Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1863-12-18
Forces TO Serve During the War.

discharge from their further consideration, several
oills and resolutions relating to exemptions, sub
stltutes etc, upon the ground that they we're all
provided for in the following bill, which the COM
mlttee had instructed him to report:
An Aet tourganize forces to serse during the aoar.
~, oEcTIoN L. Tho. Congress Of the Confederate
States OF america do enact, That from and after
tne passage OF this act all white men, residents of
the Confederate States, between the ages of sixteen
ana shall be in the military service of the
Confederate States for the war
SEC. g. That all between the ages of sixteen and
eighteen and between the ages of forty five and
hltynVe Shall belong to the reserve, and shall be
organized as hereinafter provided and that all those
between the ages of eighteen and Gorty.five shall
belong to the army in the field
; SEC g. That all those who shall hereinafter ar
rive at the age of sixteen years shall belong to- and
be enrolled in, the reserve, and those who NAV
hereafter arrive at the age of eighteen shall be
J transferred from the reserve to the army in the
field
SEC T. That the reserve corps shall be used for
iocai defence, for post and garrison duty, and shall
not be ordered beyond the limits of their own States
except in cases of great emergency in the opinion
OF the Commanding general and then not for aionger
perlod than thirty days and that all details for pro-
yost and hospital guards for commissarv and quar-
termasters agents, for service in enforcing the con-
scrpt act ana tor all other purposes except as here
irafter provided, shall be from this CORDS
Sec. 3. That all persons liable to duty in the
reserve corps shall enroll themselves within such
uue ana at such place or places in their respective
counues or parishes, as may be prescribed by the
President, and that upon their failure to do so the
person SO failing Shall be conscribcd to the army in
the field. "
Sec. 6. That the organization of the reserva
corps shall be the same that provided by existing
laws for the army in the field and shall consist Of
infantry of the line light infantry, rifemen and
mounted rltiemen, in such proportion as may be
prescribed by the President; and the several CON-
panies when formed, shall elect their own officers
and be organized under the direction of the Pres
ldent, into 6attalions, regiments, brigades and
DIVISIONS, as the case may be- and the officers there
to appointed as now provided by law
SEC T. That any existing organizations composed
OF non conscripts, may in the discretion of the
President be received into the service and form a
part OF the reserve corps
Sec. g. That the officers, non.commlssioned off,
GERS and privates belonging the said reserve CORDS
shall be entitled, whilst in actual service, but not
otherwlse, to the same pay and allowances now
provided by law for the army in the field, under
such regulations as may be prescribed by the Sec
retary of War.
SEC. 9. That no person shall be relieved from
the operation Of this act by reason of having been
heretofore discharged from the army where no
disability now exists; nor shall those who have
furnished substitutes be any longer exempted by
reason thereof ProOided, That those who have
pald into the Public Treasury the amount specified
by the act in relation to exemptions approved llth
October 1862 and who may be held to service under
this act shall be repaid tair proportion of the
amount so paid by them, under rules to be pre-
scribed by the Secretary of War;
Sec TO- That all laws granting exemptions from
military service be, and the same are hereby re-
pealsd and that hereafter none shall be EXEMPT ex-
cept the following:
l. All who shall be held to be unfit for military
service under rules to be prescribed by the Sec
fetary of War.
II. All officers of the Confederate States govern
ment now exempt by acts of Congress or of the
State Legislature.
III. Ministers of religion; superintendent of
aSylums for the deaf dumb and blind and of the
insane; one editor of each newspaper and the EN-.
ployees in newspaper establishments; physicians
and apothecaries as now provided by law, and upon
the terms and considerations and in the manner
provided by the act in relation to exemptions ap-
proved October f1th, 1862.
SEC. IL. That the President be, and he is hereby
authorizedto grant details under general rules and
regulations to be issued by the War Department
either from the reserve corps or from the army in
field of skilled artzans and workmen, to produce
munitions of war other material necessary in car
rying on the war and in all other where, in
his judgment, justice, equity and necessity require
that he should make such details; and he may make
such order of details whenever he may think proper
Sec II. That nothing herein contained shall be
construed to repeal any part Of the act entitled
act to provide further for the public defence" ap
proved 10th OF April, 1862, or Of tho act amendato
ry thereto, approved 9th September 1862, except
as herein expressly provided for.
The bill was read second time and one hundred
and fifty copies ordered to be printed.
If the foregoing bill should be passed, it seems
that the Home Guard of this State, and all our
State officers will be conscripted Are we right in
so concluding2 Surely some provision will be
made to exempt State off GERS and the local troops
of the respective States.
If all the white males of this State between the
ages of sixteen and fifty five, put in service as
contemplated by this BILL the result will be the de-
struction of our people physically and morally
Yet we must do this or be subjugated; but if we
do it, the women and children and old men must
starve. God help the country, for vain is the help
of man.
Dissolution took place by separate State action
and this revolution, we were told, was inaugurated
to protect State rights. Where are we now p
Conscrption laws, the tithing law, and the i'm.
Pressment laws have blotted out State lines, and
the States are now only provinces dependent on the
central power at Richmond We are true to State
rights and.to the Confederate Constitution but we
denounce the innovations and usurpatons which
threaten to change radically the character of the
| government.
FROM GEN. LEES AKMY.-It is not true, as here
tofore stated that the enemy's forces have retired
Beyond the Rapidan, or that they have torn up the
railroad. They still occupy Culpeper in force with
their pickets nearly to the Rapidan. Nothing new
from Gen. Lees army
YANKEE RAID ON TIE VA. AND TENN RAILROAD.
force Of the enemy, supposed to number three
| thousand cavalry and mounted infantry, under
Averill reached Salem, Roanoke county, on the Va.
and Tenn. R. R., on the 18th train with troops
| obod s;c If he