The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-10-07


From late number Of the vicksburg
Herald the Clarion copies the following.
1t must try mems souls to I've. in the
Hill City now:
UrApor.RTERs DISTRICT OF VICKsBuRG, }
| VIcgsBuRe, MISSISSIPPI,
September IL, 1864. )
| General Ortier No. 4.
Until further orders, no provisions OF
| any kind will be shipped from this post,
either north or south. Any regularly
authorized trader may purchase those ar
ticles from any other trader who has pro-
visions on hand. They will, on ascer-
tanning that any old trader has any pro-
visions locked up, or in store, apply for
orders to these headquarters compelling
him to sell the same at the prices autheT-
lied, less ten per cent
By order of Major-G General n. j. ]. Dana.
H. C.. RODGERS,
Assistant Adjutant- General.
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF NICKsBURG, J
VIcKsBuRG, MISSISSIPPI,
September 10, 1864. ,
CIRCULAR
The following letter from the War De-
partment is published in circular form
for the information Of all. persons who
are troubling the Government with SINH
lar claims:
WAR DEPARTMENT, }
ADJuTANT- GENERALS OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, August l8, 1884. !
Major Geaeroj ". T. Sherman, Com
nandiag Military Dicisioa Of tie
Mississippi, Nashville, Tennessee:
Sir: The proceedings of military
commission in the case of Mrs. Lum, at
Vicksburg, appraising certain houses, to
be destroyed, at six thousand five hun
dred dollars, and recommending the pay
ment of the same by the Government,
have been received, with your decision
endorsed, THAT the United States are
IN no manner Of way liable for this dam
age When this war is over, this paper
will be good evidence in an action for
damage against jeff Davis and his co,
conspirators.'
The above endorsement is approved by
the Secretary of War
am, sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
f. ID. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adiutant- General
BY order Of Major-Genersl n. j. T. Dana.
Ii. G. RODGERS,
Assistant Adjutant General.
HEADQUARTERS DISTRICT OF NIcKsBuRG, J
NlCKsBURG, MISSISSIPPI,
September 8, 1864.
Special Oydsrs No. 40.
Ill The office Of the Probate Court OF
this county is hereby discontinued, and
no person will be permitted hereafter to
exercise the functions Of that office as at
present constituted. l.. S. Houghton,
Esq, is hereby appointed custodian of
the books and records Of that office, and
will be permitted to use and occupy the
rooms in the courthouse in which the
books and records of that office are now
kept. He will preserve the records of
the office from mutilation or dcspoliation,
and no person VII be allowed to remove
any Of said books and records there
from.
lie will receive and keep proper re
cords and files Of such papers as may be
iiled for public record pertaining TO the
interest of minors, orphans, wards, es
tates, deaths and marriages, endorsing
thereon the date of reception and filing,
and signing his name thereto
He will be permitted to charge fee
of fifty cents for each and every paper so
filed, and fifty cents per folio for record
ing the same, and the like fees per folio
for each and every copy of such paper
made at the request Of the person dc
string them.
BY order of Major General n. J. 7. Dana.
Ii. c. RODGERS,
Assistant Adjutant- General.