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TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1863.— Cpursue and even to capture the children of Abraham ;32. But they laughed them to scorn, and said verily we were but a thousand and five hundred , and ye were seven thousand, yet came we into your land and spoiled it.33. And Johnsonadab, one of0Humphrey’s captains, strayed away from his camp, and coming suddenly to the place whereon stood three of the children of Abraham, he lifted up his hand and slew one of them, even unto instant death,and the others took he into captivity.34. And Humphrey and his men pursued them, but after a little time the children of Abraham came unto their own homes in safety, and boasted that they had put terror into theheartsof Humphrey and his army.35. Many other things did Humphrey on this occasion, which are not recorded in this book.The Hew Yankee Conscription.The Senate of the United States has passed a sweeping conscription act, requiring the enrollment (with the exception of certain classes) of the whole male population between the ages of 20 and 45 years. This force, which it is assumed, will a-mount to about three millions ; is to be under the absolute control, and must obey the bidding of Abraham Lincoln. His obsequious Senate has given him regal powers, and could not possibly have placed t‘'e liberties of the people more completely at his disposal.This bill will pass the House, though it would not surprise us if, under the lead of Valindigham and other opponents of the war, various parliamentary steps should be adopt ed to defeat it. This could easily be done by staving off a final vote until next Wednesday morning: when the Lincoln Congress, the most infamous that ever assembled at the Capitol, will expire by limitation. In the present temper' of many of the Northern people, and especially those of the Northwest; this would be the more popular course.The passage of this bill by the Senate, immediately upon the heels of that measure authorising the enrollment of one hundred and fifty thousand negroes, and their employment in the militnry service of the North ; shows the desperation of the Abolition leaders, and the great extremity in which they are placed. But, it is not highly probable that the appalling magnitude of the task which they have proposed to themselves, and the exhaustihg efforts it will require to give the slightest hope of success, will add strength and vigor to those reactionary movements that we see going forward at the North ? When in addition to what they have suf-__ NO. 11.fered already,they see a probability of their whole section being made a vast military camp, to be called into active service at any moment when Abraham Lincoln may see fft to issue his decree ; there is every reason to believe that they will recoil from the further pursuit of a hopeless object, and refuse longer acqui-esence in the dictation of “the drunken mutineers” who have seized the ship of State, and are driving it upon the breakers of destruction. We predict that this very legislation will add fresh fuel to the flame of opposition that is already burning everywhere in the North, and all the sooner break down the Lincoln Administration.In this effort of a dying Congress, to strengthen the hands of the usurper, to enable him to carry out his measures without the indication of an opposition Congress, we think the subservient tools of the t}rrant have over reached themselves, and will live to see tlieir error. So far, then, for being ashamed by this seemingly formidable preparation, we see in it evidence of that blind and fatal policy that is destined to revolutionize the North and sweep from power, (we could fain wish, from the earth,) the men who have instigated this wicked and terrible war— Lynchburg Virginian.Latest froBii the North.Richmond, Feb. 25th.The New York Times of the 19th is received. It avows, with reluctance, that the French Emperor has determined to open Southern ports, by the 1st of April, for the export of cotton, and that he will welcome rather than depreciate^war as a consequence of the act.The tenor of the Monateur, the general tone of the ministerial organs, and the recently changed lan guage of the liberal press, combine much ; it says, to show that this is the policy which the French Emperor has resolved to carry out.The National Intelligencer does not share in this conviction.Hon. Isaac Toucey has promised to stump the State of Connecticut for Seymour.The Times says that Mercier openly predicts at Washington that Napoleon will break the blockade before next March, just, it says, as he announced intervention by France, weeks before it actually took place.The Keobuk Constitutional newspaper was destroyed on the 2nd .by convalescent soldiers in that place.A letter of Gen. Scott, dated Oct. 4th, 1861, has been called for by the Yankee Senate, which will show that McClellan treated Scott with disrespect while the latter was com-mander-in-chief; and that McClellan would have been court martial-ed but for fear of doing iqjury ta the cause.
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