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HOUSTON. TKXAS.
S. E. CTJSHTHQ, Editor and Propristci.
Army Mail.—Therextme?5en:;er will leave Novem-
ber 39tli. -Carriers chaTge on all letters to go beyond
the Mississippi, |2. Remit only Confederate money.
No county scrip is current here.
Enclose letters to Telegraph office, endorsing
OB outside envelope, "Army Mail." 0- S. Post-
age must in all cases be prepaid by C. S. postage
sUmps. Local e:amJe will not do. Aim to get
your letters in two or three days before the day of
departure.
r.BUAA.TJSNDER-ffHE WESSON OF11IS
TORY, ETC.
The pressure on onr columns of late and inter-
estiag news has been so great, for a week or two
past, that we have omitted attention to this subject.
In another column, to—day, we publish a commu-
nication from " D," calling in question our state-
ment that the case of the Confederate States is
not parallel to that of the Bank of England, du-
ringltt suspension of specie payments. " D" un-
dertakes to exhibit points of parallelism in the
two cases. His case is pat in the strongest light
of which it is capable. If now he will substitute
the Continental Congress for the Bank of England,
he will find the parallel not only much closer, bat
it will hare this additional remarkable feature,
that it will give him a legal tender precedent
which the Bank of England does not, and will
moreover show him just cf how much advantage
the making a national currency legal tender it.
The assignats of Prance, another national legal
tender currency will afford him still another par-
allel. We jrere not at all in error in our assertion
of want of similarity in the currenciei he compar-
ed. Indeed the facts in relation to the history of
the Bank of England utterly annihilate the idea
, that making any currency a legal tender adds
value to it.
To show this we must as briefly as possible re-
view the history of {he Bank of England. It is
claimed as a national institution. It it so just so
far ai iti being the pet monopoly of the British
Government makes it to. and no further. The
Bank bears the Same relation to the Government
that the " pet hanks" nnder Jackson did to the
old United States Government. Like them, it re-
ceives the deposits, and like them is the financial
agent of the government. Though the British
Government is the borrower of the bank, it is no
more responsible for its notes or issnes, than the
old Federal Government was for the bank bills of
the "pet banks." YTe apprehend no one will
claim, the pet banks as a national institntion. In
fact all the characteristics of the Bank of England
are those of a private corporation, and not a gov-
ernment institution, as we shall show.
Previous to 1694 the British Government had
been in the habit of borrowing where it conld,pay-
ing 30 to 40 per cent, interest. Mr. Patterson, a
London merchant, conceived the idea of saving
this heavy premium to the government, and at the
same time securing a great monopoly in the bank-
ing business of discounting and issuing notes for
circulation. The idea was favorably received by
the government, and a - charter for the Bank of
England was the result. Whether it was a part o
the agreementor not, the capital of the Bank was
put at the amount of the public debt the bank took
which at the beginning was 1,800,000/, and this
was gradually increased down to 1780, when it
had reached eleven millions sterling, at which it
has practically remained down to the present day
She bank being to all intents and purposes a pri-
vate corporation, is governed by the principlesof
trade and eommerce which are rarely changed by
law.
We come now to the period that has been cited
in the discussion, that of the suspension of specie
payments In 1797. This was occasioned as fol-
lows: Owing to ihe heavy loans made to the Em
peror of Germany by the Bank, and the continen-
tal wars the bask became drained of its specie in
1795. The drain continued that year and the
next. In the end oi 1796 and beginning ot 1797
an alarm took possession of the English people,
and a heavy run was made on all the banks for
specie forhoarding. The panic reached London,
and the specie in the Bank became reduced on
Saturday, Feb. 34th of that year to about a mil-
lion sterling. There was a prospect of a heavier
run i on Honday. On Sunday the privy council
intervened with an order to> suspend specie pay-
ments. This order was. sustained by the Par-
liament.
A meeting of the principal merchant*, etc. of
London at once took place, at which a resolution
was passed and nnmerously signed, pledging
those preseat to accept, and to use every means
in their power to cause to be accepted, the bank
of England notes as eash or money. And here let
it be noted that this is just what, by universal con
sent,is done by our own people. No more and
no less. The Confederate Treasury noles pass
everywhere as cash. On examination by a Par-
liamentary committee it was found that the as-
sets of the bank were fifteen mill'ons sterling above
its liabilititif. This put all doubts of the solvency
of the Bank at rest.
For the first three years the Issues were so smal1
that the notes remained atpar with gold. In 1800
the quantity was so much increased tbat they fell
to 8 per oent. disocunt, and they varied from that
to S5 per cent, discount for.the nextsixteen years.
In 1817 they they began to improve, without any
interference on the part of the.Government, reach-
ing to wllhin.2£ per cent, of par. In 1819 an act
waspatted by Parliament requiring the resump
tion of specie payments in 1833. Tne Bank actu-
ally resumed in 1821.
We have gone somewhat in detail into the out-
line of the history of the Bank, that it may appear
thatve do not skirk the true question. Tbe es-
sontial fact in this detail is this: The Bank of
England was, as it is now, private property. The
stock of the Bank belongs to private individuals.
At the suspension the Government inquired into
its condition, as the condition of the Banks of the
U. S. has often been inquired into, for the protec
ion of the pnblic.
Much stress is laid by the legal tender advo-
cates on the supposed fact that the Bank of Eng-
land notes are a legal tender. On this subject
there is a general misapprehension In the minds
of the well informed, a misapprehension which
has led " D ** and others who agree with him,
into a fundamental error, an error which vitiates
the whole argument. The feet Is, the notes of the
Bant of England never were, strictly speakina
and in tie sense " D>' supposes, a legal tender
daring the suspension of specie payments. In
fact they were not made a legal tender until Au-
gust, 1834, thirteen years after specie payments
were resumed, and from the first charter or the
fiankdewn to the present day, they never have
bees a legal tender at the Bank itself. It is only
because specie it bound by law to be paid onptes-
entation ai the Bank for its notes, that these notes
ace made the representative of specie elsewhere.
And this it done only for public convenience and
the protection of the creditor. The British Gov-
ernment never committed the financial blunder of
attempting to create value out of what public
opinion regarded at wanting value.
Thenotet of the Bank of Bngland were used as
cath by common consent. They were made by
law receivable for all pablic dues. They were
used as money in the great majority of private
transactions. The Confederate treasury notes
are with us ]ust as much a legal tender to-day as
were the Bank o# England notes from 1797 to
1881. The faet those notes were used as cash dil
not pre vent thefii changing their values, no more
than does that faet prevent ours dolDg the same
thing. -For obrlous reasons the fluctuations were
not so great as ours have been, but still they are
manifest enough to show that as currency they
were subject to the same rules with our own. Ac-
cordingly at the Bank extended or retrenched its
issnes did the discount of the notes increase or
diminish; - and precisely according to this dis-
count did the pricet of commodities vary, all
other things being equal. When tbe discount
went up to 35 per cent., the price of wheat rose
to the same proportion. As It decressed so did
the price of wheat and all other necessaries of
life.
The fallacy indulged in by tome of the publi-
city, that bank notes issued on a property ba-
sis, represent that property, and are valued ac-
cordingly, is manifested here. This falaey has
been exploded to the satisfaction ot any reason-
ing man, by the fate of all of the real esytte
banks of this generation. It is to-day most tho-
roughly exploded, in the condition of the cotton
money of Mississippi, Notwithstanding the as-
, sets of the Bank of England were maintained at
many millions above its liabilities, its issues fluc-
tuated in vaiaeaecordiog to the quantltive rela
uen they bore to the wants of the people for a
currency, and, as stated above, the prices of com-
modities varied along with tbat fluctuation.—
Heoee tbe feet that the entire property of tbe
Confederate States is supposed to be bound for
the redemption of the Treasury notes, and is four
times the amount of the entire public debt, ex-
trciset bat little influence.on the value of those
notes, as exchangeable tor commodities. The
only why to enhance their value, is to decrease
thequanily of them afloat.
In the respect of the fluctuation according to
quantity,; there,is a similarity, though hardly a
parallelism between tbe notes of the Bank of
England at that lime and cur own. This is the
point which tbe legal tender advocates ignore,
while in the points in which -they claim a resem-
blance, there is ali the difference between a na-
tion and a corporation—between a nation strug-
gling into existence, and a corporation belonging
to a great and powerful nation, carrying on an
aggrettive warfere. Had the Britiab Government
made Ufe notes of the BtBk of England a legal
tender, it would constitute but a very poor argu-
ment for one doing so with our Treasury joins.
The feet that their circulation rested on public
opinion,is a so mueh stronger reason for leaving
oars is the same category.
If the British Government did not venture on Ithe
despotic measure oferectlng a legal currency out of
that which has no value, at a time when public opin-
ion sustained thst cuirency so nearly at par, now
iHtile will It be for our Congress to attempt to do so!
BMtfaWTilMMMBMMWSSMMI l" II II
Let the experience of France with the assignats,
Enssiawlththu assignations,and the American col •
aie« wllh tbe OSntineutal curret cy be a wnr-ilng to us
In attempting so impossible an undertaking. In all
these instances, more or less parallel, as before ob
served, to ouruwD, and all -o much more a narullel
than any period in the history of the Bank of England
can be, the attempt to change the laws of isitnre on
which the laws of trade are reunited, has slgrtfilly
failed. Such failures but weaken the respect of the
people fcr laws, and are universally regarded as evS
deuces of desperation. Such des,era'ion we have no
cause nor right to Indulge in.
Lit us beware of doing that which cannot benen.
us. Laws to be valid must be founded in public
opinion. If the propose! legal tender were an otl-
rpriog of pui'llc opinion, that public opinion would
itself save tl® currency Irom Its present d<preciation.
If the law enacts that two and two m ke tea. ,t i-;
ridiculed. If nest to this falS'-ho i1 the law incul-
cates a truth net manliest to public understanding, it
is rega'ded in the same light with the antecedent
falsehood and disposed of in like manner. Whatever
weikens respect for law is an incentive to despotism.
Whoever creates laws that cannot and will not be
obeyed, lays the foundation for a despite ot all law,
iind for :his there is r.o remedy in ftee institutions.
Let these legal tender advocate;! be warned in time,
and turn their attention to legitimate remedies. It
the patient has a tutnor it does not help him fcr the
doctor to swear it is no tumor, and to physic him lor
dlarhoea. Better cut away tbe tumor and then tbe
lrgal tenaer coiU will fit over it wltbont any trouble.
Just now redundance Is our tumor, and it. must be
removed. Acceptable tender at par will follow as a
matter of course.
IKON.
Cut off from all extraneous resources, it is im-
portant that the Trans-Mississippi Department
should become telf-sustainingi To effect that re-
sult it is necessary tbat the mineral wealth cf
Texas should bo developed, for we cannot gain
onr independence or defend it after it is conquer-
ed without Iron, which is an article of prime ne-
cessity, and the basis of all civilization. "Without
that material there can be no defence, and as the
success of all armies depend upon the manner
they are fed, it is essential that Iron should be
made with which to procuse that food.
In the present condition of the Trans-Misstssip
pi Department, Texas is our dependence. Iron
ore is found in Texas of excellent quality in great
abundauce. The question then occurs, how shall
we invoke a power to bring forth that wealth that
lies Blnmbering in the bowels of the earth 7
The Confederate Government is acting to sup-
ply the arm of defense with metal. Shall we de-
pend upon the Government to supply our farmert
and mechanics with that material, or shall we call
into reqcititlon that floating capital which seeks
investment, than which none can be more patri-
otic or lucrative than the manufacture cf- pig
metal from the ore, and maleable iron from that
product, and shaping that material into nails, tire
for wagons, axles, ete.
East of the Mississippi, fttrnaceshave sprung up
since the war, adequate to all the wants of the
people and the armies. In Alabama,a few years
since, iron ore was scarce known to exist. Since
the commencement of our struggle furnaces have
been contracted, and the Government now con
tracts for all the metal required by her extensive
foundries and workshops located at Selma and
elsewhere.
West of the Mississippi there is now but one fur
nace in operation for the manufacture of pig met-
al. This is but on a comparatively small scale
At another location there is abloomary in opera1
tion, producing but 200 lbe.- of bar iron per diem,
but this of quality equal to the best Tennessee
iron. Texas alone is capable of supplying iron
for the entire Confederacy. We are now receiv-
ing iron from England via Matamoros, about 400
miles of wagon transportation, when we are with-
in 300 miles by water of & rich vein of ore, that
needs but the investment of capital and enterprise
to make it the great source of supply for the State
both in peace and war.
At the last session of Congress the Iron Service
so called, was created, with an appropriation to
secure the production of pig metal. An agent of
that service wis sent to this State. He his made
a thorough exploration of the " iron belt," and
knows its capabilities. He is now, we under-
stand, in Austin, or on his way thither, and we
trust the Legislature will take such action as may
secure for theljenefit of the people, as well as the
Government, the erection of iron works in all
parts of the iron region.
It would be far belter if these works should be
carried on by private enterprise, encouraged by
legislation. Such is the case with those east of
the Mississippi. The necessities of the people
will shortly call loudly for these workt. We are
now short " 1 pots, kettles and all the implements
of domestic use or husbandry. Unless we en-
deavor to tnpply ourselves in this way, we shall
always be dependent on those who are or may be
our enemies. We commend the subject to the at-
tention of the people and the Leglslatuae.
The Invasion oi Texas,
We are inclined to think, as we suggested some
weeks since, that the movement of the enemy up
the Teche was a feint to cover his designs upon
the Texas eoast, and that the real object he had in
view in threatening Alexandria was to capture
Brownsville. Be that as it may, he has retnmed
from tbe route to Alexandria, and simultaneously
struck a blow npon the Bio Grande. What
his foree it, or what hit plans may be, cannot yet
be determined. Of one thing we may be certain,
that among his plana is the destruction of the trade
between Texas and Mexico. If this is all he de-
signs, he will have a good deal for his reported
force to accomplish. 9
It is no longer onr boast that the toil of Texas
is free from pollution. It it, perhaps, an act of
retributive Providence, that the trade which has
done to much to demoralize the country, should
bear the brunt of this blow. And, in that light,
while this inroad of the Yankees may appear a
hardship for us, it is possible that it will result in
our permanent advantage.. It it a part of our
creed tbat thit war will last till our country it
made Independent in fact, at well as In name,—
until we learn to be telf-supporting in civil, mili-
tary and domestic affairs. While we are depend-
ing on our Mexican neighbors for so many articles
of necesiity, not to tty comfort and luxury, we
are making no progress In self-dependence. Pot
sibly, now that we shall be forced to produce our
own clothing, shoes,'and so forth, we may prove
that we ean do to, and that the doing so is condu-
cive both to virtue and happiness in the people
But it is possible that this invasion means more
than the Interruption of trade, and In thit even-
our people mutt now prepare themselves for a
oter acquaintance with war than they hav e bith -
to had. And tbe first thing to be done by them at
home it to puth forward the necessary supplies of
clothing to the soldiers in the field. Every ysrd
of cloth that can be made must now be pressed
into the service. Better for those at home to go
cold than that the men In tbe field should suffer
unn ecessarily. M eans will be provided for every
family in the State to forward its contributions.
The State Troops are already in the field, and
prompt to the demands of duly. Minute men
should now Ire formed ot the old men from 50 to
60, tht boys, and the army of men who have sub-
stitutes in the service. Some time since General
Magruder invited the army of speculators to par-
ticipate in the occasion of meeting a Federal in-
vasion. Their occupation being now greatly in-
terrupted, this it a most favorable time for them
to prove their patriotism in the field at well as in
importing rum and gunpowder. Let all the peo-
ple be united in the determination to defend the
Btate, and we shall be safe. That they are and
will be united, we have every reason to believe.
LITER FRfiJI THE WEST.
GEN. 2A.KKS AT BEOWKSVILLE, ! TC., ETC.
King's Easchi, Novim'oar 11th, 1863.
We have news from Brownsville to the G;h. Banks is In
command of the Federal force, which is near 12,0(10 strong.
In landing he lost all bis artillery horses, as wsll as many
stores, and is by this means too much shattered to attempt to
move soon. ,
t'orlinas took advantage of the confusion ia Matamoros to
pronounce in favor of Scrna, the Kujo Governor. He im-
prisoned Gov. Ruiz, tx-Gov. Lopez and all the officers of the
crinoline partv M iny fears, doubtless well founded, are en-
tertained tor Confederates in Maiamoros in the hands of tbe
bandit Cortinas.
But a small part of Brownsville was barnt. All the pub-
lic property and two hundred bales of cotton were Durned
by order of Gen. Bee. On the road from Brownsville to this
place, Gon. Bee burnod all the cotton that could not be trans-
ported. Heavily loaded learnt were half unloaded, so that
they coulvl keep up with the b tlance. About 4U0 bales were
in this way destroyed.
We learn every one left behind us was murdered by rob-
bers. The Rio Grande >s lined with small parties of robbers
murdering all the Confederates that iall into their hands.
The Mexicans are mostly proving disloyal. Ct.pt. Bene-
vide8'company is an exc-ption, siandingfirmly to duty. All
the other Mexican companies have been dissolved.
No one in Brownsville came out with us. So lonsrasit wrs
the Vidalraid Gen. Bee had three hundred citizens on duty.
But when the Yankees came, not a dozen stood b> blm. Bra-
dy, Darling, Cherry and twelve others did good service as
scouts, but went across Ihe river when we left Mr. Henry
Suligstn was one of the fai hfai to the last. He WiS on guard
to the last momeu t. He had no time to save his cotton, and
he set fire to itwithhis own hand. Altogether we had aheavv
time of it, but we are here all safe with the train. Bee is a
soldier every iuch of him. So is Col. Doff, arid between them
thei did overythlng as nearly right as it could bo.
You shall hear from me again as often as anything occurs
worthy of notice. I shall remain with the army here for
the present. Yours tiuly, VIDETTE.
[Communicated.]
THE CONFEDERATE CUKRENCY.
jhditor Ttlegi aph:—I hive read with much care your remarks in
your is ue of the 31st lust., which in part wereit.tended as a reply
to my article on the Confederate currency over ihe signature D.,
written for your paper at Shrevepott, Oct. 20th 1S63. You state,
"our correspondent D. has taken the history of the Bank ofEng-
land as a criterion tor the Congress of the Confederacy. The cases
are not parallel. They are not even in any striking aspect similar."
Permit me, Mr. Editor, to appeal to history to decide this question.
In 1797 th bank of England suspended specie payment, and
England was compelled to use an exclusively paper currency for
more than twenty five years.
In 18611 o Confederate State commenced using an exclusively
paper currencv. That Is our only currency inlSOS, and we have
no proof that we shall have any other for a series of years to come.
The paper currency of Enslind from 1797 to 1823 was a national
necessity, re-ultlng from burdersome wars and national dangeif.
The paper currency of the Con federate. States is the result of a
similar cause.
Q^The Immense drain 0: specie from England rendered a sp«cie
basis for the currency of the bank of England during that period
in impossibility.
The immense drain of specie from the Confederate States at the
beginning of the war renders a specie basis for onr currency an
impossibility.
During the suspension in England for more than twenty five
years the people did not claim nor expect gold -or s.lverln pay-
ment of debts, or ia the usual commercial transactions of the
country—p iper money was their otly currency, except In m.'.U
ters of small change.
At the present time no one in the Confederacy who professes to
be a friend to the South claims or expects gold or sliver in pay-
ment of debts.
The British Parliament made the notes of the Bank of
England a "legal tender," and legalized the suspension of
specie payment.
. It is hoped that the next Confederate Congress will make
our currency a "legal tender," and then t,e parallel be-
twoen the two currencies will be nearly complete.
The historian,In speaking of the suspension of the Bank
of England, as noticed in the foregoing article, remarks :
"The policy of non-payment, which at first startled Mr.
Pittywas by him afterwards declared to be, in the peculiar
circumstances of necessity in which the Government was
then placed, like finding a. mountain of gold.'"
Youstate that "Greenbacks have done very well so far,
we grantbut you predict their ultimate failure, and that
they will become "as useless for the purpose of legal tender
as Confederate notes with us.''
That is merely an assertion without proof. But admitting
its correctness, What is the conclusion 1 The Federal Gov-
ernment nas been using an economical currency for more
than two years for our subjugation. We hare been usinga
wasteful and expensive currency for the same length of time,
in defence of our liberties. We do not expect iheir Trea-
sury notes' to be used perpetually. Give us the tame advan-
tage for even two years, by making our currency a legal
tehder, that the Federals have derived from this feature in
their currency, and we shall doubtless be able to stand erect
by tbat time, as a free nation among the family of nations.
Our canse is notyet so Bafe that we may throw aside any ad-
vantages which may be gained over our wily and untiring
foe. In some portions of the Confederacy our people are
becoming badly demoralized, chiefly on account of the de-
preciation of our currency. No paios should be spared to
check this demoralization, and restore confidence in the cur-
rency and the Government.
I cordially agree with you that by taxation and funding our
currency should be greatly reduced. But it must be a cur-
rency which will pay debts and be respected by the pAple.
With but a hundred millions of this Currency in circulation,
and this made a legal tender by an act of Congress, I have
no doubt that it would at once become as valuable as green-
backs, if not more so.
If this currency is not made a legal tender, I feel confident
that as soon as this war is over, bankrupt laws, stay laws,
and numerous other laws to favor the debtor and protect him
against the creditor will si once be enacted. J he majority
of the people wiil be poor and in debt. Tbe soldiers will
come home from the war poor and with warworn constitutions.
They will vote for those for office who will be in favor of pro-
electing the poor soldier against avaricious creditors. The
majorities or our Legislatures and Congress will be debtors,
and will vote to favor debtors. The best policy for creditors
wtll doubtless be to de all in their power to elevste our cur-
rency, and then collect their notes and dues In Confederat
money as fast as their creditors will pay them. Otherwise,
by bankrupt debtors and bankrupt laws, by changes and delays
caused by the revolution, their losses on notes and accounts
formerly deemed perfectly good, may be very great. Those
who regard the principal and interest of the notes the; hold
as representing so much gold or silver, must remember that
this revolution bat greatly depreciated the value of various
kindt of property, and notes at interest have not escaped this
depreciation. D.
. Houston, Oct. 6,1863.
ITEMS OK I.^TEttlisT.
ICF The letter of Vidette from King's Kanche)
it entirely reliable. Vidette occopiet a position
where he can readily ascertain all the Intelligence
that reaches our people from the Bio Grande.
Tr"P We notice the arrival of Mr. Geo. Mason
of the C. 8. District Court. The Court sitt in
this city next Monday. The session will be short.
W~T The Poitmaiter at Clear Creek, Denton
connty, complains of the post office at Denton for
detaining papers due that office. We are aware
there are many leaks in the newspaper mails, but
hop* to learn that the Denton office it clear of
them.
We are Indebted to Capt. B. Shropshire,
who had just arrived at Alexandria, La., on the
7th, and another Captain at Shreveport. who It
too modest to wish to see his name in print, for
large packages of Mobile papers. By these favors
we have complete filet to the 20th ult. The t ele-
grapiric news has all been anticipated. Captain
Shropshire also sends us late New Orleans and
Bston Rouge papers.
$Bf Firing was beard yesterday morning by peri
sons on Galveston Island In tbe direction of the"
mouth of the Brazos.
Tixana, Texas, Nov. 13, 1863.
The steamer Lizzie Lake (Capt. Spalding,) is up from be-
low this morning, and the reports by her and from persons
coming in from out West, &s., are to the following effect:
The Federals hive landed troops, mostly cavalry, from 19
transports, at Brazos Santiago and on Padres Island. The
number is not known. Some estimate them by the thou-
sands and some by the hundreds. Our people with Gen. Bee
at the head, got all the cotton in tbe city they could across
the river at Brownsville, by rolling it into tbe river and giv-
ing 95 in specie per bale for swiming it over to the* other
shore, and it all went over but abopt 40 or 50 bales, and most
of the citizens of Brownsville alto w%ntover to the Mexican
side of the Rio Grande.
General Bee burned the Government Warehouses, and blew
up the Arsenal, and thus accidentally setting fire to the town
generally, of which about one-half was burned to the ground,
and that no attempt was made to check the fiSmes, the town
being abandoned, and General Bee, at last accounts, w&s at
King's Ranch, having burned all the cotton in bis rear,
amounting to about 1000 bales ; that Bee's force is about 300
men,and that he has ordered off, all the men, cannon, &c.,
on Padre's and Mustang Islands—and that the Federals with
a cavalry force are preparing to march on Corpus Chr'ttl
from I'adre't Island. That Gen. Slaughter is at Saluria. Our
teamsters are coming back with cotton.
•From the Richmond, Va., Sentinel.
G£n. MAeRuosit —The victory lately announced by Gen.
Magruder at Sabine P$ss, in which the fortt, with a small
force, demolished and drove off the whole fleet of Yankee
gunboats without the loss of a man, reminds us of the bril-
liant triumphs which inaugurated the war; one of which,
Bethel-, the first of the long and splendid array, was achieved
by the same Magruder and D. H. Hill, with but the loss of a
single life. Gen. Magruder ia a man of no ordinary military
abilities, and possesses in an eminent degree that great quality
of energy which is the life and soul of tbe true warrior. His
defence of the Peninsula, and the wonderful success with
which, at the head of frorn.five to ten thousand men, he kept
McClellan's hott or 120,000 at bay till Johnston brought up
his army, art among the most memorable military achieve-
ments of the war. In no one respect did Gen. Magruder
evince more sagacity than his contempt of the gunboat hum-
bug at a period when the commnnity In general was appalled
by the bloodless racket of those noisy monsteri, whose look
He alway* regarded as worse than their bite, and whom he
has always chas ised without an effort. We "can assure the
gallant and accomplished chieftain that the eyes of his
countrymen are ttJi on him, and that their hearts beat high
at his successes.
It mutt be a source of tatlsfection to our distinguished
chieftain to receive such evidences of appreciation from his
native State. For as, we entertain no doubt that Gen. Ma-
gruder is second to no General In the Confederate service.
Hitherto bis energies have been devoted to the management
of tmall bodies or troops, compared to those great armies that
haVo fought the battles of Lee,of Johnston, of Bragg and of
Beauregard. With these tew he has however foiled heavy
forces of the enemy, and his banners have always floated In
victory over every field he has foagh',. With the prestage of
success, and the evidence he has hitherto manifested of his
powers as a military chief, together rwith the foice he now
commands in Texas, we have every reason to look for satis-
factory results while he It at the military helm.
Bekhham, November 8th, 1863.
Editor Telegraph—I notice in your paper, the names of
several gentlemen who would show their patriotism by kind-
nesses to soldiers families, and pledge themselves to sell
corn to soldiers families for 50 tents per bushel. I trust a'l
are not as some I know of, for eome of these same gentlemen
now reftiae to sell com by pleadicg " none to spare " One
of them charged a soldier's femily two dollars per bushel A
lady near me sent him 825 to get fifty bushels, he sent the
money back with twenty bushels of corn, as a present. Would
it not have been a greater favor had he have sent her the fifty
bushels and kept the money i No, he knew he could easily
make up tbe loss of the twenty bushels by chirging 93 00 for
all he told. I know of several such presents made in the
same way by this tame patriot. If you have room for this
please print it, If not please write something to the same effect,
to strip off these borrowed colors from tush as would help
soldiers f&milierin thit manner. Respectfully,
A SOLDIER'S WIFE.
The following is a model obituary. We commend It to pub-
lic attention:
Mr. Editor :—Jem Bags, we are sorry tu stait, is deteized.
He departed this life last monday. Jem was generally con-
tidered a good feller. He died at the aje of 32 years oldl
He went 4th without ary straggle; and such ia life. Tu Day
we are as peppper grass, mity smart—tu Morrer we are cut
down like a cowcumber of the ground. Jem kept a nice store,
which hit wife now wates on. His vircbews was numerous
tu behold. Menny is the thing we botat his growcery, and
we are hapyy to state to the admirin' world, tbat he never
chened, ep shurly In the wate of mackrel, which was nice,
amelteweet, and his surv-ivin' wife is the same wa—We never
knew him to put tand in sugar, tho' he had a big sand bar in
tront of his house ; nur water in his Lickers, tho the Tenasee
River run past hisdore. Piece to bis remalnes.
POETRY.
he died in his bed,*
a great big buk He red
a prayer he lowly sed *
then turned over of 2 the bed
and durned if he didn't die—ded 1
He leves a wife, 8 children and a cow, 4 horses, a growcery
stoe and other quadrupeds, to morn his loss—but in the spa
len did langwidge ov the poit, his lost't there eternal gane.
A Yankee paper says :
Though fifty thousand rrfisd muskets have been sent to tbe
army within the last month, there is still an accumulation at
the armory in Springfield of over 125,000.
Better send thim along. We shall want them goon.
Texas Beef, first quality, Is quotift at 560 per head in New
Orleans.
We note in the Era of the 15th notices of cale of 2C9 bales
of cotton, cargoes of schooners Wave and Maccanfieid, ex
Galveston, come to grief in attempting to run the blockade.
From the New York Journal of Commerce.
The jolly tars attached to the Russian fleet tire cruising
about tho cit--, and spending their money with the grand im-
proviiettce of the sea-faring men the world over. The apple
stands anil fruit stores ara particularly patronized by them
When Ihe Chinese fleet Erst came to New York, they invested
all their m^ttey in omnibus rides up and down Broadway ;
eat tbe Russian sailors seem to think their fanus most ju
diclously laid out in peaches and apples. The sidewalk
vendors of these articles are doing s. fine business with our
slraugs visitors ; and the pecuniary transactions involved
are usually carried on in the center of a large crowd of cu-
rious spectators. It is difficult to say whether tbe Russians or
Ihe queer looking silver pieces which they pay out are re-
gsrrled with the greater astonishment anc-iuterest. In the
absence of any definite and known v:.lu '.tions of the Kassian
silver coin, the spi-le dealers estimate them by their size,
compared with tbe dime and quarter of onr own remote past,
and give the Russians change acc'trdinr- , and the latter
take what is t-ffered them ar.d poet-at it cruji mgly. T.ie post-
age currency stackers tbem a little, but h y courteously
accopl i' out of regard lo tb" cou:.iry ttii.t its institutions.
St. l.Hi-ts, Sept. 3D.—It is understood that a pi,,t lias been
discovered to burn all Ibe government transports on the
Western rivers.
Several men have been :.rrested and are now In irons
upon one of whom a cypher was -.oiind, which, upon being
translated, disclosed instructions to destroy all the steamers
tbatennbeof any service to the government. The matter
is being fully investigated.
It is marked as a sign of the times in New York that there
is not a first class mansion on the Fifth Avenue for sale.
Everybody there is so rich that nobody needs to sell, while-
many bodies rich enough (and such bodies are legion) are
sighing to purchase to live there, to see at least, the now great
movements of carriages, equipages, &c.,up and dawn.
The Senatobia correspondent of the Mobile Register states
that five steamers, including the Imperial, have been de-
stroyed on the Mississippi river. How, when or where, is not
stated. Our river guerillas are promptly at work.
From the Columbus (Ga.) Times.
What is to be the end of the present extravagant rates for
houses to Hv6 in, is difficult to foresee, unless it be the ulti-
mate smashing up of all parties. The idea of a gentleman
payinz three hundred dollars a year rent for a little 8x10
room is the height of folly, yet it is asked and will have to be
paid, unless a fellow choose to sleep under a bridge or on a
cellar door or do as we heard a fellow did the other day, take
up quarters on tbe river bank. The truth is we ara running
wild with excitement about the currency, and ev,ery mis is
endeavoring to get as huge a pile of notes as possible, so
that if not rich when tho war terminates he will have enough
to make np for depreciation.
-From the London Economist.
Louis Napoleon, then, has put himself deliberately and
a'vowedly in opposition to the arrogant pretensions "of ths
American republic. But that republic is no longer one and
indivisible. With which section of it, therefore, will his oc-
cupation of Mexico bring him into collision V With which
wiil he quarrel, and with which will he form, or seek to form,
an alliance 7 There can be no doubt as to the immediate
answer. The success of the secession movement, the sever-
ance of the old republic into two states, is essential to the
permanent occupation of Mexico by France, orto the per-
manent independence of Mexico at a powerful country under
French protection j iIecs the real restoration of the Union
would once more make the American nation so mighty and so
proud that all its old pretensions would be renewed, and it
would probably be impossible for France ultimately to uphold
her protege without a continuity of struggle, and a waste of
men and treasure which she could Hot endure en permanence,
and of which she would soon grow weary. His Mexican con-
quest thus entails upon Louis Napoleon almost the necessity
of an alliance with the Southern Confederacy, and an alii
ance concluded in time enough to enable his aid to insure
their success and their independence. If he delays till they
are beaten, and if they are beaten in consequence of his
delay, he will have to consolidate and maintain his Mexican
enterprise, not against one enfeebled and diminished nation,
by the help of that nation's exasperated foe, but without aid
against the reconstructed Union, which in time would become
as powerful as before. We comprehend, therefore, that he
will, in hisheart.be just us anxious to proffer aid as the hard
pressed Confederates will be to accept it; and, between con-
tracting parties thus mutually predisposed, terms of Ireaty are
not difficult, and tre seldom long protracted. Even before
the Mexican conquest, as we are well assured, the sympathies
and wishes of the French Emperor inclined him to recognize
the 8outh ; and he was only withheld from doing so by the
want of our co-operation. Those sympathies and wishes are
fortified and vitalized by urgent political interests now.
New Orleans, September 30.—The headqaartersofthe 19th
Army Corps, under Gen. Franklin, and part of the 13th Army
Corps,under Gen .C. C. Washburn,areut Camp Bisland, fifty
miles from Brashear City. They have met no enemy as yet.
Foraging paitles have gathered up large quantities of mules,
horses and cattle, but the plantations are generally deserted.
The advance of the army was delayed ou account of obstruc-
tions in Bayou Teche. Theee obstructions were blown up,
and the Bayou is now open for steamers to New Iberia.
The Cincinnati Commercial says :
Gen. Bauka is rapidly recovering the territory ofLouisiana
Navigation on the Bayou Teche has been re-opened, and the
army, at last accounts, was fifty miles from Brashear City,
pushing into the interior. So far, they have met no resist-
ance, or any enemy.
President Davit has promoted the following Individuals to
the rank of Brigadier General in the provisional army :
Col. G C. Wharton, of Va., from July 8.
Col. W. A. Quartet, of Tenn., from August 55.
Lieut Col. Robert D. Johnson, of .V. C., from Sept. —
Col. A. Peirin, of S. C., from Sep'. 10.
Col. A. W. Reynolds, of Ya., from Sept. 14.
Col. E. W. Pettus, of Ala., from Sept. 18.
Col. T.N. Waul,of Texas, from Sept. 18.
Col. A. L. LoDg,for artillery duty, on Gen. Lee's staff,
from Sept. 21.
Col. B. R. Jackson, of Ga., from Sept. 21.
Col. Wirt Adamt, of Misfc, from Sept. S3.
Col. James B. Gordon, of N. C., from Sept. 18.
The Atlanta Appeal says that Lieutenant General Pember-
ton was called on to make a speech some days ago at a vil-
lage south of that place. There were present some two thou
sand cl iheexch&ngad Vicksburg prisoners. The General
said that he felt much embarrassment because, for tho time,
a cloud rested upon him, and, besides, be was willing to wait
the authoritive .vindication of his character by a competent
tribunal. "If, however,'' continued the General, "any of
thoteexempts and gentlemen who have substitutel, and those
speculators who have denounced me as a coward and traitor
through the press, or otherwise, will organize themselves in-
to regiment, brigade or division, and will march with me to
the front, the world shall determine who of us are cowanis and
who are traitors. I have not been denounced by any brave
soldier or officer from Vicksburg, neither have my soldierly
qualities and patriotiam been called in question by them, but
by those enrpers and critics at home who have already done
infinite mischief."
bju .IVBS
cover in the palac9 garden. The wounded officer was re-
ceived by the Empress with great distinction.
Hall's Journal of Health gives the following sensible ad-
vice :
Like the gnarled oak that has withstood the storms *nd
thunderbolts of centuries, man himself begins to die t the
extremities. Keep the feet dry and warm, and we may snap
our fit'gersin joyous triumph at disease and the doctors. Pat
on two pairs of thick woolen socks, tat keep this to yourself;
go to some honest son of St. Crispin, act! have your measure
taken for a stout pair of winter boots or shoes; shoes are
better for ordinary, every day uje, as they allow the ready
escape of odors, while they strengthen the ancles, accustom-
ing them to depend 011 themselves. A slight accident is suf-
ficient to cause a sprained ancle to a haoittial boot wearer.
Besides, a shoe compresses lees, and hence p.dmits of a more
vigorous circulation of blood ; tut weir boots when you r,de
travel. Give direction, also, to have no cork or India
rubber about the shoes, but have placed between the layers
of the soles, from out to out, a ptcce of stout ^emp, or new
linen, which has been dipped in melted \ it-:h. This is abso-
lutely impervious to water—does not aosorb a particle-—
while we knc.w that cotk does, and after a while becomes
-■ soggy ''and dump for weeks. When you pat them on for
the first time, they will feel as easy as an old shoe,' and you
m^y stand on damp places for hours with impunity.''
Gov. Brown is re-elected in Georgia by 6.841 votes over
both competitors.
By the exemption act. persons tn the military service can
procure the exemption of an overseer by the mcual pay
ment of .S50o.pro\idt-d tho overseer was reaily such ou the
17th oi April, 1862. The 'ollofting order, from the Adjutant
General in Richmond, shows how this exemption may be pro
cured :
Overseers entitled to exemption r.-jll be exempted from mil-
iary Service for one year, when the owner of tile slaves of
whom the averse-r hav had charge, shall p-estnt to the enroll-
ing officer the receipt of a quiilormttster for the amount of
ihe tax Liopo--?'! iti sot-b cases by tne act of Cougress, approv
ed May 1, 18U3. Officers of quartermaster departments are
directed to reecv and receipt for money tLus paid.
The Colambus (Ga.) Sun says that s^me wounded soldiers
from Tennessee, at the hospitals in Griffin, Gv. recently rode
Mr- Swajze, Of the "Bugle Horn of Liberty," on a rail, on
account of some indelicate flings at Mis Gen. Morgan and
other Tennessee ladies. In a late number of the "Horn." Mr,
Swayze has since published a card in the Atlanta papers, de-
nying any Intention to reproach the family of Mrs. Morgan,
and sayS his purpose was to burlesque the "Illustrated News''
and other slnfilar newspaper enterprises.
From the Charleston Courier.
In accordance with the action of the President, as lately
report'd in our columns, official notice has been given
through theproper channel to the gentleman lately acting
as British Consul for this port, that his official functions had
ceased and could not be longer recognized. This action meets
with very general approval on grounds of self-respect and
Upblic policy.
ia reference to the Consult- thus relieved, different ques-
tions may arise as to their private and personal pos tion af-
ter this official demise. In some cases those Consuls before
or during their official career, have acquired and exercised
the rights of citizenship. Thit was the case in this city.
The Richmond Examiner saya that the repulse of twelve
thousand Yankees at Sabine Pass, by forty-two Irish Con-
federates, eclipses the action of Leonids; at Thermopylte.
The Louisville Journal states that the guerilla General,
Richardson, who has so long been a terror to the Federals
in West Tennessee, has been taken prisoner. He had ven-
tured to Memphis in disguise, but was recognized and ar-
rested.
Dr. F. C.Bacr. the famous German Pattbelst.dleil In Berlin
recently. He was considered a much more powerful and dange-
rous opponent of the Christian religion than Voltaire. On nis
deathbed he renounced- his previous belief and prayed for
mercy.
The frigate Liverpool Is left in the Mersey, it Is reported, to
watch the Euspected Iron rams.
A Georgian recently gave one thousand dollars to aid In send-
ing ministers to the army.
A meeting of the Confederate Society of Euterprise, Missis-
sippi, adopted a memorial tor general signature, urging CoDgress
to increase the taxes to an extent sufficient to absorb the curren-
cy and pay a large -proportion of the present debt. The ground
taken is, that it is easier for the people to pay the public debt in
a cheap than In a dear currency, and, moreover, the pavment of
one-half the debt, Is the paying Into the treasury of one-half the
currency in taxe -, and will render the other half so much more
valuable as not materially to lessen the value of the means the
citizens may have There Is a world of wisdom as well as patri-
ot ism In the suggestion.
Col. J. Ross Snowden, late director of the U. S. Mint in
Philadelphia, made a speech in that city the other day in
which he estimated the Yankee debt at this moment to be
not less then two thousand millions of dollars. This tre-
mendous sum if paid in gold would require 921 four horse
wagons to transport it. We doubt if it will ever be trans-
ported.
Mr. , having on his plantation a field of eats, was
We take the following from the Chicago Times of the lOtb:
Burking was a crime tbat became frequent in England, not-
withstanding Us horrid nature and the extreme punishment
which followed detection. It consisted in murdering persons
for the purpose of telling their bodies for dissection, for
which the perpetrators received only a few shilling!. In this
country another crime, ecircely less heinous, is becoming a
matter of every day occurrence. It it tbe arrest of innocent
persons charged with being deserteri, for each of whom (he
criminal receives thirty dollars and assurances of freedom
from punishment. For the habeas corpus ia suspended, and
under the rulings of our military authorities, every man s(
arrested ispresumed guilty until he is proved innocent, and
no opportunity, or at best a miserable excuse for an oppor-
tunity, it offered the victim to prove his innocence. The lib-
erty of every American citizen, therefore, nnless he happen
to be possessed of friends who are Influential with " the gov
ernment," It at tbe mercy of profeuional kidnappers. Bur-
glary and other similar crimes are falling into disrepute, be-
ing more hazardous and no better paid than the business of
" arresting of deserters."
We are living in the golden age of abolition " freedom to
to all men."
The Herald's Washington dispatch, Oct. 8th, states: "By
the latest private advices from the South, itappears that Gen.
Bragg's army has been reinforced since the battle cf Chick-
amauga by the following troops : One division from Rich-
mond, commanded by Gen. Arnold Elsey; one from Wettern
Virginia, commanded by Gen. Sam. Jones ; one from Peters-
burg and Weldon, commanded by Gen. Ransom; three brig-
ades from Florida, commanded by Gen. Howell Cobb ; and
three famous batteries from Lee's army, viz : Cutis', Blod-
gett's, and Walton's. In addition, Bragg has hit original
army, consisting of D. H. Hill's and Polk's corps, besides
fonr divisions from Mississippi and one division from Char es
ton,one division of Georgia State troors. under Gen. Wal-
ker, one division from East Tennessee, seven divisions from
Lee't trmy, 15,000 Georgia Slate militia under Gen. Wayne,
5,000 cavalry under Pillow, 15,000 cavalry under Gen. Wheel
er, and 350 pieces of artillery. Hit whole force It estimated
at 175,0011. It it now represented that Joe Johnston's reserves
at Rome. Resaca, Kingston, Coetersville, and Etawah Bridge
number 55,000.
Wilket' Spirit of the Times is informed by a Colonel at-
tached to the Department of the Gulf, that an Intelligent loyal
oitixenof the United Slates, wbo resided at Bagdad, a little
town near tbe port of Brazos, reported to him that in June
last there were eight) -five tail collected there ; tt4t eight of
the number were British men-of-war, and that he tad stood
on shore and seen these vess.ls unload their broadside guns,
and tending them ashore for transportation to the interior,
receiving cotton in exchange. That these operations were
conducted on the part of the Confederates by the Captain
who was in charge of the troops at Bagdad, and when he in-
quired of the Captain why tbe cotton was shipped on board
these public vesselB,the answer was, tbat il was to go to Eng-
land, to make good the Confederate indebtedness in the cot-
ton loan.
From the Vienna Press, Sept. 14.
The Mexican deputation which will formally offer Archduke
Ferdinand Max tht Imperial crown, voted by the Assembly
of Notables, is expected to arrive here In a few dayt. It it
asserted that the Archduke is greatly disposed to accept the
otfoj ! hut it is a mistake to suppose tbat he will accept it un-
conditionally. He is firmly determined only to ascend the
throne provided the powers interested In upholding the bal-
ance of power by the erection of a monarchy in Mexico, the
dissolution of the North American Republic, and the preven-
tion of the tubjugation of Europe by America, will fulfill
such conditions as shall afford the Mexican throne warrants
of permanency.
Tne-e conditions are:
1. Guarantee of tbe throne by the three powers who originally
undertook the Mexican expedition—England, France and Spain—
that Is to say, tbat they shall undertake to support the monarchy
by arrnb In case of danger from within or without.
2. That all the Mexican municipalities shall declare themselves
by free vote satisfied with the establishment of <1 monarchy and
the choice ol an Austrian Prince. 9
Upon these conditions,and an we are positively assured, upon
<mt%T Mexlc?3 °niy' Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian will set
«r> ^AI> Nxws.—AmoDgst the Instructions, savs Bour-
T°'rv,8rU;fu by lbe arst Kapoleon to hi- confidential
™ following rather singular: "At night," said he
jou will enter my chamber as seldom as possible. N ver awa-
ken me when you have good news to announce. Witb oood
news there Is no necessity to horry. When, on tbe contrary you
are the depo.-ltary ot evil tidings, rouse me lustautlv; for on such
occasions there Is not a moment to bo tost." Nipoieon Is said to
have profited not a little by acting on this calculation. But it Is
evidently not upon such a calculation that tbe piess In either
section of ihe country, or Its correspondents, base their pr ctlce
In resaid to good or bad news. They sleep ou the bid, and elve
the public opiates to make it sleep also; while they rouse every-
body with reports of the good, so enlarged by fiction that the
sober reality Is at last regarded with disapp dot meat as If it were
a disaster.
The Marquis da Gallifet, on hit return from Vlchy, pro-
ceeded at once to St. Cloud to deliver to tho Prince imperial
the small cannon offered to the Prince by the French In
Mexico. This piece of miniature artillery is of American
manufacture, having been presented by the President of the
United Slatet to the Mexican Government. The young Prince
appeared delighted with the present, and had it placed, with
the thirty rounds of aamunitlon which accompanied it, under
desirout of paying his tenth as he hauled the crop in, to he
told the negro to haul nine loads to ihe barn and the tenth to
the quarmaster. Upon returning after a few days absence,
he asked tho servant if he had delivered the tenth load as
ordered. "No massa," said the trusty boy with an air of
having done something,"the government don't get nnffin—
for dar warnt no tentf load, I done cram it all in nine!"
From Mobile News, Oct. 20. ■
Gen. Wheelex's cavalry has executed one of the most bril-
liant raids of ihe war. Crossings wide river in front of the
foe, he has passed round Rosecrant' rear, taken and paroled
2,000 prisoners and destroyed miles upon miles of wsgon
trains, millions of commissary stores in depot, torn up rail-
road tracks, burned bridges, captured towns, and worried tbe
enemy in every conceivable way, and reorossed the river
with a loss of500 all told. It It a daring exploit brilliantly
executed, and mutt be most damaging to tne enemy.
He is resting hlsjaded horses and men in North Alabama,
but be is not a man to be idle long.
The Leavenworth (Kansas) Times, of the SGth ult., ssys the
Illinois farmers went extensively into cotton planting this
year. Many thousand acres were planted, and many Insist-
ed that this yeai would demonstrate the practicability of
raising cotton In the Free States. Wiser heads and more
observant men predicted failure; that success would be the
exception, failure tbe rule. The result verifies the predic-
tion. The recent frosts in Illinois have entirety ruined the
cotton crop. To such an extent does this damage reach that
not a single bale of cotton will be gathered norlh of the Ohio
river.
Vallandlgham beaten, Ohio, Pennsylvania and all tbe rett
gone pell-mell, head-over-heels, for Lincoln, Black Repub-
licanism, and white slavery, for a bridled press, the habeas
corpus abrogated, freedom of thought and speech denied,
free constitution trampled out of sight, and a military des-
potism exalted on therulne. "Well," as Mrs. Col. Poyntz
was wont to say, " that's settled." And we are glad " it is
settled." If the stupid and bigoted dwellers upon the I ral-
lies are content with the future from such a settlement, so are
we. They have gone to bed with their rivals and declared
protracted war against their natural allies and beat custom-
ers. So be it- We wish them joy of their Yankee connection.
How the thing was done, the telegraph does not develope. By
intimidation 7—by the presence of bayonets 7 Then there Is
smothered fires. But meantime despotism is triumphant.—
Meantime, too, the South has, alone, to depend upon Its own
high heart, lofty purpose and strong arms.
A special Washington dispatch to the New York Herald
says:
" Notwithstanding the denial of Washington newspapers,
whose managers assume to know everythiog.bat really know
nothing, it is a fact that fortwo months past tne question of a
settlement of the impending difficulties between the Northern
and Southern Stales, without further bloodshed, has been un-
der consideration both in Washington and Richmond.
"The action thu« far hardly authorizes the statement that
'peace propositions' are being considered. The negotiations
have not yet reached any dafinite propositions. For the
present your correspondent is under an obligation of secresy
upon the tubjec , which may, in a few davt, be removed,
when It will be shown that the Government has either accept-
ed or rejected a plan proposed to try to bring the war to a
speedy and bloodless conclusion, without dishonor to the
North, or humiliation to the South."
From the Mobile Evening News, ofOctober22d,wetakelhe
following:
Tbe latest Richmond " tkeam" for making money, Is as
follows; Take $30,000 and buy with it S20,000 In cotton bonds
at 150, the government pries. Bell these bonds in Europe fcr
30 cents on the dollar. Return with 6,100 Sterling Exchange,
and tell this at 1400, cnrrent price, $84,000—a very comfort-
able return for about a month's operation, not gain being
$54,000.
The Gnand Jury cf Twiggs county, Ga., Superior Court, re-
quest the court to order a black roll, on which tbe namet ol
all ptrtons are to be recorded who refate to take Confeder
at* notes in payment of any debt.
The Chicago Timet thlDks that the number of peraons lost
from the gunboats in the Sabine Past affair, could not fall
short or 1300, Including four members of Franklin't staff.—
Also,300 mules and hortes, many wagons, font 32 pounders,
and perhaps 16 to 25 gent tunk. Also, all tbe life boats which
plied to and from the headquarteri of Gen. Franklin on the
steamer Suffolk, now driven ashore In a squall, and the crew
of the boatt either captured, drowned or wrecked.
The Riobmond Enquirer, of Ootober 17th, tayt tht gam-
bler! of that city have all been driven off, and forced to quit
the soil of Virginia. If the legislature has made a law lhat
will keep tbem off. It has been more successful than any leg
Islature of Texas has beenyet.
The greatest want or Bragg's army at present It blankets.
Much solicitude it felt at their scarcity.
From Northern accounts of Gen. Green's fight on the Focr-
doche, Sept. 20th, we take the following: After two gallant
charget in which many of onr bravest men fell,our forces
fell back to a levee near by. Here the enemy pressed us to
closely that our line became broken and every man fought
tor himself. Just at our men were beginning to recover them-
selves, the the third detachment Jwblch had engaged Major
Montgomery appeared in our rear, and the whole of the ene-
my closed upon our forces, thus completely surrounding
them. It wat impossible for our men to stand tbe galling
fire which was poured into them on every side, and rather
than surrender the orrter was given for every man to save
himself as best ha conld. They wert not slow In taking the
hint, and took for the bathes. A portion of them succeeded
in escaping, but the majority were taken prisoners. Our
whr^, loss will not fall short of 400 in killed, wounded and
prisoner*.
There are now, says the Richmond Wfcie, tome ten or
twelve thousand Yankee prisoners in Richmond, and the
feeding of them is an item of serious consideration. It is
propoted to shed Belle iBle completely over to accommodate
them. We think it would be better to exchange them, or in
default of that putthem to some useful occupation, whereby
they might earn their living.
The South Africa iCape of Good Hope) Advertiser has
the following:
The Tuscaloosa is another of the Confederate cruisers which
bas lately paid a visit to St. Llmons' Bay. where she received
some supplies, and trom which port she sailed a few days ago. She
was formerly a federal merchantman, and captured while on the
way from Buenos Ayerea for New York, with a cargo ol wool.
The Alabama had previously captured tile Talisman, from New
York for C ilna, witb an armament of 5 brass guns, fhe-e were
transferred to the Tuscaloosa. Since then the Tuscaloosa bas
been cruising in various directions. She captured the Laube. On
her forward deck is a huge Blskeiy gun, made, However, ol wood,
which first scares the victim to a surrender, when the five brass
guns serve to bo d them to their late. This gun Is christened the
"Fighting Joe Hooker."
Arlemus Ward. 011 forts, says that George Washington's forte
was not to have any man of the present uay to resemble blm to
any remarkable exu-nt.
Flour In Mobile is $100a$120 per bbl, owing mainly to specula-
tors. At Talladega It is but $40 per bbl.
ToDbr for Wockdzd Soi-BIEBS.—Ex -Governor Nelll S. Brown-
of Tenuessce, for a week past bas been bivouacking at the wou i
st ition, near Cat 103a platform. In the rear oi our army, earnestly
and ste^-iliy engaged in waiting upon tbe wounded soldiers. On
one occasion, while about lour hundred of tbem were lying upon
the ground, he had prepared a bucketfull of teddy, A!,d was
dosing It out with a tin cup to those whose condition required a
stimulus, when be was hailed by a feeble voice pleaulug mat he
should "pass by that way." The ex-Governor Immediately went
to the W0un,led60ldler, who hailed him and gave htm a dose of
toddy. The grateful veteran, looking uo ir. his face, said, "1
thank you, parson." "I am no p''- .c!ier," replied the Gov, rr.or.
"why do you call me parsoc?" Soldier—"Weil, that doee was so
good, and helps me so much, I didn't think anybody but a preach-
er would have brought It to me." Toe Governor moved on In his
mission of mercy, amused, no doubt, and edllled at this new and
original mode of distinguishing the benevolent t-hllintliropistscf
the cietical robe and iraltese cross.—Ch&ttinooff<x licbel.
, The following wounded Texas soldiera from the field of
Chickamaoga died in tbe hospital at Atlanta from ihe 23d of
Sept. to the 12th of October: Jas Glbbs, li,18; J J McClure,
G, 32d; A Hamilton, C, 10th, T Churchwell.G, 4th; H H Rowe
C,5ih; W R o'Hare, H, 4th; J A Lee, G. 10th; H Raines, A,
7th; MPiokett, F,4th; Jas Stevens, B, 14th; O H Howart,B,
Rev. Dr. Hogue, who went to England last winter for bi-
bles, etc., has returned, having arrived safely tn Wilmington.
His mission was entirely successful.
From the Natchitoches Union.
HcaKAn fob "Old Tom Gkxes!"—This enraged old tighter Is de-
cl ledly bent on being the Federals' nlght-mare. He will leav e
tbem no peace so long as a chance Is left hlnito"laylt unto
them." By a despatch received at Alexandria on Tuesday night,
we learn that "Old Tom," probably growing Impatient at not
seel g tueir appearance, took It into his head to go and see. So
ho went. He went through Opelousas—nobody! He went
throughi Washington—nada! He was still going at tne latest
• ew= and tbe horizon was always clear. Hurrah for "Old
Tom."
From the Atlanta Appeal. 17th.
Gen. N. B. Forrest arrived in the city yesterday evening,
in somewhat Improved he 1th, though he does not consider
himself yet able to resume active service in the field. We
learn from him that his resignation has not been accepted.
Tde whole country would much regret to lose the services of
so able and gallant an officer, and we sincerely hope that all
impediments to the resumption of hit command may be re-
moved.
A correspondent writes thus to the Richmond Examiner 1
" In your report of the review of the local forces, your repor-
ter says, the Infantry wascommandel by Mtjor General W.
M. Browne,'' or something to thnt c-ffeot. This is a mistake.
General Browne nas not yet received his commotion at Major
General. He Is Ihe senior member of the President's staff,
and the most intimate and trusted friend of Mr. Davit. He
is an Irishman, of hamble bat respectable parentage, who, by
ciut of genius alone, rote to be local reporter ot a New York
paper l/om which he was transferred to the edltorialchair of
Mr. Buchanan's organ In Washington, thence to the Depart-
ment of State at Montgomery, an 1 t ienee to the Pr< gi-lent's
steff. Like his countryman, tbe gallant Cleburne, he hat a
decided talent for war, and is believed to exercise a controll-
ing influence in guiding the President's judgment ia regard
to alt military operations. A man of fine personal appear-
ance, a bold and teautiful rider, and averse to the fopperlet
of dress, General Browne reflects infinite credit npon the
Confederate service, and is destined ere long to fill the high-
eat civil and milltiry positions.
The following li Arietnus Ward'i last remark. It it jut
as applicable to thii latitude as any. The mania for sacri-
ficing able bodied 'relashuns' bas time and again attracted
attention.
Artemui Ward lays: "I have already given two cousins
to tbe war, and ttind ready t* sacrifice my wi'e's brother
raihnr'n not see the rebelyin krusht. AndlfWuss cums to
wuss I'll shed every drop of blud my able-bodied relashus
hss got to prosekoot the war."
An Abingdon correspondent of ths Lynchbnrg Virginian
furnishes the following respecting the situation of affairs tn
East Tennessee: '
Having just returned from the army in East Tennessee,
and thinking that a short account of the operations of enr
forces.there would interest your many readers is my only
excuse for writing. I left Gen. Williams directly In front
ofBull'sgaplateontheeveningofthe4ih. The enemy, in
tome force, hold the gap. but tne«eneral belief wat thatthev
would continue their retreat on Knoxvllle. No general en-
gagement bad taken place. We had a alight skirmish In
front of Greenville, which resulted in the capture of nine
Federals and several stand of tmall annt. On the morning
after tht occupation of Greenville, by the Confederate
forces,* toouting party, consisting or three men, performed
a feat which challenges comparison with anything that has
transpired during the war: Dashing through the enemy't
lines, that'attacked and dispersed a «trong Yankee guard,
capturing 85 United Stales horses and mules, which they
drove into Greenville in triumph, the Yankees not daring to
follow them. The persons who performed this gallant feat
all hailed from the Old Dominion, and It Is but just tbat their
name! should be made public. Their names as given to me,
were as follows: Capt. Jno. C. Summers, Lieut. H. H. Boyd
and Sergt. H. F. Chewing, of fettrs1 regiment of cavalry.
East Tennessee Is almost depopulated; the toriet having
all gone off with Federal troops,In many instances carrying
their families with them; nothing Is left In the land for man
or beast to subsist upon, a! what the Yankee! did not coniume
they utterly destroyed. Our troop! meet with much tbe
same treatment in East Tenneisee as Lee's did in Pennsyl-
vania.
The steamer Columbia, with Liverpool advicet to the 29th
ult., arrived at St. John't, on the 29th intt. She bringt the
following news:
Earl Russell made an important tpeech on foreign affairs,
at Blair Gourie, Scotland, and referred at considerable
length to the American queation. He justified England in
wecognlzlng the Confederates as belligerents, and answered
some imputation brought by the people of the North, par-
ticularly the speech of Senator Sumner. He alto replied to
the complaintof the South in regard to recognition of the
blockade, and atserted that although self-interest demanded
that England should break it, she prefers die course of hon-
or, as it would have been infamous to break It.
He showed that the Government had not sufficient evidence
against the Alabima to detain her uutii after she had tailed,
and explained the difficulties in the way of interfereoce In
such cases. He drew a line between ordinary vessels equipped
for war purposes and steam rams, which, in themselves, were
formed for acts of offense, and might be used without ever
touching the Confederate thoreB. He atterted that the Gov-
ernment was ready to do every thing jnst to a friendly na-
tion, and such at they wish done to themselrei, but would
not yield one jot of its right to the menace of foreign powers.
He complimented the Federal Government and Mr. Seward
upon the fairness with which they discussed matters of dif-
ference, but said there were olhert, inclading Senator Sum
ner, who had acted differently. He denounced the efforts of
those who sought to create trouble between America and
Europe, and with expressions of friendship towards America,
he asserted that all his efforts would be to maintain peace.
Speaking of Poland, he defended England'a position, and
remonstrated against tbat of Russia, but did not think that
England should go to war on the subject. At regards Mexico,
he thought that if the Mexicans approve of what was being
done for them, they should be allowed to do so-
Through Major Hope, the Atlanta Intelligencer gathers
some additional particulars of the operations of Gen. Wheel-
er in Tennessee. From the accounts given bv Major Hop*,
it seems lhat he captured upwards cf eleven hundred and
sixty-five wagons in the Sequatchie Valley, len hundred and
tixty of which he destroyed, and the remainder he tuceeed-
ed in bringing safely acrois the Tennessee. He shot up-
wards of thirty-five huncred mules, and broaght out with
him nearly one thousand horses and mules. Al McMInnville
h% destroyed thirtyjdayi' rations for Rosecrant' entire army,
including fifteen hundred sackt of green ceffee, and twenty-
five hundred barrelt of parched ccffee, with other stores In
proportion. At McMinnvllle he also destroyed two trains
of cars loaded for Chattanooga, and also the railroad track
for nearly filteen miles. He then destroyed the track of the
Nashville and Chattanooga railroad for nearly twenty mllet
below Murfreesboro', Hi! lot! was three pieces of artillery
and about one thousand men In killed, wounded and prison-
ers, the most of them being prisoneri.
We have direct news from Knoxvllle. W. G. Brownlow and
Horace Maynard bad both reached the city, and had pro-
nounced characteriitlc addresses before the populace. John
Brownlow, a Lieut. Colonel, is with hit father. In feet,
Brownlow and Maynard have broaght with them their fam-
ilies. They eurely deem their occapation of Eatt Tennessee
permanent. The ferocity of Brownlow is fearful. His vi-
olence was never comparable to its exhibition! which have
occurred since his arrival at Knoxvjlle. He evidently deems
himself the master of the situation and expects to reign a
lordly potentate in East Tenneisee. In his speech Brownlow
said that he had no apologies to make for tht acts and proc-
lamations of Presideni Lincoln, in fact thai the Northern
President had not goae far enough.
Brownlow further declared that he was notonly in fevorof
arming every negro In the South, but thathe would turn loose
wild beast; to prey upon the population of the country.
•-.Rattle-snakes and all reptiles,*' exclaimed tbe Infuriated
monster, "should be showered upon Slulhern homeateads
until secession It extinct. A more deadly poison thoald be
distilled from their fangs and the moantalna should be
searched to gather them for tht Invasion .of the Gulf Slatet."
In the presence of men and women who crowded the street,
he pi onounced Hon. John H. Crozler a little eon of a b——h,
and "gentlemen," continued this genuine exponent of
Llncolntsm, "in reference to the Reverend! Messrs. Martin,
Harriton and other rebel clergymen, If I were Gen. Born-
lide, I would bind their neck! together with a single chain
and sink them to theloweit cavern! of hell I"
A Colored Divih*.—A negro prercher who, like acme
other preacheri, was in the habit or using big words, but did,
not always succeed In getting hold of the right one, made a
funny mistake once- His text wat: "Broad it tht road that
leadeth to death, and many there be who go there : but nar-
row it the way that leadeth to life,and few there be who take
it." "Beloved brudders, thar be two roadt, ebbery body goes
In one or udder ob 'em; thar's one road and dat am def
broad road, and dat leadt right down to damnation, and a
great many goes In It; but dar am annudder road, and dat
am de nsrrerroad dat leadt straight cp to perdition." "Ij
dat's the caee,'' satd.en excited colored brother in the con-
gregation, "dia nigga cats for de woods."
We are assured that Ihli speech of Brownlow tranicended
in" obicenity and blatphemy all that ever fell from hit
lips. We may add thathe repeated a fevorite allusion to hit
newspaper, declaring,"10 help me God, that it wat the only
religiout paper published in the South, and that even It was
not hurt with piety."
The tpeech of Horace Maynard wat hardly lest violent than
that of Brownlow. He was principally denunciatory of the
Messrs. McClung and other citizens, male and female.
After these spcechcs, Col. Pryor, an old dtlzjnof Knox, wbo
was under arrest, ca lied on Brownlow In order to Induce him
to effect his release from prison. Col. Pryor. wbo is 69 years of
age, was led from prison Into Brownlow's house, expecting to se-
cure his assistance to effecting his release from confinement. For
many years he and Brownlow have been Intimate friends. When
tbe old man was led Into Brownlow's presence, Brownlow, raving
like a madman, drew a pistol, declared taat he would murder
any scoundrel or rebel who dared to ask a fevor of his hands. The
guard interposed to Bsve CoL PryorVllle, and led him back to
PIA lady in New Orleant writes, under date of Sept. 28, tha
the Port Hudson prisoners (offioers) there were about to be
sent North. The lad let had teen a good deal of them, having
had passes to visit them, while the prisoners latterly had
been furloughed a certain number of hours each day to visit
their friendt in the city. We are glad to see the prisoner!
are more kindly treated than formerly.
A Coppeahead, sayi a Northern paper, goet lor the Union
with an if, while a rebel ram goet against it with a butt, and
that's the difference between them.
Gen. Pillow reports a dally addition to the army through
his office (Conscript and Volunteer Bareau of Alabama,
Mississippi and Tennessee) of abont 500 men. They are dis-
tributed among the various armlet of Miuistlppl, Tennessee
and Virginia.
The " Second Year of the War," by E. A. Pollard, it oat.
Wonder who will bring ut the first copy.
Gen. Wharton commanded a division of cavalry In Wheel-
er's late gaeat raid. Fighting occurred daily.
An officer, who wat Inspecting hit company In the army of
the — one morning, spied one private whose shirt wat
badly begrimed. "Patrick O'Flynnl " called out Ihe cap-
tain. "Here, yer HonorI" promptly responded Patrick,
with his hand to his cap. ''How long do you wear athlrt! "
" Twenty-eight inchet wat Ibt literal r«tfijader.
Ths C ask or Bklshaw.—Thit "British tubjeel," wbo It
ttriving to obtain notoriety at a martyr, hat received the fol-
lowing reply to his memorial to Earl Rutsell :
Forsisk OrFtcc, Sept. 21,1863.
Sir—I am directed by Earl Russell to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of your letter of the 5th instant, giving an account of
the ill treatment you experienced on your refotal to volun-
teer for service in tbe Conrederate army, and resetting her
Majesty's Government to claim an indemnification, for you
on account of such ill-treatment. . .
I am to state to y >d in reply, that your claim shall not be
lost sight of in caee communications should be opened with
the so-called Confcderste authorities, wilh a view to obtain-
ing redress for British tubjecti who have suffered ill treat-
ment in the Confede ate States.
I am.sir, your most obedient humble servant,
C. Hammond.
From Shreveport Gazette, Nov. 11th.
We are indebted to a kiui friend for a copy of the Mobile
News ot the 31st ult. The only news it contains is that the
Federals had crossed Brown's Ferry below Chattanooga, and
took possession of Raccoon Mountain, where they"were rapid-
ly fortifying. Grant, the commander-in-chief, an£ Buinslde
were rapidly receiving reinforcements, and a rtnniiYp ftjltff —
was expected to be fought in a few days. The Federals art
shelling ihe Confederates on the weit tide of lookout moun-
tain. The bombardment at Charleston on the ?Qih nit, wat
remendcui.
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