The Huntsville (Ala.) Advocate of the 9th inst., learns that a Captain and a Colonel have been broken of their commissions, and drummed out of service by Gen. Bragg, for un-officer like conduct. Also, that Gens. Crittenden and Carroll are under arrest, on account of the too frequent use of liquor.
Rev. W. D. Chadick (Cumberland Presbyterian) of Huntsville, Ala., has been elected Lt. Colonel of the twenty sixth Alabama Regiment.
The Farmer’s Bank of Alabama, lately organized under the free banking law of Alabama, has just gone into operation at Montgomery.
In Augusta, Ga., cotton is quoted at 5 to 8 cents.
A bill is pending before the Confederate Senate to organize the Confederate States Supreme Court.
A wealthy planter writing to the Mobile Register from Prairie Bluff, proposes to be on[e] of one hundred gentlemen to send into the upper counties five negro men each, to make provisions for the families of those who have gone into the army.
A correspondent of the Memphis Appeal states that “the Confederate Government is now constructing in New Orleans thirteen large ironclad gunboats, on[e] of which is intended for sea service, ans [sic] the rest for sea service and the river. The largest is built by Murray, and is armed with 30 guns. The projector is confident that with it alone he will be able to drive the Lincoln fleet from the Mississippi. They are encased with railroad iron, and are considered invulnerable.
- Published in The Tri-Weekly News, Shelbyville, Tennessee, Volume 1 Number 1, April 19, 1862 and reprinted by The Blockade Runner.
Rev. W. D. Chadick (Cumberland Presbyterian) of Huntsville, Ala., has been elected Lt. Colonel of the twenty sixth Alabama Regiment.
The Farmer’s Bank of Alabama, lately organized under the free banking law of Alabama, has just gone into operation at Montgomery.
In Augusta, Ga., cotton is quoted at 5 to 8 cents.
A bill is pending before the Confederate Senate to organize the Confederate States Supreme Court.
A wealthy planter writing to the Mobile Register from Prairie Bluff, proposes to be on[e] of one hundred gentlemen to send into the upper counties five negro men each, to make provisions for the families of those who have gone into the army.
A correspondent of the Memphis Appeal states that “the Confederate Government is now constructing in New Orleans thirteen large ironclad gunboats, on[e] of which is intended for sea service, ans [sic] the rest for sea service and the river. The largest is built by Murray, and is armed with 30 guns. The projector is confident that with it alone he will be able to drive the Lincoln fleet from the Mississippi. They are encased with railroad iron, and are considered invulnerable.
- Published in The Tri-Weekly News, Shelbyville, Tennessee, Volume 1 Number 1, April 19, 1862 and reprinted by The Blockade Runner.
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