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Army Hjgtanr.
A Correspondent of the Charleston
Courier writing from Richmond, says:
There is great deal of sickness in our
•jj’iuY', Jt is said that at Charlottcs\ihe
and Culpepper there are over three thous
and under the care of physicians. A
great many have been brought sic* to
this city, and at Norfolk and \orktown
there is more disease, according to the
numbers, even than about us. 'Ihe
measles have swept and is sweeping
through every division of the army, and
the exposure to which the men are sub
jected in* their tent life, makes it in its
sequences a formidable disease. Then
this is our fall season, and the diseases
incident to the climate at this period pre
vail to some extent, but, in my judgment,
the cause of all this sickness lies further
back than this; it is to be found in a defec
tive and imperfect" system of hygiene.
Ample and wholesome rations are served
to the men, but the food is in many in
stances to my personal knowledge, so bad
ly managed and cooked that it impairs the
digestive organs and undermines the
health. Rations arc served out to the
soldiers every three or four days, generally
meat and flour. The meat is frequently
fresh beef, sometimes very nice. They
cook from it one day, then, from want of
proper care it is spoiled and thrown away.
This brings them to their flour alone.—
This they mix up with water and put it to
hake. If well baked it is perfectly un
palatable and indigestible, hut three times
out of five it is raw or burned; still they
must eat it, it is all they have. Is it any
wonder that they all the time ailing?
In Yorktown the soldiers trade away
their rations of flour to the bakers for
bread, pound for pound, so that the sick
ness there cannot he so much attributed to
this cause; but then these towns on the
cost arc always sickly at this time of the
year. If our men could have bread in
stead of flour, 1 have no doubt it would
very much promote their health or, what
would he better still, let them have cooks.
One man could cook for fifty with the
greatest ease, such simple food as it is
given to them. Deduct from the soldier’s
pay, if need he, the cook’s wages; let
each member hear his share prorata; it
would not amount to more than twenty-
live cents a month each.
Our soldiers are very different from tire
Yankee soldiers. All through New Eng
land and the Western States a man’s
kiteken is a part of his house, and it is a
very common thing, particularly in winter,
for people to eat in their kitekens and sit
in them, with their food prepared imme
diately under their own eyes. There are
few of them but wliat are competent,
when an emergency arises, to prepare
their own. Our eooking is done by ne
groes, and in buildings entirely distinct
from our houses. Our sons never see their
food till they sit down to eat it. It is folly
to suppose that they can commence learn
ing to prepare it alter they become men,
anu ever attain any proficiency in it. Now
and then we see one who succeeds in gain
ing some insight into science of cookery.
There are some few people who clame to
have a universal genius, hut such are
rare.
Gen. Scott’s army was far ahead of
our in the provisions made for the comfort
of the men. They had cook-stoves ar
ranged on rollers that could be wheeled
about, and cooking utensiels of the most
approved patterns. I do not say it enm-
plainingly. Our nation must not make
herself bankrupt in the beginning of the
contest by indulging in all manner of ex
travagancies.
There is another point in the organiza
tion of the army which ought to receive
more attention than it does; it is the ap
pointments of surgeans. There are some
most ineffient ones in office. Some of the
soldiers complain that they cannot get
medicine when they know that they need
it; that they apply for it sometimes two or
three successive days and are put off with
the answer that it will he attended to after
awhile. If there was a drug store ac
cessible this would not he so had, but un
der the circumstances it is unpardonable
Delinquencies in this department are of
all others most reprehensible. Mens lives
arc precious, precious to themselves and
their families, and just now very precious
to the country. All possible care should
ho taken of them, and a Surgeon, negli
gent of his duty should become an .abomi
nation in the camp, and be disgracefully
expelled from ii.
#i>ragnc'K Gallery at Manassas. | Kr.mtlie New Orleans Della.
An officer of Artillery in the Confederate Army, | ittovrnirm* on Part of our Ohio Cotton
at Manassas, writes us that lie has been informed j Parlors,
hy intelligent, prisoners of Burnside's Rhode! , . . , . , . ,
Islands Regiment, that the Rhode Island battery. j VV e find the subjoined ill a late number
| raptured at the battle of Manassas, on tbeof the Price Current, and published it,
j duly, is not the battery which Gov. Sprague pm-1 request to extend its circulation —The
: »««£«„« is not only justifiable, but ,1c
All of ihe caissons attached to the battery of maiided to secure our factors from a dishon-
;he 2d Rhode Island Regiment were marked “Tnjorable practice, and it is to be hoped will
his Excellency Gov Sprague, Providence, R I”! fully accomplish the very desirable reform
Oncol the peculiarities of the guns which at- ; - J . 1 J
traded the attention of ail Artillerists was the 1 a,rnet * a * •
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Letter from a Prisoner at Washington.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 1Z 1861.
To the Editor Examiner :
Having permission to write a few lines to my
friends, and being desirous to give information to
the friends of ali who are held here as prisoners
to our condition and treatment, I address my let
ter to you with the request you publish it. There
are sixty-one of us confined ill the old Capitol
building, a listot whose names you will find en
closed . The authorities have placed over us as
General Superintendent Mr. McDurmit, of New
Vork, a kind and atlable gentleman, who does
everything in his power to render our situation
comfortable. The officers and guard under Mr.
McDurmit are kind and gentlemanly in their de
portment to us. Dr Greenleaf, the attending
prison Surgeon, is very kind to us. I have a dis
position to say, in behalf of the regular Federal
officers with whom I have had any tiling to do,
that they treated us as prisoners of war should he,
and not as some of their papers have stated wo
ought to he treated. The statements which fre
quently appear in the Northern papers from
auoyntous writeis about inhuman and barbarous
treatment by the Confederate Government of their
prisoners are simply ridiculous, as no man of com
mon sense could or would believe them. I am
forced to believe the editors of papers who publish
these auoyuious articles ot had treatment of
prisoners hy our Government, do so to engender
a spirit of revenge in the minds of tiie Northern
people which they know cannot be done other
wise. It may be. for aught I know, that reports
of ill-treatment of our prisoners are circulated
through our Government. If so, I can say, so far
as those confined hero are concerned, it is a mis
take, except in the instance of the mob on Penn
sylvania avenue while we were being conveyed to
our present place of confinement. In that in
stance we were shamefully and barbarously
treated. We were dogged from one end of the
avenue to the other hy an infuriated mob, yelling
“hang the rebel—shoot tlie d—n Secessionists, 1 ’
and throwing stones, by which several of us came
near losing our iives. Some received severe
and painful wounds on their heads—others were
hit in different places hy stone—none of the
party, twelve or fifteen in number, escaped being
iiit. Had it not betn for the powerful exertions
of. the officer arid liis men who bad us in charge,
driving hack the mob, no doubt all would have
been killed. Ihe officer in charge of us proved
l.imselt a man of firmness and bravery—his own
men as well as we were being felled to the ground
by stones, ho himself in the midst of a continual
shower of rocks: still nndismayed. he urged his
men to he firm and defend us at tiie sacrifice of
their own lives; this they did. The mob consisted
of men and hoys, white and blnck. A few drunken
soldiers could occasionally he seen rushing toward
us with drawn knives, but neither the general
mob or the few soldiers seemed inclined to como
in close proximity to the bayonets of our guard.
With this exception our treatment has been good.
I am glad to say the Government officials have
guarded against any more such scenes being
enacted hy detailing a larger force to guard
prisoners inrough the streets of the city to their
place of confinement. Our friends in this city
and Baltimore have been very kind in furnishing
us with clothing and food of a different kind from
that usually furnished soldiers. The Government
furnishes us with two tncals a day—soldiers fair.
Our friends furnish us with such as can be furn
ished by friends. We long to be exchanged—wc
had rather he with our comrades in arms on tho
tented field, ready to help them battle for our
country and homes than revel in the luxuries of
princely mansions. How long are we to remain
prisoners. It is a miserable life to lead even under
favourable circumstances: but to know our coun-
f ° r ’heirs and our 1,nines,
mid we unable to aid them, is almost insuffeiable.
'wi e Jd y ° U ”** ° Ur Government have us ex-
Respectfully yours, &.c.,
WM. C. HUMPHREYS.
C/iip of the old block.—A son of General Beaure-
85. who has jnst attained his maj'ority, arrived in
in ir ^v ni a R 8iorc for the purpose of join-
ing the Confederate States Army.
construction of the sights Though novel to all
who examined the guns it is very familiar to the
old marksmen.about Columbus. It was the in
vention of an old citizen of this, well known
many years since as a very ingenious workman—
„nd rather eccentric withal—Templeton Reid.
A few of the heavy target guns which lie maJe
in-iy still be found in the possession of those who
delighted in the sports 6f ti.e Held before the
forests of the “Creek Nation” had given place to
the broad acres of cotton and corn. The last o!
this pattern was in the collection which Dr. W.
R Schley had, and was known as the “globe
sight ” I he lore and hind sight is shaded to avoid
the difficulty of firing in bright sunlight. Tiie
hind sight has a small nole instead of the old
fashioned cross sight, and the forepart resembles a
pin head inserted in a tube to shade it.
On the guns of the battery of brass rifled can
non the hind sight was elevated or depressed by a
tangent screw for the required dis'ance, each de
gree of elevation giving about 45(1 yards addi
tional range. Our gunners object to tiie nicety of
aim required, thinking, it would not work weft in
rapid firing. It is claimed that this sight care
fully aimed where the distance can he closely
estimated, will strike a single file at a distance ot
two miles.
This battery is now used by Col. Wade Hamp
ton of the Legion, assurance sufficient that it will
do better woik than it did at Manassas.
The private battery of Gov. Sprague is at Har
pers herrv. We count on including that in our
list of ordinance, as we rather like this style of
gun.
1 lie position of this battery was on the tnorn : ng
of the 21st of July near where the New Orleans
1 igers and the Alabama Fourth were cut to pieces
In the afternoon it was to the left of Gen Jack-
son s brigade. Col Cummings, ot the Virginia
V olunteers, captur, d the battery once. Col
I bourns ot Maryland was shot in front of it And
the horse of Gen. Beauregard mid Major Ferguson.
Ins aid, were also killed here It was in this part
ot the field that Beaureguard headed the Hamp
ton L-gon and the reinforcements of Kirby Smith
and Elzy came in late in the afternoon In fact
this battery nearly marked the extreme right wing
ot the enemy’s advance.—Columbus Sun.
Correspondence of Atlanta Confederacy.
The First Georgia ltcgiisinal—Pel. Ram-
KCJ.
Manterky, Ya., Aug. 9th.
In consequence of the exposure and
hardships that the army stationed here
underwent in their retreat from Rich
Mountain and Laurel Hill, there is much
sickness in camp, Of Gen. Jackson’s
whole command of 4,500 men on an aver
age, two die daily. The fell destroyer
which is hurling so many of our troops into
j eternity is typhoid fever. Our regiment
I has not suffered so much from the effects
of the retreat as have some of the Virginia
regiments, notwithstanding the former bore
the whole burden of tiie first battle on
Cheat River, at which seven companies
belonging thereto were cut off, who had
to make their way through the mountains
to this place, a distance of 100 miles—trav
eling five nights and four days without
anything to eat; and a portion of it also
took part in the second engagement, and
had to walk nearly the whole of the dis
tance, having lost all of our wagons,
while the latter had conveyances enough
to carry all of their sick and many of their
tired men. This difference no doubt is
attributed to Col. Ramsey’s kindness; who
upon arriving here, instead of marching
his men into camp and keeping them there,
as did the Virginia Colonels, gave to those
of his men who were very sick furloughs
of thirty days, and to the others, fur
loughs of ten days, that they might gointo
the country, where they could find a shel
ter from the heavy dews and pelting storms,
which are of frequent occurrences in this
mountainous country, to rest and recruit
their health. Taking into consideration
that we had no tents, blankets, or cooking
utensils, while it was not in strict accor
dance with military discipline for our Colo
nel to disband his regiment for a few days,
yet I consider that it was a kind and wise
act in him, as the present state of the
health of his men conclusively prove; yet
for this act ho has been arrested, and, il
there be no other charge against him than
that of disbanding his regiment—and I
know of no other—I’m of opinion that
when a court martial shall have investiga
ted his case, and shall have found out the
motives which prompted him to the action,
he will at once he released, when he again
will resume the command of his regiment,
which, since his arrest, and in the absence
of Lieut. Col. Clark, who is in Staunton,
has devolved uponMaj. Thompson.
Tit for Tut.—We learn from a gentle
man just from Richmond, that the Secre
tary of War (Mr. Walker) has made a
“special deposit” in the North Carolina
penitentiary of a number of Federal pris
oners corresponding to the piivateersmen
held by the Lincoln Government. It is
the intention of President Davis that the
former shall receive the same measure of
clemency or severity which shall be meted
out to the latter.
Tennessee Powder.—We met with W.
E. Jones Esq., of Nashville, agent of the
military board of this State, this morning,
who is returning from the mountains of Ar
kansas, where lie lias been investigating
the caves, and has succeeded in making a
contract with Messrs. Smith & Thompson,
of Independence county, to furnish this
State with 100,000 pounds of saltpeter,
which will be converted into powder by
Samuel Watson, Esq., ofNashville as fast
as it is received.
{Memphis Bulletin.
Catoosa Springs.—We spent a day last
week at this charming watering place,
where we found about three hundred visi
tors, most of them invalids in pursuit of
health, and hut few of the customary
pleasure seekers, whom the state of the
country lias either detained at home or
called to the more stirring scenes of the bat
tle ground. We heard of several remark
able cures effected, and all seemed to
think that they had derived great benefit
from the waters. 'The appointments and
accomodations of the place are unsurpassed,
and every body seemed delighted with the
good management and attention of the en
terprising managers.—Dalton Times lath.
Extract of a Better from Philadelphia.—
IIow They Get an Enlisting.—The follow
ing extractfrom a letter received in this
city from Philadelphia, contain a few
hints of importance :
'1 here is nothing new or interesting with
us. Every branch of business is as dull
as ever, and no prospect of reviving it until
the war is over. The recruiting business,
which was is dull as any other, had a sort
of spasmodic revival last week, after the
batt le of Pull linn, hut was only a spasm.
I he two or three regiments that have
been recruiting for the last two months,
have left or will leave in a day or two.
They are but little more than half full;
and notwithstanding a great deal of drum
ming up, there arc but very few new re
emits. The military spirit seems to have
left us, and although the papers say the
returned three months’men will, most of
them rc-inlist, none of those that I have
spoken with have any idea of doing so, and
1 think if we could only break up Old
Abe’s Cabinet and break down the infln-
encc of the Abolition blood-hounds in Con
gress, we might hope for a speedy end of
the war.
EowellMills tube Slopped.—The Merrimac Compa
py, in Lowell. Mans., will shut down their entire works
m about two weeks. The News says that nearly ev
ery corporation in that city has been partially or en
tirely closed. How long they will remain so, is a mat
ter of uncertainty,
We observe that flic cotton factors of
this city have, with great unanimity,
signed an agreement to establish a black,
book, to take effect from the 1st of Sep
tember next. The object is to register
such individuals (giving their post-offices)
as have or may hereafter obtain advances,
supplies, indorsements, or acceptances, and
who may, after the 1st September, dis
regard such obligations, hy sending their
cotton to the other houses, or selling it at
home. It is a good move and should
have been done years ago.
11 is but justice to the honorable planter,
whose credit is sometimes affected hy the
unworthy conduct of an unreliable neigh
bor. Good faith is the first and most im
portant basis of credit.
The black sheep, if there are any,
should he separated from i-lie balance, and
this system will effectually do it.
A Colton Planter to hi* Fnrtorn.
A Louisiana Cotttfli Planter w rites as
follows to his Factors of New Orleans :
We have seen the circular issued and
signed hy the merchants in your city ad
vising planters not to send their cotton
down until the blockade is raised. This
we all hignly approve. We are determined,
and, as I know the feelings of this por
tion of the State, 1 can confidently speak
for all, that not a hale of cotton will he
shipped until the blockade is raised and ad
vice received from the merchants, as we
know that they are as deeply interested
in the warfare of our country as wc are.
All of ns in this neighborhood are wil
ling and determined that every pound of
cotton shall he consumed by the flames be
fore the Yankees or any other power on
earth shall have it who will refuse to
trade with us as an independent nation.
We have been driven to take up arms
in our defence, and have asked to he let
alone. As soon as this is done, we will
sheathe the sword and return the rifle to
the rack. Our cause is just, and for it let
us all die, if need he.
TO GUNSMITHS, See.
A card from Gen Wayne, in the Atlanta
Intelligencer of the I Sth, invites till gun
smiths and manufactures of small arms in
Georgia to meet the Governor and Adju
tant General in Atlanta on the 29th, for
the purpose of concerting vigorous meas
ures for repairing and making efficient the
old muskets, rifles and guns in the State,
and establish uniform prices therefor; and,
also, to compare notes as to our resources
for the manufacture of small arms, and of
adopting, if possible, some plan for their
fabrication in sufficient quantities.
Counting the Cost.—The Bridgeport
(Conn.) Farmer says;
Some mathematician who believes in go
ing inio small particulars, states that the
cost of the Chicago Platform civil war now'
going on is over SCO,000 per hour, $1000
per minute, or about $J7 per second.
These are nice little sums for taxpayers to
dwell upon.
A Religious War.—Harriet Beecher
Stow'c proposes that the present struggle
between the North and the South shall be
designated “The Religious War.” In
this we are inclined to agree with the au
thor of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. It is a religious
war. It is the Bible and a pure Christi
anity against infidelity and dishonoring
crimes, and we are glad to see that the
churches of the South are alive to their
responsibility in this regard. We learn
that in two days during the present week
175,000 pages of religious tracts wereseut
from this city into the various encamp
ments.—Rich mond Dispatch.
Snprrioritvor flit* Southern Ofiic«*r* over
th«* .'Voilhrm.
It is impossible to read the Southern
accounts in detail of the battle at Bull
Run, which wc published yesterday, and
compare them with the accounts given by
our own officers and men, as well as of
those civilians who witnessed the fight,
without coming to the conclusion that the
Southern army had greatly the advantage
in officers over the Northern army. They
fought with a bravery which casts the con
duct of the Union officers into the shade
and that self-sacrificing heroism told on
the fortunes of the day. The men advan
ced to the charge or held important posi
tions while they were decimated, because
they were animated and fired hy the exam
ple of their leaders. It is impossible oth
erwise to account for ‘heir great loss in
men and officers, far exceeding, according
to our accounts, the loss in the Union army.
The number of our officers of high
rank killed and w'ounded bears no propor
tion to those killed and w'ounded in lead
ing the enemy. The rebels lost at least in
killed, tw’o generals, one brigadier gen
eral, six colonels, one lieutenant col
onel ; in wounded, one brigadier gen
eral, six colonels and three majors—
twenty field officers in all. The loss
in company officers, though great, was
not, perhaps, in equal proportion.—The
Southern field officers fell in leading their
troops to the charge, and the example in
spired their men with great arder, even
when they were inclined to give way.
We read that Beauregard and Johnston
themselves were in the thick of the fight
at the decisive moments, Beauregard hav
ing his horse shot under him; and through
out the day these generals exposed them
selves continually to death hy galloping
along the front of their lines to observe
the development of the battle. Where
were our field officers during this period?
We arc almost ashamed to tell. AVe know
there are gallant exceptions—such as
Sprague, of Rhode Island; hut it must he
confessed that our field officers, on the
whole, reflected hut little credit upon the
army or upon the loyal States, and the
chief part of the fighting was done by
brave privates and company officers on
their own hook. [N. Y. Herald.
The Largest Fortress in the World.—
Eighteen miles from AA T arsaw stands the
largest fortress in the world—a fortress
with casemated and bomb proof barracks
for 40,000 men. and with a circumference
of eleven miles. Whether this fact is gen
erally known or not, it is certain that very
few Englishmen—very few persons
of any country hut Russia—have been
allowed the opportunity of inspecting this
wondrous stronghold. Nor, 1 believe, is
our government at present in possession of
any plan or sketch of the. immense works;
and as evidence of the jealousy with which
it is hidden from the eyes of strangers,
I may mention that special permission from
the Czar is requisite to enable any foreign
er to enter it.
The fortress is called Modlin, or the
New Georgian ; in Russian, Novo-Geor-
gievek. Il is almost overpowering to wan
der about the huge works. Mile after
mile one may explore stores and maga
zines. and batteries—pass from ravelin to
ravelin, from work to w'ork, and one-half
ofModlinisnotseen. There is something
very Russian in this crowding fort within
fort. At the Malakoff this fault—I think
I may call it—was apparent. Traverse
npon traverse, parapet, defense crown
ing and crowning defense, till seemed as
though the labyrinth at Ilamton Court had
been thickened and petrified into fortress.
Such was the Malakoff.
On a large scale this description to a
certain extent, holds good for Modlin;
though on this more extended scale it is
less remarkable, and the defects less ap
preciable ; there is no crowding certainly
for there is room for them all, but one
within the other arc collected the works,
and it seems to be the opinion of the Rus
sians themselves that this great fortress
has been somewhat overdone. r i hey are
very proud of it nevertheless; and well
they may be, for they may feel sure that
no strangers who visit it have ever seen
its like.—[Once a \\ r eek.
General Scott lias illustrated the worth of
Northern popularity. A few months ago he was
the idol of the North. The New Y’ork Tribune
smeared him with the slaver of its praises, and a
tanatical people covered him with blasphemous
laudations, hailing him as “their Saviour” and
worshipping him with prayers ai d thanks
giving. Now, “none so poor to do him rever
ence.”
What has Gen. Scott obtained for his treason to
his State and the surrender of a historical reputa
tion, ccnsecrati d hy years, to his own animosi
ties and to the promises of the North? Simply
the traitor’s reward from those whom his treason
had Served. As long as he commanded success he
was applauded and encouraged; the first moment lie
stumbled, he was kicked.
The Northern mind has no generosity, and is a
stranger to the virtue of gratitude. It is charac
teristic of the Yankee to make more great men of
little accidents and then to bury them on accouut
of some childish dissatisfaction, than any other
people on the face of the earth. It made a great
man of “Major” Anderson out of very indifferent
circumstances. It dubbed Butler a hero for march
ing up Federal Hill, in Baltimore, and then down
again. It proclaimed Scott “a Saviour” for hav
ing adopted the precaution of putting guards on
the house-tops in Washington, to insure and add
to the ceremony of Lincoln’s inauguration. These
idols ot an hour are already either forgotten, or are
polled to pieces in childish rage. “The gallant
Anderson” has relapsed into original obscurity;
tiie modern •‘Putnam” is retired from “the depart
ment of Virginia;” and “the great Captain of tiie
Age’’ is left to ihe pangs of gout and remorse,
and Ihe keener pains of vanity smarting with mor
tification, insult and disgrace. It has been said of
Gen. Scott that he was great in adversity Helms
not yet shown a trait of fortitude. His conduct in the
reverse sustained at Manassas was only contemp
tible. When he descended to seif-acensations of
being ati old fool and a coward, in this slavish
manner entreating generosity forhimself, he mis
calculated the character of his Yankee masters.
They snapped at his own confession, and took for
facts what he intended as the groveling phrase
of a petitioner for pardon. Had he possessed
any true nobility of soul, he would'have scorned
excuses and repelled accustations he knew to be
false. He has done neither. He has involved
himself in the double contempt of North and South.
He lias consigned his name at once to the re
proaches and stigmas of his own companions,
and to infamy among honorable men.
The New VorU Slrralil -ouiidx an Alarm.
In connection with our extracts from European
journals, we add the following editorial from the
New’ Y’ork Herald of the 15th instant :
There is a prospect of renewed complications
with Great Britain. In the House of Commons, on
the 29th of July, Mr Gregory, who may be con
sidered the agent of the rebels in the British
Parliament, asked whether the Government re
ceived any information to the effect that goods
contraband of war including a battery of artillery,
had been conveyed from Liverpool to New York
in the steamer Kangaroo, and that a loan for the
United States Government had been opened upon
the Stock Exchange? If so, was this in accor
dance with British principles of nonintervention?
The reply of Lord Palmerston was distinguished
by a studied ambiguity, which, however, is capa
ble of a somewhat definite interpretation. He
said that he was not persodBlly cognizant of the
matters referred to, but that should they arise,
they would of course be dealt with by the Gov
ernment. There would be less doubt of the ex
act meaning of the words of Lord Palmerston’s
reply if the goods contraband of war had not been
associated with the loan in the question asked by
Mr. Gregory. But, notwithstanding, it is obvious
that he meant as soon as the loan was opened on
the London Stock Exchange the Government
would interfere to prevent its negotiations, as an
infringement of British neutrality. Were it not
so. the reply would have been couched in very
different terms.
This, therefore, plainly shows the real senti
ments of the British Government towards this
country. When we warned the American pub
lic of the secret hostility of England to the United
States, and of her desire to promote the cause ot
the rebels, and even elevate the insurgent States
to the dignity of an independent nationality we
were assailed hy nearly the whole press of Eng
land for what was said to he our wilful misrepre
sentation of a friendly Government. Does not. this
one act alone show that we were right in our esti
mate of the character of the British Cabinet?
Even the newspapers that formerly veiled their
own and the Government hostility to us now come
out boldly and proclaim it. Not the slightest en
couragement, we are told by one London journal,
should be given to the negotiation of an American
loan in that market, and although endeavors may be
made to raise the money, it is not believed they
will be successful. We trust that the British pub
lic will offer no encouragement, even to the most
speculative money broken, to embark in such an
enterprise, says another journal, and the most de
cided ill will is manifested in the matter. If this
is friendship, what is hostility/ Hitherto the Lon
don money market has been opened to all the
world to establish alike with revolutionary gov
ernmeuts—and tho negotiation of loans has pro
ceeded without restriction. But now when the
great republic of the New World steps in, the
doors a«t insultingly shut in our faces, Thus
is that every link in the chain of events connected
with this war demonstrates the necessity there
is for the Government subduing the rebellion with
a strong arm, and restoring the country to peace
as scon as possible. Not only' do the results of
our battles, but our relations with foreign pow
ers teach us this. Every week onr affairs abroad
are becoming more complicated and critical, and
unless we see more energy and determination on
the part of the Administration, matters will soon
arriveat such a crisis that we shall not only have
to fight the rebels, but the allied fleets of Eng
land and France.
igation for flat -bottomed scows to within
twenty miles of the Brazos river.
As we have before stateiR this salt is
far superior to Liverpool salt; and if Old
Abe’s blockade forces us to open a busi
ness of supplying ourselves with our own
salt, it will not be the least of the benefits
it will confer upon us. AA T e believotat will
be possible to deliver salt in Houston at
from a cent to a cent and half per pound.
It is now worth two and a half.
Signs :it the North.
The Democracy of \ oi*k county, Maine,
at a meeting adopted the subjoined reso
lutions :
Resolved, 1 hat in our judgment the
discontented feeling which has arisen
among our brethren of the Southern States,
caused by the agitation of the slavery
question, might have been quieted by
conciliation and by a compromise equally
honorable to both sections, and that a day
of retribution will soon overtake the Re
publican leaders and press for their un
wise and unpatriotic course in preferring
to carry out a mere party dogma, to the
preservation of .a great and prosperous peo
ple from the horrors of civil war and na
tional ruin.
Resolved, That the reconstruction of the
Union by force against the embittered feel
ing and the united strength of nearly one-
half the States, is a palpable absurdity, and
an utter impossibility, and even if the re
volted States should be overrun and subju
gated, they can be held to their allegiance
only by changing onr Government to an un
limited monarchy ; and while pursuing this
delusion of re-uniting the States by coer
cion, a standing army lias been raised
without color of law, the freedom of speech
has been abridged, the right of protection
of person by habeas corpus, the right of
safety in homes, papers, and effects, the
right of petition for redress of grievances
—all these great constitutional rights on
which our freedom rests, are being viola
ted, and unless an immediate check be
placed upon these usurpations no remnant
of our once free government will remain to
us.
The following is an extract from a letter
from Maine, to the editors of New York
Journal of Commerce :
Bangor, Maine, Aug. 10.
Messrs. Editors: A great reaction in
public sentiment is now rolling over the
State of Maine. In almost every county,
town and hamlet the people, in their Con
ventions and primary meetings, are de
ploring the unhappy state of the country,
and demanding a peace policy. Not a
cringing dishonorable peace, but one based
upon principles of mutual forbearance and
compromise.
The Republican party has become so
emphatically committed to a war policy,
that in their view, the slightest deviation
from that course is political death. In
this they are correct. They have nearly
run their race, and must shortly pass away,
to be remembered only for tlie mischief and
misery their short career brought upon the
country.
BY AUTHORITY.
ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS
of the Second Seism it of the
PROVISIONAL CONGRESS
OF THE
COiVFEDERATi: STATES.
1661.
AN ACTri latiiut * th • j
S.ftion 1. Tiiu (A»ugivi
Jo t uftet. That all l»*tU rs
In- transmitted through th
private of th
(No. 19-1 )
r -pavm Hit of p »*t it* in certain cas
* of tin* Confederate Staten of Anier
and otb -r matter author?/'* i by law
* mnjl*, written »»r sent by a:i\ «*lii
Arm
of the Confederate States, maybe transmitted through th*’ mad*
r »auy otner ploee in the Confederate State* without prepayment
of pontage, but leaving such postage to be collected upon Che de
livery of such letters -or other matter; Provided, nevertheless,
that in all such cases, the letters an.i other mail matter so seut
shall be endorsed with the uauie. and shall he on neeount of the in
dividual sending the same, and shall contain a description of the
party who sends tbe same. Ly endorsement ot liis military title,
if ail otiicer, or of the company and Regiment to which he belong*
if a musician or private. •
Sec. 2. That letters and other mail mutter sent t > any officer,
musician or private, in the Confederate States Army, at any point
from whichth»* said officer, musician or private may have o-’en
lawfully removed, shall!** forwarded to the person to whom di
rected at tin* post office nearest which he ruay have been removed,
Irce of a iditional postage.
See. 3. That on letter* transmitted by a uiei.il*er of Congress,
with his official signature endorsed on tin* same, pre-puvment ot
postage shall not lx* required, but the -ame may be paid on deliv
ery of the Utters thus transmitted.
Sec. -4. Any person attempting to violate tin* provisions of this
act, shall lx* guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall forfeit and pay
th«* stun of twenty dollars, to be recovered before any Justice of
the Peace bavin? cognizance thereof.
Approved, July 29, Idol.
(N.rTov)
A RESOLUTION to dispose of donations made by certain
Churches on the late Fast Dav.
Resolved, by the Congress of the Confedernt'e States of Ameri
ca, That the sum oi live thousand two hundred- and seventy-
eight dollars aud cighty-eigut cents, reported by the Secretary of
the Treasury as r**ceived into the Treasury from donations by
churches, on the late fast day, !>e appropriated as a fund for the
use of tho soldiers and officers wounded at the late battle of Mb-
nasses; and that the same be disbursed and applied by the Secre
tary of the Treasury, with the concurrence of the Chairman
of the Committee of this House.
Approved July 30.1861.
of Congress, to tause i
r . ~ 7”'--'--heforceof l»w», aud ai
■‘’“i "p"
the Unit
y shall bo h
f three thousand i __
i «i»t i.. .nuutv. to tto'a'TtaTS 1 ?!,* x r»b-*u
“.‘.“"“I 1 -! P»t>ll*h.M by EtaS,’ 1 / ‘aw. Of
Whirl, the law., piilUi.nnl by Lull’.V S-.',wn Ci„
‘ft i ! in
I 11 *- »"“ 11 auBotnit t„ form avolninvar . c "n.b.r
nuuilred, in.rm ire tb.iU ourtSousaud p,,-,.. AuH ““■‘ritft
v ore tin,, boiniil. u new iudi x .hall be th,
t.ir rontni! »i tn• ■ v. 1, .!.• volume thus boimd! ^ '’ W)n 'Pri.h 3
> d. i’-.e printing of the law*, n» reqain-H W „ .
a c t,,,,,, .hull I,.' ex •, „te l hy the Vi.hlir Prinn-r • ifrifl'SlSa,
form and in^otum... a. pr.,vid«3 "i
- tied "du act f.trHter to'oninize‘*Le nS ** *Hth
uteudeut oi Public Piinting.” 1 ^ Ur ’* 8n <»f
f this
wit: for composite
: for rule and figure work
work,*.
interior n,*„► ■
I* thfw&'!»
* °* Couj.r***g;
tmeut of State, for its «*»?£
Iliplouiutir and C'..i,-uhtr r.lU, ,. rn „ f (’."Wli'it., „
v., hundred c to the Depart™. nt.,f th,- T Wn, "'‘
"nurttheRrv,,,,;;^:
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, and for aistributioi
1 huudr*
RESOLUTIONS
Jn.ti.v for it. own r.„ .. and lor dirtrihl’.Vi^rC'Tfr^
( b’lfcs. Marshals aud Atti meys of the Confederate W
copies each t» the Department of War and the N avv . 'j"; *‘»ty
Postmaster-General; five copies each
several States, lor the nae of the Stat
shall be preserved in the Department
ditioiml clerk
carrying into effect the p
Clerk of said Department, at
p r annum
.3. All h
>>uraiiu tin-\ ,w •
l» of tili- art. to tie rail P '' f
.alar, of fi.teeu hand^l
d and parts of law
riding for th;* safe custody, prei
aud distribution of the laws are
Approved Aug. 5, 1801.
M.!" n '■aa. rext, pro.
etiy repeated.
(No. 209.)
nthoiiie advance, to he made In certain
*s of tiie Confederate State, of An eri. a L '
vtary of W ar. with the approbation „f the
AN ACT to
The Collar.
That the Sec
dent, br authorized, durthp the exi.tet.ee' of the prelent J,"'*
make advance, opon any contract, not to ex.eed thiitvo
und one-third per cent., for arm. or munition, of w.t- a' *
.led, that security be first taken, to be approved hv thJ « ! "
tary ot War, for the performance ol the contract or for ■ S' 1 * 1
accounting for the . .id money. pr ' PW
Approved Aug. 5th, 18G5. ’ , 44(
.Tlixaioii of .Jlis'touri into the gontlirni Con-
fedrracy.
Wo have tiie information that a bill has been
reported from the Military Committee, in secret
session of Congress, for the admission of Mis
souri into the Confederacy.
It is known that the people of Missouri are now
contemplating measure to make that State a mem
ber of the Confederacy; and the action of Con
gress in admitting her now is intended to be re
sponsive to this disposition of the people of Mis
souri and encourage it to a prompt determination
of its purpose.
The bill, as reported from the Committee, pro
vides for the full admission ol Missouri upon an
equal footing with the other Confederate States,
upon the condition that the Constitution for the
Provisional Government of the Confederate States
shall be adopted by her, upon official notice of
which fact, by her Governor, the President shall,
by proclamation, announce the fact, and her ad
mission shall be considered as complete.
The hill also authorized the President to co- op
erate through the military power of the Govern
ment with the authorities and people of Missouri
in defending the State ajainst invasion, and main
taining her independence. with power to rereive
and muster her volunteer troops into the Con
federate service, and to extend the protection of
the Government ever all her citizens engaged
in resisting the lawless aggressions of the United
States.
The bill is subject to some amedments of de
tail, but the sense of Congress is reported to be
unanimous for the admissiop for Missouri before
the adjournment. The admission will probably
be authorized to-day by a unanimous vote, and
Virginia and the people of the entire Confederacy
will hail the intelligence of the addition thus se
cured of another star to onr national galaxy
Richmond Enquirer
Knit in Trxna.
The Houston Telegraph calls attention
to the supply of salt in the rear of Corpus
Christi, which, it would seem, is sufficient
for the supply of the whole Cot fedcracy.
The salt is found in the Laguna Madre,
once a long narrow bay, but which lias
been cut oft'from the sea by the forma
tion of a bar. During nine months of the
year there is no ram, and the water which
flows in from the sea is rapidly evapora
ted, leaving a deposit of salt from one to
two feet deep, of a quality equal to Turk’s
Island. The Telegraph estimates that
there are not less than a thousand millions
of bushels of salt in the lagoon, within
reach of the rudest appliances for gather
ing.
The mode of gathering this salt, says
the Telegraph, is, hy having Mexican
cartmen, to deliver it in Corpus Christi
bay. There are times, we are informed,
when the salt may be scraped into flat-
boats and taken to deep water. But the
cartmen can, it is believed, be obtained to
deliver a hundred thousand bushels in Cor
pus bay at cost of not over ten cents per
bushel. From Corpus there is inland nav-
From the Atlanta Intelligencer.
Fori Valley CorrcNpondeuce.
Foit Valley, Aug. IGth, 1861.
Hon. Jared /. Whitaker:
In the Telegraph of the Ifith inst", I was happy
to find that Gov. Brown, in reply to your note,
consents to serve the State a third term should it
be the voice of the people. I have never voted
lor Gov Brown, but on the contrary, was a po
litical opponent. Should lie, however, consent to
serve a third term, I bad determined to redeem the
past, as far at least as might be done by a hearty
vote. In ti;is I express the sentiment of thous
ands of the yeomanry of Georgia. We are sick of
conventions, and have no faith in the wire-pullers
who attend them. Gov. Brown has given the
true workings of such corrupt bodies, and the peo
ple will endorse his letter in toto.
The convention of tiie 4th September, will be a
failure. The people are determined not to vote
for the nominee of that body, as the delegates will
not represent the views of one man in one hun
dred.
That convention may nominate whom it may,
but you will liud that the people will vote forGov.
llrown. Any one who has travelled through tho
State anu conversed with the masses, will have
•earned that the people have no idea of putting
the affairs of this State into the hands of a new
incumbent. Gov. Brown understands fully the
working machinery of the State, as is demonstra
ted by the unexampled prosperity of the State,
and it would be folly’ in the midst of war to con
sign our all into the hands of an inexperienced
Governor.
The war will necessarily increase our taxes,
and should we have added to war, bad manage
ment of the State Road, our burdens might be
greater than we could bear. But if we keep Gov.
Brown in tiie chair, we may expect our financial
affairs to be safe. And this is an important item
just now. Other men may have high claims to
gubernatorial honors, but there arc none who wc
know ran manage the financial affairs of the State
as Got. llrown has done.
The convention will have to nominate some un
tried man in the capacity of Governor. It will
take some time tor him, (let him be who he may,)
to become acquainted with, and still longer to be
come familiar with, the various departments of his
business. He must necessarily experiment much
before be could understand tho machinery he is
working. Many blunders may be made and,
and some of them may be embarrassing or detri
mental to the State. He would doubtless make
changes in the officers under him and these would
require time to understand their duties, aud to
know how to perform them.
Here is the pregnant cause of hundreds of evils
that curse States and nations in times of profound
peace, but the danger is increased when we are i:i
tiie midst of war and governmental change.—
Every energy of our noble Stale is now needed
to maintain onr honor at home and abroad, and
to secure that independence and nationality tor
which we have pledged our all. No time for ruin
ous policies, dangeronrs experiments, or inex
perienced helmsmen.
As wise would it be to ride the laughing waves
of the oceatt in gentle breeze or calm, under the
guidance of an inexperienced helmsman, but when
the storm lashed the waters to madness, and the
heavens blackened with the tempest-clouds, to en
trust the gallant ship and precious lives into the
hands of one who had never directed a vessel in
breeze or storm.
We have no idea of committing the Empire
State, at this hour, to any’ other hands but Gov.
Brown's.
The convention to assemble on the 4th of Sep
tember, is doubtless a political affair to gratify
some clique of politicians, or to satisfy the ambi
tions of some restless aspirant. The people have
nothing to do with the matter. The primary meet
ings are all arranged in some private room. The
chairman of the meeting, the committees, the
speaker, the delegates, Ate., to thr end of the
chapter, are all fixed up by a few wire-pullers and
political tricksters assembled in some law office or
upper room, where, in by-gone-days, they were
accustomed to hold their midnight orgies and ele
vate mountebanks to power,
Conventions are a curse to any people, and now
whilst we have an opportunity to abolish them,
let us do it. Designing newspapers and thirsty
politicians may ridicule and deride a scrub race,
but this is the people’s race after all. Let the
people go to the ballot box and vote uninfluenced,
and then and not till then, do the masses exercise
untrammeied the elective franchise.
The objection, that it, is not usage for a Gover
nor to serve three terms, is without force. The
man who would prefer usage to safety, demon
strates too clearly that he has not the interests of
the State at heart. The same argument would
make us subjects of the Potentate Lincoln. It is
puerile and smacks much of political taint.
Let the people know that Gov. Brown will serve
a third term and the work is dene.
BRUTUS.
“THE DEVOTED BAND.”
T HE shortest path to peace is that which-carries
havoc and desolation to our invaders. It is belie
ved that there are live or ten thousand men in the South
ready and willing to share the fate of Curtins, and de
vote |tl icmselves to the salvation of their country.
It is proposed that nil who are willing to make this
sacrifice,shall arm themselves with a sword, two five-
shooters and a carbine mid each ineet.ou horse buck, at
some place to be designated, convenient for the great
work in hand. Fire ami sword must be carried to the
houses of those who are visiting those blessings upon
their neighbors. Philadelphia, and oven New York,
is not beyond the reach of a long uud brave arm. The
moral people of these cities cannot be better taught
the virtues of invasion than by the blitzing light of
their own dwellings.
Noue need apply for admission to “TIIE DEVO
TED BAND,” but those who are prepared to take
their life in their hand, and who would iudulge not the
least expectation of ever returning. They dedicate
their lives to the destruction of their enemies !
A. S. B. IX B..
Richmond •
— m —
It has been hinted that the New York Zouaves
(pet lambs) were offered up by Father Abraham
as a sin offering.
(No, 1945.)
relation to the First Regiment of North
Carolina Volunteer*.
Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of Amer-
ra. That the President be and be it> hereby authorized to receive*
and master info the service of the Coufedarute Statas oi
America, Fhe First Regiment of North Carolina volunteer*,
now stationed at Yorktown, for the term of nix mouths
from the time they were sworn in und mustered into the
service of North Carolina, and to discharge them after the expi
ration ol that period; said period to commence at the time tile
first com pany of said Regiment was mustered into the service of
North Carolina.
Resolved, further. That the Cadet* from tin* North Carolii
Institute, at Charlotte, who may have been acting with said Re
intent, be mustered into service in tho satin* manner as the resi
due of the Regiment, and reorganize as part thcieof, with the pa
of privates.
Approved July 30, ICol.
(NoTT97.)
AN ACT relative to money deposited in the Registries and R-
ceivers of the Courts.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of Amor
ca do enact. That all moneys heretofore puih into th** ilegistriet
and Receiver* of the several Courts of the United Star“s, »Dr
merJy existing in these* Confederate States, shall lx* deposited
the ’Treasury of the Confederate Slates; and it shall be th*
duty of the Judges of th»* several Courts of the* Confederat
State’s now having jurisdiction over the disposal of the said sums
of money to withdraw the same from the Registries and Receiv
ers of riie Courts, and pay the amount thereof to the Secretaryof
th«* Treasury.
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury
to issue, in lieu of the amounts of money paid to him, as afore
said, on (qual amount iu bonds of these Confederate States, bear
ing interest at five per centum per annum, divided into such
stuns os shall lx* required by the Judges making the payment; the
4-apical uml iutere^t of said bond* la-iug made payable only when i , -
paymeut thereof shall be ordered by a decree «*t the Court bovine I u
jurisdiction over tli<*diaposal thereof. Said bond* shall be mad
payable to the order ot the Judge of the Court by whom the pay- j
mentis mode into the Treasury, and of liis successors in — *’
and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury t»
payment of said bonds and all accruing inte
presentation thereof, accompanied by a duly certified
the order of Court directing such payment.
See. 3. That all sums of money deposited in the Registries and j
Receivers of the several Courts of thi s** Confederate Stetes. ci
that may hereafter be ho deposited, shall, if remaining undisposed
of duriug six months from the date of the deposit, be transferred
in like manner as is above provided, to the Treasury of the Con
federate States, und be replaced by bond**- to lie issued in like
manner, and payable on the like terrrs und conditions, iu all
respect* as provided in the second section of this a t.
Approved August 1, 1861.
(No. 193.)
AN ACT further to amend an act entitled “an art to establish
the judicial courts of the Confederate States ot America.”
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate Srutes ot America
do enact. That so much of the act approver! March 16, 1361, en
titled -an act to establish the Judicial Cmuts ofthe Confede- . H 0n . i\J . J. Crawford foi* GoVemOl*, ailtl
rut* States ot Am- r.ea. us directs the Induing *d a session ot th** | v Tir T , . „ *
Confederate States iu J
Peace Papers.
The Jo urnal of Commerce says that the
Day Book’s list of Peace papers, with its
1^1 own additions, makes no less than one
hundred and iifty-two journals in the North
| opposed to the war. It is all folly f or the
! Republican papers to insist that this is not
! evidence of public opinion. These jour
nals have readers and subscribers that ap-
! prove of their sentiments, and their num
ber in the aggregate would make a larger
! army than Lincoln will ever get together
[ Xew York Day Book.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, says that considerable
apprehension is felt for the safety of the Federal
j troops uiuirr Gen. Rosencrantz iu Western Virgin-
i ia. The Enquirer remarks; There seems to be*no
doubt that. Gen. Lee, with a large, well-organized
aud well-provided army, is on his way from Stauu-
; ton to Huntsville. The defeat of the Federal
Troops at Manassas enabled the Confederates to.
iiauflaud ' w iffidra«r a large force from Richmond for opera-
tions in Western Virginia. General Lee is a very
| different officer from the deceased Garnett, who
was simply a professor or teacher, while Lee is»
practical, experienced field officer. A dispatch
from Rosencranz, Secretary to the Reserve Guerd
of this city, shows that he is apprehensive be
needs more force than he has got to meet theCon-
federate foice now iu direction for Western Vir
ginia.
Tiie Fort Gains Independent Slate places
at the head of its columns the names of
xt, be,
f theSiipreme
buBreme i ourt
anu tin* same is hereby, repealed; and n*
Court shall be held until that C mrt shall be
provisions of the permanent Constitution of the Confederate
States and the law* passed in pursuance thereof.
Sec. 2. All writs of error ant! appeals taken or prosecuted
from the District Courts of the C-raiederate States, prior to the
organization of the Supreme Court, under the permanent Con
stitution, shall le mode returnable on the second Monday of tie*
first term to be held by th*? Supreme Court, after its establish
ment under the Permanent Constitution.
Sec. 3. It shall be lawful for the Clerks of the several District
Courts to issue writs of error, under the seal of said District
Courts, returnable t«» the Supreme Court, in the same mauiier,
as nearly as may be, as the Clerk of the Supreme Court may, by
law, issue such writs, and with the same force aud effect as i'’
issued by said Clerk of the Supreme Court.
See. 4. Tin* jurisdiction of tiie District Courts of the Confed
erate States shaft extend to all cases of law or equity arising under
the Revenue Laws of the Confederate States, for which other
provisions are not already made by law ; and. il any person shall
receieve any injury to his person or property, for, or on account
of any act l>y him done under auy law of the Confederate States
for the protection or collection of the revenue, he shall be entitled
to maintain suit for damage therefor in the District Court of the
Confederate States under whose jurisdiction the party doing the
injury mav reside.
Approved July 51.1361.
(No. 199.)
AN ACT to authorize the distribution of the proceeds of th**
sale of the A. B. Thompson, condemned us a prize.
The Congress of the Con fed* rate Stutes of America do enact.
That the proceeds of the sale of the ship A. B. Thompson, taken by
tin* Conlederot.* States ship-of-war tin* Lady Davis, and co?
derailed as a prize under a decree of the Confederate States Court
for the District of South Carolina, when paid into the Treasury,
shall be distributed by the Secretary of the Navy according to
the provisions of the act of the United States of .April 23r*l. 130M
entitled “Au Art for the bi tter government of the Navy of the
United States,” and made of force by an act of the Congress of
the Confederate .States, of February 9tb, 1361, entitled “An Act
to continue in force certain law**/*/ * ho St** 1 **-
cn," lBring Captain Elliott and bis detachment—declared
captor* by the said decree—us marines, according to tht
pective rank*.
Approved August 1. 1861.
l)r. Wm. J. Johnson, of Clay county,
j for Representatives of 2d Congressional
i District. Clay county is no longer in our
District, which is the 3d.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
McLean’s Strengthening Cordial is receiving
the unanimous recommendation ofthe Press, not only
at St. Louis, but ail over the country. This remedy
is evidently the result of close observation and study.
Wherever it has been used it has been recommended
with the highest encomiums of praise. Persons can
have no conception of its efficiency, without giving it
a trial. On 3e more we warmly recommend this reme
dy as a superior Tonic and Alterative.
REVOLUTION IN CHINA.—It ia impossible that
the revolution now occurring in China, may be des
tined to play a most important part in uniting the ex-
j tremilies of what wc term the eastern and western
i world, and to complete the circle of civilization, and
I the unrestricted sales of ‘‘Jacob’s Cordial,” which
will one day encompass the globe.
Sold by IIERTY «fc HALL, also by GRIEVE k
CLARK. 13 It.
of All
AN ACT tou
1 Courts of the
(No. 200.)
u art to establish th*
federate States of A
The Congress of the Con federate State* of America do enact.
That the provision in th** 3I*t section of the “A» tt*> establish the
Judicial Courts of the Confederate States of America.” which al
lows mil« age to the District Attorney, shall be modified to read
as follow*, namely, ‘*And when there ar** two or more division*
in the District f**r which he is appointed, he shall be allow***!
mileage at the rate of ten cents ]x*r mile, for going tound return
ing from the Cou rt which is most distant from his plane of resi
dence; to be computed on the most usual line of tra\el.”
Approved August 1. 1861.
(No. 201.)
AN ACT to make provision for the car
and wounded.
TheCougress of tin* Confederate States of America do enact.
That th** Secretary of War shall forthwith appoint a clerk in the
office of tin* Surgeon General, to take charge of ull Hospital sup
plies aud other articles which may be contributed for the use of
the sick and wounded ; and the same Xo dispose of, according to
the wishes of the contributors, under the direction of tin* Medi
cal Department of the army; the salary of th** said clerk not to
exceed one thousand dollar* : and the said clerk shall he author-
izsd, under tin* direction of the Simmon-General, t** procure and
fit up a proper place for the safe-keeping aud proper dhqiosal ofthe
said articles.
Approved Aug. 2. 1861.
supplies for the *ick
lO otu to checkincipi«nt malady, and to counteract
actual disease. In cades of scrofula, cutaneous erup
tions, erysepelas liver complaint, and general debility,
it will speedily purify the blood, remove all unhealthy
secretions,anu simultaneoosly produce a healthy action
ofthe stomach and bowels, thereby relieving many
complaints arising from a derangement of the diges
tive functions. Tiie ingredients composing this cele
brated Remedy being entirely vegetable, no unpleas
ant symptoms are left behind alter cure.
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AN ACT :
act to make farther pr*
»*d 11th May. 1861; and
iicrca*** the military
;” aud t.* amend the **
of the army of the C*
(No. 262.)
» amend an act entitled “an
visions for the public defence,” appro
to amend an art entitled “au net to
t«bli*hm**nt *>♦ the Confederate State
for the establishment and organizutioi
federate States of America.”
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do euacl
That the third section of the art entitled “an art to make furthe
provision for the public defence,” approved llrii May, 1861. h
amended by striking out of said section tbe words, “detailed
from the nyular army;” ami further, tliattheiiinth section of the
act entitled “an art to increase the military establishment of tin*
Confederate States,” and to amend the “act for the establishment
und organization of tin* army of the Confederate States of
America,” approved 16tii May, 1861, be amended, by adding
thereto the following clause: “And that the President may. in hi*
discretion, upon the application aud recommendation of a Major-
General, or l'rigadier-General, appoint from civil life perse
mil ha*
the staff' of such officer, who shall have th-
rnnk and pay a*
if appointed from tin* army of the Confederate Stat*
Approved August 3, 1301.
(No. 203.)
AN ACT to provide for an additional field officer to Volunteer
Battalions, and for the appointment of Assistant Adjutauts-
General for the Provisional forces.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Congress of the Confederat**
States of America, That the eighth section of th*- act of March
6th. 1361. “To provide for the pnblie defence,” b*\ and the same
is here bv so tar amended, that whenever Battalions of volun
teers in the service of the Confederate States shall consist of not
less than six companies, there may Ik* allowed, in tho discretion
of the President, to each battalion so constituted, two field
officer*, oue with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and the other
with the rank of Major.
Sec. 2. That the President be, and he is hereby au:lioriz<*d to
appoint for the volunteer forces in the Confederate service a*
many assistant Adjutants-General as the service may require,
whose rank shall correspond with the rank of the assistant Ad-
jutauts-General iu the regular army, ami who shall receive
the same jwy and allowances, according to their respective
grades.
Approved Ang. 2,1861.
(No. 294.)
AN ACT to extend the provisions of an act entitled “an act to
prohibit the exportation of cotton from the Confederate State*
ex eept through the seaports of said States, and to punish per-
sons offending therein,” approved May 21, 1861.
Section!. Tin* Congress «>! the Confederate State* of America
o enact, Tnat the provisions of the above recited ai*t lx*, and tlx*
ame are hereby extended, and made* applicable to the exportation
f tobacco, sugar, rice, molasses, syrup and naval store*, from
tho Confederate States, from and after the tenth day cf August
next.
Approved August 2, 1361.
I’ract ica r. Advice to Ladies.-The first symptom*
of disease should never be disregarded. If not removed
serious evils will inevitably follow, and iu seeking as
sistauce all remedies that will act violently or rednee
the strength should be avoided. They, instead of nr
sisting nature, weaken |and delibitate those organs.
For Female Complaints, tuke McLean’s Strength
ening Cordial and Blood Peihfikr. It stanils
pre-eminent in all diseases peculiar to females. Try it:
it is a delicious aromatic Cordial. 13 A.
See advertisement In another column.
Coweta County Ga., Feb 6th, 1861.
To All Diseased with Dropsy : This is to certify
that I was very much afflicted for a long time with
Dropsy, so mneh so that I was unable to do anything
towards supporting my family, and inv life was des
paired of by all who knew my condition. After two
other physicians had attended on me with no benefit
whatever in removing my disease, on the 5th day of
Feb., I860, I)r. J. H. Broom,hearing of my situation,
came tosee me, and left mediciue for me. Previous to
the time Dr. Broom came to see me, so had was 1 «f-
flieted that I imd not lay down night or day in sis
months. I had not been taking medicine of Dr. Broom
more than three days before I found that I was impro
ving. In less than two months, during which time I
took three bottles of his medicine nud six of liis pow
ders, my disease was entirely removed, and I have two
free from all symptoms of Dropsy ever sinee. I a®
now hearty an J well, and enjoy better health than 1
liavefor five years. I can now do any kind of work ec
theriu tiie house or in tliefield, that the most robust
woman can do
ll er
Respectfully, ELIZABETH X NIXON.
mark. 1- A-
See Advertisement in another column.
AN ACT to um.'ud
(No. 2.15.)
ft in relation to the issue of Treas
ury Note*.
Whereas, by an art of Cougres-4, approved the 9th March. 1861
the Secretary «>f the Treasury i* authorized to issue pertain
Treasury note* in lieu of a first issue of such notes; and it i*
vid**d that the whole issue shall at no time exceed one millir
dollars; and it is deemed advisable now to remove this restric
tion.the Congress of the Confederat** States of America do enact.
That the Treasury notes authorized te 1*4 issued by the Secn tau
of the Treasury, under the provisions of the said act, may be is
su«*d hv him at any time, with the approbation ot the President
cither before or after the calling in of the first note*: Provided
that the whole issue outstanding at any one time shall it >t exceed
two millions of dollars.
Approved August 3, 1361.
mod it it
1861.
imp >rted from foi
(No. 206.)
pro
uatries,” approved May 21,
The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact.
That the following alterations aud amendments be, and the same
are herebv made to the “Act to provide revenue from commo
dities imported from foreign countries,” approved May 21, 1861.
to-wit: That the words “corboiiate of soda,” and the words,
“paving and roofing tiles and brick" and rooting slates and fire
bricks,” in schedule C. ot said Act be, and the same are hereby
stricken out of aud repealed iu said schedule, and that in the
Mime schedule C. t in the enumeration of tin* various kinds «»*
iron, after the word ••slabs,” tbe words “sheet or other form,”
are hereby inserted aud made part of said schedule; ami in
schedule D. of said Act, the terms “Lac Sulphur” and “sulphur
flour of.” be. and the same are hereby, stricken out ol and re
pealed in *»aid schedule. And the terms “Terra Japonica and
Catechu” are hereby transferred from schedule D to sehednle C,
they being considered in commerce ns the same articles of mer-
i lmndiz * as such, which is enumerated in schedule C of said
n*t.
Approvi*d August 3, 1861.
(No. 213.)
AN ACT to provide for the safe custody, printing, publication
and distribution of the Laws, and to provide for the appoint
ment of au additional clerk iu the Department of Justice.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America
o enact, That all bills and resolutions passed by the Congress
aud approved and siened by the President, or which may other
wise beeonre laws, shall be deposited in the Deuartment of Jus
tice. and the originals carefully preserved in said Department.
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Attorney General, us soon as
conveniently may lx*, afterlie shall receive the same, to select from
the laws, orders and resolutions passed at each session*)such ns
xy be of a public nature, und as, iu his judgement, require
rly publication, and cause tlu* same to be inserted, weekly, for
one month, in ouo public gazette published at the seat of Govern
ment in each State, and shall also publish all the laws in two ga
zettes published at the Capital of tiie Confederate States; aud the
r usation for this publication shall not exceed one dollar and
per page, estimated according to Little k Brown’s edition
of the laws of the United States.
Sec. 3. It shall be tbe duty of the Attorney-General, at the
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