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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-11-22
HEADQUARTERS VIRGINIA MILITARY ISsTITuTx, I
LRxIxeTos, VIRsIsIA, November s. 1884.

HEADQUARTERS VIRGINIA MILITARY IxsTITuTK, I
LExIxeToS, vIRsIsIA, November s. lsGi. !
CPECIAL ORDERS No. 20.
~ I. The regular Academic Exercises Of the In
stitution will be resumed at the Alms-House, Rich
mond, on the lsT OF DECEMBER. All Professors,
Assistant Professors Officers and Cadets except such
may receive other orders, will promptly report
for duty at the time and place designated.
ii. As unavoidable causes have delayed the re-
quarterly circular viii be reduced to $780, and may
be placed TO the credit Of the Treasurer Of the Viz
ginia Military Institute in the Farmers Bank Of
supplies are deposited by Cadet the money depo-
SIT will be diminished by the value Of these supplies
estimated by schedule rates. Should the deposits
now called for be insufficient TO meet current ex-
penses, due notice win be given.
BY command Of
Major-General r. H. SMITH.
]. II. MoRRIsos, Acting Adjutant Virginia Military
Institute no l2-2awtDeI
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.

The House was opened with prayer by
Rev. Dr. Hoge.
Messrs. Norton, of Missouri, and Her
bert and Darden, of Texa. appeared and
took the oath to support the Constitu
ton of the Confederate States as mem.
bers of the House.
Mr.. Russell, of Virginia, offered the
following resolution:
i" Resol0ed, That the House deem il
proper, in veiw of recent events, to re-
peat the declaration made by the last
Congress, in a joint resolution, declaring
the sense of Congress in regard to re-
uniting with the United States: that it
is the unalterable determination, on the
part of the people of the Confederate
elites of protracted war-that they will
never, on any terms, politically affiliate
with people who have been guilty of an
invasion of their soil and the butchery of
their citizens"
The resolutions were adopted. Yeas,
83; nays, 0.
Mr. Villere, of Louisiana, introduced
a resolution in relation to forming a corps
Getite from supernumerary officers. Re-
ferred.
Mr.. Foote, of Tennessee, in a personal
explanation, made violent attack on the
Examiner newspaper, which had, he
said, unwarrantaLly assailed him in its
editorial columns. .Yr." Ht.s
On motion, the House went into secret
session.
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T b. COOK, AUcTIoNEER, No. 20 Main
~. street, respectfully notifies his friends that
lac viii continue the AUCTION BUSINESS at the
Same stand No 20 Main street. lie promises that
while absent jim the feld) the interest of those fa-
yoring him with business shall be as promptly at
tended 20 az if he were present. He Will give his
personal attention 10 sales far is compatible with
his present duties
no l6--lm T.. Is. Cooh-
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-11-22

lust RECEIVED, a large lot of MILL
SD TARY BUTTONS, such as Maryland, Mis-
sour, Arkansas also, q fine lot Of MILITARY
ThIMMINGS,a Miss X. Q. sEMON's,
no 2i-6ts No. ~ Main street.
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MILITARY INSTITUTE

NIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE.
Y The Board OF Visitors WILL at their nsxf re-
gular meeting I'LL vacancies in the list of State Ca-
dets from the following Senatorial Dlssrscts 1nn'
ninth twelfth. thirteenth fifteenth. twenty second.
twenty-fifth twenty-ssventh. twenty-eighth. thir-
tieth, thrty-second, thirty thrty-seventh.
sartv,seyenth, forty ninth and dftieth. Applica-
lions viii be submitted 10 the undersigned, at Lex
ngton, without delay, accompanied BY written tes-
timonials OF fair moral character that the applicant
Is able 10 read and write we'll aud 20 perform With
facility and accuracy the various operations of tbs
four grand rules Of arithmetic and vulgar and de-
cimal fractions. and that he is free nom AZ bodily
defect and infrmity FRANCIS H. SMITH,
NO l2-2awtDeci superintendent.
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GNTY SCAVENGER.-The subscriber
I J having been appointed CITY SCAVENGER
is prepared 10 clean out sinks, culverts back yards
cellars alleys and lots, and remove all nuisance'
therefrom at the shortest notice and on reasonable
terms Orders LETT at the Richmond post-ofhce, boz
/, $50, will receive prompt attention.
no lS-lm X. H. ALLEN
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CONFEDERATE CONGRESS-
SENATE.
DEN "A Ia.
MONDAY, November 81, 1864.
,nate met at IL o'clock NJ.

/ MONDAf, november Il, 1904.
The Senate met at IL o'clock M.
| Mr.. Semmes, of Louisiana, offered the
following, which, after considerable dis
cussion, not upon its proper merits, but
upon the subject of taxation and the
tax laws generally, was postponed till to-
day:
:" JOINT RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO THE AS
sEssMENT OF THE VALUE OF THE TAX IN
KIND.
| resolUed by the Congress Of the Con-
| federate States Of America, That the
value of the articles deliverable as tax in
kind under existing laws is not regulated
| by the schedule of prices fixed by the
State commissioners, appointed under the
provisions of the impressment acts, and
| said commissioners have no control over
the subject, by appeal or otherwise and
the quantity and quality, as well as the
value, of said articles, is to be ascertained
and assessed, in case of disagreement be-
tween the taxpayer and assessor. by dis
interested referees, appointed in the man.
ner specified in the act imposing the tax
in kind"
Mr.. Watson, of Mississippi, presented
the petition of j. Rodgers, which was re-
ferred
Also, bill to revive and extend the
act in relation to the receipt of counter
felt treasury notes by Government Off
GERS. Referred.
Mr.. Brown, of Mississippi, offered a
resolution, which was agreed to, that the
bills, etc, returned to the Senate last
session, as unfinished business, by the
Naval Committee, be taken from the
files and recommitted to the committee.
Mr.. Sparrow, of Louisiana, from the
Military Committee, to whom had been
referred the resolution in relation to the
making, by the proper authorities, of
some arrangements whereby the tobacco
rations might be conveyed and furnished
to our soldiers in Northern prisons,
reported the same back with the request
to be discharged from the further con-
sideration of the subject, in view of the
fact that provisions had already been
made for sending tobacco, clothing and
supplies to our troops held as prisoners
Ply the enemy. The committee were dis
charged.
On motion, by Mr.. Sparrow, the Sc
nate resolved into secret executive ses-
sion; and the doors being re-opened, the
Senate adjourned.
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yTENISON STEW, at CONGRESS
HALL RESTAURANT, No. las Main street,
TODAY Also, YENIsON STEAKS, CANVAS
BACK DUCKS, DUCK AND MALLARJJ, PAR
TRIDGEs, WILD TURKEY, and FINE COVE
OYSTERS no 2l-3ts
MAILS, NAILS, NAIIS.-We are now
msDufaetur1ng.a very superior article of Sd.
and FINISHING NAILS, of all sizes, at our Fac
tOry near the Tredegar Iron Works, fur which we
solicit orders from the trade Address
j. +. GOODWIN & CO.,
no l8-9ts Box e94, Richmond.
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NJ OTI @ E.-A gentleman proposes to
Y leave for Europe in about thirty days, and So
lfcits orders for the purchase of supplies and the
transaction of business generally, having large
European mercantile acquaintance. This Is an ex-
celent opportunity for those who may have business
10 transac. on the Continent He viii return in four
or five months The best of references given. Ad-
dress "boK lO9, Salisbury. North Carolina" or
" H. McC.," care w. L. Price, Esq, Richmond,
Virsinia no 9-30t
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NOTICE TO FARMERS AND MER-
" CHANTS-NEW MOLASSE5 BARRELS,
FLOUR BARRELS, LIQUOR BARRELS AND
KEGS FOa sALE.-I can furnish the above in any
uuantty and all of the best quality, and delivered
In any part of the city without cost of drayage.
WILLIAM T. TRUEMAN,
mn lI-Im No. sc Main street.
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T1OR SALE, a WOMAN, about twenty
ave yssrs old, Of good xss, who 10 No.
reok Wssher and Irorer. and house ssrysn- Ap-
ply Il inc 2l-sodstsl CARy sTRxET JAIL.
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EOR HIRE, WASHER and IRONER.
Also, NEGRO GIRL about twelve years old.
Apply at Mr.. WILLIAM ALIENS, ON Lsishs
between Seventh and Eighth streets. no 2i-N.
EOR SALE, a fine SADDLE AND
IT, HARNESS HORSE. He can be seen ey az
plying at the corner Of Twenty y-seeond and Cary
streets.
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EOUND. ON Sixth street, between Msin
X - Ersnhlin a BOYS NEW HAT The
exnsr win apply TO- PRESCOTT hAuEY.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-04-09
The Athens Post.

The low-hung scavinger who edited the
Athens Tenn. Post, SAM. IvNs, is now a
prisoner at Camp Chase, and there he
ought to stay until the war ends. In his
prostituted sheet for May 9th, 1863, he put
forth leading editorial, from which we
take the following brief extracts;
I'm connection with the capture of the Yankee
expedition by Gen Forrest, is is said that the peo
pie along the route Of the marauders, bushwhacked
them with good success As there are reports con-
tnually in circulation that East Tennessee is to DO
invaded, it is advisable perhaps that every loyal
man should provide himself with gun and some
ammunition which can be done with little exer-
ton, and prepare for any emergency and when the
marauders do come if ever, bushwhacB them from
every convenient place from behind trees, fences,
anywhere"
"Let the plough stand still in the fur
row for few days take to the BUSH and you could
soon make East Tennessee too hot place 20 hold
any Federal force likely to get in. 1t would be
much safer course than running away or sutinis-
sively holding up your hands for the manacles in
order 10 save your property ID
This scoundrel who advises bushwhack-
ing is the dirty bought-up-and-paid for tool
of Campbell Wallace, and did all his dirty
work in the newspaper line Wins was al
WAYS mean man, and his yillaipous qualities
commended him to the favorable considera.
ton of Wallace This man Wallace has
never been anything bnt an insincere man
"a sneaking hypoerite-and has pundered
the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad
/ Company for years He kepta all his family
and friends in offices, and by stealing and
swindling, has made fortunes for the whole
olan-7using the Athens Post to whitewash
HIS operations - .t,.s.,
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-04-09

this retreat, we add that after crossing at
the Plains, fifteen miles east of Knoxville
this large cavalry force was placed in front,
followed by the infantry then came the
wagons, and last of all, the beef cattle, 500
of them being captured, and We ourselves
burning some of our wagons
What we have said, however, has been said,
not with view to critisise the conduct of
those who were in command, but to do JUS
tice to Gen. Stergis, who is gallant officer,
as his conduct at Messy Creek cambridge
Fains Ferry, and Fair Garden, abundantly
shows, He is the Officer who led our troops
off of the field when Gen. Lyon was killed,
although tho credit was given to General
SETGLE.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-04-09
Brig. Gen. S. D. Stergis.

1t is provoking to an East Iennesseean,
knowing facts as they are, to see some Of
the reports in Northern papers, Frank Les
he's for instance, of certain army CORES
pondents. They seem to tell everything
but the truth. For instance, one Of these
hired writer's represents General Stergis rs
being in command of the infantry at the
time of our falling back from cambridge
when the facts are that he commanded the
cardly The same correspondent states
that but for the charge OF the cavalry the
infantry, under the command Of Stergis,
at Strawberry Plains, would have been
routed
The particulars of the fight at Beans Sta
ton are likewise misrepresentcd in every
particular Gen. Stergs took command
there, while that fight was in progress, and
near its close He fought, before the retreat
from cambridge fue pitched battles, and
was successful in all five. Meanwhile, he
drew no rations from the Government, but
had to live off Of the country, in its eX
I hausted condition. His men actually fought
all day, and subsisted at night on Pdrchec
corn. Gen. Stergis was one Of the rery fen
officers in our army, in East Tennessee, whC
utterly opposed the disastrous and disgrace
full retreat from cambridge. Three larg
divisions of our cavalry did the fighting
that was done, mostly, and would, if the,
had been allowed the privilege have driver
Longstreet's army out of the country,
Speaking Of the diaaste~ and disgrace Q
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-04-09
Bill Allen. Of Illinois.

This notorious traitor to the Governmen
of the United States recently made a long
windy, and dirty speech in Congress, j.
which ne comes down in true cOpperhea'
STYLE upon "Parson Brownlow," the "heroi
and saindy-faced Horace Maynard, y and tn
..martial form of rigadier-General Andrey
Johnson" This Northern traitor AM
Southern sympathizer speaks of a "bulldinI
in Knoxville where we swore in true Unio
men" in the contest of 1860. Now, he is
beautiful pink to talk about private room
in which Union men are sworn in, afte
taking the oath of the "Knights of tn
Golden Circle and meeting as often as b
4 did in the infamous and reasonable bogu
of that organization of pirates
To the wholesale abuse Of this Demo
cratic Breckenridge Jefferson Davis-Bully,
Union member of Congress from Kentuck,
Mr.. Anderson, stated substantially, that
lcas a bar and that charge he has not wipe
out yet, and stands as our reply to his loy
vulgar, and cowardly insinuatione
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-04-09
Death of Mrs. Mcfarland.

MALINDA MCFARLAND, the wife OF Benz
Mcfarland, formerly of Rutledge, died Of
congestion of the lungs at her residence IN
Rush county, Texas, on the 10th Of August
last. She died as she lived, in the Methodist
Church, a calm and resigned Christian, full
of hope and joyous expectations Her son,
THEODORE, died five days before her, near
Gaines Landing, on the Mississippi river, a
soldier in the rebel army Benz. Mcfarland,
the husband and father still lives, and is as
true a Union man as lives We remember
this family kindly, and number them among
our carly and devoted friends.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-04-09
hluslering Rene Document.

bFhundred rebel officers from Tennos-
s@&fined on Johnson's Island, have put
fol tltTiouS manifesto Like all Southern
rd Productions, it is full of loud swelling
waa intemperate abuse, and threats that
carkver be carried into effect. 1t. de-
n4&s the Lincoln despotism,' tho "arch-
| I'd, Andrew Johnson and the TRAITORS
aahted with him. 1t is long docu-
n4and we can only insert the names of
tllgners, and this we do that the Federal
at1rities, and true Union men may see
w they are when efforts are made to get
st&of them released. -.-i-s-
Gb give'one passage from the document,
altthreatens us all with the cut-throats
al assassins of their army, generally
lSYn as gveyralds, murderers and horse
teses, such as Dick Mccain and Morgan
i've usually commanded. The passage we
risf to is in these words:
@underthe frowuing walls Of your fcrtresses our
ding psrtisans would lift your judges from their
solsacks and your Legislators from their easy
irs, TO chew the cud Of sweet and bitter fancies
ithe cells of Southern prisons"
but these braves speak of "the retribu-
bas of heaven" as if God would interfere
behalf of set of men who have violated
laws, human and divine, and whose
hnds are dripping with innocent blood,
lille thousands of them arc perjured vii
ms of the blacklist dye.
But we give the names of the signers Of
lis manifesto:
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-04-09
The Vote of East Tennessee.

Some of the up.start correspondents of
Northern papers, for the want Of subjects
upon which to write, are accustomed to say
in their letters from Tennessee that they
find v;ry little Union sentiment in any por-
ton of the State. These men know moth
ing of the country, nothing Of the people,
and less Of their sentiments Aftor n
thorough canvass of the State, by the two
parties in February, 1861, out of II vote Of
100000, the State cast solid majority Of
5000 in favor of the Union, and against
Secession
East Tennessee with her thirty-two coun-
ties and some of them small mountain coun-
ties, out Of Il vote of less than $4,000, gave
81 900 of majority for the Union, and
against the monster Secession Out Of a
voting population of $4,000, if all poled in
East Tennessee, there are %, 600 either in
the Union army, or have gone to their
graves from the Union army, at least four
ffths of the fighting men, What State
in the Union can show such record ?
Where, on Garth, can more devoted and
patriotic people be found? They have
ported life, property and all they had
They have bid farewell-a long and last
farewell, many of them to home, and tc
loved ones, and fed by night to the Federal
Zines, to ask the privilege of fighting for the
old flag. They are now in Federal uniforms
and can boast that they have nothing lief
10 boast of but POVERTY and PATRIOTISM
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-04-09
Death of Champ Ferguson.

This noted thief long-practised robber,
and hell born murderer, has at length been
captured, slain, and sent to hell, where he
ought to have been for the last quarter Of a
century, He was wounded mortally by
Stokes cavalry, who shot him through the
abdomen. After being wounded he secreted
himself in a cave, was found by Colonel
Stokes men, brought out Of his den, leaving
his bed behind, and he was disposed Of in
An appropriate way
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-04-09
"Keep it Before the People. :"

Keep it before the people, That an Internal
known as drum-head court
martial, sitting with closed doors, and ex.
Guiding Attornies from practising before
them, sat in Knoxville, two years ago and
caused divers Union men to be hung,
around whose dead bodies rebel citizens
gathered by thousands and checred and ex-
ulted
Keep it before the people, That the mem
bers Of that court-martial We're James ID
Thomas, of Claiborne county; Capt. Willet
and Lieut.. Blair, of Washington county
Capt Beuben Roddy, of Carter county
Capt Dick Mccain, Of Davidson county
and Col. Golladay, of Wilson county, anC
that the Judge Advocate was THOMAS j
CAMPBELL, of Bradley county, an anoint
ed villain, who ought never to be allowed
to die natural death, and will not, if h,
shall dare to show himself again in Eas
Tennessee
Keep it before the people, That it is propc
and right for Union men TO shoot down
upon sight, each and all Of these murderer:
and that it is a duty that East Tennessee
Union men owe to their country, to thei
God. and to their abused relatives to Sc
that these men, each, any one Of them, Q
all, die violent deaths, if they shall dare t
show themselves in East Tennessee durin
the present century
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-04-09
The Murder of TOIlyer Stables.

The particulars of the murder Of ToLVER
STAPLES, as brought to light upon authority
altogether reliable, shows that no savage
tribe on this continent, and no fends out Of
hell, were ever moro brutal murderous, and
Infamous than the gang of rebel soldiers
who captured and murdered Mr. STAPLES.
IL was the Clerk Of the Morgan County
Court, and was taken hold of near his house,
forty Eve miles from this city, as Union
man and priDas citizen-not as one in arms,
for he never was-and was murdered after
a style that the devils in he'll are ashamed
Of and that no set OF brutes in human shape
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-04-09
Knoxville, Saturday, April 9, 1864.
Patriotism and Nlggerism in East Ten.
-D, neSSep

The Nashville Tines, a new and spirited
and IA able Union paper. has n tellin, or.
tlele upon the comparative loyalty of the
three divisions of ennesseo-Mddle. West
and East Tennessee Since the BEGINNING
OF the rebellion, it seems that Middle Ten
nessee, with slave population of 6S.O0O
valued at s57, O78, 900, has furnished 2 oOo
soldiers for the Union army, and about 20, :
600 to the rebel army
west Tennessee, with a slave population
OF 1874, valued at $4,000, 600. has fur
nlshed 5000 soldiers for the Union army
and $1,000 to the rebel army
East Tennessee, with q slave population
OF 1860, valued at $4,000, 900, has fur-
nlshed 10000 soldiers for the Union army
5000 conscripts taken in chains, and 1000
moro crowded into prisons, and into prema.
tnre graves, hung and shot down as they
We're found at, or from home.
These figures tell their own story in y
manner too plain to be misunderstood, even
among Northern coppcrheads or Southern
traitors Middle and West Tennessee so far
exceed East Tennessee in white population
as they are exceeded by the later in patriot
ism. The disloyal men Of Middle and West
: Tennessee have governed, dictated. to. and
domlIie Ered tl.@a.
sr1sur long Us Oar people will, Or ought 70
submit to it. There is q strong feeling
throughout East Tennessee in favor ofasepa-
rate State organization, and it is gaining
strength daily, 1t is not strange, either,
that such should be the feeling, for we do
not feel like allowing towards and traitors,
of these other divisions of the State, who
assisted in carrying the State out, to come
and white-wash themselves with an amnesty
oath, and then govern us, under pretensc
of upholding the Constitution
Our position upon this new State issue is,
let US all hang together, and with the Union
votes Of East Tennessee control the State.
If that can't be done, let us cut loose, and
quit them forever as West Virginia did the
tories of the negro worshiping portion of
the Old Dominion
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-04-09
The New Bridge.

The finest improvement Of the age, as
connected with the military operations
here, is the new, elegant, and complete
bridge, thrown over the Holston at this
city, dispensing with the use Of Pontoon
Bridges, Ferry Boats, and all that sort Of
things This is an improvement completed
bv the Government at a cost Of about $4,000;
and one that ought to have been completed
here years ago, and would have been, bat
for the want of sense, energy, and public,
or Yankee spirit.