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Confederate Congress.
Senate. Monday, December 19, 1864.
The Senate met at 12 o'clock M.
Mr. Walker, of Alabama, presented joint resolutions of the Legislature of Alabama relative to impressment and the schedule of prices fixed by the Confederate commissioners, also, joint resolutions of the same urging the payment of the army by the authorities of the Confederate States.
Ordered to be printed.
Mr. Garland; of Arkansas, presented the petition of eighty treasury clerks relative to their salaries.
Referred to the Committee on Finance.
Mr. Johnson, of Georgia, offered a resolution, which was agreed to, that the Committee on Military Affairs inquire into the expediency of permanently exempting from military service skilled artizans; mechanics and machinists employed in Government shops; and also of inviting into the Confederacy the same classes of persons from foreign States upon pledge of similar exemption.
The bill to amend the act for the establishmen
The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], Five Hundred Dollars reward. (search)
Virginia Legislature.[extra session.]
Senate. Monday, December 19, 1864.
The Senate met at 12 o'clock M. Prayer by Rev. Dr. Peterkin, of the Episcopal Church.
Mr. Dickenson offered a resolution, which was adopted, inquiring into the expediency of enrolling and organizing such exempts from the military service of the Confederate States as may be between the ages of eighteen and fifty years.
Mr. Hunter offered a resolution, which was adopted, inquiring whether the funds appropriated for the relief of families of soldiers living within the lines, or under the control of the enemy, have, in any case, been fraudulently or improperly used or misapplied by any of the agents or other parties charged with the execution of the law.
On motion of Mr. Douglas the Senate adjourned.
House of delegates.
The House met at noon, and was opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Doggett.
Mr. Tomlin introduced a resolution, for a bill from
the Finance Committee, making
The raid on Pollard. Mobile, December 19, 1864.
--The Yankee raiders from Pensacola to Pollard destroyed all public and some private buildings, damaged the road inconsiderably, and the bridge over the Escambia was partly destroyed.
Captain Henry Pope, quartermaster, was captured.
A few negroes were stolen. --Yesterday our forces pursued them.
A portion of their supplies and transportation were captured.
The road was strewn with their dead.
There was an infantry force of another raiding party near Good's mills and Pensacola.
Sunday, its advance was met by our cavalry and driven back several miles.
Captain Semmes arrived here yesterday from Europe, via Matamoras.
The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], Our Wilmington Correspondence. (search)
Our Wilmington Correspondence. Wilmington, North Carolina, December 19, 1864.
There has been considerable excitement here for the last two or three days, and especially yesterday, when the local forces were called out and other measures taken to resist the reported landing of the enemy.
Without giving the authority upon which the statement is made, I may remark that intelligence has been received to the effect that a land force, estimated at twenty thousand men, together with the fleet of monitors and gunboats which has for some time been assembling at Fortress Monroe, sailed on Friday, the 16th, for the south, with the intention of making a descent on the coast in the vicinity of Newbern and Wilmington.
Other facts and circumstances were reported in connection with the expedition, which I need not stop to relate.
If Wilmington had been the destination of the enemy, the fleet should have arrived off the mouth of the Cape Fear on Saturday; any how, on Sunday; but up to the