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FOKiHTO.Y, NiSBET & BARREN, Publishers and Proprietors. "• *• HOl'SHTOV,/ .. jo.«*. H. xinnHT. j (L<!)c ■Soatjjern jfcbcral (Onion Is published Weekly, in Mil/edgecHJe, Ga., Corner of Hancock uml Wdkinson St*., (opposite Court House.) At $2 a year in Advance M1LLEDGEYILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1862. [NUMBER 4. (Unless in Advance, $3 Per Annum.) KITES OF AIXVEKTIN1NO. Per square of twelve lint*. One insertion $1 00, timidity cent* lor eachsubsequent continuance. 7 T ho.i«iieiit without the specification of thenumberol insertions wilibe publisued till forbid and charged accordingly. Business or Professional Cards, per year, where they do uot exceed Six Links - $10 00 A liiterm contract will be made with those who wish to Advertise by the year, nrrtipyint? a specified space 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 Fkb’y. .* *2 ; § r ’ ~- £ ts r r. ^ r- 2 E > if 1 = ? ? : ■ S', S- , r- r” 5 -I ■t 5 *‘< SL C , E. 2 ~ ^ Hi : 8* ' p J s * ,® X ^ s J :_ !T : j; < ^ : - • S : ■! * |*f • ; j 1 a : : • : ; * J 1 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 July. i 2 3 . B 9H»H 6 7 K 9 10 1 12 13 14 15 J6 17 18 13 14 15 16 17 ii . 20 21 22 2324 25 ,20 21 22 23 2 1 2. 26 2. ‘ZH 29 30 31 27 28 29 3t* 31 2 3 9 10 4 1! r A 5 6 7 8 12 13 14 15 Ol" ST 3 4 5 6 7 1 16 17 1* 19 202! 22 10 !i 12 15 !4 |< 23 24 *-J5 2? 28 17 15 192021 2: • 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 .. c ? 17 ; not less than one hundred dollars, hearing inter- ! Corps above authorized they be organized as a •— = l = a 2 = - - ; ... . . u r. o i i . .. . . .. i. ..i tv . 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 liirfi elo.ll ni.ilru .onnrt *n I 'oiiivrofic til Gia Artmiml ' .1 . I . 1 2 B 9 5 10 2 3 4 5 6 9 10 II 12 13 14 15 1 Sept’k 8 16 Mat In 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 25 29 30:31 I 2 x 4 5 Octod’r 6 7 a 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 la 19 20 21 2223 24 2526 27 2a 23 30 t 2o262< 2a 20 30 3. 12345 6 7 « 9 |t. 1! 12 |3 14 15 16 t7 la It ip 21 22 23 21 25 26 27 2a 29 30 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 I 2 3 in n 4 5 6 JfNE 11 12 13 14 15 lt> 17 15 19 20 21 22 25 24 25 26 27 28:29 30 3! 1 - 3 NovKM 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 ig : 19 2 0 2 1 22 2.) 24 My j 26 27 26 29*30 5 i 2 3 4 a y It II 12 12 3 4 6 6 7 "b 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2i 21 22 23 24 25 -6 27 28 29 3o 1 6 , 8 13 14 , 3 16 17 18 19 2021 .'2 Okckm. 7 5 9 111 1 ! 12 (3 14 15 16 17 15.11 2: 22 23 2 I 25 2i ~,~ 28 29 50 3, 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 12 7.7 . 15b 3 <10 • ■i no 1 3 no l f.r j 5 nr ! s’sr Kstrays. two weeks For n man advertising: his wife (in advance,) 1 . r ,f rn ) Art® oii<1 KrxoSulioiMi of 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 < Kail re 5 CH> 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' i in the re t.-s: Pro* ail not i s d at tin reasurt .-eitit and ided the •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-) ' (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.