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V0U1SE XI/V
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1864.
NUMBER 1.
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' S> Zi M E & SON,
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JTpHKN F. MIL).EH.
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\Ve are authorized to announce
’L, N. CALLAWAY a candidate
for Tax Collector of Baldwin conn
V. .it tlm election on first Wednesday in January
ue
cti,i wr.
40 * a
JOHN J. KEEN respectfully an
nounces himself to the people of
Laurens county as a candidate for
the office of Sheriff at the election on the first
Wednesday in Januarynext. ”
Peceifibafcl. 1803 48 ot
'll E ARE authorized to announce SAMUEL
11. HUGHES as a candidate for Tax Re-
,-riv.-r e) Baldwin county, at the ensuing January
election.
December 8, 1863 49 tde
\\ ’E ARE authorized to announce the name
\V of JOHN R RESPESS as a candidate
iA Tax Collector of Baldwin county, at the ensu
ing election in January next.
November 3. 1863 44 tde
] ARE authorized to announce the name
\t of SAMUEL B. COLLINS as a candidate
t. l ax Receiver of Baldwin county, at the elec-
I: a i.i da unary next. Having served in the army
- d.led by a wound, (Jisquuh/ylng him for
ims to the citi-
A A
December 8,
49 tde
11/E ARE authorized to announce TOBIAS
TV A. CARAKER as a candidate for Tax
Collector of Baldwin county, at the ensuiug Jan-
uarv election.*
December 8, lb63 49 tde
Y UM. G. ROBINSON is a candidate for Re-
t » -Ivor of the Tax Returns of Baldwin coun
ty at ti> next ci- ction, and respectfully solicits
li:-- supp-rt of the voters of the county generally,
December 8, 1663 49 tde
U J E ARE authorized to announce the name
of JAMES C. S1IEA as a candidate for
Tax Receiver of Baldwin county, at- the election
in January next.
December 4.1863 * 49 tde
fAilES M. HALL, Sen., respectfully an-
d nounees himself to the people of Baldwin
county a candidate for the office of Tax Receiver
at the approaching election in January.
December 12. 1863 69 3fc
l ^ < T Gl T MM is a candidal for Tax C'ollecto
the election in January uext.
December S, 18 >3 49 tde
aaa LBS. OF SOAP for sale at the
DjUVFY® Miiledgeville Hotel.
F. A. HUSON.
^October 13.1863 _ 41 tf
I I Y TAX NOTICE.—My books are now open
Az for the collection of the City Taxes, assessed
y the Council for the present year. Office under
the Miiledgeville Hotel.
JAMES C. SHEA, Clerk
Miiledgeville, July 28, 1863 30 tf
Cotton Cards, Coffee'& Sole Leather,
1 PAIR WHITTMORE’S Cotton Cards.
JL * FVI number io.
lbs. COFFEE.
500 lbs. SOLE LEATHER.
Just received and for sale by
J. CANS & CO.
Miiledgeville, April 14, 1863 15 tf
Reorganisation of Uie Sill tin.
AN AI T TO REORCANt2>£ rHL MILITIA OF THK
STATE OF GEORGIA, AND FOR OTHER PUR
POSES.
Section I. Be it enacted, &c., That each
Senatorial District in this State shall con
stitute a separate Military District, and
it shall be the duty of the Governor, as
soon as practicable after the passage ol
this act. to appoint an Aidde-Camp, with
the rank of Colonel, in each district, who
shall be charged with the duties hereinaf
ter set forth.
Sec. II. Be it further enacted, That
within four days after being notified of his
appointment, it shall be the duty of each
Aid-de-Camp to commeuee the enrollment
of all free white males resident in bis Dis
trict, who' are or shall be of sixteen years,
and not over sixty years, and also those
who shall from time to time arrive at the
age ef sixteen years, or who may come to
reside within the District, except those
who shall actually be in the army or navy
of the Confederate States, or in the State
service. The enrollment shali be by com
pany districts, and shall show the age, oc»
cupation and nativity of each person en
rolled,the number of the Company District
in which he may reside, aud if any exemp
tion is claimed, the ground of it.
For the purpose of facilitating the enroll
ment, the Aid-de-Camp shall be authori-
zed to employ, witli the approval of the
Governor, three or more assistants for each
county, who shall receive for their servi
ces compensation at the rate of fifty cents
for each person enrolled by them ; but
they shall not be exempt from service uiis
der this act in consequence of their being
such assistants. For a failure faithfully
to discharge their duty, the Assistant En-
rolling Officers shall be liable to removal
by the Governor, and if without sufficient
excuse, to be judged of by the Governor,
shall be liable further to forfeiture of all
compe nsation.
Sec. III. And be it further enacted.
That it shall be the duty of the Aid-de-
Camp, within ten days after the enrollment
lias been completed in his district, to for
ward complete lists, in duplicate, of the en
rollment of each county of his district, to
the Adjutant and Inspector General, anu
to file with the Clerk of the Superior
Court in each county a copy of the enroll
ment in Ills couuty ; and the Aid shall be
empowered and required, when there are
but few persons enrolled in a particular
company district, to incorporate and con
solidate, subject to the approval of the
Governor, two or more adjoining company
districts into one, reporting the consolida
tion made and the numbers of the company
districts so combined, and in cities to di
vide ditricts.
Sec. IV. Be it enacted, That the Gov
ernor be authorized, oi> receiving the le
ports of the new company districts pro
vided for in section third, to arrange said
companies into regiments or battalions, de
fining their limits without regard to coun
ty lines, and, if need be, for the purpose
of effective organization without regard to
Senatorial Districts. Provided, that no
regimental districts shall contain more than
one thousand, or less than five hundred
men arranged in ten companies ; that no
battalion district of the first class shall
contain more than six hundred men,
or less than four hundred meu
arrange in not more than nine nor less than
six companies, that no battalion district of
the second class shall contain more than
fonr hundred nor less than two hundred
itary duties imposed by this act upon pe.:
sons of the same age with themsel.es. -
Sec. V III. Be it further enacteu, Tbr.t R.m.ce, whether by order of the Governor
it shall he the duty ol the Aid-de-C amp in i or on a requisition from the President of
See. XIV. And be it further enacted
i>jDi3ri. any miHtianian ordered into activ
d i within his district, collect, out of the j Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia. ITIor’d
,e J property of any delinquent, who shall not j South Carolina and North* Carolina *
*. i. - 1 ‘ worn her of persons not less than ’ *
each Senatorial District to supervise and
direct, under the orders of the Governor,
all military matters within his D'strict.
Ke shall be the channel of communication
between the Adjutant and Inspector Gen
eral and tiie troops in his District, for the
transmission of all orders, instructions, re
ports and military communications gener
ally, and be shall be entitled to compensa
tion at the rate of seven dollar* per day
for the time he may be employed iu per
fecting the organization herein provided
for, and for such time in each quarter, not
to exceed ten days, as he may be required
to devote to military mattery in his Dis
trict. He shall be removable at the pleas
ure of the Governor.
Sec. IX. Be it further enacted, That it
shall be the duty of each Lieutenant of a
squad to keep a list of all persons enrolled
within the limits of his squad beat, sad
sball not,ly the Aid-de-Camp of bis Dis
trict, through bis Captain, quarterly, of all ~d*ft
requisition
the Confederate States, who shall fail or
refuse after due notice to enter said ser
vice, or being therein, shall leave the ser
vice without permission, shall be liable to
be tried and punished as a deserter, and
subject to all the pains and penalties im
posed upon deserters iu the Rules and Ar
ticles of War for the government of the
arrnj’ of the Confederate States.
Sec. XV. Be it further enacted, That
there .shall be appointed by the Governor,
one Surgeon for each Senatorial District,
whose duty it shall be to examine all per-
80! s who claim to be unable to boar arms,
anti shall give certificates to such as, in
his judgment, are uuable to bear arms,
chArly stating therein the causes of ouch
disability. Said Surgeon shali be sworn
to discharge the duties faithfully and im
partially, and shall leceive compensation
at the rate of five dollars per day for every
lay he shall be employed under the or-
oi tiie Governor, and who shall be
u
persons arriving at the age of sixteen, or j removed by the Governor for neglect or
who shall move into or out of his beat, I failure in the discharge of his duties,
which notification shall be consolidated by j Sec. XVI. And be it further enacted,
the Aid de-Camp and forwarded within j That exemptions from, and discharges af-
ten days alter the end of each quarter of j ter enrollment before organization under
the year, to the Adjutant and inspector
General, noting also such other changes in
ranks, command, &e., that may have oc
curred during the quarter. The object
being to continue a complete enrollment
tliis act, may bo granted by the Aids-do-
Carnp of the Senatorial Districts, on the
certificate of the District Surgeons, and
discharges from service after organization
under this act, may be granted by said
tion of this Act, shall he divided into two
classes. The first shall be composed of
those between seventeen aud fifty years of
age to be styled the militia proper, who
shad be fusl liable and stthj*>**t to perform
all the military duties contemplated by
this Act. The second class shall be com
posed of those beteen sixtven aud seven
teen years of age, and between fifty and
sixty years of age, aud be styled the Mili
tia Reserve, who shall organize with the
Militia proper, but shali not be required
to drill or perfprm any of the military du
ties contemplated by this Act, until the
Militia proper shall have been called info
active service, nor be subject or liable to
any draft or other compulsory process to
fill any requisition for troops upon the
Governor of this State by the President of
the Confederate States. When the Mili
tia proper shall be called into active ser
vice, the Lieutenant of each company most
advanced in age, shall be left with, and iu
command of the Militia Reserve of their
respective companies. And if any person
belonging to the Militia Reserve shall at
any time be elected to and shall accept
any office under this Act, lie shall be re
quired to perform the duties of las office
without reference to the class to which he
may have belonged.
Sec. XI. And be it further enacted, That
whenever in the opinion of the Governor,
it shall be necessary to repel invasion,
suppress insurrection, or to execute the
laws, to call the State Militia, or any part
thereof, into active military service, lie is
hereby authorized and empowered to do
so; but the Militia Reserve created by this
Act, shall be called into active military
service only after the Militia proper has
been called out in great emergencies,to meet
which the militia proper are deemed insuf
ficient and shall be discharged from such
active service as soon as the emergency to
men, arranged iu not more than five nor meet which they are called out shall have
ot the District, and to preserve its military j Aids-de-Camp on the certificate of the
organization. ! battalion or regimental Surgeons, approv-
Sec. X. And be it farther enacted. That j e(1 h Y die company and battalion or regi-
the persons enrolled under the second sec 1 ine, H a l commanders.
Tanning.
r pHE SUBSCRIBER will TAN all HIDES J
T -DVounrit to his Tannery for one-third.
WILLIAM HARPER.
December 8. 1863 49 6t*
LSTotice.
Office Ga. Relief <fe Hospital Associa’ii } ]
Augusta, Ga., June 23d, 1063. i ;
4 MESSENGER of the Georgia Relief &■ Hos-
jL pital Association will leave Atlanta on or near
t ie 10th of each month for Mississippi, and will
take charge of all boxes and packages intended for
t ie Georgia troops in that State, and will carry
tiem to some- safe point, near the army and deposit
tuein, and notify the owners, or deliver them to
ie owners, if practicable, free of charge. The
foxes and packages must be marked with the
names of the owners, their company and regiment,
id to the care of the Georgia Relief and Hospital
Association. Atlanta, Ga. The Assoeiajion will
I:, »t be responsible for any box containing perish
able articles, such as green vegetables, 4ito. Box-
• s and packages will be deposited at the Wayside
Home, Atlanta, Ga.
W. II. POTTER, Gen’l. Superint’dt.
Newspapers of this State will please copy daily
Curing tie first week ot each month, and send hills
10 this office. W. H. POTTER. Gen’l Sup’t.
Ju 7,1-63 27 Istwexn
k|i’EUIAL NOTICE —The undersigned having
' removed from Miiledgeville, desires and in-
' iids to close up his business matters of that
Dace as speedily as possible. All persons indebt*
* r ® notified that my notes and accounts are in
‘T hands of J. A. Breedlove and P. H. Lawler,
'•iu are anlborized to collect and make settle-
J V- ./ ac 't arranged at an early day,settle
nents will be enforced by law.
»„ A. C. VAIL, Agent.
August 19.1862 33 tf
Cv TAX.—Those who have not
or they will ! eir i- T L, XeS ’ mUBt P ay hy the 22t ? inst *
al in,/ .' ,e * ia -h!e to pay ten per cent, additiou-
‘ upon tue amount of Tax.
J. C. WHITAKER
December 15, 18( & T ‘ C ’ of Bddwiowmnty.
less thau two companies, and that no com.
pany district shall contain more than one
hundred nor less than sixty-four men.
Sec. V. Be it further enacted, That to
each regiment there shall be allowed one
Col. one Lieutenant-Colonel, one Major,to
each battalion of the first class, one Lieu
tenant Colonel and one Major; to each
battalion of tbe second class one Major ;
and to each company one Capt, four Lts,
five Sergeants, four Corporals ; and that
each company shall be divided into two
platoons, each platoon into two squads,
aud that there shall be, for the purpose ol
drill and discipline, one Lieutenant, one
Sergeant, and one Corporal to each
squad.
Sec. VI. Be it enacted, That so soon
as tbe arrangement of regiments and bat
talions and companies sball be completed
in each or any of the Senatotial Districts,
tbe Governor shall be required within ten
days thereafter to order elections for offi
cers to command said regiments, battal
ions and companies in tlm same manner
now prescribed in tbe Military Code of
Georgia, and shall issue commissions on
the election returns as therein also direct
ed under the seal of tbe Executive De
partment, and iu the event of a failure or
neglect on the part of tiie people to elect,
the Governor shall commission to the va
cancy a fit and proper person on the re
commendation of a majority of the com
pany officers concerned. The officers thus
elected, or appointed and commissioned, to
be vested with all the authority usually
appertaining to such grades. And all
members of the State Guard, who are ab-
seut in the service of this State or of the
Confederate States, shall be permitted to
vote at said electiou for officer^; at the
places where they are stationed, and two
commissioned officers shall pjeside at said
elections, and transmit returns thereof,
within fifteen days after said election, to
the Governor of this State, whose duty it
shall he to consolidate said votes as in
other cases.
Sec. VII. Be it further enacted, That
whenever the Governor shall have been
advised by the Aid-de-Camp in any Sena
torial District, that the organizations here
inbefore provided for, have been comple
ted in tbe District, and the officers therein
elected, or appointed and commissioned, it
shall be his duty, within ten days thereaf
ter, to declare tbe militia organization
theretofore existing in said District, under
the Military Code of Georgia, suspended,
and the officers under shid previous organ
ization relieved from their commands, and
said officers shall be subject to-all tbe mil-
passed; and whenever the Militia, or any
part thereof, shall he called into active
military service, they shall receive the
same pay and allowances as if they were
in the service of the Confederate States,
and shall be subject to tbe rules and arti
cles of war and the regulations for the gov
ernment of the armies of the Couiederatc
States.
Sec. XII. Be it further enacted, That
whenever the militia shall be called into
active service by the Governor, brigades
and divisions may be organized for tbe
period of active service, in such manner as
tbe Governor may direct; tli? officers and
men composing the brigades and divisions! ,
in all cases electing their brigade, and di | ,
vision commanders; provided that the of- 1
fices of hi igadier and division general shall j t
expire when disbanded, and the individu- j
als holding them shall leturn to service j appoint such s
according to their ages, as provided for in : to similar grad
this act.
Sec. XIII. And be it further enacted,!
That whenever a requision for troops for;
local defence in this State shali be made j
by tbe President of the Confederate States ;
upon the Governor of this Statu, tbe Gov- j
ernor shall be empowered aud authorized I
to fill the requisition by apportioning the !
Sec. XVII. Aud be it further enacted,
That any person made subject to service
under this act, may volunteer iu the mili
tary or naval service of the Confederate
States, or in any company authorized by
tiie acts of Congress of the Confederate
States, providing for l.»cal defence and
.q. .’.A uorvtao, Lot oh oil again be subject
to State service, when his term of service
as a volunteer shall have expired.
Sec. XVIII. Aud be it further enacted,
That any person subject to service under
tin’s act, who is in the employ of the Gov
eminent of the Confederate States, or has
a contract with s„ d Government, or is em
ployed on any Railroad, may be detailed
for special duty, upon tbe request of tbe
Secretary of War, addressed to the Gov
ernor, naming the employee or contractor,
and the length of time for which such de
tail is requested; provided, that nothing
herein contained shall be so construed as
authorizing the detail for special duty of
any common laborer or other person in the
employment of Railroads, manufactories,
Ac, unless tbe President or Superintend
ent of the road, manufactory, or other la
uor, shall make application to the Govern-
*-T, lurougu ihe Aiu-de Camp of oio Sena
torial District, on affidavit that such per
sons are indispensable to said road or
work, and their places cannot be filled by
other persons not liable to military duty.
Sec. XIX. Be it further enacted, That
in making the enrollment provided for hy
this act, the enrolling officer shall report
by' name all persous having efficii nt guns,
describing the gun, whether rifle, musket,
or shot gun, and those who have not; and
also such persons who can furnish their
own horses, saddles aud bridles, and serve
as mounted men, aud that the Governor be
authorized, whenever in his power to do
so, to furnish arms and ammunition to the
force herein created, as in his judgment he
may 7 deem advisable, upon the requisition
and receipt, in duplicate, of the command
ers of regiments, battalions or companies.
furnish a totistacto y eicnse, withiu one
week after beiug reported, a sum not less
than three dollars, nor more than fifty dol
lars, at the discretion of said Aid de-Camp,
which sum shall be turned over by said
Aid de Camp on receipt theiefor to the
Justices of tbe Inferior Court of tbe coun
ty in which the delinquent may reside, to
be applied to the benefit of soldiers’ fami
lies within said county.
Sec. XXlII. Aud be it further enacted,
That so much of the military Code of the
State of Georgia as is inconsistent with
the provisions ot this act, shall be and the
same is hereby suspended as long as this
act shall be iu force, and this act shall be
come inoperative and void upon the ratiti
cation of a treaty of peace between the
United States and Confederate States.
Sec. XXIV. And be it further enacted.
That no person shall be enrolled under
this Act who is subject to conscription un
der the Conscript Act or Acte of the Con
federate Congress; if the State enrolling
officer has doubt whether any person with
iu his limits is subject to enrollment as a
conscript, lie shall report the fact to the
Confederate enrolling officer of the Con
gressional District, and if said Confederate
officer does not cause such person to be en
rolled within twenty days after such no
tice is given, the State Enrolling officer
shall enrol him under this Act, or if lie is
found to be exempt after be is enrolled by
the Confederate officer, he shall then be
subject to enrollment by tbe State officer
under this Act.
Sec. XXV. And be it further enacted,
That this Act shall take effect and be op
erative and in force from and immediately
after its passage.
Sec. XXVI. That al! laws and parts of
laws militating against this Act, be and
tho same are hereby repealed.
Assented to Dec. 14, 1863.
who shall be held accountable for the
W.ne. and who shall make returns of the
same quarterly to the Adjutant and In
spector General, through the Aid-de-Camp
of their Senatorial District, and who shall
for his own security, be entitled to make
demand for any gun furnished by him to
any person; and any person failing to re
turn said gun to the officer accountable for
it on his demand, or who shall injure or
damage any gun or ammunition entrusted
to his care, shall be guilty of a misdemean
or, and on conviction thereof in any coun
ty in this State, shall be fined or itnpris-
one 1, at the discretion of the Court trying
the case.
See. XX. Be it further enacted, That
ne commanders «>f regiments, battalions,
brigades and divisions, shall be entitled to
taff i Ulcers as are allowed
grades in the Confederate ser
vice, and to secure the. efficient operation
of this Act, that the Governor be entitled
.» ,.j,point from time to time such staff of
fleers and additional Aid d«-C«mp as ho
may think necessary.
Sec. XXI. And be it further enacted,
'That, the officers of thu Executive Depart
ment, members of tbe General Assembly,
number required among the different regi- j Secretary of the Senate, and four priuci-
ments, battallions or companies of the mi- i pal assistants, Clerk, of the House of Rep-
litia proper, provided for by this act; and j resentalives and she principal Clerks, aud
when tbe apportionment is made, the Gov
ernor may order the number apportioned,
detached, drafted or selected in such other
mauner as lie may deem advisable, and
may require the Aids-de-Camp for the
Senatorial Districts to superintend the
draft, or to execute such orders as may be
necessary to accomplish the object; provi
ded, that unmarried men, batchelois .,r
widowers without children, shall be sub
ject to draft before the married men or
widowers who have children; and provid
ed further, that the men drafted or select
ed shall be formed into companies, battal
ions or regiments, as the Governor may
direct, and shall be permitied to elect the
officers to command them while in service;
the Clerk of the Joint Committee of both
houses on Finance, and the Clerk of Mili
tary Committee of the Senate, Judges of
the .Supreme and Superior Couits, and
Justices of the Inferior Court, Attorney
and Solicitors General, Reporter and Cleric
of the Supreme Court, Clerks of the Supc
rior and Inferior Courts, Tax Collectors,
Lincoln’s Proclamation of Amnesty.
Whereas, In and by the Constitution
of the United States it is provided that
the President shall have power to grant
reprieves and pardons for offences against
the United States, except in cases of im
peachment, and
Whereas, A Rebellion now exists
whereby tbe loyal State Governments of
several States Lave for a long time been
subverted, and many persons have com
mitted and are now guilty of treason
against the United States ; aud
Whereas, With reference to said re
bellion and treason, laws have been en
acted by Congress declaring forfeiture
and confiscation of property aud liberation
of slaves, all upon terms and conditions,
therein stated, and also declaring that the
President was thereby authorized at any
time thereafter, by proclamation to ex
tend to persons w ho may have participa
ted in the present Rebellion in any State
or part thereof pardon and amnesty, with
such exceptions, aud at such times and
on such conditions as he may deem expe
dient for the public welfare : and
Whereas, The Congressional declara
tion for limited and conditional pardon
accords with well established judicial
exposition of the pardoning power; and
Whereas, * With reference to said re
bellion, the President of the United
States has issued several proclamations
with provisions in regard to tbe liberation
of .slaves; and
Whereas, It is now desired by some
persons heretofore engaged in said Re
bellion to resume their allegiance to tbe
United States, and to re inaugurate loyal
State Governments withiu and for their
respective States.
Therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, Pres
ident ot the United States, do proclaim,
declare and make known to all persons
who have directly, or by implication, par
ticipated in the existing Rebellion, except
as hereinafter excepted, that a full par
don is hereby granted to them and each
of them, with restoration of all rights of
property except as to slaves and iu prop
erty cases where the rights of thirn parties
who shall have intervened ; and upon the
condition that, every such person shall
take and subscribe an oath, aud thence
forward keep and maintain said oath j
inviolate; and which oath shall be regis J
tered for permanent preservation, and i
-ball be of tbe tenor and effect of tbe j
following, to wit:—
•‘I do solemnly swear iu the presence of,
Almighty God, that I will henceforth j
faithtully support, protect and defend the
Constitution of the United States and tbe
Union of the States thereunder, and that
I will in like manner abide by and faith-
hilly support all Acts of Congress passed
during i bo existing Rebellion with refer
ence to slaves, so long aud so far as
not repealed, modified or held void
by Congress, or by decision of the Su
preme Court; and that I will in like
manner abide by and faithfully support
all Proclamations of the President made
during the existing Rebellion having
reference to slaves so long and so far as
not modified or declared void by decision
of the Supreme Court. So help ine God.”
The persons excepted from the benefits
of the foregoiug provisions are all who are,
or shall have been, civil or diplomatic
• , -. , ne teu»li
in number of the vote cast in such State
at the Presidential election of the year of
our Lord IS60, each having taken the
oath aforesaid, and not having since vio
lated it, and being a qualified voter by
the election law of the State existing
immediately before the so called act o*f
Secession, and excluding all others, shall
establish a State Government which shall
be republican anu in no wise contravening
said oath, such shall be recognized as the
true Government of the State, and the
State shall receive thereunder the benefit
of tbe constitutional provision which
declares that the United States shall
guarantee to every State in this Union H
republican form of government, and -hall
protect each of them against invasion
and ou application of the legislature, or
the executive, when the legislature can
not be convened, against domestic vio
lence.
And I do further proclaim, declare « n J
make known, that any provision which
may be adopted by such Stare Govern
ment, in relation to the freed people of
such State, which shall recognize and
declare their permanent freedom, provide
tor their education, and which may yet be
consistent, as a temporary anangenient,
with their present condition, as a lahorini
landless and homeless elass, will not
objected toby the National Executive.
. R * s suggested as not improper that,
in constructing a loyal State Government
in any State, the name, of the State, the
boundary, the subdivisions, the Constitu
tion and tfie general code of laws as be
fore the Rebellion be maintained, subject
only to tbe modifications made necessary
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be
Sheriff’s, Ordinaries, Ministers of Religion officers or agents of the so called C’oufed-
ln the actual care and ebarge of any or
ganized Church or Synagogue, and such
other persons as the Governor in his dis
ci etion may deem it absolutely necessary
i£_the public interest to exempt, shall be
•xempt from the provisions of this act.
Sec. XXII. And be it further enacted,
erate Government; all who have lot
judicial stations under the United States
to aid the Rebellion ; all who are or shall
have been military or naval officers of
said Confederate Government abo\e the
rank of Colouel iu the army or of Lieu
tenant iu the navy ; ail who left seats in
the United States Congress to aid the
That the Goverin r be authorized to pie
and in case of neglect or refusal to elect] scribe the number aud kind of drills aud ! Rebellion ; all who resigned their com
when ordered, that the Governor may ap-i military exercises ro be performed by the missions iu the army or navy of the
point the officers and compel them to or j militia proper, created by this act, when ' United States, and afterwards aided the
ganize, or he may appoint officers to fill j not actively engaged in the field, and that j Rebellion, and all who have engaged in
vacancies, if the men to be commanded | for a failure to attend as required on tbe | any way in maltreating colored persons,
fail or refuse to elect; aud provided fur- part of either officers or men, it shall be | or white persous, in charge of such,
ther, that in case of requisition for troops the duty of the Aid-de-Camp of each dis- | otherwise than lawfully as prisoners of
for local service in a particular part of the trict to whom reports of delinquencies shall war, and which persons may be found in
State, the Governor may fill it by ordering be made, within three days after any call- 1 the United States service as soldiers, sea-
the number of troops called for to be made ed drill or exercise by the senior officer or men, or in any other capacity. Aud I do
up from such regiments, battalions or com- , non-commissioned officer present at the further proclaim, declare and make known,
panies as he may select, in the section of drill or exercise, to issue a writ orfieri fa that whenever iu auy of ttie States of
tbe State where the service is required. j das, directed to any sheriff or constable Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi,
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by the conditions hereinbefore stated, and
such others, if any, not contravening thu
said co. and which may be deem
ed expo. y'C ry those framing the new
State Government.
To avoid misunderstanding, it mav- be
pioper to say that this Proclamation, so
far as it relates to State Governments,
has no reference to the States wherein loy
al State Governments have all the while
been maintained.
And for the same reason it may be prop
er to say that, whether members of Con
gress from any State shall be admitted to
their seats constitutionally rests exclusive
ly with the respective Houses, and not to
any extent with the Executive. And still
further, that this Proclamation is intended
to present to the people of the States
wherein the National authority has been
sutpended, and the loyal State Govern
ments have been subverted, a mode by
which the National authority and the loy
al State Governments may be re-estab
lished within the said States, or in any of
them; and while the mode presented ic
the best the Executive can suggest with
his present impressions, it must not be un
derstood that no other possible mode would
be acceptable.
Given under my band at the City of
Washington, the eighth day of December,
A. D., one thousand eight hundred and
sixty three, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the eighty-
eighth .
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President.
Wm. H S EWAitD, Secretary of State.
SKULHIAC.
Mr. Editor :—The election to fill the
numerous civil officers in the various coun
ties of the State will be held in a few days.
It is discouraging to witness with what ea
gerness these officers are sought in everv
county by able bodied young men without
families, hoping thereby to procure an ex
emption from the military duties demanded
of them by our bleeding country, in this
our hour of peril. Will the voters of Geor
gia permit these skulkers longer to evade
their duties, whilst the hundreds of muti
lated and wounded soldiers well qualified
to fill these offices, are left to maintain
themselves as best they can ?
Let fathers w hose sons are undergoing
the hardships of this war. say to this class
we shield you no longer. Let Motheis
learn that these skulkers have brought up
on us the / necessity oi taking from their
aids the tender boy of sixteen summers^
and exposing him to the demoralizing influ
ence of camp l : fe. I feel assured if the
voice of the patriotic women of this land
could be heard, not one of them would
be elected. Let them exert their influence,
and say to every skulker—we will compe.
yon to do your duty. As an act of grati
tude, let every voter, where a candidate
who has been mutilated or wounded by the
balls of the foe presents himself, aid and
encourage him by' casting bis vote for
him. e
An Observer.
Killed.—Frank Brone, Esq., a clerk in
the Postoffice Department, in this city 7 ,
started for Maryland, a few days since^in
company with five others. Upon nearing
the Maryland shore, they discovered the
camp-fires of the enemy’s pickets. Land
ing two miles above the fires, they' were
fired upon by tbe enemy aud Mr. Boone
was killed, as he was in the act ot pushing
oft - the boat. His body was brought to
this side and buried. W hat makes the af
fair more distressing is the fact that Mr. B.
was returning to his native State for tbe
purpose of consummating a matrimonial
engagement with an accomplished young
lady.—Richmond Sentinel.
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Unionists Converted to Secession.
—A friend, who has conversed recently,
with several late refugees from East Ten
nessee, learns from them that Federal out
rages »n Unionists and Disuniomsts, indis
criminately, have had a happy effect on
the political sentiments of the former and
numbers have been purged of their Union
ism and hopefully converted to the South
ern cause.-—Huntsville Confederate.
“All, me, my dear,” said the gooil
old soul “I dont kumv ; you must ask
some one older than I am.”