, 1861-12-25

Recently at Vicksbnrg Ex-Gov. Pettus
had hand to hand set-to with ex-Congress-
man Barksdale, the same brave who once lost
his wig on the floor Of the House.
The Mississippi Legislature have plan
under consideration to advance to planters s25
per bale On cotton. Propositions are also
pending to charter banks based on cotton. In
the same body, the bank bill just passed pro-
vides that the banks shall receive State Treas
urJ notes in payment Of debts, and that the
notes Of the hanks shall be receivable for all ;
public dues except the Confederate war tax.
AN advertisement Of P. n. Royster,
"Ordnance officer c. S. A. appears in the
Memphis Ataldncae Of the 10th, and contains
hints of value as 10 the policy Of converting
ordinary shot-guns and rifles into military
guns.
= It has been puzzle to many how Price,
without governmental resources, has managed
TO eubsiEt considerable army in a country
almost dcsolatcd. His system is not known
in the regulations He never complains
about to move ten miles or hundred miles.
He pays for what le takes in Missouri State
scrip His men 60 into the corn field, shuck
the corn, shell it, take it to mill and bring it
into camp, ground into meal. Or should they
hare no four, they take the wheat from the
stack, thIesh it themselves, or with horses or
oxen, and as with the corn, ask the aid Of thu
miller to reduce it to -four. Such an army
can go where they pleasc in IN agricultural
country.
At Knoxville, Parson BroWnlow's news-
paper Office is now used as 4 Confederate arm
ory, and his steam press turns the machinery
that repairs and rcnoyateB the numerous guns
collected by GOV. Harris's orders from all
parts OF Tennessee.
- The Knoxville Register Of the eth inst,
makes the following aJusion to Parson Brown-
low and other prisoners:
William G. Brown1ow was arrested yester-
| day, upon charge of treason, on q warrant
| ordered by the c. s. Commissioner, and
| drawn up By the District Attorney. He was
| committed to Jail. His trial will come up in
| due course before the Confederate Court-per
! haps next week
Authentic adyiees have been received at
Louisville confirming the reported transfer Of
F1oyd'e Brigade from Southwestern Virginia
to Tennessee 1t is announced in 4 late Nash
vile paper that the brigades Of Generals An
dcrEon and Douel&an, consisting of three Ten
nessee regiments, until lately stationed in tho
vicinity Of Huntersvil1c and Warm Springs in
the Eirginia Aneghanics, had been ordered to
s'another field Of operations This means,
unquestionably, that they will reinforce the
Confederate forces under Gen. 4. S, Johns
ion Andcrson's brigade is the one that was
go badly whipped by an inferior number OF
! Indiana troops, near Rich Mountain. Both
his and that of Gen. Done1son have been
greatly reduced, according to tie Nashville
papers, by sickness and otherwise, and can
hardly embody more than four thousand CT:
| fectivc men.
The Memphis Appeal of the 10Th says !:
Property to the amount Of two millions tive
hundred thousand dollars Las already been
about one-half the amount Of Northern prop
crty held in our midst. Some reports Lave
already been made Of real estate, and many
others are yet to report.
- The cost of taking the foating battery up
the Mississippi to Memphis is said to be sl2o,-
GEO. Every time they stopped to coal it cost
the Confederacy $4,000.
1 Matters In Kentucky,
Latest authentic accounts represent Buck
ncr well fortified at Bowling Green and Cave
, City, but thai he will only make determined
stand at Bowling Green. He has force, in
| cluding infantry, cavalry, and artillery, O
about forty thousand. OF this number 1oul
or i've Thousand are sick. It is stated in sup
port Of the correctness Of the report, tha
Buckner had, part Of his force, Indian
and negroes, thar he has not less than thret
, | hundred C.lpanche Indians, and one regimen
Of cavalry composed enti,eEy Of negroes.
5 Hundreds Of Buckner's mon are withou
: shoes OR oyercoats, and get their clothing an
subsistence by stealing. The "Tcxan Ran
gers . regiment Of ], 200 men, according t.
latest accounts, we're all raised in Tennesse
and Southern Kentucky, they having assume
that name, believing that it would strike tel
}, ror into the hearts Of the Yankees an ide
: the late gallant skirmish with Willich's 32u
S Indiana Germans will do much to correct
c On the 2lst inst, all was quiet on Gree
n River, and the rebels have vanished since th
= affair above referred to. On the Goth, a
a Ohio regim ent scouting over tic river repo
ed an attack imminent.
Several other regiments were sent across
" support them. The noble 32nd Indiana Vt;
:, not sent; but it formed Of its own motiol
c marched up to the graves Of its dead, salute
C them, and held itself III readiness il, by ar
is mistake or foolhardincss on the part Of Il
4 | rebels, they should make al attack, whis
r, they did not, the alarm proving false on
- greatly to the disappointment Of our trosp
II The Treason OF Ex-senator Jones
, Iowa.
= The arrest Of G. ". Jones, ex-senator, Hi
istcr-& &c, was based upon the positive info
nation that he is not only . traitor at hear
3, but his own written record turned up again
in | him the day before lie had his long intervie
be with Secretary Seward. Some of his offlci
ID | lurcrs containing his accounts were open
y. in the State Department, when a sealed lett
- fell out. It was addressed to Jefferson Day
- President Of the Southern confcderacy.
- recommends and endorses = gentleman To-
III high military position in the Confederate
H. my, closing with the remark, 1T have t.
% sons now in the Southern army, the OF
&C place where patriot should be found fghti
ls- against tyrannical and dcspotic gorernme!
he As soon rs settle my accounts with the F,
In cral Government, I shcH also join the ConJcd
~, a.e crny nyse1.C." Mr.. Seward imuediat
upon making the discovery notified the T1e
~ ury Department not to psy MIR. Jones the
1F ance appearing to be due him by the goVe
ne ment. By some mistake, however,
OF amount was paid. Ar. Seward afterward
all ceived Jones, and conversed with him, but
IA not alude to his treason, not wishing to ala
Ill | him, but learning that Jones was going
a. New York, put detective on his trail s
-. | caused his arrest as already stated
ny EThe Board of Steamboat Commission