N. C. STATE CONVENTION.
The Convention has been in secret session so
much that it is hard to tell what has been done.
A resolution was introduced for appointing a
Secretary of War, to have charge of the military
affairs of the State. A long discussion followed,
some dissatisfaction with the action of the Military
Board being at the foundation we suppose. The
resolution was postponed to be considered in secret
session.
On Tuesday the Ordinance for the adoption of
the ;brmanent Constitution of the Confederate
fates was under consideration. iir rv r UiCK.
maae a speecn on qis motion ior suuujimug n. iu a
vote of the people.
On Wednesday, Mr Christian offered a resolu
tion of inquiry as to the propriety of amending the
Constitution so as to allow the people to elect Ma
gistrates. Referred to a special committee.
Mr Calloway of Wilkes, offered the following,
which was adopted:
That a special committee of seven be appointed to
consider the propriety of amending the Constitution so
its to provide that no able-bodied white man shall vote
for members of the House of Commons, unless he shall
have paid a poll tax for the year preceding, nor for
members of the Senate unless he has paid a property
tax equal to the tax on $100 value of real estate, fur
the year preceding; and that the right to amend the
Constitution by legislative enactment shall be abolished.
Mr Dick's resolution to refer the permanent
Constitution of the Confederate States to a vote
of the people was discussed by Messrs Badger,
Graham, Ruffin and Sanders. Messrs. Badger and
Ruffin opposed reference, and Mr Graham favored it.
On Thursday, the President announced a Com
munication from the Messenger sent to Mont
gomery, transmitting a letter from Hon It Toombs,
.Sec'y of State, the proclamation of President Davis
admitting Noi th'Carolina as a member of the Con
federate States, and an authenticated copy cf the
permanent Constitution of the Southern Confed
eracy. On Monday, the 27th, Mr Speed introduced the
following pieamble and resolution :
Whereas, The Convention has been invested with
supreme power, to meet an extraordinary and danger
ous emergency, and to exert its best energy to secure
the safety and promote the welfaie of the Common
wealth, unbiased by any influence that might arise from
the proposed political advancement of any of its mem
bers ; therefore,
Resolved, That this Convention will not confer any
appointment of political trust or profit upon any of its
1 rt wi Iva wo
111V. let uvi
Mr Osborne moved to lay the resolution on the
table. Mr Speed demanded the yeas and nays on
the motion, which, being fecouded, Mr Osborne
withdrew his motion.
Mr Speed then advocated the passage of the
resolution. He alluded to the blockade of the
Virginia ports, and the threatening aspect of affairs
on our own border, and said, the Convention had
been in session eight days, and all that has been
done, was accomplibhed within the first six hours
of the session. lie said that more attention
seemed to be given to the question of " who shall
represent North Carolina in the Congress of the
Confederate States," than to the necessary defence
of the State against the invading foe; the people
havs sent delegates to represent them in the Con
vention, and they ought not to be sent away as
members of Congress; nor should they spend their
time in going from room to room, log-rolling, and
in turning the stone for those who have axes to
grind.
Mr Osborne replied. He said, the subject of
who bhall be elected to the Congress at Montgomery
bad never been agitated in his presence, and if the
gen tic man had seen anything of the log-rolling he
speaks of, he has seen more than I have. He was
opposed to the resolution, because he wished to
luainta'n unanimity Jin the Convention, for the pro
tection of the interests of the State. He was un
willing to be restricted in his choice of delegates
to Congress, and thought the proposition degrad
ing to this body. He knows it is difficult to forget
old party ties, but he would be willing to vote lor
one to whom he had formerly been opposed. lie
mentioned the names of the gentleman from
Orange, (Mr Graham,) the gentleman from Wake,
(Mr Jiadger,) and the gentleman from Guilford,
(Mr Gilmer.) and said he wouldtiot like to be de
barred the privilege of voting for either of these,
if he wished to do so.
Mr Kittrell said, he was not in when the resolu
tion was introduced, and asked if there were any
limit as to time. (The resolution was again read.j
Mr K. said, a large portion of the talent of the
State is embodied in this Convention, and it would
be unjust and injurious to the State to thus de
prive her of the services of such men.
Mr Speed rejoined. He said he would choose
his own time and manner of speaking his senti
ments, and if gentlemen suppose he w ill not do so, they
mistake their man. He said it is rumored in the street
and the hotels, and even in thU hall, that men are wire
working and log-rolling for the office of member cf
Congress, and that it is strange that the gentleman
from Meckleuburg (Mr Osborne) has not heard it. It
ii very strange, too, if the gentleman has buried all
party feeling, that he should allude to three prominent
gentlemen on this floor, heretofore acting with the
party opp6sed to that of thf gentleman. He thought
it unnecessary to come to the Convention to select
delegates to Congress, because North Carolina had as
much talent out of the Couvention as in it.
Mr Rayner thought that it would be better that
the resolution fchould lie on the table; it may be
necessary to extend it he thought he should go
for it; but he su-igtatd that the end might be ob--tained
by each member rising in his place und de
claring that he will not accept any office while a
member of the Convention. Mr it. said he was
surprised at the remarks of the gentleman from Mck
lenburg, (Mr Osborne,) in alluding to thr e prominent
geutlemen of this body. Was it a bid? He thought
this sort of allusion wrong that a certain journal in
this city had enumerated the great naeu of the Con
vention, and to the category had placed too names of
two geutlevueu who were never in any legislative body
before, while the genthman from Orange (Mr Gruhaiii")
was at the tail of the list, and the gcntlemau from Cas
well (Mr Brown,) and the gentleman, from Granville,
(Mr Venable,) were not even named. He said he
thought the resolution ought to be extended; but if
the election must be had, let it be had to-day, and the
matter disposed of.
Mr Kittrell offered an amendment extending the re
striction to members of the last General As.-cmbly and
members of the last session of the U. S. Congress.
Air Osborne again addressed the Convention in op
position to the resolution, and was followed by
Mr Spruill, of Bertie, who favored the resolution,
lie was sent here by men of all parties and hoped that
others who preached the burial of party feeling, will
practise what they preached. He thought there were
plenty of men out of the Conveution to till the offices
required.
Mr Osborne moved to postpone the resolution inde
finitely. Mr Bf-rnes moved to lay it on the table for the pres
ent, acd his motion having precedence,
Mr Rayner called for the yeas and nays, which be
ing sanded, were ordered, and resulted yeas co
nays 38. '
New Flour. The Charleston papers advertise
new flour from the 44 Forest City Mills," at Savan-
1 T 1 , .
nan, grouua irom wneat grown on tne plantation .
of Dr. Daniel, near that city. J
; Personal. David H. Todd, a brother-in-law
of old Abe Lincoln, has been appointed a Lieuten
ant in the army of the Confederate States, and is
.now on duty in North Carolina. He desires nothing
more ardently than to scalp his sister's h us band.
THE INVASION OP VIRGINIA.
Correspondence of the Richmond Diapatch.
Manassas Junction, May 27, 1861.
Messrs. Editors: Haying seen no authentic
statement of the occupation of Alexandria, it may
be of interest to your readers to know some of the
details.
Early on the morning after the election, (about
3 o'clock,) notice was given that preparations were
in active progress for the occupation of Alexandria
by the Federal troops. The Captain of the Paw
nee came over with a flag of truce, and notified
Colonel Territt that the troops in town must sur
render or evacuate by 9 o'clock. By order of
General Lee, commandant of Virginia forces, the
troops were ordered to evacuate. Having done so
twice before, the order was uot promptly obeyed,
nor indeed was the notice sufficiently exciting to
make them do so.
In accordance with the Punic character of the
Administration thus far, the Federal troops were
hurried in, and captured the larger portion of
Captain Ball's company, and, it is said, handcuffed
them, put them on board a steamboat and marched
them up to Washington and through the streets
in triumph. As remarked above, the capture of
the troopers was partly the result of negligence,
but more the result of the Punic faith of the
Black Republican soldiery, it haviog been well
understood, time and again, that the troops would
have until 9 o'clock to evacuate.
Mistrnstiug the characters of the Black Repub
licans, most of the troops collected and returned
to the west end of the town, while the Republican
troops were not over two hundred yards distant,
and might easily have had an engagement even
with the" small furce of 000, without artillery, and
having it well understood that no stand was to be
made. The Republican troops, to the number of
several thousand, formed in front of the river,
under cover of the Pawnee, whilst the Flying
Artillery came down by the turnpike. The Con
federate troops retired in perfect order, and with
out any hurry, and having stopped the train about
three or four hundred yards from the depot, about
6 o'clock, the cars left for Manassas J unction. The
troops stationed in Alexandria had to leave the
necessaries of comfort. There all had to be left in
consequence of the shortness of time allowed. The
troops are new here having left many articles of
clothing and camp equipments.
It must be all right, now that delay has put us
behind in preparation ; but it galls Virginians
very much to have to yield their soil, even for a
moment. Trusting to the skill and bravery of our
commanding officers, we hope soon to see the van
dals driven from our borders. The vandals are
driving out onr citizens, whilst such men as Close,
late of the Southern Protection Office; Liggon,
bookseller; Bennent, dauerreotypist, and other
" Union men ate acting as special guides to the
demons who hold reign in Alexandria.
The affair at the Marshall House you have
already heard. Poor Jackson fell like a hero,
having singled out his man. He was asleep, when
he was awaked and informed that a squad of the
Zouaves had mounted his roof on the inside and
seized his flag. He immediately put on his panta
loons and shoes and met Ellsworth as he came
down with the flag in his hands, and shot him
through with a double-barrelled shot gun, loaded
with buckshot. The squad of Zouaves, close by,
immediately fired upon him with Minnie rifles,
shooting him in the face, and stabbing him after
ward?. It is reported that a number of stores have been
broken open, the mansion House seized and occu
pied, the depot books torn up and the safe rifled
of S75, the court-house seized and the papers all
burnt, besides a number of arrests made among
the rest, Robt. Ashby, the merchant, than whom a
better man does not live.
In addition to the above, it is positively stated
that a number of rapes have been perpetrated, and
all the deeds which you might naturally expect
from an unprincipled set of men who are follow
ing in their train.
These facts are in the main fully authentic; the
rest well sustained by current testimony. It will
thus be seen that we must put out our whole
strength, and humbly invoking the blessing of
Heaven on our cause, advance to the rescue of our
people, before the vandal hordes gather strength
by our delays and overrun the State. There is no
doubt that Richmond is the great end and aim of
the set now sent upon us, and 3'ou may rely upon
it the thieves sent among us will burn and pillage
as they go, when they are fully under way.
Correspondence of the Petersburg Express.
Richmond, May "28, 1SG1.
The intense heat, blinding dust, and boisterous
winds of yesterday have been succeeded by a day
of rare beauty and most delightful temperature.
Our city is quiet, but the people are hard at work.
I need not tell your readers what they are doing,
but if a patriot will exercise his imaginative facul
ties, to a small degree even, he will be at no loss
to ktiow what we are about.
We are anxiously awaiting news from Manassas
Junction. The troops of the Confederate States
and those of Old Abe are in such close proximity
up there, that a conflict at any moment appears
almost inevitable.
A gentleman who reached here yesterday after
noon, and who passed through Alexandria yester
day morning, confirms all the statements brought
by telegraph last night regarding the brutal out
rages of the New York Zouaves in that city.
Stores and private dwellings have been broken
open and robbed; respectable ladies have been
ruthlessly violated, and the scoundrels hourly lock
arms with negro women, parade the streets, aud
tell these sable inamoratas that they desire to make
wives of them. Surely, a righteous God will not
allow such scenes to pass without pouring out his
avening wrath upon the demons.
Df.partuke for Livkrpool The British
ship Sir Allan McNab, Capt. Chapman, which
arrived here on Saturday last, consigned to the
enterprising firm of Cibbes & Co., sailed for Liv
erpool Friday afternoon, having been loaded and
got ready for sea with remarkable dispatch. Dur
ing Saturday and Sunday, 20 tons of ballast were
taken from her hold, and the work of filling her
with cotton was immediately begun. She cleared
with 2273 bales of cotton, valued at $180,000, the
freight on which, at the present rates, amounts to
the handsome sum of 530,000. After leaving the
wharf, Capt. Chapman ran up the flag of the Con
federate States at the fore, and tired a salute of
eleven guns in honor of the eleven stars which
compose the constellation of Southern Republics.
In passing Fort Sumter he dipped his ensign, and
fired in courtesy to that now famous post; a salute
which was immediately answered in hearty style
by the big guns on both sides of the channel at
Moultrie and Sumter. The fine ship wa3 then
towed about six miles out to w. and sha snort rn
- - vaa I
her way to Liverpool. Our special reporter, after '
scanning the whole horizon with a glass could dis- '
cover no signs of blockading vessels. The Sir j
Allan McNab carried out quite a heavy mail for j
Europe including copies of the Tariff of the Con- J
federate States, published some days ago in the 1
Mercury. Charleston Mercury.
WESTERN DEMOCRAT, CHARLOTTE,
WAB ITEMS.
From Montgomery. The Macon (Ga.) Tele
graph says: "From a party in a position to know
we learn that the military plans of President Davia
are but partially disclosed even to Congress itself.
The President reposes perfect confidence in the
capacity and qualifications of Gen. Lee. Men are
proffered in abundance; of money, there is enough
for the present, and if the war should be protract
ed, which it is believed will be the case, favorable
prospects are opening for the future. The utmost
confidence exists of maintaining Southern honor
and independence.
Outrages in Alexandria. We have heard
accounts of outrages upon women at Alexandria
which almost transcend belief. In Europe such
cases semetimes occur in the sack of a fortified
town; but they ore almost unprecedented in the
case of a town, like Alexandria, that makes no re
sistance to an enemy. If these accounts are true,
we devoutly hope and trust that an organization
may be formed to take the direst vengeance that
human imagination can conceive upon the persons
of Lincoln, Seward and the prime movers of a war
which is to be the avowed intention to carry on in
the most horrid and purely devilish spirit. Rich
mond Dispatch.
Mr Jackson, the propietor of the Marshall
House, in Alexandria, Va., who recently shot Ells
worth of New Yoi'k, and was butchered by the
Zouaves, of whom he was Colonel, was the same
gentleman who cut down the Lincoln and Hamlin
pole, at Occoquan, Prince William county, Va,.
during the canvass last yearand prevented its be
ing hoisted again. He was a zealous Southern
Rights man, and would have shot Ellsworth if he
had known that it would be his last act.
Savannah, Xsy 29. The British and Rus
sian Consuls boarded the Federal propeller Union,
off the Bar to-day. The Captain notified them
that the blockade of Charleston and Savannah had
commenced on Tuesday, with the Minnesota, Wa
bash, Union and another vessel. Neutrals will be
allowed fifteen days to depart, but no vessels will
be allowed to enter either port.
St. Louis, Missouri, May 28. Bird's Point
is occupied by Federalists. Harney has author
ized the formation of a Home Guard, and the
Union men at Hannibal aud St. Joseph, Kansas
Ciry and ether places to be furnished with arms,
and mustered into the service of the United States.
All the State troops have left Jefferson city hut
two hundred, constituting the Governor's Body
Guard.
Washington, May 28. Eli Thayer has been
made Patent Commistioner. Gossip says that
Gov Banks favors throwing 300,000 men into the
field. The Secretary of War has requested the
New York Seventh Regiment to remain three
days longer. Consenting, they left to take posses
ion of Acquia Creek
Baltimore, Miy 28. An officer bearing Chief
Justice Taney's attachment for contempt of Court
against Gen. Cadwalader, was not admitted into
Fort Mc Henry.
RicnMOND, May 28- Ex-Governor Wise has
been commissioned by President Davis to raise a
legioH in Virginia. Several companies have al
ready enlisted to serve under him Capt. II. Clay
Pate, of Kansas fame, has volunteered to serve
under the Governor's Legion, and has raised a
compauy.
Gen. Lee and Staff are now at Manassas Gap.
The Confederate troops are making extensive pre
parations, and anticipate a grand attack.
A large force of Federal troops hold possession
of Hampton. It is supposed they will march
down to Richmond.
A gentleman here has seen a letter written by
a friend in -Washington, and sent on by private
conveyance. It says that Winfield Scott is rapidly
failing under the combined influences of Father
Time and a disturbed mind. His step is feeble,
his voice tremulous, and his whole system greatly
enervated. A guilty conscience is evidently lash
ing him with great fury.
Blockading New England We are glad
to see that the Confederate Congress adopted the
wise measure of prohibiting, by a special enact
ment, the exportation of any cotton by way of the
Northwestern railroads and rivers This will sub
ject the North to a most greivous disappointment;
for she had promised herself a harvest of gold
from this flow of cotton up the Mississippi into
her borders, there to keep her spindles at work
and her commerce from the fatal collapse which
she knows this war will brin upon it if she is
uepriveu oi tins great staple.
The news of the invasion of Virginia has given
a stimulus to the military spirit in South Carolina.
Five Regiments have already offered themsehf
They are ready and equipped, and will move at
once. If South Carolina was prompt in beginning
the revolution, she will uot be slack in carrying it
on.
The most civilized Indians on the continent are
the Choctaws. They arc generally wealthy; in
fact their average wealth is greater than that of
the people of any State in the Union. They have
a Legislature, Newspapers, Schools and Churches.
Like all Southern Indian tribes they are slavehold
ers. Next to the Choctaws come the Cherokces,
more numerous and more heard of, but somewhat
less advanced. The Chickasaws are also civilized
Indians and slaveholders. As men. intellectual,
morally and financially, they are much the superi
or of the class of white men brought on from the
North by Ellsworth, Wilson, Murderer Sickles,
and other conuted scoundrels. These Indian na
tions will join their fate with the South in all
honor and hincerity, and we do hope and trust
that their devotion may be duly appreciated, and
that at last a remnant of a noble race may yet be
preserved in the bosom of the Southern Confeder
acy and as one of its States.
Affairs in Philadelphia. An intelligent
gentleman, just from the city of brotherly love,
(save the mark !) reports the state of affairs there
as distressing in the extreme. The business of the
city, which whilom was thriving and active, is now
nearly or totally suspended, and the streets, which
but a short time since, were busy and lively with
trade, are now quiet and almost noiseless. Thous
ands of persons lack employment, and are conse
quently destitute of the means of life. The actu
al suffering of the middle and lower classes of so
ciety is beyond computation, and should this state
of things continue much longer, as undoubtedly it
will, starvation and death without relief or reckon
ing will most assuredly follow. Even in enmity
we can pity, but help them we cannot. They
brought this condition upon themselves, and they
must suffer the consequences. Petersburg Ex
press. To TnE Ladies. There is one way among
others, in which the ladies of North Carolina can
render very material service at this time, namely:
by the contribution of home-made woolen socks.
Every volunteer should be provided with at least
four pair when he leaves home, arid his lady
friends should see that these are replaced in due
season.
PRESIDENT DAVIS IN GOIjDSBOBO.
Gen. Jefferson Davis, President of the Confed
erate States of America, passed through this place
last night en route for Virginia. Our citizens
aave him a warm and enthusiastic reception.
On the arrival of the cars, hundreds of people
crowded around the coach he was in, anxious to
get the first glimpse of " our President."
Having appeared upon the platform and being
introduced to the crowd by Col. D. K. McRae, he
iuade a few remarks (which we did not hear on
account of not being able to get iu hearing dis
tance.) After getting off the cars, he was escorted
by the Goldsboro Brass Band, and the several
military companies in attendance, to Mrs Gris
wold's Hotel, where he was met by hundreds of
the fair sex who seemed determined to eat him
up." Being then conducted into Mrs. Griswold's
large dining room, the ladies concluded to " let
him eat" instead of "eating him." However, they
literally surrounded him at the sapper table and
kept him well guarded whilst he was doing justice
to the excellent supper before him. After getting
through supper, and shaking hands with the ladies,
kissing the babies, and accepting a bushel or two
of boquets, he was escorted back to the cars.
After having arrived upon the platform he
again made a few remarks, in which he referred to
the unanimity with which North Carolina went
out of the Lincoln Union, and the unanimity with
which she went into the Southern Confederacy.
He said he never doubted but that the Old North
State would yn her sisters of the South, knowing
too many of her patriotic sons ever to doubt it.
He also referred to the policy of one Abe Lincoln,
and said that the South would resist to the death
the interference of the Lincolnites in our affairs,
&c. After which the cars moved off amid the
booming of cannon, the cheers of the multitude,
and the placing of "Dixie" by the band.
Goldsboro Rough ITotcs, May 30.
Arrival of President Davis and Suite at Rich'
vwnd.
Richmond, May SO. His Excellency the
President, arrived in Richmond this morning. The
President was received at Petersburg by Governor
Letcher and the Executive Council of the State,
who went thither to welcome him. The reception
here was most enthusiastic, and there was an im
mense out-pouring of the people at the depot.
The President made his acknowledgements iu a
short speech. His presence here gives much
satisfaction and, feeling of general confidence.
His progress through the streets was marked
with many affecting demonstrations of popular re
gard. People rushed up and would shake ' hands
with the President, many of them doing so with
tears of heartfelt joy "in eyes unused to weep."
The Existing Legislature. We believe
that there is a general opinion that the existing
Legislature of this State should not again assemble.
The fact seems to be realized almost universally,
that if reassembled, it will not only inflict a dead
loss on the State of some Jive hundred and fifty
dollars a day while it sits, but pass all. sorts of
bills which the Convention will have reason to
revise, modify, or repeal, and thus double trouble,
and douhle expense, will be encountered.
We have heard of but one man who is in favor
of the Legislature re-assembling, and he is a mem
ber. A good many members of the Legislature
belong in different capacities to volunteer compa
nies, and cannot be here. Raleigh Register.
Texas Cuors. The Galveston News, of the
18th ult., says : "Mr James E Harrison, one of
the Texas Commissioners to the Indian Nation,
reports the crops there in the most flourishing
condition. We arc much gratified to find in all
our State exchanges such glowing accounts of the
prospects of the crops of corn, wheat, barley and
other small grain. The wheat crop, in many
counties, is in process of harvesting."
On the 6th, the editor of the Seguin Confed
eracy was shown a stalk of cotton measuring over
a foot in height, and with twelve full formed
squares out. It was lrom Mr W. Stafford'sfarm,
near Seguin.
Spies in the South. We find
in the Charleston Courier :
the following
" Lincoln has his agents in every Southern local
ity, and a strict lookout should be kept for them.
Strangers especially, no matter how pacific the
pretences on which they profess to come, should
be closely watched, and, if necessary, prevented"
from leaving."
The Courier is right. Lincoln's agents are no
doubt anion": us now. even no. and will continue
here so long as we continue to treat them with so
much kindly oir when detected. Lei one
or two spies be swung tip, on detection, and we
shall not hear of the presence of airy more in our
midst for some time.
m
Judge Campbell and Secretary Seward.
We are glad to see, says the Fayetteville Ob
server, that Judge Campbell's letters exposing Se
ward's shameful duplicity in regard to Fort Sum
ter are having some effect upon the North.. The
Republicans, generally ready enough to comment
upon important public documents and to defend
the administration, had to ponder over, these let
ters for a day or two before they could make up
their minds how to treat, them. A writer in the
Journal of Commerce takes tlie right view in an
article from which we extract the following:
"As the matter now stands before the public,
it is so clear a case of deception and overreaching
the confldence of friendship and sincerity, that it
goes far toward changing the issue, and abating
the sympathy of those who stood up en masse with
the Administration, under a high sense of right.
Should that sense of right be impaired, the "sacred
and holy cause" 'so dear to the hearts of the people,
so prominent in the prayers and preaching of the
pulpit, might loose much of its sanctity.
"If, then, the silence of Secretary Seward in
regard to the testimony of Judges Campbell and
Nelson, two of the most honorable and respectable
of men, is to be understood as a tacit assent, on
his part, to its substantial truth, it throws on the
Administration the responsibility of slammin- the
door of conciliation in the very face of those w ho
came to smoke the pipe of peace.
It was wrong, decidedly xcronq, for Secretary
Seward to impress Judge Campbell with the "en
tire confidence" that Sumter would not be suppli
ed nor re-inforced, and leave him and Justice Nel
son under that impression, whilst the Cabinet was
actively preparing and intending to do both. It
was something like Punic faith and might pass for
smart war policy; but it certainly imparts somewhat
1 ...
ewmvauu iu amen on ouiuter, and de
tracts materially from the prestige we presumed we
had in that notorious affair."
How the N. Y. Regiment Behaved in the
Mexican War. The Charleston Mercury says:
It was the on dit in the army, that Burnet, of
the New York regiment, wrote to Gen. Shields
saying: "You have in your report, done injustice
to the New 1 ork regiment'
The reply of Shields was prompt enough: '.'You
ar?!? u d 1 ,nethein Jstice, I should have
. ? ran ,e Ck 0f d cow
and their colonel at the head of them!"
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NORTH CAROLINA ITEMS.
rr -mi: i inAaa thfl receipt of a dona-
tion of two hundred dollars front "a friend of
North Carolina," in Charlotte. The money nas
been deposited in the public treasury.
" More Troops. Five hundred and fifty Vol
unteers, from Wilkes, Surry, Union, and perhaps
other Western counties, passed by this place yes
terday, for the seat of war. Greensboro Patriot,
of Friday.
Dr. Charles E. Johnson, of Raleigh, has
received the commission of Surgeon General in
the army of North Carolina.
Crops. We have now what is called good
weather, though the mornings are rather cool to
this may be attributed the prevalence of flux
throughout the country. The wheat crop is turn
ing out finely, and with a good season the corn
will doubtless turn out as well. Shelby Eagle.
Maj. W. J Clarke. Amongst the arrivals
lately at Raleigh, the friends of Maj. W. J. Clark
will be pleased "to find his name recorded. Maj.
Clark ranks as Captain iu the Confederate army,
with the additional rank of brevet Major. He
comes by order of the Secretary of War, to assist
in the organization of the army of North Caro
lina, or in any other way to render service to his
native State. Maj. Clark has distinguished him
self in the service of his country he now offers
the remnant of his life to his mother State. Maj.
C. reports all right in Texas. State Journal.
A Ride. A man named Lewis Harbison was
rode on a rail, last week, in Washington, N. C,
for having said that a portion of our volunteers
were Lincolnites.
Percussion CArs. We learn that Messrs.
Elias & Cohen, of Charlotte, have on hand 145.000
percussion caps, French manufacture, G. D., which
they will sell at 45 centb per thousand. The
State ought to secure them at once, and also give
an order to Mr Kuestcr, of this place, to manufac
ture caps as rapidly as possible. Ral. Standard.
Stay Law. The Stay Law passed at the extra
session of the Legislature is very unpopular.
There are several petitions in circulation here,
praying its repeal, or modification so as not to im
pair the rights and interests of creditors. We
perceive that the State Convention is about to
take some action on the subject. There is a large
number of the ablest lawyers in the State in our
Convention, and we feci confident they can devise
a law as nearly perfect as any tribunal in the
country. It is hoped they will do so. Salisbury
Watchman.
A Valuable Hint. Official communications
should be addressed to the officer, not to the person
holding the office. Thus : letters should be ad
dressed "Adjutant General of North Carolina,"
"Adjutant General of State troops," "Quarter
master General," "Commissary General of Sub
sistence," "Chief of Ordnance and Engineers," &c.
The reason for thus addressing communications is,
that the persons holding these offices may be re
moved by death or otherwise, or be absent, and
hence if addressed in their proper names, the
communications may not be delivered or opened.
If the tfficer be addressed attention is sure to be
paid to every communication. State Journal.
Yadkin County, N. C, May 25.
To the Editor of the Salisbury Watchman : I
notice in the last .issue of the Watchman an edi
torial referring to Adj. Geu Hoke's order, striking
from the rolls the name of Col. Caleb Bohanan.
As regards an opportunity being given to Bohanan
to vindicate his course, I would suppose he could
have had an examination at any time, as the
charges made against him were not made by one
person alone, but by numerous gentlemen in our
county, who stand ready to make good the
charges whenever called on. The treasonable
language used was after the proclamation of Abe
Lincoln.
Cheese. We beg leave to call the attention of
the farmers of Orange, Alamance, Guilford, Ran
dolph, Chatham, Forsyth, Stokes and the middle
and western counties of North Carolina generally
to the vast field of profit and usefulness opened to
them by the prospective exclusion of Northern
cheese from the South. It has become a great
article of consumption, almost a necessity, and the
North has enjoyed a monopoly of the Southern
market. Among the other things of which we
must of necessity become independent, let" the
housewives of North Carolina take care of. this.
Let them inform themselves of the most approved
modes of making cheese not the hard white
hickory cheese, so called, which we have some-
times seen, out sucn a rich and nutritious article
as their fine cattle and rich meadows put it in
their power to make. It is not in our power to
furnish them with the modus operandi, but if not
already known by the ladies, on whom we call, it
can probably be obtained from an Encyclopedia, or
Patent Office Report Fay. Observer.
State of i. Cnrollna, Mecklenburg Co.
Court ofVU.it and Quarter Sessions April Term, 1861.
J. A. E.ncs vs. J. M. Strail, James Collis, Jr, aud
Joseph Lovell.
Original Attachment Levied in the hands of E. A.
MiLeod, aud him summoned as garnishee.
It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the
defendants in this suit are not inhabitants of North
Carolina, but reside beyond the limits of the same, it
is therefore ordered by said Court that publication be
made in the Western Democrat, a newspaper printed in
the town of Charlotte, for six successive weeks, notif?
ing the said defendants to be and appear brfore the
Justices of our Court of Picas and Quarter Sessions at
the next Court to be held for s.-iid county of Mecklen
burg, at the Court House in Charlotte, on the 4th Mon
day of July next, then and there to plead, answer, or
demur, or judgment pro confesoo will be taken as to
them.
Witness, W. K. Reid, Clerk of said Court, nt office in
Charlotte, the 4th Monday of April, IbOl.and the fjjth
year of American Independence.
65-8t V7. K. REID, Clerk.
rH1UE undersigned haviiur obtained P-meml rAtm
-fl- of administration from the County Court of
Mecklenburg County, at its April Session, 18G1, on the
estate of the late H. Delia Springs, all persons indebt
ed to the estate of the intestate are required to come
forward and make payment; and those having claims
against the same are reouiit-d to nrrsi-nt tlm,n n.-;h;n
the time prescribed by law, or this notice will be pleaded
in bar of their recovery.
A. C. STEELE, Adm'r.
May ?, 1861 4t
THE FEMALE ORGANIZATION is often as frail as
that of a tender flower. Many of the sex enter into
marriage relations without being able to undergo the
.w";ju oi .viaiernnv. iu tuig countrv, thou
sands of young and beautiful women aro sacrificed
every year from this cause alone. Hostetter's Celebra
ted Stomach Bittrs will pave many of this class from
an untimely prave. This medicine has been used with
great benefit by immense numbers of people through
out the republic, and the proprietors Lave rectived
grateful commendation from all sections of the country.
The Bitters will be found to be very pleasant to the
taste even as a beverage, and prompt and powerful in
its effects as a medicine. "It infuses new vitality into
the frame, aud strengthens the whole system, so that
women who use it are enabled to go through with
labors which would, without it, be certain to prostrate
them.
For rale in Charlotte by E. NYE HUTCHISON & CO.
and by Druggists generally. Mav, 1861.-
BATES OP POSTAGE.
The law which went into operation on the firtt
Jane, requires prepayment in money until the neCe
gary stamps and stamped envelopes can be pr0CBT
at the rate of five cents per letter, weighing Dot
than half an ounce, for any distance not exceeding
hundred miles, and five cents additional forevfr, "
ounce or fraction of an ounce; over fire hundred mil
double these rates. Advertised letters will be ew!!
two cents in addition to the regular postage. All,
letters and letters placed in the office for deliver,
will be charged two cents; newspapers, circulars ..J
other printed matter, placed in the office for de'liv,'
only, will be charged one cent. The postage on JJ
Iv newspapers within the Confederate Statea win
t'en cents per quarter; for a paper published six ti
per week, six limes that amount, and for other p?
cations in proportion. Monthly magazines weigh '
not more than one and a half ounces will bc ti,
one and one-half cents per quarter, and periodinil
published quarterly or bi-monthly will be chared t.
cents -fer ounce. Transient newspapers, pamphlj
periodicals, engravings, &c, not exceeding three ounrt,
in weight, and published within the Confederate Suttl
two' cents. .; For all matter coming from beyond thi
Confederate States double postage will be rharwH
Publishers of newspapers are entitled to send and .
ccive from their respective offices of publication om
copy of each publication free of postage.
Hoops on Duty. The Kentucky ladies are np
to snuff. If any one doubts it, we refer to the
following, recently written to the Cincinnati .
quirer:
As Abolition Republicans are frightened at the
shadow of a ghost, as was Lieutenant Jones it
Harper's Ferry, and Commander Penderst at
Norfolk, the proof of which is now historic tecord,
let such men know that a fierce and bloody re
contre awaits them, when I tell you that over
200 of the finest Colt's revolvers I ever saw hare
been purchased in Cincinnati, at various times and
places, within the last two weeks, no thanks to
the Kgjrlcston vigilance mob, and. conveyed oat
of the city under the hoops of one of tie fairest
and most "distinguished of Kentucky's daughters,
and sent by trusty agents to .her friends in thi
interior of the State. Oh, Crinoline, thou art i
jewel! . "' ' -
From Japan. We learn that the Japanese
are assassinating all the foreigners in the country
that they can catch, the latest victim being' Mr
Ilueskin, the American Secretary of Legation and
Interpreter. The English, French and Dnteh
Ministers have hauled down their flags abt left
Jeddo for a place of safety: The American Min
ister alone remains.
J. 11. SMITH & CO,
(SUCCESSORS TO J.-B. r.-BOOXR,)
WHOLKSALE AND RETAIL PK.U.ERS U
BOOTS
AND
Leather, Calf-Skins and Shoe-Findings,
CHARLOTTE, If . C.
March 26, 18GI. tf
BOOT AND SHOE
E M F O 11 I U M,
Charlotte, N. C.
39
AIIE receiving a choice stock of Boofs and Show of
the best quality (warranted) which they will sell it
LOW PRICES FOR O-A-SH.
March 2Ctb, 1BC1. tf
le are, authorized to an
nounce W. K. KEID rs a cnndiditi
fnr ! wt inn in tliA rffi fif !nutT
Court Clerk of Mecklenburg county. Election on tbt
lu st i nnrsuay in August.
May 7, 18CI
te-pd
We are requested to an
noHiicc J. B. KERlt as a caudiilatf for
re flection to the office of Superior
Court Clerk of Meckleuburg county.
Mny 14, 18(l.
"To our Customers."
We would sy to our prompt-paying customtn
that. we propose to
Continue the Credit BtisincM,
And, to enable us to do so, we MUST liaT
CASH SETTLEMENT
OF ALL PRIOR CLAIMS. Tim becomes nccrm?.
as we cannot now purchase without the niony.
Should we hereafter have to adopt the Cash Sytem,
our customers may know their want of promj'tnr
forced us to do so.
HSIIER & BURROUGHS.
May 21, 1861. Jni
THE Tax Liats for th.yrr 1PC1 are now iJ
hands for collection. " Tax-payers will 'lwM
tak notice, and hold thtmialves in readinesi to p7-
M. W. KOBISOX,
May 1, 1861 lm Tax Collector.
State of 1. Cat ol dial,' lrJ--kl'iilurj: C-
Court of Pleas awl Quarter Sett ions April Term, 1851. t
Jefferson Berry hill and others, ra. Thomaa Y. Be"."
hill and others.
JJerisavit vel. nun.
It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court ihattki
defendants in this case, Thos 1 Berry hill auJ wif0
thia M., John N Todd, Shadrick Lcntile- and wife Mrt, ;
David Emberson and wife Adalinc, James Embtf0'
and wife Esther, and the heirs at law of Susan Bfr' '
dee'd, are not residents of AVorth Carolina, but
beyond the limits, thereof; it ii therefore orderrd bj ;
said Court that publication be made in tbe Wetera ;
Democrat, a newspaper published iu the town
lottc in said county, in conformity to law, notif) lf)6 1
defendants to be and appear belore the Justire oj u
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, v the next Cu"
to be held for said county, at the Court House i n Cbr'
Iotte, on the first Monday in July next, then and th'r
to see proceedings in this cae, and to make them?''''
parlies to said issue if thev shall think proper to d
Witness, W. K. fieid. Clerk of our said Court at orj
the 4th Monday of April, 18U1, and the 8itb year
American ludependeuce.
05-6t ' W. K. KEID, Clerj
Stat of IV. Carolina, HIccKIenburg f
Court of Pleat and Quartet Ssuions April Ttrm,l
N. D. Orr vs. B. A. Gulp.
Original Attachment Levy on Land.
It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court tb'
A Cnlp, the defendant in this case, is not an inhai""
tant of the State of North Carolina, but reside 17
the limits of ibe same, it is therefore otdered bjr J
Court that nublication be made for ix weeks in
Western Democrat, a newspaper published in tbe tr
of Charlotte, notifying the said defendant to be1
appear before the Justices of our Court of l'lf"
"II r , . . wavvvo va wus V V - .
Quarter Sessions, at the next Court to be held for1
said county of Mecklenburg, at the Court IlouM
Charlotte, on the 4?h Monday of July next, tben
there to plead, answer or derunr, or judgment proco
fesso. will be taken against bim. .
Witness, W. K. Reid, Clerk of our said Court at
fice, the 4th Monday in April, 18CI, and tbct!3ioJ
of American Independence. , .
65-6t W. K. KEfP, lfr'