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{ Prom the Milledg*viU* Union.]
AN IMPOHTATI LETT KR—RE,ill IT.
\Vc publish below a letter from Gov. Brown
to General Colston. It has the ring of the true
metal. It contain* truths as important to us all
a* life and liberty- In these times when every
day bring* news of further encroachments upon
personal liberty and State Kight* ; when officers
of the army depending upon the President for
their office are trying to render the State govern
ment odious to the Georgia soldiers, it is cheer
ing to every patriot to know that we have men
among ns who have the honesty and thr nerve
to rebuke these efforts and to resist these en
croachments. Head the letter.
HKAJi-C^I.'ARTERH COLSTON’S BbIOADK, $
Savannah, Ga., April 9th, 1864.
To His Excellency, Jim. E. Hroum, Governor of
Georgia —
Sir I have the honor to transmit to you the
resolutions of the Georgia troops composing my
blende in which they declare their immovable
ti! .. nave c«*i -L .. -or-Urn peace. lo
a.ihe: with tV..-s>-” ■ 1. ill
• I among'.(»■ naben-of the earth. The.r
• R. E.-tfoi-STON, ring. Gen'i.
Executive Department, )
vfiM.KtHiRVH.be, Ga., April 14, 1804. $
nriir. Gen’l 11. E. Colston —
Dear Sir: —lt affords me very great pleasure
to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the
9th inst., accompanied by the resolutions of the dif
ferent organization * of Georgia troops under your
command, by which they declare their patriotic
purpose to re-cnlist for the war and never to lav
down their arms till our independence is estab
lished.
Ah Governor of their State I beg leave to re
turn, through you, to the Georgia troops under
your command, my high appreciation of the dis
tinguished services they have already rendered,
anil my grateful acknowledgments for the re
newed evidence which they have just given of
unconquerable devotion to our sacred cause. It
in matter of Just pride to the authorities and peo
ple of this State, that the sons of Georgia have
never turned their hacks ingloriously to the ene
my, hut that they have always in the hour of
danger been found under their glorious battle
flag in the front rank, where the blows fell thick
est and the blood run freest.
Struggling to establish constitutional liberty,
the government and people of Georgia will ad
here steadily to the great principles upon which
we entered into the contest, and will rebuke all
encroachments upon their ancient usages, liber
ties and institutions, come from what quarter
they may.
The people of this State believe that negotia
tion as well as the sword has its proper part to
perform in terminating this bloody struggles and
that the wise diplomacy of the statesman is as
indispensable as the strategy of the General, or
the bravery of the troops, in achieving our inde
pendence and stopping the effusion of blood.—
They also believe that il is the right and duty of
the people of the sovereign States to take coun
sel together, and express their opinions freely
upon great questions involving their existence as
well as their liberties, and to bring to bear upon
their Confederate agents the influence which
they have the right to wield iu favor of honora
ble negotiation with a view to terminate the war
'by an agreement of both the Confederate and
tile Federal governments to stop hostilities, dis
band their armies, and leave the people of the
border States, or any other State whose position
may be doubtful, and to settle the question at the
ballot box, whether they will link their destiny
with the old government or with the Confeder
ate States, and that this decision when made
shall end the contest.
This principle of governing sovereign States
only by the “consent of the governed” is the
great fundamental principle proclaimed by our
;in 17 , fi, ii- ii"l' '■ the very pillars
■ i -in -t,,ub!i .u system, and which it is hoped,
*' ii iiplomatv 5e wisely managed, so that
-in i-i ulion ti be ■ oirecth understood by the
~r , n nr l -., of the people of tie North: n States,
Mi Lincoln cannot long i mil' ue to trample
mini r l-.'s f» , without arousing tin in lignation
,q i, ' ~s c son* i leeit ,u hni command,
.J- " . ii< a win l. ■ . •- and
Ui riu country m honorable pence, to the
.. , u-i: to the eiuleasmeni of home, and
. nil on: intei. i' to uripuralUli and desilopemcnt
ul orospority in tuw<*.
wUc' these are u. eved to be the views
oi ii vast majority of tin people ot (icorgia as to
the course proper to be pursued by the Confed
erate fiovernment, neither her people at home,
her gallant troops in the field who have so long
borne the privations and the hardships of the
camp, nor her government, has any intention to
ignore the Confederacy or to open negotiations
3b a separate State. Georgia entered into the
revolution with her confederate sisters, and she
will stand by them to the last, and will never
agree to any terms of settlement which do not
meet the aporohation and secure the indepen
dence of all’ tfte States, including the border
States which choose to cart their lot with the
Confederacy and to share its fortunes for weal or
The motto inscribed upon Georgia s proud
-banner should be: Perpetual separation from
the rotten and corrupt government ot the United
States; the maintenance of the sovereignity of
the States and the independence of the Confed
erate States, with a faithful observance by that
government of all its obligations to respect the
r ights and liberties of the people ot tile States. —
Georgia was among the first to take up arms to
touiV'tain these principles, and she will be the
last to ,'i.v down her arms till they are estahlish
cut into the revolution a sovereign
State to battle i° r independence, and her glori
ous troops will stai.'<* “hie by side with their com
rades from other State*' till she comes out of it a
sovere'gn State, coniedei ateil with, sovereign
sister States. She will have 110 Dictator, no
King, no Emperor, no Master.
Begging you to assure the Georgia trod” B un
der your command, that I shall continue to l,ii.'. or
constantly, faithfully and energetically to aid in
clothing all destitute Georgians while under
arms, and in supplying their loved ones at home
with the necessaries of life in their absence, and
that 1 shall ever sympathise with them in their
privations and sufferings, and honor them for
their gallant and glorious deeds,
1 am. General, very respectfully,
Vour ob't. sevv’t.,
Joseph E. Brown.
Effects of thk WaK is tub North -Gnow
inu Desire for Peace. —The New \ork Daily
Times urges an end to bo put to the war.
Speaking of it, it says that it is a war of “con
quest and extermination,” aud that “its advo
cates recall and shame the days of the Him*
and Visigoths.” The Times gives the follow
ing picture of the state of ass airs it has produc
ed in the North :
‘•The administration is perpetually exerci
- ' military and forcible control over the bal
„ -t only in the border States, but in
those most reu.' “to from the scene of conflict.
Here in New Yorn. « of the
United State,'- overrides "Uh “military neces
sity” the functions of the governor of New
York and the laws arid rights fit the -‘-' te and
its chief municipality, i-very day * tekgraph
brings us tidings of some c'utrag® committed
by the returned soldiery, for opinion s siik-e.
upon peaceful private citizens —some poll tad
meeting dispersed—some Democratic press
destroyed. The financial excesses ot the ad
ministration are piling up. day after day. moun
tains of indebtedness which. sooner or later,
must topple over and crush us. There is not
an acre of laud in the whole North —not a
warehouse, a dwelling, a factory —which Mr.
Chase is not covering, every week, with new
mortgagos, each heavier than the last! Mean
while the cost of the commonest necessaries t>f
life is becoming frightful to the poor, and the
enormous superabundance of paper money is
stimulating extravagance and speculation to
the maddest recklessness; every element of
demoralization Is at work to corrupt the people;
public virtue appears to have sold itself, and
private lutegritv. and even chastity are besieg
ed by the. most tempting and unprecedented
allurements. The whole people, in fine, ap
pear to have ioitmd hands in an infamous sat
urnalia of blood and moral or physical de
bauchery. The very capital of the Republic
has become but a gigantic brothel, where lewd
and desperate women scarcely rival, in their
shameless way, the moral prostitution of the
Legislative and Executive Chambers !
is this exaggerated ? Let the reader who
thinks so, spend but a week in >\ ashington,
or explore New York for but a day.
Exenv is McLemokr's Cave— The Rome
Courier of the 21st hist say* that just as they go
to mess thev he tr that a considerable force ot
v.Lkee are in McLemore's Cave, and au ad- ,
- nee on lw.me may be their intention.
it k to ported tbit another flght occurred on
Bed rim.
C«l|RCgpO*aejf« !5 teETWEB* tiOYKttXUtl
aaOtVN ANO TUB pKt'MKTABV OB WAR.
oov. neown's letter.
Execctivb Department, i
Milledoevillr, Ga., March 22, 1864. f
lion. James A. Sed-lon, Secretary t>f War.
Sir —The General Assembly of the State of
Georgia has passed a resolution, a copy of
which is herewith transmitted, in which they
decline to exj ress any opinion as to the wis
dom of the act parsed by Congress, enrolling
such persons as had been enrolled under the
State law, and recommend that I. as the Ex
ecutive, interpose no obstacle to its enforce
ment, and also requesting me to open a cor
respondence and request you to ex
onerate from the penalties of said act, such
persons between the of seventeen and
eighteen and forty-five and fifty, who did not
volunteer or enroll within the time specified,
-imposing their enrollment under the State
law to be legal.
; n.’.ring ;> ;r *#-- ---or p—
' 'a r.. .ai A*s*jl«m>.
j -»-• .0,1, i ' ... . ...
f. vet was potsed by fij. >*.: , > .mr
rd this approved y ' J
j rjtte r&»o*ntf wit© wr.C- .
j ; mvitdoos o. .-Aid act, which enroltae.it war
| immediately orde-ed and made. Aft?’ which.
Gcmgres* p-u-uti an act decinriL* ‘t. ■ * —’’l,
aod after the passage of the same, all white
men, residents of the Confederate States, be
tween the ages of seventeen and fifty, shall be
in the military service of the Confederate
States, during the war. ' Under the sth sec
tion of said act, it is made she duty of all white
male residents of the Confederate States, be
tween the ages of seventeen and eighteen and
forty-live and fifty, to be enrolled within a
certain time, and any person who shall fail to
enroll himself without a reasonable excuse
therefor, shall he placed in service in the field,
for the war,—instead of constituting a reserve
for State defence and detail duty."
These persons, honestly believing, that both
acta required the same State defence, and as
they were enrolled by State authority for that
purpose, it was legal, failed to enroll them
selves in Confederate service, which I think is
a reasonable excuse therefor, I therefore re
spectfully request that they be allowed thirty
days after notice given, to volunteer, organize
and elect their officers. And as it is impor
tant, that your decision be made known imme
diately, with your consent I will publish your
reply to this letter, if you conform to the wish
es of the General Assembly, and grant the
privilege requested for the persons now made
subject to enrollment.
Very respect! ully, Ac.,
Joseph E. Brown.
SECRETARY OF WAR’S REPLY.
War Department, 1
Richmond, April 7tli, 1864. f
His Excellency Joseph E. Brown, Governor of
Georgia.
Sir —I have the Honor to acknowledge your
letter inclosing a resolution of the General As
sembly of Georgia, recommending that no ob
stacle be interposed to the conscription under
recent laws of the Confederate Congress, of
such persons as had been enrolled under the
State law, and desiring that the Secretary of
War of the Confederate States, be requested to
exonerate from any penalties imposed by the
Confederate law on such persons so enrolled,
as had failed to comply with the call for enroll
ment, under the Confederate law within the
specified time.
While 1 will not disguise the feeling, that
even greater-satisfaction would have been ex
perienced, from lilt cordial approval by your
General Assembly of the wisdom of the Con
federate law, yet it is gratifying to have the
evidence afforded by the resolution of the As
sembly, of the spirit of harmonious co-opera
tion and patriotic zeal that animated their de
liberations; 1 take pleasure in responding to
their request that, on reference to the Con
script Bureau, which is charged with the exe
cution of the Confederate Law, I am informed
no measures have been taken, which as yet
have imposed penalties on thoso enrolled un
der the late law, and that opportunity has been
and will be afforded to all such, f;o report
themselves or volunteer before they will be
subjected to the prescribed penalties.
1 should add the additional pleasure I have
found in the assurance, that your own original
objections to the Confederate law will be relin
quished in deference to the decision ot your
Assembly, and my hope that a spirit of wise
conciliation and forbearance, will always avoid
any concict, so much to be deprecated between
Confederate and Stae authorities.
Very respectfully yours,
James A. Seddon, Sec’y of War.
Tub Alabama. Supreme Court. —The Supremo
Court of Alabama his made the annexed de
cision in regard to the law repealing the act
allowing substitutes in the army :
Ex I’arte G. W. Tate. Petition for habeas
corpus, on appeal from the derision of Chancellor
■l. R. John, in the county of Dallas.
In this ease the majority of the supreme
court of Alabama hold the following: A. ,f.
Walker, C. J., and .1. I*. Phelan, J. concur
ring:
1. That the war and peace power, conferred
on the Congress of the Confederate States by
the Constitution, is the highest and most vital
trust confided to that Government, because
upon its proper exercise the maintenance aud
protection of every valuable right, whether ol
individuals or the body politic, and involving
the very existence of both, must, in case of
insurrection or foreign invasion, ultimately
despond.
!! That to execute this high trust, it is the
imperative duty, as it is the manifest right of
that Government, to exhaust, if it becomes ne
cessary, the entire military force of the coun
try in men. money, and every other available
material of war; but, especially, to hold under
its control, and to employ all the males of the
country capable of bearing arms, or of per
forming other military service.
3. That in view of this high trust, and this
great correlative duty, conferred aud imposed
upon that Government for the public defense,
and the preservation of life, liberty and prop
erjv, it is not in the power of any Congress to
grant permanent and irrepealable exemptions
from military service upon any terms or any
consideration whatsoever; but that all ex
emptions granted by Congress must be taken
under the implied condition, that, if the exi
gencies of the country require, they maybe
revoked and set as ; de ; and that each success
ive Congress must be the, judge of what the
public defense and the necessities of the country
from time to time require.
1. Proceeding upon these principles, we de
cide. that the act of Congress of January 6th,
1804, which declares, “that no person shall be
exempted from military service by reason ol
his having furnished a substitute,’' and the act
ot Februaiy the 17th, 1804, which repeals all
previous exemptions, both have the effect of
repealing so much of the aci of April loth,
1803. ae allows an exemption to any one fur
nishing a substitute, and are valid apdeonsti
tutioual; and that the petitioner in this case js
now liable to military service, agreeably to the
provisions of the saidacts of January sth, and
February 10th. 1804. notwithstanding he had
furnished a substitute.
The decision of the Chancellor is affirmed.
A Nortuekx View or the Mexican' Ques
tion. —A New Y’ork correspondent of the Phil
adelphia Inquirer speaks thus of the Mexican
Question. The man whose opinion he has
is a shrewd politician, and his predic-
on vtuiops subject* have proved correct ;
Thurlow M’ced, who professes to be more
intimate with the F-mperor «*' the French, per
sonally, than any other public mao in Ameri
ca. thinks Congress has done a very inexpedi
ent thing in passing the anti-Mexican monar
chy resolution, and he does not hesitate to de
clare that its immediate effect white to throw
Louis Napoleon and Prince Maximilian into
the arms of Ihe rebel*. The thing was weli
enough in itself, but he contends that, as there
is a fitting time for everything, this was not
the time for thit.
This, of course, is but the opinion of one
man. and it may go for what it is worth ; but
it is worth while to remark, that there is to-i
day an article in the Napoleonic organ here,
“Le Courrier des Etas Unis,” which goes far to
support the theory of the veteran editor of the
Albany "Evening Journal.” The Frenchman
alludes to the action of Congress in impertit
neot if not insolent terms, and if the spirit of
his remarks is a foreshadowing of the temper
in which it is to be received bv the French govt
eminent and press at heme, Mr. Weed's progs
nostieations of mischief may be- something
more Ilian the product of an over anxious imj
agination. J
The manufactory of Messrs. S. Froeliek jfc
Cos., Eenansvilie. y. c., from April Ist, IS6I,
to March Ist, ISbL has furnished lb sets of
surgical instruments, 800 gross of military' but
tons. o , . 00 lance spears, 6,500 sabre bayonets,
11,700 cava ! ry sabres, 2,700 officer's sabre*.
GOO navy cutlasses. 800 artillery cutlasses. 1,700
sett-’a*' iplaptry accoutrements, 300 sabre belts
and 300 faiajwacfcf,
-L. .. ~-p- ■ i . n■«
mVitkOX AEG is.
lien. Utilized, who wat- bUmud for the disas
ter at Big bethel, dfewiiiheti the statement of
Barton In hu life of Uen. Butler about that
affair. Get. Bierce says that the battle was lost
through the blunders of Gen*Butler.
What few garrison are left in Texas, are
composed entity of negro troops.
Just now the most important topic of con
versation in Louisiana, as well as in the city of
New Orleans, is the late order of Gen. Banks
providing for the education of negro children,
and the furnishing of a library for adults. This
order im] roses a tax on every owner of real
or personal property, residing in each school
district, for the support of the schools one year;
and it alio provides for a library to be furnish
ed at a ost of two dollars and a half for each
adult ne?ro in the district, where such adult
may hap >eu to reside.
Northern correspondents writing from New
Orleans says that negro women come to the city
to enter upon lives of vice, crowded together
hv the dozens into single rooms, without regard
•• -kto«r .
R. -nom. •• . tax..- --.aim the 1
. e ■' ,» jrl tuns ir. .e of G
TANARUS"' 1 le,; 7 '!
j e v t. -’•nfif New Ou i:•-.i .aie t! At Con'-! 1
-h 1 gj. .* Yankee plantations .l '
*-11thing-w
The .v, , .- •> ,f Texes by ,u- ' -d-ir*. i
j troopH •\s ztiueb ■ -at ->n . v- -moGr ;
t» .I-.,..*- • me ot>b go ».tb
I-arge numbers of Germans, it is said, belong
to this class.
Thfe U. S. Supreme court adjourns May 1.
Grant has a long interview with Lincoln's
Cabinet often.
The N. Y. Herald in speaking of the finan
cial condition of the North says, "on eveiy
hand extravagance, prodigality and specula
tion prevail. Delirium reigns in Wall street,
and among the giddy throngs of Broadway, and
amid the splendors and the surging multitudes
at the great Fair ; in a word, from the Atlan
tic to the Bacitic, the madness of unlimited
treasures rules the hour. Glorious spectacle
this, and yet a most fearful delusion. It is like
the feast of Belshazzar, while the legion of our
irresistible enemy are gathering under the city
walls.]’
Fernando Wood resumed his seat in Congress
Saturday, after a severe attack of sickness.
Evelry effort is being made by the Federals
to cover up their scarcity of men by drumming
in all the abseoteess, “new organizations,” Ac.,
that they can lay their hands on.
A Northern paper says the reason why
Chase’s gold certificates don’t go off in New
York is that they are not redeemable in gold—
they ire only receivable for Custom House dues.
The people don’t want any such certificates ;
they ivant the gold itself to send off to Europe,
and i hereby provide against the impending
smash > n Yankee money affairs. Assistant
Treasurer Cisco offers his gold certificates in
New York at four per cent, less than gold is
selling, but it won’t take. The people won’t
buy them, and gold won’t go down.
Iff the Coles co., Illinois, rebellion eight lives
were lost in the affray, and twenty-live prison
ers are in custody. These it is said, will be
turnied over to the civil authorities, to be tried
for riot ami murder, the circumstances not be
ing regarded such as to justify a military trial,
or a trial foi treason in the United States courts.
The Fifty Fourth regiment, whose members
were the objects of attack, and five of whom
•were killed, have offered a reward of SI,OOO
for those at large who were engaged in the af
fair, “dead or alive.” The citizens of Charles
ton have also offered SIOO each for about a
dozen, including o'llair, the Sheriff of the
county.
The steamer J. 11. Russell was burnt near
Blaqueruine La., a few days since. She was
heavily laden with cotton, mules, and cattle.
These, with Adams Express freight and treas
ure, were entirely destroyed. Several lives
lost.
Four thousand Yankee cavalry have occu
pied Eagle Bass, Texas. It it said they will
held it permanently. This Pass is 400 miles
above Brownsville, and was the great highway
of the Confederates for running cotton and
other articles into Mexico. It was the determ
ination of our troops to occupy the place per
manently.
A soldier shota merchant of Joneborso, at
Apna, Illinois, April 11, killing him instantly.
Tlieaffair created great excitement, and at last
accounts more bloodshed was anticipated.
General Whiting commanding me Depart
ment of Wilmington, has issued a notice to
producers that unless provisions are brought
into that market at customary hours, and a
fair chance given to buyers residing in the
city, the stock will be impressed for the use of
the army and navy at Government prices.
The game for the next Presidency of the
North goes briskly on. So far in the West the
alar of Fremont is in the ascendancy. The
German Radical < )rganization Society of Detroit
has issued an address to the German citizens of
Michigan, calling upon them to form societies
and join, without general German
Organization in opposition to Lincoln, to de
(Jiivre themselves boldly in favor of the man of
progress, John C. Fremont, and to close up
their ranks with the watchword, ‘-Opposition to
Lincoln, Reward and Blair.’’ The German So
ciety of Chicago has passed resolutions in favor
<pf Fremont. So also has the German Union
(piiib of Mihvaukie. The leading Western pa
nels also support him.
; The American ship Texan Star has been cap
tured aud burned in the East India waters by
the Alabama. She had a large cargo of rice
and was bound for Singapore.
Dr. Franklin Bache, the oldest great grand
ton of I)r. Franklin, diel in Philadelphia, March
|l9. He was born October 2. r >, 1792.
The Assembly of Nova Scotia has passed a
Jlaw for uniting that province, New Brunswick
Jand Prince Edward's Island under one govern
jment.
I Northern papers say that owing to the heavy
“pressure" Lincoln will remove Meade from the
command of the Army of the Potomac. F. J.
Hooker is talked of as his successor.
It is believed that Grant is about to assign
McClellan and Fremont to active service.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says: “ Man for
man, irrespective of color, is the basis of the
new exchange of prisoners.”
The Federal gunboat Lacross has been burn'
ed about twenty miles below Alexandria, La.
Northern papeis think Grant’s orders indi
cative of active operations. They also say their
troops are ready to commence fighting.
The conservative Northern papers say tha
the Yankee expeditions into Louisiana wil
have to be abandoned.
The New York Herald has come to the sen
sible conclusion that a great deal depends on
the tesult of the coming campaign.;
Confederate successes are getting to be of
j common occurrence iu Kentucky.
The Democrats were successful }a the Alba
ny > N. Y., oUavtoF
A French paper has been started in Washing
ton. »
J. W. Boucher, of Georgetown, has been sent
to Post Delaware for one year, for violating
the laws of war by assisting persons io cross
into the enemy’s lines.
A woman presented herself at the Central
I ollce Station of Chicago, the other day. and
complained that, though she had two husbands
in the army, she couhfget no relief from the
war committee.
The New York papers mention that a com
mittee, sent to Albany with SJto,QOO, raised by
the re mil dealers of New York for the purpose
of defeating a certain bill, finally decided to
pocket the money themselves, rather than cor
rupt the Legislature. This is aboqt on a par
with the subsidizing process the last Coitfedej--
al* Congress underwent.
A Washington dispatch says : “Gov. Pier
pout, the Union Governor ot Virginia. " is now
engaged upon a report to be presented to the
l’rsident. Congress and tine world, in which
will be shown us some of the most nefarious
transactions of the Federal authorities in Alex
andria, Norfolk and Portsmouth, that ever d's
graced the history of vhy nation. The report
will be accompanied with documentary evi
dence as damaging as it is conclusive, and as
conclusive as such evidence can be.
The mechanics of new York are striking
against the - ‘strike bill” introduced into the
Legislature.
The proposition to remove the Capital of
Pennsylvania to Philadeipiiiia is causing great
excitement at Hamburg.
The people of the North are destined to be
but little behind us on the score of prices. A
letter received from a lady in New York, and
writen but a few weeks ago, states that calicoes
were selling at $2 per yard, and other goods
in the same proportion.
Robert L. McDonald, cf Sp. Louis, a well
known lawyer, has been arrested on a charge
of disloyalty, and paroled under bond of ten
Thousand dollars, as the state of his health
would not permit his imprisonment.
The Federals are again running trains to Mor
ristown. They now have communication be
tween Kuoxville and Cumberland Gap.
t NtmrKfctfc stews.
From a report contra idge-taff by the com
missioner of'patents to he Yankee Congress
recently, it appears mot buisness has been
transacted than dnriDg ay year in the history
of Government,
thousand and fomjteen applications have been
received; four tl*pand me hundred and sev
enty patents have "been granted; seven hundred
and eighty-seven caveatshuv- been filed; forty
applications made for ixtensions. and forty
eight extensions have *een granted. Os the
issues forty-eight were o English inventors,
thirty-seven to French, ind twenty-seven to
persons of other nations. The funds ou hand
January, 1863, were $88,400, amount received
during the year. $195,6(0; expenses. 189,400
of which $143,000 were Dr clerk hire.
1 he Atlantic Telegraph Company directors
have made a contract with Glass, EUiott A Cos.
to manufacture the improved cable, unani
mously recommeuded by the scientific com
mittee, and to lay Hie same in the summer of
1865.
Gutts'ihalk. (jte N«w Otleasjpmr t» eiv
>7 eoaecTts In New York assisted ~ Carlo
I . .w ' 'Uni t
■ 'lb-m . oil >.U
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t- - i.-iaer . power to suituna- >
,’ti >tv ofi.oers .'f th ’>ir/ ar.fi army i
r-it f.j court tnaiilaL In response to [
ism h “ - \ Commerce of the betitue, Judge j
vlv.ca.' J or. wal licit iiae given nis opinion j
•l the b Li* il. ile contends hat it - .„- ;
sentiat mat tne Commander m-Cniet should
have full power to remove officers aud to sup
ply their places. He says that court martinis
cannot be afforded in time of war and the exi
gencies of the service require plenary powers
in the chief. Mr. Holts ideas of centralizing
power into the hands of one man will find
inany,snpporters and admirers in the South.
Rev. Peter Bullion I). D., i#i known as an
author of grammars and other tAxt-boOks, died
in Troy, New York, on the 13th of March, in
his seventy third-year.
A New York paper says that all the bodies
of the Abolition soldiers hastily interred in
ditches and trenches after the battle of Gettys
burg, have been removed to appropriate places
in the National The whole number
was 3,512, of whom about one thousand were
known. About one-fourth of the whole
number belonged to New York regiments.
A special dispatch from St. Paul says that
Wasedereys, a prominent Sisston Indian, has
come into Fort Abercrombie and has accepted
terms of peace. He states that nearly all the
Sisstons are in favor of peace,'and others of the
leaders will be ready in a few days to follow
his example; hut the powerful tribe of Yanki
onuats, while they want peace, require that
“Uncle Sam’’ shall not penetrate into their
territory, and that steamboats with emigrants
shall not navigate the upper Missouri. The
refugees, murderers of the lower bands and the
evil disposed of the other bands, are joining
them, preparatory to a spring campaign.
The Yankee Senate Committee on Foreign
Affairs have had under consideration the House
joint resolution in regard to the Mexican ques
tion. The Committee, in accordance with the
wishes of the Administration, determined to
defer action for the present upon this and all
other similar propositions of Yankee foreign
relations.
Andy Johnson has gone to Knoxvillo to op
pose the separation of East Tennessee.
Northern dispatches say that Johnston’s ar
my is receiving heavy reinforcements. Parts
of Beauregard's army aud raw troops have ar
rived at Dalton, Georgia. Bishop Polk’s army
is on the way to Dalton, Johnston's cavalry
are active. The hulk of his array is at Tunnel
Hill.
The New York Times says the Confederates
have begun this year's operations with a tor
pedo warfare, and cautions their steamers to
be ou the lookout for these machines.
Gen. Scott has nearly completed his autobi
ography, tracing his personal history downward
from the earliest period to the latest public
acts of his life.
Northern newspapers have commenced rais
ing their prices on account-of the increased ex
penditure caused by the war.
Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, has present
ed a petition of Mr. Collins and others for -au
thority to construct a telegraph line to connect
with Russia via Behring’s Straits. Reliable
parties say that the line can he put in opera
tion in eighteen mouths.
Lincoln has committed to imprisonment in
Fort Dolu.w/11-rt durimr the. war. .lului W-Scott
aud Simon J. Kemp, Baltimoreans, and Fierro
C. Dugan, condemned to be hung as rebel spies.
The Yankee gunboat Kingfisher lias been
wrecked off Otter Island.
Yankee troops have been sent from Cairo to
look after Forrest.
A private letter states that the people of Cal
ifornia are suffering at present from drought.
Eight thousand sheep and eight thousand
beeves have died, and the farmers are killing
the cattle for their hides and fat. This drought
will prove most disastrous to the farming and
hydraulic mining interests of that State.
Considerable excitement exists at Plymouth
N. C., regarding a Confederate ram on the
Roanoke river, said now to be ready for active
operations againt the United States gunboats.
The New York World says the negroes of
Maryland will be freed, no doubt, but at the
fearful cost of the civil liberty of the people
of that State.
The imperfect report of. Gen. McClellan con
cerning his military administration, lately pub
lished, is to be corrected, for the sake of his
tory, by the publication of all bis official des
patches. 'The omitted despatches, now lying
on Secretary Stanton’s table, make a pile a
foot and a half high.
The order directing the summary punish
ment of bushwhackers when caught within’the
Yankee army lines, has recently been annulled.
The Federal collector of taxesin insurrection
ary districts reports that in South Carolina,
103,574 acres of land land were sold for $27,-
399 ; in Virginia, 5,400 acres for $110,407 ; in
Fiourida, 124 acres for 51C,002. The expenses
-in the District of South Carolina were $15,815,
Florida, $14,460; Virginia, $0,061 ; and Ten
nessee, $7,122. .
About five thousand Confederate prisoners
are confined at Fort Delaware, in connection
with three hundred and thirty-five officers.
Among this number can be found Jeff Thomp
sonand Basil Duke.
By an order issued from the Yankee Wav De
partment, Brigadier Gen. . Stone, who was at
one time imprisoned in Fort Lafayette for trea
sonable correspondence with the enemy, and
now Chief of Gen. Banks’ Staff, has been re
duced to his original rank, and orderel to re
turn to his regiment. Gen. Montgomery has
been dropped from ihe rolls. Gen. Andrew
Porter and Gen. Naglee have been reduced to
their original rank, and ordered to their regi
ments. There are several others who are down
on the list, and will soon follow suit.
Gen. Grant has designated the following
officers to compose his Staff. Brigadier Gen.
Joiui A. Raw-lino, Gtrief rtf Staff; Liuut. Col.
,C. 8. Comstock, Senior Aid de Camp ; Lieut.
Col. 0. Tj- Babcock, Aid de Camp ; Lieut. Col.
AY. R. Rowley am} Lieut. Coj. Adam Badean,
Military Secretaries ; Captain E. S. Parker,
Assistant Adjutant Gen.; Lieut. Col. AV. 11.
Dunn, Jr., Aid deCamp ; Captain H. W. James,
Staff Quartermaster.
The Federal Ways and Means Committee
completed the Tax Bill. They have adopted a
proposition submitted by Mr. Odell, to impose
a tax upon all brokers’ sale? of stocks, bonds,
raejxeandise, die. The scope of the Stamp
lax is largely extended. The tax imposed
upon distilled spirits is one dollar and twenty
five cents. on tobacco, thirty cents per pound,
With graduating scale. It is estimated by the
committee that the bill will raise about three
hundred millions of revenue.
, PF‘Z CI steamer Pet, captured off Wilming
-536 000 1 ** aC ’ 4U ° U U Boston 4P ril s«>, fol '
Tiie Coxeederate Steamee Alabama.—Ac
cording to rate ad vices, the Confederate steamer
, | jaraa !S * bou ?ht te he on the Mexican coast.
A letter from da ed March 27, says:
The steamer Orzaba, at far. am a from'Saa Fran
cisco. brings us the highly important and start -
hug intelligence that a suspicious steamer, an
swering the description of the Alabama, had
been seen on Aranulco.
• l 1 •fppeiis that she fokowed a coal ship close
into the outer anchorage at Acapulco, .o close,
maeed tiiat _ehe was distinctly seen frur the
‘leeks of the tiecr:; blockading shibs-of War.—
As soon the infornjatioii wap bpnveyed to
the Admiral 01 United States steamer Lan
caster she immediately g.' f under wav and
f “ ie,! te) discover the hr
rhan o un t reasy going not more
than nve or six knots.
,T- iren A Admiral disclaims all knowledge
of the fhe Lnglish have no such craft
in their Pacinc squadron. The only Spanish
•. essel of that class on the Pacific station is
co *, al i y o Hence who can the stranger be?
■pie United states steamer Loncaster. it was
understood would go to tiie northward in ojrcjer
to convoy the mail steamer Constitution clear
of danger, and will also warn the Golden Age
to be o» tlje lookout.
eUtSiAUV.
Seven theusand four hundred and twsnty
bushels of salt was maue at the Btr,fe salt v. orks
in Claike county, Ala.,from the 20tn of Jan
uary to the 31st of March last.
Ihe trial of the boy murderer, in Savannah,
before the examining court, resulted in his
discharge, the court deciding that being under
nine years of age, he was not indictable under
the laws of Gorgia.
The Columbus Enquirer says that Farrsgut
is thought to be busily engaged in prepar
ing another expedition against Mobile. North
ern accounls say that he has a large land force
within fifty miles of the city ; but this state
ment, though possibly true, is not confirmed
by any Confederate report that has attracted our
notice. They may be somewhere on the coast,
or on the islands between Mobile and New Or
leans. A report, that appears to be more plau
sible, is that there are about thirty' vessels in
the bay of Bensacola. Possibly, the peculiar
ities of the “situation” at present may call for
| the pretence of the whole Yankee naval force
at iiv- cit“ - j«r o «te- ’a-> vest- ‘
urr- - -s‘ t>* Texas •■».-«.
• • -roust in rt acting the.’
■ lailaide ut ta ’ e Cha - .-v
i Courier eait-i «tu- Jon to the fact the *
j i r-io ,ti ■*. -x of ' vit MS not r -
| tack befOi. *.ae 2d '-a> The are now,
therefors, i'ui.dai-le ot exchangeable asothei
denominations and innocent holders should
>t .••.ibtui' V- j: suffer any loss beyond the le
g..l mLi, which to now Mzj pet cent,., and will
be for May, 432; f or June, 53J; for July, 634 ;
for August, 73-i; for September, 83$; aud lor
October. 935. After which even the “Mem
mingerian process” cannot take off another ten
per cent., and the surviving bills, if auy, may
be stored away in a museum of Memmingerian
money.
Some weeks ago the blockade running steam
er Dee was beached opposite Mr. Hansley's
plantation, near Wilmingion, where she was
shelled by the enemy, some of the shells com
ing over and burying themselves in the laud.
A few days since the negroes at work in one
of Mr. Hansley's fields ploughed up one of these
shells, from which they removed the cap or
fuse, and Mr. \\ r m. Batson, a relation of Mr.
Hansley’s, determined on trying the shell to
see if it w'ould explode, applying a lighted
twig or dry branch of some kind. On the sec
ond trial lie succeeded ; the shell did explode,
injuring him terribly, if not fatally. After a
few more persons get killed by playing with
shells, the"balance of the community will, we
hope, learn to let them alone.
The whole sum issued in bills of the denomi
nation of live dollars, siucc the foundation of
tlie Confederacy, is. $79,090,315, and it is sup
posee that fiom sixty to sixtv-five millions
would cover the amount of fives this day in
circulation.
From the Refuge Works in Marietta, Ga.,
theie has been turned out one of the most ele
gant and substantial jobs that has been gotten
up in the South during the war, in the shape of
an ambulance for two horses. The carriage is
for Lieutenant General Hood, of the Army of
Tennessee, and is a present from the men of his
old division.
Consuls of foreign Gove-nments and their
agents in the Confederacy are now busily en
gaged taking the names of persons claiming
foreign protection, and it is presumed that these
Governments intend to take issue with the Con
federacy on the point of the military service
exaetejl by the last conscription act of all
“white male residents.”
The Confederate and Yankee Generals are
exchanging prisoners at Shreveport.
Geu. George W. Ring, long and extensively
known in that section, died suddenly at his
plantation, four miles from Athens, a few days
since.
The Rome Qourier states that there is yet a
prospect of a very fair fruit crop in that section.
Nearly half the peach trees have a plenty of
live germs on them yet.
Agents of the Government, Quartermasters
and Commissaries, are purchasing supplies with
six per cent certificates, which are free from
taxation. If our farmers will exchange their
supplies for these certificates, they will not on
ly secure an investment free from taxes, but
will aid in preventing a futher expansion of
the currency.
A woman dressed in male a'tire, was arrest
ed at the Erwin hospital near Kingston a few
days since, and sent under guard to Atlanta.—
On the same day two young women arrived at
Kingston from Rome in company with some
soldiers. Failing, to got. trasses to go to the
front, or a room at the uorei, mey teialau to a
stable and shortly re-appeared dressed in sol
diers garb; they were arrested and turned over
to the Provost Marshal.
The Mobile Register says, that Commodore
Farragut is moving about ’considerably in the
Gulf, aud some suppose he is after mischief, as
he appears to be in command of a pretty large
fleet. Mobile would seem to be bis object, as
there is no other game on the coast worthy of
liis skill and force. It is just as well to con
sider it so and be prepared accordingly.
The Wayside Home of Savannah is kept up
and under the exclusive control of the Ladies
of that city and the surrounding country. The
management, and especially the fare, will com
pare favorably with nay of the first class hotels
of our cities. AJI honor to the noble women of
the South!
In February and March the ladies Knitting
society of Lynchburg, Ya., distributed 1,005
pairs of socks to the army,
A. G. Paine of Greenville, Ala., has invent
ed a machine for making cotton cards.
FROM FLORIDA.
The following order has been issued by Ma
jor General Anderson to the troops of bis de
partment, complimentary to the 28th Georgia
Regiment, of Colquitt's Brigade:
Heado’ks Military List., Fp.v. 1
Camp Milton, April 10, 1864. j
General Orders, (
No, jo. j
Patient endurance of irksome labor is a qual
ity no less essential tc the perfect soldier than
valor in the field of battle. The spade and the
axe are weapons no less effective in warfare
than the rifle and cannon, but it is seldom that
troops are found energetic in their use.
The 2sth Georgia Regiment has. while labor
ing on the defensive works at Baldwin, dis
played an industry no less creditable to its of
ficers and soldiers than its acknowledged gal
lantry in the field. The Major General com
manding feels much pleasure in tendering
them his thanks for their exertions, and ex
presses his hope that they may, before long,
in a brilliant victory over our invaders, gain a
more fitting recompense of their toil.
By order of
Major General Anderson.
Wm. G. Bkatu, A. A. G.
The regiment has been at work on the for
tifications some five weeks at this place, and
could have been relieved at any time, at the re
quest of the commander of the regiment, but it
was a unanimous agreement'on the part of both
officers and men to continue to work, as the en
gineers desired that the regiment should re
main with them, as it gave entire satisfacti an.
Everything continues quiet with us, except
occasional firing between the pickets. The
troops get plenty tp eat and are in the best of
spirits, ready and willing at any time to meet
the enemy."
The enemy are deserting and coming into
our lines daily from one to six. In the last
two days six have come in, bringing'with thtrn
nine horses.
They report a regiment strongly guarded at
Jacksonville when they left, krprevent their de
serting. They also report three officers under
arrest and to be court-martialed for refusing to
dine at the same table with a negro officer. All
express themselvas tired of associating with
the colored gentry.
FROM TRAXS-VIISStfeSIPPI.
A gentleman just fiom Price's camp, at
Cmn.den, Arp., represents matters as wearing
a very favorable aspect. New recruits were
poming in rapidly. Price had about nine thou
sand mounted men ready to start on an expe
dition. It is thought that a move was to be
made into Missouri. Price has sent all his in
fantry to Kirby Smith. This looks as if a vigor
ous campaign was intended.
An officer who left Shreveport, March —•,
gays the placp was garrisoned by a sufficient
force to hold it. The fortifications.arecomplete
and very extensive, the natural advantages or
the place, which are considerable,. having
been improved on by much engineering skill
and laker. The river at Shreveport is about
three hundred vaius vide. The opposite banks
are low and the soil so boggy as to prevent sm
advance from that side. Dur batteries are sut
ikient'i, eteafttgd to secure plunging shots
affaingi. the iroaciatfc, e» v i n ~ S’*,-...
;® ..»n.va and well mounted. In afoifcou
heavy Cat. - ~w r u obstructed to
to these defenses, the i«
such an extent that the fleet cannot advance
on the town without mgch difficulty and delay,
as well as danger. ’ The gar?i?oii is provisioned
for a seige of six months, the troops are in the
best of spirits and repose unlimited confidence
in General Smith. The Trans-Miseiasippi ami;
was never in better condition.
General Sterling Price has assumed com
mand of the denartment vacated by Geneial
Holmes. He has a fine cojpmand of brave
and enthusiastic troops.
fOHBitiS NK4VS.
la London at the execution in public of five
man, la front of Nqwgatsj, beer house windows,
doors ami roofs opposite, were placard?! to lot,
and a good standpoint rented for as high us
£3O. A vast mass of rununs and abandoned
women pervaded every approach to the gal
lows : men were hold, choked and robbed, un
der the very scaffold, at the moment die
wretched culprits were writhing in their final
agony; ribaldry, obscenity, crime, anti the
cheers of a thoroughly depraved populace,
were the accompaniments to this consumma
tion of the ‘law of selt-prescrvation.
While the Tuikish Government has been bor
rowing money at home, ou short time at incred
ible rates of interest, it has succeeded in nego
tiating anew, foreign loan of $10,000,000 at
sixty-eight per cent, for the nominal purpose
of building a railroad from Constantinople to
Adrianopie, a distance of about 150 miles—l3s
miles in a direct line." Adrfhnople is the chief
city in European Turkey, having a populiitian
of more than 100,000, aud moreover is on.the
1 (lirtx. •" - ■ ’ 1 --
xn&tri&n hue.
\lexain>
{letters of his intet v-. I- .- >u. ■ every
j body, and is especially bit'.; in ins comments
jon bta brothers deluding, it is supposed, flic
reputed fat he ■> tin tv ;• F'nv
At an immense-meeting held at the rotunda,
Dublin, on tlie evening of the 22d of February,
by The O Donoghue and Mr. Sullivan, of tin?
Nation, to protest against the erection of a
statue to Prince Albert in College byreen, the
Fenian Brotherhood stormed the platform, rout
ed the chairman and committee, and alter a
desperate light of fifteen minutes remained
masters of the ground, waving a flag and flour
ishing a naked sword. It is alleged that some
of the combatants wove the American tmifonu.
The kangaroos have lately increased so ra
pidly iu Australia, that a wholesale destruct
tion is proposed to. get rid of them. They
threaten to overrun the country.
The death ot the King ot Bavaria was caus
ed by erysipelas, after two days’ illness, lie
is succeeded by his son, a youth of eighteen.,
of whom little or nothing seems to be known.
As the deceased King was the very soul of the
Confederacy of the smaller German States
against the two great powers, it is apprehended
that the influence of the latter may now left
without control.
An improvement for protecting engraved
plates lias been introduced in France by M.
Chardon, which process consists in covering the
plate with a very thin layer of iron, by means
of the galvano plastic process. The deposit is
so fine that the finest lines of the engraving
ure found to beexactly copied. When the thin
iron stratum, becomes worn it can he replaced
by plunging the plate in an acid which will
disolve the iron without attacking the copper,
and thus the plates may continue to be used
for an indefinite period.
A mass megtiug, consisting of about five
thousand men, was held at Blaekheath, near
London, March 25th, in favor of the interven
tion of England on behalf of rise Boles. Res
olutions wereradopted declaring such interven
tion so be the duty of the British Government.
A London paper says that Napoleon will gain
his end in having a Congress called by the very
power .which rejected the original proposition
for such an assemblage.
The British Channel Squadron had been or
dered to make ready for sea.
The influx of gold into India, especially in
Bombay, is producing the most singular effects
upon the natives. Late accounts stale that
they play with coin like children, purchase to
please their fancies at enormous rates, and have
given up the use of earthern vessels, having
brass and copper instead. The women have
thrown by their former cheap ornaments, and
now shine in gold and pearls.
Maximilian was not announced as Emperor
of Mexico on the 27th of March, as expected.
A difficulty relative 1o the arrangement of the
succession to the throne of Austria during his
absence caused the delay. It was said that the
new Mexican loan had been successfully nego
tiated ; but this was again denied, and the
matter remained in doubt. It is said that
Maximilian proposed to have a Spanish prince
named his heir presumptive iu Mexico in case
he should die without children.
The alien Germans continued their opera
tions against Duppel and Frederick!,, but they
met a firm resistance from the Danes at every
point. The Prussians endeavoured to taao
Duppel by storm, but were repulsed along tbo
eiiirru une ttiun .. n..... a o t.t., .1.1.1,
nearly seven hours. The bombardment of
Frederick)! was not more, successful. The Ger
man hold on Juliana was lelasing. It was
said that a conference ol‘ settlemen of ihe
Schleswig Holstein question would meet in
London early in April.
Garibaldi was to enjoy a series of splendid
receptions in England. It was proposed to
present him with the freedom of the ejty of
London, the paper to beenclo-ed in a casket
of the value of one hundred guineas.
The Liverpool cotton market was dull on
the 30th of March. Consols closed in London
at 01} to 91J.
The Queen of England has officially announ
ced her intention to hold a Court at Bucking
ham Palace on April 0. Drawingroom leeep
tions by the Prinqess of Wales, levees by the
Prince of Wales, state concerts and two state
balls, are also announced.
The conference lor settling; the Schleswig
Holstein question was to‘‘commence on April
12, at London.
Accounts from Japan have a pacific aspect.
At the usual Easter banquet given by the
Lord Mayor of London, the Puke of Cambridge
spoke iu favor of maintaining the army and
navy in a stale of the utmost efficiency, lie
asserted that England would do all she could
in honor to keep out of war, but would never
submit to humiliation and contempt.
The Pope was so far restored to health that
he officiated iu Urn religious ceremonies of Eas
ter Sunday. On account of lain, bov/cver, he
bestowed ihe public benediction inside of St.
Peter’s, instead of, as usual, from un exterior
balcony.
A Prussian Division of the Guard has gone
to Frederica to co-operate with the Austrians in
continuing the siege.
Two engagements favorable to the insurgents
have occurred in Poland.
The Portugese Cortes have passed a measure
for the abolition of the tobacco monopoly.
France ic said to have declared it utradvisa
ble'to maintain the treaty of London as a basis
for negotiations on the Danish question, and
considers universal suffrage to bo the only
means of arriving at a solution.
The apprehensions of war are said to be dis
appearing in Italy.
The Court of Assizes at Paris, sitting without
a jury, has condemned Mazzini to transportation
for participating in the conspiracy against the
life of the Emperor.
The Loudon Times City article says the Den
bigh, from Mobile, reported to have been cap
tured by the Federal blockading squadron, is
announced to have arrived safely, with a cargo
of cotton, at Havana. This cotton was shipped
in payment of a proportionate amount of Con
federate bonds, whiph will be canceled.
The negotiations between the Emperor of
Austria and Archduke Maximilian in regard to
the succession to the Austrian throne are said
o have terminated srfccessfu lly.
The late mob in Duoiin, was one of those
eruptions which show that I eland is not yet
an extinct volr.ant), and that the hostility of
her people to England in of the most rad cal
and implacable character.
The Spithead forts, off Portsmouth, England,
are to be abandoned, beeause they are not
strong enough to beai heavy guns. It is said
that the six hundred pound guns intended for
the walls would sink them under the water.
Five Danish steamers have appeared off Ru
gan Island.
The inhabitants of the Cape Verdea3 I-lands
are in a sad condition. At last accounts the
Islands were fast becoming depopulated,
ill coDSeqaencc of the recent drouth. * As an in
stance, the condition of Brava and St. Thiaga
vasjtruly fearful and desperate. The population
of the two islands amounts to about 70,000,
and for this population there were, when the
advices left Taiago, only sixty bags of rice.
But in the island of Brava the case was even
worse —there was no rice to be had The ef
fects of the fearful drouth had overwhelmed
both man and beast, and those who were living
were subsisting on the bark of the banana tree,
►and the flesh of animals, which, in this coun
try, were considered as vermin. Although rain
had fallen, the seed gown in the earth were
too much parched to sprout; and although the
pastures were becoming green, there were no i
battle to feed on thsjg—ail had died for want i
of food and water. ■
' A letter from the Camp at Chaiona, France,
.eiates that toe experiments with cannon, have
proved the incomparable superiority o'; arms
—°.le with a bore smaller than those in use at
the present. Late ex,. bee:i niade
to find the force necessary to cause cast-iron
cannon to burst. These trials have been made
with howitzer shell, tired with gunpowder com
pressed by a hydraulic machine. This powder
is pressed in cylindrical shapes of the size of
the bore of the gun. xt is placed in ainmani
tion wagons witboiit any envelope, the adher
ence of the several parts being such that it le
gists perfectly the jolting of the wagon.
THE BinotlAtlh COHHBSPONBSSCK
WITH Fit V!YCE OS THU MEXICAN
tH'LOTION,
The move in the Yankee Congress in the
Monroe Doctrine, as tested by the French oc
cupation of Mexico, has brought out the cor
respondence between Seward and Drouyn de
Lhuys. The N. Y. Times contains the follow
ing condensation of an interesting portion of it :
Minister Dayton, iu a letter to Secretary
Seward dated Sept. 14. 1863. says in the course
of a conversation with M. Drouyn de Lhuys,
“reference was made to the almost universal
report that our Government only awaits the
determination of its domestic troubles to drive
the French out of Mexico. This idea is care
fully nursed and circulated by the friends of
secession here and doiug us injury with the
Govei nrdent. The French naturally conclude
that if they are to have trouble with us, it
would be safest to have their own time. 31.
Drouyu de Lhuys referred to these mitters,
'■ * him
- in- urua:- alleged,
«.< i; ■ afcrmal protest
,; iei.l. ice In Mexico «vv
, j.:cl tab' mat piidgst had iu.”
told him that so far as I wr, .'.one n-’J .
vo to tnai-6 such f t
Ivi ou the ocost-i . IIS.-UV
nurpoa.'- m Mexico
.1 •> it ->. ■ leave iin; people
• to ,eivof.it to.-e. m governu: 'n? ar. i
to hold or coionize any portion ot the u-i
! mv Government had iudicateu to ue no
rl rt ir, tfic quarrel-, at
time we nan not at alt concealed, as lie wall
knew, our e must so-icitude for the well being
of that country, mid otir seHßttiveness ns to
any forcible interference in its form of govern
ment. He said that these were the same views
held by you to M. Mercier, and reported by
him to Lis Government.
The above letter was written about two
months after J. M. Arroyo, Under Secretary
of State aud of Foreign allairs of the Mexi
can Empire, addressed to Mr. Seward a com
munication, dated at the “Palace of the Re
gency of the Empire of Mexico,’’to the end
that lie “may be pleased to place within the
knowledge of the government the recent im
portant events which have finally resulted in
the organization of an appropriate, strong,
and durable government, with i view that the
nation may be constituted,” &c., &e. Conse
quenly Senor Arroyo “relies on the moral co
operation of the governments which are friend
ly to Mexico, among which he has the Satisfaction
of enumerating that of the United States of
America, which has given so many proofs of
its interest, in the happiness of Mexico.”
In addressing Mr. Dayton more than two
mouths from the date of the last mentioned
communication, Secretary Seward says, under
date of >September 26, 1863 : “The United
States hold, in regard to Mexico, the same
principles that tiiey hold in regard to*r!l oilier
nations. They have neither a right nor the dis
position to intervene by force in the internal
affairs of Mexico, whether to establish and
maintain a Republic, or even a domestic Gov
ernment there, or to overthrow an Imperial or
foreign one, if Mexico chooses to establish or
accept it. The United States have neither the
right nor the disposition to intervene by force
on either side in the lamentable war now go
ing on between France and Mexico. On the
contrary, they practice in regard to Mexico, in
every phase of that war, the non-intervention
which they require all foreign powers to ob
serve in regard to the United States. But not
withstanding this self-restraint, this Govern
ment knows full well that the inherent normal
opinion of Mexico favors a government there
republican in form, and democratic in its or
ganization, in preference to any monarchical
institutions to be imposed from abroad. This
Government knows also that this normal opin
ion of the people of Mexico resulted largely
from the influence of popular opinion in tlr.s
country', and is continually invigorated by it.
The President believes, moreover, that this
popular opinion in the United States is just in
itself and eminently essential to the progress of
civilization on the American continent, which
civilization he believes cauai and will, if left free
from European resistance, work harmoniously
together with the advancing refinement on
other continents. This government believes
that foreign resistance, or attempts lo control
American civilization, must and will fail be/ore
the ceaseless and ever increasing activity of the
material, moral and political forces which pe
cufiariy belong to the American continent. Nor
do the United States deny that, in their opinion
their ow;i safety, and the cheerful destiny lo
which they aspire, ate intimately dependent
upon tlie continuance of Republican institutions
throughout America. They have submitted
these opinions to the Emperor of France, on pro
per occasions, as wormy or ms senoun consid
eration, in determining how ho would conduct
and close what might prove a successful war iu
Mexico. Nor iu it necessary to practice reserve
upon the point that if France should, upon due
consideration, determine to adopt a policy to
Mexico adverse to the American'opinions and
sentiments which 1 have described, that policy
would probably scatter seeds which would be
fruitful of jealousies; which might ultimately
ripen into collision between France and the
United States and other American Republics.
Minister Payton, in a communication to Se
cretary Sc ward, dated October last, speaking
of a conversation with M. Dronyn de Lhuys,
says the latter remarked to him that “the early
acknowldgement of that Government by the
United States would tend to shorten, or per
haps, he said, to end, all the troublesome com -
plications of France is that, country ; that they
would thereupon quit Mexico.” “I told him,”
Mr. Payton continues, “that without any au
thority from my Government to say so, 1 anouhi
scarcely suppose that France, under the cir
cumstances, would expect the United States to
qrake haste to acknowledge anew monarchy
in Mexico ; but that, I would report his views
to the Government at home, not suggesting,
however, that any answer would be given. In
the course of conversation he took occasion 10
repeat voluntarily a disclaimer of any inten
tion to interfere with Texas, or to make or. seek
any permeneut interest or control in Mexico.
He said that our “situation as a next neighbor
pntitlcd us to an influence there paramount to
that of distant European countries, and that
France, at her gt eat distance from the scene,
would not he guilty of the folly of desiring or
attempting to interfere with us.”
.The dispatch of Secretary Seward to Mr. Day
ton, dated Get. 2;5, Iffiifi, contains the following
sentences ;
The United States, when invited by France
or Mexico, cannot omit to express themselves
with perfect frankness upon new incidents as
they occur in the progress ot that war. M.
Drouyn de Lhuys now speaks of an election
which lie expects to bo held in Mexico, and to
result in tlie choice of His Imperial Highness,
the Prince Maximillian, of Austria, to be Em
peror of Mexico. We learn from other sources
ihat the Prince has declared his willingness to
accept an imperial throne in Mexico on three
conditions, namely: First, that lie shall be call
ed to it by the universal suffrage of the Mexi
can people; secondly, that he shall receive the
indispensible guarantees for the integrity and
independence of the proposed empire; thirdly,
that the head of his family, tlie Emperor of
Austria, shall acquiesce.
Referring to the fact, M. Droiiyn de Lhuys
intimates that an early acknowledgment of the
proposed empire by the United States would
be convenient to France, by relieving her,
sooner than might be possible under other cir
cumstances, from her troublesome complica
tions in Mexico. Happily, the French govern
ment has not been left uninformed that, in the
opinion of the United States, the permanent
establishment of a foreign monarchical gov
ernment in Mexico will bo found neither easy
nor desirable.
l’ou will inform M. Drouyn de Lhuys that
this opinion remains unchanged. On the other
hand the United States cannot anticipate the
action of the people of Mexico, nor have they
the least purpose or desire to interfere with
these proceedings, or control or interfere with
their free choice, or disturb them in the enjoy
ment of whatever institutions of government
they may, in an exercise of an absolute free
dom, establish. It is proper, also, that M.
Drouyn de Lhuys should be informed that the
United States continue to regard Mexico as the
theatre ot a war which has not yet ended in
the subversion of the Government long exist
ing there, with which the United States also
remain in the relation of peace and sincere
friendship, and that for this reason the United
States are n'ot now at liberty to consider the
question of recognizing a Government which,
in the further chances of war. may come into
its place. The United States, consistently with
their principles, can do no otherwise than leave
the destiffies of Mexico in the keeping of her
own people, and recognize their sovereignty
and independence, in whatever form they them
selves shall choose that thi3 sovereignty and
independence shall be manifested.
We are told that there is a man in Savannah
who is serving the citizens with corn meal—no
one to get more than a peck a day—at $2 a
pei k. That is $8 a uusnei, wune me bsuai
price is about five times that, amount. Such
patriotic liberality sUould receive an extor sive
notice. If there is any man who deserves to
have his name-placed on the roll of fame it iq
such a man as this.
Gen. Howell Cobb's headquarters are cow up
Macon, Georgia.
FtiOV. VIUSiM.t.
. funded at the various depositA
tn* which have leported at the treasury depart
mejn, in four per cent, bonds, amounts to two
hundred and thirty-seven millions. Twenty
one depositaries arc still to report, which it is
believed, will carry the gross sum fully up to
250 minions east of the Mississippi.
A case originating out of the laet that banks
do not correct mistakes alter they lmd passed
the counter, has arisen iu Richmond. A <ew
days since Mr. E. M. Norvel, bookkeeper at the
Bank of Virginia, appeared before the Mayor
and gave information that on the 23d of March
last, Thomas Flaherty came into the bank and
asked for a statement of the amount to his
credit. Deponent furnished him a written
memorandum, showiug his balance in hank to
be $6,926,90. In an hour or two afterwards,
Flaherty returned to the Bank and diew out
on his own check $8,926,90. When deponent
discovered that evening that Flaherty had
overdrawn his account 82,000. he went to him
aud told him he hud better make it c
fore the 28t!t of that me th. o», a- live
j the h. -.its might ietin.ite it to he paid in i. *
; eurv -vv • ahe-.v t, 4 fiat ho und.---;ece
! .ere r. v*d mis a,ter
’i--.il i tin . • eater : a»i.i that T fact
!- ril- Ruie b.-iore they bad t'.sU Lie
j >«. iitt • or ;i cheek, they Had refused ti
f 'he mist-ike. and that, m view o: this
i paid hint The Mayor requested
’ i > reduce liis-siatem--'" 1 * "
Lucre nas been issued already forty-seven
millions of the new currency. About one half
of the am uut is in large notes, which, of
course, do not relieve the circulation to any
considerable extent. There is said to be large
operations, which are conducted ns quietly as
possible, in buying up tlie old issue to be fun
ded on the other side of the Mississippi at par,
under the indulgence given that section by the
limitations of the taw. Such a speculation is
essentially fraudulent, and we trust that the
authorities will be vigilant to detect it.
W. M Blackford. Esq., of Lynchburg, Va., ■
an old and able editor died in that city,
April 14th.
The following amounts have been issued in.
the new currency, to the present lime :
SSOO notes, $10,000,000 : in 100 nob s, 13.120*
000; in 50 notes, 7,740.000; iu 20 notes,
1,656,000; in 10 notes,' 14,328,000. Total
$-16,844,000.
The Richmond papers say that Grant’s army,
notwithstanding all the bluster made about it,
is smaller than the army at Cliaticellorsvillo
under Hooker a year ago. An officer from the
front states that Grant's army does not number
over 60,000 men.
The Federal force in the lower valley of
Virginia seem to have been somewhat reduced
of late, and they have drawn their pickets sev
eral miles nearer the border. They, however,
appear to be guarding the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad with considerable vigilance.
A gentleman direct from Annapolis, Md.,
thinks Burnside’s i*pc assembled there will
amount to about thirty thousand men. It is
thought that their destination will he James
River.
A gentleman just from the North thinks
Meade will advance on Petersburg. He says
large numbers of troops have passed through
Baltimore. He also slates our friends in Mary -
land are confident of Confederate success, in
the coining campaign.
A slight skirmish occurred at Winchester
April 8. The Confederates were victors.
Gen. Jlobnes of the Trans-Mississippi Depart
ment is in Richmond.
Messrs. Williams and Conrad, and Rev. Dr,
Boyd, of Winchester, Va., who were seized a
short time ago as hostages for several Unkm
men captured by Major O’Ferrall iu Morgan
co„ are still in the hands ot (he Yankees. They
have been put upon parole in Martinsburg,
but are not allowed to leave the town.
The amount already subscribed to'the capi
tal stock of the Virginia Volunteer Navy Com
pany, ib one million dollars. How does the
Georgia Volunteer-Navy progress ?
A letter received by a gentleman in Richmond
from ono of the largest and most respectable
commercial houses in Liverpool, dated March
12, says: “There is a report that Maximillian
is to acknowledge the Confederacy, and France
will back him, if the Federals threaten war.”
FROM WESi’ISiIN VIRGINIA.
A correspondent of the Richmond Enquire!
writes thus from Longstreet’s army :
The weather iu this section continues cold
and rainy. Our troops are anxious to march
into Kentucky. There are few Federal troops
there, and John Morgan aud a thousand men
could ride from one end of the State to the
other.
Gap tain Martin, the Provost Marshal of Ab
ingdon, has brought to Bristol a man calling
hi in sol I Sterling King, who was arrested at
Abingdon, suspected of being a Federal spy.
It appears that King came to Abingdon about
a week ago, and at once called upon Gen. Mor
gan and g ive him information about matters
in Kentucky, and succeeded in making such a
favorable impression that lie was allowed to de
part. After be had gone, he was suspected as
not being altogether right, and Gen. Morgan
despatched to have him arrested and brought
back. On his examination, evidence was elic
ited strongly proving his guilt, and he was,
therefore, placed under a strong guard and
brought to this place. Written statements
from the officers who examined him were sent
with him, and. on his second examination be
fore Commissioner Henning, accumulative ev
idence was obtained, and he was immediately
placed in irons to be tried for his life. He is a
very intelligent, though not an educated man,
about forty-live years of ago, six feel high, san
dy whiskers, broad forehead, with an unmis
takable Ohio twang in his voice, lie claims
to be an Englishman, born in Canterbury, Eng
land ; but there is no doubt of his being a
Ohio Yankee, and it can be proved that he has
done our cause great injury. His crimes run
through a period of more than two years, du
ring which time he has been entirely in the
confidence of our friends in the Northwest, and
also in "Kentucky, and every one of those who
have been arrested within this period have bail
confidential rotations with him.
You may remember that in the early part of
last fall, a p ot to get Morgan and his men out
ol prison was discovered, and all who had any
part in it were arrested and sent to prison, and
the papers published that this conspiracy liad
been brought to light through the agency of
Government defectives who weie in the confi
dence of the conspirators. The arrest anil ex
amination of this man King clears up the whole
matter. It appears that King was prepared for
a spy by being arrested as one, and tried and
sent to prison early in the summer. lie makes
his escape fioin prison, in company with a
Confederate officer—Col. Patton. This, of
course, enables him to acquire tlie confidence
of the Southern sympathizers in Cincinnati
and Covington. When he had discovered eve
rything which it was important for him to know
he is again arrested and sent to prison. Three
days alter his arrest, every man who had any
thing to do wirii tl.e plot Is also arrested. Jfo
again manages lo make his escape, and the
next thing we hear of him he is in Virginia,
passing himself :ie a rebel Colonel, just escaped
from Kentucky, for the purpose oi establishing
the order of the “K. G. C.” in Virginia. The
proof against him is Very strong, and the histo
ry of his case very interesting.
FROM EAST TK.VVESREE.
A letter just received from Tennessee informs
the Virginj.i “Chronicle” that the main body
of the enemy is at Rutledge and Powder Spring
Gap, on the north side of Clinch river, ready
to move into Kentucky should Longstreet in
vade the State. Longstreet, Buckner, Morgan,
and a few others of thy name kind, now make
their headquarters in the vicinity of Bristol.—
A portion ol Longstreet'a forces extend as low
down on the railioailas Zollicoffer Station.—
Gen. Vaughan’s brigade is encamped near
Kingsport on the Ilolston liver.
Gen. Longstreet’s force is all encamped be
tween Zolicoffer’s Bridge and Bristol. His
movements are a complete mystery to his
troops. No ohe but bis division commanders
know why they are made. .
'Throughout the past winter which has beep
without a parallel for years, for its severe
weather, Lougstreet’s army have had no win
ter quarters, no tents, were badly clothed, anti
many of them completely barefooted.
Cars, under a flag of truce, have been run
ning for some days past as low as Greenville,
Tennessee. They bring up citizens who refuse
to take the Yankee oath.
Two brigades of tbe enemy are at Mossy
Creek; one regiment at Strawberry Plaing; two
small brigades at Bull’s Gap. No force in
East Tennessee but tbe twenty-third army
corps, cavalry have gone to Cleveland,
Term.
Mr. Keeler's daughters and'aMiss Gunv were .
shot dead two days since by some renegades
who were endeavoring to rob their house.
The Shubuta Republic has "advices from
which it learns the Yankees are doing a brisk
business at this time in the -„ity of V leksburg.
The stores
.—wiui xauxee nouona
and the streets are thronged with drays loan
ing and unloading vessels. Tho town is filled
with cotton speculators, wtio seem to have
plenty to do as they have plenty of cottoa.
How they get it is for them to say, but they
have it either by purchase or stealing. If they
buy it, we fear that Yankee notions have had,
a corrupting influence in that region.