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Athens Southern Watchman (Newspaper) - January 15, 1862, Athens, Georgia7 i Iny w de Persona. This government cannot censure him tor this oversight. It confesses that the whole subject came unforeseen upon the government As doubtless it did upon him. Its present convictions on the Point in question Are the result of deliberate examination and deduction now made and not of any impressions previously formed. A nevertheless Tho question Yin we is hot whether Captain Wilkes is justified to his government in what he did but what is the present View of the government As to Tho effect of a bal he hits done ? assuming now for argument s Sake Only that the Roloso of too Trent if voluntary involved a waiver of Tho claim of the government to hold the captured persons the United states could in that Case Havo no hesitation in saying that the act which has thus already been approved by the government must to allowed to draw its Legal consequences alter it. It is of the very nature of a gift or a Charity that the giver cannot Niter the exercise of his Benevolence is past recall or modify its benefits. To Aro thus brought directly to the question whether we Are entitled to regard the melons a of the Trent As involuntary or whether to arc obliged to sons incr that it is voluntary ? clearly Tho release would have been Mude solely upon the first ground assigned for it by Coptain Wilkes namely a want of sufficient Force to Send Tho prize vessel into port for adjudication. It is not the duty of a captor to Hazard his own vessel in order to scare a judicial examination to Nho captured party. N o Large prize Crew however is legally necessary for it is the duty of the captured party to acquiesce and go willingly to fore the tribunal to whose jurisdiction it appeals. A Folio captured a party indicate purposes to employ Means of resistance which Tho captor cannot with probable a Fety to himself overcome lie May properly leave the vessel to go Forward and neither he nor Tho stale he represents Cun Ever afterwards justly object that the captor deprived her of the judicial remedy to which she was on titled. For the second reason assigned by Captain Wilkes fur releasing Tho tront differs from the first. At beat therefore it must to held that capt in Wilkes us lie explains himself acted from combined sentiments of prudence and generosity and so that the release of the prize vessel was not strictly necessary or involuntary. Secondly How. Ought to to expect they explanations of capt. Wilkes a his reasons for leaving the capture incomplete to affect tie action of the British government f the observation Imon this Point which first occurs is that capt. Wilkes explanations were not made to the authorities of the captured vessel. If made known to them they might have approved and to the release upon the condition of waiving a judicial investigation of Tho whole transaction or they might have refused to accept the release upon that condition. But the Case is not one with Thorn but with Tho British government. If we claim that great Britain ought not to insist that i judicial trial bus been inst a Cacao we voluntarily released the offending vessel Uit of consideration of her innocent Pas angers i do not see How she is bound to acquiesce in the decision that was thus made by us without the necessity on our Oart and without knowledge of Coundi ions or consent on her part. Tho question Between great Britain and ourselves thus stated would be a question riot of right or of Law but of favor conceded by her to is in mum for favors shown by is to her of the value of which favors on both sides we ourselves shall to the judge. Of Corioso Tho United states could. Siivo no thought of raising such a question in any Case. I Trust that i have shown to the of the British government by a very simple and natural statement of Tho facts and analysis of to Law applicable to them,.that this government nos neither meditated for practice nor approved any deliberate wrong in the transaction to. Whiteb they have called us attention and. On the contrary that what Lias happened has been simply an inadvertence consist Ingin a departure by the naval officer free from any wrongful motive from a Rule uncertainly established and probably by the several parties concerned either imperfectly understood or entirely unknown. For this error the British government lips no right to expect the same reparation that we us an Independent Ovate should expect from Groat Britain or from any other Friendly nation in u similar Case. I have not been a Imparo that in examining this question i have fallen into an argument for what seems to to Tho British Side of it against Ray own country. But i am Relio cd from All embarrassments on that subject. I Lind hardly fallen into line of argument when i discovered that i was really defending and maintaining not an exclusively British interest but an old honoured and Clitoris lion american cause not upon British authorities but upon principles that constr Piuto u Jarg i. Portion Oft pm distinctive policy by which the United a states Quot have developed to resources of a continent and thus becoming a considerable Maritina Power have won Tho respect of maty nations. These principles were Laid Down for us in 13�o4 by James Madison when Secretary of state in the administration of Thomas Jefferson in instructions Given to Jamos Moi Trio. Our min Storl a England. Although the Case be fora him concerned a description of person different from those who arc the subject of Tho present discussion Tho ground he assumed then was the Samo i now occupy and the arguments by which lie sustained himself upon it have been an inspiration to me in prepaying Elliis reply. A a whenever who Hays a property found in in Neutral vessel is supposed to be liable on any ground 10 capture and Eon Domna Tion the Rule in All cases is that the question a Hull not. Be decided by to captor s. Legal tribunal where a regular trial May to had and where the captor himself is Hablo to damages for an his Power. Can it to reasonable then or just that a belligerent . Win is thus Lestric Tobej and thus responsible in a ease of inert property of trivial ubi be permitted without recurring to any tribunal whatever to examine the Creo of a Neutral vessel to decide i be question of their res Poe Ive and to carry Tomt decision into of you on by forcing Ivory individual lie May House into n sen ice abhorrent to Bis feel _ cutting him off Lio Iii his most tender Eon knee tons exposing his mind and Bis person to the most humiliating discipline and his life itself to to greatest danger ? reason just dec and humanity unite in protesting Agni st so extravagant a proceeding. If i decide this Case in favor of my own government i Mast disavow its most her shod principles and. Reserve and forever abandon its essential policy. The country cannot afford the sacrifice. If i maintain those principles and Adilore to that policy i must surrender the Case itself. It will be seen therefore that ibis government could not deny the Justice of the claim presented to us in this respect upon its merits. We Are asked to do the British nation just what we have always insisted All nations ought to do to us. Tho claim of the British government is not made in a discourteous manner. This government since its a yet has never used mors guarded a similar Case. In coming to my conc Nison i Havo not forgotten that if the safety of this Union required tiie detention of the captured persons it would to the right and duty of this government to detain them. But the effectual chock and waning proportions of to existing insurrection As Well As the. Comparative Unimportance of the captured persons themselves when dispassionately weighed happily forbid Ine from resorting to that defence nor am i unaware that american citizens Are hot in any Case to be unnecessarily surrendered for any purpose into tiie keeping of a foreign state. Only tie Cap tured persons however or others who Uro interested in Thom could a Nelly raise a question on that ground. Nor Havo i been tempted at All by suggestions that eases might be found in his Lory where great to. Yield to other nations and even to ourselves claims like that which is now before us. Those cases occurred Shefi Groat Britain As Well As the United states was the Homo which withal their Peculiar interests and passions have passed away. Sho could in no other Way so effectually disavow any such injury As we think she does by assuming now. As her own the ground upon which we then stood. It would Tell Little for our claims to the character of a just and magnanimous people if we should so fur consent to to guided by the Law of retaliation As to lift up buried injuries from their Graves to oppose against what National consistency and National conscience compels us to regard As a claim intrinsically right. Putting behind me All suggestions of his kind i prefer to express my satisfaction that by the us Justement of the Presan Casc upon Principe is confessedly american and yet As i Trust mutually satisfactory to both of the nations concerned a question is finally and rightly settled Between them which heretofore exhausting not Only All forms of peaceful discussions Bat also the arbitrage it of War itself for More than half a Century Alieu Atco the two countries each other and perplexed with fears and apprehensions of other nations. The four persons in question Are now hold in military custody at fort Warren in the state of Massachusetts. They Wilt to cheerfully liberated. Your lordship will please indicate a time and place fur receiving them. I Avail myself of this occasion to to your lordship a renewed assume my very High consideration. William ii. Seward to All this Long arg Ignont Lyons makes not one word of reply. He merely acknowledges its receipt and treats tie Humble Secretary and suppliant with a haughtiness Charnote Islic of British Lions the following is his reply . Washington deq.27,18�1, Hon Wai. H. Seward jhc., do sir i have this morning received the note which you did me the Honor to address to Nic yesterday in answer to Earl Russell s dispatch of tie 3j the november last relative to the removal of or. Mason or. Slidell or. My Chariand and or. Eustis from Tho British mail Pekot Trent. 1 will without any loss of time Forward Toller majesty a Quot government a copy of the important communication which you Havo Raudo to my. I will also without delay do in Solf Tho Honor to Confer with you Ner Soully on the arrangements to to Innuso for delivering the four gentlemen to to in order that they again Bop Laneil under the Protection of the British nag. I have the Honor to be with Tho highest consideration sir your most obedient and Bumble servant. / Lyons France Eye perhaps to her old Possession of Louisiana Wlinich she Hopes to recover in to general Melee has something to say on the question but Seward answers tie letter of tie fru Ucli minister by saying that the subject was already disposed of. ,7. I i a i a Athens Georcia wednesday morning Jan. 15. Largest circulation of any paper Cier pull by in Athens credit is dead bad pay killed it we Hope nobody will Oak Natu Soud the watchman without Cash in Lula use. Twenty thousand dollars is As much is we can afford to lose by the credit system. To know our paper is Worth now twice is much As to ask for it hot we still offer it at two dollars in Advance notwithstanding Tho extortion to which we Are forced to submit. Send in your orders und Tho Cash. Cash for Job work Are on friends aware that All the material and Ladr employed by us upon Job work Are absolutely Cash or tides ? it is so. We have to pay Cash for everything. This being the Cash we Hopu nobody Wilfalk credit on Job work. Out facilities for doing work Are extensive a our Price Ara. Reasonable. Work will be done Well and done promptly but it unit be mid or. Transient must be paid in Darante hereafter to shall require Cash in Advance from All advertisers except Quot county officers or to boat who advertise toy the year a r done to do it done to to Send Trio watchman with ont remitting the amount of subscription a this we say to Nev subscribers. And to old ones we a build say off tvs to think of Stop Ping your a Quot these stirring tidies but a Send on Tho Cusoli in Tiffy Guvi. Aid to borrowers to would say Ditont depend upon your neighbor for Reading matter Bute Ond two dollars and gel a paper of your own. Take this advice at the beginning of the new year did Yon Balty of go Orgia. To Are pleased to Lear ii that the Spring term of Trio Stuto University Lias commenced with greatly improved prospects. Southern Field and fireside. S. A Atkinson esq., has been announced As editor of Trio literary department of Liis excellent Southern weekly. Or. A. Is Well known to the Reading Public As the Able editor of the late Augusta dispatch. The people of the South ought to give the Field and fireside a rousing circulation. Oysters. We Are indebted to or. Jons g. Shea iian for a Lotof Nice fresh oysters. Lie keeps lots of Nico things at his establishment on Jackson Street and will take pleasure in l uiting upon customers. Sudden death. Or. Abner Graham for Many years a highly respectable citizen of this county dropped dead suddenly at his Panruti in near this place on sunday last. He w s a native of North Carolina. Tags Coo 111 moral heroes. The array correspondent of tie Savannah Republican says a but there Are moral As Well As military heroes. There is one in Richmond at this Timon a Man of great intellect and High position. His health has been indifferent for some Days Bat he is much better now and will Boon let of Ablo to resume his official duties. He May he seen any Day when Well moving noiselessly about the h spitals whore the sick soldiers Are sent. He has a kind word for Evory patients lingers around their cots inquires after their wants and consoles and encourages them by his quiet attentions Ana brotherly language. His Public duties press heavily upon him. Yet lie finds time to steal away from Tho crowd that would follow at his heels and to search out Tho sufferer. Does not your heart loll Yon instinctively who this hero of the Hospital is it is Alexander n. Stephens of whom it will not to said in the last Day a i was sick and be visited me a telegraphic dispatch from san Francisco California dated Jan. 1, says that great freshest had occurred throughout Tho state by which More property had Boon destroyed than by All Tho freshest heretofore since the country has been settled by americans. Wooden shoe Facit Ryin an enterprising firm in Raleigh n. C., have fitted no an expo Sivo factory for the Nimfa Conro of wooden shoes made from gum and Poplar. They Are already turning put 100 Pairan Day. Of to Ivo no nows of interest from the coast this week. The Public Are at All times Welcome to read on exchanges hut they must riot to carried ont. If our Reading room. This is a matter a Liili has subjected us to much inconvenience for some to info past but we Trust re shall not he troubled in this manner hereafter. Confederate repeater. We examined the other Day the repeat la Rifle lately invented by or. Jonn , of this town now in the state ser ice at Savannah. By Means of three Yli riders which receive the charges like oils pistol this gun May to fired eight in times without loading. It is adapted o the use of the Minnie Ball. It would 0 n splendid gun in n game country or in picket duty in Tho army. Or. J. Has Chi Bitch much ingenuity in its invention and has to understand applied for a agent. ,. To correspondents. In answer to various inquiries from arties widely dispersed both cd a Western Irginia and Arkansas we state on the ust information we can Procuro that the Litton factories in the neighbourhood of a town Are not Ablo to Supply the Homo urmand for their goods and of coarse count furnish Distant markets. In reference to paper there is now none i this Market. Tho Pioneer Mill which As unfortunately consumed by fire last oar has been rebuilt und will to Lii poor lion in two months from this time per aps. Serious difficulties leave been in 1 motored but it is Beli Ovod they have Een and will to surmounted and in a sort time this Mill will be turnip Goat in Bun dunce of paper. Notice. Take this method of informing Boge companies that Are ready and those that Are not. But Are form g and organizing to go into Tho rugs want that i Uin theorized by the Secretary or War to raise that in Roy to a letter which i wrote the Secretary i have his to mania action saying that As soon As we Are ready for t to inform him Ana that he will Send 11 proper flir to Athens Aud Muster As into Tho service and pay a a non officer musician and priv to by dollars hero As soon As in. To have the Oice to Glt a Cit heir for the War or three years. I con Ike arrangement to carry the entire Coin mud upon e same train of cars to Augustu. I will say As j Baku store said Tho first ton companies with full ranks will nip so Tho in in a i. I i. $ will he received Ali from 011� 100 privates la View of the necessary ten Hon it win he in Tho month of feh nary before will be enabled to get into service then let us work per Donty for Tho ton comp Anima to he ready and a maced in at to in sumo time. Thu Oiin la Edone by Dir Spint Greig Borho gtd bickering anti jealousy and uniting asic Ina for the one purpose. Our count Rye a defence id hour demands the so Rifino of Jeal by and envy. Every than cannot he an officer and he to would interfere or throw impediments in the Way Quot making no companies in this time of our country de Mark Hilt As a Lory an enemy to himself to the my Unity in which to lives and to it his country. Captains of com pennies will inform me when their oks Are full and Send me their cum bars and i will to it pm them when to assemble hero b. W. Stuono. Surrender of Ibe Confederate commissioners. The Back Down of the Lincoln government from its bold act of seizing the Confederate commission irs on Board an . After All its Gasconade about. A a thrashing John Bull a is certainly one of the most pusillanimous acts Ever committed nation and in the language of a contemporary makes us feel ashamed that we Ever Lead any connection whatever with such a people. The seizure of the commissioners was Quot in Tho first plume a great Blunder and their surrender a greater. They ought to have known that England would not pocket Sueb an insult in silence a and they must have had a realizing sense of the the Southern confederacy can tarnish them with As much fighting As Lioy Are Ablo to do. They ought therefore to have see ii the i policy of nuking a seizure which they could not hold i without provoking a foreign War. As their were not prepare for this they ought Titio hot pomade it at ally especially when they must have known it would Subj out them to tie Tibia of 4 bucking Down a or As to boil editors elegantly express it coating dirt a in Trio face of the whole world. A but this is Dot the Yorst feature of Tho Case bal Mason and been per. Fitted to go quietly to England and France they would probably have icon treated As Yancey and Mann Ivere. Having Betyn arrested manner As to offer a mar Tal insult to Flag haying been the Auh acct matter of a diplomatic Corie spa Deuce Between Tho English and Federal governments a which it was thought would end in a declaration of War they have now become pow Hagee of great importance in the eyes it it the English people and government and Euenee will be a a lionized Whon they reach London a and the British government can avenge itself of a lie insult offered its Flag by the a Immediato recognition of lilo Southern confederacy. This will probably be one of the results of the Federal Blunder. Having humiliated themselves before Trio British lion the Yankees May now expect to see it exhibit its Teeth frequently and hear it growl fiercely. Never More will they have Aliy peace with England until the a try their prowess with her once More in the Field and on the water. England has Learned that the fighting material of this country is located chiefly South of the Potomac Sho most heartily despises the Yankees is competitors in Man fac Turing is smarting under the late insult indignant at Seward s threat to the effect that our recognition by foreign nations would be considered As just cause of War. Vvs iat More probable therefore than that Johnny Bull recognizes our Independence within sixty Days uni declares Trio blockade a farce ? Cotton. Our excl Ngoa have Boen discussing to question a Hotelier the South ought to Plant by Cotton this year and Ninny of them say Plant not a Pound. This we think is nil wrong. We believe tie blockade will be raised Long Ere another crop matures and if it should not Cotton is inexpensive to keep on the plantations and when Trade is renewed will be a very Good thing to have on hand in Largo quantities. We do not believe however that our planters ought to Plant As much Cotton this year or any your hereafter As heretofore. Most of them have always planted too much Cotton to tie neglect of Stock grass and Grain. The Rule which All planters should adopt this year and for All time to come it strikes us should be first to secure an ample Supply of Grain and Stock for their own consumption and use even if seasons should be in propitious and theri after doing this raise every Pound of Cotton they Cau without injury to their lands negroes and mules. From u pretty extensive to can safely say that those planters who pursue this course Are always More pros persons and their negroes farm Stock and lands in better condition than those who depend on Cotton aloud. What profit to a Man is it to raise a thousand bags of Cotton if All the Money realized from it be expended in the Purchase of bread meat and clothing for his household and animals with which to Stock his place this policy not Only impoverishes land but forces those pursue it to live a a from hand to month a and instead of being what Thoy ought to be makes them the most dependent people on Trio face of the Earth. Have we not had enough of it a a eating dirt a the blackguard Chicago paper which about a year ago sneering by Unno Unsod that the people of the South would a a eat dirty a that Thoy would a crawl through a Knothole to Back Down from their threats to dissolve the How very much a a disgruntled on account of its political associates at the North who it says have backed Down from their determination to emancipate Trio Southern slaves. To says that a Low weeks ago they were ardent in the cause hut that there is some fatal influence prevailing at Washington which has weakened their spinal columns until Trio can no longer stand up. To says however the Nort Boi n democrats Are True As steel and pays the n a High compliment i their hellish purposes on id do it. A a any one of them i is Sitter r a. The Yankee a a stunt blockade. When the grinning monkeys in the ser 1 ice of the old Baboon first announced the diabolical project of closing the Southern arbours by sinking old whaling vessels aided with Stone they claimed they had it upon a very smart idea and that it was a big Tho following extract rom the London tintes will show in what get the matter is regarded among civil ted Christian nations Brevi ties. has resigned in Conse. Quence of a disagreement with Gen. P0�-. The Savannah and Augusta papers�., a need the a a first Shad of the season la a a week. Wim will exhibit the a first Shad Quot i Here a i it is said that. Gens. Beauregard j e. Johnston and. Mcclellan All served under Gen. Pillow ivmbsnto.5 it that dog skins make a very Superior article of Fine leather. \y0 ,0 to the Experiment will be tried at once tyo Govlik Rymont has itself pm n0t i to a. Teat Ras badly is any other flu tidally admitted the failure of their a a blockade by an act of barbarity which i Unwar Alelle in the history of National cars. They Ivo actually endeavoured to do what Columbus had Dozier to shut i from nil Mankind forever the ports which to great discover Ope cd tip the human ice and to destroy by artificial Impei let its the Gates by Winch men of All nations Torand pass out of sonic millions of Square Dies of Fertile and productive lands. This i a crime against All human kind. If it Oes not Call Down Universal opposition it i Only because the Enterprise is believed i bods impossible As its design is Cxecra-lo.�?�. A Quot a dome things can be done is Well As tie Athens steam co. Hugo made and re now making a number of Power looms it a the Athens factory one of a Vloch is a w in daily use and is shred by be superintendent is fully Seq dial to the or tern looms. Capt. Nickerson of the great so fit a and a ingenuity and displayed commendable in usury in useful articles Ince Tho War began. To know scarcely a thing of Wood Iron or brass that he ingot make from the army. our citizens connected Ith tie army Are or have been within few ctr is past on a visit to their families id friends in this place. Among the num or to remember or. Josepn b. Carlton. Surgeon of Taylor a battalion. Or. H. Ii. Arlton 1st Lieut. Troup artillery Lieut a. Pope of the troop artillery or. R. Smith surgeon of Cobbs regiment Ciller g. Lumpkin assistant com Raissa a of Cobbs legion and perhaps other of recollected. Another death in the boards. Tho remains of or. W. Murray. Ron f our fellow citizen we. Murray esq., nachod tins pm Aee on saturday evenings rain. He died at Portsmouth another Patriot ran tyr in the cause a of Freedom a Cace to i sashes but the republicans and will a a eat to always know t set of scoundrels Ai that Down trodden and Missouri Are now have no backbones icy were a cowardly 1 Are not surprised Maryland Kentucky holding them at buy what sex prisoner Ely tor Liera papers have an account of or. Lye a arrival at Baltimore and All he said bout the rebels from which we make an v tract to declares that he is not in abolitionist id never was one Tomt lie was not elect a to Congress by abolition votes and that a any abolitionists voted for him it was without his knowledge and against his wishes. He states Tomt to had every of Ort Unity while at Richmond of going by by where in the City of seeing every thing and conversing with All kinds of people. Iso that at the hotels lie met gentlemen no All mirl8 of he Southern slates with Horn he conversed freely. He says he is inv med entire South is u unit on be subject of the War and that they Are storm sued to fight till the last Man fulls r till they achieve their Independence hat the utmost cheerfulness prevails Lere and that Tho it eople Are satisfied Ith what has done so far. He states that i far As his own action is concerned that in Vinced of the impracticability of subduing the South he is willing to lot the South in states go. _ the belgian Yankees Are till growling about their guns. The Chi Igo Tribune says Are we to have an end of the severe and a unset Ous swindle the belgian muskets a inquiry should lie instituted As to of Many of these double acting shooting a oils we Havo in Tho country double act in because about equally dangerous Iii a it her end. A Good Story is told of one of or Illinois colonels who was heard Pruis in the Arm. Says he a in platoon firing Atli the belgian Musket i can Tell what can not with any other Arm and that is of Many pieces have been a How can Yon toll that a a ooh i count the men on the ground ? it Uver deceives to. It is a fire Aud fall acky one of these belgian i muskets will kick Quot be a mule and burst with the greatest in laity several soldiers in on. Illinois Iii cents have been killed in this Wuy. To Bayonet Loo is a Novelty a soft Iron fair apparently designated to Coil around to enemy As it is introduced thus taking in prisoner. A ice running the col Imbus news of Jan. 1st, says in lense quantities Ficie is floating Down the Mississippi from the cold regions of the Orth. A perfect Gorgo of it was visible Jato Cotton Cotton shed Eon tubing one Hundred and Twenty four Bales of a ton the property of or. Lewis Moore Star Selma ala., was destroyed by fire last Eok. _ homicide in Twiggs a a e regret to learn it a difficulty occurred in Twiggs county i wednesday in which or. James mourn Ware was killed and or. Newby mor Illy wounded. We Havo not Learned How to affair commenced a Macon Telegraph. Prince Napoleon on the in despatches assert that the news Roceil i by the Argun reports that Prince in Deon Luis used his influence in favor of to Lincoln government since his return a Franco. Community and have we Mutt a great of number of Worthi uss dogs. A a it g Goverman Hutiu Monde have been assured that regular or. A animations have been formed at the Ortii for the stir pose of be Iida us desperadoes South to Burn Railroad bridges1 factories Townsy amp cd. -7-1-, Lions. James m. Baker and a. P. Maxwell have been elected Confederate senators from Florida. Igol. Nathan Bass of mucosa has been appointed Ltd judge Nisbet who so medium ago resigned his seat in Tho pro. Vision of cd a Grey so several arrivals of foreign vessels at aerate ports have been announce within the past fortnight. paper sold at auction in Sava Nail tiie of nor Day at upwards of ten Del. Lars per Rani i a a i a .�?T.Gen. Mcclellan a health it is said a has very Moth improved lately. The real estate by the Groat fire at Charleston Luis been estimated at 83,500,000. Of this amount 81,500,000 was covered by insurance. Texas has now 25,000 men in the Field and Tho number will to increased to 40,000 by Spring. Tie Stock of Cotton in England in Tho hands of spinners and speculators will not it is said to exhausted before Tho 1st of May. Pork was Selling lust week it Nash Villo and Chattanooga at 10 cents net. Forty newspapers have suspended in Virginia recently from want of paper and want of pay. The North Carolina legislature Lias adjourned to meet again on the 20th inst a splendid Galaxy from one Counti. A when the nomination of Gen. Robert e. Lee Inq before the Virginia convention us commander of the military and naval forces of Virginia a or. Critcher of Tho county of Westmoreland referred thus to Tho distinguished sons which the comity Here presented had produced sir when i stand in my own Yard i can turn to one Side and look upon the farm on which Washington was born Ami turning to the other i can Point to the farm where Gen. Lee was born. On the farm beyond Light Horae Harry Lee who moved the declaration of Independence was Boro and when my friends visit me i can drive them to Tho Birt spot of Mon a1 Roe and in two hours Moro we come to Tho a spot where Madison was born. Tais it must u j to admitted is a splendid Galaxy of Groat names for one county to claim the parentage of. England must have Cotton. A the Cork reporter of december Billr says it is stated that Evirl Russell bad assured a deputation which had waited on him arrangements had Boen in Udo for the sex a pollution of Cotton from the Southern states during the Mouth of february next. There is trouble amongst Tho operatives a Ltd in All Tho Northern Navy Yards. They to fuse to answer to the Roll Call Ami hold meetings to protest against government a i requisitions. Ely in Iii new York speech says me a Clellands vast army has too much to tin. The Yankees have to fight a people terribly in Earnest. War even to Tho knife is still their cry. They will spare neither Lite nor treasure to prevent an Advance of the of Northern troops. Us lion. , recently of the French a array has arrived at a Southern port from it Havana and has entered the co Federan army. The Yankee minister to Brazil reports that there is considerable anxiety respect a a i no the difficulties in the United states anti that the sympathies of Brazil Armstrong. 1 by on the Side of the Yankee government 11 i either minister Webb states and untruth to or the brazilian government has had its inf sympathies most strangely warped. Lol Tho Nashville Gazette says that instead to a of the loss by Tho late burning being two millions of dollars As reported will not exceed or at an extravagant estimate. 8500,000. Punch says Tho largest the. World Isth Fig it at present going on in 1 America. Al Tkv Toronto mrs Sayf Itiat or. Brock 1 in.tidj5tel.00k passage in the c Cunard st a irl Mer Canada from Halifax for England 01 in the uth ult. Or. Breckinridge goes is commissioner for the Sou Thorn confederacy in place of or. Mason. The total amount thus far contribute d l a tor the Relief of tie sufferers by the late fire e , running tiie urn the Mobile 11 tut Tho c. S. St Huiju Foly into new Orion Yuwiler la ,0tl�i Eis tried cargo. we learn r of tie 5th inst., Vanderbilt has gut is with to Pound if iced rifles the Richmond dispatch says at lest seven eighths of Tho virginia1 troops no Quot in service will re enlist when their term a Sonvico expires. By Many of the Fig Trees in Galveston at now hearing a second crop of Tigs sonic 0 which Are nearly Ripe und appear quite a Largo As the first crop. To the Charleston courier says the st a or which has arrived at new orb an8. The Clack joker freighted chiefly w1 powder for the Confederate govern i in his is re tia to. _ to petition from Ohio to remont of Tho a forces has been presented in Rosa forces. Federal see ale. La

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