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Friday Morniug. March 18, 18fii
tiov. Brown's Message— Suspension oi the
Habeas Corpus.
Inthe consideration of this question tl
Governor shows no disposition to 111,11 c
ters. iTe boldly takes the “bull by the
horns ” and deelares that Congress m sus
pending the writ of habeas corpus violated the
Constitution and dealt a deadly blow at the
liberties of the people. Let us examine tie
grounds of the Governor’* reasoning. Hts
whole argument upon this subject ts based on
the assumption that the power given by the
Constitution to Congress to suspend the habeas
corpus is an “implied power.” If we remove
this ground-work, therefore, the whole super
structure of reasoning and denunciation,
which the Governor has so elaborately con
structed, tumbles to ruin. For, if it l,e not
an “implied power” then it is not to be re
stricted and “limited by the express declara
tion in the Constitution" of a seeming con
trary import. Each will have an equal right
to stand, and both must be construed together,
so that if possible both shall stand. .
Now, what is an “Implied power ?
will let the Governor answer, which he does
in another portion of his message. Implied
powers are “such as arc incidental to, or
necessary and proper to execute those that
are expressly granted.” This is a good in
deed a constitutional definition, Tried by this
standard, is the power to suspend the writ in
question an “implied power”? What power
expressly granted in the Constitution is it
incidental to, or to the execution of which it
is necessary and proper The most diligent
investigation will fail to discover either. Not
the first element, or the remotest resemblance
to it, of the definition of an “implied pow
er” inheres in, or can be attached to it.
With precisely the same force might it be
insisted that the power to levy a capitation or
. direct tax is an “implied power. ’ This, the
Constitution declares, shall not be done “un
less in proportion to the census or enumera
tion hereinbefore directed to be taken. Here
s an exaeption to the particular power to “lay
and collect taxes,” and, if the paragraph were
obliterated from the Constitution, Congress
would still have the power to levey a tax per
capita or in any other way.
Another paragraph, in the same section
with the above, declares that “no tax or duty
shall be levied on articles exported from any
State, except by a vote of two-thirds of both
Houses.” Can it be contended that the power
to levy a tax or duty on articles exported from
any State is an “implied power” and derived
from the above paragraph? By no means.
The paragraph contains no grant ot power
Whatever, but a restriction upon the power to
lag taxes and to regulate commerce. But for
the existence of this clause, Congress, under
the power delegated to it to legislate upon
these subjects, could have levied taxes or
duties in the manner above prohibited, by a
vote even of a bare majority. This para
graph, then, like the other, does not convey,
but limits power elsewhere granted. So )
likewise, with that in reference to the habeas
corpus. The power to suspend it la ©lc»riy
given in the power to establish and regulate
Courts, to define their jurisdiction-, &c/, but
the writ was so essential to freedom that the
power of suspension was restricted to two
contingencies. This view of the subject was
clearly and forcibly presented by Mr. Ran
dolph, in the Virginia Convention which
ratified the Constitution of the United States.
In the Conventions of none of the States at that
period, called for the same purpose, was it
even intimated that the power of Congress to
suspend the habeas corpus, in the cases named;
did not exist. The argument in favor of con
ferring the power was that the worst enemy
of the country might, in times of invasion or
internal commotion, lay plans to ruin it, and
yet so artfully as to escape detection by legal,
proof. It was thought proper, under such
•ircumstances, to place the public safety—
salus populi —above even personal liberty,
and who will say that they acted unwisely?
We conclude, therefore, that the power to sus
pend the habeas corpus does not belong to that
class to which the Governor assigns it, but
that it is among the powers delegated to Con
gress by the Constitution.
Another clause in the 9th Section of the Ist
Art. declares, among other things, that “no
person shall be deprived of life, liberty or
property, without due process of law.” Here
is a prohibition which seems to strike at the
exercise of the power to suspend the habeas
corpus, and the Governor lias not failed to take
advantage of it. But if the vietvs above pre
sented be correct, we are compelled to con
strue the grant of power to suspend the writ,
and the prohibition of interference Avilh the
liberty of the citizen, “without due process
of law,” so that both shall stand: for it is
obvious that, if the latter is to have an uni
versal application, the former must of neces
sity be a nullity. This apparent conflict can
be reconciled in but one way. and that is by
assuming that the*, grunt and the prohibition,
respectively, had reference to a different
subject matter, or differing circumstances.
In other words, that the habeas corpus might
be suspended in eases of “insurrection or in
vasion and that the citizen should have the
right to recover Iris liberty by legal process,
in all other case s.
Whether the late Congress acted wisely in
suspending this writ —whether the public
safety required its suspension rve cannot dis
cuss with any hope of reaching a satisfactory
conclusion. The reasons-which induced the
action of Congress have not been made public,
and we are thus without the means of form
ing an intelligent opinion. That body, how
ever, acted wisely and well in other matters,
and we are willing, for the nonce, to presume
that it did well in this.
War. Debt of the North.—Thurlow Weed,
In a letter to Governor Morgan, says:
“We shall, when the Avar terminates, find that
it has cost at least four thousand millions of
dollars, three-fourths of which amount will re
main as a National Debt, and he asks, “is it
not time to gird up our fiscal loins and slather
strength to bear the heavy burden"afely
thiough tv crisis equal if not greater than
England eA r er encountered ?’’
Brigadier General Barry, inspector of Uni
ted States artillery, has been ordered to iotn
Gen. Grant.
[Communicated.]
The First CongfreȤ under the
Permanent Government of
the Confederate States.
The first Congress, elected under the permanent
Constitution of the Confederate States, assembled
at Richmond on the 13th day of February, 1362,
and their term of service expired on the 18th of
February, 1864. Their term of service was two
years. They have now filled up the full measure
of their official existence under the Constitution
and have retired to private life ; and all of their
official acts have become “fixed facts,” and hereaf
ter must form a portion of the history of this G°b
federacy. And if the Confederate States shall
survive this great struggle and take their stancT
among the nations of the earth, as an independent
power, then this first Congress, with all the records
of its actings and doings, both secret and public,
must be open to public inspection and the fair
criticism of their cotemporaries and the just judg
ment of posterity ; and, of' necessity, must form
an important part of the history of this great Rev
olution.
But on the other hand, should the Confederacy
fail to maintain the declaration of its indepen
dence, either for want of wisdom in council or
courage in the field—-should they be finally
whipped into submission — subdued—subjugated ;
then the. Confederacy will have no history and
will deserve no historian. In that event, the acts
of the first Congress and of the Provisional Gov
ernment and of all the Congresses, and all the
deeds of all our armies and of all our generals and
soldiers dead and living, and all the sufferings and
sacrifices of our citizens ; all of them will have no
distinct history,—will have no historian and prob
ably will deserve none—all, all of these things
will become in the eyes of other nations and of
posterity as a distorted, confused and chaotic mass
—a mere jumble of the spasmodic efforts of a weak
and degenerate poople—the disjecta membra, of a
huge rebellion, put down and crushed out by su
! perior skill, courage and manhood. All these
| things together will but serve some Headley to or
nament and adorn a history of the “Great Rebel
; lion and our struggle will have been just enough
J to give eclat to tho superior valor of our enemies—
to show off in blazing light our folly and weakness
as contrasted with tho wisdom, intelligence and
military prowess of our adversaries. Such will
be our condition and such will be our history if we
fail.
But I have no doubt about the final triumph of
our cause. I believe the Confederacy will survive
this struggle-—that wo shall establish ow indepen
dence—that we shall be recognized by other na
tions as a sovereign and independent people—that
we shall deserve and shall have a historian—that
we are now making and shall have a history ; and
that when this history is full} mode up, it will
I stand out in the annals of the world, as one of the
most stupendous struggles and one of the most
brilliant achievements recorded of men, within an
cient or modern times.
If we fail in this great contest, it will, in my
opinion, be owing either to a want of wisdom and
firmness on the part of those who direct the affairs
of the Government, or to a want of union and pa
triotism on the part of the people at home, or to a
want of endurance, courage and manhood among
the soldiers in the field—and speaking for our sol
diers in the field, there is to be found in their vo
cabulary no such word as fail ; and I think I may
be allowed to speak for the people at home and
saj r for them, that, although there may seem to be
many weak-kneed and timid croakers, aud some
ambitious hair splitters and Constitutional abstrac
tionists/ yet the patriotic million will be true to
their cause, to their friends, to their country, to
their flag, and to their God.
Whence then, if we fail, shall we trace the cause
of our failure ? Certainly not to any want of
endurance, courage and manhood •>*> iiie parr of
our ine Held ; they have already been
tried as by lire. A hundred battle-fields will attest
their valor. The thousands slain in battle—yea,
the tens of thousands of our braves who have made
a graveyard of the Confederacy, will rise up and
put the brand of infamy upon the forehead of the
wretch who should impute our failure to a want of
courage on tho part of our soldiers.
The voice of our gallant soldiers who have-gone
to the front comes back to the people at home—
“Jeed and clothe us ; though our clothing be plain
and our rations simple, feed and clothe us, with
the best you can get, and pay us, if you are able,
Eleven dollars per month. Quit your complaints,
croakings and criticisms ; give a scanty support
to our wives and little ones at home during our ab
sence, and we will light your battles, and by the
blessing of God will win your independence.”—
Such is the language of our soldiers. We may
trust in thorn—they stand between us and utter
ruin. Wc ha ve trusted in them, and we may and
will do so still.
The people—the great masses at home—wilj
they do their duty ? Will they heed the voice of
the veterans in the field ? Will they feed and
clothe the soldiers and see that their wives and
little ones at home suffer not for food or raiment ?
M e believe they will ; we take what they have
dono in the past as an earnest of what they ■will do
in the future. We believe they will still continue
to do their duty. The world can scarcely produce
a parallel to tho union, the harmony, the patriotic
zeal and self-sacrificing spirit exhibited by the
great masses of our people since the commence
ment of this great revolution.
Parents have sent out their dear boys to suffer,
to fight, to die for ilieir country. The widow has
given up to tbocountry and its cause her last prop
—her only son. that fair-haired hoy whom she
loved so much. These ardent youths hav e gone
to the trout, and many of them hare not as yet,
and uecer will 'return. These parents, with the
blessings of Providence upon them, have dedic-a
ted these youths to tho cause of their country ; nor
have their sacrifices and Providential afflictions
extinguished their zeal or weakened their patriot
ism : but Avitii a more firm reliance upon the God
of their fathers ihc-v day by day renew their patri
otic urdor and swear afresh to stand by their
country and if* cause until the day of triumph
shall come.
We repeat it then, that tho army will in the fu
ture aa in the past, do its part iu this struggle;
and that the people, the masses at home, will come
up to the l'ul! measure of their duty.
What then is the conclusion? What else is
wanting to our success ? Our country is large in
exi-nt, strong in a military point of view, with a
productive soil, with a population of seven or eight
millions, black and white, with still great re
sources and iunneuse productive energies if proper
ly directed.
We can only fail then, if fail we must, on the
ground that our rulers have been wanting in the
sagacity, wisdom, firmness and patriotism prop
erly to concentrate and direct the great natural
| esources and energies of the country in the pros
ecution of this great struggle for life and indepen"
dence.
The first Congress, then, of the Confederate
States, stands before the tribunal of public opinion
with all its acts, as a subject for impartial criti
cism.
j I propose then, Mr. Editor, a brief and candid
rev iew of some of the most prominent acts of this
Congress, to see, if possible, what place they occu
py in the history of this stupendous struggle.
Lobby.
The sum of $10,000,000 is asked from the
Federal Government by the States inter
ested in the Ohio river for the improvement of
its navigation.
[From the London Post, Feb. 11.]
American Aflfetlrs in Europe.
BRITISH OPINION OF MR- ADAMs’ RETEN
TION OF seward’s DEMAND.
It appears that Mr. Seward’s dispatch,
which Lord Derby described as “peremp
tory,” and Sir Hugh Cairns as “peculiar,”
has never been delivered to Ibarl Russell,
to whom it was addressed. In the exer
cise of a disoretion which is also somewhat
peculiar, Mr. Adams, it would seem, ab
stained from reading this document to the
Foreign Secretary, and leaving with him
a copy, as he was directed to do. The
dispatch has been laid upon the table of
Congress, but as it has not been commu
nicated to her Majesty’s Government it
eonld not be concluded in the papers laid
before Parliament. Some curious mem
ber of the Federal Legislature may be able
to elicit further information, but the Gov
ernment of this country have, as we un
derstand Earl Russell and Mr. Layard,
no official knowledge of the existence of
such a dispatch. There is a little mystery
about the matter in regard to the subse
quent dispatch from Mr. Adams to Mr.
Seward, to which Lord Derby adverted;
but in whatever manner the American
Minister here and American Minister at
Washington may have settled what con
cerns themselves and their own Govern
ment, the distinct affirmation of our For
eign Secretary, that no such dispatch has
been delivered to him, is sufficient to ac
count for its omission in the correspon
dence which has been published, and to
satisfy the country that it has only not
been replied to because it has not been re
ceived.
Reasonable people will, we apprehend,
be inclined to agree with Lord Russell,
that it was not worth while to get up a
wrangle with the American Minister about
a dispatch that gentleman thought proper
to keep to himself. Mr. Adams probably
said he had got the missive in his pocket,
and he was perhaps a little vexed that it
should have been sent to him. There can
be no doubt that he strained his ministe
rial discretion to suppress it, and that he
acted wisely in so doing is beyond all
question. It may be that the letter was
written rather for the American Congress
than for the English Government. That,
however, is no affair of ours. We can
understand the pressure of political neces
sity, and we know that greater men than
Mr. Seward have been constrained to ac
knowlenge the force of circumstances.—
Still, it is very much to be regretted that
a dispatch of such an irritating character
should have been made public by the
Government whose Minister retrained
from presenting it. If Mr, Seward was
as well acquainted with the present tem
per of the people of this country as Mr.
Adams is, he would as soon have thought
oflighting his segar in a powder magazine.
Coming, too, at a time when our Gov
ernment is earnestly endeavoring to pre
vent any infringment of the laws which
regulate the national neutrality, and is do
ing so,it cannotbe concealed,without regard
to public favor this gratuitions exhibition
of ill feeling is calculated not to impede,
but certainly to embarrass its action.
* * * We have ceased to
hope that our conduct and demeanor in
carrying out the neutrality we have de
ter tin in pfl to observe will be appreciated by
either of the belligerents. While, how
ever 1 we are sorry that a course of action
which we believe to be in strict accor
dance with the laws of nations has failed
to secure to us the respect which might
possibly have been commanded by the
adoption of a less impartial policy, we are
pursuaded that our intentions will receive
a more favorable construction in history,
and that when the angry passions which
this fratricidal contest has engendered
have snbsided, the Americans themselves
will admit that we have been both just
and forbearing. If we had consulted our
commercial interest; if wc had consented
to take part with France in an interven
tion to bring about a pacific settlement of
the quarrel; if we had listened to the sug
gestions of public opinion; or if we had
taken offence when offence was evidently
intended, the Confederate States would
erenow have been recognised by all the
Europran Powers; There are among our
foremost statesmen not a few who think
some steps in that direction. There are
many who insist that the Confederate
States have themselves a nation.
But our Government has steadfastly re-*
fused to depart from the principle it laid
down for its guidance when the struggle
commenced, and by that principle it is,
as Mr. Adams well knows, resolved to
abide. We desire to live in peace with
both belligerents but they must not mis
take our meaning, nor attempt to impose
upon our good will. We can afford to
disregard the absence of courtesy, grati
tude we do not expect, and we can make
large allowance for emotional ebullitions.
There is however, a language which no
country can permit to be used in address
ing its Government; and if we are averse
from war, it must not be inferred that we
are prepared to accept peace on any terms
that aie inconsistent with our honor.
IMPORTANT DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT.
11l the British Parliament, on the 13th in3t..
Lord Derby attacked the Queen’s speech on
the ground of ir* omission to make any refer
ence to the American war and other subjects.
In relation to one affairs, Lord Derby said :
It appears, notwithstanding the concessions
which the noble Earl lias made to the Federal
States of America in carrying out what he
calls neutrality, but what I am afraid f must
call one-sided neutrality, he has received from
these States not thanks, because I believe that
papers which have been laid before the Sen
ate of tl»e United States show that we were
met by demands and menaces, which I should
be much astonished if any one calling himself
a British Minister must not have felt a diffi
cult in receiving when the dispatches contain
ing them were placed in his hands. Since
then we are not only told that the American
Government will hold us responsible for any
damage which their commerce may have sus
tained by the acts ut the Alabama ; but if I
have not misread the paper laid before Con
gress, they state that if we do not put a stop
to the sale of vessels of this kind in this coun
try, the result must be that the Federal Gov
ernment will take the law into their own
hands; that the cruisers will follow these ves
sels into British ports, and will in British
waters maintain their own interests.
My Lords, I hope the noble Earl will be
able to show that he has answered that dis
patch, in a manner which will put an end to
such monstrous demands lor the future.
[Hear, hear.]
But. if 1 am not mistaken, the last dispatch
from Washington was written about August,
and was received here toward the latter end
of August, and early in September the noble
Earl took the strong step of seizing the so
called Confederate rams in the Mersey upon
tbivt very suspicion as to which, a year before,
thq Attorney General iuformed Parliament
that the Government would not be warranted
in interferring. {Hear, hear.] Well, then,
my Lords, if yon have not satisfied the Fede
rals neither have you satisfied the Poles, and
you have offended Russia. In conclusion, the
speaker recapitulated the existing differences
between her Majesty’s Government and most
of the European Powers, and denounced the
policy that had produced such embarrassments
as a source of national danger.
Lord Russell defended the course he had
taken on ground that intervention generally
failed of its object, and aggravated the evils
it sought to prevent. He did not admit Lord
Derby’s principle, that England was bound to
accept whatever France proposed. As to
Mexico, her Majesty’s government had stated
from the beginning that England had no in
tention of regulating the internal affairs of
that country. We acted to obtain redress of
our grievances, Bot to set up any particular
form of Government. As to the French pro
posal in reference to the States of the Amer
ican Confederacy, Lord Russell said:
“I think, that, though on some Questions
which arise the Emperor of the French may
pursue a different policy frellx that which we
follow, he gives full weight to this considera
tion that the policy which may suit the French
nations may not be the policy which the Brit
ish nation prefers. I believe that the Empe
ror is too just to attribute, such a difference
of opinion to anything but a regard for the
policy which we think right, and which we
think the country calls upon us to pursue.—
[Hear, bear,] Then, the noble Earl says
that wo differ from France about the recogni
tion of the Southern States of America. Now,
no such proposal was ever made to us. There
was a proposal that we should offer our good
offices in order to reconcile the North and
I§outh; but it was tolerably obvious that if the
proposal was made by the two Powers, say
England and France, it would irritate the
Northern States, would fail of effect, add that
there was much better chance of a reconcilia
tion between the North and South in our ab
staining from such a proposal. I believe that
the noble Earl approved that decision. I cer
tainly am convinced that the whole country
concurred in the policy which we then pur
sued.”
In the house of commons, Lord Palmerton,
in reply to a simiiar attack by D’lsreali,said:
I should much have preferred to have heard
the opinion of others members beside the right
honorable gentleman, who is always listened
to with the deference which his abilities and
position entitle him to ; but as it appears that
the gentlemen on that side of the House have
given him an unlimited proxy, I shall take
leave to deal with the speech which he has
delivered. The great complaint of the right
honorable gentleman seems to be not as to
what the speech contains, but as to what he
thinks it ought to have contained, and I think
that I shall have no difficulty in explaining to
the House the reason why eome, or many, or
all of those topics to which the right, honora
able gentleman alluded, were not introduced
into her Majesty ’s speech. In the first place,
be complained that no mention has been made
of the civil war in America. Why, wo have
over and over again lamented, and still con
tinue to lament, the continuance of that war,
and have declared more than once that her
Majesty's Government profess to act, and in
tend to continue to act, upon a principle of
strict neutrality in regard to that contest. —
Unless the House had thought that her Maj
esty’s Government was going to
that course, of which there is no indication
whatever, it would have been matter of sur
plussage to have filled the speech with a re
petition of the statements made on former oc
casions, and which are still binding upon her
Majesty’s Government. [Hear, hear.]
TEIECS- EAPHIC.
Reports of the Press Association.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerks othee ot
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Demopolis, March 17. —A dispatch from Canton
reports that a large number of Sherman’s troops have
gone up the river on furjough from Vicksburg.—
McPherson is left in command of that place.
Sherman and Hurlburt have gone down the river
with a .large portion of their army on forty-two
boats; said to be going up Red river to Shreveport.
McPherson reports that the Spring campaign as
inaugurated by Sherman. Banks, Thomas ami
Smitb.is a failure.
Gen. Forrest says seven-eights of Smith’s cavalry
have'gone to Nashville.
Another dispatch says Sherman went to New Or
leans and returned to Vicksburg on the sth.
On the 6th|large numbers of re-enlisted men went
up the river on furlough.
From 15 to 20 boat loads of troops have gone down
the river.
On the Ist inst„ seven boat loads of troops passed
Tunica going up stream,
One-fifth of Sherman’s troops it is said have gone
up the river on furlough; one-third have 4 been left
at Vicksburg under command of McPherson, the
remainder have gone up Red river.
Dalton, March 27. —The Nashville Times of the
12th contains a horrible account of the hanging of
23 Union soldiers by the rebels at Kinston. N. C.,
who had fled from conscription. They met their
fate like men; even the Confederate soldiers were
moved to tears at the spectacle. They threatened
to hang five of Col. Foster’s men wlio had never
been in the rebel service.
A Washington telegram makes the horrid dis
closure that during the recent raid on Richmond the
Libby prison was mined and 200 kegs powder placed
under it- • . ,
All quiet in front.
Nortaiern Intelligence.
Chase beats Lincoln iu Maryland. A Wash
ington dispatch.to the Philadelphia Inquirer,
says ; Henry Winter Davis, in the recent Ma
ryland elections carried the delegate conven
tions lor Secretary Chase for President, and
the radical platform over the Blair conserva
tives, who ran tickets headed “A. Lincoln.”
A meeting in Western Virginia has declared
for Chase. One of the resolutions says : “We
believe either Hon. S. P, Chase, Major Gen.
Fremont, Major Gen. Butler, Major General
Banks, or Major General Grant, to be far j,re
ferable as a Presidential candidate to Mr. Lin
coln ; but our judgment is in favor ot a civil
ian rather than a soldier.” Another of the
series declares explicitly for Chase.
The Tascuinbia, a monster iron-clad at St.
Louis, had broken tier back by her own
weight while laying at the wars. She is,
llierefore, useless.
T. Barnard, for many years agent of the
Associated Press in Washington city, died on
the 15th inst.
The State conventions of Connecticut, lowa,
and Indiana, have nominated Lincoln for re
election.
• The Maryland Legislature has voted to buy
in conjunction with New Itork, the battle-field
of Antietam.
Gov. Goodwin, of Arizona, organized a gov
ernment for that Territory on the 29th of De
cember. |
Artemus Ward was: recently captured by
the Indians, near Salt Lake, but afterwards
released.
The work of constructing a huge submarine
tunnel beneath the lailp to supply Chicago
with fresh water, has commenced.
Kentucky has enlisted but seven hundred
men of her quota under the new call for five
hundred thousand.
The New York Herald of the 3d, expresses
the opinion that the j /“heavy work of the
Spring campaign will not be commenced by
the array of the Potomac in Virginia, but in
die army of Gt n. Thomas in Georgia.'
The New York Herald , in announcing that
Grant bad been appointed Lieutenant Gene
ral, says : “His next promotion will make
him Commauder-in-cfiief of the army and na
vy, and occupant of th£ White House.' Per
haps.
CITY MATTERS
T. J. JACKSON, Local Editor.
For Chattalioocliee.
The steamer Jackson, Fry Master, will leave,for
the above and all intermediate landings. Sunday
morning at 9 o’clock.
The Nightingales.— This colored troupe gave
a concort Wednesday evening by permission of
the City Council, which was not very well at
tended. Some portions of tho music was really
excellent, for instance the songs “Minnie Lee,”
and “Darling Blue Eyed Nell.” These were sung
in fine tune and time, and sounded very sweetly.
The instrumental music was also good, and evinced
a taste and familiarity with tho divine art, that
was remarkable, all things considered.
Graniteville Goods. —It will be seen by ad
vertisement, that the Graniteville Manufacturing
Company, will have another auction sale of their
goods on the 24th of March inst. Tho stoek em
braces Shirtings, Shcotiugs, Osnaburgs, Ac. Let
the public bear this sale in mind.
Imported Goods at A potion.— J. H. Taylor,
Auctioneer, gives notice that he will sell on Wed
nesday, March 23d, in tho city of Augusta, a very
handsome lot of freshly imported goods, and that
any description of Confederate bills will be re
ceived in payment for the same. For further par
ticulars see advertisement.
The Weather. —According to our estimate
Thursday morning was among the coldest morn
ings of the winter. Yesterday afternoon, however,
gave promise of a very favorable change in ibeteiu
pature of the atmosphere.
Wanted. —The Daily Sun gives notice that one
or two steady compositors are wanted immediately
in that office.
Maj. Humphrey's —Gives further notice that
all liabilities in his department up to the first of
April, will be liquidated in present Confederate
currency.
In making impressments of food supplies iu
East Tennessee, Gen. Longstreet required his
commissaries in all cases to leave fifty pounds
bacon and five bushels wheat to every adult
member of a family, black and white; and
half the quantity to children between the ages
of two and fourteen years,
001. Jack Brown. —A private dispatch to
the editor of the Macon Telegraph , from Rich
mond, announces the arrival there of Colonel
Jack Brown, of the 59th Georgia, who was
wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of
Gettysburg.
[For the Times.]
Resuigaoi.
an ANSWER FROM MARYLAND.—INSCRIBED TO JAMES
R. RANDALL.
{These tinea bear a date of months ago, when per
haps .)
List 1 a breeze from the southward comes mournful
ly stealing,
And it wafts on its wings, a wild song to mine ear 1
»Tia tlie voice of far, far distant loved ones appealing;
They call me!—Virginia,— sweet hear !
I hear thee; —though cold, yet ’tis not the death
chillnes3 J
M> - heart beats response, though my lips may not
speak.
And the muteness I hold,—’tis an agonized still
ness ;
There is blood on ray breast!—there are tears on
my cheek!
Ah! canst thou not see how these manacles gnllme?
That I feel with deep angqish my dishonored fate?
And canst thoq not hear, that the powers which
thrall me,
Waken low-muttered groanings, and cursings, and
hate ?
I have daughters who don in their life’s rosy morn
ing,
For the South’s fallen hero?, a widow’s sad weeds;
And my maidens gaze on my oppressors with scorn
ing,
As the moonlight gleams cold, on a murderer’s
dark deeds.
Then think not I smile on my Tyrant! ah! never!
His touch on my pulses, waked throbs of wild woe,
And the hate in my bosom would fain crush for
ever
This serpent coiled ’round me!—This fiend-heart'
ed foe!
Then give me thy hand and I’ll break from these
minions!
I will rise anew star, which thy banner has won !
As an eagle soars up on his cloud-cleaving pin
ions',
To the fount of the lightning, the home of the sun.
Yes; still, absent children, I am true, though I’m
silent;
Return thenforsake ’not thy love-hallowed
home!
And leave me not thus to the Vampire!—the Ty
rant !
Come rescuejhy Maryland ! Wanderer, come!
Too strong are tho chains which aye woven around
me,—
Ah! scorn me not! —Pity me [—Prostrate I lie!
Too long have these fetters so cruelly bound me!
Oh ! come to me once again !—Help me !—I die!
May, 1863. MAY BEE.
The Nassau Herald, in its commercial report, of
26th February, says business at that place has been
more limited than at any period within the last two
years—the restrictions to trade with the Northern
States, and tho new prohibitory laws enacted by the
Confederate Congress having had a depressing effect
on trade. A great desire was manifested by holders
of liquors, segars, etc., to insure shipment before tho
Ist of March, it beiug understood that after that date
such articles will not be admitted int > any Confed
erate port.
\ Housing Baby.— Petersburg has had a won
derful sensation, in the exhibition, at the Old Mar
ket, yesterday morning, of a child, aged litteen
months, and weiging one hundred and eleven pound*,
son of Francis and Adeline Bishop, of Prince George
county. The parents came up to market with pro
duce to sell, and brought their infant with them, in
order that he might hav T e their constant care. But
his appearance at Market was a signal lor general
remark anil astonishment. The report of his pres
esencc soon spread abroad, and the people rushed
around to get a view of him. Persons from the
lower portion of the city flocked to the Market
Square to see the prodigy, and such wa3 the pressure
upou the parents and the baby, that they were com
pelled to remove him to a house near by, where 25
cents admission was charged to see him. People
willingly paid the sum, antra handsome amount was
realized.
At the age of fifteen months the child is possessed
of the weight and flesh almost of a full-grown man.
His age is vouched for by parties fwho know the
family. He is intelligent, but ha3 not yet learned
to talk; and his only locomotion is the crawling
process. His arms and lege are as large round as
the limbs of a man of two hundred pounds weight,
while his face and neck are specimens of accumu
lated fat.
The father of this infant is about fifty years of age,
and ths mother about thirty-five.— Richmond Ex
aminer, 1 2th.
From the Charleston Courier, 15th,
Siege of Charleston.
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH DAY.
Fort Moultrie and the batteries on Sullivan’s and
James’ Island opened fire Monday afternoon upon a
working party of Yankees at Gregg. The latter re
plied, and the firing was kept up about an hour.—
The enemy were also engaged hauling ammunition
to Gregg.
Some officers and a number of ladies were observed
visiting the enemy’s batteries at Cumming’s Point,
and, with glasses, viewing the harbor.
Our pickets report considerable activity in the
movements of the enemy’s steamers plying between
Folly and Cole's Islands. The number of tents
upon the latter Island have increased within the
las! few days. , w ,
One Monitor went teouth Monday, leaving only
four inside the bar. The Wabash also sailed South
Monday afternhon. „ ......
The wooden vessels have been furnished with pro
jecting beams, and placed on the sides to guard
against torpedoes.
There was no firms on the city.
Funeral Notice.
The friends and acquaintances of Mr. and Mrs.
John S. Allen, are invited to attend the funeral of
their daughter lids afternoon at 4 o’clock, from their
residence.
AUCTION SALES.
By Ellis, Livingston & t o.
ON SATURDAY, 19th’March, at 11 o’clock, we will
sell in front of our store,
3 Shares Fugle Manufacturing
Company,
2 Shares Lamar iniportiugaud
Exporting Company.
13 Shares Georgia Home In
surance Company.
marlS $7
By Ellis, Livingston A Cos,
ON SATURDAY. 19th}March. at 11 o’clock, we will
sell in front of our store,
n BOXES FINE CHEWING TOBACCO,
mar 18 $3 50
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
ON SATURDAY. 19th March, at 11 o’clock, we
will sell in front of our store,
$3,000 Confederate Interest Bearing Notes,
$4,700 Confederate 8 per cent Bonds due 1808
$4,600 Confederate (15,000,000 Loan) Bonds
S4OO Georgia 8 per cent Treasury Notes,
$750 Georgia G per cent Treasury Notes,
10 Shares Muscogee It. R. Stoek,
10 Shares Macon & Western R. R. Stoek.
mar 17 td ,slt>
■(;R4Ym;ni.i.t: goo®*.’
THE
WILL 'SELL AT AUCTION ON
THITRSBAY, HI ARCH 84 t
THF.TR ENTIRE ST. Civ OF
DOMESTIC GOODS,
Consisting of Upwards of 200 Rales.
Bales 3-4 Shirtings;
Bales 7-8 Shirtings;
Bales Drills;
Bales 4-4 Sheetings ;
Bales 8 oz-Osnaburgs
Sale to take place at Graniteville, S. C., aad
commence at ten o’clock.
WILLIAM GREGG,
Treasurer.
Graniteville, S. C., March 12, 1864.—0 t
PUBLIC SALE
IMPORTED GOODS.
BY JAMES H. TAILOR,
-
On WEDyESDAI, March *l3.
A TlO o’clock, will be sold, without reserve, in my
A Store, Corner of Campbell and Broad Streets,
Augusta, u. very handsome line of freshly imported
Goods, consisting in part of
1 bale Regatta Stripes,
20 pieces Black and White Ginghams,
1 ease Melton Cloths,
1 bale Grey Flannels,
7 cases 23 1-2 inch English Prints,
5 cases 23 1-2 inch English Prints, Cbllies’,
26 doz French Felt Hats, ■>
50doz Calf Skins, Trench
200 gross Lead Pencils,
30 doz cotton Undershirts, “as are,”
11 bags Rio Coffee, prime,
48 pieces No. 16 black Taffeta Ribbons,
75 pieces No. 12 black Taffeta Ribbons,
5 cases Bleached Cbttons, Collies’ C,
5 cases Bleached Cottons, Collies’ If,
5 cases Bleached Cottons, Collies’ X,
2 pieces Scarlet Cloth,
1 piece Beaver Cloth,
180 M Needles, 5 to 10,
20 cases Wool Cards,
1 case Felt llat3, 21 2-12 doz,
7 doz White Cotton Shirts, fancy bosom*,
2 cases Men’s Calf Shoes,
5 bales Gunny Bagging.
1 barrel Turlington’s Balsam,
1 bale Fancy Tweeds,
1 bale Melton Tweeds,
600 pair Cotton Cards,
2 cases Playing Cards,
2 cases Mixed Pins, white,
1 case Legal Cap Paper,
2 cases Hair Pins,
1 case Melton Cloths,
5 pieces white and red Flannel,
AliSO,
1 hhd English prepared Chickory.
1 bag Alspice,
3 casks assorted Hardware,
3 eases assorted Hardware,
5 cases assorted Shoes.
Conditions cash, in any Confederate Bills,
mar 17 td JAMES H. TALYOR.
Southern Mechanics’ Union.
A Regular Meeting of tho Southern Mechanics’
Union will be held this (Thursday) Evening, 17th at
the meeting room of tho Columbus Fire Company,
No. 1, at 7 o’clock, P. M.
By order of the President.
JOHN R. RIGGERS,
mar 17—It Sec’y.
Carpcntfi’s Wanted.
T'WENTY CARPENTERS to work on the new
Boat below the Navy Yard, for which the highest
' MP JOSEPH HANBEBP,
mar 15 ts
Wanted.
rpUN good able-bodied negro men wanted for twe
months, Good wages will be given. Apply to
H. S. SMITH. Jr.,
mar 17 Iw* or J. K. REDD.
FOR SAFE.
Flour and .Meal, fresh ground.
Nails, assorted sizes.
Tobacco of all grads
Ostia burgs and Yarns.
Coperas and Extract of Logwood.
Snuff—Maccaboy and Georgia Rebel —in
packages.
Cigars, Needles, Pins, Writing Paper, En
velopes, Yarns, Osnaburgs, and a variety of
Dry-Goods.
For sale by ’ H. FISCHACKER,
mar 15 lw 104, Broad Street.
For Sale,
A NO. 1 CAVALRY HORSE for sale.
Apply to J. R. IVEY,
mar 15 4t
Office Subsistence Departeext. f
Columbus, Ga„ March 15, 1864./
All parties holding claims against this department
due, are hereby notified to present them for pay
ment at this office on or before tho 25th inst.
Amounts now due will be paid only in the present
currency. A. M. ALLEN,
mar 16 ts Maj. C. S.
QUARTERMASTER’S DEPARTMENT, )
Columbus, March 14, lsol. /
All creditors of this Department are notified that
their accounts and all accruing debts to the 31st
March, will be paid in the present Confederate
currency.
F. W. DILLARD.
mar 15 till 31gt inst Quartermaster,