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THE GEORGIA BANNER & SENTINEL. VOL. XXI. THE - BYy IIANLEJTEII & ADAIR, ATLANTA GEORGIA. THE Daily Southern Confederacy, under arrange- . ments just completed, will contain all the latest ' intelligence of every kind, reported expressly for . us by Magnetic Telegraph, and the Mails. Also ! daily reports of the Atlanta and other markets, lo- j cal incidents and items. &e. Price—ss a year; §3 for six months, or 50 cents I for one month—always in advance. i The WEEKLY Southern Confederacy is made tin ; from and contains the ‘‘cream" of the Daily. It is ■ a large sheet and gives more, fresh reading matter than any other Weekly in the Confederate States. ) Its market reports will be full, and made up from ■’ actual transactions. Price $2 a year; or $1.25 for ; six months—invariably in advance. Postmasters are authorized to act as our agents ! in obtaining subscribers and forwarding the money , —for which they will be allowed to retain, as com- ! mission, 25 cents on each Weekly, or 50 cents on 1 each Daily subscriber. Persons getting up Clubs of live, ten or more sub scribers, will be supplied with the copies ordered at 12) per cent less than our regular terms. No name will be entered on our books until the money is paid, and all subscriptions are discontin ued when the time expires for which payment is made, unless the same is renewed. Address HANLEITER & ADAIR. April 1861. Atlanta, Ga. . ——mi ii .. . j.MiK-ji-n'aumcaCTm RAIL ROAD DIRECTORY. Arrival and Departure of the Trains. ■■■ ... .... ■— \ Georgia R. 11. & Banking Company. Augusta to Atlanta, 171 Miles—Fare $5 50. | GEORGE YOUNG, .Superintendent. MORNING PASSENGER TRAIN. Leaves Atlanta, drily, at 9.05, A. M. Arrives at Augusta at 6.20, P. M. ’ Leaves Augusta, daily, at 0.30, A. M. i Arrives at Atlanta at 9.45, A. M. NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN. Leaves Atlanta, daily, at 8.40, P. M. Arrives at Augusta at 5.56, A. M. Leaves Augusta at 2.30, P. M. Arrives nt Atlanta at 11.45, A. M. ■ This Road runs in connection with the Trains of ’ the South Carolina and the Savannah and Augusta Railroads, at Augusta. Atlanta & Vi est-Foint Railroad. Atlanta to West-Point. 87 Miles—Fare, $3 50. ' j GEORGE G HULL, Superintendent. passenger train. ’ Leaves Atlanta, daily, at 10.10, A M. Arrives at Newnan, at 12.30, P. M. Arrives at West-Point at 3.10, P. M. ; Leaves West-Point, daily, at 3.00, P. M. Arrives at Newnan, at 4.30, P. M, i Arrives at Atlanta at 7.51, P. M. i NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN. Leaves Atlanta, daiiy, at 0.30, A. M. Arrives at Newnan at 3.30, A. M. ’ Arrives at West-Point at 5.46, A. M. Leaves West Point, daily, at 3.15, A. M. Arrives at Newnan, at 6.00, A. M. ■ Arrives at Atlanta at 7.59, A. M. i This Road connects with the Montgomery & West- , Point Hoad at West-Point. Western & Atlantic Railroad. Atlanta to Chattanooga. 138 Miles—Fare .$5.00. JOHN W. LEWlS,.Superintendent. DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. Leaves Atlanta, daily, at 10.10, A. M - Arrives at Chattanooga at 6.40, P. JI. i Leaves Chattanooga at 4.05, A. M. Arrives at Atlanta at...’. 1.15. P. M. EVEN.NG PASSENGER TRAIN. Leaves Atlanta, nightly, at 7.50, P. M Arrives at Chattanooga at 4.50, A. M. Leaves Chattanooga at 3.20, P. M. Arrives at Atlanta at 11.45, P. M. j This Road connects, each w >y, with the Rome Branch Railroad at Kingston, the East Tennessee ’ «fc Georgia Railroad at Dalton, and the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad at Chattanooga. Macon & Western Railroad, Atlanta to Macon, 102 Miles—Fare, $4 50. ♦ ALFRED L. TYLER, Superintendent. DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. j Leave Macon at 1.45, P. M. ' Arrive at Atlanta at 7.15, P. M. Leave Atlanta at 1-30, P. M. Arrive at Macon at. 7.00, P. M. NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Macon at 12.00, Night. Arrive at Atlanta at 7.15, A. M. Leave Atlanta at 12.00, Night. Arrive, at Macon at 7.15, A. M. The Night Trains will not be run on Sundays. The 12 O’Clock Night Train from Atlanta, con nects with the Central Railroad for Savannah, at 10.00, A. M., and the South-Western for Albany and Columbus, at 9,45, A. M. The 2.15 Train from Atlanta, connects with the Central Railroad for Savannah at 10.10 P. M. and the South-Western Railroad for Columbus at 11.50, F. M. sQ7*’Through Tickets from Atlanta to New Y’ork, including Omnibus fare in Savannah, $21.00. C L. BLAIR sjjtgcon Amtkl NEWNAN, GEORGIA. HAVING Permanently located, offers his Profes sional services to the citizens of Newnan and the vicinity. He will perform all operations on the. natural teeth and insert artificial teeth from one to a full set, in the most perfect manner known to the Profession. ggj“Office in the room over Pinsox & Herring s Dry Goods Store. Nov. 4-20tf. KEROSENE OIL, Burning Fluid, Lamp Oil, Train Oil, &c.. at the Drug Store of D. YOUNG & CO., March 8-38-ts. Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga. KEGS NAILS, best brands, fnr sale low. • H ) West side Greenville st., Newnao, Ga. '-'April 20-44-11. TUOS. SWINT “EQUAL -ATsTID EXACT JUSTICE TO -ZN.UU TVUEUT, OF STATE OR PETUUASIOTSr, . = = . - (Lbc A Sentinel: PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING BY <_T_ WELCH, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: For one year, if paid in advance, $2,00 Do. if not paid in advance, 2,50 For six months, if paid in advance, 1,00 Do. do. if not paid in advance, 1,50 No subscription will be discontinued until all ar rearages are paid, except at the option of the editor. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements inserted at SI.OO per square of 10 lines (or less) for the tirst insertion, and 50 centsper square for every subsequent (weekly) inscriinn.— Monthly advertisements SI,OO per square and semi monthly 75 cents per do. for every insertion. Contracts will be made for advertising by the year liberal discount allowed. Every advertisement handed in withoutlimitation as to time, will be published till forbid, and char ged for at the above rates. ~CON STITUTIOHST OF THE . Confederate States of America. We, the people of the Confederate States, each State acting in its sovereign and independent char acter, in order to form a permanent Federal Gov ernment, establish justice, insure domestic tran- I quility and secure the blessings of liberty to our- [ selves and our posterity—invoking the favor and I guidance of Almighty God—do ordain md estab- I lish this constitution for the Confederate States of j America. ARTICLE I. Section I. All legislative powers herein delega- ; ted shall be vested in a Congress of the Confederate j States, which shall consist of a Senate and House j of Representatives. ! Sec. 2.—1. The House of Representatives shall : be composed of members chosen every second year ( by the people of the several States; and the elec- ; tors in each State shall be citizens of the Confeder- | ate States, and have the qualifications requisite for i electors of the most numerous branch of the State J Legislature ; but no person of foreign birth, not a I citizen of the Confederate States, shall be allowed I to vote for anv officer, civil or political, State or | Federal. 2. No person shall be a Representative, who shall ' not have attained the age of twenty-live years, and i be a citizen of the Confederate States, and who I shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that I State in which he shall be chosen. 3. Representatives and Direct Taxas shall be ap- I portioned among the several States, which may be I included within this Confederacy, according to j their respective numbers, which shall be determin- I cd by adding to the whole number of free persons, | including those bound to service for a term of | years, including Indians not taxed, and three-fifdis ; of all slaves. The actual enumeration shall be | made within three years after the first meeting of | the Congress of the Confederate States, and witnin < every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall, by law, direct. The number of Repre sentatives shall not exceed one for every fifty thou sand, but each State shall have at least one Repre sentative ; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of South Carolina shall be entitled to choose six, the State of Georgia ten, the State of Alabama nine, the State of Florida two, the State of Mississippi seven, the State of Louisiana six. and J the State of Texas six. 4. When vacancies happen in the representation I from any State, the Executive authority thereof I shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies. 5. The House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers, and shall have the sole power of impeachment, except that any judi-I cial or other federal officer resident and acting j solely within the limits of any State, may be im- j peached by a vote of two-thirds of both branches I of the Legislature thereof. Sec. 3.—1. The Senate of the Confederate States 1 shall be composed of two Senators from each State, i chosen for six years by the Legislature thereof, at I the regular session next immediately preceding the ' commencement of the term of service ; and each Senator shall have one vote. 2. Immediately after they shall be assembled, in consequence of the first election, they shall be deci ded as equally as may be into three classes. The scats of the Senators of the first class shall be vaca ted at the expiration of the second year : of the second class at the expiration of the fourth year, and of the third class at the expiration of the sixth year ; so that one third may be chosen every second year; and if vacancies happen by resignation or otherwise, during the recess of the Legislature of any Stale, the Executive thereof may make tempor ary appointments until the next meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such vacancies. 3. No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained the age of thirty years, and a citizen i of the Confederate States ; and who shall not, when j ’ elected, be an inhabitant of the State for which he j shall be chosen. ' 4. The Vice "resident of the Confederate States ' shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no ■ vote, unless they be equally divided. 1 5. The Senate shall choose their other officers ; I and also a President pro tempore in the absence of ' the Vice President or when he shall exercise the ; office of President of the Confederate States. 6. The Senate shall have the sole power to try I all impeachments. When sitting for that purpose, I they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the ' President of the Confederate States is tried, the j Chief Justice shall preside ; and no person shsll be j convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of i the members present. I 7. Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not ! extend further than to removal from office, and i disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of hon i er, trust or profit, under the Confederate States ; i but the party convicted shall, nevertheless,be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment and pun ishment according to law. Sec. 4.—1. The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof, subject to the provisions of this constitu tion ; but the Congress may, at any tijne, by law, make or alter such regulations, except as to the times and places of choosing Senators. 2. The Congress shall assemble at hast once in every year; and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall, by law, appoint a different day. Sec. 5.—1. Each House shall be thejudge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own mem bers, and a majority of each shall constitute a quo rum to do business ; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorised to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalties as each House may provide. 2. Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly be havior, and with the concurrence of two-thirds of the whole number expel a member. 3. Each House shall keep a journal of its pro- NEWNAN, GA., MAY 10, 1861. ceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may, in their judgment, re quire secrecy, and the yeas and nays of the mem bers of either House, on any question, shall, at the desire of one-fifth of those present, be entered on the journal. 4 Neither House, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two Houses shall be sitting. Sec. 6.—1. Senators and Representatives shall re ceive a compensation fortheir services, to be ascer tained by law, and paid out oi’ the treasury of the Con federate States. They shall, in all cases, except trea son, fellony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective Houses, and in going to and re turning from the sanr ; and for any speech or de bate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other place. 2. No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any office under the authority of t.ie Confederate States, which shall have been created, or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time ; and" no person holding any office under the Confederate States shall be a member of either House during his continuance in office. But Con gress may, by law, grant to the principal officer in each of the Executive Departments a seat upon the floor of either House, with the privilege of discuss ing any measures appertaining to his department. Sec. 7.—1. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives ; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other bills. 2. Every bill which shall have passed both Hou ses, shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the President of the Confederate States; if he ap prove, he shall sign ii; but if not, he shall return it with his objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objec tions at large on their journal, and proceed to re consider it. If, after such reconsideration, two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other House, by which iLgliall likewise be reconsid ered, and if approved by two-thirds of that House, it shall become a law. But in all such cases, the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each House respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sun days excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress, by their adjournment prevent its return ; in which case it shall not be a law. The Presi lent may approve any appropriation and disapprove any other apropriation in the same bill. In such cases he shall, in signing the bill, designate the appropriations disapproved ; and return a copy of such appropriations, with his objections, to the House in which the bill shall have originated ; and the same proceedings shall then be had as in case of other bills, disapproved by the President. 3. Every order, resolution or vote, to which the concurrence of both Houses may be necessary (ex cept on a question of adjournment) shall be presen ted to the President of the Confederate States ; and before the same shall take effect shall be approved by him ; or being disapproved by him, thall be re passed bv two-thirds of both Houses according to the rules and limitations prescribed in caoco. u bill. Sec. 8 The Congress shall have power. 1. To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, for revenue necessary to pay the debts, provide for the common defence, and carry on the government of the Confedrate States ; but no boun ties shall be granted from the treasury ; nor shall any duties or taxes on importations from foreign nations be laid to promote or foster any branch of industry; and all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the Confederate States : I 2. To borrow money on the credit of the Confed- I crate States : 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, ' and among the several States, and with the Indian ! tribes ; but neither this, nor any other clause con- I tained in the constitution, shall ever be construed ■ to delegate the power to Congress to appropriate j money for any internal improvement intended to I facilitate commerce ; except for the purpose of fur- : nis. ing lights, beacons, and buoys, and othe. - aids ! to navigation upon the coasts, and the improvement of harbors and the removing of obstructions in river navigation, in all which cases, such duties shall be laid on the navigation facilitated thereby, as may be necessary to pay the costs and expenses thereof. 4. To establish uniform laws of naturalization, ' and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies i throughout the Confederate States,* but no law of j Congrass shall discharge any debt contracted be- j fore the passage of the same. 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof and : of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and | measures. 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeit- j ing the securities and current coin of the Confed- I erate States. 7. To establish postoffices and post routes; but; the expenses of the Post-Office Department after the ; first day of .March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-three, shall be paid out of its own revenues. 8. To promote the progress of science and useful j arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective j writings and discoveries. 9. To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court. 10. To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas and offences against i the law of nations. 11. To declare war, grant letters of marque and ! reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on | land and water. 12. To raise and support'armies ; but no appro priation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years. 13. To provide and maintain a navy. 14. To make rules for the government and regu lation of the naval and land forces. 15. To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Confederate States, suppress insurrections and repel invasions. 16. To provifle for organizing, arming and disci plining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the Confederate States ; reserving to the States, respec tively, the appointment of the officers and the au thority of training the militia according to the dis cipline prescribed by Congress. 17. To exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of one or more States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the Government of the Confederate States; and to exercise like authority over all places pur chased by the consent of the Legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards and other needful buildings: and 18. To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Consti tution in the government of the Confederate States, or in any department or officer thereof. Sec. 9.—1. The importation of negroes of the African race, from any foreign country'other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the United States of America, is hereby forbidden ; and Con- givss is required to pass such laws as shall effectu ally prevent the same. 2. Congress shall also have power to prohibit the i tit induction of slaves from any State not a member of, or Territory not belonging to this Confederacy. 3. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus slsjll not be suspended, unless when in cases of re be'din or invasion the public safety may require it. 4. No bill of attainder, or er post facto law, or law dl'F.'. :g or impairing the right of property in negro slav. ; shall be passed. 5. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid ink'; s in proportion to the census of enumeration lercin 1 . fore directed to be taken. 6. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles expor ted f- jra any State except by a vote of two-thirds cl-1. h'Houses. 7v No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to Hie port ? of one -StaUt. over those of another. 8. No money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law ; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be pub lished from time to time. I 9. Coigress shall appropriate no money from the | t reasury except by a vote of two-thirds of both ; Houses,taken by yeas and nays, unless it be asked and estimated for by some one of the heads of De partmen;, and submitted to Congress by the I’zesi dent; orfor the purpose of paying its own expen ses and iontingencies; or for the payment of claims against lie Confederate States, the justice of which i shall haie been judicially declared by a tribunal ' for the iivestigation of claims against the govern- ' ment, winch it. is hereby made the duty of Congress I to establkh. 10. AU bills appropriating money shall specify in Federal cirrcncy the exact amount of each appro priation '.nd the purpose for which it is made ; and Congress shall grant no extra compensation to I any publb character, officer, agent or servant, after such contact shall have been made or such service rendered. 11. No itlc of nobility shall be granted by the Confederate States; and no person holding any I office of jii-ofit or trust under them shall, without ( the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office or title ©f any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign State. 12. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exeivise thereof; or a bridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peacea bly io assemble and petition the government for a rediess of grievances. 13. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. 14. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quarter ed in my bouse without the consent of the owner ; nor intime of war, but in a manner to beprescribed by law. 15. The right of the people to be secure in their parsers, houses, papers, and effects against unrea sonable searches and seizures shall not be violated; and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and parti cularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. 16 No person shall be held to answer for a capi tal or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a pre sentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, when in riCK-n.l service ia time of war public danger ; nor sh dl any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor be compelled, in any criminal, case, to be a witness agninst himself; or be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without i just compensation. 17. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shill enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, bf an impartial jury of the State and district where- , ir the crime shall have been committed, which dis- j tiict shall have been previously ascertained by law, I asd to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation ; to be confronted with the witnesses ! ajainst him ; to have compulsory process for ob- I tiining witnesses in his favor; and to have the as- j Hstance of counsel for his defence. 18. In suits at common law, where the value in I controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right; o!’ tri.il by jury shall be preserved ; and no fact so, tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined ini any court of the Confederacy, than according to | th? rules of the common law. 19. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor ex- I ccssive lines imposed, nor cruel and unusual pun- ' ijhments inflicted. 30. Every law, or resolution having the force of j d' law, shall relate to but one subject, and that shall i be expressed in the title. Seo. 10.—1 No State shall enter into any treaty, slliance, or confederation ; grant letters of marque or reprisal; coin money; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts ; pass I any bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, or law ’ impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any j title of nobilty. j 2. No State shall, without the consent of Con- ‘ gross lay imposts or duties on imports, or exports, ; except what may be absolutely necessary for ex- j renting its inspection laws ; and the net produce ; of all duties and imposts, laid by any State on im- ; ports or exports, shall be for the treasury of the Confederate States ; and all such laws shall be sub- j jcct to the revision and control of Congress. ; 3. No State shall, without the consent of Con- j gross, lay any duty on sea-going vessels, for the improvement of its rivers and harbors navagated by the said vessels ; but such duties shall not con flict with any treaties of the Confederate State with . foreign nations : and any surplus revenue thus de- I rived, shall after making such improvement, be paid into the common treasury. Nor shall any State I keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter j into any agreement or compact with anothei State or foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as. m ill not admit of delay. But when any river divides or flows through two or more States, they may enter into compacts with each other to improte the na vigation thereof. ARTICLE 11. Section I—l. The executive power shall be vest ed in a President of the Confederate States of Amer ica. He and the A r ice President shall hold their offices for the term of six years ; but the President shall not be re-eligible. The President and Vice President, shall be elected as follows : 2. Each State shall appoint in such manner as the legislature thereof may determine, a number of electors equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the Stale may be entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Repre sentative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the Confederate States, shall be ap pointed an elector. 3. The electors shall meet in their respective States and vote by ballot for President and A’ice President, one of whom at least shall not be an inhabitant of flic same State with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice President, and the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit, scaled, to the seat of government of the Congress of the Confederated States directed to the President of the Senate; the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the I Senate and House of Representatives, open all the j certificates, and the votes shall then be counted; ■ the person having tlie greatest number of votes for ! President shall be the President, if such nuniber be ; a majority of the whole number of electors ap ; pointed ; and if no person have such maj irity, then, ' from the persons having the highest numbers, not j exceeding three, on the list of those voted for as (President, the House of Representatives shall i choose immediately, by ballot, the President But | in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken j by States, tile representation from each State hav i ing one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall con j sist of a member er members from two-thirds of | the States, and a majority of all (tie States be nc ; cessary to a choice. And if the House of Rcpre ; sentatives shall not choose a President, whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the. fourth day <jf March next following, then the Vice Prcsido* Y'ikn ad as .-j,, | the death, or other constitutional disability ollikt' President. 4. The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if no person have a majority, then, from the two highest numbers on the list, 'tFie Senate shall choose the Vice President a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-i thirds of their whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessarl to a choice. 5. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of I’ice President of the Confederate States. 6. The Congress may determine the time of choosing tiie electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes ; which day shall be the same throughout the Confederate States. 7. No person except a natural born citizen of the Confederate States, or a citizen thereof, at the time of the adoption of this constitution, or a citizen thereof born in the United States prior to the 20th of December, 1860, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the limits of the Confederate States, as they may exist at the time of his election. 8. In case of the removal of the President from office, or of his death, resigiWtion, or inability to j discharge the powers and duties of the said office, I the same shall devolve on the Vice President; ami I the Congress may, by law, provide for the case of 1 removal, death, resignation, or inability both of the President or Vice President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 9. The President shall, at stated times, receive ■ for his services a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the period for which lie shall have been elected; and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument. from the Confederate States, or any one of them. 10. Before he enters on the execution of his office he shall take the following oath or affirmation. “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the ( Confederate States, and will, to the best of my i ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitu- I lion thereof 1 ’ Section 2.—1. The President shall be comman- j der-in-chief of the army and navy of the Confede- j rate States, and of the militia of the several States, i when called into the actual service of the Confed- j crate States; he may require the opinion, in writing, ! of the principal officers of each of the Executive Departments upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices; and he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the Confederate States, except in cases of impeach ment. 2. He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provi ded two-thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, Judges of the supreme court, and all other officers of the Confed erate States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be estab lished by law; but the Congress may, by law, vest the appointment of such inferior officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of Departments. 3. The principal officers in each of the Executive Departments, and all persons connected with the diplomatic service, may be removed from office at the pleasure of the President. All other civil offi cers of the Executive Department may be removed at any time by the President, or other appointing power, when their services are unnecessary, or for dishonesty, incapacity, inefficiency, misconduct, or neglect of duty; and” when so removed, the remo val shall be reproted to the Senate, together with the reasons therefor. 4. The President shall have power to fill all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall ex pire at the end of their next session ; but no per son rejected by the Senate shall be re appointed to the same office during their ensuing recess. Section 3. —1. The President shall, from time to time, give to the Congress information of the state of the Confederacy, and recommend to their con sideration such measures as he shall judge necessa ry and expedient; he may, on extraordinary occa sions, convene both Houses, or either of them; and in case of disagreement between them, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them to such time as he may think proper; he shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers; he shall take care that the laws be faithiully executed, and shall commission all the officers of the Con federate States. Section 4 —l. The President, Vice President, and all the civil officers of the Confederate States, shall, be removed from otfice rin hnpeacbmert for and conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. ARTICLE HI. Sec. I.—l. The Judicial power of the Confede rate States shall be vested in one supreme court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judg es, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior, and shall, at stated times receive for their services a compen sation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office. Sec. 2—l. The judicial power shall extend to all cases arising under this constitution, the laws of the Confederate States and treaties made or which shall be made under their authority ; to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and [ consuls; to all cases of admiralty and maritime ju risdiction ; to controversies to which the Confede rate States shall be a party ; to controversies between two or more States; between a State and citizens of another State, where the State is plaintiff, between citizens claiming lands under grants of different States, and between a State or the citizens thereof, and foreign States, citizens or subjects; but no State shall be sued bj a citizen or subject of any foreign State. 2. In all cases affecting ambassadors, other pu lic ministers and consuls, and those in which a State shall he a party, the supreme court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations, as the Congress shall make. . I 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of im- I preachment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall NO. 45 e be held in the State where the said crimes shall ; have been committed ; but when not committed r within any State, the trial shall be at such place or j places as the Congress may, by law'have direct - ed. , Sec. 3—l. Treason against the Confederate States t shall consist only in levying war against them, or 5 adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and I comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason t unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the i same overt act, or on confession in open court. 2. The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment ot treason ;-but no attainder of treason p shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture except during the life ol the person attainted. ARTICLE B . Sec. I.—l. Full f<.ith and ii: >l:be given in each State tojthe publu icl . re. < . r.n judi cial proceedings of every o. n . ' th Con gress may, by gen. .• ;1 mw; the "'rnarher in ghich such acts. records aV: be pfoVCit <TLd Llll* HHseviirFTtof. Sec. 2.—1. The citizens of each State shall be en titled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State ol this. Confederacy, with their slaves and other ] roperty ; and the right of property in said slaves shall not hereby the im paired. 2. A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, against the Jaws of such State who shall Hee from justice, and be found in another Slate, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he lied, be deli vered up, to be removed to the State haveing juris diction of the crime. 3. No slave or other person held to service or la boi’ in any State or territory of the Confederate States, under the laws thereof, escaping or lawfully carried into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein be discharged from such service or labor : but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such slave belongs, or to whom such service or labor may be due. Sec. 3.—1. Other States may be admitted into this Confederacy by a vote of two-thirds of the whole House of Representatives, and two-thirds of the Senate, the Senate, voting by States; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State, nor any State form ed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the State ccnccrn j ed as well as of the Congress. ) 2. The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rulesand regulations concern ing the property of the Confederate States, includ ing the lands thereof. 3. The Confederate States may acquire new ter ritory ; and Congress shall have power to legislate i and provide governments for the inhabitants of all I territory belonging to the Confederate States, lying without the limits of the several States ; and may permit them, at such times and in such manner as it may by law provide, to form States to be admitted into the Confederacy. In all such territory the institution of ne gro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected by Con i gress and by the territorial government; and the in- ■ habitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right to take to such Ter- I ritory any slave lawfully held by them in any of the ! States or Territories of the Confederate States. ' The Confederate Slates shall guaranty to every i State that now is or hereafter may become a mem | ernment, and shall protect each ol litem against in vasion; andon application of the legislature (or of the executive when the Legislature is not in ses sion) against domestic violence. ARTICLE V. Sec. I—l. Upon the demand of any three States, legally assembled in their several conventions, the Congress shall summon a convention of all the States, to take into consideration such amendments to the constitution as the said States shall concur in suggesting at the time when the said demand is made, and should any of the proposed amendmets to the constitution be agreed on by the said con vention—voting by States—and the same be ratifi ed by the legislatures of two-thirds of the several States, or by conventions in two-thirds thereof—as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the general convention—they shall thenceforward form a part of this constitution.— But no State shall, without its consent, be depriv ed of its equal representation in the Senate. ARTICLE VI. 1. The government established by this constitu tion is the successors of the Provisional Gov ernment of the Confederate States of America, and all the laws passed by the latter shall continue in force until the same shall be repealed or modified ; and all the officers appointed by the same shall re mam in office until their successors are appointed and qualified, or the offices abolished. 2. All debts contracted and engagements enter ed into before the adoption of this constitution shall be as valid against the Confederate States under this constitution as under* the Provisional Govern ment. 3. This constitution and the laws of the Confed erate States, made in pursuance thereof, and all | treaties made, or which shall be made under the authority of the Confederate States, shall be the supreme law of the land, and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the con stitution or laws of any State to the contrary not withstanding. 4. The Senators and Representatives before men tioned and the members of the several State legis latures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the Confederate Stales and of the several States, shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support this constitution but no religious test shall ever be requirecd as a qualification to any office or public trust under the Confederate States. 5. The enumeration, in the constitution of cer tain rights, shall not be construed to deny or dispa rage others retained to by the people of the several States. G. The powers not delegated to the Confederate ■ States by the constitution, nor prohibited by it , to the States arc reserved to the States respectively, ■ or to the people thereof. ARTICLE VII. 1 I. The ratification of the conventions of five States , shall be sufficient for the establishment of this con- ■ stituticn between the States so ratifying the same. 2 When five States shall have ratified this con stitution, in the manner before spot ified, the Con -1 gress under the Provisional constitution shall pre f scribe the time for holding the election of Presi i dent and Vice-President; and, for the meeting of i the Electoral College ; and for counting Ihe votes, I and inaugurating the President. They shall, also, ■ prescribe the time for holding the first election or • members of Congress under this constitution, and ! the time for assembling the same. Until the as i sembling of such Congress the Congress under the ■ Provisional constitution shall continue to exercise > the legislative powers granted them; not extend i ing beyond the time limited by the constitution of , the Provisional Government. A Caution I l We beg to suggest to all the Southern Pa ’ pers the propriety of omitting all mention of ’ the movements of troops within the borders of . Virginia. Ihe enemy for the present should 1 know as little of them as possible. — Hi.