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WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 1862.
~ NORTHERN taxation.
The following speculations as to the amount
of taxes 4o be raised by the Northern Govern
ment, and who are to pay it, are from the New
York Herlad of April 19th :
“According to the statistical calculations fur
nished by the Boston Chamber of Commerce,
the aggregate value of the productions of the
country amounts to the sum of two thousand
millions of dollars. At the close of the war the
interest on our debt may be estimated as being
likelv to amount to one hundred millions. Then
it may be calculated that another hundred mill
ions will be necessary t) meet the annual ex
penditures of the Government. Consequently
two hundred millions will have to be raised by
taxation to meet the interest of the debt, and
for the support of the Government.
amount to ten per cent, on the above aggregate
value of the national wealth. This amount of
taxation will be derived from labor andl land
—the two elements which are the sources ot
all national wealth, and by which the cbm
weight of taxation will have to be norne.
arrive by the above data at the ollowing general
(he value of f.noy oUy prosperity
in all great cities will be reduced about tittj
per cent. Labor will have to pay of the tax
an amount equal to ten cents in the dollar, o
ten per cent. In the meantime government se
curities will rise in a few years from ninety-one
to a hundred and twenty-five, according U.cir
cumstances. There will be trying and almost
revolutionary times of all financial affairs; and
no wonder.”
That two hundred millions per annum, is not ■
an over-estimate of what the Y ankee Govern ,
ment must raise to keep itself afloat, all intelli- ■
gent minds'will concede The next question is,
who are to pay it? It is evident, the Herald
calculates, in the above speculations as to the
future, that the Southern States are to contrib
ute at least their proportion. The estimate in
one of Lincoln’s messages to his Congress, of
the entire value of property in all the States,
was sixteen thousand millions of dollars, of
which aggregate eleven thousand five hundred
millions were allotted to the Northern or an
kee States, and four thousand live hundred
millions to the slave-holding States. If this
estimate be correct, it appears that the produc
tions of the country amount annually to about
one-eighth of this entire sum. If by anaual
productions is meant the productions ot the soil
alone, the valuation of property ia too low. But,
if the two thousand millions are supposed to
be the annual yield of productive labor,
whether as applied to the cultivation of
the soil, or to embrace every variety
of employments, whether in. notnmerce, manu
factures, the mechanical the fine arts, this
estimate of the annual yield is too low. Nor
Gan we see the u iJ O ßophy O r correctness of the
proposition Caat land and labor are to bear all
the burthens of taxation. There is a great va
riety of forms in which wealth is accumulated,
and a great variety of money making pursuits
besides what is contained in the idea of labor,
by which we understand manual labor, which
are proper objects of taxation, and must
come in for their share of the burthens of Gov
ernment.
This subject is only interesting to the people
of the Confederate States as showing how
crashing must soon become the weight of taxes
upon their enemies- In undertaking to crush
out “the rebellion,” as they choose to designate
the Southern plan of self-government and inde
pendence, they have created a debt and an an
nual expenditure that must inevitably crush
themselves. Any effort they may make to de
rive revenue from the South—even from that
part they may overrun —will cost more than
the money collected will amount to. The effort
will only increase their own burthens. It will
only swell their expenses and their nationa.
debt. It will be an exhansting rather than a
money making process.
Southern men plainly see how utterly ruin
ous *o their interests re-union with the North
would be even on terms of equality of burthens
and of rights. The Yankee government is fast
rushing to ruin and bankruptcy. Its many tax
bills must greatly depress all species of proper
ty, of which but a small portion can be produc
tive in a time of war, and a still smaller portion
as prosperous as formerly, when the war is
over. But a re-union on equal terms is not
what the North is fighting for, or will even pro
pose. The North fight to subjugate —to confis
cate, and by unequal laws, to shuffle on the
South the burthen of its war debt. In a finan
cial point of view, the war now going on cannot
bring on the Southern people as desolating ruin
as peace would bring, coupled with Yankee
domination. What the war ooets the South is
spent chiefly in the South, and tends to devel
op© Southern industry and resources. What
the North seeks io accomplish is to set South
ern industry and resources at work that the
wealth they may produce may be drained from
t, and transferred to Northern pockets. The
fate of Poland and of Hungary is far less miser
able and degrading than what is in store for us,
if we ever yield our necks .to the Yankee yoke.
The only rule of safety, as of honor, for our
people, is to fight on, light ever. Better, far
better, death and annihilation than subjection
to a brntal, a fanatieal, a corrupt and vicious
government and people.
J-agT" The Louisville (Ky.) Journal, states that
the Federal steamers Vanderbilt and Arago have
been fitted with iron prows, and their upper
works covered with cotton bales; and that they
intend to run into the Virginia and sink her.
THE PROPER COURSE-
The determination of Gen. Lawton to never
surrender Savannah, but to defend it to the
last extremity, will meet with the hearty ap
proval of the people of Georgia. It is the
spirit of bravery and of patriotism— the spirit
which will animate onr people and nerve the
arms of our brave defenders; and the City
Council of Savannah did well to approve of it,
and promise their aid and support to the Gen
eral in maintaining his patriotic resolve. A
firm and unyielding resistance should meet our
enemies at every paint. If we fail—if superior
facilities and overwhelming numbers force us
back—it should only be to dispute every inch
of ground upon which the ruthless invader ad
vances, and render his progress as eostly to
him, in blood and treasure, as possible. This
is the policy which will arouse and animate
our people, and give them renewed courage in
the desperate struggle with their powerful
adversaries; and we are pleased at the assur
ance that it is to be inaugurated and maintained
upon the soil of Georgia.
MORE VISITS TO RICHMOND.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald, under date of April 25th, says that
a representative of the British Government, and
he Swedish and Danish Ministers have gone to
Richmond. Some think it is to give the Rebels a
little friendly advice, about a reconciliation, Ae.;
but wiser and more farseeing men in the Cabinet
see something more significant in these visits.
M. Mercier’s visit to Richmond, this writer ass
serts, was purely of a commercial character, and
that, during his stay there he held official «om
munieation with no one but the French Consul. —
It is well known, siys the correspondent, that the
Rebel Secretary of Legation in France, George
Eustis, jr., has sent home a dispatch full of hope
to Rebel leaders.
A Fortress Monroe correspondent of the Herald
states that it is alleged that it has leaked out that
the visit of Count Mercier to the Rebel capital
was for the purpose of opening preliminary nego*
nations with the rebel Confederacy in regard to
Mexican affairs. In short, France is to recognise
us,provided we agree to non--interference with her
perpetually, in any measure she may take for the
subjugation of Mexico ; and also to furnish troops
for that purpose—France to pay all expenses.—
Under this arrangement, France is to guarantee
her interposition to bring about a peace—peaeably
f she can, forcibly if she must ; and to give the
Southern Confederacy a slice of Mexico in the
bargain. It is said, however, that President Davis
will enter into negotiations with no power that
will not guarantee to him the territory of the new
Confederacy comprised in all the slave States; but
that he i* very much tickled with the proposition,
and there the matter stands.
Our readers can form their own opinions about
the reliability of the above.
SALT.
The public press cannot too often or too urgently
invite attention to the manufacture of this neces
sary of life. The Southern people are in more
danger of being conquered by the want of salt
than by the sword of the enemy. It is in just
this way the enemy aim to make the blockade
effectual. They calculate to deprive our people of
essential articles for which, hitherto, we have do'-
pended on foreign countries, and hope that we
will prove deficient ip the energy and ingenuity
Vequis : _‘ e to supply ourselves at home. And thus
they hope to tire us out and starve us into submis
sion. Let us disappoint them. Let our people
show themselves equal to every emergency.
We hope the call for a salt association to meet
in this city next Tuesday, will be warmly respon
ded to, and prompt action adopted.
SALT, AND ITS MANUFACTURE.
No. 1.
Ma. Editor: We are beginning to suffer in this
part of Georgia from the want of salt; and no
time should be lost in commencing its extensive
production on the sea coast. Official documents
before me show thatjthe United States imported,
the fiscal Jyear of 1857, jno less than 17,165,704
bushels of salt. As We have no extensive salt
works like those in Western Virginia and Cen
tral New York, the cotton States have been very
large consumers of this immense quantity of for",
eign salt. With no advantages over Georgia for
the manufaeture of salt from sea water, Spain
and Portugal sent to us the United States,) 1,614-
456 bushels in 1856. It is only fifty-seven miles
from the East coast of Florida to the Bahama Iss
lands, one of which is Turk’s Island. We im*
ported from these Islands in 1857, 1,033,601 bush
els of salt. The most reliable statistics show'
that our average annual consumption lJ this ar
ticle exceeds fifty pounds to every pWson, old
and young, in the country; so that the people of
this State need a million of bushels of salt a year.
Common prudence demands that we manufacture
half of that amount, if no more, in time of peace.
In Fran.e they have excellent chemists and skil
ful artists! who have brought tfle art and seienee
of making sea salt to great perfection as a Govs
ernment monopoly. The Bay salt of the
Bay of Biscay is equal to any in the world; and 1
want all to understand how to make cheap and
pure salt from sea water.
It takes too long to evaporate SOO gallons ot
ocean water by solar heat and drying winds t?
obtain a bushel ot salt, for ns now to wait till salt
urardeas can be eoistrocted, and sail obtain*® by
this process alone. A single block kettle, and
a single fire tarn out from 20,000 to 25,000 bush
els of salt in a year at Syracuse, N. Y- I have
the official reports betore me, and have lived a
large part of my life so near these salt •»
to know, personally, the eost of evaporating; 10)
gallons es saline water by wood at one dollax a
eord, and upwards. One hundred plantation din
ner pots will supply very speedily five hundred
plantations with salt for a year. A eotnnaen
seow that will carry fifty tons of roek or sand en
its deck down to the sea, some five or six muss,
(more or less, as danger frem the enemy shall
render prndent,) san, by a few auger holts in the
bottom, be quickly loaded with sea water, while
the roek or sand is thrown overboard. This hunt
load of salt water will yield between fifty and
sixty bushels es good salt. The same boa wi
bring all needful weed to boil the plantation
pots. Dr. Ambler, of Jacksonville, Florida, ib«
forms me that the water on the coast there .“*•
three per eent. of pure common salt. This gives
30 pounds to 1,000 of water, and 60 pounds to a
toe of 2,000 pounds. I mention these facts w
show that possibly it may be wise to bring a
water a little inland for the present, and to
place where wood is abundant and handy,
cord of common pine wood, dry, will evaporare
more water than three cords of green pine, fs'*
fact indicates the importance of having a plen J
of wood-choppers to cut and split wood fine.
Put it up like boards and staves, that it may sea
son quickly. . .
In Prussia, they make large quantities of salt in
shallow sheet iron pans, some of which are sixty
feet long and thirty wide. Each pan has two
Hues and two fires that passs lengthwise of the
same. Cm any sheet-iron or boiler iron be had
m the Confederate States ?
At Syracus they put from 20 to 50 kettles ■
block, which hold about 100 gallons each,
save heat aad fuel, a large evaporating sur a *
should cover al[ combustion. How to constr
blocks of pots and kettles, and pans of >
olay, and water-lime cement for solar erapor •
1 will notice hereafter. The beet way to r ®
impurities from sea-water, to construct rooJ®
are movable to keep rain from falling into cry.
using and other pans, and how to erect gradua m
structures, I will also briefly describe.
Wishing to encourage the manufacture •
article so indispensable to the health and com
of the community, and ready to answer all prop
inquiries so far as I may be able, I shall ptaae y
name to what I write. o ’
University, Athens, Ga., April 26th, 186a.
No. 2. ’
The British Parliament expected to bring the
revolting colonies again under its authority, m
the Revolution of 1776, by cutting off their sup
ply of foreign salt; and the policy might have
been successful, had not more than a thou
sand miles of sea coast given the secessionists of
that day facilities for supplying themselves with
salt, which they were not so slow as we are to
improve. History informs us that Mr. Ammiel
Weeks, of Harwick, Mass., constructed a shallow
box, open at the top, six feet iu length, by two
feet in width, and divided it into three compart,
irients by narrow strips of board placed cross*
! wise on the inside. This he filled with sea water,
and exposed it to the sun’s rays in fair weather,
and at other times kept it covered. With this
simple apparatus he manufactured salt enough for
his own consumption. After this, a sea-daring
man, by the name of Dennis, made a shallow
pine-plank salt pan, 100 feet long and 10 feet
wide, which was divided into two compartments.
In oue of these, sea water was concentrated, and
qn the other crysta’izid, very much as about a
million bushels es solar salt is now produced,
annually, ta Onondaga county, N. Y. In Mary o
land, Virginia, and other Southern colonies, the
water of the Atlantic was made to supply salt,
both by boiling and solar evaporation.
Heating and boiling sea water tend to purify
it, partly by substances that may be collected and
removed as scum, and partly by those that fall
to the bottom as carbonate of lime, gypsum,
manganese, and iron. Cold saline water is puri
fied in part, by adding a little caustic lime, which
removes the carbonic acid that holds lime and
iron in solution, Gypsum is precipitated by
evaporation only. It is caught in long handled
pans, and removed long before the brine reaches
saturation. The salts of lime and iron that fall
outside of the pans and adhere to the bottom of
the kettles or pots, 1 as a hard incrustation,
have to be, from time to time, cut off with a
ehisel. Where sheet iron pans are used for
boiling natural brine, more pains are taken to
remove all earthy salts. This is dene in a good
degree, by chiemica! means, but partly by a pro
cess called “graduating/’ The latter process is
largely m use in France, and in different parts
ot Germany. There are several modifications of
the plan; the object of all, however, is the same,
viz ; to concentrate the solution of salt, and sep
arate all salts that are either more soluble or less
soluble than common salt. The more sea water or
other brine is subdivided by throwing it into the
air as from a fire engine over a mass of fine brush
or thorn faggots, to trickle down from twig to
*wig many teet, ths more rapidly the
tion of the water will take plaee. A reservoir
catches the water below, and it is forced up and
over the brushwood repeatedly, till it approach
es a saturated solution. Its grade of strength
being easily tested by an instrument, it is called
“graduating” the brine. In this operation, all
earthy salts adhere to the faggots, and after two
or three years’ use, new brush has to take the
plaee of that encrusted with lime and iron stoae.
* Salt made from concentrated brine is some*
eavsiaiized on ropes, in which case epsom
salt" and others ifabre Soluble tnan common salt,
drin off from the crystals, and leave to the manu
facturer a very pure article of chloride of sodium
that will weigh seventy-five pounds to the bushel.
Our cheapest cotton will make admirable rope
for the economical production of pure salt with.,
out any artificial heat whatever.
It is desirable to have an abundance of sawed
nlank and shingle near salt works for building
purposes. At Syracuse, plank evaporating vats
or pans cover several hundred acres. Thirty
gallons of brine there, as it comes from the best
wells produce a bushel of 56 pounds of salt. As
H will take just ten times that quantity, or 300
gallons of our sea water to yield a bushel of salt,
after 270 gallons, or nine ot this water is
evaporated in earth basins and canals, in a large
wav the other tenth, if removed on clean wooden
bottoms, where the salt is formed, will give a
much purer article. Mr. W. C. Dennis, of Key
West, Florida, says : “I have found it necessary
to give great attention to the bottoms of the pans
to prevent the mixing of marl and lime sand
with the salt during the process of raking. But
the greatest expense of salt-making and pre
paring for market here consists in raKing the salt
trom the pans, housing it, and protecting it from
the weather, and delivering it to vessels. This
forms seven-tenths of the whole cost.
This statement, from a practical salt-producer ,
shows the reason why, in New York where plank
are expensive, they yet deem it good economy to
make all their solar salt pans ot plank, and cover
them with the same material. The roofs are all
on rollers, and put over the pans only in wet
weather Mr. Dennis passes sea water over about
15 miles of artificial pan and eanal surface be
fbre crystalization is effected. Large pjank tanks,
covered with a roof to shed rain tor the storage
of brine, after nine-tentbs of all the water is re
moved by solar and atmospheric agencies, are
indispensable to a safe business. Cement cu*erns
will probably answer the Same purpose. At
Salzhausen, according to Knapp, “the ion
of 100 cwt. (112 lbs.) pre-supposes the evapora
tion of 339 cubic feet of brine. 18
important, as showing that it pays there to make
sak where three cubic feet of water oontain
one pound of salt. According to the results ob*
twined by salt-boilers, near the St. John s river,
Florida, three cubic’feet of our salt water eon
tain over five pounds of common salt. It will,
sunshine and dry summers, and produce salt by
the million bushels.
number nt.
If I was compelled to do without salt, or the
flenrand meal of grain for the next six moot s,
a.d had a choice in the matter, I should dispense
with all bread and bread corn, and retain my
daily allowance of salt. Peas, beans, gar e g
tables, frail®, meat, milk, and butter « “®®
every requirement of the human system without
grain cf any kind, and keep the bedy in health-
Lt nature furnishes no substitute
fa. healthy digestion of the human stomach, nor
for .xygen in healthy respiration. Pure 80 ““ 10
M,lt contains about sixty per cent, of ehlenn.
This substance exists in our daily food, but not in
suffiment quantity. Hence, if one cons.m« fr«h
without salt, bread and vegetab.ee in the
eondition, and gets no chlorine or
lorie aeid tn any form, digestive derangement and
disease are certain to ensue, sooner or a
- therefore, with equal truth and sadness I affirm
that pestilence may be exp’eted of an aggrava e
eharaete r if we fail to obtain common salt, lhe
manufacture of a thousand-bushels a day wi no
more than half supply the restricted conso * n P* l ° n
of the people of Georgia. It will take w
,and commo* salt boiling kettles, or one thousand
3 ost iron pans, to produce from sea-water, daily,
a bushels of salt. The quantity of water
that may be evaporated from a square foot
iron ovttraflr®! depends on the intensity of
-heat. Dri’Htrans, in his mabliil of augat-bon®
ing, says tlfaCan iron vessel, fourteen feet lone
and seven wtC*e, with no side beat, will evaporale
300 gallons in ibree-fourths of an- hour. Suoh a
pan would have 98 square feet of bottom surface
exposed to the fire , so that the heat must be
equal to converting two gallons of water into
vapor in 45 minutes in each square foot. If such
a pan evaporated two hundred gallons of see
water per hour, for 20 hours in 24, it would vapor
ize 4,000 gallons of water, weighing 32,000 pounds,
at eight pounds to the gallon. Three per cent, of
salt in this water is 960 pounds. Ido not know
a result is attainable from a single iron
pan; but Ido know that I have bought many
wagon loads of salt in Onondaga county, New
York, at six cents a bushel to the manufacturer,
many years ago, when wood was cheap, and brine
much weaker than it is now.
At seven and a half cents a pound (two prices.)
a block of twenty kettles, weighing 200 pounds
each will cost S3OO. With light wood or dry
pine, these kettles wil l turn out twenty bnshels
of salt in 24 hours, and four or five hands, with
a team to haul wood, can do all the work. The
manufacture of salt from sea-water, at the North,
introduced during the Revolution, was not aban
doned till the price of salt tell below fifty cents a
bushel. This is a good practical test of the Cost
of making sea-salt by boiling in the old way.
Two hundred tons of pig iron cast into salt ket
tles of the most approved pattern, will give the
people of Georgia an article which is needed far
more than cannon or iron-clad gunboats. Such
liMlm mutt be had. □
The great controversy between the North and
the South is not to be decided by the weight of
metal. If it is, our cause is hopeless ; for the
enemy has ten times the iron works that we have,
and one hundred times the facilities for procuring
munitions of war from Europe. We have only
to secure our industrial independence, as our fore
fathers did, to achieve the universal recognition
of our right of self-government. If the Yankee
nation is disposed to exhaust itself, or commit
suicide, m the prosecution of an aggressive war,
we are under no obligation to check them in their
mad career. The farther their armies penetrate
into the interior of our territory the more expen
sive they will be to their friends at home, and the
sooner the idea of conquest will be discarded.—
They can govern no more of our soil than their
big guns protect. Let us then produce the saß,
the food, and raiment that we need, and be less
anxious to set up so many thousands of our brave
and patriotic citizens as marks to be shot at by
Lincoln’s hirelings. It is absurd to assume that
foreign mercenaries can control any considerable
part of the slave States as a permanent conquest*
The authority will eost too much to be practicable
against the will and power of resident citizens.—
Our true policy is carefully to husband our re
sources, while the enemy rapidly consumes his.
The British supported armies in the revolted
colonies nearly eight years; but in place of sub
jugating the people, the longer they staid the
more they were hated. Federal armies, taxes
and policy are certain to give us Maryland, Ken*
tueky* and Missouri. The e:« ny will conquer,
himself quicker than we can. D. Lee.
GUNBOATKUNH
Sandersville, April aSth. 1862.
Hon. W. W. Holt— Dear Sir : It is with emo
tions of pride, .that through the liberality of
our citizens, I am enabled to send you this
additional list Jof jeontributions to the Geor
gia Gunboat Fund, and a check for the amount,
$3lO 00. This sum, with formerremttances, will
make the contribution from this county atntrnt
to S7OO CO.
I think we can safely calculate upon one
thousand dollars from Washington county, if not
more! Respectfully,
Mrs. Jas. S. Hook,
Secretary A Treasurer.
Mrs Ann Harris, S2O; Mrs Daniel Harris, Mrs J
R Rice, Mr Jas Floyd, Mr A McConkey, Florrie C
Carr, $lO each; Mrs W A Irwin, Miss Sallie Pitt
man, Mrs E Mcßride, Miss Sue Floyd, Mr J A j
Northington, Mrs C W Gause, Mrs W L.Reans, ]
Hancock county, Mrs J B Gonder, Mrs Thomas F
Well, Mrs R B Strange, Mies Mollie Harris, Mrs ;
Solomon Newsome, Miss Lynnie Goode, Mrs Silas ,
Daniel, Mr Jordan, R Smith, $5 each; Mrs Wm .
Pool, Mrs J H Hines, $3 each; Mrs J Neidlmger, ,
$2.50; Mrs J M G Medlock, Miss L A Irwin, Miss
E M Irwin, Mr G L Mason, Mrs M A Gilmore, Miss
J P Tarbutton, Miss J W McAfee, Mrs Wm Har*
man Mrs Thomas Pool, Mrs Wm Hall, Mrs John
Harris, Mrs R W Hall, Mrs J G Brown, Miss Sue
Kittrell, Mrs Zilphia Thomason, Mrs C Crosby, A
Lady, A Friend, Mrs H C Hodges, Mr W A Smith,
Henry L Cox, Mrs J H Duggan, Mrs J M Duggan,
Mr Asa Garrett, Mrs Robert Posey, Mr G W C
Sntil, Johnson county, Miss Serena E J Snell,
Johnson county, Beann Snell, Johnson county, $2
each- Miss H Harman, Miss L Harman, sl.soeach;
Mrs Jas Wood, Miss J G Veal, Miss Mollie Veal,
Miss MalisaVeal. Miss Emma Veal, Miss Lizzie
Hicklin, Miss Nannie Hicklin, Mrs J Johnson,
MrsM A Prosser, Mrs SC Prosser, Mrs W M Hay
good Mrs T A Prosser. Mrs W H Hall, Mrs T
Wadsworth, Mrs W W Veal, Mrs Lewis Durban,
Mr Polk Smith, Mrs J Cox, Miss M Avant, Mrs W
Armstrong. Miss Ann Armstrong, Miss N S Arm
strong Mrs E F Beachum, Mrs A Hudson, Miss (
8 Rochet, Mrs P Partridge, Mr J B Roberts, Mr
J E Cullens, Mrs M Bland, Mrs S W Buck, Mrs j
W F Hodzes, Miss M A Buck, Miss E J Buch, ,
Miss N J Buck, Mr R R Smith, Mrs G Elkins,Miss j
E Hodges, Miss S Hodges, Mrs F B Cullens, Miss (
M A Cullens, Master Willie Harris, Mast Wright ,
Harris, Miss Tallulah Harris, Miss Ginnie Harris,
Mrs Hilany Shepperd, Mrs J Jackson, Miss Cath
arine Jackson, Miss A Jackson, Little Juie Price,
Miss M M Irwin, Miss R F Holt, Mrs Jas F
Smith, MissNM Massey, Miss EE Smith. Mrs
H Barge, Mrs T Gravbill, Miss N E Graybill,
Mrs M F Wood, Miss H V McAfee, Miss Rebec
ca Tarbutton, Mrs M Pool, Mrs James Hall, Miss
Sarah Hall, Miss Martha Hall, Mr John Hall,
Miss Amanda Salter, Miss M J Salter, Mrs Ethel
dred Smith. Miss M Smith, Miss Emma Smith,
Mrs Vincent Tanner, Mrs John Sheppard, Mrs
Archelaws Duggan, Jr, Miss C W Thomason, Miss
W C Thomson, Mra R L Andrews, Miss Sallie An
drews, Mrs M Veal, Mrs Alexander Qiles, -Mrs E.
Eastwood, Miss M. A Ford, Mrs Bryant Oqiun.
Goode Price, Mrs J E Brinson, Mrs F Killing
worth, Mrs W Taylor, $1 each; Mrs L A Holt,
55 cents; Mrs Andrew Wood, Mrs Nancy Cox,
Miss P Horton, Mrs Young Cox, Mrs A -Arcbey.
Mrs Green Warthen, Miss Jane Bowen, Mrs G
Reinhart, Mrs A Wicker, Mrs A Durdan, Mrs M
Martin, Mrs Johu Beall, Mrs W 8 Collins, Mrsi M
Joiner, 50 cents each ; Mr* George Wiggins, Miss
Lingenia Veal, Miss IndaVeal, 35 cents; Miss
H Darden, 20 cents.
The following contributions are from servants :
Green, Henrietta, Maria, Cathanpe, 50 cents
each. _
Trade at Nashville. —The Dispatch— a new
paper published at Nashville—complains that bu
siness in that city “revives but slowly”—that it
“lacks that recuperative energy which heretofore
characterized it.” It adds:
Every branch of business is paralysed. Our
merchants are doing comparatively no business,
while there is scarcely a branch of manufacturing
that is doing anything at all. The reason for this
is that they have ne market. Nobody appears te
buv anything but wbat he absolutely wants.
There is no disposition to speculate and trade
languishes. There has been some little move*
ment in cotton and tobacco, but it is compare*
lively light, notwithstanding high prices wonld
be paid by purchasers. The trade in these sta
ples, would perhaps be larger if the shipping fa*
oilities furnished by the railroads were better.
Again the same journal says:
Still, we do not expect to see as much cotton
and tobacco sold here this as in former seasons.
They-may, possibly, be held over for the fall
trade, under the impression that still higher
prices will prevail.
We have been somewhat disappointed in the
slow progress that is being made toward re-es
tablishing the commercial prosperity of Nash
ville. Weeks ago it was apparent that the mer
chants and tradesmen cf Louisville, Cincinnati
and St Louis were making preparat ions to secure,
if possible, the large and lucrative trade they had
formerly drawn from Tennessee., But, so fir as
Nashville is concerned, the trade has been com
paratively tight, with no immediate prospect of a
heavy increase.
From the Richmond Dispatch, May l.t. ,
NORTHERN NEWS.
We received A copy of the New York
Herald, of the 28tb .'*?*• Under a flaming head
it rapublaihes fitom papers the tele*
graphic dispatches which have been received an
nouncing the fall of New O/leans. Below wtli be
found a summary of the late®. Northern News :
TUB SHWS ZBOM NEW ORLEANS.
Washixqton, April 27 WasbtJgfun is wild
wub re j°‘ cln «? over the intelligence of the capture
ot New Orleans. The radicals are raUer down
cast at the rapidity with which Union victories
are achieved.
• nw?r at h Old u Eo B laud failed to do with all her
fJT beet! nandAomety accomplished by
Lt Fnrt. g i and ' The rnaun « r in Which the suacssS
is hmf lv C T OQ ? d i Pb,lh P
* „ ,gbly c,jmrn ended. I a thirty hours our brave
men consummated their victory and anneS
”" J •' •*O rU,™
ironclad turtlea and rams that were to <.n?h
late the Yankee fleet, which
that tne common estimate of the rebel m oll ve
power trom their own misrepresentations has
been a mistake. It is pretty clear that on tbie
occasion they could not stop to conceal the truth
Commenting upon the above, the Herald says
editorially: 4 ’
We have to chronicle to*day one of the most
important even s in the progress of the war, Ac
cording to statements received at the War De
partment yesterday from Gen. Wool at Fortress
Monroe, and Gen. McDowell, on the Rappahan
nock, the rebel journels at Petersburg and Rich
mond announce that New Orleans is occupied bv
the Union army. *■ * * *'
Thus, while we have been conducting formida
ble and expensive expeditions on the Mississippi
river and on tfie sea coast, to assail the rebel
stronghold' in the South, and subduing them
one by one, the greatest cotton port of the rebels
has fallen into our bawds, an event which must
change the whole features .of the war in the
South and West, bailie the plans of Beauregard
at Corinth and Memphis, paralyze the action of
Johnston at Y orktown, and reduce this nefarious
rebellion t*» a last feeble struggle.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, of the 28th inst.,
says:
Dispatches recived yesterday from Gens. Wool
and McDowell eonvey the important and exhibi
ting information that the city «f New Orleans bad
fallen into the possession ■>( )he Union troops,
and is once more under the dominion ol the
United States Government,
The information, though emenatinff from rebel
sources, and without detail, can doubtless be res
lied upon. Our latest authentic advices from
Ship Island, (April 26) inform us that General
Butler was at that time busily employed prepar*
ing his forces for an advance on New Orleans.
As usual with such large expeditions, some mis
takes had been made in regard to supplies,
which were being rectified with all possible al
acrity.
The force under Gen. Butler was about 15,000
strong. • He was also accompanied by the mortar
fleet, under command of Commodore David L>
Porter, U. S. N-, comprising thirty vessels and
2,000 men.
One by one are the cities of the South being
compelled to acknowledge the supremacy of the
United States government, and tbe capture ot no
locality in tbe rebel realm could tend so much
to demoralize their army, and to show them the
utter hopelessness of success an that o f the Cres
cent .City.
NBW3 FROM YORKTOWN IMPORTED’ CAPTURE OF ONE
OF THB CONFEDERATE BATTERIES.
The following dispatch from Gen. McClelte®,.
is all the informntion from Yorktown which ttie
Yankee journals contain :
Headq’b’s Army or the Potomac, I
Camp Winpkld Scott, April 28, 11 A. M. j
Hon. E. M. Stanton, Sec’y ot War:
Early this morning an advanced lunette of
rebels on this side of the Warwick river, near its
head, was carried by assault by Company H,
First Massachusetts regiment. The Work had. a
ditch six feet deep, with a strong parapet, and
was manned by two companies of infantry—no
artillery. Our men moved over open, soft ground
some six hundred yards, received the fire of the,
rebels at fifty yards, did not return it, but rushed
over the ditch and parapet in the most gallant
manner. The rebels broke and run as soon as
they saw our men intended to cross the para
pet.
Our loss was three killed and one mortally,
and twelve otherwise wounded. We took four
teen prisoners, destroyed the work sufficiently to
render it useless, aud retired. The operation
was conducted by Geu. C. Grover, who managed
the affair most handsomely. Nothing could have
been better than the conduct of all the men under
fire. The supports, who were also under artil
lery fire ot other works, were companies of the
First and Eleventh Massachusetts. In spite of
the rain, our work progresses well.
G. B. McClellan,
Major General.
The Fortress Monroe correspondent of th Phila
delphia luquii er, of the 27th ult., says:
It is rumored here from Yorktown that the
rebels appreciating the masterly strategical
movements of McClellan, recently executed by his
Generals, have offered to capitulate upon certain
conditions. It is generally believed here that
the fate of Yorktown is sealed and will be ours
in a few days.
The Washingtan Star says:
By General Orders issued from the War De
partment, Adjutant General’s Office, April 18, by,
directions of the President, Brigade Surgeon
J. H. Thompson, United States Volunteers, is>
dismissed the service as an alarmist, on the rec
commendation of his commanding. General, Maj,
General Burnside.
DEATH OF. MAJOR TALBOT.
The Washington Star, of the 25th ult says :
Major Talbot, one of the heroes of Fort Sum
ter, dik’d in Washington city on Wedneseay.
night, aged about 38 years. His funeial took
place yesterday. After the fall of Sumter, Tai*
bot, who was then First Lieutenant “of \the regu
lar army, was promoted to a Major,
health was seriously injured while on. duty at
Fort Sumter, and be never afterwards recov
ered.
gen. Beauregard’s intercepted dispatch.
From the Cibcinatti (Jazette, of the 2?d, we
find the following original and translated dis
patch of Gen. Beauregard, which was intercepted;
by the Yankees:
rOriginal..|
April 9i
To Gen. Samuel Cooper, Richmond, Va.:
All present probabilities are that whenever the
enemy moves on this position he will do »o with
anoverwhelming force of not leas than yiaole
ziry lohkjnap men. by wna ahe vkjlyi hatenqhkl
iorite zrmy lobjnap yr3l wlrmqj mn& phia may
possibly shrakj re n xye pnejolro ngbkl zrliv 5a
lohkjnap vhai. Can we not be reinforced xrhn
dyvgzitbcj nive. If dafeated here ey Uijy lay
vrqj mnSyc nap dchqnlte hki wnkjy where®* we
«onld even afford to lose for aawbile womlrflha
nap inmzubyl for the purpose of defeating gkyt
4jnive which woMd not only insure us the valley
of the Mississippi, but our independence.
P. G. T. BKAUMZGARIk
[Translation.J
Corinth, April 9.
General Samuel Cooper, Richmond, Va.:
All present probabilities are that whenever the
enemy on this position he will do so with
an overwhelming force of not lees than eighty<>
five thousand effective (men.) Van Dorn may
possibly j">in us in a lew days with fifteen thou
sand more. Can we not be reinforced from Pem
berton’s armv ? If defeated here we lose the
Mississippi Valley, and probably our cause.,
whereas we could even afford to lose, for a while-,.
Charleston and Savannah, for the purpose of de
feating Buell’s army, which would not only ine*f&
ns the Valley of the Mississippi, but our indepen
dence. P. G. T. Bbaueega.l3,
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