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CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 18G4.
TniRTEESTH . VOtTJIE NUMB ER C18.
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MEMBERS OP THE LEGISLATURE OF
NORTH CAROLINA.
.SENATE.
pl-qnotank and Perquimons W II Iiagley.
Camden and Currituck 1) McD Lindsey.
(rates and Chowan M L Eure.
llvdoaml Tyrrell Edward L Mann.
Northampton J I Uuom. ,
II.-rt ford James M Wynne.
JSertitr J'ilin lotl. '
Martin and Washington J R Stubbs.
Halifax Mason L Wiggins.
Kdvcoinbfl and Wilson J II Powell.
pitt l)r E J Rlount
JJcaufort E J Warren
Craven X A Whitford
Carturet and Jones Dr M F Arendcll
Gn- ue and Lenoir J P Speight
N Hanov.T Eli W Hall
Ddin W U Ward
Onslow Isaac N Saunders
Uladen. Urunswick and Columbus John W Ellis
Cuir.berlaiid and Harnett W B Wright
Sa'ii;ison William Kirby
AVayne lienj Aycock
Johnston T 1 Suoad
Wake W D Joiws
Xash A J Taylor
Franklin W Harris
Warren Dr T J Pitchford
Cranville 11 W Lassiter
Person C S Winstead
Orange John lierry
Alamance and Kandoluh Hon Giles Mebane
Jhatham E H Straughn
Moore and Montgomery Dr J M Crump
Richmond and Robeson Giles Leitch
Anson and Union Col W C Smith
Guilford RobtP Dick
Caswell William Long
Rockingham I) W Courts
Mecklenburg W M Grier
Cabarrus and Stanly Dr J E McEacherr
Rowan and Davh W li March
Davidson Henderson Adams
Stokes and Forsyth J E Matthews
Ashe, Surry, &,c V II A Speer (dead)
Iredell, Wilkes. 'c A M liogle
Ruike. McDowell, &c S P Patterson
Lincoln. Gaston, and Catawba M L McCorkle
Rutherford. Polk, Arc Dr W J T Miller
Rnneoinlie, Hendiyson, Acc M Pattou
Macon, Haywood. A:c S C Bryson
HOUSE J) F COMMONS.
Alamance R Y McAden, C F Faucett
Alexander J M Carsou
Anson A J Dargan, L L Polk
Ahe Mr McMillan
Beaufort lion R S Donnell, D M Carter
,,,-tu P T Henry, Jas Bond
Bladen J W Russ
Brunswick D L Russell, Jr
Burke J J Erwin
Buncombe J M Gudger
Cabarrus P B C Smith
Chatham J H lleaden. W J Headeu, W P Hadley
Caldwell J M Isb. U
ihiinden W A Duke
Carteret Stephen D Pool
Caswell Montford McGeher, S S Harrison
Catawba XV P Reinhardt
Cumberland and Harnett Hon J G Shepherd, AD
McLean, Dr John McCtftrnick
Cherokee G W Hays
Chowan L C Benbury
Oleaveland D Beam, J W Gidney
Columbus Forney George
Craven Wm Lane. T 11 Gaskins
(Currituck
Davie R F Johnston
1 uplir Zach Smitli, R B Houston
Davidson C F Lowe, Lewis Hanes
Edgecombe David Cobb, L D Fanner
Franklin W K Davis
Forsyth W II Wheeler. W B Stipe
Gallon W T Shipp
Gates Richard Bond
Guilford D F Caldwell, A Clapp, A S Ilolton
Granville P P Peace, E Grissona, J.S Amis
Halifax II Joyner, A II Davis
Haywood Samuel L Lovo
Henderson M M Patton
Hertford J B Yann
Hyde Mr Gibbs
Iredell T A Allison. L Q Sharpo
Jackson W A Enloo
Johnston W A Smith, W G Banks
Jones F G Simmons
Leno.r, Alien W Wooten
Lincoln, Ambrose Costlier
Macon, J M Lyla
Madison, W 11 Brown.
Martin, S W Oulterbridge
McDowell. W F CraigB
Mecklenburg. John L Brown, E C Grier
Montgomery, Allen Jordan
Moore. Etam J Harrington
Nash- G C Lewis
New Hanover. Saml J Person, J R Ilawes
Northampton. S T Stancill. W J Rogers
Orange. S F Phillips, W N Patterson
Onslow. A J Muni 11
Pasquotank, W E Mann
Perquimons, J II Riddick
Person, John W Cunningham
Pitt, B G Albritton. C Perkins
Randolph. Joi 1 Asheworth. E T Blair
Rowan, F E Shober. W II Crawford
Richmond. B F Little
Robeson, David Bethune, T J Morisejr
Rockingham, Mr Strong, A J Boyd
Rutherford, J L Carson. A 11 Bryan
Sampson, L A Powell, Patrick MurpLy
Stanly, R Harris
Stokes. W II Flynt
Surry. Mr Waugh
Tyrrell.
Union, C Austin
Wake. D G Fowle, G II Alford, C J Rogers
Wayne, M K Crawford. J M Caho
Warren, WTAllstoo, T J Judkina
Washington, L C Latham
Watauga, Wm Hoiton
Wilkes, A S Calloway, P T IJrton
Yadkin, A C Cowles
Yancy, D M Young.
PUBLIC ACTS
An Act tp authorize the manufacture of Spirituous
Liquors for the u.-e of the Army und Hospitals.
The Cn,rress of the Confederate States of America
do enacti That it shall be lawful for the Surgeou Gen
eral or the Commissary General to make all necessary
contracts for the manufacture and distillation of whis
ky, brandj;, and other alcoholic and spiiitous liquors
for the supply of Hie army and hospitals upon such
terms as niAj be conducive to ibe public interest ; and
that the said contracts and any heretofore made shall
operate as a license to the contractor to manufacture
the same for the purpose afcresaid.
Sec. 2. That the Surgeon General and the Commis
sary General sall be authorized to establish manufac
tories or dUU leries for the purpose of obtaining the
supplies a'oresiid, and to employ laborers in the same,
instead of restrting to contracts, if they shall deem it
more prudent :o do so.
Sec. 3. Tha' no contractor or party shall, under the
license grantee by this act, distiror make more alcohol,
whisky, brand.-, or other alcoholic or spirituous liquors
than he shall celiver to the Government or it.s agent
in fulfillment f his contract or contracts: nor shall it
be lawful for such contractor to sell, or in anyway
dispose of, otherwise than as said contract or contracts
may require, any alcohol, whisky, brandy, or other
alaobolic or spirituous liquors manufactured by biru
under the license aforesaid; nor shall thi3 act operate
as a license to any Contractor for any violation of the
prohibitions herein) contained, when such violation
shall be a crime ortmisdemeanor under the laws of the
State in which the same may occur.
Approved June 14 1864.
An Act providing for the establishment and payment
of claims for a certain description of property taken
or informally impressed for the use of the army.
The Congress of' the Confederate States of America
"do enact, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of
War to appoint and assign, in each congressional dis
trict and for each tefritory, an agent, not liable to mili
tary duty in the field who shall, at stated times, in
each county or parish, under the direction of the post
quartermaster neare to him, receive and take proof,
under oath, in relatiin to all claims in said district for
forage, provisions, cjttle, sheep, hogs, horses, mules,
teams and wagons hiretofore furnished to the army by
the owner, or htretolbre taken or informally impressed
for the use of the aray, and not yet paid for, by any
officer in the military service, or by his order or direc
tion, express or implied -from the use of the property,
whether said officer be a line or staff officer, and whe
ther he be a bonded officer or otherwise, and report
the facts and' trunsmiji the evidence in each case to the
proper accounting oScers of the Treasury, together
with his opinion sss t the justice and validity of the
claim; and the said accounting officers are hereby au
thorized to audit arl control and order payment of
such claims as appeal to them to be equitable and just:
Provided, That all strh claims originating West of the
Mississippi river shat be reported to the accounting:
officers of the Treasun- Department established for the
trans-Mississippi-I-tepirtment, who are hereby author
izee to audit, control and direct payment of the saire
in the same manner as the accounting officers of the
Treasury East of the Mississippi river. And the said
agent is hereby authorized, in taking testimony in re
gard to said claims, to administer oaths to witnesses,
and, if he think proper, to the claimants themselves.
The compensation allowed to said agent shall be ten
dollars per day while actually engaged in the perform
ance of the duties imposed on him by this act, and 30
cents per mile for every mile actually traveled by him,
to be paid under regulations to be prescribed by the
Secretary of War: Provided, That the Secretary of War
may assign to the duty herein mentioned any quarter
master or disabled officer of he army ; and, in that
event, said officer or quartermaster shall, in addition
to the compensation now allowed him by law, be en
titled to mileage at the rate of forty cents per mile:
Provided, further, That the Secretary of War may ap
point any non-coniraissioned officer or private to per
form the duties under this act who may be unfit for
active service in the field because of wounds received
or disease contracted in said service, and the pay and
allowance of such non-commissioned officer or piivate,
when so appointed and assigned, shall be the same as
are allowed to persons so appointed who may not be
liable to military service. .
Sec. 2. That tlm act shall cease and determine on the
first day of January, 1865, east of the Mississippi river,
and on the first day of May, 1865, west of the Missis
sippi river: and all claims of the description aforesaid,
not presented to the agent aforesaid prior to said dates
at the respective places mentioned, shall not be en
titled to the benefits of this act.
Approved June 14, 1864.
An Act to increase the compensation of the heads of
tlie several Executive Departments, and the Assistant
Secretary of War and the Treasury and of the As-s-ist:ttit
Attorney General and the Comptroller of the
Treasury and other officers therein named.
Thp Ponorrpss of the Confederate States of America
do enact. That the compensation of the beads of the
several Executive Departments of the Governmentshall,
for one year from the passage of this act, be increased
to nine thousand dollars ; and of the Assistant Secre
tarv of War and of the Treasurv and of the Assistant
Attorney General and the Comptroller of the Treasury
be increased, to six thousand "dollars ; aud that the
salaries of &11 clerks and employees in the various de
partments, located in the city of Richmond, be in
creased thirty-three and one-third per c ut., and at all
other points throughout the Confederate States twenty
five per cent., for one year from the passage of this net:
Provided. Ttiat the clerks detailed from the armv or
navy shall not be entitled to the benefits of this act.
Approved Juuei, ico.
An Act to amend the several acts in relation to a Vol
unteer Navy.
The Congress of the Confederate States of America
do enact, That the act entitled "An act to amend an
act entitled 'An act to establish a Volunteer Navy,'"
passed 11th February, 1864, be so amended as to allow'
persons to volunteer in the service of the volunteer
navy : Provided. 6ich persons are resident foreigners
or Marylanders; and the President is hereby authorized
to cause passports to be issued to such persons as shall
volunteer as aforesaid, and shall be accepted by the
President of the company by which such vessel was
fitted out, either within or beyond the Confederate
States.
Approved June 14, 1364.
An act to amend an act entitled "An act to create a
Provisional Nary of the Confederate States," ap- :
proved May 1st, 1863.
The Congress of the Confederate States of America
do enact, That in the first line of the fourth section of
the act entitled "An act io create a provisional navy
of the Confederate States," the word provisional "
shall be substituted for the word "regular," so that the j
said fourth section shall read as follows : All commis- I
sioned officers of the provisional navy shall be appoin- ;
ted by the President, by and with the advice and con
cpnt of tlii Kp-ntf.li irhenpiK. ;n k;a ; .1 ..rr. . u
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lie service requires their appointment, -and in such
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numbers as he may think necessary,- to the following
ranks and grades, viz : Admirals, vice admirals, rear
admirals, commodores, and to such other rauks and
grades as may exist in the regular navy.
Approved June 14, i864.
An Act to authorize the formation of new commands.
tn h enmnrwtcil nf SDnprdlimersrr officers, vhn mil.
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resign to join such commands, aad to limit and re
strict the appointment of officers ia certain cases.
The Congress of the Confederate states of America '
I do enact, That the President is hereby authorized to
j grant authority for the organization of companies, bat-
talions or regiments, to be composed of supernumerary
i officers of the provisional army.
I See. 2. That it shall be lawful for any supernume
rary officer to join said organizations, or any other
company in Confederate service, which does not ex
j ceed the maximum prescribed by law, upon tender to
. the proper authorities of his resignation for that pur-
pose. .
i bee. 3. that the offices left vacant by such resigna
! tions shall not be filled, and that hereafter the lowest
j grade of commissioned officer shall not be filled unlesa
there are upou the rolls of- the company for service at
least forty six non-commissiooed officers and privates ;
nor shall the position of senior second lieutenant be
filled, in case of a vacancy therein, unless there are
upon the rolls of the company for service at least thirty
non-commissiened officers An : privates; nor shall the
position of first lieutenant be filled, unless in case of a
vacancy there are at least tv.'enty non-cotr.niissioned
officers and privates on the rolls of the company for
service, which fact shall in each case be certified to by
the captain of the company and approved by the colo
nel of the regiment, before such promotion can be made.
. Approved June 14, 1864.
An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to organize
military courts to attend the army of the Confederate
States in the field and to define the powers of said
courts." .
The Congress of the Confederate States of America
do enact. That the above entitled act be so amended
that in all instances in which the particular division,
corps, district or other subordinate organization, to
which a military court is or may be hereafter appoint
ed or assigned, the commander of the army or depart
ment may by order, when in his discretion it shall be
proper and safe to do so, direct and empower the com
mander of the subordinate division, corps, district,
&c, to pass upon and refer for trial all charges and
specifications to come before said court,' review
and -confirm cr disapprove the records thereof, trans
mit the same direct to the War Department, remit or
suspend sentences (where lawful) and take all action !
and exercise all jurisdiction in that behalf which per
tains under existing laws to the commander of the ar
my or department. t ,
Sec. 2. That from and after the passage of this act,
when any person shall have been tried by any military
court or court martial, and acquitted of the charge or
charges preferred, the finding of the court shall be an
nounced immediately, and the person so tried and ac
quitted, if a soldier, shall be released from arrest and
returned to duty; and if other than a soldier, discharg
ed from custody without awaiting the examination or
report of the reviewing officer ofsuch court.
Approved June 14, 1864.
An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to amend, an
act entitled 'An act to organize military courts to at
tend the army of the Confederate States in the field,
and to define the powers of said courts,'" approved
February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty
four. ' The Congress of the Confederate States of America
do enact, That the proviso to said act, and also so
much thereof as requires that the judge of the military
court in north Alabama shall give ten days notice of
the times and places of holding said courts before the
same are held, be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
Approved June 14, 1864. . .
An act to amend the laws relating to the commutation
value of hospital rations.
The Congress of the Confederate States of America
do enact, That the commutation value of rations of the
sick and wounded officers and soldiers in hospitals or
other.places, used in camp or the field as hospitals, be
fixed at the Government cost of1 said rations, and one
hundred-per centum thereon: Provided, That said one
hundred per centum on the government cost of each
ration commuted shall constitute a hospital fund, and
be drawn and appropriated as the Secretary of War
shall tteera necessary, to purchase supplies for the use
of the sick and disabled of the army in hospitals.
Approved June 14, 18C4.
An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to prohibit
the importation of luxuries or of articles not neces
saries or of common use," approved Feb. 6, 1864.
The Congress of the Confederate States of America
do enact, That so much of the act entitled "An act to
prohibit the importation of luxuries or of articles not
necessaries or of common use," approved sixth Feb
ruary, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, as forbids the
importation . of prepared "vegetables, fruits, meats,
poultry and game, sealed or inclose! in cans or other
wise, and brooms and brushes of all kinds," is hereby
repealed.
Approved June 14, 1864.
An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to organize
military courts to attend the army of the Confederate
Stales in the field, and to define the powers of said
courts," approved October Sth, 1862.
The Congress of the Confederate States of America
do enact, That so much of the paid act as empowers
the said military courts to appoint their clerks and
marshals, and provides for the payment of the salaries
of the said officers, is hereby repealed ; and hereafter
it shall be the duty of ihe Secretary of War to detail
and assign persons to fill said offices from military offi
cers and non-commissioned officers and privates unable
to perform duty in the field, and the compensation of
such persons shall only be the pay to which they may
be respectively entitled by virtue of their military com
mission. Approved June 14, 1864. 4C-4w
An Important Event to Happen two
Years Hence. The date of the end of the world
is satisfactorily fixed for the year 18G6. There is
an ancient prediction, repeated by Nostrademas in
his "Centuries," which says that when St. George
shall crucify the Lord, when St. Mark shall raise ;
Him, and St. John shall assist at His ascension j
the end of the world shall come. In 1SC6, it will
happen that Good Friday shall fall on St. George's
day, Easter Sunday on St. Mark's day, and Holy
Thursday, or Ascension Diy will also be the Feasf
of St. John the Baptist. j
Outrages in Wilkes. We learn that the
house of Mr Russel, who lives sonic twenty-five
miles from this place on the Wilkcoboro' road, was
surrounded by a band of tories, one night last week,
about nine o'clock; the house was fired and then
robbed of guns and other property. Mr Russell
bad returned home that evening with several fur- j
loughed soldiers, bnt had not the means of defend
in; themselves akainst the lawless band. The '
flames were afterwards extinguished. The rascal
thereafter proceeded to the residence of a Mr Laws i
and burnt bis dwelling. Ircihll Egress. j
JCS?" Harrison Church, a notorious bushwackcr, !
who was recently severely wounded io a fiht with
the Home Guards of Wilkes county, was captured
with two of bis brothers about a week since, and
sent on to Camp Stokes Statetvitle Esprcti.
Two U. S. Steamers Burned. Lynchburg,
Nov. 17. The Virginian has official intelligence
that Lieut. Col. Witcher, on the 5th inst., cap
tured and burned two armed U. S. steamers the
Barnum and Fawn with a quantity of small arms,
in Buffalo Shoals on Big Sandy river. On the
same day he captured a large amount of military
stores at Willowsburg
VICE-PEESIDEHT STEPHENS ON RE
CONSTRUCTION. Vice-President Alexander II. Stephens is out
itt another letter. This time he writes to Senator
Seinnies, of Louisana, who, in a speech at Mobile,
made a very natural and popular mistake relative
to Mr Stephens's letter about the conveotiou of the
States. . lie says :
"From the report of your speech I am led to in
fer that you entertained the opinion that I was fa
voring and inviting a convention of the States in
some outside way, and not through the organized
channels of the two Governments. No such idea
was in my mind, and never can be, until lam pre
pared for another revolution, if secession be a rev
olution. - For the States could not go into such a"
convention as you seem, from the report of your
speech, to think I favored, without first seceding
from their present alliances. This, to my mind,
is as clear as it is to yours."
Mr Stephens himself once tried tho "organized
channel," via James river, and found it so much
obstructed by Lincoln's telegram at Fortress Mon
roe that he had to come back to Richmond. Mr
Stephens still seems U cling to the subject of
sending State delegates, and says:
"In the most objectionable view of the subject,
delegates one or more from each State would
be but commissioners or plenipotentiaries from
each Government, respectively, to initiate nego
tiations, etc. I heir acts would be subject to the
approval or disapproval of their Governments, re
spectively. . Why commissioners could not be ap
pointed in this way as well as any other, without
any violation ct the vJonstitution, l ao not see.
The treaty-making -power in both Governments is
ample for this purpose."
On the subject of reconstruction of the "old Un
ion," Mr Stephens is very explicit, and it is to be
hoped that the - Yankee papers, who have been
glorifying him as anxious to return to the authori
ty of the United States, may be induced, to receive
the followiug as extinguishing every . particle of
hope in that direction:
"The old Union and the old Constitution are
both dead dead forever except .in so far as the
Constitution has been preserved by us. There is
for the Union as it was no resurrection by any
power short of that which brought Lazarus from
the tomb.
"There may be, and doubtless are, many at the
Notth and sonic at tho South who look forward to
a restoration of the Union and the Constitution as
it was) but such ideas are as vain and illusory as
the dreamy i maginings of the Indian warrior, who,
in death, clings to his weapons in fond expectation
that he will have use for them beyond the grave
in other lands and new hunting grounds.".
RETALIATION BY COL. MOSBY.
The following letter, written to General Sheri
dan by Colonel Mosby, will show that the murder
of our men by the Yankee cavalry in the Valley
has not gone unavenged. It is brief and to the
point, and worthy of the writer:
November 11, 1864.
Major:General P. II. Sheridan, commanding Uni
ted States Forces in the Valley:
General: Some time in the month of September,
during my absence from my command, six of my
men, who had been captured by your forces, nrcre
hung and shot in the streets of Front Royal, by
the order, and in the immediate presence, of Brig.
General Ouster. Since then, another (captured
by a Colonel Powell on a plundering expedition in
to Rappahannock) shared a similar fate. A label,
affixed to the coat of one of t he murdered men, de
clared 'that this would be the fate of Mtby and
all his men.'
Since the murder of my men, not less than sev
en hundred prisoners, including many officers of
high rank, captured from your army by this com
mand, have been forwaidcd to Richmond; but the
execution of my purpose of retaliation was deferred,
in order, as far as possible, to confine its opcratioo
to the men of Custer and Powell. Accordingly,
on the 6th instant, seven of your men were, by my
order, executed on the Valley pike, your highway
of travel.
Hereafter any prisoners falling into my hands
will be treated to the kindness due to their condi
tion unless some new act "of barbarity shall compel
me, leluctantly, to adopt a line of policy repugnant
to humanity. Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
John S. Mosby, Lieut-Col.
Safety of the Tallahassee. An official
despatch, received from Wilmington, announces
the safe arrival of the C S. steamer Tallahassee in
that port. She was engaged by several United
States blockaders as she made port.
How IT Works. An old and worthy subscri
ber to this paper (noted for his good bacon) step
ped in a day or two since and proposed renewing
his subscription to" the Constitutionlist for six
months. Our book-keeper all smiles made oat
his receipt for S30.
"IIowjs this?" said our country friend. "You
have put up the price."
"Yes," answered the book-keeper, we have been
compelled to do so in self-defence."
"Well, sir, it is extortion. I won't take it."
"Well, then, if you don't like it that way, wc
will let you take the paper at $3- oar old price
for six months, if you will pay us in that fine bacon
of yours at ten cents per pound, the old price.
That is certainly fair." -
"How much bacon would it take?" asked our
country friend.
"Just thirty pounds, sir."
"Why that would be giving yoa $120 for your
paper for six men lbs, at the lowest price at which
such bacon as mine sells for now!"
"I know that," answered the book keeper. "We
can't help it; and for this very reason we have
been compelled to put up ths price of our paper.
"Well, well," said our friend, "that bacoo argu
ment is a clincher. Give me the receipt, here ia
the money. I mast act upon the prevailing opin
ion. I mast rave my baeon."
Oar boofc-fceeper says it aoy of our subscribers
wish to give bacoo at old prices for oar paper at
old prices, he is read jr. Avgutta Const it n( tonal i$t.
SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. J
The S. C. Conference of the (Methodist K. j
Church, South,' assembled in Newbury, S. C, on I
vyednesday the 16th Nov., and adjoirned on Mon
diy the 21st: The followiog ad the appoint
ments for the ensuing year:
Chxklestov; District Thomas Ririonr, P. E. '
Charleston E J Meynardie.
Charleston Colored Mission F A Mood W A llodges.
oi oarinoicme w circuit-j 11 v I rnnti
Walterboro circuit J J Snow
t Horse Shoe Mission A Nettles,
j St. Andrew's mission J E Tenor
Pon Hon mission P G Rnvmtn
Ashepoo and Combabee mission J V Coward
Bamberg circuit A J Stokes ,
Allendale circuit J W McRoy
Prince William's circuit One to be supplied
Black Swamp circuit M L Banks
Hardeeville circuit D W Seale
Savannah River mission W J E Frippe
Missionary to Army Alex B Stephecs
Chaplain to Hospitals in Charleston F A Mood
Prince William's, BlufTton, Beaofort, Edisto and Je-
hosse Jiissions Within the enemy's lines
Missionary to China Benjamin Jenkins.
Oraxgebubg District A M Cbreitzberg, P. E.
Orangeburg circuit George Bright
St Matthew's circuit A McCorquodale
Upper Orange circuit L M LUtle
Lexington circuit W Carson, J K Tucker
Graniteville mission J R Picket
Aiken To be supplied
Barnwell & Silrerton mission John R Cnburn, W W
Graham, supernumerary ,
Edisto Fork mission E A Price
Blackrill circuit W Uutto, R B Tarrant -
frovideuce circuit J S Connor
St George circuit C Wilson .
Summerville circuit J A Mood
Mount Holly mission George W Byrd
St James' Goose Creek mission To be supplied'
Cooper River circuit J L Sifley
Cooper River mission To be supplied
Chaplain to Hospital at Summerville J W Miller.
Mabiom District T R Walrh, P. E.
Marion R J Boyd- . . . ,
Marion circuit M A McKibben '
Brownsville circuit S Jones
Liberty Chapel and Lynch's Creek circuit J B Camp
bell, O Eaddy
Kingstree circuit aad mission J W Murray
Darlington WAGamewell
Darlington circuit L M Hamcr.
Lynchburg Joseph Parker
Black River circuit J C Stoll
Georgetown and Sampit mission Thomas Mitchell.
Black River and Pee Dee mission J A Wood
Waccamaw mission C Be Us
Conwayboro D J McMillan
Conwayboro circuit A Ervin, one to be supplied
Chaplain 4th military District W A Hemingway
Chaplain to Hospitals at Florence W S Black
A J Stafford, G H Wells, E T R Frippe, J II Tart, in
the army.
Columbia District C H Prflchard, P E
Columbia Washington street, W G Connor
" Marion street, F Aold
Colored people and Superintendent Central Bureau
Association Wm Martin
Congaree mission N Talley
Colnmbia Circuit J J Workman
Richland Fork mission C McLeod
Fairfield circuit J W Kelly, J T Kilgo
Chester circuit S Leard
Sandy River mission R R Dagnall
Rocky Mount AJ Cauthen
Camden J T Wightman .
Wateree mission J L Sbnford
Sumter D J Simmons
Sumter circuit J W North
Bishopville circuit P F Kistler, AW Walker, sup.
Santee circuit II A C Walker, J W Wightman
Upper Santee mission T W Mnnnerlyn
Manchester mission J L Stoudemirt
Manning circuit W W Mood
Columbia Female College II M Mood, President
Chaplain 2d S C Cavalry, M Brown.
Cokesboby Distbict S II Browne, P. E.
Cokesbury circuit W P Alouzon
Abbeville circuit 'f G Herbert, J Altaway
Ninety-Six circuit A L Smith
Saluda River mission W II Lawton
Mapleton Circuit T S Daniel
Edgefield W A Clarke ;
Butler Circuit P L Herman
Newberry J W Humbert
Newberry Circuit J H Zimmerman, one to be, supplied
Lower Saluda River Mission S Townsend
Laurens Circuit W A McSwain, J R Little
Pickens Circuit J II C McKinney
Peudlcton Circuit Thomas II Edwards, J M Carlisle
Anderson S B Jones
Anderson Circuit Christopher Tbomason
Chaplain 1st N. C. Regiment W C Power
Chaplain 14th Ga. Regiment Alex W Moore
Cokesbury School J U Sturtevant, Rector.
Waoesboro District Charles Taylor, P. E.
Wadesboro Thomas J Clyde
Wndesboro Circuit J W I'uett, ThoS A Boone, and II
G Parsons supernumerary
Ansonville Circuit L Wood
Albemarle J W Abernathy, J C Ilartsell
Concord Circuit L Scarboro, S A Roper, W 8 Halfom
supernumerary
Monroe Circuit W W Jones, E A Lemmond
Lancaster Circuit J W Crlder
Hanging Rock Circuit C E Land
Catawba River Mission G W M Crcightoa
Cheraw R R Pegues
Chesterfield Circuit and Coal-fields Railroad Mission--
W L Pegues, EJ Pennington
Bennettsville J A Porter, U C Davis
Society Hill Mission D A Oghurn
Chaplain 26th N. C. Regiment A N Wlls
Louis A Johnson, in the army.
Shelby District R P Franks, P. E.
Shelby John Watts
Lincolnton E G Gage
Lincolnton Circuit D May
Dallas Circuit C Randall
Yorkville J B Massebeau
York Circuit and Mission M A Connely
Catawba Circuit J M Cline, J S Nelson supernumerary
Rock Hill Circuit A R Bennick
Pineville Circuit J Finger
Charlotte James Stacy
Cklored People One to be supplied
Charlotte Circuit B O Jones, J D Carpenter
Lenoir Circuit A P Avant
Caldwell Mission G F Round
Yadkia Mission J 0 Crisp, one to be supplied
Mogaaton G W Ivey -Barke
Mission One to be anpdlied
South Mountain Mission I P Hughes
Davenport Female College A G Stacy, President, G ;
F Bound, Professor
Samnel Lander, Principal Lioeolnfon Female Seminary .
Chaplain Hospitals Charlotte F M Kennedy
Chaplain 42d N. C. Regiment S J Hill V j
43d N. C. Regiment E W Thompson. . ;
SrARTAKBCBO. District W II Fleming, P. E- j
Spartanburg W T Capert, and Alex W Walker super- ;
numerary
Spartanburg Circuit V A Sharpe
McDowell Circait-J E Watson
Hickory Nat Gap Mission One to be supplied
Rnlberford drealt J S Ervin .
Columbus Circuit H i MoTgau
Paeolet Circuit Samuel A Wbber .
Goshen Hill Circuit W Bowman
Union Circuit O A Darby, N K Meltoo, C Murchlsoo
supernumerary ' -
Greenville R B Alston ' '- - ;
Greenvills Circuit R C Oliver, A II Lester, and oe to
be supplied -,,. -, . ..
Pickensville D D Brars .. .
Keowee Mission F M Morgan
Wofford College A M Shipp, President ; W SmU.b,
Professor -
Agent for Orphan Fund W Smith .
II D Moore transferred to Florida Conference. -
The next Conference to bo held in Charlotte,
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COMMON CENSE., , , 5
- We find the following very sensible and appro
priate article in the Edgefield (S. C ) Advertiser:
A man was never known to prow rich by trading
with himself. This is just the condition of tho
people of this Confederacy. To whom Is the
Tanter and manufacturer selling his grain and his
ctyh?'IIe sella for "Confederate Notes," and
consequently to the makers of these notes. Bat
whdis tho drawer of these-Treasury Notes J Tho
comboa answer would be, the government. Now
we kVow that the drawer of a note is responsible
for itApaymcnt, that. he can be sued at law, and hi
goods bid to satisfy the note. "But we opine that
it wouTJ prove rather an unprofitable business to
sue the Confederate Government for one thousand
million Jollars. It might tarn out a null bom
case. While, then, the Secretary of the Treasury
is tho ostensible drawer of these notes, he b, in
fact, but the agent of Ihe company. The princi-'
pal, the responsible party for these notes, is tho
people of the Confederate States. If thee notrY
are ever paid they must be paid by the people of
the Confederacy.
It would be well, then, for the planter and rosn
ufacturer to understand now that he is selling hi
g'onds for treasury notes, he is selling for his own-'
paper.- He promises to pay the holder of the said
notes so many dollars in gold or silver coin six
months after a treaty of pcaco With tho United
States. Ilencff the exact amount of promissory
notes issued by the Treasurer, will bo the amount
of the debt which the people will have to psy at
the end of this war. Now the amount of that debt
will depend upon the cost of the war ; and this
cost will depend upon the price the Government
has to pay for provisions and clothes to supply tho
army. Hence it is self evident, that if the Hunter
and manufacturer requires the Government to pay
93 instead of (1 for food and clothing to supply
the army, they will have a debt of 5 instead of St
to pay at the end of the war. Instead of accumu
lating a national debt annually of one million, they
are in fact making a debt of five millions. Tfu)
question occurs who is to be benefitted by the
operation ? The answer is plain : the people gen
erally mat be injured.
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, The Beef Deserters. A most amtuing, and
at the same time satisfactory incident, occurred in
front of Wright's brigade, just to the left of tho
Weldou Railroad, on Saturday morning, 10th iobt ,
an hour or two before day. A report was brought
id that the enemy was advancing at that point,
and the men were called to arms t once. Tho
pickets were on the alert, and soon beard a noiso
in front, as of advancing forces A sharp volley
of musketry was discharged at tho supposed foe,
when , a sudden rush wa3 heard, and forward
through the lines charged in wild disorder forty
two fine beeves until that moment Yankee pro
perty. They had evidently strayed or deserted
from the Yankee herd, or perhaps came in search
of those recently captured by, (Jen.. Hampton on
the banks of the James They got lost on tho
way, and were wandering bctweeu. the two armies,
coming in tho direction of Petersburg, when they
were discovered by our pickets. , Tho sudden dis
charge of musketry in their front, and the probable
wounding of one or two, freightcned the creatures,
and caused them to dash forward. This is tho first
instance on record of a'pharze by cattle on lioca.
defended by armed men, and in the face of a rapid
musketry fire. Wo understand they came in good,
line of battle, and were not gathered up until they
had passed to the rear. They are remarkably Co a
beeves, and the incident caused great amusement
in camp. I'ctirsburg EsprcMS.
The Late Victory ij East Tennessee.
The news from the East Tenneesec front, says tho
Abingdon Virginian, is glorious. This, tho Vir
ginian presumes, will finish the present campaign,
ia that part of the State. The route of the enemy
tfas complete. Some accounts fix the number of
prisoners at 400, and others at 800. Vaughan'e
men, in this brilliant affair, fully sustained their
former reputation, as did also Gen. Duke's com
maod, and all engaged. Geo. Breckinridge is de
termined to hold upper Kust Tenoosscc, and will
do it. Knozvillo witl be a precarious place of
residence for Yankees and Tories for some time io
come. ,
It is reported that In a fight at Strawberry Fhios
300 negroes were killed. .
A Gcilty Conscience. Ono of the most me
morable passages ever uttered by Mr Webster was
in vindication of the authority of conscience and
of Providence, on a trial for a dark and mystcriooj
murder: The guilty soul cannot keep its own
secret. It is false to itself, or rather it f.:el an
irresistible impulse to be true to itself. It labor
under its guilty possession, and knows not what to
do with it.' The human heart was not made for
the residence of soeb an inhabitant. It finds itself
preyed upon by a torment which it does uot ac
knowledge to God or man. A vulture is devour
ing it, and it can ask no sympathy or assistance,
cither from heaven or earth. The secret which
the murderer possesses soon comes to po-M him;
and like the evil spirit of which we reod, It over
comes him. and leads him whUhcraotvcr'it will.
Lie feels it beating at his heart, rising in huthrour,
and demanding disclosure, lie thinks "tho wholo
world sees it io bis face, read it in his eyes, and
almost hears its workings in the very silence of Li;
thoughts. It has become hie master. It betray
his discretion, it breaks down bis courage, it con
quers his prudenee. When suspicions froui with
out begin to embarrass him, and the net of cir "
cumstancee to entangle him, the fatal secret Strug
pies with still greater violence to burst forth. It
must be confessed it will be confessed ; there is'
no refuge from confmioo bul suicide and suicide
is confessioc."
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