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Tuesday Xtftilg, March h 18§4.
Ir. Stephens’ Speech— Somebody Wrong.
Vice President Stephens made an aide
speech at Milledgevillc dnring the late session
of the Legislature, of which we gave a lengthy
abstract The whole speech hasjust appeared
in print. The temper of the speech is not ob
jectionable in many of its parts—much less
so than Gov. Brown’s message. He7,notes
the same clauses from the Confederate States
Constitution used by Gov. Brown to show that
the present act suspending the writ of habeas
carpus is unconstitutional.
‘"The privilege of the writ of habeas cor
pus shall not be suspended unless when m
cases of rebellion or invasion the public safe
ty may require it.
2. “The right of the people to be secure in
their persons, houses, papers and effects
against unreasonable searches and seizures!
»ball not be violated ; arid no warrants shal
Issue but upon probable cause, supported by
oath or affirmation, and particularly describ
ing the place to be searched and the persons
or things to be seized.” ;
3. “No person shall be deprived ot life,
liberty or property without due process ot
law. ’
He contends that the two latter clauses are
limitations upon the first* Our correspond
ent, “Lobby,” a few days ago, we think, clearly
proved that the 2d clause above quoted re
fers only to search warrants and to nothing
else but search warrants,
Then, if the 3d clause is a limitation upon
the Ist, it is also a limitation upon a lause in
our .State Constitution, for all the clauses
above quoted are in our State Constitution.
in the declaration of fundamental principles
ot our State Constitution we find, that, "In
cases of necessity private ways may be gran
ted upon just compensation being first paid ;
and uuth tins exception private properly shall not
be taken except for public use; and then only
upon just compensation, <Jj w.”
3d danse above quoted limits this last
recited clause as much as it does the Ist
clause recited, as they are the same in both
Constitutions, State and Confederate. Then,
if no person can be deprived ot •■liberty’
without “due process of law,” neither can they
be deprived of “ property” without “due pro
cess of law.”
But Governor Brown was the first man in
the Confederacy to commence the seizures of
“property” without “due process of law.'
He seized salt iu Augusta and articles every
where before the Confederate States com
menced. Tm his late message lie denies Con
gress the power to suspend the writ of habeas
corpus, and insists that the power is only im
plied, and the grant of power is clothed in
terms of negation when he asks the Legisla
ture, to give him power to seize private prop
erty for private use, under a grant of power
precisely similar to that upon which he bases
his argument on the unconstitationality ot
the habeas corpus suspension act.
Look at both clauses quoted, notice the
verbiage, which is identical in form (both pnt
in a negative form,) and then examine the
clause which is claimed to be a limitation up
on the one clause, (and it s,o is necessarily a
limitation upon the other,) and answer,
whether if Mr Stephens is right in claiming
that this clause so limits the habeas corpus
clause as to make the act passed by Congress
unconstitutional, it does not also so limit ihe
“ impressment clause as to inakp Gov.
Brown s impressments also unconstitutional?
Then, if Mr. Stephens is right Gov. Brown
has been all along most certainly wrong in
impressments.
[CoIDIUXICAtED.J
The First Congress.
Jtexiew of tome of it* Mta*u-r*» — n'ptioa.
The first Congress has passed several acts of
Conscription. The tirat wu« passed some time in
the spring of 1802. Amfamong all the acts passed
by that Congress, no one has been more severely
criticised and condemned, in certain quarters, than
the drat act for consenting men to serve in the
army for three years or the war. The ciivurastau
oes under which they had to act upon that meas
ure were peculiarly trying and interesting. Th e
war had been progressing about twelve mouths—
the Provisional Congress had passed ail laws ne
cessary for raising an army by iulnuteenug,—-vol
unteering in the first place for twelve month?, and
then for three years or during the war The first
gun tired at Sumter was a signal for the ardent
youths of the laud t.. tly to arms; and Lincoln's
proclamation ti»r seventy-five thousand men added
tuel io the flame?, the war fever ran high, and the
broad road to fame and distinction was thronged
by eager voluntetra.
Tbe first battle of Manassas was fought, and the
victory won with so much ease, that the common
sentiment ot the country was, that, "one could
chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to
tiight. The war was likely to be a hurt ole
volunteering for twelve months stilt went >-n.
Bm Lincolu called'for three hundred thousand
move men, Oiir Provisional Congress changed the
mod* ot enli-unent front twelve months to three
years or the war ; and the latter |<art >*t Summer,
1861, found us with a large army ot volunteers >u
the held, s,,me for the war, but the largest portion
for twelve months.
The Fall came with it- 5 malarias and terrible
camp diseases : the soldiers who had volunteered
eo eagerly, had some oi them died in vamp# and
been buried in some lone place tar away tioin
heme others stricken with disease, had reached
home and had been buried by their tuenda and
neighbors. Winter came al-'o, attended with cold
and suite ring and death- offering and death
among our volunteers —a winter, ever memorable
for reverses, disasters, aud detests to us.
Tbe first Congress met on the ISth day of Feb
ruary, 1562. in tbe midst of gloom and panic and
defeats. The enemy had an immense army in the
field, well-provided, well-equipped, well-drilled
and flushed with victory—and with these host 3 of
well-drilled troops the enemy were moving down
upon us in every direction. The Spring cam
paign was about to open, our army had dwindled
away by disease and death till the foe outnum
bered us nearly two to one. Volunteer® for the
war were called for, but volunteers did not respond
—the ••pomp, and pride, and circumstance of glo
rious war invited them to the field, but they wore
deterred by ibe sad realities ,0 uvinal w ; ,r- ho-pi
tari and ®»dd»aw’graves. Th, army mn-tbe r,
enured, but volunteering was ot an end. A large
majority of our army was composed of the volun
teers tor twelve months ; their term of servi.« was
about to expire, and they were invited to volun
teer for the war. Bounties were offered for volun
teers, but Volunteering was at an end.
Would these twelve mouths volunteers submit to
nn act conscribing them for three years or the war •
They were brave, chivalrie, and high-spirited men,
an lmany predicted that they would break out in
to open mutiny and go home, rather than submit
to any act of conscription. The home-guard, the
croqkers, and constitutional quilbler » declared
such an act would be unnecessary, oppressive, un
constitutional and infamous, and that Us execution
would be, and ought to be, resisted by the soldiers.
The emergency was great. The enemy had
massed two hundred thousand men, undei theii be.U
Generals, for a final “on-to-Tliehruond.
Conscription, in this country, was a somewhat
novel and a terribly harsh measure: harsh and
terribly trying, eSpeeially to these twelve months
men to be cpnscribed lor the war; a measure
, threatening mutiny and rebellion in the army and
likely to be temporarily unpopular with both sol
diers and citizens. To vote for the measure was
almost certain to oust the member from his seat,
and to vote against it was quite as certain to sac
rifice his country and its cause. And in this ter
rible emergency the members of the First Congress,
losing sight of self, stood by their Country and
voted for Conscription.
Many of these members, as was’suspected, have
lost their seats by this vote. But he of good cheer,
you members,, who have temporarily Sacrificed
yourselves ! You b#ve saved your country, and
your counti y mil do you justice. When the dem
agogues who condemned your act shall be con
signed to political oblivion , you shall be respected
and honored, and shall live in history and in the
hearts of the people as the Saviours of your country.
The very soldiers themselves, whom you con
scribed, covered though they may be all over with
scars and honorable wounds, but whose manly
hearts with every pulsation beat true to their
country’s cause, will to-day stand by you—will
honor and admire your firmness and will vindicate
your acts against the assaults of ihe time-serving
politicians, who would hazard the interests of the
country for yieir own aggrandizement.
This first act of Conscription has been necessa
rily followed by several other similar acts, as Ihe
absolute necessities of the country seemed to de
mand, each and each one. becoming more and more
broad and stringent in its provisions, till the late
act of the last session was so extended as to em
brace all capable of military duty between the
ages of ?event eeuand fifty.
Differences of opinion there may be, as to the
policy or necessitj' of such a fearful measure of
Conscription ; but this Congress had to judge for
itself, in this last act, as in all the others, as to the
existing necessity; they exercised their best judg
ment: they shouldered the responsibility and
passed the act. Time alone must test the wisdom
of this taut act as it has tested the first. And we
will venture the assertion that there is not, now.a
sober man in the Confederacy, either soldier or ci
vilian, who will pretend 1o deny that, if our inde
pendence te ever achieved, it will be due‘to the
original, harsh, but bold and terrible measure, of
Conscription. And we venture further to assert
that time will prove the last to have been as much
an act of wisdom aud necessity as the firsts The
first Congress has shouldered the fearful responsi
bility of these measure and they met. them with a
firmness and self-sacrificing independence that
never was.surpassed by j ßoman Senators.
We are not unapprised of the fact that some per
sons in the Confederacy have denounced nearly
every act of Ihe Congress as unwise and unconsti
tutional, and that these several acts of Conscrip
tion hare been subjected p> similar criticisms and
have received their indignant rebuke. They pre
tend that the Confederate Congress has no Consti
tutional power to rate.- un .nun by conscription :
and that when they sud t.> raise sufficient forces
by volunteering, the only Constitutional mode is
to make a Very polite call upon the Governors of
the States, requesting them to furnish the requisite
number of troops.
Wo do not so understand the theory of our Con
federate Government. The framers of the Consti
tution did not so understand it. One of the lead
ing objects of the Confederation was the common
and mutual protection of the entire Confederacy
against the invasions and aggression of foreign na
tions. Ar.d to that end the most ample war pow
ers are conferred upon the Confederate Govern
ment by the Constitution. Indeed, the entire
power to ‘declare war,” to raise and “support ar
mies” has been expressly delegated by the States
to the Confederate Government—“ The Congress
shall have the power to declare war, to raise and
support armies.” (See Constitution C. S.j' Not
only so, but there is an absolute prohibition up..iy
the States in this particular. A State can neither
declare war, nor make a treaty of g peace. “AL
State “hall enter inio an y treaty, alliance, or con
fedci\itinn,” (See Constitution.)
“Nor shall any ‘-'tate keep troops or ships of
war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or
compact with another, State, or with a foreign
power, or engage in war, unless actually on a.led
or in ud imminent danger as will not admit of
delay,” (Constitution, j
the war power conferred upon the Confederate
Government is a absolute ns the power to “coin
money,” to “ regulate commerce with foreign
nation..’ „r to “establish post offices anil post
routes,” So amply has the power been conferred
ly the State.- that the .übje.t is exhausted. There
is no resen .-.i war power in the States.
Ptnctsv ‘‘/.i /*•'# l 3*i - or/ju't a !" What limit U there
to this grant of power ‘ How large an army can
they raise There is tn> limit but the public ne
cessities, to be judged ,0 by the Congress. Power
to raise armies, iraphe.- tb<- power to raise (Item
by co*<£i/i/ men if they do not volunteer.—
The.limit to be found under the con titutional
power, would be only when there wore no more
men, capable ol hr.-,ring armsyto be con scribed.—-
A to the number of men to be raised, that is a
qm lion, not „f con-titutional power, but ol pub
lic iicc.- - ity, and alco-a question us policy, as to
how lafg.- an army the coinitiy can maintain in
the fii-ld;
The Confederate Government has power to de
clare war. to raise and support armies, and. when
necessary for ell' preservation, the men amt means
of the nation av, subject to their call.
A polite > ait upon the Governors of the States
for men. might ‘rape an army, and it might not. —
Suppose a call t>> be made upon a dozen Governor®
for ?AM) 060 troop®. Some of the dozen might be
opposed to carrying on the war. and they would
not respond to the . nil Other? might think the
number® too o-re-ot and they would not respond,
hew-polwe . ver the call might he.
Fiom -uch confusion, weak tie®? and imbecility, in
prosecution of a war, the Constitution has fortu
nately delivered u-, and from u.-h, may the good
Lord forever deliver us.
LOBBY,
Xj.v. caper PniCF'.—We are behind most of
our eotemporarie®, but we nm l confess almost any
ration ,1 price looks farcical in connection with the
cost ot paper and mbsistence, which make up the
two grand items of newspaper expenditure. Some
people are so unreasonable as to complain of pay
ing nine dollars for a daily new-paper for three
month.-., n hen it is a fact that the nine dollars will
not buy .i joint ...f meat for the table—but a single
pound ot butter—bin two and a half pounds of ba
con -®h<>rt of two dozen egg- a bushel of corn
nu-a! i.r polatoe®. Ami it is -'range that these
tJij/fi <■ j f newspapet extortion votne from produ
cer- who reap at least apart of such horrible prices,
though perhaps the middle man may pocket the
lion's share. But so stands the case : and here
after the price of tbe Daily Telegraph will be four
dollar - per month, though how much better that
will make the case of the printer can be under
stood from the foregoing statement.— Jfafon Telt
ffrarA.
[From the Atlanta Intelligencer. 3d inst.f
Tlie Situation.
Every thing in the Confederacy, as far as ’
they relate to war, wears a quiet aspect, and, '■
with the lights before us, there appears but j
little chance of any movements taking place
for some weeks yet.
The “Army of Northern Virginia” still re
tains its old position about Orange Court
house, while Meade, or whoever is command
ing'tbe Yankee army appears to have conver
ted bis “grand army” into a corps of observa
tion. Grant, the idol, the new Napoleon of
all Yankeedom has decided upon overwhelm
ing Lee and capturing Richmond, but when he
will commence the “overwhelming” process is
not announced by the admiring press of the
North. In the meantime, we learn that Gen.
Lee is quietly, but energetically preparing for
this hundredth “on to Richmond.” It, there-
fore, excites no apprehension for the safety of j
our capitol, when the Northern papers ’an- I
nouncc that Grant will move on Richmond in
a short time. He may be very ambitious of
military fame, and emboldened by his past
good luck may indeed attempt the capture of
Richmond, but we have an abiding confidence
in Gen. Lee and the gallant men he coni
mahds. They have too often met the enemy in
Virginia and routed him on the battle-field to
dread the threatened advance of the Mighty
j Grant and his cohorts of New England war
riors.
In Mississippi the situation is uninteresting.
The grand “reconnoisance” having concluded.
Sherman s army has been broken up and one
part sent to Red river, the other to Memphis,
and, perhaps, to Chattanooga. This is, how
ever, doubtful, as it would appear impolitic
for the Federals to leave the tipper Mississippi
with the small force that would remain in that
department after these troops had been sent
elsewhere. The array in Mississippi, like
those of Tennessee and Virginia, have unani
mously re-enlisted, some for “this war and
the next one,” and others for “seventy-five
years or the war.”
From Longstreet’s array we get nothing
reliable. The absence of any telegraphic re
porter at Greenville prevents the public from
receiving any news of the movements in East
Tennessee. Rumors are as plentiful as black
berries in our lines of what Gen. Longstreet
intends doing, while the Yankee papers re
port him mounting his infantry for a grand
advance into Kentucky. This last must he
taken with many grains of allowance, for we
cannot see what advantage could accrue from
the entrance of mounted infantry into that
State, unless the government has positive as
surance that our friends there are ready to
support any advance .movement as soon as
our troops should enter the State. Os this
there is no rumoi of certainty, although the
Kentucky papers report the discovery of a
plot to place their State in the hands of the
Confederates, and give us the information that
the true men of that State have organized
into bands of troops for the purpose of resist
ing the abolition government at Washington.
However this may turn out, we have the grat
ification of knowing that t he Federal army in
East Tennessee keeps at a respectful distance
from Longstreet, and that, we are masters of
the situation at the present time.
In the.“ Army of Tennessee” there is noth
ing of importance transpiring. Some parties
are of opinion that Johnston will be held in
check during the spring by a nominal force
under Sherman, while Grant makes his ‘‘over
whelming" move on Richmond. We do not
agree with any such idea, for facts have come
to our knowledge which indicate that some of
the “overwhelming” will be tried on the
“Army of Tennessee” simultaneous with that
on to Richmond. Atlanta is of far greater
strategic importance to the Federals than the
capture of our capitol, and we are sure t hat
no effort will be left unemployed to reach this
city. Whether he will succeed in capturing
Atlanta we cannot tell, although we have se
rious doubts of his ability to do so, and if
proper aid is given to Gen. Johnston all doubts
will be changed to certainty. At the present
time, the main bodies of both armies, the one
at Chattanooga and the other at Dalton, re
main quiet, while their cavalry pickets con
front each other a few miles beyond Tunnel
Hill.
At Charleston an occasional shell is still
fired by the Yankees, it is supposed for the
purpose of notifying our men that they have
not raised the siege. All apprehension that.
tIR- Federals will capture the city have van
ished, and it has become apparent that the
“hot-bed of the rebellion" is not destined to
fall into the hands ot the‘enemy while the
heroic Beauregard defends it at’the head of
his gallant men. In fact, this siege has proven
a desplieable failure on the part of the Yan
kees, while the battered walls ofSumter stand
a monument of glory to the brave patriots
who defended the city.
In Florida everything is quiet. The pro
mised “clearing" out of the Yankees in that
State, so frequently hinted at by the press
after the battle of Olustee, ha3 not yet taken
place, and present indications are not favor
able to such a welcome movement for some
time to come. The report was just as we
anticipated. It grew out of the hilarity of the
Floridians, occasioned by the decisive victory
gained in their State. We must leave off the
custom of prognosticating or promising ex
travagant things after each victory achieved
by our forces. It is better to expect, nothin!?; :
for if good news should come when we do not
expect if, it will bean agreeable surprise, and
if not, we will not be disappointed.
News from the North makes it appear like
ly that we shall shortly have stirring limes in
North Carolina. Burnside, the hero (?) of
Fredericksburg, is preparing a grand expedi
tion for the coast. This campaign is no doubt
intended to benefit, the supposed Unionists
ot North Carolina at the next gubernatorial
election, but we do not, fear for the result,*
(neither of the campaign nor of the guberna
torial election.) It has been surmised that
this expedition may not be intended for North
Carolina after all, but will he a supporting
column —for Grant’s “on to Richmond' w hich
will move up the .Tames river. There is no
use in conjecturing what the real object oft he
expedition is Time will develop? it.
From (lie Trans-Mississippi we have some
disagreeable reports. Fori Deßnssey has
been cap!tired on Red river, and Alexandria,
the largest town in the State of Louisiana,
after New Orleans, was surrendered to the
Yankee gunboats without any opposition.
Four hundred prisoners, and all the guns, Ac.,
were surrendered with the fort. It is stated
that important movements will shortly take
place ia this department, and we trust that
when they do, our army may succeed in whip
ping the enemy. In Texas everything is quiet,
the Yankees keeping a proper distance from
the points held by onrforces ; while itj Arkan
sas a great improvement ha® been made.
Gen. Price has assumed command of the de
partment, in place of Holmes who has been
recalled. We can, therefore, expect confident
ly to hear good news from him shortly.
Altogether the situation is gratifying, and
we trust that the next change in it will be
caused from an extensive territorial posses
sions. We expect no movements to take
place, however, for some time yet. if at all
during the spring.
The K apt dan correspondent of the
Lynchburg Republican says the Vunkee
pickets are very communicative. They
say the army will vote for McClellan or
Grunt for the next presidency, and that
they have had enough of railsphtters,
Abrahams and the Prophets, especially
those who predicted crushing out the re
bellion in ninety days.
The Chronicle and Sentinel says gold
in Augusta, on the Slut ult., was in active
demand at 26 for one. In Richmond, on
the 27th, it sold at an average of 21 in
old currency, or, reckoning in the dis
count which would be due in four days
the real quotation was fourteen dollars in
currency for one in gold. The opiuion
was entertained that it would he down to
ten in a fortnight.
TELE3K. APHIS.
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Reports of the Press Association.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year
1863, by J. S, Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of
the District Court of -the Confederate States tor
the Northern District of Georgia.
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VEW«i IP Ron FORREST!
A EIGHT AT FADICAII!
$175,000,000 Funded!!
\ortli<-r»Paitet-a Received!
Flag' Truce Roat Expected!
Atlanta, April 2,—Fpecial.to the Appeal, Canton
3d. —Ross deviated a negro plantation two miles
from Haines Bluff, killing 30 negroes and soldiers
and captured one hundred nudes.
Atlanta, 4.—58,500,000 funded here. $5,000,000
received from disbursing officers.
Richmond, April 4.— lt is understood that the
Secretary of the Treasury construes the Currency
Act to authorize the is :ue of the new Currency to
the extent of two-thirds the amount funded in four
per cent Cirtificates: but other resources will proba
bly postpone the necessity of any issue under this
construction until Congress again meets. The Banks
only receive Fives on special deposit.
Prices continue unsettled in consequence of the
large amount offices afloat.
The amount funded at Richmond is twenty-one
million, three hundred and twenty-seven thousand
dollars.
Official returns from nine Depositories in Vir
ginia, five in North Carolina, eight in South Caro
lina. twelve in Georgia, one in Florida and six in
Alabama, give jan aggregate of one hundred and
seventy-five million dollars funded. It is estima
ted that returns from other Depositories will in
crease the amount to $230,000,000.
Flag of truce boat with oue thousand prisoners is
expected on Wednesday.
Official dispatches from Gen. Forrest state that he
moved in the direction of Jackson to Paducah in
fifty hours, and held the town ten tiours. He could
have held it longer but found the small pox was
raging and evacuated the place, He captured many
stores and horses and burnt a, steamer. His loss at
Hudson and Paducah twenty-five killed and woun
ded. Col. Thompson from Ky., among the killed.
Enemy’s loss at Paducah, fifty killed and woun
ded.
GOO Yankees captured during the expedition are
moving en route to Demopolis.
Dalton, April 4.—The Cincinnati! Commercial
oftlie2Btli has-been received. It contains many
conflicting reports in regard to Forrest’s attack on
Paducah.
They state that he captured the place after four
assaults, losing 150 killed and 1,000 wounded. Among
whom is Gen. Thompson, of the 3d Ky.
The Federate lost 12 killed and 40 wounded.
Forrest burnt all the Government stores.
The enemy were mostly negroes.
A telegram from Columbus, 27th, says Forrest is
at Faulkners or between that place and Mayfield.
His.strength is much greater than at first estima
ted.
From 1,200 to 1,500 wounded Rebels had arrived at
Mayfield,
One regiment lost one hundred and! one ;I one
Company fifty killed.
The Rebels were marching towards Clinton at
last accounts.
The steamer Perry was fired into as she passed
Hickman.
A dispatch from Paducah says Col. Ed. Crossland,
of the 7th Ky., and seven of his guerillas were cap
tured near Mayfield.
Gen. Rosecrans has suspended the circulation of
the New York Metropiiitan Record injthe State of
Missouri.
A heavy thunder storm and rain here last night.
Yankee Recruiting in Europe/
Extretard!nary inducements — u Free Li
cense in the Enemy's Country"—South
ern Estates and Property to he parcell
ed out to the scum of Europe—-Another
Chapter in the Book of Yankee Cow
ardice and Vdhtiny.
The Yankees have nol scrupled to deny
that, unatye to cope with the gallant men
of the South, whom . they outnumber as
five to one, they have not only pressed our
slaves intotheir service, but actually cross
ed the Atlantic, and by every species ot
villainous inducement, sought foreign aid
to make up for their own cowardice and
imbecility. This they have done beyond
all question, thereby conceding the im
portant fact that they are unable, of them
selves, to maintain their tyrannical and
hateful government.
\Wlmve before us proof conclusive that
our enemy,/ utterly despairing of their
ability to conquer ns, have at this time
agents lecturers in almost every country
of Europe, who, by lying misrepresenta
tions, and the meanest duplicity, united
with pledges at the enormity of which all
Christendom must shudder. It is in the
form of a poster or handbill, which is now
being circulated throughout Great Britain
in aid of such lecturers as Beecher and Cos.,
and a copy of which has just been re
ceived from a friend through the blockade.
We present it to the world as a burning
and damning witness against a God-for
saken people. They will doubtless de
nounce it as a forgery, but we are assured
upon authority beyond, all question that
the copy sent us and published is one of
the thousands that are floating over the
kingdom of Great Britain, and what is
worse, are winked at hy the British Gov
ernment. Here is the document:
TO GALLANT YOUNG IRfSHMF.N, GERMANS
AND OTHERS.
The War Contractors of New York,
Boston and Philadelphia, are in want of
a few thousand enterprising young men,
to join the glorious army of the 1 nited
States.
The profits of the business are so large
that the country can afford to pay hand
somely all who will speedily enter their
noble service
Camp life in America is remarkably
salubrious ami enjoyable, and offers im
mense attractions to the oppressed popu
lations of Europe. The troops will have
free license while occupying the enemy's
country, qnd the estates and property of
the vanquished rebels will he divided by
the grateful nation among its heroic, dr feu
, tiers.
For further particulars, apply to the
Contractor’ Lecturers, uow on the mis
sion to Britain, and to Messrs John Bright
and W. K. Faster, Ranters’ Hall, London
New York, Ist Sept., 1863.
Stir. Republican.
Although the foregoing is pretty much
the Aankee programme, we doubt if it
emanated from the Yankees, or any friend
of the Yankees. It was probably some
adroit scheme to throw odium upon the
war and its defenders. Beecher was then
in England, and perhaps it was intended
to excite odium against him.
CITY MATTERS.
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T. J. JACKSON, Local Editor
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Notice to Patrons.
v After this date we shall be compelled to make
a deduction of 33 1-3 per cent, from Cohfederate
notes of the old issues above $3. Hundreds not
taken. Persons having business with this office
will bear this in mind.
March 26th, 1864.
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Consignees per M. A G. R. R., April 6.— Mnj
Allen, Capt Cothran, E T .SlieLihcard, Maj Paxton,
H B Frost, M. Woodruff. I. Napier, J B Baird, B
Cooley, Woodruff A Cos. Powell, F St Cos. R Thomp
son A Cos. R P Malone, W E Dußose J H Butt,
Eagle Factory, G Hargraves, G A Frazer, Ennis A
Cos. II E Plott, R R Cos., IV H C Price.
For Chattahoochee.
The steamer Jackson, fry .Master, will leave.for
the above and all intermediate landings. Tuesday
morning at i» o'clock. *
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From Johnson's island.
We are indebted to Surgeon Kirksey, late of the
32*1 and 58th Alabama Regiments, now on duty at
the General Hospital in tHis city, for the following
letter from a prisoner at John on’s Island, (Ohio.)—
It will be found interesting; especially to his friends
in Alabama:
Johnson’s Island, near Sandusky City, Ohio,)
March 15th, 1504. j
Dear Kirksey : I last wrote you from Missiona
ry Ridge—now write from this cold Island. I was
captured Nov. 25th, while trying to get my men off
of the Ridge. There are officers in our army who
can manage to get men into a fight but never get
them out. I left Chattanooga for this place Nov.
30th, arrived Dec. 7th—had quite a cold trip of it. I
have been quite sick since I came here—am now in
usual health. Kirksey Ido not wish you any harm
but I wish you were here for a.short time anyhow.—
I miss you so much. I would rather see you than
any man South. Hope you are now married and
having a glorious time. Thought .you did not like
the Georgia girls. I am so anxious to go South—
am tired of prison life. God grant that up exchange
may be effected soon. I want to see my regiment.
Please look after my interest, there is no telliug
what advantages may be taken of one in his ab
sence. Captains Lee and Markham are here. Capt
Lister is dead. (Lieuts. McClellan, llolernian, Good
wyu, Grayson,.Smith, Wing, Hodges, and Lockhart,
are here. Lieut. Alston has been sent to Point
Lookout ; all well. Lee got a letter from Captain
Jones to-day. The weather has been cold, it is now
snowing. This Isle is called after its present owner
—very* small —it extends some three miles north
of Sandusky. The'oflioers amuse themselves throw
ing snow, playing ball, cards, checks, dominoes,
chess, Ac.
We are very well treated here as ’prisoners of war.
Your horse and mine jwere'captured. Lieut. Good
wan will be responsible to you. Wc~h surrendered
the courser; lie ought to be killed. Where is Sid ?
Write and give me all the'news. Confine yourself
to one page. Give my love to all the officers and
men of the regiments. Be sure and write soon. I
send you a U. S. stamp.
Your immutable friend,
JOHN W, INZER,
Lieut. Obi. 32d and 58th Ala,, Regts.
Address me: J. W. Inzer, prisoner of war, John
son’s Island, Sandusky City, Ohio, via. City Point,
for Elag of Truce boat, to Fortress Monroe.
“Pa I’ll Soon be Home/’
Lines suggested on witnessing the death of my dear
young friend Miss Mary L. Alien, to her distressed,
parents, by her friend ’i-*******.
Gone Home in girlhood’s rosy hours—gone Home
For such as thou Heaven’s kindoui doth unfold;
Yet we must weep—her darling feet may roam
No more with us, nor we, her form behold.
Yet we must weep awhile—though je.v may swell
Thy songs on golden harps thou pourest there;
Silent on earth the music which could thrill .
Our weary hearts and soothe life’s sternest care.
Yet we must weep—although the Happy Land
IV here sorrow comes not is thy dwelling place,
For we may clasp no more thy fairy hand
Nor heart to heart enfold our warm embrace.
Yet we must weep—though not as those that mourn
Without a hope, for we shall meet again ;
God will unite the ties which death has tourn
Assunder here, if faithful we remain.
She will not come to us but we shall go
To swell with her the anthems of the blest:
Lord give us grace to tread the vale of woe,
And lit our souls to share the lieaventy rest.
Columbus, Ga., April 1, 18t>L
In respect to the probabilities of recog
nition by England, the London Judex of
the 4th of February, says:
“Four-fifths of the House wish the
Southern Confederacy should be recogv
nized, but do not choose to pass such a
vote except on the responsibility of a lead
ing statesman; and no leading statesman
is prepared to take the responsibility of
recognition. Jjord Derby will not do it,
and the tories cannot conic without Lord
Derby. Lord Ilussell will not do it, and
Lord Palmerston dare not throw him over-,
board. And in truth, except Lord 11.
Cecil, we doubt if any prospective Cabi
net Minister would dare to hazard his po
sition by making the proposal.”
The Northern papers say the spring
campaign w ill he opened simultaneously
on all sides, and that they have 200,000
more men than they had a year ago.
. —ngt % mmm
Funi> e and .— T he r e was SI 3,519,600
funded in this city, he-ides about SOOO,OOO
retired by disbursing officers of the Gov
ernment, Quartermasters, Commissaries,
etc. As far a- we have, heard, the amount
funded in our principal cities are as fol
lows :
Macon SI 3,519 GOO
Mobile 11,423,600
Savannah 11,334,500
Montgomery “ 9,500,000
Wilmington about 0,000,000
Albany, Ga 1,496,900
LaG range, Ga 1,141,900
Total $54,413,500
southern Modi attics’ I iiioii.
The Southern Mechanic* Union will meet at the
Court House on Wednesday the' bth of April, for
the election of offieer?. All delinquent-? who fail to
attend will be expelled from the Union.
By order of the President.
ISAAC G. DF.NRON,
apl 5 2t Secy
Wood aud Chare oal Wanted!
C. S. PISTOL FACTORY. <
Columbus, Ga., March 28, ls&l. <
\j ANTED to contract for delivery of (300) three
hundred cord® of Wood* and (4360; forty-five hun
dred bushel? Charcoal.
JAMES HARDING,
mar 29 6t Capt, Artillery and Supt.
NOTICE.
Q T ANARUS! ’1 t‘t ST EPFS OFFICE. >
Gtilutubus, Ga., Alorch to, l-v O-t.
I WILL PAY A HIGH PRICE FOR
Scrap Copper,
delivered to any Quartennr.®ter in this State, for
shipment to me.
Post Quartermasters are, requested to buy all that
i* offered, as I want it for Shoe Rivets.
F. W. DILLARD,
mar 111 apl Major Q. M.
Wanted
Immediately at the C. .< Arsenal, r.duiubus. (j*,
10,000 FEET POPULAR SFAXTLIMi aii
ALSO,
A Quantity yf H7.ro) or Rye Straw,
v. c. HIM PH KEYS,
Maj. X Ord. Officer,
apri! 5 Iw • Coin Mg Arsenal.
Office Naval Iron Works i
tblumhus, Ga.. April 4th. 1864.}
To guard again-t imposition upon the poor and
upon person* ignorant of such mutters, notice is
hereby given that the Checks issued as change Lilli
from this office are redeemable in current Treasury
Notes—for the present (fi five dollars and under, and
with the new issue when received.
J. H. WABNFR. „
apl 4 2t
HEADQUARTERS POST. i
Cch.VMr.i T s, Ga.. April “and, 1801/
The attention of all persons between the ages of
seventeen and eighteen years, and between the agea
of forty-live and fifty years, is called to the follow
ing paragraph of General Order- No. 33. from the
A. and Inspect. Gen’ls office, Richmond, Ya.:
111. Any person liable to enrollment under this
act may join any company fur local defence w tuth
has been formed under General Orders No. 86, iisued
22d June. 18G3, for the war, or any other company
fur local defence which has been accepted into the
service, and which, by the terms of its enlistment,
is iiable to serve anywhere within the State; or
persons of this class may form new companies so;
local defence and special service, under General
Orders No! Bti, (1863) for the war, and select their
own officers.
The undersigned will give perrons wishing tolorrn
companies fin' local defence under this order all as
sistance in his power, ami would earnestly request
that such companies be organized, and old eompa~
nies, organized under General Orders No. 86, 1863,
be filled up to the maximum number. The benefit
that would accrue to regularly organized companies
or battalions, should the reserve corps ever be called
into active service, is too oh\ ious to be urged.
J. IV. ROBERTSON.
apr 4 Iw Col. Couidg. Post,
Sun and Enquirer capy one week.
“ Notice to Planters and Cou>
sinner* ol'lrou.”
LITE will keep for -ale, for Confederate funds, or
\\ exchange for apuntry produce—such as Corn,
Fodder, Bacon, Lard, Syrup, Peas. Potatoes, Tal
low, li.uiter. Wheat or Flour —the following articles,
on hand or made to order:
PLOW AND SCOOTER BAR IRON;
FLAT, ROUND AND SQUARE BAH IRON:
HOOP, HORSE SHOE. NAIL ROD
IRON COTTON TIES (CHEAPER THAN
ROPE) FOR BALING ;
SHOVELS AND SPADES ;
FRY PANS;
POT WARE OF SEVERAL DESCRIP
TIONS ;
SUGAR AND SALT KETTLES—FROM 40
TO 100 GALLONS;
SUGAR MILLS—I3 AND 15 INCH
We are prepared to receive and fill orders for any
sizes and quantity of Iron, from our Iron Works
and Rolling Mill in Alabama.
JOHN I). GRAY A CO..
apr 3 ts Next to New Bridge.
Hkidq4 : -4Rtkbs Enrolling Offick, )
3d Congressional Distri. t Georgia, }■
Columbus, Ga.. March 31, 1861.)
Pursuant to General Orders No. 33, Adjutant and
Inspector General’s office, Richmond, Ya., March
15th, 1864, all persons between the ages of 17 aud 13,
and 4o and 50, in. this District, are required to report
at these Headquarters for Enrollment.
The failure to comply with this notiee (within 3U
days from this date) will subject the defaulter to a
liability to be called into the general service with
persons between Eighteen and Forty-five, unless lie
shad have a valid excuse therefor, to be judged «t
by the Bureau of Conscription.
By order of
Capt, W. S, WALLACE,
Enrolling Officer.
J. A. Leonard, Ass’t.
apll 20d
Enquirer copy 20d
To The Patriotic Citizens ot Columbus aud
Vicinity.
The great benefits which have attended the labors
of Relief Committees on the battlefield, iu protect
ing and administering to the care aud comfort of
the sick and wonded, have been forcibly illustrated
in some of the great battles of the present war. To
secure to our gallant soldiers the aid derived from
such associations the citizens of CVdumbas and vi
cinity are earnestly requested to unite in forming
one or more Relief Committes, who will hold them
selves in readines/to accompany the Reserve Med
ical Corps of this Post to “the front” whenever the
occasion may demand.
Transportation for themselves and all article* for
the comfort of the sick and wounded will he fur
nished.
The articles most necessary to be provided are
old linen lint, cotton hatting, bandages, light wooden
eplint.9, tea, coffee, (ground./ wine, brandy or whis
key. and3uch delicacies as may be usepul.
Any Committee which may he organized can re
port itself to this office, so that the members may
receive information when their ervices'will he re
quired.
Individuals desiring to form a sociations can re
port to this office, where a register of their names
will he kept until a sufficient?!! uuiber to organize a
Committee shall be’received.
The obvious importance ot such associationsren
dci appeals to the patriotism of the public unneces
"ar>- GEO. B. I/OUGLAS.
. 01 Sen. Surg. of Post.
Culumhir, ua., March dl, l*o4.—,jt
i\en Bacon
AT RETAIL, at the lowest market price, by
H. FISIIACkER,
aprtl 1 tit ' lU4, Broad Street.
Copartnership.
r I ’• HE UNDERSIGNED have this day entered
L into a Copartnership under the n„me and
style of HANDHELD and AUSTIN, for the transac
tion of a general Commission business.
Office No. 13, Broad Street;
JOSEPH IIANSERD,
THOMAS H. AUSTIN.
Columbus, Ga., April 1, luti-L -lw
ihoemakeiN’ and Saddler*’
TOOLS,
'PIIK UNDERSIGNED having commenced the
*■ manufacture of the above named articles in this
eitv, are prepared to fill order* for the same.
Office ou Angle street, a I few floor® above* C S
Hospital. IIARRISON.IBLDELL AGO.
Reference— Mai. F. W. Dii.i.arp.
Mobile Register, Mississippi;,n and Augusta Con
stitutionalist, please copy oue month and -end bill®
to this office,
mar o 0 ts
Wanted liiiinediateljf.
H4 T*u11 kinds. Also Goat and Coon Skins.
Ihe highest price lurid for bop Skin*
Apply to JEFFERSON A IIA MILTON.
at Troy Factory \\ are Room.-.
mar 2n Of*
Enquirer and Sun copy.
Old .Scrap Iron W anted.
Y 4/ E wi-b to purchase old Scrap Wrought Iron.
JEFFERSON a HAMILTON.
mar 29 ot'
Enquirer and Sun copy.
$l6O Reward.
STOLEN from my plantation on the Columbus and
Glennvilte road. 13 mile* from the city, a fine
CHESNUT SORREL MARE, about 10 hand* high,
fluxed mane and tail, blaze face amt all white feet.
The left .fore hoof is split and the sear has been'
rasped. Shehad on'no shoes when taken. The above
reward will be paid for her deli vet y to me on my
place, or anywhere that I can get her.
mur2* tt IV ILL 1 AM JONES.
Columbus San aud Enquirer publish ts, and the
Eofiiiiln .-j.iiit ot Hie South 2t. W. JOS I S.
To Those Interested.
Notice is hereby given to all parties having fund*
in our hands, that the-ante must be w ithdrawn prior
to the Ist of April next, or under the law we shall
be compolled to return it, which will subjoct them
to a fax of thirty-three and a third percent, on the
amount. . ELLIS, LIVINGSTON *V 00,
Columbus, Ga., March 2d, ts