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Saturday Morning, April 10,1864.
A Good Thing.
The following note from Major Bacon, C. S.
Quarma3ter of the State, conveys pleasing in
telligence to the Soldiers’ families of this
county. In view of the high prices of bread,
and the destitute condition of many of the
families of our brave men in the army, Judge
McKendrce made application, in the proper
quarter, for leave to turn over to the Inferior
Court of the County, for distribution to the
needy families of Soldiers, at Government
price, 2500 bushels of the tithing corn. The
application has been granted aau in a short
time the corn, or meal, will be ready for dis
tribution. Judge McKendree is entitled to
great credit for his agency in the matter.
Here is the note above referred to :
Controlling Quartermaster’s Office, )
Atlanta, Ga., April 27, 1864. /
J. J. McKendkek:
Sir: Your application in behan of the fam
ilies of indigent soldiers has this day been
granted. Captain Craft will issue an order
authorising you to allow the Court the 2500
bushels required.
Very respectfully, your ob’t serv t,
Wm. BACON.
Cook’s Hotel.— We accepted yesterday an
invitation to dine at the above popular estab
from its accomplished host, Mr.
A huge nock fek was the ,
. „ the occasion —and it was most
delightfully served up-but the said “Rock”
was flanked by such a number of tempting
dishes that we fear his highness was not
pleased at the divided attention he received.
We were glad to see the tables of the hotel so
densely thronged—a sure sign that friend
Shivers, even in these war times, is bravely
maintaining the enviable reputation as a
public caterer which he won years ago.
[COMMUNICATED.]
Mr. Bill Arp,
Dear sir .-—Ought not Gov. Brown to have
three Commissioners on their way to Wash
ington City to treat for peace, as we have re
cently gained three victories, viz: one in
Louisiana, one in North Carolina and one in
Kentucky by Forrest. ?
One who Want3 to Know.
There were some pleasant reports quite cui
rent last evening, says the Mobile Register of
the 28th, of a victory by the veteran Price
over Steele, in which the last was “everlast
ingly whipped” and driven out of Arkansas.
We failed to overtake the source from which
the report is derived. But it is said to be a
courier in the city from Price’s army. We
give it at its value, indulging the hope that it
may prove true,
Rewarded. —Immediately on hearing of the
capture of Plymouth, President Davis sent
Gen. Hoke the following dispatch:
Brig. Gen. Hoke :
In the name of the Confederacy, I thank
you for your success. You are a major-gen
eral from the date of the capture of Plymouth.
Jefferson Davis.
Gen. Hoke was the junior brigadier in Pick
ett’s division.
The Mississippi Outlaws. —We learn from
the Brandon Republican of the 21st, that Col.
Lowry has again been after the outlaws in
Jones county, Miss. During the previous
week he shot eight or ten deserters, and cap
tured a large number. Two of his command
were wounded in the skirmishes that occur
red.
• Surprised by the Enemy. —A rather un
pleasant rumor has reached Abingdon from
Gen. Hodge's command, on its late expedition
into Kentucky. The information of the Ab
ingdon Virginian is that, after skirmishing
with a superior force of the enemy at Paint
ville, Gen. Hodge fell back a few miles, turned
his horses out to graze and laid down to rest.
In this condition they were surprised by the
enemy, who approached from an unexpected
and unguarded direction. The consequence
was the command was scab, red and stam
peded, and several killed, wounded, and cap
tured. Among the wounded was Lieut. Col.
Clay, who was also captured. About a hun
dred are reported misssing.
No doubt is entertained of the surprise,
though it is believed the rumor greatly ex
aggerated. Gen. Hodge, we presume,' is the
late member of Congress from Kentucky.
That Tobacco—*A Backout.— The Enqui
rer states that the French tobacco in Rich*
mond consists of between seven and eight
thousand hogsheads, of fine quality, and worth
several millions of dollars. ‘ It will freight
seven or eight ships. The quiet manner in
which the Yankee Government backed down
from its refusal to permit this tobacco to pass
the blockade, shows the stamina of the Yan
kee pluck before the express demands of
France,, and testifies with equal force to the
cave-in-policy of that same nation upon any
emergency wherever the opposing power has
pluck enough itself to pursue its demands
with decent persistency,
Marß tlie Change.
Two years ago Senator Bright, of Indiana, (
was expelled from the Yankee Senate Q} *• j
vote not far from unanimous, for simply
mg an ordinary letter of introduction to a
person desiring to make the acquaintance o
President Davis. Now such- men as Long, ot
Ohio, Wood, of New York, Harris, of Marylan ,
and White, of Ohio, declare in open session
their conviction that Lincoln may bury in
bloody graves our brave and gallant soldier*,
until resistance* shall prove unavaihng ; may
drive the balance of our people into banish
ment. confiscate their estates, aqd; send them,
men, women and children, ullages, conditions
and =excs, strangers In a strange land, house
less "and. homeless wanderers ; but he can
never make them a subject race. Another
speaker invokes the curse ot Grod Almighty
upon the war, and invokes the people to make
peace by a compromise of conflicting inter
ests, principles and opinions. This is grati
fying. Reason is returning, national insanity
is decaying, and thinking men begin to see
that by attempting to exercise an arbitrary
control over tlie people of the South, the
North has lost its Constitutional form of gov
ernment and incurred a : u that can never
be paid. A vote can- lined in the
Yankee Congress wow member for
giving express . Mark the
l charge. > Clarion.
Governor Bfown ? s Extra Session.
No. 2.
Before I address myself to the subject of this
article, let me correct a typographical error in my
last of some importance. After quoting Governor
Brown, 1 am made to say, “this sentence is want
ing in «««*e and grace,” Ac. ' It should have been
“ease and grace.”
As lam old and liable to drop off at any mo
ment, I shall not take up Gov. Brown's Message in
its order, but proceed directly to those parts of
it which seem most likely to produce speedy mis
chief. I come direetly to '
THE SUSPENSION OP THE HABEAS CORPUS.*
The Governor, (himself an ex-Judge) the Vice-
President, (twenty years in Congress and more
years a jurist) and his brother, (an ex-Judge ot
> the Supreme Court of Georgia) all tell us, that the
t power of Congress to suspend the writ of habeas
i corpus is an implied power. This is formidable
authority, truly. And yet I deceive myself, if I
cannot demolish the whole Triumvirate in five
words : Gentlemen, if it be an impliedpower, what
i» it implied from t I say “Congress has an im
plied power to purchase timber, iron,” Ac. You
ask me “what is j'tbe power implied from ?” I an-
J swer “from the express power to provide and main
tain a navy”—and so of a hundred cases. But to
talk of an implied, where there is no express power
is to talk in contradictions. You may detach' all
the implied powers from a statute, and yet not
disturb a word or syllable of it. Let us try the ex
periment upon the article in question : “The privi
lege of the writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be sus
pended unless—” Next comes the empowering
part, that is, the implied part; take that away
and what have we left ?
The whole clause reads thus :
“The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall
be suspended unless when in cases of rebellion
or invasion the public safety may require it.”
That term “unless” has bewildered the Gover
nor and his followers. It is synonymous with
except and but, (Sax. butan) and if these distin
guish implied powers from express powers; the
Constitution teem3 with implied powers, which no
man living before Governor Brown, ever construed
as such. A few—
“ The Vice President,’’ Ac., “shall have no vote
unless they be equally divided.”
The time, place and maimer of holding elections,
Ac.—“But Congress may make or alter such reg
ulations, except as to the choosing Sen
ators.”
“Congress shall assemble,” Ac., “on the first
Monday,” Ac., unless they shall by law appoint a
different day.
“Each House shall keep a journal and publish
the same, excepting such parts,” Ac.
Senators and Representatives, Ac., “shall in all
cases, except treason, felony, or breach of- the
peace, be privileged from arrest.”
“No capitation or direct tax shall be laid, unless
in proportion to the census,” Ac.
“No money shall be drawn,” Ac., “but in conse
quence of appropriations made,” Ac.
f‘No person except a natural born citizen ehall be
eligible,” Ac.
“The trial of crimes except in cases of impeach
ment shall be by jury”—
Now these clauses have been discussed, (one or
more), in the Convention which formed the Con
stitution, by State Conventions, by Hamilton,
Madison, Marshall, Kent, Story, Rawle, Calhoun,
Clay, Webster, and a hundred others; and none of
them ever discovered that any of those qualifying
terms changed the powers conferred into implied
powers. But no sooner does Governor Brown shed
the light of his genius upon them than darkness
vanishes from the long beclouded minds of the
Vice President and the Judge, and they instantly
become preachers of the new faith with astound
ing effect! *
Lot us hear the Vice President upon it. “The
language of the Constitution that ‘the privilege of
the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended
unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the
public safety may require it’ clearly oxpvessess the
intention that tho power may be exercised in the
cases stated ; but it does so” (t. e., clearly expresses
it) “by implication only,;” [i.e., don’t express it
at all) “just as if a mother should say to her
daughter, ‘you shall not go unless you ride.’ ”
Verily, this exposition is to me, like Sancho
Panza’s dinner was to Mm; at which a dish was
no sooner set before him than it was snatched up
and taken off again. I was hungry for intellec
tual food from the new school, and I thought that
I had found it in this service of the Vice Presi
dent, but he no sooner presented mo a crumb than
he knocked it out of my hand and presented me
another, and so on, until he came to the last and
that was a stone. I confess my iucapacity to un
derstand how a. clearly expressed authority, inten
tion, wish or desire, can be such by implication
alone. “An implication,” says Webster, is “an
implying, or that which is implied, but not ex
pressed ; a tacit inference, or something fairly
to be understood, though not expressed in words.”
The \ ice President’s illustration , leaves us pre
cisely where it found us ; but as it gives usjsome
insight into his notions of express and implied
powers, we will bestow a few thoughts upon it. —
“A mother says, to her daughter, shall not go
unless you ride.” “Now,” he would say, “here
tho words clearly import permission to go on
horseback, but they do not express it —it is only
by implication we get at it from the words.
Thus, tho mother does not say, ‘You may go on
horseback’—that would be permission expressed.
But she says, ‘you shall not go, unless you go on
horseback;’ and now you reach permission thro g
implication, thus, ‘«ot go «*". “ mMt '
pliosyonmaygo on if™* (hat , can possl w y
caudle and sons,bio lac „. Aud does he
give his he here calls an implication
not perceive that Maitioll or .
from ivor =, And that it assumes the ap
natmn o w implicfttion , simply because he
peaianc « imr iies” in it instead of the term
Use3 o »nr “imports.” Strike out the first, and
“means or .
a ouher of the two last, and the implication
insert elluv , ~
i 3 trone. “Not go unless on horseback means
“vou may g° on horseback.” And this brings his
express and implied permission, not only to the
same sense, but to the same words. I have brought
his implication to an express permission. I will
now, by his own process, bring his express per-
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mission to an implication, “lou may go on horse
back.” implies “you shall not go, unless on horse
back.” “You may suspend in case of invasion,”
and “yon may not suspend except in case of inva
sion,” are but different modes of expressing the
same thing. lam forced to the conclusion then,
that in Mr. Stephens’ view, a power conveyed in ou e
form of words will be express ; but if conveyed in
another form of words of precisely the same signifi
cation, it will be implied. To state such a propo
sition is to refute it. The power of suspending,
then, is not one of implication, but one clear, un
ambiguous, express grant. "VYhy, then, does the
Governor call it an implied power? He, himself,
explains: he was about to turn loose upon it, a
couple of post- nati amendments, which had been
lying in ambush for it eighty years; and if he
allowed it to remain in all its native vigor, it might
prove too strong for these voracious beagles; so
he resolved to weaken it a little. therefore,
calls his Chara aud Asterion, “express powers,”
and tells us, that “the power to suspend the habeas
corpus at all, is derived not from express and di
-For brevity's sake I shall so designate it. orait
i ting “privilege.”
rect delegation, but from implication only, and an
implication can never be raised in opposition to an
express restriction.” In like manner he goes on.
So you see, Mr. Stephens, he does not “simply
6tate as a fact, that the power to suspend at all, is
an implied power,” upon which he bases no argu
ment. And now, to the liberty-saving amend
ments. And here the Vice President has done me
aveiv great service. He has presented to us in
clear concise terms, the true reading of the 3d
clause, 9 Sec. 1 Art. of the Constitution, as quali
fied by the amendments. Here it is : “The priv
ilege of the writ of habeas corpus unless when in
case of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may
require it." And no person “shall be deprived of
life, liberty or property without due process of
law." And further : “The right of the people to
be secure in their persons, houses, papers and ef
fects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,
shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue
but upon probable cause, supported by oath or af-
firmation, and particularly describing the place to
be searched and the things to be seized.”
“The attempted exercise of the power to suspend
the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in this
act, is in utter disregard, in the very face and teeth
of these restrictions. It attempts to provide for
depriving persons of liberty without due process
oflaw. .To annul and set at naught the great
constitutional ‘light’ of the people to bo secure in
their persons against ‘unreasonable seizures.' To
destroy and annihilate the great bulwark of per
sonal liberty secured in ourgreat chart to the hum
blest as well as the highest, that no warrants shall
be issued but upon probable cause Ac. To de
prive the judiciary department of its appropriate
functions Ac.” Awful attempts.
What does the Vice President mean by “the
attempted exercise of this power ?” Does he not
himself accord to Congress the right to exercise it?
And have they done anything more than exer
cise it? They have done it with great care and
caution; but to simplify matters, let us suppose
they had done it in eight words : “the writ of
habeas corpus shall be suspended*” Does not the
first clause of his synopsis, say they may suspend
it ? How does he make the suspension unconsti.
tutional then ? There is but one way in which he
can possibly reconcile himself to himself here; and
that is by saying “the act is unconstitutional be
v
cause it did not incorporate my proposed restric
tions —because Congress did not put it in the form
that I have given it. They had no right to detach
it from its necessary connections; pass it and
leave out the balance; and therefore the act
is null and void.” Well suppose they had
passed it exactly in your form; still it would have
suspended the writ, would it not? and have
brought down upon the country all those horrible
evils which you have enumerated. But how far
cical would it have been in any Congressman to
have proposed the law in that form! It would
have been a law to re-enact two clauses of the
Constitution, iiYorder to secure the constitutional
right of acting under a third clause! I cannot
conceive’ how they would,, acquire’ any more
force than they now have by being putin a statute.
It would he something new to be sure, to have
Congress legislating upon the Constitution; but
how such legislation could render that constitu
tional, which without it, would be unconstitutional
or vice versa, is entirely beyond my sounding.
Again, how is it possible for the amendments to
restrict the power of Congress to suspend the writ,
when there is the power expressly (or if you choose
impliedly) given, in the Constitution itself? ' Al
lowing all that is claimed for them, they can only
prevent abuses after the writ is suspended. They
cannot impair the jiower to suspend. The Con
stitution says to Congress ‘-you may suspend ;” it
says to the world “no person shall be deprived of
life, liberty and property, without due process of
law, or have his person seized or house searched,
Ac, but upon oath and warrant.” How can the
interdict in the last cases, qualify the power given
in the first? The House of Representatives alone
(Mr. Stephens himself being a member) have repeat
edly arrested men and sometimes imprisoned them,
without oath, without due
process of haw, without jury, and without a word of
authority in the Constitution for so doing. They
did it upon the far-off implication, that every leg
islative body must for its self-protection and very
existence have the power of punishing contempts.
The writ of habeas corpus was suspended by the
joint act of Representatives, Senators aud Presi
dent ; these measures, by one House alone. The
one body, only opened a door to arbitrary seizures
and arrests, which might not happen ; the other,
actually puts in practice,' arbitrary arrests, seizures
aud imprisonments—i. e. does, what the amend
ments in terms forbid —and yet wo are gii en to
understand, that the amendments render the ae- of
the first unconstitutional, but uo not touch the acts
of the last! , ,
I close with a few extracts from. Mi. 'tepoens
speech which would have been po.vcrtul
eott's case :* "out. is not only a
limited powers, but eaeb department,
esecutiv-e, ’judicial, n“.C but 'orders
£■££££ “or Persons in oiri, iite j
. . , function. There is no suen tnin Q
L "wntHhis country as political warrants or
k 7 racket This act attempts to introduce
letterS C * lpr 0 f things so odious to our ancestors
this new* order oi tniu 0
and so inconsistent with constitutxonal liberty. It
attempts to clothe him (the President) with judi
cial functions, and in a judicial character to do wha*
o J udcc under the Constitution can do, issue orders
or warrants, for arrests by which persons are to he
deprived of their liberty, imprisoned, immured in
dungeons, it may be without any oath or affirma
tion even of the probable guilt of the party ac
cused, Ac,” I wish he had explained how .saying
“the habeas corpus is suspended” could attempt all
these things. I cannot understand how the mere
attempt to do them, should be unconstitutional, and
the actual doing them be constitutional.
A. B. LONGSTREET.
*Wolcott was arrested by order of the Speaker
of the House of Representatives, for not answering
a Committee satisfactorily—kept in custody about
a week—then thrown in jail and kept there about
a month—and then upon Mr. Stephens’ motion,
liberated, and turned over to the judicial authori
ties to be further dealt with. How interesting the
extracts become with this commentary upon them;
General Lee’s Army. —A soldier writing
from Gen. Lee’s army, says: “All the army
of Gen. Lee asks* is that the people at home
Shall sustain them. Be patriotic, self-sacrific
ing. hopeful and cheerful as they are, and all
will be well. They need not then fear subju
gation invasion or reconstruction. The truth
is, this army does not intend this war shall
cease by their consent until our independence
is achieved, nor do they intend that the peo
ple at home, should they be so base as to at
tempt it, shall stop it until that time. So
that the croakers and submissionists, if there
be any of the latter, may make up their minds
to the prosecution of this war until peace is
made upon condition of our separate indepen-'
dence, for it is in the power of the army to
carry it on until that time, and they are de
termined to do so.
The Edgefield (S. C.) Advertiser of April
27th. says that the Greenwood Card Factory
is now in full blast, turning out about 130
parrs per week. The price is $lO per pair,
in new currency, or Ten and Fives of the old
| issue at 33A j>er cent, discount,
Major Charles J. Harris.
The Macon Telegraph gives the follow
ing explanation of the recent superse
dure of Major Harris in the conscription
department of Georgia. We freely en*
dorse the judgment which our cotempo
rary passes upon the efficiency and fidelity
of that officer, and join it in the hope
that his suspension (being purely a matter
of oversight) will continue only until the
meeting of Congress. The Telegraph re
marks :
This officer was superceded in his po*
sition, as Commandant of Conscription
in Georgia, simply because his nomina
tion by the President was not confirmed
by the Senate. The failure to confirm
him was accidental. We have undoubted
assurance of this fact from one of the Geor
gia Senators in Congress. A long list
of nominations, including that of Major
Harris, was laid upon the table, and in the
pressure ot the vital questions of the cur<
rency, etc., upon the Senate towards the
close of the session, these nominations were
overlooked and never called up again for
action. The suspension of Major Harris
from the command of this conscription
department is, therefore, as we trust and
believe, merely temporary, and the Senate
will confirm his nomination so soon as it
meets again. Major Harris has been for
tunate in the discharge of the difficult and
delicate duties of this important position,
in having secured and received not only
from his superior officers the highest en
comiums for the judgment, fidelity and
zeal displayed by him in the service of the
government, but the kindest feelings of
the people for the amenity and gentleness
with which he has enforced the severe
and* rigorous exactions of the law. We
trust he wili soon be reinstated. The
government can obtain the services of no
officer better fitted for the efficient admin
istration of this department in Georgia.
Forrest at Jackson, Team —His
Purposes.
By the arrival of a gentleman from
Jackson, Tenn., the Memphis Bulletin
of the 10th has information that Gen.
Forrest had established his heads
quarters at the former place, at the resis
dence of Mr. Benjamin Long and had
declared his intention of Bolding West
Tennessee and not permitting a Union
man to remain in that part of the coun
try, as he had said they should all give
in their allegience to the Confederacy, or
leave for the North. That the people are
true to the South the Bulletin virtually
admits by saying : “Forrest and his offi
cers were living in clover, being continu\
ally invited to attend feasts gotten up for
them by the secession brethren and errs
ing sisters of the surrounding country.
They wanted for nothing, living freely on
supplies which they boasted, were obtain*
in a large degree from Memphis."
Gen Forrest asked the Bulletin’s infor
mant various questions about inviduals of
his acquaintance in Memphis, and show-*
ed that he was not without means of bes
coming acquainted with what was going
on in the city. Maj. Strange continued
to fill the part of adjutant, as was attested
by his signature to a parole.
The Bulletin adds: “The expressed
intention of Forrest to hold West Tennes
see is not without its interest to our citi *
zens. While M does so, the supplies j
that have been allowed to reach the*cornu* |
try from this place will be necessarily
stopped, and attempt to smuggle wih |
lead to trouble. This state oi things ;
shows the wisdom of the measures that j
have been taken for the defence ui mems j
phis, and demonstrates the importance or j
of rendering them efficient. Every man
who wishes will to the city should shoul j
der a musket.
Queen Victoria and the Erince
of Wales.— The Queen is for Germany
not only in obedience to the proclivities
of her dead husband and in friendship of
his brother Prince Augustenburg, but j
because her niece, the daughter of her j
half sister, the Princess Leiuingm isj
Augustenburg’s wife and has always been I
high in favor with her Majesty, who ap- I
pointed the lady’s brother, the Prince of j
Leiniugen- an officer in the British navy i
—to the command of a royal yacht. !
The Prince of Wales and his party hold I
with Denmark, and for war on its behalf j
and that of the papa of the pretty j
Princess. I believe it is a historical tradi- <
tion that all reigning monarchs „are at
issue with their heirs apparent "and if j
Queen Victoria and her first born be not
greatly believed by those who pretend to
know, they are no exception to the rule.
Not to put too fine a point upon it, it is
said that they quarrel like cats and dogs.
Her Majesty likes to have her own way
as was very well known in Prince Albert’s
time, and the Prince needs none of the
inevitable reminding that he is heir to
the Empire on which the sun never sets
which much have attended him from his
cradle—hence antagonism They say
too, I think a newspaper correspodent
is fully justified in using those two “dread
ful words,” denounced by Aaron Burr,
who had good reason, for detesting them,
—that the Queen cannot approve of her
son’s “goings on”—in the direction of
George IV., of odorous memory, in il
lustration of which I might tell you more
stories than are worth repeating. When
the Prince got married and set up for
himself at Marlboro’s House, his mother
desired him to put his servants in mour-.
ning for his dead father; this, the young
man flatly refused to do, and left Wind-,
sor in a huff, not returning for some time.
—London correspondence of the New
York Tribune.
A Burning Shame — The Atlanta
Reveille states that a few days since, a
commissary of a certain division in Gen.
Johnston’s airay, camped in the orchard
of a widow lady near Dalton, turning his
stock into what we suppose he regarded
as good pasture, and thereby ruining, in a
few hours, what had cost thousands of
dollars and years of toil and care to accu*
mulate. Rail timber was abundant, and
the consequential gentleman could have
had a detail made to split all the rails he
needed to make his own pens. Outrages
like the above are becoming altogether
too frequent. A little authority appears
to deprive some people of the small amount
of common sense ever possessed by them.
The most severe puni»hment should be
meted out to every official who oversteps
his authority in the least.
TBLBgRAFEiq.
Reports of the Press Association.
Entered according to act of Congress in tho year
1863, by J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of
the District Court of the Confederate States for
the Northern District of Georgia.
Richmond, April 29.—A flag of truce boat
arrived at City ■Point last night with 50 offi
cers and 350 men.
Northern papers of the 27th P. M. received.
Accounts of the battle of Plymouth, represent
the Federal los3 at 150 killed and 2600 cap
tured, and the rebel loss 1500 killed. [Enor
mous lie.]
All negroes found in uniform were taken
out and shot.
Dispatches from New Orleans state that the
rebels destroyed not less than seventy-five
thousand bales of cotton on Red river.
St. Lewis telegrams of the 25th, says that
New Orleans advices of the 18th, generally
conceded that the battles in Louisana were
adverse to Banks, as the enemy remained on
the ground after the Saturday’s fight, while
Banks retreated four miles. The report of
another fight on the 10th, was a mistake.
The Union army is at Grand Ecore, fortify
ing both sides of the river. Grant and Ad
miral Porter are both there.
There is only 5 feet of water at Grand
Ecore.
The gun boat Easport is aground.
Prisoners taken, report that Kirby Smith
and Gen. Sibley were killed.
Cotton in New Orleans bad declined, and
sugar advanced.
Memphis advices of the 22d says that For
rest’s entire force is moving towards Alaba
ma, followed by Grierson.
Price had evacuated ’Camden, Ark., and
Steel had occupied the place.
Murphy was inaugurated Governor of Ark.,
with great pomp.
On the 18th the s Yankee House adopted a
joint resolution increasing the tariff to 50 per
cent.
Lincoln has accepted 80,000 troops tendered
for six months service by the Governors of
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, lowa
and Wisconsin. They will be raised for gar
rison duty, relieving the veteran troops.—
• A large force left Port Royal on the 14th
for Fortress Monroe.
Accounts from Mexico report that Vidaurri
had fled from Monterey with all his forces on
the advance of Juarez’s troops.
Burnsides’ corps, recently encampted at
Annapolis, (passed through Washington on
Monday afternoon.
The report that the Florida was at Reme
dios is untrue.
Laborjstrikes continue throughout the North
and West.
Butler- denies writing the protest recently
attributed to him.
Gold in New York on- le 2Gth 185 ; in Bal
timore on the 27th 181 J. •
Os the Yankees.who came uyAhe Peninsula
.yesterda\*fso cavalry remaiifiedVt Barhams
ville a short time and returned in the direc-
tion of Williamsburg.
Dalton, April 2?-.—A large force of the
enemy, consisting of infantry, artillery and
cavalry attacked our pickets on the Ringgold
road this morning, capturing ten and wound
ing several. Our pickets retreated nearly to
Tunnel Hill, when they met reinforcements
and.turned upon the Yankees, and after a
sharp engagement drove the enemy back.—
Loss oti either side small. The affair is re- j
garden simply as a reconnoissance to discover !
our position,
The enemy is also reported as moving out
slpvrlv from Cleveland yesterday in the direc
tion of Red Clay.
Wilmington,. April 29. —At afire this morn
ing about 4,400 bales cotton, 25 freight cars,
railroad offices, rosin and oil works, cotton
press, Berry's ship yard, sheds, &c., -were
burned. Loss estimated at five millions. The
Confederate Government lost one the
balance falls on individuals. Insurance only
about SIO,OOO,
The following reference to Mr. Mason, and
the cause of the Confederate Stat es, we ex
tract from a letter in the New York Times,
from its London correspondent, dated March
25th :
Asa somewhat experienced London corres
pondent, I should like to know where other
gentlemen similarly engaged, get the news
they now and then send across the Atlantic.
The story of imminent French recognition, I
am aware was in the financial column of the
“Morning Tost,” though I have not found out
how it got there ; but what, lively genius in
vented the hegira of the Confederate com
missioners. I can answer for Mr. Mason, He
took his accustomed walk last Wednesday in
Hyde Park, looking as fresh and rosy, as
rotund and happy, a3 ever he looked m the
Senate chamber. He wore a gray coat, but
not of Virginia homespun, and his long locks
of gray hair were flying in the wind. lam
told that he is more than ever sanguine of the
success of his compatriots; that he boasts that
the Southern army was never so strong ; so
w'ell supplied, or so determined, as now; that
it i3 an army of vetei’ans. which will scatter
the fresh levies of the North like chaff before
the whirlwind. He has gone, my informant
says, to spend the Easter holidays with Mr.
Beresford Hope and a large circle of Southern
sympatizers.
The opinions or statements of Mr. Mason
may not be of much importance but they are
in accordance with Southern letters received
in London, and with the opinions of English
men, who have lately come from Richmond.
It is the general belief that the war may last
as long as it has lasted, and that the South,
which has only to resist, can do no better now
than she could two or three years ago.
The Fayetteville (N. C.) Observer says
that Judge Manly, of the supreme court,
has decided, “in the matter of Rafter/ 7
that the suspension of the habeas corpus
writ is constitutional. He remanded Rafter
to the custody of the conscript officer.—
Thus, Judges Battle and Manly, a major
ity of the court, concur iu opinion.
The Raleigh (N. C.) Progress , of the
22d, learns from a gentleman connected
with the adjutant general’s office that
Lieut, Gen. Holmes, recently on duty in
Arkansas, has been assigned to duty in
this State, with his headquarters at Ral
eigh. He is to command the reserved
forces of the State —that is, those between
IT and 18 and 45 and 50.
The latest Paris fashion in ladies’ dress fs,
for out of doors, a garment cut very like a
man's great coat, fitting close and covered
with brass buttons—buttons not only for use
but for ornament, some of them even stuck on
the shoulders. Several ladies are to be met
in the street with this strange vestment, :r
the multiplicity of buttons, which glare fine
ly, produces an effect more strange tri
able.
'Business in Vicksburg.—The Sel
nja Mimssippian says :
“Advices from this city inform
m it presents a wore animated appeared
than for jenrs p ast , M of $
perforated by shells during the bombard'
ment ha*e been repaired and are now oc,
cupied by Yankees. Washington street,
is all noise and bustle. Every store is
crammed with goods from Yankeedom
and considerable business of a local char
acter is transacted there. Flour is held
at the high price of seventeen dollars per
barrel, calico fifty cents per yard, meal
four dollars per bushel, butter seventy five
cents per pound, and evetything else in
proportion. The town is filled with men
known as “cotton speculators,” who, by
some means or other, manage to purchase
more or less of the staple all the time. For
some time past a small steamer has been
kept busy m carrying cotton to Vicksburg
from xazoo and its navigable tributaries.
This business, however, has been inter
fered with recently by Ross' Texas Cav
alry.
Vicksburg is garrisoned almost entirely
by negroes, the white Yankees having
been called elsewhere. Gen. McArthur
is in command of the city at present.
I ederal Estimate of Johnston s Army.
—The Chattanooga Gazette, of the 16th, pub
lishes the following letter from a Yankee
“Scout
I have just returned from Dixie’s fair land,
where I have been on a scout. I did not visit
Dalton, but I learned from a rebel citizen who
lately visited Johnston’s headquarters, to see
his son, that the rebels in our front number
one hundred and forty (140) regiments, inclu
ding infantry, cavalry and artillery Thi*
citizen estimated Johnston’s numerical
strength at sixty (60) thousand, and declared
that he intended to assume the offensive in a
very few weeks He stated that the rebel
soldiers were highly elated with the idea of
unrestrained conquest. The rebel officers
have induced the privates to believe that they
will be able to invade Kentucky.
fJ^ h J 3 ° ltlZeil W9S in hi g h spirits, and talked
freei} tome supposing me to be a “Texan
Ranger. Os course, the above is nothing but
secesh “gassing,” still it behooves the Federal
authorities to be on the alert. The rebels are
f do something; starvation stares
' * hem , m *s® ce - tfay they not become des
perate and attempt invasion ?
married.
At the residence of the bride’s father, by Rev. S.
H. Higgins, D. D., on Thursday evening, 28th inst.,
Lieut. George 11. Neill; of the 63d regiment Ten
nessee V olunteers, to Miss Alabama Elizabeth,
daughter of Col. S. C. Lindsay, of this county.
Funeral Notice.
The friends and acquaintances of Col. Porter In
gram and Family, are respectfully invited to .‘attend
the funeral of his daughter Ann a, from his residence
this (Saturday) evening at 3 o’clock.
s3© Reward,
Hd qp.s Cos, H, 51th Ga. Yol. Inpantry, T
Battery Stephen Elliott, y
liardeeville, S. C., April 29, 1864. J
A reward of thirty dollars will be paid for the ar
rest of the followed named deserter, private Na
thaniel Wade, of Company H, 54th Ga. Vol. Infan
try, who deserted from my Company on or about the
20th day of March, 1864. The aforesaid private Na
thaniel Wade is fifty-three years of age, five feet
eight inches high, florid complexion, grey hair, grey
oves, and by profession when enlisted a farmer
lie is now supposed to be about Columbus, Ga., or
Girrard, Ala. IC. R. RUSSELL,
Capt. Cos., H, 54th Ga. Vol. Tufty,
Cbm’dg Battery Stephen Elliott.
apl-39 it*,
Notice.
All packages or boxes, for members of my com
pany, left at the Alabama Warehouse, [will bo for
warded to thejeommand, near Macon, Ga.
0. CROMWELL,
apl SO ts Chpt.
HEADQUARTERS POST, )
GENERAL ORDERS! 1 ;" 1 ' 3 - «*• AI,M Z% »«• >
No. 10. \
11. Officers, Government Contractors, and all other
persons having control of, or in their employ, de
tached soldiers or detailed enrolled men, are hereby
informed that such soldiers and men are subject,
with reference to furloughs, in every particular, to
the same rules, regulations and restrictions, as sol
diers in the field, and all applications for furloughs
oyer 48 hours by detached soldiers or detailed en
rolled men, should be made in the prescribed form
to be found in the Army Regulations, and forwarded
by their immediate officers, through these Head-
tor the approval of the General Command
ing the Military District of Georgia. Detached or
detailed men leaving their work in violatiion of this
order, will have their details revoked.
111. All men between the ages of seventeen and fif
ty years employed in Government shops or by Gov
ernment Contractors, should, in every instance be
enrolled. By order of
COL. ROBERTSON.
Chas. V ood, A. A. G. apr 28-1 w
AUCTION SALES.
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
NEGRO BOY TO HIRE.
WILL be hired on Tuesday, May 3d, in front of
our store, at 11 o’clock,
A Likely IVegro Boy, IS years old,
good waggoner and farm hand,
apl 28td $7 50
By Ellis, Livingston & Cos.
ON SATURDAY, 30th of April, at 11 o’clock, we
.will sell in front of our store,
10 Sacks Salt,
5 Boxes Sugar,
10 Boxes Tobacco,
20 Reams Letter Paper,
10 Wire-grass Hats,
Hardware, Crockery, Furniture, Boots,
Shoes, &c., &c.,
apr 28-$7,50
Bv Rosette, Eawlion, A Cos.
Furniture at Auction!
ON Wednesday, 4th May, at 10 o’clock, we will
selljin front of our store,
Bureaus, Side Boards, Wardrobes,
Bedsteads, Washstands,
Cane and Split-bottomed Chairs,
Rocking Chairs,
Feather Beds, Mattresses
Feather Pillows,
2 Mantel Clocks,
Wash Bowl and Pitchers,
Water Buckets,
. Tin Buckets, Tin Cans,
1 Large Pot,
Shovel and Tongs,
1 Sifter,
Oil Lamps,
Large Lot School Benches and Desks
2 Carpets,
1 Lot Sugar.
apr 2S-td
Wanted Immediately !
I desire to contract for
150,000 SHINGLES.
To be delivered as soon as practicable,
F. C. HUMPHREYS,
Major &e., Comd’g Arsenal.
Cos: uu - Arsenal, April2B. St