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BY N. S. MORSE & CO. ds|i oniric ft jlctimid. ■ ERM9. Tilt, V.i.tv .Li I llitOVU i.K A hEXriMb r ulish <.l> t:\ ekv wednendav TilltCE MOATU* -I *H> 81 X .KU.i : li*. jk-* i«* AU4'/, 1A AI’VAK. K. WEEKMT Alt! KH’l leIVK K AT*!*. I At>vjui3isv«K ••* I' .'ilH ert ii. tin W<sAly »ii i-j'- t i • .vi,.»vt*,•-,!». SfW'it JCutKM »’•:*.». thirty in'» a :”ialormil Mi:;-!tAi3*a,Di.TrT<an-i Fr.**-.«t X'.ncraoMA- ii«:« foitrr, •li.perl.r - for «r,» ir.wrtUn In c!tUi»rD«!ty«r W-Htly. Wl-«* OMt«»rr »«*»<■« «• 1 »b- A Tbc: Un'-lAfU. ~Ont j of tlto.itio a prnmiu■•*»! ) 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,