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be necessary to call the Legislature together; but if so, it will be very "uncertain whether, a quorum could be obtained" He says, "in many counties there are neither sheriffs, judges, coroners nor justices of the peace, to administer the laws or enforce justice." He knows of no other mode of removing the difficulties by which he is environed, than by appealing to the "good sense and patriotism of absent officials," and conjuring them to "resign or return to their posts of duty." General M'Clellan tried to get in the Confederate service. The North (Ga.) Times contains the following interesting item in connection with the Yankee General, McClellan, which we have never before seen published: We learn from a reliable source that two weeks before McClellan was tendered the commission of Major-General by Lincoln, he was trying to secure a position in the Confederate Army--that his feelings and sympathies were all for the South, but the temptation of superseding Gen. Scott w