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tween two men, both of whom have
made such mark in present revolution,
if Rcscncrans wln-s a fight in Middle
Tennessee, be will have to overcome
-tree gaeat elements of opposition.
Ist'. Tho wondrous strategy* of Gen
ial Johnston.
2d. the power, energy, and system of
on. Bragg.
3.1. The heroic courage of the army
guided and arrayed by the two first.
(Chat. Hebei.
We have been idle for threa months
The weather cock—al waps cock of the
walk in wintertime —gave us to under
stand, early in January, that the visage
of war was to be furrowed only by the
wrinkles peculiar to the season, and
th it we might as well pitch our tents
for a few "weeks of inactivity. We
took up our beds therefoie aul waked
out of Murfreesboro just before the rains
"fell and the roads became untravelable
just in time to secure snug quitcis at
Shelbyville, Tullahoma and Winchess
ter. In those quiet retreats we have
passed a dull interim of rest; eating
fill of the produce of Mid Je Tennessee;
drinking our portion also, such as that
has been; building Jog pile*,"cracking
nuts and jokes, telling stories and, in
our particularly unamiable moods, crit
icising General Bragg. These holly
day amusements are now about to
reach their natural end, for the trumps
of war and the wjnds of inarch sound
together, a cheering stirring reveille.
Turn out! Turn out! To arms! To
arms! The electric cry goes from camp
to camp, and the soldiers answer it with
hurras and greeting!— Rebel.
Northern News.
From the Richmond Whig of the 18th
we make up the following summary of
Northern news of the 14th:
FROM HOOKER’S ARMY*.'
A correspondent writes, under date
of March 12th: •
There are unmistakable preparations
naw being made for a speely movement
of the army. Our transportation is
now being cut down to facilitate our
movements in t|j£.coming marches and
officers are warned beforehand that all
superflous baggage must be sent home,
while such poor devils as hold commis
sions in the line have been notified that
their wedge tents cannot be transported
for them in future, aud that in the com
ing campaign nothing more will be al
lowed them than a shelter tent apiece,
such as the men have which they can
carry on their on backs. This la-d f.ct
alone is sufficient forewarning of- the
trials, troubles, discomforts and Severn
ties of the next campaign.
The restrictions having.b. on virtually
removed, intercourse has lately been re-'
newed between our pickets and those of.
the enemy** but the other day one of
our officers considering this state of
things] a violent violation of an order
not yet countermanded seize! on a per
fectly diminutive model of a ship—with
keel, rigging and rudder complete—
which the rebels had sent across the
river freighted with a Richmonnd paper.
The vessel is now in possession 'of an
officer of Shafer’s brigade, and on its
stern is painted the unique name “The
Body’ Louse.” It is to be sent to the
North for exhibition.
ARREST OF BRIGHAM YOUNG UNDER THE
POLYGAMY ACT.
Salt Lake City, March 10.—Judge
Kinney this day issued a writ against
Brigham Young, under the Polygamy
act oi Congress. It was placed in
the bands ’of United States Marshall
Gibbs, who served, it not only without
the aid of a posse, but alone waited up*,
on President Young. The writ was
immediately responded to, aud the de
fendant personally appeared in court
and upon investigation, the Judge held
him a to bail in the sum of $2,000, which
was promptly given. The civil author
ity can be maintained in Utah without
the aid of troops.
Commenting upon which the New
York Herald says.
The great high priest, apostle, proph
et and potentate of the “Latter Day
Saints’’ has been indicted, arrested, and,
in the sum of two thousand dollars'
bound over to answer in a United States'
to certain charges of high crimes
aud misdemanors in connection with his
patriarchal institution of poligamy.
These proceedings are in accordance
with a law Congress abolishing polygas
THE MARIETTA WEEKLY ADVOCATE.
my within the Territories of the Unite!
States, and providing heavy ’pains and
penalties against all offenders. We pre
sume (hat Brigham has quietly submit
ted to a court of justice as’prefcrable to
another visit of United States soldiers.
He doubtless has occasion to remember
the rebellious prouensiti.os of Lis harem
resulting from tho encampment ot the
late Gen. A. Sidney Johnston’s troops in
bis saintly capital some five years agoi
S‘>uld the law of Congiess be rigidly
enforced, the prophet and his flock of
fiftyjilmusand souls, more or less, will
most likely’ be compelled to pack up
and move off, like the Israelites, from
the fleshpots of Egypt But\Grecley
has described Brigtianr as a wonderful
man; weknow that .in legal tricks and
evasion he is an artful dodger, and we
guess that he will Leonti ive r to render
the law a dead letter for seme lime to
come.
The Day of Prayer.—As Friday’ the
27th inst. has been appointed by the
President of these Confederate States
as and prayer, a poor sol
dier, who volunteered in the ol
his country’s rights and who is anxious
to return home to his little children,
would request through your columns
and the columns of our newspapers gen
erally, that tho’day of universal frating
and earnest, prayer to God for a speedy
peace, and that the universal custom of
only hording service in cur Churches
during the morning be departed' from
on the present occasion aud services be
also held at three o’clock in the after
noon waerevcUpracticable and espec
ially by our soldiers in every camp—
the object o£which wil'be! to request
God to change the hearts of our ene
mies towards us and grant us a speedy
peace.
At five o’clock I propose that "every
Christian in civiPor military life, and
especially the wives, mothers and .-is
ters of ouijbrave soiJicrs, retire to their
closels and in faith pray for a
peace; and perhaps God may hear our
prayers and stop th's unholy strife,
and permifus-to return to our homes.
My reqnest can c isily complied
with; and as it wilfgivc satisfaction to
many’ of our brave soldiers, I am in
hopes it wiirbe"*' e .o : '' Icd_by Clnistiau-s
of all denominations. G.
Fayttevilie obscrver.
— -.Kj—- -
Meeting of tho Legislature—
What Should be Done?"
It will be seenby’the proclamation
of Gov. Brown to be found in this pa
per, that he has ielt it his duty to as
semble the Legislature a month earlier
than the time to which the adjourn
meat was fixed. We think the Govern
or has evinced by this act, the deep so
licitude which he feels in the welfare of
our common country. With the eye of
a statesman aud patriot, he has scanned
the past, prrsent and possible future of
our country. He is convinced that we
arc in great peril, and he wisely calls to
his !iid the wisdom of the General As
sembly to take counsel with him at this
critical juncture.
The m°st important subject that can
engage the attention of the Legislature
at this time is that of food. This sub
ject is of paramount importance . All
others arc secondary, and should yield
to the pressing necessity which demands
its prompt consideration. We ask the
attention of every reader, and especial
ly every farmer, to the following facts;
It was thought necessary (and time has
proved its truth) last ye. rt » plant but
little cotton and a great deal of grain
Most of our farmers yielded to the call
upon them. The result was a large
crop of corn, peas, potatoes Arc., which
are bringing high prices in the market
remunerating the planter for Ins sagac
ity and patriotism. Now, we may ask
any intelligent farmer in the State, if
there were good reasons last year, to
plant but little cotton, do not the same
reasons now exist with fifty-fold more
force? Take your map and look at the
territory now cutoff from us, which gave
millions of bushels of corn last year.—
Tennessee is almost entirely occupied
by the enemy. General Rosenctanz
even forbids the loyal Southern citizens
in his lines to plant grain. Arkansas
Texas and Louisiana are cut off beyond
all hope, for some time at least. Geor
gia is the only Southern State not inva
ded by the enemy and how long she > ill
enjoy this exemption no man can say’
How about your horse power? ■ Do you
not know that it is greatly diminished
from last year? If you have not lost
any horses or mules, are they not less
valuable to you than they were a year
ago? Every’ farmer knows, that, for
every horse or mule of his that dies, 30
acres of ground remains uncultivated. —
It is safe to say that the horse power of
the country is at least 20 per cut. less
than it was a year ago. And how
about the mutual labor in the field?
Thousandsand tens of thousands of men
who helped to make last year’s crops
arc now in the army. .Many more aie
sick or wounded or disabled. Many
negroes have left the field for the work
shops of die country, where slave labor
has been necessarily introduced onac
count of the absence of white men in the
army. Many negro women will be oc
cupied inhouse duty some as spinning,
weaving, Ac. It is thus apparent to
every intelligent man that even with a
most favorable season the grain crops
of the present year cannot be as b< unti
ful as thus# of the past year, unless the
area of ground planted exceeds tha’ of
last yerr. How can this be expected if
three acres of cotton is planted to the
hand? Let the Legislature take th s
important subject in hand the first day
of the session, and lose not an hour in
its consideration. What is done should
be quickly done. Starvation now s’ares
us in the face. Let the members come
upto the expectations of the people.—
And as a preliminary step in this im
port ant legislation, let them forbid ab-.
solutely tho dis.ilation of spirits from
any kind of provisions which man, wo
man, child or beast will eat.—Milledge
ville Union.
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The Currency.
Gold was sold «n Saturday at 425
premium, an advance of two hundred
per cent, within a week We make
the announcement with no design of
of going itfto a disquisition en the sub
ject. We simply pi opose to state brief
ly’ some of the m ist obvious cause w..icb
have brought about the result.
Ist All winter our people behoved
that peace <vou!d be a cessation of the
issue of confederate notes. Spring his
come but peace appears m re remote
than ever. The people can see nothing
before them bat long years of _war and
sb in pl asters.
2d. A sulden spring tide of eifigra
tion of foreigners is setting from the
Confederate Slates to the United Suites
These persons are c nverting all their
possessions, be the same great or smal!
into gold regardless ol the cost. This
large and sudden demand upon a drain
el market must havr. a marked an i im
mediate effect.
31. Hie people believe Congress will
not pass a tax bill, and every one feels
that to be the only method by which
our redundant currency can be reduced
within healthy bounds.
4th. Smugglers have increased an
hundred fold within the past month
Jews and Gentiles a/c y’i’ :ing over the
border singly and in gangs. These fel
lows, though they use bank notes and
State coupon funds, must have gold and
will pay any price for it.
5.h. Arbitrary impressments in this
city by’ sending provision up to famine
prices and producing something near
akin to a panic, huve doubtless had seme
effect in depreciating the money’of the
Confederacy’, but the above are we be
lieve, the main causes of the unexam
pled enhancement of the precious meta
I which we venture to predict wdl be
! wholly temporary.— Richmond Exam
iner.
<o —i
Officers Resigned.—The Owensboro’
(Ky.) Monitor says th.it. Col. Shanks and
most of the officers of the Btb Kentucky
cavalry have resigned their commissions
in the service. No cause is known be
yond the general one of dissatisfaction
with the abolition war programme.
The Yankees must not loose their
shanks or they will be in a bay way in
the next Bull Run affair. Iron safes and
shanks are theii chief reliance.
BgU A week or two ago a party of
our guerilla forces disguised as Feder
al soldiers, burned a depot at South
Union, on the Memphis Branch Rail
road, in Kentucky. Two detachments of
Yankee troops were sent in quest of
them but not succeeding in overhuling
them, they returned to South Union, —
One party returning in advance of the
others they mistook their comrades for
guerillar and opened fire upon them as
they came into the village. The result
wa one killed and two or three wounded.
TEtEGRftPHIO.
Chattanooga, March 19.—N0 move
ment of importance reported from the
front. The enemy have fallen back
from Murfreesboro, but our forces have
not advanced as yet. The movement is
thought to be a feint of Rosoncraz.
A gentleman from Kentucky says
10,000 reinforcements via Louisville and
five regiment from Clarkesville have
been sent to Rosencranz. A Yankee
Column of 15,000 is reported to be cross
ing the Tennessee at Savannah to march
via Huntsville.
At Fred:ick-.burg Northern dates of
the 14th have been received.
Rumors are still rife ’that Vicksburg
has been evacuated, and it is supposed
the greater part of die rebels would go
to*Chattanooga to overwhelm Rosen
cranz.
The N. Y, Times gays a combined at
tack on Vicksburg may be looked for
daily, for it will be impossible for Grant
to leave his men and vessels of the Ya
zoo expedition where they now are.—
It was probably intended that all the
movements were to bejsimu’tanouusi
The War news generally unimpor
tant
The Yankees claim Various suc
cesses over our 'cavalry in Tennes
see.
The price ts gold fell three-fourths of
one per cent, on the 16th. Government
credits firm.
The privateer Florida cleared from
Bardadoes on the 24th ult, and learned
on the 25th that Wilkesjtnew of her
whereabouts before leaving St. Thom
as.
Mr. Gaillard wiites from Paris, under
date of Feb. 27th that an
has broken out in Hungary, correspond
ing with that in Poland.
lie mentions a rumor that Napoleon
will recall the French army from Mexico,
aud treit with Ju ircz, upon a report by
Gen. Forcy, that the popularity of the
Mexican President in-ures his re-elecs.
■ ion by universal'suffrage.
Il is added that the French Emperor
wishes to avoid a conll.t with the North
ern States, notwithstanding the ail
they ass >rd the Mexican®, the unpleas
ant relations between Seward and Mer
cier, and the refusal oi the. W.tshingon-
Cabinet to aceep _the last proposition of
France.
T. 11. Seymour, candidate for Govern
or of Oonne.’ticut, says : “ I abhor the
whole scheme or Southern invasion, with
all its horrible consequences ot rapine
and plunder.”
Hooker has given orders for his men
to Lave rations of vegetables and fresh
soft bread daily.
Chaileston March 20.—A1l quiet
here. The steamer ‘Havelock’ sailed
last ifght.
Petersburg, March 20 —Snow com
menced here this morning and has con
tinued without intermission ever since.
Ic is now falling rapidly. The trains
North and South were much delayed but
are all in.
Richmond, March 20.—The reported
tax bill provides for raising four hun
dred millions by a levy tax ©f ©nc per
cent, on gross sales, ten per cent, on
gross profiiis, one per cent, on salaries
under $1,500, two per cent on all over
that amount, and one per cent, on the
vamo of property; and no one to be
taxed but one, on the same property, in
come, or proti s.
Chattanooga, March 20.—The falling
back of the enemy from Murfreesboro is
fully confirmed—supposed they have
gone towards Nashville. I'u.-Aengers
by this evening’s train report that three
Yankee brigades went down the Cum
berlaud a few days ago-supposed te
reinforce the enemy at Vicksburg.
Van Dorn is reported ®n North side
Duck river- the Yankees having fa len
back from Franklin.
No movement of cither army yet.
Mrs. Gen. Breckinridge is ill at Win
chester.
The bridge over the Holston river at
Zollicoffer, East Tennessee, is comple
ted.
Charleston March 22.
has been shelling the wreck of the
Georgiana which still lies off Long Is-
land Beach—otherwise all quiet.
Richmond. March 20.—Treasury notes
which cease to be fundable under the
provisions of the act recently passed
will be receivable in payment of all
public dues except expert dues on cot
ton.
Snow ’ commenced falling heredyes
teiday’afternoon and the ground is now
covered several inchen—still falling
fast, and the storm promises to continue
during the day.
Port Hudson, March '2l.—Repofts of
the sinking of ‘ the sloop of war Rich
mond, from injuries received on the
night of the 15tb, are prevalent. Noth
ing definite,’however, has been ascertain,
ed. The Monitor fleet still occupy a post,
tion out of range of our guns below; Yes,
terday the enemy fired slowly at our
transports with long range guns, with
out effect.
A party landed from‘"their transports
and burned the residence of Capt. J.
Hern, forme: ly that of Col. Sidney Robs
ertson, on the opposite shore.
Tho same activity has prevailed
among the enemy’s transports for the
last two days, the’ there are no tudica
cationa of another attempt to »paM the •
batteries.
Twenty deserters have arrived in the
past two days and are continually com]
ing’Jn. They .the previous re
ports of the demoralization of Banka'
army.
Our batteries sustained o’injury in
the late engagement, and are ready at
all times to give the enemy a warm re
ceptions
S. 11. Goetzel <t Co., of Mobile, have
announced a Monthly Magazine to bo
commenced on the Ist June, if not soon
er.
Chattanooga, March 23. —Tlicre’has
been no movement of the
nessec. ■
On Friday last the enemy abandoned
the :oads from Franklin towards Cob
nmbi.', but on Saturday retnided to
Frai.klin.
Van Dorn is still on the north"side of
Dmk river. "
Cjtar f >rces occupy Fluren Tus««
cumuia--no movement of e enemy
lr-jin Corinth in this direction.
The New York Zzerald says if Lincoln
■ with the vast resources at his com
| mand and unlimited powers, fa’la, with
ji'i six months, to ciush out the rebell
ion, he should be impeached.
The Statnship Cornubia, from Bennu
d>, has reached a Cenfcderate portln
safety. She had been chased for three
days, and finally mado her way safely
through five Federal war vessels, that
were after her. She brings a valuable
cargo.
Gieelcy a few weeks since was shout
ing lusiily for peace. Now he thinks
the only way to gcUpeace is a vigorous
prosecution the war. He wishes peace
were possible wiihout further hostilities
but it is not.
Rebrlism.—One of the Yankee pria
oners here yerterday, asked a guard if
he kne-v “where a feller could get a
drink of whiskey?”
“Well, no,'* satd the ragged custodian
“but stanger yer kin git a first rate
article of turpentine round the Conner
an I reckon that won’t pizen your bluft
stomach!”
“What does he say, Bill?'’ said anoth
er prisoner.
“Why he warnted I should drink
about a gill ofituipmlinc; fe’ler
burn us cout wish to h—l war all ter
hum.”
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A Difference.—The following is not
bad to take about these times:
“I’d diejor the flag,’’ ciied a treasury
clerk.
Quoth a soldier. My patriot friend, look
here:
This shedding blood for twelve
dollars * month
Ain’t like shedding red ink for twelve
hundred a year.
o
An occasional correspondent of the
Baltimore American, writes from Port
Royal, 3. C , Feb. 24, as follows. The
time approaches for our work, and eves
ry heart with us is made glad by it.—-
Shells and shot, necessary for a prolong- *
ed conflict, have arrived, and all are be
ing made ready for the shock ©f battle.