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<r The President's Emancipation Proclamation.
By the President of the United Stafet of America
?A Proclama' on.
Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two, a Proclamation was issued
by-thePreddent of the United States, containing,
among other things, the following, to wit:
"That on the Fi:stday of January, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred aad six
ty-three, all persons held as slaves within any
State, or designated part of a State, the people
whereof shall then be in rebellion against the
United States, shall be then and thenceforth and
forever free, and the Executive Government of
thj United Slates, including the military and
Naval aatho:ity thereof, will recognise and maintain
the freedom-of such persons, and will do no
:ict or acts to repress such persons or any of them
in any effort they qjay make for their actual freedom.
That the Executive will, on the 1st day of January,
aforesaid, by Proclamation, designate the States and
parts of states, if any, in which the people therein
respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the
United States, or the people thereof, shall on that
day in good faith be represented in the Congress
of the United States, by members chosen thereto
at elections wherein a majority of the qualified
voters of such States shall have participated, shall,
in the absence of strong countervailing testimony,
be deemed conclusive evidence that such State,
and the people thereof, are not then in rebellion
against the United States."
Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President
of the Unitel States, by virtue of the power in
me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and
Nary of the United States* in time of acfoal armed
rebellion against the authority and Government of
the United States, and as a fit and n jcessary war
measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on tbis
ri st day of January, 1868, and in accordance with
my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the
full period of one hundred days from the day of
fthe first above mentioned order, designate as i
the States and pa;ts of States wherein the people1
thereof respectively are this day in rebelton
against the United States, the following, to wit;
Ark rnsas, Texas, Louisiana?except the Pa ishes
of St. Bernard Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. John,
St. < harles, St. James, Ascension, Assamption,
Terrc Bonne, Lafourche, fit. Mary, St. Martin and
ortiani, inclndlpg ftb etty of ywrortetni, mii\
sit ippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Caroli!
ni, and North Carolina and Virginia, except the
forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia,
and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac,
Northampton, Eliaab.th City, York, Princess Ann
and Norf li, including tlie citi s of Norfolk and
Portsmouth, and which excepted parte are for the
present left precisely as if this Proclamation were
not issned.
And by virtue of the power, and for .the purpose
aforesaid, I do order and declare that' all persons
held ss slaves within said designated States and
parts of States are, and henceforward shall be
rasK?and that the Kxecndve Government of the
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authorities thereof will recognize and maintain the
freedom of said persons. >
And 1 hereby ei?j->in npon the people so declared
ires, to abltain from all violenc , unless in necesairy
self-defence; and 1 recommend to them that,
in all c ses, when allowed, they labor laithfnlly for
reasonable wages
. And I further decla'-e and make known that pernios
of suitable condition, will be received into the
armed service of the United States, to garrison
forts, positions, stations, and other places, and to |
man vessels of all sorts in said service.
And. upon rids, sincerely believed to be an act i
of justice warranted by the Constitution, upon j
iniliKrv nM>AMitr T invnlr? (Im MWIliHi>ratl> iitHv :
in nt of mankind, and the gracbus favor of
Almighty God.
In witness whereof. I have hereunto set ray hand
and caused the seal of the United states to be
aifixed*
J>one at the City of Washington, this first '
day of January, in the ye a of our Lord j
[l. s.] one thousand eight hundred and sixty-tbre-, [
and of th: United States of Americ.i the j
eighty-seventh.
Signed, ABRAHAM UNCOIL.
By the JPrcsident.
Wm. H. Skwasu, Secretary of State.
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? Advi es from Gen. Blunt, state tliat be occu- j
i.ie<l Van Buren, the rebels having retreated on
Tulay night towards Arkadelpbia, aband ning
t!i ir viounded at Fort Smith. Our troops in the J
Indian Territory have driven the rebels under
Coffee and Stewart across the Arkansas at Fort
Cibson. The*Indian? are anxious to reestablish
/ their loyal statu*. Hin Jinan's correspondence was J
\ c iptured at Van Buren. His army is wretchedly i
l.'s it'll**.
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Arxt Medical Examinations.?A physician
who has succeeded in pissing the severe ordeal requisite
before admission into the medical corps of
; the army, furnishes to a Pennsylvania journal the
following interesting statements:
Besides tbo Surgeons and Assistants of Regii
ments, and the Contract Surgeons, there is a body
| of Surgeons and Assistants employed in hospitals,;
styled the corps of "Surgeons of Volunteers." j
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1UOJ N|U IUQU UOUl^f W1VU INT? UUV ? L .
S. X." Last year the Brigade Surgeon a were ap-1
pointed mainly through influence and with scarce-:
ly any examination. When, in Jane last, their
office was abolished by Congress, there w.iS such
| demand for Surgeons that they were all turned
: over to thiscorpsof Surgeons ot U.S Volunteers.
I But none have this year been commissioned in thst;
' corps without thorough evidence of their com-1
i petenee.
The Board of Examiners consists of three Army
: Surgeons. One or more of them sit in a room curni
municating with that wherein sit the candidates,
! and observes that they have no help lrom books or j
from each other.
The ordeal requires four hours daily (or six days,,
three devoted to written and three to oral ques- I
tions. Lest the candidate may have ported up for |
the occasion on more important points, they test
his knowledge of thie whole subject by questions,
mi less prominent and practical matters. Tbe firstj
day Anatomy is taken up, and such questions as,
"Give the anatomy of the brain," * Describe thj
triangles of the neck, their bonndaries and contents,*'
"Give tbe origin, relations, and branches,
and distribution of the brachial plexus," torment
the anxious aspirant.
Next day on Practice of Medicine he is made to
show on paper his thorough knowledge or qualia
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system, with their treatment.
The third day be must tell the mode in which
nature repairs wounds of various structures, the
mode o! distinguishing truss each other particular
fractnresaod dislocations, with their mode oi treatment.
Fortunate is ho if within the allotted four
hours he can write clearly his answers to all the
intricate queries propounded.
During the three following days he is questioned
at great length, and minutely in Physiology, l hesuistry,
Materia Medics, Hygiene and again on the
subjects upon which be has written. Finally
fpmpa the KTperlmei^tuQ Cruets of Ids knowledge.
He it taken to the D usee ting room of the Georgetown
College, and there has to perform various
difficult operations upon the dead, then to the
Douglas Hospital, where a number of patients are
presented, and he must examine them, and give
their disease in the minutest point treatment, aad
probable result. If after this be has not vanished
in a cload of perspiration, he will learn whether
or no he may sign himself as Assistant Surgeon,
(J. S. V. This is now las high a rank as m con-1
ferred, except by promt [ion after entering service.
If succesofnl, the eandk ste returns to hia ordinary
duties. Within a month bis name is sent in to the
Senate, aad in course of time, it contrmed by
them, be receives notkb and a commission from
th* Smmm n?nM?l itmitntitkiiiimnlwrarlM
| pass: one week, eight qssayed the trial, of whom
[ two only succeeded. Frightened by this daughter,
a number who wera waiting their turn, fled,
i (earing for the next week only Are of the best qualified.
Of these, but om| was ivjeeted,
| The pay of a Surgeon; is now $2,900 per annum,
and of Assistant Surgeen, $1,-400. Besides this
' the Surgeon may keep two horses, and the Assis- !
tant, ewe, at the expenadof Government. A Contract
Surgeon gets $1,000 a year, and must sap- j
port his own horse. j
Faexcu Portbaix oi Gas. Bctlss.?The following
biographical sketch of Gen. Butler, which
is translated from the Cb*rn>r dm Ditua* Ac, a
pro-slavery French Journal, will be relished by
those who are acq axis ted with his career:
' Benjamin Butter is the son of an Alsatian emigrant,
by trade a butcher, and was born in Massachusetts,
where he practiced as an attorney in one
of the manufacturing towns in the neighborhood
of Boston. He did not follow law on the same
principle that McClelian became a railway director j
?that i? to cay from a dislike to the military pro-!
few ion during a time of peace. Mr. Butler wa?, |
so to speak, < to the manor b m,5 and in bis profession,
in which be acquired not the t ightest distinction,
was known hy {be sobriquet of Picayune
Puller, a nickname we waul 1 translate by rihat
> r??liina ViitUr > 1'WrnM. ?nr raiHin
moat know, being a small Spanish coin, worth
boot twenty-five centimes of French money.
m During the last presidential election he formed
part of the convention charged with what may be
termed the sifting of the candidates. The choice
of the candidates was long disputed. For a long
time Mr. Ttntler voted against Mr. Lincoln with
the reniocrats. but on the nim'teeotli or tw^i ticth
i
ballot Mr. Butler turned hircoat, and went over to
the Republicans. Thus he was one of those who
decided the election. Mr. Lincoln has shown that
he could be grateful.
"if peace had been maintained between the
North and tbe South, what would have been the
fate of Mr. Butler ? What functions, what honors
were in store for him ? What part wouM be have
played ? Mr. Lincoln and himself only knew; but
war having broken out, Mr. Butler found himself
in an awkward predicament. His career aa an *
attorney was, seriously compromised; his usual clients
were dispersed. As a shrewd man Mr. Batler
raised a mi itary regiment, which 1 believe
elected him its Colonel.
MiUTAav Decisions ?If a soldier is discharged
before he lias served two whole years, or to the
end of the war, if sooner ended, he forfeits his
$100 bounty. 1 lie back does or wages, and Ally
cents for every twenty miles traveled from the
place of discharge to the place of enrollment, he
is entitled-to on the pay certificates from his nearest
paymaster. If a soldier is killed, or dies of
di ease, before the end of two years or the close of
the war, be has, under tbe liberal construction of
the law, served to tbe end of the war so far as he
is or can be concerned. Congress intended, by
the provisi us < f the law, that no tie should have
tbe bounty until the end of tbe war. Tbe $100
bounty by law, will be immediately paid, so soon
as audited.
Under an order and rule of tbe War Department,
there can be procured for the wives of the soldiers
imprisoned hi the South, the monthly pay of tbe
soldier, to the date of the allowance, except the
last month's wages which tbe Government reserves.
If no wife, the minor children, by their guardian,
are entitled. It thesoldier is unmarried, his widowed
mother is untitled.
An important decision has been made by tbe
& c rotary of War and the Paymaster General, in
effect that the soldier is entitled to pay from tbe
day he en hats, and that he has not to wait until his
company is fu J, or the former muster of the regiment
Into the Government service.
?By the steamer Ocaaa which mired hi
New York on the 8d instant from Atpinwall, the
first contribution of soldiers from California was
received?a well-equipped and finely-uniformed
rompeijr of cavalry, numbering 100 men, organised
in San FrsBcifeog, - ? ?.?-?
? The New Engbmders are going to lay away
the Emancipation pen ai a curiosity. The Preeident
has presented the pea, which signed the
Prod*:navies to George Li vermore, of Cambridge,
Mam. .. v* . * -.
?Maj. Isaac N. Cook, an army Paymaster, baa
been arrested in Cincinnati, charged with a defalcation
amounting to half a million. It is said he
has gambled it away.
?lbe raid of the rebel Gen. Tan Dora upon
Holly Springs recalled in the destruction of property
to the amount of about six mUtioosof dollars.
A ItVPUTIUVUtntflHt
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&BOULAB SEMI-MONTHLY FREIGHT LDTE BETWEEN
NEW YOU AND POKT BOYAL, 8. C.- 71m and?rsigned
htu eetsbtished e regular line at packeta between
Sew York and Hilton Head, leaving each port twice smooth.
J. N\ FAGAM A JOHN PrrTS, Agents, Bay Point, 8. a
BIXBY k CO., M Greenwich, and *71 Washington Streets!
New York. For freight at ptaage apply on board.
Metallic burial canes, for anie by
English, Dxnxu k. Kigkaamon,
Port fioynl, S. c.
UfK beg to inform the people of this department of ft reff
cent fall addition to oar saeortment of Military Goods,
Watches, docks, Jewelry, Ac., Ac., which we offer at reasonable
prices. DOUGLAS, STEELE, A CO.
ATOT1CE.?GEO. W. ATWOOD. a PT> Aasipa in avail
11 tbemaelvea of thia method, to Inform their friends and
the public at Port Royal, that they are now the
schooner Jessie A. W<*Ktkvu** in New York, with a bur^i and
well-selected stock of Merchandize adapted to the want* of
the Military, Naval, and civil population of this district,
and aa a large pr jportion of them have bass, purchased at
Auction for caau, they respectfully invite attention to their
stock. / , j
Notice is hereby given that the u. & tax commiaaionera
for South Carolina are now prepared to
receive the taxsa on real property in St. Luke'a Pariah.
S. C., at their office in Beaufort, a. <X, at any ttma within
sixty days from thia date.
J D. SMITH, )
W. E. WORDING. y Conaniattanera.
WM. HENRY brisbane, )
inua u iMtwn, a. u, novecaaer ww, iwa.
TU8T RECEIVED st the store under the Foot Qffloe, a freak
U lot of fine letter end note papers, envelop* a, pens, ink
and other stationary ; Military books, Novels In greet variety,
knives, pipes, brushes, and a fine lot of mghh sad
French Gloves and other Furnishing Goods for the Jams
and Navy,
The latest daOy and pictorial papers fir sale on eaek arrival
from the North. Also, Tn Nrw South every Saturday
morning. _ -