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i --i ■ x, s. mou •r. r , . • •*« ?' THE Wl. fi. Mi & HV.y.'i iSEL IBPUrtLlv.: <> .:TEfti' •"fib.*>J>AV T/lit! ' >ji, • . « #=*oo SIX i: wiißKiJy tTi-fi fi; i; t i'Kg. * 3 ..u in tjit \»tj*k 1 ywc e*i«. i'.e»i • ' - 3 - • „ r ■ . . . . w.e twenty 6/er enH afi.sf'ir ' artion. ( ■ •.■iii.'jt ■. ■. • »,.( Artdolisri £ USA, , > i ! TtfAii v ‘A i»r: ■ t ■! inc.for f i.( 'r.cfrtlsm y ... ■ " !«o arc- 1 *- I. .1 IM,i! - it:' ;':„r 'i a t-vTiaai. Tac-r " : . ; Oonf'-rlffrata . . ■ m; ado t! .■: “Via King c.ij : o ■. .••• i • ” They lecognizein ilk: I' '• ' i'.- ler.ito Stoics, she 1c v. . ■ • ifir-dcr ou which iLt(-y i i . . l; v live upon him or: u y ra ~ * ; .ij hail him a. a r .it-.- v . ; • ■q/n.-uie It w, and " via :y,ion;‘(l. To that clays wa off i ' y■ ■ . 5 1 i and have but one reply— -T. *■ . tl to Break up cr.o ■ they thought it abr. fi . Mid ifi ?y do not intend to bo-t id ’ t. !' he:': 1' yj< :c no portion of their 1,1; i ,~y volunteering to deft nd thuiU. Efi thorn : b. ■ »:ui rvrpoctoble class of honeat, {>■■.■.'i ; . yyt i• uyt ia ‘.ha Presi dent of if.. >•/ :u nq upright man and a t • .*, :• >■ ot fc.v.w* that he has i if. :■!: f C : fi. tt’mn f bin coun try • * ■ ; • Ih keep ing: v .. Uj, ,r him as ft man of m It is t>r the honest r.ufi • ’ . vs write, and we aeaert ri'-c-iJ tigc ►i.laftthassworn to earn * d••C : ' 1 m ..I the C ;ufeduiuts States, be,- u- •I- y Ui:> oath. I*.u:> . • p - • to ditfuse the atrcOßth of a:-• ■■.. by w.:.:<i':rinir over a vay f:■'!.•, stiown wi.'li the v,mh of Admin-' lHlv :• ,ta (b. itu: ii . : the broken arches of onr 0»< 3 c’l ' 1 D loot tWO }*!'•. nil,', phial . .i modern blind Sarcp.e.-a is Ir i' . : o fmll down; and we will cad .a•.•••.r to i a.; '. .‘o tl>.»t their fall as m.: i.voiv. '! •il t • ude of liberty as ”i.a • tv. i ; ,p:' . ' the Hi lisline teropte. tf’iieHist ia oi h-r a- U oocnrs in the Oonsti tuiijri of tbo . :i :. ~;c hia •*, is in the eight! ' * ich eec!ion r.;. wi. * . . ; Congress ahaii ha ~- . ” . ,-!iUxn sev eral an t and a- v l'iu' r from the S t.cs to Itiii .. i (:i M ".rly all r.io acroi: yrnie-l by i ah.og vr '<rd«, and the twelfth; •, .-; :. . -:iag l«tn guaye: “to .■ ■ ' ' > m ro prhi'.on <ij j h i : rjl o.ii" .wall 6c for along er tc ''to than l. > pet in ." These words av... i itmtically tha same as the clause for :■ ■■■:, . Ii : . ... <, if iiuition of the United ■ ottip.-. it v. , for ft grave pur pose tli:.. . , f . tiiution deft nnehanged wi- tii ■ir tires i,:-i done in other days of peril. Long enn.o hnving shown to the p<. . ? i.V ~.’ U tb: r be odance vdu ' of t'.i.ir rorum 'c.s vv.uto .....he tho Crown ai’ 1 1 i. ii ’0 ■. i* iii:at,on the Hr: • .<' 0 ■vr ' .hi sv .• vs money for pun!’ I .’ ii- . ’ . our ' . iopu-.d '■ ie wiseo m••.f C' • ol.i- ■ siaV.: ’ ;:«>vernmeßt on mi . 1 paragraph of the Krtv.':. r '.! ■ ’ • ■■ the Con •titnQon of the l s u Is as i “Ali 1-i I .to* U o :,;j:.relo in >. -a. . of r . ' ■: oui Iho .-•.a t>t,‘.i in ; ,> ■ i wiUt n-a elineuts as on oil;.. Why tlte-n if. *o C j.ri.’to money for v ■ jn: for- a Jc-'.'ger.teim tliai lw-3 ye.’. .* - paragraph «l the jc id et'.oa article of both CoavUlu -'v? Hr-- •-• ol' )hp resentutiv*. Khali . ot ;t..'.n'.<‘iß ©boson rv or v . ••• ’ ih. r-co; ’■ ned neither the fib hors . . 7.‘ '• -o: tho p »t-- ! -of 1861, intended t->-blow vi •«>«• to b.t ra!s t;d for a w.- ■V ■ - - ‘ people ia the next cl- ':i Ml <-f - - s o stop it ! Tm-yi. . . md venal Ooity v.-n "E •’ ■ '■ ’ d-L c « tog; her to « y w lor me cover •" - r -, 1 fvcuauy ot j a mighty ■ V ' w.".-. hot one ! de.it ... tv:- •. is, , years term, . a- ’. - . ■ • ---o V and u-ivy, him ’ '-' r to t.-ko V -. pi V Btituev.V- r- iw. A of pUv; but no money 1n... -, • ■ lory - two year?, tho severe; :.u -, ■ 'c • '■ . -- th-:h the neat Ihy . - '> > tend, and la.' : ’ •-a ?•V- . money •to p.iv i.s s;. •• : ttiica. Noporciou • ■ : 5 : t ; -. and ill writ-1 ers npo . - 1 : vtual sever P - ~ov.-.y r.ii ”••••. • - ■' ' r > ai; tke on" p aion.-o.cby .. ■ U There f,: v , -7 i' ;,n --rioas to e bar. at:, ii '• -•••- 'be people fro* tee u of .• ■, '• ,ur l ruler, all sane i-’.-ui v.’ ! c t: . -). -i tail* acting seek; to, ...... th. C asutuuon. and to build a.l • tmiteia o b" rules. Ad •who advi-j* lly help to - ■ end, are but the tools e This is no merer .-the .1 abuse, but a i*ain mat-.er of Cos .-it tuu-.-.l 1 as expounded by all the up ...- <. no. . • -.--prudence, past or pro,oat. '.-."L. wer-t .'-vo any weight. Aud vet. the A ....... dr-tion of the Confed erate N;. ’ . tt.e a corrupt Congress, ka-t de.ro procure i the fare kin: down ©f Ibis siroi-u choc.. to power, and has se cured the me., vo. . -.trylan ©u the war for —witliv'v.v 'OiVoTu.viv n i>y C ongress, »rui in spite of . -v.; v. t people. The ©nly thirty to soy die povcCvution of the war, AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25, 1865. is the will of the President, or the conquering power of the foe ! line passage ol the law for the payment of tax in kind, is utterly without warrant in the Constitution, and not only gives to the Presi dent the means of war, and • the power “to raise and support armies’’ without the co-op eration of Congress or the will of the people, without limit, but the evil is -exaggerated far beyond even that gross violation of tho Con fetituticn. The courts of tho land have re echo sod that mad cry of “necessity !” “necessity !” which is always the robber’s plc-a and the ty rant's apology ; and have decided* that the power to raise armies, means the power to taise potatoes and corn ! The right to support armies, tho right to support hogs and field hands. It his actually been decided, that not only tho means tor an indefinite protraction of the ; war, beyon the pleasure of tho people, can be given through the trickery of Tax in Kind— hut that tho vast agricultural interest of the nation can be mustered mto a pretended mili eu/service, aid the planters and farmers of the States, made the unwilling tools of their own government, to furnish its unlawful sup- plies for unconstitutional ends. We charge that the Constitution which the Ikv i rut aud Congress swor eto support, has been an d violated by tbs law of Tax in Kind, extending beyond a period of two yearn. That the power of a succeeding Con gress to repeal the law, but aggravates the evil; by forcing upon the new representatives of the people an entire change of government policy, and that too at a time when the oppressive opera.ions of the present law, have so far di mini -bed popular seat aud confidence, aud ae tu .llr limited tbo productions of the soil, that a change ol policy would be perhaps an evil, almost equal to the original one. Tho detail ing of tho vatt agricultural class, is but a bribe cHired by power to sustain crime; lor its evi ' cut client is to teach that if the planter dares oppose tho power and strive to limit its grasping ambition, then the power will punish by sending him as another victim to the war his veto can no longer control. The whole thing is a vud abuse against tho nation; it should never have existed and ought to be corrected ftt once. There is another power which the President of this Confederacy is unconstitutionally exer cising—and that is “public patronage.” The sixteenth clause of the eighth section of tho first a-iiole of the Confederate States Constitu tion, reads as follows : “To provide for organizing, arming and dis ciplining tho Militia, and for governing feuch part of th"m as may be employed in th* ser viee of the Confederate Nrates ; reserving to tbe States, respectively the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the Mili tia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress.’’ We wish now briefly to call attention to tl.e vast power given to the Administration, for public use; and to argue from the vastness of the grant, that ho who asks for more, seeks it for the purposes of unholy ambition. All the ordinary pui poses of war, or proba b’e reoesi'Uies of a nation, are contemplated in the twelfth clauso. and covered by tho words ‘To raise and support armies.” In a fori ign war, the Executive of the Republic can ex).. fin tho voluntary energies of the nation, and is entitled to all the men he can get from this or any other part of the globe, for hire, for love, for patriotism, for glory, for plunder,—in short, every volunteer lie can get in the world ! But not a single man can bo forced to go ! a soldier can be put into the army against hi 3 will. But all tho others he is entitled to, aud is. allowed ail tho power of the samo Con gn j who vote the war and the army, to provide for their support . But the Congress who vote tho war and vote the army to the Executive, can give the money to prosecute it with for only two years. The first clause also of the same o’gthth section, while it provides lor Revenue j from taxes, duties, imports and excises, “to j provide for tho common defence,” expressly I s'ates, “but no bounlies shall bo granted frem | the treasury.” There is a time, however, when the Congress can clothe tho Executive with far more terrible powers. There are three emergencies of great peril to the Republic, when the power of Con giess becomes a grand one, and tho trust of the Executive a terrible one. In the fifteenth clause of tnc same, section are the words : “To provide for calling forth the militia to I execute the. laws of the Confederate States, suppress insurrections and repel invasions.’’ ' The latter of the three great perils has been upon us for four years, and with what powers does the Constitution clothe the' Government for on? preservation from it 1 The answfer is found in the oaly solitary definition, that is .given to city word in the whole Constitatioa— : the definition of the word Militia. , V - thirteenth clause of the ninth section of .articlefirst reads as fallows: ! ‘ A well regulated mlHtb., being necessary to j' U.O seauit-y of * free State, the right of the I vp'ti to Keep and boar arms shall not bo in i frii-g- 1." 1 :u; militia then are tho people, and not a p.-.it of the people, but all the people. There fore two jeu;s at a time. Congress can Mloiitc ih» President with all the power and all the wealth of the whole country. It is no .p.iostion of state Rights or of Habeas Corpus No ipiestiou of Slate lines or reserved rights, or the ‘‘ultimate absolute sovereignty of the s-vittf.,' 'bn: iu spite of States and Governors and Le.ti.'lature and the people themselves,Congress cin vote to the Executive for two years at a time, every man, every boy, every dime and every doi’.u in *he Confederacy. We repeat it, every mau aad every dollar can be taken for self defence in either of the three emergen cies contemplated in the Constitution ! And as if to place it beyond tke reach of morta ambition to ask for more power, or more ex tended rue; the third clause of the sixth arti cle roads as follows : -’The Constitution and the laws of the Confed erate States, made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made or which eh»ll be made under the authority of the Confederate States, shall lwthe supreme law ei the land, and the Judges ia every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding. ’’ To this vast power thus solemnly placed be- I yond the caprice of States, the notions of leg lislatures and the whims_of judges, there is but one solitary limit. The people left bat one slight and yet strong barrier between their sacred liberties and lives and fortunes, and this vast grant of power! What was i: ? “reserving to the States, respectively, the ap pointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia. ” The militia are “the people.” Whether volunteers or forced out by draft, —for con scription is illegal—the appointment of offi cers, and the training, rests with the States. The biographer of President Davis tells the world, that he (Davis) refused ‘he appointment of Brigadier General oi Volunteers, in tho ar my of tho United States, upon the sole ground that all troops, save enlis’e' 1 men of the reg ular army, were militia, and that no power in that Government could appoint their officers, save the sovereign States. That one act s’ands side .by side with the grand conduct of W ash ington on the records of fame, and is the no- j blest deed Mr. Davis ever <iid. Alas ! that | lust for power and love of patronage aud place should have induced him not only to violate tho Constitution he so solemnly s.vore to sup port, but to blot and tarnish the only real glo ry of his own record, and to sully tho pure fame of the Colonel who saved tho battle of Buena Vista, ana tho Seuator from Mississippi who : was so long tho champion of the rights of the 1 States. Under the military organizalion of the Confederate States, the grade of rank runs thus: Non-commissioned officers, second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant, Captain, Major, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel, Brigadier General, Major General, Lieutßfcant General in tho Provisional Army. And Non-commissioned officers, second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant, Captain, Major, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel, General in the K“gular Army. This distinction has been always kept up, and a lieutenant in regular service ia about equal to a colonel in the Provisional Army. Brig, Gen. Leadbetter was Major of Engineers, regiment A. And the simple general of the Regular Army, like Lee, Bragg, Beauregard aud Johnson, racks and takes precedence above all the host ol Brigadier Generals, Major Generals and Lieutenant Generals. The United Slates service has all the grades in both branches of the service, and Generals Scott and Grant are their only Lieu tenant Generals, and George Washington was the only Commander in Chief. Now if .the least informed, of our readers will glance at any report of a battle or letter from the army, he will sec that not more than three - thousand* men of all the vast army of the Confederate States, even pretend to belong to the regular Service; and therefore the entire lisl of appoint ments made by the President during the whole war, is in direct violation of the constitution of the Confederate Slates. President Davis admitted this when he refused a commission in volunteers. The Congress admits it, when they ratify any commission, either in the or the staff of the Provisional army. The constitution and laws of the State of Georgia, wisely forbid any officer holding a commission under the general government, to hold any office of honor, trust or profit, in the State Government, fhi3 was done to prevent the possibility of any Confederate official tam pering with tho laws and rights of the State. No member of the Georgia Legislature can hold his seat, save a citizen or a State officer ; an! consequently, all the brass buttoned and gold lace gentlemen who hold their seats in our General Assembly have asserted that they hold none but Miltia commissions. If they are Militia officers, the men they command are militit, and yet by what right do President Davis and the Hon. James A. Seddou, Secreta ry of War, issue them commissions ? The Ad ministration of the Confederate States are given by the plain letter of the constitution, the control of the last man and the last dollar, in the whole country, for the defence of the country from invasion for two yoars at a tun#. The people only withheld the vast patronage of the army as the right of Stato government. But the Administration took that. Nearly four years ago, Gov. Brown organ ised the Fourth Georgia Brigade at Camp McDonald. There were, so far :is we recollect. four regiments of infantry, each one thousand strong, one battalion of riflemen, besides the Rivalry and artillery. This splChdid body of troops was fully equipped, well armed, and with all the ofricers appointed by the State as they had a right to bo, the brigade was tend ered to the Confederate States. After a pro longed delay, and after the miserable pets of Government had exhausted all the petty abuse they could hinge on to the name of “Big , Scanty; 1 ' and after charging the Governor ; with keeping the men to vote them in the i election —while the Confederate Government actually refused to receive them—the State Ex ecutive finally yielded ter the clamor, and the ; legally appointed Commander of the Brigade j waived his rank, and took tho command of a j egion of nrixed elements ; and for a year af terwards the troop3 labored in vain to get a recognition of staff officers in such a form, tha* they could perform their proper duties But we have given facts and evidence enough to conviuco all who are not wilfully blind. We charge the President of the Confederate States with procuring the passage of unconsti tutional laws and of taking and keeping to him self a vast power and patronage—which the States said solemnly in the great grant of pow er that he should never have. We charge that he has intentionally broken down the great Constitutional law which allows to the people tho right to vote upwn the contin uance ofany war every two years, in the election of members of the House of Representatives. We charge him with usurping the power, through the operations of the law of Tax-in- Rind, of an indefinite continuance of the war beyond the power es the people, or the control of a future Congress—save by a repeal which he might vxercise the veto power; or he might by the movement of an army, prevent entirely the assembly of Congress. We charge nim with usurping and taking to himself, the vast powers of the despotisms of the old world, from whose accursed rule our revolutionary sires feught seven long years to get free. With taking upon himself the im. mense appointing power and patronage which, was by the law of the Coaitltution, to be dis tributed among the states in exact proportion to the number of their troops or piiiitia. j Upon ids : -1. u. and sbat of his tools in Con- I gross, re ' ; . violated oaths, and an [ almost ruin Wo may song: -ay refer again to the long list « tljp Constitution— j the denial of the u writ of Habeas Corpus, in order* to sustain W cants without “oath or affirmation and to .ae fresh crimes and usur pations with which we me threatened by Con- , grass. For the pits nt, however, we are con tent to call attention to the two great pillars of the Constitution—to wit : the separation of tire purse from Gift Executive, and the distri bution of army p tron. ge among the States. The hands of the would be Sampson at Rich mond are around them both ; and the grand edifice of®ln nan liberty —erected on tho! bones of the hero dead, .and upon whose high j altar tho hi ■■ i,u .. and widowhood and tJrpbaaige of a ; t vci people have been laid— is irembiin; t,. hs ill a l fall. We may in a i’uutfe article, show how tho foie of I lie Revolution is inseparably linked v-ith the riv of the people and the stability of the Constitution. For the present, we buts.: ;?st, tint when again the Chief Magisj tram cads r.o supplicating sovereignties of this sunny land to join him in prayer — that he, like the old priest of Israel, even Aaron, shall fust wash hie clothes nod purify himself. Let him recall the oath hi took when inaugurated President, aau ask his own heart how it- has been kept. Tho two sons of Aa: m —who offered strange upon ILo alter of God, perished— and pray ers without repentante, and humiliation and fasting, with a resolve toccntisue the sin—will not prosper the man who makes them or the people who trusfr them. The same power which pa-.: -fi -toe i,sib— may condemn the people who com’, one to permit such outrages upon their own righls. and such mockery of truth. W HOIJI liOME THU f Siß. The Charles;:;.. Mercury,.under tho head of “Face the Difficulty,” speaks out very plain and in an unmistakab’e manner. The causes of tire disaster aud i Blares in tbjs revolution are laid before the jw>.- pie in such a way that those who r ad • :n understand who is to blame for all our mb,.oil tines Incapacity, misman agement-aud misrule Love allogether too long held fail sway in iho conducting of bur public affairs. It is high time that the people pause' and ask I • .vfiither are a dtiftiug.” Tue ar'-i'-i :of mo Mercury contains truths— wholesome truths. Hero it is: FACE' THE DIFFICULTY. When Abr.-.o’.va Lincoln took the chair of the Presidency 1 too United (States, he promised ia llis Hat boat I,ago. to "ran the machine as he found it.” Whether ho has strictly kept his promise, those may doubt who chose to consider ti e eubj' Ct It is ejongu for us to knbw, t • whether “running (us machine” in the p nth way of ! i .-'P’ i duoessore, or not, he has run if wish ;i Kur il, . liexibu: purpose, a bold steady hand, a- vigilant, active eye, u sleepless energy, a fanatic spirit, and an eye single to his end— conqiic.- emancipation. He has called around him, in council, the ablest and most ’earnest ma.i of 1:1s country. Where he has lacked In iiKh/'-'‘'ial ability, experience or statesman '.dp, fie bus sought it, and has found it iu the able men about him, whose assistance ho unhesitatingly accepts, whoso powers he applies to ilia advancement of theeauso he has undertaken. In tire cabinet and in the field he has constantly and fearlessly pressed, on the aAarcli form; a w(jo could advance Ms cause, and has as ivuhiaitatingiy cat off all those who clogged it v. oh win * ae.-s, timidity, imbecility or failure Force, energy, brains, earnestness, he has collected around him in every depart meat- Blackgur.nl and buffoon as he is, he hits pursued Jfi* end with on energy as untiring as mi Indian, end :? singleness of purpose that might almost be called patriotic. - It ne were not an ur,re: upnlou:-1- uuve in bis end, and a fanatic in his political views, no would un doubtedly coma.aed onr respect as a ruler, so fat as we tue concerned. Abroad aud at home he has ex se the same e jasuless ener gy and cu'cimbecefdon. W r e turn our eyes to Richmond, and the con trast is appnltim:. sickening to the heart. In the Cabinet, an I iu C -.-.ptcss, in the conduct of foreign affair:. ’n tho military service, from the comut iadiii -; .generals to quartermaster clerks, everywhere there resigns -a pademoai urn of imbecility, laxity, weakness, failure. Not that there are not many brave and able men iu the army. We have an abundance of both. . But that they are so circumscribed aad controlled as to produce weakness through out. In the beginning of the war, when we had the basis upon •■■■ hick to have established a linn, solid tia.tueiai system, all efforts 'were vain, all counsel vaip, to have anything done with a view to a lisc*i, financial system. A inach’ne was put in motion, and brown paper was shuffled off upon the country with Mr. Benjamin's or Mr. luemminger’s countenance stamped upon it—and this ‘was called “money." Vaur vere ail attempts to have a navy luiß. until it was too late, whan cur ports wt 1< . ind Etlrope had refused | *<> allow ships of ,-.r to be built for ua in her ! ship y Dec.. forsooth, if was too “ex ! pensive”—“where was the money to come irom?" Claim: ;g to Iks a nationality, our Executive did not c\ t A-re send its ministers abroad to foreign Courts; but satisfied Itself with petty comuiis--- .- .-tv, dangling about the doors of Earl R-.-s.w P and Lord Palmerston, while all the rest of Europe and the world, except France, were ignored. Crawling at tbo feet of tho world, we ciaimed to bo it.-; equal. Nor was our diplomacy, in the inducements hc-ld out to Eu rope to receive n--, any better than our external method of approach. Both exhibited the same weakness, efia -v short-sightedness, in einoieucy, th r !:•-••. » characterized every act of the govern... -n! : -very department, from the inidatioa of the w.-.r to this hour. In friend3, ia counsellors, in the Cabinet-, in Congress, not men of force, ofen eigy, of will, o? wisdom, or knowledge : *r ■ -pej.eiice are sought for; but tools and sycopit -’its, mu men subservient to Mr. Davis’ will sad whims and dictations, are thrust forward and kept in places of vital im portance, whilst the country reels and stag ►■e.B under the fearful burden ot their ht:iu fess counsels, and their imbecile actions.— Mcst lamenULoie of mi ..ud most fatal, is the condition of the army. For it is there where hefreds on the one i. -no, and favoritism on the other, strike deepest their root?, and poison most fatally the wd springs of our military actions. It i there where toe fuming passions of the En-cuiive peliy tyranny strike most direcito’ at the i.earf of he Confederacy by a corrupt and unscrupui- e£e:cise of delega ted power, in proscribing and ejecting from position, or forcing entirely out of the service, the very* fore arcs mditary men iu America; 1 whilst men aotoriou-iy incompetent are made thepivot3of our desnoies. - ,-a the applicable alone to the leaders of armies; but ou every side we see peity favorites i.iiod up to promotions and pu-hei in.o positions of importance, while men of magnificent gallantry and accomplish ed rabid.' are suffered ft> fight on in the ranks, or to fait ra some position of inferior command. Political tools are re.varded with commissions as Brigadier and Major Generals, whilst their friends, relations and ftcquaiatadces generally fill up the lower grades of promotion. N. . oldiers to lead armies"are sought, hut e■ i tures to whine at the foot of the Extcativc: or else, honest, bat incompetent man are made use of, as sticks to Lay ever the ii, .ala of srino personal pet hatred. As a a inevitable ccnae quence, laxity and inefficiency ■ - ery wu«3 in the army. Imbeciles and coed for naughts hold high cotnml-ifions- and low com missions—there is no responsibility anywhere j — no discipline is enforced— men straggle and dc-.-ri—even officers do the same. But fav orites cannot be shot, or cashiered, and :t would not do R>r “Uncle Jeff” to make him self unpopular with the men,’ by allowing the penalties of military law to be execute I. Thus contempt of officers and official sentences amongst the men, and contempt of Jaw and orders among the officers is spread broad-cast throughout our armies. More gallant men never stood in the ranks— a more inefficient organization never disgraced the science of war. Never was a cause more entkii:... icai - ly loved by a soldiery—-e ver was/ao mvh power, in numbers, in euthiishism, In er.i.u ranee, la courage, so frittered away, Ifi broken down, so misapplied, so utterly d.s mixed, fey an ineradicable vice of unscrupulous ad ministration * * We say to all earnest, brave men in. this land, that the time has come, and will speed! ly have passed, when they must lift up their hands with an iron will, Snd say to the Exe cutive authority of this government—“this thing shall be dene; or that thing shall not be. done! Do as we command, or vacate your po sition.” This—or failure, is the a rernacivo. HAS GEORGIA IjEH DUTY. “A Georgia paper says the gallant Tennessee an* are still Hocking to General Hood’s stan dard. This may be so, and we hope is, but somehow the conviction is forced ripen - us that Hood, his standard and “the gallant Ten nesseeans’ arc flocking out of Tennessee. We cannot see what is to be gained by t! o at-, tempts to keep up decep ion There hew been no uprising in Tennessee arid but prfioi us lit tle in Georgia, such is the truth, and we might as well admit it.”— Baleigh Progress The above paragraph wc clip iron: a recent issue of the italslgfi ‘'Progress,” and the fuur that is designed to be ca-t ac the tirioiL-.m of this State is undeserved aud uncalled 'tori Had the Editor of the “Progro a” taken the trouble to have informed him-adr of in fects, we are inclined to tho belief that lie would never have written thcrqbove, but as he has neglected to do this, and'has attempted to place the people of this State in an impriavr light before the pub 11 \we feel c : fid * upon, both injustice to the people and’for the edifi cation of the Editor or the “Progress,” to cor- rect the error, so that if a siibSUi iim.i.aUo. is indulged in again, the public may know that it is but a nefarious attack upon tho State. According to she census of 1860, Nor^h Caro lina had 67,529 more white population than Georgia, aud we will venture Uio a .cation that, she has not furnished more troops to the Coa •federate States army (hia Georgi* bas. Ac the least calculation, she has fumiou. u 100- 000 men, and \v@ wish to know ii North Caro lina ha-s done more. According to the last re port of the Adjutant General of North Caro lina, that State had furnished about one hun dred and twenty regiments to the axmy of the Confederate States. That Georgia Las dune too, although North Carolina Las over sixty thousand ore white population than t : . . State. But has Georgia done nothing else? Let the enemy who have been desolating her soil for the past six months answer, or examine the reports of the battles that have been fought in this State, and see what troops were engaged. V' eu the last conscription Bill was passed, c, uscribir.g ail between .the ages of seventeen and eighteen and forty- five and fifty, orders wore immediately is. usd in this State—so also in North Carolina—requiring ho immediate organization of this class, — After the organization what do we find? In Georgia these reserves are placed regularly on duty, while in North Carolina tL. are fur ; toughed aocnj after their oqt-inlzatian.' Ve believe that they have been recently called out and ara now perhaps in the field. Those of this State have not been so fortunate; they ,have had no furloughs and have been on as hard duty as soldiers ia the field, if wc except the item of marching. • But does Georgia stop at tub? By no means. Ia May her regular Militia were exiled out and in July all between the ages of sixteen and fifty five were added to them.— Since this date they have been in the !:■ id and performing all the duties of a Coin soldier.— General Hood has beeiuhqard to say that they fought as well as auy troops he ever bad un der him, and indeed, does their record not attest this fact? Who was it that fought the enemy at East Mr.ccn, at Giiswo’dvills, at Oconee bridge, and at Honey Hill, B. C , if not the Georgia Militia? But let us return and enquire of tho Editor of the‘‘Progress’’ if the Militia of his State have done as have those of tbi.-;? Wo well know that he cannot reply in tho affirmative. Recently we thick that Gov. Vance has called out the Militia, but this Editor should remem ber that Georgia has hail her Militia and Re serves in the field for over six months. It is true Sherman marched through our State, and he can likewise march through North Carolina, if no more assistance is given by the Confederate Government, than was given Geor gia. If the whole of the Army of Tennessee, with the Georgia Reserves and Militia, were unable to slop tfca marsh of Gen. Sherman to Atlanta, we are unable so see how any sano man oould expect the Militia and • Reserves, with a few insufficient cavalry, to atop him on his march to Savannah. Taking everything into consideration, wa assert, without fear of contradiction, that, according to the popula tion of Georgia, s’l; has furnish-, -.1 more men and given more suppoit to tbo Government than any other State in the Confederacy. ' U-r thank? for this, then, is to.have her territory overran and b< r property laid waste. Let the Editor of the Raleigh Progress in future, when ho wrier?, acquaint himself of lire subject upon which he writes, and then perhaps he can do justice.— Macon ionfcdcracy. Plot to Escape it.om Casti.c Thckdeu.—Re cently Captain Richardson. Lie commandant at Castle Thunder, received inform?.Hon through a prisoner 4hat the prisoners confined in the citizens’ room had formed a plot to es cape, and had prepared weapons to light their way out, and murder the guard and eflioars if they were opposed. The inmates of the room were all placed under surveillance, and a search made in the room for evidences of the plot. Three holes, large enough to admit a man’s body, were found, one leading down in to the room adjoining the office on the fir.it fl oor, one penetrating the large room ou the North, and a third opening into the room on the bonth. Arms, such as knives and pistols, were found secreted in these openings, and no doubt remained in the minds ot too prison officials but that a desperate attempt at oi.cape was contemplated. Lieut. Vernon, fount! y ordnance officer of Major Atkinson, now iu con ; fiaeraent upon grave charges, is suspected of ; being the ringleader of the plot, but libs L? : most emphatically denies. The ioareh for anas, <S»c., ia stiii progressing. The discovery of this plot will, we appre j hend, interfere with thoffreoacces of vi e. j to prisoners heretofore enjoyed, as i* is : asp ret ! ed that both aims and implements weio ( mi i Teyed to the prisoners by tnis system of com i muaication. — Richmond Examiner. ! Lincoln has remitted the sentence of the court i martial upon Acting Rear-Admiral Wiikes to a period of one year from its date, the Beaterca i having suspended him three yeart from the i service. VOL. I.xklY."- SI Rl] CG.M’KDERA A. , V »•; .. SEX ATE —DEO. 30. I A ill was introduced to r.mrnd she - pevcrul j ac • iu k aud lo military storekeepers of erd nauce. R- f rred.- A resolution waft adopted *that tlie Coninit tee on Mililaiy Aa.ilrs be instructed to inquire into tne exj« di ney •. ’ ir.crer.sihg the number and rank ol officers ia the engineer Curps of the i‘ii.. Ii ’, rial rrmy. ‘The Juibclary Committee reported back the Seriate bill to guard against the improper con struction of the tax laws by officers entrusted w.th the execution of tbe t-mic. Postponed tiil Monday. Tho following coir.n unicaticn was laid before the Sona’c by the Ch.r.r : TilllAEßny IfiI'iETJIRN’T, C. 8. A., ) Richmond. Ya., Deo. 28, 1864. j' “ Hon. A. 11. Stephens, President Confederate States Senate : “ Sir : Under a regulation of this depart mi o.' , dated ( ijfh ol '.red. tc.lt, fc ; : maskers tfi aii.p:,: ;i r. j Ooufi iierato S’. W'-ro authof'zad to dm .fit the old issues in T hif.."lH, telongi-ig to the Postofli. 1 Dc- Uil:i:l‘a-t. Vv’iia till) dVpOir:'t Xr fit feOSI.COUVC- | nient to them. “as most of the fi- , . of the Govern ment Were C'.vfi. i .... : ! a,; :o..'r, r ; tea. under tlie act of F-. >•. nary ITt':;. j fit; 1 , {fi :i:art a p!cccd i a ilair bs. s' : hr' ;ha :\r : : krinna in q.ie ticn are cot - .fi . toih<s di fits of the J’ooteasfir tfincral ia the us . imav ; ner : but v, ill inh easury- as the misceUaueoa.) rtc. ,■ .:. “ In Older that, tb ■. Postin'!; c Dr ••'•r.r-.er; , may receive the benefit of tiii e : rids, it i proposed to Congress to authorize their appro priation for that pnrp se.” The communication was referred to the Fi nance Committee. Kocsi; —d::o. 80. The following re.-, >luti ;.iwere ; u . That the Com mi Ac 3 on Qiiarfeniuist-rs and Oomuv.s-arie;' icq-.uie into the expediency of allowing bonded *>gricußurists to exchange their surplus produce for articles neotsnary to the suppu.t of their families. • Also, coat they inquire info the propriety of remitting the at iix to lie paid by bond - ? agriculturists c-.oeil too iciiinais have been e.iptuu'.i by the enemy Also, that they inquire whether ra tions have been or are being rfiw issued to auy of the Amide clerks in tho empi< yuc nt of the Gove .'i.mcnt, in;d .1 : aby v, tic ’ a;;.tio:." - ty, and by whom the same wi re issued Also, that they inquire into the expediency of re porting"* bill providing for the cx iN.sion of tile law giving ceiipcnsutiou for tjuves em ployed upon loailicarioi;-:, so us to apply its provisions to slaves employed iu ether Govern ment service. That the Military Comtni te icq; i: .• iuto expeitioiiy of pvovhliii.r b.v law; . ta.. übo:i -1* a of po.Si coin!:.. cities, towns, vi!l:, c - iia'i . | die taut from lit ... : ield That s the Judicie-ry C;.i i: . .1 a um . report .upon tho exp, liia.cy of ovidb •( by few for tho pay ml nt of ,'ly b c:, anq to ' ■ . ‘destroyed or .k< . t6v u eia tl,. gon oGuctieu or iick. ee of military woifcu. A hilt was passed to admit ice.- 1 ty ar tfia s donated for the use of ii-,' .; Pi'..a... i'he following were i ciorrod : A bid loamend the act creating iho office of ei.s g-i in tno J. 8. army so as to ex'.. Iha office » cav •<fi y as well ns tl.c iathisd'y ; to pr-vvlde fir ; Jie appointment oi n.i additional cleric iu the 1 Bureau of l’nblio Printing; to ame'-fi thu t-.cr .rnuifttiag tiado an.; nause win. ifie in dians ; lo j.,rov; 'a more i.t eic :lly for oartyiiar into c-tfi c'( ::; treaty with the Gherokee ludians; for cii-j .eiiefof the Indiin uatio s h .v;,..iu fioa'ios lmve been-made fir the Cons-.-:. rate Btales; lo authorise marshals end their di au ric to certain cas -s. The i-.-’ti ■ ■ took up lor consider,tried iiAflifil “to faciii! to the SeUtcment of c.aiinsy of de ceased soldiers.” * [1 ho hiii provides that th.-vo shall bo ap pointed by tha President, Ly and w : l; the , .1-. vice and consent . ■ Officer Os til.; ftocvaj Do-;;;-;., to Vj cal: eel tho Fourth Auditor, who sUMi j • c- uirged i< au iting of ctrs and soldiers, who sbiui re ceive for his services a saJ:i-y ot five f.’.ouietisu five ! :i.i dollurs per annual; aud tms cU-,';-.J iorce ia • said cili,is :- c of oce ; ir . c will: a salat y of five ;housa: and dolfai liannm, and a Register with a i : ,t-y <fl -. 0 usai and j dollars' per annu a, uud <m-o’ - a-. .-itvMion ! for each .State, -iho -. :: r.i b, . •« aof : •State represented by .ii.-; divi- >n, wtt'a s;.:ai of four thousand doilais per annum oaeE. and * such other vie:teal forco as m.-.y b .. :.1 1 necessary by the Seciotaay of toe V: ... urv. That the clerks in cacti division, other nhaii tliuse at present employed in the tettlcmen of these claims, thail be appointed from ohizans of a State represented in thedivision t» which they arc appointed, and who are not liable to conscription, and that said Auditor and Lis clerks shall ba hereafter entirely exempt from military duty, except such as may be required ia the preservation and defened of the public property in their charge.] Tho House took up the bill “ to protect tha Confederate States against frauds, and to pro vide remedies aga-'ust .officers and employees ot the Government .commit tmg them " This bill provides “ that in ail cases where tho officers or employees iu lh« Qnai-im-maste er’a and Commissary’s Departments shall have received public money for disbursement, or shalf have been concerned in milking contracts for the Government, ii shall be the duty of each person so employor concerned, within three months after she pas tag* of this of. and every six mo :tb- thereafter, to fij.. on inven tory or schedule in writing, ou ofili, of idl the property, teal, pereonat and mixed which he poc?. si-.-d at the im- «.••• iii;> Cutry ir.td t.m pub lic service, and the TaiueTucreof Tbi < inven tory or schedule shall further contain a state ment— “l. Os all p’-epert.y of cwry iR cription which he msy posse:-; in hi? own riqi.t at ihe tamu of bis making and roiii'i l . a ■ “11. Os ail property of.every description purchased'or possessed since his cutty into the public service, anu so (1 - t.-m.-sferred byhu i. “HI. Os all property «.• every d>-.si-iption, including biiis of exciia.-ge, prom : - ty aoU-s, stocks, sbaies, mortgag.-ot-rtiiij-sc . of de posit, rights and credits, tec » m -sifip of which has been changed, and in which he has or may have had an interest since his entry into the public service. “IV. Os all property of every description and pecuniary intm n at© r <1 . oca his m y iqtb the public service, and 1 « in th i name i of his wife, or any in ember of iiis I amity, or j held in the name of another for the use or ben- { efit, or iu f:uit for himself, his wife, or any i member of his family. “V. Ah bijls of , proinicsory infies, certificate j of shares ia any c-mruny or bank, I whether corporate fir i:fc:>rpui'atn, acquired in j whole or in [ irt ai.oco hi3 entry ioto*the pub lic service by him-elf or his wife, or any s member of ids family. j • • VI. A statement of the indebtedness of said : officer or emyloj tv, which has been paid or | o ... .- -e u. . -ng i .f... o hi: entry into pub J ; b-tv •, s-ivffig the name and residence of j the creditors. The on. provides that “should the schedule disclose an accumulation of property, leal, pcm.nua; r inix .i, bo-yon.i the natural !ncr«t : e (.lioTovi, t..e Aujat,mt and LinpeCtor •—-.m ir. aid tho cl-.ik of fire District Ccuit, uli roiry the Confederate States Ati'jn.vy itr iba i trict where the officer or e:. •.-!->■,(-.• .a. i schedule my be, arid t , ,01- trict - tori.oy j shall cause a summon to be te-u- and by the qiejk •o: s-iiti o> .trict, remni.wie at L - ; c- -:c . | to said officer -r wnpfoyca, »..d ii> it . .as ; on their ..ffi- -M bond, ic :: c ~ . way fer ; tl«er proceedings should not be ordered, Ac i should said accumulation be not eaUSfac'-ority 1 accounted for to the court,the court thail direct ’ Vto n », I# » rules regulating ■ j shrii prevail sxh. .. I :;t , • i of proof ! shiili hi , • • to show j ih t iho . (jui• . v...n i. fifihi -ay ,;!>i ,ined. i, u> IU‘- fi. .‘is ■ ?.,■(>! fi •- ■ ■ .o person now in com mi, n . nit, ■. * ■ : s-haii be purmitled tore: i.. i, n ih: i.si , . ally com plied with the pK vi. 'oni . act, but a verdict mid jn<igi:inen‘ such officer shell have the cffe.it of i .a ... mission and he shat! be CouscrlbtM u to miiita ly service during tlto exi ■ in, . ” Pending the c •a : :• on oi fi,. bill tbo lluuso adjourned. [From Uttamb inquirer.] hl'rltd'K ',S I*»» £•.•'•»:? iidSHIP, There is goi;:-the rou’-’ .f i papers a proposition “to fi fie ■ O-es- and v..;y and go back, to England. «• s It lie not tr.. *i.to ■■ •’ ■ :’v "!' \f trea— 'on is- The tli. ... • ’• ly ti-.'servea tho noon or; . or, for bc r. ides im-. ; .iu::c i s ai ■ udii - . ■ o j.; : aong na j tiouft. ■. o;dt) and giviug ta 1 and comfort to t. enti’i'y. o : \ ■ ■ • it time wifi- Hwc m : r v. f one, and each one !: -n*: .:.•*•. • • ./( "ter the others sharels fi . ••. i , ..1 t> >t we should do: n'c ■■'. .. •! Is Cuba so free ajul happy A five fi.- v. M>.t Spain? Docs Tre ih so < -..a that we should WMh :Irq;:..:. ■ fiil.e them? That Canada In. mfi' aol 1 ■, yis only ii. tiuiio theD ■ ::.iA fi. i :.a i Slates will go!-b!e if u:> ; t -A iho iua llghfer Go bi.ckt Eng! -ill i L-; of W«ihjng. ton an.l onr K : i jrbid! Let cot their bleed he . a if ours ii! Ferbs.tl.i-v ec; v tie:; fights us thftu to eccfi.v ■. oni \ tv. i o tee that laughs tit and■: " a <■’ ■ Gobaca to i: , ; : Ufy years ago she pnbiiciy :■■ ■ finry action an id( - African slave trad aei or.: r t :. • ... fi S mlhern slaves might icm -oduce the very war bet wc •> , - ,• ,i free that now desolat: : . ! 'fii i, •arch Eng -1 ad's a• a ■'. . , *, ' ■ VI. lUg 13 there—'.: ii war • found ition w s there laid; fim :■ , ,prophesied “that a limited supp yof . . j Tihijaboi wouid soon malla tioui I r:i •* • :■ .> cdStiv a3 that it would bti:: < . . -he iroe iabor of mft’niiacr.u . ; t. . ot course, wii'.t Ibo che:!,- : • ■ cr p t.e with Europe in e -i; it ', witbboid im> the Atricau ruv. ' fi i ; South ern labor ~i eiri.'i'ia. . ■ .aid, “she could destroy the rnal fire and block I” Aclsh jL.fi.- o . ! Go bad: to L=.. •. r"■ ilo •this war by depriving us < traffic v.i:h fi .1' * V ' instead of* a profit! hire would recognize as i,. ’fi Vo ... • are fool.i enough to be wiiH:i;_j ;o do wtat our . ' di": ' 0 ■so fi'.; Northern I • 1 . i.^movr K'irtli-’rn Ijoast, v/l«i- ••• fi.r owy fi . Amefi- Cdu wealth, power uekl c. u ... roe will tumble d-.v.fii in oiw g:c:.d .• •• I;: y and coi toii bags, and West l-s-tfes. au<\ Ea. i.-m cotton will then make her the mis.reiM c manufec-’. ture, con'.!.: rcc, i.i.u a; .'i-’i. And this, v .•..i.fij ’ !-3 •„ .a. ia; we won ! OV. ' ra a'. . I Go : . t. .At; • A thoß&anil times.- sj ■,V : cw.!i own i.u-.v.d ■ whipped v.. ■ wc .. . it to fate iiKe men r ; .0 aid to the open ion, th.-Ji i-> ta ...: oa.irous, con salea enemy, th . • 1 woe. ' The r-cal-.fierirc so ■■■ l-.i ouo gv»l, often n:-r.v-sns forget to ' or. - Miuncvila of-an t-iitml mnguitu-ie ...i.anCe. Wo lire at war with the >' --or, —that is one of the eviis which . <. u-. -r to en croachuien 3. Rti is upon iw. in whic . is ini Oig-rfy «i tiso 3 .'Ur :i ?{>.» inditf • UK) k.s, mid a practical w t •' ... for Iho li. lusoi i!u.:AM~.j. .. t^rd'ed erate Corn du:ion was r-.- . I-. and tl. .rit is as-ester. ; ...j that fko States retained their gov enty, perfect and complete L I'o.-y . ~.'V, ~n.-bloor : ' ' States now. If they were ;ut ShHcs then they ‘did all that sovereign made aConscilath.il, oiq;.. I.- .... r n::•,vnl ud pu its »• i( -lit. ■. . ' , h iini State ci Georgia is in q • . by v.-.iat power of right docs ti.o Coni, - .. .- >veru- • meat regulate the Mgricuiiarai oroducle of the State ot‘Georgia? 'That i.-: n riv-u inherent to a sovereign State only. Wh it! au agent created by a prinnqaii .-nail dir. . : control affairs expressly retcrv,-.? by f, '.i-.a.i. Where in the IJ.. mcrii f-■:.• , mn, are to be ibiltld, i-ithci csp;-e;-:eil tf.tsexa traordinary powers ciaimcu aunex. i ,l| hy tha trol tire productions of the - tate; in ot tier words the power to bring evr rj ci under the direct e-.m-": of tbo Couiedemta Government, by raying to whom-he -ball sell his product-,and to whom hen'-. im i them. This is tbo rxeioise of a w 'ver not granted oy the State and untiutaoi.z . 1 ■ ..overeigu ty of the States. What is a sovereign tv- .. t,n ir.de pondent, se;:i.u,.L) a- ; o!.- i > - if, and as each must bo, or o gbt u, ;,e. in-;--pendent in its action. N >-»•• • ■ at <• bo inifepcndu'it that It.v.tuov: tong, tc: Igii utivc, ■» ivi . 0...i r.K.,. ua, without w permit. 'i he Btit'e of Georg , . • c xercke ■ of the r-ght to ex.jui i... .a- i.eiii of | h-.r .-.oldie • bib.; if.. . « itd tells j the parent wh.riit mi- ■■■■. : vrli-i it may { do, and wfial i. may no. ... .u c.y out, 'itis no time for the pa:-:.. ai> i-igiits. j The child in in a fight—the it no : vield, jso.lfogus the fight lasts. H ; sovereign right | to govern LI,, family and <1 I o . :.oi >L<i | produces of his eat Re, mu - i> wi- .-*lllOll u.i --! tiil tha fi-.ht is over: ; • t t ou—iiu : Vv.it UeVel gov- U . .. ■ Tub Co*J..Quastio.n‘. —Tlie ‘..- e.viug leftor io tbo custom house officer .. the petition ;... lU. -. II 1.... ' • -....a veiineis ! coaling iu L-sgi: n p:-r-;: Bm:—lam directed toacqn it you for your »t|i j vcc-.-iv.'-u a commuob -ben >i- fiords of < • • »ury, |tati ,p lai a 1 p Ricatioa had f 1 questing perm!.-::<*.'»? to < .. on board the • - ■■ at Dove?, to eaatoe her r; «. . autkthit in reply K ,:i L., that this vessoi h:-d been ;. ...<! vi.-h «7.V teas of coal at Cork ou tl , , aud i with a turtat.-r sitj ply of i’i.ie >uih on the 17 1 ■o< August, i. .. • . ; :- ii- vera : tX&lll /Mill ■ - j tiooa O r » this tuhjcC , • tJax'b l; j . :\..uoiiUo j to be aomta c- a: ii ;.t any p■: the United - j train the . :':.*zd and A clr r,Tug.; vo ... ~°~7- ... it - e-.uth and up to tee Lye.. » 1 ..-rileie-:;. ho»vevur, Vt-.e .->■ “ 0 : their outhohses wen < -j es nro : the; a'-'‘ by some to Lv.ve ■■-<■■■■ vwk o| iuceuaiarres.