Galveston News Tri Weekly (Newspaper) - January 20, 1864, Galveston, Texas JAN. 20, 1864. By EXPRESS 1 n Dear you with dispa it will that nothing add about a Qg it in dis patch I dent yon a few must made Whole ether that there hag no recent battle in Price is anil wholly discredits all of that though there was in tho Northern papers about a fight and a on the pari of the A gentleman of high is dis tmt no at I have seen or of. He brings the most ei our aging Ail of Government are In a of muro t' mi good humor Something of mi character or la about to which imt been made tat the character good only be guessed at I do not to gaeta at so jour readers have rest in the dark for a few days A word upon the subject of You m- that is an in n The vein extends KM River f in and rooa In a to the and may be through of the IU quality is bv 0>1 who tho bait qualified map in in such to be unsurpassed win Col Clemson was educated in lud d special upon the subject of was employed Ivy the fo develops of 8pain. He hn in iron furnaces East of toe Mush j p a the i - - i devoted to traveled the of 1'cxu 1," is well qu to judge of qu and quality of the ore m lie is that no risk will 1� in in o- in making in Iron The r the the region in which it is i enable par owning labor at all to a mm on their In North South etc iron works open the widest 11 id for a pr. investment ol I all something lur her to say on Una ut t M. K. - Jan. 17, stage from last night brought several who the a week below but they did not any we have but verbal a ai to tnc situation on the other Nothing Important had army supplies said to he and the people and of speedy A large lot of small to be about 10,CMiO-have been lauded on this tide of the and are now in a of perfect The has here that the are sanguine of a speedy ol the I stated liott 1 ha I from a high that all ihr at more thau ordinarily hence it that this che ia result of a the end of our I ut to be but ua K. we tie trust that i ti and fro - lad of forty men under Mat regiment ms * i toeI in tue I lit Cleveland killing an wound inn one and anti a small anna * Our so a report -J HitO l at two miles South of an 1 a a mOi of that Dec. -Ail in and thirty-six s ai ri a have arrived 0. H Cti Kesser made tho circuit of the Yankee army during the past week starting Irom and entering iue Vailey at Conrad's and burnt the over Head near n out g t.o. pa left as a Owing to high water had w he was prevented from doing c but did not overtake wis forced to swim Bull wai if a y Tho enemy while In pursuit destroyed tanner ies containing at 8i'rlntjvillc, also two a mill and a me Work shops at in mid committed other toe taking away of and slut a ite named just fnm r. port the enemy to 5e pulling down all vacant and out in their Ilog ail in order to wintor The enemy are rations to the citizens in Culpepper The enemy moved some infantry as far in this direction as Mitchell's Station on to act at front pickets and relieve the cavalry to go to rearwards to Dec. It is understood thai iUe National Conservative Union now In session in this has reaffirmed the nomination for and have nominated W. B. of for the terms President's proclamation do not in words Include the Indian efforts are being made liy the Indian Bureau to the difficulties growing out of certain made cause with the rebel and to have the settlement of the principles asserted io these Already the Creeks have by a treaty with the providing for the abolition of slavery among them as a condition of their being reinstated in the and the benefits which they forfeited by their and similar treaties by tha and The UtUr thou their own have provided for their but a stipulation to that end Is refused in the new In York man? families are breaking tip house keeping and boarding otit on account of the of We find the following Items in the Caddo of the 15th Gen. B. and ex Gov. have been proposed as candidates for President and Vice President by primary meetings and conventions in the The report telegraphed Ark that Lee and Meade had fought on the and the latter wac defeated cannot be as wo have the of the 27th and the Memphis tbe and nothing is found ic either relating to It. The latest accounts we have received by passengers of tho condition of our affairs in is There Is au of forage and supplies for the Our pickets extend form to being headquarters State Is almost entirely relieved of The Hull of the London November 7th, was a escaped form here a few days 8lie was a with masts fitted lower on the and She was launched with steam and very si on two ca's with drove up and on and the ship was off liko a Kvety body here wan completely taken by at the coolness of the id V ol to |M t liav o v Oi any In i A large r down 1 c i x pec ted in i id in or jo worth The of Tenn. beyond at indy oa and all quiet tm the date incs remained much the fame in ' were driven Six more thrown into fie but no damage dispatches say the are g ail the forres they can spare to Gen Lee a to Tht draft had heon ed for 10 The time and place oi h 1 ling the ni Democratic National Convention is under n by committees 1 he the following version of Gen. Let's reported v 1c 1 ha N. Y. Times of tna at Gen. Price's headquarters states that as Meade was making au to winter 2*1, Lee attacked him and drove back with Heavy Deo from Aith to tho Hlth a. lived it iht o in il and a pi on tho ID at won in 111 nut u e i Loudon ssys hut little on either side game throughout to ha to close and put tiie nng aa to his antagonist at once by dashing him to He King's mor was a no in decisive of King over who mi ha 1 y though be had the aivan age In but King had moat endura The fight 1115 So it seems it in lie nan that has w ami not as the N. Y. p pers in advanced dispatches from Sunth an Indians with their chief have abandoning 1-raU claiming the They lie a thi t ex ample will be bv reports be baa 17,000 well aod 51.bb1') women his much 30.cce.ig negro tr A Yankee says an is to sail trom Charleston under forces are moving towards tint the Federal rabies upon Salem Va have been n I by and will probably all be cap ture I. ii a Federal at tlie of Red River which will s ion ascend that with a view of wreaking all possible injury upon the Washburne has upon and and it is i that they before this in Federal The next point of will he 3,�n where the Federals will tor an upon Magru Warrants for anest o f tin* are said to be resiste I the popu lar sentiment being in their The of Calais were a rani from St. N. 11 and preparing tor tie Tha Richmond apeak favorably food notwithstanding the high prices at 5:>,-.'5, pork Toe Enquirer Ou the 1st of 1801, there will he in the counties ol Virginia within the Confederate 40tl,OUO 1011,000 und The cattle and hugs would pounds t f The Enquirer says the Federal Government will trt send negroes into the will keep them to guard depots If they Hre sent into the none be as prisoners of onr all understand th none Indeed ever been taken prisoners in battle during the tin has ev r rep the Uw U turning them over to tho 1.hncon, 0.-Tho crown lawyers havo tho ol Hie hark by Nm York District Court illegal and Lord Lyons is to From Orleans stay Our hint from San Luis Po oai are up to tho KHIi Dec. Tho principal had been by French and Que Morelia mid by the reel of the combined of tho French and Agnus had surrendered to Col. after a accompanied by his two brothers and two hundred other chieftains and had left tho City of Mexico to raise a with which ho was to march on ban was expected lo be occupied by tho 25i and it la intended to take refuge In I with his family and Letters trout the Interior of the country say Ye will be opposed to the occupation of San Luis - government being a mere obeying leaving San Luis the Liberals had imposed a forced loan ol on the whilst Ortega imposed a similar one ot in Gen. who had fathered some 10,lili0 for the ol lighting the French and Mexican army in their advance irom Queretaro towards San has avoiding an Gen. the vanguard of tho Frouch and Mexican and will likely bo the first Ij enter San mm nodi entrusted cats oi the between the last named city aud Tampico Soit can be expected that tho State of will be entirely occupied by tho next On one the civil State war for Governor dividing the will materially help In his operations on the other it is likely that some ol the dissidents will abandon banner and Join these event a we have but too frequent instances in this By the arrival of the British brig Ada at Irom Nov. we learn that the town haa been closely besieged by tha French All supplies Irom the interior were cut and the people suffered from want of Guarding tbe town was a Franch gunboat and a tow Egyptian The Native Americana seemed very desirous of throwing French and they when our war is aid from the States to drive out the 17fA The nif Lincoln World of the 5th alludes to the of Lincoln as The illness of President Lincoln wo have reason to a much mo re serious matter than has been At first it was supposed to be a a touch of billious a rash then appeared upon his acd the disease was pronounced but recently It has leaked out that the rtal complaint he labors under Is small For some time psst the President has received no even members of the cabinet and friends have been excluded from his The excuse was that he was writing his message and could not be We believe that but echo the feeling of the whole without distinction of In sincerely hoping that the President will soon ho to health and of his habit of body are not usually long and the to a man of his even when the health is usually is a very serious Ilia death at this time would be a rtal calamity to the and would lend to the Until the election we wish to see Mr. Lincoln conduct the government rather than Mr. the Hotter a better thu death of all our better loss of the Mississippi aud a foreign war than that the furious anti-slavery fanaticism which Mr ie presents should get complete of tlie m of Ihj tho Into ' to no A Imgo propeller panned on Willi and throw two The gunboats at the Cut ey commence shalling every morning No indications to the the residence of Dr. J A. of Ue HVt O on by the J M. of the Miss. Virginia daughter of Dr. of Green and Col. J. J. of La he destruction of this town our says titti ona more to mug uf crimes that is make their name and ion infamous In all There was no military for men an it benefited in no wise to their hellish In throwing hundreds of women and children out of doors at season of the It In opea violation of the usages of civilized and an act of vandalism thai make them hated and despised by the whole human Oua Nkoro Richmond Whig saya it is not unusual lo hear a negro congratulate himself that ho is not a while While the ler is subject to c and may have to undergo in tho army never experienced by a plantation Sambo remains at horns and enjoys undisturbed by of ion or How different treatment of negroes who tall into the power of tho base Tho poor no longer boast of over the white are summarily forced to take and treated as creatures only fit for food for Thb Irish amd ths Henry Ward In a letter to the asserts that the negro owes his degeneracy io ITie Irish that no but only the despise the negro or oppress him It be too exacting to expect to lull the simple baing a popular sensation also a desirous ol conciliating tho and setting up hu pulpit among its so that he should fear some slight when it ia found it might provo Mr. Heocher ia lie could not have a mistake through lis well knows alt aud State aro A in the Legislatures very if The Fugitive Slave the as in which totally excludes negroes from some Northern and ts in which totally any further inflow of arts Protestant negroes have to congregations by the generality ot Yankee as from Yankee while omnibuses and railway carriages they have been Tho on the omer moot them in their churches on Sun honor them as as Sisters of as in Baltimore aud Philadelphia and New Some Irishmen may be and opposed to the negro but are they not always led on by the Yankees Mr is an wants intermarriages between white and Why did not he and his friends set the Mean ia ths man who flies irom his country in the hour of but how despicable is having himself in that having urged that country into for war hotter than than when that war sella int his luxurious picture galleries and wine to devote the proceeds to his No but to Sharif on and seek in sale Londan a new spot wherein to accumulate Let such a If he cannot learn to at least not obtrude his on public The & Orleans True Delta A lot ol were charged with having had a seditious religious meeting on Saturday praying for the return of their for Beauregard ami saying that their of Matsa had not been They shewed that they had been singing in the praise of the end were dismissed with Uie order to dis In the department of saya the Now Yoik World three million dollars worth of quartermaster and st have been lost py captured by guerrillas General Cass ia said to be so feeble lust he cannot live roach letters announce all sorts of prepara tion for a gay and say the neighborhood of 70,000 men in Meade's army all tbe epaulettes and straps course will add both to the population and to tbe An edict irom the Provost Marshal pro claims hat incipient consumption Is not a disability that exempts a conscript from military Warlike Swedish Govern merit is said to have ordered the preparations of war for io have called two of its men from tbe Atlantic artillery experiments lo and in a decision in favor of the manufacture of large guns upon the Blakely principle From the European Nov 2d] John C. Son - We copy this paragraph from a late cumber of the Lou A paragraph from tbe Cleveland is going the rounds of the to the that the sm of J. C Breckinridge who was taken at Chat in conversation with Sergeant Major declared himself strongly in favor of the and said that I e bad been forced Into tbe Confederate service by his We met young a few days in this while passing through a number cf rebel Io our conversation with we could detect nothing that would in tbe slightest to confirm the Un the his conversation indicated that he was iu mi to the A Nkw and Laros Rebel Cotion It is reported that an agent has been sent from this with the if making to the States of America for raising a loan on the security ol all the government cotton deposited in the including that which is held for the present for which some Iresh arran will have to be It la also mentioned that one of the new monetary establishments is connected with the project 21 A Niw which has left the this week for the purpose of running the American the fourth steamer which bas quitted the river for the same destination within a m on her trial trip two hundred tons dead weight st a speed of more than eighteen miles so hour She was built and engined by Messrs Simons & of the London London Nov 81. and American Charters in rumor that the Confederate steamer Alabama is crui ing in Indian waters has driven vessels un der this ilig entirely out of the and we doubt if a charter could be procured at any Shipping A Columbus paper states that Gen. Buckner's engineer deserted and went over to tbe before the at Lookout and that bis of the weak points in our lines was possibly au essential contribution to the success oi the Dr. who killed Earl Van has had a hearing at and been there being nothing against him to Justify his Government lias caused suits to lie instituted against certain wealthy who hive made returns of their Some of suits will cause interesting Molly the grandmother of ail the still frequents receiving kindly coppers from the third generation of those who have known her as an old She Is over a hundred years of and though much yet walks with apparent Tha entire armament ol tbe State of Vermont consists of 5 brass and i iron 6 8grlngQeld 513 smooth bore flintlocks aud Windsor And what Is there is no organised militia to lire even these If should demand it. Tho richest individual la la the Maiquis of whose daily income la estimated 35000. Tho K ot she house in and is est unit d at about nine mil n or an Between tin invader and a 1 prefer the said a pretty girl when a French officer and a Mexican officer both extended their hands to assist her to from bar and She gave her hand to the Frenchman Rev of New who don't mean to let any side of truth escape took a conservative lurch in his Thanksgiving and sounded the praises of General and tho and went tor letting slavery die slowly ard Political ot tbe Prom York One ol our language no fashionable lis our that one great object ol the Constitution to humble the proud sovereignty of the Journal Is only repeating the that are in the v school that baa sprung into existence during this The ignorance manifested by ibe Republican in reference to the history of eur is moat and such as the we have last quoted from the Evening of is a sample of tho ignorance of ' How absurd tbe that the subjugation of the was one of the avowed purposes of the men who our Constitution On the it will be Sound by a recurrence to the journals and that friends of ths Constitution insisted that the fears entertained and expressed by its opponents were wholly that the Stats Governments constituted an essential part of the system and toast be preserved that they had the protecting themselves against ol usurped and would be justifiable in doing so. if Congress should at any time pass laws not falling within the obvious intent and meaning of the delegated The says never lose their until the whole people are robbed of their It may safely be received as an axiom In our political that tbe State govern will in all possible afford security against invasions ot the public liberty by the Said Wilson have been made to es the the adoption of this Constitution will ne followed by the annihilation of the State If this waia necessary it operate on my mind with immense I think the inference lather that a will the annihilation oi others upon the existence of which lis own tie W e have quoted these they representative men of tho party in lite convention who were in of strong It will be that they disclaimed the idea of a consols Sua single and earnestly contended that the tha State governments would be secure against usurped pow and could not be overthrown until the whole were robbed of their It Is this bold that one great ot the Constitution was to humble the proud sovereignty of States that the Government they were about to establish was to combine all the divisions of tbe and form of them one nation of supreme in all tbe extravagant doo which we now find ventilated in the press and the all the extravagant doctrines of Mr. Lincoln's message had been openly avowed in the general at or In the several State no man of a of reason could believe that the Union would ever have been even Kufus a strong advocate of the a Federalist of the ultra when be found that their must if the State Governments wero not properly gave to the system this 1 am in sentiment with who wish the preservation of the State Go bat the Government may be so constituted as to effect it. Let the Constitution we are about lorming be considered as a which the General Government shall and as such will bo the guardian of State by whom was this commission granted COM i ROLLING yU j STATS Or ' For ihe oi supplies lor Troops en whetner of the Line jt id the organisation uf Texas are authorized and requested to deliver the Cover or any part to the and serving with such I All Quartermasters and receiving will n the producer as evidence that so much of tus Tax in kind tin bosn 3,hd as the Post ui Congressional Is o for the alter tho has and mate it kuown to or Commissary to whom the is doil w will duplicate receipts to tha Quartermaster ot the leaving the In the hands of the to bo delivered untie Tost or his d to payment ut bis Tax in The Post Quartermasters under the Tax Act fur tue collection of Tax In have been to ths Districts oi this as R. W. Capt. Capt. JOHN S. SSL LB P. Capt. F. 4lh............. Capt. W 4ih,............ Capt. K M. Capt. 11. G. let sub district of ut the of Receipt tois Received of named articles on nci kind lor tbe year lib | l Sw t Irish I j o Producer - day i-e the un ol Ilia C. S. p pounds pounds of Receipt to h irs duplicate and of Post Qtt lor the Congressional u the state of tor tbe collection of 1 the following insert or as the case may J a No. hush i ' i I Potati i Irish 1 bush ' I i j pounds j pounds I i pounds I The above instructions ere ut strictly complied and In no ease supplies bo co without the receipts given being deposited with the Producer and pro. u o may thus be delivered and received unul assessments ui made and the lo Pom J A M li It. Major anil Controlling Quartermaster By i tbe States represented in ths convention as separate I political For what purpose J Ot QUART Lit edly not to effect their own dissolution and The crude idea that ordinary men entertain of a commission is responsibility on the part of him who takes to him who grants II we are to believe the political heresies of the Abolition Jacobins of iu we are now called on to invert tbe Com moo of mankind on lids and render the party who a seep ts the su over the granters from whom the authority is derived January 5th, 1864. j -All persons delivering Government Animals at this Post will receive a liberal Any in regard to the whereabouts of same will be thankfully Every and in the is respectfully requested to interest himself iu this important The attention of is specially called to the and if they cannot bring in said will i lease report where said property can be & A. Q. M C. S. jan 10_tf_______Commanding; UP by ihe on the L one colored about 7 10 hands branded on right shoulder thus T -a small white spot on scarcely The owner will come prove pay and taxe ium Jan. 1561. Considerate States or Eastern of a has been filed in the District Court of the Confederate States returnable at Galveston on the 19.h day of 1803, by Solomon L against tbe schooner Junta her and alleging In causa of a civil and in taid libel and praying the usual process and of said conrt in that behalf to be and that all persons interested in said her for causes in said lib I be and sold to pay the demands of the in pursuance of the monism under tbe seal ot the said tome directed and I do hereby give public notice to all persons claiming tbe said tier apparel and or in any manner interested that they be and appear before tbe said District Court to be holden in In Karris State of on the first Monday in 18t>4, then and there to interpose their claims and make their allegations in that Dated at day of A. D 1863. T B. partnership previously exists JS between s. K. P J Willis 6. under the firm of Willis was on the 13tb of 1863, by the death of S. K. Tbe business of the late firm will be wound up and settled by the surviving P. Raynaud ia authorised to receive and receipt for all turns of money 4Hi�t may be due the Those Indebted to tbe firm by open account are lo settle immediately P. J. K S J in. 10(14 QUARTER MASTERS San 21st 1SU3 The following order from Col. John S of published tor the inferma ti u whom it may Huad Conscript Nov. 1803. i Any Conscript teamster who shall leive the of Major Quarter Master Confederate States without released from duty by him is guilty ol desertion atul can. hi punished lingly Any who shall enil or hire a si teamster to quit the service for which ins been without permission ia to us aider and abettor of JOHN S & of The agents of this office are directed to promptly report any and every violation of tbe foregoing T Maj nicely for wllch the highest price will be either in money or drugs and & STATE OF ( 2d, 1*01. i Paragraphs 5th and Out of 117, issued by ihu uad Inspector September 3d, 1863, is for the ot all persons Quartermasters and Commissaries serving with troops may receive tns when ay to do so by ihe blef Quartermaster or Cluel Commissary of tho army in which they are The nainen of such authorized will be reported to tbe Quartermaster When Producers idler to pay their Tithe Tax to officers authorized to receive it \a obligatory upon the latter to the produce and to pay the excess of transportation over eight m lea at the prescribed by under tho Impressment In each case they will receipt to the Post Quartermaster of the District for ihe Upon this the Receiv ing Officer will be for ihe which he will luko up on lit Property Return the receipt givon to the Producer win only be evidence that so much of his Tax is In all such receipts the of the Pro nicer and hia will be Farmers are notified not to deliver produce in payment of their Tax in kioa io any or other without the authority required us o. upon orders emanating from this Post Congressional Districts Quartermasters and who may ho authorized to receive the Tai will receipts required delivering the same aw in my Circular of the ltliu of October published otherwise r receipts to will be disregarded Quartermasters and who heretofore received tho Tax are comply with the above hv executing duplicate receipts to the Post Quartermaster of Congressional District tor itie produce eisa their receipts to Producers will not be as a payment on their Quartermasters and s sre not author lo direct agents to receipt producers In Therefore farmers are notified not to deliver produce ou acco in of their Tax in except for the receipt of a Quartermaster or Commissary to receive uio Ii has reported to this that Quarter masters have directed their or Forage Masters to receipt to farmers for Tithe Tax fAet name of Huch Wagon or forage They mere not authorized to da and suah receipts can not be in of the Tithe by Quartermasters are notified to take up inch delivering their own to the and at the same time executing their to ths Post Quartermasters ol the District fur the pro duoe When necessary &c. with employed in transporting army masters are directed to provide their with blank receipts by then as prescribed in my of the Oct. Otherwise Post Quartermasters and farmers are directed not product to 4t bas also reported this i fii that rouging io ou detached by the com to receipt to tie producer for lie Tithe This was una and such rv cannot be aa a payment on account of the in the officers ol troops on detached or o her who bave thus received the Tax iu are requested to report such receipts to the Quartermaster oi ihe ment to whom such who execute receipts to the Post Q r of toe t ioi the produce thus Triw receipts m iy be executed for tAe bulk tbe Posl ol Ibe D. net a tbe names of the tbe quantity of the tithe of each article Post Quartermasters cf Districts will supply a ou det v. and upon ihe of the Regiment to x ioui io the In iih bUnU by as d iu i iy circul ir oi i 10th Poet being responsible for the en tire of their it is requested Gat tea and other ri will comply with the tho ob of which are necessary for the protection .i aud who have pay their tithe due the JAMES K. twIm Major A
