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ilu' fto. .1, W. u iRRGK, - - - Editor. Tufsday Morning, April 12, What Might hr Done. j i ho tilin' that fi:u» elapsed since Forreat en- { „. TP d Kentucky, and the pretty well authen- j ii-jx'dt that McGniloeta is on the way t,, r,in him with reinforcements, indicates that n, r cti to :pend smne time in that State, j it iHdkah farther, that Tennessee and the : ,i or post: hare been nearly stripped of \un- | rtroop The truth is that Giant is so j 1 1 oniy hf-rtt upon taking Richmond that he i3 illino; to hazard the loss of Tennessee and t enimky. The uninterrupted march of For i to Paducah, arid the tucl that ho is still a t ini...- and without timdernnce, enables us to appreciate the magnitude of the campaign : ■ilint Grant is planning against Richmond, j With the exception <>t the force under Ranks .ml Hi it at Chattanooga and in hast Teunes ■ r, he will concentrate the whole, or nearly the whole, of the remaining power of the : ! y.ieral undo? against Gen. Lee. Mow, it j nppeaT to ns that this programme, so clearly delineated by recent events and movements, open: to its a rno?t inviting fit-id. We verily bcJicVe that the recovery of both Tennessee • in ,| Kentucky i within the scope of timely, vigorous and well directed effort. There is nor a Tarik.ce in.the Slate of Mississippi ten miles from the river, and there is no proba bility that. There will be until the campaign in Virginia is decided. There is, therefore, no reason why Gen. Poll; s whole force could not co-operate in any* movement further North All that i necessary i= . to vv#*e« the Tennes see wifli ; ft few thousand men and at tike, or . von threaten, the Nashville & Chnttamooga road in Thomas’ rear. This would compel the evacuation of Chattanooga, and, then, Jolif!?tort could fake up the line of march and of pursuit, if he could not force his antag oni t to battle, he could follow him to Nash ville, or to the Ohio. in the meantime with Forrest, Morgan and Lee in the enemy 3 rear, or front, when he be oins to retreat, no. reinforcements could reach him. Once established in Kentucky, with the whole summer before, tie. we could select and fortify positions on the Tennessee and Cum berland livei , and hold tho two States for ever. The prize is worth a great effort and we trust it will be made. “An Rkvoir."—An able article from our distinguished correspondent will be found in this issue on the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus. This subject has been elaborately treated in this paper, and in other journals, but we tbiuk the reader will find views pre ented in this article -just views and most forcibly presented—-which lie Las seen no where else. It will well repay a careful peru sal. [OOMMBNICATED,] Gov. Brown’s Message—Habeas Corpus. We shall endeavor to treat this topic of the Message with becoming gravity. Him. Am* has exhausted the Mioject, m us unmorons aspects, and we hope to he brief. Mr. Steph ens' great speech has beclouded it. and a few -plain words seem to be necessary to take us back to original ideas and “fundamental prin ciples,” We beg to be indulged in something like system. The Ist question i? —What is THE LAW of suspension ? 2d, What are the facts in the case in hand— What is that terrible thing the Congress has ventured to do?—and 3d, What reasons exist-to justify the action of Congress in the premises? What is the policy adopted and what circunaafanceirren dered it necessary ? We devote this article to the*lam of the question. And it is obvious that precis,‘ideas on this subject do not prevail. Governor ■Brow# indulgesdeep mortification, at the late action of Congress in attempting to sus pend the privilege ot the writ ot habeas corpus, -and to confer upon the I’re:-blent powers tx~ pres /;,- ibnied hhn l.y tit ■ Constitution of the Confederate States/’ He boldly asserts that this "action of* Congress has been had under pretext of luccsnti/. which oto whole people docs not exist, and declaia that “'what ever may have bocn.llu- niutivos, om Congress., wilh t!u* a Pot and at the request of the Ex »■ ‘iiuu-, ha sliik/. .i ),//■ t.hm- at the liberties of to people ’.’j ihii, States. We join issue with the Governor. We ns :i that ihe action ut Congress is c&n••titn- : i piudetu—.necessary—wise—putri- ’ Ot/ nid conservative m - the liberties of the | people of a he te f;cutes, 1. What is Lt'h of the question? To * comprehend if we must ron'idci >v little the 1 rs firglmd: which the ufntdte of! Ib'th Charles l-t, chapter 1< fL affirmed with | s «ch immorlal emphasis—th k exact fcc.pe and ! . of that stninie. '•the reason and spirit i cd the law — :o,;at it did enact and why it ’ enacted it. We should. i. member that this statute, as : a. a t ii'uii .■ cqlien t famous habe.is corpus j H'at t harles .:J. ch. ■ originated in a i - .-w yule, i nig pivdra. fed, -hitter and bloody, j i ecu - p, ositiiv land and their tyran- j 1 1 A<a The old Huron • made no war upon i •uo Pent • c.-., They * nought through it® j ace iic' to cm tv* i the abuse 0 of the Mo i/a l I Prerogative - in rCstri. t that prerogative with- i in the just limit- of a raunnni liheny and to ■ shelter their obi English liberties under the ■ aegis of the 'supreme legislative will. The Star-Chainher Court, ns remoddled by | the statutes, 3 Hen VII. c. I. and 2i Hen. i VIII. c. 20, had a wide and admitted jurisdie- j tion over riots, perjury, misbehavior ot sher iffs and other misdemeanors in derogation of be laws ot the land. That court bad not been content with its just jurisdiction. Con v: 'tnir- of Lords, temporal and spiritual, being i pnv.v 001111 wflm-s and t>•■>,-> < ommnn-law judges 10 f ' :r to it? u'-nrpatiohs and tyrannies. r .' v ! 11 * J 2 'he intervention ot a jury, !: r ! n :;I h r! ly / IR:l6r thpir,tinonro ot the-crown, i . V ' t:> n “ diction, h- Rlachstone ! inform.: n ■ in the tt-m s- -t t i 1 ’ ot Lord Clarendon t 0 rhf . ; '/ Sfc ri"qv m hU pioclamations and! b *' rat ” to vindicating of ,lh 9 al and grunts of monopolies; holding , for honorable that which pleased and for 1 tnnt whifh profited, and becoming both a touit of law to determine civil eights, and a court of revenue to enrich the treasury; the council table by proclamations enjoining to the people that which was not enjoined by the tawf, and prohibiting that which was not prohibited; j and the ST A li-CMAMBER, which consisted of \ the same persons in different rooms, censuiing j the breach and disobedience of those procla mations, by very great fines, imprisonments, and corporal severities; so that any disrespect to | any acts of State, or to the persons oj states- j men, was in no time more penal, and the foun dations o>f right” (as established in the rock of the common law,) ic never more in danger to ; h« destroyed.” “For winch reason, Black-| stone continues, ‘‘it was finally abolished, by j statute [IC Car. I, e. 10.] to the general joy | of the whole nation.” llv the 3 lien., VH. c. I, the Lords, Privy j Counsellors and Judges in Star-Chamber, were constituted sole judges of the fair, fact and the penalty , and the II Hen. VII, c. 3, had legalized informations upon any penal statute, so that the jurisdiction of the King’s Bench fell into disuse aud “Empson and Dtully. (the wicked instruments .of King Henry VII) by hunting out obsolete penalties, and this tyran nical mode of prosecution, with other oppress ive devices, continually harrasssd the subject and shamefully enriched the crown.” It was for ‘ the emolument of the Exchequer” that almost every act in the wicked reign of Henry VII was devised. “Informations” were al- I lowed “in lieu of indieimtats at the assises j and sessions of the peace, in order to multiply j Jims and pecuniary penalties; “The statute for fines of landed property was craftily and covertly continued , to facilitate the destruction i of entails, and make the owners of real estates ■ more capable to forfeit a* well as to alien.” The benefit of clergy, was, no longer allowed ; to stop attainders and save the inheritances of lay offenders. The defendant in all actions on the case were subject to the writ of capias and and so might be outlawed, that his goods might become the property of the. crown;' It was against this state of things that the fendal lords —the powerful barons and rich abhtfs fought, in their own interest, and not that of “the common!?” who had little prop erty of a»y sort, und were mere dependencies. It was a contest for property , much more than for liberty. It bad no relation whatever to tie emergencies if war, when inter anna leges silent— when the grealeet sacrifices arc de manded pro rege. lege , ct gregt —that atate of the Republic in which "• the Senate of Rome was wont to have recourse to a DICTATOR." The habeas corpus and the restoration of the common law, by the overthrow of the Star- Chamber, looked to the preservation of the lights and properties of Englishmen in times of peace, and not to those periods of “immi nent danger," and those “cases of extreme emergency” in whjch every nation has parted “with its liberty--for awhile, in order to pre serve it forever. - ’ And hence, we find that Englishmen were content to wrest the sceptre of despotic power from the hands of the ty rant, and considered it “the happiness” of the British Constitution that it is not left to the Executive power to determine when the danger of the .State is so great as to render it “expedi ent” to subordinate the personal liberty of the subject to the salvation of the nation. -“The Parliament only, or legislative power moy, 1 .. v * . » it ■■secs proper, authorize the crown, by suspending the writ of Habeas Cor pus Act, for a short and limited time, to im prison suspected persons without giving any reasons for so doing.” Sueli was the English common and statute law at the time of the adoption of the Fede ral Constition, providing that “Tile privilege ot the writ of habeas corpus, shall not be sus pended unless, when in eases <> f rebellion or in ; vasion, the public safeiv MAY require it.” This provision of the Federal Constitution was a limitation upon the “omnipotence" of Par liament, as asserted by British statesmen. By a careful attention to the very words of the Constitution it will be seen that this writ may be suspended, not only when “in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety" SHALL absolutely, at the time*of suspension, “require it”—but whenever in either ot these eases, in the judgment of which lias i the sole right to decide the question, the puh i lie safety “MAY (probably) require it Such lis the sen ; e of the grammar and the sense of ! the thing. j A Constitutional lawyer will look in vain j for those other (imitation, upon this power in ! sis ted on by Governor Brown and Mr. Steph en? in Li- great rpeerdi at Millidgevifle of lGtli March, 1884. Mr. Stephens himself gives up the implication argument of tin* Governor, and confesses the power in Congress to be abso lute and proper—subject only to the condi tion? that the suspension shall be in a time of “rebellion or invasion -and these other ’ conditions, to-wit : ifiul it shall be done in j DEE PROCESS OF LAW i which every tyro kiinw j is an impossibility—and farther .that if - hall not interfere with “the right of the * people to he secure in t heir PERSONS, which h anothri impossibility ! and still farther that j ■no warrant shall i?-ne but upon probable ! cause supported by oath or affirmation, 1 which i has no reference whatever to the subject! \ It i? manifest to the candid mind that ihe mi'pen ;-ion of tlit writ of habeas carpus, in a time of rebellion or ‘•invasion’ when "the public safety mai; ic.|uire it, operates of itself to arrest the ■ dm- process of law —does not apply to ;i j. gulai irial upon indictment lor a and holds temporarily, in abeyance, the tights of ’ ttie people to be secure in their i<. e.i . .'utd not to be imprisoned upon any suspicion whatever, it lit only lot a sworn cause. Such was the English law—such the Federal Constitution— and out Constitution adopts tta preci-r words and meaning. The attempt to destroy the power by asserting conditions for its exercise, wholly incompatible with its ex istence, may evince very great devotion to public liberty, but does little credit to either the Governor or Vice President, as a fair minded, frank, capable expounder of the Con stitution ! There is little analogy between the °trusr eies of the English Earons again r t the Royal prerogative and the abuses of the Star-Cham her Court, and this '‘conflict of Gov. Brown '? ‘ with the Confederate Government. Our Pres ident ha? . i aimed no pregrogative whatever. He requested the legislate t power to suspend the writ ot habeas corpus —the Congress,' as ! the representatives of the people, did so. In our case we have no cormorant Exchequer—-swal lowing up the estates of the people. We are subject to n*,^r.s —the President makes no pretention to a right to suspend Habeas Cor pus. No man, not one, has ever been unjustly incarcerated m a jail to gratify executive ten* geanco. Not one has been subjected to the forfeiture of his estate. -There has been no oppression of any sort— no persecution at t«l. ! ff the Act ot Congress is as the Governri and . Vice President assert, “unconstitutional* why did the} - not wait for the Courts to so declare it?. Why agitate the public mind witlf a- j fruitless controversy about rights %at were j not imperiled until the Courts could be closed? I There is no war mad t e upon the Judiciary, as , Governor Brown assumes. If this law of is unconstitutional, there is nothing j to prevent an. appeal to the Courts, which would so declare it. The suspension of the writ is not intended for cases of defined cranes, which can be proven and sworn to. The Courts are open and sufficient in such cases for the punish ment of criminals. The argument against the constitutionality of this act of suspension, drawn from the se curities of personal liberty intended for times of peace, is equally as forcible against the or ganization of any army. The power to raise and support armies is, according to Governor Brown and Mr. Stephens, to be restricted by the subsequent amendments to the {Constitu tion which provide that the people shall be “secure in their persons” ; that warrants shall issue only upon “probable cause, supported by oath" and that “no person shall be depriv ed of liberty, without due process of law.” If there is any force at all in the argument iof the Governor and Vice President, it ! would have been appropriate, not against the Act of Congress, but in the Convention which framed (he Constitution and against that clause which authorized the suspension. But we shall see in the proper place that there is no force in the argument, whenever or wherever made. The Constitutional power to suspend the habeas corpus, is clear. That there are no limitation? imposed by I lie Const it ui ion upon that power, except that its suspension shall he done in a time of “rebellion” oy “invasion, and under circumstances to render it probable I “the public* safety' may require if is equally ! clear. The policy of the Constitution is an other question. Three, .Slate voted against the power in the Federal Convention. Mr Jefferson was at one lime bitterly opposed to the power, in theory, while his subsequent ac tion in Burr’s case, and his support of Gen. Wilkinson, went greatly beyond the scope of the Constitutional provision. The idea that Congress, which along has the power of sus pension. can act only on each individual rase. after it has arisen, to “prevent the release of a person, who has been arrested uuder a Con stitutional warrant, from judicial authority" 1 would not seem to be worthy, a serious refu- tation ! A little force is lobe found in the argument that the power of the President as Commander in-Ohief. “is confined to the arrest of persons subject to military power” and “does not ex tend to any persons in civil life, unless they be followers of the camp, or within the lines of the army!” Or, the Governor might have added, otherwise, by reason of the suspension of the habeas corpus, or the declaration of martial law, made subject to his power. The friends of .Stale Rights have little to thank the new-born zeal of tho Vice President f V i. if ibis la tin- t.t-sc defence that can be made of State Soveriegnty, “the dignity of the State,” and the liberties of the people,” Mr. ■Stephens can t save them. The Governor had as well prepare for their decent burial. De pend upon it, the people cannot be saved from themselves! And this is the serious (ask un dertaken by these most respectable dignitaries. The whole work complained of, is that of the immediate representative of the people. That is a refinement in liberty, equal to the refinement, of logic with which the subtle Vice President ; favors us, to-wit: “ The privilege of habeas ; corpus only can be suspended, and not the writ | itself!" We should not do justice to our conceptions of t he law, if we should wit hhold a frank declar ation that, in our opinion, (lie Constitution does not prohibit Congress from authorizing the President To suspend the writ of habeas corpus , as - was done by the Act of the Confed erate Congress of October Iff, 18f>2. Inter- ! preted in the light of eotemporaneous views I of public law* and keeping Hie analogies of (lie ! In itish Constitution before us, we have not the ! slightest doubt that the framers of the Fed | eral Constitution, and of our own Constitu tion intended that Congress might sus pend the writ. or authorize the President to do so, in such emergencies as Hie Constitu tion contemplates'. That is a curious reason Mr. Stephens gives why the 4°l of IRfi2.exci j ted no opposition .or comment, to-wit: that “it ! was unconstitutional ! If (he present act is > “unconstitutional” as be so earnestly contend ed? why not then, for the same reason, for hear comment, in like manner ? What pre vented excitement, in 1802, produces it in 1884 ! i lie true solution is, that in 1882. no carping. ta< lions spirit ofreptlesHiiess and vain ambition, j Willi personal piques to gralify, and personal j anniinosiiir? to indulge, and no personal ends | to attain, had arisen. i<> invoke a factions op- j position to the l’rp ident and iho Confederate J Government to ' pour Hie sweet mill; of con- j °oid into hell" and upiuar ilip general peace. *' AU RE VOIR. * ♦ —<e i i«m Sew Urleans. We have received n copy of the' New Or leans Times of rhe ?4lh nit. It lias some brief nows of the battle fought on the 21st ! “near Natchitoches." It occurred about 22 : mde- beyond Alexandria, on tlie Bayou Rap i idea. It give no particular?, except that Col. ! Sargent, of Hank: ' staff, was wounded. Among the ’i ankr-e captures were “many horses and mules. If the affair were of ;Vtiy importance, i something more would have been made of it. | One may conclude that it was insignificant— i in short, that no fight was given on our side, j There is nothing else of importance, unit .??, i it be a declaration in a long article of the | Times that ‘ the North, instead of being divi ! “ deu to-day. presents a united front against *• the rebellion. Our own opinion is that if is in every wise otherwise: tbat the Yankees in Louisiana before the end of this year will have to pick up what they have stolen and travel northwards, if there be ships enough to carry off the “cusses." The highest price quoted for gold on the 22d wa« sixty-four. In Sock 3 nothing of im portance was doing. 1 Low middling’’ cotton was going at o, emit 3 , the highest mark for that quality.— V-fnir Tribune , 17 th. For Judge of Probate. We are authorized to announce GEORGE H. WADDELL,(the present inenm hen r> for re-election to the office ot Probate Judge of Russell county, Ala. Election Ist Monday in May. apl ytde Capt. Fielding, of Br.nnaiid's Battalion, will leave for his eopimand on Wednesday, and will carry any loiters for his commend. TELE CrR APHIS. Reports of the Press Association. j Mi Bgf- ME? W ; |H i J&t&- 9.1 IB • - jßi; Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1803* by J. S, Turasheb, in the ClerkV-office,of the District Court of the Confederate Stales for the Northern District of Georgia. Orange C. H„ A|»ril 11.—Nortnrai dales toth e Bth has been received. Thurlow Weed thinks that the conclusion of the Yankee Congress in regard to Mexico will throw Napoleon ami Maximilian into the anus of the rebels. .* The Republicans carried the gubernatorial elec tion in Rhode Island by a small majority. The Emancipationists parried Maryland by an overwhelming majority. The Eleventh and Twelfth Army Corps aro con solidated into the Twentieth, to be commanded by Hooker. A telegram to Baltimore papers of the 7th says that the movements of troops are very active Rebel guerillas burned a steamboat fen miles be low Memphis mi the 2nd. Advices from Xew Orleans repori that the Mo bile ram'Tennessee was reeently sunk in a gale near Grant’s Pass. The New Jersey legislature refuses to allow sol diers to vote. The widow of Henry day, aged eight v-three is dead. Admiral Porter’s fleet captured +O,OOO hales of cotton on Red River. Official dispatches from Little Rock, Ark., re port the results of the expedition to Elba and Long Haw. The rebels’ pontoon bridge was burned, also, a train ot 34 wagons : captured 830 rebel prisoners: engaged Deebler’s rebel <ii\ ision, routing and driving it ten miles. Dalton, April I}. —The enemy art praHi-ing with their artillery to-day at Ringgold, Gens. Johnston and Hardee and others reviewed Wheeler's cavalry corps to-day. Weather clear and pleasant. t* , Richmond, April ll.—Heavy rains the past week, extending to the Blue Ridge, haw caused floods in all streams in Eastern anR Central Vir ginia, overflowing the banks an ,t seriously in.- ipairing agricultural prospects. •Tames River is higher to-4;»\ it this point than ; it has been in twenty years, j The water is three fjeat deep in Cary street. At Shockoe Creek the gas works and water works arc overflowed. It is feared that the canal is seriously damaged, ; between Richmond and Lynchburg. I The water has fallen ten inch*- this afternoon. No war news to-day. A flag of truce boat now remains at C’il v Point awaiting Yankee prisKner* to be sent back ie the United Slates. Funding returns come in slowly. Nothing vet from Mississippi or Louisiana. To tal amount funded reported to date, two hundred and seventeen millions. «* The negro colonists sent to Hayti h* Lincolu last year have been brought back to Virginia iti a j deplorable condition. They suffered extremely during their stay tin. that island to which they were sent and ttie whole colony came near perish ing. Atlanta, April 11th, 1364.—0n Friday the Typographical Union held a call meeting and re solved to advance prices from #1,35 to $1,87 per thousand. The publishers held a meeting on Sat urday and asked a. postponement of action for two weeks to see the course of prices and currency.— The printers refu*<»«J nu.i «,> .lay the offices are The Proprietors of four Journals journals pub, lished here, issued the following card to-day : We are under the necessity of suspending tem porarily, the publication of our Journals on ac count of unreasonable demands made by the Ty phograpbical Union The Printers employed in our offices in Atlantal raised their rates upon pres ent charges filly per cent. This w ould require a greater tax upon the pub lic than we arc willipg to impose. The price of Newspapers is already large enough, and we feel that the sympathies bf on readers will sustain onr endeavors to protect their interests as well as our own. Arrangements will be made as soon as prac ticable for the resumption of issues, and in the meanwhile, the indulgence of the public is earn estly invoked. The Conscript officer has enrolled the discharged Printers and ordered them to appear in camp to morrow to be mustered in. [Special to the Montgomery Advertiser.) Dalton, April 9. —Northern’papers contain the following from W ashington under date of the.Tth : Burnside is with the War Department consulting in reference to hig*expedition. » ulpepper is to be surrounded with formidable fortifications for a. military depot. Sheridan has been assigned to the army of the Po tomac. Henry Clay’s widow died at the residence of the late James B. Clay, near Lexington, Kentucky on the 6th. ’ In New York, on the 7th, gold was 171 1 J and cot - ton 10. Thomas and Palmer are receiving their troops in front. An attempt wa= made lately to bhrw up t j, p f )r j_ nance Arsenal at Chattanooga. Col. \\ oodtolk has been ordcivd in raise an inde pendent command to operate aaaiir r rebel auerilla-i in Kentucky: Gen. Forrest crossed the f ’mnbcfland River with men and reached JCdd> ville on the i’Blh March, A Washington correspondent ray s’that Forrest' raid was planned at the North, the clothing supply being sent from Cincinnati ami Xew fork lor the purpose id capture and to clothe Forrest’s men. tilt is auHioriM.firely announced fhat|the United States will not -end a minister to recognize Alaxi niillian’s“go\ eminent.- There was a grand review of V heeler's cavalry to day, by (Ten. Johnston.. Oui piekcls were tired ontlii- morning but re j mained si their posts. ~ I Tin: Ohio (’onvfation. The Ohio Demo cratic f\.riv,-nl ion, which met at (Vdiiiuiais, on oft the 2d ot March declared in favor of Me ridian for President. The fid!o«ing resolutions, offered by Judge Rurchaid were adopted without a dt- enting vubv : Resolved., 1. Thai the Democratic party is now, a>:Jt lias t-vef been, devoted to the Onu- Hiiufiou trao iniiied to us by (he framers (•filial insli 111. lent, ami expuuil.bd by .ietlVr snu, Madison and .l&ckaon, and a.s cnnsii-ued in the -Virginia and Kentucky t exoim ions or 1798 and 1790, and as confined in tin repot| thereon in the Virginia Legislature; and that for the maintenance of that Constitution and the preservation of the Union founded.under it, we here, as did the fathers of the republic, pledge life, fortune and sacred honor. 2. That we would hail with th light any and every honorable effort toward a restora tion of the normal condition of ibis Union lo wit : inlet ual peace and harmony, and frater ual affection bet*een ihe several States com prising it; and We regret that the measures of the present administration prevent such de- j sirable result?, and we are therefor.- unconi- ! promisingly opposed to its continuance in j power. i ■l. That we arc opposed to the prosecution ot the war for the subjugation of Stales, or for (he purpose of depriving them of their sov ereignty, 'or impairing their constitutional rights, and being satisfied ihat its continued prosecution fur such objects will in the prove the utter Jestruetim of civil libe.rty, we. therefore, demand the immediate itmu;/nru tion us pi iii e.iidb means to attain an honora ble settlement, aiud the restoration of the U nioti under the I'onMitution. 4. Ihat the niob spirit now abeun'dint? in our land is the natural and inevitable result of llte violations of constitution and the laws by the parly now in power, and we deem this a proper occasion to renew to our people the warnings of Washington against lawlessness in government and people. " The tyrany of the present administration hna sown the seeds from which w© are now reaping a harvest of erime. * CITY MATTERS -spa. -fc|a - j&tjj - - -■ jkASt r T. J JACKSON, l ocal ili-1 w _ '.Y y> - Jp|| Kotic<’ to I*iUr(His. After thiCdate we shall be compelK 1 tq j».G o a deduction of 33 1-3 per emit: from Confederate notes of the old issues above F). Hundred n and taken. Persons having business with (}ii- offi.-i willbear this in mhid. March 26th, 1864. Rkv. Dr. Shi.es. —In common with a large eon course of our citizens wo had the pleasure on cab bath last of hearing a moat able address- from thi vetierable and erudite divine, on the state of the country, atthe Presbyterian church in this city. It was indeed a “feast of reason and flow of soul. —one of those grand, eloquent, powerful, logical, argumentative, convincing, masterly efloi t- which one is privileged to listen to l.ut seldom in a lile time. lie started out by the proposition, that war are sent by the Almighty to purge nations of their iniquities, ufld proved beyond cavil that in the. o mighty upheavals God invariably sides with right and justice. He said that the infallible rule by which a people might determine as to -whether God was with them, \\ a? to he found in a snfisfnc tory solution of two simple interrogations “Are we right before God ?" and “Are we right Lei..re man ?" He discussed both these enquiries very olal.o ratelv, and proved convincingly that the Confede rate States are not yet right in . the eyes of C..d, inasmuch as the church had suffered a wotnl de clension, and the people were leuiarkably bar denod and ieoellionß. He-bowed that our ~nly hope of an early and permanent p,-a. e w.i. c> be expected in the valley m uafiuual bum ilia Hon ami repentance, aided by Hie strong arm ...f a united, determined and patriotic rest dance, "at all h... :«rd and to the last extremity.'-’ The reverend gentleman, in di-a-u dug Ait- sc«- ond proposition, adduced, by a brilliant array and reason and a host of irrefutable fad . tin- mo t overwhelming and indubitable evidenco, to.pr-'Ve that we are in the right in the issues exi-din*-, t»e tvvesu the North and the South. He honed that ns far back as the tormatiou of ttic Puitcd Ftale.- Government. there wa® a great diver it > ot int.-ie-i and a clashing of sentiment bet ween the two tiuns—even prior to the adoption of the C’.-mtitn tion ; and at that early stage of tiling, compromi ses had to be entered into between the Northern and Southern colonies—compromise, which re cognized the rights of Slavery, State Sovereignty and Secession in a light as clear an the noondav sun. lie said that the Northern Stater had not only always acknowledged the via hi of Sece:-i"ii up to the breaking out of tin. war, but that on several occasions several of those Si ate? had actu ally threatened to exercise the right. Hue Lv one they bad vi Rated constitutional obligations and broken the most solemn agreements, until every thing was gone, and there was no resource loft the Fonth, but to throw <-rt' the woke of tyranny and resort to the last refuge of freemen— seen?: ion fir revolution. He further showed that the Foul bind all the elements id' inherent greatness ; the ncct. sary requisites of nationality, and pi. Hired in hopeful and vivid colors, the grand inis sion under hcavon of the Confederate States. lie castigated with tremendous severity tip. hosts of croakers, skulkers and speculator.-’, and said that a cat-o’-niue-tails should Re placed in the hands of every woman in the Fonth to ti-iii tliL-ui into ranks; and that public opinion should at once commence the work of frowning indig nantly upon all such Tnen. His language on point was peculiarly strong. We tire aware that in this brief notice of this, gentleman’s able and learned address, wo have done it but very imperfect justice, and have merely attempted to sketch the most important foal nre?. Altogether this speech was a calui, dispassionate, plain, but truly eloquent array of (nub, to which our people listened with profound deference, ond which, we trust will bo productive of good result.- Every erty, (own, and hamlet in the Confederacy should have Ihe benefit of this speaker’.- 1 learning, eloquence and rhetoric. At night, the services of the Fabhath were con tinned at Ft. Luke’s, by the appropriate oxen-bes of prayer and cxliuitation, which were participated in by Rev. Messrs. Harrison, Key and Devoiie of the several city churches and by tte\. Dr. Stiles. Pertinent addresses were delivered by the latter gentleman and Rev. Mr. Ham,-on, which abounded in earnestness ami power. Upon the whole, the entire services of the Fabhath were highly im pressive and instructive, and have doubtless left jin press ions from which we may all hope to profit, We cannot conclude this article without .’ayinc a word of praise in behalf of the music at the Presbyterian church on Fabhath. i t wa conducted ni admirable taste and spirit. As the grand old organ -ent forth its deep, solemn tones in accoui parliament to ‘u choir of admirable . inget . could not help feeling the purifying and Meinni zing influence ol' good church music, and that it was good to be there. Surely -m b music where it spirit and sentimciil springs from the heaif must ascend as pleasing .an-nffce to fin- ear of hear en A.'iMYKIiSARV UP l*’ußT SPM TIC ft. Ti. duv ll.iv. years ago, (!,»: ball of the piv.eur i.-. ititl ivvln tioii was opened in the city of ( li.-iri. ton, I'm Shinier at thui time, gm risnm-d l.y s i... >t. ■ watt made the object oi in c hi v -ii..i of ibe t't It it'll Uiivi'init iiliil lilt'd fit.in ‘! ■«i ii.fjif, | by the venerable patiiol. Cdmund It tiffin, of \'ir "iiii.i. Ii i j f.mlituhb- t tee a.tit >ii all •> In retro,*!.. • . the [itf-t. null note tin? relevant y ■! *i, f . upon [o t .hi prospect,«. Alt Ln.ity h the tir-l of iio.'iiiiiy emanated from the ’..utb, it wi, ,_.i,K excKtse.l allw provocation- int.nmej able iv.ni ..in Wily toe alter all hope- of a pvtieeiiil *ulitlio?: im . tteii. Jt was the begin it in a* ot that "iirept. ihle eoiitliel which had been pieileta ruiiin it h\ tin- Co horts ot tannin i mu. A.ve, iuhy we noi i\ that ii ivn- liii* I'ouruterieejiieni of on. 1 ot iho-.c "irat events l»ijf with (he fine ot nau.m . whi.-l, Mas m creed in the court- ot'elr-rnity from the t..un.iaii..i. of the world! Three years of 14. n:a ee, ia ,j. t ion, of numerous sorrow , ha,.: pa. ed. ami „ ha' do we see ? The little chutd that gathered on (he seaboard of the gallant and glorious little I'it|mot to State, ha= grown to proportion that now sweep | across the entire Southern sky and on, people have grown from a feeble, dependent, destitute i-omlirh-u to U relf-rely ing and seJf-*mii:uit»ng nation of men, who still know their rights, and knowing, dare | maintain them. But the glorious little i-eapori | city still maintains its integrity, and ha* stood un | daunted amidst an array of prepirratk.n*andan ex j peuditnre of munitions of war unparalleled in the i history of wars. Still her noble sour, actuated | wish Ibe same indomitable heroism and courage, . which prompted their first actsof mM-tunce.. land ;*as a living bulwark in defence of truth, in liv. : humanity and religion. All glory to Charleston and her brave defenders. While hi»t..r£ live, the , record iif their honors will stand in character: f I ii\ iiig lieht hivb on the scroll offiamc. I Thn e ye.iYt of Llo<#4 lutyc wojrkedP 5* 1 change j in our once happy bind, and the heart sicken’ at [ the contemplation of the horrors of war. But ail ; this will only serve to cement ns more firmly in 1 the bonds of indissoluble brotherhood, and actuate ! i our patriots to more daring deeds and greater sac rifices. The dawn is not far distant when the m.u ot independence aud peace will vise in full-orbed i splendor to dissipate the darkness which now Gver kgngs u§. fif\M cr: tuR lv\.\MiN|xr; Jb-Aito.— IV« mol , ' 1 - 'ivunaii to-day who iiiiVuinc-i u- iL,.t be aud .j>r. I'd.' "'.- " .,ud iaioiaibty knowu as the < iiui s.i uinio.-. J. -ard tor tlii.? ■ .ngressional Hi li'-T hau* u igned H, duty ai Macon, Ga. W' ‘ . '.-is 1 11 o fit' a sc tU m that bo l.xauiioing Board ni the Uoiil< -k-t.!--.v t-ver lelt a post with a better reputation for faithfulness, tumucss a.id ability, tciuper U w ith man justice to all, titan that com ; posed of Kilgore. Kcttnan and Bass. .Their office ; w;. a thankic.-ts one but they extorted the confe?- ii-n ',-o-.i from those w ho thought themselves -ag -1 gin v I by the rigid'uy'of tn< ir examination? that ? btuir ci-uclu- i, ii- w-eiv just, and left with the confi ■ u.ence of all. Dr. -t’.ncr and his associate, who succeed them intbo Medical Examining Board here, hear the character of high- toned gentlemen and efficient of liders. [communicated,] \ few days since, tho Columbus Fun bad the affrontry to charge, that a set of men thought the Confederacy were through personal motives—to erect a stroug Government. lit other words, tlie Editor charged that those who opposed that “spawn of faction— ‘‘Stephens 11* solutions'’— were moved by per ; sonai cooaifleralioas, iu their opposition to lliosc dangerous resolutions, which slink in i)i< uusU ils of tin* patriotic people, and attest the fall and degradation of Georgia. It anything need he added U> show that tha vivut’Sf* of the Sun, is antagonistic to the b«9t interests ot the country. 1 beg to refer to its editoii.il of (lie 10th insf , where every Act of 1 'nit-;- Vi ■■ ■ for our defence and safety against ■i powerful and hated enemy, is paraded, con <h-miu;«l and hehl up to the people as evidence i'corrupt, and nnconstitufional legislation.—*- Mr Editor, the game has • played out.’ 1 Ev i-r since tlu- commencement of the war, a set ■if men who ( 1 ik r* “Paddy Power's” great man, . * j h ike i Imir !o ads, look wise, and say noth ing—fw lit until <oiue law is passed for the in e-1 t-e of our armies—-the depletion of the currency or the. proem enieut of ijTead for tlie mi ners, and than the whole pack of Minetituoiiiutis pHiriuls cry ** wolf." President D.ivi i -i ‘.'t’ut.iliuc,' and ( suple tuo! in overthruw the liberties ot bis country. .Despotism.!*: is a stereotyped phrase with lb. ui- One half of our people are traitors to iUt it- country and the war. I repeat ibis is ail •played out ’ \V«- know of but one enemy in this country, and that man ie he. who fails to support the laws, the Pre-idem, and the war. No other comer- will stand the t«-st ot scrutiny *no oth ci com ic'wiil save oar dear country from snb jug.ition t‘>i-l ruin. Wtien we have achieved onr independetue, it will be time for hair "putting Editors and politicians to stir up their p“lii leal cauldrons and kick up a rov\ F generally. SPItAUGE. Siezure at Sea by Confederate Vfsfeus.- In tho House of (commons, on ihe Tilt of March, Mr, R. Long ask ed the f il’d Lord oftlie Treasury wheth er :i .ship belonging to the (Jonfederate navy would have the same right to search and make prize of an English vessel carrying contraband of war to a Federal port tLai, a Federal war vessel would ex ercise in the ease ol a British ship carry ing contraband of war to a Confederate port.; and, if not, whether such partiality in favor of one or two beligerant Powers is reconcilable with the a strict neutrality” professed by her Majesty’s Government. The Attorn) General.—There ean he no doubt that Confederate vessels have exactly the same right to visit and search and capture British vessels carrying con traband of war a,s Federal vessels have. Bui it must always be remembered that neither ol them are entitled to make any such capture, except for the. purpose of taking the ship for adjudication before a prize court, ” * Hville Bank Note List.—We find the fol lowing li-:t of money quotations in the Nashville Pie ,of tho iflth ult. They are for United States Treasury notes: Bab!: of Teimes.'efi, 42 dia Pnioii Bank, ...,10 dig Planter Bank, ~15 dig Bank of Shelby ville, 40 dia Merchant’--' Bank i. fid dis Bank of the Union, 15 dis iracltt Rank,. ,60 dis Bank of LoainVeT.ee, 60 dis City . Bank,.. 40 dig Ban kof Paris, 62 dis Bank of Chattanooga, 80 dis Bank of Memphis, 7S dis Luck Bank 10 dis Loinmt-winl flunk, 80 dis ■ --.outfieri* Bank 75 dis Bunk of Xa - li\ ilk-, 60 dis to-oee Bank 70 dis ! Gok of West Tenuism c, go di? Bank of Middle Xe.nne.uve, 4o dis Xorllieii! Bank ot 'l’emiesseo. 7« dig ’ b'or,;ia a ini H- tit h Ciu tdina 7i> dig North C.iiolirui a«..l Virginia 80 dis Alabama. ; 75 dis ijoui.-iami ;.. 40 dis Gobi, M.uvuigj preuiiuln ~i>S G-M, i ollingj ~..62 F*! v> (buying) prc-iiiiniii,.. 48 ih a, 4 < Bing;...: 54 i EBIICPBSJkirdI HALL iA-n' i:r. ifiooty I,o Wig* Jo €, SIMII AH Hill; Oit, itt flour «tlh fvliißilfcf.lit* ht lifidht do W. In. lay and Thursday evenings, April ii ih oid llih. *i%3J.OHY\S Witst iflsl.i ST It A TlO l E>‘ !..' I T SERIES. jib! M I A t Kir Portraits of the Confederate 1 tleiicra!# Siate-men and prominent men and wo men of tin . oiith interfered with beautiful views irom ditto,cue j,a<i of the world and the novelties. . future advertisement and small bills. April 12, lSbl. It, Ail.,cueFK KaILROAD CoiU'.iMV, I Coi.r’wßCS, Ha., April bth. 1364./ Th e bolder.- of general .-tocK in the -Mu- . ogee Raii 1. i t C-mpscy are hereby notified that lha five per cent r levied by the law passed by the Confeder ate Con: ; ■ , i,\h February, 1364, will b*given in ,::.d t lid by tfelr Company on then stock, Bv oi.lcr of Board of Directors. J. M. BIVINS. Secretary and Treasurer. j »l-l 6 lw. ... SiVaiiTiah i!i publican and Au>u-fu t oustitutioQ* di r will id.-, t j übli bed the aboveune week and f IV. aid biif. to this office %tt4)t' si*.*i*<*•'** and Hjititiiifi’s TOOLS, ' J 'I! b ( .N l)F!t. i<;XCL> haviny Commenced the * ia.mutactuie . f the abov e named ai tides in this city, are jn epm. and to (ill orders for the rame. < ’ln. t oi dude -treet, aSfew doors above C. S. 1! vital. lIAKRISON,IBEbf.LL \ CO. Rifercncv Mai. F. W. Dii.i.akti. Mobile Ri "i ter, Micsissippiau and August* Cen 'titiuionMist, pica. e copy one motuh and send bill* to this office, mar 3u ts