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fourty goJl new* toonr rfaden. If U glori
on*now* Ncwntvhifb wUI remove the ans
!mis m»pen*» Which has prevailed !n every
„ aomm.mity fir th<* p»t few d«y». News which
r will m-cd a tlii ill of j>-/ to the heart of cv.ry
ir ,» lovr of civil Mm:.,. Ne«s which will
* tbo purp.-a* of those who
Oral tb» people of the Ao-tlb *tlll lure Cooetl
tmionul right*. Nv lb ,l will ebeirtfae woild
<>*l those right* hw< Lampion* who are wi I
<. if lo buckle Oli t eh armor when necessary
ruol stand u.S h -ldly in tbwir defence Th.
I lou l ol a mitiury winch had marie
1U »,t-.uno, iu oiJ optical bqrnon and
wb’.-b iS.n*u-ne.l to oen»P>e.vi the entire land.
I,lolling out from exlatewo the st.iy I ,no ' J 11 H
ioT which hur g«lUnt defender* ere lighting,
ha* been diaptlied. Mokl nobly bag Georgia a
tntflotic »ong cav.ri the country from tbo
oiiMOi of mar. by on i ruin, towmd* which wo
*, » nation w«r* being harried with a Awful
rapidity. , ,
The telegraph Informs ua tint Lie Lgw
UMffr hra paaKri Judge BtepUcns’ resolu
• • 11.1 r 1 oiu.i fill til** hftuCM
ttons against rim fu» ( .o!im.
cerpu. writ. 1 ;e, t .• majority in their favor
was small. Bat Urn resolution* I ave been
TMUmo l. 'J he viclnry In favor of right achiev
ed. a severe one. It
v.*s astrnagle c»f justl.csj against power. 'lt,.-
friends of the raccvwiul party had immense
odds lo contend :• const. Tho lolri.y of tin l.cg
lolatiiru at MiiiedqevUle lw* been lllieil wi.h
prominent a linlnistrat on officials, font nu nos
ininenca and p:*ltloa wito were Reeking to
t-orry favor with tho administration by opposing
Governor Brown and Lla policy. Ihe sulisldi.tud
pressed of thußU t*' have hl,-> been loud end
• in their denuhli ffTm* Os ids meaHurea
rind it* supports’ *. Notwithstanding all lids,
light lent “’“veiled in 1 «ah hoinMM of our
&.«t« i'»‘* **•■'»>*
Iwa itho toor.i free, A'* imtuen- 1-ad U«» U'eu
removed from their mf.KK ' W* -f the
citizens of rid ’ Ootuninawealth ' (vt, »itt
dkwted. Thu 1. c rd of Georgia u - «•••’>
u stain. Hu-(dcuich' va -did reirnffO* t,i,sid>
lied. God b-J ‘l>cd I
Tir: ?ms<i I'm- A c-n,<-'i>W‘l.*rut
tl tho Unlumbio U.irollnKn "ili-m that
th# armv of (Ira 1- ' e »r\ ivoly preparing l-r
tts summer <•■'-!> !;■«. ««d «b-“ '‘npormn.
movement* nr* to Mkj pW* •'» «
N-UdOh baa iHi-t:iT«d ''i Mr
jrthhi »ln. .< tho Ist*' raid w-Gby »f r.-.-oi■!. 'I he
hav< been iioßtwsnM**. ''<'l ap.-iog «f»H.
er baa agam ni>»*i« iw appeal an*" (itu - U ’ Jut
street bus paid Gen. Leo an . illrirtl visit, ami
burned l*» hi* hfa.lquarto# t.oar lire, nvlllo.
TWaneewi. An arlTv« ciynpftig'i i* being <>••
janlwd, amt the j-t.U *•# both on*, ci # uni Bi.u
v»lnU but to one result sucre**. '1 bo army
f# Jn excellent bi-altb, KliJ ration- tiro abut.-
ri*nt» , .
Vjoiu ib« North wo loniß that the 1 edi-ial
„r, u y pf lb - Potomac in In progrewof organiza
tion prdh»imwv W tivo operations, but tbo
prevatllug in1|Mo8«lon l, <U«t ->!eude. lvtf 00
«,! ULa Jt.«oat.Goi;eyri.t»’gtf«ll bo removed
frofti Ill's rommand. t-inut U uo>v tht*
tng gotlius. aiot at the council >d war which
fc e roo-utly attended In Wiiehingtou, it wn# nr
tanged that tin* rapture of Ki.hmon.i should
U, tho primary object 4>f tbo Spring campaign.
appears that Oraut a grand bleu is that our
*#pNM won be taken before tho South can 1»
penetrfHod- Troop;* according to hid plan art*
lo be brought from Chattanooga and MLsisrippi
nn>l, if potable, un army of two hundred nod
fifty tuoosv'd men id to lie concentrated, Ebb
men4 id t'ioti to to approached from three dis
i’uivnt diiDctiooft#
Kilpatrick and hi# <Jm®mand hare taken to
jlw water. They are reliHi’iug to Alexandria
,tp tranuporta.
Mwry thing now indicates tied grand move
incurs will bo made, and i.ig event# transpire
■within the coming t|yo months. Perhaps du
ilng that period the results may ho so decisive
that w« shall he enabled to sen the beginning
trf tho end.
Tan De'Pbbatov' wr the Enemy Is made
nmn fl’Pt by the wild mfcnuor la which ho denis
his blows. Wheu one's antagonist is much
blown, aud nearly worsted, he grows leas c.ui
ti.nui in bis advances ; ho vents his Impotent
'ey LiHiog out right and loft, boating the
oir, and do'ug nobody any harm but H'uiselt.
He will soon Im exhausted at such a rate. The
recent raid upon TMciimoud shows the despe
rate nature of the enemy’s condition. The
dnounratis found on ona of their leaders re
veals the Jsct. that they no lougei hope by an
sy.«n, honorable system of warfare, toaccom
vlts&.ti»lr purpose, By e fair stand tip tight.
* which the opponents may hare an equal
- they find thoy can do nothing. There
ohaho*., rneoct a scheme nneqnalled for its
tore They t>. uo thau t 0
illaboU’ i ctitv. -otrd capital of the Con
pounce upon the de>. , tOWQ mnri *v **
fedoracy. sack “and bum tu* Jhe ven _
innocent and defenceless, and *.
gvauce upon the iTe-Weol an l hi* ’
What equivocation—what shuffling, will tv»
sorted by the Federal Government, to clear its
shirts of’this l>a«e plot, remains yet to bo seen.
That there will be fune evasion-some shining
vs the responsibility upon the parties immedi
nu>ly concerned, there Is no doubt. But the
scheme, happily foiled as it was. discloses a
*pfrlt of despcnttloß On the part of out enemies
which Is more Judicative of weakness than
itrength.
■” ai c. sa- ora B vrri-rr ('onvsstion —The next
of this body will be held in the Second
H* p tis' Clian.li. Atlanta commencing on Fri
day, Apr!! v2d. I*l6l. The Committee of
AnJ&iSSJnenU are rv*v. W. T. Brantley, J. 0.
MoDftiiiel, Edward V.’Ult*. S. Root, and 1 •
htrhirdc. These gentlemen request all dole
saWi and e ’rrwpooiiente wno design being
present, to give iiwui immediate notice of their
Vernation by mail. Pisces of entertainment
Will then be provide'! for them, of which they
will twelve df» notice, und to which they can
r*f»lr ioit&edittftly oc tseii arjival le the dty
j Jrwi: STErueug' Resoi.ctton^.—The re-ohi
; tioDK of Judge Htepfc ns on tbo ea»»cneiuii of
i tbo lialxmh corpus writ were amended before
j they were piw’l. Here they aic us they re id
j vtn n the vote wag taheti
■ The fleneral Aseemhlr of the State of G :>r
-1 aln. do R.wive I<|. 'll.at, under the (xn- itu
j ri.iti of the Con federate Statea, there !* no
jawrer to mupend the prlvlleue of th- writ of
hah.xs (orptw, bnt in a manner nod tana ex
tent irgiilated and limited by the expre&n, cm
(ihatir, and un-jualilied Corwlitalio.-aii [Xoriibi
thing, that, "No ptrxxi sf.all tn 1 (JU.fir.vwl of
I sib, liberty, or property without ilue proew-g r>f
U*," and that “The of the fieopie to be
gecure la their persons, houses, papers, and
effects, against uarcASoriablo and 3. j
him, aboil not bo violsied, and no warrantg
ahull ivue, Imt upon probable cause, aunpe-rted
bv <i kth or afftrmatinn, an 1 partlrub-.rlr .!>
“CrildfitJ t!i» p’.ai ) to be Sea:- Uni, U.> 1 »b 9
pcison or thin:;*. t<» lie seirnd."
A id this ror.clugioa r.i.nlu from tho two f.d
lowing reasons: Fir-t beosm-d tha > *■
i ... ~t H.ismwl.iiw troin express
•). p./nllnn, b< • ott'y from i.upticatioa, whim
rauf! always yield to cxprt*«, naiili.-ting c.ad_
ngtdct'ug word*. Second, ber»u«ethis power,
being foilod do where in (be Constitutioo, hut
in word* which are coplod ir(.m the 'e'gi.ial
Constitution ol the. t'uit and Stitee, as adopted
in 17x7, miist yield, in all points of conflict, to
the gnt>gri|UMi: atnendmt-btaof 1783, which am
also copied into our present Constitution, and
which contain the prohibition* above quoted,
and were adopted v,’i(h tbo declared purpose of
adding ‘'further dfeclarabary and restrictive
clauses.”
U. That “due process of law” for veixing
the persons of the people, as defined by the
Conatitntioh itseif, i» a warrant issued upon
probaliio cause, supported by oath or nfflima
tion. and poJtii nliuiy deecriuiug lha peraocs to
be aetaed, and the issuing of r.ueh warrants,
being the exertion of a judicial power, is, if
done by any branch of the government, except
the judiciary, a plain violation of that provis
ion ot the Constitution which vests the judicial
[lower in the Courts alone; and, therefore, all
seizures of the persons of the people, by afiy
officer ot tbo Confederate Government, without
■.vai rants, and all warrants for that purpose,
from any but a judicial source, are, in the judg
ment of this Geneiat Assembly, “tinreasona
bld” and uncoil* Rutional.
cid. That the recent act of Congress to sus
pend the privilege of the writ of habeas ccupus
in cases of arieet, ordered by the President,
.Secretary of War, c*r general officer
iiig the trims-Miosiscippl Military Cepaitruent,
is an attempt to sustain ths Military authoiity,
in the f xercire of tbs Constitutional judicial
function of issuing warrant--, and to giro Vel -
idil v to soizuceg t.f th« persons
of the people ; and, as tho said act, b> ir; ex
pol. t-i'ius, coufines its opmationr 1 - I); *■ ji
holding of this class of uucons'iiulioual sei •-
ores, the whole *us[>eits!on attempted to be
authorized by it, auii tb<* whole art itself, in
the judgment of tills Ueneiul Assembly uio
uiuionslitiiUomil
4th. ,'i'hat, iu the judgment of thin Gonaral
Aftembly, the ; - id act is a dangeious assitnlt
upon the Cons itutional power of the Courts,
and upon t(ie lib.uty of ihe people, beyond the
power ot any ptadMa ne.v-ss'ty to justiiy ii ;
and while our Senators and KepreHentiitiviv in
( ongress ate earnestly urged to take the tir.-;
p.vuible opportunity to have Ii reismleil, and
refer tbo question o' ils validity to the Gnurts,
with 11. a nojie that the people and ihe iniHciiy
iiuthoriiies will abide l.y the des'lslon.
.'.tli, Thai as Constitutional liberty U the
sole ol jecl which our people and onr noble
itniiy, inive, in our preretu terrible ati iigc.le
wilii the Government of Mi . Lincoln, so alao
is h. fidtiiful ndherenea to it on the part of our
own gov. iijuient, through g“ a| fortune in
aijpa afid tbt eiigo
ill. ..tr >*( eilf s*r.- itgtn user tjliWi vV., ; lie
cause it lie CousUtiif Cfifilrastot t e.n-ittiiitunal
gi.vet'rinutnt, on our part, wl'h tire usurpations
slid 13 muni, s which chnnu'terue the govern
jnont ot our eneiHV, under the ever reotjrrir.fr
and ever false (ilea of lilt' ue.a-s.itit.; :d war,
wit! have the double etlect of animating onr
own people with ns iim'Oiujiierftble steal, and
ot itikpiiiiit; tho people ot the Koub. more
(11 cl in ne, with it deaiie and deteimiuatlou to
pill au end ten contest which is waged l.y their
govei im.ent, openly, agaiusl our liberty, and
H.S tl lily, blit 11.010 1.. v, rjiv, ngainat tbeir own
Gor. Jbtows'a Mc;s h.k. — The Montgomery I
Ailve! User iu Commenting on tlov. Brown's j
Message, r.(mark* this :
! n hia proti'-t against the smq.w-di'm of ttu j
writ af balH'tv* corpus, and tin* policy ot
much secrecy In Congress upon matter** of vital
eon* ern to the eounliy, ve concur wiiit him.
lieu* the Cloven or to lichen matters of pviu
riple whiclt ho deeply affect the public liber-j
ties that they ought under no stm-s of .* ircuia-'
stance** to ts3 coioproini.sed. by the !a*v id
Congress suspending the writ of habeas corpus
tu.iiie twenty class*’’, of est.-es are eutimoral* 7 dj
in wiilph if tho rights of parties lie involved
they r art. bare 111. up pea) to the Coiilto. 11l
must ot these cases *he parties would Uiineie
political offenders, where m'l I ’-*-’. prejudice or
caprice would be likely to discard all ‘Jr -1 Wl’
inn' y laws of evidence and sutdeer the untuv
luimte victim to the injustice of arbitrary rule.
W e must object to the suspension, lieeaiip’e It
implies a disregard of the popular onodeinliH
tiou of a measure which has tv, lee b> wire been
enacted itj some shape, and became both times
so odious that it had to ho* repealed: and l*e-
CnilUe itjpuiplies a jealousy o! the Onurts, (bat
have hitiierto nmiutaiued all the taws nej eesniy
and proper for the public defence, and, at liie
same time, served to give the people ns.-nnuu o
that, if their liheities should he infringed, they
would tlnd ready redress at the hands of the
judges. Nothing, in our opinion, could do
more (o shake the confidence of tlm triends *4
liberty t v?rywlierc. in the eon eel ness of our
pretensions, than tmeb un act. «<'d wo hope
the now Cong res v will signalize its advent to
power by the prompt repeal ol this law.
A Vm Aiiu Table.—The Atlanta Apjici! j
publishes the annexed table, which will he j
found useful alter the first of April, us tho <-M
issue will pass at the discount of pr cent. :
Table allowing tlio value of the Old Issue of
Confederate Money when discounted for the
New Issue of Confederate money.at the rate ]
<,f Three Hollars in Old Issue for Two Dollars
in Sew Issue, from .*?•’> to s*>hO :
o < lo’ ’ < < H 5
S£S|a * £ A 5
r * - » =• 8L- *
I ? I ? 1 1 i W 't
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If ? 11 j | £ i jf? j? f
i s?_ 5 F; r js \J_± £
. . 3 S'U, HO. . . M .SJHf.lw' IW.* N ' Sv*S
to « i:.;\ 8V....M !•“' •• %,»• *• ••
iv to iO i so ...00 ov (ISO 110 oo Its) no Cos
v ' s J-S »•. ..cs > us '■'* ...MS 3*V4
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. .40 00 $0 i.)O iltO i4o'(' .'-t) 1 ) 41*' 00
•IV.. 4 H'W’ ;V.w tiv 143 S-.-i-r.-') j.-U
»-> •!•;-» 141 . r--.., to ....it) •••OH y : <us
» fu 1(30 I;jv 140 (O -V W
A\s,' IVR lh-'i vuNniuN R: mok. —The Selrua
Reporter -::>.vj s that Col. Vest, number of
C.aigress from Mlsson.’?- u a speech at Do
mopolia. to the Missouri troop* ? n Wednesday,
yih inst . in which he stated that lie ’,sd
retprne«l from Richmond-, and that President
Davie told him bo had Information which was
official, that Maximilian was on route to accept
tiio throne Os Mexico, which would result in
the recognition ot iFe Southern Confederacy
by Mexico, Spain, France, ami probably Aus
tria.
All this rends well—promises well. We hone
the statement will prove correc t Our renders,
however, should not place much ooiibdeuce
;on recognition rnmor?. They are altogether
i too sandy a fonndatfoa to build high hopes
upau.
Tb« New York Herald says tho stories set
that a largo number of Confederate pna
(?oeTs have nht*3 UpvT>le a path or aliegiauto
U üßtyue.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, IfARCH 30, 1861.
SriM lures Ulsi'ATCI 'Hi MU. ,t»t*iS
AB(Jl I I tiK It V.VI*.
| roe Wushiugfon papers jmblirh th;; tiis
pi'.cii from H—.vard to Mr. Adams, the Federal
Mini tor in Ix>u loa, (fitted July 11th, I .do.
I IV- give it in full, as it is both important and
iatere.ui:./. Tim old "nicely days" promise
; may be foiled in He concluding sentence,
whii ii i • ic entirely worthy of puerility, assuring.
Lot ! I:: soil tfi.it t ; . j tciiilary streng-.h of the
J. •* y, "Cia hildly be deem-d pcruia
nectiy foimidabio
L'sPAartr.-N? cf Stats-, l
V.’.vxi,• ov, July IT, I*l3. f
fi : Your deepat fief tea 2'l'j <f Jaue (No.
' 4-1) has been received, togeth-r with three
1 paj. i booln c-onbdiii..g a repent cf tae trial of
| ihu Alaxitidra.
In fro !c" \ ixj t‘.e P: rodent’s views st'regard
tr. 1:. ;Ci and ih . questions (tepece . p upon
it. I 1 .!;... i so- j e ribarr-cc-o. M-uit- j
ioe tV'-m . rviioro -or vvoat :- y b.-.* o’ i
' r i-.ch f, L ■ - il,c at limt t:rut; a
rnovc.aect in the House ot Commons demand
ing a recognition or the irwutconta by her Maj
ivty’s government was act down for th? MOtiiof
( June, or i tout you •« e *ot i i- 1 .Mother with
cut apprehension that the inov«n«»t, aided
by a moral ett'ct of tbo verdict in the case of
Iho AbiX-mdra, and backed by n aapposod pat
roungu in franeej might prevail. Lecondiy, wo
have nor allOsother been able to (iisrepiu i iho
ruiaoi - oi a design of the Euijn rot of Eranee
to recognize the insurgents, with or without
the cix.cufreuc.j of the government «.( Great
Britfdo. Thirdly, that ninveineut w;s to be
iw-ed upon the ground of tbo dreuonstnued
finluro of the anuie.-i of the Union; but while it
was .rolng on, these aitides have achieved vie
■* -1 uwhich heiv era regarded as warranting
:.n e;<|.-ctatinn of a complete and rapid oxtiu
guisliinent of the insarrection. Tin se brilliant
and im; rtant victories, however, are as yet
unlmown in Europe.
Under .these circumstances T shall assume
that no act b?-s been dojie by the government
of France, or by th? government of Great
Britain, especially by the latter, io change the
ielutions 'lj;\r have tieiefofore existed between
tboRO eouutriw, respectively, and tbo United
States, and 1 si.all confine myself to tlm duty
of explaining frankly .the opinions of the Pres
ident and tire policy which he will pursue in
regard to maiitiinc questions in view of the re-,
watt in the oa-e of the Aiesan ita.
Filer You are authorized and expected to
msuro Earl Russell that lids' Oovmnroent is
entirely ratisbed that t ig - Majesty’s Oovern
meut have conducted the proeeedirtga in that
caoj with perl'eit gy and faiiii and honor, and
ihit they nre well id. i >ad to pr”vent rJ.o fir
ting out of ,n aioi vessels in Eritiah puns to
depvod c.e upon Ameriean CiMmoorc*) tuid to
make war against the I'uiti and -•bates.
H.-.-on dy:. This (i-weremeui .is »:iti«Bed that
the huv oiUeeis of itv* mown. Live \*i formed
tned ilnfies in ugrad to iheCK-se cl' the Aiez
amlia vith e. sincere conviction of'l-ht* aucipia
cv of the Taw of Great I’.ritain and a sincere,
desire to give it effect.
Thinly. The Government of tho United States
do-'-*! not descond to inquire whether the injury
in the case were not impart iW. It willingly be
ii >es limy were or were not impartial. It
willingly l-'iiVlcVtN they e- n-.-e and itaecepis the
fiateineut niada w idi -o much unanimity by
all the reporters *; ii;o case, that the judge
who pr h'.ed ai. ti e uhil made ler hench re
sponsibio for tho verdict by .tin* boldness,ftnd
dii-ceutcus o t- is mil - 5 against the prosecution.
l oin till* . Great Uritatn being a free an-l
couatitutiiuiii! country, arid the proceedings in
ihe oe.-t* of the Ah-xnuara Itaving t.-ocn thus
-111 COCe'l lifted l-y the I i IIVC Ti H'„.-n t IQgOl'.d f.lilh
and in i ording toiaw, iho I. uiteo .’ Cdea would
not he instilled in deeming ilm verdict n udered
! V the ;-ji V cii u if Utdioual t.i,:i.j.i..::.1.j-,.i s
lld’-it i bin rtu-l uiveviVmfu.t p!'o?ei uti-*i an ap
peal to the higher conns until it bo d.-ieimined
in ihf* court of hist resort v.iieti; -r the law is
adequate io (he tndh-tt nauco ol the neutrivlity
vvlilcit Her Majesty lmspi. .fumed, ami pro
i ided al o that iu the meaiitime tho Alexandra
and oth**r-ve3M»ls n iy lie found violating or
im paling to violate Ihe law. !-o prevented. s*>
iar as the law may alhAv, from ieaviiu; liritiaii
ports to pi-iKecuto thr-i. worji.* ol devasiatioa.
The lhevidt-ot is not prepuru-i to believe Clu-l
the judiciary ol Great Rrilain will, wiih weii
considered ' juilp-Muent, render do gat :y and
void asta'uto of the- realm which, with 4:s
fcOtintevpart in oui ow*v lcg.isl itiou, lias 'uither
! tolieiu -regarded :.y l*Hh nations u* .* guaranty
I of that mutual forbearance which i< so essen
| tMI to the pu s' rvatiou of peace -and frlendsbity.
: N»r shall J incur tho br.zird of producing ii ri
‘tattoo or, either side of the ocean by criticising
Die reasoning by widcli ti;s !-:• o ued juSge vvli<>
ti i- *l the case ot tliC Alexandra justiued his
concUtsiotw tiicreots, or by which that [iortiou
; ->( JHtish pr. ** which approves the vciviict
labors to dt-u-iid ii.
It would he very grathyiog to my if I were
allowed to rest Loic. Hut the position m
which the oisc of the Alexandra is left by (he
rueiit trial tender# it t" contemplate
a p .ssibtc niiirmatioa .t't‘ • rulings *>l the
chief baron iu the court of dernio-r roeovt. Y on I
Are .-i.tiD- .1 to know, and ii seems proper th«i, i
vou shouid be able to communicate to bar j
•;*-*—i.v’a jiiU’t’-t, iho views which the ;
I’ivsiii-uthas tube.; - Ufa light# t.nd duties.d |
the t;.. i trom.'ut.ia tliatunb’K>K<->. ‘•• f anu dv r p- ]
iy tq- be deprecated event. 1 trust that 1 shall
be able to arpreM ilmse com iutions calmly
and dlspasslon.it.dy without vimnding the just
self-respect of her Majesty's Government. If
the rulings of the chief !>• cups tho exehequcT
in ti.e cm*t* of the A iexe: i: shall he tilhrmod
so as to reg'daU’ Ui<- iu D- u of her Majesty s
Gov* intnei.t, the I'rrs: '■ r.t v. ;H. as he ihinka,
be left to undei3tar.it that thuro is u > law iu !
Great Eritain which will be effective to pie
- serve mutual relations of f <,'ec-.re.nco ' ctween
the sill ;si t# of her Majesty and the Govern
merit ami tho people of ii-.e United Hiatus an
tho only point, vvlseru they arc exposed to in
ti action. Tho fitting out of the Alabama ami
tbo Florida, as well a Dot tiro Alexandra, will
thus twelvM the sanction of the Government,
umi the United ."..it.’s v* dl be without any
j guaranty whatever against the indiscriminate
I .oui unlimited employment of capital, industry
i and .kill, by hrisish t.ulf ■: !o buiidin?, arut
inu’, equipping, and sending forth btups-of-i.ar
from British ports to make war against the
United states.
1 may srfaiy protest, in behalf of tl*e United
States,"against, the assumption of that position
by the British na: ion, because this Government
w ith it statute exactly similar to that of Great
llritiiiu, does constantly hold itsalf ai'io and
bound to prevent eachinjinii-sAoGreat Britain.
The President thinks it not improper to eng
goei for the consideration of her Majesty's Gor
cjcuient the question whether, on appeal to
I t*> made by them. Parliament mlgbt-not think
it inst amt expedient to amend too existing
statute in such a wav as to effect what the two
Governments urtiptfly believe I ought now to
accomplish. In case of such an apponl the
President would net hesitate to apply to Con
gress for an equivalent amendment of the
laws of the l jilted States if her Majesty’s Gov
ernment should desire such a proceeding, al
though beje such au ameudiiK-ot is not doomed
necessary.
If tee law of Groat Biltaiirmusi he left with
out amendment, and be construed by the (lov
emmetd in conformity with Ihe rulings of the
Chief Bar-oil of the Excheq ier, thou there wiii
he loft for the United States no alternative but
to protect themselves mid ihtir couimerce
aoftinst armed cniisers procoodir.g from Briii.-h
ports, os against the naval forces of a public
or.emy; and also to claim ar.-l insist upon in
demnities for the Injuries which all such expe
fUtidne have hitherto coniiniricd or shall bere
.Uei’ e-oatmit against this Goveramen* and the
ciriMcs of ill* Suited SiaUs. To this end the
GovcmmetH is now preparing » naval force
with the utmost vigor; and H t!-« f at,
navy which it is rapidly creating shall not bo
suWeent for the emergency, then tho United
route? must bring into employment such pri
vate armed naval forces as the meroantilc ma
rina shall afford. British ports, domestic as
well as colonial, are now open, under certain
| Tsstrk-tions, to the visits of pirutieal vessels,
i and not only furnish them coal.-, provisions and |
1 repairs, but even receive their prisoners when
: the enemies of the Untied States cocie in to
j obtain such relief from voyages in which they
have either burned fhijw they have captured
j ct have even manned and armed them its pi
i rates, and gfut them abroad as auxiliaries in
Che work of destruction, tiaUbe an occasion
lor either enrpilec or complaint that if this
, condition of thing? is to remain and receive
; (ft* delriaruty taSH.iotf of the RrliUh Governr
1 - la*
m**: ■, tee navy <4" the United States will re
ceiv 9 - to pu ->nc tl use enemies iff'.-
; the jioris wbicii tens, i : violation of the law of
j n tiom i.' and the obligations t.f neutrality, he
! come* harbors for the pirates! The Presideuf
i very distinctly r rceives tiio risks and hazards
i which a naval conflict tints tmtintaiaed wi;.
(bring to tiie conuierco uadfevoa to the ptaeo
of the two countries But b« is obliged toe.-
aider that in the cs« supposed t„o Uestruclh a
: of our ccnimertce will proliabty cuioant ie a .
i naval war waged b-y a poition at least cf i- '
British nation against the Government cad
peop.V of tha United States—a war toie.'atod
although not tieoUrcd or avcwo-J by the Brit ■
EL Government. If through the neceaaarr em
ployment of all oar meatw of national defence,
-. h a 1 fi i v?ar shall become a general one
between the two nations, the President thlnke
that the reeponsibility tor that painful result j
will not fall upon the United States.
j In atnthig tiias fiankiv tbs views of this Gov
: r .merit, it is (.roper for ms to add Fiat it is not
Pi.-bV.'e'Lt s purpose to "esort to the ■■ ..rra
:>r lir: "ry of .;j; . .00 to , *
e‘.- ■-xi, vuipas they sha-il be ton/ fi b «9-
sary by actual decuioa of the Britfrh Govern-
Uicat that it cannot and wiii not interfere to re
strain thohoßtiUtiea which are now apprbcjtued;
:ur v 11 I allow myself to suppo-e that Her
Majesty's Government will for n motoent con
ceivo that anything 1 inive written upon this
j;oinr is written in a spirit of snore demonatia
ion :on tlio i-ontrary, while th© [.ecitio and
friendly disposition of HerßriKimlo Majesty’s
Goveromi vc is fully appreoiate ! and telied up
on, it is well uud.-iV.i ■ and thrt (fiat Government
is the last (fie in the world to yield to vehe-|
mor.cn vriiat cannot be conceded in equity and
justice, co, on the other hand, it ought to be j
understood that tlio United SUte», it th«yooul 1
ever bo preenmptous, are suflicientiy chasten
odalready by the scourge of. civil war to seek
peace and friendship with Great Britain and nil ;
other nations through any rooceß-uon that is
compatible with the permanent intereats of na
tional life and honor.
For your own information, and to enable you
to maintain the national rigfits and Interests
with your accustomed firmness, I have the plea
sure of stating that our naval force is steadily
and rapidly increasing. The navy has already
iu actual service forty-four thousand men.—
New, better and moie effective steamships, iron
clads, ft3 well as others, are corr iag from the
docks; and v.e do not disfrust oar ability to de
fend ourselves iu our harbors and on the high
seas, even if wo must unhappily be precipitat
ed, through injustice in Europe, Into a foreign
war. iho fall of Vicksburg releases a large
1: ival lore© for effective service, while the free
navigation of the Mississippi, now immediately
expected, will restore to us our accustomed fa
edifies for foreign conflict. The suns great
event relieves the aimy of General Grant, which i
iiiiiAbeu oi.c hundred thousand men, from the !
labors and fatigues of 11 siege, and gives us j
movable columns for uncompleted purposes of j
th- iv.if. The capture of Vicksburg, the oocu- j
pa lion of ItilUhotna, and the defeat of the iu- 1
x argents in ?e:iusylviiuia, are ihe acbi.vemeuto.;
of the campaign which was proposed in the
lust autUDiu. The army which Ims performed
ihein is Mi l strong and effective It will now
be reinforced, easily and cheerfully, by the
people wiiil na addition of three hundred thou
(Sind men. On tbo other band, the Insurgent*
have, within the last month, sustaitnd -.u ag
gregate loss of fifty tlioitsauil men. v. : >li, 1 |
tbiii*., it will be veiv difficult, ii not inipos.-:!-
!>!<;, io rap I ace, and, without thek being re- j
placed, their military strength cun hardly bo '
deemed permanently formidable.
1 am, sir, your obedient servant,
X? iLDTAM H. BRWO.RTI. j
CtfAS. Francis AUims, Esq An.
Hfi\nv Wt.XTKi Dxvis r>\ Sr awry in Manv
u;'»a\ is of Maryland, i- r 1 rM t';c
!. aff-ju,?
Cos: gres*. and reccofl/ paccfifded ia carrying
tbo Maryland election »'gH ; -iat (Md Abe. r Hi*
opposition is not based that Lin
(roin goes too far 01 the sli"ery question, but
because lie does not pa far Mo ega. In a into
debate in Corn'recs on 'tn«. bill establishing a
Bureau for Lie .wti, cu's A-aiis, wF.'ind the fol -
lowing:
Mr. r>iivi*,(M<!„> In reply to Mr. Brook*.
(N\ Y.jdefetiied the validity and tuoral force
t.f tin! Ini j congrc-«ioaal aud other elections in
Mai y land. The licieated puritenoa only coin
plain iu (hot state of the result, to the Union
uaj-u :iy tming fbir oen or fonriivn thonsand.
He dciiied tmt slavery was dead and oxpres
- -d the opmiiiu that if H should be exteiml.n
ateci it w.ju!d tiga'ui become our masters. The
* Arm i.-tiou i« Ma'ryiaiid which recently dfclar
*-is tor imsncdiate emancipation gave a si?:itß
- edurnnUion v.'ui thy of the Htate onfl the
p.eo;d«. In speaking of the sinister influence
and coptvoHiiig element near the I'r. sideut in
•he great cruse of enrancipafioit iu Maryland,
we arc. Mr. Davis said, under small old gallon
to tho President for what the latter had done
in to t Suite. The people thought it wise, while
■,ipi,;.;eiug their approbation of the President,
to pass Urn u-solutiou to which he !j*4 referred
for the Prt-UdefiUa ei’rioua ci*Ußide*ation.
lfe vrisfied to show.that their devotion was
not personal, hut on principle—for the encae",
and oui lor tho toun —and that they will sup j
poll, tin* man so long only ns the i
cause. If the opposition elect their lYeahieut,
slavery was as much alive as when the first gun
biased on Sumter. If we, he remarked, lone
the uAfk eh. diva if in very 1b an powerful aa itev.-r
was. We must either go !«ok ward or go for
ward. Slavery is trot dead bf the Fresident’s
proclamatlop. Ivlrat lawyer attt’hute# to ** toe
least legal effect : itDn'w oniomed by the
bayonet to tho extent of tbo rfarilios cf tile
wai 1 , under t-.e law of Itffiw. Ue-ctstahiish the
old (Toverumont, and slavery will resume It*
| ancient sway. In order to the readmUnion of
i state** there ebould 1.-o a resolute declaration,
as a condition precedent that slavery ahali he
pr ihihlted, nnd the Constitution wiouid S'*-*”'
antes the fact, aud the Government should bo
kept under the control of those whoso views
ted pnrposos afford the assuraacu that thoj.t.v
will oe executed.
In tlio course of his romerUs,- Mr. Davis re- j
furred to the exposition c-f tfw views of Pit-si
d«nt Lincoln, as given by l’ostnjafiter Genet ai
Blair, tv ho be said wt’.s near the person of tUt>
President, anti whose com mete had never bee:;
(!;.?:»■■-owed, and for which lea-on they vmo en- •
tille<i to grave ari# resjxieiiul oonslderstioL.—
These comments were in the form of attacks
on radical abolitionists, end also on the neces
sity of the emancipation policy under the p.o
claautlou of the President It was said bv the
Poatmastei’-GoneraJ that the radical abolition
ists wanted to change the Conshtutioa ami el
evate the negro to the equality of the white,
but that tha two races could not live together
on terms of equality and peace, and therefore
It became necessary to prevent tho massacre
of tue negro that he be exported auid colonized.
Why, Jir-i.Davie asked, ‘must tire oegro be
coloured if ho is to be free’ Where in history
wonW geutlemen llnd facts on which to ha-.e
such C 'licloisor s?
Mr. Davis then proceeded to show the in
justice and Impolicy of such colonization , ebar
ac erlzlng it as insane and unchilsialn. If yon
mean to coerce the removal of tho negroes,
(lieu say so. If you don't mean to coerce them,
they will remain. You cannot offer them as
good homes abroad as you can at home, among
the scenes of their chilhood. If God made them
unequal, or if God stamped inferiority upon
the n. you cannot turn a hair white or black,
or add an inch to their stature He appealed
to gentlemen nut to seek to add inherent diffi
culties to the problem, and proceeded to speak
I of the progress of emancipation in Maryland.
' tie was a Marylander, not a Northern Abolition
! igt. His father was a slaveholder, and he him
| seif bad been a slaveholder.
In this connection he referred to tha con
vention ia Maryland, in 1859, caiied for the
nnrpose of removing tho free blacks, and men
tinned the name of ex-Senator Peaice as mak
in~- a report tea- tb. committee coaid not re
commend the expulsion of such per,ona from
the State and deprive them of the risht of free
dom which they had acquired or inherited.
The Southern Presbyterian contains a letter
dated New York. Nor. 17th. 1863. The writer
M vs ■ Amid the rapid tendency of churches
! ',jjd ')clitic;il parties here toward abolitionism,
■ it is‘refreshing to observe that some of the
| purest and ablest men of the North are cc*n
; ~-in’ :h for iho truth. Rev. Mr. ’• an Dyke, ex
j pc, ideut Lord, Bt-hop Hopkins, pr. setbury,
I ar.d Pi of Morse, have wntten in dafecce of
; slavery. Their efforts are the more admirable,
1 in that they have abandoned the weak '.aeries
! heretofore prevalent, anri boldly avow slavery
i to be a Divine institution.
:i .Mi UAEI) BEECHP.K OS TUE I*AESI»
BiiSl'V.
A :fi deal cf slrces has been laid upon an.
' article iff i ;eci s;t number of the New Yora In-
I dvr.-i- •*, ‘id-lag ground against Mr Liacolq s
; ;ii : c;i for ilie Prexideccy; but It vrouljJ
j .appep; i'rtm the frdlowing s'riklng contrast Iks
j t wcer Ir! '- -,,n DavG ac3 Abraham Uncoltt,
' taken f.-o»: the speech < 1 Henry Ward Beecher,
’ who i- : is-ilfestly the controller and represent
ative of tb opinions of most of *he readers of
the ludepdvkfc. , that that remarkable orator
and feaiirtj thioker does not concur Laths
soEs-what hspa: aging opinions of tas author
of th ut: 7» referred tcu
! T ■ ( . : Magistrates of tfieco two great
i section* onntry a;e rcpvcseututivsa cf the
: two corr (ponding principles. Dav'a wastorm
jm| by hi - t (tie institutions. Ail bin ideas of
j society »■ >t •government afe aristocratic, for
■ t o* Sort' .but nuznin&ily republican. Hi»n
(9h .4 uu ?f experience in j-nblic asfiirs, of
i great administrative talent, with a quick eye
j and Arm baud, witha great wilt power, eel f
-1 power, * 'nothing suMraeted ftom it to the
j credit n roimeieace' sake he has just that kind
|oi abiii;; which ! a eaiied sharp, keen. Hois
| an adroit'S'wtC
Now, at tb's >,;.nii:g, almost every one ad
mired sin! nyi -a him. We grant that the best
side bad 01 y a «!uM, hemost man, and the worst
ride su< ii a . sfouwd uinnagur; arid it'was
only said i. t'c first vear, "1.-t uk liaio their
Fwddeat ijj give then* ours, and we'il whip
them in t: , imontha." But, I think, no man
has bear( : . 1 1. vi.t within the last year. Who
believes nt •? fin J- 0. Davis’ sagacity, in his
si -itearn :P.-i p;' Mis canning has i ntiiely ruin
ed him.
Men lan ■■ at the outcoming of those very
projects v rh ' k.ey admire in tholr concep
tioQ. Tfies! vn.’ never iu civil annals so gi
gantic a b!.i id. i as Soutiiorn statesmen have
ituule They ha ve Irretrievably ruined thetn
solvrs by their ru'.voa. and inflicted vast evil
on their cou .trymen, &n(i immeasurable dam
age ca tbek Slates, and this ia what they have
to show for cun Ung statesmauship—cunii ng
and not wise. hr. Lincoln is not cunning, but
he i« wive, acd wisdom tells in tho long run.—
Mr. Lincoln is •- man of the people, lie was
farmed by t e Democracy into a Democrat,
lie beiisi. •and h: it ,i ith a child- like simplicity
of faith, as it he didn’t know there waft any
thing ebis is * .1* world, if© came to the Presi
dency by one cf those strange happenings
which men cal ; chance, and Christians provi
dence, witbouT one single gift whicii poetry and
aristocracy ns-oci 'te >viih a supreme leader of
a nation, ling tin!, in hum, without beauty
of features, with a manner uncultivated even
to that (ie.:r-c tl:.(t is common to American
farmers, aot a ; qint was them for romance.—•
With nauical sluewdness, with some to perieuce
in the adiainistratioii of jiubiic o.ffaiis, not
»kiliful v bowev- ?, ia discerning or selecting
men, and then 00 kind always to put down a
tool which by i ' italic he had taken up, he lias
been fee three years learning to govern, and
though soinewb .t JuU 1;6 has stuck to his les
sons night and ivy with r.ueh diiigeuce that
now, at 1 asc, Jefi. Davis could teach him noth
ing. While on tbo other hand Fres. Lincoln
ivr.kl teach Davis a good many things—-among
others, that hones: principles, l>t:tv»4y adheted
to, wo better atat£ssu*ns!iip always man tricky
expedient#.
Mr. Lincoln w tha. hosneiy President »fa
homely i- opie. lie U honest, conscientious,
aiDgle-tiDi-.ued, fll? nteicr-tedly seeking the wel
fare of list, ,;j ii ,* the party next, and of him
self not Rial!. fa has been faitlif .1 to tho
gicat ideal I.:--. ■* of our American (system,
i,; and ImV- shoe.: •:> tho world that sncceßslul
gov* rnmerst fe p-.-. he mystery, not tho thing
so rare tivai , ; Miv.ieKedjew cun enact it,*
but ih:ii jf t-'1 — U irhVih .fation’ e-f if ( ovciu-
Kicnt requires only good common w-ii-.e cod
uncommon honesty. That is all. Instead of
requiring gonius, iusteß-,1 of requiring rare and
extraordinary qualities, it requires just those
quaiith t which most politicians gacrilive in or
der lo get government--common sense and
common honesty. This is a lesson for Europe
to ponder over. Now, flint it is so, we would
not have had our President' any other. If lie
had been an accomplished scholar, and ioarned
by travel and experience ; If ho had had every
conceivable gift that could d.-zale 1 he imagina
tion or touch the heart, men would say good
leadership gave ua the victory ; but now men
c in say the people's power, through tho Presi
dent, gave Ihf victory. Our President has been
made the hntt of ridicule of our newspapers,
! and of derision anion • those exalted officials
and elegant masters of our fom.t ceremonies
• abroad; for I confess that Mr. Lincoln would
; cut but n poor figure iu of Europe.
■ But h is our. pride, however, to shew these
j people that wo have carried through this ter
j rille-truu .-,!i*rtlie hlio of whhb Europe never
knew, not by the skill of a: y extraorcianry
genius. They look a man from among tiu-m
--selves.a real man of tho people, a plain, snn
nhi, hpiaeiy man aud this victory of liberty
joying deiiiccrac-y, has been achieved under the
leadeiship of out! of ibeso demociala,
VYben slavery was cU-atroyed it was well that
it should hays the very best leadership, that
no m-in &b*-uld say it was owing to bad man
agement. it has been managed admirably—
extraordinary skill and courage have been
shown in the management of the cause. It
Davis could not save slavery no man could, and
hereafter they cannot gay that tire Democracy
of the North w*a not guided by a Democratic
President, or that the aristocracy of the South
y;aa not guided by an aristocratic President.-
This great comii-jt. than, was b, tween &r'wto
evatio aud Democratic Presidents, which repre
sented tire two sections of the country. They
had throughout all their history carried out the
respective natures of aristocrat and democrat.
Let them ponder that. Victory is sure on this
j .Are, sod we art- coming to ii month ty month,
j We will come to H if it takes years longer yet.
j Tho progress o{ the democracy may be slow,
i and it may be’some generations before it shall
jha victorious, but victorious it will be. The
i people are atronger than any laadera, and the
j world will yet find H yub
jTrr frrmfbTv Bktwi kn the Fhss'ch axid ths
Ci.pbuv ix MfiXteo.—Tlie Northern papers con
teUs several columns of coihspondence, which
has passed between the clergy in Mexico, and
their late aliiaslhe French, from, whom they
have withdrawn. The following synopsis of
the document will explain the cause of .the
breach:
1. Protest of tho Archbishop of Mexico, op
one of the regents, against certain orders is
sued in the name of the, Regency, by Generala
Almonte and Sula?, under command of the
French General-in-tlhief, which orders involve
a recognition of the sequestration of the church
propsiiy, decreed in ieol! by tho Juarea Gov
ernment. November 10, 1863.
2. Protest of the Archbishop against his re
moval fTocr, office, as Regent ot tho Umpire.—
November 17, IBl>3.
X Official cote from Gen Bazarnc to the
Archbishop, acknowledging that the dismis
sal of the Archbishop from the Regency was
made by his orders. November 30, 1863.
4. Reply of the Archbishop to. General Ba
caine. He declares his removal from the Re
gency Dull and void. November 28, 1863.
3. United protest of ilc Archbishop of Mex
ieo. the Archbishop of Mlc'ioaean, the Arch
; bishop of Guadalajara, the Bishop of San Luis
I Potosi, and the bishop of Gsjaca, against the
j circulars and orders issued with reference to the
! Church property by command of the French
! Geue:-al , and declaring all who shall execute
i them, or co operate in executing them, the
i cxcommmilcatioa decreed by the Holy Council
;of Tient. 11 this protest they declare, their
| sitnati' n to be worse than it w s under the
Jnare* Government Dec. 26, 18C3
6. Decree cl the Regents, Almonte and *?al- I
as.femoriag ail the Judg sand other oScers of
the Sapreme Court, on Uu> ground of their ia
t'usal to enforce any of the laws or orders re
garding the naturalization of the church prop
erty. Jan. i. 1864.
7. Manifesto of Almonte and Salas, explain
ing this act, and de luring that they found it
to conform their action to ‘ French
policy." Jin 2. is H.
8. Sharp letter from Gc-n. Neigro to the
Archbishop of iMoxico, compla'niug*6f the in
j cendiary cnaracter of trie publications which
are being riand -stinely circiilatod by the clergy
i La the Capital. Jan. IS, lefi t.
16. Reply of the Archbishop, declaring cr.t
egori&aliv that never was thochurch so bitter
ly p“rßocati*d. ftod that he, as ohisf perlate,
sadl himself la n worse position than under
i thsJuares Govarameat,
VOL. LXXVIU.-M-W SERIES VOL. XXVu;. 0> 13
NEWS SUMMARY .
The Petersburg Express says Hint many par
ties in that seed n are br aging out their specie
and spending 'it in preference to paying the
high prices with Confedciate money. 111 Uds
way t.boy get their goods at ante-war prices.
Gen Writing, commanding at Wilmington,
has Ls-ued an order declaring all pilots, except
ing tlioso over military age, to be in the ser
vile of the Government, and to be at once en
rolled as such. Ail who aro willing to serve
the Government in that capacity wIU be per
mitted to follow their occupation, and bo de
tailed cm ships ia like uiaausr with signal oiS
cers. Those who will not serve as pilots will
bo at onoe 3?nt to tho conscript camp.
During tho p»at year tho Virginia lo&J mines
produced load enough for ten millions of ounce
balls, and this year the quantity will be dou
bled.
Mr. J. W. Young., of Eufaula, Alabama, has
three mael inea in operation, invented by him
eelf, and which turn out three hundred pairs of
socks per day.
Cotton bales in bands of whit? oak splits
have boon sent to Montgomery. Tho Mail says
they appeared to answer tire purpose admira
bly—none wore loose as is generally the case
when rope is used. Tnis is w tHinly • good
idea, and should be experimented with. It has
certainly jono hnportoat requisite—its chean
uees.
A colored man died recently at Salisbury, N.
C., aged one hundred and three yeara.
A correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser
says it is a fact established by numerous wit
nesses, that Sherman's troops on their return
march, ruthlessly murdered many negro chil
dren for the supposed reason that they were
troublesome to them. Their dead bodies
have been found in the streams and in the
woods, with braißS knocked out, or body run
through with bayonet A citizen also found
some littlo children tied and bound fits I to trees
iu the deep recesses of the woods, and loft to
perish of starvation. Mothers who begged /or
the lives of their children, had the bayonet
pointed at their breats with a threat of instant
death if they did not cease their importunities, j
. During t.ho war there have been four inva
sioiisoi Florida. The ff st was in March, 1802,
when they came to ‘‘protect,” The second was
in October, 1862. under General JobnM Brau
notu—an operation in niggers, of which a
■ whole cargo were carried away. The third
was in March, ithid—au experiment with black
regiments. The fourth and last was in Febru
ary, lilif—an attempt to take and hold. This,
likewise, liaa proved a failure.
The Richmond Examiner tays that Mrs.
White, of Selma, Alabama, recently went
tbreugh the lines to Lexington, Kentucky,
and Jacicg a sister of Mrs. Lincoln, was permit
ted to go onto Washington. On her return,
several weeks ago, she was allowed to carry
nothing back, save a uniform for a very dear
friend of hers, who was battling in tho South
ern cause. The uniform arrived in the Conte t
eracy, several days since, and, on inspection,
f.ll the buttons were found to be composed of
gold coin —two and a half, five, ten and twenty
dollar gold pieces, set in the wooden but on
and covered with Confederate ci' th The gold
(bus brought through is valued at between
tidriy ami lofty thousand dollars—all sowed
upon a nuifotni.
The Montgomery Mail eav3 that price a are
falling In that city.
Gold oa Friday was offorod in Selma, Ala .
for fifteen. In Mobile, on the sumo day, it sold
for sixteen.
Brig. Gen. Pillow has been assigned to pro
tect North Alabama ami the iron find coal re
gion of that State.
Some fifty deserters and pknU.s have* been
captured near the line of Folk and Paulding
counties.
During the find: five days of last week 52,-
(jOcLCr j was funded in Macon.
French vessels have been overhauling Fed
eral vessels off the Pacific const of Mexico, and
taking boxes of arms from them.
Tho rapid rise of gold in tiio New York raiT
ket has induced tha Federal Congress to au
thorize Chase to sell what he has on hand be
longing to tho Federal Government whenever
lie sees fit.
The amount of treasury notaß fundt-d ia
Wilmington, up to March 9, was $1,043,2qf).
A gentleman from New Orleans says the rea
son why Banks abandoned his Texas expedition
waa t ecauso tits troops deeerted so lust thrfue
ands taf them wont over to the Mexican service—
whether to the French or Jauvez side is not
s'ated.
If the prisoners now bring sent to Americas,
Ga., are exchanged, tney will be delivered to
Die Federal authorities at Bavajunb.
Upon the botlies of sundry dead negroes,
who came in for a share oi the slaughter at
Ocean Pond, were found leather thongs, com
monly known as cat-o nine-tails with wrist
gti-dlos complete. They were, it ia reasonably
supposed, designed for use upon the backs of
their former masters, under the direction and
with the approval, if not by the order of the
Yankee officers of the expedition. '! he idea is
in keeping with Federal humanity and civiliz e
tiou.
A charter has Ireen granted to several Euro
pean bunker? for thirty years, for a bank, to be
called the "Bank of Mexico.” and to be guaran
teed by the new Government On tiie 1! th ihe
treasure convoy arrived, bringing 51,400,000
in specie.
Several thousand doubloons bavo been
found by the soldiers engaged in leveling tho
sand brii near Galveston, Texas. It is surmDed
by some that it is a oortion of the Latitte troasiter.
Accounts from all parts the country represent
the winter, which tony now he considered as
practically closed, ho. have been highly favor a
ble to agricultural prospects except as to wheat,
much ot which, it is feared, is killed.
Cos nis soiling at Mountgomery, Ala ,at five
dollars per lm j ,!ie!.-
The planters of Tailedega Cos., Ala., are
Helling corn to soldiers fantiilc-s at fifty cents
pci bushel
Tho -Yankee expedition to Florida yag tv
turned lotijc vivi'ihj' 8t LhariistOu.
It is reported that Meade is to be court-mar
tialed on charges preferred by Sickles.
Serious collisions have taken place between
the soldiers and the people in several otthe
Noitheva States.
The steamer Hanna, with a cargo for tho
State of North Carolina, ha3 arrived at a Con
federate port.
Our authorities have affected an exchange
for Gen. W. M. F. Lee.
In a late collesion in Mississippi our troops
killed fifty-five out of n company of Federal
colored infantry which numbered only seven
ty.
More thnn $3,000,000 have been fa Dried in
Atlanta,during the laet two weeks.
Geparal D. 11. Hill has been assigned to duty
fit Ch-Vleston. It is surmised that Genera!
Beauregard will go to the South-west.
It is said that Gen. Morgan is about to un
dertake one of the boldest expeditious he lias
ever yet made.
The Gounod of Noith Carolina Rave declined
to call an extra session of tho Leridaturo oi
that .State.
Gen, Clark, of Mississippi, has called an ex
tra session ot tho Legislature—to meet at Ma
con March 14th.
A nest of outlaws in Jones County Mirs.,
has s>,*ea broken up, and several rlugleu-ieis
executed. *
Ti;e cit z°ns of Marion, Fla., and of Colum
bus, Vliss , havg resprectively presented G«-ao
i ral Forresi with a fine saddl lior’r. Ail rfent
| M he hue had two horses killed under bus* »»
j the late action at Okolona.
Messrs. Jouos& Lee have erected machinery
at Thomasville, Ga., for making lard oU. C: j°, j
tor oil, ground pea oil, and also can ties an..
*oap. . ~. r- ; I
it last accounts there eight •'*
vessels lying off Fort fS.well and ame off - or! j
Morgan. Si obi e harbor.
The i unding of Treasury notes now rapidly
g-ninrr on,is discovering to tho holaen, the lac,
f|? t there is a large amount of counterfeit ones
S ciicnlation. Four ■ hou-and dollars were
found in one package in Columbus, Ga,, a tew
da vs since.
Beauregard -has temporarily established L!s
headquarters in Florida.
A Mrs. FI. L Knox, o? Mobile, has been com
mitted to Castle- Thunder, Richmond, as a spy.
j Six State prison birds escaped from the jell
| in Montgomery, AU.. a f#w nights since.
FJHt ItJV ITEM'S
In t in first ten months of IS6I there was im
ported into Gi"pat Britain rather more than 10,-
W00..000 cwts. of raw cotton, at a cost of over
£31,000,000. In the first ten months of ftSf.3
the imports were less t1ian6,000.050 cwt at a
cost of more than £37,000,000 —that is £3.000,-
000 more for less than half tbo quantity, and
tho bulk of inferit r quality.
Two soldiers on guard were recently found
murdered 111 St. I‘etarshurg. It was suggested
that the eyes of the murdered soldiers should
be iicinediutly photographed. In the hope of
successfully teetiug the discovery recently made,
when to .ha surprise of all, the result was the
produeiiou of the portraits of two soldiers ot
the private guard of the palace, on whose
bre'sis were the Insignia cf tho cross of Saint
George. The murderers were at once sought
out and apprehended.
”1 ho extent of British territory beyond the
four seas is 4,000,000 square loilee. with a pop
ulation of about 145,000,000. The shipping
that frequents these lands for commercial pur
poses, goiDg and coming, last year amounted
to 22,849,461 tons.
Spain in attempting to conquer St.-Domingo,
finds the undertaking a difficult ore'. Five
thousand more troops have been called for and
scot out.
The Palmerston piror'o f'.‘*e has received its
quietus, tho plaintiff haring withdrawn from
(ho further [jio--"C;mon of In* suit, and in f.uc.li
a manner that L- rd Palmerston is technically
relieved from all responsibility The affair has
been a curious one. The piauiidf alleges that
he has been “settled with,’” but avers that ao
compromise has been made with Lord Palmers
ton, and that, although he has been induced to
abandon the prosecution, from motives satislac
tory to himself, be could and should have
prored all his allegations if he laid gone on. Os
course the natural inierence is that somebody
bus paid his costs and given him a satisfactory
compensation for his injured honor, and, al
though the complaisant judge declared that
Lord Palmerston left the Court without an im
putation upon iiis character, there aie very few
people in London who do not believe that his
Lordship’s money Ins beeu the moans ot his
escape from at least a very unpleasant campaign
in Court.
Leave has been granted a considerable num
her of Austrian naval otliefira to f How Maxi
milian to Mexico.
Win. Hunt, the well known English painter
in water coio;», died iu London on the 10th of
February.
The intense cold of this winter has penetra
ted everywhere. The unprecedented low tem
perature in Italy has already been noted.
Heavy falln of snow have occurred in the south
of France, and the following announcement
comes from Suez : “ The severity of tho weath
er his been experienced even at Suva, where
the utmost consternation prevailed iu couse- j
quenoe of the discovery of ice—a phenomenon I
pre-ious’y unheard of on the bordera of tUe !
Red Sea.”
The London Court Journal says ; “A gentle
man, fresh from a brief journey in the United
states, gives it as his < pinion that the American.-;
will soon repudiate their war indebtedness, barl
ing it on the (act that the people place no sort
of reliance on the greenbacks which have been
so profusely issued.”
Au Irish paper Very pertinently suggests to
Lord John ltiisscl! t mt whilst- he undertaken to
hnva the existing legislation of England amend
ed for th • rebel service, he might as well have
the enlistment laws amend-, and so as to prevent
men being enlisted for the Federal service,
75,900 having Bfcea supplied already from
LeUcud alone, and Lincoln being engaged iu
perfecting measures for enlisting a great many
more. Lord Russell has’now an opportunity oi
showing exactly what British neutrality
amounts to.
Lamartine, tho author, the widower and the
bankiupfc, i; going to try matrimony again; this
time with tho rich Russian i'rir.O'-s.
Tho London Post does not give the rumors
about ihe Confederacy being recognizud any
credit. r*
’i he Confederate !nan has declined in Eng
land. This does not look much like recogni
tion.
Earl Russell is to produce the papers relating
to the seizure of Laird’s rams in Parliament.
A Mexican financial agent writes to the Lon
don News that Maximilian has not yet accepted
the Mexican crown.
A conference over the Danish difficulty it is
thought will be held tn London.
The Fiench courts indict Massini as being
lug the leader of the lale plot to kill Napoleon.
There is evidently a better feeling in Eng
land towards tho Confederacy.. Whether any
good will result out of it for us, remains to be
seen.
<1 Palmerston says the only basis fora
settlement of the Danish question is the treaty
of 1852. Denmark has not yet decided in re
gard to the matter.
Tho Palis Constitution;-!, denying the erro
neous. assertions of certain papers respecting
the conference, says "France eouid not accept
the proposal of a conference, it not yet having
been made to her.”
A steam ram. nearly ns large as the IJector,
built for the Danish Government, lias been
launched on the Clyde.
Orders have been issued at Warsaw, that all
persons of either sex, fd>ovo the ages of four
teen must, on leaving tne bouse, be provided
with a passport on pain of punishment.
It is estimated that nine hundred persons
were killed by ihe explosion of a powder ma -
chine in Morocco.
The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post,
says oil the Mexican Minister’s financial plans
arc matured. They includa a loan of twenty
millions sterling five pot- cent, stock, and the
settlement of the overdue coupons of the Eng
lish-Mexican debt on satisfactory terms.
'The capital expended in England on rail
roads up to the present time ex- ecds £385,-
000,000. Tho length of the roads is 11,500
miles.
At ft recent ball in Vienna, a captain, who
was of plefiian birth, asked a lady of high rank
to dance with him mid was haughtily refused
The Emperor Joseph evoi heard tho refusal, and
Raid to lho subdued nfjiccv, “Capta® my mo- '
ther wishes to dance with yon,and tho arch- I
duchess did so much to the mortification of ar- j
istucracy.
Advices from Alexandria state that the J
amount of Egyptian cotton likely to arrive i
from the interior is now believed to be over-es
timated.
The L\j»erai parly in Rngland have sabscribed
£IOO,OOO toward es£ablishing anew paper for
! gratuitous circulation.
j It is rumored that Queen Victoria will soon
abdicate, aud that tho Brince of riVales wili as
cend the throne of England under tho name of
King Edward ihe seventh,
The Porie is said to be about to send five
thousand Circassians into the Holy Land to
form a colony iri the large and magnificent
plain ot bliaron, between 31; unt Cm aiel and
Gan.
'The present Queen of Denmark fa a strong- ;
minded wotriau, and the real manager of the
Fined, m. hue oroiigot about the nrariiiige
o f b‘r daughti-r with the Prince of Walt*, and
recommended her sou for the Grecian throne.
Jus; now the has her hands frill to keep her
husband Di m in regard to the disputed duchies
A g‘earner has just arrived at Mobile from
Havanua Annexed we vivo au extract taken
from "i ’iiiv.vo; letter, which relates to mat • r
ia Europe ’’Aosuria uml Prosri* flurbe-l with
v j c , , rr over the Dane.’, f-eincd deUrmincd to
!{■» Tiea'ic--. of JSS2. which excites greet 1
iniiig'nrJioii In Palis and London. L ~and Oow
iev has been in con 'taut conference witu the
Ur. nc-‘- 51 nlstcr < f i o"‘igu Afi’tirs, and ucconl
seems perfect Maximilinu’s rights as heir pr<?
suroptveto ti e throne have been confirmed
at Vienna, -t.d it is anncunced that in ca-e
a c r.i-)5 wit no at iHr»ut*. lit} to it*-
rig') Hie imperialist eCcptre and asriirae that ol
Austria,
r«>ur at least of tho Confederate States by
name—and in. territory now comprising eight
of the Contederate .-.tatea, were recoin zj I as
Kovtjeiga indep and; a: St tics by Great Britain
ia I'B3. ii :;a 4 v. h rci cjrnlted as a State be
fore accession to the Ua : on. Would it not
have bceu w,se atid Ktaiesmunly *« have used and
urged these fact* before such old fttit t!e:s- for
precedent and uniformity in diplomatic an j
international law, «■; Palmerston and the dozy
nurses of European governments?
The impressment officer hi? be n collecting
| herses in Cojiunbus, Ua., aud vic'.rnty.
Drain, in -a** Kx„usu IU, UAMKiv on- Am mi
MA - rtlW -* U « annexed debate
releirnig to American naval ma ter3 r “ “\ *
occurred in the Euglbh P,rimmed y
4 In the House of Lords, tbe Marquis Cianr -
I cnruug-uvnotics. Urntbe would coil attention
j in^ e i <!C^ iting by Fe,i< JKI a Tents in Ireland
nu (sk what steps the Government intended
to take respecting it.
t!m U io ollße Commons, Mr Bnilay asked
no .Attorney Gmi ,ra.: whether he wns of the
(•pinion, wtou an Eagiisii vtsse! was captm-d
Isß. tallmWbyait American cruLr.k
v 9 the da tv es toe Gov turnout (o wait for a
dxxsion m a prize court, demanding reparation*
j u «“- C f"!;'*.'' 1 ' vbeU,ur rite captuie 01 the Brlt
f: e S-kmk*, at Matamotas w« not a vi
•» «
rhT h f’^ H; T lj ‘'^ o,u l ' al Baid i; ' atl Bnglisl; mer
chant Trt.se! was c.iiitureti by an American ves
lv of th«r l,ral ba,b ’ >r ‘ U woul,l not t«' tbe du
} o! the Moveiuim ut to uvit the action of a
P -.t court l, More demanding satisfaction -
wJr U^ <, , l 0 : be Ctts - of “ie Science it
was Controverted whether she was captured in
-Veiicau rvnteia or not. In the instructions
go (u iu American cruisers, nothing could |, O
more distinct and cleat mat no neutral v.-s-ela
should he taken iu Maxi vm waters. If lhTrt
v ®- riCa “ c " list ; m rH! KriUsii ve.-seis
yi'X.'.nn wat-Tej ibi*y do bq ia direct
Contravention pf tbeir instructions, and in tlmt.
once he bad no doubt the Uul.ed States would
liiHke rej nr ition.
tuclioureofGwr.taons Mr. Lavard said
10 u wertiment lmd no official information of
the capture o. the British ship Martaban bv the
a '? ( J
tie I had l.'een addr.v,ed to the Government
w.t a view to t*,e recognition of the Empiro
ot "e-xteo. Ihe British Government h idhith
e, to dechned to express an opinion upon the
Iu reply to Mr Haliburton, a3 to the cs
fin e ot a Rebel ship by vessel in the
barbor 01 Pankoar, Nova Scotia, Mr. Layard
Lord Lyons hstd beua instructed to do
tnand redress, but before those instruction wore
received Secretary Seward had expressed regret
aud offered reparation.
In the House of Lords the Earl of Derby said
that Lord Russeil had dec'ined to produce the
papers he had in refer, uce to tiio
steam rams, the Saxon and tho Alabama, 011
the ground that their production would pre
judice pending legal proceedings; butic appear
td Torn a statement ma'e by Government in
the Honse ot Commons. Unit’ there never, had
b vn any objection te> produce the papers rela
ting to the riaxou He wished to ask whether
there was any longer any objection to produce
papers.
Uari iut-sel! said lie had asked the alvioe
ot tbe law officers ,jt :T;e Grown in refusing to
pro nice the impeik, but the Attorney General
bad since reconsidered tho questioq. and ha'l
now no objection to give th'a papers.
End Gheimsford naked whe,i it was thatUlO
Attorney Genciai , h uigeu iiis mind.
k.tri Kusseli said the communication he had
received iiom thu Attorney Gen, mi was a privi
ieyed c mmiuiie iiion, and do siuiiid decline
to say when it was made.
1 here ban been some (li-scussiop in the Brit
eh parliament cmictiniiig the vi datum of Brit
ish sovereignly in rim pursuit of the Chesapeake
p,rates into a British Coil nia! barber try an
American giiub at. Mr. in b diaifof
Her aiiij sty s Govei njncnt, ]>r<>iluced«a letter
‘iddrees to Loitl Lyons l»v Secretary Kesva’d
,s soon as tim tacts lmd reached him,and long
before the deni ,ntf of tiio British Government
(or red,ess had reached this c»,u .try. Mr. Rew
ard acknowledges ttiat lhe:e was a direct vio
iation of the sovereiiigty of He, Majesty, in the
oa-e reieiiinl to, by tbe oili orßof tho gunboat
'.da e Annie, which acis “lire President disap
proves and regrets;” and th .ugh “the Provi
dent has reasons to believe that the proceed
ings thus disapproved were t iken by the offi
cers concerned under’ the influence of a patri
otic and commendable zeal, yet he haa ‘ direct
ed that they shall U& censured tor this viola—
ti.qn, and ho wid take -such other means as may
be necessary to prevent a recurrence of tho
grievance tom plained of” Mr Seward closes
by announcing that ho is “fully dotermin, ,1 to
j make all the amends that are due to Great
Britain in the premises.”
To these statements Earl Rmfte’l promptly
r< Bponded that “her Majesty ,s Government ac
cept th t apology in the same spirit iu which
it . as beeu offered and are truly glad that the
matter lias been settled in a manner honorable
to i>o!h parties, ami calculated to improve tie
friendly relations which her Majesty's Govem
; mont are always anxious to maintain with the
Government of the United States.”
Tub Owner Wca.— Wilson one of tho
leaders of tlfe radical Abolition party, hns at
length announce I what his party is prosecuting
the war for. In the Federal Senate ho has re
portedHho following bill—as a substitute for
Mr. Carlisle’s resolution—which nay lie taken
as tho final declaration of the vie-,vs of his per
ty :
That the object of the wav ate the subjuga
tion of the rebels in arms to tho rightful au
thority of the United States and the re-cstab
-li. inner)t of sucb authority; that, iu the prose
ciitmo of the w;v, the United SUics may adopt
wliativ. r ißcasurcfl, not inconsistent with tho
r.lies of civilized warfare, hb may he deemed
neex-ssary lo ***■: uithe public safety now and
iji-realtt-rj thut any person born aud residing in
the United States, whether bond or free, owes
allegiance to the United States, and this allegi
ance is paramount to any duty which such per
sou may owe to any Stain or individual; that
the Constitution ot the United States doe* not
recognize slaws asp; operty, but i-s persons o-.v -
ing service or labor in certain Staten under tho
laws thereof, and it is the right and duty of tho
United Slates to offi r such persons such induce
ments ns are best calculattddo enable them to
give to thoir country theparam tuit allegiance
which they owe, and that the proclamation of
| the emancipation issuerjby the President of the
i United states on tha Ist day of January, 18*3,
I was a measuvs becesssary f- r ib<* o imiu'-u do
i fence, sanctioned by the spirit of the Constitu
tion, and by the law and practice of nations,
| and said proclamation is hereby declared to
; have th:i force and elf ret of law, anything in
i tho law, or Constitution oi any State to the cou
j trary notwithstanding..
Comixo to ins Sa.NF.3.—Garrit Davis, of Ky,
made some remarks In tha Fedoral Senate c,
few days since which show's rh«t Ire i3 at last
beginning to take a sen a trio view of matters.
They were offered in reply to the charge that
he (Divis) had offerd a resolution iu 1 £*7l for
tho expulsion of his colleague, 31r. Powell;
''Mr. Prosiden;, with near three long years
of a bloody and terrible experience in ielation
to this matler and to tho daric and threatening
future before as I hero declare explici lv that
the wisest patriotic man iu tho land may well
doubt whether the position of my co lcagiiq,
against military coercion was not right, ind
whethir llio true mode ol treating itiiij great
schl-m and rebellion «vas not by reiraining
Irom the slw k of arras and appealing t.o patri
otism fraternity, and the interests of tho great
sections of the United States Upon th it prepo
sition I doiibi now mu If. ll I had then the
lights I now li.tVr. I neilhei would have npiokeu
or voted for ih- exp i clou of ray c Jlea^uc.”
lubejcvsmknt or NrOHc.Es—Tnn T oxm Ca.ib
it was recently stated in the Enquirer of tb a
city, upon the a thor.t\ of a corre«pondeut
from Stewart county, th it Iff the Toombs caso
tho Court decided Dielate imp l- , ssment of slaves
to 'ahor on fi i tifiestions io be iheg.-ri. Tne
statement, we are sick fled, is incorrect, it having
oecn made, no duiilM. bv a corre poudent un
acquainted with legal pioca-eiiirgH. 'Jh ( -. lacis
as we understand ih in, are about there : Ow
ing ira-a failure of the onniwi for the impress
' io a officer to produce any legal .y ndm a-iblo
videiiee(>f autboriiy, the qti :-tioa did not come
upon its tneritH. It apjo-ared i the absence
ol in oof —that negroes lit-ioiging in General
:ViOfu!« were in.ptviatrly an.l will,out authority
: m the possession ol the Kbet iff: and without
my di cu-si'-n or decision on lt< impressment
law, thy negroes were rolirned tohim
Columbus Sun. *
mnttxi
The New 3’o:k Ib-ial I ■ , V s tho rcsponfilbfli
ty of the fatiu o f the movement against
Richrnan l ran b • Fanrosl between the Prss}-
deat, hU miiitaiy board of directors ot M' ; ,sh -
ipeton. and thy commando; of t{ie a-oiy of tha
1 J'ototaac, ;