Attorney-General Wharton, of Mississippi, has explicitly decided that foreign subjects residing in Mississippi are liable to militia duty, even though they may have taken an oath of centrality imposed on them by Federal authority. Rev. Father Plimmel, a Roman Catholic priest, who has labored long and faithfully with his charge in the Army of Tennessee, was killed by a shell in the battle before Jonesboro', Georgia, on Thursday, the 1st of September. Governor Watts, of Alabama, regarding the present extraordinary occasion, has issued a proclamation directing that the General Assembly of Alabama shall convene in the capitol at Montgomery on the 20th of the present month.
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