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liY .1 OhKJ'll Cushy.
MACON, FRIDAY, 3 O’CLOCK, P. M., APRIL 4, 1862.
GENERAL C<INSCRIPTION'.
It wiil be seen that Congress is now debat
ing a | r >).-ct lor a general conscription of all
citizens between the ages of eighteen and thir
ty-five. This measure, .Ye think, suppose it
operating de novo, would raise 6o0,000 men,
and if put in force now would exceed that
number, since we have many soldiers in the
field over thirty-five years of age.
^jgfllon, Martin J. Crawford has nearly
completed his Cavalry Regiment for the war.
f£f" M . J. P. Murray is manufacturing the
Mississippi Rifle, in Columbus, Go.
Plant Moke Corn.—Yesterday no less than
two of the printers in our office were summon
ed home to await not unexpected additions to
their f-milirs, and we understood that alter
waiting awhile, the “additions” came, and
were found to foot all right. Can anything
show more conclusively the necessity of in
creased provision crops ? Answer me that,
Horatio ?
San Calamity.—It in With deep and poig
nant regret that we announce the melancholy
tael that the entire family of Newspaperdom is
now suill-ring from a severe "bill-ious attack—
pulse very high, and a careful diagnosis of the
disease foreshadows that the fever will rise still
higher, and the patients will collapse in a sud
den gust of steam."* The paper mills have
erased from their vocabulary the word “mill—
fractional part of a cent," and inserted dollars.
This is decidedly a dollar-oufr proceeding. “Cun
such things be, a
twenty four turk
Is there no pliys
hour of pai
Good.—-I
processes a
service, lor
HT Judge
td Thomas J. A
) ( ine us, like l.ogan’s
TV Bard ol Avon said.
extend relief in our
fees.)
5 suspended all civil
ilies of soldier#in the
%'ir Orleans.
* t efused the petition
_Y vricted of murder re-
ntly in Washingtciau’.i unly, for a new trial,
the caSe will be carried to the Supreme Court.
Ex-Governor Johnson and V . K. DeOraffen
ried, are his attorneys.
To Break up Kmomtios.—There are three
wavs to break up extortion, viz:
1st Let an association ot gentlemen be form
ed to prosecute offenders under the act pissed
by the last Legislature.
2nd. I.el capitalists, combine and- purchase
provisions, etc., and retail them at coat.
Mril.'M.et farmers raise provision crops en
tirely
l~i?~ We are indebted to Miss Josephine
.Shropshire, of Jasper coifnty, for contributions
of brass and copper for the Macon battery.
!-if*fir. N. J. Bussey, ot Jamestown, Chat
tahoochee county, has on hand 48 barrels of
Moius.se-, w .iidi he is selling to the families of
aoseni; i.iUeis, at li.Iy cents per gallon, iio
will always be held in nicest remembrance by
them.
When the Air of Old England grows
hoi- n ious, it creates only a ituall Hustle; w hen
her : remier gets in a bustle, small sounds are
euiitli d, like the rubbing of dry Leaves, sayeth
,lu philosophical Admiral.
PREPAY ADVERTISEMENTS.
V’e must ngiin cal attention to the fact
<>,.t prepayment is required in all cases, ex
cept where a special arrangement exists to the
ontrary. Hereafter we will respect no ad
*’ert:«!tig order which is not accompanied with
he money. Let persons not knowing how
much to send inclose a specific sum and direct
their advirtisi ments to bo published to that
amount, and they shall be liberally dealt by.
We find it mere waste of time and material, in
these days, to he charging fugitive adverti.se-
inents. The truth is nobody pays and nobody,
• ie fancy, expects to pay. We will print them
, Iio longer and then the waste of time will not
, be ours.
i.lNCt iLN'S EMANCIPATION MESSAGE.
We publish this curious and awkward thing
as a matter of nrord. Lincoln’s 8tate papers
< are in perfect keeping with the man—rough
t and clumsy. They are the little end ol the
Northern political horn, through which the
l*rbole black republican fabric may well creep
^ into universal in-.ignittear.ee. 1 J
(
We intended to
1 adventure a small exposition ol its aim and
mrpose, 1 ut the foreman tells ns space is sh.,rt,
,nd so we must postpone till to morrow or in
definitely.
-A-
j-jgpThe VJiniral wants to know if a man
1 plants beans, is ho a bean(e)factor?
wine are held by many in high esteem
a-> food, but their hind parts arc all gammon.
;-f*"Capt E. B. Hook, of the Sandersville
\ olunteers, died recemly in Richmond, Ya.
Gi.okyimi in TiiF-iK Shame and Perfidy.--
The Fortress Monroe correspondent of the New
York Tribune of the 12th, gives the following
laudatory account of the atrocious violation by
the enemy of their own Hag of surrender at
Newport News:
•< • As the Merrimac approach
ed, she oiSfieu fire, which the Congress return
ed, but soon raised the signal to surrender.
The Yorktown and Jamestown sent officers
aboard to receive the surrender and arrange
f.ir the transfer of the prisoners. When some
•25 of the crew of the Congress bad been taken
to the rebel boats, Capt Howard, of the 4th
artillery, brought the guns of his light battery
to hear upon Un m, aud fairly heat them off
and compelled them to draw off and give up
the transfer of the prisoners. One of his shells
entered the steam chest of the Yorktown.—
'Iherefoie, all hut the twenty-live, or so, that
have been previously taken, the crew and offi
cers of the Congress not killed, made their es
cape. Great praise is accorded on all hands to
Capt Howard. <.s well h- to the Fire Zouaves
and others, who lay down in the sand and
picked off the rebels with small arms.”
ON SALT.
lbere is now very little, if any, salt in Ma
con to be had for love or money. A merchant
told us yesterday he had received forty dollars
from a country correspondent, with instructions
to lay it out in salt at any price, but, af er in
quiry, could find none, and returned the mo
ney.
The absence of sueh an article of prime ne
cessity as salt from onr market, with no reason-
aide prosfoct of a supply—with no ellorls put
mrth to remedy the deficiency, ought to be a
subject of serious concern with every prudent
man. The inquiry should be raised every
where, “What is to he done ?" and whatever
is done must t.c done shortly, dtiriug the ap
proaching summer months.
There really need be no uneasiness, if we use
hut the most ordinarv precaution. We have
hut to go to work and make salt, and since pri
vate enterprise will not be tem; ted by the ex
traordinary remards offered in the present
price, counties and neighborhoods must imme
diately tase steps to send proper men and la
borers to the coast to boil down salt sufficient
for their own wants. If next fall catches them
without salt, their case will he pitiable indeed,
and then it will he too late to remedy the defi
ciency. They must act in time and he ready
to boil salt so soon as hot weather sets in.
We hear of immense salt products in Texas
and in Virginia, but it will be vain to expect
supplies from those quarters The railroads
will be merely military roads during the re
mainder of the war. There is no other possi-
hie chance that we can discover, except to take
your sugar kettles down to the nearest anil
safest seaboard and make salt there for yours
self and neighbors.
That this can i>e very readily and cheaply
done no man need to doubt. One laborer with
n good kettle, can, according to frequent ex
periinents, easily make a bushel of salt per day
from sea water. We understand a gentleman
of this city, recently from the coast, where he
has been making enquiries on the subject,
found a salt boiler with one very widely set
kettle and furnace: who was producing two
bushels and a half per day. But whether half
a bushel or two bushels can be made per handi
it is evidently a profitable business—the very
cheapest way in which neighborhoods can sup
ply themselves, and an unf.dlible source of sup
ply if we will only be up and doing to avail
ourselves of it.
The only thing needed is timely attention to
this all important matter. We ihciefore sug
gest that neighboring planters make an *r-
langenv nt- among themselves, and send one of
their number, or some good enterprising and
active man, with sufficient hands and kettles
down to the coa-t, and set at once about the
work of making at least all the salt tequisite
for themselves, and some for market, if they
ric-.se
Let us renew the hint that, during the hot
summer months, sea water, in shallow vats or
ponds, will, in a few hours, under the action
of the sun. Income strong brine, and vastly
facilitate the work of boding it down to the
point of cry staliza tion, and it will also, while
in a state of rest, deposit all those earth}’ and
bitter elements weich otherwise would impair
the purity of the salt.
Surely, this is a subject which should awak
en t le attention of our readers at once.
FOREIGN IDEAS* AND DELUSIONS.
Wilincr A Smith’s European (Liverpool)
Times of the 1st Inst., has a highly complis
inentary notice of the speech ol flic Lincoln
Minister, Charles F. Adams, at a public ban
quet of Americans in London, on the anniver
sary of Washington’s birth day. At this break
fast it was declared that the people of the South,
if they would not consent to be "fellow citizens'
should be “subjects” of the Norihcr Stales.—
The Liverpool Times, commenting upon Mr.
Adams’ speech and the war, throws out these
strange ideas:
The speech c-f thef Atuei ican Minister breath
ed, it is needle*a to sivy, the a-iine determina
tion to put down and suppress the revolt of ihe
South which wc see reflected in every move
ment of Mr. Lincoln's Government. Whether
tliese gigantic ellorts will be crowned with
success or end in failure, a short time must
deteimne. The struggle is about to begin in
earnest, and must terminate between March
and May. We enter this day upon the first of
these months, and the next few Weeks will he
the most important in the history of the Uni
ted States that have occurred since the S.ates
wrested their independence from the grasp of
George the Third. Washington’s experiment,
which has worked such extraordinary results,
during thelast three quarters of a century, will
have to pass in the next ninety days through
the severest ordeal to wh>-'h it has ever been
subjected. If the North cannot subjugate the
South in this brief time, which is very un
likely, it is almof* morally certain that the
European Powers will stcpjn and propo-c
terms, and in mercy to all parties—to the fam
ishing operatives of England and France, ns
well as to the combatants themselves, the act
will be real humanity
All this is a mere absurdity. So fur from
subjugating the South in ninety days, the ene
my could not inarch over our territ: ry in that
time, even if he met with no opposition.
As to French and English intervention, wc
ti ust our people are forever done with hope,
expectation or desire of anything of the kind.
It is not strange that just as planting time
comes the European and Northern prints
should again be filled with talk about Euro
pean interference.
The British cotton interests, of which ,the
Liverpool Times is a leading organ, are alarm
ed at the idea that no cot' >n shall he produced
this year, and the North too is well aware that
if the South should not abandon cotton grow
ing, and strain every nerve for the production
of food, she is doomed. The interests of bo'h
England and Lincolndotn in this matter are,
MESSAGE FROM LINCOLN.
The following message, asking the passage
of a resolution in favor of tho policy of milt
ing contributions from the Federal treasury to*
aid tlic States so disposed, to emancipate their
slaves, was recently sent to Congress by Abra
ham Lincoln.
Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of
Representatices : 1 recommend the adoption
of a joint resolution by your honorable bodies
which shall be substantially as follows:
"Rcsohtd, That the United States ought to
co-operate with any States which may adopt
gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such
State pecuniary aid to he used by such State
m its discretion to compensate lor the inconvc
oiences, public and private, produced by such
change oi system.”
If the proposition contained in the resolu
tion does not meet the approval of Congress
and the countiy, there is the end; but il it
does command such approval, I deem it ol im
portance that the Stater, and people immediate
ly interested should be at once dislinct’y notified
of the fact, so that they may begin to consider
whether to accept or reject il. The Federal
Government would find its highest interest in
such a measure, us one of the most efficient
means ot self preservation. The leaders of the
existing insurrection entertain the hope that
this Government will be lorced to acknowledge
tire independence of some part of the disaffect
ed region, and Ifaal all the slave Slates north
of such pirts will then say—the Union for
which we have struggled being already gone,
we now choose to go W'th the southern section
To deprive them of this hope substantially
ends the rebellion, and the initiation of emanci
pation completely deprives them ol it as to all
the States initialing it. The point is not that
all the Stales tolerating slavery would very-
soon, if at all, initiatiate emancipation; but that
while the offer is equally made to ail, the more
northern shail, by such initiation, make it cer
tain to the more southern that, in no event, will
the former eve-join the latter in their proposed
Confederacy. 1 say initiation, because, in my
judgment, gradual and not sudden emancipa
tion i» better for all. In the mere financial or
pecuniary view, any member of Congress with
the e nsua tables and Treasury repot ts b.lore
him, can readily see for himself how very soon
the current expenditures of this war would
purchase, at fair valuation, a 1 the slaves in any
named State.
Such a proposition on the part of the Gener
al Government sets up no cl itn ol a right, by
Federal authority, to interfere with slavery
within State limits, referring, as it does, the
■ Vtr. I.incotu’a Eiaauipsdu Scheme.
Sharp Discussion of the Measure in the Xorlh-
ern Congress.
The message of President Lincoln, recom
mending the co operation of the Rump Govern
ment, (by means of pecuniary compensation)
with the rebellious or scmi-rebcllious States, in
measures of general cm-ncipation, called up a
sharp discussion in the Northern Congress.—
The whining remonstrances of Crittenden and
the Border State submissionisls were met by
the scornful and triumphant jeers of their abo
lition masters, who, on this occasion, threw off
the mask with which they have heretofore dis
guised their biutal aims. We give below the
most interesting and significant portions of the
debate:
Mr. Wickhffe, of Kentucky, opposed the
pending resolution, as unwise and unconstitu
tional. No doubt the mover of the resolution
could tell what was meant by it. He (Wick-
liffe) desired light on this subject With all
respect to the House, he did not believe thirty
men here would vote for a (ax to purchase ne
groes. He denied the constitutional power
first to interfere, anil then to appropriate money
to buy slaves. He might be accusid of a want
of loyalty for expressing his o'd fashioned sen
timents. It seemed to him the resolution pro
posed, in effect, to give up the cotton States,
provided the border slave States would continue
. with the North.
Mr. Crittenden (Union), of Kentucky—I had
hoped that the discussion of this question
would have been postponed, so that some time
would have been given to the members from
the border slave States to consult as to their
course of action. We had met and were in
consultation up to tiie opening of the House
this morning. It is strange that the. most ex
citing topic cannot be mentioned here or dis
cussed without gentlemen indulging in extreuv
remarks and much excitement and passion.—
This exhibition of feeling promotes no good
purpose, and promotes no interest of the coun
try. Among the many things said on this sub
ject, the gentleman has recommended to us a
conciliatory policy, and that gentleman seem
to think that the resolution before us is offered
in that spirit, and is characterized by that spirit,
and that we who represent the border States,
ought to accept it. 1 will say nothing about
the loyalty ol Kentucky. I have no disposi
tion to boast of her. What she has done i
known to you all. And why, I ask, do you
exact of Kentucky more than she has already
absolute control of the subject in each case to j done to establish her loyalty ? Has she not
the State ami iis people unmediately interested.
It is proposed as a matter of perfectly free
choice with them. In the annual m-ssage,
last December, I thought fit to say: The Union
must be preserved, and l.ejico all indis[>ensa-
hle means must be employed. 1 said this not
hastily, but deliberately. War ha- been made,
and continues to be an indispensable means to
this end A practical reaeknowledgment of
parted with all her ancient allies, with all her
natural kindred in other States? When her
nearest neighbors of Yirgtuia, from whom she
is descended, fell into rebellion—Virginia,
where our kinsmen were by thousands—Ken
tucky stood tor the Union, and has stood so
ever since.
Is it understood that the slave States, as,
one after another, they may be mindful of their
t[;e national authority would render the war ! duty und return to the standard of the Union,
unnecessary, and it would at once cease. ; are expected to give the same sort of pledge—
It, however, resistance continues, the war | the abandonment of their domestic institutions?
must also continue, an i it is impossible to fore
see all the ir.c : dents which in >y attend, and all
the ruiu which may follow iL Such as may
seein indispensable, or may obviously promise
great efficiency towards ending the struggle,
in', st and will come. The proposition now
made is an oiler only. I hope it may he es
teemed no offence to ask whether the pecuniary
consideration tendered would nut he of noie
value to the Slates ami private persons con
cerned than are the institutions and property
hi it, in the present aspect ol affairs. While it
is true tha 1 the adoption of the proposed reso
lute.u would he merely initiatory,- aud not
within itself a practical measure, il i- recom
mended in the iiope that it would soon lead to
important practical results. In foil view of
great responsibility to my G< d ami to my
country, 1 earnestly beg the attention ol Con
gress and the people t > the subject.
[Signed] Abraham Lincoln.
sis as the present. The President is not per
mitted to be ignorant of the fact, which is fully
evident to the party that elected him »o the of
fice, that he has disappointed this pat ty in the
progress of this war. I. do not say that ihc
party anticipated that the President would en
ter upon a scheme of abolition. But it exp.-ct- J ally be pissed. As a matter of extrei
cd, when elevated to office, that the President j tion, he had the metnbors arrested.
ted States .troops, and the reason
declined to meet, a4 usual, in the
pied by their friends, lie could not
ter ] He thought they had a ret
cession in their pockets, and that,
tested, the ordinance of secession tS.'l' . v
\th.
ry to the peculiar circumstances under which
lie acted. The President desires to keep the
peace with the border States, and would seem
ingly give to them more aid and comfort than
he would extend to other States of the Union.
No man w ho carefully reads the message iin
tail to understand just what it was the I'resi
dent had in his mind at the time he penned his
message. He intended to say to the Republi
can party, “Gentlemen, I am not such a 1
the North.” To the border States me
‘ Gentlemen, 1 give you warning in
a policy may eventually he necessa
part ot the administration which w
the destruc ion ot the slave inter
Stave,” Now let us see whether th
case. The President, in his me
“The Union must be preserved, ani
indispensable means must he empl
end. I speak not this hastily, butiA.
War has been mad , and continues to be indis
pensable to that end. It is impossible to fore
see all the incidents that may attend and all
the ruin that may follow the prosecution of the
war for the preservation of the Union. Su:h
measures as may seein indispensable, or which
may promise most efficiency in ending titsTficuU]
struggle, must and will come. 1 say;^';£2iffjtheir p
view of the plain language of the message, no
gentleman can fail to observe that the President
has direct reference to the employment
would not, in such an emergency as the pres-I Unfortunately, then, the position of Mary
ent, fail to assume the responsibilities necessa- ’ land must have been sadly misunderstood ; for
it was certainly the opinion entertained
high places that it was necessary to arrest and
incarcerate the Legislature of that State to pre
vent them lrom pa-sing a secession ordinance.
I have also the oj ittion of another great man,
the President o’' the so-called Confederate
States, Ji ffjfavis, to tho loyalty or disloyalty
of Mary land; He declared tiiat if Maryland had
not been intimidated and held by f >rce she
would at once have linked her destiny with
fender ot the interests ol slavery ns you wn^jjd i the South. But Isay again there is noth
make the country believe l am. 1 am State in the Union that has not the wel-
under certain circumstances, that the of slavery as much at heart, and in the
tion ot slavery should be weakened, andjy * i ' >Tj£Jposition of w ho e heart slavery does not
cially in the border States f and I will, a J I .‘'.■to an extent that the love of the people-
far as niy official influence extends, endeavou J . lnls !&very is as great as their love for God.—
to affiliate the border States with the Side:- or Whv. sir. 1 fail to meet with any exception.
In tl e case ol gentlemen, when the nation is in
tir of her dire-1 peril, who is willing to
,ut and declare that he would save the
^ven should slavery perih. I have
able to discover a difference in the
feehngsot a min from Maryland and
water South Carolina or Alabama. Wlier-
tne negro is, there is an undivide'd loyalty
/to slavery, and every day's proceedings here
'shows that conclusively. Every true minded
man cannot hel ‘ * *"
Lincoln kn
thereforeya
him aft/*
sword f
while &
iheulJ#
employment oLLaiiy oi
measures, in certain emergencies, which
_ r . OT G-'V" ”T.aifinL.n .’J
Is tins right? Is it good laitli ? Tho argu
tiient is that Kentucky ought to surrender oer
slave institutions by way of showing to the
Noitii, nod particularly to the South, that
never will, i.< ai.y event, i.:iy h .-sel* .nil the
South, or abandon this government. You say,
destroy that hope in the South ami the South
will not wage this war with the same spirit;
that ilis that hope which sustains her; ami
you demand this of us. None at all. It (he
South entertained such a hope it must he too
feeble to urge her on to uriy desperation in this
con est The way to conciliate Kentucky is
t j let her alone. But when you demand ol her
a revolution in her domestic policy, I am ap
prehensive .t may not have the good effect you
anticipate. 1 do not appear here as a suppliant
in her behalf, l am tlie advocate merely of her
poiit cal lights. I would ask why should-you,
we, who are contending for the Constitution,
insist that this or that Slat; snail-give up pait
tend to the direct weakei ing, or tttr.'^stons
total subversion oj the slace power, i
no gentleman doubts that the war will be^u..\V°
vigo*) e isly prosecuted in the Southern thin, w\V
tho ^ 'tier Slates, and where slavery j(t
strone-st there shall he the last plac-.'
the w; V will be waged. This is, of <?*
GiO . t tates.
jy. look, ami you, gentlemen «' Vdlers b
States look, to a continuance oi A
which sueh extreme measures as . wav e.stRfn-
owed may become necessary. If the Constitu
tion and Union are .'orthy of preservation, and
tf they are worth more to you than the pecu- |
niary interests involved in any local or domes
tic institution, and if you are possessed ol pa-
trioti-tu, you must regard the preservation of
the Constitution ami the Union as superior and
paramount to the pecuniary interests involved
in any mere domestic institution, not excepting
slavery itself. If the President had left his
message to a distant day, when the time anti
cipated by him should come round, when the
slave interest in the extreme South would be
come undetermined in the progress ot the war,
and when, tor the interest of his border friends
it w ould be everlastingly too late to make the |
propo ’tion, he plats the part of a Iriend and 1
•- ♦*- -• V. :. v a i ” ;
plain language as the times permit of, gentle
men, the lime'is now at hand when your since
interest may be completely undermined, and I,
therefore, at this time, advise Congress to pa.-s
his resolution, to assure you, by an act ot
Congress, that, against the contingencies of the
future, your interests in slavery may he pro
tected and saved.
1 say that that man who is not willing to save
the Constitution and the Union by the sacrifice
ol private interests, or private property is a!
ready a rebel. I care not upon what ears this
declaration may fad with harshness. I repeat
that the man who is not willing, in order to
preserve the Union, to sacrifice every material
interest, ia already a rebel at heart. And when,
As a sequel to the message of Lincoln, Mr. I o1 h '-‘ r constitutional rights as an assurance of
Conkling, of New York, moved, (or the adop- i her devotion to the Constitution ? Ihe cards
tion of the House of Ke.resentativt s, the reso- I nii * principle upon which our whole system ot
lotions sketched in the message. Alter con
siderable debate, m which Mr. Crittenden, as
usual, implored aud talked about the effect ut
this time, A-., the resolution was adopted—
yeas 88, nays 31!
HICKMAN’S SPEECH.
We can point the reader to no more signifi
cant or interesting matter than Ihe debate in
the Federal Congress, which wo publish to
day, upon Lincoln’s late (mancipation message.
Wc have no doubt Hickman puts the true in
terpretation upon that document, and correctly
sets forth the motives which prompted and the
ends sought by it. Our people will learn in t
this debate, if they did not know before, just
what the Lincoln party inteiid and have al
ways intended to do, whenever lln-y hud the
power. What they threaten to do now was
their purpose y ears ago, before secession or
revolution was thought of; and the calamity of
subjugation, should it hclall us, will, at the
worst, only precipitate results w hich they had
determined to accomplish at all hazards—
peaceably or forcibly. The social revolution
of the South was a thing sworn to, und Hick
man and his confederates laugh to t'corn—rate
al its true value—the loyal submission of the
border Stales of Maryland, Kentucky and Del
aware. Nobody can read their cutting taunts
at Crittenden A Co., without seeing that even
Hickman felt more respect for the bold and
manly resistance of the Confederate States.—
Who that calls to mind the onco eminent posi
tion .and character of Crittenden can help
blushing for him, compelled to bear, amid the
plaudits of a congregated horde of abolitionists
in the Federal House of Representatives, his
own loyalty and that of Lis State charged to
account of cowardice and spurned with con
tempt He had drawn a moving picture of the
sufferings of Kentucky in the cause of the
Union, and founded thereon a p!*-a for mercy,
but was told her Unionism and his own were
alike the offspring of fear ; and the m .n who
could not endorse cheerfully and Heartily all
the propositipns of Black Republicanism in re
spect to slavery, was a rebel and traitor in his
heart What enemy of Crittenden or of Ken
tucky, could wish to see either under a more
ATTACK ON THE COAST. .
The Republican, of yesterday, says —Brig. 0,110 * hc 80n ” °li h - e
therefore, identical, and both arc doing their ! oppressive load of infamy !
utmost again to delude our people with the
hope of foreign intervention, open ports, a free
cotton market and a short war. Shall we list—
Gen. Evans, of the South Carolina forces, j ro-
ceeded with 1,000 men, Saturday morning last,
to attack the enemy at North Edisto. The
force of the Confederates proceeded across the
causeway, Gen. Evans expecting to find the
enemy about 2,600 strong, but they were be
tween 5,000 and 6,000. The Confederates
drove in the pickets of the enemy, killing one,
mortally wounding two, and capturing twenty.
Tho wounded are not expected to recover. Our
forces retired in good order without receiving
any damage.
MEXICAN WAR OVER.
Late accounts from Mexico state that the Al
lies concluded a Convention at La Soledad,
Feb. 19th, by which Commissioners were to
open negotiations far peace at Orizaba, with
two Ministers of tbe Mexican Republic, to “lor-
tualise alt tbe reclamation which they have to
make in tho mom of tbotr respective Govern
ments.” The aeoond article of this Conven
tion declares that the allied nations intend no
thing against the integrity or sovereignty of
the Meafosj Republic.
CHANCE FOR ANOTHER FUSS.
The Havana Di iio dela Marino states more
circumstantial facts in regard to the seizure o*
the English steamship Labuan, by the United
States sloop of war Plymouth, off the mouth
of the Rio Grande, on the 1st of February last
The Labuan had on board 439 bales of cot
ton and $160,000 in silver, belonging to Span
ish and British subjects. She was seized on
the 1st and sent off on the 4th ult On the
6th the British Vide-Consul went on board -he
Plymouth, and oti demand made the comman
der of the Plymouth refused to tell where the
Labuan had been sent, saying he had captured
her because she had cotton on board which he
considered an article contraband of year.
government is founded is that matters ot* local
and domestic character shall be under the ex
clusive control ol the Slate government, and
national and external matters under the con
trol of the general government. II you begin
now to trench upon that paternal and patriar
cti : al jurisdiction which belongs exclusively to
the States, by taking one domestic subject lrom
under its control, wuat wilt he the result in the
uture?
Mr. Lovejoy, (Rep.) of Illinois —Would it he
unconstitutional for Kentucky to emancipate
her slaves on condition of remuneration by
the Federal Government?
Mr. Crittenden—I am not prepared to say
that it would be unconstitutional tor her to do
so; but I must say that I would be very thank
ful to anybody who would pay my constitu
ents if they should he required to emancipate
their slaves, or if they should do it wildngly.
1 take no exception in the offer made. But, as
to the constitutiovial power to carry that pro
niise into execution, by appropriating money
by act of Congress to pay for the liberation oi
lt((' slaves, an that condition I don’t desire to
give any opinion; but I look upon an invita
tion ol this kind as a demand ; und as we have
not yet heard our constituents on the subject,
we are apprehensive ol entering upon the agi
latiori of a su ject we and our people are most
anxious to avoid. We have given you assur
ai.ces enough—all that ougiit to be asked.—
There is not a S ate in the Union that has gW
til m re; and 1 think I may say, in no boast
ful spirit, that no other State hits given as
strong assurances of fidelity to the Govern
ment and the constitution.
The proposition «ould introduce agiution
at a time when it would produce no good, but
evil. What, he asked, are we fighting for?
Was it not to uphold the government ? Yet
gentlemen have run on in their logic, doing tho
greatest possible harm by advocating the per
formance of every enormity in order to weaken
the enemy. They were called upon to violate
the laws of God and man in order to put down
the rebellion.
Mr. Ilickman (Rep.) of Pennsylvania, said
I do not consider the passage of this resolution
of any great practical importance. It is sim
ply, in my judgment, a declaration of opinion
as to a Certain policy, and no more. As 1 look
at it, it is rather a compensation for disappoin
ted hopes, than anything else, and a warning
to the people of the border Stataa, who are
most interested at the present moment in the
subject to which it makes special reference.
The President cannot be ignorant of tho fact
that he has failed to meet the just expectations
of the party who elected him to the ojfiee he
now holds, and the people of the border States
will not fail to observe that the message con
veys to them an awful warning. It is some
what of an assurance—slight I admit that
the President has some conviction on the quea
tion of freedom and slavery, and an intimation
that in a certain event the interests of slavery
might be impaired ; and he declares that the
border States ought tp begin to put themselves
in a position to meet a great crisis. It is rath
er a palliative, than an open avowed policy.
I speak frankly on tins point, because I do
not hang upon power. I am as open to de
nounce anything objectionable In this adminis
tration.—In no respect is the message or the
resolution manly or open. On The contrary,
it is covert and insidious. It is not becomii
tbe position of the President of tho Unit
States. It is not such a one as a fell grown
man should publish to the nation in sueh a cri-
her tie has
uber . that
ttined and
ly a party
Europe. h'es were
r . , maintenance
on message hajf n an </(he Union, and that
he.®i(f a*>r$nt to expect that all the time,
41 every minute of time, such measures woulei
c /adoptod for the suppression of the rebellion,
.'were consistent with the laws of war to
irush treason at the earliest possible moment.
In this respect the House and the nation h ive
been disappointed in their reasonable expec
tat ions.
I say lurther, that the nation has felt a great
lack ot confidence, not only.in the President
himself, hut in the military leaders placed in
high position by him. I know, lurther, that tl e
people of the North, at least, desired this gov
ernment as it was, to be sustained, no matter
who might fall in the track ot the chariot
wheels of war, uo matter what interests nught
perish, no matter what lives might be sacri
ficed, that the war should be prosecuted with
the greatest vigor, and peace permanently’ es
tablished in the shortest period of time.
'The question was submitted to the House
which sustained the resolution—eighty-four
against thirty-one.
Fr n dw -V... '-*»•
a iM •irioi ot utm b t nuuou urr .Tlmlr.
The appeal of Gen. Beauregard to the peo
ple of Tennessee to furnish metal to bo cast in
to cannon for the Confederacy, having elicited
the voluntary contributions of the patriotic men
and women of the South, the following letter
from Adjutant General Way re, containing val
uable information on the subject of tho compo
sition of gun metal, and will he read with pro
fit and interest:
M ,i . .i 25, 1862.
Mrs. Dr. Blackburn. Barnesville, Ga :
My dear Madam:—1 received, t!*is morning,
your note of the 24th inst., assuring tne that
_ fow weeks ago, the question was propounded 1 J ou had commenced collecting the old brass
to a gentleman from the border States whether and copper in the hands of your citizen:, and
they would sustain the Constitution and the 1:S king tne to stale whether such articles are
Union, though it should he necessary’ to sacri needed and where they should be sent,
fiee slavery ir the effort to sustain it, but one I fear that some o! air patriotic citizens,
solitary and feeble voice came up to the ques "*' t ^ more zeal than knowledge, aie about to
tion. And now I proclaim here the fact, which | inconvenience sauly our good ousewives in
has been too studiously concealed, that the hop j Georgia without any correapniiding advantage
dcr States are not for the Union in preference to i 10 ® l| r cause. Brass is a composition of copper
slavery, ar.d that, but lor fear ot tho war, they an< ^ z ' nc > !inia °* Ii0 u ' ,u ln making guns, winch,
would have given their whole adhesion to the ^e bells, are made of copper and tin.
seceded States. H Gen. Beauregard, in Ins appeal to the
Mr. Wadsworth, of Kentucky—1 give to the | planters of Mississippi, t; cant anything more
ssertion of the gentleman my unqualified con- j l b an to arou f° Gi*ir slumbering patriotism to
tradiction. active exertion, he wanted the tin of which.
Mr. liickman—1 don’t care for the contra-| l beir belis were par ly’ composed. \\e have
diction. I declared it before the rebellion j [ be copper, but fur the fabrication of bronze,
broke out, as I declare it now, that, but for I (commonly but^erroneously called brass guns)
fear of force, Delaware would have absolved we. want tin. Inatyou may understand this,
the bonds w hich connected her wilh the Union, i * Wl ^ te " >' ou “'at science has determined for
Wlut meant the action of Kentucky, maintain I K un N as best, the proportions of nine pans of
ng a neutrality in tlic hour when her friend j copper to one part of tin; and for bells ^even
ship for the Union was to be tested ? Kcntuc or e j6bt parts of copper to three parts ot tin.
STONE WALL JACKSON’S
Richmond, 27th.—Yankee papers'^
25th, say that during the fight at YYii?
the Federal General, Shields, was stru
piece of shell in the led anu, ghattci,^
it was afterwards amputated.
Persons lrom near Windiest#* 1
Jackson had not more than 3 1 -'
actual fight, while the Yankees' 1 * 111 '''" 1
gaged, and 12,000 in reserve. Jacki’e
was altogether 6,000 ; one regiment
in reserve, and 1,800 did not come up
Our government is satisfied with the re> u '
Tho Secretary of War has issued
order for all men on furlough to retuj.
diatelv. .j -j
do.
CONGRESSIONAL. **
Richmond, 28th.—Cqngress has
resolution to adjourn on the first M
April. The Senate passed a bill alio
President tour additional Aids on hi £ ( rt , m ■
The debate on this bill was of such a t . *
not to warrant the conclusion that the
dent intends taking command.
BATTLE IN THE WEST. d
Houston, Texas, 28th.—Intelligence ;
been received of a desperato battle at VaV
tie, four miles above Fort Craig, on the r , fi
which lasted all day. Confederates 2,It
Fcd 'rals 1,000 regulars and 4,000 Ncw^ •
can volunteers, including 100 Pike Pesht,
They first attempted to turn our left p ot
hut were repulsed by Major Lockridgo. ire
then attacked the whole line but were «• T-
back. The enemy concentrated on our
forcing us to fall back. The enemy lhetl’
crossed to a battery ot seven guns over the
river. This moved proved fatal to th in, as
we charged the batte y, capturing it, and dis
persing them with great el tighter. O-mfed-
erate. loss 86 kTied, and ion aoundcJ Fed
eral loss over 600 Maj n L* ckridge and Capt.
Van Uanvel of our army was killed. Col. W
L. Roberts was slightly' wounded in the be-
ginir.g of the fight
A shd! exploded in Kit Carson’s regiment
killing and wounding twenty. Wc took a
field battery of 7 splendid guns, 260 muskets
and many prisoners. Col. Green commanded
our forces. Gen. Sibley was sick, althoogh
un me ncia. uen. Can by commanded tne Fed-
rals. 2500 Federals returned to Fort Craig—
the balance missing. Our forces have surround
ed them and they must capitulate.
Later fro
ky, proud, magnanimous Kentucky, as she had
been designated here this morning, in that
hour of nawtnal peril and danger, stood upon
the ground of perfect neutrality. But when at
Ust the road was opened for the passage of the
mtional troops for the defence of the capital,
and when the integrity of tho Union had been
placed out of danger, and when the safety ol
herself was imperrilled, then Kentucky was
proud and magnanimous enough to declare her
self on the side of the Union. The same with
Maryland precisely, and I by no means make
exception in favor of any' of the border slave
States.
Mr. Webster, (Union) of Maryland—'The
gentleman is mistaken when he says that Ma-
By having a large number of bells, therefore,
we can add two or three times the weight oi
copper, as analysts may determine their com
posite n, and bring them to the standard of
gun metal. The lightest field piece in our bat
teries, a six pounner, weighs, on an average,
eight hundred and eighty four pounds. For
the casting of a six pounder, therefore, at least
one thousand pounds of metal would he neces
sary. Bronze guns are ustd in field batteries,
only for their lighter weight, by which the
battery is more readily moved. They are not
so durable as iron guns. Science, within the
past five years, has opened the way for casting
iron guns of sufficient lightness for field uses,
and there is not a loundry in the Confederacy
- , , * •, . ,, vr • i r~ e that is not now working to its utmost ability.
ryland was held m the Unwn by fear of w«. Jf h js j should ,£ 0 t0 Unow U, and it
krom the moment the people there had an op- h , d not t)C idle lo
port unity of expressing themselves, they had The ti „ referrtid t0 * hlck ^ not sheet tin,
teclav^l’ by an oTerwhetaing^ majority, for Uch ia oldy sheet
iron washed with a solu
tion of tin.- I mention this that we may not
the Union an 1 the prosecuflon ol the w ar,
Mr. Hickman—What public action of that
State does the gentleman refer to? I beg him
to enumerate some of the most public acts ot
Maryland in connection with this rebellion. j
Mr. Crisfleld—In the first place, to the Gov
ernor of Maryland are you indebted for the
safety of the capital; secondly, the ekct : on by
which representatives, unanimous in the sup
port of the Union, were sent to Congress, and
by the election held sinco then, when citizens
showed themselves two to ou6 devoted to the
Union.
Mr. Covode, (Rep.) of Pennsylvania—With
respect to the action of the late Governor ol
Maryland, I deem it my duty to say that I
heard that gentleman make a speech, standing
under a secession flag, (laughter) on the even
ing of the riots in Baltimore, at a meeting
where it was determined that no more troops
should be allowed to go through that city to
the defence of the National Capital.
Mr. Hickman.—I again reiterate the great
naked truth, that every border slave Slate
would have separated itself from tbe Union if
it had not been from fear; and I say, lurther,
that those men who are in any way identified
with slavery think more of slavery than they
do of tbe Union. I profess to have some
knowledge of the institution of slavery, and I
quote the feet I have put forward with regard
to tbe feeling of tho border slave States, that
Mr. Lincoln himself did not differ much from
the opinion I have expressed. I speak now
with good authority, and I say that Mr. Lin
coln thought just as I think, and with that au
thority my words should be received with great
respect [Laughter.] The President remem
bered that tbe Legislature of Maryland, when
about to assemble, chose Frederick in prefer
ence to Annapolis, then occupied by the Uni-
have our wives stripped to no purpose.
— respec
Your
Very respectfully,
Your obedie
ient serv’t, * •
Henry C. Watse,
Adjutant an ( Inspector General,
We have received the following answer from
Messrs. Noble, Bro.-. A Co., of Rome, in rela
tion to brass:—Eos. Telegraph.
W. G. W.—Dear Sir :—We are in receipt of
yours of the 2 ith inst. We do not think the
metal you mention will make a good gun.—
Cannot tell until we try such a mixture. Gun
metal, or bronze, consists of a mixture of cop
per and tin. Brass, such as you have, is often
made of copper and zinc. Bell metal mixed
with copper would make splendid artillery, as
there is no zitic in bell metal. If you could
get a lot of old bells it would bo preferable.—
Tho metal is worth more now than now bells
cast in ordinary times. Copper will bo of ser
vice if you can get it We think the zinc, if
any in the brass you have, would cause the
casting to honeycomb.
* Yours very respectfully,
Noble, Bbothers A Co.
Rome, Ga., March 27. 1862.
The Albany Patriot.—We are sorry to
that this sprightly and interesting sheet
been discontinued on aooount of the diffii
of procuring printers.
It is said that Rucker's battery, so
minent in the defence of Island No. 10, is
tbe shore near the Island.
Stonewall Jaekson’-
F Hr tat.
Richmond, '-’Nth.—Despatches from Staun
ton to G“v L ciier, tnis evening, say tha;
Lieut. Ju ,.k. 'iams and Capt Morrison,
captured by the .lerals at Winchester, have
been sent to Baltimore with others.
The total looS in killed and wounded of the
Federate, foot up 2,000. They are depressed
and badly worsted. The total loss of the Con
federates in killed and wounded is 465.
Heavy cannonading heard in the direcli
of Winchester. A battle is expected, and Our
men confident.
The Union sentiment ju Winchester, wa.s
all quiet last night
About 9 o’clock, this morning. Col. Ashby
had a little brush, and drove the enemy back,
killing 12. The enemy are advancing upou
Yorktown in large force. In a skirmish on
Thursday, Lieut. Wray, Confederate, was
killed.
congressional.
Richmond, 29th.—Tbe President has sent a
message to Congress asking the repeal of all
existing military laws and enacting conscript
laws instead. He recommends a law subject-
every man to military service bet ecu the
ages of 18 and 35 years. In the Sen. te a spicy’
debate ensued. Wigfa'l, of Texas, in favor of,
and Oldham, of Texas, against it.
CONGRESSIONAL
Richmond, 30th.—The House of Represen
tatives have passed a resolution appointing a
special committoe of thirteen to prepare a bill
carrying inta effect the system of conscription
recommended by President Davis. Also, to
devise general resolutions for the good of the
Confederacy.
Seven traitors were brought to this city on
Saturday from Mathews county, Ya.
Tho President has proclaimed Martial Law-
over Greenbrier, Pocohontaa, Bath, Alleghany,
Monroe, Mercer, Raleigh, Fayette, Nicholas and
Randolph counties, Virginia. Gen. Heath te
to execute the law.
FROM TEXAS.
The San Antonio Herald is printed on paper
received from England by way of Matamoras.
If the following, ffbm the Houston Telegraph,
he not trag“dy in its most awful form, then
we know not what constitutes its elements:
About 10 o’clock this
and Ambrose Floyd,a
shot guns, met each
sight ot their/cr.'
each man felljj, .‘Uhi
wives and chilK _
gathered arout. ^ Y H n\
shriek >, the s., , ^
God lorbid tv. 1 w-> jf
to witness so u .tic” .
Salt is seJiri, .
cents per bushel,
ty on hand.
Flour is getting ,
selling at $8 |
Thef
ments just ■
for 1
tion <
than
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