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- , ' >;-;i ; ^. v.tv. i'.-. s-; ? s&fev-J>-.:.;<jf'-^>yv ?>-4 _.v .? ... &&3&$2?k:$t* ' ;in'ci v - ;_ _.____,i-i. i - ? ..;.... ?^L.L? ' . J; . . ,. , ' .. ! ; ' ,,: '/.iyu;;,! ? ''^ I ' '.-:" lewis u. ghist, Iproprietor. latopentort ,|aB% llt^isjia: Jw'% pmmofin^rf^tlt |^di&?[;-*^?cf?I/' ^pcxcadttnai'>*?fl^ -Cmnmmixl Interests of % jstoatjr. r{? m tbab, nr aota*?* VOLUME 9. ' ~~" fORKVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH A, 1863, * V ' NUMBER 9. A ' ? " ? "II :* -' i .* '1 . "1_ * ". _?? <4 . }! i. j J^UTHEMFIELD & FIRESIDE. Unexampled Success ! * " ^ BACK NUMBERS FOR THE NEW SEMES EXHAUSTED! PRIZE STORY! v ? * - The Proprietor of ilie SOUTHERN FIELD AND FIRE SIDE announces tbot in consequence of the firvt numbers J* ?1{? Of the new eerie* be fug exhausted, and In oriler that new ? *. ' wthncriber* mny begin with die commencement of a NEW - ? STORY, "Bellmont" will he complete In Number 5, Janu? '' toy 31, anil the PRIZE STORY of "THE RANDOLPHS OFRANDOLPH HAIL" By Miss Serkxa A. Mixer, of Covington, Ga., - Will be commenced in Nttrabcr 6, Feb. 7tli, and all sub" . seriptions received at the office on and after the SNth of Jnnt - ; ttarv, trill be entered on the books and cohimcncc with the Sttry. . , MMk t e r m s : . VjT* * For One Year.. . . $3 00 For Sit Month* 2 00 N?.. For Three Month* 1 00 " Single Cople* TemCruts ?' ',,,Ka *?? nr mnni Inr nno I'Wir. .45 Pflcl). WV_ * " ' six months, ?1 each. Address, JAMBS GARD.VER, * - Augusta, Ga. , February 11 6 * Ip V _* enrolling OFFICE. _ \ YORKV1LI.E, S. C., February 5,1863. T BY orders from Colonel JOHN S. - t, X PRESTON, Commandant of Conscripts, Columbia, r * t S. C., nil wltite mate residents of York District, aud nil -, . transient persons wltbin tlie limits of the same, between ? eighteen (18) and forty (411) years of age, hot now in the " - military service of the Confederate States, will report to me _' ^ ; *t YORKVILLE, within a reasonable time from the publl ? cation of this notice, or be published as defaulters. * ' * ' II. No exemption or discharge of a date prior to October lltlt, 1862, will be considered valid of itself, but will be revised. "Ilf, All officers, non commissioned officers and privates, absent from their commands without leave or on expired leave, will report forthwith to these head-quaners, or be arrested wherever, found. * > ~ ISY The attention of militia officers commanding Bent Companies in 46th and 34tli Regiments, S. C, Militia, is '< called to GENERAL ORDERS, No. 43. of the Adjutant and inspector Ceaeml of South Carolina, requiring them to furnish Complete Rolls of all wlilte male persons between ^ -r, the ages of eighteeu (18) atid forty (40) years, within the limits of their respective Beats, without regard to exemption i *>r discharge. They will furnish these Rolls forthwith, or . be reported for disobedience of orders. I, N. WITHERS, Captuln and Enrolling Officer. ? ** . February 11 6 tf HEAD-QUARTERS. ' r" - Goldsboko, N. C., Feb. 12,18G3. . . GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 8. f . T PARAGRAPH II, GENERAL * ^r~* ORDERS No. 5.?Current series in relation to the < ' * "amnesty to deserters, is amended to read as follows : a full pardon, except as to the forfeiture of pay, for the period of unauthorized absence, is hereby proclaimed to all enlisted . _ men absent without leave, who may voluntarily return to their respective commands on or before the 5th of March , next. ? . i1".* . * * ? ' ? By command of Maj. General S. G. French. GRAHAM DAVES, Major and A. A. Gen. OFFICE DEPOT Q. M., Goldsboro, N. C.. Feb. 12,1863. Each newspaper in North Carolina, and In Columbia, Anderson, Greenville and Yorkville, South Carolina, will pulvlisti above General Order No. 6, once a week for three weeks, and send biU with copy of advertisement to this office, J. B. MOKEY, Major and Dept. Q. M. " February 25 8 3t . HOUSE AND EOT FOR SAEE. TRE undersigned olfers for sale, or in exJgggBk change for NEGRO PROPERTY, his very !?!>! valuable HOUSE AND LOT, situated on llitSlH C'ougress Street, lu Yorkville, S. C. The HOUSE contains six rooms, witli a tire1 II llllftlllM pjaee fiac|(> Tl?e OUTBUILDINGS, consisting 'of Servant's Houses, Cook Kitchens, Meat-House, Lumber-House, Carriage House and Com Crib, arc nearly new, having but recently haon erected. ; * . . . The lot is supplied With a well of EXCELLENT WATER, anil contains everything necessary for couvc nienee aud comfort?making the property the most desirable In Yorkville. , For Ternw, &c., apply to TnOMAS DAVIES, Yorkville, S. C. tyj- The Carolinian will please copy two weeks, Dally, and send account to this office. December 24 52 tf ssxxttrnrr~ri a dat txt a yaptr mst S\j U Hi umkvmiUi jl wi.n. i/j-uTRICT.?'Where#*, JON. N. McEDWEE, Jr.,has applied to me for Letters of Administration, on all and singular, tile goods and chattels, rights and credits of RALPH MOULTON, fate of the District aforesaid, deceased. These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular, the kindred and creditors of the said deceased, to be and appear before me at our next Ordinary's Court for the said District, to-beholden at York Court House on the 13th day of March next, to shew cause, if any, why the said Ad ministration should not be granted. Given under ray hand and Seal, tills 23rd day of February, in the rear of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in the eighty-seventh year of the independence of South Carolina. JOHN A. BROWN, O. Y. J). February 23 8 2t ^X^CII^MITNA^yorkdiF<* k} TRfCT.?Whereas, JOHN P. HOOD lias applied fo nje for Letters of Administration on all and singular, - the goods aud chattels, rights and credits of JOHN P. BURNS, late of the DQirict aforesaid, deceased. Tuese are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular, the kindred and creditors of the said deceased, to be and appear before me, at our next Ordinary's Court for the said District, to be hoiden awj^ork Court ilousc, on the 13tb day of March next, to shew cause, if any, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand and Seal, this 23d day of February in the. year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and * sixty-three, and in the eighty-seventh year of the Itidepiudence of Soutli Carolina. JOHN A. BROWN, O. Y. D February 23 8 2t T>ANAWAY.?FROM THE SUBJL'b scribcr on the 3d instant, my negro man JEFF. He is of a dark copper color, five feet 8 or 10 inches high, and kboot 140 pounds, 40 years old, has a down cost look, speaks rather slowly when spoken to, and had On when he letl, a blue Yankee coat. I bought him from Col. W. II. McCorkle, of Yorkville, where he had gone for some clothing?when last heard from, he had taken the cars at that place and was going in the direction of Chester. He lias ? been acting asa HOTEL SERVANT fot several years past,. and will, no doubt, endeavor to act in that capacity as a free boy. Any information concerning him, or if lie is lodged in Jail, will be thankfully received, and liberally rewarded. E. H. EDWARDS, Rock Hill, S. C. January 28 '4 6t YORK J>1ARBLE YARD. RICHARD HARE, respectfully inibnns the citizens of . York and Chester Districts, and the adjoining counties of North Carolina, that he is fully prepared to supply every' article in the MARBLE LINE, of the highest style of finish and at reasonable prices. He keeps constantly on hand, a large supply of FOREIGN . and DOMESTIC MARBLE, and specimens of his work < mav be always seen at the Yard, nearly opposite the "ENQUIRER" PRINTING OFFICE, and a few doors North of "StoweV" Hotel. C(?-A11 work will be delivered at any point on the King's Mountain Railroad, FREE of charge. lie Is also prepared to furnish to order, IRON RAILING of any desired pattern, for Fences, Balconies, !tc. January 10 2 )p lYEQUITI? ioRRDISTRICT. Jno. D. Maclean, Executor,} ti. S BUI for tale of land <5" negro. Robert Patrick, ami others. ) IT appearing to my satisfaction that Robt. P. Bigger, John Millen and Sclina, his wife, James Bigger, Thomas Davis and John Davis, defendants (ft above stated case, reside beyond the limits of this State. It is, therefore, on motion of Williams and Beatty, Complainant* Solicitors, ordered, that said absent defendants do appear and plead, answer or demur to the Bill tiled in this case, within three months from the publication of this notice, or said Bill wil! be taken vro coiifcsso as to them. WALTER B. METTS, Commissioner in Enuitv. February 18,1863. 7 3rn OFFICE A. <1. Mm CHARLESTON, S. C., October 1st, 18G2. ATR. J. C. MILLER is appointed JLt-L Agent of this Department, for the purchase of FODDER and CORN for the Districts of York and Chester. Planters desiring to sell will communicate with him, through tiie POST OFFICE, nt Yorkviile, S. CarolinaParticular attention must be paid to the PACKING. No WATER must be used, as great loss to the Government was experienced last year, by Fodder being improperly packed, all such will be rejected. MOTTE A. PRTNGLE, Capt. and A. Q. M. October 15 4-2 tf DR. ALFRED C R A VEN |ksibtnf Snrgton geitiist, YORKVILLE, S. C. (S^On the East side of Main Street, South of the "Palmetto Hotel. January 6 1 tf FOR SALE. J 00 fts COPPERAS. 100 !bs BLUE STOVE. ^ ;. 500 BUNCHES YARN. Call soon at W. D. & J. C. MILLER'S. October 22 43 . tf T^XECUTOR'S NOTICE.?ALL JLi persons indebted to the estate of Mrs. MARY WRIGHT, deceased, will make immediate payment. All those having claims against the same will hand tbem in, properly authenticated, within the time prescribed by law. J. H. ADAMS, Exeputor. February IS 7 3t The Cotton Crop. The following despatches from the British Consuls at Charleston and Savannah, on < the subject of the cotton crop of 1862, liavd been received by the English Government: < British Consulate, Charleston, ) 1 November 24, 1862.. f t My Lord :?With reference to my des- t patoh No. 104, of the 13th of August last iD whioh I bad the honor to submit to your < Lordship certain information on the subjeot 1 of the cotton then existing in the Southern i States of Amerioa, I-beg leave to state that i I have taken some pains, pow that the crop i of 1862 is gathered, to ascertain whether . any alteration & to' be made in the estimate I upon which my despatch was based. I find, after careful inquiry, that a quarter of a i million bales may be added to the amount supposed to be on hand. It may, therefore, : be roughly calculated that there remain in 1 those States 4,250,000 bales of upland cot- ! too, which could be exported in tne event i of the ports being opened to trade. I beg leave to report that the long or Sea i Island cotton does not enter into my esti- ; mate, for the reasons given In my despatch No. 104. It should be always borne in mind that ; the irregularity, and, in some instances, ! total suppression of communication between 1 portions of the Southern States, render all cotton calculations somewhat arbitrary. R. BUNCH. J British Consulate, V Savannah, December 6, 1862. j ;i My Lord :?As at this period of the < year a tolerably correot estimate may be i formed of the quantity of cotton produced the last season in the Southern States, I ! beg to submit to your Lordship, for the information of her Majesty's Government, < the result of my inquiries respecting this important question, and to report more par- i ticulaily on the production in the State of Georgia. ' : In former years Georgia was the chief 1 cotton producing State of the Union, but J as the cultivation of the plant became more 1 extended, Mississippi and Alabama, from i the rich quality of their lands, gradually surpassed her; Mississippi now holding the first rank, and Alabama the second. 1 According to reports made to the Comptroller General of this State by the tax collectors, the amount-of land planted in cotton this year iu Georgia is about 260,000 acres, yielding in round numbers 60,000 bales of cotton of 500 pounds each; ordinarily the production is 700,000 bales, requiring an area of about 3,000,000 acres. I am, of course, unable to report'as accurately respecting the crops of other States, but the best information at my command strongly induoes the belief that the entire crop gathered this year did not exceed 1,000,000 bales, proving the correctness of the approximate estimate transmitted to your lordship in my despatch, No. 16, of the 10th of May last. The crop of 1861 was estimated at 4,500,000 bales. Deducting from the crops of 1861 and 1862 the quantity of cotton which has run the blockade, the amount destroyed to prevent capture by the Federalists, and the quantity used for homo consumption, which, since the commencement of the war, Las enormously increased, being now fully 500,000 bales per annum, it will leave in the South not more than 3,500,000 bales. The urgent neccsssity for the cultivation of breadstuffs since the Federal occupation of Kentucky and the best grain growing regions of Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina, and the consequent strong popular oppositioa to the planting of ootton, together with other causes of hardly less importance, such as the entire want of bagging and rope necessary to put the cotton ioto merchantable condition, will tend hereafter to prevent any increase in the stock, possibly to diminish it; while, should the "! T3_ I 1_ 1 1 _ .1 reaerais succeed id mailing iurcner aavan- t ces into the interior of the cotton growing .t States, the cultivation of that plant will be entirely abandoned, and tho negroes removed to the mountainous districts, where breadstuffs alone can be raised. ? E. MOLYNEUX. ! I ? i j Gen. Johnson and Judy Paxton. | We heard of a little incident yesterday that may profit some of our Northern foes if this paper fall into their hands, and they will take the trouble to peruse it. General Joe Johnston was receiving his friends at the Lamar House on Sunday. He was surrounded by many gallaut officers who bad called to pay their respects, and i conversation was at flood tide, when there j came a smart rap at the door. An officer, J shining with stars and gold lace, opened the | door; and there stood a venerable negro woman with a coarse sun bonnet on her j head, and a cotton umbrella under her arm. "Is this Mr. Johnson's room ?" asked the African descent. The glittering officer nodded assent. "Mister Joe Johnston's room ?" ' Assent again being condescended, the 1 swarthy woman said, "I want to see him." : la she marched, sans ccremonie, and familiarly tapped the great military chieftiau on the shoulder. He turned and clasped her ebony hands in his, while she for a mo ment silently perused his features. At j c length she spoke: "Mister Joe, you is getting old." i t What followed? We cannot record the ! < conversation; but we do know that as the i General affectionately held his old nurse's \ c hand, and answered her artless enquiries,! 1 large tears rolled down his soldierly cheek, 1 and among the dashiDg and reckless officers f who witnessed the interview, "albeit, un? i used to the melting mood," there was not f a dry eye. We may say in the words of.a t well known plaintive Ethiopian ditty?-"the a tears fell down like rain." e The venerable negress who made the t commander of the Armies of the West cry g like a baby, was Judy, slave of Dr. Paxton, < who had "toted" Joe iD her arms when he v was not a General, and nobody knew that t he would be.?Knoxville Register. 1 The Yankees and the Contrabands, f a A man, who signs himself "D. B. Nich- s >ls, Superintendent of the Contrabands, c Washington, D. C.," publishes a long card, r ippealing to the philanthropio North for r help. He says there are a hundred thou- ( ;and contrabands on hand, who need every i >ort of assistance. "Their wrong views of .1 Bible morality urgently call for the labors t sf the missionary." When the Negro has been thoroughly indoctrinated with Yankee morality, he will be a very much altered inimal, no. doubt! But the trouble is, how ( to help him and what to do with him.? j Northern philanthropists'complain of Sam- ? bo's unreasonable demands and wayward manners?loose all patience and refuse any ' assistance. Mr. JNicboIs ondertaaes to explain tbe character of Sambo. He has been ( iccustumed to bare honse, fuel, clothing, ? food, medical attendaooe all free gratis? j his master furnished them, and, the 1 negro relied upon him for them. Now he ' expects to receive wages, and still to have ' all the necessaries and comforts of life sop- ' plied to him without price. When ashed ' by the Yankee philanthropist: 1 "Why do you expect the North to give ' you food, clothing and houses, and what J return do you propose making for those bene- 1 fits ?" the emancipated slav6 replies as fol- : lows : "Old Master gave all bis people food without having anything to pay for it.? ' Our bacon and meal, is always here j about 1 this we had no care. Now wc oertainly ex* * pect the Union people to do as well by us ' as our masters did in'Dixie.' Then, again, ' dut masters once a year distributed clothing 1 among the people, and this, again, was free 1 ?we had nothing to pay for it; and we ^ think that the more liberal Union people will do even more for us in this repect than ' pur Southern masters." ' "Besides this, slavery bad its privileges, 1 and the slave bis rights. The slave was 1 permitted to have his own poultry-yard and 'truck-patch/ and by most masters was allowed the keeping of a pig, and bad the privilege of doing over-work for his own benefit, when the task of the master was completed:" Now this does not suit the Yankee at all. He must teaoh the negro the blessings of wages?in tghich phrase is embraced every iegree of human wretohedness?and for the simple, confiding and contented befog that he was, make him a huckstering thief worthy of his Yankee associates. Mr. Nichols gives a few inBtanoes of-neyro greenness : "For example?a few days since, I was addressing a young man, who had only two children, showing him how important it was for him to remove his wife and ohiliren out ot the camp and furnish them with support, but.be replied : l only have twenty Sve dollars per month." "Two days sinoe, a well-dressed man, with a new suit of clothing on, called upon ne to ask for eiothing, to have It donated :o him, and his plea was, be had as yet not eceived 'his share' from the Government. Sow this man had no. one to oare for, was limself receiving ten shillings per day every lay he worked, and yet he thought that the jovernment had withheld from him his ightful dues in clothing." "A few dayssince, a mother who had, to ny knowledge, received ?18.50 for her lajor, and then spent 75 cents for jewelry, ind after that came to ine to furnish her jhild with a pair of shoes, and upon my >aying, 'Why did you not take the money pou paid for jewelry and buy your shoes ?" .1 K-J ./"VU >L.k T )iit? rejmeu, -v/ii luau uiyuvj x nuucu xuij | md could do as I pleased with it,' plainly showing thus the croppiug out of the same jrroneous teaohing " We tbiDk Cuff will bother the Yankees ( iome ; but it is sad to think what will be ? ;he fate of these poor creatures, when they c thall have passed through the ordeal of fi Jfaakee Bible morality, and been swindled y md starved by the higher law of free socie- j ,y.?Richmond Whig. "Mammoth Armada." t Charleston or Savannah, or both, are now J iwaiting, breathless,' the onslaught of the greatest war fleet ever seen in our hemis- ^ jbere. The crisis is upou thein. Many a c seating heart longs and burns to be with the 8 mvied defenders of those cities, under c loramand of the heroic and devoted Beau- 1 egard, this day. Many a Confederate sol- a lier would make a present of ten years of c lull existence in exchange for "one crow- '' led hour of glorious life" under our flag 1 jpou those forts and batteries,^and under he eye of such a chief. 8 Charleston has envied llichmond j Savan- t rah has been kept from her sleep by the r Tanie of Yicksburg. Their garrisons, lying r dly in their quarters, have pined that they ' vere not sharers in the passage of arms at 8 Fredericksburg, when the Georgian Law- * on stood the battle-brunt with his brigade, md Maxcy Gregg poured out the last drops 1 )f his noble blood for the independence of i South Carolina! At last those slighted (ities have theirturn ; those injured soldiers fc cceive attention. Bo not their hearts leap i lp at the summons to the battle? Will hey not make the names of Charleston and 0 Savannah names of terror to the craven d ifankce heart from this day to the ending d >f the world ? s We know not accurately what number o? ron-clad ships the enemy have got in their t: 'mammoth armada j but they will have no s ise for anything short of iron-clads in face a if our forts. Charleston and Savannah both tl lad time for preparation. They have both e ong known that they were coveted objects s: or the foe. Charleston, above all, that first gi n the hour of Fate struck down the felon vs lag of the Yankee, and rung, through the hroat of cannon, the death-knell of a foul a ,nd rotten Union?Charleston is the choice- f< st morsel to glut the dearest vengeance of ji ho Puritan heart. May God fight for the ri ;allant city! A smashing defeat of the ti 'mammoth armada" in those waters now, c rould almost?wo think?make the afifec- o ionate soul of the gentle Northwest turn a b ittle more to the thoughts of peace. Every b< hip,of the "armada" subk, will give rise to i constitutional scruple in the Democratic tl sonscienoe. The disgrace of their striped w ag will make them feel that oar friendship nust be cultivated, and that their own war lebt is a thing to be repudiated. Diplo- C natize for us, then, :ye. bullets of Sumtei! ? Soothe our Great Northwest for us, je bat- 0 ;eries of BQ&urdg&T&l^JZichnwiidIlnq4 p Letter from John Mitchel. w Among the correspondence captured rejently by the Yankee Government from.Jtfa- si or Saunders was a letter addressed by John Mitchel?-one of the Irish rebels of $ L848?to a Dublin paper. It commences ? jy telling how be escaped into Virginia.? Lie arrived incog, at New York, and pro- g needed as fast as possible to one of the J* Southern counties, where, in company with ;wo officers of the Confederate army, he jj jro'ssed the Potomao, "close by foqr gun- ? soats, and under the bow of a Yankee rev' rp ;nue cutter." He extols the people of. the ower oountieB of Maryland, says they are ? oyal to the core to the Confederacy, and a ;hat they are oonstantly smugglin^ontra- in iand goods to their friends in the Smith.? T Mr. Mitchei says that north of the Poto- ? uac there is no law, and be was in doubt o ill the time whether he was in America, or m Poland, or Yenetia. The people of Mary- !? and engage a great portion of the writer's q mention, and be cannot find Words enough t ;o extol them for their patienoeand South- ? ;rn patriotism. Richmond be finds very little changed, and that the Irish citizens a ire giving a hearty support to the Govern- g, nent. The letter eonclades with the fol- Rl lowing: . There are, as I learn, about forty thousind Irishmen in the Southern army, but T :hey are distributed, as they ought to be, Q :hrough all regiments and all arms of the service, and have never been formed into in Irish brigade. They, do not pretend to ^ tktn A rwnw'nnn rtlinrrnl flQ Tl*?olimOTl. iiguu *u40 i&uioiigqu i^unnut ?*u ai?huimvh) ^ ior do they desecrate the name nor prosti;ute the flag of Ireland at ail. As for the northern Irish, who seem to have got themselves persuaded that the enfranchisement ^ )f Ireland is, somehow, to resnlt from the j subjugation of the South, and that the re- ^ peal of one Union tn Europe depends on :he enforcement of another Union in Amer- . 18 ca. Oar friends here do not well understand the prooess of reasoning which leads . ;o this conclusion j nor do I. They oall ;hoso Northern foroes, by. the one general iarne, Yankees; and indignantly protest ^ :hat the green banting under which "Irish" qj brigades have chosen to march to the invasion and subjugation of the South, is not ^ ;be banner of Ireland at all?merely one |j >f the Yankee insignia. In all this I agree ^ vith them entirely. ,, Nobody has the right q .0 unfurl the colors of Ireland in a war of evasion, and plunder and coercion. These [rish at the South have never pretended to g nix up their native country in the struggle; hey indulge in no Fontenoyism; they launt no Sunbursts; they display on their ^ manners no round towers, wolf-dogs, or ^ srawnless harps; but go ahead quite sim(J% inaer the stars and bare of their adopted sountry, to defend their own homes and ^ leafths from a host of greedy invaders. If . hey should ever be overpowered and de- (j eated, Ireland at least will not be dishon- a sred in their persons. But they have no bought of being defeated; and I will sum lp my impression by declaring my convicion that this Confederacy can never be lonquered. " p Desertion of Substitutes. ^ The Richmond Examiner has a letter 'rom "an officer of Gen. Jacbsoo'a Corps" ^ letailing the serious abuse to which our ijstem of substitution is liable. At the inclusion of the letter the writer gives r'? tome statistics on the subject connected j, vith Gen. Jackson's Corps, the acouracy of tJJ vhich he vouches for, as they are direct 'rom the official reports of the chief sur- ^ ;eons of each division, prepared in confor- ^ pity to a special order for such information. tie says: From these reports it will appear that L573 have been received in four divisions _ re if this corps, of whom but 692 remain in ^ ervice. Of the number received 508 have leserted, 88 have been discharged as whol- ^ y unfit for duty, 97 have died' of disease, Q1 ind 104 art absent on sick leave, or so far . or lisqualified for service in the field that it j3 iai; been found necessary to detail them for lospital or other light duties. ^ Looking farther into the details, it will be een that in the division now commanded j >y Major General Trimble 449 have been ^ eoeived as substitutes, of whom but 154 eraain in service; 201 have deserted and ^ '8 having been'discharged, or are absent on ick leave, or have been sent to hospital du- w y or have died. But 16 were killed. ^ In Brigadier General Paxton's brigade th .91 have been received, and bnt 62 remain in n service, one half having deserted. h( In Brigadier General Jones' brigade 121 b? laving Decn received, auu due remain th n service, one half having deserted. th In the 14th North Carolina Regiment,* Jen. Stokes' brigade, forty two received at lifferent times, all deserted the night of the 1 lay upon which they were accepted into ? ervice. th In some instances minors, who in a short ac ime would themselves be liable to military foi ervice, have been received as substitutes, of nd the principles thus discharged from fur- is ber liability to the conscript law. In oth- th r instanoes men over fifty, and some near otl ixty years of age, have been accepted, who oon manifesting the infirmities of old age, pli rere declared unfit for daty. roi It will thus be observed that in this corps us lone, we have less than our proper effective no irce by some eight hundred men, and the fit list obligations of law and patriotism wbioh frc equire every able bodied man between cer- in! nin ages, in such a crisis as the present, to po ontribute bis services to his country, are qn ancelled and set at nanght by a law capa- ed le of being perverted to the basest pnrpo- siv es of fraud and disloyalty. mi The results show a laxity of duty spool ie.part of the medical examining officers^ hich merits attention. Congressional Poetry.?.Hon. Mr. ox, of Ohio, delivered a very strong speeoh 1 the Yankee Congress, last week, in &vor f peace, and closed it with the following oem. We ritber think "Caroline" won't nd it convenient to "remember the pathie has gone?she has left ?is in passion, in pride? ur stormy-browed sister, so Ion* at our side ! ie has torn her own star from our firmament's glow, nd turned on her brother the face of a foe! , Caroline! Caroline 1 child of the snn, Ta Ant, sfoMst lhft? ruts' linftrfa ItflVA finA ur forehead* both sprinkled In liberty'* name, 1 ' rom the fountain of blood with tlie river of J^rae. ou were always too ready to fire at a touch ; ut we nald, "Slieib hasty??hc doea not mean much," . rQ have acowled when you uttered some turbulent threat; ut frlcndahlp syil.whiaperedj^Forjlve and forget." 0* our lovn all died out ? Haye its nltara grown cold i or the cnrac come at last which tlie father* foretold ? hen nature must teach us the strength of the chain hat her petulant children would sever in twain. bey may fight till the buzzards ore gorged with their spoil? 111 the harvest grows black as It rolls In the soilill the wolves and the catamounts droop from their caves, nd the shark tracks tho pirate, die lard of tltf waves. i vain Is the strife ! When its fury is past, bcir fortun$ must flow in one channel at last; (Cheen>.) * the torrent* that rush from the mountains of snow ill mingled In peace throngh the valley below. ur Union is river, lake, ocean ahd sky, an breaks not the medni when Gad cats the die! hough darkened with sulphur, though cloven with steel, be blue arch will brighten, the waters will heal. . Caroline! Caroline! child of the sun! here are battles w'tli ftite that can never he won ! he star flowering bannnr must netier he furled, jr Its blossoms if light are the hope of the world! (Applause.) 9, then, our rash sinter! ft far and aloof, in wild in the sunshine away from our roof; ut when your heart aches, and your feet have grown no re, smember the patlrway that leads to our door! (Applause.) Important prom Mexico?The Crrr akent.?The Galveston New?t of the 2d It., says: An official letter from the French Conll at Matamoras, states that the city of [exico had been captured by the French oops. Tampico was oconpied by 8,000 rench and some Jreactionary troops, on the 2d December, and that there were at the me of writing 8,000 troops in the city.? [atamoras may at any time be ocoupied by le French, and will certainly be soon.? he French army numbers over 40,000 ien, four times the number neoessary for iking the whole of Mexico. The New thus alludes to this interesting i formation: We look npon this as very Important sws; The oonqneat of Mexico by the renoh, or, which is the same thing, the isolute military control by Napoleon, plais French power in contiguity with the onfedcrate States on the South, as Engsh power is in contiguity with Lincoln's twernment on the North. It is worthy of ate that while France has been steadily id noiselessly establishing her power in fexictr, by large fleets and armies, Great ritain has been eqoally indefatigable in lading some forty or fifty thousand troops id immense army supplies into Canada, bese military operations in Canada and i Mexico, have been going on simultaneisly, and, apparently, with a like dctermiation by both Governments to avoid atacting much observation. Under suofa reumstanoes, it is difficult to believe that icse operations are beiDg carried on with mutual understanding between those Gov nments, and without a predetermined purise to be accomplished. 1? ? A New Method op Amputation ? r. Chassaignac, Surgeon to the Hospital ariboislere, has published a paper in tho edical journals on a new method of amatating limbs without the aid of the knife, or this purpose he uses what he oalls a lustio bracelet, consisting of a ring, ronnd hioh are placed little chrystal oups of a ictangular form. The ring is applied to le ezaot place where the amputation is to ke place; a pledget of lint, impregnated ith a solution of perchlorride of iron at lirty-fivo degrees, is placed above and on3r the riog, and the oup3 are then charged ith fragments of Ethos caustic. The ember to be amputated is subjected to a msiderable degree of compression, which moves some of the liquids of the body om the diseased part. As tho oaustio oceeds in its aotion, copious bleeding ight occur, to remedy which the operator ' his assistants ezeroise a digital pressure i the principal artery until the operation completed. There is considerable differ* ice in the behavior of a muscle separated j the knife or by action of the oaustic.? j i the first case it contracts, and a large terval is left between the two parts that ive been divided; bat under the action of ,e caustic the muscle does not recede ei* er way. Dr. Chassaignap has tried his ethod twice in cases where the patients ere so feeble as to render ordinary ampution eztremely dangerous; in both cases e operation was successful. The bracelet one case was applied five times, for twelve -? ? t * mrs each, before all tbe sore parrs coma > eaten away by the caastio. As soon as e bone became apparent, it was oat roagh by means of the chain-saw. Galignani. To Kill Worms in Peach Tree Roots. Oar peopTe do not sufficiently attend to cir frait trees; hence the defective charter of much of oar fruit. A simple plan r destroying the worm that infest the root the peach tree is hereunto annexed, and at least worth a trial. Many a tree might us be made to bear perfectly which woald herwise fail : "Take a small hoe, or other suitable imement, and excavate the earth from the Dts of the tree to the depth that the worms nally penetrate. Then take about a und of unslacked lime, broken into small igments; mix it with the earth removed >m the tree root, and paok the' 'mixture to the excavation aronnd the- tree; then ur water npon the mixture in sufficient entity to slack the lime. The heat evolvby this means, together with the corrode quality of the lime will, within a few mates, destroy every worm, even when thoy have penetrated the bark, and this without injuring the tree. Interesting, from Beaufort?A Fisticuff between Hunter and: Foster.? We have some late and trustworthy tidings from Beaufort, which folly confirm the hew8v heretofore published, of a personal difficulty, having'occurred between Major General' Hunter and Foster. The qnsrrel related to precedence in rank, and concluded by General' Foster informing General Hanter that sooner than fight undcrhim, he would fight againit him; and suiting the action to the word, Gen. Foster dealt Gen. rr if it * n rr_l_' ttumer a oiow in ine iace. uenerai nuoter was not slow to assert his belligerents rights, and repliqfl by striking Gen. Foster on the head with a billet of wood, drawiog blood profusely. "B&fore Ittftthtiies could be rvsumed, the combatants were separated. Foster, after ordering the debarkation of his division on St. Helena Island, left for Washington to have his position defined.?Meanwhile, it is onrrently reported at Beanfort that Hunter will try Genesis Point and Causten's Bluff, as preliminary steps to the attack on Savannah, and at the same time maroh against the railroad at Poootaligo; and thus, if successful, get the.inside traok from bis rival. The attack on these points, it was thought, would take place about the first of Maroh j so that wo may hoar some stirring news in a few days from the boast. Of oourse, every "lad in grey" is perfectly delighted at the prospeot of getting India robber clothes and blankets, to say nothing of water-proof boots, &o. -'Wo learn from, the same source whence we obtained the above information, that there are over 30,000 troops at Port Royal, and more expeoted.?- Charleston Mercury. A Handsome Trick. Capt. T. Stookdale with his oavalry company had provoked the intense wrath of some of the Yankees about Baton Ronge, by bis constant forays upon their foraging parties. He is always annoying them in one way or another. Sometimes tfis in en secure themselves behind the levee ao^uUtly ntnlr nfF t.Ko ornn.hrml. r.ilnfa no thafl hnoor r.v" ?- e.-- ?? r ? ? near the banks, and at other pointa, hasty batteries are pot up for the espeoial bene* fit of Yankee transports. In this way he has sent quite a number of the free navigators to Davy Jones' Looker, and crippled some of their Bteamboats. About a week ago, the captain accidentally Heard that a number of wagons were at the house of a Mr. Pierce, a Louisiana tory, and living some four miles from Baton Rouge, for the parpose of hauling cotton into that city. He detailed three of his men, dressed himself in the style of a Yankee officer, (by the way, the captain could easily impose himself upon the unsaspecting tory as a Yankee, being a Pennsylvaoian by birth and education, but a staunch Mississippian in all else,) and rode up to the house, at a late hour at night, of Mr. P., with his detail. ' Good morning, Mr. Pierce," aays the captain. ( Good morning sir," responded that individual. "You had better have your wagons sent away immediately," says the captain, "tbe. woods are full of the d?d rebels, and they'll be on you before you are an hour older." The frightened old tory jumped around with amazing uimbleness, bad the negroes woke and the mules harnessed in an incredible short short space of time. This done, the captain directed three of his men to .mount each by the side of the driver, to act in the capacity of guides. At daylight the wagons were quietly driven into the "d?d rebel" camp, and the wagons and teams properly appropriated. There were a timely acquisition, as our troops were.ln great need of just spoh articles.?Jackson Mississippian. French Policy. The Richmond Dispatch says : For ourselves we can say that we see no prospect whatever of French intervention, nor can nn^Anfttnn/5 tttV? rr Qamnv/? oliAnl/1 ikft On >tc uuuDiocauu nujr wvnmu ouvuju i/c a\j much alarmed upon that head.- France has already all she wants. She sent au army to Mexico, and will no doubt conquer, that country. She has blown the Monroe doctrine to the wiods. It will never be heard of again in our times. 1 It was, as interpreted of late years, ridionlous enough; but, as long as we were one people, no European power durst call it in question.? Now it has gone the way of all flesh, along with the old United States and the Constitution which created their Government.? The Frenoh want Mexico for its cotton-produoing capabilities. They will soon And that cotton cannot be produced by white labor. They can get the slaves nowhere else but in Africa, and to Africa they will resort for them. There is no Exeter Hall in Paris, and the Emperor Napoleon is no humanitarian. If he wants the negroes to cultivate his cotton lands, he will not stand upon scruples. He will open the African slave trade at once, and Seward will enjoy the enviable satisfaction of seeing the revival of that traffic, the result of his humane labors in endeavoring to destroy the States of this Confederacy. a?* The wife of Gen. John C. Breckinridge has had prepared a magnificent stand of colors; constructed from the silk of the wedding dress worn by herself upon the day of her marriage, and designed, through her distinguished husband, to be presented to the most gallant and brave regiment in his division. We understand that this appropriate and valued present has been bestowed upon the 20th Tennessee regiment, commanded by Colonel' Tom Smith, and well known as the famous Battle's Regiment, that did such gallant servicei in the disastrous battle of Fiehing Creek.?Savannah New. ? ; ??:" Information, deemed authentic, has been reoeived in official circles that the greater part of Hooker's army are. now at Fortress Monroe, Newport News and Suf touc. xney are muon aemorauzea, sua ic is believed were moved from the Rappahannock because of the numerous desertionB that were daily occoring, and which threatened to break up the organization of the army. The number that has bqen sent# *. ? Suffolk is estimated at twenty-five ibojisand. The occupation of Newport New?*|fc . 2 is thought, is intended to be of long duration, as the troops hare been set about the; construction of cabins, ovens, &c. > ? Closing op the Wait.?The Richmond Ditpatch takes a gloomy view of thefutore, and thinks we are^not yet near the begin-.*.p ning of the end." It says - 1 . So far from being about to end, we;& *7% lieve the war is aboot to ataame a shape -more terrible than it has ever yet preaenftl * ! The Tanker armies were never so large as tnon or a nnnr nnA (Kav OtMafaAnJ M. ' i*MV/ "1V ?J at so many important points before. Jjjfcv*W well for this feet to be thoroughly understood. It is all important for individuals, as well as communities, always to look their situation fully in the face, that they may know how they stand, sod vhat they candV '^ in the crisis. We shall beat the Yankees, wo believe. .have given us a ahanoe. Unless in the casg . of an isolated position?as at Dooelson and Roanoke Island?or where they have" been enabled to bring their suporior fleet to bear upon us, they have never been able to eon- .; tend with us. We have rarely , ever" en,countered them, when they had not at least r three to one against us, and if none of our , numerous victories have been pasted to a satisfactory consummation, it is because of tnat inferiority of numbers. We will continue to beat them. Bat the time has nvt yet come for them to give up thyucontest. ' ? ? Marrying by Telegraph?A Yankee "Institution."?The Yankee papers inform us that, on the Cth of Febrnary, a marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. Win. Carr, Chaplain of the 4th iffipr i -; iment N. under novel ou-camstances, the clergymen aDd bridegroom be? . * ing in the city of Washington and the bride in the village of Fulton, Oswego county, N. Y., daring the ceremony. The bridegroom 4&S is a member of the 4th regiment, and circumstances prevented his beiojfia Fultoa . ; to falfill his engagement with the young ladv. Bv mail, the narties agreed to have the ceremony performed through the medium of the electric telegraph. Tbe Oswego Times says : "The day and boar having been arranged, the parties repaired to the telegraph offioes at thq respective stations, the fair bride accompanied, by a female friend as bridesmaid. The gentlemanly operator at FaltOU officiated as bridesman. The first despatch over the wire re- v lating to tbe affair was from Washington, inquiring if the lady was present? An answer in the affirmative was returned, and the ceremony proceeded. Tbree messages were sent to Falton and. two transmitted to Washington, and the ceremony was -completed. The last message from Washington was the declaration of tbe clergyman pronouncing the parties man and wife. . v" ' '">in" '' ^ " v j qrt \ ^ S aakspear's Skylc<7K.. ?V?e find in . * \ the, Jewish Record, a journal devoted to the interests of American Israelites, and % published in New York, a new version of 8bakspeare'8 "Merohant of Yepice." The writer, who is himself a The play is founded on fact, with this v important differenoe, that it was the Jew who was to. foTfeit the pound of flesh if he lost the wager. The uiroum&anco place not at Venice, bat in Rome, daring tbe pontificate of Sixtas, the Fifth. The Jew . lost; the noble demanded the pound of flesh} the Jew demurred and offeredtnbh^f '' J which was refused. Sixtas decided in favor of the noble, witb tbe provision that ue should have bat exactly one pound of flesh ?not one grain more-or less, on pain of being hanged. The noble naturally declined the risk; the pope fined both parties in heavy snms for making such a wager. The. old Sbolook-s memory is vindicated at last. We fear, however, notwithstanding "the. truth of history," that Shakspearo's will* continue to be the popular version of the ^ efory. ( mil ?: ivlv , ?Ai XT._r.IL. XT . V - 0>aj~ At XIWIUI*; UU XHIT J. OUl ? uiguv, , after the great negro procession, there was an equally magnificent negro ball, which was attended by Gen. 'Viele and lady in fall 'jjj ball costume. The Gene opened the bait leading a dance with Harriet Mitchell, a well-known negro mantua-makerjof Norfolk. Oar'informant does--not state whether the Mrs. General imitated her august husband, by choosing a negro partner or not, butsS$yr presumed she did. These facts are comnro-v . nicated to ns by an officer in oar army from Norfolk, who has communicated with a lady who recently came through the Federal lines. MM* 4? The Yankee Scourge.?Some time since, the Yankees announced that they ? ; would burn Charleston to the ground and &W the streets with salt. They! are now meditating even a worse fate forkWHalmetw to City should they .succeed in capturing iC As if to wreak their deraooiao spite against* the oity of their hate, they propose to inflict Butler the Brute upon it. We trust that no sueh calamity is in reserve for owe sister oity. Fire, pestilence and famine, wonld be bad enough, but from the Beast may a merciful Heaven protect them !? Savannah News. ? ? ?MMi ?Notwithstanding Maoaulay's repu tattoo for conversational power, be appears to have uttered few bon mots, to have few conversational points whioh are repeated and remembered. One is the following:? It is said he met Mrs. Beecber Stowe at Sir Charles Trevelyan'a and rallied her on her, admiration of Sbakspeare. ."Which of his characters do you like best ?" said he. "Desdemona," said the lady. "Ah, of course," was the reply, "for she was the only one who ran after a black man."