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OT T- 4 VOL. XXIX. JACKSON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1861. NUMBER 45. From Vie SicJtmond Dispatch.

Disposition of the Cotton Crop. of IX- at For the Mississippian. Important to PlantersSubstitute for Baling and Iron Cotton Ties. Messrs. Editors: By reqaest I furnish you for publication a discription of the method have adopted for putting up cotton bales lor market with wooden slats and hoops, as a substitute for Kentucky or East India baling and rope, or iron ties lately introduced.

Ibis method has occupied my attention some months previously to the the gathering cotton, and which since I have applied sue- cessfuily. Any timber which will readily split answers the, purpose, such as cypres, pine, sasa'ras or oak, the two first are best though sawed timbers will answer as well. The slats should bo got out a friction than the length of the preta-lox, and any width from four to ten inches. If desired the edges may be jointed upon a cooper's plane as barrel staves are, or they may be feather-edged with a a drawing knife. On prepairing for pressing, a sufficient number of slats are laid upon th floor of the press-box, when the cotton filled upon them in the same manner as in the use of baling.

If required the ends of the bale may be headed with baling, requiring about one yard and a quarter, or any other material the operator may find cheapest; the beading comprising two pieces at each end sufficient to lap near the middle of the head, itfaould be placed sufficiently under the slats next to the cotton, that the two end bands may secure them from slipping. When the box is filled, and preparatory to letting down the follower, the slats are laid on and the headin adjusted already directed. As soon as the bale is pressed readr for banding, the two end hoops are applied and fastened, and the slats for covering the sides then slipped endwise, under ikese two bands, adjusting them in their, proper places, when the rest of the bands are applied and fastened the heading sewed when the bale is complete. If the slats be slightly lapped bv feather-edging the cotton is tntiiely hid foc view, pertectly secunnx it from wet. fire, dirt and petty depradations.

Feather-edging is as simple as laving on the slats with the straisht edge, the latter securing the bale as well a with Kentucky baling. lne cost of riving and preparing the slats comparatively trifling, as four or five able slaves can rive, joint or feather-edge one thousand per day, sufficient to cover seventy or more bales of five hundred pounds. 1 ne period for this work of course will be selected when most at leisure on the plantation, and sufficiently early to admit the slats dry and become light, there being little dif ference in weight between thin dry slats and iventucky baling, and probably more valuable the, European market after its removal as a covering to the bale, as they may be applied many more uses than the refuse baling. Tha bale may- be as readily samiJed by using a hatchet instead of the broker's knife, and as readily recompressed as one, or two, more slats may be under the operation of compression. The cotton hook can be used with less damage to the bale, moreover, the bale is handled with more facility than ordinarily.

Objections, no doubt will l.e rielby many HnnuwiiKcliig mmwntjfc, mf oitrrr-wise interested in the manufacture, and sales baling rope and iron ties, as experience developed in the desperate and prolonged efforts made some rears ago, to ttferent the use the iron ties. Each of which established their intrinsic value. I feel well assured the cotton pUntin in terest by adopting this method pr oposed of securing and pi eparing for market their an nual product (amounting to four million bales) will absolutely be relieved from a most onerous ana oppressive tax. especially at this juncture, when baling is quoted at the enor mous price of cts per vard; and rope and iron ties at 20 'cts. per lb.

At these rates upwards often millions of dollars may Le economised per annum, and which if applied public defense as for the construction of a Navy, woula be in a few years build up one our Confederacy that might defy the wrath any, and every tyrant who might presume frown upon us. Respectfully, JAMES J. B. WHITE. Tokiba (near Yazoo City) Oct 17th 'CI.

Eight Near Harper's Ferry. Official advices have been received at the War Department of an attack, by CoL Turner Ashby, cammandingasmall force, with a superior body of the enemy, on Wedoeadar, the 16th instant at a place called Bolivar, contiguous to Harper's Ferry. The Federals, num- lering, with subsequent ituiforeenients, avin 800 to 1,800 men, were sent over to protect the transportation of gram from Mutt's Mill, on Shenandoah Island, and CoL Ashby, with 550 men, oOO of whom were muitia, met and drove them back with considerable slaughter. The action commenced at eight o'clock in the morning, and terminated about eleven. It is to be particularly noted as the first in which the Virginia militia have been engaged in Land-to-hand encounter with the enemy, and the result reflects the highest credit upon that branch of the service.

At a charge bayonets, they drove the Hessians before them, down the hill into tho village of Harper's Ferry, at which point in the pursuit they were checked by a detachment of artillery, supposed to have been uoubieaay's rattery, suuionea on Maryland Heights. Col. Ashby now witli- rew his troops to a point behind the hill, ur the purpose of protecting them from ths shot and shell, which fell thick and fast around them, but fortunately with little effect. The oss of the enemy In the engagement re ported by a woman who afterwards came out from Harpers Ferry and saw the dead carried away in wagons, was at ieat uuy or taxiy, in addition to which our men captured twelve fourteen prisoners. Among the latter are some "Union" men, who bad been particular ly busy in aiding the i ederals by means or signals.

Our loss was one killed (Zamper, of the Shenandoah militia,) and ten wounded two supposed mortally. A painful incident attended tnis brilliant affair. Three members of the Co Us Greys, of Jefferson county, who were at home on fur lough, partictpated in the fight aa volunteers, and two of the number were wounded one (named Bell) desperately, and his life disr air ed of. Cot Ashby's success wouki have teen much greater but for a lack of cannon, and very few of the enemy would have escaped from the field ot battle. lie had but one ethcient gun, and another improvised, for the occasion a 24-peunder mounted on vragon wheels, which any artillerist will readily concede, was very dimcult to manage.

ustice to this brave and gallantpthcer demands that he should be amply supplied with every facility for successful warfare, to increase his influence on that bor der as a terror to the invaders. By a cuiious coincidence, this fight took place on the second anniversary pi the John Brown raid, ana in the very locality of that notable event. mend Dispotch, tost. to 110- 0 Ixhs III ho fi co- lu- hrnl mo lor- of 11 or lieu Lrnl re- to bo liet "1, nr ny per loir tvo on LT- LT- nll ho bve of Jfor ho lU- rt- o- B9 ch be or br ine by he hit. ho lull be pa ds THE MISS1SSIPPIAN.

F. T. COOPER A. N. KIMBALL.

EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. Jason, Friday, October 25, 1861- FOR PKKSinUNT. JEFFERSON DAVIS, OF MISSISSIPPI. FOR VICE PRESIDENT. ALEX.

II. STEPHENS, OF GEORGIA. STATE ELECTOSAL TICKET. D. C.

GLKNN, J. P. SIMMONS, ED WD P. JONES, JEFF. WILSON, RO.

S. HUDSON, AS. DRAKE, E. M. YERGEU, T.

O. TUPPER, r. S. CATCHING s. The elections for President and Vice President, and lor members of Congress will take place ON THE 1ST WEDNESDAY, THE GTII DAY OF NOVEMBER.

The Battle at Leesburg. late splendid victory of Gen. Evans, at Leesburg shows that the Yankees think there is more terror in Southern steel than Vn tha liquid element. They prefer charging upon the turbid waters of the Potomac to braying the Confederate bayonets. Mississippi, it the telegraph is correct, has added much to her already itnpcrishable name as a Warrior Stato.

The 33th, 17th and 18th Mississippi regiments composed the principal port of the gallant band of 'tOOOwhich drove back three times their number, killing, wounding and -drowning 800, and taking 200 prisoners, with a loss of 300 killed and wounded. While th battlo was hotley contested, and our loss very great, still the victory is a brilliant and Important one, proving what we have all along contented foi, that one of our Southern boys is equal to three Hessians on the battlefield. Col. Baker, of Oregon, the loud-mouthed abolitionist who succeeded Gen. Jo Lane in the U.

S. Senate, was killed in this battle. Col. Cogswell and thirteen other field and oommissioned officers on the Yankee side were taken pri-forters by our brave boys. We also captured six pieces of artillery.

Altogether, it was a great Victory. Five Tiiousaxp Yakds Lisseys. The special attention of the "Ladies Association" is called to the of Col. Madison MeAfee, Quarter Master General to be found in this morning issue. Gait.

I'ontaive We had the pleasure of meting this gentleman on our streets yester day evening, and were very much pleased to see that be was in Due VculO.i and sinriis. We are requested by Judge Sharkey to say that on reauing the circular of the Se-jiretarjr of the the Treasury, published in the Richmond papers, be discovered that he had mistaken in some of the leading features the Produce Loan system, and consequently was led ino an error in his letter ublished in this paper on the 22d inst. He searched the files of this office for the law, but being unable to find it, bis suitcmcnt of its general tenor was made on the common understanding, of its provisions, a misconception of which aa the Ser-rtrary's circular shows, hm prevailed ta a considerable extent. This error, however "was oti an immaterial point. 'Who are Drawing Party Ltnls It ii scarcely necessary for us to disclaim the remotest responsibility for, or approval the the5 mischievous suggestions contained in an article under this head, written by 4iII," which found its way into a part of the last Edition of the Mississippian.

Like many things it crept rather unconsciously into our columns, but was promptly suppressed as SOOn as its evii tendencies were fully noticed. The entire management of the paper since the dissolution of the Union, and the establishment of the new Confederacy, will vindi- cute it from even the suspicion of giving coun tenance' to any proposition which looks to the revival of former issues amng the people of "'the South, or tho disturbance of that harmo- ny, reciprocal good will and fraternity so es- sential to the success of the cause dearer than all other causes to the heart of the patriot. Ignoring the dead and no longer important -issues of the past and frowning upon every attempt to revive them every chord of our natures throb with but a single impulse, and that is the Union of the South for the sake her liberties. We need hardly add that heteafter no com munication having for its object the re-kindling of party differences will be admitted, whether written by former Whigs or Democrats. The Presidential Election.

We publish this morning a letter from lion. Robt. S. Hudson, one of the Presidential Electors of this State, to which we invito the reader's at- It is now but little more than a week before the people will be called upon to give their votes for the first President of the Con federate States. We sincerely hope the vote will be full everywhere.

No voter who will reflect a moment can fail to see the great im portance of depositing Ins ballot, wno is this 'State that does not feel like it is his duty to give expression to his cordial en dorsemcnt of Davis and Stephens, and at the same time, his detestation of the Lincoln des potism? There is not one such, and yet it may be that many wHl stay at home, arguing that one vote will do no good. We hope.how' ever, every one will not only vote himself but urge his neighbor who maybe inclined tOneg lect this important duty to do likewise. The right of free suffrage is at all times a high priv ilege, but more peculiarly so in the present juncture than ever before. Capture of federal transports; -In telligence was received in Richmond last Sun- i.w.vf ft- nr Woa nn tomac, of two of the enemy's transports, abandoned by the tugs that bad them in tow, under the guns of the Evansport battery. The cargo of one of the jthe vessels is said to consist or eight "thousand pair of shoes a most valuable and timely acquisition, in view wi ueeus oi our army.

a an bo a its as is the is the a For the Mississippian. Military Aid Society at Clinton. Clintojt, Oct 21, 1861. As I have not seen any notice of the doings the Military Aid Association of thus place, any of our newspapers, I respectfully request you to give this an insertion in your weekly issue. I deem it a privilege as well a duty to let the good people of Mississippi know, what the patriotic ladies of Clinton and vicinity have done and are doing for the benefit of those who have gone forth from our midst, to defend our beloved Country.

On the 14th of June last, the ladies of this place and vicinity formed themselves into a Military Aid Association by electing Mrs. L. E. Banks, President; Mrs. E.

J. Lewis, Vice-President; Miss M. Doughtry, Secretary; Mrs. M. Abbou, Treasurer.

Since, which time they have received by subscriptions four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventy-five cents cash, and thirty dollars in clothmg.Ieav mg a balance on their subscription books of hf.y-two dollars and one bale of cotton yetdue. They have completed and sent off to the Mississippi College Rifles in Virginia, 104 pair Gaiters, 102 hickory striped shirts, 135 flannel shirts, 204 pairs of drawers, 200 pairs socks, U7 pairs pants, and 86 coats. They have sent to Pensacola to members of the Mississippi (Jackson) Rifles, 46 shirts, 26 pairs of paints, 20 pairs of drawers. Taken out by members and sent to soldiers in different places, 8 hickory striped shirts, 8 flannel shirts. pairs of drawers, 5 pairs of socks; 4 pairs of pants, and 4 coats Remaining on hand 42 hickory striped shirts, 5 pairs of pants, and 11 coats, of which nine are unfinished total number of pieces 1113.

They have also made subscribed and sent off Hospital stores, 31 mattrasses, xua sheets, 02 pillow-slips, 9b towels, 14 comforts, 9 spreads, 61 pillows, GO pounds of rice, 140 pounds of sugar, 16 pounds tea, lb boxes of mustard, 16 boxes of gela- tine, 2 pounds of arrow root, 10 pounds of corn starch, and 24 bottles of brandies, wines and cordials. The above report includes all done up to the 15th inst, wich was the day designated the Constitution for the election of officers fur the next four months, at which time Mrs. J. Greaves, was elected President; Mrs. J.

Lewis, Vice-President; Miss F. Thorn ton, Secretary; Miss M. Lewis, Treasurer. G. The Presidential Election Letter from Hon.

E. S. Hudson. Benton, Oct. 1G, 1SG1.

Editors of the Mississippian Being confined at home by an unusual amount of sickness in my family and much of it qnito severe, have not been able to addrrss my fellow citizens at but few places on the sub ject of the approaching Presidential election, and shall probably not be able to do so. here have been and so far as I eati learn from other quarters, the mind and heart of the peo ple appear, by common and universal consent have centered on Davis and Stephens, and no canvass is necessary to strengthen or enlarge that feeling and sentiment. I am however apprehensive that the people, knowing that there is but the one ticket and sentiment. and that Davis and Stephens must and will out to the polls and vote generally, and my object now is to call your attention, the attention of Editors generally and that of the people to the great propriety of giving a full vote in this election. Let us not manifest a cold, callous, heartless and indifferent feeling and action in this matter, for I know we do not so feel; but let us write upon the history of the times, the mind of our enemies and renew our fellowship and communion with each oth er, our confidence, devotion and determination in this great struggle and the maintenance of our new government, as well, as our high ap preciation of the great privilege of freemen.the elective franchise, by going to the polls and giving the full vole of the State for our chosen and worthy leaders.

They are entitled to it, and would thereby feel their hearts and minds inspired with new confidence, hope, vigor and energy. Let all go to the election and vote, let none stay away, but manifest our high appreciation of the right to vote, its important results and bearing, as fully and ardently as if there was a heated contest between opposing candidates and people. Any other course or policy will be set down by our enemies to apathy, enmity and hostility to our government and leaders, and so paraded before their people and the world to our prejudice and in justice. Let us show that we talk lor our government, vote for it and will lignt lor it to the last man and last hour. Yours truly, ROBT.

S. HUDSON. For the Mississippian. Who are Drawing Party Lines? Messrs. Editors An article signed II, appeared in your last issue, charging upon the old whigs "false pretentions" and a disposi- tion to ignore democrats for all oracial station, Having noticed the marked liberality and high-toned manner in which you have con- ducted your journal, I feel assured that the article in ouestion slipped into vour columns without your knowledge or approbation.

Suf- nee to say uiai, tue muub qucawuu ia wuu My aevoia i acunimwm uwuuw the condemnation of every liberal minded pa- triot in tha State. It may be well to suggest in this connection few thoughts which at this moment are presen and which in mv ludcrment 71 TT should receive tne approoan o. an uc ia ciipa trtitnnorirtn inr All lie ii- It is dangerous follow self constituted iL leaders ur r-- should be jealous of their power, which is in their ballotand exercise it independently lg- 1,1 nartv war cnes. ana looitins aioue A ..,.1 Manatnne politicians suuum tki of heart and intellect should dis- mu uvv a l. 1 public servant in mgu piaces.

Ar All nafttoa ivhACA 5i in tha creat cause of the South, MAiAntfltiva men ui an ieai nv-o, uvuv shall have ashare in the administration of the a tnn eievauon or pirwu- wwi-- rh- mllst lap set ol men a bitterness not soon to be As vou well know, my political action has always been based upon the prin 7" ci patent to the world, that now, for is a wet the men nuneru I bared and strong arms raisea to rw tw found in the ranks of those iVlrn as ultra Southern men. INOnu, aa iiuuciiA, Democracy nor wniggory Lima au exclusive right to govern; nonore wgu mui, be diviaea yuu y. bv such a course, party prej uaices win graa and our greatest intellects will find their proper leveL Under the old organ ization. this was not tne case, ior me most part KETw TulTeTanl eu i i. il.

Wild LUD MILL UfUlll U1HIT "noise and confusion" drowning the, voice and disgusting the sensibilities of many whose voice and wisdom ought not to nave been tost in our Councils. Let the coming Legislature act upon these principles. Let them select for our Coniede- rinlesof State Rights, lnciuumg uie rigukoi RPression bv separate State action, but far be rfrnm me to say that the thousands who irom j. not to bo trusted be of to to of in be or a I I ate Senators the greatest minds we can command let log rolling be spit upon, and two men selected representing both the old party organizations, a choice that will give us confidence at home and command respect abroad. Let this be done, and the era of small men with large pretensions will for a time at least blotted out ONE OF THE PEOPLE.

Sequestration Law. For the information of the public we enumerate below the Counties composing the Northern and Southern Division of the State: Northern Division J.W. C. Watson Receiver. Ncxube, Winston, Carroll, Bolivar, Coahoma, Tunica, DeSoto, Marshall, Tippah, Tishomingo, Itawamba, Monroe, Lowndes, Oktibbeha, Choctaw, Yallabusha, Calhoun, Tallahatchie, Panola, Lafayette, Pontotoc, and Chickasaw.

Southern Division Henrt. T. Ellktt Receiver. Hinds, Warren, Copiah, Leake, Jasper, Hancock, Rankin, Simpson, Holmes, Wayne, Claiborne, Adams, Issaquena, Harrison, Lawrence, Madison, Wilkinson, Amite, Jefferson, Sunflower, Newton, Marion, Tunica, Perry, Kemper, Pike, Franklin, Covins- ton, Jones, Lauderdale, Green, Scott, Clarke, Smite Yazoo, and Washington. Tie office of Receiver we believe to be one great labar, and we call upon all good citizens to co-operate with the incumbents in the discharge of their duties.

Let the law be executed fully and to the letter. It might be well for newspapers generally give the information contained in this brief article. For tJte Mississippian. The Stay Law. Benton, Oct 17th, 186L Much discussion and considerable dissatis faction has prevailed and still prevails through the country as to the late Stay Law of our State.

I tind many who are utterly opposed any Stay Law whatever, but the great bedy the people are in favor of a Stay Law though not the Stay Law. Such is my own position. That the policy and necessities of the country requires a relief law is. too evident my mind to be debated by any who know the true condition of the people, the duties required of them by and in support of the Government and who will sanction the claims and necessities of the Government as paramount to mere individual rights and conveniences, and that I hold every patriotic citizen will promptly do. If mere private fortunes, interest and selfish considerations are to promoted and protected to the neglect and prejudice ot the Government, we might as well take down our colors at once and sail under the Lincoln flag henceforth.

I hold that the Stay Law should be modified in such way and manner as to give the debtor the greatest amount of relief consistent with the security and protection of the creditor, tliat whicb. the hands of the creditor is tied, the greatest ultimate and reasonable securitv should bo given him for the payment of the debts due him. I think the present Stay Law is offensive, unwise ana urjust in giving to all junior creditors upon contract debts, all aa vantage ana unlimitea rights, and sway over senior criditors. to whom the debtors owe much for what they have by purchase long and kind indulgence, or both. While credits are usually given aud treated as personal trust, yet the means and ability of the debtor to pay are never lost sight or, but really constitute the faith and basis of the credit, and now to take.

away those means to which senior creditors looked, and that in duced the credit; and apply them to the pay ment of junior liabilities is as unrair in principle, as postponing a prior judgment lien to junior one. I think none should be allowed to use, or all be allowed to use, and when the suits ripen into judgment let the judgments be stayed by law, but preserve their lien according to priority as heretofore. The law as it now stands is worse in many instances than a Bankrupt Law, for in the lat ter case, existing creditors would receive the proceeds of the effects of the Bankrupt while in tho former the junior creditors receive them to the exclusion of tho senior. I therefore hold that the law should prevent all suits for money without regard to the date of the cause of action, or should allow suits on all at the purchase of the creditor, and when judgment is obtained, let the judgment be stayed, with preservation of its lien. Again, the law as it is strikes away many securities, as well as the remedy.

In cases of deeds of trust upon growing crops, and pro perty of a perishable nature, tho law not only abolishes his lien and security already liad for the very use of the property by the mortgagor would bo its immediate consump tion and destruction and a loss to the mortgagee or original beneficiary. Such creditors should lie provided for in some suitable way. Again, the law as it now stands is some what doubtful as to its constitutionality, and should it herealtor be declared by our courts unconstitutional, hen debts are barred, the damage must be great, for if the law is uncon- stitutional in anything, the saving clause as to the statute of limitations is worthless. All laws must be certain and definite. This law is uncertainand indefinite by its own language as to its duration.

It is to continue in force for one year after the present war is ended Lor until the Legislature repeals it. ah laws are subject to the repeal of the Legislature without so saying, vnen will tne war ena It may last always. Who is to datermina when the warends and when this law ceases to be operative In this respect I deem the law defective. It should have a more definite and guarded duration or Again, most of. our litigation in courts arise upon contracts for the payment of money the witnesses are and will be soldiers ifiuch more exposed to death and the loss of their testimo ny than in ordinary tunes, tne wnoie estate of a debtor or creditor depends upon the testimony of a single witness and that witness in the army and likely to be slain in battlo or by some casualty in a few days.

His testimony can't betaken, even debrue use, as there is no suit in court and none can be commenced. Some provision should be made whenever deemed imnorUnt to rar uib viu f'" 7 any party in contemplation a suit. Z5 Again, the law should stay all liabilities as well as those of contracts for the payment of or for a trus u. fand, or some Let us Law, a good and sound one, a fair and just one, and the people will be i ancet. it is now unaex- -XT Ti 1 i i aiouu uisv tuu gcuMEuuu mui iwu Confederate urieoos I Alabama are already suggesting his name tor i a teat in the uoniederate: senate irom tnat 1 State.

Mr. Yancey was among the foremost boldest in bringing about the great Revo. fendo I nirs and it is meet tw1 nmwr "Inaf- fco I uuw uw proper should be awarded a high place in the councils of the nation. To such men as" he" the South owes her deliverance from Northern vassalage, and we trust he will be rewarded lor his unswerving devotion to our interests. it I of as are is to in to or of of to for of to The Cotton Purchase.

In a late number of the Richmond Examiner an objection is made to the purchase of cotton and tobacco by the Confederate Government because it would strain the credit of the Government and thereby augment its indebt edness to a sum approximating two hundred millions ol dollars. It is very true that the Government's credit would be increased to very large amount, but iris equally true that while it would be thus increased, the Government would have a fair equivalent article which it could convert into cash the moment the blockade was removed and sale found for it. It proposed that the Government buy the present crop of cotton at'a safe price and issue the Treasury notes accordingly without interest, which will become a sound circulating medium. In due time the blockade will raised, when the cotton will find a ready sale in European markets and the Government will lie fully re-imbursed with cash sufficient to redeem all her notes issued for this article. The argument that the blockade may never be raised and that the cotton thus bought-might remain on the hands of the Government fdrever, is equivalent to an acknowledgement that our experiment for freedom is failure.

We do not see how this would bo any "strain" at all upon the Government's credit. Banks are not accused of straining their credit until their notes issued and the specie in their vaults exceed the proportion of 3 to 1. Why then should the Government be said to strain credit when it only issues its notes for the actual value of an article which is confessedly good as specie itself? To our mind there a much greater "strain" upon the credit of Goyernment when it issues Treasury notes to the amount of $100,000,000 basing their redemption upon taxation when there no money in the hands of the planter to pay these taxes with. The main object of advocates of the cotton purchase is to get representative of money upon a solid basis which will be current in all parts of the Confederacy; and enable them to pay their taxes and buy Ihe necessaries of life; and as we have before intimated, probably three-fourths of all sunjs not absolutely necessary for these purposes would be freely given, in one shape or another, to the cause which lies closest the hearts of all. The Examiner urges that if the cotton and tobacco would support public credit they will still better support private, credit, and the holders, therefore, would suffer only the inconvenience of using their credit until their crops can bo sold.

Does the Examiner mean to say that the small planter can use his credit for the payment of his taxes? Can'be buy meat with it Can he buy anything at all with it Will the merchant of New Or leans or Richmond ''credit" the small planter who raises 10 bales of cotton for a pound of bacon, flour or meat Everything ha5 been reduced to the cash system, and the farmer who depended upon cotton for the necessaries and luxuries of life finds that he is wholly unable to obtain either. Llis cotton is entirely worthless to him as a basis of credit for the present emergency unless he can find a pur chaser for it. lrue. it is iust as coou as so much gold but ho needs the pro ceeds now, and unless he can convert it into something which he can use as money will be reduced to a. condition of absolute want.

If his individual note: drawn for the value of his cotton, could purchase his necessaries and nav his taxes, we dare sav he would not trouble the Government for relief. But he has an article which is as good a basis of credit to the Gbverment as ingots of gold, and be proposes td sell it'to the Government Tor its notes which will command the confidence of the people, and meet all his wants as well as gold. The Government loses nothing by the purchase, while the planter is relieved and furnished with his sunplies. Is it, therefore askmg too much of the Government for plan ters simply to desire it to extend its credit for their relief, to issue its notes without interest. for the purchase of cotton, in order to enable them in turn to extend the necessary icliefto the Government? If our planters were free from debts, wants and taxes, then they could w'ell afford to roll their bales under their gins and await the development of events.

But, unfortunately, this is not their condition. They have heretofore depended upon cotton for the purchase of many articles of an indispensable nature, and certainly have they depended upon it for the payment of all their The war has destroyed their market for the time being, and hence their precarious condition. It is, there fore, a great hardship upon them for the Gov ernment to afford relief to all other classes of agriculturalists and withhold it from them, especially as there is scarcely a possible chance for it to lose anything by the operation The Charleston Mercury favors the policy of the States affording the necessary relief to the planters. While this plan would be much better than no relief, yet it is objection able for reasons assigned above. The credit of a State would be much better than the credit of an individual; but the credit of the Confederate States would be far better than either.

The notes of the Confederate States, being receivable for taxes, would become, by common consent, a sound circulating medium, in every part of the country, while the notes of the States would be taken at par only ia the States which issued them; and in many instances subjected to a very heavy dis- coant in tbemu It is needless to say that the nates command much more confidence than the notes of any State, This fact has been fully illustrated in the case of our own State and also that Arkansas, where sury notes and war bonds have been isauea bearing ten per cent, interest, upon the best tort of buis.5Tet these notes and bonds ao I ni ArVnca UUl UX JUUWlaOliyF1 wuuuuj the same confidence that the Confederate notes do, andJ in many cases, they undergo most ruinous and unnatriotia nrocess of shav ing. It would hardly be fair for Ihe Govern ment to afford relief to the train urowinc States by purchasing all their products for O-- of al the use of the army and withhold it from ihe cotton States, when, as we have already said, it risks nothing in extending the necessary relief, but places within the reach of the planter means which will enable him to pay his taxes and aid in the prosecution of the war in various other ways. The Confederate States Elections. There seems to be in our exchanges a number of mistatements with regard to the days on which the Confederate eleetions are to be held. We make, for precise and general information, the following abstract of the act of Congress regulating such elections.

The election for members of Congress is to be held on the first Wednesday in November, 1861-, which election hall be conducted according to the permanent Constitution and the laws of the several States in force for that purpose. In States which may not have provided by law for such election the same will be held according the laws heretofore exis ting in such States for. the election of members of the House of Representatives in the Congress of the United States. The appointment of Electors for President and Vice-President is also made on tho day of the Congressional election ihe first Wed nesday in November. The Electors are to meet in their respective States on the first Wednesday in December, 1861, and proceed to vote for President and Vice-President Congress is to assemble in regular session, at the seat of Government, on the eleventJi day of February, 1862.

On tlie nineteenth of February, it is provided that the President of the Senate shall open the certificates, and the votes for President and Vice-President shall then be counted. The President of the Confederate States shall be inaugurated on the twenty-second day February, 1862. We publish at the head of our editorial columns the Presidential electoral ticket which will be unanimously supported in this State, pledged as its members are to cast the vote of the State for Davis and Stephens. The Congressional candidates for the several Districts are as follows 1st District. J.

W. Clapp, J. A. Orr. 2d District.

Reuben Davis, D. B. Wright, II. R. Miller.

3d District. Israel Welsh, Abram Mur-dock, W. B. Wade. 4th District.

-H. C. Chambers, Buck. 5tu District. O.

R. Singleton, J. Campbell. Gth District E. Barksdale.

7tu District. J. J. McRae, J. C.

L. A. P. Lam- kin. Fine Calf Skin Leather.

Almost every day we see evidences of Cue substantial benefits of the war in the gradual development of our great resources as a self- sustaintaining Government. Necessity is said to be the mother of invention, and we are daily furnished with gratifying proofs of the adajre. Cut ofPfrom the odious Yankee nation. we have reason to be grateful to Providence for our deliverance from a hateful vassalage that has heretofore crippled our energies and suppressed our natural and inventive resour ces. We have been kindly furnished with a spec imen ol line can skin leather by Mr.

Isaac Bierfield, of the Newburg Tan Works, at New-burg C. S. which was tanned by him from a weed called the "Dog Fennel," in 20 days. By his process he claims to tan and make better leather and save two-thirds of the bark now used, and tan it in a third less time, thus saving 30 or 40 per cent. Tho specimen sent us is full equal if not superior to the French calf.

Mr. Bierfield has a patent for his process, and is prepared to sell rights to all the Confederate States of America, except South Carolina, which has "already been disposed of. For further particulars those interested can address him as above. Belief to the Planters. The banks of Georgia are understood to be concerting measures to afford relief to the planters inthe shape of small advances orfeot- ton, wherewith to meet their current expenses and pay the State and Confederate taxes.

The Mechanics' Saving and Loan Association, Savannah, has opened this movement. We give their advertisement Representations have been made by a num ber of persons that cotton planters, needed small cash advances to meet emergencies. To meet this five cents a pound will be advanced upon cotton, in bales averaging middling qualities, delivered in a brick warehouse in Macon or Griffin; the cotton there tp remain until the blockade is- removed, so that it can be fairly sold. For this advance, interest at 7 per cent will be charged; also, a commission of iyz per cent, with warehouse expenses and insurance. Flag.

ok Mississippi. We have been asked for a description of the flag of Mississippi We do not know of any distinct flag of the State. When Mississippi seceded, and before the formation of the Southern Confederacy, her sons rallied under the flag that bore "the single star;" but after the meeting of the Montgomery Convention and the adoption of the Confederate Bag with the "stars and bars," Mississippi, in common with other Confederate States hailed iUas our flag the flag of the Her coat of arms remains Timely Publication. Messrs. Holle Co.

of the Exchange Alley, New Orleans, have placed us under great obligation by sending us a copy of a map of the Gulf Coast and adjacent country, with all the surroundings ly stated from U. S. Surveys. I i This is a work of great favor, and has occu- pied several months past. It is just now in- 1 valuable to ail, to our omcers ot tne navy, I merchantmen, ana interested in the navigation ol our waters.

au our people, too, I jt-A frt Via wroil informed fl to the vimerhlA uu ia avw points along our coast where the light-draught vessels, which the enemy are preparing be 1 to attempt It will be seen 1 that these are numerous and need instant at- I untinn. This map will be followed by others WVAWW- I to the eastward and westward. of of as of of The Marion, Perry Oct. 12, 1861. Hon.

C. G. Memminger, Sec'y of Treasury: Dear Sir From a letter addressed by yourself to the Hon. O. M.

Dantzler in uly appears that you have had under consideration a plan which ycu propose submitting to Congress, providing relief for the cotton planters and subscribers to the Confederate loan in the contingency of a continuance of the blockade. The intimation thrown out in your letter was received with pleasure by the planters in this section of the Confederacy had the happy effect of relieving, to a great extent, the oppressive anxiety which had begun to bo felt among them in regard to tho disposition the cotton crop in the event of a continuance of the blockade, and 3iad also the effect increasing largely vthewikcf Options to the Confederate loan. But Congress having adjourned without making any- provisions against these contingencies, and the bulk of the cotton crop being now ready for market; and the time for the payment of taxes rapidly painful anxiety is beginning again to be felt among the cotton plantersu anticipation of the utter impossibility of paying their taxes, purchasing their ordinary supplies, and of rendering any pecuniary aid to the Government, without either the natural or an artificial market for cotton. To us, cotton is both food and raiment. Heretofore we have Been so unwke as to de pend upon it for everything.

It is our pecu niary resource. Yv must convert it into mon ey belore we can live at all, for to us it is both bread and meat. And unless the Government provides some measures of relief, either by buying or advancing upon the cotton, the wealthiest planter will feel the oppression heavily as the poorest, and indeed more so, lor ne wno nas several hundred negroes to feed and clothe, and the taxes to pay upon them, win nave no more means of doing so than he who has but five or ten. Unless we can-con vert our cotton into money, or.some representative currency, every wheel of business, will be locked, the energies of the paple paralyzed, and they rendered powerless to afford the least pecuniary aid and support to the Government. The cotton States are in a far worse condi tion at present than the grain-growing and meat-raising districts of the Confederaev: for the latter find in the Government a willing and generous purchaser cf all the productions theiHabor, but the planter is dependent upon mreign marKets lor the sale of his cotton and without the interposition of the Govern ment in his behalf he will be, of all its citizens, the heaviest sufferer in these times of calamity; and while he is willing to yield a cheerful and loyal obedience to the law forbidding the exportation of cotton durine the continuance of the blockade, and is ready to snow his laitti in tho trovernment bv takms its bonds and notes in payment for the production of his labor, it is not only right, but it is the duty of the Government to render him ev ery rcliet consistent with its constitutional powers.

No Government ever enjoyed the confidence its citizens so perfectly and universally as the Oontederate estates ol America, and never was there a people so willing to lay their pro- upon the altars of their country. They are fully conscious of the fact that everything they hold sacred and dear property, liberty, life, honor is involved in the desperate issue of this terrible war. If we succeed, we shall be the happiest, most independent, and prosperous people in the world. But if we fail "we are of all men most miserable." And with such a spirit pervading the hearts of its citi zens, the Government cannot be unconscious of the fact that whatever relief it may provide for the cotton planter, by purchasing his crop, or advancing upon it, will return to it in the form-of taxes and contributions and donations for the support of the army. Besides, a purchase upon the part of tho Government would give to it the absolute control of the cotton crop, thus affording it a fair opportunity of testing the power of cotton to dissipate block ades, open ports, clear the channels of com merce, secure honorable treaties, and assert its dominion as King of the Seas.

The writer does not feci competent to indi cate any. specific plan ot action providing measures of legislative relief, nor is it neces sary that he should do so, as the interest of the Treasury Department is, confided to one in whose sound judgment and financial states manship the people have a steadfast and unlimited confidence; but he would press upon your consideration the absolute necessity of ot maturing some plan providing for the inex orable wants of the cotton planter at an early day in the approaching session ol Congress, and of urging upon that body the important duty of the Government, both toitsell and its citizens, of meeting the contingency of a con unuance of the blockade, and of providing measures of relief for the people in the cotton districts ot the Confederacy. Ihe writers connection with the Confede rate loan in this State has rendered him famil iar with the wants and sentiments of the peo ple touching this subject, and he desires to as sure you that the people of Alabama are pre pared to endorse and sustain any practicable plan which you may submit for the adoption of congress loosing to their relief and to the support of the Government whether it may provide for the purchase of the cotton crop, or an advance upon it by the Government in bonds and Treasury notes, both of which nl.ins have been thoroiifhlv fUcncoAil nmrmor th nonle: and whiln oithor J1 onAam ion that the tormer tne absolute purchase ot the cotton bv the Government-is th favorite 1 1 1 1 1 aillUll" L11C UlAllLCia I il I 1 1 1 I a- dontion of some measures for th rAlif Aft ha pressing n. people in the cotton disiricts of the Confedera cy, the writer is; Very respectfully yours, P. C.

WINN Reported Recognition of the Southern Confederacy by England. The Richmond Examiner of last Monday, vue uas me iouuWlDg interesting bit i i i of intelligence, which, if true, is the most im portant item we have read for some time. Although we it is not true, yet we see no reason why it should not be A most extraordinary statement obtained yesterday in the highest official circles of the recognition oi id nieaeracy by Ureat Brit- am. It is certain that a despatch ae-ent ar- VITa- V-f-tylr0m fDSlad, having to reach the South through Michiean and the wm aucnigan and the West His report is understood tn be that he was arrested in Ohio and robbed of his despatches, subsequently effecting bis escape to this city. The assertion of the agent is that the despatches contained assurances of the immediate recognition of our Government in Great Britain.

We give this statement which is made in the most positive manner, without adding any opinion of our own, or professing to know how the Government has verified or credited the report beyond semiofficial expressions of confidence in its truth, which reached us last night A Temperate Senate. When it commits itself to nothing stronger than Porter, espe cially when the 'Price is not exhorbitant. of in as of 3 ol by r. E. I to I I I I I uivncj, wuo juuSi- much money only, and where the action was not for specific or for a trespass, or noon a oenal statute, or upon official bonds.

Th BcsrRiFtES. We learn tbatLt. J. G. Campbell is elected 0pti tbia Cd com-pany, Vice Captain Fouie, resigned.

Oapt. CL will make an efficient and popular com-, mander. The great change in the weather is caused by there being so much "Va..