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Southern
GEO. W. ADAIRJ. HENLY SMITH,
editors and proprietors.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA:
WEDNESDAY, OCT’ 2, 1861.
FOR PRESIDENT,
JEFFERSON DAVIS,
OF MISSISSIPPI.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT,
ALEX. 11. STEPHENS,
OF GEORGIA.
Electoral Ticket.
STATE AT LARGE:
DaVID IRWIN,of Cobb.
VHOS. E. LLOYDof Chatham.
ALTERNATES 2
J. R ALEXANDER,of Thomas.
W. IL DABNEY,of Gordon.
DISTRICT ELECTORS 2
I.—J. L. HARRIS,of Glynn.
2 —ARTHUR HOODof Randolph.
3.—J. L. WIMBERLY,of Stewart.
4—ED. McGEHEE,of Houston.
5. I. P. GARVIN,of Richmond.
6. M. C. M. HAMMOND,of Clarke.
7. 0. C. GIBSON,of Spalding.
8. JOHN RAYof Coweta.
9. H. W. CANNON,....:of Rabun.
10.—II. F. PRICEof Cass.
ALTERNATES 2
1. J. L. SINGLETONof Scriven.
2. S. DYSONof Thomas.
3. J. M. MOBLEYof Harris.
4—l. E. DUPREEof Twiggs.
5. J. S. HOOKof Washington.
6. ISHAM FANNINof Morgan.
7. J. T. STEPHENSof Monroe.
8.
9. J. H. BANKSof Hall.
10. F. A. KIRBYof Chattooga.
FOR GOVERNOR,
ELGE *I IS A. NISBET,
OF 8188.
THE 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
NAME. I COULD NOT LEND IT TO SUCH PUR
POSES. fortunately, 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
CES AND ANIMOSITIES LAID TO REST BY THE
WAR, IS SCARCELY LESS A TRAITOR THAN THE
MAN WHO WOULD APPLY THE TORCH TO THE
STATE CAPITOL, OR, DWELLING AMONG US,
WITH THE REPUTE OF A LOYAL CITIZEN, GIVE
AID AND COMFORT TO ENEMIES.”
_ .. • • • -
Alexander 11. Stephens.
We ask special attention to the cornmnica
tion of •‘Sigma,” in our paper this morning.—
The writer is a most intelligent gentleman, of
high character, who seldom occupied the same
position with Mr. Stephens on political ques
tions. His tribute is just, and the more to be
estimated, coming from the source it does—
from a man whom we know to be a patriot,
and prompted by no sort of selfish motives.—
It is a voluntary defence of Mr. Stephens
against the villainous attacks made on him
by selfish and unpatriotic men, who have nei
ther the fear of God nor the good of their coun
try before their eyes. We have known “Sig
ma "for years. He is honest, a man of wis
dom, ami every way a gentleman and patriot;
and, seeing the danger to our country, from
making war on Mr. Stephens, for the causes a/-
/eyed—instigated by such motives— he has no
bly stepped forth to avert the danger, as far as
may be in his power.
His disclosure of the name of the author of
those mischievous editorials" in the “ Examin
er ’* is most important, showing, to some ex
tent. the animuq of this attack on one of the
ablest, purest and best men that any country
ever produced. The name of “ Quinton Wash
ington,” in the Federal city, for years past,
was synonimous with one of the chief lobyites
with which that corrupt place was infested.—
No doubt Mr. Stephens has often been in his
way, as all such vultures invariably found
him.
There is another explanation of the “ Ex
aminer's" war on Mr. Stephens, which we
have seen. It is, that Geu. John B. Floyd
wants the place, and is instigating this war on
Stephens, for the purpose of getting it. Wo
know not how true this is, but we will state
this fact, which may shed seme light on the
question: The “Examiner” is the property of
John M. Daniel, who is an Aid in Gen. Floyd's
Staff We give this statement for what it is i
wortn —not knowing whether Floyd is iusli- j
gating Dauiel, who has hired Washington to
make the fight on Stophens, or not. V> e don't
know that Floyd wants to be Vice-President.
Wo only see such a statement in the papers.
We think it is due the people to know who j
it is t hat make this war, and how they are situ- j
• led—so they may be the better able to judge
of their motives.
. . -
Them Guns.
For several days past the friends of Gov. .
Brown have circulated a report that two ves
sels laden with arms and munitions of war, |
for the State of Georgia, had arrived in Satan- ■
nab. In some places, for a week or more, it
has been circulated that one vessel full of guns
for the State, purchased by Gov. Brown, bad >
landed in Savannah; and since Sunday last, |
is is reported around that two vessels laden
w;th guns bought by him in England had land
ed in Charleston. This report about the Gov
ernor getting guns from England through the
blockade has assumed whatever shape was
m is'- convenient and thought to Ye the most
profitable, according to circumstances.
Tacro is not one word of truth in it—we
are sorry to ssy. We do sincerely wish it were
true, for we need guns. It has been the duty
of Gov. Brown to get guns from abroad if pos
sible We know not whether he has made the
effort to do so- If he has not, he has failed
to do his duty. We. however, suppose be has
S O U-T H E R N C O N F E I ) E R A C Y
made the attempt. We will net intimate that
he has been so remiss as not to have made the
attempt. If he has had any chance to get
guns into our ports which he has not improv
ed, he has failed to perform what every citi- j
zen of Georgia has a right to expect of him.
•We don’t, however, have any idea such char
ges as these can lie against Gov. Brown. We
do not know anything about it however: we i
take it for granted that he has done what he !
could.
But if be had procured ever so many guns
—ever so many ship loads, it would be no rea
son why he should be re-elected. It would
have been only fulfilling his duty. If this were
his first term, and he had accomplished all
that hi 3 friends claim for him—getting ship
loads of guns included, it would be a good
reason why he should be elected a second time,
but not a third. His time is now up, and he
should retire.
But he has procured no guns—we regret to
say it, and heartily wish we could say with
truth that he had ; and we are still more sor
ry that be lias friends so base and infamous
as to try to make electioneering capital for
him by circulating so base and mischievous an
untruth ; but so it is.
It is not true. We have before us a private
dispatch from a source in Savannah that is
altogether reliable, saying that no such vessel
or vessels, or guns had arrived. We should
sincerely rejoice if it were so, but it is not;
and we are opposed to Gov’nor Brown getting
credit for that which he has not accomplished.
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Our Special Army Correspondence.
THE TIRESOME MONOTONY OF A DAILY ROU
TINE ANYTHING FOR CHANGE GOING
to mason’s and munson’s hills —the
enemy’s WORKS INTERCOURSE WITH
THE ENEMY STOPPED LOWE’S BALLOON
INCOMPETENCY OF THE COMMISSARIAT
AND DEPARTMENTS.
Army of the Potomac, /
Near Fairfax, Sept. 25, 1861. j
The campaign still “drags its slow length
along.” In the morning we rise at the tap of
the drum. Next follows breakfast, for which
we have appetites sharpened by refreshing
sleep and the cool morning air. Then comes
the usual drill and yesterday’s papers, which
are read with avidity and then passed from
one to another. After this comes dinner ; then
guard mounting and dress parade; then sup
per ; then short social visits-; then tattoo and
roll call, and then to bed. Such is our daily
round of life.
“Only this, and nothing more.”
The.monotony is varied occasionally by the
receipt of a ba’ch of papers and letters from
“ home, sweet home or by startling camp
rumors that Alexandria has been burnt, or
McClellan shot ; or that the long-looked for
order hus been issued to uuleash our columns
and let them on to Washington. These rumors
do no harm. They occupy the mind for the
time, aud land to direct the thoughts of the
soldier from the dull, leaden routine of camp
life, so dispiriting and benumbing in its ef
fects upon the eager and enthusiastic volun
teer. What a about will rend the skies when
the order is given—“forward, march!” The
sick will arise with renewed health and buckle
on their knapsacks. The lame and the halt
will take up their beds and walk. The great
military virtue, Patience, will then give place
to Activity. The heart will swell, the eye
grow bright and the step more elastic, and life
and vigor and confidence will be diffused
throughout our now moody lines.
Does not an involuntary “God bless the
boys,” rise to your lips, when you remember
how much they have endured in sickness, in
labour, in j rivations; in marching and coun
ter-marching, in standing still in front of the
enemy, and then with what frantic eagerness
they long to go sot ward ! Everything else will
be forgotten in he wild delirium of joy witb
which the line of march will b taken up. The
follies and petty annoyances of the martinets
set above them, the incompetence and short
comings of the Commissariat and Quarter-
Master’s Departments, the stupidit and crim
inal ignorance of the Medical beaurau—all
will be forgiven and forgotten. Lovely and
heroic Maryland now writhes aud screams in
the arms of a brutal ravisher, and they only
ask permission to clear the Potomac at a bound
and set her free from a despot’s embrace.
One who has not been in camp cannot ap
predate the effect which an inactive, hesita
ting policy produces upon the volunteer. His
nature is active and aggressive. Any change,
any duty, however laborious, is gladly wel
; corned, so it but vary the dull monotony of
' the camp. The First Regiment of Georgia
Regulars was ordered to Munson's Hill last
week on five days’ picket duty, and tho’ they
i were permitted to carry only their blankets
I and rations, and had a march of fifteen miles
i before them, they sent up cheer after cbeer as
| they fell into line. The Second Regiment of
I Georgia Volunteers, who followed a few days
• after, and other regiments ordered upon the
: same duty, made similar demonstrations.—
i Anything for a change.
Many interesting incidents are related by
those who hare returned from Mason's and
Munson's Hills. The enemy, they say, has
displayed great'industry in throwing up de- j
! fensive works. These works cover a line of ’
i several miles along the Potomac in front of
Alexandria and Washington. To reach the
river in either direction, our troops must turn
the works on the right or left, or carry them
by storm. As far as the eye can reach, every
bill and strategic point seems to be covered ■
by batteries or works of some kind. Look
where one may, the enemy appears to be as
busy as beavers, throwing up breastworks,
digging entrenchments, felling the forests,
and hoisting guns into position. Gen. Me- I
< lel l.in feat made good use of the precious
titne which Johnston and Beauregard have
given him.
The picket lines are separated by a space of I
only three or four hundred yards. Standing
on Munson’s Hill, the opposing pickets may I
be seen for a mile or more, patiently walking
their beaten rounds and watching each other.
There is growing disposition on both sides
; to discontinue the practice of firing upon one
another, and it is only when a new regiment
is assigned to duty, that there is a departure
from the rule. The Yankees are inclined to
■ be very courteous and sociable. They are
i ready at all times to respond to a white flag
and meet our men half way. Sometimes the
officers advance under a flag of truce (gene
rally a white handkerchief,) and spend an
hour together, discussing the news or the pros
pects of the respective armies. They exchange
tobacco or cigars during these interviews, and
now and then you may hear the clinking of
tin cups when there is anything to dtiak.—
The parlies separate with many expressions
of distinguished personal consideration ; aud
in some instances the Yankees have invited
our officers to go over and take a game of
whist or a glass of wine with them—a polite
ness, however, which they have declined thus
far. It is said that orders have been ’’ssued
within the last f. w days, to stop this inter
course, lest some leaky picket might let drop
something that would be cf service so the en
emy.
Every morning when the weather is favor
able, Prof. Lowe may be seen to ascend in his
balloon from Arlington Heights. It isreported,
but with what truth 1 cannot say, that the
Professor is sometimes accompanied by Fed
eral officers, who go up to make reconnoisan
ces of our forces and positions. The balloon
ascends some seven or eight hundred feet,(and
remains up about forty minutes. Occasionally
it descends, and ihen ascends again, after
communicating the result of the aeronauts
first observations to those below. It is believ
ed that the ent my is fully infermed in regard
to our advance positions.
Our brigade has been without sugar for some
days, owing to stupid mismanagement in the
Commissariat Department. We procured a
small supply for our mess at Fairfax, at 25c
per pound, but not until we bad fully tested
the virtues o£ coffee without cream or sugar.
There is an abundant supply of sugar and
rice in the Southern States, an 1 wiJ|bXhe least
possible system ami energy on the part of the
Commissary General, theeoldier need never be
wii bout either. A similar inefficiency and lack
of judgment characterize the Quartermaster’s
Department. A simple advertisement in half
a dozen papers in North Carolina, Tennessee
and Georgia would have secured wagons
enough by this time for the transportion of
300,000 men. Every railway and wagon in
the Confederacy is at the disposal of the War
Office. Why, then, is (be army still without
adequate means of transportation. A.
Our Special Correspondence troio the
Peninsula.
CAMP CHANGED READY FOR A BRUSH
NAVAL PREPARATIONS AT THE FORTRESS
butler’s ACHIEVEMENTS AND BOASTS,
AC.
Camp De Soto, )
2d Regiment Lousiana Volunteers, >
September 21, 1861. J
AZessrs. Editors: My last correspondence
was addressed to you from Camp Magruder, on
James River. On the 3d instant, we were
moved to this camp, about one mile below
Cockletown, a place comprised of one dry
goods store and grocery in one building, and
about seven miles below Y rktown, on the
Bethel road. This change of place was, no
doubt, for the purpose of concentrating our
forces nearer Yorktown, the military nucleus
of the Peninsula. Our forces are scattered yet,
but can be concentrated on the shortest notice.
We are exerting all of our energies, preparing
to give General Wool a hospitable reception,
whenever he shall choose to visit us with his
convoy from Fortress Monroe.
If "coming events cast their shadows be
fore,” we shall realize all the "pomp and cir
cumstance of glorious war” here, before the
close of the fall season. We are prepared and
impatient to engage Abe’s myrmidons, and
scatter, with our seried ranks, the “ mercena
ry hirelings "of fanaticism.
Na val preparations are again being made at
Fortress Monroe for an attack upon some point.
Gen. Magruder is watching them as with the
eyes of Argus, and will detect in time any at
tempt of the enemy to march, in concert, by
sea and land, upon Yorktqwn. Their Naval
success at Forts Clark and Hatteras hits re
vived, to some extent, the drooping spirits of
the Yankee Army, and the vain glorious But
ler shouts lustily over his achievements from
the dizzy heights he thinks he stands upon
"But one more stroke like this," says he, "and
we have crushed out rebellion.” He greatly
mistakes the “stern stuff” which composes
the Confederate Army, if lie thinks that a doz
en such naval successes can dim our hopes,
and cloud our visions of the future for a mo
ment. This success of the enemy, I think,
will proves blessing, instead of a calamity to
the South* It will arouse the hitherto sleep
ing energies of our people, aud cause them to
fortify more formidably our extended coast,
and prepare to repel, instantly, any hostile
force who would essay to pollute cur soil with
their unholy feet.
We admire the fearless spirit exhibited by
Paris at the siege of Troy, because it is such a
beautiful example of amor p .trine. When the
I Grecian hero Lad strewn the field with the
j slain, and vanquished his foe, young Paris,
standing afar, spied his scattered countrymen
flying, pursued by victorious Greeks, he could
no longer remain passive, but, spurring his
restless steed, and drawing his lance, be rush
ed in to their rescue, exclaiming, as be swept >
I onward :
I
“ More noble they who by a hero bleed,
‘ In glorious combat in his country’s need.
Than they who living, from the fight remains, I
The boasting victors of a train.”
Would that every Southern heart was burn- i
i ing with similar patriotism. Then the fires of ■
fanaticism might rage in all their livid mad- (
ness : yet, the vestal flames of Liberty would j
I continue to blaze upon our altars, *o long as ■
< the Confederate States had a soldier, or Liber
i ty an admirer. J. LEE C .
Foz the Southern Confederacy.
TWar on Mr. Stephens.
Richmond, Va., Sept. 28, 1861.
Editors of the Southern Confederacy : 1 am
glad to see at the head of your columns the
names of Jeff Davis and Aleck. Stephens for
the Presidency and Vice Presidency. They
are names that every true Southern man can ;
support earnestly and consistently. As to I
Jeff. Davis, I believe no one raises a voice
against his election as the first President of
the Confederate States under the Permanent
Constitution. As President of the Provision
al Government, he has not disappointed the
hopes of any, unless it be that carping few
who would not be satisfied “ were one risen
from the dead.” or were an angel from Hea
ven dispatchel upon the especial mission of
exercising the office of President for us du
ring our strife with the North. Happily, con
cerning our President, we are all of one mind.
There is no opposition to his reelection this
Fall, and he merits the distinction his coun
trymen have so unanimously accorded to him.
With regard to Aleck Stephens, I am sorry
to see that some people are opposing his re
election to the Vice Presidency. There is no
rational ground for the opposition. It is a
mere trick of some other aspirant. The de
sire to displace him comes from some filthy
place-hunter who, well-shielded himself, ur
ges others to do the dirty work. It is a little
remarkable, too, that this corrupt practice of
the old Washington regime should be presorted
to in the columns of the very paper which
has been crying out so lustily against the em
ployment by our Government of the refugee
clerks who had the misfortune to hold office
under the old government! The " Examiner’
of this city was the first to raise the cry against
Stephens, and, unfortunately for its purposes,
it raised an objection to him which every man
who lived in Washington cotemporaneously
with Stephens, knows to be untrue. No par
tisan or bitter enemy ever made the charge
before, and even the “ Examiner” will not re
peat it again, if its editor has any regard for
truth. The charge was, that Stephens, while
in Washington, was in collusion with lobny
ists, and that he gave his influence, from mer
cenary motives, to all the corrupt schemes of
the Washington lobby to plunder the Treas
ury ! That lie ought to have blistered the
tongue that uttered it! It should have pal
sied the hand that wrote it! It is simply in
famous. It exceeds the mendacity of James
Gordon Bennett in his palmiest days! Prob
ably the most astonishing thing about the
matter is, that the article in question, making
so groundless and base a charge against Mr.
Stephens, was written by a man who was him
self one ot the indefatigable members of that
army of lobby-agents who infested Washing
ton during tho halcyon days of spoilsmen and
lobby j >bbers. When I tell you that the wri
ter aforesaid is L. Q. Washington, I need say
no more!
There are others, however, who have raised
objections to Mr. Stephens. They say he was
a Douglass man in 1860, and a Union man up
to the signing of the secession ordinance in the
Georgia Convention. Such objections are rais
ed only by shallow croakers, who have not
yet sloughed off their partisan skins. The ob
jections are not only foolish but knavish.—
Who, that knows Aleck Stephens, has any
doubt of his partriotism and of his entire
identity with, and cordial approbation of our
of Southern Republic ? Who does not know
that his heart and soul are enlisted in our glo
rious struggle for Independence, and that his
eloquent voice brought over to our cause the
early acquiescense and support of thousands
of the Union men of Georgia and other South
ern States ? No one is so ignorant who has ta
ken any pains to inform himself. His past
position was well known to the members of
the Georgia Convention—yet they thought him
a fit representative cf Georgia in the Provi
sional Congress, He was well known to the
members of that Congress—many of them the
brightest and best men in the land—yet they,
with wonderful unanimity, selected him as
the Vice President of tho Confederate States !
The selection was a merited compliment to the
moral worth and statesmanship of Mr, Steph
ens, but it had a still higher significance. It
signified, as plainly as anything could, that
our public men had risen above mere party
influences; that they ignored old party divis
ions; and that they wished the citizens of our
new-born Republic to stand forth before the
world as one people ! The course pursued had
the desired result; and, as if wrought upon by
the Divine rescript and benediction, we emer
ged from the rottenness of the old Union, lifting
up our heads in the strength and vigor of a
full grown nationality, and presenting the as
tonished world a miracle of unanimity and
magnanimty—a confederation of free people
having, indeed, one baptism and one faith !
The question is now, shall we continue in
the course so auspiciously begun ? Shall we
continue to ignore, at least till the war isover,
all were party distinctions, and observe and
cultivate a more dignified and exalted line of
policy—a jiolicy which will insure confidence
among ourselves and cement us more closely
together as friends and brothers of a common
country, engaged in a common struggle for in
dependece ? Or shall we basely and ignobly
fall to squabbling among ourselves over the
spoils of office—following the corrupt and de
grading example of our enemies, who, like ;
buzzards, are feeding and fattening* upon the '
carcass of their government ? These questions !
are to be considered by our- people, aud I trust i
that their virtue and good sense will triumph
in establishing good-fellowship, fraternal sym
pathy, and unity of sentiment throughout our
favored land, and that partisan demagogues,
hollow tricksters, and low self-aggrandizing
scullions may be put under the ban forever!
Your correspondent, let me say, was an
original secessionist—a red-mouthed fire-ea- j
ter from and after the day of Lincoln’s election ;
as President of the abolition North—and for ■
i this reason feels that he has a right to speak .
i with freedom on the subjects diseussed in the •
: foregoing pages. Though a dlsunionist under i
| the old government, he is an ardent unionist I
j under the new, and believes in a fail realiza
-1 tion of & free independent and united Republ
| lie of States. Truly yours, Ac.,
SIGMA.
; Prince DeJoinville has arrived at Washing-
! ton.
| Gen. McClellan ferbids picket firing.
MSwwrfgV " e are authorized to announce
the HERBERT FIELDER
of Polk, aS a candidate to represent the Eighth
District of Georgia in the Confederate Congress.
Sept. 25-tde.
VV e are authorized to announce
Dr. 11, W. Brown as a candidate
to represent Fulton county in the House of the
Representatives in (be next Legislature.
Sept - 21.
" e arc authorized to announce
S. B Robson ;is a candidate to
represent Fultitn county iu the House of Rep
resentstives in the next Legislature.
Sept 21.
Weave authorized to announce
ANDREW J. HANSELL as
a candidate for Senator to represent the Coun
ties ol Cobb, Fulton and Clayton in the next
General Assembly of the State.
MffiWgSgfcfrfrVVc are authorized to announce
the name of the Hon. Samuel
Lawrence as a cand’date to represent the 35th
Senatorial District, composed of the counties
of Cobb, Fulton and Clayton. Sep 19.
ii iflff are a uthorized to announce
the name of Hon. JOHN A.
JONES of Polk, as a candidate to represent
the Sth Congressional District in the next Con
federate Congress. His record is before the
country, and by that he is willing to be judged.
Sept. 18—tde
To Voters of the 39tU 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.
We 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 concluded to place
my name before y, u as a candidate to fill that
vacancy. COLUMBUS A. PITTS.
Atlanta, Sept. 12-tde.
6 ,c Voters of Fulton
County : I announce nayself 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.
I *’ t’ le ' o<crs Cobb, Fulton
and Clayton Ceuntifct: 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
unwiiling to allow the great events of tho 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 America.
A PROCLAMATION.
■VYTIIEREAS, By the provisions of the 3d
W Section of an Actol 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 tho 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, aud 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 tho 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 dllth,
whether they performed fully the service ac
cording to their contracts or appointments du
ring the time for which they claim pay, and
if not, what partial service they did perform
and what deductions have been made from
their pay. so far as they know, on account of
any failure, or partial failure, to perform such
service.”
Now, therefore, I, JOHN 11. REAGAN, Post
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
i 3d section of the above named act, to present
I said claims to the Auditor of the Treasury for
i the Post Office Department for examination,
I on or before tbe 13th day of March, 1862, in
order that I may make a report to Congress of
the amount there- f, as r- quired by law.
Blank forms for presenting and verifying tbe
claims will be furr i.-.hed ou application to the
Auditor of the Tre isury, for the Post Office
Department.
And I hereby require ail persons who have
heretofore collected m- neys as Postmasters in
the States now composing the Confederate
States, and which they bad not paid over at
the time the Confederate ttates took •barge of
tbe postal service, to make out, under oath,
aud send to the Auditor of the Treasury for
the Post Office Department, on or before tbe
I3t'n day of October next, a general or ledger
account with the United States, for the service
of the Post Office Department, up t# the time
the control of the postal service was assumed
by the Confederate States, in accordance with
tbe general regulations of the Post Office De
partment, issued May 15th, 1859, page 106,
exhibiting the balances in the possession of
such postmasters.
Given under my hand and seal of the Post
office Department of the Confederate States
of America at Richmond Va., the 18th day
of September, in the year 1861,
JOHN H. REAGAN,
Sep 22-1 wlw Postmaster General.
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means shall be used to the best advantage. We
hope those who have subscribed for our Dally
for a short time, will renew their subscriptions
and
Go it for the Whole Year.
It will benefit us more, and save considerable
trouble in erasing and re-writlng names on our
mail book.
We have every possible facility for obtaining
correct news. This, however, costs us heavily,
and we hope every one who is so anxious to get
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and paying for our paper.
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V U S all tJ le
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papers in America, and will be filled with the
choicest reading matter —made up from the
cream of our Daily issue. In future it will be
mailed punctually every Wednesday morning
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State Road trains. Bend in your orders.
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get the news is to subscribe for the Confeder
cy.
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.
JdRT* 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.
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until the money is paid ; and all subscriptions
are discontinued when the time expires foi
which payment is made, unless the same be
renewed.
Address, ADAIR & SMITH,
June, 1861. Atlanta, Geprgia
