Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-01-28

| are making busy preparations They buying m-rce-
naries for the light as men buy sheep for ne sh.mbs
They are paying bounties half of which the world never
heard of before They spending money with reck-
less Prouson that contrasts strangely with their natural
| pdrshoiy Our eoemies too, will commence the next
campaign with some advantages Of po, i'm which tn did
not have IN the beginning of 1863 They will begin ut
Memphis"
i PROTEST FROM GEORGIA
lhe Macon (Geogia) Telegraph bas the following pro-
tes against the plan of Mr. Brown, Of Mississippi for
| filling the ranks Of the rebel army:
Senator Brown proposes that every able bodied man.
Irrespective OF age or occupation, be conscripted Mem
brs OF Congress Senators, Governors OF staes Judges
and the President himself not to be excepted Every
BODY Is 70 90 into the army Senator Brown admits that
armies have to be fed and clothed, and his proposition
provides that after oil the able bodied men arr in the
II Inc lame the halt and the blind sufficient To
support the men in the field well as to carry ON tho
thousand and one affairs of civil life, sufficient number
are 10 DO detailed for this purpose from The army But
who ia to make these detsls The President being Com
mandrr n-Cbef, ia the only who can do So What
beautiful system The President of republic will detail
from the army the Cabne the Senators the Members of
Congress- the Governors Of States Judges the farm
ers the manufacturers the editors, the merchants If
any OF fheee gentry should do say any thing
to his Exceeocy his detail revoked and be i ordered
oack to his company for bis presumption"
HOW TO. RAISE MEN.
The Atlanta (Georgia) Inellgencer mas the following
remarks a. to the most eectus method Of raising men
for the rebel army:
Congress desires what was never known in the civil
ized wordthe entire population of the county, abandon
ha al ot ~, pursuits and taking up arms We not
ond 10 the Importance of reinforcing our army We feel
the necessity, but believe that other measures can be
adopted 10 perform the desredork Congress has called
INTO service the seventy seventy-ve Thousand aba.
bodied men who have put substitutes into the arr,y
These, with the bundled thousand now sb.ent from,
Their Commands, are amply sufficient to meet all snergen
cies and the civil pursuits OF the country ca sii go On
Tor 4 interrupted ary than thry ere now s,rni
hardshps aud suferiDgs will be resut II NAV b. sad
tnat getting the one hundred thousand men absent from
duty IL easier said than done. We will SHOW av Tn Az
It, Abolish The abominabls praetce O; pun hing men bv
branding in the forehead wearing barred and nut
ting them IN he stocks Remove from coumant aud re-
duce To the raj Is those Ulcers WIN yrannx,ug over
their men aud treating them like brutes and cashier IN
those who from their ~ant of proper discipline Ioose
treatmr mt OF their sdrrs ab.o ely deser
on md are as much t. blame the d-rerers Z mi.
Do DONE and then lot the President issu- pr.clamat
10 all soldiers absent without we TO re un 1, thri- -
mands oy ceren DATE or suffer the pen ,y AID
as 80 n as the day liked ha. expired shoot errv
caught aft~rward. This will more "a ra;nfor, III
army than all the sweeping conscripiious'
aRowLs FROM SOUTH CAROLINA
The Charl.s ton Msrcu y, n d.cu,srpe The n. No..
sures Of the ebel Csngr, IS, says:
= positions 10 trample upon the C:ons,i,nt;o, ,d
which the legislative aud cutive branch OF m. On,
eoerAt- Government hod their seats in k,cbpoud~to
Vione NE ga De Off and undr the PLEA f
without authority OF law against Stat. ri,hts 4, .
al sons and al properly and Ii liberty under The m
ri oictat rsnp may be thought by To b- fraueht
win taie'y aud Peace; but Il beconos tn. oatr,ic r n
ig-ut and unterrfed on at -. ad ol
% coup en-bd tn true our dapg r. Id a. snnv
such dies as the great powers vt the coun
try ford" 80 $3.50
NO PASSPORTS TO BE GRANTED
Mr Benjamin the confederate Seciet4, If >t,r- in
rTa notice dated III 3lst ms att ates that r D, ..
port will be Issued from thr d partm-nt 81 he i !.
ing he pending 10 any male c,rix-n uul.s. II .
-ppl prnducr and file in he SanartYr -, .
from the proper military that he n NOT iabla
to duty in the army"
From the Richmond Enquirer
And it ca pass that the mau Of means said u,to
hs hired seiya into the army ana taAe wi thee
'h-se sh-k~is OF gold aud shes-ls OF i. ma DIV th.s
Tor ih"u standest IN my shoes A d the man If ,,tl
iaih who hired the substitute, opened a shop i, "a.
cak aud calico. and wax ID rich On his .ni. e &C.,
nui deco per ceat. Blu cim to pass b = IN. =. !. 49,
o. the naeon arose aud debated am thrm.eIves wns
her the principal AM the subsu.e .b. nil !, L.s c
pany together. And the wise N n oa,. d III ,.s,aa
the SUB ttute nougbt, send nQ their tr end. 10
principals, - greet snrm Ia ths ranss with u ket Mt
Inc rght snouoer shift hen the principals wnx r.
ceedng wrpth, AMI straightway set about oreoa,pt IN
emssnte 20 ano heryea better country beyond the
roomac And the Israetes cnspred together to spnil
the Egyptians changing their ury Issues iuo gold
and their State promises Into grrenbacks and forthwith
took their DEPARTURE shaking OF the dust Of their eet
against US And Of all their deeds they not record
70 the books Of the cvnscnpt officers, who search for
then 10 vain
From the MoJls Register
In addition IT, twn hundred thousand raQQers IL ia de-
manded that nine this OF the be put in the field
and women, children dotnrds be lett alone a. c,h.
and feed an army In other words want every BODY
to go into an army already Naked hungry and eoupped
and nobody to support them Again. to the ,ize of
armies Is 1t the number men or the bspdno ~ ham
that wins battes1 Were Pembertons men well fought AZ
Bakers creek The same number or nearly the same
won the battle OF that were driven from one
OF the strongest positions the contil enof lookout
and Missionary Ridge Minus Lo,gstreet corps Lee
whipped Hooker at Chanceorsv plus that coros with
Jenkins jones and others added, he was repused Il Get
tysburg Fifteen thousand fighting men won the first
battle OF Manassas and lees than forty thousand achieved
tn, victories Of Shlh and Murfrresboro More than
forty thousand have the began been
brought into action advantage by .her side And w
we called upon to believe hat by mobs Of raw recrus
hall starved and poorly equipped do next sprip
what veterans been be do after three
OF hard aud repeated irias WAT want ia pepin.
conceive the courage to darroot unwedy hordes
and awkward squads vi nobody at home to supoort
them"
From the Chattanooga Rebel
We inclined to believe that if the unnecessarv o,r
rsoDs were withdrawn from the I'D cttis WI rs
hey are little use Except t. dun citizens wh arr quiet
walk ng the strees, and attending hair business
or passe) that there would be many our armos
Is most OF our gen rails could manage Every pr,vost
marshal at rail, Dad staff guard suf iet
are n" one That they insufersble annoy
nce TO the people where they qu.rtered no one can
ieDy heir oficious iuterm-dding with quiet ctren In
burlesqur upon military aud outrage upon q vii
rights, as Intoerant as it is of usve aud snuo, ing