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HOUSE.
The motion to reconsider the veto*
the appropriation Ml
by hta°for an in, rease of the ia.arie.tf
. .. r, , e<m«crii)tion service, and for re
pair* of the Treasury building. The additional
anpTonriationr include # I.UftM.OOfJ for the con
scription service. Tb« motion was earned and
the amendment adopted.
The Committee on Patents, to whom was re
ferred the .Senate amendment to the bill to
1-rant a special copyright to W. J. Hardee anil
S H Goelzel, for Hardee s Tactics, reported
l,a-k the bill adversely to the amendment.—
The House refused to concur in the Senate
amendment.
Messrs. Hartridge, of Ga., Staples, of > a ,
and Hanley, of Ark., were appointed a com
mittee of conference on the part of the House,
m relation to its amendments to the impress
ment bill.
Resolutions of thanks to various regiments.
Ac., for re-enlisting, were adopte I.
i be Committee on Printing reported a bill
fixing the compensation for the publication of
the laws of the Confederate States at rates not
to exceed those of the different public journals.
An amendment was adopted to authorize the
Atturnev General to contract lor the pnW ,
i ertisiifc
.t* rep, tod a bill proej--- .
-■-£ by fi,a foi vh-: Printing f . Gorect- ;
j- i tl.. r • -hall be paid TO per <ei ipon the j
l'li- .01 ... Military reported
back Hen,ite Bill to authorize r lie issue of cer
tain bonds to the Alabama aud Florida Railroad
f.'ompany in payment of iron seized by the Gov
ernment, with an amendment, increasing the
rate of interest on the bonds authorized to be
issued by the bill, from 6to 8 per cent. The
bill was considered and passed.
The Committee on Military Affairs, reported
back without amendments, Senate bill to aid
any State in communicating with arid perfect
ing records of the troops from said State.
It was moved to add a proviso, that the said
agents shall be charged with the duty of col
lecting information relative to the deceased sol
diers with reference to the settlement of claims
ter their pay, to be filed in the Second Audi
•-■r’s office. The amendment wah adopted and
the bill passed.
The same: committee reported back Senate
bill to p:nmole theefficiency ofthe cavulry and
to prevent lawlessnes, with a recommendation
that the section abolishing partizan rangers be
stricken out. Fending its consideration, the
House went into secret session.
HK.VATE —I Kit. 13.
The following were referred • A bill in rela
tion to rinding with the enemy; petition for
continuance of pension to Mrs. Eliza Maury.
The Committee on Military Allairs, reported
back the House hill to increase the price of ra
tions of sink ami wounded soldiers in hospi
tals, with amendments. The amendments be
ing agreed to, the bill was put oil its passage
and carried.
The amendments of the House to the amend
ments of the Senate to the “Appropriation
Bill" were concurred in with amendments.
The House bill allowing commissioned offi
cers ol the army rations, and the privilege of
purctaaiing clothing from the qu irterniatc-r’s
department, with the amendment thereto, was
taken up for consideration, when, after some
remarks adverse to the bill, it was laid on the
table.
T he Judiciary Committee, reported back the
House bill to provide lor holdingjUn election of
Representatives in Congress of the Confederate
Btates from the State of Arkansas. The hill
was passed.
Sundry reports and bills from the above
c ommittee and the Committee on Claims, were
presented and placed on the calendar.
Hundij resolutions of thanks to soldiers for
re-enlisting and for gallantry in service, were
passed.
The Speaker laid before the House a message
returning, with certain objections, a bill to
provide l'or the relief of soldiers and seamen
-• 'i .< it: tlm sei vice. TTits is the bill which
nr-. 1 i , drliei\s home. The objections
f- t are based upon the grounds ol
111., o "i.'i ility.
'’’’li ■ laid before the House a meg
. . .u'l ’residentcovering ft comiumiiea
i.b. Jeeratary of War relative to the
i ■ tux iu kind at Government de
pots. i.uld o.i the table, and ordered to be
printed.
Also, a communication from the President,
responsive to a tesolution of the House, ol
February 2!>, concerning copies of the pro
eeedii'gs in the trial and conviction of W. S.
Kaufman. Laid on the table, and ordered to
be printed.
The Committee on Quartermasters and Com
missary Departments, to whom was referred
the resolution of the House inquiring into the
facts concerning the allegation that an insuffi
cient quantity of food has been furnished to
the Federal prisoners, made a report, accom
panied by a mass of evidence, going to prove,
conclusively, that the allegation was entirely
without foundation. The report was tabled,
and ordered to he printed.
'J’lio bill to facilitate the settlement of claims
of deceased officers and soldiers. The bill pro
vides for the appointment by the President, by
and with the advice and consent of the Senate,
ail additional officer for the Treasury Depart
ment, to bo called the Fourth Auditor of the
Treasury, who shall be charged with tho au
diting the claims of deceased officers and sol
diets.
. he following amendment to tho bill was
adopted:
Provided. That no person shall be appoin
ted under tho provisions of this act who is
liable to military service in the field.
Mi Boudinot, of the Choctaw Territory,
moved to and to the divisions, (which number
one for each State,) "and the Indian Territo
ries," which was agreed to.
Pending the consideration of the bill, the
House resolved itself into secret session.
The .'louse having again resolved itself into
open session—
A message .vas received from tho President
announcing Ids having approved and signed a
lull authorizing the use ot certificates of inte
rest on the fifteen million loan.
The House took up and passed a joint reso
lution of the Senate entitled joiut resolution of
thauks to John Taylor Wood, of tho C. S. Na
vy, and the officers and men under his com
mand, tor daring and brilliant conduct in de
stroying the vessels ot the enemy.
The House also passed unanimously a joint
resolution of thanks to the loth, 30th and 27th
North Carolina troops, for their patriotism iu
re enlisting for the war.
A message was received from the President
transmitting a communication from the Secre
tary of War covering reports of Gen. Beaure
gard concerning battles connected with defence
of Charleston. Laid on the table and ordered
to be printed.
Night Session. —Tho House having spent
pome time iu secret session, resolved itself into
open session, and took up for consideration, as
the unfinished business of the morning, the bill
for the auditing of deceased soldiers’ claims.—
After discussion the bill was passed, with some
slight amendments, when tlie House adjourn
ed.
SENATE FHTt. 16.
Resolutions of thanks to Gen. Kirby Smith
find command for the battle of Richmond, Ky.,
wore passed.
The following were referred: Bill to facili
tate the collection of the claims of deceased
soldiers; to establish the Judicial Courts of the
Confederate States.
The following were passed: Resolution for
the relief of Major W. F. Hines, who burnt a
large amount ot Confedenate Treasury notes
in the streets of Vicksburg to prevent them
tailing into the hands of the enemy; bill au
thorizing tho President to appoint an addition
al number of officers iu the engineer corps, pro
ved the whole corns shall not exceed 120.
Vo ‘. vo organise and provide engineer troops
to set vo during the war: residents of the Cou
fbderaov who lease the country without writ
ten permission of the President, shall be con
sidered alien enemies, and their property con
fiscated' to establish a Bureau of Polytechnics
for the examination, experiment and applica
tion of warlike inventions; to establish au in
valid corps: to amend the acts m regard to
military courts, and to create courts for dtvts
‘ of cavalry: relating ft) the appointment
» General and Lieutenant-General: to tix the
‘.' mnvm'atiou for publication, in the newspa
‘ / ,f the acts of Congress :to attach the
1 of Noxubee, in the State of Mississip
pi” to the' Southern judicial division of said
Sate- to punish drunkenness in the army.
, h ,|i providing for the return to the
Department of all Confede
-7 Otfc et-s and soldiers and citizens captured
wwtof tbe Mississippi, and paroled or ex
it' fiu tlie East. was taken up and read
till be,2 reported adversely by tlie
i.' vaiy ('o.audit! e. After some de ate, the
bill was rejected.
A bill wa. Introduced to < linage the Con
federate Hag, which wao placed upon the calen
dar.
The Committee on the House impressment
bill made a report, which was concurred in.
HOUSE.
Resolutions of thanks to more re-enlisting
troops were adopted.
Gen. Bragg was invited to a seat on floor of
the House during his stay in Richmond.
The following were passed: Bill to author
ize the Postmaster General to settle account
of mail contractors when they have been pre
vented from the execution of their contracts
by acts and incursions of the enemy ; to au
thorize an increase of compensation to route
and special agents of the post office department:
to repeal an act regulating furloughs and dis
charges in hospitals : to authorize the promo
tion of commissioned officers, noncommission
ed officers and privates who have distinguished
themselves by gallantry and skill in the field :
to authorize an auxiliary bureau of the War
Department west of the Mississippi: to organ
ize partizan rangers ; to organize a corps of
scooters and signal guards in the valley we-t
of the Mi-sissippi ; to authorize the employ
ment of two additional clerks in Ihe Navy
Department, such clerks to be selected from
men not liable to military duty; resolution
that the present session do not.extend beyond
‘ r "! «•' |vr*, “f *he • ■ leUt> -
Ito -i is .1 provide, that wstenanre
t for buxines. ;• urnisbed by the Commissary
; f.. . •; .i) t‘ i/i f1 tv fiii; Vl'i.e ?or oftiCete
f.f the army, which, on motion was re-commit
ted.
Tiio Speaker laid before the House sundry
Senate bills, which were appropriately re
lerred.
The -elect committee relating to the salt sup
ply, presented a report, which was laid upon
the table ami ordered to be printed.
T he committee of conference on the disagree
ing votes of the two Houses ou a bill to amend
the act to regulate impres ments, presented a
report, which was concurred in.
FROM tint.lMA.
The Richmond Whig thinks the recent ad
vance of the Yankees upon Bottom’s bridge
was intended to “cover the retreat’’ of Streiglit
and bis party from Libby Prison.
Gen. Heimingsen and Col. S. Leger Granfill,
have determined again to enter the Confederate
service, as privates in the command of Gen.
Morgan.
There was a heavy snow storm at Petersburg,
Va., Feb. la.
The last flag of truce boat brought (o Rich
mond five thousand letters addressed to parties
in all parts of the Confederacy.
Lieut. Galcb, a Marylander, with ten men,
also Marylanders, lately captured eight Yan
kees and nine well equipped cavalry horses,
near Newtown, Ya. Learning there were forty
of them at Cedar Creek, Lieut. Hatch, with his
comrades, started in pursuit, and “pitched in,”
when the Yankees “pitched off.” The race was
continued a few miles below Newton, when a
squad was overhauled by the Confederates.—
They dismounted and attempted to get to the
woods, but were made prisoners.
A splendid sword, a presnt to Gen. Lee, has
lately arrived in Richmond, It is of Parisian
manufacture, and was brought from Europe by
the last steamer that run the blockade into a
Confederate port. The blade is of the cavalry
pattern, and embellished with many of the
most beautiful designs known to art. On one
side of the blade is engraved tire motto, “Aide
toi el Diea laidere on the obverse side, “Gen.
K. E. Lee. From a Maylander.” The sword
is emblazoned with a cross on tire shield, arid
other appropriate devices. It is worthy of the
distinguished general for whom it is intended
by the patriotic donor.
The Governor of Virginia desires to organ
ize the State reserves, in order to assist the
Conferate Government, by placing the reserves
at points now occupied by trained troops, so
that the whole veteran force may bo in the
field. The legislature in high dudgeon, op
poses the plan ; the Secretary of War approves
and professes to prefer it, but at the same tunc
thinks that the Confederacy should have con
trol of said reserves, in case the Governor lias
not. Meanwhile, the Senate’s military bill,
which is milder than that of the House, quietly
appropriates these reserves,—composed of boys
from Hi to 28, and men from to to 55, —to the
Confederate Government. Virginia is thus
stripped of defenders, in case of emergency
from within or without.
It is said that the Yankees are enrolling all
the able-bodied negroes in Jefferson and Berk
ley counties, for the purpose of putting the de
luded creatures in the army.
Tho Lynchburg Republican says the late re -
port of a raid against the Virginia and Tennes
see railroad, was without foundation.
A person advertises in tho Lynchburg Re
publican for six thousand dollars iu Confeder
ate money, for which he oilers to pay in gold
at the rate of one for twelve.
Captain John W Burton, now a prisoner at
Johnson's Island, writes to his farther in Vir
ginia that the thermometer had been twenty
degrees below zero, and they had suffered
much; but wero all well and hopeful.
The War Department has revolted all author
ities given prior to December 1, 18(13, to raise
troops from men not within the lines of the en
emy, or to recruit for any particular command
in the field. Recruits enlisted by authority
for new companies, which have not at this time
seventy-two non-commissioned officers and
privates actually mustered upon the ro Is. will
be turned over to the Bureau of Conscription,
and allowed to select any infantry company
they may prefer.
The Richmond correspondent of the Charles
ton Mercury, under date of Feb. 8. says an ar
ticle headed “Martial Law," whic h appears
this morning in the official journal, tends to
confirm the suspension ot habeas corpus report
ed in my last.
A person charged with purchasing a pair of
shoes from a soldier has recenety been examined
iiy one ol the Confederate States Commission
ers in Richmond, and remanded for indictment
for the offence. Citizens would, therefore, do
well to be upon their guard, if they desire to
keep clear of trouble, as the law will be put in
force against any one guilty of a violation.
Persons not unfriendly to the Administration
admit that the design of the recent restrictions
on commerce is to give the Government a mo
nopoly ot importations. Blockade lunning is
to be encouraged l>y paying the runners, not
higher prices, but values of more worth than
Mr Memminger's pliisiugnomies on paper.—
Yet it is not easy to see what better encourage
ment can be given than the customary exchange
of cotton and tobacco. If, instead of commer
cial restrictions, we were to look to commer
cial preference and commercial morality, we
might hope for better lesults even than' any
which have occurred in the palmiest days of
blockade running.
The Legislature of Virginia finds itself in a
precious snarl with the newspapers in conse
quence of resolutions looking to a renewal of
exchanges through Butler, passed, it is said, in
secret session.
The forty conscript members of Congress are
working hard to keep out of the army.
FROM M.DDLK TENNESSEE
A gentleman from Giles county, Tennessee,
informs the Dalton Confederate that the spirit
of resistance to the Lincoln despotism, among
the people of Middle Tennessee, is stronger and
more general than ever heretofore. He be
lieves. from his own knowledge and informa
tion derived from conversations with the citi
zens of that overrun, despoiled, oppressed sec
tion. that the return of our army to that sec
tion will ensure an addition of at least 26.000
troops to its etfective strength. Most persons
place the estimates at a much higher figure.
Two new regiments had already come out from
Middle Tennessee, and men were coming cut
singly and in small squads every day. Their
object seem to be general, to go to Forrest.
Provisions are plenty in Middle Tennessee,
generally, and one dollar in Confederate money
will buy about a: much as five dollar in Geor
gia.
FROM \V IEM 1 XGTO.V
The steamer Advance in crossing the main
bar at Wilmington Tuesday night got on ‘the
Uip." The Journal says she is sate, aud will
be got off after being lightened of some of her
cargo.
The steamer Pet was captured by the Feder
ate, above New Inlet, on Monday night. In
the darkness and fog she had got in such prox
imity to a blockader that escape was impossi
ble. A portion of her crew escaped, and arri
ved at Wilmington.
The steamer Fanny, as she was off' the coast
on her way to Wilmington, was discover*! by
the blockaders aud chased. She manageShow
ever to escape, and is now ,-afe in port.
The Atlanta Appeal informs us that an order
has been received from Col. J. S. Preston. Chief
of the Conscript Bureau, directing that mem
bers of the Atlanta Fire Battalion shall not be
conscripted.
.\Uti lilrlil V* nKH Si
in SVw York, at loot advice*, Virginia '■. a»■,
»old fur 55 ; TannekSod sixes, Ad ; Missouri
sixes, fifij ; North Carolir.a.sixes, 55.
At the high mass at St. Bridget’s church,
occasioned by the death of Archbishop Hughes,
of New York, Dodworth’s band and a chorus
of seventy boys assisted.
The Federal papers say Magruder is concen
trating hi* forces and preparing to make agraud
attack on Banks' troops in Texas.
The Northern press state that Butler will lie
c rntinued as Federal agent ol Exchange.
More frauds discovered in Federal Treasury
Department.
The Federal General Scamrnon has been 1 ap
turc-d vvh ie as eep on a steamer. The steamer
was burned, and forty prisoners taken.
The Kentucky papers state that Confederate
guerrillas are prowling about everywhere in
taat state as well as in Tennessee.
A trunk containing $47,000 was found last
week by a Federal soldier secreted near Knox
ville.
Federal papers say that General Price has
superceded lloim -s. and that his Headquarters
are at Logwood, west of Camden.
Gen. Anderson, of Sumter fame, is very ill
in New York.
Old John Brown's brother has been appoint
i-d superintendent of fieedmen ; n rr
; Virginia
1! 0, . - -
' ;:-.i • i Cr* .n, but the t. r.iou as It was iiitTfiuFl
“• is- ■ tin union - • - i/onis- J
ing Presidential election.”
Tlie Illinois p ipers say that tlieib are six
hundred • disloyal'' Democrats encamped near
Terre Haute, and calls on the Federal authori
ties to disperse them.
The Louisville Journal says that “Old Abe’s
Proclamations come about as thick as Mexican
Pronunciamentosand are worth about as much."
Th * New York Mercury slates that Sherman’s
force in Mississippi numbers seventy thousand.
Os these fifteen thousand are negro troops
The Mercury says Sherman will move ou Me
ridian, and Montgomery, or Mobile.
Lt. Col. Brown, of Forrest’s command, with
ten men, were captured beyond Duck river in
Tennessee. Charges will be preferred against
Brown for recruiting in Federal lines.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commer
cial says it is tlie intention of the Federal Gov
ernment to complete the railroad from Chatta
nooga to Knoxville at once, and state that the
coming campaign cannot be carried on .-ucctss
ftilly unless the thing is done.
The Yankees are becoming restive under the
onerous burden of taxation placed on their
backs by the Lincoln Government. The tax
law of July 1, 1862, levies a heavy excise duty
ou the manufacture of spirits, ale, beer and por
ter; exacts licenses varyingfrom SlO to S2OO for
mast kinds of 1 uisness; levies specific or
ad valorem duties on manufactures generally;
fixes taxes on yachts, carriages billiard tables,
gold and silver plate, slaughtered cattle, hogs
and sheep, advertisements, patent medicines,
perfumery and playing cards; exacts a fixed per
ventage on the gross receipts of all railioads,
steamboats and ferryboats; and a three per cent,
duty on the dividends; and interests of railioad
bonds, bank stock, stock of Insurance and trust
companies, and (leposite of savings banks;
taxes, passports and the salaries of 1! nited States
officers; lays a duty of three per cent on all in
comes of over six hundred dollars per year,
and requires stamps of different amounts to be
affixed to all checks, drafts, bills ot lading, bills
of exchange, note,'bonds, mortgages, telegrams,
express packages, insurance policies, leases,
powers of attorney, protests, probates of wills,
warehouse receipts, &c. Legacies and inher
itances are also taxed according to the degrees
of consanguinity of the heirs.
Horace Maynard who claims to be Attorney
General for Tennesee lays down the law and
declares that no person except a true blue
Unionist shall be allowed to vote; he reminds
the people that the relative condition of the
whites and negroes has been a material change
and warns tnem against any attempt to restored
the old order of things.
'J’he State (Federal) election in Tennessee by
decree of Andrew Johnson occurs on tlie Ist
Saturday ii* March next.
The Confiscation resolution has passed tho
■ederal House. The resolution repeats the ex
planatory resolution of last session, limiting
confiscation merely to life estate, and in iis
stead, simply recites the language of the Con
stitution, as to the duration of the confiscation,
and leaves the proper interpretation of that
language to the opinion of the courts. As
Lincoln advised the passage of this resolution
1 ist session, its repeal is of course in conliict
with his position. It remains to be seen whetli
er lie has changed that position, or whether he
is now, under the altered circumstances, will
ing to place himself iu opposition to the ma
jority of the House.
The United States Government has announc
ed that it does not regard tho Confederate
States steamer Alabama. Com. Semmes, as a
national vessel, because she did not sail from a
Confederate port, but was fitted in and sailed
from a foreign port, and Com. Semmes took
command at sea. They say they regard him as
a pirate, and lie will be treated as such if cap
tured. With regard to the Confederate steamer
Florida, this vessel is respected as a national
vessel, from the fact Hint she was fitted out,
and sailed from a Confederate port, and if cap
tured, tier officers and crew will be treated as
prisoners of war.
There is great anxiety in Washington be
cause of the condition of affairs in East Ten
nessee.
Henderson, a elerk in the Federal Treasury
Department, has stolen 5150,000. This is re
garded a small affair in Washington.
The call for half a million men by Lincoln
astonished his most intimate friends in the
Federal Congress. The demand for so large a
force is said to have been based upon private
despatches from Mr. Dayton, Minister to
France.
The Western Virginia Legislature have post
poned the election of a United States Senator.
Northern papers deny the rumors of trouble
between Lincoln and France.
Washington papers state that the Federal
army of the Potomac lost many men in their
late reconnoissance.
Colorada, Nevado and Nebraska are to be
admitted into the Federal Union as States.
Federal dispatches state that Gen. Early has
been compelled to retreat from Northern Vir
ginia.
A Democratic Congressional caucus has been
held in Washington. A committee was ap
pointed to prepare an address to the country.
A conscription bill is being prepared in the
Federal Congress.
Northern papers believe that the exchange of
all prisoners will yet be effected, and every of
fer to exch mge particular individuals is accep
ted. Such exchanges have already been con
summated.
Federal accounts state that of Confederate
prisoners they hold 3,000 officers and 43,000
enlisted men. They are all being rapidly gath
ered at Point Lookout.
Gen. Sullivan hits issued an order declaring
that for each person conscribed by the Confed
erates in Western Virginia, the nearest and
most prominent secessionist will be arrested
and imprisoned until the return of such con
scripts.
It is rumored that either Hunter or Thomas
will supersede Meade.
The Federal House of Representatives have
passed tie joint confiscation resolution.
The loss by the burning of Colt's Pistol
Works. Hartford, Ct., was over $2,000,000. —
Seventeen hundred workmen have been thrown
out of employment.
In the cause of the captured steamer Chesa
peake, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, at
Halifax, lias decided to restore the vessel and
cargo to the owners; subject to such conditions
respecting the payment of expenses as the At
torney General may exact.
At last accounts gold was selling in New Or
leans 104$: silver 165.
Captain Edward G. Lott, of the Cunarder
Persia, has crossed the ocean three hundred
times.
The Federal authorities at Washington will
undertake the re-organization of the State gov
ernment of Arkansas on Abolition principles.
Gen. Steele is to manage the machinery of the
popular election. The inauguration of the offi
cers chosen by the State Convention of Arkan
sas place on the 21st nit., in the Senate cham
ber at Little Rock. Arkansas.
Stephen C. Foster, the celebrated composer.
I died in New York a short time since.
Secretary Welles has issued a challenge to
run his steamer Eutaw “ against the fastest
side-wheel steamer in the country, foreign or
American." The New Yotk Herald tells him
he had better run it against the Rappahannock.
1 Alabama or Florida.
,i w
luO V ci. OUt-jpes In:! u ; the Chit-a- I
go i imes states that Lit.. oink friends are doing j
all in their power to retard the publication of
McClellan s report. It is announced that two
New York publishers intend to print the same
for general circulation as soon a* they can se
cure a copy. The Times correspondent also
says. Butler is a great pet with Lincoln, and
was appointed exchange agent in order there
ought be no exchange. Tlie same writer says
the report of a great military expedition by
Butler ;s all nonsense, for "he is not a lighting
man. except when he can fight against women
and non-combatants.’’
t otton in New York. Feb. 8. sold for eigtu*-
four and a half cents per pound.
The Kansas Legislature are getting into a
quarrel upon the election of a U. S. Senator.
A New 7 or:; paper says the forces under
S lerrnan in Mississippi amounts to seventy
thousand men.
Immediately alter the funeral services of
Archbishop Hughes, in the cathedral, the suf
iragan Bishops 01 the archdiocese met in coun
cil. and in accordance with custom, sent for
ward to Rome three names for the successor
ship of the archbishopric; Bishop Bailey, of
New Jersey, n : ;mw; Bishop Timon. of Buffalo,
and B .-hop MoCleskev, dignisaimtu.—-
The 1 alter will undoubtedly be chosen. He
was formerly GmduteSo* es New ■*’ 1 ‘ill
■ 1 e~- b was ehang 1 and whe
' i \la was created lie •.<
rativi f We York, bavi, , been 1 rn i
i - e bled up a lot -m Jews and “fliers. ;
! woo hi. Richmond wuh jtsw. nuu gold to e* 1
I c: \> -'•ns-.riptior. Tin fugitives lost every- ;
j 1 hi tig id Bat'd pot I eted i ill stuiiis.
Memphis paper- are fille-i Gth aeeatn*U.of
_i- '..id
D is ruu'n/i-..l Fa: Gen lialieck wiM : •'•t if!
I Gram ii n idea Lieut. General.
'l'lie Empire Iron .Work:. X. Y., have been
partially destroyed by fire.
Further enlistments of cavalry in the Feder
al service have been stopped.
A Northern paper says that a minister of
one of the great Powers, resident in Wash
ington city, stated thhat as long as the Con
federates could keep an army of 100.000 men
they could not be conquered, and that aftei
they hid lost Richmond, Charleston and Mo
bile, they could keep a larger force than that
in the Ileal for five years
Northern papers state that the determination
of the Atlantic telegraph company to postpone
laying their cable from 1864 to 1865, is not
caused, we are informed, by any lack of faith
in the possibility of establishing a perfect and
practical telegraphic communication between
the Old and the New Worlds, or by any want
of funds to carry out the contracts already en
tered into, but only by a desire to rank e still
further more scientific and thorough inquiries
regarding the best size, structure and materials
for the cable. A recent letter from an officer
of the Company in Loudon, says that they are
now considering the adoption of a form of ca
ble which is so strong, and yet of so light a
specific gravity, that thirteen miles of it can
be suspended in the water from the stern of a
vessel without breaking. The company have
not a shadow of doubt of the ultimate success
of their undertaking. The investigations upon
which the electricians are now engaged may be
completed within a few weeks, but, as the cable
can be safely laid only in the summer time, the
experiments may not be concluded in season
for 1864.
The New York Herald says if the war con
tinues to the end of the Federal fiscal year in
1805, the National debt will be $2,774,912,818.
This debt is more than three quarters oi the
entire amount now owned 'ey Great Britain,
which it took tiiat country a century and a
half to create. In reference to this fact the
London Economist truly says that since the
commencement of financial history, there never
has been so rapid an accumulation of debt as
the past two aud a half jeais have presented
in Lincolndom.
The Hon. James Guthrie has been elected by
(lie Legislature ot Kentucky to represent
that State in the United States for six years
from the 4th of March next.
Cnpt. Gurley has been acquitted by the Yan
kee Military Court, ot the murder of Gen. Mc-
Cook, released from the Penitentiary, and per
mitted to walk about the streets of Nashville.
He was acquitted ori the evidence of McCook’s
Adjutant (V - —Captain Walter Brooke, we
understani • was captured at the time
McCook w and on parole, went
back to 111 • ile-re stated that Cur
ley had . •• • .£;• 1 > halt three times
without nv. •••Tii .tlufi-alteruative l.»«*
to shoot h,
Sumner. ■ boson and others, says
the New , no now moving for an
amend me ’ .. • . ition of the United
States, pron inning slay cry everywhere.
The Constitution and Union newspaper es
tablishment at Burlington, lowa, has been de
stroyed !)}• a mob.
The Railroad depot at Chattanooga has been
burned. It was filled with commissary store i.
Confederate guerrillas still continue to annoy
Federal steamers on the Mississippi—doing
them much damage and killing their hands.
The Federal military committee lias decided
to “ recommend the postponement, until after
the close of the war, of all propositions to in
demnify Union inhabitants in the Confederate
States lor losses sustained by the occupation ol
their country by the Union armies.” Or in
other words, not. to pay tiro Union claimants
anything,
Ex-Gov. Trusjen l’olk, of Miss..has been ex
changed and sent down the Mississippi.
Lincoln's Washington organ urges a vigor
ous prosecution of the war. They probably
foreshadow Lincoln’s intentions.
The New York News has been making a col
ilctiou of the damage inflicted upon the Feder
al commerce by this cruiser, and the result
shows that from the date of lier departure
from Liverpool to her arrival at the Cape of
Good Hope, embracing a term of but twenty
months and three days, she captured, rau
somed, destroyed, or converted into war vessels,
fifty-five vessels belonging to citizens of the
United States. We have no information by
which we can arrive at the loss thus incurred,
but it must amount to many millions.
Anew territory is to be made out of portions
of Idaho and Utah.
Gen. Buckland takes command in Memphis
A fine opera house, to hold 3,500 petsons, is
to be built in St. Louis.
FROM MOBILE.
The following commauicition fiotn Majoi
Gen. Maury was published in Mobile on Thurs
day :
I have just been informed by General Poll:
that the enemy is moving from Morton against
Mobile. It is therefore duty to ask all per
sons who cannot take part in the defence of
the city to leave it.
The Mobile papers publish the annexed of
ficial Dispatch :
Fort Gaines, Feb. IC.
To Col. Ci. G. Garner, Chief of Staff:
Seven mortar boats and four gunboats are
shelling Fort Powell a! long range, lip to 12
o'clock they fired 105 shells, striking the fort'
seven or eight limes, doing no damage to the
tort, but slightly wounding a Lieutenant and
Sergeant, and kuocking the officers’ quarters
nearly down. I was at the fort this evening,
and have nolhiug further to repoit.
The enemy made a demonstration of landing
on Dauphin Island, but reconsidered the mat
ter.
You may depend that the places will be
held to the last.
Gf.o. A. Smith, Colonel, the.
The non-combatant: of Mobile show but
little disposition to respect the wishes of either
t.ie civil or military authorities, relative to
leaving their homes. General Maury’s first
request was followed by an urgent appeal from
Gov. Watts, and this has been followed by a
proclamation from the Mayor, presenting a
second request—from Gen. Maury in which
he warns the people of approaching danger and
urges those who cannot fight to leave without
delay. He offers to assist them in procuring
homes in central Alabama, and also to provide
them with transportation.
Gov. AVatts is also making every -effort to
secure homes for the refugees at various points
of safety iu Central Alabama, and II is to be
hoped the people of Mobile will heed the re
quests of the officials. It is rumored that a
A ankee force had been landed at
and some troops were sent over to Pollard to
watch their movements.
AU quiet al Pascagoula Wednesday.
I KOM TR IMS .MISSISSIPPI.
A gentleman from North Mississippi, who
bail seen late Memphis papers, states that Gens.
Price and Smith achieved quite a victory over
Gen. Steele, in Arkansas, recently. This con
firms the goed news previously received from
that section.
A gentleman just from Arkansas savs that
she residents of that State instead of being
tubdued, are more bitter than ever against
their Federal oppressors. In the Southern
section of the State every man from sixteen to
sixty-five is enrolled for service.
* >.« it< v 1 r-vN *.
1 l*v + , a have act bee a 1-0 C uauir.ville
Ala .as repi entefi. A lew ol their cavalry
went to Hat C'reeb. three miles from that
place. The • fin body of their troops did not
go farther thu Larkin's Landing. Some few
of their cavsy also went to Lebanon and also
io Van Bu n. Ala. The whole force have
now recro.v* to the North side of the river.
Their obji’-- were, probably, to forage, re
connoitre, rd divert the attention of our
forces fronii.ovements at other points—East
Tennessee »1 Jackson, Mississippi.
The Fed«i s continue to exptl people loyal
to the Sout from their lines.
The_oule under which a number of South
ern citizen were lately sent to our lines hv
the Eedera is a singular one. It diiected
Lieut. Makey, with twenty-five men. to
proceed dth the parties named, to the first
ConfederaJ outpost, and to deliver them over
to the firs person, who would receive them,
and take ireceipt and ’return, as soon as pos
sible, to badquarters, at llossville.
Geu. l. ckimidgp made a brief, glowing,
and patrbtic speech tu his men Thursday
night. Fig. Gen. Lewis also made an appro
priate spech.
A wou»u, named Mary J. Bq.ty. has been
detected u soldiers apparel, at Dalton aud
sent to tin rear.
Some lays since it was rumored that the
r ' '' ' ’ . -ice at lied
■ la; - * 1 - oi\- a that only
forty Fe 1* < tu c; i.pearance
'heir.
Leroy Brigade, of which nine -'?nth- volun
teered -- ie time ago, aud c ar’y all of the rc 1
luaiiung tenth since, is composed of the i
3' 1: an,' ’nil Alabama regiments, and the . j
and 4 sii V '--.ms : ppi. consol id ■ eu. These ru» |
Ile men declared, We’ll fight, if the Gov-j
eruuji at w.il give us meat aud bread—”' t’ f-y
".atincj. Jo this, uii "lead and-■ >' l, -70.
W-: c>l f-jin t- ... .. i.alcXuOtc-- ’
—i-'ermioation istmt only woiu.,.
m imitation, but is an exhibition of pure a:i'l
unadulterated patriotism, heroism and moral
grandeur, surpassing “all Greek, all Roman
fame,’' aud must excite the universal admira
tion of their countrymen, and convince the
world that a country producing such patriots
and heroes never can be subjugated-!
Only, a small force of the Federate are now
at Chattanooga.
It is thought by some in Dalton that Grant
will make a movement towards Upper East
Tennessee instead of towards Atlanta. -
In the Army ol Tennessee the military dis
cipline is perfect. Those who used to regard
this as Gen. Bragg's speciality, a lmit freely
that Gen. Johnston beats him at his own game
four to one.
The Federal force, a division of infantry un
der Gen. Osterhaus, and a brigade of cavalry
'commanded by Gen. Wilder —that recently oc
cupied Wills Valley, have all retired beyond
the Tenn. River. They have fortified on the
North haul; of the river opposite Larkin's Fer
ry-
Gen. Johnson has been working wonders. —
?very one seems to have confidence in his mil -
ary capacity. All seem willing to trust to
iim. in directing the fortunes of this array, in
ihe tremendous struggle which we all know
Spring will soon bring upon us.
People who come into our lines'by flag of
li uce represents that the treatment of the South
on citizens of East Tennessee as being
iihuman in the extreme.
The following is a list of the officers of the
Ceneral’s staff of the army of Tennessee, com
ttamled by Gen. Jos. E. Johnston:—J B Wash
ington and Wade Hampton, lstLieuts., Aid-de-
Guup; W W Mackall, Brig Gen.,Chief of Staff;
Ctionels B S Ewell, Geo Win Brent, Major
Finloch Falconer and Capt .jp a Williams, As
sistants Adjutant General;'J B Eustis, Major
and A A G., on Court Martial duty; D Ledbet
ler, Brig Gen Chief of Engineers; E J liar vie
Colonel, Inspector General; II Oladowski’
Lieut Col.. Cli es of Ordnance: J II llallom
gust, Lieut Col , Chief of Artillery; M B Me"
Mickeu, Lieut Col., Chief Quartermaster; W E
Moore, Major, Chief of Subsistence; EAFlow
olleu, Surgeon, Medical Director; and Win C
Preston, Major, Inspector of Artillery.
A flag of truce line, for the transmission of
leffers, has been established between Dalton
and Chattanooga.
A citizen direct from Dalton represents the
condition of our army there as admirable. He
siystlie boys arc fat and saucy, and in the best
possible spirits, Hint it was really inspiring to
gat among them. Some of the soldiers had been
liome on furlough and found the people so
gloomy aud depressed that they were anxious
to get back to their commands.
Among the numerous atrocities of tho Yan
kees, since! lie occupation of East Tennessee,
the following have been brought to our notice.
Ailliyl. GDI' llUJltli’xtl au.l itrfv *»!' them risilitil
the premises of Mr. A. J. Mountoastie, neav
Mossey Creek. They took all his horses, cattle,
sheep, hogs, poultry, robbed him of Ids meat
and provisions of all kinds, entered his house,
destroyed and carried off everything ol value,
including his children's clothing.
During one of the lights near Mossey Creek,
a number of friends had assemble*! at the house
of Mrs. Dr. Reese, an old and highly esteemed
widow lady of that section woo was at the point
of death. Boon after she had expired and be
fore her body could be prepared for sepulture,
the Yankees approached, and the inmates of
the house werfe compelled to seek safety in
flight. Those inhumane fiends entered 'the
dwelling where this lifeless corpse was the solo
tenant, ransacked every room including the one
that contained her lifeless form, and carried off
every thing of value to be found on the premises.
The enemy are running ears lroin Chatta
nooga to Char eston on Hiwassee River, and
the entire line of the railroad is so closely
guarded by the enemy’s pickets that it is very
difficult for our pickets to penetrate them.
Gen. John 11. Morgan arrived iu Dalton, Feb.
15th. Many friends were ready to greet him.
Twenty-seven wounded Federal prisoners
are to be exchanged for a like number of Con
federates.
Among a lot of prisoners lately sent, to At
lanta is a woman dressed iu men’s clothes. Hue
belongs to the nineteenth Illinois, noted lor its
barbarities, and claims to have been wounded
at Florence, Ala.
Gentl men from Dade co., Ga., state that the
town of Trent >n is completely demolished. —
The Federals have taken nearly all the provis
ions, creating much distress and want among
the residents.
Arrangements have been made between Gens.
Johnston and Grant for the early and equitable
exchange, according to the usual regulations,
of sucl) as may be captured by cither side, with
in the departments commanded by their gen
erals. This humane agreement, if observed,
will prevent the unnecessary suffering that in
evitably attends the languishing for months in
crowded hostile pi isons, as is now the case.
A band of tories have swept through Murray
co., Ga., robbing, plundering, and burning, and
made a successful retreat to the Federal lines.
A brigade of Federal cavalry have been to
Red Clay, nineteen miles from Dalton, on a re
connoissance.
FROM NORTH ALABAMA.
Recent advices from North Alabama repre
sent terrible devastation by the Federate
throughout that section. Three toiy companies
are laying waste Jackson county.
A portion of Bellefontaine, Ala., has been
burned by the Federate.
A majority of Gen. Sherman's corps it issaid
will not re-cnlist.
Limes tone-county, Alabama, and Giles coun
ty, Tennessee, are under the jurisdiction of the
Federal Ge;i. Dodge, who declines to require
any one to take the oath, stating that he does
not approve it, for he does not believe that any
person, who would take it, would respect it. —-
He, simply, requires persons, suspected of dis
loyalty, to leave his lines.
In the fight between Col. Johnson, of Roddy’s
brigade, and a superior force of the enemy, un
der Col. Phillips, on the 26th of January. John
son's regiment was surrounded and cut its way
out, and then drove off the enemy, losing heav
ily, but it is believed, inflicting heavier loss on
the enemy.
Little or no restraint is exercised over the
Federal troops in North Alabama, and they
generally are allowed to pillage wherever they
take a notion so to do.
Gentlemen front North Alabama state that
the Federate continue to revel in all kinds of
despotism in that section. Residents are re
quired to take the oath or leave.
The houses of several of the prominent citi
zens iu Huntsville have been taken for negro
quarters—the white families being turned out
of doors.
Thornton Lumpkin, a citizen of Huntsville,
who was sent to the Nashville Penitentiary
several months ago, for telling the Yankees
that he believed that they were stealing negro
men to carry them North aud improve the
Yankee breed, is reported to have died there a
short time since.
Tho Federate have lately burned a targe
number of residences at Athens, Teun.
The citizens of Gordon co., Ga., voted a few
days since that they would not sell their pro
duce for less than the annexed rates—com $8
per bushel ; wheat 515 ; peas.sß ; beans 510:
rye Sls; sv eet pot aloes $8; Irish potatoes 510;
corn meal 58,25; bacon S3 per lb.; pork, nett,
$2; stock hogs, gross, 51; beef, stall fed, nett,
51; do. gross, 80 cents; sheep 80 cents: flour
50 cents; fodder 6 cents; hay 6 cents; shucks
3 cents.
It is understood that Gen. Wharton has been ;
ordered to the Trans-Mississippi Department.
i-noM
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unaawalttctery. We collect the cunxed news ;
The state archives of Mississippi are being |
removed to Selma, Ala.
The cars on the Mobile and Ohio Road do
not go above Cinonc-lli.
It appears that the invading force in North
Mississippi is a formidable one. On Monday
night, the kill ins;., the enemy—6.out) strong
-advanced from Memphis m the direction of
1 leriiaii io ; at the same time twelve regiments
of cavalry left coilierville mid four regiments
of cavalry left Bolivar, with the intention of
forming a junction at some point on the Talla
hatchie river, and moved down south in a body
Gen. Forrest, w'.lh his full eomman l, which is
a large and efficient one, is stationed at Vanda
and Oxford ; guarding the Tallahatchi r river,
and is fully able to repulse them at any point
which they 111 iv att -mpt to cross at. Ills com
mand are in line spirits, well armed end equip
ped and eager to meet the meet the enemy,
whonfthey feel confident they can drive before
them when they make a forward movement
Should the enemy not le reinforced, Gen. For
rest. will be able to hold those ilut are there in
check.
The best estimate we have had of the force of
tlie enemy is us follows :Tu columns of in
fantry, 01 •« ■- ’ id,. . . • in
ad vuuoeguard eoud-a-of eat ~.rv •' dlowoii hs
a column of infantry—then *’ ••
consisting of twin ve bun. o-o ••1 n--. .'ii,- 1
ou either aide by a file-te men four deep <!»■
another column of inf-'utry. with ..' airy iff the
j rear.
'is reported fb-.o a cMmun • edcrals are i
j i i.areh*ng down tlie country ,an Hun*
and ihui enolhec colmui: me inw;“'
j pointai in '.bo uoighburltooii Hot h s j
i and Grenada, to form a jm> "iff v irh .-.-.er j
can's forces.
ing ileiitetfai is 1vi,.., , ''O','.'--c-a aUj_,.uu.
y m« pfe-ume I to be in ibe rear of the ouo
mv.
■ report that Gen. ’i-'sirre-st Is at or near
I’ viota, endeavoring to make bis way to Mem
phis.
A gentleman jusl from Gen Folk’s depart -
ment thinks that the intentions of the enemy
are to hold Meridian amt make that point a
base for future operations against Mobile and
Central Alabama ; that Sherman will attempt
to repair the Mobile and Ohio Railroad to Cor
inth, and thus secure Ills conimuniealious
West to the Mississippi, and North to Cairo.
The Selma Dispatch says the steady advance
of the enemy from Vicksburg to Meridian, Iras
taken the public by surprise—if not our mili
tary commanders. Various are the opinions in
regard to his designs.
The impression is gaining ground that the
demonstration if the licet at Mobile is a ruse
to induce Gen. Folk to divide bis army into
two parts, between which the column ot Sher
man can advance In iiie Tombigbee river, and
probably Selma.
The regular passenger trains on the Ala
bama and Mississippi Road, have discontinued
l'or a few days, owing to the heavy freight from
the west.
The Mississippian says the late-t and most
trustworthy advices ive have place the enemy
at Meridian, Sunday forenoon Lee entered the
place with a portion ol his cavalry and destroy
ed everything we could not carry off that would
be of any service to the enemy-. A cavalry
fight took place in town, resulting in the ene
my's defeat. Lee drove them hick to the in
fantry support, and that evening Meridian was
given to them, cleared of nil the government
property, as well as railroad cars and locomo
tives. Lee was compelled to burn some of the
rolling stock that could not be got away.
A rumor is also current tint the Yankee cav
alry bail reached Cuba Station, twenty miles
east of Meridian.
The general opinion among well informed
persons from the vicinity of the Yankees,
seems to be that their purpose is In continue
their march centrally towards Selma, where
they expect, to meet another coliimu, and
thence move fonvaids to ihe rear of Gen John
ston.
A dispatch from Enterprise dated Feb. IC.
reports no movements of the Federals in that
direction.
The last train on the Mobile '& Ohio Railroad
left Meridian as tlie Federals entered tin? town.
The Yankees have thus far shown a mortify
ing contempt for our military energy and re
sources—it is to be hoped that bclbre they re
turn—if. indeed they are permitted to return—
to Yankeedom, they may be taught a better
appreciation of both.
All the rolling stock on the Ohio and Mobile
railroad was-saved.
A column of Federals about six thousand in
number is opens ling in North Mississippi.
Afc 11,0 t i..... <3..., r.rlk roilltni llir'.t. 111) 111
Mississippi with reinloreements, and offered
tho Federals battle, the Yankees dodged the
question, and bore off southward as if en route
direct to Mobile, and were p issing Folk's Hank.
This induced tin; belief that the direct south
side route to Mobile would be taken, and a
large number of troops were dispatched by
rail, back to Mobile ; when the Yankees again
turned north, crossed the railroad, and came
up to Decatur in Newton county.
Sherman was at Enterprise on the 14th, aud
also some of his troops have been seen at Quit
man ten miles South of that place.
The Register says if Sherman moves South
he moves through a barren country. It lie
goes North, he moves through a section of
country where supplies are abundant.
All accounts state that Gen. I’oik has acted
with prudence and energy with the means at
Ids command.
Everything was saved at Meridian, includ
ing 2,000 bales of Government cotton, several
hundred hogsheads of sugar, immense sup
plies of commissary, quartermaster and ord
nance stores.
One rumor is that Sherman with his princi
pal force is pushing Polk towards Demopoiis.
Another rumor is that lie is moving towards
Mobile with his whole force.
General Polk has crossed the Toaibigbeo at
Moscow, ten miles below Denipolis, with his
army -with the exception of Gen. French's
division, which is at Demopoiis.
li is expected that the enemy will be cheek
ed at the TtunWgbee, and that a battle will
take place there in a day or two. ’ihe hanks
of the Tombigbea furnish excellent natural
fort fications and a splendid lino of defense.
It mav, however, L; sound policy to allow the
enemy to cioss tho 'L mbigbee. Tho Selma
Mississipp an thinks his destruction sure if he
does.
FROM PENSACOLA VM) Mil) OR LEAKS.
The steamer Tnsca rora was to leave Pensa
cola, Feb. 14, for Mobile. Eight mortar boats
were to leave Feb. 15.
Com. Farragut arrived in Pensacola a few
days ago, with three steamers which are now
undergoing preparations of cutting down, pro
visioning, providing crews, etc., for action.
He also says that from the preparations be
ing made there, it is thought that an attack
will be made on Mobile very shortly.
The number of troops in New Orleans, just
before he left, was about 17,000, mostly of the
Texas expedition. Seven thousand of the cav
alry had been sent to Madisonville.
The negroes connected with the expedition
amounting to about 5,000 in number—had mu
tined, their guns been taken from them, and
all of them put under nrreit and placed in a
cotton press. The cause of the disturbance
was that they had objected to the treatment
they have received from their Yankee libera
tors. They stated that they did not join the
Federal army to dig intreuchments and do such
labor. They were soldiers, and exhibited a de
sire to go back to their Southern masters rather
than work for the Yankees.
The Federal?, carefully kfeep the movements
of troops and ewry other item of military in
terest a profound secret arid it is a most a mat
ter of impossibility to get anything, lroin the
newspapers or the army or what is actually
going on in and about New (trlenns. Port
Jackson negro affair was of greater- pro)lortions
than what we of this side knew anything about.
The whole fleet fi om the river had to go down
to quell it.
FROM EAST TRX.ABBSBB.
Gen. Longstreet is at work, preparing for an
important move. He is moving towards Knox
ville, as also toward another imj ortant point.
The Federate have commenced exercising
again their cruelties on the citizens of Knox
ville. Arresting them without cause, confining
them in jail, and taking their property.
x\t last accounts the small pox was still rag
ing at Knoxville.
It is said that Burnside has again assumed
command of the Federal forces in East Tennes
see.
A gentlemen front Longstreet':; army states
that old Ilrowniow is dead.
The Yankees have completed the Knoxville
and Kentucky Railroad to the Clinch river at
Clinton.
Our forces are picketing al. Mecklinburg,
within four miles of Knoxville.
Col. Birch Cook has been captured and sent
to cam p Chase.
Ninety Federate, captured near Knoxville,
left for’Richmond on the ilth inst.
The steamer Dec, one of the vessels belong
ing to the Government, and which has made
several successful trips between Wilmington
and Nassau, tail aground a few days ago on her
inward trip, and was burned to save her from
the enemy's hands.
j'i.r- ni iinwaU iiotaur-iX QaStfloX. -Vt'bii
r-a- uunab Republic an gives the annexed detail
ed hiatori ot tlie i ttle Euiopeau Duchy, the
uif.fi:.-. of' which'is now causing so much dis
cussion and disturbance:
The eyes ol all Europe, are at the present
time anxiously directred upon a little kingdom,
of scarcely three millions of inhabitant;, and
of about halt the size of the State of South
Car lina — it is the Kingdom of Denmark. So
nic. ly is the balance of power in Europe ad
justed, that territorial derangements, on so
limited a scale even, may easily bring on a gen
eral war ; hence the anxiety of Europe.
But the geographical position of little Den
mark gives it a much greater importance than
the extent of territory or number of inhabi
tants would otherwise warrant. A glauce at
the map of Europe will convince at once that
Denmark owes its importance to the fact ot its
being the “Sentinel ot the B dtic Sea,” that
may, at his pleasure, check or favor the trade
not only of the people that inhabit the shores
of the Baltic, viz ; Sweden, Russia and some
of the German States, as Prussia, Mecklenburg
etc., but also es England.
Under these circumstances it is not surpris
ing that those powers strive continually to in
crease their individual influence with the Dan
ish Government at the expense of the others,
and ever look with »<ne.t»y iealousy ipon s
cesrlul rival. Aff*: llirtl bese anxiet.cz Ol the
' riva i'ov. ' . I pot wiiuout 'ound
, i’.'cu ilu’-nkwiHV prove-' by uistoty. '' ku
du 1 in; ■ o" Oi Russia mdui* D*-
i-iaii. u i l "’. 10 'ill l . .11 ar as "gab. 4la ~ ......
j .aid 11l .'any o ' heDanD 1 - "1
. . . vi occupy ?hi lia n
I !vd*
6 . I. ,avor.- 'H E: gi.and :.?id I’.uss.a liaic
. 1 - ' ocu 1 1 and jated b; the d' 'tig blot <t
iiiii" 01,111 oigt-a of the Houses o> ilauovt t a >*
Got lorn, the Kuglisb and hie .r J dyn:-.' .1-
fvj'ieiitcii theurseives almost with every genera
tion up to the Into marriage of the Prince ol
Wales ; mix on the other sido since Peter, thou
King of Denmark, was appointed by his aunt,
the Russian Empress Elizabeth, her successor in
1743, the C/atu ot Russia aud the Kings of
Denmark belonged to branches of the same
house.
A healthy political condition of Denmark
was always regarded by these Powers as the
best guarantee for the independence of that
State. Thus only could the pretexts for offi
cious interference and interested protection ou
the part of tlie neighboring powers be remov
ed. England and Russia had enough with one
“sick man’’the sentinel of the Black sea at
Constaustantinople they did not want another
sick man in Copenhagen at the entrance to the
Baltic. But, as it often happens, their remedies
produced exactly the opposite effect—they
wanted to strong hen the weak man by stimu
lating him, while in reality they made him the
more sick by over stimulation.
The constitutional weakness of Denmark con
sisted in, that it never was a homogeneous,con
solidated, centralized monarchy. Since the
earliest times it was split up geographically,
ethnological ly and politically. As to its geog
raphy, it consisted to a great extent ot insular
territories, its very capital Copenhagen—the
centre of gravity of a State iu Europe—was
not on t'oe continental, but ouone of the insu
lar parts of the monarchy. As to its ethnolo
gy it is divided, almost equally, into two dis
tinct naiionalities-the Danish and German-with
different languages, different sentiments, and
different interest. As to its political constitu
tion, it was since the earliest times, a kind of
Federal monarchy, of which the three German
duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg
foi m about one half of the present territory.
The connection of these Duchies with Den
mark dates as far back as 1400, when their es
tates --legislatures—severally elected the King
of Denmark—then also Duke of Oldenburg—
their iluke with tlie express stipulation of hav
ing their nationality autonomy preserved, and
at tlie same time ot having forever the enjoy
ment of a closer political association among
themselves—viz: the three German duchies —
unart from Denmark proper.
Thus the three duchies retained separate pt>
litiial organizations, their separate law of suc
cession, their separate general laws, currency,
army, etc. It will at once he seen that this po
litical relationship was pretty much the same as
that- formely existing between Ireland anil Eng
land., or that between Austria proper and Hun
gary. But the complexity of their political re
lations was materially increased by the Con
gress of Vienna in 1815 who established the
Uiuiuan ConfeJevation and made the duchies
of Holstein and of Lauenburg, or more cor
rectly speaking tin: King of Denmark as Duke
of Holstein anil of Lauenburg, a member of
(lie Confederacy;
But (he statesmen of the C’jngress of 1815
iicLutl »till absurdly —they (lid not make
the three German duchies members of the Ger
man Confederation, although indissolubly tied
t •getlier by ancient treaties and nationality,
but only the two of Holstein aud Lunenburg to
the exclusion of Schleswig.
When the King oi Denmark, at the instiga
tion of England and Russia commenced with
his centralizing experiments, he naturally di
rected liis first attention to Schleswig, as being
not only outside of the German Confederation,
and therefore entirely unprotected by it in itst
nationality, but also as being the northernmost
and contiguous to Denmark proper. These
encroachments, first almost imperceptible, be
came more open bold, until almost every trace
of its nationality, to its very language, was ob
literated As soon as Schleswig was sufficient
ly Danishized, the turn of Holstein airived.
The complaints and appeals for protection of
the Holstein of the Federal government at
Frankfoit were left unheeded, lor in those times
j the Federal government could only be induced
j to act ns if it wash or the benefit ol the rulers of
llio Confederate States. To protect the people
of a State against an unjust ruler, would have
been an idea too demagogical to he even
thought of.
But when in 18IS the enthusiasm for politi
cal reform raged all over Europe, the G earn an
Duchies took a bold step and seceded from the
Federal monarchy ol Denmark. War ensued.
The Danes succumbed soon, for the Schleswig
Holsteinians were not only aided by volunteers
from all G rmany, but by regular auxiliary
troops sent by Prussia and other Confederate
State governments.
With great alarm did England ami Russia
look upon the threatened dismemberment of
their so called ally. Those power:; had always
ignored and suppressed national aspirations
everywhere. In their own countries they had
to keep down subjected nationalities—Russia,
the Poles, and England the Irish and the Greeks
«n the lonian Islands. After the failure of the
liberal movement ia Germany and the re-estab
lishment of the old order of things, it was
easy lor England and Russia to have induced the
Federal government, as well as the two most
powerful State governments—viz : those of
Pi uss'a and Austria—to forsake the brave
Schleswig-Holsteinians, by pointing out to
them the dangerous democratic character of
the movement. Accordingly the Prussian aux
diary troops gradually assumed the part’of
idle spectators, then that of moderators aud
mediators, and finally that of open enemies,
occupying together troops from Austria and
other Slates of tho German Confederation,
the territory of the Duchies for and in the name
ot the King of Denmark. Under the auspices
of England a protocol was signed, in which the
rights of the KiDg of Denmark as Duke were
newly confirmed, without however guarantee
ing in the same manner the ancient rights of
tin 1 people of the German Duchies.
For them mere vague promises on tho part of
the King of Denmark had to be sufficient.—As
was to be expected, the history following this
eventful year, 1849, is nothing but a recotd of
these continued exertions of the Danes todestroy
the seperale existence of the Duchies. In
this undertaking they succeeded at last on the
2d of October, 1855, when by an ordinance of
the King the State lines and State institutions
were completely abolished and a constitution
of the consolidated Danish monarchy publish
ed. Denmark was encouraged iu this by Eng
land and Russia as well as by the example of
Austria, who did the same thing in her empire.
J he latter, however, taught by sad experience
after the last war with France the impractica
bility of centralizing incongrueut nationalities,
became the principal champion at tlie Federal
government of the wronged Holsteinians. The
King of Denmark as Duke of Holstein was re
quested to reinstate the Duchies in their ancient
rights He refused at first, relying upon the
support ot England; then he consented to make
some concessions of an entirely inadequate
character. 'The German Confederate eoveru
ment expressed their dissatisfaction aud insisted
upon the entire v. ithdrawal of the constitution
that the King of Denmark wanted to force upon
the people of the German Dutchies againsttheir
will and in spite of their ancient right. Th : s
quarrel had continued for several years, when
at last (he German .Confederate government
threatened coercion by military force -that is
by occupation of the Duchies, if the King of
Denmark did not satisfy their demands.
Before the threat of the German Govern
ment could he carried out, the King of Den
mark died— 1863—and hastened on the de
nouement. As mentioned at the begining of
this article, tlie Geman duchies had a law of
succession of their own, quite distinct from that
oi Denmark. Jt could he foreseen that, in con
sequence of it, after the death of tho then ac
tual King of Denmark, the Duchies would pass
to the Duke of Aueustenburg—a prince univer
sally beloved by the people of the Duchies.
Without the officious interference of the English
and Russian diplomatists, the knoty Schleswig
IMm.-iii .lues mn would have been oa fily ret
lit*-.. Uy lh-;. Oiqcutn.iv! death Os the late King
“. ‘Jvnuiani. Ine Duke of Augustenburg
wouid nave quietly ascended the throne of llio
nellies, and effected the admission of
fielileswlg into the Confederation But England
mi l Russia were so much opposed to a dis
momoerment of Denmark, that they caused the
laic King ol Denmark to impose the Danish
law 01 succession upon the Duchies, in spite of
the protests ot the people, thelieir prosumtive—
the Duke of Augustenbnrg—and the German
government. The actual intervention of the
German government took place tlie 24th
December. 1 Mil when sixty thousand Federal
troops entered Holstein and were received by
the people with unbounded enthusiasm: and by
the latest news brought a few days ago. we see
that tiie Danish government is threatened with
the extension of the military oicupation to
the Duchy ol .Schleswig —an extension of mili
tary operations bo'-oml the Federal jurisdiction.
Ims'rf'smknt 01 Meat ix Certain Casks.—
The annexed bill in regard to the “Impress
ment of meat in certain eases,” has | assed the
Confederate I louse ol’ Representatives :
Skc. 1. The Congress of the Confederate
Slates of America do enact. That, whenevi
rw-'fi ' n* h i!; ; >i.-i: * o' '
j oi«8 render bae ■■ nipn • i«m meat.
: 'or uk use , » ~ 0111 uoy
- applies i 1 ro ‘ ntry, un
der the . • omptasa
( .eu shall ; ! ot the raent
tu me follow
'•a, . ver to ; : sach impress
!.. iff red up .- >c:retai; of
' ; •c* *’►••• the supplies of
1 «av o, r.so. ’ 1 lev. c.v, • p the pc- ;ity
... .11 oat. Ile shall
exeicise tlie .-aid powers by orders directed to
the officers or aaciits lie mat employ, who
sjiall leave exp'.;, ii tn'triivl aais as to lliu mode
of its execution, and in unciions that tlie same
shall not be abused.
S-‘C 3 i hat tliese order;, shall direct that a
notice shall be ..ive .l to the owner of the meat
needed, his bailie or other agent declaring ttui
quantity requ re l, the price offered, the exist
ence ofbt necessity, and whether possession is
to be taken iff the s .me immediately, and with
whom the risk of th ■ safe-keeping is to he,
pending the negotiation, and in what manner
the compensation shall be settled, in case the
offer is not accepted—serving of which notice
shall he a condition precedent to any impress
ment or seizure by the impressing officer.
See. I. Thai upon the service of this notice
upon the owner of any meat liable to impress
ment,, the owner shall bold the same, subject to
the claim of the Confederate States, and shall
he entitled to just compensation, according to
the provi:.! re! ot tics act; and if the necessity
is (Iceland by the impressing officer to be ur
gent, be riiall deliver the possession to the im
pressing i.i Dor upon his demand, who shall
give receipt tbereior, as provided in the sixth
section of this act.
Bee. 5 T hat for the ascertainment* of the
quantity ol mead liable to impressment under
this act, and also of just, compensation lor tho
same, where the ow ner and the impressing offi
cer cannot agree, the impressing officer shall
appoint one loyal and lii.-inb ristcd citizen of
the county, district or parish, in which the meat
impressed shall be at ihe time ol the impress
ment, and tiie owner of the meal so impressed,
hi; agent or other bailee, shall appoint another,
who shall, upon oath, ascertain tho quantity
liable to impicssuient, and ibe value of tho
same at tlie ilat" of (be notice served upon the
party, which oath maybe administered by the
impressing officer, and which ascertainment of
the quantity and '.able sli.tli be conclusive evi
dence thereof; and if the asses* ols cannot
agree, they may associate with them a Ihjid per
son, of like qualifications; to make said assess
ments.
Sec. 6. That, whenever an impressment
shall be made under this act, it shall be tho
duty of the impres:; ing officer to give an offi
cial certificate showing the quantity taken,
till! company, battalion, regiment or other 00111-
manti, for whose use it is required, the com
penaation to lie paid, 'the circumstances of
necessity that existed, which certificate shall
be evidence, of a claim against the Confederate
States, and shall be promptly paid by the dis
bursing ofiicei of the coiimiantrifor which the
means was taken, or by the chief ofthe bureau
having charge of disbursements for similar
objects.
Tub John's Island Fight —The Charleston
Mercury gives the annexed nceount of the
late tight on John’s island :
On Tuesday, tin oth inffer!, ihe enemy, pass
ing from Folly la l.huvaii Island, crossed ti»
Seabrook island, and over tho Jlaulover, at
tacking Major Jenkins' pickets at Unit point,
killing and captui nig st veiaL They approached
in force; Major Jenkins hail but about 150
men to meet them.
This small, but gallant band Kept the enemy
in check all day, losing not more Ilian Hired
miles of ground, and about nightfall di'ove tho
enemy partly back.
Major Jenkins sent for reinforcements. Tho
couriers reached Adam’s Run by half past
twelve, p. m. Colonels Tnnb from Churtli Flats,
and Page, from John’s Ferry, were on the
ground that, night and Wednesday morning ;
aud on WrdiK sday evening Gen. Wise arrived,
finding Page and Jenkins scouting the foe
within a mile of the Ilaulover. The Yankee
strength was estimated at 2000, with six pieces
of artillery ; while our force, up to that time,
numbered but 550 with four pieces. A volley
or two had been discharged when Gen. Wise
came up. In,mediately the enemy were seen
massing on our left flank and threatening to
turn our position l,y getting the Mullet Hall
Road. Our position had been saved by our in.
fan try beating the Yankees in a race ior it, but
they outflanked us, so that Gen. Wise ordered
our forces to fall back to the Cocked hat, on
the Boldckett Road, and then selected his pos
ition just above ihe upper fork.
All was quiet Wednesday night, and by the
next morning (Thu:.olay, the Utli) our forces
had increased toloso Infantry. The enemy were
soon reported advancing, and by 3 p. m. they
came up to our front. Just at this moment
Gen. Colquitt reinforced us with 1H)0 men. At
3-2.5 p. m. we opined upon the enemy with six.
pieces, the Marion battery and one sectionjjf
Charles' at, ahoill three-qu i ters of a mile dis
tance. Ihe enemy replied with three pieces,
Parrott’s and Blakly’s. They ceased firing at
forty minutes past five p. m., and retreated rap
idly, leaving some of their dead. General
Wise’ ,men were too rest-broken and fatigued
to follow them. The enemy retired in con
fusion to Ilaulover, burnt the Seubrouk houses
there, ami before day crossed kick to Kiawah,
burning the bridge behind them.
Major Jenkins lost about twelve men killed
pounded and missing; Jenett’s Company about
four on Tuesday. We captured four prisoners
on iliat day. On Thursday we had two wound
ed, none killed or miss log. The enemy lost on
Thursday six killed and seven wounded What
we know ol; but doubtless there were more.
A prisoner taken on that day says, one of tho
Yankee Generals lost a ieg and his horse. At
Ilaulover the emuny left ammunition, canteens,
oil cloths ands me provisions. They had
thrown up a iedoubt and had several hundred
yards of breast works made of improved rite
dams.
A Lit per from Mazzini Mazzini having
been charged with being concerned in tHo late
attempt to take the life of Napoleon has ad
dressed tho annexed letter to thcLondon pa
pers :
Accusations of every description have been,
since tho arrest o! four Italians irt Parte charg< and
with an attempt again, t Louis Napoleon,
heaped on me by the organs of tlie French
Government, and repeated by the English press.
It has always been my known habit not to
discuss accusations put forth against me by
avowed enemies, and i feel a special di-liko to
do so when the accusations come from tho
agents of a man who, as far as in him lies, is,
by mere brutal force, depriving my country of
the unity which she claims, and making Romo
the basis of operations of the brijandwje in
vesting the South of Italy.
, Yielding, however, to solicitations of dear
English friends, X do declare :
1 liat J never did instigate anybody to kill
Louis Napoleon;
That 1 never did give to any man bombs, air
guns, revolvers or daggers for that purpose;
1 bat Tiabucco, Imperatori and Saglio are
entirely unknown to me;
That, therefore, tho meeting summoned at
Lugango, the absurd place of sub-lieutenant,
given to Imperatori in .a brigade of four of the
men, and the giving of the photographs to
the men are absolute faisehooos
That my photographs with my autograph at
the bottom are sold for the “ Venice Emanci
pation Fund," at the office of the Unit'i JtaXianet
at Milan and elsewhere;
That no letter, with or without money, lias
ever been add re sed by me to Greco in l'arte-
Greco I know. Hundreds. I might say thou
sands, of young men, belonging to our national
party of action are known to me. Greco is an
enthusiastic patriot, who took an active part ia
the enterprises of 4860 and 186ijn the South of" -
•Italy; and he has hail, as such, contact with me.
Any note of min in his possession, if there be
any, must, however, belong to least nine or ten
raqnths ago.
Enough in reply to accusations hitherto
merely grounded on French police reports. 1
ant, sir, yours faithfuly,