The War.
It is difficult to obtain early and
accurate information from Lee’s army.
The present interesting operations are
in a region the mail facilities with
which are in a state of suspension. In
addition to this, each advance of our
column puts it further away from
us.
We find ourselves unable to add
much to-day to ti e previous accounts.
The destruction of .Mi!toy's force at
Winchester laid the whole line of the
Potomac open to us from Harper’s
Ferry up. Gen. Ewell was free to go
where he pleased. It is believed, and
we suppose there is no doubt ofit, that
lie has crossed the Potamac at sever
al points. He has doubtless seized
such places as contained magazines.—
There is a report that he lias thus oe-
etipied Harper’s Ferry, captured 30<>
prisoners; but we are not able to/crifv
it.
Tbe number of prisoners captured
is believed to be 7,000. The exchange
officer here lias been notified to expect
that number on to-day or to-mor
row.
The dispatch from Gen. Lee, which
From tbe Richmond Whig.
GENERAL EWELL.
Early in the war, when a company- of
Vai kco cavalry, headed liy a renegade
Virginian, dashed at night iuto Fairfax
(\>urt House, a singular scene occurred.—
The gallant 3Iarr was killed, and his men
began to give hack before (lie cavalry.—
he was unarmed. '1 litis defenseless, hr
stood in iho middle of the street, while
the halls were falling thick and last around
him, defied the Yankees, and rained down
upon them a torrent of Imprecations such
is wore never ho n e! before, llis fury and
his intrepidity struck more terror into their
craven souls than all the bullets of our
infantry. They fled, and the much en
raged gentleman went <[uictly to hud.—
His name was Ewell.
V. hen next heard from, this gentleman
was comm.Hiding a brigade of Beauregard's
army at Manassas.
After the hattlo of Manassas, wo heard
of Ewell's modesty and unselfishness.—
When the commission of Major General
was tendered him he hesitated many days
to accept it, saying that Jubal Early was
we publisheh yesterday showed Ewell’s j a fitter man than himself to receive it
plan of operations were admirable. | ^ * r . e > intripiditv, modesty,were his chacac-
xvi -i„ t.. r\,i„ ,U,. i tenstics; his capacity was vet to be test-
Wlule advancing the veteran Kal\ an-1 , „, ,, - ,
. ,,,v . , led i lus was fully developed In Jack
..otly aeaiust \\ iiuilu stcir, that promw- I son ’„ great campaign m tbo V«lU r ,
nig omcer, General Modes, tiasneo j j ie wa8 assigned tr» tbe most arduous and
down the Shenandoah, leaving "Win
chester to the left, so as to get in Mii-
rov’s rear. On his way he caught up j indomitable Stonewall himself. The glo-
Wltliout firing a gun, a couple of | r ' ous victory at t toss Ke\*8 was won by
thousand soldiers who were going to [Ewell alone; Jackson, if we mistake not,
Milroy’s aid. Pushing on he occupied j takmg no pait in it.
, .•* i ... 4 i /• 1 In the battles around lucnmoiul he too-k
Martmsburg, 22 miles north of Y3 in- „• a.
Chester, on Sunday evening, wl
the light as pending at V, inchester. ];b oa lion. At Mannasas he was so se-
Securing the valuable stores of the verely wounded that his leg liad to be am-
cuemy at tli.it place and capturing the
guard, he was ready to operate against
Milroy, whose retreat lie had cut off.
But early the following morning, Win
chester was ours, and both Early and
Modes had nothing to «Io but move on.
road. Capt. Nelson’s Georgia . cj^alry
company, also Capts. Horne, Yerger
and Misshew skirmished with the col
umn advancing on the Snrtartia road.
Capt. Yerger here lost two men wound
ed and captured.
AH finally fell back to Mechanics-
At that moment a gentleman rushed out b'.rg, when our battery opened upon
>f house, called on J/arr's men to stand ! their advance. 1 hey soon got the range
firm, and with the aid of Ex-Governor, w,th their battery, and advanced in
now Gen. Smith, rallied them. This j great force in front and on both of our
gentleman was scantily altired, having j Hanks—whereupon our battery was
indeed hut one garment on his person, and j withdrawn and the whole column fol
lowed in good order.—The rear was
covered by Capt. Nelson’s company,
previously hotly engaged for two
hours. We proceeded about a mile
when the enemy’s cavalry charged up
on Capt. Nelson’s company in a lane,
discharging their lire arms and then
charging with drawn sabres. Our rear
guard returned the fire and checked
them twice and they charged a third
time and a hand to hand fight ensued, |
in which Capt. Nelson lost ten men;
most of the men having their horses
killed under them, and being unable
to retreat, were captured; only one is
believed to have been killed.
The rear guard then fell back to
where our line was formed, under
Lieut. Col. Wood, in the woods, to
cover the retreat of the battery, but
the enemy did f.Jlr..-.-,
enter the woods. We had ten killed
and wounded and twenty-five missing
supposed to have been captured dur
ing the day. Several of our men came
off with sabrecuts.
The enemy retreated precipitately
on Saturday morning, burning bridges
be hind them and losing many men
from sunstroke.
After the skirmish our force re-
j important duties, all of which he dischar
j ed with energy and daring worthy of the
i a prominent part. At Cedar ltun, Brie
" li,,L toe Station and Mannassis No 2. he fought
treated eight miles and camped. The
puiated—an operation always dangerous, | loss of the enemy is ascertained to have
but partieually so in the case of a man j been about thirty killed and wounded
like Ewell, whose health was not robust. | aU( j ti, rec prisoners
But his adamantine will triumphed over ‘ The8m( J k e of burnt
the dangers incident to a feeble constitu
tion, aiul brought him once more to the I
, - field, maimed, indeed, but willing as ever
i foil os v us only ten miles distant from to peril his life in behalf of the cause. He
ping houses and
the carcasses of dead horses marked
I the line of their retreat down the val
ley of the Yazoo. They carried off
W illiamsport or bhepherdstown, both always expressed his determination to re- j many negroes by force.
join the army at the earliest moment, not \
because he loved warfare for its own sake,
hut because he felt it to be his duty— j
This, we have been assured, was bis own |
language.
Ewell had reported for duly before Jack
son fell at Chancellorsville. The loss of
that great Chieftain, his expressed pre-i .,, , ?
ference for Ewell as Ins successor, and,
on the Potomac.
This manoeuver and success will
be counted as among the most bril
liant ol the war, and has already in
vested the successor of Jackson with
much of his eclat. We trust that the
mantle of Elijah, with a double por
tion of bis spirit, has fallen on Ewell
We are without Northern dates
since the operations in the Valley.
But a citizen who has made his way
from Washington reports the most de
lightful consternation as prevailing
there. All Lincolndom was in ferment,
and Abraham was chief among the
sorrowful. The mystery which hangs
over Lee’s movements was a prime
source of their terror. They did not
know where to look for him, or when.
A hundred thousand “melisk” bad
been called for to resist invasion.
Pennsylvania, it is said is asked for
half the number, and Massachusetts is
called upon for thirty thousand.
Where is Hooker? It was reported
in the early part of the week, a large
part of his army was strewn along
the Orange and Alexandria railroad,
near Warren ton Junction. But we
have no idea lie is there now. Lin
coln has called him, we doubt not, to
cover Washington.
The defamer of McClellan will at
tempt to imitate his “Maryland cam
paign.” But our Generals are im
mensely’ ahead of him. Last year we
sent into Maryland a battle-wasted,
loot sore army. They r fed on green
corn and apples for want of food, and
arrived weak and exhausted. Now we-
send an army iu excellent condition,
full-fed, and in the highest spirits.
They are in Maryland all bright and
fresh. It is Hooker who will have to
makeforced marches to bring his whip
ped men in front of those who have
whipped them so often that both sides
recognize it as a thing of course.
It ichmund Sen t i n cl.
[To the Associated Press, North |
Position of the Illinois Democracy.
♦Springfield, li!., June 17.—The
Democratic mass meeting today was
largely attended, and passed off har
moniously. Democrats estimate the
number iu attendance at from seventy-
five to one hundred thousand. There
was great cheering fur Vallandigham. j
fere nee
tlie general desire of the soldiers to have
him back again, left the War Department
no choice but to promote him. II e was
made Lieut. General. Lee showed his
confidence in him by placing him in the
van of tlie great forward movement now
being executed, and lie in.turn showed
his unshaken appreciation of Early by-
assigning to him the task of storming
Winchester, llow well reposed the con
fidence of both was,the. telegraph dispatch
es attest, Ewell, Early, and Johnston—
three Virginians, all of whom have been
severely wounded—have taken up tbe
Valley campaign where the hero that
sleeps at Lexington left it. Their achieve
ments at Winchester give promise tbit
they will carry it on iu Stonewall Jack-
tnn’« wny„ But let it not he forgotten
that these Virginians owe their newly
worn laurels to the “valor”—that is Gen
eral Lee’s own word, of troops from other
States besides tlie Old Dominion.
1 he victories at Winchester and Berry-
vilie have paid in pa-t for the lost limb of
the fierce General there commanding. We
may consider that the account to the ox-
G-cn. Edilroy.
This Yankee scoundrel, who lias un-
I fortunately’ escaped our grasp for the
j present, is one of those whom the Fed
eral themselves include in the list of
His fate H the
halter, if he ever be caught by r the
Confederates. Humor has it that bis
wife has been captured, flic is the
lady who came to Virginia with a very
small portmanteau, and soon after re
turned to the North with several large
trunks which she boastingly exhibited
to her friends as her share of the profits
of the war.
Milroy’s reign is now ended.
A letter from a lady who was sent
by’ him within our lines, gives some
idea of his brutality in Winchester,and
we make some extracts from it:
Gen. Milroy and his Yankee tribe
still have possession, and, asy’ou know,
have had for six months. God only
knows what the people of Winchester
have had to bear and suffer from those
fiends in human shape. A!! the ser
vants have gone, and the people have
just been worked and worried to death.
A great many deaths have taken place
—as many’ as eight funerals a week
king fun of the Yankee. Gen. Clusara j report nothing further since Saturday’s
passed by and thought mother and John • fight
were laughing at him with the chil-J
dreu, and tookflfem both up to head
quarters, wherethey were kept for sev
eral hours. S# you see we were not
allowed even 1o laugh.
A lady went to Gen. Milroy and as
ked for a pass to go over the lines. He
said, “ I will give you a pass to hell.”
She told him she did not know his lines
extended that fir; she had often heard
it, but now had it from his own iips.
They wouldmot allow the sutlers to
spll a thing except to the soldiers. Tlie
town is full ofifarikee women, who act
as if they’ owned everything in it.
They just go to the finest houses and
order furnished rooms for them. Oh !
but it is dreadful. The people are not
allowed to move one step out of town,
cannot get a mouthful of fresh air. No
wonder there is such suffering, siek-
ness, and death. There are very f'e-.v
Union people in town, and those are
the commonest kind.
Osyka, June 23.—Heavy firing was
heard this morning near Clinton. La. H
is supposed to he a conflict between Lyon
and a portion o* Banks’ army.
THE $200,000 DODGE.
Comptroller’s Office, )
Milledgeville, June 16th, 1863. i
to the lax Receivers and Collectors of
this .State .-
In consequence of the imperfections of
a portion of the Income Tax Act. I have
received from his Excellency, the Gov
ernor, the following communication, di
recting me to issue certain orders to you,
,17 4.1*3 * -X , L , 1 1 - |
tent of one joint of the smallest pedal f. m ? n 8, the 1M town people, which, in a
digit has been satisfactorily audited. The bUle place like that,you know is some-
remainder of the debt will, we trust, be ■ tiling.
adjusted by’ similar instalments. It is j The Yankees will not allow the peo-
said that an aitificial leg, ordered some pie to buy’ anything without taking
months ago, awaits Gen. Ewell’s arrival
in the city of Philadelphia ; and that the
object of the forward movement of I.ee’s
anny is to obtain the same
STATE OF GEORGIA.
Adjutant Sc Ins. Gen’s. Office, >
Milledgeville, June 22d, 1S63. )
General Orders, \
No. 15. f
The President having called upon tlie
Governor of this State for eight thousand
men for local defense under the Acts of
Congress, and tbewbivernor in compliance
with the retjuisitionsjssaed his-proclama
tion for volunteers, his H^celleficy diiects
the following information, to Lo given
for any’ organizations that may he made.
I—Companies of either QavJdry or In
fantry’ will be received, ntimbervng forty
men exclusive of the four commmiijoned
officers. Larger companies will be'pre
ferred. / \
11—Companies elect /heir own company
V
William A. Richardson presided, with officers; and if they fcfm into squadrons,
fifty vice Presidents.—Speeches were
made by Richardson, Voorhees of
Indiana, Cox ot Ohio, Lyle, Dickey,
Gen. McKinstry, Dick Merrick, H. C.
Dean, and some twenty others. Reso
lutions were adopted to the snme ef
fect as those passed by the recent
«tiuo convention wliiuii utnntnuieU
Vallandigham.
Additional resolutions were adopted : so
denouncing Gov. Yates for prorogu-j
ing the Legislature, the suppression of
the Chicago Times the arrest of Judge
Constable, and other citizens of Illi
nois.
battalions or regiment! before being must
cred into service, ljhvc also the right,
under the Act of Congress, of electiny their Valley to light the men they’ stopped
the oath, and vve would rather starve
than do that. They would not even
ailow us to buy a bone of meat to make
soup for the sick. When the Confede
rates came towards Winchester the
atikees once surrounded with six hun
dred of their men about fifty’ of ours,
ana did not kill one—all escaped. Old
Milroy was ripping mad, swore terri
bly’, called the officer who had com
mand and said, “ Why is it that six
hundred Yankees having one hundred
rebels surrounded,let them all escape ?”
The officer said, “All I can say’ is the
rebels fought with daring bravery and
the Yankees like cowards.” They put
the officer under arrest for forty days.
Milroy never goes out. Ho had his
wife and four or live children—ugly
little read-headed things—with him.
They had Mrs. Logan’s fine house.
You heard, I suppose, they sent Mrs.
l\and family’ over the lines. They
took possession of the house and every
thing in it. Instead of coming up the
own field officeis. Bufifthey fonder and are, | j n Winchester and fought tlie women
mustered in as companies before organiz
ing ..into squadrons/ battalions and regi
ments, the Act of CDegress gives tlie Presi
dent the power tii appoint the field offi
cers. All. theiefiiio, can elect both com
pany and field officers if they desire to do
III. The purposes for which the Gov
ernor’s Proclamation of the 26th of May-
last was made being substantially the same
as those looked to by the Proclamation
now issued, under the President’s requisit-
, ion, companies, squadrons, battalions or
The twenty-third resolution is as j regiments organized under the Proclama-
follows:
That further offensive prosecution
of this war tends to subvert tbe Con
stitution and Government, and entail
upon tbe nation all the disastrous
consequences of misrule and anarchy:
that we arc in favor of peace upon
the basis of tbe restoration of the
Union, and for the accomplishment of
which we propose a national conven
tion, to settle upon terms of peace
which shall have in view Ihe restora
tion of the Union as it was, and se
curing, by constitutional amendments
such rights, to the several Mates, and
the people thereof, as honor and jus
tice demand.
DISSOLUTION!
fllHE FIRM OF SCOTT & CARAKER. is
_L disHolved by mntii.il consent.
All peisi>us hub-bred by note or acconut are re
quesled lo make payment, ami those having
claims will present lliem for settlement.
Tiie business iu future \vi 1 be conducted by
Wm. II. .Scott, at the old stand, where lie will be
happy to see the customers of the former firm.
SCOTT & CARAKER.
Milledgeville, June 1st, 1863. 4 4t
j tion of the 20lli of May’, are requested to
tender as now organized ; or to rc-organizc
and offer their services as part of the
eight thousand required from the State.
By order of the Cnmmander-in-Chief.
Hkmiv C. Wayne,
Adj. Sc Ins. General.
The Fight at Mcchanicsburg.
A correspondent of Mississippian,
writing from Meehanicsburg, Yazoo
county, Miss., June 2d, gives a sketch
of tlie skirmish between Brig., Gen.
John Adams’ command of 700 men
and 10,000 of tlie enemy, under Gens.
Kemball and Mowry, on the 4th of
June. With two brigades of infantry’
and two regiments of cavalry, and a
battery of twelve field pieces, they
advanced in two columns, one from
.Sartartia and one from. Vicksburg.
One of the cavalry regiments was
Jim Lane’s Kansas Jayhavvkers. Be
ing fully advised as to the movement,
Geu. Adams sent Major Rorer with
part of the 20th Mississippi cavalry to
skirmish with them on the Vicksburg
and children. The women were firm
and faithful ; never would give up one
step. When Milroy’s wife first cuine
she hail one little trunk, and when she
left she had live vCry large ones—car
ried off everything she could lay her
hands on.
-They say they will not leave a negro
in town when they’ leave. They had
an old darkey under arrest because he
would not work and said he was
“secesh.” They put him in the guard
house and kept him for three days on
water. The fourth day the officer
went and said, “ Are you secesh yet 7”
The faithful old fellow, clapping his
hands, said, “ Bless dc Lord, Massa, I
is secesh yet.” They’ then took him
up to the General’s and put very large
iron balls to his legs, and set him to
splitting wood. Brother Alex, going
by saw him. It happened that tile of
ficer who was guarding him was the
same who had searched our house and
arrested brother. He was cursing the
poor old negro dreadfully; said lie
ought to have a ball on his neck and
one on both arms. The old fellow
went on splitting, saying all the time,
“ Bless de Lord, Massa, anywhere you
can put it. You can kill de body, but
you can’t kill de soul, and when dat
get3 to heaven it will be secesh yet.”
Brother called to the officer and said,
“ Halloo, Grant, is that what you call
freedom ?” Mother and John Godfrey
M. were standing on the steps laughing
and talking. Just at the moment some
little children were laughing and ma-
MILHARY ABUSES.
The evils to which I call attention
are—1st. Substitutes. 2d. Commissa
ries, quartermasters, provost marshals,
etc., and their aids, assistants and
clerks. 3d. Ihe maintenance in the
snrvir.n nf sli«r~*.-~ -- CT =
nies, etc.
1st. Substituting. From my own
personal observations, lam certain that
not in one case in five hundred has the
working of the law authorizing substi
tutes been either beneficial to the coun
try’ or just to the army.
Does the country get a fair equiva
lent when a base mercenary, who has
no interest in the Government, who
will not enlist from patriotism or a
sense of duty, bnt who purely enters
the army and risks his life for paltry
pay’, takes the [dace iu the ranks of a
young man of wealth and education,
who has everything at stake, and is
ashamed not to do his duty while lie
remains in the army, but who yet
shrinks from its hardships and is tempt
ed to escape by the opportunity which
the law gives lim 7 Or is the country
beuefitted when a cunning speculator
or a wily Jew procures a substitute
anu is turned bose upon society to de
preciate our currency, exaggerate the
price ofall commodities, and grind our
people to the eartli 7 Yet, in every in
stance, there are the two classes who
avail themselves of the law.
2d. Commissaries, quartermasters,
provost marshals, etc., their aids, as
sistants, clerks, «tt.
The uninitiated do not understand
the mania which exist for these posi
tions.
What is it so attractive to the com
missary in the issuing of bread and beef
to hungry’soldiers ? Is it that he gloats
upon the sight o^food.it being a scarce
article in the land f
Does the quartermaster itch to han
dle the Confederate notes, ugly’ as they’
are, with which to buy mules and hor
ses and pay off the men 7
Why should most of the provost
marshals swell with ambition to lord
it, like a second Caesar, over some vil
lage of women, dogs and children ?
The Government has discovered the
secret from the thousands of applica
tions which are made every day for
tiiese positions. Colonels, Majors and
Captains leave their commands to re
ceive these appointments. Lieuten
ants, sergeants, privates and subjects to
conscription generally, eagerly seek to
be detailed as assistants, etc. It is
thus our boys scramble to escape from
their duty in the field.
A thousand times have I heard the
question asked with indignation why it
was that the Government, in its anxie
ty to recruit the army,had never drain
ed the notorious reservoirs which re
ceive into their foul harems half the
skulkers in the country, and give to
our guard lines, to our entrenchments,
and to the field, twenty-five thousand
able-bodied recruits.
Vacate these positions, and how well
and honorably’ they can be filled!
They require no manual labor—men
arc detailed specially to lift every sack
of meal, every quarter of beef, pitch
every tent—do all work. Any intelli
gent one-armed, one-legged, one-eyed
man, is as well qualified as the most
imposing incumbent in the Confedera
cy. Then let our wounded and recov
ered veterans, who have spilt their
blood upon our battle-fields, have the
emoluments and honors (for to them it
would be honorable) of these positions.
They deserve it, and the soldiers of the
army’ demand it for their comrades who
have been mutilated by their side, and
whom the Government lias thrown
aside as worthless.
[Correspondence Jackson Appeal.
Executive Department, I
Milledgeville, Ga.. June I5tb. 1863. )
Col. I*. Thweatt, Controller General:
I am informed that some wealthy in
viduais and corporations, who have made
very largo profits during the year, from
1st April 1S62 to 1st April 1863, refuse to
give in their tax returns under the income
1 ax Act passed 18th April, 1863, as they
are ot tlie opinion that the penalty fixed
by law, for such refusal, is less than the
tax due under the act ; while others with
less capital, have probably labored harder,
and obliged to give in and pay the tax on
all they have made as they are not able to
pay’ the penalty for refusing to make their
returns. It is generally understood that
the penalty is 83,000. This depends
section ot tlie act, which declares.
“That if any person, or body corporate
shall fail or refuse to make a return of his,
her, or their profits made or realized as
aforesaid, lie, she, or they shall be held to
have made the sum of 8100.000, and shall
he taxed accordingly.”
’The defect in the section is, that it
docs not say at what per cent, he shail
he held to have made tiie 8100,000. If
at 100 per cent, then the penalty is Sd,-
000. But if at 1,000 per cent, it is 850,-
000.
Upon a careful review of the whole stat
ute, I adopt the latter construction, and
hold that this is. the penalty or tax assess
ed for refusal to make a return.
In the 4*h section, it is provided that a
person, or body corporate, charge I with
having made a false return, and refusing
to produce his or their hooks of entry’, if
they kept any, shall be held to h ve made
1,000 per cent, upon $100,000. Con
struing tlie two sections together, I think
it a lair conclusion, that the per cent, which
a person refusing to make a return shall
he picsumed to have made, was intended
to be as large, as that which a person re
fusing to produce his books of entry, is
presumed to have realized.
This conclusion seems, not only’ to be
warranted by tlie usual-rules of construc
tion, but it can work no injustice, as no
one can be compelled to pay’ the 850,000
who will make a fair return, and pay the
amount of tax which the statute requires
him to pay upon his actual income.
Ho who refuses to make the return may
be safely set down as having made profits
so large as to subject him to more than
$50,000 of tax,and he is not injured by be
ing compelled to pay a sum less than the tax
which would be due from him if he obey
ed the law and gave in as other citizens
do.
Y'ou are, therefore, directed to order the
Tax Collectors of the respective counties
of this State, to assess and collect a tax of
$50,000 from each person, or body corpo
rate in the State, who shall fail or refuse to
make a return of his, her, or their profits,
made or realized as aforesaid.
I am also informed tliat some persons in
the State, who commenced with very small
capital, have made several thousand per
cent, during the year and, as the whole
amount made by such person, will not pay
bis tax, if bis profits exceed 2,000 per
cent, and as I cannot suppose it was the
intention of the Legislature to take all a
person made for tax, much less to bring
him in debt—as authorized by tlie 76th
Section of the Code, I direct you to order
the Collectors, in all cases, where the tax
exceeds one half uf all the net profets a
person or body corporate has made, to
collect one-half of the whole amount made
by such person, as tax, and suspend the
collection of the balance, required by
the Statute, till the meeting of the Legisla
ture.
JOSEPH E. BROWN,
Governor.
[BV ALTIIOR1TV.J
ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE
CONGRESS OF THE CONFEDER
ATE STATES, PASSED AT THE
THIRD SESSION—1863,
f No. 90.]
AN ACT To authorise the establishment
of Express Mails-
The Congress of the Confederate States
of Ameiica dc enact, That the Postmaster
Genera! be. and be is hereby authorised,
if found practicable and necessary, to es
tablish express mails for the conveyance of
letters and government dispatches only, as
a means of securing greater dispatch than
can be afforded by the regular mails ; and
-tbe lines of express mails so established
shall he deemed post routes.
See. 2. The rates of postage on. such
lines shall he fixed by the Postmaster Gen
eral, but shall not exceed one dollar on a
single ietter not exceeding in weight one
half ounce, and at the same rate for any
additional half ounce or fraction of a half
ounce, for any distance not exceeding fi ve
hundred miles, and for any distance ex
ceeding five hundred miles double tbe said
rate to be so fixed. Provided, this law
shall not repeal the laws now in force reg
ulating the ordinary mail service.
Approved May 1, 1863. 6 2t
[ No. 92 ]
JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for
the Payment of certain Accounts of the
* i• . . , . m * ’* v * 1,v * -
ot the Inn ion Tiuup».
Resolved by the Oongr&is ofthe Oonfed-
eratte States of America, ll’hat the Quar
termaster General audit and pay the ac
counts of the Acting Quartermaster and
other officers of the Indian troops, for camp
utensils, horse equipments, clothing, ord
nance, and advance stores furnished by
Jones aud TheLo and R. M. Jones, for the
use of said troops, upon the hills of paiticu-
lars herewith filed, amounting to eleven
thousand two hundred and sixteen dollars
and seventy-five cents : Provided, That
said accounts have been examined and ap
proved by Brigadier General Albert Pike
Approved 3Iay 1, 1863. 6 It
[ No. 93. |
AN ACT To Continue and Amend the
Third Section of an Act Supplementary
to an Act concerning tlie Pay aud Allow
ance due to deceased Soldiers, Approv
ed J£4»l«lTS?yl5th, 1862. and to Provide
for the Prompt Settlement of Claims for
Arrearages of Pay,Allowance and Boun
ty due Deceased Officers and Soldiers.
The Congress ofthe Confederate States
of America do enact, 'That the third section
of an Act entitled “ An Act supplementa
ry to an act concerning the pay and allow
ance due to deceased soldiers,” approved
February loth, 1862, and to provide for
the prompt settlement of claims for arrear
ages of pay, allowance and bounty due de
ceased officers and soldiers, he continue 1 of
force until otherwise provided by Con
gress.
Approved May 1, 1863.
6 4t
[ No. 94.
AN ACT To amend an Act
Act to organize Military
tend the Army ofthe Con
in the field, and to dofmefthe powers of
said courts,” Approved OctooSr 9th,
1862.
The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact, That in addition to
one military court to attend each army
corps in the field, as now autiioiized by an
Act entitled “ An Act to organize militaiy
courts to attend the army ofthe Confede
rate States in the field, and to define the
power of said Courts,” approved October
ninth, eighteen hundred and sixty-two,one
military court shall be organized in each of
such military departments as, in the judg
ment of the President, the public exigen
cies may require ; to be organized in the
manner and with powers prescribed in the
act of which this is amendatory.
Approved May 1, 1863. 6 3t
f No. 95.]
AN ACT In Relation to the Custody of
Persons Charged with Offences against
the Confederate States.
As the Governor is a part of the law-ma
king power, and the Chief Executive Offi
cer ofthe State.you will obey and cary out
j bis Orders contained in the above communi
cation. Yeiy Respectfully.
PETERSON THWEATT,
Comptroller General.
A Fierce Baltic on Wednesday, IT til.
Jackson, June 23.—Col. Wirt Adams’
cavalry attacked four hundred of the ene
my’s cavalry at Bear Creek, near Mcchan
icsburg, yesterday, and routed them, cap
turing their artillery and killing and
wounding one hundred. Our loss is twen
ty-five in killed and wounded. Among
the latter is Capt. F. Yerger, who distin
guished himself in the action.
A special dispatch to the Mississippian,
dated Grenada, 22d, says: We whipped
tlie, Yankees at Panola on Friday. Chal
mers attacked the 2d Illinois cavalry four
miles from Hernando at daylight. Idling
wounding and capturing all but one com
pany. On Saturday night Chalmhrs was
at Hickerhally with a Yankee force this
side of him. Gen. George’s State troops
and McCullough’s were in four miles ofthe
rear of the enemy. The Yankees are
healing North.
Jackson, June 23—A bearer of de
spatches who left Vicksburg, reports that
the enemy made a desperate assault on
our ceotre on that day. The engagement
lasted four hours. He escaped through
their lines during the action and knows
that they were repulsed with heavy loss.
When he left there was no loss on our side
de says the assault was more vigorous
than any preceding, aud [the rout of the
enemy complete.
The last official dispatches received
Richmond, June 25. — Tbe Baltimore American
ofthe 22d, has a Harrisburg telegram, of 21st,
which says it is reported that the rebels, 40,000
strong, are at Hagerstown fortifying.
The troops at Harrisburg are expecting march-
ing orders immediately.
Governor Curtin has received a despatch from
Chambersbnrg, which states that Jenkins was at
Gainsboro’ last evening, and that he had beeu
plundering houses among tbo mountains.
Couch received a despatch reporting rebel cav
alry at Gettysburg.
'i he force that went to JIcConnellsville helped
themselves to w hatever they wanted in the stores,
and collected large numbers of cattle and horses
and moved off towards Hancock.
A small mounted force rode into Frederick on
Saturday, and paroled the sick soldiers in Ihe hos-
pitals, t'-ok a few horses and left.
No attack, so far. on Harper's Ferry, f—
Three thousand laborers were called into ser
vice, and negroes freely impressed, for the thor
ough fortification of Baltimore.
Nothing ih finite is known of the movements or
position of either Lee or Hooker.
Richmond, June 25.—Ten tr*nsports appeared
at White House this morning, when a small force
was lauded. It is reported that the pickets ad
vanced :is far as Tunstalis. No apprehensions is
feit in official circles. Efficient measures are be
ing taken to repel the advance if attempted.
Richmond, June 2 ; 3.—Imboden lias
destroyed all the works shops, machin
ery, locomotives, and cars onjthe Cum
berland, and every bridge from the
Little Capon some distance west of
the Cumberland, an imrnese Tunnel
was also destroyed, the great iron
bridge knocked to pieces. This is the
grandest blow of the kind ever yet
given them. -'
Osyka June 25.—Gen. Taylor fought
and whipped the Federals opposite Baton
Rouge, nn Sunday.
Jackson, June 25.—Col. Lyons, com
manding cavalry outside Port Hudson,
attacted Grierson in the rear of Banks’
army yesterday, capturing fifty prisoners,
fifty-seven wagons and teams, putting the
remainder to flight.
A special dispatch to the Mississippian,
dated Granada, 24th says eighty-three
prisoners taken by Chalmers, have arri
ved
The Memphis Bulletin of the ISth,
says the rebels are making demonstrations
above and below Memphis, which are ex
ceedingly disagreable.
The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact. That whenever,from
insecurity or other reason, a District Court
Commissioner shall, in his discretion, deem
it inadvisable to'commit a prisoner to the
jail of the county in which lie shall be sit
ting, he shall commit him to any other jail
within his district, or the district within
whichthojiliirtTCo is alleged to have been
comffutted, which shall seem to him most
convenient and safe.
Sec. 2. That whenever it shall appear
to a Commissioner that good reason exists
for the removal of a prisoner already com
mitted. he shall order his removal and com
mitment to any jail to which he might
have committed him under the first section
of this act.
Approv»d May 1, 1S63. 6 2t
[ No. 96.]
j States having no snch law, one person as
| agent, owner, or overseer, on each planta-
I tion of twenty negroes and on which there
is no white male adult not liable to military
service,” and also tbe lollowing clause iu
said act, to wit: “ And furthermore for ad
ditional police for every twenty negroes on
two or more plantations, within five miles
of each other, aud each having less than
twenty negroes, and on which There is no
white male adult not liable to military duty
one person beiug the oldest of the owners
or overseers on snch plantations,” he and
the same are hereby repealed.
Sec. 2. For the police and management
of slaves there shall be exempted one per
son on each farm or plantation, tlie sole
property of a minor, a person of unsound
mind, a feme sole, or a person absent from
home in the military or naval service of ih e
Confederacy, on which there are twenty or
more slaves : Provided, the person so ex
empted was employed and acting as an
overseer previous^) the sixteenth of April
eighteen hiindre/and sixty-two, and there
is no white male It on said farm or
plantation, who is not liable to military du-
ty. which fact sha 1 Ue verified by the affi
davits of said personf and two respectable
citizens, and shall bg filed with the enrol-
ling officer : And provided, The owner of
such farm or plantation, his agent, or les a ]
representative, shall make affidavit and de
liver the same to the enrolling officer, that,
after diligent effort, no overseer can be pro
cured for such farm or plantation not liable
to military duty: Provided, further, That
this clause shall not extend to any farm or
plantation on which the negroes have been
plantation
ber, eighteen hundred and sixty-two ;
Provided, further. That for every person
exempted, as aforesaid, and during the pe
riod of such exemption there shall be paid
annually into the public 'Treasury, by the
owners of sueh slaves, the sum of five hun
dred dollars.
8ec. 3. Such other persons shall be ex
empted as the President shall be satisfied
ought to be exempted in districts of coun
try deprived of white or slave labor indis
pensable to tlie production of grain or pro
visions necessary for the support ofthe pop-
ulationwcilUiiiiiig at home, and also on ac
count of justice, equity and necessily.
See. 4. In addition to the State officers
exempted by the act of Oct (Jar eleventh,
eighteen hundred and sixjv-t^r/, there shall
also be exempted aB St^fe officers whom
the Governor of an/Sta’e may claim to
have exempted for (me due administration
ef-the Government and laws thereof; hut
this exemption shall not continue in any
State after the adjournment of the next
regular session of its Legislature, unless
such Legislature shail by law exempt them
from military duty in the Provisional Army
of the. Confederate States.
Approved 31 ay i, 1863. 6 2t
1’hc Sighl ^housrand Volunteers.
Bibb’s Quota of the S’000 State ,
Volunteers, we learn, is 400. We hope
it will promptly be raised by volun-,
teering. It should be understood that
this service will not, in ordinary prob
ability, take the soldier from his home
or his business. He will, we trust, be
required to muster aud drill sufficient
ly to make hitn somewhat familiar
with the duties ofthe soldier, but un
less our vicinity should be afflicted In*
an incursion ofthe enemy in the. shape
of raid, nothing more will be re
quired of him. Some fear that, possi
bly, in case of an attack upon Savan
nah, these volunteers may be ordered
down to a protrae’ed term of duty in
the trenches. There need be no such
fear.—The Government will provide a
garrison for Savannah in case of an
attack in force upon the place. We
trust and believe there is spirit enough
to rally our whole arms-bearing popu
lation, if necessary, to meet and re
pulse the foe; and that the volunteers
would not be absent at such a time, it
theiraid was desired.
But it is not in the contemplation
of the Confederate or State authority
to impose any protracted service
whatever—the object being simply to
organize a force to meet sudden emer
gencies which caunot be provided
against out oftbearinies in the fiel< ?
without seriously crippling thei*
strength for the geueral defence (f
the country. We ask attention to the
order of Gen. Wayne in this connec
tion, and invoke the serious and earn
est consideration ofthe people to this
matter. We cannot present it in a
stronger light than by quoting the fol
lowing paragraph from the army cor
respondent ofthe .Mobile Reister:
[Telegraph.
Any man who will pause a moment
in his fancied security and think, and
thinking, have the moral courage to
look things deliberately in the face,
will have a view not overly preposses
sing. He will see that he has no gov
ernment, Confederate or State* no life
no liberty or property, except such as
AN ACT To Provide for the Election of j |, e j s a ' 0 ]“ e to i lo u alu j maintain at the
iletnbers of Congress for certain Districts
of the Slate of Louisiana.
The Congress of H»r4!onfetlcraie States
of America do enactVffuat unless the Leg
islature thereof shall onI77Nvi.se provide,the
members of Congress fora*y district of the
State of Louisiana in wlJch an election
cauuot conveniently be/held in conse
quence of the same bcipg occupied wholly
mouth ofthe cannon and at the point
of the bayonet. The sacking ol the
South is the last card of the Lincoln
dynasty, and if men will not now*
arouse themselves at once for the iiehl
the loss of property will begreaterthan
ever known betore. I am using no idle
language, or speculating in probabih-
or in part by the troop^of the euciny.may, j ties. If men will stand like gapii’2
on proclamation of that fact, by the Gov- i fools until everything is swept from
ernor of said State, be chosen by the qual- I them, let it not be said that they were
ified voters thereof, in such portions of tbe j not forewarned of the impending ca-
State as shall not be so occupied. lamity. The cavalry raids that will
Sec. 2. 1 he election provided for m the j soon be sent South \ viI | quickly teach
foregoing section shall be held at such time i l ,
and places as may be prescribed b} - the j people a practical and In ter h-o. -
laws of said State now in force, or as here- | * fearful that the (_> oil ret tra g 1
mv will receive but few more recruits
after to be enacted.and shall in ail respects,
not inconsistent with the provisions of this
act, be conducted in the mode prescribed
by said laws.
Approved 3Iay 1, 1S63. 2t
l No. 97.]
AN ACT To Repeal Certain Clauses of
an Act entitled “ An Act to Exempt
Certain Persons from Military Service,”
See., Approved October 1 lih, 1S62.
The Congress of tbe Confederate States
of America do enact, That so much of tbe
Act approved October eleventh, eighteen
hundred and 6ixty-two, as exempts from
military service “ one person, either as
agent, owner, or overseer, on each planta
tion on which one white person is required
to be kept by the laws or ordinances of any
State, and on which there is no white male I
until these raids shall have been nimL’
when vou may expect to see an a riff'
of men lighting to avenge outrage*- R
is a terrible lash, and will be laid en
without mercy.
Cmporlnnirroui tie Sonlhww**
The President on Monday received from
General Joseph E. Johnston a to ,°g ra '
announcing that Major General
Taylor,commanding a division uniter
era! Kirby Smith, had taken possession
Ylilliken’s Bend. The dispatch _ <>oes V
mention any battles as occurring, *
therefore we presume tbe Yankees e'***
ted the place without a fight. - ' } ,
Bend is a strong position commando^ _
Jlississippi liver, twenty-five nn 03 8 .
Vicksburg. It being in our po?s ( •
adult not liable to military service, and in I effectually cuts off Grant’s suppli ps -
