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Confederate Congress.
Senate. Thursday, December 1, 1864.
The Senate met at 12 o'clock M.
Mr. Walker, of Alabama, introduced a bill providing that the compensation and mileage of members of Congress for the second year of the Second Congress shall be the same as are now allowed by law for the first year of said Congress.
Referred to the Finance Committee.
Mr. Johnson, of Georgia, offered a bill to amend the several acts now in force on the subject of impressments, and to define what is "just compensation."--The bill, besides repealing the present laws, provides for vicinage appraisement, and declares that market value is "just compensation." It was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Senate bill to regulate impressments and punish lawlessness, together with another Senate bill on the subject of impressments, was postponed till Monday.
House joint resolution proposing a joint committee of the two Houses of Congress respecting the exemption of State off
The Daily Dispatch: December 2, 1864., [Electronic resource], The judge advocate 's Vade Mecum. (search)
From Georgia.
The Georgia papers of the 27th contain some facts about the raid through that State.
Seven hundred prisoners have been received at Augusta, who were captured while foraging for Sherman's army.
The following extract from a letter in the Augusta Chronicle, from a writer who fled with the Legislature from Milledgeville, shows how the country is being devastated along the route of the invading army:
"Leaving our baggage, we took a hasty dinner, determined to keep the road to Madison until our pickets should notify us of the approach of the Yankees.--About 3 o'clock, a south came dashing down the road at a Gilpin speed, crying "to the woods," "to the woods"; and we wooded.
Waiting several hours in the rain, under a rail pen improvised for the occasion, we determined to go out on the road and see what was going on. --We had not traveled a hundred yards before a party of cerulean-clad equestrian came dashing up, and in a very polite and insinuating manner briefly