Another Draft in the Bouth—Proda- maim by Davis, [Flom tbo Iticbunntl tinquirtr, July 19 j Whereas, it is provided by an act of Congress, entitled "An act to further provide for the public defence," ap proved on the 16th day of April. 1862. and by another act of Congress, ap proved on the 27th of September, 18- 62, entitled "An act to amend an act entitled an ant to provide further for the public - defence," approved 16th April, 1862, that the President be au thorized to call out and place in the military' service of the Confederate States, for three years, unless the war shall be sooner ended, all white men who are residents of the Confederate States between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, at the time the call may be made, and who are not at that time legally exempted from mili tary service; or such part thereof as in his judgment may he necessary to the public defence: And whereas, in my judgment the necessities of the public defence re quire that every man capable of bear ing arms, between the ages aforesaid, should now be called out to do hit du ty in the defence of his country, and in driving back the invaders now with in the limits of the Confederacy : I'ow, , therefore, 1, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, do, by virtue of the powers vested in me as aforesaid, call out and place in the military service of the Confederate States, all white men res idents of said States, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, not legally exempted from military ser vice; and I do hereby order and di rect that all persons subject to this call and not new in the military ser vice, de, upon being enrolled, forth with prepare to the conscript camps established in the respective States of which they may be residents ) under pain of being held and punished as de serters in the event of their litilure to obey this call, as provided in said laws. And I do further order and direct that the enrolling officers of the sever al States proceed at °nee to enroll all persons embraced within the terms of this proclamation, and not heretofore enrolled. And fdo further order that it shall be lawful for any person embraced within this call to volunteer hoe service before enrollment, and that persons so volunteering be allowed to select the arm of service and the company which they desire to join, provided such com pany be deficient in the full number of men allowed by law for its organi zation. Given under my hand and the seal of the Confederate States of America, at the city of Richmond, thiS fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord ono thousand eight hundred and sixty three. JEFFERSON DAVIS. By the President. J. P. BENJAMIN, Sec'y of State The Rebel Conscription, Jefferson Davis, by the authority of an act of the rebel Congress, has called into military service of the Con federacy all white men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, not legally exempt, residing in the Southern states. These men are or dered to forthwith repair to the con script camps, on pain of punishment as deserters. By this proclamation the entire able-bodied population of the rebel - Stu tjs is converted into an army, and the whole South transform ed into a camp. The terms of the or der are peremptory; it states that "the necessities of the public defence re quire that every man capable of bear in.-b arms, between the ages aforesaid, should now be called out to do his du ty in the defence of his country, and in driving back the invaders now with in the limits of the Confederacy."— The order, and the reason for the or der, are full.of important suggestions, and of these not the least interesting is the difference between the Federal draft and the rebel conscription. If the call by our Government for a small part of the population is sufficient cause for a riot, surely this wholesale conscription in the South is reason for a counter revolution. In the North, every man has an• equal chance of es caping from the draft; in the South, alt, but the few who are by infirmity or other disabilities exempt, are forced into the ranks of the army. What hardships does the Federal draft inflict upon the people, which can be for a moment compared with the miseries ' the South must endure when this or tier is enforced? Yet the rioters in N. York, with astonishing effrontery or ignorance, cheered Jefferson Davis.- 171 thus applauding they condemned themselves. Those means for recruit ing an army, which the United States uses only in the most moderate de gree, the rebel Government employs to a terrible degree. With far more kindness and justice to the people than our State militia laws embody, the na tional act exempts all poor men who have widowed mothers, aged and in firm parents, motherless infant chil dren, or fatherless young brothers and sisters dependent on their labor 'for support. The provisions of this net deal with all possible tenderness with the people. Is anything like this evi dent in the provisions of the rebel con scription, or in this - emphatic order of the rebel Government? Every Mall is at once swept away into the rebel camps of the rebellion; not one can escape the all-embracing summons. By this fearful conscription we may measure the importance of our recent victories. Grant, and Meade, and Banks must have, indeed, struck migh ty blows, when the monster answers with this cry of pain. Ordinary vic tories do not have such extraordinary results. It is not by an army that Jefferson Davis hopes to resist us, but by a people. It is only by the aid o every man in the Slaves States, who is capable of bearing arms, that our triumphant armies can possibly be dri ven back. Is it, then, easy to over-es timate the value of the capture of Vicksburg or Port _Hudson ! Of the bloodless triumph over the fugitive ar mies of Bragg? Can we rejoice too much in those magnifieant battles in which the Army of the Potomac hurl ed back the veteran soldiers, the best and bravest soldiers of the South ? When we read in Southern journals, and in Northern newspapers which echo Southern boasts, that these victo ries are but superficial successes, which !MVO 710 permanent effect on the war, we can answer them by the words of the rebel leader. Would superficial successes have such profound results? Would victories without permanent of force a conscription of every fight ing man the enemy can control Jefferson Davis has issued from Richmond a proclamation of _despair. He has confessed, in the hearing of the world, the desperate condition of his toiling cause. Ile has confessed the overwhelming might of the United States. Not to meet the three hun dred thousand men our Government has called to arms, does he summon the entire fighting population of the South, butt to meet our armies already in the field, the "invaders now within the limits of the confederacy." What could he do where he answered by a similar measure'? With but a part of its power, the Government has forc ed the rebellion to use its whole strength. Army after army has fail ed the rebellion; city after city; State following State, have been wrested from its hold, and, lastly, we have torn from it the g reat river of the West.— Driven to the last extremity, the re. hellion has called out its reserve.— "The only salvation of the Southern Confederacy," says the Richmond En quirer, "is in calling out a levy en masse, and the application of martial law to the Ivhole country as in a state of siege." If this be the only hope, and that it is the President of' the Con federacy himself confesses, then there is no hope worthy of the name. For it is absolutely Impossible that this measure can be enforced; by conscrip tion the rebel Government has already exhausted the South, and: though it I may order the creation of armies, it cannot create them. Glendower may summon spirits from the vasty deep, but will they come? No country has ever yet placed its entire fighting pop ulation in the field, and granting the spirit and resolution of the rebels to be all their fondest friend would wish, they cannot accomplish impossibilities. Nor will time be granted them to achieve even the little which might be possible had they a few months to or ganize the few men who have thus far taken no active part in the war. Had Jefferson Davis announced in plain words that the rebellion is now con centrating all its energies for the death struggle, he could have said little more than this proclamation rev( ds to the world. The great and deeisk e victo ry is near. AN the terrible riots in New York are now mere matters of yesterday, soon to be remembered as men remember an ugly dream, so this greater riot will meet as inglorious a fate. One cause created the riot and the rebellion, and each was equally an enemy to Freedom and Law; the Power which crushed the'lesser foe is able to subdue the greater, and the conquest will be lasting proof of the invincibility of the American Repub lic.—[The Press. The Exemption Clause—Gov. Sey- Mou's Record. The New York Tribune says: "The unthinking multitude who, last week, raveged this city with pillage, c-nfla gration, and murder, have, perhaps, been misled by inch who know that neither the draft nor the clause in question is open to any reasonable objection. They have used the $3OO provision to inflame the poor against the rich, not because they thought it unjust, but that they might excite an insurrection to further their own polit ical and personal ambition. Horatio Seymour, and Horatio Seymour's or gans, have resorted to this pretext in the hope that they might, prevent any reinforcements of the armies of the Union, knowing that a Government without soldiers in a time of war has no alternative but to make peace— peace, however disgraceful or howev er disastrous, they care not, so long as it restored themselves and their South ern allies to power—pence, though it might be by the sacrifice of the brave men who, without waiting to be draft ed, have volunteered to defend their country in the field. And hero is proof. On the sth of May last, only two months and a half ago, the Legislature passed an act to amend "an act (which is in effect a draft for a possible con tingency) for the enrollment of the militia, the organization and discipline of the National Guard of the State of New York, and for the public defence," and the oth article of these amend ments is as follows: Sac. 0. Add at the end of section 300 of this aet as follows: Any person so drafted who may be a member of any religious denomination whatever, or from scruples of cor.science may be averse to bearing arms, shall be excus ed from said draft on payment to the Clerk of the County by whom such draft is made THE sum op THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS, to be by said County Clerk paid to the Comptroller of the State, to be applied to the pur poses mentioned in this act. And to this act Horatio Seymour gave his approval, and affixed his name as Governor of the State! With just as much reason could it he said that this act of the State, which Horatio ASeymour made a law , is an invidious distinction between the Quaker and the Catholic, as that the act of the United States favors the rich at the expense of the poor. To the act of the State, enrolling the citizens,_ with an exemption fee for a certain class of $3OO, be gives his approval ; to the act of the United States, enrolling the eit zens, with an exemption fee for a cer tain class of $3OO, he sanctions oppo sition by his example, addressing those who make it a pretext for insurrection as his "noble-hearted friends!" Are there any so blind that they cannot see; so deaf that they cannot hear? WHAT IRISH SOLDIERS MINK.—The following is an extract from a letter from an officer in Corcoran's brigade, showing the feeling existing in the ar my in relation to the . riots in N. York : "In the papers of the 14th we got ter rible accounts of the riots and mob law in New York. New York lies heretofore been so law-abiding that can hardly realize the scenes of revo lution, and bloodshed there enacted.— The army look at it with grief—it is litterly a fire in our rear. Is the coun try worth preserving if its citizens at home turn against it ?" AT Vicksburg the Federal works aro being leveled and thefortifications put into more perfect condition. A number of the finest guns are being mounted and the place to be held as a fiat-class .fortification. The Knight' of the Golden Circle. The Originator of the Order Arrested The New Albany (Ind.) Ledger of the 18th announces the arrest in that city of a man named George W. L. Bickley, supposed to be the originator of the order of the Knights of the Gol den Circle, but who declared that, while of the same name, he was only the nephew of the original General Bickley. The Ledger adds: "An ex amination of the contents of the trunk of Bickley, by Major Fry, scents to in dicate that he is really the genuine Bickley, the fattier of the "Knight."— His portfolio contains letters from par ties in Memphis, Lynchburg, New York and other points, directed to General Bickley as "Major General" of the order. Also a copy of the "De gree Book" of the Order of Knights of the Golden Circle; a card on which is printed an explanation of the signs, grips, &c., of the order; another card, on which is printed, in red and blue, the confederate flag, with the letters "K. G. C," on each bar, the name "Gen eral George Bickley" being placed on the top. There is also a mannserip of an original piece of poetry, of which the General claims the authorship, intend ed to be set to music, in which Virgin ia is spoken of as '•Queen of the South," and Lee, Longstreet and Hill extolled as her saviors, &c. Also slips cut from the Richmond 11 7 kiy and Mobile Ner cury (of 1330) explaining the doctrines and objects of the E. G. C. In a mem orandum was found what appears to be a trough sketch of the situation of Louisville, New Albany, Jeffersonville and the Falls. In the book vas past ed a confederate ten cent postage stamp. Probably the mo-it important docu ment found, however, was the follow in the General doubtless wrote when in a melaneholly mood, or when reflecting on the vanity of human am bition : "Aly memory is not quite so vivid a , : years past, yet I can now sit down in the shades of night and spread out all my boy and manhood's life like a great chart, with marks and records of my wanderings, and upon calmly serntinizi»g that chart of memory's tablets lean most solemnly say, every storm that has overtaken me, every cloud that has overshadowed me, has resulted from some act committed by myself which at the time did not meet my conscientious approval. "An orphan at an early age, I was thrown on the world penniless and friendless, yet with great energy edu cated myself and rose to eminence in the profession of medicine. I have written many books and great quanti titles of minor essays on all conceiva ble subjects. I have brought up prac tical secession and inaugurated the greatest war of modern times, yet I declare the real pleasure of my life is now found in the knowledge of small kindnesses done to the needy and- in adversity, the principles of morality and humanity. "GEO. W. L. BICKLEY,-M. D. "Bristol, Tenn , Dee. 14, 1802." General (or Dr.) Bickley has been sent to the military prison at Louis. rille, where his ease will be attended to. What could have induced him to come here with such evidences of bis complicity with the rebellion about his person we cannot imagine. WAR NEWS. From General Giant's Army. General Sherman's .ffeadguarter's at Jackson--Johnston's Forces _Retreat Across the Pearl Ricer—Expedition to Natchez—Capture of Eighteen Ten Inch Parrot Guns—The Rebels Fled in Consternation-5,000 Head of Cat tle and 1,000 _Hogsheads of Sugar Captured—Official Dispatches from General Grant—The Capture of Ya zoo City. Sr. Louis, July 21. A special dispatch from Memphis, dated July 20th, says: :By an arrival from below, we have Natchez dates to the 15th, Jackson to the 15th, and Vicksburg to the ISth. General Sherman ordered a charge on Johnston's force on Friday, but it had so far escaped that capturing it was out of the question; only a few stragglers, a few guns and some am munition were taken. A portion of Gen. Sherman's force is now in Jackson, which is his head quarters, while the remainder is on the way back to Vicksburg. Johnston's army swam the Pearl River. Eight steamers left Vicksburg on the 6th for Natchez, having on board 1,200 soldiers under command of Gen. Ransom. On his arrival he captured five rebel officers crossing the river.— He captured a battery o'f ningguns, fourof which are 10 pound PlWts. lie then marched back into the coun try nine miles, and captured 247 box es of ammunition and nine more guns. The rebels fled in consternation. On returning to Natchez he found 5,000 head of Texas cattle, and over 1,000 hogsheads of sugar, all of which ho took possession of in 'the mono of the United States. On the Bth two steamers arrived from New Orleans via Port Iludson, bringing up '2,300 paroled prisoners. Two steamers left on the Bth for N. Orleans with large loads of cattle, and three more for Vicksburg with live steely. The steamers Louisville and Elmi ra, captured up the Red River, artiv ed at Vicksburg on the 17th inst. Official Report. WASUINGTON, July 22.—The follow ing official dispatches from General Grant have been received: VICSR.M.MG, Miss., July 15.—Major General H. W. Haltaek, Commander in-Chief Gon. Sherman has Jackson invested from Pearl River on the North to the river on the South. This has cut off many guns from the Confederacy. General Sherman says he has force enough, and feels no apprehension about the result. Finding that Yazoo City was being fortified, I sent Cen. Herron there with his division. He captured several hundred prisoners, one steamboat, fivo pieces of artillery, and all the public stores fell into our hands. The enemy burned three steamboats on the approach of the gunboats. The De Kalb was blown up and sunk hi fifteen feet ofWater by the ex plosion of a topedo. Finding that the enemy was cross ing cattle for the rebel army at Natch ez, and were said to have several thou sand men there, I have sent steam boats and troops to collect them and to destroy their boats, and all means for making more. (Signed) S. GRANT, Major General Another Dispatch Z`rer.Snuno, Stily IS.—Maj. General IL AV. Ilalleek, General-in•Chicf: Joe Johnston evacuated Jackson on the night of the 11th. He is now in full retreat east. Sherman says that most of his army must perish from heat, lack of water and general dis couragement. The army paroled here have, to a great extent, deserted, and are scat tered over the country in every direc tion. From the Army of the Potomac 13