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»TAWIBOMIT.
AVT* .l>'D RKSOIitTIONS
of /hr Fifth Session of the
PROVISIONAL CONGRESS
of the
CONFEDERATE STATES.
1861.
" (No. 3Uu.)
AV^tCr ^(waiter and amend an act entitled ‘"an
act fer the sequestration of the estates, property
and effects of alien enemies, and for indemnity
of citizens of the Confederate .States, and per
sons aiding the same in the existing war with
the United States” approved August +bimietb,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact, '1 hat all and every the
lands, tenements and hereditaments, goods and
chattels, rights and credits, and every right and
interest therein embraced by said act of Sequestra
tion, of which this Act is an alteration and amend
ment, shall he collected and sold as provided for
in this Act and the proceeds paid into the Treas
ury of the Confederate States ; but in no case shall
a debt, or other chose it) action, be sold.
Sec. 2 B8 it further enacted. That all money
realized under this Act, and the Act to which it is
an amendment, shall be applied to the equal in
demnity of all persons, loyal citizens of the Con
federate States, or persons aiding the same in the
present war, who have suffered, or may hereafter
suffer, loss or damage by confiscation, by the Gov
ernment of the United States, or by any State
Government, or pretonded Government, acknowl
edging and aiding the Government of the United
States in this war. or by such acts of the enemy,
or other causes incident to the war. as bv future
act of Congress, may be described or defined, as
affording, under the circumstance, proper cases for
indemnity, and all money realized as aforesaid,
shall be paid into the Treasury of said Confeder
ate States, as provided by the Act to which this is
an amendment; and the faith of the Confederate
States is hereby pledged that the same shall be re
funded, as required for the purposes aforesaid.
And the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause a
separate account of said money to bo kept in well
bound bddlH fiWl'IfredJor that purpose.
Sec. 11 Be it further enacted. That it shall he
the duty of every person in actual possession of,
or having under his control, any money, property,
effects or evidences of debt, belonging to an alien
enemy', speedily to inform the Receiver, and to
render an aucount thereof, aud at once to pay over
to the Receiver and to de iver to him such proper
ty and effects, and evidences of debt, and such
payment and delivery shall be made without re
gard to whether any proceedings have or have not
been instituted to sequestrate the sajue. And any
person who. after giving such information, shall
fail to pay over and deliver on demand, made by
the Receiver, shall stand iu contempt, and the Re
ceiver shall at once move the Court or Judge to
proceed against such party as in other cases of
contempt; aud the Court or Judge may imprison
the offender until he shall comply with the require
ments of this Act. And such payment or deliv
ery shall fully acquit and discharge the party from
all and every claim for or on account ot such mo
ney, property, effects and evidences of debt.—
And the Receiver shall give such persof! a receipt,
specifying the amount of money, the property, ef
fects aud evidences of debt paid and delivered,
and the name of the alien enemy on account of
whom the same shall be paid and delivered. Pro
vided, That when the person having the posses
sion or control of any money of an alien enemy,
asserts a debt or claim, against such alien enemy
in his own favor, he may file it in writing in the
that lie believes himself
peti8ation to executors, administrators and trus-
ees : and the Court shall further allow to the re-
eiver all proper expenses attending the execution
•f his office. And all fees aid allowances passed
>y the Court in favor of any receiver may be re-
nined by him from any money in his hands; and
ill fees and allowances to any Receiver beyond
'he rate of five thousand dollars per annum, ex-
•ept for expenses as aforesaid, shall be forthwith
iaid by him into the Confederate Treasury, to the
ise of the Confederate States, and shall ho brought
nto, and stated and accounted for in his next ac
count of settlement as Receiver.
Sec. lit. The Com t shall appoint an attorney
for each section in which the Court shall beholden,
ind in which no attorney of tho Confederate^
states resides, whose duties it shall be to discharge^^^
vithin said section, the duties imposed on the at- '
-omey of tho district by the Act to which this is
imendatory ; and tho compensation of such attor-
>y him done as is now provided by ninth section
if said Act for the district attorney. .
Sec. 13. The Receiver shall iu all cases, take
’.he possession and control of the money, property
md effects ot alien enemies, and of juch cl)OSes in
iction as shall be in the hands of any agent or
-bird person, except when otherwise provided by
diis Act, and, on being refused possession, shall
-ue for the same, and such possession shall not be
vitblield on any pretext of any provisions of the
Vet to which this is amendatory. The Court may
order a delay in the sale of property when it shall
be necessary to complete or gather a growing crop,
or when it shall be otherwise manifestly to the bene
fit of the Confederate States to delay the sale;
but in all such cases the possession, control and
management shall be with the Receiver, or under
his control And in the collection
if debts or cheats in action, no State stay law shall
govern, but the same shall be governed by this
Act. and the one to which this is an amendment,
so far as the latter does not conflict with this Act.
Sec j-1. Itshall be the duty of all persons ow-
ng debts to alien enemies, within three months
from the passage of this Act, to give information
t,hereof to the Receiver of the district in which he
or they reside, and in case of corporations or joint
stock companies, to the Receiver of the district in
which the principal office of business of such cor
poration or company maybe; and such informa
tion shall be in writing and sworn to by the debt
or, and in case of corp rations or joint stock com
panies. by the principal officer of such corporation
or company, before any Judge of a Court of Re
cord, Justice of the Peace, Notary Public, Com
missioner of the Court or Receiver, under the Act
to which fids is an amendment, and shall set
forth the name or names of the creditor or owner
<?■ such debt, the amount ho owes or owed on the
thiitieth day of August, eighteen hundred and
sixty-one, and whether the same is, or has been
secured by mortgage or otherwise; and the infor
mation or confession so made shall be filed by the
Receiver in tho proper Court of the Confederate
States, and such Court shall, on such inlormation,
proceed to decree sequestration and payment of
the debt or debts so confessed ; and in case any
debtor shall, in good faith confess his indebted
ness as aforesaid, but shall be unable to state the
true amount of his imlebtedness, or shall be in
doubt whether the creditor or owner of the debt is
an alien enemy, the Court shall proceed to ascer
tain the character of the creditor or owner, and the
true amount of such indebtedness, and to that end
shall direct such proceedings as shall be adapted
to the nature of the case, and decree according to
the facts found. And iu all proceedings against
persons for debts due by them to alien enemies,
the debtor shall be allowed to make any defence,
in law or equity, which he might or could have
of a partnership of alien fiflathies are unknown to
him, the process and proceedings may be against
such partnership by the firm name thereof, stated
in such affidavit,, or against such alien enemy,
whose name is wholly or partly unknown, by such
name or proper description as tnay be known and
set forth in such affidavits Prodded, That the
Court may, at any time, on motion, cause tho full
and proper name to be inserted in tho record, and
used in the Moceedings wlictl tho same become
known to theTJourt.
Sec. 24. KcSKvevs shall have authority to ad
minister oaths nmching any matter incident to
proceeding under 'his Act.
Sec. 25. The sixteenth section of the Act to
which this is an amendment is hereby repeal-
Jfiec. 26. All debts due towby alein enemy may
Jrpaid in the Bonds and Treasury Notes of tho
r _ Confederate States and the same shall be re-
ey so appointed shall be the samo for-busineai' K ceived in payment for all proparty sold under this
" ' Act.
Sec, 27. The fees of all Clerks and Marshals
shall be tho same for services under this Act and
tho Act to which this is an amendment as are al
lowed for similar services in the Courts of the
Confederate States, and shall be a charge upon
the gt-neral fund derived from confiscations,
and shall bn paid on the order of Court.
See. 28. The Commissioners authorized by tho
fourteenth section of the Act to which this is an
amendment shall appoint a Clerk, with a salary of
fifteen hundred dollars, to be paid out of the
Treasury of the Confederate. States, but such sal
ary as well as tho salary of said Commissioners
shall bo charged to the confiscation fund and be
deducted therefrom; and said Commissioners shall
moreover have power to appoint Commissioners
to take the examination of witnesses touching the
claims which may he propounded before them, or
or may summon witnesses before them to bo exam
ined orally; said Commissioners and the Com
missioners appointed by them to examine
witnesses as aforesaid,shall have power to adminis-
oaths to the witnesses and to issue subpoenas and
witnesses failing to appear shall be subject to liSo
penalties and process as may be prescribed in the
Courts of ttie Confederate States against defaul
ting witnesses: Provided, however That the costs
of all proceedings to take testimony shall be paid
by the claimant except in cases where the Attorney
General shall apply for leave to take testimony,
and the fees of witnesses and commissioners shall
bo the same as are allowed in the Courts °t tCe
Confederate States in like cases. a
Sec. 29. So much of the Act to ^rhiWrlliis is
an amendment as requires the Receivers to settlo
sepaiately the estate of each alieii^fljyjjv. is re
pealed, and hereafter each settlement "hall em
brace all the matters ready for settlement: but the
items of the account shall be so specific as to show
• he sources from which each is derived..
Sec. 31). Where any judgment has been entered
up in any of the Confederate States under tho
Act to which this is an amendment inconsistent
with the provisions and spirit of the AcL the
same, on motion, shall be set asitht or attended
in accordance with the terms aq^^jnJ^isions of
this Act. ^
See. 31. The provisions of thwAct to which
this Act is an amendment, so far as the same may
conflict with this Act, are hereby repealed.
Approved Feb. 16. 1662 45 5t.
made in a suit bjauakt against him by the credi
tor to whom such debt was due : Provided, huirev-
That no execution shall issue on such decree
master General ia hereby authorized to pay over
the amounts, so collected by'any person, having
claims, for Postal Service rendered since the first
day of June, eighteen hundred attdaixty one pro
vided th A, an accurate account shall be kept in
the office ot the Auditor of the Treasury for the
Post Office Department, of all sums collected un
der this Act, which accounts shall show, the
amount of money collected, the person from whom
collected, and the person to whom paid.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That whatever
sum the Postmaster General may collect, and pay
over, tinder this Act for Postal Service rendered
since the first day of June, eighteen hundred aud
sixty-one, shall he reimbursed, out of any money
in the Treasury, to the credit of the Post Office-
Department, and the sum so reimbursed, shall be
held as a separate, and distinct fund, subject to
distribution under the x\ct, to which this is an
amendment.
Approved Jan. 31 1862.
(No. 303 )
A RESOLUTION in reference to the arms of the
volunteers for twelve months.
Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate
States of America, That the military exigencies of
the Confederate States, render it absolutely neces
sary, that the aims of the volunteers now in tin-
service should be kept within the control ot the
President of the Confederate States; so that when
ever the present volunteers shall be discharged
from service, the arms may be placed in the hands
of others.
Approved Jan. 22. 1862.
(No. 364 )
AN ACT to authorize the President to call upon
the several States for troops to serve for three
years or during the war.
Section I. The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact, That the first section
of the Act of March sixth, eighteen hundred and
sixty-one be, and is hereby, so modified as to
authorize the President to call upon the several
States in his discretion, for any number of troops,
not exceeding in the aggregate the number hereto
fore authorized, to serve for the terra of threo years
or during the war.
Sec. 2. In making such requisitions the Presi
dent shall take into consideration the number of
troops from each State already enlisted for the war
at the time of the requisition, and shall as far as
practicable equalize the same amongst the
States according to their respective white popula
tion.
Approved, Jan. 2o, 1862:
and trimmers, if females, shall receive salaries at
the rate of six hundred dollars for the chief, and
five hundred dollars for the rest; and if males,
shall receive a salary not to exceed five hundred
dollars. One of the clerks may tie appointed
Disbursing Clerk, aud tor his services as such",
shall receive an additional salary of two hundred *
dollars.
Approved Feb. 13, 1862.
[No. 383.]
AN ACT to transfer the county of Attala in the
State of Mississippi from the Northern to the
Southern Judicial District of the State of Mis-
sissipi.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederal
States of Am_rica do enact, That the county
Attala, in the State of Mississippi, shall hereafte
form a part ot the Southern Judicial DistrT
said State, instead of the Northern^_pistJ : '
heretofore, and shall.be within tt» ■
the Courts of the Confederate Stat
held within and for said Southert
Feb. 18, 1862.
[No 38^
iy interest di
ticks of the
t The Congrt
ea do eni
^^^^^^_iated for,
firsl^^^^^Ranuary ti
dredw^^By thousand 1
the Sta^WT Virginia, in]
al Fund $leld bf
of the Ifiiti^^^^Livhicl
h ired by Govl
erate Stata^^^Hpaid over to Choctaw Nation of
Indians or^^BBwempoweied by such Nation to
receive it, twenty-seven thousand dollars.
Approved Feb. 13, 1862. 44 4t.
A Mniage From Lincoln.
The autocrat who presides over the
destiaies of the Yankee nation, aud rules
that people with an iron rod, and who
would fain place his despotic heel upon a
airy are dealing out death and destruction
to the enemy the Dock R ; ver ; n
Ihe enemy s losses in their various ,k£
mishes. since taking possession of this
place, have been not less than one thou
: the Coufod
except for the interest which shall accure on the [ and that the further sum of one hundred and
same at the end of each 3'ear, until twelve months
after peace shall be declared between the Confed-
(No. 347.)
AN ACT appropriating two hundred and twenty-
three thousand six hundred and seven dollars
fur tho naval service.
The Congress of the Confederate States of
America do enact, That the sum of one hundred
and fifteen thousand six hundred and seven dol
lars he, and is hereby appropriated for tho pay of
officers of the navy, on and off duty to the first
day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty two;
^ht thousand dollars be and is hereby appropri
ated for the pay of warrant and p tty officers.
proper Court, swear o
justly entitled to the same, and thereupon fie shall j That execution may issue for th
not he compelled, in the first instance, to pay over
to the Receiver the amount ihus propounded and
claimed by him ; but the Court shall tln-u pro
ceed to examine aud try the validity of the said
debt or claim, and decree according to the facts
found, and the rights and justice of the case. And
erate States and the United Slates, or until other-! seamen ordinary seaman soldiers and boys and
wise directed by law : And provided, moreover, j Engineers Department to the same time, as per
costs of the pro- j estimates of the Secretary of the Navy of the
ceeding, and the sum so collected for costs shall | twenty sixth December, eighteen hundred and six-
be deducted from the principal sum due. | ty two.
See. 15- The Receivers appointed under this Approved, Jan 11,1862.
Act, or the Act to which this is an amendment,
shall proceed diligently to ascertain and collect
the debts due to alien enem.es by persons residing
it the Court decides against the debt or claim, the : in the districts for which they are severally ap-
party 'filing tip tin same shall forthwith pay
over the sum so retained by him. And if the
Court shall decree in favor of the debt or claim
thus propounded, and it exceeds the entire
amount originally in possession of such debtor or
or claimant, be shall pay no costs; otherwise he
shall pay all costs incident to the proceedings.
Sec. 4. This Act. and the Act to which it is an
amendment, shall not operate to avoid any pay
ment, hona fide made to an alien enemy, or to ef
fect property of any kind hona fide and absolutely
transferred, or conveyed, by any alien enemy to a
faithful citizen of the Confederate States, prior to
the thirtieth day- of August, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty one.
Sec. 5. Iu cases of partnership property and ef-
pointed, and shall on the discovery of any such
debts, and after the expiration of three months
j from (lie passage of this Act. and the debtor shall
i have failed to-give information of such debt, pro
, cet-d to institute proceedings to sequestrate the
| same, and in such proceeding, which shall be by
petition, as prescribed by said Act, to which this is
j an amendment, and shall be to sequestrate the
j debt, as well as to ascertain the sum due by the
I debtor, such debtor shall be made defendant or re-
) spondent, as the case may be, and the process to
bring sucii debtor before the Court, or to compel
an answer, shall be in the nature of the writ of
| garnishment as prescribed in said Act, which shall
: be served on such debtor; and in case of corpora
| lions and joint stock companies, on some member
fects, the resident partner, or partners, shell be dealt ; or officer of such corporation or company ; and
with in all respects as surviving partners in cases of j shall require the defendant to answer on oath
a dissolution of partnership by the death of one 1 —
or more of thp partners, according to the laws of
whether he is indebted to any alien enemy, or
was so indebted on the thii tieth day- of August,
the place of the principal place of business of the eighteen hundred and sixty-nne, in what sum, and
partership ; and the Receiver shall have the same whether he knows of any other person or persons
remedies against such resident partners as the rep- ' so indebted, and on the disclosure by the defend
rosentatives of a deceased partner would be enti
tled to in like case.
Sec. 6. The following persons shall not be taken
to be alien enemies under this Act, or the Act to
which this is an amendment:
first. Persons who now have lionet fide become
permanent residents of any State of this Confed
eracy, and are actually residing and domiciled
within the same, yielding and acknowledging al
legiance thereto, and who have not during the
present war, voluntarily contributed to the cause
of the enemy.
Second. All persons born within any State of
this Confederacy, or natives of a neutral country,
who since the breaking out ot the war, have
abandoned their domiciles and ceased their busi
ness in the enemy's country, and all persons
aforesaid who have hona fide commenced, or at
tempted to remove themselves and effects from the
enemy's country, and who have been, and still are
prevented fi mi i nni[i|i liii| said removal by the
force or power of the enemy, or who from physi
cal infirmity are incapable of removing.
Thera'. All subjects or citizens of neutral coun
tries who cannot be shown to have voluntarily
contributed to the cause of the enemy, and all
who, though citizens of the enemy’s country,
have abandoned that country on account of their
opposition to the war. or sympathy for the people
of the Confederate States.
Fourth. All married women natives of any State
of this Confederacy wlio, or w hose husbands shall
not be shown to have voluntarily contributed to
the cause of toe enemy. Ail persons non compos
mentis, and all minors whose fathers or mothers,
were, or are, natives of this Confederacy and
whose property and persons are controlled by
guardians resident in the Conf- derate States, and
who have not voluntarily contributed to the ene
my's cause; and all minors under the age of six
teen years, who were boru in a.iy State ol this
Confederacy, or in any tilate exempted from the
operations of this Act while their parents were
domiciled in such State and who have not taken
up arms against the Confederate States.
Fifth. Free persons of color, who, by the laws
of any State have been compelled to remove be
yond the limits thereof, and aro by law prohibited
from returning to such State, and who have not in
anywise aided the enemy.
Sec. 7. The next of kin in the direct ascending
and descending lines of any alien enemy, faithful
citizens of any of the Confederate Slates, or en
gaged in their military or naval service shall be
entitled to have decreed them (they paying all
costs) the property, effects and credits ot such
alien enemy as if dead, intestate, leaving no other
heirs ot distributees, chargeable, however, in their
hands, as in case of administration of heirship,
with the debts of such alien enemies due to faith
ful citizens of any ConfedeialeState.
Sec. 8. All sales of property under this Act shall
be made by Receivers at public auction to the
highest bidder an^, —i suffii terms and such notice
of the time and place ofofcaie as the Court may
prescribe, and shall be duly reported to the Court
by such Receivers at the term next after such sale;
but no conveyance of title shall be made to pur
chaser of the property until the confirmation of the
sale by the Court and the payment of the pur
chase money according to the terms of the sale;
and no sale shall be valid until reported to, and con
firmed by the Court; nor shall any sale be confirmed
until the terms shall have been complied with;
and the Court may set aside such sale for fraud,
want of proper notice, or any material irregularity,
Or where it shall appear that the Keciever was the
purchaser or interested in the purchase, or for sub
stantial inadequacy of price : Provided, however.
That sales of personality tnay be reported to, and
confirmed hy the Judge in vacation.
Sec. 9. The Court may, in its discretion, when
special circumstances exis; which temporarily de
press the sale of the property, delay the order of.
sale, or may direct the Receiver to examine and
report whether it would be expedient to make an
immediate sale of such property, and on such re
port. or other satisfactory evidence, showing that
a delay in the sale wonid tend to secure a fairer
price, may order suefi sale to he delayed, and in
all such cases the Court may, in the case of real
estate, or of a plantation aud slaves, order the Ra-
cei ver to lease the same on such terms as the Court
may prescribe.
Sec. 10. In cases where an alien enemy may
have contracted in writing, before the twenty-first
day of May, eighteen hundred and sixly-oue, to
sell real estate to a citizen, or citizens, of the Con
federacy. and to make title upon payment of the
purchase money, the Court in decreeing sequestra
tion of the said purchase money, or the residue
thereof unpaid, shall further decree that the Re
ceiver of the district in which said real estate is
situate shall, upon payment of said purchase mo
ney or the residue thereof, as aforesaid, make title
for such real estate to the purchaser or his assignee.
Sec. Jl. The Court and pass on the
accounts of the Receiver as provided in this Act,
this is an amendment; but
in lieu ofWSUptpeusation and allowances there
in proviJHH^gball allow such compensation as
to it shafHWiPfre»sonable and just, following,
in this respccU*^* far as may be applicable
the analogies furnished by the laws of the
State in which the Court is held, concerning com
mit of such indebtedness by other persons, like
proceedings shall be bad as in the original cause;
and in caso the defendant shall suggest in his an
swer that the debt due by him or her is claimed or
owned by any persotyjj^an alien enemy, setting
forth the name of such claTmant, his place of
abode, citation shall issue to such claimant to ap
pear and propound bis claim on oath at the suc
ceeding term of the Court; and in case he is ab
sent from the district in which Jjie Court is held,
or cannot be found, publication shall be made for
the space of one month, in some newspaper hest
calculated to apprise such claimant to appear and
propound his claim : and if such claimant shall
I fail to appear, his claim shall be barred. On the
j appearance of the claimant, the Court shall
direct ail issue to try the same, and shall award
the costs agaiust the claimant if the claim be un
founded : Provided, That the entire answer shall
be considered by the Court.
Sec. 16. All proceedings now pending under the
Aet to which this Act is an amendment, shall he
made to conform to -the proceedings directed in
this Act, so far as practicable, and the judgments
rendered therein shall be given in all respects, and
have the same operation and effect as judgments
rendered under the fourteenth section of this
Act.
Sec. 17. In all proceedings against debtors who
fail or refuse to give information of their indebt
edness within the time prescribed in this Act, and
the debtor shall be brought before the Court by
process, the costs of the proceeding shall be ad
judged against such debtor, in caso he is found to
be indebted to any alien enemy; and if it shall
appear to the Court, on the tiial of any cause
against such recusant debtor, that be has wrongly
aud wilfully refused or failed to give information
of his indebtedness, or to state the true amount
thereof, with the intent to hinder, evade or delay
the execution of this Act, or the Act to which this
is an amendment, or the jury, in any cause or issue
tried by them, shall certify that such debtor has
wilfully failed or refused to give information of
bis indebtedness, or tho true amount thereof, with
the intent aforesaid, the Court shall award exe
cution against such debtor on the decree or judg
ment for the whole debt aud the in
terest due thereon, together wltlhthe cost; in all
other cases, however, execution shall be stayed
until the peace aforesaid, except for interest which
shall accrue.
Sec 18. In cases where proceedings shall be
instituted to sequestrate judgments or decrees al
ready rendered, or of claims or debts uporr which
actions or suits may he pending, the Court may,
after the decree of sequestration, allow the Re
ceiver to prosecute such suit, action, decree or
judgment, in the name of the Confederate States
of America ; and in cases of suits or actions pend
ing, or decrees or judgments rendered in the State
Courts, where, by the laws of such State, it may
he admissible, such Receiver may introduce the
Confederate States of America in the proceedings
as a party to prosecute such suit or action, or en-
I force such decrees or judgment ; but in such
cases execution shall issue lor costs and interest
only until further provided by law, or twelve
months after the conclusion of peace as afore
said.
Sec- 19. Attorneys, agents, or trustees of any
alien enemy having claims for fees or commission
on the fund or assets in their hands, shall, on de
livery of such fund or assets to the Receiver,
make out their accounts for such claims or com
missions, and the Court shall consider and allow
the same, if just and reasonable, to paid out of
such funds or assets, and where counsel aro al
ready engaged in prosecuting such pending suits
or actions, the Receiver shall be authorized to al
low them to continue to prosecute such suits or
actions tor the Confederate States of America.
Sec. 20. The rate of interest to he paid by debt
ors shall be regulated by the contract, if by the
terms thereof the rate of interest shall be fixed,
and if no interest shall be fixed by the contract,
then the rate shall be according to the law of the
place where the debt is to be paid or the contract
performed : and the judgment or decree shall bear
the same rate of interest fixed by law or the con
tract, and the same shall be punctually paid at
the end of each year, or execution shall issue for
the same
Sec. 21. In no case shall the judgment or de
cree be a lien on the property of the debtor; but
where the Court shall award execution under this
Act, the property of the debtor shall be bound,
from the delivery of the writ.
See, 22. The Court, or Judge 5d vacation, shall
have power to award execution on any judgment
or decree-, in addition to the cases of recusant
debtors, where the Receiver shall make oath that
the debtor is fraudulently concealing or disposing
of bis effects, with intent to evade the judgment,
or is about to remove the effects beyond the juris
diction of the Court, but such execution shall be
discharged on the defendant's giving security to
the satisfaction of the Court, for the performance
or payment of the decree.
Sec. 23 In proceedings under this Act. and the
Act of which it is amendatory, upon affidavit be
ing made by the Attorney representing the Con
federate States, or the proper Receiver, that the
name of an alien enemy ia wholly or partly un
known to him, or that the names of the members
(No. 348.)
AN ACT appropriating fourteen million eight hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars for tho military-
service.
Sec. 1. The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact That the sum of fourteen
millions four hundred thousand dollars be and
is hereby appropriated for the pay of bounty and
transportation or commncation thereof, for one
hundred and fifty thousand men under the Act
providing for re-enlistment of twelve months
men.
Sec. 2. That the sum of fonr hundred and fifty
thousand dollars be, and is hereby appropriated,
for expenses under the Act for recruiting recently
passed.
Sec. 3. That the sum of eight hundred dollars
be, and is hereby appropriated for the salary ot
the Assistant Secretary of War, to the first day
of April, eighteen hnudred aud sixty-two as per
estimates of the Secretary of War, of the twenty-
seventh December eighteen hundred and sixty-
one.
Approved Jan, 11, 1862. 44-4t.
(No. 356.)
An Act entitled to amend An Act entitled “An Act
to raise an additional Military force to serve
during the War,” approved May eight, eighteen
hundred and sixty-one, and for other purposes.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact. That volunteers offer
ing their services under an Act entitled an Act to
raise an additional military force to serve during
the war, approved May eighth, eighteen hundred
and sixty-one, may be accepted by the President
singly as well as in companies, squadrons, battal
ions or regiments.
ee. 2. In all appointments of officers raised
nuder this Act, the field and company officers shall
be chosen and appointed in the manner prescribed
by the Act entitled, ‘An Act. providing for the
granting of bouuty and furloughs to private and
non-commissioned officers in the Provisional
Army,” approved December eleventh, eighteen
hundred and sixty-one; and all vacancies occur-
ing in tho said offices after the first section made
under this Act, as well as under the Act entitled,
“An Act to raise an additional military force to
serve during the war,” approved May eighth,
eighteen hundred and sixty-one, shall be filled by
promotion, according to grade and seniority, as
provided in said Act of eleventh December, eigh
teen hundred and sixty-one, except in case of
disability or other incompetency: Provided, how
ever, that the President be authorized to depart
from the prescribed rule of promotion in favor of
any person specially distinguished by his Com
manding General for extraordinary merit or some
signal act of military skill or gallantry.
See. 3. All vacancies occurring in the ranks of
companies mustered into the Confederate service
for three years or for the war, may be filled by vol
unteers; and tho commander of each of said
squadrons, battalions or regiments, organized as
aforesaid, may detail one commissioned officer and
one non-commissioned officer and one or more pri
vates, from each company of liis command, with
the approval of the Uigadier General of the brig
ade to which said squadron, battalion or regiment
may be attached, to recruit men for said company ;
so that the same rnay contain not more than one
hundred and twenty-five, rank and file : and the
men so recruited shall be mustered at the time of
enrolment and shall bo entitled to transportation
and subsistence, or commutation or subsistence,
till they join ttteir respective companies, and to
fifty dollais bounty, to be paid at the [time of
joining the same.
Sec. 4. The President be, and he is hereby au
thorized to appoint and commission persons as
field officers or captains to raise regiments, battal
ions or companies, and the individuals comprising
the same shall be mustered at the time of enrol
ment and be entitled to pay, traDspoitation and
subsistence fiom tho date of the organization of
companies; but tho officers appointed by the
President shall not be entitled to any pay or al
lowance until their respective companies be luily
o.rganized and reported to the Secretary of War;
and said appointment shall expire if the officer
appointeiNsiiail not within a reasonable time, not
to exceed two months for a company and four
months for for a battalion, squadron or regiment
report the corps authorized to be raised by him or
ganized and ready for duty. Provided, neverthe
less, that every officer so commissioned for such
purpose, shall receive an appointment proportion
ed to the force he lecruits ; and provided further
more that no enlistments under the commission of
captains shall be obligatory unless the number be
sufficient to constitute a company.
Approved, Jan. 22, 1862.
(No 359.)
AN ACT to authorize the appointment of officers
of Artillery in the Provisional Army and in the
Volunteer corps.
The Congress of the Confederate States of
America do enact, That the President be, and lie
(No. 365.)
AN ACT to increaso the clerical force of the
Post Office Department.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact, That there shall be
added to .he pei inanciit clerical force of the Post
Office Department live clerks, each of whom
shall receive a saiaryof twelve hundred dollars
per year and five clerks at a salary of one thous
and dollars each per year.
Sec. 2. That fifteen additional clerks may be
appointed in the office of the Auditor of the Treas
ury'for the Post Office Department, five of whom
shall receive a salary of twelve hundred dollars
each per year, and ten shall receives salary of one
thousand dollars per annum each, and it may be
lawful for the Auditor of the Treasury for the
Post Office Department to appoint one of the
clerks in said office to sign said Auditor’s name so
as to frank mail matter authorized by law to be
franked by said Auditor. And said clerk shall be
subject to all the pains aud penalties for violating
tiie franking privilege now provided oy law vviih
respect to other officers entitled to such privi
lege.
Sec. 3. Beit further enacted. That the Postmas
ter General be aud he is hereby, authorized to ap
point one additional messenger for the Post office
Department at a compensation not exceeding five
hundred dollars pef annum and two additional
laborers a competition not exceeding one dollar
and a half per day.
Approved Jan. 23,1861.
(No. 383.)
AN ACT to amend an act entitled “an act to
amend an act to provide for the organization of
the Navy, approved March sixteenth, eighteen
hundred and sixty-one,” approved May twenti}
eth eighteen hundred and sixtv-one; an aet enti
tied “an act to authorize the President to con-
, for temporary rank and command on officers of
the Navy doing duty with troops,” approved
December twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and
sixty-one.
The Congress of the Confederate States of
America do enact,”That the second section of an
Act entitled “an Act to amend an Act to provide
for the organization of tho Navy, approved March,
sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one,” ap
proved May twentieth, eighteen hundred and six
ty-one and the Act entitled “an Act to authorize
the President to confer temporary rank aud com
mand on officers ot the Navy doing duty with
troops,” approved December twenty-fourth, eigh
teen hundred and sixty-one, be so amended 83 to
include officers of the Marine CorpB.
Approved Feb’y 5, 1862.
(No. 384.)
A RESOLUTION in regard to the transfer
of certain Iudian trust funds to the Confederate
States.
Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate
States of America, That tho Government of the
Confederate States hereby, agrees to indemnity
the several States of this Confederacy, against any
loss or liability incurred by them because of the
payment, or transfer, off” the part of the said sever
al States to the Government of the Confederate
States, of any stocks bonds or funds, belonging
to certain Indian Tribes, or members thereof, in
pursuance of the Acts ot the Congress of May
twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and
January temh, eighteen hundred and sixty-
two.
Approved l'eb'y 6, 1662.
(No. 385.)
AN ACT to provide for connecting the Rich
mond and Danville, and the North Carolina
Railroad, for military purposes.
The Congress of the Confederate States of
America do enact, That the President be and lie
is hereby authorized and empowered to contract,
upon such terms and conditions as he may think
proper, with any company or companies which
have been, or may be, incorporated and organi
zed for the purpose of building and working a
Railroad or Railroads, so as to connect the Rich
mond and Danville Railroad with tho North Caro
liua Railroad, at such points as he may deem
most advantageous to the Government, or to adopt
such other course for building or working or
having the said Railroad built and worked, so as
to effect tho said connection, in the manner he
may think will hest promote the public inter
est.
Sec. 2 Be it further enacted. That to enable the
President to accomplish the object contemplated by
this aet, Ihe sum of one million of dollars, in
bonds of the Confederate States, are hereby appopii-
ated, to be issued and applied by the order of the
President at such times and in such sums as he
may deem proper.
(No. 366.)
AN ACT to provide for the compensation of G. H
Oury, delegate foom Arizona, for his attendance
at this session of Congress.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact that G. H. Oury be
entitled to ten cents a mile for coming to the City
ot Richmond, Virginia, and returning home, to be
estimated by the usual roufe of travel, and to
eight dollars a day din ing this Session of Con-
gres. from the date of the approval of an Act to
orgauize the Territory of Arizona, to be paid in
the same manner provided by law for tho compen
sation of members of Congress.
Approved Feb. 11, 1862.
[No. 387.]
AN ACT to organize the clerical force of the Treas
ury Department.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact, that the Secretary of
the Treasury be and he is hereby antorized to ap
point in the several Bureaus of his Department,
the following clerks : In the Bureau of the Sec
retary, one chief clerk, lour clerks and one mes-
sengar. In the Bureau of the Comptroller, one
chief clerk, twenty clerks and one messenger
Iu the Bureau of tho Treasurer, one chief clerk
ten clerks, one messenger and one assistant
messengei; and subordinate to the Treasurer
in the issue of Treasury notes, one principal
clerk, ten clerks for signing, and ten clerks
for numbering, and as many cutters and trimmers
as the public service may require, not exceeding
ten in number. In the Bureau of the Register.
is hereby, authorized to appoint, by and with the j o ,ie chief clerk, eight clerks and one messenger.
advice and consent of Congress, in the Provision
al Army, and in the Volunteer Corps, officers of
Artillery, above the rank of Captain, without ref
erence to the number of batteries under the actual
command of the officers so appointed, not to ex
ceed in number, however, one Brigadier-General
for every eighty guns, one Colonel for forty guns,
and one Lieutenant Colonel for every tweuty-four
guns, and one Major for every sixteen guns.
Approved Jan. 29, 1862.
(No. 361.)
AN ACT to amend an act, entitled “an act to
collect for distribution the money remaining iu
the several Post Offices of the Confederate
States, at the time the postal service was ta
ken in charge by said Government approved
August Thirteenth, eighteen hundred and six-
ty-one.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do euact, That the time limited
in said Acts, for presenting claims for Postal Ser
vice, be extended to the first day of July, Eigh
teen Hundred and Sixty-two.
Sec. 2 Be it further enacted, That the Post
master General be and be is hereby authorized,
to collect either by draft, or collection orders all
balances remaining in the hands of Postmasters,
within the Confederate States, and which she bad
not paid over at the time the Confederate States
took charge of the Postal Service. And the Post-
ami subordinate to the Register in the manage
ment of the Produce Loan, one principal clerk
and two clerks; and for the issue of Bonds and
Stock and for signing Coupons one principal clerk
and for the signing of Treasury notes and issuing
the same, ten clerks. In the Bureau of the First
Auditor, one chief clerk and one principel Clerk,
and forty-five clerks, and one messenger and as
sistant. In the Bureau of the Second Auditor,
one chiet clerk, forty clerks aud one messenger.
In the Bureau of the War Tax, one chief clerk
aud three clerks.
Sec. 2. The Secretary of tho Treasury may
employ any clerk on trial before his appointment
for a term not exceeding two months; and any
clerk shall be transferable from any Bureau or du
ty to any other, at the direction of the said Secre
tary, and they shall all be subject to such rules
and regulations as shall be established by the Sec
retary, or by the bead of each Bureau respective
ly-
Sec. 3. The salaries of the said clerks shall be at
the following rates per anuunt, and may be paid to
them monthly, or at such other period as may be
deemed proper by the Secretary of the Treasury:
The chief clerks fifteen hundred dollars, and the
principal clerks fourteen hundred dollars; the
other clerks shall be divided into two grades, of
whom not more than one half shall receive sala
ries of twelve hundred dollars each, and the re
mainder, one thousand dollars each. The cutters
A SpetcUrffni Mr. Yancey,
lion. W. L. 1 ancey, who has recently
returned from his unsuccessful misssion
abroad made a short speech last Thursday
night at the St. Charles Hotel, New Or
leans. We copy from the Delta the fol
lowing sketch of his remarks:
It was one year, lacking two days since
he Iiad quit our shores, aud he was glad
to stand among his countrymen again. He
came back convinced that we must fight
the battle alone and rely only on our firm
hearts. (Applause'). They looked coldly
on the South because of its slavery insti
tutions. There Was not a country in
Europe who sympathized with us. Even
the great principles of our revolution were
not understood by them, any more than
by the Northerners, who have never been
able to seize the true spirit of our institu
tion. With the North Europe believed in the
unqualified supremacy of government, not
understanding that government is made
for the people. They have therefore no
friendship for nor sympathy with us neither
have they, however, for the North. They
regard the North as a people mendacious
unjust, and hypocritical. # They do not
believe a word said by the people, the*press
the Cabinet, or the President. Europeans
aro prejudiced against slavery, but they do
not wish to deprive men of their property
without honestly paying for it; they have
no idea of cutting the chains of bondage
with a lawless sword. They have discov
ered the Northern motive in this war to be
political not social, not a strong principle
against wrong, but a determination to rule.
Having therefore no sympathy for us and
turning with honest comteinpt from the
hypocritical Yankee, they would look with
positive indifference on the contest but for
their own interest involved. They desire
to cripple a dangerous rival. This coun
try was getting too vigorous, and they are
determined that it shall forever remain
separated. They would never allow the
South to be subjugated, and would inter
fere to prevent such a result, but that they
feel certain it cannot bo accomplished.
They know and say the South will be free.
In the meantime, they wish to see the war
drag on until each side is thoroughly ex
hausted and overwhelmed with a debt
which shall crush its energies for years or
if possible, ages to come. To further
this policy they ignore the well established
fact that the blockade lias been run at least
a thousand times. They set aside, prac
tically as against us, ‘lie plainest behests
of the European treaty which fixes the law
of blockade. They are determined, in the
face of all law, of all equity, of all hu
manity, not to recognize us until the last
possible moment, and will never do so until
then see our blood-reekivg sword stretched
over a conquered, and prostrate North.
As to the blockade, said Mr. Yancy, I
don't know that we should want it raised,
lfit continued six months longer he would
not. on any consideration, wish such a
misfortune as that is should be raised,
that time our internal energies will have
been developed, our manufactories estab
lished and lie had such confidence in the
ingenuity and enterprise of our people as
to believe them capable of attaining, with
in themselves all necessary ends. As to
luxuries, indulgence in them was not be
coming to a people laboring in the very
throes of a heroic struggle (Emphatic ap
plause. Various causes had hitherto pre
vented the forcible raising of the block
ade. In the first place, when the blockade
commenced to take effect immense stocks of
cotton were in the hands of the wealthiest
manufacturers. Those men had the ear
of Government, and it was decidedly to
their interest that the blockade should con
tinue until their stock on hand was sold at
exorbitant prices. Government, too; was
the more willing to listen to them bcccuse
it was desirous of fostering he production
of cottou outside of the Southern States
even at the expense of heavy temporary
suffering at home.
Our principle ground of miscalculation
here as to the blockade liad been the idea
that cotton is king. If by this it is under
stood American cotton it is a fallacy.
American cotton certainly plays a mighty
part in the commerce of the world, but it
has not absolute sway because the staple
is raised too abundantly elsewhere. For
hundreds of years India has raised as much
cotton as the South now does. There is
probably no one thing in the world which
grows so universally as cotton. Europe,
therefore, was willing to take advantage of
the crisis to enlranchise herself from our
sway at almost any cost, but she lias found
the ordeal too severe. India cotton is too
dear, and the whole machinery of their
immense manufactories would have to bo
changed to suit the staple. Orleans mid
dling has been found hy experience to be
the only thing that will exaclly do, and
the supply of that will be exhausted by
the 1st of April. Then when a starving
population rises around their thrones, with
the words “cotton or blood,” the blockade
will be raised.
Here Mr. Yancey was asked by a gentle
man, whether Mr. Seward’s promise to
open a cotton port had not great weight?
Mr. Yancey replied emphatically, no. They
did not believe one word be said. They
believe the Iaukee9 to bea nation of men
dacious liars. (Applause and laughter,)
It was impossible now in Europe, to get at
the truth of things over here. Facts got
there filtrated through the medium of
Northern papers, and the strength was all
gone. No Southern journal was allowed
to reach them, and that indeed it bad been
so to a great extent before the war. Peo
ple there got their ideas of the South from
New York papers and Boston literateurs.
Thej” gave us creditfor being a brave peo
ple determined to be free, but reckless of
life, somewhat inhuman to slaves, and at
best semi-civilized; and that our sense of
individuality went so far that each man con
sidered his will as paramount to the law.
We cannot look for any sympathy or help
from abroad. We must rely upon our
selves alone.
subjugated South, has sent a message to i sa ^?.’ woun ^®d and unssiug.
his Congress enjoining upon that pliant | tho veceptTonthev met e fr'om SaPPOin> ' Ud , at
body the adoption of a resolution favoring We keep aloof fiom them, aT t^"’ 1 P e0 P le -
,t *.2xtL. i communication with them’, whatever"\f’°
country people refuse to bring it, annhin"
at aU, and our market is almost bare”
Aside from the miserable and monev-m-,'
king population with which every South"
ern State is unhappily afflicted, ourpeooie
are sound fo the core. Weave all hoL
tul and buoyant, and will wait patiently
and pray fervently for the good time com’
J "g- j
Our women, God bless them ! are all
favor of the South. An incident occurred
here the other day, which is worthy 0 f
mention. Several Federal regiments were
passing through the city for some point
e ciV £* £ aSsiDS *7 - the , ele S an{ residence
ofl)r- Bolling, a I ederal officer asked a
lady who stood on the porch
-Whose residence is this, madam ?”
“Dr. Bollings 1”
“Whare is Dr. Bowling?.
“He is in tlie Confederate Army.”
“Ha, so you are the wife of a rebel.”
“Yes sir, I am, and I glory in it. And
(calling Iftr little daughter to the door,
who held a Confederate flag in her hand,)
here is the child of a rebel, amt here is the
proud emblem of rebellion, which can be
seen in every room in this house.”
The crestfallen Vandal putting spurs to
his horse, replied, “I will see you an-ain
madam.”
This is the spirit which animates all our
women.
Our spring and summer campaign will
be the most desperate struggle of war.
They evince a determination to take
Memphis and New Orleans. They have
promised to let England have’ cotton li
the first of May, and they will strain every
nerve to keep it. Their policy is to outnuni-
her us on every battle-field, and to take
every unfair advantage and assert that
they will have 400,000 men in the Valley
of the Mississippi by next May.
The army here, under Buell is attended
to operate against East Tennessee, North
Alabama and North Georgia, in co-opera
tion with a heavy Federal force non- i tl
Eastern Kentucky. Knoxville, Hunts
ville and your city, are considered the three
strategic points in the terriiory mention
ed. 1 hope your thriving city will not
suffer the fate of Nashville, but to be fore
warned is to be forearmed. Two months
ago we rested in the same fancied security
as ynu now seem to do. To-day we are
writhing in the chains of a despot.
the gradual emancipation of slavery, as the
surest means of crushing the Southern re
bellion. Wo publish this message this
morning, as another evidence of the wiek-
esigns of our unscrupulous foe.
is annual message to Congress, last
iucoln, to uso his own words,
tfittosay; the Union must be
red, and hence all iudispensible
ust be emplrfVed.” And what
indispensible means,” that, un
retext of preserving the Union,
the Constitution, and maintain-
laws, are to be used for the subju-
’ the South? Let the record of
past answer. The blood of our inar-
!yrcd citizens, the smoke of smouldering
Southern dwellings, the robbery of South
ern property tell too plainly what these
“iudispensible means” are.
Professing to acknowledge the right of
revolution, yet denying it to a people
whom they have alienated from them by
injustice and oppression, the Federalists
have invaded our territory, incarcerated
peaceful and inoffensive citizens in loath
some prisons—neither age nor sex being
spared; they have applied the torch to the
dwellings, and laid waste the homes of
those who sympathize with the Souther®
Confederacy, andrefuse to bow the neck
to the Yankee Baal; they hare sent large
armies to lay waste our land and butcher
our people who do not choose to submit to
their cruel despotism. And yet, Abraham
Lincoln distinctly tells us, in his message,
that the worst has not been told, lie says :
“If, however, resistance continues the
war must also continue, and it is impossi
ble to foresee all the incidents which may
attend, and all the ruin which may follow
it. Such as may seem indispensible, or
may promise great efficiency towards end
ing the struggle must and will come !” He
evidently sees the bandwriting on the wall
—the impossibility of subjugating, by fair
means, a brave people struggling to be free
—and he now calls upon the minions of
his despotic power to initiate other meas
ures—oilier “indispensible means”—to
consummate his wicked designs.
The policy of our enemy is too appa
rent to deceive. Promising freedom to the
negro, be places a cruel and exacting
task master over him; he promises him
pay for his labor and, gives him counter
feit coin; be invites the uegroc to work
for him at 40 cents a day. and then de
ducts days lost by sickness or other cau
ses, and leaves the unhappy creature to
supply himself and his family, if he lias
any, with tho remainder—which may be
summed up, like the schoolboys’ sum,
“take nothing from nothing, and nothing
remains.”
This is the foe with whom we have to
deal, who comes to us with winning
words, and asks us to go back into that
Union from which we have withdrawn,
aud when he has us in his power, tears the
mask from his face and reveals his hypo
crisy in the clearest manner.
At Nashville and Florence, he may meet
our people with honeyed words and tempt
ing promises; but from his Ohair of State,
in Washington City, he issues bis man
dates, revealing his real policy towards the
Southern Confederacy
Let us not then be deceived; wo know
what It is “indispensible means” are and
we must meet them as becomes freemen
worthy to be free. We must rise up
with all our strength, and use all the “in
dispensible means” at our command to
hurl back the invader from our soil and
thus establish our claims to national inde
pendence.— Constitutionalist.
Be of Good Cheer.—According to the
Richmond Dispatch, of March 22d, the
Baltimore American admits that the Fcd-
erals in New Mexico have been recently
defeated, and 3,500 of them captured by
our troops.
On the Potomac, Gen. Stuart lias met a
cavalry force of the enemy, defeated them,
and captured 100 of them.
Thus it will be seen that victory is
not altogether on the side of the eue-
my-
We may add, also, that our armies are
rapidly filling up with recruits, aud the
new levies are being speedily prepared
for service. In the words of Gen. Beaure
gard, we advise our readers to “b«*'o£ good
cheer.”—Constitutionalist.
Another Federal Vessel Sunk-
Mobile, 25th.-—A despatch from Bay
St Louis states that the Oregon and Pamlico
fought the New Loudon (Federal steamer)
for three hours and sunk her. A steamer
is now coming up to the relief of the New
London. •
From the Atlanta Commonwealth.
Kxlraen—I.rllrr from JVaahrillr.
Nashville, March 19tb, lbG2.
My Dear Friend :—Since you left here,
things have changed to a very great ex
tent. The Nashville of to-day, is not the
the Nashville of a few months since. Ful
ly two-thirds of our best population have
gone, and are now scattered over the cot
ton States. Their places are filled by the
very dregs of Society from Northern cities.
There are thousands of merchants and
drummers here from New York, Philadel
phia and Cincinnatfi, and new business
houses are being opened here every day
by Northern men. There are numbers of
steamboats arriving each day from Pitts
burg, Cincinnatti, Louisville, and St
Louis. The ears are now running regu
larly from Louisville to Edgfield. Gen.
Buell is still in command here. Ills head
quarters is at the Hermitage, twelve
miles from the city, on the Lebanon turn
pike. His force is at least 60,000 men.
Gens Thomas and Shcepf are at Lebanon,
thirty miles northeast of here, with 25,000
Thus you will see there are 85,000.
Federal8 in the vicinity of Nashville, and
the cry is still they come. All the horses
and mules and many of the able-bodied
negroes in the counties adjoining Davidson
have been pressed into the Federal service,
and are working like beavers on the forti-
ficatiorfk around the city which are cf the
most formidable character. The heaviest
fortifications are east and south of the
city. The enemy have possession of the
towns of Lebanon, Murfreesbo, Levergn,
Franklin, Shelbyville, Columbia, Center
ville and Charlotte, which towns are east,
south, and southeast from the city, and em
bracing a radius of forty miles. They are
constructing the Nashville and Chattanoo
ga railroad, and the Tennessee and Ala
bama railroad as they proceed Sourii.
Andy Johnson, the Provisional Gover
nor. is here, and together with Emerson
Ethridge and Horace Maynard, is busily
engaged in forming a provisional Govern
ment for the State. Maj. Wm. H. Polk of
Maury is also here working cheek by jowl
with Johnson and the leading Federal
officer. You may be assured that our ene
mies in this State are conducting the cam
paign with immense vigor. Their policy
towards the people is conciliatory, and
they are using all the arts and duplicity
of which they are masters, and to indnee
the planters to bring in their cotton, for
which they offer twenty cents in gold; but
to this time not a single bale has found its
way to the market. I am informed that
10,000 bales of cotton have been burned
in the counties of Williamson, Maury, and
Rutherford alone. Gen. Pillow's overseer
burned 600 bales of cotton before leaving
his Maury county plantation.
Capt. Morgan with his troops of cavalry
annoys the enemy terribly in the neigh
borhood of Murfreesboro’, Scott’s Louis
iana Cavalry and Forrest’s Tennessee Car-
Bolh Whipped.
Despatches from the Northr eceived ver-
terday. say that the Federals at Newborn
hosited the white flag in token of surren
der, twice, but the Confederates not seeing
it run as hord as they couid the other way,
and left the Federals victors in spite of
themselves. The fears of the Federals
magnified our forces to duuble their actual
number. They say we had over 13,000
men in the field, when the truth is, we had
barely 7,000. The despatch leave no
doubt that our troops had only to will it,
and they would have acheived a glorious
victory at Newbern, in spite of the odds—
The Federals were actually whipped, and
all our troops had to do was to have re-
eeievd their submission. Bat the North
Carolina troops went into that fight believ
ing success impossible against such odds,
and therefore when the pinch came, both
believing they were whipped, the Feder
als displayed the white flag and the North
Carolinans made tracks for the interior.—
Both were whipped. All that was wanted
at that crisis to extinguish forever this
Burnside Expedition, which is now most
imminently threatening the integrity of
the Confederate State and cover the Old
North State with immortal glory, was
the simple determination to win the
fight.
With what regret and chagrin will a
knowledge of these facts fill the Volun
teers who fongbt well. 1,500 slain aud
wounded Federals attest their valor. All
that was wanted to change that scene of
hurried, grief-stricken and disastrous flight,
to save thousands of property aud to guar
antee the horror-stricken mothers and ba
bes of that ill fated town in the possession
of their homes, was just one grain more of
confidence in themselves. Had the officers
maintained their coolness and equinimily,
we think they would have seen the sur
render flags of the Yankees, which were
twice displayed to the breeze. But no!—
They were conscious only of the com
parative littleness of their force and the
mischief it had sustained. They could
not believe they could whip the indomnita-
ble invader.
Also, these things du not look like a
serions struggle for independence and self
preservation. It is not the kind ot fight
ing which will save either.—Telegraph.
The Fraroaticn of Manmas.
There can be no impropriety in stating,
what has been known to the enemy for
several days past, that our forces have
evacuated Centreville and Manassas, and
falien back to the Rappahannock river, in
the direction of Richmond. The distance
from Bull Run back to the Rappahannock
is about twenty-fivo or thirty miies. Ihe
latter rises in the Blue Ridge, and the
latter in a spur known as Thoroughfare or
Bull Run Mountain, and their general
direction is the same, the two 3trcams be
ing nearly parallel.
While our position on Bull Run was well
chosen to prevent the advance of the enemy
by land upon Richmond; it was too far in
advance to check a similar movement from
the lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay-
The Rappahannock is navigable for large
vessels a distance of forty miles, and un
less our defensive work on the bankes were
better than we think they were, the enemy
would not have found it very difficult
to asend the stream and turn our position
at Manassas-
The new line on the Rappahannock
obnoxious to none of these objections. ' n
the contrary, the withdrawal of the army
from Ma&assas shortens our lines, con
ceutratesour forces, diminishes transpor
tation, closes the Rappahannock agaim
a flank movement; and puts Gen. Johnston
is a position to co-operate in the defens
of Richmond against an attack from an)
quarter. , -
The writer of this is familiar}' wltn
ground, having spent several months a»
year at Manassas and Centreville. an
does not hesitate to say that the c^ any
fram Bull Run to the Rappahannock, on
der all the circumstances, is one o
wisest things that have been done .
oar military authorities for some
P Now that the James and To * "JJJ
have been closed, and the RapP aJ
rendered unavailable for purposes o
Sion, the enemy, if he moves upo R
mond at all, will have to go by » ” j
he fights, he must fight us upon land
in the open field. This al * ^ aWS v
desire. We have never met hm yet.
from the water that we have ^ u j, 0 u
him, except at Fishing Cr ee k. terr ibl«
water we'admitted to him
chastisement new Norfolk ro0E il;;
memorable 8tb an( ^ 9t . h day .,, t j, e vie toff
■•“■“““is:;!::!.*-”
EDO we ITUOV f - C0IH5*
gained there will be the first of
brilliant exploits on water as well
Isold,—Memphis Appeal.