Show doings in the rebel congress affinity of rebels and copperheads Copper heads new YORK feb alth in the rebel house of represents te january an important de dc 14 1 on the question of con scrip tion P smith of coith N carolina stated ahr th atthe strength rebel army wass W as men whom the country was unable to feed chambers of virginia said saia they could feed double that number if not the sooner we make with lincoln the better everybody expresses the belief that next spring will be the hea heaviest ieSt und and most decisive campaign that will occur goode of va said liis his state could not stand staid another draft this was the opinion of all the enrolling 0 officers who recently assembled at richmond 1101 colln of virginia thought the weak point of the fedei als alg was their finances and the policy of the south was to protract the war our Q last crops were far below the av biago jakeaway takeaway Take caaway away more men and starvation stai stal will ivill be the inevitable result c other speeches spee clies made and the bill under discussion passed 41 against 31 0 the bill amends the con script law so as aa to exempt farmers and i c r s e on con condition di iti on of their giving an additional one tenth of their sup t r plies for the use of the army on the following day after the debate a bill g passed to ampless all male free nc groes between 18 and 50 to work on f fortifications in the production or preparation of materials material of war orin or in military hospitals they to be com pen sated at eleven dollars a month also to employ twenty thousand slaves in similar manner at the same rate of all campens compensation a tiel the owners to receive full pay for those who die in service 1 31 l or escape to the enemy also allow on oil ing the of slaves in any on military department where ir thegean they can 10 be obtained in the above e manner to lir iii them imber of ihirg aney Y to bd be 9 pal paid for as above free negroes aie to be in all cases impressed first washington fob feb lith alth in the rebel house of representatives on the ath the foll following 0 was considered in secret session the president of the united states in a late public eom muni cation declared that no proposition of peace had been made to that government bythe by the confederate states when in truth such propositions were prevented from being made by the president in refusing to hear or even receive a commissioner appointed to treat expressly on the preservation of amicable relations between two governments ern ments nevertheless ahat hat the confederate states may stand justified in the sight of the conservative north and of all p parties arties and that the world may know which of the governments it is urges on the war unparallel led for its fierceness of conflict and an intensely sectional hate unsurpassed in the the annals of mankind therefore resolved Ke solved that the confederate I 1 states invite the united states through their government at washington 0 to meet them by representatives equal to their representatives and senators in their respective con grosses at on day of next to consider first firs t whether they cannot acice upon a recognition of the confederate states of america second in the event of non tion whether they cannot agree upon the formation of a new government founded on clia equality lity and sovereignty of the states but if this cannot be done to im consider isider then whether they cannot upon treaties offensive or defensive commercial the correspondent of the richmond whig writing fi horn om Long longstreeth streets headquarters I 1 the says Longst longstreet is ia beffi being rapidly reinforced moie boic than seven thousand nion men have already passed through bristol to join their respective commands i full supplies of clothing and stores for the troops have arrived also money to pay them off the men have suf suffered feied much for the want of these things the feet of many are so badly frozen as aa to I 1 necessitate rl amputation the E enquirer in a leader suggests that confederate currency having lost its purchasing quality and nd tafe th e strong arm of having abol already dy almost failed and being sure to lose ose its potency altogether in a few months the commissary department ou g I 1 it to advertise for proposals to furnish fifty million rations of beef to bo be paid for I 1 in cotton and tobacco A general older dated january from the adjutant ge generals n eral s office in north carolina ic quires a all 11 white males between sixteen and sixty to enter the military service |