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IT QST, on the evening of the 11th inst., be-
JLi tween the shop of Mr. Grim, in Abingdon,
and the residence of Mr. D. O. Bradley, a small
leather Pocket Book, containing about $157—
9144 in Confederate money—of which there
were four $20 bills, six $10 bills; also one $5
Virginia Bank note, payable at Danville, as well
as I recollect, and one S-"> S'mth Carolina note.
The balance o/ the money lost was in small notes. *
; My discharge from the Board of Exemption, and
a certificate of my having employed a substitute,
Were also in the Pocket Book-
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•f the money and papers to me at my residence
on Smith's Creek', or to - Messrs. Coale & Barr,
In Abingdon. ZACHAUIAIiCBABTHEE.
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Goods at Friendship.
TUST received 2,D00 yards Brown Domestic,
600 yds. Bleached Cotton, I
'8 dot. Fine Combs, I
4 do*, horn Dressing Combs,
6 do*. Wool Hats. j
10 Beams Letter Paper, , j
6,000 Envelopes, j
f 1 do*, pair Ladies Shoes, I
1 doz. Hoop Skirts, j
9 dot. Almanacs, & ■
800 Bunches Cotton Yarn, • ?. Vj
3 Gro. Matches,
8 Gro. Shoe Blacking, - * j
806 lbs. Epsom Salts. -.-.».
- Attention !. Absentees* I. j
CaupCorbsn's Neck, Feb. Bth, 1863
jMTAVING received an order from headquar-
JLJL ters, saying that all men absent from their
eoiuiannds without leave, wilt .be pardoned by
rejoining their commands within 30 days from
this date, you will confer bs'th upon me and the'
'War Department a favor by publishing the same
In your .paper for three successive times. j
Comdg. Co. B,'4Bth Va. Regt.
DESERTERS and ABSENTEES !
A CCORDING to a late order, all men absent
without leave, will be allowed until the. Is
of March to return to their Regt. without pun
ishinen t. If they do not return by that time,
they will be considered and as deserters,
noUouly during the war, but after peace has
bpen made. Moreover, every effort will be made
t<} arrest and bring them before a Court Mar-,
I entreat all of my Company who are thas'ab
scnt, to return arid save themselves from dis
grace. R C. BRYAN, 2d Lt/
Comdg. Co. F, 48th Va. Regt.
Dissolution.
ffIHE firm of Drs. H. M. Grant & Brother,
A Dentist!?, is this day dissolves by mutual
consent. Persons indebted to the late firm by
note or account, will please -pay to Dr. H. M,
Grant, who will continue to practice his profes
sion at his office, west end of town; on Main
Street. H.M.GRANT,
Ist, 1863. ♦ £Feb.2o-3w
Dr. H. M. GRANT, P.D. 8., I
JCfifc DENTtST, I
' ABINGDON, VA. j
nearly opposite Martha Washington
' VI Female College, west end of town.
Attention I Kentuckians !!
"t HAVE received authority from the Secretory
X of War to raise a Company^of
JFLYING ARTILLERY, ..,..
to be armed with Williams' Patent Breech-lood
itag Gun. This Company will undoubtedly be
recruited to a battalion in Kentucky, by ap
pointment of men from the original company to
recruit and command the other Companies —
Every man, will be mounted, and the Guns are'
the lightest and. best in the service. Those who
Join this arm of the service, avoid the danger
and exposure of picket duty, scouting, &&., —
in fact, it is the easiest and safest of all.
'■' Volunteers will receive the regular bounty,
slothing, subsistence and pay of artillery.
Recruiting office in C. N# Joeephsen's store,
sen door below White A Go's. Hotel, Abingdon.
R. 8. WILLIAMS,
Capt. "Kentucky Battory."
-yfeb. 18, 1803—tf ..
fVH fifid o° od Envelopes, 60ReamBNote j
OAj\J\J and Letter Paper, just to hand.
7 T. G. McCONNELL A Co. j
Psc. 5,1862 - • _
§rr\ DOZ. Knives and Fosks.
Klm. a iJt£? I
ABINGDON
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Ech of Mr. Wyndham aofceftsdii*
r Resohtliotis respecting the raising an
incrrased quantity ofprivisions.
R. said—The two great wants of the
IV in its present, circumstances, are
~ men, arid plenty of food. Of these two,
the latter is tbe greater, for an unfed soldier
is far more powerless than an unarmed one.
In the matter of armed men, Virginia has per
formed her whole duty. Not only has she
met, with alacrity, and in full measure, all
the calls made on her by the Confederacy,
but, remembering also what was due to her
self and to her ancient renown—due to the
cause and rights of self-government and re
sistance to oppression, with which her whole
history*is identified, she has furnished a pro
portion of men for permanent\reg'ular service
in the army, greater, I believe, than history
records of any people whatever, out of an
equal population. " It is a fact to he proud of,
sir, and but.just to ourselves on all proper, oc
casions to.be brought into view,
j It remains for us to gee to it, as far as -we
1 can, that there is no deficiency of' bread.—
Looking to the Confededacy. as a whole, this
I is not to be feared? For -though a wider or
['narrower border all around our boundaries"
I has been devastated and smittei* with" sterili
ty, yet onr vast interior continue? free to the
labors of industry, and while patriotism and
policy f»like dictate that a larger share of it
than ever before should be applied to the cul
tivation of grain, the spirit of-the people, I
am convinced, is prepared to respond to the
call. Hence it is probably that the supply of
breadstuff's raided in the Confederacy may,
and wilh greatly exceed, the present year,
any previous product, and place tSe great
Question of supplies for our armies beyond all
oubt., - But it is our province to look nearer
home. Virginia stands in tbe very front of
the war. Hers is the.,post of-hahor, but the.
post, too, of danger, of privations, and the de
solation that follows in the track of Armies, —
1 Her capital is the capital also of the Confede
racy. It is known and feared and hated, as
the. nursery at once and the. representative of
those principles of love of freedom and hatred,
oftyrtnny, which pervade our whole Confe
deracy, and which now feed and uphold our
resistance tp that revolutionary Government
at Washington, which rose, arid now stands,
on the overthrow and utter'disregard of them.
On us then is directed, and wiH continue to
be, the main fnry of the war. Large armies
have long lain on onr soil, friends'and ene
i mice alike. They have, of necessity, hot only
("topped large source/) of prod action, hut have
drawn heavily, too. on existing resources.—
Virginia cannot bht feel, sensibly, this ex
haustion, and Jhis destruction of her produc
tive powers, and will feel them more unless
; timely measures of precaution are resprted to.
However, Georgia and the otheryOotton States
may teem with unwonted abundance of bread
stuffs; still, from their remoteness, and the
great and increasing difficulties of transpor
tation, still the stress and burden of the army
supplies must fall first and heaviest on Virgi
nia, as the main seat of war. Let. her pre
pare to meet it. Let hernnit nothing that
riiay enable her to meet it successfully. Her
productive area is sensibly reduced; her agri
cultural labor greatly diminished
tioU, arid by the large demand for labor in
the mines, the factories and the workshops.—
On the other hand, not only large armies, but
great bodies of ouj friends, driven from their
homes, and'the large additional numbers
brought among us br the establishment of the
Confederate Government here, demand in
creased 'supplies. Thus, while consumption
has greatly augmented in Virginia, her pro
ductive powers have, by many causes, been
greatly reduced: I need 'not iicge that the
necessity of increased supplies is enhanced
further by" the difficulties and'irregularities of
transportation, for it is too plain to need proof,
that in proportion as the free circulation oi
commodities ifi impeded, larger local supplies,
to prevent local suffering, become everywhere
necessary.
These-are the considerations that'have led
me to invite the attention of the House to this
subject. It is here in this matter of provi
sions that lies our greatest-*-! might almost
say, our only danger. It is none, when seen
and properly guarded against: ' With my
deep and anxious sense of.it, I feel it my du
ty, and the duty of all of us, to omit nothing
in onr power to do, to avert it. It may be
averted by directing public attention earnest
ly to it: We the resources. Our
people will be prontpt|to employ them, if in
formed of the danger, and of the urgency for
prompt and efficient action. 1 That is all they
want, and that is what I invite you to unite
with me in affording them.. They do not and
cannot know it as we know it. They will, in
my opinion, hearken to o«r counsel. They dis
parage themselves and disparage this House
who oppose otherwise* I will tell the gentle'
man from Botetourt (Mr. J. T. Anderson)
that this course of which he speaks so slight
ly was the frequent resort of those wise and
patriotic men who carried-us through our re
volutionary struggle. Similar recommenda
tions to this before us, are of frequent occur
rence in the journals of the Legislatures of
that peribcl. In like manner, in a time of
great scarcity in England, in 1800, Parlia
ment did riot think* it beneath its "dignity
to urge the Ring (as tbe mode is there) to is
sue his proclamation recommending the praor
tice of the'utmost frugality in tbe useuf food,
as well as the most earnest.efforts to increase
tbe quantity. For myself, with my deep sense
of the danger, and of my duty in respect to it,
I should be willing, if necessary, to stand
atone before the country in support of this re
commendation. I would sustain it, if t were
as sore of being alone, as I feel confident of
the almost unanimous cooperation of the
House. Humble and insignificant as I am,
there are some, I am sure, it might he but a
dozen, or a hundred,—yet some, that would
listen even to my humble warning in a mat
ter of such vast importance; and thai number,
large or small, would yet add something to
the public*stock—and if you will all unite
with me, I am sure each would find some to
ABimraDOlsr, JFBIDAY, MARCH 6, 1863.'
heed his advice—and tbe multitude of those
, small savings, or of small additions to pro
duction, would result in a great aggregate,
sensibly alleviating the public seffering, if not
• entirely warding it off, *
I nave desired, by my second resolution,
, only to give more emphasis, to our recom
mendation, and evidence of the earnestness
with which we .would invite to it tbe attention
( '■ of our countrymen, The signatures of the
Speakers of the two. Houses, and the co-ope
ration, specially invited, of the great and re
spectable body of men who compose the ma-'
gistracy of the State, would afford this evi
dence and proof, that what we recommend is
the deliberate and welj-considered judgment
of, the General Assembly; and, anticipating
no objection to them, I. would desire, with the
same view, that' the members would record
fheir votes, so that the individual weight of
all who approve them should be seen to be
given to them deliberately,
i The General Assembly of Virginia, moved
Iby a deep sense of the this
time, of raising, .above, all things, an abun
dance of provisions and of forage for the uses
of our arums and of the people at large, 'con
fident in our ample resources of "production,
. as well as in tbe public spirit and patriotic
I seal of our citizens,' and fearing no deficien
cy or serious inconvenierce, beyond,what, at
{ all times may occur from unfavorable seasons,
except such us might result from over-confi
dence in those or from not suffi
ciently adverting to the large space of our
territory, temporarily disabled from furnish
ing its usual contribution to the public wants,
i and to other considerable portions'of the Cop
| federacy cut off for the present from their usu
al sources of supply. But still deeming it
. their highest duty to guard., as far as possible,
1 against even the chance of so great a calami
ty as a scarcity, of provisions, do therefore,
} Resolve,, 1, That they earnestly recommend.
| to every citizen of the State, that he shall aim
{.to increase greatly beyond his usual amount,
S all i his agricultural products of every' kind
j whatsoever, his grain and his grass crops, his
j live stack, his fruits,and his garden vegeta
bles, everything/indeed, that goes to thesus
; tenance of man and beast, befofs he shall ap
l ply his laborrto any*other object or employ
ment whatever; that he constantly practice
frugality in using his resources of food, and
bear in mind always to consume Srstsv.hat is
most perishable, in order that, he*iay
band his wb.de stock'to the best advantage;
and they enjoin it upon, and make it
special charge of, every Justiee*of the
throughout all the States not Occupied bythe
enemy, to visit his neighbors aud-urge it upon
them to act' promptly and effectually on this
recommendation as a work of true patriotism,
a sacred- duty to the clause of the indepen
dence arid safety of the Confederate States,
and as furnishing to the world the evidence of
their firm and inJmovable determination'to in
cur every sacrifice, and to omitjtio effort that
may be necessary to the success ef that holy
cause. W.
2. That as many 'copies of |he foregoing,
preamble a»id resolutions, attested by .the Pre
sident of the Senate and the Speaker of the
House of Delegates, as they shall deem expe
dient, he .printed in such form*as they may j
direct, for the use of tbe members of the I
General Assembly, to be by them sent to the
Justices of their counties, and otherwise dis
seminated so as best to advance the object in
»'.'' ♦♦ » : —| >| ■ - .
, Vhe Radicals on the War.
Mr. Conway, of Kansas, one of the most
ultra, as well as one.of the most prominent of
the Republican members of Congrees, recent
ly made a strong speech which is said to'have
had the approval of Governor Andrew, Charles.
Sunrner, Wendell Phillips, Horace Greely and
other leading Abolitionists, who held a caucus
in Washington just"before it was delivered.—
It is interesting and important as an exposi
tion of tbe-Dohee of the radicals in the war.
RS-UNtoN.
, I am not in favor of restoring the constitu
tional relations of slaveholder* to the Union,
nor of the war to that end, On the contrary,
lam utterly and forever opposed to both. I
am in favor of the Union as it exists to-day.
I am in favor of recognizing $c loyal Statses
as the.American nation, based as they are on
the principle of freedom for all, without dis
tinction of race, color or 'condition. I believe
it to be the manifest destiny of the AtAerican
nation to ultimately control the American
continent on «this principle. \ conceive, that
therefore, the true object of this war is to re
volutionize tbe national Government by resolv
ing thej.JNorth into the nation and the South
into a distinct public. ,b\>dy, leaying us in a
position to pursue the latter as a separate
State. I believe that the direction of war to
any other end is a perversion of it, calculated
to subvert the very object it,was designed to
effect. I have never allowed myself to indulge
in that Superstitious idolatry of the Union so
prevalent among the simple but honest peo
ple, nor that political cant about the Union,
so prevalent among dishonest ones. I have
simply regarded it as a form of government
£o be valued in proportion to H» merits as an
instrument of national prosperity and honor.
THE SOUTH INDEPENDENT-
The war which has come in between ths
North aad the South -for the past two yedrs
has made a revolution.' It has substituted in
the South another Government for that of the
Union. This is the fact, and the fact in such
a matter is the importantihing. Itsettles the*
law. No technicality in a question of this
kind can stand. The war has utterly dissolv
ed the connection between &<* North and
South, and rendered them separate and inde
pendent powers in the world.; This is the ne
cessary legal effect of civil war anywhere. It
makes the belligerent parties independent for
the time being, and, unless one»succumbs to
the. other, they continue independent of each
other forever: The principle is laid down? by
Vattel ate follows: When a nation Incomes
divided into two parties* absolutely indepen
dent, and no longer acknowledge a common
VIRGINIAN.
« superior, the, State is dissolved, a/nd the war
)- between the two parties stands upon the same
3, ground, in every respect, as a public war be
)t tween two different nations—Book 111, chap
' ■ ter 17, page 428. It is not to be wondered
l, at, therefore, that so learned and profound a
l- jurist as the honorable member from Perm-
sylvania (slr. Stevens), should express the
h same opinion. * * *• * *
c ". "' THE ARirr CONSERVATIVES.
Nevertheless, without reference to the rti
' suit of the war, I considered the chance's of
.' the Conservatives, in the* election/ far superior
to that of the Administration. Great TeliancS
', is placed by the latter on the* vote of the sol
' ' diers : but* in 'my opinion, thisis delusive.—
• The soldiers will, be affected- in like manner
with, the rest of the people, and nwaeover,
• will be tired of military., service, and anxious
to return home. They will be dissatisted
from a thousand causes and desire chance. —
, The sufferings and indjgnation yet to be 1 en
:i gendered by the ultimate issue of an irre
deemable paper currency, wifl in itself over
' whelm the Administration party, and sink it
deeper than plummet ever sounded. But the
. Democrats, in my judgment safely calanlat
' ed that they can take issue on any of (he hun
dred necessary incidents of the war, and de
" feat their opponents by a large majority.
THE PROCLAMATION A" EAILURE .'
.Many suppose lhat the effect of the Pro-1
- clamation of will so thorough*
r ly, speedily and completely annihilate and
- exterpate slavery, that tbe slaveholders will
, have no longer a motive to act together.—
- This is ah egregious mistake. The Procla
. mation will have no-such effect. It cannot
t have any such effect; Its constitutionality is
, denied. It is still unexecuted, and its validi
• ty undetermined. The whole subject m yet
open to debate, and final settlement. The
L Judiciary Department is to render its decision
r upon it: and, in the meantime, it is to be the
, controlling issue in a popular election for Pre
. sident. * This state 'if things will undoubted
i ly. inspire the slaveholders with a more reso
■ lute purpose than ever. Their effort will not
- as heretofore, be to prevent the Abolitionists *
- from freeing their slaves, as a distant and
■ speculative proposition, but to' rescue him
i from the grasp of tbe enemy already actually
, laid upon him. It will redouble their will
; and bring «u^every resident energy*.
WHAT SHOULD «F. THE POLICY C*P THE NORTH-»-
SUMNEK SHOULD DIRECT IT.
I ? The Seuatorfrom Massachusetts, (Mr. Sum
f ncr,) who haslately been re-elected to serve j
. another term of six years in the body he has
so long adorned, should, in this crisis, point
us to the proper action. His purely Northern
character, his great abilities, bis lofty aspira-.
tions, his sacrifices for freedom, the entire
• confidence of his State, so spontaneously be
stowed upon hin , and that State the noblest '
in America—all single him out as one au
thorized rfnd required to speak With a deci
sive voice on this great occasion. " -There are.
. alsdTn the House, gentlemen whose words on
this momentous theme, the country will lis
ten to with intense* interest. The honorable
member from Pennsylvania (Mr. JTiad Ste
vens,) one of the truly great. men w America
, .—-full of learning and wisdom—tried'by long
, years of arduous service in the oaase, who
has never faltered, and is now re-elected in
his district by overwhelming numbers, stands
foremost among those of whom the nation
will expect deliverance from the dangers
which encompass it. Lefr these, and Such as
these, speak and tell the country what to do
;in this hour of peril. Nevertheless, I cannot
refrain from expressing my individual opinion
that the true policy of thf North is to termi
nate'this war ft once. The longer it con- j
- tinues, the worse our situation becomes. Let '
tbe two Houses ot Congress adopt the follow-;
iog resolutions:
t "Resolved, by the Senate and House of Re- '
I presQntativesy Ac, That the Executive be,
and he is hereby requested to issue a general
order to all commanders of forces in tl>e seve-'
ral "military departments of the United States,
to discontinue offensive operations against the )
: enemy, and to act for the future entirely on
< the defensive.
c "Resolved, that the Executive be, arid he,is
J further requested to enter into negotiations
with the authorities of the Confederate States !
with reference to a cessation of hostilities,
based on the following propositions. Ist. Re
cognition of the independence of the Confede
| rate States. _, 2d. A uniform system of duties
| upon imports, ,3d. Free' trade between the
i two States.. 4th. Free navigation of the Mis
' sissippi river. sth. Mutual adoption of the
i Monroe doctrine.
i THE HOHOQENEOCS INTERESTS OT THE NORTH.
i AND THE SOUTH—JCAN THE* LIVE TOGETHER)
1 I entirely disagree with those who assert
•! that it is impossible that the North and South* 1
! could live peaceably side bj side.because there
are no natural boundaries between the two,
such as the Rocky Mountains or the Atlantic
Oceans The people-of the Nofth and South
can never become foreign nations to each
; other, m the sense in which the Trench and
• tbe English and the Russians are. They are
sprung from, the same origin, speak the same
j language, possess, a common literature, inherit
similar politics and religious views, and in
habit regions closely connected by natural and
artificial ties. They will-•therefore, both be
American. The only great difference beween
them is of a social and political nature, name
, ly, that which arises from the existence of
! African slavery in one, and the absence of it
;in the other. • This fact, however, offers no
| obstacle ''whatever to such a separation as is
involved ip independent political jurisdiction;:
on the contrary, it greatly facilitates it.
Before the Federal Union was established,
all the States were independent, and associ
ates, under Articles of Confederation, in die
nature of a treaty. The arguments now ad
duced to show the impracticability of present,
separation, between the North and South, go
with equal fores to prove the impossibility of
what then actually existed.and was accepted
in ths case of tbe thirteen original States of
.a
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r tbe Union. The latter stood towards efeoij
i other, precisely as tbe North aad Sdpth would
- stand should they stop the war and enter into
- a treaty. It would, no doubt, simply here-
I solving the North and South into Confederate*,
i Stajtes, resuming as to thefti, the old basis of
- the Confederation, this would be the whole*
sI of it. It is, therefore, a very simple opera*
i , tio'n. Ido not suggest this, however, <m the*
idea that^ should it ever be adopted, the sepft
ration it implies'would be permanent. lpe«
P lieve that it would issore ah ultimate re-uritefl
, on an Anti-slavery-basis:
\. '% fl ave confidence in the inherent vitality of*
Northorn civilization. I have no fear to act
it in competition with the South, Lei them .
. proceed side by side in the rice of
and we shall see whiob shall triumph.
' — n *-*-• :
Tbe Harbor of Charleston. ,
A correspondent of tbe ODondon Mortp'rig
Her«Hd gives the following as tbe result ,of
Lincoln's attempted diabolical revenge'upon
.the city'of Charleston because of South Card
lina having; boen the first to declareAnece'ssiori
from the Yankee Union, ff this correspon
dent is to be believed, the Ape's schemes bay*
failed and the port of Charleston to-day is in
a far better condition than it ever was before*
The Herald correspondent writes:
We art jtept in considerable exeitontetil. '
about.vessels running the blockade of the bar*
bor of Charleston,-and! will here mention *
very curious fact;. I suppose I have beeW ftl
and over the Charleston bar hpndreds'of .
times, mall weathers, it was always a nui
sance. If in a vessel drawing over tea feat,
you had to wait Until/exsct high water, and
then you jarelv found over 1$ to 16 feet (ttt
the bar. The Goodwin Sandr. are" not nfore 1
treacherous than those on tbe Charleston bar;
Well, what does President Lincoln 1 At a
. very heavy expense he ordered vessels filled
with granite to be sunk in the main channel*
whese there never was 17 feet of water at
high or any other tide. The result is astound*
N ing. Che Cooper and the Ashley rivers, whioh
there pais to the sea on each side of Charles
ton city and out over the bar, Bare meept out
a ship channel, in no place under 30 feet deep,
and in some places there is 60 feet water* '
where there was only 16 before the vessels
were, sunk. When peace comes Charleston
harbor will be one' of the finest in the
crn States. "Man proposes, but God dispo*
j.ses.** From nearly round Charleston the wt>
j tor in a chupnel of 30 feet will make her lbs/
i seebnd city in tbe United States in a few.
I years. .
„ ■ t*U- ;—_ t
Tbe Yankee Congcrfplfon*
This measure, which has passedthe Senate/
j provides for the enrollment and calling fnto
service, if need 4 be, of all the able bffdied men
hetween twenty, and forty-five. The only ex-*
enrptione .being the Governor* 1 and. titiik
Judges, the only.sons of poor widows and *
few others. Substantially, as the Hew xforll
••Time**" says, jt is putting all the able-botf|'
ed men of the loyal ; States in for three yearty
and all told, $c force will number three"HßL 4
lions, q- ■.
The enrollment is to* be mad? by omesrs #< *
rectly accountable' to Lincoln, it is to be
caUpd forth by draft in such* numbers.and as
signed to duty in such places a\ Lincoln seat
fit No State functionaries hay.- anything to
dsuritb it! Prtvost Marshals arc to be ap
pointed in each Congressional Wstriet, whs
are to see to the completion of the work.
Heavy penalties are imposed fir all resist- ■
! arice or.cobnselling resistance &> the drafts
In fact'says the "Times/ every part of the
; bill bristles with provisions ensuring its' effi
ciency. The Southern Confederacy, it con
tinues, has put every dollar and every drop*
of blood in its limks at the disposal of Jeff
, Davis.; if we sire not.prepared to make smsr
| lar submission,- we might as well give up ew
i minds for infamous and ruroous (hscomfitare.
It is glad, however, that the sacrifices will be
made. "The currency biß*wrll # pledge every
I dollar, and the conscription act will pledge
| every drop of blood, to lbs national cause.—
Now, for the first time, it contirwit-s, we shall ,
have the power of the nation pitted against
tfcat of the rebellion. It predicts new the
ssccessful crushing out the- rebellion. This
act, it says, furnishes the mean* of pntveriz'
ing the. Southern Confederacy. It can new
defy armed intervention and.em«r a careat to
the world. It now sees the signs of ultimate
triumph, inasmuch as the Unite,!l Statesaav
realizes its strength and its work.
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Work of onr Privateer oaten.
The Alabama,after leaving Kingston, cap
tured the brig Cbostelaine, of Bosrton, took bar
nautical instruments, $800 in gold, arid then •
. burnt her. She has also captured and burnt
the bark Golden Rule. This ve»M»l purported 1
to have goods belonging to Spanish, Freaefc'
and English, but the captain having no proof
of tbe facts, the whole were destroyed. The
crews we're landed at Sac Domingo. Ths
schooner Hanover, from Boston to AuxCayee,
was captured and/burnt by the 'Retribution
near Bayti bn the 31st ult., where. her crew
was. loaded.
Three swift sailing, heavy-anned 4 steamers
are to start from New York in pur salt of the
Florida and Alabama as soon as the Yankee
Congress passed the bill before it granting *
letters V marque and reprisal.'
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Morgan's Ckvalry and the VsnkejeV *
A dispatch from Murfreesboro', approved »*
by Rosecrans, states tpa> on February J2th,.
. Col. Monroe took 430 , m*4 and started to beat
up Jbe enemy in the direction of Cainsville;
that he met Morgan's cavalry four miles from
that town, 500 strong. *tte reports killing 20,
wounding a large* numder, taking six prison
ers, routing the remainder taA»>4 50 horses,
and destroying. 309 stand of arms. Morgan,
with 3,000 men, is reported at^akieyine.