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From tho Comptroller General’s Report.
COMPTROLLER GENERAL’S OFFICE, ?
Milledgeville, Oct. 16, 1863. )
To His Excellency, JOSEPH E. BROWN, Governor:
In compliance with the requirements of law, 1 have the
honor to lay before your Excellency a statement of the re
ceipts and disbursements of the Treasury during the fiscal
year 3SG3, commencing on the 21st October, 1S02, and
ending the 15th October, 1863, showing at the end of the
year, a
Cash balance in the Treasury of $2,C99,<>03 44
The appropriations undrawn and likely to be called for
amount to 82,1)49,602 76 ; leaving a balance in the Treas
ury of 850,000 GS, to be carried forward to the appropri
ations for 1864.
Receipts and Disbursements at the. Treasury for the Eiscal 1 oar
1863.
Of the receipts into the Treasury for the fiscal year 1863,
there was received :
From General Tax, 3 862, 8
945,294
70
U
Net earnings AVestern & Atlantic Rail-
road... 1
,050,000
00
it
General Tax 1803
109,185
30
it
“ “ 3S61
* 452
29
U
“ “ lSGft
166
38
«
“ “ 3857
5
00
it
Tax on Banks 3SG2 and 1863
05,331
S3
(4
Tax on Railroads
12,182
54
44
Tax on Foreign Insurance Companies,
3,3 S9
36
44
Tax on Bank Agencies
301
39
44
Tax on Express Companies
GSO
25
“
Bank Dividends
32,012
00
44
Dividend on Railrqad Stock. .
13,80S
00
44
Military money refunded by Or. B. A.
AA’hite
906
00
44
Savannah Gunboat Fund..
20,000
00
44
Sale of Ordnance Stores..
4,374
7-3
44
Net earnings of Card Factory..
15,304
11
44
Sale of island lots near Columbus. ...
713
41
44
Money refunded bv city of Columbus,
225
00 I
44
Dividend of Insurance Company.
, 37
50
44
Fees on Testimonials
6)
50 1
44
Fees from Secretary of State’s Office,
262
50 1
it
Income Tax *
125,241
64i
44
Refunded by Penitentiary on advance
for making salt sacks,
3 7,600
00
44
Issue of Georgia Treasury Notes. 5
,263,000
00
44
Issue of State Change Bills
4 7 3,660
00 j
$S
75S,442
45 j
AfiJ to this the cash in the Treasury, Oct.
20, 1862
693,002
42.
And
we have a total fund of 89.
451,444
87
Salary of Sup’t Lunatic Asylum
Officers and servants Lunatic Asylum..
Academy for the Blind—Support of....
Ga. Military Inst., for support of Cadets,
Ga. Military Institute, salary of Sup’fc..
Military storekeeper at Milledgeville..
Educational Fund
Subscription to.‘Atlantic & Gulf Railroad,
Indigent Soldiers’ Families, (Income Tax,
already appropriated, in addition to
the 82,500,000, and to be distributed
after the 15th Dec. next,) estimated
Miscellaneous.
2,500
00
12,000
00
S,000
00
2,000
00
2,000
00
GOO
00
3 55,247
00
100,000
00
00
50,000
00
Total $2,077,542 00
Showing a surplus at the end of the year of 521,217 04
But if the war continues for the next year, the State will
have to provide for the support of the families of those sol
diers in the army, who have no property and who have left
no support at home tor their families. A fund for the Hos
pital Relief Association, and a Military fund may also have
to be provided. Without intimating or expressing an opin
ion as to the sufficiency or insufficiency of the 82,500,000
appropriation of last year for the support of fhe families
of indigent soldiers, 1 will assume that it be the same next
year, and the matter will then stand thus :
For the support of indigent soldiers’ families. .82,500,000
Hospital and Relief Association 400,000
Military Fund 1,000,000
3,900,000 |
may have
Of the disbursements during the same time, there has
been paid:
On Civil Establishment of 1862 8 1S,21S 49
“ “ “ 1S63. 39,4SS 4S
“ Contingent Fund 1S62 . 12,896 40
“ Educational Fund 1862 147,131 00
“ $5,000,000 Military Fund 2,462,101 75
“ Military Fund 1863 31S,971 40
“ 8350,000 appropriation for manufacture
of arms. . S4.497 42
“ Soldiers’Clothing Fund... 1,080,000 00
“ Indigent Soldiers’ Family Fund 1,690,430 25
“ Fund to supply people of Georgia with
Salt 202,387 65
“ Fund to pay freight on Salt sent to coun
ties ini S62 248
“ Fund to pay for Small Pox cases 59,826
“ Overpayments in 1863 11,306
“ Printing Fund 1SG2 4,319
“ “ “ special 86
“ Printing Fund 1863 20,584
“ Balance of War Tax of 1S61 16,046 85
“ Legislative pay rcll 94,604 66
“ Reduction of the Public Debt 10,000 00
Thus it will he seen that in all probability we
to expend over 83,000.000 more than the above stated re
ceipts, which will have to be raised either by taxation, by
a further issue of Treasury Notes and Change Bills, or by a
loan.
If much or most of this he raised by taxation, it must he
understood, that unless the present tax laws arc changed,
the taxes for 1S64 will not come into the Treasury until
November or December, 1864. I hope, then, I may be
excused for remarking further, that, instead of issuing
State Treasury Notes, as heretofore issued, viz : payable in
specie ox six per cent, bonds, six months after a treat!) if pence, if
might be better to anticipate the tax by issuing Treasury
Notes or Change Bills payable in currency or Confederate Trea
sury Notes. In addition to the remainder of the Change Bills
now authorized to be issued, most cf which will be in 50
and 25 cent bills, a further issue of 82,000,000 or "-2 500,-
000 might be authorized, to be issued principally in the de
nominations of 1,2, 3, and 4 dollar bills,payablein currency
or Confederate Treasury Notes, whenever the sum of twen
ty dollars and upwards is presented at the State Treasury.
These notes would no doubt circulate freely as a currency,
and many of them might not be returned to the Treasury
for redemption before the collection of the taxes, or before
the end of the war. But, in case they should be presented
in large sums and the State should need the currency to re
deem them, it might be provided that the Governor raise
the sum by placing Georgia six per cent. Bunds in the mar
ket, or issuing Treasury Certificates of Deposit, in sums of
not less than 8500, and any larger sums that depositors
might desire, payable like the Treasury Notes heretofore
issued, viz: in specie or or six per cent, bonds, six months
after a treaty of peace.
But it may be asked, why not continue the issue of Trea
In the above statement of liabilities
the Centra! Railroad and Georgia Rail
road and Banking Companies have re
turned as their capital stock, their
Railroads and appurtenances, as said
Roads are responsible for their Bank
ing operations—although the first only
uses as a banking capital 8300,000, and
the latter 8500,000. Therefore, in
giving them credit for their Assets, I
have ^classed their Railroads, &c., as
“Miscellaneous.” “Advances on Cot
ton,” “special loans,” Arc., of other
Banks, have also been classed “Miscel
laneous.” Fractions in cents have in
all cases been dropped, as immaterial,
the object of this statement being
merely to give the general condition
of the Banks when tlieirj last reports
were made.
To I Ik- Women of IJror^ia.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 9, 1803.
You responded nobly to iny first appeal
to you tor socks. But few anticipated the
measure of our success. From my heart
i tliank you for what you have so cheer
fully and so promptly done. You have
enabled me to make many a war worn
soldier bless the dear women at home, as
he placed your love tokens on bis weary
feet.
I Women of Georgia, and such others as
contributed to my sock fund, in the name
of over 10,000 soldiers,do I most cordially
thank you. But you must enlarge the
circle of your benefactions. God loves
the cheerful giver as also the liberal soul.
Let us devise and execute liberal things.
It will take besides what I have on hand,
nearly 50,000 pair of socks to carry our
Georgia heroes comfortably through the
coming winter. Send in those already knit
under my late call. Ship to me at this'
place as before directed. Organize at
a/tee, throughout Georgia, into Societies,
and let your Secretaries, with the approval
of your Presidents make requisitions on
me for the number of bunches of yarn
000) is paid off, At which time, in addi
tion to tho $100,000 from fhe Road, nr.d
the Bank Dividends, the whole interest of
this $2,627,000, amounting to $157,620,-
00 annually is to be added to the fund.
In addition to these sums, tho Governor is
authorized annually to add any surplus that
may be in the Treasury at the time the
apportionment is made
Up to October, 1S62, however, only
$387,250.00 on the Public Debt in-Bonds
bad been redeemed since the passage of
the Act of 185$, and therefore, the con
dition of this Fund for this year stands as
follows:
From Bank Dividends 832,012,00
From interest on $387.750
Public Debt redeemed 23,235 00
From Western & Atlantic Rail
road 100.000 00
Auoii'iei* Yankee AceoiiMi
153,247. 00
aeainau^n
Army Correspondence of the Savca-
nah 3&epubiis3n.
Atlanta, Oct. 11, 1SG3.
President Davis is now with the ar
my of Tennessee. What is the object
of iris visit'? Has he come to mingle
with his soldiers and encourage them
by his presence? Or lias he come to
compose the strifes of officers, and if
need be, to institute a change in the
command of the army?
I shall not undertake to fix the res
ponsibility for the condition of things
in the army now before Chattanooga.
Whether Gem Bragg possesses the re
quisite qualities for command, or
whether his officers have withheld from
him that cordial co-operation and sup
port, without which no commander,
j however gifted, can hope for success
; are questions which may be reserved
for future discussion.—This much.
sury Notes, as heretofore? The first reply is, that they
.. will not circulate as a currency. Treasury Notes payable
in specie or eight percent, bonds, six months after a treaty
of peace were first tried, and they did not circulate because strain ever}- nerve to bold up the courage
and strengthen the arms of those still 1
it was demoralized,and nothing saved even
a wreck of it but failure to car-ry out the
plans of Gen. Bragg. The frantic para
graphs below convey a lively idea of the
utterly confused and disordered condition
of the enemy. It reminds one of the New
York Tribune’s account of the first Bull
Run, or the World’s correspondent’s de
scription of the stampede at Chancellors-
ville. It is copied from the army corres
pondence of the Cincinnati Gazette :
•‘Another battle, and would that I could
say another victory ! But, alas ! truth
compels me to declare that, after a series
of tremendous struggles, unsurpassed by
anything similar in the present war, the
Army of the Cumberland lias been over
whelmed by numbers; has suffered im
mense losses in men and material, and has
fallen back to a new position.”
j. The route of the Yankee army is thus
■ graphically described :
“While 1 stood gazing upon this scene
b Society will undertake to J from the summit of the ridge some rebel
work into socks. 1 hope to make arrange- skirmishers appeared in the skirt of the
ments for an ample supply of yarns for woods opposite the gap I have mentioned,
the purpose contemplated: Notify me | and flung perhaps a dozen musket balls
j which
of yoor nearest railroad point, and I will
forward the yarn required. Continue to
place the name upon each pair of socks
knit and sent. I am keeping afaithful re
cord of the names of my fair collegues in
this good work, with an account of the
amount of work done by each one. May
i not hope to put upon every Georgian in
the army needing them a good pair socks
before spring. Methiuks 1 hear a hundred
thousand women, answering, Y'es, send on
your yarns ; we will soon fill your bill.—
By the gloom which has lately been over
us, let me exhort you to redoubled ener
gies for those who are your only preservers,
under God, from a far deeper gloom and
an intolerable destiny. By the groans of
our wounded and the deaths of our noble
sons on our battlefield all over the South",
whose deeds of imperishable glory have
illustrated names that mankind will not
willingly let die, let me exhort you to
sent command, and that, too, even if
he had been in the right and his op
ponents in the -wrong, upon all the
points which have been raised against
him. He cannot hope to be as useful
to the country, or to accomplish much
fur his own fame, in his present posi
tion, as he might reasonably expect to
do in some other command. He and
a large majority of his generals are not
m accord; and whether he is right an I
they are wrong, or they are right
he is wrong, the result is the same—
dissatisfaction on the part of both, dis
organization in the army, and such a
want of unity ami co-operation as to
make it impossible for either the Com
mander in-Chief, his - officers, or his
troops, to render ‘'tortile, country as
valuable service as they' might and
would perform under more auspicious
circumstances.
Should the President decide, tlierej
forc, to send Gen. Bragg to some
other field where lie can be more use
ful to the cause, and call some other
shouting, frightened life. Everything and officer to his place, as lit? probably will
everybody appeared to rush headlong for ,] 0 suc h a proceeding would not ne-
tbe narrow gap, and men, horses, mules, cessa , ily imply the ceusure of the com-
ambulances, baggage wagons, atiilery car- —
79.—For Congress, 3d Dist.—Hob
14, Elan ford 10. For Senator, 24th
Dist.—Chambers 16? For Represen
tatives—^-Gunby .14, Russell 4, Brml
ford, 2, Hawes 1,
In the 25th Senatorial District,
James N. Ramsey received six votes’
these were votes polled bv men from
Harris county in Capt' Bradford’s
company. Ramsey had no opposi
tion. xVo Representatives were voted
for in Harris county.
I am sorry to say that Josh. IliH
was voted for in this regiment as a
reconstructionist, or more properly
speaking, a submissionist. I was not
prepared to believe that there was a
soldier in the service that would vote
such a ticket.—Where are we drift
ing*. j. t. G.
into the field. Instantly men, animals
and vehicles became a mass of struggling,
,, , . . manderof the Army oflennessee, any
rolled anu turn- , . . P J . , , f
r.,r,r,> than his refusal to make tins
rmges and caissons were
bled together in a confused, inextricable j nioie
and finally motionless mass, completely i change would inyo.ve the condemiia-
blocking up the mouth oftlic gaps. Nearly I tiou ot his subordinate. Yv ho the new
all this booty subsequently fell into the commander will bo, should such a
hands of the enemy. 8ickened and dis- ! change be deemed advisable, it is im-
gusted by the spectacle, I turned away ; possible yet to determine; but the pre-
to watch the operations of Gen. 1 nomas , vailing opinion is that it will be -Gen-
corps, upon which alone depends the j eral Lee Gen. Lougstreet.
SS m7 a V' iy ‘ • r i i! i | But the new commander, whoever
lne Yankee loss is set down as rol- : , , ’
j ou . s . j he may be willnot have a smoothe path
“Our losses have been most severe and j to tread. Rcsicrans is a shrewd and
can scarcely fall short of 1,700 killed, and able officer; he has already a formida-
8,000 wounded. Goi. Barnet tells me that ble army, and heavy reinforcements
our loss in artillery will not fall short of are moving to his support from every
50 pieces. Our deficiency in transporta- j availiable quarter. Indeed,, no pains
Interest on Public Debt i 293,359
OS
“ Georgia Relief & Hospital Association, 450,000 00
“ Refunded in part to Western & Atlantic
Railroad, amount advanced to pur
chase Salt in 1SG2 30,000 00
For obstructions on Apalachicola, Chattahoo
chee and Flint Rivers 45,000 00
For amount refunded to city of Augusta for
obstructing Savannah River 53,666
On account of Cotton Card Factory 80,717
For hank note paper, engraving and printing,
and clerk hire, Ac., in issuing Georgia
Treasury Notes and State Change Bills,
To Lunatic Asylum—For support of
“ “ —Salary of Sup’t
“ “ —Pay of officers
Academy for the Blind—Support of
Ga. Military Institute—For support of Cadets,
For repair of Dormitories
On account Military Institute—For pay of
Inspectors .
On account salary Superintendent Ga. Mili
tary Institute
Commissioners to Florida about boundary line,
To pay for guns
T. Butler King, as Commissioner to Europe, 2,900
To. J.M. Mobley, as Secretary of Senate.. 5,527
To L. Carrington, Clerk House ol Reps— 6,39S
For stills seized 578
For other miscellaneous appropriations,
which will be seen in an Abstract ac
companying this Report, amounting to 8,075 01
25,513 5S
47,759 GS
2,400 00
12,000 00
3.000 00
2.000 00
3,000 00
300 00
3.000 00
1.000 00
2,500 00
00
manner, calling for specie or only six per cent. Bonds, have
also been tried, and they too, will not circulate, because
Capitalistsand others pay a handsome premium for the same,
and lay them away, to be kept until six months after the
war. In both these instances the State paid these notes out
as currency, and at par, and got no premium, while the
premium went to the various parties receiving and dispos
ing of these notes. Then, as capitalists and others are so
anxious to get Georgia promises to pay after the war, they
are willing to pay a handsome premium for the same—as
one, or half dozen papers, or bills, can be more easily and
conveniently kept and transferred from place to place than
■ 100, 500, 1.000 or 10,000 papers or bills, and as the larger
ones would be greatly preferred, and would command a
higher premium—and to enable the State to get the premium on
’ her high credit, and at the same time avoid the appearance
of claiming or attempting to claim a premium upon her
; “currency” over that of the Confederate States Govern
ment “currency,” I favor the issue of Treasury Certificates
of Deposit, or State Bonds, to obtain such currency as the
State may hereafter need to redeem her change bills, instead
of issuing Treasury Notes like those heretofore issued, and
paying them out as currency.
Again. If Treasury Notes or Change Bills payable in curren
cy or Confederate Treasury Notes be issued by the State, and
they answer the purposes of meeting its appropriations and
circulating freely, they can be called in and redeemed at
any time when there may be a surplus of ’currency in the Treas
ury. Whereas, Treasury Notes or Certificates ol Deposit can
only be redeemed in specie or eight and six per cm/, bonds. As
every thing is selling at such high prices, and our expendi
tures arc so heavy, and money so abundant, taxation will
at Chat-
eventula-
capitalists and others bought them up and laid them away I and strengthen the anus of those still tiou and baggage, can not be estimated. I w ill be snared bv the Federol "O’ern-
~ — : — ' c The Union’s own correspondent at- , , 1 ‘ . . « .. • P
, . . . v i r t. , ment to maintain its armies
tempts to account lor the desperate cour- | , r . .
age displayed by our men in the fight.— ; tatlOOga and Anoxv die, and
Thcreason assigned by this abolition sheet 1.Y to overrun and occupy Georgia,
for such valor as has never been surpassed, | These preparations on the part of the
hna no effect .ether than to provoke a bmilc | enemy call for corresponding effort and
of contempt for the writer, lie says: ! resolution on our part. It reinforce-
“lb° rebs fought like hell hounds, (as mcn ts are sent by the enemy, then re-
tl.cy are,)—being stimulated with whiskey i j n f orceme nts.must not be withheld, on
our side. . It may be, indeed, that a
great battle will soon he fought on
the banks of the Tennessee—a battle
00
60
Total, $7,351,841 43
Leaving a balance in the Treasury of $2,099,603 44. BANK REPORTS IN 18G3.
Having thus exhibited the operations of the Treasury for Believing that a condensed statement of all fhe Bank
the past twelve months, I have deemed it not inappropriate Reports for 1863, will be useful to the Legislature, accoin-
to allude to, and make an approximation to the ordinary j pauyiug this Report will be found a table containing the
receipts and expenditures of the ensuing fiscal year. The ! reports in full, (in a condensed form) of all the Banks of
anticipated leceipts into the Treasury for the fiscal year j this State, made in response to the call of your Excellency
1SG4, may be stated as follows: jin June last. The following is an abstract from said table
From General Tax 1S63 81,180,000 00 j and also an abstract of a similar table compiled in 1862 :
as an investment. Treasury Notes payable in a similar I f u i' v . lvin ° th® shock of battle ! By tne
J A * - 1 brightness of the future, opened up by the
glorious and God-given victory upon the
banks of that stream of death, the now
historic Cliickamauga, let us tliank God,
take courage and press forward,till we con
quer a peace.
Let the loss of some dear father, hus
band, son, brother or loeed one., nerve you
to redoubled determination merer to cease
struggling till we are thoroughly and to
tally divorced, from those whose hands
are red with tho best blood of tbe Con-
derate Slates. Cheer our soldiers, dis
courage desertions, hurry off able bodied
lurloghed men to the front and stimulate
them to prefer honorable deaths in the lace
of the enemy, to dishonorable lives pro
longed by shrinking from duty. Women
of Georgia, you have done much in our
great and bloody struggle. You can and
will do much more, and your heroism will
be admired wherever and as long as true
patriotism shall find a lodgment in the hu
man heart. Let the example of the three
patriots of Switzerland, headed by the
heroic William Tell, wbo took a solemn
vow to cease not in their efforts until Swit
zerland was free from the horrid tyranny
of the infamous Gcsler, fire our hearts to
choose annihilation rather than subjuga
tion. The one will give us an honorable
record, the other a sickly existence un
der the most abhorrent of despotism. The
one is the result of a noble self-respect, the
other the fruit of a degraded self-abandon
ment. Rather than yield when our men
fail us, let us have mulplied examples of
the Maid of Orleans, who, when wounded
by an arrow, drew out the arrow, exclaim
ing, “It is glory, not blood which flows
from the wounds.” But 1 need not write
about yielding. With an humble reliance
upon the God of battles, if we,men and
women,will but do our duty,before another
year shall roll over us, tho bloody sword
will likely be sheathed, and the bright
banner of peace will gloriously wave over
our ransomed homes. .
IRA R. FOSTER,
Q. M. Gen. of Georgia.
All papers in the State are requested to
give the above one or two insertions and
oblige our Georgia soldiers.
- - i necessarily be comparatively high during the wav
ion the war ends, and our heavy expenditures cease, there
will in all probability be a large surplus of currency in the
Treasury, 1 think it well enough for the State, if possible,
to so manage her finances as to he able to immediately
place all this surplui currency to the extinguishment of so
much of her “Public Debt.”
Net earnings AV. & A. Railroad.*....
Tax on Banks
Taxon Railroads
Bank dividends
Miscellaneous
Income Tax,
Add balance after paying appropriations for
3 S63
600,000
35.000
12.000
27.000
20.000
371,75S
82,548,758 36
50,000 GS
And we have a total of. $2,598,759 04
It will be seen that the net earnings of the AVestcrn &
Atlantic Railroad for the fiscal year 1864 is put down at
only 8600,000, while it paid 81,650,000 for the last year.
Tart of this 81,650,000 was made the year previous, and
■was due by the Confederate States Government, but not
collected until this year. In addition to this, the Road lias
done an extraordinary amount ot Government business this
year—it may r.ot have the same next year—and hence it is
but safe to put the net income next year at $600,000. AVere
it not for the Government freight, &c.,it might with propriety
be put at 8500,000.
The demand upon the Treasury for the same year, will
approximate as follows:
To pay members of the Legislature 8 70,000 00
“ Civil Establishment .. 72,100 00
“ Contingent Fund 16,000 00
“ Printing Fund 30,000 00
“ Reduction of Public Debt, past due 176,000 00
“ “ “ “ coming due.. 41,500 00
“ Interest not called for 400,000 00
“ Interest coming due 389,595 00
To Support of pauper patients, Lunatic Asy
lum 50,000 00
I.IA Itll.ITI ES OF T11E HANKS.
1862.
1S08.
Capital Stock,
$17,262,072
83 7,335,832
Notes of Banks in circulation,
15,339,241
15,572,542
Deposits,
1 1,588,378
25,101.SIS
Due to Banks and others,
1,402,848
5,276,971
Dividends unclaimed,
287,209
977,103
Reserved Fund,
4,831,448
5,106,025
Miscellaneous,
726,974
3 ,34 1,082
Total,
$51,438,264
870,713,048
ASSETS OF THE.
BANKS.
1862.
3 863.
Notes Discounted,
8! 0,846,542
$1 1,637,540
Bills of Exchange, Discounted,
9,444,687
1,607,530
Due from Confederate States,
2,610,005
450,000
Confederate States Bonds,
2,367,029
3,528,616
Georgia State Bonds,
1,332,205
3,359,950
Georgia Treasury Notes,
527,700
1,200,747
Confederate Treasury Notes,
3,032,832
21,92S,371
Bills of Georgia Banks,
945,615
1,100,068
Bills of Banks of other States,
92,750
Bills of other B’ks & Treas’y Notes,
5,188,038
Sterling Exchange,
217.966
G,59G
Due from other Banks,
2,219,341
5,847,363
B’ds & stocks of States & Corp’tions
5,650,566
S, 104,026
Miscellaneous,
10,003,672)
11,527,179
Real Estate, &c.,
814,592
764,014
Specie,bona fide the prop’ty of B’ks
3,043,4G0|
1,49S,11S
.Total,
851,438,204:
870,713,048
—and they steadily advanced (or rather
straggered) our men,whilst they had aline
left to advance. Our Brigade met them
hand to hand in a charge, driving and be
ing driven in turn, until tbe field was liter
ally strewn with tbo killed and wounded
on both sides.” '
THE PRESIDENT BEFORE CHAT
TANOOGA.
Before Chattanooga, Oet. If.—The vis
it of the President to the Army of Ten
nessee has been opportune, and has infu
sed new life and vigor among the troops
From (lie Comptroller Gen’s Report.
THE EDUCATIONAL FUND, 1S63.
By an Act, approved January 22,1S52,
the dividends arrising from tbe stock be
longing to tbe State in the Bank of the
State of Georgia, tbe Bank of Augusta,
and the Georgia Rail Road and Banking
Company, were “set apart as a permanent
fund for tho education oftlic poor.” This
fund was distributed as a “.Poor School
Fund” up to 1858. By an act of the 11th
Dec. 1858, the manner of the future distri
bution of this fund was changed. This
Act annually appropriated 8100,000 of
that in its magnitude and results will
eclipse all others upon this continent.
It is-hoped the President will see to it
that we are not unprepared for,the
mighty conflict when it does come.
Gen. Hood was doing well yester
day, and his physician considers that
he has passed the crisis. The wound
ed here are receiving every care and
attention. I return to the front as
The President passed last evening at tho j soon as I can complete my outfit for
headquarters of Gen. Bragg,receiving tho ! the winter. A suit of win
visits and congratulation of the general offi- a f sypp think of that
ccrs.
This morning about 9 o’clock, accompa
nied by bis owyi staff and that of Gen.
Bragg, he proceeded to visit the lines and
inspect the works. The fine location of
these afforded the President an excellent
opportunity for seeing tiiose of the enemy
also, and he exhibited his interest in
them and amply gratified his curiosi-
. i • r i -i I the way, was a very tame and spirit-
1 he troops were formed m line along the , - . r
works, and as the I’resident,rode along the I c ! s ' > flail,) nothing lias tinned up to
front, lie was received with cheer after disturb the monotony of camp life.
cheer by our enthusiastic and confident vc- ' Even our pickets and tiiose of the
terans. At every available point the ea- ! enemy have ceased exchanging morn-
ger crowds of the enemy were visible, j ing and midnight salutations. AVIiy
scanning the movements in our lines, bnt this quietude "none can fathom. ’Tis
no guu was tired, though they could easi- 1 sa j ( ] py one that Bragg is awaiting
Siater Seem 33ragg’s Ar:
Missionary Ridge, Tenn., )
October S, 1863. )
Editor Enquirer: Since the bom
bardment on Monday last (which, by
ly have reached with their shells the brill
iant cavalcade that accompanied tlie Pres
ident. There is little doubt that the l’an-
kees were well aware of tho occasion of
the enthusiasm, and who it was that was
so near to them, and yet their cannon were
mute.
The troops presented a most gratifying
appearance. They laid aside the rougli
and even ragged appearance which so
many of them seem to take a pride in, as
a contrast to the gaily dressed and well
supplied Yankees they have so of:cn whip
ped, and their stalwart forms, burnished
arms and serviceable equipment, showed
that we are very far from being the “star
ved out” people which the Yankees vain
ly imagine us to he.
The President inspected the left portion
of the line first, and then passed over to
the light, making the entire circuit of the
lines. On frequent occasions, lie paused
to compliment the General field officers on
the excellent appearance of their com
mands. After the review, ho returned to
thenet earnings of the AVestcrn & Allan- j headquarters and received the calls of the
officers.
What changes the President contem
plates making, if' any, aro not known, but
what i3 to be done will be done quickly, as
it is stated he will return to Atlanta on
Monday.
Deserters from the Yankees are con
stantly coming into our lines, with the us
ual tale ot being sick of the war.
The weather continues fine, and the en
tire army are anxious to recommence ac
tive operations.
The frosty nights make us enjoy onr
blankets hugely.
tic Rail Road “to the purposes of ed
ucation”—the Hank Dividends before
usedasa Poor School Fund was added to
the same, and these two sums were direc-
led to ha “divided out among the several
ccunues, according to the return of all
white children thereof between the ages of
S and 18.” (This Act was amended in
1859, requiring the same to be divided
among children between (land JS.) The
Act of l&oSalso provides, that in addition
to the sums above specified, whenever the
Governor redeemed any portion of the
Bonds oftlic State then outstanding, he is
to issue, in lieu of the same,other Bonds to
be deposited with tho Secretary of State
as tho Trustee for the Educational Fund
of Georgia, and the interest on the same at
G per cent, per annum, is to be annually
added to this Fund, and be distributed.—
Tbe issue of these Bonds to go on fiom
year to year, in proportion to the amount
of the Public Debt redeemed, until the
whole debt (existing in 1858 to §2,627,-
tne arrival of ammunition of a better
quality than that used on last Mon
day; by others it is positively asserted
that he is awaiting for transportation
for a certain corps. The truth is none
of us know what ho is waiting for or
contemplates doing. Time alone will
riddle. All speculation as
Bragg will do is therefore
Special Despatch to the Atlanta Intelligencer.
DEPARTURE OF PRESIDENT DAVIS.
Dalton, Oct. 14.—President Davis left Gen.
I.ragg’s army to day with great satisfaction and in
high anticipations.
i he people of Dalton called him out. lie said that
Nve had been lookiug in the face of tho enemy but
would soon seo their backs.
Most important movement are afoot, and a glo
rious campaign in anticipation.
solve the
to what
idle.
A repojt is current in camps that
Gen. Wheeler captured and burnt
live hundred wagons 'in Sequatchie
Valley a few days ago. The rumor is
not credited much in the circles of
knowing ones here.
Gen. Roddy, with his splendid brig
ade of cavalry, crossed the river below
Bridgeport a few days ago and struck
the railroad beyond Stevenson, tearing
up the track and burning two bridges,
one of them the railroad bridge over
Elk River; from thence he sped on
towards Murfreesboro’. It is presum
ed that he paid a visit to the bridge
over Duck River. If he did, the twin
sisters are defunct, and the “Old
Dutchman, as Gen. Longstreet de
lights to cal! him, will soon he “hard
up” for something to submist his army
of hoosiers upon. Gen. Roddy is
earning for himself and command a
renown hardly second to that of the
redoubtable John Morgan and his gal
lant brigade of troopers.
The electiou went off yesterday
quietly, in this and the other Georgia
regiments in this army, From what
regiments I have heard from (some
three or four) I am satisfied that Gov.
Brown has received a considerable ma
jority. The vote in our regiment
(37th Ga.) was as follows:
For Gorernor—Brown 113, Hill
From the West.
A correspondent of the Memphis
Appeal, writing from Canton, Miss.,
says:
Yon will probably have heard be
fore this reaches you of Gen. Jackson’s
having driven a column of two thou
sand Yankess across the Big Black
He attacked them at three o’clock in
the morning, driving them from their
camp, capturing one stand of colors,
some prisoners, horses and equipments.
There arc some circumstances collected
with this affair which, when prudence
allows me to communicate them, will
lead you to applaud the manner in
which Gen. Jackson handled his bri<r-
ades.
Gen. Price has had to fall hack, in
Arkansas, before superior numbers. It
was supposed, when my informant
left, that he would rest on Red river,
but it is probable that the drain for
Rosencranz on the forces in his front
will enable him to drive hack what is
left, re-occupy Little Rock, and possi
bly come to the river again.
The movement from the river to re
inforce Ilosencraz continues. They
are moving to his relief from all dir
ections. One corps goes by way of
the Memphis and Charleston railroad,
arid another by way of Paducah, Kv.
These two corps alone will number
nearly thirty thousand men. He is, of
course, receiving subsistence from oth
er sources. No effort will be spared,
not only to enable Rosencraz to hold
lii.s own, but to enable him to break
the lines of Bragg’s army, and to pro
ceed according to his original pro
gramme. To prevent this doubtless
the last man in Georgia and Alahanu
will be in the field.
Travelling along the front, I have
opportunities of studying the negro
who has been in contact with the A'au-
kee. He does not like the Yankee.
He stands in mortal terror off the phil
anthropist who comes to give him free
dom. The stories which the poor ne
gro tells of the fate of his brothers and
sisters who have fallen iuto their hands
are heartrending. Be assured no more
negroes go to them voluntarily. In
fact, the negroes within the Yankee
lines are treated worse than dogs, the
anger of their A'ankee masters venting
itself in blows which knock them sense
less.
' Gen. Johnston has returned from
an extensive inspection tour along the
coast. He has visited every outpost,
reviewed all the cavalry, and acquired
front personal observation, a knowl
edge of the country, which will be
valuable to him in conducting future
campaigns. The General traveled very
modestly, his escort consisting of Major
Mason.
The Mobile Register gives the par
ticulars of an accident which occurred
on the Mobile and Great Northern
ail road on the -36th, on the down
rain, which caused the death of one
negro and crushed 'the legs of two
others, besides detaining the train thir
teen hours. The accident was caused
by a wheel getting loose on the
axle.
AVe learn, says the Mobile Tribune
of Sunday, iliac a few days since a de
tachment cf General Clanton’s com
mand, now stationed at Pollard and
vicinity, under command of Captain
McAAliorter, captured, in the vicinity
of East Bay, seventeen Yankees and
one deserter. He also shot two other
deserters.
The Claiborne Southern is informed
that.some farmers in that vicinity are
refusing to sell their surplus jeans at
less than twelve dollars a yard. 0t
course they cannot be classed among
the extortioners.
THE REBEL IRON CLAD.
Despite tbe silence of the Confederate press,
Confederate press, the Vankees manage by some
means to thoroughly acquaint themselves with
the secrets of our affairs. We publish in Tues
day’s Express a long loiter to the New York Her
ald, written from Morris Island, in which the wri
ter told all about a big gun having burster! ia
Cli rrleston, and ad !ed (which was news to u-
that another of similar size was now lying at Char
leston ready to be mounted. We now have su- ,
oilier piece ot information through Yankee sour |
ces. This same Morris Island correspondent ot
tho Herald give the following particulars concern
ing a new iron clad lhat has been recently launch
ed at Charleston:
THE NEW BEBEL IRON CLADS,
The ladies’ iron clad gunboat, the Chorleston.
has beeu launched, and is nearly ready for service-
Her guns and nearly ail her machinery are in anu
she is about to go into commission.
From more than one source wo have in teres tin?
particulars of hor build, armament and probsu.o
speed. She is not unlike in form and size of th e
Palmotto State and Chicora, which’ I have frequent
ly described; but she is mailed in a stioager vray,
and armed with stronger guns. Ilerengines were
made expressly for her by our dear English cous
ins, who preserved their neutrality so strictly, an
the rebels expect to get a speed of ten knots out o
her’ She has a large iron beak projecting w < *
from her bow to crush in tho sides of ships
like the other ironclads, will carry a heavy sp*
under water, with a torpedo attached to it at leas-
20 feet from her bow, with which they propose
blow up our monitor’s when they come into
harbor. Our naval officers do not doubt their a 1
ity to attend to these ironclads, torpedoes anu a
when the lime comes, although they do not by » D 7
means hold their offensive powers in low esuu
tion
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