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) nyzc’ ■ of tbc 'tot ill, Wendvil I*b#Hpif, ha's .“ah I
tint
“After Urn ;-.i mi' 1 ' of tin- Houth arc forced to
to tins (lull' im self-presorsation, tin?
war wit! still go on. All ware are ended l»y
compiami •, and the pre.-s-nt civil war in thin
country ui'i. t end in ti. same manner.’’
We do not believe in ‘(noting what Lincoln
itea, gay ( specially Mr. Tbillipa. They gener
ally tali, one way. and mean another. I’hillip.s,
however, we think was sincere when he made
the above statement. lb- is a fanatic in every
sense of ;!,:. w<»rd. Still, on some subjecls k he
shows that I. !::■ a trail many lenders on both
hi lea have riot -sound common sense. All cool
iicailed tarn, no matter bow strong their preju
dices, uhiai figrer - ilh liii.a. “Wa: arc ended
by compromise. , and tie- present civil war in
this country m e t end in the game manner.’
ilero Is a sugs, ti-m fur our leaders and state--
men to think of. Wo doubt if many of them
have ever given it a single moment of reflec
tion. Tbs time will Colne when the existing
diflo.-iilties betw »en tin* ifnrih and tin? Smith
will have to be divu - 1 Will have to he ta
“lren in Liind by the .I; ,e-* men -.:! boll* sec
tions and adjusted. far b tier will it bo it u- Ii
a thing can be done now than at some filtuie
peri al. 'J’ne least mi c in do, theh list we ought
to do, Is to't.tke some . p in that dheetion.
Jf w<* succeed in I'liiiliie: what we are lighting
for by diplomacy all will be well. Much us
sering itud bloe-1 will be saved. 11 wc do not
mu need, wfl will lore iiotiiinfr. On the coulra
rv we will sticngfk-’ii the bands of tlins.e dis
posed to assist iii- at, the North, i'.y strength
ening them we strengthen ourselves.
Let us not abate our, vigilance. Let us not
ceasu making every preparation necessary to
repel tlie invading foe. lint while we present
ahold, determined and delimit fiont, let us
also gee it we cannot devise seme honorable
way to put an end to the existing war.
DeiiiX'iiatf‘•muimi* nils Goaknor in Con
necticut. —T!ui Dcmociadc Slate Couveuliou
of Connecticut Ims nominated Hon. Origen S.
Seymour, of Lindilield, for (iovernov. Mr. N ,
aIUIOIIJMt > 1 , Lei:.. tv «M**A
oral, lines not belong to lbe :-.une .trij>e of poli
ticians as Gov. Tin 11. S-q monr ol the same
State. Tlw c.iirso of the i.iit r li.o over from
the first been inn istent, ;md he lias over been
an able advoi •el Uie ; 'late Right i doctrine.
When the South •, > it lie claimed she bad a
right so to do, and defended liis position in a
fearless and •.'.He sp ei li. When ..-ijereil the
commission o( aCenet.d in the Federal army,
lie refused I' ai.ept tho eppointiuent, and
wrote Lincoln a very bitter letter on the un
constitutional com e be was pursuing.
Origon S. Seymour, (tie present nominee, has
always open no . I tin hi ■ twaddling, time serv
ing policy. Ho is nn unprincipled political
trickster in every coiso of the word. When in
Congress he invariably was wciik-kneed on
every question where lie ought to have taken a
bold and decided stand. Perhaps ho may have
seen the error of ids way ere this and repented.
We h >peso. We fear, however, that lie is the
same old dodging, truculent, shuttling dema
gogue alw i going in lor expediency, never
tor principle—unless he thinks he can gain
votes by so doing. He has always lmd a great
hanker ng alter emoluments and power, llis
party finally some years ego gotiid of him,
for a time,. s a politician by securing for him
Jthe place of Judge. llis term expired a year
or more ago, and wo find him again in the
political arena, seeking alb i position and spoils
once more.
Tur. Habeas Corpus Writ in North Caroli
na,-dudgo Hattie of North Carolina has re *
fused to issue the writ of .V ■ ■ oorpus in a
number of substitute eases, on the ground that
the writ in all such cases was suspended by the
bate act of Congre s. Judge Manly it is said
lakes tho same ground.
Chief Justice Pearson, however, takes a dif
ferent view of the matter. lie has not only
g:anted the writ of corpus in substitute
cases and decided that the repeal of the substi
tute law was unconstitutional, but on Thursday
be ordered the arrest, of an Enrolling officer in
Guilford county, to. answer for a contempt in
not ob»*ying the mandate of a writ of habeas
c issued by him : the olli. er iti doing so,
making retiuns in accordance with the net of
Congress, mid acting under orders of his supe
riors, It now looks as if a collision between
the military and mb. 1 antherijtios was mev
itable —unless one side oCthe other backs down.
The Fiß'i Tair.rv Days of -run Spring Cam
paign haw opened gtor.r usdy. All around our
lines successes have attended our arms—some
of them signal and brilliant. The enemy have
beeu everywhere repulse 1 and are weaker for
invasion and conquest than they were one
month ago. Their phots have all failed, their
schemes rendered nugatory, and themselves
brought to much grid for losses ot men and
material. These victories aie auspicious.—
They are omens of good to our cause, and show
that the tide, so long setting heavily against
us, is now turning decidedly in our favor. It
the good work can he kept up new if we can
continue to deal the foe sneh sturdy blows ns
we have lately git- n him, all will he well.—
The year 1564 may be made m morable in his
tory by Confederate triumph:. which will go far
towards bringing our implacable enemy to his
senses, and may possible effect an early peace.
Indications or Tic l ' ig.e.—Since Judge Tear
eon of North Carolina lias given bis decision
against the recent act of Congress in repealing
the substitute law and enrolling principals, ;l
is asserted that the military authorities have
ordeis from the War Department to hold the
coUaci ipts to service, regardless of the decision
of any cotrt. If tire Confederate authorities
have taken this position, a controversy may he
expected in the North State, for Gov. Vance
has taken the position that when the placing
ot the principals of substitutes in the army is
decided, by North Carolina judges, to be a
violation of right, no man who has put in a
aubstlture shall be carried from the state, if he
|au help it.
I UK IICsIRK Kim PEAIT
the address of tin- Confederate Ct
. which we iiuve already placed ootor- j- a i
cr.-. we were pleased tn observe the following
•H e can only repeat the desire of the peo
pie for peace- and out readiness to accept terms
i;si.-,t<-ni with the honor and integrity and iri
; depend ace of tie* States, sad compatible witii
I ill. -. . ci v of our domestic institution.?.'*
I 'ir Government has repeatedly made this
' declaration since the beginning of this war
Indeed, before the . oinmencement ot lio liiitie
>otilh Carolina first, and aftei her the Conied
crate Government sent Commissioners to Wash
ington to ask that amicable relations might
continue between those who had so recently
been united ami r the same government, in
bis messages and in his “prTk finnatioftr. our
I’re ident Las constantly kept before the civil
ized world the fact that we were fish ting mere
ly in defence id on: homes,' Util fffr.t the sword
would fall from our grasp at tin- very moment
when the Federal forces should cease to assail
us. So recently as this winter, in acknowledg
ing the courtesy of a foreign ecclesiastic the
same desire law been reiterated.
ft i true that ail our appeals hitherto on this
subject have borne no apparent Imit. When
we have protested that we desired peace, they
have replied by saying, “ We are for war!”—
“ War for the union “ War to restore your
alienated affections, and to bring you into fra
t-rnul intercourse with us !” Ifut unavailing
nsbave been our past protestations on this snli
ject, we are nevertheless pleased that our Con
grew in -the’extended address which it Ims pul>-
li.shed, repeats the wish for peace. Such an
expression is in perfect unison with the feelings
of our entire people. Let it go forth again to
the world, with ail the authority which our
legislators in solemn assembly eau bestow upon
i(. Let it appear side by side with the resolves
of our enemy to ‘-prosecute the war with in
creased vigor." Let christendoirf know what
party is responsible for the prolongation of the j
bloody drama, which for nearly three years j
past has been in progress oft this continent. Let :
the historian who recites the horrors of the eon
test record that the bloody strife was continued
because twenty millions of men, claiming the
right of self-government, were unwilling to ac
cord to eight millions ojUoeople the indentical
prerogative on whteh wey hail insisted for
themselves.
Though our appeals for peace have not met
with the response which we had hoped, we do
not think that thoy have been wholly unavail
ing. It is certain that there is a constantly
growing peace sentiment at the North. It is re
strained by the tierce bowlings for war which
are constantly kept up by the party in po.ver,
hut the feeling is there, deep and inextinguish
able in the bosoms of many, Indeed we believe
that it the opinion of the North could be lion
cstly expresed to-day. it would show a majority
of legal voters in favor of desisting from war
upon a people whojAsole offending is that they
wish the privilege (>T soli’-gcp eminent./The few
who express this do it in defiance of
the reigning government, and at the hazard of
imprisonment and damage. The number of
outspoken people would be much greater if
thoy Were under no apprehension from the
avowal of their convictions. It is unquestiona
hly our policy to do every thing in our power
to increase the number of unconditional peace
men at the North. We believe that this can be
done by carrying the swoid in one hand and tho
olive branch in the other. Let us strengthen
our armies to the utmost limit of our capacity.
Let us lie prepared, so far as our resources will
permit, to encounter any force which the ene
my can send against us. So long as they as
sail. let us determine to resist. At the same
time let us steadily remonstrate on the
injustice of Urn war, and hold up our earnest de
sire to be relieved of the necessity of perilling
our own lives and of shedding the blood of the
invader. To strengthen the Northern peace
party, Is at the same time to undermine the in
(luence ot the bloody dynasty who wields
power in the Federal States. With the tall of
Lie Republican party, we may promise ourselves
an armistice—to be followed at no distant day
by such a peace as that which is contemplated
in the address of our Congressmen.
The Last Laid on Richmond—lts Object.—
The Richmond papers contain a full account of
the object of the last raid on that city. Fortu
nately for the city, and the residents therein,
the purposes of the bold raiders were defeated.
The Federals were met in the neighborhood of
Walkerton, in King and Queen couuty, and de
feated. Ninety prisoners, thirty-five negroes,
.mil one hundred and fifty horses were captured.
Several Federals were killed, among them Col.
Dahltfren, the leader. His body fell into the
hands of our troops. On his peison was found
papers which disclose the diabolical schemes
which he had in view. Thoy were these :To
liberate the Federal prisoners in Richmond, to
sack and destroy the place, to murder the
President, his advisers, and the leading men
of the city—iu short, to plunder and kill, and
burn every thing -but hospitals. Dahlgren
winds up his infamous order by commanding
his troops to “ask the blessing of the Almighty’
on his dark and bloody project.
The whole plot seemed to have gone awry as,
it deserved. There were to have been three
bands. One to have entered tile city on the
mrth. the other two to have approached it by
the river—one on the north lxmk and the other I
on the south. It is understood that from a de- !
lay caused l»v a mistake or intentional mislead
ing of them by a negro guide, the column that
was to have crossed the liver did not do so.—
Dio guide was certainly hung for his services!
Thus lias concluded the grand plot which was
to have achieved results that Daklgren assured
his men would “write their names on the hearts
;) f •their' countrymen in letters that can neyer
be erased." Their failure deprives them of
my such inscription on the hearts ol their
countrymen: but they have in lieu another
inscription upon the pages of history which
will hand them down to the execration of man
kind through all future agei.
The expedition Was a total failure in every
particular. Richmond still stands uninjured.
I he President and his cabinet have escaped the
doom designed* tor them. And the blood
thirsty incendiary, with many of his misguided
followers, have gone to their last account.
•sALDt or Stocks. Neukobs, ice.—Grittiu &
Cos. made the following sales Tuesday :
Five shares Augusta Factory stock, SI9OO
per share.
Three hundred shares Bath Paper Mills
stock, $260 to SSOO per share.
Ten shares Alabama Railroad bonds. $2300
each.
Ten shares Fanners' A exchange Bank. South
Carolina, $75 per share.
Also, the following negroes: Woman Abby,
22 years old. and two children, $7850; girl Isa
bella, unsound, $1700; Louisa, 47 years old,
$1500; Lewis, 20 years old, 53800.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 10, ISOt.
\or.Tll. '.RA AEtVX
■ e an. Grangei resa •- th* .- ncx
ed opinion of South-ni deserters ‘‘Vouh.-.u
better watch them, ft is true some deve.t.
sucii tnen w ere never true Southerners atd ue
ler made good soldiers. Tiieii dcm on
j lump talk does us more i- ry than their u -
j erne in battle ioes.us zoed /T-.er* *re ..users
vvh tn to I accept in takmg !*•• an --sty whom
I vo w siid do weii to watch.
'. Weiliogton writes to the Chicag* Tim-’s.
from Memphis, insisting that "v- are ic- n
ion uii'ii iu Western Tenues . r ‘-‘ ' nl 1
the natives Are animated by a -pifit Oise - «e
rincing, unabated hatred to the Nortkem ty
ratlin, tofu-fold mure biller than it a is two
years ago
A pyramid - iriiiiai, to tho-e of Eg>p>t, but
smaller, bis been discovered in California
The courses are of stone „i\ leet long and trots:
on - t-o three feet thick
A V itikec- correspondent writing from the
bio, ku.ling s.-juadron oji Mobile, says the h at
doe uot im lude a single clad -
lutgie ia Clarksville. Tenn., a few
days since invilpd four Federal soldiers to
drinlr. They died the same night. Upon ex
amin ition the liquor was found lo be poisoned.
A San Francisco despatch states that the Con
fed -fctte.steamer Alabama w blockaded in the
Chinese port of An ray, by the steamers Wyo
ming and Jamestown.
The first conviction in the State oi Illinois
under the conscription act, for rescuing desert
ers. was tried in the Federal Court. The pris
oner, a man of sixty years old, was. sentenced
to the county jail for six months and to pay a
tine of one hundred dollars.
'There is living in Springfield. Ohio, a man
named Letfel, who is forty-four inches in height,
and weighing but fifty-five pounds ! Mr. Let
fel is now thirty-two years of ago.
The Union State Conventions oi lowa and
Indiana have declared in favor of Lincoln for
tin* next Presidency.
The expenditures of the United States Gov -
ernment tor the past year are about one third
greater than those oi the Confederate Govern
ment—the former being about nine hundred
million dollais. and the latter something less
than six hundred million dollars.
The Military Committee of the U. S. Senate
have report* l against the bill to prevent mili
tary interference in State elections.
Tlie New York Tribune complains loudly be
cause the directors of the city railroads will not
allow negroes to ride in the cars. The expul
sion of a “sergeant of the first corps d'Atnq ue
ot Louisiana, who who had lost iiis login battle
with the rebels,” is made the occasion to raise
an outcry, and it is asserted that “well behaved
and cleanly persons." and “women and ciiil
dieu decently dressed and respectable,” are
thrust into the street aud compelled to walk,
“simply on account of tlr -ir color.” Greeley
grows wrathy because Dinah is treated thus-
His taslc would allow them to “all take a
lido.”
1 lie magistrate's Court of St. John’s, N. B.
lias decided tlie captors of the steamer Chesa
peake to have been guilty of piracy, murder
and robbery, and ordered the delivery of the
accused parties to the United States authori
ties.
Tlie New York Tribune says the Democracy
of Indiana ate, if possible, more resolutely dis
loyal this year than ever. They have just held
their Congressional Conventions for tlie ap
pointment of delegates to the National Con
vention, and tiie platforms put forth embody
sentiments eminently suitable to secession.
Both houses of the Federal Ceugrexs hare
concurred iu the report of the Committee of
Conference on the “Enrollment Bill”
port fixes tlie commutation fee of vdOOO, but
renders the drafted man w iio commutes liable to
be drawn again after the expiration of one year.
All able-bodied persons of African descent be
tween twenty aud foity five years of age, are to
lie enrolled, and when the slave of a loyal m is
ter is drafted and mustered into service, he
shall be free, the master to be paid tee sum to
be awarded by a commission not exceeding
$llOO.
The Washington correspondent of Hie New
York Herrld thinks the political mameuvres in
that cilv are assuming considerable importance,
and says the war between the Republican fac
tions grows fiercer and furious. The Lincoln
men have abandoned the 'convention system,
and rely upon the nomination of their canid.de
by acclamation. The Chase men, however,
leave a great gun to bring to bear that is intend
ed completely to frustrate the plans of their op
ponents. In the meanwhile it is added, the
Dera .treats are quietly tying in wait for a spring.
They intend to squelch copperheadism in their
ranks, and place themselves on a straight-out
war platform, and patiently hold on till the
war of the Republican roses is fairly inaugura
ted, when they will introduce General Grant
ns a eaniddate. and go in!to win, with the assur
ance of the support not only of all the opposi
tion, but of the defeated taction in the Repub
lican Nominating Convention.
The b ailed Stales gunboat Conestoga recent
ly captured four Confederate officers, two of
them Colonels, who attempted to cross the
Mississippi river. A large mail, $-00.01)0 in
New Orleans money, and other property, were
captured at the same time .
The friends of Andy Johnson advocate his
nomination for the Vice I'rcsidency.
A ship canal around Niagara Falls is being
talked of.
The Chicago Times is talking quite plainly.
It says that the Lineolnites are not now carry
ing on this war for tlio restoration of the Un
ion. hut for plunder, and for negro emancipa
tion and equality.
Silver and gold mines have been discovered
in upper Michigan.
The Chicago Times says if all the opponents
of Lincoln in the Federal Congress would act
os nobly .03 Bayard of Deleware, the Lincoln
ites would soon he overthrown at home.
The Chicago Times states that the nomina
tion o. Mr. Lincoln by the Administration
members of several Stale Legislatures is the
result of caucusing ami strategy, rather than a
deliberate expression of the masses of the Ab
olition party.
Gen. Davidson has been ordered to Washing
ton to take charge of the cavalry bureau.
Ttie Abolition National Convention will meet
in Baltimore on June 7 th.
The Maryland Union State Convention have
passed a resolution in favor of the immediate
abolition of slavery in that State, and in all
other states. The convention also endorsed
Lincoln's amnesty proclamation.
Cotton is selling in the Memphis market at
06 a Ot' cents per pound.
According to the Northern papers, the gos
pel according to Lincoln is hereof'er to be cram
med into secession hearts at the point of the
bayonet.
The New York Tribune advocates the ap
pointment of Butler as the military governor
of the btates within Grant's command. We
pity any one in that section that- has any prop
erty lie can get hold of if the appointment is
made.
The Federal papers acknowledge their defeat
in Florida. One of them in speaking of the
affair says: “In ninety hours we marched one
hundred and ten miles, fought a battle of three
hours' duration, got badly whipped, and what
is left ot our army is back again where we
started from."
In delivering the opinion of the Court in the
case of Yallandigbam. Mr. Justice Wayne stated
that even if the" sentence was illegal, the Su
preme Couil of the United States had no pow
er to revise the judgment of a military court,
nor could any appeal from that tribunal be en
tertained.
Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, in course of
some remarks in the Yankee Congress, on a
resolution concerning investigations as to de
partment affairs, declared that the liberties of
the North were in as great danger from the
army of plunderers which beset the treasury
as trom the Confederates.
It is becoming the fashion again to mob De
mocratic newspapers at the North. Within a
few weeks, the Crawfotd Democrat, and the
Northeumberland Democrat, of Pennsylvania,
and the Mahoning Sentinel, and Ohio Eagle,
of Ohio, have been summarily suppressed.
Fifty-two escaped officers in all have arrived
at Fortress Monroe, including Col. Sfreight,
who was twelve days in making his way to the
lines.
VOftTHSRX .NEWS,
. The New York Democratic State Co-. .Ration
met at Albany Wednesday. After cole Met in::
the preliminary organization,.a commi tee on
credentials was appointed, who reported in fa
vor of admitting six delegates from each vt the
N-. iv York ciiv t- tioos 'i'auuaany,' Mmwrt
a.n! MeKeon. A squally time ensued, and the
opposing factions changing ea* h >tber with ail
,-ort- of viieuess' ..ud trickery. T’;e quarie. re
vealed the rapt that, with the -xceptiou of the
rammonyites, the leaders of the jJemocrav v iu
: Nwv i ork city are thoroughly .impiegruiied
i with the peace delusion. Finally the report of
*! he' comm it tee was adopted and agreed l, fey
the'Mo-art and McKtaon ructions; whereupon
the Tammany delegation withdrew. At fte
meeting next day . Convention de'i-pates to tu*.
National Convention were .•Vcu-ii. Horatio
■:.eymom Dean Riehtnor. i Isaac Rutts aud At.
: gust Relmont, bc-ing no: rV. Slate at larg-
The C invention madA no attempt to ere-:’.a
platform oil>r did the/ onvi a,, , '
mvl I‘Tfvre- liim <•' r .-«• :h'-s>
rilJlis at i lie before the couniry.
The Federal steam frigate Majara has been
ordered to prepare lor sea immediately. .Six of
A Imiral Farragut's fleet are ready to leave New
York, and three more gunboats 'have been or
dered to tlie blockading fleet off Wilmington. ,
Maj. Gen. sig.-l has been assigned to the •
command of the Department of Western Vir-
ginia.
A Lincoln national bank is tube established
at Norfolk, Va.
The Memphis Argus mentions a fight which
recently occurred between a portion of the Un
ion forces and guerrillas at Holcombe Island,
near (Jape Girardeau. Mo., in which Colin, the
commander oi the Confederates, was captured
and conveyed to Cape Girardeau, where he was
put in jail. A short time since, a number of
citizens and soldiers broke the jail, took Boliq
out of it and hung him to a tree near by. Tlui
Federal Government will, of course, disclaim
all responsibility for tlie murder, but our cov-1
eminent ought to have the nc-rve to demand
the guilty perpetrators of it, and enforce its
demand.
The Chicago Times say that now tlie North
ein Churches are mere political wige warns in
which congregations are influenced under a
hypocritical prefenee of Christianity, to vote]
for such creatures as Caßcott aud Cameron.;
The Times, also ads that the corruption fes-1
loring in every department of government :
finds its most efficient protection iu the minis
ters of Jesus.
The New York “Times’ ’’ London correspon
dent represents the Confederate cause as pros
pering in England. Everybody is signing peti
tions to tlie Government to do something to
stop the war.
The Yankee General Thomas. becansesWßßic
teamsters were shot by our guerrillas, near
Mulberry. Tenn., has assessed $20,000 upon
the secession sympathizers living within ten
miles of the place where they were captured,
for tire purpose of the families of the killed.
NEWS SUMMARY.
The Richmond Enquirer says it is clear that
the five per cent, levied by the new tax act up
on gold is payable in kind. The Tax is five
per cent, on the amount in hand.
The North Carolina papers say. that the late
act of Congress will add Irom ten to fifteen
thousand men to the Confederate army from
that State.
The Richmond Examiner states that food in
that city is becoming very sea ice, and sinrma-ts.
that lh« Prowl a 'has! for ah' indefi
nite period to meet the emergency.
The steamer Alice. Captam’Egan, arrived at
a Confederate port a few days ago with an as
sorted cargo. *
Richmond seems to be favored more with
thieves than any oilier city of the Confederacy.
They steal by wholesale.
A young lady and gentleman, both of whom
were only fourteen years of age, were married
in Columbus, Ga., a few days ago. This cer
tainly is starting early.
Hon. L. J. Gartrell, of Atlanta one of the
members of Congress whose tenn has just ex
pired, has been appointed a Brigadier General
and ordered to report for duty to Gen. Cobb.
The steamer Advance, with another valuable
cargo, has arrived at Wilmington, it being the
sixth she has brought iu. She carried on her
outward trip seven hundred bales oi cotton,
which are now safe at Bermuda, and converted
into two hundred thousand dollars iu sterling
exchange, equal to upwards of lour mi lions of
currency.
The Richmond papers state that a weekly
flag of truce boat will pass between Fortress
Monroe and City Point, hereafter. The last
Federal steamer brought up fifteen tons of
provisions for the prisoners, and a mail of be
tween two and three thousand letters.
The steamship Amelia owned by a Company
of which James W. Brown, of Charleston, is
President, Avas recently captured by a U. |
mail steamer off’ Tampa Bay. The Amelia 1
cleared and wont out safely and went into a
bayou, where she was discovered by the mail
steamer, by whom she was captured and taken
to parts unknown. The Amelia, with her car
go, was valued at $200,000. She is' a total
loss to the Company.
M. It Cullen, Esq., of St. Louis, Mo., has
been appointed a Judge of the Military Court
of the Confederate army, and assigned to the
Mississippi depalment.
According to the construction of the recent
tax law in the Treasury Department, lax pay
ers will be required to state the articles and
effects subjected to a specific or advalorem
tax, and owned or possessed by them on the
17 th day of February, 18111, the date of the
act.
The Federal prisoners at Danville, Ya. have I
undertaken to a work a Morgan tunnel. The!
outlet was discovered a few days since. They
excavated some sixty feet.
The daily Avages of detailed soldiers and
other employees of the Government aye not
liable to taxation as Income, although they mav
amount,, in the aggregate, to the sum of one
thousand dollars per annum.
Some of the members of Congress still ling
er about R’chmond and among them are sever
al of the ‘-forty’ ’ conscripts, seeking, no doubt,
as soft a place as possible. A prominent Sena
tor said, a shortomie ago, that he had received
no less than twmry different applications from
ex-members for recommendations to office.
Gen. Morgan has received four thousand dol-
lars from the proceeds of two Concerts given
in Atlanta for the benefit of his command.
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in the Confederate States of
will meet in the Presbyterian Church at Char
lotte, X. C. on the first Tuesday'of May, 1864,
at 11 o’clock, A. M. The opening sermon will
be preached by llev. James A. Lyon, D. D.
the Moderator of the last Assembly.
The Committee on Commissions will meet in
the Lecture Boom of the above named Church
on Wednesday, the 4th of May, at 8 o'clock,
P. M. to receive Commissions.
Colonal George Win Breut, of Alexandria,
Virginia, who lias served so long and so faith
fully as Assistant Adjutant-General of the
Army of Tennessee on Genet al Bragg’s stall',
has been ordered to Richmond, and is succeed
ed by Major A. P. Mason, also of Alexandria.
Virginia.
The distance of the unfinished grading on the
Piedmont Railroad is six miles, with about
eighteen miles of unlaid rails, This road runs
from Danville, Va.. to Greensboro'. N. C. con
necting the Richmond and Danville Railroad
with the North Carolina Railroad.
The most impressive and significant fact of
the day is that the State of Virginin—the Flan
ders of the War—in Yankee estimation, worn
out and nearly bankrupt befoie the war began,
finds itself alter three years of hostilities, in a
situation that enables it to relieve its citizens
from taxation for a period of twelve months,
and this after appropriate® several millions
of dollars to purposes beyond the ordinary ex
penses of Government.
Sugar h’s decleined in the Richmond market
from two and a half to tour dollars per pound.
It is now stated that the Federal force at
Xewbern N. C. when our troops attackted the
force numbered only two thousand instead of
the large force before reported.
A call has been issued to the Lincolnites in
Tennessee to meet at Memphis to take
initiatory steps for the restoration of the State
to her former status in the Union.
V S-PIKITED A\rt RA i numt- OKDKR FHO.VI
USX U 1!. T. WALKER.
I SPECIVt. C,HIRESPOMVKM'f l iriUKvrCLE A SEFTI.NEI,
I'alton, March 7. ISO 4.
The annexed order from Gen. W. 11. T.
Waker lias hwn read to his Division :
111.Ap QrAfL’kHS Walker’s Division )
Nn.ik Dalton. March-l’, iS;t(. j
oViiej-u? Or,hr, .Vo 11.
The Commanding General of live Division
calls upon all theoiti,-ers and privates to pre
! pare tor ifie coming campaign. The enemy
slatted out with a grand programme. The Al
irbania River was lobe leached-by .Sherman :
w itii that as a bast; it was bat a step to the
Ciiattuhooehe ; Mouth Western Georgia was R>
be reached by iJillmoie oh Florida, and- a rant
waste march rouih shod over the gallant army
of Jolm-ton.
l enemy we-e foiUvl in all Uv.-s.'* erfbri-T
Sbcrruari is bound for the Big Black : Gillinorc
is cowering under protection of has £iin-boats
at Jackson. Fla., and Grant is luxuriating in
the mud of Chattanooga.
So tar the day is our s. Let us now prepare
to take advantage of tlie discomfiture of out
ioe, and let us nil have but one common re
solve, mid let that be to conquer the freedom
of our country or die in the attempt.
Officers! louaie discharging your duty to 1
your country, and maintaining your own self
respect, by keeping up a strict and positive
discipline.
Privates ! The trials and privations you en
dure, you will be rifchly rewarded for when tire
war is over. You hold the post of honor, and
a grateful country will owe to your bravery,
constancy and patriotism tlie liberty you will
achieve for her. lie thou obedient to your offi
cers. liy respecting them in their proper posi
tions you but show respect for yourselves.
If there lie any amongst you who harbor the
vile thought of desertion, reflect what ignominy
you bring upon your families; reflect what an
object of aversion you will be to your friends;
above all, reflect what a disgrace it is to our
Cause and our country.
Go where you will, your Commanding Gen
eral will l>e with you. lie will ask you to bear
no hardships or dangers which he will not
proudly share. Wjtli the shields of Carolina,
Mississippi and Geergia locked, we defy the ad
vance of robbers. W. 11. T. Wai.ker,
Commd’g Division,
■tXT'JO.t OF THit THIRD USOROIA B ATTAR.
LIRA OF SHAKPaIkOOTEUS.
Cami’ ok Wolford's Bbigade, )
New Market, Tenn., !-
Feb. 12, IS(H. j
At a meeting of the officers and men of the
Third Ga., Battalion, Sharpshooters, to decide
upon a course of action in view of the ap
proaching, expiration of t heir term of service,
Capt. John W. King was called to preside, and
Capt Garnett McMillan, to act as Secretary.
Capt. Win. E. Simmons, commanding the Bat
talion, submitted to the meeting (he preamble
and resolutions following, which met with its
cordial and unanimous adoption :
~-Whereas, The government of the United
States persist in waging a war of conquest and
subjugation against the Confederate States, and
by refusing to agree to an honorable and equit
able adjustment of our present difficulties
leaves us no other alternative but to fight on
for the accomplishment ot the glorious cud
that wc have pledged our lives, our honor, and
our fortunes to achieve ; and Whereas, the
term of three .•-*■ e_A*rifciaj*Hjr
ft-oTttHWPmI bur services in the army of the
Confederate States will soon expire, therefore,
Resolved, That we hereby tender our services
to the Il.m. Secretary of War, for the war,
and express om unalterable determination
never to lay down our arms so long as the foot
o) an armed eiu-my presses the soil of our
country—nor until wo win an honorable peace
and independence.
Resolved, That we see nothing in the situa
tion to discourage any man who is worthy to
be a freeman, if our countrymen will all de
termine to discharge the duty that they owe to
themselves, their country, and, above all, to
their God, in this, tlie crisis of our struggle lor
independence.
Resolved, That we appeal to those who are
home, and especially to the ladies—whose
untiring devotion to our cause, and zealous
efforts iu our behalf have elicited our highest
admiration and eutitled them to our lasting
gratitude—to drive the skulkers and unauthor
ized absentees back to the army by heaping
upon them the indignant scorn their basenses
merits.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions
be forwarded to the Hon. Secretary of War—
to Lieut. General Longstreet and Brig. General
Wofford, and that the Georgia papers be re
quested to publish the same.
John W. Kino, President.
Garnett McMillan, Sec’ry.
A Very Sixoit.au Cask. —During the Super
ior Court for this county last week a negro
woman aged eighteen named Becky, the prop
erly of Mr; Goodwin Myvick, was tried for the
murder of a negro child about nine’months of
age the property of Mr. Webb. The testi
mony disclosed this ca-e; Upon the return of
Mr. Myrick last fall from service in the State
troops, he discovered that Becky had been very
idle, having been put to spinning, only a breach
a day. He went to the field where lie had just
put Her to work, and said to her, “you have
been pretending for some time to he in a fami
ly way. I believe you are trying to impose on
me. I will cause you to he examined and if
you have deceived me, I as ill lmvo you blister
ed.’ In two nights afterwards Becky laid up,
I and alleged that she had been confined. The
j master of the little child finding it missing from
; his prcmis’es and hearing of tho confinement of
! Becky got a friend and went over about a mile
and a half to Mr. Myrick’s, where upon ex
| amination they found the child on its all fours
on the floor of the negro cabin—Becky in bed
attended by a negro midwife and her husband.
Upon examination of the child it was found
that its hair had been mostly pulled -out, its
two front teeth pulled out and the tip of the
navel .cut off, thus opening the sack so that its
intestines slightly protruded. A physician, Dr.
Harper, was called some twelve hours before
ho was enabled to make his visit. He lomul
the intestines swollen and inflamed and was
compelled to make an incision so as to replace
them. The true mother of the child was taken
to see it and recognized it as her own. The
child died from the cutting of t'uenavel. When
the child was stolen, by whom, or by whom
the teeth were taken out and the navel cut,
was not disclosed by the testimony. When the
child died Becky exhibited great grief. It was
con c led by the State’s counsel that they did
not .believe Becky intended to kill the ehild—
but that the circumstances attending the ease
made it a case ol' murder.
The Jury, however, after deliberation of two
hour.-, rendered a verdict of Involuntary Man
slaughter. 1 lie punishment under the Code ad
mitted of nothing heavier than the lash. Bhe
was sentenced to receive two hundred lashes—
in instalments of twenty five at a time—at in
tervals of four days. This was a case entirely
circumstantial and lienee the unwillingness of
the Jury to find a higher grade of homicide.
MiUcdgvill. Uunion
Sti.et. Ships — r ihe advocates of the sub
stitution of steel for ir..n in the construction ot
snips urge that the change they propose in
volves the advantages of economy, and in
c.eased strength and carrying' capacity. Tho
soundness of their theory is about to be tested
on a scale which has not hitherto been attempt
ed lwo large ocean-going ships, formed of
i- tee * ,°.!!' ! ihc® a steamer, built for Messrs,
raser, i renhobn & Go., the Confederate agents,
weie launched trom the yard of Messrs, Jones,
vjmggin & Cos., of Liverpool. The Chief Con
structor ot the Navy was attracted to Liverpool
y an event of so much national interest, and
a _ a lie J e uner or which followed thS launch, cx
pre--,ed his sense of the importance of the
question which the future career of these two
a es-e.s might help to solve. He had “a very
tgn opinion ot steel, as compared with iron,
ior shipbuilding purposes, bnt he could not
pledge himself to any decided course in the
matter until he hail seen how far the newly
launched ships justified the anticipations of
, * r builders.— ltcrhy i Eng.) Mercury, Decem
ter.—ind.
A column of Federal cavalry have been on a
raid through Clay and Cherokee counties, N.
U. Col. Palmer, with an adequate force is en
deavoring to obtain an interview with them.
VOL. LXXVIII. —NEW SERIES VOL. XXVIIL 'O. H
! NkoroEqdautv.—The Lineolnites are try
ing to bring about social as well as-politjeal
equality between the black and white race.
Read the following from the proceedings of the
United States Senate at Washington :
Mr. Sumner, ot Massachusetts, introduced a
resolution directing tlie Committee on the Dis
trict of Columbia to inquire into the expedien
cy oi' a law granting equality of privileges to
colored people on the railroads of the District.
He called attention to thesubjeet, for-thc reason,
that an out rage was recently committed iu this
District upon an officer with the rank of major
in the United States service. 'This officer had'
been ejected from one of the street cars by the
conductor, solely because lie was a black man.
lie thought we had better break up all our rail
roads if we could not have them without such
outrages, which did more to injuie our cause
abroad and at home than a defeat in battle.
Mi. Hendrick: of Rijimi-i th.-iq&bc that the
cm.rage ’ was the other wav; separate cars
were provided for the colored people. This
“outrage" had occurred because this colored
Major declined to ride in the cars intended for
peronsof his color, and wished to force himself
with white men aud ladies.
Mr. Grimes, of lowa, did not think it was a
disgrace to ride iu the same car with colored
persons.
Mr. Sumner read a letter from the Surgeon
of the Seventh Colored Volunteers. Senator
Sumner said that lie believed it was as great an
outrage as it would be to eject the Senator
from Indiana from his seat here.
Mr. Wilson said tlie act was but a part of tlio
malignant system ot slavery; but the country
was lieing lapidly abolitionized and civilized.
Mr. Hendricks believed, from the expressions
the had heard uttered, that social as well as po
litical equality was to be forced upon the white
race. He was glad that the Senator from Mas
sachusetts had now plainly piesented the issue
before the country, T lie people ot his State
(Indiana) would never adopt such a sentiment.
Mr. Wilson, of Massachusetts, said he wanted
every man to assume tlie station Goa intended
him to attain.
The ayesand lines being taken, tlie resolution
was adopted by a vote of thirty-four agaius
twelve.
Two Cars fall off a Bridge one Hundred
and Twenty-Five Fret High. —The Toronto
Globe of Feb. 10th, lias tlie following particu
lars of an acoident the day before on the Grand
Trunk Railroad, at George Station :
The river here is very shallow, being at this
season of the year not more than two or three
feet in depth, and almost completely frozen
over. About. 8 o'clock Feb. hth, as a height
train from Sarnie was approaching this bridge,
it was noticed by those on the train that atiax
letree of one oLihe rear cars was broken. The
engine being notified of the fact, at
once whistled “brakes down;’’ but owing to tlie
ioe on the track, aud the train being on tlie
down grade, tlie train could not be stopped as
under ordinary circumstances. At the time tlie
defect in the axletree was discovered the train
was within two hundred yards of the bridge and
going at the ordinary rate of speed. The per
sons on the train did all in their power to stop
it.
All their efforts, however, were unavailing,
as the train still kept moving and In a lew mo
ments entered on the bridge. The engine and
tender and a number of the cars passed onward
in safety, but just as the last ifco cars came upon
the bridge,, .tlie coupling of tlur fonvafd
one broke. In these cars were the conductor
of the train and two brakesmen. Immediately
on tiie parting of the train the last two cars ran
’off the track, the side rail of the
bridge, took an awful leap into the air, and foil
with a fearful crash, into the river beneath,- a
distance of 125 feet. They were, of course,
smashed to atoms, and the three unfortunate
inen were mangled in such a horrible manner
as to be scarcely distinguishable as human be
iugs. Their arms, bodies, heads, aud legs we e
cut, smashed, and crushed into one sickening,
awful mass of creeping, jellied flesh and bone.
The head of the unfortunate conductor could at
first nowhere be found, but after searching
among tlie ruins pieces of skull, face, and brain,
all that now remaineiljofit, were picked up and
placed together. There can be no doubt that
tlie accident resulted from the axletree, as all
that portion of tlie train before the broken cat
passed safely over-the bridge. The bridge was
not very much injured by the affair, only a few
of the rails and the portion of the side rail
through which the cars rim having been dam
aged.
More or Butler's Doings. —Butler is drawing
a tight rein on those in his department. He is
making charges of various kinds against those
who have property, in order to have some ex
cuse ta strip them and add to his illgotteu
gains. A Norfolk correspondent of the Phil
adelphia luquirer writes thus :
A most important case ,which has been
claiming the attention of the Provost Court for
some time past, was concluded yesterday. The
defendant, a Mrs. Caroline Van Leack, has re
sideiPsiuce the rebellion at Currituck Bridge,
N. C., where she has been doing an immense
business, and fast becoming rich'therefrom
She purchased goods very largely from New
York and other cities and almost simultaneous
lv with their arrival at her store they were
converted into cash. From certain facts com
ing to the knowledge of our authorities they
caused an investigation to be made which hd
to her arrest.
About the first of December last she had a
preliminary examination at Fortress Monroe,
and Avas remanded for trial before the Provost
Court sitting in this city. Two distinct charges
were preferred against her. The first, of aid
ing and abetting the enemy ; the second of
violating the oath of allegiance. She was con
victed upon the first, though not upon the sec
ond. for the want of sufficient evidence. The
sentance Avas that she pay a fine of five thous
and dollars and be sent out of the Department,
and that the property belonging to her taken
possession of by the Provost Marshall, he sold
Giy him. Her counsel moved for an appeal,
Avhich Avas granted. The defendant claims to
be an English subject. Tho evidence showed
that she had been largely engaged in traflieing
with rebels residing outside of the United
States lines.
A similar case to this was disposed of one
day last week, before the same tribuuial.
Emanuel Camp, n merchant of this city, was
found guilty of trading and corresponding
with the enemy. He was sentenced to be con
fined in Fort Norfolk for three months, pay a
fine of two thousand dollars, and be sent out
of the Department. The accused, wishing to
appeal to the Major-General Commanding, was
admitted to bail in the sum of SIO,OOO, until a
final decision in the case is given.
Statu of Georgia /
Adjutant ani> Inspector General’s Office,
Millkdckvilt.e. March 4th, 1861. )
General Orders No. 7.
I The at tention of Superintendents of elec
tion" in this State, for officers of the Militia,
under the “Act to re organize the Militia of the
State of Georgia, and for other purposes,’ as
sented to Dec. 14, 1863, is called to the Eighth
Section of that act, which makes the Aids-de-
Camp of the respective Senatorial or Military
Districts of this State, the channels of com
munication with this office, on matters apper
taining to the Militia. All election returns
will be forwarded to the Aids de-Camp accord
] |"' Ou receiving the returns of ejections the
Aids-de-Camp in command of Districts, are
charged with the duty of adjusting and classi
fying the same by counties, keeping the re
turns of each county separate and distinct.
They will consolidate the returns for Company
Officers, and for Field Officers ot Regiments
and Battalions, reporting the names of candi
dates, and the votes of each, and will evi
dence and decide on contested sub
ject to appeal to this Office by either party dis
satisfied In which event, the evidence will
be forwarded by the Aids, with the dec.s.on ren
'ellll. To expedite the organization, the Aids
are directed to forward their reports by mail,
and Officers elected, are notified that their
personal presence at this Office, will avari
nothing, to secure commissions out of the re
gular order of business, or to change that Ol
der in any respect. . ,
By order of the Commander-m thiel.
1 HK.vur C. Wayne,
Adjutant and Inspector General,
Gov. Allen's Address to the People or New
Orleans —The recently inaugurated Governor
of Louisiana has issued the annexed address to
the people of New Orleans. The document is
issued from the the Executive office, at Shreve
port and bears date of Jan doth.
1 greet you as The Governor of Louisiana.
Your trials aud your troubles are well known,
and your.patriotic conduct fully .appreciated by
the executive of your State. Do not be des
pondent. Do not despair; but rather let the
fires ot patriotism tuuu brightly at every fire
side, for in a few short months you shall be free.
You have been despoilded and robbed, and
basely insulted. Every dignity that a brutal,
unprincipled .aud vindictive foe could invent,
has been heaped upon you. Bear your persecu
tions as did your fathers before you, and nerve
your h.-arts for the coming hour Our people
•are flocktur m the«rvmv-in , ve.tV dir; . ‘ion, ami
when the ij-iuig compaign opens, half a million
ol'gallant tfonlederate soldiers will strike for
liberty ami independence. Citizens of New Or-
leans ! lie true to yourselves, and your State
will be true to you. Spurn all propositions
for compromises of any kind—spit upon the in
sulting proposal fora bastard State government.
Keep your own council—do your duty and bide
your time—you shall be free! The hated ty
rants who lord it over you now—who daily in
sult you without remorse, and roll you without
shame—these accursed villians-ythis crew of
thieves and murderers will yet receive their re
ward. Ladies of New Orleans, God Almighty
bless you in your trials—may Heaven guard
you and protect you. ‘-When (.lie spring time
comes, gentle ladies,” you will sec the “grey
coats” again, and then you shall welcome back
to New Orleans tlie sons and daugliteis of
Louisiana. You are tlie treasure of earth. Oil!
he not weary in well doing !-—cheer up the des
ponding. Be kind to our prisoners who are
languishing in the wretched cells of the enemy.
N on will receive the undying gratitude of your
country and in Heaven above wiil be crowned
among the angels of God.
Remarks ok Gen. Breckinridge at I.yncii
mißc., Va. —Mai. Gen. J. ( '. Breckinridge passed
through Lynchburg, March -f, on his way to his
new command. The citizens of tlie place ser
enaded him in the evening, and called on him
for.a speech, lie appeared and responded in
substance as follows :
“Fellow Citizens and Soldiers : 1 come be
fore you to offer my thanks for tlie honor you
have conferred upon me. not to make a speech,
for 1 have not made an address since tlie com
meneeinent of the wav. and 1 shall not make
one until after its close, but briefly return you
my thanks. I have never doubted and never
expect, to doubt the result of the war in which
we arc engaged, and l regard those as wanting
in devoticir to tlie cause and traitors to their
country, who would doubt it. I regard the
prospects of the Confederacy now, Letter than
they have ever been since the commencement
of the war. Our people know it, (lie soldiers
know it, and the people begin to acknowledge
The people of the North had mistaken us;
they regard us as an effeminate race; but they
have found that, man to man. we are more
than equal to them. They believed that out
voting men were wild and uncontrollable, and
could riot be brought to endurodiscipline, but
have found that they could endure tatigue, toil
and privations of lyty description, with entire
patience, and be disciplined equal to any troops
in the world.
1 have been hitherto serving in the West, but
have now, by the President, been assigned to
a command on anew theatre—Southwestern
Virginia. This city, although not within the
bounds of mv department, if she be invaded by
the enemy, I should feel it my duty to rush to
her defence, and though there are thousands of
the people who, properly out of the ranks of
the army, I have uo doubt they would, at my
call, tush to the defence of their homos with
wliatevev arms they could procure, to check tiie
invader until the regular troops could be
brought to bear upon them.
1 thank you, gentlemen for the attention
shown me, and with your permission will re
tire.
A Gallant Feat.— Our readers will remem
ber that some weeks ago a large lot of cattle
that were being driven from Yankeedom to
provision tiie forces at Knoxville, was captured
by some of Gen. Longslreet’s men, and tin
whole, about twelve hundred in number, turn
ed over to the Confederate commissary. The
Atlanta Appeal gives the annexed particulars
of the affair;
The drove had reached a point about nine
miles from Knoxville, and was under the escort
of three companies of the Indiana six months’
men. A party of Gen. Longstreet’s scouts,
eleven in number, discovered the prize, and,
notwithstanding tire disparity of numbers, at
once determined to secure it ii' possible. Plac
ing themselves in ambush at a favorable point,
at the proper moment thoy delivered a tire
from their carbines, which disabled some eight
or ten of the Yankees, immediately drawing
their revolvers, they made a charge, firing as
they run. So dismayed were the Yanks that
all broke and fled, except one captain and for
ty-three men, who surrendered without resist
ance. The captors speedily started for Gen.
Martin’s camp, twelve miles distant, which
they succeeded in reaching Avitli all their prison
ers, and nine hundred and eighty of the cattle.
Not satisfied with thi3, they procured aid from
Cion. Martin, and returning on the road, picked
up over two hundred more of the cattle that
had escaped from them on the route.
Sorra Carolina Banks- At a meeting of the
delegates from the Banks of South Carolina,
held in Columbia, on the Ist inst., the follow
ing preamable and resolutions were adopted ;
The banks of South Carolina hereby call the
attention of all concerned to Ihe operation
of the Act of the Confederate Congress
approved February 17, 1804, by which the
Treasury notes above the denomination of five
dollars,'not funded in four per cent, bonds be
fore the Ist of April proximo, will he then sub
jected to a tax of thirty three and one third
per cent., and they hereby give notice—
Ist. That all persons and corporations having
claims upon them for deposits, bank balances,
certificates, of deposit checks,demands, Ac., Ac.,
shall present their claims and receive payment
thereof on or before the 19th March instant.
2d. To facilitate the operations of their cus
tomers in funding their Treasury notes in four
per cent, bonds, according to tho above Act of
Congress, the banks will continue to receive
the same on deposit, until the 12th day ol
March instant, and to pay checks drawn against
I be same until the lffih idem inclusive.
3d. After the 19 th day of March instant afore
said. the banks in order to avoid for their de
positors and others interested the tax of thiity
three and one-third per cent,, will proceed to
hind the Treasury notes then lemaining in
their possession iii four per cent, bonds on ac
count of and for the benefit of the said depos
itors and others, and thereafter pay all such
claims in the said bonds.
4th. The banks will continue io receive and
pay out Treasury notes of the denomination of
live dollars and less, and will receive in the
same manner as heretofore the new issue to be
made under this Act.
The King of Akaucaxia and Patagonia.
This monarch is very much disturbed at hav
ing been called a king out of business. He is a
Frenchman by biith, and before he became a
king used to be known as Mr. Tonnens. He
went to Araucania and was elected king. The
Chilians have driven him away, and with un
paralleled impudence have declared his chief
seaport town a free port. He has gone to
France about it, and now offers great induce
ments to unemployed hut respectable persons.
His name is at present Orefiua-Antony the
First; but if the French Government will
oblige him by accepting Patagonia and Arau
cania as a gift, he will becoffie. plain Mr. Ton
nens again, and give them a colony measuring
four hundred and twenty-live French leagues
on the Atlantic, as much on the Pacific, and
averaging about two hundred miles in breadth.
The country, he says, is very salubrious and
lull ol wealth if one could get at it. There
will be a fine market there for gloves and pat
ent-leather boot*u as the inhabitants are quite
unprovided with these as tides, and have beeu
accustomed to dress in the fashioned Adam,
The Federal Expedition re the Ya-/,v> Kiv
ER.- The Atlanta Appeal give.-t the annexed
account ol the Federal expedition up file Va
zoo :
The Federal expedition up the Yazoo riv,..
left Vicksburg at the same time Sherman diu.
The expedition consisted of two gunboats and
and thirteen transports loaded wither oops—m
fnntry and Cavalry. On the route Tip the mer
detachments were kept on either bank, ier the
protection of the boats. Several landings were
made, and but little damage was done n the
Country except stealing negroes.
On arriving at Greenwood, tlie flanking pat
tic.-i were met and driven back by a small force
under (’apt Ainu Forrest, who had two tnen
wounded in the affair. The \ ankees then land
< and a supporting column, of infantry, when
Copt. U. tell back about two miles. This Icfr
the country imthe vUntilftifHjecnwoodeiorre
'y n-'j-v.A'nit'' j-i'® 1 ' /i-eeeivipjj orders vs
Join tlie general. On the arrival of the fleet
at Greenwood, a raiding party- of two hundred
negroes, with white officers was sent out. who
roamed over (lie country undisturbed on the
15th, ltitli and 17th nit., making their appear
ance within twctac miles of Grenada at one
time, and four rtmPXir,an carrolton at another.
Their plundering to negroes and
mules. All the able-bodied negroe -ol Colonel
La Fleure, which, for some unaccountable rea
son. had bivu collected in tlie woods, were
taken. But few others, however,.could be in
dueod'to go with them. The headquarters of
the officers were ut Dr. McLain’s, near Ueen-
WOOrl.
'The object of this expedition'was evidently to
make arrangements to secure cotton, and open
up a trade on the river, which it is susjiecled
they were induced to. believe could be done,
by a citizen of Carroll county, wild was known
to have been in communication with them.'
i hey found no sympathy among the citizens,
and were unable to procure any cotton, as For
rest, had burned all that was in the vicinity of
the river. He had also caused most of the ne
groes within six miles ot the river to be remov
ed. Another object was to make an impression
upon the negro population, by displaying their
negro troops, who, gaily caparisoned and
mounted, galloped over the conntiy. visiting
tlie various negro quarters. (>n the whole, tlio
expedition was a fruitless one to the Yankees,
and accompanied with but litlie damage to
our own people.
The French Emperor and thi. Orprosrrrox.
—The Emperor of the French lues deemed it ex
pedient to lake notice of the demands by the
orators of tlie opposition in the Corps Legislatii.
In replying to tlie speech which the Archbish
op Bonnechose addressed to him upon receiving
the cardinal’s hat, his Majesty said :
Your Eminence is right in saying that tlie
honors of this world are heavy burdens, which
Providence imposes upon us. It has willed, in
its justice, that duties should increase iu pro
portion to dignities. I too often ask myself if
prosperity does not bring as many tribulations
as adversity. But in both cases our guide and
our support is faith, religious faith ami political
faith; that is to say, confidence in God, and the
consciousness of a mission to accomplish. Yon
have appreciated this mission with tlie attach
ment you have always testified for me, and you
have defined it with tlie experience ol the mag
istrate and tlie priest, who lias closely, noted
whither conducts the abandonment of every
principle, of eveiy rule, of all belie)'.
You nititrraiso be astonished, as I am, to see
at so short an interval men hardly escaped from,
shipwreck again call the winds aud the tempest
lo their aid. God protects too visi-.ly France
to permit the genius of evil again lo agitate her.
The circle of our Constitution lias been widely
traced; every honest man can move in it at his
ease .•since every one iius the power el' express
ing his opinions, and of controlling the acts of
*thc Government, and of taking his just part in
public affairs.”
The Emperor then referred lo the position of
tiie clergy and Ibe part tiie new cardinal was
called to lake in the Senate, and thanked his
Eminence on the part of the Empress and his
son.
Doings optiik Fkdkuai.Congress. The war
party still maintains its ascedajicy In the Fed
eral Congress.
to the House of Representatives, Mr. Long
Os Ohio, submitted a preamble anil resolutions
setting forth that civil war could only he term
inated by compromise, and earnestly request
ing that Franklin Pierce, Millard Fillmore,
Thomas Ewing, and such others as the Presi
dent may select be authorized to act us ( om
inissioners to meet similar Commissioners ap
pointed by the Confederate States tor the pur
pose of ascertaining before the renewal of hos
tilities Avhether the Avar shall now cease, and
tlie seceding States return to their allegiance
and their rights under the Constitution—reject
ed, yeas 20, nays 'J(>.
Resolutions were unanimously adopted, de
claring Ist, that “the rebellion is Avieked and
unjustifiable, and all engaged in it public en
emies;”2d, that “ihe rebellion shall be put
doAvu and the.cause of it permanently removed;’*
fid, that "there was no middle ground on
Avliicha good citizen could stand when the
question avus between loyally and treason, and
that it was the duty of all to heartily support
the Government.”
Mr. Cox, of Ohio, offered a resolution that
“the rebellion is hereby abolished,’’ which was
adopted witli laughter.
A resolution offered by Mr. Pendleton, of
Ohio, declaring it to he the sense of Congress
that the arrest of Mr. Yallandighain and his
subsequent banishment. Avere acts in violation
of the Constitution and laws, avus rejected—
yeas 47, nays 76.
A Northern Opinion of thisWau— I The Chf
eago Times, one of the leading papers opposed
to Lincoln, speaks thus of the war aud the
prospects of its continuance :
YVlmt inducements have tlie South to give
up the contest and return to the Union? What
have they to gain by it? What haw they that
they will not lose by it? Do not the pos
session of all their rights of property and all
their civil lights depend upon successful res
istance* What is submission but acceptance of*
outlawry? Are they not placed in that position
where extermination is preferable to submis
sion? Is anything left for them hut despera
tion to the end.
It is immaterial how many or how signal
victories we may obtain, so long a* the aboli
tion policies of the war are retained they will
not bring peace; they will bring no accommo
dation of the difficulties. 'The war will contin
ue while the policies continue. We may, and
we doubtless shall, reduce still further the
boundaries ot the rebel territory,but ns the re
bel lines shall be circumscribed tiie desperation
of the contest will be increased. H will Ire
come literally a war of extermination on onu
side and of selfpreserv ation on the other.
There is no earthly way of peace and re un
ion but withdrawing the abolition policies—
none. We surely believe that if they were
withdrawn, and this wicked Administration at.
Washington were out of the way—an Admin
istration, as has been justly said, as incapable
of making honorable peace as of conducting
successful war—the war could be closed in
ninety days.
Eating Grass. —A French officer who on
one occasion, accompanied a raid against au
Arab tribe in Algeria, gives an instance of tho
spirit of defiance which animated those
haughty sons of the desert. 'The French com
mander assembled the Arab Chiefs, and, tell
ing them that his soldiers had filled up their
wells, carried off their cattle, and burned
their dwellings, exhorted them to submission,
asking them what they would do further
against a country so powerful as France.
• The Arabs, as if impelled simultaneously,
stooped to the earth, plucked some scaut blades
of glass there growing, and began chewing
the same in angry silence. This was all their
reply, and by it they intimated that they
would eat what the earth gave, like the beasts
that are upon it, rather than surrender,”
Eating gass is not very agreeable, but it is
better than eating dirt. The Southern people,
if subjected to such an alternative, will not
show less spirit than the Arabs.
There are minors all at of heavy cavalry skir
mishes in the neighborhood of Cleveland, but
nothing definite is yet known.
The Yankees on their retreat from Tunnel
Hill committed the most diabolical and horribla
outrages upon women and children and non
combatants From Dalton to Ringgold and
beyond the country is one scene of
latins. There is not a feuve to be i;eeu,