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Daily Dispatch Vol. Xxvii — no.109Richmond, Va.Friday, November 4, 1864Priceone Cent Richmond Dispatch by Cowardin & Hammersley.
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Official.
Treasury Department,Confederate States of America,Richmond,October12, 1864.
Non-Taxable Bonds, five hundred-Million Loan.--sale continued.--Numerous applications having been made for bonds at the established price of one hundred and thirty-five dollars and interest, under circumstances that entitle them to favorable consideration, it has been determined to continue the sale at the above price until further notice.
Agents for the sale of these Bonds are instructed to act in accordance with this order; and the attention of disbursing officers of the Government is particularly called to it.
G.A.Trenholm,Secretary of the Treasury.oc 12--tsTreasury Department,Confederate States of America,Richmond, August8, 1864.
Certificates of Indebtedness Bearing Six Per Cent. Per Annum interest and free from Taxation. --By the fourteenth section of the act to reduce the currency, approved February17, 1864, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to issue the above certificates, payable two years after the ratification of a treaty of peace with the United States.
They cannot be sold, but are only to be issued to such creditor of the Government as are willing to receive the same in payment of their demands.
They must also be given at par, though free from taxation.
The attention of purchasing agents and disbursing officers of the Government is called to this class of public securities as offering peculiar advantages to those from whom the supplies of the Government are bought; and to facilitate the use of them, checks drawn by disbursing officers upon the depositaries holding these funds, and marked across the face "payable in certificates of indebtedness," will be paid in conformity therewith.
Depositaries are hereby authorized and required to comply with this regulation, and to make application to the Register for supplies of certificates as required.
G.A.Trenholm,Secretary of Treasury.au 22--tsTreasury Department,Confederate States of America.
Loans on the Security of the five hundred Million Six Per Cent. Non-Taxable Bonds, under the Seventh Section of the Currency Law.--Deposits on call will be received by the Treasurer in this city, Assistant Treasurers at Charleston and Mobile, and the Depositaries at Wilmington, Raleigh, Columbia, Augusta, Savannah and Montgomery, and certificates will be issued for the same, bearing interest at the rate of four per cent. per annum, and secured by the hypothecation of an amount of the above bonds equal to the sum of these loans.
The bonds to be set apart by the Treasurer, and the proceeds, when sold, applied exclusively to the payment of the said certificates.
The security and convenience afforded to banks and other corporations, and to the public generally, by this mode of temporary investment, and the effect of the measure, if generally adopted, in keeping the currency within moderate bounds, it is hoped will commend it to the favorable consideration of the community and secure their prompt co-operation in carrying it into effect.
G.A.Trenholm,Secretary of the Treasury.au 22--tsTreasury Department,Confederate States of America,Richmond, Va, August26, 1864.
Regulations for Carrying into effect the Act of Congress Approved June13, 1864, Authorizing Owners of Registered eight Per Cent Bonds, issued under the Provisions of the Act Approved may 16, 1861, to Exchange the same for Coupon Bonds.--Parties owning registered eight per cent. bonds under the act of May16, 1861, desiring to exchange them for coupon bonds, will assign them, in the manner pointed out in the printed endorsement of the back of the certificate, to the "Confederate States of America, in exchange for coupon bonds, " and cause them to be presented to the Register of the Treasury Department, who will thereupon, in compliance with the provisions of the act of June13, 1864, issue coupon bonds for the amount specified in the registered bonds so assigned.
G.A.Trenholm,Secretary of the Treasury.au 29--tsTreasury Department,Confederate, States of America,Richmond, July28, 1864.
Taxed Treasury Notes.--In order to promote, as far as practicable, the early liquidation by the Treasury of the Outstanding Taxed Notes, the Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer, and Pay Depositaries in the different States, are thereby authorized to receive the said notes, except the $100 notes, at 66⅔ per centum, on deposit, issuing for same certificates of loan, upon hypothecation of non-taxable bonds.
The said certificates to be payable on demand after the expiration of ninety days.
And an agents for the sale of the above bonds are hereby authorized to receive the taxed notes, with the exception above named, in payment of bonds when said, at the rate of 66⅔ per centum.
G.A.Trenholm,Secretary of the Treasury.au 22--ts
Runaways.
Stop the Runaways.--one thousand dollars reward.
--Ran off from the subscribers, on the night of the 29th instant, our negro men, Dick and Cornelius.
Dick is twenty-eight years of age; dark copper color; five feetnine or ten inches-high; and has a moustache and goatee.
He had on when he left-a gray sack coat and pants, and a black slouch hat.--He is sprightly in conversation.
Cornelius is twenty-five years old; complexion dark; five feeteleven inches high; and had on when he left a pair of gray pants and light-colored wool hat. His shoes were old, and each had a carton.
He speaks quickly when spoken to.
It is supposed that these negroes are making their way to the Yankees.
We will pay the above reward for the apprehension and delivery of the said negroes to us in Richmond, or five hundred dollars for either.
--Ran away from the subscriber, about the 26th instant, a Negro Boy, named John.
He is about five feetfive or six inches high; black; about twenty years old; quick spoken; was raised by the Rev. Mr.Trice, of Caroline county; he was dressed in a blue suit of clothes.
I will give the above reward for his apprehension and delivery to Messrs.S.N.Davis & Co., of Richmond, or for his confinement in any jail so that I get him again.
--Ran away from the subscriber, about six or seven weeks ago, my negro, Ben. Said boy was purchased at the auction house of Messrs.Lee & Bowman,
Franklin street, Richmond, and was sold by Dr.Ming, of Petersburg.
He said he was hired to Mrs.Magill, at the Theatre, previous to his sale.
His age is nineteen or twenty; well built; with small head; five feeteight or nine inches in height.
He is no doubt lurking about Richmond or Petersburg.
I will give the above reward for his delivery to Messrs.Lee & Bowman, Franklin street. J.B.Pace,Danville, Virginia. oc 20--1m*
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Richmond Dispatch.
Friday morning...........November 4, 1864.
The War News.
There was no fighting on the lines below Richmond yesterday.
It was the first Thursday in six weeks that Grant has permitted to pass without a "reconnaissance in force." Perhaps the weather disconcerted his usual weekly arrangements; or, what is more likely, the result of his last so-called reconnaissance was so disastrous to his army as to make it necessary for him to pause longer between his blows.
However that may be, he was quiet — uncommonly quiet — yesterday.
Not a gun was fired north of James river, and very few on the lines at Petersburg.
The positions usually swarming with blue-jackets in fine weather were tenanted yesterday only by solitary sentinels, who, wet and comfortless, hugged their shoddy great-coats closely as they trod their lonely rounds.
A Yankee officer who came out to the picket line in front of Fort Harrison, yesterday morning, remarked to one of our officers that our men were having a very quiet time just now, but that the Yankees would wake them up as soon as they (the Yankees) had completed certain little mortar arrangements on which they were at work.
They would, he said, make Elliott Hill (our position immediately in front of, and nearest to, Fort Harrison) too hot to hold our fellows.
We have not learned that this boast created any considerable excitement amongst our men.
It is reported that Grant has transferred some of his troops from the north to the south side, and certain creaking and rattling of his pontoons during the past few nights gives slight confirmation to the report.
It is quite probable that, having failed to take the "objective point"--the Southside railroad--with the Second, Fifth and Ninth corps, he purposes making another attempt upon it at an early day, aided by the Tenth corps, and that, for that service, he has drawn that corps over to him. We believe he has moved the Tenth corps, if any; because we know that parts, at least, of the Eighteenth--his only other force on the north side — are still in the trenches at and near Fort Harrison.
The Tenth corps, we believe, is composed largely of negroes.
Birney, its late commander, who died recently of a congestive chill, was what the New York Herald used to call a "nigges worshipper," and, it will be recollected, "recruited" many Africans in Maryland last fall.
Terry now commands it. If it does no better in its next fight than it did last Thursday on the Darbytown road, the southside railroad will be in little danger from its efforts.
A gentleman who came in from the lines late last evening reports that the enemy has reduced his force in our front between Fort Harrison and the river.
If this observation is correct, it is further confirmatory of the reported withdrawal of Yankees to the south side; but, possibly, the Yankees were not visible because they were sheltering themselves from the rain.
The election is close at hand, and it will surprise no one if Grant gives us another contest for the Southside railroad; it will rather surprise us if he does not.
From Petersburg.
All was quiet on the lines around Petersburg yesterday.
There is some activity manifested among the Federal troops, but from what cause is not known.
But from the fact that it is generally believed by our generals on the north side that the enemy have decreased their force to a considerable degree, and that Fort Harrison is only held by a strong garrison, it is supposed that Grant is preparing for a grand blow elsewhere.
GeneralLee is, without doubt, posted as to all movements; and our part is to meet the denouement.
It is now a well-ascertained fact that the detachment of Federals lately sent from the vicinity of Petersburg to City Point were destined for Plymouth.
The result has been seen.
For several hours, on Wednesday , a brisk shelling was kept up on our left centre — most of the cannonading proceeding from our side.
This is no unusual occurrence, as at this point, and elsewhere on the lines, there is more or less cannonading every day.
The Valley.
The main armies are quiet, grimly watching each other from unfriendly picket lines; the videttes greet each other daily, at the grey of the morning, with the whistling of a bullet; and there is throughout that army a general antipathy to conference.
Our cavalry are beginning to somewhat change the tide of affairs, and are driving the Yankee horsemen from pillar to post.
There have been several small affairs in the Luray Valley; in which the Confederates have come off first best.
Citizens of Staunton say that the body of cavalry which lately passed through that town on their way to Sheridan were the most efficient, and most finely armed and equipped, they have seen during the war.
The affair in East Tennessee.
We have some further particulars of the affair in East Tennessee, mentioned a few days ago. It appears that Lincoln is making a desperate effort to hold East Tennessee until after the election, and has recently thrown the following force in there for that purpose: At Knoxville, two regiments of negroes and the Eighth Ohio cavalry; at Strawberry Plains, the Sixteenth Kentucky and Tenth Michigan; and between that point and Morristown, the Fourth, Eighth, Ninth and Thirteenth Tennessee, and Kirk's cavalry — the whole force being about seven thousand men. Of course our little force, under GeneralVaughan, at Morristown could do little against such odds in the fight of Friday last, and was driven back with the loss of four pieces of artillery and one hundred and fifty men, including killed, wounded and missing.
ColonelRose, of the Sixty-first Tennessee, is missing, and CaptainMayo, of the Sixty-second Tennessee, also.
We hear of several wounded--CaptainAllen, severely; AdjutantHawkins, of the Thirty-first, wounded in the arm, severely; LieutenantSmith, of the same regiment, killed.
The enemy are at Bull's gap; and it is not believed that they will attempt a further advance at present.
The capture of Plymouth — loss of the Albemarle.
The capture of Plymouth, North Carolina, by the enemy is explained by later accounts.
A lack of sufficient watchfulness on the part of our troops seems to have been the prime cause of the loss of the town.
It seems that, on Thursday , a party of eighteen men, belonging to the blockading fleet in Albemarle sound, some eight or ten miles from Plymouth, took a small torpedo boat and started for Plymouth.
On the way, they found a small boat, containing six of our men, in the river, stationed there as a picket guard; but all of them being asleep, they were taken prisoners.
Then proceeding to Plymouth, they found the Albemarle at the wharf, and running the torpedo boat under her, Amidships, blow her up, causing damages from which she seen sunk.
Infantry was stationed on the wharf, who fired on the assaulting party, and after the Albemarle sunk, captured the whole of them; but no one was killed and only one man wounded.
There was no force of the enemy near Plymouth with the exception of the five or six gunboats in the sound; but the loss of the Albemarle opened the Roanoke to them — and hence the fall of the town.--CaptainRoberts, it is stated, commanded the Albemarle.
It is understood that there were no lives loss on the Albemarle, and that there were very few men aboard at the time of the explosion of the torpedo.
The War in North Alabama.
Since the master of the seat of war from Georgia to North Alabama, the news from both armies comes in more uncertainly and . Almost entirely the extremes northern position of Alabama runs the Charleston and Memphis railroad, its average distance from the line dividing that State from Tennessee being about twenty miles. The Tennessee river runs through Alabama in about the same direction, winding about a little more than the railroad line, and crossing it in several places.
When Hood started on his new movement, he kept south of the railroad and river, having the "reserved privilege" of crossing either at any point he found convenient.
When Sherman found he could not catch him after his last effort at Lafayette, he turned north and went to Chattanooga, from whence he started on the same line with Hood, except that he is marching on the north side of the Tennessee with the hope of meeting the Confederates at the point they shall attempt to cross.
The railroad line mentioned having been destroyed, he is now compelled to foot it over a mountainous and barren country.
He placed Thomas at Bridgeport, with one corps, to guard that point, and, on the 17th, Sherman himself, with the main army, was making for Gunter's landing, to stop Hood there.
As Hood was within a night's march of that point on the 22d ultimo, it is pretty certain that he could have crossed, if the river was not too high, without any interference from his antagonist.
Sherman has been making strenuous efforts to relay the track from Chattanooga to Atlanta, so that he may get away the cars, engines, guns and materials left in the city after the successful destruction of the road by our forces.
To consummate this end he has been making a temporary track on the timbers cut from green saplings and trees along the road.
Our cavalry, however, have been annoying his working parties to a very considerable extent, and materially retarded the work and the use of the road.
They dash in at all points along the road, and after cutting and destroying places of the most importance, disappear to pounce on it at some far- distant point.
By these active operations, Sherman has been prevented, up to the present time, from receiving any communication with Atlanta.
The correspondents with Hood's army agree that no general fight need be expected immediately, as Sherman is too far behind and has no transportation to march with rapidly.
Very large supply trains have been passing up to Hood's army for the last fortnight.
The enemy, under Kilpatrick, have made several desperate efforts to capture these trains, but, thus far, unavailingly.
Wheeler is keeping them in check.
A raid, however, is anticipated upon the Alabama and Tennessee railroad in the direction of Selma.
Some of the Yankee garrisons recently captured in Northern Georgia were raw recruits, in camp of instruction, who had not yet had arms issued to them.
From Mobile.
In this quarter there is said to be considerable activity, though we are at a loss to know what it could be about, unless it be the extremely unhealthy state of that region at this season of the year.
Missouri.
The Yankee press, at last, have Price out of the way, but howl about his four hundred wagon loads of plunder [Pleasanton said Prices had burned these up to keep him from getting them] and his ten thousand horses gotten in Missouri from the "free labor" (Yankee squatters) settlers of the State.
The Old General is not done with them yet. They will hear from him when they least expect it.
Arrival of the remains of GeneralRamseur.
The body of Major-GeneralStephenD.Ramseur, who was mortally wounded and fell into the enemy's hands at the battle of Cedar creek, on the 19th of October last, was sent by the enemy into GeneralHoke's lines, on the Darbytown road, yesterday evening, and was brought to the city last night.--GeneralRamseur died on the 20th ultimo, the day after his capture, and, at the solicitation of his friends in Middletown, his body was embalmed by a Yankee artist.
We presume his remains will be sent immediately to North Carolina, his native State and former home.
Brigadier-GeneralLilley.
Brigadier-GeneralRobertD.Lilley, who lost an arm at the battle of Winchester, is, we are happy to say, rapidly improving, and expects shortly to resume his duties in the field.
Latest from the North.
We have received copies of New York and Baltimore papers of Tuesday, the 1st instant, and of that evening.
There is very little news in them.--Grant's failure is coming to light.
In New York, on Monday, gold ran up to 229½, and at the first board, on Tuesday, went up again to 238.
In Baltimore, on Tuesday, it went up to 239.
Around Richmond — a Brilliant account of Mahone's picket haul.
All is reported quiet around Richmond and Petersburg.
A correspondent, writing from below Richmond about the late fight, says that,--
On the north of the James, the lowest estimate I have heard of our losses, in killed, wounded and missing, is one thousand men. Others place the figures at one thousand five hundred as the outside.
It will probably be between these.
No official report of losses has yet been made public.
The Herald says that, "somehow, the report has gotten abroad that Grant lost four thousand men." A dispatch from the army on the south side gives a flaming description of Mahone's picket haul there on Sunday . The idea that his loss was heavy, when he did not lose a man, is particularly good:
At the point of connection between the Second and Fifth corps' pickets, they made an entrance, and, passing from one post to another, penetrated the line for some distance, taking the pickets prisoners.
They then sent forward a heavy force to charge the line of breastworks, in the hope of piercing our centre; but one of the pickets had effected his escape to the main line, and given warning in time for the men to be put on their guard behind the works; and when the rebels advanced, they received such a fierce fire as to drive them back in confusion and with heavy loss.
Repeated attempts resulted in like manner, and although the firing was kept up nearly all night, the enemy gained no advantage.
Our loss is put down at three hundred and eighty-seven men captured on the picket line.
The casualties in killed and wounded are not known, but are very few.
The loss of the enemy must have been heavy, as they advanced in range of our batteries and infantry lines.
It was somewhat dark, however, and of course firing was not so effective as it would have been had our troops had a good view of the enemy.
At this hour () all is quiet.
From GeneralPrice.
The New York Herald has the following paragraph in its situation article, but takes good care not to publish any of the telegrams to which it refers:
GeneralPleasanton's official dispatches confirm previous reports of the capture of the rebel GeneralsMarmaduke and Cabell.
Our St. Louis dispatches show that the accounts heretofore received of the overwhelming defeat and hurried and disorganized retreat from Missouri of the remnant of Price's army have not been exaggerated.
Included in the large number of his men captured by the Union troops are about one hundred commissioned officers.
The Latest from Sherman.
A telegram from Nashville, dated the 31st, says:
Direct communication with Atlanta by rail is open and secure, although there are swarms of guerrillas between the Etowah river and Big Shanty.
The New York Herald says:
Not only is there no foundation for the absurd report, recently set afloat, that GeneralSherman had abandoned Atlanta, but the place is not considered in any danger whatever.
GeneralSherman has assured the Government that he will hold it in spite of all attempts to dislodge him. The rebels are active along the Tennessee river.
A portion of Forrest's command, with three pieces of artillery, is reported to have sunk a steamer and a barge, loaded with army clothing, on that river on last Saturday.
A small force of them were attacked by Union cavalry on the same day and driven across the river.
Forrest is said to have several thousand men at Jackson, Tennessee.
We have no advices yet of the rebels having carried out their design of attacking Paducah, Kentucky.
Various bodies of them, though, are prowling through different portions of the State.
The Yankee press on Grant's "reconnaissance in force."
The Yankee papers, editorially, handle Grant's reconnaissance very gingerly.
The New York Times thinks it "was emetically a grand movement, having regard solely to the strength of the advancing columns." After following up the march of the different corps until Grant's line was formed, it says:
The army thus disposed formed an are of about fifteen miles in length; and it was natural that, as soon as Lee discovered what the movement meant, he should direct the best part of his strength to find the point where the point of connection between the different corps was weakest, or where there was no connection formed at all. In this, we take it Lee achieved a partial or momentary success.
The weak point lay between the Second and the Fifth corps.
Upon that Lee threw onedivision of Hill's corps, and Hancock's right flank was partially turned. --There was no panic, no disaster, no rout, but, after a stout and gallant fight, our extreme left was drawn in. The line generally was contracted, and although there was heavy skirmishing during the day at other points, where we inflicted severe loss upon the rebels, the crisis of the day was passed when the line between the Second and the Fifth corps was pierced, and the reconnaissance then and there came partially to an end.
The co-operative movement by GeneralButler north of the James, from the clear and full account of it which we publish elsewhere, will be seen to have been admirably timed, and to have served the purpose it was sent to execute.
Wherever Lee found the support which enabled him to strike so heavily on our left, he did not find it from the rebel works on the north of Richmond.
At every point along Butler's front, extending out as far as the Charles City road, the rebels were kept to their guns, and the Army of the James will receive the credit of having done its full duty.
The Tribune gets out its editorial with a single eye to the election.
It thinks that, as the movement finally turned out, "it was something between a reconnaissance and an assault, resulting in a positive success and a considerable gain in position, but not crowned by a decisive defeat of the enemy." It thinks, too, that Grant was in a position to gain the Southside road by one more advance, and adds:
To accomplish this advance, nothing like a general engagement has taken place.
The enemy seem to have been indisposed to resist until they were threatened at a vital point, and until a disarrangement of GeneralMeade's line gave them an opportunity to fall upon the flank of one division of the Second corps, which had got further in advance than the Fifth, which should have connected with it. But the affair which ensued was slight in itself, and not important except as determining the character of the whole operation.
This exposed division at first suffered some loss, then went forward again and squared accounts with the enemy.
So far as actual encounter went, the matter rested there; but it was deemed best to withdraw the Second corps to a position which exposed its connection with the remainder of the line.
That position is three miles in advance of what was before held, and so much ground, therefore, goes to the credit of this attempt.
If GeneralGrant had chosen to persist, it is plain he might have brought on an action of magnitude at a point favorable enough to him, but he preferred to rest content with what he had won. The losses on either side seem to have been about the same, while all the advantage otherwise remained with us.
[The Tribune will find some difficulty in finding that "three miles" on the map.]
GovernorBramlette, of Kentucky, and the Approaching Presidential "election."
GovernorBramlette, of Kentucky, has periodical fits of sauciness towards his master at Washington, which must amuse the Yankees a good deal, especially as nothing ever comes out of them.
His last proclamation is a good specimen.
It refers to the military control which the New England masters of Kentucky intend to exercise over the voting in that State at what is called, by way of a joke, the "coming Presidential election." It is dated "Executive Mansion, Frankfort, October 17," and here is an extract:
The military authorities have nothing to do with elections, and have no authority or right, as officers or soldiers, to interfere therewith.
At elections, all are citizens — none are soldiers.
Citizenship is the highest status of the man. The soldier is but a citizen employed in the military service — not in the civil.
The duty of the soldier is to support — not to overthrow or control — the civil authority.
He is to establish the civil authority where it has been overborne by revolt — not to overrule or usurp civil authority.
If, therefore, any military officer shall show-himself so regardless of duty as to assume to direct or control the officers of election, you should treat such orders with indignant contempt, and scorn obedience which implies perjury and cowardice in you.
If military force is brought to menace the officers of election or voters, your duty is clearly marked out by law. The law is as binding upon the soldier as upon any other citizen.
He has no more right to violate it, and is as amenable to its penalties.
As no officer of any rank, from the President down, has any right or authority to interfere with elections, no order to do so can legalize the act. If there be sufficient power in the citizens present at any place where such interference may be attempted to arrest the offenders, and hold them over to answer to the violated laws, it will be the duty of the sheriff to make the arrest in such case.
He has authority to require the aid of every citizen, and it should be readily and promptly given in defence of a common right — of a blood-bought franchise.
If the force employed to interfere with the election be too great, at any place of voting, to be arrested, the officers of election in such case should adjourn, and not proceed with the election.
If you are unable to hold a free election, your duty is to hold none at all, but adjourn and report the offenders to the grand jury of your county for indictment and punishment.--This is the lawful mode of meeting unlawful attempts to disturb the freedom of elections.
Miscellaneous.
Hon.JohnL.Dawson and A.H.Coffroth (Democrats) turn out to be elected to Congress from Pennsylvania.
The Abolitionists claimed to have carried these districts.
GeneralT.E.G.Ransom, commanding the Seventeenth corps of Sherman's army, died at Rome, Georgia, on the 30th.
GeneralDix, commanding the Department of the East, has issued an order granting furloughs to soldiers in his department, unfit for field service, to go home to vote on the Presidential election.
It is stated, with much positiveness, by the Washington letter-writers, that immediately after the Presidential election, Mr.Stanton is to go upon the bench of the Supreme Court; and Mr.Blair, late postmaster-general, is to have charge of the War Department portfolio.
The anticipated "rebel" raid on Buffalo from Canada has not yet been carried out. It is thought that the leaders in it were awed by the military and other preparations for their reception.
A number of suspicious persons have been observed in the city; and it is asserted that rockets have been sent up and guns fired on the American shore as signals to the rebels across the lake in Canada.
CaptainBuchanan, a quartermaster, was killed by the Confederates, near Charlestown, Virginia, last week, and for it, MissMollieMcDonough, living near the spot, was arrested and carried to the Old Capitol prison at Washington.
Speaking of the presence of GovernorSeymour's committee in Washington to investigate the arrests of the New York State Agents, the correspondent of the New York Tribune says they saw the President and Secretary of War, and that "the plain English of their appeal, sifted down, is, after all, that the Government must deal very gingerly with these criminals; if it don't, the public peace will be terribly disturbed, and the Copperheads in New York will do desperate things.
We shall see how much it will bear down upon such demands."
The New York insurance companies propose to raise their rates, and the signatures of nineteen- twentieths of the companies have been obtained to an agreement to that effect.
"MollieHayes," a noted female rebel spy, of Forrest's command, who was captured six months ago, has been sent to the Alton (Illinois) prison.
A hotel is up at raffle in St. Joseph, Missouri.
It is valued at one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, and the tickets are one dollar each.
GeneralSheridan, in the course of his recent campaign in the Valley, has had five of his staff officers killed or wounded.
One lady and twelve gentlemen were graduated at Oberlin College at the late commencement.
A movement is proposed at Nantucket to enter upon the cod and mackerel fishery as a means of retrieving the prosperity of the town.
MissDickinson lectured in the Boston Fraternity Course last week.
Topic: "Chicago the Last Ditch."
Sheridan's losses in the battle of Strasburg are now officially put down at 7,086.
SecretaryStanton is quite ill from chills and fever, supposed to have been contracted in the miasmas on the banks of the James.
"Bill Anderson."
--"An eye-witness" furnishes the St. Joseph (Missouri)Journal with some items in reference to CaptainBillAnderson and the affair at Centralia, with a description of the man.
He appears to be a man about five feetten inches high, rather slim, black beard, long black hair, inclined to curl; and, altogether, a promising-looking man of about thirty-two years of age.
He told the Yankees captured that they had just killed six of his soldiers, scalped them, and left them on the prairies.
He was too honorable to permit any man to be scalped, but he would show them that he could kill them, with as much rapidity and skill as anybody.
Should Federal hands, he should expect no quarter, and none; and all Federal soldiers falling into his hands would be put to death.
It is only due to him to say that his whole family has been murdered ruthlessly by men in Federal uniform — even his mother and sisters.--He is only retaliating.
The Yellow Fever at North Carolina, has abated since the cold weather.
While it raged as an epidemic, the daily average of deaths was fifty- seven.
On one day, two hundred and sixty-seven persons died.
Eighty soldiers, of the Plymouth Connecticut, died in one day, and this whole regiment has been nearly annihilated.
The provost marshal and clerks Major was his . Chickahominy, of Fort Anderson, also died, hundredYankees have published who about one hundredone thousand seven hundred and sixty in all.
Interesting from Europe.
The European mails of the 20th contain some additional intelligence of interest.
Mr.Gladstone on the prospect of
Mr.Gladstone, in a speech on non-intervention, said that England, as a nation, could not interfere in any way in the American war, but,--
For my own part, I confess I have always had great doubts as to the practicability of reducing to subjection any large portion of a country that manifests a determined disposition to separate.--[Continued cheering.]
The feeling towards the Confederacy in France.
A letter in the London Post, from Paris on the 14th ultimo, speaking of the American war, says:
The Moniteur and other papers have referred to the pence address sent from Great Britain to the American people.
If three hundred thousand signatures have been obtained in England and Ireland, an equal number might, with the utmost each, have been collected in France.
The French Government, regarding this civil war as a great Master for America, and a great calamity for a certain class of manufacturers, has continued to promote ideas of reconciliation. On the other hand, the strictest neutrality was, and is, observed on all questions connected with the building of vessels or furnishing munitions of war. The Imperial Government of course only knows the Government of Washington; but it is no secret that, as in England, the Southern envoys have occasionally, communicated with official personages in Paris.
Perhaps the sympathy of the majority in this country is with the Southern cause. The French people instinctively lean towards the weaker party, and witness, in the heroic fights of the Southern army, a people struggling bravely, and with marvellous endurance, against an enemy whose resources, domestic and foreign, are almost unlimited.
The French people, from all that one can observe, desire to witness the end of this bloody struggle quite as much as do all right-thinking men in England.
Personal and material interests, however, have less to do with that feeling than formerly.
The cotton trade of Havre and Rouen has gradually righted itself, at least to a certain extent.
As in England, other supplies have been landed at Havre, and trade has gradually recovered.
The exportation trade generally, from France to America, has not, strange to say, fallen off. The wealthy in the Northern States buy largely from France.
The alarm once felt in this country about the American war has greatly diminished.
But the desire for peace is not less universal. Humanitarian as well as material interests associate the Government and people of France with the sentiments embodied in the peace address of the British nation.
The great Southern bazaar in Liverpool for the Relief of Southern Prisoners.
On the 19th ultimo, one of the most magnificent bazaars ever held in the north of England was opened at the St. George's Hall, in Liverpool, in aid of the "Southern Prisoners' Relief Fund."--For nearly six months the preparations have been in progress, and during that time contributions the most valuable have flowed in from all parts of the world.
So numerous, indeed, are the articles thus generously given, that the difficulty has not been to "dress" the stalls, in the technical sense of the word, but to exhibit all that they contain; for a bazaar on so sumptuous and vast a scale as this one, is dwarfed even in the magnificent hall devoted to it. The LondonHerald thus describes the scene:
The stalls, of which there are twelve, named after the Southern States, are ranged down the sides of the hall, five on each side, and the remaining two form a large central tent, from the apex of which rises a triplet of tri-colored flags.
Tri-colored drapery also roofs the stalls, and it being of bunting instead of the ordinary glazed calico, gives a peculiar soft and rich appearance, and heightens the effectiveness of the harmonious color contrasts.
The stalls are alternately square and octagonal in shapes, the octagons having tent or spiral roofs rising to a point, and capped with the Confederate flag; and the square ones, sloping roofs, reaching about half way up to the gallery.
The counters are all covered with crimson cloth, and a drapery valiance, which runs round the top of each stall, forms a very graceful cornice.
The valiance itself is elaborately decorated with a blue margin and a prettily-designed red, white and blue centre, and above the top margin is a neat border, terminating in a tri-colored cord, which runs from stall to stall.
The panelings at the bottom of the stalls are of white drapery, relieved by blue; and the panels themselves, by gold beading, and uted at the bottom.
At the south end of the hall, and in the middle of the floor, is the aution stand, an octagonally-shaped platform, which is to be at first appropriated for the larger and heavier articles.
It, too, is wrapped in crimson, and bears ingeniously-designed combinations of colors.
The panels are fluted and have gold mouldings, and the centre is studded with blue and white rosettes.
The central tent, to which we have already referred as the largest, is also the most complete; one-half of it forms the Kentucky stall, presided over by the Lady De Hoghton and Mrs.Oliver, and the other half of the Tennessee stall, at which the Lady M. Beresford Hope and Mrs.F.Hull presided.
Various flags--Confederate and British--are displayed throughout the hall; but these have been selected with a judiciousness and taste which has rather tended to subdue effects, and thus prevent the glare and gaudiness which probably would otherwise have been apparent.
Thus at the apex of each of the bell-roofed sectional octagon tents are small triplets — a tri-colored of the Confederacy being in the centre, and the English and French flags on either side.
At the stall named "Georgia," which is the fourth on the left-hand side, the flag of the shipGeorgia is exhibited; and it may be interesting to mention that this same stall is presided over by Mrs.Bullock, the wife of CaptainBullock, of the famous man-of-war.
The fronts of all the stalls are covered with small silk banners, bearing the stars of the Confederacy and the motto, "Deo Vindice."
On entering the hall from the east lobby, the first stall on the left hand is "Virginia, " held by the Countess de Dampierre, Mrs.Patterson and Mrs.M.G.Klingender.
The great attractions on this stall are a number of artistically-designed albums of the Confederate generals, a bronze of Mephistopheles, and various small articles of interest.
"North Carolina" is the next stall in order, and it is presided over by Mrs.Spence and Mrs.F.Worthington.
It is richly laden with china vases, and contains a magnificently-gilt clock. "South Carolina," the next stall, is held by the Lady Wharncliffe and Mrs.Pricleau.
It contains chiefly small, but richly-wrought, articles of needle-work, scarfs, pictures, and baskets of elegant workmanship.
The "Georgia" stall is very finely decorated externally, but the interior is devoted chiefly to baby linen; the only other article worth notice here being a curiously- shared large clock.
The ladies presiding are Mrs.Bullock and Mrs.Trapman.
"Florida" is presided over by Mrs.Cassin and Mrs.Patrick.
It contains many valuable and elegant pieces of workmanship in worsted, some exquisitely-wrought screen needle- work, two bassinets, gilt ottoman, and a large number of small ferns and other articles.
The central stalls--"Kentucky" and "Tennessee"--will probably be found the most attractive, not only from their position, but also from the great variety of their contents. "Kentucky" is kept by the ladyDeHoghton and Mrs.G.W.Oliver.--Among its exhibitions is a doll house, five feeteight inches high, valued at seventy pounds. We noticed, also, a very elegant silver centre piece, which had been designed by Mrs.Oliver.
The design consisted of a tripod base, from which springs a palmetto tree, supporting the glass.
At the base of the stem is a figure representing the Confederate States draped in the flag of the Confederacy, and holding in her hands the emblems of Faith, Hope and Charity.
On the reverse side is a bale of cotton and the war flag of the Confederates.
The "Tennessee" part of the tent is kept by the Lady M. Beresford Hope and Mrs.F.Hull.
Here is a large and apparently very valuable doll's bedstead, a picture of the Holy Family in Parian, a box of small busts of JeffersonDavis, sent by LadyBeresfordHope, and some small Swise ornaments.
"Alabama," the end tent on the western side, is devoted to some of the most interesting and costly articles of the bazaar.
Among these is a clock representing the cathedral of Milan, in pearl shell.--The stall also contains rope-dancers, various other figures, boxes of coins, pieces of needlework (one of these valued at thirty guineas), and models of wild Alabama flowers in wax. Alabama is kept by Mrs.Malcomson and Mrs.Pratt.
The Mississippi tent is kept by the Countess of Chesterfield and the Hon. Mrs.Slidell.
It contains many of the most useful contributions, among which are rugs of bearskin.
There is also here a large collection of Bohemian dolls.
The care of the tent named "Louisiana" is confided to Mrs.Byrne, Mrs.T.Byrne and Mrs.F.Bodewald.
This stall contains a very handsome Indian cover from Canada, a single monkey stuffed, and a couple of monkeys stuffed, a miniature organ, a French toilet table, and smaller articles for the toilet.
"Texas" is devoted to jewelry, statuettes, timepieces, tapestry, and several richly-worked Mrs.A.Forwood, Mrs.W.Forwood and Mrs.W.Heyn are the ladies in attendance.
"Arkansas," at which Mrs.Sillem and Mrs.J.Willink preside, has a model of the shipFlorida, several handsome silver jugs, some splendid American an American rabbit, a very pretty child's bassinet, together with baskets and multifarious other small articles.
During the morning the basr was so densely crowded that locomotion was almost impossible, and the business transacted was exceedingly profitable to the relief fund.
The basr continues open for three days more.
The advance in the Confederate Cotton Loan.
The LondonHerald of the 17th, in its financial article, says:
There was a marvellous rise in the stock of the Confederacy cotton Purchases were made on the from the South and the tion of very heavy for the full.
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The London press on Lincoln's election.
The Times, commenting on the state of portion in the United States, says "peace has scene friends, but no party which cannot be swept away by the report of a single victory." It adds:
On the 4th of March next, Mr.Lincoln will quit the President's chair to renew his oath of office and resume his seat.
Any statements comparing what the North has gained since March, 1860, with the price paid for it in life and money, would be appalled by the results of the calculation.
To the party politicians of America they appear trifling, and the future is regarded with exactly the same complacence as when they had not written the first load of the tragic volume the history of the war has now swelled into.
For ourselves, we look on the prospect of four years more of such a civil contact at once horrible and wearying,
Never ending, still beginning; Fighting still, and still destroying,
as the most melancholy and depressing the whole world presents, and the greatest reproach to mankind.
The London Telegraph, on the same subject, says:
Whether the North elect Lincoln or McClellan--and certainly, for the time being, the chances are much in favor of the former--it is tolerably clear that the new President will find in the South none of that "exhaustion" which has been perpetually prophesied and never proved.
The prospects of the Confederacy have, indeed, been often brighter, but they have also more than once been darker than now. Even the first part of the long Northern programme is as yet unfulfilled.
The recent successes have been singularly barren of practical results; the collapse that follows an excessive effort is beginning to be visible, and hence New York, despite all the re-assuring bulletins of Mr. SecretaryStanton, is so far from feeling confidence in the Executive, that gold, which not long ago seemed steadily falling, has again risen to the significant quotation of 199.
When the Parisian "Refugees" expect peace.
The Paris correspondent of the London Telegraph writes:
Yesterday and to-day there has been a general exodus of the Southern Americans, who are going over in a body to attend the fancy bazaar at Liverpool. "When shall we have peace in your country?" I asked yesterday of one these gentlemen. "Possibly in four years," was the reply.
Miscellaneous.
The London Times of October 20th thinks it not uncharitable to suppose that the Federal accounts just now are made as favorable as possible, to suit the political emergency.
It deplores the prospect of continued war as most melancholy and depressing to the whole world, and as presenting the greatest reproaches to mankind.
The English financial crisis reached a point of great intensity on the 18th of October.Twenty mercantile firms, engaged in the American trade, failed between that day and the morning of the 20th instant.
Other failures are reported from London and the English manufacturing towns.
A London bank manager committed suicide in a fit of despair at his position, and we to-day detail the particulars of the suicide of Mr.Drosten, a corn merchant in London, from the same cause.
Mr.HenryLafoce, in a letter to the London Times, says: "I must positively contradict the assertion that CaptainSemmes was a passenger in the Laurel.
A United States man-of-war went in pursuit of the Laurel for the purpose of apprehending CaptainSemmes, who has been pronounced a prisoner of war."
The American advices received per the steamshipNorth American had no particular effect in England.
It is stated that the English poet laureate has already cleared ten thousand pounds by "EnochArden and other Poems." Mrs.AlfredTennyson, the laureate's wife, has published a song of her own composing.
A young bride of eighteen, in Marseilles, was burned to death on the morning of her marriage by treading on a match, which ignited and set her clothes on fire.
LouisNapoleon is trying the "Banting" system for the reduction of corpulence.
AlexanderDumas is coming to the United States.
Late Paris fashions represent the ladies wearing coat tails a yard long.
Married,
On the 26th of October, 1864, by the Rev.G.Jacobs, Mr.LewisLippman, of Savannah, Georgia, to MissEmmaSemon, daughter of E.Semon, Esq., of Richmond, Virginia.
Died.
On Wednesday , 2d instant, of diptheria, Willie, infant son of Thomas J. and ChristianaAllgood, aged five months and fifteen days.
At Maiden's Adventure, in Powhatan county, on Wednesday, 2d instant, Mrs.RobertaC.P.Bragg, wife of D.W.Bragg, of Petersburg.
On the 25th of October, LieutenantB.W.Vick, Seventh North Carolina regiment.
Baltimore papers please copy.
On Wednesday, November2d, EmmaColeman, aged thirteen days, infant daughter of George and VirginiaE.Foos.
Baltimore Sun please copy.
A proclamation.
State of Virginia, Executive Department,Richmond,November1, 1864.
--The General Assembly of this Commonwealth having, on the 27th of February last, adopted a joint resolution requesting to be convened on the first Wednesday in December next; and a majority of that body having, in writing, on the 10th day of March last, also asked that they shall be re-assembled at the time aforesaid; therefore.
I, WilliamSmith, Governor of the Commonwealth, in deference to wishes thus expressed, do hereby announce by this, my proclamation, to the Senators and Delegates of the General Assembly of this Commonwealth, that they are required to convene at the Capitol, in the city of Richmond, on the first Wednesday in December next, at , then and there to take into consideration the condition of public affairs and to enact such laws as they may deem necessary and proper.
Given under my hand as Governor, and under the seal of the Commonwealth, at Richmond, this first day of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and in the eighty-ninth year of the Commonwealth.
WilliamSmith. Teste: GeorgeW.Munford,Secretary of the Commonwealth.no 3--1aw3w
Richmond Dispatch.
Local Matters.
Broad Rock Rocks.
--The fall meeting over this time--honored course commenced last Wednesday, the first race being a post-stake for $7,000, two mile play or pay.
D inclemency of the weather, a large number of and other lovers of the blooded horse and the betting on the result quite spirited, because of the Bness of the truck. "Orica," one of the favorite of Revenue, had the "call" against any named horse, and in some instances was taken against the field.
In the first heat, led off, and, despite the effort of his competition, rapidity in --This unexpected result made the winner the favorite with many for the stake, and any of "" was observable among the betters.
For the heat, "Conductor" got a good d-off, and taking the lead, under a steady pull, held it to the end of the heat, despise "Orien's" efforts to displace him, winning it in
Betters were now at sea as to the result.
Oakland and Conductor each having a heat, whilst the first favorite had showed second best on each, without being able to show in front.
For the third heat, Orien out the running, and won in 4.02.
The fourth heat and the stake was also won by Orien in 4.10, the mud having told heavily upon each of the contestants.
We append a summary:
Post-stake, two mile heats, free for all ges,$2,000 entrance, play or pay, the proprietor to add $1,000:
D.Ward's bay horse Orien, four years old, by Revenue, dam Nina.
2211
C.Green's chestant horse Conductor, five years old, by Engineer, out of Nina 3122
D. McDaniel's bay horse Oakland, four years old, by Revenue, out of a Margrave mare 1333
Time: 3.53--3.58--4.02--4.10.
The mile-heat posts take will come off next Tuesday, and as three of the finest three-year olds in the State are expected to come together, another exciting race may be looked for.
Mayor's Court, yesterday.
--Baylor, slave of JohnF.Hicks, was charged with stealing one side of sole leather and five candles.
The accused stated that if time was allowed him he could prove honest possession of the leather and candles, whereupon the Mayor, in order to give him time to do so, continued the matter till to-day.
AnnaConley was charged with receiving a counterpane, the property of Middle Brockett, knowing the same to have been stolen, but Mrs.Couley proved that she received it from a white man who claimed it as his own, and was there upon discharged.
CharlesPryor, a free negro with no papers, and having a pair of boots in his possession supposed to have been stolen, was ordered to be whipped.
BathurstM.Davis, of this city, a young man about twenty-two years of age, was charged with stealing a gold watch, of superior quality, the property of DanielE.Gardner.
On Tuesday, the Grand Jury of the Circuit Court of Henrico presented the accused for the offence; but Judges Mdith, presiding in the absence of JudgeGregory, deeming the matter beyond his jurisdiction turned it over to the city authorities.
The following is the testimony in the case:
DanielE.Gardner, sworn.--I live in the Law Building.
On Friday last, CaptainMagruder, who has been staying with me for a few days, came into my room about , while I was in bed, wound up my watch, and then hung it up where he got it from.
I fell asleep, and did not wake up till between and , when I got out of bed, put on my pants, and went into the next room, where I found CaptainMagruder, ColonelMagruder, ColonelJ.LuciusDavis, and his son Bathurst, sitting around the stove.
I was asked the time of day, and went back into my chamber to see, but my watch was gone.
Besides these gentlemen, there were three or four negroes who had access to my room, and suspicion rested on the latter.
I advertised the watch, offering a reward of one thousand dollars. In two or three days afterwards, Messrs.Mitchell & Tyler sent for me, and when I called to see them they handed me the watch.
CaptainMagruder went with me, and asked who left the watch there; but only received the reply, "Remember, no questions are to be asked." I have known Mr.Davis from his boyhood, and had not the slightest suspicion that he had stolen my watch.
Detective LewisCharles, sworn.--On Friday last, CaptainMagruder came to our office and informed CaptainDoswell that Mr.Gardner's watch had been stolen, and he desired an officer to go with him to arrest a suspected party.
I went with CaptainMagruder, and Mr.Davis was pointed out as the suspected person.
I arrested Davis, and told him the suspicions against him. He told me he thought the watch had been either sent or carried out of town by a man named Blake, but that he would endeavor to get it, and would leave it at a certain barber-shop that evening.
He did not do so, however, and detective Williams and myself then told him it was useless to be fooling about the matter any longer, that if he would produce the watch nothing more would be said about it. We were then at the chief-of-police office.
Davis replied that, if he had a horse to ride, he thought he could get the watch by Saturday.
I went out after a horse, leaving Davis with Mr.Williams; but when I came back he was gone.
In a few minutes afterwards, a negro came into the office and handed us (myself and Williams) the watch.
We carried it down to Mitchell & Tyler's, the place designated in the advertisement that it was to be left at, and received a check for one thousand dollars, as advertised.
Upon being asked who we got the watch from, our reply was that the advertisement said "no questions would be asked." I think ColonelMagruder and Mr.Gardner both told me they suspected Mr.Davis. ColonelMagruder pointed him out to me, or I should not have known him.
ColonelJ.LuciusDavis, sworn.--On Friday , while myself and some other gentlemen were sitting in Mr.Gardner's reception room, (Mr.Gardner himself being in the next room sleep,) an old soldier, named Blake, who belonged to my command some time since, made his appearance and asked me to loan him my horse for a short while.
I declined doing so, as I had to use him myself.
Blake then went into Mr.Gardner's room and remained there for several minutes.
Afterwards he came out and went off. I heard, subsequently, that Mr.Gardner had lost his watch, and immediately suspected that Blake had stolen it when he was in his room.
Blake was in the habit of going through the enemy's lines as a scout, and on several occasions he has returned with a number of very fine watches, which he said he had taken from the pockets of dead Yankees whom he had killed.
I know him to be a brave man, but know nothing of his moral character.
Thought his conduct suspicious in going into Gardner's room, and concluded that, as he had a penchant for gold watches, he must have stolen Mr.Gardner's. I then, peremptorily, ordered my son, Bathurst, who was present, to go immediately in search of the stolen watch, and to leave no stone unturned towards obtaining it. Knowing that Blake came to Mr.Gardner's to see me, both my son and myself felt hurt that Mr.Gardner should suffer on my account.
My son obeyed my commands, and started out in search of an officer to assist him. I afterwards, to my great surprise, heard that my son was suspected of the robbery, and that the case had been brought to the notice of the Grand Jury of the County Court.
Upon informing Bathurst of the report, he wanted to go and give himself up, but I told him he was to do no such thing; that counsel should first be consulted, and he must be governed by their advice.
My son reluctantly consented, and expressed his regret that I had forced him to undertake to find the watch for Mr.Gardner, as by as doing it had involved him in the difficulty.
He, however, took a room on
Main street, where he remained till this morning, when he voluntarily came here (before the Mayor) and gave himself up.
GeneralWilliamH.Richardson and Rev. Dr.Michelbacher were then called to testify as to the character of the accused, both of whom spoke of him in the most exalted terms.
They had known him, and, in fact, all of the family, from their childhood, and could truly state that a more generous, honorable, and respectable family they had never met with.
It was impossible to believe that the accused was guilty of the crime alleged against him.
In the absence of one or two other witnesses, the case was continued till such time as their presence can be secured.
The Mayor refused to grant the prisoner bail, and he was thereupon remanded to jail.
Messrs.A.JudsonCrane and DanielRatcliffe appeared as Davis's council.
Owing to the respectable character of the accused, this case excited considerable interest, and during the progress of the examination the court-room was unusually crowded.
Bogus detectives.
--Three white men, representing themselves as detectives in the employ of CaptainThomasW.Dorwall, assistant provost-marshal of Richmond, visited the house of a free negro named AmosEvans, on
Adams street, between Clay and Leigh, last Wednesday , under presence of being in search of free negro deserters from the batteries.
They ransacked every hole and corner in the place, and took away with them over $450 in money, besides three very fine silk dresses.
It is hardly necessary to say that neither of them over had any connection with CaptainDorwell's corps of officers; but that they were nothing more than worthless thieves, who reserted to the of "detective" to gain an entrance into the house which they intended to rob.
Sony vs the
--JoshuaOutaga, indicted for stealing a gold watch and chain from CaptainWilliam J. of this city, was tried in the Hustings Court yesterday, found guilty by the jury, and sentenced to the penitentiary for two year.
The reported of a flag-of-truce such in James river, which was two since, is without foundation.
Up to no such reported to the flag-of-truce office in this day.
The .
--Only seven were at the yesterday.
These were made from before the city, on the north side of James river.
Rags Wanted.
--The highest market price will be paid at this office for all kinds of Clean Cotton and Linen Rags, in large or small quantities.
It has been a matter of astonishment that the North, which has always boasted of its universally diffused intellectual cultivation, should exhibit such monstrous wickedness as this war has developed.--But all history illustrates a truth which is the vital basis of Revolution — the depravity of the human heart — and demonstrates the inefficiency of intellectual cultivation to remedy that defect of human nature.
It was not the peculiarity of power being vested in a few hands, as we may now see, which caused the wrongs and outrages of which society formerly complained, but the inherent depravity of man, which becomes no less manifest and deplorable by changing the seat of power.
There was profound truth in the observation of Coleridge--"The more virtue the more liberty." Intelligence cannot supply the place of virtue.
MissEdgeworth told the truth when she put into the mouth of one of her character--"Edication will do a great deal, but it won't change the nature that is in them." It is the universal testimony of history that, in those ages of society in which knowledge was most generally diffused and religion neglected, corruption was most widely spread.
Statistical tables have been published which establish this fact: That education alone cannot inshore the character beyond the reach of contradiction.
The experiment has been fairly tried in England, France and Germany, where, for many years, the most indefatigable efforts have been made, both by Government and private societies, to promote education.
In France, the effort was, for half a century, to extend intellectual cultivation and, at the same, time depress religion.
The result in France is admitted, by a Whig sympathizer in England, Bulwer, in these words: "While crimes against the person are most frequent in Corsica, the provinces of the Southeast and Alsace, where the people are well instructed, there are the fewest of those crimes in Berry, Limonsin and Brtianny, where the people are the most ignorant.
And as for crimes against propriety, it is almost invariably those departments that are the best informed which are the most criminal; a fact which clearly shows that, if instruction does not increase crime, there is no reason to believe that it diminishes it. This admission of Mr.Bulwer is based on laborious returns obtained by the French Government from all the departments of the empire, and illustrated by maps prepared by M.Guerry, from which it appears that, wherever the number of educated persons is the greatest, there crime is most frequent; and that wherever it is the least, crime is most rare.
Statistics of crime in England and Wales prove that, whilst education has been more universally disseminated than ever before, the increase of crime has been more rapid than that of the population; and that in Scotland, where education is almost universal, it is more rapid than in England.
And as to the United States, the Baron Tocqueville, the most enlightened and philosophic traveler in that republic, long ago observed, "In Connecticut, where there is far more instruction than in New York, crime increases with a terrible rapidity; and if one cannot accuse knowledge as the cause of this, one is obliged to acknowledge it is no prevention."
Hence we may dismiss our astonishment at the display of Yankee depravity in this war. The value of education, combined with virtuous training, no one but a madman would deny.
Separated from it, as in the Northern States, it is only an instrument of vast force, capable of being exercised to the worst purposes.
The power to read and write does not check evil desires nor had passions of any kind.
It has been well observed that the Devil was the great prototype of the perfection of intellect without virtue; and every day's experience (especially that of this war) demonstrates that the mere cultivation of the intellectual faculty, without a proportionate care of moral and religious instruction, is only letting loose a legion of devils on the world.--That intelligence is not, apart from virtue, any more a bulwark of freedom than of morality, is also proved by the facility with which the Yankee people, who can all read and write, have parted with all the liberties achieved by their forefathers in the Revolution.
LordBrougham once said he did not despair of seeing the day when every poor man should read Bacon.
Cobbett added, it would be much more to the purpose if it could give them all the means of eating it.
Letter from Georgia. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.]Macon, October25, 1864.
It might not be imprudent to publish, when this reaches you, where the point is towards which GeneralHood's army is tending; but I will not say now what, probably, even then, should not be, for military reasons, divulged.
Important movements are on foot here, which, if successful, will make every Confederate heart leap for joy; but as their success might be jeoparded by their premature announcement, I forbear.
From the great popular interest manifested in the movements of the army, I am satisfied that the heart of this country is true to the Confederate cause, and will compromise with nothing short of conquering a peace, whatever individuals may suggest of other methods for the attainment of the desired boon.
The rebuke of Mr.Boyee, of South Carolina, by the people of the vicinage, shows very clearly that the old Palmetto State will be true to her instincts, and will tolerate no doubtful or equivocal language, even in a cherished son, as to the method of attaining the result — solving the great problem.
From conversations with several leading gentlemen of Georgia since I entered the State, I derive the assurance that, whatever may float to the surface in the shape of individual opinion or suggestion, even upon the part of distinguished men, the heart of the State is sound to the core; the success of the Confederate cause is uppermost in the minds of everybody, and nothing they desire so much as to see a hearty co-operative effort, upon the part of the Government and people, for the recuperation and support of the armies.
The late order revoking details meets with universal approval, and the people are fully prepared for other and more effectual methods of increasing their strength, such as the repeal of the agricultural clause of the late military bill and the contribution of the reserve forces, now limited to the States, to the Confederate force in the field.
The resolutions passed at the late Convention of Governors at Augusta meet with a universal feeling of approbation; and great good, in harmonizing discrepancies of opinion rather than interest, is expected to result from it. The President's visit south has been attended with good results, in imparting new life and hope to the cause, and in causing him to be better understood and more understandingly appreciated.
I think he enjoys a higher degree of the popular confidence as a man of wisdom, purity and patriotism than ever before, for the reason that he is better understood than ever before.
I cannot but indulge the wish and the hope that the country and the Congress will rally to his support in a spirit of lofty self-abnegation; the first, by willingly yielding to the cause all its resources of men and means; the last, by the exercise of a spirit of grave and earnest wisdom in its deliberations, not heretofore its prime characteristic.
If they should, our cause is no longer a problem, but a success.
Alabama.
Home for Georgia Exiles.
--A "Home for Exiles" has been located in Terrell county, Georgia, and is said to be working admirably.
The MaconConfederate says:
"The State purchased a large tract of land, in the midst of which it is situated; and the location is a most delightful and healthy one.
A tent-town has been built up, in imitation of the primitive mode of man. Spacious streets are observed between the rows of tents, and the sidewalks are kept neat and clean.
Order, gentility, morality and religion — indeed, all the characteristics of a Quaker settlement — lend their attractions to the place.
A rigid system of moral discipline is enforced.
No loose or doubtful characters are permitted to remain in the institution."
Marital Rights of slaves.
--A Baptist Association of Georgia, at its late session, adopted the following resolution in relation to the marriage relationship between slaves:
"Resolved, That it is the firm belief and conviction of this body that the institution of marriage was ordained by Almighty God for the benefit of the whole human race, without respect to color; that it ought to be maintained in its original purity among all classes of people, and in all countries, and in all ages, till the end of time; and that, consequently, the law of Georgia, in its failure to recognize and protect this relation between our slaves, is essentially defective, and ought to be amended."
Arrest of a female spy.
--A young woman, calling herself MissJones, was arrested in Selma, Alabama, on the 29th ultimo, charged with being a Federal spy. She had about her person a number of papers, the nature of which we were unable to ascertain, and a large amount of greenbacks.
She acknowledged having two accomplices.
GovernorClark, of Mississippi, has called a State convention, to meet at Jackson on the 3d instant, to inaugurate measures for the education of the children of our deceased soldiers.
Special Notices.
Amusements.
Lost, Strayed and stolen.
For Rent.
Wanted.
Wanted to Hire, an honest, industrious Servant Boy, who is accustomed to horses; one from the country preferred.--He must have entirely satisfactory testimonials as to his honesty. Apply to CaptainMarye, at GeneralPemberton's headquarters, Belvin's Block, or address box 1,589, city post-office.
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Wanted, a white Woman, without children, to clean and keep in order bedrooms.
Best references required.
Also, a Negro man Cook, capable, and, if possible, honest.--Apply at the South Carolina Soldiers' Home, Exchange Hotel.
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Wanted, a Servant Woman, who is a good Cook, Washer and Ironer, to go a few miles in the country, an Irish woman preferred.
Apply at the Arlington House, corner of Sixth and Main.
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Auction Sales.future day.
Receiver's sale of Monticello and Buck Island Estates, and other valuable property.
--In pursuance of a degree of the District Court of the Confederate States of America for the Eastern District of Virginia pronounced on the 27th of September, 1864, in the case of the Confederate States against GeorgeCarr and JoelN.Wheeler, I shall sell, on the 17th day of November, at public auction, on the premises, for cash, in Confederate Treasury notes of the new issue, the following real and personal estate, late the property of CaptainU.P.Levy, deceased, an alien enemy:
1.
Monticello, a tract of two hundred and eighteen acres of land, in the county of Albemarle, in the State of Virginia, about two miles from the town of Charlottesville, with all the buildings therein, consisting of a large and commodious brick dwelling-house, with a variety of out-buildings, planned and built by Mr.Jefferson, who owned it and resided there at the time of his death.
2. Buck Island, a tract of nine hundred and sixty-one acres, about three miles distant from Monticello, and about the same distance from the Rivanna canal.
This was once the property of JamesMonroe, and was by him conveyed to the Bank of the United States, by whom it was conveyed to the said U.P.Levy by deed of record in the Clerk's Office of the County Court of Albemarle.
Much of this land is arable and of good quality, and the rest is heavily timbered with pine, &c., suitable for ship-building.
3. After the sale of the real estate, there will be sold at the same time, and on the same terms, nineteen Negro slaves, a variety of Household Furniture, Farming Utensils, Horses, Cattle, Hogs, Sheep, &c.
The sale will be conducted by D. M. Pattie, Deputy Marshal, who resides in Charlottesville, and will show the property at any time before the sale to any one who may desire to purchase it.
HenryL.Brooke, Receiver for District No. 3. no 2--tds
For Rent at auction.
Auction Sales.future day.
Sale of Negros, Crop, stock and Plantation Utensils at public auction.
--Will be sold, on Monday, November14th, 1864, at Wardsfork, two miles from Charlotte Court-House, thirty-three Negros, including some good mechanics; twenty-five head Cattle; seventy Sheep; sixty-one Hogs; eleven Horses and Mules; seventeen stacks Fodder; thirty stacks Oats; about two hundred and fifty barrels of Corn; Plantation Utensils; Kitchen Furnitures; also, one Carriage and Buggy.
Terms: Credit of six months except for sums of one hundred dollars and less; purchaser giving bond with approved security, bearing interest from date.
RichardV.Gaines,RobertH.Gaines, Executors of R.I.Gaines, deceased. Whig and Examiner copy. no 1--12t
Proclamation
Appointing a day for public worship.
It is meet that the people of the Confederate States should, from time to time, assemble to acknowledge their dependence on Almighty God, to render devout thanks for His manifold blessings, to worship His Holy name, to bend in prayer at His footstool, and to accept with reverent submission the chastening of His All-wise and All-merciful Providence.
Let us, then, in temples and in fields, unite our voices in recognizing, with adoring gratitude, the manifestations of His protecting care in the many signal victories with which our arms have been crowned, in the fruitfulness with which our land has been blessed, and in the unimpaired energy and fortitude with which He has inspired our hearts and strengthened our arms in resistance to the iniquitous designs of our enemies.
And let us not forget that, while graciously vouchsafing to us His protection, our sins have merited and received grievous chastisement; that many of our best and bravest have fallen in battle; that many others are still held in foreign prisons; that large districts of our country have been devastated with savage ferocity — the peaceful homes destroyed and helpless women and children driven away in destitution; and that with fiendish malignity the passions of a servile race have been excited by our foes into the commission of atrocities from which death is a welcome escape.
Now, therefore, I, JeffersonDavis,President of the Confederate States of America, do issue this my proclamation, setting apart Wednesday, the sixteenth day of November next, as a day to be specially devoted to the worship of Almighty God; and I do invite and invoke all the people of these Confederate States to assemble on the day aforesaid, in their respective places of public worship, there to unite in prayer to our Heavenly Father, that He bestow His favor upon us; that He extend over us the protection of His almighty arm; that He sanctify His chastisement to our improvement, so that we may turn away from evil paths and walk righteously in His sight; that He restore peace to our beloved country, healing its bleeding wounds, and securing to us the continued enjoyment of our right of self-government and independence; and that He graciously hearken to us, while we ascribe to Him the power and glory of our deliverance.
Given under my hand and the seal of the Confederate States, at Richmond, this twenty-sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
JeffersonDavis. By the President:J.P.Benjamin,Secretary of State. [oc 27--td]