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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:
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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.
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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.
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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(?.
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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
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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.
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? .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
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