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l>rrti,i:in of Line*-lit ...
Sherman of Ohio, a 1 ■ * . :l i
General, ga- c n't* : •
“He wart in f:-.v or 1. 1, i!-.> V ■. • * I;i
iU lengUi arid lev >dl!t, i .-.j
coup try, even in our
Jlllllci! g ).ill tit ; i- ■ | .II
tury allusion to (Jan. :-'V: :1
tin in heartily. JIo l.ni i ;.• m ,
ini'n and his !i: ■ v ■ ■. ,
wan a groat g<-n:'i;d i: : . ...,
Itnt 'there we !'• ; <!
noblo and patriot: • . V ■!• <u
pend for liouar i'.ikl : ,
lioy. Wodi-poniiiil io.i i . .m ,
down trodden iv. •. .. !'i m v n't.. • i
cure their I , . no
nUvo-\ bat if there v/ei” (<*'»» • id ■
be those who hail
try. .Jyl the eye;.: m . .ii; . In
believed Ibat the «■ i.u;,l m c:.i. ’i n
public debt-and all . ■ u wonStl
disappear. The hibur s' i'.* . ;f. >
iiii'ii would pay «mi iff lit. jheir a would
onftlfcp till! Moni'oi! do : , il;.' ill |. I .no.
A key ia here furni.d.cd In ■ ■ of C>»:
Abolitionist:! in rofci'i a-e to the m , i.. of the
Houtb. Republican fr-:-’.-U.!H is'.. 1, . st-. ■. r.-,l
to them, hut their labor Dto p ■ v.- dobt
wbijli lam 010 ia i: -.ubijf, nbvditidi
saints will not touch tl.at <• . . : V vitii
lb uiiu li
burl lien ia io bo la-te* ;il in ,n the te-cte? of
tlm negroes,'ike ■ dd- , : of ; r < ..iniaii
ill ropy. Their toil and snuat. mu-.: p -.y jj. ..
They arc to be Imui-It rre<J fu ; , , tl t . v . n .
or.f to Yankio lasUiii.i.i.eis, k )m are to work
them for their own emoin n.-m.--d l!v • r,
ment of Uh» vast national iv.bl of l!u> K-.ifh.
Goil lielp lliorpoor nr; io, i; 1,.* ~h..u!d ■ vor
Como under nu b nib: if in- should in-cair-e
the yictimi.l abo'iib'n i ■ h v ..,
be no limit to ils c..:!; :i' ii , m;d no mercy ia
its tyranny. ,
JBnt tlnj view : of the :di. • to til®
use to be made of the o- . ■ • v. ;i '■
sht» monopoly of it. ir
«lv. •ment of fimii iie\, i 'tiu i ieot,
»iso, to their «*ui j;:.'j m. ;l as i’s ii ioie-o:s for
the arcotupli ' I- . e >,.! .1 : :
nnibilion cheiii.h'."! by ti.eia «V. :■ •. r.-.;. i;
lauthrop’Hte. They are :<> . , . !■ an
doetiino in Inline, ’i'i.' .- ; (■> . . .. ij...
ftfißy of inva lion wiiich
drive Maximilian iVoni If ; J
lish Yunkce euprcmc.-y ev r \\\ •••...
tinent. These dear ft'.-; .!.•• if i! • r
laid out a It.; job for ii'n I'd, . . and
t heir labor and lie idle !■>. :•
realms for them; and raf-■ enJiie: ii ;
the cnfwc:ilel phut tali- : if if ~. .
ora. They think tliey • ..-.i. • mtn h
■wifrl; but of him for tin* i:u .and. : > ■ : t .| :
making him their U-n :.-u,.i:i. )!-• m. , I th !
sweat and bleed Io ;d‘e l l.is . . •;,» ■
must both cultivate th - -d . 11,<■ :
bnt'les of his new ma-iei : I . i a :
debts, till their putse .c ad u ■ ■ . : v i!
Ity the lime these it- *.li.■: •ee a. i.m ate t
done with him, lliere wo! !■• I ... ’ o.;.
left. They demand
sweat, but. also Ins bi .•
But tilt* willt«‘
to be made tho si »vt*
querors of a contin-.-ni. 'i . i-, pi.'.i.
authrcpie Miecmutt, t -vl- ■ . v ,| („
k!.i7ciy. li i . iio! !!..• ! '.-,,
* chiving tin' li'pi 1 I I
it would bo ikvidfu iv : .
bate and tut |>l<l i:v !.• .
hud childun ol i'i .f. era
lo pick .cotton, or diud-. >i f i.i;. *
for Nor! horn n il.' ! .
Iliit Ihtiwi is no i’.i . 'T i , u'jimation
of these schemes a . .ie. ! I -U | . v , ■ . 1,. an,.l
black races of tin* !>. . .i
-a disiuii .when in . . p. ,
abolitionist* to eng >;« in the • ■; • j s
avowed by Senator S:>. no m. >■ nld luvo
his beaicr;; rely l.ir •' : p ,»
lirnvo soldier boy inv.-' ' -ra t ...
Ireland, and t.h<> sold; r .-• : ... <\ t
race, but net on IT . ... ; ,
in tho l<wk ground, o . i 1,. .... . it,
Um f m Hi Bad 1
quered bj pi ■
not bo let onton contra.. , U\ • bvi-d-n.'
of a railroad.
- A Wofsor;.linn «i.v . ' ~T;ra
truth of this old maxim \ • 1.1
by Ibo course ot our vote:e.p • •>:> j.
ter. A few days sine 'w e in. s. :
about administration iavoii c* r .
plaocs. while those o- ■ • . :
tion wore compelled to p> into : ■ <iy. ilo
remark was ini- ml. >1 f. :• r.-> 1 '. ■ /.
But some people have reel! til to q.i; to
themselves. Well. t' . : Gray t.iti,
wear iti We care not w’ > psts it on. What
WO stated was cone A- 1 : f er a be pro
duced to prove the truth of < a er id s.
Our c ‘temporary says. " V.V have kaown but
one policy in our conduct an a : - journal
ist." True as gospel. The paper ' ad! ut
out policy. And (hat policy . 1
bigoted subservien > i«> . -
istration, whether I’teht • r v.v. • N > !v
criticism upon de.'pctie a ; er t ' .
commendations lm ever p • :o
sec the light, in its columns. "V.'m: .: u.l
« that the king can do c > vrot ■ *>j
persistent in its supper - , a■u- - : w Li. f
adopted would crush eat ter rich- of tic
States and the liberty of; u* eith n tor, i .
The Register undertakes to cover up it, own
shortcomings by claim;eg that tv..» >v . i
the “Chuoxiclb & m m.ni- . an
supporter of Mr. Bivis." This etatetorm is
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 21, 1861.
in iTi*ot. It has no foundation whatever.
V, e have never, during the many years we
• ■'l :n connected with public journals,
e.n the ipportcr of any man. We are not
, “4'rineiples, not men,” always has i«en
• and always will ho our motto. Two years ago
'd. liavl. sioi.d before the people of this Con
le.leraty iu a different position from the one
1. • n-'W occupies. Then lie was the professed
eii. lap nos the rights of the States and the
l ;i -i rty of the citizen. Since that time his nets
prove Ibat be either was insincere in his
la. .ions then, or .has thouglit best lor his
:uatiti -. ment to alter his position. We
a h .to the same principles now we advoca
? 1.0 year- ago. It is Mr. Davis who has
and not us. Wo can prove that our
• has been consistent throughout. Oar
and . i clear one—the assettiors of tbo
r lb tbo contrary noiwitl^landing.
As regards “government pap,” we will
!:i< ivly slate fine lact. Long after Mr. Davis
ah and bis position, tiro columns of this jour
n >! v.f ro iji.-i! by the Government iu which to
■i timir olHcial notices. We were threat
en •'■ >■ ill times with the withdrawal of pub*
! - patronage unless we rhanged our course.
Wo eiways bad hut one reply—“We have
d.lowed government patronage to give
tone in our editorial columns, nor shall we.”
Tlte register Is welcome to all it can make
i's oi its unfounded assaults onus. Our ad
ice to tiiem is to keep their statement some
v.i cn; ftiihia the ban mis of truth if possible.
A.; our eotemporary shows itself to be a
a fry good hand at figures, hero ia a problem
•' it to solve : “ If it takes one practical man
v/k> 'indiastands iiis business to manage an
!• -foil: ive printing office, how many exempt
iua'iagcvs ought there to be on a paper which
’■voi'.lil not keep one practical man employed
more than half Ins lime?”
It, is an old maxim, but not more old than
lit facts are stubborn things.”
A • the poet says—
Lay on, Macduff,” tic.
! ."I't.f'VMKXT py Fkke Nequous anij Slaves to
OX Foutimcatioss.— The following bill
. n i-ied ini act to prov ido for the employment
cf free negroes and slaves to work upon for
lif cations and perform other labors connect
ed with the defences of the country, has been
in fun laccl into the House of I’opresentatives:
“Whereas, Tho efficiency of the army ia at
limes greatly diminished by the withdrawal
from the ranks of soldiers to perform labor
and duties which con a8 well be done by free
upgrocv and slaves.
.• i he Congress of tho Cons; derate States of
■Vmoi .cn do enact, That all free negroes, be
iw. cn tho ages of eighteen and fifty, shall bo
i held fable to perform any laborer discharge
duties with the army or in connection
'•: tir tiro military defences of the country, such
. working upon fortifications, producing and
• r iim.ti-I'MRjn of war, building and re
"i I toads and bridges #od doing other
■v. . : usually <lono by engineer troops and
)•■./.’.h.'Oners, acting as cooks, teamsters, stew
•• ; and waiters in military hospitals, or other
■ - r which may bo required or prescribed by
i cuviary of War or the General conimaud
ic tl-.i Trans Mississippi department from timo
'■ '■ And said free negroes, whilst thus
d-.' iiaU receive rations and ch thing,
' r sucb regulations ns the Secretary of
V . , may presci ibe, and shall receive pay at
■ ’ • a'.ii* or iNghieen dollars per mouth.
■ . i clmii 2. That the Secretary of War tint!
•■; ! commaiuliug the Trans iMisrisippi
,■' •> .ei.'iif .ire oath authorized to employ for
■ . ■« "ike tilt)::..', named in the first section of
j ’ : :: i . ! *s many male negro slaves between
! - < 1 eichlcm and forty livo years, not
■' oU.tUKi, in the States east of the Mis
: : -.i ii er, and 10,000 ill the States west ol
Oi. u a.si.-sippi river, as tho wants of the ser
vu may leijuire. And t by said slaves whilst
: e euipl.iyed shall he furnished rations and
1 ! ‘ihing as provided in tho preceding section,
r. tile owners paid sttcli bile for their services
. - may be agreed upon ; and in the event of
| the less of any slaves whilst so employed by
•u rn act of tiu: enemy or by escape to the ene
mv. of by 'woii:i Is or death indicted by the
■ 0,1. oiy, or by disease contracted whilst in any
•' . i' e r. ipiiivd of said slaves and by reason
■ : aid service, tiiea the owners thereof res*
I- • bail be entitled to receive the full'
' v 1 1! such slaves, to be ascei taiued and fix
' ; ; y igroemeni. a! the time said slaves are so
i■!. under tides to be prescribed by the Sec
retary of War.
Thai whenever the Secretary of
Waiter Uni (tenoral commanding tho Trans-
Mi.'-i-'-ippi dopartment sliail be unable to pro
-1 • th e vict's of slaves by biting-them, as
. , in.n i.lcj, ill sufficient uitmbeis, then it
f.• lawful tor the said Secretary or Gen*
i to (inter the impressment, and to impress
i.i.my male slaves within the ages named
sd tor the pm poses and uses above stated,
ii i any time to exceed thirty thousand in
; dos cast ot the Mississippi river, and ten
' .■'ii >';isitS in tho btates west ot the Mississippi
1 nr- may ho necessary. I‘rovMed, that
1 ;v s so impressed shall, whilst in the Govern
oi c; cii'plo-.awnt, receivetiie same clothing
: 1 ! rations allowed to slaves hired from their
ov-i'ois, and in the event of their loss or death
I be i.cumcr or from the causes above stated,
’ ' no fb,.!;! bo estimated and fixed, as
: loi rb'd by Urn law regulating impressments,
coil jiai.t a * in the case of slaves hired from
i :r oiviiois, and the value of the hire of said
call be fixed in like manner,
i tion 4 That the Secretary War and the
- ' cc, mm:’nding the Trans Mi“sissip[>i de
; ■ .ii shall, in ordering the impressment
;oi >'.«•( icgnlato the same, as faraspraetica
i" tiiat slaves shall be taken from each
■ In propoition io the number liable to im
; .\-,c-nt therein under this net; but not
1 : voo one in ivory five male slaves, with
in the said ages of eighteen and forty-five
y ,s. bal! be taken from anyone owner, if
f.avi ? are employed by said owner or
c uiuiormiy in agricultural or ia me
c : . ici pursuits, nor when an owner lias but
'"'.c mala slave within said ages, shall said
. v > >io impressed, and all impressments un
i ‘■•is act shall, as far as practicable, be ta
in equal ratio from all owners in the same
: viity, ciiy, county ot dist-rbt.
< • lion 5. Duplicate rolls shall be prepared
i I rb tho slaves hired or impressed under this
r. r. which shall contain a description of the
: - .vis, the : ues and residences of the own
turd a statement of the value and rato of
id- e the slaves at tho date they are hired or
i’lt; -!' cscd.one oi-wbicb rolls shall, in the States
th-' Mississippi liver, lx) forwarded to
tary of V. ar. aud in those of the
•i pi river, to the hcr.dipiarters of the
r .‘ mmand ig that depai oiont, and the
t : oil shall be font to the General com
r- and 'aimy_ whore said slaves may be
oyed; and tiie olficcr having charge of
- ives, or of the work upon which they
t-rav K* engaged, shall have a copy of said roil,
rad shall regularly enter thereon the nature
i labor or duties ia which said slaves are
i a ■ ged and any changes which may be made
tkereio, and of the absence, sickness or death
of any of said slaves, and make monthly re
tc. ’s tbi-reot to the General commanding the
army where cud slaves are emoloyrd, ivho
eh-dl transmit the same to the Secretary of
War, or to tee coruur.mJirg General in the
! Trans-Mississippi department, as the case mav
be.
“Section G. That ail laws, or pails of laws,
providing for the hiring or impressment of
slaves, be and the same are hereby repealed,
except so far as they may provide for regulat
ing and fixing, in case of impressment, the val
ue of said slaves or the value of their seiv
ices.”
ItAINO STHIOKS TOW UUSS \ IMtM’OTISJD
[From Columbus Times.]
Tlie task imposed on the Administration of
defending the liberties of .the 'Confederacy de
mands all the energies of a great, mind. Tue
people should be indulgent of errors commit:
ted and lend a heaty co operation to all the
efforts of those iu power which in any wav
tend to (lit* litafnh'nam a of ‘'Uoiistilulfoual
LUje.rty;” but this fai t f.houid oci’ i i.c
sight of ibat the source of power is in the peo
ple, and that our rulers for the lime being are
but public servants, to whom political power is
temporarily delegated. There is, thereloro,
oee sacrifice which ought not to be made, even
to defend ourselves from the threatened oppres
sion o's a foreign tj rant. We should never so
far surrender our power? into the hands ol
any public servant as to leave the restoration
of these powers dependent upon the volition .
of the political agent to whom they have been
temporarily 'delegate and. Whenever we do thls>
our liberty depends not upon ourselves, but
upon tlio.se who, elected ; oor rcrvnnfs, have,
by our want of vvalchfuiiuvs,.become our mas
ters.
These propositions are so self evident, that
but four years sines to have discussed them
would have been to insult tho understanding
of a people, educated as we have been, to guard
vigilently our personal rights; yet, in this
short space of time, the plea of necessity has
undone the teachings of a life time, and hour
by hour we see the dearest rights of freemen
surrendered without a struggle. Tho political
vision is fixed in one direct ion. We see noth
ing bi t the inroads of our foreign ibe, and are
insensible to the dangerous homo legislation
by which every guard and protection to thy
citizen it; being swept away.
As public journalists, we feel bound to point
out to our readeig the gradual absorption of
all power in tho hands of the Government, and
leave thorn to determine whether they will let
tiip future depend upon the voluntary aban
donment of these dangerous functions when
the crisis now impending shall have passed
away.
We are led to these remarks by a bill lo re
organize the army, which proposes to abolish
the provisional army and make tbo present
forces of the Confederate States f'uo regular
army, giving to the President tho power of
appointment and dismisal of every oliicer in
the present organization. This proposition
fraught With danger, as we believe it to be,
seems to have passed unmolested by the press
of the country. We do not know how to ac
count for this, unless it pi ay be iu fact that the
Press is absorbed in contemplating the blow
aimed at its own freedom, that it has failed to
warn the public of this wholesale ’aggression
upon individual and State lights.
The danger to all republics has freftu time
immemorial repos«d iu a censorship of the
Press and a large standing army. When these
two elements of power aro controlled by tho
government, it becomes- all powerful. Ine
eye cannot sen except as its vision is directed
by the Government ami the tongue cannot
speak except in such language as the Govern
ment dictates, and tho hand cannot strike ex
cept against suCh for as the Government may
direct it—no matter what usurpation it may be
guilty of or what oppression it may commit,
it is secure iu the exeic-ise of its powers, be
cause there is nc strength left la the governed
with which to resist, and all the rights of the
citizen carefully guarded by written constitu
tions and a Government of checks and bal
ances cease to be rights which freemen can
maintain and become favois to be dispensed or
withheld at the will of the Government.
L«t Congress pass a bill leaving it to mili
tary discretion to detail the editors who shall
conduct the press of the country, and I hough
its columns criticise the action of the Govern-
Theut, and human nature has been stmtied lo
but little effect if the details wore not soon
confined to men whose pons would often praise
aud never censure. The Government believ
ing its policy the wisest that could be adopted,
would at once remove any editor whose arti
cles wore calculated to weaken the Govern
ment in the affections of tho people In tho
course of time the press would'become the de
fender of any act of the Administration, -and
the people, hearing only its praise, would lose
their liberties while resting under tho fatal de
lusion l-bat they wore best maintained, lint
suppose tho power of the press not yet abridged
should "be too strong for th~ Government,-and
this effort to 0 ake the editor:, of the country
dependeht upon Executive favor, should fail;
suppose its freedom unabiidgod, its vigilance
unceasing, and its warnings of approaching
danger promulgated through its columns from
one end o( the Gciufedtracy to tho other! Os
wli it, avail would be its vigilance nr warnings,
if tiie entire arms-bcari’ig population of the
country is enrolled ia the regular army, under
officers of the I’resident's ap; ointment, suiiject
to dismissal upon incurring the President's
censure. None, none, whatever.
No one who has been in the army but knows
bow powerless ils material is for action except
In ite organisations, and how completely ils
organizations arc continued by its officers.—
As at present organiz'd it is not under the
control ot the President, except for the - legiti
mate purposes ot its formation, because many
ot Urn officers are elective- 1 heir powei is not
derived from the President; and even with those
who are appointed, tho army being provisona!
and temporary, they lool» beyond the present
to its future dissolution, amt foot tfiat, there is
a responsibility eventually to a higher than
Executive power. This leaves it as yet a
thinking body, and not a mere niarchi.u-f to be
directed by the Executive as it w -tud become
the moment it become a regular at my. and tho
officers as well as the duration, of office do-,
pended upon the Executive will, that m nined
as an orgauiza 5 ->li it woitkl c ;■ e to he the
bulwark of Liberty and woo'd become a great
power to be used as the Executive might de
termine. to be for the best interests of the coun
try. His mind, bis ink, his ambition, would
all-have free play, and the end. whether D.-s
--pofisui or Freedom, would be ia bis hand, and
not as the people willed it.
All might turn out well, but the delegation
of all power by the people without the means
of resuming pewers when abused, it a trust
wtnch ought never to:be reposed by a free
people ia any man oanct of men however pure
and exalted their lives nyiy have, been, and
therefore we feel, that we do no violence to
the respect which we owe and fee! lor the
I resident, nor to tho confidence we have in
patrotism, when we urge upon Congress not
wn P ° al | le .J. rovL ' iouul Organization and
but and upon it the Army of the Confederate
btates, embracing nearly the whole arms
benrteg population, converting the free people
ot this country into a great machine to be gov
erned by engineers over whose appointment
they have no control.
“Wias Grass” Fourth Georgia Cavalry
Annexed are the casualties in the “wire graes”
Fourth Georgia cavalry i n the fight on the
Macon and Clinton Road :
Troop A. Lt W Sarvis. command I '’"-
Wounded : Lieut VTJarvis, tings. (
nett, thigh; l'riva’e C Joyner, band' yf
Privates Jas Bennett, Nobles and Howard. ‘
Troop I>. Lt J Kudo lul i, cotnmau'Mn-
Killed ; Privates Southwell and
Wounded: Sergt John iloizet dorf, shoulder
Missing ; Ihrivatc Elbert Alkn.
.V H I tlEiijV a bus.
Northern iv," - s*y that great frauds have
boon discovered in printing the bills of the
kite Louisiana Ab hum Convention ami the
matter is being overhauled. Governor Hahn
is accused of know ,g too much of the uuAir.
Tiie Yankee navy, us we learn from a New
Voik wiper, numbers nt present five bundled
and iiity-cight sh 1 * vesseii. with an aggregate
tonnage of 44)0,066 Ot thi-* tmtnlter two hun
dred have been biult. The rest have been re
constructed. Tliis di*os not include the sailing
vessels.
I!. Groenleaf, r i eminent mathemilician,
and whom our sil.i->1 boys know very well
died at Bradford tM.ies ,) a low days ago. IDs
age was seventy-eii; t.
The wheat crop -■•ar of Minnesota is said
!•> l>e at iy o i>u l'Uthels more than
»* rvAS' !«s;i year.
•* N -Ihen- |'-i,.«'rtiTfen th-\t ties year more
than seventy ni"- .'h, isr.nd trees, snrubs and
h>‘ibaceoiis p!.".u:s !. i-.-t* t*.-<*-j ,-et out iu Central
Park of New -Vo; k r:!y.
Gen. Price destroyed th« Iron Mountain and
Pacific railroads, lie burned 3,837 l'eet of
railroad bride.-:. besides ears, engines, water
tanks. depots, niachlii,! shaps. stationary en
gines, &c., Ac.
Gen. Dana, I"; d'er.d commander at. Vicks
hurg, has ordered lb: I. alt grey (doth atnj all
cotton cards on hand, or in possession ol any j
present or former trader « .(.Idn his district, be j
iinmed'aiidy sent Not th above Cairo. Ail such
articles will be eonliscatid and the owner pun
istied by lino and imp, isonmeut. •
Eighteen millions of new cenis and six mill
ions of two cant pieecs hayo been coined by
the Federal mint within (he-lust two months.
Mrs. Sarah has been convicted by
a military commission at Balt moie of having
sent arms from the North to-the Maryland rebel
guerilla chief, Harry Gilmor, and sentenc.d (o
imprisonment for five years. Her case attracts
much attention and interest in Baltimore, and
strong efforts are being made by her.friends to
procure a mitigation of her punishment.
Negro troops am now stationed nt all the
principal towns between Louisville and Hen*
dor son, Ky.
The amount of interest on tho UnPril Shit ?
bonds falling due in January ?s $!),206,000,
and deducting tbo interest on the register! ;1
•bonds, the coupons now paid by anticipation
Will amount, it is repmhd, to about $7 006 -
006. * ’ ’
Chicago has just completed a now r->nsui—
total, 160,353, against 100,26.6 in 1860. Total
valuation of property, $48,732,782, against
$37,053,512 in 1860. ’ ’ s
ihe yacht Vision, which left New York for
Europe live months ago, with only two men
and a dog ou board, him not neon heard from,
and probably lies gone to the bottom.
Some of tbo Michigan farmers have been ma
king.rosin from their while pine trees. Tho
rosin is saul to' be of excellent quality and thev
think they can make it prelilanle.
Tho doubU end or gunboat Tawny wont
f shore off Gape Hatteias, North Carolina a few
fia> s ago and had not been ideas: 1 from her
perilous position when last heard from.
A girl of sixteen, convicted in St. Loins of
repeak 1 violatin' of Mm oath of allegiance,
of carrying con .aland ctjetos across, our
lines, and of being a spy. has had h-.r sentence
which was death, crnitmu'jd by General Res:
dans h'Uuprisoijiru py-iiimrr tins war.
The banking f-irm.mfs oi Vicksburg
have been closed by order irom th», GiHerat
Treasury Agont, Uo'.cuel Win. l\ Milieu who
decides that umler tin law oi .Conuru s such
institutions are not permitted iu insurrectiou
ary States. ,
At Bui't’s Armory,;!! Windsor Locks, Conn
a steel chip w:> . recently turned from’ a gun
barrel, of English sttei, that measured in the
“crook” two bundrol »nd fifty- vi.n feet, amt
when straightened tbrje hundred and forty
two foot, which is wi.hiiui a parallel in the his
tory of steel,turning
Tiie statement is roide in tinCNcw Voile
Herald Urn* private letters from New Orleans,
received by the lasi i.j-atucr, stab .I that the
innnctise .jumiltiies (Tcotton stored in the in
terior iJ Texas, and yhieh Banka failed lo
leach last spring, Msi Yaputlv beiue; sent ovr
tho border into Mexi y. where ii, w.ut bought
up by Amctican and iuropenn sp< culutors at
comparatively small igtircs; ami that the Con
federate mill .ry autiilrities did not attempt
to import any reslaaiit.
Frauds, to the ext.ait of one niillioii dollars,
have beau discovered in the t’hiiad'lphiii. na
vy-yanl.
Rev. Arthur (,'i:.'.'e!:Tid Coxe, 1). D.,'Episcopal
Bishop of VWsleru Ifevv Y'otk, preached a ser
mon in Brooklyn a f -.v days since, in which lie
proposed a union ofjtfpk-.eopalians, Presbyteri
ans, Methodists, Mtravians, imuM ol'*or .sects,
on the basis of the Jicene creed.
There hue ten daiy aud twenty- seven-week
ly newspaneis in Alabama, exempting Kid em
ployees.
Gen. Ranks oas 1 .f-n ordercil to resume com
maud of the I *ep:n , ii(eot of tho Gulf, as mbor
ordinate to Ucti ( 'aili.y.
r llu Concord Nev I lamj.shire Monitor leaics
that m som ■ ol Iheiovsus in that county snow
drifted in piles of sx and eight feet deep on
Sunday, Nov. l.i ir tin ! flint poisons in getting
their young cattle nun out lying pastures Ilia
IVedneaday loljgiv ng had lo iirtuk paths in
some places to get through. *
Northern papers st. ato that it. is now reduced
to a certainly that 1-etwein now and the meet
ing ol the Supreme Court, oh I he. first, Monday
in December, Mr. Wanton is to lie appointed to
the vacant Chief Justiceship, and Major G<*n;
Butler brought Into He; War Ikyari.nieiit. ’l ife
choice was hetween Gen. RiUler and Governor
B’OUgh, of Ohio; i;; U:e iiilfev was dropped
on account of Gov. lhuiir-on being already in
the new cabinet.
Among thorn who have resigned their com
mirsions in the Yankee array are Major Gen.
John A MnClernand, Brig. Gen. E. A. lhiync
and Brig. Gen. Neal Dow.
Yankee papers slate that a formidable move
ment is on foot for tin purpose, of crossing
over the Mississsppi a large portion of Mac ru
der'a army to reinforce Hoof. A consi lewble
for. 3of the Confederates are reported to be
on this side of the river operating with them.
The intended crossing point is said to be ia the
neighborhood of Herman.
Mollie Hayes, a noted female rebel spy, of
Forrest’s command, who wes captured six
months ago, has been sent to tire Akop, Illi
nois prison.
The Lincoln government having appointed
agents to go through Kentucky as.l buy all
surplus hogs at eight cents per pound, deliv
ered in Louisville, aud at the same time issued
orders prohibiting any railroad or steamboat
from taking bogs out ot the State, some of the
people are very iduGi excited. Th-' hog raisers
complain that th-.y cannot ‘lake advantage of
the increased prices row offered in neign bor
ing States, and consumers are apprehensive of
coming scarcity. The old polk packers are al
so exceedingly wratby, as no others in Louis
ville are permitted to pack this tall except the
authorized agents established in a govern
ment packing-house. _
Martial law Baa been proclaimed in eighteen (
districts of the Austrian provinces of Friuli
and Treviso. Sentinels and patrols received
orders to fire upon ail assemblages wh'cfc, once
summoned to disperse, fail to give an insiaut
obedience.
Robert J. TCaiker, one-’ honored a? a South
ern man, and Secretary of the U. S. Treasury,
Is now spoken of as most likely to he appointed
to the shine office under Lincoln.
A.n American citizen named Murphy bad
been arrested in Ireland, charged with being
j engaged ia recruiting lor the United States
army.
VOL, LXXVIII. —NEW SERIES VOL. XXVIII NO. 51
vom it IvHV AEWB.
The citizens of Lowell, Mass., Lave pur
chased a sword for Gen. Butler, at a cost of
seven hundred dollars.
Bu ll gold diggings have been discovered ou
Leech river, twenty or twenty live miles from
\ icknia, Vancouver’s Island In October last,
a party prospecting along the river, fc«ml a
nugget of very pure gold of the value of about
seventy-three* dollars. This threw the whole
community into an excitement, and everybody
went to Tvork staking out claims. Four com
panies were formed and sot to work immedi
ately '1 he nugget was found between 10 and
11 O’clock, ami by 4p. nr., seventeen claims
wen: recorded oil the commissioners books.
An actor, now a member of a Pennsylvania
regiment near Richmond, bus written to his
friends telling t hem that, his officers promise to
let him have the lease of the Richmond thea
tre as soon as Uu- Federal army takes that citv.-
'1 he total vote of New York Slate, in I’m* late
election, was about seven hundred and 'thirty
thousand-about fifty thousand more than the
vote cast ia JB6O. The Union majority on the
Presidential electoral ticket is about seven
thousand, and Mr. Fenton is elected Governor
by a majority of over eight thousand.
if is generally understood that Ex Gov.
Hicks, ot Maryland, is soon to resign his seat
in the Senate; and Hon. Montgomery Blair is
to be liis successor.
A late California letter says it is a mistake
to suppose that California's mining days are
past. On the contrary, the mining interests is
just now fairly developed. The placor, or
surface diggings are pretty well exhausted,
But the mass of Gold lies low, in the beds of
quartz, cement or gravel; anil these are now
yielding as well or better than ever before,
One company at. Grass Valley recently, after
a two \. ..ek’s run of the crushing mills, “clean
ed np” the hansome sum of $2(1.000, and oth
er companies are turning out from sixty -to a
hundred thousand dollars a week.
Brig. Gen. Scully dispatches to tho Federal
government giving a very satisfactory condi
tion of Indian affairs in tho northwest, lie
thinks that Indian agents are expensive, and
not promolive of peace among the tribes. A
few friendly Indians put in such re
garded as means of establishing peace,
Massachusetts is in trouble. Her importa
tions of Swedes, Poles. Germans, Hungarians,
lie., by tho cargo, to fill her quotas under the
various recent calls for troops, have turned
out badly, and tho War Department is think
ing of refusing to give her credit for the scum
thus foisted upon tho public servioe. The fact
is that nearly all these imported mercenaries
have deserted to the enemy, under the liberal
terms of General Lee’s proclamation, and that
such as have yet been unable to desert are ut
terly unable or unwilling to fight. In a recent
ease in the rifle pits before Petersburg, they
dropped their arms and lay down flat on their
bellies ia the trench, while a charging column
of Confederates swept over them, carrying all
that were in the party back to Petersburg as
prisoners. _ They plead in excuse that they
know nothing of our quar rel, mid have no Jn
terosi in it; that they were hired in Europe
for peaceful and non belligerent labors on
raih otids, canals, &c , and that ffiev have been
Utterly swindled and cheated in she manner of
their being induced to enter the service.
Washington dispatches state that it is Very
probable that the usual mouthly statement of
labile financial affairs will not be for lb nomine
this month. It ft known that the statement
would not be a favorable one, as the Secreta
ly has been depending for weeks on the sub
scriptions to tbo se.veu thirty loan and re
ceipts for taxes. As soon as time can be found
to arrange for anew loan, which will be done
probably next Week, tlie loan will be put out,
and at the end of December a much bettor ex
hibit of tho condition of the Treasury can be
made than at present. •
La llenaisatico “Louisianaiso,” is the title
ol a paper published in New Orleans. It is the
organ ol the French—American population of
the South and is as intensely southern as any
paper in tho Confederacy. Os course, it will
shortly be suppressed.
M. Marionneaux, elected during his absence
from home to represent the Parish of Iberville,
La ,in the Yankee Legislature, does not con
sider Limsell honored thereby, ami lias refused
to serve.
At, latest dates from the North the navy de
partment denied the truth of the repolt that
the Tallahassee had escaped from Wilmington,
mi l asserted (hut the late demonstrations on
the coast were made by either the Con federate
steamer Ghfckamauga or the Chester.
GOV BH.CWVS I7.VDKLIVKIIKD MK3SAUE.
[From Columbus Sun.]
The undelivered message of Governor Brown
should he read attentively by every true man*
in the Confederate Stales.
Every attempt to establish a Despotism, in
modern times, has been preceded by encroach
ments upon the freedom of the I’cess Eliza
beth found it necessary in order lo maimtain
her usurped prerogatives to establish .a cen
sorship over the Press. Tire fires (tins kind
led burst into terrible conflagration a few
years after the close of her reign, and laid the
foundation for the Revolution of IGBB. (diar
ies X tried to muzzle the Press preliminarily
lo bis attempt at despotism in 18!!i). Louis
Phillipe indicated his disposition to overthrow
the liberties of his country by an attempt to
aCridge the freedom of the Privy. Louis Nap
oleon muzzled tile Press before ho suppressed
civil liberty: lii all countries, the suppres
sion of the freedom of the Press has been the
inevitable precursor of Despotism; ‘‘it is the
rattle of the serpent bn fore hit deadly spring.”
The picket guard must bo surprised beiore
tiie “sleeping army can he slaughtered.”
By '.ho Acts of Congress already recorded,.
the military organization of tho States havs
been virtually destroyed, and the creators are
mere dependencies upon their creature. The
Central Government has levied a tax upon per
sonal property upon the citizens of the States,
lt has even taxed slavery in the States, and
now asks power to abolish slavery in the
States. It has compelled holders of ils own
paper money to fund it or lose one third. It
has seized the railroads and many of tiie pub
lie buildings in the States. It has established
a system of impressments at its osvn priec3 in
its own paper credit. It has forbidden the
importation of luxuries. It has established a
monopoly of the exports of Hie great staple
of the country. It has introduced Ike Euro
pean system of passports. It has suspended
the privilege ol the writ of habeas corpus, and
superceded civil tribunals with drum head
courts martial. Only the freedom of the Tress
remains.
Tostal Communication with the Coxfeder
ati: States.— Mr. Crudwick. of Manchester,
has received the following reply to a letter he
recently addressed to the British Postmaster
General:
ficNERAi, Postoffice, 'October 18, 1364.
Fin—The Postmaster General has had under
his consideration your letter of the 7th instant,
i.u which on behalf of the Government of the
Confederate States «f America, you inquire
► whether correspondence addressed to tboso
States will he forwarded by this department to
!V rnmda, or Nassau, or Halifax, where agents
are about to he appointed by the Postmaster
General of the Confederate States. In reply
I -.m directed to. acquaint you that his Lord
ship must decline to enter into the proposed
ai rar.gement. or to dispatch any corresnon
iien. e contrary to its address. At the isme
time 1 am to observe that the public can, of
Co! us'-*, if they think proper, direct letters for
the r tates referred to, under cover, to agents
in Bermuda, Nassau or Halifax. I am. &c.
i F. Hill.
Os PICUL ORtIERS,
I PUBLISHED FOR TUE BENEFIT OF
THE COMMUNITY.
.Treasury Department O. S. A., )
Richmond, Nov. 28, 1864. )
Tire holders and owners of Coupon Bonds
and Certificates of Stock, issued under the Act
ol August JOlh, 1861, redeemable alter the
first days of January and July, 1861, are here
by notified to present the sans? for payment,
to the Treasurer, one of the Assistant Tieusur
ers or a Pay Depositary of the Confederate
States, funds having been placed in tbo hands
of tbo-m officers for the purpose of redeeming
saiil Bonds and Stock. No interest will be al
lowed thereon after January Ist, 1865.
G. A. Tkenuoi.m, '
, Secretary of tlio Treasury.
’Treasury Departmcnt, [
_ Richmond, Va,, Nov. 28,-1861. j
Notice is hereby given to hohU-is and own
ers ol Certificates of Stock anil Coupon Bonds,
issued under the Act of August 111, IStil, re
deemable after the Ist day of January, 1865.
to present the same for payment on the 2d day
of January next, or at any time thereafter, to
tho Treasurer 0.5., one of ibe Assistant, Treas
urers C. S., or a Pay Depositary of the 0»n
--federatfc States, funds having been placed in
the hands ol said agents for tlie purpose of re
deeming such Stock and Coupon Bonds. No
interest will be allowed on such Stock and
Coupon Bonds after January 1,1865.
G. A. 'IrtFYIIOI '!,
Secretary of Treasury.
Tiwasci!y "Departm ex r, {
Richmond, December 7,1804. j
Tq holders of five per cent, call certificates.
Attention is respectfully called to the provi
sions of tho !)th section of-tlie act of Congress,
entitled “An act to reduco the currency,”
&c., approved February 17, 1864, which di
Clares that all call certificates shall bo lunda
able, and shall be taxed in all respects, as is
provided for the Treasury notes into which
they are convprtable.
The 4th section of said act imposes a tux of
one bandied per cent, on the Treasury notes
represented by said live per cent, call certili
caGs, which shall remain outstanding on the
Ist day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty
five. C. A. Tbbxiiolm.
FiIO.VI ATLANTA.
A correspondent ot tlie Register in a letter
from Atlanta gives the annexed news:
Col. L. J. Glenn lias arrived hero to lake
command of the post, and a company of caval
ry hrs been sent to him to report lor duty.
From the best information I can get there
have been from llft.y io three hundred wagons
per day In Atlanta, since the Federal.-? left,
hauling off iron, furniture, wagons, window
blinds,door locks, books, lumber, &c., amount
ing to about fifteen bundled wagon loads.
They come from fifty to one hundred miles in
eveiy direction. They broke open all the
houses that were left, including the churches
in which the exilo-’s furniture was stored, and
plundered indiscriminately.
Nearly the whole city is in ruins. But few
houses have been left*. The Masonic Hall is
standing. The Medical College was saved. The
African church is standing but all cut to pieces
with axes. All tho hotels were destroyed-ex
cept tho Gate City Hotel.
All the business houses aro burned except
liUiiili’ii Ciinioc iiiid I'iioliitl,: building, oppo
site the Express Cilice and block, Masonic
Hall building, and Col. Z. A. llice’s house on
Lloyd street.
The City Hall ts standing. The jail and cal
aboose are burned.
Wesley Chapel and Trinity, tlio First and
Second Baptist, First and Second Presbyterian,
and Catholic Churches are standing. The
First Episcopal Church is Standing, but .badly
damaged. The Yankees used it, 1 have' been
told, for a ten pin alley.
Sherman ran a line from Walton Springs
south, one house below Judge Clayton’s on
Marietta street, by the mineral spring, to Mr.
’Thomas Scrutchen’s, then east by the old
While Hall, crossing on the Macon road to the
Protestant Church, thence east to Col. L. J.
Glenn’s, and nearly every boost; outside of the
line is destroyed.
About two-thirds of the houses inside the
line are also destroyed.
Tho Cemetery fence is all destroyed. The
Yankees have buried their dead all over the
city, and have taken the fence from around
tlie Cemetery to build some separate lots for
themselves. They have put their dead in pri
vate vaults, and have stolen tomb stones from
Mr. Oalman’s marble yard to put at, llieii
heads. They have taken the moss and shrub
bery from other graves to cover the graves
of their dead. And have robbed our dead in
the vaults ot tlie silver coffin plates to make
linger rings.
Another Decision ev the Tax Commissioner.
—IIon.T. Allan, commissioner of taxes, his.
made another decision in regard to taxes, which
especially interests planters. Here it, is:
Office Commissioner of Ta xes, )
Richmond, Dec. 2, 1864. )
Jos. D, Pope, Esq., State Collector, Columbia,
S C.
Kir: Your letter, of 11th ultimo, was received
some days ago, and submitted tO'theSecretary
of the Treasury, in my letter accompanying
yours, 1 expressed my as follows, to wit:
‘‘J have the honor to submit a letter from Mr.
Pope, and to ask your instructions. My own
opinion is that, a farmer will have no right to
a erdit upon the ad valorem tax upon his
property in one District, by the value of the
tithe produced on another and separate plan
taiion in anpther District. Paragraph I,Section
i, Act ot 14th of June, says: ‘From - tho tax
on the value of property employed in agricul
ture, shall bo deducted the value of tho tax
in kind derived therefrom.’ The Value of the
tax in kind derived from plantation No. 1
may lawfully be credited upon the amount of
tax assessed upon that plantation and oilier
property employed in its culture, because, ac
cording to the language of the Act, it is de
rived therefrom. But no part o! it is derived
from plantation No. 2, aud tiie other property
employed on it*and no part of it can be err 1-
ited upon the ad valorem tax cn No.' 1, and
vice versa. Therefore,}to take the case put fey
Mr. Pope. A has agricultural property in two
Districts, and has made separate return in
each District. Ju one District, the tithe runs
very far over the ad valorem tax, and in the
other it falls short. In the first erse, Ire can
receive no credit beyond five per :ent., and
consequently one caned:, the other, and there
will be no ad valorem tax to pay in that Dis
trict. But in the other, where the v.-lue of
the tithe falls short. Mr. Pope thinks there
should be a credit allowed for tho surplus tithe
in the first named D.sfrict. I think not, and I
think it would be contrary to the intention o)
the law to allow it. Therefore, in tho second
case, the farmer inud pay a money tax ujam
the surplus, after deducting tho value of the
tithe.”
These views are approved by the Secretary
of the Treasury, and I am directed by him to
communicate He same to you. Very respect
fully, your obedient servant,
T. Allan, Commissioner.
Lieutenant General Scott, in present‘ng
his “Autobiography” to Lieutonant General
Grant, styled himself the oldest General in <he
world; hut General Frosney, of the French
army, in said to be aged one hundred and < ix.
lie is blind but otherwise bright, and reluins
his commission.
The new lort for the defence of New Haven
harbor is being pushed forward with great ra
pidity. When finished, it is t» mount eighteen
guns of large^aiibra,
TSIE S*EAt KiAJ'.B ItHSs?
TUE OORRESI'ONIIEXU!- UWTWEK.N SEWARD AND THE
lIKAKFA! OF THE ADDRESS.
Washington, I) C , Nov. 26. ISC4.
Ihm. IF. // S'icard, .'vO'itirj of Slate, d'e <l'v :
Hon Sir : 1 beg to inform you that I have
been deputed to convey to this country an ad -
dress from tbc people of Great. Britain end Ire
land to the United Eta oi of America. ’The
addrees was presented to Governor Seymoui
lor him to pu-.ieni, through t he pr< per channel.
I was requested by him to convey it to the Presi
dent of tho United Stales, as the authorized
channel of communication between the people,
of other nations and'tho people of tbo United
States of America. May I'lhorefore, ask the
honor of an opportunity lor so doing, lam,
honorable sir, youm miv ! obediently.
Joseph Parker.
■Defautmunt of State, (
Wa-hington, Nov. 20, 1864. J
To 'havpi.- Parker. I! bs/ihir/fon. J>. t. :
Sir . 5 onr ieiit-t of tow dare, staling that
you are the bearer ol an address from t tie people
of Great Britain and Ireland to the U. States lias
been received. Before answering the question
which your letter contains, it ir- desirable to bo
further informed whether you have authority
from the Government, of Gn at Britain and Be
hind for the purpose referred 10, and whether
your mission Inis been made known to the di
ploraatie agent ot that Government credited to
tho Government ot the United States.
! am, sir, your very obedient servant,
Wm. 11. Pewaud.
Wasuinc.liin, D. 0. Nov. 26, 1864.
Hon.W. 11. Seward, Secretary ol State, .So. die:
Hon. Sir : -In reply to your letter of to-day,
peimit mo to stale that the ■ address which 1
have the honor of Being deputed by the par
ties signing it to bring to ;;ds country, and
containing tlio signatures ol Some three hun
dred and fifty thousand of my countrymen—*
from the peer to I tie artisan- is not from the
Government of Great ilrilian nor from anv
political party, li is simply an expression ol
the earnest doire ol (he masses of the people
ol Great Britain to see peace again restored to
this continent.
Waiting your favor, lam, lion. f!r, yours,
most obediently, Joseph Parker.
Department of State, I
Washington. Nov. 26,1804.' )’
To Joseph Parker, JZq., Metropolitan Hold:
Sir— The Government oi the United States
cannot rtice ve the address which war. mention
ed in your notes of tlii:? rimming. Your re
quest for an-interview with the President to
present the address i.s Uu refore declined.
I Urn, sir, your obedient servant,
Wm H. Seward.
—MZSir
South Carolina and tub Coni-'fioeuatr Gov •
eunment. - The following resolutions havo
been introduced into the Carolina Legislature
by lion. It. 15. Ehett,' Jr :
Resolved, That South Carolina, after many
conservative, efforts,. having sec? ded from the
United States, to avoid tho degradation and
rum of passing under the dominion of a Gov
ernment hostile to the Tights and interests of
her people, and having bieu forced, with her
confederates, into war, is dcU-rmiiiLil, with tlie
help of God, to fight it cut to tho accomplish
ment of a peace, of cnliro Indupendvuco for
these Confederate .States.
Resolved, That the. so .'.i <-i---. ■•-talcs com no? -
ifig the Cdnfedeiaey of the Cum (crate Stati n
are not amenable ito the Government of the
Confederate Status for (heir existence; and
that any laws passed by Congress consenting
their office vs into (be army ot tlie ConieJerate
States, whereby the ordinary operations of tbo
State Governments may be disturb'd or arrest
ed, arp lDgraul usurpations, to which tho
States should not submit.
Resolved, That by the terms of tho Const!•
tut ion ol the Ooidedeiate 8. i tea, Congress “can
make no law abridging the freedom of the
press,” and thereby ail legislation by Congress
bearing upon either the inateiint of the press
or the persons conducting it, by which its free
dom i.s abridged, is Hnir..‘iiKli!titional.
Resolved, ’that the Constitution expressly
. prescribes that* “no capital or other direct tax
shall lie laid unless in proportion to the cen
sus,” and that “represent ilioti anil direct taxes
shall be apportioned ami npul, the Stales;” any
direct taxation, therefoie, which militates
against these provisions, is plainly unconstitu
tional.
llesolred, ia .t (nt; so 'darion of African
slavery is exe.iiis-ve!y uiniui the jurisdiction'
-and control of the sovereign States, and any
law passed by Congri u; to emancipate a slave
any State, or t.o appropriate money from the
Treasury of the Coiili-ilei.ate* States to Imy and
emancipate slaves, isunconsliutionai uid void.
Resolved, That tire Governor of the State of
South Carolina be requested to send toour
Senators and Representatives ia the Congress
o ! the Confederate States copies of these reso
lutions.
North Carolina am. -..vai- zi».-.ka i e Jmpthzis
mkxt La.w -”(.«“• oi tiie members of the'North
Carolina Log;, lain re do no* .appear to favor
the Confederate Imprc; ment law, and have
introduced tho annexed resolutions into the
House:
Resolutions upon Hie subject of impressnicnia
by the Coufederate Government.
Whereas, it is a p'aiu principle of iusfieo
that all tho expenses caused l,y the lireseut
war should he bonus by lira various citizens in
due proportion to (heir property; and whereas
Uio prices occasioned by lie: depreciation oi the
currency .arts fairly to be reckoned emong such
expenses; whereas, further, it is equally unjust
and unconstitutional for Ibo Conk derate gov
ernment to appropi into the property -of priv ate
citizens without just compensation io the o Au
ers: Therefore,
Resolved, '1 hat this General Arscmbly, in
the name of tho good people of North Caroli
na, doth solemnly protest again: I the system
now in force throughout this State by which
the Conlcderate government claims aid exer
cises the t. Aver of imp -m 'pi iv.de property
at certain nominal rates, u WUr.rriiy e tablidi
ed, and known ns schedule pricers.
Resolved,'Thai tin- * ran ini A ra mbly fakes
occasion in this connection to express the opin
ion that much of the machinery by which the
Confederate Government gives effect to tho
extraordinary in- -.ran •: connected with this
war is both galling and onerous,- and is well
calculated to agitate a#penplo reflecting u; cm
their lineage and form; .- frr *lom.
Resolved further, That such experiment o ,
upon the temper of this commonwealth, have
increased, are incicasing and ought to' bo d?«
rniuisbcd.
Resolved, That HI.: E-xeßcncy, Gov. Vahco
be requested to transmit copie-; of these re'so
lutious *o Uia Exceliency I'ri-Hhicntof the Con
federate States; and also to cur Senators and
Keprescntativea in Congr.to be by them laid
before that honorable body.
A Senator from a Suite adjoining Alabama
expresses the opinion that ibo President’s pro
posal to repeal all exemptions will past through
Congress like a flash. That this. . a blow at tu.
press, is generally admitted. Tho coming bhb
peneion of the habeas corpus is another blow
in the Fame direction. lam told by .a gentle
'inan who is in a position to know the - facts,
that tha suspen.Yon last Fpriiv; of the great
writ was intended to silence tho-organs of a
faction ia an adjoining State.-— lli'di r.ond Let
ter.
Mr. Ilill, it wi’i ho rcme:nbra--d, is particu
larly partial to a fr- pre.-'i. ia order to pro
cure the publication of his harr: m to Geo
gians, and his tu iirara to fly tv rollin';
officers, the pi ess should uoi be supported, but
iletiale.l -that is. cuilcd iff by Executive tea - -
h»./—Cohtiwiu.Ui (irun.