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I . ?*:wsS!SS x **->?.*&* YL: j. b.&l. m. geist,^proprietors |fiilr^itb^ Jfkmi^ ^tospger: $Mi\t |Prffittrfiaii- tf % l^titkal, ^grictilteal^nb ?an^aal |nfer^ of |$4 pee ysab, i* advance. Y0LUME9. - T0RKY1LLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDUESD1T ETEUING. DECEMBER 16, 1863. . ' " : .:; NUMBER $0$! ? ? - ' - ?? rRETERX OF STOCK A\D BALA ACE OF TAX IX KIXD. T WILL attend at the following times JL and places for the purpose of receiving the closing returns of TAX fN KINO and the returns of all NEAT CATTLE, HORSES and MULES not used in cultivation, and ASSES, owned by each person, and of the gross pro ceeds of the sales of ail BEEVES, from 24th April, and prior to 1st November, 1863 : At Smith's, on Thursday, 3d December. At Bethel, on Friday, 4th December. At Clay Hili, on Saturday, 5th December. At Ebenezer, on Monday, 7th December. At Fort Mills, on Tuesday, 8th Deceniher. At Coates' Tavern, on Wednesday, 9th December. At Wcstbroak's, on Thursday, IOtli December. At Rock Hill, on Friday, 11th.December. At Bratron'x, on Monday 14th December. At McConnellsvilie, on Tuesday, 15th December. At Youngblood's, on Wednesday, 16th December. At Feemster's, on Thursday, 17th December. At Luke Smith's, on Friday. 18tli December. At Hickory Grove, on Sauirdav. 19th December. At Hugh Love's, on Monday, Slst December. At Whitesides', on Tuesday, 22d December. AtGilfillan's, on Wednesday, 23d December, i At Allison's on Monday, 28tn December. _ At Whisonant'x, on Tuesday, 29th December. At Buffalo, on Wednesday, 30th December. At Boydton, on Thursday, 31st December. HK At Yorkville, oh Saturday, 26th December, and SaturJtav, the 2nd Jonaary. This is the last opportunity that will be given TAX PAYER9 to make the returns of the balance of the crops of * CORN, COTTON and all other parts of crops not hitherto returned. This is also the only opportunity given for returning NEAT CATTLE, HORSES and MULES not used in cultivation. The TAX IN KIND is essential to the welfare amPsupport of our armies, and no effort-) or energy will be spared, in securing prompt and accurate returns. 1 fajH All defaulters will-be dealt with as the law directs. " Mules, oxen, wagon and carthorses and those used regularly in the plow, and none others are exempt from taxation. Horses includes all mares and colts. The tax on neat cattle includesalf cows, yearlings and calves. The value of all beeves sold fVora 24th April to 1st November, shall be taken according to gross proceeds of such sales, deducting money actually paid for their purchase and value of oor* consumed by them. Cff'Bting your last returns with you, as your returns of corn, cotton, &c., must be entered thereon. F. M. GALBRA1TH, Assessor 31st Collection District. November 25th, 1863. 47 tf ' SLAVE LABOR FOR THE COAST, DIVISION NO. 1. 1THE Commissioners of the Roads' and the Town authorities of the judicial Districts of Pickens, Greenville, Spartanburg. Anderson, Union, York, Chester, Laurens, Abbeville and Newberry are required forthwith to summon all persons in possession of slaves liable to Road duty within the limits of their authority, to deliver one fbartlt of their slaves liable to such duty at tho Rail Rood Depots nearest the owners' residence, on Wednesday, the 16th December, proximo; in time for the down morning trains, for thirty days' labor on the fortifications. II. The Commissioners of Roads and the Town authorities aforesaid will also impress and deliver, at the Depots at the same time, one fourth of all the male free negroes between the ages of thirteen and fitly, within the limits of their authority, to be forwarded for the same term of labor. III. The aggregate of the calls made on this Division, including the present call, is foqj month's labor of one fourth the Road hands. In pursuance, then, of the terms of the Acts of the Legislature, the Commisioncrs of tlic Roads and the Town authorities will only require of the several slaveholders such an amount of Jailor as will, when added to that already furuislied, make up sucli owners' quota, the ono fourth of their Road bands for four months. I IV. The inconsistency of calling for hands for thirty dayf whleh are detained .sixty days, is a matter beyoud my cons trol. The Act requires me to call for a term of service of thirty days, while the negroes" can only he discharged by orders of the General Commanding, r . V. Persons to whom it will be at all convenient to contribute labor in advance under this call are earnestly requested to do so ; the law assures them of all credit for it , on future calls, which will come probably at a less opportune season. VI. Owners are advised to furnish their slaves with rations to last to Charleston. VII. The Agents sent oat to receive the negroes, are prohibited from furnishing substitutes. , WM. M. SHANNON, > Agent State South Caroliun. Camdtn, S. C., November 13,1863. Nov 18 46 V 4w IK THE COURT OF ORDINARY', YORK DISTRICT. IJor Division or Sale of Real Estate of George Me. Floyd, deceased. Margaret W. Floyd, Applicant, M. David X Floyd, James Floyd, Carroll Henry, and Wife, Mary J., S. G. Kennedy and a child (whose name Is unknown) of S. G. Kennedy and Elizabeth G. Kennedy, de: ceased, heirs of George JHc. Floyd, deceased. IT appearing to mv satisfaction that Carroll Henry, and Wife, Mary J., S. G. Kennedy, and a child (whose name is unknown) of S. G. Kennedy and Elizabeth G. Kennedy deceased, defendants in above stated case, reside without the limits of tills State: It is therefore Ordered that they do appear and object to the division or sale ol the real estnte of George Mc. Floyd, deceased,on or before the fifteenth day of February, 1864, or their consent to the same will be entered of record. , ($28) JOHN A. BROWN, O. Y. D. I November 11 45 3in ' ~STATE OF SOITH CAROLINA, YORK DISTRICT. Roddey A Co., vs W. B.- Dunlap.?attaciimx.st. TTfHEEREAS, the plaintiffs did on I f the 15th day of October 1863, file their declaration against the defendant, who (as it is said) is absent from and > without the limits of this State, and lias neither wife lior > attorney known within the same, upon whom a copy of the said declaration might be served. It is therefore ordered, that the said defendant do nppear and plead to the said declaration, on or before tho I6tli day of October, wliicfi will be In the year of our Lord'one thousand eight hundred and sixty four, otherwise final and absolute judgment will then be awarded against hint. ($16) S. E. MOORE, Clerk. October 15th, 1863. , November 4 44 qly. NOW IS THE TIME! I WILL PAY THE nvonvcT ricil PRirPfi 111U11 lie JL VAOU JL X?AVJUI^ FOR ALL CLASSES OF NEGE OES. . J. PRIDE, Rock Hill, S. C. April 1 13 tf SPELLING BOOKS. TIT ST received, a lot of the "HOME SPELLING BOOK OK MOTHER'S ASSISTANT." This work is published in Greenville, S. C., and for sale at the ENQUIRER OFFICE. August 12 32 tf $7 PER HUNDRED LBS, ^ IN CASH, WILL BE PAID FOR CtEAN COTTON OR LINEN RAGS, AT THE i ENQUIRER OFFICE. June 10 23 tf ~ DR. ALFRED-CRAVEN, T DRUGGIST AND APOTHECARY, YORKTILLE, SO. CA. PURE DRUGS, CHEMICALS, MEDICINES. &c., constantly kept on hand. ? Physicians' Prescriptions and Family Receipts accurately Dispensed. September 30 39 tf DR. ALFRED CRAVEN ^esibtnt Surgeon grntist, YORKVILLE, S. O. QlJ- On tlte East side of Main trcet, Soutli of the "Pal metto Hotel."-&0 January 6 1 tf CARRIAGE SHOP. zv*BEW-Ja/ THE Subscriber still continue* the CARRIAGE and B0GGY BUSINESS at the old STAND. All kinds of coun tiwpnuluc^inrrn in exchange for work. ALSO, HORSE SHOEING and general countrvWORK done by W. P. McFADDEN. January 211 4 tf CTEAM MILLS FOR SALE.? The undersigned offers for sale' or in exchange for NEGRO PROPERTY, his STEAM MILLS in the Town of Yorkville, S. G\, directly 011 the KING'S MOUNTAIN RAIL ROAp. The Mills consist of WHEAT and CORN MILLS, and a CIRCULAR SAW?the whole driven hv a BOILER and ENGINE of FORTY HORSE POWER, With WELLS and PUMPS to supply with wnter, and all necessary buildings. The BOILER and ENGINE, if desired, will be sold alone. S. J. KUYKENDAL. March 18 11 tf Dental notice.?during my absence from Yorkville, I have made arrangements with Dr. LESLIE O'WEN, forinerlv of Charleston, to take charge of my OFFICE, adjoining the Enquirer building, where he will be pleased to wait on my customers, as usual. He is a gentleman of much experience in my line of business, ana will, doubtless, give general satisfaction. . W. M. WALKER, Dentist. February 25 d tf ESTRAY MULE. TOLLED before me/ by Eifward T. Brandon, living 10 miles East of Yorkville, near Wright's Ferry, a BROWN HORSE MULE, about fourteen hands high; supposed to be upwards of twenty years old.? No marks visible exc<*pt a very sore back. Appraised at seventy-five dollars. J. D. P. CURBENCE, Magistrate. October 17 43 4b; Message of President Davis. Richmond, December 8.?The following i is a synopsis of the message of the Presi; dent: He rapidly reviews the events of the > past year, remarking that whilst our successes have not equalled our expectations, we have checked the enemy everywhere in his advance. Our relations with foreign nations are discussed at considerable length. The President regrets that there has been no improvement since his message in January last, and that the conduct of European nations is less impartial, and in some cases has assumed a character positively unfriendly. Commissioners were sent abroad for the purpose of entering into negotiations proper to fix the relative rights and obligations of the Confederate and United States, under trea ties entered into with foreign nations prior to the separation which has taken place, bat this tender on oar part was declined.? As we have been refused the.benefitof those treaties, they have ceased to be binding, and, in the opinion of the President, oar relations with European nations are now controlled exclusively by the general yules of the law of nations. Legislation on the subjeot of finance is earnestly recommended. Although the magnitude and duration of I the war was mot at first anticipated, still the resources of the country are so ample and the spirit of the people so highly elevated to its cause, that relief is within our reach. The financial polioy of the Government since its formation is discussed, and the President contends that whilst the provisions of the Permanent Constitution in reference tp direct taxation cannot be carried into effect, the mode pointed out is plain that it is the duty of Congress to execute the general inteDt of the Constitution, by making the tax uniform throughout the Confederate States. These considerations are greatly enforced by the reflection that an attempt to apportion the taxes amongst the States, some of which are wholly or partially in the occupation of a hostile force, Would subvert the whole intention of the framers of the Constitution, and be productive of most revolting injustice, instead of that just correlation between taxation and representation, which is their purpose to secure. With a large portion of some of the States occupied by the enemy, what justice would there be in imposing on the remainder the whole amount of taxation of the entire State ? What else would this be, in effect, but to increase the burthen of those who are the heaviest sufferers by the war, and make our own inability to protect them from invasion, as we are required to do by the Constitution, ground for adding to their losses, by an attempted adherence to the letter and spirit of that instrument. No such purpose could have been entertained, and no such result contemplated by the framers of the Constitution. We may add weight to these considerations, if we reflect that, although the Constitution provided that it should go into operation with a representation temporarily distributed among the States, it expressly ordains, after providing for a census within three years, that this temporary distribution of representative power is to endure until such enumeration ?U?II 1 J. TIT-.. 1 J duau ub uiuue. yv uuiu auy uub uiguu tuau because the census cannot be made within the fixed period, the Government must at the expiration of that periocT perish, for want of a representative body ? In any aspect in which the subject can be viewed, I am led to the cbnolosion already announced, and whioh is understood to be in accordance with the vote taken in one or both houses, at the last session. I shall, therefore, until we are able to pursue the precise mode required by the Constitution, deem it my duty to approve any law levying taxation, which you are bound to impose for the defence of the country in any other practicable mode which shall distribute the burthen uniformly and impartially on the whole property of the people. In your former legislation you have sought to avoid an increase in the volume of notes in circulation, offering inducements for voluntary funding. The measures adopted for that purpose have been but partially successful, and the evil has reached such a magnitudo as to permit no other remedy than a compulsory reduction of the currency to the amount required by the business of the country. This reduction should be accompanied by a pledge that under no stress of circumstances will that amount be exceeded. No possible mode of using the credit of the Government can be so disastrous as one which disturbs the bases' of all exchange, renders impossible all calculations of future values, augments, in constantly increasing proportions, the price of all commodities, and so depreciates all wages, salaries and incomes, as to render them inadequate to bare subsistence. If to these be added the still more fatal influence on the morale and character of the people, to which I have already alluded, I am persuaded you will concur in the conclusion that an inflexible adherence to the confining the currencv at a fixed sum is an indis- \ O - * pensable element of any system of finance now to be adopted. Holders of currency now outstanding can only be protected in the recovery of their just claims by substituting for notes some other security. If the currency is not greatly and promptly reduced, the present state of inflation will not only continue to exist, but by the very fact of the large amount thus made requisite in the conduct of the war, those prices will reach rates Btill more extravagant, and the whole system will fall under its own weight, rendering redemption of the debt impossible, destroying its whole value in the hands of the holder. If, on the contrary, the funded debt, with interest secured by adequate taxation, is substituted for the j outstanding currency, its entire amount will j be available to tho holder, and the Govern! ment will be in a condition enabling it bej yond reach of any probable cohtingency to j prosecute the war to a successful issue. It is, therefore, demanded as well by the interest of the creditors as of the country at large, that evidences of the public debt outstanding in the shape of Treasury notes, f be converted into bonds bearing adequate interest, with a provision for taxation sufficient to insure punctual payment and final redemption of the whole debt. The President recommends to the consideration of Congress the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, and hopes it will engross the consideration of that body until disposed of in the manner best adapted to attain the important results which the country anticipates from its action. The President believes the army to be in all respeots in better condition than at any previous period of the war. He recommends the restoration to the army of all improperly absent, putting an end to substitution, modifying the exemption law, restricting details, and placing in the ranks all able-bodied men now employed as wagoners, nurses, oooks, and other employees -doing service for which'negroes may be found competent.? He conours in the opinion expressed by the Secretary of War, that there is no ground for the objection that a new provision,-to inolitrln fVinan txtVi a Viotta fn rniolinfl cnhafri tutes, under former calls, would be a breach of contract. The action of several executive departments is reviewed, and the gratifying announcement made that the receipts of the Post Office Department are 8675,000 in excess of expenditures. Communication with the Trans-Mississippii is so obstructed as to fendor difficult a compliance with the executive needs. Legislation is required providing for the exercise of temporary authority, especially in the postal department and-the Treasury, for which sub secretaries are recommended ; while for military affairs it would seem to be sufficient to authorize the President and Secretary of War to delegate to commanding generals so much of the discretionary power vested in them by law as the exigencies' of the service shall require. In conclusion, the President adverts to the savage ferocity of the enemy in conducting the war, and holds up to public execration the refusal of the Lincoln Government to execute the cartel for the exchange of prisoners. But the patriotism of the people had proved equal to every sacrifice demanded by their country's need, and God had blessed us with success disproportionate to our means, and under his Divine favor onr labors must at least be crowned with success. The Ro/n antic Mosby. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Press writes from Warrenton, Va., as follows : Last Sunday I rode from Alexandria to Bull Rem. It was my good fortune not to be captured. I was gaily galloping along the turnpike, thinking of this very individual, little thinking him to be the very devil that would soon appear. As I mounted my horse, I observed upon the newly whitewashed wall of the building a notice, written in great scrawling letters, similar to what a boy would compare the autograph of Jack Sheppard, written upon the parlor wall of a plundered mansion. The writer "begged leave to inform the people of Alexandria" that he had this day "dined at the Marshall House." On the same line with the date, "September 30, 1863," was plainly written, "Major Mosby." Wondering very much if this bandit had been here, and if'he he had slept in the room on the same landing where Ellsworth were killed. I failed to notice an excited cavalryman who was hastily telling me that the individual who now troubled my mind so much might trouble me for my purse', my watch?nay, mpre?myself. -I paid less attention to this information than did Lochiel to the forewarnings of the plaided and bonneted seer. Soon I came to a company of the 2d New Jersey cavalry, and was quietly passing, when twenty-five men in gray homeBpun sprang from the bushes, shot a sergeant through the thigh, and captured Captain Gallagher, after shooting the horse. They effected their escape.? The men were not drilled, but one or two had pistols, and I think they should have rescued their Captain. They did not.? Two or three trains turned back, and I was almcet persuaded that it would be impossible to get through to Fairfax. I started, however, afid galloped through in a short timo. Mosby has a den in the forest. He captured a man in the 106th Pennsylvania the last time the 2d corps crossed the Rappahannock. The man wandered off i nto the woods about one hundred and fifty yards, when a little malr stepped adroitly from bebiad the cover of a huge oak, presented a revolver to the soldier's head, and intimated for him to keep quiet. All this time the second corps wa3 slowly filing along the road, within sight of Mosby and his prisoner. He led him by secret and unknown paths to a lair in the mountains, where were other prisoners, sutler's wagons, and other scamps engaged in the same nefarious calling.? Every one living in this portion of Virginia would die to serve this man. They are his look-outs, his pickets, his videttes.? Nothing passes their doors but is seen by them, and information sent to Mosby. He gives them a share of the plunder. A few miles from Anandale, on the road leading to Fairfax, stands a comfortable-looking frame building, with the usual Southern out-buildings. It is but little over two months since one of our soldiers stood at the front door of this house and shot Mosby. Every one thought the wound fatal. A friend took him to Upperville, where he was carefully nursed by Mrs. Mosby' and now he is waylaying people on this same road. He can never be captured by cavalry. All last winter Stahl's cavalry was busily engaged in bunting him. We could attend to a brigade of Stuart's cavalry much easier than he. Ilis haunt is about Uppervillo. One hundred good'men marched there after night, and stationed around the building, would be sure to take him. In the daytime his friends., in the different farm houses are alert and watohful; he is war?-, ed, and immediately flies to some plaoe inaccessible to cavalry. 1 The Encounter Between Quantrell and Blount-A True Account. A friend, now in Riohmond, conversant with facts, famishes the Sentinel the following accoant of the affair between the gallant Colonel Quantrell and the Yankee General Bloant: Ballard House, Deo. 4,1863. Daring the few days I have been in your oity, I have seen several notices in the papers respeoting the affair of Colonel Qaautrell and Gen. Bloant, all of which I found to be incorrect. As I am in possession of the facts of the case, received from Qoantrell himself, and corroborated by many of his troops at dif ferent times ana places, all saying tbe same thing, it is doe to Qoantrell himself, to the community, and especially to the interest of tbe Southern cause, that tbey should be placed before the public. They are briefly these: Quantrell, with his company and others that had joined him, for mutual aid, (300 ill all) started in the latter part of September from the Missouri river, in Kansas, or west part of Missouri, to go to Texas, for the purpose of resting and recruiting his horses and other stook. On his way, about the 1st of Ootober, he came across Fort Baxter, very unexpectedly, as he knew nothI ing of its being there. It is situated direotly on the line between the Cherokee nation proper, and what is called -the neutral lands of that nation, lying within the claimed boundary.of Kansas. Here he had a little brush, ip which he had two men killed and five wounded. Finding he could do nothing there he drew off; but very soon after, within a mile or two of the fort, he saw a company of about one hundred and fifty men coming direotly right on him. He called to his men to close up and prepare to oharge, which they did, and the Federals prepared to receive them. When Qaantreirs men were within thirty yards of them, the Federals fired their pistols at them, bat not a single shot .took effect, the whole discharge passing over their beads. Qaantrell then rushed in, and the Federals turned and fled, scattering in every direction, oar troops parsaing and killing all they came up with. It was in a wide open prairie, and they soon spread over a large space. The number of Federals killed is sapposed to be about 75 or 100. Qaantrell lost one killed and one woanded. In a contest at the band wagon, he killed 10. He captured Gen. Blonnt's carriage, ambalance and a train of eight or ten wagons, with supplies of clothing, stores and arms, with many horses and males. The ^agons, with many of the stores, he burnt; bat brought the carriage, ambalance and most of the arms away. He also captured Blount's trunk, containing many papers, including his commission; bis sword, knife and-gun, all very fine and heavily ornamented with gold; besides other property with Blount's name on it. a Qaantrell did not know who he was fighting till it was all over, and was then told that Blount was killed, and supposed it to be true, but did not himself know the fact. It is not true that he sought him or laid a trap for him. He did not expect Blount; it was all accidental. It is not true that a yellow boy was all that escaped; many got , away. The above are the true facts of the case. QuantrelL The humane and benevolent Abolitionists are greviously distressed and exasperated at the method of war adopted by the .Missouri guerilla chieftain, QuantrelL That exeorated warrior seems to have fashioned his campaigns after the Yankee system, to have infringed their patent right of barbarous and savage warfare. We can scarcely be expected to crediftheir accounts of the proceeding of any Confederate warrior, but, to some extent, believe it possible that Quantrell may have departed from the gen- , eral Confederate custom of fighting wolves and hyenas acoording to the rules of the knightly tournament. Having to deal with Jim Lane and other incendiaries and murderers of that stamp, Quantrell fights them with their own weapons, exacts an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, and pays the debt of retaliation with the most scrupulous sense of justice and to the last farthing. Whenever the Yankees hang a Confederate, Quantrell hangs a Yankee; whenever a Confederate house is burned down, I a Yankee dwelling shares the same fate, ana wnenever aianxee officer issues an order for QuanfcreU's execution, as soon as caught, it is a lucky thing for the Yankee if he itf not strangled by his own rope.? Gen. Blount, who lately issued such an order, was himself caught before the ink was dry, attempting to escape was prevailed upon to stop by a shower of buok shot. Of course, this uncivil conduct of Qu&ntrell must meet the reprobation of all oivilized mankind. He ought to allow his people aud himself to be strung up and shot down 1 like dogs, and ask pardon of the Yankees i for putting them to suoh an expenditure of rope and powder. But he is a peculiar man, with a strange savage sense of tit for tat, and lives in a wild country, where every one executes justice with his own hands. He is said to have Buffered grievous wrongs at the hands of the enemy at the- beginning of this war, and to understand how to right his wrongs in the only manner that barbarians oan appreciate. The Yankees hold him in wholesome awe. He is as secretive and ounning as themselves, and makes retributiomthe study and passion of his life. They would give a round sum for Qaantrell's scalp, but the brains nnder^that scalp are too muchf&r-tbemj and-'the-tolen that seekt-Jtffi'/lifc are apt to faH into his hands. "Whlteerve that Qantrell.makes no speeches and uttets no threats, but retaliation is the law of his existenoe. He does not seem-to be ambitious in the least, nor to be at all covetous of glory; bat, on the ] , contrary, to- bold the pomp and circumstance i of war in low esteem. He is the avenging i angel of the wild Western border, and is i destined, we trust, to scourge to the death the outlaws and murderers who have made Missouri and Kansas shudder with their orimes.?Richmond Dispatch. Longstreet. Yankee accounts speaking of the attaok on Knoxville, report that the final assault and repulse took place on the 30th, Longstreet having been reinforced, according to the writer, by Gens. Jones, Jackscn and Williams. The letter says: Skirmishing commenced on Sunday night at 10 o'clock, and continued shguly until near dayligh.of Monday, on ourleft front before Fort Sanders, commanded by Gen. Ferrero, and defended by the 79th If York, Rpniamin'q 3d TT. S. Artillery, arid Rank. ley's Rhode Island Battery. Oar pickets were driven in, and the enemy had possessed themselves of some rifle, pits, bat the Massachusetts boys drove them back, when suddenly the rebel storming party, led by the 10th and 17th Georgia and 13th Mississippi, under cover of our own * retreating men, came to the assault. They approached to within 100 yards of the fort unharmed. Then commenced a series of desperate and daring attaoks, stubborn resistance, death, carnage, and horror scarcely equalled daring the war. These men were the veterans of tbe Potomac? the flower of Longstreet's army?and, confident of promised victory, they plunged into a boiling hell of lead. Wires had been stretched from stump to stump ia front of the works by Captain Poe." Over these the advancing enemy fell in confused heaps, with the killed and wounded around them. Our artillerymen hurled shell by hand; forward over the impediments came the doomed rebels ! Hot and hotter became the battle, until the ground over which they passed was carpeted with the slain. The ditoh was piled with dead, wounded and dying. Not one of their side faltered?not a score of the gallant stormers escaped. The sun rising, looked down through the cold mist and ohill frost of that November mor ning upon the remains of an army. 1,000 killed, wonnded and prisoners, was the oost of the assault of Fort Sanders. Nobly has it sustained the reputation of its namesake, and revenged his fall. Among the killed is Col. Girarde, of the 13th Massachusetts. Lt. Col. O'Brien, the brother of Mrs. Brownlow, is a prisoner. Gen. Barnside offered them an armistice, from 10 a? m. to 5 p. m., to remove their wounded and bury their dead. It was accepted. Oar loss wHI not reach eighty, all told. Over fifty of these are the men. of the 27th Kentuoky, captured on the South of the river. Besides 250 prisoners, we have three battle flags. One of them was planted on our works at one time. The twelve days of Longstreet before Knozville, threatening assault and siege, had caased a scarcity of forage, gave us considerable labor to fortify oar position, and temporarily suspended our communications and destroyed much property, chiefly rebel. There has been some loss of men by the casualties of war, but no panic, retreat, starvation, or actual investment has occurred, thus far. The siege is another rebel failure. The Private Soldier. . Under this head the Jaokson (Mississippi) Crisis pays the following handsome tribute to tha private soldier: Justice has never been done him. His virtuous merit and unobstructed patriotism have never been justly estimated. We do not speak of the regular soldier, who makes the army his trade for twelve dollars per month. "We do not include the coward, who skulks, nor the vulgarians,. who# can perpetrate acts of meanness, nor for the laggard, who must be forced to fight for his home and country. These are not the subjeots of our comment. We speak of the great body of citizen soldiery who constitute the provisional army of the Confederacy, and who, at the sound of trumpet and drum, marched out with rifle or musket to fight?to repel their country's invaders or perish on that soil which their fathers bequeathed, with the glorious boon of civil liberty. These are the gallant men of whom we write, and these have made a breastwork of their manly bosoms to shield the sacred precincts of altar, place and fireside. Among these private soldierB are to be found men of culture?men of gentle training?men of intellect?men of social position?men of character at home?men endeared to a domestic tfrrcle of refinement and eleganoe?men of wealth?men who gave tone and character to the society in fViatj mmrod_ fin/i mpn fnrnnnHninrwfl'fl Bake have made a living sacrifice of property, home, comfort, and are ready to add crimson life to the holy offering. Many of these, if they could have surrendered honor and a sense of independence, could have remained in possession of aH these elegances and comfort. But they felt like the Roman who said, "Pat honor in one hand and death in the other, and I will look on ftotb indifferently." Without rank, without title, without anticipated distinction, animated only by the highest and noblest sentiments which caa influence our common nature, the private abors, and toils, and marches, and fights; jndnres hunger, and thirst, and fatigue ; through watohiugs, and weariness, and sleepless nights, and cheerless, laborious lays,- he holds np before him the one glorious prize?"Freedom to my country "Independence and my home 1" If we can mppose the intervention of less worthy mo:ive, tho officer, and not the private, is the nan whose merit must commingle, sucn ai: oy. The officer may become renowned? ;he private never Reckons upon that; the of* icer may live in history?the private looks ;o euoh record; the officer may attraot the public gaze?the private does not look for such recognition; the .officer hasa salary ? ;he private only a month stipened, the a* mount of whioh he has been aoouatomed to * pay some field laborer on bis rich domains. The officer may escape hanp in battle by reason of distance-?the private most face the storm of death; the officer moves on horseback?the private on foot; the officer oarries a sword, the emblem of authority, and Qot fight?the private carries his musket, and does all the fighting. The battle has been fought?the victory won; and Lee, or Longstreet, or others, have aohieved a glorious success; but that success was attained by the private soldier at the oost of patriot blood, of shattered bones and torn and mangled mosole and nerves. We do not mean to underestimate the officer, or disparage his courage, or his patriotism. We draw the parallel for an other purpose, and that to show if another than the highest human motive prompts the soldier to action, it is the officer and not the private, who is liable to feol its influence. We have often felt pained and annoyed at the flippant reference to the privates, while the unreasoning speaker seemed to regard the officers as the prime and meritorious agents of all that is done. Why, in those ranks is an amount of intellect which would instruct and astonish a statesman. In those ranks the merit of every officer, and every aotion, is settled unapr pealably. In those ranks there is public virtue and capaoity enough to construct a government, and administer its civil and military offices. The opinion of those men will guide the historiap, and fix the merit of generals and statesmen. The opinion of those men will be, and ought to be omnipotenfrwith the people and Government of the Confederacy. Heaven bless these brave, heroio men 1 Our heart warms to them. Our admiration of their devotion and heroism is without limit. Their devotion to principle a mounts to moral sublimity, we ieei tneir sufferings and share their hopes, aod desire to be identified in our day and generation with such a host of spirits, tried and true, who bend the knee to none bat God, and render homage only to worth and merit. 0 r Patriotism of Southern Women. The cheek glows and .the heart swells with honest pride at the recital pf the noble acts of sublime heroism and self saorifice displayed by our bonny Southern girls.? Harken to the story of their worth as recited by one of their most intense enemies.? The writer is an army correspondent of the Chicago Journal, who confesses that his mean little sonl shrank beneath their witheringjooks of hatred and pride. God blesfPem. I'shall never be done admitting the'patriotic faith and undying devotion of the loyal women of the land, but I most tell you that the rebel women of the Sonth are worthy in everything, bnt a sacred canse, of their Northern sisters. There is nothing they will notsnrrender withasmile; the gemmed ring, the diamond bracelet, the riohlvardrobe. They cot np the rich carpets for soldiers blankets without a sigh; they take the fine linen from their persons for the bandages. When 400 of Longstreet's men came up to Nashville prisoners of war, about the roughest, dirtiest, wildest fellows the snn ever shone on, and a flight of stairs in' the building they occupied fell; killing and wounding a large number of them, you should have seen the fair young traitoresses coming forth from the old aristocratic 8ions, bearing restoratives and delicacies* in their hands, mingling in the dyfng crowd, wiping away the blood with their white handkerohiefs, and uttering words of cheer, should have seen them doing this, with hundreds of Union soldiers all aroand and smiling baok upon the rough blackguards of rebels as they left. Bat in all there was a defiant air?a pride in their humanity strange to see. Of a truth they carried it off grandly. And almost all those girls were in mourning for dead rebels?brothers, lovers and friends, whom these same girls bad sneered into treason and driven into rebellion, and billowed all the South with their graves, and the least the; could do was to wear black for them and flaunt blaok from the window blinds. Clothed be theireouls in sackcloth! 1 said they were worthy of their sisters at the North in all but a righteous cause, but I said wrong. There is a bitterness, there are glimpses of the Pythoness that makes you shrink from them. But they are fearfully in earnest; they are almost grand in self-sacrifice. Oh, that they were true and loving daughters of the old flag I Gen. Hardee and the Straggler.? We recently beard a camp anecdote, which we think is worthy of being preserved in prfnt. While on a forced march < in some of the army movements in Mississippi last summer, General Hardee came up with a straggler who had fallen some distance in rear of bis command. The General ordered him forward, when the soldier replied that he was weak and broken down, not having had even half rations for several days. "That's hard," replied the General, "but yon must push forward my good fellow, and join your command, or the proyost guard will take you in hand.-" The soldier halted, and looked up at the General, and asked: <?Ain't von Gen. Hardee ?" "Yes," replied the General. "Didn't you write Hardee's Tactics?" , "Yes." "Well, General, I've studied them tactics, and know 'em by heart. You've got an order thar to double column at half distance, hain't you?" - i "Well," asked the General, "what has that order to with your case ?" "I's a good soldier, General, and obey all orders that is possible to be obeyed ; but if you will show me an order in you^Aaotics, or any body else's tactics, to double distance on half rations, then I'll give in." The General with e hearty laugh, admitted that there were, no tactics to tpeet tbo ease, and putting spurs to his horeo rode, forward* j ' . ; A Hookey on a Spree. Id Dr. Guthrie's quaint styled book, tha "Old rear's Warning/' we fiod the following langhablw -description of a djmnkea monkey: "Jaok," as he was oalled, "seeing his master and some oompanioQ&drinkiag, witlr those imitative powers for whidr his species is remarkable, finding half a glass of whiskey left, took it tip' and drtnt it o?f. It flew, of coarse, to hit head. Amidst roan of laughter he began to hop, skip, jump and j danee. Jack was deoidedly drank. ] Next day, when they vent* with the hi- j tentioo of repeating .the fon,to take die poor monkey from his. box, he was not to be seen. Looking inside, they disodvared him crouching in a corner. "Come oat I" said his master. *' Af aid to disobey, he came shamefacedly oat, walking pn three .legs. One fore-paw was laid on his forehead, saying as plain W words could do "What alieadache I've got 1" Having left him some.days to- get well and re8ame bis gaiety, they, .oarried him off to the old scene of revel. On entering, he eyed the glasses with manifest terror, skulk- * ing behind the ohairej and on his master ordering him to drink,^he 'bolted,' and w0 on.the house top invtwinkle. They called him down. He would not oomp. His master shook a whip at him. Jaok,'sitting astride on the'Tidge-pole, ohattcring add \ grinding defiance. ' A gun, of which he was always afrah^ ^ was now brought, and pointed at thus new disoipleof temperance; he docked his head and skipped over to the'baok of the bp^Mb Two gnns were next levelled at him, pgp from each -side of th'p hrfuse, open whmh, seeing his predicament, and leas afnrid/|p&jg parently, of the fire than the 'fire-water/ the monkey leaped, at one bound, upon the chimney-top, and gettmg dtnro the flue, held on with his fore-paws. He wop$3 rather be singed than drink! , "He triumphed y and, althongh his ter kflpt him for twelve yean after that, he never could persuade the monkey -to hjste another drop of whiskey." -- ' * Many a young man, just entered the downward path of inebriety, withTbot half the beneficent instinct, not to ; "moral courage," of this poor monkey might, in resisting the-temptation which, in all it* fnrmi. waa TMKarless With.hift'ri&fe tailed brother, have become the honorabh^ ~ aod honored member of society, instead m . a wretohed inebriate. . .jLir : . j. " !? ?> A Legal Argument.?In the good times now gone, Johnse Hooper repotted the following oase, the speech in. which he pronounced to be the greatest he ever bead. Its logio is certainly as exhaustive as Abe Lincoln's: * . - A fellow was iodioted-bp in the Old Ninth, when Tom G??t-was Selicitgjft'Jbr , gambling, to wit replaying "abort card*," at a certain locality known as Frog Level. Col. defended him, and oontended , before the jury that though the State's evidence "tended" to show that his. client, with abottle of liqaor in his pocket, accompanied the crowd, who, it was shown, didVactually play, yet it never did, with agtipl certainty, locate him as one of the playgaa Said he, by way of peroration : i "Gentlemen of the jury, the witness have told you that Peter Wyatt was thar, and-a playing ; for he notioed his band, and it wat . P CM ? _ - tj.. ft 1QU UU (jUWJUB. IMlfJf UUUTT KH WH) K and he was a playing, for Ad holt two little 9 par. Wm. Upson wasthar,andAcplayed; a cause witness noticed in particalar that he 9 had hothin' hnt an aoe. BUI Connt^ 9 . thar, and he played, gentlemen; for be had 9 the bally hand?fonr high-heeled jacka * Q - "But, gentlemen, when I eometaaak 9 him about Abraham-Pitkin,, my client's 9 hand, what did be,say, gentlemen 7 ^Thy j nothing, gentlemen, except that if Abe hilt 9 any hand he disremembered what waa ju ih S "And now, gentlemen, of .thejary, he- K cause my olient waa going down to Ifog n Level with a bottle of liquour in his. pdbk- 9 et, and the witness can't remember as he hilt any hand at all, when bully hands was fl out, and him the best player in the orowd, 9j is that?ts ihat, I say gentlemen of t^ej a-" B ry?it that any reason thattdy"client was 9 guilty of the crime of gambling 7" ' y 9 PiEDifoNT Railroad.?The Danville 9 Register savs^that tho firei^^traiiB Oa this H road commeneed running on the 28d of No- H vember. In a short timg transportation den g be had over this road as far as to Reidsville, H whioh is about half way between Danville and Greensboro'.1 The interval between 9 these placer will be supplied with wagons, 1 until the eompletio&-of the road. We nn- 9 derst&ud that it is the purpose of tljp Con- B federals Government to pnt a large numoer h of wagons on tbe road between Greensboro' jfl and Reid&ville, at an early day, for die purpose of transporting; supplies of corn and Bj bacon from the Galf States for Gen. Lee's Bj - army, and that depots of provisions will be B|j established for the storage of large quanti- H ties of sappliee at Danville and Greensboro', MS and at intennediate points between these Eg places. ? yjS It is thought that with, the- present work- 1 ing force employed on the- Piedmont read, H the ?8mnay probably ntntbrough by the H first of July, 1864 . ' 1 i i^?? *n'. i yi ?-ii Beecheb in a. DrLE.\LMA.r-The.Liver- I pool Courier, in a notice dfi Henry Ward fig Beecher's speech, at Glasgow, Says : BBI ?At the close of hia'address, a gentleman Bh in the body of lhe room completely posed B58 him by reading a clause from the United States Constitution, in whiob slavery is made Egg legal, and by asking whether Mr. Beecher H and his friends were contending for the old Constitution or * new one. If for the first, they most be oo&tendiog for slavery; if for B the second, thefy bad no - right to oompiain BjS of the South for following the suae course, I We need scarcely say tiut iUr. &'b attempt fpyfti taianswerthe qaestioa left. him completely jHg impaled upom.thft horat of <tUi di-Bgj Jemma." ' ~ ~ Km ^Rh