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BY N. S. MORSE & CO. # Jlfntincl. 0 T dIKMS. THE WKERLY (HKOMCLE & HESTIXEL IS PUBLISIIEH EVERY WEDNESDAY TIIKEK MO.YTHB iW) MX WOMHS jiS ttO ALWAYS IS ADVANCE. \yi:ek!.v aovkhtisim; rate-. ObI>IK ART A'JVtXTIRRSIRRTR jratltnh ed 111 We -'.iv V.- t«ct.!y live costsaUsce-tLinsertion. H f*c: At. N utic2R will be 1 ILlrty c- ..** Rtinclore.’ n-?rt!on. M» tsiio's,!) riTiu»n! Ifsrsms,. Nott. ■ On:ro»R7 Nom-es foity c«nt» per ::n. i: *i:< • ; *ltli*r »-i'.ljror Weekly. Whore OV.ttiao “oi>< i. t |.ub linked In Pal*y and Wec’hl;.-—Sixty e*>» Vl(* 1 .< • : •* ti* • ll'.- r;»ItK THE ÜBORdIA MSGISLAI 1 tii. A writer, subscribing himself “'JVoun,’’ hi given the public a review of this pr t ;-j.<■ through the columns of the Macon Tdegiupii. He is believed to boa very prominent citizen of Georgia, at present holding a high mi . .o appointment under tl.o Confederate (iovjT:- luenfr. We confess our utter n-tonishiin-nt, in reading this elaliorate end lengthy production We ate umnzed that such a tissue of fcitd;« ten sophisms should issue from hueli a sourc V. - venture the assertion, that a mote “l-.ine it 1 impotent," a more illogical and self stultify ing scrubland) of an argument never emanated l orn the addled brain of a fourth rate villa:- pettifogger—an aigument, which .stand-; forth, peeihss and alone, in its supreme absurdity and sublime nonsense. Our space will not admit of the extended and thorough analysis of this precious rpoeiiuen of sprciul pleading, which wo should like to give it, and, therefore, we shall only attempt, nt present, a brief notice of its leading argu ment —the corner stone of “Tr nip’s” edifice. Tiie argument, or rather position of Mr. Stephens, against which this writer directs the artlilery of bis logic, i» thus stated ; “The j rivi legem f the writ of habeas corpus, nr A In- mi.- pended by Congress, but in doing so, no man shall be deprived of tiis liberty, v.iUn.ut dm procti sos law, nor slid! nny bo subj' .(l to seizure, except on probable came, supported by oath or affirmation.” “Ibis av- on.,nt —oontiuups “ J roup”— is based upon tin? two following provisionsof the Constitution : First, “No person shall bo deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.'' Second, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers ami effects, against unreasonable searches ands marcs, shall not be violated, 'and no warrants t;h ;ii issue, lint upon probable cause, supported by nnoath or ullirmation, and particularly deccii bing the place to bo searched, and the persons or things to be seized.’ ’ instead of meeting the impregnable position of Mr. Stephens, and the unanswerable argu ments with which he h is sustained it, “Troup” undertaken to mislead, mystify and confound bis readers, with one ot the most barefaced mid reckless perversions of the language oi Ihe i.«• stitution, which we remember evei hueun t with, in the records of partiz.m debale, Jlc nays ; Now let us test the truth an 1 correct ness of the argument, by the doctrines ami practices, both of Hie Conledorate and State Governments - Gov. Brown, Mr. Stephons, and the re ! oi mankind. Both Governments have re cried to ini pressmen t of property tor the use, Hint is they have authorized their oliWrs to seize (he property of the citizen lor the u-e ot the Government. In no case has. it been done either “by duo process of law” or “upon the oath or atiirnmt.ou” of any pci ea.and yet Un el mixes of the Constitution relied upon by Mr. Stephens, refei in every instance to property ns well as persons.” I'iu'HO clauses of tbo Constitution have tor »ge» been pail and parcel of flic British Con stitution, incorporated in England s Declara tions of Rights, the monuments of her freedom, j from whence they were borrowed l>y our lath evs, nad inserted in the Constitution of the old Union, ii! that of every State, and finally in our own. For iiges they have been receiving the judicial iutoiprei-ttion ot the brightest luminaries of the law, nl both bemisphcies, and, yet, never till now did it ever cuter into the head of any judge, lawyer or statesman, j or was it ever hinted, even by any writer on Constitutional law, that these clauses in the bill of rights had any reference or application to the impressment, of private property for pub lic use. The grand discovery was reserved for •‘•Troup,” the great judicial light of the leili century and of these Confederate States. The merest tyro in the Isw has not, h reto fore, failed to perceive that these clauses had exclusive retercnco to criminal, to penal pro ceedings against life, liberty and property, which they wore intended to protect against the encroachments of arbitrary power, in tbo assumed exercise of criminal jurisdiction. '1 ire very terms of the law indicate its meaning be- Vi v».-,l a doubt. “No person shall bo deprived of Hit liberty or property without due pro cess ot iu w -” Forfeiture lor some p-miil offense is, will “Troup,” hlmsC' l ; undertake to say that deprivation of life for ally other cause, is re ferred to? Again, “No warrant? shall issue, but upon probable cause, s ipported by tut ea.ii or affirmation, ami particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” This is the language of crimi nal law —warrants supported by oath or affirm ation, searching of places, and seizure of persons and property. The most illiterate magistrate in the country will not fail to recognize at once in these familiar terms tho ordinary and np propriate technicalities of criminal proceed- j ings. What use have we for legal process, tor the machinery ot courts, (or oaths. iitlinuutions. or warrants, in the impressment of property “Troup” has failed to enlighten his readers oil ibis point. But this argument of “Troup” has the com mon vice of false argmn-uts, that it proves too much. In assuming that impressments •re within the scope t { these claust# of the ' it concedes shat military and all other impressments of private property for publio use, are palpable infringements of the j Constitution. :•> *"** “«* | jng with due pvpccss of law, oaths, afimmuUm. ; and warrant#, in these cases Inc a my ! take refuge in the suspension of the habeas cor pus, to justify aggression upon the liberty ox i the citizen, but there is no suo.i saving Qa in the ease of impressments. We should li e to see him attempt to extricate himself from the meshes of this dilemma. If he can do so. he will exhibit more than the slipperiness and tortuosity of the eel. The New York Argus, in speaking of the course Liucoln is pursuing, says to hold in sub jection. by military power, an intelligent peo ple. and compel them to receive their political rights at the dictation of the conqueror, has proved impossible in all modern history. The Federal* console themselves with their defeat at Plymouth by claiming the Confeder ftic: ’oft fifteen hundred men. • •ril!' HGVEURIU.YI'Y OK THE STATES. 1 he action of ti;e late Congress has been jnst > the cause of much censure, particularly die us pension of the writ of Habeas Corpus. This •" ••ecu regarded in England, and has ever been gar-j in this country, till recently, as (ho great nnwark of per- nal liberty, dames 11. of h'siard, ambitious of absolute power, insisted - -t I'ai i: r.ient should give him a standing iy, repeal the Test Act, and repeal also the i ■ l .erpus Act. His Parliament, though ,int- obsequious, resolved to do neither, lie - •!, and is o:-s‘. i.im ii’s crown. Vet we, j •' '- 'n:; i.i our instil.urions, do in the nine teenth century what England refused to do ver one hundred and eighty years ago. V> it cur object in this war, which lias al ly cv-t livers of blood and hundreds of I millions of tkillir, It is to maintain the ab- ! -and c. i'.pSete sovereignty of the States. 1 ; ri- have ;pi ling up, hut they grow - oi and are li: .eparabiy connected with Let us go into a brief examination of the ;.e i ical history of the United States, to see ■vhcUier or no .ve are right in maintaining the entire sovereignty of the States from any and -■.it opposition. <‘c.me fiom what quarter it may. Union; our revolutionary war, there were ihirlec>i colonies, all owing allegiance to Great JjiTtiiin, but were all separate, distinct, and in dependent of one another. The assertion— -11 I the attempt to enforce it on the part of Great Britain—of a right to tax :;s without our cr.rment, and the denld of This right cn our !> ut, led to the seven years’ struggle by which we cr b.hlhhed our independence. Ihe Articles of Confederation, which were adopted by (he States, that they might the bet t. ;■ neineve the greal end in view, did not change tlx; character of the States, but by the express words of thoto articles, each State ro tatned ils freedom, sovereignty, and independ- V>'iion Great Uri.ain ' recognized us she 1,1 , do it as a nation or as a people, but inch state for ifsnlf. [ A ft.vr j-e-uV experience clearly demonetrat e > *-••• itabeci.'ity of (he Articles of Oonfedera- U ->n. 'j be 1. iv;-; of Gongrer-s amounted t-r no- U.• - 1 ■ ■' ir-. •* Hi ::t commendations, for the wm-t of a Fcdoi.il Executive, and a Federal •'■ !. :y to enforce Legislation, in fine, ■ x'i -,-r.t s in'coutradh.tinaUon to individ- To remedy this great evil, to have a ■• v •.mm- nt of more vigor, a government that would, through Hie magistrate, extend the laws directly to the people, the Constitution was iid(-pied in 1787. 'i he i ainstitution did not, in the least, change the individual character of the States It on '.V S-ive vitality where there was none before. The whole instrument, (ivm beginning to end, •-hew.- that it was a compact between the Si „us«, by which a general agent was created with certain powers for tiie good of each.— The (•-.• -te .t.J resolutions of 1798-9:), and the | lepoif rii.aejn by Mr. Madison, are conclusive in favor ol the entire sovereignty of the States, l!', then, the States are sovereign, they have ; tho right, at anytime, with or without cause, I to Had this doctrine been admitted, % • ■■ v wait misery, what wretched would have been spared both North and S' nth. li w.isyh'iiied by our enemy who seek w.Ui innumerable modes the overthrow of our in.-fitutions, tho despoliation of our prop erly, and our own enslavement. Little would we have thought a few months ago, that uvn under the cover of “great zeal for their country,” would try to accomplish ! what ihe enemy are striving so hard to do. li j our rulers that be. o i mere suspicion, can 1 euiifinc one as long as they please, what be ! conics of the boasted ai tributes of State eovS- eignty? If the administration exercises the powers which Congress has attouiptml to be stow < n it. it can be viewed in no other light, than as a despotic administration. No poweis should bo given to any ono or body of men, shut tic posses in the least on the sovereignty lof the States. In preserving them intact, lies our safety. The Confederate Government, or either department thereof, should exercise no power except that which is expressly dele gated, or that which is necessary to carry out a delegated power. Constitutional liberty, State sovereignty, should be considered as dear as life itself, and i we should defend it as well ag mist misguided j friend.-', as in<pla< able foes. Stand by princi i pie;. Too much confidence in men and too | little regard for principle are the sure roads i to slavery. V.u;k tiiChance. — Two years ago Senator Bright, of In liana, was expelled from the Yan- Ike. "Vuate by a vote not far from unanimous, j tor s imply writing an ordinary letter of intrq j duel-ion to a person desiring to make the ac quaintance .;' "resident Davis. Now such inen Ins Long of Ohio, 'Wood of Now York, Harris | oi Maryland, and White of Ohio, declare in i op.m session their conviction that Lincoln may : bury in bloody grave- our bravo and gallant j soldiers, until resistance shall prove uuavail i ing ; may d:ivo the balance of our people info I banishment, ctmlis ate their estates, and send ■ th>m. man women and children, all agio?, eon i ditions am! sexes, strangers in a strange land, i hou. eless and homeless wanderers ; but he can I n-ver make them a subject race. Another speaker invokes tho curse of God Almighty j upon tho war, and invokes the people to make | , s,i C > by a c ompromise of conflicting interests, p-inelples and opinions. This is gratifying. Rea-on is returning, national insanity is de caying. and thinking men begin to see that by attempting to exercise an arbitrary control over people of the booth, the North has lost its Uonstituti.-nal form of government, and in* ! cuirel a debt that can never be paid. A vote cannot bo obtained ia tho Yankee Congress ; now to expel a member for giving expression Ito his feelings. Mark the change. ' iis omi ' nous. An mxa Habeas Corpus Case. —The Con st-Itndona'.if? < f this (Thursday) morning says: A writ of Habeas Corpus sued out by John Byrne, K>q., of this city, claiming exemption ' from conscription from field service on the j oh a of being over the age required for con* | scriptioa. returnable before Judge W. T. Gould. was argued lvfere the judge yesterday morn | ing and testimony heard. The judge decided adverse to the applicant, and remanded him back to the custody of the enrolling officer. : We understand, however, that the applicant’s : attorney, 11. W. Hilliard,-Esq., will certiorari •.he case to the Superior Court of Richmond ' county. t tie \ ankees seem to have one hope of stop ping the Confederate rams, now louse in the North Carolina waters, and that is placed in the Tacony, a vessel of tho “double-ender'Mlass. and was built and equipped at Phildaeljfiia.— She is a staunch craft and carries ten guns, lour each broadside and heavy rifled pivot gun j fore and aft Asa paddlowheel steamer she belongs to the third class, and is nine hundred j and seveatv-four tons tonnage. She is com- ! manded by Lt W. F. Truxton, a grandson of i Com. Truxton, AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 11, 1864. THE TRAN VICTORIES. The recent disasters to the Federal arms, ; west of the Mississippi, furnish an impressive i commentary on the folly of Lincoln's scheme jof Southern subjugation. Such lessons can hardly fail to have some effect, even on the mind of that besotted tyrant, bloated though i be bo with the pride and arrogance of fancied j power and security. His dreams of conquest | must be rudely disturbed by the thundeis of j Confederate victories reaching his ear, from the j blood-stained fields of the far West. The pain ful suspicion must flash athwart his fanatical brain, that the grand vision of extended em pire towards the setting sun. which has so long dazzled his view, i.- about to turn out to be but “the unsubstantial fabric of a dream.” j Lincoln has fondly imagined that his armies j of brutal mercenaries would conquer and de * taeh from the rc-be! Confederacy one Stab after another, not'd r. i tyho should be ioft to raise thes'andaid es revolt. He thought that Ar kansas and Louisiana had already fallen be neath his sway, aud made haste to establish In-' bogus governments over them. But iu the moment of imagined triumph, when the le gions of Banks and Steele were about to wipe out the last vestiges of rebellion, and sweep on. in their victorious and resistless career, to the banks of the Rio Grande, be Cuds them sud denly scattered to the winds, whipped, routed and driven in dismay from the soli, of which they vainly thought they were masters, lie buds that, these rebel States will not stay con quered—teat the job of subjugation is no sooner accomplished, than it lias to be begun anew. \» lien Vicksburg fell and the enemy obtained undisputed control of the Mississippi, our .pros per ts in the West seemed gloomy, indeed. Cut ell from the rest of the Confederacy, and left to their own apparently feeble and inadequate resources, it scemerl ns if the States West of the Mississippi must fall an easy prey to the over whelming forces of the enemy. Lincoln felt that they were entirely within his grasp, and that he could easily reduce them to unquestion ing r übnri sion. But fortunately for our cause, President Davis had sent a General to the Trang-Jlissteriniii department, whose resources were equal t o any emergency, and who could not be dismayed by any (Twisters or difficulties. The clear headed, the stout hearted, the gallant, brave and indomitable Kirby Smith found him self alone, in the department of the West,.cut oil from the support and assistance of his gov ernment. But by lbs own br Uiaut genius, and invincible energy, aided by the patriotic corop erution of the Governors of Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas, and of their brave aud gallant peo ple, has overcome the trying difficulties of ids position, and in less than a year from the fall of Vicksburg iiis noble army, led by such Generals as Price, Taylor, Magruder—“names that wore not born to die’ ’■—lias succeeded in utterly discomfiting the abolition hosts, aud driving them back, shattered and demoralized to the Mississippi. These glorious victories, t-ire news of which, as it has come growing better and brighter from beyond the Mississippi, has thrilled every patriotic heart v. .ih joy, should teach our peo ple an invaluable lesson—that they should never despair, never give up—that no matter what disasters may bcfal'tlicm, they can never he subjugated, if luit true to themselves and tlio great cause of Southern independence. The glorious and successful resistance of the pico p!e of the Trans-M ; ssissippi department to tire armed hosts of despotism, under circumstances oi' the most trying discouragement, is an ex - ample that should not he lost upon us. While we admire, we should emulate it. It should be to u- a beacon light of encouragement under any disasters, however great, which may lie fail us, never to succumb, never to falter for a moment in this sublime struggle for national independence ; but to fight on and fight ever until the last, armed foe shall be driven from Southern soil. Another Evil which Needs Looking into. — The Richmond papers slate that while the Ad ruiiußtration officials are impressing every horse and mule in that section which belongs to the citizens, that the quartermasters, com missaries and others who hold not-liabie-to military-duty offices, are allowed to keep their line animals. In some instances ihese gentlemen own quite a stud, for pleasure pur poses. Bo.no people wonder where they get their noble looking steeds. This is a matter that should excite no surprise. The- adminis tration takes all tao horses of the private citi zen, and its officials take their pi; k cut of the droves before they are sent to the army. Tnis is one reason why our soft-handed men in high places who do not receive a salary oveV two thousand dollars per year, are enabled to drive fast nags worth double that sum. In another article we may perhaps tell the public how these men are able to keep four or five nags, at an expense of from ono to two thousand dollars a year each, board at a hotel at ten or twenty dollars a day, have large sums I of money about their persons and in the bank, buy up real estate, stocks, Ac., all opt of a sal ary w hich does not exceed the sum mentioned above. In these bard times, when the poor tax payer is struggling to get a scanty living, a j secret of this kind may be worth knowing. Bat wo see wo have digressed somewhat Irom tho subject we started to discuss. We beg pardon of our readers for so doing. Tbo field before us was so wide that we have wandered a little. We will go back, and finish up the original idea with a few concluding remarks.— The evil spoken of isso flagrant aud unjust that “even a blind man couid perceive it in the dark.” It is a gross evil. It is an evil that has been quietly submitted to long enough. It is an evil which is. if we may so speak, an in famous insult to pyery person who has had a horse taken from hint. Officers should be al lowed no ptivileges not enjoyed by citizens.— We have had too much of ihese brainless “we ate mightier than thou," because we bold a pet ty position. It is time the people stood up for their rights. An officer should only be permit ted to keep what animals he needs for actual service, and not one more. If the citizen is not allowed a pleasure hoise, neither should the official. “The servant is not greater than his master.’’ If oar servants do not know this Scriptural truth they should be taught it. — This is said to be a Republican government. We hope it will continue to be one. If it does not. the citizens themselves will alone be at fault. It is small evils which deprive pe.pie of their right-. In a Republican government the official should have no more rights than those he serves. And we think it high time that many evils which have crept in and fasten ed themselves upon the body politic were cor rected. If the administration will not see that they are eradicated, the people should de mand that they shall be. ggTfce Albany Argus says Lincoln seems to find friends nowhere ; the radicals are after hint ; *o is Froemont; so are the Democrats ; so are the Dutch : so is everybody save those holding contracts or those expecting to get them. ifI&EE DibCitioXsS ox tiie Tax Law.—We find in the Mobile Advertiser, ihe folio viiig impor* tnnl opinio* of the Coramissioner of Taxes, ap proved ana adapted by the Secretary of the ficasuiy, giving the construction the proper department puts upon a portion of the act. which considered ambiguous. The de cision will l>e found of particular interest to the meicantile community: Oiuce of Commissioner op Taxes I Richwoxd, April 2d, 18<>4. t IL-n. C. O. Memmirujcr, Secretary of (lit Treasury: Sir—l have Hie honor to lay before veu a letter from Mr. II -ary LiurnewaflWfee Tax Col lator for the Mobile (Am.) District, and tocaii year attention to a question raised by him; and as the same question has been raised by others, f would be glad to have it settled. The ques tion is this: “Are goods, wares aud merchandise, forming the stock.in trade of dealers on 17th Feb uar j “ en ; ij ■ t- •• ( J wloiviii tax oi 6 per cent. imposed by Paragraph I, Section 1 of the new act, and will they be valued accord ing to the basis of 1 SCO. or according to what -uch goods, wares. &c , were worth iu the same market on 17ih Buy of February, 1800 It seems to me that the language used in Bar. I is so comprehensive that it covers every imsudnable thing that can be called property, and shat every such imaginable thing is to be assessed at its value iu 1860, or the value of a similar thing in the same market, and a tax of6 percent, is to be levied on that value. There i- hovever. a saving clause in that para iigrapb which excepts such property a; is after wards exempted, and such as is taxed at a dif ferent rate;. 1. Gold and silver wares, and plate, jewels, &c., are taxed at a different rate, that is 10 per cent. 2. Where cotton, tobacco, land or slaves have been purchased since Ist January, 1862, they arc to he valued at the price paid by the owner. 3. Shares, or interests in Banks, and other corporations or companies, use taxed at the rate of 5 per cent., but the basis of valuation is different and this class of property talks among the exceptions. Such shares must be valued at their market price on date of act. 4. Coin, dust and bni 1 lon are (axed dift'er entlv, being taxed on the amonut, riot value, which necesistaies the payment of the tax in kind. Moneys abroad, and bills drawn there for, are also exceptions, and they are to be taxed at their market'value whqre the tax is due, in the prevailing currency, which is Con federate notes. 5. Solvent credits, bank bills, &c., are to be taxed on the amount, of their face, aud riiey come within the exceptions, and those are the last excepted. The words of the Ist Paragiaph, Sec’ion 1, cover every species of property not excepted, and ns goods, wa;es and luerohnnd’se, with the exception of plate, jewels. Ac.-, and cotton and tobacco purchased since Ist January, 1862, are nowhere excepted or exempted, it seems to m* that they are to be assessed, valued and taxed under the Ist Para graph, and at tho value of similar ji the* same goods, waves and merchandise on 17th Februa ry, 1861. By section 7 new act, tho stock of goods hold by a merchant on 17th February, having paid the 5 per cent., the income of sucli mer chant derived from the sale of those goods tills year will be exempt from she tax imposed by the act of 18(13 on such income for 1864. But that merchant will be liable to the 10 per cent, income tax imposed by the new act. He is not relieved from this by seclion 7, as that section refers exclusively to the act of 1803. Under the provisions of the new act, tlicmer ebunt who bad already been taxed upon his profits derived Piom purchase and sale during the year 1803, is required to pay an additional ten per cent on his said profits. Both these income taxes are for 1863, though collected this year. Now the mcrch -nt must pay a tax ?pou his property, including stock in trade, &e.. for the year Idtll of-5 per cent., and in January next instead ot making him pay the two income taxes, that under act of 1863, as well as the additional ten per cent, under the new net, he will be exempted from the first, because the tax of five per cent, on his prop erty is deemed and held ns an equivalent by section 7. • Therefore, in January, 1865, when the Assessor calls up -n the recreant and ascer tains his profits or taxable income in the usu al manner, he will only assess it. with tbo ton per cent, imposed by the new act. 2. Commercial brokers derive their income from commissions charged upon sales made ex clusively for others. They are, therefore, not liable to the additional 10 per cent, income tax imposed by Par. I, Sec. 4, new act. The principals or owners of the goods sold are liable for the profits, or the tax of ten per cent, thereon, although the goods were sold by their agent. The law intends to tax specula tors. (.The principal, and not the agent, Is the speculator.) The tax is on profils from buying and selling. It is the business of commission merchants principally to sell. In many cases they sell what they did not purchase for their principal—indeed, in most cases —and it would be impossible for them to make the return. Respectfully submitted, (Signed,) T. Allan, Coianiissoner. Approved. (Signed,) C. (I. M. Another Regulation in Regard to Taxes. —The following regulation in reference to tilhes, when the articles subject have been re ceipted for by quartermasters, commissaries, or other persons, for the use of the army of the Confederate Slates, has been issued by Thompson Allan, Esq., Commissioner ofTaxes: lut. In cases where the produce subject to tax in kind has been taken and receipted for by any Quartermaster or Commissaries serving with the troops in the field, the receipt may hfi allowed by the collector in settlement of the •money value of the tax in kind. 2d. In cases whose such produce of the far mer has been taken and receipted for by any person belonging to the - army, riot a quarter master or commissary, and p”od is made .of the facts by the tax payer and su h other per son or persons as ton have knowledge of the facts and the character of the tax payer and witnesses for truth and integrity established by evidence, if the Collector is sa'.islied that the produce has be n received and used by the Confederate States army, the receipt may be in like manner allowed. ‘ld. In cases where such produce ha3 been taken by the Confederate States army, and no receipt given upon proof, by affidav tof the producer, and such other person or persons as j may know the facts, with proof establishing the character of the producer and witnesses for truth and integrity, the amount so taken may, in like manner, be allowed. The .Progress Toward Nkg no Equality— Negro Suffrage and Miscegsnatio.x in Lt»- COLNDOM. —A Washington correspondent of the Chicago “Times” traces the successive steps by which the Administration party has advanced from Abolition to Negro Equality, Negro vot ing and Miscegenation. They are as»follows: Ist. The emancipation of the slaves in the District of Columbia. 2d. The Emancipation Proclamation, in which Hr. Lincoln violated the solemn pledges of his inaugural address. ! 3d. The unlawful expenditure of the public I money in large amounts, in the establishment j and support of negro schools. 4th. The adop i tion of the policy of raising negro soldiers for j the Union arui-es. sth. The practice of entic- I ing able-bodied negro men to leave their com ' fu:table homes op the farms in Kentucky and Maryland, in order to induce them to enlist. 6th. The practice of forcing the tame class of negroes away, foi the game purpose. ”th Leg islation by Congress Riving the negro soldiers the same pay and'emoluments as white soldiers, gib. The action of Congress in compelling the 1 street cats here to carry blacks, the same as j white people, th. The efforts in Conegrss to ! confiscate all the Southern estates and confer i them on negroes and Yankee adventurers in discriminate!y. 10th. The effort in Congress to give to negroes the same right to vote as is enjoyed by white people, Greeley ha? commenced telling butchering tales over the Plymouth fight. He says after the fort was taken me Confederates ordered out the North Carolina troops, who formed part of the garrison, and shot them : and that all negroes found in uniform were murdered. NEWS feUMHARY. i Efforts are being made in Alabama to raise funds for an orphan asylum lor the children of j dead soldiers. Dr. S..K. Cox. of Lowndesborough, Ala., has obtained from the Patent office. Richmond, a natont for tho making of a beautiful burning (laid from tlie coal of Alabama, and also a pat ent for the machinery by which the process is carried out. The oil or fluid Hhis extracted gives a clear aud beautiful light, quite equal to the ordinary gas. A company has been formed in Montgomery for the manufacture ot the oil; the buildings necessary are being rap idly constructed immediately iu the vicinity of the coal bed; the retorts are in course of construction at Selma. Hon. 15. I*. Hill, Senator from Georgih, de livered aspeecb last week at LtimpKin, Ga.. on the condition of the country. A correspond ent of the Columbus Sun says that he spoke about -. wo heuis. flis discourse was interest ing, rod toward tho conclusion, impressive. He a- .ended and boasted upon the action and" .m of the taxo Congress, iiis views upon the suspension of t.ie privilege of habeas cor pus were very unsatisfactory. He recommend ed ably the same “peace policy,” in substance, which is embodied in the Stephens resolutions’. Os course he exhorted the people to a vigor ous prosecution of the war. Green peas are selling at the dollars per quart in the Mobile markets. The Charlotte Democrat has been placed in possession of information in regard to the cold-blooded murder by Yankees of Samuel Armour, formerly a citizen of that county but recently a resident of Tennessee. Mr. Ar mour belonged to Gen. Forrest's command, aud was*at borne on furlough when a parti- of Yankee soldiers visited his house and captured him. Alter carrying him to their camp a pris oner, some tory present accused him of beiim a bushwhacker, whereupon the Yankee officer! without a court-martial or ’trial, ordered six men to take him out and shoot him. The men took Armour off a short distance and told him lie might have a chance of saving his life by running ; and as he started to run the brutal viliaim shot him dead. A mill on and a half of stork of the Virginia Volunteer Navy stock has been taken. T ie Mobile Advertiser says that one of For rests men called upon a tailor in that city, a few days since, to have a suit of clothes made of materials from Paducah. He represents the spoils of the expedition as immense, quite be yond (he means to estimate. At the different points successfully attained, vast stories were touud, and horses and mules in large numbers T his being the case, every vehicle, of whatever description, was harnessed and loaded, and only such of the plunder destroyed as it was impos sible to bring away. Ot jeans alone, at Padu cah, they took as much as to load completely a leng train of wagons. There must, ho says have been enough to clothe all of Gen. Johnston’s army. The Yankee story of 5,000 horses and 1.000 wagons brought off, may be less ofau ex aggeration than wo think. Brig. Gen. Alfred Iverson, Jr., a son of ex ,Senator Iverson, of Columbus, has been as signed to the command of a cavalry brigade in Hardee’s Corps. The brigade is composed of the Ist, 2d, 3d, 4th and (ith Georgia cavahy regiments. The prospect of a wheat crop in the central Alabama is wry promising. The line steamer Mail, belonging to Messrs. Jamenex, Sokrino &Cos., of Havana, engaged iu running the blockade, was captured oue day during the latter part of last week by a party of deserters. It seems the Mail had eluded the vigilance of the blockading squadron, and was proceeding up the Osteena Hatchie River, in the Southern portion ot Florida, when she was captured, the was laden with a valuable cargo lor Government anti on private account. A Yankee schooner was blown up in York river, a few days since by a torpedo. Gen. Fitz Lee bus adopted the plan of pub licly commending in general orders, to be read on dress parades, the exploits of his men, that emulation may be excited with the Happiest effect. The citizens of Mobile are getting up a testi monial of their appreciation of Gen. Forrest, in the shape of a field battery, consisting of two Travis guns, which are light, easily trans ported, fired with great, rapidity and accuracy, and for the cavalry service, a most valuable we ipon. One of the guns has been finished and the other is under way. A horrible murder was perpetrated at Alba ny, Ga,, a few days since. A man named O'Brien was found dead, terribly butchered, about two miles from Albany. A man named Taylor is suspected of the crime, and is now in custody. A lady with whom tb’s same Taylor was intimate, has since been iound dead, and buried in a standing position in a wheat field close by the city. Taylor is suspected of the double murder. The wheat and corn crop in the vicinity of Chambers Al-i., look well. A severe hail storm visited LaGrange, Ga., April 18th. Most of the hail was larger than partridge egirs. Glass was broken, and gar dens and fruit trees damaged. The large gang of negroes recently employ ed beyond Girard, Ala., in throwing up fortifi cations, have been withdrawn and sent where such work is likely to.be a little more needed than at that point. Pyroligneous acid is now manufactured at the powder works in Columbia in sufficient quantities to supply the wants of the entire Confederacy. A meeting of Tennesseeans, for the purpose of organizing a relief committee for Die benefit of Tennessee troops who may be wounded in the approaching battle, was held in Atlanta on Friday last. A committee was appointed, and upwards of $24,000 promptly subscribed to carry out the bentficeut design. The battlefield relief association has been formed at Marietta, Ga., and an efficient relief corps-appointed, who, after every battle, will at once report to our armies with nurses, sur geons and supplies, to administer to the wants of the sick aud wounded. Virginia army letter writers think Grant's army will not advance before ten days. A cot respondent of the Mobile Tribune, writing from Pollard, says, one of the most hopeful signs ot the times may be found in the fact that our money can be exchanged for gold in Nashville or Memphis for a lower premium than it can be in Mobile or Richmond; showing conclusively that our friends within the ene my’s lines, and who have the best opportuni ties of acquainting themselves with (lie situa tion and resources of the “universal Yankee,’’ have the most unshaken confidence in our final success. But these hopeful signs must not cause us to relax a single muscle. All our strength and resources should be carefully hus banded, and every salient point watched with Argus eyes and guarded with unsleeping vigi lance. Decaturvtlle, Tennessee, the scene of the late reported battle of Gen. Forrest with Grierson, is the county seat of Decatur county. It is about sixty miles from Jackson, and seventy fiom Columbia, and eight or ten from the Ten nessee river. The knitting factorv of J. Judge & Cos., of Columbia, S. C., turns' out 2,500 to 3,000 pairs of sofiks pur day. Seventy hands are employed in the faotory, and some five or six hundred at their c.vn houses in finishing them alter the knitting i-; done. The venerable Judge Monroe, of Kentucky, is at present at Columbus. Ga. Howe thieves are committing great depreda tions in the mountain districts of South Caro lina. The Macon Telegraph learns that the Cen tral Railroad lost but fifteen cars at the late fire in Wilmington. At last accounts there were only three regi ments left in garrison at New Orleans- L a demonstration could be made on that city Ranks would have to return to 'protect it, and Gen. Dick Taylor would be at liberty to dis pose of Gen. Steele, and thus recover Arkan sas as well as Louisiana, West of the Missis sippi- The steamer General Moultrie, belonging to the Palmetto Importing and Exporting Com pany, has, we learn from the Nassau papers, been sold. She is to be used as a dredge boat for the harbor of Nassau. The steamer Rothsay Castle, Captain Lovett, we learn has safely arrived at a Confederate port. VOL, LXXVIII. —NEW SERIES VOL. xx\-ji« V /, ' A-J-. x) Vt it". From Kentucky. [special corresfoxdexce chronicle a sentinel.] Hodges Brigade on the March—Severe Weather Reported fight at Lexington,. Rij—Capture of Col. Monday and J fen—Emancipation ques tion ii Kentucky— Wolford dismsised the Van fee service, and organizing a Guerilla Band to fight the Federals—Opposition to Lincoln's Con scription Act—A Yankee raid in Preparation Our present Status —. 4 noble specimen es a Soldier, Ac, Ac. Headquarters 7thßatt. Cox led. Cav. ) Castle’s Woods, Russell Cos, Va. , , Alum 22, 1804. ) We have just arrived from Kentucky, with the Brigade, most of us worn out and much fatigued. For the last eight days, snow, rain and hail have fallen iu great abundance, and die winds have blown colder than we have feit m the depth of winter. We have ail been ex- P° s# d to this weather,and have subsisted on very short rations, but very little complaining lus been heard, from those who are able to stand up, while some thirty of our men have been j taken down sick witli fever. Taking all things into consideration the soldiers are in much bet ter condition than we anticipated they would be when we arrived here. The Brigade came out of Kentucky on the 20th inst. We left Kentucky river and went over on Poor Fork of Cumberland River, and camped about twenty miles from Harlan Court House. At this Court House there were about seven hundred Yankees encamped. They were placed there to watch us, but the weather pre vented us from going to see them. While in that section of Kautucky we cap tured a Yankee soldiei belonging to the Forty seventh (Ivy-.) Infantry Regiment. He int'cim ed us that Col. Mark Munday had recently bad a tight at Lexington with two regiments—a Michigan and Pennsylvania ; that the fight commenced about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and that it continued until night, when the Abolitionists were defeated with a loss of some fifty killed and wounded. The next morning the enemy brought a brig ade against him aud surrounded his Regiment, and after a short fight took him and his men prisoners. Col. Munday was sent off in irons to some prison, and his men sent away, after being disarmed, to work on fortifications. This difficulty arose-from the emancipation question now being discussed in that State. All the Kentucky troops in the Northern aimy have been taken out of the State, with the ex ception of about six hundred at Louisa—moun tain men, who care nothing about the emanci pation question. The Yankee soldier whom we captured, asserted, however, that Kentucky was full of deserters, v* ho are Kentuckians. He also says that Gen. Wolford has been dishonorably discharged from the Yankee army and was now raising a Brigade to tight them on his own hook as a guerrilla. The people of Kentucky have determined that Lincoln shall not carry out his conscript act in that State, and we believe they will fight before they will submit to it. Since our anival here Col. Johnson has re ceived a dispatch from our friends in the inte rior of Kentucky, that a body of ten thousand cavalry arc at Lexington and Mt. Sterling pre pa! ing ten days rations for the purpose of making a raid into this section of Virginia. This expedition will he under the command of Gen. Stoneman, aud Gen. Sturgis. We sup pose they will have about six or seven thous and men when they start, and about four when they get near the mountains, and those that come wilt he stoned to death as certain as fate. We are prepared to give these fellows a warm reception, and we will not give them time to repent a visit to Dixie. It is supposed they will move this way about the same time that Grant attacks Gen. Lee before Richmond. The confidence of our soldiers in our suc cess this year was never stronger than at pres ent, and they believe that this is the last year of the war. We know but little ,as to the condition of affairs in this military Department—in fact we don't desire to know—and if we did, we would not impart any information at this critical moment. Enoufh is told, when we say that we are able to meet the enemy and resist him at any point he may attack us. The confidence in the success and triumph of Gen. Lee over Gen. Grant, in the next great last battle, gives us hope that we may all be able to reach home in a few months. Yesterday Lieut. Martin Bates reported in camp for duty. lie is the largest and heaviest man iu the Confederate army, and is a Ken tuckian. He is seven feet and one inch fall, and weighs three hundred and ninety pounds. His feet measure thirteen inches in length.— A giant of his size cannot be found every day. Lieut. Bates is in good health and attends to camp duties as other good soldiers do. lie be longs to the 7th Battalion Confederate Cav alry. The weather is pleasant and spring like to day, and that we may have mere of it is the prayer of Sous Lieutenant. ’’’The Fort Pillow Aitjir.—Some of the Northern papers appear to think that the Fort Pillow affair was not such a horrid matter after all; and that the account heretofore received by them of the “massacre,” “butchery,” &c., are the fruits of abolition invention, and told with the hope of inciting Lincon to retaliation, as be has threatened. Take, lor instance, the following extract from a private letter pub lished in the New York Journal of Commerce, and maik the difference between this and the other accounts put forth by the Lineolnite press. The Journal of Commerce says this is “a rational and probably a very correct account of the affair:” The storming of Fort Pillow was a serious affair. I conversed with an intelligent Irish man who came up on the steamer that brought mauy of our wounded men to Cairo. lie tells me that our officers placed their negro soldiers in front of the whites. They immediately ran away, and the whites surrendered as goon as the rebels entered the fort, calling on the no-' groes to do the same, but they not understand ing matters, and being afraid of falling into the hands of the rebels, ran away with their arms and occasionally fired on the pursuers. But all who s mendered, whether white or black, were protected as soon as' the melee of the assault was over. A few negro women and children were killed in the fort, and some of the negroes were pursued down to the edge of the river and killed before the rebel officers could control their men. The demoralization of the white and terror of black soldiers was excessive. The negroes do not know enough to give up, and their offi cers lost all control over them. The passion and rage of the rebels were ungovernable at meeting the negroes in arms. After the surrender the rebel officers, with a few exceptions, did what they could to control their men. It was worse than folly to attempt a defence with negro-troops, unless there was a certainty ot success. They could expect nothing if the defence failed from the rebels, who en tering the fort sword in hand, would probably refuse quarter, which I am informed the laws of war permit in cases where a place is taken by assault. Wat the North has Gained From Lin colx.—The Albany Argus in speaking of the benefits the North has dcrieved from Lincoln’ B rule, comments thus : What has the nation gained by placing the friend of Abolition in powei? A divided Union; a debt that weighs us down; the destruction of a million of able-bodied men ; calls for more every three months of the year; a policy that keeps every town at work in the most earnest ivay to find its “last man” and “last dollar,” and the towns are fast approaching that point. What have we gained? Mourning all ever the land; a calamity such as the world has never witnessed. What shall we gaits by keeping those men in power? Utter, irretrievable ruin! A man traveled ail the way from Clarksville, Team, to Granada, Miss., to fund $35,550 of Confederate money, but imagine his horror when the Cashier threw out $?4,710 of it ns 1 counterfeit! FOIIEIGV GOsSIK. It appears to be now dearly understood that (be two great Powers of Germany arc, though not actually divided, yet inclined to take op posite views with regard to the integrity cf Denmark. The London Index comments thus on tiie subject: Austria is still anxious to rest on tho treaties of Lteil-2; Prussia,on the contrary, wishes to set those treaties at nought. Unfortunately, the latter Power has been up to this time the more success)ul in carrying out its views, 'flic Danish officials, most local, have been dismissed without compensation of auv sort: the Danish currency has been prohibited, and declared to lie no it gal tender on :nul after tlio Ist of April next, A decent opposition lm» certainly been made to the pretensions of tiie Duke ot Augustenburg, but ’the general and persistent course of action lias tended to the “Germanizition’ ot the Duchies: such pro ceedings, however, are. peculiarly UDgrateful to the Austrians, and a Vienna journal has de clared, in very precise language, that it is im possible for them with one hand to hold Yeuc tia by the right oi a treaty, and with the other to grasp at the Duchies by tho light of na tionality. The French papers publish an article fron* the Opinion Nationale, of Paris, which includes official documents, and proves that the French Government is quittly conniving at the efforts of the rebel agents lo have iron clad war vcs. sels built in France for the rebel service. From recitations of the Opinion, it appears that Firras at Nantes and Bordeaux have been for months at work building war vessels, ostensi bly lor China, but really for the rebels. Mr Dayton last fall laid before the French Govern ment proofs of the real destination of the ves sels; and after much delay, the work wan stop ped by government orders. But during the last two mouths, as the Opinion declares, that work has been resumed, and two of the vessels are now ready to bo passed over to the rebel agents. Lieut. Maury and Captain Bullock have been prominent in these negotiations. ’i hese vessels art; iron-clad, and the rebel au thorities have ordered an entire fleet, which the government of Napoleon 111, seems willing tx> have built at French ports, in spite of its re iterated desire to maintain a strict neutrality. The Peace Society of Loudon has presented a memorial to the Emperor of the French, congratulating his Majesty on tiie proposal for j a Congress, and the substitution of the arbi tration of reason for that of the sword. An nexed is the reply of the Emperor : “Sir—Your committee, in the address which it has forwarded to me, congratulates me on having proposed a European Congress. The ex pression of its tentimerits touches me alt the more, because your society, occupying itself within tho means of maintaining the general peace, is on that very account better able to appreciate eostant solicitude for the attainment ; ot' that end. “Will you be my interpreter to your honor able colleagues, and offer them my sincere thanks ? “Believe me, sir, with all sentiments, Re., “Napoleon.” A Paris correspondent of the New York Times, under date of March 2‘J, gives the fol lowing information of certain iron-clads said to be building in France for the Confederacy, and the movements of the Confederate L learner Georgia ; One Qf the vessels built at Bordeaux by M. Arman, Deputy in the Corps Legislatif, for tho Confederate Government, was lonm-hed mi Thursday last, and shows liersell on the water to be a moat beautiful specimen of naval archi tecture. An English vessel is lying iu the same port with all the necessary equipments on board for the new vessel, the articles having been put on board the English vessel at Havre. The new vessel will no: be ready to sail yet for some weeks, and she is audaciously announced in advertisements as being “up” for (Shanghai. M. Anna", however, has been compelled by the French Government to give his word that none of tho vessels he is building shall pass from his into Confederate hands, or, in a general way, that no trouble shall come to the Government from these vessels, It is on Compromise of M." Arman that the I 1 tench and American Govern ments rely, and on which permission is granted for the continuance of the work on them. The two iroil-cladi will not be ready for launching yet for three months, but the other three wood en vessels will soon follow their consorts into the water. It is feared that by some indirect, means these vessels may liuaiiy pass into Con federate-hands. The Georgia, which left the French port of Cherburg over a month ago, Ins just put into the port of Bordeaux, and on Saturday the offi cers of this vessel visited the newly launched Confederate ship. It is y&t unexplained why the Georgia was allowed to re-enter a French port, contrary to the new regulation requiting an interval of three months to elapse between each entry, but 1 believe this new regulation makes an exccp ion to the three months’ rule in favor of coaling, but for this purpose only twenty-four hours aie allowed, and the Georgia seems to be making more than a twenty-tour hours stay at Bordeaux. The distance from Bordeaux to the sea is seventy miles, and the occasion seemed so good a one to entrap the Georgia that the American Minister at Paris immeuiately telegraphed Capt. Winslow of file fact, and the Kearsage, which lately has been stationed in the channel, lias by this time probably arrived off'the mouth of the Gironde. The twenty-four hours’ start will be here allowed, of course to tire Georgia, but the exit from the river is narrow in comparison to other harbors, and it is easier to keep informed of the movements of the blockaded vessel in a liver than in an open bay. The French Government finding that there was an intention on the port of tho Confeder ates to run the Rappahannock out of the port of Calais, and to go to sea, as they did at Sheer ness, with French leave, have inclosed the ves sel in a dock, and placed a man-of-war in front of it. The London correspondent of the Phila delphia Inquirer gossips with much spice over matters as they exist in England thus: Undoubtedly the most imporant occurrence this week has been the delivery of the decision ffl the House of Louis in the Alexandra case. Its importance, however, does not lie in any ef fect it may have upou the relations of this country with the United Slates, lor those rela tions are in no way affected by it. ' < n° lay as we are concerned, this Government has done everything in its power to bring the case to a proper issue, and we can have no ground of complaint against them. The decision of the House iof Lords was entirely upon technical matters. The merits of the enigma, case were not involved in the slightest degree. Ine re sult. however, is, that the Government stands beaten, and is coin pel led to pay the entire costs of the prosecution. The Lairds come off w.th living colors, and they and their friends are in high glee. It is understood that they will claim enormous damages for the loss they have sustained by detention, &c.; and, as they will be careful to bring their case in Clitef Laron Pollock’s Court they will probably obtain a verdict from which there can be bo appeal. The Marquis of Ciunricade, in the House of Lords, attempted lately a sort of trick by using in his resolution cer twin language that would imply a recognition by the House of Lords of the separate existence as a nation of the Confederate States but Earl Russell prompt ly detected aud exploded the trick by insisting on tho Confederate States being mentioned in the resolutions as lire “so called Confederate States. The existence of the British Ministry, just now is held by a very precarious tenure. In deed. I do not hear any prophesy that it will laat more than a fortnight longer. It is now conceded that the opposition will not await the slow process of its natural death, but that they are determined to put a speedy end to its existence, if they can possibly do so. Lord Palmerston may possibly, by making other sacrifices, manage to tide over the present crisis, but just now it looks as though the an nouncement of a dissolution might take place at any moment. The Times has published a double leaded editorial, evidently emanating from Cambridge House, intimating in plain terms that the whims of the Queen were to be respected, aud almost abusing her subjects for presuming to men’t. that * he dlOUld emerge frOIU h,r re ir °- Tue arrival of Garibaldi in London has been postponed until next Monday, v , h. u lv be comes liie guest Ol l tie Duke of teicrhmd tic Stafford House. Whatever demonstrations are to be ma.’e will be ioi >ly o i ih e part ot the people. The GovelfWient has churlishly refused to entertain any suggv; t'.outhat woabi seem to :: “nit of the implication ’hat the great Italian vvs regarded by them tei my other light Hun iu;.i «f an adrenic.: r, and takes pat titular care, by its act"-, to iruckle to the Em peror of ihe crouch. by throwing cold water on everything in the nature of a public de monstration. It is very possible tiiat this course is very prudent rind politic; for no ona doubts that, Garibaldi’s vi it to England has a purpose beyond the mere desire of paying a so cial vis't to hi.-, numerous friends In this coun try. France, it. is well known, looks with siis ion upon it and | .st now it is i.-e desire of the English Government to stand well with France. For all this, Garibaldi is the lion of Ihe day. A lnei'tu'y gourie.uan, who has fff ; t '; of his line in Pat Is, furnishes the New, York World with the following gossip in regard to the recognition of the Confederacy by Empe ror Napoleon : The Emperor believes that the political and commercial advantages which ho will derive from an acknowledgment of the indepcndencu of the South, and from an alliance with tho “Southern Confederacy,” requite him to take those steps, and h; will take them. He requires the recognition of tho empire in Mexico under Maximilian, bolli by the North and South, flic South, through Mr. Slidell, promised this readily enough, as part of tho price she was to pay for her recognition. But the eagerness of Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward in consenting to recognize the establishment of a monarchy in Mexico, on condition that lie would remain neutral between the North and South, surpris ed and rather bewildered the Emperor Napole on. lie had been ted to expect that our gov ernment would make seme attempt, at least, to maintain the Monroe doctrine ; and lie is amazed to see that doctrine so tamely given up ; for it is literally true that Mr. Dayton, in obedience to instructions from Washington, communicated to the Fiencb mini-ter for for eign affa is the readiness ot our government to recognize the Emperor Maximilian as soon as he should arcen i the Mexican throne.— I fhis action on (lie part of the adminis ration, l however, will not change the determination of the Emperor. An 1 it is the opinion of my informant that neither will the recent action of the House of Representatives be seized up on by Napoleon us a pretext for a rupture with tbe North, because t o resolution passed f>7 that body is so meek aud mild in its tone ; and because Ihe action of the House does not, and iias no power to, commit the admin istration to any course whatever. Ollfi Cl FIIIC l\ WILMINGTON, H C. On Friday, April 29, at 20 minutes to I o’clock, f a fire broke oul in a warehouse or shed on the Western side of the Cape Fear River, Wilmington, some 200 feet Sout i of the Ferry, which is opposite to the Market Dock. From ihis point it spread with amazing ra pidity, and in an inconceivably short space of time every building on the western side of tho river south of the depot of the Wilmington & Manchester Railroad was enveloped in llames. The destruction of property is very great.— We sum it up as nearly as wo can ns follows : The Cos ifederate Government lost 800 bales liotton burnt, ol which about 200 were Sea Isl and—say SBOO,OOO. It lost also in materials ami work in progress at Berry’s Ship Yard about SIOO,OOO. r r i■- ■’l >, l 2 .TOO of cotton-—3OO o£ it Sea Inland -say $2,430,000. 1 The Nashville & Chattanooga R. R. Cos. lost 187 bales; J. W. Thomas 37 hales-say S2OO - 000. Iu Capt. Halletfs Sheds there were 850 bales of coltori, 47 of it Sea Island, belonging to the Slate of Virginia, and sundry other parties. Also rope and begging to the amount of SIOO,- 000. AH burned. To.al loss about $900,000. R inkin and Martin’s Rosin Oil Works, about $70,000 insurance lo the amount of $7,000. 11. pallet’s loss in shed about $25,000. lusu otfice $3,000. ‘V/Tfio Southern Express Company lost two cars with merchandize, also some merchandize >l a small ware house. Loss about SIOO,OOO. John A. Taylor, shed, etc., at Ferry, $lO,- 001). Th3 and inline to the machinery and tools at B. W. & W. L. Berry’s ship-yard is compara tively light. Most of the workmen’s tools were saved. They expect to be able to resume work in about three weeks. The sheds and saw mill machinery in rear of ship-yard is the principal loss. Estimated totil $25,000. The’Wilmington & Manchester Railroad Com pany lost the small wooden building in which the President, Ti e'surer and Superintendent had their offices. All Ihe contents were saved. The building was of little value. The chief loss of railroad prop; rty was 25 freight cars, 15 of them belonging to the Georgia Central Road, 8 to the Wilmington and Manchester Road, and 2 to the Southern Express Company. Total loss in cars $150,000. Thus far we. have a summing up of about four million eight hundred thousand dollars, but ihi;i does not include the iujury of a quar ter of a mile of wharling, mainly ruined, nor the loss of the sheds and buildings belonging to the Confederate government and to other parties, nor the injury to the cotton press. These and other things not' necessary to men tion oan hardly be estimated for at the present time sin. -e it may lie impossible to replace them and difficult to do without them. We are hap py, indeed, to learn that the cotton press itself is expected to he in operation egaiu in a short time. It is probable that whcnJiSe whole loss is known, and the wharves, etc., have been included, the v. lmc loss will tall little if anything short of six millions of dol lars. The usual doubts are expressed a3 to whether this tremendous fire was accidental or the re sult of incendiarism. It may have been either. We have not been able to disc >ver_ anything that will warrant us in saying that it war', the one or the other, it we except the astonishing rapidity of its spread, which, does look as though it were too rapid to be merely acciden tal. aud gives rise to suspicions of foul play, although, indeed, the combustibility of all the materials the fire had to work upon could hard ly be in crea ed. — Journal. Patriotic Resolutions. —The following res olutions were unanimously adopted by the Soldiers’ Relief Association, at Nownan, Ga., at a recent meeting : Resolved, That this association, in its ex penditures of money, while it realizes and rec ognizes the fact that a tax of 33J per cent, lias been levied on, and now attaches to the money held by the association, will claim that the in trinsic value of tho money has not been di minished thereby. Resolved, That this association, in jts out lays of money, will not in any evq u t submit to the increased per cent, additional profit which sharp extortioners havi- made the late currency bill the excuse for adding to their goods. Res lived, T hat the class of men who made the late legislation of the country for the reduc tion of the circulation an excuse for increased profits in their sales, have inflicted upon tho country a blow- whose evil fruits are too ap parent not to he seen and known. R solved, That in no case except of absolute necessity, will we as citizens encourage ex tortionists who defy the Jaw by advancing prices so as to make others pay their taxes. Who Proclaimed the War.— The New York Times, an accredited leading Republican pa per, and the special organ in New York of the Administration, in its Issue of tho Gth March, IBC4, in an editorial taking issue with Thad deus Stevens for stating that tho rebel States are beligerents and “that they are no longer in the Union,” writes this down as a fact that cannot be gainsayed: “The Confederacy wanted peace, and sent Commissioners to Wash;n t m to receive it. We w#u!d not receive them, and proclaim'd war! They accepted war. Tre question wio tired the first gun i9 nothir g. A correspondent of the St. Loins Republi can says the Yankt e; will * ave to m ike Alex aniria their base of operations in Louisiana,