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J. KNOWLES and 8. ROSE.
KDITORB AND PROI'HIETOHS.
(CIRCULAR. )
STATE OF GEORGIA, ;
Adjutant A jsr Gksls Office.
Mi Hedge? ilk*, Aug. Id, 1803 \
The numerous enquire- add reaped to flu*
Office l#y letter, and in jierson, amounting
to about one hundred and fifty pc? day,)
arising from the recent call of ih** Preridem
for B,OOU men from tly- State, render* it
impossible for this Office to give answers
io each can*. Hence this circular for pub
lic information
].. It *« naeletv* to apply for exemptions
or details in cases of Physicians, teacher*
blacksmiths, millers, tanners, shoemakers,
overseers, owners of property, civil officer'',
Ac., Ac., or because the parties are deemed
useful at home. Contractor* f*-r State sup
plies must bo eudoj ed by the Quar term in
ter General or Ootumisary General of the
contracts. Contractors of supplies for the
the Confederate Government mast produce
certificates of exemption from the Chief ol
the Department under which they have con
tracted. The force now being rained is in
tended merely as an organized reserve for
home defence, Its ret vice will be required
only, for and during an emergency serious
ly threatening the safety <f the State.—
Otherwise the ordinary avocations of the
poople will not be interfered with only so
far as the Confederate donitnnnder may deem
necessary for the drill and discipline nee*
sary to make the force effective.
11.. Persons having substitutes in the
Confederate Army, whatever may b< the
jges of the substitutes, are not exempt from
service for local defence. The terms of the
contract of substitution will show that the
parties are relieved ouly from service in the
Confederate Army under tire Conscript Law
which is essentially different from service
under the Acts providing for service for lo
cal defence.
111.. .Substitutes for servicce under the
Acts providing for Local defence will not
be received.
IV. .. Slight irregularities in the manage
ment of a draft will not vitiate and set aside
the whole proceeding. If by neglect or
oversight, the names of any persons not
volunteering have not been deposited for
draft, and the quota of the county remains
unfilled, such persons will be attached to
the list for further draft, until the quota
shall be made up. If from conscription,
disability, or other cause, the number vol
unteer shall be reduced below the quota of
any county, the quota shall be supplied by
draft Reports under these heads must bo
made forthwith.
V. .After the quota of the Counties are
supplied, other companies for local defence
will be accepted and commissioned. Sever
al tenders of this kind of persona over the
age of 45 year*, have been made and their
example is commended for imitation.
VI. . .Transfers will not he made now:
but will be presented to the Confederate
General who may he placed in command
for consideration.
V 11 ... Appraisements of horses can be
mad*:* by any three respectable citixens .worn
to the duty.
V 11T.. .Companies must he organized a«
the laws require, into squadrous battalions
or regiments. **Legions” are not known to
State or Confederate Laws. Under our sys
tems, they are auomalous, organizations.
♦ bat must be dissolved when brought into
action, uuless they number five thousand
men or more, when they can be bandied as
Divisions to which the Legion in old times
corresponded.
IX. Under the Laws for local defence
the President has the appointment of all
Quartermasters Commissaries and Medical
Officers. Applications therefore for such
Commissions should he made to the Secre
tary of \\ ar.
X. . Applications for arms, accoutrements
and equipments must be made to the Secre
tary of War at Richmond. The Confeder
ate* Government haviug undertaken to arm
and supply all troops mustered into its ser
vice.
XL. For Laws providing for Local Defence
see Acts of March 6th, 1861, August 21,
1861, October loth, 186*2, Confederate Con
gress.
XII. Papers throughout the State arc re
quested to publish this circular once and
send bill to this office lor settlement.
HENRY. C. WAYNE,
Adjutant & luap. General.
feiiftkntg oi Hie Vanderbilt.
Accounts have been received of the link
ing of this vessel by the Georgia, which did
not obtain much credit with the papers
generally. The following account from the
Floridian of the 22d is thought to be relia
ble.
W e are happy to state that the despatch
received by Mr. Pettes some days since, an
nouncing that the Federal steamer Vander
bilt had been sunk by the Confederate stea
mer Georgia, Capt. Semmes, has been con
firmed by a passenger, who recently arrived
at a Confederate port from Havauna. It
seems that the Vanderbilt chased the Geor
gia for some hours, aDd upon nearing hailed
her, with a demand to surrender, which
was answered by a broadside from the Geor
gia, which disabled and finally sunk the
Federal steamer. Her crew, consisting of
about 500 men, were all drowned except 30.
One thing only wan wanting to make this
victory a complete success. The notorious
Commodore Wilkes was net on board the
Vanderbilt when she sunk, he having been
removed from the couun&nd some time pie
vious and consequently was not drowned.
The Vanderbilt was the fastest and most
iUngerous vessel of her description in the
Federal N*vy.
Sr*A7ORJRO 4 AuAfaAsa. —Hou. R )bt Jaoiiscn
has been *i«<ued States* Senator to
All Ik* «BfC|arta ior* of Mr. Taacj.
% Trip Tkronvli
M-rialiou of an IDliior-
The Editor of the Mobile Ikgkh r La*
taken atrip through Mis-i«dppi *s ‘at a*
o"iuTub»i« »nd Okelona, and report*:
We saw a great deal on the road of which
we could writ** with pleasure, were it not
contraband. If Lincoln couM have -een
vome of thes sight s *, we think he would ad
mit that the starvation method of enforcing
-libiiigHtion was on** of hi- exploded delu
sions. >o i*must w* k of ihe military
things that passed under our eyes. Suffice
it to say that at every stitiou and along
nearly eveiy mile of road so traveled was
visible the grim and wrinkled visage of war.
The mean® of warfare, and the j>f*-paialiens
for w arfare were on every side. Vi ar, in
de#*d, seems to he the business of everybody
at everything. It did not look at all, as it,
as the Federal pap* rs say, “Mississippi has
has virtually given up.*’ Instead thereof,
the mofct active efforts are being made to
defend Mississippi.
We arc glad to report tbit the despon
dent condition of the public mind since the
fall of Vicksburgbeen much exagerated.
We kept our ears and eyes open to catch udJ
note all the signs of popular leeling on this
subject. Wo found croakers and grum
blers, but in most instances they were double
listed and broad shouldered young fellows,
who ought to have been in the army light
ing to guard the coutry against fresh disas
ters, instead of fretting oyer the past. In
towns and villages where we Lad heard
there were reunion parties forming and re
construction meetings held wo found the
people knew nothing and a id heard nothing
about them.
The result of our observation i that while
the fall of Vicksburg was, at first, a tremen
dous shock, it was bv no menus permanent
in its effects. The reaction has left the
conviction that the Nation com mauds the
aid and support of every man, and that past,
disaster should be retrieved and present
dangers confronted by a courage and deter
mination tqualtv tile iern-wed call upon
the patriotism of the people.
The lata* Expedition up Jainc'*>
rtiiVer.
The New Bedford Standard publishes a
letter from oue of the crew of the steamer
Commodore Baruey, giving the following
particulars of the late retcounoisauce up
James river:
Last Monday we started up the river
with one Monitor aud one small tug, besides
ourselves. We got within eleven miles of
Fort Darling, when a crowd of sharpshoot
ers tired on our throe boats, and the way we
poured the canister and shell into those
woods was a caution. Well, we shut them
up for a while, and went up within nine
miles of Fort Darling, and the Monitor an
chored ; but General Hunter and his aids
were on the Monitor, aud they cam eon board
our boat aud wanted ns to proceed further
up the river, so we ventured, and when we
got within six* miles »,f Fort Darling, we
picked up a white man who was making for
tho bushes. YVe wld him we and shoot him
if he did’nt come aboard, so he came on
board, aud in five minutes after that a tor
pedo burst under our starboard bow I and
several wore right over it when it burst, and
such a report you can hardly imagine. I
was sent about fifteen feet into the air, and
came down in the water, which was whirl
ing in all directions. A tug that billowed
beuind us picked me up. Two of our crew
went down to rise no more, many others
were nearly exhausted, two Oj* three got
wounded, not seriuu ly though. One of
them was by my side talking at the time,
his head was cut withu piece of iron plating.
The water was thrown up iu torrents as
high as our smoke pipe, and then came
down ou our decks, overflowing everything
for a time. Some jumped overboard before
they were hurt. 1 was the only one thrown
overboard, it ripped up our decks forward
and carried away considerable of our plating.
\\ e uauie down to the Monitor and an
chored ail night of the 6th inst. Ou the
tith at 4 a. m. got under way aud cauie
down the river, which is very narrow, aud
with high bluffs ail tne way. At Li a. ni.,
about two hundred sharpshooters tired ou
us, which drove, us from our guns, aud then
they poured iu six pound howitzer balls
with a vengeance. As we gotpa»>t the bluff
so that we could get range wc poured in
tbe canister, but one of their shots passed
through iur boiler, and we soon lost steam
and drifted ashore. We were leaking bad
ly, naviug been struck two foot below the
water. We had got out of their range tbcu
and expected every minute they would be
upon us We were under a very high blufl
aud couldn’t get our guns to bear at ail.—
Wo were in a tight lix, and all that stopped
them from coming ou that bill was a i long
marsh* that they couldn’t cross. Fiualiy
the tug came back and towed off. When
we got down to the Mouitor there was anoth
er tug there that had just come up the riv
er. The tugs towed the Monitors and she
towed us behiud. We came out of it flrst
rate ; not a mau wan hurt. When we got
down to Malvern Hill they opened au aw
ful lire on us, the same way as the others
did—sharpshooters to drive us away from
our guns; then the shell and shot were ter
rible. raking us fore and aft. Remember,
we had no steam at all. They waited un
til the Monitor got by, then they socked
iron iuto us rough and ready, and we into
them, when the snarpshootersstopped firing,
We are completely riddled. One of our
pilot-houses is knocked to pieces, the Cap
tain’s room is stove in, and the Purser’s
office looks like a carpenter’s shop, The
Doctor was lying in bis berth, and a six
pound shot went through the whole length
of it, and never touched the old fellow.—
The bullets cairn, as thic* as hail, and the
protection we had was the iron plating that
j was not touched by the torpedo on the port
side. Tbe whole crew had to he fiat when
thepebbeis came.
The Captain is a brave little fellbw, en
couraging his men ali the time and no hard
words spoken The rest of the officers don’t
want to try it over agam, and I don't blame
dism.”
in Abotilian Wathrriug.
John Wf Form v, a notori* u.s Black Re
publican villain, ha- recently ejected a n**w
printing office uti Ninth street, V\ ashingtoii,
which is called thv ('Umnicii? buiirii ig. It
was formally dedicated not long since by n
general car* u- and. during whteh very much
whisky was swallowed by Lincoln, rieward,
Welles, Adj. Gen. Thmnas, Forney and
others.
Aft r c&ting and gnr./.iing for *o hour or
G*. n. Thomas gave » -entiment compli
mentary to Forffey. and the fltier replied in
a brief speech : fie said :
“it had long Wen his desire to see estab
lished in Washington an iudepcudcuut jour
nal. Independent not only in the utterance
of its sentiments, but also pecuniarily and
really independent. It was with the desire
to accomplish this that the Chronicle bad
been established* Pecuniarily the estab
lishment was independent, not a dollar had
been employed that had notbeeu legitimate
ly earned. As to the principles advix*mtad,
Mr. Forney said they had become so iu
wrought in bis nature as toamouut to a fan
aticism, and could never he deviated from
Ihe support of the war and the support of
the Administration in all its efforts to sup
tbe Rebellion.
“It was a little singular," continued the
speaker, “that Gen. Thomas, a man born
and educated iu the South, aud a Pro-Sla
very Pen ojcrat, 'liuuid now he the great
Apostle of Liberty to the black tnau. And
i that lie among all men should have been
Mtuated to enforce the jaaliey of the Govern
ment in armiug the uegro* * Wbt n such
meu lay away their prejudices aud come
earnestly to the support of these important,
unafeures, with what ineffable contempt
mu.-t we regard those men in the North whq
•set tLife up ua a pretext for denouncing the
Administration and opposing the war.
Gen. Thomas responded by relating some
of his adventures ou the Mississippi. Many
of the general officers. Fro-friaverv Demo
crats like himself, at first opposed the meas
ure, but invariably wheu they had listened
to his arguments aud understood the policy,
they cheerfully acceded and tndured it.—
Gou. Logan was cited as a most worthy con
vert.
Gen. Thomas remarked further thit he
was about to set out oa a second mission to
the Mississippi Valley for the purpose of or
ganizing with all possible speed an army of
5U,000 blacks. Nor would he stop at that,
but would put 100,000 in the field. He
would seize the plantations, keep open the
river for navigation, cultivate the soil, es
tablish commerce, aud have au army left to
operate iu other fields.
Where Lien the Illume f
Never, we believe, since this State had an ev
idence, has a beneficent. Providence crowned the
labor- of the husbandman with more abundant
results in alt the articles of consumption, than
during the present season. The wheat crop, when
threshed out, w ill prove incomparably the largest
which has ever been garnered in Georgia. The
corn crop, in by far the large it portion of the
State is already made, and though a protracted
drought might abridge the yield in the mountain
ous regions of the State, yet it must be large un
der any circumstances. Many of our river and
creek bottoms have been damaged by the uopre-1
cedented quantity of rain which has tallen but
the cause which has operated disastriously here,
has been more than compensated by the unusual
productiveness of the higher Linds. In addition I
to the great staples of liie—wheat, rye, and corn j
—the gardens and the orchards have never been S
so prolific in their healthy and iustrious products, i
And yet, in the rniU.st of all this plenty, provisifcns, |
except in the hands of the immediate producers, j
are scarce—positively scarce. If we should judge {
fr om the price which is demanded for every article
necessary to the support of man or beast, we
would suppose that nature had reduced the supply j
to such limited dimensions that starvation wag]
imminent. In many places seventy dollars a bar- j
rel is demanded for flour; corn rules from two'
dollars and a halt to three and a half per bushel; '
aud even the venders ot fruits aud vegetable, must i
have for a scant quart a price at which in other \
years, not more abundant, they would gladly part I
with pecks and bushels.
This is surely a very unnatural state of things. 1
It indicates a grievous fault somewhere. One
trouble no doubt arise from defective transport*- j
lion. On many of the roads—all the principal
thoroughfares— Givernineut agents have taken
control of the freight cars. Many of tbeve gen
tlemen are novices iu this kind ot business, and
tic- consequence is that vast amounts of produce
cannot be distributed. Many hundreds oi thou
sands of bushels of corn arc now furnishing iood
to the wecvel, which, under more judicious man
agement of the carrying departmeut, might have
been consumed by our soldiers aud citizens. In
like manner untold quantities of wheat aud other
provisions arc destined to deterioration and loss
from the same cause. Could more energy, judg
incut, and industry—wc will not sav honesty and
pjji iotism—be infused into the men to whom the
important busiimas of transportation is confided,
one very prolific source of the erifnow universally
complained of would t*e removed.
but wc hare no doubt that, the exfcorbitaot
prices uow prevailing arc also be traced to the
immoderate charges of coatumera. “X must pay,” 1
say- the farmer, ‘‘eight to teu times *s much as
formerly for cloth, eugar, leather—every article
iu short which 1 purchase, and I must therefore
have a corresponding advance for the products of
my fields.” This is a plausible, but it is not a
| patriotic reason. Many of the goods that arc held
at high rates are absolutely, ns weil as relatively,
scarce, and these should not ue made a standard
by which to regulate the prices of those articles
of prime necessity, which are really more aburi
bunt than ever. In many instances large holders
of grain are not allowing it to come into the mar
ket. The ruling rates, high as they are, do not
satisfy them, and they ar.e striving to hide their
property from the scrutiny of Government officials
in the hope of yet larger receipts.
With this combination of causes, the consum
ers. when, as at the present time, there is no ac
cess to the products of other nations, must sutler.
Our armies must suffer; aud the cause must be
! imperilled. After the loss of Vicksburg by famine
—a famine which was unneecessary—an intelligent
! friend remarked thus: “shat is what will destroy
our cause and procure our subjugation, should
| such be our unhappy lot—the warn of bread for
the army? Let every producer dispose ot hie
| surplus promptly at such prices as will afford him
fair compensation ; let provisions be everywhere
offered without -tin' ; and lei the m*a so » bora is
confided th*> important work of transportation
attribute these provisions with an energetic h»nd,
and the public, and the publi will be relieved oi
ac evil more u> be dreaded ffiau ti e swarming
hosts of the enemy —Chronicle Sentinel.
Line of the “Scdthi” in Boston, who wo*
drafted, on being asked by a friend if he in
tended to go, replied : *‘No; yon 'see the
papers say a drafted man gets $402 boun
ty, tho same us a volunteer. It only takes
sdOO to get, exempted, and FU take Sio2
and call it square/ 7
MA ( ON, G EORGIA:
WtdatMU), \u£iiM 26. 1863.
CHARLESTON.
We hare riven a general outline of »b« facts
that have transpi:, and ;n progr*“"» of the -iege. Fort
Sutntcr is now a little b«*tr.*r than a pile of ruins,
although not abandon* «i at this* time, bv its g»rri«
i*on,and in it* fall the liiatgreaC spite ot the enemy
is granfi-oF The work will probably bo followed
op bv *oe *»ne«»v, »r«i other loruboaiinn* attacked,
and probably deairoy'*U, but with much greater
difficulty, time and lo** to them. Only some for
tunate stroke in the tide ol aflhira can save the
city itpelf from being destroyed or partially m>, as
it i.< m>w within the'range of some ot their {*ower
ful prrjectiles. Wp .anticipate thb capture
of thq city,either from the front or the rear, where
our works are altogether impregnable, but destruc
tion lo a great extent seems .dmos: inevitable.
The course of the week will reveal ii- fate, what
ever it osmv bt.
HON JOSHCAL HILL-
The name ot this gentleman ua» bwen announce*!
in thm AtSaut-i GaX.IW.aS & candidate tor Governor,
and the Confederate l niou, always a last paper in
such matters, haa commenced to discuss hit litne-s
for the office. As yet we have seen no reliable au
thority from that gentleman, or otherwise, where
by to consider UUn a candidate.
RLSTRICTIOK IN PRICES
Sown* uidtnowu persou senda Ur au article taken
from the Augusta Constitutionalist, which contains
the following quotation lroui a late pai*er ot ours:
“To talk about the laws of trade —of supply and
deniHiid, m aheer nouefense at this time. The
supply it abundant—the demand clamorous.” The
reason the writer gives tor the market not being
properly supplied is the “absurd and rwtwotas re
(-unctions,” aud the seiture ot the wheat by gov
ernment officials. These reasons. Low aver much
effect they may have in keeping a supply from the
Augusta market, chii easily be traced to their true
source. The gi cutest one, io lact the only one, is
the pure avarice of ibe Plsuters, who are resolved
not to take the liberal price of four dollars per
bushel for their wheat, and are combined to starve
the people and the government into submission.
Let them supply the marketas becomes a Christian
people, not wholly given up to the worship of
tuamon, and we would never hear of seizures by
the government.
We learn that there was some stir in our city a
day or two since in which Oficial authority was
recognized, with regard to the price of Flour.—
Flour was offered in our streets on that day, at.
$28,00 per hundred by producers —to be again
sold by retailers, at such prices us they might
choose to ask. What those prices would be, our
people have experience enough know. All a
soldiers wages, would give his family very little
over a pound a day, to say nothing of their other
expenses.
Th<* way the matter now stands in onr city, i«,
that any one having it so. ale nan bring it to mar
ket and sell it at fifteen dollars per hundred with
out any fear of its being seized. This is a very
full price, and ore? that of the govern men t, with
wheat at font- dollars per bnshe). One fact must
be established. As we have the provisions, the
army ami the dependent people mu u i be fed at
iving prices.
CHINESE AND AFRICAN CANE SYRUP.
The crop of cane this season has been most
abundant, and is probablly ten fold greater than
ever before mined in (be State. The most for
ward oi the crop, is now being manufactured into
Syrup. The Sumter Republicau says, that Mnj.
T. M. Fallow ofth.it. county has already manufac
tured about two thousand gallons. An interest
ing question to the consumer, and especially to
the poor, is, what will be the price ? Maj. Furlow
is well known as a most patriotic aad liberal gen
tleman, and we trust will set a good example with
regard to it. The Planters generally have sealed
the Flour I*ag agaiust them —the price has placed
butter beyond their reach, and it remains to be
seen whether they will be able to procure the
Syrup a.- a substitute.
CUSTTIBUTIONh FOR OUR TROOPS.
Mr. C. 1) Rogers has collected in this city, sup
plies and money for the Georgia troop® In the vi
cinity of Charleston, amounting to twenty two
hundred dollars. The troops are said to be in
much need of it. To give indisputable testimony
of the sacs, we submit the following article on
the subject of ibeir necessities fiom the Charles
ton Courier, and would also direct attention to the
cause that paper gives for it. Why should beg
gars go about for supplies lor our soldiers, when
food is plenty iu that vicinity ? It is ooiv because
the producers will not sell it, at all, or if any, at
most enormous prices. Let the law of necessity
be put in foiee on all such, and the holders put in
the rittka of tuc army. .Snail Charleston be an
other Vicksburg wucrifjce ? The Courier says :
The army supplies in our city have been reduced
to so small a quantity to render exceedingly
probable that is will bo necessary to reiort to wu
pretsment in order procure provisions tor our
Foldiers. No one cau be more averse to that mea
sure than the courteous gentlemau at the head of
the Commissary Department for this Military Dis
trict. But paiuful as the step will be, it is the only
meau? by which our soidiers caa be saved from
suffering, and our cause from receiving grievous
damage.
Several times has Major Guerin been apprehen
sive he would be forced to make that use of the
authority with which he is clothed, but so far he
has been tpare.d the unpleasant necessity. Unless
the planters will sell their produce on the very
liberal terms offered by Government, be will be
obliged to lay bauds upon it w.tbout the consent
of the owners.
The responsibility of this course will rest, not
upou the commissary, but upon thone who persist
in fvitholdiog their dour and corn from the noble
men who are imperiling their live® in defence of
our home-: and altars. A geneross and fair com
munity will acquit that officer of all blame.
The matter stands thus. Our army aunt U fed.
The planters have the provisions. The plentiful
yield of their fields liae placed in theit bursting
barns vastly more wheat than they need lor do
mestic and plantation consumption. They have
been offered high price® for their tlour and bacon,
and they refuse to eeil. Shall the
impress thee* 1 necessary articles, or let our soldier®
starve ? The planter* roust be forced to part
with a portion of hie produce, .f he will not do it
willingly.
impressment ba® been freely reported to io eve
ry P»tutp beside South Carolina. That fact makes
this measure the more paiufu! Will no* our
planters throughout the country open their hearts,
let the Government have the produce it uegds cud
save Commissary from the unpleasant duty be wifi
otherwise have to perform.—Ubu. Courier.
OOTRRMIMT SXIZURIg
Wc Hiake the following extract .v. r
1 umbus Enquirer. \\> commend it l 0 '
eras truthful and venvthie p" ***
( facts home to the common *en*e of **
possessing thit faculty. However m **“
mav cavil and stickle about the priv*t« r *
mere property, no one weema to deny th. **
tbe Government over the person
■ * *n cate* of
|ergeney, and to say what should he his *
saiioti—and the um*> emergency require*
j should be fed, and the government „ t( * *
provide it. We H*y, let the GoveromecT'd! *
:dutv toprovid*' for the soldier- and *
from those who horde it, gpq Oo * fon? . **
committed.
“We have never been an advocate 0 t ih* -
,ey of establishing bv law, or bv miliurv o-j
{ arbitrary prices tor any commodity. Thw n .“•
aproiieh to such a step that har t
made WU to auggest that the price of a o *i>. ’
tuned article should bs-ar a certain relation
of tbe raw material from which it w** m* .
lured. Rut *c desire to tepudiate the nation •'
even the H hitrary regulation of prices hi *
Goverouient would be either a hardship <w 4r .
’ tihigeuicui on private rights— at leaM, »o re ~
hardship or an infringement than that wbicn p,
moot patriotic ol our people bavu to sustain on
count ot the war policy of the Government. \
Government i»upres«er> iuto its jservice noi
, the means but the personal service of the s,q*
,iu its rauka. It takws him from his home, ho*
I ever dear aud needing hia prepuce, aud from y,«
busiueus, however profitable or necessary to if.
support of his family, and compels him to lafi,
and to risk his life iu its service. It “reguUt.
■ tlie pricafol bis bbor utid his sacrifices, too,
fixes, it at a sum small as to aaimint to no <*or
pensatiou v»b»twwwr. What is th-* hardship of it
pre&ciag oue man’s bacon or wheat, rooiparrc
.with that ol conscripting another lor srrv * n
the army during the war? What the itatastvr of
allowing him only 75 cents per !b. for baron. n r
*4 j*er bush**! tor wheat, in comparison w.ii, ~ j
per month for service as a soldier 1 That truth /
: those who stay at home are a favore i and w
j ted class, even if they get bn: 25 cents per .6
j buoc»n wnd jn r bushel for wheat. If those ii*o
the .-cbedu.e prices for th« meat and grain tt». ;
from them by the Government, they wc aid«
l>e rece'vmg generous pay compared p f
poor private’s sll per month.
If the Government cannot “regv.Ute” tbe p-**,
of the necessaries of life produced by the labor
our people, then there are two classes among .>
—one au unfortunate class, whose time, toll r--
1 even liberty t maybe taken by the tiovtrsoe:::
! at a rate of compensation ridiculously inadequair
I the other a privileged and l’avorrd cl is.s, rno
surplus produce cannot be purchased at pric*-
generous and liberal! So much for the q act lion cl
right involved.
Now as to the question of practicability, an! 1
! we discuss this point in reference to State, .nor
j Oonlederate, legislation. It is admitted, no on.
, ous aud undeniable, that the chirt aj'eticy pro i.
icing the inflation ol prices which the noveram*3.*
seess to eoriect is the specula lien and exturtiou
l rife in the land. It is true that supply sod de
mand are the great aud natural regulator of
ees ; but it is also true that the ope *iioa t:{ i* <*
rule ol supply and oemand is obstructed \*y U *
extent to which speculation is uow practiced n and
i the excesses into which it runs. Is it not corap.
j tent for legislation to arrest this speculation a.ut
extortion—to prohibit it as an interloping iLsttu
ber of the just standard of supply and demand'
This is our panacea for the domestic eviU under
which the country suffers—by which i*a t;reat
cause; is end angered. We believe that spend,
t lion in the commodities essential to tt-t life of the
army und tbe people muat be prohibited 6* <u •
totally e; by the roots —and that it *s a
duty which the State owe both to the
Confederate Government, whose bonus thev are
I oouud to uphold, and to the people wboin ther
I should protect, to put down this evil a' once tod
| ?horoughly.
CANDIDATE# FOR UONGREfifI.
Am far as wo have been able to ascertain, tL
following persons are considered as catnhiiste-
There may be others whose names we have nu!
heard of :
Fir*l JJistrict. —Thotna? Duller King and Julian
tlai tridge.
Srrond IHutrirt. — Wm. E. Smith, Charles I
Munneriyn, .fas. L. Seward &n*l Jonathan l>*vi».
Third District. —William M. brown, Mark il
Blanford, Uine9 Holt.
Fourth District. —A. H. Kenan and Wilde f
Cleveland.
Fifth David W\ Lewis and J. A.
Sbewiuake.
Sixth District. —J. H. Echols and W r . W. Clark
and M. VV. Lewis.
Seventh District. —R. P. Tripp, Jas. M. Stoitb
Highlit. District. —Hugh Bucuauan and A. !/>»•
ter.
Finth District. —Robert McMillan and J. S.
Smith.
Tenth District. —Warren Akin, A. R. Wright
Election on tbe first Wednesday in November.
Slate Fax lor 1N63.
Wc learn that the Governor and Cos nip
trolicr General, after examining and adding
up ihe returns of property ou the fax hook?
lately, returned to the Comptroler General’s
Office, for 1863, have assessed the State
tax at 17 cents on the one hundred dollars,
that per cent being necessary to raise tic
$1,542,400 authorized to f>c raised by the
last Legislature. This will make the Sute
or General tax of Muscoge county, this year,
about >£51,000 —besides the amount flat
will be collected on the “Income" tar.
We also learn that the returns of tumble
property this year will be flbouf 70 per cec*
over that of last year or about $907,000,000
against 8567,000,0001a5t year. This is the
reason per cent is lower this year
than last, notwithstanding the amount to be
collected this year is over 50 per cent,
than the amount collected last year.
As money is so abundant and the expen
ditures of the State must necessarily
large during the war, it is a pity that the
last Legislature did not give the Govern- r
and Comptroller General such discretions a®
would have allowed them to have put tie*
tax at *2O cents ou the ope lipnired holier*
Columbus Enquirer .
General Morgan. —We have published
ment* (say* the Richmond Whig) made by N dr *‘*'
eru papers, that Morgan had been lodged iu t <*
Ohio I’eniteutiary and treated as a letou, a* nC ?
uia head shaved and autfering other indigniiie** — ■
Oq the other hand the August* Conetitutioui I*#-. 1 *#-.
says a letter has been received in that city trou
Mrs. Morgan, plating that she has late inteii.y*
iicm her husband, ia wuie . he states* t' a’-
kiodlv ’reated, and hope® to be with her wu
parole in a ®hort time.
One might say of our telegrams as was once
of a very cooeei'ed orator’s speech, that they c 0“
tain some things <«■ and some thing true, bu
now things wete not true and the true things v * r
not -cWm tabut June*.
State Government of Mississippi--"
We learn that the officers of the State and
Mississippi have determined to remove t
government pf the iStule lo .iJscgu,
Mississippi-