The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1861-12-31
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Recently at Vicksburg Ex.Gov Pettus hse
q hand to hand set.to with ex.Cong ,essmar
Barksdale, the same brave who once lost hi.
wig on the Aoor Of the House.
The Mississippi Legislature have n plan uu
der consideration 10 advance 10 planters $S;
per bale on colt N. Propositions are also
pending to charter banks based on cotton. La
the same body, the bank bill just passed pro.
vides that the banks shall receive State Treas
ury notes in payment Of debts, and that the
notes Of the banks shall be receivable for al
public dues except the Confederate war tax.
An advertisement of P. w. Roystor, "Ord
nance officer G. s. A." appears in the Men,
phis Avalanche of the 10th, and contains
hints Of valuo as TO the policy OF converting or
dinary shot guns and rifles into military guns
1t has been u puzzle to many how Price
without governmental resources, has managed
to subsist a considerable army in a country al.
most desolated. His system is not known 10
the "regulations." He never complains Of a
wan. Of transportation, whether he is abou,
to move ten miles or hundred miles. He
pays for what he takes in Missouri State
scrip. His men 60 into the corn field, shuck
the corn, shell it, take it to mill and bring il
into camp, ground into meal. Or should they
have no -four, they take the wheat from the
stack, thresh it themselves, or with horses or
oxen, and as with the corn, ask the aid Of the
miller to reduce it to flour. Such al army
can 60 where they please in an agricultural
country.
At Knoxville. Parson Brownlow's newspa.
per Office is now used xs Confederate srmo-
~, and bis steam press turns the machinery
that repairs ard renovates the numerous guns
collected by Gov. Harrs's orders from all
parts Of Tennessee.
The Knoxville Register Of the 7th inst. +,
makes the following allusion to Parson Brown
low and other prisoners:
William G. Brownlow WAS arreste yes.
terday, upon charge Of treason, on war
raut ordered by the C. S. Commissioner, and
drawn up 10y the District Attorney. He was
committed to Jail. His trial will come up in
due course before the Confederate Court
perhaps next week.
Authentic adviccs have been received at
Louisville confirming the reported transfer OF
Floyd's Brigade from Southwestern Virginia
to Tennessee. 1t is announced in late Nash.
vile paper that the brigadcs Of Generals An
derson and Donelson, consisting of three Tep-
nessee regiments. until lately stationed In the
vicinity of Huntersvile and Warm Springs, in
the Virginia Alleghsnies, had been ordered &c
"another field of operations" This means,
unquestiouably, that they will reinforce the
Confederate forces under Gen. A. s. Johns.
ton. Andersons brigade is the one that was
so badly whipped by an Inferior number Of
Indiana troops, near Rich Mountain. Both
his and that Of Gen. Donelson have been great
Iy reduced, according to the Nashville pa
pers, by sickness and otherwise, and can hard.
ly embody more than four thousand effective
men.
The Memphis appeal Of the 10Th says
Property to the amount of two millions five
hundred thousand dollars has already been
con6scated BY the Receiver. This is only
about one half the amount of Northern prop
erty held in our midst. Some reports have
already been made of real estate, and many
others are yet to report.
The cost of taking the floating battery up
he Mississippi to Memphis is said to be $780,
300. Every time they stopped to coal it cost
he Confederacy $4,000.