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hways and seize the grain as it arrives. Want of transportation is greatly felt all over the country, and farmers say it is useless for them to make efforts to get their products to market when they know they will be seized as soon as they reach the railroads and canal. If they are to be impressed, let the officers go to the farms and do it, and not on the Light-ways to market. The City Council seeing the injuries inflicted by these wholesale seizures adopted a resolution offered by Mr. Scott, requesting the Richmond delegates in the Legislature to use their influence to secure such action on the part of the General Assembly as will induce the Confederate authorities to exercise more discretion in the impressment of articles actually necessary to the support of the people of this city. Prompt action on the part of the Legislature may do something towards abating the evil, but unless there is greater economy exercised in certain departments, and more judgment displayed in m