AMERICA.

Marlborough Press, Volume VI, Issue 56, 15 July 1865, Page 3

AMERICA.

Now York, March 18, Morning. President Davis lias addressed a message to I lie Confederate Congress, dated the 15th, which says :—“ Events have so materially affected the state of the country as to evince tlie necessity of further and more energetic legislation then that of November last. 'i lie country is environed with perils which ii is our duty to contemplate and thus alone can the measures necessary to avert the threatened calamity be wisely devised and el’ieiently enforced. Kiclimon.t is now threatened,.and in greater danger than heretofore during the war. Though the country is in danger calamities will be averted, and triumph secured by fortitude, courage, constancy, and endurance.” The President urges the necessity of legislation to mo Jfy the militia law, ami recommends the .suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. “With the prompt adoption of the measures reeoinmeiidevi, and with the co-operation of the Congress ami people in the execution of the laws amt tile defence of tile country, the Smith may enter upon the coming campaign with cheerful confluence in the result. Lincoln will accept only abject and unconditional submission.” President Davis proceeds to state tint at the peace conference at Portress Monroe, the Confederate Commissioners proposed to avoid Lincoln’s objection to treat wi,h the Confederate Government, by a military convention of the commanding generals of both armies. President Lincoln not accepting the suggestion was afterwards requested to reconsider his conclusion upon the su jeet of the suspension of hostilities, which he agreed to do, Imt S lid after mature deliheralion he had determined it could not: he done. Subsequently, General (>rd, commanding the army of the James, requested an interview with General Lougstreet. General Ord informed General l.ongsireet of the possibility of arriving at a satisfactory adjustment of the difficulties by means of a military convention. Lee would he granted an interview on the subject, if he had authority to act. Lee in consequence wrote to Grant on March 2nd, proposing a conference on the subject, slating that he was vested with the requisite authority. General Grant re died that lie had no authority to accede to tile proposal for a conference, his power being only military. General Ord meant that an interview would nut be refused on any subject on which General Grant could act. “No choice remains, then,” continued the president, “hut to continue the contest to its linal issue. The people of the confederacy can ha\;e but little love for him who supposes it pos-inlc they would ever consent to purchase, at the cost of degradation and slavery, permitted to live in a country garrisoned |>v their own negroes, and governed by officers sent by t lie eonquerers to rule over than. The 1 'resident’s message aiiiunmees that the commissioners and olliccrs report that with 3,000.01 ID dels, in coin the armies of Virginia and North Carolina can be simplied for the remain ler of the year. The measures adopted to raise tlie revenue, though liberal, being clearly inadequate to meet the arrears of debt and the current expenditure, some degree of embarrassment in the management of the finances must, continue to be felt: Men ond supplies are needed to carry

on the war successfully. Botli are within the country sufficient to attain success. Sacrifices are still needed in prompt and resolute devotion, and men and money, for the achievement of independence. President Davis urges the promptest legislation for the replenishment of the treasury, and the modification of the impressment law necessary for the purchase of supplies. lie recommends Congress to devise measures for making coin within the Confederacy, available for supplying the army. A steamer ftoin Wilmington lias reached Fayetteville, and announced that Sherman returning met a gunboat twenty miles beiow Fayetteville ascending the river. Johnston is reported to he concentrating at Raleigh, where it is supposed that Sherman will meet with his first serious resistance. '1 he • Herald ’ asserts that Sherman will move front Fayetteville on Goldsbojough. Sherman’s recent casualties are estimated at 1,000 killed, wounded, and missing, and those of the Confederates at 1,200 men.