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lb {£.Climb# j - - - Alitor. Saturday .Morning, May 7, 1864. Ike Bill Opened. ' Aa our readers have been led to anticipate, the great straggle between the opposing ar mies in Northern Virginia bag commenced. The harnessed chivalry of the South again meets the mail-clad Northman in deadly con flict, on the classic plains of the “Old Domin ion,” thrice consecrated to victory. The bloody drama opens auspiciously. The close of Thursday’s found the Confederates victorious. But the issue :iad*oot been dec*- j ded. On yesterday morning, doubtless, the j battle-bugle again proclaimed a renewal of j the carnage. The fact that th® fords at which j the enemy crossed were left unguarded, as- j sures us that Gen. Lee was ready to meet him, j and felt able to whip him in an open fight, j Indeed this task is already halt accomplished, for at least that proportion of the Yankee army shared the illiortune of the day. With regard to. Gen. Lee’s strength there is a varie ty oi opinions. Perhaps it would be safe to say that there are employed in the indirect and immediate j defence of Richmond cn effective force of i 100,000 men. Ot" this numb©:, in view of s threatened movements bom other quarters, it is probable tout Gen. Lee could no*, concen trate against the "Army of the Potomac,” lei by Grant, more than 70,000. The Yankee Generals, doubtless, wields a force consider ably superior to this in point ot numbers, but vastly luterior to it in ail other respects. He will hurl his hired legions in vain against the solid adamant ot your hern valor. Governor Brown’s Extra Session. No. 4. How the amendments of the Constitution are made to qualify the clause which gives Congress the power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus , 1 cannot understand ; but as the Governor and his supporters seem to con sider them omnipotent, we must give’them a grave consideration. And here f would re peat what I said about their views of the na ture of the power to suspend, given to Con gress in the ninth article, viz : That since the Constitution was framed, no man ever discov ered the remotest connection between that clause and the amendments, until it was dis covered by the Goverrior. In the debate in the Virginia Legislature upon the far-famed Resolutions of 1798, the opposers of the alien and sedition laws, contended that they were unconstitutional, as right in the face and teeth of these very amendments. The sup porters of the laws (cme or more) in answer to the argument that they empowered the Presi dent to seize men at pleasure without war rant, and imprison and transport them with out trial, instanced some cases where all this might be done ; and among the rest this : that in case of'suspension of the writ of habeas corpus it might all be constitutionally done (except transporting ) Now the amendment prohibiting “unreasonable seizures," &c., was proposed by Virginia, and admitted into the Constitution almost in her very language. In the Legislature of 1798, there were men who were in the Convention that proposed the amendment, and there was probably not one who was not perfectly familiar with the end and object of the amendment. In that body a man stands up and asserts, that upon sus pension of the writ of habeas corpus, it would be constitutional to arrest without warrant and imprison without, trial, and no man pres ent denied the assertion—no man said “our own amendment would forbid that just as it forbids the President now to do such things.’’ But*l believe some of them did say the eases' were veiy different. Sixty-tin eg years after wards Governor Brown discovers that the amendment not only forbids such acts on the part of the President, but makes the suspen sion itself unconstitutional! 1 believe that the principles of the Virginia resolutions were sound, and that the alien and sedition laws were unconstitutional; but as I am no Solon, it may be well to state, that those resolutions met with no support from any State in the Union but Kentucky. Six States repudiated them expressly, and I believe that they all maintained the constitutionality of the alien and sedition laws. And as Mr. Stephens in 18 tO renounced the doctrines of those resolu tions, the reasonable presumption is, that thenceforward to 1864 he sided with the dis senting States, in their views of the alien and sedition laws. If they were constitutional, the act of suspension was a magna charta. Those were passed in a time of peace—this in a time of war. Those clothed the President with tremendous power—this clothes him with no power at all. But to return—when the Con stitution was under advisement, in the Mary land Convention, a committee was appointed to draft amendments to be submitted to Con- gress. They did so, accompanying their re ported amendments with explanations. Among the rest, was one substantially the same as that of Virginia, which we have just been considering. Hear them upon it : “This amendment was considered indispensable by many of the committee : for Congress having the power of laying excises , (the horror of a free people.! by which our dwelling houses, those castles considered so sacred by the Eng lish law, will be laid open to the insolence and oppression of office, there could be no constitutional check provided tiiat would prove so effectual a safeguard to our citizens. General warrants, too, the great engine by which power may destroy those individuals who resist usurpation, are also hereby forbid den to those magistrates (not Congressmen.) who are to administer the general government. “An excise, is tax upon home productions, which excisemen were wont to search out with over-vigilance: and general warrants, were warrants issued in general terms authorizing officers to apprehend all persons suspected of offences, without naming or describing any persons whatsoever.” (3 Story. Com . 749.) These are the evils intended to be remedied by the lourth nmeneftnent. and they are both em braced in it just as they are in the explanation of the committee.* Why did they not add, “And it will restrict the power of Congress to suspend the writ of habeas corpus/' 1 The 4th, stu ' r>t -B amendments and the habeas clause.', nnd many other clause? of the Con stitutin'..! are little else than transcripts | from the English laws. No judge in England J ever discovered any conflict or discrepancy ! be! ween them. Blacks! one, Jpcaking of those whi m secure the personal liberty of the sub ject, says: “To bereave a man of life, or by. violence, to confiscate his estate .w ithout accu sation or t rial, would be so gross apd'notori ous an act of despotism, as must at once con voy the alarm of tyranny throughout the whole kingdom ; but confinement of hi3 person by public, a less striking, and therefore a mote ernor go hand and hand, ands go With them. But here they part, and l go with the Judge. Blacksfone continues: And fyet sometimes wHKf. the Stat* is in r eal i>angeh ; e\Cn this may be a necessary measure. But the happiness of our constitution is, that it is not left to the executive power to determine when ihe danger of the Stale ia so great as to ren der this measure expedient ; for it is the par liament Oily, o: legislative power, that when ever it sees proper can authorize the crown? by suspending the habeas corpus act fora short and limited time to imprison suspected persons without giving any reason for so doing. {Strike out ‘•parliament” and insert “Congress. ’’ strikeout “crown” and insert “Pi esich ot. and you have Governor Brown's mmplaints and Bluckstonc’s answer to tiien - -ehoc.se between them. The learned Judge, you perceive, con sidered it an ample security against the abuse of ibis power tha’’, it was confined.to Parlia ment, un irresponsible body compared wiib our Congress. But Parliament may suspend the writ at pleasure —Congress, only in two cases, ueither of which was likely to occur once in fifty years. One ot them has occurred for the first time ia seventyfour years;and now when the State of the country justifies the exercise of the power, and Congress does exercise it—Congress that can pass no law which will not press as heavily upon them as q.pon the humblest individual in the country, Congress itself is held up to the eyes of the world as a conspirator with the President to trample the liberties of the people under foot, and this act is appealed to ia proof-of it! And this, too, by the author ities of a State in the perils of death, likely to have nothing left her in a halt year but the name of a State, the chains of slavery and the pains of the Inquisition! May God save us, first from our enemies, and then from ourselves. The sth amendment is invoked as controlling the habeas clause of the Constitution, the most unfortunate selection that the Governor could possibly have made'for his purpose. It pro nounces sentence of condemnation upon him and sentence of refutation upon his back ers. It provides that “no person shall be de prived of life, liberty or property withoutdue process qf law.” This provision / know he has violated. It provides also that “private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation.” This, everybody knows he has violated. A merchant, a very large dealer in Charleston, had purchased 500 sacks of salt in Georgia, at six dollars a sack, had them put on the cars, and just as they were about moving to Charleston, the Governor seized them, paid the owner about half what they cost, and distributed them to the people of Georgia upon his owq terms The merchant declared to me (for I happened to be staying with him at the time) that h e bought the salt for the accommodation of his customers, and not to speculate upon them; and I have no doubt of the truth of the state ment. But grant that he was upon a scheme of speculation, it was speculation upon the people of South Carolina, not of Georgia.— There was no process of law here—no taking for public U3es. no just compensation. Sup pose au untitled individual had committed this offence, what name would the Judge-Governor give it ? But let us return to the amendment: Tiie first part of it, is in these words : “No i person shall be held to answer for a capital or j otherwise infamous crime, unless on a present- j meat or indictment of a grand jury, except in j cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in j the militia, when in actual service in time of war ; or public danger." In such cases then, and j under such circumstances, a man may be seized, arraigned, tried and condemned to ] death, without indictment, or even the present- ; men! of a grand jury. And all this maybe; done not only in time of war, but in times ot j “public danger.” Who is to exercise these j powers ? The President. Who is to decide 1 when the public danger calls for the exercise of them ? The President. This is one of the j amendments w hich the Vice President tells us, i i coming last into the Constitution controls all before it, like the codicil of a will (!) It clothes the President directly and expressly with the power to do that very thing, which as a consequence of the suspension act, the Vice President says makes that act unconsti tutional ! Not that the consequence mustttec essarihj follow, but that it may follow. And he quotes from this article two and a half lines to show that in a time of war, invasion and public danger, the President cannot arrest a man, but by due process of law ; that is, wiihout first making an affidavit of the charge against him, and procuring a warrant of some Judge holding himself responsible to a writ of habeas corpus from another—carrying the prisoner before his superior (quoad hoc) with the cause of his deten tion, and bowing to bis judgment as to whether the man in custody shall be held to .bail, dis | charged or remanded to custody'! This is the amendment which the Vice President tells us mod ifies (rather abrogates) the habeas corpus clause of the Constitution, and forbids Congress to sus pend the writ, even to enable the President to deal summarily with deserters, traitors, spies, and j incendiaries, because, if power be given to him for this purpose, he may use it to arrest I anybody and everybody. And to support thes e ; views the Vice President adduces an article from ; the same Constitution, which invests the Presi j deut directly with powers a thousand times more dangerous ! I must be far gone iu my dotage, or i a dismal eclipse has come over some of the bright | cst intellects of the land, if at this early stage Os our political history, ne have to leant the old time worn lesson, that power is not be withheld be \ cause it may be abused ; let us fight until wa gain our liberty, and then repudiate all govern ment. The truth is, that the amendment instead i of clashing with the habeas clause, harmonizes with imperfectly—instead of weakening it, strength ens it powerfully. And here I might close my ar gument upon the act of suspension with my thanks to Mr. Stephens for his new rule of construction, and his reference to the fifth amendment in eon i firmation of it. But iu courtesy to Gov. Brown, | I must dwell on it a little longer. He does no tice the part of it upon which I have just com meuted, and after quoting from it the passage , that I have quoted, he thus proceeds: “But even here Ci’ w r •>(, tin: li:asCt>mmauder-in chief ia n«»t a'.’; a.-* his powers and dimes in .ordering arroct- of i> rsons in the ’ r *‘' at) d na ‘ vui force.', or i die militia when in actual-er vieo, are clearly deiiirci by mo i .cs aud artic.es of war provided by Congress. .Now here he ad mits that a power conferred by way ot exception, ; ie a n power—that this clause gives! tiie President authority to arrest without warrant— that Congress may leave it intact, or define it by rules aud articles of war—that they may do this by an implied only, (for there is no express power given them to do it)—and that they are trust-worthy depositaries of the power. By these admissions the Governor puts the torch to the "Georgia Platform” and reduces it to ashes. It was well that it should be destoyed by its own architect; and better that it- have been de stroyed before it was quite completed. The crafts man did not put up the main pillar under it; and that left it such a rickety affair that it would hold nobody but Jeff Davis, and it was too full of splinters for them to occupy it, so nobody could occupy it. I excuse them with all my heart.— They didn’t like the plan Si the work from the first, they were there upon short allowance, they were hurried most furiously by the Architect aad Head Workmen—(hreatened with another extra session if they did not put up the framework im mediately—got into confusion, broke down, and wouldn’t or couldn’t fiuish the underpinning.*— Who blames them ? Not the first nfan that I have seou. I did intend to bestow a few remarks on Mr. Stephens’new mode of construing a Constitution, viz.: by the age of its articles, and its likeness to a will ; hut after what 1 havo said, this cannot be nevesssary. I dismiss it therefore with this sin gle remark. A Constitution is more like a deed than a will : aud in that instrument if discrepan cies be found between the first and last part, the first prevails and the last gives way. So that if he has any use for the infants, he had better keep them as far from the old folks as possible. A. B’. Longstrket. ■ ■ ■- - The Orders inn Subjugated Dis trict—an Official Picture of Life Under the Enemy. A friend has placed in our possession a copy of the New Regims, a daily paper published in Norfolk, Va., the official journal of the department. In its columns we find # about sixty orders on different sub jects, and. we copy several of them. There seems to be nothing too low for that dirty dog Butler, or bis even dirtier Provost Marshal, to meddle with, The first of the official orders we copy explain : HOW THE BEAST MTSSED GETTING THE BANK DEPOSITS. Headquarters 18th Army Corps, 7 Department of Va. and North Carolina, > Fortress Monroe, Va., Feb. 18th, 1864. ) Special Orders, No. 49. VI. W. H. W. Hodges having been Cashier of the Merchants’ and Meehan* ics’ Savings Bank of Portsmouth, in which were deposited the savings of the widows and orphans of the laborers of that city and having, as such Cashier, been faiths less to his trust, and having sent away in to the Confederacy the funds belonging to the bank, and having been called upon by the Bank Commission and examined re garding the affairs of that bank, and being asked concerning it and c declining to an swer, and afterwards being brought be fore the commanding General, and being by him duly cautioned as $p the conse quences of declining to answer, and put ting at contempt the authority of the Unis ted States, but still refused to answer as to the means and manner by which, and men by whom said funds wpre absti acted and lost to the depositors, and so refusing | to answer. It is ordered that he be confined at hard labor at Fort Hatteras, on Hatteras Is land, upon the coast of North Carolina, upon bread and water, with a twenty-four pound ball attached to his leg by a chain not more than six feet long, until he an* ewers the questions, and that he stand committed to the guard house until he is , removed on board the transport to be con-j veyed to Fort Hatteras in execution of this | order. Bv command of Major Gen. Butler. R S. Davis, A. A. G. Headquarters 10th Army Corps,! Department of Va. Carolina, Fortress Monroe, Va, Feb. 18, 1864 j j Special Orders, 49. VII. Geo. M. Baine, senior of that name, late cashier of the Portsmouth Sas j vings Fnnd Society, and formerly a min ister of the Gospel, having had in his i charge over forty-three thousand dollars ; of the funds of said society, which funds j have been sent to Richmond, being duly invqired of by the Bank Commission in- ; vestigating the affairs of said Savings Bank as to the persons by whom, and the 1 means by said funds were with drawn from the Bank, and the laborers, widows, and orpl: ns, depositors therein, defrauded of the same, in vialation of his duty, and showing contempt for authority by refusing to disclose his accomplices in the fraud, and saying he “proposed to suffer for them, and would not answer for fear of implicating” the other robbers of this Bank, was called before the Com manding General, and fully and duly cau tioned by him as to the consequedces of declining to answer, and putting at con tempt the authority of the United States and after full deliberation the said Geo. M. Baine, the senior of that name, still refusing to answer the question put to him in behalf, or to disclose his accom plices and no where putting it upon the ground that it might criminate himself: It is ordered , That he be confined at hard labor at Fort Hatteras, on Hatteras Island, on the coast of North Carolina, until he does answer th 6 questions con cerning the robbery of the funds of the, said Bank. . . No fnrther punishment is put upon him in consideration of his age- The said George M. Baine will stand committed to he gnard house untill he is removed hn board the transport ship to be conveyed to Fori Hatteras. in the execution of this order. By command of Maj. Gen. Butler. R. S. Davis, A. A. G. The Marianna (Fla.; News says, that twelve deserters arrived there on Sunday. They were sent from the west side of the Choctawhatehee river, by detachments of Col. Holland's regiment of cavalry. Col. Holland is doing valuable service for the Confederacy in that section. ■ Some Indiana soldiers on a scout in ! the mountains of Georgia, came upon a house occupied only by an old wom an. “Well old lady, what are you ? seeesh V said the leader. “Xu” said she. “What then ?” “Baptist,” she said promptly, *; t ol always was.” TELSGIUFHIvi. Reports of the Press Association. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1868, by :J. S. Thrasher, in the Clerk’s office of the District Court of the Confederate States for th© Northern District of Georgia. Stirring Sews from Virginia! Great Battle Resumed! 2,000 YANKEES CAPTURED I ! No Particulars Yet Received. Our Torpedoes Doing Service t DESTRUCTION OF A GUNBOAT Price’s Victory Confirmed l ! Enemy Disastrously Whipped 2 Everything Quiet at Dalton Destructive Fire in Macon. Richmond, May 6. —Fighting between Lee and Grant was resumed this morning. Several telegrams received from the front rep resent the news as cheering. 2000 prisoners were captured yesterday. The train on the York River R. R. returned this morning, after proceeding to Meadow Station, in consequence of a report that our troops were fall ing back, the Yankees having crossed the Chicka hominy south of Bottom’s Bridge. Steamer Schultz with Yankee prisoners for City Point was turned back by the enemy this morn ing. It is reported that additional transport with troops came up the river to-day. Quite a large force landed on the south side of the river opposite City Point. No uneasiness is felt in official quarters at the aspect of affairs. A Yankee gunboat in James river was blown up this afternoon. Meridian, May 6.— lnformation from Trans- Mississippi confirm the report of the battle between Price and Steele, in which the Confederates gained a complete victory. •. Steele fs said to have lost an entire wagon train. Nothing further from the fight in Eastern Lou isiana. The cars will resume their regular trips to Bran don Sunday. Richmond, May 6.— Both Houses of Congress held short sessions to-day. In the Senate, ,Wigfall introduced resolutions defining the powers of the Confederate States Gov ernment. Made the order of the day for Monday next. Senate adj ourned till Monday. The House adopted a resolution for the appoint ment of a committee to enquire into the expediency of employing stenographic reporters. Dalton, May 6. —Enemy have been almost at a stand still to-day. They are repairing both railroads as they ad vance, and have a chain of pickets in front which renders ii impossible to learn what is going on in side the enemy’s pickets. At two o’clock Gen. Johnston issued an order granting pardon to all persons under arrest except those for plundering and pilfering. Demopolis, May 6.— Toformation from Missis sippi states that the enemy with 10,000 infantry, two batteries of artillery and 250 cavalry, all under command ofGen. McArthur, were advancing to wards Yazoo city, and encamped night before last within eight miles of Mechanicsburg. : Special Dispatch to the Columbus Times.) Field near Orange C. H,. May sth, via. Orange C. H.. May 6th.— Editor Times:—An other severe battle has closed to-night, j Killed in 31st Ga. Capt. J. T. Johnson, Capt. j Miller, Lt. Bradley. Sevg'ts li. D. Miller, W. T. Huckaby and J. M. Potsdale. Forty-six j wounded. - • C. Private Dispatch. We arc permitted to publish the following private dispatch, which was received in this city yesterday: Gokdonsville, May 6th, 1864. Jas. Collier, care of T. P. Collier : The casualties in Cos. A. 4th Ga. Reg’t are Ca.pt. J. 11. Weeks and J. S. Parker, killed, and E. L. Oailier, S. S. Smith, S. S. Baldwin, J. Corley. John Adams. Z. B. Maxwell, woun ded. Z. B. Maxwell. Macon, Ga., May G. —A disastrous fire occurred in East Macon, to-day, burning two large cotton warehouses, ami several ot£er buildings and about 5000 jbales of cotton. A 3mall amount was Gov ernment cotton. The Quartermaster General.— Whatever may have been the merits of the controversy in regard to Col. Myers, the recent Quartermaster General, we think there can be no doubt that his suc cessor has shown himself eminently qual ified for the position. There is, per haps, no position in the country involvs ing more responsibility, requiring .greater energy, more sleepless vigilance, or a clearer intelligence. The absence of eith er of these qualities would produce con fusion in the service, and arouse imme diate and emphatic complaint. Yet we are confident that there never was a time when our armies, so far as this Depart ment is concerned, were better supplied and when there was more satisfaction with its workings exhibited by the press and the public. We cannot but attribute these results to the efforts of the head of Department; and we see no good reason why he should not get the credit for them which he deserves.— Rich. Whig.. Three of the principal hatters of Rich mond—Messrs. Dooly, Weisiger and Thompson—announce a reduction of ten per cent, upon the present price of hats, when paid in new currency. This is coming down in the right direction in the articles of appearal, for the head. We trust the good example will not be lost upon the clothiers and bootmakers, but that price will continue to descend until they are more reasonable from top to toh. — » Burnside's Command.—Burnside is repre sented to be on his way “to the front.’' A Washington dispatch of the 2oth. says : Major Geucral Burnside's neaps this after noon passed down Fourteenth street, in the presence of Presid&nt Lincoln and Burnside. Thousands of persons congregated about Wiliiard’s hotel and on the street. ! and the troops were enthusiastically received. As the colored brigade passed, their fine marching and orderly bearing elic ; ited the highest praise, aud they were loudly 1 cheered. The troops all presented a magnifi cent appearance add were in good health and spirits. Business was quite suspended for the ; time, and citizens generally crowded the side walks to view the spectacle. Much enthusi asm was manifested—men cheering and i : --. , raving their handkerchiefs CITY MATT BBS. T. J. JACKSON, ....LOCAL EDITOR. * Funeral Notice* The friends and acquaintances of Walter C. Wright and family are invited to attend his fu neral this morning at 10 o’clock, from the residence of Wright, Esq., at the upper end of Broad street. may 7. For Chattahoochee* The steamer Jackson, Fry Master, will leave for the above and all intermediate landings. Sunday morning at 9 o’clock. - - . . ♦..—■-•g —’- . m Publish the News.—Persons receiving pri vate dispatches, reporting casualties in the battle now progressing in Yirainia, will con fer a favor upon us, and upon their friends generally, by handing them in to us for publi cation at the earliest practicable moment. Capt. J T. Johnson. A special dispatch in this morning’s Times, announces the death of this noble soldier and estimable gentleman. He fell at the battle near Orange C. H. s ou the 6th instant. He joined the Columbus Guards as a private at the first of the war, and remained with this command until elected first Lieutenant in a company raised by Capt. (now Major) R. T. Pride of this county, when he was relieved from duty in the “Guards” and took his posi tion in his company, which was attached to the 31st Georgia Regiment. He was appoint ed Adjutant of this Regiment in April, 1862, still holding his rank in the line, and in this position, acted his part gallantly in a number of the most important battles in Virginia and Gettysburg. On the promotion of Capt. Pride, he be came Captain of his company, though he still held the position of Adjutant—his ser vices being invaluable to Col. 0. A. Evans. Well do we remember his grief over the fall of a younger brother at Fredericksburg, be longing to the same Regiment. W.ell do we remember the character he bore in the army for good soldiery qualities and cool, deter mined bravery. His Regiment, without flat tery, may be called one of Me banner regi ments of this war, and he was prominent among its noblest spirits. In calculating the casualties of war, we can only wonder that he survived twenty other battles and skirm ishes, in which he acted his part so Well; and while we shed a tear of grateful sympathy with his parents and relations over hisjglorious death, we would recollect that life does not consist in the number of heart-throbs, but in the number of noble deeds, and judging his by this standard, he has lived much longer than fills to the lot of the vast majority Os mankind, and died where a chivalic soldier covets death, if it must come—in imperishable battle. m Sudden Death.— Mr. Walter 0. Wright, for many years a resident of Columbus, died sud denly yesterday morning. Five Dollar Bills.— The Muscogee Rail road has determined to discount five dollar bills from and after this date. A gentleman who arrived in this city this morning, direct from Jackson, Term., reports Gen. Forrest at Jackson, en route for Okalona. The railroad from Tupelo to Corinth is completed over half the route. Col. Reed is at Jackson, and is recov ering rapidly. He received three wounds, j Gen. Forrest says if it had not been for j his wounds, he would have been the first j man to enter Fort Pillow. Tiie City onCliarlcsloii. The City of Charleston stands, day by day, an exemplification of Yankee warfare, j The shells which are thrown into it daily, ; are not sent to conquer or take the city. ; That our foes have long since despaired of accomplishing. The are thrown sim ply to destroy so much private property. ' The aim of their cannon is chiefly at St. i Michael’s Church; but that grand old i structure stands thus far uninjured by ; their fiendish efforts. It is the city gen- ’ eraily, consisting of the houses of private j individuals, they are striving to destroy. Now, if there is any one principle held sacred in civilized warfare, it is that all private property is exempt from destruc- j tion. It may be used by armies; and doubtless is often abused. It may beta- : ken, like horses or wagons, when necessa« ry to the safety of invaders; but the delib erate and wanton destruction of the prop erty of private citizens, is sheer barbarity, which it was supposed that Christian civ- i ilization had long since banished from the I World. The alleged justification of our Yankee foes is— that Charleston has been the cradle of secession—in other words, that her people are their most determined foes. We admit it; but does not all war imply hostility between the contending parties? The more or less of hostility, is no ground for discrimination in practicing the usa ges of civilized warfare. The law of %var implies that all the citizens of the one country are the enemies of the other. It can do no more. It then lays down, what enemies thus arrayed against each other may do, in carrying on their hostilities.— Those who are actually in arms—the sols diery—may be attacked, and be taken prisoners, or be slain.' But as soon as they lay down their arms, they cannot be slain. All other unarmed citizens, especially women and children, are exempt from vi* olence. So the public property of the en emy may be destroyed, or private property, where it is used to afford advantages to the enemy, but the destruction of private property, merely because it belongs to an enemy who is hated, leads to unversal de vastation, which is the warfare of savages. We call to mind the nature cf the war our ememies are waging against us, not with the least hope ofchangiug their mode of warfare, but that all men may mark our relative positions. If we do not mistake the portents of the times, the barbarous warfare they have, from the commence ment of hostilities, been waging against us, is about to be entered on also by the Confederate States. Duty, self-preserva tion. humanity itself, requires that we should arrest their mode of warfare by practicing it upon our enemies, or give up the contest. To give up the contest is to sacrifice the world’s last hope of free Government, and to make ourselves the slaves of slaves. Be tier be, •'•vVhere the extinguished Spartans still are tree. In their proud charnel of Thermopyls:, Than tnosd.ier in such ashos.’ The Senate of the New York Legist ture has refused to sanction a bill to pa? the English bond-holders of the State in c<*in. The Toronto (Canada) Leader says of this: This is a flagrant outrage. It J, a rect act of repudiation. What, i n t j 1( T name of common senae. are “greenbacks”* to the English bond holders of the State ? They did not, in purchasing the bonds agree’to take their interest in a depreoia. ted currency. Even the Fedora! Gov< eminent requires that coin shall be naitA at the custome houses ! To ask BricLh* bond- holders to take irredeemable paper now at a discount of some forty per cent is one of the most outrageous things have heard of for some time. The city authorities of Montgomery*" Ala., have donated $15,000 towards sup. plying citizens with beef. The Advertis er thinks fish can be had cheaper. Notice. Muscogee .Railroad Company, ) Columbus, Ga., May 6, 1864. j On and after this instant Confederate Treasury Notes of the denomination of Five Dollars will lie. received only at a discount of 331 per cent.. J M Bit INS, Treas. may 7—lw The Douglas Ambulance €orp» Solicit contributions from the citizens of CoL umlius, of lint, old linen, bandages, soap, wine*, liquors,jiickles, preserves, provisions, or any other articles usually necessary for tbe -ick and wounded on the battle field. Seud to Goodrich Sc Cos., to be packed immedi ately. H. L. GOODRICH, Pres. B. R. C. may 3 ts Columbus, Ga. Hotice. The ladies of Columbus and surrounding country are respectully requested to send to the store of Messrs, Ligon Si Brooks, all the linen and cotton cloths that they can spare suitable for bandages. Last year, I made an appeal to the of Columbus for bandages, to which thev res ponded promptly,—l hope they will all inter est themselves and do as much for the cause at this call as they did last year. A. C. GRANT, Agent for Hospital, Marietta Ga. Columbus, Ga., May 4th, 1864. Will the city papers please copy the above for the cause of our common country ? A. C. G. “STOVE TIOULIHSHN." HPWQ Stove Moulders can get employment at A good wages, by application to HARRISON, BEDELL & CO. * Columbus, Ga. Augusta Constitutionalist, and Mississippian, copy one month aud send bills to this office, may 6 i m Augusta Sheeting lor Corn. I WILL EXCHANGE 1 M YARDS OF AUGUSTA SHEETING FOR O\E BITSHEL OF CORA, J. F. WINTER, President may 6 3t Rock Island Paper Mills. ~ SSOO REWARD! I WILL pay a reward of Five Hundred Dollars tor the apprehension of, with proof to convict, the person or persons who on the nii?ht of the 28th inst., stole a 7 inch RUBBER BELT from the Foundry connected with these Works. J.IT. WARNER, may 2-3 t Chief Eng. C. S. N HANDS WANTED. | IBERAL hire will be paid for five or ten hands id by the month or day. tnay')-d2\v GREJENWOOD & Git A Y. SSTTC FIVE BOXES CHOKE SICJAR for sale by GOODRICH & CO. mayo-lw Wanted* ' | 0 hire for the balance of the year, a good cook, washer aud ironer, for a small family ten miles in tho country, A liberal price will be paid Apply to E. J. PJNCKARD A £\). may 4.1 w* Oranges, Oranges*.! .4 FEW hundred Florida Oranges for -:L a; A 149 Broad Street, by ;Dn. C. H. JONE-. may 4 3t emeULAR. CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, » Quartermaster General’s Office, r Richmond, April 23, 1861. ) All Officers and Agents of this Department are hereby notified that in order to introduce proper uniformity and system in connection with the con tracts executed with the Factories on Government account, and to increase thereby the yield thereof, Major G. W. Cunningham, Quartermaster, hereto fore in charge of the Depot at Atlanta, Georgia, is entrusted, exclusively, with’the duty of contracting in behalf of this Department, with the Factories in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi. lie will respond to requisitions for material, made upon him by Officers in charge of Depots for the manufacture of clothing. A. R. LAWTON, may 3 lm Quartermaster General. AUCTION SALES. By Ellis, Livingston A t o Jk.t Private Sale. 5 Bales Cotton Yarns. from No. 8 to 12, by the Bale only. 100 Reams Superior Note Paper. may 3 4t GREAT SOITHEKHmimt Principal Office, Macon, Ga. STOCKHOLDERS are hereby notified that the Confederate Tax, levi 4 by the Act of Congress, dated 17th February, l-'4. on the Shares of Stock, will be paid by the Company. Stockholders are fnrther notified thnt their Annual meeting will beheld at this office on Thursday, the 2d day of June next, when Directors for the ensu ing year will be elected. C. DAY, Sec’y. may 2-3 t HEADQUARTERS POST. Columbus, Ga, April 2L 18:4. > GENERAL ORDERS, I No. 10. > 11. Officers, Government Contractors, and a!i ouf? persons having control of, or in their employ. 6 ■' tached soldiers or detailed enrolled men, are hereby informed that such soldiers and men are subjeeb with reference to furloughs, in every particular, tv the same rules, regulations and restrictions, as sol diers in the field, and all applications for furlough* over 4S hours by detached soldiers or detailed en rolled men, should be made in the prescribed fora to be found in the Army Regulations, and forwarded by their immediate officers, through these Ilea l quarters, for the approval of the General Command ing t h e Military District of Georgia. Detached or detailed men '.earing their work in violatiion of till* order, will have their details revoked. HI. All men between the ages of seventeen and n. 5v years employed in Government shop? or by Gov ernment Contractors, should, in every instance be enrolled. By order of COL. ROBERTSON Chas. Wood, A. A. G. apriH#