7*r->m the Me~C«' T, Jan. 12. Rebel Ocatli-ltcrt Antic*. The condition of this military depart ment, as embracod within the limits of Georgia and South Carolina, is anything tut satisfactory to any mm who is .aware of facts, and has capacity to understand their bearing. We presume there is no one in this department to whom the con dition of our present military organiza tion is less satisfactory than to tho (>en cral commanding. Probably there i.-i no one so thoroughly aware of the lamenta ble disorganization that prevails in cer tain ccrps and sections of his command, l'et it would scarcely be fair to hold him responsible for his condition of things His department has becu newiy turned into his hands, and many of the troops are new to him and to this department. They came to him undei the command of imbeciles; he has received them, a herd of stragglers and outlaws. What has been doLe to eradicate th'n fatal evil we shall not slop to inquire. The time has been short to do much, and the forces . have been much scattered, liutthe voiy last moments are arriving, when all mu l be done that is to bo done, when all must be done that can be doue. The enemy does not intend to wait upon our leisure. And there is much to do. Before bringing ourselves to face the j enemy, i( is absolutely essential that those , in command, bring themselves to face the vital evils existing within our own j linos. The path we ate now traveling is straight to destruction. The crisis of the Confederacy has arrived iu iaU.leanie.it. The result of the next six months will bring the Confederacy to tho ground, or | will reinstate power Without reform, j wc arc doomed. There is more than one department of government in which re-! form is important. Uut reform in our j armies is essential—is vital. Without it j the death knell of (he Confederacy is nl- | ready tolled. With the proper reforms i made, he is a coward who carries his ' heart in his boots. There arc men in ] the land—there is fight in the land! It ; is the imbecile that is sick at heart—it is ' the cownrd whose stomach is weak. There it nothing before us that cannot be ove • come; but to do it, there must ln- I keys and Gshy attachments at tho ncith- j er extremities—we want men, real men. earnest men —North Carolina, (ieorgia and South Carolina are in no mood for! trifling. They have had enough of this sort of thing. They don't intend tohavc j much ifiorc. South Carolinadon'tintend j to be conquered She intends to fight. , She don't intend to be hampered or lurri ed over to (he enemy. When she is 1 thus dealt with, there will lie reckoning —a reckoning where there will he no res- j pectof person. We want implicit order j mid calm forecast. South. Carolina is a j commonwealth of order; we expect or-' dor, and wc demand order. We are not used to lawless ruffianism; we don't iu- I tend to suffer it. The General in command of (his de- \ artment is a thorough soldier, trained id tried. Wo believe (liat he will pcr • rra this duty. We look to him to do so. unflinchingly, without fear, favor, or nffeo : n —regardless of pettifoggers and pet • -oats in boots. This is a community law. Just one hundred and uiucty- j two years ago we began our political ex-t tence under tho authority of (lie Lords i Coprietors of England, ami the rule id': the Cavaliers, with tho good old English !• le of laws, uuemaßculatcd by modern philanthropy, and pscudo humanitarian- ! :m to gide us. With the blessing of ilod we have still preserved (hat code but little adulterated by demagogism. j '.c can still hang a villain, or shoot a, in flim, without lacerating the bowels of humanity. We have not yet come to have a nursery to scoundrels called a t 'enitentiary—nor public preachers in ihe pulpit, who called Christ " a good «• :il iilean youth.'' Simple folks, we have lit tle improved upon our ancestors. We ire still only as our fathers left us iu their ' : norance—simply civilized and simply t iiristftins. The law of ord«rand obedi- , nice is the law of habit here. All good citizens here look for the enforcements of it here, iu (he luiliUry as in civil life. The Executive of this State will support j it, and will cheerfully, gladly de so. • We stand to-day as gladiators stripped to the fight; we are ready and traiued to enter the struggle for life or for death. South Carolina is ready to become tho aruna of the republic. Her sous are ready for the contest. Slake of her hole soil a military camp—strip her to (he waist; she will not shrink. Hut give her her gauutlets aud her sword, ■ and she is ready to sUnd or fall where she is. A most enormous but impera(ive duty devolves upon the commander of this department, whoever he is. That duty— : this first aud most essential duty—is to j cashier and to shoot. Without it noth ing can be done, and Sherman conquers us With it he is a coward whosuccuuibs at heart. Everything is at stake—every-j thing that is in the way must be faced ; anil trampled upon. TIMS man who com mands hero must put his heart in his j'. i ket and his sword iu his hand. lie loust know nothing but the good of the Confederacy. That lie must do regard less of official weakness. The end must be radical reform. It is folly to talk of red tape now—wc want the thing—must have it—reform, shooting, cashiering, or der subordination, soldiers—not ruua s, ragmuffins, ruffians. Wc want, and we must have, brains and pluck iiji commanders, and implicit obedience aud order in subordinates and soldiers. Six ty nieces and a steady aim will do the business if repeated sufficiently often, es pecially among commissioned officers, itt 'Wevor, cowmauding officers will not ilo their duty in this matter, lot-, all uioii shot tlieir boJlcs, ifor the ctiJ will have well nigh eopie. Tho time is short —will it be iuiproTe 1 ? HKBIL CONTRAST Bt: i WE!; LINCOLN AM) DAVIS. (Frma Mifl rharle-ton Jan. JOtli.) When Abraham Lincoln took the chair of the Presidency of the United State.". , he promised in his flat-beat lingo to -run the machine as found it. - ' Whether) he has strictly kept his promise, those j may doubt who choose to consider the subject. It is enough for us to know. ' that whether "running his machine." in the pathway of his predecessors, or not. ; he has run it. with a stern, inflexible pur-i pose, a bold, steady hand, a vigilunt, ac- J five eye. a steeples energy. a 112 ntic>pi • ' it, and an eye single to hi* end— conquest , —emancipation. He has o»llcd around him, in counsel, the ablest au J most oar- 1 tiQst men of his country Where h<- has.lacked in individual ability, learning. ! experience of statesmanship, he has I sought it, and fouud it in the able men about hint, whose assistance he unhosita- | tingjy accepts, whose powers he applies 1 to the advancement of* the cause he has j undertaken, In the Cabinet and in the ' tield he has consistently and fearlessly ' pressed oil the search for men who could advance his cause, and has as unhesita-j tingly cut oil' all those who clogged it with weakness, timidity, imbecility, or failure. Fores. energy, brains, earnest- ' iiess, he has collected around him in every department. Blackguard and buffoon as lie is, he has pursued his cud with au energy as untiring as an Indian, and a singleness of purpose that might almost 1 bo called patriotic. If be were not an unscrupulous knave in his end, and a i fantic in his political views, ho would | undoubtedly command our respect as a ruler, so. far as we are concerned. Abroad and a! home lie has exercised alike the same ceaseless energy and cir cumspection. Wo turn our eyes to Richmond, anil j tho c mtras is appalling, sickening to the heart. HAVI: COSl'ldknce IN Vol'a WIFE. —-If You are in trouble or in a quanda ry. tell your good wife—if yen have one —all about it at once. Ten to one her ! invention will solve your difficulty sooner | l ban all your logic. The wit of woman i litis been praised, but her instincts arc quicker and keener than lu r reason.— Counsel with your wife, or yonr mother, or your sister, and bo assured that light will flash upon your darkness. Women : are too commonly adjadged as verdant in jMI but pure womrnly affaijs. No philo j sophical student of the sex thus judges ! them. Their intuitions or insight are ' more subtile, and if they cannot see a cit lin the meal, there is no cat there. In ] counseling one to tell his trouble to his ! wile, wo would go farther, anil advise him : to keep none of his affairs secret from ; her. Many a homes has been happilv I saved, and many a fortune retrieved, by ! man's full confidence in his " better half," ! as man) - ulsohavc been made desolate and wretched for the lack of e mfidetice.— i Wonnn is far more a seer than man, if she bo given a fair chance. Asa general j rule, wives confide (lie minutest of their ! plans and thoughts to their husbands, j having no involvements to screen from ' them. Why not reciprocate it, if but for the pleasure of meeting confidence? We ' are c*rtain that no man succeeds so well iu the world as he who, taking a partner for life, makes her the partner of all liiy impulses or judgments which slio may cheek and set right with her almoin uni versaOy right instincts. Helpmeet was uo insignificant title, as applied to insn's companion, llis wife is a helpmeet for liim in #r«ry darkness, difficulty and sor row of life. And what she most craves and deserves is '•onfiilrnce —without which I eve is never Tree from a shadow, it it can be said to be at all I-'iiiKTiil of Kriward Everett. BOSTON, January li'. The funeral of Edward Everett took place to-day in the First Church. The services were of a more private character, having previously been held in the late residence of the deceased. The church was draped in the symbols of mourning. The remains were brought to the church, escorted by the ludipendent Cadets, the follow ing geutlemen acting as pall bear er-: Hon. Emery Washburne. Ex-\KNI)AY J.l>. 33. lHfiS. " Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and 'nteparable."—D. Wnnttor. plonk iio nF. We have noticed that Mr. Hu.-lett, of tliis county, lias rend in* place a bill au thorizing the Director* of the Butleraml any }'lnnk Bond. to increase their toll fifty per cent. This is f the com pany becauso all would have to travel the road during that scasou of the year; but with such heavy rates, few farmers that could avail themselves of' summer roaJs' would travel the platik at all—and those only who were, from the nature of their business, compelled to travel it would pay the high rates. In this'we only speak our own convictions as wc have heard 110 general opinion expressed on the subject. All have an interest in it and if the people acquiesce now. they must not complain attewvards, It is due the Company to say, that, we under stand the present earnings of there ad, arc quite insufficient to meet the neces sary expenditure. | Since writing the above wo have been failed on by some of our citizens who arc ; decideJly opposed to the Legislation, above named—where the majority of in terest goes, we arc not aware. The new Kditor of the Ihruhl has giv | en his readers a fine illustration of the ! high toned mauuer in which he intends ; to conduct that paper (!) by an article in j that paper of last week, dedicated to us. We are free to confess that we have no de : sire to become the subject of repeated ns j saults from the Herald; but if wc can | only escape this situation by sacrificing | even a small portion of that independ i cnce which we have heretofore exercised, iwe must accept our situation. The wri ter of that article has seen fit to hide him self under an assumed name; but ws think the ear marks ate sufficiently di .- \ linet to enable us to form a correct opin ion as to his identity. ! Following the example of his "south | cin brethren" who, failing to-be able to meet our gallant arui'cs in honorable war ! tare, become guerrillas, and in disguise, | pounce upon their victims, and again sud denly retire. "An observer" has iuiag iued that he could follow their example with safety. This is, of course, a cour age worthy of the gentleman who was seen, 011 a re<• er, are last withdrawing from it—these suggestive bints to Demo crats may iu part account for Mr. Coil's allowing the publication of the article. Iu reply to these assertions we would say that there have been two Democrats only who withdrew from our paper in the last three mouths; and one of them informed us that he had just settled off with the Herald before calling ou us. But a few weeks since, another Democrat called and subscribed for the CITIZEN, saying that he had just stoped the Herald. Our paper started about fourteen t months ago, and without auy social ef fort on our part, its readers have gradu ally increased, till we believe we have the largest list of subscribers iu the coun ty. lu-this we may be mistaken; but at any rate, we are willing to compare books with any who may see fit to dispute it.— As to the character of our paper we think the favorable consideration it has receiv ed from the community, is a safer guide than any self-constituted censor, who de clines to give us his name. The Herahft correspondent com plains ot our attacks on certain individuals. The most unpleas ant case of tfiat kind within our recollec tion was the ot>c in which, in di fference i to truth, wo were compelled to make a truthful statement of an afTair which the Herald had held up .view iu a ful*e I light. The Ha a V/, #herofor», and not us, is responsible for our ever rcfo»ring | ! t i it. We did once, call attention to the , fact that a Union soldier had been grossly | I insulted, by a young lady, wo had no J knowledge of who that young lady was, j nor did we endeavor to know. Had such I an offence been committed iu New Or- i leans, the person so offending, would have ! been liable to be placed in the lockup, or j in St. Louis she would have been a fit subject for sending across tho lines. Here in iintler it seems to be a high crime for a Journal to mention the fact that such an outrage had occurred! We sympa thize with any young lady who can feel in her heart a gratification in annoying one of those brave men who is periling his life for her protection and safety, It is a -trong evidence to us that all is not right at home, with her. While Loyal Union lucn and women, around the hearthstone. a r e lamenting over the hardships of our ; country—are mutually sympathizing with her and tier gallant armies, toj jmany we fear are indulging in feelings and expres sions, anything but patriotic. It is by these latter influences that, wo fear, too ; many young ladies are led into tho error j of affecting contempt for the Union cause. I Relieving that our prompt reproof in this case presented its recurrence, we are willing to suffer any consequences that inay follow. As for the M'Laughlin matter, we think the 102 d settled that on I election day. Wo have no space to fol low this subject farther at present. Look | ing at it in the light of an effort to with j draw from us the patronage of tho busi j ness men of this communily, we are free | to express the belief, that it will bo found |tobe a water bawl. Pusiness men don't j often let their politics follow them so far. | If they arc satisfied that they can reach tho business public best through the CIT- I zu.v, there are not many id them who I will bo found holding back, simply be ! cause we believe the working millions | arc the equals of the titled aristocracy of i (he old world, or tho would be aristocracy j of tho new, while others hold the reverse to l e true. l>isri|n:iHfl<'alio3i Hill! Ever since the government has been at ! tempting to fill up its armies by eonserip- I tion. some sections of the country have I been endeavoring to evade its operations i by a systematic system of skulking. This . fact has suggested to the minds of legis lators as well as others tho necessity of i some law which would tend, at once, to remedy the evil and punish those who | should remain unpliable. It is not tho't just (our neighbor of the Herald may be an exception,) that those drafted in one .'ection of tho country shall go into the service in obedience to the law, while those in other sections remain at home, enjoying all the comforts of domestic life. I The generally recognized principle is. that j l he citizen, in return for that protection of I life and property which it is the duty of ; the Government to give, owes his servic -1 ccs, and if need be, his life to tho State. ' The question then recurs, shall one por- I tion of the citizens be held to this impli -1 cd contract while others disregard it all together? We trust not. The next qucs- J tion in this connection is how shall those who violate this contract be punished for jit, It is true they can be tried, if caught, | by court-martial, and imprisoned or shot, :as many of them are. Dut can the Stite ' do nothing to protect herself from this ; class of citizens who thus refuse to dis -1 charge their obligations to the Federal j Government, making the burthen so much 'the greater fin others? surely sho can. J Our attention Ins been called to this sub i ject on observing that Mr. Negley of this l county, has read a bill-iu place, iutended |to meet -the case. We have not given the ; subject sufficient attention to feel able to j say just what is needed. The bill will, of I course, be referred to the Judiciary Com mittee where, if there are auy amend-1 j uieiits needed, they will be had On a cursory reading of it, we are iuclined to the opinion that it has been carefully pre pared, aud Mr. Negley deserves thanks for the iuterest he is taking in this mat ter. The following is a copy of the bill: ! SKC. 1. De it enacted, Acc., that all per sons within this' Commonwealth being li able to military service, aud who have beeu drafted or may be drafted under any law of the United States or of this Com- . monwealtli for the suppression of rebel lion or repelling of invasions aud who have deserted or may desert from said ser vice, or have escaped or may escape from their homes or proper enrollment districts for the purpose of avoiding said service, ! or have coueealed or may conceal them selves from auy officer or persons charged . wiili their arrest, or have refused or may refuse to roport to the proper authorities alter being notified of their heilifr so draft ed, or have coueealed or may conceal themselves in order to avoid the sorviceof any such notice, or of any notice relative to said draft: aud who shall continue so to desert, escape, refuse to report, or con ceal themselves for the period of oue month after the passage of this act; all and every such person or persons are hereby declared to he* deprived of the rights of citizenship withinthisjCommon wealth, and shall be incapable of voting at any election of the citizens or of hold- I ing auy office of honor, trust or profit j within the same, or of inheriting any es tate under the intestate laws of this Com monwealth, or if by contract acquiring, possessing or disposing of any real or per sonal estate within the same SEC. 2 That it shall bo the duty of any and nil Inspectors and Judges of the | elections within this Commonwealth to I refuse and reject the vote or votes of all | such aforeaaid persons who they, or any I of them, may know to have so deserted, escaped nr avoided military duty, or th. ] crvice of any notice as aforesaid,Jd, escaped.or in any manneravoii ! el said I military service ot any said notice, and ! the said Inspectors and Judge of liny election, on the request of ami qualified I voter, shall receive proof showing the j person offering to vow at said election, I has so deserted, escaped or avoided such service, and if any said Inspectors aud Judge, or a majority of them, shall know ingly receive tho vote or votes of any such person or persons, they shall be lia ble to indictment ibr misdemeanor in of fice, ou the information of aoyciti/.cu and on conviction shrill be fined in a sum not lesi than one hundred dollars and be im prisnno l for a term not less than otic month. • SKC That it shall be the duty of all Constables, Sheriffs ami other officers of the peace within this Commonwealth to give any information they may receive,or knowledge they may have concerning the said persons so deserting or avoiding the military service to the said inspectors and Juge of Elections where saiil persons may re-ide or offer to vote, and on failure to do so shall be liable to indictment there for—as for misdemeanor. SEC. 4. That it shall he the duty of all Constables, Sheriffs and other officers of the peace within this Commonwealth to | render aid and assistance to any officer or ; officers of the government of the United States charged with making the arrest of, or service of any notice on any such per son or persons deserting, escaping, refus ing to report or concealing themselves, as provided by the first section of this act, and on failure or refus I to do so shall be liable to indictment and punished for mis demeanor in office and fined and impris oned in such sum aud for such term as the court trying the same may adjudge. SKO. F>. That any person or persons ad vising. counseling, assisting, harboring,' concealing, or in any manuer aiding in (be desertion, escape, or concealment of the person or j ersons described and pro vide! for by tlie first section of this act, ; shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction of the same in any Court of this Commonwealth,shall be fin ed in a sum not less than one hundred dol lars, and be imprisoned not less than three months. Mr. Ilaslctt, of Duller,submittedasup plement to the act incorporating the Al ; iegheny and Dutlcr I'lauk-road Company, | authorizing it to inere;,i • the rates of tolls i not exceeding fifty percent, overtherate. ! now authorized bv law. ami also to charge i the same rates of toll up-m vehicles laden ; with iron, iron ore, or tho products there of. as it is now authorized to churge upon vehicles laden with coal, stone, or Iron. Horrors of Andersonvillo. I There is no one fact more undeniably j true in reference tj tin cruelties of the I rebels, than the oft repeated announee- I mctit cf the unparalelled inhumanity ; which they exhibit in the treatment of prisoners. The numerous skeleton forms i which have been released from Anderson ville, Finance : n 1 other equally notori ous places, have impressed the truth upon our unwailiug cars—to say nothing of the fearfully large list of deaths reported.— J Mrs. 1 »r. Lowmati has kindly consented to tho publication of the following letter | which she received, from her brother, 1 which will, we have no do bt. be lead with interest. It fully coroborates all that we have heard on tho subject. The follow ing is the letter: Kossjmi, IOWA, Jan. 10, 1865. Dear Sitter: —You wish, me to give you an account of my trip through "Se ! cessia," as a prisoner. I was with my regiment on a raid, in the retu of Atlanta, when captured. July-29, I*o4, uuderthe | command of Gen. Kd. M'Cook. After ; leaviug the aruiy lying ou a line east and west, north of Atlauta, we made a circuit and canietothe Chattah'iochie river, where ; we crossed, advanced nine miles out to Palmetto, a little town ou the West Point R. 11., we burnt the depot, a train of j ears and played smash with the Jonney's i ''Corn cracker line." from there we crossed t) the Macon it. 11. near Joncsboro, on our way we run into their trains, destroyed about 800 wagons, captured near 400 pris- oners, 2000 mules. We struck the Macon U.K. four miles from Joneaboro,where our ' commander lay p. m., when we staited back and were at tacted by Wheeler's force, numbering about 0,000, our force only 1700; we fought him all afternoon, aud still retrea ting uutil we struck the West PoiSt road again. Next mornins; at Nownan, we were rost by Roddy, with 3000 dismounted Cavalry. We fought them until after sundown, when aboutone third the command was captured ; all from the efftct* of liquor. We were taken to An dersonville, where we arrived on tho 2d of August, when we were striped and (oarched, making the sixth time we were I searched aiuoe our capture. The old Dutch Captain's orders were, to take all money, watches, rings, jewelry, coffee, su gar aud every G—d d—n thing they "got." I succeeded in hiding twenty-seven dol lars. When shown our quarters inside the "stockade" many of our nuiftber were so shocked nt the sight which met ouf eyes at every turn, as to completely over come them, all such soon wasted away and died. It was not an uncomgl sight to see uien lying out without even a blan ket to protect them from the scorching heat of a Georgia Sun, or the dew at liight (which falls very heavy there) not able t i rise and enveloped in all the ' faith which their helpless condition in volved, and the vermin working upon them. 1 have, more than once, in passing thru' the stockade, heard men earnestly plead ing for a knifo to cut their throats. . The ration allowed was not enough, hardly, to sustain life, and composed of corn meal, cobs und even some husks, ruk kod together with an addition of a few "stock peas" boiled, from two-thirds of a pint; my partner and I extracted 2.">0 bugs. The average number of ileal In during the months of Juue, >)uly and August, as I was told by one of the grave-diggers, was I 'SO per day. An attempt to describe misery endured there is an utter impossi bility. About the middle of September I was moved to Charleston, S. 0., where we were camped 011 the old race course, inside the city limits. We were shown more sympathy there than anyplace 1 was in. (Jen. Fosters' •hells were plainly visible from yur camp as they burst over the city. 1 remained there but a few days when I was moved to Florence, S. C., which is fast becoming as noted a plaeo of Urbel brula/ifi/ as Andersonville, (■ a. For a short time—while under the command of Maj. Brown, a South Carolinian—we were treated as well as he was able to do. When the stockade was finished he was relieved, and followed by one Lieut. Barret, of whom 1 believe the Devil would be asham ed. The stockade enclosed about twelve acres, and nearly one-third so swampy as to be untenable, in this 11,700 were en closed. The punishment for frivolous offcnco- in attempting to escape,was m ire brutal than in Georgia. It was nothing uncommon to see our men strung up by the thumbs for two hours at a time so that their feet would just touch theground. On one instance, after hanging two hours, was taken into the presonce of 11s all and swung in the same manner, clear of moth er earth, twenty minutes, when released, sunk senseless to the ground. When moving us into thestockade from the camp first occupied, some of our men attempt ed to hide in the wells, but wore found out, when they were taken out and com pelled to run before a half dozen boys, about sixteen years of age, who stabbed their victim every jump they could. I saw more than one brought down sense less to the ground. The punishment fur Tunneling was to cut 'lie rations off of the whole camp, un til sonic one would divulge the secret.— I have seen it done fl>r three days at a time. During one of those times of star ving, five uien lay down at night, under one blanket, in the morning a comrade went to awake them for roll call, suppo sing they were asleep, four wore doad and the fifth not able to speak, and died be fore ten o'clock. I met a good many of my old Pennsylvania acquaintance!' there. I was lucky enough to be included in the 10,000 exchanged, being paroled as a nurse to help bring the balance to our lines. I came on west, aud was hardly able to behave myself when I got across the Ohio river, as we calied it getting into Wod's country. I think 1 will be able for duty in a couple of months—rheumatism and affection of the lungs are the results of my exposure. Affectionately your Brother, •J. 11. GUTBERIE. N. C. S., Bth lowa Crualry. Mr. Kverelt's I,nst Speccli. I On the oth inst., the citizens of Bos ton, met in Faneuill Hall, in aid of the | sufTeriiig people.of Savannah. Mr. Ev j orett was the principal speaker, an i de livered his last speech before, the pub ic. ! There is an interest attaching to it now. j spoken as ,t was in the cause of Benevo ; 1 nee an ! Mercy, and to awaken the 110- | blest feelings of the human heart. We i[u tc the following characteristic pas j sage: ; Then is no store of food thor. Their ware houses, their dwelling houses are empty of pr. visiot.s and 1 I the other necessaries of life, and there are 20,000 men, women and children, who, in the int rval. which must necessarily elapse 1 before trade can return to its accustomed j channels, must l.e clothed aud warmed and fed. It is our duty, as 1 kuow it will be our pleasure, to do our part in this benevolent work. They offer, it is true, to send the rice which Gen. Sher man has given them and sell it at the I advanced price which it bears in our market, in payment of the suppli sin which they stand in sore need. But New York aud Boston don't want their rice. Savannah wants our pork, beef aud flour, aud I say in the name of Heaven let us send it to them without money aud without price. By and-by we wilt trade with them as we ' id in the good times before the curse of secession I aud rebellion come upon the land. By aud by we will take the rice and the cotton, and give them our pork aud our fa. rics in return. Now sir, I had rather not be paid for the relief we send them. Our store houses aud graneries are full, our fanners j neve; had a bettet vear. Soui« branches j of trade and manufactures are depressed, but others nro nure than usually active and profitable. The gjeat West, big as she is, is hardly big enough to hold the wealth that is annually reaped from her fertile field;, aud, as if the accustomed products of the soil were deemed insuffi cient by a bountiful Providence, the very elods of the earth throughout the mid dle States, "arc pouring out rivers of oil," till King Petroleum bids fair to sway tho markets of the world, as King Cotton did before his fibrous majecty was de throned. Iu this state of things, sir, I don't want out great warm hearted Bos ton and Imperial New York togo to chaffering with poor war-stricken, stsfv ilig Savannah for the food shy needs f'uf her famished citizens. No, Sir, I should as soon have expected tho fond father in the Parable, the loveliest page in tho. sacred volume, to drive a bargain with his returned soil for a meat s victuals out of the fatted calf, l.ct ns offi*r it totliein' fiecly, not in the spirit of alms-giving ' but as a pledge of fraternal feeling anil' an earnest of our disposition to resuin(' tlj tho kind offices of fellow-citizenship with' our returning brothers. Meiil, Cel. Illitkt Ij , 1 (111 I'll. Cavalry. On the 2