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No Adveatisement considered less than a square. - [5^ All Advertisements not having the number of inser tions marked on the margin, will be continued untilforbid and charged accordingly. Cp? Quarterly, Semi-Annual or Yearly contracts willbe made on liberal terms?the cofitracts, however, must in all cases be confined to the immediate business of the firm ox individual contracting. Somi-Monthly, Monthly, or Quarterly Advertisements, will be charged ONE Dollar persqnare for each insertion. For Advertising Estrays Tolled, $2 ; to be paid by the Momfltpfltft nitaMnn* to he naldin advance by the person applying. Notices of Application to the Legislature, So; to paid by the person banding in the advertisement. Insolvent Debtors Notice, 88 ; payable in advance. Attachment Notices, 88; to be paid for by the Attorney in the case. Business Cards, of a half-square orless, will be inserted at 85 per year. For each additional line, 81. f Announcements of Marriages or Deaths ; Notices of us Meetings published GRATIS and solicited. Tributes of Retjpect rated as advertisements. Obituary Notices exceeding one square in length, charged fur the overplus at regular advertising rates. V Personal Communications, when admissible.; communications of limited or Individual interest, or recommendations of Candidates for offices of honor, profIt or trust, will be charged for at from 3 to 10 cents per line. i Transportation and Pay. Quartermaster's Office, C. S. A . Military Department of S. C. v Charleston, January 21, 1862. J Editors Courier:?Several misapprehensions having arisen relative to the Transportation and Pay Department of my office, I beg of yoiTto publish the following Circulars, which, I doubt not, contains that which will be serviceable to many of your readers. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, HUTSON LEE, Major and Quartermaster-io-Chief, Military Department of Sooth Carolina. Quartermaster's Office, C. S. A , \ Department of South Carolina. J The following Circular having been received at this Office, is published for instruction of all oonoerned. HUTSON LEE, Major and Brigade Quartermaster. Charleston, November 28, 1861. [circular.] Confederate States of America, Quartermaster-General's Department, V Richmond, November 5, 1861 J 1. All accounts against the Quartermaster's Department, for current expenses, will be paid by the Post, Regimental, or Brigade Quartermaster, serving with troops where the expenses are incurred. 2. Certified accounts, (Form 12, Quartermaster's Department,) requiring payments from other Quartermasters than those given them, will be made only iD cases of absolute necessity. 8. Quartermasters attached to regiments will make all payments to the officers and men of the same, and to discharged men. 4 Where there is no Quartermasters attached to a regiment, the Post or Brigade Quartermaster will make the payments. 5. Requisitions for supplies will be made . through the principal Quartermaster of an army, who will endeavor to keep the Depot Quartermasters of the same army prepared to fill those requisitions. 6 Requisitions for Clothing and Equipage will state the number of men for whom ~I5' - ? ? the articles are required^ 7- The statioD and rank of the writer will be given in all official communications, and the receipt of all oommnnicaions from the Quartermaster General's office acknowledged A. C. MYERS, Quartermaster General. From another official circular relating to transportation, we give the following extract : SPECIAL ORDERS. Persons who go for the remains of soldiers must have an order from a Quartermaster. Nurses must have an order from the Surgeon General or a Medical Director. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS. State officers have no authority to give orders upon the Confederate States Gov eminent for transportation The orders of army officers for transportation for other than legitimate army busi; ness will not be respected. Transportation will not be given on verbal orders ; aud the papers presented must always be in the proper form. The practice heretofore existing of sending recruiting officers from the army haf been prohibited by the Secretary of War. Officers are required to use great discre tion in sendiog details from their com mands, and to confine them to strictly ne cessary business. This is urged in conse quence of the great abase in this respeol which has heretofore prevailed. Transportation for guards or details musl embrace the whole party. Itecruits must nave a ceruucaie 01 mues; from an Army Surgeon. Quartermasters must always endorse or discharges : "Transportation furnished ir kind." Quartermasters will be careful not t< give transportations for "sutlers' stores " Quartermasters have no power to dele gate to others authority to sign for tbeci. Officers and soldiers must not be depri ved of their orders or furloughs. Public stores must not be sent by mai train without special orders from Quarter master General. Officers at the different posts will he gov rrned by these instructions. A. C. MYERS, Quartermaster General A Mobile physician, just returne* from the North, was one day in a rail roa< car in which were a number of Lincolnit* soldiers, who were discussing matters con nected with their service. One of then exclaimed, "Why is it that our boys can' be brought to charge the Southerners, cai you tell me, sir?"?turning to our friem Mobilian, whose incog was valuable to him disclaimed any opinion on the subject, saj ing that he was a doctor, and knew notfi ing of the matter. Whereupon a oomrad of the soldier spoke up, and said: "I'll te) you the reasou our boys won't chargethey know the Southerners won't run!" Changing the Name of Port Lafayette ' The Albany (N. Y.) Argus says, tha the following petition to the Ramp Con gress, for a change of the name of For Lafayette, is in circulation in that State foi signatures: i Petition of sundry inhabitants of N. Tori to change the name of Fort Lafayette in the county of King : To the Honorable, the Senate and Housi [ of Representatives of the United States ir : Congress assembled, the petition of the un dersigned inhabitants of the State of Neu ' York. respectfully slunoeth : That many years since, the United States i Government, in order to protect and secure the city of New York, erected on the shores of Long Island a fortress, which is known > as Fort Lafayette. That this name was given to said fort as a mark of honor and respeot of the United States Government, for Gilbert, Marquis de Lafayette, whose friendship and services to the Colonies in their struggle for the right of self-government are too well known to require repetition: Not only during our own Revolution, but throughout the French Revolution, and the subsequent changes of the government of France, the name of Lafayette was evei on the side of constitutional liberty and against the employment of power and au thority unrestrained by law In 1794, his person was seized on neutral territory, and be was carried into the dungeon of Madge barg. At a subsequent period he was delivered by the Prussian Government to the Emperor of Austria, and confined in the Fortress or Prison of Olmutz, as a prisoner of state. General Washington endeavored in vain to procure his release; the answer was, he was a political prisoner, not for having committed any crime, but because his opinions were considered dangerous to arbitrary and despotic power. Some of the circumstances connected with his detention and imprisonment may be gathered from a speech in Parliament, made by the Right Honorable Charles James Fox, in 1796, who said: "The unfortunate De Lafayette, who de served the praise of being a man of the most uncorrupt nature, who had the merit of steering between the two extremes of the parties that agitated his country; this firm, brave and steady friend of his sovereign?the gallant and distinguished gentleman, equally the friend of his king and country, emigrated after the 10th of August Upon neutral ground he was seized by certain robbers in the service of the King of Prussia: he was kept by that monarch for years in prisons and dungeons ? He was delivered from the King of Prussia, on his reooguition of the French, to the Emperor of Austria, beoause he said he belonged to the allies generally, and by him he was kept in the same scandalous and inhuman bondage. From this dreadful captivity he endeavors to escape ?a circumstance not very surprising?he is taken and sent back to his prison, to experience : ii * Ai i more riguruus ireaimeui,. At icugui, mau ame De Lafayette, after enduring a series of most dreadful sufferings under the bru tal Robespierre, from which she escaped by miracle, flew on the wings of duty and af feotion to Vienna, to solicit the Emperor for permission to give to her husband the consolation of her attentions in his prison. The Emperor granted her request; but on her arrival at Olmutz, the officer who had the care of M. De Lafayette told her, with openness and candor, that if she resolved to go down to the duDgeon of her husband, she must submit to share in all the horrors of his captivity. [A burst of indignation and sorrow broke from every part of the House. 2 his, however, had no terrors foi her affectionate heart; she plunged intc his dungeon and there they remained to gether, the living and yet buried victim: of this inhuman power. Nay, this is noi all; she applied for leave to have a female attendant, instead of a male, about hei person ; this, she said, even the implacable Robespierre had not deprived her of; bui eveD this request was brutally refused." M. Do Lafayette remained a politica prisoner until released by tbe interposition of Bonaparte, after his Italian victories o ! 1797. His subsequent life and historj bore the same constant and unshakeu fidel ity to constitutional liberty and hatred tc despotic power and arbitrary imprisonment , wherever inflicted or by whomsoever exer cised. The name of Lafayette, therefore seems most inappropriate for a fort convert ed to a prison, where men are confinec without legal process or criminal charges merely for politioal reasons, and instead 0! 1 honoring a patriot and recalling his virtue! and sacrifices iu this, or the defence of lib erty in his own country, the present use o that fortress disgraces his memory and is i reproach to us. We, therefore, pray tha the name of that fort may be changed, ani t to commemorate the uses to which it is nov applied, it may hereafter be called ant t known as Fort Seward. And your petitioners, as in duty bound 3 will ever pray. ) A "Fussy" Darkey in Tennessee.i I cannot refrain from giving you a speci men of negro wit whioh I witnessed a shor ) time since. I was travelling through th Western District of Tennessee, and had oc casion to stop at a hotel in a oertain villag where I found the most important person - age connected with the establishment wa a big, fat faced, jolly dog sort of a creatur 1 ?called Henry Now, this fat faced fel - low Henry was no oommon sort of a felloi especially in his own estimation ; for h >- was always "on hand" when jokes an quizzes were passing among the boarders who, it appears, frequently had atterapte to quiz or stump him, but generally cam j off second best. One of the boarders, how 1 ever, had practiced a sort of quiz on hit B a few day's before, by asking him if h . had heard of Mr. Phant's arrival in towu i "What Phant," naturally enough asks fa t Henry. Of course it was Elephant. Thi a was a stunner to Henry, as he had neve d had a specimen of that kind of wit before i, so he hung his head as low as his shoi I neck would admit and toddled off. Tb i- next morning, when all the boarders ha e met in a certain room, wherein the bell rop II hung suspended, and to ring whioh for ei - ery meal was Henry's pleasing duty, in h rushed with an excited look. Said h >. "Gemmen ! de9 goin to be a fuss here die t moroen, dey is." "What sort of a fuss," - several asked at once. "Wy," said he, t seizing the bell rope and ringing withgranr deur, "a brekfuss, in course." Ordinances of the Convention. f An Ordinance to exempt Overseers from the performance of Militia Duty. j We, the People of the State of South i Carolina, in Convention assembled, do de. olare and ordain, and it is hereby declared 7 and ordained : Sec. 1. That during the time when any j portion of the State may be in possession > of or under the control of the forces of the j United States, it shall and may be lawful i for every owner, agent or trustee in charge , of a plantation and negroes, and who shall desire to keep upon the said plantation the Overseer of the negroes thereon, to apply to i the Adjutant and Inspector General of the State, setting forth the number of negroes r\P tvl Q oqlfl o ttdrfloor qflfl . UUUCI bllC Ul i?uw OUIU v/v^mvui j uuvi . the situation of the plantation. And the Adjutant and inspector General may thereupon make an order exempting such Over| seer from militia duty, exoept as an alarm i man, and furnish also such Overseer with a copy of the order. Seo. 2. The order of the Adjutant General shall be given where the number of i slaves exceeds fifteen working hands, and ; the owner or other person having charge of the plantation is absent in the service of the State, or is above the age of sixty years, or i is decrepid or a female; and in general wherever of fifteen or more slaves there-is no white male left for protection and government besides the Overseer; but in no oase shall the order exempt the Overseer > from the performance of ordinary militia duty, from patrol duty, or from any. police duty which may be required of him. An Ordinance in Relation to a Portion of the Militia. We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do deolare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained : Sec. 1. That no part of the Militia Law shall stand in the way of the power of the Governor and Council, to organize and call into service any portion of the Militia of this State, in such manner and upon such regulations as may seem most expedient. Sec. 2 That the Regiment in Charles- j ton, lately known as the Reserves, be made a part of the Militia of the State, under the same name, with the same organization, and the same officers as they recently had, , who shall take rauk from the date of the commissions which were regularly given them, and the said Regiment are attaohed to the Fourth Brigade of Militia Infantry ; Provided, That before the 20th day of the present month, the Regiment shall arm itself and report to the Brigadier General of said Brigade ; And Provided, That no person shall be enrolled in said Regiment except those who, by the Act of Assembly, ratified 7th December. 1861. are exertlDt : i from all Militia duty. Sec 3. That during the continuance of this war, whenever any volunteer company shall be reduced below the number required by the Act of 1841, the Colonel commandi ing the Regiment to which such company belongs, shall give the Captain or other offioer commanding the said company, notice [ to recruit his company to the number rei quired in ten days, and in case of his fail| ure to do so, the company shall be disband ed, and the Colonel shal1 divide the memi bers of such company among such of the i other companies of the Regiment as are weakest in uumbers. in which they shall be obliged to serve as they had originally joini ed them; Provided, That no volunteer . company shall have more than eighty prij vates, besides the usual number of officers t aod non commissioned officers. p A Resolution in Secret Session?([injunc; tion removed.') t Resolved, That all officers commanding regiments, companies or detachments, while I in actual service, are authorized, duriDg the i contiauauce of the present war, to use f promptly such force as may be in their j judgment Decessary to compel aoy person . or persons who may be liable to serve in i their commands, to take arms for the de, fence of the State, without being obliged - to seek the aid of Courts Martial. AN ACT I To Afford Aid to the Families of Soldiers. , I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House f of Representatives, now met and sitting in * General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That not les9 than five nor more f than teu freeholders, in each tax district in i the State, shall bo appointed, as hereinafter t provided, who shall be called the "Soldiers' 1 Board of Relief," who shall continue in 9 office during the existing war, and for four 1 months thereafter; and they are hereby authorized to nil up all vacancies in their re, spective 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. t II. That the said Boards shall have powe er and authority to levy a tax on the tax !- payers of their respective distriots, annuale ly, and but once io each year, on the prop erty taxed by the State, to be paid during s that year, aud none other, to raise a sum of e money sufficient to afford aid gmd relief to I- the wives and children of such persons, in v their respective tax districts, who have e now, or may hereafter, volunteer in the d military service of this State, or the Con>, federate States of America, and while in d such service as may desire the same, and e whom the said Boards respectively may r- deem to be proper objects of this aid and a relief; but tbe said tax shall Dot exceed e forty per centum on the general State tax i. in any one year. it III. That the said Boards, respectively, s shall deliver tc the Tax Collectors of their r respective tax districts a written order to collect such per centage on said general tax "t as they may decide on, at least one month e before the Tax returns of the State arc d made to the said Tax Collectors ; that the ie said Boards, respectively, shall take all r- proper means to ascertain whether the ap e plicants for aid and relief are proper recipie ents thereof, according to the true intent i and meaning of this Act; and when they t have decided in favor of any each applicant a they shall direct their Treasurer to pay, in t money, to such person, the sum so allowed, i to be paid in advance, monthly or quarterly, I as said Board may direct; but if any one t of the said Boards shall deem it best to c purchase provisions or olothing, in quantity t (which they are hereby empowered to do,) c then the said Board may order and direot the said payment to be made from such purchased articles. IV. That the said Boards shall each ap- 8 point a person, Secretary and Treasurer of their own body, or otherwise, as they may ? decide, who shall keep a record of all trans- 8 actions, be responsible to said Board, and j give bond, payable to said Board, in such sum, and with such sureties, as the said 1 Board may direct, for the faithful perfor- ' mance of the duties of his office. V. That the State Tax Collectors of said tax districts shall colleot the tax directed by said Boards at the same time that they collect the said State tax, and shall pay 0 the same over to the Treasurers of said 8 Boards, respectively, when collected. VI. That the said Tax Collectors shall * pursue the same mode and manner in col- s lectiug said tax as they now do respecting E other District taxes, and shall be liable to ' all the penalties respecting other District taxes; and the Sheriffs of the Judicial District, with whom executions may be lodged for the collection of said tax, shall be liable to all the penalties they now are by law, respecting the other District taxes. VII. And said Boards shall make returns of their receipts 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 uegleot of duty, as the other District Boards are now liable to, according to law. VIII. That each of the said Boards shall consist of not more than ten nor less than five persons, to be appointed by Joint Resolution of the General Assemby, to continue in office for one year. The Barricading of Charleston Harbor. * At least one Yankee paper?and that the 1 most decent of them all?has had the vir- 1 tue and manliness to denounce the infa- ' mous project of Lincoln to "chaqge the 1 geography of nature'r in the South. After * setting forth the iniquity, it thus enters its 1 protest: ' We can only put on record against it our ( unavailing remonstrance. The scheme is more than heathen. When old Cato re peated at the end of every speech his perpetual formula, even in a Roman Senate there was a Soipio always to retort. "And ( mrt nnini.in io fhoe HapfhaofP ahnillH flfftnd." LUJ T ? ft" \ We hold with Soipio, not with Cato.? j But eveu the purpose of the cruel old ( Roman was nothing to this. A hostile or rebellious city, destroyed by ordinary means may be rebuilt and be to other generations, if not now, the seat of comfort, prosperity and happiness. But this "chocking up forever nature's ohannels of life, intercourse and plenty," is a measure dictated by neither wisdom nor any feeling with which Christian prinoiple could have any sympathy. It will make us expressly execrated . as it becomes known by all the civilized world. Nor is it to be overlooked that other nations may allege with a reason which t we shall find it difficult to answer: You . can blookade your ports and exclude us for a time for your advantage or from your necessities, from commercial benefits ordinarily free to all mankind. But you have no . right to change the ordinance of nature, , so as to deprive us and all mankind forever . of those benefits. If you do, we can no , longer regard you as of the family of na- . tious?but rather, like some savage beast retiring to bis den, whom those who are able have a right to assail and destroy?af- ( ter your own example. , As for the article quoted from the New York Times, there is a depth of unearthly malignity about it whioh we do not remem- : ber ever to have read in any composition. ( Even were the deed necessary in itself, to j perpetrate it with such feelings and motives j would be to surpass the barbarity of the , most remorseless savage. . On the 1st instant, Moses Y. Beach, the original editor of the New York Sun, pub- . lished a salutatory announcing his return { to the editorship and proprietorship of that ( journal. His objeot, he sa^s, is to "be a ] co-laborer in the work of suppressing the insurrection." "Blow your horn," Moses. Despotism in Maryland. We take the following acooc.ut of the manner in which the last election was conducted in Baltimore from the Republican , of that city. It is an interesting subject , for the study of the Old World, whose ru- , lers have heretofore enjoyed the entire rep- , utation of tyranny; but this bears off the , palm from them, and gives it to the Yan- , kee : At the various precincts an American | flag was exhibited, being either plaoed out j of the window above, or held over the | i l neaas 01 [nose vouug, uy buiuu uuc iu iw crowd, whilst a possee of polioe officers | were stationed about the windows, together | with a number of soldiers, who were scat- , tered throughout the city, at the various j wards, in great profusion. i Upon either side of the windows the i proclamation of General Dix, together with | the following notice, was posted up : I "NOTICE ! I "Proclamation of General Itfx! i "All persons are requested to point out to the judges of elections, and to the police, ( any individual attempting to vote, or who ( may be present at the polls, who may have i been actually "engaged in aots of hostility to the United States, or in actively aiding j and abetting those in arms against the United States," and especially those who, on the 19th of April and subsequent days, ( took part in opposing the march of the U- 1 nited States troops, or in transmitting stores and supplies, or forwarding persons or cammunications into States engaged in , the rebellion." As the morning advanced the excitement and interest increased very perceptibly, and the polls were soon surrounded by voters As the voters of the Democratic ticket appeared at the voting places many of them were taken into custody, and oarried o the station houses, and it soon because ipparent that those voting any other than he Union ticket would be intimidated, and, f they persisted, arrested. Prisoners could >e seen in every direction, being carried o the station houses, which had the effect if completely putting an end to the eleoion, so far as the voting was concerned in the Democratic ticket. Interesting Correspondence. The Savannah Republican gave a deicription some weeks ago, of a palmetto lat, the handiwork of Mrs. Mary Mather, >f the village of Thunderbolt, Ga., and deligned as a present for the gallant leader if our armies on the Potomac. The folowing correspondence shows that it has cached its destination, and been received with a gallantry characteristic of the hero >f Manassas Plains: [Savannah, Geo., Dec. 23,1861 9en. O. T. Beauregard: Dear Sia:?As one of your admiring louuiry women?inougu uaviug, peruups, is little personal interest in public affairs is any one else, nearly accomplished the erm allotted to humanity. I beg you will locept, as the work of my own hands, the iccompanyiog bat, made of the Palmetto bat grows so abundantly through the low iountry of the Southern Confederacy. It rill serve you a good turn in your next lummer campaign, and should Heaven vouchsafe to us a cessation of arms, you will ind it equally useful in the quiet scenes of :ountry-home It will also serve to show me of the numberless, and hitherto unhought of, elements of independence, in ;he nation wbioh yon have dope so much o illustrate and absolve from the rule of ;he oppressor. Accept it, Sir, small as it s, as a token of my admiration for your character and gratitude for your distinguished publio service t am, dear Sir, very respectfully yours, MARY MATTER. Centreville, Va., Jan. 10, 1862. Dear Madam :?Permit me to thank pou for your kind letter of the 23d ult., ind the very handsome hat you had the patience and skill to make for me, of the Southern Palmetto?emblem of endurance tnd usefulness. I shall wear it with much pleasure during our next summer campaign, md hope it will be equally effective in projecting me, for the sake of our cause, from .he rays of the sun and the balls of the memy. I remain, dear Madam, Respectfully your obt. serv't., G. T. BEAUttEGAKD.' Mrs. Mary Mather, Savannah, Geo Claims for Payments Due to De jeased Soldiers.?The following circular vilt be of interest to the families and rep esentatives of the deceased soldiers of the Confederate army. Treasury Department, Second Auditor's Offioe, V December 30, 1861. J regulations For the Payment of Claims for Arrears of Pay due to Deceased Soldiers. 1st. When an administrator is legally ap>ointed, the payment must be made to such idministrator, upon his filing in this offioe the proper certificates of the Clerk under leal of the Court. 2d Where the amount due exoeeds one lundred dollars, administration will be rejuired, otherwise not. 3d. When there is no administrator, paynent will be made first, to the widow; secmd, to the child or childreo (or, if minor, a the guardian producing the proper oer;ificate under the seal of the court); third, to the father; fourth, to the mother: fifth, to the brofters and sisters; and lastly, to ;he general heirs. 4th. The claiming heir must produce his jr her affidavit, and that of two disinterested persons, stating the relationship, and that there is no other person entitled to claim. fror instance, if the claimant be a mother, the affidavit must state that there is living neither wife, child, nor father of the deceased. The magistrate administering the oath should certify to the credibility of the witness, and the olerk of the court should certify, under seal, that he is suoh a magistrate. Claims, prepared in compliance with the foregoing instructions, and transmitted to this office by mail, or otherwise, will receive as prompt attention as the press of business will allow. W. H. S. Taylor, Auditor. I concur in and-approve the above. Lewis Gruger, Comptroller, December 30, 1861. From Cedar Keys, Florida?Reporred Capture op the Town.?A gentleman just arrived from Florida informs us that the town of Cedar Keys, Florida, situated at the Western or Gulf terminus of the Florida Railroad, was taken possession cf by the Yankees on Thursday last. Cedar KeyB is a small town, wit? about thirty houses, and probably one hundred Inhabitants. The bar has nine feet of water, and is a good harbor for small vessels. At the time the Yankees took the place there were three schooners loading and five fishing smacks at the wharves. Our informant, who had an interest in one of the johooners, which was loaded with lumber md turpentine, feels confident that the owners of the vessels in port destroyed them rather than that they should fall into the hands of the enemy. Some time since the Confederate troops wore withdrawn from the vicinity of Cedar Keys. On Thursday night last, as soon as it was ilin V n AAA 1 n tan A /*} f A AOUCLW1UQU luau bUC .L ? U IbCCS turauuvu wv attaok the town Mr. Yulee, President of the Railroad, went down with two companies of infantry, to protect the property in the vicinity, and check the Yankee advance. A messenger from Cedar Keys was sent to Gainesville, Florida, the nearest telegraph office to telegraph to General Trapier that the Federals had attacked the town, and asking him to send assistance. Daring Thursday, firing in the direction of Cedar Keys was heard in the adjacent country, and a conflict had no doubt taken place between the Yankees and the Florida troops.?Savannah News. 1ST The clear profits of the Geogia State Railroad (the Western and Atlantic) for the past year amount to $517,041.73. A Proposition for an Armistice. In the Maryland Legislature, on the 13th i instant, Senator Fiery submitted the fol: lowing preamble and resolution, wbioh were read and referred to the Committee on Federal Relations : tl Whereas, the horrors and devastations si of war are ever repulsive to the Christian t< heart, and especially and particularly so v when that war is waged between brethren, d who are commanded in the simple but af- b feotionate language of God's inspired Word d to "love one another;" and whereas, every si honorable means of averting conflicts, and o arresting them when begun, ought to be re- o sorted to in a spirit of civilized humanity; si and whereas, notwithstanding our unfalter g ing determination to maintain the sanctity e and indissolubility of the Union at every hazard, and to suppress the unholy rebel- si lion reared against it, we are yet not with- a lLai ik n nn /] n nil m aItT av It UUt uufJC buttt bUC oau auu Luuiauuuuijr oa' ? perieace of the past year has prepared the ii hearts of those io arms against the Govern- b meat of the United States to listen favor- b ably to fair and just propositions, of an ad- a justment of existing difficulties, on the ba- 1< sis of the restoration of peace and unity a- b mong all sections of the Union; and there- r fore. r Resolved, by the Senate and Rouse of t! Delegates for Maryland, That the Presi- I dent of the United Stages be requested to r present to the President of the Confederate \ States a proposal for an armistice for t days, for the purpose of affecting an amic- b able adjustment of our national difficulties, s upon the basis of an entire restoration of t the Unfon. . e ***** a Wanted?A new Stock of Great Men. ? u The following outspoken, truthful article, t we oopy from the Cincinnati Commercial , of the 27th ult. That paper should remem- ^ ber that men who gave dignity and tone a to the United States Congress in years gone f by are now on the Southern side pf the ^ line: We wish something more of dignity of [ speech were compatible with the intellectu- a al calibre and range of judgment of the a majority of American Senators. Mr. Chan- ^ dler of Michigan was serenaded the other flan in Washington, and made a ranting speeoh, in which he talked of the traditional enmity of France to England, and of the ease with which we coald make it available, quite in the bar-room style John P. Hale, in the Senate yesterday, made a war with England speech, in which he had the excessive bad taste to talk of the anxiety of Louis Napoleon to avenge Waterloo. In the present state of our national affairs these things are marked abroad, and their tendency is injurious. Our country is, in faot, belittled by them in the eyes of European statesmen. The impression, already widely entertained, that we have a stock of very small politicians on hand, will become prevalent and fixed. Cassius M. Cay made a discreditable exhibition of himself in Paris, where he made an absurd speech, and twaddled about what France would do with England. We must try to breed a new stock of great men in this country. General Jackson's Command.?The Yankees are said to have stampeded from Romney in such haste that they left to fall in our possession four hundred tents, one thousand overcoats, many papers, among others, those of their Adjutant-General, and supplies of flour, beef, bacon and groceries. Thus Romney was won without the firing of a single gun. General Jackson has sent a strong force into Rerkely oounty, which will have the effect of cheokmating the contemplated operations of Generals Banks and Lander, who have united their forces, and have concentrated them in counties of Washington and Alleghany, in Maryland. U .1-a. 117 ? n 4 1 WG may aaa mm me trui i^cpatbuicut is, as yet, without a word of advices from ' General Jaokson's command, and has never ' even received notice in an official way that ^ he had left Winchester. Whatever may ' have been the reticence of this intrepid general, we happeo to know that he has received severe and positive instructions from ' the Government with reference to the limits to whioh the first experiment of "an ad- j vance movement" on the lines of the Po- j toaao is to be allotted to go.?Richmond Examiner. ^ tSSST We understand that the report now ^ being prepared under the direction of Pro- 1 feasor DeBow, of the amount and styles of 1 manufacturing enterprise in the South sino* ' the war, to be submitted to the considers- 1 tion of the permanent Congress, already c contains a fund of information calculated to c surprise the people of the South with the * extent of their resources. The growth of c our manufacturing interest since our sepa- * ration from Yankeedom is one of the most t wonderful of the many new and unexpec- * ted blessings of the war. This growth has * struggled up against almost every difficulty. The prejudices of our people had always ^ been strongly against manufacturing Cap- E ital had especially given it the cold shoul- F der, and that which capital condemns is ^ not apt to have many friends. At the * present moment, too, our manufacturing 1 interest labors under the additional disad- c vantage of finding little or none of the requisite machinery ready for its hands, while all the forges and maohine shops of our Confederacy are busy with engines of war j and can spare but little, time for those of peace.?Richmond Examiner. Yankee Army Frauds.?The Govern- ' s ment Contract Investigating Committee are now engaged apon the snbjeot of the alleged frauds in this vicinity. They discover that the same horses have been twice sold to the government; superintendents and inspectors have been bribed to certify ,to horses, sometimes selling them to private individuals; that the enormous sum paid by the War Department for transportation has induoed strong competition among railroad companies sn that many Colonels io the West, in moving their regiments East, have reoeived from $1,500 to $2,000 bonus; that some sutlers are making $3,000 profit per month; that nearly all the sutlers South of the Potomao soli liquor with the knowledge of the officers; that it is smuggled io boxes, marked "Government" with hospital stores, or packed in barrels and marked "Beef." Bill Arp's Last. 0 misteb abb linkhorn, now at wa8h- ' inotun Senturville, Janywary 12th, 1862. Mr. Linkhorn, Sur : in the spring of he year, I writ yon a letter from my native ile, askin for a little more time in whitch 3 dispnrs. I told yon then that 20 days rern't ennf?that the thing kondint be id in that brief interval. Ton oan look ak and see I war Tight. We tried our urndest all summer to komply with yoar kedool, bat as yoa kep callin for volunteers j ur oherykee Georgy Dimakrats kep oomin ut from under their olay roots. They ( huk themselves and spit fire, and wouldn't 0 back so long as the Whigs would read i m the news about this fuss. . i Mr. Abe Linkhorn, sur, the spring hav he'd its fragranse, the summer are over nd gone, the yaller leaves' of ortum hav ivered the ground, old winter are slobber1 his froth on the yearth, but we hav not een able to dispnrs as yit?me and the oys started last may to see you pussonally, nd ax for an extenshunof your brief Phar), but we got on a bust in old Virginy, aout the 21st of July, and like to hav got ud over by a passer or tellers rannin a loot ace from Ball run to yoar aity. Arter bat, we tried to git to yoa by the Potomak liver, bat Mr. Whiting aed yoa wera't annin that maaheen at these presents.? iVe next went to Mr. Harper's Ferry, to ake the Baltymore Rail Road, bat we ;oud'at find the kondaktor, and kars seemed carco, and folks aed yoa wern't rannin hat maaheen much, we tho't, howsomevir, to take a dek passage on the kanal, bat k dam bad broke, and the water war low, md Genral Jackaon sed you wern't rannin bat masheen slcarsly eny. Arter all that, ve kum bak, and tho't we would get Cap)en Wilka to ship as over, bat Mr. Benaet lent as word the Cappen had quit a sea arin life. Mr. Saard made him quit, to >assify an old English Ball that was a belerin and pawin dirt in the air. Mr. Linklorn, sur, if that Ball are of the same stok is the one your folks seed here in July, he ire danger us, aud will have a bad effek on four popalasban. You'd better circumcribe him afore he hurts somebody. Mr. Linkhorn?Sar?what are your jaktorys a doin now a days? I hear'n yoa tad quit runnin their masheens, owing to a bio crop of cotton. Ef yoa woald pat weet ile on yoar Faktorys they would not ust while standin idol. I war glad to hear ma had got enaf cotton at Port Royal to lo yoarn and Suards families. The boys tay yoa got enaf to make as many shirts as ETalstaf had in his oompany. Mr. Linkhorn?Sur?how do yoa com m with yoar stone fleet?do it pay expenles?are it a safe investment?could I git my stok in it at a far price, dont yoa think m? U/inl waLo on/) Tlfi>nf if to UJUOU tuu illl lU iiuui luxxoj auu nuuu *u mpoverisb new england eile to take roks jffen it. Mr. Abe Linkhorn?Sur?the 19th ar ;he anniversary of the day when Georgy ;ore herself frantikally loos from the aboishun die nasty?when she riped her star 'rein off the striped rag, and spred a new ihirtin to the breeze. We kalkniate to sel:brate that day, and 1 am otherized td4n?ite yon and Bill Saard over, to partake of mr horswhipalities. War's Hamlin ? 1 illow as how he's dead, or I would ax him ioo. Let me kno if you and Suard are jomin, so we oan fix up and swap a lie or ;wo with you. Konld'nt you all com along vith Mak when he makes that advance he's )een talking about so long ? Bring your rnittin with you when yon com, and a klean ihirt or two. Do you chaw tobaker?? We've got some that's good. Ely chawed, md Mr. Davis gave him a whole warehouse at Richmond. Mr. Linkhorn, sur, I wish yoo'd ax Banks to send me a kodfish?Pole cats are had around here, and we want something ;o drive em away. Ef you bring Banks or Pikayune Butler with you, you needn't hring the kod Yourn till deth, BILL ARP. P. S.?Wbar's Freemount ? I hearn le'd gone to a spout. Singular Circumstance.?The Baltinore Clipper, of the 6th, tells the followng: On Thursday last, an aausual occurrence ranspirad at the oarnp of tho Wiuoonsin Fourth regiment, now encamped at Patereon Park. Peter Moore, one of the privates, had been ill for several weeks. He, o all appearanoes, died. A certificate of lis death was handed to Major Belger, who >rdered a coffin for the defanct. On Thurslay morning, Moore was placed in the cof in, and, just as the lid was being nailed [own, he greatly frighteaed the bystanders >y sitting up in his coffin aud exclaimed hat it was a shame to bury a man before te was dead. Of course be was removed rotn the box and once more placed under he care of the doctor. Moore had laid one lay and a night as if dead, and came very iear being buried before his time. His comlanions declare that, as he refused to be mried when the furneral was ordered by he Colonel, he has disobeyed orders, and hat when he recovers he shall be oourtaartialed. * More " Despotism.?'when Linooln topped the New York Day Book for oplosing the war upon the South, the pubishers, to find means to support themselves ,nd their families, it seems, made a small reekly sheet, oalled. The Caucasian, in vhich they proprosed to discuss the abtract question of slavery, without allusion o tho "tabooed" subject of the war. We earn from the Northern papers that the alice of the Black Republicans has folowed the publishers even into this retreat rhe Post Office Department has forbidden The Caucasian the use of the mails, and hus substantially killed it. It is evident hat the policy still prevails in New York o pursue, harass audi destroy all those -T?*' ?? ?l.? i.r? monfnllu fnr lurtutjru uicu nuu owwa he rights of the South iu the old Uoiou.? Richmond Enquirer. Paul Morphy on another Field iVe have just learned, says Wilkes' spirit if the Times, from a private source, that dr. Paul Morphy was on the eve of joining he staff of General Johnston, of the rebel irmy. He was at the latest dates in Richnond, engaged in the profession of the law. a?, ?> Rather be a Negro at the South than a White Man at the Nobtbu-.. We learo from a Hatteras prisoner who returned in the flag of truoe steamer day before yesterday, that two negro stewards attached to the Hamilton Hoards, Captain Clements, of the 7th Regiment North Carolina Volunteers, were offered, while in confinement at Fort Warren, Boston harbor, great inducements to remain at the North. They were told that if they would take the oath of allegiance to be true to the United States, that they would receive all* manner of kindness, and get along a great deal better than they could possibly at the South. Col. Dimmick, of the Federal army, proposed to administer the oath to them; but they indignantly rejected theproposition, and remarked that they would .1 i .1 o IL iL.. H rsmer oe uegroes at me ouutu tuou hiuw men in old Abe's army. One of these ne- . groes is represented to as to be very well off, owning several thousand dollars worth of property in Martin Connty, North Carolina.?Norfolk Day Book. * . Always Learning.?Sir Walter Soott , gives as to understand that he never met with any man^ let his calling be what it might, even the most atapid fellow that . ever rabbed down a honw, from whom he could not by a few moments conversation, learn something which he did not before know, and which was valuable to him. This will account for the faot that he seemed to have an intuitive knowledge of everything. Such, too, was very mnch the oase with the great Mr. Locke, the author of the celebrated treatise on the "Human Understanding." He was once asked- how He had contrived to accumulate a mine of knowledge so rich, yet so extensive and deep. He replied that he attributed what little be knew to his not haviog been as-. ashamed to ask for information, and to the rule he had laid down of conversing with all descriptions of men, on those topics chiefly that formed their own peouliar professions or parsoits. $5F A Paris correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune says: I am at liberty, however, to repeat what the Emperor has declared to several persons recently, "All my Sympathies are with the Southern States." I am at liberty to. repeat, too, that an ' eminent diplomatist of the French Government, in active service, has said: "All the reports of onr agents in America are unfavorable to the North and favorable tothe South. They unanimously state that<5 they have never seen such incapable men in office in America as are now to be found. This is the report made to every European Government. The black-guardism of the Yankee statesmen baa disgusted the whole world." I quote this gentleman's expression literatim et verbatim. affl* The Richmond Whig, referring to the tenor of the last news from Europe, says: If the Yankees could guarantee a cotton supply at any specified time, the British Government might be content to support its factory population oat of the Treasury until the day arrived; bat such a guarantee cannot impose upon the British people; for they see vessels loading at Liverpool with cotton for New York. That fact is sufficient to contradict aoy assurance of an early sap* ply of cotton from the Southern States.? We know not bow long England can maintain her factories without a fresh supply of cotton. Bat we do know we can mainftua onr independence of the Yankee indefinitely. Unaided, we may h$ve.more and longer sufferings to endure; but it is oar conviction that these sufferings will ultimately contribute to oar welfare. The Bank of General.?A correspondent, writing from Elisabeth City, N. C., asks "what is the highest rank in the Confederate army?whether simply general or majorgeneral?" The highest rank of the regular army is " that of "general." The act of Congress provides for five generals, who have, we be lieve, been appointed, to take rank in tha order in which they are nhmed, vie: Gens. Cooper, Albert Sidney Johnston, Lee, Jos. E. Johnston and Beauregardr There ean, therefore, be no farther appointments except through an amendment of the law by Congress.?Richmond Dispatch. And Still they CoME.T-The Atlanta Intelliyencer of Snnday last says ; Into one of the Confederate ports there arrived a few days ago a sloopandaschoon-. er. The former bronghtsometwerhundred sacks of salt; the latter near seven hundred sacks of coffee, and a hundred and seventy cases of shoes, variety of fruits.? We have this piece of welcome; "hews from a gentleman who saw and was on board the sohooner. WST Several pratioal mechanics of Macon, Ga., are organizing a company for the purpose of manufacturing the hundred and one different implements Of husbandry and family utensils made of wood, heretofore imported from the North. It is to be a Stock Company, and all the principal managers and the operators are to be stockholders. ' Cool.?The Cincinnati Commercial says: <fPeople speak of the rebels who are burning cotton, as if they were burning their cotton. The rebels are only burning that whioh they know is virtually in our possession. Therefore, it is not their ootton, bat ours, that is being barned." ' ' JQT The E glish papers no longer use - -TT .'1.3 OA.I tf cue term "uozrca owuro iu opw&tu^ u& the Rump Government, bat in its stead write "The Northern Government'- It is written in oontradistinetioQ to the "Southera Confederacy." IIBOt Richmond, January 23 ?R. M. T. Hunter was elected Confederate Senator to-day, on the first ballot, by a very large majority. Wm. Ballard Preston was elected on the second ballot. A law exempting the property of all soldiers engaged in onr war for independence from seizure and sale while enlisted in the service of the coantry, has been passed by the Legislature of Louisiana. ^