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<i*ti«r Daily or Wtekty.' Wl.ere Obituary Smite nil i.
!-'••• 4 In Ibklnl W««klr-Siztr c*i.t« -Erl'r,-
tHK HuniLHY liiut;«nV.
Thi? jtirtiy famous brigade. nist organ! -I
and disciplined by that model soldier and:' iti -
man, Geu. John O. Breckinridge, after., ;•,>
commanded by the I tram u> and l.t.uenied I fan
and Helm, and now by the gallant I -wi
has again distiuguirhed 5t.-elf in the recent ui
gagdtoents abound Dalton- as usual oeeupiiug
tti<# jx-riiotifT post of honor, in the tliidu ff ot
the tight. As heretofore, the number of its
killed and wounded Jins attested lb* stubborn
valor wjrh wldcli it has fought—a mournful
testimonial to its lofty chivalry, and unswerv
ing devotion to the Southern cause.
This brigade is composed of tier flowof of tie.
youtli of Kentucky, the sons of hei first fnmi
lies. tvlf dedicated martyrs to the cause of
Kffuthern independence, they have fm.-aken
homes of affluence, all the comforts and reflno
inents which wealth could furnish, and wlii-li
throw a chaun over social existence; nil the
end-fit meats of loved family circles, and. in
many instances, braved Ute reseiitnieiH (.1
parents to encounter the trials and danger- -d
private soldiers in the ranks of tlie Soutlo-rn
army. By the legislature of their own." Lite,
(hey have been denounced os felons, nbjucl
to ten years Imprisonment in tin- penilenfiai y,
an.l due I Mod incapable of inheriting or je
covvring uny estate within the hounds of tl*o
commonwealth. Ami yet, for titled yt-.it.-,
they have braved and cheerfully served in Our
ranks and then rc-cnllstcd lor the war.
On every battlefield on which l hey have y. i
fought, they have Won ihc uduiimlion oi ail ;
by llnir miiltuchiiig vaiur Hinl sublime da ;n
Admitted by common consent to be the he t
drilled brigade in the army of Teuneiand
regarded as troops that could be relied upon
la any emergency, tiny have urtudly b- ai
placed in situations of extraordinary peril and i
responsibility. At Shiloh, at Murfreesboro, nt i
(Tiickamaugu, at Missionary Ridge, they have
borne the Inunt of (he battle 1 , winning fren-li
laurels on each occasion, and seeming for their
renowned brigade an Immortality of fame. Th , >
future history of this war will contain n
brighter or more thrilling page than that which
will record tho deeds ot tne Kentucky brig
ado.
It is a melancholy reflection that so many of
these noble youths already fill soldi, ,■ . rave-,
end that each successive bat lie adds so largely
to the number. Hut they have not fought and
died in vain. They have relieved the her
lame ol their beloved Stuto from the blot which
the pusillanimity of traitors had east upon it.
Tuey have nobly sustained the 'ancient renown
of the old Cotuiiiumvi alth, the fair land of
heroes nod statesmen, ol Boone and Clay They
lulve struck s: ilwart blows for Southern iude
pendence, paid the emancipation of Kentucky
from abolition thraldom, and earned an tin
questionable title to tho eternal gratitude of
the South. They have developed asi ill higher
type of manhood, of nubility of soul, and sub
limity of self-sacrifice, and will bo regarded by
future generations ns models of exalted pan iot
ism and chivalrous valor.
Wo idfoguize among ns several of tlx It .-roes
of this renowned brigade. Amoi g them Col.
Thomas if. Hunt, uu accomplish'.d and during
officer, who distinguished hiinsclt >u several of ;
tho fiercest engagements ol the war, but 1. s ;
been compelled by failing health, resulting ]
from honorable wounds, and the demands of a !
doptlldent family, to retire from the service I
Tlie gal'unt Capt. Allen, whoso orutehes yet |
attest the seventy of the wound which pros
r rated u|ni on the memorable field of Shiioh ;
and the chivalrous young Kentuckian, Capt
Darragh, now of the commissary department, :
who fell severely wounded at oi'ilob, and again
at Murfreesboro.
It affords us pleasure to oiler this slight and
inadequate testimonial to the merits of our
Kentucky braves. History will do full justice
to their fame, and a grateful South will reeou
Mime their claim to tho most distinguished
honors. "
A Dari no Scoct.—From a private letter from
i ;ka»n near Hanover J auction, May 23-1.” we
are permitted to make tho following extr
‘‘A bravo man aud a daring scout isib.i
Shudiaan, commftujiu>r of Uie «.*ouls ul Hu* ;
division (Hampton's Divislpu, Cobb s Ga. Le
gion.) On the 17th of this month, ho. with
live of his ticouts, attacked a Yankee - ■
post at United States Ford, (in the nav of too
Yankee army.) They numbered thirtom men.
l'lioy were all Dutch'. Khadmnn ordered them
to shi render. The Duteli murmured out some
thing widen ,7« '‘id uwJmtand, and they
commenced tiring, aim’ *he scouts killed every
one of tho Dutchmen but twJ who were >o
badly Irightoned that 1 don’t believe tn. ! 1
ever got over it. lie captured all their horses
and equipage*, swum the Rappahannock n 1
returned to his camp without any of Ida men
being killed or wounded.’’
No Tkayklusc. Towards Viroima. —'The
Savannah Republican states that they are re
quested to say, for the* information of all non- '
ce*mbatants desiring to go to Virginia, whether
to visit sick and wounded relatives and friends,
or for any purpose other than gvornment bad
ness, that peremptory instructions have* b tii
received at Department Headquarters from lire*
War Department, prohibiting the granting of
passports to them.
The Iron L. if u Kalkuu. —The Richmond
correspondent of the Chatle*>.on Mercury *■!*
that news has been received in that city that
our ironclad Raleigh broke in two on the way
below Wilmington. A Wilmington correspond
ent stated the same a few days since. We
suppresed the news at the time aud would
not publish it now had it not been made pub
lic by other papers.
The Way they Passed tub Pickets.— The
Salisbury, N. C., Watchman, has the follow
ing : Three Irishmen, deserters from the Fede
ral army, entered our lines, and when asked
how they avoided the pickets, replied ; “Mure
and were we not the pickets themselves.”
looms or the Lskmoh Uocbt.—Gov. Brown
in answer to a telegram, whether the Judges
cl the Inferior Court were ordered to Atlanta,
ftpUed, “They sre not ordered.”
! CORSE POM) \< 6i; THTJ SfIHOV. VUN «
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.. ■ 'lais .-ih : Al-'.r ■> careful c<-n.- ! i"»-
; dtsyontcr.t in North
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e-.,!t acta n the i ederal House of Ilepresenta- j
tiVCd, tot ugh tne ini.ig v y Jitjt'c, has greatly j
term> ate reject-d, ;t w iU t-mi grcaDy t •
1 n amt ir,t o-.tfy the v. i feeling, ami
■ ■ Web ! .■ V,, tarniiu - only to tie
■ u;ono. ye .; r--in- so me (hut tor the sake
iof huoia: .Wi.'licui. h’:/mg any w. ak or im-
I u ti
■ th. gr-nt f!:.,i...ht(-r of oiii rare. ; -.d convince I
ti ; h :md. ' -I <mi i- -vt,-. •• -m. i.mes j
f ’ "• 1 "" ■ id .... dion—that, the govern- I
">• nt i • lend, rof ilear lives .nd happirw-s, and j
■ would not piolong tbeir sUiUrrings iiutiec siari
ly one moment. Though state-men might re
.•;'! n n th. v.dl not, find 1
‘ >-: ■ . lid :
1 have not r egg.. :t-| the method of thftic ne
gj.l id ion ;er ttieh’t; rn - \he cliolt to obtain
Allow me t., beg your earnest consideration
Os this 15U;.;;- -ts a.
Vuy respectfully yours,
JJ. Vance.
I:.VK(TT!VB Omt's, j
11 cV.inotid, .l-.nuary ath, I>aM. f
l o ’-U i-iK; i iiavcreceivedl your letter of the |
n.-.,: to tm adopted for the purp>; 0 ol r. moving
•••h • sources Ot cli:/..intent” in North Carolina
The contents of the lclt-r are substantially the
to Senator Dortch, extracts of whi'cli were bv
him read to me. li. t.mrl-.eil to Hr. Doheli |
J that '■•ai were probably not aware of the ob
••'• •’* so the course yon indicated, and wit-h
--! net cxprei- i,. ‘mi <>piu : .,n on ihe mortis of ilse
j I'f’, •- I j'ii y, i di.fired loin in answering
;■ ! let «r t • write . - 'estions as to til • nie
-1 tk.Kl ot opening negotiations, and as to the
| !•'.•« ms wbi Ti ’.on thought sh.’it! • be offend to ihe
:• n rmy. ! felt ] si aided yo v, <n! Inj
j the I! T.i ;1; 1 Lies as s—in u:; attelitioU w S
•'! .•• ■ ■ u | r>; "se. (ai.ii lo v. iu, l will j
f
1 1 i,.v.iikddy m>sufcc.->fal. GeiVituis
aid tbe. -i.i;•::- n government refuted to
reci ivo. them (.he tr what 1 hoy bud to say. A
•! «• .-..11 sent a military officer with a
cumin tmicat-ion addressed by myself tolYori
d u! Lincoln. Tit' 1 hdter was received by Lie,!.
Scott, who did nr,;, pc,nut the officer iu sec Mr.
Lincoln, but promised that uu an-wci would
lx sent No answer lm ever been received.
Tlie third lime, , 4 few months .-.go, a gcuilomaii
ua . sent whose j.-,- c’a motet'ami reput r
lio w.hc toiih as to ensure hi;, reception, it the
iy w-'ru not dolmmined to receive no pro
( poKitls wii.if; ver from 11.0 government. Vico
! lh.s ,• ci;, ;, r ... i,» u.o hpo of being able to pro
-1 m, x the cause of humanity, and although lit
| t'o belief tvts entertained of his success, 1
cheerful !y jioldc.l to hi.-- sug,'«s:inn, that the
experiment should be tried. T lio enemy ic
| tu'.’.l to let him p-iv-s through their lines or tv
-. c . !'< rt in e u ill the ■ . Hr wis . I >p
p< 1 .it to ( I-.,; ;■ 8« M mroejbn*
- he 1 of all
Ac- nl's to propose peace, is to invite insult and
r .nlniuely, and t i ciibjcc! o t-v-Ivcs to Indig
li'.iv wdih the slight st chance of being lis
ten. I to.
Xo tme cilizeii, no man who has our cause at
heart e.uii and Die this, and the good people of
N irih ('iiivlinu would be fix last to approve of
such an a ixiipt, if aware of all tua l-ici •■-. i-i
fir from r.- in* ,v: ■* scurces of discontent, ”
s :,'h a ni o w tie! receive, ■it would merit,
the ootnlemnatbu of those true patioifs who
lum u'iven their blood and their treasure to |
maintain the freedom, equality and iipiepend
em ". which de-cc .ded lu (hem from the immor
tal her.*, -< ‘ kmg’s Ji-mut in and otliei battle
fields of the revolution. it*, then, t -eso ropo
sal* ettun.'t be m ule through envoys, because
the enemy would not receive them, how is it
p c able to cortnnuiM.'.iteour desire for
oth.-rwis. ihan by the public unnouiiceineals I
coni, duct in ffin. rt every m, s age i ewrsent |
to Congress?
1 canin l recall at this time one instance in
which 1 have failed to announce that our only
and ' ire was ;x -a. and the only terms which
formed ax 7x 7 m > were precisely those that
yon sugg Med. namely, 11 a demand only to bo
let alone ’ lint suppose it were practicable to
"btiiinacon'evcncc throtigh to(pminsioui:rs with
i die governin' at dt I’res dent i.-uoolti, is it ~t
; Luis inemeut tb.it ive are to con.-iuer i; desirable,
i ovevenot admissible'.' Have wo not just been
1 apprised by that- despot that we can only ex
j pect ai - gracious pardon by email, .path,g alt
! our shiv.c. swearing allegiance and obedience
i to him m. ! hi.; proehim irion. and becoming m
j point of fact tee i bices ol our own negroes?
Pan there be in North Carolina onu citizen so
fallen beneath the.di ;nity of his ancestors as to j
ncc.-pf, or to enter mto conference on the basis !
of the e term ? h; t there aro a few trai
• or-'- in tee BUM-' who would be wiling to betray
tion,inT°f of lu ti i< warded ior treachery
by an *•;. .qv tiom the common doom, may bo
true But 1d > not believe that the vilest
wretch would accept such terms for himself.
• i.,n winch none in* sent nobler dr mate ; Al
lan: soldiers, to tbe field ol battle tone of whom
it is year honor to he.) cm liar, been deceived
I.y anything to v.-U.k h you icier ill.“ 1 he recent !
action of the • ederal ll.mse of llcpreeOuU- !
] have seen no action of that House Fuat does j
rest indicate by a very decided majority, the
j purge*e ol iho enemy tyiei i-c uji ternv the
[■lion or extermination. But if it v.viv other
liow are we to treat with the House of
: 'V ...... V It is with Lincoln alone that
! weaver could con»W, aud ids own partisans at
1 lie North show u.mquf vocally that ms ptnposO j
in his message and prcvi-mmUon w.<* to shut |
out nil hope that he Could ever treat, with us j
on any ici ws. If we will break up our govern- j
him .ard ot d/sfoyah-y to our ova taus. ti
people o: vi.y M,.v who wdt a tempt to set up
a Governmui! ovei the other nine teuth, tic-s
seeking to sow uiscord aud suspicionamoi-g he
ince of his ends. I know
i if they possessed full knowledge of these facts, j
j t i consent that proposals should now be iu .de j
by us to those who control the government at j
j Washington. Your own well known devotion, j
| to the great cause of liberty and independence |
t • which we have ail committed whatjvor we
! have oi earthly possesions, would induce you
j to take the lead in repelling the bate thought
: of abjeo. submission to tho enemy. Yet peace
j on other teims is now impossible. To obtain
■ the sole toms to which you or i could listen,
tiii- struggle must continue until the enemy is
I beaten out of hi* van confidence in our subju
* gatiea. Then, and not till then, will it be
possible to treat of peace. TUI theu all teu
der ol terms to t e em my will be received a*
j proof that we are ready lor submission, and
wiil encourage him iu the atrocious warfare
which he is waging.
I fear much trorn the tenor of the news I re
! ceive from Noitk Carolina, that an attempt will
AUGUSTA, GA„ WI.DNESDAY MORNING. JUNE 8, 1864
h 11 ;• .* i.y oonsebad men to inaugurate move
m wl: h must be considered as equivalent
i • . i alia comfort to the enemy, and which all
’ o‘ shonid comtdne to put down at any
. n; v conn on my aid in every effort
’ \oi:r State the scenes of civil warfare,
-“ v ’ ::i date in toiiics if the designs of
rabi :s be suffered to make headway. I
•• ‘‘ von will place yourself in your Jcgit- j
, a.e ;.-,:d;ma in the lead of those who will j
i:GI t■■ I -ji 1 the name of tbc old North S'ate to |
' hi a tuned by such a stain. Will you par- I
in-:- t-.r M!gg»..-iir,g that my only source of !
;.>dU"..pyn the subject arises from the fear j
u.t y. will delay too long the action which
.-•iv upper.;.-; that hy an over I
i desire ro re. .aim by conciliation men
you believe to be sound at heart, but
, w >'- la', ally is in. re than suspected elsewhere,
11 "hi |M_rrmt them to gather such strength
1 1 . ni ■<} violent measures than are
f. V. nr influence and position
I he ;av.looters of ti c unfounded discontent,
: )..... vi,-. w.lwii iti your State, would he jnt
loan without th-. use of physical forces if you
! md abandon a policy of conciliation, and
! ‘ : D'. m at defiance. !a this coarse, freukly
: li. dr r.• i s:i (|,- you would rally around
. ; all tba* is best and noblest in veur Stste,
. Bad 3 r.nr triumph would be bloodless. If the
• • " ‘Hy I; iiicy he adopted, I much fear you
">.ii be driven to the use of force to repress
" •■-•in, la eithei; event, however, Be assured
••• ; ; .v -ill have my coidial concurrence and
r m uiainiaiuing with you the honor,
, d . ; ;:i if./ e.i. t tair name of your State, and in
‘ mrts to crush treason, whether incipient, as I
! vc it now to be, or more matured, as I be
-1,1 ' ■■ 'I not firmly met, it will in our future ia-
I ovitabiy L une.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully, yours,
J KFSKKi-O.N' DAVrS.
h.xceil 'ncy, Z. B. Vance, Governor of
j North Carolina, Kuleigh, N U.
THE WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS.
fc'TATu of North Carolina, )
ilxEcn iVE Department,
Kaleuiu, Feb. 9th, 1'864.)
j Hi-'- Excellency, Jeipersox Davis:
')’ Dear Sin bince receiving your letter
; ' h (be !-'.h tt|t., to which it was my intention
a,hr. i e rep lit and before this, reports have reach
ed me from Ibchrnond, which, if true, would
"■nder my reply unnecessary. I hear, with
j'l r< . ■' : ■ that a bill is certainly expected to
! |> : ■' ibv (Ji.u. ■ ess. suspending the writ of Ha
j ' '■ '.'.t : throughout the Confederacy, and
: ,v p -in ;a rests will immediately be‘made
... ■ i.: a. Os course, if Congressand
I i "nr hlA.i.vllfucy bo resolved upon this, as the
i » -:> v mu iis ot repressing disaffection in tliis
1 b.‘, is v, ••.1.1 he a mere waste of time for me
'' nutter. And yet I should not
i; b>s oC iheconsi quences wbiob
1 ;■.•will .Udlow, did I not add yet another
' ••’ < vpo; tu; ;:ioa to tho many I have al
ready spoken.
'i t. *' billu-src-J to, about which I cari
' ’ p * opinion indil 1 see it, be strictly with
... the limits of the Coustitntjon, 1 imagine the
’ 'iy i (hisc’.ato will submit to it—so great
is 1 1 vir ieg; srd lor l.i .v. if it is adjudged, on
Hie 1 outra y, to be in violation of that iustru
| m.-nt and revolutionary in itself, it will bo re
- -:ed _ t 'mould it i ecome a law soon, 1 earnest
!y ad vis- you .to be thary of exercising the
I ; - avers well which it will invest you. lie con
;od. to try at. least for a.while, the moral effect
| of holding this power over tho heads of dis -
j e ntciii* ■; nu n b. tu.e shocking all worshippers
j-U tee ccinnion la;v throughout tho world, by
• sh&riffless dungeons tor
j 1 pinion . alee. Ldo not speak this factious'y,
: ‘d by way ol a ilour.sh. hi or do I believe that
- cn eii; ghlened lawyer, and a Christian
l ain, you could feel any pleasure in the
;ix ioimance of such an ungracious task. I
| am o:i the contrary convinced that you believe
" ’>o bo tlie only way to secure North Carolina
;in tlie ifc.ruiauco ol her obiigatious to her
I Confederates.
i 'the in- foitune of the belief is yours, the
;:..e will iigld, upon those unworthy eons
J .. ho ha * e thus roughs to stab their mother be
: cas; v she cast ihciu off If our citizens are
. untouched by the arm of military violence,
l do not dr.,pair of an appeal to the reason and
putrknirin es tho people at tlie ballrt-box.
iiundicds of good and true men now acting
tilth, and possessing the confidence of the
i-arty called Conservatives, are at work against
> he and ‘.maei'ous movements for » convention, and
whilst civil law remains Intact w'dl work seal-
Ou.-ty and with heart. I expect myself to take
the tivtl'l as soon as ray position will allow me,
•lad shult exert every t-ifort to restrain the rev
olutionary tendency of [atblic opinion. Never,
y.'t. dr. have the people of North Carolina re
l'uHM t) 1- ten to th'eir public men if they show
rigli! n« retson on their side. Ido not fear
t;. iru •: tiie issue now to these potpnt weapono
in the liiuniii of si,eh men as tviii wield them
next summer. 1 tie fear to trust bayonets and
dun eons. ! endeavored soon after toy-acces
sion to the chief magistracy of North Carolina,
i,> make you aware of both the tact of disaffec
tlen in this State and the cause of it. lu addi
tion i>> the m ;ny tellers to you. I have twice
vi.-.ited Itiehiuoi-d. expressly to give you infor
mation on tuts point.’
The t ruth is, as have often said before, ihat
thp ".teal, borly of our people have been sus
peeiad hv Umir jjo vermeil t, perhaps because of
the reiuctauce with which they gave up the
old i'uion; and I know you will pardon me for
saying that t :e conscious ness oi their being sus
pecled Ims been greatly strengthened by what
stained to be a studied exclusion of anti se
ionists from all the more importast offices
of t-iiegoveinment, even fioin those promotions
ui the army, which many of them ha.l won
with their blood. Was this suspicion just?
And wr.s there sufficient effort made to dia
i prove that it existed, if it really did not exist
i in liichmoud ? Discussion, it is true, has been
i uoitnuu'd and bitter, and unrelenting criticism
; y,o:i y .ar administration has been indulged
... but where and when "have our people failed
t in battle, or withheld either their blood
|or xir v ;s. resources ? To what exaction
h v.* tncy u't submit tail, what draft upon their
vicriotis u have they yet dishon red .' ('onscrip
ti* u, ruthless and uurelonling, has only been
exceeded in tire seventy of its execution by the
’ a-.j v. - meut of property, frequently entrusted
men unprincipled, dishonest, and filled to
ot ctfi nving with ail the potty measures of
.in i minds dressed in a little brief authority.
she files ot-my office ate piled up with the
;r:■*.vailing coniphvnts of outraged citizens, to
I whom redress is impossible. Yet they have
-h.ics;!!“J, :md 80 far performed with honor,
j iu ■.!' duly to their country, though the voice
■ '‘l their very natural murmurs is set down to
Ido not hold you responsible for
a t n.- -,.yfy annoyances, the insolence of office,
under which cur people lose heart and patience.
i',v!‘n if 1 do, I cannot forget that ic is my
uutry Unit I am serving, not the rulers of
that c untry. I make no threat. I desire ou
\y singiene-rs of purpose and sincerity of
i—. ;■ -v. ak tcose words of soberness and
'*■ m*y, with the blessing of God,
subserve tho cause of my suffering eoun
I rc-o words I now believe to be the advice
' ‘ ■ to retain from exercising the
; iry j • •< is about to be given you by
’hui- ‘-u >s». ;.t b-.sst until tbe last hope of
y-fi-icu. •• befog sufficient, is extinct.—
! ' ' • ‘'-Tp’ css. i a !<ar in your last letter
!** • 1 ■ 1; - ; cii -ru to conciliate were iu- |
I cvi.not yet see just cause for aban-
Deraaps 1 am unduly biased in my
. f- concerning a people whom I love,
i ito wiiora i owe so much. Though I trust
| not. Our success depeuds not on tins numbers
. i to support our cause, but upon their
eai and infection. Hence I have every hope
persuading, not one iu forciiuj the sympa
. thi. = o* an unwilling peonle.
iYe Leg.siature of tilts State meets next
May. Two-thirds are required by our Consti
tunon to c rti a Convention. This number can
not i*e obtained, a bare majority vote for sub
mitting the preposition, will, in iuy opinion, he
impossible. Under no circumstances p,iji a
Convention be assembled in North Carolina
during the present year, in my judgment, and
during next summer the approaching State
elections wiil afford an opportunity lor a full
and a complete discussion of all the issues, the
result of which I do not tear, if left to ourselves.
If there be a people on earth given to the sober
secor. i thought, amenable to reason and re
gii dt '.l of their plighted honor I believe ihatl
may claim that it is the people of North Car
olina.
Very respectfully.
Y’our ob't servant.
z. B. VA.XCE.
Mbimingep. Recommends a Spe- :e Basis
In the Senate on Monday, May iff. the chair
j lai 1 before that body the annexed ccmmunica-
I tion :
Treasukv Department, )
Confederate States of America, -
Richmond, May 20, 1864. )
| R. M. 7. limiter. President protein. Senate :
| Sir .-—Since the date of my report of the 2d
! instant, nearly thoe weeks have elapsed. Dur
i ing that period it was intended to make sale, at
public auction, at (he capital, of part of tine six
per cent, uutuxable bonds, with a view to es
tablish the rates at which sales could ho made
at every commercial point within the Confede
racy. .Military necessities have prevented this
sale and still require its postponement. The
aid whii-j it was expected the Treasury wbllii
derive from that s >urce Is. therefore, delayed
for at ieast a month and tor the expenditures
of that period Treasury .notes or somdtother
substitute becomes neccssaiy. The umiSs pro
vided by Congress for supplying tho wauls ot
the Government at this time consists of—first
the limited new issue of Treasury notes ; second
of the sales of the said six per ceut bonds ; and
third, of cei tifleates of .indebtedness. I have
shown that the whole amount derived from
taxes during the present year will afford no aid
in paying the current expenditures of the Gov
ernment. Th s I regard as an imperfect fea
ture of the tax bill, and have veccomtneuded
that it he remedied by additional taxes. The
collection of these taxes cannot take place in
time to meet the emergency, and resort must
be had to ouo of the other sources.
In the same report l have set forth the rea
sons why an increased issue of Treasury notes
would be injudioious and if these reasons arc
deemed adequate to justify tho conclusion, it
follows that lesort must he had to the third
meads of supply, namely : certificates of in
debtedness.
The great leading wants of the Government
to be supplied at home are clothing, subsistence
and transportation. If measures can be adopt
ed which will enable these wants to be supplied
wholly or in part through certificates of in
debtedness, great relief will at once be obtain
ed. The ra lroad companies have generally ex
hibited so much patriotism that it is highly
piobalqe they will rdadily accept certificates iu
part payment of transportation.
Tho other great wants are supplied by the
mu'-Ufacturers, farmers and planters, who mun
utaetuie the clothing and produce the subsist
ence stores of the country. If these parties
could be induced to accept certificates for such
articles as arc the subjects of purchase or im
pressment, the scheme would be complete. It
seems to me that, try resorting to a specie basis
for all purchases or impressments, they could be
made more acceptable both to the government
and the owner. If all articles, when impressed
were valued at the prices ot ISGU (when the
tho currency was at a specie standard.) or at
their present value in coin, and certificates were
issued for such value, payable. two years alter
peace, in specie, the interest in the meantime
to be paid semi-annually in coin or its market
value in Confederate notes, a substantial secu
rity of the highest value would be obtained.
The parly giving up his commodites would be
better satisfied with the price and mode of pay
ment.
During the continuance of the war he would
receive the same rate of interest as tuough his
property had been valued in Confederate notes;
aud, after the *war, he would receive its full
value iu coin. Tlie Government would be bet
ter satisfied, because, whilst it paid no higher
interest during the war than it would do under
the existing Jaw, it would, alter tne war, save
t!m less to which the present exaggerated prices
have exposed it. As no material abatement i.i
prices lias occurred since the meeting of Con
gress, it is obvious that the supplies voted by
the last Congress must be largely inueased, un
less some such measure of relief should be
adopted at tho present session. I respectfully
recommend, therefore, that the impressment
law bo amended in conformity with the above
suggestions, and that it lie extended to all sup
plies which may bo necessary tor the support
of ti e army and navy. I also recommend that
a reasonable proportion of tlie railroad trans
portation, based upon the charges of 18t>l), shall
be paid in the same way. As the cash expen
ses ot railroads are very large, and require sup
plies of money for daily use, it is probable that
one t.di'd of such charges would be as much as
they could afford to take.
To enable the Treasury Po meet the payment
of the interest on these certificates, it’would
be advisab e to furnish it with the means of
procuring coin. A double advantage would
thus be gained. The Government would bo
enabled to pay its interest at a lower rate,
and the paying out of bo much coiu would re
duce the difference between tho market rate of
coiu and Confederate securities. I would,
therefore, respectfully recommend that an ad
ditional appropriation be made to enable the
Treasury to purchase and ship as much cotton
as may be made available for this purpose.—
Ten millions of dollars would probably be
sutlieieut at the present session.
Respectfully sui-mitted, '
C. G-. Mummingek, Secretary of Treasury.
The communication was joferred to Commit
tee on Finance.
The IV ak Tax.—The following official in
structions from the State Collector answer a
good many questions often propounded about
tlie war tax :
Office of Chief Collector oi Wak Tax, )_
Forsyth, Ga., May 10th, 1861. )’
Numerous enquires are being made by Col
lectors and Assessors in regard to the subjects
of taxation under the receut Tax Bill. It is
enquired whether articles of provisions for fam
ily use are taxed, whether agricultural produc
tions which have paid the tax in kind are sub
ieet to the tax of fiveper cent., and whether ar
ticles oi j eweltyjowned and'worn in a tax payer’s
family are taxed.
The answer to these and similar enquiries is,
| that every species of property whatever, and of
every person is taxed and subject to the tax of
five per cent., except such persons and such
amounts of property as are expressly exempted
iu the Tax Bill. No other exemptions than
those specially mentioned are to be allowed
All property is to be assessed at the value put
upon sim lar property in 1860, except in cases
in which it is provided that another valuation
shall bo made.
Credits, Bank Bills and other papers issued
as money Will be assessed at par, according to
the amount exhibited on their face and not
according to their value in Confederate Notes.
Every tux payer will be required to return
ail bis property of every kind or description
whatever to the Assessor of the District in
which he or she may reside. Hence Warehouse
men and Commission Merchants arc not re
quired, as heretofore, to return cotton and
other produce in their possession. They will
return such as they own themselves. Every
person will return his own property and pay
bis own tuxes. This appries to property in this
State. Property in another State ovvued by a
tax payer residing in this State will bo return
ed aud taxed in tne State where it is located
Assessors are enjoined to Lie diligent to pro
cure tail returns of property. They will pro
pound sear< king questions to tax payers-so as
to aseeitain not only the property* in then
I immediate posstssiou, but all which they may
own elsewhere in the State The returns shall
embrace all the property which tile tax payer
hold, owned or claimed on and after the litn
day of February, 1804.
Interest bearing Treasuty Notes which now
are bonds, are taxed, and so are all bonds ex
cept such as are especially exempted from tax
ation. i* our per cent, bonds or certificates, and
the six per cent, bonds authorized to be issued
under the act of February, lafi-t, are exempt
from taxation. * £• G. O'ahantss,
State Collector for Georgia.
Columbus papers announce the arrest in that
citv May 21 of three men named Fry, captains
of Chattahoochee boats, F. Marham, a pilot, of
Celumbus, and Georgia Drew, Carraway aud
Johnson, of West Florida, on the charges oi
! giving Informat'on to the blockading fleet at
i Apalachicola of the proposed attack upon it:
i that they had been rnnning parties to the N>-rth
! via West Florida and Pensacola, thai one oi
, their number had taken fifteen men to join tue
' deserters in Florida, who have caused so much
1 trouble, and who captured the blockade runner
on the Florida coast.
Gen. Dick Taylor has been promoted to the
tank of Lieutenant General.
FSKEIU.Y ITEMS.
The expenses attending the marriage if the
Prince of Wales, it appears Irorn recent returns,
amount to £24.85.i. The country, will, oi
course, have to pay this little bill.
The Loudon Morning Post, in its City Article,
says the Confederate loan is about to be placed
on anew basis. A combined French and En
glish undertaking, in which the Confederate
Government has an active interest, is in active
formation havir.g forits object tooiga niae a reg
ular sy.itcm of blockade tinning from the vari
ous Confederate ports, for the export of cotton.
The capital is LoOu.OuO sterling. Shares are to
Oe allotted only to the holders of Confederate
bonds. The company's steamers are to take
out cargoes to supply‘the wants of the Ocmfed
mate Government. It is estimated that the
whole of the bonds of the Confederate loan may
be exchungcd for cotton and produce exports
from Southern ports within twelve months.
Tlie promoters of the company are said to lie
gentlemen of capital, and long versed in block
a e running. The fastest steamers aro to be
employed. But in order to reduce the risk, a
very large cargo will not be entrusted to any
one vessel.
Catholicism is spreading with unheard of
rapidity in Ihibet. Recently a monastery of
seven hundred bronzes burned their idols and
asked for catechists to instruct them in Chris-
tianity. The Propoganda is now sending
numerous missionaries to that region.
A curious discovery has been made iu the
Isle of Man, where it lias been ascertained that
certain old guns, long used as posts on the
quay at Peel, were rifled. Government has or
dered them to be transferred to Woolwich,
where they are to be preserved as the earliest
specimens of rifled ordnance.
In 1861 and i862, thirty steamers left the
Clyde for a market ” In 1863, there were
twenty-eight steamers from the Clyde. Os the
thirty steamers of the two veais first named,
only four have totally escaped and survived to
the date of the report. Os the twenty-eight
steamers of 1866, five had been i aptured.
The Alabama was at Cape Town on the 20tb
of March. She has destroyed seven vessels in
the Indian seas. *
Among the latest gossip from Paris, is the
story that oue of the arrangements of Lord
Clarendon, on the occasion of his late sojourn
at the Tuilleries, was to prepare the way for an
early visit of the Prince of Whales to. the Em
peror.
A woman has, for the first time in England,
passed a first medical examination. She had
applied to the University of London and St.
Andrews, to the College of Surgeons of Lon
don and of Edinburg, and to the College of
Physicians of Edinburg, but all in vain. Each
of Ihese learned bodies refused to allow her to
compete for the degree which would have given
her a legal qualification to labor in the cure of
human ills, aud finally she appealed to Apoth
ccaries’ Hall, and having been examined in an
atomy, physiology, chemistry, botany and ma
teria medica, which she had studied for the
piescribeil live years, was successful in passing.
A further course, of eighteen months study is
required, when, if proved duly qualified, she
will receive a license to practice.
Advices from Constantinople slate that in a
battle between the Circassians and the Hus
sains, on the Ist, the formir lost and the
latter 1,500 men, The Circassians are no v ne
gotiating with the Turkish govermeut for per
mission to settle in Turkey. Ail the foreign
officers who assisted the Circassians had escaped
safely to Trebizoml. The Sultan had sent live
steamers to convey them to Sinope, Sansum and
Varna.
Alexander Calame, of Genova, Switzerland,
one of the greatest landscape artists of Europe,
is dead. He was chiefly known in this country
by the lithographic copi sos his remarkably
1 Studies in the Alps.” There are only a few of
his paintiugs in the United States. One of
these, “’The Ruins of Pa-sinm,” only twenty by
sixteen inches, cost $ 1.500. Calame amassed a
fortune by his art, and buiifc him a fine city
lesideDCe in Geneva and a pretty country house
near the sport on the shores of Lake Leman
where Byron and Shelley spent so many days in
the first- quarter of this century, lie was born
at Vevay, in i 815, and died at Geneva, in March,
18ul, and bis death is universally lamented in
the art circles of Europe.
Tho London Index says the holders of Fed
eral bonds are beginning 1o ask, with some
anxiety, where ihe gold is to come from to pay
the interest. By tne end of this year the
amount required will he $86.01)0,000. The
<aily gold revenue is the duties on imports,
and these may not amount to half the sum re
quired lustead of being able to lower the
premium on gaid by throwing a surplus upon
the market, the Government is much more
likeiy to be obliged to buy gold to pay its in
terest.
Another adventurous traveler has lost his
lile in exploring the wilds of Africa. Dr. Hen
ry Steadner, who had been for two years past
in Ethiopia, has recently died there, in an ob
nout’e village. He was attended in his last mo
ments by Baronde Tlougbim, bis fellow travel
er. D . Steadner had just completed his re
searches in the country extending from the
Red Sea to ihe extremity of the Eastern Soud
an, and was about to start on another expedi
tion, when he was taken ill. ffce Baron, alter
rendering the last duty to his friend, resumed
his explorations, accompanied by three Euro
pean ladies and a troop of one hundred and
twenty-negroes. Nothing has been heard of
them since the 10th of May.
In IBGI and 1862 .thirty steamers left the
Clyde for “a market.’’ In 18C3 there were
twenty-eight steamers from the Clyde.
Os the thirty steamers of the two-years first
named, only four have totally escaped and
survived to the date of the report Os the
twenty-eight steamers of 1803, five bad been
captured.
According to the latest and most complete
reports, it seems tnat the Sheffield inundation
reached and injured more or less seriously, not
less than 4,000 houses. In the district of Neep
sond alone, out of 600 houses, 400 are now
empty in consequence of the devastation. The
total damage to property, from tho scene of the
accident to a point below the borough of Shef
field, where the destructive effects of the flood
may be said to have ceased, is calculated at
£200,000.
One of those extraordinary cases that now
and then shock the-moval sense of mankind has
just transpired in Scotland. A farmer prose
cuted his mother, ninety-one years old, for the
cost of her board with him for nineteen years
past. It seems that his aged, widowed mother
had been living with him, aiding by taking
care of his children, eight or nine in number,
knitting stockings. Ac. The court decided that
he “was under a natural and legal obligation
to maintain his agf*d parent, and it is not averr
ed that there was any agreement, or understand
ing that she was to be made liable for such
support.” The case was therefore dismissed.
Such instances of total depravity are happily
rare in the world.
The iron aud steel ships in progress in the
yards on the Mersey—Liverpool—at last re
por.s; were twenty-eight in number and 28,000
tons in register. Steel is rapidly gaining iu
favor with builders and seekers.
The Swiss Fedorel Council have resolved to
put m torce the decree for the expulsion of
M izzini, on the ground that he had several
times lately abused the right of hospitality.
Orders to tlxis effect had been sent to the differ
ent cantons.
Eleven hundred and thirty three lives were
® oal ra ! ne accidents, in Great Britain, in
lb,)-, By accidents in the iron stone mines the
loss was one hundred and five lives.
FROM NORTH CAROALINA
Tne Raleigh N. # C , Progress of May 25th
learns that a gentleman up from Kinston,
brought the intelligence that our pickets at
Rouse 8, nine miles below Kinston, were driv
en in by ap advance of the enemy ou Monday,
fne Progress gives this only as a rumor, aud
thinks it very probabie it may turn out to be
nothing else.
The Raleigh State Journal of May 27, says
there is not a particle of truth in the reported
advance of the Yankees at Newbera either in
this direction or in that of the Wilmington <f*
Weldon Railroad Tin- Journal also says, we
have the lies* reasons for saying that ’revond
the negro troops, at that point there are few
Y T ankee troops, and that ,ve have amrfie foice
to take care of a much large number if tin-re.
A serious affray oo urred in Western North
Carolina, .Vlay ilth, between somo deserters
and the Home Guard. Several were killed on
both sides. The deserterti were rputed and a
j Dumber taken prisoners.
‘"'ol LX Xv in ~;VJ ¥ siKltt v i >i_ XXV *)• > 23.
I.Vfr KEsiT.V; DETAILS OF .FtfihiS I.Y
ViKlilAl i.
In one-. f tire late ri -hi,- one < r our brigades,
for the first tune during tbc war. was oitgasrcd
in !i most spirited hand to hand contest ‘.villi
a brigade of the enemy, and midst the < rack
ing > 1 tire arms, the failing of generals and the
hostile commingling of the rebels and Yan
kees, many a scene was enacted which, divorced
ot its terrors, would have be; n ludicrous, for
here and there a raau would suddenly tind him
self master of some half a dozen prisoner.-, us
suddenly find himself a prisoner, « niy to he re
leased again iu a lew seconds by o her rebels ;
private* would bo seen seizing officers, and i.Qi j
cers privates, hurling them to the rear One of '
our officers, finding himself collared by a Y.m- j
kee captain, suddenly gave the captain such a !
lick across his head with his sword as to cause
his own immediate release; while numet--.ua
empty guns placed n apparent dangerous con
tact to lattkee breasts caused many of them to
quickly throw down their arms and march to
the rear One of the ambulance corps of i lie
Twelfth, with a gttu snatched from the ground
that would not lire, captured some ton prison
ers and a beautiful stand of colots belonging
to the kitty-first Pennsylvania Regiment; while
another of the same corps, with a stretcher
upon his shoulder, also brought in several pris
oners. 8o;ne six hundred or more prisoners
were taken during the brief conflict, while the
4 aukees did not capture more than a dozen
dutitig the same time.
PLUNDER OF TUB BATTLE ITEI.fIS.
The lale battle of the Wilderness and tire one
succeeding it, both of which were held by our
troops, are represented to have been remarka
bly rich in plunder, and after Grant was forced
back, our troops were not slow to take advan
tage of its offerings. Thousands ot pahs of
shoes and boots, splendid oil cloths, coats,
pants', knapsacks, haversacks, etc., were
brought from the field But the two latter
were always of much greater interest to the
soldier than the others. In them are found
the rations and clothes and all the little “no
tions'’ of the 4 aukee. Sugar and coffee are al
ways acceptable to a hungry man, while sta
tionary, purses of money, good under clothing,
and (he like are not to be despised in these
times. Hundreds of daguerreotypes were alco
taken from the dead bodies of 4'ankoes and
preserved Dy the captors. Watches and rings
and breastpins innumerable were gathered
among the spoils of the fields. Iu oue instance
it is related that five watches were taken from
one dead Yankee, who no doubt before bis
death, had plundered them from the dead
bodies of his comrades. Money in many in
stances was louud in considerable sums but
most always in greenbacks, aud seldom iu spe
cie. The fields, owing to tho rapidity of move
ments in both armies, were not half pluddered,
and the greater portion of tiie spoils still re
mains.
THE WOUNDING OF GEN. LONOSTIIEEF.
The following letter lo the editor of the
Richmond Enquirer, from Capt. Taylor, re
futes the rumor that General Longstreet was
wounded, or that General Jenkins was killed,
by the fire of Mahone’s brigade :
Sir:—lt has been generally rumored, and, in,
deed, has appeared in some of tlie public prints
tbut the troops of Mahone’s brigade wounded
Lieutenant General Longstreet and killed
Brigadier General Jenkins.
I am in receipt, of a letter, addressed to me
by direction of Lien tenant General Longst.-ect
in which be exonerates that brigade from tho
charge. Did I possess facilities, I could, with
equal readiness refute the charge iu reference
to tho death of the lamented "Jenkins.
Justice to those brave and true men, who
have so surely attested their valor, and of
whose numbers so large a proportion bus fall
en. killed or wounded, in the pending- battle,
demands teis contradiction of tbe imputations
cast upon them.
I am, Colonel,
Your oh’t servant,
Robertson Taylor,
Capt. and A. A. G Mahone’s Brigade.
Col. Edward Willis of the Twelfth Georgia,
was mortally wounded in an engagement be
yond Richmond on Monday.
T. e Richmond Enquirer states that on the
recent ipproach of Butler, Gen Bragg ordered
the evacuation of the flourishing city of Peters
burg, and its abandonment m Yankee vandal
ism. For soul" reason tne order was not car
ried out, and Beauregard made a successful de
fense, driving the enemy beyond the James
river. This looks very strange.
FHOM MISSISSIPPI.
The Yankees captured one of Gen. Adams’
scouts lately in tho vicinity of Benton, Miss.,
and turned him over to their negroes, to be
dealt with as they saw proper. The negroes
stripped, him tied ins hands and feet,
stretched him across a log, and then whipped
him until tuey .thought lie was dead, when
they stood him up against a tree for a target
and shot him full of holes
It is now ascertained that tho late groat lire
in Natchez was the work of Yankee incendi
aries. ’the rascals also choked up the en
gines with stones and brick-bats; they also cut
up the hose and fire buckets. The Yankee
soldiers did all in their power to prevent the
citizens from extinguishing the tire. It now
looks as if the Yankees are determined Lo des
troy the place.
The reported burning of Yazoo City, we are
pained to record, has been partially confirmed.
Fourteen houses we learn, including the Comt
House, have been consumed. It was with
great difficulty that the negroes were kept
from binning it when the enemy were there
before.
There is a report in Aberdeen, Miss., that
the Federals have withdrawn thoir forces from
Memphis, and in order to keep the matter se
cret, are enforcing the blockade very strictly,
allowing no one to enter or leave tbe city.”
A few days since Col. Hannon, of Roddy’s
cavalry, attacked the enemy 500 strong, at
Madison station, on tho Mississippi and Cen
tral Railroad, capturing 87 prisoners, and
commissary and quartermaster stores, and the
telegraph instrument.
The train on the Southern Railroad now runs
through to Jackson Miss.
One thousand and twenty deserters have re
ported to Meridian up to May 20th, returning
to their commands unde* fthe amnesty proclama
tion of Gen. Polk. They represented the States
of Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana, Ala
bama and Mississippi. We learn also that sev
eral hundred ethers have reported at different
points. Thus a little wisdom on the part of
Gen. Polk, combined with a determination to
clear this department of the stain which had
rested upon it, bas resulted iu giving two lull
regiments of a thousand men to the cause of
our couutry.
The Yankees have moved out from Vicks
burg, and again established their trading post
at Big Black Bridge. Selling calico, coifoe &6.,
to speculators on this side es trie rivet* appears
to be a profitable business, and they are will
ing to run the risk of being capture 1 by Adams’
cavalry.
FROM TANARUS» ISG.MI3S.SSIPPJ.
The grand summing up of Banks expedition
is, that it was a mi-a-rable failure from begin
ing to end—a failure iu its aims, bo% military
and political.
Shreveport, which occupies the same relation
to the Trans-Mississippi Department that Rich
mond Coes to this side, was not captured
Another Yankee ■ transport lias been de
stroyed.
Gen. Magruder has assumed command ol
Arkansas.
It is thought that Gt n. Price will move on
to Missouri. . ,
Gen Hebert has captured three gunbo
and one transport iu the CulcM'en, on u -
Louisiana coast, to the v e-.t qt &a .
It is stated tha* in the battles nearju.im.lt
It is statea tea. in wounded. 500
the Confederate loss was j-j
killed and 400 prisoners, that ot t'j. u.uy
800 wounded. 1400 killed an 5000 prisoners. |
Twelve hundred and fiity-mne Yankees have j
been captured in Arkansas in late fights
Gen. Majors has captured a transport thirty j
mile-* below Alexandria, and holds the river at
that point with his artiilery.
Our cavalry have driven the enemy out ot
the Tecbe and Grosse Tete country, compelling
them to destroy large quantities ot public
stores before crossing B rwick’s'Ray.
The Coiumbi Ca'ouui m sys inf -rmari. n
bad been received there of iud cations ot an
other advance on Ciiarleston.
j The Montgomery .Mail thinks the yield cf
j entail grain in Alabama wiil be luige,
FilOii Tin F XT.
i’rtdav thi rt* was couairicrable skinnUhiug
near N «v Hope ei.meb, and iheeue. iv was re
pulsed, but v, iib what loss we art* unable to
say
Our scouts have skirted (he en Ire Federal
r ar. I'ney reported on Friday nljjht, as the
result of their observation. *that no trains had
li. ii run below Kingston since Sunday last,
and no wi?on trains from that point since
Wednesday last. They state that the Federate
keep close together, in consequence of which
thi r capturqd only on? prisoner. This pris
eiii r reporis lira. Forrc-.-1 nod captured Dalton,
j and ir. was feared Chatuuiouga. Forrest is be
! lieyotl to have and vided his -oices, one liaifat
| tacking Chattanooga mui above, and tho oth
j er Daiton. Other federal {msonors confirm
the statement of the general < piuiou iu their
army ti nt Forrest, bad talu-a Daiton.
cii r riiiay evening, Cleburne is report, and to
have captured two or three hu. dred Federais,
all that was left of the regiment.
The Yankees were steeped with liquor, and
c.nie up to the charge at New Hope Church at
liiut, fineiy, but ran back quickly, not standing
tire or fighting us weil as at llcsttca. They j
have quit charging and gone to digging.
Several hundred men, belonging to Cheat
ham's, Cleburne's and Walker’s divisions, who
were wounded, on Friday in ruing, have ar
rived at Atlanta.
The 4'ankoes were piloted by a tory in their
attack on Dallas.
The vandal invaders are pursuing theii usu
al course of pillage, plunder and wanton des
tniotiou. The beautiful village of Cassvi lie is
a perfect wreck. The same old tale, of furni
ture broken, provisions stolen, helpless inuo
cence insulted and turned in the streets, might
be again repeated, but the story lias become
stale from the frequency of its repetition.
i he Whitworth gun, in the bands of the ene
my's sharpshooters, has exceedingly annoyed
aur men all along the line. If a man in our
battalion shows nimself, a Whitworth bail is
almost certain to strike him. The enemy's
sharpshooter's are bold, and come very near
our works and shoot our horses and everything
that shows itself. Sometimes, however, they
got picked off.
It is said that Hooker’s corps was complete
ly demoralized in the iat-e liedit.
Cleburne’s repu se of the assailants on Fri
day night is said to have been more disastrous
to Sherman than his misfortune at Resaca.
On Sunday night about II o’clock tho Feder
al made a general assault upon tlie full lecgdi
of our entrenched lines, and were every time
repulsed throuh tbe night with great slaughter.
There was a desultory fire kept up all night,
and Monduv morning a slight skirmish about
daylight. Since that time there lias _been no
more lighting.
The em my came up at that dead hour of tho
night, evidently expecting our men to be off
guard, but discovered to their dismay how well
the veterans of Johnston’s army appreciate that
trite maxim : “ eternal vigilance is tho price
of Liberty." It. is reported by parties from the
field that the Federals at some points displayed
white fi.igs. and by others that they cried out
its they advanced, ‘‘don’t shoot, we surren
der.” If this ruse was attempted, it most sig
nally and disastrously failed. The fighting was
very spirited aud our casualties are roughly
estimated at. two thousand killed and woun
ded. Os course the enemy’s loss must be pro
port, ion ably heavier, as they were charging our
entrenchments all the time. It is said by par
ticipants to have been the most vigorous as
saults the Federals have made since ihe great
raid was inaugurated.
Another version of the affair is, that tho
enemy, from his action, evidently believed
Johnston was retreating, andjstrongthened his
line of skirmishers, which was thrown forward.
It is thought the rattle of a number of empty
wagons in our rear created the impression
with the enemy that our lines were being re
tired. andshence the assault.
We learn that on Friday tho enemy attacked
Cleburne's tine, and alter a furious onset, a
large number of them cast down ..their guns
and ilir-'W up their hands, calling lor quarter.
Our troops ceased firing. When tho enemy
were in a few feet of our line, over the half of
tie in having retained their guns, deliberately
fired o our men. Such treachery astonished
our veterans lor a moment, but in another in
stant they fired on the dastard foe and poured
volley alter volley ir.to their broken aud fleeing
ran The slaughter was awful.
the young men of the Georgia Military In,
statute, coated at Marietta. Ga., under the
command of their Snperiutc dent, tbe gallant
Gen. Capers, pas. cd through Atlanta T uesday
muruing Fills gallant band of young patriots,
will now have an opportunity of engaging in
the active service of thoir country: a consuma
tion they have long desired.
In the tight near New Hope Church May 27,
seven hundred Yankees werekdled. Our men,
with the exception of one brigade, fought with
out breastworks. The Yankees advanceil
within twenty or thirty steps of our line* be
fore lire was opened upon them. No artillery
was used by the enemy. Our loss in killed
and wounded is about tour hundred.
On May 18, Gen. Bate moved forward with
some troops to discov*- the position and force
of the enemy. Buth were found out. Owing
to tbe heavy force of the Yankees, a general
attack was not ordered. Our troops fell back.
Major Millctt, 4t i Kentucky, was killed ; Capt.
McK'Uidon. oth Kentucky, and Cant. Braddock,
2 1 Kentucky, both acting field officers, were
killed. Cot. McLean, 6th Florida, was killed,
and Major D-irdson, same regiment, was se
verely wounded. ’ Both the Kentucky and
Florida Brigades suffered severely.
. The cavairy force engaged in the provost duty
for General Johnston’s aimy, report that in at
our recent movements they have not found a
single straggler from the Tennessee soldiery,al
though they were retreating irom their homes
and firesides. This speaks volumes tor the
Volunteer State and he; soldiers.
As our left was mo-ing back on the night
of May 30, the Yankees supposed we were re
treating aud made a vigorous charge on Can
ley's and Lowing’s Division. They were re
pulsed with great slaughter.
NEW* SUMMARY.''
J. R. Dowell, Esqr., the General Superin
tendaut ot the Southern Tellegraphic Company
died in Richmond, May 25.
To inspire his troops Grant publishes an ad
dress congratulating them on the capture pt
Petersburg by Butler, while Butler, to inspire
bis troops congratulates them on the defeat of
Lee by Grant ’ Both of these Generals knew
that they were publishing monstrous false
hoods lu ihiir troops, and did so merely to in
spire them with a confidence which their cause
did not give them.
A severe hail storm passed over Marion Dis
trict S. 0., May 25. Nearly every vestige of veg
etation was destroyed iu its course. The Ma
ron Star says it commenced in the neighbor
hood of .Mars Buff and extended about twenty
mill's in an east to southeasterly direction. For
tmi iti-iy its width was not great. 'JUe hail re
mained unthawed several days. One of the
sIY reis informs us that a drift eu_his place, the
hail was two feet deep on May 27.
A correrpondunt ot tbo Mjicoii -
epoit.-i the recapture, near Latomon, Gu.. of
three Yank*-.* Officers who had es aped. Pr -
, utC 'ii ' on tli- friendship of the negroes to
them Uiey applied at night to one of the slaves
0 j j g. Mouiey for something to cat, teil
inF him they were United Btales officers. TANARUS: e
m'l-ro piomptly informed his mas.cr, who, willi
; h J a.-sistai:ce of his negroes, made the capture
without resistance.
The Macon Journal says that there will be
an abundant crop o. fruit iu that sec.ion.
All the statements in regard to the Yankee
movements in'Virginia now received from the
Northern Journals are so notoriously and pal
pably false, that one has scarcely patience X»
read them. They may see what unprincipled
and extraordinary efforts are being made to
bolster the fast failing spirits of a people, evi
dently tottering on the vei y verge of a preci
pice. The tumble must come soon, and t rri
biy fatal and overwhelming will it be when
it does come.
Those Northern papers which published Lin
coln’s bogus call for lour hundred thousand
more troops, anil the bogus announcement /or
a day ol Un-ting and pi aver, have been sup
pri-ssed. i i/e mu-;ern papers which have Oom
menu i extensively on the same h- ve be .. ■■■■,
and odeiiy.
-ix f/lg *e» acid six g O'; j<6 oi w.t e-mp e
the Y ,kee lieet n Iroat ui Fort ,ii organ, off
Mobile. They aie estimated to Five ahout one
hundred and thirty guns in all, and some twen
i ty-eight hundred men.
CO -FLDfc.lt' rn, ST.VT; ft UOAuHESS.
SEN At L - MAY 19.
House joint lesolutioa oi ih&nits to >i j <«
Forrest amt command tor the brilliant ca
paigu in Mississippi and West Tenues.- ee \v 5
taken up and passed.
Bouse joint resolution authorizing <l> • aud ; -
ing of accounts of members for pay and uui
age, (double the present rates) was taken* 1
and passed.
The Committee on Finance were disci, g l
from the consideration cf the bill declarator
of the mean ng of thy second sectiou ot an a
to reduce the currency and to authorize a nov
issue of notes and bonds, approved Februa: /
17 v 1861.
I’he Committee on Military Affairs wer. dis
charged from tbc farther cousiderution "f Wi.-
ate resolution of thanks to’ Maj. Gen Forrest -
his officers and men.
The senate was informed that tho House had
passed bills authorizing the appointment t
commissaries lor regiments of cavalry, am
joint resolution requiring the department o
justice to furnish the standing committees of tho
two houses with printed copies of the acts of
Congress.
The Committee on Military Affairs, reported
with au amendment, a bill to provide compen
sation for nou-conimissioutd officers, soldiers,
and marines on detailed service, which \s as
passed.
The bill to aid any Slate in procuring re
cords of tiie service of its troops in tilts present
war was taken up and passed.
A preamble and resolution passed, that the
Judiciaiy Committee inquire if any legislation
is necessary to prevent u?e publication oi such
information iu regard to army and navy
movements, the military defences, Ac., as may
bo injurious to our cause.
The Committee on Military Affairs were dis
charged from the further consideration of UlO
bill in reference to staff offieeis, and prescrib
ing their dut es. The same committee were dis
charged from the further consideration of a
resolution to reduce the number of cavalry ou
account of want of forage.
A communication was received from the
President, transmitting a letter from the Gov
ernor of Virginia, enclosing resolutions adopt
ed by the Legislature of his State, asserting
the jurisdiction and sovereignty of Virginia
over all her boundary.
Tho documents were laid ou the table and
ordered to bo printed.
The Senate resolved into executive session.
HOUSE.
The speaker laid before the House menssigos
from the President, transmitting certain esti
mates for necessary appropriations.
The House took up for consideration the
Senate amendment to the House hill to exempt
railroad companies from the payment of im
port duties and taxation on machinery and roll
ing stock. The amendment was agreed to.
The House took up for consideration the
special order of the day, being the resolution of
Mr. Foote, of Tennessee, advocating the repeal
of the act of last session suspending the privi
lege of the writ of habeas corpus. Alter some
diseussion l the subject was postponed till to
morrow.
Jhe Speaker laid before the House a com
munication from the Governor of Virginia,
transmitting joint resolutions of the General
Assembly of Virginia, asserting the jurisdic
tion of the State over her natural boundaries.
Ordered to lie printed and referred to the Judi
ciary Committee.
The Speaker also laid before the House a
Senate bill doubling the present pay of mem
bers of Congress.
The House ail opted a resolution instructing
the Buigeou General to issue such rules find
regulations as shall admit members of Congress
to the hospitals in all parts of the Coul'ederacy
at any and all hours.
SENATE—MAY 20.
House bill to aulhoriz ■ the appointment of
commissaries for regiments of cavalry, passed;
to provide for the itnpr ssment of railroad iron,
equipments and 10 ling stack, wneu necessary
for the public d-lcnc-—ord- ej printed;
to ex end to the navy and marine coip.- the
provisions of 2d section < f Ihe ‘ Act to organize
torc.'S to servo duri'-g. the war,”—passed.
V .a foil->w-tig was p issed :
“R--solved b_, the Congo --' of'-he Con eder
ato Stines ot America, Tnat -> much ■>! the
tenth section of tiie act cnliUcd 'an act to or
ganize, forces to serve 'lining *h ■ war," un
proved 17th of February, 1861, as exempts
from military service one editor .tor eaci'news
paper being published at the time of the pass
age of tbe act, and such employees as said ed
itor may certify on oath to be indispensable to
the publication thereof, shall Lo -ihd-r-tood
to include magazines aud othor periodicals
published before and at the time oi the pass
age of the said act.”
Thu Committee on Claims reported back ad
versely the memorial of Goddiu ft Appiason,
asking an increased rate o; rent lor Goddiu’s
building, used by the Government as the Gen
eral Fostctfiao
The inflowing'bill was passed;
“A Bill to authorize the appYutnient. of Gen
eral Officers, with temporary rank and com
mand, and to define and limit tiie power of
assigning officers to commands.
‘‘Sec. 1; The Congress of tlie Confederate
States of America do enact, That the President
be and he is hereby authorized, by aud with
the advice and consent of the Senate, to ap
point a commanding oilicer to any brigade,
divi-ion, army corps for army, or to tlifi com
mand of any military department or district,
whenever, in his judgment, it may be proper
to do so.
‘‘Sec. 2. That the officers appointed under
the provisions of this act,shall belong to the
Provisional Army, aud shall hold their respec
tive offices whilst they are in actual command,
and no longer, unless sooner removed by the
President; but they shall immediately there
after resume their former rank in the service.
“Sec. 3. That said officers, whilst holding
said temporary rank, shall receive tbe same
pay and allowances as other officers of tho
same grade ill the Provisional Army.
“Bee 4. That hereafter officers belonging to
the general staff shall not be assigned to com
mand in the line, or to the performance oi du
ties, except in their own departments; nor shall
officers of the line be given command by as
signment, except as provided in ibis act;
all laws allowing such assignment of officers
are hereby repealed : Provided, That in cases
oi emergency and necessity, such assignments
may be made for a limited period, and until
appointments can b 6 made as provided by this
act : Provided further, That nothing herein
contained shall be construed to affect Die right
of assignment of the five Generals appointed
bv law.”
’The Senate then resolved into secret execu
tive session.
house.
Tho resolution on repealing the act of last
Congress suspending the writ of habeas corpus
whs taken up and discussed. It was finally
laid on the table by a vote of 55 yeas, 25 nays.
Referred: Senate bill to extend to tho navy
and marine coips the provisions of the third
section of an act to organize forces to serve
during the war; to provide for the compensa
tion of non-commissioned officers, soldiers, sail
ors and marines employed in the detail service;
to aid any State in the perfection of a roll of
troops in the Confederate service.
A mossig: tin* received from the President
in response to a resolution of the House in
quiring what reasons still exist for the contin
uance in force of the act suspending the writ
of habeas corpus, and whether its repeal would
be prejudicial to ! he public welfare at this time.
The President replies that the reasons that
influenced >)im in recommending the suspen
sion of the writ still exist; Ui 4 it w uld he
prejudicial re the public weal just now to re
peal the act suspending (he writ; that its eih-<
has been benelicial iu mute t' an one instance,
and that no abridgement of the liberties of the
citizens have grown out of it, nor lias any iud:
vidual suffered wrongfully. Laid ou the table
and ordered printed, ,
FROM NORTH ALABAMA.
Our cavalry under Roddy, and the Slatß
troops, have liecome very harrassing to the
Federals in North Alabama, driving in their’
pickets, and keeping their ktareV-ons in a con
stant state of alarm.
A light .Iralight Y )./-.) gti b >at - b
making t- p s _ * 8,, ' ! down ■
river, des in- or ; -
burning t i ,
grues aud lin
The v unable p < .... as reaching
a Confeicrate port v.-oa a tr.rcibef Os sucbfoeq
fyrboriug Whit vquLo gur^.