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Hi? J. w. W IBBEiI, - - - B3dlt^; 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- 11U»> - - 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