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The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 18 (search)
of which were read and passed. Mr. Mitchell offered the following: Resolved,That the Secretary of the Congress be authorized to employ such additional force as may be necessary to finish up the business of the Senate. Agreed to. Mr. Clark of Mo, called up the bill to increase the clerical force of the Quartermaster General's bureau, The bill was read and passed. The Senate bill in relation to payment of dues of deceased soldiers, with the House amendment, was considered and agreed to. Mr. Haynes, or Tenn, introduced a bill to pay over to the wives and children of Confederate prisoners now in the hands of the enemy, their allowances of pay and rations while the soldiers aforesaid are in captivity. Mr. Clark of Mo, suggested that if the wives and children of these men received their pay, the soldiers would do without. Mr. Clay of Ala., thought the Senate had no right to dispose of the dues and personally of living men as of deceased persons. The bil
The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], Probable suicide (search)
Probable suicide --A person calling himself J. M B. Ruttedge, Lieutenant in the Texas cavalry, has mysteriously disappeared from the Globe Hotel, in Augusta, Ga, and has probably committed suicide. In the room which he had occupied were found two empty envelopes, one of which was directed to "Hon. J. P. Benjamin, Secretary of War, Richmond," and had on it the following words: "The acc't for $95.50 will be paid by Q. M. Gen't at Richmond, or Maj G. W. Clark. at Ft. Smith, Ark." On the other side of the envelope were these words: "will the members of the M. E. Church have me buried? J M. B. Rutledge, Augusta, Ga., April 8th, 1862." The other envelope is one of the Southern Express Company's by which Mr. Butledge seems to have forwarded to Savannah, for collection, a bill on the Confederate States for $846-17, which was returned to him with this endorsement: "Quartermaster refuses to pay the enclosed bill; March 31st, 1862" On the blank side of the envel