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,[No. 16.]
AN ACT to Regulate the compensation cf Mem
bers of Congress.
Pec 1 The Congress of the Confederate States
*of America do enact; That the compensation r
each Senator. Repr sentat/v *..4 delegate in
■ tlWi.Myyii llir.inrt'verity seven hundred and six-
tv dollars for each year, and mileage at .he rate
of I
of twenty cent- |'< r m.le for each session to b
paid in manner tollow.ng, to w.t: On the first
day of the first session of each Congress, or as
soon thereafter as he may be in attendance and
apply each Senator, Representative and Delegate
shall receive his mileage and ail his compensation
from the beginning of his term, to b* computed
at the rate ot two hundred and thirty dollars per-
month; and during the session, compensation at
the same rat-. And on the first day of the sec
ond or any subsequent session he shall receive
his mileage aforesaid and all eompensation which
halt secured .iffriog the adjournment nt the rate
aforesaid;and during said session compensation at
* the same rate: Provided no member shall receive
mileage for more than two sessions of any Con
gress unless more than twenty days shall elapse
betwen the adjournment of one session and
the beginning of another.
Sec 2 1 hat the President of the Senate pro
temporewhen there shall be noVice President,
or the Vice President all have become the Presi
dent ef the Confederate States, shall receive the
^ compensation allowedly law tor the Vice Presi
dent; and the Speaker^ the Mouse of Represen
tatives -hall receive doulje the compensation
above provided for Representatives, payable at
the times and in the manner above provided for
payment of the compensation of Representa
tives. * •
Sec. 3. Tlint this law shall apply to the present
Congress: and each Senator, Representative and
Delegate shall be entitled to receive the difference
only be.tweeu their per diem compensation al
ready received under the law now in force, and
the compensation provided by- this act.
Sec- 4 That it shall be the duty of the Com
mittee on Pay and Mileage and the Secretary of
the Senate, respectively, to deduct from the month
ly payment of members, as herein provided for,
tin. amount of his compensation for each day that
*m h member shall be absent, without leave, from
the Senate or Mouse respectively, unless such
Senator, Representative or Delegate shall assign
as the reason for such absence the sickness of
himself or of some member of his family.
Approved March 25, 1862.
[No. 17. |
AN’ ACT to Regulate the mode of paying the mem
bers of the Senate and House of representa
tives, and the disbursement of the coutino- - *
gecf’l. The Congress of the Confederate States
of America Jo enact. That the compensation
which shall be due bv law to the member* ««wt
officers of the Senate and House °r 1 ^ e P res ‘ : j
fives of the Confederate »-««.• *» b f
as follows, to wit: That which shall be due to th-
and officers of the Senate ^hal^ be cer-
Miall he due to me ”iriern fiefs "an.T officers of tiie
House shall be certified by the Speaker thereof,
and the same shall be passed as public accounts
and paid out of the public treasury.
-'ec. 2 All certificates granted by the President
and Speaker ns aforesaid, of the amount of com
pensation due as aforesaid, shall be deemed, and
are hereby declared to be conclusive upon all
the departments and officers of the Government
of the Confederate States.
Sec. 3. All moneys which have been or which
may be Inreafter appropriated for the contingent
expenses of the Senate and the House oFRepre-
resentatives, respectively, shall be paid at the
Treasury from time to time, in such sums as the
Prtm&nt of the Senate and the Speaker of the
Ilo^^uay approve on the requisition and draft
of the Sergeant-at Arms of the Senate and the
the Clerk of the House, respectively, and shall
be kept, disbursed and accounted for by them,
respectively, according to law, who are hereby
deem. \ and declared to bo disbursing offi
cers.
Sec. 4. The said Sergeant at-Arms and Clerk
• shall each within ten days after the passage -of
this act, enter into bonds, with one or more sure-
eties each, to be approved by the Secretary of the
Treasury, in the penal sum of five thousand dol
lars ea.-h, with condition Jor the faithful applica
tion and disbursement of such funds as may come
into their bands, respectively. or may be drawn
from the Treasury, under this or any other act;
which bonds shall be deposited in the Treasurer’s
office, and it shall be the duty of the Sergeant-at
Arms and Clerk, hereafter chosen, to give bonds
as aforesaid, within ten days alter his election and
undertaking the duties theteof and before lie
draw any draft or make any requisition as afore
•aid.
Sec. 5. All payments on account of the com
pensation due by law to the members and officers
of the Senate and House of Representative, res
pectively, shall be by drafts drawn by the Ser-
geant-at-Arms of the Senate Hnd the Clerk of the
House, respectively, on the Treasurer, to be veri
by the certificates of the President of the
I^HLsenate and Speaker of the House afore-
Kd.
Hec 6. The disbursement of the contingent
BH^Kirua m Houses, hereby placed under
jyi«io control of the said Scrgeant-at-Arms and
■^^Hfclerk, respectively, shall, b.-fore payment be ap-
proved by the Committee of Accounts in each of
said Houses respectively.
See. 7. Tlie said Sergeant-at-arms and Clerk
shall regularly submit estimates to their, respec
tive Committee on Accounts, and no disbursement
of the contingent funds of either House shall be
audited by said committees except in accordance
with such estimates.
Sec 8. The said Sergeant at-Arms and Clerk
shall, as soon as practicable after the close of the
present and each succeeding session, make up a
tabular statement of all appropriations made dur
ing the session, and also a table or statement show
ing the natnes.atid compensation of the clerks and
officers of each House, together with a detailed
statement of the items of expenditure out of said
contingent funds for the next immediately proceed
ing session; in which statement the disbusemeuts
shall be arranged under the several heads of
printing, stationary,'and so on, until each and
every head of expenditure has been specified and
described, with the cost of every item; and whiefo
statement shall exhibit, also, the several sums
draw n by the said Sergeant at Arms and Clerk,
respectively, from the Treasury, and tlie balances,
if any, remaining in their ! ands. Said Sergeant at-
Arifis and Clerk shall can vs said statement to be
printed and a copy thereof sent to each member
of the Senate and House of Representatives, as
soon as practicable.
Approved Match 2G, 1862.
(No. 18.)
AN ACT to fix the times for holding the Confed
erate Court for the Northern district of Geor
gia
Sec. 1. The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact, That liereafier the Confed
erate Court tor the Northern District of Georgia
shall be held on the first Wednesday in the months
of June and December in each yr-ar.
Sec. 2. That all laws conflicting with this be
and the same are hereby repealed.
Approved March 28, 1802
(No. 20 )
AN ACT to enable the States assuming the pay
ment of their (Quotas of the war tax to pay the
same into the Treasury.
The Congress of th* Confederate States of
America, do enact, That if any State which has
agreed to assume the payment of her qno'a of
the tax imposed by the act approved August 19th
1061. entitled “ an net to authorize the issue of
Treasury notes, and to provide a War Tax for
their redemption,” shall not have been furnished
with a correct collated list of the taxes assessed on
the people of such States before the first day of
April 1*62, the Secretary of the Treasury shall
agree with the Governor of such State upon the
probable amount of such assessment, and the
State shall be entitled to pay the same, l»-ss ten
per centum, m like manner, and with like effect,
as if such payment had been made before the said
first day of April: provided hotrerer, that when the
corrected assessment is blade out, such State'shall
pay to the Confederate Government or receive
therefrom, as the case may be, the deficiency or
excess of the correct arnoant due from her on the
assessment, allowing to the Slateion the deduct of
ten per centum on the deficiency if any.
Approved April 2, 1862.
• (No. 2!.)
AN ACT to autliorize the Pre; i lent to increase
his personal staff.
Sec. 1. The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact, that during the existing war
the President may ss Commander-in-chief of the
forces, appoint, at his discretion, for his personal
staff,four aides de-camp, in addition to the num
ber now allowed by law, with the rank, nay and
allowances of a Colonel of Cavalry.
Approved April 2. 1862.
fNo. 22.)
AN ACT to fix the compensation of the President
of the Confederate Slates.
• Sec, 1. The Congress ot the Confederate States
annual salary ot ,
payable quarterly in advance, to commence on the
twenty-second day of February, eighteen bundled
aud sixty-two, the time at which be entere 1 upon
the duties of his office.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, that until
u -uitable Executive mansion shall be provided
for the President, the rent of ono suited to the
purpose shall be paid by the Government.
Approved April 3, 1862.
(No. 23.)
JOINT RESOLUTIONS relating to the Manner
of paying Members of the provisional Con
gress the arrearages of their pay and mil- i
eage
Resolved, by the Congress of the Confederate i
States of America, that the pay and mileage |
of inembers of the Provisional Congress,, who
have not been paid may he. paid upou certificates
accessaries
ity one thousand five bundled dollars’.
enumerated, four hundred
six .
For contingents
thousand dollars. „
For purchase ofhemp for the Navy, seventy five
thousand dollars .
For support of the Marine Corps (including
Boiintv) two hundred and forty three thousand
and twenty-two dollars.
For co.n itructioa of ironclal vessels in Europe,
two million of dollars
Territorial—For salaries of the Governor and
Commissioner of Indian Affairs and Secretary,
judges, Attorney and Marshal of Arizona Territo
ry, six thousand five hundred and sixty dol
lars. . .
For compensation of members of the legis
lative Assembly of Arizona Territory and pay of
officers twelve thousand dollars.
.,„.v, ..... j .._ r - - For contingent expenses of the legislative as
signed by the Speaker of the House of Represen- ; seinbly o. Arizona Territory including printing
Of your specific inquire*. The enrollment
r , i.nc.ritiiH will he made
i as soon as
tatives, on the recommendation of the House
Committee on pay and mileage, out of any money
appropriated for that purpose.
Approved April 3, 1*62.
the laws five thousand dullais.
For contingent expense of Arizoua Teriity seven
hundred and seveu dollars.
Approved April X 1862.
[No. 25.]
AN ACT to amend an act approved May 10th,1861
entitled “an act to amend an act to provide
for the public defence,” approved March 6th
1861.
. Sec 1. The Congress of the Confederate S’ates
Section 1 The Congress of the Confederate | f Amcri c ado enact .That the act approved May
r a * • .3 _ M'l.«» 41. i «v ... » * *..
(No. 24.)
AN ACT making appropriations for the support
of the Government from April first to the thir
tieth of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-
two, and for objects h* reinafter expressed.
Stales of America do enact, That the following entitled an act to amend an act to
ed March
amended
. ' - # JWIll IGU1, C ii l i 11' VJ ail AV. L to mm-iiu «•
and the same is hereby appropriated, out ! provide for the public defence; approve
inney in tip' ‘1 reasury, not otherwise ap- ^ JisfiJ. be and the same is hereby so
sums be
of any money _ ¥ _
prop'riated, for the support of the Government j j j apply also to companies received into service
from April first to November thirtieth, eighteen fbr duty as Heavy Artillery.
1 Sec. 2. The provisions of this act and of
the act of Mmv loth, 1861. shall extend to all coin
hundred and sixty-two, and for the objects hereaf
ter expressed. ! ,
Legislative—For pay and mileage of Senators, j panics of X-'igrLt anil heavy Arliliery, which are
seventy thousand dollars
For compensation of officers, clerks, <X:c., of the
Senate, eight thousand four hundred and sixty-
seven dollars.
For contingent expenses of the Senate, eight
thousand dollars.
For pay and mileage of members and delegates
of the House of Representatives, three hundred
thousand dollars. - * .•
For printing for Congress, fifteen thousand
four hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty seven
cents.
Executive—For compensation of the President
of the Confederate States, seventeen thousand
dollars. *
For Compensation of the Vice President of the
Confederate States, four thousand dollars.
For cornpeneation of Private Secretary and Mes
senger of ,he President, one thousand three hun
dred dollars'
For contingent, and telegraphic expenses of
the Executive Office, one thousand five hundred
dollars.
For eompensation of the Secretary of the State,
ec^^eq^lit thousand tVo’fit/nlpjh?' aI ' d Messen-
dollars and sixty-seven cents. * s.xly-two
For compensation of the Secretary of the Treas
ury, Assistant Secretary of the, Treasury Audi
tors. Comptroller, Register and Treasurer, and
clerks, messengers and laborers in the Treasury
Department, one hundred and twenty thousaud
dollars.
E” r incidental and contingent expenses of
• tic i rensury DepaM„.. u t, twenty-five mousauo
dollars.
li>r compensation of the Secretary of War, As
sisfant Secretary of War, Chiefs of Bureaus, and
clerks and messengers in the War Department
eighty thousand dollars.
For Commissioners of Indian Affairs, clerks and
messengers, and contingent expenses, four thou
sand dollars.
For Compensation of the Secretary of ihe Navy,
and clerks and messengeis, Ac., fourteen thou
sand six hundred aud four dollars aud forty nine
cents.
For incidental and contingent expenses of the
Navy Department eight thousand dollars.
For compensation of the Postmaster General.
Cffiefs of Bureaus, clerks, messengers and labor
ers in the Post Office Department, fifty thousand
two hundred and thirty two dollars and eighteen ;
cents.
For temporary clerks in the Post Office Depart- j-
ment, eight thousand nine hundred aud thirty-four
dollars and seventeen cents.
For incidential and contingent expenses of .the j
Postoffice Department, eight thousand three !
hundred and thirty-four dollars and seventeen ;
cents.
For compensation of the Attorney General, As- ;
sistant Attorney General, clerks and messengers, i
eight thsusamt two hundred and sixty-six dollars i
and sixty seven cents.
For compensation ofthe superlntendant of Pub- I
lie Printing, and clerks and messenger in bis office ]
two thousand eight hundred and sixty-six dollars ]
and sixty-soven cents.
For incidental and contingent expenses of the
Department of Justice, one thousand cue hundred 1
and sixty six dollars and sixty seven cents.
For printing for the several.Executive Depart-!
ment of the Government, one huu3red and twenty- I
four thousand six hundred and eighty four dol- i
lars and thirty-eight cents.
For rent of Executive Buildings and otliffr i
expenses attending removal of seat of Government j
to Richmond. sev*n thousand dollars.
Judicial,—For salaries of JuJges, Attorneys and
Marshals, and for incidental and contingent ex
penses of Courts, one hundred and seventeen j
thousand dollars.
Miscellaneous—To supply deficiencies in the j
revenue of the Post Office Department, one mil |
lion four hundred and fifty-one thousand six bun
dred and two dollars aud thirty-one cents.
now in. or may be hereafter received into the ser
vice, and all acts or [‘arts of act in conflict there
with are hereby repealed.
Approved Apr& 3 1862.
Lieut. Jolm A. Addison, Private Henry
Bradley. Willie McKnigbt.
The North Carolina Thirleenth. Colonel
A. M. Scales, was badly cut up. Capt.
Baily, of Company K. was severely
wounded, and left on the field. In Com
pany B, out of 53 men, but 25 effective
men were brought out. Captain Irving
was seiiouslv wounded, and Lieuts. Alex
ander and i hompson shared the same fate-
There is hut one commissioned officer mi-
butt. .
The Thirteenth Virginia regiment, Col.
Samuel Garland, suffered very much in
the engagement.
The Nineteenth Mississippi regiment is
said to have suffered very severely.
The First Virginia regiment was bad
ly cut up. Out of 200 men in the fight,
some SO or 90 are reported killed or
wounded.
The Seventeenth Virginia regiment is
said to have suffered very severely.
Several of the Yankee officers were
killed, and many of them taken pnson-
ers.
- Bat lie of Barhamsrillc.
The fight, we have since learned, was
continued on Wednesday, at Barhams-
ville, which is situated on the dividing
line of New Kent and James City coun
ties, and seven miles from Chickahominy
Ri ver. A courier arrived at Richmond,
Wednesday night, who left the vicinity ot
From the R ichmond Examioer.
Destrier/ion off he Virginia Mcrrimac--thc of'Gonsci^iiatwnsTcan be prepared, in
Evacuation of Norfolk.—News reached ieq« ° t hc men now in service
. tl.0 Vircrmia- order _ _ „
here yesterday morning that the Virginia
Merrimac, the pride of the Southern Con
federacy and the terror ofthe Yankee na
vy, had been destroyed about five o clock
Sunday morning by direction, it is suppo
sed ofthe- Confederate authorities.
The crew of Virginia'ariivcd here yester
day morning by railroad from Petersburg.
They report that the vessel was destroyed j ment,
near Cranev island- She was fired m her
wood woik aud abandoned, and, the hre
reaching her magazine, the splendid n,iva
structure was blown to the four winds ot
heaven by a terrific explosion.
We learn that the greatest reluctance
was expressed by the crew oi the "N
to abandon and destroy her without leav
ing some monument of her prowess, and
they expressed a willingness to steam
down to Fortress Monroe to assail that
fortification and to s'and by their guns o
^The'Virginia was provisioned and loaded
with coal to her fullest capacity. Her
armament was the most powerful known
to modern warfare, and she was perfect!)
invulnerable to the combined attacks ot
j the whole enemy*s fleet.
A report was put in circulation vester-
i day evening that the authorities o
government were not responsible tor the
destruction of the \ irginia, and tha e ;''
fate had been determined by a councif
of tlie officers ot the vessel. _
Thc statement put out in official quar
s of age.
who are over years
2. The State troops
stated above.
n Men over 35 years of ago now in ser
vice will be discharged within 90 days
They or others not now in service
bv voluntary
ill be
enlist-
l,v railroad from Petersburg. | !” )t ii/l'icti of Conscript's exempt
US 4 l Volunteering is not not stopped by
the Conscript Bill. By sect ton 13, per
sons liable as Conscripts may volunteer
in any company now in service. You aic
referred specially to Regulations 8 to 11
inclusive. The act approved December
11th, 1S61, proving for the payment of
bounty to volunteers or the war contin
ues in force, , „ r
5 Military officers between IS and 3.)
are embraced by thc Conscription Act.
The quota of each State under existing
laws, will be all liable to military duty
under Act of April 16th.
1 enclose a copy of the act and Regain
tions established for c trrying it into effect
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
J GEO. W. RANDOLPH,
Secretary of War.
ments, our losses is represented as having
l'cr engraving and printing Treasury notes. ^j een 223 in killed and wounded. From
bonds and certificates of slock and for paper
for same, one hundred and twenty thousand dol
lars.
For compensation of agents, cost of materials
and constructing, repairing and operating tele
graph lines, Ac., (act approved May $21, 1861,)
thirty thousand dollars.
For salaries of Chief Collectors and sub-Collec-
tors of the War Tax, two hundred and fifty thou-,
sand dollars.
For Wages of Assessors of War Tax and for
printing, three hundred thousand dollais
For Salaries of Commissioners under the Se
questration Act. and foi clerk hire, and inciden
tal and contingent expenses seven thousand four
hundred and twenty one dollars and eighteen
cents.
For preset ving unfinished work upon the Char
leston Custom House one thousand dollars. *
For tent of Executive Buildings, eleven thou
sand six hundred aud twenty dol’ars.
For the Southern Federal Union.
“Kentucky, Oh, Kentucky!” .
11T J. J- MCKINLEY.
The brand of shame is on 4)iv brow.
And lost to earth, thy solemn vow—
“That, to no Despot would’st thou how,”
Kentucky 1 . Oh, Kentucky'.
And yet, his banner o’er thee waves;
O’er thee, the land of Southern braves :
Where sleep your Heroes in their graves,
Kentucky! Oh, Kentucky!
Oh would to God that thou wort freed,
With us to stand, with us to bleed, •
And make thy name a name indeed,
Kentucky 1 Oh, Kentucky!
Rise in thy might, and burst the chain
Which binds thee now, yet binds in vain,
And be Kentucky once again;
Kentucky! Oh, Kentucky!
Thy.gallant sons will strike for thee;
Wih7 f ur •' 1| e South—strike and be free,
'mite, a nation he;
Kentucky! Oh, Kentucky!
For Breckinridge, thy glm-.,, ,. f
Mourns o’er thy fall,‘with sacrei. *
Yet SWEARS thy thraldom shall be n.u.f.
Kentucky! Oh, Kentucky!
Then rise and join the riome uauo,
Thy sisters of the sunny land.
Thy place’s with them, Oh with them stand,
Kentucky! Oh, Kentucky!
And to the fiendish Despot show,
That God and duty bids thee go,
And bare thy bosom to the foe;
Kentucky!. Oh, Kentucky!
will he t#shiehl,
vas taught to kneel
In supplication, or to yield;
Kentucky! Oh, Kentucky!
With him who is the Southron’s pridt^^
The gallant Morgan—by thy side,
We’ll welcome home as Freedom’s hride,
Kentucky! Oh, Kentucky!
Thy weary exiles shall be home
Back to the lahd for which they mourn;
Kentucky then shall he their own.
Kentucky! Oh Kentucky.
Once more in peace and joy they’ll meet—
Once more the tender welcome, sweet
Will come, to stay their wand’ring feet,
Kentucky will be free,
May 9th, 18f,g>.
The Scw« of Ihe War.
The Crisis of thc Campaign in Virginia—
The Battle of Williamsbmg.
The crisis of the campaign seems at last
to have been reached in Virginia. On
Monday last the enemy appeared in front of
our fortifications at Williamsburg in large
force, and at 2 o’clock. P. M., a battle
commenced, which raged furiously until
dark closed the scene, when the enemy
were in full retreat, and General Stuart’s
Cavalry Brigade* in hot pursuit. The
battle is said to have been one of the fier
cest of the w ar while it lasted, and result
ed in a glorious victory to the Confederate
cause." Although our troops fought a por
tion of the engagement behind entrench-
the scene of action at noun, and brings in- ters yesterday evening is, that on learning
f ..lK^niiAn ll.n* O C 1 ini 11 (T U tl 111 1 IlC.t* aL _ ..... n .iniSnn /if \ fM’ll
telligence that the tight was being conduct
ed in the most terrific manner.
the 'evacuation of Norfolk it was at first
proposed to run the Virginia up the fork
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Our troops were acting most gallantly, r i ve r; that the four pilot# who were consul-
V\’ln*re wc to thee wi
To thee, who ne’er w«
the Virginia papers we gather the follow
ing items in regard to the engagement:
Only a portion of our forces were en
gaged, the great bulk of the Confederates
being several miles in the rear of Wil
liamsburg. The charge of Stuart’s Cav-
^ airy Brigade is said to have been fearful,
i mowing the Hessians down by the score,
j and securing prisoners in large quantities.
Wc captured 900 prisoners and 11 splcn-
I did field pieces. The Federals had ap-
; peared, six thousand strong, aloifg a skirt
| of woods, a short distance from a small for-
l tifieation in our possession, below Wil-
| liagisburg. an varly hour on Alonday
morning General Longstreet despatched a
aud had repulsed the enemy tor the third
time- Both sides were largely reinforced.
The mutual loss is believed to be very
large. At a later hour positive informa
tion was received that the enemy were
landing immense forces from their gunboats
and transports at Bartow’s Mills.
This demonstration of the enemy ap
pears to imply a flank movement with
their transports.
The Richmond Examiner, in alluding
to the opening of the ball in Y irginia,
says:
The battles in the Peninsula, which
may be now considered as joined, are the
most important events that have trans
pired since the settlement of America.
If we ’are successful, and retain Rich
mond, there will he possibility of a
piece before thc Month of June. It we
teflcVsfiff fi ;d,.mid lose Richmond, the Oon-
and.uncertain sea of accidents'!" troubled
Foreign governments can delay action
now only on the ground of a great Federal
success. Seward is at the end of his prom
ises. If the United States fails to take
tlie Capital of this country on the present
trial, and immediately the game is up.—
Already it is declared in New York that
the Southern Confederacy has been recog
nized by France. The news may not he
true, but it is the shadow of the coming
event—-the event that stands at the
door. »
But if Richmond is taken, the United
States can again plead for and again get
delay. The fall of the capital and the
flight of the government would be a strik
ing evidence of power. They would de
clare that before midsummer they would
subdue the remnant of tlie South; they
would be believed ; all the world would
turn a deaf ear to our arguments, and shut
their eyes on a painful struggle which they
would regard as certain to arrive atastra-
gical conclusion. Thc success of the
South would then be difficult, and to be at
tained by desperate means only.
All depends on the preservation of this
city, which depends in turn on the obsti
nacy and persistence of the fighting in the
Peninsula. Nothing should he allowed to
justify an evacuation of Richmond. If
beaten in one battlu another should be be
gun, despite all tlie rules of West Point
and practice of tlie present war. No ex
pense of life, no danger of destruction,
should enter into this calculation. No ef
fort should he spared to inspirit the troops,
to encourage and hold them up, to rivet
their determination not to quit tlie ground
between York river and Richmond. Let.
us Jjope that President Davis and the
Generals will be equal to tliis great crisis.
Let them show themselves in person to
the troops, share their toil, fire their hearts
and lead them to victory.
, The Allnnln Fire.
From the Atlanta papers we glean the
following information concerning the fire
in that city on Sunday last. The fire or
iginated in Wallace’s warehouse, on
Whitehall street. The warehouse con
tained about 1,000 bales of cotton, 500,-
tivn. B. F. Bnller.
General B. F. Butler, the commander of
the division of the Federal army now in
occupation of New Orleans, was a lawyer
of prominence in Lowell, Massachusetts
who has also figured conspicuoously as a
Foreign Intercourse—For salaries of Ministers, ^ ,0 ' > itzer to the. right and another to the
Commissioners; Secretaries, or other officers em- ! loft of their position, and subjecting them
nlnVPli nv t II O flllVOriiniOtl I i t-ulnlion In In n nnnnn R..n .1 ! J A !LI .
plojed by the Government in relation to inter
course wrtli foreign governments, and incidental
miscellaneous and contingent necessities, &c.,
sixty thousand dollars.”
l’ublic Debt.—For interest on the Public Debt,
one million five hundred thousand dollars.
War Department.—For the pay of officers and
privates ofthe army volunteers and milftia; in the
public service of tlie Confederate States; and for
to a cross fire, which did terrible execu
tion, advanced on their front a
to rout, taking the above n
oners and eleven pieces of a;
prisoners were immediately
march to Richfhond.
Our loss in killed and wounded is two
Quartermasters supplies of all kindsiransportation ! h till dred and twenty. The Federal pris-
and other necessary expenses, one hundred arid tit- oners captured by our forces numbered six
ty-fivo million dollars
For the purchase of Subsistence Stores and Com
missary property, twenty nine million dollars.
For the Ordnance Service in all its branches,
eleven million dollars.
For the Engineer Service, one million eight hun
dred thousand dollars.
For the Surgical and Medical "Supplies of the
Army, two million four hundred thousand dollars.
F or contingent expenses of the Adjutant and 1 been at least twice as much.
Inspector General’s Papartment, including office
hundred and twenty-three, and the number
of field pieces eleven. Nearly the whole
of General Longstreet’s brigade was en
gaged, although General Johnston com-
! inanded in person. Our force is said to
I have been some eight or ten thousand, and
that of the enemy is estimated to have
They were
furniture, stationery. blank» fc record books.'&e., ten i r ®' nf,>rced ra P i d!y, while the main body . ...
thousand dollais* ; ot our army.\\ as ten or iiftccn miles uts- 1 Rn Store, 84,000, no insurance, Vaneppes,
For incidental and contingent expenses of the tant, and reinforcements did not reach us
Army and of the Department ot War, two hun
dred thousand dollars.
For floating defences of the Western Waters
five liundred thousand dollars, in accordance with
the letter of the President of March 24, 1862, to
be expended by the Secretary of war.
Indian Treaties—To carry intoeff.-ct treaty with
Ihe Creeks, of Jul? 10, HO I, forty-nine thousand
one hundred and forty dollars.
To carry into effect treaty with the Choctaws
and Chickasaws of July 12, HOI, sixty-one thous
and one hundred and’twenty six dollars and eieh
ty nine cents.
To carry into effect treaty with the Reserve
Indians, of August 12, 1*01 one hundred and
thirteen thousand one hundred and fifty-nine dol
lars.
To carryjnto effect treaty with the Senacas and
Shawnees q) October 4, 1*61. three thousand six
hundred aud eleven dollars and sixty cents.
For pay of Supeiinteiideiits and Agents, and
incidental and contingent expenses of the several
Indians agencies, eighteen thousaud, two hundred
and sixty-four dollars and twenty-eight cen:s
Navy Department—For pay of the Navy, one
million, seven hundred and sixteen thousand,
two hundred thirty-three dollars and twenty-nine
cents.
For provisions and clothing, and contigencips
in the Paymaster's Department one million and
four thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For ordnance and Ordnance Stores, ono
million six hundred and sixty thousand dol
lars.
For purchase of nautical instruments, hooks
and chaits. iifly thousand dollars.
For construction of iron-clad vessels, three mil
lions of dollars.
F or equipment and repair of vessels, three hun
dred aud fifty thousand dollars.
until five o’clock, P. M. Wc repulsed the
j enemy, driving them back at least two
miles, killing and wounding over one thou
sand. At one time, under the deception
of a white flag, a considerable portion of
the enemy got within forty paces of our
lines. The flag was carried in front by a
small party, while the main body were
concealed in the woods aud lying down i:i
the bushes. A murderous lire was thus
poured into our ranks.
Casualties.
Killed.—Among the killed are reported
General Richard II. Anderson, of S. C.,
also one of his aids, Colonel Ward, of Flor
ida, and Major Win. II. Palmer, of the
First Regiment Va. Volunteers, Capt. A.
H Humphreys, 17th Va. Regiment, Col.
Mott, of Miss., Col. August, 45th Va.,
Lieut. John 1. Addison, Alexandria,
Lieut. Winston Carter, Prince William,
Privates Jos. H. McVeigh, Jr., Alexan
dria, Eugene Fairfax, Alexandria, Frank
Bellenger, Alexandria.
Mortally Wounded.—Gen. Jubal A Ear
ly, of Va., Maj. W. II. Payne, 4llr Virgin-
Regiment Col. L. B. Williams, 1st Virgin
ia Regiment.
Wounded.—Col. Corse, of the 17th Vir
ginia regiment, Col. Kemper, of the 7th
Virginia regiment, and Col. Garland, of
ted about this proposition advised against
its practicability, and that it was also con-
cidered advisable not to withdraw the
vessel from the source of its supplies.
It appears, then, according to the allega
tions of tlie statement referred to, the pilots
expressed their opinion that it the Virginia
which drew twenty-three feet of water
could be lightened so as to draw 01, ‘>
nineteen feet, they could get her up James
river. The experiment of lightening the
vessel was then tried, all her coal and her
ballast were thrown over-board. It was
found that site still could not. get up the
rivtfr, and the lightening had had the
effect of raising her beyondthe lines of bet
armour, exposing Iter wood work above
the water- It is declared that in this
emergency Commodore. 4 atnall determ
ined, on bis own responsibility, to destroy
the vessel, and did so by exploding her
magazme. |a ai iajng tliat this statement
has the official stamp, we do know as a
positive fact that the destruction of the
Virginia, as a determined conclusion, was
known in the departments Sunday morning
and was spoken of there at a time when
tlie government could possibly have got
no notice of the destruction, if it was the
exclusive act of Commodore TATNALL,
usless by tho echoes of its explosion, when
it was blown into atoms.
Commodore Tatnall, who, it now
appears, retained the command of the
Virginia at the solicitations ofthe govern-
memt, arrived here last night by the Pe
tersburg train.
The crew of the Virginia have been
sent down to thc batteries on the river.
We are informed that the Dry Dock
was not efttirely destroyed, but that its
gates were blown offaud tlie sluice injured
so seriously that the repairs necessary to
make tlie structure of auy use to the en
emy would occupy twelve months at least.
This dock is said to have cost five millions
of dollars.
It appears that theevacuation of Norfolk
involved tlie destruction not only of the
Virginia, but of a number of gunboats
which were on the stocks, thc transport
William 8e!den, and a number of smaller
steamers, tugs, &c. I he surprise effected
by the appearance of the Federals Satur
day morning at Ocean View appears to
have been complete, and a portion of our
forces stationed near Sewell’s, Point is
said to have narroway escaped being cut
off. Every tiling was burnt or abandoned.
’The greater portion of the troops had been
moved away, while the removal of stores
and munitions was still incomplete, and a
loss estimated in millions of dollars has
been Incurred in the long pending evacu
ation of Norfolk and the disasters under
which it has been finally accomplished.
Many of the women and children esca
ped from Norfolk, and others were in
great destress at not being able to get
j way. We hear that groups of ladies in
; the streets, with tears in their eyes, ap-
! pealed.to our hurrying soidiers to protect
: them. One. nasty sympathizer with the
i Y ankees is reported to have been killed by
our troops. The report, as we get it from
a passenger from Norfolk, is that a man of
the name of Paiiha.m, said to be a brother
| of theProvost Marshal, seeing a Confedcr-
000 pounds of government bacon, a quan
tity of other government stores, 200 bar- . , . . - . . ..
rels of lard, 75 barrels of syrup, several ; H b a f rt,ller y dr.vtng through the
thousand pounds of bides, and a lot of -: fleets, and mistaking them for Yankee
grain, flour, rice; oil and car grease. The I ™ps, dashed into the streets waving h.s
b - - b a f 1,at and bawling, “Hurrah for Lincoln.”—
warehouse was destroyed and the back
part-of two stores on Whitehall street.—
f>0,000 pounds will cover the loss of the
Government in bacon damaged and de
stroyed. The following is a list of the suf
fers :
B. M. Morel, storehouse, $3,000, no in
surance, Willis & Young, flour, etc, §(3,-
000, insured for 4,000, M. L. Cohen, rice
in store, $8,000, insured, E. M. Bruce &
Co., cotton, $5,500, no insurance, about
one half lost, Robert McCroskey, goods on
storage, $6,000, injured, Cummings
Jones, $8,000 worth of bacon, bought for
the government, but not delivered, dam
aged, no insurance, C. P. Cassin, molasses
Of ChattanSoga, 100 hales of cotton and
$2,000 worth of dry hides, no insurance,
Nashville Sc Chattanooga Railroad, lard
and grease, $5,000. no insurnce, J. Ryan,
cotton, $16,000, insured for $9,000, P.
Hayden, cotton, $4,000, no insurance,"
stored cotton, $16,000 no insurance, $3,-
009 probably saved, L. II. Davis, store
house, $3,500, no insurance, YV. P. Chis
holm, coffee and salt, $800, no insurance.
Other losses were sustained by the hasty
removal of goods. Mr. G. W. Thompson
fell from the top of a two story build
ing, breaking his arm in three places and
injuring him otherwise to such an extent
that lie will probably not recover. Sev
eral others were more or less injured.—
The lire orignated either from spontaneous
combustion or the accidental dropping of
matches by some boys who were playing
on the roof of the warehouse, smoking and
lighting cigars, etc.—Macon Tclcgrajih.
Tho Surgeon-General of the Federal army ofthe
Peninsula, acknowledges, a loss, in killed and
wounded, in the engagement at Williamsburg, of
three thousand. F’rom the Herald's accounts, four
hundred Confederates who were left wounded on
the field of battle, were captured. Our loss, there
fore, being admitted at three hundred killed and
five hundred wounded and missing does not come
up to one third of the loss of the enemy.
He was immediately seized and put to
death by our troops.
The C'on*rrB|>tion Act.
The following letter, explaining some
of the provisions of the Conscription law
has been communicated to the North Car
olina Convention by Gov. Clark:
Confederate States of America. )
W T ar Dept. Richmond, Apl. 30, “62. f
His Excellency Gov. Henry T. Clark. Ra
leigh N. C.
Sir—Y our letter of the 24th inst-, was
received on yesterday. In reply, I have
the honor to say that the effect of the
Conscription act is to suspend calls on the
States for quotas. The number of men
between the ages of 18 and 3®s assumed
to be precisely in the ratio of popula
tion.
The first effect of the’act is to retain in
the service all toldiqrs who were there on
the 16th April. The next, to fill up the
regiments and companies with men liable to
military duty under the Act, by replacing
those men on service who will be exempt
and thus to fill and keep full tlie existing
j corps to the maximum allowed by law.
If any state have not enough regiments
in the service, or "heretofore authorized
I by the Department to be raised, to absorb
! the material between the ages of IS and
I 35; theexccss will be collected in Camps
' of Instruction, disciplined, and brought
into service, pursuant to section 9th of the
Act. ,
I will acCept the State Troops in their
present organization, to be received on
the same footing with otlj^r regiments al
ready in the Confeder3te w sei viise, the men
over 35 and under 18 to be discharged
within 90 days from the 16th of April, and
their place supplied .from the enrolled
Conscripts. The rights of reorganization,
by election belongs only to 12 months men.
Those whose enlistment is for a longer or
a shorter period, remain in the service on
their existing organizations. These gener
al remarks are supposed to answer several
politician under the old organization ot
parties in the United States. Previous to
the present revolution he had been con
spicuous in New England politics for his
vigorous and constant hostility to the an-
ti-slavery parties in New England; and
for his <>eneral concurrence with the south
ern or national wing of tho Democratic
party. Ho was also reg.yded as an earn
est State Rights Democrat of the Jeffer
sonian and Jacksonian school. In thc
national Democratic conventions his course
w#s considered as national, and in accor
dance with the views maintained by tlie
southern branch of the party. In the
convention of 1856 ho was a warm sup
porter of Franklin Pierce for the Presidency
and in the Charleston convention he voted
to the very last for Jefferson Davis. Mr.
Davis held then the views upon which
the Southern States have based the right
to secede from the Union. Gen. Butler
was regarded as of t he same school of politics
as Gen. Pierce and Caleb Cushing. Earl)
. ucgiumng v.( a.:. —-- 1, n n«tonished
his old party associates by offering his
services to maintain the Government of
Abraham Lincoln, whose politics and
party he had so long and so bitterly op
posed and has been very active and prom
inent in giving his aid to prosecute the
war.. *
Being a hypocrite and renegade, and a
man violently ultra in bis opinions, lie will
prove as great a nuisance, we fear, as
coulil possibly have been foisted upon the
true and loyal freemen of New Orleans.
May they bear their humiliation with for
titude!—\ Memphis Avalanche.
Y\"AR DEPARTMENT. Y
Adjt. and Insp. Gen’s Office. >
Richmond, April 26, 1862. )
General Order. 1
No. 29 J
I. The following Regulations concern
ing Substitutes in tlie Army, are'publislied
by the direction of the Secretary ot
War:
1. Any non-commissioned officer or sol
dier not indebted to tlie Government, who
wishes to procure a substitute, may obtain
from his Captain a permit for thc proposed
substitute to report himself at the Camp
of the Company for examination ; and
such permit shall operate as a passport,
but shall not entitle the holder to trans
portation at the expense of the Govern
ment.
2. If the substitute be exempt from
military duty, and on examination by a
Surgeon or Assistant Surgeon ofthe Army
be pronounced sound, and in all respects
fit for military service, he shall be enrolled
and mustered into service for three years,
unless the war will sooner terminate; and
the non-commissioned officer or soldier
procuring him shall thereupon be dischar
ged, but shall not be entitled to transpor
tation at the expense of the Government.
3. If a non-commissioned officer or sol
dier discharged by reason of a substitute,
be indebted to -tlie Government the officer
granting the discharged Shall be liable for
the debt.
4. All pay and allowances due to the
non-commissioned officer or soldier dis
charged, shall go to the substitute at the
next pay day. .
5. Substitution shall not exceed one per
month in each Company, and shall be
noted in the next rqorning report, muster
roll and monthly return.
II. When any person liable to military
duty under the Act of Congress, but not
mustered into service in any Company,
desires to furnish a substitute, he shall
report himself with the substitute to the
Commandant of a Camp of Instruction,
for recruits raised under the said act; and it
the substitute be lawfully exempt from
military duty, and on examination! by a
Surgeon or Assistant Surgeon, be pro
nounced sound and in all respects fit for
military service, lie may be»accepted and
enrolled, and the person furnishing such
substitute may be discharged by the Com
mandant of the Camp. But. no substi
tute shall be entitled to transportation or
other allowance at the expense of the
Government, until so accepted and en
rolled. •
III. On the reorganization of new Com
panies from Companies already in service,
and tlie election consequent thereon of offi
cers, according to existing laws, the com
missions of such of the officers of former
Companies as may not be re-elected, will
necessarily expire, and they will cease to
be in service from the date of reorganiza
tion and election.
By command of the Secretary of War
S. Cooper
Adjutant and Inspector General
flfeVer been properly appreciated as food
for horse's, I wish to make known the fact
that they are equal to corn or pats in qual
ity. and I think 5 pecks of potatoes fully
equal to 4 of corn’for horses; at least my
experience for several years justified my
conclusion. They should not be fed to
horses until they have been banked about
three weeks, as they are apt to give the
scours; but after that time there is no dan
ger. Simply let them be dry and not
wasted audno danger need he apprehen
ded. As the cost of transportation would bo
greater than corn, I would suggest that
farmers use them at home and ship their
corn to points where it may be needed.
From the Edgefield Advertiser.
President Davis and the War.
The Charleston SJercuty, in view of the fall of
New Orleans, thus remarks ;
' “'I o this point the military policy and adminis
tration of Mr. Jefferson Davis has reduced the
fortunes of the Confederates States.”
And again in the same article :
“A brave aud a great people can bear, and have
borne, much of the disaster, peril, and suffering
at the hands of ono man—incompetent, perverse."
What will the Mercury say when Charleston
fails, as it seems to expect? Wilt “Mr. Jefferson
Davis” be personally blameable with that event
because of iucompetency, perverseness ? Some
persons iu our good metropolis were specially ur
gent. that “Mr. Jefferson Davis” should appoint a
Yankee to the command of that department; and,
if we are correctly informed, the Mercury cordially
sanctioned and indorsed that appointment, and
designated him as the man for the place. We
dare say he is. We have always hoped he would
prove equal to Ihe task and have never allowed
ourself to think otherwise. But if it shall not be
so, sorely “Mr. Jefferson Davis” as the Mercury
cavalierly terms the President, is not to receive
wholesale censure for complying after much so
licitation with the wishes of tlie good people of
of Charleston. He has certainly not been per
verse iu the matter, whoever may prove incompe
tent. And so, doubtless, of New Orleaus. Gen.
Lovell was said to be the right mail in the right
place, lie at once commanded the entire confi
dence of the people of New Orleans. He was
considered by them, by the whole press of the
city, by the City F’athers, by military men every
where, as adequate to ail tlie duties of that post.
But we see the result. Who can say that it would
have been otherwise if the very best and greatest
man of the Confederacy had been in ’bis place?
Who can say that the result would have been dif
ferent if the positively greatest man in tho Con
federacy—the greatest evon according to the Mer
cury’s idea of greatness—bad been in the seat of
"Mr Jefferson Davis?” Cannot the Mercury ap
preciate. that no one in this Confederacy is, or
could have been, or can be, without omnipotence
and omniscience, equal to such continuous and
exorbitant demands upon him ?
But the Mercury evidently refers back, in the
first remark we quote, to tho policy which pre
vented an invasion of the North after the battle
of Mauassas. We regret to have seen paraded fur
several days at the head of its editorial columns,
the loose conversation of a loose Hessian General,
loosely taken down from memory by a newspaper
letter writer, seeming to sustain tho Mercury's
view of the matter. Allowing the said report to
y~ correct, who is Prentiss and how was he qualifi
ed tospeaK autnortiaUvely upon this subject? As
until for command as lie was unknow n to fame,
lie allowed himself and his whole brigade to be
easily captured at Shiloh. Safe from further dan
ger by being a prisoner, lie blurts his pompous
declamation before bis captors, aud the Mercury
catches it up and emblazons it from day to day as
a gem of reliable intelligence. Let us see how
this man’s supposed assertions comport with the
truth. At the time of the buttle of Manassas (we
speak of the I’rintiss dialogue from memory) the
South was allowed by him to possess anus and
equipments of war superior to those of the North.
This needs no other conclusive rebuttal than the
fact made notorious at Bull Run, that the army of
the North were in all respects bettor equipped and
better provided than ours. Their small arms and
their cannon were of the best, and their supplies
of ammunition were entirely complete. Thearmy
that escaped from Bull Run carried with them fifty
thousand men, the large majority of whom saved
their equipment of every sort. That our army
routed them there, was never attributed to the lact
that we had superior weapons; the contrary in
deed was universally claimed iu exfoliation of our
victory, although it is true that all possible exer
tions were made to arm our men iu the best man-
ner possible under the circumstances. Prentiss’
assertions then as to arms, so far as the compara-'
tive exhibition of excellence at Manassas was con
cerned is entirely erroneous ; and when we reflect
that there must have been very considerable sup
plies in Washington aud other cities, with formid
able arrays of ordnance at various points, and the
whole manufacturing North in their rear with ex
tensive manufactories of arms in full blast, the ad
mission of the F’ederal captive sinks to the level
of selfstultification.
Y’et if I’rentiss is to be believed in this, we sup
pose he is also to be credited in the further asser
tion that unto a comparatively late date the North
had not succeeded in obtaining from Flurope any
important supply of good arms—so difficult was
it to obtain any at all. Now if such was the case
at the North where iuterconrse was unimpeded,
continuous and direct, what becomes of the charge
of incompetency and inefficiency against the Con
federate authorities, because in tiie face of the
blockade and with a very limited shipping list they
were slow in procuring munitions of war from the
same source. It is not yet to be doubteJ, that
with Mr. Yancey.and others in Europe, devoted to
the cause, all was done that could be done.
But granting that the Mercury and Prentiss are
right, and that we really had the superiorit', in the
equipments of war, we respectfully reiterate what
we have before said in this paper, that no man can
possibly conjecture the results of an invasion of
the North by our then small army. We see tlie
bristling front of battle presented against us by the
people of tlmt section nois, and bow can we as
sume that such a people could have been appalied
and overwhelmed then by the invading approach
ot an army of thirty thousand volunteers threaten
ing their cities and their plains with tire and
sword. The same spirit which energises the ac
tion ol our opponents to day, might have been in
tensified a hundred-fold by any such movement on
our part at that juncture. It, is flippant to say that
‘he whole North would have been startled into
submission to the terms we might have then die
tated. Ihe invasion of a man’s country does
more to enkindle his ire than anything else save
the infi ingement of his sacred domestic rights.
And the cry “to arms” would probably have been
vastly more effective and instantaneous through
out the North and North West, without parties
and classes, had such been the South in policy,
than in a war where they are called upon by their
rulers to make the aggressive movement. We
Irave gainqjktime by the compelled policy of stand
ing on the^defensive. It has enabled us” to com
pete with tlie foe in numbers : and if we shall
continue to be successful as of late in obtaining
military equipments, an effectual invasion of a
great and populous country may probably be in
augurated if peace shall not arrest us on the bor
der. But we seek not invasion, if our riglj's are
accorded to us. There is danger to the invader in
this conflict. On both sides there is indomitable
piide of section—on both side.* energy ami great
physical strength ; we hold and believe that they
cannot conquer us, and that a conquest of them
is impossible. Whichever power seeks to invade
tiie other, is in danger Once let them come fully
into our country, and we may so vanquish and de
moralize them as to be able to pass their border
with triumphant banners. After that again the
tide may turn this way by degrees—and if so,
when we shall have become as a giant fully arm
ed, how much more certainly would it have been
the case with any attempt at invasion before we
were ready. The probability is that neither power
will ever successfully invade, but tliat both will
eventually be glad to quit even, each paying its
own costs. •
A newspaper article does not afford room t» dis
cuss this great question, and we only throw out a
word or two, hoping that men will reflect and not
impugn the management of this mighty revolution
on insufficient gronnds.
A Suggestion for Planters.—A correspon
dent ot tlieSavanah News suggests to plan
ters that they prepare to plant largely
of slip or layer of sweet potatoes. He
says:
There is now ample time for the prepar
ation. as they may be planted as late as
the later part of July and produce a good
crop. I have made 350 bushels per acre
on very light land by the application of
about two bushels of rough stable manure
to the task row, and much larger yields
have been made to my knowledge ; but if
only 50 bushels were.made it will be a
good return for the labor required.
As an article ol food I need not pay
much, as their properties are well known;
but as I am convinced that they have
The Baltic at Jlcdowrll.
The Richmond Dispatch of Monday says:
F’roin*passenger by the Central train yesterday
afternoon, we have some further jiaiticulars of
this fight. Up to Saturday eveuing the enemy
were still retreating, and Gen. Jackson pursuing
them, but with not much prospect of coming up
with them. They had taken the F’ranklin road
through ihe county of Pendleton, which is the
most direct route to Cumberland, Md. Prisoners
captured represent that Gen. F’remont was expec
ted to reinforce Milroy on the day the tight occur
red.
Our loss in the fight was tlire.i hundred kill'd
and wounded, principally in the 12th Georgia Reg
iment. which suffered severly. We captured in
the engagement about one hundred boxes of
fixed ammunition, from 400 to 500 Enfield rifles
and Minnie muskets, 60 to 75 cavalry saddles, and
from 16(1 to 200 Head of cattle. These latter were
afterwards claimed by citizens of the county of
Highland, from whom they had been stolen by the
enemy. Citizens of the neighborhood state that
the loss of the enemy in the fight of Thursday
was very heavy, and believed to be from 1200 to
1300.