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(No 46.)
AN ACT to authorize the employment of Clerks
at the offices of the Treasurer and Assistant
Treasurers.
Whereas, the issue and deposit of Treasury notes
at the offices connected with the Treasury involve
an increase of labor and responsibility:
The Congress of the Confederate States of Amer
ica do enact, That the Secretary of the Treasury
is hereby authorized to employ such additional
Tellers and Book keepers as are required at the
offices of the Treasurer and Assistant Treasurers
for the additional duties required in the receipt aim
disbursement of Treasury notes: Provided the
compensation to be allowed shall Dot exceed the
rate of Twelve Hundred Dollars per annum, for
each Teller or Clerk: and provided also, that the
number of clerks to be employed shall not exceed
seven; and, provided, that no person shall he ap
pointed in either of said offices who is under the
age of forty years, and capable of active service
in the army, and, provided, further, that a pref
erence shall in all cases, be given, in making ap
pointments the qualifications being equal, to those
who have been discharged from the military ser
vice of the country on account of wounds receiv
ed, or disease contracted, in the line of duty.
Approved April 17 1862.
(No. 47.)
AN ACT to authorize the Secretary of War to
Divide the appropriation for the contin
gent expenses of the War department and the
Army.
Sec. 1. The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact, That the appropriation of
two hundred thousand dollars made for the inci
dental and contingent expenses of the Army and
of the War Department, in the Act entitled an
Act making appropriations for the support of the
Government from^jjril first to the thirtieth of No
vember eighteHTTurKfred and sixty-two, appro
ved April third, eighteen hundred sixty-two, bo
divided and applied, by the Secretary of War, to
the incidental and contingent expenses of the
War Department and to those of the Army, in
such proportions, as, in his opinion, the exigencies
of the public service, may require.
Approved April 17, 1862.
(Nm 49.)
President be directed to take a mortgage of said way of Massiels Mills, to Type River Mills, io
road and its appurtenances lor the ultimate repay- \ Nelson county.
mentof the money so expeudetkfh
tion. Cm-*
Approved April 19,1
(No. 51.)
aM-j?f its erec- In the State of North Carolina.—From Slates-
I YiUe. by way of Taylorsville, Wilkesboro’ and Jef-
i fetson, to Marion, in the State of Virginia,
j In the State of South Carolina.—From Sims-
! ville, by way of Mayburton, to Goshen Hill, In
| North Carolina.—From Franklin North Carolina
RESOLUTIONS for the preservation of public to Walhalla, in South Carolina. In the State of
documents. . 4 Texas.—From IIookley’s Depot on the Houston
Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate and Central Railroad, to Waller's Store. From
States ot America I hat two hundred copies of all 1 Hickory Station, in Catawba county, North Caro-
documeuts printed by order of either House of lina. to Lenoir.
Congress shall be delivered by the Soperintendant '
of Public Printing to the Attorney General, and
at the end of each session of Congress, the At
torney General shall cause the same to be proper
ly indexed and bound in volumes of convenient
size, including in each volume one 'copy of each
document; but no document from which the seal
ot secresy has not been removed shall be placed
in said bound volumes.
Resolved further, That one copy of said vol
umes, when bound shall be retained for the use of
the Department of Justice, and the remaining cop
ies together with the Secret documents, held sub
ject to the order of Congress.
Approved April 19, le62.
[No. 52.]
AN ACT to repeal certain laws therein named
and to declare others in full force, in Relation
to conveyance of mailable matter outside of the
Mail.
Sec 1 . The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact. That so much of the exis
ting enactments of the Confederate States, as re
lates to the conveyance or transportation ‘of let
ters or packages of letters or of mailable matter
uf any kind by express or other companies of any
kind, their agents or employees, be and the same
are hereby repealed, and the laws of the United
States adopted by an act of the Provisional Con
gress entitled “Au act to continue in force certain
laws of the United States of America/' on (lie
ninth day of Pi In n n j n^ititlillTlB linl eight hun
dred and sixty-one, relating to the conveyance
or transportation of letters, packets or packages of
letters or other mailable matter by express or oth
er companies, their agents or employees, be and
the same are hereby declared to be in full force:
Provided. That nothing In this act contained shall
be so construed as to declare that any portion of
said laws of the United States adopted as afore
said not inconsistent with the acts of tlie said
Provisional Government was bj-said last-named
acts in any wise abrogated or repealed: Provided
further, that frauds upon the revenue of the Post
Office Department and offences against and vio
lations of the laws hereby repealed may be pro-
AN ACT to encourage the Manufacture of Saltpe- seeded against and punished under the laws ex
1 ” iufinr* nf AI * • . r t
tre and of small arms.
Sec. 1. The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact, That any person or persons
who may propose to establish within the limits of
the Confederate States a manufactory or manu
factories ot Saltpetre and of small Arms adapted
to the use of the army, shall be entitled to receive
from the Government an advance of fifty per cent
of the amount required for the erection and prep
aration of the works and machinery necessary to
such manufactory or manufactories to be repaid
without interest in the product of auch manufac
tory or manufactories, at a price to be agreed upon
before sucb advance shall be made, and subject
to the following conditions, to wit—First, That
the contractor or contractors shall submit to the
President a plan of the proposed works, sko-.v-
ng their location, nature and extent, together
with a sworn estimate of their probable cost, and
a detailed aecouut under oath of the amount al
ready expended on the same, which amount shall
be at least twenty five percent of the entire esti
mated cost of such work. Second, That the
amount so advance 1 shall be paid in instalments
as the works shall progress towards completion.
Thtrc, That the proposed enterprise and works
shall be approved bv the president. Fourth, That
the contractor or contractors shall enter into bonds
with sufficient securiety, to be approved by the
President, in the penalty of double the amount
proposed to be advanced, and conditioned that the
principal obiiBt***^f»figers shall well and truly,
by a certain time, (which may be extended by
the President if he thinks proper) named in the
bond, proceed to erect, complete and put into ef
fective operation the manufactories proposed; that
he or they will expend the sum named for theae
purposes: that he or they will appropriate the
money advanced by the Government to such
purpose and to no other use or purpose, and
as far as practicable, keep the property in
sured: and that be or they will repay the same
from the merchantable articles manufactured, to
be delivered at sucb times and by such quantities
as may be agreed upon, the same, in all cases, to
be inspected by a government officer before it is
received, until he or they shall fully repay to the
Confederate States, in the article and at the price
stipulated for the sum advanced: that the contrac
tors shall subscribe a written oath endorsed upon
the back of said bond, which may be administer
ed by any one authorized to administer an oath,
isting at the time of the commission of such
fraud, offence or violation and this act shall not
be construed to have a retroactive operation so as
to repeal or abrogate any law as to such frauds,
offence or violations heretofore committed, but
shall have a prospective operation only: Provided
also that this act shall take effect from and after
the first of June, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-two.
Approved April 19,1862. 2 2t.
(No. 54.)
JOINT RESOLUTION for the relief of Capt. Ben
Desba.
| Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate
j States of America, That the Quartermaster Geuer-
; al be and he is hereby authorized to audit and ad-
{ just the accounts of Capt. Ben Desha, of the Fifth
j Regiment of Kentucky Volunteers, the expenses
j incurred by him for the transportation of his eom-
! pany from Cynthiana, Kentucky, to Abingdon,
1 ^ irgrinia. helnfj tLo tirct plu.-u at which r.aid com
pany eonld be mustered into service, and to pay
him whatever albount may be ascertained to
be due him on account of "such transportation;
said company having been organized within the
lines of the enemy. ^ —
Approved April 19, reD2. *
(No. 55.)
AN ACT making further approprations for the ex
penses or the Government in the Treasury,
War and Navy Departments and for other pur
poses.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact, That the following
sums bo, end they are hereby appropriated out of
any moniy in the Treasury not otherwise appro
priated for the objects hereafter expressed, for the
year ending November thirtieth, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-two. Treasury Depart
ment—For additional clerks to be employed in
the office of the Treasurer, Assistant Treasurer,
and Depositaries of the Confederate States, five
thousand six hundred dollars. Miscel.aneous—
For the interest on the public debt, nine millions
of dollars. For paper, plates and printing an ad-
tional amount of bonds and large Treasury notes,
one hundred thousand dollars. For eight addi
tional clerks required for issue of bo.ids and cou
pons, four thousand dollars. For paper, plates
that said advance is asked for the purposes spec- j and printing of Treasury notes of the deiiotnina-
ified in this Act, and no o'ther, and that he or they j tions of one and two dollars, seventy-five thousand
will so apply said fund, which may thus be ad- dollars. For twelve additional clerks to sign small
vauced; and a wilful and corrupt violation of this Treasury notes, six thousand dollars. War De-
oath shall be deemed perjury, and punishable by i partment.—For the purchase of pig and rolled
imprisonment for not less than three nor more iron, one million of dollars. For casting cannon
than ten years. | shot and shells, five hundred thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. The provisions of this Act shall apply FoV manufacturing small armsof all kinds, two
to cases of enlargement of manufactories of salt- millions of dollars.—For purchase and manufac-
petre and of small arms, now established or being i ture of nitre and all expenses incidental to explo-
established within the Confederate States, but ! ring and working caves, <fcc , one million of dol-
the advance made in such cases, shall only be fif- ! lars.—Navy Department.— To make advances on
ty per cent, upon the amount proposed to be in- [ contracts (or the manufacture and production of
vested ir. the enlargement of such manufactory [ iron, one million of dollars. For the purchase by
or manufactories, and no now existing investment ; tbs Secretary of the Treasury of exchange for the
in such manufactory or manufactories shall be com- j use of the Navy Department, in purchasing iron
puted or taken into account in determinin
fifty per cent.
Approved April 17, 1862.
such
AN ACT
notes.
[No.49.]
the issue of Treasury
clad vessels, one million four hundred thousand
dollars;
Approved AptuF^_j862.
(No. 56.)
AN ACT to organize signal corps-
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact, That the President be
and he is hereby authorized by and with the ad
vice and consent of the .-enate, to appoint ten
not
Approved April 19. 1862.
(No. 59 )
AN ACT to increase the Military establishment
of the Confederate States, and to amend the
“Act for the establishment and organization of
the Army of the Confederate States of Ameri
ca.”
The Congress of the Confederate States of
America do enact, That the number of Ordnance
Sergeants authorized by section six of “an act to
increase the Military Establishment of the Con
federate States,’’ &c. approved May 19th 1861,
be so increased as to provide one for each regi
ment of troops now or hereafter received in the
service.
Approved April 19, 1862.-
[No. 60.]
AN ACT to limit the act authorizing the suspen
sion of the writ of habeas corpus.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact, That the act authori
zing the suspension of the VVrit of Habeas Corpus,
is hereby limited to arrests made by the authori
ties of the Confederate Government, fm offen
ces against the same. ¥ t
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted. That fhe get which
this act is intended to limit shall continue in force
for thirty days after the next iiiUUllng of Congress
and no longer.
Approved April 19, 1862.
From the Charleston Mercury.
The Rnitlr of Chirknlioniiuy.
Despatch from Col. Richard Yeadon.
Richmond, Sunday, Afternoon, June 1.
—Ourforces, under Gen. Longstreet, have
gained a great and bloody victory but the
accursed Yankess have slain my nephew
and adopted son, It. Yeadon, jr. At his
earnest request, I came here to witness
and chronicle the greatest battle of the
war. Alas! I have to chronicle his death
and have no spirits to do more. lie was
killed between three and five o’clock yes
terday afternoon, about an hour and a half
after I had arrived from here, and bidden
him farewell, while gallautry charging a
battery of the enemy concealed in a thick
et, having been shot through the head and
dying immediately. The enemy repulsed
the attacking partj-, the overwhelming
numbers killing him and three others of his
company (the Washington Light infan
try), and wounding a great many. East
erling and young Tucker some say young
Collin, are slightly wounded. Lieut. Klinek
was wounded and captured. Col. Hamp
ton was slightly wounded in the foot. The
enemy have possession of our dead.
The great battle began yesterday at one
o’clock p. m. near and on this side of the
Chickahominy, about eight miles from
Richmond—our troops, under Gen. Long-
street, making the attack. The fight lao
ted until 8 o’clock p. m., and resulted in
our taking the enemy’s camp, his breast
works and 10 pieces of artillery, driving
him away, and remaining masters of the
field. The next morning the enemy re
newed the fight about sunrise, attempting
to recapture his camp, but was again de
feated and driven back. At 11 o’clock
this morning all our troops were still hold
ing the field of battle. I was one mile
from the fight yesterday afternoon aud to
day. After the baftle, was on the battle
ground covered with dead and dying forms;
more of the enemy than ours. Slaughtered
great on both sides and the number of woun
ded exceedingly large. Five of the enemy
are supposed to be killed to one of ours.
We took 800 prisoners.
Generals Lee and Johnston were on
the ground, but left the conduct of battle
to General Longstreet. To the last called
therefore, belongs the glory of the Great
Rattle of Chickahominy. President Davis
was also on the- ground. The enemy
was commanded by General Keyes. It is
said tliat General Ilutton, of the 7th Ten
nessee Regiment, General J. J. Pettigrew,
aitd Colonel Lomax, of Alabama, are kil
led. General Anderson and Colonel Jen
kins and their commands, of South Caro
lina particularly distinguished themselves
yesterday afternoon by their bravery and
efficiency. Generals Whiting, Stewart,
M ah one, Gholson and Pryor, and Captains
French, Sherman and Armory, and other
officers, were in the fight. The enemy
continued to shell, and the fight may be
renewed.
several days to themselves, when their ser
vices are perhaps, most needed, and go to
Hilton Head of Beaufort. F° r instance,
some ground had been prepared for plow
ing and planting; but just as they were
needed, the few men who understand that
part went off for two days without the
least notice thus delaying the planting,
which was then even late.—L ntil some
method is adopted to make them feel the
necessity of work, for their own good,
government will receive but little benefit
comparatively. Their idea of the value
and uses of money are as vague as young
children’s and investments in hoop-skirts
and jewelry are indulged while necessary
garments are forgotten.
Corinth Drncuaicd by onr Forces.
As we anticipated, our forces have retir
ed from Corinth. The Mobile papers,
from which we obtain the information, do
not state to what distance nor in what di
rection our forces have fallen back, but
professing to be in possession of information
on the snbject, which they deem it prudent,
to withhold from their readers, they seem
to regard the movement as a politic one.
Thwarted by the imprudent disclosures of
the newspaper correspondents who thron
ged his camp, from carrying out his plan
of attacking the enemy in his advanced
position, before he had time to complete
his line, of entrenchments it would seem
that General Beauregard has determined
to draw him from his entrenchments to a
position where he will not possess his pres
ent advantages. and from which he cannot
so easily escape when beaten to the cover
of his gun boats. We expressed the opin
ion, a week ago, that unless a battle was
fought immediately, it would become the
policy of our Generals to fall back from
Corinth—what has occurcd has only veri
fied our prediction.
The Mobile Advertiser, of the 30 th, the
day previous to the intelligence reaching j j 1 * 3 ‘
that city of the evacuation of Corinth,TClarksbur; ....
indulges in the following sensible specula- | been raining for weeks as it can only rain
^ in that country, the roads were muddy as
1 From our knowledge of affairs at that! they are muddy nowhere else thateverwe
point, we are led to believe that it was the' heard of.-Jackson arrived in time; but on
policy of our Generals to have brought on account of the muddy roads, the Postmas-
a decisive battle with the enemy before he ter had furnished the mail an hour before
could have fortified his positions and en- time, and the stage was already gone,
trenched himself so as to cover a disastrous ' With characteristic fidelity to his promise,
defeat. We know that he has been work- Jackson sent the horse back, instead ofri-
ing with the pick and spade night and ding him on in pursuit of the stage, and
day, for weeks, and it may be that the took * °'\ foot through the mud. After a
opportunity so eagerly sought for of ma- j rnn 0 , thirteen miles, he overtook the
king a successful attack upon him has pass- j stage, jumped in, went te W ashington all
ed. If this be so, to rise a battle under ■ muddy as he was, presented his letter to
these circumstances would be. productive j ^hr. Hays, and was by him in turn, presen-
of no final results, and only be attended ! to the Secretary of War, who gave him
with great slaughter of human life. With | the coveted warrant. At AV est Point
this view, as we gaze on the great chess- ! he severely felt the want of eail} educa-
board of the present contest, it strikes us j tion >’ hut his indomitable spirit overcame
that it would-be the policy of our Generals i ever y obstacle. He was never marked
to fall back from Corinth by retrograde j f&r :l demerit during hts four years, and
movement, force the enemy to leave his 1 graduated with the class of 1S46, the same
works, and advance to the plains beyond j ln wll ich McClellan graduated
Memoir of Gta. T. JT. JtckMi.
A friend of this illustrious warrior, whose
deeds are now resounding from one end of
the Confederate States to the other, has
enabled us to give the following sketch of
his life, previously to his acceptance of a
command in the Confede r ate Army.
Since that time it has become a part of
the history of the country.
He was born in Clarksburg, in the coun
ty ot Lewis, in the year 1S25, of highly
respectable parents, both of whom died
during his infancy, leaving him without a
cent in the world, Duringliis early child
hood he resided with an uncle, whose name
we did not hear, and at the age of sixteen
he had conducted himself so well, and pro
duced such a favorable impression of his
energy and integrity that he was chosen
constable of the county In the year
lS42acadet had been appointed from
his district to West Point, who declined to
go. Jackson immediately conceived the
idea of filling the place he bad left vacant.
Our informant says, that one day, while
it was raining exceedingly hard, he burst
suddenly into his office, the rain streaming
from his clothes, and told him that he must
give him a letter to Mr. Hays, at that
time representative in Congress from the
Lewis district. Upon being asked what
he wanted with such a letter, he replied,
he wished to go to West Point. His
friend pointed out to hini what he regar
ded as the absurdity of such a scheme,
seeing that he was very deficient in edu
cation, and would, therefore, probably not
be able to stand the preliminary examina
tion. He acknowledged the alleged defi
ciency, but said he was sure he had the
perseverance to make it up. He obtained
the letter without further difficulty, and
that very evening borrowed a horse, un
der promise to send him hack by a boy
whom he carried with him, and rode to
to take the stage. It had
the woods and hills of Corinth, where he
could no lunger receive their protection
and the advantage of his fortifications.—
The Federals have over and over
ain expressed their fears that we might
The young graduate was ordered' oft’
immediately, with the rank of Second
Lieutenant, to join General Taylor’s army
in the Valley of the Rio Grande. He ar
rived after the battles of Palo Alto, Resca
fall back from Corinth, and their great de la Palma, and Monterey, and before
dread of being forced to follow us further ; that of Buena Vista was ordered to join
South which they say they have a greater J General Scott before Vera Cruz. At the
horror of than a battle. ! siege of this latter place he commanded
There are other considerations well i a battery, and attracted attention by his
known to many of our readers, and not i coolness and the judgment with which he
necessary to particularize, which render ! worked his guns, and was promoted First
our longer occupation of Corinth a matter Lieutenant. For his conduct at Cerro
of at least doubtful expediency. But of Gordo he was brevetted Captain. He was
in all Scott’s battles to the city of Mexico,
this our Generals are the best judges, and
we have confidence that they will decide
wisely.
Under these circumstances, and from
our knowledge of the fact that our army
and behavedso well that ho was brevetted
Major for his services. On one occasion lie
commanded a battery upon which the fire
of the enemy was so severe that more than
is prepared to make either a forward or i half his troops, who were raw, incontinent
retrograde movement, we shall not be ly ran. Jackson was advised to retreat;
surprised to hear at any moment either ; but he said if he could get a reinforcement
of a battle being fought or of Corinth ! of fifty regulars, he would take the ene-
being evacuated. As for the defences of my’s battery opposed to bim, instead of
Corinth, we know they are very stirong, j abandoninghis own. He sent for the na-
and that Halleck with his host could never
gain the rear of our battlements. But
this is not the question. We are not cal
culating the chance of our defeat, but those
of a decisive, telling victory over the . en
emy, which shall secure to us not only
med reinforcement, but, before it came,
he had already stormed the obnoxious
battery.
Jackson’s health was so much shattered
by this campaign that he was compelled
to resign. lie accepted a professorship at
masterly triumphs, but all the points and j the Military Institute, where he continued
advantages of capture and conquest. ! until the secession of Virginia. In height,
Let the public mind, then be prepared he «s about six feet, with a weight of
for either event, and come what may, let about one hundred and eighty, Ho is
us only be the more firffily determined on j quite remarkable for his moral as he has
our liberty and independence. If the proved himself to he forhis fighting quali-
The Yankees al Port Koynl—their schemes
of C'otton throwing.
The Y’ankees are not getting on very
Sec. 1. The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact, That in addition to the
Treasury Notes, authorized to be issued under „ -. ,
previous arts the Secretary of the Treasury is here- ! Officers in the I rOvisional Army, of a grade . ,,
by required to prepare afid put in circulation, by 'Weeding that of Captains and with the pay of j smoothly in their 'cotton growing, at 1 ort
such means as he may deem proper to adopt, five ! corresponding grades of Infantry, who shall per- j Royal. Family jars have sprung up
millions of dollars of Treasury Notes of the Con- or fi ‘F na , ®^ cers ( h e Army. thomselves and the iipptops rpfusft
federate States of the denominaion of one dollar I A, 1 J president is hereby authorized to ap- among themselves, and the negroes refuse
and two dollars. Said notes shall be issued in PP 1 * 11 ten oerpeants ot Infantry, in the I rovistou- to work for their new “masters.” A
such proportions of each to the aggregate sum Army, and to assign them to duty as Signal
herein authorized as the stud Secretary may de- I Cor P s above authorized they bo organized as a
termine, pay ably to bearer, six months after the j ^Parate corps or may be attached to the Depart-
Tatification of a treaty of peace, between the ! of th ?.Adjutant and inspector Genera 1 , or to
Confederate State and" the United Stat.-s. Said ! t-agineer Corps, as the Secratary of War shall di
rect.
Approved April 19, 1862.
notes shall be receivable in payment of all public
dues, including postage, except the export duty
on cottou.
Sec. 2 Be it further enacted. That the .Secreta
ry is hereby authorized to have said notes prin
ted as ho may deem most practicable and advis
able in effecting a speedy issue and circulation of
said notes.
Sec 3. Be it further enacted. That the Secreta
ry ot the Treasury is authorized to issue Treasu
ry notes payable in six mouths after the ratifica
tion of a treaty of peace, between the Confederate
States and the United States, of a denomination
not less than one hundred dollars, bearing inter
est at the rate ot two cents per day for each hun
dred dollars: the said notes when issued to be a
substitute for so much of the one hundred and
sixty-five millions of bonds authoiized by the act
of Congress passed at the present session; and said
notes shall be receivable in payment of all dues
except the export duty on cotton
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That the said Sec
retary shall make report to Congress of the amount
of each denomination of notes, herein required
to be issued, which he may put in circula
tion.
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That the twenty
first and twenty iWsii^ections of “An act to au
thorize the issue of Treasury Notes, and to pro
vide a War Tax for their redemption’’ be and the
same are hereby declared to apply to the Treasu
ry Notes herein authorized as fully in all respects,
as it the same constituted a part of this act.
Approved April 17, 1862.
[No. 50 ]
AN ACT to aid in the construction of a certain
line of Railroad in the States of Louisiana and
Texas.
Wherers the Confederate States are encaged in
actual war, and the President has recommended,
for military reasons, the construction of the rail
road from New Iberia in the State of Louisiana,
and Houston, in the State of Texas, and the Com
manding General at New Orleans has declared it
to be at the present moment a great military nec
essity.
Sec. 1. The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact. That the President be aud
lie is hereby authorized and empowered to aid
er constract w ith the New Orleans and Texas Rail
road Company, and the Texas and New Orleans
Railroad Company, upon such terms and condi
tions ar, he may think proper, to insure the prompt
completion and connection of said roads, in the
manner he may think best calculated to promote
the public interest.
Sec. 2. Be it fqrther enacted. That to enable the
President to accomplish the object herein contem
plated. the sum of one million five hundred thous
and dollars in the bonds of the Confedi rate States
is hereby appropriated to be issued and applied
by the order of the President at such times and in
such sums as he may deem proper, and that the
[No. 57.]
AN ACT supplimentai to the act entitled “An Act
to encourage the manufacture of saltpetre aDd
small arms.”
Section I. The Congrnss of the Confederate
States of America do enact, That the provisions of
the act entitled “au act to encourage the manu
facture of saltpetre and small arms,” shall also
apply to all establishments or mines for the pro
duction of coal and for the production aud manu
facture of iron, and that in addition to the ad
vance of fifty per cent, therein mentioned, the
President be and he is hereby authorize^ to enter
into contracts for the purchase of coal and iron, in
such quantities as may probably be required for
a series ofyears, not exceeding six, and to make
advances thereon not exceeding one-third of the
amount of such contract.
Approved April 19, 1962.
[No. 58 ]
AN ACT to es^B?S!f ! Ǥrtain post routes thereiu
■ named.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate
States of America do enact, that the following
post routes be and the same are hereby’ establish-
•ed to wit:
In the State of ^)abama—r.Guntersville,
by way ot Larkinsville, on the Memptin, .,.,,1
Charleston Railroad to Beliefonte. From Syliaoog-
ga to I. I. Richards, in Coosa County.
In the State of Arkansas.—From Parks to
Blacklotk, in Scott county- From Jackensport,
by Black and Current Rivers, to Cherokee Point,
in Randolph county. From Trenton by Hickory
Grove to Clarendon. From Camden by way of
LI Dorado, in Union county, to Monroe, in the
State ot Louisiana. From Washington to Hem-
stead county, by way of Nashville, Ozan Post Of
fice, Wilton and Murfreesboro’ to Royston. in
Pike county. From Warren, by way of Johns
ville, to Hamburgh.
In the State of Florida —From Waldo Station,
on the Florida Railroad to itoriah.
In the State of Georgia.—From Athens bv way
of Harmony Grove and Phi Delta, to Homer,
i rom Lebeauville, on the Savannah, Albany and
Gulf Railroad, to Waresboro’. From Athens to
Lawrenceviile. From Harmony Grove, by way
of Homer and Webb's Creek to Hollingsworth
From Nesota, Baker county, to Camilla.
In the State of Louisiana.—From Natchetoches.
on Red River to Monroe, on the Cuachita Riv
er.
In the State of Mississippi.—From Lake Sta
tion, by way of Pineville, to Flover’n Place, in
Smith county.
In the State of Tennessee.—From Cade’s Cave
to Mont Vale Springs, From Cooksville to Gains-
boro'
In the State of Virginia.—From Arrington, by
respondent of a Boston paper writes from
Port Royal:
Mr. Pierce government agent over the
cottou plantations, and Col. Noble, cotton
agent, have not been on the best of terms
and a controversy as regard the right
of Col. Noble to a horse and saddle on one
of the plantations under Mr. Pierce’s
charge, and which Col. Noble sent for hnt
Mr, Pierce refused to deliver, has"led to
some .hard words, the f/iale of which was
Col. Noble knocked Mr. Pierce over, and
Gen. Hunter thereon ordered Gol. Noble
home in the Cahawba to New York. Col.
Noble, thinking to evade the order, left for
Beaufort in a small sail boat on her day of
sailing, hut Gen. Hunter detained the Ca
hawba while he sent a small steamer and
brought the recreant cotton agent hack.
The cotton agents berate the Pierce party
as Abolitionists, while they, in turn, are
charged with sponging the government.
There are about ten thousand contra
bands, including all classes, on the island
lands of St. Helena, a few others in this
vicinity, and they have planted about three
thousand acres of corn, potatoes and veg
etables, and five thousand with cotton —
as near as can be estimated. The average
yield of cotton per acre is about one hun
dred and fifty pounds, and is worth seven
ty-five cents per pound: being of ilio finest
quality, this yielding a revenue of about
-$'•560,000, besides the vegetables and corn
supposed sufficient to supply this vicini*
ty. The negroes, under their former mas
ters had usually oue-quarter of an acre to
plant for themselves. Uncle Sam allows
them one and a quarter, or evenmo»e
if they wish, sometimes. Rations are
served out to them of sometimes bread
hominy, molasses,and some meat, but only
a portion of the allowance to the army.
Government has thus far advanced them
one dollar per acre for what they have
planted, which is all the money they have
received. They have no regular wages
nor is it determined what they shall re
ceive, or is it easy to know what they
should receive. It is difficult to make
them work, or induce them to—if that
sounds better North—as they find some
thing to eat from Massa Lincoln, and seem
to feel that they are not “free niggers” if
they work. So they often take a day, or
order should be “forward,” the public
heart would leap with and hope, because
they would feel that such a movement
would not be made without a fair prospect
of success. So on the other hand, the order
to fall back from Corinth should be recei
ved, if regret fully, at least with the confi
dence that the good of the cause deman-
ties—being a perfectly conscientious man
just in all his ways, and irreproachable in,
his dealings with his fellow men. It is
said he is a fatalist, as Napoleon was, and
has no fear that lie can be killed before
his time comes. He is as calm in the
midst of a hurricane of bullets as- he was in
the pew of his church at Lexington, when
Zouqtcn.
l,n*l of the Fire
The New Y r ork Journal of Commerce, of
the 20th instant say:-:
The fine regiments of Fire Zouaves,
raised in this city by Col. Elsworth, has
ceased to exist after a career of misfortune
and reverses such as have fallen to the lot
of few regiments in the service. The
remnant of the corps, numbering about
500 officers and men, arrived at this port
on the transport Blackstone from Newport
NTo«-o, and were put on shore at Governer’s
Island, there to be musterd Gut of the army.
The Zouaves say that their chief dissatis
faction was the refusal of the army author
ities to let them go into active service.—
Instead of being permitted to fight—which
they say would hare made them perfectly
happy—they were employed in hospital
service and other unmilitary duties at
Newport News. Whatever, and however
trivial or serious theirgroundsof complaint
may have been, the Government did not
think it worth while either to coax or
coerce them to remain. On Friday last they
were drawn up in a hollow square and asked
whether they wdnld prefer to continue in
service or he disbanded. The vote in favor
of the latter was almost unanimous. Gol.
Looser and several other officers had pre
viously resigned, and become connected
with other organizations—and their with
drawal had done much to increase the gen
eral discontent of the regiment,
From Gen. Hcth’s Command.—Important
ds it. With a few days at farthest, the j he was professor of the Institute. He ap-
anxiety on this subject well doubtless he pears to he a man of almost superhuman
relieved. | endurance. Neither heat nor cold makqs
the slightest impression upon him. He
cares nothing for good quarters and dain
ty fare. Wrapped in his blanket, he
throws himself down on the ground any
where, and sleeps as soundly as though he
were in a palace. He lives as the soldiers
live, and endures all the fatigu6 and all the
sufferings that they endure. His vigilence
is something marvellous. He never seems
to sleep, and lets nothing pass without his
personal scrutiny. He can neither be
caught napping or whipped when he is
wide awake. The rapidity of his marches
is something portentious. He is heard of
by the. enemy at one point, and before they
can make up their minds to follow him he
is off at another. His men have but lit
tle baggage, and moves, as nearly as he
can, without incumbrance. He keeps so
constantly in motion that he never has a
sick list, and no need of hospitals. In
tlieso habits, and in a will as determined
as that of Julius Ca’sar, are read the se
cret of his great success. His men adore
him, because he requires them to do noth
ing which lie does not do himself, because
he constantly leads them them to victory,
and because they see he is a great sol
dier.
liiitrnt from Fort Pillow.
We find the following in the Memphis Appeal,
of Saturday last:
The steamer Golden Age arrived from Fort Pil
low.yesterday. Passengers report that the rapid
cannonading commenced by the euemy on Wed-
movements, now being made by the com- j nesday afternoon, ceased at night, and was not
mnnd of Gon Hetli. under the. immediate ! re opened on I httrsday. The firing was done by
three mortar boats—each throwing a shell every
mand of Gen. Heth, under the immediate
personal direction of Gen. Loring, have
been detailed to us by gentlemen from the
West, but we are not at liberty to give
them publicity now. We may state, how
ever, that it is believed these movements
will result in the discomfortnre of the ene
my in that quarter, and his entire expul
sion from it. We hope we may not be
disappointed.—Linchhurg Rep., 31,st.
It U stated that at the skirmish at Le
banon, Morgan fell in with, among other
prisoners, a man who had been previously
paroled by him. Ho had him tied and
lashed behind one of his horsemen, but be
ing hotly pursued he had him despatched
with a bowie knife and cut loose.
five minutes. As usual, no damage to the fort or
our fleot was done.
St. Louis papers of. the 17th had been received
at Fort Pillow, which admitted the sinking of two
of their gunboats, and the injury of a third, in the
late conflict The Cincinnati was at Cairo repair
ing. The Carondolet was entirely lost. The
Mound City had be.en raised after live days labor,
and taken to Mound City, Illinois, where she was
docked for repairs. Captain Stembell, of the Cin
cinnati, who, after shooting one of the pilots of the
Confederate flag ship, was himself shot, has since
died of his wounds. The Federal fleet lias been
reinforced by live ram vessels, each carrying an
armament of two heavy guns.
Although there has been a considerable fall in
the river, the condition of the roads is such as to
prevent the movement of a land force, and until
a combined effort is made by land and water, no
serious attack is apprehended by our forces
Correspondence of the Memphis Daily Argus.
Corinth May 23—6 P. M.
This*is the last place upon the face of
th e earth that your correspondent would
like to make his abiding place- Cairo is
not a circumstance to Corinth. Unless
a civilian has a pass from the commanding
treneraljdown to the veriest orderly sergeant
U is impossible for him to circulate. The
guards stationed around the town have
positive orders from Gen. Bragg to arrest
everybody. A few days ago one of Gen.
Beauregard’s staff officers was arrested
and put to work unloading the cars. It
is a matter of impossibility for any one to
pass without from fifteen to twenty per
mits, A civilan from Memphis might
have been seen roiling sugar barrels and
unloading the cars to-day. If such rigid
orders had been put forth and executed all
along, to day our army would not have
been encamped in the corner of the State
of Mississippi.
The commanding general I believe has
issued orders, positively refusing to allow
any newspaper correspondents within
the lines. The Appeal’s correspondent
“Sparta” has. I understand, gotten the
reporters in-had odor with all the generals,
and orders have been issued for them to
■get outside the lines and stay out. ‘Spar
ta” has all the requisites of a good report
er, but his “cheek” has brought down
upon us ali the ill will of the generals.
I can only state what is every day writ-
en to the press. A battle may be fonglit
here, and it may not. Our army is m a po
sition and a condition to fight, and it is
waiting for the enemy to attack. News
paper men have no right to express their
ideas about military matters, but there are
some things they are not entirely ignorant
of. This waiting and crawfishing of the
Southern army has dampened our ardor a
little.
It cknnot he denied that the private,
the poor soldier who stands on guard
through rain and sunshine, becomes indiff
erent and loses his ambition. It has been
raining here all day, rendering it very
dissagreable. Skirmishing is going on
daily, and from the manoeuvring of Hal-
lack, he evidently does not intend to fight
Beauregard at Corinth. On Wednesday
last fifteen steamboat loads of troops, and
three boat lands of horses, passed Hender
son going down the Tennessee river.—
This means something, and smacks con
siderably of an evacuation by the Feder
als.
Halleck is covering his retreat admira
bly. On Thursday Generals Brice and
Van Dorn maneuvered to “bag” Pope’s
division, and to their surprise, when they
thought they had Pope surrounded tlie
bird had fldwn. A few pickets was all our
forces secured. The failure to take Pope’s
command, l understand, is attributed to
a newspaper reporter, who, it is said;
divulged the whole plan of our attack.—
This may he so, and it may not.
A newspaper repoiter asked Gen.
Bragg what was the extent of damage
done at Farmington a few days since. To
which he replied. “I will make my re
port to Gen. Beauregard.” Your cor
respondent has to tender his thanks to
Maj. B. B. Wad del, of Gen. Beauregard’s
staff, for favors. The Memphis people,
who have daily had the big fight raging at
Corinth, had just as well subside, for the
chances to-day are less in favor of a battle
than they were twenty days ago. You
need not he disappointed if the two'arm-
ies never fight at Corinth- Such is the im
pression here. H. L. I
[From the Memphis Appeal.]
Thr Enemr on the Rircr.
We have been permitted to peruse some
letters from a lady, a resident of the upper
river, which gives a graphic account of the
conduct of the Federal troops by which
she was surrounded. The garrison of Is
land 10 numbers about one thousand, who
have placed additional works of defence
on the island and in the vicinity. In their
intercourse with the citizens their conduct
has been such as to excite the most utte
contempt, and certainly has not contribu
ted to attach any of the residents to the Lin
coin cause. Not only is private property sei
zed with out remuneration in a single instan
ce, but ladies and familes are insulted, and
their privacy intruded, upon at the pleasure
of the invaders. The consequence is the
friends of the Confederacy have been
strengthened in their purpose and are pray
ing more earnestly than ever for a day of
deliverence.
A large number of negroes have been
taken from tho various plantations—in
many instances they having been forced to
leave their homes.
The question of politics is frequently
discussed bv the officers—such as are
Democrats bitterly opposing the emanci
pation schemes of the Lincoln Congress,
while, of course, the Republicans favor
them. The former greatly exceed the
latter in numbers, both among the officers
and men ; and they frequently declare that
they will have nothing to do in waging a
war for abolitionism.
Cnpt. Charlton Ilorgan amt .Tlnj, Ed.
Jlitchell Exchanged.
Capt. Charlton Morgan is a brother of
John H. Morgan, the famous Kentucky
cavalier, having been wounded in the arm
at Shiloh went to the house of a friend in
Huntsville to be taken care of, was captur
ed when Mitchell entered the place, and
was released on parole. We have already
published the fact that Col. Morgan cap
tured Maj. Mitchell, son of the General, at
Pulaski, Tennessee, and released him on
parole. We learn from one of the Colonel’s
squadron, that when he released young
Mitchell, ho gave or offered him $500 to
take him wherever he might desire to go.—
Letters captured with one of General
Mitchells couriers by two boys, one 18, the
other 16 years old, between Huntsville
and Nashville, disclose the fact that young
Alitchell went to Huntsville bearing Col.
Morgan’s compliments to his father. A
gentleman from Huntsville says Gen. M.,
took his son around to Capt. Charlton
Morgan’s quarters and, introducing "him,
remarked to the Captain ; “I would not
have taken §50,000 for you, but your bro
ther has captured my son and has been so
kind to him, that I am constrained to pro
pose an exchange of you for him, and you
are at liberty to procure it, and I will furn
ish you with any amount of money you may
need.” We understand the exchange has
been'effectcd. General Mitchell could well
afford to be magnanimous with Col. Mor
gan’s example before him.—Knoxville
Register.
The Old I-ere.
' I met her ; she was thin snd old ;
She stooped and trod with tottering feet-
The hair was gray, that once was geld
The voice was harsh, that once was sweet
Her hands were dwindled, and her eyes
Robbed of the girlish light of joy,
Were dim: 1 felt a sad surprise
That I had loved her when a boy.
But yet a something in her air
Restored me to the vanished time,
My heart grew young aiO seemed to wear
The brightness of my youthful prime.
I took her withered hand iu mine—
Its touch recalled a ghost of joy—
I kissed it with a reverent sigh,
For I had loved her when a boy.
Gentle Words.—What sweet thin"? a-e
gentle worife—sweeter than (he first
young rose of summer time. Words that
breathe of tenderness and love to the troub
led spirit and the broken heart, are a
soothing balsam, a treasure to he cherish
ed fondly as riches, sweeter than anything
earth can bestow.
-•‘It is not much the world can give,
m With all its ^ubtile art,
And gold and gems are not the things
To satisfy the heart;
But oh, if those who cluster round
The alter and tlie hearth.
Have gentle words and loving sullies.
How beautiful is earth !”
The Views of an Illinois Sucker About the
Wnr- and its Results.
The Memphis Appeal pubfishes a letter,
found on the person of a deceased Illinois
Sucker in the Federal army, dated 20th
April, and addressed to his wife,Mrs. Si e
Donely, Mount Yermon, 111. Donely
finds the people in Tennessee very rough,
but likes the land and will dispose of hotk
in this way. ,
Well, when that time comes up, we
will make the rebels feel the weight and
power of our steel. They present a woe
begone look. They look like they never
had any advantage of an education. I
noticed some of the women’s dresses.—
Y"ou ought to be here to take one gaze at
their huge appearance. Their hoops are
made of grape vine and white oak splits.—
I feel sorry for the poor, ignorant things.—
Well, we will teach them, in a few days,
how to do without white oak and grape
vine hoops. They are now the same as
conquered, and one more blow and the
country is ours. I have my eye on a fine
situation, and how happy we will live when
we get our Southern home• When we get
possession of the land, we can make the men
raise cotton and corn, aud tlie women van
art in the capacity of domestic servants.—
The women are very ignorant—only a
grade above the negro—and we can live
like kings. My love to all the neighbors.
Kiss all the children forme, and tell them,
pa will come hack again. Adieu, my
de-arest Sue.—James Donely.
Freedom of the Press.—When the first
Napoleon was a prisoner at St. Halena,
as we learn from the Journal of Las Cases,
the liberty of the press became the sub
ject of discussion, when this remarkable
personage expressed himself as follows :
The liberty of the press is no longer a
question Open for consideration. There
are institutions now, and the liberty of
the press is one of them upon the excel
lence ofwhich we are no longer called to
decide, hut solely to determine upon the
possibility of witholding them from the
overbearing influence of public opinion.
Its prohibition under a representative gov
ernment is a gross anachronism, a down
right absurdity.
I, therefore, on my return from Elba,
abandoned the press to all its excesses,
and I am confident that the press in na
respect contributed to my downfall. When
it was proposed in the council in my
presence to discuss the means of shelter
ing the authority of the State from its at
tacks, I rather jocosely remarked : “Gen
tlemen, it is probable yourselves you wish
to protect, for as respects me I shall hence
forth continue a stranger to all such procee
dings. The press has exhausted itself up
on me during my absence, and I heartily
defy it to produce anything new or provo
king against me.”
The Tomb of Kosciusko at Cracow.—A letter to
the London Times : “Outside of Cracow are three
fuueral mounds, such as were raised by the an
cient Sclavonians in memory of heroes and demi
gods. Oue of these commemorates Craecus, tho
reputed founder of Cracow, a personage whom I
should be disposed to class with Prussus, tho
founder of Prussia ; Russ, the founder of Russia ;
Tchekh, the founder of the empire of the Bohe
mians, of Tenecks; and others of the same fabu
lous tribe. The second, Wonda, a princess much
revered in Poland because she drowned herself to
avoid marrying a German; and the third, Kosci
usko. In 1820, on the anniversary of Kosciusko's
death. General Pazkowski laid the foundation of
the Kosciusko monument with a barrow full of
earth and bones brought from the battlefield of
Raclewice. He next deposited in a marble coffin
the bust of the Polish chief, with his biography,
and placed by its side an urn containing some of
the earth from the field of Maciojowice, where.
Kosciusko fell. Then the spectators, who had as
sembled in tens of thousands; all contributed to
raise the mound, which is about 140 feet high,
and half a quarter of a mile around the base.
This was just what the Austrians wanted. Kosci
usko’s tomb had been erected on the highest
ground, that Poles might see it from afar, and that
from its summit the ancient palaces, churches, and
monasteries of Cracow, to every one of which
some national legend is attached, might be seen.
What better site could there be for military posi
tion! Accordingly the Andrians proceeded to
wall it in and fortify it, and the tumulus of-the
Polish patriot is now one of the chief strongholds
of the army which occupies Cracow.”
NrriouM Accident.'
The flues in the boiler at the Armory collasped
yesterday at noon, tearing out the walls of the
building at each end of the boiler; a large portion
of the hack wall is still standing. The engine
room and the room above, and pait of the black
smith shop are complete wrecks. A negro be
longing to one of the proprietors was so badly
scalded; that it is hardly probable that he will live.
This wifi be a serious drawback, as the machinery
is nearly ready to commence turning out guns,
but this, of course, will delay operations for some
considerable time.—Rome Courier 3Ut.
Latest from Corinth.
The Mobile Register learns by passen
gers by the cars on the 28tb, that the re
duction of baggage, tents, and camp equip
age'is being rigidly and systematically
enforced at Corinth. Large quantities'Hre
sent down to different points, by every
train, but no guns or ammunition accompa
ny them.
The Mobile Tribune, of Wednesday last,
thinks that the great battle at Corinth
would begin on that day. It states that
Generals Price and Van Dorn went out
night befere last with their commands to
try and get between the enemy and the
river, and if they accomplished the object,
they were to fire signal guns at 3 o’clock,
a. m. Firing was beard at that hour, and
the whole army was soon afterwards in mo
tion. All of tne sick soldiers, women and
children—all have been sent away from
Corinth. It is, therefore, believed that
the great battle has actually commen
ced.
The Richmoi d Examiner has reports
from Corinth that General Beauregard had
succeeded iu cutting off Halleck’s supplies
by railroad, and his only means of commu
nication was by the Tennessee river,
which was falling very rapidly and would
soon be unnavigable. It was snpposed
Hallack would be compelled to fall back,
in which event General Beauregard would
attack him.
A Success in Missouri.—The Northern papers
publish a dispatch dated Rolla. Missouri, May
29th, which state that a train of seventeen wag-
ous, laden with Federal government stores, en
route tor Springfield, was cut off about twenty
miles from the latter place, by a band of Confed
erate partisans. The wagons and contents were
burned, and all the mules, eighty six in number,
were carried off. It is admitted that the foray waf
eminently a successful one.