Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-02-20

n Kinston that the enemy design an early
movement in that direction.
How the Rebel mississippi Regiments got
out of Tennessee.
from the Selma Ala NJ ississippian, Jan. 90.
The 39th Mississippi regiment, when il
reached Corinth, numbered fifteen, rank and
file.
This regiment numbered over 700 men w when
it left Florence for Nashville, thus losing al
most all either in killed, wounded or captured.
Many Of the men could not travel on the retreat
In consequence Of being barefotted and unable
to travel, and therefore were captured.
The 37th Mississippi regiment suffered al
most as severely as the 39th. The 37th left
Florence numbering over 600 men, and arri we'd
At Corinth with 60 men and officers.
Thus have two regiments been d. destroyed,
and regiments, too, consisting Of the flower OF
Mississippi. What havoc of human life!
Rebel Congress-.
From Richmond papers 1sth.l
Isaac M St. John, Commissary General Of the
Confederate States, was on yesterday confirne d
by the Confederate Senate. The new Commis-
sary General Will enter at once upon the dis
In the House of Delegates, Mr.. Anderson,
from the Committee on Military Affairs, made
tse following report: 1.
pressed with the importance of calling into
active service the whole physical strength of
the Confederate States in this momentous crisis,
and it being the opinion of the highest military
authority that the efficacy of our army may be
greatly increased by the enlistment OF negroes;
therefore,
Resolued by the General Assembly, That the
Confederate States are authorized, and the con-
sent CT the State is hereby given to enlist such
number of able bodied slaves, for military SER
vice as may he deemed necessary, upon such
terms and under such limitations as may be
agreed upon between the Confederate States
Government and the owners Of such slaves.
Peace Wanted with or without Slavery.
From the Raleigh Whigl
A national enterprise partakes of the same
disposition that private or individual enter
prise does. No man with sound common sense
risks or jeopards his property or his life, his
liberty or his reputation, when he knows that
nothing but failure, and perhaps irretrie evabIe
ruin, lies before him. For four long years the
Confederacy has been in the condition of a
merchant who has risked everythin and gained
nothing; who has witnessed the laundering of
the bark containing all his precious venture In
distant sea- How long can we stand this,
How long are we tosuffer and endure without
the faintest hope Of bettaring our condition
II we were unable to maintain inviolate our
territory from In vasion when our whole arms
bearing population bristled with bayonets
when our ranks were overcrowded with eager
now when those armies, with but one single
illusrious exception, have been defeated, deci-
mated, or annihilated, and we cannot recruit
their ranks except through the unpopular con.
scription!
In view of these momenteus questions, in
view OF the threatening aspect of the future, it
becomes aS as men 10 consider now best to
ward Off the impending calamities. And in the
purest spirit of patriotism, in the highest love
for the South and all her cherished institu-
tions-her brave, courageous, self sacrificing
people-we affirm that it is worse than mad
ness for us to continue the one.sided conflict.
The spirit Of our people is broken under sue
cession OF disastrous defeats; the Yankees are
flushed with brilliant and dashing victories;
we have lost the seacoast; Sherman and Thomas
menace the interior, and Grant holds in his
yice-ike grasp the only effective army in the
Confederacy. Anything-peace, honorable or
old Union-anything under heaven is prefer
able to the utter irretrievable ruin now await
ing us.
We do not utter this appeal In the expecta-
ton that it will be heard in Richmond, or if
heard listened to. What cares the present head
. of the Confederacy for the complaints or suf.
terings Of our people Nothing. Nothing so
long as his own Unsuitable love OF power is sat
isfied North Carolina is no more to him than
Mexico or Massachusetts. He is the evil ge.
MUS Of the South. He tempted her to the brink
of disunion, and now to save himself would
ruin his whole country. He has done more
than all the Yankee generals combined to de.
feat onr armies and crush out the military ar.
dor OF our people. And if our enterprise falls
1t VIII be attributable, not to Yankee prowess,
not TO southern lack of pluck, but to the i'm
hecility, the critical carelessness of Jefferson
Davis.