The Banner and Baptist. (Atlanta, Ga.) 186?-186?, September 20, 1862, Image 4
HEAD QUARTERS, ) !
Commissary General's Office, r j
Atlanta, Ga., August 4, 1862. )
To the Justices of the Inferior Court of
Fulton County, Georgia:
Gentlemen—l am directed by His Ex
cellency, Joseph E. Brotvn, to notify 'the
Justices of the Inferior Court of each coun
ty in Georgia, of the arrangement he has
made for Salt, and of his plan for distribu
tion to relieve, as far as possible, the ne
cessities of the widow of each deceased
soldier, the wife of each soldier in the ser
vice, the widow having a son or sons in the
servioe, and the heads of all other families.
For this purpose, I herewith furnish you
with a printed copy of the Governor’s order
to me on the 31st July, 1862, and respect
fully invite and solicit your immediate and
prompt cooperation in the execution of said
order.
Please send to me a certified list of the
names of the parties mentioned in the first
and second sections in said order, and the
amount of money stated in the second gee
tion, and I will order the Salt shipped to
your address, as you may direct, for the
use of said parties.
You will discover in the sixth section of
the Governor’s order an important sug
gestion, and I would respectfully urge the
propriety of holding the public meeting in
your county, and the appointment of a re
liable Agent to sell salt for the accommo
dation of the people of the county ; this
would no doubt greatly aid and facilitate
our object in relieving the present necessi
ties of the people.
Yours, respectfully,
Jared I. Whitaker,
Commissary General.
HEAD QUARTERS, )
Marietta, July 31, 1862. )
Col. Jared I. Whitaker,
Colonel: Finding that there was but
little prospect, on account of the impossi
bility of large importations, that private
enterprise would afford a supply of salt for
our people this year, and knowing how in
dispensable it was to health and comfort, I
determined, as the Executive of the State,
to do all in my power for the relief of the
people, though I might, by assuming the
responsibility, be exposed to the censure of
speculators and such captious fault-finders
as can never be pleased.
After considerable effort, 1 have succeed
ed in procuring a lease upon a sufficient
supply of salt water at the Virginia Salt
Works, to make five hundred bushels per
day, during the war, and till tlr-ee months
after its termination, if we should need it
so long. 1 have also employed a reliable
man to go to work, who is to make all the
necessary preparation as so *n as possible,
and use sufficient labor to make the quantity
above mentioned. He is already at work
with what kettles and furnaces he has now
in order, and ex sects to be able in another
month to turn out the five hundred bushels
per day.
Hon. John W. Lewis acted as my agent
in the negotiations necessary to secure these
results. A large proportion of the credit,
if any attaches, is due to him, as I should
not have been able to secure the lease and
make the other arrangements, without the
information received from him and his per
sonal influence and efforts in the negotia
tions. He has rendered valuable service,
and has refused to receive any compensa
tion for either his time or his expenses
while engaged in this business
My purpose is to sell the salt to the in
habitants of this State, at such price per
bushel as will cpver only cost and necessa
ry expenses to the time of the sale. The
standard established at the Works is fifty
pounds to the bushel. 1 have to purchase
by this standard, and must sell by it, de
ducting from the fifty pounds whatever
may be found to be the wastage from drip
ping leakage, &e., a'ter it leaves the works
till it is sold to the consumer. Experience
will soon show how much each bushel loses
in weight during its transportation and
storage.
I lhall order all the salt consigned to you
Si Commissary General, and desire you to
taffs charge of it and have it sold by relia
ble agents, to be employed at such central
points as may be selected as distributing
points.
If it is ascertained in future that the price
now fixed does not pay cost and all ex
penses. it can be raised until it covers both;
or if it does more than this, it can be
reduced.
For the present you are directed to dis
pose of the salt, when received, as follows:
1. You will give, without charge, one half
bushel to the widow of each soldier who
has been killed in battle, or has died in the
military service of the Slate or the Confed
erate States. As you can not know the
facts, nor make this distribution without
assistance from the different counties of the
State, I request the Justices of the Inferior
Court of each county to send you a list of
the names of all widows of soldiers in their
county, w ith a certificate of two or more of
said justices that the persons whose names
are sent are the widows of deceased, sol
diers. On receipt of such list and certifi
cate, you will ship to said Justices, at such
point as they may designate, one half bush
el for each soldiers widow, to be distributed
among them by said Justices.
2. You will sell to the wife of each sol
dier now in military service, if she desires
it, and to each widow having a sou or sons
in service, one half bushel for one dollar ;
the names of those entitled to it to be cer
tified by the Justices of the Inferior Court
as in eases of widows of soldiers; and the
salt to be shipped to the Justices of Inferior
Court in each county, at such point on a
railroad as they may designate, so soon as
you may have it on hand, and they send
you the money for it. It is supposed there
is no county in the State whose Justices
will refuse to make this advance from the
County Treasury, for the benefit of the sol
diers’ lam dies, and to take the trouble and'
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expense of getting the salt from the rail
road aud distributing it among those in
the county entitled, at the price mentioned;
which can be refunded to the County Treas
ury when paid in for the salt by those who
are to receive it.
Should the widow of a deceased soldier,
or the wife of a soldier in service, desire
more than a half bushel for her own use,
she will be permitted to purchase it at the
price paid by others, in preference to all
other persons, if there is not a supply for
I all.
3. You will sell to all other heads of
families at the rate of four dollars and fifty
cents per bushel. But no head of a family
will be permitted to receive more than one
bushel till all are supplied with enough for
present use. You will have each agent to
keep a book in which he will enter the
name of each head of a family who gets
salt; and in case one person applies for
the quantity allowed each of several fami
lies, and has the means of hauling it, your
agent will let him have it, taking from him
a written certificate giving the name of
each person for whom he receives it, and
stating that he will deliver it to such per
son at the price he pays for it, and such
price for hauling as may have been agreed
on between the parties. The names of the
heads of families thus supplied will be en-i
tered on the book, that the person receiving!
the salt for his neighbors may be detected
if he should act unfaithfully. All pur
chasers will be required to bring with them
their own sacks to carry their salt home
from the place of sale.
4. As I can place the salt only at a few
central points in the State, you will estab
lish a depot for its sale by a faithful agent,
at each of the following places, to wit: —
Cartersville, Atlanta, Athens, Augusta,
Griffin, Macon, Albany, Columbus, and
Savannah. Were Ito undertake to send
it to all the towns and depots on the rail
roads, 1 must employ so many agents as
to embarrass you in securing prompt set- j
tlements, and greatly increase the price by |
the payment of so many salaries to dis
tributing agents. You will take bond and
security from each agent, for the faithful j
discharge of his duties and the prompt pay
ment to you of the money collected by him,
and for the delivery to you of the salt on
hand at any tirffe when demanded by you
or other agent of the State. Each agent
will sell for cash, and will remit to you the
amount he has collected each week. Any ,
agent failing to make such remittance, will!
be promptly discharged.
5. You will notify the Justices of the In- (
ferior Court of each county in this ’State, of!
the arrangements proposed for the purpose j
ofsupply ing the widows of deceased soldiers ;
and wives of soldiers now in service, with
salt to relieve present necessities, and re
quest their active cooperation in the pro
posed plan.
6. When the people of a county will, by
public meeting, appoint a reliable Agent
who will obligate himself to them to sell
salt for the accommodation of the people
of the county, at the prices above mention
ed, adding only the freight which he has to
pay from the place where he receives it
from your agent to the place of sale, you
will be authorized, when you have a supply
on hand, to sell for cash, to such County
Agent, in such quantities as would be the
reasonable proportion for his county, at the
prices above specified. This will afford
those who are disposed to render a public
service without charge, in a matter of vital
importance to their fellow-citizens, an op
portunity to display their liberality. It is
hoped some person with sufficient means j
will be found in each county remote from i
the central points of deposite, willing to
serve the public for the public good.
The different railroad companies in this!
State have shown a liberality and a disposi
tion to afford relief to the people in the
present emergency, which entitle them to)
the gratitude of all. 1 determined to carry j
the salt imported by the State over the
State Road, to the places of deposite and
sale, free of charge, and to carry from the j
place of sale to the depot of the consumer I
free. I communicated this determination
to the Presidents of the principal Roads of j
! the State, and asked their cooperation, and j
j that they also carry all salt imported by j
the State free, as well while in possession
of the State as for the consumer after he
has purchased from the State’s agent; and
it affords me great pleasure to say that 1
hrve received responses from the following
Railroad Presidents, in the order mention
ed, promptly and cheerfully agreeing to
render this public service free of charge,
till further orders:'Hon. R. R Cuyler,
President C. R. R. and Branches, and ofj
the S*. W. R. R.; Isaac Scott, Esq., Presi 1
dent Macon and Western JR. R.; Hon. J.j
P. King, President Ga. R. R. and Branches,!
and of the A. & W.-P. R. R It is not:
doubted that the President of each other
j Road in the State will meet this request;
; with like liberality and patriotism. The
salt imported under my direction will,'
therefore, uo doubt, go to any point in the
State, on a railroad, to the consumer pur
chasing from the State Agent, free of
charge for freights.
I shall do what I possibly can to supply
| all during the summer and fail; and I trust,
with what may be made by the Georgia Salt
j Manufacturing Company, whose office is
located at Augusta, and with what our peo
ple will make upon the caast, [*t is expect
ed that all who live near the coast witt'" at
least make their own supply,] that all who
practice strict economy may have enough,
j respectfully suggest to our people, to so
divide what they may receive among their
neighbors, till more can be had, that none
may suffer. And 1 further .suggest, that
they do all they can to permit speculators,
who have a supply on hand for the aeeom-;
modatiou of the people at fifteen to twenty
dollars per bushel, to hold it t© the end of
the war, when they can prababiy afford to,
sell it much cheaper.
Joaspß E, Brown.
STATE OF GEORGIA.
Declaration of Fundamental Principles.
1. The fundamental principles of Free
Government cannot be too well understood,
nor too often recurred to.
2. God has ordained that men shall
live under government, but as the forms
and administration of civil governments
are in human, and, therefore, fallible hands,
they may be altered, or modified, whenever
the safety or happiness of the government
requires it. No government should be
changed for light or transient causes; nor
unless upon reasonable assurance that a
better will be established.
3. Protection to person or property is
the duty of Government; and a Govern
ment which, knowingly and persistently
denies, or witholds from the governed such
protection, when within its power, rele~es
them from the obligation of obedience
4. No citizen shall be deprived ol life,
liberty or property, except by due process
of law ; and of life or liberty, only by the
judgment of his peers.
5. The writ of “ habeas corpus ” shall
not be suspended, unless, in case of rebel
lion or invasion, the public safety may re
quire it.
6. The right of the people to keep and
bear arms shall not be intiinged.
7. No religious test shall be required for
the tenure of any office; and no religion
shall be established by law, and no citizen
shall be deprived of any right or privilege
by reason of his religious belief.
8. Freedom of thought and opinion, free
dom of speech, and freedom of the press,
are inherent elements of political liberty.
But while every citizen may freely speak,
write, and print, on any subject, he shall be
responsible for the abuse oi the liberty.
9. The right of the people to appeal to
the courts ; to petition Government on all
matters of legitimate cognizance; and
peaceably to assemble for the consideration
of any matter of public consent—shall
never be impaired.
]O. For every right there should be pro
vided a remedy ; and every citizen ought
to obtain justice without purchase, without
denial, and without delay—conformably to
the laws of the land.
11. Every person charged with an offence
against the laws of the State shall have the
privilege and benefit of counsel:
Shall be furnished, on demand, with a
copy of the accusation, and with a list of
the witnesses against him :
Shall have compulsory process to obtain
the attendance of his own witnesses :
Shall be confronted with the witnesses
testifying against him, and
Shall have a public and speedy trial by
an impartial jury.
12. No person shall be put in jeopardy
of life or liberty more than once for the
same offence.
13. No conviction shall work corruption
of blood, or general forfeiture of estate.
14. Excessive b:ril shall not be required,
nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and
unusual punishments inflicted.
15. The power of the courts to punish
for contempt shall be limited by legisla
tive acts.
15. A faithful execution of the laws is
essential to good order, and good order in
society is essential to liberty.
17. Legislative acts in violation of the
fundamental law are void, and the Jndi
ciary shall so declare them.
17. Ex post facto laws and laws impair
ing the obligation of contracts, and retro
active legislation injuriously affecting the
right of the citizen, are prohibited.
19. Laws should have a general opera
tion ; and no general law shall be vested in
a particular case by special legislation ex
cept with consent of all persons to be af
fected thereby.
20. The right of taxation can be granted
only by the people, and shall be exercised
only to raise revenue for the support of
Government, to pay the public debt, to
provide fur the common defence, and for j
such other purposes as are specified in the:
grant of powers.
21. In case of necessity, private ways, j
and the right to carry water over land, for j
the purpose of mining and draining, may j
be granted upon compensation being first!
paid; and with this exception, private;
property shall not be taken, except for pub-!
lie use, and then only upon just cornpen- j
sation—such compensation, except in cases
of pressing necessity, to be first provided
and paid
22. The right of the people to be secure
in their persons, houses, papers, and affects,
against unreasonable searches and seizures,
shall not be violated ; and no warrant shall
issue but upon probable cause, supported
by oath or affirmation, and particularly
j describing the place or places to be searched, '
1 and the person and things to be seized.
23. Martial law shall not be declared
; except in cases of extreme necessity.
24. Lai ge standing armies, in times of
peace are dangerous to liberty.
I 25. No soldier shall, in time of peaee,
be quartered in any house without the con
1 seut of the owner; nor in time of war, but
i in a manner prescribed by law.
26. The person of a debtor shall not be
detained in prison after delivering bona ffi.de
all his estate for the use of his creditors.
27. The enumeration of rights herein
contained shall not be construed to deny to
the people any inherent rights which they
have hitherto enjoyed.
28. This declaration is a part of the Con
stitution, and shall never be violated under
any pretence whatever.
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Tract Depository.
Brother A. E. Dickinson has established
a Tract Depository in this city. Those de
sirous of distributing Tractsin our hospitals
can obtain them by applying at the office of
The Banner and Baptist.
State Evangelist.
Brother Jesse H. Campbell has been la
boring as State Evangelist, and recently as
Colporteur among our soldiers on the coast ,
i The committee regret that the income of
the Permanent Mission Fund is so small as
to allow no appropriation this year. We
can only urge that our brethren will make
contributions to the support of brother
Campbell, and continue him in this import
ant field of missionary labor.— \Extraci
from Report of Executive Committee, Geor
gia Baptist Convention. Friend.
Important so couscripts.
War Department, )
Adjutant and Insp. Gen.'s Dep'rnt, )•
Richmond, Aug. 19, 1862. )
General Order, No. 58.
The following rules, in relation to the
examination of conscripts, are published for
the guidance of enrolling and medical ex
amining officers :
1. At each camp of instruction, and at
such military stations and other points as
may be designated, an experienced army
surgeon, from a different section of the
country, will be detailed to examine con
scripts.
2. All conscripts capableof bearing arms
will be received.
3. Conscripts not equal to all military
duty may be valuable in the hospital, quar
termaster’s or other stall departments, and
if so, will be received.
4. Blindness, excessive deafness, and per
manent lameness, or great deformity, are
obvious reasons for exemptions.
5. Confirmed consumption, large incura
ble ulcers, and chronic contagious diseases
of the skin, are causes of exemption.
6. Situ le reducible hernia, the loss of an
eye or of several fingers, will not incapaci
tate the subject for the performance of mil
itary duty.
7. A certifiuate of disability of a con
script, given by a private physician, will
not be considered unless affidavit is made
that the conscript is coffined to bed, or that
his health and life would be endangered by
removal to the place of enrollment.
8. But when a conscript is incapacitated
by temporary sickness, he must present
himself, so soon as recovered, to the enroll
ing officer.
9. No previous discharge, certificate, or
exemption from any source, will be ac
knowledged.
10. Medical officers of the army are not
allowed to examine conscripts and give cer
tificates, unless they are regularly detailed
for that duty.
By command of the Secretary of War.
[Signed] S. Cooper,
Adjutant and Inspector General.
Headquarters, J
Military Post, Atlanta, >
May 14, 1862. )
General Order, No. I.
In obedience to orders received from
Brigadier-General A. R. Lawton, command
ing Military Division of Georgia, in assu
ming command of this Post for the purpose
of guarding the GovernmentfTtores, to pre
serve order in and around Atlanta, and for
the protection of all loyal citizens and the
"iffiiohment of all disorderly conduct, the
following regulations will be observed :
1. Details will be made daily -to protect j
the Government stores and propeity, and
guards will be posted at different points in i
the city for that purpose; also a scouting j
guard, day and night, to preserve order, act j
ing in concert with the city authorities.
2. Sentinels will be posted on each rail-!
road train to examine and arrest all suspi- j
cious persons pointed out to them ; and to i
make this order effective, superintendents!
of railroads are requested to instruct con-!
ductors to cooperate with the sentinels for j
that purpose.
3. Owners of all cotton, hay, or other
combustible material, are required without
delay to remove the same fcu such points of
safety, distant from Government stores, as
may be designated by the commanding of
ficer of this post.
4. Any grocer or other person selling to
or furnishing any officer or soldier with
spirits or wine, which is prohibited unless
j upon the order of an army will be
arrested and dealt with by the proper mili
tary authorities.
5. All officers, soldiers, or citizens, found
| drunk or otherwise disorderly in the streets,
! will be taken in charge by the guard and
j sent to these headquarters.
6. No officers or soldiers will be allowed
to remain in and around Atlanta, unless such
| officers or soldiers be furnished with a per
j mit from their respective commanders. —
i And all ffm.rnanders of troops stopping
j over in Atlanta will report the fact to the
[officer commanding this post.
7. No slave or free person of color will
|be allowed to w r alk the streets the hour
of nine o’clock p. m., either with or without
a pass, unless accompanied by his or her
owner.
| The officer commanding earnestly invites
the aid and cooperation of his Honor, the
Mayor, and city authorities, and all citizens
! in preserving good order and sobriety in the
city, and specially requests of all persons to
report to him any improper conduct on the
part of any of the officers or soldiers under
! his command.
By order of Colonel Commanding.
Banner for Hie Soldier*.
The religious paper furnishes a cheap
and available means of reaching them ; and
'our brethren and sisters should come to
the rescue before it is too late. W hat say
our readers? Shall the sick and wounded
soldiers have The Banner?
Paste-board.
All who have paste-board boxes, can tuna
them to good account by sending them to
the Franklin Printing-House, Atlanta, Ga.,
! to be used in binding Testament#.
GEiNMAL J4KECTORY.
Confederate Government.
President — Jefferson Davis, of Miss.
Vice “ —A. H. Stephens, of Ga.
The Cabinet. —Judah P. Benjamin, of La.,
Secretary of State.
C. G. Memminger, ofS. C., Secretary of
Treasury.
George W. Randolph, of Va., Secretary
of War.
S. R. Mallory, of Fla., Secretary of Navy.
Thos. 11. Watts, of Alabama, Attorney-
General.
John 11. Reagan, of Texas, Postmaster-
General.
The Senate.
Alabama —Win. L. Yancey, C. C. Clay.
Arkansas —Robert W. Johnson, C. B.
Mitchell.
Florida —J. M. Baker, A. E. Maxwell.
Georgia —B. H. Hill, John W. Lewis.
Kentucky —Henry C. Burnett, William
E. Sims.
Louisiana —Edward Sparrow, Thos. J.
Setnmes.
Mississippi —A. G. Brown, Jas. Phelan.
Missouri —J. B. Clarke, R. L. E. Peyton.
North Carolina —George Davis, W. T.
Dortch.
South Carolina —Robert \Y . Barnwell,
James L. Orr^
Tennessee —Gustavus A. Henry, Landon
C. Haynes.
Texas —L. T. Wigfall, W. S. Oldham.
Virginia —R. M. T. Hunter, William
B. Preston.
House of Representatives.
Alabama: T. J. Foster, W. R. Smith,
J. P. Ralls, J. L. Curry, F. S. Lyon, W.
j P. Chilton, David Clopton, J. S. Pugh, E.
S. Dargan.
Arkansas: G. A. Garland, James M.
! Patterson. (Incomplete.)
Florida: James B. Dawkins, R. B.
! Hilton.
Georgia: Julian Hartridge, Charles J.
| Munnerlyn, Hines Holt, Aug. H. Kenan,
David W. Lewis, W. W. Clark, Robert P.
Trippe, Lucius J. Gartrell, Hardy Strick
land, Augustus R. Wright.
Kentucky : (Not yet elected.)
Louisiana: Charles J. Villers, Charles
M. Conrad, Duncan F. Kenner, Lucien J.
'Dupre, John L. Lewis, John Perkins, Jr.
Mississippi : J. W. Clapp, Reuben Da
vis, Israel Welch, H. C. Chambers, O. R.
Singleton, E. Barksdale, John J. Mcßae.
Missouri: W. M. Cook, T. C. Harris,
Caspar W. Bell, Adam 11. Condon, G. G.
West, L. W. Freeman, llyer.
North Carolina: W. H. Smith, R. R.
Bridges, O. R. Kenan, T. D. McDowell,
A. Id. Airington, J. R. McLean, W. S.
Ashe, William Landor, B. S. Gaither, A.
T. Davidson.
South Carolina: John McQueen, W.
Porcher Miles, L. M. Ayer, M. L. Bonham,
James Farrow, W. W. Boyce.
Tennessee: Joseph B. Ileiskell, W. G.
Swan, W. H. Tibbs, E. F. Gardenshire,
Henry S. Foote, Jr., Meredith P. Gentry,
George W. Jones, Thomas Mennes, J. D.
Adkins, John V. Wright, D. M. Currin.
Texas: John A. Wilcox, C. C. Her
bert, F. W.Gray, F. B. Sexton, M I).
Graham, B. H. Epperson.
Virginia: M. R. 11. Garnett, John B.
Chambliss, John Tyler, Roger A. Pryor,
Thomas S. Bocoeke, John Goode, Jr., Jas.
P. Holcombe, D. C. DeJarnette, William
Smith, A. R. Boteler, John B. Baldwin,
Walter R. Staples, Walter Preston, A. G.
Jenkins, Robert Johnston, C. W. Russell.
Government of Georgia.
Joseph E. Brown, Governor.
N. C. Barnett, Secretary of State.
John Jones, Treasurer.
Peterson Thweatt, Comptroller General.
E. D. Brown, Librarian.
John Billups, President of the Senate.
J. M. Mobley, Secretary “ “
Warren Akin, Speaker of the House.
L. Carrington, Clerk “ “
J. B. Campbell, Secr’y Executive Dep t.
H. H. W'aters, Private Secretary.
J. S. Rowland, Sup’t State Railroad.
Janies A. Green, Keeper Penitentiary.
T. T. Windsor, Book-keeper “
Supreme Court Judges. —J. H. Lumpkin,
of Clark. Charles J. Jenkins, of Richmond.
R. F. Lyon, of Fulton.
Times and places of holding Court. —First
District, composed of the Eastern, Middle
and Brunswick Circuits; at Savannah on
the second Mondays in January and June.
Second District, composed of the Macon,
Southwestern, Chattahoochee and Pataula
Circuits ; at Macon on the fourth Mondays
in January and June.
Third District, composed of the Flint,
Coweta, Blue Ridge, Cherokee and Talla
poosa Circuits ; at Atlanta on the fourth
Monday in March and second Monday in
August.
Fourth District, composed of the West
ern and Northern Circuits; at Athens on
the fourth Mondays in May and November.
Fifth District, composed of the Ocmulgee
and Southern Circuits; at Milledgeville on
the second Monday s in May and November.
The Bonner and Baptist is published ev
ery Saturday morning, at Atlanta, Ga., at
the price of three dollars per year, always
in advance.