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Be it enacted by the Senate and | House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That & tax for the soma ' and ia the manner hereinafter mentioned, shall be raised and paid into the Treasury y at this State, foiL#e use and service there\ of, that is to say: Six dollars ad valorem, . on every hundred dollars of the value of all lahdi granted in this State aooording to the existing classification, as heretofore established ; four dollars pep head on *H slaves: Provided, That ail lands or slaves in this i State now in podfcfesiou or under the con? I troi of the enemy, and also such slaves as may have come into th* possession of the enemy before the first day of April next, or > suoh lands as shall have been abandoned by < ?i nt toe owners, to oowjequcums L the military imthorrtiea,before the first day P of April next, aha!! be exempted from taxattaf?jteir dollars on eaoh frfe negro, mulatto, or mestizo, between the ages of fifteen [ . and fifty years, except such as shall dearly | be 4&Wm8&o? the.eol^qggr to be incapable, from wounds or otherwise, | of proetzriaga livelihood, and except those who now are, or have at any time since the I first of Ootober, Anna Domini One th on sand eight hundred and sixty-three,~ been in the service of the army of this StaK^Of tile Confederate States, as iabor - vl&RUVJi' f TT\3 era or otherwise, in the existing war; one dollar ahd fifty oentB ad valorem, on every ! hundred -dottoe of;^ >^aloe -of ail lots, That no taxshaHLbeievied pn lots, lands and buildings within any oity, town, village or borough in this State, whfch have passed into the possession or tinder. the control of the enemy, nor npon the property in the city of- Charleston to the Southward and i to wit: p from'Cooper river through the oentre of the P following streets,, to wit: Chapel and John streets to Meeting street^ through Meeting to Hudson, through' Hudson to King, through' King to Calhoun, through Calhoun i to St. Philip, through St. Philip to Green, F through Coming to Bull,. through Ball - to I Pitt, through Pitt to Montague, through 1 ' Montague to Rntledge, through Rutledge to Broad, through Broad to channel of Ashley river : Provided, That all property in tiie oity of Charleston purchased ainoe the flri*,dayof January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, shall pay foil tax; . not uppn wy of iboeft.,Iote,"iapor boild- a ijfijja within any oity, tows, -village or borough, the buildings- on whioh have been danwgad by the shot or shell of the enemy, or wbioh may pass Into the possession or under the eontro! of the enemy before the I first of April next; nine dollars ?er hundred dollars on factorage, employments, in. eluding persons engaged in inland naviga^ w tion by steam and sail boats, steam saw mills hotel keepers, keepers of boarding houses and restaurants, and other eating house keepers, keepers of bar rooms, and lime and eharooal burners, faculties ;ind professions/ including the profession of dentistry, whether in the profession Und employment of law or equity the profits be derived from the cost of suits, fees, or other sources <?f pro , feasional income, except clergymen, school masters, school mistre^e^. &nd mechanics ten dollars and fifty cents oaevery hundred dollars an, the amount of commissions reoeived.by vondue masters and commission merchants j two dollars por hundred dollars on thd capital -stock paid in on the first of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four) of all banks- which,- for their present charters, have not paid a banns to the State; ten dollars per hundred dollars on the capital stook of any bank of issue not incorporated by this State, paid in on | the first day of Ootober, one thousand eight hundred and sixty four, doing business by agents within the limits of this State ; two dollars and fifty cents per hundred dollars on the capital stock of all incorporated importing and exporting companies, and on the capital employed Unincorporated companies and individuals in importing and exporting, and ill, incorporated and unincorporated expels companies, or express firms?said stook and capital to be taxed upon its market value upon the first day of Ootober last?said value to be decided by the Comptroller General; fifteen ner centum on all premiums taken in this btatc by iaoorporatod insuranee companies, and by the agencies in this State noting in behalf of insurance companies and underwriters without the limits of this State; three dollars ' * ? l J?J J.ll and nity cents on every nunurea uouars ui the amount of sales of goods, wares and merchandise, embracing all artioles of trade for sale, barter, or exchange (tb-> products of this State and the unmanufactured products of any of the States of the Confederate States, when sold by the producer, exoepted) which any person shall have made from the first day of January, in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-fonr, to the first day of January,? in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, either on his. her, or tbeir capital, or borrowed capital, or on account of any person ?r persons as agent, attorney or consignee; ten dollars npon every hundred dollars of the amount of sales of goods, wares and merchandise whatever, which any transient person, not resident in - tbis State, shall make in any house, stall or pubfio place, whether the said sale bo made by sample or otherwise; one hundred and twenty dollars a day ou ill circus exhibitions ; eighty dollars per day for represent ificr nnKI'mlc fnr er&in and reward *ny clay, --=> ? o?.. - - - coauedy,* tragedy, interlude or farce, or other employment of the stage, or any part theroio, or for exhibiting wax figures, or other shows of any kind whatever, to be paid into the hands of the Clerks of the Courts respectively, who shall be boond to pay the scene into the Treasuries of the State of S. Caroline, except in eases where the same is now required by law to be paid to corpora lions or otherwise; one per cent, on ell moneys loaned, moneys at interest, all moneys invested in tbe stocks Or bonds of any. individual, State or corporation, other than bonds or stooksof this State or of the Confederate States, and other, than the stocks of the banknand railroad companies of this State : Provided) Such railroad companies carry all packages over their roads free of charge to the Central Association in Colombia, to be by themiorwardedto the soldiers in the army, and other, than the stocks of other companies whose capitals are taxed bythis Aot; fifteen dollars for every hundred dollars of gross receipts of all commercial agenoies within the limits of this State; two. dollars on every paok of playing cards sold in this State ; two hundred dollars upon every billiard table within 4his State, used to and for the purpose of raising revAitiiA therefrom. Sec. 2. All taxes levied on property, as prescribed in the section of this act, shall be paid to the tax collector for the tax district in which said property is located: Provided^ That where negroe have been removed from any district or parish, by reason of the dangers arising, from tho invasion or occupation thereof by the enemy, it shall be lawful to pay the taxes apoo the. same to the tax collectors'of the distriots or parishes from which said negroes were - removed. That all taxes .levied on property in this State, daring the contiuuanoe of the war between tbe Confederate and .the United States of America, may be paid in Confederate notes pr other current funds. Tbe oommiasions to be received by the various tax collectors of this State for the year oodimenoing on the first day of October, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-lour, shall be at the rate of thirty per centum of the commissions now allowed them by law, except such districts and parishes when, by suoh reduction, the tax collector will receive less than eight hundred dollars per annum. Sec. 3..The tax collectors in the several distriots and parishes in this State, in their returns hereafter to be made, are hereby required and enjoined to state the preoiao amounts of taxes collected by them for supporting the police of the said several distriots aod parishes aforesaid, stating the rates percentum on the amounts of the.State tax. collected for said district and parish policepurposes, and the total amount of commissions received by each and every of snob tax collectors, and tbe rate per centum of bis commissions, and tbe Qajmptroner General shall return the same in bis report. Sec. 4. Free negroes, mulattoes, and Murivnaa an tan Tann?raA tn maVa f.tinip MiWM?WO ?MV MWAW AV^IMIVV* vy ?HN>MV ?-V?re tarn s and pay. tbeir taxes daring, the month ofJtptfl ; and the Tax Colleotor of St. Philip and* St. Michael is allowed until the month of Jane to reoeive the taxes of white persons. Sec. 5. The lots and houses on Sulivan's Island shall be freed from taxation daring the existing war between the Confederate and United States of America, the same being used by the troops of the Confedrate States, or by the works for defence. Sec. 6. That the tax collectors be authorized to extend the time foi;' the receipt and also for the payment of taxes^ and also for the payment thereof into the Treasury of this State, for a period of thirty days beyond periods therefor hitherto fixed by law. Sec. 7. That the tax collectors whose commissions were paid in the 'old issue of Confederate treasury notes after the first of April, one thooatad eight hundred and sixty-four, are here by declared to be entitled to payment oat of the Treasury for the lose Unstained by thorn by reason of the tax of thirty throe' and one-third per cent, levied on said notel by'the Confederate 'Government; and the Comptroller General is hereby authorized to draw upon the Treasury in favor of (he said tax collectors for the amount due to them respectively under this provision. Seo. 8. That the State auditor shall prepare and present for adjustment and settlement all claims of this State against the Confederate States, and all other claims of the State arising oat of the existing war, or which may be referred to him by the Governor, and shall receive all moneys that may be acknowledged and paid by the said Government of the Confederate States, - or by other parties on aooonnt of the said claims, and'deposit the moneys so received in the Treasury of the State, together with a partieular account thereof, and make a report thereon to the Legislature at the regular session next succeeding the date of the said settlement. .V Se? 9 That-in order to relieve the burden of, taxation, the net profits of the I aU iliA +VkA loaf ft or* a 1 t7AOf* ui mo uwro ivt we , amounting to eight hundred and eightythtee thousand and fity-five dollars and seventy-six cents, be used toward the payment of the appropriations made by this General Assembly at its present session, and that a saffioient amount of railroad stocks now held ' by the State, to be Seleoted by the President of the bank, be, and the same is hereby, pledged to the Bank, at the present valne Qf the said stocks, as a security for the profits so nsed. Sec. 10 That the President of the bank of the State and the Comptroller General be, and they are hereby, authorized to raise temporarily, and in such manner as they may deem proper (other than.by the issue of State bonds,) any amount that may be required to meet the demands upon the Treasury before the payment of the taxes, and in anticipation-thereof. A Dinner Twenty Mixes Long.?The New Years' dinner to General Leo's anay, which was given on Monday, mast have boon a monster and a magnificent affair.? Just think of a string of turkeys, geese, ducks, chickens, hums, bsef, mutton, pork, I vegetables uaa bluer goomes, twenty miles long. ^ ? The oars on the Atlanta and West Point Railroad now run to Palmetto, and i will gosh through to Atlanta by the 10th .Jjkwaiy. , ^ . . ; .' AH ACT TO REPEAL ALL ACTS AND PARTS OF ACTS HERETOFORE PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THIS STATE ON THE SUBJECT OF FDRNI8HXNO SLAVE LABOR ON THE COAST AND FORTIFICATIONS WITHIN THIS STATE, AND OTHERWISE "TO PROVIDE FOR FURNISHING *tfCH LABOR-' '' 8EC.1. Bent enacted by "the Senate'tina Home of Representatives, now met. arid sitting in General Assembly, and by tht authority of the same, That ih order to for'Dish the necessary slave labor to work'on the coast of this State'and the fortifications within the limits of the same, there shall be organized a force, consisting of mali slaves between theages of eighteen and fifty years, liable tinder existing laws'to road duty, not exceeding in number, at any one time," of ohe tenth part" of said Blives, to serve for the term of twelve months from thd date of their impressment, subject, however, to the right of their respective own???. at the ftniration of everv three months ' ?r . ? . ... of said term of service, to sabstitute ochei slaves so liable to road duty ia their place, and who by snoh substitution shall constitute a portion or the whole of said force, at the case may be, from the respective dates of each sabstitation. This force shall be raised by a general impressment throughout the whole State, whenever his Excellency the Governor may order orditeot such wgent of the State as he may appoint to make s^ch impressment, under the previsions of this act. Bat if the impressment of a less number than - one - tenth would produce should be found to be sufficient, then the impressment shall be made on'the State at large aooording to one uniform role of equality, to be prescribed ro the order oi the Governor directing sach impressment tc be made by the State-agent; and whatever amber greater than ten shall be so ptesoribed as a divisor td make the appointment by, no fraotion of slaves, either below 01 above snch number selected as a divisor, shall be considered or taken into the ap, portion men t, unless it is at least One fifth or more of snob divisor; and in snoh case? the faction of one fifth shall be taken by requiring the party owning it to famish ont hand for two months, with the same right of substitution as in case of whole numbers, and the same rale as to fractions shall bt observed wh8re the number ten is issued at the divisor in making the appointment. Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of his Excellency the Governor to appoint a State agent; Buch agent to be selected from the class of persons not liable to conscription in Confederate military service, if the service* of a suitable agent can be secured from said class, who-Bhall receive for his services the pay of ft'. lieutenant colonel of infantry as allowed by the Confederate Government, daring his employment, to be paid to him monthly by the State. Sec. 3. That it shall be the daty. of the State agent aforesaid, immediately on the reception of any order from his Excellency the Governor, to make impressments oi olatroB under the nrnvifiionH of this act to ~:? jr.---? extend such orders to the Sheriffs of the several judicial districts of the State, whose duty it shall be to^execbte the same in theii respective districts; audit shall be theduiy of the Commissioners of Roads and the authorities of incorporated cities, towns and villages, and such other person or p rsons as the State agent may appoint, to furnish to the Sheriffs of their respective districts, within thirty days after the passage of thie act, a full and correct >etttfir of all male slaves liable to road duty within their "fespectiye jurisdictions^ which returns shall be based on statements furnished by the owners of such slaves, sworn to'in writing. Said statements to be returned to the Seoretary of the Boirds of Commissioners ol Roads, and by them kept on file. And it shall be the duty of the Baid Sheriffs, upon being duly notified by tbe said State agent of any order for the iinpressment'of slaves a* aforesaid, thirty days before, to summon all owners liable under said order to furnish slaves, to have the slaves so liable at the respective depots, and at the proper time, giving ten days' notice thereof to the owner. for transportation to the place of labor. as may be directed by 6aid order. And the said Sheriffs shall, in their respective districts, with the assistance of a respectable l<^al citizen, to be ohosen by the owner of each slave, if he - will, and if not, by. the Sheriff, appraise said slaves otf their delivery at said depots; and in case of their disagreement, they shall seleot a third citizen of like qualification, whose deoisions shall be final; and to give receipts to tbe'ownen for them, specifying in said reoeipts the names of the slaves, the valuation pat upon them, and the term of servioe for whiob they are impressed, a dnplicate of which reoeipt shall also be furnished by the seve? 1 CUrt*Cffa a Qtafn or>Anf A nd if (tu uugnuo UVI wuv vwifw juiuu tij upon the day and at the plaoe so notified, any owner of slaves so liable shall fail to have them in readiness, then the Sheriff of the district where each owner resides shall immediately arrest such slaves and send them forward to the plaoe of labor; the cost of snoh arrest, subsistence of slaves, and transportation to bo paid by the defaulting owner and to be taxed and collected as other costs now are by law. And where there is sooh default, failure, or refusal to send slaves, after due summons to the owners by the Sheriff, and the said slaves are taken by the Sheriff, the slaves of suoh defaulters shall labor and serve on the military defences for twice the period of time > specified in the call made by the Governor: Provided, That the slaves thus furnished ! shall not be detailed for any other servioe i than snoh work as is intimately connected with the defence of this State. I ** j Sec. 4. That the State agent may,.witu . the consent vi the CroVoruui, appoint such | other eub-agenta as may be found necessary ! and proper to the execution of the provis! ions of this act. Bat in no case shall he i appoint any person- as saoh agent who it j liable to consoription in Confederate service I and physically able for active service in the army; sttch.ngents shall,be paid by the T1 , 8tate eignt dollars pfcr day for tbelr Bervioes at the end of each month. th ' Sec. 5u The respective Sheriffs, for their th : servioea rendered under the provisions of an this aot, shall 1>e paid by the State eight an I dollars per day whilst "actually engaged in is the discharge of said duties, besides their sb ; costs for arrests and for forwarding prison- is< r ersso arrestedia pursuance thereof, which th . latter shall be paid by the owntirs of said m , prisoners. or r the pay for.each slave shall * i be eleven Hollars per month, and be Ornish- ^ ed with snffioient rations and two suitsof th i clothes during the teflon of one vear, or one ^ f" suit of olotheaeverv.flix months, including w i two pairs of shoes and one hat for tlxe year, Wl by the State, or a fair commutation in mon- *l ey for the clothing if furnished by the~ownor. And that it shail be the; duty of the State agent to eertify the pay-bills for the a' . pay of the said slaves for their respective ai i owners, specifying the number of said slaves, 61 1 the time they have been employed, and the 61 names of the owners; whfoh' bills, so certi- re fied, shalf entitle the ownera, by themselves. fr r or their order indorsed thereon to receive ^ i thesamefromth? State, and md bills-shall ^ > be forwarded to the Sheriffs of the respect-, 0 ; ive districts where, the owners reside, to he ? delivered by them to said owners. _.? J( Sec. 7. That the Commissioners of Roads, i city, town, and village authorities, for peg- ^ : loot of any of the duties required-of them i respectively by ibis ast, shall be liable.to P] \ indictment, and upon conviotion fined in a ^ i sum, not exceeding one hundred dollars.?. *n ; And that any Sheriff who shall neglect or refuse to disobarge any of. the duties re- ai ,f quired of him by this act, shall be liahie .to w i bo iadipted and punished upoQ. conviction .as for a misdemeanor, in addition to liabUi- C( ; tfy on his official bond .to any person who ; may have been aggrieved by such default 8t Seo. 8. That it. shall be the duty of the ^ i State agent to visit all the caihpg of the la- C' - borers, to examine their condition, to observe their treatment and discipline,* to ex* f? i amine their food, both, as to qnalhy and & ' quantity, and to see that it is the proper nu ij] ' tion for each, as in allowed by law,'as well ^ > as.their clothing, and especially to inform i himself as to their medical and surgical at[ tendance and cafce, and- whenever required ^ ' to report the'some to the Governor; and m particularly at the conclusion of the term 61 - of service i)f each lew, it shall be his duty ^ i make suoh report to the Governor, in whose; >, possession it may be open for exanpnition aI t" by the ownersof the said slaves. And it je I shall also be his duty to prohibit the inflic- tt 1 tion of corporal punishment by one slave <" 1 upon another, and shall inquire that if a h ' slave is to be punished for' any default of > his duty, the punishment shall be adminis- it t tered by a white man in authority. And hi for the neglect or refusal Of said agent to oc i discbarge" faithfully any of his duties as fo f prescribed by this act, he shall be subjeet 01 to removal from office by the Governor, Jts Bi: * well as liable to an action for damages oy f? i aDy individual who has been injured by his so i negligence or default of duty. . hi ! Sec. 9. Transportation shall bo famished " ' by tbe State agent for slaves impressed un* der this aot at tbe expense of the State, w going to and returning from the place of ca I labor home, and in returning also vith snf- " 1 fioient rations toJaBt them.borne, and tran&- tr | portation shall be fdrnished in like manner a for substitute in going to and returning m L from said place of labor. And an account a 1 abonld he kept by said i^atnf ajlexpen- *' ditures incurred and paid by the State in . providing the slave labor sforesaidf aod.in J9 1 carrying thisactwto fall execntion, wbich Ia , shall be annually deposited by Krai la the office of the Governor of the State, to be * ' presented or preferred by him as a claim by ti< > this State against the Confederate Govern- le 1 ment for payment, and that , the funds ne- ^ < cessary to pay all expenditures incurred _ 1 under the provisions of this.aot shall be paid 1 oat of the funds of the pablio treasury not ta 1 otherwise appropriated, upon the presenta1 tion of the pay-bills signed by the State ra i agent. T< Seo. 10. It shall be the. duty of the Guv- ca i ernor and the State agent to have all slaves er 1 returned to their owners upon the expire- tb fion of fVifl term of MrviflA for which thev hs 1 were impressedj and the owners of each as se : may have been killed or died from disease ao i duripg their term of service/ shall not be Pi liable to sapply their plaoes with other -to slaves for tho unexpired portion of said term da i' of service. ... ? a Sec. 11. If the Confederate government 1 should make any impressment of slave labor 1 over and above what is to be furnished by : the provisions of this aot, in view of greater ^ emergencies than are contemplated .in this act, then and in that event the owners of such slaves shall have credit as for so much. ^ i labor-furnished for coast duty. i Sec. 12. That all acts and parts of aots I heretofore passed by the Legislature of this ^ State on tho subject of furnishing labor on the coast or fortifioations, be and the same are hereby repealed. 6J i ,mt, nt Latest from Gen. Hood.?Gn official 'ai > information, we jpe enabled to state that i flnw, VfnnA iwifVi his nrrnv. iii onrw more rln MOU. UUWIj J 1 - _ _ 1 thia side of the Tenpessee river, whiohhe' 1 oroased at Bainbridge feriy on Monday and 00 ' Tnesday last No particulars whatever are an 1 given, though we are inclined to think, from P* the tenor of recent Yankee dispatcher, that ^ ' -he was not very closely pressed by Thomas, kc and infer that, with the exception of some ^ stragglers and severely wonndod, ho has IQ ' bronght his army oat entire.' There is little w< 1 reason to doobt-cleo that he has lost a con- j c.? 1 sidorable portiom of his artilleryr though j8u this aan easily be replaced. A few days, !^?* however, .wo hope will place us iD posses-; j aiou of allihe particulars. Altogether, wo j ^ '! can bet regard this as an ill-starred cam- ,u.!l | paigu, though we feel great relief from the i j knowledge that he Jias succeeded in again i i patting the broad Tennessee between turn- < v. I self and the enemy. 115 !? . - Montgomery Appeal, lit. ' gr tie Darkest Hour Precedes the Dawn. It is natural that, under present reverses, e public mind, should be despondent? at anxiety should weigh upon every heart >d it is, therefore proper, that ever and ion, but especially whenroor political sky darkened by the shadows . of doubt, we ould reeor to the principles of the. great me, and satisfy ourselves of the justioe of is war, in order to prevent that doubt from inning into despair. There are two views ily in whieh we can regard the contest: As it bears upon oar duties to .God.' 2. 8 it relates to.oar immediate quarrel with e North. Aa regards the first, I woold be e last to deny tbd troth of tho Gospel krning: "If we my we have not sinned, b deceive ourselves."; Not only on this ithority, which will hold good .through all me, daring the present order or dispense in, bat h/ bar btn consciousness, I call I to witness, that lost, fraud, intemperance id avarice have prevailed among as to an itent which, however exaggerated' by oar ramies, we feel and know, though . we are luotant to confess it, called for vengeance om on high. Bat thohgb great have been i evilr and abases, a thorough sifting of ie subject has satisfied as, as a people, that 0 quote from dor friend, Dr. Lord, of artmoath College, while addressing the rang men - of New*England on slavery^) the South is right in principle, however ifioient they-may be.in practice." Even , therefore, the issue of this war should. :ovo its doom, we may be assured that this tall have been the resnlt, nothecause it is i?f&ory:fc <5rime,but because it is perveron from high objects to those of appetite >d|ra<ranipry aggrandizement, as has al<, ays been the case wherever it has existed, r which reason^ tpoj ^we^mjy partly horant fir its gradual .abolition, until we are most the only retainers of that ancient initutibn. Nevertheless, let us remember tat, so far as-thil main"feature of our poli1 is concerned) we are "right in prinoiple.""As regards the North, it must be manist to every reflecting mind, that the 'con-' ct had to oome some day. The two oivizations were dissimilar; theirs was impaent and restive ; oars plotf hod conservave; they needed somewhat of otir element i operate as a balance wheel ' or break on leir'too headlong progress and develop^ ent; while we most borrow from thefcto gy and industry the great secret of taa " ? Ik onai growcn. vv e were uuv iu a uhuui >u ) this, while we wer? always at variance id watching each other's expansion with a alons eje; but if we endure, knowing fat for us ex try thin (j hangs, on theissue, ir enemies must, sooner of latere reach the mit of their own War of .sentiment or conmienee, when they perceive that with iiit is one .of necessity?of* existence and anor. Soleras they are concerned, odr inscience is clear; we owe them nothing r favors received before the crusade against ir Government; firesides and aitars, and irely-.we are under no obligations to them >r this. Statesmen may write as philoiphically and speak as eloquently as ever; it on one side snob exhibitions,,unless dit/? rtnr shiuMuent for sine before onr I Laker, or exhortation to shame to the' wdrk e are' bonnd by air that is holy to perform, in be grounded only on fear. No war jet was ended by diplomatic, overtaxes om tbe weaker to the stronger party favor>Iy for the former. We most make up our inds t6 a long ,war?one of retreats^ With^ view , to exhausting fpe. en'emy;^and .by4 ord'and deed keep brightly burning the', iacon fires of resistance'from every hill p and mountain iu oar glorioap' Southern nd. "B, r.'M., Jft"f :rt ^ 1 " The following article on the sitna)n of affairs in. Tennessee shows that at ast one paper in the United' States is not inded by the exaggerated bulletins of tanton and Thomas. The paragraph is ken from the New York News: A summary of the actual faots of the opetions ending with last Sunday night, in jnnessee, appears to *09, as nearly as we n approximate to the troth, to be, ijx gen-' al, this: The first day's battle resolted on e whole, in a Eederal repulse. Hood, iving held his ground daring the day, nt back the wounded, who, both friend ? * ? i *-?? ?:a:_ u:_ i._ i. iQ 100, naa ianeu wihjiu ui^ uuco, tu ranklin. Having retired daring the night another position, he was attached next iy., His assailants, successful perhaps at few points, and unsuccessful at others, i maintained, on the .whole, his position the morning. Again, having sent book e wounded who had fallen ioto his hands, ideral and Confederate, he withdrew daag the night. His losses daring the two fys, in killed and wonnded, oannot, with e insight giveh us into his hospitals at ranklyj, be supposed to have exceeded 500 men. When. 3,000 is confessed in . e bulletins as the Federal losses on those', lys, we think wo are not inoorreot in setig^them down ^ doable that number.? lattered by this terrible exhaustion of imbera and mnsole, Thomas advanced ognidly; but from the olose of the second y'? battle, does not appear to have eome fso olose as to have again drawn the fire the retreating Confederates. Cavalry llisions between the advapoe of one army -1 A rnVn VtnvTA foIrian id tne recreai 01 iue uwi m.?- nuV? ace since thel?th; bat these, howevefc . ey may have ans.wored tue purpose of ispiDg Up an exoitement of the popular m'd, amounted, we presume, to\*rv little actual I023 cr gain. Up to this ruint, } can'sco some light leading to truth, but nfebs that we lose it altogether when con* lering'those wonderful stories of captures guns by the score, and of prisouers by olost toDS of thou3r,nds.. On rheso point*.,' c hcqw net how much of tho ptatenaents | Side may be held to bo more worthy of be-! if than a?bulletin. ? The machinery for an extensive cotton d . - I a woe! carding faotory has arrived at La- j ago TQJ&F. . I The 'Currendy Bill. We are glad to see, says the RiohmOnd Whigr that, there is a disposition in Congress to lend to the Secretary of the Treasury all the assistance possible in the gigantic task which he bis undertaken. We hope he will be allowed to take matters ebtirely into1 his own hands, coovinoedr that if there is any jppon in the Confederacy who oan restored^, currency to its jproper status, he is the main. By following the advice of Mr. Ttebkolm, as nearly' as' possible^ in" framing their bill, Congress Will be following the .example of -the English; Parliament on more than one oooasion. Always indeed, when 4 question of this oharacter-ia before , that body, they summon the ablest of those great London merchants who have made England so rioh and so powerful, and after placing the question before them, examine them one by one, with the greatort dtrictr ness. j j.. j Prom the information of thesd men tiHF greatest assistance is dented, and npon their suggestions bills are shaped to regulate tbe system of finance. This was the case in 1810, when a pamphlet written by Bicardo was adopted into the celebrated "Report of the Bullion Committee." Canning, Horner and Hoak in son did tot scorn to receive the assistance and adopt the viewa of the,, great London merchant, who. manifested a profound knowledge.of (he subject, asbeing one in which he'had been interested all his life. late yeatt; a committee of the Honse received most important assistance from the exaltation of Lord- Overstobe,. the great merchant, whose pamphlets about banking and finance are mines of practical financial wisdom.' In the Revolatioriiry war, Congress, after qxhaosdng expedients to renovate < the- currency, in vain, turned the whole subjeot oyer to Mr. Robert orris, a great merchant, who bad made it a atbdy thrpogh the greater part of his life. The wisdbm of the assignment soon beams apparent. Morris lost all-bis own fortannbat.he saved the credit of bis country. ; M;.' Trenhobto is undoubtedly oortwt in. stating, the causes pf the depreciation of our currency. First, it is too'mach expanded; in other words, the oironlhtion is too great. secondly, itwiaa notmng to tuna opcm. * At the beginning of the war tberemsinopportanity tg rpiscer it on the best basis in the world. We could have- placed fonr millions of bales of ddttow in . Europe, and that Would have given ha-i' Bpecio basis of at least.two hundred nrilliontj, Bat. the.then. Secretary objected. It wonld cost, top much, money, he said, to bay the whole crap. Congress evinced nodfipoBrtfonto do TSoJ ttfti' rather preferred to place oar- system of' finance upon the old basis of the revolution r?thi|,ip to say, lot it stood, ffpon nothing. Thirdly, ana, by a corollary from the prece^ ding, the people have no confidence in the currency. 'They see toothing to' redeem "it with, and they,believe thatif Congress did: not design to Repudiate they would provide some means. ^vuS Mr. Trenhotm applies the remedy to the very root of the disease. He proposes to ismte do more notes. The everlasting paper mill of Mr. Memminger is to bnstoppedat once, fad he proposes a fund for^edeemipg. the circulation.- This is done , simply by obhtiQuing the tithes for a certain period af-.' ter the war, and appropriating them to this purpose. Mr. Trenboim sees what* everybody must see?whatyhe. Provisional C09-i gross plainly saw, .but refused to. act-upon ?that the debt most be redeemed by tolatioh, and he boldly calls on Cohgtetiif to apply ii. Hit whole system teems intended to avoid the necessity of tinkering any mora with the cprrauoy.- He is forgetting ft a-: kmc, jjnly curtailing the issue, and provi;. ding nfunoTior redemption; There is to be bo more discrediting of one portion of it?; no more' new issue?nothing more of those measures which sent it down so rapidly,*^ His object is to raise if he oan, and his plan { seems well adapted to seoore this result. Yankee Love for Cuffir. The following preoions epistle iHostrates the immense lore entertained by the Yankee for the "poor, down trodden slave/' etc. It was taken from a Yankee prisoner near Waynesboro', Ga. A correspondent, in sending it for publication, says: "I think overybody, negroes and allj shonld read it, for it shows the oaizse of the great love the Yankee is manifesting fey the contraband ?-the absorption in the great oause is won-. derful." We place it before onr readers verbatim et literatim: Indianapolis Ind Sep 211864 My Dear ^ ' - v-.i Frank l am not very well to.day. J had the agae last knight and yon no I dont feel right I got A letter from you fry day and I am glad to hear fh&t ydu are veil, you spoke A bout me coming to see you. Well frank I would like, to come and if I can get money A naff I will ;oome. everything is. so high it takes'A bout all I osq make to live on. 'Frank I want to ask you one thing, do yon think I could get some oounterbans, if I would come down their. There givin snbstitutes from A thousand to 15 teen hundred, dollars A peace. Well Frank; people goes and tells the counterbans that if they will go with them the^wQl give tbexh 2 hundred dollars, well jfousee they ar.eagnaraot and we could make them believe enny thing we tell them, nosrFrank they was a man hear yesterday and he told ins he" would give. me 5 hundred for every One I g<5t'r and I toIdTnm I had A notion-to^go and see yon and white I was down thbre l'wobld ttseisqaxe cqgroce, au<f' ho .pi^X.could, pake a-,fortioq if X would be sharp, and if I had money to jotre my expenses *1 would ' start to-morrow;. " r would not let 'them have them for 3 hundred dollars if I could -got Borne. - I wotdd take then to jtfew ycrk and I get 15 thousand A vjoaoe tor thera.^ um , Ffaak J believe I coulttgel 2^r3enny hyw if I would, ootne down their doht you Frank I want you to see if you cant get 2 or 3 and aedfl me word and I will come after them. - jut tell them if thej^wll]. voUuUuir,yoa.wUi steal tbom off and give them 2 hundred dollars b^wde. tomr thai agfct tbe men here would but tbejrte yon no I could! ggfr" a" jjjflk ?om. gtrnqafr Morton to see my bus Wad and while I was down their I eomld get' sdme heeger men and'tying back. most e?<?ymadlVJft .* ir-u4 a i ?j *? M buv|?W w wvwv .wwyy #?a*JSh?? P'?,? *s?l?. dow see if yoa can getl or 2 to promise to. enlist if you steel theih off and than send me WoW* jufc'aa tiiofoe o?ribd^IW? , conrerito away. Well Ifelfe Wrbto SMffSSh5Stia?i$55:: plenty to live On but you to it take*J?h|[ deal to live hear. toUthe only want them for lyeaon v8iba tot i ;w?ek A twhen she oomes I think /he will wvgCjto come down their to see you and maybe her fri&ft&d wiH gome^iofe^tftir and Fmak we^y-'body soya mpaefjtf'l go shod meworl-whaTj i< can gat one write and let me oowad I JtyL/ ooine rite away and I woni" pay e'nny more renfcWell-aallie'fs going fc) the office and I most olose good l>y for thii tirae.^TENNlSL^ ; retook eaeu?tfij* fetoftjipfr aallih Vip^e ***** j CkiuKiTwo^-GetiTting ii^atoaiiy; ffiCMl1 among Itndslij& >iifwiliiTlhi)H(", he has been a deff man in She land ov handorgnri} and by the ride.ov-moria^^iiaiiidai.wto^ steal out under arooksStho jfpotpv a^^^ and danaug.1and-tp*skrri?f i Ujfiug twill UIMtUUg-MlV Pll HI! ding under the babk: new full of aMBei^rf am in favor ot long com ting; ifriymibe pit** a ehsbee to finl karda, it-1k good to ioheSeutsa two fhtbi w ^ffd-d^r git mumed, settle down three weeka^froimdrt?C WtfflS tr*de<<-*^pfcuta0fc$ ' gi*tejiupber._o?^n$ety meau.ipeohani<skg^ . we hav, and fcbe poor job lha turn out.rerbipa it ir f staid state'shm gSd 2^ viae tew^Votiog"m?1ftwWiVrubc?iF<b-tbu?t^ wilta final view tojaatriinooy, as woman who is ^Uling to j>e kourted o? iXe The ne^aiug^?wioui^?fa<lhir^ iz which:yd chr-dtf bi jebid hovao^tN^ ?ULs.jr, she iji;l?jiW..8l4nM4^**W ^s^jbssv , jtb^KW? right in iH^Amir 6 monthi^iotoettittg'the'dOttab^pttiUflP' sewta t?i itWh 90 dr sweetie on the start, man never despizes, and that is aloetle.gOfti iortiny/iFifc i^dtee striktly. <me the'aqaare. ^ Aftgr-thefogtyear ya will begin to gallooks. ^ ' ''cov.; ?'h ; OkAaionaly yon want 4a*i^?rry/>??#*c oat what ails yew. .^ ' Erasing 'rieStxniPair 'r good tbirig tS j tend.' It will keep pare religan, in Mb*f' " and then if -the gol iapijftOLto be tfcu> hk* aksident, she can ask yon to go ber. JOS 5 BILJ^(9? . : ?' - ..'1 ? y*? c; P.jspKRT*B^?gftA^pftit**) :v ten fjom Confederate .serjicejuyya,baaded of this District; and have cofflmitteif'Mrioas inroads npon the stock ?bd othe? -property of 4ba peoplp gf4bct.aeati0a,;greaU?3o * the *qnoyan<$ and diacomfitare of the Jatto#. Several of the deserters were arrested last, week, and it Lsbefieved that the steps which. have been tak^n, will soon resnlt in the - ' ?'.l- 1 ^ -I- ?- -f_A capture 01 rue rvmuinuerui wwhwu quad, upon whom -it-y bopedthat wiiKlwjt; justice will speedily^be meted opki^-t In the lower portion oi'th^ District, bjr, James A. P. Blackmon, a worthy citizen," mysteriously disappeared on a night in the early part of lot?^:redbp$b?ttflBtufca which lead to the eusp^OD that. he ww murdered by negroes in the yicinity^^^e^ citizens in the neighhorir^qpne nfO&jpacerned about the afiair, find have been unremitting in their efforts to diise<w& the crime and its perpetrators, imt jrithont4Ws*ri N* TO: ^?ye negroes ?**,3* In view of these disturbances, it becomes the people of all sections to redouble their " vigilance in preserving order, and in assisting the civil and military; aatherities-ill: maintaining the supremacy of the law, - * jJ^Ud^ ? -i vj'. t , v it. . --fro j,'BnE ififirt war fallen." said a Christian philosopher/'"into." the, hands ofpublicans aud sequestrator?^^1 theyhave taken all fx&jpfrT i Xet me lookahonfc me. ^TCe^hivfi Icftjop' tan and moon, fire andWater, Ifey Wwub/ and manV friend/to mty me, ahd J can otSiL disodaxffe j andj uhteda I list, 'they. have not taken away my merry cohnfenanee? j>nd my chh9rfalr spirits,' and a gQG^ja^teo^f-^ They have still left me the providence of God, and ^11 the .promises .of. the Gnsgpi, aed my hopes of He^en,' and my imamy drtk1' in vanefiee au id wnioD uoaae?iguw^uie^|ii ^ircjie aod wpdom,*lw>"lKn7X TTifTb IfllllJl God + i kv < ' ^^4 ? jf , r f. -J # * , * -J! -