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VOLUME XXXII,]
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[NUMBER 13.
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A< T« l,>D REMO I. ITT I ON 8
of the Second Session of the
Pll () nslOXAL COXGHESS
CONFEDERATE STATES.
iT6iT^
(No. 106.)
A L A rLT°sTi Zin " “, le r xi " t( '" ce nf "ar between
the l inted States and the Confederate States and
fb"?ds ng K erS ° f Mar< l ue . Prizes and Prize
Whereas The earnest efforts made by this govern
ment to establish friendly relations between the gov-
-rnment of the ( Luted States and the Confederate
States, and to settle nil questions of disagreement b,-.
tweyn thi* two governments upon principles of right,
.ce, equity and good faith, have proved nnavail-
ing by rouHAm oi the refusal of the government of .the
i n.tea Matt h to hold any intercourse with the com
missioners appointed by this government for the pur
poses aforesaid, or to listen to any proposals thev had
!ras 1 ”, , for t,le Peaceful solution of all causes of
aiihculty between the two governments; and whereas
the 1 resident ot the l mted States of America lias is-
sm u his proclamation making requisition upon the
states <d the American Union for seventy-five thou
sand men for the purpose, as therein indicated, ot cap
turing forts and other strongholds within tlie jurisdic
tion of and belonging to the Confederate States of
America, and has detailed naval armaments upon the
coasts of the Confederate States of America, and
raised, organized and equipped a large military force
to execute the purpose aforesaid, and has issued his
other proclamation announcing his purpose to set on
foot a blockade of the ports of the Confederate States;
and whereas, the Stale ot Virginia has seceded from
the Federal Union and entered into a convention of
ai innce offensive and defensive with the Confederate
States, and has adopted the Provisional Constitution
of the said States, and the States of Maryland, North
< arolhm, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas and Mis
souri have refused, and it is believed that the State of
Delaware and the inhabitants of the territories of
Arizona anil New Mexico, and the Indian territory
routb oT Kansas, will refuse to co-operate with the
government of the United States in these acts of
hostilities and wanton aggression, which are plainly
init ialed to overawe, oppress and finally subjugate
tin people of tlie Confederate States; and whereas,
by the acts and means aforesaid, war exists between
the. Confederate States and the government ot the
1 niteil States, and the States and territories thereof,
except the States of Maryland, North Carolina, Ten
lessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri and Delaware.
i.id the territories ot Arizona and New Mexico, and
the Indian territory south of Kansas: Therefore,
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do mart. That the President of tlie Con
federate States is hereby authorized to use the whole
land and naval force of the Confederate States to meet
tlie war thus commenced; and to issue to private armed
vessels commissions, or letters of marque aud general
reprisal, in euch form as he shall think proper, under
the seal ol the Confederate States, against the vessels,
goods and effects of the government of the United
States, and of t lie citizens or inhabitants of the .-states
and territories thereof: Provided, however, That piop-
erty of the enemy (unless it be contraband of war)
laden on board a neutral vessel, shall not be subject to
" izure under this act: And provided. further, Thai
•ssels of the citizens or inhabitants of the United
States now in the ports of the Confederate States, ex
cept such as have been since the 5th of April last, or
may hereafter be, in the service of the government of
(be l cited Slates, shall be allowed thirty days after
the publication of this act to leave said ports and reach
t heir destination ; uml such vessels and their cargoes,
excepting articles contraband of war, shall not be sub
ject to capture under this act during said period, unless
they shall have previously reached the destination for
which they were bound on leaving said ports.
Sec. 2. That the President of the Confederate
States shall be and he is hereby authorized aud em
powered to revoke and annul, at pleasure, all letters
of marque and reprisal which be may at auy tiuie
grant pursuant to this act.
See. 3. That all persons applying for letters of
marque and reprisal, pursuant to this act, shall state
in writing the name and a suitable description of the
tonnage and force of the vessel, and the name and
place of residence of each owner concerned therein,
andtbe intended number of the crew; which state
ment shall be signed by the person or persons making
such application, and filed with the Secietary of State,
or shall be delivered to any other officer or person who
shall be employed to deliver out such commissions,
to be by Him transmitted to the Secretary of State.
Sec. 4. That before any commission or letters of
marque and reprisal shall be issued as aforesaid, the
owner or owners of the ship or vessel for which the
same shall be requested, and tlie commander thereof
fertile time being, shall give bond to the Confede
rate States, with at least two responsible sureties not
interested in such vessel, in the penal sum of five
thousand dollars, or if such vessel be provided with
more than one hundred and fifty men,then in the penal
stun of ten thousand dollars, with condition that the
owners, officers and crew who shall be employed on
board such commissioned vessel, shall and will observe
the laws of tiie Confederate States, and the instruc
tions which shall be given them according to ]«%v l..r
the regulation of their conduct, and will satisfy all
damages and injuries which shall be done or commit
ted contrary to tlie tenor thereof, by such vessel
during her commission, und to deliver up the same
when revoked by the President of the Confederate
States.
See. 5. That all captures and prizes of vessels and
property shall be forfeited and shall accrue to the own
ers, officers and crews of tlie vessels by whom such
captures and prizes shall be made, and on due con
demnation had shall be distributed according to
an} written agreement which shall be made between
them; aud if there be no such written agreement, then
one moiety to the owners and the other moiety to tlie
officers and crew, as nearly as may be according lotlie
rules prescribed for the distribution of prize money by
the laws of the Confederate States.
Sec. 6. That all vessels,goods and effects, the prop
erty of any citizen of the Confederate States, or of
persons resident within and under the protection of
the Confederate States, or of persons permanently
within the territories and under the protection of any
foreign prince, governmentor state in amity with the
('onfederate States, which shall have been captured
by the United States, and which shall be re-captured
by vessels commissioned as aforesaid, slnill be restored
to the lawful owners; upon payment by them of u ju.-t
and reasonable salvage, to be determined by the mu
tual agreement of the parties concerned, or by the de-
e.eC of any court having jurisdiction, according to
the nature of each case, agreeably to the provisions
established by law. And such salvage shall be dis
tributed among the owners, office! s and crews of the
vessels commissioned as aforesaid, and nicking such
captures, according to any written agreement which
shall be made between them; and in case of no such
agreement, then in the same manner ami upon the
principles hereinbefore provided in cases of cap
ture.
Sec. 7. That before breaking bulk of any vessel
which shall be captured as aforesaid, or other disposal
or conversion thereof, or of any articles which shall
be found on board tlie same, such captured ves
sel, goods or effects shall be broughtiuto some port of
the Confederate States, or of a nation or state in amity
with the Confederate States, and shall be proceeded
against before a competent tribunal; and after cou-
lemnation and forfeiture thereof shall belong to the
owners, officers and crew of the vessel capturing tlie
same, and be distributed as before provided; and in
the case of all captured vessels, goods and effects
which shall be brought within the jurisdiction of the
Confederate Stales, the district courts of the Confede
rate States shall have exclusive original cognizance
thereof, as in civil causes of admiralty and maratime
jurisdiction; and the said courts, or the courts, being
courts of the Confederate States, into which such
cases shall be removed, and in which they shall be
finally decided, shall and may decree restitution in
whole or in pint, when the capture shall have been
made without just cause. And if made without prob
able cause, may order and decree damages aud costs
to the party injured, for which the owners and com
manders of the vessels making such captures, and
also the vessels shall be liable.
See. 8. That all pel-sons found on board any captured
vessels, or on board any re-captured vessel, shall be
reported to the collector of the port in the Confederate-
States in which they shall first arrive, and shall be de
livered into the custody of the marshal of the district,
or some court or military officer of the Confederate
States, or of any State in or near such port who shall
takechargeof their safe keeping and support, at the
expense of the Confederate States.
Sec. 9. That the President of the Confederate Stntcs
is hereby authorized to establish and order suitable
instructions for the belter governing and directing the
conduct of the vessels so commissioned, their officers
and crews,copies of which shall be delivered by the
collector of the r stoms to the commanders, when they
shall give bond as provided.'
Sec. 10. That a bounty shall be paid by the Con
federate States of $20 lor each person on board any
armed ship or vessel belonging to tlie United Stales at
the commencement of an engagement, which shall be
burnt, sunk or destroyed by any vessel commissioned
as aforesaid, which shall be of equal or inferior force,
the same to be divided as ill other cases of prize
monev: and a bounty of $25 shall be paid to tlie own
er*, officers and crews of the private armed vessels
commissioned as aforesaid, for each and every prisoner
l,v them captured and brought into port, and deliveied
t.lan agent authorized to receive them, in any port of
the Confederate States; and the Secretary of the
Treasury is hereby authorized to pay or cause to be
paid to the owners, officers and crews of such private
armed vessels commissioned as aforesaid, or their
agent, the bonnties herein provided.
’’Sec. 11. That the commanding officer of every ves
sel having a commission or letters of marque and re
prisal, during the present hostilities between the Con
federate States and tlie United States, shall keep a
regular journal, containing a true and exact ncoouut
„f his dailv proceedings anil transactions w ith such ves
sel and the crew thereof; the ports and places he shall
put into or enst anchor in: the time of liis stay there
and the cause thereof; the prizes he shall take and the
nature and probable value thereof; the times and
places when and where taken, and in what manner he
shall dispose of the same ; the ships or vessels he shall
fall in with; the times and places when and where lie
shall meet with them, and his observations and remarks
thereon: also, of whatever else shall occur to him or
nnv of his officers or marines, or be discovered by ex
amination or conference with any marines or passen
gers of or in any other ships or vessels, or by any
other means touching the fleets, vessels aud forces of
the United States, their posts and places of station and
destination, strength, numbers, intents and designs;
and such commanding officer Bhall, immediately on his
arrival in any port of the Confederate States, from or
during the continuance of any voyage or cruise, pro
duce his commission for such vessel, and deliver up
euch journal so kept as aforesaid, Biped with his
proper name and handwriting, to the collector or other
chief officer of the customs at or nearest to snch ports;
the truth of which journal shall be verified by the
oath of tha commanding officer for the tune being.
And such collector or other chief officer of the customs
shall, immediately on the arrival of such vessel, inner
the proper officer of the eustoms to go on board and
take an account of tin* officers and iro n, the number
and nature of the gnus, and whatever else shall occur
to him on examination material to be known ; and no
snch vessel shall be permitted to sail out ot port
again until snch journal shall have been delivered
up, and a certificate obtained under the bund of such
ci dlector or other chief officer of customs that she is
manned amiurmed according to her commission , and
upon delivery of such certificate, auy former certifi
cate of a like nature which shall have been obtained
by the commander of such vessel shall be delivered
U P-
Sec. 12. That the commanders of vessels having let
ters of marque and reprisals as aforesaid, neglecting to
keep a journal as aferesnid, or willfully making frau
dulent entries therein, or obliterating the record of any
material transaction contained therein, w-here the in
terest of the Confederate States is concerned, or re
fusing to produce and deliver such journal, commit
sion or certificate, pursuant to tlie preceding section of
this act, then and in such cases the commissions or let
ters of marque and reprisal of snch vessels shall be
linble to be revoked; and such c unmanders respec
tively shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of
$1.01)0. one moiety thereof to the use ot the Confed
erate States and the other to the informer.
Sec. 13. That the owners or commanders of vessels
having letters of marque and reprisal as aforesaid, who
shall violate any of the acts of Congress for the col
lection of the revenue of the Confederate States, und
for the prevention of smuggling, Bhall forfeit the com
mission or letters of marque and reprisal, and they and
the vessels owned or commanded by them shall be
liable to all the penalties and forfeitures attaching to
merchant vessels in like cases.
Sec. 14. That on all goods, wares and merchandise
captured and made good anil lawful prizes of war, by
any private armed snip having commission or letters
of marque and reprisal under 111 i- act, and brought
into the Confederate States, there shall be allowed a de
duction of 33 1 -3 per cent, on the amount of duties im
posed by law.
8ec. 15. That five per centum on the net amount
fatter deducting all charges and expenditures) of the
prize money arising from captured vessels and car
goes, and on the net amount of the salvage ot vessels
and cargoes re-captured by private armed vessels of
the Confederate States, shall be secured and paid over
to the collector or other chief officer of the customs,
at the port or p'ace in the Confederate States at which
such captured or re-captured vessels may arrive, or
to the consul or other public agent of the Confederate
States residing at the port or place not within the Con
federate States at which such captured or recaptured
vessel may arrive. And the moneys arising therefrom
shall be held and are hereby pledged by the govern
ment of the Confederate States as a fund for the sup
port and maintenance of the widows and orphans of
such persons us mny be slain, aud for the support ami
maintenance of such persons as may be wounded and
disabled on board of the private armed vessels com
missioned as aforesaid, in any engagement with the
enemy, to be assigned and distributed in such manner
as shall hereafter be provided by law.
Approved May C, 1861. 13
For the Southern Federal Union.
Battle of Manassa Plains.
SCF.SE first.
Speech of Gen. MeDoxeeUto Grand Army of invasion.
Fellow-soldiers: we will take tea to day at Ma
nassas, p.nd on Sunday we will dine in Richmond.
Now soldiers let us on to Richmond.
[ Enter Senator Foster and Mtss If'ced j
Senator—I hope the Jay will be lair when we
reach Richmond.
Miss W.—Yes, sir, I wish a gentle breeze on that
day so that I may unfurl tins beautiful banner,
aud the stars and stripes may once more wave
over the glorious Union, and that the rebels of the
South may once more be made to bow before the
flag of our country.
SCENE SECOND.
Speech of Gen. Bcaurrourd.
Sons of the South : On yon distant bill stand
the grand Republican Army; yes, oven now the
winds bear to onr ears the strains of martial mu
sic. What does it mean ? need I tell you? That
martial music speaks in tones of thunder to the
South, it says this day every man must do his
duty, and ere the sun shall set iu the far distant
west we will scatter to the winds the proud Re
publican party ! On comrades to victory or death.'
Speech of Gen. Johnston.
Comrades in arms: The invaders of your coun
try are before you—eighty thousand men in hostile
array with lire and sword in hand threaten ruin
and destruction to your homes, laying waste the
homes of your sires ! Is the land of Washington
and the home of Marion to be desecrated by the
hirelings of Europe ? No never! God forbid
that I should live to see the wild fanatics of the
North in possession of our beloved country. Let
us now stand by our arms, aud with a firm reliance
on the God of battles we will drive the cowardly
Hessians from our beloved country On to victo
ry, my countrymen.
SCENE THIRD.
Position of the two Armies.
Federals on right of stage, Confederates on left
of stage. Gen. Fyler commences the attack cn
left wing of onr army—Gen. McDowell attacks
our centre. Sherman’s Battery placed fronting
our left wing. I'he left wing of our army is re
pulsed under heavy fire from Sherman’s Battery
The centre of our army driven hack under heavy
fire of infantry. Fortunes of the day are against
us. Gen. Beauregard seeing our left and centre
giving way, rushes down the line of battle, meets
the gallant Bartow, tells him a Battery must be
taken or the day is lost, and asks Bartow if he
can take it. Bartow replied “if it is in the power
ot mortals we will take it.” Bartow makes the
charge takes the Battery, but could not hold it, and
retreats in onr lines, calling upon Georgia seventh
and eighth Regiments to stand by him in his last ef
fort to retake the destructive Battery; the Batte
ry is taken—Gen Bartow is killed leading his
gallant band, a ball pierced his patriotic heart,
and his pure spirit fled to heaven. As his brave
comrades laid him down to die, he raised his no
ble head, and said “boys they have killed me, but,
don’t give up the fight.”
Gen Bartow’s gallant Georgians are being mow
ed down—the tide of battle uncertain— Gen.
Johnston seeing the great number of the Federal
ists about to overpower us cried out, “Oh for four
thousand men .’ Oh for a Blucher!” Hearing on
bis left the steady march of infantry, he saw in
the distance, tlie advancing columns of Gen
Smith’s command, four thousand strong. On thsy
came with 3teady march: one wild shout rent the
air aud the day was ours. Just as the Hessians
turned to fly the immortal Jeff. Davis reached
the fleld of battle, leading in person the centre of
the army, cutting to pieces the cowardiy hirelings.
Grand route of tLe Federal Army—Death of
Senator Foster, Cnptnre of Mr. Ely—Capture of
Col. Cochoran, by the Alabama boy, who marched
his prisoner to Gen. Beauregard who put his hand
on the bey’s head and declared him raised to a
captaincy.
Miss Weed and Miss Wilson conclude to post
pone their visit to Richmond, preferring to return
to uncle Abe’s house.
Battle-field, dead and dying—camp scavengers
robbing the dead.
SCENE FOURTH.
Day after the battle—robbing the dead—wounded
crying fur water.
Disgraceful neglect of the wounded and dead
by the Federalists—our soldiers burying the dead
and assisting the wounded
Incidents after the battle.—Col. Sloan’s boy
Adam robbing ayankee supposing him de-d—the
yankee seizes him by the wool —Adam declaring
to Col. Sloan the ghost of the yankee had caught
him.
Col. Sloan—(Adam trembling from head to foot.)
What in the world is the matter, Adam.
Adam.—Well, mas John, I is almost skeered to
death. You see I thought I would see what one
of these yankees had iu his pocket: I put my
list in his pocket, and afore God. he ghost cotcbed
me by the hair, and like fur to broke my neck.
Col. Sloan.—The man was not dead, Adam
Adam—Afore God, mas John, lie dead, but he
ghost •
Col. S.—Go along boy and no more of your non
sense.
Adam.—I is done wid dead yankees—dis nig
ger is.
SCENE FIFTH.
Second day after the Battle.
| Mississippi hoy robbing the dead—his Captain
passing—bov’s hand in tha pocket of dead man.]
Captain —Jim-what are you doing /
Boy.—Nothing, Captain. I was lookin to see if
I could find a dime, but I’ll be hanged if I aint
robbed twenty yanks and aint found nothing but
this old buck horn knife. I’ll be danged if a fel
ler’s whistle did’nt dry up before he would get
money enough to buy a drink, out of these fel
lers. I’ll quit.
I'isitors picking up relics frrm the battle field.
Pete Fair.—(Cutting off a button from the coat
of a dead yankee, marked seventy-first N. Y.
Regiment ) I'll be dang if I don’t send this but
ton to old Milledgeville, to the old man, certain.
Roch Trippe—(Cuts the buckle off a dead Col
onel’s pants and puts it on his own pants.) Look
here boys 1 am a yankee Colonel—I've got on his
harness.
•Conversations of strangers on the battle field
picking up pieces of bombshells, &c.
PART II.
SCENE SIXTH.
Flying soldiers reach Washington City—Sold-
iers begging in the streets—Rush of the gentle
men and ladies of rank to cross the bridge into
Washington, after concluding not to go to Rich
mond and dine there on Snnday.
Miss Weed and Miss Wilson ran a race to nncle
Abe’s house.
SCENE SEVENTH.
Granny Scott (receiving courier with dispatches
I from Grand Army of invasion—calls tor his wine,
and calls for his brandy too; Drinks quart of
HeiJsic.)—This wine has lost it« strength, wait
er, bring me a bottle of ntr 1805 brandy. (Drinks
a quart ) Now my boots waiter—I must see the
President—order my carriage to the door. (The
door bell rings violently.) Admit no one.
Waiter—A message from the Ptesident, (hands
it to him.)
Gen. Scott.—(Breaks open letter and reads:)
“Gen. Scott—Sir: This reported defeat of our
army must be false ? Come to me instantly.’’—
A demed old fool: lie orders me like 1 w as a slave.
(Doorbell rings violently.) I will see no one.
Waiter —A dispatch from Gen McDowell.
Gen. Scott—(Takes it and reads :) “Gen. Scott:
Our army is a complett ,oute, our loss dreadful.”
That old fool Lincoln and his gonrd-bead General
will run me raving mad. Waiter, carriage.
Waiter.—Carriage is at the door, sir. (Gen.
Scott hobbles to carriage.)
Driver.—Where to, sir.
Gen. Scott.—To that old fool Lincoln’s.
SCENE EIGHTH.
President Lincoln s Mansion.
(Bell rings.)—Waiter —Gen. Scott!
Lincoln.—Admit the old woman. 4Gcn. Scott
enters.)
Lincoln.—Well, sir, this is glorious news from
the Grand Army of invasion .’ Y'ou have destroy
ed the Fnion, by your old fogy movements, ta
king four months to take Richmond .’
Gen, Scott.— You, sir, have destroyed the Union
and broken up the army by your rashness in
rushing on to Richmond before I was ready.
Lincoln—When ir. the devil would you be
ready?
Gen. Scott.—Not, sir, until I commanded the
army to move.
Lincoln.—Yon, sir, forget I am President.
Gen. Scott.—I. sir, ain commander of the army.
Lincoln.—I will place McClellan in command.
Gen. Scott.—As you please sir! (bowing out
of the room.)
Gen. Scott—(on his way to his carriage.) A
damned old rail splitter! A monkey in a palace !
Gen. Scott—(reaches home.) Waiter! I must
leave this cursed town, order me a hasty plate of
soup.
PART III.
Richmond—Great rejoicing—Speech of President
Davis to populace.
Fellow-soldiers and my countrymen ; With my
heart over flowing with gratitude to our Heavenly
Father I meet you, to rejoice with you, and pour
out our hearts best offerings to the great I Am.
This is truly a day of rejoicing to the sons of
the South ! The great battle of Manassa has been
fought and victory is ours ! Y’cs tlie Goddess of
Liberty smiles benignly upon you, my country-
men. But while we rejoice, let us be sad, for on
yen battle field, silent, with the icy hand of death
placed upon their brows, lie the brave son.s of the
South. As I passed over the battle field and saw
their manly forms stretched upon the cold damp
sod, their pale lips kissing their mother earth, 1
thought I could hear them speak, “willingly have
I died fighting the battles of my country.” The
immortal Bartow when commanded to silence a
Battery, when leaden rain and iron hail swept
away bis brave companions, in the anguish of his
heart be cried aloud, “Oh God, if it is thy will let
me die on the battle field.” The God of battle see
ing the anguish of his great soul heard his pious
prayer, and angels bore him oft’to Heaven.
Now. my countrymen, I will not detain yon ;
our wounded patriots call on you for assistance,
nurse them with the affection of a mother, for they
have shed their precious blood in defense of our
common country.
From the Knoxville Register.
To the People of Enst Tennessee.
Iu assuiuiug the command of the mili
tary forces of this division, I cannot for
bear an earnst appeal to all who have pre
ferred the old Union, no longer to resist
the recent decisions at the ballot box by
overwhelming majorities of the people of
Tennessee. The military authorities are
not here to offend or injure the people,
hut to insure peace to their homes, by re
pelling invasion and preventing the intro
duction of the horrors of civil war.—
Treason to the State cannot, will not he
tolerated. But perfect freedom of the bal
lot box has and will be accorded ; and no
man’s rights, property, or privileges shall
be disturbed. All who desire peace can
have peace, by quietly and harmlessly
pursuing theii lawful avocations. But
Tennessee having taken her stand with
her sister States of the South, her honor
and safety require that no aid shall be
given within her borders to the arms of
the tyrant Lincoln.
We have asked of the North a recogni
tion of our political equality, and have
been refused. We have asked for terms
merely under which we could enjoy a
sense of safety to our property and time-
honored institutions, but in vain. Under
such circumstances the States of the South
resolved to submit no longer to long re
peated and vexatious intermeddling with
our rights. The North was deaf of Jus
tice, because they believed they had the
power to crush us if we rebelled. With
terrific threats they moved great armies
upon us. Those armies have been driven
back, with havoc and consternation.—
Heaven has smiled upon the South—bless
ing her with rich harvests and heroic sons.
The North is already shaken as a palsy—
her late arrogant soldiers filled with ap
prehension—her late boasted revenues
dwindled lo a stern necessity for direct
taxation. Can there be recreant sons of
Tennesse who would strike at their broth
ers while thus struggling for Southern
honor and independence l or who would
invite the enemy over the border, to inau
gurate war and desolation amid our own
fair fields'? There can be no doubt
hut few such. If any, it were better for
their memory had they perished before
such dishouor. Let not the Union men of
the late contest at the ballot box, among
whom I personally knorv to he patriotic
and true men be carried along by excite
ment or passion into so deplorable an ex
treme. Though differing upon the late
political questions, we are Tennessans.—
For the honor and glory of Tennessee let
us be, as heretofore, shoulder to shoulder
in the battle, or peacefully at home, not
sorrowing when victory perches on the
standards of Tennessee Regiments.
F._K. ZOLLIUOFFER.
Brig. Gen. Commanding.
Effrcl of lhe War upon Yankee Watering
Place*.
The New York Herald, not long ago,
announced that the war had played sad
havoc with the fashionable watering places.
Poverty and destitution were described as
reigning there supreme. This we regard
as one good effect of the war, and we have
the satisfaction of believing that Southern
patronage is witdrawn from those pesti
lential spots forever. We find in the New
York Day Book the following interesting
letter from Newport:
If there is a spot on the face of the
earth to which Goldsmith’s description of
a “Deserted Village” will apply, you may
set it down to be the once famous sea
side resort, Newport. I have wandered
through its sandy, grass-grown streets,
sauntered along the corridors of its empty
hotels, strolled upon its magnificent beach,
with no bathers; I have wearied myself
in beholding its complete desolation, in ev
ery respect unlike that which has hereto
fore made it the queen of ocean watering
places. Not half the hotels have been
opened, and those which have, have done
a losing business. “The season” has
come, but the visitors have not. Of the
eighty and upwards of fine villas and cot
tages, bnilt upon speculation, for summer
rent, to Southerners, 1 could not learn that
a single one was occupied. Even the
“Boston princes,” who are supposed to
own a habitation down here, have gone
through the solstice in town, regaling
themselves with a stroll about the Boston
“frog pond” and the big elm, as a matter
of necessity and economy.
Those free-hearted Southerners, who, in
times past, have made not only Newport,
but our other watering places, popular
and profitable, have not come on. Those
people, who, if yon believe the howling
fanatics, could not be driven out of the
Union, have concluded to give Abolition
New England a wide berth, and the ‘skin-
a-sixpence’ Yankees find it a very uncom
fortable one to lie aloue in. I assure you,
Mr. Day Book, they have got the blockade
in the most aggravated form at Newport,
and the contagion seems to have spread to
every other place of resort. Only think
of setting down at the- Tremont, in Bos
ton, to a regular dinner, with just eleven
persons, all told, and the hotel register
showing only five arrivals for the previous
day ! I will stop with the facts and leave
yon to make your own comments; but as
the poor actor summed up his benefit, you
can set New England watering places
down to a beggarly account of empty
boxes.
JUNl *iUppo«<‘ If.
What a noisy creature a man would be,
were his voice, in proportion to his weight,
as loud as that ol a locust. A locust can
he heard at the distance of one-sixteenth
of a mile. The golden wren is said to
weigh but half an ounce, so that a mid
dling sized man would weigh down not
short 4,000 of them, and a golden wren
would probably out weigh 4 of our locusts.
Supposing, therefore, that a medium sized
man weighed as much as 16.000 of our
locust, and that the note of a locust can
be heard one sixteenth of a mile, a man of
common dimensions, and sound in wind
and limb, ought to make himself heard a
distance of 1,000 miles. 'Some ponderous
men could be heard full 2,000 miles and
probably more. Singing would he at a
discount and concerts wouldn’t “pay.” If
innsic is rendered softer and sweeter by
distance, it would not do for the audience
to be within less than 1,500 miles of the
musicians, and we imagine very few would
be willing to walk that distance for two
or three hour’s enjoyment. Babies would
he a nuisance unless every body in the
house was stone deaf. But then if things
were true, it would have its advantages.
Telegraph wires might be done away
with, and the universe could be traversed
with the human voice, by stationing men
at the distance of 1,000 miles apart.—
The old fogy invention of speaking would
he found nowhere. \Ye could send our
reporter to the seat of war, and as soon as
could be conveyed to Petersburg, he
would proclaim to the anxous and curious
citizens thereof, full and accurate accounts
of things in general, and the number of
persons killed in particular. Just suppose
such a thing dear reader.
[ Petersburg Express.
DECLARATION OP INDEPENDENCE
OF THE STATE OF niNNOl'RI.
In the exercise of the right reserved to
the people of Missouri by the treaty under
which the United States acquired the
temporary dominion of the country west
of the Mississippi river, in trust for the
several sovereign States afterwards to he
formed out of it, that people did. on the
twelfth day of June, one thousand eight
hundred and twenty, “mutually agree to
form and establish a free and independent
republic by the name of the State of Mis
souri.” On the tenth day of August, eight
hundred and twenty one, the State was
only admitted into the Union of the United
States of America, under the compact
called the Constitution of the United
States, and “on an equal footing with (he
original States in all respects whatever.”
The freedom, independence and sovereign
ty of Missouri, and her equality with other
States of the Union, were thus guarant
eed, not only by that Constitution, hut
by the law of nations requiring the sacred
observance of treaties.
In repeated instances, the Government
and the people of the States now remain-
jug in that Union, have grossly violated,
in their conduct toward the people and
State of Missouri, both the Constitution of
the United States and that of Missouri, as
well as the general, great and essential prin
ciples of liberty and free government. Their
President, Abraham Lincoln, in avowed de
fiance of law and the Constitution of the
United States, and under the tyrant’s
plea of necessity, has assumed to regulate
commerce with foreign nations and among
the several States, stopping by violence
our trade xvith our Southern neighbors,
and depriving our citizens of the right, se
cured to them by a special, solemn com
pact with the United States, of the free
navigation of the 3Iississppi river. He
has usurped powers granted exclusively to
Congress, iu declaring Avar against the
Confederate States ; to carry on this un
holy attempt to reduce a free people into
slavish subjection to him, he has, in like
violation of the Constitution, raised and
supported armies, and provided and main
tained a navy. Regardless of the right
reserved to the States respectively, of
training the militia, and appointing its of
ficers, he has enlisted and armed, contrary
to the law, under the name of Home
Guards, whole regiments of men, foreign
ers, and others, in our State, to defy the
Constitutional authorities, and plunder,
and murder our citizens. By armed force
and actual bloodshed, he has even attempt
ed to deprive the people of their right to
keep and bear arms in conformity to State
laws, and to form a Avell regulated militia
necessary to tlie security of a free State.
With bis sanction his soldiers liaA’e been
quartered in houses without the con
sent of the owners thereof, and without
any authority of laAv. The right of the
people to be secure in their persons,
houses, papers and effects, against unrea
sonable searches and seizures, has been
habitually and grossly violated by his of
ficers acting under his orders. He has ut-
terh’ ignored the binding force of onr con
stitutional .State laws, and carried his in
solence to such an extent as to introduce,
from other States, free negroes into our
list, and place them in positions of author
ity over our white citizens. He has en
couraged the stealing of our slaA-e proper
ty. lu these and other proceedings the
Government and people of the Northern
States have unmistakably shown their in
tention to overturn the social institutions
of Missouri, and reduce her Avhite citizens
to an equality with the blacks. In the
execution of his despotic wishes, his agents
without even rebuke from him, have ex
hibited a brutality scarcely credible of a
nation pretending to cmlization. Even
Avomen, and children of tender age, have
fallen victims to the unbridled license of
his unfeeling soldiery. He has avowedly
undertaken to make the civil power subor
dinate to the military ; and with the des
picable and cowardly design of thns pro
tecting himself and his accomplices, by
binding the consciences of the unhappy
victims of his tyranny, be has exacted
from peaceful citizens, guilty of no crime,
, an oath to support his detestable Govern
ment. To crush out even peaceful aud
laAvful opposition to it, he has forcibly and
unconstitutionally suspended the privileges
of the writ of habeas corpus, and abridged
the freedom of speech and of the press by
subjecting innocent citizens to punishment
for mere opinion’s sake, and by preventing
the publication of newspapers independ
ent enough to expose his treason to lib
erty.
These manifold and inhuman wrongs
Avere long submitted to in patience, and
almost in humility, by tlie people of Mis
souri, and their authorities. Even when
the conduct of the Lincoln government
had culminated in an open war upon us,
those authorities offered to its military
commander in Missouri to refer to the peo
ple of the State for decision the question of
our separation from a government and na
tion thus openly hostile to us. Those au
thorities relied on the principles consecra
ted in the Declaration of Independence of
the L’nited States, that, to secure the
rights of the citizen, “governments are in
stituted among men, deriving their just
poAvers from tlie consent of the governed ;
that, whenever any form of government
becomes destructive of these ends, it is
the right of the people to alter or abolish
it, and to institute a new government, lay
ing its foundation on such principles, and
organizing its powers in such form, as to
them shall seem most likely to effect their
safety and happiness.” Missouri having
an admitted equality with the original
States which had made this declaration, it
was hoped that the rights therein asserted
Avould not he denied to her people. Her
authorities also relied on the clause in the
very Constitution with Avliich she was ad
mitted into the Union, asserting as one of
the general, great and essential principles of
liberty and free government, “that the
people of this State have the inherent,
sole, and exclusive right of regulating tlie
internal Government and police thereof,
and of altering and abolishing their Con
stitution and form of Government whenev
er it may be necessary to their safety and
happiness.” But this military command
er haughtily refused the consent of his
Government to the exercise by us of these
rights, which our ancestors in the last cen
tury endured an 8 years’ w r ar to vindicate.
He but expressed, however, the deliberate
purpose of his masters at Washington and
people over which they rule ; for his pre
decessor at St. Louis had, a feiv Aveeks be
fore, formally proclaimed to our people
that our equality with other States Avould
be ignored ; that we should be held in
subjection to the North, even though the
independence of our Southern sister States
might he acknowledged ; that to use his
oAvn words, “whatever may be the ter
mination of the unfortunate condition of
things in respect to the so called Cot
ton States, Missouri must share the des
tiny of the Union; that the free will of
her people should not decide her future,
but that, “the whole poAver of the govern
ment of the United States, if necessary,
will he exerted to maintain Missouri in her
present position iu the Union,” iu subjec
tion to the tyranny of the North.
The acts of President Lincoln haA'e
been endorsed by tbe Congress and peo
ple of the Northern States, and the Avar
thus commenced by him has been made
the act of the Government and nation over
which he rules. They have not only
adopted this Avar, but they haA'e gone. 1*0-
the extreme of inciting portions of our peo
pie to revolt against the State authorities;
by intimidation, they haA'e obtained con
trol of the remnant left of a convention de
riving its powers from those authorities,
and using it as a tool, they have through it
set up an insurrectionary gOA'ernment in
open rebellion against the State. No al-
ternatiA'e is left us; Ave must draw the
sAvord and defend our sacred rights.
By the recognized universal public laAv
of all the earth, Avar dissolves all political
compacts. Onr forefathers gave as one of
their grounds for asserting their independ
ence, that the King of Great Britain had
“abdicated government here by declaring
us out of his protection, and Avaging war
upon us.” The people and Government
of the Northern States of tbe late Union
have acted in the same manner towards
Missouri, and have dissolved, by war, the
connection heretofore existing between
her and them.
The General Assembly of Missouri, the
recognized political department of her
government by an act approved May 10th,
1SG1, entitled, “An Act to authorize the
Governor of the State of Missouri to sup
press rebellion and repel invasion,” has
A’ested in the Governor, in respect to the
rebellion and invasion now carried on in
Missouri by the Government and people
of the Northern States and their allies,
the “authority to take such measures as in
his judgment he may deem necessary or
proper to repel such invasion or put down
such rebellion.’'
Xow, ther efore. By virtue of the author
ity in me A’ested by said act, I, Claiborne
F. Jackson. Governor of the State of Mis-
souri, appealing to the Supreme Judge of
the Avorld for the rectitude of my inten
tions, and firmly believing that I am here
in carrying into effect the will of the peo
ple of Missouri, hereby in their name, by
their authority, and on their behalf, and
subject at all times to their free and unbi
ased control, make and publish this pro
visional Declaration, that by tlie acts and
people, and Government of the United
States of America, the political connection
heretofore existing between said States
and the people and government of Missouri,
is, aud ought to he, totally dissolved ; and
that the State of Missouri, as a so\-ereign,
free, and independent republic, has full
poAver to levy Avar, conclude peace, con
tract alliances, establish commerce, and do
all other acts and things which independ
ent States may of right do.
Published and declared at New Mad-
raid, Missouri, this fifth day of August, in
the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred
and sixty-one.
CLAIBORNE F. JACKSON.
Governor of Missouri.
Sweet Temper—General Jackson once
said to a young lady, in whose, welfare he
felt a deep interest:
“I cannot forbear pointing out to you,
my dear child, the great advantages that
will resuit from a temperate conduct and
sAveetness of manner to all people, on all
occasions. Never forget that you area
gentlewoman, and all your Avords and ac
tions should make you gentle. I never
heard your mother—your dear, good
mother—say a harsh or hasty thing to any
person in my life. Endeavor to imitate
her. I am quick and hasty iq my temper,
but it is a misfortune whigh, not having
been sufficiently restrained in my youth,
has caused me inexpressible pain. It has
given me more trouble to subdue this
impetuosity than anything I ever under
took.”
It i« Mid that anything Midas touched was turn
ed into gold. In these days touch a man with
gold, and he’d turn into anything.
in Act Rrprcseollag Alien Enemies,
Section 1. The Congress of the Con•
federate States of America do anact. That
wheneA er there shall be declared war be-
tAA-een the Confederate States and any
foreign nation or Government, or any in
vasion or predatory incursion shall be per
petrated, attempted or threatened against
the territory of the Confederate States by
any foreign nation or government, and the
President of the Confederate States shall
make public proclamation of the event, or
the same shall be proclaimed by Act of
Congress, all natiA-es, citizens, denzens, or
subjects, of the hostile nation or govern
ment, being males of fourteen years of
age and upwards, who shall be witnin t.ba
Confederate States, and not citizens there
of, shall be liable to be apprehended,
restrained or secured, and removed, as
alien enemies: Prodded, That during the
existing war citizens of the United States
residing within the Confederate States,
Avith intent to become citizens thereof and
avLo shall make a declaration of such in
tention. in due form, and acknowledging
the authority of the gOA’ernment of the
same, shall not become liable as aforesaid,
nor shall the Act extend to citizens of the
States of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky,
Missouri, and the District of Columbia,
and the Territories of Arizona and New
Mexico, and the Indian Territories South
of Kansas, who shall not be chargeable
Avith actual hostility, or other crime,
against the public safety, and Avho shall ac
knowledge the authority of the Govern
ment of the Confederate States.
Sec. 2. The President of tlie Confed
erate States shall be, and he is hereby
authorized by his proclamation or other
public act, in case of existing or declared
war, as aforesaid, to provide for the re
moval of those who, not being permitted
to reside within the Confederate States,
shall refuse or neglect to depart there
from; and to establish such regulations in
the premises as the public safety may re
quire.
Sec. 3, Immediately after the passage
of this Act, the President of the Confed
erate States shall, by proclamation, require
all citizens of tlie United States, being
males of fourteeu years and upwards,
u ithin the Confederate States, and ac-
knoAvledging the authority of the same,
and not being citizens of the Confederate
States, nor within the proviso of the first
section of this act, to depart from the Con
federate States within forty days from the
date of such proclamation; and snch per
sons remaining Avithin the Confederate
States after that time shall become liable
to be treated as alien enemeis; and in all
cases of declared war, as aforesaid, alien
residents within the Confederate States,
who shall become liable as enemies afore
said, and who shall not be chargeable with
actual hostility or other crime aganist the
public safety, shall be allowed the time for
the disposition of their effects, and for de
parture, which may be stipulated by any
treaty with snch hostile nation or govern
ment; and when no such treaty may exist,
the President shall prescribe snch time as
may be consistent with the public safety,
and accord with the dictates of humanity
and national hospitality.
Sec. 4. After any declared way, or
proclamation as aforesaid, it shall be the
dirty of the several Courts of the Confed
erate States, and of each State having
criminal jurisdiction and of tbe several
Judges and Justices of the Courts of th«
Confederate States, and they are hereby
authorized, upon complaint against any
alien or alien enemy, as aforesaid, or per
son comiDg within the purvierv of this act,
who shall be resident, or remaining in the
Confederate States, or at least within the
jurisdiction of such Judge, or Court, as
aforesaid, contrary to the intent of this
Act, and of the proclamation of the Presi
dent of the Confederate States, or the
regulations prescribed by him in pursuance
of this Act, to cause such alien or aliens,
person or persons, as aforesaid, to be duly
apprehended aud conveyed before such
Court, Judge or Justice, for examination
and hearing on such complaint; and suffi
cient cause therefor appearing, shall or
may order snch alien or aliens, person or
persons, to be removed out of the territory
of the Confederate States, or to be other
wise dealt Avith or restrained conformably
to the intent of this Act, and the procla
mations or regulations which may be pre
scribed as aforesaid, and may, in person
or otherwise, secure such alien person un
til the order which shall be made shall be
performed.
Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of the
Marshal of the District in which any alien
enemy, or person offending against the
provisions of this Act, shall be appre
hended by the President of the Confed
erate States, or by order of any Court,
Judge or Justice, as aforesaid, and shall
be required to depart and to be removed,
as aforesaid, to execute such order, by
himself or deputy, or other discreet person,
and for such execution the Marshal shall
have the warrant of the Court, or Judge,
as the case may be.
Senator Wilson at Bull Run.—It
is said that whilst Senator Wilson was
making his masterly retreat in Virginia,
on being repelled by a teamster, whose
wagon he sought to occupy, he protested,
in plaintive accents, that he was Henry
Wilson, of Massachusetts. The response
of the teamster was to the effect: “Henry
Wilson be d—d. I have kicked liim off
the wagon six times already.
Bcttlur Delighted.—We have seen
a gentleman from Baltimore recently, who
was informed by one of the officers from
Louisiana, that Butler met the boat at the
wharf containing the tidings from the
great Bull Run disaster on the memorable
21st. He says Batler actually chuckled
OA-er tlie news, and remarking to a friend
standing near, “that the North had now
learned that there was more than one
Great Bethel; that it was a very easy
matter for those craven hearted quill
drivers of tlie Times, Tribune and Herald,
to sit in their sanctums and abnse Generals
in the serA’ice for every calamity which
befel tlie Northern arms; but that there
was a AA-icle difference between doing and
talking.” It was, doubtless, great satis
faction to Picayune to knoAv that he is not
the only defeated Yankee General in the
present war.—Petersburg Express.
Mr. Edwin James, the celebrated crimi
nal lawyer of London, has compromised
with his creditors, married a rich widow
named Hilliard, and left England forever
to seek a new fortune in tlie United
States.
Affecting Incident.—A correspondent of
the Memphis Appeal, writing from up the
river towards Madrid Bend, gi\'es the fol
lowing incident of the trip:
“1 must not forget an old soldier whe,
at one of the points on the river, came on
board the boat. He walked up to General
Pillow, and taking him by the hand,
asked him if he knew him. The General
thought he knew his face, but could not
call his name. Said he, “I am the
soldier who shot rtie Mexican who was
slipping, up on you to stab you in the
back.” Tears flowed freely on both sides
—neither could speak, but shook each
other’s hand aud separated.”
Touching.—In Vanity Fair is a picture
entitled “Humors of the War.” represent
ing a lady presenting a gentleman in
uniform with a pistol, and beneath—“I
know it is an odd gift from alady, but.
Charley, I thought that when you were
away, it might be pleasant for yon to—to
have my arms about you.”