FROM WASHINGTON: Discussion upon the Enrollment Bill; Shall Negro Enlistments be Stimulated (1/17/1864)

THE NORFOLK OFFICE-HOLDERS. BEN. BUTLER is after the Municipal office-holders in Norfolk in a fashion that might well be transplanted to New-York. His Circular Order of Jan. 11 calls upon the Mayor, Register, Assessor, Collector, Street Inspector, Market Clerk, Captain of the Watch, Keeper of the Court-house, Clerk of the Select Council, Keeper of the Almshouse, Commonwealth's Attorney, and Clerk of the Corporation Court of Norfolk, each, for himself, under oath, to report in detail the amount of moneys received by him, by virtue of his office, whether fees or otherwise; the sources from whence received; the amounts of money expended; the purposes for which expended, including salary, for the six months ending on the 1st day of January instant; and also the expenditures in the department of the City Government, so that his report will show an exact state of the financial condition of his department or matter he has in charge, in the City Government of Norfolk, during that time, with the amounts which came into his hands, or were on hand on the 1st day of July, 1863, and the amount which was on hand on the 1st day of January, 1864. Gen. BUTLER calls attention to the necessity of frank and explicit statements in these several reports, because, he says, any want of such explicit and frank statements will be immediately followed by investigation, and such other measures as BENJAMIN BUTLER may be advised to pursue.

By order of the War Department the percentage of men allowed to be absent at one time, under the authority given in General Orders No. 391, of 1863, to grant furloughs to enlisted men in hospitals, has been changed from five to twenty per cent.

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The American Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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From Washington: Discussion upon the Enrollment Bill – 2
Proceedings of Congress – 2
From Tennessee: Death of a Rebel Citizen Prisoner – 2-3
From the Rebel States: Mosby Badly Whipped at Harper’s Ferry – 3-4
From Fortress Monroe: More Steamboat Speculations – 4
The War in the Southwest – 4
Newspaper Correspondents Paroled at Richmond – 4
Movements of Gen. McNiel, Etc. – 4
Blockade-Running on the North Carolina Coast – 4
President Lincoln Renominated: An Address from the Members of the Pennsylvania Legislature – 4
From the South: An Account of John Morgan’s Escape – 4-5
The Irish Brigade: Grand Banquet given by the Officers to the Non-commissioned and Privates at Irving Hall – 5-6
Cruelty to Animals (Letter to the editor) – 6-7
Mr. Douglass’ Speech (Letter to the editor) – 7
The False Charge Against Gen. French: Letter from Maj.-Gen. Sedgwick – 7
Maj.-Gen. W.T. Sherman on the War: His Views on the Negro Question – 7
Gen. Grant in Battle – 7
Justice to Gen. Sherman: A Letter from Gen. Meigs – 7-8
Editorial: The Lessee System on the Mississippi – 8
The Condition of Fort Sumter – 8
Editorial: Female Education for the Better Classes – 8-9
The Whale Fishery in 1863 – 9

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