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4jt |~II l^ 1 S / I|H| jt| j -fCp- 1 ; ... , C""% /A/|s A .A Aa| l> V iN. MOliSh 6c CO. (01iroaic.lt ftjldinnel. t:::: wkbkly ciikomi lk a hkxuvki. 1.1 euJiU-rtltlD gVKR* WEDSkSDAY " HUS. (I MOST Hit ...... *4 •**> 61 V MO.'i 1 MS ... 4** , K» ALW.W:: 1 f AI*VA VK. WJKiay ADYKRTISISG RVTE* Oiea • - ' 1 Aij'Jr. i.iiiij'ii! p*i 1 .Hi.ul in III* Wtwiys'■ i «»#♦.(•. 7 : -«»t»»tiß4e -A :> --Hlon. Srn.ui ;«'»n/is wLlte ■.». a**! tin Ay e*a:» siren for ««<Ji r ■.' 'r. * M'.sa?vie',D«i?ra*a4 Fnv.*\i SottcriOß*4o"M««li o<ni9ku Svc -■:» fciT'S'i-T ?i nc for i>s«UiMrtfc#» is / . 'frWf'kX VTi,i.r.; ill'.’ i»ry so:lc* a;»iuli Ui.M in U. ij if, -l Vf/ii;/ -silty etuis [*r Hr.*. < U 8 « I"IHEVY Bil l/ The currency net which I wen rigned by tii; i'i -IT at and become llie l:*.w of tho land. Is nc.j (i iha mi i important measures adoptul-by ) (Vniri. at iv< late s.: *lon. Tlio military bill I r .buts tv jvi ion*. Tit tax hi.l limits Us mil .it- ill in tv (. .v c-iKti, to five per cent. J it t ij'M.'unvn: y net extends its rcquM ti.-; > <j\uy person in the Coafederacy, poor n« «■•■!! iv, uod exacts of him from ttiiriy three t i a honored i a ceut. of a huge-port ion ol he property. Lot o: '.r, .:rtd for reaching r>s it Is, impor t .tit ik ;l:s impelled Cofi&NY- to r.'h -jj■ it. lii' cm uiicy b.ul become so expand ed lint .lav 'oiilr.ictUia wan very desirable. Toilu this, and at tii / sauio time supply the TrOm iny with tb: means to ptoxcculo the war, •m c>. i:ia] . i'i’ ilt. Tlio delay necessary to levy ii oi cadet* an impost on property, iu <■ in " ..i Lastly. sufficient to re-iuiH) the cur rent .> <e support tii.’ government, would have b.‘.-:i -i >t* <t tii'- plan was elra.-st imprac ticable. 'i 'ti.-, a.oi aws* a tax, to give un i oppoi i'y to tone . ..in ttiiil wrongs, aud ; tj ci i ■ f *o l.Mjp* it .'uia would have mpaiied ; iiM.ir ni'it.-n A tax of five, six, oV even eight i di * I ; 11■ w. eld not bate red lie- ! • 1 ta.Mii: my i e »i. , • • betuu.-e the t-xpro- j I,- i \>. :.i]! ; svi* -vi ilkd the i'i ,vip *. J in' (jir/i :i: - fr ■' Ulig u : -!ill larger HUM, I** fi• 11 1 ( ~ > ii it ltd hue iloue, executions. and sat • •»—!), aitil sacrifices, wouldh.tvc rnj I'r -.1 -iill g;-aier and there is reason to fear i! . rim t il. could Lave -'Mi collected liy if ■ it ion «l.i U tvuubi have boi.li supported In' „ verii'and a 'i.iUCMd the emooncy. Now. what taxes could uot have effected in n’x of «lgl»t month".. or u year, the currency Wll .v liiij,) irln,* •al ft elngle .stroke. It act* promp 1 .1 * and without delay. All How itrites i,f oiirii'iier me at omit* stopped, and the lu— tar.) \ li*c<l. From eight hundred and tllty millions the olrculatiion will ho reduced tonin' b'in hv'l ami titty millions, About the midrib: of ,fine, ay, Mr. .Mere wringer reported It) on pe. ■ ili.ri tie) circulation of Confeder ate not m v • !ii-‘U :-vea hundred nod twenty lulliiv- ■ a.' is-;. \ rinco, as they are limbed l»y law ml.lif " per month, will briii;* : them up to e iii hcml'c !.i-1 ot y millions by ; thol. id A; P. r.'ilt \*'!l bo funded | lit f'.ur p re in. b u'' hjSil put exchanged fbr I i ew u I' r lec.iplb from those two j sources lit .'o-emtuingef e. aiuiiortori to lasmt two ii .ii *• , | i!..j i w currency fa divee of the old. i: ti 1.. ,io 1.0 more, and ha tho wants of tlx: govern i -' vr'.il tilO Whole of tlu*4o rod ime . tfi •cm v ojil hereafter I>j fixed *ud iu’..-»ii:,b’o. Should ibo fuudiiig bo Insufficient to tUei . tli* e.i,'- -e l of tilt! gov ernment, ibo incuviiy v ill bo compelled to sol! the new Ax pci ceistii. for wont ho , -u got, Bui hi* I'occip on those titles will be iwmeiti nl.riy paid out i*.. -ii; u-j liiat the iuutvo civ, il lation will ii" Paired lo two-tliii is ot Us amount ou the Sli t> f March neither contrite!•„ ingor exp auu O' io 1 liio operations )>i tho treasury, and limited to about live huudtedaod 3fy nrillio; •. The law thus reduce* tlio currency and fixes It; amount aided cts tbi.' mo-t desirable ob- j j'eet in peril, pa the only way that was possible, luxf uo one cau fail to commend tho measure as eminently wise and beneficial. |he detail "f tho Mil are not lc“s commeud nblo. 8o;uo IvaUf. :es would doiiblless have K-en bit if (lie ieduction bad been made Im mediately. leu the 'ib iulvaulago.' would have boen groat and tho ifljmy enormous. As it is every one e.ai avoid ibo I >x by iinuiediftto lutid Jug. Debtors can meet their obligations by soiling so much of llieir piopoitv as nmv be noccssarv foi this p , : p “ ; and every one who receives lit" money in the mean time, does it with bis eyes open lo th* prospective tax. As largo sums nre dnl’.y charging hands, the am mint in each one's possession on the t\rsi ol April will have be> u received tor tho most pilt with a full knowledge ot the anticipated tax. The burden will tints bo distributed prop erly mid fall where no one has a right lo com plain. In a few e.xes where the people are ignorin', ol t':e ’.: v . t -re will be bar; -l-;p ; but there will bo veiy lew. lu nearly even ' care ihe law wii! op-rale equally mid justly. Tho tax law w ill aid very largely in making the Cmron v Act opeiato justly. A heavy im post is levied ou properly and prelim, and this is payable iu four per cent, bond* which cau lH>b id bfttvio the first of April for the present C'tirreuo-y. of thirty-three per cent on tb» Confederate notes cau ttiurefore l«e avoiderl by fun ling in fair per bonds, since these cm be used, for paying taxes. Iho tax being Urge, tho oppouuniiy te.offered to every cue to escape tho cauvn.-y tax entirely by exoliaug lag bis note:-promptly for Ihe four per cent bond* Theh riders of Confederate note* lan net only fur Ito toe- 1 tin ir own taxes, but to sell to other* "No wiil orcr’ook or postpone funding until it i? too late. A* the=e persons wll probably be numerous, tho bonds will command a fair price, they may deriii e be low pfti atr6 >. and to t; -.1 extent the purcha ser will lose. Bit tho dem md will 'o-> so great t'.’.at theyiftu depte into very little below the no k currency, 'thus all who choose to fund their notes cau »v 'id the currency t ix or suffer but a trilling loss by funding. Borne poisons speak of vr.;s tax a* ;i it wete repudiation. Put most goxwsrments have tax- and their O'vn securities. Even England itu posesan lucerne tax on their consols, and when this tails on their own people no one cun com plain The tax u« iuaecil heavy, but as the law rnakin: power has always discriminated on the subjects of taxation, a iarge percentage on the currency is no more repudiation than a heavy tax ou banks or factories. Ihe tax payer cannot escape or evade it. it falls upon the rich more he ivily than on the poor, ’t reaches a 1. it is pioduclive ; bri ig* iua Uige revenue ami lias very many ot the elements of a good tax. Votlitb* principle of the Act and its details and it pi-.icih-al wciks, -cviu tatf tiontly arise and I'Oin tleml. The elf Cf v the law Etas' be to lower prl eea very largely. The currency will be re-* duoed to tiio limit :t had reached m Novem ber l»t. and priee« being prcasured iu the j average by the amount of circulation raurt i decline to the rates then current. They ca is! come back there and slay there, because tho currency w ill bo relieved from th.ciuatl a end I/.' a.- steady as if it were gold or silver. Vaii.v tioas in pricss will Mill occur, but thev 1 v.iil bo tbo effect of local or xeuerai - -i: city and j tiieir average nuiot be those of Novem'u i ' _ . j Ihe benefits of this law to the Government j will be very great. They will be able to b fry -it lower price,; there will be no need of Ira ! pre /rnents; they will pay the market rat a for i wbat they buy ; and harmony will be restored | between the CuUsOiLsary department and pro duceis. 'i'o the bc. inrvs cotnmnriity, the advantages •vlll Le none the less, for nothing is i»oie de siiablo to tra/le than a stable and invariable currency. Change and uncurl.,iuty are ruin ous to enterprise an.l Industry. A rise or fall i in the value of the circulation disturb all the calculations of the merchant and the rnanu factifTer, and though tin, cutm.cy will still jexp'irnl and pri. vsbc birds, if it steady and unchangeable, papi-r doc* as well as gold. On the whole tbo act will prove to be good ; one, and we anticipate from it the very hr.! i crults. ! bkvc k ipo\ tiiK Bitixciri/Es sir irto. J .Such, in a few words, Li the ‘-body of U ,c --; tiiue,’’ eonlained iri the peace resolutions of ] Hon. I.intou Stephens, fntioduccd into the tlea j oral Assembly of the Coirmon wealth ofGeot <4in. Such, in u few wolds, U the pcini official interpr,Cation of that portion of the message ol tlic Lhieculive which deals with the question oA, peace. Sued,, in a few words, is the language ] used by tin, lender in the lower House, of the : Governor’s policy, as the solution of the great < American conflict. After eighty four years of peaselc-s agitation i ao l three years of unnatural and unparalleled • war fare, the Aineticau people-North and south, j Hast am ! Y9fwt —are beginning to uppr« iat<- j the prophetic wisdom of Fatrlck llenry, George I Macon, Rawlins Lowndes, Luther Martin, and [ ihe other leaders of the State Pfights Whig par itv of 177 ft. Tuy, teachings of French Democra cy, the lust of consolidated Empire, and the love’ ! oi splendid political niisoiy, have worked out in North .Ywcricaas in Europe, in South Amer ica an l Mexico, a harvest of revolution, (Too i .-h-’d. political degradation and aortal crime. ('ojnpr lumdtug clearly the whole subject matter, Govern, r Brown h:,;, elaborated in it ; matchless Slate paper the doctrine set forth in I the (.’ongressiomit address, to wit : That ibe i S ulli is prepared to ucc, pi terms of peace from tiie conservative party of tiie North upon ihe | ;eeoguttiuu of the principled' Stale sovereign ty arid State Mr. Stephens, in bis resolutions cantos forward the spirit of 'lie Congressional address aud the Governor's mes sage to their logical oo®se<|ireutes. Ur giv-i* them a practical and payable signiiie alon.- Tbe piinclpleH of I77i>, upou which the Amor! can f.'aiou ot our Kevolntionary Iweftth *rs was founded, uro evoked iw tho common ba:d* of par Ifiestion betwe u tho co.itending States. The peherne of 17,-5 has cu minaled ? bloody uiasouiiion. It lias bsut abrogated by tl e r : re-igu brutes of the Sou lb. and trampled under foot by tho free negro b runt at \Yr,-h --i.igtou. la this mighty conflict the Issue is mu i o ed down to a choice between Domo-. vatic c.imiwlldatlon supported by tho sword, or the restoration to tho States of their rig! ts upon the ancient, revolutionary principles of 1 *’7 -. ‘This is the grand aggi " -Ive idea, which 1 1 1 <• Georgia policy', infuses Into the stmg le. Ibo ekilioration of this idea bv Ilia press and tlis m .;ii tli" exciting debites wliir-h will occur.it Mil ledgevilk*, lorm nuturally the p elude to the inerensed u ritatlon at Kiehmond iu the next Congieds, and at the North in tho next Presi- dential cb ■'' ion. Tho subject is a vast one- and brings up the whole question of good govern ment on this continent and the inevitable, no ce.-sury. nmi Vrovldentiai relation of the South to American progress and civiliz ition. /J'isd Southern mlud begin* to take a clearer view of the necosaityfor ft broader statesmanship, a more enlarged humanity, a profounder upon - eciation of our duty and otrr destiny. Os luct. tho great American icvoliifion whic h shakes the wcild to it* centre, has i ulmnated. Rese ction North and South has supervened. Tie reaction iu both sect! ins is in tlic direction of i-ttalc rights, as the only barrier against mili tary despotism. ». Wo ink.- tins occasion to enforce upon the au thorities at Alilledgeville, and indeed upon eve*- vv mau who now feels that webaveat la-t eu ored upon tin path tr> an honorable peAco. that tlie fundauu-ntal condition precedent to su-vi as. consists iu successful military resistance to Lin coln and hi* free negro paity. Righting tjins against a wickia! iiaushmoi tho-c sovereign P'tates and in vindication of the American jii iiu ipb- of 177 1» ; calling upon the conservative men ofihe North of all parties to rally with us to pnt down Puritan fanaticism and llriiijli free negro ism on this continent, the certain triumph of onr arms in support, of such »t itesmanship, is simply a question ol time. Providence will prosper the piluciple. The Ac.i:k lin tit u. Ke*iH uc'cs ok the Sovth arc most ample. Hoj soil is tiirii and fertile : | her iHim.i* - is mild and salubrious , and her people should avail themselves ot tlicse advan tages to the fullest extent. We should be tin j agricultural ns well as a commercial nation. Heretofore, we have not paid suffici-nt ati>n- ; lion te* tflling' the soil. We were content to | pled along, doing a little farming, but buying ; cnir produce very largely abroad, Tbe war will j serve n gi od end if it awal.ena u- to tbe real : value of our sunny land in connection with an improved and careful system of agriculture. We can raise all that we need within our area, lltn land* are os valuable in tin* properties , ivlii, h stimulate cropsthose <»t ativ country. Vequation with us is remarkably vigorous, rapid and luxuriant. We have only to tickle the earth with the hoc audit laughs with a Uorveat. Much of onr soi.l. it i-* -lid. is worn out -exhausted by an impoverishing and persis tent course of tillage. True, but tin- land can I be r;.vl*imed, aud -iiould be reclaimed at once. : A large portion of our land, however, is es yet v.h-n may be denominated the virgin soil, which has been as yet undisturbed by the plow j or hoe. T.et us see that of this soil is at i once made available. I„>t a force aLo be put ' to wotk on our plantation*. adequate to keep ; the whole under cultivation, and we shall j more than double the amount ot focal crops this year—the very year when we shall most need such crops. Now that our agriculturists | are compelled to raise larg ly oftlie neee-saries j of life, it will be worth observing how much i tno resources of the soil can be developed ; and how tnueh corn, or wheat, or other cereals, 1 can bo grown per acre. The result, woven* true to say, vonld astonish the most sanguine, i it.wlil be so much In excess of their expec | rations. m There was a seme storm in New Orleans, j Feb. IS. AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING. MARCH 23, 1804. rifTbiCMsirrixj i\ j \i;k-ov J.;; rtssot;, (in, March’.-!, 1854. A meeting of the citu-ms of the county having 1... a previously culled, and the follow ; committee appointed to report on Judge V. rigid's i e-a in lions, viz : I> M Bunts. J. h Hr.; i. 11. ! ackson, N. W, Caritb-Ts. Harris Sau , .1 ('. fshocklcy an i If. C. Giddens, I>qs , aha me.'!,: the following report, wh’ch wa ; ana ni.-.ijs,y adopted ami ordered to be publish j e : , . t'Ath >r s newspapers, when the meet j ii.g n .jcurmd, subject to the call of the Chair- I tnr.a. ! Ik f follow!,-jg is the report of the ccrnmit tee : - ia tbs exercise of tho constitutional right pe'Ceai.;y to a-:-.cn,!.'e together—a light sa , f-r>.u to free.nen—a portion of the pc-opio of c .ciriy have to d-v nu t for the pur !, -- -of t J.- ig in o comide.ation tlio pre-ent f.j of the cci.'.try—r.ot to form new parties, I ’ t. invite i'ie whole People oi the Country, i v • • c'*:..dvii.ey to unite wita us in. an hone-: ciioit: > susfuiu the Government in re peliinrc Ujr \ o. i-,1 invasion of our soil by Atobii'n la:. fi.-« , And while doing so, to j give to the com-ervatUe pcojde of tin: North lyh mii n---; mi: :. -s that whenever they .put I down tin -0 uoW in power and s,ro willing to I rtiak, pe e upon • let ms, the Peo - ,dt ~i lh N.c.iih will I/O re civ to co operate wirii timm in ,sh e-t-nt to bring to a close.this j ■ i uel find blood}' ror. In ashng the;:'feliow-cifh'ens to unite cov dially ivitti ti.cni it, tirt*great work, jour Com mittee are aw <etl t chores have been made to , c.".t odium up, :i tho e who look forward so ; i l .oven iii i rcincte possibility, branding i them us ‘tc con-Huotiouists.'’ They unquali- | tiedly pioimiHKe t Iris charge to be utterly false. I And whatever ui ty have been the original dif ferences of opinio,' among Georgians as to the policy ol Immedi iff* sect s-icu, or however we any dii rin ivgavd to ii now, all are resolved thiii, Ihe old ( , mu.on wealth having taken tin. step, her eiiizen# will - rcriflco all tliey possess in fhc maintenance of tin; Bouthera Confede j rac-j a* a s-pii! ate and iudeptudent nationality. : i ia... arc defernrim ii o> "lake no steps back- I wards.” ! But while heafiily advocating a vigorous prosecution of she war, your committee ure aware tint it cannot last alwaya. It must term inate some day. Tiiure tire but two modes by which ■ ■ ■'■• -It, -stciils can bring it to a close*: •tnd ' ■ ■ fote::.'u intervention is concerned, the in • ouuuiiie have agau toned all such hopes a- , r-'vaary. it no; I. therefore. ),e set fled either by negotiation or the utter subjuga- , ■! a, oi ;.-.riy or the other. There is no I ;nan JH' U’- 't.o as to believe that wo can sn'ijn {ga u the N(trll); while, on the other hand, ev ► ety man. woman «;J cliild in pur ‘x-uirny ; land” i- !n!(y det-. twined, tha!, God being our hf-iper, tl.e hated invader never sbuli subjugate q-! 'll,is, (hen. loaves tn-gntiaiion :w the only means ot scitlcmeni. ‘‘To this eOtfipdcxion mart it come at last ” All tho good which tighting can do F tu produce a frame ot '“ind its will prep,i... the belligerents for peace. dHcry Lie sacrificed after this result has been arTYewd is, morally, a murder! Are not both star- satiated with the “carni val of blood 7” Is the smoke of l,Killing cities , and itlial liamk-tc a weet savor any longer? _ v :•> he ij so: haggard .slain and hecatombs of bleftching nkeietoiia delightful pictures to gaze upon ,’ Are iho wails of widowhood and the cries of orphanage pleasant u-usie to tiieir ears? -,( ho . i ?\e hee.i I sickens at llcecontomphi lion ol these lliings! ! Bu > Ui Government cannot, and the Aboli tion Government will not make ovoi lures of pear. Must Die I'eoplc sufiet hi) wilLout nia- Uin-.: a sit. .1 effort <o stay.lheeffusion of blood, j , • e.o]i Nieroice of iheir brothers, latum ami husuHiids.* f m hid it, Ih avuii! A’ ci-;,l i.g to R e best iiifonnat!on we can ohtmu lb.: oonstrvaiivo men of tbo North arc V(i; i,„ Vi: -t • ; -e.- 07 ; v.e.l) L_ Ray 100.-, ii". I ■•lie.: In the to mining struggle for the Presidency in November, they will make a gie .t i luu t !•> overthrow tho fanatical luiiug powta, n. iy d’Uoki ii with bl iorl, and restore peace to a .bleeda .. iai.d How can they hope to .! ~i. ii-ii,; :i3 their opponents daisy pv-.-uaiiu tint ihere is nobody at the doll! i ng I • i peace. To gi the i-ousoi vaiivc pea re pas ty i> aund upon which io stand--and not lor tin; purpose of creating divisions lit homo —your Committee rc-pect"- htliy ' ail up an all good dti a.n-., of whatever !'■ 'it v-Ml <-a ■! -n tbe past, to join with them in Hie adoption ol ibo ioilotving vesobitions : 1. 1!i:so!.v«d, That we recognize it as onr primary duty to sustain tbe Government in the hi - t vigorous r tiortc to rejiel the invasion of "iirsoi! and to oompel th; Abolition toe to v». tire from it. - K:-siu.vi:r>, Tb;it while Acknowledging our desire to repel the fanatical invaders, we uro at tho same time ready to make an honorable peace with jbe conservative men of tbe North. 3. Rwsot.Yi.jj, That ootertaining these views* ■we n (Oft that the Coiifederato Congress failed to pa - resolutions ut its late session, embody ing subsiaace ; and that, it Judge W right's r S'diitions were ambiguous, as alleg ed by,some, pflitis ought to have been adopted free from al! ambiguity. 4. Ivimolv;:i>, That we instruct our Hupre -ent.'-td e |,i Coiigi'ess to offer resolutions when that Hotly shall a amble in May next, dis ‘tniutly embodvitg the idea, that while we shall ■ eiiidnue io light the bated fanatics with ever', meat s which Providence Las placed within our reach—.joieiraiiied never to be con qnered by them -ve are always ready to treat for peace with the i .nservalivo men of the North. •>. Resoi.vmi. Tli " we fi-spcctftilly invite all of our feilivv-citi. -as of 11-e Sato to meet at theirn-sj".stive Court Houses before the meot iu , of the in xt. Congress, and give public rx presskm to iin ir views on this subject. i). M. Ri rns, Chairman. A L». PiTTVt.vx, Secretary. Titr. Anti Sruui he I.aw:—Some twenty . ams ending in she in I'- rim Court of this coun ty on wuts ot trfjtitx brougiit by persons who bad furnished übstiuiies, lo rest the con stiivtieuaUty «t 1 • *.er of Congros* placing teem in military st !\ i ;e, wore disposed of on Mon.lay. 'l'lie petitioners were represented by Judge Lav. and lb n. T. E. Lloyd, the Govenrmentpy Henry W iHiau.s, Lsvi Mr. William.* a ,;ived that the law wax con stitutional aud strictly w thin the legislative powers of Congress; t-bat tho error iu all the arguments agaii the law consisted in assum ing that liit* cons; ri j.;. acts c rented the liability of the cili'cu to mi! : ■ y s.-.vi.’o. and tililt cerl.iin new rights m. i spiang from them 110 slated the i.uiowh.g to be the tnie view of i tb question : During i\ war between two countries all the citizens of one are j!;.-* enemies of all the oiti- I zoic ~f the ;■■■;. t~t tho law of nations forbids ( indtsevirui ate act- id in utility by individuals, : ami rev i:.o or., tuiz.vtlon of armies to car ; n on the v ~r. Ail t! citkteosof a belligerent ; nation are liable, ti-t I > tho G ivesninent, but j mntuc.lly toeach other, to military service, by virtue of a fund n;.- fetal principle of the so, tel compact uv? rly iug all a»n-:ituti -ns i and laws. Tin.- e.-nsrripi. acts were passed by 1 'ongrts* -r* t: r. ut . t'u pe -pie, under t'.ni coii-ritoti'i; l ! pi.avr "to v:\bo and support urtui' S. ’ and cal* - s-go the c! ; : *-.-s ol persons already liable y*. noli; :v set vice who were ne-'d«d a; tbe t.ue'. The exemption ! granted by the acts to ih.-e who i . uiria.-d sutstitutes v,as r,ot u ve- cd. !•. :t, lot a per- revoke whenever a uecoscity existed 'o do so. of which necessity Congress tee Judge. Th • j privilege so given does uofvTc:<t * ; c ntitu. of j exemption for a defnnite or indefinite time, be- ; cause c ongress has no right to c-ntec into a j contract with any individual cii • which „ oa t.; imrc.ir the .h]b -'ion of the implied cot:- i tract between all the i. iiitcr.s to render inutu- j i ai assistance in time of war. ' Furnishing a : : substitute was no caristderatiou to support such i a contract, because both principal and snbsti- i tnte were already liable to service under the j fund;.mental Ift a before the ptaine of the c'on ; script a. rs. The contract bet ween the princi pal and bis sohfttiiute was or-, entered into at j tie ir own r>k es subsequent legislation, mod -iiyiugor J r rat ng it the Govern-i went or the country had anything to do with the consideration -go ed ui <m between the parties. Finally, the right of exemption contended lor by tno opponents of the law would convert tho exer lseo the pxxwor to "raise ard support j armies into a nsenas of diminishing and de , striving them. i TUe petitioners were remanded. The case will. we ieotn oe taken to the Supremo j Court.—'idvaimr'i „\V*r.«. Mvch 3 FROM FLORIDA. Th * Yankees, who were eommnuded by Col. Guy Henry, were, oue regiuieot c-t mounted iafantiy, one of cavalry, and t vopiocea of artillery. In their retreat the Yankees loft at Camp hianegiin a quantity of clothing, wagons and ; provisions. , At Barbour's they had built a large stockade j work, and around Baldwin they felled trees and twisted telegraph wires about thorn, to im- j pede the advance ot our troops. Persons living on the line of road through which the Yankees pascod on their wsy to Lr.ke City, state that out of two full regiments of blacks who passed up, but about iid of the . number returned on their retreat. Gens. Beauregard, Gardner, Finnegan, Col- ] | guilt, and Taliaferro, were at Camp Finnegan jon Wednesday last. Gen. Fatten Andersou ! was also expected, there. Many Yankee deserters aro jvasidcrlng 1 through trior ida, and when op, port it-. Ay ofifn come into Cur camps. Some of them are ia a j wretched condition, and report that they hare been .nearly starved since they deserted. They assert that their black allies are terribly fright- f ened since the battle at Ocean Pond, in which i 'hey wore nearly all cut to pieces. The negro ! regiments trom Ponhsylvania and Massacbu- j salts, which entered the battle with full ranks, ■ and were forced on by the Yankees behind thorn, now do not number more than twocoin panies each. Tho prisonous state that their of fteers assured them that th -y would meet with : uo opposition in their march thiough tho State, I and that in a few weeks they would occupy Tallahassee, and esttblish a government there, when each soldier would bo entitled to a farm for his services in conquering tho State. Some had even gone so for us to write to tiieir families in the North, advising them to make arrange ments to move South. Porn deluded wretches, many of them have til ready taken "pre-emp tion fights” to Florida lands, and now eccnpv them undisturbed at Ocean Pond, A number,of wounded soldiers have arrived in Savannah from Florida. They were all wounded in the battle at Ocean Pond, and having received furloughs, are on'tiieir way to tiieir homes. They report all quiet in the vi cinity of Lake City. Some of .them who loft Tallahassee during tho past -ween report that a great irtany of the Yankees’ white and black prisoners, who were wounded in the late batti,- at Ocean Pond, and taken to Tallahassee, have died o: their wounds. The prisoners are most ly foreigners, Germans, Irish, Fweeds, & 2. A f"W are natives of the Northern Slates. The negro prisoners at Tallahassee, with few exceptions, olai-na to He from the North, and as sert’ that they are members of the, Massacbu- ! setts and Pennsylvania regiments, but many of j them arc lolleved to iw from South and North ( avolina. A gentlemanjpst from Sparta, Ala., stales! (hat it was expected at that place that aVeder- j at raiding patty would soon move from Mil- I ton. I-la., to attack Sparta and Evergreen.— ■ The lovces engaged in the movement are vu moted lo be only about six bundled, Savannah papers of tho !Hb state that all was quiet in Luk Oily and in the immediate neighborhood of Jacksonville, according to re ports of returned soldiers. It is stated that on Saturday last March Oth. a Yankee picket guard of aome twenty moun ted cavalry approached our lines, and suddenly wheeled round and retired at full £peed. A portion of onr army wa:; drawn up In line of battle or Saturday night ; and remained iu that position uutll Bunday morning, appreiu-n --ding an attacV: from the enemy. Our pickets are two and a half inifes beyond Qodur Croek, It is not believed that tho enemy have been reinforced since the battio at Oceaii Pond. At'a placo -called Dead Man’s Bey. ea t!;o South coast of Florida, a party of the enemy, including a number of deserters, recently det troyod ail tho salt works in that vlciuity. The 1 homos oouniy salt worifH lost from 12,000 to 15,000 dollars in sr.it, salt pass, works, &x Another parly of about .80 deserters are en camped on the coast, and supply tho enemy with bec-f, fro They are all well armed vrith guns and ammunition, supplied by the enemy. Mcnsuies have been taken to disperse them. ’ Our forces In Fast Florida arc concentrating a few miles from Jacksonville, aud engaged in buihliug stockade forts. Tlte result of the Yankee raid on the West Goose Crock' salt works resulted iu the total destruction of the works at that point. The enemy landed from their barges and captured all the white me& and offered freedom to the negroes there engaged, but out of seventy ne groes only two went with them. The Yankees sent by ting of truce to St. Marks to the C. 8. steamer Spray three of tho white nv n captured wkfl were over age, they report that the ne grres were made to break up and destroy the salt works M tho point of the bayonet. The Yankee commander of the fleet off St. Marks is Com. Hominy. The salt makers at EabtTtiver have organized themselves, and received arms' from Governor Milton for the purpose of defending their woi ks. it is reported (hat the Yankees have been rein forced .at Jacksonville, and a light is looked for at any moment, The Yankees, have fortified themselves wv strongly in Jacksonville, and have thrown out their pickets three miles from that point. Our pickets are now within four miles of Jackson ville. Iu the late tight at Ocean road the official report plates that onr loss is eightv-one killed and seven hundred and twenty-three wounded —about fifty have since died. JTbe Yankee loss is one thousand nine hundred killed, wonudM atul prisoners. We captured five pieces of ar tillery, two thousand stand of arms and one stand of colors.' There are two hundred and fifty Yankee negro prisoners at Tallahasse. and numbers are dying daily from thoir wounds. - The Florida Telegraph Line is again in work ing order from Savannah to the following points in Florida; Baldwin, Sanderson, Lake ( kv, .Madison and Tallahassee. The Yankees de stroyed but, five miles of the Hue, which has siiy.e beei. thoroughly repaired. FIL M CIVi H BABT TKA.Vkua.-BK.. At last accounts Longstroet’s army had been materially btrengtheneii by conscript enroll- , mi :it, In (ho teglou of his operations and by VC- ! emits, even ol whole companies of cavalry si u : time from Kentucky. ,\u intelligent soldier immediately from! Lougstreet’s army, who left that command be lore Sis letiremcnt to Greenville, say* that seven bundle i Yankees were a urruked and captured on o\ about the 10th of Foburary, below Knoxville. Cumberland Gap was gar ris<*ntsl with a somll Yankee force, and theen emv were still in Knoxville. The small pox had somewhat subsided in the town. The counti* was almost entirely destitute of forage. According to last accounts LongstrecFs arruy wus at Bull's gap or Uogerville junction, which is the key to the valley that runs from Bristol to Knoxville, following the course of tbe Wa tauga and Holstou. The morale ol the army is unimpaired. With few exceptions the entire army lias re- I'uJiste 1 for tbe uar. Humphrey’s Mississippi brigade but off’ in the work by re enlisting for forty years or the war which was followed by it ihol'd'* brigade which. unanimously gave their approbation of the measure by substitut ; ing foriy-one years or the war. The army at present is in fine condition and jin Hax spirits; also well elaSi No provisions ! have been furnished, ibein the past four month* ! except those < dh-cted within the department, j Maj. Gen. Buckner is in command of tiie ; front."and Maj. Gvu. Ransom, ini command of I the cavalry. Gen. Mm tin's division of cavalry has been sent to Gen. Johnston’s army. The country is now pretty well cleared of Federal bushwhackers. Scouts from k ngston, Tenn.. report the town garrisoned by a Federal negro regiment and a few companies of white men, ail under the command of Col. Bird. Consc-ipiiori is vigorous!year - led oiviri upper East Tennessee, aud every able bodied uiaa will soon 1)0 in service. A cavalry siatmiah took place at the of i Cbnnkey river, March 2. Gen. F. C. Armstrong has bean transferred ' t,» Gen. Polk's Depaitment. Col. GL G- De brell commands his old Division. O ir cavalry are in excellent condition. It Is believed by some tjiat a frat)d move eject is ca foot. FROM TIT FRONT. ! jha rumor tha US > 1 -.a:.. is fortifying Ring- Ifu Jl ‘ * i-, P »’•' • •'Anre. They live merely i thrown up .v>mo tcm-oraiy breastworks on ; aavli-’s Rid k j , - ,il I’huio 1:. •. mo ■•(•ittided were seat into j onr lines ur-h.u . , of truce. Whi > ttnange i men*.- v cr« I >; • or. >;o rccoiv •.: cm. 'ever i a. of tbo bankets t :-k advaataso of the occasion 1 to induce or two c.f our men .to doiert, of . Soring th bribesu-.d every in iucoment, thus J grossly violating tbc Nf’. i.,y o; tl;c !i ,g. One j *>t cur rnen *n••,«• cqu e’••y- ~n i -h ~an bc lor.’ rgtoO, ”. Flu:., ' C” 'r. Ku'. our Put j told them lie had «rytTiag ;a tha wov.-i ho ! wanted, with plea tv «f ttoaey, and af os j country, wher > vra did r.ot pat < iir white m< n j on a par with the i.r-gefs, or put thu uageis to command white men I The Atlanta Cciif-Ucra'iy ?ay-; :h:i telegraph ic 1 ine-s have boon re established ' ■ Ct u. u. Hi!!, at which point on cißuunt operator has been stationed, a::d cat a. wc believe, .arc, by this time, running through i<j the ■ as ; -hit* We untlet-tand tiiat Itag Geucr-il Marcus A. Wright, of tho Arm" c? Tennewca, has been assigned to the command cf ti c post of Atlanla. On Saturday last. Win hn’.-ik'uvn.h-y attacked tho enemy near Ringgold, cud a!.,-.- a lively fight, drove them buck virh consi icrabie loss, we having succeeded in r-p.arjug a > am -:r of prisomufl. On Saturday morning HtKnc’.a ce.valry brig ade attacked tho Yankee-: at Wood s Station, and drove tl:o;o from ti:- ir pos.ticn 'IMro Yan kees tied prccipiraioty. YYu 1: ■ t on-: kiiie.i, and took seven prisoners. ; Tn the latendalr near Daltfe:i, Captain Macon General Clayton’j A. A. G.,-camt mar being i captut'.- i. Ilia horse ran av.-ay with him and ! wits going direct for the enmity's line—the j Captain disengasud his feet firm the stirrups j and jumped off, not two hy'iuvcd yr.rds horn ! the enemy. Fcrtnuat iy !.••• fcil :.n n new g; aw and escaped injury and <■ ipl:;:Next ,1 v a > anxee ofticcr was - en ::o;• i ,bo h An armv office bus b eu ,v! •.ulbh, 1 for the heuelit of Gen. Tofinstoii's army, and letters sent through that, iiiec u:c o>.i.:h nvua; certain to reach their dostinatlv-n th>u if d.roctcd to Dalton—therefore let, all letter * t - directed, insie:i,J of‘‘Da ton Geo gia,” tints--" Army of Tennessee.’ ’ Lieiit-Gen. HA ><l is at D iiion,- in command of his old cos p,s. It is rumore I that Gen. Jlindmau lias* cer tainly resigned. A splendid mil Mary brid.ip' i<: Knag con structeil over the ri. or ut I>j!- tonville, Ga , seven miles fsoi.i At.antu, and will be tiuishJd in the course of next week.— This bridge is 500 feet Img and fifteen feet wide, allowing wagon trains to pass each ot her going and coming. Some titty des rim and refugees liavo been airesied near the lines of Folk and Paulding couo-tiers, Ga, - The troops have all ben neuiy clad, and pre sent a very tine appear it-ce. To say that Gen. Johnston i* idolized by tl>e array i* but to giv e a just idea of their feeling for him The army has been renovated throughout. Tho artillery lias been ennui! c l into regi ments and placed tiudor the command of skill ful officers, which wiil give Tiew life and vigor to this valuable arte of the service. Murfreesboro, Lebanon and Bhelbyrillo are garrisoned by negro tvo.-i-am! negro schools for all uadci seventeen are being ts' d-lishod ihrongbout that country by the pltia alhro pisls of Yankeedom. A general crtHw • in r'- a published which prohibits ;tu i.-flivov trmn cre drg ike guard ins? except ; !.;is oa LI ■ . arms, and then uoi exceeding a dlsr.uu e <)' uro hundred yards without a v-c-s from brig.. :’ Lead quar tern. Tho main Rtvlv of the r';r"« i t rb.affs noogi with a heavy torco at Gtovc-land and Ringgold. Early Monday mornlcg a dehiciitaanh of Yankee eavuhy "came out to a udi!. this side of Ringgold a short distoi: ?e, br.l iu-arisdialfly foil bur!, upon ear • ■«-airy r'aair ap pearance. No coilisiou occ-ure-'t. Fit 'AIH.tfeUSSIPPi. We havo most ffheoang «cevuats from our troops in Gen. Folk sand p iiUie-uc, i. . i deem it prudent to be mum, for t .o.pie.-« ut. Gen. 3. L>. Lee haa gone to join Gen. VT. H. Jackson’s command at Canton, Miss. Gan. Forrest his gone tr> rujoin bis com mand. lie will soon make anofiher giand oavalry raid into Muhlio and West Tennessee. A force of liv'd or six hundred negroes are hard ut work repairing the damagou done to the var.one railroads by the Frderrd.s. Tho tele:;iaph i* worh.hig :is f;v Meridian. It is reported that a Blip e will soon woe cupy the place. Brig. Gen. Bus .rcl Is to"t;:k'i command of a Division of cavalry under For re. Brig. Gen. Frank Annstr.ong iu to I tke com mand of a Brigade of c.ivtdry tiuilur Gen. S. D, Let). Gen. Polk captured h Jtoy with important dispatches frem General ILiMburt to Sherman. It is said he wiil.be. hung. West Point, Mi?:?., vw do-dr- jed 1-y the Fed eral*, Feb. 27. A Federal spy wa» detecl--il ec Do f'oto. Feb. 28th'. It appears that be. 11 made tbe ac quaintance of a-widow there on .Saturday, mar ried her on tho same day, riln oil and was cap tured by the assistance of dogs on Sunday. The outlaws and deserters in Jones county are increasing in numbers daily, and are be coming more "bold iu their plundering.opera tion.*. The people along the Hue <.f Sherman 7 * march were returning ft) their home*, and en deavoring to accommodate themselves to exist ing oiveumstanoes us best they could. Many of the planters were without teams, npdjiad but little help left, but their wants would be sup plied by Glow? in the did rids no’ overrun to a sufficient extent to enable them to put in ft crop sufficient tea- their own e,, - itie*. A large number c,f Federal transports came down the Hvar to Vicksburg, diriving there simnltaneonsiy with the arny of ,\-!.e; man. aud the inference .’* fair they me to bo us«-d to transfer that army to auoth.-r point. Where will they turn up. i the cpi.-tion. 7 i? thonyht that they are tie tb.ed to rebiforco- Thonnt'?' army at Chattanooga. 'J't e F• LrM - rat .-t have more troops there b- fare they can advance. It ia stated tb-.t the Fedc-fal* f-toic about tbirtj-flvo hondr.il neja-oes din tug flit ir late march through Missis*ii pi, FBOJI M'Jvl’H f VOOLIAV. One of the Federal vessels dissevered a blot kuder on Saturday and . avcthr.o. The Federal craft ran 'cut a roe;- ,off dr The blockade! arrived safely at her wlit rx ia Wil mington. OnSaiurday merging, Col. Sls-’r : yk, cpmman ding at Bald iltad, suudi of iiio Y-ttikce ships three or four times «n : fromtbe qrimtidn on board, and the crow,ling of around her. it is quite probable that she is in apnea-, rlon* condition. It is said that the r anke blofk.i ie off Wil mincton hp.s been increased veiv recently by throe addldona! vessels, amr.Dg thern the mm u ! talked-of double enfler jiteamer Eautaw. tbe j fastest vessel in the Yankee few I arqi by I | their account ibe fastest war v % ssei Botlt ends are alike, !•: ■■ ,1 , ( . ■ Uc.,. j she can run either way* with equal IT; iiity. j | Hon. S. If. Pickett, congressmen eks-ri from , j the seventh North Carolina Dl-wic*. is dead. | EftOM TB.t.\S.VIi- ri!g :!m. The last account* represent ,ene, 1! Price to be only a few miles back of V,’- -l iuglou, Ark., with a line nrmy—number- ii ;* needb-ss, for well known reajbns, to name, i.- emr i-: in line plight and most exe rile-: i r.p;, its. j Lieut. Geu. Kirby Smith has r-' ally been promoted to (Federal ami are given toe <-. m mand of alt the Tra.i* - *'.l Department. I-leut. Gob Holme* au ; . . n>. - >r, to re port to Richmo-.fi. Mi l Geu. Pri« •- s him in the command 01 ■ “ tr-. o;-. 1 toe :,.<ld a,i<cM t-’Hatti.Eistc.y. Lieut.. Dixsjn. who ble'v v p the H: ’ on the night, of the 15. an t. in; n nl <:G »r, ■ was either .cat or captured i > t r ••t.enty «m i his return. Ha was last s--a <•;.. leg >u toe ! direction of Fortjjutnter, boiw-.ea wßj«m r ad himself wore two lines of the * n-.my a p . net : boats. It wis expected th " is fate would be | uoertriaed by the u«.v flag of Gate. VOL. LXXVIII. —NEW SERIES VOL. XXVIII. 0.12 FROM VIRGSVIA. Tho Court of Appeals ot Virginia have decid , ed ia favor of the ivustitutiouality oi the repeal | of the substitute law. Captain Fitrimgh and fourteen men crossed the Chesapeake bay to Cherrystone wharf, in Northamp’on county, Va , and there surprised and captured a Yankee picket of twenty-nine men, and destroyed a largo amount of commie 'ATy ar.d quiirtertnaster’s stores and six wagons. 0. e s-cla o: e; and two steamers wee lying at the wharf. Ha burnt tbo schooner, bonded one oi tha steamers, and ran tho other across ike hay and beached it high up on the Peahke bn-k rtver, with tho design, if possible, of sav ins its machinery, which is very valuable. Capta:.. F’ltahugh would have extended hie raid beyond GUerry.-tcue, but one of bis men having deocried, ho felt sure that the information he would iUiuish tlio enemy would very soon bring down an overwhoiming fores, upon his little party'. lie returned safely without any other casualty than the desertion mentioned. Several incendiary fires have recently occur red in Richmond. CM. Sieeight and Lis party escaped from the prison in Richmond, Feb. According to iiu recount they,lid not leave tho city until the H'lh, having ail this time Icmained within not a score o! miles of the city. When these offi cers started out from Richmond, rix days ra tion.-; w re furnished them, and they were all "ell armed, but by whom they were thus kind ly treated they do r.ot stain. Those facts show conclusively tint .there are dangerous ohurac tors still at largo al Richmond. !r, their lulo raid oti Richmond, the Fode rds behaved with more than their usual fero city and fiendishness in this hussi raid, firing at unarmed oiiizens in tiie roads, destroying private property without rornorso or scruple, carrying oft noc-eombaUnts in their lilglit. The hotels at Petersburg, Yr., are charging thirty dollars per day for board. The report that Mrs. Patterson Allan had boon carried ell’ by tho Yankees, is contradicted. She is still in Richmond. Among those most active in the work of de struction at Gen Anderson’s iron works above Richmond, was a Yankee who had been libera ted from prision there, to receive employment in that estaolishmeut. Gen. Bragg h<e determined to have a caval ry force of fifteen hundred stationed around Richmond. The paroling of prisoners, which lias lately been going on, has been • Tfjoted without the interposition of Butler the whole correspo> d entv in relation to the matter being conducted by Major MuMorcl on the ppvt of tho Yankees, and Colonel Ould on behalf of the Confeder ates Butler known officially in any matter concerning the exchange of prisoners. Three hundred and twenty-one of the Rich mond Y'ankto raiders have been captured, FROM hi ORTH MISSISSIPI'I. A Confederate officer who has for some time been within the Federal lines in North Missis sippi, informs the Atlanta Register that the im pression prevails there that most of the Federal troops will bo withdrawn from that section and transferred to Tennessee. Both Smith and Grierson, with what is left of Their forces, have reached Memphis. The Federal* have blockaded tho streets of tb6 city in anticipation ot an attack from Forrest. ihe late raid lei,! a happy effect, in uniting jho people ot Mississippi, and arousing th, m up to energetic resistance to tbo Yankees.— Planters and 'fanners, who before were apathet ic. Lave come forward and offered all t'ueir sub sis ence for the use of the Confederate army. Gen. Buckiaud, an Ohioan, v,ho is in com mand of She Post at Memphis, has opened fret) trade with such of tho citizens of North Missis sippi ;;s will take in cotton. The repot Is oi Confederate desertions induced by Grant’* late order, are entirely untrue Some tow soldiers have been shrewd enough to avail themselves of it to go In and see their families, lmt...Lave in most instances returned again to tiieir commands. FKOM NEW v.itI.K.JNS, Banks’ expedition to Texas, was In command of Gen WhitjOtt, lieu. Banks having never left New Orleans, and that the expodition was a complete tailnre. A large number of the negro regiment* had mutinied while at Brazos .Santiago, and wero under arrest there. The first or second Metropolitan regiment, and some other white troop*, deserted and joined tire Juarez party in Mexico. ( Every steamboat which arrive* at New Or leans from up the river bear.? marks of guerilla bullets. Persons are constantly being kit ed on them. I’ilots now charge f> oo for going up the river and 500 for coming down. Business i* very dull in Now Orleans. There nro hut few troops in the city now. All the residents, wbo ate abto are leaving for New York or Europe. Over two hundred negroes, who were en gage! iu the Fort Jackson mutiny, have been sentenced to bo shot. I'ROIH BABV TENNESSEE. V loiter written from East Tennessee, says that- great distress prevails among the citizens an,to how they shall subsist. This people are ruined. They will be forced to ab ndon their homos and go to soma other portion of the countiy in order to live, provided they can.-- Many families have no means of transportation at ail. Horses, mules and cattle are all taken from them. Woe and misery prevails through out tbe country. . . There w is quite a fight at Rutledge, a few days since. Ta« Federate were whipped. The most flattering account* continue to be received from I.ongslreet’s army. FROM THE COAST’. The Savannah News of March 7th, says that on last Tuesday night, the lstirist., the British chooner Sophia, from Nassau, With a good car go for a Confederate port, arrived off Tv bee. The wind suddenly came out strong Intuit the westward, anil - in; was compelled to put to sea After attempting to enter several port* to the south ot this, she ran ashoro near Darien, and became .a complete wreck. The schooner and cargo w.t - owned in Savannah, with the excep tion oka lot.of blankets, which was tho prop e. tv of tbeStatuof Georgia. FRO.H MEXICO. TI,o clergy at whose invitation the French fir*t visited Mexico, have withdrawn from the •alliance and openly protested against the fur ther tuoumems ot Napoleon. The document.* riiow tha* that alliance is at an end, and that thn chief prelates of Mexico unitedly declare that ;i«-ir sit-; - lion is worse under French in ten 'di«>n than it ever was under the govern ment of Juarez. Cotton Trade at Matajioras. —Late English papers represent the cotton trade at Matamoras s growing to be of considerable importance, *Thev .speak Urns of !• : XUc large English houses ir, Liverpool and Manchester have now commenced to send their ships with superior cargoes to Matamoras, where, they dbehaigo the cargo and avail their cotton which is brought iu the following way ; A clerk or supercargo loaves England two 01 three I months heforu the ship, and goes on horse- j ! baric to Eagle Pass aud lrorn there to San.\n* ; i tonia. Texas. In Sun Antonia or another place ; in Texas he buys tbe cotton, engages the mules i j and trains, and th** cotton starts for Mexico; 1 mule trains arrive commonly in thirty-five days, i . ck’ttou is berweeu live and six cents per pound ! io Texas, bul fifty j«sr cent, has to be )>aid ex j tra as tax to the Confederate Stao s G'overn -1 ment. The Confederate Government support* ! 1 * trade in every way. but no train ;* allowed ; ~, o-0 on the road below i.credo, tor fear it ; ..fight tali In the hands of tbe Northern troops. ; With all expenses, a pound of cotton in Mata i m „ra= come* to twenty-one ot twenty five t eat* but is in worth in this place thirty fiva Since January. I **:!, about eighty or eighty-five thou sand hales of cotton have been shipped from here. A pound of cotton sent to Liverpool-, after being pressed, shippe I, and every ex p-use paid, will cost thiity-six to forty cents. Among these most ucive m the woik of de duction at G. n. Anderson's iror - works above B Ls’-ond, war a Federal who had been liber ated Jr.-jn prison theie, to receive employ tarn; in that establishment. Again we would call attention to tbe proprio'y oi guarding careful* ly tbe pseudo Yankee ‘ deseiterh'' seut so weak in various places In tbe Confederacy. These people so often prove to bo spies or t else got good, FOREIGN ITEMS. The bark Lottie tsk-Fh. laden with eleven tons of gunpowder, arid lying in the Mersey, Hew up a short time since. On the Cheshire side of the river the shack was hardly felt; but in Liverpool and Birkenhead the damage done and the terror created were beyond imag ination. Bolts and fragments of the ship were hurled into Tvunmero. Tho destruction of glass in Liverpool an i Birkenhead was immense.— The streets were filled with ii panic-stricken crowd, aud the utmost confusion nr vaib and Fortunately but very lew oases ot' personal in jury ocourred. Earl Russell was defending himself in t'.a English Parliament against tho attacks of the Derby! tes. Preparations had been completed at Parts for the departure of Maximilian for Mexico. Tho Groat Eastern bus beon sold to n new company, lor ninoty-Svo thousand pounds. Parliamentary proceedings ca tho 17th un important. Ibo Confederate lorn has further advanced to The rate of interest has been reduced by the Bank of England front eight to see n per cent At Liverpool on the 19th, American cotton firm; other qualities some decline. Tho Faris Bourse is firm. Rentes 6tif. The Revue dos Deux Mender, contends that France and England lose by want of sO-opera tion, a id urges the re-establishment of :«u ac tive alliance to avert the catastrophe which me naces Denmark. The Siecie (Liberal organ) demands the sup port of France for Denmark, so shamefully abandoned by England. It :s stated (hat tho Monitenr has been pro hibited publishing Prince Napoleon's anti-Eng lish speech at the Suez cabal celebration. T he Spanish Government has chartered sev eral si earners to convey lour thousand troops to reinforce the army of the Antilles, The Mcliieland palace at Rotterdam, contain ing' a picture gallery and museum, had beeti burnt. A questionable report that two first class English houses sufferers by tho rebel cruisers, j are about to dispatch onoof the fastest steamers j afloat in pursuit of pirates. It is suggested I that this may be smother Confederate dodge. The Bank of Franco has gained lfl,soQ,ooQf. , in specie. Mav.rini has been indicted as an accomplice in the late plot against Napoleon. In tho Italian Chamber of Deputies, Signer Since ekpreseu regret at the cundilion oi' the Italians serving in tne Federal army, who had been taken prisoners by tbo Confederates, and asked if it were not possible to obtain their release. The Minister of Foreign Affaire repli ed that he could not employ official means, the government of the -South not being recog nized. lie w-.uld, however, use other means to obtain their liberty or ameliorate their con dition. Tho seizure of the Confederate Vessel Tus caloosa, at tho Cape of Gooil Hope, is con tinned. The “Nord” denies that a French army of observation baa been placed on the frontier. A conference of the ministers of the minor German States was officially announced as about to o(you. The Governments of Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover ami other States were t ,7 send representatives to Wurzburg, where tlio «infer ence is to be held. The assembly of the nlitior Ststcs 5s looked to with much iuteiest, as likely to initiate a policy which may tend to break np the Germ mic Confederation aud qubstitnte for it two, or perhaps three, distinct centres of Ger man State power. ('apt, Spoke-i* among tbe latest British trav elers who have explored new places in Africa, and have opened new sources of information concerning the African character. Ho is a British Abolitionist, and an active promoter of all schemes looking towards whitewashing Africa with British gold and cotton goods, lift'd other elements of missionary influence aa-i civilization. Notwithstanding bis bias ami prepossessions, the tacts of tb& case compel from him, as an honest observer and reporter, f admissions showing that the African in Africa, bond or so-called free, lias no where 1 eached iv condition socially, physically ' i morally equal to the average condition of slavery in these States. It may interest some readers to learn that gold is still extant. Tho Bank of Franco had 170,01)0,000 francs in. bullion on the Ist Janua ry. Francis William C.'aulfield, 2d E irl ol Cbar lemont, died recently at Ciontaif, in Ireland, ngad 88. Ilia fall ter gained great celebrity in the last century as; the leader in the Irish Vol unteer movement, in 1773 and 1782, and as -me of the most active promoters of Irish legislative independence, 'and figures largely in tbe lives of Burke, Fox v Rift anil Grattan Tbe late peer was an amiable gentleman, holding rather ex treme liberal, opinions, but always the steady supporter of the Whig Ministries. Os Jnte year* he has been, an object oi interest as the "fa hta ofthi How* ol Lords, of which he ban been a member three, 1805 and the last survivor of the old Irish Parliament.’ He was a member of the Irish Huuse of Common* from 1706 till 1733, when he Riicpeetled to (he peerage and sat in the JJon*i of Lo; d* in Dublin till the Union of 1801 He received the ribbon of the Order of St. Patties in 1831. Tbe L’utperor of Austria cUhwl the session of the llekihsi'dtli in person, in liis speech he took a very pleasing view of affaiis. He ex pressed tbe hope that what, had been accom plished in the Duchies "will secure a happy fu ture to tbe countries whose lights have long been violated, and will not endanger the peace of Europe in a more extended sphere/’ The New York Titties' Paris letter says since* Mr. Mercier's arrived from Washington, he has joined his efforts wi th those of Mr. 1 »ayton in set ting the Governmei it right on the state of the war in America, and 1/as been using hi* influence to prevent any brcivjh of international law in .on uection wiih rebiil ships in French ports. Tbe decision of tie Government in the cast- of the Rappahannock has therefore been changed, aud she will probably bo detained. Rl.vix Tali.—in a late fojiy of the N. Y. New*, Lincoln .is arraigned and handled without gloves. The Immediate cause of this severe rasping is thfb course of that functionary in tbe reorgani/.afi*»n of tb- State Government of Louisiana upon the ‘‘one-tenth’’ principle. Ol this and kindred acts, the News says : We musVqualify such acts as sheer usurpa tioijo-au' /acious, otitninal, pdljured iisiupatioß. I‘resider.t Lincoln lias been guilty of usurpa tions, which if the dictatorial powers assumed were iv#t used for his protection, would certain ly him to impeachment aud condign puninhment. Lincoln is also charged by the Notvs with having au eye single to his I. '-election in all this movement, and the following emphatic vv.e rring i- pi -cn him i* the concluding portion of the article : We ray President Lincoln that if he counts to foist himself m this ina*ner upon the country for a second term, bo will be grievously disap pointed. The people see through this game, arid will not permit it tobemiccesnfully played. J f tie should venture, on the !th of March, lSb.d, to reseat himself in tbe Presidential chair by virtue of an election sectored by such a shal low ti !• k, wo tell him plainly he cannot succeed. There will either he lorciblb resistance, or, a3 his election cause# seces»ion South, his second illegal election will cause secession North and Smith, and break up utterly tins Union. Tha North and West have borne much; but they would not stand such impudent jug glery.” The. Iliehimmd Whig states vi nt there has beer, a decided decline in the prices of stocks bonds, aud other securities in that market The Whig thinks the money- market will soon Iks in that condition usually c.V led “stringent.’' The Secretary of the Treasury has directed that thetas on gold and silver, b illion or dust, be collected n kind at live per cent. Gold 1 will cease ir> lx- a very valuable investment. | sinee one thousand dollars in gold pay s fifty : dollars in gold, which at twenty’•three lor one. h. equal to eleven hundred a»ci lUi? dollars in Coated/rate money -which is just fivo p ceat. on Iweufy-tLroo thousand doll trs. The tax approaches gold to Confederate money, and as the difforotiCo iu value derrtases under the op.:f viou of this V»x. gold will cease to be j sought alter to tbb d«prooi<t(tioti of tpe curren j ey of ifc? country. CBM HOW rLL Ca BITS &PEKCII. [SCKCf-U. CORKBePONPiNOK CHUOXICI.K 4 SENTINEL] Millepgkvillb, Maroh 13, 1804. Geu, Cobb delivered an address here on Sat urday night, on the prosecution of the war, and 0!i kindred topics. Ho had a large audience and spoke noai ly two hours. Tho speech was generally conceded to bo the ablest of lu» life. He expressed the opinion that since the first year of tbo war our prospects had never beer, p.u bright as now. our armies and t eep.o aro buoyant, hopeful, determined. Tho re source* of the country, if tightly applied and distributed, have been found auipie for tha support oi tbo nnr.y and people, and if all 00 tlu-ir duty, v, c must su.cced, and oud tire war soon. Ho alluded especially to the duty of Legtsli* tors I„ a tim of war, forces must be exer cised which would not bo proper in a time of peace, and powers :av sometircea demanded by whose expedionoy or constitutionality, there may bo doubts or diverse opinions, ror ex arople—the constitution authorizes taking pii vale property for public use, payiug just com peDßatiou therefor. This does uot authorise seizures for tiie support of soldiers l'amiles ; but would a faithful legislator or a good citi zen hesitate to confer the power asked by the Govenor—to seize the surplus of those who refuse to sell hi order that, the families of sol diers might be fed ? So o the impr ssment of labor :tn,j of the conscript, act—they were un usual measures, deemed necessary for tbo prose cution of the war, and had been submitted to by nli patriotic citizens. The times demand sacrifices, not only of Ufa and property and comfort, but of those techni cal lights and privileges which we have boon accustomed to regard as sacred. Congress calls on us to sunetulcr some of these in tho suspension of the writ of habeas corpus He urges this point at some length, answering the objections that had been urged against the ac tion of.Congress. lie showed tho suspension to be constitutional; maintaining that under it the clau.-u guarranteeing security from unrea sonable search and seizure and regulating the mode of issuing the writ were necessarily in abeyance. lie sustained the action of Congress on tho currency bill, tax law and military bill. The latter was wise, because it places the reserved corps to be used ior .state defence under att or ganization more readily available than they would boas militia. We must yield extraordinary power to the Executive. He may commit errors, but ho is devoted and true, and worthy of confidence and cordial and harmonious support. What, said he, should wc say if in Europe we should hear him spoken of as • ome here at home are speaking? He appealed to his audience, es peciatly to the members of the Legislature, to lorego disputes about technicalities —yield to tire exigencies of the times, Ivu.i support tho policy of Ihe Government. He then addressed using the ar 'guments which lie has used with such power and effect elsewhere, to impre.s upon them their duty and responsibility ; and closed by drawing a picture of the glory, dignity, happi ness and prosperity in store for us when peace and independence are secured. His speech was in excellent taste and temper, and was earnestly applauded, it made a pro found impression. , i Officers cosfxhmed bv the Senate.— The fol I lowing named officers, appointed by the Sonata 1 during tire lastsejalou of Congress : Lieutenant Genltials—AP Hill of Virginia, from Miy 21, 1863, E S Ewell, of Virginia, from May. 23, 1863, John B llcod ot Texas, from September 20. 1863—3. Major Generai.*— Joseph Wheeler of Ga, J Pattou Anderson of Fla, from Dec. 17rh, Chi W Field of Ky, from Feb ]2lh, 1851, Robert E Rhodes of Ala, from May 23d, 1863. H Ileth, of Va, from May 21th, 1803, Robert Ransom of N 0, from May 26th, 1865, A P Stewart oi Tenn, from Juno 2d. 1863, Wm II T Walker of Ga, from May 23d, 1863, Stenhen D Leo of 8 C, from August 3 ‘, 1863, Wm Smith of’Va, Tom August 12th, 1863 Cadmus ?.[ Wilcox of Ala, from faom August id. 3d, 1863, Fiizbn.rh I.ee of Va, from August 3d, 1863, Iloweli Cobb of Ga, from Sept !)th, 1863. John A Wliartou of Tcxaa, from Nov 10th, 1863, Wlll T Marlin of Miss, from Nov lllrh, 1863, N B Forrest of Tenn, from Dec 4ih, 1:63, Wm Vv Loriug of Florida, lroui Feb 10th, 1802—18. BiitiiAjnEK G -M.i:ai.* RII Chilton of Va., from Dec 21st, 1603. Allen Thomas of La, from date of confirmation, N 11 llama of Mir.s, from Jan 20th 1861, L. Gibson of La, from Jan lltn, 18ori, C 11 Stevens of S C, from Jan 20th, 1864. J W Whitfield of Texas, from May 9th, 1863, John B Gordon of Ala, from May 7th, 1863, James A Waller of r , from May loth, 1863, J M Jones ot Va. from May 181 j.. 1863, John Adams of Tenn, funn Dec 20th, 1862, J S Marmaduke of Mo, from Nov 15th, 1802, M W ft rrsom of NO, from June 13th, 1863, A M Scales of N C, from June 13thM663, E II Coop er of Miss, from May 261, 1863, 11 If Waikcr of Va, from July Ist, 1863, F M Cockrell ot Mo, from July 1 Stir, 1863, J P Major of La, from July 21st, 1863, O F htralil oi Tti.n, from Jfily 28th, 1863, S W Fergursou of Miss, from July 23d, 1863, L L Lomax of Va, from duly 23d, 1863, LS Baker of N C from July 23d. 1863, 1’ IJ Heady of Ala, from August 3d, 1863, Eppa iiiinton of Va. from August IRI>, 1863 B G Humphries of Miss, from Aug 12th 1865, li 11 Davidsou of Tenn., Horn Aug 1 Hi.l); 1663, ii W Allen, of la, from Aug 10th, 1863, Cullen A B illie of Ala, from Aug 20th, 1863, W W Kiikl'fidof N C, from Aug 20Ui, 1863, Goode Bryan oi' Ga, from Aug 29th, 1863. M E Butler oi S C, from Sept Ist, 1863, Wfi Wick ham of Va, from .Sept Ist, 1863, Robert D Johnston of NC, flow Sept Ist, 1860, \V A Quarles of Tenn, from Aug 25th, 18C3, N W Reynolds of Va, fftrni Sept 11th, 1863. A l’erin of SC, from Sept 10th. 1863, K W I’cttus of Ala. ftom Sept 18tlf, 1860. A L Long of Va, from Sept 21st. 18(,3. 11 It Jackson of Ga, from Sept 21st, 1863, Wirt Ada.iis of Miss, fiom Sept 2oi ti, 1860, T C Wharton of Va, from July Bth, 1863, Jas f! Gordon of N C, fiom Sept 28th, 1863, James A Smith of Tt nn, from Sept odth, 1863, .1 allies' II Lewis of Ky, from fkpt oUtl), 1860, ii P f.owiy td M -s, from October 41b, 1860, L A Stafford of La, from October Bth, 1863, T L Rosser, of Texas, from Sept 28th, 1865 Fdward Higgins of La, from Oct 29th, 1863, E M R Young, ol Ga. from Sjpt 28, 1863. ,1 T Morgan avf Ala, from Nov 16th, 1865, John 11 Kelley of Ala, from Nov 16th, 1*65, WYC Humes of Tenn, from Nov 16th 1863, C C Wilson of Ga, from Nov 16th, 1605, J .1 Finley of Fla, from Nov, lfith 1663, J II Clanton of Ala, from Nov 16th, 1863. A G Vaughan of Miss, from Nov 18th. 1863, Henry A Wise of Va, from Juno 15tb, 1803, Gideon J Pillow of Tenn, from July 9ih, 1861, b Higgltsol Vo, from Auk fuff, 1861, Win Malone of Va, from Nov 10th 1861, It E Ooteton of Va, fromJ)ec 2ith, 1661, B R John sou ot Tenn, from Jan 2 (Hi, 1862, J P Ander on oi Fla, from Feb lOtli, 1862. John K Jackson of Ga, from Ji® 11th. 1862, .1 Ii Chalmers o Miss, Horn Feb lfith. 1662, J B Kershaw, of S C from ?ei> lfith, 1852, Thomas Green of Texas, from May 20th, 1803-06. Qr arte a master Gevecae—Brigadier Gener al a R I/awton of Ga, from Feb 17tli, 1861. Master Armorer.—A ,V King ofGa. Akraicin'ino the ItswcALs Gov. Medcary I of the Columbus [OhiojCriri*. is battling boldly 1 with the abolition administration, in referenco to tho war. Ia a late number of his paper he says : In the latest news from Washington in the Republican papers, we Had this, viz : It l.ns leaked out that official, repor s put the ( mon . 10 - s at Chanceliorsville. in killed, wouuoed, and missing. ZS.OW, WU at Chii-kahominy 20 000 at second Manassas, zO.OOOat Fiedcncks burg, and 25,000 at O ■ttysburg. 4 iieseajipal r.U) 000 more troops, he as'- s . “Where ore the million and th re--quarters . oirtv-U'Ht* ” ‘ war men, men for tbtfLmon or without condition men fiu and bl.-at -ITd with contracts men of the oath -I onnd who cried for var 7 Are they ready mmaren to tbe roeeue ? N ta regiment nor I a man for any purple than home guar.te-tb« oig-feedlng— lady w&iting-muk maid soldiery; 1 and yet tbej call this * popular war, .