Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-10-22
SOUTHERN NEWS.
EXTRACTS FROM LATE SOUTHERN PAPERS
REBEL TERMS OF PEACE.

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REBEL TERMS PEACE. :,
The Richmond Enquirer of the 10Th Instant in an ed-
| torial upon Peace" says:
Save on terms we can accept no peace what.
ever and must fight till doomdy rather than yield an ioa
| OF them; and our terms are:
Recognition by the enemy of the Independence of the
Confederate States.
Withdrawal Of Yankee forces from every foot of Con-
| federate ground, including Kentucky and Missouri.
Withdrawal of Yankee soldiers from Maryland until
that State shall decide by free VOTE whether she shall
remain IN The old Union or ask admission into the Con
| fed racy
- Consent the part of the Federal Government to
give up to the Coneeracy its proportion of the navy
it stood at the time Of secession or to pay for the
Yielding up all pretensions on the part of the Federal
Government to that portion of the old territories which
lies west of the Confederate States
An equitable settlement on the basis of absolute
Independence ard equal rights of all accounts of the pub
nc debts and public lands AID of the advantages accfung
fiom foreign treaties.
"These provisions we apprshend comprise the mini
mnm OF what we must require before lay down
arms That TO say the North must yield all nothing
The whole pretenson of that country to prevent by force
the separation of the States must be abandoned which will
be equivalent to avuwa that wrong
from the first; and, of course they wseed causeless
and wicked war upon they ought in strict ustce to
De required according to age such to reimburse
to us the Whole of expenses and losses in the
Of that war; Whsther this last proviso is to be insisted
upon or not certain that cannot have
at all until shall be in position not only to demand
and exact but also to eoorce and collect the for
our own reimbursement out Of the wealthy cities in tte
enemys country In other words, unless destroy
or scatter their armies and break up their government
can have peace, and if do that then and
ought not only to extort from them full terms and
ample acknowledgment Of their wrong but also hand
some Indemnity for the trouble and expense caused to US
| by their crime"
THE REBEL PROSPECT IN EAST TENNESSEE.
correspond mt of the Knoxville Register, (now re-
moved to Atanta) writing from Cleveland, East Tennes-
see, October 3D. very melancholy the willingness Of
the people to submit to the National Government. He
| says:
II find that nearly all the leading men who remained
at home or returned home have taken the oath to the
cured Government that is now trying to suhugate U.S.
Aud am truly sorry to that many Of soldiers have
done the Captain Harry Dill formerly of General
Vaughns old Third Tennessee Regiment has taken the
oath and went off with the Federal army and informed
connected with George w Bridges in the work Of rai
lug a regiment He took quite number belonging to
East tt regiments from his neighborhood The
Captain Pennsyyan Duchman and his
be looked over. The Southern who Mt home in
East Tennese have about given up the slip Before
forces drove the Yankees last week they had the
that Gen Bragg bad BEEN surrounded and compelled to
surrender Charleston and Richmond both had fallen and
the rebellion crushed out Under this the rush
among the citizens about Athens and other places take
the oath great that the marshal had to call
in guard to keep the crowd back. Shame such
living on Southern soil ~
TENNESSEE TO BE REPossEssED
The Atlanta Knoxville Register thus grows frantic
occupation of East Tennessee 1t is vital to
deracy and the Register supp0ses that President Davis
will abandon Richmond If necessary in order to repossess
East Tennessee:
We stated former occasion that the very exist
Of the Confederate States and army dependent
upon the reoccupaton of Tennessee by G. Bragg Our
enemies know this well command chief.
There is risk sacrifice concentration of strength
that will be spared in the accomp shment Of the
quest of Tennessee The army Of Virginia will be thrown
upon East Tenn see and that Of the Mississippi Valley
upon Rosecrsns rear in the direction of Murfreesboro
The calm that followed the storm of Chickamauga the
presage of more terrible events and the shock of
conendng armies the soil of Tennessee wifi be decisive
OF the fate OF the Confederation. If any doubts the
necessity which would mpel President Davis to sacrifice
Richmond haIeston, and Mobile all to re-acq E,st
ern Tennessee he need only ask the COmmsary General
by what agencies and from what the armies of the
South have been sustained during the r year of the
East Tennessee furnished the Confederate States with
twenty-five millions OF pounds of bacon Last year the
State OF Tennessee fed the army 1t is ascertahed that
the prevalence Of hog cholera throughout the South has
the production Of meat than the wants Of
the people require Our soldiers would hardly fight well
confined TO bread and water and it therefore hsppsns
that the Commssary General the commanderiu-cbef
for the and bis fat has gone forth that Tennessee
must be redeemed"
BLOODY AND FURIOUS.
The Mobile News contains the proceedings of ing
held in Lowndes county, Mississippi which adopted
mousy resolutions Of which the following specimens
will indicate the character:
Resolped That bottomess gulf Of unfathomed blood
and hate separates from the people of the United
States, and that will maintain that separation either
to the recognition Of independent nationality
determination free people
Ref0fped, That any expression of sentiment limiting in
the remoes degree to gne the probability Of the
construction of the old Union ogady and
that should be scorned and crushed wherever dare
reveal itself, by all true psrios well by the strcDg
arm OF the Government.
INTERESTING FROM TEXAS.
Houston, SEPT %, 1S63.-The result OF the Sabine
Pass fight shows it to be the most brilliant of the age
Fortytwo men, all told attacked in their battery by
four gunboas backed by feet of transports Of twenty
vessels carrying ten thousand menl ars.eSY
We captured two Of the gunboas, with all board.
crippled third which afterwards sunk at sea- and rent
the whole back where it started from The number
Of killed wounded Yankees greater than our on.
our entire force The number Of guns captured was more
than double the number had and FIVE lines the we chit
of metal These were JEFF Davis Guard a company
Of Irish volunteers raised in the city of Houston Il 81
for the Silver medals have been pre- sentcd to ach
member of the garrison by the ci liens OF this city
The gunb0at Clifton, Of the captured bont
in good condition when the attack made and is
the headquarters for the time being Of Gen Msgruder
Commander Caldwell, of the Clifton and Capt Thomp-
of the Sachem, together with remainder of the
officers captured confined to the courthouse in this
city.
Another attempt to invade Texas ia looked for Our
army 10 ready for the Invasion at all points. Sabine Pass
was the weakest point had. The people rail- eng
at the call OF danger in the most gratifying The
draft fur State troops which at first resulted In the enlist