Posted on 11/16/2021 4:43:39 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Friday, Nov. 15.
The volunteer service now numbers four hundred and eighty thousand men, leaving but twenty thousand more enlistments to reach the number authorized by Congress.
The following letter has been received by Secretary CHASE from Collector BARNEY:
CUSTOM-HOUSE, NEW-YORK,
COLLECTOR's OFFICE, Nov. 15, 1861.
SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith, a memorial which has been addressed to me by some of the wealthiest and most respectable importers of this City, praying for a restoration of the warehouse system as it existed prior to August 5, 1861. I most cheerfully comply with their request, that I should represent to the Department, the deep interest which is felt by the merchants of the City, in the reestablishment of the privileges they enjoyed under the "Act to extend the Warehousing System," passed April 28, 1854, and I cannot do so more forcibly than by submitting the appeal which they themselves have prepared. Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
HIRAM BARNEY, Collector.
Hon. SALMON P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury,
NEW-YORK, Nov. 9,1861.
To Hon. Hiram Barney, Collector of the Port of New-York:
DEAR SIR: The undersigned merchants of this City ask your attention to the restoration of the bonding privileges, which, for some years, and till recently, were enjoyed by them under the revenue laws of the country.
By the act of Congress passed in the month of August last, limiting the time to three months during which goods in bond may be either entered for consumption without payment of extra duties or may be exported, the advantages of the system are all but annulled; and the undersigned do not understand that the Government derives any particular benefit from the withdrawal of a privilege that is valuable to the merchants, and of much importance to the commercial
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The Great Rebellion: Late Intelligence from Port Royal and Beaufort – 2-3
Important from Port Royal: News by an Arrival at this Port, and by Way of Old Point – 4
Important from the South: More About the Bridge Burnings in East Tennessee – 4
Front and Rear – 4
Editorial: Why the North Must Triumph – 4-5
They mean by that: Why the North Will Triumph.
Because of superior numbers in men and materials of war.
What they fail to mention is that as of "today", Confederates have actually done pretty well, considering.
Confederates have invaded & taken huge regions of New Mexico, Oklahoma, Missouri and Kentucky.
In Virginia they've defeated Union forces in nearly every battle.
Only in West Virginia have Confederates consistently fallen short.
In North & South Carolina the Union did enjoy minor victories, but those pale compared to huge Confederate victories in western States & territories.
In the end, our editors are doubtless correct, but as of "today" things don't look so good for the Union.
Port Royal has now been established as a base to aid the North to intensify the blockade of S.E. ports. Bad news for Mary Chestnut.
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