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Too,
Iroper degree
.have (ailed
sly. If we
conlVIvnSl nod made to
jilain tin* folly oil our part,
to the rudiments and explain
>t yet so far over on the reaction
> to have overcome the feeling of
f, g t with which we started,
lain ! The two eh military principles
llnan government |tv opfalm Hi/M,
liat,gnrmimieut is alone safe and perma-
\t, which the two are united in proper
counterbalance each other. The vice
r hrst element is dtmagogveitnn,, and the
ol he second is, tyran'.y ; ami these vices
ply interchange and produce each other.
^1 not have to travel far to show a case
1,1,
Till i n eminent of the l nited Stales,
government of opinion, run, by pro-
[time, into unadulterated drmagogueism,
ffiiitnMtcd ee intolerable - that tberewas
ilool in the country w ho would not have
himsell a wiser and a safer depository
legislative power than Congress itself;—
cp at la-1 became nothing more or less than
V 1 o- the display of the follies, vices,
ons, depravities, ft mu,., —— . ■
agog lies. They did the work of Satan
[usand times more effectually than any
Ltvrant could have done, for they set the
1 country together by the ears and at last
it into a war, at which history will blush
^humanity groans.
laving done this much, you may .-ay that
freign of deinagogucism expired by liutita-
She was powerless on the field of bat-
itcmptible in “suppressing rebellion,”
lerefore she invoked tyranny to her aid.
Jon” so far from being now the eletnen-
tinciplo of tho government wa_- over-
throttled and hastiled by every mar-
ui-tnhlu and tip-staff, and more complete
Im inaugurated than the world has ever
n.
so intense is out horror of the old Uni
|tc- Congress so clearly do we tm a laf
he mi: eries under which this country
1 that, weak mortal as we are, we al-
splse the name, and cannot bring our-
igrct the partial eclipse of a Congress.
|, in legislative bodies is so small that
to them for mischief and that continu
ity and by, if we ever are made to feel or
lee the tyranny of abso|uteism, we may get
a wholesome rcaction/'and beg as an alter
native the interminable blather the hair-split-
fting ipiidities and the camel swallowing vil
lainies of Congress, where responsibility is so
divided that no man feels any—but truth to
THE SI SPENl
The following
upon this subject!
let acts of Cjj
the whole
about it, nil
time the til{
sion:
Chap. 11.^ii act^HHri/.e the
of the ^^of habeas corpus in certain cases.
The C^^pess of the Confederate States do
enact, That during the present invasion of the
^Confederate States, the President shall have
power to suspend the privilege of the writ of
habeas corpus in such cities, towns ami military
districts as shall, m his judgment, be iu such
Janger of attack by the enemy a to require
the declaration of martial law for their effective
defence. *
Approved, February 27th, 1S62.
Chap. XL1V. An act to limit the act authoriz
ing a -uepension of the w rit of habeas corpus.
The Congress of the Confederate States of
America do enact, That the act authorizing the
us pension of the w rit of habeas corpus, is here
by limited to arrests made by the authorities of
tbe Confederate Government, or for offences
against the same.
Sec. 2. lie it further enacted, That the act
which this act is intended to limit, shSl contin
ue in force thirty days after the next meeting
of Congress, and no longer.
Approved, April 19th, 1862.
The foregoing is clear enough. The infer
ence we drew before upon the second act not
being aware of the character ol the first, is
correct. The President alone has power to sus
pend tho writ of habeas corpus, and then only
in ea«'i*s where martial law has been declared.
The writ is still in mice
that in the second examination of the case
insistence to the writ before Judge Lochri
last Monday, the Court ordered a rule nisi
be entered against the party, requiring him tj
show cause why he should not be consider*
contempt, and a hearing was ordered to be«'l
on next Friday week.
We have some reason for believing that the
conflict of authority in this case is more appa
rent than real. The Court, while it feels it
self hound to sustaiu the sacred constitutional
m
lalWgre
we have no
gree the impor-
right of the citizen to a
doubt feels ill almost equal
tance of sustaining discipline and subordina
tion in the army, and equally bound to enforce
the military as well as the civil laws. It seems
to have been assumed, or at least feared, that
had the prisoner been brought before the civil
tribunal, he would have been discharged from
military custody and control. This was a need'
less, and, as we have reason to lielieve, ground
less assumption ; and we have no doubt it will
ultimately be found that there is little dissimi
larity of views or purpose between the Court
and the military authorities in regard to the
means and the necessity of sustaining a proper
order and discipline in the army.
^
THE LABOR IMPRESSMENT.
We have now on hand two communications,
pro and con the Savannah labor impressment,
both very able arguments upon the case, but
ti ll, il we judge tin future by the past we a ft cr much reflection and a personal interview
should feel safer to take the weakest man in
Congress and lay upon him al' the responsi
bilities of legislation, than to take the whole.—
The people find no great fault, and fur what
we know, have no occasion to find fault with
tho legislation of the Confederate Congress.—
What the people sees of them is good enough,
but the whole might not bear inspection.—
There a» ero some glimpses at the last session
that looked too much 1 ke the old Federal Con
gress, and we think, on the whole, the respect
for and confidence in Congress will be improv
ed if we still continue to know only its positive
legislative action, which the temptation to
deinagogucism in that body is removed by ta-
, ing away the theatre for the public display ol
that commodity.
On the w hole then, we cannot feel the great
anxiety for open sessions so forcibly expressed
by the papers. We had rather take the chance
for tyranny in Congress than the chance tor
detuagocuiisin. If open sessions come, let them
come by degrees, as the necessity for keeping
army legi-lation from the enemy ceases, and
as the people become able lu biar the sight!—
We tried open sessions a long time under the
old government, and we believe now, if half of
them had been close so that the members of |
that rorrupt body could have been removed I
from the demagogues’ temptation to vote wrong !
and speak wrong, we should never have had
much acrious trouble. The open sessions did j
not, at least, prove the political nostrum they I
now claimed to l»e.
with L>r. Parsons, who was in Macon yester
day, we have come to the conclusion that it is
better to suppress, as far as the Telegraph is
concerned, the farther discussion of this matter.
And we think it due to Dr. Parsons and our
readers to say that from his explanations and
the assurances of gentlemen of Savannah who
were with him, we are persuaded it is the part
of patriotism and indeed of interest in the plan
ters to acquiesce in this labor requirement,
and send on the assistance required.
I Him his statement of the actual condition
of the defences and those still required, the
heavy drafts which have already been made on
the coa-t planters and the piesent scattered
condition of their forces, wcfclt bound to con
clude that the defences should he prosecuted
with the utmost vigor, and Middle Georgia
ought, in fairness, to come up at once with the
necessary contribution of labor. We do not,
of course, feel at liberty to state wliat the
works are, now in progress, hut they are on
high and dry land, and every possible arrange
ment, including comfortable tents, full soldiers’
rations and a complete medical staff have been
adopted to secure the health of tbe negroes.—
In addition to this, whereas the low country
planters contributed their labor last Fall and
Wintei, without compensation, in this case
prompt and reasonable compensation is guar
anteed. The work is now going ahead and
with the required number of hands will be
completed in eight weeks.
tiM.,
Ihiqucstionably the genius and character of matters Appertaining to Old Stonewall*
our institutions demand open legislation ; and
il there arc no good reasons founded iu the
present state of war—reasons of self preser
vation, Congress ought to legislate openly.—
That is the doctrine; but we mean simply to
say that for our part we are not sorry that
Congress pleases to in secret session, and
shall so please to sit a while* longer. We want
to get our conlldcnce in Congress restored a
little.
FROM THE NORTH.
Two ladies of high respectability, known in
this vicinity, arrived here from the North day
before* yesterday. They were nearly three
w.-eks on the passage, but got through with
out molestation. Ti.ey report tho people of the
North under strong discouragement about tbe
war, and one of them brings assurance from a
Federal oflicer, in a not unimportant position,
that if tin- South holds out faithfully a little
while longer the North will break down. They
say they encountered Morgan at Gallatin, and
his men surrounded their train. Morgan con
versed a long time with the gentleman who
acted as their escort and got the latest North
ern news. They say they learned in Tennes
see that a mail bag from Buell had fallen into
our possession, and a despatch from him to the
Lincoln War Department, found in it, saying
that unless he wxs reinforced heavily within a
short time, his army would inevitably he cut
off and destroyed.
CONGRESS AND THE MESSAGE.
It will be seen that Congress is evidently hot
fur retaliatory measures, and iu the mood to
push the war with all possible vigor. A bill
has already been brought forward to extern! the
conscription to the age of forty-live ; but we
it is probable the suggestion of the Pres
ident w ill lx* adopted, and a hill passed em
powering the War Department to extend the
Conscription to ,th»t age whenever the exigen
cies of the service require it. The President
expresses the opinion that no further enroll
ment w ill he neces: ary, and certainly uo man
is in a better position to know. Perhaps he
counts upon demoralizing or destroyfng the
f ederal army now in the field, before the new
lcv.es coiue ou ; and if that is done, our present
army will he more than a match for the 600,*
oOo new recruits. If not, we shall be liklely
to want all that can he armed. Mr. Gurtrcll,
ol this Stale, has brought forward a proposition
l„ make the Treasury Notes a legal tender.—
i n* thing ought to be done, il possible, but
how are we to over-ride an express Constitu
tional provision to the contrary f
It is clear ihat affairs at and around Gordon:-
ville, have assumed an entirely new shape with
in the past few days. First, McClellan has, in
all probability, entirely abandoned the Penin
sulaaud James River and transferred himse-f
and his whole force to the line of tho Rappa
hannock. This last “change in the base of his
operations” is a beautiful commentary upon his
previous change, which he claimed to be really
a slraU gctical movement upon Richmond. He
i has convicted himself of falsehood. The whole
theatre of war has at last been removed away
from Richmond, and it is now substantially a
defence of Washington instead of an attack
upon our capital.
Secondly, it may well he supposed that with
the junction of Burnside, McClellan and nu
merous reinforcements from Washington, the
Federal* have now a vast army. We suppose
it is not much, if any, short of 200,<X>0. Here
are Shields’, McDowell’s, Banks’, Fremont’s
Burnside’s and McClellan’s commands all con
solidated—pretty much all of them heavily
reinforced, and more constantly coming. We
may as well make up our minds that there is a
large and growing crowd there.
Thirdly, it is manifest from the foregoing
that the proportions of the Valley campaign
have swelled suddenly beyond all anticipation,
is involved in Dis
union.
er of the Cincinnati Comrner-
blican) is out in an appeal of
eloquence for volunteers. It calls
n Ohioans to drop all other business than
the war, and put such a force in the field by
the 1st of September as will wind up the busi
ness of subjugation to a mathematical certain
ty by next Christinas. Not less than a million
of men will be required to save the tbe country,
and he says “if we dare to contemplate failure
we become a second Mexico—t ha prey of home
factions and foreign despots." His last para
graph we copy in full :
The war now comes home to us all more
closely than ever before ; and it is high time
that each citizen should take a personal inter
est in it We must make the war the primary
business of the whole country and then we shall
finish it. Recent events have made it perfect
ly plain to all observant and thoughtful per
sons that nothing but the greatest exertions by
the government can save us from absolute an
archy. We must proceed to business, or we
shall be swallowed up in chaos. We must whip
the conspirators or they will us. The stars
and stripes, or the hateful flag of rebellion must
wave over us all. We can have but one flag,
one constitution, one country, one destiny.—
The question to be decided is: whether the
constitutional government or the conspiracy
shall triumph. There is no other. We must
tight Under which flag shall it be ? The old
banner of beauty and glory forever, or the
ghastly rag which is the emblem of bloody trea
son and invites British domination over the in
heritance bequeathed to us by the fathers of the
Republic ?
These are somewhat late convictions of a
party which, two or three years ago, used to
make it almost a daily business to declare that
ir judgment, the Union would he a great
v. vu .u. the
sides being a disgrace to a free repub
ry, was an incubus in the way of
-not able to support her own mails or
erself. This kind of talk is not so old
but that almost every body can recollect it
And how happens it now, after only a year
of practical disunion, the Ohio Red Republi
cans discover that they cannot maintain a gov
ernment without the South '! Twenty States
embracing an aiea larger than that of any of
the European kingdoms, Russia excepted, and
twenty-three millions of such enlightened, in
genious, enterprising, hardy and industrious
people as they represent themselves to be, can
not maintain a republic of their own, but must
fall into “absolute anarchy” and “chaos” with
out the South 1* That is a sad and disgraceful
confession. The twelve States of the
have so far, even under all the mighty e
of the twenty-four to divide and destroy tl
shown not the slightest tendency to “anar
although they have had, in the meantime, to
areat^Qs well as to defend their own govern
ment against such a war as had not yet been
seen in modern times f So far from relapsing
into anarchy and chaos, even our enemies con
fess that all their stories of disunion and dis
cord in the South have proved mere false
hoods, and our union is perfect and complete.
They admit that we are stronger at the end of
the year than we were at the beginning—and
yet we represent, according to them, a mere
conspiracy" against a “rightful government”
Here in these disgraceful confessions is ma
terial for a volume of interesting commentary,
but with a single exception, we shall leave the
matter to the reflections of the reader. Given
the fact that twenty-four Northern States ad
uiit that they cannot maintain order or save
themselves from absolute anarchy and chaos
unless they succeed in restoring a Union with
twelve Southern States, which they have here
tofore represented as a stain to the national
character, and an incubus on the national rep
utation, or failing in this actually join in tire
rebellion, what are the legitimate and necessa
ry inferences?
There is, however, a practical inference which
we ought to specify, and it is this : The Jere
miad of the Cincinnati Commercial is no doubt
founded upon a minute acquaintance with the
trade feeling in the west The Wcst sees that
she must have her Southern market again or
be ruined, and it is for that reason that the
Commercial says if she can’t conquer tbe South
she must unite with her. They will ke our
masters or our guests. We shall not he rid of
them any way we can arrange it.
Now we apprehend that the question of the
ability of Lincoln to restore the Government by
force of arms, is one which will be finally set
tied to the satisfaction of all reasonable men
North and South within the next nine months.
Within that time, if as we suppose will be the
case, the South has still triumphantly demon
strated her ability to maintain her position, we
may reasonably hope that the struggle will
terminate by the divisions of the enemy, and
we may also thank the Commercial for some
hints which ought to be useful in enabling our
Statesmen to precipitate the catastrophe.
THE ARE AT NEW TRICKS.
All of a sudden the immortal ape at Wash
ington has turned his back upon the Reds, and
even reads tbe niggers a lecture upon their pre
sumption in aspiring to be solders. We can
only guess at the meaning of this new antic
which illustrates the weakness and inconsis
tency of Lincoln. Congress has adjourned and
most of the Reds gone home. Seward has pro
bably therefore, regained possession of the ani
mal, and the new developements of tbe de
mocrats, together with the obvious hostility of
the laboring classes to the negro inspiring him
with a reasonable fear of a general anti-negro
revulsion throughout the North, he has been
partly scared and partly frightened into an ut.
ter falsification of his recent pledges to the
Reds, so strongly made to tbe Trumbull dele
gation, and upon the faith of which the Reds
endorsed him in their address to the people.—
The papers state that in a recent interview be
tween Lincoln and another delegation headed
by Lane, the latter taxed him to his face with
FLEEING THE DRAFT.
There is something irresistibly ludicrous in
the Northern accounts of tha attempted gener
al exodus to foreign parts to avoid Lincoln's
draft A despatch in the Petersburg Express
of the 18tl, gleaned in Richmond from the
New York Lerald of the 12th, says:—
“The steamship Northern Light was boarded
at her wharf in New York last Monday, just
previous to sailing, and every man unprovided
with a passport hurried off A large crowd
were thus prevented from leaving the country,
whose design was evidently to evade military
duty. Several vesaels bound for Europe were
ordered to remain on Monday last until an ex
amination of their passengers could be made by
the provost guard.
The Adelaide was overtaken off the lightship
and 12b passengers taken off.
The Al’oe rt Gallatin was overtaken at sea by
a swift steamer and all the male passengers re
moved.
In the Tlrirl precinct over 200 men were
prevented fion sailing on the Saxonia,
In the Twenty-seventh precinct a great many
arrests have bien made.
In the Twerty-eighth precinct over four hun
dred arrests vere made on the steamer Etna.
Many arrests were made in the Sixth pre
cinct.
The Detrot and Chicago papers state that
the rush for Janada is tremendous. At Mil
waukee, too, a great maay arrests are made
daily of perions going to Canada to avoid a
draft."
Here are f ‘2u arrests in New York in one
day given by number ; and making a lair con
jecture where number! are not stated, there
were probably as man/ more. The tyranny
of the arresti is as grotesque as the panic itself.
Lincoln’s blockade is, for a time at least, quite
as perfect upon his ovn subjects as upon the
“Southern rebels.”
Every railway trail from every Northern
— o. —.obcil—all be Canada frontier pat
rolled, and every port guarded, to fru:trate the
escape of these valorous recusants from the
draft; and these runaways, when detected, and
the fact established, are we are told, marched
straitway to the nearest military depot and
“conscripted” into service. They are not al
lowed the privilege of buying substitutes.—
With what amount of ardor they will go into
battle for the Ape aial Stars and Stripes, we
may conjecture. At all events they will be
angry, disgusted and mortified enough to fight
somebody. The "land of the free and the home
of the brave” will henceforward loom up with
a new significance and beauty to their imagi
nations and memories ! Fancy a poor fellow
with a “pocket full of rocks’' safely embarked
on biard a snug steamer with his wife and ba
bies, bound on a foreign cruise to see the lions
of the old world and, at the same time, escape
the disagreeable turmoils of civil war in the
new. The blue land is just lading away in the
distance, as a black smoky speck becomes vis
ible, evidently upon their trail. The officers
and passengers crowd the decks, curious to
know what it means. It gains upon them fast,
and at last a voice is heard from tbe deck of the
pursuer—“Heave to, or we tire upon you.”
The stranger is along side, and soon catch-
poles of every name swarm the decks of the
packet With one swoop they carry off every
man who is obviously not “over forty-five,”
and then amid the shrieks of the women and
children who are left behind to pursue their
foreign tour as best they may, the Lincoln
hawk carries off her prey. On the way up to
the city, their pockets are searched and denu
ded of ever)' dime, and at the wharf they are
formed into double file and marched to the
lock up. Next morning they are examined and
passed over to the drill sergeant, with the in
formation that if they desert they will be shot;
and so ends their grand tour of Europe. Of
course, they are ready to sing that pret'y little
hymn :
-at) Country, tisofthee
Sweet land ol Liberty,” <tc.
Having voted the Black Republican ticket in
lull, for the purpose of showing the world that
“there is a North,” and vindicating “Free Land,
Free Labor and Free Speech,” as was duly set
forth to them by that recognized organ of these
commodities, the New York Tribune, they are
now in a condition to understand the whole
matter. They see things in a new and pictur
esque attitude, and think big thoughts that
never occurred to them before. If they are not
very strict Church members, some profane
swearing may reasonably be apprehended; and
in the heady effusion of their anger, if their
dear friends, Old Abe, Seward and Staunton
should happen about the jail limits, faces might
be scratched, noses bunged or eyes gouged.—
That they will he likely to appreciate to its
fullest extent the glorious privilege of filling a
Virginia grave to perpetuate this happy state
of freedom, who can rationally doubt ?
THE KNAVERY CONFESSED.
We call attention to the letter of the army
correspondent of the New York World, where
in the arrant and remorseless knavery of the
Federal troops under Pope is pDinly and cir
cumstantially admitted, and acknowledged to
be so constant and universal that it will end
in resolving tbe whole of them into a hand of
irrejiressible thieves and maurauders—danger
ous to society and fatal to public order when
the war is over. It is on this account alone,
that the pious New York World, which is the
moral and religious organ ol the metropolis,
ventures to protest against the systematic and
wholesale system of plunder. The plundering
in itself considered is right, in his ethics. The
rebels should be stripped;—but then the prac
tice learns our people to steal, and a very little
practice makes them so fond of stealing and
sacking and a violent gratification of their pas
sions generally, that they never can be made
to quit The modest, self-denying protest of
CONSTITUTION GONE.
We wore horrified to find yesterday that our
Constitution was entirely gone—we mean that
part of it entitled the Constitution of the Con
federate States. We had several copies, but
all are sto—no, taken. The occasion of the
search was a big guffaw at us, by the learned
Counsellor for intimating a doubt whether
Gartrell’s bill for making Treasury Notes a le
gal tender would be constitutional! And why
so ? said he. Because, quoth the Editor, the
Constitution provides that gold and silver only
shall be a legal tender. It does no such thing,
said the Counsellor. It prohibits the States
from making any other legal tender, but Con
gress can make oak leaves a legal tender if it
chooses. Well, quoth the Editor, we spoke
from recollection, for it is at least twenty years
since we have seen the clause, and you no
doubt have been looking at it to day. You
must be right, of course, but let us see ; and
thereupon we failed to see, because, as before
stated, our Constitution was gone, and we have
no other at hand just now. We presume, how
ever, the learned Counsellor must be right, and
therefore our remark upon Gartrell’s bill is a
sin of ignorance or forgetfulness, call it which
you will.
SUPPOSITIONS.
It is supposed that the condition of the Fed
erals in Tennessee, about this time, is, to bor
row the language of Maryatt’s gunner, “very
precarious and not at all permanent.” It is
supposed his lines are penetrated—his left wing
cut otT, and his right in a very bad fix general
ly, so that a few days will necessitate a retreat
more precipitate than orderly or, more proba
bly, capitulation. A few days will tell the tale
whether any of these suppositions are well
founded or not.
Tun Hawk as Compos.—Yesterday, under or
ders from Gen. Pemberton, McKenney was
turned over to the civil authorities, in obedi
ence to the writ of hvbeas corpus issued by
Judge Lochrane. The Court delivered an opin
ion, discharging tho military officer acting as
commandant of the post, of contempt, and re
manding the prisoner back to his custody, un
til the records of the trial and finding by Court
Martial shall have keen received, they having
been sent on to headquarters lor approval. We
will publish the opinion of the Court to mor
row.
Ax Expensive Li'xukv.—A nicely swept
floor is now one of the most expensive luxuries
our readers can indulge in. A common—yes
a very common house broom is now worth in
Macon one dollar and fifty cents! The specu
lators will soon get hold of them and run them
up to ten dollars, do doubt Broom Corn is
high, as everybody knows, and it is an exceed
ingly delieate and precarious crop. Broom
sticks, too, may* be high if the speculator’s
don’t let the brooms alone.
Homicide Case.--Reuben Roberts, charged
with the murder of James Jordan, was exam
ined before a bench of Magistrates, yesterday,
and discharged, the Court deeming the killing
an act of self-defence. Rutherford and Massey
for the State—W. K. DeGraffenreid for the de
fendant.
«♦«
FROM RICHMOND.
MEETIIUi OF CONCiUFSS
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
Bv ElfiCtriC T Plpcypanh Another Change in tho Base of Operations-
*“ ICV/U ' «P n Richmond, Aug. 18.—The Petersburg Ex
press of to-day says, there is not a Yankee sol
dier left on the south side of James River, nor
is there a vessel of any kind to be seen at
How the farmer burnt his burn to
^et rid of the rats.
Mobile, ISth.—A special despatch to the j „ , , „ ,. ,
Advertiser and Register, dated Jackson, 18th eI elej ' thla je S0 *McClellan has certainly
says that on the 16th instant, the Federal gun- evacu ® tei ^ Js “ es River, and gone to unite
boat Sumter, in attempting to make a landing I * 1 ° pe ° r BurnslJe on the Rappahannock.
at Bayou Sara, ran aground. A demand for
her surrender was made by the Mayor of Bayou
Sara, en behalf of the military of the Parish
of West Feliciana and the volunteers f-om Wil
kinson county, Miss. Capt. Erwin, command
ing the Sumter, asked an hour to consider —
which was granted. Meanwhile the Federal
transport Ceres arrived, and the Confederates
having no artillery to keep her off, she ran
alongside the Sumter, anJ her officers and ciew
hastily abandoned the gunboat arid escaped on
the transport.
Numerous small arms and a large amount of
stores were found aboard. The Sumter was
then fired and destroyed. The flames unfor
tunately destroyed the depot of the West Feli
ciana Rail Road which stands near the wharf,
with one hundred ami fifty hogsheads of sugar.
Part of the sugar had been seized and left there
under claim of the Federal gunboat Essex.
Next morning gunboat No. 7 and a trans
port arrived at Bayou Sara and landed a small
force, which was allowed to march half a
mile inland, when they were attacked by the
Confederates, who mortally wounded and cap
tured one of the invaders, badly wounded three
and ran the balance hack to their boats. Our
loss none. The gunboat then threw four shells
into the town, without damage, and retired,
with the transports, threateniug to return and
destroy the town.
A m ..ng the spoils captured from the Sumter
were were two U. S. flags, one pennant and
one chest of signal flags. The following des
patch has been received here!
Bayou Sara, 17th.—The iron clad gunboat
Essex, is now lying opposite our town. She
will be resisted. Heavy and continued firing
heard at Port Hudson last night.
Chattanooga, Aug. 18th.—A despatch from
Frankfort to the Nashville Union of the 17th,
says that Governor Magoffin and Lt. Governor
Fisk of Kentucky, has resigned.
IMPORTANT FROM EURuPE.
(Queen's Speech—Nonintervention—No Recog
nition—Strict Neutrality to be Observed—
More Rumors from Russia.
Richmond, Aug. 19th.—The Glasgow has ar
rived from New York with four days’ later
news from Europe.
The Qeen, in her speech proroguing parlia
ment, says the civil war which for some time
NEWS FROM RICHMOND.
Richmond, Aug. 19.—There is no longer
room for doubt that McClellan has changed his
base from James River to the Rappahannock.
A despatch to Gov. Letcher, from New Dublin,
says, we have reliable intelligence that the
enemy has left Pack Ferry, Meadow Bluff, and
Flat Top, and the impression is that they are
evacuating Western Virginia.
In the Senate to-day, various portions of the
President’s message we*re referred to appropri
ate committees.
In the House, a resolution was adopted
changing the rules so as to provide that it
shall not be in order for the House fo resolve
itself into secret session, except by a vote of a
majority of the members present Yeas 56 ;
nays 14.
An order from the Adjutant General will be
published to-morrow, directing general officers
commanding Confederate troops to ascertain
and report if peaceable citizens have been put
to death in Arkansas by Gen. Fitch, upon the
ground that one of the invading army bad been
shot by some unknown person, and upon be
ing certified thereof, they shall forthwith set
apart by lot from any prisoners from the army
under the command of Fitch, numbers of offi
cers equal in number to the persons put to
death as aforesaid, and place them in close con
finement for execution at such time as may be
ordered by the President, and shall regard
Fitch, if captured, as a felon, and shall place
him in confinement until further orders.
FROM KNOXVILLE.
Augusta, Aug. 19.—A special despatch to
the Constitutionalist, dated Knoxville, 19th,
says that Major Capers’ 12th Georgia Battalion,
a portion of the 43rd Alabama, Lieut. Col.
Moore, and Georgia cavalry, Capt. Nelson, after
a forced march of twenty-four miles, attacked
Fort Clift, near Huntsville, Tenn., on the 15th
inst, and errried it at the point of the bayonet.
Colors of the 17th (Federal) Tennessee Regi
ment, a large quantity of Ordnance, Commissi
ry and Quarter Master’s stores were destroyed.
None killed in CapeiABattalion.
fron^Phe west.
Mobile, 20th.—A special dispatch to ihe
Tribune, dated Granada the 19th says a des
patch to the SL Louis Democrat says Gen. Mor
gan has four pieces ol artillciy and 1800 uien
has been raging in America, has unfortunately ! vvith him. A steamboat was burned by
Richmond, Va., Aug. 18th.—Congress re
assembled to-day pursuant to adjournment.
In the Senate, Mr. Yancey, of Ala., gave no
tice that he would offer an amendment to the
rules so as to provide that the legislative ses
sions of the Senate shall be held with open
doors unless otherwise ordered by two thirds
of the members.
In the House, Mr. Foote, of Tennessee, sub
mitted a similar proposition, and made a speech
in support of it. The resolution was laid over.
The President’s Message was received and-
read in both Houses.
He compliments tho troops for their gallant
ry and good conduct, as illustrated on hard
fought battle fields, and marked by exhibitions
of individual prowess which can find but few
parallels, either in ancient or modern history.
The zeal and unanimity of the great body of
the people of the Confederacy gives assurance
to the friends of Constitutional liberty of our
final triumph. The vast army which lately
threatened the Capital of the Confederacy has
been defeated, and the enemy is now seeking
to raise new armies on a scale such as modern
history does not record, to effect that subjuga
tion of the South which is so often proclaim
ed as being on the eve of accomplishment —
Our enemies are becoming daily, less regard
ful of tbe usages of civilized warfare and the
dictates of humanity. The wanton destruction
of private property, the murder of captives,
orders of banishment against peaceful families,
are some of the means used by our invaders to
enforce the subjugation ol a tree people to for
eign sway.
The President refers, in this connection, to
the Yankee confiscation hills, to the forgery of
the moneyed obligations of tho Confederate Gov
ernment by citizens of the United States, and
the apparent complicity of that Government in
the crime. Two at least of the Generals ol the
United States are engaged, unchecked by their
Government, in exciting servile insurrection,
and arming the slaves. Another has been found
of instincts so brutal as to invite the violence of
his soldiery against the woman of a captured
city. Yet the rebuke ol civilized mao has fail
ed to evoke from the authorities of the United
States one mark of disapprobation of bis acts,
nor is their any reason to suppose that the con
duct of Benjamin F. Butler has failed to secure
from his Government the sanction and applause
with which it is known to have been greeted by
public meetings of tho people in the United
States. Enquiries have been made of the com-
mander-in-Chief of the United States whether
the atrocious conduct of some of the military
commanders met with sanction of that Govern
ment. Answer has been evaded on the pretext
continued with unabated intensity, and the
evils with which it has been attended have not
been confined to the American Continent. But
Her Majesty, having Irorn the outset determin
ed to take no part in the contest, has seen no
reason to depart from the neautrlity which she
has steadily adhered to.
In the House of Lords, Earl Strathfieldsea
moved for the correspondence with Mr. Mason
relative to the acknowledgement of the South
ern States. Earl Russell replied it would not
expedite business to produce papers from the
Agents of the Confederate States. They were with 2000 Enfie’d Rifles and a large amount of
the
Southern sympathizers opposite Memphis.—
Skirmishing still continues within the vicinity
of Senatobia.
A Washington dispatch reports that Stone
wall Jackson had returned to Orange Court
House with his whole army.
A special despatch to the Mobile Advertiser
and Register dated Jackson, 19th, says the N i
val Court Martial commences here to-morrow.
The Federals are reported to have landed for
ces at the mouth of Yazoo River. They have
captured the Confederate transport Fair I’lay,
not recognized as Ministers, and all communi
cations from them were unofficial. Correspon
dence had taken place between this govern
ment and Messrs. Adams and Seward, on this
subject but the British Government had replied
as before. He stated that no communication
had been received from any foreign power re
lative to the recognition of the Southern States.
Earl Maluisbury suggested that government
should communicate with other powers with a
view to foreign mediation if a favorable oppor
tunity arises. To which Earl Russell agreed,
that if mediation is oflered, all the powers should
join in it. The motion was finally withdrawn.
The London Times editorially argues, that if
England wishes to give the Federals a new im
pulse, she has hut to take some step which can
be represented as interference, and Lincoln will
then soon get his three hundred thousand men,
and the chances of peace be indefinitely post
poned.
The Journal de St. Petersburg has rumors
that Russia has joined France in a proposition
from England for the recognition of the Con
federates.
Colton Market.—In Liverpool cotton advan
ced a quarter to three eighttis of a penny since
previous advices, but the market closed quiet
on the 7th iustant. Breadstuff! and provisions
unchanged. Consols, for money, 93J to 93g.
ammunition intended for Gen. Hindman,
bad lick !l
the World, however, will be ineffectual. Not I thal the enquiry was insulting. No method
and we assume, as a consequence, which Uic dlipHcity . ]f fa evident that the creat ure is
progress of this war ha.-, heretofore shown in
evitable, that the movements will be slow in
proportion, although it secuis to outsiders that
everything on our side calls for tbe most prompt
and vigorous action. But when armies swell
to the size we have mentioned, they are un-
wieldly and cumbrous, and the stakes of battle
are so momentous that neither side dares to
venture.
They stand spading and staring at each oth
er -eating and drinking—getting sick and re
inforcing, until one fancies that the other has
got too many men or too long guns, and then
a masterly retreat closes up the show. If we
are to judge of the future by the past, that is
to be the history of the campaign, but as wis
dom comes by experience and Stonewall has
now got to be a Captain, we may see some
thing better this time, although we ought not
to look for the dash and spirit of one of Stone-
wall’s campaigns. It is supposed that General
Lee is in command at Gordonsville, and our
hut a weak vessel, and his talk should pass for
uothing with sensible men—whether he talk
one way or the other. We fancy Massa Gree
ley is very much disgruntled about news.
THE PRESENT CROPS OF GEORGIA.
In a conversation with Col. Thweatt, Comp
troller General, who was in our office yester
day, we learn that 114 counties of Georgia re
turn this year 3,500,000 acres planted in corn;
1,200,000 in other grain, and 224,000 acres
planted in cotton. The Comptroller supposes
that the actual amount of land in corn the pre
sent time is from four to five million aeres and
the product from fifty to sixty millions of bush
els. In 1849 the corn crop of Georgia was
thirty millions of busffela. The amount of
land in cotton is estimated at £60,000 acres
and the product will probably be about sixty
thousand bales. Ordinarily it is about seven
hundred thousand.
Hushed I—We have reason to believe that
until these gentri find that there is law South
as well as North, will they curb their natural
propensities; and we trust there will he rope
enough found to make an example to an army
invading a country confessedly for purposes of
violence arid plunder, and setting up deliber
ately, as the World does, the plea that the peo
pie are entitled to no protection, and ought to
be stripped and plundered and dominated over
as a pack of outlaws or wolves 1
force not inferior to that of the enemy. If we
do not hear of a light in three weeks there even more.stringent injunctions have been im
will be a fall hack shortly after. The enemy
will raise McClellan's force to half a million if
neceasary, with his new levies, and be able to
do it in no great time.
posed upon the telegraph offices in Virginia,
and that the press is likely to get nothing to
gratify curiosity until somo important event
takes place.
THE LABOR IMPRESSMENT.
In another column will be found the card of
a Committee of Planters of Dougherty County
in regard to th s Labor Impressment The des
patch from the War Department, while it disa
vows all authority to impress, makes an appeal
which will find a responsive echo in the hearts
of all the slave owners of Georgia. The gov-
eminent will not call in vain. As the commit
tee say,labor will be forwarded cheerfully, vol
untarily, until the military commandant at Sa
vannah shall himself cry “Hold, enough." Our
Planters will display their patriotism now that
the appeal is to that, and not to force and in
timidation. lt is due, however, to Gen. Mercer
to say that he bimseif at first proposed to raise
the force by voluntary means, and we doubt
not had the movement, at that time, been pla
ced in its true attitude of justice, necessity and
urgency, the labor would have been forthcom
ing. It is not too late, however, now to reme
dy all errors, and show to the world and to our
friends, that tbe up country will not measure
pence or sacrifices for the defence of their soil
against the enemy.
remains for the repression of these enormities
hut such retributive justice as it may be found
possible to execute. Vengeance will not be
wreaked on unarmed men, on women or on
children, but stern and exemplaiy punishment
can and must be meted out to murderers and
felons, who, disgracing the profession of arms,
seek to make of public war an occasion for the
commission of the most monstrous crimes.
The President refers to the reports from the
heads of the several Departments. He approves
the recommendations of the Secretary of the
Treasury for an increased issue of Treasury
notes, convertible into 8 per cent bonds.
He invites favorable consideration to the re
commendations of the Secretary of War rela
tive to the Conscript Law, and expresses the
opinion that it may be necessary hereafter to
extend the provisions of this law so as to em
brace persons between the ages of thirty-five
and forty-five. The vigor and efficiency of our
present forces inspires the belief that no further
enrollment will be necessary; but wise iore-
sight requires that means should exist for call
ing such additional force into the field as may
be necessary, without awaiting the reassembling
of Congress.
The President states that, in spite, both of
blandishments and threats, used in profusion
by agents of the Government of the United
States, the Indian nations within the Confeder
acy have remained firm in their loyalty, and
steadfast in the observance of their treaty en
gagements with this Government.
The President concludes: “YVe have never
ceasing cause to be grateful for the favor with
which Gel has protected our infant Confedera
cy, and it becomes us reasonably to return
Him thanks, and humbly to ask of his bounte
ousness that wisdom which is needful for the
performance of the high trusts with which we
are charged.
NORTHERN NEWS.
Lincoln suddenly takes the lack hack upon the
Negro (Question—Hunter's Brigade disband
ed—Destructive Collision on the Potomac—
1‘ope ready—Negro Riot in Buffalo—Inde
pendence, Missouri, captured by the Confed>
erates.
Lincoln had been waited upon by a deputa
tion of negroes, asking employment as soldiers
in the army, and had created a great sensation
by his speech on the occasion, in which he
proclaimed that the difference between the
black and white races in the United States is
so broad, that it is impossible the inferior race
can ever possess political equality with the su
perior and dominant race.
The Herald announces the disbandment of
Gen. Hunter’s negro brigade. The Maryland
News Sheet, in Baltimore, Las been suspended
by Gen. Wool, and tho editor sent to Fort Mc
Henry. The editor pf the Dubuque (Iowa)
Herald, lias also been arrested for discouraging
enlistments.
A collision occurred on the Potomac river,
Wednesday night, between the steamers Geo.
Peabody and West Point The former, loaded
with troops, sunk and seventy-six persons were
drowned, including three ladies, wives of offi
cers in Burnside’s command.
War meetings are being held throughout tho
North.
Mobile, Aug. 19th.—A special despatch to
the Tribune, dated Grenada, the 18th, says that
Northern papers of tho 13th have been receiv
ed.
It is reported that Pope has been heavily re
inforced and is now ready for a movement up
on Gordonsville. Gen. Burnsides is said to be ,
co-operating with Pope.
Guerrillas are reported active on Green riv
er, Kentucky.
A serious riot occurred at Buffalo New York,
on the 12th, between the Germans and Irish
and the negroes, because the latter underbid
them in labor. Two rioters were shot by the
police. The Mayor called out the militia, ex
pecting a renewal of the disturbance.
The Yankee account of the battle of Taze
well, acknowledges 8 killed, 15 wounded and
50 prisoners, but they do not, however, claim
a victory.
A despatch from Lexington, Missouri, says
that Independence was attacked by 1600 rebels
under Hughes and Quantrell. After four hours’
severe fighting, the whole Federal garrison had
surrendered, with the loss of twenty killed and
a large number wounded. Much excitement
in Lexington in consequence.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Richmond, Aug. 20th.—In the Senate, Mr.
Brown introduced a resolution directing the
Committee on Military Affairs to inquire wliat
legislation, if any, was necessary to prevent
abuses in the matter of receiving substitutes
in the army. He specified someof the abus.-- ,
and adverted to evasions of the Corscripimn
law. The resolution was then withdrawn.
In the House, a resolution of thanks to Col
Morgan and his command, for distinguished
services rendered, was adopted.
Resolutions to abolish the office of the Sec
rctary of the Navy, and declaring brute Butler
an enemy to the human race, were submitted
and relerred to appropriate committees.
FROM CHARLESTON.
CuaklesTON, Aug. 2tHli.—The British steam
er Racer touched oti’this port this morning w ah
despatches for the British Consul in the South.
She has sailed southward and will return iu a
few days to receive despatches from the Con
sul for the Legation at Washington.
POPE’S REPORT!
MeCleUan— Ouerrilla Movements—Motements
in Eastern Ken'ucky.
Mobile, Aug. 21. 1 —A special despatch to the
Tribune, dated Grenada, 2utli, says that Nor
thern dates of the 15th have been received.
They state that Gen. Pope's official report
acknowledges a loss of fifteen hundred in the
battle of Cedar Run. lie says most of the fight
ing was hand to hand contest.
Yankee despatches from Missouri represent
our Guerrillas as being giadually overpowered.
The Fortress Monroe correspondent of the
New York Tribune, confirms the withdrawal
of McClellan’s army from the Peninsula, but
their destination is not named.
The Louisville Journal of the 14th says, Gen.
Williams was at Prestonburg on the 12th with
his brigade, and that Gen. Humphrey Marshall
was not far behind with another brigade, said
to be ordered to Catlettsburg. Both brigades
number seven or oight thousand.
The Home Guards were driven from Pike-
ton, Ky., on the the 11th, by some Confederate
Guerrillas, after a sharp skirmish.
[ Better JUedical Provision for our Volun
teers.
YY'e have been requested by Dr. A. J. Sim
mons to throw out the suggestion of a^^bbi-
nation among the counties contiguous to Bibb
for the purpose of securing better Hospital ac
commodations and fuller medical and surgical
attention to our wounded and sick soldiers.—
To organize a staffof the best medical ami sur
gical men in these counties and to establish
temporary hospitals near every battle field is,
we believe, his idea, and the expense should
be defrayed by taxation. Repeated observa
tion and experience among the wounded in our
battles proves that an immense amount of suf
fering and loss oflife result from the necessary
inadequacy oi the medical force in the army to
1 give timely attention to all the wounded, and
it is pitiable and shocking to witness what
many of our brave soldiers have to endure from
this cause. Humanity calls for some addition
al provision, and now as a groat battL- seems
to be impending in which many will be wound
ed, in the Doctor’s judgment it is the houml-
en duty of the people, in convenient organi
zations, to send on such experienced medical
aid as they can spare, with money to obtain
shelter for the wounded belonging to their re
spective localities, and also, if possible, with
experienced nurses. .
— * •
Indictment of “The Richmond Tvpoorafh-
ical Society.”—The Grand Jury of Richmond
have indicted all the members of the Richmond
Typographical Society whose names they could
obtain, for “unlawful and pernicious combina
tion and conspiracy” to control the printing es
tablishments, employers and journeyman prin-.
ters oi that city.