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April 22,1963.
~ COL. ALSTON'S LETTER.
To tbe exclusion of onr nsnai variety, we
- publish in full to day tbe above veiy interesting
letter. We have no donbt as to tbe
trnth of the Colonel's statements, and a pe
rtml of the letter will give an insight into
the foelings entertained for as by Yankee
Boodle. Bo not let the length of the artiole
deter yon from reading it.
SLAVE LABOB. ^
y By advertisement it will be seen that
Col Shannon, the State Agent, oalls upon
York to famish her quota of slave labor for
the defenoes in the vicinity of Charleston.
Let the requisition be met promptly, for the
events of the last few months have demonstrated,
that if T7e but do our duty, Charleston
is saved from the possession of the enemy,
and onr State from invasion If we
do not our duty, we have no right to complain
at misfortunes?those receive help
v;- who help themselves. /
S
5TH REGIMENT STATE TBOOPS.
Camp Bonham, 1 (
Greenville, S. C., Nov. 15/63. /
The Enquires reached this Camp
promptly, on Friday evening last, and its
contents, in* mercantile phase, "duly noted."
Saturday morning was foggy, with
a alight drissle, that made our tents comfortable,
and something to read, was quite
a luxury. Reading matter has been quite
scarce witn us, since we left Charleston,
and the consequence is that some has become
as querreious as old maids, and the main
subjeot their home correspondence. The
good deeds of the few generous and noblehearted,
are not forgotten, but the burthen
of the song is wrong and imposition.?
Though York is not far behind hand,
Charleston was the head and front of coldblooded
speculation; the residents there,
I will not call them citizens, seem to have
forgotten, that the man who "makes an independence"
by this war is a villian, for he
entails a. curse on his offspring which will
cling to them even to the fourth generation;
yet, still, there are those who follow
it up with a determination that reminds me
strongly of the scene in Byron's Siege of
Corinth," where Alp, the renegade
"Saw the lean dogs beneath the wall
Hold, o'er the dead, their carnival,
Gorging and growling o'er carcass and limb;
They were too busy to look at him."
1 quote from memory, bnt the applioa
tion will not lose its force, if those who are
dealing in breadstuffs and other neoessaries
of life, will reflect for a moment whether
the answer of Nathan to David will apply
to them?"Thou art the man." Bat, it is
pleasant to torn from this picture to the
other aide. From a soldier of a Chester
company, round our camp fire last night,
we learn that Maj. J. G. Lowry, of Chester
District (north) bad set aside 2,000 bushels
of corn to be sold to the poor and the
families of soldiers,-at $1 per bushel?that
Baxter Springs, of York (east) had . been
dispersing unostentatious charity with an
open hand, and yet no newspaper has heralded
it forth to the world, for these men did
not let the right hand know the actions of
the left. Bat, this is not "news from the
5th Regiment of State Troops," say your
readers?may they never have worse, say
we.
Our camp presents quite a martial appearance,
tho' wc are veterans, many of us,
in years, we are not in service, for our white
tents show that the smoke of battle have
never dimmed their lustre; they ftok as
though they had come fresh from tho hands
of the oo-workers of our friend Miles Johnson,
and it is thought by many, from the
fabric of whioh they are composed, they
could be cut up by our cara sposas to suit
admirably for domestic purposes at borne.
Oar location is a beautiful one, surrounded
by a thick copse of forest, which, by the
way, is rapidly disappearing, and though
the owner may rail at our "wonton" destruction,
we will be much mistaken if he
has a rail left, shonld we femain "lords
proprietors of the soil" until the 1st of February
next, when our term of (so far bloodless)
serrice will expire. The ladies of
Greenville do not often honor us with their
presence?they are very shy, and brobably
are engrossed in time by the laced refugees
who walk the streets of Greenville; but,
God bless them, we know they have done
their duty to the soldiers, and their feelings
are with ns, if their flotations are confined
to "'the weaker part of human natur." We
are on the road to "Bunkum," and daily
"intercept" wagons on their way to market
(Oreenville) from that detectable quarter.
They also have an "itching palm," from
the charges they make for apples and cabbage,
and in conversation, we have come to
the conclusion, that there is no wonder oi
a tory ascendaooy in the Old North State,
when the Southern Rights Patriots are enengaged
in "mercantile pursuits" down
Sooth.
When provisions are scarce (we have ]
beef) meal) floor and salt) in plenty) Company
B. sends out its "Robinson Crusoe,"
who seems to be an exoellent Soout; the
squirrels chirp merrily from limb to limb,
ohattering "shoot if yoo dare," while the
'possum masticates his 'simmons at leisure;
bat woe betide them if a neighbor's dog can
be whistled off.
I have written yoo all the news from
Camp, and trost nothing "contraband,"
for if the Yankees could learn of "Love's
Look Out," they would FrankAy give up
their demonstrations on the'Warm Springs;
if they could see our stately "Hospital,"
(?a it ia nailed from itssize and form,).
where the birds Carol forth their morning j
notes, they would surrender at onoe, and
our glorious Regiment be sent to Richmond, j
to turn them oyer to "Unole Jeff" in per- '
son. E. '
P. 13.?As it is raining like a ,
plaee where those who refuse to take Confederate
money ought to be, it would be as
well to remind your readers when the
^ creek is up'* with us, they may look for
yt wet time; I send this letter, however, '
doubtful which will get there first. The
inooming wet season is attributed in dry
quarters to the incoming Legislative term .
?if the members are as dry as Company 6, ,
when they do assemble, may a wet blanket <
be thrown over them. The Artillery are 1
practising to day, and it may be according
to Prof. Espy, their thunder has brought \
the water down. E. <
/ For the Yorkville Enquirer. j
/Skcessionville, S. C., No 7. 12, 1863.
Bear Enquirer:?In this our day of
tribulation, it is natural to look around us
for support and enoouragement. It has
been our great error to confide too much
in the hope that foreign nations would interpose
in our behalf That hope, I trust
and believe, has been* pretty well "played
out" by the intelligent and thinking df our
country. _
It now becomes our duty to lay aside all
the uncertain reliance upon Kings and Emperors
of the earth, and to bring into the
field of aotual conflict, all the muscle and
strength of our land, unimpaired by disease
or age?devoutly asking the blessings of
Heaven upon onr cause, go forth with the
resolution calmly taken, to die or be free
from the threatened dangers that surround
us. Our heroic mothers and sisters, with
our aged fathers, maimed and disabled- {
brothers, will keep the agricultural and do- 1
mestic machinery iu motion, whilst we strike jj
with terror and destruction, our ruthless
?
invader. .Let no man of Conscript age be ?
rftliftvflfi frnhi his dntv to his COUntrv and t
himself by the votes of oar people at home, <
while meo with hoary hairs can be found, f
fit and competent to preside in the connoils ^
of our State. Let the old Roman maxim s
of "young men for war, and old men for ?
council," be felt and aoted upon, by all the 1
true, patriotic citizens of onr District, who s
love the country and desire to see its inde- s
pendenoe established. 2
There is one man in onr District, whose c
name I have repeatedly heard mentioned by 1
the soldiers, with the highest admiration, 1
around their camp fires. We remember e
seeing him, at the head of a noble regiment t
from our State; the morning we orosaed the 1
"Rapidan river in Virginia, in pursuit of the *
braggarts Pope. His snowy beard, and sunburnt
visage, to'i of the hardships he had (
encountered. The smoke of battle had
scarcely disappeared from Cedar Mountain.
when we saw him, yet with the re-kindled
fires of youth, glowing in his countenance; 1
he was pushing ahead with Stonewall Jack- ]
son, to strike the finishing blow to Pope's
retreating vandals. ]
We parted at the Rapidan (as Longstreet's
corps brought up the rear). The next we '
heard of him, was on the bloody field of the 'j
2nd Manassas. After passing through a
large number of our most important battles, !
with honor to himself and to his country, he
has returned to his home for the rest his '
age demands. His sons are in the army.
We know he can appreciate the soldiers
denial and suffering, and in the opinion of i
many of them, expressed spontaneously, he
is the man to represent them in their Dis
^tricts highest uffice. **--/ i
SiSVJ^TJtiiSiYm KKUliUJiJWl.
Union with the Independent Presby- .
'"^ferians.
At the late meeting of the Synod of South
Carolina, the following paper was unanimously
adopted. The communication from
the Independent Presbyterian Church,
which had been referred to the committee
of the Synod, was tbe'aotion of the Conven- i
tion of that body, whioh has been published
in our columns!
"The committee appointed to consider
the paper from the Independent Presbyterian
Church, on the subject of a union with
onr Church, have given it a oarefal and deliberate
examination, and cannot but express
the satisfaction it gives them to find
each a willingness as that body expresses to
unite with us by the adoption of our Confession
of Faith. The committee feel that
a cordial and hearty adoption of our Confession
is the only true ground on whioh
we can receive any ecclesiastical body, and
' '1 1 to trkof fVtof KaiIu i
toey are assureu tuau umo a nua>vui?
is ready to do. 1
To heal schism and division is not only
f a delightful, bnt a holy and a heavenly i
work, and we feel that the smile of onr Master
is upon ns when we can thus build up '
His kingdom: and thus we meet our Independent
Presbyterian brethren with open
arms and hearty welcome. After a long <
separation, we, one great Presbyterian family,
thus come to walk in the old wiys of oar
fathers and rejoice in the glorious system
if doctrines and church order whioh our
iommon ancestors sustained with ,their tesdmony
even to the death therefore,
1. Resolved, That the Synod praise and
iless God with thankfal hearts for the prossect
of a union tfith our brethren of the Iniependent
Church, and express their oonidenoe
in them as tree and genuine Presbyterians.
2. Resolved, That the Bethel Presbytery
i>e directed to meet on Friday after the first
Sabbath of Deoember, at 11 o'clock, a. m.,
it Yorkville, and to reoeive those ministers
and churohes to their body as soon as. they
shall receive and adopt the Confession of
Faith of the Presbyterian Churoh in the
StafAO OO AAntftl'llinD fcHfl flVSt6[Q
L/UUlOUOmw k/wavuu MU y
)f doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures.
3. Resolved, That the stated clerk be directed
to forward a copy of this report to
the convention of the Independent Presbyterian
Churoh."
A true oopy from the minutes of the
Synod of South Carolina.
Abnee A. Pqeter,
Stated CleTk.
"Pereonne," correspondent of the
Charleston Courier, writing from the Army
>f Tennessee, under date of November 2nd,
jays:
It is a fact worthy of perpetuation that
ihe troops from South Carolina now in this
irmy, are among the finest drilled and best
liBAiniinad nnldiprfl ra^the field. Whether
4i9vi^umvv -? --- t
camp, on the march, or amid the smoke
)f battle, their honoroble demeanor or,
iteady bearing, prompt obedience and unbroken
lines, all testify the masterly art of
>fficcrs who have imparted to these once raw,
insystematic crowds of volunteers a decree
of solidity and strength that is the adniration
of every true disciplinarian. It
s this which has given to them that firm
ielf-relian<ft and conscienceness of power
vhioh has shown itself so often on the field
>f carnage?whioh has preserved an unbroten
front, a dauntless attitude before the
tnemy, and borne our men to viotory forenost
in the ploody surge.
If the reason is enquired, look at home
ind be proud of your Citadel Academy, the
ilma Mater of the leaven whioh hath leav>ned
the whole lump. Turn to its list of
graduates, aud you will find theft footsteps
raced in blood on every field. To the army
md you will discover them scattered among
he troops of every State?some on your
OlUJIIj UJttuy xu v ligiuiaj u^ivj ???
ithers far from home in the distant West.
\nd wherever the name of a Citadel graduite
occurs there you will also hod clustered
.he association, the memories, the high mord
tone, the influences of discipline which
tmanate from this noble institution of our
State.
if the military training of West Point
las been effeotiv'e in moulding the organi;ation
of the army at large, that of the
nodest Citidel, and its sister institutions in
Virginia and elsewhere, has had its direct
ind equally important influence upon the
irmy in detail, and the men who have been
ruder command of its graduates* Whethtr
Lieutenants, Captains, Colonels or Centrals?their
immediate subordinates have
nvariably caught the spirit of discipline
vhich the officers have sought to instil,
md the resnlt is the foot stated at the'be;ioning
of this letter?a degree of perfeoion
among our South Carolina brigades unurpassed
by any other troops in the army.
To show yon how extensively ramified
ire these valuable influences of the Citadel
Academy, I append the following list of
nhinli kin> VtaAn Trin/Uj? fnmiahfid
PiUUDiD} ITU1VU uoo VVOU A?UVI*J ?
ne by Lieut. R. H. Griffin, of the Bngilecrs,
and I need not observe that tbey
lonstitute a class of gentlemen sans peur
t sans reprochc, adapted by their training
0 adorn aoy position in the service to
vhich they may bo assigned. The Acadimy
may well be proud that, unlike West
Point, not one of her graduates has yet left
1 taint upon her fair escutcheon :
Graduates of the South Carolina Mititari/
Academy, in Hood's Division, Longstreet's
Corps, Bragg's Army.
M. Jenkins, Brigadier-General Com*
uanding Division.
?. M. Law, Brigadier-General CornHanding
Brigade. *
A. Coward, Colonel 5th South Carolina
Regiment, Jenkins' Brigade.
J. M. Steedman, Lieutenant Colonel 6th
South Carolina Regiment, Jenkins' Brigade.
John D. Wylie, Lieutenant-Colonel 5th
South Carolina Regiment, Jenkins' Brigade.
J. W Daniels, Captain Palmetto Sharp
3booters, Jenkins' Brigade.
D. R Jamison, 1st Lieutenant Artillery
md Ordnance Officer, Jenkins' Brigade.
F. L. Parker, Surgeon Hampton Legion,
Jenkins' Brigade.
R. C. Carlisle, Snrgeon, JenkinB' Brigide.
R. M. Simons, Captain and Assistant
Adjutant General, Jenkins' Brigade.
J. M. Adams, 1st Lieutenant 2d Soutb
Carolina Rifles, Jenkins' Brigade.
H. A. Gaillard, 1st Lieutenant and Adjutant
6th Soutb Carolina Regiment, Jenkins'
Brigade.
F. L. Garvin, Captain Palmetto Sharpshooters,
Jenkins' Brigade.
J. D. Lee, 1st Lieutenant Palmetto
Sharp-Shooters, killed near Richmond.
T. M. Wylie, 1st Lieutenant 6th South
Carolina Regiment, and Acting Aid-deCamp
to Col. Bratton, Commanding Jenkins'
Brigade.
***** *
One of the most affecting incidents oi
the battle ooourred in the Regiment of Col.
Coward?Private James W. Smith, ol
Yorkville, belonging to Company E, while
rising to discharge his gun, was shot in the
breast. He fell forward, but rolling over,
his eye oaught that of his Colonel, who was
standing near. Extending his haDd, the
Door fellow murmered, "Colonel, 1* am kill
ed, but I have tried to do my duty, and
when you write to my poor mother, tell her
that I died like a man." A moment more,
Btill grasping the hand of his commander,
and he had breathed his last.
I could not omit to add that daring the
action Col. Coward had his clothing shot
through five times, one of the balls stopping
on the hammer of his pistol.
tGp* Only thirteen revolutionary soldiers
are living in the United States.
: U A Visit to (Jen. Lee's Army.
A correspondent of the Raleigh (N. 0.,)
Progress, on a visit to General Lee's, army,
writes:
I rode over yesterday to Gen. Lee's headquarters,
whieh consisted of a cluster of
oloth tents, pitched in a grove of oaks, surrounding
an old meeting house. I fonnd
Gen. Lee sitting by a log fire at the mouth
L:- ??? a# hi. oiMa anintjincr a
VI LI IS LGUU) nitu uuc VI IUO I~?W) ?Jv Io sooial
conversation over a late Yankee newspaper.
Upon my approach, the old hero,
withogt any formality, rose and gare mo a
cordial welcome to bis headquarters. (I
had his acquaintance before this.) General
Lee is in blooming health and spoke hope*
fully of our cause and confidently of our final
triumph in this bloody straggle, foi
Southern independence. He remarked,
"it is with us, independence or nothing."
I have traveled over many tniles of this
(Cuipeper) and the adjoining counties,
once blooming as a garden, but now, as fax
as the eye can reach, is one wide waste and
desolation. The Yankees have destroyed
nearly everything. The palace and the negro
quarters are torn from their foundations
to furnish material for their winter quarters
; the fences are all burned; the luxuriant
fields no longer wave with cultivated
crops; not a cow, or a horse or a four-footed
beast of any kind, is left to disturb the
melancholy silence. Even the birds seem
to have taken their flight to climes further
South. Now and then an old dilapidated
house, from which some old man or woman
will issue as you pass to tell their doleful
story of Yankee barbarity and cruelty or
some amusing inoident which occurred in
Meade's rapid flight before our forces. The
town of Cuipeper is gloomy indeed in its
appearance now, so completely is it despoiled
of its original beauty and wealth. I
here formed the acquaintance of the Rev.
Mr. Stone, whose wife the Yankees fired
, upon standing in her own door with several
other ladies, one shot striking Mrs. Stone
and pissing through a limb, and several
other balls striking around the door facing
where the ladies stood. The people who
are left here, the ladies particularly, are
brave and patriotio to a fault, and harassed
the enemy no little while .encamped among
them. Meade had bis headquarters at the
residence of W D. Wallaoh, editor of that
miserable sheet, the Washington Star,
whose family remained here while he stajed
in Washington city, and no doubt obtained
valuable information for the enemy Meade
was often seen by. the inhabitants, and is
generally desoribed as being a little old man
with a peaked fade.
Confederate Prisoners.?The following
communication from the Confederate
Agent of Exchange, at Richmond, conveys
important information to the Confederate
paroled prisoners. It .releases from their
parole and restores to duty a large number
of gallant men whose servioes - are needed
by their country
Confederate States of America,
War Department.
Kiohmond, Va., Oct. 10, 1863.
Lieut. Col. N. G. Watts, Mobile, Ala.:
Sib : All the prisoners taken at Port
Hudson and those paroled by Gen. Banks
are free to go to duty. Neither our Govvernment
nor the Federal reoognizc the
parole. A general order to this effeot will
issue in a few days. All Confederate prisoners
who bavej)cen delivered at an/other
point than Yicksborg or City Point can immediately
return to their commands, where
such delivery was made 23d May last.
You need not recognize any parole given
since 23d May last, wnieh was not in pursuance
of a distant agreement made between
the oommandersof the two opposing armies.
Prisoners most be redflced into possession
and delivered either at Vioksburg or City
Point, unless there is some distinct agreement
to the contrary made by the "oommaadcrs
of two opposing armies."
The deliveries made at Mobile or Port
Hudson will not be recognized. All suok
can immediately return to* duty. The Federals
have forced us to assume-this position.
. There is no danger to onr people in returning
to daty, because the Federals recognize
the full force of the role and aoquiesoe
in it. They have done the same
thing with the oaptures made by as.
- Respectfully, yoar obedient servant,
ROBT. OULD, Agent Exchange.
Impressment of Supplies for the
Army.
We call the attention of car readers, and
partioalarly of all officers who are impressing
supplies, to General Orders No. 31, ol
Adjutant and Inspector General, whioh wt
publish below. By this order it will be
seen that officers have no right to imprest
supplies Which are on their way to market
for sale on arrival, unless, by order of s
commanding General, and officers are notified
that, "any one acting without or beyond
the authority given in these orders will be
held strictly responsible."
We invite also the especial attention ol
farmers and planters, who are represented
on all bands as abounding in everything
necessary to the subsistence of man. Thej
nil! see that protection against seizure ol
I * *
. i supplies on their way to market is full and
complete:
C. S. OP AMERICA.
War Department,
> Adjut't. & Insp'e Oen'ls Omtce,
Richmond, Va., Nov. 6, 1863.
i General Orders No. 144.
To relieve prevalent misconceptions in
regard to the policy and practice of this Department
on the subject of impressment,
the following being extracts of General Or?
der of March 29th, is reprinted :
Adjutant and Inspector Generals Ojjice,
' Richmond, Va., March 19, 1863.
i General Orders No. 31.
i In consequence of numerous applications
1 made by various persons in iho WarDeparti
j moot, it is obvious that some misconception
* I in regard to the instructions of the Secretary
of War in relation to the impressment
! j of supplies, must exist on the part of the
I neonle or that the agents of the Govern
i r?r-' ~
meat have violated their instructions. Now,
therefore, for the purpose of removing such
misconception, and to prevent any violation
i of those instructions, it is hereby ordered:
i I. That no officer of the Government
shall, under any circumstances whatever,
impress the supplies which a party has for
his own consumption or that of his family,
r employees or slaves.
II. That no officer shall at any tuna, an<
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less specially Ordered so to do by a General
commanding, in a caae of exigency, impress
supplies which are on their way to
market for sale on their arrival.
III. These were inoluded in the instructions
originally issued in relation to impressment
of the Seoretary of War; and the officers
exercising such authority are again
notified that "any one aoting without or be*
> yond" the authority given in those instructions,
will be held strictly responsible.
In oonformity with the foregoing, to pre'
vent any inoonsiderate action on the part of
offioers or agents oharged with the duty of
' impressment, they are' enjoined, until further
orders, (whioh will not be given unless
under imperative exigencies for tie supply
of the army,) not to impress any necessaries
of subsistence to man, owned by producers,*
ia transitu to market, unless retained an
1 unreasonable time from consumers.
By order.
[Signed,] g. COORER.
Adj't and Insp. Gen.
Columbia, S. C., Nov. 10,1863.
At a convention of representatives of the .
several banks in this State, in wbiob the
following banks were represented, viz:
Bank of the State of South Carolina, Bank
of Charleston, Planter's and Meohanio's
Bank of South Carolina, Bank of South
Carolina, State Bank of South Carolina,
Union Bank of South Carolina, South Western
Railroad Bank, People's Bank, Farmer's
and Exchange Bank, Commeroial
Bank of Columbia, Merobant's Bank of
South Carolina at Cheraw, Bank of Georgetown,
Bank of Chester and Planter's Bank
of Fairfield, the following was adopted :
Whereas experienoe has demonstrated
that the does to be oolleoted by the Government,
and for which Treasury notes are
made receivable, are inadequate to absorb
a sufficient amount of the notes, to prevent
the evils of an excessive paper currency;
and it is deemed essential to the interests
of the people and of the Government that
the right to pay all Government dues in
their issues should be waived by the people
to a certain extent, and measures be adop.
ted by the Government to redeem or fond
the entire amount of the said issues, or so
mnnh an ahull radnoA the nnm of fchft flilP
renoy to two hundred millions (?200,000,000)
or lew.- For the accomplishment of
this object, the following measures aro reoommended
to the country aud the Goternment
by this meeting :
1. That a new issue of coupon bonds be
made to the amount of one thousand millions
of dollars, the bonds bearing six per
oent. interest?the coupons payably annually
in coin. * ?
2. That an Act be passed levying a tax
of sixty millions of dollars, to be oolleoted
annually during the whole period of the
said loan, for the payment of the interest
on the above bonds. . That tho said tax
shall be paid in coin, and that the coupons
of the above bonds be received in the payment
of this tax in lien of oorn.
3. That before the said bonds shall be
offered for sale in any other nftnner, they
> shall first be apportioned among the States
i of the Confederacy, and tbat a commissioner
' be appointed for eaob State to make, known
i to the tax-payers in eaob Collection District
the necessity of providing themselves
with a sufficient amount of bonds to pay
' thisspeoifio tax, and who shall sell at par,
in each District, the amount of bonds rei
quired; aud that Treasury notes of all is
sues be received in payment for the bonds.
4. Tbat all existing distinctions between
Treasury notes ot aitterent issues ana aaies
be abolished.
5. tfhat the interest on the stock of the
f fifteen millions loan be paid by cbeoks. on
the Treaanry, and that the said checks be
received in payment of the export duty on
' cotton in the same manner as tho coupons ,
on the bonds of the same loan.
6. That a five per cent, call loan be es1
tablished similar to the first or original call
loan, and that aW Treasury notes be received
at the Treasury therefor ; and that the
present five per cent, and four per cent, oall
loans be abolished.
7. That the tight of the holders of Trea'
snry notes wbioh upon their face are fundable
in eight per cent, stock, ought to be recognised,
and an eight pe% cent stock, at
a short period, be provided for that purpose;
and also that all the privileges attached to
the original six per oent. call loan be reinstated.
8. That an inoreased doty be levied on
' all imports and exports daring the continuance
of the war, and that the same be col
1 leoted in coin or approved bills on England
1 or Franco.
^ ? ? TMMMA T\ Kft flVOO fn/1
k 17* lUttll iXU 100UC l/CpaillU4UUV UC Viwavwv*
t by the Government and kept seperate from
the Treasury Departroept, whose doty it
I shall be to sopply a new issue of Treasury
notes in exohange for the amount that may
remain in circulation of the present issues,
r and that the new issues shall express on
I the face of tho bills that the same are re?
eeivable in payment of all public dues ex|
cept such as are specifically required to be
: paid in coin.
10. That there should bean issue of bills
of a large denomination, say 81,000, 85,000
and 810,000, sufficient to facilitate the
transmission of funds and the settlement of
balances.
The following gentlemen were appointed
a committee to present the foregoing to the
t convention of bank representatives, to be
, held at Augusta, Ga., on the 16th instant:
Messrs. Geo. A. Trenholm, Charles M. Fur.
man, M. C. Mordecai, Geo. Cameron, Allan
Maofarlan.
Extract from the minutes.
^r* a m?Anr% /it.* :
J. A C/'itAWJJAJivi^, imairmau.
Allan Macfablan, Seoretary.
Latest Dodge of the Gamblers.?A
gentleman gives the following as the latest
shrewd dodge praoti^d by some of the
, fancy in Richmond- With great caution
find secrasy ho wasadmit'ted to an apparently
deserted honse, -and after climbing vari- j
ous flights of stairs, was nshered into a room
filled with persons betting against the 'tiger:' .
The dealer sat behind a table with a wire
mask over his face "that completely prevent- j
ed recognition l>y his most intimate friends.
Af hia hor.tr tmjqq a flight, of SteDS which
would enable him to make his escape by the
baok way should the police force ao entrance
in front. A fine sapper was spread; and
liquors were in abundauoe. 1
LATEST NEWS,
Prom* Charleston.
Charleston, November 16.?11 a.
m.?Last nighty the enemy's shelling
continued heavy." Between 5 and 6
this morning, four monitors moved up
to within six hundred yards of Fort
Sumter and opened fire. Our batteries
on Sullivan's Island and Moultrie are
now engaged, keeping up a steady fire;
Two of the monitors fctove moved back
some distance. They were struck several
times, and it is thought have been
injured. The firing was still heavy at
10 this morning.
9 P. M.?The monitors ceased firing
about 11 A. M. One monitor got aground
during the engagement and was
well peppered by both Sullivan's and
Jaipe's Island batteries. She got afloat
again, after which 4he whole four drew
off and returned to their old position.
The' demonstration of the monitors is
believed to have been caused by the
heavy shelling of Gregg and Cumming's
Point by our batteries on Sullivan's Island
on Sunday night. A flag of truce
from the enemy was sent up at three o'clock
this afternoon, and was refused.
A heavy fire from Gregg, Cumming's
Point and two monitors alternately has
been kept up on Sumter to day. No
report has been received from the fort
this evening. No casualties are reported
on Sullivan's Island. The number
of shells fired by the enemy to-day was
704. Two negroes belonging to the
54th Massachusetts regiment werexaptured
on North Edisto and were brought
in to-day. Tbey give a horribly account
of Yankee treatment and the vjretched
condition of the negroes on Morris' Island.
Since their arrival their regiment
has lost over four hundred by sickness
and death.
/ . ;
Prom Virginia.
Richmond, November 16.?A report
brought from Gordohsville that Meade
has crossed the Rapidan, was'bulletined
this morning and relieved the dullness
which has prevailed here for some time;
but on the arrival gf. the Central train
to-night, it was ascertained that only
a squadron of cavalry had crossed and
were driven back.
Gem Hood arrived Mere to day, in
good health and spirits. -* ...
A flag of truce boat, with released
surgeons, is expeoted to morrow. * The
trips of the boat will be now more frequent
hereafter, as permission has then
granted to bring stores for Yankee prisoners.
Subscriptions to purchase Supplies
for this purpose are becoming general
in the United States.
Affairs in Kentucky.
A DTWnnrtv 'WftvamHoT If? PanwYna
from Kentucky report the execution of
Lieutetiant Harry Connor, of Oldam
Johnson's Regiment, by the Yankees,
at Mount Sterling, ftn the 25th nit.
Ten Kentucky cavalry regiments have
been mustered out of service and a draft
made on each-county-for* a-?ompany by
Gov. "Bfamlctt. * ' v
* I & ??t, ' ?t?I?. - l?l
- Latest from Europe. Richmond,
Nqv. 1(5.?Northern papers
state that the steamer Asia, with
Liverpool dates of the 1st, lhas arrived
at Halifax. Henry Ward Bcecher was
among the passengers.
The rebel steamer Georgia has arrived
at Cherbourg to obtain provisions'
and coal.
Furious gales have raged around the
English coast. The rams still remain
in possession of the armed force.
In cdhsequence of rumors of an at.
% '/N r? 1 ,
?tempt to get toe uonreaerate rams out
of the Mersey, several war vessels had
been sent to guard against it.
A London paper confirms' the statement
that the French Government had
withdrawn its permission to prosecute
work on the rron-clads for the Confederacy.
Furnishing cannon and munitions
of war is also prohibited.
Goldman Bryson.?A letter received
in this place yesterday states that th|B notorious
assassin and bushwhaoker waakilled,
together with some of his comrades, by
the friendly Cherokee Indians, a few days
ago in the pmonntaiD8 near Morphy, N. C
Bryson received from the Lincoln government
the commission of Colonel, and was at
the head of a force, supposed to number
800 men from the States of North Carolina,
Georgia and Tennessee? Guardian, 10th.
JK^DariDg the heat of the battle of Chickamaoga,
an owl, alarmed at the unusual
tempest of sonnds, was frightened frem his
usual haunts. Two or three crows spied
him at once and made pursuit and a battle
ensued. The contest was observed by an
Irishman of tho 10th Tennessee, which was
at the time hotly engaged. Pat ceased firing,
dropped'the breaoh of hisgnn to the
* 1 ?- - L i
ground and cxciaimea id astoaisaujeuL ;
"Jusus, what a country ! The very birds
in the air are fighting!"
'? ? ? > .
iK^In Yreka, the county town of Siskayou
county, (one of the northern counties
of California, and on the Oregon line,) the
following sign hangs with glaring letters in
front of a baker's establishment, viz : S<
GilliDg's Yreka Bakery." At first sight
this presents nothing remarkable, bat Upon
examination it will be seen that the letters
if read backwards, are exactly the same
sign. Such a coincidence is extremely rare.
Mitt :
figy Someby wants to know the name cf
the tune which was "played upon jthe feel- j
ings," and also if the oup of sorrow" has a
saucer 1 The samo inquisitor would like to
know if "the light of other days" was gas
or elictricity ? Also, if the girl who "clung
to hope" had not a slippery hold, and if
people do not get fatigued by "the exercise
of forbearance ?"
#brfnarg.
?^- _
Died?After on Illness of seven weeksof Hydrocephaliu.
on the 3rd instant, MYRON BR ATT ON, only son of Rev.
Joint S. and Agnes B. Harris, aged about J yen*. One
more sou) delivered from a sinfol world, released from suffering
and toll; one more glorified spirit before the throne
of God; one more gem transferred from an earthly crown
of rejoicing to the Mediatorial crown of Jesus ; one more
link binding earth to Heaven; two more hearts to prove
that a Saviour's presence la letter even than a child's to
realise in bereavement the constancy of His love and the
faithfulness of His promise. "Bven so Father." "Bless the
L'>rd, 0 my Mult'1 w<
Of dlptberta. in thin District, on the morning of the 4th
instant, HATTIE SPRINGS, daughter of Win. 8. and
Margaret A. Moore, in the'tenth year of her. age. While
her disease was progressing she spoke of death, and Miiri to
one of the family : "If itle the will of God for me to die,
I tun willing-to go." "When Christian parents have, for
days and nights, bang with prayerful anxiety,.and yearn
lugs of soul, over the deathbed of a beloved ch^ld, and tlie ft
trying hour at last comes On, when the tender sujfercr is 1
called to struggle in the last conflict, there then remains J
nothing but the vigorous ptenrisc of faith-io flle gnvlor C
and in the word of His grace, which is able to school the S
soul into a calm and Itoiy submftaion to the will of God.? I
And when in Obedience to die mandate from on high, the 9
spirit has gone, and the late suffering body lice still in death. S
how vastly more soothing tlipn the condotcnec ofsympatht- 5
zing friends, to realize the force of the Savior's words, JM
"She is not dead but sleegpththat Uowijo said "Suffer SB
little children to come to me,'' hxi taken the lamb from the
fierce blasts of winter here, to the green fields and gentle 4HE
waters of tho Paradise of cod,
BIVOUAC OS THB ttAVf AHtXNOCtt, ) jjraA
About 10mile* North oCCnlpepcr C. H., [ 49
Near the K. R., October ath.ti, 1663. )
Mr, John C. MUtkrU t?Esteemed Friend : In writing VH
you this letter, I discharge the saddestand most melancholy 9
duty that I have been called on to perform siticc the begin. tB
ning of the war. Yes, the saddest of my life. Your son JKB
i.ujui/uu, ujt kuuuiiiiaii, warm inena ana icilow mi- fifw
dler, fell to rise no more oa tlie Hth instant, about 4 p.m.,. E?|
in the battle at Bristow Station, about.4 mil<a from 5lana*- M
as, while.nobfy battling for the dearest right of mall. The . *9
anny left Rapidan Station on the 8th instant. Drove the IB
enemy from there to Bristow Station, where a considerable iSj
force on both aides were engaged on the 14th,-commencing X
about 3 and ending about 7 p. m. Previous to this, Btuooi'w jjfl
Cavalry had engaged tlac enemy every day for several days. ?
Until we reached Bristotv about 3.p. m.. on the 14th, having K
marched all day at quick and double quick, we .were broken ?3
down. Oar Brigade Was carried on the field at a double B
quick, to support a battery. We were placed In'position en JEM
the crest of & bill, about 500 yards from the enemy's linn, Sfl
which extended along behind a Railroad emhc.ikmenl The IS
firing had become general along the itnc on both sides of u %
artillery very ljesvy. The enemy planted.* battery behind SB
the 'Railroad about 400 yards frcm'us, and commenced B
burling ihrapnell shell of us, with the greatest accuracy.?
Every shell seeming to explode bi, over-or very hear our ?2
ranks, killing or wounding one or more every fire. We H
were subjected to this fire about half an hour, during vghlcli ES
time Blllie was struck .In the head by a fragment of shell, S
or a musket ball that the shell contained, probably the Utter. Eg
Our brigade waa lying down at Hie time. Wc wens order- _ ' /?
?d to fall back about 200 yards. After this wa&,dqKe, 1- on- fig
quired for Bllllc, seeing that be was not prtsent. Bam B
Walker and Holt Maddux told mfrthat be was killed while h
lying between them. The shot was so'dendly that he did '
not move or speak afterward*. I was at the left oflho i
company and he was the Aral man on the right, is the way I ,
I did not see him at the time. Our brigade was soon ordered
forward again. We passed our fim line and advanced
into a dense cedar thicket, expecting tp find the enemy. -Jfl
Having gone about lw yards we halted- It wos tlicn about
dark. We lay In line or bottle all night without fire. Kext ^B|
morning I asked permission to go and bury BUUo. But the
General said he could not grant It, and that there wasn dotall
for that purpose. We were expecting to moyr. un tbc Wji
enemy or somewhere every minute. I had tjo spades or ?9$
anything to dig a grave with, at 1 would lave scam to tH
burial anyhow. I sent Mr. Campbell weft'<wlia; rnlghi !<< M
in his pockets. Qa fouudTtoothing. vkluaSc a poo stair, *g
steel pens, and some small articles.. I found soma hair - flg
which T supposed to be bis Jlftlc bopk 1 have prewired Be
thatf Intending to send it brills wife, to whom I will write *33
%* soon as I have an opportunity or sending a letter?will HE
telegraph also to-morrow, ^B
The enemy disappeared on Ihc nlgiit of the 14th. As ACB
soon as I could I went to when-Bllllc fell, but .did not get JEf
to wee him as he had been burled. Though worn out alma-1 31
with fatigue and loss or sleep, I managed to erect a bond wl
and fooi board at his last resting plsoe?could not get the Jjgft
proper tools to do that. On a piece of timber about three M
fi/?.aikl. 1- t ll.. i*--j tl ? n
uiuuco VTIUC, vt * mvA; 4 iijBL-nnru IIUP ?uu?c, uuaipany
Ami Regiment, and drove it down for a headboard. -The *aE
board has a square hole near lu top,- below this, his name TOS
&c., Is cut and blacked with ink. At'the Coot I stock a BB
bayonet deep in the ground. On It is a piece of leather on M
which I wrote bis name. Company, &e. He was mtrled
with two others pf his Regiment, on the right, facing the Ml
Railroad. I am very sorry that I could not have the privi- 9EH
lege of burying him myself. One of qnr Rpgiment who Ha
saw him buried, said thata blanket was under njm and hne jmC
over him. I carried Fayih, hfs boy, to the spot, that he ffl|
might be awe toftnd it, or direct you, should you live t<< HU
visit It. Two cedars are growing about 00 paces ofl". Be- * SfB
yond them between there aod the Railroad, which U .about ' !
400 yards distant, Is a cedar anu plnethlckK. 1 * xr B
. Mr. Mitchell, you hare great reason to beheyc that BltthC ~ SBjS
Is sweetly resting whoa the "wicked cease from trapMing Eut
and the weary are at rest" He had changed considerably. 9
His course of conduct was very exemplary in ootnp, Cbria aG3i
tlan like more thin otherwise; He.gpad bis testament JHH
closely and wgs an earnest seeker of religion. A? a revival
in our Regiment,in August, be went to ttte altar.regularly, HWM
I talked with him there and in camp on the subject Of re- WMi
llglon, and found him very determined on the subject, and
encouraged him alt I knew how. I onn't betp but feel thnt KMJ
his sins were pardoned. Yet he never told me his feeling* iH
on the subject t We actions teerngg to Indicate a changed Hn
heart. 2 miss him more than any of Co. 0. that has iallen mE
or may foil in this bloody struggle.' Be was among tlie ilret of
my acquaintances when I went to Mississippi. Since BBS
then we have been mutual frloadm School-boys together,
soldiers together. He was a gallant soldier, obedient ana ' I
faldifhl Iu the (IUcbarge of his duty. He had c.ideared RH
himself to oar Company in many.ways, by his gentlemanly ijafl
and friendly, deportment. The Company I know would JjHH
frjely endorse the contents of this letter, therefore, as the 'mfi
representative qf Co, 0,1 can truly say that we tee) as if Ml
one of our family bad been taken from us. And to you, his mBjj
devoted and loved wife, and the remainder of hli bereaved . I
relatives, we tender the assurance of' obr-slnwe sympathy. ?f3|
? -?our jnena, wnnu, ilUi
1st Licat^Comnnndlng-Co. Bt42a Ming. RcgUntpt.
TOST OF LETE^&^EBMAlNJLi
ING in the Poit Office at YotlB?Hc,S.C., November ?
15i 1863:-. 86
John Ardrey, 8. H. Anthony .Thomas Aldmnrier, Mr*. % hHHH
Helen Blgscrs, Mrs. Nathan Bighorn, Mi*s E. A- Blaak. jNBi
Lieut. O.H. Betta, 9) Jowcph Coleman, 2; Miss M. C. IJM6
Clarke, 2 ; R. F. Currcnce, John H. Caton, Mrs. Duklna jflfij
H. Dover, Mrs, Dolclna Dixon, Mrs. J. D. Edwards, Lleot. -tni
J. J. FOX, Junes Fitch ett, K. V. Gist, Mist Lotty H6W- B9
brooks. H.?. House r,T.l). Harris, MissMildred. Jfmw, . ffgi
Mrs. F. L. Johnston, Mrs. Wm. Johnston, J. T. Jones, BE
Mrs. Harriet Jones, J. D. Kelt, J. A. KJncnid, William HR1
Keenan, 9 ; Mnj. J, 8. Miller, J. It Moore, J. A. McCar- {US
ter, Miss Elizabeth Matthews, D. 8. Neeiy, Miss Mattio aBm
Poag, J. C. Pride, John Reeves, 3 ; M. L. "Banders, A. 1), sW
Springs, Mrs. Camella Trucsdel,Mrs. Mary A. Thomaseou, jjWBB
Mrs. Mary Vlnccut^Mlss Maria Weston. James S. Write, (wjej
MM JUchei Wood, 91 Miss Cathnrinc Warren, R. tVood, KM
Mrs. Catharine Wallace, Mrs. Sarah Wiles, Elizabeth
Wood?56. JORM U- ALEXANDER, P, M. ^ E9
November 18 . . 48 . .It jffilBl
E1CHM6E NOTICE, tfO. 7. B
Richmond, Nx., Oct. 18,1883. ijH
rPHE following Confederate Officers Bj
JL and men are hereby declared duly exchanged: t.
All officers and men captured and paroled stan'/URio {gUl
previous to the first of September, 1863, This section, faflfie
however, is not Intended Include any officers or men
captured at Vlcksburg, July .4, 1863, except such as Were . ^KjO
declared exchanged by Exchange Notice No. 6, September Hh
19,1863, or are speoifically named in this notice. Bnt it tgflKH
does embrace all deliveries made at City l'oint or otlicr myg
places before September tj-18?, add. with the limitation
above named, all .captures at Tort Hudson or apjttother WM
place, where ttfe parties were released on pbrole. 'C
If. The titaffs of General* PembcrtOBjSieverisoii, Ho won, IhUI
Moo re, Carton, 8. D.Lee, Cuinmlngs, Harris and Baldwin, MS,
and of Colonels Reynolds, Cockerel! and Dockery, lift off! jjHfl
een and men belonging to the Engineer Corps and Sappers ImW
and Miners, and the 4th and 46thMbflMippi Regiments, nil !K?
captured at Vlctaburc, July 4, 1863. IB3B
til. The General Officers captured at Vlcksbora, July 4, IWM
1863, were declared exchanged Jtriy 13, 1863. -6 '-*? * aBH
.VoveoiMj8,. BOBERT ?Uli> AgeDt^|fef- fl
S LATE LABOR FOR THE COAST, |H
DIVISION NO: 1. ' B
i THE Commissioners of the Roads '
X? andtlie Town authorities of the judicial Districts of HKS
Pickens, Grecnv^, 8nartauburg. Anderson, Union, Yo.-lc, Kb
Chester, Laurcr.1', Abbeville and Wewberrv ore j^jagaiirt,! MH
forthwith to surapiofj all persona in possession of slaves II- fl|S
able to Road duty *illUn Oio Umits of the^r aufcority, M
deliver one fourth of their naves liable to *t?eh duly at the
ltall Rood Depots nearest the owners' residence, on Wed- SHBH
nesday, the 16th December, proximo; In time for the down HH
morning trains, for thirty days'labor on the fortification . \ HH
II. The Commissioners of Roads'and the Towu anthnri- IHR
ties aforesaid will also impress and deliver, at the Dcjki^ Ufl
at the same time, oue fourth of all the male free negroes be- n^KSJ
tween the ages of thirteen and fifty, within the limits of
their authority, to be fbrwarded for the same term of labor j^SB
rrr. The agpvgate of the calls made on this Division, in- aBw]
eluding the present coll, is four month's labor of one fourth HflScH
the Rood hands. In pursuance, then, ofthe terras of tile MBH
Acts of the Legislature, the Commisloncrs of the Rends (BEtfl
and tbe Town authorities will only require of the several CHlH
slaveholders such an amount of labor as will, when added M
to that already ftirnished, make up such owners' quota, B)W
the one fourth oftheir Road-hands for four months. DjflB
IV. The Inconsistency of calliiijt for hands for thirty days Hmdo
whieh'are detained tixty days, Is n matter beyond my con- jfn
trol. The Act requires me to call for a term of service of mBjfik
thirty days, while the negroes can only be discharged by SRRfi
ordeirs ofthe General Conunr^dhig. jjwm
V. Person* to wnom it win r? in .uii convenient to cog- m?iii
tribute in bos in advance undw thb call ore earnestly re- aBlK
quested to do so; tbe law assures them, of all credit for it MM
on future calls, wrjilch will eosw probably at a less oppor- M3H
tune season.
VI. Owners arc ad viced to furnish their slaves with g9gfl|
rations to last to Charleston. mH
VII. Tbo Agents sent out to receive the negroes, are pro- HKlBi
hiblted from famishing substitutes. BMSK
WM. M. SHANNON, SnBf
Agent State South Carolina. 'V|
Camden, 8. C., November 13, 1883. 1UH
Nov 18 46 4w H
Grapes, Grapes. jff|
O.ATHEE all you can and bring HQ
VjT them to me, and I will DISTILL them for one third
of the spirfa. Ihsvo been told by a distiller?who has .Sfljfcjp
made a run?that they will make a* much as peaches or
apples to the barret. 1 will give one dollar per bushel for ^b9^E
. Persimmons?for Ave -hundred btuhcls, to be delivered at 90B
my distillery. Persons wishing to have any of either dls- fflfQ
tilled will please bring them between this and the eighth of WtCW
January next. JONATHAN Is. SUTTON. SKI
November 4 i- 44 v 3t BWpW
OR. ALFRED CRAVEN
l^siknt Snrgtim .|)ratisf, ???
YORK YTL/LB, S. O. . SjS
CtT- On the Bast side of Main treet, South of the "Pa!- fiaflI
nietto Hotel, BKM
J*****/*, r if WE
B* SAMUEL G, BROW.W H
fVN Monday the 7th day of December till
next, I will 08)1 at the Court House, In Yorkvlllc, :i mMB
A PRIME NEGRO GIRL
22 yeawoM, apdher twachildren, aged two anil four year*. wHD
November 4 , 44 ta . > SfaU
"WAR ^AX! WAR TAX!?PER- I
tT-,'S(5N8 knowing themselves Indebted to me official- ?
Iy by BOND, are requested to call at my Office and pay the Rfl
CONFEDERATE TAX due on the some. . Bn
WALTER B. METT8, c. E. v. w. ^Sl
November 11 45 r' 9t* |?sH
VfOTE LOST OR MISLAID.? flf
' X 1 All persona are forewarned against trading for ;i ?2B|
NOTE or DUB BILL for' A441 and some cents, by jgffijj
I J. P. MOORE and payable to A. U. PARR?dated about flfflg
> the laat of September, 1?& A. H. FAlli:. ^ Sfl
| November H. ,, 43 2t" ^HSH
A ftfinWPT.V CAA-n TUTTPli
fcl ? ! M U?e ^ENftOfllSR OFFICE.' .Sgjgd
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