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From tha Atlanta Regiat**.]
THE Fi6T SWUNG BIRD.
isweet as the voice of the one we love,
When severed long from that loved one’s side,
.Soft as the coo of the vvoing dove.
In plaintive tone to his a!»»ent bribe,
tilad as the sound Os the silver stream
To the pilgrim’s ear, on the air of June,
iJear as the forms that rise in a dream,
When we again with the past commune,
Was thy song to me, my innocent bird,
in the .neainy dawn of the morning heard.
I sat and mused in a mournful mood,
As I nervous glance o er the daily page,
While e-.ils thick as a piianton brood
Hpriug front the womb of the passing age.
Sick and saJ with the sorrowful view,
The future bright on my vision rose,
From the prospect there I comfort drew,
In a solace sweet for the present woes,
When quick as thought «*r my senses stole.
The song that guished from the melting soul.
Sw. et bird ! my life soon the brighter grew,
As thy song new sense of delight awoke,
i rose, renerved each duty to do,
When thou, like a prophet minstrel, spoke,
in narrow bowed —no more, no rnoic,
To the harsh, harsh world will my spirit cling.
Hut winged liked thine, it .shall rise and soar
A song for the sorrowing heart to sing,
And looking up as briught and as lree,
The lesson tea h thou has taught to me.
J. It. Baukick.
A Rhymin', Will.—The following singular
will was proved at York, in the year of our l.ord,
mi:
“ This is my last will,
I insist on it still ;
Hneer on and welcome,
And oYn have your fill.
I, William Hickrington,"
J’unt of Pockliugton,
Do give and be,[Heath,
As free as I breathe,
To thee, Mary Jarain,
The queen of my harem,}
Mv cash and my rattle,
With every chattel.
To have and to hold,
('ome he it or come cold,
Sans hindrance or strife,
Though thou art not my wile,
As witness my hand,
.1 list here as 1 stand,
This twelvcth day of July,
In the year seventy.
William llickrisgtos.’
Tiim kkuw’s T.aSV Works,— Charles Dickens
writing about Mr. Tliacicray, in the February
iniiiilii'r of the Cornhill Magi/.'oe, says:
(In the table before me there lies all that he
bad written of bis latest and last sforv. i hat it
would be very sad to any one—that it is inex
pressibly so to a writer - in its evidence of ma
tured designs never to lie accomplished, id inten
tions, begun to be executed niuL dust ne I never
to b, eompleteil, of eaielul preparation lor long
roads of thought that he was never to reach, will
be readily believed. The pain, however, that I
have lelt. in persuing it has not been deeper than
the conviction 1 list he was in the heal! hirst vigor
olhis powers when lie wrought on this last labor.
In respect of earnest feeling tar-seeing purpose,
character, incident, and a or.loin loving pictures
squeness blending with the whole, I believe it to
be milch the best of all Ilia works. That he ful
ly meant it to be so, that he had become strongly
attached to it, and that he bestowed great pains
'upon it, I trace in almost every page. It con
tains one picture which must have cost him ex
treme distress, and which is a masterpiece.—.-
There are two children in it, touched with a
hand as loving ami tender as ever a father ca
ressed his little chilli wifi*. There is some young
love as pure and innocent and pretty as tile truth.
And it i* very remarkable that, by reason of the
singular construction of the story, more than
on.- more incident usually belonging to the end
nl ,ali b a fiction is anticipated in the beginning,
ami lints there is an approach to completeness
in the fragi.'U'Tlt, as to the satisfaction of the
vivider's mind concerning the most interesting
persons, which could hardly have been better at
tained it the writer's bi'Caking-011 had been l’ore-
Tlie last line be wrote mid the last proof lie
corrected are among these papers through which
I have so sorrowfully made my way. Tim eon
di'ii.u of the little pages of manuscript where
ill stopped Ins hand showed that lie hid car
ried them about, and often taken them out of
bis pockets here and. there for patient revision
and interlineation. The last words lie corrected
in print were. "And mv heart throbbed with nit
exquisite bliss.” (rod grant that on that Christ
inas eve when he laid his head hack oil his pil
low ami flirt'A up his arms, as lie had been wont
to do when very weary, some esnseiousnCßS of
duty doin' and Christian hope throughout life
humbly cherished, may have caused his own
heart to throb, when lie passed away to his Re
deemer's rest.
4 ' \n rw.oi'K* vst» Watkiisi*CoSß.— Cantfilopc*
Dill In'raised with all (lie certainty of the cu
i nullin' mid tlio pumpkiii. They require u little
rue in |irO|.. ir > ,1 S and selecting the ground. A
in.lv I.lam is u.'ways to lie preferred, hut tiny
li«!it", frinhle soil, *yith a sountheni exposure,
five I nun prevailing motsiure, will answer. Ihe
|'.round should he dug out in the depth ot eight
or ten inches, eighteen inches in diameter, which
should he filled with one third well rotten short
manure, one-third good sand, —should the soil
not possess any —and one third rieh earth, well
mixed. The hills should he from eight to twelve
t et apart eaeli wav, as room allowed, and the
seed, sav live to a hilt should he planted over the
y hole hill, mi inch helow the surface. When
the prouts are two inches high, give them a
! iir si. inkling of wood ashes, while the dew is
on or aft,‘ r watering them, and repeat three or
jour times i. 'iring the two following weeks. 'I liis
will drive aw ay the insects. When they are six
inches high, rcino all 1,1,1 two or three vines,
neeording to’ the *pftt “ between the rows, and
carefully put round, not to the vines, a little
uauano. In removing the xx'rs'ls troin the beds,
the vines should not he disturbed, a. the rootlets
which penetrate the earth from the Vn.'cs. and
which supply the principal nourishment U' the
fruit, will he destroyed.
Watermelons require exactly the same treat
ment, OP 1 the crop is not as certain as the canto
lope. Still, if a light friable, sand soil, with a
souther.i'ern expose, is selected, and the moun
tain sprout variety is planted a fair crop may al
most ho counted on. We have raised tvventv
,,m, i.Jdjlo watermelons from three hills. The
orange watermelon is very luscious and we think
requires * rather short siaurn than others and
produces abundantly •
Till! Ait»« AT “UovAin'' in Washington—
Tin: Knoni'TioNi at .'hk-'ltari-l tiva. Mansion."—
Tho receptions at the “Executive Mansion" aro
a* l.simoay .announced in the Washington p.i-
JXMK as the Queen's Ufa wing Rooms are in the
London ’ Court Journal. A correspondent at
Washington thus describes one of Mrs. Lin
coln'* *• receptions.”
•sis. I,imoln's reception took place Saturday,
,! ilie White House, from Ito 3. I*. M. There
at i- not a large, hut distinguished levee. Mrs.
I in min w is dressed in hlack vel\el, corded with
while postillion trimmed will' Week thread
l.iee over white silk
point lace. Her .head >'" s ' v ts ° ">*" o a,ul
(Jack flowers, with jet pearl ornaments.
Her gloves were white. stllCa 0 ' 1 ' vllh l ! U,l k ~
The edict of all was in line taste, ' el > 1 I > and
lieautiful.
“The ladies go t) these levees in full mo»ming
reception dress, and in this cold weather Wi.ih
• runners and sables.
One ov John Ph.knix’s Doner's.— A ('.difornia
ptper telle the following of id cut. Derby, “ John
I’t the ’ ■'•o.mst:
n’ < ' • • theater, Phoenix observed
s, j'. i sitting t*’ ee si its in tnmt whom he thought
■w; he *i ( ai's' .. the person sitting next tq
iigm-h thee l her individual, with has rune.'
jjr.m ri r did « and the disturbed per
. . his h- id s little, he discovered his
. ( i. -t w. ;ot the per- ohe rook him
I- vio* kis attention ste.ui)’. »« the play
n!i;, cioumiea u i whole atf.iir,
V' t'c in w ' i cap •• i»h» «v tli the
nil ; .I'rassin., '•«•£ a ■ '• itch
Phoenix Ko pro.. ... plav.
\t l ist tile mail " ' *' ‘ s'*•• a, rather
indignantly, iV ; n! an to ,»U«r-h that
man with ic »tic;.
ft." Ves ”
“A„ -hsm ’ v -ant -
-I w riled to s whether you would punch
id in or no'.
. R it. -A fanner, more celeb rated
. o, . g ;(i ,ii a good education, wrote to
the Seerrtarv . Agneußuai wxaety lit regard
t i etueiinc hi» irltimala tor the premi im oUcnO. i
and ailsled, as a postsciipt, as Mtows: “Alan'
• uier «..e I>r the best jackass. I mu surewta
mtutiupt*
A that c*k ns r>'ur.i‘oi T »n
A W. Dillard, oi Aid . after being droagly
urged by LU f. lends I>*« consented to run
for the ofJice of Circuit Judge. His district is
composed of Choctaw. Marengo, Sumter, Green,
arid Pickens counties 11 •: lays down bis plat
form in a plain, unequivocal language, Mr.
Dillard oh owe himself to be a true lover and
a ile defender of the rights of the citizens.
Would that every Judge occupied the same
fearless position. Here is what he says :
The times are stormy, and dangers of no or
dinary sort suriound us on ali sides. While
%ve imagine ali our peril lies in the hostility ot
the North, and are concentrating ail our ener
gies to beating back the invader, a danger
e jiially as great threatens us at home. The
keen desire feit to drive back the invader leads
us to acquiesce in usurpations of authority
whieli in times of peace would be met with
stern resistance. We are pursuing the same
course which made Cromwell the tyrant of En-
gland, and Napoleon the master of France—
acquiescing in one encroachment after another
rights < f she people, and denouncing ali
who have the foresight to foresee, and the cour
age to depict the filial overthrow of our free
dom The recent suspension of the writ of
hnljMt aorjjua significantly indicates how very
narrow an isthmus lies between us and a m li
tary despotism, and rais s the suspicion that
a portion of our pu be men are seeking to
transform a republic into a monarchy.
It is time the people were taking a calm
survey of the conditiiu of thugs-it is time
thov were fully alive to dangers threatening
their liberties -it is time they were teaching
all public servants that they ar > the creatures,
not the masters, of the people. It is easy now
to check the progiess of tyranny, but a few
months hence it will be too late.
The judiciary is the chief rampart against ap
proaches of tyranny, and consequently all
classes——rich an i poor, aio interested, in hav
ing a bold, fearless and manly judiciary, The
present condition of affairs renders the ju liciaiy
doubly important, and should lili every citizen
whopriz s liberty with anxiety to put upon the
bench those who scorn to pm vet t the law and
warp justice merely to humor public opinion or
propitiate tho favor of those in power. It was
the judiciaiy which baffled the scheme of James
the Second for the enslavement of the English
people and the rights of a judiciary will, do
the like service for us. It is not the suspension
of the writ of/iiVi/seoi-pu..' as uncalled for any
thing in the condition of the country—as con
trary to Hie expressed wishes es tlie people—
as the incipient step towards a military despot
ism. and Us placing al citizens at the mercy of
Mr. Davis Agy malicious person can procure
the arrest and imprisonment of any citizen by
I'ulfricating a charge of treason, or Mr. Davis
may lid himself of an Opponent at pleasure,
since the writ of Wills' corpus li is been sus
pended. We may at no distant day witness
lieie in the South the same system of espion
age -of arrest and in prisonment, which lues
prevailed in the North. Even now, fellow
citizens, men evince-no little fear of the con
sequences to result from a free expression of
opinion, and the vaunted independence of the
press lias given place to niter lameness. Sure
ly we can resist the efforts of Lincoln for our
Mibjugutiou without becoming slaves to our
own govermnent-witliout parting with freedom
of opiuoit an 1 speech'. No good government can
be shaken by discussion, and no good govern
ment dreads discussion, and no good govern
ment will attempt to letter thought or gag the
press. If you elect me, I shall grant the writ
of /ml,. hi! r„ijinn in all eases u here it is properly
applied for, and if after due investigation',
into the facts. 1 am satMlcd the applicant is
unlawfully detained in custody, i shall dis
charge him, be the consequences what they
may'. The I.egiklatute of Alabama, with a
wise (orecast that sheds undying lustre upon
it, at its last sea.d.ui, m ide tie refusal to gran t ( t lie
wiit of hub'/ts cov}‘i‘i< a penal offence. Tbi,
law should he enforced and maintained.
1 n ither wish, nor seek to set on foot any
factions opposition to the Confederate Govern
ment, nor to excite divisions among the. people.
Let. us support it cordially s > Umg as it adheres
to the Constitution, and tullilfs the purposes of
its creation, and oppose it when it tramples
upon tile rights of the people ami the sovereign
ty of llie States.
You must have been painfully impressed with
the dispos lion of the Judiciary t.O side with the
Government on all occasions. and to consult ex
Mtdlency rather than justice. This truckling
to power is indeed portent mis of tyranny. If
you elect me, I shall Consult neither e.xpett
dieney nor power, but make the Constitution
and justice my chat t and compass.
The line of remark hem pursued may possibly
subject me to the suspicion of favoring recou
nt iiiction, since there are persons so nariow
minded as to be unable to discriminate between
a manly defence of freedom and halted of the
Government. I did not vote to break up the
ITnhrtt. for I clearly foresaw to wliat it would
h ad, nor will i vote to restore it alter what has
•courted, in my opinion, reconstruction upon
such terms as L ncoln would sanction, would
be no hotter than stibiligation, yet, we should
not rely solely upon tile sword, but negotiate ns
well as tight. l!y so doing, wo would furnish a
rallying point to the liiends of peace in the
North.
As it will not he In my power to talk over
tliesd mutters face to face with .you, 1 have
given you :tiy views briilly, that you may un
ders'atnl my position, for 1 do not wish to ob
tain votes under false pretences. Il von wish
a fearless guardian of your rights and liberties,
in the very teeth of power, v ote for me. but if
you are so far gone ill enslavement, as to wish,
on the bench, one who will side with tho Gov
ernment, right or wrong, and sanction every
inflection of the Constitution, do not vote for
me, for 1 will not so belie 'my own manhood
and degtadcUie ermine.
Fellow-oilmens, the decision is in your
hands Ish ill be unavoidably absent, and de
prived of nl! means of [laying my emit to
you -but notwithstanding this cirutmstance,
1 trust there aro.in the district enough lovers
ol the Constitution and liberty to elect me.
An Oitimi: fkomGux. Polk.- Gen. Polk has
issued Um annexed oilier in relaiion to articles
captured from the Fedcrals, and also ia rela
tion to plundering in his Department :
Officers and men throughout the Army, are
reminded that till moneys, horses, equipments
and other valuables, captured with prisoners of
war. are the property of the Government, and
not liable to seizure and appropriation by the
eapt rs. Such appropriation is contrary to law
j ‘i/i' 1 demoralizing in effect. Otticers and men
wi vt.s .Army are but the agents of the Govern
ment-.' am* responsible to that Government for
all sm li rapture*. Jh«y shotl'd be promptly
reported and turned over to the proper Staff
Otticers, tit Department Headquarters. Any oth
er mode of proceeding w subversive of sound
public policy and military discipline. A rigid
enforcement of this rule is expected.
inhumation.has Wit received tiuit in certain
sections of this Department, individuals ;rol be
longing to the Army, are banded together for
the purpose professedly of preying upon the
public enemy. Such acts on the partot persons
not in the military service, are unwarranted by
Hie laws of war, and expose tire parties—if
captured—to be deal with in the most summary
manner. As might he expected, also, these
persons are found not to coniine tbemaclypv to
the public enemy: they have been detected in
seizing ami appropriating the property of out
own citizens. Such robbers merit the fate of
outlaws. Close scrutiny should l-e made into
every- alleged case; restitution ot tho stolen
property enforced, and those public plunderers
m ule to suffer the penally due their dimes.
Omm indiug Otticers. particiiluiiy of the eav
alrv, are enjoined to look well to tire execution
of this older in their commands, and to adept’
the most sti iug#nt measutes for the mj.ipressiou
ol such incgliiatities and excesses.
A PkxaLl v Ki i: Fali.PKt to Dim i.a the 'Q mu
in Tanks. -1 lie annexed letter has been wlit
pip by lion. Thumps m All.in, Commissioner
of 'istvt-s, upou the subject of • penalty for
laiiUiM id deliver the tithe in taxes
Mr. Allan’s Lileuiiv.'utiou is law in these mut
ters :
The Tax Act t»f 1883 Bits ge-ebaeted with
amendments, and approved on ITdb f ckpuaiy,
114(14. What was set I lot) (I in the old Act is
section lit. in this, in piiAgrab IV. section
10. one el the amenduretiih is in Jinso u’Oids :
a ' ''The said producer vUati i>e IV
-1 l u >ied to deliver the wheat, com, oats, rye,
huckwheat, rice, (k-.is. beaus, tail’d h > uutj
fiHhler.sug.ir. molasses of eme or sorghum,
wool, thus to be pail! Its a tithe fa kited alter
they have been estimated as aimesd !. i:t such
lorin and ordinary marketable condition as
may be usual iit the' section ii which they are
iWlivea'ed. within thirty davs from the date of
nonce given bv the agent of collection tbit he
is 1 e-itly to receive 1;, ,i prinluct*, .except Cot
ton and tobacco slial! U- .jeliveted m the man-
Her and at the times h. rt itmlfoi- piy.idcdi at
dine depot not more titan twelve milts lioai
the place of production; and if m.l delivered bv
tlap times and in the ordei stated, lie shall be
liable te' p*ay lit* times tin 1 estimated value of
thoportion aforesaid,’’ An.
i Iris is flu) law . aud bougies.; i-IKg w-gi ver.
Insulation if, which "A )• armor” quotes, k, a
imunutgalioil ol the amendment above quoted,
ami it .he u ad ol.serv.d the beading .«* the m
suaetiolts. be Hi. 1.1 Id hale seen that they were
issued US "addlttOtial "tsinu tioUt*. adatited to
jtutcfoilfolht v fliiC taA Laps v ftCJ/’ rfc.
jonfciu'
England.
In the House of Commons, Mai oh 17 th, Loul
I’a.merston said that he could not produce the
opinions of t)*j la*y officers of the Ciown with
respect to the seizure of the Tuscaloosa. They
were confidential advice for the Government.
and it would be objectiouable to produce th* m.
MarquisClauricarde called attention to the
recruiting of aiilori for tho Federal steamer
Kearsage, at Cork, and pointed out the leniency
of t ie British Government as compared with
that shown by the Federal Government towards
Englatid in 1654. He pointed out the induce
ments which were held out in Ireland by led
eral agents to induce young men to go to
America.
Karl Russell said that the Marquis of Clan
ricarde had answered his own complaint of the
remissness of the Government, when lie interr
ed to the prosecution going on in the Kearsage
case. He denied that tho Government was
remiss in watching the proceedings of the Fed
eral agents in Ireland.
Eat 1 Donoughmore reflected on the false
statements that had been made by the captain
of tho Kersagc.
ihe Lori Chancellor announced that the
House of Lords would give judgment in the Al
exandia case soon after Easter.
lhe London Morning Post regards the open
ing of the spring campaigns in America as dis
astrous failures for the Federate.
The London Globe says that the Federal at
t -mpts to penetrate the South have failed, but
nevertheless, that the operations of Sherman
and Kilpatrick show that the Confederates are
weaker than a year ago.
The Morning -Advertiser announces os an
undoubted fact that the Conseivalives have
fully made up their minds to have a trial oi
strength with Ministers very soon after Ba*ter,
and should they be beaten once or twice, they
will not relinquish their efforts to overthrow
the Government.
The London Times editorially denounces the
intemperate language of Mr. itoebuek toward
the North.
The Alexandra case was resumed in the
House of Lords on the 14th. Sir Hugh Cairns
commenced his argument on the part of the
defendant*, and contended that the Court of
Error was light irt refusing to hear the appeal
from the Court of Exchequer. On tho 15th,
lhe Attorney General replied on behalf of be
Crown, and the ease was concluded. J ffig
inent was deferred, and it was expected that
On the 17th the Lord Chancellor would an
nounce when the House of Lords would deliver
judgment.
The London Times says: “It is hardly
probable that an unanimous decision will be
obtained front the House of Loids, but there is
a possibility that the House may declifte jnr
csidiction, and this disgraceful roeult would be
owing to the slovenly manner in which <ur
acts of Farliament are drawn and modified in
Committee.'’
A' the Cork Assizes on tho 14tli, six li en
were brought up uuder ail indictment charging
them with »u infringement ot the Foreign En
listment set iu having agreed to enter the serv
ice ot lhe United States as saitors on board Un
ix ai sage at Queenstown. Tho piFonoii all
pleaded guilty, and on entering into their own
securities to appear for judgment when called
on. were released from custody.
The trial of the Pampero seizuro case is ap
pointed to take place May Stir
Lately the great reservoir of tho Sheffield
Water Company, 100 acres iu extent, and which
bold more than a million cubic teet of water
suddenly burst its embnakmeiit, canying away
houses, factories’ bridges, mills, and destroying
over two hundred poisons. The bodies ot the
vie iin*, to the number of one hundred and
seventy-eight, bad been recovered, leaving
eighty yet mi-sing. Another shocking casualty
had occurred from the bioakiug of a pump at
Spittlowell Fits, by which fourteen men wore
drowned.
Tint DANISH WAtt.
Tho London Daily News, of the 18lh tilt.,
announces authoritatively that Denmark has
accepted ol' the proposed conference on the
basis of the. negotiations of 1851 and 185f>,
without an armistice. The consent ot the
Germanic Confederation is now necessary, and
it is doubtful if they will assent ou tho basis
named.
Some continental journals confirms the above
statement but it is not officially annottmod.
Duppel wasvigousiy bombarded ou the liilh,
without effect.
A sortie by the Dane* against Uockelmll was
repulsed by the Austrians.
The Prussians bad taken Ostoer, near West
Dupprl. Their loss-was about 100. They took
800 prisoners.
The caprine of the Island of Fomorn by the
Prussians D continl^t.
The Prussians had arrested all the principal
officials in that portion of Jutland which they
occupied.
Heavy tiring had been heard near Souder
burg
A sharp naval engagement had taken plaoe
on Kugcn Island between five Danish steam
ers and two Prussian men-of-war and cove
ral gunboats, resulting in the withdrawal of
tho Prussian ships, closely pursued by tho
Danes.
The Prussian vessels, however, succeeded in
reaching port safely.
It is asserted that Sweden is hastening her
armaments.
HALT.
His Holiness the Pope of Rome is confined
to tiis bod, and it is rumored tliat lie is serious
ly ill.
Collisions between the French ami Papal
troops continue. The inhabitants of Ivomeside
with tire Papal soldiers.
UVKUPOOJ, COTTON MAIIKET.
Livt:nt’oor,, March 18.—The Broker’s circu
lar r 'ports : The sales of the week were 7
000 bales, including 15,000 bales to specula
tors, and 11,500 bales to exporters. The mar
ket was firm but unchanged for American, but
advanced >d, lor Indian, and inferior qualities
of other descriptions also advanced, ’j he sales
to-day (Friday) were 10,000 I ale* inc luding, 4,-
000 bales to speculators aud exporters, The
imukgt closing buoyant at unchanged rates.
QuoWtions arc :
Fair Middling.
New Orleans Nominal. 21d.
Mobiles 2f,jd
Uplands.. 2GLI.
The stock of cotton in port is estimated at
200,000 balcse, of which 28,500 bales are Amer
ican.
FROM CHAULKBTOV
About five o'clock Sunday afternoon fire was
ye opened upon Fort Sumter from the three
hitndre I pounder Parrott lately uncovered at
the middle battery, and between six and sevin'
o'clock from 1! Otery Gregg upon the city. The
thing averager! about one shot every live min
utes. Tpe .enemy also exchanged a few shots
with our batteries pu James’ and Sullivan's Isl
ands during the day.
. S»»e unusual qctiyity \vn? also observed Sat
urday and Sunday among the tjeet. A side
wheel steamer came in Loin the North Friday
afternoon. Alter communicating with the Wa
bash, and several of the other blockuders and
vessels inside the bar. she again left, sailing
.South. On her departure the blockaders out
side filed a salute.
Thu eniiny’s guuboats in Stono fired a few
shots Saturday at L iit)) ball's place aud Legare
ville. ,
Ihe enemy were again busy Yneed try yepalr
illg damages to Battery Gregg, caused by the
high stood tide of Monday.
The only tiring through the day was seven
shots from Gregg at p’oft dmuter, aud two shots
;t,t Sullivan’s jslaud. The enemy were also
engaged btwling ammtiuillou to Gregg and
Wagner,
tin r lhursday the Yankee woiking pirties
had rai ed a gm for the purpose of hoisting a
gun into position, when suddenly oijr batte
ries opened upon them, causing “ rather hasty
lowering of tliegin and dLspemion of the blue
coals.
'Hie enemy’s fire upon Fort Sumter wag con
tained Sunday night and ceased about five
o'clock Monday Morning. During that time
sixty six mortar shells atnl one 1 armtt shell
were tilt'd at the fort, of which fifty seven
struck. The only casualty was one negro
Pitinjury was done to the fort.
Ihe enemy again opened tire Hedues lay
night, oil For t S.iifo r. shells were
thrown, eleven of which egjd«ucd jp the fort,
dc:; g no damage.
R.iiierj - Haskell opened bre oil the 1 ankee
working parth-slit ike Swamp Angel, and
W-as replied toby tipr. «npjny’s hattery on Ga.b
ii.-ny Hill- The firing yaa fe-ept up on both
sides about W hour. _ ,
The enemy were again busy I hurstfay in
hauling sand and tuntSUfotWU for . jtatteyu'a
Gregg ami Wagner. Ihe paiiwnjoe* ili front
of Gi'egg were badly damaged by the late high
tides. „
A fifth Monitor made its appearance on the
i H .i Tbuisday moruhig, and came inside
the bar'd if *mg 'he day. There was no other
change in the ffemt.
The nuiuber of tents .on (f'ol)y Jsl al; d have
again dlrnini.'bed.
Tire grandson of Sir William Drown, who
lately died in Kuglajid, succeeds to his father s
estates ami tit!• s. 'J jut value of th£ whole is
pr. halily not kss than 7,W0 ; ooy eUaling, or
( 3o,vWU,btHt,
Von * HKtt.V YSAVSh
Murders us poaoenblc citizens are boeoußug
of tiequent occurrence iu Lluoolutjuiu. A man
nameu McLast was so badly beak-u at Orleans.
Indiana, bv a soldier a few days since, that he
died inconsequence. The soldier wis stabbed
during the affray and has also died. The out
rage was committed simply because McLast was
a “Vallandinghamer.” The trustees ot one of
the burying grounds in the place would noi
allow McLast's body to be buried iu it, be
cause “it would be an insult to the soldiers''
to allow it a resting place on the sacred spot
claimed by these “patriotic” Pharisees. The
body was taken to the Baptist cemetery and
decently interred.
A man named Worril has been brutally mur
dered at Princeton, Ind., by tft-o of Lincoln's
butchers. After a little dispute, one fired and
shot him iu the leg ; the other soldier remark
ed, “if that is the best you can do. L think I
can bent it” ; and raising his gun shot Worrill
through the body, when he fell and expired in
about an hour.
The Federal- Secretary of War. in response
to a note addressed to him by Wilson, request
ing his views regirding the joint resolutions pf
the House to continue the payment of bounties
to April 12th, says it is his opinion the requi
site troops can be more expeditiously raised by
continuing the payment of bounties as pro
vided, than by any other means. That at the
present great exertions of tho several States to
raise their quotas so as to avoid the draft, the
people preferring that method of raising troops,
alid that Gens. Burnside nod Hancock, and the
State Legislatures and Executives, are earnest
ly requested to continue the bounties uutU
April Ist That in bis opinion the joint resolu
tion of the House is wiseapd judh ions, and its
speedy passage by the Senate would greatly
promote the public welfare and strengthen the
force more quickly and efficiently than can be
accomplished in any oTier way.
» Dr. Tyng, a reverend, efusader, of Now York,
who informed Wilson’s Zouaves, at the .begin
ning of the war, that their invasion of the South
in'ght he the means of saving their souls, has
lately announced that, as the emotional is
higher than the intellectual, the negroes a
higher style of man than liie Caucasian. Ur.
Tyrig is a Caucasian, hut he is emotional, and
is, therefore, an exception to the genera! rule
lie is consequently entitled to rank with the
African.
The New York Tribune in speaking of the
recruits lately obtained says (ho system of re
cruiting which has recently been followed in
this city is one of the greatest scandals of th ■
war. It has bum one of organized pillage,
resort being had to hocusing with narcqlie
poisons, threats violence. TepicsontaUons and
kidnapping, iu order to furnish victims to the
bounty brokers and fill up the army.with dis
contented aud'uu'fit men. Cripples, old men,
mere boys, men laboring under incurable dis
eases, and Soldiers previously discharged for
physical disability, form a great part of the
recruits recently enlisted in this city.
Geu. Neal How is eulei t.iiniug audiences in
Maine with lectures on Confederate barbarity
Yankee letter writers say that tlie Federal
vessels sunk off Oil irlestun cannot bn raised.
Northern papers report that a large force of
Ooulcdurates are consentiatmg at Found Gap,
under General Buckner for a raid into Ken
tacky.
Botli Gen. Grant ami Gen. Meade have been
to Fortress Monroe to see Butler.
Great frail is are perpetrated throughout the
Northwest- by enlisted men who have received
government and local bounties to enlist When
their regiments move south the recruits do not
appear.
Find Morphy, the chess player, has returned
to New Orleans. The Yankee papers say he is
a persistent rebel.
An officer in a New York regiment, engaged
in tlie recent Florida fight, writes as follows to
a relative in Buffalo: 1 have hid iny foot shot
oil'and may lose part of my leg, r,I i lor being
a delegate to the first political t (invention Abe
Lincoln lias held in Florida.
A corresp indent of the New York World says
that when ail Hie facts of that expedition shall
be known, the country will not restrain its in
dignation at the authors. General Gill more is
not responsible. The movement was made by
orders from Washington, and was for political
purposes wholly. They wished 'o get hold ol
the archives, to be able to organize a pi'i tended
State Government, to give political offices to a
few favorites. Some were to be benetitted po
litically, and others have a chance to •peculate
in lands.
- A Washington dispatch says Gen. Meade lias
not sufficiently recovered from his late attack
of pneumonia to warrant his entering upon au
othor campaign with the Army of the Potomac.
His physician advises him not to attempt such
a time, and there is little doubt but that tie
will yield to medical advice, and retire for a
little time from active service.
According to all accounts the increase, of
Lincoln]* Abolition army by recruiting appears
to bo very tardy.
T he Yankees regale themselves with glowing
accounts of a magnificent .victory in the cup
ture of Gainesville, Fla., and report same re
markable instances of courage, during and
devotion during their capture and occupation
of Gainsvillo—a period ot forty-six hours,
which was followed very soon by the affair of
Olustee, of which the less said the better, ac
cording to Yankee reporters.
An o der lifts been issued prohibiting the
shipment of American ooal to Oatiada.
TheNewYoik Tim s says intercepted let
ters prove that Gen. K. Kirby Smith of the
Confederate army has made anangements with
certain parties within the Federal lines, with
the knowledge and consent of the Confederate
authorities at Hi limond, to exchange cotton
for provisions, army clothing, and other arti
cles needed by the Confederate army in the
West
Oof. Parsons, Chief Transportation Quarter
master of the Yankee Army of the Oumbrr
land, reports eighty three steamers at Nash
ville, landing 40,000 tons of government
freight. The whole amount that will be placed
there during the present rise in the Cumber
land river is 200,000 tons.
There is a member of the l.'.ilt New York
Heavy Artillery who stands six feet eleven
inches in his stockings, and weighs, when in
vigorous health, three hundred pounds. Ilis
shoes are number eighteen, and when standing
in them he towdfs far above the talb'st titan in
his regiment. He boas's of having lifted seven
hundred pounds with one h nd. and declares
not only his ability but willingness to give the
first rebel he meets a gentle hug.
The Tenth Michigan Regiment on their way
home, were met at Detroit by a committee of
Rec< ption, headed with a negro band. The
soldiers refused to m rich after a nigger band.
The whole affair resulted in the committee
making themselves scarce to avoid personal
iujuiy, and the band being well-pelted with
rotten apples.
A Washington correspondent of tho New
York Tribune, says; Wov. Brainlrdte, of Ken
tucky. accomplished the j nrpose lie went to
Washingtod for. It is said (hat had not Lin
coln acquiesced in Bramlette’s demands that
Branrletre would have iss ised a proclamation
calling upon the people of Kentucky to defy
the authority of ihe Government, and waist its
action with force and arms. Ex-Gov. Jacobs
has also intimated that the scheme of resistance
contemplated principally the seizure of the
lines of communication with Grant’s armies in
the South, and force them, for want of sup
plies, to evacuate Georgia and Tennessee, and
so li t the Confederates get possession of Keu
tucky and take her wholly out pf (he Union.
Every gentleman, of comse, hopes these ac
counts ot the “pluck” of the Kentucky Gov
ernor aye correct, but judging from his past
course we huVe reason to doubt them.
At Memphis, a few Jays ago, a block of
twenty buihiipgs used tor storing commissary
goods, fell in, burying ia the "ruins a large
number ol persons. Four women, more oi less
wounded, and twelve children bad been dug
out,
Incendiaries thrive in Vicksburg. There
nave been many fires rectntly; several Govern
ment stores have Keen burned, and rhe railroad
depot and adjoining building se t on fire.
Major General Lew Wallace, of Indiana, has
entered lipo n duty as lommamfcr of the .Mid
dle Depar inent, headquarters at Baltimore.
An order has been issued prohibiting the ship
ment of American coal to Canada.
Jin; quota of ’Vunsylvania under she last
call [of troops is 28,802.
A tew dats -nice, Mr Mayo, a Copperhead
member of the Ohio Legislature, in a debate
m that body, said; ■ t would rather see this
jovermneut destroywi than that nirude
j) trtsKJould be deprived ot tbe liberty of pub-
Itshnig wuat its editors pleased.” Mr. Fiee. a
billon member, said that Mr. Mayo’s language
was an abuse of t|,e liberty of tl 1( - pr ess, and
uooe trilt tnutfcrs speak or tu«ilorse Midi senti
mc-uts, when Mayo replied with sprue- insulting
epithets, and Mr. tree immediately oollareo
and ehoked the Cojiperhead, who was taken
out of the House by big filends. Mayo had
previously said that ••all persons and |«ipers
hail a right to speak treason, write treason and
act tremr;ij.’'
A lorfi t-ss M enrop letter wtiter brags of the
great damage done by Federal laids. Tiiij is
add.ng Lnsnlt to iujury.
Grant has gone ti) Washington to hold a
Cvum.il ot pat )
MSXVB.
The Louisville Journal say* several men were
arrested, a tew days since, below lilckmSn,
hy., for having, among others, organized them
selves into companies for the avowed purpose
oi entering the Confederate service. A num
ber of Confederate sympathizers have recently
been actively recruiting for the Confederate
army. Guerrilla bauds are being formed by
citizens iu the towns aud counties of Kentucky
for the purpose of interrupting navigation oil
the Ohio aud Mississippi rivers. These arc
good reports. We hope they are true.
Some of the Federal hopes are beginning to
piophesy that the necessaries of lifo will be
very scarce this year in Y'ankeedom.
Major. Gen. Eizey is relieved from the com
mand of the Department of Richmond, and as
signed to the comm md of the Maryland line.
He will, tor the present, tqiii immediate com
mand of Camp Maryland.
The World says that an active Republican,
in a view of the recent exposures respecting
Dick Busteed. the custom house, and other mat
ters, remarked to a frieud that there appeared
to be three sourcesof appointment xt Washing
ton—Lincoln. Sexvard and Chase. Mr. Lincoln
appointed traitors, with occasionally a fanatic;
Mr. Seward appointed loafers, aud sometimes
a mat of ability; and Mr. Clause appointed
fools, with a sprinkling of great scoundrels.—
That republican has been expelied from the
Loyal League.
A dispatch from Springfield, Illinois, says
that “a son of Reuben Colbert, a Democrat ot
Pike county, wasVßtoned by a large number of
boys, while returning home from school some
days ago. IDs injuries were of so serious a na
ture that he died next day. The excuse the
young murderers gave was that he was a young
Copperhead. Truly thij is a tiue state of so
ciety. Even children taught to murder their
play mates. But it is one of tho fruits of Abo
litionism.
Col John Woolev, of Indiana, has been ap
pointed Provost Marshall at Baltimore, under
Gen. Lew Wallace.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette,
wild has been examining the rolls of the Pay
master’s Office at Washington, writes that the
Federal Government is paying otlicers repre
senting pile million four hundred thousand
men, while the number actually on the lolls is
about seven hundred thousand. This enormous
discrepancy is partially accounted for by the
fact that every organization of the army has run
down to a skeleton'. Regiments, which at the
maximum, sin mid number over one thousand,
should scarcely average five hundred men :
still thete can be iu> question that bur.dr»ds
of officers are drawing pay who are neither
useful nor ornameutal to the service.
Cotton is declining in tho Memphis market.
According to Federal papers Gen. Forest, with
a force of seven thousand men, is moving
North.
Secretary Chase, under the authority of tlie
apt authorizing the sale of the surplus gold in
tlie Treasury, determined to issue “gold
notes,” receivable for duties, witli which he pro
poses to anticipate tlie payment of interest on
tlie public debt due up to Ist of January, 18<>5
That due oil or before the Ist of July next will
be paid without rebate ol interest; on that due
■liter July Ist, a rebate of three per cent, will
be exacted. It is supposed that about tw-nty
five millions of dollars of interest on the pub
lie debt will be anticipated.
The,•■New York World says the only way
Chase can now reduce (lie price of gold is to
raise the price of his paper. The World thinks
Lincoln will enforce his last draft thoroughly.
Gold lias touched lti‘J in the New York mar
ket. The premium is advancing steadily though
slowly.
Lincoln’s desire that his new commanding
general should lake Richmond cannot lie
Grank-eu.
In Washington, there are rumors that But
ler is to lie relieved from his present command.
The Louisville Journal thinks Andy John
son a '.mrse to the Northern cause, and de
nounces him as an unprincipled demagogue.
The last assertion is a true oue. And what is
more, Johnson, and Prentice of the Journal,
as far as regards principle, are “six of one aud
half a dozen of the other.’’
The New Yoik World’s New Orleans corres
pondent says every plantation on the fiver, us
far up as Baton Rouge, is under cultivation hy
hired negro labor, i lie Times s-ys one thou
sand and nine hundred negro children are at
tending the day seboels in tlie city.
Grant's first general order orders employees
in the military railroad service to prohibit tlie
use ofintoxiculiug liquors by any person when
on duty in the military tail road service. All
employees of tlie Government in this depart
ment detected using liquor when on duty, or
carrying it with them on any military railroad,
aril I he dismissed from service.
All along tlie railroad from Ring bridge to
Brandv station, Va., redoubts are being erect
ed for the protection of Federal commissary
aud quartermaster stores. This does not look
much like an abandonment of this route to
Richmond.
A recent fire on f\t. Charles street New Or
leans, destroyed $200,000 woith of property.
A gentleman has been fined S2OO by the
New Orleans authorities for shouting for Jeff
Davis in the streets of that city.
The New York Herald states that the New
York Tribune’s daily circulation has fallen off
one half, and only amounts to 22.000, and that
its weekly has‘been reduced 100,000.
The Legislature of lowa lias again refused
to allow negroes to settle in that State.
The Ohio rrvoi lias commenced falling. We
think low water in the Northern rivers this
spring will Interfere with the “Naval’’ opera
tions ot the Federals in that section.
A Washington dispatcli of March 25. says :
Gen. Pleasanton lias been relieved from the
command of his cavalry corps, and is ordered
to report to General Uosecrans. Gen. Sickles
is ordered to report to Gen. Curtis. Gen.
Newton is ordered to report to Gen. Sherman
Gen. French is ordered to report at Philadel
phia. Gen. Meredith is ordered to report at
Cairo. Gens. Pickett, Gibbons aud Wadsworth
are ordered to report to Gen. Meade for as
signment to comunnd. Geu. Caldwell is re
lieved, to enable him to set on court-martial.
Gen. SpiiK'la is ordered to court-martial.
The Louisville Journal supports Gov. - Brain
let te in the position ho has taken against the
Federal Governmeut.
Army drawers are given out by contractors
tube nude in Pot Hand, Maine, at five cen*s a
pair. A woman sewing all the day could not
make more than two pahs a day. If the thread
given out with the drawers falls short, as it is
apt to do, the poor seamstress is told that she
nmsl supply the deficiency. These are the
people who talk about the oppressed Southern
slave.
At lust accounts cotton was selling in Nash
ville at 52aid cents per pound.
Cumberland river has commerced falling.—
There is now only about four feet of water at
llarpath Shoals.
*J It. Coburn, of Npw York, has accepted tbe
challenge of. J M. Mace, of England; to fight
him in Ireland, and leave* for England on the
Ist of May.
Mr. Sumner b lls presented to the Federal
Senate the petition of oqe hundred citizens of
Louisiana ol African descent, tq bo allowed to
vote in the reorgariiz ition of Louisiana. The
petition is approved by Anthony Fernandez,
President of the Louisiana Association of Vet
erans of the War of IS 12, founder of the first
Union Association, and a member of the Cen
tral committee for the organization of a free
StaKT; by Thotns J. Durant, (’resident of the
Free State comm ttne, and other citizens. It
represents that all ate owners of property, and
imiuy are engaged in the pursuit of commerce,
and have been paying taxes for forty nine
years; and at tlle cal * °f ouv - Sbepley
,bev raised the first colored regiment in forty
four hours.
Kentucky has l*en divided inte two mills
tary districts by Gen. SchofieW—tbe Western,
under (ten Ewing, running from the Nashville
railroad to the Cumberland river ; the Kistern
under Gen. Hobson, from the railroad to the
Big Sandy.
Confederate gnerillers captured a railroad
train on its way from Lebanon to Louisville, a
few days since.
Rev. Dr. Bui ock, of Baltimore, brother-in
law of G«n. J. C. Breckinridge, has been ar
rested on the charge of harboring a Confede
rate Colonel.
The Federal army of the Fotornae is still
undergoing the process of re organization.
Tbe Northern papers vav that these soldiers
who pillage and set fire to house* in Jackson
ville Fla., are to be tried fur theft and arson.
Wedont believe it. If Federal soldiers were
punished for such deeds nearly all Lincoln fi
officers and a good share of his soldiers would
!,o sent into the next world.
Gov. BramUtln and Ex-Senator Dixon, of
Kv have been lo Washington, it is announ
ced that (In-y bad a free interchange of opin
ions with the President and bectetaiy of \\ ar,
and both parties are in aixijrd and harmonized
to the enforcement of the draft in that State,
under tbe amendatory enrollment pet.
Jt is ruths ed in Washington tha( Mr. Holt
i* to be Stcicfory of War ia Mr. btnuißou’*
jilace,
— —— * - - - - •
AiuttTHSß* SGt'xVk.
The Federal Senate wants to pay nigger nel
diers tne same wages as the white ones. The
Houseavauts to pay them two dollars less.
Liucolu's friends say that he is entirely
averse to giving Gen. McClellan or 'Fremont
commands, and that Gen. Fieinont does not
visit Washington at his request, as stated.
Major Gen. Meade has iss led an order for
expeditiously carrying into effect that part of
the enrollment act which provides for trans
ferring sailors Irotn the army to the navy.
Senator Hicks of Maryland is recovering
from his se\-ere illness.
l iity Geimans arrived laidv in Portland,
Maine,direct from “fatherland,” having been
hhed to come to this country' anil enlist on the
quota of Boston. Fifteen'hundred of these
Germans have been engaged to enlist on the
quota of Boston, and a detachment is expeett and
hereafter liy every steamer.
'the enlistment of coloted troops is still
progressing with great spirit in Maryland.
Very many white men are also volunteering.
The Federal army in Arkansas is said to be
on the move iu lhe direction of Northern Tex
as. Gen. llayno, who commands them, in his
address says, "that they goto recover lands
desecrated by the p iloful banner of treason ”
Two opinions on that subject.
Brigadier Gen. Hatch had gone so Jackson
ville to ie!ieve Gen. Seymour, who returns to
liiltou Head.
The Wisconsin Union Convention have chos
en Lincoln delegates to the Baltimore Conven
tion.
Neal Dow delivered a speech in Portland on
the 24th ot March, iu which he outlied the lial
timore American.
Ten Brigadier Generals have been ordered to
report to Gen. Sherm ui for duly.
It is thought that Gen. B lclt will supercede
Gen. Schofield in the army of Ohio aud East
Tennessee.
The New York Herald gives him up—lioir
it : “We abandon ‘Honest Old Alia’ as a hope
less case. We have puffed him, we have prais
ed him, and have helped him in every way.
but can get no good out of him.’’
General Grant has directed that recruiting
for cavalry regiments shall cease. It is un
derstood that an order will shortly be issued
to mounted infantry to shpply the deficiency ot
cavalry iu the Federal army', he considering
that branch of the service to lie more efficient
than cavalry orgauizitions.
Owen Lovejoy was buried at Broklyn, N. Y.,
with great ceremony. The officiating clergy
men were Beecher, Storrs and Clieever. One
of tlie pall bearers was a runaway nigger.
The expedition from Annapolis under Burn
side, lias not yet started.
Northern papers admit that the Federal gun
boats ou the Mississippi all it'd poor protecttou
to the steamers going up and down.
Indiana has furnished her quota of troops.
Persons who hereafter sell the N. V. Metro
politaii Record in Uoscoruns’ department will
be severely punished.
The English blockade running steamer New
nan, has been destroyed off the Florida coast,
to ptevent her falling into Federal hands.
Tlie bogus Lincoln Governor of Louisiana
has called a State constitutional convention.
The Abolition party of Louisiana have re
solved to repudiate all debts contracted to car
ry on lhe war by the Confederates.
Confederate guerrillas are becoming vciy
bold iu the vicinity of Baton Rouge, and are
doing much damage to Lincoln’s worshippers
in that section.
FllO.ll .TBX.YKHSKR.
All of Longstreet’s corps have made a retio
grade movement towards Bristol. Tour. His
sick have been sent to Grecuville. The weatlici
is very bad for military movements.
Col Hodges of the Seventeenth Georgia and
Oupt. Torn Oil din, of the Second Georgia, have
command.
Col. Waddell of the Twentieth Georgia Regi
ment, is still in delicate health. He goes to
Richmond, and we trust lie will be forced to
accept some of the prominent post position
al Richmond, until ids health will permit him
to return to the field.
Longstreet’s troops are in the best condition
and in good spirits.
Some believe that Longslrect's head quar
ter’s will rem iin at Bristol. Others that his
troops are on their way to Lee. Others that
the are on their,way to North Carolina.
After the ruthless devastation of the finest
farms in Middle Tennessee, and the wholesale
plundering of every plantation from its north
ern to its southern border, the Federal rulers of
Tennessee have at length begun to revoke the
tyranical orders authorizing the impressment of
slaves, hypocritical assurances to the oppressed
citizens that-‘they .vill hereafter be protected in
•be possession of all their property,’ and inviting
them “'to rebuild their houses and re-stock their
farms aud grow crops.” The vaunted protec
tion is “the protection that wolves give to
lambs, covering aud devouring them.” The
crops are to be grown for the support of their
hated oppressors, They are to be protected so
long as they pay tribute to Herod.
Gen. f'eliolield, the present commander of
ti e Federal forces in ripper east Tennessee, ad
vanced with his entire effective force as far as
Panther Springs and Morristown. Front some
cause he halted and went into camp, thcie re
maim cl for some thirty six hours when he about
faced and returned to Mostqf Greek and New
Market. He ciine with fit teen days’rations
and evidently intended a further advance than
where he came to; but suddenly coining up
with the forces of General Longstreef, became
to a terminus of his expedition, and does not
seem inclined to move any further. His forces
consist of three corps of infantry ami a small
amount of cavalry. Aside from Ibis move
there are no demonstrations whatever on the
part of the eromy. In thedirectionofCum
betland Gap all is quiet. Gen Jones contin
ues to pick up the scouting parties of the ene
my in that vicinity.
The Bristol Gazette gives glowing accounts
of the fine health and spirits ol the Army of
Last Tennessee, and declares that Gen. Long
street is master of the situation.
FROM INI)I'llII GE iIIGI V.
The same Feder rl officer who has several
times led bands of robbers into Chattanooga
County—Capt. Paulding—came again last Fri
day with sixteen men all dressed as Confede
rate s differs. They visited Tryou Factory, and
compelled Mr. Allgood to give up to them his
watch and hat. After committing various oth
er outrages, a little before sunset they left
SuminOTV lie to return on the Broornlown road.
Cant. White, a Tennesseean and Mr. Davis a
citizen ol the conn y, but now a ltirioiighed
soldier of the Virginia Army, pursued them
and just at dusk these two charged upon the
party. Crpt. White thinks tljey killed Copt.
Paulding and two of his men. Tbe enemy
returned the tire, aud Mr. Davis was killed
and Capt. \V. wounded. Capt. W. then called
out in a loud voice for reinforcements, and the
Yankees lied ia confusion. Such gallantry
needs no gilding.
Gen. John-ton appears to have two .modes of
stopping I'oiicrtions. One is b5 r liberal fur
loiiglis, allowing all to go homo by turns, and
the other is by the inexorable doom of death
to deserters. Ho announced, in general Older.-,
that he will grant no pardons, and that the
doomed must die. The courts martial have at
last come to discover the necessity of punish
ing deserteis with death, and few now escape.
There are upwaids of a dozen soldiers now
awaiting execution us the death penally for
deseition.
A portion of Lee’* battallion lias been sent
into Northeast Georgia to urrest deserters and
punish marauders.
FROM rt.OHIBA.
The section of country about Gainesville,
East Florida, has been visited by a severe and
damaging storm. Houses were blown down,
aud a number of negroes and horses killed.
Trees were blown down, and piled on each
other in the roads.
On March 21th Captain Diekison, with twen
tv picket men drove the Yankee picket in at
Pilatka. The enemy then came out about
three hundred,' which resulted in an engage
ment, which lasted about two hours, -twenty
against three hundred-no loss on our side.
The Yankees acknowledge a loss of one killed
and seven wounded. Capt. D. keeps ((egging
awav. and iye presume that since tho war the
amount be has killed, wounded and captured
exceed* by far the number ot his little gallant
band.
The Lake Oi y Columbian has reliable infor
mation that a Federal gunU.at ascended the
St. John’s river on March lfith, a considerable
distance above Palatka, and captured the
Sumter. The informant did not know
whether the crew were captured or whether
tbe steamer was loaded, 'i he Sumter has been
faken to Palatka. Tbesamegunboit had gone
up the river again to search for the steamer
Hattie, hut the mission will be fruitless. The
enemy, between 1500 and 2500 strong, are
juietly rendevouzing at Palatka. No fortifi
cations have been elected there. The Yankees
des re. by feints, to cause Geueral Anderson to
witlidiaw a portion of his force* from tln ir
piesent position Then the Yankees will have
a better chiuite to advance.
SSW# SUMMARY.
begvo ran a rod hot wire into a shell at
<- narteston the other dav, to find out if it con
tained powder. lie found out!
n 'V‘.V ®H‘ c klaud. an old citizen residing
amt was waylaid ,u the road
and murdered last week.
ton withmmß, Advance has r "'i into Wilming
couut h Cargo 0!1 Nol ‘h Carolina ae-
Fort De Ru=sey, Louisiana, over tho ciuture
ot which the Federate make so much ado was
only garrisoned by two or three Confederate
companies.
Cars have commenced runnii g on the Gre< ns
linro end of the Piedmont Railroad. It is said
the whole line will be completed soon.
Major John W. Gooilwin, fottneily of Gen.
Bragg s Stott, has been elected Superintendent
ot the \ irjjfmia and Tonnesso Kailrond, and
entered upon the discharge of his duties.
The Confederate prisoners at Gallatin, Ten
ncssee, are represented to undergo the most
barbarous treatment, many of them being put
in chains atulsubjectedto every indignity Yank
ee malice can invent. Some sixty odd at Gal
latin have been most unjustly assassinated, in
cluding seven of Morgan’s command.
There was a horse race at Columbus, Ga., tlie
other day. The Sun reports that it was at
tended by a “considerable crowd,” aud that
much money changed hands. Three heats
were run, each a mite, tlie first of which was
won by Pryor's horse in 1 oil minutes. Harris’
hot so came in second; Abercrombie’s last The
second heat was won by Harris’ in 1 57 min
utes, Abercrombie next, and Pryor last. The
same result was witnessed in tic third beat.
Harris’ horse winning it in 2 03 minutes, and
Pryor's horse barely saving distance. The
purse amounted (we believe) to SISOO, which
Harris won. The last two heats were quite ex
citing.
Two Yankees, supposed to lie a portion of
the ten who eseaped from their guard on the
Charlotte Road, two or throe weeks ago, were
arrested Monday near Ko -k Hill, S. C. They
were engaged in a plot to incite negroes to burn
the railroad bridge over the Catawba River,
steal horses, and make their escape across the
lines; but a faithful slave revealed their inten
tions, and a party of citizens met the Federal
■it their place' of rendezvous aud there made
them prisoners.
There was a snow storm in many seel ions of
Virginia April 2 anil 3d.
Judge Whitten of Anderson, S. C.,died i.i
that place April 3.
The Richmond Dispatch says tlie Northern
papers received for several weeks [last are
gloouiierjn their vaticinations about the war
than they have been since its opening. Each
batch is more sombre than the preceding one.
ho compare the editorials of this mouth with
those ot November last is a very pleasant and
genial amusement for a Confederate.
The Charleston Courier hears of
under the impressment law from all sections ol
South Carolina.
Apprehensions are felt that tho fruit is all
killed in Florida. The gardens in that State
have beam much injured by the late cold
weather.
James Mann has been found guilty of tlie
charge of seduction by the Superior Court ol
Fulton county, Ga.
Maj. J. C. Dennis having been relieved, al
his own request, of chaige of tlie Bureau of
.Conscription for Alabama, Lt. Col. II.C. Lock
hart lias been assigned as commandant of the
State, with lieadqiyii'ters at Montgomery.
A recent order from Gen. Hood contains tlie
following instruction: '‘Another point, to lie
observed in making an attack is, that t!ic
troops, when advancing in line of battle, should
not be moved at the double-quick step, or he
in any way unnecessarily fatigued, before en
gaging Hie enemy, that they may lie iu the best
possible condition for pressing him, and im
proving any advantages which in iy bo gain
ed.”
The corn crop in Georgia last year was forty
millions of bushels. In South Carolina it was
over fifteen millions bushels. In Alabama
thirty millions bii«lnds.
The military authorities have directed al
attention to the enlist meat of deserters as a
serious evil, and requii e a strict obsei vaucc of
the 22d Article of War, and the ane.it and tri
al of all who violate Us injunctions. That ar
ticle provides that no non-commissioned officer
or private shall enlist in any other organization
without'a regular discharge from thatjn which
lie last served, ou penalty of being reported and
punished as a deserter. Any officer knowing
ly receiving or entertaining u soldier under
such circumstances is liable to be court mur
tialed aud cashiered.
Tlie Government agent at Atlanta, Major
Gumming, has started a good and new project
iu that city. It is a “government stall,” well
supplied with nice beef constantly; no one can
tmreinse from it but soldiers or their families.
These are furnished with meat at Government
prices. A “government stall” should be at
once started in every city of any size.
Hon. David M. Ourrin, member of the Con
federate Congress from Tennessee, is dead.
A curious bit of unrecorded history, said to
be strictly true, is this : Alter Johnston had
been woun led, Lee called a council of war.—
The President entered just as General Lee was
exclaiming: ‘‘My God ! gentlemen, do you in
tend to fall back to the Gulf of Mexico?’’ See
ing the President, he explained that all the of
ficers were opposed his plan of crossing the
Chickahominy ami giving battle. II the Presi
dent would sustain linn, he would take the re
sponsibility of ordering the battle. The Pres
ident did sustain him, and so Lee “saved Rich
mond.”
A citizen of Roekifigban). Va., Is the father
ol l v ( ,nty-onc children—thirteen sons and e'ght
daughters. He has been married twice, his
first wife being the mother of fourteen children,
and last one the mother of seven. His yov.ng
est'child is two years old This Confederate
father is yet in his prime and vigor, and is able
to make a regular hand at plowing. He says
he feels it to be his duty to raise something for
the Southern Confederate besides children.
J«tdgo W. G .Jones decided in the case of the
Denbigh, in the Confederate District of Ala
bama, that the l®st Alabama Battalion of All
(tilery were entitled to salvage, but not to lur
salvage. Their claim was for $500,000. The
Judge awarded them $25,000.
FROM MEXICO.
The special correspondent of the Yotk
Tribune, from Matamoras, says the treason c.f
Vidaurri is fully confirmed, and ever since the
rebellion broke out he has carried on a large
and lucrative trade with tbe rebels. Cortina,
the new Governor of Tamanlipas, has sent
troops against him, while Doblado is reported
to have marched against him from Saltillo, in
order to cru-h liifli. Jsurez has fotraally de
posed hinij but has not yet appointed a succes
sor.
An engagement between the forces of Vi
danrri aud those of the National Government is
looked for with a great deal of interest, us in
volving in its result the course of th » National
Government in Mexico, aud the further ope
rations of Jaurez.
From another part of Mexico a great Mexi
can victory is announced. The - forces under
Lraga and Berezabel are reported to have
stormed Gundalaj tta, aud to have captured
more than 700 prisoners, 24 cannon, and an
immense amount of war materials. The re-
port however, is doubted.
The defection of Doblado and resignation of
Juarez are again reported. It was reported
also that Diaz was threatening Puebla, which
was expected to full because no reinforcements
could be sent.
The ex-Dictator Santa Anna has arrived in
Havana from Mexico, having been ordered
to leave the country by Gen. Baxaioe. It is
said he went to Mexico expressly for ihe pur
pose of issuing a manifesto, in which he pro
pose! to explain to the Mexi- An* the reasons
that had induced him to accept, without any
restriction, the new order ot things ; or in
other words, to give in his adhesion to tho Em
pire.
Particulars have been received of tbe capture
of Guadalajara by the Liberal Mexican forces
under Uraga.
Twenty-four cannon and 700 prisoners—
French and renegade Mexicans -were captured.
The traitor Mejia is at San Lois Polosi with
3,000 men. expecting an attack.
Puebla is said to be besieged by the Liberals,
and must fall, the invaders’htlving no reinforce
ment* that ceil reach them in time to aid the
garrison.
Vidaurri has positively declared for the
French, and Gorlinas and Doblado, with a strong
force are marching to attack him, the former
from Matamoras and the latter from Satillo.—
Gorlinas is very popular in Tamaulipa*.
A lady just arrived within our lines from
middle Tennessee states that the whole coun
try has been almost entirely denuded of ser
vants. Tbe male negroes have been taken into
the army, anil the female* have been permitted
to go where they please. In the great majority
of white families the ladies are compelled by
the scarcity oT laborers to do their own house
work. The country is under the strictest mili-.
tary rule and surveilance, and so far asoutwant
appearances go, the people are completely sub
jugaled. But in tbeir hearts aud feelings, they
are as true to the cause of Southern indepen
dence, and hope and pray for the coming of
the Confederate armies to relieve them from
their ifoioleut oppreesow.
PROM VIRGINIA.
Il is now aunouncml that a boat load of pfil*
oners will he exchanged every week.
It may not be generally known that orders
have been issued under authority of tho act es
the last Congress, authorizing the impressment
of meat for tho army, under certain circum
stances. The act provides that in no case
shall the supply of any person be reduced ty
impressment below one half tlie usual quantity
allowed for the support of himself, family and
dependents during the year. On service of no
tice on the owner of the meat, or bis agent, de
claring the price offered and the quantity need
ed, he is required to hold it subject to tlie claim
of the government. In case the owner ot the
meat and tlie agent of government cannot
agree as to the quanitly liable to ynpressniont,
aud just compensation for the same, each shall
voter the matter to tlie arbitrament of two loy
al and disinterested citizens of the county, winy
shall, under oath, administered by the impress
ing officer, assess the same. If these cannot
aeree, they are required to call in a third per
son to make the assessment.
A meeting of the merchants of Richmond,
embracing tiie dry goods, provision and gro-'
Cory, and all of the principal trades that enter
into the supply of articles of prime. necessity,
was held one day last week, at which tlie high
prices as prevailing iu Richmond and the piKo
bjlity ot lowering them were the subjects of
disci ssion. Only two of the merchants present
Toted to lower the price of their goc.ils, mid
undersell the market quotations put upon
fabrics in view of the depreciated currency,
and the discount of thirty-three and a third
cents upon the old in favor of the new money
SSltl'd.
Commander Win. L. Maury, of the ('. S .
steamer “Georgi,” arrived in tlie Confederacy
on Friday last by the steamer “Advance.”—
Sixteen months ago he left his heme auil
friends in the South for tlie scene of Ids opera
tions against the si ipping of toe cm my on tho
high seas, lie returns to the Confederacy for
a brief period ou a visit t > his family in the
South. Captain M. says that t e Yankee com
merce is very much diminished. Their vessels
have, very many of them, been transferi and
to other governments, auii sail under other
colors than the tlag of the United States.
General Morgan reached Abingdon Sunday,
and is the guest of Judge Campbell in that
vicinity. (lon. Buckner has been a sojourner
at the same place for several days,the guest of
Major 13. Crutchfield.
Generals Breckinridge, Williams, Morgan,
Buckner, and Jenkins were at Marion, Smytho
county, Ya , a few days since. General Jen
kins has since arrived at Richmond.
C. A. Cuthburt, a Canadian shipowner has been
•arrested and bound over for trial at Richmond
tor attempting to bribe two Oonfedciato ship
cruisers to purchase some ships belonging to
him, for the The vessels are at
Nassau. Ihe sums mimed to one was four
thousand dollars in gffid; to the other six
thousand dollars in gold. Cuthbert claims
the money was offered as a fee, net as a bribe.
Some twelve thousand dollars worth ol sta
tioner v lias ben stolen from the Trea (try L'c-
part merit,.
Iff ires are falling in Lynchburg, Va. Beef
has fallen from $5 to $5,50 per pound,.
Potatoes from S2O per bushel to slo.
Three hundred slaves have lately been stol
en from Mathews Co- Va.
The exchange of prisoners still goes on at
■ Richmond. Both agents growl a good deal at
each other —but that is no matter as long as
the object is affected.
It is thought that Averill is intending to
make another big raid.
Mrs. Patterson Allan’s case, on trial atßich
iuond for treason, will come up again, April 11.
Her bail is one lmndied thousand dollars.
Col. J. P. Jones, C. 8. Army, has been assign
ed by the President as Inspector of the armies
of Jhe Confederacy ou the Stall of Gen. ltragg.
Gen. Bragg said ot this officer, twelvemonths
since, in n commending him for the pesitiou of
Brigadier General, that, “as a Colonel he has
no superior, aud as an inspector, where the
highest qualities of a soldier are exhibited, I do
not know his equal.” The same opinion was
expressed by Geu. Jis. K- Johnston. Col. Jones
stin ts immediately on a tour ot inspection t.o
Gen. Beauregard's Department.
Samuel Means, ol Loudon county, Va , whoso
atrocities as a Yankee captain have long made
him notorious, lias perpetrated seveml fresh
murders. We understand that two sous of Mr.
Rodney Biaden, and two other Confederate
soldiers, were lately dining at the house of Mr.
Vaude venter, near Waterford, when. Means,
with fifteen men, having been infotmed of their
presence there, surprised them and murdered
them all. Means, lor safety, keeps-himself ou
the Mary I and shore, and only strikes when ho
has a chance such as the.above, when the infa
mous traitor shows more than savage barbarity.
lCx Governor Letcher, of Virginia in a late
speech said, that that Slate not only tinned tier
own soldiers..but assisted oilier States. She
armed 150,000 men in this department, anil
site supplied arms to Kentucky, Tennessee,
Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, South
Carolina and Maryland,and returned to North
Carolina arms which she received from her at
Hie opening of the war. She also furnished
heavy ordance for the defence of the Southern
States, captured by her from the navy yard at
Norfolk.
Negro liitc is declining in Richmond. Ser
vants for whose services four hundred dollars
was asked in January, can now bo hired for
one hundred and twenty-live dollars.
Tho Richmond correspondent ol the Charles-,
ton Mercury says, a cut ions bit of unrecorded
history, said to be sti icily true, is this : After
Johnston hud been wounded, Let called a
council of war. The President entered just us
Gen. Lee was exclaiming : "My God ! gentle-,
men, do you intend to fall back to the Gulf
of Mexico?” Seeing the President, he ex
plained that ail the officers were opposed to lira
[dan of crossing the Chickahominy, and giv
ing battle. If the President would sustain him,
he would take the responsibility of ordering
the battle. The President did sustain him, and
so Leo “saved Richmond.”
A lot o| negro convicts were sold in Rich
mond a few days ago at auction. There were
fourteen negroes, male and hurtle, who had
been convicted of criminal offences, in differ
ent pruts of the State, and who wire sold for *
account of the Commonwealth. The net uin
realized was $2‘J,075, the average value $2,11!)
and a fraction. Os these negroes two were
women with small children, three of them old
women of but little service, aud a woman very
much deformed. For eaeli of the fourteen
the purchaser was required to enter jnto a
bond in the sum of SI,OOO, conditioned for
their removal beyond the limits, said bond
to be forfeited upon default of its condition,
also not to separate families, no bond being
required for children.
FROM NORTH CAROLINA.
Sever *1 Yankees, from the fleet near Swans
boro, N. C., landed lately near Bear Inlet, and
carrieed off some forty negroes. Ou the re
turn trip the tint containing the party was up
set and a great many were drowned. Tenjne
groes swam ashore and escaped from their
captors.
Lieut. Col. J. C. Graves, of N. C., died re
cently in the Federal prison at Johuson’B Isl
and.
Hon. Tlios. Bragg has been appointed Com
missioner for Not th Carolina, under the act of
Congress suspending the writ of habeas cor
pus .
The counties of Western North Carolina
have Hiilfercd heavily by raids of the common
enemy, including deserters and tories, who
have committed outrages on • the deltncehss
people ; and owing to circumstances beyond'
control, the authorities have not been able to
give the protection they have been anxious to
extend. 'J he people have continued faithful
to our cause, and their hatred tor the invader
has been more intensified.
Col. Palmer has returned from an extended
trip through the Western counties, which be
succeeded in clearing of the invaders, and
made dispositions which, it is believed, will
preventtheir inroads hereafter, 't he Yankees
made a raid into Clay and Cherokee counties
to prevent the enrollment of conscripts, but
retreated on tearing of the approach of our
troops.
The free negroes near the Fedoral lines in
North Carolina are becoming very troubles nns.
't he General Synod of the Evangelical Lu
theran Church, C. S.. will hold its second an
nual convention at Organ Church, Rockville,
Rowan county, North Carolina, on Thursday,
May 12, lfltM.
Lately Major McDowell of the sixty-second
N. C. Regiment, with detachments from hi»j
own sixty-fourth Regiment, encounter'
ed the notorious Col. Kirk and his hand. A
sharp engagement ensued, and Kirk was dc*
seated. W e D.st one killed and several wouiv,/-
id., Major McDowell was severely wounded in.
the arm. *
Col. Thomas* Cherokee Indians are remle/J
ing good service, and are as “true as steel,” to
the Confederacy, notwithstanding the alluiing
promises of the Yankee emissaiies, who have
been among Ahem.
The Archduke Maxtriillion of Austria arrived
in London on March 131 h, and immediately
proceeded to Marlborough House to p y a
visit to tbe King of the Belgians, the father of
the Archduchess. Later in the day the Princes*
of Wales drove out with the
Her imperial highness dined with the Prinft
and Princess of Wales to meet Ihe King of th\
Belgians at Alurlboiough House. 1