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FoV i’UtxiiMc of pfljt-Gi ftt tis£ JiiCcirtivS
gr-nMioi wottncl bf tbe liand ft&d otber dffi*
Abilities. What a medical eianilticr is.
or what lug authorities or duties, or who
sent them to examine, or tor what purpose
they examined Chapin, does not appear
from the certificate or from the petitioner.
This is sufficient to reject this ground as
having nothing to do with the matter in
hand. But the fact happens to he known
to me that these surgeons were lawfully
appointed to examine and decide whether
Chapin was fit to go into the twelve regi
•t E _
t)cpaitmente and Congtfcssi tWetUy*itVfc
thousand dollars.
For salaries of judges, attorneys and
marshals, and incidental anu contingent cx-
penses of courts, twenty-five thousand dol
lars. _ „
For compensation of three commission
ers, appointed under the sequestration act,
and for clerk hire and contingent expenses,
five thousand three hundred and twenty-
five dollars. . « . ...
! meats which were to be in the constant null-
Post, Office Department —For compen I (j, r y service for the three years of the war. 1
sation of the Postmaster General, chiefs of j have already noticed that tbe standard r.f w
bureaux, cleiks. messengers, watchman i n bility or disability has been changed since merit.was placed ill their rear
and laborers, forty-seven thousand * <n,r j this decision was made. The question
hundred and eight dollars and thirty-four i J j ieu j ec ;,j e j wag> tbat Chapin was unfit
cents. . j for constant military service for three
For incidental and contingent expenses y 0ars — t |, e question here made is whether
of the Post Office Department, fi\o thou- . j lfi f or occasional local defence for six
sand dollars.
Miscellaneous.—For rent of executive
buildings and President’s bouse, ten thou
sand dollars.
For eompensation of agents, cost of ma
terials and constructing, repairing and op
erating telegraph lines, fifty thousmd dol
lars.
Approved February 10, 1S63.
months. If any authorised medical agent
I of the Government lias already decided
i him to be unfit for this last mentioned ser-
i vice, then I have already held, and should
; probably hold again, that lie must be dis-
I charged on habeas carpus.
The petitioner’s next ground is, that
I “on the 14tli January, 1SG3, ho was regu
larly declared exempt from conscription by
'uis occupation as shoemaker.” He con-
, tends this Exempts him from militia duty.
Decision of Judge Thomas. an j consequently from this draft, because
At Chambers, Aug. 13, 1S63. j the Georgia law iif the list of exemptions
In the matter of Richard S. Chapin, who j iucludes “all persons exempted by the
petitions for habeas corpus against W y- j act of Congress.” Now this makes it very
lie P. Hill, Colonel of the Wilkes Ceuu- clear that he is exempt from this draft
ty Militia. j if lie is exempt from militia duty by any
Tbe petitioner alleges that Colonel Hill, act of Congress. The conscript law ex-
under the late order of his Excellency empts shoemakers from conscription—that
Governor Brown has drafted or detached ' is, from being put in the regular army for
him for the local defence of this State three years, which is something very dif-
against tlie raids of the enemy, now be-, ferent from militia duty ; and tho reason
coming so frequent and so fatal to the pros- , of the law in the one case does not all bold
perity"and safety of the people of this na-. Lp the other. The truth is, Chappin’s
tion, and prays this Court, on several j being a shoemaker, is the very thing which
grounds assigned, to .be discharged from ! makes him subject to this draft. He is
this most honorable and necessary service, evidently not 4a years of age, or else, he
It is a matter of profound regret and mor- would have claimed his discharge on that
tification that any free man would object i ground; and but for bis trade be would be
to this service who is physically able to subject to conscription, and not subject
perforin it. Our brave defenders in the to this draft. If be will allege and prove
armv. for two years or more, have been be is subject to conscription, I would be
offering their naked breasts as a rampart compelled to discharge him from tbis
between ns and a foe, whose tender mer- : draft.
cies arc the worst of cruelties, and yet we Whereupon, it is ordered and adjudged
see some who are unwilling to perforin this i by tbe Court that Richard S .Chapin is a
easy and brief service to protect the homes hale, hearty, athletic man, eminently lit
and families of these brave defenders. It , for local defence,most righteously and con-
is bad enough that stinginess and avarice stitutionaily drafted, tbat there is noth
in©
permit their families to suffer for food, as material the matter with his hand or his
thev do in hundreds of instances ; it will cranium, and that the writ of habeas corpus
be still worse if by indolence or coward- be refused, and that Col. Hill be allowed
ice, the enemy is permitted to butcher without hindrance, or molestation from
these tlefenci ’ess families, and burn their tbis Court to deliver him to His Excellency
shelters over - heir hearts.
Still, if thi petitioner, ‘has the law on
bis side,’ (to u.-; a homely but expressive
phrase) it must be administered in bis be
half. and be must be left at homo to nurse
his Turner and to make shoes for people wLo
would all be dead if everybody did as lie
wishes to do, while better men go on tbis
duty to light for bis wife and children,
whom lie refuses to defend,
The new code prescribes : “If upon ex
amination of such petition (for habeas cor
pus) it shall not appear to such Judge or
the Governor, to be employed for six
months in the local defence of the peo
ple of this State against the raids of the
enemy.
THOMAS W. THOMAS,
J. S. C. N. G.
From the Charleston Mercury.
Thr I'«cilia of Vealiriln;—Terrible H«m-
bnrilmrnt of flattery IVa^ncr- llio Fleet
Kepulsrd by Fortttuuilrr.
pus, It snail not appear to such ouuge or , T,ie bombardment of Monday was of
Justice that such restraint of liberty is not ; unprecedented severity. Sunday night
le-Ml, be shall grant the writ oihabias 1 bad been comparatively quiet, but early
ronius." tbe meaning of which I take to i “I th ® moraine the Iron sides, with the fleet
be that it the restraint of liberty does ap- ^monitors and gunboats, opened on Forts
pear to be legal be shall not giant it. It
"is a plain dHty, therefore, devolving upon
me at the thre.dihold, to inquire whether
legal grounds for the writ are shewn in
this petition, and if not then to refuse it.
The first ground is that the Surgeon of
the militia regiment to which he belongs,
on 2‘.fili January, pronounced him
disqualified to perform militia duty on ac
count of disabled condition of right hand
from gun-shot wound, and on-28th March,
]8<i2, tbe same Surgeon pronounced him
unfit to peiform militia duty on account of
c-un-shot wound of right hand, and frac- „ ,
h , ■ , of nearly three hours,
tured cranium, producing compression ot ; , T
... x- 1 ,i j i e discomfited. In retrea
the brain. Now, the powers and duties ot
Wagner and Gregg ; and about 7 o’clock
the Parrott guns of the Yankee land bat
teries opened on Fort Sumpter. The
firing was fast aud furious—all of our own
land batteries entering into tbe contest.—
Between ten and eleven o’clock, a. m., the
Ironsides, six monitors and six gunboats
rounded tbe point of Morris Island, and
engaged Fort Sumter. The result of this*
portion ot tbe day’3 operations was most
encouraging indeed. Eye witnesses assert
that the Ironsides and the monitors were
repeatedly struck by shells from Sumter
and Gregg. At last, after an engagement
the fleet drew off
renting, tbe Ironsides
a regimental Surgeon are well settled by : . , ... , , , ,
° .. . ° . i mediately afterwards the whole squadron
was observed to make a signal, and iin-
law. He has no command and only nom- .... . ,, . n , e
. , . ir - - - * i 1 displayed their Hags at halt mast—a proof,
inal rank, tie can give opinions and ad- r j . . ° — r
vice to the commander, which, if approved,
may be carried into effect by him (the
commander.) but not by the. Surgeon. He
ran exempt no one from militia or other
duty, even for one day, still less for all
time. These opinions were announced
eighteen months ago or more, and the com
mander failed or refuse%to approve them
so far as appears in this petition—and
herein ! agree entirely with the comman-
lt is thought, that some officer of high
rank had fallen on board of the Ironsidef.
Ill the afternoon the fleet again renewed
their bombardment of Wagner, which un
der a heavy fire of shell, still replied with
vigor. At the same time the Parrott guns,
which had not ceased their fire even upon
tbe repulse of the ships, continued to play
upon Sumter. To these our land bat
teries, and among them some new
ones, i? is reported, that had not before
dcr. This petitioner voluntarily subject- b ^ u ’ e<J - Hed for the fort ._
ed himself to iny inspection. is ri^ ) firing did not slacken until late
forefinger has been hurt and is still some- : in fhe a f ternoon , a ud at t], e hour wo write
what injured by a ,a * <>r s io passing ; t ; g continued at irregular intervals,
through it. Now, the clue use o a rig i , At Sumpter a blacksmith whose name
forefinger is to pull the trigger, an >>s ^ have not ascertained, was killed.—
forefinger is as goot. tort mt us it e\cr was. rpj jree 0 flj cers and. ten privates were woun-
Besides. it has been long established m the ] ^ ]jieutenants
Confederate army by lawful authority. Midulkton,
that tbe entire loss of a linger does not 1
disqualify for service for three years in
tbe regular army, stiil less would it dis
qualify for tbis mu* h lighter service,
which is not much more iatiguing than a
possum hunt, nor much more dangerous
than a fox chase. Am! this rule has been
established iu the regular army since this
Surgeon gave these certificates
Jn relation to the “fractured cranium
producing slight compression of the brain,”
it must be very slight, I apprehend.— I j.
His mind, it seems to me, is quite clear
bad
Julies Rhett and
1st S. 0. Artillery
(Regulars), were slightly bruised by some
shattered bricks, and Lieutenant John
Johnstjx, of the Engineers, leceived a
j slight flesh wound. The names of the
private# have not reached us.
At Fort Wagner we have to lament the
loss of Captain Wampler, of the Engineers
who was killed by a shell. In the Cal
houn Guard, Private Ogikr Martin, u
•youth of seventeen, son of Mr. VVm. M.
Martin, of this city, and Private Eugene
Baker, were killed* The latter, a
young Charlestonian, well known apd
and even showed —fit least, lie had wit I highly esteemed, had his leg so badly
enough to change materially the cas f.‘ 1 1 c | shattered that amputation yas immediate
ly resorted to, hilt lie died under the ope-
he insisted on having; for the case he
makes in the petition is quite different,—
His complaint in the conversation was that
he was dratted out of his proper county,
and that his nose was fractured—lie said
nothing about cranium. I showed him
the. law which established his residence in
Wilkes, where his family lived, and not in
Lincoln, where ho happened to be shoe-
making : and as to his nose, that was a
question for tl.3 surgeon when lie was of-
tered to the government as a soldier for
local defence. And herein lies, I appre
bend, the principle which disposes of all
of this branch of the petitioner’s case
against him. All these alleged disabilities
arc medical questions for the government
when the soldier is offered to them, and
do not afford.a ground for this court to for
bid the party to he. drafted and offered
to the government. The militia law of
Georgia does indeed specify that the mili-
I ration. Private Campbell King, of the
, same Company, son of the late Hon.
! Mitchell King, was slightly wounded,
i and brought to town in the afternoon.—
i We are not able to say whether these
comprise all the casualties at the fort.
P. S.—Since writing the above, we
have learned that Captain Miles, of the
Calhoun Guard, was temporarily stunned
with a shell, but was enabled before the
close of the day to resume his duties.—
Orderly Surgeant Dan'll Webb and 2d
Lieutcnand Waring Axson, both of the
Calhoun Guard, were also slightly wound
ed. At this hour (midnight) the sky is
lowering and the atmosphere dark and
murky. The firing on Loth sides seems to
have been suspended.
One Joe Smith lately went to a Can
dler’s shop, and was served with a pound
tia nmn shall be “able bodied;” and this candles, at two dollars a pound.
petitioner says in general terms that lie is
not ahje bodied, hut his specification of
facts does not sustain this general allega
tion ; and while he might Lave the right
to prove before a court that he is not able
bodied, and thus he discharged, yet it is
clear I ought not to give him this writ to | Reported Recapture of Yazoo City.—
enable him to prove this, until he lias ; \y e have a report that Jackson’s cavalry
“Aren’t they dear?” lie asked.
“They’ll he dearer still,” said the shop
keeper, “if tbis war goes on.”
“What!” says old Joe, “are they going
to fight by caudle light ?”
specified the particulars aud sworn to
them.
The petitioner’s, next greund is that
three doctors calling tbemsehes “medical
examiners,” did, oy the 4'h 31 arch, 18G2,
pronounce him, the said Qichaid S. Chap-
iu, uufit tojr military duty on account of
dashed into YaEoo City, Miss., about the
7th instant, and killed about-two hundred
of the garrison, winch consisted chiefly of
negro troops. It is also stated that several
hundred of the blacks were captured. Tho
Yankees had been publishing a news sheet
styled th$ “Ya^oo Yankee.”
tCorfe.-.pGSidencfl of ihb New 3< tk iixpfrJs.j
3»ow the l?aaiiees Drove the 2Sc£fos
to Slaughter at Tort Hudson.
New Orleans, June 2d.—The report
in question gives a somewhat different
version ot the conduct of the negros
in the assault made on the 27th to that
given by eye witnesses of their hero
ism, determination and daring. Ol
their possession of these qualities there
appears to have been some doubt, and.
to force them to maintain their posi
tion in front and prevent a sudden
“change of base,” a Connecticut regi-
’ " ’ ’ Front
this it would seetn that “they made,
during the day, three charges upon
the batteries of the enemy,” more as a
matter of necessity than of choice.
They were sent forward as sappers and
miners,"without arms, but with the
implements and means of preparing for
the advance of the white troops. Be
fore them was an unseen enemy; be
hind them glistening bayonets in the
hands of their professed friends. That
they became desperate under such cir
cumstances is by no means surprising.
They rushed forward upon sudden de
struction, us a horse is said to dash in
to the devouring flames.
As to the batteries upon which the
negros charged, a word of explanation
is necessary. The enemy had placed
one or two, perhaps more guns, as a
decoy, in a position that was exposed
not only to a front but an enfilading
fire. This decoy battery was tbe one
upon which the negro regiments made
their desperate charge, to be repulsed
with a heavy loss. What was left ot
them were afterwards sent to bring
oil’the wounded, when they were again
exposed to a terrific lire. The result
was, as reported by eye witnesses,
that only six or seven hit tidied out of
nearly two full regiments of negros es
caped slaughter. But few ot their
wounded were rescued, and that few
saved themselves, not being disabled in
their lower limbs.
One the members of the Connecti
cut regiment stationed to protect the
negros iu the rear, says he fired a
number of times during the day, and
on neither occasions did lie aim at the
rebels. This fire in the rear may have
had the effect of goading on the “sable
soldiers” to such feats cf desperate he
roism.
Previous to the assault upon his
works. Gen. Gardner sent under a
flag of truce, to inquire whether tbe
negros were to be pitted against his
forces? The reply of Gen. Banks was
that the negros were United States
soldiers, aud must be treated and res
pected accordingly. < >n the receipt
of this answer, those who witnessed
the assault report that it appeared as
through every available gun on the
works or within them was brought
to bear upon the two negro regiments.
This may have been what was expec
ted of them. If so, Gen. ‘Banks was
justified in saying of the negros “they
answered every expectation.” If there
is anv glory in being tints substituted
Tor breastworks and being sacrificed
for the protection of others, the negros
have covered themselves all over with
that dear-bought commodity. .Since
then this terrible slaughter of the ne
gros who were rushed forward at the
point of the bayonet, unarmed, upon
certain destruction, is used to excite
the negros to rush to arms and avenge
the death of their comrade.
The accounts of desperate hand to
hand struggles between the furious
rebels and savage negros, in which the
latter freely used, having no other
weapons, their feet, hands head and
teeth, are purely imaginary. No such
contests took place. Why would the
Confederates come from their breast
works, when they were mowing them
down by the hundred? Men of com
mon sense would not be tints prodigal
of their lives, and the correspondents
who write such stuff must entertain
a very meant opinion of the intelligence
of their Northern readers. White
men of the South would not even thus
acknowledge the equality of the negro.
They only kill them as a matter of. ne
cessity.
In the second assault the negros are
reported to have suffered a loss of six
nor eight hundred, but its no account
appears to have been kept of them,
the public will never know how many
of them are thus emancipated for till
time to come upon the battlefield. The
destruction of slavery appears to be
the prime object of tbe war, aud.it
would .seetn that the authorities have
become tired of the slow and some
what uncertain process of emancipa
tion, and have determined to adopt
the more summary mode ot putting the
males, all that are able bodied, in the
front rank, and thus get them killed
otf, while the women and children tire
huddle together in unhealthy locali
ties, and left to die of disease and
want. This is Northern philanthro
py- ,
The Ohl Issue.—’I'lie Richmond Whig
makes a good suggestion in the following,
which we cordially second :
Busines men are now called upon to pay
the specific tax, due to the Confederate
Government, under the Tax Bill of last
session. Those who defer payment until
the 2d of September next, will he required
to pay a double tax. We again invoke
the attention of tax payers to the expedi
ency of paying their dues iu the Treasury
notes issued prior to December last. Let
everybody aid in getting rid of this cur
rency, which being taken by some and
ejected by others, is a source of general
annoyance, as well as of injury to the
Confederate credit. Will not the brokers
aid the people in this matter ?
Negroes Rd/fning—There was an in
teresting examination yesterday, before
Judge Rapier, of two negroes who were
captured by a picket in the direction of
Pensacola ; the point in question being
whether tiny were guilty of insurrection
or were simply mnaways. 'The examina
tion showed that they had at first run away
to the Yankees, but very soon got cured
of their fancy for freedom, and were on
their way back to their masters when cap-
tufed.-s-jlio#. Reg.
Opposition to 5ds-
The Athens Watchman, through n
Correspondent, suggests the name ot
lion. Joshua Hill, of Morgan, as a sui -
able candidate for Governor, in oppos -
tion to the present incumbent. Av.d
the Atlanta Gazette in commenting
favorably on the nomination, says that
“Mr. Hill, his friends assureus, allows
his name to be announced, simply; it
being understood that he will not send
forth nor deliver any address, nor
in any manner engage in a scramble
] lor office.”
| To our mind, with the understand
ring aforesaid, that Mr. Hill will be a
| nium candidate, who will not let the
j people know what his views are upon
! the momentous issues now before the
|country and looming up into fearful
, importance, such as the policy of re
construction, the duty of retaliation,
&v., A'c-, we have no hesitation in sav-
iing that Mr. Hill cannot, get our sup
port. Mr. Hill has, moreover, sot#ie
antecedents to explain away, before lie
can be acceptable to a people strug
gling for existence. He was the last
! member of Congress, from Georgia, if
our memory serves us right, to leave
the Federal capital, and was then
strongly suspected of being ultra
Uttionish in his sentiments. His long si
lence since confirms such suspicions,
and render some explanation necessary
on his part, if lie becomes a candidate
for Governor or any other position.
If lie is a friend of the administration
lie certainly has not taken any special
pains to let it he known to the people.
Confederate.
S’iovida and Her Soldiers.
We have frequently (says the Rich
mond Sentinel) had occasion to remark
how well the Floridians fight, and how
little they grumble. From the rulers,
and thejournalsj^md the soldiers, of
Florida, we have never, seen anything
but what was cheerful and brave. It
is a small State, and cannot send as
many troops to the field as her sisters;
but no people have endured the hard
ships of invasion with greater cheer-
i fulness, or sent braver men to the field
! or more of them in proportion to pop
ulation. Indeed, we heard a young Vir»
ginia soldier—himself as gallant a man
as wears our uniform—^say, that the
; coolest courage lie had witnessed in
I any of the fights of the war was by a
| youth from Florida in the battle of
Seven Pities. Gen. Johnston, we ob
serve, has, in special orders, commend
ed the Florida brigade under Ids com
mand, for its very handsome behavior
on a recent occasion. We designed
to copy the order, but iiave mislaid
\ it.
The Inequalities of par tune are strongly
illustrated in the following paragraph from
I the English correspondence of the New
York Evening Post :
: The recent “drawing-room” at which
; Wales aqd wife represented to Queen,
; was the first held since the death of Bunco
Albert, aud one of the most biilliant
known ; but there was a fearful skeleton
at the feast, and the elegant ladies there
I have been startled to find blood upon their
garments. A sewing girl, employed by
one cf the fashionable dressmakers, was
! killed by overwork on dresses ordered for
that very drawingroom. The papers took
up the matter, and the revelation in the
• Mary Ann Walkley case—with which
your readers are probably familiar—have
created a wide-spread excitement. The
whole London season of 1SG3 has been
; overdone. It ha3 been more awfully in-
congrous than the splendor of Paris last
winter. Millions of pounds have been
spent in brilliant gaiety am 1 courtly ban
quets, and yeti heard a Lancashire opera
tive say this very week to a relieving
officer: “I-would rathJf throw myself in
to the canal than to see my children starv
ing slowly to death any longer; isn’t it
hard to see a child starved to death ?” rais
ing as he spoko, the sheet which covered
the sharp peaked features of a dead,starved
little boy.
An Iuci<I<-iit.
Evelvn the racy correspondent of the
• Mobile “Advertiser,” narrates tho follow
ing incident:
I When the army was passing through
! Pennsylvania, the ladies frequently came
I out their houses to show their feelings of
hostilities to us, and to display some evi
dence of it. At one place a beautiful giil
ran down the steps of an elegant mansion
and standing on the terrace in front,
waved a miniature United States Hag in
the face of our troops. Behind her, ap
plauding her act, was grouped a party of
ladies, all richly and fashionably attired,
evidently belonging to a family of some
note. The troops passed by quietly,
offering no insult to the ilushert beauty as
she flaunted her flag in their faces. At
that moment Gen. Lee rode up. His no-
i hie face and quiet reproving look met her
‘ eve, and the waving flag was lowered.—
For a moment she looked at him and then
j throwing down the miniature banner, ex-
; claimed audibly, as she clasped her white
hands together; “Uli ! I wish he was
! ours!” The flag was not picked up, with
hands still held tightly together, and, with
a sad thoughtful face, she went back to
the porch. No further attempt to show
| Union sentiment was made by those la
dies.
Confederate Money in the North.—It is a
: sad commentary on the avarice and ex
tortion of the times, and the more the
shame for the people of this Confederacy,
that its currency is worth more in the
United S’ates than at the doors of the
Tieasury Department that issues it at
Richmond. Gentlemen who traveled in
tlie w-ake of General Lee’s army in both
Maryland and Pennsylvania, have de
monstrated this humiliating fact to our
satisfaction. They state that the usual
charge among the people for a dinner was
half a dollar in the Yankee currency, or
one dollar in Confederate notes; aud
“greenbacks” were available in large and
small amounts at one dollar premium, or
“two for one,” as they call it there, that
being the undeviating standard: That
our enemies should tliink better of our
currency than their own is not to he won
dered at, when the condition of the two
sections is considered, with the sure basis
upon which our credit rests ; hut that our
people should contribute more to its depre
ciation than the common enemy, is one of
the inexplicable wonders of the times.
[Richmond Examiner.
S*6eliag «n the AlfaY-
A gentleman of Fayetteville lifts re
ceived a" letter from liis son in Gen
Lee’s army, in which he expresses sur
prise and indignation at the existence
of any feeling like despondency, which
he has heard exists to some extent
in North Carolina. He says;
“ I his is all wrong. You do not find
it in the army, which is just as confi
dent as it ever was, and the fear of
being overpowered or subjugated has
not once presented itself to the men
ot this army. They are the men who
do the fighting and bear the brunt of
the war, and if they think themselves
competent to the undertaking, why
should those who are sitting ofl in the
shade and comparatively uninterested
in the contest, why should they set
up the hue and cry, “we are whip
ped; we had better make peace on
any terms,” and such like erroneous
and injurious sentiments.”
He goes on to speak of the tendency
of such feelings at home to dispirit the
soldiers, promote desertions, and keep
the new conscripts from doing their
duty. The war, he says, cannot and
will not stop, short of the independen
cy of the Confederacy.
— nra
Tiie Jonesiioito Meeting.—Cer
tain dark insinuations have been afloat
for a week or two that a union or re
construction meeting was about to be
held at Jonesboro, iu Clayton county,
by way of response to the recent tory
meetings in North Carolina. The Com
mandant at Atlanta was even called
upon to send a military force to break
up the treasonable conclave and nip
the movement in the bud, which he
wisely declined to do. Well, the
meeting was held last Saturday,
speeches made, and resolutions expres
sive of their sentiments adopted. The
whole proceedings will be found on
this page, and if a reconstructionist
can gather any aid and comfort from
them he is welcome to the consola
tion.
We hope never to see the day when
ten men will meet in the free, liberty-
loving " State of Georgia, and proclaim
a willingness to fellowship again with
the vile race of plunderers aud mur
derers whose yoke of oppression and
infamy we Iiave thrown oil’for ever.
Sav Rep.
President Davis’ Dibrary-
A correspondent of the Providence
(R. I.) Journal, writing from Mississip
pi, gives the following account of
the discovery of President Davis’ li
brary:
The books were discovered only by
accident. They were put up in large
strongboxes, bound with hoops ofiron.
The contents of the boxes were soon
brought to light, and hundreds of
trophies secured, while volumes bound
in every variety of rich binding—poe
try, history, science—the g'ifts of
friends from every part of the United
States, Congressional documents and
statistics, private and political letters
and letter books, into which wore
copied the correspondence of years,
written in tiie scrawling hand of their
former possessors ; in fact everything
that exists on paper of greatest pri
vate value to the rebel President, lay
‘heaped upon the floor in one huge
pile, over which thy soldiers walked
with dirty feet, or which they tossed
hither and thither, os they appeared
to be of more or less value as trophies
of their former owner. The library
was secreted in the house of Mr. Cox.
who was formerly a steward of Mr.
Davis.
Teniifiiiiff—SCiisf Teuaar*M*r ESalljing.
A gentleman who had just traveled
through East Tennessee writes from Ty
ner’s .Station to the Columbus Enquirer,
that that section is responding promptly
to President Davis’ last call for troops.—
She will, in a few days, have her quota
in the field and aid in defending the great
highway of Georgia. And the writer adds,
by way of appeal to his own State :—
“Mark this, ye boastful Georgians ! here
is East Tennes.se, a poition of a sister
State, whose citizens have been reviled,
taunted and ridiculed, and every oppro
brious epithet applied that man’s ingenu-
i ity could invent; you Iiave denounced
them as cowards and traitors; j'et, in the
dark and trying hour of our cause, these
men exhibit more courage and true patri
otism than you. Where is all your boast
ed honor, patriotism aud courage? Your
State pride ? Shame upon you, that you
will let a section of country that you have
regarded as a nest of traitors first throw
themselves into the breach to shield your
country from the brand of dishonor !”.
rhnrU’Kioii, *
The dispatch of the 19th, not by what
it said, hut by what it failed to say, satis
fied us that Foit Sumter was in a weaving
way, and likely to be thumped to pieces.
We are not therefore taken unawares by
the delicate intimation to-day that Old
Sumter must go. What then ? Charles
ton is not gone, and we know she will il
lustrate in her persistent and stubborn de
fence, the heroism of- her people and the
Confederate soldiery. Brick and mortar
forts are of no account in this age of im
proved gunnery ; but our land batteries
still remain, and must, if taken at all, be
captured by storm. The assault upon
Wagner will show the Federals what fate
awaits their st irming parties. But if, af
ter all, the sand batteries are taken the
town is still not taken. Secure in their
rathnles the Confederates may permit it to
be battered down about their guns and yet
successfully repulse all attempts of the
enemy to land and take possession. The
ease with which many of our towns have
been taken is discreditable and demoral
izing. Let Charleston, if she perishes, go
down with a record worthy the spirit and
valor of her sons. Let her sink with the
death grapple on the throat of her savage
and cruel despbilers, and hand her name
down to posterity, immortalized by her
glorious struggle for the right of self-gov-
urn m e n t.—Macon Telegraph.
Jeddo, the capitol of Japan, is pro
nounced the largt^t city of the world,
beyond all doubt. It contains a million
of habitations and five millions of peo
ple, many of the streets are twenty-
two miles long.
Correspondence of the Confederate Union*
Camp Near Orange C. II. Va.
August 10, 1S63.
Messrs Editors Confederate Union: Tbe
“Union” dated Aug. 4th, was received
in camp on yesterday, and is I assure
you a welcome visitor, though but sel
dom it arrives. Iu the paper of the
above date I notice the Muster Rolls of
three new companies organized in Mill-
edgeville—the Milledgeville Guards,
State Armory Guards, and the Baldwin
Infantry, composed mostly of young
men who are fully able to do field duty,
as much so as any now in the service.
Can you tell us the object of having so
manv companies stationed in our little
town ? It may he answered in obedi
ence to His Excellency’s, Joseph E.
Brown’s proclamation, to organize
companies for home defence. But from
what I understand of said proclama
tion, the Governor calls upon all citi
zens over forty-five years of age who
are not liable to conscription, and I
was truly glad to see how nobly our
Fathers, tiie grey-headed men of the
county, responded to his call by form
ing a company of ninety men,and pledg
ing themselves to defend any portion
of the county when threatened, and to
oiicv all orders of the Governor, but
God grant that they may never he cal
led upon to face the cruel foe,or to un
dergo any of tiie hardships that their
children can, or should bear in their
stead. In relation to„the companies
; just organized and mentioned above,
j the officers perhaps are far-seeing men
land are peeping into the future, expec
ting e’er, long the arrival of Gunboats
• up the Oconee River, and they think
they will be able to successfully resist
them, and by thus doing save the capi-
| tal from destruction. Brave boys, I
admire them for their patriotism, in so
promptly volunteering to save the Pub
lic property which to them seems in so
much danger. Among the list of those
j new companies I notice a number of
names, who were before tiie opening
of the war fiery secessionists, strong
war men, were the first to enter the
service, tried it only a short while, but
now are shielding themselves by any
little office cr excuse they can to avoid
I the enrolling officer.
Some have taken refuge within the
walls of the Georgia Penitentiary, and
those very young men who are now
working there, if such a thing had been
mentioned to them previous to the
passage of the Conscript Act it would
have been the greatest insult offered.
Many have never been in the service,
hut have furnished substitutes. Shame
upon any native born Southerner able
to bear arms,'who has placed another
in his stead, to face the bullets ot the
enemy, to win that freedom Vliicii lie
expects to reap the benefits of. Oth
ers in preference to fighting for liberty
and all that is dear to them, choose to
be penned up from morning until night
in the close rooms of a cotton Factory.
The above mentioned individuals may
answer that they are exempt from field
duty by the laws of our Confederacy.
I know they are, hut were they so em
ployed before the War ? No, they have
hid themselves behind such curtains as
I have mentioned to avoid, so far as
they are concesned, the enforcement of
an act passed by Congress April 1 Gth,
1SG2. These very men are now at
home crying from all siifes, in this dark
hour of our Confederacy “we are whip
ped.” It is true, Messrs. Editors,
they are whipped and badly whipped,
so much so they are afraid to enter the
service, hut our gallant little army now
in the field is far from being whipped,
they are in as good spirits now as they
ever have been, and ready to meet the
enemy at any time. At Gettysburg
we were repulsed, hut not whipped.
! Still those" volunteers and croakers at
home crj* oat “whipped.” If they
' consider us so badly used up as they
j represent, why in the world do they
| not give a helping hand? Now is tiie
time to fill up our skeleton regiments-
! Come on brave hoys, muskets and rifles
j are to be had, and to encourage you
; wc say the “Blue Jackets” are not
! far off; the veteran troops now in the
! field will take pleasure in telling you,
come on under a hail storm of lead and
iron. And now is the time we look
to the women of our little town to
turn a cold shoulder to the young men
at home, and use every means in their
power to force them into the service
I know they have-been the means of
sending off a few, and now we ask
them cannot they send more. I heard
an officer say a few days ago that “the
safety of the Confederacy is now in
the hands of the Women and God
Almighty”, and how true! We now
implore the noble women of Baldwin
for all the assistance they can render.
They have never shrunk from their du
ty upon any occasion yet, and we hope
they will now unanimously respond to
a call made from the field by the
CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS.
ly forrfled &i!<l organized for local deferC*
not to go out of the limits nf the count,/.
In looking over the. list of members t f e lt
proud of Oid Baldwin to sco so many
companies foiou d, nnd ail of their mem
bers old men, not liable to conscription,
no young, stout, able-bodied inun—none
to be found on the roll, showing that ti e
young men of Baldwin are all in the field
willing to meet the invaders on tbe frontier,
and leave to the old men of the county the
duty of looking after home defence, and to
meet ftie enemy on the frontier of tbe
county.. 0*r county is one of the most
exposed counties in the State; it would
perhaps be will for the county and city
authorities to be “on the alert” prepared
tor any emergency. Would it not be ad
visable to Jiave Fishing Cheek filled with
obstructions and torpedoes; also to have
Tan Yard and Toblers Creek obstructed
and Newsom’s Hand “thoroughly fortifi
ed” to meet any demonstration that might
be made by the enemy’s iron clads after
the capture of Charleston and Savannah ?
The woiks and guns at “Fort Wilkinson,”
I learn are in good condition—provision
enough on hand to hold out longer than
Vicksburg did; the garrison at Fort Haw-
kins is strong enough to check any advance
from that direction ; the enemy knowing
the strength of Forts Wilkinson and Haw
kins, might attempt to throw his forces
down the river ; a few guns placed on
Goat or Blake’s Island would check the
enemy from making any serious demon
stration from that quarter. We are notin
need of any troops here ; the army is full;
nobody has been killed or died from dis
ease in this Army. The large number of
patriotic young men who are volunteering
in defence of their country, their honor,
rights and property, are arriving here dai
ly.. Strengthened by such numbers and
material, while the old men only aie left
for local or home defence ; no one engaged
in speculation ; Confederate money taken
by everybody without any discount—our
success is-certain. Our people at honuf
happily have adopted ns their motto, “In
unity there is strength.”
BAREFOOTED SOLDIER.
In Camp Armv Northern Va., \
August 12th, 1S63. )
Messrs. Editors : I had the pleasure of
seeing a copy of your paper a few days
since of “August 4, 18G3,” in which I see
the Roll of several new companies recent-
Mii.lrdgevillk, August 22. l^G:;.
Messrs. Editors Confederate Union :
I learn that you will publish, in your
next issue, communications from “Confed
erate Soldiers” and “Barefooted Soldier,”
ridiculing th? local companies lately or
ganized in this city. If you publish them
you will do me the favor to publish this
also.
The companies referred to are composed
of employees of tbe State and Confederate
Governments and are exempt from military
duty, and were organized under orders from
the Governor, there being enough men at
home not so usefully employed to fill the re
quisition. If emergencies should require
it, their business could be suspended lor a
short time and they would be prepared to
meet tbe enemy. I presume none of them
have substitutes in the army, as they are
all poor men—mostly mechanics. Some
of them have been in the army, and hav
ing received discharges have returned
home, with ruined health and broken con
stitutions, and sought employment in (tho
only places where it can now he found)
Government workshops. Some of them
bear honorable scars. Are such men
to be ridiculed and taunted because they
were no't able to Ijold out to the end!
“Confederate Soldiers” ought to know that
a poor man cannot get a discharge from,
service except for sufficient cause.
The South is just beginning to appre
ciate her mechanics. If they had receiv
es} encouragement in the past we would
never have been so dependent on the thiev
ing vankees. The work they do .at homo
is of tlie utmost importance to the Govern
ment, and cannot be dispensed with, not
withstanding t he senseless remark often
made by thoughtless people, that they
should be sent to tbe field. When the
Government thinks it will be for tbe best
interest of the country it will place all the
mechanics in service by the same law that
it retains “Confederate Soldiers.” Every
mau belongs to his country, and our rulers
will place him where he will be of most
service ; and they know where that is as
well, perhaps, as “Confederate Soldiers.
But “Confederate Soldiers” call on tho
ladies to drive them into seVvice. They
would have the Factory, which is employ
ed in manufacturing cloth for Confederate
Soldiers, the Armory engaged in the very
necessary business of making Arms, and
the Card Factory, which is the only means
in the State of furnishing soldiers’ wives
with Cards, to make clothing to shield
! their children from the biting cold ol win-
| ter, closed and send the men into the Army.
! They would have the Penitentiary closed
I and turn the Convicts out to swell the host
! of thieves that already infest the country,
instead of making shoes for x\\q Barefoot
ed Soldier.” They would have the Asy
lum closed and send the poor Lunatic out
to perish in the woods.
It may be replied that old men should
fill these places. But few men work at
trades after they are 4o years of age, be
sides able-bodied poor men over that ago
find it more profitable to go into the anny
as substitutes for the rich. There are, how
ever, some men in these companies over
age, some that the Conscript officer has re
fused to receive and some boys under age.
There may he some young men wuo
have sought shelter from Conscription iu
these institutions—but who would curse
the Church of God because it contained
hypocrites T
As for woman's smile—most of the nien
in these companies will continue to f re
ceive the smiles of their wives for remain
ing at home to shield them from the piti
less extortioner. I do not say a word
against the women. Heaven forever bless
them! They have acted their part no
bly. But mechanics do not lire on wo
man’s smiles ; a handsome young officer,
with delicate mustache and new uniform,
might. They are hard-working men who
earn their bread by the sweat ot their
brow, (and find that hard enough to do
now.) pray for the success of our country
and are willing to serve her in any way
the Government thinks will be most bene
ficial. They are not croakers—they be
lieve the Government knows how to cany
on the war and will bring it to a success
ful termination. 3Iost of the poor men
are already in the Army—only a lew h t
in Government workshops. They aro
fighting our battles and oitr independence
will be achieved by them, and not through
what the rich (many ot whom are v*n ul n
to do anything to save their property,
have done or will do.
Messrs. Editors, I think your corre
spondents do our local companies great
injustice—they have made the sad blun
der of firing on their frien ^ 0HANIC .
The Editor who kissed hi* sweet
heart, saying “Please exchang
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