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special dispatch dated. no; Good Cliancd to Bay Clothing IiATEST 1TUV7Q. maliwmister; the Confederate and State government, but also to corporations, and are payable in thia medium, a large araount of it may be circulated at There is every to believe that the Confederate Treasury note is fast becoming men3 a medium. The provision that these notes shall be convertible into Confederate stock, bearing eight per centiinterest, at the pleasure of the holder, ensures them against a depreciation below the value Of that stock, and no considerable fall in that value need be feared so long as the interest shall be punctually paid. The punctual payment of this interest has been Becured by the act passed by you at the last sesgion, imposing such a rate of taxation as must provide sufficient means for that purpose.

For the successful prosecution of war, it is indispensable that the means of transporting troops and military supplies be furnished, as far as possible, in such manner asnot to interrupt the com-mercial intercourse betwean ou people, nor place a check on their productive energies. To this end are of those who make tbem, then tha commerce of the world, so far from being placed under the regulation of a general law, wiH beet me subject to the caprice of those' who flxecute or suspend it at will. If such is to be the course of nations in regard to this law, it is plain that it will thus become ft rule for the weak and not for the strong. Feeling that each views must be taken by the neutral nations of tbe earth, I have caused the evidence to be collected which proves completely the utter inefScieacy of the proclaimed blockade of our coast, and shall direct it to be laid before such Governments as shall aflvrd us the means of being But although we should be benefitted by the enforcement of this law so solemnly declared by the great powers of Europe, we are not dependent on that enforcement for tho successful prosecution of the war. As long as hostilities continue the Confederate States will exhibit a steadily increasing capacity to furnish their troop3 with food, clothing and arms.

If they should be forced to forego many of tbe luxuries and some of the comforts of life, they will, at least, have the consolation of knowing that they are thus daily becoming more and more independent of the rest of the world. If, in this process, labor in the Confederate States should be gradually diverted from those great Southern staples which have given life to so much of the commerce of mankind, into oth er channels, so as to make them rival producers instead of profitable customers, they will not be the only or even the cbief losers by this change in the direction of their industry. Although it ia true the cotton from ths Southern Stales could only be totally cut off by the subversion of our social system, yet it is plain that a long c0ntinuanc3 oLthis blockade might, by a diversion of labor and an investment of capital in other employments, So diminish the supply as to bring ruin upon all those interests of foreign countries which are dependent on that staple. For every laborer who is diverted from the culture of cotto.i in the South, perhaps, four times as many elsewhere, who havo found subsistence in the various employments growing out of its use, will be forced, also, to charge their occupation. While ths war which is waged to take from us the right of self-government can never attain that end, it remains to be seen how far it may work a revolution in the industrial system of the world, which may carry suffering to other lands as well as to our own.

In the meantime, wo shall continue this struggle in humble dependence upon Providence, from whose searching scrutiny we cannot conceal the socrets of our jtearts, and to 5 "hi -V fait nomine oi an me umemi tirades. HARMNG'S. THE STOCK IS WEM. ASSORTED. (Small omdtarg Sited Men can le Fitted.) WE HAVa-OPENBD WITHIN THE LAST week the fbllewinGarmenU 500 Black and Colors FROCK COATS from $10 to $39., i 200 Jf reach Cassiaar BUSINESS COATS from fp to $1 iil.

100 Lower Prioed BUSINESS COATS from $5 to 50, 500 Pairs of neat and handsome Colored CASSI-. MERE PANTS from to $10. 500 Pairs BLACK DOE SKIN PANTS from $7 to $10. 30O OVER COATS ai various prices. OUO Haadsome VESTS Rich Velvets, Rick Silks, CaMimero and Caahmere, of all tho various qualities.

At fair prices. We sell only for CASH. E.X. HARDING. Raleigk, N.

Nov. 1, 188U bo 8 wwlm GOOD PIANOS GETTING SCARCE! WE HAVE BULL A GOOD ASSORTMENT of FINE PIANOS on hand. Persons wishisg them had better giv as an early call. Good instruments are scarce, and no more can be procured. J.

E. ROUTH, (Successor to K. P. Hash,) Dealer in Books, Stationery, Music, Ac, no 13 lm Petersburg, Va. HEAD QUARTERS N.

C. TROOPS, ADJUTA5T UehirAL's OrriCR, Raleigh, Nov. 18th, If M. uunu ussir No. i.

ON THE 23rd OF OCTOBER A CIR- cular was issued from this Office to certain Counties on the Coast, reaairinff the Militia to turn out once a week. The continued threatening of our Coast by the en emy, and tbe recent courie of lawless aad untrue men on our Western border, make it necesisanr thai tha r. quireaents of that Circular be extended to the whole Everv Company in the State will therefore l.a as sembled tnoe a week for inspection, instruction and drill and will be required to appear armed as the law airecis, ana witn some ammunition. Tae State expects every man to do his duty, and the Governor Will not fail tO enforce th'n order with 11 th n.iwur vested in him as Commander-in-Chief, The Militia can only bo called out for actual service by the Governor, or by seven Justices, as provided in the 80th Sec "MUitia," Revised Code. The Governor's orders will be given through this Office to the Generals, or in special cases, to Commanders of Regiments or Companies.

Whenever the Militia are called into actual service, the commanding officer making the call shall discriminate in favor of those persons who we in feeble health, or whose connections with public institutions or other peculiar emnlovments shall reauira their Trn at home. The Militia when called out as above, will report to any superior officer in the service of the State or the Confederate States, commanding. Colonels are required to have made out, as soon as possible after the time fixed in Sec 27 New "Militia" Law, the Muster Rolls therein required and as no proper paper can be had for Blanks, each Captain will make on foolscap paper as neat a Roll of his Company as may be. By order of the Commander-in-Chief. J.

G. MARTIN, no 203 1 Adjutant General HILLSBOROUGH MILITARY ACADEMY. THIS INSTITUTION IS NDER TH conduct of Col. C. C.

Tew, formerly Superintendent of the State Military Academy of Columbia, S. C. It is designed to afford an education of the same Scientific and practical character as that obtained in the State Military Institutions of Virginia and South Carolina. COURSE OF STUDY. Firt Year, bth Class.

Arithmetic, Algebra, French, History United States, English Grammar, Geography, Orthography. Second )Tear, 4(A Class Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, French, Latin, Universal History, Composition. Third Year, Zrd Class Descriptive Geometry. Shades, Shadows an Perspective, Analytical Geometry, Surveying, French. Latin, Rhetoric.

History of England, Litoraturo, Drawing, Elocution. fourth. Year 2nd Class Dif. and Int. Calculus.

Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Rhetoric, Lozic, Mo ral Philosophy, Latin, Drawing, Elocution. fifth Year, 1st Class Agricultural Chemistry, As tronomy, Mineralogy, Civil Engineering, Field Fortification, Ethics, Political Economy, Evi dences of Christianity, Constitution of the United States. Infantry and Artillery Drill will form a feature of the whole course. ACADEMIC YEAK --BARRACKS The Academic year will commence on the first Wednesday in February, (Feb. 6, 1861,) and continue without intermission, to the fourth Wednesday in No vember.

The Barracks are arranged with special reference to the necessities of a Military Academy. The main building, is 215 feet long and three stories high; another building 190 feet long, contains the mess hall, kitchen, storo room, surgeon's office and hospital. TERMS. The oharges for the academic year are $315. for which the academy provides board, fuel, lights, washing, instruction, textbooks, medical attendance and clothing.

For circulars containing full information address COL. C. C. TEW, dec 5 wtf Sup't. H.

M. A- PROCLAMATION, BY HIS EXCEL LENCY, HENRY T. CLARK, Governor North Carolina Executive DxPARTMSHf, Raleigh, Nov. 7, 18 In pursuance of the power vested in me by the ltfth section of tbe Constitution, and by and with the ad vice of the Council of State. I do hereby prohibit the exportation beyond the limits of this State of all Ba con, Pork, Beef, Leather, Men Shoes, Woolen Goods, Jeans, Linseys and Blankets, Ac, Ac, except through the orders of tbe proper officers of tho.

Confederate Government, or of the State governments. The Adjutant General will employ tne necetsary means to carry into full effect this order. All Agents to purchase for the State are required to nave written authority. HENRI T. CLARK, no 13 8t Governor ex-officio.

NORTH CAROLINA INSTITUTION, FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB AND TnE BLIND. The next Session of this Institution will commence on Monday, the 2nd day of September, and continue ten months. Pupils should be sent ia PUNCTUALLY at the commencement of the sessios. Having a full corps ef teachers in the different departments, it is to be hoped that the parents and friends of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, will tend them here to receive the benefits of aa education. Any information as to the method of admitting Pupils, will be given upon application to me by letter, er otherwise.

WILLIS J. PALMER, au 17 wtsw3m PrinerpaL FRESH FISH. THE UNDERSIGNED are receiving daily variety of choice FRESH FISH, direct from Horehead City, aad are new prepared to supply sll persons- who may: favor them with a call, either at the Market House or at their "Stand," South -East corner of Hargett and Wilmiagton streets. All orders left at the Stand for FiSH or OYSTERS, will be punctually attended to as soob as tbe train arrives, ao 13 3m ARBEIT A MULLENS. QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED AT THIS efiVee for uraishiaz the North Carolina Troona with HATS.

Proposals be accompanied by a sample of tbe Hat, aad must state tbe price aad number which can be delivered per week, aad also at what time tbe delivery will commence, ect S-rtf DEVEREUX, A. Q. M. i NOVEIsTY IRON WORKS- RALEIGH, N. -r 8.

BURNS F. BATES rBOPBISTOBS, CONTINUE TOs MANUFACTURE STEAM Saw aad Grist Mills, Plows, Iron Rail, lag, aad every description of Iron aad Brass CastiuM. Washington Ithays agentleman occupying position in Mexico.who bad jus! arrived there, eites Important information which has. been laid before the Government It appears thai Uie whole Western portion of Mexico and Sonora are greatly excited In contemplation of toe intervention; of England and France with Spain, in the'r affairs, and they have applied to the Federal Government to know whether it will sustain them against the intrigues of Spain. A special dispatch to the Nashville Union American, dated BusFelville, Nov.

18tb, says tie Sovereignty Convention met there that morning, 51 counties being represented. H. C. Burnett was chosen President of the Government of Southern- Kentuck, which would be certainly formed on the 19th. Virginia is the War.

It is a sufficient answer to those disposed to underrate the importance of Virginia's efforts in the war, lo state that she has already expended over $6,000,000 in behalf of the cause, without taking into the account the vast local contributions of money bf stowed upon particular regiments in the field. Her contribu tions or men have been tuily in proportion to ner expenditures. In the face of -all this, we doubt not there are some who sharply criticise tbe sys tem of Executive management. Virginia shouhl have credit for what she has done. This is all ehe asks.

Richmond Dispatch. SPECIAL NOTICE. BAKER'S PREMIUM BITTERS. Hexbico CouH-rr, Oct, 1, 1860. E.

Baker, Esq Dear Sir My wife has been suffering with Dyspepsia and Nervous Affection for several years, daring which time she was as ill as possible to be alive all hopes of life, by her physician, as well as by her relatives and friend 8, were blasted. Finally she commenced, in small quantities, the use of BAKER'S PREMIUM BITTERS, which, in the course of eight weeks, (by daily using them,) restored herto perfect health. I am equally gratified to state that my chiid, about eight years old, was long suffering withtb Diarrhoea, attended daily by pa able pbysi eian, without giving any relief; but the use of one bottle of these INESTIMABLE BITTERS restored him entirely to health and vigor. It is my firm opinion, substantiated by that of my family physician's, that BAKER'S PREMIUM BITTERS is the best medicine now before tho public tot the above-mentioned diseases. Yours most truly, P.

W. J. QUARLES. These Bitters can be had of WILLIAMS HAYWOOD, Raleigh, N. and by all the principal Druggists in North Carolina and Virginia Also, by Syme Provan, New Orleans H.

Stabler A Baltimore D. B. Miller, Covington, 3. W. Jones, Memp'iis, Tennessee, and by Barnes Park, Sew York.

Orders promptly filled by addressing E. BAKER, Proprietor, no 14 lm Jttichiuond, Va. WANTS. ANTED TO RENT FOR THE EN- suing year, a FAMILY RESIDENCE, con taming four, five, or six rooms. Any person having such a house for rent can hear of a good tenant by applying at this Office.

no 23 tf THE GENERAL MILITARY HOSPITAL for N. C. in Petersburg actually needj Bacon, Flour, Sweet Potatoes, Irish Potatoes, Onions, Dried Fruits of all kinds, Butter, Ac, Ac, and it is believed the good people of North Carolina can and will epare these things in such propertions as will be in no way privations to themselves, whilst the whole will constitute an amount that will do a vast deal of good in the Hospital. CHAS. E.

JOHNSON, nov 2 Surgeon General N. C. City papers pleaso copy. FRUIT TREES, ROSES, EVERGREENS, Apple and Peach Trees, i0 to 15 cents oach. Plum, Cherry, Apricot, Nectarines, Chesnuts, 25 cents each.

Almonds, Asparagus Roots, $1.00 per hundred. Strawberries, $1.50 per hundred. Blackberries and Raspberries, $1.50 per dozen. ALSO, 30.000 GRAPE VINES, consisting of all the best varieties. For sale for cash at THOS.

CARTER'S NURSERY, nov 10 Raleigh, N. C. FRESH OYSTERS DIRECT FROM R. T. Shea, of Portsmouth, are received daily and sold for the small sum of THTRTY CENTS PER QUART, at the "Stand" on the South-East corner of Wilming ton and Hargett stroets, opposite Crawford's Eating Saloon.

Persons desiring them sent to their residences will be charged 35 cents per quart. All orders, either for OYSTERS. or FISH, will be strictly attended to. PICKLED Ind SPICED OYSTERS always on hand. GARRETT A MULLENS- no 13 3m BANK OF NORTH KOI IN A.

DIVIDEND OF THREE PER CENT. ON the Capital Stock of this Bank, has been de clared out of the profits of the last six months, payable at the principal Bank and the Branches and Agencies on the first Monday in December next. C. DEWEY, Cashier. Raleigh, November 6th, 1861.

no 9 td MLLBURNIE PAPER MILLS, RALEIGH, N. C. milE NEUSE MANUFACTURING COMPANY cJl pay cash and the highest market price for COITON AND L.1NEN KAQS, (N. B. Not Woolen Rags.) Present price 3 cents per pound, delivered at eitntr Depot in Raleigh.

S. H. ROGERS, Pres'L Address H. W. Husted.

Treas'r. no 13 4w State Journal, Greensboro Patriot and Charlotte Democrat copy weekly 4 weeks, THE OFFICERS, MEM XtJL BERS and Representatives of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina are hereby informed that the Annual Convocation of this MASONIC BODY will be held in this City on Monday evening the 2nd of De cember next, at 7 clock, for the transaction of bust' ness. The officers of the Subordinate Lodges are requested to attend in person, or cause proper delegates to be appointed in conformity with the constitution and general regulations ot tne tirand Lodge. WILLIAM T. BAIN, Grand Secretary.

Raleigh, N. Oct. 12, J861 td TTNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. THE next session of this Institution will commence on the 1st of October, and end tne ensuing 4ta of July The exercises ia the Academic, Law, aad Medical Schools will be continued as heretofore. The exten sive Military Hospital near the University, of which two of the Professors are attending Surgeons, will afford unusual advantages for Clinical instruction to Medical Students.

Treasury rotes and the notes of all banks receivable by the Richmond banks, will be received ia paymen of University charges. For catalogues, address S. MAUPIN, sep 25 2m Chairman of the Faculty. AT WIIITAKER'S, Noyzvsu 8, 1861. OI WATER AND SUGAR CRACK- ers; 3 dos.

Jars of Pickles, at no 13 WniTAKKB'S. THRESH MUSTARD, GUAVA JELLY, I1 Pepper Sauce, American Mustard, as no 13 1 WHITAKER'S. ARDINE AND SALMON at no 13 WHITAKER'S. 10 BBLS. NO.

no 13 1 SUGAR at WHITAKER'S. ARRIVE-- -o 5 Molasses, at WHITAKER'S. latest: FHOM TI1E SOUTIIEItN i 'COAST. V. movements of the TanlceesAnother; Fight Supposed to have Taken Place at Port Roy Augusta, Nov.

20. The Savannah Repuhli-can, ot yesterday morning, says that the Federals have made no movement since the capture of Fort Walker, The west reliable "information is, that the enemy has landed about 3,000 men at Fort Walker, and about 1,00 0 at Braddock'a Point. A few bf the Federals occasionally make a visit to Beaufort in the day time, but return to their Teasels or the forts at night. The Yankees have forced a number of negroes inso service, and put them to picking and ginning cotton. The Republican says there was heavy and continued firing heard on yesterday in tbe direction of Port Boval.

It is supposed that the enemy at tempted a landing under cover of their guns, which I was evidently resisted oy our troops. Gen. Sherman has issued a proclamatior. inviting the South Carolinians to return to their homes anu occupations. PROCLAMATION OF THE OF TENNESSEE THIRTY GOVERNOR THOUSAND MILITIA CALLED OUT.

Nashville, Nov. 20. General A. S. Johnston, in view of athreatened invasion of the State has called on Governor Harris to send such a force; to the field as can be armed by the State.

In obedience to this requisition and to repel the invaders, Governor Harris has, this morning, issued his proclamation calling out thirty thousand of the militia from Middle and We3t Tennessee. The officers in command of the second, third, and fourth divisions, among whom the requisition is apportioned, are directed to hold their commands in readiness to receive marching orders by the 25th instant, unless in the meantime a sufficient number ot volunteers should tender their services to fill the requisition. THE FEDERAL REPORT OF THE FIGHT AT PIKETON, ALL Nashville Nov 20. The Louisville Courier has bad an interview with a gentleman from Bath county, who participated in the fight near Piketon on the 8th who declares upon his own personal knowledg that there is not one word of truth in the Federal reportof that fisht. The fight occurred at a point on the Big Sandy called the Narrows, which is 15 miles from Piketon, and where the Kentuckians where concealed.

When the Federals reached the abrupt angle of the road the Ken tuckians opened a murderous fire upon them, which was kept up for half an hour. The Federals were signally repulsed, and withdrew under cover of their artillery. The Kentuckians had five killed and eight wounded. A man who was sant out after the fight to ascertain the extent of the enemy's loss reported that there were, by actual count, 219 killed and 150 wounded. A SKIRMISH NEAR FALLS CHURCH LOSS ON BOTH SIDES.

Manassas, Nov. 10. Another skirmish lock place near Falls Church last evening. Our advanced forces took ten priseners and killed five or six Federals. Two of our cavalry were killed, and two or threa were wounded.

One of the latter was named Chichester, but the other names were not obtained. BURNING OF TWO SCHOONERS BY A FEDERAL STEAMER. Philadelphia, Nov. 12. The Inquirer of thls city has a special dispatch which states that two schooners, in Sin Juan Inlet, were burnt on the 9th by boats from th3 Federal steamer Tuscarors.

ARRIVAL OF PRISONERS. Nashville, Nov. 20. About forty East Tennessee prisoners, bridge burners, were brought to this city to-day for safe keeping. GEORGIA CONFEDERATE STATES SENATORS.

Milledgeville, Nov. 20. Robert Toombs and Benj. H. Hill were, on yesterday, elected Confederate States Senators.

FROM FLOYD COMMAND THE RETREAT TO RALEIGH COURT-HOUSE. The latest intelligence represents General Floyd to have retreated to Raleigh Court-Housc. We understand that orders, had gone out from the War Department here to fall back as far as that place, which were issued in consequence of the difficulty of transporting supplies to Cotton Hill, and the hazard of remamirg there in the face ol so large a force as the enemy have on the Ka nawha, i In executing the retreat, the engagement oc curred at Laurel Creek, near Cotton Hill, in which tho enemy were repulsed with considera ble loss. In a subsequent skirmish, which had no other serious result, we regret to say that Col. Croghan was killed, a very gailant officer, whose loss will be severely felt by our army.

un derstand that the pos'tion taken by General Floyd, near Raleigh Court-House, is a strong one, in a strategic point of if the enemy should advance that far, it is probable that an en gagement will take place there. Richmond Dis patch. The News from Pound Gap. We have intelligence of a late date, from which it appears that the news published yesterday of the enemy's having passed through Pound Gap, on the Kentucky line, was premature. Captain Clay, who i3 now in this city, left Col.

Williams's camp on Friday atternoon last, ai o'clock, at which time the command occupied a position four miles this side, for the reason that there was no camping ground immediately in the Gap. It was the intention of Col. Williams to return, after securing his supplies, and defend the Gap so long as he might do it successfully, though the lack7 of artillery is a serious disadvantage in the face of a vastly superior force. In any event, his sharpshooters will continue to barrass the Federals, and the experience of Piketon shows that they can pick them off by the hundred. Richmond Dispatch.

ARRIVALuF A FOREIGN MAN-OF-WAR AT CHARLESTON. The British screw frigate Immortalite has arrived at Charleston. The Courier of the 18th has the following concerning her The ship-of- war which arrived off this bar on Saturday last, is the British screw frigate Immortalite, Captain George Hancock, C. of fifty-one gunB and 570 men. She is last from New York, which port she left on Monday, the llth and to be stationed off this coast for the protection of British interests.

She was visited yesterday by Mr. Bunch; Her Majesty's Consul. The Immortalite is a splendid steam frigate and carriesseveral 100-pounder Armstrong guns, which are capable of a range of -five miles. In a few days we may expeet the arrival of the British steam sloop Racer, which vessel being of a draft suitable to our bar, will, perhaps, be permanently stationed near this port. Intelligence received from Washington states that two more naval expeditions are soon to be en route for the South.

They are being fitted out at Annapolis. It is reported that the privateer Sumler has been captured on. the coast of Texas by the frigate Niagara. It is stated that tbe small-pox of a virulent type, and the black measles, are raging among the Yankee troops in Kentucky. At Muldroagh's Hill, it is stated, numbers are dying daily.

SATURDAY MORNINtj, NOV. 23, 1861. PROVISIONAL CCNGrRESSip n.nn&reM of tha Hon federate i vis i iuiibivum Slates met at Richmond on Monday, last On motion ot Mr. Venerable, of North Carolina, a Committee was appointed to wait apon the President and inform him that the Congress was ready to receive any communfcation he might wish to make to them, un mesaay buo-milted ta Congress the following Message PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. To the Congress qfVu Confederate States Thp few weeks which have elaaped since your adjournment bare brought us so near the close of the year, that we are now able to; sura up its general results.

The retrospect is such as should fill the hearts of our people with gratitude to Providence for His kind interposition In their behalf. Abundant yields have rewarded the labor of the agriculturist, whilst the manufacturing industry of the Confederate States was never so prosperous as now. The necessities of the times have called into existence new branches of manufactures, and chen a freh impose to the activity of those heretofore in operation. The mean of the Confederate State for manufacturing the necessities and comforts of life within themselves increase as the conflict continues, and we are gradually becoming independent of the rest of the world for the supply of such military stores and munitions as are indppensable for war. The operations of the army, soon to be partially interrupted by the approaching winter, have afforded a protection to the country, and shed a lustre upon iU arm3 through the trying vicissitudes of more than one arduous campaign which entitle our brave volunteers to our, praise and our gratitude.

From its commencement up to the present pe- thA war has been enlaremsr its Oronortions i vu a and expanding its boundaries as to include new fields. Tbe conflict now extends from the shores Kf the Chesapeake to -confines of Missouri and Arizona; yet sudden calls from the remotest points for military aid have been met with promptness enough not only to avert disaster in the face of superior numbers, but also to roll back the tide ot invasion from the border. "When tbe war commenced the enemy were possessed of certain strategic points and strong places within the Confederate States. They greatly exceeded us in numbers, in available resources, and in the supplies necessary for war. Military establishments had been long organized, and were complete; the navy, and for the most part, the army, once common to both, were in their possession.

To meet all this, we had to cre-ste not only an army in tbe face of war itself, but also the military establishments necessary to rqnip and plaee it in tbe field. It ought, indeed, to be a subject of gratulation that the spirit of the volunteers, and the patriotism of the people, have enabled us, under Providence, to grapple successfully with these difficulties. A succession of glorious victories, at Bethel, Bull Run, Manassas, Springfield, Lexington, Lieesburg, and Belmont, has checked the wicked invasion which greed of ijain and the unhallowed last of power brought upon our soil, and has proved that numbers to avail when directed' against a people fighting lor the sacred right of self-gomernment and the privelegf of freemen. After seven months cf war, the enemy have not only failed to extend their occupancy of our soil, but new States and Territories have been added to our Confederacy, while, instead of their threatened march of unchecked have been driven.at more than one poiDt, to assume the defensive; and, upon a fair comparison between the two be-ligerents as to men, military mean3, and fluarcial condition, -the Confederate States are relatively much stronger now than when the struggle commenced. Since your adjournment the people of issouf i have conducted the war in the face of almost an-paralled difficulties, with a spirit and success alike worthy of themselves and of the great cause in which they are struggling.

Since that time Kentucky, too, has become the theatre of active hostilities. The Federal forces have not only refused to acknowledge her right to be neutral, and have insisted, upon making her a party to the war, but. have invaded her for the purpose of attacking the Confederate States. Outrages of the most despotic character have been perpetrated upon her peo-pie; some of her mo6t eminent citizens have been seized and borne away to languish in foreign prisons without knowing who were their accusers, or the specific charges made against them, while others have been forced to abandon their homes, families, and property, and seek a refuge in distant lands. Finding that the Confederate States were about to be invaded through Kentucky, and that her people, after beiog deceived into a mistaken se curity, were unarmed, and in danger of being subjugated by the Federal forces, our armies were marched into that State to repel the enemy and prevent their occupation of certain strategic points which would have given them great advantages mine contest a step men wasjusunea, not oniy by the necessities of self-defence on the part of the Confederate States, but, also, by a desire to aid the people.ofKentucky.lt was never intended by the Confederate Government to conquer or coerce the' people ofyhat State thecontrary.it was declared by our (xenerals that they would withdraw their troops if the Federal Government would do likewise.

Jr roclamation was also made of the desire to respect the neutrality of Kentucky, and tbe intentiofi to abide by the wishes of her people as soon jis they were free to express their opinions. These declarations were approved by me, and I should regard it as oneaof tbe best effects of the march of our troops into Kentucky if it should end in giving to her people liberty of choice and a free opportunity to decide their own destiny according to their own will. The army has been chiefly instrumental in pros ecuting tbe great contest in which we are engag-ed but the navy has also been effective in full porptrtion to its means. The naval officers, de- prived to a great extent of an opportunity to make their professional skill available a sea, havo served with commendable zeal and rgallantly on shore and upon inland waters, further details of which will bo found in the reports of the Secretaries of the Navy and War. In the trans Donation of the mails manv diffi- cutties have arrisen which will be found fully dereloped in the report of the Posmaster-General.

The absorption of the ordinary means of trans i portation for the movement of troops and'mihta-ry supplies, the insufficiency of the rolling stock t' railroads for the accumulation of business resulting both from military operations and the obstruction of water comunication by the presence of the. enemy's fleet the failure and evenre fusal of contractors to comply with the "terms of their agreements, the difficulties inherent in inaugurating so vast and complicated a system as that which requires postal facilities for every town and village in a territory so extended as ours, have all combined to impede the best directed efforts of the Postmaster-General, whose zeal, industry, and ability have been taxed lo the utmost extent. Some of these difficulties can only be overcome by time and an improved condition of the country upon the restoration of peace, but others may be remedied by legislation, any your attention is Invited to the recommendations contained in the report of the head of that department. The condition of the Treasury will, doubtess, be a subject of anxious inquiry on your part. am happy to say that the financial system alrea dy adopted has worked well so far, and promises good results for the future.

To the extent that Treasury notes may be issued, the Govern men is enabled to borrow money without interest and thus facilitate the conductor the war. This extent is measured by the portion of the field of circulation which these notes can be made tn un. The proportion of, tbe field thus occupied depends again upon the amount of the debts for whuh they are receivable; and when dues, not only to our means of transportation from one section of the country to the other must be carefully guarded and improved. And this should be the object of afixioue care on the part of State and Confederate far us they may have power over the subject. We have already two main systems of through transportation from the North to the South one from Richmond, along the seaboard; the other through Western Virginia to New Orleans.

A third might be secured by completing a link of about forty miles between Danville, in Virginia, and Greensborough, in: North Carolina. The construction of this comparatively short line would give us a through route from North to South in the interior of the Confederate States, and give us access to a population and to military resources from which we are now, in a great measure, debarred. We should increase greatly the safety and capacity of our means for transporting men and military supplies. If the construction of this road (should, in the judgment, oj Cougre6sr as it is in mine, ba indispensable for the most successful prosecution of the war, the action of the Government wil 11 not be restrained by the constitutional objection which would attach to a work for commercial purposes, and attention is invited to the practicability of securing its early completion by giving the needful aid lo the company organized for its construction and administration. If we husband our means and make a jadicious use of our of oui resources, it would be difficult to fix a limit to the period during which we could conduct a war against the adversary whom we now The very efforts which he makes to isolaje and invade U3 must exhaust his means whilst they serve to complete the circle and diver sify the productions of our industrial system.

The reconstruction which he seeks to enect oy arms becomes daily more and more palpably impossible. Not only do the causes which induced us to separate still exist in full force, but they have been strengthened, and whatever doubt may have lingered in the minds of any has been completely dispelled by subsequent events. If instead of being a dissolution of a league, it were indeed a rebellion in which we are engaged, we might find ample vindication for the course we have adopted in the scene3 which which are now being enacted in the United States. Our people now look with contemptous astonishment on those with whom they.had been so receatly associated. They shrink with" aversion from the bare ideaof renewing such a connection.

When they see a President mak ing war without the assent of Congress when they behold judges threatened because they main tain the writ of habeas corpus so sacred to freemen when they see justice and law trampled under tae armed heel of military authority, and upright mep and innocent women dragged to distant dungeons upon the mere edict of a despot when they find all this tolerated and applauded by a people who had been in the full enjoyment of freedom but a few months ago they believe that there must be some radical incompatibility between such a people and themselves. With such a people we may be content to live at peace, but the separation is final, and for the independence we have asserted we will accept no alternative. The nature of the hostilities which they have waged against us, must be characterized as barbarous wherever it ia They have bombarded undefended villages without giving notice to women and children to enable them to escape, and in one instance, selected the night as the period when they might surprise them most effectually whilst asleep and unsuspxious of danger. Arson and rapine, the destruction of private houses and property, and injuries of the most wanton character, even upon non-combatants, have marked their forays along our borders and upon our territory. Although we ought to have been admonished by these things, that they were to make war upon us in the most cruel and relentless spirit; yet we were not prepared to see them fit out a large naval expedition, with the confessed purpose not only of plunder, but to incite a servile insurrection in our midst.

If they convert their soldiers into incendiaries, and involve us in a species of war which claims non-combatants, women and children as its victims, they must expect to be treated as outlaws and enemies of mankind. There are certain rights of humanity which are entitled to respect, even in war, and he who refuses to regard them forfeits his claims, if captured, to bo considered as a pris oner of war, but must expect to ba dealt with as an offender against all law, human anddivine. But not content with violating our fights, under the law ot nations, at home, they have extended these injuries to us within other jurisdictions Tbe distinguished gentlemen whom with your approval, at the last session, 'I commissioned to represent the Confederacy at certain foreign courts, have been recently seized by the captain of a United States ship of war, on board a British earner, on their voyage from the neutral Spanish port of Havana to England. They havo thus claimed a general jurisdiction Over the high saas, and entering a British ship, sailing under its country's flag, violated the rights of embassy, for the most part held scred even amongst barbarians, by seizing our ministers whilst under the protection and within the dominions of a neutral nation. These gentlemen were as much under the jurisdiction of the British Government upon that x.

i iu i i i i. snip ana us uitg iu 11 iuoji utiu in its soil, and a claim on the part of the United States to seize them in the streets of London would have been as well founded as that to apprehend them where they were taken. Had they been malefactors and citizens even of the United States, thy could not have been arrested on a British shiporon British soil, unless under the express pro- visions oi a treaty ana according to me lorms therein provided for the extradition of criminals But rights the most sacred seem to have lost all respect in their eyes. When Mr. Faulkner, a former minister ot tne united btates to France, commissioned before the secesssion of Virginia, his native State, returned in good faith to Wash ington to settle his accounts and fulfil all the ob ligations into wnicn ce naa entered, ne was perfidiously arrested and imprisoned in New York, where he now is.

The unsuspecting confidence with which he reported to his government was abused, and his desire to fulfil his trust to them was used to his-injury. In conducting this war, we have sought no aid and proposed no alliances offensive ana defensive abroad. We have asked for a recognized place in the great family of nations, but in dong. so we have demanded nothing for which we did not offer a fair equivalent. The advantages of intercourse are mutual amongst nations, and in seeking to establish diplomatic relations, we were only endeavoring to place that intercourse under the regulation of public law.

Perhaps we had the right, if we had chosen to exercise it, to ask to know whether the principle that "blockades, to be binding, must be effectual," so solemnly announced by the great powers of Europe at Paris, is to be generally enforced or applied only to particular partieav When the Confederate States at your, last session became a party to tbe decclaration re-affirming this principle of international law, which has been recognizeiso long by publicists and Governments, we certainty supposed that it was to be universally The customary law of nations is made up of their practice rather than their declarations; and if such declarations are only to be enforced in particular instances at the picas- whose rule we confidently submit our destinies. For the rest, we shall depend upon ourselves. Liberty is always won where there exists the unconquerable will to be free, and we have reason to know the strength that is given by a conscious sense, not only of 'the magnitude, but of the righteousness of our causs. JEFFERSON DAVJrf. Richmond, Nov.

18, 1861. On motion of Mr. Venable, the message was laid on the table, and 5,000 copies were ordered to be printed. Congress ihen went into secret session. WAR FACTS AND RUMORS.

THE BATTLE AT BELMONT. The New Orleans Delta is indebted to a frierd for a copy of the following account of the battle of Belmont, which is contained in a letter from young Blanchard, a son of Gen. A. G. Blanchard, of the Confederate Army C0LUMBTS, K.Y., NOV.

1861. Dear The bearer of this returns home on account of sickness, and I take the 0 -portiinity to send you a piece of shell (64 pounds) which I got in our engagement with the gunboats during the battlo of Belmont. After the gunboats were repulsed, I had the pleasure of witnessing the whole of the butle. Belmont is immediately opposite Columbus. There was one battery VVatson's, from New Orleans and about 2000 infantry.

The enemy hed been landing troops all tho night previous, about six miles above. They attacked our forces a about 10 A. M. After to hours most desperate fighting, they suceeded in capturing Watson's driving our troops to tho river. At the time they were about pressing our men into the river, the llth Louisiana Regiment, Co), Marks, crossed, over, and immediately proceeded to the fight.

Arrived at about 600 yards from the enemy, they (the Lincolnite?) hoisted a Confederate flag, and shouted 'Hurrah for Jeff Maj. Butler ordered the llth not to fire, believing ihat they were really our men. When be had proceeded about 300 yards, they opened fire upon him, wounding him two inches below tho hrart. The llth then charged and put them to flight. By this time about 5000 of our men had crossed, and followed the enemy up to their boats.

They numbered about 8000 only 2000 reached them. It was a desperate battle for a long time we thought we were whipped. The llth Louisiana may well be said to have won the day. Capt. Stewart's company was ordered by Gen.

McCown to bring on his rifled guns and prevent the enemy's gunboats from advancing" and shelling the boats which were crossing our troops. We fought about two hours, long and steadily, ths bombshells flying around us like hail. This battle lasted till 6 o'clock. You may expect soon to hear qt a big fight at Cvilumbna. I forgot to say that, after fighting about an hour, one of our guns bumed, killing two men and wounding another.

God knows I had a narrow escape. A piece weighing about two hundred pounds flew past my head at a distance of about two inches. The wind of the fragment like to have knocked me down. I thank God for my protection. Our forces were commanded by Gen.

Pillow in person. I don't know who commanded the Yankees. Gen. Pillow'3 son was badly wounded. We have lots of Yank3e muskets and rifles iu our camp.

Yours, J. G. S. I don't believe you can get a more correct account of the fight than the above. The forces engaged on our side were the 12th Louisiana and the 1st, 4th, and21st Tennessea Regi-menis.

TUB BATTLE NEAR COLUMBUS, KY. DISPATCHES BKTWEEN GENERAL POLK AND PRESIDENT DAVIS. The Memphis Avalanche makes public the following dispatches that passed between General Polk and President Davis on the occasion of the late battle near Columbus, Ky OFFICIAL DISPATCH. Headquarters 1st Div. West.

Dep'nt, Columbus, Nov. 7, 1861. To General Headquarters Through Gen. A Johnston -sr. The enemy came down on the opposite side of the river, Belmont, to-day, about 7,500 strong, landed under cover of gun-boats, and attacked Colonel Tappan's camp.

I sent over three regi ments under Gen. Pillow, to its relief, then at in t3rvals three others, then Gen. Cheatham. I then took over two others in person to support a flank movement which I had directed. It was a hard fought battle, lasting from 10.30, A.

to 5, P. M. They took Beltzhover's Bat tery, four pieces of which we' re-captured. The enemy were thoroughly routed. We pursued them to their boats, seven miles, and then drove their boats before us.

The road was strewn with their dead and wounded, guns, ammunition and equipments. Our loss considerable theirs heavy (Signed) L. POLK, Major-General Commanding. reply of president davis. Richmond, Nov.

8. To Major-General Polk, Your telegraph recieved. Accept for yourself and the officers and men under your command my sincere thanks for tbe glorious contribution you bavejust made to our common cause. Our. countrymen must long remember gratefully to read the activity and skill, courage and devotion of tha army at Belmont.

JEFF DAVIS. (Signed) An ordinance of secession has been passed by the. Missouri Legislature unanimously, there being a full quorum in both Houses. Also, Repair all kinds of Machinery. TERMS 3 Cash ea delivery, P.

8. We have ea baad a large aad well assorted Stock of Plows, which we offer ebeap. Also one It Horse Power Engine and Boiler, all complete, with Saw Mill, which we will sell low, jajalz -waawly LEMONS, at ao 13 HITACHI 8. 500.