The New York herald., 1863-01-11


the federal authorities distinctly to understand that
he will issue the writ Of habess corpus. and try
whether the military or civil power is triumphant.
The Albany Jounda. In its table Of returns Of
the recent elections. gives the republicans $500
votes in Oregon. That was the precise number o.
votes received by A. C. Gibbs, the democratic
Governor elect.
The official re turns Of the soldiers vote Of Wis
consin foot up as follows:-
hepuDncan .......................... .6.44U
Wisconsin has forty thousand men In the field.
thirty thousand of whom are voters 1t is asserted
that no effort was made to take the votes Of rsgi-
ments known to be democratic.
The Sibley county jail, at Henderson, Minnesota,
was burned on the 22d ult, and two soldiers, in
oarcerated for trivial offence, pershed in the
flames. The key of their cell could not be found
in time to liberste them.
Judge Belts has rendered q decision condemning
the schooner Belle and her cargo as prize to the
United States government.
Cotton quiet on Saturday at unchanged prices.
Flour ia instances &C. lower with sales Of only
500 bbs Wheat declined 1c. with sales OF So 900
bushels, and corn 1c, with sales Of so 900 bushels O
pork, the sales were $500 bbs, at steady rates. Tho
transactions in lard reached 1000 packages, and in
bacon 800 boxes at unchanged quotations Beef butter
cheese sugars, rice oils, METALS moasses, fish, fruit,
seeds and whaebone inactive. The demand was
active for Rio coffee, taow, hay, wool and hides and
fair for leather tobacco and whiskey-ths latter article
closing at 1876 4lc. per gallon Freights dull
Tho stock market dull and lower yesterday morn
ing rallied in tho afternoon, and closed firmly and
buoyantly at the advance. Money was easy at per
cent; gold opened at 1861 and closed 18sx bid. Ex-
change was 151 4 1921
The Late Speeches. OF Jef. Davis-Import-
ant Information from tho Enemy.
On the 26th Of December last, JEFF. Davis, in
the course of his recent Southwestern tour OF
observation, delivered an address before the
Legislature of Mississippi, at Jackson, sketch
Of which we published the other day; and on
Monday night last, at q serenade in honor of
his return to Richmond, he made another speseh
on the war. In both these discourses there is
invite the special attention Of the government.
In his Mississippi speech Davis says that "he
had predicted from the beginning fierce war,
though il had assumed more gigantic proper
tions than he had calculated upon;" but he was
nevertheless emphatic in his declaration that
under no circumstances would he consent to
reunion" "He alluded briefly to his desire to
transfer the war upon Northern soil; but the
failure to do this proceeded not from .
want Of inclination, but Of power" Not
withstaadi1g, however, all the drawbacks
against which the Confederate State" had to
contend, he boasted that 1--WE (the rebels) had
now larger army than ever BEFORE" better
armed and equipped, and supplied in. every
way; and in his allusions to the vast numbers
of the North he said that "upon any fair field
we are willing to fight them two to one; we
have often whipped them three to one; at An
tietam General Lee whipped them four to one.
But this might not be the case always" for ''as
the enemy progressed in discipline they ap-
preached nearer to the Southern troops in eni-
ciency." "He urged the necessity Of filling up
the thinned ranks OF their regiments"
Here we have some valuable hints. From
the popular chief of the rebellion, whose word
is the law and the gospel throughout tho rebel
lious States, we are told that there can be no
reunion between them and the North upon any
terms; that the rebels are in a much better
condition now to carry on the war than they
were year ago, in every way, and that their
'thinned ranks" are to be filed up Is rapidly a.
possible. This is valuable news from the
enemy; but we have something still more to
the purpose in the following remarks
of Davis, to wit: that "the real points
of attack were at Vicksburg and Port Hudson;
and to all who desired to lend helping hand
to the country in her present exigency he would
say "Go to Port Hudson or Vicksburg without
delay" This simply foreshadows the concen-
tration of an immense rebel force at each Of
those two places, upon which depend the com
mand Of the Mississippi river; and to this ad-
vice of JEFF. Davis we would particularly call
the attention Of the government.
We know from experience that what Davis
promises ~ war measures he means if possible
to perform. He says that "vicksburg and Port
Hudson must be defended;" that "every effsrt
must be strained for this purpose" and that II
they are held successfully against the Union
forces, "the Northwest will grow restive and
cease to support q war ruinous to them and
beneficial only TO New England contractors"
and that "from the Northwest he looked for the
first CLEANS Of peace" He says, furthermore,
that "on the other side Of the river (the Mssis-
sppD our prospects are brighter than
ever before, and ere long hs hoped that
he would be enabled to proclaim Mis-
souri, free" We might laugh at this
declaration as empty bravado if this late affair
at Springfield, Missouri, did not seem to indi.
cate new and active revolutionary conspiracy
in that quarter. As it is, We cannot comprs-
hsnd the policy Of placing immense depots Of
military stores Qike that at Spriag6sld) under
the guard Of handful Of men and in the midst
of hostile population.
Thus much for this remarkable Mississippi
speech Of the autocrat Of the rebel "Confede-
rate States" His address to the ssrenading
party At Richmond betrayed . more discon-