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The War.
What is the North fighting for? They
have set aside, the Constitution, and liber
ty under it—so they are not fighting for
constitutional liberty.
They have set aside the honor of an
American citizen, by pretending to respect
property and then destroying i!—so they
are not. fighting for honor.
They have set aside respect for women
and children, which savage nations have
always entertained, by murdering them in
cold blond—so they are not fighting for
the principles of humanity.
They have set aside the commandment,
“Thou shalth not steal,” by marauding
and appropriating, or destroying all they
can lay their hands on.
Tli/v have abandoned the American
Declaration of Indcpen 'ence, which claim
ed that ail men are entitled to “life. liber
ty, and the pursuit ofhappiness”—so they
are not fighting for political principle.
They have incarcerated inen and wo
men on suspicion of certain political prin
ciples professed by them, and universally
acknowledged—so the}' are not fighting
for the rights of man.
They have imprisoned editors for assert
ing polit cal rights—so they arc not fight
ing for the liberty ol the press.
They have imprisoned age, and worth,
and excellence in man and women, because
they bave dared to express tbe language
of freemen—so they fight not for free
speech.
They are fighting against the ballot-box
by surrounding it by their myrmidons witii
bayonets—-so they are struggling against
the right of Democratic representation,
and in favor of tyranny.
For what else, then, are they fighting?
For the unlimited power of numbers—-the
right of might—the first element of savage
society.
I hey are fighting for the subjugation of
a civilized people far superior to them in
the appreciation of liberty and right, and
to reduce to the yoke of barbarous oppres
sion those who have given character to a
Government which, by fraud upon the
South, tljqy have subverted.
They are fighting for the means of en
slaving a noble race, exalted among the na
tions of the earth, on pretence ot devotion
to an inferior race better cared for and en
joying more freedom than their own class
of laboring population.
They are lighting for their own exis
tence as a people, who can only live by
preying upon the labor and rights of oth
ers.
This is the Yaneke nation—this the
great Lincoln Government, which is great
only in iniquity and its nefarious efforts to
propagate its wicked want of principle
among a population imported ter vote for
the good of the few at the expense of the
many.
It is against such a people that the
Soutli has to assert and defend its glorious
prerogative—liberty of thought and speech •
and lioerty of action; all of which will bo
defended while life last.
Jlh!<;c Halliburton on the American Cri-
At Ayleworth, on the 27th January,
Mr. Justice Halliburton, M. I 1 ., delivered
an address on the American crisis. lie
gave a history of America, the object of j mirm of tl,e Northern people is made up to
conveyed the 10th Regiment. Col. Maiit
gait.
We deem it proper to make this state
ment of the fr.cts of tiiis unfortunate af-
tair, leaving ti e. press and public senti
ment of South Carolina to assign the prop
er position to ell the parlies concerned. It
was at best a melanchoUy spectacle to see
the sons of our gallant sister state, turning
their backs upon the region threatened In
the invader’s tread, and if there is any
circumstances to paliir.te their conduct
which we have not stated, we shall be
glad to make it public.
Constit ut-ional ist.
The Ei-Sj-n ofTcrror in i!lc.
Memphis, April 1st, 1SG2,
Eds Avalniche:—On Saturday, loth, 1
made my way out of Nashville, hoping to
take my place quietly among a people
more congenial than tffose could be who
sought the destruction of everything held
dear by a Southerner. Many citizens of
Nashville-who, incr the midst of bayonets
are ever true to the South—begged me.
upon leaving, to give to the public an ac
count of what befell me there. Man triends
here have made the same request, yourself
among them, arid 1 do not feel at liberty
longer to witbold what way be of interest
to the public. Tbe circumstances of my
arrest are nothing in themselves, but the
language addressed to me by the Genera!
before whom I was taken, may be an earn
est of what'awaits us should the Federal
enterprise succeed.
On Saturday, the Sth ult., while about
to pass into Nashville, on the Franklin
pike, I was halted by the guards, about one
an d«n half miles from the city, and, after
answering a few questions asked me by
the lieutenant, (with the view I supposed
of identifying me*) I was told that I was
expected toYeport to the Provost Marshal,
or to Gen. McCouk.—-Choice ofthese was
given me, and I chose Gen. McCook. J
vas then placed under guard and taker,
to the headquarters <>1 that general. Noth
ing had been said to me of the cause of my
arrest, but having, on the. day previous
said something not thought to be "respect
ful” by the guards stationed at that post,
and having used in the public service of
the church, the prayer for the President of
the Confederate, States, I expected that
mie or both ofthese would be found to be’
llie ground of my offending. After wait
an hour or more, I was permitted to eee
Gen. McCook, and from him I learned
that I had conjectured rightly:
After introducing the . subject of com
plaint, iie proceeded in the following ele
gant style:
“Those guards are mine—are uiy repre
sentatives, and the permit with which you
were to pass them emanated from mo, as
an officer of the United States. If your
people suffer inconvenience you have no
one to blame but yourself. We have
come here to enforce the laws—the laws
ofyour own land. We are not abolitionists
as your vile sheets have represented us to
be- On the slavery question Wm. L.
Yancey is a baby to me. If I had an
abolitionist in all my army—and I bave
twenty thousand men—I would cut his
ears off. No, sir, I am here on a legiti
mate errand and will not be trifled with.—
We intend to crush out the rebellion and
restore the laws—cost what it may. The
A Brilliant Bash:
On Friday evening last, Capt. Rains,
with 200 cavalry, left (’hattanooga, and
proceeded across the country directly to
Wart race,’in Bedford county, Tenn., on
the litre of the Nashville and Chattanooga
Railroad. .Wartrace is 96 miles from
Chattanooga and 58 ntiles from Stevenson,
by way of railroad, and 55 miles from
Nashville. By a direct route through the
country, it is about GO miles from Chatta
nooga-
Capt Rains aimed to make a dash upon
the rear of the federal army, and put them
to flight, lie was successful in rushing
npon them, hut unexpectedly found thorn
several thousand strong. The surprise
was complete, but his force was only ,a
handfull compared with the large number
into whose midst he had rushed. It caus
ed a wiid scatteratiou among them. Capt.
Rains and his men being well armed with
double-barreled guns, took good aim, fired
one volley, and then retreated before the
enemy had time to recover from their
fright. The Captain thinks a largo num
ber were killed, from the many that were
seen to fall which appeared to he near
100, from the hasty glance he had timo to
make.—A great number of shots were fired
at him and his meu as they retired,and
he lost one of his men .— Confederacy.
Late Northern Newi.
Memphis, Tenn., April 15—Northern
papers received here to-day state that the
Federal loss at Shiloh was 20,000. Ma
ny field officers were killed. Gen. Buell
was mortally wounded. Gens. Critten
den, Sherman, and the two Wallaces were
killed.
Two regiments from Kentucky and two
from Wisconsin have laid down Yheir
arms and refused to fight for Lincoln any
more.
LATER NORTHERN NEWS. *
Norfolk, Va.. April 16.—Northern
which was to show that the hatred of
the North toward England originated iu
the first settlement of the country, for the
emigrants to New England were persons
who had been virtually expelled from the
mother country. Referring to the present
war, he said—“Of the causes of the war
with the South it is not necessary for me
to say much. The. principal are, that by
the exorbitant tariff they are compelled
to pat’ an extravagant price for the manu
factures of tbe North; that by tire naviga
tion laws they are in a manner forced to
employ American shipping at a higher rate
of freight than they can afford ; that by
tire interpretation put on the words—‘coas
ting trade,’ they are driven to employ the
ships of the North; that emissaries are
continually sowing sedition among the
slaves, while tbe ‘Fugitive Law' is evaded
by the Yankees, and impediments pla
ced in the way of recapturing the negroes
and many ’other grievances of minor im
portance. But whatever the cause may
he, on the part of the North, one thing is
certain, notwithstanding all the cant and
hypocrisy they have -hitherto exhibited,
it is not for the emancipation or ameliora
tion of the condition of the negro.— Per
haps, after all secession, like divorces a
mens a ct thoro, arises from totol incompat-
ability of temper, inclination and pursuits.
The Southerners are the gentlemen of the
nation, they hold tlia Y’ankees very
cheap, regarding them as petty tra
ders or peddiers, while the Yan
kees have many opprobrious epithets for
them not necessary to repeat. Whatever
the causes of dispute are latent or avow
ed, tlieic they stand opposed to each other
in deadly conflict.”
Cnf o.‘f tho Rack Lrgti of Your Chair*.
I will tell you a seen t worth knowing.
A thousand things not worth half so much
have been patented and elevated, into a
business. It is this:
If you cut off the hack legs of your
chairs, so that the back.part of the seat
shall be two incites lower tli»n the front
part, it will greatly relieve the fatigue of
sitting, and keep your spine in much bet
ter shape. The principal fatigue in silting
comesfrom your sliding forwar and thus
straining the ligaments and muscles in the
small of the back- Tbe expedient I have
advised will obviate this tendency, and ak
1 bave suggested, add greatly to the com
fort and healthfulness of the sitting posi
tion. ’The front edge of a chair should
not be more than fifteen inches high, for
■ tile avhrage man, nor more than fourteen
for the average woman. The average
chair is now seventeen inches high for all,
which no amount of slanting in the scat
can make comfortable.—Lewis, Cymnasi-
vm.
l!Mh R( i{irarut Caroliua 8IrIc Troop*.
The 19th Regiment of South Carolina
Volunteers, State Troops, Col. Moraque,
reached this city on yesterday, on their
■way to the West. After reaching the
Georgia Railroad depot a large number
of them—variously stated at one to three
hundred—refused to proceed further, al
leging that they were enlisted to serve
the State of South Carolina, and were wil
ling to fight in her defence, but that they
would not go out of tlie State. Some de
clared tliav they would have gone if they
had been consulted before starting, but
that their officers had not notified them
that they were to leave the State; others
had furloughs, and desired to see their
families. Their officers urged in vain the
stigma that would rest upon them for re
fusing to go where the country most need
ed their services, and the reproach that
they would bring npon the State of Sonth
Carolina, which had been foremost in the
work of resistence. Their appeals were
unavailing, and the malcontents returned
to the Carolina depot. We understand
that some of the officers telegraphed to
Adjutant Gen. Gist for instructions, and
that his reply was—“arrest them—they
were. deserters of the worst character.”
Gen. Ripley, we learn, sent similar in
structions. About thirty of the tnutinists
belonged to tbe command of Capt. Gregg,
Graniterille. He was proceeding to exe
cute the order of Gen. Gist, yesterday af
ternoon, and we learn that many of his
men and others that refused to go on in
tbe morning, took the evening train, which
that. If we cannot accomplish this in one
way we will in another—If we cannot sub
due you, we will kill you—we will make
it a war of extermination. We are the
masses here now, and it is time you under
stood it. I am commander of this division,
and have around me twenty thousand men
ready to do my bidding. 1 am king here,
I am your king—you are vnj slave,
And now, sir, there is another matter
between us. You clergymen choose to take
part in this rebellion, even in your prayers
—supposing, I guess, that, your cloth will
protect you—but in this you are mistaken.
I have plenty of guard houses and jails,
and it may shortly become necessary 1
should circumscribe your limits. I bave
reports from your church, of last Sunday.
I was prepared to hear it. and now, once
for all, I give you to understand that cler
gymen of the. Episcopal churcli will be
required to use their prayer booksjust as
they are printed. Y ou shall pray for the
Fresident of the United States or be hung.
That ought to have been the policy before.
Y'ou rebels ought ail to he hung, aud but
for Gen, Buell, I should long ago have
been using hemp. It will come to that
and you had better take warning in time
We aie handling you now with gloves.—
That is only an experiment. If it doesn’t
succeed better than it seems to be doing,
we will try something else. YVe will try
the virtue of troops, which, in my opin
ion, should have been done from the
first.”
I do not tliink that any clergyman would
he in danger of execution lor refusing to
submit to this imperious decree. What
ever be his disposition in this matter, Gen.
McCook has not the necessary power
without order from Gen. Buell, and that
officer is regarded by those who have met
him in Nashville as a humane, refined,
modest gentlemen. But McCook is second
in command, and the, fortunes of war may
any (lav throw upon him, or men like him
(of whom there are several), the chief
command, and Southern people may well
be on their guard All that our enemies
lack to make us the most abject slaves the
world has ever known, is power. Their
di snotic hell once upon us, the genius of
Liberty may plume her wings to take her
everlasting flight.
After this interview with Gen. McCook,
an incident occured at the office of the
Provost Marshal, which I give, as it may
serve to illustrate the sinceritv of pro sla
very sentiments, which the general
claimed for iiiinself and army. Wishing
to obtain a pass for one of my li'tle Sun
day school pupils to go out of the city, I
went hurriedly to the Marshal’s office,
where a large number of citizens on a sim
ilar errand, waiting tlieir turn for admis
sion. I had succeeded in geting next the
door, and stood against the sentinel’s gun,
ready to enter w hen it should again be
raised. There presently appeared on the
outskirts oftlie crowd, a black, ugly negro
woman. The sentinel saw her advancing,
and cried out—‘stand back, gentlemen,
and let that woman pass in.” He made
us give way, while tlie woman went in,
and I saw a pass given her, even before
those already in were served—Surely,
these gallant “protectors” of our lives
andjjropcrty, these vigilant guardians of
our rights, as they love to call themselves,
these- pro-slavery warriors have yet some
things to learn about an institution which
they profesto regard as of Divine origin.
Very respectfully, your ob’t serv’t.
* GEO C. HARRIS.
Rector Church of the Holy Trinity, Nash
ville.
T lie gathering of the m-sletoe was an important
ceremony with tie* ancient Druitis, accompanied
by the people. It look place at the end of the
year, and the parasite was disiribnic-d to the peo
pie on the first day of the new year. Aa it was
supposed to possess the mystic virtue of giving
fertility and a power to preserve from poison, tin-
pleasant ceremony of -kissing under the mistle
toe” may have some reference to this original be-
iitf.
Negroes Returning.
The Fredericksburg Herald states that a
number of the negroes that ran away from
their masters iu King George county have
returned. Three of them had their backs
very much lacerated, a sort of treatment
they had not been accustomed to at home
and so they ran away the second time, but
on this occasion from the Yankees.
dates to the 10th inst have been received
here.
The Northern Journals claim a great
victory at Pittsburg, (Shiloh) and state
that Beauregard had his arm 6hot off.
The rebel host fled in dismay. There
was great rejoicing attheNorth over this
misrepresented result of this battle and
the surrender of Island No. 10. The pa
pers are filled with extraordinary false
hoods.
Washington, April 9th.—A guerilla
warfare is carried on from Brentsville to
wards Oceouquan.
Secretary Seward was to leave on the
11th for the South-West. F. W. Seward
is acting Secretary of the State.
The Federal Representatives in Europe
state that public sentiment there was in
creasingly in favor of the North, in conse--
quence of the Federal victories.
New Y’ork, April 9.—Gyrus W. Field’s
new telegraph scheme is favorably receiv
ed in England. The cable is to be laid to
New Foundland in 12 months.
The prize steamer Magnolia has been
sold here for 850,000.
Boston, April 9.—The Speaker of the
House of Representatives of Maryland,
and seven other members of the Maryland
Legislature have been released.
The Federals say that their loss at Pits-
burg was 20,000, in killed wounded and
missing, the Confederate loss was front 35,-
000 to 40.000.
St. Louis, Mo., April 9.—Gen. Halleck
has left here for the Tennessee river to as
sume command in the field.
English journals say that the great na
val battle at Newport’s News was one of
the most interesting incidents that has
marked the war, that it was a brilliant af
fair, and laud the extraordinary achieve
ments of the Virginia. They say that
the Confederate frigate gained an easy
victory over her wooden opponents, that
the Virginia was not damaged, and recom
mend the discontinuance of all wooden
ships, and the convertion of all govern
ment ships that will bear it into machines
of war similar to the Confederate ship Vir
ginia. They say, also, that the success
of the Virginia shows that there are good
heads in the Navy Department of the
South
The London Times says that the real
beginning of the campaign may now’ he
witnessed, it says, also, that the troops
in Eastern Virginia are commanded by
President Davis, and alludes to the able
management of the Confederate army and
its determination never to be conquered;
and says that Gen. McClellan’s 200,-
000 men marched through a desolated tvil-
derness, the Confederate troops having
destroyed everything valuable on their
march.
LATEST FROM THENORTH.
Norfolk, Va., April 16th.—Northern pa-
papers to the 14th inst. have been received
by the Norfolk Day Book.
They regard the Federal victory at Is
land No. 10 as of great importance, and
say that the Rebel loss was immense.
A great struggle at Y’oijctown is at hand,
and there is soon to be a termination to the
defiant arid insolent career of Norfolk.
McClellan is soon to be rewarded by the
fall of Richmond and the whole rebel Cabi
net ami Congress, and the drama is soon to
close with a bloody tragedy, surpassing in
grandeur anything yet witnessed.
Savannah is to be besieged in a few
days.
A joint resolution has been passed by
the Federal Congress, and approved by the
President, that the United States will co
operate with any State that will adopt
the policy of a gradual abolition ofblave—
>y-
Beauregard is supposed to be dead.
There is to be Thanksgiving-day in
the North on the 13th for the recent victo
ries.
New Y’ork, April 13.—The stock mar
ket in dull. Gold is quoted at 101.j®102.
The Mcrrimac affects the market unfavor
ably. Cotton is steady, at 27|®2Sc.
for Middling Uplands. Operatives buy
light.
It is supposed to be the intention of the
movements of the Merrimac to draw the
Moeitor from its position and allow
the Confederate steamers Jamestown
and Yorktown to raise the blockade.
McClellan’s operations are most rigor
ously proseculed, and his arrangements are
complete. 1’he rebel force on the Penin
sula is 100,000 with a number of the best
gnus, and the army w r ell drilled and fromi-
dable.
Harrisburg, Pa., April 13—Arrange
ments are making to faciliate the remo
val of Pennsylvanians who may be woun
ded at Y’oikfown to Philadelphia. The
President oftlie Bay line offers to trans
port the Surgeons and wounded free of
charge.
YVheeling. Va., April 13—Reinforce
ments under Blencker are coming.
enemy tliey despised and did not believe
would dare to make a stand against them,
would play havoc with stocks, finances
ind war prospects. We may therefore, be
mire they will win nothing but victories in
Tennessee* unless they arc driven ont of
the State or captured. Nothing short of
annihilation will figure in their category as
a defeat.--- Telegraph*.
I.rtfrr from tier \V. Ji, Crumley.
Air. Editor—A dozen copies of the
iS. C. Adrocatr reaches me woekly for dis
tribution among tbe sick men in the Geor
gia Hospitals at Richmond. It would do
you aud those who contributed to send
them, good, to see how eagerly they are
received and road by those who used to
receive them at homo but have not before
mot their old friend since they left home.
Notwithstanding its having been trimmed
down and put on a war footing, it is the
same in spirit and easily recognized by its
old admircis. It is read and lent and re
read and then laid away under some sick
man's pillow. One of our great wants
is papers, tracts and Bibles for the conva
lescent.
I received a hundred Testaments some
time since from tho Bap tut Publishing
House in Nashville. They went off ra
pidly and were but a drop ot the bucket
to what wo need—There are many pious
men among the soldiers, and all hear
preaching-with respect.—They were join
ed last Sabbath in their devotions by the
Honorable Messrs. Holt, Trippe M un-
ncrlyn, Lewis and Clarke of Ga., who vis
ited them in the wards and cheered maDy
with a kind word and a smile.
It will be gratifying to the numerous
friends and acquaintances of the Rev. J.
YV. I alley and his excellent wife to know
that they are doing a noble work for the
sick Georgia soldiers, at a great sacrifice
which they, however, count light in the
r 6*acnipf iftt.
A Bill to he entitled “An Act to further
provide for the Public defence.”
In view of the exigencies of the country,
and the absolute necessity of keeping in
the service our gallant army, and of pla
cing in the field a large additional force to
meet the advancing columns of the enemy
now invading our soil; therefore,
SECTION 1. The Congress of the Con
federate States of America do enact. That
the President be, and luris hereby, author
ised to call out and place iu tho military
service of the Confederate States, for three
years, unless the war shall have been soon
er ended, all white men who are residents
of the Confederate States, between the
ages o( eighteen atid thirty-five years at
tho time the call or calls may he made,
who are not legally exempted from mili
tary service. All of the persons aforesaid
who are not now in the aimics of the Con
federacy, and whose term of service will
expire before the end of the war, shall be
continued ;n the service for three years
from the date of their original enlistment,
unless the war shall have been sooner end
ed : Provided, however, That all such
companies, battalions and regiments, whose
term of original enlistment was for twelve
months, shall have the right, within forty
days, on a day to he fixed by the com
mander of tho brigade, to re-organize said
companies, battalions and regiments by
electing all their officers, which they had a
right heretofore to elect, who shall be com
missioned by the President: Provided,
further, That furloughs not exceeding six
ty days, with transportation home and
hack, shall be granted to all those retain
ed in the service by fhe provisions of this
act beyond the period of their original en
listment, and who have heretofore not re
ceived furloughs under the provisions of an
cause of their country and humanity. We act entitled “An act providing for tbe
M granting of bounty and furlotighs to pri
vates and non-commissioned officers in tbe
Provisional Army,” approved 11 Decem
ber, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, said
furloughs to be granted at such times aud
in such numbers as the Secretary of-War
may deem most compatible with the .pub
lic interest; and Provided further, That-
in lieu of a furlough, the commutation val
ue in money of the transportation herein
above granted shall be paid to each pri
vate, musician, or non-commissioned offi
cer who may elect to receive it at such
time as the furlough would otherwise bo
granted : Provided, further, That all per
sons under tlie age of eighteen years, or
over the age of thirty-five years, who are
now enrolled in the military service of the
Confederate States, in the regiments, bat
talions and companies hereafter to be or
ganized shall be required to remain in
tbeir icspcctive companies, battalions and
regiments for ninety days, unless their
places can sooner be supplied by other re
cruits not now in the service, who are be
tween the ages of eighteen and thirty five-
years, and all laws and parts of laws pro
viding for the re-enlistment of volunteers
and the organization thereof into compa
nies, squadrons, battalion* or regiments,
shall be, and the same are hereby repeal-
have in our physicians and nurses a band
of men worthy the cause in which they
ate engaged.
Since the armv lias become more active,
is an increased confidence and a
much better spirit among the troops and
the citizens. Lei all now do their duty
cease to find fault and pray for our cause
and for the men who are in authority, and
I think the side of'fhe battle will turn and
victory will yet be ours.
Under God, 1 look on the destinies of
our country and the result of tlfis war, as
now being in the hands of the cotton plan
ters, They are soon to decide whether we
are “to be or not to be.” The cotton
seed planted will be far more ruinous than
miunie balls or conical shot from the ene
my. 1 ask no better test of a matt’s pa
triotism than a programme of his crop
this year. If much cotton is planted and
we have a bad c op year which almost cer
tainly follows a warm, wet winter, famine
added to war will annihilate thi-» fairest por
tion of God’s heritage. Let no man think
now of making money, but of securing
our liberties and a borne and a country for
ourselves and children.
Pray for us who are here in tho midst
of disease and death, are strongly threat
ened of being cut off from our homes and
friends by the enemy getting possession
of our Railroads.
Y’ours as ever,
YV. M. CRUMLEY'.
Richmond, April 10th.
Southern Christian Advocaee.
find if he is hot then he shall he en
titled to receive one dollar a month for
the use of said received and approved
musket, rifle, shot-gun or carbine.
Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, That per
sons nbt liable for duty may be received
as substitutes for those who are; under
such regulations as may be prescribed by
the Secretary of War.
Sec‘ 10. Be it further enacted. That
all vacancics-shall be filled by the Presi
dent from the company, battalieu, squad
ron or regiment in which such vacancies
shall occur, by promatinu according to se
niority, except in cases of disability or
other incompetency .* Provided, howev-
ever, That the President may, when in
his opinion it may be proper, fill such
vacancy or vacancies by the promotion of
any officer or officers, or private or pri
vates from sucli company, battallion,
squadron or regiment who shall have been
distinguished in the service by exhibition
of valor and skill, and that whenever a
vacancy shall occur in the lowest grade of
the commissioned officer of a company, said
vacancy shall be filled by election : Pro
vided, that all appointments made by the
President shall be by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate.
Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, That the
provisions of the first section of this act re
lating to the election of officers shall ap
ply to those regiments, battallions and
squadrons, which are composed of twelve
months’ and war companies combined in
the same organization, without regard to
the manner in which the officers thereof
were originally appointed.
Sec. 12. Be itfurther enacted, That each
company of infantry shall consist of one
hundred and twenty-five rank and file;
aud each company of fiald artillery of one
hundred rank and file, and each company
of cavalry of eightyrank and file.
See. 13. Be it further enacted, That all
persons subject to enrollment, who are now
in the service, under tho provisions of this
act, shall be permitted previous to such
enrollment to volunteer in companies now
in service.
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acts 4« d resolutions
°f the Session of Ue
Pll OIISIOXAL CONGRESS
of the
CONFEDERATE
STATES.
1861.
[No. 362. J
AN " mend AnA « entitled “An Act *
establish a patent office, ani to provide ffir ,k°
granting and issuing of patents for new a5 ‘ *
fa. discoveries, inventions, improvement*
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Northern Victories.—It will be seen
from our telegraphs that the Hessians are,
or profess to he, elated with the result at
Shiloh and have appointed a day of thanks
giving over it. They represent our men
as flying in terror from the field, and
while admitting a loss on their own side
of twenty thousand in killed wounded
and missing, say the Confederate loss was
thirty-five to forty thousand which last
number is two thousand in excess of what
we had in the fight altogether. We are
not to suppose that tbe Lincolnites are
really blind to the true character aud re
sults uf the fight at Shiloh, but they are
under a necessity of lying about them. To
have confessed the great movement of the
campaign so suddenly checkmated by an
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Extraordinary Adventure.
Yesterday evening Capt. J. T. Mont
gomery arrived here from Corinth whither
he had gone when fhe wiresfirst flashed the
nowKof Sunday’s great fight. After stay
ing there till he desired to return, ho left
ou the Memphis & Charleston Railroad
Wednesday night, the 9th; and arrived
at Huntsville next morning—no one on
board dreaming that the Y’ankees were in
the place. He was in the hindmost car,
and as the train stopped, he heard some
one say, "the Y’ankees have got us,” and
looking out, he saw them thick as bees
around the engine and coining down along
the line of the train. He quickly stepped
out, took a back street and was soon out of
sight. Near the outskirts of the town, he
entered a house exchanged his uniform
for citizen’s clothes, came into town, hired
a horSo and buggy and negro driver at a
livery stable and started for tbe 'Tennessee
river at the nearest point, lie had pro
ceeded but a little way until a couple of
mounted Federal officers, having got scent
of him from finding his name on his trunk
in the cars, caine up and accosted him as
Capt. Montgomery. lie repudiated the
name—said his name was Johnson, and
that he was going to his home from tow n.
They told him they knew’ better; he was
Captain Montgomery of the rebel army,
was their prisoner and must go with them.
Quietly remarking that they must know
jnore about him and his business than he
did himself, he turned and started back
with them.
They stopped on the roadside to chat
with some negioes they found in a field.
(Y’ankees will talk to negroes.) They
were both very near the Captain. Catching
the proper moment when their attention
was directed to the negroes, he drew a pis
tol from his pocket, and instantly put a
hall through tho heart of one
who fell down dead. Another moment,
and he bad put a ball through the other,
who reeled aud clung to his horse a few mo
ments. Meantime, the Captain was speed
ing his way back towards the river. Look
ing back as he got nearly out of sight
he saw the “Y’auk” fall from his horse
t-prawlingon the ground. He reached the
river safely, turned the negro driver back
with the horse and buggy, and got him
self ferried across just as fifty well armed
and mounted men approached the bank,
aud ©sol find no means to cross after him.
They discharged their guns at him without
effect. He took to the mountains, "made his
way to Chattanooga, an*d reached here last
evening.
The Captain has been raising a regiment
of Mounted Artillery. This is the kind
of an officer his men will have to serve
under.—-Atlanta Confederacy.
Sec. 2 Be it further enacted, That such
companies, squadrons, battalions, or regi
ments organize.d, or in process of organiza
tion by authority from the Secretary of
War, as mav be within thirty days from
h orn the passage of this act so far comple
ted as to have the whole number of men re
quisite fpr organization.actually enrolled,
not embracing in said organizations any
persons now in service, shall be mustered
into the service of the Coiiie-derate States
as part of the land forces of the same,, to'
bo received in that arm of the service in
which they are authorized to organize,
and shall elect tlieir company, battalion
and regimental officers.
Sec. 3 Be it further enacted, That for
the enrollment ot all persons comprehend
ed within the provisions of this act, who
are not already in service in the armies of
the Confederate States, it shall be lawful
for the President, with the consent of the
Governors of,the respective States, to em
ploy State officers, and, on failure to ob
tain such consent, he shall employ Confed
erate officers; charged with the- duty of
making such enrollment in' accordance
with rules and regulations to be prescribed
by hmi.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That per
sons enrolled under the provisions of the
preceding section shall be assigned by the
Secretary of War'to the different compa
nies now r in service, until each company
is filled to. its maximum number, and the
persons so enrolled shall be assigned to
companieOTrom the States from which
they respectively c#me.
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That all
seamen and ordinary seamen in the land
forces of the Confederate States, enrolled
under the provisions-of this act, may, on
application of the Secretary of tho Navy,
be transferred from the land forces to tho
naval service.
Sec: 6. Be it further enacted, That in all
cases where a State may not have in the
auny a number of regiments, battalions,
squadrons, or companies, sufficient to ab
sorb the number of persons subject to mili
tary service under this act, belonging
to 6ucb State, then tbe residue or excess
thereof shall be kept as a reserve, under
such regulations as may be established bv
tbe Secretary of War, and that at stated
periods of not greater than three months,
details, determined by lot, shall be made
from said reserve, so that each reserve,
company shall, as nearly as practicable, be
kept full. Provided, That tho persons
held in reserve may remain at borne until
called into service by the President.
Provided, also, That during their stay at-
liome, they shall not receive pay. Pro-
\ ided further, That the persons compre
hended in this act shall not be subject to
the rules and articles of war until muster
ed into the actual service oftlie Confeder
ate States; except that said persons, when
enrolled and liable to duty, if they shall
willfully refuse to obey said call, each of
them shall be held to be a deserter, and
punished as such under said articles:
Provided further, That whenever,in the
opinion of the President, the exigencies of
the public service may require it, he shall
be authored to call into actual service the
entire reserve, or so much as may be
necessary not previously assigned to dif
ferent companies, in service under provis
ions of section four of this act; said reserve
sjiall be organized under such rules as the
b< cretary of war may adopt: Provided,
I he company, battalion and regimental
officers shall be elected by the troops com
posing ihe same: Provided, The troops
raised in any one State shall not be com
bined in regimental, battalion, squadron,
r company organization with troops rai
sed in any other States.
Sec. 7. Be it further enacted. That all
soldiers now serving in the army or mus
tered in the military service of the Con
federate States or enrolled in 6aid service
tinder the authorizations heretofore issued
by the Secretary of YVar, and who are
continued in the service by virtue of this
act, who have not received the bounty cf
fifty dollars allowed by existing laws,
shall be entitled to receive said bounty.
Sec. S. Be it further enacted, That each
man who may her*after bo mustered into
the service, and who shall arm himself
with a musket, shot-gun, rifle or carbine,
accepted as an efficient weapon, shall bo
paid the value thereof, to be ascertained
by the mustering officer under such regu
lations s.s may be prescribed by the Secre
tary of YVar, if he is willing to sell the
The Fall of Fort Craig.
The Richmond papers have obtained
from Mr. YV. H. MacYVillie, delegate elect
from the Territory of Arizona, a copy of
the following important and interesting
letter: •
Mesilla, March 2.
We havejust received, by express from
Fort Craig, important news. A battle
was fought between the forces of General
Sibley and General Canby, on the 21st
February, which resulted in tho complete
defeat of the latter, with great loss.
The particulars as given by the courier
discloses the fact that there has been the
most closely contested battle of the war
and perhaps the bloodiest for the numbers
engaged. Gen. Sibley, with his command
numbering rank and file, two thousand
three hundred men, left Fort Thorn, eighty
miles below Fort Craig, about the 12th of
February with the intention of taking the
latter place. On arriving in the vicinity
of Craig, he learned from 6ome prisoners
captured near.the post, that Gen. Canby
was in command of the Federal forces in
the Fort that he had twelve hundred reg
ular troops two hundred American volun
teers and five thousand Mexicans—entire
foroe near six thousand four hundred men.
Notwithstanding this superior force, bold
ly advanced, and on tbe 19th, crossed the
river near Fort Craig, and making a detour
of some miles arrived on the morning of
the 21st in sight of the river, three miies
above the Fort, where a large body of the
enemy were stationed to receive him. It
seems that ail the enemy’s forces, with
the exception of their artillery aud reserve
were upon the same side of the river to
to which our troops were advancing.
A portion of Col. Baylor’s regiment, un
der command of Maj. Pyon, numbering
250 men, were the first to engage the ene
my. Alone and unsupported for one hour,
they held their positions amid a hail of
grape, canister and round shot. At that
time they were reinforced and the battle
became general. The enemy then made
an attack upon our right wing, and were
repulsed. A general movement was then
made upon our line with more success, a
portion of our left wing being compelled
to fall back and take a new position.
This was about 2 o’clock. The enemy
now supposed they had gained the day,
and ordered their battery across the river,
which was done, and the batterywas plant
ed upon the bank. As soon as the battery
opened Gen. Sibley knew it had crossed,
and immediately ordered a general charge
which was performed as Texans only can
do it.-—Starting at a distance of eight
bundled yards, with their Camanche the subject matter of the patent tht
whoop, they reserved their fire until with- r ~~ —*- s - t *- — -- *- *- J "
in thirty yards of the battery, when they
poured a deadly fire, with double barrelled
shot guns and pistols, immediately into the
horror stricken ranks of their foes. They
sprang into the river, and in crossing num
bers were*killed. Capt. Toll’s battcry
coming up, closed this sanguinary contest,
with shell and grape, as they fled down
the opposite side of the river to the fort
1 he battle lasted nine hours. Our loss is
thirty eight killed and one hundred and
twenty wonnded; that of the enemy, as
given by themselves, is three hundred kil
led, four or five hundred wounded and two
thousand missing.
The result of this battle is conceived of
more importance to the Southern Con
federacy than any that has been fought
during the war, It will give ns the Ter
ritories of Arizona and New Mexico,
about twenty-five millions dollars worth of
property, and willgreatly add to the pres
tige of our arms.
YY’earenow expecting to hear of the
capture of Fort Crag, with all the troops
and military stores in tbe Territory.
The above letter is from Judge S. Hare,
Confederate Judge, resident of Mesilla.
Mr. McYViRie has subsequently receiv
ed a letter informing him, without further
particulars, of the capture of Fort Craig
6800 prisoners, and all the munitions and
military stores.
The cannon captured embraced the
greater portion of those belonging to Fort
Union, which is the only Federal military
post remaining in New Mexico.
Sixty.
Section 1 Tho Congress of tho a
States of America do enact, That smion
nine of the above recited act, be and the sum?*
hereby repealed. , 8ame is
IT S . ec .‘i- Ani1 fie it farther enacted, That
United States patent that was granted and :? *?
to any prison, now a citizen of tho C o, .''l
States, or who shall hereafter become so
accessions of new States or Territories m, 1°
revived and continued in full force andeffoa t
the time for which they were originally i i for
unexpired: Provided, Such patents are
and a copy of the drawing annexed thereto Mf
there be a drawing, and :f not, a spocimin of , f
compound or other subject matter as the case
be) and a model also, if the Commissioner
deem it neccessary, in the Patent Office of ‘
(tonfederate States, within six months after
close of the presont war with the United s’ut.?
otherwise snch patents shall remain null and veil.'
and all persons claiming the benefit of this s ,. c t ion
shall pay to the Commissioner of Patents for o
use ot the patent fund, the sum often dollars an,l
a recording fee, at the rate often cents fo r
hundred words in such patent. That nothin
contained tu this act, or tbst to which it i«# B
amendment shall bo construed to recognij ar“
renewal or extension of any patent grained hv ttv
United tates heretofore made: Provided. Howev.
cr that the said patentee shall maintain no suit
for violation of his patent, which violation occur
rod brfore the filing* oi a caveat and the deposit nf
fees required for the revival of said patent in th»
Patent Office. u
tyc-3 And be it further enacted, Tb it every ; n
striTfneut of writing conveying any interest—
whether it be the whole, a part, or to a specified
portion of territory—in and to the United States
patent—to any person now a citizen of tbe Con
federate States, or who shall hereafter becomo 8 o
by the accession of new States or Territories, and
whi;h was executed in good faith, prior to the
seventeenth day of April, one thousand eio-bt hu n
dretl and sixty-one, shall be revived and continued
in to:! torce and affect for the term for which the
patent, in which an interest is thus held by a citi
zen of the Confederate States, was originally i ssu ^'
yet unexpired: Provided that such iusirnment of
writing shall be reeorded in the Patent Office of
tbe Confederate States within six months after
the close of the present war with tho United States,
and the owner thereof shall deposit in tho said of
fice, a descriptive drawing of such character as t| le
Commissioner shall direct, which shad, represent
the intention or subject matter of the patent to*
which such instrumentiof writing relates, or iftl, c
invention be a composition of matter, then in
that case, a specimen ol tbe compound, with a
written description Of the method of making snd
r.siog it. and all persons claiming the benefit of
this section shall pay to the Commissioner of Pa.
tents for tbe use of the Patent fund, the sum of
ten dollars, and a recording fee at the rate of ten
cents for every hundred words in such instruments
of writing. Provided, however. That the Commis
sioner of Patents shall not admit to record any
snch instrument nor shall the same be deemed
valid which has not been recorded in the United
States Patent Office, pursuant to the provisions of
eleventh section of tbe Act of Congress of the
fourth day of Jnly one thousand eight hundred and
thirty six unless the assignee or owner of such in
strument, or his legal representative shall make
oath that it was actually, and in good faith exe.
cutedon the day of it* date.
Sec. 4. And be it farther enacted, that it shall ba
the duty ipf the Commissioner to endorse on each
pjtMlIllrand instrument of writing, aligned inter
ests in the United States Patents as aforesaid,
filed for record under the foregoing sections, the
date of such filing and also a certificate under the
seal of his office that said patent, or instrument of
writing, has been recorded, which certificate shall
be evidence of the fact in any court of justice,
of the Confedemte States, and of the right of the
owner thereof to use and enjoy the same aud
such patents and instruments of of wri'iug, after
they are recorded and certified shall be returned
to the owners thereof.
Bee 5. And be it further enacted, That if any
snch patent, or deed of assignment, as is herein
provided for be lost or cannot be procured fiom the
Patent office cf the United States the person enti-
to the same, in whole or in part or his legal rep
resentative, may file for record, with the Commis
sioner, an affidavit made before any justice oftlie
peace, notary public, or commissioner of any oftlie
conrts of the Confederate States, setting forth a
description of tbe patent, thedate of the issuance,
as near as possible, and the subject-matter of the
patent and the claim, and if there be an assignment
the particulars of tha same which affidavit sl.a.l be
accompanied by such models, or descriptive dial
ings, ns may be necessary to a proper understand
ing of the invention, discovery, or design secured
try said patent. And said affidavit, when recorded
and certified as aforesaid, shall have the same
force and effect as tbe^ecording of tire original pa
tent or deed of assignment a^ter^jroSTblB provi
ded: Provided, That tho facTof the graining and
issuance of any such patent or deed of assignment,
so alleged to bo lost may be controvert d either at
law or in equity by ai\y party interested : And
ptovided further. That any person desirous of •
availing himself of tbe benefits ot this Act shall
give notice of his intention by publication in the
newspaper at fhe seat of Government of the Con
federacy, authorized by law to publish the laws of
Congress, which notice shall be published weekly
for four weeks from the day ot application, and
purpose for which ti.e application is to be made,
a copy of which shall be filed in the Patent Office;
and for the recording of the affidavit provided to:
in this section tbe Commissioner shall be authori
zed to charge ten cents for every hundred words
therein contained.
Sec. 6. Aud be it further enacted, That no citi
zen ofihe Confederate States, nor alien, unless he
be a citizen of the United States, shall he debar
red from receiving a patent for any invention or
discovery, as provided iu the Act approve i ou the
twenty first day of May, one thousand eigtit hun
dred and sixty-one, to which tbis is additional, by
reason of the same having been patented in a for
eign country more than six months prior to his
application: Provided, that the same shall not have
been introduced in to public and common nse in
the Confederate States prior to the application for
such patent, and provided also, that in all cases ev
ery snch patent shall be limit^^to theterm of
fourteen years taTim tlia^fate or publication of
such foreign'b|Rent.
Sec. 7. Agape it further enacted, That this Act
shall take 4Be£t and be in force from and after its
passage.
Approved Jan. 28, 1862. 48 4t.
Important From Richmond—Fighting an
the Peninsula.
Richmond, April 17.—Official despatch
es received last night from Lee’s Farm,
on the Peninsula, state that the enemy
began a furious bombardment on our lines
at half-past eight o’clock yesterday ■tnorn-
which continued until seven in the evening.
The main attack was upon our centre, and
was splendidly repulsed. The enemy’s
forces tried to force and occupy General
Cobb’s position between Lee’s and YVynn’s
Mills. They waded the creek, and for a
moment, occupied some of our rifle pits,
hut were soon driven out and repulsed
with heavy loss. Our troops behaved no
bly. At ten o’clock last night all was
quiet. Our loss was 20 killed (including
Colonel McKenny, of the 26th North
Carolina Regiment), and not over 75 woun
ded, besides eight artillery horses killed,
and one howitzer disabled.
Later.— Thursday Night.—An official
despatch received this evening from Gen
eral Magrudcr, makes no mention of any
subsequent fighting on the Peninsula. He
refers in terms of high commendation to
the behaviour of our troops intheaffair ot
W ednesday.
Says the Dnkeof Wellington, ‘Educate
men without religion aid you make
them but clever devils.’
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