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Cobb, awl Mooie, ®f 1 hornr-S. On the call < f
the yeas awl nays, they were yeaa 50, nays '*9.
I
Tjje House met and to k up the resolution
of the Senate in relation to the hirffling ol a
Convention On motion iff Mr. Gartrell to
niake it the special ordijr for Thursday nex’,
(lie yeas an i nays were called lor awl were
yeas Mp nays 4(1 .
I he annaxeii hills were taken tip for a t.ini
leading : A hill l<> authoriz; the Ordinary o.
M icon eonniy to take pr rbaie of the wul ot
Elizabeth Chappel awl lor other peisynß---tm»
bill i voivinK sumo important points ol <'
postponed lor the prr-[,t; to punish
deatli persons convi't and < f-the crime on.
stealing recommitted and referred o a spe
cial committee of five, to repeal an not Jo l»«
vent it..- iinnecf--ary consumption ot gram in
"this htate- when this bill was put upon it.
M .Hra-'e Mr. Liam, of Marion favored its pass
aire in a speech. Pending the descision the
House adjourned.
SENATE FEB, 21.
The annexed bills were introduced; a hill to
f, x the fees of county officers. 11 raises the lees
150 per cent, and requires said officers to re
, ,-i V e Confederate money for their pay; to ex
empt from service the teachers exempted by
< fongress from Confederate service.
A bill introduced tp repeal section 1..01 ot
Hie code, which forbidwiegroeß and free per
»..iie of color to be employed as bar-keepers,
was taken up and lost.
A resolution renewing the assurance ot
Georgia to her sister States of her determina
tion to prosecute the war was introduced
A resolution of thanks to Major Gen. G. \V.
Smith and the Georgia Militia for their gallant
services to the .State-. The rules were suspend
ed and this resolution was unanimously adopt
ed. •
HOUSE—*IEB. 21.
The House look up tiie unfinished business
bf the day previous, which was “A bill to re
peal an act to prevent the unnecessary con
fuimptltn of grain in this State.’ the LegU
jature is determined to prevent our surplus
< oni from being converted into whiskey, as tal
us it can. .....
A bill to antborizo administrators, execu
tors, guardians and trustees to sell Confeder
ate bonds under certain circumstances, was
passed.
A bill for the relief of persons whose prop
erty bus been destroyed by the public enemy,
•was put on its passage and lost.
A bill to alter ami amend the charter ot the
Central Railroad and Banking Company was
passed, it. provides lor the election of Direc
tors of said Company and a President thereof
1 >r the present year, and to change the office
the Company from Savannah to Macon, and
tu fix the number ot Directors necessary—
presetibes two —for a quorum to transact
business.
The committc-h reported a bill in lion of a
resolution requesting a furlough of officers
and men of Gen. Smith’s Command, who
have been elected to civil offices —the title as
follows': “A bill for the relief of certain per
sons elected to civil offices in this State.!’
The following bills were introduced: a bill
to amend an act to incorporate the Southern
Insurance Company of Savannah: to amend
un act tc incorporate the Home Insurance
Company of Savannah; to provide for the sup
port of indigent families, and other purposes.
This bill provides for the impressment of pro
visions in the several counties 11*1 may be ne
cessary to provide for indigent families the
present year, iu accordance with -the recom
mendation of the Governor in his mfesaage. it
also provides that an impressing agent be ap
pointed , who shall ascertain the amount of
surplus provisions in each family, and if the
price cannot be agreed npon, two persons are
sons are to be Chosen, whose decision shall be
final.
AVTKBJtOON SESSION.
A resolution was taken *up appointing- a
Committee of live - two on the part of the Sen
ate and three ou the part of the House, to pro
ceed tf> Milltidgcville and report upon the prac
ticability of rebuilding the Georgia konileu
limy or abolishing the same.
. SENATE —FF.li. 22.
The annexed lulls were introduced; a bill to
provide for the nppoinmeht of an agent in each
county to attend to the distribution of money
and supplies furnished by the State to indigent
families; extending the time for the redempt
ion of the last issue of State Treasury notes
until the2sth of March ISCti.
The annexed resolutions were introduced: a
resolution adverse to the arming of slaves; that
the General Assembly adjourn on Wednesday-,
the Ist ol M uch; tin* bill for the relief of per
sons ignorant of the law, against distilling spir
itous liquors Ims parsed.
Mr. Goulden, by permission, recorded lrle
vote on the resolutions opposing the call of a
Convention, he voted nay.* Mr. Mabry at the
tame time voted yea. *
.IIOC3EIEU 22.
A communication from Thonnuv brigade, ad
dressed to the Speaker of the House, cca . i.i .
ing a series of lesolu' ‘ona, was read. It was
accompanied by an address to the people of the
B'ate The communication was taken up
and a committee of the were appointed to
respond to it. The Speaker was appointed the
Chairman pf said committee.
The annexed bills were introduced : a bill
to organize a general court martial'tor the trial
of offenders in the Georgia Militia : proscrib
ing who are liable to road duty in this Bt.de —
it specifies alt female slaves between the ages
of 1U and 45 ; to amend an act authorizing the
issuing of Treasury notes so as to extend the
time for the redemption of the same to" the
20th of November. 1805 ; to relieve t e ciiizons
of this State from the payment of laxc, i v the
year 1804 upon all taxable prop r . t .ken, in
jured, destroyed or rendered va'.iu i<-ss by the
army of Confederate States : to in: -«w lax cm
dogs, and ior other purposes, impost s sl. . luxul;
providing for the more speedy trial <>l ole off
ers against the law; to repeal to much of the
Militia law of this State as authorizes the ap
pointment of aids-de-camp in each Senatorial
district—it provides that the senior militia of
ficer perform the duties; to discharge li-om
service all men. in the employment of the
Quartermaster's and Comm!, ary 1 pad no
of this State who are liable to eomcdpii; n;
and placing disabled soldiers in their dead;
amendatory to the Militia laws of this Sin e
it authorizes the Governor to commission r;U
isuigoons at posts or hospitals; n> amend an
act to procure and furnish clothing, shoes, 1 .is
and blankets for the soldieis from Georgia
it authorizes the Quartermaster Gened to
issue clothing, etc., io the regiments on requit
sition accompanied with a certificate tlia;
theclothing cannot he procured elsewhere
to authorize the Governor of this State to
appoint certain staff officers—this bill provid. -
t; at the Governor, when he deems it nee sea
ry, do place one of his aids de camp on post
duty, requiring the assistance of such officers
as he may appoint; one adjutant with the rank
of first lieutenant, and a quartermaster and
commissary with the rank of captain; to legal
ize all marriages between first cousins which
have been .contracted since December 11, 1883.
to stop all interest in certain cases. This re
fers to parties refusing Confederate money lor
contracts entered into since Ist June, 1801;
prescribing further duties of the Reserve Mili
xia—makes the duty of the officers to order the
arrest of straggles* and deserters, also, to col- I
leet up all arms, etc; forthe relief of the Banks
of this Suite, who have their places of bu<i’ie»s
fixed by their charter, and have been forced
to move by the enemy.
The annexed resolutions wore introduced- a
resolution instructing the conn-f “
» , e- L i' au.iitee to whom
was referred the memorial of the p. p- v
vention, at the last session, to take ‘lnto c->a
tifferation the appropriation of 'five *hu ’ h-xi
thousand dollars annually for the edurukv'V
tlie orphan and indigent children of soli;. '- ■ C
bill or otherwise: to disfranchise and dcY -il !
ity deserters. *
The House suspended the ru’es, ar.d "took un
the resolution in referenc-' to the n;m ri ;
the Baptist Convention, an;ho>; dig the C-as
mittee to take into cooshleraiioa s' ■ and ' I'T
of appropriating f.’.iM.pm f or [vatid of
orphans of soldi, -s. etc . which w,;.;'adopted*.
The House took up the bill to increase the.
efficiency ot the Geoigia Militia, aud i » turn
over to Confederate service all who refuse to
-do duty in tlu-same. Oa motion of Ms. S‘o-
I’heus, ot Hancock, it was so s;i:i..-*u« and that the
provisions of the act shall no; cap!-,- i-o ...un
constitutional civil ofiker, and after some dis
cussion, was passed.
The substitute offered In the Ccmtnioeo in
Jieu of tie jjiil to punish with death the crime
taken up. The Lull
- ‘the first offense the offender
provid- lashes, and for the
- ,! V ; VuDO'. From the fact that
' ; r ‘ ‘ mis been appointed to report
1 -.riety of abolishing the Pepiten
,!l ‘a w ;» ; tabled for the present.
mr> sys * afternoon session.
TIP armxed bills were passed; a bill for
ikftrW »»>«» .««• th ;- Jf
Jl n : j,v.- all persons from the tax given in
;. ii.-it war where the properly ha3 been des
troyed or rendered valules-i by the public en
, .„v •; o in crease the peijliem pay under the poor
fund; to exempt certain civil officers in
ttija state from militia service—this'bill makes
constables liable whilst it exempts justices of
the peace. . _
•i ijei on: o% cal.li.nu a cotfv ention.
On Tuesday resolutions were considered in
the Senate opposing the calling of a State Con
vention . A motion to refer the resolutions was
lost. They were then put upon their passage,
with the following result:
Yeas —Messrs. Anthony, Bacon, Blackwell,
Chambers, 'Grice, Guerry,Hammond, Hubbard,
M'Gutchen, Nisbet, Pate, Polk, Pottle. Price,
Ramsay, Spear, Sprayberry, Watkins, VV r est,
Whitaker, White—2l.
Nays— Messrs. Baker, Bennett, Ezzard, Grif
fin. Groover. McDonald, Mcßae, Pafford, Un
derwood. Walk *-10.
The Senate came up in the House.
On motion to refer to a committee, the vot«
stood as follows:
Yeas—Messrs. Awtry, Barksdale of Lincoln,
Barksdale, ot Wilkes, Beil ol Jackson, Berry,
Blake, Brewster, Brock. Brown of Washington,
1 lurch, Carlton, Carter of Appling, Cooke, Car
bin, Cumble, Dubose, Edwards, Gartrell, Gill
more, Green, Hawkins, of Baldwin, Iliers,
Hundley, Huggins, Jackson, of Clark, Jackson,
of Whitfield, Johnson, of Spalding, Killian,
Long ton, Leinonds, Lett, Matthews, of Ogle
thorpe, McCurry, McDaniel, McDonald, m of
Backs, McDonald, of r J homas, Overstreet, of
Pierce, Player Reid, Rhodes, Robinson, Scruggs,
Sclman, Shockley, ol Jackson, Simms, Smith, of
Berrien, Smith, of Laurens, Smith of Tatnall,
Smith, of Wajlon, Starke. Stephens,,Tomlin
son, Underwood, Wells, Worley j Zeigler—s(i.
Nays—Messrs. Adams, Barclay, Brady,
Brown, of Houston, Brown, of Stewart, Bryan,
of Greene, Burts, Carter, of Stewart, Crywford,
Davenport, Davis, Dobbs, Dnclas, Dwinell,
Klain, Ez/.ard, Gay, of Early. Graham, Grogan,
Hall, Hawkins, of Oglethorpe, Henderson,
Hill, HoP, Hooper, Horne, Horsely, Hunter,
Hutchings, Jones, of Newton, Kennedy, Kim
brough, Kirby. Lawton, Leonard, Little, Love,
Mamin, Mathews, of Scriven, McDonald, of
Lowndes. MeKenney, Miller, Moore, Mitchell,
of Pike, Mitchell, of Pulaski, Parsons, Player,
Poole, Redwine, Roberts, Calhoun, Roberts,
of Miller, Roper, Russell, of Muscogee,
Stewart, Sutton, Swauson, Taylor, Warren,
Williams, Wright—s 9.
A motion to make these resolutions the spo
cial order for next Thursday, resulted as fol
lows : -
Yeas —Awtry, Barksdale, ot Lincoln, Barks
dale, ojf Wilkes, Barnes, Bell, of Jackson.
Berry, Blake, Brewster, Brock, Brown, of
Washington, Carlton, Carter, of Appling,
Cook, .Corbin, Dubose, Edwards,
Eiam,Gav, of Early,Gartrell, Green, Hawkins,
ol Lorsyth, Huggins, Jackson, of Clark, John
son, of Spalding, Kennedy,Kimbrough, Langs
ton, L-.monels, McCurry, McDaniel, McDonald,
of Lowndes, McDonald, of Thomas, Miller,
Overstreet," of Pierce, Player, Poole, Reid,
Roberts, of Calhoun, Robinson, Selmau, Shock
icy of Columbia, Shockley, of Jackson, Simms,
Smith, of Berrien, Smith, of Tatnall, Smith, of
Walton, Stephens, Tomlinson, Undeywood,
Worley, Zeigler— 56.
Nays—Adams, Barclay, Brady, Brown, of
Stewart, Bryan, of Greene, Burts, Garter, qf
Stewart, Crawford. Davenport, Davis, Dobbs.
Dwinell, Ezzard, Hall, Hawes, Hawkins, of
Oglethorpe, Hill, Ilolt, Hooper, Horne, liqrse.
]y, Hunter, Hutchins, Kirby, Lawson, Leon
ard, Little, Love, Munson, Matthews, of
Screven, McDonald, of Banks, MeKenney,
Moo»-e, Mitchell, of Pike, Mitchell, of Pulaski,
Parsons, ltedwine, Roberts, of Miller, Stewart,
Sutton, Swanson, Starke, Warren, Williams,
Wright—4(l.
Bao Mahaueiiknt. —It was in the power of
the Government, at the beginning of this
revolution, to*have placed in Europe a basis
of a circulation which would have neve: pet
refitted the latter to be under a par value with
gold. Was it the fault of the people that
this was not done? And what excuse can the
Government oILt lor not adapting the meas
ure ? .
The people were anxious to give up their
cotton \o form this basis; and yet, almost in
tho very m--merit whan Government, agents
were soliciting loans, these loans'were repudi
ated, and not only Government injured, but its
promises to the people violated. This first,
top towards bad faith has been followed by
one of the most shameless systems of profliga
cy that ever disgraced a government; and a
me of Government'indirect repudiation,
which, if adopted by a private citizen, if not
placing him in the penitentiary, would at
Raff be sufficient t * drive him from every
mart u here honest raeu resort for trade.
ft is,in vain that men, when they put a rep
re.- entative of the labor and produce of the
country inf lie hands of the people, wfu'ch they
iv luce one-third of its value, call that reduc
tion “ taxing it,” or say the people have more
money than they used to hare, etc. Call the
measure what you will, it is, in principle, re
pudiating, and so mankind will ever regard it.
To judity a Government in its error in infla
ting the currency by the greatest error of de
preciating ifc in tire 'hands of the people, is a
species of tlinmciai argument that assimilate:;
very closely to the philosophy' by which a rob
bar fills his pockets.
But to this the people submitted with as
tonishing resignation;.and had the policy end
ed with the utter destruction of the one hun
dred dollar non sos the old issue, the reduc
tion ot the value of oilier notes one-third, the
forced fund: i.; ia four per cent.'certificates,
the people generally would have acquiesced;
but when the- e are succeeded by a system n!
u . qual and badly regu! de l, ami otteu illegal
iuipict.siueuts, aud men are. forced to receive
soi . inr. s ho.lf, sometimes all, in certificates of
! . dm.as, wot tii from forty to fifty coots on
the callin', v.t are the people to thick ot the
value of rn-.inlaining the struggle for what is
called liberty and independence, but which
practically m oppression and despotism —Mo/it
(joint)'JialL
Sor.niF.RS to RK Edlcated.— The Howard
Col leg:?, located at Marion, Ala., has been
opened for the especial purpose ot giving to
disabled soldiers, who may desire if, an educa
tion, as we are informed by Prof. W. S. Bar
ion, of Montgomery. At present Rev. Henry j
Talbot is President, A. B. Gcodhu and two
disabled soldieis professors, all of whom are j
accomplished aud thoroughly educated gentle- ’
men.
This school is not open alone to persons j
from Alabama, but to tiiose from a-ly State ia
the Confederacy. Retired soldiers, if they will
only avail themselves of the opportunity, can
report there and receive a thorough education
w-ith- ;;: the. expense of a dollar. At this time
tln-ro are aieui one hundred students in at
tendance. representing every State in the Con
federacy,’and the buildings are ample to ac
commodate two hundred and fifty persons,
which number they hope soon to have.
Sure y. if these ineu* —the President aild
lVoitsiOTS— are w illing to remain there aud I
devote their time’and labor to the education ;
ot tiros. who are in want cl’such a thing, the j
.disabled nnff retired soldiers will not refuse to
report and ivc. ive the advantages gratuitously
remised flilra. It is to be hoped that this
Institution may be ?us‘a'ned,.for it is certainly
the m;.y; rr.usevvor’.hy one that we have yet
r°^ c If a similar school were established
\ l } h vc i>' s - - ; c i; would be the means of distri
- 1 1 - inculcuisble good throughout our j
- y-- T w ; C/.niv ,K>; be done?
v.V.r*.''*’ ac ¥ f ari her information
\ undress the Rev. Henry
1 . rS 14 eai '- 1 arc requested to call
- ycy o .. dar th . xtit
Lw6 *ncwn —Macon\Conj\deracy.
% sa > that Andrew Jack
t): m Ron candidal? for Vice President on
Ik r ill more ticket, ru 1806, has returned to
that city from trie BoUth, aud taken the cath.
THOM * S CARLYLE OX SLAVERY IX 1817.
Annexed is an extract from the Autobi
graphy of Dr. Theodore Clapp, of New Orleans,
relative to an interview between himself and
Thomas Carlyle. It shows that at least one of
the great men of England is not blinded by
prejudice:
I was very anxious not only to see but to
converse with some of the most celebrated
scholars and authors of Great Britain. Mr.
Bancroft, the historian, who was then our em
bassador at the Court of St. James, afforded
me all the attention add civilities iu his power.
1 was especially anxiorjs to become personally
acquainted with Thomas Carlyle. Mr. Bin
evoit told me that it would be impossible for
me to obtain an introduction to him except at
one of his evening levees, because he spent
every morning iu his study, and recei.ed no
visitors until after dinner. “But these levees
are always crowded,” said he, “and allow no
opportunities forextenled conversation.’’ As
he had called my countrymen a nation ofboree,
I concluded to a.-sutne the character and impu
dence which the term designates. Mr. Carlyle re
sided two Hiller from Mosley’s hotel, where I
had lodgings I was told that his breakfast
hour was eight o’clock. I found my way to
his dwelling one morning, when the clock was
striking nine, with letters from distinguished
men frqm both sides of the Atlantic. A lady,
with a very intelligent appearance, met me at
the door. 1 said to her, “I have called this
morning to see Mr. Carlyle; is he at home?”
She replied, “Mr.Carlyle has just entered his
study, and no gentlem in can see him this
morning. li the Queen of England should
now call here and request an interview with
him, it would nop be granted.”
I then asked her if she could oblige me by
carrying a written message to his study'.
“With pleasure,” said she. I sat down and
wrote with t> pencil the following words:
“Dear Sir : No gentleman, but a man at your
door—a Unitarian, a Yankee, a Democrat and
a radical, ail the way lrom The banks of the
Mississippi; a careful reader and great ad
mirer of Mr. Carlyle—and begs the favor of a
short interview, which must be granted now or
never this side of the grave.” 1 sent my let
ters along with this scrawl. Directly the in
vitation came : “Walk up, sir ; I shall be hap
py to see you.”
I was received in a most kind and uncere
monious manner. The topics ou which we
conversed were so numerous that I have not
ro r ru even to mention them. The colloquial
style of this gentleman is plain, easy, natural
and unaffected, and heais no resemblance to
that of his late writings; has none of those
qualities commonly called transcendental. Our
conversation was protracted until afternoon.
Though 1 rose several times to depart, he in
sisted on my staying longer, so earnestly,
that I acceded to his wishes. Much of .the
time was spent in answering his inquiries con
cerning the statistics of the United States, the
peculiarities of our Government, laws, man
ners, schools, churches, literature, etc. He
profeSsed to bo much gratified with the infor
mation which I gave him in regard to these
subjects. lie was very particular in his ques
tions about siayety, and the narratives of ijia
terrible sufferings to which African bondmen
are habitually subjected in our country. The
real facts, a§ I stated them, were iu direct an
tagonism to all the representations .of anti
slavery writers and orators which he had
seen. He was rejoiced to hear thg tdaygs
of"our Southern .States were well fed and
clothed, not overworked, and mercifully treat
ed in all respects. L told him that they were
quite as well off', both as to their temporal and
spiritual interests, as any class of operatives,
cither iu the field or .shop, that existed in
Great Britain or any part of continental Eu
rope.
He then uttered words nearly as follows:
“From what you say—and I cariuot doubt the
correctness of your statement—it seems that
slavery, as it exists in your republic, is a sub
ject enveloped in the thick ppst of ignorance,
prejudice and misrepresentation. It is indeed
true that not more than fifty years ago opr
own merchants were emoloyed in transporting
native Africans to your shores for sale. Tt is
truj that Great Britain originated the system
when you were colonies, under her jurisdiction
and imluence. At the same lime the ships of
N rw England w- re devoted to the odious traf
fic. Tiio Southern Slates were rover engaged
in the slave tiade. To bd sure, they purchased
the captives whom wo sent to them, because
they wore exactly fitted by nature for the cli
mate, and bet a use they believed; as everybody
then did. iu the entire rectitude ot such exchan
ges. i understand what you say, that South
ern planters .cannot possibly manumit their
slavca immediately Without involving them in
utter perdition. It duty to keep them
in bondage for the present, till it pleases Prov
idence to ifpt-n a way for their exaltation to a
higher state.' The blame of African bondage
in your land, if blame there be, belongs chief
ly to us wo set up the institiniou among
you by the force of law, oven against your de
sire and earnest remonstrances And we are
doing al! in our power to foster and perpet
uate it. We live by slave labor. What feeds
nr immense cotton manufactories ?. Destroy
tlit i.i. and we shall ha mined All those com
unities that use cotton, rice, sugar, coffee,-etc ,
produced by skive labor, are just as much im
plicated in the wrong us slave holders them
selv- s, and just as criminal in the s : ght of God.
Iu the guilt if slavery, as things are, the whole
civilized world puticipato. How unjust, then
the reproaches and viituperation poured out
upon j l a u, fora state of things which was
forced up an-you by an iaevitahle Providence,
and the cancelling of which is out of your pow
er ! Thu principle, I admit, is wrong; ‘but
let him who is without bin cast the first stone.’
it is idle, it is woise than idle, for one 'to in
dulge in acrimonious declamation against Af
rican sl.-vi.ry in the United States, who is uua
able to speedy ayy feasible method of abolish
•ing it.’’ ‘
Bach was the strata in which this far-seeing,
just, and noble man ex tressed ideas touching
slavery, which' must appear true and Joeautiful
i should think, to every caudid, impartial and
onlighttiied-miacl Aud ail the anli slavery
men whit whom he conversed in England,
. poke on the same sul.j ct ia the accents of a
calm, gentle, humane, profound and consider
ate. philosophy. They are free from that spirit
of harshness, invective and denunciation,
which characte-izs, almost invariably, the ef
fusions of-American- abolitionists.
Mvt vx’iJoly Amin.—A very sad affair oc
curred \. ten!ay about one o’clock at tho Na
va! 1 r<»• i storks by which two boys, John Mad
.den i: - -d ab rut 13 and Jack McElrath agtd
about id, lost their lives. It seems that while
the hands of the shop were off at dinner, these'
hoys began to try ihoir ski'd in extracting the
powder from a forty pound conical shell, and
while one was driving in a spike to make an
opening for tho "powder to come out the shell
exploded, bouibly mutduting each of the boys.
John Madden had both thighs taken off by
fragments of the shell besides being otherwise
ba iiy iujured. McElrath had one arm blofvu
off and was frightfully wounded iu the abdo
men Fragments o f the shell were thrown in
cv.-ry direction. Also pieces of bones and flesh.
Strange as it may appear each of the boys
lingered for more thau an hour after the acci
dent. It is said that while John and Jack
wore lying some eight or ten feet apart
in then- awful mangled condition they were
heard so inquire piteously about each others
welfare.
Young Madden was borne on a lifter near
three quarters of a mile and Expired in a few
minutes after reaching home. We learn that
McElrath expired while being carried home.—
All was done for the boys that could be done,
but in their condition.death must have been a
pleasant relief. This should prove a warning
to all who may feel inclined to projeot with
old shells This shell wa3 an old one picked
up at Charleston. —ColunAus Times, teb. 22.
Wealth of Chicago. The publication of the
incomes n Chicago has begun. The list of
those who?sih£OA»t* are over three thousand
dollars L? quite large. The following are the
names of chose whose income exceeds, one hun
dred dollars : Potter" Palmer. $335,433; John
Y..J>rwclE $137,152; Petes Schullier, SIOB,-
731. Those whose income is over flftv thous
and less than one hundred thousand dollars,,
number nine; over $40,000 and less than SSO
- three; over SffO.OOO, and less than $40,000,
sixteen; over $20,000 and less than $30,000,
fifty-one; over slo,oo® and less than $20,000,
one hundred and thirty-one; under SIO,OOO
aud over SSOOO, five hundred and ninety-one.
A Shocking Outrage. —The Columbus pa
pers of Feb. 20i£, eomi tons with lull ac
counts of a shocking outrage committed in
that place the previous day.
Thp following account we clip from the col
umns'qf the Times:
On Monday afternoon our community was
thrown iuto the highest pitch of excitement by
the killing of Mr. John Lindsay by one of the
provost guard of Ibis city. From the best in
formation we can gather, Mr. Lindsay was
partially intoxicated, had been engaged in
fighting, and had started home to prevent be
ing arnsted, when Colonel Yen Zmken or
dened his guard to arrest him and briug him
in. The guard thereupon hailed Lindsay, and
the latter not heeding, from inattention or
some other cause, the guard fired upon him,
and killed him on the spot. We look upon
the whole affair as a very unfortunate cue
Mr. Lindsay was a member of the Columbus
Guards, originally, was afterwards transferred
to the Nelson Rangers, and altogether has
been in the service lor neatly four years :du
rmg whi.h time we learn he proved to be a
faithful soldier. At the time of his decease he
was at home on furlough.
We do not know whether or not Yon Ziukeu
ordered the shooting, but if. he did, it was
usurpation-of authority not justified by the
circumstances of the case. It Mr. Lindsay had
committed an offence it was ouefor the cogni
zance of civil authorities. We can conceive of
no case that would justify the Post Command
ant in having a man skoß except in the case
of a deserter who refused to be arrested.
The man.who shot Lindsay was demanded
by our citizens, and to quell the excitement,
we un lerstand Colonel Von Zinken promised
to commit him to jail. He accordingly sent
him off under a corporal's guard, and the re
port was late yesterday afternoon that he had
made his escape.
If such cases as thi3 are permitted to occur
we may as welt he making up our mioils to
bow the neck to a military despotism as des
picable as tie government of Lincoln. We
trust the Governraeut will proceed at once to
investigate the cause, and define the powers
of pro vost olMiers. If they are at liberty to
shoot down a man for a mere civil offense, we
are now entering upon au era of horrors c in
pared to which the French Revolution in Paris
in 1798 was not a circumstance.
Since the foregoing was written, wo learn
that a coHuniltee of citizens, * consisting of
Sheriff Ligon, J. L. Mortan and B. L. 0 Cole -
man, called on. Col. Von Zinken and demanded
the surrender of the offender to the civil au
thorities, and that he gave his pledge that he
should be forthcoming and issued orijers to
have him arrested. This is said to h ive ap
peased the friends of the deceased. Nothing
short of hi3 surrender and punishment will
satisfy the people of this vicinity.
The Enquirer comments thus on the affair:
We have bggn crying out against the miser
able management inaugifiated in pur city by
Col. Von Zinken lrom the first and now we hope
our people have seeu that we are right. Let
him be put out of power and one idfy.trd in his
stead who ba3 some respect for the life and
liberty of our people. Directly he may not be
to blame for this affair, but indirectly he is,
and should not be allowed to hold the place
another day-
It is but a short Urge sin op vyo pamq quay be
ing shot by ope of jiis gqard. We are there -
fore tjred' of seeing lives and liberties of
our people placed in keeping cf such a man.
A good soldier he may be, and doiibtiess is,
but being boin under a despotism pot nor
cannot appreciate the liberties, rights and
privileges of a people ip a free country. We
tor the present desist from farther betray ing
our feeiinga upon this subject, but Bhould oc
casion demand will stand to all here said.
Important Resolutions.— :On last
Mr. Hawes, o£ Muscogee, introduced the fol
lowing highly important resolutions into the
House of Representatives. It is a little re -
markable, that just about the hour these reso
lutions were submitted to tho House, one of
his constituents. Mr. Lindsay, was shot
down in the street. Ike a d“g—the result of
the very evil which Mr. Ilawes is seeking to
remedy. The Legislature we hope will sec
proper to take some decided step to put a stop
to this evil.
The General Assembly of the Slate cf Geor
gia do Resolve —
1. That subordination cl the nulitary to the
civil power in all places where the authority
of the civil law is not displaced by the pres
ence or vicinity of the public enemy, is a luu
damental principle of civil liberty.
2. That Comruaudauts of Rosts and Provost
Marshals, exercising authority, outside of the
amiy, over citizens unconnected with the army,
are officers uuliiiowu to the Constitution and
laws of the Confederate States, and that these
illegitimate officers, while serving as a refuge
from military service to a large class of at
laches and supporting forces, are a grievous
vexation to our citizens iu pursuit of their
lawful business, and are rendered doubly odi
ous by being filled, for the most part, by stran
gers who do not comprehend the spirit of o-.ir
people, nor iha genius of our revolution, aud
from the fact that the functions performed by
these persons belong to'the enrol Ling offieeis,
whose appointment ami duties are piescribed
by laws.
and. That the action of General Richard Tay
lor, in abolishing these obnoxious and illegal
offices wi bin bis rnilitaiy department, meets
cur cordial approval, and commends iffielt to
the imitation of all our military authorities.
4 That his Excellency, the Governor, is re
quested to send a copy of these resolutions to
the commanding General of this Military De
partment, to the -iecreta'y of War, and to the
President of lire Confederate States.
A Sharp Pcxcb at PaoscaiPrioNisTS and
Street Dexuxciatous.—l he Athens Watchman
talks quite plain to that claca, of rabid men iu
our midst who are ia favor of proscribing every
cue who does not agree with them in their
fanatical views of any question—no matter
how absusd and ridiculous. It gives the- torn
mand which can very properly be termed
“street denunciators” — and there is a laige
command of them in almost every city —a sharp
punch also. Here is what the Watchman says
to these two classes of gentlemen; *
We will be pardoned for a woid of adrnoui
nition to those who are ever ready to denounce
as “Unionists,” “tones’’ and • traitors,’ 1 - all
who differ with them in reference to peace or
any other matter. Cannot these poor, pitiful
creatures lay aside for a time the vile trickeiy
and chioanet'7 they have so long practiced?
ibis is no time for such things. I'his is no
lime to make personal or party capital by fraud.
They deceive nobody by their hypocritical
cant. The men they denounce stand so high
above them that their puny shafts of detrac
tion can never reach their proud eminence.
Ail this base trickery is “plajvd out”—the
people can be no longer deceived.
PERQI 131TE3 OF THE PRESIDENT.— Cong ress htS
passed the following, whictf is now a law, f< r
the relief of the President:
The Congress of the Confederate States do
enact, That it shall be the duty of the Quar
termaster General' to furnish to the Comrnan
der-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the
Confederate States, the same commissary sup
plies and upon the same terms as aie now -al
lowed by law to commissioned officers in the
field; aud the quantity of commissary supplies
allowed to be drawn and- purchased by- the
Commander-in-Ch es, shall be double the
quantity allowed to a general in the field; Pro
vided, 1 hat in case hereafter the arnual salary
of the said Commander- in-Chief* shall bn paid
in pat tuhda, the value of the forage and sub
sistence given him by this act, and which may
be furnished during the period in which pay
ment of said salary in par funds is mads shall
be deducted from said salary in the settlement
of his accounts.
Section 2. This act shall eontinue in force
only during the existence of the war. ‘'
The order of Gen. Canby, fftecting a draft
of one seventh of the male population ia his
department, for the Federal army, embraces
West Tennessee,
A G rkat -t-qs Government‘
possessed no paper currency, but • relied *x
ffiusively for the payment «>t the army upon
gold and silver, the system dT blockade which
ii»s so thoroughly closed the avenues of com
munication with foioign countries, where this
coin could have been obtained hi exchange for
our cotton, tobacco nod rice, tne excuse for
the delay in paying oil the vet; runs of the war
would have been too just not to have been re
ceived. Bat when the Government Las had its
machinery at work night and day for nearly
four years, turning out by millions' bs paper
money, what apology can reasonably be made
ior the failure tu pay «off the army ? In no
town or village of the Confederacy can cne go
without finding crowds of soldiers who Lave
no been paid oil'—sums* for one year, some for
the war.
Wo have been wonderfully rich ?n scheme?
of finance. We have gloried in prophetic an-*
nouncements of the value of o’ur currency, and
the means for its redemption; millions ot mil
lions of it has been floating through the coun
try, the basea of every imaginable system of
speculation, yet how is it that at every Quar
termaster and Commissary cilice the poor,
wounded, tired soldier finds staving him in
tin? face that familiar sign-board "No money
on Hand.” Do the notes of the Confederacy
find their way out of the treasury except
through the disbursing departments? We
know there are no banks discounting; we know
the treasury puis cut no money except through
its agencies; and yet every body can have the
funds except soldiers, who have endured the
privations ot thcrlield, ami people whose prop
erty has been impressed! Hundreds of dirty
little papers, kepC ho long that the ink has
turned pale from shame, are hawked about
qver the country, bearing the scrawls of im
pressment agents, good each for the value of
from five to one hundred pounds of,bacon,
•jerked from some poor mans smokehouse and
the mouths of his hungry children, for which
he cannot get a dollar,-even in Confederate
notes! And if he complains, he ll stopped by
some sleek and well-fed Government official,
who calls him disloyal; who tells him he oiulit
to be ashamed of himself for not making some
sacrifices for his country and her glorious lib
erty !
The people are disgusted with such non
sense. Wiiat have cries of liberty and coun
try to do with a plain man stying to his cred
itor, ‘ pay me my bill; you owe it; you have
had my property or my labor, and 1 want the
money !” Is there any dtlicreme btHwtvu the
Government and a, citizen occupying this re
lation ? The best policy lbv a government is
to be just; to teach its people to be honest by
being so itself; to leads men the' virtue of
punctuality by a prompt discharge of its en
gagements. Another matter of grievous injus
tice and wrong is the manner in which our
soldiers are fed aud clothed. U glily respecta
ble and distinguished officers of the army at
tribute the disasters of the Tennessee campaign
to this cause. They.say, and the noble soldiers
oi that inconsiderate and tash enterprise, in
their recent transit, by theiy lv.ggcduess and
forlorn countenances, attest it, that the troops
were in no condition to tight; that they were
in want of food, barid'ooted, almost naked,
worn out with fatigue and suffering from the
effects of bad weather.
flow hypocritically vise upon the air:
“Army ot Tenner see, you have fought nobly;
yop have died like heroes; your country will
eternally remember you among her immor
tals!” Such d’ e'amaiion tails coldiy upon the
ears of the half u!oibed.*balf-ied survivors of
that terrible sacrifice, and is drowned by the
bitter wail of wives and mothers, who, with
outstre.ched arms, call upon the-projectors of
it, “give us back our husbands and our chil
dren I” Can tin: Government expect to stop
desertion ? Can it suppose that meu will be
encouraged to sacrifices undtr such a policy?
We notice that it is proposed hereafter’to make
reputation prima Jack- proof of discretion.
Even this unprincipled innovation will fail to
hush complaints, suppress tto indignation ol
oppressed men, or fill the army with satisfied
and cheei fu I.troops. Audi.
— iZissM.- T
Judge LocukameV Dncisip.v. —'The civil law
is the palladium of our right a.. This is emi
nently ‘true in these days when “ military ne
cessity” is the aigis of legislation and is made
to justify the abuses which, only intensify the
evils of war. It is well indeed for liio country
that there are some in authority who, as the
faithful and fearless guardians of cur rights,
date to do their duly and shield us beneath,
the broad aegis of the civil Law,
The decision of Judge Loohrane, touching
the Conscription of those unlit for actual'mili
tary service, does honor lo his head as a jurist,
and to. his heart as a patriot. Able, eh quent
and just, it is worthy to be treasured in the ju
dicial archives ot our country and enrolled
with the most eminent decisions chronicled in
the jurisprudence of England. If. is important
not simply as itdeci les rho rights of a single
man, but as it involves the best interests .of
the country, and the rights of thousands who
now groan under the bondage of an unju3l
conscription, galling a- Ihe chains of tyranny ;
a bondage oppressive and iiqpilliatiug lo them,
and more than useless l<> ilm country.
Wo do ijot propose to dffcUiS tbo i uono
ably canvassed in the decision. It is 1 bore set
tled with a logical force— clear" and unanswer
able, and the great heart of the nation will eu
deisc it.
In the effort to make vis a-nation of soldiers
and traas! ol in the country to a camp, Congress
has seemed to forgot that there is a vital issue
to be settled in the eorrfioti its will as the
battlefield; that bread as well as ballots' is an
essential, active element, in this revolution,
and is constantly becoming more important,
as territory is lost ami as our communications
are interrupted Wish a proper superintend
ence and direction of the agricultural forces of
the country, any Klato in the ‘Confederacy
could feed our armies and its citizens. We
have the land and' negroes—more than
enough—to rabe all lire supplies necessary for
the army and (he country. Rut they need
overseers to control ar.d direct their labor crS
litably. This.is tbo great want of llie land.
Release those who are until.lor actual m tlifary
service from their unjust conscription and
thoustluds of them will return homo to raise
these supplies. Then will <;ur soldiers whose
breasts is the buhyat k of our defense, no long
er suffer for bread, and pale and haggard with
hunger, draw their feeble frames to the battle
held on whose fearful issues are impended the
destinies ul the country ; no longer, while bat
tling, for our hearth-tones, wiii their spirits
bink down within them a: the thoughi of their
wives and children starving at home. — Macon
Tel. graph.
Put the Blame on the Right P.iurisa.
Gen. Hood,.since. conclusion of the recent
disastrous Tennessee campaign, has come in
for a pretty liberal share of criticism an 1 cen
sure. Complaints even from those who advo
cated bis appointment and the removal of hie
predecessor have been lavishly distributed.*
The truth is, llood did nothing more than was
required of him. Richmond wanted a man
that would light, and he did light. The Fabi
an policy would not do, and lioqd was a re
puted charger? They wanted a man to press
the enemy, and he pressed them, if retreat
ing before superior uum jers to save an army
regatdlesa of territory, was disapproved--here
was a man who did not retreat. To hold on to
garrisoned posts, to save cities, to preserve
territory, is not war. To tako care of an arrnv
is !
*To carry breastworks with terrible loss and
capture battle-flags is glorious enousrh—but it
is not war. A bold, dashing, fighting man
was warded—and where a bolder or more dar
ing fighter than Hood ? He was reckless of his
own person in the Franklin affair even to cre
ate the Impression on she minds of somewhat
he was indifferent as to whether he should live
through it. He was ainfirig the bullets. He
fought desperately, and heroic bjood tan in
rivuiets beneath his horse's hoof-, yet; still lie
did bat what he was put there to do.
“Hang be the heavens in blaqk,” let Justice
Btill be done. Let the" responsibility 'rest upon
the proper shoulders. What was Hood -placed
in command for ? Tide Che Miteon speech.
Who put him in command of ' that afruv ?
There ! Why endeavor to shift the pressure of
public opinion ?— Montgomery Hail
Slate Coloe on Cotton ce • Woolen.- Take
beech bark, boil it man iron kettle, skim out
the chips after it has boiled sufficiently, then
add copperas to set the dye. If you wish it
very dark, add more copperas. 'This is excel
lent lor stockings, as it does not fade,
CQAFKDESt VTC sr.\Tt» <IO.\C UU* b
senate - san. ltd.
The Chair laid before the Senate a c .mmu
nicaliou from the Secretary # of the Treasury,
asking an appropriation for the payment of
expenses incurred in carrying election returns
of of Tennessee to the State of Ar
kansas. Kefeired to Finance Committee^
'The following resolution was adopted
Resolved, That the Committee on the Judi
ciary be instructed to inquire into the expedi
ency anu propriety ol creating anew executive
department of the Government of the Confe 1
erate States, to be styled the Home Depart
ment, to which shall bo try rusted the develop
ment, management and control of the internal
resources of the Confederate States.
On potion, the presiding officer was author
ized to e.ppoiut the committee on the part ot
the Senate to inquire into the treatment cf
prisoners.
The following resolution was agreed to :
Resolved, That the President be respectfully
requested to caqse to be furnished, for.the in
formation of the Senate in secret session, state
ments showing, as far as practicable
1. The number of commissioned and non-,
commissioned officers and privates on the mus
ter rolis of t' e army, now liable to military
duty.
.2. The number, rank and file, now presen
for dujy.
3. The number of officers and privates ab
sent from duty with and without leave.
4. The number of officers and privates now'
in the,hospitals and absent from duty on sick
leave.
5. The number of troops now ou detached
service, together'with a statement iu what that
service consists.
(i. The number of persons liable, to military
duty, who have beeu detailed, and on what
necessities and for what objects such details
have beeu made.
7. The number of Confederate prisoners'still
in the bands of the enemy.
8. The number of officers and privates who
have been killed or have died of disease, and
the number rendered permanently unfit for
service iu the field by reason ot wounds or
sickness.
TiieiMilitary Committee reported back Sen
ate billto amend an act to provide an invalid
corps, w hich had been returned from the House
with au amendment. The amendment was
agreed to. „
The consolidation bill was passed—yeas 13,
nays 3.
The Ohair appointed Messrs. Graham of
North Carolina, Walker ot Alabama, and
Setnmes of Louisiana, on the joint committee
to prepare an address to the people of the Con
federate States.
HOUSE—JAN. 23.
The Speaker laid - before the House a com
munication from the President in response to
a resolution of inquiry detailing the means de
vised to communicate with (lie Tran.r-Miasis
sippi Department Ordered to be printed.
Also, a communication from the Secretary
o! the Treasury asking fqr the appropriation
of $5,000.t0 meet the expenses incurred in the
transmission ot the army vote to the State cap
ital. Referred.
The Home-hill authorizing the establishment
of depositaries in connection with the Treas
ury Department was returned by the Senate
with the following amendments : ,
Ist. That there shall not he more than cue
Depositary for each State.
21. To strike out the fourth section of the
bill which exempts deposits from taxation.
The first amendment w'as concurred iu ; the
second'was tl sagreed to
Moesls. Fuller and Gilmer, of North Caro
lina, presented copies of the resolutions of the
Legislature of their State, relative to the brig
ading of North Carolina troops. Also, r< so
lutions from the same body concerning the
payor the expense incurred by that State in
the execution of the conscript law. Both re
ferred.
A insolation was adopted instructing the
Ocmkdtlce on .ho Judiciary to inquire into the
expediency of so amending the i nv prohibiting
the traffic in the currency ot toe 'em my as that
it shall not'apply to our prisoners ot war in
the hands ot the enemy.
The fcpee'afcommittee on the Claims of the
S:ates, under the provisions of the act of 'til,
reported bills for the payment of the amounts
• found due the States of North Carolina and
Louisiana. Passed.
The Chair announced the following special
committee on the part of the House, under the
joint resolution adopted to prepare the ad
dress to the soldiers of the army of the Con
federate States : Messrs. Miles of South -Caro
lina, Lives ol Virginia, Sexton of Texas, and
Anderson of V irginia.
The following were referred : a bill prohib
iting, under severe penalty, the traffic in gold
or silver in any portion of the Confederacy not
within the life § of the enemy ; to amend the
act,.to organiz » forces for the war.
The exemption bill was further considered.
SENATE —JAN. 24.
The following resolutions were agreed to :
“Resolved, That the President of ihe Con
federate States of- America be requested to'iur
nisb the Senate : •
‘‘Firstly. Information as to the number of
white men, between the ages of 18 ami 45, and
the number of negroes, who. in audition to
their own officers, may be required for the
necessary employment and the proper dis
charge of the functions of the Department of
Medicine, of the Commissary General, of the
Quartermaster Generals Department, of the
Engineer, of the Oi finance and of the Nitre
and Mining Bureaux.
“Secondly. A like estimate ba to -the Post
office and Navy Departments.
“Thirdly*. A like estimate in regard to the
railroad transportation of thecounity, inclu
ding not only the wo: king, but the equipment,
repairs and construction of the number, in his
consideration, required for such transports
lien.
“Fourthly. To specify the railroads, if there
l>e?u\y such, whose repair's and construction,
in his opinion, will be necessary for military
put poses, and ought to be effected, in whole or
in part, by appropriations.fiom the Confederate
Treasury.” *
The Naval Committee reported back, with
the request to be. discharged from the further
consideration of the subject, Senate bi.l to in
crease the compensation of Naval storekeep
ers. Ou motion, the bill was postponed lor
future ccmsidmation.
House bill to reduce the number of exemp
tions and details was referred Lo the Commit
tee on Military Affairs.
blouse bill to provide more effectually tor the
reduction and redemption of the currency was
taken up and transferred to the secret calen
dar.
house-jan. 24.
The case of Ileury S. Foote was taken up.—
The vote on the majority report (for expulsion)
was taken and resulted yeas 51, nays 25 —so
the report failed.
The minority report (a vote of censure) was
adopted.
The Speaker laid before the House a commu
nication from the Secretary of the Treasury,
asking lor an appropriation by Congress of
51,000,000 to redeem mutilated Treasury notes.
Referred.
Government Stocks in Texas.— lt appears
that a most extraordinary market for Govern
ment stocks has sprung up in Texas ; which is
accounted for by the fact that foreign capital
ists are investing largely in them iu course of
trade—especially in the fifteen million loan,
from the idea that this stock, as it represents
a patriotic loin of specie to the Government,
at par, is bound to stand, whatever else fails.
The counons are also available to pay tbe ex
port duties on cotton. The Houston Telegraph
states that the Government six per cents are
selling from 125 to 180; and adds that the fif
teen million loan, for peculiar reasons, is
“worth ninety cents in specie in this market.”
It is strange, indeed, that our people should
be going about Richmond bunting tancHul in
vestments, leaving our Government stocks to
be monopolized by foreign capitalists. It Is
quits probable that the fifteen million loan has
already passed almost entirely into the hands
of •foreign holders, who have already seen its
peculiar advantages, and proceeded upon the
supposition that it must be a wife investment
in any contingency — Richmond Examiner.
J. S. Rock, a oolored lawyer, of Masaachu
setts, has been admitted, on motion of Hon
Charles Sumner, as a practitioner before the
Supreme Court of the Vuited Stated.
MOtVl'HKttN RStTVS.
A complimentary supper given at the
St. Nicholas hotel, in Cincinnati, on the 24th
ult. to Richardson. Br.owu and Davis, the three
correspondents of Northern papers, who had
been taken prisoners, but had escaped from the
Confederate prison. Great speeches were mads
on the occasion. q *
Seward has determined to continue his block
ade upon travel across the Canadian line. A
late Chicago paper says: Mr. Hall, ex-president
ot tue Saieua railroad Jett De
troit for Washington iu behalf oTtho Central
and other railroad companies, to suggest rea
s Oils in favor cf the revocation of the passport
order of-Secretary Seward, has returned. He
says Mr Seward informed him that the order
could not be revoked.
Among the Yankee wounded at the storming
of Fort Fisher were the commanders of the
three leading brigades ; General Curtis being
wounded not severely, but Colonels Penny
packer and Ball dangerously.
A corre-pondent writing from Natchez to the
New Orleans Times says : ‘-iu tact, the Gov
ernment has dftne all that, is proper and dis
creet in the premises, and those who wish to
deal ia cotton upon the, liberal basis offered to
them in go’od faith, find butt little difficulty.—
Au entire change has lately been made in the
Confederate coast guild on ihe east side, and
the men are rather more active than the
old. This renders oar cotton dealers more
wary and the military more vigilant.”
A Northern paper states that a number of
“copperheads* and secessionists” have decided
to quit California in di-gust. They have
founded what they call a ‘ White Man’s Col
on zation Soc’ety,” and intend emigration to
Mizitlao, MJx• co. lieriah Brown, editor of
the San Francisco Democratic Press, is at the
head of the movement.
The annual report from California shows
tliat the total-revenue of the Federal Govern
ment, on the Pacific coast for the past year was
about nine millions of dollars; the excess of
disbiitsements about six hundred and forty five
thousand dollars. 'I he import duties collected
amounted to nearly six millions of dollars in
gold. The total coinaee reached sixteen mill
ions. The entire product of gold and silver
for all the Pacific mints was about fifty-five
millions of doliarw. -
Col. McAvtlivr, late commanding at Colum
bus, Kentucky, has been arrested by order of
General Meredith, and superseded by Colonel
Hici s ueneral Meredith claims to command
Colonel McArthur, who claims to cotnmaud
under General Cauby alone, and the arrest is
attribute 1 to lh:s clashing ot views..
There are 18.5>2 houses in Boston worth
over $-13,OQt),000. The total value of land in
Boston is over $100,000,000. •
The Little Rock Democrat savs the recent
election of W D Snow lo the United States
Senate from Arkansas was a farce. Only sixty
voter were cast, while it required seventy six
to constitute a quorum »f the Legislature.
The Message of the Governor of Pennsylva
nia io the Legislature of that State is almost as
long as that of the Governor of Massachusetts.
Iu it be declares that 'lie for volun
teers are not only expensive, but demoralizing
and unproductive cf benefit. Here is his state
ment ot' the number troops furnished by Penn
sylvania 'The number of troops sent in the
service during IBiit from Pennsylvania, is
91,704, of which over seventeen thousand have
been re enlistments. .Since the beginning of
the rebellion, ilie number of volunteers fur
nished by Pennsylvania, has been 33(1,444,. to
which we may add 25,000 militia called, in
service in 1802 making altogether 301,444
men.
The Memphis papers .state that the troops
concentrating at Pascagoula are mostly ne
groes.
A draft now going on in Washington, is con
ducted in secrecy, so that those whose names
are drawn, shall have no Qiance to run away.
It is estimated that the enrollment law may be
so amended us to moke this mode of drafting
the general practice.
John’Antrobus, artirt and renegade, who haa
been at Philadelphia superintending the exe
cution of the gold medal for Gen. Grant, which
he designed, lias completed it and brought it to-
Washington. -It will soon be presented. A
similar medal is to be given to General Sher
man.
A soldier by the name of Coffield was shot
and killed in the act of stealing a mule Irons
the Government stabie of Capt. Toorner, at
TusoaloosiY He had bribed a negro, who had
tied uv> the watch dog, an-Tthen, proceeding to
the stable, bridled and mounted a mule, and
rode out. Upon iking hailed, be spurred ott and
re!tiring to bait, was fired- ou by the guard,
under oidup- from Capt. Toorner, with ihe re
sult above mentioned.
A private, Thos. 0. Dugan, Guibbon’s Missou
ri bat tery, brother to Bishop Dungan, of Chica
go, fomeraly of.St. Louis, was recently shot
and killed instantly in Selma by a sentinel.
A difliecully occurred on the streets In Co
lumbus, Mississippi, Feb. t> between John Fran
cis and VV, II Henry, which resulted in the
death of Mr IlenrV.
Mr. Richard Aden, residing near Canton
Miss was murdered a few days since by one of
his own negroes.
Memphis papers say that a British agent
from Liverpool at Corinth, is paying forty
cents for cotton, part in gold and part supplies.
They also state that considerable cotton, after
failing to got within our lines, has been taken
to Corinth.
The Springfield Republican gays that “two
thirds cl the people
ment ofT*encral Butler’s supercedence with
satisfaction, arol the'rest with indifference.’’ _
Judge J. K. Baldwin, Chief Justice of the Su
preme Com tof California, died recently in
Sail Franciscy. It is lm who was author of a
very clever book, “Flush Times in Alabama.”
Kentucky papers state that Confederate
guerrillas show but little mercy to negro sol
diers.
A bill passed the kgkladure of West Virgin
ia authorizing the Governor to surrender cer
lain prisoners for exchange. It appears that
the Confederate authorities have placed in close
confinement certain officers of West Virginia
regime nt3 as hostages I'ortbe return of certain
Confederate bushwhackers and other disloyal
persons, now held in custody by the authori
ties of this Plate. Tho obj< ct of the bill is to
relieve the Federal soldiers by authorizing the
Governor to surrender (he State prisoners iu
accordance with the request of the Secretary
of War.
W. A. McCJoy, IFq., editor of tho Memphiar
Democrat, was arrested January 25, and his
office closed by the military authorities. -The
publiaction of articles reflecting on the acts and
morals of ihe powers jhut Le, was the sole al
leged cause.
Rev. Dr McMullen, late President of the Uni
versi'y a . Clarksville, Tain, is dead.
Tils Rev. Vincent Ash, formerly of Vaa
Daren. Anderson county, Ky., who went as
Chaplain in Gen. Morgan’s regiment, and
was captured during the raid iu Ohio, died
recenliy at Camp Chase.
Six hundred barrels of whiskey are consum
ed in the city of New York every day on the
average, according to the report of the com
missioner of internal revenue.
The U. S. Secretary of war has sent to the
Senate a list of all the General officers in the
armies of Lincoln. It comprises 66 major •
Generals and 276 brigadiers.
Ben Wood, of Now York, who had a mort
gage upon a race track near Sacramento, re
fused to take the oath of allegiance prescribed
by the statutes of California, and accordingly
refused the privilege of foreclosing in the near*
est court/
Soldier's Bonds —With reference to •th*
bounty bonds to wmch many so'diers are en
titled by the act of February 17, 1864, It &
stated that it is only recently that the law bae
defined the form of these bonds. Since that
has been done the subject has engaged the dil
igent attention of the Xreasnry Department
and they will be ready for delivery with as lit
tle delay as the magnitude of the issue wilt
allow. These bonds will be prized by our sol
diers not merely for their value, bat as certifi
cates of their gallantry and will b« proud, an#
it is designed to give them a character and
appearance worthy of the interesting eirctin
stances of their issue. I hey will be et»pon
bonds, and will run for thirty years from th»
Ist of October 1864, the interest payable sea**
annually.