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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. mi pm ■■ ■ ■ ■ 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.” ■■ ■ » » 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.