Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-12-31
INTERESTING SOUTHERN NEWS

Aimoiy winch mas oeen In operation ID hcnnohu ioi
the past two and half years has been removed 10 CO.
lumba, South Carolina. The ostensibe reason for rs
removal is the difficulty Of transportation and tho scarcity
of provisions
Capt Alexander, the c,mmsnd4nt 81 Castle Thunder,
Richmond, has been relieved Of his command and placed
under arrest preliminary TO being tried by courtmartia
on charges of having extorted large of money from
prisoners confined in that institution promising to bis
influence for their benefit and in of permitting
the prisoners TO go at large upon paying him large sums
of money He is also charged with trading largely in
greenbacks
The Enquirer Of the n has brief paragraph to the
effect that Easons foundry in Charleston had been de-
siroyed by fire the previous Saturday From its reti-
the subject it is reasonable to suppose that its
destruction occssoned by of General Gillmores
" Greek fire.
The Enquirer Of the 22I instant reviews the message
OF the Mayor Of Mobile aud pronounces very satisfactory
The Mayor says there has been no suffering actual
want in Mobile Its citizens have contributed $4,000
to the free market by which thousand poor and needy
persons have been fed while Thousand families have
been clothed cost Of $40 0O0 also donated by the
itizens
Gen. Pillow had returned to the military service, durog
the months Of September and October from tie States of
Alabama aud Mississippi, tseny-six thousand conscrpt
TO; the infantry and cavalry.
THE CONFEDERATE CONGRESS.
bill requiring tax of onetenth Of the crop of sweet
potatoes throughout the South has passed the Congress
Wholesale consumption bill has also passed 1t enacs
as follows:
81 Sec The Congress of the Confederate States of
America do enact That all musicians, privates and
commissioned Ulcers in the armies Of the Confede
States, by virtue of volunteering, enlistment
scrption into the military service of the Conf dsrate
States be and the hereby retained in SAID
vice for aud during the existing with the United
States, and 10 lunger
Sec 2. Be it further enacted, That all troops
tanned 10 service shall continue to companies,
battalions, tquadns, bsterts and regmen's in which
they until transferred detailed exempted, or
discharged in accordance with existing laws and regua-
tons aud such laws and regulations msy hereafter be
passed aud adopted with reference to transfers. details
exemptions, or discharges in the armies of the Con-
iederacy"
CoAFlsCATIoN OF CONFEDERATE NOTES
The following resolutions have been adopted
al That the notes of all Bauks in the Confederate
Sites held by alien enemies be confscated
- That all such notes which shall not be deposited
in the banks respectively which have issued the same
within ninety days alter the passage of this act shall be
presumed 70 be held by alien .nrmirs.
% That sny bank which may incur a,debt TO the Gov
ernment by reason of such scaon asy discharge the
same any part Of the within lain time by
paying tenth thereof specie and the residue in boGd
Of the Coz federsie States
"a TSapply similar principle to cotton and other paper
EFFICIENCY OF THE BLOCKADE.
The Wilmington IN. CO. Journal of the goth utmo
ecuay exposes the uutruthfuness Of the stories which
have been circulated for months past relative to the
running Of the blockade at Wilmington That paper says:
We have for some time noticed the mistaken notions
prevailing in regard to the amount of cotton which goes
ont OF the country through the blockade We being
drained of our cotton, says one paper we are keeping
the spndes of Old and New England going by permitting
shipments TO be made from Wilmington and Charleston
says another; and remarked day or two since an
alusion this in the Savannah Republican, highly iu-
tegent and usually well posted paper, 10 which large
transactions made in clifton in Live pool referred to-
the supply obtained through the blockade One would
thirk that millions at least hundreds of thousands
bales hsd gone out in this way and doubt most people
| do think
In order to arrive at something de6oe upon this sub
ject procured his morning from ths custom house
here the following statement If the exports cotton from
this port for the first three quarters of the present year
rom the port at Wilmington from Let of January to 30th
September, 1859
Fret quarter, bales. 49I6
Second quarter 1929
Inlrd quarter l5,US
Total ...--...-.............-....3085 1853
Say that the current quarter equals or exceeds the
last which will doubt do st whole export or
the year wln exceed fifty thousand bsles few bales
few hundred bales may have been Struggled out bu
altogether too few to take into account.
"A the blockade east Of the Mississippi haye
not taken out thsn much more. They cannot
have done il The reports Of all the Coufede ports
will not show huodred and fifty thousand baIes nor
do thick that much has gone will have gone
during the year il include the cotton crossed
the Rio Grsnde from Brownsville, Texas to Msta-
moros Ia he Mexican Department Of Tamsulipas.
!" Much cotton has doubt been wasted, damaged,
roed msy be at almost any railroad depot and 10
this way the OK the country has been reduced to an
extent ia beyond any thing that small exports could
effect ard beyond the loss by burning the deyasa
tons OF the enemy"
THE CURRENCY AND THE BAYoNET.
The following order Of Geu Forrest Is published tits
dated at Athens, (Tenn on the 23l Of September,
"Conf rate money Is he currency Of the country
All persCBs refusing TO take il Ia for
produce manuac necessary for the army or peops
will subject bemseves to being ed and being cent
10 army headquarters for the depreciation Of cur money
and to having their goods produce, &c cUpfscated All
bonds oatts aud obligations imposed upon ems BY the
Federal Government declared hul and void =
The Examiner Of the 22d instant speaking of General
Aver's late Ucursion in Southern Virginia says "If
Averi IL allowed to escape the cavalry OF Virginia had
better be eogahized without loss of time Our military
authorities had abundant notice OF bis raid 10 have per-
fecied the most elaborate plans They were informed
BY Gen s. jones that Averill advancing on Lewis
burg with the design he thought Of tapping the Virginia
and Teunessee railroad This a week before he
reached S,lem in the nrighborhood OF which town he
remained several days We cay nothing Of the natural
obstacles against which three thousand men would have
nd IN makug raid Of three hundred miles through
noun and thinly settled country Ii would be
impossible for them TO carry their subsistence with them