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N, S. MORfdi. (iforomric k v-/ r j ■; v t ' -r- 5 *» .* TUB WEPKLV nii:f)MCU A i;\ll',lX isratsusitici> s v kiis v. kd:v. ■•day TMKKK 110YTH:- :««a hi v | ■ W KKMA il»\ fit it- 1 *.«; .. . ! ,>•. /■: Chtw III:" a .:u , #.*.- nt ;n ■ ■■ M 1 rr Ohi rtM rt B■> f: <r. ' AV -.1 11 *V IN . *«!* At the Inmq nut in Mu-v \ *>. it < 'j;_- jo-; 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.