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%The constant tendencies ot the war seem to
have been to the subordination of the civil uit
thurlties ami laws to the military, and the con
coiitrulion of the supreme power in the hands
of the Comma inter in cbiel ol' the ailfties. 'the
longer the war lasts, the greater the tendency
to this result ; ami the liss probability at its
termination of a return to constitutional
forms and republican simplicity which existed
at its commencement.— Uov. Haioi'h Message
A startling truth is announced in the passage
quoted above. It is impossible to otoerve the
present state of tbo country without coining to
the conclusion which the Governor has readi
ed. The mllitaiy authority fsalieady poten
fiat, and thieatens veiy soon to reign supreme
throughout our borders. Tlfc; war which has
raged for nearly four years, has prostrated
many civil rights rights of property and
rights of person. Liberty which consists not
In the mere exercise of actual sell control, but
i-a the possession of imtnuuiths that protects
both property and person, is greatly endan
gered. One accustomed to the enjoyment of
constitutional liberty- we mean liberty pro
tected by law—cannot see with indifference the
stiidcs which the military authority is making
in this country. In the most absolute govern
ments on the globe, a largo degree of actual
freedom is enjoyed under a clement ruler.—
There Is no limit lo his authority, and I'te sub -
ject holds his rights iu absolute dependence . n
the will of hi® sovereign. ITe walks abroad
unmolested. He sees the sun in tire heavens,
rfh.i rejoices iu his golden light. He breathes
the pure ah and surveys the wide landscape. 1
Jiut there is no law to protect him. The ca- :
|>rloe of the ruler may deprive him of ali that i
toe possesses tomorrow. Js. that liberty ? It I
is the most abject servitude. There arc igno
ble souls, oven in this country, where the peo
ple are educated In the principles of constitu
tional liberty, who are ready to bow before
Executive authority with servile obedience,
and who agree with that sentiment ot an emi
nenUßritish poet so disloyal to the nobler in
epiratiouß of our nature
•* t'or fornii of g .yamount let fooli c~n tcs‘,
Tii-t which te K.st admiuUt'fted \* best.'
There is in forms of government an essential
practical value. No government is a good
government where political liberty does mot
exist. We mean not only actual exemption
from present oppression, lint the possession of
muniments which guarantee the enjoyment of
liberty for the future.
Wbeu the Barons of England, with arms in
their bands, wrested the (treat Charter tioin
the King at Ruunytnede, it was their boa.-!
that tbuy did not make any change in tlnagov
eminent ; they did not acquire any new light;
but tlft-y compelled the sovereign to restore
the ancient privileges and liberties of the
realm. -
The uoble words of Daniel Webster— durum
t>i vtnerabile women—in which he declared that.
It was an error to say, as had been too often
said, that our aucestois of the Revolution rose
in resistance to act* of oppression ; that they
did submit to tyranny until its burthens be
earns intolerable ; but that they went to war
upon a “ Preamble,' are words worth remem -
titling. The preamble of an act of Parliament
usserteil the right of the British Government
to tax the colonies—colonies unrepresented :
and that dtove them into resistance. It was
not the insignificant tax upon tea that pro
duced that notable scene in Boston harbor.
They snorted tyranny in the tainted gale."’
There ts a noble and all emancipating philos
ophy in these examples. History teaches ns j
with its open page.
We are about to enter upon another year of
war. The curtain is not yet lilted, so as to
enable us to see the future. But ii it should
prove to be true, that the recent election in
the United States has resulted in the success
of the present Administration at Washington,
then we may well look, not alone to the
threatening aspect of affairs from beyond the
Potomac, but to the daugeis which menace
liberty at home. Already a strong disposition
has been shown to subordinate civil rights to
military authority. A disposition has been
shown to subject every man in the country to
the exercise of military domination. To place
the whole industrial system of the country ua
der the control of the Executive power ut
Richmond.
In his recent Message to Congress, the Pres
ident is reputed to have invited that body to
provide by its legislation that no classes shall
be exempted from military service, but that
tbo whole subject shall be placed under his
control. This is startling enough. To give to
the Pieaident the power to say who shall serve
and wlto shall not serve In the army. To turn
over to him the w hole population of the coun
try. To leave the whole wealth of the country
subject to his absolute control. To convert
the whole Confederacy into a military camp ;
and to make him the supreme arbiter of late.
The scheme is too monstrous to be calmly dis
cussed.
It the liberties of the people cannot be pre
served under the existing government, let us
change it. If a constitutioaal Republic is tin
suited to the conduct ot our a .fairs in the gi
gantic struggle in which we are engaged, let
us yield up the work of our hands, and con
struct a provisional government. If a const!
tutiooal President cannot administer the gov
ernment in the midst of the tempestuous scenes
through which we are passing, let him aban
don his position. If we are to have an Ex
ecutive officer clothed with' absolute power,
Ut ut create a dictator: following the exsm
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2;!, 1861.
I pie of Rome in the hour of her peril. But let
| the people have the privilege of choosing the
dictator. We protest a; ainet maintaining the
for m of a Republic, when its essential and
free spirit has perished. We protest against
converting a government of limited powers into
an all-embracing despotism. There is not the
slightest necessity for any departure from the
principles of a well-regulated free government.
The struggle in which we are engaged is a tre
mendous one. No one questions It. But it is
all tiro more important to maintain the great
principles of liberty iu theiapriatine vigor. The
noble armies tanged for the defence of the coau
try will strike more powerful blows in our
j cause, ami w ill more cheerfully submit to pri
vations ami dietings, when they feel that all
that they dp i- for the preservation of civil ip
I- ■, if at frame.
Let the I’resident of the United States assume
absolute power. Let the people bow in abject
sen ility lo his unchecked authority. Let ev
eiy proud monument ot liberty fall before the
march .of the army, organized to ciusb free
Hiatts. Hut let us maintain our rights at home,
aud set the glorious example of upholding the
laws of the country in the midst of the rudest
shock of arms.
We know not what awaits us. Let us lie
j true to ourselves. The power of the Kxecu
* tive is already as great as it ought to be. In
I saying this we leave the personal qualities of
i the I ’resident quite out of view. We speak
! only of the otil e. There is already enough of
I patronage concentrated in the bauds of the
President, lie fills a great place. He con
trols the army. He sends opt. from Richmond
these whom he chooses, to fill the cilices which
the extraordinary state of tlie country has
made r,o numerous. Those officers swarm in
our midst. Some of them are v ry worthy
and competent men.
itut we do no* desire to see this class increas
j ed; ami iminoglnation can seaiccly grasp the
[ number would be required to execute the
j task, if Congress should turn over to the
! Executive the business of selecting from the
whole population of the’ 'country those
Who should go into the ranks, and those
v. ho should stay at home. It is a deliberate
invitation to Congress, to repeal the laws
which govern this very important sufc
jw t. aud to confide the busino c s to the mere
volition of the President. That power we
would give tone man. What a field for the
exorcise of qualities which, unhappily hu
man inilrmiifities, too often perverts to bad
ends in those who govern States. We prefer
law to Executive caprice. Already some have
found favor with the President who do not
make military tulo more acceptable to the
people by their style of administration. It is
to be hoped that the number wilt not be multi
plied.
Governor Brown very propetly says that
rapid strides have been made towards a mill
taiy despotism. This is the sentiment of the
people.
Let u« rectir for instruction to those early
days when Washington guided tho fortunes of
Ihe young States in their struggle for indepen
dence. lie not only did not desire that abso
lute power should bo conferred on him, but he
tcpelluil every offer to clothe him with it.
| Congress was jealous too for liberty. The
people were loyal to it, unswervingly so. We
repeat that there is no necessity for any de
pat hue Irom the clear line of principles which
should in all free States he adhered to through
sunshine nnd through storm.
II is when Iho vessel is on a lee-shore and
the roar of the breakers is heard, that the
mariners most anxiously loofc for the light
house evicted along the dangerous coast. If
these tie destroyed there remains but the dark
sea, the fatal rocks, and the wreck of the
noble vessel freighted with human lives.
ttKl'tm r OKUi VHTIIK MAtsTISH ÜBNBIIAL,
The annual report of the Quarter Master
General laid before the present Legislature is
an important document. It is carefully pre
pared and full of important information. We
furnish herewith a brief synopsis.
DEPARTMENT PROPER,
The disbursements of the Q M. Department
proper have been So 4.5.592 49. The payment
of the troops has amounted to $337,315 88. In
addition to these there was ajdisbursemunt on
account of Medical Supplies for $8,241 50.
These disbursements were made on account of
the two State regiments, the garrison at Mil
effgeville, and ihe State Militia.
CLOT: IAPPROPRIATION.
Ihe issues to tin; Georgia troops in Confed
erate service under this appropriation are 12 ’2:>
blankets, 7501 hats, 20,745 jackets. 28.808
trousers, 24,1G3 drawers, 21,952 shirks, 37,057
shoes and 2-2,024 socks.
die a uumber of blankets have been run
-through S 1 ye blockade,<an 1 about 8000 pounds
of wool have been brought from Texas through
the Mississippi blockade. A Bueaiu
and a shoe factory have been successfully %ar
el on and are now located in Augusta; the
j former in charge of Gen. Evans of this city,
lb >1 alter in charge of Capt,. Jno A. Ervin.—
The women of Georgia, have, as heretofore
j supplied him with socks. Theoe are now on
! hand.
COTTON TABS APPROPRIATION.
This appropriation was made to supply the
families of needy soldiers with cotton yarns to
weave them clothing. One bunch to each fam
ily was issued. The report shows that $207,-
141 00 were expended in the purchase of these
yarns. Inasmuch os all tne counties paid only
the price paid the department by the first
counties supplied—six dollars per bunch—but
$ 173,221*00 have been paid in by the counties.
This leaves a deficit of $34,013 00 to be made
up by special appropriation, by the Legisla
ture. The former session appropriated $13.-
000 00 which leaves $21,915 00 to be appro
priated oy this.
• corn appropriations.
An act passed November 2t>th, 1863, author
ised the donation of $7,500 bushels of corn to
the Northwestern counties of the State, which
had beca deprived of subsistence by our own
and tho euemy 's armies. Os this amount About
00,000 bushels have been issued. The falling
back of our army prevented the department
from currydug out the full requisition of the
act.
Another act was passed on the 21st of March,
( 18C4. authorizing the saleof such coun-
ties as would make requisitions for it. The In.
terruptions attending the operations of this
act have been many, which theQ. M. Gener
al think3 will result in loss to the State.
LOSSES BT THE EXKJtr.
The siege of Atlanta laid the town of Madi
son open to raids. In this town was stored ft
large amount of clothing. Through the ener
gy of the Storekeeper the lirger portion was
removed, though about 1000 suits were-cap
tured" and burnt. A lew other losses were sits
taiued at other points, but none affect the fu
ture operations in clothing thelrooj'S to any
serious extent.
account" ccrrext.
The receipt and disbursements of the de
partuielit have been iu follows :
Ol Afti lUuViAalku’.S lIKCAftTMSNTN
Received $1,208,861 12
Disbursed .091,170 87
t<u Maud . 217,181 .>5
CLOTHINO ATPB'OI'HIXTION.
Received $1,796,385' 80
Disbursed...... . 1,)04,2d» Oil
Gu Hand .... 42,127 24
COTTON YARN APPROPRIATION.
Received $172,226 00
Disbursed 207,141 00
Due QM. G 21,015 00
CORN APPROPRIATIONS.
Received l.flOOfbOO 00
Disbursed 1,006,823 50
Oa Hand 83,17(i 00
The report, from which the above is a very
brtef synopsis, displays a great amount of ener
gy and foresight on the part of our Quarter
master General. The efforts put forth to col
lect hides overlooked by CL S. authorities,
wonld have put upon the feet|*if our gallant
troops, many a thousand pairs of shoes, had
they not t een frustrated by the Confederate
officers commanding. A like interference on
the part of Confederate officers prevented the
shipment of corn purchased in that State for
the relief of our destitute women and children
in Northern Georgia. Let this be recorded to
the discredit of these officers.
In ad4ition to the matters reported the
Quartermaster General has erected qjiarters.for
the Atlauta Exiks,in fact “built them a city,’’
in Dawson, Terrel County. It is understood
that this officer will be promoted by the Legis
lature this season. We sincerely hope he
will. jfhere is no man more deserving.
An Opinion of a Patriot.— When Jackson
was President of the United Slates, his official
organ iu commenting upon the freedom of tho
press, remaiks thus :
“ Under no possible emergency, not even in
insurrection, or amidst the throes of civil war,
can the Gqvernmaut justify i fficial interfer
ence with the freedom ot speech or of the
’press, hny more than it can with the freedom
of the ballot. The licentiousness of the tongue
and of the pen is a minor evil compared
with the licentiousness of arbitrary power.”
Jackson was a statesman as well as a patriot.
He knew that au independent, untrammelled
press was necessary in this or any other coun
try, in order that evils might, be corrected and
liberty prevail.
We commend the opinio® of Gen. .Jackson
to the attention of the President of this Con
federacy, aud those Members of Congress who
are his snbservientß. li all the reports
are correct, it is evidfent they will do all they
can the present session, to muzzle the journals
of the South. Let" those interested at once
fake the subject in hand, aud give these ser
vants of the people at Richmond to understand
that they cannot tamper wit!) the rights of the.
press with impunity. .
The people are the power. They will ens
lain a free and independent press. Let the
latter do its duty to the people and the coun
try, and at once crush out tho hydra-headed
monster —military despotism—that has reared
its crested head at Richmond. It is very evi
dent that i-ffoits will be made at the present
Congress to deprive the people of their few re
maining liberties. Let Ui*; people notify their
representatives that they mast oppose any fur
ther movement infringing upon fbeir
Let the press itself speak out boldly and defi
antly.
The Hamburg Firs.— «JVe alluded briefly in
our Monday's evening 'edition to- the fire iu
Hamburg on Sunday night last. The tiro
broke out about one o’clock, in the cotton
warehouse on the river bank owned by C.
Williams, and the building with its contents,
amounting to about 1200 balds of cotton, was
entirely consume,l. The property was only
paitially insured. The fire is supposed to
have originated from-a wagon camp in the vi
cinity.
Tbere war a strong northeast wind prevaif
ing at the time, and large (bakes of tire were
blown across to this city, placing our own
warehouses and other buildings in bum incut
peril. The cotton in a number of sheds, we
learn was several times on Ore, and it was only
by the greatest exertions of the small number
present, that we were saved from a destruct
ive conflagration. It was a noticeable and un
pleasant fact, that there were very few of our
’citizens out on the night in question, when as
sistance was so much needed to avert a more
general and disastrous fire.
Tuf. Feslinq in Mississippi, — 4 subscribe.!
of the Chkokiclb a Sentinel, on a letter speak
ing of the feeling of the people in that section
ot the Confederacy, rematks thus;
‘•We like your position on the subject of a
“ convention of the States for the purpose of
“ settling the unfortunate difficulties in which
“we are now engaged. The people here are
“ unmistakably in favor of some movement of a
“ diplomatic kiudto bring aboutapeace. They
“ have no hope that Presidents Davis and Lin
“ coin will ever settle it themselves. The peo-
ple must take the matter in hand, or one or
“ both of the present incumbents in powermust
“ pass away from official control before a peace
“ can be effected. Stand up to the fight while we
“ do fight, but speak boldiy in favor of whatever
“ course es policy seemeth right, regardless of
“ executive favor or anything else The people,
“in my opinion, will l*e with you. Encourage
“ the peace party at the North if we ever have
•• honorable terms it will come through
“ their efforts.”
Change or Post Office. —The Post Office at
Bairdstown, Ga, has been discontinued. All
mail matter heretofore sent to that office
should be seat to Woodville, Green Cos., Ga,
.. . VOUi’HKHNNE.WS
The blockade runner. Little Hattie, had ar
rived at.Bennudivwith' six hun.hed bales of
fatten, and fae Hope, -with fifteen hundred
hales had arrived at Nassau, alt from Wilming
ton. •
The ladies of Vicksburg receive but little
clemency from Dana, the present commander at
that place. We understand he has ten in jail atthe
present time for committing little acts offensive
to his Highness.
Lincoln has sent Sheridan an autograph let
ter, thanking' him and his “brave” army for
their remit ■•victories” in the Valley.
The federal Government continues its offi
cial relations with the old Government of
Mexico, and Lincoln has recently recognized
Jose Sclera Piieio"as consul of that Republic
at the port of Sail Francisco.
Lms Cipeuu kVv hue.- commenced in Mem
phis tor tile cwili«;ctj.in of properly in that
oily, j'fae Argos, -contains a list of persons
against which proceedings have I een instituted.
“MdlHe Hayes,' l a noted female rebel spy,
nf Forrest's.eoininAndi wlyo was captured six
monthS'ago. lias WviT field to the Alton, Illi
nois, 'prison. •
Df. Bellows, who so recently came from ('a!
ilornia to altcfid the Sanitary Commission
meeting, presented Lincoln au elegant gold
box, set .with 'l-rysjaliz and quartz, and sent the
gorilla'by his I'aeflkj admirer*.
Tho Democrats of Maryland have nominated
Judge Jv. V. Chambers for Governor, aud
Ojeu.BoViji for Lieutenant Governor.
it is stated in Washington if Mr. Lincoln is
elected,-Mr, Stanton is to go upon the. bench
of the Supreme Court, and Mr. Blair, late Post
master General, is to have charge of the War
Department portfolio.'
Confederate guerillas are very troublesome
on the Cumberland River & Northwestern Rail
road, Tent).
Solomon Sturges, of Chicago, one of the
wealthiest men in the west, died last week at
the age of sixty nine years. Ilis property is
estimated by millions..
The New York InsuranoeoOmpanies *re talk
ing about raising t-heir rates.
Sheridan’s losses in the battle of Straaburg
are now officially put down at 7,083.
Secretary Stanton is quite ill from chills
and_ fever.
From Japan, on the.loth of August, it is re
ported that the United States cteenier Monitor
from lfokadadi. ran into a bay east of Nagas
aki, iu Stress of weather, for fuel. While here
she was. suddenly fired oil bv a native battery
and infantrymen stationed behind screens on
the shore. Twenty-four musket balls hit th«
vessel's side, but no person was injured. The
Monitor ran put pf range southward, wheu
she was fired on by another battery. She then
opened frqm her Parrott guns and shelled the
first battery aud an adjacent village, setting
both on fire. She also burned several port
bulkheads, planks ainl some bales of hemp.—
The bay is.s.ald to be in the territory of the
Nagato. It was thought that the rich port of
Osaca would soon .be opened to foreign trade
by the Daimios r acting iu opposition to the
Tycoon..
A passenger and a cattle train came in col
lision on the Lafayette aud Indianapolis rail
road recently And thirty pet sens were killed
and between twenty and thirty wounded. A
majority were soldiers. Among the killed was
Rev. B F..Winans, ot Uhe .Sanitary Commis
sion. •
There is now in the military prison of Knox
ville, Tennessee, a grandson of Henry Olay,
who was one ot the late General Morgan’s staff.
A voter in Massachusetts recovered eight
thousand dollars from the Selectmen lor refus
ing'to put his naine on flic poll list.
Joseph Lake, a ‘‘fat boy,” twelve years old
and weighing three hundred and eighty-five
pounds, has died at his home in Chichester,
New Hampshire; the illih, of typhoid fever
lie took .cold while-on an exhibition tour.
The Bishop of Nevada has to travel 'some
times two- thousand, niiies from one point, of
his See to aliotber. ‘
A tniin named Blake has been arrested at
Milan, Maine, charged* with having murdered
Mr. l’tukefr, the collector of Manchester, New
Hampshire, about twenty years ago, and lor
which crime tho Woutworlhs, Saco, Maine,
were tried, blit acquitted. The arrest was made
in consequenceol the deathbed revelations of
a woman who recently died in' Manchester.
Blake'formerly lived in Manchester.
Governor Cony has appointed Nathan A
Fat well, of, 110.-Irian*), United States Senator
from Maine, to fill tile uuexpired term of Secre
tary Fessenden,.
Lincoln has been frightened out of the Sol
diers Home back to the White House. A let
ter says:. For several nights past mysterious
signals have been observed in that direction,
and last tire suspicions indications of an
attempted (aid had .multiplied to Bitch an ex
tent as to induce lire President to abandon his
insufficiently guarded suburban residence.
The bridge across the Ohio river between
Cincinnati aml-CovingUm will coat, it is esti
mated, sl,ool)jjoli,.and in length will exceed
the Niagara bridge about 400 feet. It will be
suspended ninety feekabove high waster, en
aiding the largest-steamers to pass under with
out dfllktuHy.
Political lceling between the two parties in
California is reported intense.
The steamship .Hrcraiiieiito left San Pranfcisco
for Panama on the 22.1 ult., with $770,000
treasure'for England, and $470,000 for New
York;. The demand for money was light; husi
ne:.i had' improved.
gji ho Memphis ltiilietin reports that portion
“ Kentucky between Groen and Cumberland
rivers, .swanning -with guerillas. Some two
hundred were, in tire vicinity of Nebo, and
twelve hundred; mote .are reported to have
crossed ylie Cumberland. So bold have they
become on the Cumberland river that boats
are unable to ascend that stream.
The North claims to have freed 1.878 COO
slaves ) Georgia is put down foe 154,000.
The Chamber ot Commerce of New York.has
appropriated twenty-five thousand dollars tor
the purpose of- providing presents for the offi
cers aud crew of the Kearsarge tor sinking the
Alabama,-
The Newfoundland papers report that the
cod fishery has proved a failure this seasou.
The express companies at the North are
likely to be fined heavily for failing to comply
with the provisions of the stamp act. A late
Louisville Democrat says: The papers in the
suit ot the Cuited Stat.es against, the express
companies iti Louisville were oil Oct. 21st, filed
with the clefk: 1 The penalties lor their failure
to use stamps - again t the Adam's exprasa com
pany 000, aud the American express com
pany *20,000.
One of,the.examples of the luxurious habits
of the New Yorkers is noted in the statement
that, a few days-ago, prior to a grand operatic
performance, a house in the city sold within
one day fifteen hundred pairs ot kid gloves.—
1 hey cost more thau they used to. Three
dollars ia the price.
It is said that the chief cause for the remo
val of Gen. Averill from his command in the
\ alley was his ardent admiration tor Gen. Mc-
Clellan.
Northern papers state that Governor Harris
has been in consultation with Forrest an i oth
er Confederate leaders, and unless the Union
authorities prevent it, a session of the Legisla
ture will be held at some point in West Ten
nessee., so that it may go abroad that they have
permanently secured that portion of the State
Some of Lincoln's friends think the army
will go against him.
VOL. LXXVIII.*—NEW SERIES VOL. XXVIII No. 17
! . AOK ! Hali\ NLPvVcj
j Henry Clay Dean, of lowa, who is go ’ng to
j vote for McClellan, in a speech made at *< biea
go, stigmatized President Linko'n as ‘m .tVlon,
usurper, traitor and'tyrant: ' an •’mcompfc tent
and imbecile wretch ’ and the soldiers her, de
nounced as “the slaves of the despot," vtml
the “banditti of the robber chief.’'’
The Chicago Times says if. Price co.ii.nl g<*r
arms iie could recruit one hundred th. imaid
men in Missouri.
The Memphis Bulletin of Oct. 27. savs U is
reported that the Confederate leaders.of West
Tennessee are exceedingly active. They have
established railroad and telegraphic co annuni
cation between Corinth and Jackson, :ind are
con scripting eyery person able to betiretms.tin
cluding old men, and semPng Meents to every 1
pa rt of WeulTcnnis ee, outside cur dues, for
sheep stock of all kinds, goods, mors-v, and
evqi y thing that can tie ol Aei viceTo them.
The United States sieaiaorTieondie yoga was
refused permission to coal at Givnud:, British
West India - Islands.
Art official message was received 'n Buffalo
from Canada. v kinday afternoon Oct. 8.), setting
that the rebels in Canada were prepared to
make an immediate raid on Butte co. The mil
itary were wilder arms in that city that night,
and two armed tugs patroled the hahour.
It is reportetl that Donohue, o-to of the per
sons charged with ! rand in cm picectioji with
tho votes of the New York sole.ini's, lias been
convicted by the military commission in Haiti
more and sentenced to five years imprison
ment. Lincoln is managing ihis election his
own way.
Captain Camp, a quartermaster, made a
speech in Washington for McClellan on Satur
day night, and was ordeied to the front for it
on Sunday morning.
A Chinese Joss House, or temple for heathen
worship, was dedicated in San Francisco on
the 23d of August. It cost eighty thousand
dollars. A bund of t«pestrv. tmibroidered
with feathers mid gold nnd silver thread, which
adorns the place, cost one hundred and fifty
dollars pn- yaid; uml the whole building
blazes with gold leaf and tinsel. The priests
shout, screech, yell, groan, spin around amid
the racket of gongs, ilium and fiddles, and
smoke opium until they are quite drunk,
when others relieve them The finger-nails
of the chief priest are actually longer Urur. his
fingers, and are twisted like an augur.
The Ohio Statesman says that three thousand
farms in Ohio are left without aman to tend
them—thousands of fields are left to wither
for the want of hands to cultivate Gum; this,
too, at the very season when every' working
man in the State is required at home.
The military authorities interfered in the
municipal ■election at Memphis, and elected
one of their own tools.
The St. Louis Republican, at a tea that an
intimate personal Irien.l of Lincoln, au Illi
nois gentleman, who was- entrusted with a
large amount of mq#ey with which to aid in
carrying elections, has failed to ac
count for the disbursement of about one hun
dred thousand doilats, and lias not yet re
ported at headquarters. There is much tribu-'
lation among Republican leaders at tho sudden
flight of greenbacks.
A member of the Fenian Brotherhood, in
Chicago, having claimed British protection to
screen - himself' from the draft, was expelled
from the Brotherhood.
’ihe last report of tho commissioner of in
ternal revenue shown that the income of tho
United States Government from internal faxes
is about $18,000,000 a month, or uearly $300,-
000,000 a year. Us expenses arc titty limes
that.
The keeper of one of the Cincinnati station
houses fell asleep last Sunday night; someone
passing possessed himself of the keys ornd
liberated ail the prisoners.
An ingenious Pennsylvanian has- invented a
machine tor coal-raiifing, which weighs two
hundred pounds, costs three hundred dollars,"
ami will do the work of twenty ruei).
The Provost Marshal of Louisiana, and aU
hie assistants, have been arrested lor kidnap
ping negroes aud selling them as substitutes-
Capt. Pike, a son of General Albert- Pike,
was sometime since captured with seven of his
men, and killed after they had surrendered.
Tho N. Y. World contains a statement, com
piled from official returns, showing that but of
37,004 tnen, composing seventeen regiments of
three-years men, 4,07■"> Jiavo relumed. The re
mainder found “plantations” iu the South.
The New York Herald contains maps of the
“new State”—Nevada—which is styled the
“thirty-eights star” of the “American Union:"
It fs situated on the Pacitle, north of Uitiifonfia
and northwest of Utah, and has three votes in
the,electoral college.
Wm. Y. Cheatham, of Nashville, relative of
S#ijor Gen. Cheatham, and well known to the
sporting circles of the. South, at Tine time pro
prietor of the race course at Long, island, is re
ported dead.
A young woman in Jackson, Michigan, has.,
been carrying on tie* recruiting busiuor-s in r.n
original and highly peculiar manner. Marries
a man on condition that ho will enlist and
give her his bounty. Fho being strikingly
handsome, the poor dupe consents. Alter lie is
gone, slie marries another. Four men lias she
thus wedded and sent to the army. On the
fifth occasion she wut detected. ,
Gen. Sheridan, in (he course of liis recent
campaign in tho \ alloy, has had live ot his
stall'officers killed of wounded.
Two Confederates, < barged with lining spivs,
arrived in Boston o 1 Wednesday to commence
an Imprisonment of five years in i-ort Barron.
The Louisville .Journal says it is expensive
to get sick; there Ka Lincoln lax upon sick
noss. It is expensive to be in health; there e a
Lincoln tax 011 health. It* is expensive lo die,
there’s a Lincoln tax on death.
Impressment Law- --- U e are satisfied ihe Im
pressment law is not only a great blunder, but
a groat wrong—-a grevidtw oppression to both
producer and consumer—-and iota, withal, led
to more rascality among tbs people than all
the other laws pissed by the Confederate Con
gress; besides which, it has also caused the
waste and destruction of immense amounts of
bread and nieat. . *
What wc have ttiof f needed is sn increase in
the quantity ol supplies. A law to stimulate
production, therefore, would have been a states
manlike, common sense expedient. Instead of
this, the Impressment law restrains production.
The Government seizes property, and when it
pays at all, it only pays one fourth the amount
the articles would bring in the market. A
man having the surplus thus sei/.ed this year,
will try to have as mail a surplus as possible
next season. To avoid impressment large
amounts of grain, bacon, &c. Lave been con
cealed in such places as speedily rendered toon
unfit for use.
This system of ‘‘hiding - ’ has caused many of
our people to adopt a system ot lying. W e
are told by persons who are engaged in im-
pressing, that it is very common to find men
who were heretofore regarded as high-minded
and honorable citizens, denying they had a
peck of corn to spare, when they had thousands
of bushels concealed in out-of-the-way placr-3.
The very low prices established by tho Gov
ernment compels the farmer, when be sods to
the home consumer, to demand four fold the
value of his products in order to raise money
to pay his taxes. Hence, the consumer v. jo
is compelled to buy his supplies is the worst
oppressed man in America.
This thing of having one price for tho Gov
ernment and another for the citizen, is so man
ifestly unjust, that Congress ought at once to
amend the law, or abolish it entirely. We be
lieve the latter'course would be preferable.—
Attena WoUchman.
OFFICIAL OUR Fits,
Pi. HUSHED GR ATIS FOH fUK BUM K, i ( .t
THE t'OtTVIVAITY.
Regulations and instructions in ,\fr.iw,ce !■■> the
rnptpt of four percent, ter/iiiriio.;. hi
, ojf the tux on coin, moneys held Uv.
OfFCCK ('OMMISStOMUJ OF Ta\KS, )
RIUIfMOMI, N.iV. 1, ISLI. j
1 • Tho Confederate Stales Disttict. ('.unt,
having decided that the four per cent ct-rliti
cafes it re receiv.ibh l in payimailof the tax mi
coin, moneys held abroad, hilis of ex. ii.tii
and fofign credits, District Colleeloim tiiejdlre. i •
cl lo receive lu. li taxes, at the Home rates at
widen Confederate Tiensury r.etes ore reeeiva
hie uuder the »rovisron< of nrtiete 4 «if the
-’-.i .’••ne. ; h-.iust t, v He.
. cfiice. that is. I.f the luv im gold coin, nt j
rat.i.of eighteen dollars of four per . ent. cor
•iilieale.s tor one dtillsr in g.ihl, and seventeen
dollars in four pel- cent, certifioates f,>r one
dollar in silver coin, moneys held abroad,
hills of-exchange drawn th-.aefoi , and foreign
credits.
2 .In-all cases where four per cent corlm
Catos have been tendered iu payment of the
above .named taxes aud telused by the Uolhv
tor, and tho lax lms been demanded and paid
in ourrency ol the new issue, the warty so
paying in may, at bis option, deposit w ilh the
District Collector the amount in four percent
Certificates propetly assigned, and ill Ine -am.'
time muko affidavit before mftiio pei ..n eon*
petont to administer oaths, of tlm iffcis In ip .
case, which certificates uml affidavit shall be
transmitted by tho .District Collector to the
Slate Collector for his opinion thereon. II the
fruits be established to the satisfaction of she
State Collector, iu; shall refund the amount in
new isßue (without interference with the wd
dice's fund) if lie have it, and if not he shall
procure the funds as follows.
Tho,State Collector shall endorse each certi
fieale 'or .some paper permanently attached to
it. iff the following maniiei: “1 certify that
tho within (or attached) certificates was receiv
ed from; in'lieu of so much tux wrongfully
collected from him in currency of the new is
sue and that the same lias been exchanged for
new currency to reimburse him.
. II« shall then present the certificate ot cor
tjficates ho certified to the Treasurer, Assistant
Treasurer or Depositary with whom he is Ui
IvHcd to deposit tax moneys, and it shall be
the.duty of such 'treasurer, As.sist.aul.Treasurer
or Depositary, as the case may be, to receive
the same and pay to the collector the amount
thereof in currency of the new issue, and tho
Collector shall pay over the same to the tax
payer, taking his receipt, which receipt shall
explain the nature ot the transaction..
8. When tax has been wrongfully collected
iff coin, the application to refund aud proof
shall be made'turd miUnfitted by the District
'Collector, directly to the Secretary of the Treas
ury.
[Signed] Thompson Allan.
Commissioner of Taracs.
Approved:
[signed] G. A Trenhoi.m, -
Secretary of tire Treasury.
Sexhict.e Remarks.- -The Selina Reporter, in*
discussing tho pt-esent condition of oar coun
try, makes the annexed remarks upon (fie du
ly of the press, the power of tile people»sunt
the road to peace:
It has been too much the fashion of editors
in the (Confederacy, to drift passively with tho
current of events, instead ot exerting their
powers of thought, amt by a fuller interchange
of ideas and opinions, reap the advantages- of
a multitude of cotmstdlers. The direction ol
the nation’s affairs are now, and have been
from the beginning, sul stantially under the
control of a few men. There is. but little, free
dom of opinion practically, aud ttie conse
quence is, that, the accumulation of ills are au
cordantinan inverse ratio with the' atmpia
lons repudiation of the maxim that the people
are the rightful sovereigns -tlm•arbiters M
their own destiny, il it be true that- the poo
pie are incapable of self-government, the goon
■fit we get. lid of republican govern'ment,
pthe. better for. us and our posterity Let us
hare a king—one wlto can do our thinking lu
lls—and submit ourselves to be driven by him,
just as hls inclination or caprice may elect.
We seriously believe that out- form of got ern •
ment is suited to times of wav us well as peace.
But if wo be in a vessel thaTis suited only to
sailingo% ,t smooth sea- oho thjt cannot with
stand the fury of Ihe storm then, wo repeat,
we are in a perilous prediiament., h.lil tihoiihl
cast about us for the first port ihatoffets se
curity. Lot no mail have the effrontery to say
that he is tho friend of Gouslitutional liberty,
while lie ignores Ur's right of free speech in
times like these. Now is the time, above all
others, when the peoplefehouldthink and speak
for themselves -my, act too, if they would
save themselves from Ilm perils that environ
them.
Tito slock paragons of high schools and col
leges—-the retinue of pimp and mountebank.;
Mhat wait upon the heels <fl power, cannot and
will not save tho liberties of the p. pie. 'i he
good old.slurdy farmer, with rough Kinds and
honest heart, has a wealthy brain, and ids plait!
Common sense is morn-to be trusted tiinn the
specious fulminations of gorgeous ihi-Joi 1, i-tu,;
r.t the hustings, lender our fret: Government
no matt can presume to ov< iawe tin* limdoju oi
opinion, lie Ids purifion us ijgh-aa it may.
Nay. the president himself; it should be tuxiu*
in mind, is but ihe seru.n.l of (liepeople - the
same as the lowest, official Unit t; on the
crumbs from his table.
These arc the great cardinal facts that give
strength aiid vitality to tin- body politic, which
under the enetrating intluem es of military
rule, may yet become a soulless carcass. Wo
believe the people ol Hie .-dates have tlieir des
tinies in their own bands, UlO inalienable right
of soli-piv-crvation remaining, despite ail pow
ers delegated; or other abstractions standing
between them and peace, if Richmond anil
Washington caguot consummate an atmisticu
and a final cessation of hostilities, tho Suites
.■an, and it should bo done promptly and with
out hesitancy.
Tim Florkncs Ba bracks. —A correspondent
of the Edgefidid Advertises .peak.-; tints of Ho*
Florence S. f‘. Barracks:
Florence, the military pt i.-on, is about three
miles from Florence Depot, which is about
one hundred mih 3 from Columb'a, and the
same distance horn Wilmington, N. <?. and
from Charleston, 13. C. The stockade con- j
tains an area of thirty two a< ; es, and is Guilt
of logs eighteen feet long, inserted in Ihe
ground lo the depth oflour feet, with a small
ditch inside and a la*’go moat or ditcli outside.
The dirt is thrown up against (lie Umbers on
the inside of the enclosure, making a solid em
bankment some ten feet high, upon which
our sentinels are posted day and night. In
etch cornet* of the stockade there' is a large
•and substantial platform, and on each plat
lorm two pieces ol' artillery no arranged as to
sweep any direction.
There are about sixteen thousand prisoners
confined in this stockade. They represent ev-i
cry State of the Lincoln empire, and -many j
other nations besides: but the Emerald Isle is j
more tolly represented than any other por- I
tion of the globe. About one thousand have
taken the of allegiance, and it is said
more contemplate doing so. The greatest
mortality per diem since iho establishment ol
the stockade has been fifty-five and the smal
lest about thirty. They bury their dead with
heathenish indifference ard appear neither to
fear God cor to regard man.
A salt lake has been struck rear Grand
Rapids, Michjgau, at seven hundred bet from
the surface.
| (JKOKUH
HOUSE—NOV. lU.
'(he following bum were p it -:v,i . A hill to
.■-U’vi; ,> the civet ion of u m oket honso bv
GieUdyt-onn,., 1 ol Columbus; to .".mend :ho
•. ■'- .h rc. I ion »i life e.sl, :io amend iho 3373.1
rcoiien, in relation to leva;; on ijini; to amen l
r-'fe.en.v |„ plaintiffs' ,
; '”■ ’ !i 'c ! ut h , tioas, and to
’ ■ l -“ l ■-■ 1 !U !• >et..- •• to suits in
( lain-e.; io nnieiiil i. . :! t . i am, in ;en>ie.ice
■' 1 to i ipe to >ui mi
|Y; ”1 ;■'■■'* lim . \ u r >’ to tl.«- ‘iiin vid (d'
•- .u i.-, !o amen.', J.-.oih ..iron, in letetoueo
“' j ■•'' j l ' d'Ogahty, to aruond i ' ( i'..,th
ai.il I. ifi'ii sceiiims, in tvp reaep to the ie:p
jaui oi oi(ii'.au- . tu i-.- '. il -j., 1 njti I-,,, (i,.0 in
-to 1n,.... tvj,- j ~.;h »ie
ei oes. to amend 8i; I no ,li,ih ;r ei ions in
letcioni'O jp sureties; (, ; rhango tin; lino ho
hr.vri l oionan.l j’amiin coimtie-;; lo ans, ml
i.i.’ii el laws, mikii.;; nil persons between. 12
arid til) ars oi age liable to road duty during
the war.
ilk; Ui!tco.sice- efiis wt-re lost : A hill to fix
thi- pri.-i» oi hquora sold by dVfillera at «‘ta
dollar atid a h ill a .ctllon; to preventdisiille.j
Irom exporting liquors out of the bade; to lav
distillcis and nqieal all laws against distill.t
ti.ei, 'lhe Judicialy Committee proposed iv
subjititute, repealing ail laws against (listilln
inet, t-xoejit so !.>.;■ as they relate to corn, wheat
and all kimls ol tone from which'syrup j*
nuifie. There wc.ii Considerable debate, of
rather a humorous cliaiactcv on the substitute,
which met with considerable favor, but di.i,
not preAail.
A UK-. was received from the Governor,
recommending- the passag.. ol a htw iclievimp
the sureties ol all persons under bond for pe -
mil otleuccs, in order that the principals may
t>e {rut in the service.. Tit’s is an important'
measure. At present men may evade military
service by ccmmiltlffg some offence icqmritig
bail. • *
the question of adjournment cams up on a
recoiiKuh red resolution to adjourn on Saturday
next and meet at the capital on the 2,1 'l'hma
day iu .lanuary. Various amendments were,
proposed and lost, and on the vote on tho reso
lution .there was a iie—66 to 6t>, 'fho Speaker
voted no. So tho ■ adjournment question—
which appears to have as m iny lives as a cat—-
is agaiu killed.
SENATE—NOV. 11.
In the Senate a resolution was offered re
questing information irtuii the Governor in.
reference to Exiles, whiA was passed and
! transmitted to the House.
Tho following bills were parsed : a House*
hill to amend the distillation act so as to al
low ilm distillation of lager beer; to extend
the time for tax collectors to make returns,
until Ist.March next; to amend the road laws
of Lincoln county.
. A bill for tha relief of F.I. James and Joel'
Forrester from excessive income lax on lauds
purchased previous to April Ist. 1863, and 501.4
in 1868; made a general bill and passed.
The Special order ti bill for the y.afdon oiT
Rail;:) - was laid pit Ihejabie for Ado present.
lIOCAK Nov. il,
A resolution" Io the resolution Lo t:
on yej.tvalay M-lntic- to ihciva-e y q; »>{ uteut
tiei.s and otiii-i;,u the tb nelal Ast.-mhiy Was
lost.
A Senate resolution asking the Governor ■
what provision has been made tor the exiles,
from All.udA, was. concurred in. .
The following bills were introduced : A bill',
to"ailow' the several Courts of this State to ot-.
tier tbs sale of .perishalde property under wiit.i .
of aitaehiuent ; to provide for Iho registratiou.
of birOiK, marriages ami deaths; to provide a.
bounty for the Flute Line troops : to make tbo.
prices fixed by tho .Confederate Cotntnisßioi'.er.-s.
tbo eztublihhed prices ; to provide couif.eu.Hu—
lion to tax collectors who collect over
income tax ; to iix*!he per diem paid membmf
of tin) next General Assembly--based at sl.
per day in gold or its equiv.dciit; to changtx
the titie between Elbert and ijart eounties ; tin
change the restriction on the culture of cotton,
to six acres instead - of three ; to relieve Wilt.
Hniifli and others, similarly eitmifed —ho was
elected ordinary while administrator, and al -
lows him to m ike returns : to give the trustee*
Os Jefferson County Academy, anUsqjity too
control certain lota of hand; to provide pay
ment for ire:,;ht on all paclysg, ; of clothing,
tec., shipped to the miltC,a/out ~;■ (ho mtlitaiv
fund; to exempt r/hool tinchera who bai t
been 'tho beginning of iho win,
and have ivieiity aliohu'S, Hem militia duly ;
to change the line between Lee and Dou/horty j
iq relieve all blind persons not worth tnoiix
llciiii Out) Irom taxation , to provide fi>i
raising leveiini;; to ieproduee anew issue of
TrenHiuy notes, t.) bo >• filed tin.: “ golden ii-
Tim following bills were passed : A bill (.a
relieve citizens who have been la.ve._i on pro
perty 'stolen OI ih.droyid l:y the oocmy ; to
provide for the allowance of widows nnd or
phans, and lo render adinyffi; tralien imnece.-;-
saiy on (.il iles of $2,.:00 or less—allows lb*
ordinary to qipoinff appraisers ; to allow head!
of familitt<: .jistil "liquors. A iibstiluto was.
proposed which allows fho distillation of iiva
galte.Us to every family of ten, and one gallon
t 0 every ten persons inoic.
A lengthy debate ensued, utid on a division
the ttyen weie 72, nays 40. On taking (lia
ayon and nay; they were yeas 78, nays 50.
A ciiminimieatiou was received from Mayor;
DeGraifenr* i l to the special Small I’ox com
mittee, idaiii.g that all the eases are con vales
cent, end no now one have occurred for uov-.
I r.tl day
The following revolution:: WeiV: introduced r
A resolution to increase Vue pay of tbe Stati*.
Troops; that if this. Gen. :al Assembly take a
recess tho rnem.boi's repoit.to Gen. Smith armed
Rnd equipped as the law directs, for militia.,
duly: *,., ,'ouiidor the juopiieiy of paying tli«
U.i.scis of tiie Military Institute for their tier vi
ces, amt to furlough tlu-m for a timo, as a re-,
coguit on 01 tlieir gailanljand soldierly conduct,
requesting tho Governor to Irdora the Genera!
Assembly what quantity ol cotton has been
bought by tin* State, and the disposition made
of it; toque ding the Gown.-or to advance the
amount of money necessary to pay thu militia
while iti the Confederate service ■ requesting
the Governor to inform the General Assembly
how many aids have been tq.pointed by him.
and the duties they ha vft to perform.
HOUSE NOV 11.
Thn following bill wen passed: A hill to
amend section 2333d of the code relative t<*
grants -makes twenty years peaceable posses
sion evidence of clear-titles; for the relief ol!
warehousemen—relieves them from taxes as
- ou cotton destroyed by fire after assess
ment; to provide for the retirement of disabled
Soldiers in the Stale Service —a substitute;
was received aud adopted; to amend the* iiidfith
Section of the code, in reference to the pay o '
teachers; to change Use line between the coun
ties of Union and downs.
The following bid- were kwl:-~A -bill to
provide for Ihe pushhment of *j..-serteis, slrag
giers, and others who ccn; /fn ;t unlawful depro
dations on the person , ]T property of citizens;
j to make militia f.Varers f.utject to conscriptionr
to amend dvOO section of the code, in referetu a
to tiie procurement of crime by white j ersonj.
A iat:-;age was receive*! fiom the Governor
in reference to exiles. It embraced a lelH*r
from the Adjutant General, one from Mayo?
i Collins, of Macon, who had acted as agfcut
! in receiving, the exiles, and a long report
from Quartermaster General Foster, in refer-,
ence to the provision made, and necessai-y t»
be made, for their case. Th.) whole wag refec
red to a enccial committee.
The following resolutions were pas o 1: tr>
establish a mail r.-i’U* from Eiberton to Hart--
wt .||; to allow the diversion of tax m kind cu
soldiers families, the inferior Conrtrpaying j >r
the same.
'ihe following btili were passed: bill lot ■£-