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THE COUNTRYMAN.
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Military Exempts.
Tlie following is a list of the exempts un
der Act of Congress passed 21st April,
1862 :
All persons incapable of bearing arms;
the officers ot the Confederate and State
Governments; postmasters; certain volun
teers in state service ; certain transporta
tion and telegraph agents and operators ;
one editor of each newspaper now being
published, and such employes as the editor
or proprietor may certify upon oath to be
indispensable for conducting the publica
tion ; the public printer, and those employ
ed to perform the public printing for the |
Confederate and State Governments ; ev- l
cry minister of religion authorized to preach
according to the rules of his sect and in the
regular discharge of ministerial duties
certain religious non-combatants, provided
they will furnish substitutes, or pay $500 ;
“ ail physicians who now are, and for the
last 5 years have been in actual practice
of their profession; all shoemakers, tanners,
blacksmiths, wagon-makers, millers and
their engineers, and millrights, skilled and
actually employed as their regular vocation
‘in the said trades, habitually engaged in
working for the public, and whilst so actu
ally employed ; provided said persons shall
make oath in writing,that they are so skill
ed and actually employed, at the time, as
their regular vocation, in one-of the above
trades, which affidavit shall only be
facie evidence of the facts therein stated;
provided* further, that the exemptions
herein granted to persons by reason of their
peculiar mechanical, or other occupation, or
employment not connected.with the public
service, shall be subject to the condition
that the products of the labor of such ex
empts, or of the companies and establish
ments with which they are connected, shall
be sokl and disposed of by the proprietors
at juices not exceeding 75 per centum
upon the cost of production, or with
in a maximum to be fixed by the secretary
of war under such regulations’as he may
prescribe ; and it is further provided that if
the proprietors of any such manufacturing
establishment shall be shown upon evi
dence to be submitted to and judged of by
the Secretary of War to have violated, or
in any manner evaded, the true intent and
spirit of the foregoing proviso, the exemp
tions therein granted shall no longer he ex
tended to them, the superintendents or opera
tives in said establishments, but they, and
each and everyone of them, shall be forth
with enrolled under the provisions of this
act, and ordered into the Confederate army,
and shall in no event be again exempted
therefrom by reason of said manufacturing
establishments or employments therein ;”
superintendents, attendants, &c., in hospi
tals, asylums &c.; “superintendentsand op
eratives in wool and cotton factories, paper
mills, and superintendents and managers of
wool-carding machines, who may be ex
empted by the secretary of war, provided
the profits of ^ucli establishments shall
not exceed 75 per centum upon the
; cost of production, to be determined upon
. oath of the parties, subject to the same pen
alties for violation of the provisions herein
contained as are hereinbefore provided in
case of other manufacturing and mechani
cal employments ; all presidents and teach
ers of. colleges, academies, schools, and
theological seminaries who have been reg
ularly engaged as such for 2 years prece
ding the passage ot this act ; all artizans,
mechanics, and employes in the establish
ments of tlie government for the manufac
ture of arms, ordnance stores, and other
munitions of war, who may be certified by
the officer in charge thereof as necessary
for such establishments ; also all artizans,
mechanics, and employes in the establish
ments of such persons as are, or may he en
gaged under contracts with the govern
ment in furnishing anus, ordnance, ord
nance stores, and other munitions of war,
saddles, harness, and army supplies, provi
ded that the chief of the ordnance bureau,
or some ordnance officer authorized by him
for the purpose, shall approve of the num
ber of the operatives required in such es
tablishment; all persons employed in the
manufacture of arms, or ordnance of any
kind by tlie several states, or by contrac
tors to furnish the same to the several State
Governments, whom the governor or sec
retary of state thereof may certify to be
necessary to the same; all persons engaged
in the construction of ships, gunboats, en
gines, sails, or other articles necessary to
the public defence, under the direction of
the secretary of the navy ; all superinten
dents, managers, mechanics, and miners
employed in the produc f ion and manufac
ture of salt, to the extent of 20 bushels
per day, aud of lead and iron, and all per
sons engaged in making charcoal for making I
pig and bar iron, not to embrace laborers,
messengers, wagoners, and servants, unless
employed at works conducted under the
authority and b/the officers or agents of a
state, or in works employed in the produc
tion of iron for the Confederate States ; one
male citizen for every 500 head of cattle,
for every 150 head of horses or mules, and
one shepherd for every 500 head of sheep, j
of such persons as are engaged exclusively
in raising stock, provided tlieie is no white
male adult not liable to do military duty
engaged with such person in raising said
stock; to secure the proper police of the
country, one person either as ageut, owner,
or overseer on each plantation on which one
white person is required to he kept, by the
laws or ordinances of any state, and on
which there is no white male adult not lia
ble to military service ; and in stales having
no such law, one person as agent, owner,
or overseei on each plantation of 20 ne
groes, and on which there is no white male
adult not liable to military service : and,
furthermore, for additional policG for every
20 negroes on 2 or more plantations
within 5 miles of each other, and each
having loss than 20 negroes, and on
which there is no white male adult not lia
ble to military duty, one person, being the
oldest of the owners or overseers on such
plantations ; also, a regiment raised under
and by authority of the State of Texas for
the frontier defence, now in the service of
said state, while in such service; and such
other persons as the president shall be sat
isfied, on account of justice, equity, or ne
cessity, ought to he exeirijited, provided
that the exemptions herein above enumera
ted shall only continue whilst the persons
exempted are actually engaged in their re
spective pursuits or occupations.”
Fine Liquors.
“One of the finest collections of old wines
aud liquors offered in this city for some
years, is now offered for sale by Mr. Cool-
idge, at the Marshall House. The lot com
prises brandy, whiskey, rum, gin, port, ma-
deira, sherry, peach brandy, and others not
recollected. Most of them are quite old,
which they will prove for themselves on
trial. The puces, though high, are com-
paratively reasonable. It is seldom we
get a taste of pure spirits with age on its
side, and as invalids are abundant about
now, the lot will, dobtless, soon disappear.”
The above is from the Savannah Repub
lican. It must he admitted that brother
Sneed’s memoij was quite creditable, un
der the circumstances. It seems that be
got as far down the-list as peach brandy
(and honey 1) and then his memory failed
him as to the balance.
Would ft not he a good time, brother
Sneed, to call a convention of editors in
Savannah to regulate the affairs of the
press (not the wine press) and help you re*
member l
“ We easily forget crimes that are known
only to ourselves.”