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southern (fcnfrdctiicn . > 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.” —— - • • -- -■ 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. - —— ■— —» 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. A r o lc J; ; HlkJ BY ADAIR & SMITH. 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The cheapest way to get the news is to subscribe for the Confeder acy. t3F’ Postmasters are authorized to act as our Agents in obtaining subscribers and forwarding the money—for which they will be allowed to retain, as commission, twenty-five cents on each Weekly, or fifty cents on each Daily subscriber. Persons getting up Clubs of five, ten or more subscribers, will be supplied with the copies ordered at 12% per cent, less than our regular rates. JST" No name will be entered on our books until the money is paid ; and all subscriptions are discontinued when the time expires sot which payment is made, unless the same be renewed. Address, ADAIR & SMITH, June, 186 L Atlanta, Georgia