Bfasinnjtou telegraph. JOHN R. EAKIN, Editor- - W ASHIN OTO N, WEDVEBDAT, : : FEB. IT.IMiI JteaJT* Notice the order of the Commandant the Post with regard to letters brought from the Federal lines. It id almost certain that treasonable correspondence has been carried on between disloyal citizens amongst us, and those within the Federal lines. Our safety bangs upon our vigilance. It will nut do to make distinctions of persons—ar give way to the kindly influences of old friendships. Ev ery one shou’d comply cheerfully with this rule. It cannot injure the innocent, an I the guilty should be detected. We hope the order will be enforce.} with the utmost rigidity. We have no sympathy for any one attempting a vio lation. Mysterious Murder.—Dr. Geo. Pettigrew, a well known and highly electee 1 citizen of Sevier County, and a member of the Legisla ture, was assassinated on Tuesday night, the 9th inst., at his residence in Brownstown. He had been to Paraclifta that day and re turned home late in the evening. Whilst at ltd? J up to h:s front gate and called him out. He * rose from the table and walked out. When within about three feet of the gate, be was shot down with a load, probably from a shot gun, consisting of a ball and several buck-hot. He died instantly. It is to be hoped that the murderers may be taken, and by due process of law meet with a short shrift and a strong rope. Dr. Pettigrew was not known to have an enemy on earth No one can feel safe if the perpetrators ot such infamous crimes are not brought to justice. DisTßßsama Accident.- Ou the afternoon of Friday the sth inst., Mrs. Thos M. Cryer, of Lafayette county, having been on a visit to a friend, was re-crossing Red River at Jayne’s ferry on her way home. She was in a buggy, accompanied by a daughter of Mr. James Porter named Francis, about 12 years old, and her own daughter Sallie, aged about 4 years. She had also a negro nurse. Mrs. Cryer with tue two young girls was sitting in the buggy ou the feriy boat, and the negro nurse was in front holding the horses. The ferrymen, two negroes, carelessly rowed the boat too high up the river, and it was floated down against a snag, turned up and euuk almost instantly. One of the ferrymen, the nurse, and the two children, were drowned* Mis. Cryer, struggling in the water, lost hold of her little da iguter. After h iviug su ik and risen twice, she accidentally threw one of her arms in s'rugg.ing ovet a floating plank of the boat. She clung to it, and after Hunting down about two hundred yards in an unconscious state, was rescued and saved. The sad accident has thrown a whole cum mu.iity in muu.uiog. lue .ee t > t - glorious thrashing. Gen. Holmes will meet ami tight them on Arkansas soil. This country is safe, except from raids, which can do no general damage to craps. We are i.ot afraid of defeat if the plow is kept active. The prosperity of our army has its rootsiu th soil. It taat is cultivated, it will flourish in strength ; if neglected, it will wither away. Tlie best guide of patriotism, as of morals, is to coiisiiler the effect if every one should do like wi- . if every farm-r should determine to rat.-e only ••what will do him." there would lie no surplus, and we would see the poor hiarviug and the country <1 -serted by the army. Given up to the ravages of the enemy, it would be laid waste and become a desert. Even bis family supplies would lie taken. xf every one s.’iould make a surplus who Can, the poor would lie fed, and our armies sus tuin dto protect the farmer in return. () llr country would l>e saved from desolation, ami our cause lie forwarded to a happy end. Th s* are earnest words. We beg you to heed them. CosrißEssiosAL—We regret that our limi ted sp ice precludes ns from publishing Con gress! nal proceedings We will notice in pass ing, the most interesting movement-, and the final passage of important laws This is just as well after all. It will do no good hero to discuss matters which are pending The following laws have been p.isse-l: AN ACT tojirevetit the enlistm 'it or enroll ment of Substitutes in the military service of the Confederate States. The Congress of the Confederate Stites of Ame rica, do enact. That no person liable to milita ry service shall hereafter be permitted or al. lowed to furnish n substitue for uch service, nor shall any substitute be received, enlisted or enrolled in the military service of the Con federate States. [Approved, Decembar-28th, 1863.] AN ACT to put an end to exemption from mil itary service of those who have heretofore furnished substitutes. Wiikueas, In the present circumstances of the country it requires the aid of all who are able to bear arms: The Congress of the Confederate States do enact. That no person shall b" exempt from military ■ervicc by reason of his having furnished a substitute; b t 'his act shall not be so con strued as to effect persons who, though not li able to render military service, have, never theless, furnished substitutes. [Approved January sth, 1864.1 • Ths exemption bills are still under discus sion. Ths Programme proceeds. —ln our last we ' gave some accounts of the’atrocities of the negro troops in a late expedition under Gen. . Butler’s directions against Elizabeth City in North Carolina. One of the incidents of that affair was not published. We take it from the North Carolina Standard, as follows: •‘ln one instance we have beard of a body of! these negroes entering a private house, and ' demanding dinner, which they insisted should be cooked by the lady of the house. While en- j gaged in preparing the food for her negro j guests,- the scoundrels indulged in the most, loathsome ribaldry: one of them with his foot, throwing the lady's clothes over her back and shoulders, while the rest set up loud peals of laughter.” No doubt the Northern ladies read that iu ■ the morning paper", with their tolerably large feet upon the fenders, surrounded by elegant I furniture and silver ware their husbanhs have | stolen from Southern homesteads, and enjoy it ; vastly. Good anecdote! Else why crown But- • ler with garlands? The commandant at V'cksburgis emulous of Butler. He had better “hang up his fiddle." i Butler is unapproachable. Still the Vicksburg 1 General does his best. They owe him an ova- ' tion also. Some ladies one day took occasion ■ quietly to leave church—a right generally ac corded the sex without question—whereupon he became enraged, and let off the following: Headquarters 17th Army Corps, Provost Marshal’s Office, Vicksburg, Miss., Dec. 27. [Circular.] The following named persons. Miss Kate Barnet, Miss Ella Barnet, Miss Laura Latham, Miss Ellen Martin, and Mis. Moore, having) acted disrespectfully toward the Government of the United States, having insulted officers, soldiers, and loyal citixensof the United States, who bad assembled at the Episcopal Church in Vicksburg on ctristmas day for divine ser vice, for abruptly leaving said church at that point in tue service where tue Prtsident of the United States, and al) officers in authority are mentioned, are hereby banished, au-1 w 11 leave the Federal lines within forty-eight hours, un der penalty of imprisonment. Hereafter, all persons, male or female, who by word, deed or implication, do insult or show disrespect to the President, Government or flag of the United Stites, or to any officer or soldier of the United States, upou matters f a national character, sbal' be fined, banished or imprisoned, according to the grus-ness of the otlenoe, By order Major General McPbersou. JAS. WILSON. Lieut.-Col. and Provost-M ir-hsl 17th Army Corps. The truth i r , th-e pour c< nc it- 1 devils of officers have been miserably disap)uiuted iu the South. They expected to be received “inti society.” Welcomed as heroes. The • miles of beauty were to accompany booty. Somehow Southern women don't like their style. They make it up by importing North ern ladies, and flattering themselves that they are moving in S utheru society, and Veuttheir spleen upon Lite real women of the South Ly all sorts of humiliations and degrajstilus Ln iTi.K from Gaxtt.—At a meeting in Cin cinnati!, on the 7th, the fulioei.ig letter was read : Cincinnati. 0.. Jan. 6, 1864. Mr. John D. Caidwell, Cor. Secretary (J. W. fair Sir lour kind note xtr tiding to me au op portunity to add re • the puple es this city al Mozart Hall, on Saturday night, lor the benefit of the sick and wounded soldiers, uar reached me. 1 r- gret to hay that circumstances beyond my control will deprive me of that pleasure. Re- procat.' ■ your sentiments ot friendly feel ings l« tween th- people of our tv-p-ctive S:at• 1 Hazard nothing in -ayiug, tb it ii> four mouths Aikausas wJI resume her relations with tn na tional guviraui-ut uml r a constitution exclud ing forever uegro slavery 'rom her soil, a- hav ing b< -in th- source of all her suff rings and ca lumnies, aud us opening up a uew pathway of wealth, power and progress, and that by another Season the 11 els aud couum ice of your iiobl.- city will be once more welcome visitors through om all our borders. For the sake of tin Heeding and deeolated South—tosboit'u this lerribk wax -to restor" order ami qui t in the land, and to uphold . ur noble national idifice. 1 would implore you and all I uiuu men, to -p ak Uo word ot |>eace to my Soutuern bruhr. n save that which thu. de-r --rom the moutu of every canuou. or flashes Horn the point ot every gl amiog sword. I say beenu- Iko- t leir leaders will u < , ir p lUIII them to yield uutii the r armies ar.- disp,j ln deadly conflict. Your ob't servant, K W- GANTT. That does sound ridiculous I In led Gantt declined a nomihaiiou lor Congress iu this dis trict liecau-e he was colonel of a regiment, aud couldn’t think of abandoning that proud por tion lor any civil station whatever, until the last ot the vile hord- of invaders was driven from our soil, or watered it with their blood.— That he was hunting for the last ditch, and that, in fact, his patriotism was too intense tixgive up the idea of devouring ami slaughtering yankevs by wholesale, for the protection of his cowardly political enemies who remained at home, and were afraid to fight. He couldn’t sufficiently express bis own martial ardor, or bis contempt for every one who was not lull tilt alter that last ditch ’’ to die- in. The thought o f the “ miserable yaukees ” then had the same effect upou bun as the squeaking of a bagpipe is said to have ousome in ” Measure for Measure." Now. he writes as above. How can Jli'- Federal# have any respect for such a fellow ? Mr. Wilson, of Masnechusetts. chairman of lb.' Senate military committee, has stated in private that be intends to introduce a bill pro viding for raising 800 UOO men for ons year by conscription. Mi. Wilsou. as well as others, sees the necessity of making a united aud gigan tic effort to crush out the rebellion before an othe year is brought to a close, as every day'si delay is an immense expense to the country and leK-eus the probability of ultimate success and lasting restoration. I’api rs.— Wp ere under obligations to Gen. DucFi ry for late Memphis papers. The Gene I ral, with a portion of his brigade, has been doing good service beyoud the uuachita. PSy Capt. Geo. A. Davis has returned from i Richmond. He brought late Richmond papers , forwarded as by Hon. A. H. Garland. The Missouri Sssators. —Hon. Waldo P. Johnson and Hon. Trusten Polk were members of the U 8. Senate, at the time Os the -seces iin of Missouri Fortheir adherence to the Confederate cause they were dismissed the Senate. Waldo P. Johnson is now a member of the Confederate Senate, having recently been ap pointed by Gov. Thos. C. Reynolds, to fill the vacancy occacioned by the death of Hen. K. Y. L- Teyton. He has been admittod and ta ken his seat. Trusten Polk it seems, has faltered in his patriotism, and adds another name to the slender list of prominent men in the Sout who have proven themselves unworthy of the confid -nee which had been reposed iu them. We leain from 'he St. Louis Republican that he has returned home, been pardoned under the amnesty act, aud reinstated in his civil rights. This gives great offence to the radicals in Missouri. Such clemency is. fortunately for us, not at all to their taste The “Westlitche Post” thus pitches in to the President: “This is not the case of a deluded young man, but es an ixperieneed and intelligent po litical leader, who has even been a U. S. Sen ator once. To pardon him is more than reck leekness: it is putting the case of the Union on a stake iu the most perilous manner.” Again it says: “Affairs have come to such a pass, that a notcrioua rebel receives grace, from Mr. Lincoln, while the radical people of Missouri cannot even gel justice.” These remarks are noticeable as a specimen »f the tone of ths ultra radical press. Ona thing begins to appear plainly. Liuooln must yield to the demands of the ultra party and place himself in their bauds, or be will bo uroppod Between them on cue band and th c Di mocrats on the other, his position is alto gether untenable. He will go down in th o canvass of next summer. The Democrats w ill not Lave him. He has no escape but into the arms of the fiercest of the fanatics. How silly, then, to hope for any favor towards Southern people in case of our subjugation. Coati sea- . i lions, political dieabilities, uegro equality, wdh a considerable amount es oaagiag tor the most devi ted of our patriots, will bo our por tion. From VißaisiA.—Orange C. H., Jan. 19.— Mosby surprised the cavalry pickets of the enemy near Warrenton, on Friday last, captur ' nig eight prisoners with their horses aud equip- I meuto. t Orange C. H., Jan. 21.—F.’ght prisoners captured by a squad of the *>th Va. cavalry, under Lieut. Stringfellow, near Warrenton, - reached here. A flag of truce was sent to the enemy on Monday, asking permission for the family of Guv. .smith lo come into our lines An answer w-is received yesterday, refu-ing permission. 1 Persuns just out from Culpepper say the Yan kees are treating our people kindly, furnishing the most utedy with rations, andbau'.mg wood I for them. j A. five corps es the enemy's infantry, ex- I cept -Curds tor bridg'-s, are lying around Cul pepper C. 11. Orange C. H. Jan. 25.— Lieut Stringfellow , captured ou the 22d between Warienton and I Gsrmantown in Fauquier Co-, a detachment of ■i vu men, and a cavalry brigade’s mail; also, the arm , e luipmeuts and hvises of the pris j oners. .- ; , shTvann, r3l* Ze/f \ WOULD respect- —«’’O-z- yhjffyj fully inform his friends and the just received a X --■* supply of gold foil, k/ 4c., tor plugging and filling teeth, and would be pleased to see any one requir -1 ing his servieee at Lie office in VVu-bington. Feb. 17, 1-' A 4-3 m CIRCULAR. NbadQi.abtrrs Trsrs-Misb Deft. 1 Clothing Ilureau, J Shreveport, Ln., Fob. Sth, 1564. ) PHE United supply of clothing, camp and II garrison equipage ou hand at any one time, requires that sales to flier rs be confined to ; articles for their own personal use, and to gurad I agairi-t imposition- upou officers of the Q iir- I terma-'er Department charged w th such’sales, the so lowing certificate will b re juiied: I cert fy, on honor, that I nave this day pur chased of Quarter Master, C. S. Army, the articles above specified; that they are for my own personal use, That I am desti tute of the articles menti med, and have not puicha-i d them or any of them from the gov ernment or any article that could be uaed in lieu thereof, equal to a soldier’s allowance, as prescribed by General Ord r. No. 100, A. and T. G Command, of Department, dated, Rich mond, Va , Decemlier Btb, 1862. At ihe same time, the Quarter Master will i furnish the officer to whom the arti les are i sold, a certificate naming tba articles and amount of sales, which certificate shall be de posited with the officer making the next sale who will, on such further sale, give the officer a like certificate. [Signed.) W. H. HAYNES, Maj. and Qr. Master, C. S. Army, Clothing Bureau, Trans-Miss Dept. Approved: By order of Lt. Gen. E. Kirbt Smith. (Signed) W.R BOGGS, Brig. Gen., and Chief of-Staff. Gjfice Chief of Quarter Master Bureau, ) Shreveport, La., Feb. Sth, 1864. j Approved. Sale# to officers will be disallow ed aud the officer making the sale will be re quire t to account for the property sold, unices the sale is in accordance with the terms of this circular. (Signed.) L. W. O. BANNON, 4-4 w Lt. Col. Chief Qr. Mr. Bureau. FOR S AlxC. f'OUR Four-Mule WAGONSwith ir onaxels and good bodies. I Apply at MORRILL A PHILLIPS’ ; Feb, 12, 1864. Livery Stable. A Gmod Horse For Sale. 1 PPLY at this office. A J«- >7, IMA Bdqbs. Post WXsHitfaTok, Ark., ! February 15th, 1864. / special Order "? ‘ ’ Washington, Ark. J ‘ mHE tmdersigne 1. Manufacturing Quarter • JL Master tor tue District of Arkansas, having exclusive control of all Beef Hides belonging - tv the Government, hereby notifies all per- ons, tanners an 1 speculators in particular, xot to purchase government bides from any perse n having charge thereof, except from iiin self or bis agents authorized to make contracts for leather. Any bides purchased by any citizen from at y officer or soldier, in violation of this not.ee. will be taken possession of for the Use and beu.-fi* of the Govt-rumeut. ; A) g ->d citizen- are re-pectfully requested to like caie ot all tides letl by detached com mands—i.otitying me ol the quantity and their ! locality. Any labor or expense they may in cur iu su uOziig will be paid tv we. J. D. THOMAS, Maj & Mant'g Q. M.. Dis. of Ark. Jan. 18. 1864. j. tf WASHINGTON FEMAI.F ACADE3IT. 1 ' tT?HE Spring Session of the Washington Fe- 1 mule Academy will commence on Mondav, 1 26tb. 1864. under the superintendence of Mrs. ' Field and Miss Brown. Rates of Tuition S4O and SSO. Payment at the end of each half session. No deduction except in case of pro tracted illness. January *2O. 1864. 52rtf 1 SIOO Reward, RANAWAY from the subscriber on the 29th day of December, 1863. one negro W oman, ' amed Mary, about 35 years old, some 5 feet high, of black color, several her head, aifu her two children, the oldest. Wander, about 14 years old, low and heavy set but small to her age. of black color. The ether, Henry, about 7 years old, also black color. The above reward will be paid for their de livery to me, or their confinement in any jail so that I can get them. Address, JOSEPH EAST, Mt. Moriah P. 0., Hempstead Co. Jan. 27, 1864. : CAMP SONGS! [VST PUBLISHED, in PninfXM mm , al selection of Ballis for the camp? Sixteen p > gee, con niniftg 18 choice ba lads. Price $1 per copy; $lO per doten, $75 per hundred*. Apply at the printing-office, or address C. L.SUTTeN, Feb. 17th. 1864. W-i-' c n. Ark. CHE AZIN 3 TOBACCO. A SMALL lot of Chewing Tobacco for enia at the printing office. PRICE—S 6 and $3 per Plug. A Bargain offered 1 y the pound. Bate. A, IMA ffi, r »UTTUW ’