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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 183?-1864 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1864)
ffc ~;* lW t ~r:a r«. uw»tif •'iiid’.^a^uble.ndor^iob.pna of the death of Announcement m(:mber of ts e Hon. John A. ♦;from the SUite of Tex* «.a «**• aounS when the .Senate adjourned. HOUSE. „ _ 'Phe death of Hon. John A. Wilcox, of Texas. waTannouuced. and appropriate eulogies were spoken, when the House adjourned. 1 skmate —rtn. J. The following were referred : A bill to au thorise the President to appoint a General for tbe Trana-Mißßisbippi Department and LlWten^ ant General for the Provisional Army of the Confederate States, when deemed necessary , memorial of ladies employed tn the Treasury note division at Columbia, S. G., praying an in crease ot salary. , , ... „ House resolutions of thanks to the luth Mississippi regiment were concurred m. lie Military Committee reported back, with the recommendation that it pass, the hill _t. amend an act entitled “An act to punish drunkennees in the army,’ - placed on the calen dar also, the bill to amend acts of April 1, U-,2 and Sept. 23, ’62, placed on the calendar ; also, reported hack favorably the bill to repeal the act authorizing the President to confer tern pomry rank and command, for s rvice with volunteer troops on officers of the t onfederate urmv placed on the calendar ; also, reported hack favorably House bill to authorize the President to establish Military Courts, plated on the calendar. The Spoaker laid betore the House sundry Senate bills which were appropriately referred The Committee on claims presented an elab orate report, expressing their views upon va rlous memorials referred to them for compen nation for property lost during the war. The claims embraced in this report are ar ranged under the following heads ; m r. For the property taken or destroyed by the enemy. 11. For property destroyed by our forces, as a military necessity, either when in the occu pancy of the enemy, or to prevent it from fall ing into the hands of the enemy; or for proper ty wantonly or unnecessarily injured or de stroyed by persons connected with the military servico of the Confederate States. 111. For property taken by the Government for public use, or taken and used by the Con federate troops without the authority of the Government. The committee close with an allusion to a class of Cases in which property has been pur chased or impressed for the use of the Govern ment and by proper authority, but where infor mal and insufficient receipts or other vouchers have been executed by the Government offi cials. or in consequence of the death of the offi cer or his removal to n distant locality it has been impracticable for the owner of the proper ty to obtain any receipt or voucher at all. It is not denied that any provision? ou the part ot Congress for the payment of such claims would open a door to abuse, blit it is deemed better to endeavor to tftiard against these abuses than to subjoct the Government to the charge of harshness and injustice avoiding, upon a jliore technicality, the payment of what is rignt liillyii''# to meritorious citizens. The commit tee have f here fore prepared a general bill, which they herewith report to the House, and recommend tin- passage of the same. The com mittee report back sundry claims winch fall within the provisions of said hill, and ask to be discharged from their further consideration, _ The hill ieported by the committee is enti tled “An act to provide ior the auditing and payment of certain claims against the Confed erate States.’’ It authorizes the l’reiddent to appoint three Commissioners in each StaiT over forty-live years of age, and not subject to military duty, whose duly it shall be to audit all claims against the Government for slaves hired or im pressed by the Confederate States, or by the State authorities for the use of tbo Confederate States, which, by reason of death or other cause cannot be returned to the owner ; or if returned, so disabled as to he unlit for use ; also, claims for fuel which has been taken ei ther by contract, by the proper authorities, for the public use, or by troops while on the march or in camp, and bliowu to have been necessary for their support at the time ; also, claims for the value of property impressed for the use of the Confederate States, where the evidence of such impressment is informal, in consequence of the owners ot such property being unable to produce the proper cert ideates of llmir loss es. The bill requires the commissioners to guard against lmponHloit. umi <■« rcr,iv re mnpwr proof of ail claims submitted to their judg ment. . , , . The bill was placed on the calendar and or dered to be printed, and the report laid on the table and ordered to bo printed. 'i’llh' Alexandra Cask.— One of the items of news by the last arrival from England, was Hint the Coni'* of Exchequer has refused anew trial in the case of the ship Alexandra and that the vessel would be released. The Mont gomery Advertiser give* the annexed sketch of the whole affair: Several months ago stejis were taken to pro hibit the departure ot the Alexandra from Hritish waters under the Foreign Enlistment, net. It was averred that she was built lor a Confederate man-of-war or privateer to destroy Yankee oominerce. 'The case was carried into court end the Judge before whom it was brought afer hearing the evidence and upon u ,-iear and impai f ; al interpretation of the stat ute, decided that her 00:'“ t'notion and depar ture would not be in violation i'' tiie act. Ihe decision was to the effect that the s,; 1 "builders of Great Britain might contract with either lc *‘ Jigerent to construct vessels ot any description, provided they were not armed in Iti itish waters, tt was not shown in the Alexandra case that *he would receive her arms before she left port; the whole evidence amounted to a suspicion that she was intended for a Confederate war vessel or privateer. Anew trial was asked for of the higher court where there would be a lull board of "judges, which court has had the case under trial for some two months. The decision comes to us by the late arrival and affirms that of the Judge to whom the case was first carried. The next tiling will be the release of the Alex andra, with liberty to depart whenever she pleases. The emissaries of Lincoln have la bored hard, leaving uo stone unturned to com pass the loss of this vessel to our cause, but all iu vain English Judges have given another evidence of their regard for the law, interpre ting tt without bias or prejudice. There is additional importance attached to this decision iu its beariug upon the question of die detention of the iron clad rams seised last summer by the British Government, and still detained. * English papers have asserted that- if the decision of the Court of Exchequer was in labor of the Alexandra, the same prin ciple being involved in the case of the rams, the latter would also under that decision, be released. The cases are clearly of the same character, to be decided by exposition of the (foreign enlistment act. If the construction of the Alexandra was not a violation, certainly the steam iron rams cannot be shown to be.— But the so-called Lord Bussell, anticipating the , insult of the trial of the Alexandra case, some lime since intimated that Parliament would be appealed to £*’ amend the law so as to embrace the case of the lgms, thus clearly evincing his entire subserviency to the Northern despotism, and his haired of the Confederate States. We shall look with interest for the departure of the Alexandra, and for the effect of the late decis ion as to the rams. Parliament is uow in ses sion, and it wilt soon be seen whether that Kudv will yield to the appeal for a change of The "act so as to continue the detention of the •jams, and endorse the strange kind of neu trality irsanmed by l .ords Russell and Palmer ston or the English Government. Avkriu- s Tusvvmknt of a Minister.— The Central Presbyterian has received the following account of A\erill s conduct towards Rev. R. P. Kennedy, son of Prof. Kennedy, of Jefferson College. Penn., during his iueursion into Wes tern Virginia: "The Rev- R- P- Kennedy resides in the county of Pocahontas, but preaches part of his time in the the Western part of Highland. He was on his way to meet his appointment there, ■when he was arrested on the 12th of December at Hevener*. about seventeen miles west ot McDowell. General Averill sent him to Col. n , „,.at Monterey, with orders to keep Jn 0 ’al ters. His horse, saddle and saddle-bags were from htm. and he was marched on foot the day ten miles to McDowell. On the loth, they made a forced march bv night back to Crab Bottom, about twenty milt's* Here they remained till the 21st, when another forced march was made tolir cleviilc. where Mr. Kennedy was released and sent home. There were two prisoners, and the three were allowed but one blanket, and •were not allowed to build a shelter for their owu protection. , Here. then, was the case of a of Gospel arrested while peacetully attending ,• .- v* Masters buisness. forced to march -•nvmmh ;und, and over high mountains by day t*. wade through swollen ino.rn -11 L!!,,, 1 kept about twelve days, and then irrSpi Os everything but the clothes Mm ht S. Aud all this in the coldest mountain wunmit of tte jaorf intouscly cold part of this wmter, j Hi* ■ Mr. Davis’) resolution only proposed to in-titute a plain and frank investigation of the measures of the administration, aud be intend ed to continue such investigation until the Sen ate expelled him ; and if they shoaid do that, he had a mission as an American Senator and i freeman born under the Constitution, which he had imbued in his infancy and cherished in manhood—he would go home among the peo ple of his loved, native Kentucky, and raise the cry of oppression, tyranny ursurpationand revolution against the faithless men who have charge of the Government. SY e had fallen on evil times, indeed. We have a great rebellion second only in impor tance to that when Lucifer was thrown from heaven. We have in this administration of the Government, in all the departments men who are sworn to support and defend the Constitution, not for the power it confers upon them, but for the liberties it gives the people, recreant to their high trust, and by the abuse of power both civil and military trying to sub vert that Constitution and the proper liberty it secures to the citizen ; and yet any man hav ing the audacity to question the wisdom and constitutionality of the policy of the adminis tration is branded as disloyal. We have had great men in the past; the founders of the Government were great, wise men and patriots. When he desired to learn ‘their principles of Government, he went to the noble fountain of political knowledge established by them. — Such men as the Senator from Massach assets only perform the base office of muddying the fountain. He is not fit for any other work.— On this subject Mr. Webster held that it was tbe “undoubted right of legislators to scan the acta of public men ’ that this right was as un doubted as the right of breathing or walking the earth. It is the last right that he would abandon. He would exercise it at all hazards. At an humble distance aud in lIL3 feeble way, be intended to follow the great expounder of the Constitution. The Senator from Massackus setts seems to have installed himsell as a sort of overseer of this laxly, and he was not sur prised at the dictorial manner in which he bus tled about, administering rebuke in this and in the other House. He had persuaded him self ihat lie is the government, and i3 particu larly assured that he is the Senate, at least the largest and most important part of it. But 1 don't think there is a person in or out of the Senate who hugs such a delusion to his breast except himself. He would read the resolution of this learned Senator, this able man, who distinctly understands everything in jurispru dence, administration, and of war matters in the field, to expel him. If the Senator had power commensurate with his purpose, it would have been done ; but ho thanked his stars there werejuster, wiser, abler, more patriotic men in the Senate and the country than the .Sena tor. If there were not—God save the mark! the country would soon go to ruin. How long did the Senator sit under the treasonable utterances of leaders in the rebellion three years ago, at the time he was engaged in his avocation at home. He occasionally adverted to the debates in the senate, and read the reas onable effusions of the band of traitors who have organized the rebellion. He road the avowal of Toombs that he was a rebel, and the world never saw a letter equal to the declarae tiou of the audacious Mason that he owed no allegiance to the government. .So of Wigfall and other* in their treasonable utterances. All this was done in the presonceol the just, pure, courageous, patriotic se lator who remained as dumb as a fish. There was Ihe chance for tbe display of tbe moral and physical courage of the senator. When be read these declarations his blood boiled in bis veins, and had lie been present he dared nay he would not have kept silent like the senator* from Massachusetts.— Now the senator has a majority here, backed by hundreds of thousands of soldiers aud officers who hold their places at the will of the power at the other end of the avenue, who, when they are ordered to do the biding of that pow er, do it or suffer incarceration, court-martial, or death. The senator was so all sufficient, self-sufficient, and insufficient —that he did not consult with a single iudividua 1 . He wanted all the glory, lie calls the proposition' for a convention treason. lie was told the senator boasted that he was the successor of Webstey. Ye gods, what a succession ! The senator is afraid it will stop tbapvar. There is where the shoe pinches. He does not want the war to be stopped till tbe rebels should have subm’tted to the Constitution and laws of the United Slates. He would not prove recreant to the government, but would support those who were administering it, however incompetent lie deemed them. The grand purpose of the sen ator was to carry on the war for the destruction of slavery and to pervert the wav power and an timer powers 01 me Homnmcnt to tnts end. He asked the Senator if. the rebels in theSoutli ern States were to offer tq come back with their rights under the Constitution, save were it for feits to them their rights for their rebellious action, would he agree tint they should come back? The Senator is silent, but his heart an sw“ r s tbe question. There is no Senator but what know? that he is more devoted to the de struction of slave, 7 than to the vindicationjjof the laws in the seceded States. He would sweep away the Constitution and" State laws to abolish slavery in violation of his oath as a Senatt r ; and yet to hear him prate of loyalty one would think that there was no loyalty in the United States besides htg. He (Mr. Davis) assumed that it a convention of all the States worn called together and should resolve to do away with tbe Government, that they bad the right and power to do it. He was opposed, of course, to any such exercise of power as a prac tical thing. lie considered tids compact a po litical partnership. Mr. Davis said the majority of the States had a right to meet together in convention and do away the best government on earth. This po htical partnership could be cancelled by the •'onsent of the partners. I ask that the people of an I he States go into convention to take this cruel their hands and close the bleeding wounds Cf ‘he nation ; reconstruct ing it upon the principles ? { compromise and liberty, upon which Washington an’ 1 his associ ates acted. It was the Senator’s intention to put him in a state of suspension here, like Mahomet’s cof fin, between heaven and earth. Ho was in dur ance, and any durance the Senator would es tablish was vile enough, in God’s name. }le was lor tffe prosecution of the war to any hon orable peace, but would prefer that it should close by the peaceable submission of those in rebellioft Mr. Davis continued at great length to refer to the course of Massachusetts in Shay's rebel lion, in the war of*lßl2, in the Mexican war, and in her resistance to the Fugitive Slave act. He referred to a speech of the Senator from Massachussettss during the Kansas trouble, in whieh tfie North is called upon to »me forth and overthrow the,slave propagandists. His language was stronger than mine ; and yet he has the audacity to introduce a resolution to expel me for using language less significant and less subversive than his In 185S the pestilent State of Massachusetts had passed a law an nulling the Fugitive Slave law. She was cov ered all over with treason in ISI2. I had not been in thii body but a few days before an an onymous letter in relation to the Senator was handed to me, accusing the Senator of selling a .sutlership for one-half of the profits. He did not believe it then, nor did he now; but the revelations in regard to plunder are he did not know what to believe.’’ Discovery of ax alleged Pi,ot to Liberate the Prisoners and Assaswatk tub President— Arrest of this Rixoi.kaders and Seizure of Documents. —For several days past the Govern ment has been in possession of facts that hinted, beyond a doubt, to the existence ot a secret or ganization of disyoyal men, laving for its ob ject the forcible release of the Yankee prisoners held at the Libby and on Belle.lsle, the assassi nation of the President, and the destruction of tiie Government buildings and workshops loca ted here. Captain Macctibbiu, chief of the detective corps, was assigned the duty of penetrating the mys teries of the case, and threading tiie details through the labyrinths of rumor to their head and source. That official put the matter into the hands of two of his most experienced de tectives, Messrs. Reese and Mitchell, who imme diately set to work, and, on Saturday night, they arrested, at his house, on Seventeenth street, between Main and Franklin, a German named A. W. Heinz, a baker, upon the charge of being a promiueut member of the treasona ble a: soeiatou. lie was furthermore charged with inciting Confederate soldiers to mutiny and the assassination of the President. The detectives seized along with Heinz a great number of the most important papers, inclu ding the roll of membership of the organiza tion and documents of such a character as to leave no doubt of his crime, and the criminali- ty ot others. The documents were taken pos session of yesterday by General Winder, who ordered Heinz to be placed iu secure quartets ! at Castle Thunder, and to allow him no com- i munication whatever with any outside parties. 1 HeiDZ, the reputed ringleader, has always j been looked upon as a disloyal man, and his j associates in treason are all pretty much of his ; own character and social standing. It is possible that other arrests will follow, j as the treason will be probed to its depth, no ( matter whom it afl'ects— Eichmond Examiner. Gen. Hood has been made a Lieutenant Gen eral, and has been ordered to the Army of Ten nessee. j NORTHeKV Tu» Hoi that a paper* admit ifia defeat of , their forces and Iho capture of their wagon traiu* by General Early in Western Viiginta. A soldier at Mutton. Ind., attempted to make a citizen take the oath a short time since, and on his refusal shot him dead. Great excite ment was created by the act. On the 22d of January the Yankee House of Representatives passed a bill imposing a tax of sixty cents per gallon upon all spirits distilled and removed for consumption or sale. Ihi shall be upon the basis of first proof, and shah be increased in proportion fur any greater strength than the strength of first proof.— It is further provided, that from and after the passage of this act, there shall be paid on all cotton produced or sold, and removed for con sumption, a of two cents a pound. So we may see that if the Yankees get hold of the cot ton region they wi 1 make the staple bear its full -hare of the cost of our subjugation. No more Cincinnati whiskey at 20 cents per gallon, nor New England rum at former nominal rates. No great harm in that. A letter from Batavia to a commercial house in Boston states that when the Red Gauntlet was destroyed by the Florida, the commander ot the Confederate cruiser informed Capt. Luce that he would destroy every American built vessel, sailing under a foreign flag whose pa pers showed that her nationality bad be, -11 changed in any colonial port since the breaking out of the civil war. And that the nation whose flag covered such vessel so destroyed, must settle the matter with Die Confederate Government. The rabid Northern papers think the South will have to get the Conlederate prisoners through Butler’s agency cw not at all. A correspondent of the New York World, writing from Hilton Head says that the prepa rations for a long Contemplated move by the Federal commanders in that section is nearly completed. He states that “an immense land and naval force’ ’ are soon to commence opera tions somewhere. He does not, however, strte where the attack is to be inlde. His talk un doubtedly is all bombast. Under the auspices of tlie Federal Secretary of the Treasury, and by the authority of Lin coln, the lands purchased by the Government, at the tax sale el' February last, on the South Carolina coast, have been surveyed and divided into tracts of 320 acres. Every alternate tract has been subdivided into Lots of 20 acres, and reserved for the occupancy of colored men.— Here they are ent tied to settle and acquire a pre-emption c'aim, which they can easily make a fee simple title to a part of the soil on which they once worked as a class. The most important item in late Northern papers is the plan of campaign given by an edilor of the New York Times, and few which he is said to be on the eve of imprisonment.— Two attacking columns are to be thiown against Richmond—one by way of tbeßapidan, the other by the Peninsula. This may lie a Yankee ruse to direct our attention from Gtn etal Grant. But it may be tbe mode adopted to achieve mi itary success, which is essential to Lincoln’s election, and, at the same time, to deprive Grant of any additional glory, which would mako him a dangerous rival to Lincoln. The Northern papers publish a letter front Major White, now confined in the Libby prison, to his father in Pennsylvania. It was taken Nortli by bejng very surreotitiously conceded beneath the shoulder-straps of a released offi cer. Major White resigns his membership in the Pennsylvania Legislature, and anew elec tion is ordered to fill the vacancy. The Confederate steamer Alabama lately captured a valuable prize in'tbe shape of a China trading ship bound to New York, with a costly cargo. The Yankee Cong re-s Is engaged on confis cation and conscription bills. A Yankee captain, named Young, of a New York regiment, was arrested last week for forg ing, ten years ago, land warrants to the amount of two millions of dollars. He was recognized by an old acquaintance. It is said that in Port an Prince, Hayti, there are only six married couples. The population of the place is fifteen thousand. The moral capacity of the African, under the high instruc tion of the moral supervision of the Caucasian, maybe seen in this pregnant fact- The.negroes of the West India Islands while they were sub jected to white masters were prosperous, hap py and religious. But since they have been freed they have relapsed intouiter b trbarisiu. The white people have left them alone in their shame. Such will be the fate of both races in - ihe South if tbe present crusade is successful . “I know of no grove blighting curse that God Almighty could send on the South than to give l’i rrtluiu Xkt lipt olovcn, 11 oitkl Amltcw lOnitig v»i’ of Tennessee. gJA Free State Convention was recently held in at which a delegation of colored men were admitted to seats ! 'William A. Meriweatber has been appointed United States Marshal for Kentucky. A hog was lately.kilied in New York State which weighed 1,340 pounds. The Federals have made a successful raid through Jones, Onslow and Tyrell counties, N, C. A large amount of property wait destroyed by them. The Federal correspondents say we are busy strengthening our defences at Wilmington Considerable damage was done to the Balti more and Ohio Jjailroad by Confederate gueril las during a late raid. The Federal papers boast that five hundred Confederate prisoners have taken Lincoln’s oath and joined his armies, lately. The state mpnt is undoubtedly a lie. Two fast Federal steamers are going to be sent to hunt up the Alabama. The parties who captured the Federal steam er Chesapeake, ai e being tried in Halifax for piracy. By order of Lincoln the execution of Ginly. the murderer of Gen. McCook, Is postponed, ami He will, it is thought, be pardoned. Passes are no longer required of vessels leav ing New York. G- Harris, of the firm of Neill, Ilar ,.T, f, * Baltimore, has been sent South, not to return during UiC wa * th<J P enalt y of being tseatej as a spy. One hundred and twenty steamers have destroyed on the Mississippi and its tributaries since the war comic "need Gen. Cass is said to be sj feeble that be can not live much longer. lie is in his eighty-first year. An escaped servant of President Davis is de lighting Yankeedom with information, lie says a turkey serves the family three days - first roasted, then eoid,. then hashed; that Jeff Davis has sent triends to Europe, preparatory to living the Confederacy, &c. ; that The rebels are about to give up, &c. 111 the Yankee Senate, on the Kith ultimo, Messrs Bayard, of Delaware, and R chardson, of Illinois, took the oath required by the reso lution adopted the day previous. Subsequent ly, Mr. Bayard resigned his seat in the Senate. The New York Herald says there is a strong movement in progress among the leaders of the Republican party in that city to secure the nomination of Gen. Fremont for the next Pres idency. 'the New York World has a letter from Chattanooga, in.halting that the Federal cav alry would soon attempt a raid on Montgom ery. Ala. This rumor is probably put afloat to cover up other designs. Our generals should be on the look out in all quarters. Gen. Foster has been relieved from command at bis own request, and Gen. Schofield takes command of the Feilerals in East Tennessee. Wisconsin, up to the first day of November last, had placed in the field thirty-four regi ments of infantry, three regiments of cavalry, twelve batteries of light artillery, three batte ries of heavy artillery and one company *f sharpshooters. Os this number sixteen thou sand nine hundred and sixty-three—nearly half of the entire number—have been lost to tiie ser vice by death, discharge and desertion. . Considerable excitement prevails in Paris, Idinois. in consequence of an anticipated attack on the returned soldiers by the Butternuts in that vicinity. The citizens of Paris have tele graphed to .Terre Haute for aid. The men w- nt into two of tiie boilers of the Ravine Coal Company, at Pittston, Penn., to clean them. While they were in, someone ac cidentally turned the hot water into the boil ers and scalded them to death. A child was recent y baptized in Winona. Minnesota, hearing the name of " Stonewall Jackson." 'The Yankees do rot relish this.— The New York times says: "This is visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children with a vengeance. Cannot the Copperheads he conteut with their own infamy, without entail ing its scrofulous mementoes upon their pos terity A soldier conespoudent ot the New York Times, writing from Port Royal. South Caroli na. alludes to the sale of confiscated lands in that department as follows . There is no chance for competition in sales ; as there is no chance for any one but G nernment officials. a?d mili tary officers, and a few Northern sharpers to become acquainted with the lands or to attend the sales. Consequently, a few of the best plantations are sold for a son/, and the others Hie bid iu by the Government." Ir’tWs il’HUth? Eiitewsy* from conscription m Killing <» !j* t-ickc-r. in ' irgir.ia who iuL-ricre with their flight. Bishop George F. Fierce, on*- of the finest orators th»t Georgia over pro hired, has con sented lo stepreside from the ecclesiastical du ties for a brief season and devote his great powers to the trrk ot arousing his countrymen to duly in the present crisis. The planters of Macon county. Ga., have re solved to sell at the following rates to the Government Corn $2 50 per bushel; wheat 5 00 per bushel; tie:d peas—owing to great scarcity- -0 00 per bushel; bacon 100 per tound: beef—stall fed—so cents per pouud.— t was further resolved, that the families of in digent soldiers actually in the service, be fum ed by the producers with provisions at the fol lowing prices: Corn SI On per bushel; bacon 50 cents per pound; syrup i 00 per gallon; and wheat $1 50 per bushel. Several 1 uses of small pox have occurred at LaGrange, Ga. .’ike steamer Advance brought, on her recent trip. 10,000 pairs of shoes, 12,000 blankets and 3,000 pairs of cards. The schooner Janies Grubbs, from St Mary's, Ga., hM arrived safely at Nassau. Major R. C. Williams, of tbe Commissary department in this State, has resigned his com mission and joined a company as a private, leaving his office to be filled by soma disabled soldier. The citcumstance is both honorable and rare, and for this reason, entitled to a re cord. The war has produced strange alienations. Two Kentuckians, father and son, were 011 a railroad train in Indiana lately. The father xas a lU-ij'. i prisoner, the son was a Federal guard on the platform ol the car. 'The old man seeing his son, presuined-'to take more liberty than tl:e rule allowed, amt put his bead out side Hie door. Ili* son hastily advanced, piece at the shoulder, with a sharp “Get back there, you old rebel !’’- Gen. E. M. Law has resigned, but his resig nation lias not been accepted. We bear that Gen. Ilood has been promoted to a Lieutenant Generalcy, and will take com mand in about two weeks. The corps to which he has been assigned is understood to lie that formerly under Gen. D. If Hill in iho army oi Gen Joints ton. Gen. McLaws is now at Mor ristown. ior the purpose of answering the charges against him by Gen. Longstroet. ' Gen. Bennmg, ot Lougsticot’s corps, is at Columbus, Ga., on furlough. Gen. Robertson, of Texas, Longstveet’s corps, is at Bristol, attending a court of inquiry. W e learn (hat the question as to the consti tutionality ot the recent- law of Congress put ting the principals of substitutes in the army, will be tried in So ith Carolina soon before his Honor Judge Magrath. The Atlanta Intelligencer indignantly de nies and denounces reports concerning prepar ations, for evacuating Dalton. We hope the Atlanta papers in their military zeal, will not be too precise in telling what Gen. Johnston in tends to do, or not to do. We ave giad to hear that the Confederate steamer Florida is once more at sea, though we are not iuionned whether her commander, Maf fitt, lias sufficiently recovered from his late illness to resume His duties, it is an astonish ing thing that the hundreds of Yankee cruis ers on the alert h r Semitic* and Maflilt always make out to miss them. It speaks volumes for the skill and energy of those commanders, that they have so lohg successfully eluded the pursuit of the whole Yankee navy. A woman was strangled to death and then robbed in Charleston on Saturday night. Tim steamer Denbigh which ran ashore in endeavor ng to get out of Mobile harbor is not damaged to the extent supposed. She has been lehevotj of her cargo, ami is now afloat. T.ie enemy’s fleet, discovering her unfortunate po sit ion tried to vent their spite upon her, bitting her but once in iier win eihyuee, doing her no damage. She was defended by the gunsof Fort Morgan, which succeeded in putting three shots in one of the biockadeis.and driving the rest off. Tbe enemy's ship that was struck was sent oil’ in the direction of Pensacola, sup* po:-ad to be disabled. It is now thought that the wheat crop in cen tral Alabama was n ( u damaged so much by tbe late coid weather as was feared at first. Col. John R. Blocker, of Tuscaloosa, recently sent to Judge Oliver, of Greene county, A!a., an order on his overseers for one thousand, bushels of corn for the indigent families of sol diers of Greene county. Two soldiers were put in jail at centre. Ala., for intriiery. A lew nights since four men went to the j riband demanded of the-tsherift’, »SIY. Daniel, the keys Two of them caught him by the coat collar, presented their pistols to ills breast and gave him two minutes to deliver them. Mrs. Daniel became alarmed and -de livered them ; two then went up stairs and two remained below. Mr. D. took his stand and as they came down, the two that remained be low went out. and as the others passed out he shot two or three times, killed the leader dea 1, and wounded one of tbe prisoners. The wound ed man got away, but was tracked over a quar ter of a mile by his blood Tim name of :he man that, was killed is William J. Hutton ; he told Daniel before lie went up stairs, that he wasihe man that broke open the Rome, Ga., jail a short time since. It tiio impressed slaves who have died in service were valued at §2.000 apiece, if would take the sum of $3,108,000 to pay for them. JUCHMOXII xauu The Examiner says when the discussions in Congress terminate the public will lie astound ed at some extraordinary propositions which have been made on the subject of the currency ih its secret sessions. The force'around Richmond are still to re main under the command of Gen Elzey—ru- Igors to the contraiy notwithstanding. Accidental shooting and shooting intentional appear to be the order of the ijay in the Con federate Capitol. The military authorities having got wind of an intended uprising of the Yankee prisoners on Belle Island, have .taken the'necessary pre- Cau tines to prevent such an affair occurring. The Examiner says that there is a continual stream of C'njgnrjts noi l hwatd passing through Richmond. SoniS of immi pay as high ns ten thousand dollars lov a tdff l conveyance to the Yankee lines. Capt. 11. T. Hines, of Gen. Morgan's com mand, is at present in Richmond on business connected with the organization of the Gener als command. It is believetWn PJohmond that Meades com mand has been reduce'! l , to twenty fiye thou sand men. and that it will soon fall back on Washington. The Examiner #ays some of our public spir ited then a year ago offered to supply the gov ernment with a pound of bacon tor a pound of cotton. The idea was hooted at by the Secreta ry of War. He. however, has not done half as well. President Davis has signed two very impor tant bills, passed in the secret session' of Con gress. The first is entitled an act to impose legula'ioas.ou foreign commerce. It prwbiMt*-- the exportation of cotton, tobacco, military and naval stores. sugar, molasses and rice, and forbids any vessel, vehicle, slaves or animals engaged in loading or transporting such arti cles, to go beyond tiie limits of the Confedera cy. or to any Confederate port actually within the enemy s lin-“s.- All persons concerned in such exportation are *o ire due-td- guilty of high misdEmea :or. unless authorized by special permits to be given under rules prescribed by the President. The second act prohibits the in troduction into the Confederacy of • luxuries.” after the first of .March. The act contains a long list of prohibited articles, and limits the liberty'of importation into the ports of the Confederacy to articles of prime necessity. It provides that the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe the maximum prices at and within which importiions of articles, part ly or wholly cotton, wool or silk shall b'o mad" Auv articles imported contrary to this act will be forfeited, and the owner be required to pav double the value thereof. Another bill has passed the Senate iu«ociet session to organize a bureau ol foreign sup plies to make importations. Ac., for the Gov ernment. The injunction of secrecy has keen dissolved by the Senate, and the bill has been sent to the House for its action. This new trad ing scheme is understood to be the suggestion ol Secretary Seddon. Ft Rita" Blasphemy—,At a war meeiln/ i u San Francisco, R verend Titos. Starr King, for whom R SIOO,OOO church has been built, used the following blasphemous language, which well illustrates the ie’igious character of the Puritan race : Among the many speakers of the evening was the Rev. Thomas Starr King, who, allu ding to the work of the Sanitary Association of the Pacific coast, said : "We have sent S4OO - infold to suffering soldiers in the East $435,000 rather, through live blessed influence of Providence and Salmon P. Chase, and these two were a team when harnessed together," LETTER PROM OLU iiiV »I,BV QS fliK M AtKil, -l-ECIALI JUKLsI OXUENi K tUBOMILEI BCKTISCI, ] O'til. Ilodjc's Brigade moving—Fie iug of (hr command —Disgra<e r ul actions of our Troops in Noith Carolina — CreenviUe, S. C.—Prices of the necessaries of life, etc., etc , etc. Grebxvillk. S. C., Feb. 4. The Brigade of cavalry which has been here foraging for awhile has gone, en route fo»itsd. s tination. It is *ue of the finest cavalry Brig ades in the service, and is made up of Ken tuckians with the exception of a company or t-.vo from Western Virginia. Brigadier Gen. Geo. B. Hodge, one of ttio most gallant officers in the service, is in command. This Brigade accompanied Gen. Wheeler in his raid round Rosencruns’ army list September, and so well pleased was this General with its behavior that in his orders read to his soldieis, he compli mented Hodge’s Brigade, and said that it sav ed his corps. The exuberant spirits of the officers and soldiers ot thisßrigad; is gratifying, indeed : and I might siv that onr army generally, is bouvant and hopeful. Like Caesar's army, while on the Plains of Pharsalia, they are con sidering the means of gaining a victory, while the Yankees like Pompev's soldiers, are confi dent in their numbers, and think only of the way and manner they shall enjoy their anticipa ted victory. And when Ciesar and Pompey fought, the latter with his army was defeated, captured and de troyed, by the former, with an army of only half the size of his opponent.— Such it is hoped will lie the result of the spring and summer campaign—that we may and can destroy our enemies as Ciesar did his. Soldiers whose hearts are bound up in the cause of onr country, and who think and talk only of drivng the vandals from our soil, dis pel dispOndency from any community where they may pass. Such has been the effect upon the good people of Greenville—they feel a re vival of their spirits—like fighting on and ever. Last week, near Ashville, North Carolina, a cavalry company of Texas Ringers, while pas sing through the eouutry, quarrelled witii each other and divided. One paty went on ahead and laid in ambush while the others came up. then fired upon them, and killed and wounded six or seven ( f their number, i’he Mayor of Ashvilleaespatebed this news to the command ant of the Post at this place. The officers of th'S company should be attended to by the proper authorities, and taught their duty with severity. Greenville is a beautiful little city, of about three thousand inhabitants, situated at the ter minus of the Columbia and Greenville Rail road, about one hundred and forty miles from Columbia. Its institutions of learning consist of the “Firman University,” a male college which was once in a flourishing condition —and a Female College—both of which are under the auspices of the Baptist persuasion. Ihe water power through this country is very fine, fur nished by Ready- River, which runs near the city, on which are flouring ntills, paper mills, cotton factories, foundries, Ac-, &c. There are two hotels—one kept by Mr. Swandale, and known as the Mansion House. Corn is scarce here, and when sold brings about seven dollars per bushel. Flour is worth from seventy-five to eighty dollars per barrel. No wheat for sale. Horses, best, are worth one thousand dollars per heaji. The good people of this section furnished this brigade with one hundred pairs of shoes, and sent three hundred pair to Longstreet’s men. They are alive to the wants of our soldiers, and their acts of kindness towards our soldiers will never he forgotten. I must bring this letter to a close. You shali hear from me Irom our “new locality, ’’ in a few days, when l will be able to give you items of importance connected with our army in that, region. In the meantime the good people oi Georgia should redouble their efforts in behalf of our soldiers, and the soldiers will renew their vow to drive from cur soil the vandals who are despoiling our homes. • S :>us Likctenaxt. FROM MISSISSIPPI. Gen. Sherman has taken ail the boats he can get possession of to transport troops from Mem phis down tlie river. All the positions on the Mississippi have been abandoned and the troops concentrated. The Federals have eight pontoon bridges with them, besides those across the Big Black. It is the impression among the citizens of Vicksburg, that Sherman intends to collect fifty thousand men and march on Mobile. Jackson was evacuated by our forces on Fri day afternoon, about six o'clock. The enemy look possession almost immediately alter our iib indonment of the place. Our infantry fell back to Brandon, hut Lee remained on the west side qf the river and will, no doubt, maintain his position there. By this time his force hits been sufficiently augmented to war rant his making offensive demonstrations. The pontoon bridge, at Jackson, was destroyed by a few of our men under a very heavy fire from the enemy. One man was badly wounded. The fighting of our troops was gallant and stubborn, when the Federals advanced on Jack son. and they only <ro*'e way when overpower ed by superior numbers. It is saul that Gen. Ross drove back the Federals on the Y'azoo, and sunk two of their tran-ports. The Federal forces are estimated at about for ty thousand men, and are commanded by Gens. Sherman, McPherson, and Hurl hurt. Ail army is now being massed at Morton, some thirty miles this.side of Jackson. Some two hundred hales of Government cot ton in Jacxson was burned, to prevent its fall ing into the hands of t ie Federals. The advance of the Federals was so rapid that our troops were not able to destroy the pontoon bridge over Pearl riyer. Large numbers of negroes will fall into the hands of the Yankees as they advance on the broad base which they evidently contemplate. Those most, interested are alone to blame.— General Johnston was actively qt work «*n this matter when the State Legislature interfered, throwing such obstacles in his way as to stop him. We hopp fhis ponsebse will cease,-and that in case we fall hack again, everything that can pqssibly be qf advantage to the ene my will be brought away. The Yankees will take them as sfirply as we leaye them. Gen. Polk is showing an activity and shrewd ness that f did not expect. He is everywhere. Men from We.-t Tennessee continue to reach Forrest’s headquarte s. A large body of deserters and tories are com mitting outrages in Jones conuty. Miss. is stated that A. P. Merrill, formerly cashier of tin! Agricultural Bank of Natchez, is to be inaugurated Lincoln Uovernor of Mississ * Neither Gen. French's or Gen. Loring’s div isions took any part in the late fight near Jack sun. Gen. Ros 8? cavairy brigade, after destroying some transports, met the energy noar and fought him, live times their number, with revolvers. It is represented as the mo6t des perate fighting of the war. A reg.ment of ne gro cavalry which they intercepted m a lane, was completely slaughtered Gen. French’s cavalry destroyed large lots of cotton to prevent their falling info the ene my’s ban da. „ , . T , The railroad between Brandon and Jackson was uninjured by our tooops.. . Gen. Polk’s headquarters is at Peubatmup, tpn miles west of Morion,on theSoutheiu Bail road. . „ . Gur hoops have been re-mforced. I hey are still at Morton where it was supposed they would await the approach of the Federal force% FROM EAST TENNESSEE. The editor of the Lynchburg Republican has seen a gentleman just from Longstreet s armv and is assured by him that the condition of things in that quarter is pf the most encour •vring character. Our soldiers are in hop spirits have a plenty to eat, are receiving large q’uantites of clothing, and are annoying and harrassing the enemy to a ruinous exfenU Longstreet lias fed his army exclusively off of the ent-mv and the country in which be is lo cated. Thiajs, of itself, a most gratifying result. _ FROM FLOlttß A. Mr Joseph C. Taylor, Sheriff of Jefferson co., Fla., committed suicide Friday. He was sup posed to be insane. , It is stated that the Federals have advance through Baldwin, and camped Wednesday night at Sanderson, a'small village, some twenty odd miles this side, and about seventeen miles from Lake Citv, formerly Alligator. It is rumored that about fi? hundred of our troops stationed at Baldin, Fla., have ppen cap tured by the Federals. FROM SOUTH ALABAMA. The Federals have burnt the Methodist church at Huntsville. They are now requir ing the citizens of the place to take the oath of allegiance or leave. They are also taking posaeariou of the residences of many of the prominent citizens of the place, turning tnein out of doors witnout any ceremony- There is at present about thirteen Federal regiments in and around llnntsv iile. The country on the North side of the Mem phis end Charleston Railroad from Morrisville to Huntsville, is occupied by Federal troops, . fit Oil &URTH t AKiit, VV. A dctuehnient ivonT u ha*etu ne„ ,1 regiment, under ihe colonel commanding. left Norfolk lor Currituck county, Niulti.CiioYuia, to attack and capture, it possible, setae of our guerillas of Lieut. White's command. Failing in this, they visited a second time ihe bouse of Lieut. White, anti, alter abusing the f unity, took his daughter, an accomplished young lady of seventeen years. After having her hands tied in front of her and the rope thrown over her shoulders, she was driven, by a big negro, with curses and abuse, in front of the com mand, towards Norfolk. When within five miles of Norfolk, they met a regiment ot New York white infantry, who, with its colonel at (lie head, knocked over the negro driver and rescued Miss White from the negro guard, and sent her to Norfolk in a carriage. Advices of the most reliable character from North Caiolina leave no doubt (hat the enemy is concentrating large forces at Newborn and Morehead City. In a few days the pnbl c may expect the development of the crisis. The expedition of Gen. Pickett was attended with very good results and seems to have been well conducted, lie has now fallen back to wards Kinston, and the attempt'to capture New born abandoned. The topographical situition of the place and surroundings rendered it mis reptible of being made almost impregnable, and the enemy, who have had a long time to work, have availed themselves of their advan tages to construct the most formidable en trenchments and fortifications. Newbern is situated betwei n two rivers, and the appro ich is guarded by a wide and diep ditch, flanked at each end by a gunboat, which would, inde pendently of the other fortifications, cause an attempt to enter it by storm to be af tended with immense slaughter, and, if taken, it would be doubtful, with the naval advantages of the enemy, whether it could be held permanently. A gentleman from Western North Carolina informs the Raleigh Pi ogress t hat a Federal cavalry force was moving on Ashville, N. C. A large body of Federals were at Frank l in. N. 0., on the Ath. The place is silty miles from WalhalU, S. C. A despatch received Saturday at the War Department from Maj. Gen. Whiting, estimate-, by the admission of prisoners, the enemy's loss iii (lie light at Batchelor’s creek at fi teen hun dred men. Tlie enemy 's papers m ike much lighter of the affair. it is stated that the Federal raiders at Frank lin, Macon eo., N. number irom five to se,ven hundred. Col. Thomas' Indian battalion lias given them batlle. The result is not yet known. A large number oi refugees have left tb it sec tion of tlie State. The Raleigh Confederate gives the sequel to an agitation meeting in Gaston county, N. C. — Four soldiers, two of whom had lost arms in the service of the country, advanced to the chairman’s seal after tlie meeting had been or ganized, and demanded to see the resolutions, mid alter examing them they immediately tore them to atoms, and then called for an adjourn ment. 'J lie argument was irresistible, and amid commotion tlie meeting adjourned. The Fayetteville. N. C. Observer contains the decision of Judge French in the-case of Alex ander Williams, n one of the principals con scripted under the Act of Congie-s. approved January a. 1604. “ That no person shall be ex empted' front military service by reason of Ids having furnished a substitute.” Williams had furnished a substitute over 4.0 years of age, who was accepted, mustered into service for three years or tlie war, and Williams, the prin cipal, regularly discharged. He is now under arrest by order of the enrolling officer of Moore County, under the recent Act of Congress above referred to. The petitioner insists that tlie Act of Congress is in violation of the Con stitution of the Confederate States, and so his arrest is illegal. Judge French decides against the praver of the petitioner. Holds that the Act of Congress is not in violation of tlie Con federate Constitution, and remands the peti tioner to tlie custody of Captain Currie, the enrolling officer. Western North Carolina and a small portion of Towns county, G.i., were lately invaded by a column of Federal cavalry, about, fifteen bundled in number. They came from Fast Tennessee, and entered North Carolina through the county of Cherokee. They were stopped by the want of subsistence for themselves and horses, and the frequent assaults upou them iir their forages by the .Carolina Home Guards, and a portion of the Indian forces of Thomas’ Legion, then scouring the mountains in quest of bushwhackers. In their invasion and re* treat, as usual, they pillaged indiscriminately, and carried off with them many negroes, horses, cuttle, food ard clothing. But the cli max of their atrocities was the capture of two Confederate soldiers at home upon furloughs, whom they delivered over to tlie merciless bush whackers oFWesfc North Carolina and Fast Tennessee,- who immediately .shot them . 'The names of these two soldiers were young Col bert and Davidson. The steamer Nullifier. from Nassau, is re ported lost off Wilmington bar on Saturday. F ROM Tit A ilifei-.VI IHBIJSISPPI. * A letter from Jackson, La., dated Jan. 26. states that Banks’ army in attempting to cross tlie Colorado, was attacked by Mag ruder and cut to pieces, killing and capturing neurlyt+ie whole command, it was also stated that the enemy had been heavily reinforced at Baton Rouge and Port Hudson, and t iey in tended to extend their lines to the New (Irle.ans, Jackson and Great Northern railroads and for age upon the country. Advices fiom Trans Mississippi state that Gen. Kirby Smith is still at Shreveport. The thr m divisions of his army, under Price, Tay lor and Magruder, are well equipped and clad, anil are in line condition for the spring cam paign. cur armies in that section are increas ing, and every thingkovears a bright aspect. Through the energy' and enterprise of Gen. Ivirhy Smith, the town of Shreveport, La., and Marshall, Tyler, and Houston, Texas, have be come large manufacturing places. There are already three powder mills in successful opera tion, and foundries are working the Texas iron into ammunition so- ordnance, and they will soon commence making heavy guns. '1 he West ern department is fast becoming self-sustain ing- A gentleman just from Arkansas states that the meat Union meeting lately hel l at, Little Rock, was composed of Yankee camp follow ers. But few, if any of the citizens of Arkan sas took part in it He says that instead of the State being subdued, it is even more op posed to an affiliation with the enemy than it was at the beginning of the war. 'Phis is uni versal of its southern section, where to day every man from sixteen to seventy-five years of age is cnrolled for service either at home or general defence. Every raaq who can bear a gun is ready to use it for the cause. A con siderable part of the Slate is in possession of the enemy, and that part of course is not in arms against him. But this by no means im plies acquiescence with- or a disposition to sub mit to the invader. 'The materials of opposi tion are only helpless, not subdued. At Galveston everything remains quiet. Four vessels consiitu'e the blockading fleet. Nothing of interest comes from Matagorda. The eqoiny have limyed a little higher up the peninsula, there to obtain Wood and water. At Indianola and Towderhoru, they have been recently reinforcing ; whether tor an at tempt on the interior in that direction, or mere ly to secure better quarters and more fuel, te mains to be seen. Rumors were current that our cavalry ha 1 burned the l'oimer place, but the reports were not generally credited. The Yankees have made several visits to Cor pus and offered the “loyal” citizens ra tions- . The Erath county Texas Rangers have again been doing execution among the Indians re cently'. An expedition destined tp capture the Yan kees at Matagorda was defeated with consider able loss. The renegade Jack Hamilton, the would be Governor, was at Powderborn with Ids staff. The Federals have made a raid to Lavaca.— Several of the citizens improved the opportu nity to leave for Abraham's dominions. Gen. prige v/as at Si*ereport, on the lutk* hut was about starting off for some unknown point. It is intimated lie is about 10 make g dashing raid into t’.-e Yankee lines somewhere. Red river is rising and is now navigable lor large boam All the Yankee troops have been withdrawn from New Iberia. A gentleman just from Texas, states that it was thought when lie left there, that Banks was withdrawing his troops from the coast ot Texas. He may be coming to take part in. some of the cis-Mississippi expeditions. The CTrrkncv Bilt.— I The Ricmond Exam iner speaks as follows in regard to the new currency bill, and of the doings of Congress in regard to the matter : -We are tyell as Hired that the Confederate Senate has passed the currency bill in secret, and that what is known as Oldham s plan—a tax on the currency—is rejected The House bill ha» been raSicaliy amended ; and we are disposed to believe that the ground of compro mise between the two Houses will be the con stitution of anew currency limited to two hundred millions of dollars, and sustained eithey by a pledge of cotton, or a special ap propriation of future revenues. The fact is, Congress has got to sea again on the currency, and iiefore the two Houses jean accommodate their differences, it is not unlikely the session may r-~'T " ftIRKIUS items l.toyd'rt Bub.age Association in Loudon pub lishes letters from New Orleans denying that, the Mississippi river is freely open to trade, as vessels navigating toward the city are “ rid dled with shot and shell.” Business in New Orleans is represented as “entirely suspended.-' 'The Polish insurgents are displaying r- new ed activity in the field. Kossuth had address ed a s irrtng appeal to tlie Hungarians, and the Austrian Government was considerably agita ted. The Paris correspondent of the New York Daily News has started a story that the Fmpcr or of the French is about to lenew his oiler of mediation in our civil war, and that lie has been moved to that proceeding by the iulluciiee of a committee of French manufacturers, rep resenting houses in Lyons, tit. Ftienne, Mul house, IIo;i bats aud Strasburg. An English paper, speaking of the possible appearance of a Russian loan in the London market, says its financial speculators “ would lend money to cut the throat of Poland with out tlie least compunction.” A striking instance of the popularity of the Polish cause in Paris was afforded a few days ago at the school of France. One of the professors, in a lecture on “La Soldidariie des Nations/’ spoke iu praise of Poland, and was loudly applauded. A well dressed, gentleman like mail, however, began to hiss. It was a bold step. He was saluted as “Villain Russe," and taken by two scholars and turned out oi the school. A pair of shears, weighing twenty four tons, has beeu built at Birmingham, England, for the Russian Government, to be used iu a large iron works in the. neighborhood of St. Petersburg It has a power of pressure equal to- i,OOO tons, and c -n cut to pieces a bar of cold iron half a foot squate. The blades are of cast steel, and theyuie operated on by hydrostatic presume. These shears ure said to possess doublj the jiower of any set heretofore constructed. The remains of a gigantic animal of the bear species lias been dug out of a land slip near Talbot, in New South Wales. The anni lnal when alive, must have been four feet in length, lour and a half feet high, and most probably weighed over a ton. Adelina Patti is now turning the heads of the Parisians, after driving the denizens of Madrid out of their wits. The Queen presented her with a magnificent medallion enriched with sapphires and diamonds. The proposition for anew French loan had met with a extraordinary success, the bids ex ceeding the required amount thirteen times, amounting to $1 JO,000,(100. * The London Times congratulates the coun try upon its escape from the threatened trou bles in India and Japan, and skys it is almost certain that at neither place will there be any war. Forty-eight citizens of Warsaw request the Governor to Intercede witii tlie Czar for his ac ceptance ot an address expressing the loyalty of the Warsaw citizens. A project for Ihe better regulation of Roum nia will be submitted to the Powers who signed the treaty of Paris. The demand for discount in London is heavy. Consols iiOAiffOJ for .money. ’Tlie Confederate loan is at 42a4-l. French Rentes at Havre 66f. COc. 'Three hundred thousand pounds sterling in specie have been sent by the Bank of England to Fiance. Empress Eugenie lias insured her life foi; two million of francs for the benefit of the Princz imperial. .The investigation into the circumstances of tlie fitting out and departure from Sheerness of tlie rebel privateer Rappahannock, late 11. M S. gull vessel Victor, had terminated. It was ascertained that certain officials at Sheemess dockyard had been guilty of a gross neglect of duty,'and at the same time committed an mi warrantable violation of tlie neutrality laws, and tlie Government has decided on prosecut ing the principal offender. A warrant was therefore issued for the apprehension of Wil liam Rumble, principal engineer and inspec tor of machinery alloat. The accused was ap prehended, but liberated by tlie Rochester bench on heavy hail. No proceedings had yet been ordered against any one of the other officials, nor against the Government pilot who piloted tlie Rappahannock from the Nore. 'The Right Honorable F. Peel, one of. tlie un der secretaries of tlie treasury, had been ad dressing his constituents at Bury-Lancashire, and referred at length to the American war.— He pointed out the magnitude of tlie .under taking, the burdens tlie North was imposing on itself, and the necessity for England’s neutral - jty. Adverting lo tho AK-x-imiia case, lie satll the policy of the Government would be to do as it would be done by, and he hoped when the war was over both sides would acknowledge that England's conduct had been eminently fair. It is announced that the steamer Germania, from Southampton, on the 14th, for New York, took out several heavy siege guns of large ea fibre from the Low Moor Iron Works. It is presumed for Federal Uses. In tho Liverpool Police Court, on the 15th January, three persons named Joi.es, Highat, and Wilding, engaged in the ship chandlery business, were summoned to appear.and ans wer a clung? of attempting to enlist men to serve in the sea service of the Confederates.— Tlie defendant Highat, was the only one who attended, ’i he prosecution concluded on be half of the Government. 'The counsel for de fendants denonnced tliis case as one of tho most trumpery ever got up, and condemned, in se ven- terms, tlie sepionage pursued in England by the American Government. The defendant was held over to answer in his own recogniz ance for £3OO, and two Sureties of £250 each. Some of tiie English papers having denounc ed tiie amity shown by the United States to the French Government in regard to the exporta tion of tobacco from Richmond, it is serni-0 1 - ficiully stated the British Government made an express request that the concession should be granted. The Courier des Etats Unis says by Imperial decree of the 2Uth, cotton is admitted free into French ports, if imported direct from the country where it is produced in ships carrying the French (lag. The duties horetofote levied will have to he paid on cotton imported under a foreign flag. The last news from’ Europe represents the gallant Confederate States steamer Alabama as on tlye other side of the world, carrying con sternation among the Federal merchantmen, and illuminating the seas with conflagration-!. Th*. scenes of her operations are the Straits of Sund i and the tranquil waters adjacent.— The Straits Times, commenting on the ad vantages of that locality as a cruising ground, says that a great many United States vessels, with unusually valuable cargoes, sail through these Straits, to a’nd from China, Java and the Archipelago: “ Another advantage obtain ed by lie Coufeoerate vessels by cruising in these parts, is the constant fine weather, aDd the consequent greater effectiveness of steam power, as well as the immense number ot ports to which they may by turns resort for repairs and outfits.’’ The United State# steamer Wy oming is in the viciply, ;;ea;phing for tho Ala bama. Both steamers passed tliropgh the Straits on the . same day, not more than twen ty-five miles apart. The Wyoming, however, has nothing like the speed of the Alabama. ’the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson President of die Board of Trade, delivered a remarkable address to his constituents at Ashton-under- Lyne on the 2qth hit., upon American Affair*, iu which he denied that the rebel ion was an ad vantage to Eugland, as had been stated iu some qiiaitem ; hut be intimates that the transfer of the siiipping interest from Anserjca to j'ritiah vessels, in consequence of the fear of prifa teeers, has much to do with the inctoaseof trade of British shipping iu ports of the United Kingdom—to the auoupt ol fourteen million tons against seven million tons of foreign ves sels. lie was very demonstrativeuppptjm fur nishing of vessels byiieutrals to nations at war, and pointed out the danger that might accrue if the practice was indulged iu. He vyas posi tive in the expression of neutrality on the part of tire English Cabinet, A Loral. N euro.— Dr. Bi 'f. Marshall, of Qen. Morgan’s command, has furnished the ytlanta Intelligencer with the following facts in relation to a negro who accompanied his master in the Ohio raid: . Robin has been with Dr. Marshall since the beginning of the wai, in all the battles in which ho has been engaged, doing his duty faithfully and cheerfully in the capacity in which he serv ed. In Gen. Morgan’s raid into Ohio, Robin, who accompanied his master, was captured by 'the enemy at the same time with the greater portion of the command. He was regarded by the Yankees as a fit and proper subject for the exercise of their humani tarian schemes, and views of equality. Dr. Marshall was forbidden to hold any inteicourse with him' and Robin was presented with sn invitation to enlist in the Yankee army to fight against the people of the South. The invitation he spurned and when offerd his liberty on con dition of his taking tup ‘’path qf allpgDpce,” his reply was: “I will never disgrace my family by such an oath.” The consequence was he was incarcerated in a dungeon, wnich failing to produce the desired effeoc, he. was taken to Camp Douglas, where he is now kept, having suffered imprisonment seven month* rather than take the oath of allegiance to the Yankee Government. Brigadier T*-- y,-^ ( -. ~. . . «« *"• Gbicl- amauga, is safely tWrv inTi y Me3a,, '° 1 5 8 Minister Pffnipoten tiaiy to that court. He sailed early in Janu nX T-r t a, r He was formerly mmihti to.bpam under Buchanan. He is in w„i tl> '?“ ke ;l Heaty with Maximilian, . "P ou the mutual recognition of the two governments, wiih commercial clauses, grant ing teciprocnl privileges of trade -and com merce. A recognition by .Maximilian will be tantamount to a recognition by France, i s fiends will be gratified to team taut he has been confirmed by the Senate ~ J’ 1 noble deeds having stood like a wailot lira between him and his slanderous enemies. It is leported. says the Richmond Examiner, tuat, tor some time past, the House of Repre ss ataivos lias been considering, in secret ses sion, a bill to suspend the'/mb a,,' corpus : and it is bcbeveit by a portion ot the public that the bill aas been passed in this branch of Congress, .-•with certain reservations.” it aas leaked out that in secret-session both Houses oi the \ iiginiu Legislature memorialised the. Confederate authorities to recognize Beast Butler as hliteral commissioner, and thus allow the exchange of prisoners to be resumed under the cartel. A retort prevails that ihe House or Repre sentatives in SCI il l session has taken decided action on the resolutions introduced a few days ago by Mr. \\ right of Georgia, but what this • was, whether to approve th.-ni and (bus startle the country by and by, or to expel Mr. Wright for leaving offered them, rumor dots liot say. Richmond letter writers state that Gen. Lee’s army is making preparations for a move in some direction, . h is understood that the Virginia Legisla ture, in secret session is i-i-wbc to devise soma plan by which negotiatio s for the cxihtinge.of prisoneis may be resumed. The Richmond correspondent of tho Charles ton Mercury says that the public think Horde's sentence to seventeen years in the penitentialy was. on the whole, jusl, and reflecting men believe that the verdict will have a fine ett'eot a'frond, where the reputation of the South has too long rested on the b .sis of the bowie-knife and revolver. The -House of Delegates of Virginia have passed a bill appropriating the sum of $1,000,- 000 for tlie relief of dm families of soldiets within the line* of the enemy. The Adjutant General has found it necessary to publish a general order forbiding (he im pressment of supplies oi provisions in transit:!. to arsenals, armories and ordnance dtpots, un der tlie ordeis of the commandingcllkers of tht> same. It appears that the mania of impress ment has gouii to such an extent llmt even the Government lias to protect it sell against the violence of its ow n officers. FROM MEXICO. Twenty-six thousand French troops have landed in Yen Cm/, to reinforce the Imperial ists. A large force are marching on Salt Luis.— Juarez is fleeing before (hem. Ho sought a remge iu Monterey. Gov. Yid uini proposed to permit citizen Juarez to remain there, but he would not recognize President Juarez. Matters at Laredo were quiet at latist dates. The Yankee force at Brownsville is estimated at 6,000 to 7,000. Gen. Old has taken com mand there, who issued orders upon his arrival for tlie entire force to be ready to march in three days. The bad weather prevented ids moving however. Brownsville is fortified by a circle of redoubts, extending from the eouvent to the garrison inclosing tlie city. They are as yet incomplete, aud not furnished with guns. Point Isabel ami Brazos Santiago are also for tifieil. The funner with very heavy guns. Tho Federals am enlisting Mexicans, who they claim to lie loyal citizens of the United States. ’They have about a thousand of them. It is reported that they are dissatisfied with their officers who are Americans. It is reported that ihe Mexicans and a por tion of tlie regular troops will be leit to occu py Brownsville while the balance ot tlie force will march to the Nueces. T hey have obtained about eighty horses on this sMe and about 208(1 horses and mules liom the stock in Uaineron county. They seized all the steamers in tho Rio Grande but tlie “Alamo,” which is still running from Miitnmoras to" ihe mouth. The United Blahs consul of Maliinioras has announced in any future difficulty, or in case of an attack on that city by an outside force, tho United Blabs troops would take possession of the city to preserve order. borne reports state (lie French had arrived at Han Luis Potosi, and taken possession, wlt’ch caused the family of Juarez to ilv to MOillerey. Another resolution has tv, aired at Miitnm*- las. Ruiz took charge of tho city on the 3st of January, lie was to resign the next day, and the names oi three per sous were to be pre sented to the Supreme Government, out of whom to solo t a Governor. None of lliem were to lie persona who had taken part in tho pending questions. .Col. Rojas is said to command the tloops which are to march against the French at 'Tampico, with Gorlinas as sec ond in command. Ail acts of Serna, including the forced loan, are approved ot by Gen. Ruiz, The Tex in Hanoi k. — Just before Ihe battle of Murfreesboro, Col. Harrison, of the Texan cavalry, held a council of war with his captains. II H made a speech, in winch he detailed many of their daringaeliievmenU, and closed by say ing that there was still one feat which they had never executed. They had beaten ten times their own numbers; they had charged in fantry and cavalry, and always with success; "but, gentlemen,’’ said Gol Harrison, “you have never captured a batloiy, and this must ho’ done before you return to your homes.” Tho several captains said, “All ‘right, we ll have a Yankee battery before the sun coes down.’’ Within jjeu minutes, Gen. Wharton’s com! maud, of which ifanison’s regiment was ft part, was ordered to attack the enemy’s right wing. The charge was terrific, and the Fedor als sun irsed, lied from the field, Not far away, there was a battery of six guns, support ed by a Federal brigade. The’Texans diverged from their comse , and very scon held five of ♦he guns, and under a terrible lire from the Federal infniitiy, were moving them off the field. Three Texans reshed t> the sixth piece, and soon disposed of the gunneis with their re peaters. One of them drove the horses attach ed to the twelve-pounder, while the other two cured for the caisosn, which was nearest the Yankee column. In the haste fwitn which they sought to (!'■ re off; the caisson was up sot. As sistance camand before the advancing Feder al* reached them, the Texans were rap idly moving away with their prize. A violin had fallen from the ammunition chest of the oyer-turned caisson, which a Texan seized, and with it, mounting the caison, was la.rne from the field facing the Federals. With great cool ness lie piayed Dixie, while Millie, halls whistled a refrain about his ears. He never missed a note till lie leaped from the ammunition [chest withiu our lilies, 'i inning to Harrison, whoso, speech be had overheard, nu said. “I reckon,’ Colonel we can go home now. We’ve done all that you said, a jnortal soldier could do,and teherefore f was bent ou having that last gnu.’* Ri-ttfiAN Adanhon ment of Rolan p Recommend ep.—'The Invalids Russe. of Sit. Peteishprg, publishes a remarkable article horn the pen of- M. Jiilferdinp. Either the libelty of the Rus sian ptess must be complete, or thm article be tokens some change of policy in governmental circles. The Russian journal first examines the situation of uifaii-u and the mission of Kuassiii in Roland. “We have,” it says, “five months of winter before us, and eyery one knows how critical such a delay is for the King dom of Roland. It ought to smuco to enufile us tocaiiHolidate ouriulein that . ountiy. ii„t il" Roland remain until the spring in the stale of an unsubdued province, Western Europe may come to dispute with us for its possession although is very certain that after the struggle it, woifid be a corpse, and not a living nation, which would remain in tiie conqueror’# bauds.” The Russian w riter then asks if it i- really an advantage to Russia to keep this kingdom of Roland, which requires the constant employ ment of force. He says that every Russian Who is the friend of Ifls country would rejoice to see the moment, when they could honorably renounce the possession oi Poland. “We un derstand,” he adds, “.hat such a determination would he a shameful retrogression in the pres ence of insuiiection within and the pressure without, hut we impatiently wait for the time when events and political corn! inations will permit us to abandon honorably and without any constraint, a country which detests us, and which declares it wishes n ver to he recon ciled to us. It would be much better for Russia to abandon a province winch brings it noproht than to have it an infuriated enemy, and to pass for tyrants and executioners in the eyesmf the whole world. The posses sion ol Roland places Russia in the falsest position ns a slave power. With what happiness should we retire from it, and what liberty of act on would re suit from this for our national policy,”- A correspondent of the New York Tribune gays that Genoial Halleck. iu conversation with prominent public men, has expressed his belief that tffe last grand and desperate effort will be made in tire ensuing spring by tho rebels to transfer the real fighting to Northern roil. It wftß difficult to determiuo whether tboir new campaign wi 1 be due north into Pennsylvania or across Kentucky into Ohio, using Long, stpet a pieaept position as a base of operations.
