, 1864-01-25

come law.
/ FROM the SOUTH.
! HEADQUARTERS WEsr VIRGINIA, Jan. H.
| We have captured rebel mall. The So
crets Of the mail bag are curious and interest
| ing, and In one or two instances highly i'm
| portant- Almost au the letters contain re.
marks on the Presidents amnesty proclama,
ton, the sutterings anticipated In rebeldom,
the disafected state Of the citizens Of the
South, the complaints Of the soldiers, the
manner In which rebel officers high in posi-.
tion are spoken Of, &c.
| All serve in very many respects to confirm
the reports in circulation IN northern papers,
regarding the condition Of the Confedcracy.
One lady In replying to another Says,
"Your description Of the present pains me.
had hoped for, better things. It is true We
are despondent, but our hope for the future
Ia still strongly: -.
The common roads are hardly In passable
condition for heavy trims and artillery:
Several prominent citizens and rebel OIL
GERS, one Of them widely known ex-foreign
minister, are negotiating to come within our
lines under the. Presidents amnesty procla-
| nation.
NEW YonK, jan. A.-Tha.1 Times contains a
| translation Of a letter from Frenchman, for
merlY In the rebel army, dated Richmond,
| Jan. 18th, to friend here. He reports the
arrival Of another agent Of the French En-
pcror named Martfguy via Nassau, and his
mysterious conferences with JEFF. Davis It
is known, he eays, that jeff: has promised to
recognize the Emperor in Mexico, aud prom
lsed France al1 the advantages Of the South
ern Coufederacy If Napoleon would
recognize and support the Southern States
All our principal men, he says, think there
| States is ncar ut hand. Tho writer has no
doubt the plan Of making General Lee
dictator will be adopted as the oaly means
to countcract the strength Of the North Lee
las expressed Willingness to accept 1t. He
| md JET Davis are on bud terms, and the lat
unpopular In consequence Of keeping. Bragg
| 60 long In command. He hns even thought
| since Bragg's dismissal Of giving him CON-
mand Of the army Of Virginia and sending
Lee to Dalton, but had to abandon his plan
on account Of the great influence brought
Egainst 1t.
Johnston, who took command Of Bragg's
demorn1fzcd army, thought Of retreating to
| Atlanta, but was kept at Dalton by orders
from Richmond that he might take advant:
nge of probable weakening Of the Northern
army By fnrloughed md expiration Of term
JeH's plan is to keep the army on the of
feneiye, though Lee gave his opinion that
with the miserable condition Of the army In
regnrd to clothing and provisions, It was I'M
possible to do SO.
Ear]y's expedition was miserable failure.
More than Thousand veterans returning
lo1se dn combat, having their hands and feet
frozen.
News from Charleston, the writer says, is
dlscourag1ng .Beauregard has expressed the
opinion that he could not hold Charleston
sion to saaee It to ashes E ns few aF hou1s
be intends to do So One Of the South Caro-
lima regiments doing duty there, intended to
desert en- masse, but were prevented by one
Of them giving Information Twenty Of tile
ring-leaders were shot on January 4tb, and
! the rest divided mp among other regiments.
The 18th Virginla regiment were ordered
to Alabama and refused to 60, and were dis
banded and used in filling up other regiments,
as tho only plan to avoid uutfny. Bread
riots occurred almost daily in the South.
The Southern people are tired Of war: John
Morgan has been given command Of Magsru-
der's s.ar1ny, bnt will be more successful than
the hitter. !" Tie days Of tie Southern CoaJsd-
<rrcy are numbered, aud its backbone IL broken"
=: From the Richmond Examiner, Jan. III
= THE NEK CONSUMPTION.
We advise the p2blic that general orders
/ navc been prepar in the Adjutant Generals
Office, and will b. Issued in day or TWO, to
npersons who haye Furnished substitutes. They
viii be mt in the can1p Of fnstruction with
| in ten days,
[From the Richmond Examiner, Jan. 14th.7
THE REPEAL OF TIE SUBSTITUTE CLAUSE
| The breaking up Of the substitution con-
tracts seems likely to afford Q plentiful crop
Of frauds and artfnl lodges to evade the de-,
! "a. ~ +ha ~. 4a,s ~ 4hnn,,.s1s ~
Sare hecn mase for ifcnartmenf c,ert sSi5. hv
| snna ~ thn most ntIacions snecnintnrs Il
| Richmond, and hat petty bureau officers have
nrovilinT hid;nn n1oces fnr was1thV co1.
trr1nts. ftc t91rtInneTa i ore pattin~ 9overr.
ment cle,Eships; millionafres hare Suddenly
became nautical in their tastes, and are bid
ding high for little cribs IN Mallory's leoart-
me9t -:
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.rsaa..s. oI s4Aa.. ~" ~. san ~!
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g. ,ssssg. - ~ tSn naSe hn hea5o o. consiaefaoie
s1hara Innard aVtan:;ve ato,mno kapets p e!su ~
Wn.tt an1 n4her fora;rr, ,,"sta Ps, 49,. ~ ane
topns' an"-rr;as 1oSa i;eep ~ devo{e ~ traaa
~ th;. s1f snate ~ ot.F1as ~ T., o.ust
~ es,aso ooaso ~ a.e ~ steas
aenna aai R4peis n9asi tS aa,Ua a III
1ectnrs and Me heard ~, ~ ana rcnt1eman u 11 y
X. H. 1rh In ared ~ " Ins nn;;aa ~ ~
| thousand dollars to have himself put on the
night matcA!
L NOVEL, VIEW OF TIE oBJEcr OF THE BILL.
| tRichmond Correspondence Of Columbus, {Ga.)
| sun-l
| 1 have 1t from q source every way: trust
| worthy that one Of the designs Of abolishing
exemptions is to get lid Of certain editors.
| OF course the proprictors Of the ttConfed-
| erate Reading Koom,n us the Ekansfaer aptly
names the state department {where the pIin-
| cIpal business appears to be the keeping Of
| accurnte files OF all the leading papers), will
! not muZZle the press all at once This would
be showing their hand little too plenty.
Mr. Benjamin can afford to take his time,
THE coSeCR1T1oSq
rEvtrnrt froro the Ra]eicb m f., Tanv f,rnp-eaa
December A. 1s83,1
There ia mt another man tr snare FINN +hc
farms or other industria1 pursnifs of The
| country. and further draft On tbis class viii
| he fTnnrht with the most -ffaastrons conse-
nuences's II mora men are Wanted in :the
! line. let the tho1sands of able-bodieti man
! aIreniy in the pay of the Goyemnient
he placed there. and the drones anal
| non.producers who insult honest ton by the1t
| constant sWageer, and who hive been shield
| ed by the corT1pfIons OF office-holdnrs since
| the war commenced. be enthered M and COM
| PEELED to fjrht for TINT liberty for which they
eTer nrofees to be so ready to pour anil their
| pricefess blood.
ABsENTEE1sA IN THE ARaY-ATfAoK on TIE
Ap1uTAsr AND INSPECTOR GENERAL .sa
! rErnfn the Richmond Dfsnatch Jan Ii