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ritOffll Ol'tt EVENING EDITION
OF YESTERDAY.
THE PEOPLE OF GEOBUI A.
The following frank utterances are taken
from an article iu the Macon Journal «fc Mes
senger. Iu the light of such words as these
it should be seen that the feeling of the peo
ple is iu a satisfactory condition. It should
also be seen that witli a people who so fully
realize their position with the government,
and so well appreciate the duties which their
new relations impose, all adulation for pre
tended sentiment and wordy menacing against
honest feeling, will be rated at exactly what
they are worth:
As tar as we can judge, there is no partic
ular occasion for imputing to the people of
Georgia a disinclination to adapt themselves
to circumstances, and to conform cheerfully
to the necessities of the times. It*they make
no noisy demonstrations of zeal tor the
Union just now, it is probably owing to the
tact that the transition from opposition to
subjection to its authority, has beeu too
sudden to admit of a hearty change of sen
timent from enmity to love. A loug pro
tracted and desolatiug war has had its na
tural effects, and the people are now anxious
mainly to be left in peace and the enjoy
ment of such rights as the victors, in the
plentitude oi their jjower and mercy, may
9ee proper to grant. Their future attach
ment to the Union will probably he contin
gent upon the benefits which that Union
may confer. They were, we doubt not,
more reluctant to sever their connection
with the U. 8. Government ‘than they now
are to reunite with it, and but for real or
imaginary grievances, they would never
have placed themselves in antagonism to it.
They loved it once—they may love it again
if it proves such a Union as its founders de
signed it to be. As yet, the people have not
had time to determine whether, in returning
to t heir former allegiance, they are to be
benefited or injured. Many of those who
who persuaded them to secede are now
impelling them into the embrace of. the
Union. Is it surprising that they should ques
tion the sincerity of such tickle advisers, and
doubt the propriety of implicit obedience to
their behests ?
The people of Georgia acknowledge the
fact of their being agatu in the Union and
subiect to its constitution and laws. To that
constitution and those laws they will yield a
ready obedience, and when it becomes the
pleasure of the Federal authorities to allow
them the exercise of those civil rights once
accorded to the people of the respective
Slates by the constitution of the United
States, they will gladly avail themselves ot
the privilege of organizing for themselves a
competent State government.
Fob Acocsta —The steamer Jeff. Davis,
Capt. Henry, with considerable freight and
having in tow a fiat, departed this morning
for Augusta.
Foe Hilton Head.— The U. S. Hospital
Steamer Cosmopolitan, Capt. Crowell, hav
ing on board about forty sick soldiers, depart
ed this morning for Hilton Head
The Fibst Water Melon of the Season.
—On Saturday last, Mr Nicholas Geil, gar
dener, on the east side of Lovers Lane, pick
ed on his farm the first water melon of the
season. Major General Birge, with several
friends, enjoyed the melon as a compliment
from Mr. Geil,
Serious Accident —On Sunday last, Pat
rick Cooper, a laborer, while the steamer
Emilie was leaving the Commissary wharf,
fell between the steamer and the wharf. HU
head was badly crushed. He wa3 taken in an
iusensible condition to his residence on Bay
Lane, near Price street. He now lies in a
very critical condition. %
The Attraction of Rank.— lt is said that
the Board of Officers before whom officers of
volunteers and regulars desirous of remain
ing in the service are ordered to appear for
examination, find that at least one half of the
regular officers promoted to higher grades in
the volunteer rank are not disposed to return
to their old positions.
\ eoetari.es, Etc.—Our marKet is now
supplied with tomatoes, okra and apples.
The first are selling at fitly cent 9 per quart;
the second at seventy-five cents, and the lat
ter at twenty-five cents. From the Jasper
Spring Nursery we have received delicious ap
ples. In three weeks time we shall be fur
nished by Mr. G. Brown, of the nursery,
with pears of a select variety.
Thb Trial ok Davis. — Of tlie two papers
published in Washington, liotli claiming to
sjieak officially, one announces an immediate
civil trial in court there for Davis, and the
other announces either a military court, or a
trial in Pennsylvania or Maryland. It is now
eontidenily asserted that the mode and time
will not be settled until the close of the pre
sent military court. It appears that the ac
tion ot the civil court in linding the indict
ment was commenced without consulting the
President?' consequently the Administration
is not constrained to try him in that way
should any other form present itself, deemed
better by the Administration.
Cut Ac Lano— -We arc informed that a
plantation in Bibb couuty was sold the other
day, at one dollar per acre, the buyer as
suming all liabilities for tax. This is conclu
sive of one of two things, either that lands
are very much depreciated in value, or that
taxation promises to become so oppressive a
burthen as to render the possession of pron
ely undesirable. Either way, the prospect
ottuture prosperity U rather dim.—diW,
Journal .
Chicago has anew opera house, which
cost half a million of dollars, and will hold
three thousand people.
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Maw W*i b#h*v* and what boolu
thev Have.
The special correspondent of the "Philadel
phia Inquirer, writes from Fortress Mouroe,
June r»th. It seems that Davis positively
ironed, whatever lias been or may Ire said to
the contrary. The correspondent says :
We have the arch-rebel still among us, all
reports to the contrary notwithstanding. He
has not stirred out of his casemate since the
day he was first immured within its thick
stone walls. He has not taken a syigie ex
cursion up the Potomac since Ills incarcera
tion, either on gunboat 01 monitor. In fact,
Jeff, is closely guarded ; twenty-six armed
men stand guard over him night and day.—
Two soldiers with loaded and bayonetted
muskets pace incessantly to and fro in his
r ell. These dungeons sentries walk in op
posite directions to each other, to and fro
across the cell. The prisoner is always un-
der the eyes of one of them. A commission
ed officer, too, continually keeps w atch and
w ard within the cell.
' Since the removal of tlio irons Jeff takes
his confinement more resignedly. He is so
cially disposed, and is ever opening conver
sations, which cannot be kept up, as the of
ficer's are not allowed to talk to him. There
is neither chair nor table in his cell. No
books nor papers are allowed him, neither
pen, ink, pencil nor paper. There are excep
tions in the way of books. Two volumes are
allowed the prisoners, the Bible and Book of
Common Prayer. These two are certainly
the two books of all others most needed by
Jefferson Davis.
Clement C. Clay bears his confinement
with the same dignified philosophy as at its
commencement. He oecassioually express
es concern for Mrs. Clav. Clay is an invet
erate smoker; tobacco' is furnished him, and
the most ot his waking hours are occupied in
puffing the soothing weed. His food is the
the regular array ration, of which lie par
takes but sparingly. His cell is as barely
furnished as is that of Iris chief in crime. The
only books permitted him are the Bible and
‘Prayer Book. Writing materials and the
newspapers are rigidly excluded.
The Excitement in the Pennsylvania
Mining Regions.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia lu
quirer writing from Schuylkill Haven, June
fith, says:
Though there was no actual outbreak
among the miners, no breakers having been
destroyed as stated, there was some excite
ment among them.
There are contradictory stories as to vio
lence used, which I do not deem it proper to
publish. Several operators, however, receiv
ed annonymous notes of warning.
The Two-hundred-and-second Regiment is
on duty in these regions, the companies bein ir
quartered at Ashland, Pottsville, and other
places.
No mines are being worked, at least to any
exteut, and the miners have been out of Work
for some six weeks. The laborers will not
go to work at the reduced figures fixed by
operators.
The inclined plane leading from the coal
breaker of Kirk & Bawn, at Crow Hollow,
was set on fire by miners, and the breaker it
self was only saved by tearing away a por
tion of the structure, There is no doubt in
regard to this occurrence, but the impression
largely prevails throughout the whole mill
ing district that the great majority of the
miners are well disposed, and could easily
control the violent minority if they were al
lowed to go to work.
It is asserted by the miners that the object
of the operators is to run coal up to a big
price, aud that their request for troops has
only been made to cover their real designs
on the market.
Brea. Brio. Gen. C. L. Kilburn.—Col.
Chas. L. Kilburp, Chief Commissary oi the
South, has been promoted to the position of
Brevet-Brigadier General, his commission
dating from March 18th, 18C.’>, Geu. Kilburn
graduated at West Point in 1842, and conse
quently has been 23 years in service. In the
Mexican War he served as a Lieutenant of
Artillery in Bragg’s Battery, aud was iu
the Florida War as Commissary of Subsis
tence, emigrating “Billy Bowlegs” as Indian
Agent. At the commencement of the pre
sent war Captain Kilburn was iu New Or
leans. He succeeded in getting away from
the South after considerable difficulty and
reported to tiie authorities at Washington
abmit the time of the surrender of Sumter.
The efficiency and urbanity of General Kil
ourn, are features of liis character so well
known and appreciated in the Department
of the South, that every one having the plea
sure of his acquaintance, will feel sincerely
gratified over this evidence of recognition on
the part of Governmect, as to his worth and
merit.
Hard on thk “Johnny Rubs.”— I The fol
lowing stringent general order, the papers
say, has been issued from headquarters at
Cbatlafiooga, Tenn.:
Information having been received at these
headquarters, that paroled officers and en
listed men of the late Confederate army have
been invited to, and allowed to enter places
of public resort and amusement.
It is ordered that no such officer or soldier
belonging to the surrendered men now* at
this post, will be allowed to visit any place
of amusement, under any pretence whatever.
Any one violating the above, and any pro
pi ietor, ageut, ticket agent or other person
who shall knowiugly sell any such person
any ticket or card of admission, or shall al
low any such person to enter auv such place
ot amusement, or having entered, to remain,
shall be arrested und punished for disolie
dience of orders.
Tub Htatk Road.— This, the “Western
and Atlantic Rtflroad, ” one of the most im
portant railroads iu Georgia, connecting, as
it does, the great West with the Atlantic
coast, is fast progressing to completion.—
From Chattanooga it is now in running or
der to Cartcraville, a distance of eighty-eight
miles. Fifty miles more, and the ‘ whole
road will be completed to this point. The
large force now at work on ibe unfinished
part of the road, warrant us iu stating that
the whole road will l»e in runaing order in
the space of three or four weeks. Hacks
now run from this point to Cartersville. As
the road progresses to completion, the dis
tance will l>c shortened to which the hacks
Will run.— lntel/it/rnre.r , Srf inti.'
• ~ LouisaW.Crawford has presented to
the New York Central Park, eighty-seven
casts in plaster of the works of her husband.
I the celebrated sculptor.
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New y 0 *ff LUPufc, No. U3O, f. find A. tfJ
New York,*-—, I*o.\ f
Edwin Boom, Esq — -Dear .Sir and liro . The
undersigned, at a regular communication ot
the New York Lodge, No. 330, were appoint
ed a committee to draft a .letter of fraternal
greeting in consideration of recent occurren
ces not unknown to the public.
They approach the subject with much del
ieacy of feeling, and would at the threshold
beg you to believe that they are actuated on
ly by those high aud holy motives which con
tiol Masonic intercourse.
Your receut communications which have
been made public through the medium of the
press relating to the mournful calamity which
has lately befallen our common country, have
impressed us with a sense of solemn duty to
you, to whom, as a brother of our Lodge, we
owe special consideration.
While as Masons, we are hot called upou
to take part in, or espouse auy political cause
or object, we cauuot refuse the expression of
our long time aud continued confidence in
your loyalty and good-standing asu citizen of
the United States, aud as men aud Masons
fully endor ing your status throughout the
Masonic anil civic world.
It affords us distinguished pleasure to be
the orgin of New York Lodge iu making
this communication, aud to assure you iii
fullest personal and Masonic confidence of
the complete aud entire reliance of the
Lodge, and of all those who know you best,
that your political condition and fealty to the
laws and Coustitutiou of the United States
has even beeu firm and steadfast.
Your noble heart, generous nature, and
liberal disposition have ever contributed to
the common advancement, of our fraternity,
and we feel a just pride iu being thus per
mitted to respond to the sentiment which you
have so recently publicly announced. With
the most extreme delicacy we indulge the
hope that the future may prove that no “pri
vate woe” may be realized by you, by reason
of the recent occurrence at the national
Capitol; and should our thoughts in this re
spect result in contradiction, it may not be
improper to say that the members of New
Y r ork Lodge, in common with the country at
large, will most enthusiastically join a loud
acclaim to the Great Master of the Universe,
in grateful thanks for the merciful relief that
must result to you and yours; aud if. on the
contrary, it should appear that our hopes are
unsubstantial, we tender you our delicate
sympathies, and most sincere condolence in
the domestic affliction which must necessa
rily follow.
Iu any event, dear brother, we can from
personal and fraternal knowledge of you, and
your private and public career in our midst,
endorse you as a good man, a true friend, a
loyal citizen, and' a faithful brother, and if
advice were ueeded, we might very properly
■add in the words of the poet,
“ Honor and shame from no condition rise ;
Act well your part, there allthe honor lies.”
In conclusion, dear brother, permit us in
the discharge of this fraternal duty, to add to
our official communication our individual
sympathies and renewed confidence under
the trying circumstances which now appear
to surround you; and should our hopes fail
of realization, we can but commend you to
the beneficent goodness of the All-wise and
merciful Being, who
” Tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.”
We subscribe ourselves with very high of
ficial regards:
Your friends anil brothers—William J.
Bunce, Thomas E. Morris, James R. Elsey,
Thomas J. Leigh, Wm. W. Paddon, J H.
Hobart Ward, Wm. B. Smith, Wm. R.
Brewster, Committee of New York Lodge,
No. 330.
No. 28 East 19xh Street.
Brothers: Your fraternal and consoling
letter has come to me at the hour of my
greatest need. It is very comforting amid
the dreadful darkness which shrouds my
present and my future.
If there can be compensation for such a
calamity us has overtaken me, it is to be
found in the sentiments you so gracefully ex
press and as I believe sincerely entertaiu for
me.
I thank you, brethren, for the great relief
your cheering words convey.
It has pleased Gjd to afflict mj r family as
noue other was ever afflicted
The nature, manner, and extent of the
crime which has been laid -at our door, has
crushed me to the very earth ; the detesta
tion and abhorrence of the act, in all its at
titudes are inexpressible ; my grief is unut
terable, and were it not for the sympathies of
such friends as you it would be intolerable.
Y'ou bear witness to my loyalty, you know
my persistent, aod to some extent successful
efforts to elevate our name, personally and
professionally. For proof of this I appeal
to tire records of the pa«t.
For the future, also, I struggle on in my
retirement bearing a heavy heart, an oppres
sed memory, and a wounded name—dread
ful burdens—to my too welcome grave.
Your afflicted frieud aud brother,
Edwin Booth,
To the Committee of the New York Lodge
No. 330 F. A. M.
The Atlantic Teleorach Cable. —The
Prince of Wales visited the steamship Great
Eastern on the 24th ult., and minutely sn
spected the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, and
the works connected therewith. Avery se
lect and influential company of gentlemen
were present on the oecassion, among them
Lord Lyons, Sir Edward Cunnard, George
Peabody and Cyrus W. Field. The Canadi
an commissioners in England, and numerous
distinguished telegraph officials were also
pressut.
The work of placing the cable on the Great
Eastern is going on actively, and it is pretty
certain that she will start in the early part of
July, accompanied by the British frigate Ter
rible and another British war steamer. .
Office Seekers from Alabama. —A Wash
ington correspondent says .-
“Judge Parsons, of Alabama, who lias
beeu at home during the rebellion, is a cam
didate for Provisional Governor of Alabama,
arid is urged by a delegation of men here
from that State, while some of the Union re
fugees who formed tin* first Alabama regi
ment, urge that their Colonel, who fled to
save his life, is the most reliable man for that
position.”
—One day, just as an English officer had
arrived at Vienna, the Empress, kuowing
that he had seen a certain princess much cel
ebrated tor her beauty, asked if it were really
true that she Was the most beautiful woman
he had ever seen ? ‘*l thoughtfso yesterday, ”
he replied.
fHUial, ,
likAbQ'HS., Tllfi fiOI'ITI
General s * Jnne »’
• No. 82. f
I. The following General Order from the War De
partment is published for the information of this com
mand :
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Amutant General's Office,
Washington, D. C., May 15, lStiJ
General Orders)
No. 34. f
The following regulations are announced, and will
Iu- observed, in discharging from service such Voluu
teers as are, hereafter, to lie mustered out with their
regimental or company organizations :
t . Army Corps, or at least the Divisions thereof,
will be kept intact, and, immediately upon receipt of
an order directing any portiofi of the forces to be mus
tered out. Commanding Generals of Armies and De
partments will order the said troops (if not already
thereat; to one of the following Rendezvouz, viz:
1. Middle Military Division, and troops of other
Annies or Departments arriving therein.—Defences of
Washington, D. C„ Harper’s Ferry, Va„ aud Cumber
land, Md ,
2. Military Division of the .Tames.—Richmond and
Old Point Comfort, Va.
3. Department of Nortli Carolina. -Newbern and
Wilmington.
4. Department of the South.—Charleston, S C
and Savannah, Ga. '
5 Military Division, West Mississippi.—Mobile Ala
New Orleans, La., and Vicksburg, Miss.
ti. Military Division of the Missouri —Little Rock,
Ark., St. Louis, Mo., and Foit Leavenworth, Kansas'
1. Department of ihe Cumberland.-Nashville’
Knoxville, and Memphis, Tenn.
8. Department of Kentucky.—Louisville.
t. Middle Department.—Baltimore Md.
Commanding Generals of Armies and Departments
are authorized to change the aforesaid places of ren
dezvous, should the public interest so demand
For the Departments of the East, Pennsylvania.
Northern, North West, New Mexico, and Pacific such
special orders will be given from the Adjutant Gener
al’s Office, relative to the troops therein serving, as
may be demanded bv circumstances, as the time for
discharge is approached.
If. Iu case of one or more regiments of a Division
being mustered out—the Division remaining iu the
field—iaid regiment, or regiments, will be mustered
out at the place where found serving ut the time, and
then placed e* route to the State, as hereinafter di
rected.
111. The Adjutant General of the Army will desig
nate pilaces of rendezvous in the respective States, to
which the regiments, after muster out, will be for
warded for payment.
IV. * Upon arrival at the rendezvous where the mus
ters out are to take place, a critical examination of the
regimental and company records, books, &c,, will be
made, and, in case of omissions, the proper command
ers will be made to supply them, and make all the en
tries as enjoined by the Army Regulations. At the
same time the muster-ont rolls will be commenced,
and prepared, in accordance with existing regulations,
under the direction of the Assistant Commissaries of
Musters of Divisions, superintended by the Corps
Commissaries, Corps aud Department Commanders
will see th it the work is pushed with energy, and ex
ecuted promptly, using to this end Division and Brig
ade Commanders to superintend it, and their respect
ive staff officers to and the Mustering Officers in col
lecting the data for the muster-out rolls, aud discharge
papers, as well as the preparation of the snme. In
iraming the rolls, particular care must be exercised iu
stating balances of bounty payable. [See General Or
ders, No. 84, current series, from this Office.]
V. So soon as the rolls id a regiment are completed
the said command, with its arms, colors, and neces
sary equipage, will be placed en route to its State, and
to the rendezvous therein, at or nearest which it was
mustered in.
Eli route, and after arrival in the State, the follow
ing will be observed:
1 Immediately on arrival at the State Rendezvous
the regiment will lie reported to. and taken control of.
by the Chief Mustering Officer for the State, or his As
sistant at the point. The said officers will lend all
needful assistance in their power to the Paymasters
with the view to prompt payment of the troops.
IT- The regimental officers will be held to a strict
accountability for the discipline of their commands,
and preservation of public property.
3 The Commissary of Musters of the Division to
which the regiment belonged in the field, will take
possession of the copies of nuister-out rolls intended
lor the Field and Staff', Companies and Paymaster,
also the company and regimental records, with all
surplus bank rolls, returns, discharges, &c., in possess
ion ofregimental-and company commanders, or o.he
officers, and after boxing them np, place them, whilst
en route, under the special discharge of a discreet and
responsible officer ot the regiment. The sole duty of
said officer will be to care for and preserve said rolls
and records whilst en route, under the special charge
of a discreet and responsible officer of the regiment.—
The sole dntv of said officer, will be to care for and
preserve said rolls and records whilst en route, and on
arrival at the State Rendezvous, where payment is to
be made, to turn them over to the Chief Mustering
Officer, or his Assistant at that place.
4. Paymasters will be designated by the Pay De
partment to meet regiments at the designated State
Rendezvous, and there make final payments, obtain
ing for that purpose the rolls from the Mustering Offi
cer thereat.
5. Whilst troops are awaiting payment, supplies
will be furnished by the respective Supply Depart
ments, on the usual requisitions and returns, counter
signed jby the Chief Mustering Officer or his Assistant.
0. Until after payment, and the final discharge of
the troops, the Chief Mustering Officer will look to
their being kept together, and nnder discipline.
.7. The Chief Mustering Ofiicer will, under regui"-
tions to be established by himself, take possession of,
and carefully preserve,. the regimental and company
records, also tne colors with the respective regiments,
and hold them subject to orders from the Adjutant
General of the Army.
8. As soon as practicable, after arrival at the State
rendezvous, the Chief Mustering Ofiicer or his Assist
ant, will see that the arms and public properly brought
to the State by the troops are turned over to the
proper officer of the Supply Department thereat.
VI. In preparing the muster-out rolls, Corps, De
partment, Division and Brigade Commanders will
hold regimental officers to a strict accountability iu
order to insure accurate and complete records of the
enlisted men, and the better to establish the just
claims of the non-commissioned officers and privates,
who have been wounded, or of the representatives of
those who have died from disease or wounds, or been
killed in battle.
VII. Prior to the departure of regiments from the
rendezvous where mustered out. all public property
(except arms, color and equipage required en route;
will be turned over to, and cared for by, the proper
officers of the Supply Department concerned.
VIII. What is prescribed in the foregoing for a reg
•iment, will be applicable to a battery of artillery, or un
independent company.
IX. At the respective State Rendezvous, the fol
lowing is ordered, viz:
1. The Paymaster General will be prepared to have
a sufficient force of Paymasters, to insure prompt pay
ment.
2. The Quartermaster Genera], and Commissary
General of Subsistence, will be prepared to have u
suitable number of officers of their respective Bureaux,
to provide supplies, transportation, &c., und recept
.for public property.
3. The Chief of Ordnance w ill arrange to have a
suitable^umber of officers of his Bureau, to receive
the arms, accoutrements, &c.
X. The attention us Commanding Generals of
Armies and Departments, is directed to the importance
of Regimental and Company Officers having their rec
ords so completed and arranged, that, at auv time, the
muster-out rolls may be prepared without delay.
By order of the Secretary of War.
E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant General.
11. In compliance with the provisions of the fore
going General Orders, and under additional orders is
sued by the War Department, subsequently thereto,
the following instructions are given, and will at once
be carried into execution: *
1. All volunteer organizations of white troops
whose term of service will expire prior to the Ist of
October next, will be sent to the following named ren
dezvous, without delay, viz :
To Charleston, ior the troops serving in the North
ern District.
, , T ° Httton S ead : for , the tr #°P ß *mtag in the Dis
trict of I ort Kov,'U and the District ot Florida, and
To Savannah, for the troops serving inQeorgi i. ,
ine iruj*»tcr-out roils of the organizations above des
ignated will at once be made out, based upon existing
regimental and company organizations, and in ac
coruaDco with the regulations promulgated from the
ftr Department in the foregoing General Orders,
Zto. 04.
When these muster out rolls are completed, the tact
will be promptly reported to these lleadquaiters.
-• All men iu the aforesaid organization , whose
terms of service will expire subsequently to the both
day of September next, will be transferred to other
organizations lroin the same State,—to veteran regi
ments when practicable and when not practicable, to
regiments having the longest time to serve.
J. All men serving In this Department whose terms
of service will expire prior to Oct. Ist, 13415, but
whose regiments remain In service after that period,
will at once be mustered out of service on rolls of de
tachments. by Companies. Thi3 will discharge ail
ti))on locsl fotnmwdfrp for oXtra clerk? atul If
stt&nt? ° r Uo#pUal
5 ■ The Rispector General of the Department will
direct his assistants throughout the Department to *ie
m person that the date for the rolls are prornntlv
“™ t n e j- v . furnished by regimeptal and company offF
ccis, and instruct them to confer with the Assistan
Commissaries of Musters, with the view of prommG
reporting correcting any delinquency in
epeu that may he found to exist. e
„**•, attention of Brigade and District Command
irnii>hPTvt rtf ls r y r CaHed to the re ß ui rements of para
grapii I\ . of the foregoing General Order No. 34
tarsi';
By command of
w I. M.
HEAUQ’RS DEP'T OF THE SOUTH )
Hilton Hea„. S. C„ June 7, lsfij
General Orders, I *
No. S4. /
I. Before aMiiitary Commission, which convened at
Summerville, S. C., in pursuance of Special OrriP«
93, Par HI dated Headquarter s NoXrn
Department ot the South, Ist Separate
Charleston, S. C May 3th, and which Sent’
N. Hauvhton, 25ih Ohio Volunteers, is President was
arraigned and tried: v> as
Private John Shaw, Cos. K. 65th Mass. VoU.
Charge:
“ Murder."
Srzoifixation : “In this ; that the said John Shaw
private in Cos. K, 55th Regiment of Alassachuseus
7 oluuteer Iniantry, without warning, without im
mediate provocation, and with malice aforethought
did strike Lewis Dickinson, a private in Cos K, noth
Regiment ot Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
upon the head with a club, causing his death "
Ihis m bivouac about four miles from Bacon’s
Budge, S C., on or about the 7th day of May, 1865
between the hours of seven and ten PM *
ed "No b t Gffilty"" 6 Bpeoiftcation accused piead
. . Finding :
The Commission, having maturely considered the
evidence adduced, find the accused, Private John Shawl
Cos K, sath Mass. V ols, as follows :
Os the Specification, “Guilty "
Os the Charge, “Guilty.”
Sentence :
And the Commission do therefore sentence him
V° K ’ 55111 M, iss. Vols. to be shot
to death with musketry, at such time and place as the
Commanding General may direct, two-thirds of the
• mu 01 tlle Co/nission concurring therein.
U. The proceedings, finding and sentence in the
foregoing case, having been disapproved by the Ofiicer
ordering the Commission, on account of irregularities
in the proceedings, subject to the approval of the Ma
jor General Commanding the Department, this disco -
proval is confirmed, and Private Shaw will be released
from arrest and restored to duty.
By Command of
Major-General Q. A. GILLMORE.
W. L>. M. Bckger,
offlci . > Assistant Adjutant General.
T. D. Hodges, Capt. 35th U. S. C. TANARUS„
j el3 V Act. Aset. Adit. Gen.
HEADQUARTERS L T . 9, FORCES,
„ „ Sava.nn.ui, Ga., June 9,1804
Gekerai. Order.)
No. 41. /
I. Paragraph 4, General Order No, 71. Headquarters
Department of the South, is hereby tmbii.-hed for the
uitoimatiou of this command.
“ 4 - While military restrictions upon trade are thus
removed, ntili District and Post C’om:*\ar.ders are re
minded that they are expected to keep such a military
control over ail merchants and traders as is necessary
tor the maintenance of good order and a proper Po
lice within their commands. To this end they are au
thorized to so regulate the sale of Intoxicating liquors,
ales and wines, as may seem to them requisite.”
*L All existing permits to sell liquors, ales and
wines, either at wholesale or retail, are nereby re
voked This revocation will take efi'eet on June 17th.
111. Licenses will be given to a limited unmber of
responsible parties authorizing the sale by them of li
quors, ales and wines, for which a license fee of One
Hundred Dollars will be charged.
Printed licenses will be furnished, which will be re
quired to be conspicuously exposed in the store win
dow.
Applications for licenses will be made in writing to
the Assistant Adjutant General at these Headquarters.
IV. The regulations prescribed in General Older
No. 57, current series, from these Headquarters, are
hereby changed to read as follows, and will be rigidly
enforced:
“I- Lipnors will not be sold or otherwise disposed
of in less quantities than by the quart, aud will not be
drank upon the premises of the seller.
“2. No liquor will be sold or otherwise disposed of
to enlisted men of the Array or Navy.
“ ;i - Proprietors will be held responsible foi the
conduct of their employes, and any person who shall
lie convicted of having knowingly violated any portion
of the foregoing regulations, in addition to suffering
the penalties adjudged in the Provost Court having
jurisdiction, shali be required to leave this District, not
to return.”
V. Capt. Edward G. Dike, Ass’t Adj't General is
hereby uppointed Post Treasurer, and ivill assume the
duties of that office in addition to those with which he
is already charged.
By command of
Brevet Brig. Gen. S. L. WOODFORD.
EtWARD G. Dike, A. A. G. juio
HEADQ’RS DISTRICT OF SAVANNAH,
Savannah, Gi., June C. 1805.
General Orders,)
No. 29- /
I, Pursuant to orders from Headquarters Department
of the South, I hereby assume command of the Dis
trict of Savannah.
If. The District Staff, as heretofore announced, will
remain unchanged, and existing orders and regula
tions contiuue in force until further orders.
... 11. W. BIRGE,
lU'-* Brevet Maj. Gen. U. S. Vols.
- HEADQ'RS. U. S. FORCES,
Savannah, Ga , June 7, 1955.
Grnerai. Orders,)
No. 4(1. j
The following named officers are announced on the
Staff of the Brevet Brig. Gen. Commanding the Post.
They will be obeyed and respected accordingly.
Capt. Charles H Cox, 75th N. Y. Vet. Vols., Post
Provost Marshal and Chief of Police.
Second Lieut. Jesse C. Chance, 103d U. S. C. TANARUS.,
Acting Aid de Camp.
By command or
Brevet Biig. Gen. WOODFORD.
JoS ? _
HEADQUARTERS POST OF SAVANNAH, i
Savannah, Gh., June C, 1805. f
General Orders!
No. 30. j
In obedience to orders from Department Headquar
ters, I hereby assume command of the.'Post of Savan
nah, which consists of the City and adjacent lands ly
ing withfn the new line of fortifications.
All existing orders and regulations for the govern
ment of the Post will remain in force until further
orders. *
Capt. Edward G.. Dike, Assistant Adjutant General,
U. S. Vols., is announced as Post Adjutant, and will
be obeyed and respected accordingly.
STEWART L. WOODFOKD,
‘ Bvt. Brig. Gen. U S^^Vols^
HEADQ’RS DISTRICT "OF SAVANNAH,
Savannah, Ga., June 0, 1 SC".
General Order,)
No. 30. f
I, The removal of all military restrictions upon
trade having rendered the services of a Military Super
visor of Trade unnecessary, Lieut. Col. Alfred Neafie,
lAUtb N. Y. Vols., is hereby relieved from duty in that
capacity.
11. The taxes levied within the limits of this Distiict
under the provisions of General Order No, 11. from
these Headquarters, will be collected as heretofore by
Lieut. Col. Neafie, and the amount accruing from
them turned over to the officer in charge of civil iuud
each month
By command of .
Brevet Maj; Gen. BIRGE.
Oliver Matthews, A. A G. JuT-T_
HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCES,
Uii.vip, Head, St. Helena, Dauppsuie
and Bells Island,
Hilton Head, S. C., Juneii, ISOS.
General Obdeis,)
No. 23. j
I. Ist Lieut. 8. C, Leavens, 32d U. a C. TANARUS, in addi
tion to his duties as A. Q. M., will have command of
St Helena Island, with Headquarters at St, Helena,
All U. S. troops arriving on said Island will report
toLient. Leavens and will be sahject to his orders,
By order of
Brevet Brig Gen. M. S. LITTLEFIELD.
Commanding Post
Charles Siver, Capt and A A A G. julO
