiipulsion will not
be wanting. The • vine power which has been
Mde to torture Maryland and Missouri into
Wd.vek Republican States, at a time when a ma
jority ot their people were unquestionably
Southern ill their feel lug, will lie strong enough
when it«ucquitvs the strength which Wilson
' proposes to confer upon it to crush out any
other opposition.’ In the campaign of 'tiO,
Seward leiuarked that slavery had ruled the
. country for forty years past, and that lor the
future Ireedom should bo master. Uy freedom,
he meant the Abolition party, ’i he proposi
tio.ns of the Massachusetts Senator supply an
appropriate commentary on the prophecy ol
the Yankee IVcmicr.
Tli.' fuel that a New Englander in tin. cham
pion of tlm scheme f>»r centralization, in not
without moaning. It is to the interest of the
manufacturing districts of f!:-> North that for
eign g mils be excluded from the market.
IVith a high tariff, the New England manul’iic
turers must make rapid and enormous fortunes.
H„t nothing so certainly secures such a tariff'
as a heavy public debt. It the United States
should owe at the end of the war Ihteo or four
thousand millions of dollars-.an amount not
at all improbable -two hundred and forty
millions of dollars will be u.ee-sary t." pay the
Interest. And if we put down the eurr-ut, ex
penses of the government at one hundred and
sixty millions per annum a very small allow
ance when the Increased size of permanent ar
my and navy is considered this \Oio make
four hundred millions annually required by
, the government. To raise this amufitit every ai
tiole of imported goods will be taxed, and the
amount disposed in such a way as to enrich the
in ami fact it ring audio impoverish theaqicul
tuiwl districts. From such an arrangement
the West will inevitably secede, unless they
are bound baud and foot by tin* consolidation
scheme which is now on the carpet.
The only hope for constitutional liberty on
~.j. ~ mtinuut is in the success of the t’oufeder-
ZS2. «« * <w»t
liussian depotum will ’*> >epeat.xi under a
different name it may l»a—but with line spirit
on this continent., let us prepare to resist the
tide which is rising in the Northt lot us con
ntruct around our country a breakwater wliich
its angry waves shall seek iu vain to overcome.
Wn.tr Wb Most Need, at the present time,
is a grand triumph of our arms—a signal, bril
liant, decisive victory. Our lato reverses at
Chickumauga. coupled with other causes which
induced the belief that the war is to be indefi
nitely prolonged, produced a feeling of despon
dency and gloom almost amounting to despair.
Among our troops this depression did not ex
ist to any great extent in fact, they have al
ways kept up their spirit* hotter than the peo
ple at home: hut the gloom pervading all
classes of the latter has no dou t bad a par
tial influence upon til* soldiers. 1 lie result 'pas
been a general At of the *• blues which there
is one thing would immediately dispel, t.ive
our braves a big victory over the vamial.foe.
and it would run like au electric thrill through
aruiv and people. New life, new spirit, tie.-li
elm, energy and determination- would he man
ifest every where. The change would be in
stan taueous si ml beneiicial. Ihe prestige it
would give to our army, the hope it would iu
cplre in th» hearts of the people, cannot bo
over estimated. A victory would be better for
us now than the safe arrival of a legion of
blockade ruuneis with cargoes on “Govern
ment account.' 1
Prom present indications, there w ill soon be
an opportunity to cross swords wi h out antag
onist. The gathering and concentration of his
men arid ships at New Orieaus and vicinity are
evidences of a hostile movement, and wetliiuk
Mobile to be the point of attack. Sherman
has drawn off the garrisons from various utiiui
jiortaut posts at the West, and transports laden
I with blue con's have been parsing down th«
! Mississippi—besides a big ‘ three-tier ” gun
I boat, as Ihe telegram informs us. McPherson
is moving towards Jackson with a large force.
Portions of Missi-sippi and Louisiana aie just
now alive with Federal troops. A fleet of gHß
boats is hovering about Pascagoula Bay. A
land anil water assault upon Mobile is highly
probable liefore long. We a r e glad to notice
that, with this busy note of preparation by the
enemy, there mingles a sound ol activity in our
owncampi. Our legions are getting ready to
inert them. If I lie struggle comes, we shall see
one of the fiercest contents of the war.
If a victory- great and glorious—is vouch
safed to our troops in this battle, as we before
dated, it will have a remarkably vivifjing es
JeCt upon all Confidence and energy wil!
alike be infused throughout the army and peo- j
pie ; and, with the animus acquired by the suc
re.-', we may gj on '• conquering rml to'con
quer,” until the foe is driven in discomfiture
beyond our borders. So mote it be.
Sl vtMOn C Ac, ION AT THE NoBTIL —AII the
symptoms of the body politic and financial al I
•Le North arc spasmodic. Every thing ap
pears to he in an unsettled state. What is
te tier, matters are growing worse, instead of
improving. To-day a prominent leader wants
100,000 men raised al once to crush the Con
federates. To-morrow the same man wants 1
000,000 men for the same object. One leader
thinks to day that nin -ty days will finish up
mutters ‘satisfactorily ; and to-morrow the
same man comes to the conclusion that the war
wil! be protracted for an indefinite period
One demagogue wants this policy adopted ;
another that policy ; and a third wants an cn-.
tircly dilterent one than has yet been suggested
by any party.
in the financial circles in Lincolndom tl.e
same uns-dtled state of things exists. To-day
gold gm s lip ; to-morrow it g- es down a little;
and in a few-days after it shoots aiji hinlier
than ever—warning tin- powers that be that
they cannot control the market, and that a fi
nancial t-rasj! will come so lief or la es-
Lincoln aud liis advisers see these signs of a
crisis. They are well aware that they portend
the coming storm. Their own acts show that
they leel uneasy themselves. HencelU ir great
preparations tu eru.-li tho South Die coming
spring, if jmssible. They know their fate it
the war continues much longer.
Tho Squill has only to hold her otvn, and to
rope! the further advance of ti,e foe, iji order
to gain success, and ensure ills inevitable ruiu.
'pie Republican dynasty of the North, founded
, ift ft him hinoi and crime, is tottering. If the
South is true to herscli it will fail, and over
whelm in its litius those who were instru
mental in bringing our pie3eut troubles upon
us.
John Mixon Burrs’ Lkttsk. —A Mr. G. S.
Smith, treasuref-of the Bogus} Virginia State
Government lias written aletterto John Minor
Bolts urging on behalf of "Gov.” Picrpont iiis
acceptance of the position of U. 8. Senator
from Virginia. Mr. Butts has written a reply,
declining the proffered “honor.” A Yankee wri
(.,.■ aB .•« a summary of the letter :
lie states that he is fully aware of the respon
sibility of a United States Senator; that the po
sition is one which ought :o satisfy the aspira
tions o! any lit nlerate man, but that ho is com
pelled at present, by solemn conviction of du
ty, to decline accepting any office from either
ot the nnuierouH Governments of Virginia rep
resenting. or professing to lepresept that Statu.
His unsi Ifish motives, lie states, might he im
pugni-d, but he nevertheless believes that the
time is not far distant when he may be able to
aid in healing the bitter animosities of the two
.sections, lie charges tlie leaders of the rebel
ion as having, with “miscalculation upon mis
calculation, and blunder upon blunder."
brought ruin aud destruction upon the “old
Mother of Statos,” aud closes by saying that
neither wav, nor want, uor suffering can Inst
forever, aud that, when the proper time ar
rive s. he believes lie may be instrumental in the
work of union aud reconciliation. "
The letter writter also says that Mr# Holts
in a conversation stated that : Never in a
single instant .lining this war has he 'doubted
the trial result, llis opinion of George 1!. Me
Cleilan is not at all complimentary to that
gentleman, whom he regards if not possively
disloyal at heart, at least in the light of an
ambitious asplraitt for undeserved honors. Mr.
Ilotts stated that he believed that the majority
ot the rebel army regard McClellan as being as
truly devoted {o their interests as Robert K.
t,ee! and that a man who would not- when his
named was used in connection with Davis, Yal
landiiibtim. Wood, and others, of the same pol
itical complexion, come out boldly and dis
claim the assoc/alion, was totally unfit to be
commander of a Union army. Mr. Roths says
that of a|l the promises made to the Southern
people by the leaders of secession, only one
mat Ite realised.—The promise referred to is
the'ease of Mr. Toombs, of Georgia, who, it
will !"• ieraembet'ed, said ho would yet call t.ha
roll of liis slaves at the foist of Ranker Hill
Monument-. Mr. H. thinks that if President j
Lincoln will collect the slaves of Mr. Toombs, j
and permit him to visit the North the proph
ecy may be fulfilled.
Tub Wav Morgan's Omoms ark Treated.—
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
writing from Columbus. Ohio, gives an account
of the cruel way Morgan’s officers now '•du
rance vile are treated :
Morgan is not yet caught, but his officers in
the penitentiary are weft caged. If we can't
get- tin' chief to punish, we can punish his Colo
nels, Captuinq and Lieutenants he left Mbbind
him. Every one of his officers is in solitary
confinement, in a stone cell, seven loot long
bv three and one-halt feet wide, cold and
dark at that.
Here their exercise m walking a plank six
feet long and one and a half broad, laid lengt ii
wise on the floor of the cell. Three s'.ioi t steps
forward— wheel to the right about three steps
the othni' way— about again, march three steps
forward, and s#> they exercise until the short ;
steus make them dizzy, when they are glad to 1
rest themselves on their tom. We are punish I
iinv them liecause they didn’t escape, o,- begaqse 1
Morem and half a doz nos their number did.
Anyhow we are punishing them. Nor do we |
allow them to receive shirts or clothing from
friends or relatives.
We eomolaiu of the way our Union prisoners
at Kichm nd are treated. I guess the rebels 1
can't beat our Ohio Penitentiary, uorthe West- :
ern l’enitemiary of Pennsylvania at Allegany :
town. Solitary eoiilinement la a narrow coll j
will soon bring prisoners to the lunatie apart
ment, or mother earth. The history of all bas
tiles proves that. General Neal Dow anil Com- :
miss’ioner Meiedith say that the rebel Govern
ermnen'. allow our Union prisoners in receive 1
what our friends choose to send them. Nor it
any of them escapes are those that remain shut
| up. each man by himself, iu a solitary cell,
either by way of punishment or wantin'.
I acts like these need no comment. They
speak for themselves. They also show iu the
right light, the vindictive teeliag of those who
are trying to subjugate us and ruin our country.
The Nbw Draft it tub South. —Lincoln
has issued the annexed order for drafting five
hunreci thousand more men from among his
subjects. It is dajed Washington, Feb. 1 :
Ordered. That a draft tor live hundred thous
and men. to serve for three years or during the
war. l<e made ou the 10th day of March next,
for the military service of the United. States,
crediting and deducting therefrom so
many as may have been enlisted or drafted
iuto tbe serv.ee prior to the lust day ot March
I and not heretofore credited,
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17. 1864.
; tITiZHS MIfKTLYIi AT COStiltT II ALL
SPEY Lit OF GEV COHIS
At the meeting called at Concert Kill on
j Saturday to take into consideration the regu
j latioa of t!ie prices of supplies for the army,
j and to hear the speech of Mr. Cobb, lion. E.
Starnes was called to the chair, and James
j Gardner, Esq , i (-quested to act as Secretary.
Judge Starnes, on taking the chair, stated
: the object of the meeting to lie two -fold : First
to listen to the remarks cf the distinguished
statesman and soldier, who, having counselled
• resistance tooppr&ssiol, and incurred a weighty
j responsibility in tbi step, has bared his bosom
| to the shock of war. and perfonned faithfully
; and well the duties assigned him. Another ob
ject of the meeting was to take into considera
tion the regulation of prices for siippl'cs fertile
army. The impressment act had not been sat
isfactory in its operation, an i it was important
that the planters should voluntarily make a
tender of their surplus, at prices that would he
remunerative, without taking inio considera
ti >n the market value, or waiting lor tlie un
pleasant exactions of ti e impressing officer.
'i’lie following is the substance of Gen. Cobb's
rema.ks. We regret that our space prevents
us trorn pteseuting it in full :
Mr. Cobb stated that if anything was mccen
sary to add to his embarrassment, it was the
over-kind and fl ittering manner in which he
had been introduced to an audience where in
other davs he had been privileged to address
them. His object was not to present any ex
ample or precept of his own, but to state pal
pable truths «nd pr.sent t!ie example of others.
IVe are engaged in a struggle in which all is
involved, and we cannot afford to fait. We
have had days of sunshine and gloom. Per
haps we have had.no more gloomy period,
than that which iias prevailed for six months
previous to the last thirty days. A manifest
change is apparent now—a more hopeful spirit
is being aroused.
i he lesponsibilities of the times bave aroused
the stein manhood of the people, and despon
dency is giving way to hope)ultiess and faith.
You see it on your street corners, and in the
private circle. Unkind and ungenerous criti
cism of our generals is not so current, ihe
small critics and croakers (whose censures are
as harmless a- the cooing of a dove, and whose
burial ground rr;ight life conveniently kxated
on the point of a eamurie neeute) are not* soklop,
heard. He wou and not emun-rate evidence of
this reviving hopefulness, but would refer to
tile army lie bad seen the brave veterans
amid the camp tires, and sitfeo the commence
ment of the war there has übt been a more con
fident or deteimined spirit. Recruits are being
added—high spirits prevail, and the merry
Uiugh rings around the glowing bivouac. Why
then should theie bo despondency among the
people ! When the soldier bears his trials so
cheerfully, there should be fio flinching or com
plaining among those enjoying, undisturbed
the comforts ot home.
lie hud thought that the people of Georgia,
having not learned the sufferings of the war in
the school us experience, laid not fully appre
ciated the trials incident tit a revolution. If
they will be true to lite cai se, they never need
learn thfui as they have been learned by the
brave sons and daughters of the Old Dominion,
and other border iittttfti. He would commend
their sacrifices, and heroism—he would paint
to the homeless refugees—‘victims of outrage
and shameless inhumanity \yho arc in our
midst, and in commendingjthem to the highest
consideration, paipt them ;J.s noble examples of
patriotic devotion. *■
He had not come to hold up bright pictures
!>r prosperity tint to declare that tins times
demand liberal and manly sacrifices for tin
cause of liberty and indopontLmca. IB would
speak first of the duly of farmers and planters,
lie would appeal to tiiemto put foith liberally
of their provisions. Tplll me, gsml pe—you,
whose granaries are full—[whose haulers groan
with abundantn how is the army tube fed?
You point to the ofiiceis of the govemment
to the commissaries -to your .neighbors, the
large planters—but the appeal conies tu evpry
man, who can spare a tithe of his abundance.
We are told in the press and elsewhere, that
the planters demand and should receive just
compensation. Such is your h-gal right. But
mid ho, l am not here to counsel the best
means of obtaining just cbmpeusatlon, or lpar
u't price, but i come to ask you,* whose sons
ire baring their bosoms to the storm of war,
whether yon will permit them to suffer for
food, while you are stickling for your plain
constitutional rights and for just compensation.
A citizen has a right to ujo market value or liis
supplies; but when the* country needs them,
aqmtriot will not demand it. Are sous, and
protection, and home, lots dear to yem than the
products of your labor? Where is the just com
pensation to the intelligent soldiers who till the
ranks of the army at eiei’en dollars a month, ot
to the officers, who, at inadequate salaries, are
bearing the responsibilities of their positions?
Are not tln-ii wives and children as dear to
them as yours? Where is the just compensation
for their trials and sacrifices ? Go to the hos
pital, and see tip- eptac-iaied form of the brave
man who has sickened it ujer t}ie exposure ot
the camp; what is just! compensation to him,
lor a wrecked constitution, and the blighted
hopes of vigorous manhood ? Go to the hearths
desolated by the blatVearnage of tlte struggle,
and would you in-mlt the anguish of widow
hood and orphanage, by offering them just
compensation 1
These legal exactions are a reproach to men
seeking to he free. The hour that such consid
erations prevail will be latal to us all. The
pkAter justifies himself for his exactions, be
cause the merchants charge him exorbitant
prices. He knew not to what extent avarice
may pieyail iu our commercial circles, but lie
urged the planters not to follow the perniciai s
ex.mple of the huckster in codfish and calico.
He had heard of no women who had refused to
knit socks for the soldiers because the mer
chants charged tpn or twenty priir s for knit
ting needles. Catch inspiration froifi the a tbps
set up around your own firesides by the noble
women of the land.
We have been told that we have not the re
sources on wh ch to feed tb“ people. It had
been demonstrated to him— -ml he had exam-
I iued the question with c me —that if our plant
ers will do their whole duty, we- can subsist gr
in v and people.
We are met with the charge that quartermas
ters ami cumin Learies are robbing the govern
ment. He was not here to defend these officers:
but if they are true, will it be any consolation
to you to ieel that the cause waS lost because
you were afraid the commissaries might specu
late on your surplus products ? It' you will
come forward with your supplies, there will be
: less chance for speculation. lie would com
i mend the example of the people of Sumter
! county, who hail resolved to furnish their sup
j n'os at any price the government could pay.
j What is id be weighed in tne scale against lib
j erty ? He urged the high duty of economy up
i on all. Let no oae waste of his abundance, but
rather sace it for others who are in need.
. Liu had been criticized as counselling a dis
regard lie would ponJI to his whole
life in evidence ol liis sacred regard for all legal
rules and regulations—but when the army is
starving,* and the granaries of the exloi doner
and engrosser are to be found, the array must
take it. The soldier who is a marauder is no
better than an extortioner, and he would coun
i tenance no lawlessness on the part ol tioops.
t Ilis owp comm mil bad seldom been charged
with such acts —yet lie had taken supplies lrcui
those who would not sell, and to feed his hun
j gry soldiers he would do it again,
i lie referred to old Morgan county, as one
having a abundance, m whicli the plant
ers had resolv ed to furnish all t hey could spare,
and it was surpri. ing to see the atnount of pro
visions that were icing forward.
Look at t';e fair fields and luxurious homes
all along our borders, whereyer the Yankee
army has penetrated, and see the outrages
perpetrated. Think not that by with*.hiding
ad from the cause, or by cherishing a misera
| bits union sentiment, that you will buy exemp
i tion Iroui their outrages. *
! He especially commended to the consuiera
t'en cf ti. >se at home, the widows and orphans
ot those who have fallen in the struggle. Go
and see ibem—a word of consolation will cheer
their ti'solution, and their children will rise up
aud call you bles-ed.
Mon, said he. are apt to see the short com
j ings of others. Let us endeavor to see our-
selves as other see us. It will not answer for
us to stand at tue comer of the stieeta and
denouuce speculators and extortioners. Go
from one end of Broad ■‘treet to another, and
you will not find a man who is not willing to
sell his supplies for just compensation. What
t-etter than they are you. if you withhold from
the market what is needed to feed the army and
people ! Ho would give a higher and nobler
example.
Some men denounce Yankees and Jews, and
seem to think in so doing that they have dis
j charged their duty. Some of the noblest sol
diers in our armies were men of ts'ort! era
birth, and some of the vilest extortioners ho
had ever known were Yankees of native
growth. And he had found noble soldiers
among the Jews, while some ot the vilest in
the land are uncircumcised ShyUaks at home.
It is not at the shortcomings ot others that
we should h-ok, or st-qi to exact the utmost
farthing from our bleeding country. Tt,e
farmers have ev,-r been regarded as the purest
classes ol society. Extortion, it must lie
admitted, had penetrated their ranks, hut he
was proud to believe that the infection was
not deep seated or general.
This is no time to estimate gains—or seek
for profits —it is the hour when lioeity is to la
won or lost.
There is another consider dion. This is no
time for shirking military duty. Every man is
needed. At an earlier day. when our sist -r
states were invaded, the volunteer spirit pre
vailed. How is it now that our very gates are
threatened ? The Virginians, Caroliniaus, the
men of Tennessee, Florida and the West, are in
the ranks, and shall Georgians falter, wait for
conscription, or rely on exemption acts? He
would put the question to the conscience and
pride of every able-bodied man, regardless of
age. or liability to the service—are you willing
to stay here in luxury and ease, until the
tread of the toe is heard on your streets?
He had been asked if we had army enough.
He could not answer the question. It was not
his province to answer it. We have formed a
government and (elected a leader. No matter
whetln r we approve ail liis acts or not—the
cons itution Makes him the judge of the men
and the means necessarv.
The President may have erred in judgement
-who has not? but that he has been false to
liis trust, his bitterest foe lias never dared to
whisper, lie is devoted and true—stand by
him and give him the men and the means that
he requires.
He revered the habeas corpus act—but the
man who is aide to go into tho service, and
seeks to shirk it under the subterfuge of a writ
of habeas corpus, is unworthy the name of
freeman. The army contains snipe of the lean
est of the iean, and fattest of the fat, and when
he saw a man running to a lawyers office, for a
writ of habeas corpus (he said with all deference
to a profession of which he felt honored to be
a member; it threw both lawyer and client into
suspicion. He would not deny the writof ha
beas corpus to an injur and citizen—but for an
able bodied man to seek it as a shield from
yielding the service he owes to his country
is a reproach to humanity.
He referred to the dream of foreign interven
tion which had been indulged tbo long. Europe
is .against us. We must rely on our strong
arms and on the Just Ruler who presides over
the destinies of men. Nor must we look to the
North. Conservatism there is dead, and the
veriest serf in the dominions of the Czar yields
no more trembling subserviency than that ac
ccy led to the Autocrat at Washington.
If any think he had presented a gloomy pic
ture lie would dispel such an impression. He
lia I never felt more hopeful. The people—the
men mui women of Georgia—arc coining up
with a- spirit of unanimity arid harmony 5 and
faith, which confirms his belief that \ye shall,
in God’s good time, be a free, independent and
happy people.
Gen. Uobb took his.soatjamid a perfect storm
of applause.
Judge Jenkins then arose, and stated that Due
soul-stirring appeal oi Uie distinguished Geor
gian who had addressed the meeting, called for
an expression of opinion from the citizens of
Richmond county. lie therefore offered the
following resolutions :
In view of tho magpitnueof the war in which
the Confederate States of America are engaged,
and vast consequences, for weal or for woo, de
pending on its result, the citizens of Richmond
county here assembled, do resolve :
1. That, the reconstruction of flee dissevered
Federal Union, would bring to us political sub
jugation, and moral debasement, and should
therefore be regarded by our whole people as
an impossibility.
2 That if true to out selves, with the aid of
Divine Providence, gratefully acknowledged
in the past, and devoutly implored lor the fu
ture. onr triumph will surely egrne.
8. That the circumstances surrounding us,
require the presence in the field of every man
capable of hearing arms, and not otherwise en
gaged in the indispensable service oi the coun
try.
4, That however great the numbers, bravery,
and discipline of our armies, they can not keep
the field, in defence of our nationality, without
supplies; and that the Confederate Govern
ment, organized in a time of war, without a
treasury, without munitions; and without com
mercial faeilitito* is eminently entitled to all
possible aid from tli s individual enterprise
and liberality of a patriotic constituency.
5. Tha* every citizen remaining at home at
tending to bis ordinary bus ness pirrsuits has
his appropriate \yotk, in extending this aid;
That those having supplies, are in duty bpujpl
to appropriate their surplus to the necessities
of the Government at prices simply remunera
tive; that those having money anil no supplies
are equally bound t > promote the financial
policy of the Government, by investing in its
securities, not omitting to give Liberally where
giving may avail; and that the largest contri
butions from both classes will bear no compa
rison with the toil of the Fair, and the blood
qf the Rrave.
0. That, in the hope of insuring supplies to
the'extent of our means, and avoiding unpleasant
controversies with the Government as to price,
a committee of three from each district with
out- and each ward within the city, to be com
posed ot planters, and deulem in afticlcs spited
to army subsistence, be appointed by the Chair
man, whose duty it shall be when convened by
him. to agree upon and publi-h a schedule of
fail fv remunerative prices for such articles,
and that holders thereof are earnestly request
ed, promptly to offer tq the Commissary of the
post, what they may be able to spare at those
prices.
Judge Jenkins stated that the resolutions,
though prepared without conference with the
speaker, had been supported by him with an
•arnestne.-s, eloquence, and power, which ren
dered any further remarks unnecessary. He
therefore’submitted them to the meeting for
action. On motion of Gen. Evans, they were
unanimously adopted. The following are the
names of the- Committee appointed in accor
dance with the resolutions .
COMMITTEE .
One hundred ami ni leteenth District—Thom
as Skinner, Samuel Walker, E J Dozier.
One kuudred and twenty-first District—Jas
McNair, Janies Brandon, Jro Murphy.
One him Ired and twenty-third District—J E
Burch. Alex Dear, Charles DeLaigle.
One hundred aud twenty fourth District tiob
ert Allen. Joseph Ware. Jeremiah Winter.
City, First Ward—E W Doughy, Jno Foster,
James M Spnythe.
Second Ward—Turner Cianton, W J Owens,
J T Ijoihv/ell. „ ,
Third Ward —Pr T 13 Tuinizy, Jas M Clara,
A A Beall.
Fourth Ward —W II Goodrich, W A Itamsay,
Zach McCord.
Arrivals from tub North. —A number of
Confederate officers arrived in llichmond on
Friday night last, J m. 29th. the most ot whom
have bepu prisoners for months past in the
hands of the enemy. A noug the names of
Confederates who had been confined in Fort
McHenry, hut are now at Point Lookout, are
| the following Georgians, who desire that their
frienls be informed that they were sate and
1 well:
I Capt. R- 11. Miller. Cos. D. 59th Ga.; Lieut.
! J. B. Trammel. Cos. E, 6th Ga.; Col. William
j Gibson, 48th Ga.; Lieut. G. J3. Smith, Cos. G.
I Gist Gib
j Umbo Ktaies FlnanOA.—Some of the cut
i spoken Northern press have commenced sbow
j ing up the condition of The Federal finances
■ and the ruin which lias been wrought by the
| Black Republicans in their insane ambition to
j get possession ol the Government. It will be
j seer, from the annexed, article taken front the
j New Yoik News that Chase has dug a fmaucirl
j abyss* beneath the feet of his people, into
! which they are soon to fall. The temporary
expedients by which lie has delayed the final
catastrophe, will but make it the more terrible.
The seeming prosperity in which Ids people re.-
joi.e, is ficitious and delusive. The nation is j
feeding upon itself—is holding wild carnival
with it3 wealth and resources. The day of
doom is coming a-.nl is nearly at hand. Exces
sive importations are hurrying on the final
crash. Let us be firm, and patient, and brave
Through lb- operation oi vu i “.v concurring
causes, our deliverance draws nigh I
Here is wh.it the News says of the Federal
expenses, and the means of paying them :
We teccnlly mi te some remarks upon the
immense taxation that awaits the people of
the Northern States as the inevitable result of
the present Government expenditures.—The
figures start [ed sum • of our Coteinporar* s, and
we hope set some of them tb thinking. At
any rate it is quite time that the people laid
earnestly to heart the alternative flow inevita
bly before them of the most crushing taxation
that any people ever i ndured, or the frightful
evils of national bonkruptev, and a repudiation
of the whole of the existing debt. The debt,
if paid, must bo discharged pro rata of the pop
u'ation and wealth of the country. It mases,
as far as the payment goes, very little differ
ence w ether tire means are extracted from a
direct tax on property, or from taxes on con
sumable goods, the people wiil in either case
be compelled to pay the whole amount in the
rise of rents, and in prices of necessaries of life.
The taxes on consumable articles are the most
popular, because they are disguised in the
juices of the things bought, and because they
may, to some extent, lie avoided by non use of
tlie taxed art eles. This can be done only,
however, within a certain limit, because the
necessary amount of money must be raised,
and if the articles are not consumed in suffici
ent abundance to yield tiie money, other menus
must be used to get it.
2The expenses per annum on the return of
peace will be 537b,0Q0,Q00. This sum must be
raised oift of the net profits of the. industry of
the country, 'the proportion of this which
must be raised in the city of New Y’oik may be
given in illustration Toe Federal debt, should
peace be restored in eighteen months, will lie,
according to official estimates, $2,8.70,000,000,
which will give an annua inter, st of $180,000,-
000 in gold. M e know it is stated by the Ad
ministration papers that no more stock paya
ble in gold will be issued. But that is simply
a threat of repudiation, because if the country
exists and pays its debts at all, it must Le in
gold. Eviry greenback and scrap of paper
now so recklessiy issued will bo pi iced on pre
cisely the same footing as the Five twenties
stock. Whether that is paid or repudiated, we
now assume that it will bo paid, and the amount
required will lie as stated. The pension list
will he over $80,000,000; it is already $7,000,-
000. We assume that it will be $80,000,000.
The army, in 1860, numbered twelve thousand
men and cost $16,000,000. It will never again
be under one hundred thousand men, or its ex
penses less than $120,000,000 per annum.—
The navy was composed in 1860 of eighty ves
sels, paitly in commission, aiul cost $12,000,-
000 per annum. It will be seven hundred ves
sels, and will cost $7)0,000,000. The army .if
tax collectors, civil list, miscellaneous, etc.,
will cost $80,008,000; or thus-;
<7iVil !:Cl., clO- U 0 .000,000
Arne 120,000,000
Navy . 50,000,000
Interior, pensions, etc 80,000,000
Interest on debt 180,000,000
To|.al stio,uoo,ooo
This must be raised by taxes. The customs,
revenue, excise, income, direct or in any other
shape, will only have the ultimate effect of be
ing jiaiil by the producers of wealth. There is
no other mode of paying.
The Fe leral Constitution prescribes that nti
direct taxes shall be levied except in propor
tion to i‘( presentative numbers. Now, accord
ing to representative numbers, the relation of
New York to the existing debt is as follows :
Interest and expense
per annum.
Federal debt, sl2l.OOfi.flftO $28,00(1,000
Ftate debt, 8.000.000
City debt, 20,7)10,000 11,000,000
Total, $1012,510,000 $37,000,000
Personal cstat■*, 17-1,031,00(5 43.000,000
'thus the amount required from the city will
be $230 per fam ly of live per ons, and the in
come of the city is $250 per family, at the high
est point. The real amount of surplus capital
that ticcumnl ites in a year it is difficult to do
tormine. The capital that is produced in a
year is nearly all expended in its production.
Taking one year with another, however, a
small portion is saved for perm .mint invest
ments iu stocks, goods, re 1 estate, &c. the
-amount of tim e savings in the city of New Yi vk
may be approximated by taking the assessed
value in, say, 18-4 R, and comparing’it with that
of iHl> 1, as follows :
Valua- Popula- Value
tion, fion, per head.
1840, $214,952,004 434,000 §SO f
1861, 571,078,79. 841,000 tiTO
The. 15 years, 320,120,791 410,000 112
Inc. per an’m, 21,741,370 28.300 7J
It is no doubt the case that the assessed
value is short of the true value, but this was
the case at both periods. r lhe undervaluation
was less however, at the last than at the first
periods, owing to more thorough means adopt
ed of reaching the property, ii results, then,
that the increase of property iu 15 years was
$320,120,701, or sll2 per head cf ihe«|>op;;la
tion. In the same time, $38,411,755, were paid
iu taxes, which would make the real increase
$414,338,549. This was in a time of immense
prosper.ty. The large exports of bieadstuffs
from this city began in 1817, followed by the
discovery of gold in 1850, which swelled the
commerce of this city to an enormous extent;
while the immigration was nearly 3,000.000 of
souls into the country through the city, and
new western railroads were constantly open
ing new commercial connections with the city.
All this sufficed to to increase the city w- alth
$22,000,000 per annum.
If now the same state of prosperity is re
stored in its full vigor, the accumulated wealth
iu the next ten years will be 8217.000,00 ) ;
but the required taxes will be $370,000,000 ; de
ficit $153.000,000. In other words, the whole
of the existing personal property will he swal
lowed up. The prosperity cannot be restored,
however, for a century "to come. With the
war tax the present Government expenditure of
3.000.000 per day will cease. Wha ', then, will
be the condition of the South, which was cur
iormer customer $300,000,000 per annum 7
Thp | robabihity isHhat the city earnings will be
less than half what they were before the war,
and that the payment of the debt will be en
tirely impossible, even at this focus of the na
tional wealth.
Mr. Chase urged in favor of the issue of
paper money and of his new national bank
scheme that the paper would bind iiie people
to the cause of the Union. The Confederacy
has the same reason for paper money issues,
and the two together have issued 5 5000,000-
000, or the official value of all the personal
pioperty in the country. This is the price
najd by the country to force the rule of a dom
ineering minority upon the majority of the
people. The great mass of the people were al
ways on the defensive against those who want
ed bank, or protection, or bounties, or internal
improvements, or special privileges of some
description.— 't he whole people presented a
solid phelanx tailed the Democratic party. The
restless minority took a now name with every
fresh attempt upon the Constitution and pop
ofi V lights. For twenty years they steadily
tormented that sectional discord wbch was in
tended to give them power at anx cost. The
Constitution, the whole wealth of the country,
the liberties of the people, were as nothing in
the scale against their criminal ambition, and
when, in lsGl. the Peace Congress was pueued
with delegates from Republican cliques pledg
j (T to defeat any peace measntos that might l>e
j offered, the wh-de proderty of the country wa<
' otiered up to cement in blood the ill-gotten
j power of a party born in treason and foster
i cd in treachery.
j A Fatriotk- Aim-bal. —The Provisional Gov
ernment of Kentucky lately appointed a com
mittee to issue an address to the soldiers of that
State in the Confederate service. Tuo docu
ment praises the soldiers for their courage and
dating deeds: speaks of the coming election of
members to the Confederate Congress : shows
up the despotism of Lincoln and iiis satellites
in controlling the list election in Kentucky by
the sword and bayonet; and concludes with Ihe
annexed p itriolic appeal ;
in view of the ruthless desnotism (-reeled
over the ruin of your firesides, your altars and
tour homes, your destiny remains to bo fixed
alone by the stern arbitration of the sword.
Your civil and politic.)] right.- ignored, and ox
iled from your homes, a laudable ambition
prompts you to strike for your lost liberties.
With more than .Spartan %• al the breast of bin
is tired, whom truth ami justice prompt ti
crush the yoke of wrong unwillingly thrust
itpou his neck. Though t’o/- a time tint pros
peet of regaining homo he veiled in gloom, a
just cause must triumph in the dc stiny of na
tions. The Union for whieii the war is waged
can never be restored. Its common bond -- the
Constitution - is broken, and no power can ev
er cement its severed links. Kentucky’s des
tiny is with the South. Nature, affinity, race,
language, law and institution, have made them
one. The despotic power by which Kentucky
is governed, lias neither root nor branch in the
affections of her people. They spurn it as the
adder’s lure beneath which lurks tiro sting of
cleat fi.
Soldiers of Kentucky ! to you whose valor is
attested by a hundred battlefields, we turn with
conscious pride ; and thiough your identity
with the armies of tile Confederate States, we
trust at length to fix the destiny ot our native
State. Thousands of hearts at home beat high
in unison with yours, and though distant from
you, they look forward with confiding hope to
the day when they will be united with you
again. Though subject to deprivations in a
trauger land, your condition is not altogether
-r unpleasant one. The Executive, the Oabi
t, and-(he Congress of the Confederate States .
, . e your friends. Tho people of the South love
and respect you. In you. they behold “ the
noblest Romans of them ail.” To be a soldier
of Kentucky is a passport to their generous
hospitalities.
Since freedom or slavery are the conditions
between which you choose, let “ liberty or
death’.’ be your watchword. Stand firm to the
cause you hive espoused.- Freedom and inde
pendence are worthy of all sacrifice. The time
is not far distant when your State will he re
deemed from the grasp of ty fanny, beneath
which now lowers her once high and lofty
prowess. Then yours will he tli<xprciul satis
faction of reviewing the myriad battle-plains
over which your steady steps have marked the
way to home aii I victory. Though many hard
ships note the soldier’s life, to him the future
will be fruitful of reward. The freezing blasts
of winter, as they pierce his .tattered clothes,
bear to his ears a voice melodious with the
notes of peace. The marble monuments of
after-time will chronicle his deeds, aud each
succeeding geneiation yield ftesh homage to
his name.
Clothing fob the Soldiers. —The following
official order has been issued by Ajutant Gen
eral Cooper, dated the 2d iust. AYe give it for
the information of ail concerned :
I. In the event of the ioss of company re
cords, and the consequent inability of the
commanding officers to certify therefrom tiro
vlothing accounts ol soiuiers, sn.nl accounts
nmy be -(.ltie-1 iVoiii memory : provided SUCH
statements arc supported by Ihe affidavits ol tho
soldiers interested. .
11. When, from the casualties of war, compa
nies have bt-eu entirely deprived of their offi
cers. in the adjustment of clothing accounts the
affidavit of the soldier, together with those of
two of bis comrades, will-be esteemed suffi
cient evidence te authorize a settlement with
him, it the statement shall be approved by the
regimentul commander.
HI. Hereafter, thf- articles of clothing issued
during the year will bo stated opposite the
name of sneii soldier, upon the muster roll of
his company, at the annual settlement directed,
in,Gon ral Orders No. 100, Ajutant, and Jn
speetor Generals’s Oflios, December Btb, 1862.
IV. The attention of company commanders
is called to the requirements of the above quo
ted General Orders. By failing to account for
clothing received by them for issue to their
men, (hoy render themselves liable to be
charged with its value, and a stoppage of their
pay to the amount.
V. From aud after Ihe Ist February, 1801,
instead of supplying company commanders
will, clothing for their men, officers oft lie (juar
lennastei’s Department will issue it to the sol
dier upon the requisition of his immediate
commanding officer.
VI. In making payments to soldiers upon
Descriptive Lists, officers of the Quartermas
ter's Department will be careful to endorse
thereon the amounts paid, and, tho time for
will h they have been |>aid, returning the. same
to them for delivery to their company comman
ders, and tiling with their accounts a certi
fied copy thereof. %
Rather of a Shrewd Ofhration’. —The Rich
mond Examiner gives the annexe 1 account of
a shrewd money making operation which late
ly occurred in tiiat, section. Resides pocketing
quite a handsome sum, the operators wifi ac
complish what they intended ti do—-escape
from the clutch‘s of a conscript officer :
The. lat3 escape of a vessel from the port of
Richmond, with a cargo of one hundred anil
fifty boxes of tobacco, has given rise to sever
al stories as to the parties concerned and the
destination of the ciaft. The vessel, a single
mast schooner, had been heretofore engaged in
the humble service of hauling wood to Rock
et's from below, in charge of ain in. who, ac-
I c riling to one story, hired or sold himself and.
| ve. sel to five or six Jews, among them one
| Henry Jeuks, living on Church Hill, to carry a
I cargo of tobacco to Petersburg, 'the tobacco
was shipped from the auction house of Messrs
j Robinson, Adams & Cos., put on board, a regu
lar clearance obtained, ami the man in charge
of the’cralt set sail, obstensihly, for the ‘ cock
ado city," as his port of destination, it b.ing
under.-tooil that the consigners oi the cat go, or
tbeir agent, should proceed to Petersburg by
rail, and await the ariival of the vessel and to
bacco. But iastern! of steering into the Ap
pomattox river the “supercargo” kept on with
all the speed that wind and sail could lend him,
thinking, doubtless, to find a hotter tobacco
marine at Fortress Monroe than in Petersburg,
with the advantage of cash in greenback".
The story is, that six Jews accompanied the
craft as crew : that the plan was made up be
forehand, and that vessel, cargo .and Jews are
gone. _
The above is the first regular clearance from
the port of Richmond since tire war.
A Mexican' Joan D'Aut: —Among the Mexi
can prisoners taken to France, is a young In
dian woman, only twenty yiteirs of age, who
was Lieutenant Colonel of the Regiment cf
ZacateiSis, and who, in the course of seven
years, rose step by step from the ranks 1 y iicr
courage and talents. She followed her husband
to the army, anil was soon promoted to the
rank of 2d Lieutenant for her distinguished
bravery. 'The death of her husband, kilietl m
action afforded her an opportunity of aveng
ing him and of rising amther step, ino
French defeat at Guadaioupe, on the nth May,
1862, obtained for her the rank ; °• M m in
j Colonel, second in command of a 1 7. 7 j
lllar wumiin IMrfto «» •*"'.] »•*
i r,. n ciu-'-ini<i»ter. and she made htr-.d noi o.uj
i respected but feared by h. r soldiers wuo 100 -
I,IV her as a supernatural Afo.r
j Ortega surrendered at oit-cr tion ... 1 •><-• ■
! was brought to Vein Cruz, and lodged «m Wd
; the Rhone until that vessel sailed lor li.i.i' i..
i } { cr or ,ier of exnbarcation mentioned nor r irnr.
and gives her a right to sit at the field officers'
table. . , , *
She is said to be of agreeable personal ap
! pearance, although, as m ght be expected.
rather more masculine in her ways than .ultu-
I gether becomes her sex,
VOL. IXXVUL-—NEW SERIES VOL. XXVIIJ (T
—— .. . ' * ' • t i
(OXFEDBIUTK STATES COAL HESS.
SENATE -FK!!. 2.
Ti c chair laid before the Senate a communi
cation enclosing proceedings of a meeting of
Company- B. Twentieth Alabama artillery, at
wnieh meeting resolutions of re eulistuieut for
ine war and recommending a re-election of
company and field officers were ad -pled. The
communication and resolutions were referred
to the Committee on Military Affairs.
The Military Committee, reported back, with
Hie recommendation that it pass, the bill to
establish a bureau of polytechnics for the in
spect ion ami trial of warlike inventions, which
was ordered to be printed.
Tlit-s ame Committee reported adversely upon
die memorial ol Alfred T. Mann and others, of
the annual conference of the Methodist Episco
pal church of the State of Georgia, t raving the
passage of a law authorising commissaries and
quart- rmasters to sell rations and forage to all
duly accredited missionaries in the army at the
rates at which they are issued to officers, and
.••1 lowing each army chaplain to draw forage
[ i,-r one horse. .
The same Committee reported adversely upon
the bill to punish absence from the army.
The Military Committee reported back favor
ably tile House joint- resolutions of thanks to
('apt. Odium, Lieur. Dowling and the men un
der their command, for skill and courage dis
played at Sabine bass on the Sth of September, I
b'-ti.’!. 'The resolution was unanimously eouc-ii
red in
A number of bills passed by- the House w-ere
appropriately referred.
A bill was introduced to. amend the acts reg
ulating the increase of pay and rank of the corps
of engineers of Ihe i’rovisionnl Army—refer
red; also, a bill to amend tile act to provide
and organize engineer tloops to serve for the
war—referred.
tiocsn.
the House took up Die bill reported from the
Commil-t"e on I’ostoffices and Post Roads, to
establish certain post routes therein named,
ami the Ijjll was considered and passed.
The Committee on Claims, reported a joint
resolution for the relief of Wellington God-tin.
It authoiizes the Committee on Public Build
ings to raise the >enl of the building occupied
by the Po3loffice Department to such an amount
us may be agreed upon between the commit
tee and said Goddiu.
Tin; question being taken on postponing and
placing on tile calendar, no quorum voted. —
Another vote was taken, and resulted—ayes
28, noes 84.
On motion, the House went into secret ses
sion oil the special order.
SENATE--—l-Klt. 8.
The following wore passed ; lb-solutions of
thanks to Gen. I’at. Cleburne and the officers
and men under his command, for distinguished
services at Ringgold Gap, Ga.; bill toprov.de
and organize a general staff for armies in the
field, to serve during the war—Sth and Cth sec
tions stricken out; to amend an act to auttior
ize the appointment of an agent of the Treasu
ry Department; 'o create the office of Ensign
in the army of the Confederate States; to pro
vide compensation for officers who tnay here
tofore have perfonned staff duty under orders
of their superior officers.
The bill to provide an Invalid Corps was re
ported from the Military Committee without
amendment, and ordered to be printed
The House bill, amendatory of an act enti
tled “an act to put an end to the exemption
from military service of those who have here
tofore furnished substitutes,” approved Janua
ry otli, 1864, was reported on adversely by the
Military Committee. *
House bit), making additional appropriations
for the support of the Government of the Con
federate States of America, for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 18(14, was reported, with
amendments, by tho Finance Committee, and
ordered to be printed.
T 1,., \I ,lll,n-i> fl 100 n.Lot) to I). .1 it-. .1. o,• (i,
cd from the. consideration of certain resolutions
passed by company B, 20th battalion Alabama
artillery, te enlisting for the war, and asking
permission l’or all who do likewise to elioore
(heir field and company officers.
The Committee on Claims reported adverse
ly on the bill for the relief of Capt. Win W.
Paine, Assistant Quai t.a master of the Ist Geor
gia regulais.
Th i bill an limiting the issue of certain
bonds of the Confederate States, and making
the coupons a inched to the same a legal ten
der in tlm payment of debts, was laid on the
table. .
HOUSE.
The following were referred : A bill to le
peal the act authorizing the discharge of cer
tain civil officers from the military service; to
regulate furloughs in certain cases; resolutions
in reference to including negroes in the ex
change of pi Loners; to exempt certain persons
from the payment of the tax in kind; to in
crease the pay of non commissioned officers and
soldiers.
Resoluti .ns of thanks to Gens. Longstrcet,
Roiles, Raui“eur, iflnl the officers and men of
their commands, were offered and a l opted.
SENATE —FEU. 4.
Resolutions of thanks to certain Confederate
troops were adopted.
No other business of importance ; the Fen
ate went into r.ecrol session on the currency
bill.
HOUSE.
Tl*e resolution from the Committee on
claims for the relief of Wellington Goddin, was
taken up, discussed, and laid on the table. ,
Certain other relief bills were passed.
On motion the forty-second' rule, which re
quires bills to lie over two days before being
sent to the Senate ; anil also the rule which re
quires Senate amendments to House bills to be
referPed to committees, were suspqpded for
the remainder of the session.
The following bill was passed : *
“The Congress ol the Confederate States of
America do enact, That hereafter the follow
ing salaries and compensation shall be paid
to the several officers and clerks hereinafter
named, instead of the sums now authorized by
law :
“The Treasurer of the Confederate States
four thousand dollars.
‘•The Assistant Treasure at Charleston, four
thousand dollars.
“The Secretary of the Treasury may divide
deposit;-, ies of th ■ Treasury into classes, the
commissions in which shall be limited as fol
ows : 11 the first class not to exceed four
ahous'-intl dollars ; in the second class, not to
oxcoed t .vo thousand five hundred dollars ; and.
in 'lie third class, not to exceed fifteen hundred
dollars a year, according to the characters of
the duties now requ red of them, anil subj*-ct
to the other conditions now imposed by law.
“Each clerk employed in the office of any
assistant Treasurer or Depositary, shall receive
a salary to be fixed by the Secretary of tho
Treasury, not exceeding fifteen hundred dol
lars.
‘ That the increase of salaries allowed lo llib
clerks and employees in the Treasury Depart
ment at Richmond, fie and the same is hereby
extended upon the same conditions, to the
clerks and employees of the same department
at Columbia, S. C,’’ • ,
The committee on Military Affairs reported a
bill to authorize the President to
ditiona! military courts. It liioposestocome
Saval AHiirj, report*!
hack witboufiamendment, and witn a recom
mendation that it pass, Senate bill to amend
tlie act to establish a volunteer navy, approved
Air'd 18. 1863. •
The bill was taken up and passed.
senate—ran. 5. -
Tim committee on Military Affairs reported
back ihc House bill to increase the efficiency of
the army by the employment of free negroes
in certain capacities, with the recommendation
that it pass—placed on the calendar; also, a
bill to amend the several acts in regard to mil
itary courts for divisions of cavalry—placed on
the calendar : also, a bill to amend the act to
provide and organize 'engineer troops so as to
authorize two quartermaster sergeants instead
of one- passed ; to aid any State in communi
cating with anil perfecting records concerning
ifs troops—passed.
The appropriation bill was taken up, aoiend
| ed and passed. - ,
| The following were referred: A bill lor the
j relic' of persons wlc. have been H
| who have paid the tax upo i cotton mt.J d ’ ° l '
ly destroyed bv Hie Gwernmem ! -‘ Sl> >B , ent
j th , < |,P a >‘»' "i “f claims of deceased s'oldknx “ J
Ihe House bill to exempt farmers who have
unnshed substitutes was taken i;j>. and on L.
ion. made the special order for Tuesday next.'
HOUSE.
Resolutions of thanks to the officers and
■m-n of, McUlung’sbuttery for re enlisting, were
A letter was presented from Cant, Henry H
Loulton, ol the Troup Anillery ot Georgia, at
inSuUons: ''“l"’Hcin S the follow
" Whereas. This is a time when every true
try*service"* 1 ' 1 ' I ' OUIJ , ”‘ prou ' 1 ,0 lio hiscoun
troonHim!!; , Th:,< twelve months
ti oops, do hereby re-enitst in the Confederate
aniiy until an honorable jteace shall have been
conquered.’ *
The following were referred: Memorial
, from the officers of Battle’s Brigade. „*v n ,<-
tnc ro-oroauizatiuii by ihe men, Ne. ; petition
from officers and men of the iOlh Alabama
regiment ; memorial from the officers of East
term. & \ . R. U. ; memorial tram Press Asso
ciation ; resoTut ons of Georgia Legislature -
memorial ot certain route agents for an incietue
ol pay ; providing for the equalization ol grade
of officers of the Confederate navy ; letter from
the Ist Team regiment ; resolution to appoint
one member of Congress from each House, to
beariu person the thanks of Oongu-ss to tho
several bodies of troops to whom Iheyare ad
dressed for their noble conduct in re-enlisting
for tho war.
A resolution was adopted requesting tho
Prsident to communicate to the . House the dis
tribution of the several Hospitals in and around
the city of Richmond, according to Slates, aud
the number of Surgeons and Assistant Sur
geons employed therein. *
The Committee on Military Affairs, reported
bake favorably a bill to provide an 1 organize
a general staff for the armies in thy field, to
serve during the war.-
Pending the consideration of the bill, tho
House went into secret session.
SENATE. FEB. C.
Mr. Hill, of Georgia, after reading a telegram
announcing the re-enlistiuent, for (he war, of
Gordon’s Georgia brigade, offered the follow
ing joint resolutions, which were unanimously
agreed to :
“L Resolved by the Coagress of the Confed
erate States ot America. That tho thanks of
the Congress are due, and are hereby tendered
to the troops of the Provisional army of the
Confederate States, ftom the State of Georgia,
who have so promptly aud so gallantly re-en
listed for the war.
‘•2. That the action of those who, from the
beginning, have stood in the front of danger
and endured every hardship, in thus so cheer
fully resolving to remain tho vlountary bul
wark ot our country VNlefence, is commended
by the Congress to*all the people of the Con
federate States as an example worthy of patri
otic emulation, and should be accepted by eve
ry one as the signal for renewed devotion to
the eausSJ and for increased and universal en
ergy in the prosecution of a struggle, on the
issue of which depends, not only Confederate
and State independence, but the very existence
of Constitutional government in America.”
House resolution of thanks to MeOlung’S
battery, who had re-enlisted, was considered,
and passed.
House bill to establish a military court in
North Alabama, passed ; House bill to author
ize the issue of certifica es of interest on tlia
fifteen million loan, passed bill to provide
for the auditing aud payment of certain claims
against,, the Confederate States, lost; House
resolution in relation to the claims of McDaniel
and Ewing for compensation for sinking the
U. S. gunboat Cairo, vm tho Yazoo by means
of a torpedo, concurred in.
.101.5 t,.
The Speaker bail before the House a com
munication from the Secretary of the Treasury
iu answer to a resolution of the House, adopt
ed on the 9th ultimo, asking what progress
has been made by the Department in the col
lection of the tux imposed by the first section
of the tax act of last session, and the amount
of same assessed and collected in the cities of
Eicnniond, Augusta and Mobile. The Secre
tary ene'oses a report of Thompson Allan,
Commissioner of Taxes, from which the follow
ing is an extract : •
“Owing to the onerous labors devolving
upon the assessors in listing the taxes imposed,
upon the business community of the Confed
erate States, in accordance with the fifth section
of the same act. (the registration of business
anil Uie assessment of quarterly sales,) which
first [occupied the attention of the assessors ;
and owing, also, to tlwgieat difficulties encoun
tered in endeavoring to procure suitable books,
and to print and to distribute the necessary
forms, the assessment of the tax under section
first has been very much retarded. So far as
informed, however, the work of assessing and
collecting this lax is now being prosecuted vi
gorously in all the States of the Confederacy
except Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, and
Texas, from which no reports upon this subject
have been received. It is impossible, however,
from the information in possession of Ihis of-,
lice, to present at this time any satisfactory re
port of the general condition of this t-vx.
‘•The collection of this tax in the cities of
Richmond and Augusta was not commenced
until late iu the mouth of Recc,,fiber last; in Mo
bile about the middle of October. In the for
mer city, the copies of the general lists, taken
for this tax. have not yet been returned to tho
Stale collector, but from the statements of tho
District collector, as reported by him, it is as-
certained that the amount of tax. under said
first section now appearing on the assessment
rolls for the city of Richmond, is about $1,190,-
Ot)0, to which is to be added a few individual
assessments; the tax on the assessments of to
bacco in .certain warehouses belonging to tho
State of Virginia, which will amount to about
4$ lso,ooll, and the tax on the assessments of de
posits in most of the hanks of Richmond ; but
these asse sments will not probably add much
to the amount of tax which will be actually col
lected, as much of the deposits in these banks
have been already assessed to individuals, and
are included in the above SIBO,OOO. The total
tax will probably be 51,250,000, of which there
had been collected, .to the 25th ultimo, about
$400,000. *The actual amount assessed in Mo
bile and Augusta is not within the information
of this olliee, as no copies of the assessments
have been received from either place. The to
tal amount collected to date is as lollows ;
Richmond, say,
Augusta, "say, 320 000
Mobile, say, 320,000
'Total, 8970,000
“There is every reason to believe that tho
total amount of tax which c^ f e t i ie tllX
‘""The communication was laid upoS the tabla
“S'nilo amfind an ’act to authorize the
at 1 joint ment of an agent of the Treasury De
nartment west of the Mississippi river, passed;
Senate bill to provide compensation tor officers
heretofore doing staff duty by order of their su
perior officers, passed; to authorize the Presi
dent to appoint qu irtermasters anil commissa
ries to army corps and divisions, and to fix
the r rank, lost; to repeal the laws allowing
commutation to officers for forage, fuel, room
rent, Ac., recommitted; resolutions of thanks to
10th Mississippi regiment for re-enlisting, pass
ed; House bill providing fuVlher appropriations
to carry on the Government for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1801, with Senate amendment,
refetred.
The Speaker laid before the House a commu
nication fr >lll the President, in response to a
resolution of the House, adopted on the doth
ultimo, tian.-mitting a communication from the
Secretary of War relative to the steps taken to
carry out the provisions of the act of Congress
in relation to the arrest and disposition of
slaves re captured from the enemy. The Sec
retary incloses Order No. 25, current series, of
the War Department, to show what steps bavo
been taken in regard to the matter. «td say*
that no returns have been made from the camps
of in«tru tion in relation thereto.
Laid upon the fable aud ordered to lie prm
tC Tl,e Sne kcr also laid before the House com
mindentions from the Secretaries of the Treas
ury and War m response to a resolution con
veying information relative to the amount of
money forwarded to the Irons Mississippi De
partment since the adjournment ot Longwgg,