Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-01-11
p1sAFFEcTIoN IN THE coNFED-
ERACY.

The troubles between JeH. DAVIS CEN
II trail government at Richmond and the
"State-Rights" Governors of Georgia
and North Carolina have long been admit
ted by the rebel journals. The loud pro-
LESSONS of the "subjugated" city OF sa-
vannah and the regions thereabouts, sho"
a terrible detection from Jetf.'s aush0fi'y
in tina, important State, and rum0rs Oh
her return 10 her old allegiance are rife IN
the East. The telegraph this morning m
g.. ~ thar the Governors of Virginia
and Mississippi are now numbered among
rho nutineers. OF the popular feeling at
rho South, the Nashville correspondent of
the Chicago Tribune writes:
The neople of the Cotton States were on
,bs brink Of declaration in favor of resto-
ration of the Union after the fall Of Atlanta;
and open mu,iny against the Confederate
Government was only prevented by Hood
taking the offensive. On this point regard
nv evidence as positive; therefore, we can
imagine the result after another disappoint-
ment has accumulated upon the many that
have caused universal depression throughout
the South; and the intensity Of the reaction
will be in proportion to the height Of the ex-
pectationS raised by the magnificent promises
of JEFF. Davis and Hood.
The action of the late Alabama Legislature
is of an importance so great that it is scarcely
possible TO fully realize it. 1t refused to do
ANYTHING; it evidently saw that the end was
dear, and that It had better let the matter go
by default than to send more victims to be
sacrificed. By the present law, the militia
cannot be sent from one county TO another |;
and the Governor urged that it should be re-
pealed, but the Legislature refused to comply
with his request by very decided majority.
THE late reverSeS TO the Confederate
cause" says Southern journal, shave given
the reconstructioniSts courage 20 raise their
heads" and this rSrlark is true. through
out Alabama and Georgia, particularly, The
masses are discontinued, and determined no
longer to bear the burden imposed BY the
Richmond government. There is no lndlg-
nifty TO which citizens are not subject ROB.
berry, both BY ''Impressment" of othcerS ana
others, has become so common that 1t has
become necessary TO revise the criminal code
of the States, and intiict the death penalty for
otfenses which were formerly punished by
imprisonment only; and impressment OH
GERS are held to the strict letter Of the law,
or they will be severely dealt with.
The precise character of the trouble with
the Mississippi and Virginia governors,
we do not learn. Il is not very likely
that they have been converted to loyalty.
The probability that hatred of the rule OF
King JEFF. and not returning love to Uncle
Sam, is the round of their mutiny. The
disruption of the present form of govern
ment at Richmond, and the creation of a
Dictatorship under Lee, has long been ad-
vocated by strong party, and the fall OF
JEFF. Davis and the breaking up of the
present Confederacy is looked upon as
inevitable. Lee has the confidence of all
rebeldom, and "a military chiettain is
their sole reliance, and there is little
doubt that he is really the master mind of
the rebellion. As civil power, the Con-
federacy has proved total failure from
the outset, and has finally crumbled to
dust. All that remains of it is its mill
tary organization. As military despot,
Lee can probably hold out against fate
for some time to come; but it is very
plainly to be seen that in those portions
of the Confederacy which are beyond
rebel military control, there is little love
and less respect for the waning cause.
The people OF the South have suffered too
long and too bitterly the effects Of war
which they were deceived into the belief
would never invade their soil. Four
years of war have devastated their fair
land, turning the.r fertile fields into a
barren wilderness and their cities into ash
heaps; and seeing as they now do, that
the contest is hopeless, the Governors Of
of tie rebel States are for throwing off the
Confederate yoke and making terms for
themselves" while the masses Of the peo-
pie gladly hail the peace and comparative
prosperity which comes with the advent
OF the conquering Yankee.