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Tiir CoaacripfiCn Aci.
The following regulations of the AY ar
Department in relation to the act of Con
gress known as the Conscription Act, arc
published by authority, for tire information
of the public:
/.— KmoHmrnt and Disposition of lie
emits.
1. An officer not below the rank of Ma
jor will be detailed for each Hd*<c to take
charge of the enrollment' mustering in,
subsistence, transportation and disposi
tion of the picfbils raised under this
act.
•J. Application will be made immediately
to the Governors of the several States for
permission to employ State officers for
said enrollment, and in case such permis
sion be not granted, officers of the army
will be selected by the Department to
perform that duty, under such regulations
as may be prescribed. Where State offi
cers are employed, the regulations of the
respecitve States in regard to military en
rollment will be observed as far as applica
ble,
3. The enrolled men in each State will
he collected' in camps of instruction by
the officers in command of the recruits,
the said camps to be selected with refer
ence to health, and the facilities for ob
taining subsistence and transportation. The
number of these camps shall not exceed
two in each State, without authority from
the dopaitment, and to each will be allow
ed a quartermaster and a commissary.
4. '1 he commandants of the camps of in
struction in the sevetal States will call
upon the Geneials commanding the milita
ry’ departments in w hich their camps may
be situated: for competent drill officers to
instruct the recruits,and will preparethem
for the field as rapidly as possible. They
will cause them to be promptly vaccinated
and in orderingthem to the field will, as far
as practicable, prefer those who have pas
sed through the usual camp diseases. They
will establish hospitals in connection with
their camps, and make requisition for such
medical attendence and stores as may be
required.
5. The commandants of regiments, bat
talions. squadrons, and unattached compa
nies in service on the 16th inst., will send
copies of/their muster rolls to the com
mandant of the proper camp of instruction
in their respective States, w ith officers to
take charge of such recruits as may he
furnished to said corps. The said com
mandants w ill apportion the recruits among
such corps, in proportion to the deficiency
of each, except when otherwise specially
directed ty the department, allotting, as
far as practicable, to each such corps the
men from the regions of country in which
it has been raised. They will, from time
to time, send off such bodies of recruits
as aterqally for the field, and will report
on the first Monday of every month the
number of recruits in camp, their condition,
the number sent off during the month,
and the regiment and corps to which they
were sent.
6. The commandants of regiments and
corps will distribute the recruits among
their several companies, and in such as
have not the number of companies allowed
by law to a regiment, the said comman
dants may organize the required num
ber of new companies, after first filling
up the existing companies to the minimum
numbers requited by law—that is to say,
for each company of infantry, 64 privates;
of cavalry 60 privates; of artillery, 70
privates.
7. The recruits will be apportioned
among the several arms of service, accor
ding to their respective wants, consulting
as far as practicable the preference of the
men. Where a greater number offerfor a
particular arm than can be assigned to it,
the distribution will be determined by lot;
but recruits for the cavalry w ill only be
taken from those who furnished their own
horses.
II— Volunteers for Enlisting Corps.
8. Persons liable to military service un
der the above act, not in service on the
16th of April, and wishing to volunteer
in any particular company in the Confed
erate service on the 16tli day of April,
may teport themselves prior to their en
rollment at a camp of instruction within
their respective States where they will
he enrolled prepared for the field, and sent
to the said company until the same shall
he filled up.
9. Recruiting officers may he detailed
with the permission of the Generals com
manding military departments, by the
commandants of regiments and corps,
and sent to tlieir respective States
for the purpose of receiving for such reg
iments and corps, in conformity with re
cruiting regulations heretofore adopted
(General Order No. 6.) volunteers desir
ing to join them. Such volunteers may
he assembled at the camps of instruction
in their respective Stare*-, prepared for the
field, and sent to their respective icg>
ments and corps until the same shall be
filled up: or. if ready f->r the field, may
he ordered directly to their corps by the
officer so recruiting them.
Ill—Volunteer corps heretofore Author t- 1 their children tc
zed.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
The Conscription Lnw nod Ulilitin*
The following extracts, says the Con-
The C.rro.pondeace between Mayor Monroe st jtutionalist, we take from a recent let-
m., 1 Con,mo,tore t arrn B «,. ! tcr f rom t!ie offico 0 f t he Adjutant and lll-
Richmom), April 29.—The following is gJ)ector general of Georgia, to a gentle-
the_t>fficial correspondence between Mayor ; man ; n this city, and contains matter of
M^ftoe, of the city of New Orleans, and general interest to the militia of the State,
srmad- Commodore Farragutof the Federal fleet, I We arc indebted to the editor of the
Field & Fireside for the use of it :
I latter purpose, applications must be made
through the Commanding Generals of the
Military departments in which the said
, corps are to be employed.
V.—Reorganization of ticclce months
corps.
j 13• A* regiments, battalions,
ions and companies of twelve months vol- relative to the Surrender of the city ;
untcers, will reorganize within forty days u g Flag S h,p Hartford, )
from the 16th of Ap.tl, by electing, .11 0ff New Oblkans, April 26, 1S62. ty
i their officers which they had a right here- [ . 1
tofore to elect, and on such days as the! 1 o His Excellency, the Mayor of the City
i brigade commander may prescribe, and
the-said brigade commanders are hereby
ordered to fix and announce the day for
such reorganization as soon as practicable.
No person who is to be dischatged. under
1 the provisions of the act, will take part
in such election.
! 14. The form of lidding and certifying
the elections will be in conformity with
the laws of the State from which the men j interview with yourself and the military
; or the major part thereof, may come, and j authorities. *
when the ebctic.n of field officers is to he ; ]t must occur to your Honor fhat it is
de by company officers, the latter will 1)() t within the province of a naval officer
of New Orleans—
Sir : Upon my arrival before your city,
I had the honor to send to your Honor,
Gapt. Daily, of the U. S. Navy, second in
command of the expedition, to demand of
you the surrender of New Orleans to me.
as the representative oT the Government
of the United States.
Capt. Daily reported the result of the
, be first elected. All certificates of elec
tion will be returned to the Adjutant Gen
eral’s office, and the officers will be com
missioned by the President. They will
however, on receiving a copy of the cer
tificate of election immediately enter up
on duty. Officers not re-elected will be
iclieved from duty, and the brigade com
mander will return their names to the De
partment.
TV—Corps raised for local defence.
1.7. Corps raised for local defence will
retain their organization during the term
of such enlistment, unless previously dis
banded; but members of such corps may
volunteer into corps for general service as
herein above provided. «
T II—Discharges.
16- W1
to assume tlie duties of a military com
mandant. I come here to reduce New
Orleans to obedience to the laws, and to
vindicate the offended majesty of the
Government of the United States. The
rights of persons and of property shall
shall be secured.
1, therefore, demand of you, as its rep
resentative, the unqualified surrender of
the city, and that the emblem of the sov
ereignty of the United States he hoisted
over the City Hall, Mint, and Custom
House by meridian this day ; all flags
and other emblems of sovereignty, other
than those of the United States, to be re
moved from ail the public buildings by
that hour.
1 particularly request you to exercise
your authority, to quell disturbances and
,, , restore order, and to call upon all the good
lo* w lien any company now in ser- , ,. , . 1 . f, •
. , „ ,i i ii i r .i people of New Orleans to return to their
vice tor twehe months shall, before the 1 1 .. . , T . , , ,
avocations at once ; and 1 particularly de
mand that no person be molested in person
or property for professing sentiments of
loyalty to their Government.
1 shall speedily and severely punish
such outrages as were witnessed yester
day, by armed inen firing upon helpless
women and children for giving expres
sion to their pleasure at witnessing the old
Hag.
I am very respectfully,
Your obedient, servant,
D. G. FARIIAGUT, .
Flag Officer Master Gulf Squadron. I
16th day of July next, attain the maxi
mum numbers prescribed by this act, with
out including the men under 18, and over
3.7 years of age, all such men may he dis
charged, and such of them as remain in
service on the said day, will, upon tlieir
application, be then discharged, whether
such maximum be attained or not.
VIII— Transfers.
17. The right to change company or
corps in virtue/ of re-enlistment ceases to
exist by the repeal of all laws in regard
to re-enlistment; but transfers of individ
uals or of companies may be made as
heretofore, within the discretion of the
department.
IX —Substitutes.
18. When any person liable to military
duty under this act, but not yet mustered
into service in any company, desires to fur-i ~ y "
i uisli a substitute, be sliaUjyenorL,himselfff ^ thopght proper to ^take, o/it of regard
itli the .substitute, to Ore ^hninandant ! I° r lives^ of the women and children
of a camp of instruction, and if the stibsti-; "'ho .shall crowd this great metropolis,
tute he lawfully exempt from military du- Gen. Lovell has evacuated it with Iris
; ty, and on examination by a surgeon or ; troops and restored to me the admimstra-
| assistant surgeon ho pronounced sound, t ration of its government and the custody
and inVll respects fit for military service ■ ** s honor.
1 have, in council with the City Fath
ers, considered the demand you made of
ayoraity Kity'OjG.i/ans, 1
i HAl-LJATpril 20,'1862. j
M,
City IIai.l.AV^iril
! To Flag officer D. G. Farragut, U. S.
Fla* Ship Hartford.
tiifn : In upgHifthce of a resolution which
Sir : In reply to your inquiry of the
19th inst., I am directed by the Adjutant
General to state, that the Governor will
will keep up the State Militia organization
under existing State laws, with the per
sons left behind, (subject to military duty
under our statute) after the full operation
of the conscription act.
All persons subject to military duty by our
State laws, will be amenable to the same,
as to drills and otherwise, until actually
enrolled in pursuance of the act of Con-
Congress.
Commissioned officers of the militia will
he subject, like all others, to the operation
of the conscription according to the con
struction of the law now placed on it by
the Governor.
Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
L. H. DRISCOE.
Fearful War .tliaailr.
For many days past, says a late Eng
lish paper, a sharp lookout has been kept
upon the movements of the Stork screw
boat, tender to the Excellent. Captain
Richard S. Hewlett, C. R. We stated
some time since that the Stork screw gun
boat tender was fitting at Portsmouth,
England, with a furnace for firing hollow
shot with inolton iron, and that the In-
daunted 46 frigate, bad been prepared
with iron plates of sncli thickness as to
render her pro if against 6S pound shot at
400 yard’s range.
On Wednesday evening the Stork
went up the harbor and moored on fiom
the starboard side of the Undaunted 400
yards- A little before 12 at noon she
hoisted a red flag, another being also pla
ced on board the frigate to warn all boats
off. At 12 30 the first hollow shot, filled
with molten iron, was discharged from the
Stork, and went clean through both iron
plates and wood into the. hotly of flie ship,
about four feet above the water lines. A
second shot was fired at a short interval,
when smoke was perceived to burst through
the ports and hatchway, and in a few
minutes more a body of flame. The ship
was on fire As 60on as the fire was ob-
V ii famous Outrage on the Peninsula
The Georgia Bablist c©«i
served, the Stork slipped her moorings,
, „ , _ , T * ,»p, ! and steamed up to the head of the Un-
ZSX-fJIlSSZ : "» *» *; «•*- s%-
fur trknsfering the steamer JSt Nicholas to the cus- i nals wci0 also made to send a body ot
tody of the rebels, last summer, escaped from men from the Excellent to man the large
Fort Lafayette on Monday night. He had procur- fl pa tin£j fire engine, and to the Comet gov-
ed a number of tin cans, which be cooked tightly ° . ,-.i _ii
and tied about his waist, when he took to the wa- j eminent tu 0 , to tow lip wi h all has e
ter and swam toward the Long Island shore. He : the rescue. Such, however, was the de-
was discovered by the sentinel, and a boat being ■ structive nature of molten iron, that the
put into requisition lie was brought hack and con- ( ] oonie( ] vessel was soon one solid mass of
veved to his old quarters. Thomas was at hrst ,, , -, ., .
confined in Fort McHenry, in this city, where he . aml was constdered by Capt.
made several efforts to clear out; not succeeding,
finally pretended insanity. At one time his re
lease seemed probable, when he suddenly regained
his faculties, and was detained and sent North,
file steamer St. Nicholas, which he managed to
transfer to the rebel authorities, was committed to
Hewlett expedient to scuttle and sink the
ship. This was accordingly done. After
firing six rounds into her between wind
and water, down she went at her mooring,
leaving only the topsail of her deck anti
—i j
may be accepted and enrolled
•sou furnishing such substitute
and the
may be
he m
pers
discharged by the commandant of the
camp. But no substitute shall be entitled
to transputtation or other allowance at the
expense of tlie Government until so accep
ted and enrolled.
me yesterday, for the unconditional sur
render of the city, coupled with a requisi
tion to hoist the fiag of the United states
on the public edifices, and haul down the
flag that floats to the breeze from the dome
of this Hall.
It becomes my duty to transmit to you
an answer, which is the uni-’ersal senti
ment of my constituents, no less than the
prompt inge of my
licai t, on this
X—Exemptions.
19. Persons claiming exemption from
! military duty tinder this act, shall he re
quired by the enrolling officer to make oath
that they tire lawfully exempt under the i and solemn occasion.
! act of Congress and shall he furnished i The city is without the means of de-
by him with a certificate of such exemp- fence, and utterly destitute of the force or
material that might enable it to resist the
overpowering at inament displayed in sight
! tion.
Tliv Deal!: of .Airs. l.iiirolia'N Rrolhrc.
Among the many names of those who
fell upon the bloody field of Shiloh, while
| gallantly fighting for the independence of
| the South, we find that of S. D. Todd,
brother of the wife of the Y’ankee Presi-
dc ;nt. If either Lincoln or his wife had
shown themselves to be possessed of the
j ordinary sensibilities of human nature, we
i should not envy their feelings when* they
learn of the death « f tlieir brother at the
! hands of the Northern mercenaries. We
are aware that Lincoln is profuse in his
tears when he deems proper to indulge in
! such luxuries. He wept when Ellsworth
I was killed, shed great tears of anguish
j over the body of Col. Baker, and sobbed
for joy over the commander of the Moni-
j tor; but we do not believe he will have one
tear of regret to shed when the intelligence
of the death of the brave Todd reaches
j him.
Mrs. Lincoln is of such a sympathi
zing nature that she felt compelled to put
i on mourning out of respect to the memory
| of the husband of the Queen of England;
j but notwithstanding this we find her,
| within a few days after dearth had entered
! her own household and carried way her
I children, gi-viu^ a bail so magniflcient in
all its appointments, that even tk« Yan-
! kees themselves were constrained to
j cry out shame. The president and his
| wife turned tlieir backs upon the graves of
10. Persons liable to military service
under this act, and not in service on the
16th day of April, may. until the 17th
day of May next, volunteer in corps here
tofore authorized to be raised by the. Sec
retary of War, or by the Executive of any
State, as part of the quota thereof, in pur
suance of a call made upon such State by
the President, Persons authorized to
raise such corps, who may not on that day
have the necessary number of men en
rolled and mustered into service according
to the terms of tlieir authority, will pro-
ceedwitli their men to a camp of instruc
tion in their respective. States, and will
deliver their muster rolls to the comman
dant thereof.
11. The commandants of such corps
as are completed on or before the 17th
day of May, and not otherwise ordered,
will report to the commandants of the
rectnits of their respective States, and
with tlieir corps will he placed by him in
a camp of in-truction, and reported imme
diately to the department. Such corps
will be under the command of the cotnmad-
ants of recruits in their respective States
and will be prepared for the field in like
manner with the recruits, until removed
from the camp. They will only be moved
under orders from the department from
the CommandingTjIeneral of the army, or
in urgent cases, from the Commanding
General of the military department in
which the camps may be situated; and in
such cases report will immediately be
made to the department by the officer in
command of the camp.
IV—Additional corps—Guerilla scrrice.
12. Under the prohibition of this act
against t lie organization of new corps, no
further authority fo« that purpose can be
given except specially provided for in the
act ot «'ongress entitled “An Act to ntgan-
ze bands of Partisan Rangers.” For this
of it. 1 ain no military man, and possess
no authority beyond that of executing the
municipal laws of the City of New Or
leans.
It would be presumptuous in me to lead
an army to the field, it I had one at com
mand ; and 1 know still less how to sur
render an undefended place, held, as this
is, at the mercy of your gunners and mor
tars. To surrender such a place, were an
idle and unmeaning ceremony. The city
is yours by the power of brute force—not
by my choice, or the consent of its inhabi
tants.
It is for you to determine what will be
the fate that awaits us here. As to hoist
ing any other flag than the flag of our own
adoption and allegiance, let me say to you
that the mail lives not in our midst whose
hand and heart would not be palsied at
the mere thought of such an act; nor could
I find in my entire constituency so wretch
edand desperate a rfenegade as would dare
to profane with his bauds the sacred em
blem of our aspirations.
Sir, you have manifested sentiments
which would become one engaged in a
better cause than that to which you have
devoted your sword. I doubt not but
llliU ill o. V cpiring from tko unblc tllOUglltS
of a deluded nature, atul I know how to
appreciate the emotions which inspire
them.
. ... , You will have a gallant people to ad-
mdii ge in revelry and | minister during your occupation of this
gayelx’, and we cannot therefore expect - - -
; that tlu-y will receive the news of tl
death of a brother with any other feeling
1 than that of indifference. That brother
; lias given his life to heat back the despot
j ism which his own brother in law seeks
j to establish in the South, and liis blood
| will cry out from the earth for vengeance,
: until Lincoln like lus renowned exampler
Cain, shall utter in tones of bitter anguish,
“my punishment is ^greater than I can
. bear.”—Montgomery Advertiser, April
! 23d.
The ttiinlir Scum.
’1 lie very precarious and unhappy con-
; <lition in which the Unionists of the Bor-
j der States find themselves, cannot be bet
ter illustrated than in the following, told
j by Prentice himself, i n a late number of
The abolitionists bate the border States
as good people bate file devil. This is
manifest enough. As an amusing illustra-
1 tion of the fact, a very distinguished mem-
! her of the Kentucky legislature who vis
ited Washington several weeks ago, tells us
| that the abolitionist Cheever in his aboli-
: tion discourse at the capital, reserved in
his “particular thunder” for the communi
ties, which with strong reminiscence of his
: native Down East, he styled the ‘B-a-r-
j d-e-r States,” and which he served up for
the. declaration of his mainly abolition au
dience with a reckless pungency not sur
passed even by that which in the days of
j "Deacon Giles’ distillery” won for this
reverend libeller a cell in the jail of Salem
Mr, Cheever, herein at least, is a fair rep
resentative of his class. They all hate
the B-a-r-d e r States” with a rancor un
checked by honesty or truth.
Gen. Mansfield Lovell, in command of
the forces at New Oileans, was born in
the District ofColumhia, and is of a Mary
land family. Three of his brothers are in
the Confederate service.
ity—a people sensitive to all that can, in
the least affect their dignity and self-re
spect. Pray, sir, do not fail to regard their
susceptibilities.
The obligations which I shall assume in
their names, shall be religiously complied
with. You may trust tlieir honor, though
you might not count on their submission
to unmerited wrongs.
In conclusion, 1 beg you to understand
that the people of New Orleans, while un
able to resist your force, do not allow
themselves to be insulted by the interfer
ence of such as have rendered themselves
odious by the dastardly desertion of our
cause in the mighty struggle in which we
are’engaged, or such as might remind them
too painfully that they are the conquered
and you the conqueror. ,
Peace and order may be preserved with
out n rcoort to measures which which I
could not at this moment prevent, lour
occupying the city does not transfer their
allegiance, from the Government of their
choice to one which they have repudiated,
and that they yield simply that obedience
which the conqueror is entitled to extort
from the conquered.
Respectfully,
[Signed]
JOHN F. MONROE, Mayor.
Postmasters Appointed.—In an official list of ap
pointments (anj re-appointments) lately pub
lished, we find the following names of postmas
ters : «
Solomon Cohen, Savannah, G.a.
Atkinson T. Hardin, Rome, G:i.
Thomas C. Howard. Atlanta, Ga.
Wm. T Groves, Marietta Gn.
Edmond Richardson, Albany, Ga.
Martin A. Rowdoin, Griffin, Ga.
Ezt-ki<-l S. Candler, Milledgeville, Ga,
Win Wood*, Madison, Ga.
Washington Poe, Macon, Ga.
Alfied Huger, Charleston, S. C.
the flames in fr mt of Fredericksburg last week poop visible. The wind being fresh from
by toe rebels themselves, fearing that she might tl)e g £ cause( J t ], e p00 p to take fire, but
fail into the hands of Gen McDowell s army. . ,. . , c 1 u
[Baltimore American. ty thls tl,ne ,h e powerful floating engine,
worked by 100 hands, poured tons and
Arrired here.—Mrs Brownlow, wife of W. G. tons of water upon the burning timbers.
Browulow. and Mrs. Maynard, wife of Horace and in twenty minutes the fire was subdu-
Maynard. with tln-ir fauitlies, arrived here on Sat- c( j ] t ; s impossible to attach too much
urday-night from Tennessee, en route to Fortress . . . , r . i i. l c
MoDroe, and thence to the North to join their hna- importance to tins undoubted proof of
bands, in obedience to an order of the Coufedetate wliat a giinbcfat like the Stork, can do
authorities: that they should be conveyed outside against the enemy’s linc-of-battle ship.
the Southern lines. They were uuder escort of — - - -
Lieut. Mosby, of the Confederate army. PARTISAN RANGERS.
LLynchburg Hepi.bllrau.
. We publish, this morning, the recent
Exciting Pm-tiaan Adventure. act of Congress, authorizing the raising
We learn that the gallant Ashby, a few days ago. an( ] bringing into service, of bands of par-
wliilst falling back before the enemy, who pursued __ ri-i • - „ „, .
along the valley turnpike, alighted to aid a few men tizan ian 0 etS. 1 his IS a most attiactive
branch of the service to men of courage
and enterprise, and the condition of affairs
now in this State, is most inviting for the
operation of such hands. Now is the time
for the three fighters, the men of dash and
daring. Let the fox-hunters, and moun
taineers, and woodsmen, and the brave and
adventurous everywhere unite into squads,
choose their leaders and fall to work. This
in destroying the bridge across the Shenandoah. The
last caisson of bis artillery bad thundered by, nnd the
Yankee cavalry pursued so closely that a number bad
crossed the bridge before it could be destroyed.:—
Springing upon tiis noble grey charger, Ashby sped
along the turnpike, followed by eight of the enemy,
llis pistols were, unfortunately, empty, and he had no
resource but flight. The chase continued for nearly
two miles, the YunkeesWringat him us they ran. As
heneared a place of snletv, two of the Yankees who
had outstripped the rest were nearly abreast of him,
when one of them was shot by some of bis inen, and
the other was killed by Ashby with liissabre.
During the latter part of the chase, a shot fired by
listance of nearly half a mil
is the way to achieve individual fame and
render the most effective service.
along range gun at
struck his horse in his side. The faithful" auimal con
turned with unabated speed and saved bis rider, but An Act to organize hands aj partiZ(til ran
the wound was mortal. He was led along the line of j „
a regiment under arms. Onriuformant says he never a cr '•
imagined so magniflcient and sainted an animal. He
was white as snow, except where liis side and legs
were stained with his own blood. His main and tale
were long and flowing, liis eyes and action evinced
distinctly the rage with which he regarded the injury
he had received. He trod the earth with the grandeur
of a wounded lion, and every soldier looked upon him
with sympathy and admiration. He laid saved h
master at the cost of his own lit
conscious of his achievmant, and only to regret death
because his own injuries were not avenged—Our in
formant says lie is aware it may be considered extrav
agant to attribute such intelligence to mi animal, but
really, it made tbe same impression upon all that be-
held him.—kick. Whig.
A Fight nt Cumberlnnd, Tennessee.
Richmond, May 1 —A despatch from Knox
ville states ihatau engagement occurred at Cum
berland on the &fth uit., in which the Confeder
ate b.ss was trifling, and in which the enemy was
repulsed with considerable loss in killed and
wounded.
Section 1. The Congress of the Con
federate States of America do-enact. That
the President he and he is hereby authori
zed to commission such officers as.he may
deem proper, with authority to form bands
He ahnisTseemed °f Partizan Rangers, in companies, battal
ions or regiments," either as infantry or
cavalry, the companies, battalions or regi
ments to be compos.ed, each of such num
bers as the President may approve.
Sec, 2. De it further enacted, that such
Partizan Rangers, after being regularly
received into the service shall be entitled
to the same pay, rations and quarters, du
ring their term of service, and be subject
to the same regulations as other soldiers.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That for
The Federals have been reinforced by eight any arms and munitions of war captured
regiments, and have completed a floating bridge f roin t j ie enemy by any body of Partizan
over the Cumberland river. Gen. Morgan is com- iii*
mandiug the Federal forces. Rangers, ant delivered to the Quartermas-
It is believed that the enemy will attempt to ter at such place or places as may be de
make a flank movement.
We have no other news here of interest.
■ f Ihr City be Captured, whnl then t
Well, saving the discredit to our cause, and its
effect of the West and beyond the Atlantic, and
will be to tbe enemy a boothless victory and will
get no cotton, Every pound of it wiil have been
burnt. The arrangements in relation to this
matter, we believe, are complete, and not a halo
will be saved for his use from the am ill stock in
our presses and on shipboard. Apart of it has
been already destroyed. Tbe destruction of the
remainder will not be less certain—what else can
the enemy get 1 He can get no bullion, unless
signated by a Commanding General, the
Rangers shall he paid their full value in
such manner as the Secretary of War may
prescribe.
Approved April 21, 1862.
Richmond Whig.
Hrroiftin of Nrw OrlrniiM,
The defiant attitude of New Orleans, in
the face of the enemy’s gunboats and of
the brutal threat to shell the city, rises to
moral sublimity. The Confederate flag
will but little. He can get little or no tobacco.
He will get few arms or munitions. He may get
some sugar and molasses, but an inconsiderable
amount of either; and more than this he will only
get possession of the city’.
But rut bono ? All its able bodied men will have
quit it for the camp, where they will learn how to
get revenge for their temporary humiliation, and
whence they will be ready to drive the enemy out !
at the first opportune moment. Without cotton. 1 he
he steals family plate; and even of that he will find was kept proudly flying over the City Hall,
and to the demand of the Federal com
mander that it should be hauled down, tire
high spirited Mayor, speaking the voice of
a noble constituency, is reported to have
said : “Send a force to take it down. No
man in New t frleans is so despicable as to
i he willing to perform the degrading task.”
citizens stand with unblenched
without munitions, without prisoners, and with cheeks, awaiting to see if the enemy, im-
determined army threatening him in the interior, j po tent to take the citv by a storming par-
! ty.,»-in.be so Vile,... U the «r. .heller
This is the object which we should effect at of their iron clad vessels, to bombard tbe
whatever sacrifice it may require The question city and lay it in ashes. Such heroism is
should not be, how little shall the enemy■injure , better for our cause than a victory in the
us. but how little sfiali our conquest benefit him. r i 1 t* i . . , J
Better sacrifice everything—presses, warehouses ^ demonstrates Ibe unconquerable
and foundaries—than that he should seize even | will ofour people. It gives hope and en-
one halo of cotton or a single hogshead of tobac- ! coragement throughout tiie Confederacy,
for it is an assurance that no extremity ot
misfortune can dishearten our people-that
independence is the princeless boon, in
comparison with which, all other consid
erations shrink info insignificance. A
heap of smouldering ruins—a city desola
ted and laid waste, where but yestejday
all was comfort and happiness, are less ter
rible to heroic hearts than the gilded
chains of slavery.
The Yankee invader, though his malig
nant spirit is capable of any enormity of
tered with the public, is a sacred one, and every j cr i me> s l ir j„ks from encountering the de-
mie Georgian will be ready to seal it with his . , .• e »• , . , . b .
b]oo( j. J testation of enlightened nations—not from
One thing more remains to be done, and then j capacity to feel shame, hut from a craven
we shall be ready to measure arms with the ene H dread of the political consequences. A
people like ours, who-can nerve them
selves to the heroism of sacrificing a splen
did city, rather than bow their pecks to
the yoke of the oppressor, must stand forth
tn the world as a shining proof of invinci—
Havnnnah Merer In br Murrcaiilrrrd.
We are rejoiced to be able to announce that
Brigadier General Lawton lias determined under
no rircumst .Dees to surrender the city into the
hands of the enemy, but to defend it to the last
xtremity. This determination was formally com
municated to the Mayor yesterday; whereupon
a special ftieetingof Council was called, and a res
olution unanimously adopted to give all the sup
port in their power to the heroic purpose -
We like this ivay of setting out when a peo
ple are struggling for their home and firesides
against a ruthless invader. The bond thus en-
my. Let the commanders of our various batter
ies call together their respective garrisons and
swear them never to abandon a gun so long as
it sets ou its carriage, and a soldier is left to man
Twelve inches of snow fell at Philadelphia on
of the night of tbe 9th ult.
With this spirit to animate ns, we shall save
Savannah and illustrate Georgia by driving hack
tiie enemy from her shores, lie it ours to turn
hack this tide ot disaster that is now sweeping
over our devoted land, and by our example give
hope and confidence to the country. Our cause
needs some bold, dashing act of heroism, and why
should not Georgians he the men to erect the pib
lar of fire to guide their countrymen through the
wildi-ritess, and on the path to independence? In
other states they stand foremost among the brave
defenders of tbeir country, and no battle has
been lost in which they bore a part Is less to
be said of them when they are called to fight
around their owu hearthstones and household
gods? We hope not.
[Sar. Republican.
FORT MACON SURRENDERED.
Wilmington, N. C., 29th—Fort Macon surren
dered conditionally on Sunday last. A portion
of the garrison arrived here at twelve o’clock last
night. It is reported that Col, White saved all
; he public papers Tiie officers were allowed their
side arms. Will give you the particulars as soon
as we can gather them. Seven Confederates are
reported killed and a number wounded
Journal.
Special Dispatch to tbe Southern Confederacy.
Chattanooga, May 3.—No Yankees this side of
Stevenson. All gone to Huntsville. Genera
Price is after them there. This is reliable.
W. A. FULLER.
ble determination. It is an inspiring ex
ample that will brace every arm and cheer
every heart in tbe Southern Confederacy.
It is a pledge of ultimate triumph. The
enemy baffled and disappointed while suc
cess seemed within their grasp, will at last
find that they waste blood and treasure in
vain. Their very conquests, will yield
them no revenues, but be a source of in
creased expenditure and ultimate exhaus
tion.
New Orleans may at last fall—Forts
Jackson and 8t. Philip may be rendered
untenable all the wafers and shores of
the great \ alley of the Mississippi may
pass uuder the control of the enemy—but
the spirits of its brave inhabitants will re
main as free as the breezes that sweep over
its hills and highlands. The enemy will
find in the end that the destruction 'of all
i lie cities of the South docs not constitute
the conquest of the country.— Constitution
alist 29th ult.
The United States Treasury Department will
soon be able to issue ten millions of legal tender
daily.
outrages recently perpetrated on the low- the Convention a..o much important businessV ag
er Peninsula by the infamous vandals now tracsacte i. It was determined :o contiuu* Mer-
in possession of that portion of V .rgima.- from tuiti#n is larRtl> . reJu p Cttd t)y tIu J“ W: ‘~
We would ftiin hope, lor the sake ot nil- there is an investment of about j n ’
inanity, that those acts of barbarity were class paying securities which make’s the College
avenge the wrongs of tbe defenceless peo- course, whilst Professors Tucker, HiU )er an l
pie now ovei run by a foe far worse than suspend their engagements with the in.
the Goths and \ andals of historic inta- Notwithstanding the embarressments giowin-
my. j out of the war between four and five thousand
The first on the list given us is Capt. dollars were paid over during the session t o tho
Sam’l Holley, whoresided in the lower i d'^rent benevolent enterprizes under the patron-
end of Warwick county, a gentleman |
about 55 years of age of the highest re- *es from Messrs Hornady, DeVotie.aud Weibom
spectability, and universally esteemed by a collection was t»ken up amounting to foyd
his neighbors. His residence was invaded , V? eld j? b ’: ;
by a lot of Yankee officers, who introduced „ow operating chiefly amonV",mZldiers; W an*r ad*
themselves by a brutal proposition to ! dresses from Doctors Brantley and Crawford
Capt. II.’s two daughters, both young | upwards of four' hundred dollars were collect-
and beautiful ladies. \\ bile endeavoring n . , , ,
o 1 lie Committee on state of the country reported
to accomplish tlieir designs h^ foicc, the resolutions re-affirming the patriotic resolves of
indignant father shot one of the demons j the last year, and declaring the intention of th e
dead, and had taken aim at another, when j “embers to sustain the Government with all their
he was instantly killed * ! power, moral and pecuniary, in the tremendous
Do w as instantly Ktiieu. struggle which is now in progress O n t
Mr. John Patrick, who lived near W ar- ■ • ■ - - - un t e
wick Court House, was killed last week
by a party of the invaders, while endeavor
ing to save an only daughter from a fate
worse than death. Deceased was a pious
and consistent member of the Baptist
Church, and we understand had for a long
time filled the post of deacon. He was
nearly sixty years of age.
resolutions the Convention invite a votefrom the
audience present Every man, woman and child
in the house immediately arose in favor of the
measure.
It was mentioned as a gratifying fact that the
Indian tribes among whom the missionaries of the
Convention have been laboring tor some years, had
warmly espoused the Southern cause and were
giving evidence in the most satisfactory manner
of their patriotism.
The pulpits of different churches in the villao- a
Mr Edwards Harwood, who also resided were occupied ou Sunday by members of the t'on-
in the vicinity of Warwick Court House, ! y entl °"; ^. n tl "‘ morn '“K ty Crawford preachy
, • in the babtist church. Dr. Brantley Drench, d i,
was brutally murdered a few days since, ^ the Methodist church, and Rev. A.j jH„n,
while defending his honor.
"V IT I ” " *’ " V - " ■ AA «« II11XI D.tO|T
_ >V C were un- ; in the Presbyterian church. Tiie next ses-ion is
able to ascertain the particulars of this ! to be held in Griffin, in April, 1S63.—Atlanta
ItUigtnctr.
case.
The fourth and last victim to the lust of j 7 7
.i j t„ Human Mature.—hor the benefit of tho neonle
these worse than demons who now infest j of the pregent day we make the following extract
that section ot ^ irginia, was Mr - I homas from volume three of Macaulay’s History of Ene’
R. Dunn, of York county, who resided ; land:
- - - It is the nature of man to overrate present evi],
and to underrate present good; to long for wliat ha
has uot, and to be dissatisfied with what he has.
This propensity, as it appears to individuals, has
often been noticed both by laughing and weepin-'
philosophers. It was a favorite theme of Horace
, . , - c and Pascal, of Voltaire and Johnson. To its in.’
to us as having been a gentlemen ofuuiver- , rtlienceoI1 the fate G f the great communities may
Sal and deserved popularity. HlS age be ascribed most of the revolutions and couuter-
was forty five years. j revolutions recorded in history. " * *
These are the scoundrels who profess to i tyyvn to the present hour rejoicing like those on
. ~ p r a the shore of the Ked Sea have ever been sDpedilv
have come South for the purpose or restor- , f Q j| owe j i,y murmuring at the waters of S:rite. The
ing the Union and defending the old J most just and salutary revolution cannot produce
fla«\The accursed calender of their crimes i all the good that has been expected from it hv men
exceeds in enormity any we have over ! f unin.tn.cted minds and sanguine tempers.
, J — , r> , / Even the wisest cannot,.while it ;s still recent
been called upon to record.—J etersourg vve jg b quite fairly tiie evils which it has removed!
Express. \ For the evils which it lias caused are felt, and the
a.c_ evils which it has removed are felt no longer.
near Harwood’s Mill. He died in defence
of his much beloved daughter, who was
being outraged by a Yankee officer. He
killed the monster, hut was in turn quick
ly killed himself. Mr. Dunn is represented
Confederate Currency
The Charleston Couriei says, and says
Good For the Spirits in //’or Times.—If there be
j 1,v ' 7 7’r . ' ’ . 7i i a man amongst us whose heart fails, let that ner-
truly, “if Confederate Notes are not worth , i0I| lvtire in ^ 0 t , 1B c: „ s ,. t an , reill withuut ce J"
their face value, then there is not a dollar s . tbe history of the old Revolution. He will see
worth of property in the Confederate ! there weak colonies divided amongst themselves.
States; then the whole cotton crop of the j |. n eacl * o! ttieraa la [7t° lor .v population fighting
South will be seized by the invader, then j “
Lincoln’s recommendation to liis Congress , an( j fortifications, without a single failure,
will be adopted and enforced, and all tbe Whole States oven un with their armies; our gen-
lands of Southern people will be parcelled
out among Northern soldiers.”
This is mul/uin in porro, and it is the du
ty as well as the interest, of every property
holder in the South, be be banker, planter,
merchant, stock holder, or owner of prope-
ty of any description, especially negroes, tq
maintain the credit of Confederate currency.
He. who would repudiate it, or, for the sake
of gain, would depreciate its face value acs
as an enemy to the Confederacy, and does
just, wlmt the Lincoln government would
pay liberally for, if it could find agents in
the South to do so treasonable a work.
Our people should understand this matter,
and when they see individuals engaged in
the business of depreciating Confederate
Notes, it would do no harm to enquire into
the motives that actuate them, and, if poss
ible, pursuade them to abandon a pursuit
that does incalculable injury to the com
mon cause.— Intelligencer.
erals defeated ofiener t: an successful, and bavi
too, bitter and deadly feuds with one another
Tr? ason and bribery was rife, and sordid souls
w'ere crying “beef, beef, beef!” For seven loo a
years this almost hopeless darkness brooded over
the country, and the people suffered, and labored
and hoped until there appeared for them tbe dawn
of the brightest age o f tbe world. Then if he con-
t'asts that picture with ours, and feels a touch of
shame that a doubt could have entered his mini,
let him pray for strength, and go forth a better
patriot.
Rea. Price’s Adilrr«*.
Headq’rs Adj’t Gen’s Office, Mo.,)
Des Arc, Ark, April 6,18G2. j
Tiie resignation of Sterling Price. Major-Gener
al of the Missouri State, Guards, has been received,
and is hereby accepted, to take effect from this
date. The Commander-in G'kief takes this occa
sion tiysexpress his sincere tegret to the Missouri
State Guards at the loss of so gallant, experincej
an officer from their councils, and to encourage
them in such a performance of their duties in the
future as will keep bright the fame they have so
uobly won under his leadership.
By order of the Governor.
WARWICK HOUGH,
Adjutant General of Missouri.
Headquarters Missouri State Guard, I
Des Arc, Ark., April 8, Isfid. j
Soldiers of the State Guard :
I command you no longer, j have tliis day re
signed the commission which your patent endu
rance. your devoted patriotism, and your daunt
less bravery have made so honorable. I have
[From the Knoxville (Tenn.j Register.)
Defeat of Slaniprdrrs—lOO Killed and
XVonndrd—423 PriMoner* Brought in.
Yesterday afternoon the streets of Knox
ville had quite a martial appearance. A-
bout 3 o’clock in the afternoon, Captain
Ashby’s Command brought in the 423 pris
oners captured in Campbell county—East
„ 1 „ i • .1 • _ . j done tins that I may better serve you, our State.
I ennessee renegades making their way to j aild eur L .ountry-that I may the sooner lead you
back to the fertile praires, the rich woodlands and
the majestic streams of our beloved Missouri—
that I may the mere certainly restore you to your
once happy homes, and to the loved ones
there.
Five thousand of those who have fought side by
side with us, under the grizzly bears of Missouri,
have followed me into the Confederate camp.
They appeal to you, as I do, by all the tender
memories of the past, not to leave us now, but to
go with us wherever the path of duty may load.
Kentucky to join the cutthroat invaders of
their homes. W e have never seen a more
impressing or sorrowful cavalcade upon the
streets of Knoxville than was presented by
these crest fallen and deluded men, and |
their captors and guards.
We have the particulars front an officer
engaged in the fight. The tory stamped-
ers consisted of 600 or 700 men, most of
them young, robust and athletic fellows.-- j till we shall have couqueieda peace and won our
About 300 were armed with rifles and shot ! j ) ! ( il | ) eP j]“ d,>Kce t,rilllant deeds n P° n lle ' v
guns, the rest with pistols, knives and | “soldiers of the State Guard! Veterans of six
rune weapons. ; pitched battles and nearly twenty skirmishes
The attacking force consisted of about 70 | Conquerers in them all ! Your country, with its
cavalry, under command of Capt. Henry ! “ruined hearths and shrinea,” calls upon you to
AM.L., i„ v _ /-1- t • tt ii 5-i-u • , rally once more in her defens-, and rescue ui.
Ashby, including Captain Hall Gillespie s j for / ver from the terrible thraldom which threatens
company, under command of Lieut. King • her.—I know she wiii not call in vain. The inso*
Capt. Bradley’s company had been de- lent and barbarous hordes which have darsd to iii-
tailed to Big'Creek Gap, to guard that ! vadc °. , T soil . and desecrate pur ll0m ; s : l i?! e . jU ! 1
r ; met with a single overthrow beyond the Misstssip-
’ . , pi. Now is the time to end this unhappy w» r ;
1 he attack was made by Lieutenant i if every man will but do his duty, his own roc’
Gibbs and Owens, of Ashby’s company, in will shelter him in peace from the storms of th«
the rear, of the stampeders. The engage- i C0 “ in P winter. ,
j- „i i , n't ° Let not history record that the men who burs
ment lasted lor about an hour. ll.ree w ith patience the privations of Cowskin., rairie.
hundred ot the Lincolmtes took refuge in who endured uncomplainingly the burning lvats
a barn near the sceene of the encounter, and | of a Missouri summer, and the frosts and sum's
here it was that the Confederate party re- 1 of a Misso » ri "inter; that the men who met the
v 1 J l enemy at Carthage, at Oak Hill, at Fort Scott, at
celled tllC most damage. Lexington, and in numberless lesser battle fields
! in Missouri, and met them but to conquer them"
Texas and the Confederacy. ! that the men who fought so bravely and so well *t
Now that the enemy is struggling for the ! Klkhorn ,- ,bat the u, . , ' ,aid . 8oldi . er8 ./ >f
. , e.i lf . ri. . ,,. 00 s’ were, after so many victories, and after so 2i“ l “
control ot tho Mississippi River, the great suffering, unequal to the great task of achieving
State of Texas may be, for a time at least, ! the independence of their magnificent Slate,
cut off from communication with her sister Soldiers. 1 I go but to mark a pat .way to oor
States, and forced to depend upon her own i ,lonus- lolll ” v me-
resources, in men and material, for her ow n
defence. But there is probably no one State
that can better afford to take care of her
self. She has a voting population of about
STERLING PRICE
Richmond, 3rd—Authentic information from
Orleans received by telegTnpli, says that the tr^P-
at Fort Jackson mutinied had spiked the guns, *
Gen. Duncan surrendered. The Louisiana was
Fort St. Philip, unmanageable, and received a ’ >r " a
65,000, and a fighting population of at : - . : arv .
ion nnn ti?;.i ° i« r . T .. j side at the distance ol thirty feet, without -U .
least 100,000. ^ Y\ it 11 a Mexican, Indian { she was then blown up by Commander Mdutcsii.
and Coast frontier of great extent to pro- i !ia,i a " arm a,| d h’K blown off. About thirteen ot
•«*-‘“.J*; »• '">»*■- «b« th.n her jlyTSirJiSS.'li
own sons, within ner borders, though the j herdnaa. The enemy is believed to he in full p 4
gallant Texans have shed lustre upon the si qn «fjhe city.
fame of their State on every battle field
’The French commander of the Mditair
tice that lie required sixty days before the bo®
gave
the
bardment, to remove tin- French citizens. Thu
before the surrender. The citv quiet. Great exi
I ment prevails: The people fully loyal. :
All the cotton and shipping at New Orleans
are 1 Batton Rouge were destroyed. 32,0*11* bale
l cotton were burned.
Gov. Le’clier announces by a proclamation
of the war. We are informed, on good
authority, that Texas has now in the field
forty-four full regiments of infantry, caval
ry and artillery. Of these, seventeen
enlisted for the war, and ten more
about to do likewise. These regtoems.! “U \%STb- 1 -
numbering, in the aggregate, ever forty rejected by 78 majority. , . .j,.
thousand men, have all been raised with- i I n Batb country, Va., on the20zh nit., a e _
out recourse to draft. With a population of cavairy ‘ capture . d . a y; a ‘"//;',' r ,",^olen
KO hardier j i ” K , , heavily loaded with provisions and st‘■
SO nardly, patriotic and brave, With her by a maraudind party of Yankees-also !b hor.-^
teepimg soil and her boundless resources in Six Yankees were killed, seven wounded,
provisions of every kiud, there can be no el K ht capUmtL The rest dispersed an
of heireif t x?i C ii £a tI Wi11 ^ aCC J ° Unt Pe R i« slated positively that the Yankees are rg
t herself, while the rest of the Confedera- ing from the Valley of Virginia, and Stcne
cy is struggling in the grip of the great Yan- I Jackson in pursuit ot them. They * ,aT ’’
kee Anaconda.— Charlston Mercuric Staunton. It is beleived they are e’ r
Aitrcury. Winchester. Tbe Federals who approached ^
CHOLERA AND DYSENTERY.—All persons j ton from the northwest are also falang « • ^
living in districts subject to these prevailing epi- I Richmond, 2d.—An official dispatch ns ^
deinica should by all means keep a full supply received at the War Department, dated J-
of Jacob s Cholera, Dysentery and Diarrhoea Cor- 1st inst., which says ‘ We have reta ' ,|,,n
dial. It s a sure cure and a warranted remedy. | bia and Decatur. Mitchell bas not- m
B^rSalo by Grieve* Clark also by Herty and ( ^“nemy «"Sor front, *• *
49 It. prepariug to meet him-”