Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1863-10-23
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BUREAU OF CoNscK1pTfoN,
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To answer numerous inquiries, and to correct err
rors not urcommon, the following notice is pub
shed I'd all concerned
l. Under the recent call of the President, Ell
tending the conseript age, all substitutidif5 have
ceased to be valid if the substitute be less than As
years old, and is not otherwise exempt by law.
q Membership (unless as an officer duly accept
ed by the War Department. OF local organiza-
tions for home defence or special service, confers
no claim to exemption from Confederate service
neither does service in the militia unless in case 81
officers actually II commission who have duly qua
| flied.
g. Hereafter any one furnishing substitute viii
become liable in his own person whenever the ser
vices of the substitute lost to the Government
from any cause other than the casualties of war.
! 4. Applications for exemption, on any sround
whatever, must first be addressed to the local en-.
! rolling officer who. if he has not power to aet or
is in doubt, will refer them to higher authority,
with repor. of the facts. All such addressed de
rect to higher authority will necessarily and inya.
riably be referred back for local examination and
report; and the applicants will thus have useiessly
lost time and prolonged suspense.
/ Appeals against adverse decisions by local offs
] GERS will be forwarded by them for hearing, when
any plausible ground ofappeal is set forth,
t S. Commandments of conscripts will give this no.
ce extensive circulation in the local press of their
: respective States
G. W. LAY, It, Col A. A.. e.,
/ July 81 2s53.-tf Acting Chief of Bureau.
DROSpEGTUS. -1he undersigned will issue, In
/ / tewweeks, at gichmohd, Va, weekly jouS
snail to be called
.'THE SOUTHERN PUNCH"
1t will be- nearly duplicate SIZE form and gen.
eral features Of tide world renowned london
:. Punch 30 long an acknowledge power in the
British Isles in the reformation of public abuses,
and the enlightenment of the pulic mind, flashing
as it did with the genius of Hood, of ;errold, and
a host Of wits, poets and philosophc thinkers.
The proplietofs Of .tThe Southern Punch bring
IN t3Sk ofS
journal, the advantages ofcapital abundant men
many years past, has been connected in leading
editorial capacity, with the largest daily papers Of
New Orleans and Mobile, while the gentlemen who
have charge OF the typographical and engraving
departments are unsurpassed in that skill necessa
nv to succe ss.
Every number will be illustrated with nulnerou
cats. appropriate to the times, humorous aud Sc
ritut. from the hands of one of the beet Eneravers
on The c6ntnentan artist whose name Is talniiia
to the reading public of the South.
In fine, the undersigned are determined to ma Ike
the "Southe.n Puncn" the spiciest and most rea-
liable, and the best Illustrated literary journal in
America II shall distance competitions
Terms: Subscription Tor single copies. $40 per
annain. News dealers at the rate Of Sl5 per hun
dred copies. Address.
OVERALL, CAMPBELL, HUGHES & co.
Publishers Richmond Va.
Editors giving the above one.or more inser-
items will De entitled to a copy gratis
JuHc 20.
II sH .ckEIFokp, WV ROSS.
Of Fauquier, Va OF Culpcper Va