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Weckln Onstituticnalist.
BY JAMES GARDNER
How Island No. 10 was Taken.—The New T ”rk
Jitraid of the 4tb which publishes a list of what
Was captured on Island No. 10, and its vicinity,
which we copied yesterday, gives the following
account of how the Island was captured:
The capture of Island No. 10, with the artillery,
munitions of war, steamboats and troops which
defended it, turns out to be of far gtester impor
tance than it was deemed to be at first. The loss
to the rebels is immense. The manner in which
it was accomplished by the two gunboats running
the gauntlet of the batteries, and by the digging
of a canal of twelve miles, a large portion ot
which was made through heavy timber, which it
was necessary to cwt by hand four feet under
water, reflects the highest glory upon the military
genius and indomitable resolution of our troops.
This victory clears the way to Memphis, the only
obstuctions of anv account being Fort Randolph
and Fort Pillow, which can be easily disposed ot.
Memphis captured, the descent to New Orleans
cannot be resisted*
From ttic Columbus (Ga.) bun.
PLANTERS MEETING AT UCHEE-
Uchek, Ala., April 9, 1862.
Bds. Sun : At a meeting of the planters ot this
Beat on Saturday, the stb mst. pursuant to a call
from the Crawford meeting, to take into consid
eration the impropriety ot the planting of cotton,
Mr. Jesse Wilkerson was called to the
Chair, and Mr. Geo. Reese to act as Secretary.
The Crawford resolutions, were carried unanis
mously alter a stirring and patriotic speech by
Troup Hurt, Esq. The following nan.es were
registered with last year’s crop compared with
this:
Last year. Present year.
William Harris, 200 00
Thomas Dinkens, 5 00
Estate J. Hurt, 500
James Comer, 300 00
James Leonard 275 ‘0
B. P. Locket 200 10
G.A. Ferrell, 120 10
Mike Harvey,.. . SOO 00
Bart King,* 50 10
W. T- Covington* 40
P.P. Walker ..100
W.L. Ingram, ...80 8
J. Thigber, 60 S
Mrs. Rebecca Smith,... .175 0
Thomas Myhand, 125 00
A. Scaroborough, 80 20
George Reese, 250 00
Dickenson Shadwick 25
Robert Sbadwick,....... 20 8
John Wilkerson* 50
A. McKin 35 00
J. R. McMakin 60 00
Sim Dinkins, .....85 d
John Whiten, ..00
W. B. Mvhand, 00 00
». O'Neal 00 00
J. A. Sears, 125 00
F. M. Darneil* 20 8
It was then resolved, that the proceedings or
this meeting be published in the Dully Sun, and
'"■Opelika papere be requested to copy.
Geo. Reiss, Sec y.
• Those marked with a star f) have planted cotton to pay
Mjgro hire iu cotton.
TO THE BENEVOLENT AND PATRIOTIC
THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH"
The Ladies’Ati anta Hospital Association has
been organized only about two montns, yet dus
ring this time it has been one of the favored
agents, under Providence, of doing much for the
oomfort and alleviation of the sufferings of the
many thousands of sick and wounded soldiers
sent to this point. It has been with proud and
unalloyed satisfaction, that the members of our
Society have been thus enabled to supply the
places of the mothers, wives and sisters of these
loved defenders of their and our firesides and
little ones, by ministering to them instead of these
loved ones. -
We learn that other soldiers are soon to be sent
hither, to take the places of those who have been
restored to health and returned to the post of
duty, and we doubt not of honor, if not of glory.
It will be the pleasing duty of the members of
this Association to be unceasing in their atten
tions to these when they arrive, and to anticipate
their every want, until they, too, shall be restored
to health.
But while we may rejoice tuat our position
affords us the high and" blessed privilege of thus
serving our country and doing good, we are
compelled to call upon others who do not enjoy
sack opportunity of bestowing personal attention
to the sick and wounded soldiers, to send to us as
much as they can spare of the numerous articles
needed to add to the comfort, nourish and
strengthen, as well as to aid in restoring to health
ear sick soldiers.’ *
By order of Mrs. Isaoc W inship,
President Atlanta Hospital Association.
Sue H. Goode, Secretary.
D.rect all contributions to the President of this
Association, Atlanta, Ga.
Papers throughout tbft Confederacy are re.<
spectrally, but earnestly, requested to publish
the above.
♦This is addressed to the Ladies especially, and
we hope they will promptly and cheerfully re«
spond to their appeal.— Atlanta (Ga.) Southern
Confederacy, April 17fA._
THE AFFAIR ON WHITMARSH.
We have some additional particulars of the
skirmish on Whitmarsh Wednesday afternoon,
reported briefly in our city edition of yesterday.
It appears that a party of forty, belonging to
tbe 13th Georgia, were sent over from Causton’s
Bluff*, to Oak lands Island, just opposite, to cut
down the trees and brushwood, in order to pre
vent the enemy from locating batteries in the
immediate neighborhood of our works. Daring
the afternoon, a considerable party of Yankees
landed on Whltinarsb, which is east of Oak
lands, and generated from it by a shallow Creek,
which is reaaily forded. Our forty men march*
ed upon the enemy, who turned out to be the
Btb Michigan regiment, and a considerable fight
ensued. Our ammunition gave out, (as but a
small supply was taken over, the party not ex
pecting fight,) when the men retired, with some
loss.
Hearing the firing, Col. Douglas took over a
eonsideranle force to the rescue of our feeble
party. I< was now near sundown, and the body
advanced to meet the enemy. Hearing them ap
proaching, Col D. ordered his men to lie fiat and
awaii their arrival at a convenient point for exe
cution. The Michiganders came up within two
hundred yards of our scouts, when the latter,
springing suddenly to their feet, poured a ter
rible fire into their line and then charged them.
At ibis, after their first Are, the enemy beat a
hasty retreat and disappeared in the direction of
their boats, with considerable loss. They were
seen falling in their ranks, but nothing definite
was ascertained, our force being too weak to fol
low them up.
ona loss.
We regret to aay that these on
Whitnarsb have not been unaccompanied by
losses to the Confederate forces engaged. As
near as we have been able to] ascertain, four of
our troops were either killed or mortally wounded,
and a considerable number more or less hurt’.
We annex a list of particulars:
Killed.— Talcott B. Andrews, Co. G, Early
County Guards, shut through the head. ’
•Jas. Pilkinton, Co. A, Pike county, in the
thigh, severing the main artery.
Matthew McCormick, Co. G, Early county,
through the bowels, and left for dead on the field,
bnt subsequently crawled down to the ferry and’
was brought into camp. Since dead.
Winded— Lieut Meadows. Panola Rifles,
through the body, considered mortal.
Lieutenant R. T. Bowie, Co. G, through the
shoulders and back, flesh wound.
Daniel B. Davis, Co. G, in the thigh and ca.l
of the leg.
John Tuttle, Co. G, through the hand.
Vincent Cowatt, Co. G, flesh wound in the
arm. ,
Sergeant S. T. Howard, Co. G, in the elbow,
taking off' portion of the bone.
Henry C. Cook, Co. B, Pike county, in the right ,
shoulder.
Matthew Darden, Co. B. Merriwether county, ■
slightly in the leg.
Jas. L. Johnsey, Co. B, Talbot county unknown,
but badly, and left on the field.
Thomas Allen, Co. G, Early county .shot through
the hand.
Some eight or ten others were wounded, but so
slightly as to be unworthy of notice.
We regret very much to learn that private I
Thomas Dean, Co. D . of Upson county, was ac
cidentally shot, from the hammerjof I i gt b stria*
iug against the side ot the boat. The ball entered
bis right lung and passed through to the shoulder,
inflicting a wound of which be died in a short
time. ,
The enemy’s loss was far greater than our own.
The most moderate accounts put it down at from
fifteen to twenty killed and as many wounded. A
Lieutenant and a private were killed in the first
attack, and it was from the former that our naen
learned that a large force was on the island.
Our scouts were commanded by Caph Craw.ord,
of the Early countv Guards, who captured a con
si deraille party of Dutchman on the same island
some two weeks ago. Be is making his mark on
the vandals. ...
A large three was thrown on the is.ana yester
day, and remained throughout the day. They had
not returned at sundown, but as no firing was
I heard during the day, it is supposed the I ankees
took the bint and made themselves scarce.
Another report in the RepobHcan says John
Tuggle, instead of John Tuttle, was wounded
in the hand; that J. M. Darden, instead of
Matthew Darden, was slightly wounded in the
hand; that Wm. J. Dean, instead of Thomas
Dean, was killed accidentally; and that Thomas
Allen was shot through the thigh and killed,
instead of shot through the hand. This report
also says that Capts. McCally and Crawford
led the first attack, before the reinforcemets
came up; that on Thursday Gen. Smith went
over to the island, with his troops, but the
Yankees had left, taking with them their killed
and wounded; that our men gathered up a
number of guns, knapsacks, cartridge boxes,
blankets, caps, (some with brains in them,)
and a number of other things, which went to
show they left somewhat in a hurry; and that
if the steamboat taking a party of our troops
around the island bad not grounded, the pro
bability is we should have killed and taken a
number of the Yankees prisoners.
TMfcC BEATTIES OF 'YANKEE GOV
ERNMENT.
The Raleigh (N. C.) State Journal, of April 16th
gives the following statement of the infamous
policy adopted by the invaders of our country.
They oppress the negro when they have him in
their power, and they degrade the white Southern
er when they have him in their power. Here is
the following extract:
Burnside is rapidly developing the policy of the
Lincoln government and the beauties of the Yan
kee character, in and around Newbern. We have
the most reliable authority for saying that the nes
groes are admitted to a full equality with their
masters and other white men, so far as social,
civil and political rights are concerned. Last week
a negro brought a charge against his master for
stealing and was allowed to testify before the
Provost Marshal against him. Our authority for
saying this is from as respectable a gentleman as
North Carolina contains. And we may surely
hope that,jin this respect, at least, the I)avis,“des
potistn”Jditfers somewhat from that of Lincoln.
This, however, indicates to the white man of the
South, the fate which io awaiting him, when the
Lincoln programme shall have been earned, out,
and will surely arouse him to a sense of the dan
ger and depredation which it foreshadows.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURES
The following letter from an old Washington
correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, con
tains important revelations. It was taken from a
copy wf the Enquirer, furnished by a gentleman
recently from the North to the Atlanta (Ga.)
.8 uthem Confederacy:
Washington, April 7, 1862.
To the Editor of ties Enquirer:
The telegraph may advise jou of military re*
suits. I doubt it, liowever, us every means is
taken to prevent news getting out. ana so success
fully, that here little is known of army operations
except what comes through Southern papers,
which seem to be early and well posted as to our
military movements. Indeed the Confederates
know more of the military affairs of the people
of the North than they do themselves. I have
learned through a source that I can rely on, that
the two sections of the Republicans have struck
hands and sealed friendship on this basis : the
radicals are to go for gradual emancipation—
compensation for slaves liberated, confiscation by
judicial sentence—for the present. In the mean
time, military operations are to go on. If the
military operations succeed, these constitutional
(?) measures are to be made sufficient to the end—
the utter abolishment es slavery. If the military
operations flag or fail, then Mr. Lincoln is to pro
claim general emancipation as a military neces-
The Secretary cf War says that the increased
tr nsportation required by the advance in the ene
my’s territory, has increased the war expenses to
five million per day—more than the printing ma
chine has power to supply.
The tax bill is an awful affair. It will raise an
enormous amount of money or destroy a vast
amount of business —one or the other. It will
pass Congress. The public debt by the Ist of
July will $1,500,000,000. That is the calculation
of the chief Auaitor of the Treasury. I think it
is short of the reality. The public really know
little of what is the true condition of the finances.
They will find it out hereafter, when they at e call
ed upon to pay the interest of the nubhc debt.—
The principal, no person expects will be paid.
As I have seldom failed in my predictions of
the future, as I think your readers will bear me
witness, I will now make another, that this war
will end in a proclamation of the freedom of the
slaves and in the separation of the Cotton States
from the Union; or. in their subjugation,
change of our constitutional form ot government.
I need not write you about the present Congress,
Senate and House. Nothing marks the decline
of the Republic more than the degeneracy of
these bodies. There is hardly a first class intel
ect in either; certainly no acknowledged distin
guished statesman except Mr. Crittenden, and his
age has placed him on the lowest benches. The
Republic has from the highest sunk to the lowest
depth. God grant that we may rue again. ,
Augusta, ga., wedAWay morning, april 23, im.
Mrs. Lincoln has felt the blow of
her youngest son. Sorrow is and 1 hope
every mother will forget and fo££®
might have appeared thoughtlessuei»
White House, and sympathize with the reatafflic
tionu .f a mother She has been suHicient.y
punished for that ball in the midst of public ca*
a Sba?l I say a word of public corruption ? The
torrent cannot now be stayed. It is n( j
ming. Fortunes on fortunes are being made, and
will be made by favorites, and there seems to be
no help for it except in general re P“^® l ? know
were to tell you one-hundredth of what I
vou and I would be in Fort Warren or La'ayette
in a fortnight. I don’t mean to say that the Sec
reianes connive at or profit by these speculations,
on toe contrarv, lam confident they set t
faces against them, but they are powerless un
der the vast amount of business under their bands,
and the pressing necessity, of their departmen .
I hope my health will allow me to send you an
occasional letter. Cleveland.
From the a - ’.anta Commonwealth, April 12tb.
CONFEDERATE INSURANCE CDMPANY.
At a meeting of the corporators of the above
named Company, for the purpose of organization,
in this city, on yesterday, the following named
gentlemen were elected Directors: Isaac Win
ship, James Ormond, E. E. Rawson. A. J. Brady,
Atlanta; Chas-. F. McCay, Edward ?. Clayton. S.
D, Linton, Augusta. Subsequently the Directors,
we learn, elected Chas. F. McCay, Esq., President
We are informed that the sum of SIOB,OOO has
been subscribed, and that by the most solid men
in this community, and some in Augusta, ’lhe
gentlemen who have' been elected Directors are
well known throughout Georgia, and through out
a great portion of the Confederate States as men
of first rate business capacity, discipline and hab
its, and of the steruest rt>egrity. We regard the
election of Mr. McCay, as President, as most for
tunate, for no gentleman can be found in the com
munity better qualified to organize and conduct
its operations with success.
We congratulate the city also on the necessity
this probably occasions for the removal of Mr.
McCay to Atlanta, whereby there will be added
to our social circles a gentleman possessed of the
highest order of mind, assiduously cultivated;
and to our business circles a capitalist of great
discernment, who, while conducting a great mo
nied institution has been noted for hie great in
terest in behalf of citizens of small income and
limited means. A member of the church, and
possessed of eminent moral qualities, ‘the chris
tain and philanthropic portion of the community
may truly welcome him with the utmost cordi
ality.
We learn also, with unalloyed pleasure, that
the company contemplate memorializing the next
Legisature to amend their Charier, so as to add
the savings bank feature. We most sincerely
hope and trust this will be done; and we hope
the Legislature will grant the amendment. The
benefit of this to lhe working classes, and to our
community at laige will be incalculable. It will
encourage and foster a spirit ot economy, dimin
ish the amount expended foolishly, and add, ulti
mately, a large aggregate to the available cash
capital of the city. This is a matter which nas
lam near our heart for years, and in support of
which we wrote years ago. We are truly glad,
therefore, that gentlemen so well able to effect the
object and accomplish this great good,
the matter in band.
But Atlanta needs more banking capital—addi
tional discount offices. Would it be encumber
ing this institution too much to make it an office
ot discount as well as deposit ? If not, we would
suggest the propriety of it oeing so amended that
in addition to being an insurance company, it
could be a banking company. Atlanta needs for
her proper development, and should have more
banking capital.
THE ENEMY IN ESSEX.
A gentleman arrived in the city yesterday from
Essex, from whom we obtained some interesting
facts in relation to the recent visit of the enemy
to that county, and their operations while there.
On Mond.-.y morning, five gunboats, with about
three hundred men, ascended the Rappahannock,
as .far as F ort Lowry, a fortification on the river
about four miles below the county seat. This
fort had been previously evacuated by our forces.
With a view, perhaps, of testing the strength of
the earthworks, they fired several rounds, which,
of course, resulted in a loss of so much ammuni
tion without any compensating result.
The boats then proceeded up the river to the
town of Tappahannock, the county seat of Essex,
where they anchored. Here they found no one
i to oppose them, save a few gallant old men and
; the patriotic ladies of the town. They sent a
■ barge with some twenty men ashore, who were
met by Dr. Gordon, an elderly, but influential
I citizen of the county, whom they assured that
they designed no injury to private property, but
intended to arrest every man who had been en»
gaged in any way iu the rebel service. Finding
none of this class of persons upon whom to whet
their vengeance, they proceeded to the tine rasi.-
dence of Dr. Roane—former delegate in the
Legislature from Essex—over which they hoisted
a Union flag. This done, they perambulated
about the town, stealing all the poultry and drink
ing all the liquor they could find, making the
burs of the town contribute profusely to their
appetite for “grog.” ,
Dr. Gordon waited upon the officer in command
of this rabble and informed him that the Union
flag which they had hoisted over the residence of
Dn Roane must be hauled down, and if he re
fused compliance with this demand, the ladies
Os the town would immediately dislodge thia
insignia of disgrace. The officer, perhaps akin
in spirit to that King of France who
••Marched his men up the hill,
And marched them down again.”
considering discretion the better part of valor,
and not wishing to encounter the brave daughters
of Virginia, prudently removed the obnoxious
bunting which his own hands had helped to ele
vate.
They than went on board their boat, where
some time was spent in drunken revelry; when
another posse was sent ashore to arrest Capt.
Walker, an old river man, who resides in the
town. They endeavored to compel him to pilot
them to Fredericksburg, which he declined doing,
alleging that he was unacquainted with the
stream in that direction. After finding it impos
sible to obtain his services in the capacity of a
pilot, he was released, and permitted to return
ashore. . ~ .
Having satisfied their pottitry-stealing and
liquor-thieving propensities at Tappahannock,,
they weighed anchor and moved ofl down tne
river to Fort Lowry. Here they landed a portion
of their debauched force, where they burned the
encampment and sacked the hospital, carrying off
the stores and medicines found in It after which,
it, too, was made food for the flames. Near the
fort live three brothers Waring,whose houses they
completely gutted, destroying every article of
farniture of any value, and leaving only the brick
walls to testify to their wantonness and destruc
tiveness. One fact in connection with their visit
to these houses is worthy of remark The negroes
fled as soon as they learned ot the approach of
their would-be-liberators, and did not return
until after the reckless wretches had taken their
departure. They then returned and gathered
up what little was left of their master’s prop
erty.
In the town of Tappahannock, they committed
no depredations exept those already mentioned,
which consisted mainly in the robbery of hen
roosts and bar-rooms.
1 Richmond Dispatch, April 17th.
THE CONSCRIPTION BILL.
This important measure has passed both
houses of Congress. For the information of our
readers, a large majority of whom are interested
in its provisions, we append a copy of the bill as
follow's:
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED “AN ACT TO FURTHER PROVIDE
FOR THH PUBLIC DEFENCE.”
In view of the exigencies of the country, and
the absolute necessity of keeping in the service
our gallant army, and of placing in the field a
large additional force to meet the advancing
columns of the enemy now invading our soil.—
Thorcforo,
Section 1. The Congress of the Confedetaie
States do enact, That the President be, and he is
hereby authorized, to call out and place in the
military service of the Confederate States, for
three years, unless the war shall have been sooner
ended, all white men who are residents of the
Confederate States, between the ages of eighteen
and thirty-five years at the time the call or calls
may be made, who are not legally exempted from
ffbm military service. All of the persons afore*
said who are not uow in the armies of the Con
federacy, and whose term of service will expire
before the end of the war, shall be continued in
the service for three years from the
date of their original enlistment, unless the
war shall have been sooner ended; Provided,
however, that all such companies, battalions and
regiments, whose term of original enlistment was
for twelve months, shall have the right, within
forty days, on a day to be fixed by the commander
of the brigade, to reorganize said companies, bat
talions and regiments, by electing all their onw
cere which they had a right heretofore to elect,
who shall be commissioned by the President;
Provided, further, That furloughs not exceeding
sixty days, with transportation home and back,
eball be granted to all those retained in the ser
vice by the provisions of this act beyond the pe
riod of their original enlistment, and who have
heretofore not received furloughs under the pro
visions of an act entitled “An act providing for
the granting of bounty and furloughs to pri
vates and non-commissioned officers in the Pro
visional Army,” approved 11th December, 1861,
said furloughs tebe granted at such times, and m
such numbers, as the Secretary of War may deem
most compatibly with the public interest; and
Provided, further, That in lieu of a furlough the
commutation value in money of the transporta
tion hereinabove granted shall be paid to each
private, musician, cr non-commissioned officer
who may elect to receive it at such time as the
furlough would otherwise be granted.—
Provided, further, that all persons under the
age of eighteen years, or over the age of thirty -
five years, who are now enrolled in the military
service of the Confederate States, in the regi
ments, battalions, and companies hereafter to be
organized, shall be required to remain in their
respective companies, battalions and regiments
for ninety days, unless their places can sooner
be supplied by other recruits not now in the ser
vice, who are between the ages of eighteen and
35 years; and all laws and parts o» laws pro
viding for the re*enlistment of volunteers, and
the organization thereof into companies, squad
rons, battalions, or regiments, is, shall be, and
the same are here by repealed.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted. That suc'i com
panies, squadrons, battalions, or regiments ors
ganized, or in process of organization by author
ity from the Secretary of War, as may be within
thirty days from the passage of this act so far
completed as to have the whole number of men
requisite for organization actually enrolled, not
embracing in said organizations any persons now
in service, shal l be mustered into the service of
the Confederate States as part of the land forces
of the same, to be received in that arm of the
service in which they are authorized to organize,
and shall elect their company, battalion, and
regimental officers.
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That for the en
rollment of all persons comprehended within the
provisions of this act, who are not already in
the armies of the Confederate States it shall be
lawful for the President, with the consent of the
Governors of the respective States, to employ
State officers, and. on failure to obtain such con
sent, he shall employ Confederate officers, charged
withjhe duty of making such enrollment in {ac
cordance with rates and regulations to be pre
scribed by him.
Sec 4. Be it further enacted, That personsen
rolled under the provisions of the preceding sec
tion, shall be assigned by the Secretary of War
to the different companies now in service, until
each company is filled to its maximum number,
and the persons so enrolled shall be assigned to
companies from the States from which they re
spectfully come.
Sec 5. Be it further enacted, That all seamen
and ordinary seamen in the land forces of the
Confederate States, enrolled under the Provi
sions of this act, may on applications of the
Secretary of the Navy,’ be transfered from the
land forces to the naval service.}
Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That in all cases
where a State may not have in the army a
number of regiments, battaliens, squadrons,
or companies sufficient to absorb the number
of persons subject to military service under
this act, belonging to such Stare then the res
idue or excess thereof shall be kept as a re
serve under such regulations as may be estab
lished by the Secretary of War; and then at
stated periods of not greater than three
months’, details determined by lot shall be
made from said reserve, so that each compa
ny shall, as nearly as practicable, be kept full.
Provided, That the persons held itr reserve may
remain at home until called into service by the
President. Provided, also, that during their stay
at home, theyishall uot receive pay. Provided,
further, that the persons comprehended in this
act shall not be subject to the rules and articles
of war, and mustered into the actual service of
the Confederate States; except that said persons,
when enrolled and liable to duty, if they shall
wilfully refuse to obey said call, such of them
shall be held to be a deserter, and punished as
such under said articles. Provided further, that
whenever, in the opinion of the President, the
exigencies of the public service may require it;
he shall be'authorized to call into actual service
the entire reserve, or so much as may be accessa
ry, n»t previously consigned to different compa
nies in service, under provisions of section four of
this act. Said reserve shall be organized under
such rules as the Secretary of War may adopt,
provided the company, ~ battalion and regimental
officers shall be elected by the troops composing
the same; provided the troops resided in any one
State, shall not be combined in regimental bat
talion, squadron, or company organtizaion, with
the troops raised in any other State.
Sec. 7- Be ii further enacted, That all soldiers
now serving in the army, or mustered in the
military service of the Confederate Statee, or en">
rolled in said service under the authorizations
heretofore issued by the Secretary of War, and
who are continued in the service by virtue of* this
act, who have not received the bounty of fifty
dollars allowed by existing laws, shall be entitled
to receive said bounty.
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That each man
who may hereafter be mustered into service, and
who shall arm himself with a musket, shot-gun,
rifle, or carbine, accepted as an efficient weapon,
shall be paid the value thereof, to be ascertained
by the mustering officer under such regulations
as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War. if
he is willing to sell the same, and if he is not,
then he shall be entitled to receive one dollar a
month for the use of said received and approved
musket, rifle, shot-gun, or carbine.
Se«. 9. Be it further enacted, That persons not
I’able for duty may be received as substitutes for
those who ore under such regulations as may be
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prescribed by the Secretary of War.
Se«. 10. Be U further enacted, That all vacant
cies shall be filled by the President from the com>»
pany, battalion, squadron or regiment, in which
such vacancies shall occur, by promotion accord
ing to seniority except in cases of disability or
other mwmpeiency: Provided, however, That
tne t resident may, when, in his opinion, it may
be proper, fill such vacancy or vacancies by the
promotion of any officer or officers or private or
privates from company, battalion, squadron or
regiment who shall have been distinguished in
the service by exhibition of valor and skill, and
that whenever a vacancy shall occur in the lowest
grade ot the commissioned officers of a company
said vacancy shall be filled by election : Provid
ed, all appointments made by the President shall
be by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate.
Sec. 11. Be it further enacted,' That the provis
sions of the first section of this act relating to
the election of officers shall apply to those regi
ments, battalions, and squadrons which are com
posed of twelve months’ and war companies
combined in the same organization, without res
gard to the manner in which the officers thereof
were originally appointed.
Sec. 12. Be it further enacted. That each com
pany of infantry shall consist of one hundred and
twenty-five, rank and file; each company of field
artillery of one hundred and fifty, rank and file,
and each of cavalry of eighty, rank and lie.
Sec. 13. Be it further enacted, That all persons
subject to enrollment, who are now in the service,
under the provisions of this act shall be permit
ted, previous to such enrollment, to volunteer in,
companies now in the service,
SCENES IN NASHVILLE.
A correspondent of the Mobile Tribune writes
Now and then Yankee ferocity breaks out iu its
true nature. Rev. C. D. Elliot, though a North
ern born man, has been raised and educated in
the South and for over twenty years has been
principal of the famous Nashville Female Acade
my. From the beginning of the war, and even of
the issues that led to the war ;he has been un
compromisingly Southern. No trimming in El*
hot. Well, the Yankees took his academy for a
hospital. One day a stout fellow of the 35th Ohio
Regiment called at his door, wallet in hand.—
“ My name is ; I came from the neighbor-
hood of your brother’s, and have messages from
them to you. I feel a little unwell anyhow, and
thought I would call and stay with you.” “ Sir,”
said Elliot, looking waspishly through his spec
tacles, “ when a man in that uniform calls on me
on business, I treat him civilly ; but I decline all
visits from such.” “ But I have messages* from
your brothers to you—they are my neighbors
an d “ Don’t care. Don’t want to hear any
message from them if they are on your side,” and
the door slammed in Buckeye’s face. A few days
afterwards this Buckeye and a Major, on horse
back, passed by Elliotl’s premises. “ Changed
your sentiments yet, sir?” said the Ohio soldier.
“ Net at all,” was the reply; whereupon he
struck Elliott (a small and feeble man) twice over
the head and shoulders with a stick and then
kicked him. Turning to his Major —“ Major, have
I beat him enough?” The Major putting his
band to his pistol, replied, “ Beat him just as
long as you please !” “ Well, I guess that’ll do
for this time,’’ was the remark of the moderate
member of the 35th Ohio regiment, A regiment
was passing at the time. One of the sick sol
diers, to whom Elliott had been kind, on witness
ing this treatment, told him if he would lay the
case before Gen. Buell he would get redress.—
Elliott answered—” I look fop my redress to the
Southern army.”
With all their deceitful kindness and hypocriti
cal respect for “ private property/’ People of
Nashville, I am informed, hate their inv? de rs
more than on the day they entered the city.—
They chafe under the fact, constantly realized,
that they have masters over them /—must get pass
es, like negroes, from these foreigners; and no
body, on any business, is allowed to be out after
8 o'clock at night. Besides the Federal flag on
the capitol, only two others have been raised;
oje by a man named Scovel, suspected before,
and under bonds to behave loyally to the Con*
federate States; the other by a silversmith, named
Flowers, on Union street. The boys about town
riddled Flowers windows that night with rocks.—
Bad boys for the first time, since the world began
are now useful, They and bedevil the
Yankees more than all other causes combined.—
“ Hurrah for Jeff'. Davis’’—and whi-z z goes a
rock at a blue coat. When inquisition is made
for the saucy Rebel and the rock-flinger, three
or four young rapscallion Rebels may be seen just
disappearing around a distant corner, or through
the familiar paths of a back alley.
These Yankees will go into stores, through the
half-opened doors, where the proprietors sit and
whittle sticks, and on the least chance enter into
a discussion on the Constitution and Secession,
etc. They get plain chat generally.
THE FEDERALS EVACUATE STEVENSON, ALA.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Southern, Confederacy, of
April 16th, says:
This morning we give it as our opinion, from
all the information we can obtain, that the Fed
erate, in occupying Huntsville, were co-operating
with the bridge-burning engine stealers. They
advanced from Huntsville,anticipating the success
of the bridge burners, apd took the town of
Stevenson, and even came to a bridge some miles
this side of there, and with a heavy caunon shot
away the middle pillar, to prevent our coming
upon them at HuntsviUe.
We learn, further, that they were attacked in
the rear this side of Murfreesboro’ by some Con
federate cavalry, and in the skirmish, some 60
Yankees and 5 Confederates were killed. Upon
this intelligence, and the further news of the
failure of their men to burn the State Road
bridges, they hustily evacuated Stevenson, and
perhaps have left Huntsvillee by this time.
We understand that important movements are.
on hand near Corinth—though we can’t vouch
for the truth of the matter.
A private dispatch in the Confederacy, dated at
Chattanooga, April 15th, says that the enemy
have left Stevenson. No reliable news from
Huntsville, Ala.
Mattars at Corinth,— An officer who left Cor -
inth Miss,, on Monday reports everything quiet
there. The Confederate lines extend only over
the recent battlo ground, and the Federate are
about 8 miles beyond that. Active preparations
are evidently being made by both armies for the
gruadJ ‘'ruggl? that must be near at
hand. Gen. Beauregard is being heavily rein
forced, and is confident of a great victory in the
hour of trial. Very little is known in regard to
the movements of the Federate, farther than that
they teo are being reinforced, but in what num
bers is unkown. Skirmishes daily occur between
the advance guards of the two armiea, and Mor
gan’s cavalry ate doing excellent service in’ cap
turing and killing Federal pickets.
Unr wounded are receiving all the necessary
attention in the hospitals at Corinth, and are
doing as well as could'be expected. The ladies
throng the hospitals dav and night, ministering
to the want of the suffering soldiers. 6
M&»nfo(fl l a.) Commonwealth, April 16<A.
Prisoners. -We are informed that 1 000 Yan
kee prisoners arrived in Montgomery on vesterdav
They were captured at Corinth and sent round
byway ot Mobtie, as the Yankees still have pos
session of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad
at Huntsville, Ala. These prisoners are to be
confined in Montgomery natil they are regularly
exehanged.-Aifonto Commonwealth, April Uth