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The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Wouldn't stay whipped. (search)
Sewing cotton.
--George Makepeace, Esq., of Cedar Falls, Randolph county, N. C., is manufacturing an excellent article of sewing cotton.
Mr. M. is at present making only the lower Nos., but he hopes in a short time to be able to produce any quantity desired.
This is certainly the only establishment of the kind in our Confederacy, and we believe that there are only one or two in the United States.
The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death from snake Bite. (search)
News from the South.
From our Southern exchanges we make up the following compilation of news, which we think of sufficient interest to the reader to publish:
A proclamation of the Governor of Georgia.
Gov. Joseph E. Brown has published the following proclamation:
The Constitution of the Confederate States contains the following language in reference to the right of a State to conduct warlike operations:
"Nor shall any State keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into an agree ment or compact with another State or with a foreign power, or engage in war unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will admit of no delay."
Soon after the adoption of this Constitution, I was informed by the Secretary of War that the Prealdent assumed the control of all military operations in this State which were to be conducted against any foreign powers.
The President then appointed Gen. Lawton, and extended his command from Savannah to the Florida l
The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death from snake Bite. (search)
Arrival of the U. S. Steamer Sumter. New York, Sept. 16.
--The United States war steamer Sumter has arrived.
She states that the most of the African squadron are homeward bound.
The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], More Robberies by the Yankees--Confederate successes and Federal Failures. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], True Scene in a Railroad office. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Compliment to the French Consul . (search)
Pay of chaplains.
--We suppose that the first act of the Confederate Congress establishing the office of chaplain, and fixing the pay of that officer, was intended to make suitable provision for the spiritual wants of the soldiers, as is done in the United States and every army of the old world.
It is true the pay was not large — not as large even as that in the service of Virginia and North Carolina, which States paid their chaplains a hundred and fifty dollars a month.
The Confederate Congress fixed the pay at $85 per month, or $1,820 a year.
This amount, however, was accepted by many clergymen, some of them eminent men in their vocation, having large families dependent upon them, in the spirit of selfsacrifice universal in the South, who gave up much larger salaries and the comparative ease of ordinary ministerial duties for the hardships and labors of camp life.
It was barcly possible, at the high rates of living prevailing throughout the country, for a gentleman to
The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], Our Correspondence. (search)
An English Captain's opinion. New York, Sept. 16.
--Captain Morris, of the Royal Navy, at Port Royal, says, we are ordered to observe strict neutrality, and if the privateer Sumter were to come in to-morrow she would receive the same attention paid to United States vessels.