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M1LLEDGEYILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1862.
[NUMBER 4.
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COUNTING HOI SE
CALENDAR. J862.
©AV®.
■ Sec 3. Be it tuitber enact-d, 'Itiattt.e nscieia
! ry oi the Treasury is authorized to issue Treasu
ry notes payable in six mouths after the ratifies*
corresponding piartes «• luluntry, wlio sha:l pt-r
form the litities of .-signal Oilicers of the Army
And tli3 President is hertby authorized to ap
LEGAL. ADVERTISEMENTS.
Sales of Laud and Negroes, by Administrators, F.\-'
eeatorgor Gaaraiaiis, arerequired by law to he held i
on the first 1’uesdayin the month;between (he hours ot ;
Id in tue torenoou and three in the afternoon, at the
Court uouse in the county in which the property is sit-!
uated.
N'olice of these sales must be given in a public ga-
zett3 M days previous to the day ofssle.
Notices fortlie sale •: personal property must begiv- :
e* in like manner til days previous to sale day.
Noticesto the debtors and creditors of an estate must 1
aLo be published 40 days.
Notice that application will be madetothe Court of i
Ordinary forleavoto sell Land or Negroes, must be!
published for two months.
6’rta/ion* for letters of \dministratien Guardianship.
&ic., nustbe published 30 days—for dismission fron. j
Ad Ministration, n inthly fix ' montkt—for dismission ;
from Guardianship, 40 days.
Rules for foreelosure of 'Mortgage must be published .
ninthly fur four month*—for establishing lost papers.
for thr full ipnre of three month»—tar compelling titles
from Executors or administrators, where bond has been |
given by the deceased, the full space ef three J
months. !
Publications will always be continued according to I
these, th>-legalrequirements, unices otherwise ordered ,
at the following
RATES:
Citatious, on letters of administration, &•.
“ . “ dismissory from Admr’n.
“ Guardianship.
Leave to sell Land or Negroes
Notice to debtors and •reditor*.
Rales of persona! property, ten days, 1 sqr.
Rale of land orr.egroes by Executors, kr. pr sqr
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• n of a treaty of peace, between the Confederate j point ten Sergeants of Infantry, in the Provision
States and the United States, of a denomination j al Attny, and to assign them to dn'y as S:gna
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t;s { t® . 5 I est at the rate ot two cents per day for each bun- , separate corps, or may be attached to the Depart
dred dollars: the said notes when issued to be a
substitute for so much of the one hundred and
iixty-iive millions of bonds authotized by tiie act j rect
mentof the Adjutant and inspector General, or t
Engineer Corps, as the ixecratary of War shall di-
of Congress passedat the present session; and said
notes shall be leceivabie in payment of ali dues
except the export duty on cotton
Approved April !!>, I-62.
[No. 57.]
Sec. 4 lie it limber enacted. That the said Sc c- 1 AN ACT supplitnental to the act entitled “An Ac
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retary shall make report to Congress of the aniouut '
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 third sections of •‘Alt act to au
thorize the issue of Treasury Notes, and to pro
toencouiage the manufacture ol saltpetro atm
small arms.”
Section I. The Congrnss of the Confederal,*
States of America do enact. That, the provisions ol
the act entitled "an. act to encourage the maim
facture of saltpetre and small arms.” shall also
, ... „ .. . . „ , ,-V* ! apply to all establishments or mines for the pro
vide a War lax for their redemption .be and 'he ! A. ... . ..a e r : .... , .........
same are hereby d. eta.ed to apply to the Treasu
ry Notes herein authorized as fully in ail resptets,
as i’ the same constituted a part of this act.
Approved April 17, I.’*62
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j duction of coal and tor the production and matin
tacture of iron, and that iu addition to the ad
vauce ot titty per cent therein mentioned, tin
President be and he is h.-rel.y authorized to entei
j into con tt acts for the purchase of coal and iron, in
,v. - • such quantities as may probably b>- required fot
l-o. *> J a serits of years, not exceeding six, and to makt
AN ACT to aid in the construction of a certain j advances thereon not exceeding one-third ol the
line of Railroad iu the States ot Louisiana and j amount ot such contract.
Texas. . # j Approved Apiil it). iNiil.
Wherers the Confederate States are encaged in i
actual war, atid the President has recommended, | [No. 58 ]
fot military reasons, the construction of the rail- J , w , ...
road from New Iberia in the State of Louisiana, ; A " 1 lo establish certain post routes therein
and Houston, in the State of Texas, and the Com- j named,
manding General at New Orleans bait declared it * Section I. The Congress of the Confederate
to he at the present moment a great military nec- States of America do enact, that the following
writers, as appeals by onr columns to-day, ]
who themselves are shocked with the sav- ;
age barbarity and tbe demon cruelty ot ,
From the Richmond Dispatch.
The Ac* of (frurrui Kobbri-y of the South
On the 2Sth nit., the House of Repre-
this hoary headed old man ! These writers sentatives of the Federal Congress passed
testify that-already there is positive sutler- j ' n bjj| which originated in tbe Senate, the
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the A onfi'iirralr NtalrN of Ann
nl ll*«* Fia>®t Nf*>»»ioii uiitlt-r Ihc
Couefilulson.
Uon^rci
1. The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact. That the President be and
he is hereby authorized and empowered to aid
er construct with the New Uritai.s ali i Texas Bail-
road <
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BOOK-BINDING
ptpany
1 Company, upon such terms and emidi-
tii.ns as 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.
59c. 2. Beit tuither enacted. That to enable tbe
. .. , „„ . , . , . „. , , President to accomplish the objtct hereiiFcontem-
AN AC r toauthonze the employment of Clerks lbe 8UI11 ofo ’ le live hundred thoua-
atihe others ot .he Treasurer and Asststa.it aIld do | Jar „ t , ie bliniis „ f thr Couted. rate States
1 reasurers.
(No 4ti
The Snhscu-iher is now jire
pared to de Book-Eind-
inf, in all its branches
Old Books rebound, A c.
MUSIC bound in the best style. Blank Books
manufactured to order. Prompt attention will be
given to all wotk entiusted to me.
k S. J KIDD.
Kinder? in Nonlhrrn Federal Fnion Ofliee.
Milledgeville, March 19th, 1861. 43
is hereby »pp
by the order o
such sums as
Prt sidf-nt b
J Whereas, tlie issue and deposit of Treasury notFs
at the offices connected with the Treasury ii.vo.ve
j uti increase of labor and responsibility:
; The Congress ot tbe Confederate 8tates of Amer- ; toad and its appurtenances lor the ultimate repay
i ica do erinct, r i bat the 5icii tai v oi the r i leastuw | meiitot the mui.ey so expended in aid of its ertc
is hereby authorized to employ, such additional | lion.
Tellers and Book keepers a
offices of the Tit asm er and
tor the additional duties r> quit
disbursement of Treasury n
compensation to bo allowed s
are rtquir
Assistant 'J'
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•ted the
COURT C ALLENDER FOR 1862.
SUPEIHGii COURTS.
JANUARY.
3d Monday, Chatham.
* Fitly d
FEBRUARY.
1st Monday, Clark
t Lumpkin
3d Monday, Campbell
Dawson
3d Monday, Forsyth
Polk
Glascock
Merriwether
Walton
4th Monday. Baldwin
Jackson
Monroe
Paulding
Taliaferro
Walker
MARCH.
1st Thursday. Pierce
1st Monday, Appling
Chattooga
Cherokee
Coweta
Columbia
Ctawford
JULY.
1st Monday, F uvd*
AUGUST.
1st Monday Lumpkint
2d 51 iuukt, Campbell
‘ Clark
Dnwsna
3d Monday, Foisyth
Po!k
G'.usetirk
Me: riwethor
Walton
4th Monday, Bulon ia
Juekson
Monroe
I’nuldmg
Taliat^lO
Walker
Thusday after, Pietco
j tale af Twelve Hundred Dollars jur annum, for j
t each Teller or Cletk: and piovidt-d also, that the
I number of cleiks to be employed shall not even d
j seven: and, provided, that no person shall be ap-
j pointed in either of said offices w ho is under the-
j age of lorry years, and capable of active set vice
] in the army, and, provided, further, that a .pief- '
j erence shall in all cases, be given, in making ap
I pointnitnts the qualifications fil ing equal, to those
| w ho have been discharged from tlie military ser- |
j vice ot the country on account ot wounds teceiv-I
j ed, or disease contracted, in the linetif duty.
Appiovcd April 17 1862.
post routes be and the same are hereby establish
ed to wit :
In the State of Alabama—From Guntersville
by way of Latkiusvilie, on the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad to Beliefonte. From Jsyliaoog-
the Texas and New Orleans ga to 1. I Richards, in Coosa Coun’v.
in l!»e State of Atkausas—Front Parks tu
Blacklotk. in tscott county From Jackeiisport.
by liiaek e.nd Cu.retit Rivers, to Lhemkee Point,
in Randolph county From Trenton by Hickory
Grove to Clarendon. Fiom Camden by way oi
El Dorado, in Union county, to Mm.roe, in the
htate ot Louisiana. Finni Wasbiiigton to Hem-
stead county, by way i f Nashviiie, Ozatt Post Ot
fice, Wilton and 51urfie,-.stioro’ to Rojston. in
Pikecoutity From Warren, by way of Johns
ville, to Hamburgh.
In the fsta’e ot Florida —From Waldo Station,
dincted to te.ko a mortgage of said j on the Florida Railroad to Etnriah.
In the Mate of Georgia—From Athens bv way
of Harmony Grove and Phi Delta to Homer.
From L:
Gift
Lawreuceville. From Harmony Grove, by way
of Homer and Webb's Creek to Hollingsworth j
From N’csoia. Baker county, to Camilla.
in the .State of Louisiana—From N'alchetoches. i
on Red River to Slonroe, on tiie Ouachita Kiv-
piiated to be issued and applied
ilie President at such times and in
lie may deem proper, ami that the i
among the women anti children n£Nor-
lo!k ; that gaunt famine is clutching at
their vitals with its skeleton lingers. To
every cry of distress, to every appeal foi
the observance ofthe ordinary humanities,
to every demand for the usages of civil
ized war, this old man, with one foot in
the grave and the other on its brink, has
but one answer : Take tiie oath of allegi
ance or starvef!
How long the people of Norfolk will re
sist the process of subjugation, by starving
the 'women and children,, we know not.
The Northern witnesses testify against
them that they continue, to this time, very
sulky and very sullen; that the little
babes and the aged men and women have
not x et reached that liegteeoi emaciation
which melts the hearts ofthe strong ant:
the resolute. Wool, however, is.enforcing
'and perfecting Lis means of starvation,
j and grand results are hoped for be for*
| long ! Curious speculations are indulged
j as to the. different degrees of the pangs of
■ hunger, and their power of overcoming re-
j sistance. No inquisitor ever watched the
I turning of the tmimh-screivs with mon
! calm interest, an i looked for their etled
! with more cool philosophical speculation,
j than ate manifested by the octogenarian
j warri >1 at Fortiess Monroe, as he cuts of;
] the food, and listens for the ivails of the
j little children of Norfolk ! If an offenct
I so rank cries not to Heaven for vengt-aTce;
! if atrocities so vile, rouse not the fury o7
| the injured, and attract not the reproha
j tion of the world—then human faith ano
- human instincts, go for naught ! Hut then
\ ts a day of retribution ! A cause so un
holy in itself, and supported by such aim
cious expedients must be abhoned of Goo
and of men, and must fail ! !-*>t every
Approvi d April 19, 1862.
(No. 51
Confederate soldier remember the l'amish-
Lel.eauviile on the .Savannah. Albany.and j j,,,, people of Norfolk, when next he meets
Rat,road, to VV aieshoro’. Finn Atlima to ! .. ° *
the toe, ana strike a special blow, lor then
deliverance !
winnett
Maiiinon
Marion
Morgan
2d Monday, Butts
Bartow
Coffee
Elbert
Fayett
Greene
Pickens
Washington
W etister
3d Monday, Cobbt
Calhoun
Hall
Hart
Heard
M aeon
Newton
Talbot
Tattna!
Ware
Thursday after W bite
Friday alter, Bulloch
4th Monday, Clinch
l’ntnam
Uabnii
Chattahoochee
Lee
Twiggs
Wilkes
Johnson
Milton
Thursday aft*-r Habershanilter the 4th
4th Thursday, Montgomery
M.imlav at- i K ,.| lols
Jh ■ I K!K,, b’ llftm
’ ' APRIL.
1st A, 2d Mon. Carroll
1st Monday, Dooly
Frauklin
Emanuel
Early
Fulton
Gordon
Pike
. Taylor
Warren
Wilkinson
Thursd’ynfter Banks
2d Monday, Hancock
Richmond
Harris
Laurens
Miller
Sumter
Tuesday after, McIntosh
3d Slonduy, Glynn
Haralson
Henry
Jones
Liberty
M array
< Iglettiurpe
Pulaski
Stewart
Monday Worth
after * * Bryan
4th Jlonday,Wayne
Deeatur
DcKitb
Houston
J upper
Lincoln
Sonlev
Whitfield
Wilcox
Friday after.Telfair
Camden
Thursday after, Irwin
Monday " Berrien
Charlton
MAY
1st Monday. Clayton
Sonvcn
Gilmer
Randolph
Upson
2d 5Iouday, Catoosa
Jefferson
Chatham
Fannin
Mitchell
.Muscogee
3d Jlonday, Bibb
But kc
t^uittnmn
Spalding
Tnitip
Union
Baker
Thursday after Towns
4th Monday, l»ndc
Terrell
Last Monday. Colquitt
JUNE.
1st Monday, Lowndes
Dougherty
2d Monday. Brooks
Clay
3d Monday. Thomas
SEPTEMBER.
1st Monday, Appling
Chattooga
Chert kee
Columbia
. Coweta
Crawford
5! ayiison
51 anion
51 organ
2d Monday, Butts
Barlow
Coffee
Elbert
Fayette
Greene
Gwinnett
Pickens
Washington
Webster
,3d Monday, Cobbt
Calhoun
Hall
Hart
Heard
Macon
Newton
Talbot
W-e
Bulloch
Thursday after White
14th Monday, Clinch
Putnam
Chattahoochee
Lee
Twiggs
Wilkes
Johnson
Milton
Rabun
Thursday after Habersham
Monday af-)
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(No. 47 )
AN ACT to authorize the Secretary of War to !
Divid the appropriation for the con tin j
gent expenses ol the War department and tiie |
Army.
See 1 The Congress of the Confederate State* I
of America do eimct. That the appropriation of j
two hundred thousand dollars made for the inei |
dental and contingent expenses of the Army and ]
of the War Depaitment, in the Act entitled an
Act making appropriations for the support of the j
Government- from April first to the thmieth of No !
vembereighteen hundred and sixty-two. appro-j
ved April third, eighteen hundred sixty two, be |
divided and applied, by the Secretary ot War, to
j *he incidental amt contingent exptnses ofthe
| War Depaitment and to those ot the Atmy. in i
j such proportions, as, irf bis opinion, tbe exigencies j
of the public service may req .ire.
Approved April 17, li~t>2.
RESOLUTIONS for the preservation of public
documents.
Re-olved by the Congress of the Confederate
States of America That two bundled copies of all
documents printed by older of ei la-r House of
Congress shall lie delivered by the Superiutendant
ot i'uliiic I’rinting to the Attorney General, and
af tine * rid of each session of Congress, the At-
torm y 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
of seeresv 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 tor the use of
the Department ot Justice, and the remaining cop
it s together with the Secret oocuments, held sub
ject to the order ot Cot gress.
Approved April J9, Ie62. •
iesigti of which is to appropriate all tin
property of loyal Southern citizens to tin
uses of the Federal Government. Tin
title of the bill is, “A bill to collect direct
raxes in insurrectionary districts, and Icu
other purposes.” It provides, as we lean
from the Phi'ndelphia Inquirer, for tin
appointment of a Hoard ofTaxCommis
sinners, who shall enter upon their dtitier
whenever and wherever the Federal mili
ary authority shall be established. It
till cases where the owners of land tail t<
pay their taxes, the property is to he sold
Provision is made for the ledemption ot
the. land, ‘if it he shown to the satistactioi
ofthe Commissioners that the owner hat
not taken part in, or in any manner aiden
or abetted the rebellion, and that, by reasoi
•>f the insunection, be has been unable t<
pay the tax.’ In cases where tbe owner*
of land have left home to join the‘rebel
c iii.-e,’ the L nited States shall take posses
sion. and may lease them until tbe civi
antltnn v of the United fMates is estab
:ished, and the people ofthe State sbal
electa Legislatuie aud State officers, win.
>hall take the oath to support the Federal
('(institution; hut the Hoard of Commis
sioners may subdivide the lands and sel
them in pat cels to any loyal citizm, oi
any person (whether citizens or not,]
who -shall have faithfully served in tin
army, navy, or marine corps.
\\ e are given further to understand that
the pre-emption principle is also engrafteo
on the lull with the view of holding out
additional inducements to the invasion.
Tiie lull sweeps all the property of ev
ery man who is lighting for his country.
It takes it from him, and ho tan only re
cover it by proving that, he has not aidett
the ‘rebellion’ ‘in any manner.’ Its most
diabolical feature, however, is the provis
ion which requires it to be sold only to
•loyal citizens,’ or those mercenary foreign
ers whose status is described as ‘any per
non who shall have faithfully served in the
! a gallant charge of the Iiish Volunteers,
I Captain Ryan, and the Charleston Rifle
men Lieut. Walter.
1 tie enemy, repnlsed on land, opened
a fierce fire from his gunboats upon our
| positions along the iine of the Stor.o,
! particularly directing his attentions to
! Heyward’s and Stevens’ Regiments and
| to the Eutaw Battalion. The fire was
kopr up with singular rapidly, hot up to
5k o’clock, no damage has been done to
our side. Several ot the enemy’s shells
are said to hav.c hurst near Gen. Gist,
covering that officer with sand. At night
rhe storm of wind and rain became ex
ceedingly violent; but all night long the
enemy maintained his fire at regular in-
ervals, the object, of course, being to
snatch rest from our wearied boys.
The Pennsylvania Captain fClina,),
a ho con minded the captuieJ patty, is
piite communicative, but the information
■ontained in his statements is so scant
md of so impiobable a complexion, that
t is scarcely worth repeating. He says
hat his company, forming part of a force,
he strength or commander of which he
loes not know, left Hilton Head on Sat-
irdav last. On Jlonday they ascended
he Stono River, and were landed at dust
m Mr. Legare’s place where they passed
rbe night. At dawn on Tuesday they began
heir match towards Secession ville, and
tfter having advanced about a mile
md a half, they encountered onr skirm-
shers. The engagement was iutmedia-
»»I v opened with musketry on both
sides.
T he Southern troops were posted along
the edge of a wood, while the . Yankees
sought cover behind a green hedge. '1 bus.
he tight was kept up, at long range, fir
ibout two hours, when the I ankve forces
•icgan to tall hack, leaving these prisoners,
who formed a ;-ntali flanking party, un-
*11 pported. The prisoners admit that they
were taken in gallant st))e by Capt. Ry
an’s command.
Last evening, about eight o’clock, in
spite ofthe rain, there was sliaip woik
2<>ing on, the details of which we were
iinahled to asceitain. It seems certain,
how ever, that the enemy has got a foot
hold on Janies Island, and we may look
or a sharp engagement there at any
hour.
• Eebols
Monday
OCTOBER.
M & 2d 5Ion. Cat roll
list .Monday, Dooly
Emanuel
Franklin
Early
Fulton
Gilmer
Gordon
Taylor
Warren
Wilkinson
Pike
Thursday after Banks
2d 51onday, Fannin
Richmond
Hancock
Harr is
Laurens
5li!ler
Sumter
3d Monday, Glynn
HiirttUon
Henry
Jones
5Iurray
Oglethorpe
Pulaski
Stewart
Union
W*rth
Thursday after Towns
(No 48.)
AN ACT to encourage the Manufacture of Saltpe
tre and of small arms.
Sec. 1. The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact. That any person or person*
who may propose to establish within the limits ot
j the Confederate States a manufactory or niann
! factories ot Stitlpetre and of small Arms adapted
j t<» the use of the army, shall be entitled to receive
I from the Government an advance cf fifty per cent
j of the amount required for the election and prep-
j aration of the works and machiffery necessary to
I such manufactory or manufactories to he repaid
j without interest in the product of such mauufac
| tory or manufactories, at a price to he agreed upon
before such advance shall tie made, and subject
! to the follow ing conditions, to wit—l iist, 1 hat
| The contractor or contractors shall submit to the
PresuUnt a plan ofthe proposed wotks, .show
ing their location, nature and ex'ent, together
j with a sworn estimate of their prubable cost, and
J a detailed account under oath ofthe amount an
I ready expended on the same, which anmuntshal
i be at least twenty five percent of the entire esti
| mated cost of such work. Second. That tin
j amount so advance . shall be paid in instalments
I as the works shall progress towards completion
! Thirc, That the proposed enterprise and wi rks
j shall be approved l>v the presid. nt. Fourth, 'i lia:
j the contractor or contractors shall enter into bond-
j with sufficient securiety, to be approved by the
i President in the penalty ot double the amount
j proposed to be advanced- aud conditioned that tin
I principal obligor or obligors shall well and tiuiy
! hy a certain time, (which may he extended by
[No. 52 ]
AN ACT to repeal certain laws therein named
and to declare others m full force, in Relation
to conveyance ot mailable matter outside of the
Mail.
Seel The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact. That so much of the exis
ting enactments of the Confederate States, ; s te-
lates to the conveyance or transportation of let
ters or packages of letters or of mailable matter
,,f any kind bytxpnss or other companies of any
kind, th< ir agents or eu ployees, be and the same
are hereby repealed, and the laws ofthe United
5!ates adopted by an act of the Provisional Con
gress entitled “An act to continue in foice certain
laws of the United States of America,’’ on the
In the State of Mississippi.—Front Lake Sta-
i tion, by wa> ufPiuevilie, to Fiover’s Place, in
| Smith county.
to the ntate of Tennessee.—From Cade’s Cave
to 51 out Vale Springs, From Cooksville to Gains-
i boro
In the State ot \ irginia.— From Arrington. Ry
tvay ot MassieD MiHs. to Type River Mills, iu
i Nelson county.
In the State of North Carolina.—From Slates-
ville by way of Taylorsville. WiikesLoro’and Jef-
feiaon. to Marion, in ti e State of Virginia.
In the State of South Carolina —From Sims- I
ville. by way of May burton, to Goshen Hill, In !
; North Carolina —From Franklin North Carolina |
| to Wat ha I la, in South Carolina In the State ot !
! Texas —From Hockley’s Depot on the Houston |
and Central Railroad, to Waller’s Store. From i
| Hickory Station, in Catawba county, North Caro- j
lina. to Lenoir.
1 Approved April 19. 1862.
S.nfiies cat Uiclttuoud.
The editor of the Lynchburg -‘'•Repub
lican,” writing to his paper from Rich
mond says :
The ladies of Richmond, as of Lynch
burg, and, indeed, of the whole country,
; are making for themselves a fame which
j will live ill all future story- and brilliantly
, illuminates the brighest pages of our Re-
I public’s history. Discarding all false cer-
| emony, and giving full ven fo those feel Government would seek to pay the expen-
i mgs and sentiments of devotion which ... 0 i... .i . *i...
From the noth Crorgitt Regiment.
Vicinity of Battle Field, )
Near Richmond Virginia, v
Gamp of 20th Georgia Ilegt., June 3d )
On yesterday Toombs’ Brigade came
up to this point, having the fruitless
inarch on the 1st of reinforcing the at
tacking columns of Gen. Whiting. We
were posted at or about the centre ofthe
line until 1st iust., in full range and view
the Federal batteries at the Chicka-
tt-uiy, navy, or marine corps;’ and in or |
Jer to invest this clause with as much pop- i
ularity as possible with that large mass ot j l 11 „ . , ,, .. . ...
,i,,. v ,ti 1 ~ i i i-i hominy Budge, on t lie Mechamcsvillc
tbe Northern hoides which are now pene- .1 ,. , ,
, - • i t .i . .i ; turnpike, and so well Kept our postguard-
our country, it is provided that the , *, . . .. , 1 x , u fo
1 ed, that the enemy did not dare to come
by the route, which they evidently be-
rratin
lands may be •subdivided’—cut up int(
.-mail farms, to meet the wants, and he cov
ered by the means of ‘any person.’
This paper has. always asserted that it
the South were conquered, the Northern
(No 59)
AN ACT to increase the Military establishment
of the Confederate States, and to amend the
“Act for the establishment and oiganization -ot
the Army ot the Confederate States of Ameri
The Congress of the Confederate States of
America do enact. That the number of t‘rdnance
! Sergeants authorized hy section six of “au aci to
increase the Military Establishment ofthe Con
federate States,” A c approved May I~th 1861,
be so increased as to provide one tor each regi
i mentof troops now or hereafter received in the
service.
ninth day of February, one thousand, eight hurt- i
dred and sixty one, relating to the conveyance ;
ur transportation of letters, packets or packages of .
letters or other maiGbie matter by express or oth- .. , . . . .
er companies, their agents or employees be and , ACI to limit,the act authorizing the snspen-
Approved April 19, 1862.
LNo 6;».]
makejs her the noblest part' of God’s crea
tion, and the fondest object of mail’s exis
tence, the ladies of this city from all ranks
have gone into the hospitals, and are hour
ly engaged in ministering to the wants
and relieving .the sufferings of tln ir coun
trymen. Mothers and sisters could not
he more unremitting in their attention to
their own blood, titan these women are to
those whom they have never seen befi-re,
and they may never see again ! They
feed them, nurse them, and by their pres
ence and sympathy cheer and encourage
them. Man’s inhumanity to man makes
•es ofthe war by the appropriation of the
property ot the people of the Eolith to that
object. This bill prescribes some of the
modes by which it is to be done. The
*anie body which passed it have under
consideration other* revenue measures, in
which it is intended to tax slaves and cot
ton. Yes, strange as it may seem, ‘slaves’
as well as cotton ; for although they are
robbing us of our servants as fast as they
can, they are unwilling to permit what are
left to escape taxation! The religious
bligation they always feel to raise reven
tie—to supply the fisc, private and public—
, , , , will not allow them to pass over anvthing,
countless mill.ous mourn, but woman s , an( , tlmt hig!ier ri . hg , uus obligation they
sympathy would heal every wound ami
make glad every heart.
the *-'*ie are hei>b.y declared to be in full force:
Pii vid d. I hat nothing in this act contained shall
be st. const rued as to declare that any portion of
said laws of the United States adopted as afore
said not inconsistent with the acts of the said
Provisional Government was by said last-named
acts in any wise abrt gated or repealed: Provided
further, that traud upon the revenue of the Post
Office Department and offences against and vio
lations ot the laws hereby repealed may be pro
ceeded against and punished under the laws ex
isting at. the time of the commission of such
fraud, offence or violation and this act shall not
be consulted to have a retroactive operation so as
to repeal or abrogate any law as to such traud
(fence or violations heretofore coramttbd. but
-hall have a prospective operation on
also that this act shall take iffect from
tiie first of June, one thousand eight hundred aud
sixty-two.
Approved April 19, 1862. 2 2t.
sion of the writ of habeas corpus.
Section I The Congress of the Confederate
States oi America do enact. That the act authuri
zing the suspension of the V\ rit of Hab> as Corpus,
is hereby limited to artests made by the authori
ties of the Coiif- derate Government or for offen
ces against the same.
Sec 2. Be it lunher enacted That the act which
this act is intended to limit shall continue in fore
From the Richmond Ettquirpr.
Willlnuisburg and Nrrrn Pines.
The Yankees claim a victory at Wil- '
liamshurg. They speak of the abattis, I
rifle pits, earth works, batteries, &c , of i
the rebels, and seek to give the impression !
that they won all these by hard fighting.
This is delibeiate lying; tor not only did
they fail in their attacks, but were driven
a mile beyond, with the loss of eight field
pieces, ti lie abattis, forts, and all toe
oilier horrid things so graphically descri-
lor thirty tlays after the next meeting of Congress j bed were abandoned, according to a pre-
and no Ion
Approved April 19, !862.
j conceived plan. Now, .if the failure to
; capture abattis, rifle pits, forts, &c\, consti-
j tute a grand victory, what must the real
bona fide taking of all these be. On !8at-
owe to themselves compels them to make
the public burthens light on themselves
and as heavy as possible on other people.
•So, even Su/gncv proposes to tax the slave.
It is he who proposes the amendment on
this point, which is worded most singular
ly. aud which he declares taxes the ‘slave-
master,' not the 'slaveV So ingenious is
the Yankee in contriving his schemes of
: robbery and accommodating his pliant con-
science to his selfish or revengeful pur-
\ poses !
This bill is a plain avowal of the design
ofthe Y ankee Government, in the event it
gets the power over the South. It is. in
tended. only foretaste of what that Gov
ernment will do hy yet more sweeping
and summary measures.
Tbumday ) Montgomery
ftrr *
after
4th Monday, Wayne
Decatur
D.-Kxlb
Houston
Jaeper
Lincoln
- Schley
Tattnall
Whitfield
Wilcox
Friday after, Telfair
Camden
Thursday after, Irwin
Monday after Charlton
NOVEMBER.
,1st Monday, Berrien
Seriven
Clayton
Effingham
Randolph
Upson
2d Monday, Catoosa
J.-fferson
Mitchell
M nseogee
!3d Monday, Bibb
1 Huike
Quitfnian
Spalding
Troup
Baker
4th 5Iondsv. Undo
Terrell
Thun>day*r.fter. McIntosh
Monday “ Colquitt
*• “ Libeitv
Sion, after Liberty, Bryan
DECEMBER. '
1st Monday, Dougherty
Lowndes
2d Monday, Brooks
Clay
3d Monday Thomas
the President if he thinks proper) named in tin
bond, proceed to erect, complete aud put into et
fn-tive operation the manufactories proposed; that
he or they will expend the sum named for tits,
purposes; that, lie or they wil! appropriate tin
money advanced by the Government to such
purpose and t > no other use or purpose, and
as far as practicable, keep the p>operty in-
! sured; and that he oi they wyl repay rite s5nn
f om the merchantable articles manufactured, to
| be delivered at such times and hi such quantities
; as may be agreed upon, the same, in all eases, to
I be inspected by a government c ffieer before it i> |
received, until he or they shall ftlliy repay to the \
Confederate States, in the article and at the price
stipulated for the sum advanced; that the contrac- j
tors shall subscribe a written oath endorsed upon j
the back of said bond, which may be administer- j
ed by any one authorized to aduiini*ter an oath, I
that said advance is asked for the purposes s|n c-
itied in this Act, and no other.aud that he or they
will so apply said fund, w hich may thus he ad
vanced: and a wilful and corrupt violation of this
oath shall be deemed pi rjury, and punishable by
imprisonment for not less than three nor more ,
than ten years. . . , „ , j
Sec. 2. The provisions of tins Act sha,. apply |
to cases of enlargement of manufactories ot salt
petre and of small arms, now i stablished or being i
established within the Confederate Mat> s, but
the advance made in such cases, sbal! only he fit- j
ty percent, upon the amount proposed to be in- ■
vested in the enlargement of such manufactory j
or manufactories, and no now existing investment
iu such manufactory- or manufactories shall be com j
put* d or taken into account in determining such j
fifty per ct fit.
Approved April 17, Is62.
(No. 54.) ^ j
JOINT RESOLUTION for the relief of Capt* Ben
Desha.
Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate j
States of America. That the Quartermaster. Gt-ner- :
al be and he is hereby authorized lo audit and ad
just the accounts of Capt Bt-n Desha, ofthe Fifth
Regiment ot Kentucky Voluu'eers, the expenses
neurred by Inin for ih - transportation of his com- \
pany from Cynthiana Kentucky, to Abingdon,
Virginia, being the first place at which said com
pany could be mustered into service, and to pay
uim whatever amount may he ascertained to ;
b,-due him on account or such transportation; ;
-aid company having been organized within the
lines ol the enemy. • .
Approved April 19, 1862.
A «E.tl.
imitt* dTbut- , Among the numerous poetic eff sions inspired j Ul( ] a ," a portion of Hill’s Division (weak-
lv* Provided hy the war, we have not met anvthing more sweet i i .i . i . i '
maud after and touching than the following lines: » cued by the permanent detachment of a
The maid who binds her warrior’s sash, ' bn S ad f) u dr ’ ,vc Division a mile
And smiling, all her pain dissembles, i , a Iialt through the swamps and ielleu
The while beneath the drooping lash
One starry tear-drop hangs and trembles—
Though heaven alone records the tear,
And fame shall never know her story,
Her heart has shed a drop as dear
As ever newed the field of glory !
The wife who girds her husband’s sword,
'Mid little ones who weep and wonder.
And biavely spiaks the cheering word,
What tliough her heart be rent asunder—
Doomed nightly in her dreams n* hear
The b ilts of war around linn raitle,
Has sited as sacred blood as o'er
Was poured upon the plain of battle.
[No. 49.]
AN ACT authorizing the issue of Treasury
Sec. 1. The Congress of the Confederate States
(No 55.)
AN ACT making fnrttier appropratinns for the ex- ,
penses ot tiie Government ill the Treasury, '
War aud Navy Departments and for other pur
poses.
Section 1. The Congress of the Confederate
I States of America do ena* t, That the following
sums he, and they are herebv appropriated out of j
I any money in the Tteasury not otherwise appro-
: printed for the objects hereafter expressed, for tho
year ending November thirtieth, one thousand
! eight hundred and sixty-two. Treasury Depart- ]
j ment — Foi additional clerks to be employed in
j the office of the Tteasurer, Assistant I’reasurer.
• and Depositaries of tiie Confederate States, five j
I thousand six hundred dollars Miseil aneotis—
For the interest on tlie public debt, nine millions
i of dollars. For paper, plates and printing an ad- i
tional amount ot bonds and large TAasury notes, ;
one hundred thousand dollars For eight, addi- j
tional clerk* required for issue of bonds aud cou- ,
! puns, four thousand dollars. For paper, plates
| and printing of Treasury notes of the denomina-'
I tions of one and twouoliars, seventy five thousand
j dollars. For twelve additional cleiks to sign small j
i Treasury notes,six thousand dollars. War IJe
j partment.—For the purchase of pig aud rolled
iron, one million of dollars. For casting cannon
: shot and she Is, five hundred thousand dollars
For manufacturing small arms of all kinds, trvo
mil ions of dollars—For puichase and mannfiic
The mother who conceals her grief.
While to hreasl her son she presses.
Then breathes a few brave wolds and brief,
Kissing tin- patriot brow she blesses,
With no one but her secret (j. d
To know tie* pain that, weighs upon her;
Sheds holy blood as e*r the sod
Received on 1 reedom’s field ol honor!
From the Richmond Enquirer.
Grnrrul Wool.
There is a rivalry among Lincoln’s gen
erals. It is a rivalry of shame. Emulous
of the honors of infamy, they press their
pretensions with inventive ingenuity and
barbarian joy.
Hunter, in South Carolina, issued his
proclamation designed to plunge three j u nder buu.uer
■States in the horrors of servile war. He
devoted women and children to savage
slaughter. Hutler, in New Orleans,
j timber, captured their fort, rifle pits, large
j supplies of-ordnance, medical and c<*mitiis-
j sary stores, and seven pieces of arrilleiy.
. Two brigades of Lotigstreet’s heroes were
i sent to help Hill’s Division hold the
| ground ; but, before their at rival, prisun-
I ers ht.d been taken from Couch’s Division,
: showing that one division had successfully
coped with two divisions on their own
fortified position. Aftei the accession of
Kemper’s and Anderson’s Brigade (I.ong-
str?et’s Division) the Y ankees were driven
a mile farther and tlnee more guns were
Captured, and-now prisoners were taken
front three di-visions. 8<i that one di\i-
vision and a half drove three Y'at.kee Di
visions from their abattis and earthwoiks,
capturing their guns, stotes and *50U pris
oners. ’i bis result is the more rematka-
lde when we reflect that the Y ankee Di
vision.* are much larger than our own.—
Keye's whole corps had been beaten hy
night fall on HatUiday. by less than one
thud of its nutuiie'* of. Southern troops
I Ho utterly demoralized was this cotps,
j that Sumner cante to its relief that night.
■ On Sunday morning, the veterans ot
“Who I* brocral Hunter V*
A Yankee paper gives the following
sketch ot Gen. David Hunter :
General Hunter is a native of the Dis
trict of Columbia, and is now in the fifty-
eighth year of his age. He graduated at
West l’oint in IS12, and has been in the
set vice in the at my, with brief intermis
sions, ever since—a period of forty years
lieved to be an easy one, but latterly con
cluded a hard road to travel to the Con
federate Capitol. From thence we came
here and are now lying in line of battle
at the post of honor appropriately given
to our brigade.
I shall only attempt to keep you posted
about Toombs'Brigade, as it is now diffi
cult to leave camp to make inquiries of
what happens outside of it. Up to this
time we Lave not participated in a battle,
having by' chance been placed at a differ
ent point from which the enemy was at
tacked by our forces. Perhaps our turn
will come soon, and from the material of
our Brigade and my faith in the courage
of Gen. Toombs, I feel that we will make
such a fight as will add, if possible, more
lustre on the fame of Georgia. 1 cannot-
fail in here making record of a remark of
ourHamilcar: “If the South is outdone
by the Yankees, its fitting epitaph would
be “Died of West Point." I agiee with
him.
The delay in not pushing up the suc
cess of Friday and Saturday is truly in
comprehensible to us foot soldiers, but
perhaps well understood by the gentle
men iu their saddles and on tl.eir sofas,
who have the control of the bravest army
ever upon the earth. The men in the
■ auks will soon be impressed to a mau
hy the truth <>t the want of more nerve,
or, as the privates term it, “nand in the
craw” of millitary chiefs now over them.
We can whip the toe, willing to go in,
and if they will only set us upon the foe—
allow us to hoist the black flag—the Lin-
coluites in less than one month will be
run out of this port'on of Virginia. Oh
for hold leaders—some Marion for this
army.
We are willing to live on short rations,
make heavy marches, and remain from
home and all that, but we are tired—yes,
God knows it—dejected in spirit at so
many retreats upon jetrears. We lose
more men on these retreats than if we
More than twenty years ago he was com- h.ught the Yankees at every point they
mandant at Fort Leavenworth, being then | a PP‘* ar 1,1 force * Such tactics will do
a captain of dragoons, and for more than j enough for cavalry—infantry detest
thirty years altogether, he was in tlie fron
tier set vie, amongst the savages, and lived
retreats, and rather fight at any time.
The Richmond Enquirer of to-day pub-
in turn with every Indian tribe from Lake ] hshed a list of the killed and wounded in
uperior to Mexico. He served as pay- '.‘. he ^ at ' ,es <d tl,,,se two drt Y 8 > and.imper-
niaster through the Mexjcan war. U hen j tect * 8 such records gennetally are at first.
Gem ral Sherman was removed from South ; ,l wdl bc observed that it was as bloody
Carolina, a couple of months ago, Huntei
was appointed bis successor, and tbe de
pint incut was enlarged so as to comprise
South Catolina, Georgia and Florida, and
was designated as the ‘Depaitment ofthe
South.’ It was under his administration
that Foit I’ulaski was captured, and Jack
sonville ahantioiicd to the rebels ; and
lately, he has been reconniteiing veil
close to Chaileston. hunter is a man
a contest as we have on record, and will
prove-on history’s page an honor to the
-out It—though the noble sacrifices of life
made in the tanks of our army will make
many a home lonely, many a heart broken,
and arouse eveiy arm that has strength
to avenge the fall of the brave aud beloved
dead.
Tiie object of this letter is not so much
to give you any idea how the battle was
oi immense physical strength, activity and j P^ aD,,ed * bu * bow g ,ei *f a success our
| Longstreet’s Division undej I’ickt-f. Wii-
tlf fresh troops
cox and Pryoi held at.bay
The three
fades were
ordered by Geneial Hill to draw in their
lines. r l bis order Pickett did not receive,
and he alone with his magnificent Brigade
eclipsed Ins compeer by an infamy nncon- j kept the ground for two hours longer. We
ceived before. Roman hemes were accor- \ j eave out 0 p account two Bri-M
hardihood, pionuted by a life’s cavalry ex
ercise in the air of the frontier, aided oy a
constitution that never knew a day’s sick-
ness; amd though fifty-seven, he is as
elastic a> a man ot thirty. Hehasalways
been considered a man of discretion, though
impetuous; and iu politics he has been
-tii'd is a republican.
of America do enact, I hat in addition to tiie jrirc of nitre and all expenses incidental to txplo-
auiliotized to he issu'd under K ?
| Treasury Notes. - . .
I previous acts, the Secretary o. the Iieasuiy j- *
! by required to prepare and put in enc’l a,l, '. n - Y
such means as be tusy deem prope. to adept, live
i millions of dollars of Treasuiy Notes ot th e ton-
i federate'States of the denomina., ; ti of one dollar
aud two dollars. Said notes shall be issued iu
such proportions of each to the aggregate .urn
herein authorized as the said Secretary may <
ternnne, pay ably to beater, six months alter e
ratification of a treaty of peace between the
Confederate State and the l-inted ‘-tate-s. - .
notes shall he receivable in payment ot all public
dues, including postage, except the export duty
t ug and working eaves, &c , one million of dol
lars—Navy Depaitment.— J'o make advances on i . ,.
couliacts tor the manufacture and production of j 1 hero to confront bun
tied titles to designate their choicest ac
hievements. Butler ITas won his. To |
history he wil! go down as Butler, die j
beast.
Wool has now- made his bow and put in !
his claim. He lias thrown a laige attny
into the undefended city of Norfolk- He
did not appear tlie.re as a brave foe would
have done—when brave soldiers were
He waited until
iron, one million uf dollars. For tiie purchase by.it was ascertained that they were gone,
the Secretary ofthe treasury of exchange fortbe and then lie went forth and “won a victo-
d iu Ta°v t ‘ ,e ; Xavy b»epa«tncnt, in purchasing iron i ,, anfJ cnp t ure d a city 1 The transcend-
clad vessels, one million lour hundred thousand. - , . • , . , . , « .
5I«y holds three weeks, if necessary, at each
term.
t.Todge not reqnired to draw Jurors for two
-we ks; and not obliged to hold two weeks’ Court
in counties of Cobb and Lumpkin.
dollars.
Approved ApriJ 19, 1862.
on cotton e
Bee 2 Be it further enacted,! hat thp Secreta
ry is hereby authorized to have said noms pnn-
(No 56 )
AN ACT to organize signal corps-
Section I Tho Congress of the Confederate
St»t* s of America do enact. That the President be
and he is heieny authorized by and with the »d-
■ vice- and consent of the enate, to appoint ten
ry is urieuj e******** . ,. , viwi*'*" *..*.oruiui me enaie, 10 appoint; ten
ted as he may deem most practic-* >le a i officers in the Provisional Armv, of a grade not
able in effecting * speedy issue an* circus exceeding that of Captains, and with the pay of
said notes.
eut hero ha? now put in his bid for infamy.
He refuses to allow the cifizens of Nor
folk to obtain food front their own people
He refuses to allow anything to be impor
ted from his own side of the line. He tells
them that unless they take, the oath
ok ALLKGIAM E, they shall have nothing
to eat beyond their pie&ent scanty
stores!
This is the statement of Northern letter
jades ot*
his left, which remained with him a shor*
time. The Hues were purposely drawn it.
hy Gen. Hill to give a concentiated at
tack upon Sumner, should he offer the gage
of battle; but after his morning's experi
fneut, he was satisfied ivitfi a desultory
firing, wltose only effect was to stamped*
the orowds of citizen plunderers, that
like unclean birds, were swarming aroma*
the deserted camp ofthe enemy.
Had our attack begun a few hours ear
lier, we would have captured Keye's
whole corps without difficulty. But tin
tardy movements of the very troops, wjiicl.
afterwards gave the least assistance, de
layed the attack for several hours.
SEVEN FINES.
The prices of provisions having neon prescribed
by martial law iu Memphis, not a pound ot beet
or pork can be procured in that market, and th.
butchers have published a card announcing ti at
it was impossible to turnish meat at the pricts
prescribed-
From the Charleston Mercury. 4th.
' Thr Kagagrinrat on James Island, Yester
day.
I The city, yesterday, was somewhat ex-
| cited hy the news that a fight had taken
place on James Island, and by the Inces
sant and plainly audible roar of heavy
guns during the entire day.
At an early hour a dispatch was re
ceived from General Gist, announcing that
rite enemy, who had landed a force below
Secessionville, had been met and repulsed.
It was added that the casualties oq out
side were inconsiderable. Later despatch
es brought further particulars ofthe affair.
I he troops engaged were the Holcombe
i.egion, the Charleston Battalion, and a
letachment of the Eutaw Regiment, the
whole uuder command of Col. Ellison
Capers. No artillery, w:e understand, was
used. The. enemy was forced back and
•me of his flanking parties, consisting of
twenty men, was captured near Mr. Leg
are’s bouse. The capture was effected by
army lias commanded on this line ; also
to let many of those interested in tbe
safety of our Brigade know that up to
this time we are not hurt or defeated, but
lying in line of battle by our tiusty guns
and swords, awaiting most eagerly tbe
summons of our brave Brigadier .to fall
•n, and in tbe language of the bard of
Avou, to *
•‘Lay on McDuff,
And cursed bo him who first cries hold enough ”
J. T. S.
Asdrswi Emsted.
Andrews, the Spy, and leader of the
desperate band that recently stole and
ranawp.y with a locomotive and cars on
the Western aud Atlantic Railroad, hav
ing been convicted as such by a Military
Court Martial, was executed on Saturday
afternoon, near sundown, iu the subu-bs
of Atlanta. The Intelligencer says just
before his execution he confessed his
guilt—stating to the Rev. Mr. Scott,
who, with the Rev. Mr. Conyer, adminis
tered to him the last consolatious of re
ligion that he was induced by the ene
my at Nashville to commit the crime for
which he was about to suffer the death
penalty, for pecuniary, reward, and not
that he was a foe to the Confederate
States in their struggle for independence.
He also stated that he was a native of
Hancock county, Virginia, and resided iq
Fleming county, Kentucky.