Newspaper Page Text
,rl • /sfff’ ;f - > • ;f , \ ri ,-.
*j ", Iyy (A | > | •# ,ji? | -
iPIPS vC J ■•■ llltCXllj^iLA
%§&* y v - y v\> /■.> xv#
BY N. S. MOUSE & CO.
Chronicle iC*
yj
TTfcRMB,
HIK UKKKI.V <:HROM4'LE A hK,UI\KL
IS J'UKIJbHLU KVUK V Wfcli.N KM)A Y
THHfcK MoM Hn » t OO
M\ Ub jtS U<i
ALWAV.f IN ADVAMCt.
\\ f>.HI.V VD\ KHTIm|%44 KATES.
O 7111 1 At vrwr -Mi:;n iri tb« Weekly wU
t»i! fi fleee*i*liiiibptedftchinsertion.
DrMUL.IuTIt ** will be ‘t*r«rcd thirty c *n»» mlmefor each
t i«e/ttOfi.
M ARUi*(#i4,l>ff vTirt And Tuxttkh NaTif ** one doila; each
OufTCAH? Nonets fortyrentspn Mae for one Insertion In
• r r »ei Dally or Weekly. Where Obituary otlc»- mu nib
'i9 fr*#fl \fi ir o Uy Hit.l Whl.lv Sixty rent-. per line.
um % 14 KSIIIHi; \\ \H iV>l *\ \ KU,
The official refrort of G**n. .lon. K. Joliunton,
wtii. h lms tni.ju l>> Hi., f.nl.lii within the
|i*!it fi tv Java, furnishes a more intelligible aud
Miliifa.fr. l y (11 count of the fall ol mil ireiil
»1 roiiglmlit in tin. VV.'rit, than any other stale
nient which has fallen under om notice. It is
import!.!Mi- to read tliirt 1 eport and to compute
the huts vvli rli it cmbodii'rt, without the con
viction that if the vfr.-l 1 defined orders of (Jen.
Johnston bud lieen coiiif lteil with, mid the < tii
c. r in i oiniieitid at \ i. kshtirg had been a man
ofiil.ility at all coinineriHitraUt with the respon
sibility of the p" ithm, we should have h. en
I all the humiliation and disaster tvhi. li
hive follow «and the surrender of the MU-i-sippi
liver, and the PTj.omiie of the great »tate ot
the Mum . name to tier incursions mid depreda
tioiH of the enemy. W« arflfiotof the ninnher
who throw out insinuations against the patriot
ism ot Uen Pemberton He has muloubtedlj
been the subject of what (ion Johnston calls
much “undeserved obloquy." For ourselveo
wo have full faith in his loyalty to our cause
At the breaking out of hostilities lio was mi ol
lieer in the If. H. army, lie was liberally edu
cated before he went to West Point He was
connected with one of the most respectable
families at tho North. His military and his
■.a,..iai position all gave promise of preferment
nuil emolument [(ttU lie retained hih eonuectijn
with llie Fuller ill mu,y. Hut lie relinquished
nil these advantages ami cant in liis lot with
comparative strangers, to enter lute, a severe
and perilous serviue with a weaker party, eon
strained ns lie has said ami we believe him
by Ida < ouvntiuua otjusti;
Hill whilst wfl award him full credit for his
loyally to our CitllJe, aud for his magnanimous
ilevotiou to the Confederacy, it is impossible
to resist tho Impression, with l)je report now
before ns, that had ho heeil mOic obedient to
the orders ol his superior, and only a little
more skilful, the history of the South Western
campaign of in t year would hare furn'shed a
page widely didermd lioiu that which we tire
mow compelled to read, ivmbei ton's hist great
blunder, and tho one which perhaps led the
wav to all others, was: committed when he neg
lected (lon, Johnston's dispatch from Tullalio
ma to concentrate all Ids forces and attack
(bunt Immediately after ho Imd crossed tho
river. “If (Irani crosses," was tho order,
“unite all your troops to heat* him. Success
,vili (five buck who' -i , - ■t* ■ i.o>, li,, iI
Mat tht» tintoi Innately, was not done. There
was no mmui. Pemberton remained in Yieks
buig with n 1m (f army, mid Grant readily dis
posed of tho treble force which disputed his
advance'into the fruu
»>o the ldth ol May Gen. Johnston sent Gen.
Pemberton a dispatch, directing him to come
tip immediately on Klaoman’s bear, while he
(Gen I ) would attack him in front , adding
that to heat such a detachment would he of
immense value. Tbisordi r was also disobey ed,
in disregard of this direction, and ill direct op
position to tho views of a majority of the conn
i it of war composed of all hi Generals present,
he Ordered a movement which made tho union
which ijnl been directed, impossible! In the
meantime tlnr buttle of linker's Greek had been
fought, and as inis been said hy participants
with each ungotieral like lnumnivring ol the
troops as to demoralize, for the time, the whole
command.
Wheu. again, Gen. Pemberton was threat
died with investment in VirkflUurg, and Gen.
Johnston foresaw that it would he utterly im
possible for himself to Collect a number of
l,oops suilicieut to attack Uiant in the power
lift tort ideations which lie was making all
around the citv. be ordered the evacuation of
the place. I bis order, Gen. Pemberton, under
the advice of a council of war, s-'t aside ; and
(hough aware trout (leu I 's order that The
garrison could not be relieve 1 by those who
abide could assist him, he resolved ■'to hold
Vi,ksb.nfg as long as possible, with the trim
iiopo that i.he Government may vet he able to
assist me in (keeping this obstruction to the
enemy's free nafig.*ticm of the Mississippi
tiver! ' The result is well known Gen. John
st„n could not help him and the place ami the
army were sutrt luleied.
Had tlw order of Gen. Johnston to conceit
uate and light Grant immediately on his land
ing Ison obeyed, the columns of the enemy
would never, in all probability, have icached
Jackson. The disaster of Holly Springs would
have been repeated, and V icbsburg again
r ived. Had the order of the lJih May Wen
u-sjii'Oti and, there would at least hare been a
clamo ot conquering the enemy bv tho pro
posed combination. Had the order to evacuate
been compiled w ith, the army would have been
nave,} and Jhe subsequent advance of the
(enemy jnto the State been prevented.
Gen. Johnston’s dispatches throughout this
campaign, read in the light of what lots be
come history, show him to be a military leader
juost sagacious and farseeing . We are glad
tlitv' be is in command in North Georgia. We
mft> hope, under providence, tor success with
ttic'll a conJtnamhn , _
Henry Warp Itesei. B,t ox nIR * oxikueratks.
_Bev. Henry Ward RecehtV ! * lew *l*}’ s !ii,Ke
rutht'r startled his heavers at tin' Plymouth
Church, in Brooklyn, in a oniony of our troOps,
in the course of a sermon designed to show
that the price of liberty was not only eternal
vigilante but eternal self sacrifice. According
to a New York pa]'er, he remarked:
“Where shall we find such heroic self-denial,
smli upbearing under physical discomfort, such
patience in poverty, in distress, in absolute
want, ns wo find in the Southern army? They
tight better in a bad cause than you do iu a
good one: they tight better for a passion than
vou do for a sentiment. We believe them to
be misguided, but we must do them the credit
a aaving they fight well, and bear up under
trouble nobly, they sutler and do not com
~l*ol they go in rays, but do not rebel; they
S in earnest for their personal liberty; they
believe in it, and if they can they mean to get
‘‘ jjr, Beecher also denied that slavery was
dead “Dead!” he exclaimed, “we know that
within the lines of tho frontier army there are
T et three millions oi sla>es. As vet we learn
that they are docile, amenable to the vcill ot
v their masters, patient and subservient. Don t
h^deoeired. 1 '
The Philadelphia inquirer says the South has
m*n in the field,
lIiIPEFIL.
Gen. John C. Breckinridge remarked in a
Inief address which, a few days ago, he de
livered in Virginia, that never sip-e the begin
ning of hostilities, had he felt so hopeful < f
triumph as at She prevent time. As Gcli. If
is not the loan to encourage in other-, expv ta
tions which he does not cherish himself, we ac
cept hi* assurance as the honest convictions of
an intelligent observer. This gentleman is
acquainted with the resources <if the Federal
Government ipiib- u» well as any man among
us ; be is also fully apprized of our own pour
eis of endurance. His tmb-wdents, joined
with bis discrimination, must invest ills judg
ment with weight.
But wlmt is there in the present aspect of
our national affairs which i- fitted lo inspire
hope.' The fact that as we are about to dose
tin- third year of the war, we have in the field
an army superior in every respect to what we
were able to muster Info the service during the
first year ol Hie war, is in itself an encourag
ing consideration. So far as numbers, equip
ments, discipline, morale, endurance, every
thing in short which can’give efficiency to out
army, is concerned, the Confederate troops mv
today sujierior to any thing which has been
attained in any previous part of tin 1 war. 't his
fact in the face of the giganta: efforts \s lii,-li
have hecii ma.i.r to crush us, is surely ground
tor the hope that wo may Continue U) sustain
ourselves though the struggle be prolonged in
definitely.
The recent discomfiture ol the enemy at the
various points where he has sought to strike
us is a prom’sing augury. We are now to
wards the end of the first spring month; and
though the weatirer has been as favorable ns
possible fie military operations and though Hie
etjeray has every possible motive, both from
tiie disturbances which threaten him at home
ami the strength which our armies are acquir
ing by his procrastination, to advance - yet he
is ensconced behind his entrenchments in (.’hat
tanooga, declines a collision in Virginia, and
withdraws his Hoops from Mississippi,
“cowers under his gunboats’’ in Florida. In a
few short week (lie must lose the services ol
thousands of lii’j veterans, and he will hardly
feel Idee advancing with the raw levies which
the conscript officer may havedutrodui cd into
the ranks.
The growing derangement of the Federal
currency and the advancing price of gold, is
working silently to create a popular opinion in
the United States ill lavor of a eessatiou of
ljr>*tHiUeH. We have never thought that a
financial crisis at the North would of itself
leiiiiiuate the war. Nations have carried oil
fierce and exteusiveVttrs in tiie midst, of com
| meiciul panic. Many of the wars of European
I'omiUies lia\e been prosecuted most zealously
amid Hie x.evoiest revulsions iu the money mar
ket People can tight when commerce is par
tially destroyed, and gold is worth ten thou
sand per i.eitf . premium. But they do not
fight under theso circumstances, if it. be poasi
ble lo avoid it. We are obliged to defend our
selves without regal'd to commerce or gold.
Rut were we waging war on Mexico, pecuniary
difficulties would embarrass and might alto
gether in tent our operations. This is the case
with our enemies. T'Jipy are lieliting for eo
pne, aud ('lien they find ttiift the prize lor
which (hey an contending niiist cover t|}eip
with hankriipti y hefoio it can be seciiiod, they
Mill induct somaCoppeihead int.i the Presiden
tial chair who will order an armistice.
The (liitii'iilty whiv li the Liueoln Uovernuienl
rind in recruiting its aiiuies, notwiihstand
ing the i t peatavi culls which have been wade
and Ibo enonuoufi bounties which have been
offered, encourages the hope that what is so
difiietilt now mnv ere long becoqie impossible.
In the beginning of the war, tiie ranks ol the
Northern army weie reavlHy tilled up by .vol
unteers with v* rs moderate, and in most cases
without any, bounty. Then there was a gen
eral prostration ot business ali over t||e North,
and multitudes were eoinpellod to join the ar
my to secure a support. Then the zeal ol the
people was fresh; they had not .counted the
cost of subjugation. The war was to be short,
they were promised an early return jo their
home*, with honors-on their heads and cash in
•heir pockets Now all this is changed. 1 here
is ti Hem ind for labor. More money is to be
inade at home th min the army. It is.found
111 In’ safer at home.*- TU« wav is md short and
may be long, (’op equently Lincoln galls, bit
soldiers de no*, come. All expedients fail.
Out of millions summoned, but a few hundred
regiments reiiiniu. and these are depleted cou
sUotly by disease and the casualties of battle.
Whether we regald than the animus of our
troops and that ol the people at home, or the
growing embarrassments ot the enemy, or tiie
successes which have rvAnnly been reaped,
we may pronounce the indications hopelui.
riitcsrutM Itl(ailt's SVsTK.fI OF r:i itOl’K.
The allusion in the Governor's message to
the hereditary policy of Napoleon, aud the
proposition contained iu the Stephens resolu
tions of “peace upon the principles of 177fi."
direct- (he mind naturally to the State Rights
system of Europe.
Tho idea prevails among many of our lead ,
iug men that Ktale liighte is purely an Amerl- j
i-an question,—a mere party cry a sectional :
issue used to subserve a temporary political ■
purpose. State Rights as tin* foundation stone j
of Constitutional liberty, received its first grand j
development in Holland; Switzerland, follow
ing the example of Holland, adopted the sys- ;
teiu iu A.D. 12110 and has maintained it ilown ;
to the present day. The germ of the prim ipie
is bound in Italy and originated there in the I,at
in municipality. Rome impressed the doctrine
ami the system upofi the face of Europe, ecu- ;
tuiies before the Christian era. 'lho commer '
cial freedom of Venice, and the hulustrialsrc
tivity of Lombardy, were impressed into the
progress and civilization of Northern Europe,
and became co operating elements in the his
unic struggle of the Netherlands ; a struggle,
which as the ally of the Reformation, over
threw the temporal damnation of the Papncy.
and as the ally of and individu
al rights, disrupted and destroyed the colossal
scheme ot Austrian and Spanish despotism.
The United Stales of tin 1 Netherlands was
taken as the model upon which oqr fare lathers
in 17Tb. founded American Government, due
American Union of 17TG, like the Union of the
Netherlands, rested upon the pure and correct |
principles of State Rights. We added there- •
to the elements derived from the Common law
of England, magua charta. Ne.
Infatuated by the example of French Democ
racy. and yielding to the persuasions of Haujil- !
ton Jctferson. and others, tire time houared !
n , u l well tried principle of Slate Right- was. in
ITS'.' abandoned, aud the lust of consolidated 1
Empire substituted. Influenced by the exam- i
pie of America. Holland, in an evil hour, chang
ed her system and adopted ours. Mexico also
followed our example. The Republics of South
America did the same. Switzerland alone re
fused to abandon her State Rights system
Mexico rapidly fell to pieces. Holland, after
AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING, AFRIT, <;. isfii.
Ia dreadful civil revolution, was divided into
| two Kingdoms. South America relapsed into
| anarchy, 'the United States are paying the
! bloody pi ice of their folly. Switzerland alone
I-i fiee. These re : ,nits now so painfully appa
rent to us, were not unforeseen by the great
men who, in 17- S '.i, resisted lire danger of nu
merical majorities and the dogma of Democrp.t
ie eopsolUhitioti. No ed<mated man in this
country can fail to trace the true source of our
evils, if he will dispassionately iea.l the de
bate* upon tin* adoption of the fu'-betne of the
“more {.crU t union reared by ambitious fol
ly in 17d‘i upon the ruins of the great Ameri
can principles of 177d. Europe is to day con
vnl-i-d by Hie contest between the unextin
guisfiabl« principle of satisfied nationalities
that is. State Rights—and the schemes of colos
sal empire. On this Continent the same con
flict is being waged.
| It is something gained, that the Executive
| of the sovereign common wealth of Georgia,
should rear aloft that fundamental and endur
ing system of government, unbodied in the
simple word., "Feaee upon tin! principles of
} 177i1." His s< mctliing gained that Fie plat
form of (lie Northern opposition to lancoln is
: embraced in tin* equally simple and equally
I significant words, “Bence through the inter
vention of the Slates.’’ We thus have an effec
tual and irresistible principle to guide the
.■states of Ihe South, and shape their policy,
and a mode of action lor the States of Fee
North in harmony with* that principle. The
true States’ Bight, theory—however neutral
ised heretofore by party practice is, that the
Executive power is delegated by tiie States, as
sovereigns. '1 he popular vote simply expresses
the wish of Hie people and is instructive. The
States, acting a.. States, through the electoral
college alone possess the power to intervene
and change tiie Executive. Accepting tire
principles of 177(1 as the basis ol pacification
and adjustment, the States Bights men of the
North will enter upon the next Presidential
contest with some prospect of success.
Tiie termination of tiie American struggle
through the triumphant vindication of the prin
ciples of the first revolution, will exercise a
powerful influence upon Europe. England, the
hitter foe of the South and the crafty foe of the
| North, will Strain every nerve to defeat tho
success ol this principle. Russia, which desires
lo see Lincoln theO.'ir of imperial Democracy
in America, is < qiial'y interested in tin* milita
ry consolidation of this (tonliuent But Napo-
I Icon, the leader of the States’ Righ's system
; of the Old World, and backed by the whole
: power ot Continental Europe proper, is the
frioud of the principles ol 1770, us France lias
i ever been the IVieud of American prospciity
j and power.
- ' i- wed in IJiis light, Hie Georgia movement,
i as the R’chmoiid Whig truly says, is well e.al
! ciliated to impart elevation and enthusiasm to
t lie Southern, cans •. Sooner or Inter the prin
ciples of J 77G will triumph, and the South,
which conferred freedom upon America in
days gone by, \. ill in this day and generation
preserve and perpetuate it to all time.
Tub I’xi manor CjcK'iin.v —The 'Richmond
Examiner nrinoTinces that the prisoners now re
tnrnlrv f. ■ e.’*.-’.Mly b. ti.t same status
art.nll prisoneis tint have arrived within our
lines dtitiin; Hie ’.vat, viz. : a military parole.
Th,; terms of the pafole qte elearly art forth in
article four of the cartel, as follows . *
“All prisoners of war h> he discharged on pa
rol,* in lea days after their capture, and the
•prisoners now held, and those hereafter taken,
to b-- transported U> the points mutually agreed
iipuip at tiie expense <>l the capturing party.
The surplus prisoners, not exchanged, shall not
he permitted lo take up arms again, nor to
serve as military police, or constabulary force
in any foil, garrison, or fields work, held by
either ol Hie lespeetive parties, nor as guards
of piii’.ous, depots, nr stores, nor to discharge
any only usually pet-fanned by soldiers, until
exchanged under the provisions of this cartel,
'llie exchange is uol io be considered complete
; until the officer or soldier exchanged for has
i keep, actually reatoied to the lines to w hich lie
I belongs.'’
Upon the anival of eat h boat, the agents of
| e&cbange are respectively furnished with a list*
of the men and officers delivered—a regular
j deld and credit sheet being thus kept, and a
receipt given for each jot, #
Eo far all i- plain. Now, as ts the apprehen
sion that the prisoners recently returned at
Gily Point mi) lc* kept on their parole by the
per, istauee of tla* enemy for the conditions of
a I'oi npil exchange, we may *ay that such l'earn
are removed by u certain proyiuior, of the car
tel not generally known. It appears that after
.aft equivalent in prisoners lias been delivered
on hot!) side.; then cm:/, pc,*/;/has the right, by
the terms of tiie cartel, to declare an excharnje.
The terras of this instiMineiit are too plain for
misconstruction. Article four of the cartel
reads :
“Each party, upon the discharge of prisoners
of the other parly, is authorized to discharge
an rqiml number ot their own id'eeis or men
from parole, furnishing at tlu* same time to the
ot)i**r party u list of their prisoners discharged
hud of their own officers and men relieved
from parole ; thus enabling erfiili party to re
lieve from parole su, !i ot their own officers
and m>'ti as the p irtv may choose. The lists
th ns mutuilly tin lushed will keep both parties
advised of the true condition of the exchange
of prisoners.** m
U is entirely apparent from the language
quoted above, that it is competent for our Com
missioner to declare, at any day. those prison
ers for whom equivalents lifive been returned,
duly exchanged, and thus qualified again for
the field. This course was taken in the case of
the Y ickslmrg prisoners. The only condition
to such a declaration is that the enemy should
have an equivalent in prisoners discharged
from parole ; and this done the Confederate
authorities may declare the prisoners returned
into their lines exclianged, without other for
mality, or the possibility of restraint by any
new conditions of tiie enemy, oi any supple
ments: v negotiations for what the cartel al
j 'ready determines.
lnr. rßot'ULiis in Li\,\hai»om.—The internal
strife, long predicted, has just commenced in
Liqcoludoui. 1 Ire tools of the administration
sire -endeavoring.to crush ojjt free press and
and.freo speech, by mold aw. On the other
hand the Demo, rats u-.e quietly organizing to
protect themse.vc - aud their property against
the outrages committed, apparently with the
sanction of flic \\ ashing lon authorities. These
are promising signs. They ate good signs for
us and our cause. We trod the little speck of
trouble which has now appeared in the North
ern political sky, will prove to be the fore
runner of a tempest of blood and ruin which
will sweep over that section of the old Union.
The South can then have a peace on her own
i terms, without the Ick* of any more ot the pre
; cions lives of her citizen:*.
A Pari- correspondent ot a Philadelphia pa.
| per asserts that •'lire Minister of Marine ha? 1
j ordered the French Navy to be put on a war
i looting in the shortest time possible This looks
as if Napoleon had get some idea iu hi< head,
|he has not yet given to the public. Perhaps
j he may intend to -interfere in affairs on this
I side of \he water. And then again—perhaps
j not. He will do whatever he has made up his
j mind to do. whatever it may be.
A Di.sco.viKXfpn t oMi: -1 lie following
letter was received' a short, time since, b}
j Stephen, a colored preacher, belong'ii;; to Dr.
!P. Winn, well known in this section of the
‘ State. Stephen savs every word of tfiis letter
may he believed —if may not be improper to
’ read it to your servants ; ;
Nvs.hvillk, Te:,\'., Jan. lc 1804.
1 xcr.E SrccaKN : 1 know you wll be sifr
piised to get a letter Irom me here, but 1
have a chance of sending it by one of Mr.
! Crutchfield's women, who rays she knows you,
! and hu- heard you preach often, aud a I can
mi write myself, u free v. oinan of this place is
kind enough to write this letter for me. I was ’
very foolish to leave a goo t home and kind ;
friends, tocouie with the cruel. ly lug, swii.dlin.;
Vaultt'c.s they will promise anything ;o get!
you e/t with Itiem but they nevei fulfill any of j
theii' promises. They told me if l wmiM ;o
with tin in [ -biiuld be free and rich, and Via.e
a while, wife;, l’hey v.ai.l that, they were -be...i
in. all the land lif iLe lebels among the negroes
as. they got possession ot it. 1 believed Lhe*story
and went with them' but litre the rich mail,
whose sad fate i- recorded in Barred History,
“In bell i lifted up my eyes, being ill torment.''
and like him, also. 1 wish to testily unto my
brethren, “lest they also come into this plate
of torment."
Instead of being free, 1 never "was so much
as lave.' As soon a- the Federal* got me otf
with them, | was conscripted and .o signed to
duty with a regiment of sappers and miners.
I worke all day in muddy ditches with Agitat’d
ovir me, who stands at my back with a loaded
musket aud lived to thrust me
through, and airtight a bail and chart is fas
tened to my anus and legs, and I ant driven
like an ox to a muddy stall, called a barracks,
where 1 spend the night.withtiti.: tire and al
most without bedding. Every colored man
’tli.it comes to the Yankees is pul in the aruiv,
atnl is requuired to do the meanest drudgery in
the camp, and in time et hat-tie we are all put
in tiu trout us a breast work for the protection
of tile whites. I had rather he a Southern
slave and belong to the meanest master in the
couth than to be wiiat they call a colored free
tuan at the, North. 1 had a good home and a
kind mistress - ,- and plenty to eat and wear; bat
here everybody is my master, alld 1 have to
clothe and feed myself; and every negro in this
country is treated more like a vile dumb brute
or a poisonous reptile than us a human being.
II this is treedom, give me slavery forever. It
e.ver 1 get a chance i am coming k home, and
every negro here would do the same thing if
he could. Want your friends, lest they also come
nnto this place of torment, and tell them they
ought to he happy in having kind masters quij
mistresses. 1 left some clothes in Marion—take
care of them for me Tell manta and Oliver
howdy lor me. j’ray for me. Uncle Stephen, for
1 ant coining if ever I get this chain, off my
neck. Give my I o’, e to all spy friends, kill! Ml
t hem not to come here.
Your unhappy friend,
John Ward.
Servant of Win. Ward, of Marion, Ala.
Thu Fkki.i.vo at the Nouf.h.— We learn from
the general expression of tlu Northern papers
tjiat- the war feeling in that section is dying opt
fast. The reluctance with which men enlist,
aud the bold and defiant stand taken by Liu
poln’s opponent?and the leaders of the peace
parly, corroborate tiiis tact. Some of tho rabid
sheets endeavor to explain away the causes o
the general gloom now existing The New York
Times remarks thus on the subject:
The fgef that probably gives rise to the most
wide-spread despondency is, that we have as
yet accomplished nothing in our spring opera
tions. Ihe E’lorida expedition ended in a dis
aster z the araiid cavalry raid in Alabama, un
der Gen. Emith, was interrupted by .*q,paved': ■
a very inferior force ; the mysterious invasion
of General Sherman's flying column brought
back only a lew thousand nodes and negroes,
and wasted the enemy’s territory. We see no
thing of the hutwl drateijiem all this whipli way
expected. Glmi U nion, too, if, as far from our
grasp as ever. Mobile has hardly been attacked.
We hear nothing ol any sneess in Texas. Gen.
Meade's great army lies inactive in Virginia.
Behind all these unfavorable aspects- -as they
seem to tiie popular administration -loom;; up
the perilous question ot finance. Tho debt in
seen to lie increasing eiiorinomfiy every day,
while Gougrc-ss is not awake to the duty of cor
lespondingiy increasing the taxation. The eur
to'.iov, b -sides it,; apparent expansion, is be
lieved to lie expanding in modes which are not
seen, 'ey the constant nayiiig oijt of • eerUfitiutes
of indebtedness' ’ and "live per cent •otes." —
And, worst sign of all, the extravagance of the
people is growing- at a frightful rate.
A Nkw Oiider. in Ukoako to 'ForsiGXfiHfi.
Tho rtichimma Examinin' lies, the following in
regard to the new position taken hy the'aulhur
ities in regard to foreigners
We learn that the authorities have at last ta
ken measures to apply the conscription law to
the l ast number of'pretended foreign residents
in the (Confederacy. They will i,e p,(t through
a series id'searching intnnogatoiiea by the of
ticers of tiie conscription, •
They are required to set, forth the town or
comity and State of their firth; the time at
which Urey became citizens (if not natives) of
tluqState or county of which they plaint to be
citizens wueihei tin-ir parents or nearest rela
tivea reside in tin: Confederacy ; and it so, the
length of ti ue they have resided here ; the age
of the pin lies claiming exemption ; the length
of time they have retailed in this country, and
the cireurestaiHPs under which they came ; the
nature-of the business engaged in, and whether
as owner or agent; if married, whether iri the
Confederacy .or not, also the number ol their
families; if owners of property in the Confed
eracy, and whether real or personal ; whether
owners of properly in this country or Stale of
which they claim to tie citizens , and, n so, (he
nature of it; whether they have voted in the
Confederacy ; and, in cases of parties claiming
protection of European powers, whether they
have voted in at declared their intention of be
coming citizens of the United States , whether
tinder "the act of tin* legislature of \ iiginia ap
propriating salt to ta' sold to hot" Citizens. they
availed themselves of (he privilege of drawing,
whether they have expressed an intention-ot
becoming citizens of the Confederate Mates,
and if tijey are now residing In the Conleder
ate States; with that inlonliou : ii they intend
returning to the country ol which they claim
citizenship, aud if -o, the iiuVß at which they
expect to return. These facts must he certified
to on oath, and must be corroborated by the
affidavit of at least two respectable persons.
UxpiSMAYljp ASI> BELLIGERENT Asi’EOT Os Tilt.
Coxi r.oKR.v r.—Tiic Washington correspondent
of the New York World says :
“The first fact which falls under my observa
tion. and without which it would be impossi
ble for any one to I'oiin a% accurate estimate
of the temper and resources of the Southern
people, is the readiness with which they com
ply with the arbitrary orders <>l an absolute
governiiieiit, aud the self-sacrificing spirit wit t
whiclit hey accept the heaviest burdens, t his
spirit pervades all classes. It actuates the rich
and the poor, and transforms individual exer
tions into acts of the highest devotion. V, hetli
er this absolute devotedness to a wrong cause
originates iu the loftiest aspirations or in Inc
blintlest prejudices, not to say tn the most cru
el of all the passions, is not lor me to say, my
j province being simply to relate facts anu no
to investigate moral causes, lint that such is
the state of public sentiment in nearly an
parts ot the South, not only eye witnesses but
evidences of an unquestionable character abun
dantly prove. I could mention hundreds o
fa,,, "in which the self-sacrificing spirit to
i which 1 have lust alluded ha* manifested men
in its loftiest forum, The auiirb eds ol women
who have sent their husbands and sons to tne
hatele-field: the hundveds of widows who bar e
parted with their la.~t boy, their only suppoi .
the hnudreds of citizens who have given tiit-ir
lasi dollar, the hundreds of ladies who have
given np their last jewel-, and the hundreds o
ministers who have shouldered ihe musket dur
l> ing the month in defense of the sacred soil, are
as many evidences in support of my assertion.
Garrison defends Lincoln. He says “he has
travelled as fast towards the negro as popular
sentiment would warraut him in doing.’ H
was Garrison who originally pronounced the
Constitution a league with hell and a covenant
w**h death.
I ’". u CM. vtus. A- some un
certainty and men misapprehension , xist as to
the tiansfetnihility t ,|"tho four per cent, c.r
--| ii!i ' ,KW I'l'iutr issued under the recent
I Fuit'em y Art, the followingsktleiuent. which is
j made by the official organ of (he administra
tion,-the Richmond Sentinel upon full informa
tion fr.,m the Treasury Department, and by its
desire, will be acceptable to tke public;
The four per cent, certificates of deposit will
be t evened m payment of tiie taxes of the
pers’i't to whom they are issued or of any
assignee . Certificate* are • tssignable in
the term ttstial wtilt vertificates of st.-ek. We
would mh i.-e holders to take the usual bu'sintws
course ol making a!l assigotnont I>.• ~l,* a mauis
irate. using the lutm to he found on the hack
ot all Gem, derate registered bonds, but leav
in'* a. b.aii,, Nir the name ot the assignee. 'Piio
nanie ot any iioldei ran ).,* Ui.-xatraf to suitor
ca.'icms.
Me are further informed that when a certifi
cateet deposit P’esem, j by a lax-piver shall
exerted (he amount e.l bis taxes, the tax collee
(et- will be antiioiaged to give him anew . er
tmi-ate for the excess. For examnlc, if a eiti
/eti S tax |.o seven hundred dollars', and he give
in a certificate ot deposit, for one thousand dol
lars, be will Gee.ve anew certificate for three
bill died dollars. Tims, a certificate fora large
amount may -seiw Ihe riicoessive 1130s of sevo
taliax payers, i’ laetioijal parts of a hundred
dollars, however, the tax payer will he te
i|iiired to pay in money, as no bond contain
ing such fraction will be issued from 4he Trea
sury.
The denominations of the bonds to be issued
in redemption of the certificates of deposit
now being given, will be six. and no move—
vis: one inmdied, two hundred, five hundred
one thousand, three thousand, and'live thou
sand.
Ax Exui.ish Opinion- or Tins Position’ of
A trains. Tiie Liverpool Albion in commenting
on tho position of affairs in this country, speaks
thus;
Vve have the opportunity of perusing many
letters front the Con federate States, lint in no
instance do we find any symptoms of despon
dency :«,s to the ultimate result. True, the
pie ’’.ufl-’i’ severely; but they have become
callous to temporal y disasters and to personal
privations, determined, through any amount
ol misery, to compter their independence. And
assuredly they will do so, though years ol ex
tensive siillering may elapse before their exer
tions arc crowned with success, if all we hear
be true and, to a,great extent, wo believe tiie
reports which reach us—the Confederacy, in
the coming spring, will place in the field a
more formidable force than-at any previous
period. With armies composed largely of vet
eran soldiers and patriotic citizens, fighting lor
their homes and ail they hold dear, who can
doubt the result of an encounter between such
troops and those who arc forced into the Fed
eral service by conscript m u, by w ant, and the
temptation of enormous bounties ? We observe
in the American papers fearful accounts of the
demoralization which prevails among the col
ored people liberated and attached to the Fed.,
era! armies. Tiie young women are prostitut
ed, and (115 old wuinfn and young children are
left to misery and starvation. This is not ail ;
l’rivate letters state that the negro women
have taken. tp jpui(Joying their children by
wholesale, in order Hint they may join the
Federal camps unencumbered. So much lor
forcible emancipation.
A Gmtwait EpiuiA’ior luNCoux.—A German
correspondent of a Boston radical paper writes
from Washington as follows;
“As for Mr. Lincoln, be h is not the least in
terest for uve. He is. from every ideal view,
i lota' od!- a goodl naUireJ luunutiu, tuii.Hr
devo : • oi ideas, upheld simply by his concealed
• cut, mg, a i|iiality which liainioni/.es so well
I with coarseness. Here, in Washington, he has
few friends. AH speak of him with contempt.
* * * His love <d’show alone would excite
any republican indignation. Two cavaierists
bold continual guard at bis gate, and two in
fau (crises at the entrance rl his door. Mis.
Lincoln, they say, wauls if so, ami, to please
her, the republican President inns! make laid
queyd of a do.’,eu republican citizens every day.
Even in Europe no Prince permits himself such
humbug. Congress ought to take hold of this
matter. One,of the most prominent politicians
in Washington tohl me lie heard Mr. Lincoln
say, ’ The' best policy js to have no policy at
till.’ 1 replied, '•translated into German, that
fuettus, it is best to have no punciples at all,
and as little sense as possible. This is aptly
expressed by our German proverb: ‘lie gets
along by his stupidity.” Audit itt very simple:
for those who aie Hifartcr make use of him, aud
those win, are still more stupid .aid him. ’
KnimitAi, ►Spreel-vri o.\ ox run VVaii.—The
Washington correspondent of the Chicago
Tittle::, writing of the probable tormina thm of
(lie war, say-. :
The administration is -still endeavoring to
maf.eWhe public believe that the rebellion is
on ih. last leg:!, ami ilia l tiie war will be ended
with tiie campaign of next suoijier. Never
was there a greater delusion. To those .who
know the real facts, it is evident that tiie
end of the war, as far as the conquest or the
subjugation of the -South is concerned, is as far
oil' now as it was two years ago. Tho South
may not have as many troops in the field in
ISU4 an they hud in ltjbii. Hut, if they only
have only three hundred tliuosuqd, they ban
give abqmlaul employment to over six hun
dred thousand, ami i! they have four hundred
thousand, they can attack Washington besides.
It is understood that ttye South will noi act
entirely on the defensive, and will peek to draw
our armies as far as possible info Hn: interior
Os tiie Country’, where they expect to defeat’
them. And there is v ery little doi;bt that they
wili dspaci, from the defensive system, so far
as to make an attack upon Washington. If
they do this, and act on the defensive every
where else, they have means and material for
carrying on the \yar for live years more. lam
satis tied, from the information that reaches me,
that Ricfimond witi never be abandoned ieo long
as the Confederacy cun put fifty thousand
troops in the field.
lIKAi-OEc,mid's Strategy.— Our readers will
remember the account some time since of our
batteries having opened a furious lire upon
Morris Island, ( iiarieston. The Lake City cor
respondence of the Savannah Republican affords
the following key to tiie affair.
A remarkable incident has been communica
ted to me on the high! .a authority. When,
Gen. .Finnegan telegraphed General Beaure
gard for troops, the latter ordered Geu. Col
quitt here. Ay hour afterwards he was inform
ed that the enemy was landing in full force, and
pressing Colquitt’s position. Beauregard or
dered Colquitt to hold he; position, but that
niglit,aka feint, he opened all bis guns on
Morris Island, and the enemy supposing an as
sault was being'made, recalled their troops,
when Beauregard immediately ordered Geuer
al Colquitt here; and he reached here in time
to prevent the enemy occupying Tallahassee,
and according to European* ethics claiming
that to be the capture of the State; for had the
enemy been successful at Ocean Pond, there
not five hundred men be tween them ijnil the
werecapltal, aud with the capture of our rolling
stock at Lake City, they would have soon reach
ed Tallahassee and fallen back on St. Marks
as a base, and by water held communication
with the world. Viewed in this respect, it Is
one of.the decisive battles of the war, and has
preserved the State to' Ihe Confederacy; not
that she wished to abandon the Stars and Bars
—far from it—hut the enemy would have so
claimed.
Fnsmoj, op Leaiumi English Statesmen.—
The London Index, of Feb. 4, iu speaking of
the position of the leading English Statesmen
on the American question, remarks thus ;
Four fifths of the House wish the Confedera
cy should he recognized, but do not choose to
pass such a vote except on the responsibility
of a leading statesman; and no leading ..tales
man is prepared to take the responsibility of
recognition. Lord Dei by will not do it; and
the Tories cannot corue withou Lord- Derby.
Lord Russellm il -not do it. agd LordH’altnerstn
dare not throw him overboard. Amlin truth,
except Lord R. Cecil, we doubt if any prospec
tive cabinet Minister would dare to hazard his
position by making the proposal.
VOL. LXXVIIf.-—NEW ISERIES VOL. XXVHL NO 7t
.wimtnty ,\t- u •.
Th-' IVileral House committee on reads an I
| canals has reported a bill Ibr the constiueirnn
ole. slop canal for the passage of anne.l and
ieiv.it vessels from the Mississqmi Ever into
tk” Northern lake.-. !t nppivpikites eESpHm
Owl inr that purpose.
The tax on distilled spiiiis at the N-.niii;.
non sixty cent- per gallon, on raw col ton two
veins per pound.
’! he Louisville paper., stale that large bodies
troops are passing Uifottg!i that Giv on ti; r
" ay to Chattanooga.
The rat idea.-ion of the treaty Between the
l mte.l otHtes aud Great Britain for Ute final
.settlement et the claims of the !tud ->ii ii• x
•md I uget Boundagrieultural compani.,: imve
jusUmeu exchanged. Oregon and \\ a-hiu -lon
tern.ones tire, to be settled by a tra’t.-i'er of
Hies,* nghts and claims to tin* United S p,- ; f.
" n !> *do.] Hah* Itloil.-y , !.il.-.i,ir*ia: iott. Mild il i
agreed t[it* t the l nited Slate# and her Majeslv
sha h within a tew months after the exchaneo
ol the tatifieation tivatv, appoiat each a cm !
mission t-r for thepnrp. se of examining and de |
1 " l 1 1?.' l “ vkiinisarising out, of its provision.
,-v Now t ork gentleman iiinide of the rinf.
says Lincoln intenda to remove all GhaseV;
intnnis iiom oftiot*.
. ' , l h t ?, U at ()il Fa . were on tire,
■ 1 1 ? V7j " ‘: en twenty and thirty thousand
' ' 71' ' lil ’ been consumed, and the fire
'V;i3 siiil raffing.
The Kentucky papers complain of the ne-ro
stealing going on in that, .State to till an tho
laiito, ol iancoln s army
'An Abolition work, 'advocating amaigama
it, ’ I.' 5 ooen pultlislied ill New York
i't> . Its doctrines nro endorsed by Fred Don
glas, and other leading live northern negroes
who say they are willing to adopt and carry
i'™*, \¥. Abolitionists oi Lincoludom
ought to publicly thank the negro aii-focrats
lot ooiKlcscension.
An Ohio Colonel named Bowman, who a short
“ ma sl! ;*'S' to recognize one et Lincoln's
negro Colonels, lias been dismissed from the
reuctal sol. vice.
A collisionbetavoett seme Kentucky and Yif
ginia troops has taken place at Lexington. Kv.
It commenced with knock-down arguments and
ended in effective gun powder and bullet tight:.
Since Congress hits authorized chase to sell
the gold in the Federal treasury, gold Iras com
menced rising again in New York. This looks
as it Chuse'had no gold to sell ; and wanted
Hie law passed merely to legalize wiiat lie had
already done.
Senator I’otneroy, of Kansas, acknowledges
the authorship of the Circular recently publish
cii In him and says lie will stand or iiili by it.
The mechanics in New York city have com -
menced making trouble on account of the pre
vailing hard times.
flie delegates of the Democracy of Now York
to the national convention embrace the ablest
and ipoiit. distinguished men of the party itt that*
State.- Horatio Seymour, Washington Hunt.
Atnasa J. Barker, Sanford E. Church, John J.
lay lor, and Satnuei .1. Tiideu are unu-ng them.
And, which is a novelty fen- New York, there
will be no contesting delegation. The delega
tion arc instructed to cast the vote of the State
in the convention as a unit.
’Die New York papers state that both -pecu
lation and speculators are on the iacroiso in
that city,
file Ui- eon-in Legislature is see.king some
mode ot punishing those who have runawav to
Canada to escape the draft.
'1 lie Elate Senate of Ohio proposes to lake a
step for the suppression of secret political soci
eties.
ilie bank committee, from New York city,,
intend to lay before tiie Ways and Mean.’ Com
mittee their views, soliciting a modification of
the national banking law. so that the old city
banks may retain He ir original distjneliv -
tics and yet enjoy tliof ptivileg, -of the nation •
al banking law . !
-The Northern press admits that Sherman lost j
five hundred killed and wounded in his late
rail].
A gentleman from Memphis reports that the
fleet containing Sherman's ft oops lms passed
up the river.
As far as horuJ from Johnson's election pass
od off quietly itt Tennessee. -
Thoieare Prussian and Austrian vessels now
in American polls which may have to inn the
gauntlet; should they sail, to escape *1 tan Mi
hud .Swedish meit-of-war odour coast. Denmark
has the island • of Ka.itaGruz, St. Thomas, and
St. John in Hie West Indies, and Sweden lias
St. Hadliolcmvw, which will enable their via
vies to til out vessels to prey upon the com
meroe of the German allies.
Northern advices from Texas represent mat
ters at a stand still.
According to letter writers, Lincoln occupies
his time in levees and h.vieS.
The New York Tribune still continues to op
pose the re nomination of Lincoln. Its arti
cles are very strong and bitter against him.
A frill lias 'passed the Senate of Western Vii
giuta authorising the Governor to compel all
persons to depart from the (State .who are dis
loyal to the Vnited States, and who refuse to
recognize the State ol' Western Virginia. .
The work cm the Pacific railroad is being vap
idly pushed forward.
The free negroes of Louisiana have petition
od Lincoln to be allowed to vote. Mr. Lincoln
says he sees no good reason why they should
not be alioV.ed to vote.
Lincoln has issued his proclamation, order .
ing another draft for two hundred thousand
men in addition to (he five hundred thousand
nu n called tor by the draft of Fchmarv Ist.
All the American shipping in Chinese wafers
is unemployed, for fear of the Alabama.
Judge Perkins, of the Supreme''Court of In -
diana, has been notified by Gol. Conrad Baker.
Provost Marshal General for Ids district, that,
he has granted writ* of habeas corpus, in con
travention of tiie President's proclamation, and
that therefore, he will lie held to answer.
Major Thos. D. Armary and Liont. Davis, of
the Confederate army, have been convicted of
recruiting within the enemy,s lines and sen
tenced to imprisonment, with hard labor, for
fifteen years. They are now in Fort Warren.
Lincoln is determined to run the political
machine in Arkansas to suit his own purposes.
In reply to a let ter I‘r'oin a citizen of that .State,
he says he has a*,minted Gen Steele to look
after matters, and, that Li» orders most In*
obeyed and ho is.master. He also says it is use
less for citizens to say any tiling to him, as Gen.
Steele lias In's instructions and will carry them :
out to the letter.
The foreign imports <jf the United Stab:?; a!
the port of New York for seven monies from
the Ist .July are reported at 5 !43,.Jt:f).:;iS. The
exports for the same time ar-toimlal to M 11,-
173,395, against same months preceding year
f0r.<1(1.425.844, showing a deert*iu cxpnvisrff
322,252.419 in seven montlis of the pte?,ent
fiscal year. For t'no same time, there*is .in in
crease in imports of 517,94<;,(;0.~., aid the im
ports exceed the exports for the same, -even
months by the large sum ot 5.21i,2f0i,J2. - S. This
is a heavy balance against the United’.Suites at
obh Custom. House at a time like the ptes. nl.
aud must he met by the cash in specie and yet
it appears the specie exports from New York
hive fallen oti in tHe seven moidhs, as com
pared with the year preceding. l.nu-.i.
'J'iie matter is explained by the fact'Vi,at' the
California gold, or the great hulk of it. is now
exported in British vessels directly to England,
and the Yankees pay for their imports hy
dra wing upon it.
due death of for V/m.Brown. in Liverpool, is
finite a loss to the Yankee Government. He
never failed to use his great influence on be
half of-the cause of the Government and poo
ple-pl'the United gtates. During (lie critical
period of last year, when it se,-tiled all bnt
certain that the iron clads in the Mersey would
he allowed to depart, he went to London and
had' Interviews with member- of the Bri'-bb
Cabinet; and the result. <4 Ids efforts was the
opening of communication with Earl R
which led to the, stoppage of those formulate'-
instruments of war. He has hit an
335,4)00,000. . ,
On the 18th of March cotton was •“*'*-••’ ,n
New York at seventy-five cents per pte • -*
The lierald’S correspondent from t . -
Mobile has rumors that. cannot'be
draw, being satisfied that tno m;
taken by water. . , „ , i.-m
The Federals have occupied J ak.U... lo. f
with a strong lo: '- e - . t p; pu Brntm will soon
It is announced inai i<eu. ■ > ... .
take the field and commence active ope at.on,
a lanre frmtrht train on the Nashville rail
road hTbeen-de-ttvycd by Confederate guer
papers are of the opinion that
Loug»trect will evacuate East lenneusee.
\ r\i:ws.
Tint N iiron-hire I .’. riot gives tiie facts to
that; i' ■ letuaii* Aboliiioni. ;s who went as
a. hers of the negi tvs :d For*. Boyrd, have been
n.-.v.*--id in i*, at ie.n.toih :■ a.: iivfiave
idle ib”, elopement. Il says: Private advi
ces ir..m Port Royal sav ftiat, many of Hie
leinale A'oeiit.ir.ds;.-who went, to Port Royal
j to tea. is the little negroes to icid and pray have
been obi,zed, within tile past few months to
: abandon their blank chalgesar.dopeit nurseries j
jon their own private acixmnt.. An officer in-I
and u nvoHlly that no lt-xs tiian sixty fom j
• .-i iiisi.'i’s i ,1 ceuti-ibiiioil lo the imputation |
! '-*veii in more than the \>rodu< iion oi Sea Island j
- ,n b> j-.d.l negi > laJjiu*. Tin’ intorinatioii ;
term i, ._!’y th > v>:iD ot* eotrci rning the sixty i
i lit U* aaeh.i lor., lias been eonfirtned by tile j
| te.dim my of Hu* Rev. Lilvriy Billings- RicA. j
■ p i o-G<.- i-’li - i.i ('.Crditu IL:;iiii(*nt, j
! ''Hio is now in N.-w iia'Jip’ hire in coust'qiic'nee |
iol ii I health, lie says it i- a sad truth*
ii lie U iishington eniTerjiondeiiL of the Cin
einuali ( o.miiet'i tl thinks that- in addition to
tin- moral atmo-ph -re of Uie eapif.ol Lieiug tin
li’ailtliy, it is fast. bivoVdug im:tro]iolitttil, also,
in Uie statistic.* of crime committed within its
limits. '1 here are three men now in the. conn
t y jail awaiting' dentil on t he gallows for mur
der, and timing tic* past six months eleven
•hundred crimu.al . uses have been tried in (he
disii'i t court-, in two litunlied of which> tke ae
ense ! were vent to the penitentiary.
, According to the figures of the Price Current,
the whole number of hogs packed, up lo the
Mh ins;., i’l the West, is 1 ,!!Sg,(i•'>.'»■) last year,
t he esi imated lunouul for (Ids rear is 2,*J5 f',S!)7'.
I In’ deliguaiey will not tall far short, according
to tin’s-! figures, ot !*()().Odu hogs. The Fr ee
Gurvont says it i> „, w ,-lvar that the hogs this
sons,,ii wili tie the blest evr parked before,
and the yield olTavd per hog far loss than anv
•; "l"tn record. The deficiency, so far. is
aboil,, thirty per cent, in (lie uuiniier and in
weigut about ten per cent.
iu ■ • e.’.er.al Mays and Moans commit,ice
have rejected the proposition to permit nation
at banko to issue notes of smaller denomination
than five dollars.
A Louisville dispatch says Kentucky is to be
divided into military districts the respective
hcad.qulrUus to he at Louisville and Lexiug-
P’Uilu’idge occupying tin* former, and.
Ewing the latter. The people arp to be brought
under closer unitary niie.
! be Ritoile island delegates to the Republi
can Convention have been instructed to vote
for Lincoln.
A mass meeting in favor of. McClellan for
tiie Presidency, has been held in New York
city. Amos Kendall. A. 15. Norton of Texas,
Jacob ol Kentucky, and C’yler of Philadelphia,
were announced as speakers.
General Thomas is said n- -t to be on cordial
relations with Grunt.
An officer of the army at Chattanooga writes
that, t.a 1 federal *irmy cannot long remain in
its present position, owing to the stench arising
from nil immense number of ijead horses aid
muh ■ wiiich have died from elevation liming
the winter, the -country around Chattanooga
ior many miles is strewn with decaying car
cases, estimated to number no. • ly fifty thou -
sand.
'! i.e l '- 'sole number of p landed al
New York in ISiio, was U : :;V7, of whom I.">(>,-
bit wore alien; from ir, : mil. !12.1.,7; from
Germany, 002 : from i-'.ugiand, 18.757 ; and
from other countries, 10.P28.
. ; ct HI. Loins, March It, cotton was selling at
sixty-seven cents per pound.
Two iron-dad tnrreted gunboahi were recent
ly launched at CoTondehil, oil the. Mississippi.
The Federal gunboat. Conestoga.. with a le.-ul
,iMTimniiitii-o. ■- ; ~s-7- .
i( tfWi'. • .
Ti: • ; .iwi.insi.i Enquirer says' Grant will ro
organize the ;nmv of I he Potomac, and head its
nrsf movements ill the spring ; that Gen. Smith
may receive tho command of tiie army, mid
Jhillock i-in-havi: command of any department
he wants.
it is said-(hat a Lieut. Col. Sanderson is on
trial at the North for 'communicating to the
Richmond authorities (he plan formed by the
I 'ciler il officers to escape from the Libby prison.
The YVasiiiiigloii.Chioni; le says liiaL General
Wadsworth is instructed to stale that no more
prisoiieis will lie exclianged except upon tho
principle of man for man, regardless of color.
The establishment hy -'-iie'iimm of his head
quarters at Nashville, indicates pretty clearly
Hie presence of iiis force? in Tennessee, in po
sition ready to cooperate with Grant in any
movement lie may uiiilcuakc.
I,i (coin lev tat--, n stringent, measures to en
force the enrollment law in Kentucky.
A bill has been introduced in tho Federal
Senate to deprive a)! deserters who may have
escaped into the Critish provinces of all privi
lege ot citizenship,' unless they iimnediately
give themselves up for military duty.
t flume’:! enemiesrt. that his withdrawal as
a i’residential candidate is fmlv pretended.
Charles Sumner suggests Butler for Presi
deni, of (he Yankee .StateH, ■ and l-’i'emoiil for
Vice President!
Tiie New York World's Washington cffires
pondent says tie* Kepulcieaim are bringing a
great pressure-upon • IJncoln (u induce him to
refuse to serve a second term.
Gen. Tom Thumb has a rival in the person
of a Mr. Is li'vi, of.Springfield. Ohio. The latter
.gentleman is thirty-two years old, forty Ibnr
inches high, and weighs but fifty live pounds.
He is about to marry Miss Sarah K. Jiolion,
who is smaller than Mrs. Thumb, and*was for
merly 1 >oliy Imlion's maid ol honor.
The Chicago Journal learns that Gen. Burn
side is making rapid pro.'ress towards tile or
ganization of an expedition, which is to sail,
from New York for a point not now krown.
Two full regiments of colored troops have
Toft -St. Louis for New Orleans.
A.L'.ncolnite sheet cays that ‘’Holmes coun
ty, if not, the banner Copperhead county of
< dim, is al, last ( lopporlK'ild all over. Hy notice
el tue i’rovest Mai.dial of that district, under
the late call for.stm,<)!)!) men, |i V e volunteers
have-been raised and credited on the quota
assigned to it. 'i • deticiency is 78(1. Not
iceg since iL could muster twice as many as
the entire quota of armed men to resist the
i si ♦■i’s and law ot ti:*? Union : but now ii can
not lin nisli more than live men to resist tho
rebellion.’ ’
'i he 1! ' a (I-, toftn it ini-- idon prmiuitn in
ail a.-s-t.-,: 1: ui:, ‘‘it wt-uitl fie ilownriglh in
u’.re-1 trraso!! to gee the scirm to such a man
a Lincoln again at such times as these.’‘ T'hey
declare for I’remOßti T lie Ohio Legislature
which is nearly ail composed of Republicans,
has p-:.’.-,ed a resolution thanking General Roscn
craoz.
A resident:,* New Oilcan:., just frum that
ci'-.V, says that Meinminger’s treasury notes afe
worth mme in that city, than in other sections
rs the Confederacy. The creoles who are in
the city have but little to do with the Fede
rate. *
A British soldier was publicly m
4 ) last week for in. ui i f y.lii ateon. Ik
was amtenccd to receive fifty lashes; but •*;.'
foo dso c: :v •!:••::: the cuts of tbe cot t .al
ibes-.r .-oasuVicd (bednmmreratWmforty
l',-,|j t.i fosh . I dropped in clam Bom the
JU . , ‘ , ; r .. , ,with a^ony.
wound*. ilwssoMi‘-» I<,an ; , J
The t 0., ed’.’i-ate Alabama has cap
tured two more Federal v*-.-s*-s.
4 • , i ij i iVlart ii 2, dostroj
cd property Worth & 100,000 and five lives.
4 j 5 Jfouge corrtsp inde.il of the Mobile
Tribune gives that p .per a of the -i ai.-
I jof !ii '.; up and managing •• 1 nton
-in v: States, lie saj-s that at
,'lift late meeting in ba.->a llouge to ajipoint
(Itleaates to the -'.late Convention Lure wore
twtity live persons present—all Dutch and
Y.it.k.-i-s—that Frank Provost, Call Otto and
Stanislaus \Yrotur ski wereappointetl delegates;
that tic former I-ad long iieen married to a
n< gro woman, and the two .alter are Europg-
Anew ••»>•! in'- in the gas liii-iness is an
attachment of a sm-ili rnsrine clock to street
lampi*. where’,.;,- the gas is turned off at precise
ly tiie moment desired. An arrangement of
this kind is being tried in Springfield, Mass.
The New VorK Time? says that during the
.week ending Murch 14. T ITS bales of cotton
were received at Ne.v Orleans. During the
fortnight ending that time 1 >,5.L bales were
received.
A Federal negro euluiterjhas been arrested
in Canada.
'G \\ s si «;>*
; Many patties are un.lei' ti... ... - »
I the late act 0 f (|.?* , •“■pr.vstoi; tliaU
lur'ii"!’ - " i ? '' 7 ltnve authorising a.
Ginifedeoue (, ’ . ’h’’’.u:,ble in
intends all ';> >s , u Deccinoer next,
; 1,,..;.! i V 1 ’ 111 ' -d:-o. This, says the At-
I nvvi,' V !;< “‘';‘ r ' is >"Dtake. The Notes
i ,7 ’ f i re payable in specie or six
I “wnths after » treatv oj
)V , ;‘' lulu - : ' ‘V, act of the Legislature
<dght tiro ' ' '
io-te ' V ':7'7 l ; ! ;’ ! : i:i 1-7 <out and 'a part;
11 six pel vent Lends or specie six months after
cate la dev hired ’I he hue net of the Lv'gisla
ture doer, not ellect these t,v ie- in the sU-diR-T
degree. Itm n.-.v is •,*,■ ;;,,l*„ ;tf1 ..,..’
winch, will („• rede, mod in Confederate Ttwlsiiry
:iotes in IVcembcr licit. Wo make tins state
ni.Mii to allay th»* appreliension of many partioa
wlio hold Iho loviiier issue of State Treasury
notes, and who imagine that they will lose
their value, .is representatives of specie, in
:e. emeer next. No fear need ho entertained
ol the Slate annulling her contract, as express
ed on tin* luce of (he note ; they will be re
deemed either in Bonds or in specie six months
alter a treaty of peace.
W Idle General Poll;'.-; army was retreating '
trom Meridian an impression some liovv or other
got abroad that the soldiers were greatly .de
moralized. Hi is impression, however, lias been
entirely removed by the recent spontaneous re
enlistment of the entire army. The fact is, wo
have assurances'of an undoubted character (hat
a retreat over so large a apace was never
cfmdicled with tuoi’erkiii, order, and with less
loss either in men or materials. The present
morale of the army is excellent.
Tiie filing on Foil Powell, off Mobile, seems
to have been abandoned.
The Columbus, Ga., piapors think that, tiie
fruit crop in tjuU ft*etion ha.* not been serious •
ly injured by file lale eobl weather.
The other day, while Gen. Johnston was on
a visit to Atlanta, a gentleman, who has a gar
den near. Dalton, said to him: “ General, you
must be in need of some of tiie domestic luxu
ries of the rear iu camps, and l hope you will
use-no ceremony in providing yourself with
such as my little farm ultords." The General
paused. “Well, sir," said lie, “I am very
much obliged to you, indeed: But Gen. Hood,
Gen. Hardee and myself, with a gieat many
others, have a preference for vegetables raised
a little farther north."
Woodward’s carpenter shop. Haket anil
Minim’s fuse and siu ll iiiaimf u-lorvand several
small buildings on Mn'.n'street, Richmond, were
burned. G was the work of an incendiary.—
There biuliliiigs were only a short distance from,
the War Henartment and it is supposed that
il was the design of tiie incendiary to burn that *
building also. The wall of the Spottswood Ho
tel was damaged a little by the heat. Several
other incendiary fires have also occurred lately
in Richmond. *
Wo learn from the Richmond Enquirer that .
an interesting all'airoccurred at tin: Spottswood
Hotel in th.-iL city on tiie morning of the 181 U
inst. Mi-s Belli* liuyd, the distinguisliqd “re
licl tqiy. ' it seems i. stopping there ; and an
infatuated, and doubtless .somewhat intovcateil
(.’imli'devatc oflicer, endl-avoivd to give her a
call at dii'Unusually early hour—l’oreeil tho
door open, ii is said wiicn slie iiivd upon him
tli rue times, but without other effect than to
.scare him c-if.
A correspondent requests iufonunlion wheth
er an act was passed by the recent Congress
providing for Hie nayment of horses disabled
or killed in service, otherwise than in battle.
Such an act was passed by both Houses of
Congress, but was not approve*’ l»y the (’resi
dent, for what r<-a *oi w, u, noi i»-c,
o*. : ;.v -- *-i*m on the . i.iinu
ffialo. ' ,&> *
The irontgomery Mail in :p- ii . . • He
eilect. of the laie cold v,eaXTiei* iu Aiabatna
says: corn generally which was up, has been
seriously duinkgNF if not entirely killed, ll
is so much injured that it wiii have to lie
ploughed up and plante I over. The forward
wheat Which was iu the root has snltered great
iv —-so iiavc the oats. The fruit, from which cc
lew days ago we .were anticipating so much,
lias gone the way of ail things morlal, even in
its hlcom.
Concealed weapons liave been found upon
the persons oi several negroes in Montgomery,
Ala., lately. This is ain liter owners would do
well to look after, negroes have no business
with concealed weauous, and ought not to bn
allowed to carry them.
It turns out that Brigadier General Neal
HovV was exchanged by our-authorities for (Jen.
Lee. So it appears IJi.it all the fit sand flum
mery about living him for a petty‘thief, vvua
talk -tliats all.
one of tiie most novel and ingenious modes
of haling cotton t hat has ever been brought to*
our notice, says the South Carolinian, consists
in fust compressing the cotton fpid then sur
rounding it with basket work. The longtitu
dimd 3!miii of two baskets meet on Hie centra
ot •he liait*. mill these arC*'Tiniteil by wythes.
'l’lie cotton is thus compuclly and securely
hound, and IhereJs no possibility of breakage
or waste, unless lT;e entire bate be involved.
The expense is scarcely more than Uie cost of
labor to tiie employee.
The Yankees have tried’seven Generals and
lost over 1:50,000 men in the futile attempt to
lake Richmond. 'l’lie money spent on these ex
peditions would have built several such cities.
A letter from Lowndes county, Ga.,-dated
March 11, states-that Mrs. Elizabeth Key, a wi
dow lady, started fiom tier bouse in Emanuel
county, near Swainshoro' ,ono day lust week,
on a visit to her friends iu the neighborhood.
She was subsequently found dead in an <P A )
well, with her hands tied together w'.tu her
apron strings and the apron tied over her heaiT
and face. Jbe perpetrators of the defect ara
unknown.
Iu l.ongstreet's army, Gen. Ihibcrtson of tho
Texas Brigade lias been court mariialed ; Gt-n.
iMcLavvs’ case is 1 icing investigated; and Gen.
Law has been arresiod to have his ease investi
gated.
Gen. Breckinridge seems to be win ning
golden opinion.- in his new field. He is said ta
exhibit wonderful activity, being most of tho
time in tho saddle, aud familiarizing himself
wild the topography of his extensive and im
portant command.
Anew steam Carding and Cotton Spinning
Factory running live thousand spindles, aud
mailing about fifty bunches of thread a day,
has just commenced operations at Fayetteville*,
North Carolina. The machinery rail the Urn kj
ade from England.
Three thousand pounMrnf bacon and a thous
and lbs. lard were sold iu Columbus, Ga., oa
Tuesday, at $3,25 per lb.
A fetter from Hag rstown, Maryland, say*
ti.at owing to ihfe appi'f-hensious of a rebel
invasion early in the spring, many of the far
mers in that section of (lie State are selling
(heir farms and stock, preparatory to movo
West.
The Alabama "Nail Works xVill soon com
mence manufacturing nails.
t'ol. Winston. ofN. ('.. who made his cscajic*
from .Johnson's Island to Canada, and from
rhei.ee came to the Confederacy by way o-.
Burinudn, says there are at least eighty thou -
wind Federal deserters in Canada ; also that
the reports concerning Federal re enlistment*
arc untrue. < »ur enemies, he thinks, are be
coming more disorganized daily.
There is no doubt that the Yankees are con
centrating a very heavy force in front of Geu
eial Johnston. Large reinforcements aro
constantly pa-sing through Nashville bound
for the front, and no one there doubts that the
great battle of the war is to be fought in Nor
thern Georgia.
A gentleman recently arrived in Richmond
from Maryland, where he lias been for several
weeks, gives an encouraging account of th«
feeling existing among the friends of the South
in that State. He says tl ey never were morn
hopeful or more sanguine of the success of tho
Confederate c mse than at the present tirno.
Manacled by the armed legions or Lincoln, and
separated from their .Southern friends by nat
ural obstacles, they have never despaired ox
ultimately uniting their 3rate to the Southern
Confederacy.
Letters designed for offices west of.the Miss
jj.-ippi may be sent by the Express mail.
Correspondents should be careful to address
tfo-i: letters “per Express Mail, via Brandon.
Mississippi,” iu»‘l prepay the postage -of forty
emits on each ingle letter of half an ounco
weight.
All detailed men from Longstrect’s depart*
meat have been ordered so report back, in
poison, Immediately to their respective com-,
parries—iisabled men and men from i every^