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KOKlli : CAKOULKA STAKIAlU. TUESDAY. NOV. 15: 1864. 11 STAND LIKE AN ANVIL." BT BISHOP DOAXE. ' Stand like an anvil !" when the strokes Of stalwart w-ngth fall fierce and fast; Storms bat miTrVleep1y Toot the oaks. Whose brawny arras embrace the blast " Stand like an anvil l" when the sparks Fly far and wide, a fiery shower ; it tin: and truth must still be roarktl When uialrce proves its want of power. j "Stand like an anvil P when the-har 1 Lies red and glowing on its breast ; Duty shall be life. '8 leading star. And conscious innocence its rest " Stand like an anvil P when the sound Of ponderous -hammers pain the ear; Thine but the still and stern rebound Of the great heart that cannot fear. 'Stand like an anvil!" noise and heat Are born with earth and die with time ; The soul, like God, its source and 6eat, Is solemn, still, serene, sublime. MESSAGE OF TIIE PRESIDENT. T the Senate and Houie of yrtoeKtatiree of the Confederate Statet of America : It i with satisfaction that I welcome your presence t an earlier cav than that u.-u-l lr jr.ur saion, and with confluence that i inv.,ks the aid of yonr conns a at a time of such public tiip-ncv. The campaign which was commenced almost ninultaneoujlv with your session ar Iv in May Ian. and ahich was still in -.rogretsa at your adjournment in ti.eifc.uVle of June, has not yet reached t' close It bu bern pro-cutel n a acala, and with eneriv, heretofore rnq.ll1. Wht-n we refer! to the condition of oer country at the inception of toe opera tions of the present year, to the magnitude r.f the prepa rations made b- the enemy, the nuoibtr of his forces, the accumulation of his warlike iupbiits, and the prodigality with which bis vast resources have b-ea lavished in the attempt to render success assured ; when we outxast the number and means at our disposal for resistance, and when wi comtempUte the results of a struts aPP rently so oneqal, We cannot fail, while rendering tht lull meed of deserved i.rais-to rur generals and toUies, to perceive that a 1 ower hizher thau man has willed -ur deliverable, and gratt-fiillv to recognize the protection of a kind Proridecce in enabling us successfully to with stand the utmo-t Aorta of theeneuy for onr MiMMgation. At tho beginning t.t the year, tha State ot Texas was partially in pobfe.-iion of the enemy, and larae purti'.rs of Louisiana and Arkansas lay apparently deteiic-les. Of the Federal aoidiers wb invaded Tt-xas, none are known to remain esc-pt as p-isonerg of war. In North western Louisiana, a la: ge and well-appointed artuv, aid ed by a powerful fleet, wa3 repeatedly defeated, and deemed Mst-lf f rturate in brail? tscapir.g with a loss of one third of its number", a lariN part of Its luili'arv trains and manv transports cd 2utib'tt. Tbe enemy occupation of that State is roduced to the narrow district commanded by the fruins of his fl-et. Arkansas has be-n recovered wib the exception nf a, few fortitifi pi.?!?, while nur forces b.ive pen-trnted into Ct-nfa! Mi-u-i, affordi")- toou- ipprtstd loethren iu thai Slate an op portunity, of which many have arai'td themselves, of atrikinj-"for liberation from the tjiauny to which tbey have been subjected On the eai of thf Mississippi, in spite or some revpr?eg, we have much cauje tor erntulatioo. The enemy hope 1 to effect, during tho pre.-tnt yeir, by concent: aliun of forces, the continent ivhi::h baa previously Oiiled t'i accoin' li.si by more rsterc'.-d nptfatinns. Conipelled, .therefore, to withdraw or eeri"nsly to weiken tie strength of the armies of occupation at different point, he has afl'nrded us the opportunity of recovering pos-ef-aion ol exier'ive district.- of oar tearitorv. Nearly the whole of Northern and Western MissL-sippi, of Northern Alabama, and of Western Tei.n-s.ee, are again in our possession ; and all attempt" to penetrate fr-jui the ctia.-t line into tbe interior of the Atlantic and (Julf Stat- have been bafllttf. On he en-ire ocean and fcUtf coast of the Confederacy, the whole succe"? of the enemy, with the enormous naval rejourns at his command, ha been limited to the capture of the outer defences of Mobile bay. If we now turn to the results accomplished by the two great armie', confidently relied r,n by the invalers as sufficient to secure the subversion of our Government and the so bj ction of our people to foreigu domination, we have still pi eater caude f. r devout gratitcde to Divine Power. In .South, stern Virginia, fuccsive armies, which threatened the capture of l.Tncbbiir-r and Stltville, have been routed and diiven out" of the country, and a portion of Eastern Tennessee reconqn-red by our troops. In Northern Virginia, extensive ci-tricts, formerlv occu pied by the enemy, are now f-ee from tbeir presenVn. In tbe lower alley, tbeir General, rendered desperate by his inability to maintain a hostile occupation, has resorted to the infamous expedient of concerting a truit ul land into a desert or burning its mills, frianaries and homesteads, r.nd detroving the food, .-tandirijr crops, lire sujck and agricultural itnt lem enti of peaceful non-ciu.batantr. Tbe main army, alter a series of defeat, in which its iosses 1 ave been enoionoos ; after attempt" by raiding parties to treat up onr railroad communication.1, whih have re sulted in the destruction of a large part of the cavalry ngaged in the work ; after con-taut repa'se of repeated iOsauits on our d-fensive lines, is. with the aid of heavy i enforcement!, bat it it is h'p-d, wani pro-pert of Ittrtner prortps in tno oe!n, fctiit eng-geQ in n eltort, I i ommenp-d mo--e than four tuontbs ajo, to capture the j town of Petersburg. j Tbe army ol iiea. Sherman, although succeeding atthe ! nd of the Eutumerin i.btaining pi.Er.'ion of .tlarita, has ' I een unable to secure any- ultimate advantage from this j raccess. The same Central who, in February last, march- j da large army from Vleksburg. tf Meridian wi-.ii no j tier result ttan being loiced to macb back again, was ! Kbit, hv the .id of greatly increased numbers, ami after j much rfelay, to force a p.v-stge frt-n Chattanoipgt to At- I labia, only to he f.ir the second time compelled to with draw on the line I his advance, without obtaining con trol ola single unle of territory beyond the narrow track ot his march, and without gniiir nuei.t berond the pre- ariius pofuessioii of a few I'm lifted points, in which he is coiuj elled to maintain heavy garrisons, and which are liienarid with recapture. The lessons atTuded by the history of this war are fraught with instruction and encourag'-ment. Repeated ly during the war hive formidable 'expeditions been ni l.'ected by the' enemy against points ignorantiy aupposed to be of vital importance to the Conlederacyr Some of them expeditions have, at iinmenp.- cost, beea successliil ; but in no instance hAve the promised fruits been reaped. Again, in the present campaign, was the delusion fondly cherished that the capture of Atlanta and Richmond would, if ell'ected, end the war by the overthrow of our tfoverninent and the tiubni s.-.ion of our people. We ran now judge by experience how unimportant isthe influence of the former event upon our capacity for defence, upon the courage and spirit of the people, and the st-jbi'ity of the Oovernmtnt. We mav, in lik manner, judge that if the campaign again-t Richmond had resulted in success instead of failure; if ihe valor of the army, under the leaderhhip of its aeoompii"hed command ir had resisted in vain the overwhelming tnS"1 wl ich were, on Ihe con trary, decisively repulsed ; if we had been compelled to i vacuate'Jtichuiond as weil as Atlanta, the Confederacy would have remained as erect and deliant as ever. Noth ing could have beeu changed in the purpose of itn Gov ernment, in the indomitable valor of its troops, or in the unuencb.b;e spirit of iu people. The ball) ;d and disap pointed foe would inr vain have scanned the reports of your proceedings, at koroe new legislative scat, for any in dication that progress bad been made in his gigantic task t conquering a tree people. The truth, so patent to us, MUit, ere long, be forced upon the reluctant Northern Mind. There are no vital points on the preservation of which the continued existence of the Confederacy de pends. There U no military success of the enemy which an accomplish its destruction. Not the fall of Richmond, i or Wilmington, nor (Jlutrieston, nor Savannah, nor Mo lile, nor all combined, van save the enemy from the con plant and exhaustive drain or blood and treasure wjich must continue until ho shall discover that no peace is at-, tainable unless based ou tbe'rucognitioii of our indefeasi ble rights. Before leaving this subject, it is gratifying to assure vou that tho military supplies essentially requisite for j nblic defence will be found, as heretofore, adequate to ur needs; and that-nbundant crops have rewarded tho l.tbor of the farmer, and rendered abortive the inhuman attempt of the enemy to produce, by devastation, famine kmoDg the people. FORKIGM RELATION. It Is not In my power to Announce any change In tbe conduct of foreign powers. No such action has been taken by the Christian nations of Europe an might ju.stly.have been expected from tbeir history, from the duties imposed ly international law, and from the claims of humanity. Jtis charitable fo attribute their conduct to no worse i ,otive than indifference to tbe consequence of a struggle . hich shaker only tho republican portion of the American r mtlnent ; ar,d not to ascribe to design a course calcula te d to ensure the prolongation of hostilities. No instance in history is remembered by mr in which a Tuition pretending to exercise doininmn over another, ng n rting tta independence, has been the first to concede tbe existence of such independence. So case can he recalled to my mind in whicp neutral powers have failed to set the trample of recognizing the independence of a nation, ien ratisliert of tb inability of its enemy to subvert its K vermuent ; aad tbL, too, in rases where the previous relation between the contending parties had been confes dly that of mother country aqd dependent colonv not, ' in our caw, that of co-equal Statea united by Federal mpact. It haa ever been considered the proper func tion and duly of neutral powers to perform tba office of ' Judging whether, in point of fact, tho nation asserting do " inion is ablu to make good its pretensions by force of mi, and if not, by recognition or tha resisting parry, to "'""nance the further continuance of tbe contest. i "iV00 why this duty is incumbent on neutral and t" '),ainj7 l'Prent, when we reBect that the pride ""nutn Wch iJl'n', the judgment of the parties to the sequent e?a0.iC''nli.nu,,lce " active warfare, and con- K'e. Ho long, th?"'. aU no' ' "W ' Litton of our indeoSj neutrl nations fail, by recog jadjment,th Unitei s, 'nnoai,C8 that, in tbeir Confedcraer to (ubinission. lhir conduct will be accept ed bv our enemies as a tacit encouragement to continu their efforts and as a implied assurance that beheT is entertained bv neutral nations in the success of their o ;gn. A direct stimulus, whether intentional or not, u thus applied tn securing a continuance of the camsgesud devastation which desolats thiscontincnt,and which they profess deeplv to deplore. . - Tbe disregard of this just, humane, and Chntian pub lic duty hv the nations of Europe is the more remarkable from the'faet that authentic expression has loug ijioce been given by tbe governments of both Frauce and Eng. land to the conviction that the United Statoi are unable to conquer the Confederacy. It is now more than t o years since the government of Franco announced officially to the cabinets f London and St. Petersburg its own con clusion that tbe United Stab were unable to achieve any decisive military success. - in the answers sent by " powers, no intimation af a contrary opinion was eouveyed; and it is notorious that, in speeches, both in and u of Parliament, the members or K;r Britanic Majesty's gov ernment have not hesitated to express this conviction in unqualified terms- The denial of eur right under these circninsiauc's is so obviously nnjut, and discriminates so unfaiily in favor of tbe United Stites, that neutrals hsve sought" to palliate the wrong, of which tbey arc conscious, by piofeKsin to consider, in opposition to notorious truth and to the known belirf of b6tb belligerents, that tue re cognition of our iud-'pendence would be valueless without their further intervention in the struggle; an interven tion of which we disclaim tbe desire and mistrust the ad vantage. We seek no favor ; we wish no intervention ; we know ourselves fully competent to maintain our own rights arid independence against the invaders of our coun try ; and we feel justified in averting that, without the aid dmivcf) from recruiting their armies from foreign countries, the invaders would, ere this, have been driven from our soil. When the recngrition of tbe Confed-Tacy was et'uoed by Great Britain in the fall of 462. the retu sal was excused on tbe ground that any action by Her Majistv's government would have the effect of inflaminj: the pt-sions of the belligerents an! of preventing the re turn of peace. It is asumed that this opinion was sin cerely entertained; but the experiTiC! of two years of unequalled carnage shows that it was erroneous, and that the re?ul. was the reverse of what the British Ministry humanely desired. A contrary policy, a policy just to us, a policy diverging from an unrarviug course of conces sion to all the demands of our enemies, is still within the power cf Her Maj-ty's government, and would.it is fair to presume, be productive of coust-queneeg the opposite of those which have unfortunately followed lis whole course of cenduct from the commencement of tbe war to tbe present rime. In a word, peace is impossible without inr dependerce, and it is not to be exoected that thj enemy will Hnticipate neutrals in the recnoition of that inde pendence. When the history of this war shall bo fully disdo?-J. the calm judgment of the impartial publicist will, tor these reason-! be unable to absolve tbe neutral cations ot Europe from a share in the moral responsibility for tbe nivria Is id' human lives that have been unnecessa rily sacrificed during its progress. Treren-wcd instances in which forxign powers have g:vea u- ju.-it cause of complaint need not here be detailed. The extinct f-om the rorrespondeece of the State 1 e-part-neiit, which accompany tlii.. message, will- afford such further information a- can b-; given without detri ment to the p-ibUc inter-st, and w e u.ust reserve for the future such action as may tl.n be deemed advisable to secure redress. FINASCLS. Yonr s.ecitl attention is earnestly invited to th re poit ol tb- Sictetary of the Trsasury, submitted in con formity with lw. The f..i:ts tbereiu disclosed are far from disc luriging, ar.d '!eii!"ns;rate lht, with judicious legislation, we shall be enabled t'i meet all. t!:e i-xiger.cL-ii of the war from our abundant resources, and avri t. at the Mui? time, such an accumulation of deo' as would ter-der at al! dtiubtt'ul our capacity to redeem it. The total receipts into the treasury for the two quar ters -r.iine on the jOtbof Snpiembf, 18 '4, were j-413,-l:tl,ooO, which suni, added to the balance of f'!(H "S2, T1 lhat r"iuaiti-d in the tr a;ury on the 1st of April la-t, f..rni a total of 572", 174.27 -. if this total, not far tmra half, that i ro sv, $342,j0),.'5g7, have beeu apli.-d to the i xtinction of lb- public !-'" t. while th" total expen ditures have been J272.37S 5t-j l-nvineabaliinceiu .be treasury on the U: of Oi-tober, lv;4. of $lt'S,4:i.V440 The totnl ftmour.t of th" public debt, ai exhibit-d rn the bnek eif the Keej.tpr of the Trtasurv on the 1st t'o tober, lrt;t. was 51.147 Ki.'.i t f whit I- $333."l'V:t) were funded debt, beiria? intere-'., S23.8il.loU were trcvury itotcs of th nw i-su, nd tbe remainder con sisted of tht: t-rmer i.ue oi trsjsniy uot-s wbi"h will be converted into other forms of debt and will cease to txist rur fenpy on the 3I--t of next tr-orith. The repot t, however, ex.tiaio th.i. in consequence of the ab-tence of eertain reUirns from distant otlicers. the t-ue atii'-not of the dbi is lis-;, bv about twenty-ore and a half millions of dollar, th in appears ou the books of the rteg-ster, and that the total public debt on lt t. lot month may be fiirly c-msidered to nave bien $1 ,12C 3sl,. 005. The inc esse of the public debt dui ing th sir months from the 1st Aj ril to the 1st Oc-t ber ws fa'.fjol1 7i', b.-irgiatlier rore than $iC.000,0JO per month, acd it rill he apparent, on the pt ru-al of the rentirt, that tbi augmentation wouid have been avrM.-d, and a positive reduction of the amount wxuld have b-en -ffectd. but fjr certain defects i't the legi Utioc.on ihe subject of tbe tinanc. , whi'h are pointed out in the report, and which seem to admit of easv remeiv. In the atat -ments ju-it made, the foreign debt is omit ted. It consists only of the unpaid balance of tho loan known as th-: cotton" loan. Tbia balance is hut J,'200.0flO, ar.d is adequately provided for by about two hundred and fifty thousand bales of cotton, owned by the Government, even if the cotton be rated as worth hut six pence per Bound. There is or,e item tr the public debt not included in tbe ub'es presented, to whieh ur attention is required. T!.e b' unv b nds prf-mis-d to' oar co piers bv the third section of toea'st of 1 7th Fehrunrv, were delivera ble on the 1-t wf October. 1 he Secretary ha3 been una ble to i-:-ue them by reason of an omission in the law, no time b ing therein fixed for thj payment of the bonds. 1 he Hi?gregaf appropriations called for bv tbe differ ent de; .-ir;m-ntj of the Government, sccordinr to the e-ti na" subrni't-.-d wi:h tb report, for the nix months ending on the 30trj June, lH'ii, amount to $43S,102.ti7, while the Secretary estimates- lhat there will remain un expended, out of former a.opropriations, on the 1st of J inuHt v, 1SK5, a balance ol $4i7,4 10,501. It would trier-tore s em that former estimates have been largely in excess of actual expentlii ures, and that no additional ai.propi.uti ns atereuuir-d lor meeting the needs of the public s-t vice up to th 1st of July of next year. In died, if the estimate now presented shou'd prove to ba a" nntcli in excess of actual expenditures as has hereto fore b-en the case, a considerable balance will still rn main unexpended at the close, of the lirst half of the en suing year. 1 he chief difficulty to be ipprehetided iu connection with ur finances u-sults from the depreciation of th: trea-ury notes, which seems justly to be attributed hi the Secretary to two causes : redundancy in amount autl want of confidence in ultimate redemption ; for both o.i' hioh. remedies are suggested that will c immcnd them' selves to your consideration as being practicable as well a efficient. The main features of the plau presented are substanti- I ally these: 1st. lhat the faith of the Government be pieugea u.at toe nitU-s ball ever remain exempt from taxation. 2d. That no issue shall be mad beyond that wh.ch is already authorized by law. 3i. That a certain fixed portion ot the annual receipt from taxation during iue war Mm. t oe net. apart specially lor the gradual - i-ii:iicuon oi uie nutsianuiag amount uutil it sha1! have been reduced to $150,000,000 ; aai 4th. The pledge and appropriation of such propor tion of tins lax in kind, and for buch number of ytonti after ii tcturnof peace, as shall be sufficient for the fi nal redemption 'f the entire circulation. The det-iU or the plan, the calculations on which it is based, tho efliric i;cv of it operation, and the vast advantages wuich would remit from it; fuccess, are fully detailed in tba report, and vinnot be fui-lv presented in a form suffici ently condensed for Ibis message. I doubt Dot it will re ceive t'otii you that earnest rind candid consideration w hich is merited by the i:nportae ce of the subject. The recommendations of the. report for the repeal of certain provisions of the tax bmj which produce ine quality in th; burthen of taxation; for exempting all Government loans from taxation on Capital, and front any adverse discrimination in taxation on income de rived from them ; for placing the taxation on bank: on tbe same footing as the taxation of other corporate bod ies ; for securing tlte payment into the treasury of that portion of the bmk circulation which is liable to couli. caiion because held by a'ien enemies ; fur the conver sion of the interest-bearing treasury notes now outstand ing into coupon bonds, and for the aiarterlv col It ction of taxation ; all present practical questions for legisla tion, which, if wisely devised, will improve the public " ci eon, aim aiieviato me uurtnons now imposed by to e extreme and unnecessary depreciation iu the value jf the currency. The retuius of the Produce Loan Bureau are submit ted with the report, and the information is conveyed tha,'. tho Treasury Agency in the Trans-Mississippi Depart ment ha been f ully organized, and is now in operation with promise of efficiency and rucces. The provisions heretofore made to some extent for in creasing the compensation of public officers, civil and military, is found to be in some places inadequate to their support; perhaps not more so anywhere than in Kich-. mond ; and inquiry, with a view to appropriate reme dy, is su gested to yonr consideration. Your notice is al so called to the condition of certain officers of the treas ury, who were omitted in the laws heretofore passed for the relief of other public officers, as mentioned in the re port of the Secretary of the Treasury. DEPARTMENT OF WAR. The condition of the various branches of the military ' service is gUitW in the accorananvintr renort nf l sL-rQ" tary of War. Among the suggestions made for legislative , action wnn a view to aaa 10 me nnmbers and efficiency of tbe army, all of which will receive your consideration, there are fonie prominent topics which merit special notice The exemption from military outy now accorded by law to all persons engaged in certain specified pursuits or pro fessions is shown by experience to be uuwise ; nor is it be lieved to be defensible in theory. Tbe defence or borne, t'aniilv and country Is universally recognized as the n&ra- nionnt nolitical dlltv nf nrrv m..mKar nfMnint.. .. ,t I . " -- ... .'V'biv . , uu u form of government like ours, where each citizen enjoys an eauuhty of rights and privileges nothing can be more invidious than an unequal distribution of duties and obli gations. No pursuit nor position should reliere any one who is able to do active duty from enrollment in the ar my, unless his functions or services are more useful to the defence of his country in another sphere. But it ia mani fest that this caunot be the case with entire classes. All telegraph operators, workmen in mines, professors, teach ers, engineers, editors and employees of newspapers, jour neymen printers, shoemakers, tanners, blacksmith! mil lers physicians, and the numerous other classes mentioned in the laws, cannot, iu tlie nature of things, be either equal ly necessary ui their aevcrul professions, nor distribute! throughout the country in such proportions lhat only tha exact numbers required are found in each loca'ity ; nor can it be evevwhere impossible to replace those within tbe con rciiot age bv men older and less-caoable of active be.d MM-vice, A "dincretion sbou'.d be vested in the military au thorities, so that a suliicieut number nf those essentia) to tbe public aervic-j nrght be detailed to continue tbe exer cise of their pursuits or professions; but the exemption fioro service of the entire classes should be wholly abun uoued. It afllirUs great facility for- abuses, offeia the temptation,' as well tut the ready me'.ns, or escaping service by tiaudulent devices, and is one of the principal obstruc tions to the efficient operations of tbe conscript laws A general militia law is needful in the interest of the pubac defence. Tbe Constitution, by vesting tbe power a CuUrt-sa, imposes ou it the duly of piovtding " for or ganizing, trmicg and disciplining the uiiliii. aud for gov erning such pari of ibem as mav Oe employed iu tbe ser vice of the Confedemte Suites.'' The greu! diversity in tbe legislation of the Several States on this subject, and the nubeuce of any provision' estub .ishiug an Unci method for calling, the miluiu into Confederate service, are sources of embarrassment which ou,;bl no louger U be auffcred to impede defensive measures. l lie legislation in relatiuu to the cavalry demand change. The policy requiring men to furnish tbeir own horses has proven pernicious in many respects. It interferes with discipline, impairs efficiency, aud is the cause of frequent aud prolonged absence froia appropriate duiy. The sub ject is fully treated in the Sectmary's report with sugges liuus as lo ihe pi oper measure for reforming that brauch of ihe service The recommendation, hitherto often nude, is again re newed, that some measure be ad.tjiied for the re-organ ixa tiou and consolidation or cjmpanies and regiments when so far reduced in uumbeis a seriously t- imjieir their cfficieucy. It is tue muie ueccs&sry that this should be doue, as the abscuce of legislation on the subject has forc ed generals iu tbe tiald to resort to variom expedients for approxin.utitg tbe desired end. Itissurejy an evil that u cmimandiuir officer should be n laced in a position which forces upou him the choice of allowing till; efficiency of bis command to DC seriously impaired, or oi attempting iu supply by the exercise of doubllul authority tbe wunt of proper legal provision. Tbe reg trd for tbe sensibi ity of officers woo bave heretofore sei ved with credit, and which is believed to be the controlling motive that has hitherto obstructed legislation on this subjest, however honorable nd proper, may be carried to a point which seriously in jures the public good ; and il tbia be tbe case, it can scarce ly b questioned which of the two considerations should be deemed paramount. The Secretary's recommecd-itions on the subject of fa cilitating the acquisition of the iron -requo-ei for maintain ing the efficiency of railroad communication on the impor taut military lines are commended (o ycur favor. Tbe necessity fur the opcm'iou, i full vigor, of such lines is two apparent lo uerd comment. The question in dispute between the t-vn governments relative to the exchauge of priurs of war has beju fre quently presented in lormer messages and reports, and is fully treated by the Sevretury. Tbe solicitude of the g iver bient for the relief of our cipiive lei low ctizeps his known . no abutemeut; but has un tbe contrary, beeu e'.ill more deeply evvked by the additional tuUerings to which they bave been wantonly subjected, by deprivation of adequate food, cmthiiig aud fuel, which they were not eveu permit ted to pui chase from the prison sutlers. Findiug that the enemy attempted to excuse their barbarous treatment by the unfounded alltg-itiou thul it was re'.tli.ntory for like c .nd'tct eauur part, au ofler was tunde by us with a view of ending a'tl pretext for such recriminations or pretended retaliation. - The oiler has been accepted, and each government is hereafter to be allowed to prov.di; nece-seviry c-nu'oiM to its own citizeus held Captive by lbe oiber Aciive erT.irts are iu progress for the immediate execution of ttis agi ce ment, and it is hoped lhat bul fe-v divs tv::l eljps - b lor we Nil ill be relievett from the distress ii,; thoubi that painful physical sullerir.g is eu lured by i min t of r,ur l'ellow-rii-.zcns whose fortitude iu captivity illust'iatea the national ca.iracter as iully as did thuir vaior in lue aciuai ifiict. EVPLOTMRNT OP SLAVES. The employment of slaves f-r service with the army as teiuiiU-rs ur cooks, or iu the way of work upon tortitic tions, or in ihe iwrnmeut workshops, or in l.ov.ot us, at.d other similar duties, was auth -rzed by the net of 17lh February last, und provision was made for their im pressment to a number not exceeding twenty rhiusaod, if it should be found impracticable to obtain thnn hv con tract with t'ue owners. The law com-iiiplatt-d the hiring, only of the labor of these sluvcs, uud iiuptts-ej oU gi.v ernDient the liability to pny f.-r the va!u-t of such as might be lost to the owners fioui casualties resulting from their tmpl yment in tbe servce. Tliia act bns produced lcs result than w is anticipnted, and further provision ! retpiired to reuder it efficacious. Hut my present purpose is lo iuvtte your cont'd .-ration to the propriety of a radical m-id troalion in the theory of tho Liw. Viewed merely as property, aud therefore, as the subject of impressment, ihe service or labor of ihe slave has been liequeutly claimed for short periods iu the eousti uc lion of defensive works. Tbe slme, however, bears anulhcr telatioti to the Slate, that of a pet son The law of Inst Keltruary contemplate only tlie relatoin of the slave lo the. mater, aud limits the impicssin-nt to a certain term of Service. But for tbe purpose enmnera'ed in the act, instruction in the manner of encamping, march ing and parking trains is needful, so that, even in this limited employment, length of service adds greatly to the value of tbe negro's labor. Hazard is also encountered in all the positions to which the negroes can be assigned for service with the army, and the duties required of I hem demand loyalty and zeal. In this aspect, the relation of person predominate) so far as to render it doubtful whether the privutc right of property can consistently aud beneficially be continued, aud it Would seem proper to acquire for the pujiic service the entire property in the late.ro the siave, and to pay therefor due C 'tnpenSHtinii, rather than to impress bis labor lor short terms ; und this the more especial ly as the efTect of the present !nw would vest th a entire property iu all cases where the slave might be recaptured after conipeusatiuu fi his loss had been paid lo the private owner. Whenever the entire properly in the service of a slave is thus uequired bv the government, the question is presented, by what tenure he vbould be held c-ti-ud he be retained iu servitude, or should his emancipation be held out to him as a reward for faithful service, or sh mid it be grauted at once on tbe promise of such service und it euiMiicipaied, what action should be taken to tttcure for the freemau the permission of ihe State from whtt-ii he was drawn to reside within its limits utter the close of his public service? The permis sion would doubtless be more rendi'y uccoided as a reward ior past luithf-.il service; and a double motive for zealous tf.scuarge ol duty wouid Urns' bu oll'eied to those employ ed by the government, their freedom, and the gratification ot the locai attachment wh.ch is so marked a character istic of the uegro, and f., mi.-, so powerful au incentive to his action. Tbe policy of engaging to liberate the negto on his discharge afier service laiiblully rendered, seems to me preferable lo that of granting iiumediate manumission, ur that of retaining hiui in servitude. If this policy should recommend itseif to the judgment of Congress, it is suggested that, iu addition in the duties hcre'.of rc perluTtiied by the slave, he nii-jht be advantageously em ployed us pioneer and engineer laborer; mid iu that event. lual me iiuiuoer should oe atigmt-uletl to forty thousand, lteyoud Ibis limit and these employments, it does not leem lo me dtsituble, under existing circumstances, to go. V brocd moral distinction exists between tlie use of slaves is soldiwrs iu the defence of their homes, und tbe excite ueut of tbe same persous to insurrection u gainst their nasturs. The oue is justiliabie, if necessary"; the other S iniquitous and unw.n thy of civilised people; and such s the judgmtut of ail writers on public law, as well as hat expiessed and insisted on by our enemies in 'all wars rmr to that now waged ttgsinst ns. Ky none hire the radices, of which they ar now guilty, bi-cn denounced itb greater st vinty than by themseiv.-s iu the two wars vith Great Bi ittaiu iu itie lu-l at.d in the present cenlu y ; and in the Declaration of Indt -pen.1ei.ee of I77tf, when -numeration was made of the wrongs which jiuslilieJ the tevolt from Great Britain, the cuon.x of atrocity was .teemed lo beicucbed only wlieu tbe English monarch was leoounoed as having "excited domestic iusurrectiuus mongst us." 'he subject is to be viewed by usi thereof, solely in he light of policy und our soioial economy. When so regarded, I must dissent Irotn Ibosc who advise a general !evy and arming of the slaves for the duty of soldturs. Until our white population shall prove insufficient for the . armies we require and can allord to keep in the field, to mnploy, as a soldier, the negro, who has merely beeu raiued to labor, and as a laborer, the white man. accus omed from his youth to the use of fire arms, wouid scarce- Lbc de-med wise or advantageous by any; and this is s question now before us. But should the alternative ever be presented of subjugation or the employment of the slave as a soldier, thre scenm no reasou to doubt what should then be onr decision. Whedier our view embraces what would, in so extreme a case, 'bo tho sum of misery entailed by tbe dominion of the enemy, or be restricted solely to tbe effect upon the welfare and happiuess of the negro ponuianou memseives, ttie result would be tbe same. The npnulling demoralization, suffering, disease und death which bave been caused by partially substitu ting tbe invader's system of police for tbe kind relation previously subsisting between ihe master and slave, have been a suliicieut demonstration that external interference with our institution of domestic slavery is productive of evil only. If the subject involved no other consideration thau the aiere right of property, the sacrifices heretofore made by our people hare beeu such as lo permit no doubt of tlieir readiness to surrender every possession in order to secure tbeir independence. But the social and political question, which is exclusively under the control of the several States, has a far wider and more enduring impor tance than that ot pecuniary interest. Iu its manifold phases, it embraces the stability of our republican insti tutions, resting ou the actual political equality of all its --citizens, and includes tbe fulfillment of the task which has been so happily begun that of christianizing and im proving tbe condition of the Africans who bave, by the will of Providence, beeu placed in our charge. Compar ing the results of our own experience with those of the experiments of others who have borne similar relation to the African race, the people of the several States of the Confederacy have abundant reason to be satisfied with the post, and to use the greatest circumspection in determin ing their course. These considerations, however, are rath er applicable to the improbable contingency of our need of resorting to this element of resistance than to our pres ent condition. If the recommendation, above made, fir tbe training of forty thousand negroes tor the service in dicated shall meet your approval, it is certain that even this limited number, by their preparatory training in in termediate duties, wouid form a more valuable reserve t'irce, in case of urgency, than three-fold their number uddenly called from iild of labor; while "u fresh levy xiuld, to a certain extent, supply tbeir places in tbe special service tor wuicu they are "now e m ployed. OTBZS OKPABTXEXTS. The regular annual report of the Attorney-General, the Secretary of the 3avy, aad tho Postmaster-General, are appended, and give atnule information retail v.. Lo tha n liuonof the reactive deparfcieuta," They contain sug gestions for legislative provisions required to remedy sucb defect in the existing laws as have beea disclosed by ex perience, but none of so general or important a character as to require that I should do more than to recommend tbem to your favorable consideration. KBGOTIATIOXS FO PEACB. The disposition of this government for a petcefnl solu tion of tbe issue which the enemy baa referred to the ai bitrament of arm has been too often manifested, and ) too well known, to need new assurances But while it is true that individuals and parties in the United State nave indicated a desire to substitute' reason for force, and by negotiation to-stop tbe further sacrifice of human life and to arrest the calamities which now afflict both countries, the authorities who control the government of our ene mies bave too often and too clearly expressed their resolu tion to make no peace except on terms of our uncondi tional submission and degradation, to leave us any hope of the cessation of hostilities until the delusion of tbeir ability to conquer us is dispelled. Among those who are already disposed for peace, many are actuated by principle and by disapproval and abhorrence of the iniquitous warfare that their government is waging, while others are moved bv the conviction that it ia no longei to the interest of the b aited State to continue a struggle in which success ia unattainable. Whenever this last-growing coaviction shall hive taken firm root in the minds of a majority of tbe Kortbern'people, tbee will be produced that willing new to negotiate, lor pcaoe which is now couliued to our side. Peace is manifestly impossible unless desired by both parties to '.bis war, and tbe disposition f-T it among Our enemies will be best and most certainly evoked by the demonstration on our part ot ability and unshaken de termination to defend our rights, and to bold no earthly price too dear for their purchase. Whenever there shall be on the part of our nemies a de-ire fir peace, there will be no difficulty in finding means by which negotiation can be opened ; but it is obvious thai no ageucy can be called into action until this desire shall be mutual. When that contingency shall happen, the government, to which is confided the treaty making powet , tan be at no loss fur means adapied to accmplish so desirable an end. In tbe hope that tbe day will soon be reached when, un der Divine favor, these States may be allowed to .enter on ' their Sinner peaceful pursuits, and to develop the abund ant natural resources with which they are blessed, let us then resolutely continue to devote our united and unimpair ed energies to the d-fence of our homes, our lives and our liberties. This i the true paib to peace. Lei us tread it with confidence in the issured resuU JEFFERSON DAVIS. MUZZLING THE PRESS. We car.nof, however. Bend the message to our readers without observing the fact, that the sup pression of aU independent newspapers, for three years attempted by suggestion, and by general prop ositions which included it, is now directly and bold ly demanded. Newspapers should exist, but edi tors, their printers and their employees should not bo exempts, but details. " A discretion," bays the message, "should be vested in the intlimry author ities, so that a sufficient number of those essential to the public service might be detailed to continue the exercise of their .pursuits or professions, but the exemption from service of the entire classes should be wholly abandoned." " Congress," says the Constitution, "si all pass no law limiting the freedom of the press; " but it shall make a law by means of which Mr. Davis can send a uuri to t-hut up any newspaper that ohY-tids him or any meu-ber of his government, by taking away its editor's Jttail. We hope it is needle's to explain how such a law is inconsistent with any species of l'berty in the animadversion of the nress upon public mon or measures. An imiepei.dcnt press is a literal impracticability where such a, law exists; every newspaper, from tho moment wheD that law is wade law, becomes, in exact terms, de petulant for its existence ou the free will-and "dis cretion" of government. Indeed, no honest man engaged fh the publication of a "newspaper that pre tends to be inucpendcnl, will continue his "pur suit" for one moment under such conditions. Nev er will any but cheats and slaves come before the public with the pretence of frde) speech in their mouths when they know that they can be silenced tn a minute by a Davis, a iseddon or a benjamin. Declarations of these truths, we know, are the strongest, possible exhortations to corrupt men, that they ieavte no stone upturned to get tbe President's Press Law passed. Whether their influence with Congress is sufficient, remains to be seen ; but if Congress determines to- interfere with the actual law on this subject, we hope it will do so by a regulation forbidding the further publications of any newspaper in the Southern Confederacy during the war. That law will be no more unconstitution al than the other, and if the handful of men now engaged in this business are needed in the army, no candid or honest person among them will urge the faintest objsction against the simultaneous discon tinuance of all the public journals now printed, pro vided the effect of tbe law is equal on alL But it will be a deplorable day for this country when eve ry check on official corruption being removed, and every means of information being taken from the people, a press shall still live, which is not osly no check on public wrong aud no light to the people, but a professed tool, a paid pimp, a sword in the hands of corruption, a guide and 8'KfT of villians and tyrants ; whose obliged duty shall be to blind the eyes of the country, to blacken virtue and to gild knavery. Rich. Jtxaminer. " DETAILED " EDITORS. , The proposition of President Davis, in his late message, to place editors and printers of newspapers under tho thumb of the Executive so that de partment may have the absolute and entire con trol of tb.e whole press of the country meets with tio favor out of doors, whatever may be the dispo sition of Congress.' It is no novelty, having been tried once or twice before by his Excellency, and been rejected, almost without consideration, bv the Congress of tho Confederate States. It is the bold est attempt to muzzle the press, or to make it speik only such language as the Supreme Uead may like to hear, that lias been made on this continent. Even in the Yankee Congress, no such thing has ever been attempted. In the Yankee nation, whenever an editor says anything which the Dictator or his satraps consider objectionable, he is taken, at once, into custody, his types are distributed or dispersed, his presses broken or handed over to some loyalist, and he himself left to meditate, in a bastile, upen the grandeur of the great Republic, and the tender mercies af the best government under the sun. But bo is not Fnsultcd with the reproach of having acted gainst the law, and being, therefore, justly clapped into prison in pursuance to law. He is tolu, and he knows it without being told, that he is there for having taken the name of Abraham Lincoln in vain lor having criticised his measures, or ridiculed his person ; for having attempted to bring the ruling power into contempt, or haying said what might ex pose it to execration. Ho knows there is no cause for his arrest, and he is not told that there is any. In fact, his persecutors do not hesitate to point to their epaulettes as their warrant, and to their swords as their justification. Press and laWj they are giv en to understand, are alike silent in war times. The case is very different here. We have a President who is remarkable for the conscientious Fcruples with which ho executes the law, especially when our enemies are to be affected by it. Not for all the world would he do anything for which he, had not law to show. When he wishes to do any ' thing arbitrary, he considers it better to get a law for it. It was in contemplation at one time, we heard, to suppress the Examiner newspaper, and this journal, for certain differences of opinion with the lixtjcutive, expressed in terms not sufficiently courtly for the ear of majesty. But it was not done ; there wa3 no law for the deed. Lincoln would have acted differently, lie would have clap ped the editors in prison, and knocked the type intot without waiting for any law. Our more considerate Ruler thinks it best to have a law, by means of which he can effect the same thing. Give him a book in every editor's mouth, and a ring in his nose, and he will have no occasion to send him to Jail. Give him the powerwhenever an editor may express views not congenial with his own, or sentiments with regard to turn personally or offi cially which do not accord with his own high ap preciation of his merits, to break up his paper, by trundling him and his printers off to the trenches, and you enable him to accomplish, under color of aw, all that Lincoln has been able to effect by its most fligrant violation. And such a power the President now asks Congress to bestow upon him. Will tho Congress of the Confederate States con sent to prostitute the entire press of the Confedera cy to tho pleasure of the Executive T Will they pass a law limiting the exercise of the most impor portai.t function of editor, to his tools and depen dents ? Will they render it impossible for the peo ple tbeir own people their constituents their benefactors to hear the truth if it be unpalatable to President Davis, or his friends, or his tools, or his minions? Shall it, through their agency,-he-come impossible hereaf.er to hear one word against official corruption, no matter how gigantic against ! Presidential mismanagement, however notorious Fgainst oppression, peculation, robbery, and all that class of'crimas of which a free press is the only ihl onrrwtiva. because it is the only instru ment by which they can be exposed. If so, then adopt the scheme ot tne message ouw aod printers make tbem dependent for their daily brad upon President Davis. The object will have- been completely aceomplisnea. ion win om nu editor who dare whisper a complaint of those high in office no printer will tentare to set op a line or sentence which does not celebrate the virtues and the glory of the Executive. To put printers and editors in the same class with Vrmra ahnAmakers. tannsrs. and other necessary trades and occupations, is simply ridiculous. There is no analogy between tbese cases, mere w no temptation for the Executive to oppress any of these .classes. ' He can gain notaing oy restricting me ercisa of their trades and professions to nts own tnnla nrl nnrasitefl. It is.dans'erous to trive him pAmmi n tl nf tha nress. because it enables him to corrupt the fountain of intelligence. Because it en ables mm to blind-tne people as to nts own ace. Because it places him in a cloud, which tbe people cannot nenetr&te. We will not say anytning aoout tne impoiiance qf a free press. Every member of Congress under- utanriii and fadq it. W hone this monstrous Dr6- pOsition will receive such a blow as will convince its author that there is no use in prolonging its exis. tence or experimenting with it any farther, upon the docility ot congress. Ktci. nm-j.- Wc are now, and have been from the first, among the firmest supporters of President Davis adminis tration from the belief that any administration placed in the direction of our affairs at this critical period, needed a cordial support, and from the fur ther belief that President Davis detened such sup port, as an honest, able, and patriotic administrator of the affairs of the Confederacy, although by no means a perfect one. Who could be ? It is therefore in no factious spirit that we enter our protest against a proposition tbe effect of which,. rt seems to us, ruust be tne suppression oi tne Southern press or the forfeiture of its independence. If the pret-s is to be conducted by the detailed ap pointees of tbe Confederate Executive, then, of course, it ceases to be a free press or tne press oi a free recplc : and vet such is the inference to be drawn frooi the President's endorsement of the re commendations of the Secretary of War, as well as from subsequent debates in Congress. Some gentlemen in Congress, and other gentle- men in official position, though not in Congress, tna think lightly of the press and take pleasure in showing that they do so. We do not say that the conductors of the press are all that they ought to be, or all that the responsibility of their positions would seem to require that they should be. we suppose they are' not much better and not much worse than their neighbors. As individuals they are entitled to neither exemption nor immunity. lhey appear in a representative -capacity. Ihey give utterance to bublic opinion, they combine and energise public effort. Tbey are the heralds of-our modern civilization, and as such their omce is sa cred, and the preservation of its purity and inde pendence a matter of far more moment to a people jealous of tbeir tights, than the smiles of executive lav or or the frowns of executive wrath. Of far more moment than the irritation of some honest but excitable tnatinet, or the contemptible wrath of some fourth rate politician elevated suddenly into into the title of an M. U. and tbe dignity oi an honorable. We shall have some further remarks to offer up on this subject when it is more properly before us. v e do not doubt the President, but this power of annihilating a free press in the Confederate State is a power that ought to be conferred upon no man tiiat ever breathed ; and of course the press ceases t be free when its thinking and speaking is done by detailed men. We would not give the right of appointing and removing the editors of tbe South to an inspired Apostle, much less to a man like un to- ourselves. It is dangerous. Well we are taught in the prayer of prayers, to pray to be led not into temptation but delivered from eriL If papers are to be published; if editors are to be independent ; if the press is to be free, let their independence and its freedom be placed under the sanction of tbe late. WU. Journal. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. At the Superior Court in Mecklenburg county, last weetc, jonn Meuiin was convicted or murder. The Democrat says : On iriday John Mednn, from Union county, was trieu ior Killing rlosea Little. .Medlin was a desert er, and Little and others were trying to arrest him, wnen .Utoun tired and killed Little. The jury re turned a verdict, guilty of murder. Counsel for the prisoner, A. B. Mazruder and J. H. Wilson : for the State, Solicitor Armtieid and Hon. W. Lander. A block of marble, wrought in Italy for the South Carolina State House, now surmounts the firemen's monument in h Chicago cemetery, having been cap- iureu iu trying to run tne DiocKaae. Artili.ekt. A thine made in Richmond, and di rected to uenorai Sheridan, care of Gen. Early. Thkee Russian officers have lately leen degraded for having engaged in a duei, and one of them . who gave the provocation, has been deprived of his tine oi nooiiiiy. The Western and -Atlantic railrnarl nairl tn tha State of Georgia, "as net earnings," during the year ioo-j, z,iiu,u. Removal of Pkisoners. We learn from the Char, leston Mercury that the six hundred Confederate officers lately confined in "the pen "on Morris Is land, exposed to the fire of our batteries, bave been removed to iort Pulaski, below Savannah. Says Hermes : The Virginia regiments are now very full. Pickett's division is stronger than it ever has been. I am told that Gen. Lee savs " Virginia has done trebly in response to the last call, but ixonn Carolina nas done even belter. ' As was Expected. The nrize steamer A rl is taking in her armament as a Yankee cruiser in Xsew loiK harbor. The Assembly of Pennsvl ' ' Biauus as luuows : Union. Dem. Senate, 18 lfj House, 64 86 82 51 Union mainritv nn ininf hnllnt 81 J J J Wi. Hon. Edward Stanlv. formerlv & mpmher nf n.nn. gress from North Carolina, and military Governor ui mm, oiaie ior a nine unuer tne Luncoin adminis tration fnov of Calfornia has writtnn laito Aa. claring for McClellan and opposing the policy of the administration. The-city Council of Ool tlmhllQ ?n hoc n.aa.if a resolution providing that "any members of the Council who shall attend any of its meetings while in a slate of intoxication. Khali hn finpl Hfiv hi lars for the first offence, and for the second shall be noil expeiieu. The Presbyterian Synod of North Carolina held its session at Greensboro during last week and ad journed on Saturday night. The next meeting of ojuou urn uo at xayetievuie in uctooer, 1865. We have seen two beautiful home-made shawls. iui ciiiicuiau a wear, w i nun a lew Gay 9. It IS a new article ol domestic manufacture, and our coun try women are thus exemplifying their skill and pa triotic resolution in these trying times. SalUlury The farmers will be gratified to learn that the Western North Carolina Railroad Company have determined to a Id to their extensive shops in this place a department fir the manufacture of am-ienL tural implements. The scheme will be put in ope- taiiwi uumeuiaieiy, ana win aouotless fill a very In.nA.ln.. I . . . t. K . C 1 1 r . . - iuinjitaut puvuu wauu oatutoury natenman. It now requires only as many days to refine su gar as it did months thirty vears a It once required six months to put quicksilver 6"a , uow ii. ueeaa oniy.torty minutes. LmanciDation wan m1phratsl f n.it:n... Tuesday with spirit at sunrise, by a grand salute of nvennndredguns; at daybreak, accompanied with the ringing of church and signal bells ; at noon, the d.umj n repeaicu ironi torts f ederal, Hill and aiarsnaii, unnst Uhurcb bells joining with a peal . " j ...... 0 ttitu m pvai and perlorrhiog at intertala various patriotic airs. General Rut1r baa i..-A , . Major M,,lford,-Xst Agent 7i 25? carrying out the arrangements recently em. for between Generals Grant .and Lee for fee? ,nt0 clothing the prisoners of war held by the m-in,i uwiuriuea ui mo unitea states andthe rebe s ' AU who have obtained for trutmc.t remanent reputation, have won and secured u. d patient and persevering labor; by treating i; b' as waste land fit rml,T r, vdi! . nS tlne not .v. oiuuuie. out a estate, of which no corner is to be left unculuJaS? No choral song that shakes the sky 'Floats farther than the Christian's sigh. An egotist will always speak of himoir .... in praise or in censure ; a modest man evei k making himself the subject of his conversation I Bruvere. uu-ia There are thrn nuvhi f it ,. - , mg me ... by indifference, which is the most mmm. . ,,Ie : osopby, which is the most osteDUtbus ' JJ y religion, which is the most effectual for ii J li-inn alone that rn tsaK no .V B n . . ! - -a v uw uiem with signation. re- Trains tanooea to Atlanta. So it will h aM r.- fuss was made about the tearing nn f cr. f of railroads amounts to. J milei "Job nrintinel" exclaimed Mr P.,i: t. . other day as she neened over her snort- -. .i. ... r t " ai lag ,j verUsing page of a country newspaper. .p iui i vuey ve ep nun a printing week alter wsrt ever since I first learnt to read, and if he wasn'tTi Datunist mortal that ever vm ha n.. stood it so long no how. But it's a proof o' Sc tur. where Job savs in Revolutions thn... "P . ....... . . " -""esnotnd to maun oooks, nor newspapers nutber." A Tkkdek Heart. A certain -man ;n -c. once remarked that hia children war .1 ""Ont . r " ii a Brer auew, n.d on asked what made him think so, said. Mft a. i i r i . i . ' ecausG mej aiwavb cry uua i. a ultra K get a vail r Lixcols'a Millionaire. A Yankee DemomK- paper says : "Mr. Lincoln was not worth five thnns.n j.. lars on the day he was inaugurated. He now m fesses that he is worth five millions of dollars'" Two cows, a calf, were sold at auction in Charlntf. on Thursday, lor $3,025. m A Chinese Joss House, or temD'e for K.it.. worship, was dedicated in San Francisco on the '21 of August. It cost $80,000. A band of topestrv embroidered with' feathers and gold, and'siler thread, which adorns the place, cost $150,0oor yard, and the whole biilding blazes with gold leaf and tinseL The priests shout, screech. vpII spin around amid the racket of gongs, drums and fiddles, and smoke opium until they are quitedrunk when others relieve them. The finger nails nf ml chief priest are actually longer than his fingers, aid are twisted like an augur. Patmaster. A man appointed to tell thesoldiers hasn't got any money." he Toe Black Clocds or War. Two hund, fifty thousand niggers put in the army. The war bears hard upon papers North a? woli.a South. When the war commenced there were for ty papers in iNew Hampshire. There are noir only twenty one. Gen. Logan, formerly a Western member of f!r,n. gress, but recently in comnfand of the Iflth corpsof iatio.ee ! ujj, nas t teen appointed to tne com mand of Atlanta, and declared military Governor of Georgia by Abraham Lincoln. As the late Professor H was walking nm Edinburgh, he met one of those beings usuallv nil. ed fools. "Pray." said the Profosor. him, " how long can a person live without brains!" "Idmuaken, replied the fellow, scratching hia head ; " how long hae you lived yourself, Sir f" At Melbourne, Australia, Lucy Estcott. an Amer ican lady from Springfield, Mass., is now the prima donna. The keeper of oneof the Cincinnati station houses fell asleep last Sunday night ; souie passing scamp possessed himself of the keys and liberated all the prisoners. An ingenious Pennsylvanian has invented a ma chine for coal mining, which weighs two hundred pounds, costs three hundred dollars and will do the work of twenty men. Maine paper state that Thomas S. Long, of Vas- salboro', has an order from the Emperor, Napoleon the Third, for four spans of matched horses. A sting of a honey bee caused the death of a young lady of Jonesville, ' Wisconsin. The Augusta Register notices the sale of a dog it auction, lie brought fiu. wnatnext? AXES! AXES!! AXES!!! WE WILL PAY FROM $5 TO $7 FOR OLD AXES, or will iut steel in o.si axa fur tho old axes. Fire and Six inch STOVE PIPE made to order. SHAY, WILLIAMSON k Co., North itat Iron and Bras Work. Raleigh, N. C, Oct. if), 18ti. 65 lmpd. BOXES FOR SOLDIERS. ALL BOXES FOR SOLDIERS OR PKISO nera of War from 'orth Carolina, delivered to ihe following named persons will be promptly forwarded, tn of charge: ur. U. t . bummej, AsbeviUe, Dr. W. A. Collett, Morganton, Dr. J. W. Allison, Slatsville, Dr. J. L. N eagle, Greensboro', Mr. A. Qagan, Charlotte, Mr. Edward lioge, Salem, Capt J. N. McDowell, Italeiph, Joseph A. Worth, Fayettevilla, E Murray & Co , Wilmington, Mr. F. L. Bond, Tarbo'o' Mr J. A. J. Askew, Colerain, Mr. F. L. Roberts, Murfresboro Sprague Brothers, Salisbury. The boxes should be well hooued. Dronerlv marked, and. delivered in time for ray Special Messenger who leaves' ttaieign on me nrsl day ot every month. EDWARD WARREN, Surgeon Oeneral S. C. Oct, SI, ISM. 6S im. WANTED! " S5,OOOBAKKK0JES- g OOO 0LD N" c C0UP0113 2,000 N' c" RAILR0AD cupox8 JNO. G. WILLIAMS & Co.," Broke n. Raleigh, Oct 24, 1864. " 6681 pd. . MASONIC. THE GRAND LODGE OF F. St A. M. OT North-Carolina will meet in this Citron Monday evening the Stb December ne,xt, at 7 o'clock, for the two action of business. , Officers of Subordinate Lodges are reaaested fo aWena jo person; or have special delegates appointed as tbe cos stitution and general regulations of tbe Grand Lodge re quire. WILLIAM T. BAIN, lirand Secreta.. Raleigb.'N. C, Oct 17, 1864. 4- td. . WOOL NOTICE. Quartermaster's Department, 1 Raliiob. N. C, June 9, 1864. I SAM NOW PREPARED TO EXCHAW0-" COTTON YARN roa WOOL, upon the folio mag terms, vis: - One bunch of Yarn for 8 pound of Washed WooL " i 4 Unwashed " AGENTS have been appointed to make tbe exchange at tbe following places: uxiora, Tawboro, junswu, Catherine Lake, Concord, Rockingham, Hendersonville, Statesville, Roxboro', Ashevllle, PitUboro', Louisbwg, Fayetfeville, Coleraine, Raleiffh. lf Persons shipping wool to this place will pleas mark on tbe package who they are fbom, and cotton yara will be forwarded immediately. I hops tbe people will patriotically respond to the above notice, as the wool Is lot clothing the IVorili-Car- I jul7 18, 1364