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Year: 1862

PUBLIC-No. SO


AN ACT defining additional causes of chal-


lenge and prescribing an additional oath


for grand and petit jurors in the United


States Courts.


Be it enacted By the Senate and House Of
Representatives. of the United States of
AmeJ ica in Congress assembled, That in
addition to theexisting causes of disqualified
tion and challenge of grand and petit jurors
in the courts of the United States, the fol-
lowing are hereby declared and established,
namely, without duress and coercion to
have taken up arms, or TO have joined any
insurrection and rebellion, against the
United States; to have adhered to any re-
bellion, giving it aid and comfort to have
given, directly or indirectly, any assistance
in money, arms horses, clothes, or any
thing whatever, to or for the use or benefit
of any person or persons whom the person
giving such assistance knew to have joined,
or to be about to join, any insurrection or
rebellion, or to have resisted, or to be about
to resist with force of arms, the execution
of the laws of the United States, or whom
he had good ground to believe had Joined,
or was about to join, any insurrection or
rebellion, or had resisted, or was about to
resist, with force of arms, the execution of
the laws of the United States, and to have
couDselled and advised any person or per.
sons to join any insurreotion and rebellion,
or to resist with force of arms the laws of
the United States.


Sec. 2. And be IL further enacted, That
at each and every term of any court of the
United States, the district attorney, or other
person acting for aud on behalf of the
United States in said court, may move, and
the court in their discretion may require
the clerk to tender to each and every per-
son who may be summoned to serve as a
grand or petit juror or venireman or tales
man in said court, the following oath or
affirmation, viz: "You do solemnIy swear
Cor affirm, as the case may be) that you
will support the Constitution of the United
States of America; that you have not,
without duress and constraint, taken up
arms, or Joined any insurrection or rebel
lion against the United States; that you
have not adhered to any insurrection or re-
bellion, giving it aid and comfort ; that you
Year: 1862

Should the aid be continued through
out the next year, it will require at
least 100000, without extending it to
any Of the regiments after the Goth.


This deficiency of Sl50,OOO arises
mainly from the fact that since the ap-
preparation was made by you for this
purpose last spring, the volunteer aid
has been extended to the Twentieth
Regiment, and that it was supposed
that after final settlement with the Uni
ted States of our war claims, and after
payment of our war debts, there would
remain a surplus Of about 100000 to
90 into the Volunteer Aid Fund. This
calculation was probably correct, but
although our vouchers have long since
been transmitted to the Treasury De-
partment at Washington, we have not
Vet been able to obtain a final settle
ment of our accounts, and after anoth-
er advance of $4,000 made by the
General Government, which has been
used in part payment of our war debts,
any further advance has been refused
until final settlement. It is very diff.
Year: 1862

A T the Red Shop west Of the new School
n House, would inform the public generally
that they have on hand and are prepared to
make to order all kinds of Furniture, Chairs,
&C.; also a general assortment of finished Cof-
fms kept constantly on hand. Hearse furnish.
cd free of charge. nrs g5-.Laaab p


Please call and see before buying elsewhere
Year: 1862

PRAYING FOR THE CESSATION OF WAR AT THE
SoUTH.-In some circles in New Orleans, feel
ing in favor of cessation of the war is spreading
The initiative has been taken by several Catholic
clergymen, and solemn High Mass was ceebra-
ted on the goth ult., at the Cathedral, to impore
of the Almighty the re-establishmeut of peace
and cessation of the calamities now desolating
the country A peace sermon was preached by
the Rev. Father Jourdan, and collection taken
in aid of the INDECENT of the city.
Year: 1862

Apothegms from the Presidents Message.


The following pithy sayings are CLEANED from
Honest Abes Message to Congress
! We waste much strength in struggles amongst
ourselves.


By mutual concessions we should harmonic and
act together.


Doubtless some of those who are to pay and
not to receive will object.


If with less money, or more money easily paid,
we can preserve The benefits of the Union by this
means better than we can by the war alone, is it
not economical to do itP ...Ir


Certainly it is not so easy to pay something as
it is to pay nothing, but it is easier to pay a
large sum than it is to pay larger one, and it is
easier to pay il while we are able than when we
have nothing to pay it with.


Were our territory as limited as are the Brit
ish Isles, instead of receiving the foreign-born
now we should be compelled to send part of our
native born away.


If we are at some time to be as populous as
Europe, how soon ?


The great advantage of policy by which we
shall not have to pay until we number 100000
600 what by different policy we would have to
pay now when our number is 3l,060000.


In times like the present men should utter
nothing for which they would not willingly be re-
sponsbe through time and eternity.


Is it true that the colored people can displace
more white labor by being free than by remain
ing slaves


If the colered people do stay in their own
places, they iostle no white aborers if they
leave their old places, they are then open to white
laborers Logically there is neither more nor
less of it. r..


Labor is like any other commodity in the mar
ket-increase the demand for it and you increase
the price of t. .-... ......l


Will liberation make them (the negroes) any
more numerous


People of any color seldom run unless there is
something to run from. rr


do not forget the gravity of paper address
ed to the Congress of the nation by the CheI
Magistrate of the nation. .rr


trust in view of the great responsibility rest
ing upon me- you will perceive no want of re-
spect to yourselves in any undue earnestness
may seem to display.
1t is not, can any of us imagine better but can
any of us do betterP .rItr. ..E."


The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate
to the stormy present


We must dsenthrall ourselves, and then we
shall save our country.


Fellow citizens we cannot escape history.


We of this Congress will be remembered in
spite of ourselves. r- .


The world knows we know how to save the
Union.
Year: 1862

THE cultivation of cotton appears to be excl
ting the attention of both the Spanish Govern
ment and people. The great difficulty is to OBJ
tain the proper class of persons for carrying out
the views of those interested in the matter. An
effort is being made to introduce the colored la
borers from the United States, which is likely to
prove successfuL-Iurk Island Standard.
Year: 1862

WHEN man comes home and tries to bolt
the door with sweet potato pokes the fire with
the spout of the cofee-pot, attempts to wind up
the clock with the boot jack tries to utkendings
for his mornings fire with paper knife, takes a
cold potato in his hand to light him to bed, and
prefers sleeping in his hat and boots, you may
reasonable infer that he has been making the ac-
ouaintahco Of some very friendly people.
Year: 1862

A correspondent of the Mobile Evening News furnishes that paper with the following interest ing additional particulars of the victory at Tag ewell in East Tennessee:

 "The attack was commenced on this side of Tazewell, the enemy's forces being formed into two columns, which were attacked simultaneous ly by Generals Stevenson and Rains, and driven back with great loss to Tazewell, where they af- fected 8 junction of their forces. A stubborn resistance was here made, large portion ofthe enemy's force being Lincolnite Tennesseeans; but they could not withstand the valor and im- petuosity of our men, who rushed upon them Tn the face of most murderous fire, and drove them back at the point of the bayonet, caaptur ing their artillery. The enemy was driven back for six miles, when the rout becam egen- eral, and muskets, coats and haversacks were strewed along the road

 Nv informant states that he met one hundred of their wounded on foot and twelve ambulances filled with seriously wounded men, among whom was field officer with his arm shot off. He stated that the loss of the enemy in killed and wounded is very heavy. The enemy on falling back from Tazeweu held a strong position on a high ridge, which had to be carried by assault before they were driven from it. Our loss IS said to be severe, bu the tenemy,s far greater.
Year: 1862

We have received the Fourth Annual Report
Of the Secretary Of the Chicago Board Of
Trade. The Report is e1aborately prepared
and thoroughly filed with statistics Of yalue
from its pages the following statement Of Chi
cago manufactures. The amount set down as
invested in buildings and machinery docs not
embrace cost Of buildings except in those
marked thus but simply rent and fixtures Of
the buildings occupied.
Year: 1862

MgssKs. EprroRs OF all the dangers thas
oyerhang our Confederacy, none assume
a more threatening aspect, than the insane dis
position of the people to dlstlll all the gram IN
to whisky. In every part of this State Is thus
misunderstanding the peoples food 1t is sts-
ted that in one ihborhood there are sixteen
whisky stills at work and from one point in
Pitt county; the smoke OF sixteeH whisky
stills NAV be counted. \ dealer in copper M
this town. states that he has orders for ono
hundred whisky stills. If the Convention that
meets in a few days does not take sofffe very
decided action to arrest the evil, we are ooottf
ed people An army of one hundred Thousand
of our enemy could not do us SO much injury as
the whisky dlstillers will if not. stopped, ana
J that speedily And it is time the papers began
! to speak out on tins subject


| We begin to think with our correspondent
that this matter of using up the TODD OF the
people is really assuming threatening, yea,
rcry threatening aspect. e wave altogether
J the argument to be derived from the use to
which the corn is applied, or the deicterlous
effects Of the whisky into which it is made
We doubt as we have always doubted, the pol
| cy of attempting to leeislate people INTO morst-
itv or s0hriety, since the history of such az
tempts is simply record OF failure. But tho
question is not-shall we allow people tor
drink whisky but, snail 'ne peop'e nave


whisky and want bread, .or shall they want
whisky and have bread Ffotf' what We heSf'
these are likely to be the alternatives. Is
there anv doubt about which we should
choose No wonder cannot get meal in


town while whisky stills throughout the coun~


try eat up the corn.


Remember, we are bringing no charges
against distillers we not arguing the NOR
al question at all. The consideration is plaln<
ly this THE South, envirohed on all s'desS


Nth the markets of the whole world closed
from her. has Just so r:uch b1eadstuFs and no


more. She is like a bcsicgcd city, in chat res


pect. She mug have an abundance and sur


plus, or she may not, Can she afford to rum


the risk of scarcity by allowing an unlimited


amount of food to be diverted to another and
| wholly different purpose? We think not
Year: 1862

RESIGNATION OF GENERAL PILLOW.


A correspondent of the Knoxville Clenn.)
Register of the Sd instant has the following
paragraph in reference to the resignation OIL
Gen. Pillow:


Yesterday, on the cars at Corinth, Miss,
stepped Gen. Pillow on his way home. He
was inst from Columbus, where he had re-
signed his position on account of disagree
meht between himself and Major General Polk.
This TACT we learned from the General, and
learned it with much regret; for he was the
most active General we had without any dis
paragement to any other be it said


In reference to the above the Register says
edi:orally:


1t will be seen from the above paragraph
that Brig. Gen. Pillow has resigned bis position
in the Army of the Confederate States. There
il not a soldier who would have a fearless
leader on the battle field, and chief who does
his duty without regard to personal momentary
popuarity-thcre is not one who has the IN
terest of the Southern Confederacy at heart
who will not read this announcement with pro
found regret To Gen. Pillow we are indebted
for the formidable army, for it supplies ano
ammunition, which now guards the valley o
the Mississippi. He organized has fed ane
equipped it and then he led it to victory or
the bloody field of Belmont a grateful pco
pie will honor the illustrious patriot and soldier
In his retirement.
Year: 1862

frozen ground at h.s post, with no sound to
cheer his wandering mind save that of the ice
laden twigs IF the forest that bend in obedi,nc
to the wind that is waiting its way along, t.
know that while he is deprieved of the enjoy
u1ent of his family circle aud toilfng for the
independence of his native land, that he is
thought of an1 provided for by the patriotic
ladies he has left behind, who sympathize
with us in our troubles and pays for our sue
cess. Where g the patriotie-ssn of this bean
tiful sunny South that is rot willing to deprive
himself of the tireSide comforts of home, for a
time. until we can drive from our soil the sub
ineating aud invading foe; then, and not until
then. can we return to the sweet embrace OF
our wives and our children, and the young
men and wi:aowers to- the greetings OF their


mothers and the bachelors to their cold and
lonesome homes, there to spend the remainder


of our days in all the enjoyment OF peace


looking back upon well-spent life believing


that We have fought good fight, and be-
queathed unto our children the same fnherri
tance that our fore fathers bequeathed unto Us
! in seventy-slX.


remain votffs. Sc,
Year: 1862

Ann NO MIsTAKE-It has been reported that
Old Burnside has made his appearance in our
waters and no mistake.


How much of it is true remains yet to be
developed, and whether he will be able to get
to Newbern or not is for the future to determ-
Inc; but one thing is certain, he'll encounter
h stile crowd when he makes the attempt. All
that is necessary to insure him and all other
Yankee commanders to fail in getting per
manent footing here is for Our people to deter
thine absolutely and irrerocably, that they
.hoH not come When that determination is
fully fixed settled and upon, theI is no earthly
chance Of failure.on Our part, for every one
then who can hurl missel of death will be
found ready to march to the conflict and it may
REQUIRE even an extreme like this to accom-
plsh the object Let every one then rally to
the standard of his country and the cause of
lis God and determine that, come veal or woe,
come life or death, he will be free, and then
all things will work together right


P S-Since the above was in type we have
received the following through the Norfolk
D4y Book, which contains the latest and all
We have on the Burnside question::


FLAG OF RUCE-Communlcatlon was had
between this city and Old Point yesterday
through flags of truce.


The Selden on her return brought up four
officers of the French frigate Catinet, which
arrived in the Roads Wednesday last. The
object of their visit, we understand is to con
vey dispatches from the French Government
to the French ConSulates at the South.


On the arrival of the Selden we gathered some
few items--among them that the Burnside Expe
diton was at Annapolis on Wednesday, and tha
no portion of the same had sailed. From anothe
source, however, learned that some of the YES
sells of the expedition has sailed. We give boil
statements and the reader is at liberty to choos
which he will believe.


We were also informed that an English man
of war reached Annapolis on Monday last.
Year: 1862

We were pleased to learn from gentlemen from
Richmond here the other day. that the govern
ment is turning it's attention to the mandfac-
trring of iron in it's various forms. They IN
formed us that large contracts have been let
to various manufacturing companies for a sup
n]v Of government iron, such as, iron suitable
FIR constructing steam engines and boilers ana
fire arms of every description. This Is good
move and we have no doubt Will result IN per-
manent, incalculable advantage to our country
The principal wealth OF the Confederate States
does not consist in the adaptation Of our soil to
the culture of cotton, but in the immense
mines of wealth, covered beneath the surface
in the form iron, copper, lead and other ores,
and the sooner these powerful deposits are de-
veloped and brought into pracLcal use, the
sooner will we be able to assume the propor+
tons of an independent and powerful nation.
We venture the opinion that the mineral
wealth of North Carolina, alone, if fully devel-
oned and worked to the best advantage, would
| in few years give our Government national


character and influence equal to that which 1t


now enjoys from the entire cotton staple OF


anv five States of the Confederacy.


In this connection we will be pardoned for


mentioning to our authorities and monled men


that telegraph wire is also being manufactured


at Richmond and beg leave to suggest to them


AGAIN, thatit is much cheaper to senda dispatch


from Goldsboro to the distance Of Newbern
by telegraph than by a railroad train. Since


the war commenced it has frequently became
= necessary to communicate between that place


and this. and Morehead City, between th'
time of the regular trains. On Friday las
it became necessary for the commanding Gen
at Col0sboro' to ask the President OF the road
as we understood, to send up some eXtr
coaches for some purpose, after the regula
train had left. and the result of it was, he ha'
to send an engine and tender and or hand
all the wac here, a distance of l2O miles her


and back at, we suppose an expense OF iron


TWENTY-FIVE to fifty dollars, whereas telegrat
= for the same purpose probably would not eaV


cost more than as many cents. In THIS wa
: should the war last two or three years, enoug


money will be foolishly spent to build rive o
e ten such lines


/ We have spoken so often Of this matter tina
we are almost ashamed to mention 1t agal


and certainly would not did not, our sense
e duty to the public impel us to do So
Year: 1862

The first hostile step of the allied expedition
against Mexico was taken the 18th ultimo,
when the Spanish troops from the fleet landed
at Vera Crus took unoposed possession of
that city and the fort Of San Juan de Uiloa,
and hoisted their flag over the city and fort
Year: 1862

The weather has been quite changeable re-
Gently. A week ago it was very cold and con
tnued so until day or two past then we had
rain and mud enough. Now it's warm enougF
nearly for April.
Year: 1862

Any person obtaining five subscribers, and forwarding
the money, shall be furnished with copy of the Intei-
gencer for this service long the number shall be
kept good


Business pertaining to the paper can he transacted
with the Publisher any day the Office OF Publication.
Communications may be addressed to the Editor, who
will promptly and faithfully respond to them.
Year: 1862

This touching letter, my boy, 1 recon-
mend to your most prayerful consideration,
as Paternal outpouring of shirt. collared
old age.


Old age bow beautiful art thou in the
glory of thy spectacles, and the sublime
largeness of thy stomach and Manner
Aud yet, would you believe it my boy 1
am sometimes possessed Of great doubtiugs
rs to the geuuineness of that majesty which
makes continually looming Venerable
Shape such great blessing to an imperiled
land. Sometimes there comes to me a
ricketty vision of:
Year: 1862

Usually the season for packing beef
closes before the 1st Of January, but this
season it will probably be carried into next
spring more extensively than ever before.
Up to date there have been cut 5000 head
Of cattle, and there are two houses still in
operation The following table shows the
beef packing for series of years:
Year: 1862

NEW TEARS-No PAPER.


On account Of New Years, and because
She telegraph lines propose to keep the day
for themselves, VIC shall issue no paper this
evening or tomorrow morning. The
'TR1BrNE will appear on Thursday evening
as usual
Year: 1862

The Rev. Robert COlyer tells this touch
ing incident of the war:


"When was in jefferson City last Fall.
| found the hospital in the most fearful
condition you can imagine. l cannot stop
10 tell you Of the scenes l saw; it is
enough to say that one poor fellow had
lain there sick on the hard boards, and
seen five men carried away dead, one after
another, from his side. He was worn to a
skeleton-worn through so that great sores
we're all over his back, and filthy beyond
telling. One day, little before my visit,
old Hannah, black woman, who had some
washing to do for surgeon, went down
The ward to hunt him up. She saw this
dying man, and had compassion on him,
and said, 20, doctor, let me bring this man
to my bed, TO keep him of the heor.'-
The doctor said, The man is diving; he
viii be dead to-morroW.' Tomorrow
came, and old Hannah could not rest. She
went to see the man, and he was stin alive.
Then she got some help, took her bed, put
the man on it, and carried him bodily 10
her shanty then she washed him all over
as woman washes a baby, and fed him
with spoon, and fought death hand to
hand day and night, drove him back and
saved the soldiers life. The day went
to Jefferson the man had gone on a fur
Tough to his home in Indiana. He besoupht
Hannah to 60 with him, but she could not
spare time; there was all that washing to
do. She went with him to the steamboat
got him fixed just to her mind, and then
kissed him, and the man lifted up his voice
as she left him and wept like a child, I
say we have grown noble in our suffering.