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KEEP THK IIEVOLUTION ti t THE I HACK
This is the forcible figure which tLc Hun.
Ales. Stephens, in liis tqieech before the Leg
islature, employs when answering the sugges
tlon that to di<*eut from any of the measures of
Qongress or of the Adminiitrat'on might inaug
urate a counter revolution. Mr. Stephens repudi
ates the idea that he, or any of those who concur
with him, are in favor of creating divisions in
the country which may discourage the people,
net unfavorably on our forces in the field, or in
any way militate against the grand object which
is sought—tbe complete independence of the
Confederate States. Wise statesman as he is,
however, he knows that a time of revolution is
a time of danger. He lias learned from history
that unless they are cautious and vigilant, peo
ple may lose, after all the expenditure of their
money and their blood, the very prize for which
they were contending—may even find them
selves in a condition more deplorable than
were their circumstances More the first blow
was struck. Hence lie would have the revolu
tionary car watched with a jealous eye. When
ever there is any danger of running into des
potism, ho would wli nth: “down brakes'' and
so sound the alarm. When the speed is too
tapid for some tr i tie work or bridge—when
the train threatens to drag after it the material
which inay be indispensable to the support of
the war, lie would mlvise a more moderate con
sumption of the energies of the country one
which may consist with an indefinite probccu
t'on of the struggle.
But where is the “track" to Ire found ! Who
shall define i‘s lucidity the precise territory
through which it is laid ? This question is also
Answered in the .able speech referred to. It is
the Constitution of the Confederate States.
There is dinger in any departure from this
directory. When encroachments begin, if they
nre tolerated, this will encourage other in
fringements ; these will lead to yet other viola
tion.', and the result will he the utter ignoring,
if not of the letter, certainly of the whole
spirit of the instrument. Our safety and our
sueeoss in this revolution depend upon our
observanceof the terms under which we have
become associated. The old Union was destroyed
because the Constitution Was not faithfully re
garded. The document as it was formed in
J7h7, and subsequently amended, was good
enough i it gave us ail we wanted. As evi
dence of this the Montgomery articles are with
but few modifications and additions the re
production of what was formed in Philadelphia.
But the trouble was that the Constitution was
not authoritative when the Abolitionists got
into power, in the face of the tact that the
countryTiad existed for three fourths of a cen
tury, and in opposition to the unquestionable
guarantees ot the Constitution, the doctrine of
the “irrepressible conflict” was announced, and
the |>ouition boldly taken that “the United
Mates could not continue to exist halt slave
and half free:’’ Who doubts that we would
to-day have been as we were twenty years ago
hail those who are now seeking our subjugation
been true to their Constitutional stipulations’
I.ot in avoid the errors of the past. If the
Constitution is wrong, or what amounts to the
same thing, if the people judge that it is too
liberal, let it be amended ; but whilst it con
tinues in force let it be cherished with that
sacred regard to which it is entitled as the
bond under which u great people arc aesocia
led.
In answer to the snggestion that any dissent
from the recommendations of the Executive
and the action of Congress would operate un
favorably upon the minds of our soldiers,
Mr. Stephens truly says, “ that they will en
ter the tight renewed vigor, iroai the as
sura nee that their toil ami sacrifice and blood
will not be in vain, but that wuen the strife
is over and imlepcu lence is acknowledged, it
will not be a bare name, a shadow and a mock
ery, but that with it they, and their children
aftlr them, shall enjoy that liberty for which
they now peril all.” This is sound logic. Men
who departed Irom one government because
of tho oppression which it imposed upon them,
will surely not feel much encouragement to fight
for another unless they can have a reasonable
certainty that under the new organisation they
can escape the ills of the old. Independence
liberty is what is insisted itpou ; and any ac
tion which even remotely threatens this grand
result is viewed with suspicion and distrust.
Ons Great Enemy ok Liberty.—' The ranker
that’is eatiujT; at the very heart of the republic
and threatening its destruction, is the almost
universal greed for gaiu—the tlesiie to a-cu
mulate money and Ily up wealth. It is rapid
ly poisoning the fountains of the public patri
otism, and laying the foundations for the be
trayal of those great principles in which our
revolution had its birth. Every class of socie
ty, and men of every peculiarity of character,
from the boy not yet out of his teens, to the
grey headed miser trembling upon the brink
of the grave—from the merchant inhisstoie,
to the soldier in the camp, are almost without
exception more or le«s infected with this evil
spirit of accumulation.
Those whose duly it is to guard the liber
ties of the people, the statesmen of the Confed
eracy, should be more watchful ttmn ever in
the discharge of their duties. An ition besot
ted with the inordinate desire of gain is easily
enslaved. Thanks to the vigilance of a few
faithful seutiuels, the public -tniud has been
aroused, alarmed at the late rapidTstrides taken
towards despotism. We trust it will remain so
until all perils are passed and our liberties
achieved and vindicated from both the assaults
of open Toes from without and secret and de
signing foes within.
It w Almost a Tarrn, that nations are tho
roughly great and heroic only when they have
lost the illusions of arrogant hope: and love of
wealth and material prosperity. The inde
peodeuce of North America was achieved in the
‘•time which tried men's souls." The first Rev
olutionary war was fought by the American fa
rbers without a government, without a treasury,
virtually without an army, and by means of
It hat it would be a mockery to call money.
018 GREATEST PERIL.
Were we called upon to state what we deem
the greatest danger to which the people of this
Confederacy are now exposed, o e should an
swer most unhesitatingly, that which a ises
from want of tbe necessaries of life. It has
been from toe first a favorite theory with the
enemy, that the “rebels roust sooner or later
be starved into submission." In our zealous
contradiction of what they have so constantly
a -ertod, we have closed our eyes too firmly,
peihaps, upon the evils which actually threaten
us from this source We confess <that we have
fo-d.ay more serious apprehensions from an jn
affi piate supply of food, than from tbe assaults
which tbo thick gathering hosts of the enemy
are no.v meditatiog in the east and in toe west.
Tbe most gallant armies ever collected fight
but imperfectly unless their physical wants are
generously supplied. The result of many n
battle would have been and llcrcnt, had the men
gone into it with well filled instead of enviog
1 tomneha. And whilst soldiers lose much of
their efficiency when poorly fed, a sckntv sup
ply of food depresses and disheartens the peo
ple at home.
We arc sounding no needless alarm when we
proclaim pßril on this head. Twelve months
ago we were receiving supplies from large por
tions of Middle Tennessee and all of East Ten-
nessee—sections of e<#intry unsurpassed by
any on this continent for the production of pro
visions ; but now wo can calculate confidently
on nothing from these regions. Then, North
Georgia, the finest wheat growing portion of
the State, was in o ir unmolested possession.—
At present much of its best land is either so
overrun or threatened, that we can promise
ourselves very little fgod from that source.—
The rich contributions which one year ago we
were receiving from our-trans Mississippi States
have been almost totally arrested ljf> tbe loss
oC Vicksbuig. The immediate consequence of
those disasters is, that provisions are to-day
commanding juices of which no one had any
conception in the spring of the past year.—
With beef—and that too poor and tough, very
often—at four dollars per pound ; bacon ditto
and a little more ; flour two hundred and fifty
dollars a barrel ; corn and every other staple
article in the same proportion, the present
must lie great, and though severe now but a
foreshadowing of what it will be unless we are
aroused as to the extent of the evil.
But the peril to which we are exposed is not,
if a gracious Providence bless our efforts, in
evitable. It is in our power now, with such
blessings, to make an appeal to the “common
mother of us all," which will most effectually
avert the apprehended mischief. It is almost
too late to make the application during this
season, yet, if these lines meet the eye of any
one who has been a laggard let him without
another day's delay begin such a cultivation
of the soil that he can honestly say he has done
his part to avert the calamity of which he has
been warned. We believe that it is possible
by a diligent use of the millions olTertile acres
which have not yet been polluted by the foot of
the invader, to secure a supply of'provisions
which shall ho ample for the soldier in the
field and for the citizen at home. We have
yet tfcilhin our fair domain the labor and the
soil, and all that is necessary to avert what we
apprehend and to sc curs the “consummation
most devoutedly wished,” is a timely self-pre
serving and patriotic industry.
The Confederate Law has placed every man
between seventeen and fifty in the military
service of the country. To sustain this huge
draught and to secure their support, let
all other persons lie resolved into a committee
of the whole to raise provisions. Wherever it
is possible let every slave, demand young, male
and female, be tilling the soil. Let our boys
lii*d t ieir recreation in raising food for man
and lor beast. Let the mothers,' where they
can, help by personal efforts or by giving direc
tions to the work of the juniors. And even
our young ladies may find the bloom mautting
their cheek with a richer beauty after the ex
ercise implied on this most important and patri
otic service.
Tub Magnitude of the Pbesent SrncnuLE.—
Something of the extept of tho Jjtruggie may
be inferred from some statistics as to what the
North has done, furnished by tho New Yotji
News She has called into service about
1,7 1 6,000 soldiers; she has now in the field,
say SOt),000 men; there have been discharged
on account of wounds, disability and sickness,
together with the desertions, about 375,000.
This leaves 000,000 men uow dead and buried !
The sums total on the part of the South do
not, of course, go so high, yet the details of
our expenditure of men and money , if we could
give them, would be found correspondi
large, for, to meet the vast preparations of our
mighty foe, we have found it necessary to make
ourselves powerful beyond early calculation.
And the struggle is to continue. It will un
less our foes ars whipped or induced by other
means to let us alone, go on until many more
millions have been spent, much add’tional
blood shed, and thousands more lives are lost,
We must continue our arrangements on the
same grand scale which has been forced upon
U3. We cannot in justice to our course, remit
a singlo exertion. We dare not tire in the con
flict, fur that would lie our destruction. We
must go ou until the foe is' coutent to quit
tire arena. The end is desireable, but we can
onlycontribntetohasten.it by continuing to
put forth our mightiest energies. To do this is
unr duty, and should be our inclination.
“To do is to succeed— our light
Is waged in Heivpii’s approving sight
The smile ot God is victory !”*
Confederate Treasury Notes.—Annexed is
a statement of the issue of non-interest bearing
reasnry notes since the organization of the
Confederate Government:
Fifty Ct-nts.... $ $11,2*8 50
Oim 4,-8-l.ik 0 00
KivoV::'":;;.;.::: 79,099,315 w
T,-n- 157.963,76<i a)
Iweniiss" ' 5i7.43.M20 00
liu-uliL-its 3!5,055,200 vO
T-tal 5375.277.56;! 60
The annexed statement shows the amount of
non-interest bearing treasury notes outstand
ing on the 3lst of March. 1864 :
A-1 May 16. ISA I—Tw o year Dotes $ 7.201.676 00
Act Ai e. 19, 1 M—ticneral currency 164.356,twU 00
Act Aynl y. it* 2 One-and tvos.. 4 5 ♦‘,so‘J 00
Act Oct. 13. IS62—OeLt-nU ctmency 118,907/2150
Act March 2.3, ijkS—Gc .cral currency 611,183,56 • 50
fvfk! <736,264 403 00
V rom these two statements it appears that
it. i .022,900 50 ot the non-interest bearing is
sues have been redeemed and cancelled. This
amount includes only such notes as have been
regularly cancelled and destroyed in pursuance
of warrants ftom the Treasury. There is al
wa)> in the l ands of the depositaries notes not
yet reported fv»r destruction.
The amount of currency which has been can
celled and destroyed—irrespective of the oper
ations of the present currency law—is nearly
twenty per cent, of the whole issue, if this re
duction be applied to the five dollar notes, the
amount of these in circulation would appear to
be *63,272,252.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 4, 1864.
A PROCLAMATION.
To all Civil and Military Orficera of the Stale
of Georgia :
The laws of this Suite make it an offence pun
ishable by' fine and impisoument, the former
not to exceed SSOOO and the latter not to ex
tend beyond twelve months, for any person
whether a contractor under the Confederate
Government, or other person, to make or cause
to be made, within this State, any whiskey, al
cohol, or other spirituous or malt liquors, from
the articles of corn, wheat, rvo, barley, oats,
millet, rice, or other giain, or from this artic
les of sugar, molasses, syrup, sugar cane, hon
ey, sweet potatoes, pumjikins, peas, Irish pofa- j
toes or dried fruit, in any form or condition of !
said articles or from any- mixture thereof) with- j
out a license from the Governor of this State.!
The statute also declares every still re.runfil
lcgally to be a public nuisance and provides
how it shall be abated. And makes it the du
ty of the public officers of this state ad es
pecialy the sheriffs and their deputies, Justices
of the Inferior Court's and Justices of the Peace
ami each Grand Juror, to give information of,
aud present, alt persons who may violate U,e
proviso us of the act. And it is also made the
duty of the Justices of the Peace and tjje Jus
tires of the Inferior Courts to diligently inquire
about eyey such still as may'be either public
ly or clandestinely run in his district or coun
ty, and ujion the proper evidence being before
him cither that the gtiil or stills are run "ille
gally or that unlawful sales of spirits arc made
from the proceeds cf such stiils by Ibe owner of
such stills, or liis agent, to issue his warrant
against the partv 01 parties and the still or
stills which .-hall be delivered to the sheriff of
the county who shall arrest the party and seize
the. still.
Tire iaw also requires each licensed distiller
before he obtains license, to file his written affi
davit in the Executive offioe in which he shall
swear that he will not make, or cause to be
made, more whiskey or spirituous liquors, out
m the ai tides mentioned" in that statute, than
the number of gallons specified in said liceuse,
and declares that any person violating said
oath shall be guilty' of false swearing, and upon
conviction be punished as provided by tbe laws
of tliia State for the offence of false ‘sWearing.
Which oath in writing has been taken and
filed in the Executive offioe in every case in
which a license has been granted. The law al
so declares that if a-,y person or persons shall
refuse to permit his, her or their distillery or
distilleries to be visited aud inspected, such re
fusal shall be construed as primajaci ■ evidence
of a violation of the act. This refusal is there
fore evidence ujion which* to convict
the party, unless he proves that he Las not
been guilty of violating the law, as it casts
upon him the burden of proof.
X’ti : statute declares that every day’s.jor part
of a day’s, distillation, contrary to the provis
ions of this act, shall be neemed a separate and
distinct offence. The party distilling illegally
should, the|pfore, be indicted separately for
each day, or part of a day he has run his still
illegally, ani it is the duty of public officers
to see that such indictments are begun and
prosecuted against all such offenders.
If the stills are now running, each public
officer should enquire into it, and if the party
lias not a license from the Governor he should
sue out a warrant before a Justice of the Peace,
or the Inferior Court, or other judicial officer,
for each day tire still has run, as he. would sue
out a warrant lor robbery, theft, or any other
crime, ami upon the production of satisfactory
evidence of probable cause of guilt, the Justice
should bind over the offender in sufficient
bond, for bis appearance at the next Superior
Court, and on failure to give the bond, should
commit him to jail to await his trial, or trials,
as the case may be.
The statute declares further that, ‘ For non
compliance with the provisions of this act each
officer tailing promptly and fully to do his duty
shall be guilty of mal-practice in office, and it
shall be the duty of the grand jury to make
presentments thereof.”
Now, notwithstanding these sringent provis
ions, of the law, I have reasons to believe that
avaricious persons who regard not the cries of
women and children for brea I, if they can make
money by converting it into whiskey, are con
stantly violating these laws, and that officers
are neglecting their duty and fading to sup*
press the mischief. And lyegrel also to learn
that Conlederate officers claiming the right to
convert tire tithe e*rn of the Government into
in defiance of the penal laws of this
State, and after it has been consumed to impress
in its place, for the use of the army, corn, be
longing to c tizens, which is indispensable to
save the poor around them from starvation,
have made extensive contracts with persons in
parts of the State where there is great scarcity
of grain *o have large quantities of corn distill
ed, without license, agreeing to pay the distil
ler a bushel of corn for a gallon,’ or in some
cases forgive quarts of whiskey, allowing him
the balance of at least half the whiskey, which
the corn would make* for distil ing it, which is
equivalent to pffying about fifty dollars per
bushel to the Governnlbnt contiac.or lor dis
tilling Government corn, while it consumes
twice as j,Hich of the bread ol the country as is
necessary to make the whiskey actually receiv
ed by the Government. This is not only in
wilful disregard and gross violation of tho
peual laws of this State, but is a grievous wrong
agaiusi society, and especially against the poor
who are suffering for bread. «
The whisjjey needed by the government
should be mkde'at places remote from Rail
roads or navigable streams, where grain is
most plentiful. All this can be properly re
gulated under the license of the Governor, in
conformity to the statutes of the btate.
I do therefore, in consideration of the viola
tions of the law above enumerated, and of the
great scarcity of provisions, which in some
parts of the State, seems to threaten the families
ot our brave defenders, with much suffering,
while their protectors are absent, issue thi3 my
Proclamation, strictly enjoining upon, an l re
quiring each, and every officer in this State,
both civil and military, to be active and vigi
lant, of the suppression of illegal distilla
tion. All Justices of the Peace. Con-ta
bles and M litia officers, are required to make
diligent inquiiy, in tbeir respective Districts,
and if they have reason to suspect that any
person is distilling illegally, they are required
frequently to visit his premises, and examine
till they are satisfied whether it is so or not,
and if the owner of the premises refuses to
permit them to be visited, that th*e examina-
non may be made, they will at once make the
necessary oath, and obtain a warrant from a
judicial officej- against such person who is by
law in that case declared prima facie guilty,
and will have him tried and bound over to the
next Superior Court, from day to day so long
as lie refuses to peimit the examination to be
made. And they are furthermore required to
demand of each person, who may be found
distilling in their respective Districts, an in
spection of his license fiom. the Governor,
which all who have such license are hereby re
quired to exhibit, and if any . ne cannut pro
duce such license, they will at once institute
the proper proceedings to have the still abated
as a public nuisance, and will sue out a war
rant against such person for each day said still
lias been run illegally, end have him bound
over for his appearance at the Superior Court.
I also require, in ease they ca:i obtain satis-
factory evidence, that any licensed distiller has
sold spirituous liquors from his distillery, by
kimselt or his agent, or has made more than
the quanity for which he is licensed or deliveied
it to any pel son other than the Justices of the
Inferior Court, or their agent, if it be a county
contract, or the government agent, if he has a
license under a government contract, to indict
every such licenesed distiller, for illegal dis
tillation; and also, for false swearing. When
tbe indictment is for false swearing, the origin
al affidavit of the party will be furnished from
this office as evidence, when required by the
Court.
And all the county officers are in like man
ner required to be vigilant, in their respective
counties, as in case of District officers above
mentioned. And all aids de camp, and all
other officers of every class, civil and military,
are expected to see that no illegal distillation
is permitted to go unpunished, within their re
spective limits or jurisdictions. And it mat
ters not under what pretext such persons are
distilling, if they have not a license from the
Governor, as the law requires, their distilleries
will be abated and.they indicted, as above di
rected.
If all the officers of this Slate will discharge
their duty faithfully and promptly I am satis
fied that illegal distillation can be suppressed;
and as Ido not construe the Resolution of the
General Assembly of this State t-> mean that I
snail protect from conscription officers who
j wilfully neglect or refuse to do their duty, or
I who are guilty of malpractice. 1 hereby give
| notice, that I shall withdraw protection fora
: such as I am satisfied have bet a-guilty of such
refusal or neglect, and will report them to the
proper officer, for enrollmantas conscripts. The
| price of protection must be" the prompt dis
j charge of duty.
Given under my band and the great Seal of
the State, aijlfce Capital, in Milledgeville, this
j SOth day of April, 1854. •
JOSEPH E. BROWN.
LINCOLN’S ADDRESS AT THE BALTIMORE
. SANiTiUY Pair.
The great Mary land Fair was opened in Balti
more ou the 18ih. The occasion was one of
interest. Lincoln and a number of Lis Cabi
net officers attended tbe ceremony. The chic!
feature was an address from him. It ap
pears that he referred particularly to the “Fort
Pillow massacre;-'’ said it was undergoing a
thorough investigation, and, if proven, the
m- .. :ic of the blacks should be avenge..! -de-
Cjana-; th.it 1, -aC.t,- nas boon me massacre of
three hundred there, or even tne ioulh part of
three hundred, the retribution shall as surely
come.” Lincoln, moreover, declares that he
has determined to use the negro as a s Idler,
and to give him all tha protection given to the
white soldier, From these declarations, this
manifesto of Lißcoln possesses great signifi
cance. We give his speech in fail, as published
by the offic'al organ at Washington :
| Ladies and Gentlemen : Calling to mind that
| we ate in Baltimore, we caai at fail to note
! that the world moves. Looking upon these
j many people assembled here t.» serve, .as ttiey
! best may, the soldiers of the Union, it occurs
i at once lhat three years agf> the same soldiers
I could not so much as pass thiough Baltimore,
i The change from then till now is both great
and gratifying. Blessings ou the brave men
wfnjbave wrought the change,-and the fail
women who strive to reward them for it.
But Baltimore suggests more than could
happen within Baltimore. The change with,
in Baltimore is part only A’ a far wider
change. When the war began, three years
ago, neither party, nor any man, ex
pected i: would last, till now. Each looked tor
the end, in some way, long ere to-day. Nei
ther did any anticipate that domestic slavery
would be much affectedkby the war. But here
we are ; the war has not ended, aud slavery
has been mttcli affected— hew much needs no’t
now tp be recounted. So true is it that man
proposes and God disposes.
But we can see the past, though we may not
claim to have directed it ; and seeing it, in this
case, we feel more hopeful and confident for
the future.
The world has never had a good definition of
the word liberty, and the American people,
just now, are much ih want of one. Weall de
clare for liberty ; but in using the same wonl
we do not all mean the same thing. With some
the word liberty may mean each man to do as
he pleases with himself and the product of his
labor ; while with others the same word may
meau for some men to do as they please with
other men, and tlie product ot other men’s
labor. Here are too, not only different, but
incompatible things, called by the same name,
liberty. Audit follows that each of the two
things is, by the respective parties, called by
two different names—liberty and tyranny.
the shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s
throat, for which the sheep thanks- the shep
herd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces
him for the same act, as the destroyer of liber
ty, tspieially as ’the sheep was a black one.—
Plainly, the sheep and tire wolf are not agreed
upon adefinitien of the word liberty ; and pre
cisely the same difference prevails to day among
us human eieatures, even in the North, an 1 all
professing to love liberty; Hence we behold
the processes by which thousands are daily
passing from under the yoke of bondage hailed
by some as the advance of liberty, and bewail
ed by others as the destruction of all liberty.
Recently, as it seems, the people of Maryland
have been doing something to define liberty ;
and thanks to them that, in what they have
done, the wolf’s dictionary has been repudia
ted.
11, is not very becoming for one in my posi
tion to make speeches at, great length; but
there is another subject upon which I feel that
I ought to say a word. A painful ruuior, true
I fear, has reached its ol the massacre, by the
rebel forces, at Fort Pillow, in the west end of
Tennessee, on the Mississippi river, of-some
three hundred colored soldiers and white offi
cers, who had just been overpowered by their
assailants Iraere seems to be some anxiety
“in tho public mind whether the Government
is doing its duty to the colored soldier, and to
the .service, at this point. At tho beginning of
the war, and for some time, the use of colored
troops was not contemplated; and how the
change of purpose was wrought I will nenv
take time to explain.
Upon a clear conviction of duty, I resolved
to turn that element ol strength to account ;
aud 1 am responsible for it to the American
people, to-tho Christian world, to history, and
on my final account to God., Having "deter
mined to use the negro as a soldier, there is no
way l ut to give him all the protection given
to any other soldier. The difficulty is not in
stating too principle, but in practically apply
ing it. it is a mistake to suppose the Gov
ernment is indifferent to this matter, or is not
doing Ihe best it can in regard to it We do
not to-day know that a colored soldier, or
white officer commanding colored soldiers,
has been massacred by tho rebels when made
a prisoner. We fear it, believe it, I may say,
but wo do not know it. To take the life ot
one of thiir prisoners on the assump
tion that they murder ours when it is short of
certainty tjpat they do murder ears, might be
too serious, too cruel a mistake.
We are having the Fort Pillow affair thorough
ly inver and such investigation will
probably show conclusively how the truth is.
If, after all that has been said, it shall turn out
that there hits been no massacre at Fort Fallow,
it will be almost safe to say there has beeu none,
and will be none elsewhere. I! there has been
the massacre of three hundred there, or even
tlie tenth part of lh:ee hundred, it will be con
clusively i roven; and being so proven tlie re
tribution shall as surely come. It will be a mat
ter of grave consideration in what exact cour.se
to apply the retribution; but in the supposed
case it must come.
The Employment of Free Negroes and
Slaves in thf. Army. —At the last session of
Congress a law was passed to obviate the de
ficierfcy of the army by the employment of free
negroes and slaves in certain capacities. This
law has almost escaped public notice, especially,
as It has remained lor a considerable time un
executed.
We hear, however, that the conscription
officers have recently been instructed to carry
out the law, and a descent on the vast herd of
free negroes congregated in this city, may be
momentarily expected.
The law icquires that all male free negroes
and other free persons of color not including
those who are free under the treaty of Pans of
iBO3, or under the treaty of Spain oi 1819,
evident in the Confederate States, between the
; ages of eighteen and fifty years. c..aii be held
! liable to peform such duties wit; the army, or
in connection with the military defences of the
I country, in the way of work upon fortifications
| or in the government works for the production
; or preparation of materials of war, or in mili
i tary hospitals, as the Secretary of War or the
commanding General of the 'iians-Mississippi
■ department may. trom time to time prescribe.
Under the same act of Congress, the Secre
tary of War is authorized to employ or, if
necessary, to impress twenty thousand slaves
for duties similar to those to which we have
thus referred.
The conditions as prescribed by recent gene
ral orders, under which this impressment of
slaves is to be made are. chiefly as follows: Ist.
That slaves shall not be impressed when the
services of free negroes can be obtained. 2d.
Slaves under the age of ; ighteen and above
the age of fifty are exempt. 3d The hire for
slaves impressed shall be according to the
rates fixed by the appraisers under the act to
regulate impressments. 4th. The limitation as
to the term for which slaves shall be impressed
for service shall be for twelve months instead
of the terms fixed by said orders, if the exigen
cy shall require it. —Richmond W hig.
It is reported that U. S, Minister Corwin in
tends to go home,
Military Necessity.— The Charleston Mer
cur y talks very plainly, and tartly too, to that
' portion of the community who are now endeav
j ermg to shield the wrong acts of those in high
; places under the deceiving cry of military ne
, cessity. The remarks of the Mercurry are well
trimed and to the point. That paper has handled
the subject treated of without gloves. It goes
' f a to tbe merits of the case and shows up the
fallacious subterfuge of the monarchists in our
j Midst in its true light. Here is the article re
) fierred tor
I Since the war, anew element has been in
; troduced Into the free Governments on both
sidi-s of the Potomac. The Yankees, under the
United States Constitution, had enthroned, as
ihwgrand absorbent aud tyrant of their system
of g oemment, “the general welfare!” This
w„s ir. the (jays of their immaturity, when the
Scitiu rn sun quickened into life various im
peihaents to their growth and progress, this
neial wet are” was their device mainly for
rc Lng the South. It set up banks. It built
as ee breakwaters. It cleaned out harbors
aid rivers. It gave them our Territories It
annihilated Slates, and made them counties or
districts. In' fact, made them our masters..
But “general welfare” is uovvheie since the
war. Its vocation is gone with our departure
Irom their clutches, and is dead and buried.
But anew power has arisen, braver, and strong
er, and purer (since it comes not out of the Con
stitution). That power is military necessity!
No more refined sophistries about the Constitu
tion. No more reliance on Chief Justice Mar
shall or the great expounder of the Constitu
tion! “Military necessity” strides over and
tramples down all constitutions. At the very
opening of the war, it seized editors of news
papers and put them into prisons. Seward
rang his little bell, and forthwith some luckless
wretch was seized in his bed, or taken out of
his field, and marched off with bayonets behind
him, to some Secure fortress. It made paper
money a legal tender. Jt arrested the members
of the Legislature of Maryland, and dispersed it.
It put the judicial authorities of the State and
of the United States at defiance, and when Chief
Justice Taney and Judge Dunlap ventured to
issue writs of habeas corpus to liberate victims,
it laughed at them. It coolly abolished the
whole Constitution of the United States, and,
by a law of Congress, made Lincoln a despot.
Now, all moralists teach us that evil is catch-
ing. It was impossible to see what “military,
necessity” had accomplished on the other side
of the Potomac, without a longing being rais
ed on our side to taste of its sweets. Present
ly there were heard whispers in the wind that
military necessity required that the Executive
should be, cn tlfis side of the PHtomac, as
strong as he was on the other. The military
resources of tho Confederacy should be con
centrated under one head ; aud how can this
be done, tvitha Congress to supervise and ques
tion ? Congress was a.nuisance, and should be
treated accordingly, by having its laws con
temptuously vetoed, until it became conveni
ently submissive. It must know that, it had a
master, like Lincoln’s Congress. And is it not
plain that “military necessity” requires no lim
its to its getting mtn or money ? Why should
it not build railroads ? The Constitution says
no ! Does it ? A fig for the Constitution.—
And you want it to protect those who criticise
and blame the Government! Habeas corpus !
Has not Lincoln kicked it on the other side of
the Potomac, and why should it exist on this ?
“Military necessity ’ requires that every man
who cannot hold his tongue should be put in
jail. Are not the greater pa:t of the people
in the army ? And ii not tlie army a despot
ism ? Why should those not in the army fare
better, and not have a despotism also over
them? Os course we must have a despotism,
and “military necessity” is just tho thing to
accomplish it. Lincoln says, aud so do we, that
alter the war is over, and "military necessity”
no ’ ngur exists, the Constitution may get up.
That s liberal! That’s patriotic, and ouly one
fit for the discipline of Adjutant General Coop
er’s lately organized Military Courts would ob
ject to it.
Capture of Plymouth.—Wc have at length
positive information that Plymouth, N. C., is
caylkured. The result is sixteen hundred pris
oners, twenty-five cannon—probably siege pie
ces—a large ami unt of small arms, and valua
ble stores commissary and quartermaster.—
m* details afe not yet very full, but enough
to show that the work is complete. They
also, show that our. forces obtained a naval as
well as a land victory.
Plymouth i < situated on the Roanoke river
near its junction with the Albermarle Sound,
and is about one hundred miles from Weldon.
On the northern shore of the Sound, some
■fifteen miles or so from Plymouth, stands Eden
ton, the largest of the towns on the sound,
and as by the taking of Plymouth a Confed
erate iron clad is liberated from the Roanoke
to patrol the sound, Edenton is no longer a
safe place for Yankees.
Albemarle Sound communicates with Pam
lico Sound.
Newbern, on the Nense river, near the point
of its entrance into Pamlico Sound, is by land
nearly due south of Plymouth, and about six
ty miles distant from it. Tho water communi
cation between tlie two places, through the
two sounds, is quite circuitous, and must be
near one hundred and fifty miles long. Wash
ington, on Tar river, another stream that loses
itself iu Pamlico, is directly on the land route
from Plymouth to Newbern, and half way be
tween them. There the Yankees are posted, it
is supposed, with some show of strength.
With Plymouth taken, and a gunboat on. her
errand in tliesound, Washington would, become
very unhealthy lor them.
If the'events to follow the capture of Ply
mouth are be important, the fact will
soon be known. But whether they are or are
not, the taking ot that town is an event highly
cheering, and iu itself of great importance. We
recover the Roanoke valley entirely to Albe
marle sound, aud that is a great deal, it is
needless to speak of its advantages. They are
understood and appreciated by our people.
We should add that river which
empties itself into the Aubamarle Sound near
Edenton, has fop its tributaries the Meherrfn,
Nottoway, and Blackwater rivers—the latter of
which, at least, the enemy has employed to his
advantage in his movements upon Southside
Virginia. With a formidable iron-clad to keep
guard in the sound, the enemy cannot safely
continue his aquatic performances thereabouts.
Nor can he carry on with impunity his com
merce for military purposes through the Dis
mal Swamp, via Pasquotank river, to and from
Elizabeth City, located on that river, also a
tributary to Sound.
It may be inferred that no Yankee sea-going
monitor or iron-clad" can enter either of the,
sounds, and that the Confederate boat now'can
vassing these waters will have certainly, for
a time, a triumphant career.— JHchmcnd Dis
patch.
The Yankee National Debt Weighed and
Measured. —The following curious and sug
gestive calculations ‘ were read by Mr. John
Fair, the other day,'before the Albany Demo
crats Association :
The national debt is stated to be $4,000,000,-
000.
It has been said that this debt is so great that
it is too vast for comprehension. Now, as a
practical man, I.propose to weigh it and mea
sure it, and we may thereby obtain a more
definite idea of its immensity.
A silver dollar measures cne and a half
inches in diameter. $8 placed®edge to edge
will make one foot in length, $24 so placed will
make one yard in length, and $42,240 so placed
will make one mile in length. The earth is
21,G00 miles in circumference, it would, there
fore, require $912,384,000 to go once around
it. This vast sum must be multiplied by 4 and
4-10 to make it equal to the amount of our
national debt, which would make the silver
dollars go around the earth's circumfi rence
four times, and cover 8640 miles besides. Al
lowing a silver dollar to weigh an ounce, six
teen to a pound, 2000 pounds to the ton. our
debt would weigh 125,000 tons, and would re
quire 125 ships of 1000 tons burthern each to
carry it.
It would make 62,500 truck loads of 2 tons
each, and calculating that each truck will
cover a space of 30 feet, they would* stretch a
distance of 355 miles, and make a chain of
trucks which would encompass the great cities
of new York, Albany and Troy in an elliptical
line. It would take a man 365 years and forty
days to count the amount of this vast debt,
estimating that he would count s6opermindte
working ten hours a day and Bis days a week-
VOL. LXXVm.--NEW SERIES VOL. XxYiIr^TTTT
FOBEIGN GOSSIiIL
A late London letter writer speaks thus of
the sale of Thackerays effects:
At tbe Thackeray sales the prices realized
were enormous, particularly for the plate and
china. Thackjray had a strong taste for such
bric-a brae, and had a habit of dropping in at
certain favorite shops and resisting, or of teller
yielding, to the temptation of some quaint set
ot apostle spoons, some good bit. of Romeo sil
ver. orsorne tempting little “piece" of iUureob
iui. Dresden, or old Sevres; and now the ’oar
gains he thought so reckless often turned out
wonderfully profitable—thanks to the eager ri
valry of personal friends anxious to possess
some relic for ’which they knew bis love or
value, and which was associated with some re
collections of his own comically rueful reflec
tions oa bis own extravagance. In this way
his inkstand, a fine presentation silver bowl,
and a very pretty old Queen Anne,silver sal
ver, were run up'to. amounts varying between
forty aud fifty shillings per ounce. And even
dealers might be seen buying at the double
prices which Thackeray had gi v-c the things
sold within a very shqrt time, and to persons
actually iuj.be room.
The following extract in regard to the great
comet of 1860 is taken from a letter written
from Melbourne, Australia :
•“Professor Newager’ on a three years’ scien
tific visit to this country from Bavaria, tells us
that in lfJ65 a comet shall come so close,as to
endanger this our earth ; and should it not at
tach itself—as one globule of quicksilver to
another—nor annihilate us, the sight will he.
most beautiful to behold* During three nights
we shall have no darkness, but. lie bathed in
the hrillirnl light of the blazing train.’’
A Parisian correspondent narrates the follow
ing incident which occurred recently in that
city:
During a performance at one of the Paris
theatres, a man and lifs wife had to quarrel on
the stage, the woman in a rage of jealousy, the
man* trying to persuade, her that, she was too
suspicious and too passionate. Both were act
ing with great spirit, when the wife moved iier
arm too near a candle, and her inusliu dress was
in flames in an instant. Both actors, however,
preserved theft- presence of mind ; the husband
extinguished the fire, and proceeding with his
part, interpolated, “You see my dear, I was
right, you are ready to flare up for the least
thing.’’ %
A Rome correspondent of the London Post
speaks thus of the health of the Pope, under
date of March 18th:
Great alarm has really been felt at the Vati
can in consequence of the' Pope’s serious ill
ness, which commenced mi Friday last, with
one of his usual fainting fits, and has confined
him inhjs bed ever since, necessitating the at
tendeuce of his medical man, Dr. Yiale, every
day, and during the whole of Monday night.
Tlie disease appears to be a fresh attack of
erysypelas, aceompanied*by a derangement of
the digestion, brought on by the Pope’s ob
stinate observance of Lent regime, to which lie
insists on conforming more strictly than his
health allows, in order to give a good example
as head of the Church., In the , preser ce of
what was at first considered immediate anger
much auxienty was experienced liy tb j func
tionaries surrounding his tidiness, with re
gard to the advisability of tiicir suggesting, as
a precautionary measure,.the extreme offices’
of religidh. But this crises having passed,
fortunately the Pope’s strong constitution
again assumed the ascendant, and he has since
recovered sufficiently to see some of his minis
ters at his bedside, although in consequence
of the accumulation of documents requiring
his signature, it was considered advisable yes
terday morning for him to allow his name to
be affixed by proxy to them.
Tlie following reference to Mr. Mason, and
the iauov j Cos ifeduvate States. we extract
from a letter in the New York Times
from ils London correspondent, dated the
25th March :
As it somewhat experienced London corres
pondent, I should like to know where other
gentlemen similarly engaged, get the news they
now and then send across the Atlantic. The
story of imminent French recognition, I am
aware,Jwas in the financial column of the
Morning Post, though 1 have notfound out. how
it got there; but what lively genius invented
the hegira of the Confederate Commissioners?
1 can answer for Mr. Mason. He took his ac
customed walk last Wednesday in Ilayde Paik,
looking as fresh and rosy, as rotund and hap
py, as ever he looked in tho Senate Chamber.
He wore a gray coat, but not of Virginian
home-spun, and his iqpg locks of gray hair
were flying in the wind. lam told that he is
more than ever sanguine of the success of his
rebellious combat riots; that lie boasts that the
Southern.army was never so strong, so well
supplied, or so determined, as now; that it is
an army of veterans, which will scatter the
fresh levies of the North like chaff before the
whirlwind. He has gone, my informant says,
to spend the Easter holidays with Mr.Beresferd
Hope and»a large circle of Southern sympa
thizers
The opinions or statements of Mr. Mason
may not he of much importance, but they are
in accordance with SoutliAi letters received
in London; and with the opinions of English
men who have lately come from Richmond.
It is the general belief that the war may last
as long as it has lasted, and that the South,
which has duly to resist, can do so better now
than she could two or three years ago.
The London correspondent of the New York
Times speaks thus of the new alliance being
formed in Europe, and of an important position
held by France to wards other nations:
There is anew Holy Alliance in Europe, it is
said—an alliance of Russia; Austria and Prus
sia, against the revolutionary doctrine of nation
alitiis. it is asserted and denied. Great joy
in St. Petersburg when Austria declared mar
tial law in Galicia. Bat the Germans are fight
ing in Denmark for tho principle of nationali
ties. Italy unites upon that principle. France
is committed to it. It is the doctrine of revo
lutionary Europe. But Russia, Austria, Prussia,
England, Powers, composed of hetero
geneous States, must fight against it. France
cannot strike a blow to restore Holstein to
Denmark, and will not join England in any
diplomatic or other action which will bind
shackles upon au unwilling people.
In a wool, such is the conclusion of princi
ples and interest, that nothing can be done.
If England were to declare war upon Austria,
Victor Emanuel would instantly give the word
match upon Venetia. But all France lies be
tween the two, and neither England nor Italy
dare act against the man who is master of
France, and therefore of Europe, I see, there
fore. but one key to the problem—the interest
of France—the will of the Emperor.
A London letter writer in refeirring to the
sale of Thackeray’s c-fiects says :
At the Thackeray sales the prices realized
were enormous, pirticularly for the plate and
China. .Thackeray had a strong taste for such
bric-a-brac, and had a habit of dropping in af
certain favorite shops and resisting, or often
yielding, to the temptation of some quaint set
of apostle spoons, some good bit of ltococo
silver, or some tempting little “piece” ot Mar
colini, Dresden, or silver Sevres ; and now the
bargains he thought so reckless often hive
turned out wonderfully profitable—thanks to
the eager rivalry of personal friends anxious
to possess some relic for which they knew his
love or value, and which was associated with
some recollections on his own extravagance.
Iu this way his inkstand, a fine presentation
bowl, and a very pretty old Queen Anne silver
salver, were run up yesterday to amouurs va
rying between forty and fifty shillings per
ounce. And even dealers might be seen buy
ing at the double prices which Thackeray had
given for the things sole within a very short
time, and to persons aciually in the room.
A Paris letter writer records the result of a
late trial in that city, which shows how a doc
tor paid tor being a little too garrulous ;
A trial of some interest to the medical pro
fession has taken place before the Police Court
at Paris. A physician was prosecuted for hav
ing divulged the nature of his client's disease,
and thus injured him. The court found the
physician guilty, and sentenced him to impris
onment for one year, to pay a tine of 500f. to
be placed for five years under tire surveilance
of the police, and to pay the cost# of the suit.
The judgment of the court added further, that
‘•inasmuch as by thus divulging the nature of
his disease he caused the complainant an injury
for which compensation is due him, the tribu
nal, moreover, condemns the accused to pay
the prosecutor a sum of I,ooofrancs damages.”
V(CE PRESIDENT STEPHENS’ SPEECH
[From the Danville Va., Register.]
V. T e have read iHtli much interest the speech
recently delivered by Vice President Stephens
before the Legislature of Georgia, and regret
our inability to spread it in full before our
readers. Why it has not received a more geu
eral circulation through the columns of" the
daily press we are unable to conceive, unless
it bo that the bold protests of Mr. Stephens
agaiust the important# and as he declares, un
constitutional legislation of Congress, upon the
subjects of the suspension oftlif writ of habeas
corpus and military conscription, are regarded
as dangerous to peace and harmony, by those
who are ever slow to speak that which may
displease the ruling powers. The brief notice
of the speech which has gone the rounds of the
newspapers, gives no idea of the unanswerable
reasoning and masterly ability with which Mr.
Stephens combatted the usurpation of power
on the part of Congress in the legislation refer
red to. V ' '
Ho pronounces the attempt of that brwly to
tbe suspension of the writ of habeas
corpus—tbe sr«a* writ of liberty—as uncon
stitutional, anil urges that the Amployment of
that authority wiil be only.to coerce and op
press individuals, who can have 110 redress and
no appeal, if the jieoplc i#iil so submit. It
will have the died to place in the hands of the
President and his subordinates dictatorial
powers, such as should never he delegated by
any free people to their Executive officers. Mr*
Stephens argues that under the Constitution of
the Confederate States, no mure military officer
can have the j) iwer to make arrests of and de
tain citizens, and that only judicial officers arc
clothed with fixed restrictions.
He scores the canLof those persons who in
sist upon increasing the power of the Execu
tive and who ask if the President is not to be
trusted, as if eve:ybody*shonld, out of mere
charity, blindly yield him the means of placing
us under the yoke, while he is laboring for na
tional independence. lie would not tiust any
body 'with such dictatorial powers; not any
man living, nor any one of the illustrious dead,
could lie*be now alu’e ! Not that lie feared
Mr. Davis, but that lie was opposed to parting
with liberty; for when once gone from a people
it is never regained by them. ‘ >
The speech contains some important hints
and suggestions, and coining from the source
they do, they are entitled to much weight.
This absolute power over tho person is a pre
rogative that belongs only to Kings, and not
always to them. It is a power that may apply
to subjects but not to sovereigns.
While, striving for independence, we must
by alt means, maintain our liberties.
[From the Millcdgeville Union.]
Our columns this week are nearly all filled
with the Speech of the Vice President, before
the Legislature ol Georgia. We believe we
could not give our readers any thing more ac
ceptable than this great Speech, by this wise
and good Statesman, upon tlie important'sub
jects discussed. Courtiers and critics may say
what they please, hut the plaiu and honest and
important facts in this Speech, coining as it
does from one every way qualified to judge and
to determine, will come to the hearts aud feel
ings of tne people, aud will make a profound
impression where ever it is read. It they hear
not him, they would not be persuaded though
one should rise from the dead.
Prevalence of Chime in Yankee Land. —ln
referring to a case ol robbery, the Detroit Free
Press has the following with reference to the
prevalence of crime in that city :
“Bold and fearless murders have beeu com
mitted in the very heart of the place. Bandß of
armed i ofliaus have prowled through the streets
under the cover erf night, and perpetrated acts,
the recital of which makes the blood run cold
Burglars have left their haunts of infamy, and
departing for the time being from their usual
; « Puyy, wounded »bi< outraged the .-3UC
tuary of private life. Highway robberies Have
been committed which fur boldness in execu
tion, Would add lustre to the name of a Turpin
or a Claude Duval, and the lesser order of
crimes, such as pickpocketing, unprovoked as
saults and personal encounters held high carni
val generally.
The Chicago Tribune gives the following tru
ly alarming picture of the prevalence of licen
tiousness and crime in that city.
“Not a train arrives in Chicago that is not
freighted with the prostitutes of other cities and
their attendant cavaliers, roughs, pimps and
villains of evefy degree. The painted harlot
walks Our streets unbtusbingly, and elbows her
.way into the raihoad cars, sitting upon the
same seat and talking familiarly with taose
who, if they knew her character, would regard
speech and touch as moral and physical contam
ination; citizens visit their h. uses because they
know they run no risk of detection; young men
aud boys are sowing the seed of moral and
physical disease, which will one day ripen in a
rich harvest of crime and death; iunoeent girls
are seduced ; the sanctity of the family circle
invaded ; houses of ill repute and houses of as
signation spring up all over the city, and the
men whose sworn duty it is to suppress vice
and immorality, have taken wicked men and
women into their confidence, and in the abun -
dance of their evil design have accorded to
crime the same protection they extended to vir
tue.” *
. Crime was never mnro prevalent the country
over than now. In this city, in crowded thor
oughfares and in open daylight, men have been
knocked down and robbed, and the robbers es
caped with their plunder.
The Springfield (111.) Register, speaking of tire
wides; read demoralization of the people and
the prevalence of crime consequent upon it,
says:
“This is one of the legitimate and inevitable
consequences of war. But by all means let the
fighting go on and vice and crime continue to
multiply. Are we not freeing the negroes?—
To what higher mission could a great nation
aspire? Never mind what becomes of the
‘sanctity of the family circle;’ let ‘young men
aud beys'— y*>ung women and girls—go on,
‘sowing the seed of moral and physical disease,’
while Abolitionism holds high carnival over the
land. lias not Lineolrt, have not abolition
orators, have not Christian ministers sworn that
tne war and its consequences shall never cease
until “the fetters shall fall free from the limbs
of the last slave in the United States ?’’ Os lit
tle consequence to these pious reformers is tlie
moral leprosy fastening itself upon the nation,
the frightful inctense of crime .anil prostitution,
the penury, the woe, the sufferings and death the
war is causing.
The British Abolitionist, Thompson. —The
British abolitionist, Thompson, is spending his
time in Washington, dining with Seward, Chase
Lincoln <fc Cos. An interview with Lincoln is
thus described :
In the course of conversation the President
said, in reference to the emancipation procla
mation, that the paramount idea of the Con
stit'ftion was the preservation of the Republic,
and that he had never for a moment doubted
the right and the power of the executive to
issue such a proclamation whenever it was
manifest that, tike a patient’s diseased limb,
“life” could be saved only by amputation.
Public sentiment had advanced slowly but
surely, and he had moved just as fast as it
seemed to him he conlimove and be sustained,
lie could not have feivjustificd in the emanci
pation issue until all other means of restoring
or preserving the Republic had failed, and he
had no consciousness of having transcended
his powers. “I do not see,’’ said he, “how
any man standing in my shoes could have done
otherwise than I have done.’’
At the close of the interview Lincoln invited
the party into the state dining-room, to see the
painting commemorating the first reading of
the proclamation to the Cabinet, now execu
ting by Mr. Carpenter, of New York.
We are informed thatdhe obligation to which
all the Protestant clcrgymc i of Norfolk and
Portsmouth have subscribed is not that of alle
gianee, but only that denominated as thq “am
ne-'ty oath” and the ordinary parole. This ob
ligation commits them to neutrality or to for
bearance from all acta of war ; and is so far of
a negative character and of no practical impor
tance with the non-combatant clashes of our
population.
There is some talk in official circles of re
quiring non combatants to leave Richmond.
Georgia baptist eu .Vkntion ’
SECOND DAY.
The Georgia Baptist Convention was in go s
Frid . ayand Apri |
We co,ld °nse the Intelligencer’s
icport of the proceedings on the second day
t&aturday): '
rJ^S 0 " met at ° A " M Prayer '.y
submitted a re-
Ihe committee to whom was referred the
ticabffitv ofest n ?r n v Ule P ro h‘ ie( y and prat
in the slate n r’ 1 """" au as ? l,lm for orphans
te to sm-h in 1, • rKlii ’ raado a lv P or t favora
ho better not 1 Sv “ UUo,i ’. l,ut believe would
bn cut U with too Conven-
adi.mrn r ;?ire’ u1 ' 7 K T° <1 that the Convention
aojourn at 11} o clock A. M . to give time for
lum. bldmUo " ° f a Pl ‘ n tor an Orphan Asy
di^l Pr ° Sill nt iUmounce; l the following stan
ding committees:
lucation -V*J Wellborn. J N Wood
A i Holmes, \V M Yerderec \Y IT ri t i*
Carter, II (fHortudy ’ CUk *' J E
On Missions—A D Cohen, Joseph E Brown.
A \ an Hoin, A Sherwood, A C Edwards, W I
Hatley, E B Teague
On Nominations—l IV Johnson, J E Robin
sou J Bruner Ii S Siieats, I) D Durham, J 11
Calloway, W II Stark.
On Deceased, Ministers—B F Tharp J M
Stiff well, J II Stout, D E Butler, C C Willis A
L Moncrief, H Nceson
The following Delegates were appointed
Messengers to the Alabama Baptist Convention
to be held in Montgomery: T H Stout, M J
Wetborn, S Root, J E Carter, A R Calloway
SD Durham.
To Cherokee Bajdist Convention, to be held
at Cartersville—l- 11 Mell, P A Hughes.
South Carolina Baptist Convention—lV S
Harley
Florida Baptist Convention—S Landrum, D
G Dfiuiell, A 1) Cohen, S U Daniell.
The rejiort of the Treasurer of the Conven
tion, T. J. Burney, was received and ordered
to be printed with the minutes.
The report of t he Board of Trustees was read
and ordered to be referred to a special com
mittee.
The next session of the body was appointed
to be held with the Ist Baptist Church at Col
m#bus.
Rev. J. 11. Campbell introduced the follow-
ing, wldoh was unanimously adopted:
Resolved,; That the committee appointed
last year to memorialize our Legislature in fa
vor of the education of Soldiers’ orphans, he
continued and requested to renew the memo
rial to that body.
afternoon session.
The Convention met according to adjourn
ment. Prayer by Rev. M. Rambeaut.
llev. M. Rambeaut, and Rev. S. Dyer, were
reoeived as correspondents from the Cherokee
Baptist Convention.
Oa motion of ReV. J. H. Campbell, the Con
vention determined to spend a portion of time
iu piayer for our soldiers.
Rev. Mr. Brooks submitted the special report
on the Report of the Board ot Trustees, which
was adopted.
The Convention elected as Executive Com
mittee the following members of its body : T
Stocks, D E Butler, T J Burney J F, Willct, N
M Cranford, J E Sanders, II ll Tucker—and
as Treasurer, T J Burney. •
onniAN asylum. *
At the hour of 11] o’clock, A. M., the Geor
gia Baptist Convention adjourned to give an
opportunity for the consideration of a plan for
an Orphan Asylum.
O', i.'i.iwford was called to the chair, and
Rev. Mr. Brooks was requested to act ns Secre
tary.
Dr. Ciawfusd explained tho object of tha
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there was a gentleman in the Stale wlio was
willing to give SIOO,OOO for the estsblismcnt
of anaOrphan Asylum, provided that the same
amount be raised by ol hers. It wa3 also an
nounced that another sum of $30,000 could he
probably obtained for the same purpose. It
was further announced that $5,000 had been
promised to the Institution. A gentleman liv
ing in the city promised.to give to the Institu
tion a lot in the city of fifty acres—worth SSO -
000.
Addresses were made by I)r. Tucker, Rev.
Mr. Tickenor, and Hon. J. L. M. Curry, of Ala
bama, and others.
It is understood tha’t the Asylum is to be
placed under Baptist control.
The following amounts were subscribed for
the purpose of the institution: .
A K Seago, $5,000; N M Crawford, 1,000;
WO Wilkes. 1,000; JII DeVotie, 1,000; W H
Claike, 1,000; II F Smith, 1,000; W II Stark,
1.000; Geo W Tumlin, L 000; BF Tharp, 1,000’;
W J Hailey. 1,0(10; JasClaik, 1,000; V A Gas
iflll, 1,000; T Goldsmith, 1,000; W L Mans
field, 1,000; Jared I Whitaker, 1,000; R W
Joyner, 1,000; S Root, lot valued at 50,000;
Dr R J Massey, 1,000; his wife t 1,000; cash, 50.
His Excellency, Gov. Brown, addressed the
meeting and recommended that the meeting
adjourn till Sund y night. He said that hall a.
million was neecssaiy to begin the enterprise,
and he thought it could be easily raised. Ho
thought halt that amount could be raised in
the city of Atlanta. The Governor's address
was listened to w'itli profound emotion. Ha
concluded, with a motion that was adopted,
that meetings be held on Sunday night in the
First and Second Baptist Churches of this city,
to present the subject of au Orphan Asylum
before tho people.
Dr. Tucker moved that a committee of five
be appointed to prepare a constitution to be
submitted before the meeting at 5$ o’clock
this afternoon. Agreed to. a
The President appointed as that committee
Ilia Excellency, Joseph E Brown, Dr Tucker,
Rev Mr. DeVotie, Rev Mr. Mansfield, and D A
Vasor, Esq
Adjourned.
The meeting for the benefit of the Georgia
Orphans convened at 5 o’clock, when the fol
lowing constitution was adopted :
I. the name oT this Society shall be The
Baptist Association for Georgia Orphans.
Jf. Any person taking one share of the capi
tal stock of the society shall be a member.
One hundred dollars shall be a share.
111. The holder of one share shall be entitled
to one vote on all questions that come before
the Association. Ten shares shall be entitled
to two votes, and every aiWitional ten shares
shall entitle the holder to an aQdilional vote.
IV. The officers of the Association shall ha
a President, Vice President and Secretary, who
shall be elected annually, and who shall hold
their offices until their successors aro elected.
V. The object of the Association shall be to
establish a home in Georgia for the support
and education of Orphans, and especially for
the Orphans of soldiers, to be selected under
regulations presented by the Board of Trus
tees.
VI. There shall be aboard of Trustees, com
posed of twenty-one members, of whom a ma
jority shall be a quorum.
VII. The Trustees shall be elected by the
Association, and shall hold their offices for
three years—who shall hold their offices until
their successors aie elected.
VIII. At least two thirds of the Trustees
shall be members of regular Baptist Churches.
IX. It shall be the duty of the Board of
Trustees to collect and use funds for the accom
plishment of the object of the Association and
to do ail thincs necessary therefor, subject ti»
such instructions as the Association may pre
scribe.
X. The Association shall meet annually at
such time and place as they may appoint.
XL This Constitution may be amended at
any annual meeting by a vote of two-thirds ot
the members present and entitled to vote un
der article 111.
GEORGIA BIBLE AND COLPOETECR SOCICTY. _
The Anniversary meeting of the “Georgia
Bible and Colporteur bociety, wai h_. dm i the
Second Baptist Church, Atlanta, tuday eve
ning, commencing ay 8 o ciocK.
The following office s were elected •
Pie kl-nt Rev JII DeVotie.
Vico 1 residents Ist, Rev- C D Mo.lory , 2 d,
Rev L Landi urn : 3d. J 1 Coirk.
v 8 D Daniel, Correspond ng Sec.ctary.
Rev K M Haygood, Depositary, Agon, and
If j W Fears, Recording SecretajX
STb
lory, S Boykin.