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HOUSTON, DECEMBER 5. 18ti4.
A jrooil d<v! p' Mlgnwtion baa been ex-
pressed that tbe Legislature shoul 1 have
voted to allow the railroai companies U p&j
their debt* to the Bute with its own to
them, that it, that the Legislature pHuld
have put the credit oi these companies on
a par with that of the State. It eeemsto us
this indignation is rather inconsistent with
State prl'1", at well as unceHcd fur ty
existing facts. •
The railroad oomp^ntcs, a« long as they
were doing their regular busui iw before the
war, wi re abln to pay their itif«r*«t, and did
pay it, we believe, most of th m. After
specie went out of circulation they accumu-
lated moneys for tkU porpor 3 which tbo
State did not reoeire (or interest, nod wWeh
depreciated largely in their hands. ° Theb*
present tMuiuuss,. so far a^the jieupie arc
concerned, a small part of it int^ed, is
on a specie basbC Wfir tb* government,
which ovopiin four fifths cf their freight,
tbey i«>wHver work at abou* eno fourth the
lftwfu1 fcchedulc. ,
The railroads are all wcailng out. For
every j,;lrt o£ iheir repairs as well as sup-
plies 1 (ii -joi tod, they sire obliged to pay from
thna iu six prices in specie. The public is
so much In tbe habit of looking upon these
institutions as vast machines of oppression
that anything done or attempted for their
benefit'., at once calls forth the clamor of the
iguoruBt and the designing. Why this
should 1x9 the vase it is difficult to see. In
enhancing the value of property they haye
paid for themselves to the 81 ate many times
over, iu decreasing the cost of freight and
travel, as well ns enhancing tbc pub.ic
convenience, they have paid for themselves
to tbo people as many times. And yet of
them b th State and people seem to be as
* jealous as though they were a public nui-
eauiv in place of being a puhlic advantage.
But all this talk is mainly unnecessary f
bee use of tbe impossibility of the railroads
availing themselves of the terms. To re-
ceive Texas Warrants at par, is to do busi-
ness nt one-fourth the schedule prices.
"While'they have to pay for material lor re-
pair* nt four times the old rates, they are in
a condition, compared with previous to tbe
War, to pay their debts as one to sixteen, so
for £ « this is concerned, or as one to Aght so
far rvs nli their other expenses are concerned.
Tfo railroad In the State can afford this.
Were there plenty of money to be had by
borrowing, the roadsoould make an elegant
tiling by borrowing specie, buying war-
rants nnd paying tbeir aebts at 26 cen's on
tbo dollar. Jtut at present there is no money
to l>e obtained. Where, for instanoe, wou.J
the Central roadT look for $100,000 in
Kj.ecie now 1 Where could the HarrUbnrg
m d hoifow that amount, or tbe Tap road
$76,0001 Why, we donbt if the roads ali
put toget her coukUbe sold formoney enough
to do this, albeit in times of peace and pros-
perity the State mortgage on them is about
the best security for the amount owed we
know of. *
If there was capital in the country tor
the purpose, a good speculation might ii« v
l>o made in buying these bonu& irom the
State and paying for them in Warrants. It
is no time liow, however, to consolidate
capital for such purposes, and there is no
dangwr Of its being done. Those people
who fear the Legislature has "thrown
away" the school fund, may possess their
souls in quiet. Nothing yet uone wilt be
apt to impair its value..
Son© of our shrewd trieuus affected to
■ rhllculp our stateui n e regarding tbe six
t or cent, bonis as an investment that
wouV receive an immediate and profitable
latum. They didu l believe It. One, how-
ever. .vho hain't too much sense to take a
£int (.ought $10,000 Of the bonds, for
which he | aid $£3,100 io old hsue, equiv-
alent to $402 in rpeeie. tie took oil tue
Ji nu: ty coupons amounting to $300 and
bold th sm for $220. Be .then sold six of
. hid bouda without theeoapons at $45 each,
m. kitiff §270, whiotf added to th* $210
gave him us a return for $402 invested,
$480 and four bonds, ore Hear profit ^$18
in tpocie and $4000 in tix per eent. * non-tax-
able botub! Of course snob operations
awake up ail the shrewd people about, and
Ih?vc are no more left of the kind% Bow-
ever, mx per cent, non-taxable bonds are
about the best investment ever offered for
j?*per <hat ha# but thii ty days to run before
it bt comes worthies*.
We understand that iu ¥ eru Texas
where Ocpfr lerate money . 4 refuse ! for
wvirythiog * year ago, > *«« le are
n >w bettanine to be vMi*. - ^
♦ of
Mr. Warren Adams has given us an ac-
count of a recent heroic achievement by
one of our Galvertentansrthe son of Capt.
C. L. McCarty, which le worthy to be placed
on record in a more imperishable form than
a newspaper publication. Young C. W.
McCarty belonged to Gen. Hampton's Di-
vision, and was in Hampton's lata raid
which resulted so disastrously to tbe ene-
my, causing them the loss of large numbers
in killed, wonndedand prisoners, and three
million dollars worth of property. In a
close encounter with tbe enemy during this
raid, when our troops were overpowered by
numbers, tb« Yankees succeeded In captu-
ring our flag, having killed the standard
bearer. Gen. Hsr-^fon, observing this, ex-
claimed : A Any one who will recover our
colors b' '! Lo ,Vcli rewarded." Whereup-
au young McCarty, without saying a word,
rushed forwaid with pistol in hand to re-
cover the lost flag. Tbo flag was born < by
a Yanikoe a lauding by tbe side of a Yanluie
CoWl ou hovoeback, and surrounded ny
Yankee troop* TT-?dlcss of the almost
certain death that threatened any one at-
tempting tcwrecover that flag, McCa* or rush-
ed forwi.nl 'nd, betore the enemy oottld
prepare to check an enterpi ise so unexpect-
ed, Ic-'iad shot the man balding the colors,
and in an inff"*,.t jr ore, tbe Yankee Colonel
(Mr. Adams thinks it was Col. Meigs) fell
fro!^ M« h'>rse with another shot from Mc
■Carty's revolver, and instantly MuCarty
w*h on the bor e with the colors in his hnnd,
aud was on bis return to our lines. But by
this time a shower of Yankee bullets was
poured upon hitn, from which h° received
four wound#, one ball sbattoring his left
baud so that be wj" "it probably ever again
have the use of It, but the other wounds
were not serious. His clothes wei'e, how-
ever. perforated in many places. Ho suc-
ceeded in reaoking Gen. Hampton, to whom
he presented the #•{* and also the Yankee
Colouel's horse and saddle, the latter hav-
ing tbe Yankee Colonel's name engraved
upon the nlating.'
General Hampton having expressed the
highest admiration of this heroic achieve-
ment, returned tbe horse, saddle aud equip-
efce<to young McCarty, as a partial reward
for his valor, and soon after presented Mc-
f* i ty to Gen. Lee, with a s?rtfonient of the
jteriloim scrr'.o. liad rendered to his coun-
try. Alter bestowing the uigOBui com nvn-
uation 0u McCarty, Gen. Lee at once gnv ;
him tbe appointment of First Lieutenant in
the regular army, and an unlimited furlough.
Mr. Adams Informs us that McCarty miy
now be expected home as soon as he shall
liavesudcienity recovered uoui his wounds
which were doing well when he -Lft Mc
Catty left Galveston as a rbember of the
Lone Star Bifles in August, 1861, and has
not been back siuce. He has been in all
the principal battles in Yirgiuia and around
Richmond, and ha in all eases proved him-
self one of the bravest soldiers in tbe army.
Doubtless many a Yankee has fallen before
his unerring rifle.—Netet.
Th« lateit quotation* of cotton In Liverpool are lor
Nty.(lb, •* loll.jr* : Kitr Orleans 36-1; SliddlinffOr
Inaui Fair Mobile 2SH't.; Ml d'liig Mobile
>3i«d,i Fair UpUitdti IB Micd.i. a Uplanu* 231.
diock 390,160 bale*, of which Americas 13/30. At
tea from IndU 314000.
gatherer, nnd find
Confrd. iniMMt (he
p:e^ c.eofsnki UK
large volume* of mnt
westward new, wy
some people them nr
merehaete'for buyb,
they n$a«ed it, for t
latiug en their
Bast •< « «*t tee*
toi.-vw. TotalUt I «mnHttm-
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% A •
Havana, Nov. m —date* uf strict Middling Cotton
here at 60c. SUrllotc Exchange 14@14>i prem j New
* rk #J®6* Ul«c. A merle.n and Moxlcan golds per
cent pi am.
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Camden, Nov. 23, 1864.
From tbe Chioago Times.
Joseph licit, uii'ier order flrotn the War
Department, has published a report of the
fw.~t.oat Buueiiesnf the West. From
this mnort we learn thai these secret tre*-
n«p<«bl« ■ooiet'A® '• « • 126.000 members in
Indiana, 140,000 in Hlif< i«, lt;8,000 in
Ohio, 70,0f>0 ;n Kentucky. 12 000 iu Mich-
igan, 20,000 iu^iewYoik and 40,000 in
Missouri. Theae figures indicate a foi-
midable army, and if true, whereof they
aflirui, should suggest to the War Depart-'
meat and tbe "government," the po'icjr of
conciliation, if we nave this number of
tr 't"rq in *>u to"'"! organised and armed,
bound tt golher by solemn oath, and ready
for r*volu,!oi, the baolibnne of the rebell-
ion i < in a mn> rkablo healthy condition,
Ubtwithvtatiding the numerous fVactur«s
i«> ua6 undergone. Why, here arc between
five aod six hundred thousand men. The
8outh at tbe tagin iogof (he ear had not
t>j many. We have been four years at war
with the 8outb, and have not, from present
indications, oompietcd half the • "vJuga-
ti n ; and *9 soon as we get through with
hei', uioie is >« k of greater magnitude
telt tor us a . home. Rebels increase iu
ncn*iern and fast. Probably there are
ouiuuo organisations asmtny more io the
3lates named who are ready to jo'n '^em.
If the war would continue fouryears lon-
Er under Lincoln's policies, there would
none but rebels in the country. The
country ought to be alarmed by this report*
If it is not alarmed it fails in duty. He
made the report that the country might bo
alarmed. Will it fulfill his expectations.
A Jemyman who found himself going to
New York cii.j %>u the train with a dirty
shirt on the other day thought on entering
the Berg&a tonne!, that he would have a
good opportunity in the darkness to clnuige
his shirt.' So, unlocking his oarpet bag bo
Elied busy hands iu putting on his garment,
^ ut had just got it over his head, fast tangled
in his ami, when, to his dismay and the
uproar of the passengers the train emerged
into brond daylight. ,
August 1&—-biclmoot offers the follow-
ing bet in the Nee York Times
'*1 will bat the sum of ten thousand
dillare, the money to be deposited in the
York Trust Company, that if Mr.
Wnooki should oe elected he will be In n
Mate of war during the term of nis Ad-
min utratioa, or will be forteJ into a dit-
gtaeetul pence with separation, and the
. ne am «nt lobe sin.ilarly deposite-
1 it G«n«ral MeCteilants eleoted, the
* Will be reeiored within hie term of
iee."
e 'Washington eomepondent of the
* *Wk Hemld enye: **Ofioers from
fres® S)Mak despondingty of Grant's
"SP11 **• mrmT "tit dead
Wber it etiempta ee move, no mat-
./net Hiwden,.!! Is oenfronted by
eqnsl, if not superior masses. Tbe ebeeh
mate will last.till the army is reinforced,
aod nothing will bo done of moment till
spring.
"We most bave a new draft, and a large
one. This will not overmatch the negro
recruiti to Lee's and Hood's armies. These
negroes and all the whites that can be
spared will swell tbe rebel forces. We
piuet look out for a black and bloody war
of reprisals.
"LinoOln indifferent to the results of
tbe war, chuckles over his tactics—Ten-
nessee and Maryland, find the seizure of
the soldiers' .votes. Be overruns with
jokse." H> p-
Items of Interest
The Richmond Sentinel says :
The following letter has been handed us
for publlualiiin, Mr. Collies, the liberal gen-
tleman who who writes it, appropriates
$10,000 to the aid and assistance of the sol-
diers' families and others in the Confeder-
acy reduced to want by the war.
War Departmkmt. C. S. A.,
Richmond, Oct. 5, 1804.
William P. Mumford, Esq., Chairman Ar-
my Committee of the Young Me n't Chri -
tian Association, Richmond, Va :
Sir:—Mr. Alexander Collies, a liberal
citizen of Loudou, has placed at my dis-
posal the sum of $10,000 for the relief of
the needy and" suffering of our people. I
desire to avail myself of your assistance in
the execution of this trust to tbe cxtfent of
one-third of that amount say $3,333 3:i;
and have, therefore, to request that you
will draw upon Mr, William .Collies, (bl eth-
er of the donor) at Wilmington, N. C., for
said sum, to be employed for the relief of
the poor under the charge of your excel-
lent association.
'! Very Respectfully,
JAMES A. SEDDON,
. Secretary of War.
"Do you enjoy going to church now,"
asked a lady of Mrs. Partington. "L%w
me, Ido," replied Mrs. P. ' Nothing dues
me as much good as to gat up early on
Suudav morning, and go to cnurch and
hear a populous minister dispense with
ihe Gosp l."
The Charlotteville (Va.) Chnniole says
it has enquired particularly Into the
charges of intempernnoe a&cainst General
Early, and is able to cjutra'diot the em-
erophatically
Professor Baroh, for twenty-one years
chief ot the United States o ast survey, is
'dangerously ill wi'h an atfeotion of the
brain.
The Columbus Enquirer says:
Suiao of the Confederate tax collectors
have been requiring payment in the new
ourrunay of all fractions Hue for taxes be-
tween the hundred dollar certificates. For
instance, if a man's taxes amounted to one
hundred aud seventy-five dollars, they
would not take a two hundred dollar cer-
tificate, or two one hundred dollar certifi-
cates in payment dT the tax, but would re-
quire seventy-five dollars in Treasury
notes. The injustice of this course is
manifest, but we presume thai collector*
were acting according to their instructions
as they understood tbem. We learn how-
ever, that the Commissioner of Tex'as, in
inswer to an appeal made to bira by a
tax payer or two in Georgia, has decided
that the collectors must receive the certifi-
cates tendered when they amount to all or
more than the tax due. If the tax payer is
willing to pay in the whole certificate of
one hundred dollars or larger, when only
a fraction of it is required to settle his
taxes, tbe colleoior must receive it, This
decision meets the approval of Secretary
Trenholm, and no doubt instructions to
act accordingly have been or will be sent
to tax collectors.
The Richmoud Dispatch has the follow-
ing pierce of literary sarcasm.
It in pleasing to learn that the Confeder-
ates abroad continue to have a good time.
Not that their canse is in any way promot-
ed in foreign parts by their residence
abroad, but, on the contrary, soems to lan-
guish. Tbe Yankees represent them as rats
leaving a sinking ship, and falsehood al-
ways obtains a more ready crcJcnce in this
world than truth. At any rate, none of tho
powc" uiid potentates of Europe have been
inspired by their influence to countenance,
aid or comfb.t the Southern "rebellion."
But it is gratifying to know that, though
confined in a foreign land, they are as well
as could be expected. Coffee and cigars,
beefsteak, beor and brandy, arc among
those consolrtions of human misery which
the most sublimated patriotism need not
reject. Europe affords, moreover, a fine
position from which to behold the whote
field of thfl American struggle. Seated in
that elevated dress circle, surrounded by
lords and ladies, tho Confederate spectators
can have an eligible view ot the American
stage, and smile or ween as the drama de-
velops its lights and shades. As the an-
cient gladiators were animated by the ap-
proving shouts of the multitude in the gal-
leiies, so our Confederate herces arc aroused
to f "^?rhuman valor by tfco plaudits of tho
Confederates in the English tiers, and the
last red drop of ebbing life is more than
paid for by the clapping of white kids and
the patriotic ejaculation of bravo. Hapi>v
mortals. Long may they he exempt from
earthly conflicts, and while tho funeral
dirgo is wailed over their beloved land,
sing with cheerful notes—
< "We won't go heme till ■eritng.
Till da>Ufftt«eth appear.*' -
The Philadelphia Enquirer contains Sher-
man's report of the oampaign of the south-
west from- Chattanooga' to Atlanta. The
Richmond Whig publishes it, and makes
the following pertinent' remarks iu alludinc
to U: ' 8
4'The reader will hardlv overlook the
proof Sherman furnishes that he uttered a
falsehood when be told Gen. Hood, in black
and while, that the shell nnd shot that Beach-
ed Atlanta were accidental, and the result
of bed marksmanship of his cannouiers.
He now confesses: 'I ordered down from
Chattanooga 'our 4| inch rifled guns, to try
their offset. These arrived on the 10th, and
wen put to work night and day, and did
exeewtion on the city, causing frequent fires,
nnd exciting confusion." Liars, it is said,
should have good memories. Sherman evi-
dently bad forgotten, when he penned these
words, what he had said to Gen. Hood."
An exchange in an article upon the North
Carolina volunteer navy company, says:
Ex-Governor Morehead has taken stock
Iu this company to the amount of $2.~>(),000.
The object of the company is not only to
capture the enemy's vessels, aud thus de-
stroy his trade, but, should peace be declar-
ed, to engage in tbe carrying business. A
meeting of the stockholders will be held in
Raleigh on Thursday, 10th of Nov.
Many of the men recently drafted iu
Washington have run off or hid themselves.
In view of this fact inquiries wire addressed
to Provost Marshal General Fry, who re-
plied that drafted meu who fail to report
and do not actually enter the service are
not credited on the quota A supplemen-
tary draft will be made for any delicieucy
that exisw after the present draft is com-
pleted.
Mr. Reynolds, the. dramatist, once met a
free and easy actor, who told him that lie had
passed three festive days at the seat of the
Marquis and Marchioness of , with-
out an invitation, lie had gone there on
the assumption that, as my lord and lady
were not on speaking terms, cacii would
suppose that the o; her had asked him, and
so it turned out.
We copy the following from tbe Person-
al column of the Wasbingttyi Republican.
Nov; 1st:
Queen Victoria has given to every far-
mer within several miles of her lJtghlacd
palace of Balmoral a copy of "The Princi-
pal speeches and Addresses of h .i Royal
Highness the Prince Consort," i^t her
autograph on the fly-leaf.
Miss Dickinson lectured in tbe Chicago
Fraternity Course last week. Topic—
"Chicago tho Lagt Ditch."
H. H. Dodd, the escaped Indiana con-
spirator, baB been heard from. lie is in
Canada.
The Cairo correspondent of the Philadel-
phia Inquirer indites the following bit -of
romance:
We learn from a gentleman lately from
Morganza, La., thattnere is now being tried
at that place, by court martial, .a young
olhcer attached as Adjutant to a Now York
regiment, charged with attempting to betray
Lis .iien into an ambuscade aud desort tothe
enemy. It seems that the ui.fortunate
youn^.' man became enamored of a young
lady, tiie daughter of a wealthy family, re-
siding not far from the coast, and that, de-
siring to make her his wife, he proposed and
was accepted 011 conditions that ho would
betray his command to a Confederate torce
to be conveniently ambushed, he deserting
to the enemy, who, it was n! o stipulated,
would give him a commission in tho rebel
service.
In an ill starred "loment the unfortunate
man hLu *,If and accepted the
proposiUo:;. '! j consented to the betrayal of
the eomrnaes, even u ito death, with whom
he hud fought, and by whom he was regar-
ded as an honorable and brave soldier, aud
who looked to him for the faithful discharge
of al' the duties of the position he had been
placed in by his government. Accordingly
plans were laid, and the commander ot the
Confederate lorces near by communicated
with. A proper pretext given, on the day
appointed, the whole force at Morganza was
marched up in search ot the enemy, who, it
had been asserted, had been depredating up-
on the neighboring plantations to a degree
destructive of the interest of the planters,
who were, by the guerrillas, interdicted
from raising a crop.
However, before they had gone far in the
way, the Colonel commanding, from the
awkwardness of the traitor, suspecting that
all was not right, halted the column, and
posting pickets securely, immediately com-
menced an investigation, which culminated
in the confession ot a Sergeant of one of
the companies, who had been intrusted with
the secret by the Adjutant. The Colonel
thereupon marched his men back to quar-
ters, and promptly ordered a court martial
for the trial of the officer, who, there is little
doubt, will be convicted, and of course shot.
If this does not smack of the romance cf
war, nothing that we have heard of in the
P^st four years can be accounted. The sit-
uation, the time, the characters and the
deed attempted, prompted by love, are cer-
tainly among the most striking features of
the ordinary romance.
We copy the following from the Detroit
Advertiser:
As considerable interest is attached to the
•views of Father Hennessy iu connection
with tfie draft, we give a report of his re-
marks to his congregation on Sunday morn-
ing. He spoke in substance as follows :
"I ask the prayers and the kind offices of
the Church for the families of the poor men
who have suffered from the draft. During
the past week it has passed over the city
like a whirlwind. It is worse than the
cholera or the plague, having none of the
compensations of those dreadful afflictions.
They only destroy tho body; this tortures
the soul. It drags its victims from their
agouized families. Talk not of the tortures
and barbarities of tho middle ages. None
of them ever equaled this in cruelty. In
all the countries of Christendom (by which
teim I do not mean ihe United States,) the
priesthood are exempt from conscription;
but here there is no exemption. How long
will it be before they lay their hands upon
the church and the sacred vessels? Soon
they wili reach that point where they have
no respect for God himself. Some have
been so foolish as to suppose that 1 would
acauiesce in the demand made upon me,
ana tear myself from my beloved people.—
It is now seventeen years since I have with-
drawn from the world and devoted myself
to God, and I t>L-U not, unless upon com-
fiulsiun, <Io violence to my sacred rows,
n ail Christian countries the priest who
becomes a soldier is degraded to the extent
corresponding with oxcommunication
among tho laity-
Many lovinff friends have stepped forward
and generously offered to take my place,
but I cannot ask another to do that whieh
I do not think it right to do myself. I shall
abide in my own house until I am torn by
sacrilegious hands from my own people and
the altar. If another is sent, I shall not
prevent, but I would prefer that these men
should csrry out their barbarous dictates
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and drag mc through tbe streets iu my en-
cradotal robes. * * * It is our duty to
obey the laws. To good laws we can yield
an active obedience ; to bad laws wo should
yield passively. The great evil is, that you
have sunt men to make laws who do not
evtti know the nature of an enactment.—
They know only how to carry out tne dic-
tates of iheir savage uatures.
The Richmond correspomieut of the Mo-
bile Advertiser says :
Gens. Lee and Longstrect both roda iuto
the city yesterday morning to attend
church. Both were looking well and in
fine spirits. Gen. Long.'treet appears
be in robust health, but wears his arm in
siing—that member being still paralyze
from tbe effect of the wound received at the
Wilderness last May. R. v. Mr Hoge
?trenched to tbe local trocps on Cbafiin's
arm yesterday morning and Bishop McGill
in the afternoon.
Eleven hundred Yankee prisoners in all
have b?en brought into the city of Rich-
moud from the late fields—five hundred nnd
sixty-three from the north side, and five
hundred and some score from the .south
side. T"ey were well dreosod. but miser-
able material in the military point of view
—most of them badly setup, nnd few or
none with fighting faces or the soldier's air.
As they walked through the str-ota th j most
unobservant snecHtor could not but b'
struck wifh the contrast between thetn ... <1
the Confederate guard r?c<vup:iny',:g .r
Looking from these tow coutiteit.niC. > 1
shambling persons to ibo olu.-rs, oue could
not help saying to hlms 'lf: Hero arc nu n
that look like soldiers, though they are in
rags.
The South Sioe — Tbe lM.-rsburg pa-
per ot Saturday givet>.&o ue pa.riieuinis of
tins ii^ht on thj right, o." .<ui line, vnich
do not differ matei mily from those which
h>tve hem already laid before the readers
of 'his paper. Three hundred of ihv ene-
my's dead were found uobuiied on the
field ; twenty-five w u.idod were captured,
together with fifteen hundred em ih iihds,
nnd a quantity of limbers, cti-aou:-, wag-
oaa, &c., showing; Ihe h;tste of me reiixut.
Th* enemy did not, lcavo a moment too
| soon, for a few hohrB' more delay would
not on'y have astonished Gr*iu, bu^ h.ivc
cost liirn the best pa"f. of his veteran
troops. During th "jh*. at Burgess* Mill,
Gmat, Meade aud Iiu.nouck, ;?11 three were
al Burgess' h' u«e, superintending ta- hat-
tie in person, nnd showing cleavty tliit no
mc. o capture of a plauk road w<ts intended.
Th ; aim was to hold the Souths;de road.
During .one of the charges Mahvii-V men
came very .near capturing the I>urg> ss'
house and its precious Coniciiti. Three
eland of colors were captured by Malione's
old brigade.
Among the captnred Yankees is Liaut.
Col George Harney, of thu On'! Hundred
and Foity-spvtniii New York. S.uue three i_^;inta
or four hundred of our men are reported Y , "for
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the oount does rot include several hund-
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our hands on this side of the river. Our
total capture approximates two th^u-and.
The Paris correspondent of the London
"Star says;
That, the Joofcey Club, before wf.ose de-
crees the fashionab:e wot'd bend, have de-
cided that the English eu-u- m of shaking
bauds is henceforth to ' e eottfsidered the
cerrect thing; and iur he-more, in order
to protect ladies from the anu0.ynn.J0 of
having to resui r. ■ bows of any miu who
may choose to laku off nis hat to iheru in
public, tho English f isliiou is to be adap-
ted of ladies bowing first.
Tbe Cfcarlestqn Mercury says ;
A paragraph is going the rounds which
places Sherman on the catalogue of one-
legged commanders. Its all a mistake.
He has two good legs, aud at last accounts
was making good uee of them.
Io an article upou the military enroll-
ment of negroes, the Miiledgevilie Re-
corder says:
We regret to see this step advocated and
recommended tothe attention of Co^ress,
by at least on-? of our leading papers. We
cannot think of giving ouf assent to the
position therein a««umed. It. will never do
for the people of ibis Confederacy to he
brought down to that level. Wf phonll
*feel humiliated to think so We have be-
stowed 3ome thought ou the subject, and
hope the s'aunc't friends of the Confede-
racy will eudeavor to save it without turn-
ing attention to such a dernier re3>rt.
Negroes may bo put. fn subordinate po-
sitions—but never, never, we say, with
arms tn their bands. It rould result, iu
our judgment, ultimately, iu see .es worse
than we have ever anticipated, atid feel no
disposition to refer to. Negro fe'lows who
have once bad arms in their hand*, would
never after be fit for association with la-
borers. 'All practical planters will bear us
out in tbis assertion, and to them aionewe
would yield our judgment. We truly hope
the matter will never go before C .ngress.
We copy the fo lowing from the New
Orleans Picayune ot Nov. 17th:
A writer iu the Atlantic Monthly has
analyzed the cost of the icspective articles
consumed in a family of six grown per-
sons aod two children, whose united ex-
penses for the year, for food, amounted to
$920 32 The analysis summed up for
eaoh item shows the following result:
Butter cost almost one-lenth of tt|e whole
expense. Flour aod wheat biead cost al-
most one>-tenth; beef oost one-tenth; other
meats cost a tenth and a half of what was
bpent for eating and drinking; tea and
coffee, etc.) one-tenth; sugar and milk,
cue tenth; poi-e^s. eto., o .o-
tenth. The comments of the writer may
poestbly induce others to make an eco-
nomical Investigation into t'ueir owi> tx*
penaes. He says:
Thus it is, that three quarter* of what
you eat will be spent for your bread and
butter, your meat, fish, eggs and potatoes,
your eoffee, tea, milk and sugar, tor twen-
ly-one articles on a list ef one hundred aod
seven. Fresh vegetables, besides those
named, will take one-fifth of what is leit;
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Cushing, E. H. The Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 178, Ed. 1 Monday, December 5, 1864, newspaper, December 5, 1864; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth235073/m1/2/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.