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Pay Department of the South. The particular uttention of all officers and sol aiers of this command is called to the following extracts from Gen. Orders and Circular : Washington, D. C., July 16,18G3. The following arrangement of Pay Districts, as at present divided, is published for the information and guidance of all concerned: o o o Pay District of the South?Consisting of the Military Department of the South and including Key West and the Tortugas; in charge of Major Dwigm, Bannister, Additional Paymaster U. S. A., at Hilton Head, S. C. o o o o The officers in charge of the various Pay Districts, will superintend the payment required ol the Pay Department within their respective districts. Muster rolls of troops in the field and at I>osts where there are no Paymasters stationed, should be forwarded to the Chief "Paymaster ot the District, who will place them in the hands ot one of his subordinates for payment. All questions and inquiries relating to the pay of officers and men, should be addressed to the chief Paymaster of the District in which such officers or men are serving, who will take the neccsiwrrr n/tfinn An ah if i4 nnno.ire if\ lw* WVl111 1'tMI. UVVIVI4 vi? CHVU1C, VI) 11 ill a^|/WMO w vv ?-x|?...wv.; refer the case to the Paymaster General. T. P. axdkews, Paymaster General U. 5*. A. In connection with the above extracts we append a paragraph from the General Orders of 1801, No. 5(?. o o o o IV. All Volunteers in the service of the United States will be mustered for payment at the present month, (August) and at the end of every two months thereafter. One copy ol the pay-roll will be forwarded to the Adjutant General, two given to the Paymaster of the District, and the fourth one hied with the records of the Company or detachment mustered. L. Thomas, Adjutant General. A Conscript's Epistle to Jeff. Davis. The following quaint epistle has been fuinished for publication by a member of the Mounted Rifles, who picked it up in a deserted rebel camp on the Chowan river, abont thirty miles from Winton, while out on a late scouting expedition. The letter was addressed in this wise : 'Read, if you want to, you thijving scalp hunter, whoever you are, and forward, post paid, to the lord high chancellor cf the devil's exchequer (?) on earth, Jeff. Davis, Richmond, Va. Headquarters ''Scalp Hunters," ( Camp Chowax, N. C., July 11. f Excellency Davis: With feelings of undeveloped pleasure that an affectionate conscript intrusts this sheet of confis rated paper to the tender mercies of a Contedeiato States mail carrier, addressed, as it shall be, to yourself, O Jetf., Ked Jacket of theGulf, and Chief of the Six Nations -more or less. He writes on the stump of a shivered monarch of the forest,; with the " pine trees wailing round him," and " Eudymion's planet rising on the air." To you, () Czar of all Chivalry anu Kban of Cotton Tartary, lie appeals for the privilege of s*.eking, on his own hook, a land less free?a home among the hyenas of the North, Will you not halt your 4< brave columns," and stay your gorgeous career for a thin space ??and while an admiring world takes a brief gaze at you glorious and C od-forsaken cause, pen for the happy conscript a plough without end I Do so, and mail it, if you please, and mail it to that city the windy, wandering, Wigfall didn't winter in, called for short Philadelphia. The Etesian winds sweeping down the de.'ilcs of the Old Dominion, and over the swamps of Suffolk, come moaning through the pines of the old Mate, laden with the music, and sigh themselves away into sweet sounds of silence to the far-off South. Vour happy .conscript would go to the far-away North whence the wind comes, au<l leave you to leap the whirlwind, with no one but your father, the Devil, to rake and bind after you. And lie s going. It is with intense and multifariously proud satisfaction that he gazes lor the last time upon our holy flag, that symbol and sign of an a-lored trinity ? cotton, niggers and chivalry, lie still sees it in the little camp on the Chowan, tied to the peak of its palmetto pole, and floating out over our boundless Confederacy, the revived relic ol ages gone, banner of our king of few days and full of trouble. And that pole in its tapering uprightness testifying sonic of tiie grandest beauties of our nationality; iis peak pointing hopefully toward the tropical stars, and its biggest end?run into the ground, j JUclic and pole, good by. 'Tis best the co.pscript goes; his claim to chivalry has gone before him. Behind he leaves the legitimate chivalry of this unbounded nation centered in the illegitimate son of a Kentucky horse-thief. But a few more words, illustrious President, and he is done? done gone. Elevated by their sufferings and suffrages to the highest office in the gift of a great and exceeding free people, you have held your position without a change of base, or purpose of any sort, through ! nf n-nr onrl want, and woe: and TV J UlVUIUtJ Vt nui, MMM ft W?| ?- ? , though every conscript would unite with the thousands of loyal and true men in the South in a grand old grief at your downfall, so too will they sink under the calamity of an exquisite joy when you shall have reached that eminent meridian whence all progress is perpendicular. And now, bastard President of a political abortion, farewell. "Scalp hunters," relie, pole, and chivalrous confederates in crime, good-bye. Except it be in the army of the Union, you will not again see the conscript, Norman Harrold, of Ashe County, N. C. Punctuality.?Soldiers should be minutemen. Punctuality is one of the most valuable habits a soldier can possess. "I owe all my suaccss in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time,." was the remark of Lord Nelson. Washington attributed so much importance to punctuality that when his secretary laid the blame for lateness of his attendance upon his watch, he said : "Then you must get another watch or I another secretary.'* Blucher's promptitude gained for him the title of "Marshal Forward." Jer vis, afterward .Karl St. Vincent, was naked wiicn lie would be ready to join his ship, and replied, "Directly." And when Sir Colin Campliell, appointed to the command of the Indian army, was asked when he could set out, his answer was, "Tomorrow." So, it is well remarked by Napoleon, that "Every moment lost gives an opportunity for misfortune." Soldiers who are imbned with the invincible spiiit of a lofty valor will not willingly cause any one to wait for them. Sir Walter Scott has vividly pictured the obedient activity of valient men ; ?of men who are always good for more than dou- j ble their number?in describing the swift assem- j blitig of the warriors of Khoderick Dhu ; Instant from copes ami heath arose Bonnets and spears and bended bows; On right, on left, above, below, Sprung up at once the lurking foe; From shingles gray their lances start, The broken bush sends forth the dart, The rushes and the willosy wand Arc bristling into axe and brand, And every tuft of broom gives life To pl&ided warrior armed for strife. That vrhistie garrisoned the glen Al once with fy.ll five hundred men; As if the yawning hills to heaven A anbterrancan host had given." The "Wilmington Journal is very indignant at the " citizens " of the .South. It says the presence ot the Union troops on Morris Island is owing to the refusal of the Charlestonians to fnrnish Beauregard with hands to level the hills on the island, behind which our troops sheltered themselves on landing, and to build more batteries at the lower part of the island. They excused themselves say ing that the raising of crops was equally a patriot| ic duty. The Journal says that a similar difficulty also exists at Wilmington, Gen. Whiting not being able to secure men enough to construct proper defenses. and calls it ' traitorous dogmatism " which 1 urges those who have laboring men to spare to re fuse them. it aiso earnestly points to tne great j danger, not only to the locality but to the Confederacy, from this refusal. A Novel Project.?Gen. Pen. Trenfiss, the hero ot Helena, who was the chief officer iu command at the "West when the war broke out, and who spent the year after the battle at Corinth in a j rebel prison, broaches a novel plan, and one he would doubtless carry out if ho had a chance.? ; He says he would like no better amusement than 1 to be put in command often thousand cavalrv ; that with this force he could go from Texas to Richmond, aud that when he comes out he will! have thirty thousand mules with an able-bodied negro on every one. Inadditiou he would bring thousands of fighting Union men. He would de.stroy all the rebel communications and burn their factories, arsenals and foundries. Novel Effect of a Second Marriage.?One i of the substitute soldiers who was presented for - ? n?. it .it 4,... i examination at uapi. iiaiuim s uuuru j vvciwaj) was a man who gave his name as, we will say. 31 i-1 pliael Flynn. 3Vhcn he was stripped^. upon his ' arm was clearly tattooed the name of John Sulli- i van. ? But I thought you said yournai.no wast Michael Flynn! '' said the doctor. ' Yes, '* stan -: mered the Hibernian sub, " but I've bc;n inurried twi^e !'' If that wouldn't change a pjan's name ; it might lead him to attempt to do so. so Mielia.- i el passed.?Providence Journal. Condition of Lee's Army.?Marks, a recent dcserter from Lee's army, came down the valley by way of Staunton, Harrisonburg and Strasburg. He saw but few troops on the way. Imboden was at Strasburg. He had two brigades of cavalry and two batteries of artillery. I he fight at Snickersville was between detached portions of different regiments, Georgians and North Carolinians. They deserted, bringing with them their arms. They attacked Stuart's cavalry at Snicker's Ferry, routed them, and succeeded in getting off to the mountains. The impression in the rebel army and among the citizens of the Shenandoah valley is that the South must soon succumb and that the war is nearly over. Marks saw about one hundred soldiers?Georgians, North Carolinians, Alabamians and Texans?going on their way home, having openly deserted. The Blue llidge mountains are alive with stragglers and deserters, who have their arms with them. So numerous are they that in traveling along the mountain side they have actually made paths. The provost guards stationed along the route are afraid to interfere with them on account of their numbers, save when traveling alone. The conscription is being rigidly enforced. Marks left Lee's army between Orange Court House and the Kapidan. Ewcll's Corps was at Gordunsville, The rebel loss in the tight at Brandy station was veiy severe, They acknowledge a defeat. A negro drummer deserted frdtn Lee's army on Saturday, He reports that on Wednesday morning the whole of General army, with the exception of A- P. Hill's corps, inove.l from CulpepKr Court House, by the Fredericksburg road, e also confirms the stories of the demoralization of the North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama troops. Those from North Carolina in Hill's corps, have nnenlv revolted, and swear thev will tiirht w J / - " y w no longer. Tlie Mississippi troops are clamorous to be sent home. A Sad Coincidence.?One day a week since, a lady living in this county, a few miles from the city, brought a parcel to one of the express offices to forward to her husband in the army. It contained some articles that she had prepared with her own hands. Iler two little children were with her. The clerk looked at the name and address and turned away to hide his emotion. That veiy morning one of those ominous boxes which crowd our trains from the South had arrived with the nam e upon it which was upon the parcel. The remains of the hps bend and father were at that moment at the depot, The shock to the poor lady was terrible. How many thousand heart-breaking scenes are enacted every day, similar in some rc; spects to this.?Indianapolis [Ind.) Sentinel. r i vr 1 _ P ? .Jt?nn iuorgiir, uic uuieu ramer, vvjs i?.rm<Tjy a professional gambler, having his headquarters at Covington, Ky. AD V ERTl'sk M ENTy? IJIHE GEN. M'CLELLAN HEADQUARTERS.? No. 3, East Houston St., (one door East of Broadway) X. Y. (Above toe St. Nicholas Hotel.) Ifoi'l/jUarl' r* iu A'eic York, of ihc officer* of IliUnn Ifra-i. Ale, Wines, Brandies, Whisky and Segarg, of the eh/>icc?tt character. The current army intelligence, Ac. Near all the places of public amusements, and the piost popular place in the city ot military resort. COL. JAS. L. FU.VZER, (tote 47th Regt.) Aug. 22-tf Manager. JB. BONNY, A CO., rear No. Q, Sutler's Bow. Army and Navy Clothing, Furnishing Goods, Trimmings, ac. Clothing made to order and repaired iu the best manner. ^ [Aug. IS TUST RECEIVED AT THE NEW STORE. UNMN U Square, next to the Pogt Olfic-Q a large lot of .^tUonary, Books, sc., in part as follows : Fine letter paper of various qualifies, Fine note paper of various qualities. * Fine billet paper of various qualities, Envelopes, white, buff, cream, straw, oriental, pa riotic, ice., *c. Ink, black, re<l, carmine, Ac. Pens, steel and gold in great variety, Blank books, in grout variety; ; Wafers, sealing wax, lav seals, Ac-, Mucilage, court plaster, lemon acicl, Af., Penknives, pocket books, purser. Portfolios, hill books, etc. Pencils, crayons, ete., of various errors Pipes, briarwood, china, gutta pgrclw', Lava, boxwood matchsafes, tobhyco fypx.es, bags, Ac., No^ls, song-books, hand ly->.?k-s of various kinds an 1 most ofthe late publications of th?j ifyiy. Mt ps of Cha rlesum harbor and vicinity, and of Savin* uah r.v r ALSO, aline lot of Military Ijooks. of l?t? issues? I lie best selection ever brought "hen-. LATE PAPERS on arrivai'of inails. The New Sooik published by us every Saturday luorping. UNITED STATES ARMY AND NAVY NIGHT COMPA^oes. Patented May 6th, UJt>2. The advantages of these Compasses over all others in use an;, that they ran l>c re ul distinctly at night, without the* ai?.of an artificial light. For reconnoittriug the position of the enemy, uig'it movements, \c., where a 'light da t o not be used without running the greatest danger, fbpy arein valuable. Used by Major General* McC'tolhui, Hooker, Bum side, Hunter, Pope: Major Meyera, Chigi of Signal Department, and others. Every Officer and Soldier should have one. Pbick : ?C, ft. $3. $2 3tj, $2. aud.il 23. l'or sale by JPSKPH IT SF.ARS, / o f ?. *11 2 4 7,-7 "7 7