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Miutabv CoCßMe—The fallowing net to
Hmond an act entitled “ an art to organize
military court* to attend the army of the ( on
ledeiat.- States in the held and to define the
power* of said courts,” approved October the
*lh, I«G2, was passed at the Imt wwiou of
Congre*»:
The Congress of the Confederate of
America do enact. Ttiat when two or more ar
«.y t-orpa are united in the name army, charm,
ahall ho referred to said oonrta, and their ore
reeding* be aubj. ct to review by the army corn
mander, u» in case of general court* martial;
and that the jurisdiction of each of said court*
httall extend to any person connected with the
uimy o! which the rorp* to which the court is
attached may be a post, without being limited
to rneini <*rs of the particular conn to whiVh
BAi<l couit inny he attached.
Heo. 2. That when the corps to which ant
ffplitary court may be attached, shall, from
any cause, cease to exist as such, the Secretary
of tV ar hball assign the inewlter* and officers of
Htich court, to any other tinsupplied corps, or
Other subdivision of any of the armies of the
'Confederate States wheie a military court may
lx needed ; and exchange* and transfers of
individual members and officers from any one
court to another rnay be made by the Secretary
of War, on application to the parties concern
ed ; the consent of the commander or com
manders of the army or aruiieH to which the
particular court* may belong having been first
obtained to such exchange ot transfer.
Hr,;, g. That Um font tii section ~f the net of
which this i* amendatory be, and the same i*
hereby so amended as to extend the jurisdic
tion of the military courts to all offenders be
low the grade of lieutenant-general.
ALOITIONaL JSOTRtiITIONS TO <OM HO.fi if K
Tax Ofucees - on. Thompson Allen, Com
missioner of Taxes, bus issued the annexed
further instructions to tax collectors ;
J3y section 2, Act of 17th February,
IStiF, a tax of five per cent, is levied on ali
share* in any bank, railroad or other . otnpany.
and thus, by the terms of the law, a tax h
laid ou thf* whole capital. Again, by section
”• a tax i» laid upon die whole assets of the
I’oinpany, including, of course,those in which
ill,: capital has been Invested. As it is deemed
scarcely possible that Congress Intended such
a result, although the act furnishes no mean
M arriving at a different interpretation, and
as the tax is not payable until Ist dune, ufid
ns Congress will meet again about the Ist of
May, the ifi.pnrtinent lias detenu ! ned to sub
mtt the m nttci to that body for solution,
and, In the mean time, to require returns to
■be inaiiF in such form ns will serve cither con
struction. Therefore, in addition ton return
of the shares of the cnpitol stock, according
to article hi, cf additional fasti-notions ot lsi
.March, 1864, all such companies and corpora
tions will ki required, in their corporate or
aggregate capacity, to make another and sep
erate return of all their property, coin, bul
lion and etlects of every description, taxed
under the,act, and if Congress shall decide in
their favor, such additional return and assess
ment will lie cancelled; otherwise it will re
main in force, and the tux will be collected.
To remove any doubt on the subject,
Ifistrict, Collectors are instructed that Treas
ury notes may lie received in payment of taxes
ou the Ist day of April, In the same manner
a* < !i preceding days
Ft .vi'iNu ok Titpsr Ft .ms—The Macon Tele
graph it author!.:,\l lo publish tho following
dispatch la regard to the action of the Gover
nor upon the bjj Is lately passed, authorising
exccutois, administrators auii guardians to
fund iu Confederate teur per rents :
MtLtrnort n i.k, March 2t.—TTon. Thomas
ljacfletnuti, jr. : I have signed tlie bill which
amir fires them to fund iu Confederate notes
on hand by Ist of April, and vetoed the
"one authorizing them to fund after that time,
without an order of court.
Joseph E. Brown.
Amount Funusv. -The total amount of Con
federate notes funded in four per cent, bonds
at tho Depository iu this city up to Thursday
is *16,700.000.
• GkoROIV TItIOSIKY NoVfcM AND OtlAMlr. Mil IS.
—The legislature in Di comber Inst, authoriz
vd the Hovel nor to anticipate the taws this
year, by borfou ing the money, or issuing Trea- 1
anry notes payable in Considerate Treasury
notes in December next, to meet Ibe appioriu
*uons in tide by the Legislature. We learn that
previous to the late currency net, the tiovenor
bail determined to borrow the money, from
time to time, during the year, as the State
needed it. Hut since the passage ol' that act,
which will make a suitable circulating medium
rather difficult to got hold of for several mouths
to come, llis Excellency, the Governor, lias
determined to issue State Treasury notes, pay
able in the new issue of the Confederate States
Treasury notes. The following is the form ns
prescribed by the Legislature of the new notes
shortly to be issued :
“The State of Georgia will pay the hearer
——dollars, at inti Treasury, on the 26th De
cember next, itt Confederate Treasury notes
issued after the Ist of April 18t>4, if presented
within three months after maturity, otherwise
not redeemable except iu payment of public
dues."
'The engraver is engaged upon those notes ami
n portion of them will he issued about the mid
dle of next month. -The denominations, we
learn, will be ssoo's, s]oo‘s, sso‘h. s2o’s, slt>'s
and ss’s.
As tjjo late extra session of the Legislature
directed the Governor to fund at! the (Voted- .
crate Treasury notes of the old issue, in t> |*t
cent, bonds, alter the Ist of April, and passed
an act refusing to receive any more Treasury
notesof the old issue for the taxes of 18t>4, the
fttlrte change hills issued last year and this year
will also he paid in the new issue of the Con
federate Treasury notes. We make this state
ment. that those who may hold the change I‘iUs
may uot be Imposed upon by ‘•sharper-'.' ou ac
count of tlu- difference iu the reading of the
bills. The change bills merely read thus:
‘■MuxtouKvn.tx, Jan Ist, 1803.
The State of Georgia will pay the bearer
(cents or dollars! at the Treasury in Oonfeder
' ate Treasury notes, when presented iu sums of
Five Dollars and upwards.”
These bills were engraved and issued last
year and this year, before the extra session.—
But since the extra session of tlm Legislature
has directed the Governor to fund all of the
old issue of the Confederate Treasury notes,
and has directed the Treasury notes hereafter
to be issued, to lie paid in the new issue of Con
htderate Treasury notes, the Treasurer will also
pay all the change hills issued last year and
this year. In the new Issue of the Confederate
Treasury notes, after the same is received into
the Treasury. —Macon Tcu.jr,iji.h.
Gen. Pendleton, who has lately been review
ing the artillery of Gen. Ji boston’s army, ; ro
nounces it in a better (rendition than that of
any other department.
The small pox is quite prevalent iu Mobile.
The Lexington, Va.. Gazette states that the
wheat fields in that section are decidedly bad.
They appear to t c enforcing the conscript
act at Richmond with rigor, sparln K none who
are liable. Such o the Richmond ambulance
committee as are of the con-stipt age. and not
otherwise exempt, except the president, vice
president and secretary, who had been exemp
ted by the Secretary of War, were recent!) he
foiethe medical examining board. Two of them
were exempted bv the doctors because of phys
ical (Usability, I'he rest, thirteen in number,
were ordered to Camp Lee.
Gen. Jopoß has ret .rnerl from his raid into
Kentucky, lie did not accomplish (be purpose
tor which he started.
The nitre work? at Montgomery. Ala . cover
tve are** of ground aud promise to furnish a
large supply when under Suit headway.
The Soup Uov.se in Petersburg has furnished
6T.000 mala of biead and sc up to the poor of
the town, in the short period of four months,
commencing the 10th of November. 1863
Without this aid much suffering would have
pocnrrrod among the poor of the city, and
possibly many of them might have perished
tor the want ol food. Kuch an eetai lishiucnt
if needed in every large town in the Confeder
acy. They do an immense amount of good
jrbeiaver located,
ULTIEJ* FROM BtSrUJf URtd!»li
‘srt'.iti t on taPOjrpExc* chkon kxb x sestu el l
'.a‘ti.e Wood, it .-eit, ( ■. Va., i
March 27, 1864. f
A few men of the Brigade have been over
i hi to Kentucky, aruOng them Col. Geo. Jessie.
, with two Companies, made a trip to the ‘ laa.i
l ot promise a tew days since. When he re
■ turned, lie brought in a man, named John (.».
J beslre. who represented him*e!t as a t onfedc-
I rate soldier, lreiongit.g to the First Tentii-ssee
1 avalry, now under Longstrec t; bad just made
hi* • sraj-e from a Yankee prison, aud was
tuaking bis way through Kentucky to our lines,
lie said that the aahees were concentrating
a *mall force ol cavalry at Mt. .Sterling—about
tour thousand men. for the purpose of meeting
an anticipated raid by Orn. John It. Morgan,
and (ien. Hodges. He also states that the war
spirit of the Inion men ot Kentucky had en
tirely died out, and that there were hut few if
any, who were not in favor of immediate ces
sation of host!l>tie . They are satisfied that
; the Confederates cant»«t be subjugated, Hint
1 are laboring now ,is bard to step the war, a*
! they did in the beginning to push it forward.
I The 1 ankre lieu. Wolford, lias made a speech
j to the people of Winchester, Urtke county,
[ Ivy., m which he said that "we might light the
Confederates an hundred year*, and Wr would
be no nearer their subjugation than we were
at this moment. " He expressed himself hear
lily tired of the war, and anxions lor peace
upon'the most available terms.
The people of Kentucky consider this the
last year of the war, and will vote strong for
peace candidates for office. Many of the ultra
bn ton men or Abolitionist, of Kentucky have
Fold their estates, ami moved to the .Voith,
where their sentiments are zealously recipro
cated, and where they can tie put, as they
seem to desire to he, on an equality with the
fiee negro. These men would like to continue
their abode in Kentucky, but their cowardly,
hearts fail them, when they remember that
they will be compelled to face the men they
have :,o wantonly abused and driven from their
homes to the South, by persecution. 'Ts well
that they go, for if they are (aught there, wo
betide them, as we have yet to find a Kentuck
ian who has a solitary ray of meicy iu bis
heart lor such meu.
The people of Kentucky have plenty to eat,
and are aux'ous to see a Confederate force
take possession of it and hold it.
The Yankee government has finished the
Kentucky Central Rail Road from Lexington
10 Danville, a distance of forty miles. They
now have a coutiuuou* line of railroad from
Cincinnati to Danville, & distance of one hun
dred and forty miles, and they transport their
commissaries to that point, and then wagon'
them to Big Hill, where they have a depot.
1 1 rout Big 11 ill to Cumberland tiupthey trims -
port their supplies on pack-mules, without a
guard, the roads being so bad that a wagon
cannot pass.
From the best information obtained, there
are less than eight hundred men at the Gap,
and Gen. Jones has heseiged them. »o closely
that it is thought and believed that they will
be forced soon to give up that stronghold.'
\Vo have no news of i nportanee from Gen.
Longstreet's forces. We understand, however,
that he is on the move.
Maj. Win Milter, our Brigade Quartermaster,
has succeeded in seeming for (his Brigade,*a
sufficiency;of clothing lie is a man of great
energy, and is not afraid (o approach the beads
of department and plead tho cause of his sol
diet s. * •
As to the movements of this body of troops,
we are unable to inform you. One men are in
good spirits. and high hopes. We hear of no
deset lions.
With reference to Kentucky, Col. Geo. Jessie,
wlm has just returned from Harlan county, in
forms u* tlqtt the people over there, who have
syu pnthized with the l.incolnites, express
thum.selves freely, and assett that they are dis
gusted with the Yankees, and desire to live in
peace with the South.
Two gentlemen have arrived iu our dump
from Kentucky. Their names are Tilitift’ti 11.
Smith aud G. J. Gaspare. The former was a
private in Col. Roycluk’s Cavalry Regtfneut of
Morg in’s command. He escaped wjth C.ipt.
Hines from the Y ankee prisons, and was cap
lured again in Tennessee, and they wt*v to
gether iu the same guard house when Hines
made hi* escape the last time. Smith was not
so fortunate a.v-1 lines, but he escaped from hi*
guards at. Big Hill. Mr. Gaspare is* a private
in the first Louisiana Cavalry Regiment, aud
had been taken prisoner, and made his escape.
They repott tliitt a force of six thousand l’e.i
erate are nt Jit. Sterling, under the command of
Maj. Gen. Stlngis, and that a of trans
ports with a convoy of liglitgim boats are com
ing up Big Sandy River. We-suppose tiiat fhii
transports aro bringing up provisions to I’iko*
ton for Sturgis’ men, for a campaign this
Spring in tin* mountains Piketon is about for
ty miles from Pound Gap.
The people of Kentucky are very much ex
asperated with the Lincoln Government.
Mr. Smith informs us that while he was in
prison at Knoxville, a young man named E, S.
Dodd, a private from the Confederate army,
was making his way from a Northern prison,
from which he had escaped, was captured and
put iu the same prison with himself, and was
taken out in a few days thereafter and shot, by
.order of (Jen. Foster, ns ft spy. Y oung Dodd
was a citizen of Lancaster, Garrard county,
Kv.
Mr. Willis Roberts, a citizen of Montgomery
county. Ky., has been brought into camp, lie
repor's about six thousand Vankee troops at
Mt. Sterling, but very much demoralized.
There arc five Kentucky (bogus! Regiments;
four Michigan Regiments, two Ohio and two
Indiana Regiments. Gen. Sturgis has arrested
Gen. Wolford, for asserting that he would re
sist the attempt to conscript negroes in Ken
tucky. He calls upon Gov. Bramlett to resist
the attempt to make soldiers out of the negroes
with all the torce he can muster iu the State—
amj says that no urgro shall report to him, and
that he will report to.no negro.
It seems that the Indiana and Kentucky sol
diers at Mt. Sterling sympathize with each oth
er,and side with Wolford, and the excitement
arose to such a pitch in camp tlm* Sturgis was
compelled to release W olford from arrest—and
Indiana officers, in drinking saloons were hoard
to say shortly afterwards, that the waiq eonhl
not end until ail the Abolitionists were'killed
off, mid they did not know abettor opportuni
ty to commence than the present. They want
to kill the Michiganders who are abolitionists.
The first negro picket that was put out near
Lexington, Ky., recently, hud seven bullets
put through him. There was no more negro
pickets put out. Mr. Roberts asserts that it is
his belief that Kentucky was never so ripe for
• resistance against Lineolnism, as at present,
and gives it as his opinion that many soldiers
could be raised there now to fight under the
glorious banner of the t’onlederate States.
Beforp we close our letter let us warn the
people against Wolford. We have no confi
dence in any thing he may say or do. He is
one among the most contemptible ot ah..li
tionisls in Kentucky’, and pretended to be a
Southern man at the beginning of the war.
He is a spiritless creature, ami would liek the
boot of any negro, if it would put money in
his pockels. Notwithstanding our opinion of
him, we give you the above items about him,'
for news matter.
YVe have had the privilege of perusing a late
number of the Cincinnati Enquirer, of the
12th inst. The I’oion Demoeiacy of Kentucky,
hold a convention at Louisville on the 27th of
March to select delegates for their national
convention to nominate a President, to bo held
in Chicago. The cal! for the meeting is signed
by James Guthrie. Hamilton Pope, and Geo.
1). Prentice,
Mr. < >tfutt. of Scott county, and "Mr. Points,
of Bourbon county. Kv-, had a difficulty in
which both were killed, on March Dili.
John t\ Fremont has been nominated by the
Dutch of St. Louis tor their nest President.
From the tone of the Enquirer, we ohould
say that the political horizon, of the North,
indicated storm times near at hand.
Tho news from East Tennessee places the
Yankees in force about twelve miles from
Bull's Gap, which is about sixteen miles South
of RogersviUe, and that a battle is imminent.
Gen. Jones remains near Onmtur'and Gap,
watching the enemy.
t >ur Brigade is waiting for orders, preparing
lor business, and when it makes a move some
thing will he done or more people will he mis
taken than Sots Liutbsant.
t oTK ot THE Ssy'Arg c>\ JIDUE SIEVHtvV
Rrsot rfiovs. -The following is the vote of the
xnnte ot Georgia on Judge Stephens' resolu
dons agaiust tlie suspension of the nahea.s , ov
pus writ :
Tt M.Vst sAw try, Baker, Barr, Bennel ,
Blackwell, l-z.’ird, Gaulden, Gridin. Groover
llanimond. Hubbard, McDonald, Mcßae. Pate’
PaAord, Poltlo. Simmons, Wal
ton, M hituker.
Nays— Messrs Bacon. Chambers, Cone. Gu
errv. Johnson, Lloyd, McCutchen. Piice, Ram
sac', Speer. Wells. West.
The rumour that P.rissdiet-General Preston
formerly Minister to Spain uudcr the old Gov
ernment had been seut hy the Richmond Gov
ernment on a mission to Mexico which has
had seine circulation in the newspapers, has no
foundation iu fact. General Preston was or
dered 'n the Trans-Mississippi, and bu* since
been furloughed to visit his tamily.
Grant it is said was received with much en
thusiasm by the heeler*! mpy oi tie fotomac.
M® THESIS yE'«£-
ftbermit:, in hie official report says the r»-
I [ suit of his late expedition ic Mississippi, inclu
ding the Smith and Yazoo river movements, is
about as follows ; 150 miijs of railroad, 67
bridges, 7,000 trestles. 20 locomotives, 28 cars,
■ 10.000 bales cotton, several .-team mill*, and
over 2,t«>d.O-' ) bushels of coni were destroyed.
Fi 1 rman claims also that about SOOO contra
bands and refugee? came within hi.* lines.
T he N. Y. Herald says the late operations in
Florida and the Southwest have developed the
important fact that at every point the Con fed
i eiat-s have been found prepared. The rebel
lion was thought to be iu a state of collapse,
and ready to give way wherever it night he
tom Led. On the contrary, the .Confederacy
appears to be in a good state of organization,
and the indications arc, the Southern leaders
" ill oppose the Federal* iu the coining contest
with a more determined vigor arof greater eu
c gy and bitterness than they have ever shown
in any prevtiu* campaign.
The Baltimore i 'onference of Methodist Knis
copsil minister.*, at their late annual session,
1 i**ed a series otVrong abolition and ‘ loyal”
resolutions, bv :i vote of forty eight to ti n.
( hies Justii Taiicv was eighty-seven years old
on the 17th, and is in good health, except paral
vsis ( f hi* lower limbs. His mental tacitUicS re
tain their vigor.
George W. Jones, of Iowa; who brought a
suit against Mr. Reward, for damages for false
imprisonment in Fori Lafayette, has been
thrown out of court, decided that the
“indemnity act,” which \ya.s passed to protect
the President from vexatious suits againskthe
Government by persons summarily arrested on
the charge ot disloyalty, was constitutional.
Bishop Soule is at home, but in feeble health.
He is affected by paralysis, but not so greatly
as to confine him wholly to the house. The
Yankees have, of course, tried to win him over
to their cause, by proposing “the oath," but
he Las uniformity answered that he would suf
fer any evil they could intiict, rather than sub
mit to such a demited, ho they have let him
alone.
The Northern papers now cay that the attack
on Mobile was merely a feint to prevent Mau
ley tv.to re inforcing Polk. Ail Yankee unsuc
ce.-sful attacks are merely feints aud reconnoi -
sauces.
The Presidential question increases in inter -
est iti the North. The outlook suddenly as
sumes anew phase in consequence of the re
tirement of Secretary (diase ftom the arena.
The Presidential beheading of Mr. Chase, bv
the superior strategy of tho Lincoln managers,
has given anew hope to the supporters of Fre
mont, who seem bent on bringing him out in
any contingency as a candidate.
The New Y ork World says if the orders were
found upon Dahlgren's body which iti. claimed
wore, that the South has good reason for the
indignation they display'.
The World shows how utterly contempti
ble and disgusting is the eulogy and jubila
tion of the abolition papers over the success of
their'plans in Louisiana. Notwithstanding the r
crazy jubilation over the “election," the Re
publican paper* seem net to be pleased with
the man chosen, 't hey seem to have but little
confidence in the vagdiond Hahn. According
to the Time*, Michael Hahn, “the new Govern
or elect, of Louisiana, i- an old rebel, who, if
repentant, has perjured himsdf,” and is assort
ed by r the free state men to be “opposed to
the abolition of slavery in Lousiana.” The
Tribune it; little less complimentary of him.
The Y'ankee Government want* two hun
dred locomotives, and has notified the tail road
works that titdesa they proceed promptly to
assist in filling tho order, they will seize and
run their shops themselves. This looks signifi
cant.
The story that McClellan had a secret inter
view with General Lee the night after the bat
tle of Antietam, lias turned out to lie wholly
without foundation. Toe man who started it
has made a confession in-writing that he was
drunk when he told. it.
The delegates from Rhode Island to the Na
tional Union convention have been recom
mended to vote for the re-nomination of-Pres
ident Lincoln. 'The county conventions held
throughout Uregon, a* far as heard from have
ail passed resolutions endorsing the -policy of
the Government amt recommending tint re
election of'Lincoln.
T he Metropolitan’ Record says the way that
human life is being tra.ledin at Lincoln's enlis
ting shamblesju New Y'ork city is a disgrace
to civilizaticn.
The Loui-viile Journal says Lincoln has vio
lated tii* faith, ami Congress has violated its
faita. Both hmv. set the Coiteitution at de
li im ;in tho pro .edition of tho war. -
Missouri’s quota, under the last call for five
hundred thousand men, is 0,813. _ t
It is said that Gen. fdierman has declared for
Clause tor the next. Presidency, a* possessing
more executive ability than Lincoln.
Both of the radical papers in St. Louis have
nominated Fremont tor the Presidency.
Theodore Tilton, of the New York Indepen
dent. said in a lecture the other day, at Port
land, that it was “the prime duty of ail to
grasp God with one hand and tiie negro »with
the other.’’
Lincoln on hearing of the bad generalship
which, a*lt at first, appeared,'characterized the
management of his forces at Olustee, in Flori
da, aud the heavy si (lighter which followed,
burst out with tho following exclamation :»“It
seems to me there are no heads down in Fieri
da except dead head*.” Os course every one
in the vicinity laughed as heartily as Lincoln
himself did when Ward Latnou sang for him,
as thev rode over the graves and among the
burying parties after tlm battle of Antietam,
the negro melody of “Jump Jim Crow."
The United States Senate has passed a bill,
whii li has been referred iu the House of Rep
resentatives, amending the charter of the city
of Washington, to a* to allow negroes who
have resided there one year to vote, provided
they pay one dollar S( (tool tax. ,
Col. Win. Iloffman, the Federal commissary
general of pi tenners, ha* decided that boxes
containing nothing hurtful or contraband, sent
to prisoner* of war by their families or friends,
will he delivered. Any uniform clothing or
equipments for military service, weapon* of
alt kind* nud intoxicating liquors are among
the contraband article*. Any execs* of cloth
ing over what is required for immediate use is
also excluded. >
tee\ys from St. Domingo slates that the Span
iard* ate invariably successful iu their attach*
on the insuogents.
The reports in circulation at the North about
the vast quantities of gold accumulated in the
Idaho region are now said-to be without foun
dation.
A letter front Tnllahoma say* the county
record* of Lincoln county, Tenn., have been
brought to that place in accordance with or
dess from Gen, Grant, that corps commanders
-honei immediately <1- or cause to lie seized,
ail records or documents showing titles to
property within their t< qiective districts, pud
retain the qiiu) uutil they can bo delivered to
some authorized tax commissioner of Ihe Uni
ted State-u
The N>w York World says gold will still
oontimip to rise in that jtTaikci.- qotwUhsland
ing the united x (finis of the Federal Congress
and Mr. Chase ta keep it down.
Western Virginia lias declared in favdr of
Chase's claims to the Federal Presidency.
Eight tons of greenbacks were carried over
the New Jersey railroad to Washington one day
lately.
Cotton was selling in Nashville at last ac
counts at 55 a 5.8 c. pgr pound.
Two full regiments ot colored troops have
left St. Louis for New < irleans.
Ui-ii. Meade is said to lie fully vindicated re
specting the G, tty-burg battle, while General
Sickles has cone wider. Meade says he Intend
ed to have turned Lee's right Hank at Gettys
burg. and to have placed his own army between
the Confederates and the Potomac before giving
general battle, lie says that he was perfectly
•confident of his ability to defeat Lee. and
could then have captured him, hag and bag
gage. hut that Gen. Sickles by disobeying or
ders advanced his own corps too far. got it in
volved; and it then became to en
gage the whole army order to save Sickles.
Meade says tt.at it e - t three thousand men
n.-arly to repair the blunder of which General
Sickles was guilty; and in this view Gen. Hal
le. k, otherwise hostile to Meade, futly sustains
him.
There are no Federal garrisons along the
lino of the Memphis and Charleston railroad.—
Ugnange, Summerville and Jackson are said
to be Without garrisons. Many cit Dens are
leaving the country : some going to the North
west, others coming South.
The Supreme Court of the United P tales is
thus described by a !.incoin paper in some
-Teen.atious :l< u t !^e probable decision on any
■ :' u 7, T:cia § on Lino in s aeis and proclama
u .u • i«mcy. Maryland. Copperhead. Nelson
* .” w Tc° r V‘ °PI rhead. Grier. Pennsylva
“. li> " u Democrat, Wnync, Georgia. Conserva
“T®- Catron. Tennessee, Copperhead. C’.if
fanl, .a.v.ue, r’opperh' ad. Swayne, Ohio, Re
publican. Davis, Illinois, Republican. Miller
lowa. Republican. Field, California. Republi
can.
Siegel commands the department of West
Virginia, aud has appointed Uen, Stahl his
thief of cavalry.
SBSTBESS
tjrecit'jacke were felling for gold ia Y asli
vilie lately, at three for one. Confederate
money had advanced very rapidly under the in
fluence of the new currency bill, and was sel
ling at thirty cento ou the dollar. It bad before
been as low as five.
The citizens of the Pastern Shore of Virginia
are required to legist*'them-elves as loyal or
disloyal.
The notorious East Tennessee bushwhacker,
Bill McLane alias the “Red Fox," was killed
by the guard at Bristol a few days since. He
had been captured the day before, with some
three or four otbei renegades, and while guard
ing him on the day referred to he endeavored
to make hi* escape, when the guard shot him.
He lioasted that he had conducted at least five
hundred Tories or Uniou men from East Ten
nessee to Kentucky, for which he had received
a large amount of money.
The evidence produced in the Com. Wilkes
case is said to be very damaging.
The great ease of Mardillo aud others against
Gray and others came up for argument in the
Supreme Court of the United States, at Wash
ing ten, March 18. The heirs of Gray claim a
large amount of valuable land in the busi
ness j tart ot San Francisco. Ten year* ago tbe
. estate whs (ippraisod in the ProbareCourt there
at over *500,000. The litigation in regard to
U has continued ten years.
The Delaware Legislature refused to make
any appropriation for the Bute's quota of the
expense of fitting up the Gettysburg cemetery,
and the Governor calls on the people to con
tribute the amount.
T he New York papers say that the peoplb in
that section of the world were never belore so
wildly extravagant. Everyone Is endeavor
iagjo surpass his neighbor in foolish expendi
ture of money.
Another Federal freight train has been de
stroyed in Tennessee by Confederate gueril
las.
A hill to rnaky the rules the war 1* carried
on under more stringent, has been reportel in
the Federal Senate.
A Washington letter writer says the Federal*
will open the campaign with a simultaneous
forward movement .on all ?ide£
Washington letter writers claim that the
Federal armies number 200,000 more than they
did a year ago.
Two hundred and forty thousand hogs were
1 lacked in St. Louis tbe past year-an increase
of cixty five thousand over the year previous.
A Nashville correspondent of the Philade.l
ph a Inquirer thinks there wilt be no battles
.in Virginia this year, but that Gen. Lee will be
mano.-uvered out ot that State. The writer
does not consider that Gen. Lee can manceuver
as well as Grant—-and that the chance.-: are that
the latter will get out maneuvered.
f’OREIGS ITEVIS.
! Tho appeal in the Alexandra case came up
for disciH ion in /the House of Lords on March
, 11th.
| The. Florida and Federal sloop-oßwar St.
Louis were lying in Funchal Buy when the
mad steamer lett Marietta. The Governor of
Maderia reluctantly gave permission to supply
the Flotilla with coal. She was ordered to
I leavo immediately alter coaling,
j The Austro-Prusslan Loops have advanced
, further into Jutland. Several engagements
; between them and the Dane* have taken place,
j iti which the latter are reported to have atts
j tained severe loss.
j The cabinet of Vienna, it ib 'Said, issued a
; circular professing the readme** of Austria to
take part in a conference aud consent Jo an
armistice with Denmark, and declaring that
the Austrians anil Prussians will retire from
Jutland if the Danes wi'it evacuate Pupel and
AJsen. will cease to capture German ships, and
will restore the prizes which they have made.
Marquis Olanrii arde has given notice in the
House of Lords, that he will move for copies ot
un v correspondence with the Confederate States
relative to the removal of the British Consuls
iu these States,
Tho infant son of the Prince of Wales has
been cht t.-deued with considerable ceremony.
He was named by the Queen, Albert Victor
Christian Edward.
The Archduke xSnjiimilian has left Pari*.
Napoleoti has beeVq pSiV.cularly attentive to
him He arrived iu Liiudou an the 12th The
Mexican prisoners in 'franco have given in their
adhesion to Maximilian.
The King of Bavaria died on March 11th.—
He i* succeeded by hid son, under the title cf
Ludwig 11.
Jouny Lind, it is said, has lost her voice.—
Tliis is related Lo have made itself painfully ap
parent on tlic occasion of singing in the “Eli
jah,’’ of Mendelsohn,’ lately in England.
Michael Chevalier, In a recent debate In the
French Legislative Chamber, divided the popu
lation of his country into the following classes ;
'20,000.000 agriculturists, 7,000,000 workmen,
8,000.000 educatedin the liberal art*, 2,000,000
manufacturers ; total, 38,000,000.
According to the census of 1851 there were
1501 male and 101) letnale “authors, editor* and
writers,’’ in England anil Wale*. The census
returns for 1 Sol revealed but a very slight in
crease—namely, 1528 male and 115 female “au
thors, editors, and writers.’’ Thus male au
thorship, as a distinct profession, appears to be
stationary, while the oulyaugmentation of tbe
literary profession is due to tile increased num
ber of lailks iu its ranks.
The Macaulay memorial for Tinity College’
in Cambridge-, England, is neurly finished.—
The histoaian Is seated in his college gown,
with a look in his hand—the fingers prised into
the open leaves, as if he had been collecting
points in an argument. Tbe attitude is graee
ful, and tbe face noble.
The German papers say that Liszt, the pian
ist, is still in Rome, absorbed entirely by reli
giouiupractiees, amt likely to become a monk.
The terror of the great desert of Sahara is
being removed by the application of science.—
In lGßit five-wells have loan opened, bringing
fi*hes to the surface from a depth of 560 feet.
Vegetation is springing around the wells.
'J'he London Spectator learns on the best
authority that Gen. Garibaldi and the King of
Italy, who are ia perfect accord, ate so confi
dent of the spread of wnt in the spring, that a
descent on the coast of Dalmatia Is already
arranged, for which u celebrated English vol
unteer, who has before served under Garibal
di. has ulreadv received his commission.
A vat hunt was recently held in the sewers 1
of Paris, where tne vermin had taken refuge ■
from the cold. They were driven by dogs tUid
yells to a common centre, where in a large
sewer the dogs were let 1n upon them, and
110,000 were killed in forty five hours. FOUI
of the dogs were killed by the rats, and a
number made blind.
In England, students for the Bar are in fu
ture to undergo an examination in English
composition, literature and history, and the
Lana ianguggea. They will also be obliged to
attend private law classes.
Kossuth has turned up ngain. He lets is
sued a proclamation, which is circulated
among the Hungarians who form a part of the
Austrian army in Yenetia. He asks his conn
iryntPii 10 desert the Austrian Bag. and form
an alliance with Italy, by which they will be
freed. He adits, that the King of Italy is pre
pavittg to lend his army against Austria, and
that a Hungarian Legion is being formed in
Italy. .
The steamer Great Eastern has been charter
ed to lay the Atlantic Telegraph Cable la the
summer oi 1805.
The new King of Greece begins to appreciate
the difficulties of his position. Mobs are fre
quent. .'ailing lor the downfall of the Ministry;
the sittings of the Assembly are turbulent, al
most ending at every meeting in personal con
ilk ts among the members; the public treasury
is empty, and it is contemplated to assist it by
appropriating the pension money of the sea
men; and life King is not yet in possession of
his Cables, a., the artillery corps refuse to give
them up to him.
The Saltan of Turkey has decreed that, da
ting from the commencement of the present
year, a certain number of youths, fixed for the
pi.-sent at thirty-two, and chosen each year
from among the Greek, Bulgarian. Armenian,
and Catholic Armenia;! communities, shall lie
educated at the Government expense In the
Imperial military sehuola of Constantinople
and Paris, with a view to their subsequently
receiving commissions in the Turkish army.
Eight out of this number will lie brought up
for the civil set. ice. These students will like
wise 1 be permitted to practice their Religion
without any restrictions, in the Imperial
School of Medicine ; and to prevent any undue
iniiucuce being exercised on them by their
Mussulman fellow-students they ara forbidden
to embrace Mahommedanism undeT pain of
expulsion.
M. Maisonneuve, Surgeoa of the Hotel Dicu
Paris, describes how he removed from a patient
the whole of a tongue afflicted with c-ancer by
titans of what he terms cauterisation en
He perforated the tornrue with eight of his
cauterising arrows (fleetest,) so as to cause all
the affected portions lo slough off la one mat*.
His patient, after the removal of the tongue,
could neither swallow nor speak, bat perform
ed both these functions 00 bislcg supplied
with a gutta percha Aon joe of the n)«.;vrfol
size.
TWIN? VtafclNLA.
There life four thousand negto droops at
Yorktown and Gloucester Point, Va., who
make frequent rairls in the neighborhood steal
ing, burning, aril insulting the citizens.
The rumor that Marylanders iu tbe Con
federacy hail been conscripted is untrue. The
orders issued 1# the Adjutant General merely
accord and regulate the privilege of Marylan
ders to make a distinct military organization
under the auspices of distinguished auil heroic
commando*, who have done honor to the name
of Mary land.
8o far a* military operations are concerned,
the Valley of Virginia is very quiet. McNeil
still contiuues to operate against the Yankees
in Hardy county and vicinity.
The Federate are gathering a large force of
negroes at Charleston. Va.
S,•outing parties of Federate have commenced
committing outrages again on ladies, robbing
them of every thiug.
Y ankee merchants iu Western Virginia have
commem-ed 'running tbeir good* to the (>bio
This looks as if they were afraid of advance
movements of our troops.
A couple of Yankee officers, caught recruit
ing iu East Tennessee, have disappeared mys
teriously, never to be heard of again, and
seventeen others are in pickle. Tbe Govern
ment has done its*duty in this matter quietly.
It Is believed at the Navy Department that
Lieut. Dixon and his little torpedo boat, the
David, lie side by side with the Housatonie, at ■
the bottom of the water. The big ship sucked
the little one down with her, All was over in
five minutes.
The glass works in Richmond have suspended
operations for a time, in order to enlarge the
furnanc-e and prepare for making window glass.
I’erhapsthe tax on dividends had something to
do with if too. The great difficulty is to get
suitable clay for crucibles—it has to be im
ported.
\V:n. W. Crump, Esq., of Richmond, has
been tendered the appointment of Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury by Mr. Memtninger,
and ha* accepted the position.
_ Twenty-six Confederate Generals were in i
Richmond March loth. This must mean some- ,
thing.
EitOW Tll V.Ys->tISSISSIPI*I.
A gentleman just from the Trans-Mississippi
Department represents the condition of afiairs
in that region as more cheering than our most
sanguine friend* suppose. The’ prospect ot the
grain crop wa* never more promising, an 1 the
outfit of our army has never been so complice,
or the spirit of our troops more buoyant and
confident than at present.
The famous guerrilla chief, Quantrell, has
been playing sad havoc of late with the Yan
kee farmers who have appropriated the lands
and negroes of the refugee citizens along the
Mississippi river. There is scarcely a planta
tion occupied by the Yankee* on the western
side of the river that has not received a visit
lrota some of bis forces, and such is the celer
ity ot their movements, and the summary man
ner in which they dispose of captives, that the
greatest terror prevail* among the negroes and
their self-styled masters in relation to them.
Furloughed soldiers who cross the river
should use great caution, as the negro troops of
Lincoln invariably kill all who are so unfortu
nate as to fall into their hands.
FROM NORTH CAROLINA,
The Yankees are blockading the Neuse river,
four miles this *hb? of Newbern, and have
mounted a two-hundred pounder Erie gun at
the mouth of Bachelor’s Creek, immediately
on the banks of the Neuse.
. The Yankee lorce at Newbern is estimated at
about 7.00 W. • »
Gen. Hoke is at Kingston, and has determin
ed to break up the illicit traffic in cotton and
tobacco that lias been going on for a long time
between some of our people and the Yankees
at Newbern.
L is rumored in Richmond that BuMMide had
made a descent on North Carolina witei a large
fleet, and was at last accounts fit Washington in
that State. The rumor is among the probabil
ities. It was giveu out by lire Northi rn pa
pers, some time ago, that Burnside was organ
izing at Annapolis a coast expedition of some
twenty thousand men.
FROM TII COAST.
A gentleman from Florida informs the Sa
vannah Republican that a blockade running
schooner, with an assorted cargo, ran in
to Headman’s Bay about ten days ago and
came to anchor. Fhe was soon hoarded by a
party of lorie sand deserters, who helped them
selves to all they could carry off. Tbe captain,
not liking the neighborhood, weighed anchor
and was passing out of the Bay, when the
vessel ran aground. The blockaders, seeing
her ill llietrc**, put out to h«r in launches,
when the crew, seeing them approach, applied
a slow match to a lot of powder in the hold,
pour*l turpentine over the deck, set it afire
and put out to the shore. The Yankees com
ing along side, boarded the vfpssel and were
hard at work putting out the fire, when the
powder below exploded, blowing the whole
party—numbering from twenty-tlve to thirty—
to “kingdom come.”
FROM FLORIDA.
All quiet at Jacksonville and Palatka.
Brig. Gen. Gardner has removed his head
quarters to Ti^ahassee.
It is supposed by some that a number of Y an
kees have gone back to Folly Island. Others
think that thev have been reinforced.
Yankee prisoners state that they were in
formed that Union meetings had been held
throughout this State inviting them iu. They
found the right sort of union—ol bullets and
bayonets. *
The Federal General Seymour has announced
that he will give no quarter *o Confederate
troops hereafter. If his next battle results as
his last, there will 1« nothing left of him to
quarter. __
FROM NORTH ALABAMA.
Borne months since Oapt. H. B. ’Owner, of
Huntsville, had a shot bag of’ gold and silver
coin stolen from him. Uis confidential slave
also robbed him of s>7Bo in gold. The Captain
then buried a gold watch and $150,000 in eight
per cent. Confederate bonds. Five or six men
disguised a* negroes lately made him, on pain
of death, reveal the place of concealment, ami
took that from him.
The Y'ankee officers In North Alabama en
deavor to ingratiate thpmselyes into good so
ciety, but the ladies will not notice them. They
gave a concert, promenade and supper, and is
sued the gold edged tickets right and left hut
not a single Huntsville lady would attend.
FRO Vi MISSISSIPPI.
Everything is quiet iu Mississippi, though
important movements are anticipated. Gen.
Polk is said to be actively engaged in re-or
ganizing his forces. His plans have got bjtCn
developed, though it yyould not ho difficult to
ar.tkipate them.
The Legislature of Mi- l/rippi will meet at
Ylaeon, in Noxubee county.
A Yank ms Fohgchv. -The English' journals
have recently published a dointnenf, gotten up
by same unprincipled Yankee, which purports
to be an official report ftom Keeretaty Mallory,
of the Navy Department, to the Speaker of the
House ot Representatives. The name of “Bab
cock is substituted for that of Hon. Tbos. S.
Bocock, and the report give* in detail tbe op
erations of our Navy since its organization. It
also states that agreeably to orders from the
President, agents had been dispatched to Eng
land aud France, with ordets to contract tor
eight iron clad vessels, suitable for occau ser
vice. and calculated to resist the ordinary ar
mament of the wooden vessels of the enemy.
For five of these vessels contracts were made iu
England, and for the other three in France.
The report goes on further to allege that ov; -
ing to the unfriendly construction of her neu
trality laws. Hie Government of England sta
tioned several war vessels at the mouth of the
Mersey, and prevented their departure when
completed, and that subsequently they were
seized hy the British Government. The vessels
building in France had a!»o been subject to
many official visitations, and instructions had
been given to cease operations upon them.
The bogus report proceeds io give an account
of a plan for tire relief of our prisoners on
Johnston's Island, the failure of which is at
tributed to information furnished by the Btitish
authorities in Canada,
Upon the appearance of this miserable for
gery In the English journals, Commander M.
r Maury denounced it over his own signature
in the London Times, but a United .States jour
nal, iu commenting on his letter, reaffirms the
authenticity of the report. Under these cir
cumstances. Mr. Maiiorv addressed a note to
the Secretarv of State, in wb'ch he pronounced
the report, from beginning toeDd.a forgery.
The document, however, assumed additional
importance in Europe, from the fact that tne.
English Attorney General, in a speech in Jhe
House of Commons, in defence of the course
ot the Ministry on the subject oi Laird s rams,
quoted it as being authentic. On Mr. Benja
min's attention being called to the subject by
.Mr. Mallory, be wrote a letter to Mr. Slide!!,
pur Commissioner at Paris, directing him to
make au official pnblicution explaining tuat
the report was a gross fabrication.
■— ■ in ■ ,
Gen. Johnston a official report of bts Missis
sippi campaign has given satisfaction to hisau
perotw friends in the army.
_ *Y_ TELEGE APH. _
LATEST FROM THE NORTH.
The Philadelphia Inquirer of the 22d, which
his beeu received, says that 50,000 troops will
shortly assemble at Annapolis for Burnside's
second expedition.
The Inquirer's London correspondent thinks
the Palmerston ministry will soon be ousted.
A dispatch from the Southwest gives the par
ticulars of the capture of Fort Deran'ey on the
Led River by the Yankees, with 200 prisoners
aud several heavy guns.
Admiral Porter at once steamed up to Alex
andria. .
I he Ohio Democracy have held a convention
and adopted resolutions opposing the pro-men
tion ot the war tor the subjugation ot the
South.
The Pennsylvania Convention has declared
for McClellan for Presidency.
The capture of a company of Y'ankee cavalry
at Wingfield, Kanawha Valley, is acknow
lodged.
Lincoln has issued a proclamation defining
his amnesty proclamation, and says, the amnes
ty only applies to persons at laigeand free
from arrest and confinement, or durance .who
shall take tbe oath with a view of restoring
peace and establishing the national authority.
Prisoners excluded from the amnesty, may,
like all other offenders apply, to the President
for clemency.
Alexandria, La , surrendered to ,Admiral
Porter on the loth without opposition.
The tort Derussy prisoners have arrived m
New Orleans.
Gen. Banks left New Oilcans im tho oj >
the 19th.
Fcui hundred Yankee cavalry are reported
captured by the rebels at Union city Tenn., on
the 24tb.
Owen Loveyjoy is dead.
Nine French Frigates areal the mouth of the
Rio Grande. An attack on Malamoras is ex
pected.
The Chronicle says Grant's policy is to keep
moving on the- enemy’s track, and fondly
hopes on the 4th July 1801 for mote renowned
success tliau on the 4th of July'lß(l,’!.
Sanlsbnry delivered a speech in the Y'ankee
Senate calling Lincoln an usurper and aeon
sing Staunton of falsehood. The" speech pro
duced. says the Herald, a much deeper im
pression than was anticipated.
The Memphis Bulletin, of the 20th, contains
Sherman’s official report of his late expedition.
He attributes the. failure of the expedition to
reach Grant to the non-arrival- of the cavalry
force from Memphis.
A Washington dispatch reports that Fremont
has been ordered to succeed Gilmore in the
command of the_ Department of South Caro
lina.
Butler will be relieveif at Fortress Monroe
for allowing the “rebels” to gain advantages
in procuring exchanges.
The greatest excitement prevails in Kentucky
from the attempts to enfotee the negro draft.—
Tho State is petroled, and armed authority em
ployed to enforce the draft.
Gov. Bramlette, <jf Kentucky, recedes from
bis original position, and now adviSbs the peo
ple lo abide by tho laws. The government
will resort to civil process to prevent the en -
forcement of the draft ol negroes, should it be
attempted. It is a complete back down.
The Memphis Bulletin, of the 22d. has a
Cincinnati dispatch of the 16th, which says :
•All seteauiers ak far down as New Orleans, have
been pressed. An important expedition under
Sherman iB afoot, the destination of which is
conjectured to he Mobile.
Three boat* were attacked on the 14th on
Cumberland liver, above Nashville, and com
pletely nd.dled. A gunboat arrived and dis
persed tlm guerillas. The loss is not reported.
’t he guerillas subsequently captured and
burned*a train on the Louisville and Nashville
road, and hung thfee negroes.
A Little Rook dispatch of the mn ,» } > in
state by tne recent ’ciecnori. has nromfii it*
allegiance to the Union. 'The entire Union
ticket was elected.
An order from Gen. Price is published, in
which he assumes the command of the De
partment of Arkansas.
The United States Ministry in France has
notified the Punch Government that it the
RappahannocWs allowed to go to sea, France
wilLhe resposible for any damage done to the
commerce of the United States.
Orders have been issued by the French
Government making the French Ports of lit
tie avail to the “rebels.”
J'he Nashville Union of the 26th, contains
interesting particulars of Forrest's advance in
ly Kentucky.
Cairo dispatches of the 26th, state that For
rest arrived on the 23d. at Uniou City, driving
in their pickets. He destroyed the railroad
bridge eight miles from Columbus.
Geu. Drayman xyitli several regiments of in
fantry and artillery, went from Cairo within
six miles of Union Cijy. and learned that Col.
Hawkins with four hundred of the Federal
Tennessee cavalry had surrendered, and the
Confederates after destroying their fortifica
tions returned southwards, taking wit it them
their prisoners.
The Federal garrison at Hickman was with
-
Gen. Brayman proposes to abandon Hick
man and Union City, ws of no use at present
to the Yankee*.
Advices from New Orleans of March Path,
state Alexandria surrendered to Porter’s tieet
without any opposition. The Yankee cavalry
advancs occupy Now Iberia.
Guerilas appeared in the vicinity of Baton
Rouge and had had several skirmishes,
Advices from Cairo to March '.ffiih state that
Porter’s fleet was still oil Alexandria.
Nothing definite from Banks or Steel, but
it is reported, Banks is receiving considerable
opposition from Gen. Dick Taylor,
The New York World has a rumor from
Washington tiiat the entire organized Militia
of the North is to be called into service for
six mouths, to hold certain points daring the
spring campaign against Richmond, which is
about to begin.
Brownsville advices via N. Orleans, March
191 b, report no prospects of fighting.
French frigates had appeared off the mouth
of the river, and an attack on Matatgoras was
soon expected,
Dates from Washington on the 25th, state
the committee on the conduct of tho war found
no evidence against Gen. Meade.
The President has dismissed Col. Wool ford,
of Kentucky, from service.
A Knoxville dispatch dated March 25d, says:
Government is issuing one thousand rations
daily to indigent citizens. They aro required
to go North within fourteen days or stop draw
ing rations,
Scouts report the rebels making active pre
parations for .an advance into Kentuc*). f )■' 0
is no doubt their cavalry is in good condition,
and two divisions of infantry have be?h mourn
t6cl. * ,
A. dispatch from San Francisco, dated March
25th says : The Union State Convention have
unanimously adopted a resolution in favor of
the administration, declaring Lincoln to be
their first choice for the next Presidency and
endorsing the Congressional delegation.
Dispatches from Cairo stale that I orrest at
tacked Paducah on the afternoon of the 25th
with 7,000 men. Three attacks on the fort
were repulsed by the garrison, the Tebois leav
in" three hundred-dead on the field.
Four gunboats opened fire on the city, it*
prevent the rebels from occupying it.
During the tight the rebels plundered the
stores of immense quantities of goods.
, Several Women were drilled. The Yankee
loss was fourteen killed and forty-five wyuu
ded.
The front part of the city was destroyed, in
cluding the hospital, gass works,, and some of
the finest residences.
The court house, post office and continental
are uninjured.
The rebels retired at night, affer burning the j
depot ami steamer Dacotah on the stocks, and j
proceeded in the direction of Columbus.
A telegram from Fort Smith says the' army i
on the frontier is in motion. It is supposed |
their destination i* Northern Texas.
Tito House of Representatives laid on the
table by a vote of 63 to 40, u resolution grant
ing the use of the hall to Geo. Thompson, (the
English Abolitionist,) for a lecture.
The reorganization of the army of thej’o
tomac is rapidly progressing.
<hi the 2Sth gold fell to 61A in consequence
of the issue of gold certificates, but rallied
and closed at 66.
LATER from NEW ORLEANS.
The Yankees have met with a inverse near
New Orleans. Two regiments are reported
captured.
All flic gunboats except eight have left foe
Red River.
C 01. Holland, of the 31st Mississippi, attacked
the enemy at Chateau llatehio Bay, killed twen
tv five and captured over live hundred head
of cattle.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Tbo appeal in the Alexandra case came up
for discussion in the House of Commons on the
llth. -
Maximilian arrived a I London on the 18th.
No further revelations as to his further move
ments. *
The King of Bavaria died on the Illh.,
In the House of Commons, Mr. Roebuck
laid he would be glad to see the Federal ship-
ping swept from the seas.
Maximilian has visited Queen Victoria.
At Liverpool, March 16th, cotton was ad
vancing. I ‘rices of inferior qualities were jd
to Id higher.
LATEST I'ROM THE FRONT.
Wheeler’s cavalry are vigilantly watching
the denouement of the late Yankee prospective
campaign.
Gen. Johnston is no 'doubt fully advised of
their movements.
Sherman having taken up his headquarters
at Nashville, is regarded as a blind to conceal
Grant's on to Richmond, and enable Thomas
to hold Johnston in check.
Our latest advices from the front represent
the enemy inactive. No reinforcements ar-
FROM THE RAF]DAN.
Parties out from the Y'ankee lines report
the enemy scouting actively in the direction
of Fredericksburg.
Grant will advance as soon as the old troops
return from their furloughs, and troops can be
broyght from the" West, which will be about
the 15th of April.
A great many deserters from the Y'ankee
army are in the rear of the Y’ankee lines.
FUNDING.
Oonftnrs, April 1.
The total amount funded here Is seven mil
lion two hundred and sixty-five thousand dol
lars.
Mobile, April l.
The amount funded here is eleven millions
twenty-three thousand six hundred; withdrawn
from circulation and not funded, six hundred
and thirty-five thousand two hundred aud nine
ty-seven dollars and fifteen cents.
MoKtoi mery. April 1.
The total amount, funded in this city has
been nine million five hundred thousand .dol
lars.
Laouanob, Ga.. April 1.
The amount funded here is one million one
hundred aud forty-one thousand nine hundred
dollars.
, t , So'u:v,B A ..... 1 O
The amonuFof |jphfederate' notes funded In
this city is $11^334,500.
YY’II.VfTNOTON, April 2.
The amount, funded in this city is about
$6.000 —will send correct figures to-morrow.
MISqKGK.VYTION'
When wo first heard that this disgusting doe
trine was being seriously discussed at tho
North, we could hardly credit the rumor. We
were loth to believe that any number of the
residents of that section were so lost to all sense
of decency nn,l propriety us to even give it
a second thought. But miscegenation,—or
the marrying of fat greasy wenches to white
men and odoriferous buck niggers to white wo
men-appears to be one of the leading topio
of the day in Kederaldom. YVhat a revolting
subject to dwell upon. The New Y'ork corres
pondent of the London Times writes thus con
cerning this last excitement which now agi
tates Northern society.
It has been discovered by the advanced spir
it* of the abolition party that the negro is q,
many important respects the superior fff the
whiles, and that if the latter do not forget their
pride of race and blqod and color, and amal
gamate with ti.v purer and richer blood of the
blacks, (hey will die out of America and wither
away is uuprolltic skifinincss,'meriting by their
obstinacy and folly the fate of the red man,
whom they have either exterminated or driven
int;, the wilderness. Tim first to give tongue
to the now doctrine was the Rev. 'Theodore
Tilton, the coadjutor of the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher in thejcliitorehip c Tthe “Independent,”
who a few months ago declared in an assem
blage principally composed of women—possi
bly all of the slroogtn ndei order—that it Was
good for white wotneu to marry black men,
and that tiie “passional” and “emotional'’ na
ture of the blacks was needed to improve the
white race. Mr, Wendell Phillips ims Often
hinted the same thing, no doubt to the great
my ot Foe stalwart Bfigroas who have attoudixl
his lectures. ;{' nos to that of tho ahauietes:'.
white women who have not thought it un
worthy of t heir modesty to listen. Tho doc
trine once hroo bed has found believers and
adherents, and a little tract called '“Miscegena
tion” has recently been widely circulated, in
which the whole subject is discussed tor the
study of Ditch Y’unkoe girls as have exhausted
the sensational novels, ami of such Abolitionist
p? tachers and lecturers us have not yet risen t >
the height 6f thin black argument. When
Miss Dickinson repeated, at the Cooper in-'
stitute, file lecture which she delivered before
tbe President at Washington :i fortnight ago,
-Jie was somewhat late iu making her appear
ance on the platform, and to pacify the au
dience, mosilv cqtr. o*; ! of women, who were
growing impatient ol delay, the advertisements
,nd laudatory notice* of thi t»act were handed
round tor their perusal, a circumstance which
suggested lo many that tiie lecturer was eith
er"the author of the bool; or peculiarly inter
ested in it; sate. A few extracts trom this
wotk will serve to convey to European readers
gome’jaotion ol the fanaticism that so easily
tabes root in’Ameri. a. and of the fermentation
~(■ ideas even of the most disgusting kind,
which may be made to prevail among a people
in times of social and political revolution.—
') iie fundamental idea of the new Anacbaris
tiiootr. or worse than he who is guilty of the
treati;;,*. ; s tbs ‘-Whatever there is of power
arid Vitality iu the American race is
not from >G -angio axon progenitor,, but from
all the different natnffialiucs wnich go to make
up this per**-,... Ail tfent is needed to make
u 3 tne finest race On earth is to engraft upon
our stock the negro element which Providence
t ax placed by our side upon ibis continent.
Os at! the rich treasures of blood vouchsafed so
us, that or the negro is the most precious, be
cause it is the roost unlike any other that enters
into the compos:* ion of our national life. ~ ~
T liey-the negro.?;; aro our brothers and sisters.
By mingling with them we become powerful,
progressive and prosperous: by refusing to do
so, we become feeble, nnhealtuy. narrow-mind
ed, unfit for the tioble offices of freedom, au t
certain of early decay.”
The author cites various writers to show
that in tnarri ige people are utuuot— l by their
opposites; that the intellectual man does not
s*.-ek tor intellect in his wife, but for affection,
without mueli intellect; that the daik prefer
the blonde, the short the tali, the lean the
plump, and vice versa. He then goes on to
prove, with au unction which might almost
make ono suspect finn ol being a oi-zu
coi-s: farce/.*, why it is that the American white
race must intermingle with the American black
race, or die out. the white people, he says,
‘ are perishing for want of flesh and blood.-
- Th-y have bone arid sinew, but they are dr
f an< i shriveled lor lack of tire healthful juices <
tile. The cheeks are sunken, the lips are tiii
aud bloodless, tlie under jaw narrow anil it
[ treating, the teetlr decayed and painful, th
I nose sharp aud cold, theeyes'smal! and waterv
the complexion of a blue and yellow hue, th
head at.d shoulders bent forward, the hair dr
and straggling.”
’lbis is his picture of the men; that of the wo
men is scarcely more fl ittering; “Tito waist,
of the women are thin and pinched, telling i
sterility and consumption; tho general appear
ance gaunt aud cadaverous from head to foot
You see them,’,’ he adds, “with eye glasses and
spectacles, false teeth, artificial color in the face,
artificial plumpness to the form,” while the
social intercourse of the «i>xos he describes a*
being 'formal,ascetic,and unemotional.” “How
different,” he says "is an assemblage of negroe,;
Every cheek is plump, the teeth ate whiter
than ivory, there are no heads, the eyes
are laige and bright, every lace weirs a smile,
every form is stalwart.’’ In short, he say*
that American white men need contact with
healthy, loving, warm blooded natures to fill
up tin* lean interstices of tlieir anatnYuy, and
that such natures are only to be found among
negresses, it- is possible, and highly probable,
that the author himself is one of the lean,
gaunt, bioodleas-Yaukees whom he so eloquent •
ly describes, and that, tailing to find a w ife to
his mind among the strong minded ladies of
whom Alias Anna Dickinson and Mrs. Beecher
.Stowe are the types, he loDgs for a congenial
part tier from the Southern plantations.' “\Vtmt.’’
lie inquires, “does the Anglo-Saxom American.'
look for in a lovely woman’ Her cheeks mint
he rounded and have a tinge of the sun, her lips
must be pouting, her teeth white aud regular,
her eyes large and -bright; her hair must curt
about her head and descend in crinkling waves;
she must he merry, gay, full ot poetry and sen
timent, fond ot sung, childlike and artless,”—■
“The most beautiful girl I ever saw," he adds,
"was a mulatto. She was a ripe and complete
woman. Her complexion w;< H warm, aud dark
and golden, with the heat of tropical suns; her
lip* full and luscious, her cheeks perfectly
moulded, her hair curling and black a* tho rav
en’s wing.”
Uis just possible that this lean Yuakee-if
he he one. and have the moans to maintain a
wile might find ; > suitable one among the
Caucasian race in Europe, if he were to try,
.especially iu England aud Scotland, without?
resorting to negresses or mulatto girls; but
there is no accounting cither for the vitiated
taste of sane men _ or the vagaries of mad phi
losophers. But not lor bis Own individual plea
sure does the American i 'loot/, urge his pica of
more than brotherhood with the people ho
loves. It is for his country; it is for tho cause
of progress; it is for tho wdrld; it is for ,Chris
tianity, that he pleads for amalgamation with
a race which, with his purely (or impurMy)
animal instincts, he believes, in all physical
attributes, to be so superior to Ids own.’ Our
prejudices," im says .“arc dying out anil na
ture is asserting ihe unity of all men. Tho
negro declares that he loves the white man,
and the progressive party oft lie North asserts
the rights of the negro. The leaders of pro
gress, among whom we quote Wendell p.p]]; * a
and ’Theodore Tilton, urge misc...-p 11e p- e ~,_
foiin (amalgamation o! the VaCes f American
people are ripe to receive tire tuith. The
Southern women feel the magnetism „f asso
ciation with a tropical race. (Horrible ) Tho
mothers and danahters of the slaveholding; -
aristocracy ate thrilled with a s’tmngc delight
by daily contact with their dusky male servi
tot»i. Through tho fiery gato of war they (the
Americans both of tho North and South) aro
being led to <1- liverauce from old pride and
prejudices; and, indeed, the instinct of the
whiteman has responded lo the call of tho
negro for fraternity. There were wants in his
nature which only the negro could, fill. There
were defects in his physical organization that
ouly the negro ( that is negressj could supply
It is a mean pride, unworthy ot a Christian or
enlightened Community, that should lead any
to deny this. Tim success of the anti-slavery
party has proved it, so that denial of the prin
ciple is dental of tacts universally known
They have touched a chord that has vib.q,"
ted with a sweet, strange and marvellou
awakening slumbering instincts iu *.“ u( . hMrt
.the nation and the world.” tj„, au tUor’s
poht psareas dcddcdl; V.ack w*7his Wte
affections. it will bs? a sad misfortune/ 7 he
nays, h this war should end without a black
general 111 corur/iuiul Qf a white or mixed body
ol tloops. We waut nu American Toupsaiub
li o\cituro to ;4*ivc the black bis proper posi
lioii on Ins continent, and the day is comine*,
I copie say tho rebellion is al an end; but that
is not true. The South will fight to tlia Uht;
hut it is intheeterniU fitness of things that tltey
should finally he subdued by the black soldier.
After that, the land* of the South muse be
Toy’if "jft 'J'iTiul /7i h! 1 — “
Were the ideas of this fanatic confined
himself they might excite luuri“ e , “ *
contempt; but when ex- “ t.A ,
and more guarded l> ~j ~ ~ uodeßtei
Ml. Tiltmt' tin- -'guage by Mr. Pnillipsof
audiinc- 'f' r li<;,t lho a Pl )r °val of crowded
- Udi ne.,, cf educated Americans, of whom ,i
.urge preponderance arc white women. Ti, o
madness of the hour in this distracted country
receives anew hut unfragrant illustration If
this be done iirthe green leaf, what shall ho
done j:i the dry f And through what new
phases of insanity must the Americans piss be
fore the strong conqueror, booted and spurred,
with a sharp double-edged sword in his iron
grip, shall comeat the call of the timid major!
ty to rescue them from tho shameless fanatics
and lli.i cruel bigots who would drive them to
destruction?
£ *l * • t*- - - ,
Mmy NcDonnell, of Chicago, lately prefer
red i charge ol seduction against Johnston
Mary is a white woman, twenty-thrc'. years of
age. John is a negro, not twenty years old
smJ"nmi tobail of seven thou
tf*
AUGUSTA JUIIKKT&
Weekly R epori April 4,* »».!».
- Business is extremely dull, and will remain
so until we get the new currency.
PIMVNCI.XC,--Gold *2lXl22and dull; Silver, 15a
1(1; Sterling exchange 24ii2il, with upward ion
dency; Exchange on Paris 4 fit) per franc; Bank
notes 3,00a5,t!0; Confederatcßonds, 8 per cent,
long dale, 20a.1u and i it.; do. do. short dato,
10al5 and int; City bonds -100 for one; Cotton
lonu bonds 2,10a2,2t).
Cotton'.—Market ((uiet, 80 to I'O Cents f,e,-
Middling to Good Middling.
Domestics. We quote domestics as follows-
J shirting 2.50 ; \ sheeting 3,% ; 4-4 sheet
jng, it-1,00; osnahnr-3, $ j ; yards, $40a50 per
bunch. .
h i.ont.—m good demand at advancing prices;
scarce,
Grain.—Wheat. $1.5a20 per bushel ; Corr,
in the ear, from wagons, SlO : peas, $15,00 ,
rye, $12,00; barley, $10,00; oats $5,00.
Groceries, Provisions, Ac.—-Bacon, SH,SOa4;
coffee, s!2als per pound; rice 40a 15c; sugar
o.OOafi.OO ; salt, coast Touts ; Liverpool 85a
ooc; tobacco, dull; ianls:i.soal,oo ; Molasses*
N. Hrloans, none: Florida 52D.»24,00; Sorghum
tiaT,so whisky stls,bo prgal; brandy SGSa7O pr
gal; bagging $:»al() ; bar soap $L75a2 ; cot
ton rope s:j ; nails $2; corn meal $12,00 pr bn.
retail; fodder $20a22 per cwt.; shucks lIU 12 per
ewt.; h.iy $1(1.120 per cqyt ; tallow 1x1,50 per
lb; Candies t,.50.(5 )*-r lb. by box; Terre-hine oil
$lO pc. gal retail; black pepper 10,00 per lb;
Tea 20a25 per lb.; Iron, Swedes, $5,00 ; bi
orb. soda, -1u.5; starch 4,50; dry hides SuaG pc
lb.
Cocxtßjr PnonrcK.—'Reef, 2,00a3 per l’o nett*
. polk, $2,0Qa3,00 jx-r lh, nett; mutton, none*
kid s2afs per lb . cliiukens, sl2 per pair; turkey,’
s2oa2s;e?g.s, S.’e’.JjO per <l<>7,bu.;er, s9alo -
sweet potatoes $10.il;» per bushel; Irish'pota
toes, none. 1
Shad, eaxh, Sloals.
Raleigh 31. C. Market -Mar .j, « e
Bacon $5 per lb.; Adamar':, n ‘ eg
per !h.; Corn 3125 per tP, , Ca “. d * es
p; S3 85
O, sos ” «“
.tFRICAN SUGAR CANE SEED.
t!OJI " tw or Us roe varif.eo, cod, i-tlsr of the J!KD TO I*
PURPLEaiM the PALr. KKI> TED Korealeby
fob is lod&4wlt* F. riCKLI.X, Washington, O.i.
oyi ATE OE <JEOHOIA.itIOH.MOM) Uif-N !Y. *
to w l.ereas. tbs Etlo!«<..f Krai; : c iliver, late of raid eonnty,
di r-eatc-1, is uim rr.as.to.l.
Thee ore tiicrrloro, to ri' e .v,[ a-troontph all and efogular
tiie trrdrc-il aud or. dis-rs i.f •-.! I <'i-cin.i- •» to ' * and appear at
my offlee on or M-.n the Srnt Mm.ilae in MAY next, to show
caa : -i if a**y they have, wu.v Juttcr-i of rdmliiMratlou stiouM
not be erected C it -r , irn'.:.’ t. Halt Oierk Os llio Sur.Mlor
Court nf eat t <*.-;nty or lo such lit aid proper put on u uuy
L( : SttKS MWi at ofloe In Au
d*l> L. ROATH, Ordioarf.
c7tatv of o wkoia. KIC?!MOXI» county.
S • V.Vu 1;.- ,a: f Had a;.;,;;i-.i to ■■■■■: to: letter, of
* . . .... , o.tat •"I Cc-org-: Y. Dana. late of said
’■ • V*!'. y^i -l .“T'leV.ii* to -‘te %a,t atmonWi .all and slnrT.Hr.
~ 1 . ~ 1 - to be and ajavar at,
1“ ' aoU -V;-' -: Mor.,!..ym MAY next to .Miovr
Srifffr 1 '- 11 ■ " ,,y • “•! fon'J ni-D* gristed.
guata, tl.!a&*!i day oi 3 '-‘ '''jpA VII) J4.ROAT;;, Ordlrary.
MT/.TI. Ur bt.id'l' l ‘ . ‘jVV ’c'j'' , ~
•*• ii »-• 1: > L'; • •-,' r ’ •’ •. ..*«'■ Ha , . -mTci,U :A on
- >-M ,:i pxWa'ha« appUeJ
f r ■r.'riiAti •: - •/>!.,:• <: ,rl Ai * P. S^-irick,
. .11 *, it in t r*n * **> f : ti \r admJu’rtr.itbn Yri:i !.<» ' o-.tod iu
•rV **f tlieJ* ..*•.*-! wrCo rtt.cr m.-i..- MUcf -t so« 1 J repo*-
r, ; • u, tJnrtv \itit3 ..fter »h*;
- i{i,r* valid i-u Ims b to (■.. T'c!~' r -t■
i/.ven unot/uiy iuuil Aniotficial algna’‘nU M *'hrcij.
lbf.l. % B.F.TATOit.
t/. $ I"'G V ; huary and E\-,tC-.i.u cierlt,
