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SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1863.
EVENTS OF THE DAY.
The last week has been marked by no events
of special interest. Congress met on the 14th
inst. at 12 11. The President's Message
and an abstract of it is not out of place in these
columns. In the outset, in alluding to the efforts
of (Ur enemies to subjugate us, the President
says that our noble defenders, under the leader*
ship ot their Generals, have again, at Freder
icksburg, inflicted on the forces of Gen. Burn*
*,„*.•* iike disastrous overthrow as had been
previous-y ;• uttered by the successive invading
armies commanded by Gens. McDowell, Mc-
Clellan, and Pope. Our enemies had been baf
fled m the West, and at Vicksburg another for*
midable expedition had been repulsed with con*
siderable loss. On our side, a review of our
history during the two years of our national ex
istence afforded ample cause for congratulation,
and demanded the most fervent expression of our
thankfulness to the Almighty Father, who has
blessed our cause. We were justified iu assert
ing that these Confederate States hare afforded
another example of the impossibility of subju
gating a people determined to be free, and have
demonstrated that n > superiority qf numbers, or
available resouroes, can overcome the resistance
offered by such valor in combat, such constancy
in suffering, and such cheerful endurance of pri
vation as hare been conspicuously displayed by
this people, in the defence of their rights and
liberties; and it we be as resolute in tbe future
as we have been in the past, this would be the
‘ closing year of the war; for much as peace was
desired, tbe people were determined to battle
until tbe sovereigaty and independence of the
Confederacy was established.
Alter explaining the relation existing between
tbe States under the old Confederation, their
subsequent secession and formation into a new
Uaion, and the formation of a third Government
known us ibe Confederate States, the President
goes on to speuk of our foreign relations. He
says >Lut, bud Great Britain and France—the
Powers to which, as most interested, the leader
ship was given—promptly recognized us, none
can doubt that tbe moral effect would have been
to dispel the delusiou under which the United
States have persisted in—then efforts to account
plisb our subjugation. To the continual hesitas
tion of the same Powers in rendering this act of
simple justice, was still due the continuance of
tbe calamities which mankind suffers from—the
interruption of its peaceful pursuits, both in th®
Old aud the New Worlds.
After reviewing the questiou of privateering,
the President says that the records of our State
Department contain the evidences of the repeated
and formal remonstrances made by this Govern
ment to the neutral Powers of Europe, against
the recognition of the blockade, which had been
shown to have been broken hundreds of times,
which tbe enemy themselves had admitted to be
inefficient in the most forcible manner, by re
peated complaints of the sale to us of goods con
traband of war, and which they acknowledged
their inability to tender effective. Still, Europe
had submitted m almost unbroken silence to all
the wrongs that the United States have chosen to
inflict on their commerce; and the Cabinet of
Great Britain itself had not confined itself to the
principles laid down by the Cungiess of Paris,
but baa made a change too important and preju
dicial to tbe inteiest of the Confederacy to be
overlooked, and consequently the President bad
solemnly protested, after a ?• iu attempt to obtain
auy satisfactory explanation from the British
Government.
The tourth proposition of the Congress of Paris
declared that blockades must be maintained by a
force sufficient, really, to prevent access to the
coast of the enemy; but the British Secretary of
State bad construed tbe American blockade to be
sufficient, because it was duly notified that a
number of shios were stationed at the different
ports, sufficient, really, to prevent access to it, or
to create an evident danger of entering it or
leaving it. But the President had no complaint
to make on tne ground of a declaration of neu
tialitv.. Tbe complaint was that the neutrality
bad oven rather nominal than real, and that
recogu z d ueuiral rights had been alternately
asserted aud waived in such manner as to bear
with great seventy on us, and to confer aignai
advantages on our ro<*my. He had hitherto re
trained from tailing the attention of Congress to
this condition ot our toreigu relations for various*
I reasons, the chief of which was that it might be
b®*
THE SOUTHERN FIELD AND FIRESIDE.
construed into no appeal for aid. Now, it could
not be misconstrued; still it would not be proper
to close bis remarks on this subject without ad
verting to the fact, that the correspondence be
tween England, France and Russia, recently
pubh*bed, indicated a gratifying advance in the
appreciation, by these Governments, of the true
interests of mankind, as involved in the war on
this continent.
€
After referting to the renewed examples of
atrocity on the part of the enemy, and the recent
proclamation of Lincoln, which, he says, will
have among others the effect of calming the fears
of those who apprehended that the war might
end m the reconstruction of the old Union.
The President proceeds to discuss the question
of finance. It was his conviction that the people
of the Confederacy would freely meet taxation,
on a scale adequate to the support of their Govs
ernment; and the passage of some enactment,
carrying still further the policy of the law of
last session, for funding outstanding Treasury
notes, by fixing a limitation not later than the
Ist of July next to the delay allowed for funding
the notes issued prior to the Ist December, 1862,
would, in ihe opinion of the Secretary of the
Treasury, have the effect to withdraw from cir
culation nearly the entire sum issued previous to
the last named date. The President specially re
commends some revision of the Exemption Law
of ’ast session, so as to leave at home a sufficient
local police, without making discriminations bes
tween different classes of our citizens. Serious
complaints had reached him of the inequalities of
its working. Attention was also called to the re
ports of the Secretaries of War and the Navy, and
the report of the Postmaster General. The rev
enue of the latter was in excess of that of the
last postal year, but there was still a consider
able deficit as compared with its expenses, and
he recommended some legislation, if any could
be constitutionally devised, for aiding the rev
enue of that department during the ensuing year.
The President also recommends a proper mode of
relief to those citizens whose property has been
destroyed by order of the Government, as a
means of defence. In conclusion, he asks the
people of the Confederacy to join in returning
thanks to God, and in beseeching the continu
ance of His protecting care over their cause, and
the restoration of peace, with its manifold bless
ings, to their beloved country.
Aside from the President’s message there i.s
little of especial interest to record this week
The armies in North Carolina, Tennessee and
Vicksburg seem to be gathering strength for
renewed conflicts; and though our forces in
Virginia are going into winter quarters, there
are rumors of another Federal across
the Rappahannock. In the interval of repose
tor the main bodies es our forces, our partisans
have been active, and from every quarter we
gather cheering news of' their dashing exploits
Raleigh exchanges state that there were in
the Neuse river, near Newbern, on Wednes
day last, no less than fifty three Yankee trans
ports. The forces at that point include the
commands of three Major-Generals, usually, in
the Yankee army 15,000 each, which gives
the full force at 45,000 to 50,000 men. It is
conjectured that they design to attack Charles
ton, Wilmington, Weldon and Goldsborough
simultaneously, to prevent reinforcement from
either place.
From the Valley country there is no news,
except that the enemy are committing every
species of depredations, and lording it over the
inhabitants with remorseless severity. Reports
represent that they are robbing the farmers of
their supply of meat for the year, and taking
whatever they desire for the support of their
hireling soldiery.
The Abolitionists recently made a raid at the
White House, on the Pamunky river, below
Richmond, in which they burned a sloop and a
number of shanties occupied by oystermen,
and carried off all the pigs, poultry and other
plunder within their reach.
On Wednesday of last week a body of Aboli
tion cavalry came up the valley as farts Wood
stock, where they remained until Saturday,
levying contributions upon the citizens for
bacon, flour, corn, and other supplies, and of
those who had nothing of the kind they demand
ed money. The contributions were collected
at the point of the bayonet, and the citizens
were compelled to submit not only to the levy,
but every species of insult and indignity which
the mercenary hirelings pleased to heap upon
them.
The latest advices form North Carolina indi
cate that the enemy are advancing on Wilming
ton and Kinston. They attacked Fort Cars
well a few days ago, and withdrew without
effecting any damage.
FROM THE NORTH.
BEMOVAL Os BCTLKK.
A correspondent of the New York Post writes;
The Secessionists of Washington boast that the
Government has already quailed befor the threats
of tbe rebel Jeff Darts, they claim that the su
percednre of Butler was caused partially by the
demands of the rebel Government which have
been continually urged upon Mr. Lincoln since
last summer. Butler, they say has been occupied
to oppose Jeff Davis and they point to the fact
that General Banks at once stopoed proceedings
under the confiscation act as scon as he arrived
in New Orleans, these proceedings being counted
by the rebels as tbe most offensive of any under
Butler’s administration. Os coarse, these boasts
of tbe Secessionists are ridiculous. It is much
more probable that the change in the command
of the Government troops in Louisiana was made
because of a vexatious diplomatic quarrel with
the French Government.
The complaints of Louis Napoleon have been
contentions, and indeed of such an insolent
cnaracter, that more than one member of the
Cabinet is in favor of taking a bold stand upon
oar rights, refusing any further attempts to
pacifv a man who seems bent on a quarrel with
us. It is rumored here that General Butler will
soon have command of an expedition to Charles
ton, and this is not improbable for tbe Govern
ment will hardly lay aside so successful a Gen
eral as he has been. The President Is known to
be well affected towards the General, and that
would hardly by the case if be were to be re
moved to private life.
The Charleston expedition was alluded to in
this correspondence long ago, and it were about
to sail from New York. Such was at that time
the intention of tbe Government, but for suffi
cient reasons it was postponed. There is a little
doubt that an attempt will be made to take
Charleston within a few weeks and General But
ler will make an excellent commander of the
land forces ongaged in the expedition, especial
ly as he has tbe prestige of success in such un
dertakings. Baltimore and New Orleans are al
ready inscribed on his flag, and if he can add
the name of Charleston, it will be enough honor
for one man to win in this war.
LATEST FROM NEW ORLEANS.
The dates from New Orleans, via New York,
are to the 27th ult. Ten thousand newly arrived
Yankee troops were in camp at Baton Rouge.—
The dispatch says:
Christmas Day was marked by unusual rowdy
ism. Eight persons were arrested for cheering
for Jeff Davis, among them an English Lieuten
ant of her British Majesty’s ship Vesuvius. He
was takon to tbe lock up and put into the stocks
and fined |SO.
THE LATE GEN. T. R. R. COBB.
The New Yori Observer, referring te the late
Confederate General Cobb, of Georgia, who -ras
killed in the battle of Fredericksburg, says;
Mr. Cobb was an elder in the Presbyterien
Church, and an active member of ecclesiastical
bodies, a distinguished author and contributor to
the religious periodical literature of the country.
His religions communications have appeared in
this paper, and we estaemed him an übie and ex
cellent Christian gentleman and author.
Wheo Mr. Lincoln was elected to tbe Presi>
dency, we made special exertions to set before
the people, especially our readers in the South,
the doty of yielding patriotic and constitutional
obedience to Ihe Government by whomsoever ad
minister eo, and we further insisted that resist
ance to tbe Government would be rebellion. Mr.
Cobb was the first to resent this doctrine, and to
insist upon the right and duty of the South to
take immediate measures to deliver its people
from the Government of the United States.
When we see such men as Cobb and Hill, and
Presten and Jackson, all of them distinguished
for their intelligent Christian characters, all of
them Presbyterian eiders, all of them leaders of
the enemy, and all of them men of prayer as
well as valor, we are more and more persuaded
that our people have not yet anpreciated the
task they nave undertaken in theflubjugation of
the South.
- SPEECH FROM CAPTAIN SEMMES.
A speech from the "terror of the seas’’ is a
curiosity, and we give the following address from
Capt. Semmes to the passengers on the Ariel,
when Le boarded her;
"Pasaengers you’re sale in oar hands. Yon have
no occasion to weep or be alarmed. What do yon
take us for? We -re all honorable men, rest as«
snred of that. “Did any one harm you as yet ?”
A voice: "You were near sinking tbe Map.”
The pirate continued: “That is only our duty.
We make war on the seas and the Yankees are
oar enemies.’’ .(More crying and general alarm.)
“1 repeat, you have no cause to be apprehen
sive of ns No one of onr officers or crew will
insult you. We are gentlemen. Do yon think
we are ruffians who would attack the helpless, or
do yon imagine we are robbers ? Have confi*
dence in os and we will protect and not injure
yon. Not an article in yonr baggage shall be
taken from you. You will find we respect private
property.”
Tbe prize crew applauded the Captain’s court
teous speech, and the passengers soon became
more confident. Daring the two days tn which
the ArfSl was a prisoner, after this speech was
made, the passen *ers freely fraternized with the
prize crew, and some of them even expressed
unqualified sympathy with the Southern Con
federscy.
From the Valley. —Sixty of the bnemy’s caval
ry visited Strasburg on Satnrday and levied upon
the citizens of that place for corn, provisions and
money. The citizens were compelled to submit,
not only to the levy, bat to every species of in
salt.
A body of Colonel Imboden’s cavalry, number
ing thirty-seven men, recently made a dash upon
Mtlroy’s ordnance and baggage train near Moor
field, and captured thirty-five prisoners and fifty*
five horses. This feat was accomplished in full
view of the whole Yankee force. The enemy
shelled;onr men u they made off with their prison
ers and booty, but without doing any damage.
Richmond Examiner, Jan. 10,
FREIGHTS AT THE NORTH- ✓
The Northern papers are rery bitter against
Great Britain for allowing the Alabama, and
other “piratical craft,” to be fitted oat in her
ports. The Express makes the following prac
tical exhibit of the effect ot the operations of the
said craft upon freights in New York:
TO LIVKBPOOL.
foreign Ships. American Strip.*-
Flour per bbl. Is9d 2s9da—
Wheat per bush. a 6%d Bda
Heavy gds., per ton 20s a— 30s a32a6i
T<> LONDON'.
Foreign Ships. American Ship.»■
Floor per bbl. 2»4>£da— 2slO>^Qa3B
Wheat per bush. B>£aa lOd a—
Heavy gds., per ton 25s "a— 3256 d a3ss
The war risk on Yankee vessels to the West
Indies is 3 a 5 per cent.--.dn British nothing.—
The war risk to Europe and elsewhere is 3 per
cent.—on British nothing.
Hence, under these facts, Yankee are being
np at the wharves, and the commerce of the
world is passing from them mainly into British
vessels.
i »■»-
The Cleveland (Tenn.) Banner says corn
is still climbing in that market—s 2 50 being
asked for it delivered, or $2 25 at the crib; Irish
potatoes for seed, $5 per bnshel.
The Legislature of Mississippi has passed
a bill providing that not over three acres of cots
ton shall be planted to a hand, under a penalty
of SSOO per acre, half to go to the informer.
I ■—
COMMERCIAL.
FROM LIVERPOOL, VIA NASSAU.
We are permitted to make the following extracts
from a letter just received from Liverpool, via Nassau,
by a merchant of this city: "
Livebpoot., Dec. 20,1862.
Dear Sib: Our last letter was dated 22d November,
since which we have yours of 25th October, showing
that the chance of renewed correspondence is improv
ing.
Our market began to rally the last week in Novem
ber, and has continued to improve each week since,
regaining about 2j£d per lb,on American and Surats, and
Bto4d on Egyptian. The trade had run themselves toe
low In stock, and the moment they came in to replenish,
speculators and exporters joined in the buying, and run
up the sales to 52,000, 66,000, and 75,000 bales for the
three weeks in December. We are quiet again the last
few days, and a little easier in prices.
Rumors of acknowledging the South, or offering me
diation, continue to arise; but we confess we have never
yet believed in them. At the meeting or our Parlia
ment, early in February, there will be renewed discuss;
ion upon it, and increased pressure brought upon the
Government, both from the continent and at home—
whether successfully, or not, it is impossible to say. The
most cheering thing, is to learn from Capt. Maury, now
here, that the South is every day more independent of
outside supplies, and more firmly resolved to be free
and independent. With the best wishes for our success
believe us, yours truly,
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