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THE OK DUAL OF NATION*.
11 appears to bo one of tbo high enactments
of Providence, a fixed law, that nations shall
be born aoiidtt the convulsions of war, and re
oeire in infancy a baptism of blood. Scarce
R»n exception to thj* rule is to be found on the
ftjktges of universal history. From Its earliest
the birth of nations has been attended
with cloud andatompest, with the earthquake
throes of revolution, witblicrca and protracted
t|rnr».
Through this fiery ordeal nations hare ever
had to pass in their march to independence.
Their right to existence, contested by national
jealousy, and the Insolence of tyranny, has had
(O be vindicated by the sword. The earliest
annals of all nations bear witness to the san
guinary struggles, by which they achieved
their position in,tho great family of independ
ent States.
There is a high purpose in this stern ordina
tion of Providence; a deep philosophy in (Ids
bloody enigma of history. It is doubtless ne
cessary that nations in their infancy should re
naive this training, that their energies should bu
developed, and their higher virtues evoked bv
(he rugged discipline of war. Without it, (hoy
have but a feeble ami sickly existence;
they would la? k the strength of character, the
heroic virtues, essential to the maintenance of
proud and vigorous nationality. As the
young oak, 011 the mountains brow, shaken by
the rude buffeting of storms, strikes its roots
deeper and wider into the solid earth, and
stretches forth ite gisnt branches more proudly
and defiantly towards the heavens, so is the in
fancy of nations more (irmly rooted, and more
rapidly hardedod and mature.!, by the tompeSpg
of war.
How much wore Graeco and Rome In
debted for their subsequent gr«atno*H and re
nown, their consummate valor, their invinci
Me heroism, and vigorous and creative genius,
which shed the luetre of immortality upon
their names, to the grand anil inspiring recol
lections of thoir earler history, to the training
which their Infancy received in the rugged
school offanns. ITow much lias every nation, an
* cient and modern, which has made its mark on
the world's uiap and the world’s history, been
Indebted for what it boasts of grandeur, in
achievement and fame, to the martial training
and great deeds o! a heroic ancestry.
What a nation most needs, in the outset of
Its career, is a history—a history glowing with 1
great names and great deeds, with illustrious
example* of patriotism and valor. This is a
nation's vital want, without which it is poor in
deed, whatever other wealth it may poetess.
This is it« most precious treasure. These thril
ling recollections of a heroic age, aro tlio per
petual altar tires, at which succeeding genrra
* lions may rekindle the flame of patriotism ; and
the national spirit reinvigorate iteelf, for yet
grander achievement, ami a yet higher ascent
in the upward pathway of national glory and
greatness. No Holier, no prouder legacy can
the founders of a Htato bequeathe to unborn
geaeratlons.
These reductions aro suggested by the con
templation, anxious ami absorbing, of the san -
guinary and stupendous struggle in which the
South is now engaged, for independence and
existence. It is well to look off, for a moment,
from ike evils and horrors of the hour, to ulti
mate results; to take a philosophic view of this
great contest; to oonsider the wise and benefi
oent designs of Providence, in permitting it to
rage, and Us deep and important hearings on
the future of onr national life.
War, even in it* most mitigated form, is un
doubtedly fho direst scourge that can afflict
onr rsc* ; and yot, when waged in defence of
freedom, for the achievement of nalienal inde
pendence. it wear* an aspect, brightening with
glory ; and we ara consoled by the thought if
its grand utilities. It is uot in vain that ana
tiou bleeds in such a cause,' that the hero offers
np iris lile, a glorious sacrifice on the altar of
his country's freedom. The green sod that
shelters his manly broast in its deep repose,
will be l>*dewed by a uatiem's tears, and his
memory lives in the. hearts of his grateful
eenutrymen, a light snd an inspiration to fu
ture agee.
■When this revolution was first inaugurated,
our government snd people fondly hoped that
It would be bloodUvt*. But the inexorable
law es Providence, long since wiitten in letters
of Are and devastation on the page of history,
decreed It otherwise. Our iafaut nation must
tread the bloody path of her predecessors, in
the race for national independence ; mast pass
the fiery ordeals which has ever tried the
souls of those who would be free, and who ps
» plre to nationality.
And jet, while we deplore the dreadful car
nage. the melancholy loos of bo many brave
and noble spirits, the national and individual
evils entailed upon ns by this war, we are con
strained to bow reverently to the high behest
of that supreme and allwise Providence which
has ordained that we shall be subjected to the
stein discipline which: has been the fate ot
other uatious while struggling into being, and
which seems to be the irrevocable law of the
Divine government of tbo world. Without it.
we might never have etfectnolly sundered the
bonds of the old Union ; our people might
never have bean eompleteiy weaned trom their
former association with the North ; our na
tionality might have failed to attain the unity
and consolidation enaenllal to its perpetuity ;
and would have laokod'tho life giving energy
lmpartad by a death struggle for Independence
—the inspiration of gTeat deeds, of heroic sacri
fice, and immortal valor—of a history, respleu-
with glory, beyond the annale of any
other people since time began.
PonnnsT is now the undisputed master of
the situation in Northern Mississippi, and holds
the Memphis and Charleston Railroad through
(he State and West Tennessee. What his
eocrse may be, now that he has aehievad this
signal advantage, we have not yet learned .
hot we shall rest eontent in the confidence
(hat he sees moves and opportunities of the
enemy that are concealed to us pm he did be
fere his late victory) and that he will be very
Npt to Mrike in the right pUoe.
Bcrutp. and Cochkanb —Garrett Davis' at
tacks in the Yankee Congress upon Butler is
as severe.and telling as it is deserved. This
unprincipled and unscrupulous politician, to
gether with Caleb Cushing, took a leading part
in the measures which were the immediate
precursors and stepping stones to the disrup
tion of the old government and the war. They
were largely instrumental in conducting she
Democratic party of the South up to the very
portals of secession, helped to push them
through it, and then when the South accepted
the inevitable consequence of an appeal to arms
to resist coercion, these same coadjutors desert
to the Abolitionists and draw the sword to put
down the rebellion. For his political as well
as his military and personal crimes hanging is
too good for such demagouges as Butler. f
•lohn Cochrane, who now figures a* Vice
Presidential candidate on the Fremont ticket,
ir, a bird of the same feather. When the act of
recession was pending before (he Virginia Con
vention this man came to Richmond as a sort
of ambassador from the Northern Democrats,
on a minion to try to save the Union and keep
the peace, lie made a speech in Richmond at
the time in which he said that if Lincoln at
tempted to coerce Ihe South he would draw
bis sword in her defence, and that the armies
marching on that errand should have first to
pass over the dead hollies of the North
ern Democrats, who would shed their
blood until ft ran in the gutters of New York,
in defence of their Southern brethren. He is
now a candidate of the extreme wiDg of the
Abolition subjugating party, and stands on a
Convention Platform whichcontaics this plank :
“Thirteenth, (and last) That the confiscation
of /he lauds of the rebels, and their distibution
among the soldiers and actual settlers, is a meas
ure of justice.'’ What a picture of corruption
and false faith !
Horace Greeley.— Date intelligence from the
North conveys the astounding intelligence that
Greeley has gone over to the Democrats. To
the dismay and disgust of thb Republicans,
his bald head, quaker-like visage, and that in
evitable drab coat, were lately seen in suspi
cious contiguity on the Democratic side of tbe
Federal House of Representatives, in company
with Fernando Wood and other pacific Demo
crats, withs horn he talked as familiarly as if
he were already one of tbo family. It is ;rtso
stated that lie was introduced to Long, of Ohio,
the member who was not expelled, though
reprimanded, for expressing the naughty wish
that the South might succeed in her present
struggle. What can all this mean’ Has the
millenlum come? Are the lion and the lamb
about to lie down together ? Is the great oracle
of Abolitionism, the astute and philosophic
Greeley, about to take his place in the ranks of
the peace Democracy, aud wield his trenchant
pen hereafter in behalf of the hated and perse
eu!e(J South? It looks so. What privatogriefs
or motives of public policy, have moved tha
head-strong Horace to make this surprising
summerset, have not transpired. We know
that ho has no love for Seward, whom he chis
elled out of the Chicago nomination ; and that
at the fteginniog of the war, lie expressed the
opinion that, it would he bettor to let the South
depart in peace. It may be, that scenting dan
ger from afar— anticipating the downfall of his
party, anil the retributive justice which awaits
it, witli his provebial shrewdness ho has con
cluded to make his peace while he can—to seek
a covert from the approaching storm, and to
become instrumental in bringing about a peace,
on the basis of the recognition of Southern in
dependence, which he sees is inevitable.
Louis Nwoi.bo.v. —The New York Times
of late a number informs us that the Em
peror Napoleon has intimated his indiposition
to intervene in our behalf, hie wish that 4>e
United States may be restored to their former
grandeur and greatness, his determination to
retain tho iron clads now being built for us, and
his perfect and most amicable understanding
with Seward on the Mexican question. We
however, in the first place, yeld but slight cre
dence to any report of the veracious Times ;
nnd in the second place, if this report bo true,
we attach but little importance to it. This in
scrutable peisjuago doe not usually Buffer
himself to lie read by the world at large.—
Whether he speaks, or remains silent, his mean
ing is equally iu the dark, in matttfrs of diplo
macy; he fully adopts the maxim of Talley
rand that the purpose of language is to con
ceal, rather than express ideas. Only by his
acts, does Ife devclope his real intentions. He
is not the man to scruple at deceiving the wily
Seward by fair speeches, if he can thereby
further his ulterior purposes. As well-might
one attempt to sound the fathomless abyss, as
the intentions of this most profound and re
ticent of modern diplomatists.
lIanKAS Corpus. —We learn that another |
oaae ha< been brought belorW Judge Hook re
cently, in wiiioh anew point woe raised, in
regard to tbo liability of a oitioan to military
service Robert T. Barton M. 1)., was enrolled
as a eonviip t. lie applied for a discharge
from the custody of the Bnrolllitg tNSoer on
the ground that be was a practicing physician,
over thirty years of age, and that he had been
cugaged in the regular practise for move than
seven year*. The retarn of the Bnrolilag Of
ficer set forth the fact that Dr. Barton had not
paid taxes for two years or more as a physician
Rnd that ha was therofora liable to military
service. The Court ruled that as the invoioe
showed the applicant to have bees a physician
in tegular practice for mors than seven years,
the omission to make the proper returns to
the Tax assessor, trom whatever onose it way
have arisen, could not afiect the right of the
applicant to exemption from military service.
He was accordingly discharged from the cus
tody of the Enrolling Officer.
H. W. lltlliard Esq., for the appliaant,
Frank H. Miller Esq., foi the Unrolling Of
ficer.
H anxsueso After thb Flh*h Pots. —The
public in this section supposed that the Soath
had cut loose from Washington and all its cor
ruptions forever. But it seems that there are
some in the Confederacy who still hanker after
the flesh pots of Federaldom. The Richmond
Sentinel states as a reason why the Confederate
Congress should do certain things, that such
things are done in Washington, and are “al
ways held as decent and proper.'’ And yet
this is the paper which berates its cotempora
ries about patriotism, Ac. Out upon such pat
riotism and patriots, say we. Better have re
mained as we were, than to have cut loose.
shc\l oceans of* blood, spent millions of treas
ure. and then return again to the very eTils and
rottenness tvo fought to free ourselves of.
CxrsE and ErracT.—The Columbus Sun states
that in consequence of the late impressment of
bacon by Government agents in the oountry
adjoining that oity, the price has‘advanced
from t. 20 to $3 7<V Comment is Unnecessary.
Facts speak fur themselves.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 6, 1864.
1-tHIDE VIEW OF THE BALTIMORE CO.VVEV
TIOAf.
A letter from Baltimore, in the New York
Herald, gives a description of some of the in
side workings of the Baltimore Yankee Con
vention. It says : +
_ It now turns out that the admittance of the
Southern delegation was brought about fcy the
Seward men in the New York delegation. A
little after midnight before the nominating day
three or four of tbe leaders in that wing came
to an understanding with the delegation, which
secured tbe latter against Dickinson, for whom
ibey bad intended to cast their vote, and go
for Johnson. The same men about one o'clock
in the morning secured an interview with Mr.
Maynard, of Tennessee, and a portion of the
Louisiana delegation. They pledged a ma
jority of the New York delegation the aisis
tance of the vote of Ohio for their full admit
tance to the Convention if they would stand
by the Seward wing of the New York delega
tion. <Hih proposition was agreed to, hence
the sequel of Freston King’s motion to amend
tbe report of his committee giving these dele
gations a right to vote.
On this point the Southern delegation and
the nomination of Johnson for Vice President
turned. This was the point that settled the
whole affair. Mr. Chase may not relish the
idea that, the delegation from his own State
was made an instrument to carry out this plan
of Seward's friends, but such is the fact.
The Seward men also promised to vote lor
the admittance of the Blair delegation from
Missouri. Mr. King made his motion amend
ing the report of bis committee in that respect
in accordance with that understanding. When
this vote was being taken they saw that the
tide was so strong against tho Blair set that
they were fearful that a vote for them would
weaken the Seward interest on other points
which they desired to carry, and thoreforo
dropped Blair and voted against that delega
tion, Freston King with the rest. Tht. radicals
were of course admitted at once, notwithstand
ing the assertion ot Dr. Breckinridge that their
admittance would send the whole party to the
devil.
Ihe Blair delegation withdrew in disgust,
and threatened to go home ami fight the ticket.
They also assert that they will run Frank
Blair for Governor in opposition to the radical
candidate.
Tbaddeus Stevens has been badly beaten at
every point. He came here to prevent any
thing being done that would endorse tho re
construction doctrine of the Administration.*—
He proclaimed virtually in his speech that the
Sautnem States weip legally out of the Union,
and should be treated only as conquered ter
ritory. Having secured, as he supposed, the
organization of the Convention and it3 ma
chinery in bis interest, seeing also that the
radical delegation from Missouri were admit
ted as he desired, he supposed that ho wis
sure to win. Mr. Stovcmf then moved the pre l
vious question on the admittance of the South
ern delegation, believing that if he could pro
vent any artful speeches on the other side they
would be rejected. The President of the Con
vention did his best to assist Mr. Stevens in
stating the question, but was outgeneraled by
Senator Lane of Kansas, in his motion, and de
feated when tho vote was taken iu one or two
States. Stevens saw his dilemma and tried to
have question reconsidered, so as
to speak himself, but could not accomplish it.
His pet scheme was defeated. Ha found him
self the worst defeated man in the convention.
The doctrine that tho Southern States wero le
gally out was repudiated.
Cameron wasalsobadly worsted. lie tempt
ed to spring the trap of running tho nomina
tion of both Lincoln and llamlin through
by one resolution by acclamation, which was
frowned down by the Convention. Hero fol
lowed a squabble between delegates v. ho de
sired to be recorded as nominating Lincoln, in
which Cameron got sadly mystified, changing
and modifying his motions iu all manner of
forms. The struggle between several of tho
delegates to be recognized as the mover of the
nc ruination of Lincoln was ridiculous in the
ex<reme. Charges were made that others were
trying to cheat others out of their motion. The
whole affair looked like a struggle of delegates
to obtain capital upon which they could Jay
claim upon Old Aba for a fat office.
During the vote for Vice President, it was
seen that JohDSon was leading all others. Af
ter Pennsylvania had voted for Hamlin, Mr.
Cameron went over to the New York delega
tion and promised to cast the vote of Pennsyl
vania for Dickinson if the New York delega
tion would unite on him. The Weed men
would not listen, and the die was cast. The
anti-Weed portion of the delegation are very
sore and chapfallen. From developments that
have transpired the only thing that will now
.satisfy them is the nomination for Governor
from that wing of the party. It that is not
conceded there will be a row in the camp in
New Yoik.
Tho platform.seeing to bo satisfactory to tho
radicals. The other side are mum. There is
a significant limit for Lincoln in legard to his
Cabinet. The whole affair has resulted as fore
shadowed iu the dispatches to the Herald.—
“Everything looked like a row in the Conven
tion. There was confusion worso confounded
during a large portion of the session, but the
secret bargains carried it through safely.”
The National Council of the Loyal Leagues
met again, reversed their former action, and en
dorsed tho ticket and platfonn nominated at
the Lincoln convention, thus pledging the
members of that organization.
The Convention of the office holders lias con
cluded its labors. Secretary Seward has car
ried his point on tho nomination of Johnson
for Vice President. Weed it appears, left, not
fearing a rout, but knowing that all was safe
along the linos—that victory was certain. His
followers aro holding a grand jubilee. Lead
ing Republicans and office seekers are denounc
ing Fremont as a copperhead. The hatred of
the Blairs by the delegates was one of the most
significant facts of tfie Convention. It Was
everywhere manifested, and stuck out at every
stage of the proceedings.
A Litti.s Rspcbdioan Tostimont.—A North
ern paper collates in a condensed form a “lit
tle Republican testimony’’ in regard to the un
popularity and oorruptou of Lincoln’s admin
istration. Here it is :
Mr. Phillips says only five United States Sen
ators are in favor of Lincoln’s re-election, and
among those are not Messrs. Sumner and Wil
son. Blair, on the floor of Congress, accuses
the Secretary of the Yankee Treasury of gross
misdeeds —says the department is rotten with
corruption, and that this is so palpable the
friends of Mr. Chase dare not call for investiga
tion. Fremont declares that he has been bsd
ly used by the administration, and pouts. The
Grata Brown radicals smite the President as
Samson did the Philistines, hip and thigh, and
often with the same weapon. Banks is derided
by the Republicans of Massachusetts! Hale
sail, in hie seat, he thought the liberties of the
couutry were more in danger from tho profli
gacy that was practiced upon the treasury than
they were from the rebels in the field.
The Springfield Republican asks, “Is lying
a vice inherent in republican institutions, or
merely incidental to Mr. Lincoln’s administra
tion ?’ ’ Thaddeus Stevens says, if the Govern
ment goes on expending money at the present
rate, th* people will be involved in one gene
ral bankruptcy and ruin. Thurlow Weed writes
to the Albany Evening Journal : “L T ntil the
administration thoroughly sifts and probes the
Iniquities of the New York custom bouse, the
treasure and blood shall continue to flow, by
millions and in livers, while its own officials
are playing into the hands of the enemy.” Mr.
Pomeroy says that should Lincoln be re-elected
the affairs of the country will go from bad to
worse in his hands, and the war will languish
until publio debt will be overwhelming. Bout
well denounced the Baboon President’s plan
of reconstruction ; Winter Dsvis charges him
with acting without law, and Miss Dickenson
boxes the eari of Seward to the evident delight
of a Republican multitude who hang upon her
words as the bee upon the flower.
A letter from an officer who has recently
traveled, on official buisness pertaining to the
Quartermaster’s department, almost over the
entire State of Alabama, and also a large por
tion of Missisisppi, states that the crop of
wheat now being harvested is excellent, not
injured by rust, and that the yield will be
very great. The growing crop of corn prom
ises an abundant yield.
The call for slave labor in those districts In
South Carolina producing wheat and corn baa
until the Ist of August next.
Me. Reagan’s Department.— The Richmond
Whij>speaks out in very jfiain terms ot the
way Post Master General Reagan's Department
is conducted in that city. If the truth was told
in regaru to the management of the Post office
Department throughout the country, disclos
ures would be made which would show and
inefficiency and mismanagement as bad, if not
worse, than the inefficiency and bad uiange
ment of the treasury department. Here is
what the Whig says .about the position o
affairs in the Richmond Post office ;
ft is an outrage, a cruel and inhuman out
outrage, that the mails of the whole country
should accumulate in thi3 city and be suxpena
ed on account of the military duties 01 -tlm
cieiksin the postoffice. We do not know
whether these clerks, or any of them, have yet
been returned or not, but the fact no less ex
ists that great anxiety, suffering, and even
death, is supposed to have resulted from their
temporary withdrawal of the clerks and the
suspension of the mails.
A surgeon asserts that the best medicine for
a sick or wounded soldier, is a letter from
home, and the next best, to be able to send,
one home; that in ciitical cases of wounds or
diseases, when the soldiers spirits are low and
his system languishing, a letter from his wife,
parents or children, may he frequently a mat
ter of life and dcatn with him. It may kill,
and has killgd, a patient, under such circutn.
stances when his whole heart and soul is set
on hearing from home, to he disappointed.
With a knowledge of such facts, and prob
able consequences, we say it is an outrage, that
there should at any time, and for auy cause, he
a suspension ol labor in tho Postoffice of this
city.
In the name of tbe sick, wounded and suf
fering; of tho biave and manly bosoms, ex
posed every moment to death and wounds;
of the sad, anxiously expectant dear ones at
home; of the people, and tbe couutry we protest,
vemently protesL against it.
This war lias enough ot misery and agony in
it, without the addition of anything which can
be supplied by the acts of tnose in authority.
Let not the Post office be considered a# one of
our public enemies. Let ther6 be 110 more
brakes put upon the army mails or lives may
be sacrificed, which otherwise might have been
saved from loss by disease or wounds.
The Lynch bin g Republican speaks thus og
the same subject :
Ihe Richmond Post office is overwhelmed
with letters which seem destined to remain
where they are, the clerks ail being in the
field. On the floors,. shelves and window sills
ot the City Post Office, lately immense heaps of
letters which had been lying there for nearly a
week. By measurement, there was at least a
cord of these lettors ; by weight, something
like a ton. They consisted- mainly of letters
addressed by the soldiers of Lee’s army to
their relatives throughout the South. Every
day, every hour even, adds to their number ;
yet there .they lie. A million of hearts are
wrung with anxiety which might be relieved
by the reception of these letters ; yet they lie
there, piled in immense heaps, which grow
higher every moment. Y
All this anxiety and suspense is entailed on
Southern mothers, fathers, wives, sisters, and
daughters, in order to add ton men to Gen.
Lee’s command.
A correspondent of the Charleston Mercury
gives a little more Pglrt on the subject of let
ters not being received- by friends at home
from soldiers in tho Virginia army, and of let
ters not being received by soldiers in the field
from friends at home. Here is what he says :
I have wondered that none of my letters
have appeared in late numbers of the Mercury.
A visit to the Postofiice yesterday explained
matters. Oue hundred thousand letters for the
{South were lying ou the floors, window sills,
etc., and have been there for nearly a week.
Let every heart, from the Tones to the Rio
Grande, break with abxiety. What matters it
to the impractical Washington hacks in power
in this city, so six cleiks aro added to the
army f
Tub Yanks a House or Rr.iT.iJBENTATivES on
the Wak.—The Yankee House of Representa
tives considered the following resolution, which
has been submitted by Mr. Rollins, of Mo.:
Resolved, That promptod by a just patriot
ism we are in favor of an earnest and success
ful prosecution of the war, and that we will
give a warm and hearty support to all tiiose
measures which will be most effective in speed
ily overcoming the rebellion, and in securing
a restoration of peaee, and which may not sub
stantially infringe the Constitution or tend to
subvert the true theory and character of the
government; and we hereby reiterate that the
present deplQi able civil war has been forced
upon the country by the disuniouists now in
revolt against the Constitutional. government;
that in the progess of the war, Congress, ban
ishing all feelings of mere passion or resent
meut, will recolloct o.ily its duty to the whole
ceuntry. This war is not waged ou our part
in any spirit of oppression, nor for any pur
pose of overthrowing or interfering with tho
rights or established institutions ol those States,
but to defend and maintain the supremacy of
the Constitution, and to preserve the U.iion
with all the dignity, equality and rights of tho
several States unimpared, and that as soon as
these ejects are accomplished the war ought to
cease. %
Mr. Rollins (Mo.) said his resolution embrac
ed (he. main features ot the one offered by Mr.
Crittenden, and adopted with only two dissent
iug voices, at the commencement of the 37th
Congress. Ho believed the principle was right
at that time, and was right now. It was the
platform upon which he Stood at the beginning,
and upon which every patriot could safety
stand, and afforded a rallying point for all the
friends of the Union and constitutional liberty.
If there was ever a time for unity of action to
preserve our happy form of government, it was
now. We should riad above all mere p.arty
considerations. It was idle for us to underrate
the warlike qualities of the Southern people;
these have been exhibited on many a well
fought field. They have asserted their valor,
and wrung from us the acknowledgment of a
steady devotion to the cause iii which they are
engaged. If we.can boast of our Generals, Mc-
Clellan, Sherman, Thomas and Hancock, they
can boast of their Lee, Johnston, llill, Long
street and Ewell. We cannot expect peat.*; un
til the re*el armies are overcome, and then we
must arrange term* and conditions, as other
nations have done, in order to secure lasting re
pose. We should conduct this war in the spirit
enunciated in his resolution.
If the policy declared in the Crittenden prop
osition had been adhered to we should
now be near the end of the Rebellion. We
should have carried the Constitution and olive
branch in one hand and the sword in the other;
but by departing from that policy we had
made a cause for the rebels and united them
in unbroken phalanx. No punishment was
too severe for the authors and leaders of the
eauseless Rebellion, but we should, discrimin
ate between them and those who had been
misled, and abandon all confiscation and legal
ised plunder schemes, which would establish
serfdom in the South, Create a necessity for
standing armies to keep the’peace and prevent
revolt. Some had gone so far as to seek to
elevate the negro to the level of the white
man, while others would degrade the white
race in the scale of being and make them hew
ers of wood and drawers of water »f the
servile race. He could regard such persons on
ly as madmen.
Mr. Fernando Wood- unsuccessfully sought
to amend the resolution, the oppot tunity for
that purpose having been excluded by the pre
vious question; he move i that the resolution
be laid upon the table, which was disagreed
to—yeas, 27; nays. 114.
Mr. Morrill, (Ya ) moved to refer the resolu
tion to the select Committee on the Rebellious
States.
Mr. Cox (Ohio) hoped the House would take
a direct vote on the passage of the resolution,
and not strangle it by such a disposition of it.
The House then by a vote of 37 yeas to 67
nays, referred the resolution to the Committee
on the Rebellious States.
Mr. Lazcar, (Pennsylvania) offered a long
preamble, concluding with a resolution that t-ho
President be requested to adopt measures for a
suspension of hostilities between the North'
and South, and an armistice, in order th it, in
the meantime, a convention may be called of
all the States, with a view to the restoration of
the Union, with their constitutional rights.
Objection was made to the resolution, when
Mr. Lazsar me wd a suspensionfof the rules,
pending which toe Honse adjourned.
Mr Lincoln’s Speech on the War.—Mr. Lin.
coin has been on a visit to Philadelphia. Os
course he was feted by the toadies of the Yankee
city. In reply to.a toast ho mr.de a speech.
It possesses peculiar sigufic ance, and if he is
really sincere in his assertions, the war is to be
protracted through three years more, if the ob
ject for which it is waged, be not sooner ob
tained. Here is'whatlsc said :
The terrible war which *s now raging has
disarranged business totally in many localities
and partally so in ail. It has destroyed happy
homes, produced a national debt, with taxation
unprecedented in this country. It has carried
mourning into many homes, and may even be
said to have hung the heavens in black. Sev
eral relieving coincidences have accompanied it
which have riot been known in the history of
th.- world before. 4 here were Sanitary and
Commissions and volunteer refresh
ment saloons ; and then these fairs, which have
been he'd all over the country. The motion
and object of these associations and undertak
ings ate, most worthy, for, say what we will, he
who takes his life in his hand, and places himself
in a to risk that life, is the moskseif
sacriticing patriot, and deserves honor, and
whatsoever contributes to his comfort should be,
and is, done by the fair hands of woman. This
shows the soldier he is not forgotten.
Another view of these various institutions is
worthy »f consideration. They are voluntary,
given freely and zealously, on the top of the
destruction of business and heavy taxation,
giving proof that the national resources are not
yet exhausted, and that the spirit of patriotism
is not dead.
Pertinent questions are often asked me, such
as when the war would end. I surely feel as
great an interest on that point as any one ; but
I would not make a prediction that it would
end in a day, or a week, or even a year, for fear
of creating disappointment. We accept—not
began—this war fora worlhy object; and I
tiust in God it will not end until that object is
accomplished. The war has dow lasted three
years, and as we accepted it to establish na
tional authority over the whole .national de
inain, we are to go through with it if ii takes
three years more. I would however,- safely
make the prediction that Grant, with Hancock
and Meade, is to night where he will never he
dislodged until Richmond is taken. If I shall
discover that Grant’s nolde officers and men
need assistance to put this thing through, will
you give it to me !■ [Yes, all answered.] Well,
then, I intend to call on you, and I want you
to stand by me and the army.
Tub Fremont Movement. —The Springfield
correspondent of the Chicago Times writes as
follows :
Notwithstanding the fact that the nomina
tions recently made at Cleveland fell like a
thunder clap upou the members of the Lincoln
pu'ty, vet a large number of the abolition
party here arc greatly rejoiced. 1 know it to
be a fact when 1 say that a considerable num
ber of those who aro now counted ou as Lin
coln’s supporters in this vicinity aro really op
posed to him, and will,‘when they shall mus
ter courage enough to di»eo. openly proclaim
their hostility to him. A number of these men
are men of influence and prominence. If the
Lincoln men suppose that their chief will havo
a clear track in this State, they will learn
their error when it wjli be too hue. I believe,
it to be true that Fremont will poll more votes
in several counties in this State than Lincoln.
In the counties composing tho 12th Congres
sional district particularly, Fremont is the fa
vorite wiili the ieadingjibolUionists. Just now
little is said by those who support Fremont. —-
Tluy still think there is a probability that the
Baltimore Convention will endorse him, and
throw Lincoln overboard. Tho Lincoln men
are very careful about expressing hostile feel
ings towards Fremont, for they are desirous of
winning over the Fremont men. The Fremont
party cannot see why it is that their favorite
'should not be lTesidont, inasmuch as he was
supported by tile whole party in iti-iii, and has
had eight ycabs’ experience since that time
They further declare that it was Fremont who
first broke the ground upon the subject of
emancipation, the fruits of which aro now be
ing reaped by Lincoln. They also declare that
Lincoln would never have come up to his pres
ent position if ho had not been forced to by
them. Therefore they believe iu taking a man
who was origination they desired ; who was,
in the first instance, ready to carry out their
views, without outside appliances.
A Washington correspondent of the Times
writes thus about the same matter just before
the Baltimore Convention assembled :
Mr. Lincoln’s prospects for re-election have
been greatly dam rgod by the action oi tho
Cleveland Convention. Up to the last moment
Mr. Lincoln hoped that the Cleveland Conven
tion would makq no nomination, iho most
strenuous efforts had been made to buy off Fre
mont, and the most lavish promises had been
held out to him and his friends to induce them
to forego their intention ot .nominating Fre
mont, and to unite in Lincoln and support. .It
was hoped until the last moment, by Mr. Lin
coln and his friends, that the convention would
be satisfied with presenting the claims of Fre
mont to the public iu the lonn ol an address,
and that they would then have adjourned to
Baltimore. Instead oi this, however, the Cleve
land Convention has not only nominated Fre
mont, but they havo also adopted a platform
which will, beyond all doubt, withdraw from
Lincoln tens of thousands of Republican votes.
Besides this, the Lincoln men here believe that
tho platform is such a One that it will secure
tho votes of a large portoin of the "war Demo
cats.” Tho action of the Cleveland Conven
tion, and the tone of their platform, may change
somewhat the programme that was marked out
for the Baltimore Couvntion. Not, however,
as regards Mr. Lfficoln’s nomination. He will
be nominated by that body unanimously, for
the members, black and white, are all his crea
tures. But, depend upon it, sbme queer trick
is-in contemplation to checkmate the really ad
mirable features of the Fremont plattorm.
COL. StEWART OF TUK FOURTH I DIANA KeAI
MSnt„ Tii is Federal officer has been recently
captured, and is now a prisoner at Macon.
Concerning him we »tke public the following
acts, reported us by Captain A. M. Adair, now
in Atlanta, an intelligent and truthful Confed
erate soldier, and late of the Sixth Kentucky
regiment of infqptry..
In the summer of 1862. a young man by the
name oFSpence, or Spencer, a nephew ot Bish
op Andrew, becoming seriously ill, was left by
his comrades—a Georgia regiment—upon tho
mountain not far from McMinnville, Tennessee.
The Federate occupying that country soon af
ter, took him from tbs bed, asserting him to be
a bushwhacker, and carried him before Col.
Stewart. With violent oaths this officer asked
if he had not told them to bring no such prison
ers to him, and ordered him to be taken out
and shot immediately. The young man in
vain asserted his innocence, and asked for a
short time to prove it. He told tho Colonel
who he was, and gave the name of his compa
ny and regiment. No attention was pa and to his
request, but the eider repeated with an oath.
He was taken down to a creek in the nighbor
hood and shot twice, but not immediately
killed. In his dying agony he asked for wa
ter, and the inhuman wretches said, “Let’s
give him water,” and seizing him by his ex
remities they threw him into the creek.
Just at that moment one Capt. Craddock, a
Federal officer es a Kentucky regiment, rode
up, and dismounting, went into the creek.aml
took the young man out, denouncing his
murderers as bn toilers and scoundrels. He
threatened to shoot them, and compelled the
removal of the young man to a house near by.
He there died during the night.
Mr. Adair was shown the young man’s grave
with his name marked upon the pine head
board. He conversed with the family who
were witnesses to the f icts, and with whom
he was personally acquainted. He took a
memorandum of names and dates which has
uten mislaid in the recent retreat from Rome,
but which can be procured for the use of those
directly interested.
Will our military authorities bear it in mind
that we have this Colonel in our keeping ?—-
Atlanta Rtavder.
Watermelons have made their appearance at
Coiambus, Ga. The first brought to market were
sold at three dollars each.
iiVuL. LXXVIII.-—NEW SERIES VOL. XXVII!. NO. 27.
[From the Macon Telegraph]
CORXFOH THE ARMY.
AN APPEAL TQ THE GEORGIA PLANTERS.
At the request of Government functionaries
we address a very solemn appeal to the plant
ers of Georgia, one and all. who have corn to
spare, be it much or little, to deliver it at
once to the nearest -agent of the Government.
An unanticipated demand for Lee’s army is
now made upon the Commissary Department,
and it must be met promptly, by the patriotic
planters of Georgia, or that army cannot be
subsisted. We are requested to state the.-o
facts in the plainest terms, and to assure the
people that there is no mistake about them.
True, the growing crops are now in a critical
condition from the grass, and the tax upon the
planters’ teams for agricultural labor is very
great. But. we are authorized ‘and requested
to say that unless Georgia planters heed this
call and come up to the sacrifice it demands,
they may prepare themselves to be disposses
sed of the soil they cultivate by the rude and
lawless hands ot the public enemy. Euqh man
must do his part, and the man who neglects
or refuses will not escape exposure.
In full confidence, then, that the skulker
will be known and dealt with, let tbe patriotic
report at once, without a day’s unnecessary de
lay. to the nearest Commissary Agent, how
much corn he can spare, and how soon deliver
it. The case is one of.great urgency, and Jet
no tijne be lost or effort sparee. Now is the
crisis of our fate, and let every man put his
shoulder to the wheel. We append the follow
ing extract from a letter lrorn Maj. Locke,
Chief Commissary.
“Instruct your agents to make one more ap
peal to the Planters to sell their corn, receiving
the customary obligations thereof, and to haul
it to the usual points of delivery. If they can
not bring in much let them bring according to
their ability. This may be the last appeal
that will be made to them. Events hurry for
ward with fearful rapidity, and the fate of the
Confederacy now suspended on the scale of a
b dance, may be, and. probably will be, soon
decided, for weal or woe.
“ Phis is no time to slop and talk about sn all
sacrifices with*folded arms. A planter or far
mer who will not Sell now to the properly con
stituted authorities of the Government, ftvith
out the cash in hand is no man. Jf they do
not want obligations or Treasury notes, in God’s
name, let them giveaway their pioducoif they
are capable of a spark 01 liberty. ” ' -
Prextich ox Andy Johnson.— Prentice, it
seems, does not like the nomination of Andy
Johnson for Vice President. He therefore has
taken the gentleman in hand, and talks about
him thus :
Gov. Johnson, of Tennessee, accepts tiie ab
olition nomination for the Vice Presidency, but
is bitterly disappointed at not having been
nominated for the Presidency. He has been
working for the Presidency for a long time.—
lie has. thought of little else than the Presiden
cy. Whenever he lias deliberated whether to
do or not to do'any particular thing, the sole
question with him has‘been as to what influ
ence it would have upon liis. prospects for the
'Presidency. Visions of White Houses, Cabi
nets, Inaugural Addresses, and Annual Messa
ges, have floated continually before bis eyes,
shutting out all the rest ol earth anil the whole
of heaven from his view.. .And now ’tis only
the Vice Presidency he is nominated for, and
we trust that he lias but a sorry chance of get
ting- even that:
Andy Johnston lias mado a very bad Milita
ry Governor of Tennessee. He iias not per
formed his functions to the satislucUou of tho
patriotic portion of tho people of the State.
He has been a tyrant, and a most corrupt one.
He has recognised no obligations except to his
own will. lie has sooutod in action every prin
ciple of free government. He has made week
ly advances of money, no doubt the public
money, to sustain an unscrupulous newspaper
devoted to bis glorification., He bits shown
himself utterly selfish, malignant, and vindic
tive. His heart is gnawed and cankered by
envy and jealousy. He is a bitter demagogue,
without a_ particle of statesmanship. 110 is
supposed to have rendered the Union cause in
East Tennessee some service in the early part
of the rebeilioij, but, ever since lie took the
Military Goveraship, he has done ten times as
much harm as good—or rather all harm and
no good.
It is not strange that (ho C invention which
nominated Mr. .Lincoln’for the Presidency
nominated Andrew Johnston for the Vice
Presidency. The latter, if elected, will be
just as arbitrary, just as tyrannical, just as re
gardless of .the rights of person, the rights of
property, and all other rights, just as scornful
of constitutions and laws, and just as ready to
scatter corruption money through the
land, as they can desire. So let them by all
means elect him if they can. Wc should be
glad to know that nothing worse than gold
and silver is to be used in the election. A
good many of tho people, we find, are ap
prehension that the circulating mefflinm most
potent'for the doeision of the nation’s destiny
in November, would be lead and steel. Wc
trust not.
A Raider on his Own Hook.—Wo learn
that Private Frank Higginbotham, of Company
B, Capt. Haxzard’s Fourth Regiment Georgia
Cavalry, left Bell Point picket on Thursday
last, and proceeded alone in a small boat to*
St. Simons’s Island. As lie appi cached the Is
land he was hailed by the negro picket, to
whom he represented himself as being a de
serter from the Confederate lines.
He found the residence of the late Thos.
Butler King garrisoned by NalJa'noforous run
away negro, and rascal formerly owned in Sa
vannah, belonging to a citizen of Glynu coun
ty. Higginbotham, who seems to-have been
well acquainted with the locality,, stated that
be wtelied to go on board the Yankee block
ader lying some miles below in St. Simon’s
Sound, lie was informed by Nat that the boat
.from the blockader visited the Island twice a
week for vegetables, and that he would have
to wait a day or two, when it would make its
next trip. Higginbotham remained over Fri
day, making his observations iu the mean time.
On Saturday ho prevailed on Nat to go with
him to the beaeh to bunt turtle’ eggs. Nat
went with his prisoner, carrying with him
a double barreled gun. While on the beach
looking for eggs, our daring raider managed to
get possession of Nat’s gun. Taking a favora
ble opportunity, he shot Nat, killing him
and -ad. He the returned-to the house and fired
on Harvey, breaking liis tliigh. After dis
patching him with a blow in the bead with an
axe, he conveyed the bodies ol the two negroes
to a batteau, and .collecting such spoils as were
at hand, set sail for the camp of his company,
where he arrived about noon on Saturday. lie
brought him with, besides tho bodies ol the ne
groes, three guns, three valuable saddles, fifty
pounds of-coffee, and some hundred and fifty
dollars in specie and greenbacks, with other
articles of value.
Tho negroes were notorious rascals, who had •
committed many murders and robberies. Nat,
besides stealing some seventy to a hundred ne
groes from theseacoat counties, was the murder
er of Mr. S. 8. Akin, of Wayne county, and also
Me-srs. Palmer and Davis, highly respectable
citizens, and we believe members of Capt. Haz
zard’s cavalry.
We understand the hero of this bold, and un
der all ciicumstances of the case, we think per
fectly justifiable adventure, is a youth of only
some nineteen years of age. He deserves the
thanks of the people of the seaboard lor rid
ing them of two dangerous spies, murderers,
ineenduriee and thieves. —Hid muiw/k iVewx, June
24. •
A Lkiter from Fred. Douglas. —Fred. Dou
glas, the nigger politician of the North, gbas
written a latter defining his position It was ad-,
dressed to one of the originate) a tho Cleve
land Convention. Here it is ;
Sir. : I mean tho'complete abolition of every
vestige, form, and modification of slavery m
every part of the United States, perf et equali
ty for the black man in every State before tire
law, in the jury box, at the bid lot box, and on
the battle field ; ample and salutary retalia
tion lor every instance of enslavement or
slaughter es prisoners of any color, i mean
that in the distribution of offices and honors
under this government no discrimination shall
be made in favor of nr against any clas3 of
citizens, whether blank or white of native or
foreign birth. And supposing that the Con
vention which is to meet at. Cleveland means
the same thing, I cheerfully give my name as
one of the signers of the cull.
PROM Ill\\S-MISBIBSIFI*I.
There was a severe storm at Shreveport on
June 2, amounting quite to a hurricane for
live minute¥T during which two steamboats,
tbo Stella and the Don Louis, were smashed to
atoms, others lost their chimneys, roofs of
houses were blown oil, Ac. The News believes
the wheat and com crops must have suffered
ses erely.
The crops throughout Tes** are looking fine
ly.
Cotton is_se!ling at Gonzales, Texas, for teq
thirteen cents per lb. in specie; at Eagle Pass
it is selling at twenty-one cents in specie.
The blockade at Galveston, on the Kith, was
maintained by a brigantine propeller, five gun
boats, and two supply vessels.
The Gonzales Inquirer says specie is now
about the only currency recognized in that
place, and in the \V est generally. The pro
ducts of the country cannot be bought for any
thing else. Those who have Confederate mon
ey are keeping it to pay taxes.
A writer iu the Houston News says that
Louisiana has sent sixty-three thousand men
to the field, out of a white population of three
hundred thousand. The city of New' Orleans
has tarnished one hundred and sixty-five com
panies.
They-bate tbe negro with a perfect hatred.
Tlie say they “knock down and drag them out.”
they Nay they make good soldiers, but rugmvd
the whole negro busiiffiss as a stain upon the
service, am! an excuse for a white man not to
re-enlist. Soldiers that Ihey
will never submit to the competition of ne
groes against white labor. Would not fight if
they thought such would be the result, etc.
Jbe Jackson Mississippian oi Jnne22d learns
-from a young gentleman just from Port Gibson,
that before lie lett that place, the report had
reached there that Gen. Dick Taylor had had a
battle with the enemy under Gen. Oauby, in
which our forces were completely victorious.—
Tbe enemy’s ioss is slated at 1,500 killed and
wounded, 17 pieces of artillery, and vast num
bers of small arms, a large quantity t of stores,&c.
and that when Gen. 'Taylor was last heard Jrom
lie 1k and completely routed and driven the ene
my over sixteen miles. Our loss -is estimated
at six hundred, killed and wounded.
A correspondent 01 the Mobile Advertiser
writes as tot lows from Houston, under date of
May 24 :
Ail quiet in the Trans-Mississippi once more.
The rebellion is yet rampant here, and nobody
lett to crush it. Banks and Steele have both
gone, and left its-with nobody to fight.
We shall not be idle, however." The spirit
of our Generals is aggressive. They are already
looking out toi new fields in which to exercise
their talents.
Alter the bat to of Saline Bottom, April 30tli,
Steele fell back to Lille Rook, and-the remains
ol Biount s old army went off in the direction
oi Fort Smith. What became of (ho latter wc
do not know. Shelby went, however, in pursuit
■of it; but his pursuit evidently bus been diver
ted and probably turned into a raid. On the
lull inst. he captured Durdunelle, Arkan
sas, and paroling.ti e garrison, crossed Ihe riv
er and went on towards we know not wbilher.
Gen. Mugrnder reached Arkansas too late
to participate in any of the barites of the late
campaign. Flu returned to this point last week.
From Louisiana we learn that nearly the en
tire State west of the Mississippi is cleared of
Yankees. Our rangers .have been charging up
and down th,e country, and as they approach
the iankees leave as though they were sent
tor. If the Federal troops are kept busy on
the other side of the river so as to prevent
their reinfoicing in this department, we will
soon clean them out here.
Affairs iu Mexico are in a measure quiet.
J uarez still holds his court at Monterey, with
a.small army between and the French. Vidaur
ri, the exiled Governor ofNuova Leon, is in
this city, receiving some attentions from the
military in virture of the distinguished par t he
has played in tins'neighboring republic.
Jack Hamilton, the Yaukccised and Yankee
appointed Governor, of Texas, or rather of the
.Slate of Cameron and hi* tools, A. Alexander.
John L Haynes and others, are very busy in
their-machinations, 'they have sought in vari
ous ways to create a hostility to us On tho part
ot Juarez. They have promistd him subsidies
front Washington, men, arms money, oi-gwbat
else lie may wish, conditioned solely ou liis
assuming an attitude of hostility towards us.
He has hitherto refused. But Ins biUer ha
tred of Vidaurri, the fact that he has outlawed
him and declared him guilty of treason, and
subject to execution whenever caught, avill
favorably incline him to receive exaggerated
reports of what has been done heae. His Sec
retary, Rejon, was outlawed with him. Rejon
turned up in Brownsville, was arrested' there
by Hamilton and delivered over to the Mexi
can authorities in Matamoras. lie was shot.
This piece of rascality may have its designed
effect, though time will cause it to recoil on
the villainous authors.
The Texas Legislature was convened liy
Gov. Murrah on the 9th instant. The Gover
nor In liis message appears to regard the ac
tion of Congress on the currency as little short
of repudiation. “They created,” says he, “and
they destroyed, I have no comments to make.”-
He urges tho building up by the State of man
ufactures within her limits. He urges the en
forcement. of the law against crime, etc. The
Legislature has as yet done nothing of public
importance.
The Condition of the currency in this depart
ment's becoming rapidly such as to force the
rejection of the Confederate notes as a circu
lating medium. They aro to-day in all the
principal cities of this State rated at about
forty for one. All sorts of goods that come
from abromf are sold on a specie basis. Even
the newspapers have been compelled to come
to that basis or discontinue their publications.
What will come of it all is dilficul to sec
Happily there is plenty of specie in this part
of ihe country, more, I think, than at any
previous period of our history. In all the
Western part of this State it is now the only
circulating medio*. All this lias nothing
whatever to do with patriotism, and the day
when patriotism sustained the .currency, has
passed. Confidence once lost in money is not
easily restored. It is the ol I story. We must
carry on the war without currency, pay our
expenses by taxation, sell our cotton and aup
piy the military chest from the proceeds.
The tdirit cf our people is, as has been
shown in the iate battles, most excellent.
There is no moie idea of submission here than
there was in August,. 1861, after tho first Man
assas. What little demoralization existed last s
winter Ims been-swept away like the morning
mist before the rising sun.
FROM MEXICO.
Ma-ximilian arrived at Vera Cruz on thg 28th
of May. At 2 P. M. the Novara entered the bay
amidst a salvo of one hundred cannon.. Fort
Uiloa, tlie.sliips, the wharf, were all crowded
with banners. At 5 o'clock Alinonte, accom
paned by other officials, proceeded on board
the Novara.
In the meantime a proclamation from the
Emperor It ad been issued, beginning, “Mexi
cans I you have desired to have me,” anil ex
pressing lits intention to devote his whole
strength and heart to their welfare.
After a private conversation with Almonte,
the Emperor received the principal function
aries. I'ts Majesty wore a-black coat, white
pantaloons and vest, and black cravat, which
was the dress the deputation were ordered to
bear.
The deputation boiDg introduced by the Min
ister Velasouez tie keou, the Prefect addressed
his MiA’ste extolling as memorable tho day ho
had arrived." and predicting a.new era for the
country. Tho Emperor ‘read a brief reply in
Spanish, in a clear, vibrating tone.
After this a conversation free from etiquette
took place, and they were then presented to the
Empress, who came leaning on tke aimol Max
imilian from an adjoining saloon.
On the following morning, at 0 o'clock, the
royal landing took place. There was a formal
reception, delivering the keys of the city, etc.
At Selected the royal party took breakfast, and
entered Cordova at a late hour on the 29th, ono
of the cart ia, "s having broken down. On tho
:Sot,b. at 1- M. they entered Orizaba, which is
the last we have heard of them.
A late a-rivai-at New Orleans from Tampi
co brings the information that the French had
whipped “Mexicans at Tu.-pan, and captured
the fort v.-ith four pieces of artillery. They
now occupy the town. His stated that rc
ktforeemen s were expected®! Tampico, among
them ? 1-My of eight hundred Arabs, which
: ,s a rather strange commodity, we i uagine. As
! soon as they arrive expeditions are to be made
i to act in the interior, on the guerilla plan, we
i suppose,
Latest from Virginia. —The Columbia Guar
dian of Saturday says : Accident favored u.i
last night with the Richmond Examiner of
Wednesday. We glean a sow interesting pat -
ticulars which we know will be acceptable to
our rentiers, iu tbe absence of the usual tele
graphic reports :
Hunter is retreating directly to *Buchanon,
on the James River River Ganal, in Boutetourt
county. When his forces reached Liberty, they
separated into two pat ties ; one going towards
the Peaks of Otter, the other by the road lead
ing due west. Our forces had pursued Hunter
to the Peaksol Otter, and the latest accounts
received at Lynchburg state that a fight was
.going on at a place in the vicinity of the Parks
known as Fancy Farm.
Sheridan's condition, in bis retreat through
King and Queen was pitiable in tlm extreme-
One third of the Yankees were on foot, and tbe
others’ horses greatly fagged. The men were
famishing and mutinous There wore one hun
drod and fltty vehicles fifed with wounded.—
They had two hundred of our nu n as prisoners,
many ot whom fainted and fell in the road
from want of food. But the most cumbrous
part of the Yankee train consisted of a pro
cession of five Hundred negro women and child*
ren, amongst whom the suffering was excessive.
Mnny of tho w.>r>i«n. becoming: exhausted, had
thrown their children, in the roads and desert
ed them Sheridan stated that up to that time
lie had lost fifteen hundred men.
We get some particulars also of the fffiht re
ported between Sheridan and Hampton, in the -
vicinity of the White House; very little dam
ege was done on either side We" had two or
three men wounded. So the glorious report
of having captured ebfht hundred of these
raiders in battle Monday vanished into thin
air. w. •
At a late hour Tuesday night a report reach
ed Richmond that Sheridan liad crossed to the
south bank of the Pamunky ate the White
i louse.
From the:Petersburg correspondence of the
'Richmond- Dispatch', dated late Tuesday night,
we learn that, the enemy shell the city more or
less every day, and picket firing is continuous.
They hold a position at some places not more
than one and a half miles from the city limits.
They have taken from us seventeen pieces of
artillery: and about one thousand prisoners.
Oui horses in killed and wounded will not
probably exceed five to six hundred. The
enemy’s loss is computed at a thousand prison
er, live to six thousand killed and wounded,
and three or four pieces of artillery.
Petersburg is as quiet as if it were Sabbath
in peace times. Her stores are all closed, and,
her men are all iu the field.
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Affairs in China.— Recently in the British
House of Commons Mr. Siddell moved,
That,, in the opinion of this House, further
interference on the part of this country in
tho. civil war in China is impolitic and unne
cessary.’ The hour member said that Mr. Lay,
the Inspector General of Customs had sought
tee obtain a supremacy over the Imperial Gov
ernment by means of the Auglo-Chinese fleet,
under Captain Sherard Osborn, which had been
lifted out under his direction, and- which was
lo be at his disposal. Prince Kung had prop
erly refused to consent to a compact which
would have established a British protectorate
—a protectorate that would have offended all
the other Powers. Our policy in China ought
to be merely a commercial policy. We ought
not to aid tbe rebels or the Government, which
was a foreign and hated despotism. [.The Tate
tar dynasty lias ruled tor 200 years, and vet
the country is prosperous. 'J be tact is that
the Chinese Empire is in practice a federation,
ami the f deral chief (the Emperor) has very
little real authority, except in the immediate
neighborhood of the seat of the Imperial Gov
ernment. ]
Mr. Layaril replied to Mr. Liddell’s long
and able speech. He denied that any attempt
had. been made to establish a British protector
ate in China, and said that our policy had been
eminently.successful, and in proof of this cited
some statistics of trade showing that the ex -
ports ami imports at Chinese ports amounted
to 60,000,000. Our policy had also been ap -
proved by Mr. Burlingame, the United States
iWaister at Pekin, and other persons capable
of forming an opinion.
After a few remarks from Mr. Forster, Mr
Ferrand rose to address the House, and was
almost immediately interrupted by the House
being counted out at a quarter past eight
o’clock, there being only 35 members present.
On Monday Mr. Baxler gave notice that, in
consequence of the abrupt termination of the
debate, he should, at an early date, cull atten
tion to the state of affairs in China.
Officers’ Rations.— Among Iho acts of tho
late Congress was tho annexed one in regard
to officer's rations :
Sec. 1. The Congress of the Confederate
St ites of America do enact, That all commis
sione l officers iu the- army and navy shall be
entitled to one ration, and all commissioned
officers in the field and afloat, in addition there
to, shall be allowed to purchase from any Com
missary, or other officer required to issue sub
sistence to soldiers, marines and seamen, at the
prime cost thereof, including transportation, as
follows :
One ration each for officers of and below tha
rank of Colonel; two rations each for officers of
the rank of Brigadier General, Major General,
and Lieutenant General ; and three rations
each for a General ; one ration each for com
:missioned officers of the navy of and below tho
rank of Commander ; and two rations each for
officers above that rank.
Sec. 2. That an officer shall not draw or pur
chase, at any time, more of the component part
of a ration than is issued to the private soldier
at the same time.
Sec. 3. That nothing contained in this act,
or tho act to which this is an amendment, shall
be construed as allowing commutation for ra
tions, or as authorizing an officer to receive or
purchase rations, except when he requires them
for his own use.
Sec. 4. That this act shall continue in forae
only during the war..
Death of Gf.n. Polk, —The commander of
the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and
East Tennessee, has issued the annexed order
concerning his death:
It is with profound sorrow that the Maic,r
General commanding, announces to the troops
of this Department, the death of their late com
mander—Lieut. Gen. Leonides Polk. On tho
14th in a skirmish-near Marietta, Ga., thi*
gallant warrior and Christian gentleman, yield
ed up his life~a costly sacrifice to his coun
try’s liberties.
It would be superfluous here to recount tho
services of this lamented patriot. They are
already before the world, and will form one of
the brightest pages in the history of this mem
morable sti uggle. His high administrative
talent, his distinguished gallantry upon many
battle fields, his eminent virtues and kind and
genial traits of character, have alike won the
admiration and love of his countrymen.
From the toils and cares of his fitful exis
tence, from the blood red field of battle, the
Christian soldier has passed to that eternal
rest which it was ever the aim of his life to se
secure. Let his memory ever be. fresh amongst,
us, and let each one strive to imitate his exam
ple.
Asa mark of honor to the distinguished
dead, the colors of the troops of this command
will be draped in morning for the period of
thirty days from the receipt of this order.
~M’onit Yocr Crops Thoboiuihlt. —We have
repeatedly urged upon our agricultural friends
tho vital import mce of planting this year
heavy crops of everything which enters into
the food of man or beast. A wise and practical
planter in the country suggests that it would
be weil for us now to urge with equal solicitude
the active and thorough cultivation ol the crop
planted. It is no doubt correctly asserted by
him that more is lost to the granaries of the
country by a failure to work corn, than there is
to plant it. Better he says, plapt less and work,
more. This is doolitie.-s true, and we urge up
on the farmers of the country to profit by the
suggestion. Tremendous crops of corn have
been planted, and the season so far has been
everythink which could be desired. Nothing,
therefore, can prevent an unprecedentedly
large yield, but the I ail are of farmers to work
their planting.
Fifteen hundred Yankee prisoners have ar
rived at Meridian. 'J he wounded niggers and,
Yankee* are laid side by side.