Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-03-24

Csmmsasre Hsilins.g
The friends of Con- mmodors Holhns viii he
pleased 10 learn that ths report OF his death is
tot correct. Dispatches received in the city
contradict the report emphatically.
From ssath Carolina.
s..a Last evenings Whis sontaius the fo,io~Gs
oesPa.en from Angusa
Aueusra, GA March Ie-rne YsuFees
pcs.so n tCharieston send ont daily fnrss,ug
Salues, oeyasntng the plantations oG the
santee. All nhle. bodied negros Are being
ranks.
The South Carolina railroads. operat,,,~ to
nve miles nortn OF Summerv,,te, twenty. uve
from Charleston. DR.. A. g. Mackay, the Ia
nous Masonic author, has been appointed nv
the Yankees street inspector of Chsrleston.
The EDITORS Of the Courier call him an old and
well tried citizen. Sanitary Improvement
are progressing in East Bay ana Church
The Yankees are fearful Of the nd ven. Of
the sickly season, and are purifying 10 be psss
On the night of the 5,h OF March fire dS.
stroyed the whole block on which - situated
the warehouse Of John Frazer Il OA &
The roads TO Charleston are lined with pee-
pie, white and black. gong 10 Charleston 90
ioot 10 trade and fer protection.
rosters command are treating the ladies
Charleston. -.....-. F.
Disappointment .a
iIem ,he hic'mond Emo airer. March 2i.b
SeNfiaI thousand persons of All grades,
shades and sizes thronged in ana around tho
Capitol Square yesterday afternoon to witueas
a paIaae OF eo1o,ea troops, which somebody
pTomenaded and 1osiied about ull suudowu.
and then dispersed, he afores aid colored trosuS
doubi, Of what as up, and that they had hseS eS
favored with the compiime mt OF such great eu-
pectations.
p, ,00o Negro Troops.
From the Richmond Enquirer March 9i1
The Mobile Advertiser Gays that Kirby Smith
has 25. .0C0 negro troops armed, equipped and
organized, der their masters, and operating
in the Trans. M Mississippi Ibeparfme
The muster-rolls of that Departln ent contain
over 100000 names, OF which $4,000 are effec-
tive for service
The Confederate prisoners exchanged At Mo-
bile have brought with them the small. .pox
from the Yankee prisons.
TThe Richmond Sentinel, Ia Publishing the
report from Kirby Smiths department, says:
ave should prefer to hear that General Smith
was moving some portion OF this immense
force 10 this side of the Mississippi river!
Last Hours Of the n ebel Congress.
On Saturday, the 18th, the following pro-
ceedings took place In the Confederate Senate:
COMMITTEES TO WAIT ON THE PRESIDENT.
On motion, committee of three, composed
of Messrs. Watson of Mississippi, oldham OF
Texas, and Henry of Tennessee was appointed
to W ait upon the President and notify him, il
he had no further communication to make,
that the Senate was now ready to adjourn.
THE PRESIDENTS RESPONSE.
The committee then withdrew, and after an
absence of half an hour returned, when
Mr. Watsen said-Mr. President-The JOINT
committee charged with that duty have waited
upon the President of the Confederate States
and informed him that, unless he had some
further communication to make to Congress,
that body was now ready to adjourn. In re-
ply. the President, in substance, stated that he
had no further comm unicaiion to make TO
Congress that, in his recent message, he had
fully explained his views rs TO the legislation
for which the state Of the country called; that
so far as Congress had net acq uiesced in his
opinions he hoped that it would turn out that
he W as mistaken; that to the full extent Of his
powers and the resources placed at his dis
posal, all might feel assured CT his purpose
faithfully to defend and protect the country.
He hoped that all the members OF the two
Houses might safely reach their homes, and
that they and their families and their common
country might continue to experience the pro-
lection and favor OF Heaven.
REPLY OF THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO
JRFF DAVIS MEssAGR
The Richmond papers OF Monday last puo-
lith the reply Of the Senate Select Com nittee
to JEFF. Davls' recent message, which charged
Congress with dilitariness, refusing to arm the
negroes, etc. The reply is very severe. The
Senator'S tell Davis that not at Az tns,r dS0r, ons
having delayed the arming Of the negroes.
They remind him that, only as late as Noyem-
Der last, he spoke Of employing 10000 negroes
for mere drudgery in the camps, all that
was required, and the necessity for aru1-
ing the slaves as an 'impreba6le con-
Issy ask bs 20 M
contingency" had arisen. They charge him
with heipg "tardy in his movements" and al
lege that they were compelled from q sense Of
i'm pending peril and ruin to anticipate his ao-
ton. They say that they deliberately refused
to pass the general militia law he asked for,
because there was NO more military material
left to be embr aced by new conscrtption acts.
Davis suggestion TO get provisions for the army
by impressment, they say, would be resisted by
the people, as they will no longer take Confed-
verses OF the Rebel troops have made the UoA-
federate bonds unsalable The tax bill pro-
posed to them they refused to pass, because it
would have lett the farmers without the
means of subsistence. And the currency
measure suggested by Davis Financial Seere-
tary, the Senate threw ont, with no regret, on
discovering that they had been deceived I'm
regard to the indebtedness Of the Confederacy
to the tune of S400,O00,0OO. Portions of the
reply are very sarcastic, the Senator'S demand-
ing to know w neither the Confederate reverseS
OF the year could have been avoided by a sus.
pension of the habeas corpus, and reminding
Davis that after certain lime they formed
their conclusions manly under the influence OF
General Lees opinions; and that they passed
essential meas ures- among others that which
transferred the supreme military command TO
any hint or enee1ragement na from
abuse of power in detailing conscripts from
actual service, while clamoring for more rigid
conscription l@ws at the hand of his Congress.
The lrrepressible Conflict Between Jeff
Davis and His Congress-
fFrom Richmond Whig, March 20.1
The trite adage, that those who live in gIass
AOuseS shOuIQ HOt tu1OW stones, Is emlD6ntlY
illustrated in the last special message Of the
President arraisning the Congress for delin-
quencies and delays, and the response OF the
Senate through the document which we print
this morning. 1t was a hazardous issue for
the Executive to make, whether the public in
terest had suffered, or was liable to suffer.
most from defective legislation or from. faultJ
ddminist alton, for, without discussion or de-.
fence from Congress, the public could not, by
special allegations and impeachments against
thas BODY, be made to forget that it had long
since placed the whole war making power OF
the country at the disposal Of the executive.
This being done, nearly all ha6 been done tSss
was in the power Of Congress.
II the result did not ans wer public expecta-
ton, it must have been either because the
means confded to the Executive were made
quate, or because they were not developed 70
their fullest capacity. or used with the judg-
Il ent and skill demanded. 1t has ne YER peeu
intimated by the Executive that the resources
OF the country, in men and supplies, are un-
equal to the emergency. On the Contrary, ft
has been repeatedly asserted from that quar-
ter that they are annie. Acoentin1 thu assn.