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BY N. S. MORSE & CO. U TERMa THE WEEKLY ('fIIIOMCLE A SENTINEL IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY THREE MOYTHii *|oo HI A MOM II- f -uU ALWAYH IN AUV±XCE. weekly ADvmnmt; rates. AuvKUTivLMKMT* pubfi.-thed ir tt.i WVekiywi be eh*rg< Hweiitf-ivecehtnalmeeactiißsK-rtion. • flnwiAi. NoTfc** will be charged thirty cclU almeforeac nscittoa. M auknoim, Death* v-uJ Fc*rn*i. ItoT!or»OD*rloUarea< Obitu aet Sotjckh forty cebt* p**r lit.** tor on* ii.fM-rticn either D4ily or Weekly. Where Obituary Rot tee aiepub* * llabod In Daily mul Weekly—ii.xty cent* per lire. Umoi.unoN’H ok 1788 AXi) 1804.- In the win ter of 17H8-!t—a period of apparently .great peril to the United States Government from fires wUl.on. .hr. which therefore gave the “strong government’’ many special pleas of “necessity’’—the celebrated alien and sedition laws were enacted. These laws became partic ularly odious to the jicople for two reasons.— First, they were clearly unconstitutional. This alone ought to have condemned them. Iri the stooud places, it was well understood to be a scheme of a party who made that an occasion for the advancement of doctrines destructive of State sovereignty, and consequently for the building up precedent looking to centraliza tion. This gave rise to the celebrated Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions. The Legislature of Virginia was denounced then as that of Georgia is now, because they could not see t*« “necessity’’ for such arbitrary measures.— Gradually the light began to break in upon Iho minds of bid been deluded by the cry of “necessity,’’ and a few years thereafter the “Virginia Resolutions” became the plat form of a party whose principles were ident ical with those for which the Soulli is to-day struggling. That there arc, remarks the Columbus Sun, persons in the Confederate States who are per sonally interested in the establishment of a “strong government,” and who are looking anxiously to a radical change bonelicial to themselves, no one with his eyes open can rea sonably question ; and that the late Congress was Haltered Into the partial support ol this organization the record abundantly shows.— Georgia stands in the position now that Virginia did during the Administration of the t filer Adams; and the “Stephens’ Resolutions'’ will occupy a prominent part in the history of con utilutkmal liberty on this Continent. Ai.l. Mkx are mortal. This is a fact so well established that none we think will endeavor to deny or disprovo it. All moituls are liable to eir. This is another truth so well substantia ted that it would be worse than useless to gain say it. Human nature is weuk, and the only way to keep human beings on the paths of rectitude is to throw as little temptation in their way as possible. The administration which guides the affairs of the Confederacy is groat, bultheCon etitutiou—the Government is greater. •• ’Tis not that 1 loved Cmsar. Ws Jhm- -Jimne said Brutus, ami this sentiment furnishes the illustration of all successful endeavors to es tablish freedom where power is gradually steal ing from the many to the few. No man w:o is merely mortal, weighs more than a feather when poised in the balances against the free dom of this country. Could the Immortal Washington be resurrected from the sleep of death, wo would not give him the power which the present administration asked for at the hands of Congress in the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. We are opposed to the Centralisation of power ami to all aggressions that look iu that direction. This was the rock the old Government split upon, and unless we be wise, vigilant and brave, the Confederacy will share ft like fate. The time to Watch be gan from the moment the Constitution was adopted, ami will continue so long as men love power and human nature remains as it is. The maxim of free government is, to trust no man with arbitrary power, which is the antipodes of the sentiment that “the King can do no wrong,” and to this we will cling so long as we have the power so to do, ami a Constitu tion which protects the rights of the State and the liberty of the citizen. Tun On to Richmond Movement. —The Wash ington correspondent of the New York World writes thus, under date of April 10th, ot the great on to Richmond movement soon to be made by the combined armies of Federaldoin Preparations for the grand movement on Richmond. which will now bo delayed by the storm in Virginia, are going forward with quiet but vehement energy. The reorganiza tion of the Army of the I’otomac has been generally perfected. Gen. Baldy Smith will command two army corns, which are organizing at Fortress Monroe. The troops under his command will be pushed up the Peninsula, whilst the Army of the Potomac keeps Fee's forces vigorously occupied. Gen. Burnside will attempt his old route via Goldsboro', cut ting the lailroad at that point. A Tln- World's correspondent expresses tlie opinion that this grand combination will com jud the Confederates to fall back from the line of the Rapid an to "tlie defence* of Richmond, and that the greatest battle of the war will be fought in the vielulty of the Confederate capi tal. He also state* that those defences have lx>en strengthened, and that mines have been prepared at "several vital parts. Rather ok a Rich Rksoi.ution.— ln the Fed. oral Senate, on the 7th instant, Mr. Salisbury offered the following : Resolved, That the chaplain of the Senate iu* respectfully requested, hereafter, to pray anil supplicate Almighty Goil in our behalf, ami not lecture Him. Him what to «U> or state to Him, under pretence of prayer, his (the said chaplain s) opinion in reference to Hi* duty as the Almighty : anil that the said chaplain be further requested, as afore said, not, under the form ol prayer, to lecture the Senate in relation to the questions before the body. The resolution was objected to by some of the Black Republican members.' who thought the prayers of the reverends about right in tone and color, and it was laid on the table. Goto is the power at the North which must decide the duration of this war of sujugation. Gold is the unvarying and inevitable barome ter whleb indicates the condition of the North ern political atmosphere. Every advanced quotation of the article in Wall street indicates tbs rapid decline of the sow almost exhausted patient, whose feeble pulse is hourly ielt in that turbulent thoroughfare. As gold ad vanees, so declines the patriotism of the faith ful. As greenbacks increase, so diminishes enlistments. Wilfully Bund. —Some of our cotcmpora ilet who have hod their eyes plastered over ■with fat offices, or with fat government con tracts, cannot perceive that the rights of the .State* have been infringed upon in the least by the action of those in favor of a strong central power. "None bo blind as those trite will not Bee.’* j The Crisis at tki North.— From all the in . dicalions around us, the present year involves i be most momentous and comprehensive.e vents, military and political, in the Noith, and upon their results depend the issue of this war. It is the crisis with our oppressors. A great vic tory now would stagger the North, and precip itate it into political distractions and divis ions, which would work out the end of the war. Verb raldora stajeta in*w> th« t n. V .-1 - 1 of a campaign which may give Lincoln anew lease of power or inaugurate a reign of violence, discord and anarchy. A defeat will be ruinous to the prospects of those who seek to enslave us. Many of the leading papers are talking quite plainly on the subject. The N. Y. Herald sounds the notes of warning thus : We are upon the threshold of a military campaign in which is involved a decisive tri umph ot the I uion cause or a disastrous fail ure; and a political campaign is before us which may inaugurate anew epoch of national unity, prosperity and power, or a reign of chaos ' and ferrite. ' **» The Herald then goes on to say that the re* suits of the Northern Presidential campaign will be determined by the result of this cam paign; that it will not only decide who will be the nominees, but will decide which one will be successful; that it will not only cause new organizations, but will bring new issues before the people. Next the Herald shows the dangers of polit ical distractions and divisions, while the war Continues ; bids the people to beware of polit ical plotters and managers, and divides up the oflice seeking fraternities as follows : Most prominent among these disturbing fac tions is that of the office-holding and shoddy Republicans, marshalled under the banner of President Lincoln. Their name is legion, and their ravages are like thorn of the locus's of Egypt; but their aims and objects are not those of the great body of the people. Next we have tin; Chase Republican faction, extensively com posed of outside advocates of the doctrine of rotation in offi e. and the “one term principle.’’ I ben comes the hungry Democracyi divided into two factious - the war faction, qualified with numerous “buts” and“ifs,” and the peace faction, whose adherents stand ready at the t ip of the drum to stir up a reign of blood and carnage in the North in order to Sfeeure the blessings of peace to Davis and his Confedera cy. And then we have the radical German Eiemnnt faction, largely made up of philoso phers of the old European "liberty, equality and fraternity” school, and dreamers of the uear approach of the tnilloniuru. 't he Herald then urges the retirement of Mr. Lincoln from the Presidential field as the best thing to secure the fusion of all parties in the North in support of the war, ami appeals to his patriotism to issue a proclamation announcing to the country his withdrawal from the field as a Presidential candidate, and urging hisfiiends to drop politics (or a season, am! unite heartily with him and Gen. Grant in the paramount work of putting down the armies of the Con federacy. AH this twaddle does not amount to much in substance. It sbow3 however oue thing con clusively. It shows that the North is not a unit—but is becoming divided up into factions; that those factions are increasing daily ; that the fooling between them is becoming bitter; and that each is dctei mined to elect the candi date of its own choice if possible, no matter whether !i results to The Veil arc or detriment of the Federal cause. All these things should cheer us in this the great day of our trial. Thf. Peach Party in tue North.— A recent number of the New York News contains a very interesting communication, appealing to tlio so-called ”Peace Party’’ iu the North to organize upon a distinctive peace platform, and support only some such men as Thomas 11. Seymour, of Connecticut, or Charles O’Conor, of New York, for the next Presidency. It de clares that the only logical question at issue will be peace or war, and the principles of the peace party go to the real issue, and not alone to tlie measures by which the war may be con ducted. The writer gives the following just account of the composition of ins party : “Among the opponents of the war are they who believe in the right of secession, but a much larger number look upon the South as simply exercising that right of revolution which lias always been held to be a sacred right, in America. Others again find their practical argument in the load of war taxes and war debt; others have a horror of blood ami war, and regard tlie North as being the invading, and, therefore, the war making party; others sympathize with the South as having been unjustly provoked and menaced by the North in respect to their domestic affairs ; others feel that as the events of the war have devel oped themselves, the success of the South is to be hoped for, as the champion of State Rights and strict constitutional government. These and various other motives conspire to the same end. Under them all the peace'parly has in creased, and is increasing rapidly. Probably the chief cause of the present accession? to that party is the Conviction of the futility of further war. Multitudes wiio are not secessionists now say that the facts that tlie Southern people are so unanimous in their desire for independence, and that the war has been so perverted and prolonged, have caused them to yield all hope of restoring the Union." Who are Interested in Rrolonoino tiie War. —Few not ce how many persons are kept under pay by the war—military and civil. A corres pondent of tlie Cincinnati Gazette, who has been examining Yankee pay rolls, has made some discoveries —discoveries which undoubt edly could be made iu tho Confederacy if mat ters were looked into as they ought to be. The Federal letter writer discourseth thus on the subject : One thing ought not, on any pretext, to be neglected. A peremptory stop should be put to the further saddling of the count! y with a plethora of officers. Wo have on the rofls, say an army of 700,000 men, of whom perhaps haif a million are in some sort or other in the field. We are paying officers for not a man less than fourteen hundred thousand; A colonel Is pop ularly supposed to command a thousand men Our colonels will hardly average five hundred! TJie same may i e said of all subordinate offi cers As for the superior ones, who needs be told of the hosts of Brigadiers and Major Gener als without work and standing iu the way of the promotion of better men ? Tin: End of the War. —The New York Times has a long article upon the extravagance which is now pervading at the North. The Times thinks if it is not checked that a collapse will soon take place which will end the war. Here is what that sheet says In regard to the matter: This ostentation is kept up mostly by foreign fabrics, which only gold can buy. The specie basis, which alone can sustain currency and credit, is being more largely drawn away; and without eumuev and credit no war can be effectually prosecuted. The disproportion be ! tween gold and paper cannot go on increasing fora great period wlihout producing a financial collapse. And should that collapse come, the war, we may be sure, will straightway end. Our Government can practice no such repudiation shifts as the rebel Government is now essaying. There is too much moral principle yet left in the Northern people to tolerate any national turpitude of that sort. When it comes to the point that this war demauds repudiation, the war will be abandoned, and all the sacrifices our soldiers have made iu it will go for naught. Seward wants a bill passed encouraging ne gro emancipation. He proposes to advance them government money and give them other advantages. In short he wants to put them a little above the white at»p. 4UGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 27. 1864. NORTHERN NEWS. A large delegation of iron workers an? en gine builders in the employment of thi/ gov ernment, are in Washington, to ask an increase of price upon their various contracts, the ful fillment of which is rendered doubtful on Ac count of the great and unexpected advance in the cost of labor and materials. Henry Vinter Davis has been making a speech against slavery and slaveholders in Bal timore. Vue ttoston people are groaning over the ad vance in the price of groceries, for the dealers swindie as extensively there as everywhere else. Teas have advanced fifty cents a pound ; coffee, which sold last year for thirty-nine cents, is now forty-seven, and Hour is twelve dollars a barrel. There wpu a sad scene in the Boston Police Court recently, ’i wenty-three women were brought in at one time and placed in the dock, most of th an charged with being common drunkards. Sheep husbandry, during the past ten years, has fallen off about one fifth in the State of Ohio, and n j arly five bundled thousand in New England .U! on account ox’ dog#. Gen. Sige has ordered an enlargement of the military prison at Wheeling, Va. A railroad train going from KnovilletoChat tanooga c me near being blown up by a torpe do a few da} s since. Another paper, called the New Era, has been started in Washington, making eight in that city. The Louh ville Journal says : At the rate in which new enlistments have been made in Kentucky within the last five months, it would take her yes.rs to meet Lincoln’s requisiton. The Yankee press shows signs of progress on financial topics. They are beginning to see that gold gambling has very little to do with the price of gold, while excessive issues of pa per have a great deal. Some of them ace frank enough to admit the reason why “gold goes up is because Mr. Chase cannot keep the value of his shin plasters from going down.” George Thompson, the British Abolition Emissary, once before in the United States, is delivering lectures on slavery Mr. McCrea, a Yankee missionary at Beau fort, S. C., for converting tho negroes, has been putin jail for selling them whiskey. Northern papers fear a famine in that section They aro urging on their readers to raise as large crops of edibles as possible. Cotton was selling at Nashville at last ac counts at 52 @ 54 cents per lb. Several rows among negro troop3 have takon placo in Connecticut. Federal papers say that Farragut’e fleet has withdrawn from the attack on Fort Dowell, Mo bile. Rev. Geo. D. Hamilton, one of the oldest Methodist ministers in Maryland, died a few days since. A Washington letter writer in speaking of affairs in that city says : "Nothing doing—but everything brewing hero. The Republicans are brewing all sorts of schemes and concoct ing all sorts of concoctions in their great vats of men'and money.” The New York Herald has three editorial ar ticles iu its issue of April 2, all denouncing Lincoln for interfeienco with Gen. Grant, it looks very much as if that paper was preparing to give Grant an easy fall. Iu a bill introduced into the Federal Senate to establish! anew territory to be called “Min etana,” tbelword white was stricken out. This effectually brings , the negro on an eqiialby with the w tite inhabitant, and enables Both races to colubit alike and alike under the-'or ganic Jaw.” In this view of this promising new territory would it not be more appropriate to. it ‘ U : "'—e* . nu-—.—-i— - nic title than the one proposed. A Washington dispatch states “that Lin coln’s breath is vory bad and is getting worse very fast.’’ This is good news, if true. In fact, it is almost too good to be true. At last accounts there were twenty-two hun dred Confederate prisoners at Johnson’s Island, mostly officers. The Missouri Democrat, the leading Aboli tion organ of tlie West, declares ■: if a high handed attempt is to be made to force Mr. Lin coln's nomination upon that convention, (he attempt will necessarily beget a revolt » for which, and for whatever disastrous consequen ces iiow fi'u|m it, those desperate schemers will bo held responsible. Col. A. It). Streigbt, the raider that Forrest captured, but who subsequently dug his way out and escaped from Richmond, is lecturing at Indianapolis. Jackson, Jeff. Davis’ colored coachman, is lecturiug at Portland, Maine. There is another colored gt ntleman in Eng land, doinp business on the same pretext. A Ric imond yellow barber is also lecturing North. Miscegenation is a great idea, and will no doubt be the means of drawing fashionable audiences to the soirees ot tlie distinguished flunkey and shaver, whose blood is destined to enrich the feeble current of the white race at Hie North. The Chicago Times says the call for Lincoln troops in lots of Two or three hundred thou sand men, have become so common as not to excite the smallest sensation in the public miud. Within a few months three calls have been madel for an aggregate of seven hundred thousand men, and neither the first nor tiie second hail been completed when the succeed ing one came. The only wonder in all is what became of the men. They go forth and seem to sink into the ground. According to tlio New York correspondents of the out-of-town press, practical amalgama tion is making astonishing headway in that city. The election in Maryland—under military supervisio 3 of course—resulted iu the success of tlie emancipation candidates to the “Consti tutional Convention”—or in other words, of men in favor of Lincoln's schemes. In some districts the ballot boxes were destroyed. A correspondent of Louis Democrat, writing from Natchez, says (he Confederates have snipped the Federal plantations in some sections o; Louisiana of nearly everything. Dispatches from Fort Smith, Ark., state that Geu. Steele had driven the rebels from Arka delphia, t.nd was advancing on Price's main army, in the direction of Camden. Georgi Thompson, of England, delivered a lecture in the Hall of the Yankee Mouse of Representat ves to a dense audience, including Lincoln, Chase,-anil many members" of both branches of Congress, anil not a few women. His expressions were of the most bitter and viudictive kind ami he was loudly applauded by his Abolition audience. The Mary land Lincoln Association have held a giand jollification meeting over the late elec tion in that State. They are iu favor of Abra ham's re-election. Hon John I’. Kennedy, of Maryland, has de clined the nomination tor Vice Presidency, but has declared himself in iavor of Lincoln. Caroline M. Kirklan i, the authoress, died iH New York, April 6. it is stated that such is the discontent and dissatisfaction prevailing among the Western troops in North Georgia that they have threat ened to lay down their arms, if General Grant does not abolish negroes from the ranks. Pe titions to this effect had been sent to Grant, and speeches on this subject were being made by of ficers to the Loops. It is said Western politicians are at work, and have written to various offi cers urging this policy on the Federal troops It is apparent that the West is becoming grad ually aroused on this question, audit will not be surprising if in tbe coursoof the next three months, the spark should become fanned into a threatened liauie. A bill has been introduced into the Yankee senate providing for retiring of Justices of the Supreme Court, or District Judges ol the United States, at the age of seventy This is aimed at Judge Taney. ' U During the two days ending April 7 gqo emigrants arrived at New Ymk. The Yankee House Committee on Public Lands will report a bill setting apart all con fiscated lands throughout the South, to come under the homestead law, that thev may be se cured to rhe soldiers of the Yankee annv who will become actual settlers. It now appears that Banks’ Red river expe dition bad a iargq number of negro troops in YEWB NUMMARY. The Wild Pigeon, a vessel consigned to W. R. I ettes, E«q , ot Tallahassee, was sunk ofi lampa, by a hidekader. The captain states that he ran his vessel across the steamers bow, intentionally, as he was deteimined, it possi* ble, to keep the cargo from falling into the hands of the enemy, a part of which was for the Government. The Yankees stripped mem and stole all that they had in gold and »*.- and gave than sixty dollars hick in CcfiH '. ate money, and then put them asnoie. ■■ One man was knocked overboard, when the' steam er struck the vessel, and was drowned. A gentleman writing from Cuthbert, Ram dolph county, Ga., says tho crop3 in that sec-* tton have not been killed by the weather as reported. The bar-rooms at Mobile, Ala , Acril 1, re duced the price of drinks to $1 50. The trade became suddenly brisk. It is stated that large numbers of Tennes seeans have joined Forrest. The horse impressing agents have been verv busy in Virginia lately. iht V .. i.irigt.>i >Ur says there are twenty thousand “contrabands” in that city. We learn from the Raleigh (N. C.) Confeder ate that Mr. James M. Parrott, of Lenoir, had just purchased one hundred barrels of corn for his own use, at fifty dollars per barrel, when a poor, woman, who had six daughters, each one having a husband in the army, presented her self to buy a little corn. Thereupon this gen erous man gave to her thirty barrels—five for each of the soldiers’ wives. This is but one of his generous deeds, which have been numer ous during the war. The Federals have captured and taken to Wh eling, Va., several young ladies—to be held as hostages. The citizens of East Tennessee are undergo ing more cruel treatment by the Fedeials than at any period of tho war. The Y’ankees are cm oiling negro men, as well as women, for the different branches of the service. Their owners are held responsible for their delivery v/lien called for. It is stated that Samuel Ivins, the editor of the Athens Term. Post, captured last fall by the Federals, was hung by them between Nash ville and Louisville. The large mutton warehouse of Harris & Dense, Maeoti, was burned April »4. The warehouse was owned by R. P. McEvoy, and was insured for $7,000. Ti.ere were about 250 bales of cotton in it, valued at SBO,OOO, of which J. F. Champion owned 100, and C. Col lins, B. B Lewis and J. S. Graybill the bal ance. There was ifo insurance upon any of the cotton. Mr. Lewis had a policy on his interest which expired three days ago. The Granite Hall was considerably damaged. The house was drenched with water, and much of its fur niture badly soiled. The entire loss amounts to at least SOO,OOO. As there had been no fire about the building, it is plain that an incendi ary applied the torch. The Athens Banner is informed that a gen tleman has recently obtained a patent for th manufacture of Kerosine oil, which has been thoroughly tested and found to be equal, if not superior to the Yankee article. He has made some from the Alabama coal, which gives a brilliant light. The material is inexhausti ble. All accounts from the army of Tennessee are of a very encouraging nature. Airs. A. L. Knox, who was some time since arrested on the charge of being a spy, is now at her home in Mobile, she having been discharg ed from custody by order of the Bresident, no evidence being found to warrant the charge against her. In Atlanta a few (lays since, Judge Bighatn, while passing sentence on four years' ..ninMiii. in ujr penitent ary upon Davis, the bigamist, remarked, “That whenever a nmn was convicted in his circuit, either of seduction or of bigamy, whether General or private, cit izen or soldier, he would in ! ict upon him the punishment awarded by the law to its fullest extent, without regard to any plea of guilty. Mercy to such criminals would be cruelty to the rest of the community.” A correspondent writes to the Atlanta “Ap peal,” that the evil complained of for the sei zure of milch cows and oxen, is the result of sending out young gentlemen as itnpiessing officers, “who cannot tell the difference between a gentleman and a lady cow.” At tlie military prison, at Andersonville, Georgia, near Americas, the Yankees, we are informed, are dying at the rate of twenty to twenty-five per day. If this continues we will have but few prisoners to exchange. The Athens Watchman publishes the regu lations under the act suspending the writ of habeas corpus, draped in mourning. Very ap propriate. In tlie c'.ty court of Mobile, Jacob Richoijid has been convicted of the crime of extortion, lie was fined SSOO, and sentenced to three months imprisonment in the county jail. Lieut. D. 11. Burts, of Ohattahooliee county, who has a regular discharge from the army, and is also exempt from the fact that he is a member of the Legislature, passed through Columbus, Ga., recently on his way to Virginia to re-onlist in the tenth Georgia regiment. He says that he is able to do duty, and beifig a non-producer at home, feels that he ought to do back to the army instead of remaining here in idleness. This is a piece of self-sacrificing patriotism as rare us it is refreshing. Since the siege of Charleston commenced the Federals have thrown 30,000 shells into and at Fort Sumter, 3,000 at the city, and some 70,000 at Wagner and Gregg, making over 100,000 shells, mostly 11 and 15 Inch—3oo.2oo and 100 pound Parrotts —a number that has no parallel in any siege in history. Averaging the weight ' of the shells at 150-pounds each, although they will come nearer 180 pounds, the aggregate would be 15,000.000 pounds of iron hurled against this devoted nest of tebellion and its detences. Harrison, Beddell & Cos., of Columbus, Ga , are now engaged in the manufacture of shoe makers’ and saddlers’ loo!* The steamer Juno, lost at sea. was provided with English life boats, and it is hoped that more of those on board were saved than has yet been heard from. The wheat crop in central Alabama looks very promising. James D. Denegre, President of Citizens’ Bank of New Orleans, was order to leave that city for having published a “card” denying having participated in the inauguration of the Federal Governor Hahn. Upon arriving at Pascagoula on a flag of truce boat, the Con federates refused to let him land and sent him back to the Crescent city. The Charlotte N. C. Democrat says, “If any one hits ever seriously entertained the idea that theie was any danger of starving on ac count of the scarcity of grain, just let him look at the heaps of corn and wheat being re ceived by the Tithe Collectors, and let him re member that this is only one-tenth of tbe amount raised.” But the Democrat should le meinber that as long as the remaining nine tenths are withheld from the market, the pub lic is not benefltted iu the least, no matter how much is raised. A letter from North Alabama to the Mari etta Rebel states that in retaliation of the ex ploit of Capt. Smith and Col. Henry, near the Tennessee river, a body of Yankees destroyed a portion of Claysville, Ala. They then went to the residence of Bent Henry, nephew of Col. Henry, and finding him sick in bed, forced him to get up. They then placed him on a horse, with a man to hold him on, he being unable to ride, carried him four miles, and then wantonly shot him. Gen. Forrest recently telegraphed from Dresden, Tenn., to Gov. Clark, of Mississippi, that he held possession of all the country ex cept the posts ou the river, and that if he could Temain there unmolested for fifteen days he would be able to add two thousand men to his command. An article is going the rounds ol the papers, to the effect that some body has reo ndy d. s■ covered the lost books of Solomon. We sup pose the document referred to, is Joe Brown’s last Message.— Marietta Rebel. No one will accuse the author of the above paragraph of writing any thing that will be taken for one of the lost books of Solomon.— Fayette vUk Xortli Uiroliniart. [From tho-Macon Telegraph.] LIABILITY OF FOR* IQ.YKRS TO MILITARY SERVICE DECISION OF JUDGE LOCHS AXE. James F. Russet., 1 vs. J- Habeas Corpus. ; CONI'EDEUATK STATES. J The movant in this case alleges he is an " ■AlillU.’tfaat ae wps born in Canada, and lias itCcii but a I nine ifi the Coiiffiderate States; served as a volunteer some fifteen months in the army—was discharged by the military au thorities after the issuance of the Queen of En gland's proc!y,uy»*ion, upon proof he was a Brifish subject, aud that lie has always retain er! domicil in his native country and determin ed to return there. He was arrested under the Conscript act and insists for the reasons stated, which he sustains by proof, ho is not liable to be tbreed intolbe general service of the Con federate States army. We know of no way of making an Aliena citiz-n except by naturalization. Allegiance t( i b r mntry must be voluntary, and change at aSfegi.'»nc_ can oa effected in no other way than by naturalization. Therefoie Mr. Russel is an alien, it he has not been naturalized, and stands upon the rights which aliens are permit ted to enjoy and exercise in all civilized coun tries. The rights and duties of aliens are too plain for anything but voluntary misapprehension.— An alien does not part with his right- or privi leges by an absence from his native country, if he retains the intention of returning to it, but remains a subject of the Government, of his own country. His being permitted to remain in a foreign land by virtue of tiie natural so ciety, the communication and commerce which nations are obliged to cultivate with each other, he must be regarded in such foreign country as a member of iiis own nation and treated as such. “The State, which ought tor espect the rights of other nations, and in general thosr of man kind. canuot arrogate to herself any power over the person of a foreigner.”—[See Vattel, Law of Nations, 108—sec. 107, 108.] “He is not obliged to submit like the subject to all the commands of the sovereign, and if such things are required ot him as he is unwil ling to perform, he may quit the country, lie is free at all times to leave it. Nor have vve a right to detain him, except lor a time, and for very particular reasons.”—[Vattel, 174. His duties ate “not to content himself with barely respecting the laws of the country. He ought to assist it upon occasion, and contrib ute to its defence, as far as is consistent with his duty as a citizen of another State.”—[Vattel, 173, sec. 105. Even in countries where the permission was granted, or became an implied assent by rea son of letting foreigners come in with their families, and settle for the purpose of staying in the country, such inhabitants were only ob liged to defend, and could not be forced into the army proper. The military service they owed was temporary, special and limited. 'The Conscript act was urged as a necessity to make offensive as well defensive war. It was a.gued inat the militia in that sense was una vailable, and whether such was the intention or-not, it is the means of raising an army to go whore policy or strategy may direct. In this view is an alien liable to conscription? 1 know of no case on record of forced service by aliens but one, and the parties were- tried at Surrey in England—they were English and Irish sail ors, found fighting with the French, Lord Brougham defending them,- and the plea of their being forced was overruled, as there could be no plea of justification tc high treason. If an alien can be forced to invade any coun try, he may be made to invade his own and for feit his life to the law, if spared in battle. In this case, if we violato tlie necessary law of nations recognized by civilized government, i f,,..-. -o i-to our ffnhies, we might expect a nation like England to demand satisfaction, and the very illustration given tie come again a part of history. The common law doctrine nemo potest exuere patriam, necdehUum legeantia ijurare, which tiovved out of the feudal system, is uo longer reoognized. Yet ia England, where the law of nations is a part of tho common law, it is re garded an offense to enter into the foreign ser vice without leave of tlie sovereign, or refusing to leave such service when required by procla mation, is a misdemeanor. 1 East, P. 0,81. The case of Eneas AlcDouald is an illustration of the severity of the rule oi law on this sub ject. AlcDouald was born in Scotland. At an early period he was carried to France* spent the most of his life in France— he entered into service aud was with tlie Prtteuuer at Cullo den. Being taken after the battle lie was in dicted lor high treason. Us; claimed that he was entitled to bo treated as an alien enemy. But the judges ail held that, notwithstanding his removal tQ France, or living there some forty years, lie still remained a subject, and the jury found him guilty of high treason, and tlie executive clemency of George the ileconu only saved him from the penalty of the verdict. The doctrine laid down by Mr. Wbewell, Elem. Mar., p. 31)4, is that no prqptieal legisla - tion has recognized that the iretical view which permits any man on coming of age to choose a country for himself. His countiy, lie says, is his mother in spite of him. The tendency of the courts has, however, been to adopt the tight which Cicero in his oration for Balbus boasted was the right of tlie Roman citizen, which was that he could neith er be exiled from nor compelled to remain in the Republic against his consent. This right he declared to be tlie firmest foundation of Ro man liberty. In the Code Napoleon it is more clearly ex pressed, and it is theieiu declared a native of France may be denaturalized and deprived of the rights ot citizenship : by naturalization iu a foreign country ; by domiciliation iu a for eign country without intention of return.— Though, iu this last reason, a domicil for the purposes Os commerce is exempted, and con cludes witli the provision that no Frenchman may, under any circumstances, bear arms against his native country. Several ot the States have decided in favor of the light of expatriation. In Murray vs. McCarthy it was held to be a right “ original and indefeasible.” Iu 9 Dana, 178, it is de clared to be a “fundamental doctrine’’ In Talbot vs. Jansen, by the Supreme Court of the U. S., the doctrine, though acknowledged, is limited, and held to be subject to legislative restraint, or when tlie country is at war, and, lit tue ease ot Williams, it was adjudicated that adegiance, without mutual consent, was indis soluble. The intention was to ignore a co quettish altegianceasi-umed for a purpose and thrown off for a consequence, and we may lay down the doctrine derivable from all these sources, that, though the right of expatriation exists, it is not independeutrand indefeasible, but may be controlled by the legislation of the country, and that allegiance cannot bo severed in a manner less formal or solemn than by an act of naturalization, accompanied with abso lute domicil in the country. And, therefore, any person who comes to a country and remains in it with the intention of returning, and who is not naturalized, still' re tains his allegiance to his own government, and Can only be regarded as an alien, and without such domiciliation as contemplates permanent settlement, he is not liable as a subject to be compelled to go into tbe army. The correet doctrine is: that compulsory ser vice in the army can only apply to those who owe it. The citizen of a couutry, lyhether na tive or naturalized, owes military service, and can be legally compelled to give it. In the ease of Daly <t Fitzgerald 1 held, ‘.‘All persons who are citizens of a Government may be used by the Government in time of war, anil it was the duty of Courts to sustain the Gov ernment in the means exercised rightfully to protect the whole people from subjugation and ratu.” I find that this is the doctrine laid down by the authorities, “Every citizen is bound to defend the Slate,” is the unchanging expression; citizenship being the precedent of obligation, a man only owes this overwhelming obligation to one country—his liberty cannot be taken away by every nation’s plea of neces sity. He owes it to the Government of which he is a citizen, either by adoption or by biith. But ;n ray opinion, it is not an obligation that follows his residence in every land. In England the subjects of trance living in her territory, were not only permitted to remain during the last war with Frauoe, but were guarantied se #urity in their persons and effects. This illus trates how other nations have been disposed to treat not only foreigners, but subjects ot the Government they were at war with. This being the law of nations ou the subject, let us see if our Government is bound by it. VOL. LXXVII'L —NEYV SERIES VOL. XXVII!. No. 17 On the principle that Consuls accredited to the U. S. Gove-iiment were recognized, we might infer that the law of nations assented to by the United' States while the acting agent of the States composing the Confederacy, was binding, and by the action of that Government on this subject not only the assent, but the construc tion 1 put upou the international lan is e.W dented, (Mr. Seward’s letter). We Rave no: only recognized these great international e: ;;,.' :i; off, a-.a- ' XL ■ sent to them. This was. - however, only what we were bound to do, for the necej). ry La w of nations is not reversible by the legislation er act of one. All civilised nation-, coming into the family of Emptro or aspiring to membership are bou-ud by eertaiu great principles of in ternational justice and propriety. In view of these principles, at an eariy date iu this war, 1 had the honor to. contribute something towards inducing aliens to go into the army as volunteers, and in the case where a party applied for a discharge on the ground ot being an alien, I remanded him, because he had volunteered, and therefore, by the law of nations was bound to serve until the’time ex ptred, and because the Georgia Convention had conferred general citizenship upon all who were here during the short Independent Na tionality Georgia maintained. But the Con federate Government ignored this citizenship conferred by* Georgia, and many were accept ed as substitutes, and many were discharged from Conscription who came within its provis ions. The official acts of our Government on the subject of aliens may be found in Order No. 82. General Orders No. 82, series 1862, declared that without domicil an Alien was not liable to military service*under conscript acts; that domicil consisted iu residence with intention permanently to remain and abandon domicil elsewhere; that long residence of itself doesjrol constitute domicil; that “if there is a determ- ination to return to the native country and to retain the domicil there, no length of time can confer domicil.” This constitutes the official exposition of tiie law relative to the lia.cities of Aliens to military duty, and the light in which out government interpreted the rights of foreigners. This is the evidence of their as sent to the law donations which the authorities at Richmond published and uttered to the world. Any change in thin interpretation without reasonable notice to the parties inter ested, would be unjust. For though, with ports blockaded, money depreciated, ad the frontier lined with rubbers, a person might run risk in leaving the country, still before he was compelled to go iuto survive he was euti tied, iii the opinio., of tin- Court, to notice oi the change made by the Government aff.cling his personal liberty and rights and an oppoitu uity to leave. “If no length of residence con fers domicil,’’ and without domicil an Alien is not liable to conscription up to March, 18(!4, we must, if we fake residence as the base of military liability, be governed by its durations, with knowledge of its legal effect, and a just conclusion imperatively demands that the fact of residence shall be confined to the , date of the change. It foreigners were permit ted by the law of Nations to remain in the Confederate States with the published declara tion tli ,t they would not be held liable te mil itary service up to the Ist March. 18H-1, then any law which contemplates making them sub ject must take effect lvom the passage of the law. The fact of residence under the previous „law cannot be argued as a design to stay in the country from which intention can be justly inferred to make them liable under anew law, based solely on the fact of their remaining in tlie country under the circumstances, if the law of Nations did not exempt them from gen eral service.in the Confederate States, then the fact.of permitting them to remain might »e con strued into such a privilege as might at any lim-i lu* ........ii. 1 ,*.. 1 obi'.ngc '. : tv. seen by reference so the law of nations that Mich exemption was not a privilege but a right, and being a right cannot be taken away, without notice giving parties an oppotunity of leaving the country if they desired, iu conformity with the principle of law already laid down Iront Vattel : “He may quit the countiy.. lie is free at all times to leave it." The right of ex ercising this light is secured by law, and tlie opportunity of exercising it should be afforded by the Government before tlie right-is taken away. But we do not see by any authoritative or official exposition that the law relative to aliens has been changed. It is no doubt known to the Government that while many aliens have been employed in making money, many have contributed largely to our cause, many have placed substitutes in tho Army with tlie advice that tliis act did not affect their status as citi zens of another Government, many are employ ed in mechafiieal pursuils, being most useful artizans, and many are in good faith as volant teers for the war under our flag in the army, and we have no doubt many have been forced to stay from the condition of our public affairs, which our wisest statesmen did not foresee, and which unenlightened aliens of course could not be expected to anticipate ; and we feel as sured if the government had changed the rule promulged in Order 82, which aliens relied on as permanent, supposing, doubtless, tlie prin ciple# of international law did not change, that the Courts would have been informed by some thing more clear and tangible than' tlie use of the word.“resident” in, the act of conscription passed Ist Alarch, 1804. To an uninformed mind there is an apparent intention to embrace all persons within the ages specified, without regard to nativity or nationality. But a brief glance will satisfy the mind that such intention is not existing, and cannot legally exist. In the first place, the word Resident is used in the former conscript acts, and was in the.law when the order to which we have alluded was adopted. Tile gen tleman wlrose case Jam now deciding was in the army under the conscript act, or after its passage. He was within the limits as to age. He was fifteen months in the country, and ac cording to tlie limited view of this subject, which we cannot narrow out mind to take, lie was a resident Still lie applied to be dischar ged after the Queen of England’s Proclamation on the ground that lie was an Alien, and the military authorities discharged him. The term resident did not then embrace all persons, but bad i ! s legal meaning limited by its legal ap plication, to citizens of the country by nativity or adoption evidenced by previous naturaliza tion. The law on this subject has been ably discussed by Judge Joynes ol' Virginia, in the case ot Conrad. We have not the decision be fore us, but carefully considered it when it was first published as a clear, concise and strong opinion, and the cases referred to, were for the most part, referred to by myself. After a close review of the whole subject. I am forced to the conclusion that wi.hout violating great and sound principles of law governing nations we cannot enlarge the limit of liability laid down in the general order. No. 82, and that official exposition of the rights of Foreign subjects promulgated by our Government. The policy which would best subserve, the interests of this country is maintained by main 1 tabling this vidw of llie law. and while Courts, will not >ield to policy in the full and just ad ministration of tic; law, still ir is. Satis.acory to alt Courts to believe, in the execution of th - laws, their official acts tend to the interest or promote the public welfare. In an eai ;y ift rind of our affairs i ignored British Consular papeis. The case was that of a de. erter, who, having volunteered and ap plied for detail, was detailed, and then left the works. In such c i.-e the decision was against him : and I refused to notice Consular papers, I for the reason that the acts ot an officer accred ited to the U. S. Government were not legal evidence to a Court. But while this was then and now my conviction of duty, when a person comes into our Courts and proves by witnesses bis status, the administration of the law to such a ease is a right which no Court could or would refuse. For the reasons adveiteu to upon the principles of law as well as the duty | to do justice, and besides, upon scanning our j affairs, iu the passionless view Courts may take , of public questions, we see tie necessity oil keeping the Government through its agents m j the track of constitutional and national obu eation. thus preventing Foreign nations from becoming our enemies, and mingling blood ;n the cup of neutrality. National sympathy and national friendship, are plants of slow growth, but their annihilation is the work of an hour. Sentiment changes a whole people like a wave of light over the land, and while we reiterate what we have said on other occasions, that no views of policy, public or private, could con trol our judgment, yet we have gra l ideation in believing and knowing that the adminis tration of the law in cases like this is the pol- icy of patriotism and the policy of public ben efit. We, therefore, for the reasons stated, and tho evidence satisfying our mind that the mo vant tsa British subject, and under the tacts of the case not liable to eonscriotiou, order that lie be discharged from custody. • Osborne A. Lociiraxe, ~ . » Judge S. C. M. C. SPEOItL CORRESPOXPENOE OHKOXIOLE A SPXTINTC. Pavilion of 7lh Battalion Cavalry—Gathering in the Horses—Evacuation of J ft. Sterling by Feil &als—Preparations of Milercdsfot tr big Fight —Federal force at Louisa—Dcmmistration in Yankee Hanks —Capture of federal Gunboat — Price of Provisions — d'C.. &tc. Headquarters 7th Bat. 0. 8. Cava cry, j C.imp Williams, Flovdco. Va., April I S, 1861. \ This Brigade is now situated about five mil* s up Big Sandy River frem Prestouburg, and is strung along a creek known as Prather’s. The men are in fine spirits, and eager for a fray.— They are now scouting tho country in every direction and getting a number of very flue horses. A few days since our scouts reported that Gen. Sturgis had evacuated Mt. Sterling with his forces, and had gone to Camp Dick Robin son, iu Gerrard Cos., and was fortifying and pre paring there and on the North sid.s of Ken tucky river, near Hickman Bridge, to make a big fight, if the rebels should happen to come that way. The Abolitionists may build para pets and redoubts all around their camp, aud the rebels will find their way into Kentuck, aud with great ease. Theiu is another force of Yankees at Louisa, a little town twenty-eight miles up this river from the Ohio river. Their force there consists of two regiments, the thirty-ninth and four teenth (bogus) Kentucky. 'They are under the command of one Col. Galiope, now acting brig adier. These men are said to be very much demoralized and wont light, and we think they are not misrepresented, for eight men of the Seventh Battalion, commanded by Col. Q. J. Prentice—only sou of G. D. Prentice—ran one hundred of their mounted men lor eight miles on Big Mud C eek, on the 4th inst., while the brigade was on route to this point. The men iu pursuit picked up in this race a number ot overcoats, a quantity of coffee, and all the loose articles which the Yankees had to throw away. If their horses had not been so fast, we would have bad a lew prisoners The Seventh Confederate Cavalry is a fight ing command, and the Yankees would rather tight any other regiment than this. Col. P. in one of the most gallant officers in the brigade. The people of Kentucky in this section have come to the conclusion that, the Rebels will hold this State, and wet’e gluu to see us. List Saturday a small Vaukee boat loaded with dry goods and coffee, was captured, and the Yankees who were with it reported that two transports lmd arrived at Paintville with troops, and we are looking lor the enemy to come on us very soon. Paintville is about nineteen miles from our camp on this side. If these Yankees come in our way they will be likely to smell burnt pow der, sure. This is the first opportunity I have had to send yon the news, as 1 have been out on a long scout, the history of which I expect to give you. Corn brings about seventy-five cents per bushel, and bacon about 12 cents per pound. The Yankees are suffering as much as others. Sous’ Lieutenant. Fit'EM MISSISSIPPI. During the late fight between Gens Forrest and Smith, at Okalona, Miss., the ladies of that place not only encouraged our soldiers by their prayers, exhortations arid smiles, but during the tight cooked victuals and prepared refresh ments for them. One lady, desirous of seeing wlnit was going on, brought out her churn of milk upon Ihe pavement, and while churning it urged on the soldiers to the light, telling them to come buck after it was over and regale themselves front her churn. Such a spirit is unconquerable. ’The famous guerilla chief, Qnantrel, has been making raids upon tlie Yankee farmers who have appropriated the lands and negroes of the refugees along the Mississippi river There is scarcely a plantation occupied by the Yankees on the Western side of tlie river that has not received a visit from some of his forces, aud such is tho celerity of ti.eir movements, and the summary manner in which they dis pose of captives, that the greatest terror pre vails among the negroes and their self-styled masters iu relation to them. Advices from North Mississippi report that Forrest has had another engagement with the Yankees near White's Station, ten miles from Memphis, on the Charleston Railroad, in which he killed and wounded a large number of the enemy and took fifteen hundred prisoners. The large and elegant steamer Now Falls City was recently burned on the Mississippi.— Incendiary fires ate of frequent occurrence at Vicksburg. The Yankees are taking stolen negroes down the Miss ssippi from Cairo, Island Ten and sev eral other points and are pu'ting them to work on '‘the leased plantations.” Which means that they are going to work them precisely sis their former masters, and pay them about hall as much. Tlie Southern Railroad is now running as far as Chunkey. It is thought the bridge at that place will lie repaired in a l'e\v weeks. The re pairing of the track beyond was already Com menced. Among Forrest’s prisoners is a renegade Ten neseoan, Col. Hawkins. Gen. Polk will soon make Meridian his head quarters again. Smith county, Aliss., and tlie adjoining ones have been pretty well purged of deserters. - The ringleaders have-been living, and about two hundred others returned to their commands. G. W. Summers, a wealthy citizen of Ilines county, Aliss., lost all bis negroes during the late Yankee raid. He went to Vicksburg to regain them, took the oath of allegiance, could not get them, went home and cut his throat. Tlie large force-of Yankees stationed at Mud isonviile, .Miss., for some time past, have all left and gone back to New Orleans. The South western Telegraph line is now open to Holly Springs, Aliss. FK9.11 TR \.\S-MI3SISBPPI. Lieut Gen. IIo!me3 passed though Enter prise, Miss., a few days since, from the Trans- Mississippi Department en route for Richmond. He reports every thing in good condition on the other side of the great river. Cotton is selling at Eagle Pass, Texas, at twenty cents in specie ; in Matamoras it was worth thirty-five cents. The Fed red forces keep, close to their works at Brownsville, and on she gulf coast; conse quently, there is but little war news. Texas SI,OOO State bonds are selling at | $2-0 in specie. A good investment, as at that 1 price it pays thirty-one percent. The weather in Texas has been very favor ! able for farming operations. Planters are | Lml ,king preparations to raise all tbe corn they [ can. Col Majors of Texas has been made a Briga- I diet General. ... , ... The small pox is quite prevalent in the in terior of Texas. FROM .NORTH CAROLIN A. A seat in Congress must be considered a good thing iu North Carolina. In the seventh district, where there is to be an election to fill a vacancy, there are now five candidates. Affairs in Eastern North Carolina are quiet. The Federal.-; keeping close to ikeir fortifica tions. Marauder- are continually committing depre dations in Western North Carolina. 'the Statesville Railroad company "have giv en up a portion of their rails to complete the upper route to Richmond. Heavy rains and freshets in North Carolina are seriously interfering with the plana of the planters. A Yankee camp was discovered near Wind sor, N. C.. a few days since. It was composed of four Yankees, forty tones, and about forty negroes. The rendezvous was broken up and several of the occupants killed or captured. FROM VIRGIM.Y ! Tl " ot generally known, says tho Rlcfc mond Examiner, that the old currency may be landed in the six per cent, bonds which the Se cretary of the Treasury is authorized to issue ° the amount of five hundred millions of dol lars. Iho bonds aro to lie bear in'- >st at tho rate of six per cent, par ant)’ -and < ds six !lni dr - m ai .s Bix, y six tobv-yrttes invvsted, " 11J yield the same amount of tnotvsamntofiKwe* .mwpw lars per annum In Doth cases, tsp t*Hc Bolder, ot the notes will lose nothing, amount of interest, by neglecting to fond them at their expressed value in four per cents., and fimd mg them ben-after ht tho rate of sixlv six cousin the dollar in sx per cents *The interest on no six pc. . nts is secured by tho pledge ot the revenues m p he Confederacy derived from its import dutie-- ,< lon (o _ baeco and naval stores. No fund or v ,’mie is pledged or set apart lor the payment of tan interest on the lour per cents. The holders of the six per cent, non Is will be preferred 11 editors oi the Government, secured by the merry-*;.- ■• < a ■.fli- - amon.A iff its icven ues. It is probab.y the most desirable dis position to be ma le of what remains of tho old currency to convert it, scaled to the amount of one-third, into the new six per cents. Alphehs Baker, of Eufaula Ala., and )Ym. L. Allen, of Montgomery, Ala., have been ap pointed Brigadier Generals. Both are in the army ol' Tennessee. Mr. James C. i atton, of Petersburg, Va., the indefatigable inventor anil constructor of "internal machines,”’lor the destruction of Y ankee shipping, has obtained a right fora new torpedo arrangement, which has been te.«- ed and found to work successfully. The pecu liarity* claimed lor Ibis torpedo by the inven tor, says the Richmond Enquirer, is that it will “nose its way along a curreut until it finds something m the shape ot a vessel, when it will arrange itself conveniently, and then ex plode. Mr Patton christens it" the “Hunting Torpedo.” The Misses Summons, workers in military goods in Richmond, have presented Gen. Lee with a complete set ot military insignia—col- lar wreaths and stais, jacket field wreath, sleeve cuffs—all of embroidered gold and bullion— and a set ol Confederate gilt buttons manufac tured abroad. Geu. R. V. Richardson, famous for his ex ploits in West Tennessee and North Aliesissippi, is in Richmond. All 'he retail liquor saloons in Richmond will be closed by law on tlie first of May. Up to this time thirty five hundred dollars have been collected for Airs. Munitoid and her children in Richmond. She richly deserves nil that Can be raised lor iter- no matter how much. The enemy have occupied Suffolk, Va., in force. There are three regiments of inlanhy, one of which is negro, and five companies of cavalry. Col. Spears commands tne entire lorec This is the famous Spears that attempt ed a raid on Weldon last year, but retreated w -n t>e found out that Geu. Alatt. Ransom lmd artillery. i; ... .nought that the French vessels in James river have no other object in view than to get th- to l ' ice . -ui of Richmond, if possible, claim ed by the French. • F.iim rue annual report of the Virginia Bi ble Society, we learn that that Society has giv en out 9,000 billies, B),ooi>tesUim;ui«,.andsO,- gospels to the soldi is east ol the Alississippi. In add tion to which has been distributed, they have sold 20,000 copies of the scriptures. These form only a portion ol the books purchased in England by Dr Hoge. The remainder are on the way, and some of them will be on hand very shortly. 88,000 copies of (he different books have been receb- >d from tlie British and -EW-isa IK hi* . tiM., oiim’oer 8( ,- 000 have been distributed, showing that the Society has not been idle during *he past year. A writer in the Lynchburg Kepui .tear gives the following results of the operations oi Brig. Gen. W. E. Julies’ brigade during its.lasi cam paign of seven engagements: 'The fruits of these engagements have been 1,707 prisoners, between 300and 100 of the enemy killed und wounded, 152 wagons, seven pieces of artillery and about 2000 horses and mules. All this has been done during an unusually severe win ter, without tents, without comfortable cloth ing, almost shoeless, and with horses worn down by constant use and scarcity of forage. A private belonging to the army of North ern Virginia, Ims bail a furlough granted him by order of Gen. Lee, for eight hundred and forty days. He was entitled to this long leave under the army order granting a certain num ber of (lays furlough for each recruit furnished. His leave of absence promises to lap over into the next war. Northern papers stale that the Yankee frig ate Minnesota is badly injured at Newport News. The Richmond papers in speaking of tlie exploit says that Oapt. Davidson managed to approach the Aiinqesota with his small steamer under covet oi the night, and answer ed her hail that it was a despatch boat from Roanoke Island. On approaching her lie ex ploded a torpedo under her quarter on the starboard side, and immediately backed, ma king all possible haste to get away from the enemy’s guns. It was impossible for him to know the effect of the explosion. The charge of the torpedo was sixty pounds of powder. Captain Davidson reports that on tlie explosion great confusion ensued on the Minnesota— orders, oatlis and execrations following in rapid succession. One account says that the vessel was so much injured that she was keeled over, aftd taken off by three steamers ; but as tlie darkness of the night and the rapid retire ment of tlie torpedo boat" afforded but little opportunity for observation, we are inclined to doubt these particular details. Joseph Mayo has been re-elected Mayor of Richmond. Gen. Longstreet hasjorderod that all impress ments in the Abingdon (Va.) district shall cease, except in cases where a party has a sur plus. The Richmond papers state that the brutali ties committed by the negro troops in tliatStato are horrid to contemplate. The Legislature of Virginia at its late session passed a law exempting Justices of the peace from conscription, Gos. .Smith refused to certi fy to the exemption of all under the agp of for ty-five. The Hoc:clary of war has however shown commendable respect for tlie authority of State Legisl ilion, and regardless of the action of Gov. Smith, has exempted Justices of tho Renee in that Slate. T his is right. And if all the acts of the administration had been as constitutional as this, there would now be no opposition to it. FROM ALAII iMA. A letter from North Alabama states that in retaliation of the exploit of Capt. Smith and Col. Henry, near the Tennessee river, a body of Yankees destroyed a portion of Claysville, Alabama. They then went to the residence of Bent Henry, liejihew of Col. Henry, and find ing him sick in bed forced him to'get up.— They then placed him on a horse, with a man to hold him on, he being unable to ride, carri ed him lour miles and then wantonly shot him. It is estimated Jhat five limes the area of land in Alabama has teen sown in wheat, than there has been any previous year. The Montgomery papers say that apple trees iu tha f vicinity have not been injured by the late eold weather. FROM TENNESSEE. Since our army left the vicinity of Knoxville, the Unionists have been robbing and mffrder ii.g the Confederates. Major George W Day, of tbe twelfth Tennesse cavalry, has issued a circular to the Union citizens in the vicinity cf Rogersville. Morristown, Bean station and Tazewell, declaring that some of the most bru tal outrages known in history have been com mitted upon unarmed citizens and innocent women by Union citizens, and that if another wrong is inflicted upon an offending Southern family, lie would visit their homes with fear ful retaliation. FROM LOUISIANA. Not long since Gen. Polignac roJdc a descent upon the Yankees who had settled on the rich lands in-the vicinity of Bake i"V < tr.-re. La., and were preparing to raise a tm- crop sur rounded the plantations, drm ch every horse, mule, ox aud cow. stnpp and tec • r.ert °“ t I of their boots.” and 1 ft toe desu.a e I nkee planters wringing their “pickers and stealers ’ over a blasted crop and a bootylets conimunt ty.