The Greensborough patriot [April 30, 1863]

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VOL. XXV. GREENSBOROUGH, N. C, APRIL 30, 1863. NO. 1,247.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY-M.
S. SHERWOOD,
KOITOR AND PROPRIKToR.
llpliun&o IV. InpoiJ, Assistant Editsr.
T;:EMS. HS.OO A YEAH IH ADVABC^.
ISaten of *d vertlsing.
i in per --qiiare, for tho first week,
s lor every week thereafter. Twelve
■††make a square. Deductions made
: -tirding matter as follows:
8 MONTHS. 6 MOUTHS. 1 YEAB.
.f6.00 fS.OC §12 00
ares, .. ....10.00 16.00 *4.0<>
, .- 10.00 34 00 3^.00
Kroji the Richmond Whig.
The flew Tax Bill.
VV e present below a synopsis of the bill
la lay taxes for the common defence and
carry on the Government ot the Confc*er-al
States, wnirh bns passed ooth branches
of Or ogress. It is tfibstanlially tho bill t
posed by the Committee ofConforonce : j
I I'ho first section imposes a tax of ;
ht percent, upon the value of all naval ;
Btoros, salt, wines and spirituous liquors, to I
v.i.o manufaotared or unmanufactured,!
cotton, irool, flour, sugar, molasses, syrup, j
rice and other agricultural products, held
owned on tho first day of July next, and
not necessary for family consumption for
the unwxpired portion ef the year 1863,
d i.l the growth or prodnction of any
year preceding the year 1863 ; and a tax
me per cent, upon all moneys, bank
note* or other curroncy on liand or on de-poait
on the 1st of July next, and on the
value of all credits on which the interest
has not been paid, and not employed in a
tineas, the ioceme derived from which
taxed under the provisions ot thia act,
Provided, That all moneys owned, held or
deposited i>-ynd the limits of the Confed-erate
States, shall bo valued at mo cunmt
rate of exchange in Confederate Treasury
notes. Tue taxes to be assessed on the
l-t .lay of July and collected on tho 1st day
of October next, or as soon thereafter as
i.i i-y be practicable.
'Z. Every person engaged, or intending
to engage, in any business named in the
5th section, shall, within 60 days after the
passage of the act, or at the time of ba-g
nnii gbusinoss, and on the 1st of January
in each year lliorealter,. register with the
d itriot collector a true account of tho name
and residence of each person, firm or'cor
poration engaged or interested in the busi-t,
with a statement of the time for
which, and the place and manner in which
the sniito is to bo conducted, &c. At the
the rO(iatr) ih.we MIIMII bo paid i/i«
lax for tho year ending on the
n ■' 3rsl ol December, and such other tax
a-, may ho duo upon sales or receipts in
h busino8S.
'■'.. Any prison failing to makn such re.
, and pay such tax, shall, in addition
all other titxes upon hie business impos-ed
by the act, pay double the amount of the
specific lax on such busir ess, and a like
Bum lor ( very thirty days of such failure.
J Requires a separate registry and tax
each business mentioned in the 5th
section, and for each place of conducting
same; but no tax for more storage of
five per cent, en the firet 81,600 and ten
per cent.; on the excess ; between 83.000 and
85,000 ten per cent ; between 85.000 and
810,000,12} per cent.; over $10,000, fif-
Uen por cent.; subject to the following
deductions: en incomes derived from rents
of real estate, manufacturing and mining
establishments, etc., a sum sufficient lor
necec. ary annual repairs; on 'ncornes from
any mining or manufacturing business, the
rent, (if rented) cost of labor actually hir-ed,
and raw matorial; on incomes from
navigating enterprises, the hire of the ves-sel
or allowance lor wear and tear of the
same, not exceeding ten per cent. , on in-comes
derived from the sale of merchan-dize
or any other property, tho piimecost,
cost of transportation, salaries of clerks and
rent of buildings; on incomes from an}
other occupation, the salaries of clerks,
rent, cost *H labor, material, &c .; and in
ease of mutaal insurance companies, the
amount of IOBOCS paid by thorn during tho
year. Incomes derived from other sources
are subject to no deductions whatever.
All joint-stock companies and ooipora-tiens
shall pay one-tenth of the dividend
and reserved funTJ annually. If the annual
earnings snail give a profit ef more than
ten and less thai twenty per cent, on capi-tal
ttock, one-eighth to be paid; if more
than twenty per cent., one-sixth. Tho
tax to be collected on the 1st of January
next and of each year thereafter.
9. Relates to estimates and deductions,
investigations, referees, Ac.
10. A tax often por cent, on alf profits
in l»'iJ. by the purchase and sale of flour,
corn, bacon, pork, oat", hay, rice, salt, iron,
•r the manufactures of iron, sugar, molasses,
made of cern, batter, woolen cloths, shoes,
boots, blankets and cotton clothe. Does
apply to regular retail business.
11. Each farmer, after reserving for his
own use 50 bushel, sweet, and 50 bushels
Irish potatoes, 100 bushols corn or 50
bunhela whMt produced this vear. shall p»y
and deliver to the Confederate Govern-ment
one tenth of the grain, potatoes, for>
age, sugar, molaesos, cotton, wool and to-bacco
produced. After reserving twenty
bushels peas er bean* he 6ha!l deliver one-tenth
thereof.
12. Every farmer, planter or grazier,
Voice sfNen Jersey-
New Jersey has again declared against
the war. Her voice is plain and earnest, i maintaining", as "she baa eveVbeiieved
and it caunot be mistaken. Her legisla- j now believes it to be her duty to dc
turo has just, by a vote of 88 to 13, passed
the following resolutions. Read them and
hor manly protest against the acts of Lin-coln
:
"1. Be it further resolved by the Senate
and General Assembly of ibe State of New
Jersey, That this State, in promptly an-swering
the calls made by the President of
the United States, at and since the inaugo-ration
of the *var, for troops and means to
assist in maintaining the power and digni-ty
of the Federal Government believed asd
confided in the professions and declaratiops
of the President ot the United States, in
nis inaugural address, and in the resolu-tion-
passed by Congress on the 25th day
ot July 1*61, in which, among other things,
it waa declared "that tbo war is not wagaa
for conquest or subjugation, or interferi
ing with the rights or established institu-tions
of the States, but to maintain and
defend the supremacy of the Constitution
with the rights and equality undei it _ un-impaired,
and that, as soon as these objects
shall be accomplished, the war ought to
cease; and that, relying upon the aesur-ances,
given under thescactity of official
oaths, this State freely fully, and without,
delay or, conditions, contributed to the as-sistance
of the Federal Government her
■sons and hor means. .
2. And be it resolved, That this State,
having waited for the redemption ef the
.sacred pledges of the President and Con-gress
with n patience and forb aranceonly
equaled in degree by the unfaltering, and
unswerving bravory and fidelity, of her
sons, conceives it to be her t>oIemn duly, as
it is her unquoationed right, to urge upon
the President and Congress, in the most
respectful but decided manner, the redemp-tion
of the pledges under which the troops
of tUia i»Cut« •nl*i-«<l dpen and tu ihlS re O ■
merit have continued in the contest; and
inasmuch as no conditions have delayed
nor hesitation marked her seal in behalf of
the Federal Government, even at times
when party dogmas were dangerously
usurping the place of broad national prin-ciples
and Executive and Congressional
to
wrest from them any of their rights, privi-
'egss or property; but simply to assist in
and
the
supremacy of the .Federal Consti ttion ;
and, while abating naught in her devo-
<>■*■ Prlsemers at (amp Douglae.
Among the prisoners brought up by the
flag of truce bsat, on last Mpnday, were
some from the West, who have been confined
at Camp Douglas, at Chicago. The very
one tenth of the hogs slaughtered by him, j faith ; and as the devotion of this State
in cured bacon, at the rate of 60 pounds of ( the sacred cause of perpetuating the Union
bacon to 100 pounds of pork; pue per cent. ! and maintaining tho Constitution, has been
unstained in any degree by infidelity, bigot-ry,
sectionalism or partnership, she now,
upon the value of all neat cattle, horses,
mules, not used in cultivation, and asses,
to be paid by the owners of the same;
beeves sold, to be taxed as income.
13. Gives in detail tho duties of post-quartermasters
under tho act.
14. Relates to the duties ofassessors and
collectors.
15. Makes trustees, guardians, &e., re-sponsible
for taxes due from estates, &c,
under their control.
li. view of the faith originally p!igbtedvof
the disasters and disgrace that have raarki
ed the slope of a changed and changing pol
icy, and of the imminent daugers that
threaten our national existence, urges upon
the President and Congres#a petuvn and
adherence t« the original pclicy of iho ad-m
nistration as the only means, under the
blessing of God by which the adhering
16. Exempts the income and moneys of States can bo rounfted in action, the Union
hospitals, asylum*, churches, schools and ; restored, and the nation saved.
colleges from taxation undortho act.
17. Authorizes the -Secretary of the
Treausr^- to make all rules an 1 regulations
necessary to the operation of the act
18. Provides that tho act shall he in force
for two years from tho exj nation ef tho
present year, (plots sooner repealed; that the tax on navJaSl store.-1, flour, wool, cotton,
3. And bo it resolved. That it is the de-liberal*
sense ot the people of this State
that the war p-.wer within the limits of the
Constitution is ample lor any and all emer-gencies
; and that all assumptions ot power
under whatever plea, beyond that confer-red
by the Constitution, are without war-rant
or authority, and if permitted io con-goo-
ls at a olace other than tbo registered
i business,. A now registry requir-uil
upon o-. -ry change in tho place ot con
; u registered ousiness, the death of
•on conducting the same, or upon
the transfer of the business to aneuher, but
' : ienal lax.
Imposes the following taxes for the
year ending the 31st of December, lb63,
r each year thereafter :
Rankers shall pay 8500.
itioneers, Retail Dealers, Tobacco-nist,
Pedlers, Cattle H;-(kers, Apothecaries,
Photographers and Confectioners, 850 and
two and-vbaif per centum on the gross
amount of sales made.
Wholesale dealers in liquors, 8200, and
five por centuik on gross amount of sales,
itail dealers in liquors f100, and ton per
centum on gross amount of sales.
Wholesale dealers in groceries, wares,
merchandize, Sus., 8800, and two and-a-haif
per centum.
I'awn brokers, Money and Exchange
broker-,, $200.
Distillers $200, and twenty per centum.
Blowers 8100 and two und-a-half per cen-tum.
Hotels. Inns, Taverns and Eating lious.
es, first class 8600, second clues S3U0, third
:t'i, fourth class 8100, fifth class 830.
Every bousew.iere food or refreshments
are sold, and every boarding house where
there shall ho six boarders or mere, bhall
g deemed an eating Jaouse under this act
' -- umercial brokers or commission mer-chants,
$200, and two and a-half per cen-tum
Theatres, $500, and five per centum on all
receipi a Bach circus $100, and 10 for each
exhibition. Jugglers and ether
exhibiting shows, $50.
Bawling alleys and Billiard rooms, $40
lor i sch aiiey or table registered.
Livery Stable keepers, Lawyers, Physi-i,
ns, Surgeoae and Ocntists, $50.
Rutchors and Bakers, 850 and one
ten turn.
6 liver/ person registered and taxed is
i [uired to make returns of tho gross
.:.i ;;.: of sales from the passage of the act
.',> the 30th Jane, and every three months
eafter.
7. A lax upon a!l salaries, except ot per-ns
in the military or naval service, of one
t. when not exceeding $1;500, and
"" >'•' u*nt. upon an excess over that
amount. Provided, Tout no tax*s shall
iposed by virtue oi this act on the
salary tl any person receiving a salary not
I.OJ0 per annum, er at a like
tobatco and other agricultural products of tinue without remonstrance, will finally
encompass the destruction of the Republic ;
persons
the growth of any year preceding 1663,
imposed in the first section, shall bo levied
and collected only for the present year.
The bill, of which I he* foregoing is a sum-mary,
now only awaits the signature of the
President to become a law. In the pres-ent
condition of affairs, and at Ibis late
stage of the session, it is presumable that
he will waive objections, if he may have
any, and sign it ; and yet the bill, "which
we had not seen till yesterday, is extreme-ly
faulty in principle, and stdl more so in
its details. Dm wo believe i practicable at
this lirno td cure its inequalities and defects,
we should invoke the Executive veto, but
satisfied that this cannot bo done, we call
upon the people to accept and abide the
law as it is, and to repress all agitaliou,
discontent or murmuring.
CROI-S.—A friend writes from High Point
on the 15tb inst:
" Tho crops of w.ieat everywhere look
finely notwithstanding the lalo spring; and
in almost every house is to bo beard the
sound ol the loom. You know that my
" roving disposition" has carried me over
the State often at this season of the year
and my oxporieuce is that tho wheat crop
so far.promises well, and further there is
much more provisions in the country than
supposed. People do not care to sell at
least till thoy see now the growing crop
tarns eut.
" In this connection allow me to remark
that our excellent Governor, acting u ider
authority given bins by the Legislature, has
bought and has nowon hand30U,000 pounds
of bacon, 2,000 casks of rice and about 80,-
0O0 bushels ol corn. This is to be distribu-ted
among tho different coon lies for the
benefit ol the poor. 1 learn that bat two
counties have so far applied for bacon. The
act appropriating 81,000.000 for soldiers'
families is working well and doing much
good."
tion to the Union of the States and the dig. sight of the poor fellows is enough to Strike
nity and power of the Federal Govern-ment,
at no time atnee the commencemot t
of tho present war has.'.his State been oth.
er than willing to terminate peacefully and
Honorably to all a war unnecessary in its !
•rigin, fraught with horror and suffering
in its prosecution and necessarily danger. '
ousto the liberties ofall in its continuance, j
5. And be it resolved, That the Legis- j
lature ©f the State of New Jersey believe ]
that the appointment of Commissioners
upon the part of the Federal Government
to meet Commissioners sirniliarly appoint-ed
by the insurgent Slates, to convene in
""""' ewtvMa; ,.i—.-, for the purpose of
considering whether any, and if any, what
plan may be adopted, consistent with tbo
honor and dignity of the national govern
pity to the heart. We wish the Govern-ment
could hear their talcs of suffering and
distress, and we hope that they will takr
some atep to lay their giievauces before
the authorities here.
Camp Douglaa is worse tha" the Hole
of Calcutta. Not satisfied with putting our
men to death by Buffering and torture, the
Yankee demons have taken to poisoning
thorn ! Tbja little things, such as peas ami
cakea, that our poor prisoners would buy-out
of their few remaining cents, bad killed
a number of our men, and on an in restitu-tion
being ordared and the food analysed,
poison was plainly detected, and ite pres-ence
admitted by tho Yankee surgeons!
i'he authorities tried to exculpate them
ment, by which the present civjl war may ' aelvee by laying it to an old Irish woman
be brought, to a close, is not inconsistent
with the integrity, henor and dignity of the
Federal Government, but, as an indication
of the spirit which animates the adhering
States, would, in any event, tend to
strengthen uain tho opinion of other na-tions;
and hoping, as we sincerely do, that
the Southern States would reciprocate the
peaceful indication thus evinced, and be-lieving
as we do, thut under the blessing of
God, great bt-nefits would arise from such
a conference, we moat earnestly recom-mend
thesubjilpt to the consideration of
the Governmanit of the United States and
request its co operation thereiu.
6. And be it Resolved, That his. Excel-lency,
the Governor, be requested to for-ward
copies of these resolutions to the
Government ot the United Statos, our Sen-ators
and Representatives in Congress,
and to the Governors and Legislatures of
our sister Statos, with the request that they
give the subject proposed their serious and
immediate attention.
7. And be it Resolved, That the State
of New Jersey pledge itself to such prompt
action»upon the subject of these resolutions
as will give thom practical effect, iminedi- i thing of Western
ately upon tho concurrence er co-operation ' in,,.y sweep over
of the Governors and Legislatures of sister colu ©ui men lay
Slates.
Okra tbe Beta Substitute for t:ollee.
Everybody, we presume, knows how to
cultivate Okra. It is a most delicious table
vegetable, and it appears from the follow-ing
extract from a communication to
tbe Southern Field and Fireside, written
by Dr. N. B. Cloud, late Editor of tho
"Cotton Planter," it is pronounced the
1-- st Bul/oliluto for Ooffoc. R*»»d what the
writer says and try the expirimont.
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In tho caption of this article 1 have said
"Okra is the best substitute for cofTeo."—
Like every other family, perhaps, whore
iho blockade rendered Coffee so ocarce in
the country, that we had to givo from 50
cents to a $1 00 per pound for it, m* wife
who was permitted to peddle cakes among
the prisoners.
Tho daath of our men at Camp Douglas
has been appalling. Ooe of our priBouers
estimates that in the short apace ol throe
months there were over 750 deatln . This
waa caused by a combination of causes,—
the low, wet and marshy situation of the
camp, being half in water; tbe filth and
vermin ot ire place, and the long and des-olate
confinement of our men. In fact,
somo of tho prisoners «ho came Sp by the
last flag ef^ruee had languished there for
nearly two years, and their dejected, snr-
.row-striken and emaciated faces bore testi
mony of more th-n all they told of thtir
Buffering. »
The suffering to which our bravo men
have beon subjected by the demons is
enough to melt the heart to tsars. Even
in the <ol?i winter, whon our prisoners
were taken thero from the WoBt—in mid
winter—thoy were thrown inio prison,
with nothing more than a pallet of w»t
straw us a bed, and without a particle el
cloChing to protect them lrom the cold and
piercing blasts—and one who knows anv
life knows how fearfully
the prairies. In aii tbe
posed to the sterm,
cold and shivering and benumbed. A
cold BIIOW storm came, and the result was
that fwcntj -five or thirty of our men actu-ally
froze to death. We have 'his on
reliable authority, and the story is
sut>*tttnt::illy confirmed, in every particular,
by an account whi'-h we published some
time «ince from the Chicago Time?.
On their way from the Weat, our prison
ers wore still objects ef persecution and
iiialiiinitv of the Yankees, and were made
to travol two live-long days wuiioui. ..
morsel of food .' Thoy loft at Camp Douglas
about two thousand prisoners, who wore
to be exchanged, and" were leaving in
bodies of four aqd five hundred. It was
hoped by our men that they would soon
be out of the clutches oi the demons who
have lorded it over them with a tyranny-began
to cast about for a substitute, and we ; and cruelty worse than that iftbo dark
tried rye, ground-peas, corn meal* and jio- j ages.— Richmond Examiner 14th.
tatoes, and finally, I concluded thut wo
per
loi s ether period of time, longer or
shorn r
8 Provides that the tax
c ones, i atween $500 aud
on annual
81,500, shall
in-be
five per cent. ; between 81,600 and #3,00,
and therefore, to tbe end that in any event
the matured and deliberate sense of the
pwople ot New Jersey may be known and
declared, we, their representatives in Sen-ate
and General Assembly convented, do,
in their name and in their behalf make
unto the Federal Government tais our
Bulema
PROTEST
Against a war- waged with the in-surgent
States for the accomplishment of
unconstitutional or partisan purposes;
Agaiust a war which has for its object
the subjugation of any of the States, v»ilh
a view to their reduction to a tcriitorial
condition ;
Against proclamations from any source
by which, under the plea of "military ne-cessity,"
persons in Slates and Territories
sustaining the Federal Government, and
beyond necessary military lines, are hold
liable to the rigor and severity et military
law ;
Against the domination of tho military
over the civil law in Slates, Territories or
Districts not in a stalest insurrection ;
Against all arrests without warrant;
against the suspension *>f the writ ef ha-beas
corpus in Stales and Territories sus-taining
the Federal Government, "where
the public satety does not requiroit ;" and
agaiust the assumption of power by any
person to suspend such writ except under
th- express authority of Congress.
Against the creation ot new States by
the division ol existing ones, or in any
other manner not clearly authorized by
the Constitution, and against the right of
secession as practically admitted by tbo
action ef Congres- in admitting as a new
Slate a portion of the State ot Virginia;
Agtinst the powor assumed in ihe pro-clamation
of the President made January
one, eighteen hundred and sixty three, by
would try Okra seed. Mrs. Cloud had
some washed aud dried, preparatory for
parching. Wo used about tho same quan-tity
by weight or measure, that we had
formerly done of coffee. It was cartfully
parched* and tho coffee made in the usual
way, when wo found it almost oxactly liko '
coffee in color, very pleasantly tested and
entirely agreeable. All other *>u63iuuics •
were laid aside, and tho Okra has been
BSed in ray family for tho last oighleen
months; and for myself, lean say in all
THE SIEGE OF WASHINGTON.—Tho Now
York Herald/ii the 9th has letters from its
cerrespondent, 12 miles below Washing-ton,
N. C, of the 1st and 2d inst., and from
Nowbern 3d inst. Tho writer admits that
they Were "decidedly in-nt tight place,"
and for himself "ihoaM ■**•». x uu,
home." When Gon. Foster, then at New-born,
heard on the 9Qtb*cf tho investment
of Washington', ho started immediately for
candor, prepared as our cook has it done, lnat place, and arrived on tho 30th, only
1 should have no preference, at 10 cents p*r „ lQ UnJ lhat (ho dan„er WM even greater
pound between Okra and Coffee. When .....,„ ,. _„„. ,-..,,
well made and used with good rich cream than he had anticipated. He sent fo. a
and clarified sugar, it is dolicato and finely • brigade of infantry and some ligi.t held
flavored, entirely whoksome, of a rich gol-1 pieces, which where forthwith dispatched
den color, and in all respects equal te the all(j urrired at a point on tho river where
best Java Coffee, except the Coffee flavor, ^ Q{ ^ |>att at JLlill'« Point,
which may be imparted-to it if preferred, whloh they could not pass. The writer
by grinding with the baked Okra seed, ten
or twelve grains of baked Coffee, for each
meal. Now every family of the Confeder-ate
States may make trial of the Okra at
very trivial expense, when I am confident
thoy will bo pleased with it. Then by the
middle of next summer every family may
have as much of it as they may need raised
a' home. Tho Okra is of the same family
of plants with cotton, (gossippium) and
grows equally well in all lattitudos and on
all land, where cotton growa. An acre of
"good gardon land will produce 500 pounds
of tho seed. I have given it a fair trial in
my family, and 1 find it wholsome, nour.
ishing, and perfectly healthy, nor has it any-perceptible
effects upon the nervous sys-tem,
through which medium headache is
often produced by Coffee, iu many debilita-ted
females, especially.
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There are many varieties of the Okra;
tbe most common tCte the long and 3hort,
rreeh, the white,the' purplish white, and
P
says, in his ilrst letter.
*« At daylight thia morning the battery
at Rodman's farm opened fire from four
guns on the Commodore Hull, which was
lying in tho stream about 100 yards distant.
The Hull fought them for about an hour
with her stern guns, when her officers
found that tho high wind was fan lowering
the water in tbe river and it would bo ne-cessary
to take a position in deeper water.
Accordingly they moved about a mile near
er the town, when tho vessel grounded,and
as the water was still fulling it became im-possible
to move her. She was within easy
ahe
ANBCDOTS or Q.CHN Vioreaia. The
following admirable trait in the character
of tho O,neon may not be generally known
When Princess Victoria, she is said to have
frequently amused hei'elf by going incog-nita
in a carriage to different abeps, aud
derived great entertainment, when divest-ed
ot the appendagea attendant upon roy-alty,
in observing as s passive spectator,
the infinite variety of incidonts aad ooes-
Sationa with which London abounde.—
eingone day at Rundell A. Bridge's, ate
observed, among many other objects that
attracted attention, one that fixed it- Thia
was a young and intelligent lady, who was
moat sedulously employed in looking over
different gold chains for the neck, which
were alternately presented to ber for in-spection.
After she had admired several,
she asked ahe price of one whioh seemed
to have peculiarly struck her fancy The
price was named. It waa more than
imagined it would have been.
•'Could it not tc offered cheaper?"
"Impossible.'"
The young lady seemed disconcerted,
examined tbe chain again, took it up, and
then she laid it down a second time, ap-pearing
tp part from it with reluotanoe.
However, at length she admitted the price
was far too high, chose a much ohoaper,
which she ordered to be Bent home, and
wout away. The young Princess Victoria
who had silently observed the different
workings of the mind of the lady as dis- '
played in her countonance, inquired who
she was, and upon receiving satisfactory
information, ordered the firm to pack up
the gold chain which had so attraoted ber
attention, with tbo one ahe bad purchased,
and send with a card signifying that the
Princess Victoria was so well pleased with
observing lhat the young lady, who bad
been so much taken w.ththe beauty and
workmanship of the chain, bad yet ao
much the command of her pasBions as not
to suffer them to oroicosie ber prudence,
that sho, therefore, in token of her appro-val,
desired her to aceopt the chain which
-he so much udmired, in tho hope thai she
would always persevere in that laudable
line ol conduct upon which female happi
noes so much depended.
MARTIAL LAW.—Tbe House el Repre-sentatives
on Wednesday laat paased the
Joint Resolutions, reported by Mr. Russell
lrom tbe Committee on the Judiciary, as
follows :
I. That Martial Law, in the Benae of an
arbitrary suspension of all the lawa and
civil jurisdictions, cannot exist with-n the
Confederate States.
II. That Martial Law, in any sunse, if
it can exist within tbe Confederate States,
can exist only by virtue ot Legislative au-thority.
III. Military Law (for the government
of the forces) is distinct from Martial Law
and it is enacted by Congress in pursuance
ot the Constitution.
IV. Without martial law, military com-manders
may sometimes exert extraordi-nary
powers at and near tbe plac<. occu-pied
by tbeir treopa, and may be justified
by the nature and neoesitios of the service,
and, therefore, by the laws authorizing the
employment of tbe forces, but they assume
the hazard of responsibility according te
known principles of law.
V. For tho security of liberty and the
certaiuty of law, powers which are neces-sary
to bo conferred on the President or
on military commanders in lien of the
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Confederate States, eught to be conferred
by distinct enactments.
The vote was:—
Yeas.—Messrs. Arrington, A sho, Atkins,
lialuwin, Batson, Boyce, Bridgers, H. W.
Bruce, Chambers, Chambliss, Cbilton,
Clapp, Clark, Clopton, Collier, Curry,
Davidsoj, Davis, DeJarnett, Farrow,
Foots, Foster, Gaitber, Garland, Garaott,
(ioode, Gray, Hanly, Derbert, Hedge,
aolcom'je, Marshall, McLean, Perkins,
Kails, Read, iiussell, Sexton, Singleton,
Smith,ol iV C, Strickland, Vest, Villere,
Wright,Of Ga , Wright, of Texas—45.
Nays—Messrs. Barksdale, Coarad, Con -
row,Carrie, Dargan, Dupre,. Elliott, Ew-iug.
Freeman, Graham, llilton, llolt,
Jones, Kenan, of Ga., Kenan of N.C.,
Lewis, Lyons, Macben. Martin, Miller,
Munnerlyn, Pugh, Royston, Swann,
liippe, Welch, Wilcox—27.
range ot the enemy's batteries and rsmaind j sure preventive <
BO until after sundown, and was a fine tar
for over twelve hours. And right
THK HO<; CHOLERA.—CORRECTION.—The
,: els on the "Hog Cholera," published in
,nr local column yesterday, contained a
m terial error whienshould be corrected.
fureips, it shoo 1 have been stated, are a
the disease and not a
which all tho slaves in certain Stales
parls of States, are forever set free
and
' WHAT is EVERYBODY'S BI BINESS IS NO- and
BODT'S."—The editor ol iho Brandon Rev- -against the expenditure of the pubiic men-publican,
appreciating the moral ol this
adage, last week took notice io 'us paper
of the fact that the gardens ef the soldiers'
wives aud poor widows' in town needed
plowing, and called on twenty gentlemen
to send a horse and plow each on a certain
day and do the job. Fourteen oi them re-sponded—
one of them sending two plows
and another two men instead to clear off
the ground. Encouraged by this success,
he has this week designated 14 more te send
a hand each with the necessary tools, on
get
heat lily did the rebel artillerists ply their
guns upon her. Over seventy shots struck
her. Her upper works are completely de
molished, three ol her guns have been dis
ablcd by the rebel shots; but strange to
say, oho has bad but three men wmi iided
ind'none killed during the eotire action
whatever;
Agaiust any and every exercise of pow-er
upon tho part of the Federal Govern-ment
that is not clearly given an expressed
in the Federal Constitution—ro assorting
that 'the powers not delegated to the Uni-ted
States by the Constitution, nor prohib-ited
by it to tbo Stales, are reserved to
the Slates respectively, or to the people."
4. And be it resoived, That the une-a
day named, to repair such of the garden qualed promptness with which New Jersey
fences as stand iu need ot it. has responded to every call maco by tho
~ * — President and Cjnjjressfor men and means
Harried, on the otUinBt., R A Tar,Esq., has been occasioned by no lurking ani-to
MissJane Feathers—commodities that mosity to the Slates of the South or the
and the most
productive. A quart of seed will plant an
i aero five by three feet, which will produce
eys for^the emancipation of slaves or their on „ood |.4I,d( BQQpOUndsOl seed I planted
support at any lime, under any pretence QD my own place laat year two acres, and
?he dwarf, (stalked) wqich bears pods ol a ji(.r machinery is all fuperiec! order and
pea.green color, often twoive to fifteen in- ner nu|i j8 undamaged."
ches; this is the best variety
.. my own pi_
used it abundantly for all purposes from
tbe first of May till frost, beside sending
from one-half toons bushel To market eye.
ry day, and we could have saved easily,
500 pounds of seed, as well as the quantity
we did, sufficient for oar family use.
Kespctfully, V BjCLOIII,
Surgeon*, P A C.
SAVANNAH, GA., Feb. 10th, 1863.
""•It is proper to remark here that as soon as
Okra seed have colored, after bemg parched
THK NORTHERN NCCK OF VIRHIMA.—A
correspondent writes that the Yankees
nave desolated tbe Northern Neck uhru - f b&(_on d , d
they can. They have robbed from Stafford
to Heatbsviile, in Northumberland. Besides
stealing negroes, destroying stock of every
description, using and wasting grain in
large quantities (which our commissariss
oozbttohave bought and consumed last
L-tor it We misunderstood Col. Wyatt,
who said that upon giving bis hogs this
vegetable food, not en3 lhat was well at
the time, look tho dines«e, nor has be bad a
. aae of it amongst them since—wbereaa
before they wen sickening and dying every
day from it. If, therefore, the (armors, as
,,-',<> sstbey discover this terrible distem-peramongst
their swine), will give them
turnips, tops aad all, they will »a 70 all
that have not beon seised with it. Tha
spread of it will be thus effectually and
certainly stopped, which is surely a groat
desideratum in times like these, when it is
HO important to keep up and increase the
S.
yea
bers ot horses
THE KEOKLK—The Mercury of the 20th
says: The naval officers attached to the
0. S Bloatner Chieora hare paid frequent
visit! to the wreck of the sunken Keokuk.
~T ~\ hov have carried off immense num- Access, thes far, has been obtained to the
and mules All the planta-1 interiofof one turret only; but quits a
The fences and i number of valuable and interesting tro-wherever
their ph;es and relics have been brought off.
the
or
work well together. the rights of ber people ; BO disposition tc I to be burned
oaSd^abe^^iroaad. Wallowed o stand tll, pr„„.t year^, from want of labor teams
a day or two alter being baked, before finding, farrQiDg untens.ls (ruthlessly burnt and
thev become very hard he. g cry small i' equires . a-royCd,) and inclosed fields.—JtlChViOnd
great care in baking them, otherwise they are liable ^^
tions are in commons,
woods have been burnt
Very few far- Among these were three swo-ds, a fins
ice been presented to artillery officers.
The sponge, rammer and elevating screw
of one of lbs Keokuk's U-tush guns, are
at Fort Sumtsr.
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