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the commer-
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Higfcty lntr*-»*»«*« Worope.
/he project of Ang!a-French Intervention
in the American Aar. Threatening tone
of the English Press. Lord John Russell
on the Blocking up of Charleston harbor.
The Sumter still Burning and sinking
Yankee Merchantmen-
Arrived of a vessel from Charleston, ip'., 4 r >
SfC;
Through the Northern papers of the 6th
inst., we’have late and very interesting
advices from Europe, brought by the
steamship Nova Scotian, which left Liv
erpool on the afternoon of the 23d, touch
ing at Londonderry on the 24th ult. 1 he
dates per the Nora Scotian are fi'e days
later than those already received. We
make up a summary of the news.
The. American 11 a/ its effect, in England—
what (lie British papers say.
The question of European intervention
in the civil war in America is being much
more freely canvassed, the proceedings at
Charleston and the alleged general ineffi
ciency of the blockade being the excuses
put forth for such a step. It was represen
ted that Charleston was well defended
and that between that city and Savannah
Gen. Lee has about 40,000 troops under
his command.
The Liverpool Post emphatically declares
that the civil war must be stopped by me
diation, if possible; by force, if necessa-
Tlie London News (organ of Exeter
Ilall) continues boldly to denounce the
ilea of recognizing the South, and says
that it is time the country should utter its
voice against it in unmistakable tones.
The London Globe argues that the mar
itime Powers cannot be expected to res
pect the blockade, unless it be really effec-
tive.
The London Times continues its denun
ciations of the stone blockade, and asserts
that the project of the British Government
against Boulogne in 1S04 was a far differ
ent thing, having been designed to shut in
a hostile fleet.
The London Morning Post says that
matters in America are evidently ap
proaching a situation in which the de fac
to government of the South may claim
consideration in Europe-
.Some journals say that if, in spite of the
remonstrances against it, other South
ern p„rts arc served like Charleston, Eng
land and France will have nothing left for
them to do but to interfere.
Lord Elgin was about to leave for India.
Ho promised the deputation on the cotton
question to do his best to encourage its
growth.
The London Times (city article) of the
24tli ult. says that uneasy feeling prevails.
The avoidance of complications in con
nection with American affairs cannot be
permanently anticipated, and the feeling
will probably increase until the meeting oi
the French Chamber on Monday, at which
some indication of the policy to be adopted
by France, and England generally seems
to be looked for.
The city article of the London Herald
says the accounts from America are of a
most desponding character the
cial situation of New York bein
ralleled.
Mr. Massey, member of Parliament, had
delivered a speech before his constituents
at Salford, England, in which he advocated
that the European Powers should inter
fere to close the struggle between the
North and South, by recognizing the Con
federate States, and breaking the blockade
of the Southern States.
The Manchester Guardian argues in a
somewhat similar strain, and as regards
the cotton supply it says:—It is a
questi >n, how tar, in this district, the pie-
vailiiig distress is due to the civil war in
America and whether it is not as much
attributable to our production as to a mere
dearth of cotton.
The factory statistics of Manchester show
that the shortening of the hours of labor
in the factories is greatly extending, and
in the course of a week or two the mo\e-
ment was expected to become much more
general and extensive.
The Feeling in Prance—Disposition of the
French Government to take the initiative
in breaking the Sham Blockade.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Morning Post says: It is not true, as some
journals represent, that the 1 rench Gov
ernment has taken any steps to bring about
a reconciliation between the North and the
South.
The French steam despatch boat For-
fort, at Cherboug, had received orders to
be ready to sail for North America on a
special mission.
A London letter ir. the Paris Patrie as
serts that the Brtisli Government will pro
test against the measure for declaring the
Southern ports closed against foreign com
merce.
The London Times congratulates Europe
that the Military force of Franco now
bids fair to shrink to reasonble limits. Let
it be once understood that I ranee has no
desire to disturb the tranquility of her
neighbors, and the in dustry of Central
Europe will shoot up and ilourish with
a vigor not to he. surpassed in the New
World-
It is reported that the initiative in pro
claiming the blockade of the Southern
ports inefficient will be taken by France.
The belief gains ground that the proofs of
the fictitious character of the blockade
have long been too complete and numerous
to render it possible to be passed over
without danger to those public and nation
al rights, the quiet maintenance of which
depends on a firm regard to precedents.
It was stated that the French Minister
at Washington had been furnished with
formal disapprobation of the French gov
ernment at the conduct of the United
States government in choking up Charles
ton harbor with stone, and that he would
join Lord Lyons in protesting against the
act. The French government journals ot
the 24th ult, coutinue to make the worst
of the Charleston blockade.
The Stone Blockade of Charleston Harbor-
Correspondence of Earl Ilvssell with the
Liverpool shipowners.
The following correspondence has pass
ed between the Liverpool Shipowners
Association and the Foreign office:
Shipowners’ Association, )
Liverpool January 13, 1862. $
My Lord: It has come to the knowl
edge cf the Liverpool Shipowners’ Asso
ciation, through the public prints, that the
Federal Government of the United States
have sunk a stone squadron in the main
channel of Charleston harbor. This pro
ceeding cannot fail seriously and perma
nently to injure the entrance to that har
bor. The Association fears that unless
strong representation and remonstrances
are promptly made, similar course may be
immediately followed in the case of
the other Harbors of the Con
federate States. The Association
does not think it necessary to dwell at
length on the importance of this question,
as affecting the general interest of com
merce, but f. els called upon, representing
important interest, to address your lord-
ship on the subject. Iam, therefore, in
structed by the Association respectfully to
press this matter on your lordslip’s earnest
consideration.
1 have the honor to be, my lord, you
lordship’s most obedient humble ser
vant,
Francis A- Clint, Chairman.
To he High. Hon, Eat 1 Russell Foiegn
Office, London.
LORD JOHN RUSSELL’S REPLY.
Furhgn Office. Jan. 15.
I aru diiected by Earl Russell to ac
knowledge the receipt of the letter which
>n behalf of the Liverpool Shipowners’
Association you addressed to fc him on the
13ih instant, calling his attention to the
Federal government of the United States
have adopted for closing the main channel
ot Charleston harbor, by sinking there
vessels laden with stone, and expressing
the lear of the Association that unless
strong representation and remonstrances
are promptly made, a similar course may
immediately followed in the case ol
the other harbors of the Confederate
States.
I am to request that you will state to the
Liverpool Shipowners’ Association that
the attention of her Majesty’s government
was at once attracted by the rumors which
obtained currency some weeks ago ot such
a course as that to which you refer being
contemplated by the government of the
Udited States, and on the 20th of Decem
ber. her Majesty’s Minister at \\ ashington
was informed of the view taken of it by
her majesty’s government.
Lord Lyons was told that such a cruel
plan would seem to imply despair ot the
restoration of the Union, the professed ob
ject of the war; for it never could be the
wish of the United States government to
destroy cities from which their own coun
try was to derive a portion of its ritches
and prosperity. Such a plan could only
be adopted as a measure of revenge
and of irremediable injury against an ene
my.
Lord Lyons was further told that even
as a scheme of embittered and sanguinary
war such a measure would not be justifia
ble. If would be a plot against the com
merce of all maritime nations, and against
the free intercourse of the Southern States
of America with the civilized world. Lord
Lyons was desired to speak in this sense to
.Mr. Seward, who, it was hoped, would
disavow the illegal project.
Now however, that the project seems to
have been carried into effect at Charleston
Lord Lyons will be instructed to make a
further representation to Mr. Seward,
with a view to prevent similar acts of des
truction in other ports. I am, sir, your
most obedient servant,
E. Hammond.
F. A. Clint, Esq-, &c.
Fort Henry Fallen!—We are forced this
morning, as we seriously apprehended, to
chronicle the fall of Fort Henry. The
enemy attacked the position on yesterday
about 11.4 o’clock, A. M., with five gun
boats, and after a bombardment of an
hour and half and the disabling ot one or
two of their boats, compelled a surrender.
They then proceeded up the I ennessee
river and burned the Railroad bridge over
that stream-
Our dispatch states that the fate of Gen.
Tilghmans command, who were stationec
at the fort, is unknown, and it is possible
that they may have made good their es
cape to Fot Donelson. which is on the
west bank of the Cumberland river only
twelve miles distant.
We are enabled to state from our own
knowledge, that the amount of stores and
ammunition taken was small. The fort
was located on the east bank of the Ten
nessee river, twenty miles below the Rail
road bridge, and was purely an earthwork
defence, though of considerable magnitude;
was surrounded by a deep ditch and
strengthened by rifle pits in the rear.
Only a small portion of Gen. Tilghman’s
command (probably some 500 men) were
stationed immediately in the Fort the re
mainder being within supporting dis
tance.
The armament of the fort was very in
ferior, consisting of fourteen guns of the
following description: One 128-pounder
not properly mounted and rendered user-
viceable after being fired twice last Tues
day. One 32-pounder, rifled, the only one
that could compete in range with the ten-
inch guns of the enemy. The others
were 42 and 24 pounders.
Only four of our guns were in position
so as to properly range with the ascending
boats.
Submarine batteries were planted below
on the east side of the island, and were
being laid in the west channel on tlie day
of the enemy’s approach but our plans
were disturbed before fully perfected.
Memphis Appeal Itli
Koanokr Inland Taken—.Near Three Thous
and Confederates Captured.
Richmond, 9th,—A steamer arrived to
night bringing intelligence that the Feder-
als took Roanoke Island yesterday after
noon at four o’clock.
A Federal force of 15,000 lauded against
less than 3000 Confederates. All our
troops were taken prisoners, excepting
about twenty five. Many of the officers
were wounded, among them O. Jennings
Wise (mortality, it is thought.) Captain
Coles of Charlottesville is reported killed.
The particulars are very meagre, but the
report of the capture is true. Gen. H. A.
Wise was not captured.
EnliMtmriit nnd fc Kc-Enli«lninit.
A “Short aud Dcsjieratc" 1 Yar M’C/el-
lan Waiting for the Southern Volunteers
to go home
Gen. McClellan remarked, a fortnight
since, to Colfax, of Indiana, “that the war
would be short.” Colfax expressed some
surprise at the opinion of the General, who
continued in the same strain: “I es, I
will adhere to the opinion that the war will
be a short one. We need only wait with
patience until the rebel army is reduced
to the same condition of our forces after
the Bull Run fight, when the time of 75,-
000 of our three mouths’ men expired,
and they refused to re-enlist. The hour
rapidly draws near. The rebel forces,
sickened with the rigor of a winter cam
paign, will be sure to disband, when the
terms of their 12 months’ men expire. The
rebel States will be compelled to resort to
a draft, but drafted raw militia cannot
upon the fall of Fort Henry, thinks it
should only stimulate ns to renewed exer
tions to prevent any fuither I ederal suc
cesses and encroachments; and adds by
way of encouragement:
We have favorable news which we
might tell in offset to the bad, but for the
fact that telling it now might defeat it. Our
readers will acccept the encouragement
how ever which wc design, and take it up
on our word. They would not have us
do the cause an injury to gratify their
curiosity. Let us repeat, however, that
the times demand remanifestation of that
subiime patriotism which our whole Con
federacy exhibited when Lincoln first call
ed his dogs of war to let them loose against
us. His horn sounds a fresh blast, and a
fresh pack are let ship. Every man to
the rescue.
GOOD! GOOdT GOOD!
The Richmond Dispatch says it is under
stood Government will shortly issue an or
der for the seizure of all corn held for the
purpose of distillation, a step rendered
necessary, not only by the pernicious ef
fects of the unlimited manufacture of whis
key, but by the exorbitant prices which
Government is thereby compelled to pay
for an article indispensable to the sustenan
ce of the armv.
We are rejoiced to have this informa
tion If grain were in superabundance, it
would be bad enough to have our soldiers
poisened by the infernal strychnine decoc
tions sold under the name of whiskey at a
dollar a pint—but, now, while grain is
scarce and high and every public and per
sonal interest calls for lower prices, it is
outrageous that grain should be destroyed
or this nefarious purpose,
f The Secretary of War has already is
sued an order to the commanders of the
several posts in the Confederacy to seize
all the saltpetre in the hands of specula
tors who have bought it up for the purpose
of defrauding the Government. The Sec
retary allows forty cents per pound for it
which he well says is enough.
The Southern People And Their Rulers.
[From the Richmond Examner. Feb. 7]
We have a thousand proofs that the
Southern people are not sufficiently alive
to the necessity of exertion in the struggle
they are involved in. Our very victories
have brought injury upon the cause bv
teaching us to despise the public adver
sary. The immense magnitude of his
started Mritli Mr. R. M. Martain oil a trip
to within the Federal lines. They went
some ten miles beyond Calhounl, and . re
presenting themselves as Federal soldiers,
took possession of twelve horses belonging
to Col. Jim Jackson’s cavalry, which were
at the. house of a Union man named W ill's
Fields, and brought them safly into camp
at Hopkinsville, it was quite an adventu
rous and successful expedition.—Bowling
Green Courier.
Elizabeth City Rurut by tbe Inhabitant*!
All the Confederate Gunboats Excepting
one Captured by the Federals!
Norfolk, Feb. 10.—A courier, arrived
here at four o’clock this afternoon, brings
intelligence that Elizabeth City wasburn-
ed this morning by the inhabitants.
During the conflagration the Federals
landed in large force.
All our gunboats excepting one were
captured by the enemy.
Gen. Wise has not yet arrived
here
I.iitml from Trnnciuee Rirer.
Great Destruction of Steamboats
Government Properly,
and
supply the places of their well drilled and
disciplined volunteers. Their army must
necessarily become disorganized, and then
will be my oppointed time to strke. My
own men are all in for the war; they are
now well drilled soldiers, and cannot be
successfuly resisted by a disorganized army.
That is why, Mr. Colfax, 1 still think the
war will be short.”
Tbe above is from tbe Leesburg Herald.
It “speaks volumes,” and its significance
will not be lost on our brave volunteers
who rushed so eagerly to battle on the
first call their country made-
The malignity of the foe is intense. He
straining every nerve to accomplish his fell
threat to ‘ desolate the hated South and in
dict misery on every Southern household.”
His preparations are on a gigantic scale,
and he expects that our brave volunteers,
whose term of enlistment will soon expire
will leave their comrades as a portion ot
his own left theirs at Bull Run. I ut we
do not believe that our well trained twelve
months’ volunteers will leave the field just
when the contest is becoming most fierce an
leave the battles they once sought for, to
be fought by newly enlisted men who can
not be expected for a long time to do as
good service as they can do. No, they
will not leaxe behind the laurels they have
■o nearly won, nor disappoint t ie ex
pectations of their country, the reliance of
tbeir mothers, sisters, wives and children.
Manassas.
Something Ahead.— I he Richmond En
quirer of the 8th instant, in commenting
preparations for our subjugation lias exci
ted no apprehension, and had little effect
in rousing us to exertion. We repose qui
etly in the lap of security when every
faculty of eur natures should be roused to
action.
The evidence of the prevailing sentiment
are manifold. They are provided by the
set of men who are elected to responsible
positions. Men of palliatives, expedients,
and partial measures control in our public
councils. Men who could not perceive the
coming storm that is now upon us,and who
centinued to cry peace, peace, when peace
had ceased to be possible, are tlmse who
received the largest support for controling
station. The government is almost turned
over already to these passive characters,
who look upon confiscation as barbarous;
aggression as impolitic, and vigorous was
as a policy to be aided, because tending
to incense the enemy against us.
The men who descried the cloud of war
when it was no bigger than a man’s hand,
and who now can see no peace but as the
result of vigorous measures, and renewed
victories, are relegated to subordinate
positions; and their views being a burning
rebuke to the statesmen in position, they
are laboring under tbe weight of implied
censure. To win a battle by an aggress
ive mov ement, is to incur a sort of obloquy;
and to lose a battle in a brave push upon
the ff>e is to provoke a chuckle ot satisfac
tion, and the taunt, “I told you so.”
Belter to fight, even at the risk of losing
battles, than remain inactive to fill up
inglorious graves. Better tlmn government
and people should be roused to duty by
defeat, than that the army should goto
sleep, the government dose, and the peo
ple grow drowsy, in the very jaws of
destruction. To fill our public councils
with men of passive measures, who would
administer war on homaeopathic principles-
who would whip the enemy by coward
ice and sloth, is to paralyze the govern
ment and to enervate the people. The
people are alive to tbe demands of tbe
crisis, but if Congress snows upon them
they grow tame and crouching.
In the midst of revolution, no greater
calamity can befall a people than for their
affairs to pass into the control of men who
could not understand it in the begining,
and are incapable of appreciating the
demands of the crisis as they arise. The
French, in their revolution, had an easy
way of getting rid of such characters—
they chopped off their heads. They left
it necessary, as all subsequent opinion has
acknowledged, to push tbeir revolution
through to a climax, at any cost; and,
through often, with tears and sorrow, they
guillotined the public men who leaned
back against the harness. Their revolu
tion succeeded, and owned its success
solely to their excesses. 1 hey passed to
the promise land through a red sea of
blood. Old institutions, abuses and enor
mities were swept away, with every relic
of opinion that upheld them. France be
came a ta hula rasa, upon which a new
destiny was to be written.
All Europe moved against her more
formidably than the Northern hordes are
beleaguering our own country; but such
was the fiery earnestness of her leaders
and her people, that the gathering hosts of
invasion were scattered to the four winds.
At last, itmust bo confessed that the sub
jugation of a nation is not to be defeated so
much by armies and guns as by the fierce
resolution of its rules and people. An
unconquerable will, and fierce combative
purpose, are more effective than invincible
arms. Does such a fiery purpose blaze in
our Government, imparting its hot flame to
the hearts of our people?
We take the following paragraph from
the Pensacola Observer of the 9th inst.:
The Fleet.—The blockaders off this bar
consist of a large steam faigate ant^ seve
ral small sailing, vessels, notwithstanding
the report that there were a hundred ves
sels outside.
Fort Pickens.—The Yankee force at
Fort Pickens numbers six thousand.—Ex
change.
It may be 6,000 or 10.000, but nntill
they number ten to our one, trusting in
the high military capacities of our leaders
and the prowess of our arms, and the
efficiencj of our fortifications, the cause
for which we are battling, and in Pro
vidence’ we shall fear no danger what
ever.
Rumors.— Rumors are still rife here
upon our streets, the truth or falsity of
which we cannot say. but we think the
times are critical—-more so, indeed, than
we arc aware of. We would, therefore,
urge upon our citizens to re-organize.
Let every man in town rally, and rally
now. Drill, get arms, and be ready.
The enemy, emboldened by some rever
ses of ours, may attempt an attack here.
Ponsacola must not fall into their hands
by the lethargy of Pensacolians. Then. “
to arms!” meet, form companies again,
and we think we know enough to say
arms and ammunition can be procur
ed
Fighting Cnnimrncrd at Fort Donelwii
Memphis, Feb. 11.—There lias been a
heavy loss of steamboats on the Tennes
see river in consequence of the invasion by
the Federal gun-boats. The Lexington,
Conestoga aad Sam Orr,with one hundred
aud seventy pounds of powder and two
submarine batteries, were set fire at eight
o’clock in the evening, ten miles above
Tennessee river bridge, on Friday. On
Saturday the Appleton, the Belle and tbe
Lynn Boyd, were burned by the Confede
rates at the mouth of Duck river* The
Sam Kirkman, the Julius and the Time,
the latter with one hundred thousand dol
lars worth of Government stores, was
abandoned and burned at Florence on Sat
urday The Dunbar was sunk at Cy
press Creek. Most of the Confederate
gun-boats were sunk—the Cerro Gordo
and Sa/lie Ward were captured by the
Federals—the Robb was the only one
that escaped.
The Federal gun-boats have left the ri
ver, but are expected to return.
The enemy took twenty thousand
pounds of Confederate salt pork from Flor
ence, hut refused to touch private property,
even Cotton-
The passenger trains have resumed
their regular trips on the Memphis .and
Charleston Railroad.
It is reported that the Federals are con
centrating alarge force in the vicinity of
Paris, where there is eighteen hundred Con
federate cavalry.
The Tennessee river railroad bridge is
not burned.
It is reported in Paris that fighting com
menced at Fort Donelson on Saturday.
W e have no news via Nashville.
One general, two captains, two lieuten
ants and seventy-five privates were captur
ed at Fort Henry. Twenty-two dead
bodies were found in the Fort.
One of the Federals gun-boats had her
steam pipe broke and one man killed.
The Federal have abandoned Fort
Henry, and are fortifying Fort Angelo, on
the opposite side of the river.
Fort Henry is inuedated and the earth
work has caved in on both sides.
The Federals threaten to take posses
sion of the Memphis and Lliio railroad in
two weeks. They have easy access to
it.
A stern-wheel boat was in the river on
Sunday, with twenty Federals on
board.
In Southern Illinois the milsitary excite
ment is growing warm.
A public meeting was held here yes
terday to organise for the defense of
the city.
FORT DONELSON ATTACKED.
Nashville, 12jh.—A despatch from Cum
berland City, this evening, states that one
Federal gunboat appeared in sight of Fort
Donelson, this morning, about ten o’clock
and opened fire upon the Fort, without do
ing any damage. The Fort returned the
fire, when the boat retired. The Fede
rals have landed in force, and a battle
with light artillery commenced this eve
ning. The Federals were reported to have
from 11,000 to 12,000. When the stea
mer left Fort Donelson the battle was rag
ging, but nothing farther was known.
R.
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gists, 10(1 Fulton Street, New York.
Sold by HERTY Sc HALL, also by ^GRIEVE &
CLARK. 39 it.
BY AUTHORITY.
ACTS AND BESOLIITIOHS
of the Second Session of the
PR O VISIONAL CONGRESS
of Ihe
CONFEDERATE STATES.
lSdl.
[No. 189.]
AN ACT To secure Copy-rights to Authors and
Composers.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact. Any person or persons,
being a citizen or citizens ot the Confederate States.
or resident therein, who shall be theauthur or au
thors of any book or books, map, chart or musical
composition, which may be now made or compos
ed, aud not printed aud published, or shall hereaf
ter be made or composed, or who shall invent, de
sign, etch, engrave, work or cause to be engra
ved, etched or worked from his own design any
print or engraving, and the executors, adminis
trators or legal assigns of such person or persons,
shall have the solo right and liberty of printing,
reprinting, publishing and vending such book or
books, map, chart or musical composition, print,
cut or engraving, in whole or iu part, tor the term
of twenty eight years Iron! the tune ot recording
the title thereof, iu the manner hereinafter directed.
8>*c. 2. No person shall be entitled to the bene
fit ot" this act. unless be shall, betore publication,
deposit a printed copy of tbe tide ot such book or
books, map, chart, musical composition, print, cut
or engraving, in the clerk’s office of the district
court of the district wherein the authoi or proprie
tor shall reside. And the clerk of such court is
hereby directed aud required to record the same
thereof forthwith, in a book to be kept for that pur
pose, in the words following (giviug a copy of the
title, under the seal of tne court, to the said author
or proprietor, whenever ho shall require the same ):
•• District of , to wit: Be it remem
bered, that on the day of Anno Domini , A
B, of the said district, had) deposited in this office
the title ot a book (map. chart or otherwise, as the
case may be), the tide of which is in the words fol
lowing, to-wit (here insert the title): the right
whereof he claimsas author (or proprietor, as the
ease may b>-), in conformity with an act of Con
gress entitled ‘An Act to secure Copy rights to Au
thors and Composers.’ C D, Clerk of the District,”
For which record the clerk shall be entitled to re
ceive from the person claiming such right as afore
said, fifty cents : and the like sum for every copy,
under seal, actually given to such person, or his
assigns And the author or proprietor of any such
book, map, chart, musical composition, print, cut
or engraving, shall, within three months from the
publication of said book, map, chart, musical com
position, print, cut or engraving, deliver or cause
to be delivered a copy of the same to the clerk of
said district And it shall be the duty ot the clerk
of each district court, at least once in every year,
to transmit a certified list of ail such records of
copy right, including the titles so recorded, and the
dates of record ; and also all the several copies of
books or other works deposited in his office accor
ding to this act, to the Secretary of State, to be
preserved in his office.
Sec. 3. No person shall be entitled to the benefit
of this act, unless he shall give information of the
copy-right being secured, by causing to be insert
ed in the several copies of each and every edition
published during the term secured, on the title
page, or page immediately following, ifitbeabook,
or if a map, chart, musical composition, print, cut
or engraving, by causing to be impressed on the
face thereof: or if a volume of maps, charts, music
or engravings, upon the title or frontispiece there
of, the following words, viz : “Entered according
to the act of Congress, in year by A B,
n tiie clerk's office of the district court of (as
the case may be)
See. 4. Toe author or proprietor of any book,
map, chart, musical composition, print, cut or en
graving, for which a copy-right shall be secured un
der the existing acts of Congress, or those which
shall hereafter be enacted respecting copy-rights,
shall within three months from the publication of
said book, map, chart, musical composition, print,
cut or engraving, deliver or cause to be delivered
one copy of the same to the Department of State,
for the use of Congress.
Sec. 5. If, at the expiration ot the aforesaid term
of years, such author, inventor, designer, engraver,
orauy of them, when the work had been original
ly composed aud made by more than one person,
be still living, and a citizen or citizens of the Con
federate States, or resident therein, or being dead,
shall have left a widow or child or children, either
or all then living, the same exclusive right shall
be continued to such author, designer or engraver;
or if dead, then to such widow and child or chil
dren, for the further term of fourteen years: Tro-
vid<d, 'That the title of the work so secured shall
be a second time recorded, and all such other regu-
latious as are herein required iu regard to original
copy-rights, be complied with in respect to such
renewed copy-right, and that within six mouths
uefore the expiration ot the first term.
Sec. 6. In all cases of renewal ot copy-rights un
der this act. such author or proprietor shall, within
iwo months from the date of said renewal, cause a
copy of the record thereof to be published in one
or more of the newspapers printed iu the Confede
rate Sta es, for the space of four weeks,
Sec. 7. All deeds or instruments iu writing for
the transfer or assignments of copy-rights, being
proved or acknowledged u such manner as deeds
lor the conveyance ot land, are required by law to
be proved or acknowledged in the same state or
district. sltaU and may be recorded in the office
where tbe original copy-right is deposited and re
corded : and every such deed or instrument that
shall in any time hereafter be made and executed,
and which shall not be proved or acknowledged
and recorded as aforesaid, within sixty days alter
its execution, shall be judged fraudulent and void
against any subsequent purchaser or mortgagee
tor valuable consideration without notice.
Sec. 8. The clerk of tbe district court shall be
entitled to such fees for performing the services
herein authorized and required: as he is entitled to
for performing like services under existing laws of
the Confederate States.
Sec. 9. The distiict courts of the Confederate
States shall have original cognizance, as well in
equity as at law, of all actio s, suits, controver
sies aud cases arising under any law ofthe Confed
erate States, granting or confirming to authors or
invcntois the exclusive right to their respective
writings, inventions and discoveries; and upon
any bill in equity filed by any party aggrieved in
any such cases, shail have authority to grant in
junctions. according to the course and principles of
courts of equity to prevent the violation of the
rights of any authors or inventors, secured to them
by any laws of the Confederate States, on such
terms aud conditions as the said courts may deem
fit and reasonable: i'rovided, however, That from
all judgments and decrees ot any district courts,
rendered in the premises, a writ of error or appeal,
as the case may require, shall lie to the supreme
court of the Confederate States, in the same man
ner and under the samo circumstances as is now
provided by law in other judgments aud decrees of
such district courts, without regsrd to the amount
of the decree, verdict or judgment appealed from.
Sec. 10 If any other person or persons, from
and after the recording of the title ol any book or
books, according to this act, shall, within the term
or terms herein limited, print, publish or import, or
cause lo be printed, published or imported, any
copy of such book or hooks, w ithout the cousent of
the person legally entitled to the copy-right there
of, first had and obtained iu writing, signed in
presence of two or more credible witnesses, or shall,
knowing the same to be so printed or imported,
publish, sell or expose to sale, or cause to be pub
lished, sold or exposed to sale, any copy of such
book without such cousent in writing, then such
offender shall forfeit evciy copy of such book to
the person legally at the time entitled to the copy
right theieof ; and shall also forfeit and pay titty
cents for every such sheet which may be found in
bis possession, either printed or printing, publish
ed, imported or exposed to sale, contrary to the in
tent ot this act: the one moiety thereof to such le
gal owner of the copyrights as aforesaid, and the
other to the use of the Confederate States : to be
recovered by action of debt in any court having
competent jurisdiction thereof.
Sec. 11. If any person or persons, after the re
cording the title of any print, cut or engraving,
map. chart or musical composition, according to
the provisions of this act, shall, within the term or
terms limited by this act, engrave, etch or work,
sell or copy, or cause to be engraved, etched, work
ed or sold, or copied, either in the whole, or by
varying, adding to, or diminishing the main de
sign, with intent to evade the law ; or shall print
or import for sale, or cause to be printed or import
ed for sale, any such map, chart, musical composi
tion, print, cut or engraving, or any parts thereof,
without the consent of the pioprielor or proprietors
ofthe copy-right thereof, first obtained iu writing,
signed in the presence of two credible witnesses ;
or knowing the same to be so printed or imported
without such consent as aforesaid, then such of-
ft nder or offenders shall forfeit the plate or plates
on which such map, chart musical composition,
i ngraviug, cut or print shall be copied, ami also all
and every sheet thereof so c >pied or printed as
aforesaid, to the proprietor or proprietors of the
copy-right thereof; and shail further forfeit one
dollar for every sheet of such map, chart, musical
composition, print, cut or engraving, which may
be found in his or their possession, printed or pub
lished, or exposed to sale, contrary to the true in
tent and meaning of this act: tbe one moiety
thereof to the proprietor or proprietors, and the oth
er moiety to the use ol the Confederate Mates ; to
he recovered iu any court having jurisdiction
thereof.
Sec. 12. Nothing in this act shall be construed
to extend to prohibit the importation or vending,
printing or publishing of any map, chart, musical
composition, print or engraving, written, compos
ed or made by any person not being a citizen of
the Confederate States, nor resident within tbe ju
risdiction thereof, except as hereinafter provided
for.
a citizen of the Confederate States, or resident
therein,) shail be liable to suffer and pay the author
and proprietor all damages occasioned by such in
jury; to be recovered by a special action on the
case founded upon this act, iu any court having
cognizance thereof: And the several courts ot the
Confederate Stales empow -red to grant injunc
tions to pi event the violation of the rights of au
The English Pw«« aud Ihe Southern 4 onfta.
eraej-a Splendid Tribute to Prcaig,.
Daria.
[From the London Herald (Derby Organ} j
One of our chief difficulties in attempt-
’,'ntetit
ing to form a fair and impartial jutlg
thors aud inventors, are hereby empowered to . on the position and prospects ol the A meri-
grant injunctions in like manner, according to the ; ean belligerents lias been that nearly ,^J|
principles of equity, to restrain such publication oi i Q j* our information came from the North
any manuscript as aforesaid. In no quarrel in which bystemlers feel nJ
Sec 14. Any copy-right hereafter granted un* . * > i i-i .1 1 . ^
der the laws ofthe Confederate States, to the au ; interest do they l.ke to hear only one side,
thor or proprietor of any dramatic composition. * e- ; \\ e have been doubly unfortunate, too,
signed or suited for public representation, shall be i jjj regard to our chief sources of ini’orm.i-
deemed and taken to confer upon the said authoi j
or proprietor, his heirs or assigns, along with the !
tion. To judge ofthe conduct and pro-
sole right to print .mJ pabiish the said compose gt
gress of a war from the accounts of
tion, the sole right also to act, perform or yepre
sent the same, or cause it tube acted, performed
or represented, oil any stage or public place, dur
ing the whole period tor which the copy-right is
obtained: and any manager, actor or other person
acting, performing or representing the said com
position, without or against the consent ofthe
said author or proprietor his heirs or assigns, shah
be iiable for damages, to be sued for and recover
ed by action on the case or other equivalent rem
edy, with costs ot suit, in any court ofthe Con
federate State. Such damages in all cases to be
rated and assessed at sueb sum not less than one
hundred dollars for the first, aud fifty dollars tor
every subsequent performance, as to the court
having cogizance thereof shall appear to be just.
Provided nevertheless, That nothing herein enacted
shall impair any right to aet, perform or rrpreseut
a diamatic composition as aforesaid, which right
may have been acquired or shall in
future be acquired by any manager, act or
or other person previous to the securing ofthe
copy-right for the sold composition, or to restrict
iu any way the right of suck author to process in
equity in any court of the Confederate Slates, lor
better and further enforcement of his right.
Sec. 15. If any person or persons shall be sued
or prosecutod for any matter, aet or tiling done
under or by virtue of this act, ho or they inay
plead the general issue, and give the special mat
ter in evidence.
Sec 16 If any person or persons, from and
after the passing of this act, shall print or publish
any book, map, chart, musical composition, print
cut or engraving, not having legally acquired
the copy-right thereof: and shall inserttor impress
that the same hath been entered according to act
of Congress, or words purporting the same, every
person so offending shall forfeit and pay one bun
dr>-d dollars: one moiety thereof to the person who
shall sue for the same, and .the other to the use ot
the Confederate States; to be recovered by action
of debt in any court of record having cognizance
thereof.
Sec. 17. No action or prosecution shall be
maintained in any case of forfeiture or penalty
under this act unless tbo same shall have beu-
en commenced within two years after the cause of
action shall have arisen.
Sec. 18. Be it further enacted, That all the
rights and privileges allowed by th s act to authors
composers and designers, citizens ot the Confed
erate States, be and are hereby extended to au
thors, composers and designers citizens or subjects
of any foreign state or power by whose laws like
rights and privileges are granted to the citizens
of this Confederacy, on the following conditions
viz: First that copy rights shall be applied tor in
liis Confederacy within four months from the
ime of the publication of the original in the for
eign state to which the applicant owes allegience.
Second, that the actual and bona fide publication
of the book or other thing for which copy right,
is sought, shall be commenced within the limits of
this Confederacy within six months from the date
of the granting of such copy-rights. On failure
to comply with either of these condition, all the
rights and privileges attaching to the copy right
granted, shall cease and be of no effect.
Sec. 19. Be it further enacted. That all reprints
or publications of books, maps, charts, musical
ami other compositions and designs, for which
copy-rights may be granted under the provisions
of the foregoing section, made or had iu any
state or country, denying the privilege of copy
right to the author, composer or designer thereof,
shall not be introduced for sale into the Conteder
ateStates: and any person introducing or selling
such reprints, shail be liable to all the penalties
herein before prescribed for a violation of copy
rights.
Sec 20. Be it further enacted, That this act
take eff ect and bo in force from and alter its pas
sage.
Approved May 21. t861. 39
(No. 333.)
AN ACT Supplementary to an act to authorize tbe
issue of Treasury notes, an i to provide a war
tax for their Redemption.
Section 1. 'The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact. That the authority
granted to the Secretary of the Treasury to issue
Treasury Notes by tbe Act to authorize the issue of
Treasury Notes, and to provide a War Tax for
their redemption, approved August nineteenth,
eighteenth hundred and sixty-one. be, and the
same is hereby, extended and enlarged, so as to
authorize the issue of an additional amount of fifty
millions of Treasury Notes of the same character,
and subject to the same provisions, as the Notes
authorized by the said Act.
Sec. 2. The Secretary of the Treasury, with the
approval of the Preiident, in addition to the Bonds
authorized to be issued by the second section of
the said Act, approved August nineteenth, eigh
teen hundred and sixty one, to which this is sup
plementary, is hereby authorized to issue Bonds,
not to exceed at any one time an amount of thirty
millions of dollars, payable not more than twenty
years after date, and to bear an interest not to ex
coed six per centum per annum, interest pavable
semi-annually ; to be exchanged for Treasury Notes
issued under authority of this Act, or of the Act to
which this is supplementary ; and said Bonds may.
at the option of the holder, be re-converted into
Treasury Notes, under such rules and regulations
as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe,
and the Bonds and Treasury Notes authorized by
this Act, to he subject to the same provisions, in all
respects, not contrary to the provisions of this
Act, as the Bonds and Treasury Notes authorized
to be issued by the Act oi the nineteenth August,
eighteen hundred and sixty one, to which this is
supplementary.
Approved Dec. 24, 1861.
(No. 350.)
AN ACT Supplementary to an act making appro
priations for certain floating defences, approved
January ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty two
The Congress ofthe Confederate States of Amer
ica do enact, 1 hnt the President be. and is hereby
authorized to raise a corps for the temporary and
special service on the Western waters, to cause to
he enlisted a number of men not exceeding six
thousand and of such commissioned and uon-coin-
missioued officers, and of such rank, either Naval
or .Military, as the President may deem necessary,
who shall severally receive such pay and allow
ance as he may determine.
Approved January 14. 1862.
(No. 352.)
AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of War to
audit and settle the claims of certain officers
therein named.
The Congress of the Confederate States of Amer
ica do enact, That the Secretary of War l>e, and he
is hereby authorized to audit and settle tlie claims
of all assistant Quartermasters General, Commis
saries General and Surgeons, who discharged the
duties of said offices, from the date of the transfer
ofthe Battalions or Regiments to which they were
attached to the time of the appointment of their
successors by the Confederate Government: Pro
vided, said officers held commissions Irom their re
spective States and discharged the duties of said
offices under said Commissions, and no other offi-
cerj, during the time were appointed or discharg
ed the duties of the same.
Approved Jauuary 15,1862.
Sec. 13. Any person or persons who shall print
or publish any manuscript whatever, without the
ci n-ent of the author or legal proprietor first ob
tained as aforesaid (if such author or proprietor be
(No. 342.)
AN ACT To reward the Loyalty of the Principal
chief of the Seminole nation.
Section I. The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact. That the President of
the Confederate States be authorized to present
Hemha Micco. or John Jumper, a Commission,
conferring upon him the honorary title of Lieut.
Colonel of the army of the Confederate States, but
without creating or imposing the duties ot actual
service or command, or pay, as a complimentary
mark of honor, and a token of good will and confi
dence in his friendship, good laith and loyalty to
this Government, and to procure and piesent him
with a complete uniform of that rauk and grade,
a sabre and a Maynaid rifle, with a liberal supply
of ammunition for the same. And the sum ot two
hundred and iitty dollars is hereby appropriated
for tlie purchase of the said uniform and arms.
Approved January 10. Ic62.
(No. 354 )
AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Navy
to give a bounty to all persons enlisted as sea
men who enlist for three years or for the war.
The Congress of the Confederate States of Amer
ica do enact, That the Secretary of the Navy is
hereby authorized to give a bounty of fifty dollars
to all persyns enlisted as seamen, who shall enlist
for three years or for the War. And the provis
ions of this act shall, in like manner, extend to ail
seamen heretofore enlisted who will extend the
term of their enlistment to three years or for the
war ; said bounty to be paid at the time of said en
listment.
Approved January 16, 1862.
(No. 355.)
AN ACT Supplementary to an act entitled "an
act to authorize the appointment of additional
officers ot the Navy,’’ approved December twen
ty-fourth eighteen hundred and sixty-one.
The Congress of the Confederate States of Amer
ica do enact, That the President is authorized to
appoint officers of the regular Navy, to any higher
grade under the act above mentioned, without
prtjudice to the position under their original ap
pointment.
Approved January 16,1862- 38
side only would be to misjudge it grossly,
even where fhose accounts were not inten
tionally dishonest or exaggerated. But
our principal informants concerning the
American war have been necessarily our
New York contemporaries, of whom it is
sufficient to say that no paper in England,
tippr >aehes them in ignorance, folly and
vulgarity; that only one Irish journal—
The Nation—rivals them in violance of
language and malignity of temper; and
that even the “devoted and inspired”
organs of official opinion, in countries where
the liberty of the press is a fiction, fall fat-
short of them in unblushing mendacity.
Of the political merits ofthe Southern
cause we—having the American Consti
tution, the republican manifestoes, and
the history of John Brown’s invasion of
Virginia fresh in our memory—were hapi-
ly able to form an independent opinion. But
with regard to the military resources of
the two parties, tiie situation of affairs in
the border States, the feeling ofthe South
ern people, the events of the war, we have
been almost entirely dependent on New
York and Washington reports. We need
not say that those reports have been as
mendacious as the bulletins of the grand
army in the early years of this century.
Of every battle fought we have generally
received three successive accounts in au
almost uniform diminuendo scale. First,
a great battle lias taken place, the Confed
erates outnumbering the Federals as three
to one; the North has gained a great victo
ry; thousands of rebels killed, wounded
and prisoners; loss of the Federalists,
three men killed, ten wounded and a
dozen missing. By the next mail the
importance of the action and the num
bers of tbe enemy are a good deal redu
ced; and we beard doubts hinted as to the
completeness of the victory; it appears,
too, that the conquorershave recreated.
A week or two later the truth oozes out.
The armies have been tollerably equal iti
force, the Northern generally superior iu
artillery; the Confederates have put their
adversaries to ignominious!}- rout, aud if
the Federal loss lias not been heavy it is
because the Federal soldiers hare made
excellent use, not so much of the arms pro
dded by government, as by the legs giren
them by the bentficient nature. And then
comes out tbe one bit of truth which the
New York papers ever willingly publish
on these occasions—“It was the fault of
the officers.” Like the accounts of actu
al battles are all the statements made by
the Northern press concerning the politi
cal, and other civil or military operations
on both sides. It is only little by little
that the truth oozes out; and only those
who patiently watch for and silt it are
able to perceive the net residuum of tact
in the mass of falsehood and contradiction.
On the whole we generally find that tie
Confederate States arc under inf nit i rely
better guidance both in policy and in war,
than is vouchsafed to their enemies.
Mr. Davis’ message is a proof of this in
comparison with the manifestoes of the
Northern leaders, from Mr. Lincoln down
to Mr. Sumner or General Dix, it is calm,
statesmanlike, temperate and creditable to
its author and his Cabinet. Without in
quiring into his antecedents, we should
have formed a higher opinion ofthe South
ern President from his conduct and lan
guage throughout the time during which
he has held his most difficult office.
Judging him only from the history of the
last twelve months, we should be dispo
sed to pronounce him not merely a digni
fied statesman and capable administra
tor, but »n honest and well-bred gentle
man. We do not remember that he has
done one foolish or undignified act, or ultei-
eil one intemperate word, while filling a post
of the gravest responsibility and danger,
and reviled by the Northern press in the
most insulting and exasperating terms.
His tone, while it lias been that of a man
determined to maintain to the last the in
dependence of his country and the honour
of her flag, has been marked by an absence
of all vindicativefvch ng towards the //tra
ders, and by an earnest desire for an honoro
aide peace.
In bis present message lie speaks with
sober and dignified satisfaction ofthe vic
tories achieved by tbe Confederate arms,
and with justifiable pride points to the
advantages gained over an enemy already
possessing at the outbreak of war a navy,
an army, and ample artillery and war ma
terial, as evidence ofthe spirit of the peo
ple who have chosen him to be their chief,
and as hopeful auguries for the future.
The grave sobriety of his tone, befitting
tbe leader of a gallant but not a numerous
people in a struggle of life and death, as
tonishes the Journalists of New York, ac
customed to the braggart extravagance of
such men as Messrs Seward, Cameron and
Fremont. They who raise a shout ol tri
umph over the lieoric act of a captain who
stops and robs a neutral vessel on the
high seas, cannot comprehend tiie calm
tone in which the President of the Confed
eration, which lias beaten them in a great
battle and half a dozen important actum 11
within a few mouths, speaks of achieve
ments which would drive them frantic with
vanity.
Accordingly, they seem disposed io treat
the message as indicative of a sense of
hopeless inferiority, and triumph over the
expected humiliation of the “rebels.” M e
—used to English sobriety and disgusted
with the New York Ilerald and the M -ash
ington Cabinet, less by their insolence and
outrageous violence than by the conceit
which “chant leplus fort quand il est. hen
battu”—-find, in Mr. Dans’ dignity and
reserve reason to hope that the government
which we maybe forced ere long to recog
nize—possibly to accept as an ally—is ° ne
if wh ich no nation need be ashamed. In a
word, we hold the message worthy of the
chief and gallant people, and recognize m
it the modesty of the soldier .and the re
verse of the statesman.
LATER FROM ROANOKE-
Richmond, 10th.—Thelatest intelligence
received from Norfolk states that y-
Jennings Wise was shot through the h‘p.
He is disabled but not mortally wonnde •
Maj Lawson and Lieut, Miller were mor
tally wounded. . ,
About 300 Confederates were killed
and wounded. ,
Over 1.000 Yankees were killed an
wounded. Midshipman Cannon had an
arm shot off. Casualties unreported-
A gentleman who arrived this morning*
states that the Yankees have shelled am
burned Elizabeth City, and are now push
ing for ward to Edonton.
A Good Mtdiciue.—McLean's Strengthening
Cordial and Blood Purifier is one of the mo> ^
iu l and pleasant beverages ofthe day s
and agreeable to the taste, bracing the ner
giving a healthy tone to the stomach, and i«P
ing a glorious appetite. A wine
Cordial taken three times a day, will ^
than a family pl.ysicmn, as ““ “
be required. For ladies it is P^iffarlj’ ytJ .
ded, as it strengthens the ribs of the dver tise-
sels" io an astonishing degree. See tt ^ ,,
ment in another column.