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MiLLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, M A Y 6, 1S62.
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(01 UT CALLENDER FOR 1862.
SUPERIOR. COURTS.
JANUARY. i JULY.
Chatham.
'Floyd
FEBRUARY. “
l-t M-uday, Clark
- t Lumpkin
i M-.nday, Campbell
Dawson
"•■I M'unlay, Forsyth
Polk
Glascock
M erri wether
WalUm
I: Monday, Baldwin
Jackson
Monroe
Paulding
Taliaferro
Walker
MARCH.
!-• Thursday. Pierce
1st Monday, Appling
Chattooga
Cherokee
Coweta
Columbia
Crawford
Gwinnett
Madison
Marion
Morgan
2d Monday, Butts
Bartow
Coffee
Elbert
Fayett
Greene
Pickens
Washington
Webster
3d 3! utiay, Cobbt
Calhoun
Hall
Hart
Heard
Macon
Newton
Talbot
Tattnal
Ware
Thursday after White
F -day alter,Bulloch
lib Monday, Clinch
l’utuam
Rabun
Chalialiooclie
Lee
Twiggs
Wilkes
Johnson
Milton
T irsday after Habersham
t 1 mis lay. Montgomery
M "n| l \t "f' l Echols
r I,- | Effingham
' APRIL.
1st A 2d Mon. Carroll
1st Monday, Dooly
Franklin
Emanuel
Early •
Fulton
Gordon
Pike
Taylor
Warren
Wilkinson
Tluirsd'vaftcr Banks
1st Monday, Floyd*
AUGUST,
1st Monday Luinpkint
2d M ludny, Campbell
Clark
Dawson
3d Monday, Forsyth
Polk
Glascock
Merriwether
Walton
4th Monday, Baldwin
J ack sou
Monroe
I’anlding
Taliaferro
Walker
Thusdny after, Pierce
: Monday, llnncock
Richmond
Harris
Laurens
Miller
Sumter
Tuesday after,McIntosh
34 Monday, Glynn
Haralson
Henry
Janes
Liberty
>1 array
Oglethorpe
l’uiaski
Stewart
Monday Worth
after ’ 'Bryan
tlh Mouday,Wayne
Decatur
DcKalb
Houston
Jasper
Lincoln
Schley
Whitfield
Wilcox
Friday after, Telfair
Camden
Thursday after, Irwin
•Monday “ Berrien
Charlton
MAY
1st Monday, Clayton
Sc riven
Gilmer
Randolph
Upson
-d Monday, Catoosa
Jefferson
Chatham
Fannin
Mitchell
Muscogee
3,i Monday, Bibb
Burke
yuittmnn
Spalding
Troup
Union
Baker
Thursday after Towns
it!? Monday, Dade
Terrell
Last Monday, Colquitt
JUNE.
1st Monday, Lowndes
Dougherty
2d Monday, llrooks
Clay
3'! Monday, Thomas
SEPTEMBER.
1st Mouday, Appling
Chattooga
Cherokee
Columbia
Coweta
Crawford
Madison
Mari'ju
Morgan
2d Monday, Butts
Bartow
Coffee
Elbert
Fayette
Greene
Gwinnett
Pickens
Washington
Webster
3d Monday, Cobbt
Calhoun
Hall*
Hart
Heard
Macon
Newton
Talbot
Ware
Bulloch
Thursday after White
Itii Monday, Clinch
Putnam
Chattahoochee
Lee
. Twiggs
Wilkes
Johnson
Milton
Rabun
Thursday after Ilaberslmm
Monday af-)
ter the 4th ^ Echols
Monday )
OCTOBER.
1st & 2d Mon. Cai roll
1st Monday, Dooly
Emanuel
Franklin
Early
Fulton
Gilmer
Gordon
Taylor
Warren
Wilkinson
Ptke
Thursday after Banks
2d Monday, Fannin
Richmond
Hancock
Harris
Laurens
Miller
Sumter
3d Monday, Glynn
Haralson
Henry
Jones
. Murray
Oglethorpe
Pulaski
Stewart
Union
Worth
Thursday after Towns
Thursday ) Montgomery
after *
4th Monday. Wayne
Decatur
DcKalb
Houston
Jasper
Lincoln
Schley
Tattnall
Whitfield
Wilcox
COUNTING HOC SB CALENDAR, J862.
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' 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 such patent shall be limited to the term of
fourteen years from the date or publication of
sue h foreign patent.
Sec. T. And be it further enacted. That this Act
shall take effect and be in force from and afttrits
passage.
Approved Jan, 28, 1862.
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BY iLUTKCORITY.
ACTS A N E> K E S O I. I T H) N 8
of the Fifth Session of the
PR OI 'ISIONA L CONGRESS
of the "•>
CONFEDERATE STATES.
18 6 1
THU COIYSCKIFTIO’V BILL.
.1 Bill to he entitled “Ati Art to further
proride for the Public i/tfcncc.”
In view of tbe 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 Cangress of the Con
federate States of America do enact. That
t lie President "be, and lie is hereby, author
ized to call out and place in the 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 of eighteen and thirty-five years at
the time the call or calls may be made,
who are not legally exempted from mili
tary service. All of the persons aforesaid
who are not now in the armies of the Con
federacy, and whose term of service will
exuiro before thejend of the war, shall be
continued in 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 be fixed by the com
mander of the brigade, to re-organize said
companies, battalions and regiments by*
electing all their officers, which they r bad a
right heretofore to elect, who shall beeom-
irided,
further, That furloughs not exceeding six-
[No. 362. J
AN ACT to amend An Act entitled “An Act
establish a patent office, aud to provide for the j missioned by the President: Pr
granting and issuing of patents tor new and use- - — ... --
ful discoveries, inventions, improvements and
designs,” approved outlie 21st day of May,
one thousand eighteen hundred and sixty-
one.
Section 1 The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact, That section forty
niue of the above recited acl, be and the same is
hereby repealed.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That every
United States patent that was granted and issued
to any person, now a citizen of the Confederate
States, or who shall hereafter become so by the
accessions of new States or Territories, may be
revived aud continued in full force and effect for
the time for which they were originally issued yet
unexpired: Provided, Such patents are recorded
and a copy of the drawing annexed thereto (if
there be a drawing, and :f not, a speciruin of the
compound or other subject matter as the case may
be) and a model also, if the Commissioner shall
deem it neccessary, in the Patent Office of the
Confederate States, within six months after the
close of the present war with the United States;
otiierwise such patents shall remain null and void:
and all persons claiming the benefit of this section
shall pay to the Commissioner of Patents, tor the
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 patent. That nothing
contained in this act, or that to which it is an
amendment shall be construed to recognize any
renewal or extension of any patent granted by the
United tates heretofore made: Provided, Howev
er that tbe said patentee shall maintain no suii
for violation of his patent, which violation occur-
rod before the filing of a caveat and the deposit of
fees'requiied for the revival of said patent in the
Patent Office.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That every in
strument of writing conveying any interest—
whether it be ihe whole, a part, or to a specified
portion of territory—in and to the United States
patent—to any person now a citizen ot the Con
federate States, or who shall hereafter become so
by the accession of new States or Territories, and
which was executed in good faith, prior to the
seventeenth day of April, one thousand eight hun
dred and sixty one, shall be revived and continued
in f u ]l force 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 issued
yet unexpired: Provided that such instrument of
writing shall be recorded in tbe Patent Office of
tbe Confederate States within six months after
the close of the present war with the United fetates,
and the owner thereof shall deposit in the said of
fice, a descriptive drawing of such character ns the
Commissioner shall direct, which shall, represent
the intention or subject matter of the patent to
which such instrument of writing relates, or if the
invention be a composition of matter, then in
that case, a specimen of the compound, with a
written description of the method of making aud
using it, and all persons claiming the benefit of
this section shall pay to the Commissioner of Pa
tents for the use of the Patent fund, the sum ot
ten dollars, and a recoiling 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
such instrument nor shall the same be deemed
valid which Las not been recorded m the United
States Patent Office, pursuant to ihe provisions ot
eleventh section of the Act of Congress of the
iourth day of July one thousand eight hundred and
thirty six unless the assignee or owner ot such in
strument, or his legal representative shall make
oath that it was actually, and in good faith exe
cuted on the day of its date.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, that it shall be
the do tv of the Commissioner to endorse on each
patent,'and instrument of writing, assigned 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 ot justice,
of the Confederate States, and of the right of the
ty days, with transportation home and
back, shall be granted to all those retain
ed the service by the 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
act entitled “An act providing for* the
granting of bounty and furloughs to pri
vates and non-commissioned officers in the
Provisional Army,” approved 11 Decem
ber, eighteen hundred aud sixty-one, said
furloughs to he granted at such times and
in such numbers as the Secretary of War
may deem n ost compatible with the pub
lic interest; and Provided further, That
in lieu of a furleugh, the commutation val
ue in money of the transportation herein
above granted shall be paid to eaclt pri
vate, musician, or non-commissioned offi
cer who may elect to receive it at such
time as the furlough would otherwise be
granted : Provided, further, That all per
sons under the 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
their respective companies, battalions and
regiments for ninety days, unless their
places can sooner lie supplied by other re
cruits not now in the service, who are be
tween the ages of eighteen and thirty-live
ycais, and all laws and parts of laws pro
viding for the re-enlistment of volunteers
and the organization thereof into compa
nies, squadrons, battalion tor regiments,
shall be, and the same are hereby repeal
ed.
Sec. 2 Be it. further enacted, That such
companies, squadrons, battalions, or regi
ments organized, or in process of organiza
tion by authority from the Secretary of
War, as may be within thirty days from
from the passage of this act so far comple
ted as to have the whole number of men re
quisite for organization actually enrolled,
not embracing in said organizations any
EXEMPTION'S UNDER THE COX-
SCRIPTIOX I.AtV OF CONGRESS.
The following exemption bill was passed by
Congress, and signed by the President just before
the adjournment:
A bill to be entitled “ An act to exempt certain per
sons from enrollment for service in the armies of
the Confederate States.”
SECTION 1. The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact, That all persons who
shall be held to be unfit for military service under
forthe President, with the consent of the
Governors of the respective States, to em
ploy State officers, and, on failure to ob
tain such consent, lie shall employ Confed
erate officers; charged with the duty of
making such enrollment in accordance
with rules and regulations to he prescribed
by him.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That per
sons enrolled under the provisions of the
□IU.OV4U.— , preceding section shall he assigned by the
owner thereof to use and enjoy the same and g t y 0 f \y av to the different compa-
SiSSSSKR^fiKWajSS -* *» -? Tjr
to the owners thereof. , j is filled to its maximum number, and the
Sec 5. And be it further enacted, That it any | pftrsons so enrolled shall he assigned to
such patent, or deed of assignment, as is herein i . f r0 m the States from which
nrovided for be lost or cannot be procuied from the , company
Patent office of the United States the person enti- , they respectively come.
to the same, iu whole or in part or his legal rep- j g EC . 5. Be it further enacted, 1 hat all
persons now in service, shall be mustered _
into the service of the Confederate States I rules to be prescribed by the Secretary of War;
n . i i /• , i . all m the service or employ of the Confederate
as part of the land forces of the same, ^ j j^ates; all judicial and executive officers of Con-
he received in that arm of the serviec in ; federate or State Governments; the members of
w hich they are authorized to organize, i both Houses of Congress, and of the legislatures
shall elect thei, comp.ey. battcli.n j SrSSrft'SSf.S:
and regimental otlieeis. ^ i erate Governments allowed by law; all engaged
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That for ; n carrying the mails ; all ferrymen on post routes;
the enrollment of all persons comprehend- I all pilots and persons engaged in the marine ser-
ed within the provisions of this act, who ! vice, in actual service on river and railroad
»,vi >. ituii I. . . * . r' routes of transportation: teiographic operatives
are not already m service in the armies ot an( j m ipi s ters of religion, in the regular discharge
the Confederate States, it shall he lawful
Friday after, Telfair
j Cainden
Thursday after, Irwin
Moudnv 'after Charlton
! NOVEMBER,
jlst Mouday, Berrien
Scriven
Clayton
Effingham
Randolph
Upson
2d Mondav, Catoosa
Jefferson
Mitchell
Muscogee
3d Monday, Bibb
Buiko
Quiitman
Spalding
Tronp
Baker
,4th Monday, Dade
Terroll
Thursday after, McIntosh
Monday “ Colquitt
(. “ Liberty
IMon. after Liberty. Bryan
k DECEMBER.
1st Mondav, Dougherty
Lowndes
■>d Monday,{Brooks
Clay
3d Monday Thomas
at each
patent
the pal
fngs"ns'may^be necessary to a proper understand
ing of the invention, discovery, or design, secured
by said patent. And said affidavit, when recorded
and certified as aforesaid,
hali have the same
force" amfeffect as tl.o recording of the original pa-
Pro''i.'^”4 turtiicr^Tjt^5*^1 r ^ S ‘ | ^^ S 1:.i!i
"^Yt 1 the of Gwramcntrf'theCot
and for
in this i— , ^
zed to charge ten cents tor ever}
n pony of winch shall he u,vx ‘ **■ . ? .j r.
the Secretary of the Navy,
from the land forces to the
f further anesaSex2, T i Ii.it In nil
cases w here a State may not have in the
.nmy n. number of regiments, battalions,
squadrons, or companies, sufficient to ab
sorb the number of persons subject lo mili
tary service under this act, belonging
to such State, then the residue or excess
thereof shall be kept as a reserve, under
such regulations as may he established by
the Secretary ot Wur, and that at stated
periods of not greater than three months,
details, determined by lot, shall he made
from said reserve, so that each reserte,
company shall, as nearly as practicable, be
kept full. Provided, That the persons
held in reserve may remain at home until
called into service by the President.
Provided, also, That during their stay at
J home, they shall not receive pay. Pro
vided further, That the persons compre
punished as such under said articles:
Provided $irther, That whenever, iu the
opinion of ti e President, the exigencies of
the public service may require it, lie shall
he authorized to call into actual service the
entire reserve, or so much as may he
necessary not previously assigned to dif
ferent companies in service under provis
ions of section four of this act; said reserve
shall be organized under such rules as the
St cretary of war may adopt : Provided,
The company, battalion and regimental
officers shall bo elected by the troops com
posing the same: Provided, The troops
raised in any one State shall not he com
bined in regimental, battalion, squadron,
or company organization with troops rai
sed in any ether 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-said service
under the authorizations heretofore issued
by the Secretary of War, and who ate
continued in the service by virtue of this
act, who have not received the bounty of
fifty dollais allowed by existing laws,
shall be entitled to receive said bounty.
See. S. Be it further enacted. That each
man who may hen-after be mustered into
the service, and who shall arm himself
with a musket, shot-gun, rifle or carbine,
accepted as an efficient weapon, shall be
paid the value thereof, to be ascertained
by the mustering officer under such regu
lations as may he prescribed by the Secre-
tary of War, if he is willingto sell the
same, and if he is no^then he shall be 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 not 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 vacancies shall he filled by the Presi
dent from the company, battalion, squad
ron or regiment iu which such vacancies
shall occur, by promotion 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 he*projjer, 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 iu tbe 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
aud consent of tbe Senate.
Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, Thai tbe
provisions of t he first %cction of this act re
lating to the election of officers shall ap
ply to those regiments, battallions and
squadrons which are composed of twelve
mouths’ and war companies combined in
the same organization, without regard to
the manner in which the officers thereof
were originally appointed.
Sec. 12. Be it further enacted, That each
company of infantry shall consist of one
hundred and twenty-five rank and file;
aud each company of fiold artillery of one
hundred rank and file, and each company
of cavalry of eightyrank and file.
Sec. lo. Be it further enacted. That all
persons subject to enrollment, who are now
in the service, under the provisions of this
act, shall be permitted previous to such
enrollment to volunteer in companies now
in service.
of ministerial duties ; ail enpapjed in working iron
mines, furnaces and foundries; all journeymen
printers actually employed in printing newspa
pers : all Presidents and Professors of Colleges
and Academies, and all teachers having as many
as twenty scholars ; Superintendents of the pub
lic hospitals, lunatic asylums, and the lcgular
nurses and attendants therein, and the teachers
employed in the institutions for the deaf and
dumb and blind ; in each apothecary store now
established one apothecary in good standing, who
is a practical druggist: Superintendents and op
eratives in wool and other factories, who may lie
exempted by the Secretary of War, shall be, and
are hereby, exempted from military service in the
armies of the Confederate States. 48 4t
(No. 368.)
AN ACT to establish an assay office in New Or
leans.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate
Stares of America do enact, That the President is
authorized to appoint an assayer at New Orleans,
whose duty it shall be to assay and certify the
fineness aiid value of such gold and silver as may
he commuted to him to he assayed.
Sec. 2. The said assayer shall exeente a bond to
the Confederate Stat-s, with sufficient sureties,
in snch sum as shall be approved by the Secretary
ofthe Treasury to discharge the duties of his of
fice, and shall take oatli faithfully to discharge the
some, ntid to (support the Constitution of the Con
federate States; whereupon the Secretary ot the
Treasury shall place iu his cliarce and snhiwt *r>
his use, so much ofthe Mint Edifice at New Or
leans, and of the tools and implements therein, as
the said Secretary shall deem propel for the said
office, subject however, to be returned whenever
it may he deemed expedient for the general pur
poses of the Mint.
Sec. 3. The whole expenses of the assaying es
tablishment shall be defrayed by the assayer; and
in order to defray the same and to receive a reas
onable compensation for his services, he shall he
entitled to retain from ai! metals or ores submitted
to linn for assay, such seignorage or charge as will
enable him to receive an annual salary not ex-
[No. 369 ]
AN ACT to authorize the change of the names of
vessels in certain cases.
Section !• The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact. That it shall ho law
ful for the purchaser of any vessel, soid under a
decree of Court as Prize of War, to alter the name
tiiereof, and to bestow on the same sncli name as
he may deem proper; which change of name shall
be duly certified, on the papers and titles of sucli
vessel, by the Collector of the Port where such sale
was made.
Approved Jan. 27, 1862.
(No. 370.)
AN ACT to provide for recruiting companies now
in the Service of the Confederate States for
Twelve months.
Section!. The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact, That all earopauies ot
voluuteers, now in the service of the Confederate
States, under enlistment for the term of twelve
mouths, may he recruited by enlisting or receiv
ing volunteers for three years or the war, to a num
ber not to exceed one hundred and twenty-five,
rank and file, and companies so recruited shall, at
tiie expiration of tho term of service oftiie original
company elect their commissioned officers; and
vacancies thereafter occurring in the commission
ed officers of such companies, shall be filled by
promotion of said commissioned officers, except
that vacancies in the lowest grade of such officers,
shall bo filled by election.
Sec. 2. i’iie Colonel or commanding officer oi
tbe several regiments, battallions and squadrons
enlisted for twelve months as aforesaid, may de
tail one commissioned officer and not exceeding
two privates of each company, to recruit for their
respective companies, aud the officers and privates
so detailod, shall be entitled to transportation while
so engaged, and the recruits so enlisted shall be
entitled to pay, transportation and subsistence
from the time aud place of enlistment, together
with the sum of fifty dollars, as a bounty, upon
joining their respective companies.
Sec. 3. The original volunteers, iu such com
panies. re-enlisting, according to tho terms of the
act entitled an act providing for the granting of
bounty and furloughs to privates aud non-com
missioned officers in the Provisional Army, may
re-enfist in, and form part of the companies to lie
recruited as herein provided; and when all the
companies composing the regiment, battalion or
squadron as aforesaid, or by re-enlistment and re
cruiting, as aforesaid, have attained at the date of
the expiration of the term of service of the original
companies, the number required by law for a eom-
any, the number and designation of snch regi-
lent, battallion, or squadron, may continue, or
uch of said companies as are complete at that
date, may reorganize into new regiments, battal
ions, of squadrons, or attach themselves toother
regiments, battalions or squadrons; and in all
such cases the field ofiiceijs shall he elected, and
vacancies thereafter occurring in sucli field officers
shall he filled by promotion, as directed by the act
aforesaid.
Sec. 4. Companies ongagizod by re-existed
twelve months volunteers; ui dertl
may he recruited to the number of
an® twenty tivo, in the fnariHer prescribed
second section of this act. ^
Sec. 5. Where at the date ofthe expiration of
the term of service of the original coinpanj', the
number of recruits and enlisted men will amount
to the minimum number required fora company,
the recruited men may combine with recruits of
other companies in like situation, so as to form
complete companies; aud in default of such combi
nations, tiie said recruits may be assigned or dis
tributed to other companies, from the State in
which such recruits were enlisted.
Sec. 6. Tiie Secretary of War shall make all
needful rules, to carry into effect the foregoing
provisions.
Approvod January|27, 1862. 49 4t.
Remarkable War Bulletin—The Way
the Yankee Masses arc Humbugged.—Tho
following was issued from the War De
partment at Washington on the 9tli
inst :
[ Ordered, j
First, That at the meridian of Sunday
next after the receipt of this order, at the
head of every regiment in the armies of the
United States, there .shall be offered by
its Chaplain, a prayer giving thanks to the
Lord of Hosts, for the recent manifesta
tions of His power in tho overthrow ofthe
rebels and traitors, and invoking the con
tinuance of His aid in delivering this na
tion, by the arms of patriot soldiers from
the horrors of treason, rebellion and civil
war.
Second, That the thanks and congratu
lations of the War Department are render
ed to Maj. General Iialleck for the sig
nal ability and success that have distin
guished all the military operations of his
department, and for the spirit and courage
manifested by the army under his com
mand; under every hardship and against
every odds, in attacking, pursuing and de
stroying the enemy wherever he could be
found.
Third, That the thanks ofthe Depart
ment are also given to Generals Curtis and
Siegle, and the officers and soldiers of
their commands, for the matchless gallant
ry at the battle of Pea Ridge, and to Ma
jor Generals Grant and lluell, and their
forces, for the glorious repulse of Beaure
gard, at Pittsburg Tennessee, and to
Major General Pope and his officers and
soldiers for the bravery and skill display
ed in their operations against tiie rebels
and traitors entrenched at Island No. 10,
on the Mississippi rivor. The daring
courage, diligent prosecution, presistent
valor and military results of these achieve
ments are unsurpassed.
Fourth, That there shall this day he a
salute of one hundred guns from the Uni
ted States Arsenal at Washington, iu hon
or of these great victories.
(Signed.) EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.
The Yankees at Port Royal are getting
tired of supporting the negroes stolen by
them from the Carolinians. A reporter of
the New York Herald eomplains that the
“pesky creators” do nothing but eat till
they make themselves sick, and that they
are actually dying from over eating and
want of exercise. He complains that no
work can begot out of them, and that ’to
feed twenty-five thousand of them now- in
possession of the Yankees, costs their Gov
ernment about ten thousand dollars a day.
There is also difficulty among the mission
aries at Port Royal. They don’t make
spricfnotoi^ progress'll! the work of en
lightening the contrabands, and some of
tho old spinisters that have been sent out
from Boston for that purpose, express
themselves very much disgusted at the
conduct of the officers and soldiers, and
the treatment they receive from them.
—Miss Jerusha Petty hone despairs of ev
er elevating the moral or intellectual char
acter of the little niggerlings, and is hor
ribly shocked at the immodesty of her col
ored sisters. Miss Jerusha is becoming
Memphis ;[Tenn ] Appeal, April 28.
Taking of Hnul^vilU* by thcFnlrrnliiifN.
By persons arriving on the Charleston
road we learn that on Thursday last, at
the train from this city was going east,
when near Huntsville, the fireman called
the attention of the engineer to some of
the finest equipped cavalry he had ever
seen. The engineer at once doubted their
being our toops; the doubt was converted
into a certainty, on the receipt, of a volley
from the troops, which proved to he Lin
coln cavalry. The train was seized.
The mail agent threw some of the mail
matter out of one window, and leaving the
car, joined with the passengers and esca
ped capture, Passengers out of military
dress were suffered to go tree. Messrs
Bell and Symmes, messengers of Adam’s
Express, where taken prisoners. One of
them had on the uniform of a Georgia
company. We learn also that all per
sons found in uniform in Nashville, xvere
seized.
It is stated that twenty-two engines fell
into the Federals’ hands, hut this appears
to us an exageration. On one part of the
road some of the Federal soldiers seized
an engine and made off with it; they were
eight fn number. They did not know
how to run the engine, and were pur
sued by some of our people in another en
gine.
When they found they were tube over
taken they ran off into the woods, but
four of them xvere caught and captured.—
This party had burned a bridge six miles
beyond Stevenson, which place is stated
to be in the hands of the Federals. The
men captured beleng to the lTth Illinois.—
They had a flat car in front of the locomo
tive, on which they had mounted a can
non.
The force of the Federals is stated to
he thirteen thousand. The truth of
the rumors about the re-capture of Hunts
ville by our people is deuied by arrival of
the train this morming.
A Beautiful Incident.
We learn from the Nexvs, that as some
of the Confederate troops were marching
through Fredericksburg, xvith bristling
ayoncts and rumbling artillery, a fair
fonlSundTe’d * u{ y appeared^ the steps of a dark
scribed in the brown nfilhAuiJ^ier arms filled xvitli Tes-
** . taments xvhtcli with gracious kindness
and gentle courtesy, she distributed to the
passing soldiers. The eagerness with
xvhich they xvere received, the pressing
throng, the outstretched hands, till earn
est thanks, the unspoken blessings upon
the giver, thus dispensing the word
of Life to the armed multitude to whom
death might come at any moment—-all
made up a picture, as. beautiful as any
that ex-er shone out amid the dark reali
ties of war. As- a rough Texan said, “If
it xvas not for the ladies, God bless them,
there xvould he no use of fighting this war.
Express.
t here i n rindbe'i t further enacted, That no citi- ] heudc d in this act shall not be subject to
Seo,
zen
May bolds three weeks, if necessary
term.
♦Judge not required to draw Jurors
*eeks; aud not obliged to hold two weeks Court
iu counties of Cobb and Lumpkin.
SS.F°nK
the rules and articles of war until muster
ed into the actual service ofthe 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
ceeding three thousand doliarp. , .-i .- , • • i e *i
Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of sucli assayer to j heartily tired of her mission down bouth,
keep in good order therooms or buildings tools and and is anxious to go to her hum.
other property, and to restore the same to the _
Confederate States in like condition; he shall hold Gen. Humphrey Marshall.— lhc Mem-
his office for two years, and may employ under phis Ax'alanche says :
him. at such rates as he may agree upon, such • _ r . ,.
workmen and inferior officers as he may seem, We learn-that this gallant officer has
fit. j been compelled, for xvant of supplies, to
Sec 5. The said assayer shall, from time to time f a ]j hack near Abingdom, Ya. The Floyd
as he may be required by the Secretary of ll '° lJ r ig a do is being reorganized rapidly, and
Treasury, make an accurate report of all proceed- p o , b , . 1 n J i ..
ings athis office, in such form as may be required be placed under his command, and it
by the said Secretary; and he and his officers and is said he xvill soon be at the head of 20,-
suborainates shall at any time be subject to such Q00 men, with abundant supplies, and
orders and regulations as said Secretary may from everyt h in „ necessar y for an active cam-
fimA fn fiTYiA mulronr nirAC.t. . " 0 »
time to time, make or direct.
Approved Jan. 27, 1862.
paign.
Tho Tomato should rcceix - ® particular
attention from our farmers. Its extensive
cultivation is necessary for the preserx’a-
tion of the health of our soldiers. The To
mato seems to have a direct and peculiar
action on the liver, producing all the bene
ficial effects of mercural preparations,
without any of the injuries. It is said
that the great success of the celebrated
Spanish Bitters of Dr. Zavia is owing to
its principal ingredient being the active
principle of this plant. In confirmation
of its x-alue. xve have heard one of the
most distinguished physicians remark
that whenever he felt unwell in the spring
of the- year, he knew that it arose from
torpor of his liver, and he invariably rc-
liex'ed himself by partaking of this vege
table at his dinner. We trust that our
troops xvill he freely suppliedxvith it as
it is both hygeuic and nourishing.—
Charleston Cout ier.
The Printers.—Tbe Mobile Register &
Advertiser office xvas well represented
at Sbiloah—there being one printer killed
and three xvoundedfrom that office.
Ca:sar.—"Julius Ctesar was not more
eminent for his valor in overcoming bis
enemies, than for his humane efforts in
reconciling and attaching them to his do
minion. In the battle of Pharsalia he
rode to and fro, calling vehemently out,
“Sparc, spare tho citizens !” Nor were
nny killed, but such as obstinatoly refused
to*accept of life. Alter the battle, he
gave every man on his own side leave to
save any of the opposite from the list of
proscription ; aud at no long time after,
issued an edict, permitting all whom he
had not yet pardoned, to return in peace
to Italy, to enjoy their estates andJionors.
It xvas a common saying of Ctesar, that no
music was so charming to his ears, as the
requests of his friends and supplications of
those in want of his assistance.”'
Misfortunes.—“When great men suffer
themselves to be subdued by the length of
their misfortunes, they discover that the
strength of tlicir ambition, not of their
understanding xvas that which supported
him. They discox’ered too that, allowing
for a little vanity heroes are just like other
men.”
“The constancy of the xvise is only the
art of keeping their disquietudes to them
selves.”
Ignorance and Error.—At is almost as
difficult to make a man unlearn his errors,
as his knowledge. Malinformation is more
hopeless than non-information ; for error
is always more busy than ignorance. Ig
norance is a blank sheet, on xvhich we may
Write ; but error is a scribbled one, from
which we must first erase. Ignorance is
contented to stand still with her back to
the truth; but error is more presumptuous,
and proceeds in the same direction, Igno
rance has no light, blit error folloxvs a
false one. The consequence is, that error,
-xvheu she retraces her footsteps, has far
ther to go. before she cgn arrive at the
truth than ignorance.”
Printer in the Army.—It is worthy of
notice, that the ranks of our brave soldiers
are made up largely of ju-inters- Take
the RichmondHussars. Company B, as an
example—there arecen typos in this corps;
and we have no doubt there is hardly a
company in service but what, will show
upon its muster roll a fair proportion of the
“craft.” The folloxvers of Faust are
proverbially patriotic and intelligent.
Chronical and Sentinel.
Correct Speaking
“We advise all young people to acquire
in early life the habit of good language,
both in speaking and xvriting, and to aban
don as early as possible, any use of slang
words and phrases. The longer they live,
the more difficult the acquisition of such
language will be; and if the golden age of
youth, vV>e proper season for the acquisi
tion of language, be passed in its abuse,
the unfortunate vlcMm of neglected educa
tion is very probably doomed to talk slang
for life. Money is not necessary to pro
cure this education. Every man kas it in
his power. He has merely to use the lan
guage which he reads, instead of the slang
xvhich he hears—to form his taste from
the best speakers and poets of the country
—to treasure up choice phrases inh s mem
ory, aud to habituate himself to their use
—avoiding, at the same time, that pe
dantic precision xvhich shows rather the
xveakness of a vain ambition than the polish
of an educated mind.”
Not Verv Hopeful.
The Louisville Jurnalof a late date is
somewhat despondent. It thinks the
“reconstruction of the Union” a “most
delicate and difficult undertaking.” Read
the folloxving:
It is impossible to say what kind of
Union the irresistible power of arms might
establish and for a brief period maintain,
but any supposition that the thirty four
States which constitute, or have constitut
ed, this republic can be bound permanent
ly together as a republic upon the princi
ples and on the conditions insisted on by
such politicans as the Senators in Congress
from Massachusetts, is an absurdity that
only fools and fanatics could possibly cher
ish.
Then follows this frank confession.
If every Southern rebel xvere disarmed
to-morrow, the reconstruction of the Union
xvould. be a most delicate and difficult un
dertaking. Difference of views even a-
mong conservative men xvould be enough
to render it so. And probably at this very
moment even greater danger menaces the
restoration policy from the action of the
radicals than from the armed legions of
rebelion.
The Journal thinks “the worst trial is
yet in store for” Abraham Lincoln.
No Peach Brandy.—By the letter we
publish below, it xviil ho seen that Gov.
Brown is down on Peach Brandy, as wdil
as on other kinds of liquors.
Executive Department, )
Milledgevillc, April 14th, 1S62. j
B. C. Gresham, Esq ,
Sir:—In reply to your letter of the 8th
inst., I am instructed by the Gox’ernor to
say that the distilling of peaches into bran
dy xvill not be alloxved in this Slate the
present year. If the former Proclamation
did not reach this subject, a future one
will. I xvrite this in tho absence of the
Governor, but this is the decision I am
sure he has come to. Very respectfully.,
H. H. Waters, Sec. Ex. Dep’t.
The Grain Crops in the Up Country.
We are glad to learn from a gentlenan
who has had opportunities for extensive
observasion. says the Cliarlston Mercury,
that an unusual quantity of wheat was
sown in the upper part of tho State, that
many suppose the crop will be twice as
large as last years’s which was very
fine.
Yankee Counterfeiting.—Mr. Wash
Goodrich, detective of the Treasury De
partment, has just exhibited to us one of
the last and grossest piecqs of Yankee
scoundrelism, and the infernal means re
sorted to discredit the currency of the
Southern Confederacy. . It consists in a
xvell executed counterfeit of our five dol
lar Confederate notes, which he is inform
ed, xvas struck off in Philadelphia, where
the news-boys are selling them at five
cents a piece. This note is well calcula
ted to deceive, and in nearly every parti
cular is &fac simile of the original. The
engraxdng is somewhat coaser than our
own, but in other respects there is little
difference. In the genuine, on the back
ground of the word “five” the words “five
dollars” are iu very fine print and almost
innumerable; in the counterfeit these are
omitted. We caution persons receiving
this money to be exceedingly careful, as
there is no means of knowing to what ex
tent they have been circulated. A little
care will prevent imposition.—Richmond
Dispatch.
Gen. McClellan had a sister (Mrs. Eng
lish) living in Alabama, the*wife of a
wealthy planter. Young English, aneph-
exx- of McClellan, has gone up to Corinth,
the Mobile papers say, to fight for the
South.
Tho election in the Northwest are resul
ting in heavy democratic or anti-xvar victo
ries. Springfield, III., Lincoln’s own town,
has gone against him.
The Lincoln Government has purchased
the captured Confederate steamer Magno
lia for $50,000.
Bless the Girl.—Miss Narcisse Sanders is
the step-daughter of Hon. A. V. Brown,
xvho left a princely residence in the beauti
ful hills, wliich encircles Nashville. She
is young, beautiful, and was a noted belle
at the Capitol at Washington.—The Fed
eral commander, having knoxvn her for
merly, upon taking possession of the city,
called to pay his respects, aud sent up his
card from the door. Her reply was;
“Tell him to please excuse me. 1 am in
mourning for my country, and can seo no
one.”
The Yankee war tax don’t appear to
.meet xvith much favor, even in Delaxvaro.
The Yankee forces xvere lately withdrawn
from the Eastern shore of Maryland, to go
into Dclexx'are in order to put down a war
tax rebellion in that State —A gentleman
on the Eastern shore, who is not consider
ed wealthy, is assessed with a war tax of
$1,500, possibly more than one-half of
his rex enue.
With this prospect staring us in the face,
what should the South not do and suffer
to ax'ert subjugation.
A Deserter Shot.—Wm. Roxvland, a pri
vate in Capt. Fowler’s 54th Tennessee
volunteers, xvho deserted and was captur
ed on the Shiloh battle field cf the 6th in
the enemy’s ranks and clothed in the Fed
eral uniform was subsequently shot in
presence of all the Tennessee regiments.
Better the world shonld know you as
sinner, than God know you a hypo
crite.
Hold on to your virtue—it is above all
price to yon in all times and places.
Learn in childhood, if yon can, that
happiness is not outside, but inside. A
good heart and clear conscience bring hap
piness. No riches or circumstances alone
ever do: