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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1863-02-17

A1O IC1i1uOuN iCCUlu tilS uSteIH vi
Alexander Gait, the young Virginia sculptor.
His full length figure of Jefferson, at the Uni
versity of Virginia, won for him very high hon
or, and will preserve his fame His latest work
was bas-reief in~splaster of Stonewall Jack
son, which is in the possessiono of the Hon. A.
R. Boteler Mr. Gait died of the small -pox.
The funeral of Major Wheat, of the Lousi-
ana battalion, who fell in the battle Of Gaines
Mills, took place at Memphis on the 3oth ult.
from Monumental church The cortege pro-
ceeded to Hollywood Cemetery, where the re-
mains were deposited. The funeral was large
ly attended by soldiers and citizens.
It is stated that the pre]iminaries Of second
international prize fight have been arranged
in England, between the representative cham
pioL of America, John g. Keenan, and anoth-
er antagonist, who at present reiolces In tue
now fashionable cognomen of the Unknown
for the sum of f$5, 900 aside
William Roupell, ex-member Of the British
Parliament, who was some time since convicted
Of enormous forgeries, is still an inmate of the
Model Prison at Pentonvlle, where he is en-
ployed in picking oakum. He continues to
show the utmost Indifference.
The New York Tribune Of yesterday states
that squadron of the Fifth Michigan Caval
ry were surprised at Annandale, Va, on Sat
urday night, by a superior force Of Coufede-
rates. In the skirmish, tie Federals it is sta
ted, we're forced to give way, with loss of if~
teen killed and missing, and a few wounded.
The Northern Central Railroad has become
the owner of the Shamokin Valley and Potts
vile Railroad, having taken lease for a peri
cd of nine hundred and ninety-nine years
The property of the late Nicholas Long
worth, Of Cincinnati, is estimated at fifteen
millions of dollars, mostly landed estate. Mr..
Longworth never held Office, and would never
consent to be candidate for any political
station,
The Republican committees have completed
their canvass in New Hampshire, says the
Providence n. T. Journal. They estimate
that the vote will stand for Gilmore, 55,036
for Eastman, 81, ,l72--Repubcan majority
1864. -...E
The New York World says: '!The recent
town elections in this State show immense con-
seryative gains over the vote of last fall. From
these indications we Judge that were an election
for governor to take place next week Demo
crat would be chosen by at least l0o 1000 maJo-
ritv. The vote in New Hampshire and Con-
necticut will, however, tell its own story
Karl Blind has addressed an appeal to the
Germans in America, exlortlng them to sup
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1863-02-17
PUBLISHED DAILY By
EDGAR SNOW DEN JR.
mg- OFFICE-No. 104 King street, over
;ona,s formerly French's) Book Store.
FROM ROSECRANS'S ARMY.

NASHVILLE, Feb, LEY esterday morning a
oartv ofthe Second Minnesota regiment, Stead
mans brigade, camped near Nollnsville, had a
xevere skirnish with two companies Of For
,est's command. The Federal troops killed
i've and wounded FIVE; the later were taken
prisoners. The remainder of the Confederates
escaped. :,
An immense quantity Of coal has arrived !;
five barges loaded for the Government. >,
The railroad to Franklin will be opened this
week. Only one bridge is said to be destroy
ed. InL ense supplies are constantly being
forwarded TO the army. The railroad is heav-
ily guarded along the entire distance to Mul-
ireesboro. There is daily skirmishing between
the pickets. ;.
The river is twelve feet On shoals, and is ris-
ing slowly The cars on tho Louisville and
Nashville railroad are running regularly on
time
Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-12-01
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Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-04-24
GENERAL ITEMS.

The New York Hrad Of the 4th says of the defeat at
Oharleston repuHseof iron cads from the gateway
oil ChaFeston though almost bloodess in its results may
oe cSsed among our most diScOarogiag military dssasts
The baltimore american is indignant over what it calls
the " 'ha"'efu! G6andonnseRt of the ssige."
There has been serious riot between the white and ne
gro aborers in New York City The whites undertook to
GriEe The negroes away from ship which they were
loading
GEORGIA STATE TRooPs-The Charleston papers highly
compliment the promptude and zeal of the Georgia State
troops who hurried to the defence of Charleston under
Brig Gen. w. H. T. Walker. No "couHct in this case
with the Confederate government
HIGH PRIcEs.-FieId hands, girls and boys, sold in At
lanta, Ga week ago, at from So 0O to $4,000. They
arc worth nearly much in this State and yet learn
that certain property have put down the high
est value Of aoy one slave al OOO The average will be
about $500 in this State Ths in ordinary times With
no redundancy of currency would be about s0n! This
is shameful There certain persons who are not will
ling either to pay OF fight.
DIsrLLERs.-Some parties from Union County were
brought before Judge Osborne last week on the charge of
dsng sprituous liquors in violation Of law We Iearu
they were bound over The Grand Jury of Meckenburg
County, last week. made some preseutments for the
same offence.
Coon BEvERAuE.-The seeds of the sorghum Chinese
susar caueD Parcneu quickly pounded IN q mortar
ground, and then thoroughly boiled for fifteen minutes
creamed aud sweetened with the boiled juice of
stalk, makes good aud palatabe drink We hope some
of our planters who cultivaing the sorghum will
try it and report.
CoRN-This indispensable cereal is selling freely near
Macon Ga at sO per bushe and there is un abundance
oft to be had.
ANOTHER READT.-The steamship ScutherRer supposed
for Confederate service has been gotten ready for
England.
LDERAL.-A merchant of Charlotte who is at home from
the army on furOugh has placed i've hundred dollars in
the hands of the editor u the Bulletin buy corn and ba
for the destitute families of soldiers in service
RICHMOND MARKET. APRIL 2ICorn meal SI2 to sl4 per
bushel flour So to S375O; bacon Sl4G to ST. so Con-
edeIue bonds hundred million issue, 1u4 TO llO f
teen million loan LA. Norh-Caroua bond old issues
ls5 Virginia North Carolina, South Carolina Georgia
Alabama, aud Tennessee bank notes, GO 65 premium
DIvIDEND.-The bank of Cape Fear has declared semi
annual dividend Of per cent. The Wilmington and We'll
don iiailroad 10 per cent
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-04-24
Punishment in the Army,

We are glad to see that the Congress has pro-
hibited the whipping of soldiers in the army. We
make the following extract from recent general
order by Adjutlnt General Cooper:
"The follow ing acts having been duly approved
by the President, are published for the information
of all concerned.
'ARact to prohibit the puniHament of soldiers
by whipping
The CongI ess Of the Confederate States Of America
do enact, tlat from and after the passage of this
act it shall not be lawful for any court martial
militsry court TO cause any soldier in the service of
the Confederate States to be punished by whipping
or the infichon ofStrpes upou his person and that
all laws and customs coptravening the provisions
of this act he, and the same are hereby repealed.
SEC. ,. TnsE Article 20 of the Articles of War
be so amonded to read as follows: All officers
and soldiers who have received pay, or have been
duly ens eG in the service Of the Confederate States
and shall be convicted of having desert ID the same,
shall suffer death confinement in Penentiary,
with or without hard labor, for period not less
than one year, more than FIVE, or such other
punishment not inconsistent with the provisions of
this act the court martial military court may
dOternins. AperoVsd April 7s, 1861"
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-04-24

QUARTERMAsTERs' AND COMMIssARIEs' CLERKS IN
THE RANKs.-COngress has passed the following
law turning out of Office all the clerks in the Quar-
termaster and Commissary departments, who are
capable of shouldering musket and authorizing
detail Of disabled soldiers to take their places:
The Congress, ETC., do enact, That the act enti-
tied An act to provide for increase of the Quar-
termaster and COmmissary Departments" approved
February 18th, 1862, be and the same is hereby
amended by striking out the proviso at the end of
the same, and inserting in lieu thereof the fol
lowing:
Pr0Uided That no Quartermaster, Assistant Quar-
termaster, CommisSary or Assistant Commisssry
be authorized to employ clerk any one liable 20
military service. And the commanding officer of
QuarteTnasters, Assistant Quartermasters, Com
missaries or Assistant CommisSaries may detail
from the ranks under his command, such person
persons may be necessary for service in the offices
Of said Quartermasters, Assistant Quartermasters,
Oommissaries and Assistant COmmissaries PrODi-
ded That only disabled soldiers shall be so detailed
while one can be found for such service.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-04-24
EXEMPTION of Mail Carriers.

The act of Congress on this subject, approved
on the l4th instant provides as follows:
" That the contractors for carrying, the mails of
the Confederate States shall be exempt from the
performance of military duty in the armies of the
Confederate States, from and after the passage Of
this act during the time they such contractors
Provided that no more than contractor shall be
exempt on any one route, and that no more than
one member Of any firm of contractors shall be
exempt and no contractor on any route of less than
ten miles in length, and which the mail is carried
on horse, shall be exempt under this act and if one
or more members of any such firm be exempt from
age or other cause from the performance of military
duty, the other member or members of such firm
shall not be exempt by this act account of being
mail contractors; and provided further that no
person to whom a contract for carrying the mails
may be transferred, with the consent of the Post
Office Department, after the passage of this act,
shall be exempt from military service on that &C.
count:
SEC 2. That the drivers of post coaches and
hacks for carrying the mails all routes where the
weight of the mails require that they should be
red IN coaches or hacks, shall be exempt from mill
tary service in the armies of the Confederate States
from and after the passage Of this act long as
they continue to be employed such drivers
Proyided: the contractor by whom any such driver
is employed shall take and subscribe an OATH to oe
furnished to the enrolling officer, that the weight
Of the mails his route requires the of coacAs
or hacks for their conveyance and that he has not
greater number of drivers employed in bis service
than indispensable to enable him to fulfil his
contracts for carrying the mails, and that he will
not, while contractor, employ greater number of
drivers than may be indispensably necessary for
that purpose; and that he will give notice to the
enrolling officer when any such driver ceases to be
in his employment"
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-04-24

A Weldon friend, who recently made trip to the
Rappahanno:k TO his son, has furnished US with
some notes of his trip which give below. Hav-
ing been detained in Richmond for the want of D
passport, he witnessed the womenE riot of which
so much has been said. He says:
"As you have the particulars of this riot in the
Richmond papers, shall not attempt to give them
to you-but such a scene never witnessed before
1t WAS a promiscuous assemblage, old and young
crying for bread [ saw poverty and distress de-
picted. on many countenance."
There can he do doubt that there was suffering
for bread in Richmond at the tpe and the o6serva-
tons of our correspondent confirm the fact. This
could not be otherwise, with meal at per bushei,
and bacon at 81 so per pound.
Our correspondent gives a brief sketch of the
custom of searching travellers the Fredericksburg
Railroad. lie says:
"For the first time in my,life 1 had r.Iy carpet
bag searched by the insnuating fingers of an insO-
lent travelling police officer, who said it was his
business to search all the baggage to see if they
contained liquor. think he searching more for
his own qualification than anything els. for friend
who sat lust behind me told the fellow that he had
some spirits and asked him to take drink, which
he readily did, and passed on to try his hand on
some one else"
Our correspondent speaks in severe terms of the
manner in which sick sold ers are treated on the
upper Rappahsnuock, about twenty miles above
Fredericksburg. He says Gen. Malone will not let
them be sent to Richmond, where they can have
good accommodations and every attention, while the
sick at and around fredericksburg are sent by
special trains to Richmond He concludes as follows
"Hearing that the I'd N. c. regiment was near
by, repaired thither, and found two of my young
friends, e. W. Fulghan and A. Powell, in tolera5iy
comfortable quarters, with whom staid that night
The men Of the regiment look ell and hearty, and
make fine appearance on dress parade Nothing
SuE the Raptahanpock now divides the belligerents.
1t vas a melancholy sight TO see people once so
firmly bound together in the bonds of national ira
tsrnrty, now in deadly conflict with each other"
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-04-24
From The Rapuhannock,

We make the following extract from letter from
intelligent printer soldier, belonging to the 18th
N Z. troops, dated Iverson's Brigade, near Guinea
Station April IA, 1868:
There is no news of importance in this section,
but anticipate stirring times before the lapse of
many days. 1t is reported that lighting jos
Hooker has sent off 10000 Of his army the drec.
ton of Culpepper, but think it is of his ID
induce General Lee to weaken army here, and
thus give the Yankees an opportunity Of crossing
over ltiS certain fact that at daylight on Sunday
morning not Yankee picket was TO be seen on the
river opposite that portion o. it guarded by this
DIVISION which is OminouS of some movement.
Come when they may, they will meet with warmer
reception than any previous occasion, for
troops remember the various victories have
gained during the past year, and are confident tina:
if we persist and defeat them yet little while
longer, that independence will be ours. Never be-
fore since the commencement Of the has our
army been in better coalition to meet the foe.
Wellarmed we'll clad, and wellfed, the men
getting tired of inactivity and as fine weather is
u.s. they are anxious to go in the field and do what
is to do. Thc-Yankee troops say they are heartily
tired of the war; and say that if they had chance
they would quit the field for home. Our men send
over tobacco on piece Of plank, which the Yankees
receive pay for sugar and coffee. The recent
Confederate victory at Charleston has proved almost
concluSively to that ere long peace will be made,
and all who are spared return TO their homes What
a happy time it will be to those whose friends return
safe and sound but then, OH the other hand, willt
not be mournful sight to those who have lost dear
friends, to their places vacant when the conpa-
nieS return home in triumph?
Two wears will have elapsed on the 18th instant
since this company was called into the field. The
first twelve months we were stationed at Norfolk.
At the evacuation Of hat place in May last our
regiment was sent to Rapidan Station, on the Orange
and Alexandria Railroad We then belonged to the
brigade of Brig Gen. Nahone, but were temporarily
attached to that OF Gen. l.. OBJ. Branch, and were
in the fight near Hanover Court House, under bis
command. We were then taker to Richmond and
placed in the brigade oil Gen. s. Carland, than whom
a better man never livel. He ied on to victory
at Coal IIarbor, Malvern Hill, and at BoOnsboro
Gap. where, in advance of his brigade, cheering
them OH, he received his death wouId. This brig
ade misses him as much a child misses his parent
He was one of NATURES own noblemen. After his
death we we're engaged at South Mountain, Sharps-
burg and Fredericksburg, aud are now ready to
meet tie Yankee horde again wherever they may
be, us we have confidence in our commander, Gen.
Alfred IversOn."
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-04-24
Foreign Intervention-


In recent debate in the British Parliament on
American affairs, Lord John Russell said
depend upon it my Lords, if the war in Ameri-
ca to cease il is far better II should cease itb tb
eonVictlon, both on the part of the North and tho
SOu'n, tlAt !ney can never live again happily as
one community and one republic and that the ter.
minauon OF hostties can never he bronpht about
oy 'ne aoVice the mediation or the interference of
anS EuloHean power lOheers.) l repeat have
spoken only duty of at the pres
ent time, and trust now there will be no fnrther
DEBATE on this subject loud cheers")
Ina recent speech delivered by Lord Pslmerston
before the workngmen of Glasgow, he said.
g 1t will be our anxious desire to pursue coprse
calculated to preserve the peace and welfare of the
country. and we have done so In regard to those
lamentabe events now passing among our kinsmen
on the North American continent in spite of invita-
tlons from each of the two parties to take more
active part in the contest than we thought it our
duty and for the national interest that we should
lCheers,l There are in the United Kingdom, as
there are in America, Federal and Confederate ad-
vocates; there are some who wish success to the
North; there are others who desire separation for
the SOUTH 1t is not fitting or becoming that the
British nation as nation, should take part in that
contest [Cheers.]
That war has indeed, inflicted deep suffering and
prVation upon large portions of the working classes
OF this country-less, perhaps, in point of extent
here in Glasgow than in Manchester and other
manufacturing districts but even here it must have
been grlevously felt and many might have felt that
we, by taking part in that contest and declaring
ourselves on one side or the other. might have put
an end to that privation and hardship; but that
would have been short sighted course and depend
on it, if we had taken that course we should have
failed in our object, and increased, instead of d.
mlnishing, the suffering we intended to alleviate"
fCheers1
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-04-24

AN APPOINTMENT NOT FIT TO HAVE BEEN MADE
We observe in the Richmond Enquirer, that the
Secretary Of War has appointed Mr.. Henry X. Bur-
gwyn on the part of the Confederate States as
commissioner to impress property in this State
We are at a loss to know on what ground this
appointment was made, except on that Of partizan
politics. Mr.. Burgwyn is not remarkably gifted in
any respect, and ne is certainly deficient in judgment
and common sense. lie has but little if any SYM
pathy with the great body of our people; and his
manners are not such even if he were to eondescend
to make tho effort to render him popular, or his
appointment an acceptable one. He has but little
respect for the mass Of the people, or for popular
rights The only recommendation which he could
have had FOR the place the fact that he was an
original seccssionist, aud has Joined in all the
founded and injurious imputations which have been
cast by the Destructives generally on the Conser-
vatives of this State. He was conspicuous in No
vember, 1860, when the Legislature was assem-
bling, in button-holng members and endeavoring
to induce them to make the plunge Of disunion.-
From that day to this he has talked, and, we be-
lieve. has sported for time nominal commission /;
but we have never heard of his getting within even
Whitworth range of the Yankees.
In entering objections to this appointment
We are satisfied we speak for vast majority of our
people. If the appointment had been submitted to
the people at th|kpolls Mr.. Burg&yn would not
have received five thousand votes, We learn that
other gentlemen applied for the place, or were re-
CONNIE nded oy their friends, who were we'll quail
fled for it, and whose appointment would have given
general satisfaction, aud one of them, we are in
formed, had the endorsement of the entire delega-
ton in Congress from thus State but the appoint
ing power paid no attention to these recommends
tions the claims of others, and appointed Mr. Bur-
gWVn,