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BY N. S. MORSE & CO. (i&nmifle & Sentinel. 0 TERMS. THK WEEKLY CHRONICLE A SENTINEL IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDKESDAY TIIHEK MONTHS jil <«) MIMUMIII if^oo ALWAYS IN ADVANCE. WEEKLY ADVERTISING HATES. o*Di):.*7 ADvcmnsiKUT* pob,i*he<l in th« Weekly wl kt :ii ir(fc4tweatr flvc«nt#»Hnefachm*srtton •neat, Nottch will ch»7g»il thirty c;n*» »im«for*»c B tertlon. kf*m«ivjM,T>j!ATS*V''l Fckzbu, NoTictnone SoLir car OkiTcaur SoTi'.is foitycentapir-iIEC fer one.'.ntcrtlcn «Uti«r Dally or Wtokly. Wh<>re Obituary Xcilrc aicpnb -1 «hwl In Dally and Weekly—Sixty cent* perl'ne. 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 —-i-~-U_L...L_J. ;_u J . ’•' , .1. .y„* 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.