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UKORUI %■ LEGISLATURE.
senate—feis: 23.
The following bills were introduced, a bill
to authorize Judaea of tho Buperfor Cour - oi
this State to bold seseionsKit other placeg th
the county seat; to authorize Judges
Superior Courts to convene special _ scssjo....
lor jail delivery, and the trial of cr-miuai cab
as; tor the relief of Alex W. Wiley, ot liernon
county; to arid Echols county to toe rust
Congres-ional district.
Walker introduced a res6lutioil requn
1 ntt the Commissary General of the State to
furnish to the county of Walton the quantity
of salt to which it Is entitled by Jaw.
Tne Senate took up the bill to exempt school
-teachers from militia service in certain cases.
The iflll was laid on the table for the present.
afternoon session.
Mr. Pottle's resolution, pledging Georgia to
the prosecution of the war until independence
is achieved, was taken upas the special order.
Mr. Gauiden moved as a substitute, resolu
tions providing for the call of a State Con
vention of the State to meet in this city on the
15th of April next.
The resolutions ordered to be printed
and made the special order lor to morrow,
Feb 24.
Mr. Speer, from the Select Committee, offer
ed a resolution, leaving it to the discretion of
the Governor whether the public records
should be removed to Macon; and, also, that
provisions be made lor supplying dwelling
bouses for the heads ol Department, and to
authorize such heads ol Department to pur
chase provisions of the Commissary General
of the State. Bill lout.
HOUSE—FEB. 23.
The question of rebuilding the Peuiteniary
was referred to a select committee.
The House took up the resolutions of the
Senate adverse to the calling of a State Con
vention.
Mr. Stephens, of Hancock, otic red, as a sub
stitute to those resolutions that the question
of a convention bo referred to the people.
Mr. Warren, of Luo, spoke in opposition so
the substitute.
Mr. Stephens followed with a lengthy reply,
which occupied the balance of tho morning ses
sion and a portion of the afterenoon session .! 'o.
Mr- Adams offered a substitute for Mr.
Stephens’ substitute. Tho substitute left the
people to decide whether they would have or
not a Convention.
Ihe substitute is substantially the same as
tho resolutions of Mr. Stephens, and Mr.
MejP'ein expressed his willingness’to accept
rh« are nlment.
Mr. ILHrof Dougherty, followed in reply.
Ho contended that we could not limit the
bovoreiguty ot the people.
* SENATE— FEU. 24.
Tho Senate reconsidered the bill lost Thurs
day to provide for tho removal of the public
archives of fbe State toathe city of Macon,
nd to allow Heads of Departments to rant of
fices and houses for dwelling in tho city.
The special order, being the resolution of
Mr. Pottle, pledging the aid of Georgia to her
eißter States in the prosecution of the war, to
which an amendment was pending, providing
for the election ol delegates to a Convention
of the people, to meet o r tho 15th April next,
was taken up.
Mr. Ramsey spoke against, the amendment,
and contended for the original resolutions.
Mr. Gauiden followed in the support of his
amendment. He delivered an able and lengthy
argument. He was not afraid to trust the people.
We might pass thousands of blood and thunder
resolutions, but it the people were hot with us,
i t would be of no benefit. Fully nine-tenths
of his people were in favor ot this Convention.
Let us refer to the sovereign people—the peo
ple who sent us hero by that sovereignty.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Leave granted Mr Walker to withdraw res
olution instructing commissary General lo
furnish certain salt to county of Walton—of
lered under misapprehensions. Leave granted.
The annexed bills were introduced: a 'hill
for the relief of the Eatonton Manufacturing
Company; to allow the Georgia Railroad and
Banking Company to wiud up its banking bu
siness.
Bill to make it cause of a divorce for a hus
band or wife to desert a wife or husband, and
go over to the public enemy. Lost, 11 to
22.
Bill to allow officers from Georgia, in the
Confederate service, to purchase clothing from
the Quartermaster General of the btate. Pass
ed.
A preamble and resolution was ottered,- ask
ing the aid ol the Confederate Government in
building a railroad from Thomasville to Alba
ny* , •
Tho Senate then resumed the consideration
of the resolutions in relation to a convention
of the people.
Mr. Walker addressed the Senate, and offer
ed a series of resolutions, which were ordered
to be printed.
lIOCSE—FEB 24.
The rules were suspended in-order to take
up tho Message of the Governor in relation to
the equitable distribution of 20,000 pairs of
cottou cards in counties remote from tho in
terior of the State. Referred to a committee
of five.
"The following bills were iudroduced: a bill
lo am*md the charter of the city of Milledgeville;
to exempt Major Thomason, of Carroll, from
the payment of Taxes tor the year 1804;
to increase the fees of tax receivers in this
Slate; to authorize Win. Sutmner/ord, Guar
di u of J. B. Holmes, of Dooly, to turn over
the property to said ward; for the p irdon of
•Terry L. Cox, now confiued in the penitentia
ry, for the relief of Victoria L. Horton, of
Merri wether; to incorporate the town of liey
' nolds; to authorize th e wife of A E. Jones,
of Bibb, to receive any and all property that she
Is entitled toby inheritance or otherwise; to
amend the laws of the State in relation to lapsed
legaoies.
The following resolutions wore introduced :
a resolution requesting Congress to suspend
the operation of the Conscript Act. authorizing
the President to receive Regiments and Battaf
lions, Under officers of their own choice ; re
questing Cong rets to suspend the collection of
all Confederate Tax for 18(54.fend 'O.V, ot per
sons who have been overrun by the enemy ;
requesting the suspension of the collection ol
the State tax lor ISG-4. of all persons overrun
by the enemy ; authorizing the Governor to
furnish members and certain officers wi;h Wa
ters’ Pamphlet ; instructing the Governor to
disband the militia ; in reference to the em
ployment of slaves in the army..
The annexed bills were passed : a bill to
change the line between the counties of Merri
weather and Coweta; to repeal an act to
change the line between the counties of R:m
dolph and Calhoun; for the reliel of 1». Mi'ln
tosh, of Brooks; to change the oath of tax pay
ers of this State; to authorize Mary Edmondson,
administratrix of D. Edmondson, to set
tie with -and pay off W. A. Edmondson,
Vt *°, tn h r M - 0f estat °; to limit
11 1. '“posed upon the riti
-1 us and tax payers ot the city of Marietta
to ,eg«l,/,e th« election of Town Commissioners
lui* tut* town ot Madison
o, v.u sggrssz'
to change the line between the counties ot C av
an t H-tudolph Recommitted. The special or
der whs hen taken up; the same heir- the C
Hie i eso utions adveis* to the calling a Con
veuimu oi the people of the State; after Mr
Mat hews, ot ugletorpe, had concluded his
remarks in opposition to the resolutions ou
motion "f Mr. i.awsun, of Putnam, the resoiu •
indefinitely postponed. Yeas So
nays 56.
Annexed is tie vote :
Yeas—Messrs. Adairs, Barclay, Barksd de of
Lincoln, Barnes, Beall of Randolph. Blake,
Brown of Houston, Brown oi fiK.*wart, Brown of
Washington, Bryan of Quitman, BuiPh Carter
of Stewart, Coliins, Crawford, Cumbie, lta.ex
port, Davis, Dover, Dixon, Dobbs, Dwineli,
Elam, Ezzard. Faulk, Flemming, Fowler. Gue
of Chatham. Gilmore, Graham, Grant, Groves,
Hail, Hawkins of Baldwin, Hawkins of Ogh>
tborpe, Henderson, Hill, Holt, Hooper. Horne,
Horsely, Huggins. Hunter. Hutchings, iHime
dy, Kimbrough, Kirby, Langston, Lawson, i
Leonard, Little, Long, Love, Mansou. Mat
thews of Screven, McDonald of Banks, McDon
ald of Lowndes, McDonald of fbotuas, MtKen- |
ney, MUler, Moore, Mitchell of Pike, Mitchell
of Pulaski, Ogletree, Parsons, Philips ot Mori- ;
wether, Poole, Red wine, Reese, Roberts of Mil
|jsr, Robinson, Roper, Russell- of Chatham,
O ii Muscogee, Smith of Lauiens, Stew-
S sutton Taylor, Wallace War
and, U right —BS.
16 s'avV— s Awi ry. Barksdale qf Wilkes,
B q 1 of Ja !kspn,B rry, Brewster, Brock, Burch,
Cat I ton, Carter of Cook. Corbin, Du
bose Dumas, Edwards, Fraser, Gar trail, Q: * en ’
Grogan!* Dawkins of Forsyth, Him* Hundley,
Jiclionof Whitfield, Johnson of Hpalding,
S n Lemouds, Lott, Lovel, Mathews of
Oglethorpe, McCurry, McDauiel, Oakes, Oates,
Ov, street of Emanuel, Overstreet of Pierce,
Player, Pittman, Bawla, piston, Reid,
Scruggs-, Sulman, Shockley of Columbia, Shock
lev o* Jackson, Simms. Smith of Bernen, Smith
of Tattnell, Smith of Walton, Stephens, Tom
linson, Trammel. Underwood, Whitehead. Wig
gins, Wells, Worley, Zsigler-56.
afternoon session.
The annexed bills were introduced : a bill to
prescribe the tax on Banking Companies and
all incorporated Companies using the
banking privilege; to legalize the sus
pension of specie payment by the Banks of
the State until Ist of January, 1866; to pre
scribe the oatli of tax payers for the year 1865;
to amend an Act authorizing the Treasurer to
i- -.ue certificates for the payment of members,
and other civil officers of tho State; to . change
the line between the counties of Wayne and
Pierce; to change the lines between the coun
ties of Pulaski and Telfair; to require theCoun
ty Treasurers of this State to be elected by
the people Ist January. 1866; to add the coun
ty ot Wot tb’tOgthe 5 ,W. Judicial Circuit; toex
empt school teachers from the militia service
Resolutions relative to the death of the Hon
Daniel Lawhon, of Terrell county, and Hon.
A. Nichols, of Webster county, were adopted
A bill to exempt from taxation all widows,
fe'.tH safe. S', and minors and families of soldiers,
where the property does not exceed $2,000
in value. K. committed.
A bill was introduced incorporating the
Metropolitan Telegraph Cos.
Tim siunexedAilis were lost: a hill to amend
the. Military Laws; to exempt county surveyors;
to increase the rank of the Q. M. General; to
refund, money to tax payers whose property
has been destroyed by the enemy—a general
bill being introduced that embraces this; a
bill to change the line between the counties of
Worth and Dooly—laid on tho table for the
present.
SENATE —FF-B. 25.
The annexed bills were introduced : a bill to
compel proprietors of.hotels, and other places
ol public entertainment, to give receipts or
checks for the baggage of their guests, and,
in certain eases to make penal a refusal so to
do; a bill to be entitled an act to extend the
time lor returns of elections in the army—it
makes the time twenty days ins ead of fifteen.
The Senate took up the resolution of Mr.
Pottle, pledging the resources of Georgia for
a vigorous prosecution of the war, for which
a substitute had been offered by Mr. Gauiden
looking to the holding of a Convention on the
20th April next.
The resolution and substitute were discussed
by Messrs Pottle and Gauiden. The vote Was
then taken on the adoption*of the substitute,
as follows:
Yeas—Messrs. Bennett, Ezzard, Gauiden
and Paflord—4. *
Nays—Messrs. Bacon, Baker, Blackwell,.
Chambers, Grice, Griffin, Groover, Guerry,
Hammond, Hubbard, Mabry, McCutcheu, NiS
bet, Ramsay,* Watkins, West, Whitaker and
White-10.
The original resolution was then placed on
its passage, with the following result :
Yeas'—Messrs. Bacon, Balter, Blackwell,
Chambers, Ezzard, .Grice, Griffin, Groover,
Gueiry, Hammond, Hubbard, Mabry, Mc-
Cuteheon, McDonald, Nisbet, Pafford, Polk,
Pottle, Watkins, West, Whitaker and White
—23,
Nays—Messrs. Bennett and Gauiden—2.
The annexed resolutions were iutroducted :
A resolution requesting the Confederate Gov
ernment not to take up the iron on the Macon
& Brunswick Railroad ; requesting the Confed
erate Government to build the railroad be
- Albany and Thomasville.
HOUSE— fEb 25.
Mr. Stephens, of Hancock, moved to recon
sider the-vote of yesterday by which the House
postponed indefiditeiy the Senate resold
lions in opposition to tho holding of a Conven
tion.
Mr. Stephens stated that the Senate resolu
tion "which the ltauso had thus postponed, did
not contain a word about referring the matter
to the people. If we failed to reconsider this
question now, it could not come up before this
body during the present session. There wa3
a strong feeling on ttys subject.. Allusion had
been made to tire resolutions passed by the
citizens of the first Congressional District at
lfiackshcar; and he would remind members
that the people of that Convention declare in
those resolutions, that if the Legislature re
fuses to caff a Convention, they wilt hold one.
lie did not want the precedent established in
Georgia that was in Texas, where .the privi
lege ol holding a Convention was attempted to
be denied them by the Governor, who refused
to call the Legislature that it might call a
Convention, and the people inaugurated and
held a Convention of their own motion, in spiio
of all opposition.
Mr. Mathews, of Oglethorpe, said he wished
members to understand him ; that he had never
committed himself pro or cohjn regard to vot
ing for a Conventioh, hut because he was wil
ling to refer the matter simply to the people,
he would vote far the reconsideration.
Mr. Hardeman, of Bibb, called the previous
question, which was sustained. The yeas and
nays cm the vote were as fellows :
Yeas—'Messrs. Aw try. Bark-dale of* Wilkes,
Beil of Jackson, Berry, Blake, Brewster.
Brock, Brown of Washington, Burch, Carlton,
Carter es Appling, Corbin, Lutnbie, Edwards,
Fraser, Gaitroll, Green, Gresham of Greene,
Grogan. Hawkins of Forsyth, liters, Hundley,
Huggins, Johnson ot Soaking, Killian, L»-
inmids, Lott, Lovei, Matthews of Oglethorpe,
McDaniel. McDonald ot Lowndes, McDonald ot
Thomas, Oakes, Oates. Overstreet of Emanuel,
Overstreet of Pieiee, Pittman, Rawls, Raiiston,
Robinson, Scruggs, Selnem, Shockley of Co
lumbia. Shockley or Jackson, Siminj, Smith of
Berrien. Smith of Laurens, Smith of Tattnall,
Smith of W.ilton, Starke, St phens, Tomlinson,
Trammel!, Underwood, Wiggins, Wells, Wor
ley. Zeigler—s6.
Nays—Messrs. Adams. Barclay, Barnes,
Beall if Randolph, Brown of Stewart, Bryan of
Greene, Bryan o* Quit man, Carter of Stewart,
Coll-ns. Crawford, Davenport. Davis, Dever.
Dixon, Dobbs. Eiarn, Ezzard, Fleming, Fow
ler, Guo of Chatham, Graham, Grant, Groves,
llall, Hawkins of Oglethorpe, Henderson, Hill,
Holt. Hooper, Uorue, Horsely, Hunter, Hatch
mgs. Jackson of Clark, Jones of Newton. Ken
nedy, Kimbrough; Lawson, Little. Long, Love,
Munson, Mathews of Striven, McDonald of
Banks, Miller, Moore, Mitchell of Pike, Mitch
ell of Pulaski, Ogletree. Parsons, Phillips of
Merriwetber, lieese, Roberts of Miller, Russell
of 'Chatham, Russell of Muscogee, Stewart,.
Sutton, Swanson, Taylor, Wallace, Warren,
Williams, Wilson, Wood, Wright—os.
The annexed resolutions were passed; a res
olution in reference to the distribution of
cotton cards: in r. laticn to taking up the
iron on the Brunswick Read; that the milita
ry law is subordinate to the civil.
The annexed bills were lost: a bill to pay
back to the citizens of this State, the tax on
all slaves captured, or escaping to the enemy,
in the year IM.U; to change the liues between
the counties of Dougherty and Lee.
Mr. Ezzard, of Fulton, introduced a resolu
tion than he General Assembly adjourn sine
die on 2d of Maieh next.
AFTERNOON session.
A bill was introduced to abolish the State
! j ntt er riary and provide lor the punishment
| ot crime.
j *7«*>lution to allow 7 administrators and
In . A ; Ut r* t 0 Std ’ 1 Confederate bonds and oerti
i taka« S ! ° r and paying debts, was
taken up and adopted.
SENATE—FEB. 27.
’/ ‘“ission the following votes were re
corueu on Convention resolutions of Mr.
Uauluen; an* the resolutions of Mr. Pottle,
p e- ging .Teorgia to a continued prosecution
£n V Va r ? nthe rt ‘ So ‘utions of Mr. Gaul
uen, .Mr. Lnderwood voted vea; Messrs. Speer
! p^M r , ry *, otui ua y On the resolutions
voted" vt- **' iessrs ' Jeer and Spray berry
The Senate took up the bill for the better
securing, to indigent tamdies, the funds appro
pTifUei b\ tbu for the if relief. The bill
provide., for the appointment by the Governor,
oi ftU Agent to eu.cn county, to take lunds in
charge. It also exempts such Agents from Mi
litia service. T he Dill after considerable dis
cussion was passed—Yeas 19, Nays 6
Mr. Garden’s resolutions, adverse to the po
licy of arming of slaves,- being the special or
der tor to day, were taken up and referred to
the Committee on Confederate relations.
A resolution requesting the Governor to in
form th 11 Senate in regard to the cotton now
owned by the State, and how much has been
lost by ship .vreck or otherwise, was adopted.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Resolution requesting the Governor to dis
band Lieut. Col. Beall's Battalion. Adopted.
Resolution was adopted declaring that the
General Assembly will adjourn on Saturday
next Yea3 17. nays 8.
The annexed bills were passed: a bill to pro
vide f. r the vacation of the office of Ordinary,
in cases where tbe incumbent is physically or
mentally disqualified for the performance of
bis duties: to fix the fees of county officers;
for the relief of Alex. W. Wiley, of Berrien
county.
annexed bills were postponed: a bill to
add the county of Echols to the First Congres
sional District; authorizing administrators,
executors or trustees to pay debts with.proper
ty valued at the price 6uch property would
have commanded in 1860.
The annexed bills were introduced; a bill
to dkqu viify persons who have taken an oath
to support the Government of the United
States; to raise the rank of the Quartermaster
General and Commissary General to the rank
of Colonel; to provide for the holding of elec -
lions in case a county has beea overrun by
the enemy.
HOUSE—FEB. 27.
The annexed resolutions were introduced:
a resolutions authorizing the Ordinary o
Campbell county, to pay teachers of poor chil
dren of said county for service in 1865; direct
ing the Judiciary Committee to report as to
the condition of the Stay Law; to request of
Congress to relieve from Confederate taxation
such spirituous liquors as the Inferior Courts
may certify to bo necessary for the several
counties; instructing th 9 Military Committee
to take into consideration the subject of pay
ing the Georgia Cadets for their sevices in
the field, and to report by bill, or otherwise;
to prevent, if possible, the tearing up of the
Albany and Gulf Railroad between the Alta
maha river and Thomasville.
The annexed hills were introduced: a bill
to amend the charter of the town of Decatur;
to extend tho operation of the laws lor the
relief of the Banks and the people; to amend
tho Militia Laws of the State: to levy and col
lect a tax for the political year 1865; to create
anew Judicial Circuit, to be called the Oco
nee Circuit, to consist of the counties of Pulas
ki, Dooly, Lauiens, Tefair, Wilcox , Irwin
and Coffee; to add the counties of Clinch and
Echo’s to the Southern judicial Circuit; to in
crease the compensation of Tax Cpileotors.
Ihe annexed bids were lest: a bill to au
thorSzJ Clerks of the Superior Courts to admin
ister the marriage ceremony} to compel per
sons to surrender stolen property.
'The annexed resolutions were adopted : a
resolution to allow the Secretary of State to
empiov a clerk; req e-eting the establishment
of a mail route from Holmes’ Cross Roads to
Mount Vernon.
The annexed 'pills ware passed : a bill to
amend the charter of the town of Fort Valley;
to amend the charter of.lhe tpwu of Sparta; to
incorporate the Metropolitan Telegraph Cos ; to
amend the ebarte? of the city of Milledgeville;
to amend the certiorari laws,
SENATE—FEB. 28
The annexed motions were lost: A motion to
reconsider the action ot tbe Senate on yester
day. by which was passed a bill for the better
securing to the indigent and soldier’s families,
tlie funds appropriated by the State for their
relief; to reconsider tho bill passed on yester
day to fix the fees of County officers.
The annexed bills were passed: A bill author
izing the Georgia U U & Banking empany to
close up its Banking business; to authorize the
Central RR & Banking Company to remove
the principal office, and to elect a President
and directors for the present year; to extend
until March Ist, 1866, the time for theredemp
tion or the last issue of State Treasury Notes.
Mr. Sprayberry introduced a series of reso
lutions looking to the abandonment of the
paesout policy of conscription,* and returning
to the old plan of reinforcing the armies, by
requisition upon the State*.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The annexed bills were passed: a bill to
authorize administrators, executors, &c., to pay
debts against estates with property at its valu
ation in 1860; to increase the pay of teacheig
of poor children*, it raises the pay to 75 cents
per day.
A resolution was offered, which was adopt
ed, that the Governor be requested to furnish
to the Senate, information in regard to the
number of regiments and organizations in the
State* and when such organizations bays been
paid
.Mr Walker rose to a personal privilege.
The resolutions acted upon on Saturdry, dur
ing his absence at Milledgeville, were not in
tended as a substitute to Mr G luldcn’e or Mr
Pottie’s resolutions, but simply expressive of
his opinions He did not intend for them to
he acted on in his absence. He desired this
svateident to go on the journal.
Mr Ledford asked and received per mission to
record his vole cn Mr Gauiden’s resolutions.
He voted yea.
HOUSE—FEB. 28.
he annexed bills were passed : a substitute
for the bill to amend the laws against gamb
ling, throwing the onus on the dealer at a taro
table, making him prove that the checks or
counters were purchased by money or other
valuable thing; to amend 1572 of the code: for
the more speedy trial of offenders: to exempt
from taxation all widows having sons in the
army and soldier's families where the proper
ty does not exceed S2OOO in value; to amend
the Charter of the Southern Insurance and
Banking Cos; to extend the time for the pay
ment of the tax of H. B Troup and othbis sim
ilarly situated; to allow persons to distil grain
into spirals in ihis State - it provides that each
liead of a tarnily be allowed to distil five gal
ions, aud one'gallon for each ten persons in the
taaiily after the first ten already provided
for; for a violation of the act, the peisons are
held answerable to the law in reference to il
legal iliatiiiatioa.
The annexed bills were lost : a bill to pro
hibit administrators from selling the house
hold and kitchen furniture in certain cases, se
curing it to families of the deceased; to amend
an Act incorporating the Home Insurance Cox
of-Savannah; to provide tor the support of ex
iles from Atlanta; for the relief of A. Greer, of
Butts county.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The annexed bills were passed : a bill to in
crease the tees of Tax-Receivers and Collectors
4i this Statr; hr the pardon of Terry L. Cos ,
now confined in the Penitenia y for the crime
of murder; to authorize the Ordinaries of the
State ro take probata of wiiis when but two wit
nesses were present; to amend section 4,220
of the Code of Georgia—the bill extends th«
provisions of said section to all cases now pend
ing, or to be hereatter instituted, when the
penalty upon conviction is death.
The annexed bills were lost: To change the
line between the counties of 'Paulding and
Cobb; providing for lire payment of the Mili
itia, ot this State—a biil having been introduc
ed covering this; amendatory of the Militia
Laws of the State; toamtnd the road Laws of
it 8 > 'k< ,- -IM u of il.r
C Me co a cor-ncy; showing on motions •
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tr -f' M 1 report wing tfcvt a lir?e i
source of . >•- r - • -je
te; 'plated tax, -beside® tie .use of sheep des- !
ti . t;y oogs 1 ;as
gt*. »ii reason w .tleme -
f..,r this bill, and if ihey woul
their ’ashns. *ue toed co
ftecu. c- --A- _i-:gs wouidfa
to m* 8, -'O,OOO pounds ct
A r* -ol'tvoo relative to ts e
It ••esthat sri$ r i of the ;
jeer > ot ,_:e Legislatin'
OT r' ‘ r t vlt p ‘
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resolution ieiatire to ex -
per ioi f a-'ialea of me.
Btut-- Ftssed. Ov* r- -
tU« ftua tq* r
without hindrance from any Executive authori
ty.
SENATE—MARCH 1 .
The committee appointed tc, visit the city of
Milledgeville, and inspect an J report upon tho
condition of the penifentiar y f submitted a re
pojf. A synopsis will bes ouud in the proceed
ings of the House. At, the request of Mr.
Walker the resolutions were laid over until
to-morrow.
The Senate passed the following bills: A
Bill to authorize the judges to hold Superior
Courts at other places than county sites. A bill
extending the time of receiving e'ection re
turns from the ai my to twenty days. A Bill to
compel hotel keepers Lo give checks for bag—
g-;ge, and make it to refuse to do so. A
bill to remit tax or., property destroyed by tbe
enemy.
V<Sen ate—March I.] #
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The bill to authorize the Governor to make
impressments, in order to obtain the necessary
supplies for soldiers’ lamilies. was taken up,
discussed, and passed. Yeas 16; nays 10.
HOUSE—MARCH 1.
In the House, Mr. Ezzard moved to recon
sider so much of the Journal of yesterday, as
related to the rejection of a bill for the sup
port and maintenance of the exiles from tbe
city of Atlanta. The motion prevailed.
Mr. Elam, of Marion, moved to reconsider so
much ot the Journal of yesterday as relates to
the rejection ot a bill prohibiting administrators
from selling household aud kilchea furniture of
widows, soldiers’ families, etc., which inotioh
prevailed.
Mr. Gartrell, of Cobb, moved to reconsider
so much of the journal of yesterday as relates
to the passage of a bill in reference to the dis
tiiiation of grain, allowing families to distil a
certain amount. Mr. Gartrell said he was in
favor of a reconsideration from the fact that
the distiller had no restrictions specified in the
bill, and was not even required to give bonds;
besides it would enhance the prko of corn.—
As spirituous liquors went down in price, corn
would go up. The bill gives a license to eve
ry man in the country to distil as much whiskey
as he can, aud we could not touch him. It
robs the child of the soldier; it robs his widow,
and deprives the poor of the actual necessaries
es life. Mr. G’s arguments wera well taken,
and he urged them with force,
Mr. Hill, of Dougheity opposed the motion
to reconsider. The motion was lost.
A motion to reconsider tho resolution lost
yesterday, relating to tfie per diem pay of
members of the General Assembly, prevailed
The Committee oppointod to examine into
the Penitentiary, and report upon the same,
made a report by resolution, and recommend
ed th.it the question in regard to the aboiition
of the same, be left to future legislation. They
propose that the remnant of damaged proper
ty be sold, which would bo sufficient to make
all repairs necessary—tbe sale to be made at
public outcry.
A resolution to appropriate the proceeds of
the sale to the payments of the debts of the
institution and repairs of the same. Agreed
to. The resolution of the Committee was then
adopted.
A resolution (reconsidered) in reference to
tho payment of tho members of the General
Assembly: It provides that they only be paid
one dollar per diem in gold or silver or its
equivalent, at the rate of thirty for one, re
leasing t e State from the payment of the other
tine. Tho resolution wua adopted. Ypas 63,
nays 57. t
[House —March l.]j
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The House took up the resolution to in
crease the State line. It was discussed at
length, ami defeated.
The bill which had been indefinitely post
poned, to incorporate the Home Insurance
Gompany ot Savannah, was passed.
SENATE—MARCH 2.
The motion trf reconsider the action of the
Senate on yesterday, by which » bill wa* pas
sed authorizing the Governor to make impress
ments tor the benefit of the indigent aud sol
diers' lamilies. was lost, •
Tao annexed bills were introduced : a bill to
extend the civil jurisdiction of the City Court
of Augusta; to declare qf full force'all the
laws o! this State which were of force when the
Code went into operation, and which were not
repealed by the Code or any subsequent legis
lation.
The annexed bills were lost, a bill to author
ize the non-recording of vouchers accompany
ing returns of administrators executors and
guardians: for the relief of the Lawrenceville
Manufacturing Company.
On motion of Mr. White, the rules were sus
pended, aud the resolution fixing the per diem
pay oi the members was taken up. The reso
lution was lo6t. Yeas 11, nays 14.
Bill to authorize Judges of Superior Courts
to call special sessions for the more speedy
trial of ciiminal cases. Passed.
AFTERNOON session. .
Mr. Sprayberry moved to take up his reso
lutions, declaring that the further use of con
soriptiou for recruiting our armies should be
abandoned, aud a resort had to requisitions on
the Stales for troops. The motion was agreed
to, anti alter a speech bv Mr. Sprajbery they
were referred to the committee on Military Af
fairs.
The annexed bills were passed: a bill to
amend the Acts in relation-to Habeas Corpus;
to increase the compensation of Tax-Receivers
aud Tax Collectors: to limit the tax to be im
posed on the citizens of Marietta; to repeal
section 2 562 of the Code; to change the line
between Wayne and Pearce counties; to au
thorize and require the recording of mortgagee
and deeds where the records have been burned;
to authorize Executors., &c., in counties over
run by the enemy to make their returns In
other counties; to incorporate the Metropoli
tan Tefegrnph Company.
The annexed bills were lost : a bill to au
thorize Allen M, Walker, a minor, to receive
his estate; to amend section 1752 of the Coder.
Bill to exempt certain persons from militia
service was laid on the table for the presont.
• HOUSE —MARCH 2.
The copy of the correspondence between
Gov. Brown and the Secretary of War was ta
ken up and read. Ordorel that 240 copies be
printed for the use of the House
The copy of the report of Maj. Gen. Q. W.
Smith and Adjt. Gen. Wayr.e, was taken up
and without being read, 210 copies were or
dered printed.
The annexed resolutians were, introduced : a
resolution instructing the Judiciary Committee
to repot t whether any further legislation is
necessary in regard to Superior Court®; re
questing the military authorities to keep a
small force of cavalry in Liberty, Bryan, and
Mclntosh counties; instructing the Judici
al y Committee to re tort a bill protecting the
marriage relations of slaves; fixing the pay of
members of the next General Assembly—it
provides §1 per day, and one oent per mile as
milage, payable in gold or silver, or its equiv
alent.
A bill was introduced to allow refugees and
exiles in Congressional Districts where they do
not reside, to vote.
A bill to amend an act for the relief of tax
payers of 1864, on property destroyed by the
enemy. It includes slaves escaping to thn ene
my. Lost.
A bill for the relief of David A. and Henry
C. Miller, of Cobb county. Passed.
A bill appropriating tljie sum of six millions
of dollars sot the support of indigent families
of soldiers. The sum of six million was strick
'en out and ten million inserted. Pending tk
i discussion House adjewned
' r M .... „
Tne resolution ©* r l.a Ev .st img tbs per
oi cm pay of members, wag recensidersd.
It was moved to rtton?-It-, tfce biH amend
ing the acts in reiatit Gabass Corpus— !
3 .-j, i-.;, UUJ--J to The President pro tern vot
ed vea and the moron prevailed.
"a *■ ate recotisidetad the House Tesolu
uc-n to .•i’.vw parties who left Ss* cnaah jnst
before it® \.j tj.3 enttny ». lidons'-
.me in wbioi to oey their .vies.
House :«-*nuroii fixing *ae pay’of m- yjit,
r as rev tercv and passed
AFi*J. >.-•■ gXSefON,
The annexed bills v're lost, a bill to £i the
per diem ray of aethers of the next Genera
Assembty; for the relief of E.ttontop Maau
tnctanng Company.^,
- iit annexed bilm ■»*-' .-< - o -h 1
■-Mes of D IK, Troup a- • jthe.s
.
j
Pulaski counties; to change the line between
the counties ot Merriwether and Coweta; to
change the lines between the counties of Cowe
ta and Heard, and Marion and Taylor
A resolution was introduced which was adopt
ed, that the compiler of the acts of the present
General Assembly be instructed to append a
memoranda of the changes made in the Code
by subsequent legislation to the time when the
Code was adopted
Bill for the relief ol Habersham and other
counties. Referred to * select committee.
A bill was introduced to make the tax of all
lands aud lor agricultural purposes payable
in the county in which the landjlits.
house—aiEca 8.
A communication was received from the
Governor in reference to providing for the re
lief ot Georgia soldiers now in Northern pris
ons. He recommends that an appropriation
be made sufficient to purchase one thousand
bales of cotton to be shipped to New York and
the proceeds of the sale to be for the relie 1 ot
suen soldiers. It was referred to the Finance
Committee.
The House took up the bill abolishiahing the
offiee of an aid-de-camp in eaek Senatorial dis
trict, and the duties to ire performed by the
senior militia officer without the pay of an aid
decamp. Lest.
The House took up the unfinished business
of yesterday, which was a bill to appropriate
two million of dollars for the relief of soldiers’
families. The amendment offered by Mr.
Elams, of Marion, whic i was, that the Inferior
Court of each county shall distribute the iunds
appropriated, prevailed. The report of the
Committee was agreed *o, and the bill passed
A bill was introduced tc levy a tax upon
the nett income of all incorporated companies.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The House met and took up the unfinished
business of the morning on the income tax.—
The substitute offered by the Finance Commit
tee was adopted in lieu of the original. The
report was agreed to and the bill was lost. —
The evening'was eonsumed in the discussion
of the above bill.
THE COXS MIPT BILL,.
The subjoined bill “to regulate the business
of conscription” has passed both Houses of
Congress:
The Congress of the Confederate States of
America do enact, That for the purpose of con
ducting the business of Conscription, (here
shall be assigned to each State by the Presi
dent, a General cfficer, who shall leport to the
Secretary of War through an Assistant Adju
tant General to be assigned in the office of the
Adjutant and Inspector Genera!, to the duty of
receiving returns and reports and issuing all
orders in relation to conscription.
Sec. 2. All applications lor exemption and
detail, except as hereinafter provided, shall be
decided by the General officers having charge
ol the business of conscription in the several
States. Appeals may be taken trom their de
cisions to t£e Secretary of War, but during
the pendency of such appeals, the applicants
shall be liable to military ser v ice.
Sec. 3. There shall be assigned from the In
valid Corps, or from officers certified by the
proper medical boaids to be unfit for active
service in the field, a sufficient, number of en
rolling officers who shall report to and be un
der the immediate direction and control of the
General officers conducting the business of con
scription in the several States.
Sec. 4 All conscripts shall be examined by
the medical boards of the army, after joining
the commands in the Ihdd to which they m,y
be respectively assignee!, and evgry discharge
granted by an army medical board’ shall be fi
nal, and shall relieve the party from all milita
ry service in the future, when the disability is
permanent, aud the cause of it is set forth in
the discharge.
Sec. 5. If any conscript shall furnish to the
enrollingfoffieer of his county a certificate, under
oath, trom a respectible physician or from gny
army surgeon, that lie is uqahle to travel to the
command to which he may be assigned with
out Berious prejudice so his health, a furlough
shall be granted him until the next meeting of
the medical broad, hereinafter provided lev.
Sec. 6. There shall be assigned tc each Oon
gressioaal district a Medical Board, consisting
of three Army Surgeons, who alter due notice
of the time and place oi their meeting, shall
visit each county of the district at least oaoe ia
two months, and shall examine for discharge
or recommendation for light duty, all con
scripts who have been fur.oughed under the
provisions of the prtceding section. Every
discharge granted py the said Medical Board
shall be final, and shall relieve the party freon
all military service in the future, when the
disability is permanent, and thegeause of it is
sot forth in this certificate.
Sec. 7. It shall de the duty of all officers and
others employed in the military service of the
Confederate States, and not actually in t-ie field
nor attached to any ainiy in the field including
Quartermasters and Commissaries, commanders
of posts, provo3t marshals, officers of the ord
nance, nitre aud mining and medical bureaus
and others, to make certified monthly returns
to the nearest conscript officer, of the names,
ages and physical condition of all persons em
ployed in the service, which returns shall be
forwarded to the General officer conu/oUigg
conscription in the State.
Sec. 8. For the enforcement of th« duties
imposed by this act, upon the General officers
controlling con-.cription in the several States
such detachments of the reserve forces as they
may doom necessary, shall be placed at their
disposal.
Sec. 9. Ia order to secure the production of
grain and provisions necessary for the use of
tfi« army and the families of soldiers, such ov
erseers, fanners as were not enrolled
in the military service on the 17th day of Feb
ruary 1564, and who wili be more us ful to the
country in the pursuits of agriculture than in
the military service, shall be detailed upon the
terms to be prescribed by the Secretary of War,
under the direction ot (he President. And in
order to ascertain what persons should be de
tailed uuder this act, for the purposes afore
said, there shall be appointed by the Pr< sident
in each county, district, or parish, hn agricultur
al board, consisting ol three farmers or planters
over the age of forty-five years, to. whom shall
be addressed every application for the dAail
of- overseer, farmer or planter, in their re
spective counties, districts or parishes, and
whose duty it shall be to enquire and report
upon the merits of each application.
And if a majority of said boarfl shall apnrove
the same they shall forward it together* with
the reasons tor their approval to the general
officer controlling conscription in the Sta e
and if he appro\s such application, the detail’
shall be allowed If the General officer of
conscription shall disapprove such application
the applicant shall have the right to apoeal to
the Secretaiy of War, and If the saffi 'board
shall disapprove sweb application, their deci
sion shall he final, and no rieht of appeal shall
exist.
# Bec. 10. Iho bureau of conscription, the
camps of instruction, and the officer cl com
mandant of conscripts, are herhy abolished
and all rules and regulations of the War
Department, inconsistent with this act are
hereby repealed.
Loch Napoleon s Personal . Appearance
Louis Napoleon’s present personal appear
ance is thus described in a late letter from
Paris: * i
The personal appearance of Napoleon 111
would puzzle the most accurate observer of
| physiognomy. The face of the man with the
d T id of egression
■- y etudv .‘hours with
out deriving e* on as to the
Emperor*, men . «** Those fishy,
i- or- --.a,uro parei. n* cheeks ♦«,!
sun ’ • ~ta : ~ JL^®*
■rti&k tiL l-? f
, ' . * ision, while
Apollo, lies
th re3P r oD u eS
. . i -i though his
, create «. ence he ap-
J ■ ►sture. Os late
irputent, like
members of
• J ‘sent day are
if fee i tor»* it! ‘ necessarily so,
7* '- Cesses be true.
1 -ck does great
* ich is general
ly 8 " • most sanuul in Europe.
and has that
" J - "h*x nature which
7 between the
A* itis* k
COXEiDEIIME STATES COXtJBESS.
, SENATE—JAN. 30.
A resolution was adopted that the Commit
tee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire
into the exoedieucy of making refutation
puma tacie evidence of the lact of desertion in
ail prosecutions under an act entitled “ an act
to prevent the procuring, aiding and assisting
persons to desert,’’ approved June 22, 1864.
An act to receive volunteer troops lor the
war was referred to the Military Committee.
A series of patriotic resolutions, passed by
the Texas Legislature, declaring the determi
nation of that State to accept.no terms of
peace which did not guarantee the indepen
dence of the Confederate Sthte9, were ordered
to be printed.
Bill to sequestrate fke property of persons
liable to military service who have gone
North to escape such service, was taken up
and discussed until adjournment.
house—Jan. 30.
The following preamble and resolution were
referred to the Committee on Foreigu Affairs :
Whereas, All nations have seen with alarm
the establishment of any formidable power in
tlreir vicinity ; and, whereas, the people of the
Confederate States, as well as the people of
the United States, have ever cherished the re
solve that any further acquisition of territory
in North America by any foreign power would
be inconsistent with their prosperity and de
velopment ; and, whereas, the invasion of
Mexico by France has resulted, as is alleged,
in tne establishment of a government founded
on the consent of *he governed; nevertheless
we have reasons to believe that ulterio- de
signs are entertained against California and
the Pac.fic States, which wo.do not regard as
parties to the war now waged against us, as
they have furnished neither men nor money
for its prosecution. Therefore,
The Congress of the Confederate States of
America do resolve, That the time may not be
distant when we will be prepared to unite (on
the basis of the independence of the Confeder
ate States,) with those most interested in the
vindication of the priucipleß of the Monroe
doctrine, for their mediation, to the exclusion
of all. seeming violations of those principles on
thetontineut of America.
A preamble and resolutions were adopted
setting forth that it is reported that the Fed
eral authorities in Nashville are practicing
most barbarous treatment on our prisoners,,
curtailing their diet to hard tack and water,
and treating them in such manner as to cause
their death by degrees, and instructing the
Special Committee on Exchange of Prisoners
to inquire into and report upon said complaint.
The House disagreed to the Senate amend
ments tqthe consolidation bill, and a commit
tee of conference was appointed.
A resolution was offered that the President
be requested to pause to be furnished to the
House the number ot soldiers trom each State
added to the military service by enrollment,
volunteering, or otherwise, since the enroll
ment of April, 1862, commonly known as the
conscript act; the number of those within the
conscript age, exempt or detailed, discrimina
ting as to the classes of each State ; the num
ber of those within the ages of 18 and 45 not
disabled or unfit for active service in the field,
who are employed in the respective Stales ffi
executing the law of conscription, or m con
nection with post commissaries ami post quart
ermasters, or otherwise, in derogation of exist
ing laws.
SENATE — FEB. 2.
The following joint resolution was referred
to the Committee on Naval Affairs :
Joint resolution of thanks to Mr. John Lancas
ter, of England, for his friendly conduct to
wards the commander, officers aud crew of
the Alabama.
Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate
States of America, That the thanks of Con
gress «nd of the people of the Confederate
States are due, and arc horeby tendered, to Mr.
John Lancaster, of Lancashire, England, for
hia friendly and humane conduct in rescuing
in his yacht, the Deerhound, from <He immi
nent peril of death by drowsing, Capt. Raphael
Semmes, the commander, aafi a portion of the
cfficei sand crew of the Con'ederate States
UU'qmer Alabama, on the occasion of the com
bat between that vessel and the U. S. steamer
Kearsage. in the waters of the British channel,
on the 19th day of fiune, 1864; and that his
Excellency the President of the Confederate
-States be requested to inform Mr Lancaster of
the passage of this resolution and to commu
nicate to him a copy thereof
The following resolution was adopted :
.Resolved, (the House concurring,*) That the
joint oommitte!, to whom was referred the In- ;
vestigation of the condition and treatment of '
prisoners and the causes of their detention V
captivity, shall in addition, investigate ' 7
report upon the violations by the enemv 0 f *jK e
rules of civilized warfare in the cond'’ (( .j of
war, and also whether the enero~ will resume
exchanges, and if so, upon what terms, and
that they report what Legislation they deem
expedient in the premises.
A bill authoring the election in the State of
Missouri Lb belheld on the first Monday in No
vember, 1865, and upon the same day of each
second year thereafter, during the war. * Re
ferred.
i fie Committee on Claims introduced a bi’ii
to RffienAan act entitled “an act to impose
regulatfmis upon the foreign commerce of the
Confederate States to provide for the r.ublic
defences,” approved February Bth, 1864. which
was read and ordered lobe printed. ’
The Military Committee was ditcharged from
the further consideration of several memorials
and resolutions, the subjects been al
ready acted upon.
The Committee on the Judiciary reported
back bill to amend an act entitled “ an act to
prevent the procuring, aiding aud assisting
persons to deseit from the army ot the Con
federate States which was read, and ordered
to be printed.
Oa motion, the vote by which' the bill abol
ishing the othces of post quartermasters and
commissaries wan passed, was reconsidered
and the bill amended by adding to the dause
icveking details, the following words : “ ex
cept as to skilled artisans and mechanics per
manently employed in said departments the
bill, as amended, passed.
The Committee on the Judiciary reported
back rim bril to amend an act to establish the
ju iicial courts of the Confederate States of
i ~T?u riCa ' considered and passed.
me same committee reported back the bill
to provide supplies tor the army and to pre
scribe the mode of making impressments, which
was read and ordered to be printed.
The Military Committee, on motion, was
discharged from the further consideration of
tue mil providing for the discharge of sokliers
m certain cases and exemnting them from fu
ture military service, as the subject had al
ready been acted upon.
The Committee on Claims reported a bill
fo’’ too relief ot holders of treasury notes of
tue denomination of one hundred dollars, who
have been prevented from binding the same
by reason of being held as prisoners of war.
Kead and referred.
feeo&te bill to provide for the employment
o free negroes and slaves to work upon forti
fications, &0., was further ssiscussed.
house—ieb. 2.
The bill “ to provide for the reissue of bonds
and certificates of debt in certain cases, wVb
taken up, considered and passed.
[The bill provides for such reissue only in
case of destruction, upon satisfactory evidence
thereof, and after bond and security for the
indemnification of ‘the Government in case of
loss by reason of such reissue shall have been
given by the party to whom the said reissue is
made]
The Committee on Ways and Means reported
a substitute for Senate bill to regulate the com
pensation of certain civil officers and employ
ees. Several amendments wero offered and
rejected, and the bill passed.
SENATE—FEB. 3.
The Military Committee reported bask, with
the recommendation that it pass, House bill to
reduce the number of exemptions and details.
Ordered to be printed.
The same committee reported baok, with
the recommenda:ion that it pass, Senate bill
to establish the flag of the Confederate State*.
Senate bill to increase the compensation of
certain female employees of the government,
sent back from the House with an amendment,
was taken up and considered, and the House
amendments being concurred in the bill was
passed.
HOUSE —FEB. 8.
The Speaker laid before the House a joint
resolution of the Senate providing th&tj the
pint committee to in
slUn ,‘!° um tr«atiae..t- oi prisoners of war,
th ‘ ’ ,l a to the duty first assigned
md ’< f IT-i " V u > : ' m the violation ol tho
whi'r-. Ul ' va ' ::aro the enemy, and
r i he resolution was adopted.
The Speaker laid beiore tho House a com
munication trom the Secretary of the Treasury
giving certain information in regard to the five
mil.iou loan, a k-d for by resolution of tho
n i communication was laid upon
the t&iue and ordered to be printed. r
—
S AiLl.ve OF THE Ram Oianda— The London
correspond eat of the New York World, la a
recentllfe f ter, thus describes the sailing es thia
new Confederate II un:
I think I mentioned in a previous letter the
departure of a fast side-wheel steamer of about
500 tons, r.ndei the suggestive name of the
City of Richmond, which cleared from thia
port for Bermuda as an English meichantman,
there being nothing to show against her assum
ed character to enable the authorities to stop
her. Well, at the mouth ol the Thames she
took aboard from a little tender, 40 meu con
veyed from tho Rebel receiving ship Rappa
hannock, legally blockaded at Calais, among
whom were several Confederate officers. Thes®
seamen, with her own crew engaged in a reg
ular way at a Government shipping cilice, and
thirty six others suit down the liver, made up
v complement ol upward of one (mudred hands
mostly off privateersmen. Then the City
of Richmond went ou her way, to be heard of
at Cnerbourg, where she put in on the 21st of
January—just three weeks ago—to avoid tho
heavy gale then prevalent, remaining some
days. Thence she s earned to llouat Island.
Quiberou Bay, wheto lay a powerful iron clad
ram awaiting her, which incontinently ship
ped her one hundred meu, the cannon aud am
munition which she had secretly oh board,
and breaking oil in the operation of coaling
lrom a 1 reiu.li tug, hoisted the rebyl llag and
set out tor Charleston. This occurred on tho
20th.
Ot the ram you have heard before. Origin
ally built lor the Rebels by Armand «& Cos.
Doqjtmasters at Bordeaux, she was subsequent
ly sold to the Danes, aud lor a time known ag
the Ohm la. fcha discharged hfir Danish crew
off Quibeiou, all ol tnem but a few, who wero
persuaded to enter the Rebel service, returning
aboard the I‘ronch tug, whose crew were simi
larly but ineffectually entreated to join the pi
rates. i here in then-fore every reason for Re
lieving that, this formidable vessel has passed
into Rebel hands with the full knowledge and
complicity of the solleis, to whom, not long
-! paid wlmt 1 then supposed u deserved
compliment, imagining the former sale Tobe &
bona fide permanent transaction. The French
tug. the Expeditin', took coals aboard the Olia
da under the pretext of conveying them to the
San Francisco; a Peruvian vessel which lay in
those waters The same of which I hqve had.
occasion to write to you in connection with,
the case of Captain Grao. 16 is probabte
that the Rebels availed themselves of her pres
ence and that oi the Shanghac (also Peruvian) •
to got the OHilda out under tho representation
that she belonged to thy South American Re
public.
The ram departed so hastily—partly in con
i sequence of apprehensions of stoppage, partly
of rough weather that she went with less than
fifty tons of Coal aboard. If she be, as report
ed, when built the counterpart of the Castel
liaco, the formidable ram ordered by the Reb
els but purchased by the Italian Government
which is »ronplated, haa u terrible submarine
beak, and can make over thirteen knots an
hour, you wiil probably find her a second Mer
rituac or worse. Let our ua-.y f look out for her.
Captain Tessier, wbo toi k out the
ana De Leon, lute United States Consul-Gener
al in Egypt, Hwo ol the most indefatigable
Rebel agents in Europe, are supposed to hr '
manoevered this little business. ’ va
Another correspondent thus refer*-
new Con federate iron-clad “OR*- , ~ .
, . -ala, which
is now at sea.
The statement which 4 , . . .
letter relative to the mado J n
iron-clad is how com- e*rture of the rebel
the Isle of Horn*. .'T d \ fehe Ha, ' ed fr T °”
nnito chAv which is between Bele Isle
Saturdav «*» «h* coast of Brittany, on
with ;-cyfr »' - a!ter having leeu furnished
Uumbrr' , Jjr a I'Tvir.cli steamer, and with a
au‘\ V of cannon, aud a quantity of powder
■s/ ocher munitions of w*s, aa well as a screw"
j.‘. an aecorntneda:mg English steamer. Im
mediately after this she - hauled down the Dan
ish flag, which up ‘o that time she had carried
hoisted the fi.*,g and got to sea. llerob
ject, it is said, i3 to force tho blockade at
Charleston,
f -Miaa-tasm——
A I ( (tightened Citowii. —A Yankee corres
pondent describes a scene at the Pulaski
Hoi’ojc, during the late fire in Savannah as fol
lows ;
Tiiis hotel is the only one at present open in
Savannah. It was always the principal house
in the city and the largo t. On the night of
the firodhero won soveial hundred guests stop
ping at the Pulaski. The majority of these
were civilians; the remainder officers of the
army of all grades. When the explosions
commenced, of course, many persons in the
hotei were unnerved, and some ludricoua
scenes might bo witnessed. Amid the disas
ters of tho most appall mg character there are
always to be found incidents cf a laughable na
ture. Our worthy collector, Bimoon Draper,
Esq., stays at this hotel; there are also several
[ jpnerals and cr.Tmeis.
At twelve o’clock ;lie , bar-room and main
hallway of the house were crowded with tho
guests; some were only half dressed, while
others carrieiLguiall bund fes 4a their hands
containing tho most valuable property in their
possesion. Consternation was depicted apoa
every feature. Ihe shells were heard whla
zing past the main durance to the’hotel, mak
ing locomotion in that direction anything but
desirable. A few, more daring than tho oth
ers, stood outside the door; but when a frag
ment of shell wa- heard rustling through th®
trees, a general stampede was the re.-ult Re
ports of extraordia ry character were circula
ted. Some said that the arsenal contained
thirty tons of gunpowder, and tho figure now
mounted up ns high as one thousand tons.
i his tearful explosion was expected moateu
tarily, and some people shook from head to
foot with the very intensity of fear. Sparks
from the region of (lie lire flew thick and fast
on the root of the hotel, an I there seemed llt
tio hope of saving the house from total de
struction. Oa the whole the “military situation"
in this place seemed anything but favorable.
What was to bo done? To leave tfce hotel and
waik into the open street was fraught with,
much more clanger thnn remaining indpors.
Those shells are nasty customers, and have no
respect to per.-ou or property Our Northern
friends proposed to go on borad the shipping
in the river, which was undoubtedly the safest
position under the circumstances. Several
started out with the intention, and succeeded
in reaching the desired destination, not, how
ever, without running the gauntlet of a sever®
bombardment.
A Dakin o Scout Wounueu. —sergeant Wm.
M. Water bury, a lStmous Confederate scout,
whose deeds of daring would form the staple
of a romance, was severely wounded by a
prisoner he had taken a lew days ago. Ha
had entered the enemy's lines, and stumbling
upon a detachment ol Yankees, inquired the
way to a Yankee regiment, to whicn he pre
tended to belong, tie was placed in charge of
one of the men, who escorted him towards the
command, but v, :e on the way he snatched
his escort’s rifle a i leveling it at his head,
enjoined silence, a i,i led nun captive into th*
wood*, 'ihe two finally sat down to rest, auS.
Water bury, soon after, thinking his captive
asleep , give way to tue tr ttoence himself, and
the aYankee, discovering t, sailed the ride 1
and shot him through th« tangs. Waterbary,? !
at last accounts was at 0- f Point, in an im
proving condition He . *ns tire of Fayette
ville, N. C., ana * memi tU % «Uf«*s brig-,
ade.
mi ■— m
FKo.m t,ui . -V.v iiost-;, X
Tb« enemy, aoout hr-r tuouiand strong
said fc be advancing tfc; ongh jppsr Aaet VfT/'t
nessee. 'iheif outpusb- *rt n ; tb ot
vilie. Prisoners <-Ute ais th< intention of the
cnem> to occupy Uie w oles ate before tho
day or election— March Si.
Anarchy reigns supreme in East Tenuvsseer
No man’s hie n is stated is sale,