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VOLUME XXXII.]
M ILLEDGE YIL LE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, 0 C T 0 B E R 29, 1861.
. B’ST AUTHOB.XT’ST.
ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS
(f the Second Session of the'
PROVISIONAL CONGRESS
i estate must
th**s* j . the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered
It the following
RATES:
Citali' on letters of administration, Ac. ,*■_> 7. r >
“ “ disraisaory from Admr’n. * 4 r,t
“ Guardianship. 3 !;(;
Leave to sell Land or Negroes 4 ()0
Notice to debtors and creditors. 3 00
gales of persoual property, ten days, 1 sqr. 1 .‘PI
Saleoflsnd ornegroes by Executors, &c. pr sqr. 5 00
Esfravs. two weeks _ 1 5ti
Feraman advertising his wife (in advance,) 5 (I!)
(;EN K RAL ATIVERTISEMENTS.
J. A. & Vi. AY. TURNER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Eatoiiioiu.Ga.
October, IS, 1859.
21 lv.
COATES A WOOL,FOLK
(wLitcljonse :tni) Commission
MERCHANTS,
ARE now open an<l prepared f«»r the re. option of
Coto.n ot i lieir NKYV FIRE PROOF WAKE MOUSE,
opposite Ilrinleinnn & Sparks. V/e will endeavor to
pmve ourselves wot thy of the patronage ofilmse who
rillf/ivor us with their business,
made on cotton when d< f*ired.
Maeou Oa.. Sept. 21, 1859.
Liberal advance:
18 tf.
JOHN T. BOWBOIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BiTOSTOS. GA..
KatontoD, Ga., Feb. 14, I860. 38 tf.
BOARDING.
I»3S;
hoi
M
V HOUSE will be open for transient and regu
lar boarders. JAMES E. IIAYGOOD.
Milledgeville, Jan. 18th, 1861. 35 tf.
NOTICE.
T HE UNDERSIGNED having bought the es
tablishment of his friend F. SHOENREIN,
deceased, respectfully informs the pnblic. that he
will continue the business in the same form and
respectfully solicits a skate of public patronage.
YVM. SCHEIIIING.
Milledgeville, July 15. IcCI. 8 lyr.
HATER PIPES,
FIRE BRICKS, AC.
tlMIE SOITHKRT PROfELAlX JIANI'-
I factikim; com pant, kaolin, s <’.,
are now prepared to lumisli at short notice YVATMIt
PIPES, double glazed, with a perfect vitrious body
mutable for conduit pipes for cities, Ac., from twenty-
aix inches diameter tom inch, capable of sustaining a
pressure of 150 head > ' iter.
ALSO,
FIRE ItUICKS which have no superior.
We also manufacture ail kinds of C. C. and Granite
Ware, and would most respectfullv solicit orders for
the above goods. W.'H. FARROW,
10 3m Agl. Kaolin, S. C.
OF THE
t’ONFEDEKATE STATES.
2861.
(No. 135)
AN ACT to admit the 8tute of North Carolina into
tiie Confederacy, on a certain condition.
Tlie State of North Carolina having adopted inrns-
u.res looking to «n early witiidrnwu! from the United
States, «u<! to becoming in the future a member of this
Cronfedernry, which nieaMireri may not brr consmnma-
ted before t tie approaching recess of Congress. There
fore,
The Congress of the Confederate States of America
do enact, That the State of North Carolina shall be ad
mitted a member of the Confederate States of Ameri
ca, upon an equal footing with the other Slates, under
the Constitution for the Provisional Government of the
same, upon the condition that the convention of said
State ,-o<»n to assemble shall adopt and ratify said Con
stitution t< r the ProviMonal Governme nt of the Con
federate States, and shall transmit to the President of
the Confederate States, before the re-assembling ot
Congress, through the Governor of said State, or some
other pioper organ, an authentic eopv of the act or or
dinance of said convention so adopting and ratifying
aid Provisional Constitution ; upon the receipt where
of the President by proclamation, shall announce the
fact; whereupon,and without any fmther proceeding
on the part of Congress, the admis>ion of said Stall
into this Confederacy, under said Constitution for the
Provisional Government, rball be con.sidered as com
plete, and tlie law's of this Confederacy shall thereby
be extender! over said State ns fully and completely as
over the otlier States now composiug tlie sawits.
Approved May 17,1801.
(No. 137.)
A RESOLUTION in relation to imports from the
States of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and
Arkansas.
Resolved, That, all import* from the States of Vir
ginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas, be e.\
nipted from the payment of duties; and that this ex-
uipt ion extend to imports from the said States now in
warehouse.
Approved May 17.1861.
(No. 110.)
AN ACT to establish a Mail Route from Vermillion-
vil!e,in the State of Louisiana, to Orange, in the
State of Texas, and for other purposes.
Section I. The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact, That the billowing mail!route b*
and the same is lieYeby established, to-wit: From Ver
million ville. in the State of Louisiana, to Orange, in
(heState of Texas.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Post
master General be and he is hereby authorized to
make the first contract for carrying the mail over said
route without the necessity of advertising for bids for
?a : d contract, as required by existing law; and that
this act take effect and be in force from and after iU
passage.
Approved May 17. 1801.
(No. 111.
AN ACT to provide an add it i
oinl Company o Sap
ryw-AJEi.! ,ju
VOLUNTEERS UNIFORMS
OTTO? TO OTIOEII.
1 AHE Subscriber will, upon short notice, visit
.any County in the State, and Cut Uniforms
for Companies, and warrant a good lit.
Orders respectfully solicited.
US’" Address, THOMAS BROWN,
Merchant Tailor.
Full pctt of Patterns for Uniforms
•“'■tit w any part of tlie State, upon the receipt «<i £•> 05.
Milledgeville, Ga., July J5, Jt6J, 8 tf
BOOK-BINDING
The Subscriber is now pre
pared to do Book-Bind
ing, in all its branches.
Old Books rebound, etc.
MUSIC hound in the best style. BLANK Books
tnsiiiifactured to order. Prompt attention will be
given to all work er.tmsted to me.
S. J KIDD.
Hinder, in Southern i'eileritl l nion OlEic.
Milledgeville, March 19th, 1861. 43
SLATING—SLATING.
H. E. ELLIOTT,
PRACTICAL. SLATER A\» DEALER IT
BEST SLATES,
RECENTLY FROM RICHMOND, VA.,
I S now ready to do any work in bis line of busi
ness—Slating, and warranted free from Leak
age.
Repairs to old Mlatr Ft oof* intruded to
Promptly.
W. E. E. is Agent for an extensive Manufactory
oflron Railing. Verandah, Balconies, Iron Stairs,
Fountains, Settees, Chairs, Tables, Tree Boxes,
Figures. &c,«£:c., and ail otlier Iron Work ot a
decorative character.
Knrlusing Cemetery I.oIn will receive hispnr-
lirnlnr Attention.
\Y. E. E. is Agent for an extensive Marble
Monument Works, likewise for the Steam Marble
Mantle Works.
Designs of all. with prices, can be seen at his
officp. up stairs, over Morning News office. Bay
Street, Savannah, Ga.
A specimi-njof our work may be seen on the
Depot building in Milledgeville.
R fereace—G. VV. Adams, Superintendent C.
k. R. Savannah. 23 dds&wtt.
51) Saw Colion Gin for S;\le.
. ONE of WATSON'S best 50 Saw Cotton Gins,
G offered for gale. This Gin is new, and is equal
to any in use. Sold for no fault, the present ow-
"ers having no use for it. Any planter wantinga
P' 1 ' 1 '! Gin, cnn have a chance to get one at a re
duction on the regular price. Apply at this ofitce,
1 ol X. Tift, or J. H. Watson, at Albany.
Confederate
'TREASURY Note® and i>OTid« taken at PAR for
A F uruiture or Notes and Accounts duo.
WOOD A. CO., Macon.Ga.
Americas, Albany, Cothbort, Fort Gains, Griffin and
’*■ ie.lg,-ville paper’s will olease copy six months and
•*nd bill. ( j 6 mSi) • VV. & CO
FOB SALE.
^UPSRXOB. TENT CLOTH,
; "dghing 12 ozs p er yard, 30 inches wide,
, containing about 620 vards, manufac
ture Jh y Ocmulgee Mills.
. Apply to ISAAC SCOTT,
Jnl y 18th, 16CI. (9 Gatos*) Macon. Ga.
./’ADOH S CORDIAL will relieve at once the most
le r oa “e of Dbirrhocea.and dysentery, no mat
in?'* IMIV, ‘ r ‘V ,r v ’ fl ' ent ’it controls with the utmost
S|i ything the uucotts lining of the intestinal,
cur l " 'Dug all iri. ; ion and, brings about a speetly
Vyordtul, which is an excellent remedy
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact, That there be added to the mili
tary establishment of tlie Confederate States one com
pany of sappers and bombards rs, to consist of one
captain, two first lieutenants, one second lieutenant,
ten sergeants or master-workmen, ten corporals or
overseers, two musicians, thirty-nine privates of the first
class, and thirty-nine privates of tliesecond class, who
shall be instructed in and perform all the duties of sap
pers ami bombardiers, and shall, moreover, under the
orders of the chief engineer, be liable to serve by de
tachments in overseeing and aiding laborers upon for
tifications or other works under the engineer depart
ment, and iu supervising finished fortifications, as
fort-keepers, preventing injury and making repairs.
Sec. 3. That it shall be the duty of the colonel
of the engineer corps, subject to the approval of
the Secretary of War, to prescribe the number, quan
tity, form, dimensions. A-.c.. of the necessary vehicles,
arms, pontons, tools, implements, andothersnpplies for
the service of said company ns a body of sappers and
bombardiers.
Sec. 3. That tlie monthly pay of the captain of said
company shall be one hundred and forty dollars ; of
each first lieutenant, one hundred dollars; of tlu>
second lieutenant, ninety dellnret of the sergeants,
thirty-four dollars; of the corporals, twenty dollars;
oj the musicians, thirteen dollars; of the first class pri
vates, seventeen dollars; and of the second class pri
vates, thirteen dollars. And the said commissioned
officers shall be entitled to the same allowances as ail
other commissioned officers of flic army, and the same
right to draw forage for horses asisocconled to offi
cers of like rank in the engineer corps; and the en
listed men shall receive the same rations and al
lowances ns are granted to all other enlisted men in
the army.
Approved May 17,1861.
(No. 14-2.)
AN ACT to admit the State of Arkansas into the
Confederacy.
The people of the State of Arkansas, in sovereign
convention, having passed an ordinance dissolving
their political connection with the United States, and
another ordinance adopting and ratifying the Consti
tution for the Provisional Government of the Confede
rate States of America : Therefore,
The Congress of the Confederate States of Ameri
ca do enact, That the State of Arkansas be and is
hereby admitted into this Confederacy, upon an equal
footing with the other States, under the Constitution
for the Provisional Government of the same.
Approved May 20, 1861.
(No. 115.)
AN ACT amendatory of an Act to provide for the
organization of the Navy.
Section 1, The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact, That from and after the passage
of this act, the corps of marines shall consist of one
colonel, one lieutenant colonel, one major, one quarter
master with the rank of major, one paymaster with
the rank of m qor. one adjutant with the rank of ma
jor, one sergeant major, one quartermaster sergeant,
ten captains, ten first lieutenants, twenty second lieu
tenants, forty sergeants, forty corporals, ami eight
hundred and and forty privates, ten drummers and ten
lifers and two musicians.
See. 2. The pay and emoluments of the officers and
enlisted men shall he the same ns that of the officers
and enlisted men of like grade in the infantry of the
army, except tlint the paymaster and tile adjutant shall
receive the same pay as Die quartermaster, and the
adjutant shall be taken from the captains and subalt
erns of the corps and separated from the line. The
rations of enlisted marines shall be the rations allowed
by law to seamen. All acts inconsistent with the pro
visions of this act are hereby repealed.
Approved May 211,1861.
(No. 146.)
AN ACT to amend an act to provide for the organ
ization of the Navy, approved March sixteenth,
eighteen hundred and sixly-mie.
Section I. The Congress of tiie Confederate States
of America do enact, That tlie President be and lie is
hereby authorized to nominate, and by and with the
advice and consent of Congress to appoint, all officers
of the navy of the United States, who have resign td
or may hereafter resign their commissions on account
of the secession of any or all of the Confederate
States, and who may be tit for active service, to the
same rank and position in the navy of tlie Confederate
States which they liehl in that of the United States;
provided, however, Thnt no officer shall lie so ap
pointed who may at any time have committed any act
of hostility against the Confederate States or any one
thereof.
See. 2. That the President be authorized lo assign
officers of the navy to any duty with the
defence of the country, and suitable to their rank,
which lie may deem proper.
Sec. 3. That the President be authorized to appoint
six assistant paymasters of the navy, each to receive a
salary of one thousand dollars when employed at sea,
and seven hundred dollars when not thus employed;
and all paymasters of the navy shall be taken from
the grade of assistant paymasters.
Approved May 20, 1861.
(NoTl47.)
AN ACT to establish a separate Port of Entry at Sa
bine Pass, in the county of Jefferson, in tin-State of
Texas, nod to provide for the appointment of a Col
lector therein.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact, That all that port of the collec
tion district for the District ot Texas included in the
county of Jefferson in the State of Texas, embracing
all the waters, islands, ba\s, harbors, inlets, shores and
rivers in the same, shall be a collection district, to be
called ttie District of Sabine Pass, and Sabine Puss
sht.il be the port of entry for said district.
See. 2. A collector for the said district of Sabine
Pass shall be appointed by the President, with the ad*
viee end canseut of Congress, who shall reside at Sa
bine Pass, and hold his office fur the terms and the
time prescribed by law foi tlie like office hi other dis
tricts, and who shall be entitled to a salary not exceed
ing seventeen hundred and fifty dollars per annum, in
cluding in that sum tlie fees allowed by law; uml the
amount lie shall collect in any one yeur for fees, ex
ceeding the said sum of seventeen hundred and tiny
do’lurs. shall be accounted for and paid into the treas
ury of the Confederate States ot America.
See. 6. That all laws and parts of laws now in force
contravening the provisions of this net, be and the
same are hereby repealed, and that this act take effect
from and after its passage.
Approved May 21, 1861.
[No. 222.]
At Ait Amendatory of “An Act to Prescribe the
rates of Postage in the Confederate Statesof Ameri
ca,” Approved February twenty-third, eighteen hun
dred mid sixty-one.
Tlie Congress of tlie Confederate States of America
do enact, That all mailable matter addressed tooffieers
of tbe several States Government, for the payment of
tbe postage on which tbe Buid Governments are re
sponsible, in the adjustments of tlie accounts of the
parties mailing the same, may be transmitted through
tin; mails without the prepayment of postage thereon:
Proviied, That tbe person mailing tlie same shall en-
do -se tliereou lus official title and the nature of the mat-
tei mi lled; and the postage thereon shall be collected of
ui Li rfimeritments at the office of delivery.
16th of Augu-t, 1861, was not approved by him, nor
returnad ti> the congress within ten days (Sundays ex
cepted) after being presented to him; it, therefore,
became a law on the 2 1 th August, 1861.
J. P. BENJAMIN,
Attorney General.
[No. 258.]
AN ACT to audit the accounts of the respective States
against the Confederacy.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact, That it shall be the duty of such
Auditor or Auditors of the Treasury Departmeit, as
may be designed by the Secretary of the treasury, ami
to that end the said Secretary be authorized to appoint
ns many extra clerks lor the time, as he may deem
necessary,at the rate of salary ncwallowed for clerks
ofthe Treasury Department to audit the accounts
an t claims of tiie respective States of the Confedera
cy against the Confederate Government for the ad
vances and expenditures made bythe^said States res
pectively for the use and benefit of the Confederacy in
preparation for e,r in conducting the war now existing
against the United States, and all claims for advances
or expenditures of any kind made by any State prior
to the passage of its Ordinance of Secession, shall he
shown to have been made in e-ontemplalion of the Act
i f Secession afterwards consummated, and of the war
that might probably ensue, or in the seizure or acqui
sition of forts, arsenals, navy jmds, armaments, mu
nitions and other useful instrumentalities of war, or in
the purchase or manufacture of anus or munitions
which have since been transferred to the Confederacy,
or in some regular mode been brought into the service
for the prosecution of the war aforesaid, before such
claims shall be audited and the umotitit ascertained.
Sec. 2. And in auditing the claims of the States of Vir
ginia, North Carolina and Tennessee, reference shall
be had to the special compacts and engagements had
with those States respectively by the Confederate Gov
ernment in view oftheir proposed adhesion to the Pro
visional Constitution, or of the support of their arma-
mentsond the prosecution ofthe war afterwards, and
all claims coming fairly within tlie purview of such
(■unquiets, being propei ly verified by vouches, shall,
in favor of said States, lie audited and ascertained.
Sec. 3. That proof shall be made in all easts by
proper vouchers to the satisfaction of the Auditor that
tlie amount claimed wasactually advanced or expen
ded, that the expenditure wes proper, and no greater
an,mint for pay and services shall be audited than is
by the regulations of the Confederate Government for
pay and services in the likecases, and the Auditor shall
make a special report of his action under this law to the
Congress at its next session.
Sec. 4. The Secretary of the Treasury shall cause
notice to be forwarded to liie exec utjve of each of the
States of this Contedcracy, immediately after the pas.
sage of this Act, calling on such executive to forward
the claims which may be held by his State, subject to
be audited under the provisions of this Act.
Approved, August 3(1. 1861.
[No. 259.]
AN ACT to establish certain post routes therein na
med.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact, That there be established the fol
lowing post routes, viz; From Loving Creek Post
Office, to Wade’s I’o.-t Office, in Bcdiord County,
Yuginia. Also from Charleston, in the County of
Tallcliatcliie.to Friar’s Point in tlie County of Coalm
ine, Mississippi, Also from Cullodeu to Barnesville,
n t iie -tafe of Georgia. Also, that a route be establish-
fished from Calhoun, on the Alabama and Florida
Railroad, in (he County of Lowndes, in the State of
Alabama, to Benton, in said County, through Mount
Willing, and Gordonsville Also, a Post Route from
Clarkcsville, in Mecklenburg Comity, Virginia, to
Brownsville, in the State of North Carolina, From
Mullens to Lime Kiln, via Campbell Home in Alabama.
Also, trout Morgantown, in Burke County, North
Carolina, to Johnson’s Depot Tennessee. Also, a Post
Rente from Louisville, in the County of Winston, to
Yalden, iu (he County of Carrol, in the State of Mis
sissippi. Also, from Wilmington, North Carolina, to
Wadesboro’ via Wilmington, Charlotte and Ruther
ford Railroad. Also, from Jefferson, Ashe County,
North Carolina, to Marion, Smyth County, Virginia.
Also, from Clarksville to Spadra Bluff, in Johnson
County, Arkansas.
Approved August 30,1861.
[No. 260.]
AN ACT authorizing the President to inflict retaliation
upon the persons of Prisoners.
Whereas, The Government of the United States has
placed in irons and lodged in dungeons, citizens of the
Confederate States acting under the nutliorityofLet-
ters of Marque, issued in accordance with the laws of
tlie Confederate States, by the President thereof, and
have otherwise maltreated the same, and have seized
and confined sundry otlier citizens of the said Confed
erate States, m violation of all principles of humane
and civilized warfare: Therefore—
Ite it enacted by Hie Congress of the Confederate
Statesof America, That the President be, and lie
hereby, authorized to select such prisoners taken from
the United States, and in such numbers as he may deem
expedient, upon the persons of whom lie may inflie
such retaliation, in such manner and kind, ns may
seem to him just and proper.
Approved August 30, 1SGI.
[No. -261.]
AN ACT to provide for the defence of the Mississipp
river.
Section 1. The Congressof the Confederate States
of America do enact, That the President be, and lie
hereby, authorized to cause such floating defences, as
he may deem best adapted to the protection ofthe Mis
sissippi River, against a descent of iron plated steam
gun-boats, to be constructed or prepared with the least
possible delay.
Approved August 30, 1S61.
[No. 262.]
AN ACT to amend An Act entitled ‘An Act to estab
lish a patent office and to provide for the granting
and issue of patents for new and useful discoveries,
inventions, improvements and designs,’’ approv
ed May 21, [1861.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact. That the Commissioner of Pa
tents, with the approval of the Attorney General, shall
have power to appoint, in addition to the examiners cf
patents, provided by the second section of the abovi
recited Act, such assistant examiners, at a salary of fif
teen hundred dollars per anmun. as may be required to
transact tlie current business of the Patent Office with
dispatch.
Sec. 2. Aud be it further enacted,That the Commis
sioner, with like approval, may appoint a messenger
for said office, at a salary of three hundred and sixty
dollars per nuntim.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, that the Commis
sioner be, mid he is hereby, authorized to require ap-
Sec. 4. Tlie President of the Confed
erate States shall he inaugurated on tlie
twenty-second day of Febuary, eighteen
hundred and sixty-two.
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted. That iri
case the State of Virginia shall adopt and
ratify the Constitution for the permaifent
government of the Confederate States of
America before the elections in this act*
provided for, she shall be entitled to elect I
sixteen members to the House of HeprC- j
sentatives; and the State ot Xorth Caro j
lina, in like case, ten members; the State
of Tennessee, in like case, eleven; and ‘‘die
State of Arkansas, in like case, four mem
bers; the same being upon the basis of one
member for every ninety thousand repre
sentative population, and one additional
member for a fiaction ever one-half of the
ratio aforesaid, in each of said states, un
der the census of the United States taken
in eighteen hundred and sixty, and being
the same basis of representation fixed for
the seven original states in said Constitu
tion for permanent government.
Sec. G. Be it further enacted, 1 hat the
same rules and principles shall he observed
as to the number of Presidential Electors
in the states aforesaid as in the other
seven original States.
Approved May 21, 1861. 21
pheanta for patents, and ail other persons w ith whom
be is obliged to correspond, or to whom drawings and
other papers have to be returned for alteration or cor
rection, to deposit n sufficient sum of money to pay the
postage ; Provided, That in no single case shall the de
posit so required exceed two dollars.
Approved August 30, 1861.
No. 148.
AN ACT
To put in operation the government under
the Permanent Const.itutiem of the Con
federate States of America.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confed
erate States of America do enact, That
an election shall be held in the several
States of this Confederacy, on the first
Wednesday in November, eighteen hun
dred and sixty-one, for members of the
House of Representatives in the Congress
of the Confederate States under the per
manent constitution, which election shall
be conducted in all respects according to
said Constitution and the laws of tlie sev-
eial States in force for that purpose; and
in States which may not have provided
by law for such election, according to the
laws heretofore existing in such States for
the election of members of the House of
Representatives in the Congress of the
United States. And on the same day the
several States shall elect or appoint Elec
tors for President and Vice President of
the Confederate States of America, accor
ding to said Constitution, and in the man
ner prescribed by the laws of the several
States made for that purpose; and in States
where no such laws may exist, according
to the laws heretofore in force in such
States for the election or appointment of
Electors for President and Vice President
of the United States.
Sec. 2. The Electors for President aud
Vice President shall meet in their respec
tive States on the first Wednesday in
December, eighteen hundred and sixty-
one, and proceed to vote for President and
V ice President, and make out lists, certi
fy the same to the President of the Sen
ate; all as directed by the said Constitu
tion in that behalf.
Sec. 3. The members of the House of
Representatives so elected, and the Sen
ators who may be elected by tbe several
States according to the provisions of said
Constitution, shall assemble at the seat of
government of the Confederate States, on
the eighteenth day of Febuary, eighteen
hundred and sixty-two; and tbe said mem
bers of the House of Representatives
shall proceed to organize by tbe election
of a Speaker, and the Senators by tbe
election of a President of the Senate for
tbe time being; and tbe President of tbe
Senate shall, on tbe nineteenth day of
Febuary, eighteen hundred and sixty- two
open all the certificates; and the votes for
President and Vice President shall then
be counted, as directed by said Copstitn-
[Xo. 275.]
AN ACT to authorizetlio appointment from civil life
ot persons, to the staffs of Generals.
The Congressof the Confederate States of America
do enact that the President may in his dLcretioit upon
the application and recommendation of a General of
the Confederate Stales Army appoint from civil life,
persons to t!:.- staft'authorizecl by law of seen officer,
wiioshall have the same rank and pay ns if appointed
from the Army ofthe Confederate States.
Approved August31, 1861.
[No. 276]
AN ACT providing for the appointment of Adjutants
of Regiments aud Legions, of tlie grade of subaltern,
in addition to tliesubuiterus attached to companies.
Section 1. The Congress ofthe Confederate States of
America <lo enact,That tlie Adjutants of Regiments
and Legions, may be appointed by the President upon
the recommendation of tbe Colonel thereof, ofthe grade
of Subaltern, in addition to the Subaltern officers a t-
taehed to Companies, and said Adjutants, when so ap
pointed, shall have thesame rank, pay and allowances
as are provided by law to Adjutants of Regiments.
Approved August 31, 1861.
[No. 277.]
AN ACT providing for the reception and forwarding
of articles sent to the army by private contribution.
The Congress of the Confederate States of America
do enact, That the Secretary of War he authorized and
required to make all necessary arrangements for the
reception and forwarding of clothes, shoes, blankets and
other ariicles of necessity tiiat may be sent to the Army
by private contribution.
Approved August 31,1861.
[No. 27S. ]
AN ACT to allow rations to Chaplains in the Army.
The Congress ofthe Confederate Statesof America
do enact, Tnat Chaplains in the Army be, and they are
hereby, allowed the same rations as privates.
Approved August 31, 1861.
[No. 279.]
AN ACT to reimburse the State of Florida.
Whereas. Tbe State of Florida has made large out
lays of money in the arming, eqnip[p]ing and main
taining troops for the service of the Confederate States,
and in the construction of sen-coast defences whereby
the State of Florida has exhausted her treasury, and has
great need of money to carry on her military organiza
tions : Therefore—-
The Congress of the Confederate States of America
do enact. That the Secretary of the Treasury is herebt
directed issue tothe State of Florida, upon tlie applica
tion oi the Governor of said State, three hundred thou
sand dollars in Treasury notes: Provided, That the Said
State deposit with the Secretary ofthe Treasury of the
Confederate States an .equal sum. iu tb« frf the
State of Florida authorized to be issued under an ordi
nance of the Convention of said State, which bonds
shall be held by the Secretary of the Treasury until
the account of the State of Florida, for advances made
for military purposes, is adjusted ns Congress may di
rect.
Approved August 31,1861.
ture wbicli we will also publish, we hope
in time for the planting season
It would be well, we think, to plant
numerous groves along tlie different rail
roads in tbe State, so as to have tbe con
veniences necessary to make shipments
profitable. Indeed, their is no reason in
the world why Florida should not furnish
Savannah and Charleston, the interior of
Georgia, and, Carolinas, and portions of
other States with oranges. We hope the
wise will have an eye to this important
matter, for money can be made without
much labor or outlay. From all the in
formation we can gather, ov.r opinion is,
that the insect which has heretofore proven
so disastrous will make its final disappear
ance in a short time. The effect they pro
duce upon the wild groves does not amount
to much, the oranges there being large and
beautiful, and the bitter sweets delicious.
[ Micanopy (Fla.) Cotton States.
A T isif to ex-President Buchanan.—The
editor of the Monmouth (N. J. ) Democrat
lias been on a visit to ex-President Buchan
an. Has written back to his paper as fol
lows:
I visited Wheatland, the residence of
ex-President Buchanan. J had never seen
liiin, and gladly embraced the present op
portunity. As we approached the house,
we saw the stars and stripes floating from
a fine flagstaff in front. He received us
in the library. He had just recovered
from a fit of sickness, the first, lie said, lie
had ever had. He looked well, but
complained that his former strength bodily
was gone. He entertained us for an hour
in conversation, which principally turned
upon the rebellion. He related many
personal anecdotes of the leading military
men now before the country, North and
South. lie was emphatically of the opin
ion that there is no way to get out of our
difficulties but to fight it out. I came away
well satisfied that, for weal or who, James
Buchanan stands fiintly for the Union,
and that, whether mistaken or not,he lias
always acted from the highest motives of
patriotism.
[No. 283.]
A RESOLUTION in relation to Drill-Masters appoin
ted by States.
Whereas under the authority ofsome of the States,
Drilhnusters were attnohedto various regiments; And,
whereas, such office[r]s are not recognized by the
laws of the Confederate States, and consequently were
not mustered into service; And whereas, several of
such Drillmusters have nevertheless continued to do
effective service, voluntarily, with their respective
regiments Therefore—
Resolved, That such Drillmnsters bo granted an hon
orable discharge whenever they shall apply therefor.
Approved August 31,1861.
[No. 285.]
AN ACT to establish tlie Rates of postage on newspa
pers and periodicals sent to dealers therein through
the mail, or by express over post roads.
Section 1. The Congress ofthe Confederate States
of America do enact, That persons engaged us dealers
in newspapers and periodicals may receive by mail any
quantity of such papers and periodicals ns they order
offtlie payment nt the place of delivery, at the same
rate of postage as is required by the existing law to be
paid by the regular subscribers to such newspapers or
periodicals.
Sec. 2. It shall be lawful for persons engaged in buy
ing and selling newspapers and periodicals, to carry
any quantity of such papers and periodicals over the
post roads of the Confederate States, outside ofthe
mail, upon paying the postage at the same rate charged
to regular subscribers to such papers and periodicals
into the post office nearest the place of publication
or purchase thereof, and such payment shall be indica
ted by the stamp of such post office or by writing upon
the paper so sent.
See. 3. Any person violating the provisions of this
act shall forfeit and pay the siim of fifty dollars, to be
recovered by action of debt in the name and lorthe
use of the Confederate States.
Approved, August 31,1861. 22
England States, with New Jersey, Mich
igan, Iowa and "Wisconsin, all pnt togeth
er. Virginia, North Carolina and Ten
nessee produced 115,471,593 bushels of
a quantity exceeding by 300,000 bushels
the joint product of New York, Pennsyl
vania, Ohio, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont
and Maine.
Tennessee alone produced 16,500 more
hogs than all the six New England States
with New York, Pennsylvania, New Jer
sey, Iowa and Michigan ; for that State
produced 3,104,800 hogs, while the eleven
Northern States named produced but 2,-
088,394. Most people have thought that
the North was really the hog producing
section, but such is by no means the
fact; the whole number of hogs produced
in 1850, was 30,316,608—of which the
slaveholding States furnished 20,770,730,
or more than two-thirds ofthe whole swine
production.
It will doubtless surprise many persons
to be told that the seven Gulf or Cotton
States of South Carolina, Georgia. Ala
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana* and Texas,
produced 45,187 more beef cattle than the
six New England States, New Y’ork,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, Indiana,
Michigan and Wisconsin, altogether ; but
such is tbe fact, for tbe census of 1S50 tells
us these seven Cotton States produced
3,357,489 beef cattle, while the thirteen
Northern States named produced but 3,-
312,327.
A single glance at the live stock columns
of tbe seventh census will prove to the in
quirer that the slaveholding States pro
duced more beef cattle than the non slave
holding by 1,782,5S7. That while the
North produced 3,541,121 cows, the South
produced 2,827,810. That the Northern
States produced 866,397 work oxen,
against S20.340 produced by the South
ern States. That while the “North pro
duced 2,310,961 horses and mules, the
South produced 259,353 more, for the
Southern production was 2,570,319.
\DeBow's Revicic.
A Blow between the Eyes.—The follow
ing, from the Petersburg (Va.) Express, is
expressive: Robert J. Walker.—This
notorious individual, who was for many
years one of the. most distinguished and
influential Southern Senators in the Old
Union Congress, and whose fortunes at
that time might have been not unreason
ably supposed to be identified with the
South—has tumbled into the northern
gutter in a slate of beastly inebriation from
his deep potations from the Black Republi
can bowl. Born and raised at tbe North,
his long residence at the South, where he
acquired whatever of honorable reputation
be ever possessed, has not assimilated him
to her institutions or eradicated tbe paltry
instincts of the l’ankee. He lias, in true
swinish fashion, returned to bis wallow,
and there we hope he will end his days.
The accounts between him and the South
are now closed forever, leaving him her
debtor to an amount that of itself would
beggar him, were he not otherwise hope
lessly insolvent.
The Orange Groves of Florida.—After a
while, when our Northern “blue law”
sanctimonious friends of the fanatical
portion of Satan’s subjects, become thor
oughly convinced that it is unpleasant as
well as unprofitable to wage a war, dic
tated by iniquity, against the Southern
people of America, who alone have the true
landmarks of Christianity and free govern
ment we will pullish a very excellent
article, by Rev. R. Abbey, suggested by a
visit to the Orange Groves iu December,
1858. Our friends farther North need not
feel much surprise to learn that we-have
fine oranges in this section every month of
the year, and if any of our cotempories
should feel the want of acidity of language
at any time, a visit to our beautiful groves,
with a little tasting, will supply the de
ficiency, though just at this time, artificial
means are not, in demand for Ancient
Rascality (Bennett) and the whole ofthe
“blue nose” clan cause us all to prove con
clusively that scribblers have a temper of
their own, peculiarly fitted for emergen
cies. But enough of this.
We have the sour or Seville, and the
bitter-sweet oranges, growing wild a few
miles from our town, and it is considered
profitable to transplant the bitter-sweet
and engrafttfie sweet orange on it.
Mr.W. Eit|w4pds of this place has a
number_offin^trees_andJias > written_8ever^
Sugar and Salt.—There are one hun
dred and fifty car-loads of sugar at tlie
Grand Junction in Tennessee, awaiting
transportation eastward. Much of this im
mense supply has been at that point for
sometime; but the railroads arc not pre
pared to bring it away. The half of it
put iuto our Eastern market would bring
the price of sugar down to reasonable
rates.
There are said to be a hundred thousand
bushels of salt on the line of the Virginia
and Tennessee railroad; and the capacity
of the Salines of Smyth county is equal
to the manufacture often thousand bushels
a week. Y et, salt cannot be bad in Rich
mond for less than six or seven dollars a
sack.
It is said that the Danville railroad com
pany has proffered to send its trains—-cars,
engines and all—to the Smyth county
Saiines for the salt, if the South-Side and
\ irginia and Tennessee companies -will
permit; but has yet succeeded in bringing
down only a single train loaded with the
much-desired article. We hope the Dan
ville company will be importunate in this
matter, and persist in these proffers. The
people have too much at stake in this mat
ter for such a proposition to fail.
In regard to the great quantities of sugar
and salt awaiting transportation, it is said
that powerful combination of capitalists
exist to prevent their transmissions on the
public works. Thus, while Northern Yan
kees blockade our seaports, home Yankees
blockade our interior channels. We are
fighting the Northern Y'ankees with can
non and bayonet. What sort of weapons
should we use against the home Yankees,
their aiders and abetters?—Rich. Dispatch.
A Formidable TU«r Steamer.—The
Shreveport Daily News says:
In yesterday’s paper we alluded to the
launching of the boat built opposite New
Orleans for tbe purpose of attacking tbe
enemy’s men-of-war. The boat is tbe
length of an ordinary steamboat, the roof
being arched in shape, covered with rail
road iron, so as to prevent balls from
penetrating, and the balls in striking will
immediately glance off without having any
effect, let the position of the gun fired be
what it may. At the bow of the boat is a
ponderous cutter, made of the best steel,
the object of which is to cut a vessel in two.
This will require a very great power,
which the projector think they have ob
tained in the way of two powerful engines.
The mode of attack is with hot water,
which is thrown through hose attached to
the boilers. The vessel attached cannot
keep her men on deck, nor can she use
her cannon, as they will he kept wet hy
the water thrown. Besides being covered
with the heavy iron, the boat is built of
tlie heaviest and best timber. The boat
has been down the river with a view of
letting the fort fire on her.
Cnn tin; Mouth be Mtnrvrd t
It must be admitted that the Yankees
have a bad prospect ahead, in this respect,
the present season, when Providence has
vouchsafed us the most unparalleled har
vest. For ordinary and scant years the
recotcls is thus made up by a correspon
dent of the Baltimore Bun :
I will select, first, South Carolina, to
run the parallel with, for several reasons,
the chief are that she lias been supposed
to produce nothing but cotton and rice,
and she is the most derided and contemn
ed of the slaveholding States. Not many
persons are aware that this State alone
produces five-sixths nearly of all the rice
grown, but the seventh census of 1S50
shows that to be the fact; besides nearly
all the rice, she produces wheat to within
3.000 bushels of all produced by the six
New Englaud States together. She pro
duces almost as much corn as the State of
New York, and 6,000,000 of bushels of
that grain more than all the New Englaud
States together, for she produced upward
of 16,000,000 of bushels.
She produced more oats than Maine,
more hy 1,000,000 of bushels than Massa
chusetts ; more than 1,000,000 bushels of
potatoes over and above what Maine pro
duced ; more beans and peas by ISO,000
bushels than all the Northern States to
gether, except New Y T ork ; more beef cat
tle than Pennsylvania by 1,740, and al
most as many as all the New England
States together; more sheep than Iowa
and Wisconsin by 10,699; more hogs than
New York by 47,251, more than Pennsyl
vania by 25,137, and 86,000 more than all
the New England States, with New Jer
sey, Michigan, Wisconsin and California
in the bargain; more horses and mules by
10.000 than Maine, New Hampshire, Mas
sachusetts and Rhode Island together ;
besides all which, she produces largely of
oxen, cows and a variety of products of to act on them,
the smaller kinds. ' * ’ *
Virginia and North Carolina produced
jointly 13,303,000 bushels of wheat, or
241.000 bushels more than tbe great
wheat State of New York, or a quantity
A POWKKFl’I. DOdt’JlElVT.
ArirfrcK* of lion. J. C. Breckinridge lo Khe
to I he people of Kentucky.
To the People of Kentucky :
By your representatives in the last Leg
islature you conferred on me the commis
sion ot Senator in the. Congress of the
United States. In March last, when my
term of service began, the Union had been
dissolved by the withdrawal of seven
States, which the policy of coercion has
since increased to tw elve States. At that
time a majority of the people of Kentucky
still cherished the hope of a peaceful re
union. Soon afterwards, when the Gov
ernment at Washington commenced that
series of usurpations which has now r left
nothing of the Federal Constitution, and
resolved on a war of subjugation against
the withdrawing States, to secure union
and brotherhood you determined to take
no part in the war, hut to protect your
liberties by a position of armed neutral
ity. This decision was expressed by a
large majority ofthe people at the election
in May.
I had opposed the policy before the
election but afterwards, in common with
the great mass of those with whom I had
acted, I acquiesced in your expressed will
and have maintained it as the fixed atti
tude of Kentucky. In obedience as 1
suppose to your wishes, I proceeded to
Washington, and at the special session ol
Congress in July spoke and voted against
the whole war policy of the President and
Congress; demanding in addition for Ken
tucky the right to refuse not men only hut
money also to the war, for I w’ould have
blushed to meet you with the confession
that I had purchased for you exemption
from the perils of the battle field, and the
shame of waging war against yonr South
ern brethren by hiring others to do the
work you shrank from performing. Dur
ing that memorable session, a very small
body of Senators and Representatives,
even beneath the shadow of a military
despotism, resisted the usurpations of the
Executive and with what degree of digni
ty and firmness they will w illingly submit
to the judgment of the world.
Their efforts were unavailing—yet they
may prove valuable hereafter as another
.added to former examples of manly pro
test against the progress of tyranny..
On my return to Kentucky at the close
of the late session of Congress, it was my
purpose immediately to resign the office of
Benator. The verbal and written remon
strances of many friends in different parts
of the State induced me to postpone the
execution of rny purpose, hut the time
has arrived to carry it into effect, accord
ingly I now r and hereby return the trust
into your hands.
And in tbs connection, since the Gov
ernment at Washington has thrown a drag
net over the whole surface of society to
collect proof against individuals of con
nection with the Government of the Con
federate States, and since a portion of the
Northern press has charged that certain
private correspondence recently seized at
Philadelphia by the Federal authorities
will convict me of political crimes, 1 deem
it due to you and to myself to declare
that I have not done or said anything in
consistent with the relations I have borne
to the State, and to the Federal Govern
ment, or which could reflect a stain up
on the commission which I now surren
der.
I do not resign because I think I have
misrepresented you. On the contrary, I
believe that my votes and speeches in the
Senate have expressed your deliberate
will as attested through the ballot box. I
resign because there is no place left where
a Southern Senator may sit in council
with the Senators ofthe North. In truth
there is no longer a Senate of the United
States within the meaning and spirit of
the Constitution.
The United States no longer exists—
The Union is dissolved. For a time after
the withdrawal of the Southern States,
aud while there was a hope the rupture
might be healed, it might be assumed that
the Union was not yet dissolved, and such
was the position of Kentucky, in declaring
her neutrality and offering her mediation
between the contending parties. But
time has now elapsed, and mighty eyents
have occurred whieh banish from the
minds of reasonable men all expectation
of restoring the Union. Coercion has been
tried and tailed. The South has muster
ed in the field nearly as many combatants
as the North, and has been far more vic
torious. The fields of 3fanassas and
Bethel, of Springfield and Lexington,
have marked with a terrible and sanguin
ary line the division between tbe old or
der of things and the new.
It is the right of Kentucky and her pecu
liar duty to recognize these great facts and
The constitutional com
pact which created and upheld the old
Union is at an end. A large number ofthe
original and additional parties have with
drawn from it. So large a number that
iiB stipulation can no longer,
ever decided a contract to be binding
tween the remaining parties, or attempts
to enfore its execution. The Constitution
requires positively that each State shall
have at least one representative in Con
gress, but now twelve States have none;
that each State shall have two Senators ;
hut now twelve States have none; that
all duties, imposts and excises shall be
uniform throughout the United States, but
now in more than one third of them none
are or can be collected. Commerce cannot
be regulated between the respective States.
Uniform rules of naturalization and bank
ruptcy cannot be adopted. Post Offices
and post roads in nearly half tlie States
have been given up, Hnd a preference is
given to the ports of one State over those
of another. Even the election of a Presi
dent has become impossible. The Con
stitution is mandatory on all the States to
appoint electors, and requires a majority
ot the latter to elect, but more than on^
third of the States refuse to appoint, and
hence r.o election cnn be made by the peo
ple. If the election goes to the House of
Representatives, the Constitution requires
that at least two-thirds of the States shall
be represented in that body. The Con
stitution can no longer be amended, for it
requires three-fourths of the States to con
cur and more than one-third of the States
have withdrawn from the Confederacy.
AH the safeguards provided for by the
States in the instrument still farther to se
cure public and personal liberty have been
destroyed. The three departments cf the
Federal Government which were carefully
separated and their boundaries defined,
have been merged into one, and the Presi
dent, sustained by a great army, wields
unlimited power. The exemption of per
sons from arrest without judicial warrant,
the right of a citizen to have his body
brought before a judge to determine the
legality of his imprisonment, the security
provided against searches and seizure with
out warrant of law, the sanctity of the
home, the trial by jury ; the freedom of
speech and of the press; these and every
other precious right which our fathers sup
posed they had locked up in the Constitu
tion have been torn fiom it and buried be
neath the heel of military power. Tbe
States made the Constitution, placed rigid
boundaries around that Government and
expressly reserved to themselves all pow
ers not delegated. They did not dele
gate to the Federal Government the pow
er to destroy them ; yet the creature has
set itself above the creator.
The atrocious doctrine is announced by
the President and acted upon that the
States derive their power from the Federal
Government and may he suppressed on
any pretence of military necessity. The
gallant little State of Maryland has been
utterly abolished. Missouri is engaged in
a heroic struggle to preserve her existence
and to throw ofl’lhe horrors of martial law,
proclaimed by' a subordinate military com
mander. Everywhere the civil has given
way 7 to the military power. The fortress
es of the country are filled with victims
seized without warrant of law, and igno
rant of the cause of their imprisonment.
T he Legislators of States, and other pub
lic officers are seized while in the discharge
of their official duties, taken beyond the
limits of their respective States and im
prisoned in the forts ofthe Federal Govern
ment. A subservient Congress ratifies
the usurpations of the President, and pro
ceeds to complete tbe destruction of the
Constitution. History will declare that
the annals of legislation do not contain
laws so infamous as those enacted at the
last session. They sweep away every
vestige of public and personal liberty,
while they confiscate the property of a na
tion containing ten millions of people. In
the House of Representatives it was de
clared that the South should he reduced to
“abject submission,” or their institutions
overthrown. In the Senate, it was said
that if necessary, the South should be de
populated. and re-peopled from the North,
and an eminent Senator expressed a desire
that the President should be made a dicta
tor. This was superfluous, since they had
already clothed him with dictatorial pow
ers. In the midst of these proceedings
no plea for the Constitution is listened to
iu the North ; here and there a few heroic
voices are feebly heard protesting against
the progress of despotism, but for the most
part beyond the military lines, mobs and
anarchy rule the hour. The great mass
of the Northern people seem anxious to
sunder every safeguard of freedom; they
eargerly offer to the Government what no
European monarch would dare to demand.
The President and his Generals are unable
to pick up the liberties of the people as
rapidly as they are thrown at their feet.
The world will view with amazement this
sudden and total overthrow of a Constitu
tion which, if respected, might have been
the boast and safeguard of the United
States for many generations. When the
historian comes to investigate the cause of
this result, he will record the fact that no
department ot the Federal Government
has ever exhibited a case of aggression by
the Southern States upon their Northern
associates, and he will trace the dismem
berment to the ignorance or disregard up
on the part of the latter, of the true prin
ciples of a Confederacy, to long continued
and flagrant violations of the Constitution,
to avarice, to fanaticism and general cor
ruption. Against all these usurpations I
protested in your name, in the presence of
their authors, and at the seat of their pow
ers. I protested in vain, and never again
will I meet in couucil with the usurp
ers.
And now, fellow-citizens, I am sure you
will pardon me if I add a few words in re
ference to tbe condition of our State and
my own course. The Constitution of the
United States has been destroyed, and by
no act of Kentucky. The power she del
egated in that instrument to the Federal
Government had vested to her, and any
exercise of power over her by that govern*
ment without her consent is usurpation.
In the wreck of the Federal system, she
exists an independent commonwealth,
with the right to choose her own destiny.
She may join the North. She may join
the South. She may poise herself on‘her
own centre and be neutral. In every
form by which you could give direct ex
pression to your will, you declared for neu
trality. A large majority of the people
at the May and Augnst elections voted
for the neutrality aud peace of Kentucky.
The press, the public speakers, the candi
dates with exceptions in favor of the gov
ernment at Washington, so rare as not to
need mention, planted themselves on this
position. You voted for it, and you meant
it. You were promised it, and you ex
pected it. The minority acquiesced in
good faith, and at home and abroad this
was recognised as the fixed position of the
State. It was taken at the beginning of
hostilities and it is but reasonable to infer
that every subsequent act of outrage by
the Washington government has confirmed
your original purpose. Look now at the
condition of Kentucky, and see how your
expectations have been realized, how these
promises have been redeemed !
First, by the aid of some citizens of tie
State, arms belonging to the whole people
were illegally and secretly introduced by
order of the Presideut and distributed to
one class of our people upon the false pre
tense that they needed them for proteciica
•gainst their own fellow-citizens. -This
was the first violation.
Next, Federal military officers be
. recruit soldiers and