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fpl':' . v v- * " ^ _i - - ' ? .. .... _._ :_?______: proprietors. g,it |ttkpcttknf Jamil} ftctospapcr: Jor tjjc promotion of tjjc political, Social, Agricultural anir Commercial Interests of % Soufjr. j?2 pee teas, is advaho*.^ VOLUME 8. YORKVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 9, 1862. NUMBER 2. ike ffiwMfo #apim. 18 ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY MORHTHG, at Two Dollars a year, In Advance. THREE COPIES, $5 35, 10 COPIES, $15, And an Extra Copy to the person making a Club of Ten?the money to be paid in Advance. 1 ADVERTISEMENTS Will be inserted at one Dollar persquare for the first, ' and Fifty Cents for each subsequent insertion (less | than three months.) A Sqnare consists of the space oecnplea by 10 lines of this siie type ;100 words, or one < inch space. No Adveatisement'considered less than a square. 1 [y All Advertisementsnot having the number ofinser- . tlons marked on the margin, will be con tinned until forbid and charged accordingly. 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K8* Obituarv Notices exceeding one square in length, t wlllbe charged for the overplus at regular advertising . . rates. 1 *?* Personal Communications, when admissl- . ble; communications of limited or individual interest, or recommendations of Candidates for offices of honor, prof- { itortrust will be charged for at from 3 to 10 cents per line. . ? 1 President Davis* Message in England. < W iiat her Cabinet and Politicians | Think and Hope prom the Paper ? j The principal intelligence conveyed by the ( Edinburg from America, oonsists in the t message of the President of the Southern ] Confederation, and we are glad to notice ( the friendly tone in whioh it treats of the j relations of the Sooth with this country, j while we are embarked in a critical nego- { tiation with the North; and while we are t also about to enter upon our intervention } in Mexico, a country bordering upon the v Southern States. This is, in fact, the only t satisfactory and significant information that v the present American packet has brought, t The " Trent question" remains in statu quo. r The opinion of the law officers of the f Washington Cabinet, which is now repeated s bad reaoHed ua by the.Persia on Monday ( last, bat the popular excitement wbioh the t question bad provoked, appears to have in s some measure cooled down. For the mo- ( mcot, therefore, Southern politics arrest our t chief attention. ? The message of President Davis to the ? Southern Congress is, in our judgment, the \ more satisfactory, from the firm and deter- j mined attitude in which it confronts the a Unionist party and the Cabinet at Wash- t iDgton ; for if we ooncede the conquest of j the South to be next to impossible, it is by the exhibition of Southern strength, rather J than of Southern weakness; that peace is to be-restored between the two belligerents. President Davis recounts that throughout c v.nnfho nf hnafUiriAR the Confederates I OC*CU UIV/UVU0 V* have almost uniformly held their own, and t that in several instances they have thrown t their opponents into a defensive attitude. 1 President Davis is therefore fully enti- i tied to the bold ground which he assumes, i when he declares that "the South will be I content to live at peace with the North, but i that the separation is final." He adds that i the South wili accept of qo oomprotqise.? 1 He is now, perhaps for the first time, in a $ position to make use of this language. In- ' deed, one is led to ask, after the trial and i exhaustion of so many designs, and the ex- < penditure of so much money on the part of t the North, what is yet to introduce decisive t features iuto the campaign '( The Federals t have eojoyed immense advantages in point 1 of men and money, and also (as we showed < yesterday) in drawing war like supplies i ' from this country, through their superior t command of the sea. President Davis will i no doubt derive fresh confidence when he I reads the two royal proclamations which, < in the latter respect, have now placed the i North aDd South on a footing of equality. < Hut there, has been scarcely a single State < overrun by the Northern army during the i whole course of the campaign, and it is I nmnh Questioned whether the naval expe- i ditions of the Federal Government to Hat- 1 teras and Port Royal have done much more than slightly to reduce the privateeriug activity of the South. The assertion of the Southern President must, therefore, be admitted to be substantially true, that "the reconstruction of the Union, which the Federals seek to effeotby force of arms, has become more and more palpably impossible.' He maintains, also, that the causes which brought about the separation not only remain in full force, but have been strengthened since the civil war began. With a view ot observing strict neutrality between the contending States, we have carefully refrained from officially recognizing the South, but the time has certainly arrived at which we cease altogether to believe in; the possible re-union of the States, and atj which we must, at all events, recognize thej independent confederation of the South as] an actual fact. President Davis speaks with just indig-j nation of the seizure of his envoys to the; " "" J 1 J 3 1 courts 01 r ranee ana nugianu j auu tueic is a passage iu this part of his message which throws a probable light on the distinctive mission on which Mr. Slidel! and Mr. Mason were sent to Europe. lie remarks, with some evident pride, that the Confederate States have been content to fight their own battle, and have solicited no assistance from foreign Powers. But he declares that they have a right to briug before Europe the question of the application of the existing blockades cf their own ports to the acknowledged principle of interna tioual law, that blockades, if they are to be respected by third powers, must be effec live. He is about to represent to the European Governments, accordingly, the total inefficiency of their blockades, and to put the assertion upon evidence. It is a fair iofereuce that this was one of the questions upou which Messrs. Mason and Sli4ell were sent to Europe. But there is another statement in our present American intelligence which threatens to put the blockade question iu a light altogether uew. It is announced that tweuty-fi.e vessels have set sail, appureutly from New York, heavify "loaded with stoues, with the view of their being sunk at the mouth of a Southern hurbor. Now, iu all | probability ingress or egress would be as I difficult ut a Southern port, with five-and twenty suuktu vessels iu frunt of the harbor, as it was at Sebastopol, where the i Russians sunk several of their ships with the view of preventing the entrance of English and French vessels of war. But if the Federal Government desire by this expedient to relieve their own ships by thu9 blocking up Southern ports, they must be perfectly aware that there is at once an end of the blockade in every instance in which their new plan is to apply. Sunken vessels will not constitute a blockade, let them be as ''affective" as they may; and whersver the Federal Government shall thus substitute sunken vessels for its ships-ofwar, then the blockade is at once terminated by the consent of all nations. We draw attention to the rational and friendly manner in wbioh the Southern President alludes to the attitude maintained hitherto towards America by this coun try, because we regard our relations witb the Southern States as henceforward of rery considerable importance. These States lave now attained such a position that we must bring ourselves to believe iD the permanence of their independent confederation. We have differences with the North [n which the Southerners are directly interested ; and we have just concluded a treaty with the Jaurez Government of Mex00 for a settlement of our long standing jlaims upon that country, under the "Aldlam Convention," and other recorded obigations. Our naval expedition to the 1 3olf of Mexico is charged with the execu;ion of these terms ; and, probably, before 1 February next the system of sequestration )f customs revenue at Vera Cruz and Tarn)ico will have been put into aotion, and the jrooeeds be accumulating for distribution mder the mixed commission between the lespoiled residents and the wronged bondlolders. We must look upon this inter- i rention as one that may be in operation du- < ing a considerable period of time; and vhile the Northern Government is too disant to admit of its attitude entering mute- ; ially into this question, in Southern conederation, on the other hand, stretches for i 1 great distance along the frontier of Mexiso, so aB to render its friendly disposition ? the authors of the entervention of no ilight consequence. The Northern Government has invariahlv railed at our neu ralityj bat the Southern, with Btatcmanihip and moderation, has recognized in it 1 ill that we coald do for either party; and whether with a view to our transactions iu Mexico, or to our relations with the Cabinet it Washington, the friendly forbearance of he Southern Confederacy is an important >oint in our favor.?London Post, Dec. 7 IHN In Act to Baise Supplies for the Year Commencing in October, 1861. Be it enacted by the Senate and House >f Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of he same, That a tax for the sums and in he manner hereinafter mentioned, shall >e raised and paid into the Tresury of this State, for the use and service thereof, that s to say : one dollar and thirty cents ad vaorem on every hundred dollars of the valie of all lands grauted in this State accord- ; ng to the existing classification as hereto 'ore established j one hundred and twenty lis cents per head on all slaves: Provided, rbat all lands or slaves in this State, now n possession or under the control of the snetny, and suob other lands or slaves as nay be taken by the enemy, before the re- , ;qrq of the said property to the tax oollec-1 ;or, and also such other lands as shall have: ceen abandoned by the owners in conse i juence of the notion of the military authorities, shall be exempt from taxation under this Act; 'three dollars on each free oegro, mulatto or mestizo, between the ages of fifteen and fifty years, except such as shall clearly be proved to the satisfaction of the collector to be incapable from maims or otherwise of procuring a livelihood, and j except those who now are pr have at any; time been in the service of the army of this i State or of the Confederate States iu thej existing war) twenty-two cents ad valorem on every hundred dollars of the value of all lots, lands and buildings within any city, town, village or borough in this State: Provided, That a tax on lands and buildings iu the city of Charleston be assessed 1 on the valne of the lands only, tyhere the; buildings and improvements on the land have been destroyed by the late conflagration : And provided further, Thut no tax shall be levied on lots, lands and buildings within any city, town, village or borough, in this State, which have passed into the possession or under the oontrol of the enemy, or which may pass into the possession, " ' r ? or under the control of the enemy^, before j returns are made to the tax collectors; one; hundred cents per one hundred dollars on . factorage, employments, faculties and pro ; fessions, including the profession of dentis-j try, aud including herein Clerks of Courts j of Common Pleas and General Sessions, i Sheriffs, Masters and Commissioners in j Equity, Registers in Equity, Registers of Mesne Conveyance, Ordinaries aud Coroners, whether in the profession or employ ment of law or equity the profits be derived from the costs of suit, fees, or other sources of professional income, except clergymeu, schoolmasters, schoolmistresses and mechanics'; od6 hundred oents oq every hundred dollars on the amount of commissions received by vendue masters and commission merchants; forty cents per hundred dollars on the capital stock paid on the first of Oo toDer, ods tnousand eight tiuudred anu sixty one, of all banks, which for their present charters have not paid a bonus to the State; eighty cents per hundred dollars on the capital stock of any bank of issue not incorporated by this State, paid in on the first day of Ootober, one thousand eight hundred and sixty one, doing business by agents within the'limits of this State; forty cents per hundred dollars on the capital stock of all incorporated gas light companies; one and a half per ceutgm on all premiums taken in this State by incorporated insurance companies, and by the ageqcies in this State, acting in behalf of insurance eouipauies and underwriters without the limits of this State; twenty two cents on every huudrcd dollars of the amount ot sales of goods, wares and merchandize, embracing all articles of trade for sale, barter or exchange, (the products of this State, and the unmanufactured products ol any ot the States of the Confederate States excepI ted,) which any person shall have made: from the first day of Jaouary, ia the year of our Lord one thousand eight hifndrcd and sixty-one, to the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, either on his, her or their capital, or borrowed capital, or on account of any person or persons, as agent, attorney, or consignee; ninety cents upon every hundred dollars of the amount of sales of goods, wares and merchandize whatever, which any transient person, not resident in this State, shall make in any house, stall or public place, whether the said sale be made by sample or otherwise; twenty dollars per day for all circus exhibitions; five dollars per day for representing publicly, for gain and reward, any play, comedy, tragedy, interlude or farce, or other employment of th? Qtnrro nr nnu nnrf. fhprpin fir fur *>*hih. v..w r? , ~ iting wax figures or other shows of any kind whatever, to be paid into the hands of the clerksof the courts respectively, who Bhall be bound to pay the same into the treasuries of the State of South Carolina, except in cases where the same is now required by law to be paid to the corporations or otherwise; one tenth of one per cent, on all moneys loaned, moneys at interest, all moneys invested in the stocks or bonds of any State or corporation, other than bonds or stocks of this State, and other than the stocks of the banks and railroad companies of this State; one hundred and fifty cents for every hundred dollars of gross receipts of all commercial agencies within the limits of this State; thirteen cents on every pack of playing cards sold in this State; fifteen dollars upon every billiard table within this State, used to and for the purpose of raising a revenue therefrom ; one hundred cents on the hundred dollars of all salaries, including public officers, except officers of the army and navy, and on all wages from whatever source derived, except wages of five hundred dollars or less per annum. 2. All taxes levied ou property, as prescribed in the first section of this Act, shall L\a a ?-? tr Sft.-vl I svstfr.vw f Vl a f?? r uu paiu tu tuu taa. wncubui tui tuo kua uiobrict in which said property is located, and the commissions to be received by the various tax collectors of this State, for the year commencing on the first day of October, oue thousand eight hundred aud sixty one, shall be at the rate of seventy per centum of the commission now allowed them by law. The tax collectors in the several districts and parishes in this State, in their returns hereafter to be made, are hereby required and enjoined to state the precise amounts of taxes collected by them for supporting the police of the said several districts aud parishes aforesaid, stutiug the rates per centum on tho amounts of the State tax collected for said district and parish police purposes, and the Total amount of commissions reoeived by each and every of such tax collectors, and the rate per ceutum of his commissions, and the Comptroller-General shall return the same in his report. 4. Free negroes, mulattoes aud mestizoes are hereby required to make their returns and pay their taxes during the mouth of March, and the tax collector of St. Phillip's and St. Michael's is allowed until the month of May to receive the taxes of white persona. 5. The lots and houses on Sullivan's Is land shall be returned to the tax collector of the tax district iu which they are situate in the same mauner as other town lots and houses, and shall be liable to the same rates of taxation : Provided, That lots aud hou ses destroyed or occupied without compensation by the military, or u-cd for military purposes without compensation, or ordered to be vacated by military authority, before returns are made, shall be exempt from taxation. 0. That the President of the Columbia IJraqch of the Iiauk of the State of South Caroliua do pay in to the Treasurer of this State the following sums, to wit: The sum of seventeen thousand five hundred and fourteeu dollars and niuety cents, now on deposit in said Branch, and derived from the Government of the United States,, as the portion of South Carolina for sales of public lands, received during the administration of Governor Manniug. Also, the sum of sixteen hundred and fifty dollars, now on deposit in said Branch, and which is the balauce of an appropriation for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the Palmetto Regiment. AN ACT to enable Volunteers in the Military Service to Exercise the Right of Suffrage. 1. lie it enacted l>y the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sittiny in Cicneral asse.mb/y, and hy the authority of thr same, That during the continuance of the existing war between the United States and Confederates States of America, the members of all volunteer compauies ti^de up of citizens of this State, including all field aud stuff officers, who shall be ubsent from homo in the militai-y service of thej couotry, upon the happening of any geno-l ral or district election, shall have the same right of suffrage as if present in their respective election districts J and, tq enable them to exercise the said right, it shall be the duty of the commissioned officers, or a majority of those present on duty, oommauding any such company of volunteers, after being duly sworn to manage the same fairly and impartially, according to law, to open a poll from twelve o'clock, noon, until two o'clock, iu the afternoon, in their respective oon^panies, on the day fixed for auy election, aud to receive the votes of ail .. .i.??,i j VUlUUlUClSj luoiuuiu^ uctu au i otnu vuiucio^ who are qualified to vote uuiertheUoustitutiou aad laws of this Sti'te. 2. TOut immediately after closing the polls it shall be the duty of the mauugers to count the ballots, and make a statement of the result, certified under their hands, aud dispatch the saute, with a list of ttie uames of the voters, under sealed cover, or by ujail or by a special messenger, as they shall deem best as follows; That is ! to say, if the election be for members of Congress, the certificate, together with the balluts cast, to the Governor of the State, or to the Secretary of State; aud if for; members of the General Assembly, or any district officer, tne certificate of the result to the Clerks of the Courts of the respective Judicial Districts, aud itshall be the duty of the said clerks to receive aad be responsible for such returns, under the penalties provided by law for neglect of official duty, until delivered to the managers of elections as herein provided 3 That it shall be the duty of the managers of the several eleotion districts to reassemble at the oourt house, or other place appointed by law for oounting the ballots, on the first Saturday next ensuing any such eleotion, at whioh time and plaoe it shall be the duty of the olerksof the courts, under the penalties aforesaid, to deliver to the managers aforesaid the returns, if any have been received by them from the army ; and the said managers Bhall forthwith proceed to aggregate the returns whioh shall have been previously made by them from the district preoints, and declare the election, as is now provided by law. And if, upon the reassembling of the managers for the purpose aforesaid, it shall happen that returns, or only partial returns, have been received from the army, then it shall be their duty to declare the election aooording to the result of the ballots cast at their district precincts, and the returns, if any, received. 4. That all acts and parts of aots repugnant to this act, be, and the same are hereby, suspended in their operation for and during the continuance of the war between the United States and Confederate States of America. In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one and in the eighty-sixth year of the sovereignty and independence of the State of South Carolina. W. D. Porter, Pres. of the Senate. James Simons, Speaker House of Rep. An Act to Afford Aid to the Families of Soldiers. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That no less than five nor uiore ten freeholders in each tax district in the State shall be appointed, as hereinafter provided, who shall be oalled the "Soldier*' Board of Relief," who shall continue in office during the existing war, and for four months thereafter; and they are hereby authorized to fill up all vacancies in their respective Boards, arising from any cause, by appointment of said Boards; and they shall meet upon the call of the Chairman, as well as by their own resolution ; a majority of each Board shall constitute a quorum. 2. That the said Boards shall have power and authority to levy a tax on the tax payers of their respective tax districts, annually, and but onoe in each year, on the nrnriprtt far Ail hv thfi Sf.at.fr to hft naid dll t?r?j ? j > r?; ring that year, and none other, to raise a sum of money sufficient to afford aid and relief to the wives and ohildren of such persons, in their respective tax districts, who have now, or may hereafter, volunteer in the military service of this State, or the Confederate States of America, and while in such service, as may desire the same, and whom the said Boards respectively may deem to be proper objects of this aid and relief; but the said tax shall not exceed forty per centum on the general State tax in any one year. 3. That the said boards, respectively, shall deliver to the tax collectors of their respective tax districts a written order to collect such per centage on said general tax as they may deuide on, at least one month before the tax returns of the State are made to the said tax collectors; that the said boards, respectively, shall take all proper means to ascertain whether the applicants for aid and relief are proper recipients; thereof, according to the true intent and meaning of this Act; and when they have decided io favor of aDy such applicant, they shall direct the Treasurer to pay, in money, to such person, the sum so allowed, to bo paid in advauce, monthly or quarterly, as said board may direct; but if any one of the said boards shall deem it best to purchase provisions or clothing, in quantity, which they are hereby empowered to do, then the said board may order and direct the said payment to be made from such purchased articles. 4 That the said boards shall each appoint a person secretary and treasurer of their own body, or otherwise as they may decide, who shall keep a reoord of all transactions, be responsible to said board and give bond payable to said board, in such sum, and with such sureties, as the said board may direct, for the faithful performance of the duties of bis office. 5. That the State tax collectors of said tax districts shall colleot the tax directed | by said boards at the same time that they I collect the said State tax, and shall pay the jsame over to Treasurers of said boards, i respectively, when oolltcted. 0. That the said tax collectors shall pursue the same mode and manner in collecting said tax as they now do respecting other district taxe-, and shall be liable to all tne penalties respecting said tax as they now are respecting other distriot taxes j and the Sheriffs of the Judicial Districts with whom executions may be lodged for the oolleotiou of said tax, shall be liable to all the penalties they now are by law, res pecting the other district taxes. 7. And said boards shall make returns of their reoeipts and expenditures to the courts of common pleas of their respective districts, at the fall term thereof, and shall be liable to the same penalties for default or neglect of duty as the other district boards are uow liable to acoojrding to law. 8. That oaon of the said boards shall consist of not more than ten nor less thau five persons, to bo appointed by joint resolution of the Geueral Assembly, to continue in office for oqe year. la the Senate House, the twenty-first day of .December, in the year of our I<ord one thousand eight hundred and sixtyone, and in the eighty-sixth year of the sovereignty and independence of the State of South Carolina. William D. Porter, President of the Senate. James Simons, Speaker of the House of Ifjcprescntatives. Southern Generosity.?We notice in the New Orleans Crescent a list of the private contributions for the sufferers by the Charleston fire, footing np 821,600, and one hogshead of sngar. The total amount thus far received by the Charleston Committe is 8162,055.25. How the Yankees stand the Climate of South Carolina. A Yankee correspondent, writing from Port Royal, December 14, gives the following account of the effect which the climate of Sooth Carolina has bad upon the health of Lincoln's minions, who have recently desecrated the soil of that State : The sanatary condition of the troops has assumed a special interest in connection with proposed building of a temporary general hospital for the division. A New York na naf nf WrtOAmkA* 9Q ?a K <*? ? ?/* '? W* 1WT61U UQl ?*\J 19 U91UIC UIDj IU which it is said that the troop9 at Port Royal are in good health and spirits. Similar statements I understand have been geneally made and believed. Now for the facts. Ninety-eight soldiers have died since the expedition left Annapolis, October 21; eighty-four sinoe it landed at Port Royal, November 7. The whole number of sick from its arrival to the end of November, exclusively of the 8th Miohigan, was 4,282. Of this number there remained at the end of that month 634 requiring hos pital treatment. The 8th Michigan, not included in the above, because its returns have been sent baok for correction, has suffered more than any other regiment, and would swell the tolal of sick to nearly 5,000. The returns for December are not made up. More than 300 patients are now in hospital; a still larger number requiring hospital treatment are left in quarters for want of hospital tents, and the sick list daily increases. The division was landed at Port Royal before the frost had destroyed the deadly growth of marsh and swamp, and malaria fell with its must fatal effeot on the exhausted systems of soldiers who had been obliged to work in the water, and to go to their tents at night wet, chilled and tired, with no change of clothes, or means of warmth. The fatal diseases have been, with the exception of small pox and typhoid fever, almost entirely those incident to the climate, and caused in this climate by over-work and exposure, especially in the water. These diseases are congestive and remittent fever, acute dysentery, and malarious pneumonia, all or tue most malignant and dangerous type. Six cases of small pox has resulted fatally, every one of which would have been saved by proper hospital acoommodation. Eighteen cases are now in hospital, some of which will be fatal for the same reason. The sudden change of weather and fall in the temperature, December 3, was followed by instant increase in the number of deaths. That night three men wefe literally frozen to death ; two oases of small pox and one of congestive fever all in a fair way of recovery, but unable to resist the cold against which there was no protection. The almost equally sudden change of last Wednesday night brought with it great increase of suffering to all the sick, and two other men in with the congestive fever, who would otherwise have recovered, were killed by the oold. I have for these statements the authority of one of the ablest surgeons attached to tho rl i nioi An n*Kr\ qIq^ ft i ma fKof Kq mniilr) risk bis professional reputation on accuracy of the assertion. Zollicoffer across the Cumberland. Gen. Zollicoffer has crossed the Cumberland ri7er to advanoe into Kentucky. The subjoined proclamation has been issued by him since his forward movement: PROCLAMATION. Brigade Headquarters, Beech Grove, Ky., Dec. 16. To the people of Southeastern Kentucky : The brigade I have the honor to command is here for no purpose of war on Kentuckians, but to repel those Northern hordes who, with arms in their hands, are attempting the subjugation of a sister Southern State. They have olosed your rivers, embargoed your railroads, cut off your natural and proper markets, left your stock and produce on bands almost valueless, and thereby almost destroyed the value of your land and labor. We have come to open again your rivers, to restore the ancient markets for your produce, and thereby to return to you the aooustomed value of your lands and labor. They have represented us as murderers and outlaws. We have come to convince you that we truly respeot the laws, revere justice, and mean to give security to your nflMAnol anri nrnnortn pi'iyIGj Thow Knoa pV.Ol/UB. ? + ..?J ..?.? forced many of you to take up arms against us. We ouine to take you by the band as heretofore, as friends and brothers. Their Government have laid heavy taxes upon you to carry on this unuatuial war, one object of which is opeoly avowed to be to set at lib erty your slaves, and the ensuing steps in which will be to put artqs in their hands, and give them political and sooial equality with yourselves. We saw these things in the beginning, and are offering our hearts' blood to avert these dreadful evils which we saw the abolition leaders had deliberately < planned for the South. "All men must , have the ballot or none?-all men must have the bu,lle{, or none," said Mr. Seward, the present Federal Secretary of State. How i long will Kentuckians close their eyes to i the contemplated ruin of their present , structure of society ? How long will they i continue to raise their arms against broth- i ers of the South struggling for those rights i and for that independence common to us < all, and which was guarantied (0 all hy the CoostitqtiQn of 1787 ? For. many long years we remonstrated against the encroach* | meets against those rights, and the iqaeou rity to that property thus guarantied, which , theae Northern hordes so reruorsely inflict- , ed on us. They became deaf to our remoustraoces, beoause they believed they had ; the power, and fe t in every flbre the will to < "whip us in." We have disappointed them. ' We have broken their columns in almost i every conflict. We l^ve Q&rly acquired a i prurigo of suooess whioh has strickeu tor- t ror into the Northern heart. Their 'grand t armies" have been held in check by com | paratively few, but stern-hearted men ; and j now they would invoke Heotuoky valor to < aid them in beating down the true sons of j the South who have stood the shook, and 1 in bringing common ruin upon Kentucky c and her kindred people. Will you play t this unnatural part, Kentuckians ? Heaven $ forbid! The memories of the past forbid, i The honor of your wives and daughters, r your past renown, and the fair name of your s posterity, forbid thai you Bhould strike for t Lincoln and the anolition of slavery, against those struggling for the rights and independence of your kindred race. Strike with us for independence and the preserva- ' tion of your property, and those Northern, invaders of your soil will soon be driven across the Ohio. F. K. Zollicoffer, Brig. General. Yankee Polioy. The Yankee Government is excessively exercised at the question of what to do with the contrabands. They have professed to be disposed to punish us by depriving us of our negroes and confiscating them ; but they are in a quandary what to do with j them They swear terribly to us that they I will turn them loose; but as soon as they t come to them for subsistence and support, i that is another affair. They have uo idea t of feeding a set of operatives that will be 1 useless to them. This is not Yankee char- < acter?they are very sympathizing on paper, i and while they think they can^piteus, but i the moment their paper philanthropy is to become practical?ah ! that is another mat- ( ter. The Yankees believe what we know is folly, that their superabundant population < can supercede our negroes; hence they * propose to run them out of the country by ? colonization or sale to Cuba, so as to make i way for their starvelings. They wish to ( engraft their free labor on us in place of 1 our slaves, and they make a pretence of love | for our operatives as men deserving to be s free?yes, free, so that they go somewhere s else and not interfere wit6 their superfluous t population ! They delude the poor negroes t with the hope of freedom, which is a falls- \ cy; and the moment they can steal thmn, < they jar among themselves whether to < send them to Africa, to South America or t to Arkansas! The idea of their remaining | where they are, they utterly ignore; and Gen. Sherman and Percy Drayton proiuis- I ing them that they will be allowed to stay I on Hilton Head and the neighborhod is j a mean cheatery of the poor negro?such cheatery as only the Yankee is mean enough < to practice. Our negroes in the cities know the Yankee well, but the poor deluded creatures in the country actually arc made to believe that the Yankee loves them, and will be their friend. Let them but get the 1 handcuffs on, and the deception is soon dis- 1 covered. As long provisions last for the : negroes they will b* .'ajoled?the moment the Yankee is called upon to feed them,the poor creatures will be doomed to starve, as 1 the white laborer at the North is now allowed to do. When the grand armada was coming South it was known that one thousand negroes stolen from Virginia were on board the fleet. They have not been landed ou our territory. Where have they gone ?? Does nay one know ? In a letter from Fort Monroe, a Yankee, writing to his sister, said he would make her a present as soon as he sold his prisoners ! Yankee philanthropy, stealing and ill-treating the poor negro until he can sell him ! What else can be expected from the hypocritical cant of Yankeedom ? Neyor mind, the day of retribution is not far off"?when Lieut. General Scott, and Lieut. General McClcllan, and Brigadier General Picayune Butler will only be remembered as the great men of the great Government of a miserable Illinois tcrr-rister !?Carolinian. ft ... Amusing Incident?Independent Confederate Lad.?A gentleman who has recently reached his Southern home under a flag of truce from Old Poiut relates an amusing incident, which occurred immediately within his hearing. As the Federal and -Confederate steamers neared eaoh other, about two miles from Fortress Monroe, a couple of lads, apparently of the same age and size, but belonging to different sections of the now ruptured Union, ap proached the forward part of their respective boats, and a simultaneous recognition ensued. The boats being lashed together for an exchange of passengers, the following dialogue took place : i Federal Boy?Have you got a Norfolk paper? Confederate?What business is it of yours??straightening himself up, and assuming a most independent mien. Federal-?-Would like to buy it 1 i Confederate?Won't sell it. Federal?I'll give you a silver dollar for it?something you haven't seen sinbe the war commenced. < Confederate?We have just as many dol- i lars as we want?both gold aqd silver. | Federal?Then I have beeq misinform < ed i Confederate?Indeed you have. But if ] you want a Norfolk paper, I'll give you one ( for a New York Herald. \ Federal?Agreed. I Here both lads were seen to slip a paper J from their jackets, and cjqi^tly hand them over. Uponqp6ning their papers, the Heratii proved to be a double sheet, and the Norfolk paper but a half sheet. "Look c here" said the Federal, "this is not a fair , exchange. You have gqt the advantage i of me." {.'5 never make childreu's bar- < gains," said Confederate, at the time put- t ting bis thumb to bis nose, and gyrating t the lingers of his hand. Federal boy look ' ed daggers, but acknowledging himself sold, t ^uitely walked away. I -~ ( Singular Stats Flaq ?The flag of t the Tu*aa camp, at Camp Wigfall, near I Dumfries, Va., is made of the bridal dress [ of Mrs Wigfall. Says the correspondent t of the Austin Gazette: a It bears the emblem of the 'Lone Styr,' t lnri this is of pure white silk set iu blue r ground; the fo.lds are purple and white, rbe hGA'W of all are riveted to it. It will r aever be giveo up. Au old war-woro war- t rior opproaehed it, aud as his eyes gazed c steadily upou the baauer, he said : "That i itar was made of the bridal of 'he t ady of our galli?r,t ooiouel. She worked e t with her fair bauds, aud gave it to us to t jaTy through the battles of our couQtry.? c Qow could wo fail to protect it with out c ives ? No, sir ! I never failed to meet the jneoiy when that star was oar watchword, at ind now, when oar whole South is in dan- hi ;er, I feel thai my poor life oan be given ip easily upon that flag as my shroud."? th rhe old fellow with his grey hairs still itands before my memory. Saoh is the eeling of every Texan. ai i'l vTOiiui tti xriuc. A correspondent of the Montgomery Ad- hi lertiser gives an account of the personal ap- hi jearance of General Price, when he was E President of the Missoari Convention which 01 lat in Jefferson some months ago. Here ai :t is, and a very pleasant pietnre it is: "1 never saw a man who oame nearer to G my idea of a Roman Senator than General to Sterling Price. He is over 6 feet in height, ai )f massive frame and handsome face. >, His tl iilver locks add dignity to an elegant and Ij jistingnuihed appearance. He is affable, p! jourteous and refined?a man who would to ;raoe the Senate Hall with as much ease as hi le would the battle field. As he passes pi ilong the streets with his gold-beaded walk- st ,og stick, the spectator would involuntary of tsk his name. He is beloved by all who se mow him, and has the unlimited confidence )f every loyal citizen, from the Governor, al 0 the executive chair, to the poorest herds- of nan in his camp. E Oae of the papers shows as follows how r,li Gen. Price feeds his army : Si It has been a puzzle how Price, without w Governmental resources, has managed to e( lubsist a considerable army in a country ri ilmost desolated. His system is not knowo in 0 the "Regulations." He never complains vi )f want of transportation, whether he is a tli jout to move ten or a hundred miles. He m jays for what he takes in Missouri State v< . TTi - . I I 1 script, uis men go into tne corn neici, shuck the corn, shell it, take it to mill and h; sake it iato camp ground into meal. Or t! should the; have no flour, the; take the tl wheat from the stack, thrash it themselves, i| )r with horses and oxen, and as with the tl jorn, ask the aid of the miller to reduce it r< ;o flour. Such an arm; cau go where the; Q please iu an agricultural countr;. tl M; informaot compares the devotion ol c_ :he uieu to him, and their coofldcnce in hitu, as equal to the regard of the elder Napoleon's armies for the "Little Corporal." rhis is a high compliment, coming as it E does from a professional soldier, an elfve of n West Point. tt ?i. ? ai Official Suggestions. Col. Harve; Brown, the Federal commander at Pickens, gives the following as & facts elicited in the bombardmeot of the 22d ult, in a report to the War Depart- G ment at Washington : o 1. That with the most efficient guns of [ the largest calibre, and served in the best, k manner, no serious injur; oao be done to \n stone or brick walls, or to guns io sand bat- a teries, or to troops serving them, unless ti probabl; by rifled guns, if properly proteo c ted, at a distance of from two tbousaod 1 to three thousand yards o 2 That shell aod hot shot arc uot to be o depended on for firing even wooden build- a iogs, unless having in them incendiary composition. tl 3. That pieces of port fire are nearly h useless as such ioceudiary composition. ti i TU.U.:..!. u..:i i, *x? xuatunu^ uuuuiugo uuvgicu niuu oim,v u cannot be fired by either hot shot or shells a at the distance named, unless by accident, t! unless the shells have rock fires i\ 5. That the trouble and expense incurred in protecting forts by sand bag traverses, &c., is far more thau repaid by the saving of the lives of the defenders. G. That no dependence is to be placed 1 in James' rifle projectiles, either as it res a pects accuracy or range. If I had guns to u be depended on I could have silenced most n of the enemy's sand batteries and the guns h io Barrancas. i( 7. That ships with their present arraa- n ment cannot for an hour contend against ri fi fled guns, and that if our navy is not at d once supplied liberally with good 'rifled g guns it will be very likely to be disgraced d 8. That on service here, and I believe it the remark applies with equal force to eve- ai ry river and harbor in the gulf, a gunboat ul drawing six feet of water and v?Jl armed ci with good rifled guus can do more and bet- n ter service than a forty gun ship, or than ci such ships as the Niuyunt and Richmond ui 9. That sail vesse.s are utterly useless in h enforcing a blockade. a 10. That Parrott's rifled guns are effi T uient, and that forts should be immediately g supplied with them and with a full supply si of ammunition. H His report concludes with the followiog : tl I would strongly urge that a dozen ot Parrott's thirty pounders, or, if to be had. jf larger calibre, be sent to this post, witli x good supply uf ammunition, as early as re possible. I had one which 1 found to be ei excellent, but when the uavy met with such .V i mishap in the Mississippi, 1 was com- hi pelled to let flag officer McKean have it and 0 me of my twelve pouuder Parrott guns to G jut on one of his ships, to save them from h jeiog driven out of the water by a little ei steamer having a rifled cannon on board. d< P Cotton Seed for Hq?s? k We are informed that an intelligent farmir of thi.o county (says the Athens (Ga) hi Banner,) has tried the experiment of feedng his hogs on cotton seed, and has been b< luccessful. He commenced lust December .has, and so continued until after harvest, ind then turned the hogs into the fields m The; fed the whole time, except when in cc ;he fields, on the seed. His method of pre- ot jaring the food wus to boil the seed until )f a soft nature?mashing when pressed be di ween the Augers. Let staud thirty-six oc icurs after boiling, and then it is ready to in )ut in the trough for feeding He tried Oi he experiment this year for the first time, di ind although an old planter, has now as nc ;ood, or perhaps better hogs than he ever si< aisod before. We would strictly call attention to this, eiterating the fact that this planter has R >een succesful. If hogs can be raised ou la mtton seed, wc do oot see why the cotton fir itates cannot make their own bacon, for w< here arc thousands of bushels of seed on vj ivery plantation that canoot be worth to w< he planter more thau fifteen to twenty-five dc :ents per bnshelj but when turned into ba- ec son would be worth thrice that amount. [be The planter to whom we have referred ied no corn, except when be pat ap hit igs to fatten and kill. What do oar planting friends think of le matter? Ia it not worth trying? Another Case. Oar telegraphic dispatches this morning inonnoe another violation of the nentralir of the British ilag. Mason and Slidell ive been surrendered, but jnst on the eels of the acqniescence to the demand* of ogland, two private oitixeoe, passengers 1 a British bottom are forcibly arrested id conveyed to one of Lincoln'*fort*. Under the present temper of the British overnment and people, this second insnlt i the "meteor flag" will nnqnestiontUj -0U36 the ire of the nation to such a point, tat a mere disavowalor apology will soaro* 1 allay it. The English are a proud peole, and have never yet tamely submitted > an insnlt to their flag The first offeuoe is kindled the war spirit to almost an ua eaedented degree, and in this feverish ate of the pnblio mind, a repetition of the Fenoe must be productive of serious oon* quenoes. We are not conversant with ioteroatiou. law, but it strikes us that this repetition ' an insulting offence will be regarded in ngland as the evidence of the truth of > ; te assertion of the London Time*, that., sward has determined to provoke a war ith England. Naval officers are coosid* 1, in questions of international maritimd ghts, to act upon some code of geaent istruations, and it will be difficult to ooo? nee the Government or people of fioglaod ia"t the United States naval offioers have 3t had orders to board and search their jjsels. Of course Seward will say that the rule as been established in the Trent case; tat-the commander of the vessel maici g ie last capture was igoorautof it, and will pologizc and deliver up the prisoners. Be lis as it may, it will be regarded in Ea? >pe as aoother blunder of au imbecile -overnmeot, aad in this way will hasten ie recognition of the Southern Coofcderap.? Southern Guardian. Report of the WoocUonville Fight. The following order of Major General lardee, giviug a report of the recent fight ear Woodsonville, is io most admirable iste. It expresses touch in a few dbrdf, ad is as modest as it is eloquent : IIkadqrs. Central Army, Ky., Bowling Greed, Deo. 21,1861. Special Order-No. 64. Oa the 17th inst. our forces uader Brig, ieo. Hiadman partially engaged a saperir force of the enemy near WoodsoavtUe. n the ac.ion we sustained a' loss of foM-j^ A illed and nine wounded. The enemy 'ere driven back, and lost about fifty killed nd seven prisoners. The condact of oar roops was marked by iifipetaooB valor. Oa barging the enemy, Col. Terry, of the 'exas Bangers, was killed in the moment f victory. His regiment deplore the lee* f a brave and beloved oommander?the rtny one of its ablest officers. The general commanding returns hie banks to Brigadier General Hindmao end is command for their conduct in the iuliative of the campaign io Kentucky, and e hails the brilliant courage shown io the ffair as a bright augury of their valw when be actual hour comes for strikiag a deoif-e blow. By order of Maj. Geo. Hardee.' D. U. White, A. A. A. G. Well Done.?Some days ago one of the 'exas Ringers in Kentucky, whilst oat on scoutiog expedition, rode suddenly and nexpectedly into the presence of a Fode* it picket. Before he had time to cook is trusty rifle, the picket brought his Mint to bear on him, and ordered him to butjnder. The Ranger felt that he was in ft x?he was fairly in for it, and conld not o anything more than to throw down hit uo with best grace possible. Having one so, the picket stooped to get it when, - -l _ n ? l a - ? - ) an lUdtaDG me nauger a iasso was tnrowa round him, and he felt biuiself dragged long as fast as a horse at full gallop could irry biui. The picket yelled, but it waa 0 use?the Ringer bad him to hir heart's intent, the Ranger returned, got his own ad the picket's guu, aud proceeded with is prisoner iuto camp. It is not often that man escapes under sucb circumstances, 'he Yankee was badly hurt in the drag* iug, but it taught biui a successful lea* )u. VYneu be gets, loose, aud meets* ktugeragain, he will know something of ie ropes."?Naihoille Patriot. Confederate Victory. Memphis, Jan. 3 ?A dispatch has been >ceived from Little Rock contiaoiag offi. at intelligence from Northwest. Col. [ackintosh's command of four regiments ad a fight with Apotheyobolo, the Indian hief, seventy five miles northwest of Fort -ibsoo, ou the 26th, which lasted four ours, and resulted in the total rout of the aeuiy, who lost two hundred killed, wouaed and missing, and one hundred taken risoners. The Confederate loss was 12 ilied and 20 wounded. Mackintosh is still pursuing Apotbejo* dIo, who is fleeing towards Kansas. The Confederates captured a large oumjr of wagons, and one hundred horses. Richmond, Jan 2.?Gen. Bragg comunicates to the Government that the firing >ramenccd yesterday by Fort Piokens firing 1 a Confederate steamer was replied to j the Confederate batteries, and continued __ .L - J _.:i u? \T., in(i? me any UUMI ^uu?u?mw scurred on oar side. Ooi. Anderson wu command, as Gen. Bragg was abseut, it returned earl; this morning. Pickens d not renew the firing this morning, and ? farther operations were made on oar ie. Pocotaligo, Jau. 3 ? All quiet at Port oyal Ferry. The enemy has left the main nd. There has been no fighting since die st inst. The oasualties on Wednesday ;re two killed and four wounded io Danont's regiment, and six killed and seven sanded in Jones'. The enemy stamps* id at the first fire. No indic&tioosat preait of an advance on their part. The gua>ats have left.