The Yankee Congress has passed a bill recasting the judicial districts which are presided over by different justices of the Supreme Court. Among other districts, the following are coolly named: Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney; South Carolina Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi, Justice James M. Wayne; Louisiana, Texas, Arkansaw [sic], Kentucky and Tennessee, Justice John Catron.
Our old friend, - Judge W., is likely to have a leisure time of it. – Savannah Republican.
– Published in The Daily Rebel, Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 9, 1862, p 4
