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® s fiT A0IBOMW. 4 BcolMliou-ofll.c lo..«rr«»or the of America Pa»«e4 ndrr «J»e Pfrmam ul Of America do enact, That the President Bh»" re* I For the pnrchaie^ cf fad £“ B,er,! Ca ' 7 ‘ ccivc for his sen ices during his tetrn of office, ftti yards, and stations, i‘ N v r£reon ' 9 "i Twenty-five Thousand Dollars, For medical snpplm . Arts |pmif nt tkf t'ir«*t SfMioii €«MMtilDfioN* ,[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 111 Ilio Iii'ioi’ iv*i***v ......... |HM|)M>UU tu i mi HIV' * "D a » 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.