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Whitk. Slave Trade.—“Gov. j
Andrew, of Massachusetts, in his an
nual message, calls attention to the
excess of women, in Massachusetts,
and to the surplus of men in Oregon,
California, and other remote western
communities. In Oregon, having
62,160 inhabitants, according to the
census of 1S60, there were 10,961
males over 15 years old, and only
9,STS females above that age. Its
population is now estimated at over
100,000—this disproportion yet re
maining. In Massachusetts, there
were 257,S33 males between the ages
of fifteen and forty, and 287,000 fe
males, or a surplus of 29,166. The
excess, the governor says, of women
of all ages above fifteen years, was
38,846. The absorption of men by
the military, and naval service, dur
ing the intervening four years, has
aggregated this disproportion. And
it is a disastrous one; it disorders
the market for labor ; it reduces wo
men, and men to an unusual compe
tition for employment, fitted for men
alone ; tends to increase the number,
both of men unable to maintain fami
lies, and of women who must main
tain themselves, unaided. In civil
ized, and refined society, it is the of
fice, and duty of man to protect wo
man, to furnish her a sphere, a sup
port, a heme. In return, she com
forts, refines, and adorns domestic
life, the family, and the range of so
cial influences. This is also the
plainly providential order. Where
women are driven to the competition
of the market with men, or where
men are left unsolaced, and unrefined
by the presence of women, society
is alike weakened, and demoralized.
He recommends the adoption of some
practical way, by which young wo
men may be enabled to emigrate to
useful fields of employment in the
western states.”
“ In the St. Louis Republican, we
notice the following : .
The rebel Hear Admiral Buchan
an, who was wounded, and captured,
on board of the rebel ram Tennessee,
in the conflict in Mobile Bay, has
been sent to Fort Lafayette, by di
rection of the secretary of the navy.
He has been excepted from the car
tel for the exchange of naval prison
ers.”
We hear that the price of gold is rap
idly declining, eastward of this place.
We have been informed that, a few days
ago, it sold, in Augusta, as low as thirty.
Sebe says when it gets down to ten, he
believes he will buy u dime.—Macon Tel
egraph.
A
COUNTRYMAN.
Salisbury, N. 0., Jan. 13.—“A
fire was discovered, this morning,
about 7 o’clock, in a vacant store
room, in the George W. Brown build
ing, now the property of J. H. Ennis.
It spread, with great rapidity, to the
right, left, and rear, involving almost
every wooden building in the block.
Murphy*3 tbree-story brick store ar*
rested the flames on the south, and
Ennis’s brick building, now occupied
by the commissary department, ar
rested them on the north. The build
ings of the quartermaster’s depart-
mer?t were destroyed, and, with them,
some property, but bow much, is not
yet known. Loss of movable proper
ty, either public, or private, not very
great. It is believed to be the work
of an incendiary.”
The Pacificator, published in Au
gusta, Ga , contains an article, written
by Rev. L. P. O’Connel, of Columbia,
S. C., and addressed to Rev. Dr.
Cummings, of New York. In that ar
ticle, the writer suggests that the
Catholic church, of both sections of
the country, with the aid and co-oper
ation of all who may feel disposed to
encourage the undertaking, organize
itself into a grand peace association
—a convention, as it were, to discuss
propositions for peace ; and after
adopting some plan, present it to both
governments, for the r adoption, or
rejection.—Macon Telegraph ty Con
federate.
Important Legal Decision—We
publish, below, the decision of the
Hon. Wm, G. Jones, Confederate
Judge for the state of Alabama, in
the case of the Savings Bank of Mo
bile, against Henry Barnwell, Con
federate States Tax Collector, decid
ed in the Confederate District Court,
at Mobile.
9 he plaintiff brought this action
at law, to recover sums of money it
had been compelled to pay, as confed
erate taxes, for 1864, on state bonds,
purchased by it from the state of Al
abama, and the questions presented
welo : Are state bonds taxed by the
act of congress, and if so, is such tax
ation constitutional ?
The plaintiff also embraced in its
suit a claim for money, paid in new
issue, as the soldiers’ tax, levied and
collected under the act of the 10th
of June, 1864 ; and this branch of
the case lurned on the question,
whether the plaintiff was not entitled
to pay this tax in four per cent, cer
tificates, issued to plaintiff under the
I funding act of February, 1864, and
I which certificates have been since
held by plaintiff. The tax collector
compelled payment in confederate
notes, of the new issue, refusing four
per cent, certificates. The case wab
in the nature of an agreed one by
government, and the plaintiff, and the
questions arose on separate demurrer
to each count of the complaint.
The case was argued for plaintiff
by Robt. H. Smith, Esq., and P.
Phillips, Esq., and for government,
by A. J. Requier, Esq., district attor
ney.
The court decided :
1st. That congress did not possess
the constitutional power to tax state
bonds.
2nd. That the tax acts of congress
did not attempt to embrace state
bonds as a subject of taxation.
3rd. That the soldiers' tax was
payable only in confederate treasury
notes of the new issue, and could not
be paid in four per cent, certificates,
and that the act of congress, in re
quiring the tax to be thus paid, did
not violate the pledge given by con
gress, in the funding act, that the
four per cent, bonds should be receiv
ed for all public dues payable in
1864. That this pledge only related
to taxes then provided to be levied,
and did not extend to such as the ne
cessities of the government might re
quire to be afterwards raised.—Mo
bile Register.
Amongst those that are born of
woman, there beats not a bolder heart
than that of Jefferson Davis. We
are not ashamed to confess to a large
amout of hero worship for the man,
for whom bis northern foes can find
no better name than rebel, and slave
owner. Never duly elated by suc
cess, never dismayed by adversity,
his voice rings out clear as a trumpet
call, on the darkest day that befalls
bis :ountry. Not Cato himself spoke
to his little senate at Utica with more
dignity, and steadfastness than docs
the southern president, when address
ing his suffering fellow-countrymen.—
Liverpool Albion.
“Hermes says, that Sherman's ac
tivity will be responded to by active
measures in congress. The negroes
will almost certainly be called out,
since the administration, and many
geuerals are iu favor of it. But I
hear of one general, who says if Gen.
Lee could travel the country as much
as he has done, he would find plenty
of white men, and have no need for
negroes.. If negroes are used, they
must be used as slaves, or else wo
abandon tho principle of the strug
gle.”