Georgia Historic Newspapers

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. jl,, Jjfrgt Session of ine j tr*<
rn.,,4 J " nn^ h convcn ,,i an the 7th of Decem
3S;: t>* lUhot&towy,
1 An act to amen.] BO ranch o f section eleven
, th. lax \c» a! require* one-tenth of tb.
swretpotutoea produced this year to be paid to
th 7 the tax in kind on ba
con'to "<• 'omraut .and by collection of salt po.k
‘“prevent the enlistment or en
rollment of substitute- in the military service
relation to the public
),r 6 nt AnActt 0 put an end to the exemptions
from military service of thoso who have here
tofore furnished substitutes.
(i. An Act providing lor filling vacancies of
delegates to Congress in certain Indian nations.
7 An Act to continue in force an act entitled
“ Yn Act to provide lor the compensation oi
certain persons therein named,” approved
May the Ist, 1863. . . .
H. An Act to authorize the appointment oi a
Third Auditor of the Treasury.
M. ,j ,int resolutions of th-nks to Gen. Robert
j;. Lee, and to the officers and soldiers under
his command.
10. An Act to authorize the cancellation of
certain Confederate State bonds, and the substi
tute of others for them.
11. An Act to coatinue in force the provision
of the act thorein named.
VI An Act to provide for holding elections
for Representatives in the Congress of the Con
federate States from the State of Missouri.
IX .Joint resolutions in relation to the war.
11. An Act to ptevent the procuring aid ng
and assisting >1 persons to desert from the army
of ibe Conlederate States, and for other pur
* 15. An Act appropriating one hundred
thousand dollars for the use and benefit of the
Cherokee nation.
16. An Act authorizing Chaplains in certain
cases to draw forage for one horse.
17 An Act to Authorize the Appointment of
an Agent of the Treasury Department west of
the Mississippi.
18 Joint Resolution of thanks to Major Von
Borck
19. Joint Resolution in Relation to the Sal a
rics ol the Judges of the District Courts of the
Confederate States for the State of Virginia.
'2(l. An Act to Amend an Act to Provide a
Mode of Authenticating Claims for Money
against the Confederate states, not otherwise
provided for, Approved August 30th, 1861.
21. An Act to Increase the Compensation ol
Certain Civil Gfficers and Employees in the
President’s Office and in the Kxecutyjc and
Legislative Departments, at Richmon”for a
limited period
22 An Act to Rcgulfffe the Tax in Kind
upon Tobacco, and to Amend an Act Eutitlcd
“an Act to Lay Taxes for the Commou De
fence, anil Carry on the Government of the
Confederate States," Approved April 21th,
1863.
23 An Act to extend the provisions or an
Ac’ entitled “An Act in relation to die receipt
of Confederate Tieasmy Notes by public offi
cers." Approved May Ist, 1863.
24. An Act to fx the pay and allowances of
the Master Armorer of the Confederate States
Armory, at Richmond, Va.
25. An Act to ch ingo the time for the as
sembling of Congress lor its next regular ses-
M °2o. Joint resolution of thanks to the Tennes
see troops who have re-cnlisted for tac war.
"7 Ail Act to authorize the President to
assign Judges of Military Courts from one
Court to another.
28. An Act to organize a lreasury Note
Bureau.
29. Joint resolution of thanks to North Caro
lina troops. .
30. joint resolution of thanks to the tr.
from the State ol Louisiana in Ihe Am
Tennessee.
32 Au Act to prohibit tho importation ol
luxuries or of articles not necessaries o
common use.
53. Au Act to impose regulations upor *
foreign commerce of#tho Confederate State -
provide for the public defense.
34. .lomi iraimi' l ' - ‘ ,n Alaba
ma troops who have re-enlisted for the war.
25. Joint resolution ot thanks to certain
Florida troops. , , , . .
3(5 Joint resolution of thanks to tho division
commanded by Mnj. Gen. Kodcs.
Joint resolution ol thanks to Biig. t*on.
N 1) Rau.’aenr s brigade of North Carolina
troops, for tcunel’ing their services for the war.
38. An act to prohluit dealing 111 the paper
currency of the enemy.
•|*i An Act to authorize commanders of corps
and departments to detail field officers as mem
bers of Military Courts, under certain circum-
stance*. „ , rn r*
40 Joint resolution of tuanks to Col. i. tx.
liamur and the officers anil men engaged in the
defense of .Secessionvillo. .
41. Joint resolution of thanks lo Captain t nil
ham,’ Lieut. Dowling, and the men under their
com maud. , . ~ ,
-12 Joint resolution of thanks to General
Beauro urd, anil the officers and me a of ms
command, for their defense of Charleston, S.
13. Joiut resolution of thanks to Ma)oi Gen
„..,i i> B Cleburne and the officers and men
oi his command lor distinguished services at
Ringgold Gap, iu the State ot Georgia, Nov.
“ 7 ii B An‘ Act to authorise the appointment of
11 , nf the P,v-' Office Department and
mi agent ot thi 1 Os- Mri ./ t o carry on
such clerks as may be n. > we st of the
the p istal service in the bn.,
Mississippi river. e/ede
-45 Joint resolution lor the benefit o. ! 'it
kiah McDanh 1. of Kentucky, and 1 raneis iu.
Ewing, of Mississippi .
4(i An Act to amend “an act to anthon/e
the appo ntment of an Agent of the Treasury
Department, west of the Mississippi. Ap
proved Jan. 2i, 18G4. ...
1 47. An Act to provide compensation for ofii
cets win* may have heretofore performed stall
dutv under order, of their superior officers.
• 48 Vu act to amend an act entitled “an act
to establish a Volunteer Navy.” Approved
’4l) An act to authorise 'he issue ol (-erli li
ra te>* for interest oil the Fifteen Million Lean.
50. Joint resolution of thanks to the officers
nud men of McClnng’s Battery.
Joint resolution of thanks to the 10th
Mississippi Regiment.
-•> lint resolution to declare the meaning
>f “An Vc‘ allowing hospital accommodations
of Ux-payem in
cerhiiu cases. Rn Act entitled •An
Act to military courts to attend the
aruiv of the Confederate «_«*•
■ind to define the powers of said iout k.
55. An Act to establish certain post ioutis
th &fi'Joint l 'resolution of thanks to Virginia
to the officers
and men of the 28th and 13th regiments ot
of thanks to the officers
RU 6-) m join! resofutSTol-' to the officers
. ’ v o*)«i Virginia rt?ffiw©Du
aU t t ; o ’ U jouu resolution of 'hanks to Hart s Bat
. ‘nn’* Leirion, S. CA olunteers.
"S. MS'-jX if «»** ■«
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and 55th regiments of TennecSO* volunteers at
63. Joiut resolution of thanks to the .soldiers
from the State of Alabama who have re-enlnif
pd for the war.
04. Joint resolution of thanks to the < th and
12th regiments ot Virginia troops.
65. Joint resolution of thauks to the officers
and men of Lomax's brigade.
60. Joint resolution of thanks to the troops
re-enlisting for the -war from the State of Geor-
ginia regiments who have re-enlisted for the
war.
68. Joint resolution of thanks to u-O.nmuincl
er John Taylor Wood and the officers and /pen
under his command, for daring and brilliant
conduct.
69. Joint Resolution of thanks to the loth
V!7th and 30th regiments of North Carolina
troops, for their patriotic devotion in re-cnlist-
S;\g for the w ar.
'C An Act to increase the commutation val
,,p of rations.
_, • ,t 0 authorise the purchase and
publication of a digest of the laws of the
Confederate for Riding elections
A * ,V,;v,w in the Congress of the Con
SSTtates of 'America frem tb* State of
Arkansas. roviJe payment for certain
printing“herein mentioned, none by authority
of the two Houses of c ougies^.
76 In Act to aid any State in
riog with and perfecting records concern mg its
lr °-°- P? \ n a ct making allowances to officers cf
, the Confederate States, under oer
*b.” “h'umsmncos to amend an act cati
*f*} “*0 provide for the organization of
theVavv." approved March loth, lsol.
-8 m Act to authorise thensuo of certain
VOflds foi paynicnt to the Alabama and ilon
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d.t URlroa 1 Company, t>2 the Sure oi Flori
da. ‘
J f j. Ad Act t/j amend an entitled ‘‘An act t<±
organize the Territory of Arizona."
*0 An Act to be entitled aa act for the re
lief of Livingston Mims.
1 1. An Act to increase the compensation of
certain officers of the Treasury.
82. An Act to grant a special copyright to
W. J. Hardee and 8. H. Goetzell for Hardee’s
Rifle and Infantry Tactics.
b3. Joint resolution of thanks to the men of
Douglas' Texas Battery.
84. Joint resolution of thanks to the 15th,
and 27th regiments North Carolina troops,
Cooke's brigade.
86. Joint resolution of thanks to the 9th
Alabama regiment.
86. Joint resolution for the relief of Major
Henry R Hooper.
87. Joint resolution for the relief of -Major
W. F. Haines.
88. An Act to authorize the President to
establish additional military courts.
89. Joint resolution of thanks to Lieutenant
General E. Kirby Smith, for the battle of Rich
mond, Kentucky, and to his Lieutenants so
specially commended by him, and to the offi
cers and soldiers of his command in that bat
tle.
90. Joint resolution of thanks to the officers
and men of Poague’s Artillery Battallion, for
ru-en'isting for the war.
91. Joint resolution of thanks to the Pee-Dee
Artillery of South Carolina Volunteers.
92. Joint resolution ot tha iks to the officers
and men of McGowan’s South Carolina Volun
teers.
93. Joint resolution of thanks to the Surry
Light Artillery.
91 Joint resolution of thanks to the 37th
Mississippi Regiment.
95. An Act to allow commissioned officers of
the army, rations, and the privilege of purchas
ing clothing from the Quartermaster's Depart
ment.
96. An Act to fix the compensation for the
publication in the public gazettes of the acts of
Congress.
67. An Act to repeal certain portions of the
Act of May 21st, 1861, relative to prisoners of
war.
98. Joint resolution of thanks to Gen. N. Ik,
Forrest, and the officers and men of his com
mand.
99. .Joint resolution of thanks to Major Gen
eral J. E. Ik Stuart aud the officers and men of
his command.
100 Joint resolutions confirming “An Act
to increase the compensation of certain civil ot
ficers and employees in the President’s office,
aud in the Executive and Legislative Depart
ments at Richmond for a limited period,’ ’ ap
proved Jan. .0, 1864
101 An Act to amend an Act regulating the
granting of furloughs a 1 <1 discharges ia hospit
als, approved May Ist, 1803.
102. An Act to amend an Act entitled “An
Act to organize military courts to attend the
army of the Confederate States in the field, and
to define the powers oi said courts,’’ approved
Get. 9th, 1862.
103. An Act relating to the appointment of
a General and Lieutenant Generals.
104. An Act to amend the 65th Artie’e of
War.
106. All Act ’to make additional appropri
ations for the support of tile Government of the
Confederate States of America for the tisical
year ending Juno 30!h, 1864.
107. An Act to repeal an Act to organize
bauds of Partizan Hangars* approved April
21st, 1862, and for other purposes.
108. An Act to authorize the organization of
auxiliary bureaus of the War Department West
of the Mississippi River.
109. An Act to provide an Invalid Corps.
110. An Act to authorize the payment of
mileage and salary to members elect of the
Second Congress of the Confederate States.
.it ze the promotion of
l officers and privates
,1 -.til, • - . 4 1 alor.
An nd the act entitled.
•.v « * >,l ovi « janize engineer troops
uurin the \ r,” approved March
1
]•• \i Act tb amen ' the acts of April Ist.
f*, ,mil September ’ 61, 1862.
114 An Act to attach the county of Noxubee
in the Slate of Mississippi, to the Southern ju
al-rai ,i;,rUirm of that State..
115. An Act to be entitled "an m
relation to the qualification of State collectors.”
110. An Act to reduce the currency, and
to authorize anew issure of notes and bonds.
117. An Act to lay additional taxes for the
common defence and support of the Govern
ment.
118. An Act to organize forces to serve dur
ing the war.
119 Au Act to amend the act for the assess
ment and collection of taxes, approved May 1,
1863. . , ,
420 An Act to amend au act entitled an act
to Fstabiisli a Volunteer Navy, approved Feb.
1.8, 1864. , , A _
122. Joint resolution of thanks to Gen.
Longstroet aud the officers and men of his com
mand. ,
123. An Act to confer additional powers on
courts martial aud military courts.
125. All Act to amend an act entitled “An
act to lay taxes for the common defense aud
cany on the Government of the Conlederate
States,’’ approved April 24. 1863.
126 All Act entitled an act to authorize the
increase of compensation to rout and special
agents o! the Post Office Department.
127. An Act to provide Tobacco for the
army.
128. Joint resolutions of thanks to tho o, th
Mississippi Regiment.
129. Joint resolution in reference to the
adoption and publication©!' an Address to the
People of tho Confederate States.
130 All Act to be entitled an act to esta-
I lssi' im 'l organize two Bureaus in connection
with rt.o , ’encyof the Treasury for the TTans-
Mississippf bepa.”* inent > ©no of which is to be
known as the Bureau J the Auditor and the
other us the Bureau of the foi the
Trans Missisippi Department
131. All Act to authorize the appointmen, • J
two additional Clerks for the Navy Depart
ment.
132. Joint resolution qf thanks to the officers
and men of the 37 th Regiment, North Carolina
Troops.
134. Joint resolution explanatory of the Act
entitled au Act to lay taxes for tiie common
defense, and carry on tiie Government, ap
proved April l'h, 1863.
136. An Act to provide for Retiring Officers
of the Army.
137. Au Act to amend an Act entitled, “an
Act to provide and organize Engineer Troops
to serve during the war, approved March
20 th. 1863.
138. An Act creating the office of Ensign in
the Army of the Confederate Stales.
139. Au Act to amend au Act entitled An
Act to punish Drunkenness iu the Army, ap
proved April 21st. 1862.
140. An Act supplemental to the Act enti
tled an Act to make additional appropriations
for the support of the Government of the Con
federate States of America, lor tho fiscal year
ending June 30th,-1864.
Tbe Negro Riot is New Orleans.-t-A cor
respondent of the New York World, wrifrag
from New Orleans, gives thatjpaper the follow
ing account of the negro-soldier riot which oc
cured in that city a short time since :
I would advise all recruitswhomay hereafter
join the army with the expectation of coming
out here, to get their faces blacked and join a
negro regiment. On Saturday last a battalion
of negroes, which had been sent out to repre
sent the white men of Rhode Island in the duty
cf upholding the luiou, and who
wvre vet on the steamship Cahawba, in which
thev came out. went ashore in the upper part of
the city and commenced destroying the shops
and their contests in that part ol the neighbor
hood. One cf them went into a grocery, and
when the proprietor refused to give mm liquor,
which is contrary to military orders made a
blow at him with a hatchet and cut his face
open, making a dangerous wound, disfiguring
him at least for life. The police made an effoit
to arrest him. when the rest came to his assist
ance. and two peliemen are so dangerously
wounded that their lives are despaired^of.
Tupolice reserves from the whole city weie
then C»ihri in, but the negroes with their side
arms were too strong tor them. At last a com
pany of white soldier, were sent for, and at last
the negroes retired to their snip, Their officers
hugged and patted them in vain to coax them
into older, but a sigh* of the regulars soon qui
eted thorn.
On Monday they were tried: the fellow with
the hatchet was sentenced to lose two months
pay, and the others one month each. On the
same day s white soldier, who got on a spree
aud wandered o» from his regiment, was sen
tenced to lose four months' pay. The like
sentence was imposed on another vnite soldier
who P'*’Ut imo a restaurant to get something to
eat, and was ,luabi . e 10 P av for it. and 'six
months' hard labor ui ,tlo Tortugas was
the lot of two others who dia .Jf same at an
oyster saloon and assaulted the keeper w.'! 1 ' a
dull knife. When you undertake to volunteer
do so as a negro, if you wish iight punishment
and nothing to do.
A New York paper estimages the average
nightly profits of the theatres in that citv at
SIO,OOO.
GE*. I wOMBs W*fcm HAT a* t G
The Athens Watchman publish** -t- Inc ,
ed report of Gen. Toombs’ speech ataii. in Sa
vannah, on Jan. 23. Tho Watchman 3tates
that the gentleman who furnished it*says that
it Ls a very imperfect outline, made ©ut from
memory and brief notes, and docs no justice to
the speaker, except in a few of the most poin
ted sentences, where his language is carefully
preserved:
Gentlemen.—We are in a revolution, grand;
powerful, dangerous, terrific. There are dan
gers from without. There is discord within
among civilians. There is dissatisfaction every
where. We must first find out the disease, and
then aj ply the remedies. Emollients will not
do. Palliatives will not do. The danger is
imminent. The case is critical, aud requires
strong remedies.
Wherever there is a want of security to light
the community is virtually in a state of civil
war, and will soon be in actual civil war. Such
is our condition. There is no confidence that
rights will he respected. See the perfidy prac
tised towards those who have put in substitutes.
I say nothing for the policy oi allowing sub
stitutes. I opposed it. But different views
prevailed. The faith of the Government was
pledged, and now it ia shamefully broken.
There is no profit in bad faith in this world or
the next.
We have been told that all men are needed
in the field. This is not true. But if it is true,
we are ruined. After much study of the sub
ject, and some experience both in civil and
military affairs, lam convinced that of war
ninety-five per cent, is business, and only five
per cent, is strictly military. The business of
the country must go on in every essential de
partment, or we fail in the war. The efficiency
of the army has its root in the thrift of the
people at home#
We demanded of the old Government that
rights should be respected and that justice
should be done. This was refused, and we
revolutionized. I was a revolutionist for lib
erty, and will be one till I get liberty. If the
Yankees stand in the way, I am their enemy.—
If domestic traitors stand in the way, 1 am
their enemy. No society can stand unless eve
ry man’s life and acquisitions are safe under
the law. There is a purpose to take away the
habeas corpus, the guaranty of personal liberty
—formidable to tyrants only. The old barons
of 1237 understood the rights of freemen.—
They were illiterate. Most of them could not
sign their names, except with the glorious cross
of Jesus Christ. Yet, sword in hand, they
wrenched the Great Charter from a faithless
monarch. Are you not as ready ? Shall stars
and stripes rob you of your rights? The same
love of liberty that inspired them, sent James
the Second into exile, and brought Charles the
First and Louis the Sixteenth to the block,
and I trust it will get the head of every vil
lain who tries to rob men of their rights.—
Socrates demanded of the Thirty Tyrants that
rights should be respected and justice done.—
This has been the demand of freemen in all
ages, and wherever it is persistently refused,
there is civil war, ending in the triumph of des
potism or the secure establishment of rights.
You sow and ought to reap. How much doyoii
get? As much as the meanest petty tyraut
chooses to give you. Soldiers do not get it.—
Their suffering families do not get it. The poor
of our cities do not get it. Therefore there is
discord, discontent, desertion.
The President has proclaimed to the country
and to the Yankees that half of our army has
deserted. I hope this is not true. But if they
have deserted, what has caused it? Not love
of the Yankees There is nothing in the con
duct of the Yankees, nothing iu their cruelty,
nothing iu their rapacity, nothing in their
malice, to win the affections of our soldiers.
All of the twenty-eight amendments in the
Confederate Constitution abridge executive
power. If there was no danger from the ex
ecutive wlieu fifty millions were spent, and in
peace, what is it now, when we spend nine hun
dred millions and in war? The Constitution says
that no man shall he deprived of his freedom
but by legal arrest. Yet you cannot travel
without a pass. This is proper for tlie soldier,
but not for the citizen. Who appoints fhese
Provost Marshals that forbid you to travel
without their permission ? Not the Constitu
tion, or the Congress, but the President. We
have given great military powers to our officers,
mhia u riuht- -But they should govern accord
ing to law, and attempt to govern nouuny out
soldiers. Military law is bard law, but it is
law, and must be obeyed by the soldier. It
has no operation on the citizen.
There is no concord where there is no liberty;
and lot discord reigu till liberty is restored.
We have no security. Y T ou are not sure but
that they have impressed the cow that you let t
at home for the sustenance ot your little ones.
Our distinguished commander, Gen. Cobb, has
been slandered and belied by the newspapers
in a report of a late speech bv him iu Macon.
He never could have delivered any such speech
He is too well versed in the principles of liberty
to have uttered such sentiments as are imputed
to him. , , ~
If you have a surplus of produce, you should
sell it, first, to the country, that is, to the sol
diers and their families ; next, to your neigh
bora ; then to the inhabitants of the towns
and cities ; aud, last of all, to those who are
living on the people ; but always at the mar
ket price, except where, from benevolence,
you choose to give it away. You do not bene
fit the country by submitting to the exactions
of the impressing agents. Deception is encour
aged and production is diminished by impress
ment at. less than tho raaiket price. If the
government impresses your corn at two dol
lars, when your neighbor is wiling to pay
you five dollars, you pay to the government
on every bushel three dollais more than your
equal share of the public bnrdens. Major Har
ris a man who bears a good name—lias lately
issued an order threatening those detailed men
who do not sell at a fair price. I wish lie would
tell us what is “a fair price.”
There is a proposition to put all men in the
army, and then for the President to detail such
as are needed at home. If the President had
the wisdom of a hundred Solomons, he would
, "uequal to such a duty. How can he know
y *~ .q society in its infinite nmifica
t. e w , alU n,T' “ality and oppression with
turns ? The para,.. J -1 ue exercised in al
which such a power wouiu to jj (>
most any human hands would be i»._.
erty.—When they put you all under one mat.
and take away the habeas corpus, it will be
time to draw your bayonet In many places a
mill cannot run without an order from govern
ment : a man cannot travel without au order
from government. Is it wonderful that th; ro
should be discontent ? Better die (ban bear
such oppre-sions. Die and leave a glorious
name, like Brutus—the watchword of patriots
in all ages, or Cromwell, clouded for two cen
turies. but now shining with lustre. Save your
country, your family—above all, save liberty.
I address you as citizens, not as soldiers. As
citizens, defend liberty against the j Congress,
against the President, against whoever assails
it. You had liberty before the President was
bom, and 1 trust you will have it after he is
dead. lam bound by military rule to speak
respectfully of the President, and therefore I
wish to be understood as expressing no disre
spect to that officer. 1 ask for no mutiny, un
less it should be necessary in defence of Con
stitutional rights. If invasion of those rights
come by one, resist him. If by many, resist
them.
How shall you resist? First, go to your
Courts. I trust our judges will have the inde
pendence of Lord Holt. But it they will not
give you justice, still defend your rights.—
Whoever betravs you. Courts, Congress. Gover
nors, Presidents, or even your own sons, still
stand bv vour rights. Give no heed to the
villainous doctrine that the Constitution was
not intended tor times of war. The men who
made it had just come out of a seven years'
war. They knew the encroaching tendency
of military power, and they endeavored to
guard it. Thev knew that standing armies are
always the creatures ot power. For defence
against great dangers, they relied on the mili
tia Conscription was never heard of in the
Saxon race till the reign of Mr. Davis. You
hear o f courts-martial shooting people. Such
things are foreign to the genius of Saxon liber
ty.
There were four hundred officers from the
South in the old United States army. At the
'ration, a majority of seventeen joined the
enemv Ana of those who came to us not one
brought a single soldier to our banners Geu.
Brao-I said he did not want politicians to com
mand in the army. Yet Bragg has lost an em
pire Wherever we had victories, politicians
were among the commanders. In the four reg
hW.' of my old brigade, there was not one
deserter, and l never court-martialed one of the
men All the brigade are present or accounted
for—present in the servicer oi U::r counsry un
der the coble commander. Gen. Leu tun*, or
accounted for Oh the list of fallen heroes.—
hundred of then? h*v? fallen, and are
on the roll world-
In England, when an adm,*7 '* W “ CIOD ,L
confidence of the country, it retires, n .
so here. The country hau up confidence in Mr.
Beniamin. Mr. Memminger, or Mr. Mallory.
Xet they remain in office.
The red! object of the Conscript Law was to
give the President one appointment of officers
There was another way to replenish Ujfi M'my
without violating State Rights. But the office
of the State militia are elected by the men,
and this did not suit the powers it Richmond.
It has been said that conscripts were useful in >
.1 >■ ; —leu before Richmond. Not so. ihcre
wd ton a conscript in those battles.
jo cat listen to the miserable plea of necessi
ty. k.eaehery and robbery are never necessa
ry to a good cause. The Government got from
the people all that it called for, until it resort
ed to coercion.
You are soldiers, under discipline. Discip
line Ls the lifeblood of the soldier, the glory of
a corps. In a few weeks your service will ex
pire. and you will go home, and resume your
place in society as cit zens, sovereigns. Then
do the duty of citizens. Defend liberty against
every foe, foreign and domestic. Maintain the
revolution. Give to it, if required under the
law. the last dollar of money and the last drop
of blood.
INAUGURAL ADDRESS OK GOV. ALLEX, OK
LOUISIANA.
The new Governor of Louisiana, Gen.
Henry W. Allen, esteemed the Chevalier Bay
ard of the army of that State—who has signa
lized his valor in many of the fiercest combats
of this war, whose body is covered with honor
able scars—was recently inaugurated at
Shreveport, before an immense assemblage.
His address is one of the most stirring aud pa
triotic, as well as scathing affairs we ever re
member to have read. He bandies the enemy
without gloves—-he excoriates him without
mercy, iu the strongest terms of which the lan
guage is capable. Especially does Butler catch
it ‘under the fifth rib. ”**£ his is not to be
wondered at, when we remember that lypw
Orleans and other portions of Louisiana were
made the recipients of Butler’s, oppressive
acts. Speaking of the terms of peace which
•the bloody Moloch at Washington" suggests
to his Congress, he says :
Great God ! Peace to whom ? Peace to .you
whose tenners have been slain—whose lands
have -despoiled—whose homes have been'
burned—whose wives and whosn daughters
have been basely insulted ! ’Tis the voice of
the murderer with bloody hands reeking from
his assassination, who now proposes terms of
amnesty to the brother of his bleeding victim !
’Tis the incendiary outlaw who returns from
b irning your houses and despoiling your lands!
'Tis the black hearted villain who has insulted
your wives and daughters, and who now asks
you to take a seat around his loathsome fire
side and bask in the smile of his own licen
tiousness! Eorbid it, Almighty God! Let
there be no peace between us until we are free
forever from this accursed race ! Is peace so
sweet as to be purchased at the price of recon
struction ? Oh, think not of reconstiuction.—
Reconstruction means subjugation, ruin and
death The martyrs of our holy cause—those
heroic men who shed their blood for us at Ma
nassas, at Shiloh, at Sharpsburg, and a hundred
other battle fields, would rise in solemn pro
cession from the chambers of the dead and ye
buke this unholy alliance. A gallant,young
Louisianian was dying on the field of Shiloh;
as I passed him, he called me to his side—said
he; “My-Colonel, lam dying. If you should
live to get back to Louisiana, tell my aged
father that I died for my countiy, and oh ! tell
him to fight this battle out—to lose negroes
and lands and life itself, but never, never go
back to the old Union.”
Those words are still ringing in my ears and
I tell them to you to-day : “Lose negroes, lose
lands, lose everything, lose life itself,” but
never think of reconstruction. There is a sea
of blood between us: we cannot pass tb ad sea.
Let us rather add thereto, a wall of living fire,
and a gulf, deep and dark of eternal liate. I
speak to-day by authority, I speak as the Gov
ernor of Louisiana, aud I wish it known at
Washington and elsewhere, that rather than
reconstruct this government and go back to the
Union, on any terms whatever, the people of
Louisiana will, in convention assembled, with
out a dissenting voice, cede tho State to any
European power. Give us the guillotine, or
Botany Bay, the knout, or Siberia, the bow
string or the Bosphorus, rather than sutler the
brutal outrages of Yankee subjugation. 1 speak
to-day not only for the loyal citizens of Louisi
ana who have stood by theri State in all lier
trial, but in behalf of the misguided individuals
who have been compelled to take the oath of
allegiance to the Federal Government. In their
hearts they are true to us and are praying
ifiiihcfor the triumph of our. arms. They have
fell? the iron in their very souls, and Know
full well the curse of reconstruction. I speak by
authority, for they me daily, that they
would by ten thousand times be the subjects ot
'he Emperor of France than the slaves ot Abra
ham Lincoln. If God in liis inscrutable Provi
dence, should permit the enemy to overwhelm
us, then let us retire to otiv mountains and our
caves, and there let us swear by the blood of
murdered fathers and brothers—by the suffer
ings and the insults of our mothers, wives and
sisters, that we will issue forth and hunt the en
emy, as we hunt the wild beast of the forest.—
Ob ! give us honorable graves by far, 11 pre
ference to base servitude, to chains and slavery.
Butler is arraigned for his misdeeds in the
following powerful and bitter words :
Benjamin F. Butler, of Massachusetts, I ar
raign you to-day at the bar of the civilized
world. You told the people of New Orleans
upon your arrival there, that none should be
compelled to take the oath of allegiance to the
Federal Government, but that it was a privi
lege to fie soiight after by the citizens. But
just so soon as you had them in your ppwer,
you required every man and woman in the city
lo come forward and take that oath. Many left
aud many stayed and registered themselves as
enemies.' Then began by your orders the most
outrageous promiscuous plundering that was
ever witnessed on this continent. It was in
deed the saturnalia of thieves. All were rob
bed who came under the ban of your displeasure.
Avery respectable merchant of that city, a
non combatant, finding that be, like all his
friends and neighbors, would be robbed, sold
his silver plate, a large and valuable set, to a
widow lady to whom he was indebted. This
lady put the plate on board a Danish ship, and
took bills of lading for the same. You heard
of it, sent armed soldiery, took the ship, broke
open the hatches, and seized the plate. Not
satisfied with that, you sent this merchant to
Ship Island and kept him there, at hard labor
for months, until General Banks released him.
'’mi arrested another merchant and demanded
, , ’>e ihformed you that he had sent it
his plate--. rifhe plate or Ship 1 slaud. ’ ’
oil. Your reply was, : A ;,; iV,.
Finding that you could mot «,-’• ‘ P ‘ c j •’
released him upon his paying you ‘ =,
amount of money, which money you pockoteu.
These are facts bwoi n to and subscribed in my
office, and I record them here to show the civ
ilized world how the people of Louisiana have
been treated by one of the Satraps of Abraham
Lincoln.
Every Sabbath morning, the thieves met at
the den of the Beast, and the stealings of the
past week were divided out. To the jackals he
gave the spoons and trinkets, but reserved the
lion’s share, the con. the plate and the jewels.
A large portion of the mdveiyblc wealth of the
city of New Orleans and lower Louisiana lias
been transferred to the pockets of this blear
eyed, incarnate devil—a great part of which hfi
put into foreign exchange and sent to Europe ;
and notv he is by far the i idlest man oij the
continent. He can loan money to the Roths
childs, and buy out the wealthiest citizen of
New York. Cicero has given the name of Ver
res immortal infamy, and that of Butler is now
known throughout the civilized world as a
synonym for crime, cowardice and brutality.
When the Southern student shall in future ages,
study the classics, as he reads that beautiful
oration of Cicero against Yerres, he will in
voluntarily pause, and for the Sicilian robber,
will read, Butler the Beast! ‘Task now. Verres
what hast thou to say against this charge V I
ask now, Butler the Beast, what hast tliou to
tay against thy dark and damning crimes? At
the dead hour of night, upon the false accusa
tion of a negro woman, yon dragged from a
sick bed an aged liian, one of the most respec
table citizens of New Orleans and thrust him
into a cold and miserable cell. lie died of
your treatment. His wife, an amible, well
bred and lovely women, went to yon, and upon
her knees begged for her husband. You held
a loaded pistol to the weeping face, of that lady
and drove her from vour bloated presence with
the most vulgar and obscene oaths. With the
fiendish heart of the hyeDa, you tore open the
tomb of General Albert Sidney Johnston, and
robbed the grave of that gallant soldier. You
may never feel the halter draw in this world.
You may live to old age; and possibly die in
your bed. with your stolen poperty around you.
But a day will come, the '-dks tree" will come,
■when you shall meet face to face tue women
you have brutally insulted, and the men you
have robbed and murdered, at the bar of an
avenging God ! Beware the fate of Yerros. He
died a felon's death. Mark Antony demanded
a portion of his ill-gotten gains, he refused
and was slain. When led to death, he begged
for that mercy he har.to oft en denied to others.
Tfce spirits of vour murdered victims eay, be
ware? The friends of the dead say, beware?
r>«.ueiii stareb wffi vigil long" will find
•*— ♦vom Ftifij aiding’place.
you out. and drag ye.. - • *„u t
i our coat of mail will not save you,
time will coese at lasi.
These extiacts will suffice to show the spirit ;
which animates Gov. Allen.
Leaving these themes, he turns particularly I
to Sta'eadhirs. In a tour through the State :
he finds the great want of the country to be •
ccAtou cards and medicines, aud recommends
that a law be enacted, placing iu tho hau ls of
each female of the Slate, above the age of eigh
teen. a pair of cotton cards free of cost and
charges; also, the passage of a bill for the
purpose of supplying the people of the State
with medicines—and that such medicines be
distributed among practicing physicians at cost
and charges, requiring them, by bonds, to ad
minister the medicines to their patients at the
same prices. Whilst pointing out the duty of
the soldier to stand by his colors and fight the
battles of his country, he also strongly urges
the men of wealth at home, whom God lias
blessed in “basket and in store,’ - to open their
corn cribs and meat houses aud send for tie
soldier’s wife and children. By feeding the
soldiers’ wives and children you keep the sol
diers in the field. The penurious and extor
tionate are not tenderly handled by the Gov
ernor.
The Governor relates some starting facts in
regard to the negro. He says that more ne
groes have perished in Louisiana from the
cruelty aud brutality of the public enemy than
the combined number of white men, in both
armies, from the casualties of war. In illus
tration he states that when our forces surprised
anil captured Berwick’s bay, last summer, they
found about two thousand negroes there ia a
state of the most utter destitution—many of
them so emaciated and sick that they died be
fore the tender humanity of the Confederates
could be applied to their rescue from death.
The late of these poor wretches is to be attri
buted to sheer inhumanity. The Yankees had
abundant supplies of food, medicines and
clothing at hand, but they did not apply them
to the comfort of the negro, who, once entitled
the the farce of “freedom,’’ was ot no more
consequence to them than any other beast with
a certain amount of useful labor in his ana
tomy.
He calls the attention of the General Assem
bly to the unauthorized and illegal manner in
which impressments have been made in Louisi ’
ana; expresses hearty approbation of the con
duct of Gens. Kirby Smith aud Dick Taylor ;
and in closing says that every measure which
may tend to guard the citizen of his rights
shall meet with his hearty co-operation. Take
it all in all, Gov. Allen’s address is one of the
most earnest and patriotic we have ever read.
ft Tim Peace Movement ix North Carolin a and
“Georgia. —We have given some attention to
the indications of policy and piincirplo as de
veloped by the peace movement in North Car
olina and Georgia. There is evidently a party
in North Carolina willing to accept Black Re
publican ruli, but this party is very small in
numbers and influence. There are some in fa
vor of Reconstruction, and this forms, in fact,
the foundation of the peace party. There seems
to be no antecedent principle seeking vin
dication—no great truunoli of policy to emerge
from this awful sacrifice of blood—no result
at all worthy of the expenditure of life and
property now madeby the country. These re
constructionists are ready to re-enact the same
suicidal folly that has produced (his war, and
would, of necessity, produce another. They
are willing to reinstate the most odious form
of despotism, that is a consolidated democracy
supported by the sword.
The Georgia movement, so far as we are able
to gather from the public prints of that State,
involves principle, policy and purpose. It seeks
to vindicate the principle that individual liber
’ ty, through local liberty—that is State Sover
eignty—is the supreme good. This principle
is antagonized with the prevailing doctrine
tnat Southern sectionality is the supreme good.
The Georgia party holds that the disintegra
tion of democratic consolidation will result in
the restoration of American nationality or
“Unity,” based upon the confirmed and absolute
sovereignty of the S ates—or, in other words, the
restoration of the Government of 1776, before
the democratic ideas of France destroyed tiie
authority of the States. Tiie Georgia peace
party announce two essential conditions of any
peace movement, ,Ist. Successful military re
sistance to Lincoln and his party; 2d A basis
of pacification conducive to the honor and in
terests alike of the North and South. This, in
brief, is the Georgia policy. The North is fight
ing for a‘sentiment" and lor conquest—the
South is fighting for a “ principle” and for self
preservation. Is this “ sentiment" of the North
inconsistent with the “principle” of the 8011th?
The Georgia party says “No." Is a war conduct
ed on the basis of the conquest or destruction
oi one side by the other, to be. adjusted by ne
gotiations? The Georgia party says “No" It
is therefore proposed to change the object of
the war, so as to make the Southern cause the
cause of the Conservative party ot the North,
aud to j jin the State-right ’ party of the North
in the reorganization of Republican Government
on this Continent. This we believe to be, in
short, the position of a party in Georgia. It
will be seen that it differs widely from that of
the reactionists of North Carolina. The Geor
gia peace movement, in fact, is based upon the
preamble ami resolutions of the Virginia doc
trines of 1798-’99.
It is contended that the rival Confederacies,
each with a standing army, cannot exist..side by
side, on this conteuent; that constant wars will
occur,’ and one eventually absorb the other.—
It is contended that sectional consolidation
South will necessitate similar consolidation
North, and to the two armed powers, acting
and reacting upon each other, will produce
endless strife and bloodshed. Entertaining
these views, it is proposed that the State of
Georgia, which resisted to the last the Aboli -
tion invasion of Lincoln, shall cast the weight
of her moral influence into the next Presidenti
al election, UDd secure the triumph of the white
man’s ticket. The doctrine of negro equality
having culminated in an unsuccessful attempt
to enslave the American people, it is believed
the sovereign States can meet in Convention
and reorganize government on this continent
upon a lasting basis. The wealth and influence
of Georgia, and the now undeniable fact that
she has a purpose and policy embodied in the
State Rights peace party have determined us
to give publicity to the movement, in order, by
tumperate discussion and friendly counsel, to
g T “d‘■ It "do the right channel.
We take tnis occasion to offer a few words of
admonition to the ypconstructionists of North
Carolina. You have bottling tp hope for or
gain from any concessions yob Eiay make to
Lincoln. He cannot himself control hiS own
army, if he would. Your only hope is in the
defeat of the Black Republican party. The
sword of the South is necessary to defeat that
party. The fitst step towards peace is to make
our army iavineihle. and makeourpeople unit
ed, Again: any return to the system of govern
ment and form of associationjheretofore exist
ing would be simiife to give the numerical
majority the power over ihe Constitution. 1 he
blood of this revolution will have been such
case shed in vain.
Thera is a manhood in the Georgia movement
which will command respect everywhere.—
There is a good principle announced, a reason
able purpose disclosed, that is weli calculated
to impart elevation and enthusiasm to the
party. It seeks to accomplish good, by prepar
ing the public mind for undying individual
and State resistance to Lincoln's invasion, even
if the Confederacy should break down under
the weight daily increasing upon it. We com
mand the example of Georgia to our North
Carolina friends as worthy of consideration.
Richmond Whig.
Tiie Anti Substitute Law.—A Dissenting
Opinion. —According to the Sandersville Geor
gian, Judge Hook, in a case brought before
him last week in 'Washington, expressed his
own opinions as follows ;
1. That substitution is authorized by the Con
script Acts and the rules and regulations of
the Secretary of War. made in pursuance there
of, in his own judgment, amounted to a con
tract, the obligation of which it was not in the
constitutional competency of Congress to im
pair.
2. That the substitutes themselves in the
casec before him, not being yet liable on their
own account, the a--t of January oth, when en
forced, makes the government get ibe services
of two men where it only had legal claim to
one. And as it could not be supposed Congress
intended any such consequence ,as this, this
fact itself throws light on the transaction of
substitution occurifijr, under the law authoriz
ing it, and pointed to the unconstitutionality
of'the act in question.
3. That be would, with the views entertained
b-- him. at once declare the Jaw uncon.Yii"!.'"* 1 -
ai ana void, ffi.d discharge the applicants, if it
were net for a decision of the Supreme Court,
made at Macon last year, in which the Court
several tinu-'i iff ffie' course of their decision
,Y,i >-tter oi nuoUitution as a 1
treated tae v,uv.. ~ —. I
mere gratuity, and not binding on congte&r.
lie, therefore, in deference to what he believed
wouid necessarily be the? r ruling on tile law in
question, declared the act of oth January con
stitutional. and, accordingly, remanded "the ap
plicants into the custody of the enrolling officer.
vhom the kboxt.
On Monday, the 2,d FeU the enemy ma.fe
itieir appearance on the East- Tennessee lUil
wi Ut <• wT 11 ’! 8 - ;ati on, about eight miles
north ot Dalton, and at tha same time, on tho
western and Atlantic railr std, some three or
tour miles beyond Tunnel Hilt, tb:-- latter place
being about seven ir.itrs northwest of Dalton.
(in Monday night Gen. Johnston advanced
his forces—some on the former road from sme
t ) two miles from Dalton, and others on the
latter, so as to occupy all the Gaps in the
mountain this side of Tunnel Hill. Thus the
two armies were situated on Tuesday morning.
The only fighting that has occurred on our
right took place on Tuesday and Thursday, on
which occasion the enemy's cavalry suddenly
dashed upon our pickets, and capturing a few
of them, as suddenly made their escape. On
the left theie was a little skirmishing on Tues
day.
On Wednesday, 24;1i, the enemy further ad
vanced, our forces falling back from Tunnel
Hill to another three miles of Dalton, where
our line 01 battle Was formed, our boys having
stripped .for .a light. During the day, there was
slight skirmishing—the enemy cautiously feel
ing his way. Our troops took up their position
ou a spur ot the Chattanooga Mountain, through
which runs the Georgia state Road, and Mill
Creek, holding the Gap on both sides. Gen.
Hood's corps occupied the light, and Hardee’s
the left. The Chattanooga mountains are about
three miles North of Dalton, and range about
N. N. E. and S. S. W.
Ou Thursday the 25th the enemy commenced
about 9 A. M. to skirmish with our pickets and
sharpshooters. At 1 P. M. Brigadier Geueral
Morgan, (Federal) of Jeff. C. Davis’ Division,
Thomas’ Corps advanced on our right centre
to force the Gap. They were gallantly met by
Reynolds’ Brigade, of Stevenson's Division ;
Clayton’s Brigade, of Walker's Division, and
Stovall’s Brigade, of Stewart’s Dividon, when
a lively tight took place.
The enemy made three desperate assaults to
take the Gap, and were repulsed each time with
great slaughter, being enfiladed, and raked at
the same time by our artillery. We captured
some twenty prisoners, among them Lt. Col. C.
J. Dickerson, of tiie tenth Michigan, which re
giment ab ns lost 250 killed and wounded, and
the sixth Illinois being also badly cut up. The
boys of Reynold’s Brigade, which three times
repulsed the enemy, call it the battle of “Stone
Sides.” Our loss was about 110 killed and
wounded. That night the enemy fell back be
hind their entrenchments some three miles
from our front line, and a portion of their
forces moved ovef on our left, and succeeded,
under cover of the smoke, having sot tho woods
011 fire, in taking -a gap leading to the Lafayette
road through Sugar Valley, three miles S. W.
of Dalton. Sugar Valley is formed by the Chat
tanooga range and Taylor's Ridge.
On Friday Fob. 26, about 8 o'clock. Colonel
Granbury, commanding.the Texas brigade of
Cleburne’s division, charged this gap, making
a brilliant dash, aud retook it and the ridge.—
This is a very strong position, and covers the
ro ul to LaFayette. During the morning our
pickets advanced a mile and a half in our front
passing the enemy’s entrenchments without
opposition. There was slight skirmishing, but
uo further demonstration in front.
On Friday, afternoon there ivas skirmishing
on our left, but no heavy assault. Ii M sup
posed the enemy was trying to gain our rear to
cut off our wagon trains.
The object of the enemy, based upon tho
belief that Johnston's force had been recently
reduced was to overwhelm and drive him back
on Atlanta, and occupy the intervening coun
try.
The Yankee prisoners expressed great sur
prise when they found themselves guarded l»y
sorne of Cleburn’s and some qf Cheatham’s
men. “Why,” said they, “we thought Cleburne
and Cheatham were gone.”
On Wednesday, Feb. 2G, a courier came to
Gen. Johnston's lieadquarteis at Dalton, and
presented what purported to hi a dispatch from
Gen. Longstreet, stating that his force was in
imminent peril of being overpowered, near
Loudon, we believe, and desiring immediate re
inforcements. Gen. Johnston thought he “smelt
a mice," and so ordered tha! tiie courier be
put in irons and sent to.tlie rear. It is thought
that he is a l’edei al spy.
All tho Government stores at Rome have
been scut to the rear.
The Federal advance on Dalton has resulted
iu a stupendous failure.
The bold stand taken by Johnson has had a
beneficial effect on our troops.
Most of our camps lue-wv—« ri.e-i.- rnee m/igq
and Tunnel Hill lmvo been destroyed, except
those of Cleburne’s Division and of out old
position at the Hill.
Tiie rear guard of the Federals passed through
Tunnel Hill on tho night of Feb. 20.
Many poor people have I con thrust from
their homes by the Federals in I heir late ad
vance and their dwellings have been burnt.
The telegraph'Wires and the railroad track
were undisturbed, and the village of Tunnel
Hill still remains, though many of tiie its buil
dings were sacked.
Gen. Johnson has been thoroughly posted in
regard to the movements of the Federals from
the day they commenced advancing.
Hindman’s corps did most of the skirmish
ing in the late advance of the enemy, and to
the foresight of that commander is due tho for
tunate anticipation and prevention of the ene
my's al tempted flank movement on our right.
Granger’s command was thrown into Crow’s
Valley, with a view to turn our right. Un
conscious of this fact, but, in a measure, antici
pating such a movement ou the part of the
cunning Yankees, Gen. Himlman had fortunate
ly, as a precaution, sent a brigade of infantry
lo the support of his cava) ty at the head of the
valley. Accordingly the enemy were driven
back, and our army relieved ct what might
have been a most embarrassing circumstance
and awkward position. Our positions along
this valley and ridge 011 its north will, I arn
informed, be materially strengthened.
We now hold ail our old positions.
The latest intelligence from the front of Dal
ton ieports the enemy fortifying at Kinggold
Gap.
Our cavalry advance is beyond Tunnel Ilill.
There is nothing stirring on either tank, and
perfect tranquility reigns at Dalton and in the
surrounding encampments.
The spirit of the army since the repulse of
the enemy at Mill Creek Gap is unexampled in
any previous campaign, for confidence in them
selves and in their commander-in-chief. The
men are cheerful and contented, healthy, full
of fire, and eager for an advance over the bor
der. Shoes have bc-.n issued to nearly all the
commands, and tfcc Army generally is supplied
with comfortable clothing and good shelter.
At present there is no. indications of an ad
vance movement by either army, but stirring
times may be anticipated in the neighborhood
of Chattanooga before the spring is over.
The hotel and nearly a'l the business stores
in kingston were destroyed by fire on Mon
day' The fire was an accident, and caught in
the Kitchen of the hotel.
The Federal party ot raiders passed through
portions of Chattooga Cos., a few days since—-
plundering indiscriminately. They mi inhere 1
about three-hundred men, and were divided
into squadrons of some thirty or forty men.
The Richmond Examiner of Feb. 26 says :
“Important advioes have been received from
Tennessee. It is reported, on undoubted au
thority, that Osterhaus had bridged the Ten
nessee river, and. probably aepnred its passage,
twenty-five miles below Chaitanooga. i t
iufw !L“ is movement of the enomy
is to threaten Johnston’s flank or tf,‘ *-tr.ke di
rectly for Some, the position of which makes
it an important outpost of Atlanta.”
The best authorities estimate the Yankee
force in the late advance upon our front at
twenty-five thousand. It is evident they sup
posidGen. Johnston’s force had been weak
ened by sending reinforcements to Gen. Polk.
Lieut. Gen. Hood has arrived at Dalton, and
has been assigned to command of Hindman's
corps.
Brig-Gen. Win. B. Bate'has been jiromoted
Major-General and assigned permanent com
mand of Breckinridge’s division.
It is known positively, says the Atlanta Ap
peal, that Gen. Logan, with the loth corp3 of
the Federal army, left Huntsville, for the pur
pose it-was stated by the Federal press, of co
operating with Sherman. Nothing n..., yti b *ea
heard of him. Where will he turn up-—at Mont
gomery, or Seim i, or is he marching towards
Atlanta while Thomas attempts to employ
Gen. Johnston in North Georgia ?
The late success of our forces at Dalton has
had the best effect on our troops.
The Federal loss is now ascertained to be not
less than eight hundred in killed and wounded.
Thomas personally commanded his troops in
the late advance. Palmer only commanded a
corps.
Col. Jackson, of the Yankee cavalry and five
men were killed at one fire of a piece of*Wheel
er's cavalry. Col. McCook a brother of Gen.
McCook, was also killed.
FROM MOUJLE.
Up to Feb. 27, the Federals fired four hun
dred and seventy shot and shell at Fort Powell,
wi'bout doing a~7
One of the Federal gunboats was so dam
aged by the firing at the Fort, that she hauled
off.
t The report that the Federate have landed a
at. Hoc Daunhia XvJ -i nlorma
tion. ,
Some ot the Northern pa -! teiuii >her
nmn’s late movement was i i oan.v
movement on Gen. Jolmstoi
Kn ot MlS»t->iP! , l
I t G n.,a.id that, me jflfcin portion of Sher- j
hid \ s army has crossed IV«ri river.
Be tore leaving Meridian Sherman, it G ud I
made a speech to his men, in which he declared
the expedition had accomplished all that it was
m ended it should. Had Logan's column' ef
fected a junction with him, however, lie would
have marched totheTombigbce.
When at Meridian, Sherman issued an order
establishing the Mobile & Ohio Railroad as his
-Eastern line, and threatening condign punish
ment ou all persons found recruiting in his ter
ritory. and holding all citizens as spies who
may .attempt to enter his lines without his au
thority. aud offering protection to all deserters
and others who will accept it.
Gen. Folk possesses they entire confidence
ol lus men. Ilia army is iu the best of spirits,
and confident of ultimate success.
Pontotoc, where Forrest was fighting with
great success, Feb. 23, is seventy miles north of
Columbus, and 180 miles north of Meridian.
Okalona is a little village south ol and midway
between Pontotoc and Abeideon. Forrest’s
last reported tight and victory was at Okalona.
Aberdeen is thirty miles north of Columbus.
Okalona twenty miles north of Aberdeen. The
Mobile anti Ohio Railroad passes within eight
mile; of Aberdeen and within twenty miles of
Columbus, a branch road leading to Columbus.
From Pontotoc to Macon—thirty miles south of
Columbus—a distance of about 0110 hundred
inTes, there is the most productive region of
the Soutii.
Gov. Clarke, of Mississippi, did not leave the
State during the late Federal advance—although
compelled to change his base several times.
M. Butt Ilewson, tho special correspondent
in this country of the Loudon Herald, was re
cently wilh Gen. Polk at Demopolis. The sto
ry of his arrest in Mobile was a fiction.
Tho Fcderals destroyed the Mobile A; Ohio
Road as far up as Lauderdale Springs, some
thirty or forty miles above Meridian. They
destroyed the Road to Selma for fourteen
miles, and tore up the whole of the road from
Meridian to Jackson.
Every thing at Lauderdale Springs was de
stroyed.
\\ herever the Yankees have been in Missis
sippi they take with them all the strong negro
men, and leave the aged and infirm, the wo
men and children, to starve.
After the raid upon Aberdeen the Yankees
returned to the line of railroad, at a point
south of Okalona, where they were met by
Gen. F. with two thousand men. To aid him,
we arc pleased to learn, tho citizens turned out
very freely. After the first skirmish, Gen. For
rest united his forces, aud, following the
enemy, overtook them near Okalona, where
they were signally defeated, as reported. At
last accounts the Federals were completely
demoralized, and fleeing in all directions, with
oui cavalry in pursuit.
Gen. Lee was ordered by Gen. Polk to join
Forrest, but, before he could do so, the baltlo
occurred and the work was accomplished.—
Gen.L. then fell back to Meridian, from whence
he advanced in pursuit of the retreating col
umns of Sherman.
Those sections of Mississippi where the Fede
rals have been present a sad spectacle. Many
of the people have sought rofue in other States;
others have been exiled, and those who remain
looked sad enough. One can witness every
where the gradual desolation which tho war is
causing. The whole countiy seemed half deser
ted, and shows the marks of devastation ami
ruin.
The Federals as they passed through Hillsbo
ro, Miss., killed many unoffending citizens.
Gen. Sherman tirade a clean sweep at Enter
prise—not a business house is loft standing,
But few houses -were left standing by the
Fejlerais at Meridian.
The Fed; rals in their late advance in Missis
sippi destroyed about forty-six miles of the Mo
bile.and Ohio Railroad. All the bridges aud
trestlework was also destroyed.
Some of the Federal prisoners state that it
was Sherman's plan, after uniting with Grier
son and Logan, to move upon Selma and Mont
gomery.
The victory of Geri. Forrest over Grierson
was most complete. Grierson had got down as
far as West Point. Forrest made arrangements
to surround and capture him. Grierson sus
pected something, and male a retrograde move
ment. Forrest pursued, and the tight com
menced at Okolona. and continued to the vicin
ity of Pontotoc. The pursuit would have been
kept up still further but for the worn out con
dition of the horses in our command.
The road for many miles was shewn with
arms, haversacks, (lead iankeeo ami every
thing else which formerly belonged to the
Yankees. Their wagons were all left behind.
Buggies and carriages which they had stolen
were left with fires built in them, but further
on they were so hotly pursued that they didn’t
have time take this precaution, but left the
vehicles unharmed with 4he traces cut. The
number of killed, wounded and prisoners was
very great—our loss small. General Forrest
fought the battle with about 2,000-raen — the
reinforcements expected by him did not arrive
in time. The enemy had three times his num
ber. Gen. Forrest led most of the charges
himself.
This victory of Gen. Forrest prevented the
junction of tiie large column of cavalry and
mounted infantry under Grierson and Smith
with Sherman at Enterprise, and thus compelled
the retreat of the whole invading forces, and
the ravage of a still greater portion of the
country.
Among the forces of Grierson, which lately
received such a signal defeat iu North Missi
ssippi, wore a large number of Dutch and
other foreign mercenaries whose outrages upon
the unarmed citizens and defenseless women of
the region through which they passed, is said to
be without a parallel in Ibe history of the war.
Everything of value that they could lay
their bands on was either stolen or destroyed ;
jewelry was ruthlessly torn from the persons of
Indies amid the jeers and taunts of tiie savage
vagabonds, and family relics, of no value to
any one but the owners, were destroyed with
a fiendish delight.
As an evidence of their brutality, we are in
formed that a Me. Jarman, a highly respecta
ble and gallant gentleman residing in the
neighborhood of Aberdeen was captured and
shot by them. After he was dead, the fiends
severed bis head from his body, quartered him
and left his remains hanging by the roadside !
Their excuse for the hellish act was that Mr.
Jarman and a few others had fired on them in
their passage through the country, and was,
therefore, a bush-whacker. The rascals re
ceived their reward when they met Forrest.
The citizens ot Columbus, Mississippi, have
presented Gen. Forrest with a fine horse, as a
slight token of their feelings towards him for
his recent victory.
A private letter dated, Gainesville, Ala., Feb
ruary 27th, gives a gloomy picture of that por
tion of Mississippi occupied by Sherman, and
also of Die portion of Alabama through which
our troops have been passing. It says : “Slier
man’s forces have done thecountry great injury,
but got little in the way ot Government stores.
They destroyed the towns, machinery and mills
of the country, wlin h are invaluable to us.*—
All the stock of the country has boon taken on
tho lhre of march, either by the Yankees or by
our own men, and in this vicinity, also, the
farmers have lost all—it having been pressed
by command of generals, colonels and others,
without stint or discrimination.' 1
FROM IPPEII EAST TESAKSbEE.
A 1 -tier from the neighborhood of C vmber
kUPl Gap says: "The Yankee forces in this
country are limited. Only five regiments at
the gap. 'l'hcse forces are suffering for supplies
of every character. Their trains are raptured
every time they dare to venture to this county
for supplies. You need not be surprised to
hear of the enemy evacuating the gap at any
day. Our forces hover around them daily so
close that they can’t come far on this side of
the mountain.” •
Long.-firoot's army has fallen baefe from its
advanced position.. It is said that the retro
grade movement was not made from any pres
sure in front, but to prevent a flank movement,
and to better subsist his army.
A correspondent of the Bristol Gazette re -
port- the Federal infantry all encamped be
low Knoxville, excepit a garrison force. The
ca airy is in E-loont, and a small infantry force
at Marysville, L’ar. • numbers of tneir cavalry
have been dismounted and their poises sent to
Kentucky for recruiting. The forces in East
Tennessee ure reported ranch demoralized.
They are scattered all through the country
from Knoxville to Loudon. No two regiments
are together in consequence of the small pox.—
The mortality among the negroes is great,
mativ lllcT n ilvinir dailv Tim — ‘
uuiiiy Ksa „ ■ \jl
the forces is limited aocl there are onlva few
re^iiii opts at the gap. These are suffering, it is
said, for supplies, as their trains are captured
whenever they venture out to obtain supplies.
FROM \E \V ORX.EA.VB.
A gentleman who left New Orleans Feb. 20,
says Banks’ army is not in a condition to move.
It numbered, too, much fewer men than rumor
has given it. There was also no signs ot its
getting ready to move in this direction^
I Cotton is seliin" at New'
for middling. Gold sixiy-five per Cent premi
um. Sterling exchange 174a175. ,
The Albany papers say that several of the
Confederate prisoners who recently jiassed
ti.rough that city, were barefoot, and were
compelled to cross the river on tffe ice in that
Condition. BuUiarouq
FROM J'U .CIU
* The fiaiaunah News of t-eb. 27ih le_ r ne by a
gentleman just arrh . '. lastaccv. <s the
eaaray fruit reached the profeetion 01 their gun
boat.- it Jacksonville Our cavalry were »:ill
in pus-- lit, and were con im Rally bi aging iu
prisoner..
Cur cavalry had boon down >Oarap ; Diegan,
which is distant about ton mile- Uv. ickson
viile. *
There arc a great many Yankee wounded at
Lake City, some ot them very severely.
About two hundred of the Yankee prisoners
have reached Monticello on their way to the
arsenal at Chattahoochee, where they w ill be
confined.
, Vankeo prisoners assert that they were
oaiLv whip e q iVn ,j to a heavy loss in
luilied mi,, wounded, particularly in officers. —
, u ‘ a ;! n >' ia Florid » thc-v admit to be greatly
demoralized by the late battle.
lt is stated that l>ovh armies were marching
towards each other in line of battle, and when
each discovered i:io other, they wore not more
than a mile apart. The battle immediately
commenced, and for a timo was severely coii
te^teu.
Several o. th« Yankee regiments fought with
wire chambered muskets. ..ml aith gloat
rapid- a . jho steady lire oi our men soon thin
ned then- ranks, and our troops captured a
laige number ot their v. ire chambered guns.
l a Saturday, rob. t . there was coo.siJera
o.e skirmishing beta, ecu our ady uuco guard and
■he Yankees near Jac k.-a uville. On Subdav the
skirmishing continued, but with what result
jvasnot known, 'll, , ~y bad all retreated
to Jue vieiisity ct Jacks... \ where they
were throwing up entrv-.oh-ei; s
Tho enemy has been rein forced by troops
tvom lliltou Head, to what extent is not cer
tainly known, thwus-.b <!<•:■ : vr c ii om their army
state the Btnr.be ■ to be S.Gi'U.
Out cavalry were coutin-.zlly picking up
stragglers, who repc.vt git ,1 and increasing
dissatisfaction in tb,; Federal ranks.
Tho I’euirsylvani. and Massuc-husetts negroes
who survived the late battle near Lake City
arc anxious to go homo, mid express the niselvea
satisfied with their military experience in Flor
idu. They complain most bitterly of the cruel
treatment they h ve received from their offi
cers, and the manner they were made a breast
work of in the late buttle,
During the retreat of the Yankee army at
b trhvin, they burned all ho wagons, commis
sary stores. Ac,, and threw away 130,000 rounds
cu bad catridg, s. These cat rubes were thrown
into a ditch, and our troops have recovered
(hem and saved the b;v.!s, the powder having
been rendered worthless by tte water.
Our forces are now at Baldwin, —which place
the enemy has destroyed, - only twenty miles
Ireiti Jacksonville, where they intended to
strengthen themselves, and save, if possible,
the Railroads, which is the only wav, in this
spaise'v settled ccunlry, to save East and
South Florida.
A correspondent of the Columbus >Stin says
the Federals were reputed at Grange Hill, Fla.
Feb. 20. They retired in the direction of Port
Washington.
Camp Fiorgan was re aptuved from tlie ene
my March 2d. -"he drop is seven miles from
Jacksonville. Several pieces of artillery, which
had been taken lrom our forces, were retaken.
In reference to the be tie of Ocean Pond we
gather the following additional partiulars 1
The Lake City Columbian of the 2d inst.
says: Vie learn from prisoners in our hands
that out of thirty-seven officer? lion fie New
York Regiments that went into the battle of
Ocean Pond, only four escaped being killed,
wounded or captured.
Upwards of -three hundred of the Yankees—
white and black—wounded and will, captufed
at the battle of “Ocean Pond” on the 20th nit.,
have been forwarded from Lake City to places
of safety farther in the interior.
The enemy’s force in this brilliant affair was
between ten and eleven thousand men.
The enemy’s retreat from the field was pro
cepitate and hasty. So demoraliz'd was he by
the severe punishment he received, that early
the next morning his main body was at Bald
win, a distance of about twenty-six miles from
the field of batl-'e.
An engine, the “Governor Broome,” which
they captured at Fernandina some time since,
with a large train, was taxed to its utmost in
conveying off the wounded of the enemy.
Nearly all of his cavalry was dismounted,
and those slightly wounded were placed upon
their horses, whilst their wagons, cui.-i ns, anil
every available means were used, for the same
purpose.
At Baldwin we found upwards of ono hun
dred and thirty thousand rounds of cartridges,
whilst a considerable quantity of Commissary
and Quartermaster’s store,s y.a re destroyed, and
left by till m on the lino cf their ri treat.
At St. Mary's the l-V.-1.-mla destroyed Hie
plantation of Moses L Barber. There also
they constructed -■ stockade and abbatis lor
their defence; but tiie-iv retrial was so very
hasty, they bad no time lo slop and tight be
hind them.
The number of small arms captured is ever
sixteen hundred. We also captured two stands
of colors, one Parrot and two Napoleon guns.
At Sanderson they fore up about six hundred
yards of the Central Railroad, which was, how
ever, repaired in a very short time. 1 think
they destroyed two or three small houses only
at that point A! Baldwin the two Depots, tho
Baldwin Hotel, and two or three other build
ings were act fire to and destroyed. At this
pi see they' constructed stockades and breast
works, behind which, however, as at St. Ma
ry’s, they did not have time to stop and fight.
The battle above mentioned bin; been called
the battle of “Olugteo.” It should bo “Ocean
Pond,” by which it will hereafter be desig
nated.
FftOM CIIAIILKIrTOrV
On Friday night, about half-past nine o’clock,
one of our naval picket boats, under command
of Boatswain J. M. Smith, captured a Yankee
picket boat oil" Fort Sumter, containing one
commissioned offi-er and five men. A largo
barge which was in company with the captured
boat managed t-> escape. The officer taken
prisoner is Midshipman Win. JL Kilctrings, Act
ing Master’s Mate of the United States’ block
ading steamer Nipsie The rest of the prison
ers are landsmen. By the prisoners we learn *
that the blockader sunk by our torpedo boat
on the night of February lath, wa ß tiie United
Stales steam sloop of war Moo atonic, carrying
twelve guns and a crew of three hundred men.
They state L at the torpedo boat, segar shape'
was first seen approaching by the watch on
board the Housatonic. The alaim was given
and immediately .all bands beat to quarters.
A rapid musketry fire was opened upon the
boat but without effect. Being unable to de
press their guns the order was given to slip
their cable. In doing this the Ilousaton c
backed some distance and came in collision
with the segar boat. The torpedo exploded
almost immediately, carrying away the whole
stern of the vessel.
The steamer sunk in three minutes time, the
officers and crew barely escaping to the rig
ging. Everything else on board, guns, stores,
ammunition, A ~ together witu the small
boats, went down with her. The explosion
made no noise and the affair was not known
among the fleet until daybriak, when the crew
were discovered and released from their un
easy positions. They had remained there ail
night, i-o <:'■ is and three men are report
ed missing, and supposed to be drowned.
The h -is of lac liousp.lonic caused’great con
sternation in the licet. All the wooden vessels
are ordered to keep up am and go out to act
every night, not heir g allowed to anchor iv>
siJe. The picket boats have been doubled and
the force in each boat increased.
This glorious success of our Jidle torpedo
boat under the. command of Lieut. Dixon, ot
Mobile, has raised the hopes of our people,
and the most sanguine expc< -aliens are now
entertained of our being able to raise the
siege in a way little dreauxed of by the enemy.
The capture < f the pic! t boat reflects great
credit cu the gallant boatswain' in charge of
our barge as well as on the unceasing vigil
ance and energy of Lieut. .1. it. Rochelle,
commanding the naval picket detachment -n
board the Indian Chief,
The Federals keep tip a : I cady zhelling. No
new guns have been mounted by them.
It is reported that a blockade runrsr ". ..
captured oil Charleston harbor Monday rnoi c
ing.
A large framed tenement on Price's Alley,
belonging to'M. D. {/yarns, was' burned Mon
day. °T co or three adjoining U.Sidings were
partially destroyed. Work of boys, who liavo
boon arrested.
FROM TBA.MC.MItSIgSIPPI.
The Federals aie concentrating quite a larr'e
number of transports at the mouth of '.’r,
river. No movement will probably be raituj
until the river rises. It is thought then that a
advance on .Shreveport, La., will be made.
The Yankees still hold the Islands ami coast
r oin Matagoida west, but are a Raid to leave
h e water.
. Our army in Arkansas is increasing rapidly
in strength and improving in discipline.
The Federals are evacuating all the Atta-
Kapus uuuuti
It is thought that the Federals will oj*-n the
campaign West of the Mi-- i sip.pi by an advance
movement in Aikaru-v , Louisiana, and Texas.
From all a- coa Gpn. bmiihaippears to he
very active and efficient, and pouuhii
with his tloi ■■;v and • i.- nn!. ' ?