Show ITEMS OP OF SOUTHERN NEWS about the loth 10 instant president Pres dails daus issued an address to the people of the southern confederacy urging t c them to devote themselves to agricultural labor for the production of food for themselves and the defenders defend em of their country in the battlefield ile he admits that the soldiers were then on half rations of meat there being plenty however in the confederacy but insufficient means of trims trus por ort tation atlon this thia deficiency he be states val about ta to be remedied lla iia reviews in glowing language the gigantic achievements nut not only or f their arms arme butof but of the indomitable indus trial rial enterprises created fostered and impe ampe led by the necessities of the war to 10 oppose the invading forces composed of levies which already exceed thirteen hundred thousand men he a says ays we bad no resources but union uldon and the valor of a people determined to be free and aud were so destitute of military supplies that ten thousand of our citizens were reluctantly reused admission into service from inability inability to furnish arms while fir dir months some of our owed their safety safely chiefly to the concealment conce ament of the toe fact that we were without supplies of powder for our cannon your devotion and patriotism ir tr over all obstacles cies cles called lato inta existence mu dan icons of 0 war wart ward clothing and sustenance which enabled our soldiers to I illustrate their valor on numerous battlefields and to inflict crushing blows on successive armies armies each of which our arrogant C foes fondly imagined to 10 be bc jD invincible the con between our past and present condition is well calculated to inspire fall full confidence in the triumph of 0 our arms arma at no previous time of the war bave have our forces neen keen so ilum rous BO so well organized so thoroughly disciplined cip elp lined arad and equipped as at the pre aint the high water waiter on which the enemy edemy relief to enable their fleets of gunboat gun boils ts to p detrane into finto owr our country abd and devastate our homes s fast passing away yet our strong stron holds of the fhe he mississippi still bid defiance to the foe toe months of costly preparations for heir their reduction reductio lo n have been spent in vain disaster has been the result of their every effort ort to reduce the strongholds strong holds of the mississippi within a few weeks ahm falling waters and arid the increasing heat of summer will complete their discomfiture and compel their baffled babil ed and defea derea defeated ted forces to the abandonment of the expedition tion on which they chief hope I 1 of OE success in effecting our subjugation M we must caust not forget however howe verp very that the war is not yet ended endel that we are still confronted by powerful armies and threatened by numerous fleets that the tho government which controls these fleets and armies driven to the most mosi ost oat desperate effort to effect edde effe c t he be most unholy y purpose in which it has thus far tar been defeated defer td will use its utmost ene energy gy to avert this impending P doom so fully merited by the atro aaro cities it has haa committed and arid the savage barbarities hari bari ties which it has encouraged and its crowning attempt is to excite a servile population t to massacre our wives daughters and helpless lel iel piers pless children r engage in su buch auch chacon a contest he lie thinks there is but one danger that the government of their choice ought to regard with apprehension which as may be ob obviously i inferred is a failure of supplies for the army to avert which this appeal is now made to the never failing patriotism which they have exhibited since the beginning 0 21 of the war Char charleston leaton S C G and wilmington N gj G continue te to be ports ot ol enry eniry and clearance for blockade runners laden with coffee salt saltpetre salt petre arms and ammunition for the confederates and it is rated seated as one cf th the e relieving 1 lievin fea features tires of the harbor lockup lork jock lockup up attempted to be established by the fede Vede federals rala rals that during durin the past year charleston hab has enjoyed a more extensive direct foreign trade than ever before in her history as a seaport town these advent adventures ivres tires are paying in especially so when successful but i if ill starred and captured bythe bytha by the not too wideawake wide awake sea isea monsters of uncle samuel drifting in schoos ot off the entrance of the southern harbors they are made food for his bis carni carnivorous verous maw cargo careo and hulk with no intention or disposition to offer any compensation fortha rich repast the tha only recourse then left the adventurer is to charge the loss lose to their own luckless luck legs jess temerity and if balanced in any degree by the profit derived from such costly morce aus of exper experience ienco lenco though dearly bou bought abey may not prove prore altogether abortive at dranch Branch branchville vile N C on the dinst the government confederate storehouses were destroyed by fire consuming also fifty thousand rations of bacon and a large quantity of flour our and a n d buzar on the he gen wheeler captured two federal fodera trains on ahe abe railroad between naili nash ville and murfreesboro ile he took from them a number of prisoners including a two m majors acors three captains and three ot rosecrans lose Jose crans staff also thirty thou thousand said d dollars in greenbacks greenbach green grcen bac backs ka of course 4 bod ald hhas fias ad sauced to upwards upward ii of three b buti busi u d died ed per pet cent this the value oft a confederate dollar note noc to less han than ban twenty t vrle ille five cents noto notes svere overe were e sc so seg seU Ingia DR gi i at a prem am om of fifty per cent A large powder manufactory is beng erac erses eddythe ed by the confederate government at austil Au ubil util ga A late char charleston eston eaton mercury in referring 1 to the wil e the most moat 0 at extensive powder works I 1 in n d t world they are now says the hercul el perlor to any known knowd and the powder fu fui equal to the best yankee or european star an dard in a recent report to the confederate con coa grobs grass jeff jerf davis ures ur urges es that the interess inte resl reel of 1 northern r in south rn telegraph iines lines amounting to nearly four hundred thou thon band sand dollar B bo be sequestered or appropriated by the government government the report also reo rec recon 0 M mends the ibe seizure of all the tele telegraph raph raab lines in ij the south to be placed un er control oi of the conf confederate federate post office depar beut th Gover government Dment indemnifying indemnify ing all citizen owne rs for their losses the people of the south are reduced to great destitution in breadstuff as also other necessary family supplies women str ikei or forcible demonstrations of combined cobi cobl Hed red masses marsey of women bave occurred in several ct cf tb principal cities in richmond they could not be dispersed by the mil tary and the chief authorities could scarcely quiet them by bi promises of immediate r ilef they are presented as being heing bein hein principally composed of t married women having baling haing to support while their husbands are in the confederate service in petersburg va about the eth dinst the soldiers wives and others arose en masse went to the stores of specula tois too n themselves vs by hold bold in ing all necessities of life at enormous enor moua prices and forcibly helped themselves them to whatever they wanted pitching out goods gooda to the poor foe and needy as they went |