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Post Office contractors
--A correspondent of the Atlanta (Ga.) Confederacy alludes to a decision recently made, in which the General Post Office Department explains the Exemption Act in favor of mail contractors, on a point in reference to which but few are correctly informed.
The act excepts from the privilege of exemption contractors "of less than ten miles in length, and on which the mail is carried on horse." The case was that of a citizen of Chattanooga, whose bid as a mail messenger from the railroad depot to a distance less than ten miles, at an annual compensation of four dollars and fifty cents, (former compensation six hundred and fifty dollars,) was accepted by the Department.
The messenger was notified by the enrolling officer that he was not entitled to exemption under the act of April 14th, 1863 and he would hold him as a conscript.
An appeal was made to the Department and a certificate of exemption was immediately forwarded on the ground that distance is immate
The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1863., [Electronic resource], Confederate notes. (search)
Skirmishing in Tennessee military movements. Atlanta June 22.
--A special dispatch to the Atlanta Intelligencer from Wartrace, Tenn, 21st instant, says:
Gen. Wilder's "lighting division," composed of 2,000 Federal cavalry, 500 of whom are negroes, were driven back from Alexandria, Tenn, eight miles north west of Liberty, by Duke's cavalry, on the 17th.
The enemy's loss was ten killed and a number wounded.--No loss on our side.
Capt. Shelton, of Duke's 2d Kentucky regiment, has returned from Bardstown.
He left on the 8th, and brought out a quantity of .
has fallen back from Lebanon Murfreesboro'. Things