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. > A.DAIRJ. HENLY SMITH,
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA:
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28,1861.
FOR PRESIDENT,
JEFFERSON DAVIS,
OF MISSISSIPPI.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
ALEX. II- STEPHENS.
OF GEORGIA.
Electoral Ticket.
STATE AT LARGE:
DaVID IRWINof Cobb.
.HOS. E LLOYDof Chatham.
ALTERNATES:
J R ALEXANDER,of Thomas.
W a DAtsNEYof Gordon.
DISTRICT ELECTORS :
1 -J L HARRISof Glynn.
<2 ARTHUR HOODof Randolph.
3 —J. L WIMBERLY,of Stewart.
1 — McGrEHEEof Houston.
5 IP. GARVINof Richmond.
6. -M C. M HAMMOND,of Clarke.
7. O. C. GIBSON,of Spalding.
8. JOHN RAYof Coweta,
y. -H W. CANNON,of Rabun.
10.-H F. PRICEof Cass.
ALTERNATES 2
I - J. L. SINGLETONof Scriven.
2 8. DYSONof Thomas.
3.—J M MOBLEYof Harris.
4 —I E. DUPREEof Twiggs,
a—J 8 HOOKof Washington.
6 —ISHAM FANNINof Morgan.
7-J T. STEPHENSof Monroe.
8.
y.-J. H. BANKSof Hall.
10 —F. A. KIRBYof Chattooga.
FOR GOVERNOR,
• EUGENICS A. NISBET,
OF 8188.
HIE SENTIMENT OF A PATRIOT.
From Judge Nisbet’s Letter of Acceptance.
“IF I HAD BEEN CALLED OUT BY A CONVEN
TION, HAVING IN VIEW THE REVIVAL OF OLD,
OR THE ORGANIZATION OF NEW PARTIES, I
WOULD, WITHOUT HESITATION WITHHOLD MY
Na&lk. I COULD NOT LEND IT TO SUCH PUR
POSES. rORI'UNATELY, PARTIES IN OUR GREAT
STATE ARE EXTINCT, AND HE WHO, UNDER EX
ISTING CIRCUMSTANCES, WOULD SEEK TO DRAW
ANEW THE OBLITERATED LINES OF POPULAR
DIVISION, OR OPEN ISSUES CLOSED BY THE SE
CESSION OF THE STATE, OR AROUSE PREJUDI
CE-, AND ANIMOSITIES LAID TO REST BY THE
WAX, IS SCARCELY LESS A TRAITOR THAN THE
MAN WHO WOULD APPLY THE TORCH TO THE
-TATE CAPITOL, OR, DWELLING AMONG US,
Will! THE REPUTE OF A LOYAL CITIZEN, GIVE
AID AND COMFORT TO ENEMIES.”
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A Word to the I.adies.
Gid bless them ! Wo always love to write,
or talk, to and about the dear creatures.
(’he men love you all—this you know. They
have tmd you so a thousand times.
But theso are war times, and we must give
up romancing for a while. We desire a short
chat with you this morning—have
btc a few moments to spare from our constant
i.ioor—you have no idea how idea how hard
we work Then to the point. Don’t be exci
ted. we are not courting 1
We want you with,a ready hand and a willing
heart t<> he) p your husbands, fathers and broth
er-) pr >tect our sunny homes from an invading
foe. who are waging a cruel and relentless war
upon our sacred rights—seeking to deprive us
ot all that men hold dear—liberty of person,
rights of property, and peace at home.
We do not expect you to shoulder a gun.
Oh. no! not jet; but you can be very useful,
nevertheless You can work. You can card
ar.d pin : y>u can weave; you can cook ; you
can w vsh. tyour Sunday clotbec, at least); you
can iron ; you can “clean up” your house : you
can kmt. sow, quilt, and we could not, in a
month think of the thousand and one useful
things you can do, which you never dreamed
of when you were at boarding school.
But you say, “what s the use ?” You have
s rvHi.ts to do all your house work. Very
wel« ; but this is the idea : Send all the male
seivrtuts to the farm, to raise provisions, and
u >our house girls to the garden and field to
and you do all you can at home, while
uny make something out doors to satisfy the
c avings ot hunger. Your husband will love
ym more, and esteem you as a priceless jewel
tar above all rubies—and labor all the more
i • make himself worthy of such a treasure.
B »t you say your husband does love you,
ought to love you anyhow. Granted; but
i.simss your cureless, negligent servants;
, teh in and do your work yourself, and see
■ i v much more attractive homo will soon bo
t > your husband I The coffee will be better—
■i as unsettled as usual, the cakes will be
o. iwner. the wsflles more tender. It won’t
tikv half us manyeggs: the sugar will last
Im ger ; you won’t have so many chipped cups
u d saucers; you won’t have so many dishes
ami glasses broken : brandy peaches and pre
serve# will hold out longer ; pickles won’t dis
appear so last; and we don’t know what all
will be the better.
Make your children sweep the yard# and
g <lher your vegetables for dinner, it will im
prove their health and elevate their charac
t■: Encourage them ; speak kindly to them ;
m ver scold them, and keep them at their les
amis. <>r at work, a good, deal more than you
do. iLet them play some, of course—just
enough —not tao much.) It will make them
t.-,| proud that they can help you and do
s methiug useful ; and when grown up. they
will not bo the poor helpless creatures that the
, ct ins ot wicket! servants, careless parents,
nu.t mle bringiag-up. always are, when they
seave veu to take charge of a home of their
own.
Then, again ; by performing the duties we
have tod caled, yourself, you not only have
evervthivg nicer and more aatisfaefi ry and
a-r cable to veur»elf. your husband, and all
c cimed: but you will be better pleased
wi h >ewr#c</. Yctt will sleep better, be better
oo.Hen el. have’lee# use tor Spalding’s Glue
and Uephalte Pill*. You will enjoy better
health, bare a aweeter temper, feel more in-
SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY
dependent, be a better wife, a kinder mother,
and be more useful to yourvountry. You can
save money ; have more to give away to those
in need, and thereby cherish and cultivate
one of the most lovely and distinguishing
traits of Christian character—charity.
If you cannot at once enter fully tnto the
plan we have marked out, you can do this:
you can dispense with many articles of use
less extravagance in dress. The fact is fine
dressing is becoming hateful to all sensible
persons, and the extent to which it was car
ried by some, before the blockade, never was
genteel. If we can get salt and powder
enough, it will not matter if we are blockaded
till every old French hat and gaudy flower is
as dim as a faded dogwood blossom. You can
re-trim, the est of you, three or four east off
bonnets. You can cut up your last fall dresses>
and out of the si irts make the children nice
new dresses; and, rather than miss doing a
good thing, you can wear some of them your
self this fall and winter.
You can “take in” your hoops (to suit the
hard times—shorten sail in this storm,) and
save several yards in making a new dress for
yourself. There are a thousand little plans
which a thrifty house-wife can adopt to save
money, and look well too.
With these remarks we will close on the part
of the married women, for the presnnt. At
our earliest opportunity, (by your permission,)
we will have ahalf hour’s chat with theyoung
ladies.
Written expressly for the Southern Confederacy.
Soldiers’ Relief Society.
These organizations are springing up thick
ly around us; nearly every county in the
State has one, and some have half a dozen. So
far so good—we cannot do too much for our
our soldiers. But just where there are so ma
ny societies, there is, strange to say, great
danger that the least good will be done. This
arises from the fact that while they are in the
same county, formed for the same purpose,
and working, perhaps, for the very same com
panies, there is a lack of disposition on the
part of the members to have any correspond
ence with each other, or to establish a com
munication in common with some central Sa
ciety, through which unanimity of action,
and equality of distributions to each Company
might be secured.
A letter has just been handed to me, writ
ten by a friend in a distant part of the coun
try, who is resident in a large town where one
of theso Societies has been organized; and
she tells me that though it is at the county
site, nml is a most advantageous point for
transportation, it is difficult to obtain any co
operation from the smaller district associa
tions. There appears to exist among them a
species of jealousy—a fear lest they should
not get due credit for their contributions in
money and clothing, were they forwarded
through other hands than their own. More
counties than one are afflicted with false no
tions on this head, and a serious affliction it
will prove to be, unless they can be done away
with Is there not a different, a more correct
view ?
Suppose an association has been formed in
a central village, for the whole county: It
does not supersede the necessity for District
Societies, nor do its members arrogate to them
selves any superiority over such societies
Neither would they take one iota of the praise
which their efforts deserve. All they ask is
for full information as to their proceedings.
“Let us know,” they say, “ what you are
doing and for whom. Some of you are in por
tions of the country far from the railroad and
find it inconvenient to transmit your pack
ages. If you will send them to us, with the
names of the donors attached thereto, and the
names and location of the soldiers for whom
they are designed, we will carefully pack
them for you and forward them exactly ac
cording to your order. We do not want the
name of doing your work, but we want to pre
vent confusion that must arise if we work in
a scattered, unsystematic way. We will take
special pains to have it known that the dona
tion is yours, not ours.”
Correspondence and cooperation in some
such manner is absolutely necessary. Several
companies go from one county. Each society
works more or less for these, as choice and
fancy dictate. The consequence is, that in
one company there is a deficiency of clothing
that the society of which it is the favorite can
not supply ; in another a superfluity of gar
ments has been provided by a wealthier asso- i
cistion, while yet another is but poorly ac- I
centred, even by the utmost efforts of some |
little baud devoted to the service. Now, if j
this were reported at the headquarters of a ’
central association, and the distribution of I
clothing regulated accordingly, the extra ;
quantity might be so divided, and the individ
ual efforts of the association so applied as to
furnish every company with what is needful,
without waste of money or effort. Ami we
should remember that if this war c mtiuues
long, every cent uselessly expended may prove
a bitter loss— every misdirected effort will be
a cruel mockery of the wants of some perish
ing soldier.
My friend’s letter lias furnished me a text !
for the times. Is it possible that note, when |
everything depends upon united, energetic ;
action, some people are standing aloof from -
one another, in fear that, if they band togeth- i
er, some little scraps of credit may be detached j
from their good deeds as individuals! And, I
after all, some of them have only half fulfill
ed their real duty. For shame !
Our volunteers appeal to us for aid—“ Yes, |
yes, you shall have it, al! we can give: but
we will have no connection with this society,
j and that shall Dot know what we are doing, i
■ and we cannot promise you much." So, the <
i winter closes in, and these rambling donations i
1 are sent off. An ill-assorted variety, they are i
I worse divided—some soldiers are amply sup- '
I plied, others are almost destitute.
As one by one they yield to the effects of the 1
• piercing blasts, and the soil of Virginia is |
doited with tbe graves of those slain, not by
i the sword, not by pestilence, but by exposure
i alone, whose will the fault be?
Had this principle, established by some of >
out aid societies, prevailed in our political ad
i ministration, we should have to-day no com- !
t biued forces to oppose our foes, and no united
leader# to command them, were they banded. ( *
Davis would stand aloof from Stephens and I
the Cabinet: Beauregard and the rest of the I
Generals would be wrangling for the “credit”
of the victory of Manassas Plains, and ere the
last Autumn sunset could cast its shadows
over our landscape, Lincoln would be trium
phant, and the “ Southern Confederacy” live
only in dreams.
Cooperation is indispensable to harmony of
action ; harmony is the soul of collective en
ergy and efficiency.
Unanimity and success, discord and failure,
or, at best, but partial achievements. There
is our choice. ZIOLA.
That Daring Yankee Exploit at Pensu
cola.
We ha ve before us a most interesting letter
from Mr. A. J Neal, of this city—now at Peu
socola—addressed to his mother, Mrs. Mary J.
Neal, giving the only full, accurate and intel
ligent account of that daring adventure on the
part of the Yankees, that we have seen. W’e
extract the tollowing. Don’t fail to read it:
Camp Magruder, I
Near Peosacola, Sept. 14, 1861. j
I wrote you a few days ago informing you
that I had been detached from my Regiment,
and placed on the police schooner, whose crew
had deserted and gone over to the enemy. I
expected to have an easy situation and a mer
ry time.
For two days we remained and awaited sail
ing orders, which were momentarily expected,
during which time we were unemployed, ex
cept the duty of cruising out in the bay about
two hours every night. We could sleep, read,
fish, and amuse ourselves at pleasure. On
Friday night we received arders to hold eight
men in readiness to row the small boat out
with Lieut. Hunt, and ascertain if the enemy
were quiet. Besides the officer in command
of the schooner, all went to bed and slejtwith
as fancied security as if at home. Soon after
one o’clock the officer of the picket guard came
round and reported some dark body moving
with the ebb tide. The boats had been towing
lumber over from Pensacola, and we supposed
it was a log ; and so did not push on enquiries.
Two hours more elapsed, when Lieut. Hunt
called for his eight men. They were just en
tering the row boat, when we heard the quick,
stern challenge of the sentinel who was guard
ing the post next our schooner.
The Basin, where our vessel was lying, is
about 500 feet long, and 100 feet wide. Our
boat was tied up at one corner of the entrance
into this basin, ami the sentinel was exactly
opposite, at the other corner, on the land. I
was about going to sleep when I heard the
sentinel cry out: “Who goes there ? Enemy’s
boats. Get your guns quick. The luemy is
on us!”—and then his rifle fired. I was near
the hatchway, and instantly sprang to the
hold for the purpose of getting my gun. In
an instant I was on deck—the first man—and
saw the two foremost boats dart around tbe
corner. I took deliberate aim and fired into
the foremost one, with what effect I know not.
I loaded instantly and fired again over the
gunwales. About this time some three or four
more came to my relief, and we poured the
shot into them as fast as possible. Still on
ward came the boats and boarded our schoon
er. The officer in command sprang upon
deck and waved his sword, saving, “Rally on
deck, boys, rally here. Let’s give the scoun
drels h—ll.” He was not live steps from me.
I was ramming home my cartridge, which I
designed for him. Before I could return ram
mer, some eight or ten had climbed up the
sides of the vessel, and I could not then dis
cern friend from foe, at any distance. My
bayonet was lost, and my cutlass was in the
row boat astern of the schooner. The deser
ters had carried off the pistols belonging to
the boat, and my musket was my sole defense.
The enemy on deck were far stronger than
we. Seeing my friends fighting on the wharf,
I leaped on shore. As I did so, I saw one more
villain climbing up, 1 turned my piece and
fired at him. Lieut. McKnight was beside me,
and says lie saw the man fall back. I had
only one more cartridge, and hastily rammed
it down, but my caps were all gone. I tried
all round ami couldn’t get one from anybody.
Our ammuninition was exhausted, and we
were forced to retire. If we had had a few
moie rounds, we could have hidden around,
and made many of them repent their deed.
About the time I fired last, I beard the or
der given to fire the vessel. Some combusti
ble material was thrown on deck, and in a
moment it was a sheet of flames. Before the
alarm drums were beaten, and the regiments
i were in arms, the enemy's boats were back at
Santa Rosa Island, and the enemy cheering
’ over the success.
II was an unfortunate moment for us. Half
I of our men were out of the schooner, and three
| others could not find their guns. So little did
I any one expect this this attack, that we bad
only about ten cartridgeds a piece, and no
caps to fire them. We had no time to reach
tbe magazine, where there was plenty of am
munition.
We had two howitzers heavily loaded, which
would have blown them to perdition, could
we have brought them to bear on their boats,
but they were too near before they were diacov
) ered. Our men tried to depress them, and Ire I
; al the rascals, but could not.
We had not more than twelve men fighting, I
I while they had seven boats with, perhaps, 40 j
men in each. After we retired behind the of- |
lice of the wharf, they fired three swivels, !
1 loaded with grape, but all passed over our 1
\ heads, doing little damage.
It was very dark, and we could not see the
j amount of damage done by n° I believe they
suffered considerably. We Cred at them coolly
and deliberately. The Louisiana Regular#
say they were near, and could distinctly hear I
them groan and shriek when our boys would |
\ fire. We lost none. Three were very slightly j
wounded —two being struck by spent bails.
I lost my watch and purse which were un- I
j der my head, but forgotten in the excitement, j
‘ Nearly all ttie crew lost their watches and i
! money, and whatever they Lad aboard. We 1
J had orders that evening to sail, and bad hoist- i
•ed our sails for that purpose. If we bad gone
> out and anchored in the bay, those cf us left ■
alive would have been now prisoner# over at
\ Fort Pickens. Affectionately,
A. J. NEAL.
♦
Old Papers
j For sale at our Reading Room. Price fifty i
I cents per hundred. j
Our Special Correspondence from Colonel
Stovall’s Regiment.
LEFT ALONE WHERE THE OTHERS HAVE
GONE TO THE ROME ARTILLERY GONE
A QUESTION FOR GOv’NOR BROWN TO
SETLLE.
Lynchburg, Ya., Sept. 21, 1861.
Dear Confederacy : The few days of hot
weather we have had is now being relieved by
a misty rain, so sluggish in its movements that
it makes us all feel home sick ; for we can
hardly think or talk of home unless we imag
ine the many joyful associations that cluster
around it. Tile days and nights are dull, re
lieved only by the shrill voice of officers com
manding companies and squads, and Ibe con
tinned tramp, tramp, of the men striving to
learn all the advantage that drilling can give.
Tiien, again,
“Should some footstep haply stray,
Where caution marks the guarded way,”
the stillnes may be broken by the oft repeated
command, “Balt! Who goes there ?” “Friend
with the countersign.” A whisper too low for
eager ears to catch the purport, is given, and
“pass on, the countersign is correct,” is said
by the lonely watch as he courses his ceaseless
round.
We seem to have been entirely forgotten by
the War Department, for we are the only corps
left to guard Lynchburg, with its mountains,
valleys, dilapidated camp grounds, with old
kitchen utensils, a few stools, and animals of
the canine species feeding upon well picked
bones and the refuse of soldiers fare. The
Mississippi Regiment left us Wednesday for
Lewisburg in North-Western Virginia. Col.
Boyd has, ere this, reached Manassas, the fa
mous field of Southern glory. Col. McMillan’s
Regiment has gone to Goldsboro’, N. C., and
the Phillips Legion will leave this week.
Our Colonel has gone to Georgia, via Rich
mond, first to try and get us arms to turn the
battalion into a regiment; next, to try the
Gov’nor of Georgia to do us justice, and place
good armed companies at the disposal of our
commander. Here we have good fighting ma
terial, as good as there is in the service, and
we cannot do the country any good unless we
become reinforced by more companies.
The company called the Cherokee Artillery
of our Battalion, from Rome, Georgia, has
left us as an independent company, by order
of President Davis, or rather the Secretary r of
War, and carried with them the beautiful brass
6-pounders that the Governor gave the battal
ion, besides several stands of muskets which
the Government lias agreed to give them pis
tols for, thus depriving us of a good company
and taking the arms away that, we could give
to others. Here is a question for His Excel
lency Gov. Brown Io settle. Do these guns
belong to the Confederate Government or to
Georgia? Are they all receipted for by the
Captains from Georgia, or the Secretary of
War ? It is due to tbe Captain of this compa
ny to make known that he wishes this battal
ion io have the guns, but the Government
positively refuses to arm them without they
give up the muskets. Then, if this be so, why
accept them ? Did Gov. Brown ever anticipate
that his authority, as Governor, would be set
at nought, and his own people made to go
without arms to arm other States?—for those
muskets certainly cannot be given to Geor
gians again ; else why command the Captain
of the Cherokee Artillery to forward them
forthwith to Richmond ? There is great feeling
here in this matter. Col. Stovall is ordered
to turn this brttalion to an armed regiment.
How can this be done when the Government
takes the Georgia arms away from us ? We
appeal to the good sense of every Georgian if
this b# acting in good faith to our State. The
Captain gave his receipt to to the State of
Georgia for muskets, and instead of that same
arm being returned, she gets pistols. We ap
peal to our Governor to do us and his State
justice in this matter, for he gave us the arms
for the use of our corps and no other.
The health of our corps is much improved,
and disease rapidly disappearing. More anon.
T. D. W.
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The Naval Preparations of the lAucoln
Government.
Advices from the North represent thegreat
! est and, in fact, the most formidable activity
| in fitting out additions to the naval force of
I the Lincoln Government. The present block
ading force cosists of 46 vessels of all class'-
es, carrying 595 guns. This, however, is
scarcely one half of the naval force that in a
few weeks will be at the command of the Gov
ernment al Washington. New additions are
being actively fitted out. Tbe new fleet of
gunboats (carrying each over twenty guns, we
believe,) will be constructed and ready to go
into commission about the middle of next j
month. By that time the Lincoln Govern- :
ment will have doubled the number of its
vessels, and have a fleet on our coast of over ;
• 1,200 guns. Our obvious resource is to fight i
! fast on land if we do not wish a lingering and j
; predatory warfare to wear the spirit of our i
i people and to add wanton burdens to the spir I
! it of our endurance.
In connection with this subject, information .
i has been given here, from a reliable personal
; source of testimony in the North, that one of ■
' the most immediate objects of tbe naval ex
pedition off our coasts would be an attack on :
Brunswick, Ga , where a capacious harbour, j
comparatively undefended, and with 23 feet !
depth of water up to tbe shore, might afford [
the enemy extraordinary advantages of attack. I
■ This information is not without circumstances ;
iof probability. There are large Northern in
i interests in Brunswick and the neighborhood,
consisting of nearly the whole town property ;
i and of valuable timber lands, on which the
I Northern owners have large contracts; and
; the protection of these interests from the op- j
eration of the sequestration act is no ingon-
I siderable object with the Washington Govern
ment and the New York capitalists who con
trol it. The warning at least may be heeded.
: —Richmond Examiner, Sept.
Esc ape or Col. Thomas.—lt was understood *
last night that Col. Thomas, well known from j
his brilliant exploit in thecapture of the steam
er St. Nicholas, last June, had made his es
cape from Fort McHenry, and was on his way
to this city. The intelligence came to us at a
late hour last night ; but so far as we could j
j make enquiry, was fully authenticated.— !
j Richmond Examiner, Sept. 25.
IVc are authorized to announce
the name of HERBERT FIELDER
of Polk, as a candidate to represent tho Eighth
Districtof Georgiain the Confederate Congress.
Sept. 25-tde.
W e are authorized to announce
Dr. H. W. Brown as a candidate
to represent Fulton county in the House of the
Representatives in the next Legislature.
Sept 1 21.
WTS-ifr®? " ea, ’ e authoi ized to announce
8. B Robson as a candidate to
represent Fulton county in the House of Rep
resentatives in the next Legislature.
Sept 21.
We are authorized to announce
ANDREW J. HANSELL as
a candidate for Senator to represent the Coun
ties of Cobb, Fulton and Clayton in the next
General Assembly of the State.
■jwa^^g^We are authorized to announce
the. name of the Hon. Samuel
Lawrence as a candidate, to represent the 35th
Senatorial District, composed of the counties
of Cobb, Fulton and Clayton. Sep 19.
We are authorized to announce
the name of Hon. JOHN A.
JONES of Polk, as a candidate to represent
the Bth Congressional District in the next Con
federate Congress. His record is before tbe
country, and by that he is willing to be judged.
Sept. 18—tde
To l ’ ie oters the 39th Sen
atorial District, consisting of the
counties of Cherokee, Milton and Forsyth:
Being an old resident of the latter county and
a citizen of said District, I take this method of
announcing myself a candidate for the Senate
of said District at the ensuing election.
Sept 14-tde. JOHN T. EZZARD.
" e are authorized to announce
the name of Colonel L. J. GAR
TRELL as a candidate to represent this (the
Eighth) District in the Confederate Congress.
Septl3 tde.
To the Voters of Fulton Coun
ty : Seeing there is yet a vacancy
for Representative from your county in the
next Legislature, I have '•oncluded to place
my name bes >re yon as a candidate to fill that
vacancy. COLUMBUS A. PITTS.
Atlanta, Sept. 12-tde.
To the Voters of Fulton
County : I announce myself a
candidate for your suffrages, to represent Ful
ton county in the House of Representatives of
the next Legislature. J. J. THRASHER.
Atlanta, Sept. 11— tde.
l ' o Voters of Cobb, Fulton
and Clayton Counties: As the time
for the election of members to the State Leg
islature approaches, and there seems to be no
one enough interested iu the subject to bring
it positively before the public—nearly all eyes
being attracted towards the battlefield —and
being physically unable to enter upon the ac
tive duties of the soldier, and being further
unwilling to allow the great events of the pres
ent struggle to pass by without taking some
humble part therein, I have concluded that
the demands of patriotism would, in some de
gree, be subserved by volunteering my services
for the humble duties of civil life, and, there
fore, place my’ name before you as a candidate
for Senator of the District composed of the
counties of Cobb, Fulton and Clayton.
Aug. 29-tde. GREEN B. HAYGOOD.
By the Postmaster General of the Con
federate States of Amer’ca.
A PROCLAMATION.
By the provisions of the 3d
VV Section of an Act ot Congress, approved
August 30tb, 1861, entitled “ An Act to collect
for distribution, the moneys remaining in the
several Post Offices of the Confederate States
at the time the postal service was taken in
charge by said Government, it is “ made the
duty of the Postmaster General to make pro
clamation that all persons who are citizens of
the Confederate States of America, and who
may have rendered postal service in any of
the States of this Confederacy, under contracts
or appointments made by the United States
Government before the Confederate States
Government took charge of such service, shall
present their claims to his department, veri
fied and established according to such rules as
he shall prescribe, by a time therein to be set
forth not less than six months, and requiring
the claimant to state, under oath, how much
has been paid and the date of such payments,
on account of the contract or appointment un
der which said claim occurred, and what fund
or provision has been set apart or made for
the further payment of the whole or any por
tion of the balance of such claim, by the Gov
ernment of the United States, or of any of the
States; and they shall also state, on oath,
whether they performed fully the service ac
cording to their contracts or appointments du
i ring the time for which they claim pay, and
I if not, what partial service they did perform
and what deduction# have been made from
I their pay. #o far a# they know, on account of
| any failure, nr partial failure, to perforin such
! service.”
Now, therefore, I, JOHN H. REAGAN, Post-
I master General of the Confederate States of
America, do issue this, my proclamation, re
quiring all persons having claims for postal
service, under tbe foregoing provisions of the
3d section of the above named act, to present
said claims to tbe Auditor of the Treasury for
the Poet Office Department for examination,
■ on or before the 13th day of March, 1862, in
; order that I may make a report to Congress of
j the amount there"!, as required by law.
Blank form# for presenting and verifying the
claitas will be furnished on application to the
, Auditor of the Treasury, fur the Post Office
[ Department.
And I hereby require all persons who have
heretofore collected moneys as Postmasters in
the States now cornfroring the Confederate
States, and which they had not paid over at
the time the Confederate States took charge of
the postal service, to make out, under oath,
and send to the Auditor of the Treasury for
the Post Office Department, on or before the
13th day of October next, a general or ledger
account with the United States, for the service
of the Post Office Department, up to tbe time
the control cf the postal service was assumed
by the Confederate States, in accordance with
I the general regulations of the Post Office De
partment, issued .May 15th, 1859, page 106,
exhibiting the balances in tbe possession of
! such postmasters.
Given under my hand and seal of the Post
office Department of the Confederate States
of America at Richmond Ya., the 18th day
I of September, in the year 1861.
JOHN H. REAGAN,
| Sep 22-1 w4w Postmaster General.
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