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THE COUNTRYMAN. 36 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.”