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k x'3 v-.' . .1 . TTJ1 on4 mi Krilv n( THE BATTLES IK Missxssx. r w g tt7T - Sldwly we receive scaucuug c.r. affairs at Vicksburg, and we rejoice losay that thej ' . A . . 4 are oot bo bad as at nret repr:u.c. On Monday, tbe'18th ult, the Federals com menced feeling the weakest and most vulnerable , f the Vicksburg worksthe approach by uuin v - - .i Biiu lti aa v - - the Jaekson roaa " Sunday evening to awau,tne auact ci we enemy TO o'clock, advanced to the assault in rrather cutel , ' Cammine and other officers wished to send . : . VWt J .hji... HaiM I - . ' ' to piece. mm almost snrronnded hv overwhelniins numbers, and bur army bzd to retreat, falling bacit within thetrenches ai Vicksburg. The nemy pressed on after us, investing th place soon' a for wards. All our troops were drawn into the city ...a .;;nlnn manner. 1 ney aavancea meir n? close to tbe works, with their negro troop in front and Jay down. Tbe other lines then marched up, and the whole assaulting colon, forlorn hope and all. marched wifnin easy musket-rage. At the words. "Foiward, charge," they re ceived our fire, shattering and decimating -their ranks irrgnuuuy; iuey ?. , , - F. H.-ItctJs a jialive of . Fajcite av 1 1 ii iiici iva' i " - " v . I out dispatches, &c, and I was persuaded to at tempt to run the bW)ckadje.; mounted on the Calonel's horse, Tuesday morning at daylight, I started -on the perilous trip and after running, dodging and sknlking about for three days and fit and fled.- They wera, rallied to tbe charge lour auccessive times, and met with the same storm of iron hail and leaden rain. The whole field jias literally covered with their dead and wounded, vbere rtiey were still lying on Thursday night un buried and without any attention. What a field of slaughter, suffering and . anguish ! What cruelty in Grant ! His dead and wounded soldiers were lef t alone where tbey fell the dead to rot the wounded to suffer and die under : the very nose of tbe enemy. How cruel and beastly to put the'negro, whom he had sedueed from their, happy Ikomcs, and under the delusion of freedom and -liberty, "or by force, induced to, become soldiers, and then put them in front of the battle, to be mercilessly shot down by their former masters and proprietors, and then leave them in the first hour of trial to rot, as so many beasts. - Since Thursday, from all I can learn, the enemy has contented himself with shelling, cannonading and sharp-shooting, and they occasionally succeed in picking off some of our men. As the firing is at long range, Pemberton does not reply. On Tuesday morning, LiCut. Col. Brown, of the Twentieth, Mississippi Mounted Infantry, dashed into Uoymond and captured the place, taking four hundred Federals and about fifty or sixty runaway negroes. Not a gun was fired, and "nobody hurt." The tick and wounded were paroled; tbe well were brought here and paroled. Amour- them were some half dozen Captains and Lieueanti. The I negroes nave oeen Drougni nere anannc 10 wont on the fortificatioD3. ". We regret to say that every report from Vicks burg tells an ugly story about some Georpia regi njcnts in the battle of Baker's Creek. They are said to have showed the white feather, and ran at the first fire. This won't do for Georgia. The report conies from so many reliable sources that 1 believe it to bo true. It was their first battle they were fighting Grant's best troops, aud were in a hot, place. . - Jackson, May 27. The new from Vicksburg is cheering, aud affairs ars'wearing a more hopeful and confident face. The Federal have made seven desperate assaults upon 'our works, and have been each time repulsed with 'immense slaughter. AH accounts represent that it has no equal in the war. The Federal officers are Said to have represented to their men that Richmond had been captured by Hooker, and that the only rebel stronghold was the city of Vicksbnrg, before wjiich they were drawn up in battle ariay, and that by determination and boldness in their charge they might take the place and at once end the war. The troops did as they were commanded ; their charges were not only stubborn but desperate, hence tbe immense hills of Yankee dead that now eover the face of the earth, awaiting sepulture, and poisoning the atmosphere by the horrid stench of their. thousands of carcasses. Our offi cers estimate the enemy's loss' from ten to twenty five thousand in kilied and wounded. A Notth Carolina Federal desertertfcame in last night, and tells the same storyrand says that Grant's loss is estimated in camp at from ten to thirty thousand men. The wideness of the margin in the esti mates will give you a faint idea of the punish ment that the enemy has received, anl of the immense strength of Vickfburg, and the heroism of its defenders. Ourown losa is very small, hardly two hundred. So much for good tcntreneb roents, From .the Yazoo' I can Icarn but little, and from that little I draw a-sigh of relief. The enemy went up the river as far as Yazoo City, and com- mitted a good many peculations? Commodore Brown (Confederate) sunk four boats in the river, which sufficiently obstructed it to prevent rhe enemy going any farther up. The navy' yard was burnt. Cor. Mobile A'dcertiter. The Jackson Mississippian says: 'Welearn from a gentleman who arrived from Vicksburg, that the most stubborn battle of the series around that . devoted placejwas on Saturday,. the 23d, in which the FederalswJe repulsed with terrible slaughter, our boys literally piling up their dead "bodies io heaps. - It is said that Gen. Pemberton has been com- pelled to burn tar and other disinfectants in order to save his troops from the ill effects of the efflu via of the dead bodies of the Yankees that lie rot ting in the sun in front of hia works. It is hard -to account for Federal neglect of such an act of common decency and humanity as the burial of heir fiead. The sight of them cannot be either pleasant or encouraging to the survivors, and will not render them over-anxious to advance against a strong position, when the terrible results of former failures are so plainly before them." Tho Mobile Advertiser says: "If the later reports of the assault on Saturday are correct, Grant's army must now be "badly cut up, and unless he has been very greatly reiuforced, it would appear that the present is. Gen. Johnston's opportunity to move on and attack him in the rear. - The loss of fifteen or twenty thousand men in one assault would be sufficient to demoralize almost; anv hmlv HI N. n : and hot recentlv removed from this V tvy - w y- V State to Georgia. v - i V v - - - LATE FROM VICKSBURG. Jackson, May 30 Nofigbting to-day at Vicksburg. The enemy ha's quit the storming proce6s, and is going to try the s starving. ' . From reliable authority I learn thatG rant is, entrench iog - in parallel lines with our batteries, but out of reach of our guns, and Tutting off commu- nication bove ana Deiow; vy iczsDurg .entirety THE IITFAtlOTJS YANKEES 4 -Frota all quarter?, we see orders issued hx' Yaa?- keecer:requiriog,aympathizers; with, the Con -federates m Wa their lines. As the men cannot be whiDDedwomen ahdchildren are warred up. I on and driven from their homes, which are left to be destroyed by the minions of Lincoln tyranny. Finding: they- cannotluduce the Southern people 4 to admit Yankee-rule, the viilainou ofSeeraare, shfwing their authority by every apecies of atroci ty they can practice .upon them. No respect is paid to private property, tand even -cLnrchea are destroyed and the sacramental plate and cup stolen by the vandals. , The" robes and sermons of vener able Bishops are torn and scattered to the winds., . THE WHEAT CKOPr. ; Westeen Nouth Carolina- A correspond ent writing from Polk.coonty, under date4 of 7Iay 26th, to tbe Wilmiogtpn Journal, says: i f'Jk I enajravelling and preaching throogh'thia nights, I reached a place of safety in rear of , tliej n, exefj apecies of ' devartation encouraged byH enemy s lines, and am tnis lar on my way can. . i the contemptible hrreluigs. .Tb condiiiott of our , friends iu fcoutnrn cities I now in tbe enemy r lines has seen most iniamous ly oppressive in every possible way, and it can tcarcely,.be realized that it. has been endured. Tbe belief has become general that tbe gentle de fensive policy of our Government should be aban doned, and. that the enemy should be made to feel the war "where they can, appreciate it. The loss of hirelings is nothing to them, and the destruc tion of our homesteads and farms is but their pastime and amusement. Let our troops arry the war into Pennsylvania, and Ict-tlie farmerajeel the - - ! ' J J n. ,1ort onr.'nchinat Black Rridirc. and 01 ""r nomes, crops anu property a..u ume- r T V 1 1.1- " ' rthiiiir w be gained." the fords above and below. , , , :.; .. .t JT. . f .i. r Jackson; Miy 31. Information - received states that the enemy's cavalry went to 15olttMi's Depot, twenty miles from Jackedn, on the South ern road, and burnt the depot, a large lot of corn, and 800 or 900 bales of cotton, besides commit ting other depredations. - Jackson, June 3. Tbe siege of Vicksburg so far is vety encouraging. The enemy 4 have been repulsed with immense slaughter in every attempt to storm our works Grant will be compelled to raise the seigcina few days. It is- reported that the Federals are returning from Grand Gulf,. and storming of our works is looked for withiu the next forty-eight hours.- Latjsu. All quiet at Vicksburg yesterday, no firing beard. Grant is evidently, making prep arations for a movement in some direction. Mobile, June 4 -Gen. Johnston commenced his advance from Canton towards Vicksburg, via the Yazoo, on Che 30th May. " lijs jarniy is in splendid condition, and spirits buoyant. Tha interesting-details of Thursday's and Friday's fight at Vicksburg are coming in. Grant used eotton bales for moveable breatworks in their attack. Pemberton mounted 200-pounders and directed his fire at the cotton bales, mowing down whole platoons of the enemy. . An official dispsteh states that the enemy '6 loss-, 'mcluding the action ataker's creek, is 40,000 ('(). Our loss is 5,000. Confidence in Gen. Pemberton since his answer to Grant is fully restored. No fears are felt as regards the result either at Vicksburg or Port Hudson. - , " Jackson, June 4. Heavy firing has been heard in the direction of Vicksburg all to-day, but notbs. ing reliable from there has been received since Sunday. " - It is said that the tremendous repulse and slaughter of the Yankees at Vicksburg on Sunday was due to a stratagem of General Pemberton, who made a feint of evacuating part of - his . works, when the enemy rushed in, only to be met with immense slaughter from artillery placed so as to take them with a raking fire,. BATTLE AT ?ORT HUDSON. Jackson, June 4. A courier just arrived re potts that on Sunday last Kirby Smith a"hd his command crossed the river at Port Hudson, and that the gunboats made a furious assault upon that place. One 6teamer was sunk, and '700 men were drowned. The siege at Port Hudson will be raised, and no doubts are felt as regards the result. Mobile,. June 4. Refugees at- Pascagoula re port another brilliant victory at Pjrt Hudson. Ranks is said to have lost an arm. Rumors. We published the otter day a des patch of the New Orleans Era, from Baton Rouge, giving an account of a defeat by the Yankee Gen. Augurs, of General Gardner. We learn Tn good Tbe time for retaliation has arrived.: and. the. responsibility-has been heavy on the Government for. much of past losses and sufferings.. Let,. it 00 Lltger hesitate to go forward and "fight fire with (fire?1 It ia stated with the assertion of fact, that Stonewall Jackson was from the first of tbe war, the advocate of "the black .flag." We have long believed that policy would save lives and shorten tbe war. The .course of the. vandals shows that it will yet have to be adopted. At the battle of Chancollorsville, the Yankees stated that they could iiave taken more prisoners, but preferred to shoot them. Columbia Carolinian. NORTHERN ITEMS. Condition of" tiie Northwest. The Cin cinnati Enquirer furnishes the following items of ews from the Nofthwest: The Democratic State Convention of Ohio will meet .on the 11th of June, and it is almost ab: solutely-certain that Vallandigham will be the nominee for Governor of the State without opposi tion. , , The columns of the Enquirer., teem with ac counts of outrages by Lincoln's sulditrs upon unoff ending citizens in Ohio, Illinois and Indiana; aud several cases are refcrced to wherein soldiers and J officers have been assaulted and beaten tor no oth er cause than merely . wearing Lincoln's hated livery ' The. comments upon the war in its general feat ures are melancholy and full of foreboding. The follies of Lincoln, the incompetency of bis general, and the atrocious profligacy of his ad ministration, are feorrowfully deplored. The story of Mrs. Vallandigham's insanity is a sheer fabrication she glories in the fearless. and patriotic attitude her husband has taken. The speech of Voorhees, made in tbe midst of threatening bayonets and surrounded by hostile cannon, is pronounced the ablest, and most plain-. 1 spoken and withering oration. evr delivered on this continent. ,t is considered far more treas onable and obnoxious than the.one of Vallandig ham which caused the latter 's arrest. There were more than 75,000 citizens present at the meeting, at Indianapolis, on the 120th -May," notwithstanding that the ground was encircled by several regiments and batteries of U. S. soldiers, and that no one was allowed to enter 'without 'es pecial permission. Voorhees presided, and his speech was received with enthusiastic approval. ' A. Rebel Prisoner Shot. The Washington Star of Thursday evening last, thus relates the mur der of a Confederate prisoner of war, in that city : On Monday evening last one of the guards at' tbe Old Capityl prison, in the execution of his du ty, shot a prisoner, who died shortly afterwards from the wound thus inflicted. The deceased was named John Hardcastle, and claimed to be a Rritish subject. . He had. been employed by the respects, mere wa a cattle, out the victory remained witu us. lne lartkees fled to Baton Rouge"with as much speed as their legs could supply. . The rumor that Port Hudson has been evacuated we learn on the same authority, is also false. Mobile Iribuue, 30A ut. . m Fiqut in Prince William County, Va. A fiht took place at Catlett's station and Rrisroe on Friday, the 20th ult., in which M ajor Mosby's force and a large body of Yankees were engaged. We learn that Mosby attacked the passenger' tsain coming from Alexandria, containing a large num ber of soldiers and civilians. With a light moun tain piece he put a -tall through the boiler of tbe locomotive, which disabled the train. He then captured between two aud three hundred priso ners,, and burnt the train. While removing hiV primers and stores a heavy, force of Yankees, sup posed to be a brigade, attacked Mosby, who charged upon tbe Yankees twice, but finding his enemy too much for his small fore, be was com pelled to fall back. While doing.50, his men scat tered to save themselves from being ovenvbelmed by the Yankees, and his prisoners, succeeded "in making thir escape. We could not ascertain the number of killed or wounded during the engage ment. RiH a gentleman who came from Orange Court-House yesterday says it was very small on our side. -fiicnnwnil Enquirer: of men in the world, especially if they were wi in the enemy's countryj and Grant's army must suffering !tK "wuuauvh ui mi x r.aiNsiLA.-3-rrom in- . j lormauon received in this city 'there can be no 1 nout)t thnt tne FemrMjnla has assault which Grant ii 'making upon our work, ! Kecs. On .Monday afternoon scveral large will hasten tLelimc of bis diicouifiture, as ch lT!,ysP'ts-came up .the York river to West Point, successive repulse waA leave him weaker thuiJ a'i , n Tdaj morning they departed, taking before." - j with them the force at that point. Later" news Jhe Montgomery Mail hears a rutnor that Gen. evuadnd! .,ktown f 88 a?. bn Johnston bas been reinforced .bv 15.000 militU. r!C.ai,ed: 8-nd th.es?PPOsition is that the whol and thr l,. hl ,tnff .l. Jeen. "hdrawn and sent found to the .mtvmsj a S f J j I (JlQ 6omewiiere in that Qtate. The Jackson Mississippi says: MOur city is ! vharlebton, June 4 An official despatch fast assuming its natural aspect. The various ; yen' U S. Walker, dated at Pocataligo, i military departments have, re-established offices j -i P0" that the enemy fired the town of I and beadquartors; many of our business houses R'uon to-day but our forces engaged them and j have re-opened; confidence seems to pervade the Pre?eijted their further advance. L whole community as to the safety and .future well . .A ' "l' despatch frqm Lieut. Col Johnston to I being of our town. We hae been informed by a i Gen-W!ker 88-: I gentleman just from Yatoo City that the enemy 1 "We are ,now in .Rlaffton, which plaCe is in I oas evacaaieu in at piace, alter doing all trre.-ru.is- names, j oe .eneniy iiave reurea. J'0 one hurt )m&c to reinforce Hooker. ftcAmoc7 Z). authority that the statement is false in all essential fRebal abthorities in Richmond, aidin and abett- ing the rebellion as an inventor of military appli ances, for-which he had much genius. He per sisted in thrusting his person outside of a window of the room in which he was confined into the wooden ventilator attached, to it. Though re peatedly ordered to withdraw into the room, and. warned of the consequences of his further persist ence, he refused to obey, with oaths and defiances, and was accordingly fired at.-. .Military Tyranny in ' New Orleans. The military tyranny in New Orleans is growing more grinding every day. Mr G. W. Retterton, convicted of an attempt to furnish the Confed erates supplies, has been sentenced to pay a fine of $25,006 and be imprisoned at hard labor in Fort Pickens for one year. We note some more of the prominent arrests we find chronicled in the New Orleaos . papers: Kx Gov. Monton was arrested at his residence, near Vermiliionville, on the 21st inst., by the Pro? vost Marshal of Plaquemines, and taken to New. Orleans . . .- In addition to the schoolmistress who was fined. $200 because a few minature ''rebel' flags were found on her premises, a Mrs. Allen was fined $30 for saying that the American flag was a dirty ragv Another was under arrest for a similar - offence;', two others for aying they were good Confede rates, were fined each $25; still another, a "regis-, tered enemy," was sent to jail thirty days for de claring that he was going iuto the Confederacy to kill Yankees. Mr Marzoni was charged with preventing chil dren from singing national airs. The evidence showed that the accused, hearing a little girl sing ing the &ar Spangled Ranner, told her to stop ringing that nasty Yaukee song. . He. was fined $30. . . - reftion of country, and noy circuit embracing parts of ibe. following counties: Rutherford, Polk, Hen derson, McDowell and Cleveland, I take pleasure in infpnning you and your numerous readers,' that the wheat crops in this section are as good as they have been for many 'years, and bid . fair for an abundant yield. 'Indeed, crops of all kinds look well through all this. section. The Yankees will soon be disappointed in our crops, for we will have a. plenty Qf bread, to eat, and a plenty of .fruit; to go with It. The' prospect for fruit is glorious.! f , ..." J. -K. J , Crop Prospects.- During ... a fly ing visit through South Carolina and Georgia to Colum bus we are pleased to state that according to ob servation the crop prospects in those States is most promising. Wheat was being harvested, also oats, and corn appears remarkably fine, beitig half-leg. tfnd knee nigh. WTe saw very little cotton grow ing in the fields, and Were told that very little had been planted. The quantity of old corn on hand is large f6r this season of the year, and the price was ruling at $1 50 to $2 50 per bushel, according ro' distance from market.--Planters were willing to .make engagements for new wheat at $2 per bushel. Statesville Express. ' , f The Aflanta Intelligencer, of 'the 28th ult, faysr'Reyond difpute,"the. wheat crop of the present year in Georgia, will be by far the largest tQt ha 8 ever been made in the State. , We have assurance of this from every section of Georgia. In manyt counties harvesting is already over, and in othersj near to us, it has begun, and in a short time theiwheat will be stacked in'the fields of our mountain country; most of "which had been sowed with this -prolific cereal.' - . The Central Enquirer, (Alabama), of. the 2ist ult., says:'The wheat crop is made without a pet adventure or the shadow of old Abe's Scotch cap." A; letter from Clinton, Greene county, Ala., says: ?4W have the finest wheat crop ever known in this cotmty." ; - . ; The Huptsville (Ala.) Confederate says: "DV. Matthews,!a refugee from Holly Springs, told us he. had 'traveled some five hundred miles through North Mississippi and Middle and North Alabama, and never fw such a breadth of land. in wheat, or crops in fiuer condition. This accords with our observation and Information in our late trip .into Georgia, South Carolina and East Alabama, aud with the testimony of the press from the Potomac to the Rio Grande.' The Greenville (Terin.) Ranner says: "Tbe wheat in this section looks fine. In fact, we have never seen more flattering prospects for an abun dant yield than is presented in tbe growing wheal crop this year." Great 'Wheat. We have been shown a bunch of wheat from the. farm of Major John Mee, iff Chattatee Valley, Bradly County, which ex ceeds anything iu the way of fine wheat we have 'ever laid eves on. ' Fifteen stalks, sprinjein" from ; THICKS OF THE TELE Q HAP H. It is no less a pity than a shame, that an insti tmion which was designed to subserve the raost Wr, TUB TODERSIQNBDTcomi? CI0UEH3 OF APPIIJLISE1IEHT f Butt of North CaroIIaa. do h,r.h, ,or . r j - v " - w j wviiara vv. m - beneficent rmblie purposes should is used for the Mff!! lhoM whlc.b 1 Jt tL'' n?Ki; detriment, and thus U converted fro ilnZZttVWWt-p fortb,T rr ; : ti. ti. :. r,zi.z rtum oay". yu uvum circamttanccs it advUabU. uiTiu uasjtau Into four dl.tri... . present circomstances, wa find maurlal inr "4tr Flour one gram, measure about seven taet in neignt, and bears large well filled beads, each containing from 60 to 80 grains. The product of this one grain is therefore from 1,000 to 1,200 grains. Truly a prolific grain of wheat. A number of other stalks pulled at random from the edge of te field, eahibit the same magnificent heads. The -wheat is. of the species . known as -Roweu's seed wheat from Virginia. Throughout East Tennessee, wchave the most cheering account of this crop; and all through the .South, our exchanges tell us that never was such ; bread tli of ground put in grain, and never was there a finer prospect of an abundant yield. What a rebuke Providence is thus administering to the vain Yankee boast of "starving out the rebellion," zJCnoxvUle Register. THE FOOD PROSPECT." The growing crop of wheat throughout the Confederacy, is represented on all hands to be one of the finest ever seen. The average yield, if the weather for harvesting shall be favorable, will be considerably larger than i.n any previous year. The breadth of land sown last fall was much great er than before, and this circumstance .itself is ex tremely encouraging to consumers, who may now reasonably anticipate a material decline in the price of flour, which, by the' combinations' of cold blooded specula-tion and heartless extortioners in all articles of food, has been forced up to'the most exorbitant figures. A kind Providence ha$ bless ed the labors of our agriculturalists, so far, with relieving .ns F ?l j A ; -chief they could, short of entirely annihilating s -" ' . :. . .- Tt C L Tk VI! It" . tCTifie cafuaau uveuuyueau oas neen ner- "i '4 muted tooake the following extract of a private J j . letter from the Rev. F. H. Ivey, Chaplain of the ic 7tn , Ueorgia Regiment, -lne letter is dated .1 it I'l l " i.. if;)Selma, Ala., May 25i !'f 'iJl On Saturday, 16th, 1 f!,1 'Hbie ; battle at Champi our regimfot was in a ter- lible Battle at Champion's farm, about 20 miles on our side. In the raid on Cofcbahee, the enemy carried away about one hundred negroesand destroyed nearly a million of dollars worth of property. fThe Confederate , gun-boat Chattahoochee blew np on tbebartahotfehee River (Florida) on the 30th Ult., killing some fifteen or sixteen, and wounding the balance. She is said to have had 120 praoua on board. ' genial seasons, and in this way is from the worse Jthan Yankee cruelties of, the mer ciless blood suckers fir our midst, wbo with bound less satisfaction hoard up fortunes out of the ne cessities which they themselves have created by their unfeeling practices. How exquisitely must wealth thus acquired- be enjoyed by the human vampires who possess it! RIessed with abundant crops, this year, the country will prosper, in - spite of. the money chan gers, who have no eye to any interest, public or private, outside of the shells in which their own flinty hearts are encrusted. The people and the army will have a comfortable subsistence upon easier terms than' they have for the last twelve months been - accustomed to. The relief which they will thus experience will ensure the vigorous and successful prosecution of the war in this its Imost important stage, and new victories will pavev the way to peace and independence. Let us, therefore,, under the inspiration of this cheering 'prospect, and with hearts full of gratitude to Al mighty God, who has so signally favored ns in our struggle, take courage a new and look forward more hopefully and confidently than exerlo the end. Petersburg Express jpgr We make The following extracts (says the Raleigh Register) from a private letter from a highly intelligent citizen of Chatham County : . hear sad accounts of certain malcontents in North Carolina who call . our army a militarv ! nujb and Confederate Officers "military tyrants. Have not such men mistaken their "locus in quo" ought they not to be informed that tbey most change their principles or their residence.' . V - "Nothing during this war has disheartened me so much as to see men of sense, and certainly OMce men of principle, show themselves xncapabU of forgetting or forgiving their old party hatreds. How can such men' ever- rise to the height "of this great argument ?' There are not a few, I verily believe, who, rather than have ourjndcpen Antn achieved under the lead af ' 7.n t's lis time if ' : u u kA nf 1 :...t m na8 been- tO'US a kind of term inrrut,;,.. v.... : . . . . " . . ,.11 v V it ; "ui ti, , a0ie io merge uieir piuiui personal spite liraiDst will aoon burst upon us in all ,ts beauty and vast I individuals in tfie generous enthusiasm necessary wTiT ' ? -V Cre l comP,eVa to the snpportcf our glorious cause. Ifeartha flmilia?iith9it Dep- A Jn- t 08 CDtireI tbcr re 100 tfj"h5- ad it is this which dis familur with it.gicAinrf . Dispatch. heartens me: I do not mean that it causes despair , - . I have never "despaired of the Republic' and ,i epr worka . Richmond are again in ! never shall; but these creatures are disgracing our full blast. The machinery destroyed during, the ! venerable rflother, while her trae sons are illuatra late fire having been replaced they can now turn 5 ting b.er fame on every "well stricken field.? But put guns rapidly. ; ' j I forbear' ' ' " V Western North Carolina. The extension of the Danville railroad to Greensboro, N. C., will be an important event for this city. It will add largely io its trade, aud. increase very much the facilities of its intercourse with Westerfi North Carolina and Western. South Carolina and Georgia. Especially with reference to Western North Caro lina will the benefits from this improvement' re sulting to this city be of a very considerable mag nitude. The country is productive io respect to its agriculture, rich in mineral wealth, and in t. uegree picturesque and healthy. To hlessinc? into a curse. Tbe Telegraph is as potent for evil as for good, and it is' a matter, therefore, of vast importance to secure it by all practicable methods agaiasUibe abuses. ta . w hicb; . it .Js liable. IVe are not in favor of Government monopolies of Railroad Transportations or Telegraphic Lines, exeept in' cases of extreme necessity, when tha public safety demands this supreme control of the former over the latter. As yet, the Telegraph is under the management of thtf Company to which It belones. But wefdoubt whether the imputation UDdef which it labors, of playing intd the hands j Baeo of speculators,, will not justify Congress at its eef next session iw piaciug u unuer.tne control oi ine Government, as it was proposed at tbe late session. At .all events, if this imputation is strengthened in the meantime by any other acts of a suspicious character, it will not beamiss for that body to consider whether the public good will notbe ad vanced by such a change. The6e remaiks have been more immediately suggested by tbe following passage of a letter, from the Richmond correspondent of the Atlanta Intelligencer, which, contains a statement that justice to the Telegraph and the public alike re quires should be noticed. Says the writer : "Our community was much relieved by the gratifying intelligence that srrived yesterday by telegraph -frotft' the Mississippi placing an entirely different face upon the state of affairs at Vicks burg from what we had been lejl to believe from the despatches of the day before. The abuses to which this mode of communication are subject in the hands of designing persons,-is a fit subject for Uhe severest inquisition of the Government au-' thorities.-' It is bad enough ro times of peace, for whole communities to. be thrown into a state of excitement and alarm by false representations touching matters of ; viral -importance, but it is still worse when.thje greatest invention of the age is converted into an instrumentality for circula ting serious misstatements in a time of war, when the public mind is more than ever anxious" to re ceive truthful information in respect to everything that occurs that is likely to affect our fortunes and destiny. as a people. Under such circumstances, whoever employs the' telegraph to misrepresent facts for his own interest or gratification, is worse than 'the -slanderer "wlio scatters firebrands, arrowy and death, and calls it sprt." It is indeed suimised. that the telegram of the 21st instant, representing the unfavorable condition of things at Vicksburg, was gotten up for the purpose of .affecting the sugar market. -Such is the 'general impression in this city, where, on he receipt of the news, the price of sugar went up fifty cents in the pound. To the advanced price of the article the speculators will hold on with an iron grasp till circumstances compel an abatement ;of it, and so it is with other articles of prime necessity to jvhich lying rumors give an adventitious value. The high prices to which, the lies have given birth, remain long after the lies themselves are detected, and exposed. If private companies will not keep a watchful guard over the telegraph, and see to it that it circulates "the tfuth, the whole truth, and nothing but the-truth," it ought to be placed un der the supervision of" the Government et least for the present, when the interest ofhe people re quire that it should be made the vehicle ofatruth, and not an instrument of extortion and swindling in the haifds of artful and heartless vjll&us." This is not the first timo we have seen the tele graph charged with, a similar offence, whether truly or falsely in any of the cases' we know not. Rut 4ike Caesar's wife, it ough to be free from suspicion. Ry publishing tbe charge an opportu- nity. is onerea lor the partiular offices implicated for vindicating themselves if innocent, or expos ing the parties who bare thus misused the wires for their selfish ends. It is hard, we know, for the operators -to prevent these impositions, but they can always take' down and preserve the names of persons who send private despatches -oh occasions like that in question, and they should be particu larly careful alwajs to adopt this precaution. They can then, if the exigency requires it, hand the guilty names over for publication, which will relieve them from public censure and put it where It belongs. Petersburg Express. w ADMINISTRATORS' SALE. As Administrator of Supar Dulin, deceased ,I he rebj give notice to all persons indebted to-said deceased to come forward immediately and make payment, and .ihose Laving claims against him roust present them within the time prescribed by law,- or this notice 'will be pleaded In bar of. their recovery. A. F. STEVENS. AdnTr. May 26Ui, 1863 1m pd . LAND STEAM EIYGIKE AND For Sctlo. The Subscriber has a Steam Engine (thirty horse power) and tbe neceitsary fixtures fur running a Saw Mill, which he will self on accommodating terms located on ;he railroad running from Charlotte to Statesrille, twelre miles from Charlotte with twenty three acres of Land adjoining. The Engine will be sold separate from the Land if desired. Aly post-office is Oaklawn. N. C. MATTHEW -Ai WALLACE. ' May 26, 1863 3t-pd STRAYED From l be subscriber, near'Qtiery's Turnout, on the 1st of' May,' FIVE HEAD OF SHEEP, two Ewes not sheared and ifiree'Lambs. Description 1 black : Ewe both ears cropped and split in right ear ;. 1 black nud 1 white lamb with right ear cropfcd;-l while ewe and iamb both ears half cropped. Any" information as to their wherenbonrs will be tliankfiJly received, and a liberal reward will be paid to any one takiug them np so that I can get them. WM. L. COCHRANE. O., May 26, 1863. . 3t-pd exist: DISTRICT No. 1 is to consist ef all tie cob.m . of Warren, Franklin, Johastoa, SaPtD ! M Colatnbus, ftstM,, aad ia said DiatrUt ta arU." ?' be as follows!- . Prlc'ku CorB 15 00 I' rrt of ft bo.l..,. . b.beIof4iIb..toi lb., aett oimWI f co . choice white barrel of u iK. . M 100 lbs. M haibel of Jl JVt . 44 bushel, measorsi " 100 1bs,anbalt4 M 1"0 lbs, bal.d M lb. " hhof801bs,4r7tiW lb, fair qaality 7 Meal . Bacon Beef Flour . -' Oatl, baled,.: I " uabaled, 14 cleanei.t Peas Hay and Fodder 18 85 20 00 30 00 ft ft s 3 3 3 Rice, clean. d. Salt S Sugar Urd ' Leather, upper, 3 ." 44 sole, . 2 " harness, ' 2 Wheat straw, 1 Wheat slraw, baled, 1 30 Molasses . 4 00 Whiskey and Brandy 3 GO Iron, roundlplate, 3fi0 00 50 00 & SO 00 50 16 00 CO 85 50 00 50 00 IK "I a"" M lb. lb. " lb. " 100 lbs 100 lbs 44 Mloo 44 galloa ton. DISTRICT No. 2 li to consist cf all iba CSBM West of the aforesaid counires to Rockingham G8iL ford, Randolph, Montgomery and Richmond, eiclBU. and in said District the prices shall be as fvllowi: ' Corn $20 00 per barrel of 6 buifcrU, S lbs to tbe bAjb.P Meal 4 19 Bacon 90 Beef - 25 Wheat . 8 00 Oats, baled " nnbaled M cleaned Peas Uay and Fodder Rice, cleaned ' Salt Sugar Lard Leather, npper, 44 . '. 14 harness, Wheat straw. Wheat straw, baled, 1 Mofasses ' 4 Whiskey and Brandy 3 00 Ironrround k plate 350 00 loibel of 411 lbs r lb. lb., nett boihrl of 60 Iba. S. Choice white 30 00 barrel of lS Jbs, 1 .. qoamy subtrDs 100 lbs " 100 IU . " bushel of 32 Ibi " bulel, oieatorrd 100 lb, uolalrd " 100 lbs, baled lb. " bubof601bs,dr;atUs lb, lair quality IK ,.A '"i avv- t lb. Ib. lb. 100 lbs 100 lbs gallon " galloa m ion. - 2 2 2 . 1 50 00 50 50 00 50 20 10 00 60 90 50 00 50 00 30 00 DISTRICT No. 3 is to consist of all tbe coistlai West and including said counties to Alleghaey Y. tauga, McDowell anl Rutherford, exclume, sad 1 said District theprices shall be as follows : Corn $18 00 pea barrel of 5 bmbtli.lt lbs to Ibe bufbil Meal . 3 15 Bacon 85 Beef . 15 Wheat.. 5 00 Floor. Oats, baled, " nabalcd, " . cleaned, Pea Hay aad Fodder 14 it Rice, cleaned, Salt . Sugar . Lard Leather,, npper,. " sole, . harness, Wheat straw, 44 44 baied, Molasses Whiskey and Brandy 3 00 Iron, round plate 350 00 44 bu htl of 48 lbs to boil. 4 lb. 41 lb., nett " buihel of 60 lbs. fee rboice white 25 00 44 barrel of 190 Ibi, flrA quality suprrCas 100 lbs 100 lbs boibel of 32 Us 44 buibel, measured 44 1 00 lbs, unbaltd 44 100 lbs, baled 44 lb. 12 00 44 basbof50lbs.dr7t!t 60 " lb. fair qnality 44 lb, for good 44 lb. 44 lb. 44 lb. 44 100 lbs 44 100 lbs 44 galloa 44 galloa 4 44 ton. 4 4 3 .3 2 3 50 00 00 50 15 25 25 85 50 09 50 00 30 00 DISTRICT No. 4 is to consist of all eoontUi Wt of and including said counties, and ia said D'nuicl lbs price shall be as follows : Corn Meal Bacon Beef Wheat Flour Oats, baled, 44 nnbaled, 44 cleaned, Peas ' Hay anrr odder t $17 50 per barrel ofSboibtls, 81 lbs to tbe buthal 3 65 44 bushel of is lbs to bail. ' 75 44 Ib. 12) 44 lb, nett 00 44 for 35 00 44 50 00 00 50 00 50 40 15 00 75 4 4 2 3 2 2 Rice, cleaned, Salt. Sugar Lard Leather, offpr, ,soli 44 harness, Wheat straw, . .i baled, Molasses Whiskey and Brandy. 3 00 Iroo, round Aplate 310 00 75 0 0 50 00 30 00 bufhel of 60 III, eboice white barrel of 19U Ibi, In quality supeifia 44 100 lbs . 44 TOO lbs 4 bufbrl of 32 lbs 44 bUsbel, turatortd 41 100 lbs, uobalaJ 44 100 lbs, baltd 44 lb. 44 bush of 50 lbs. dry JtcUsa 44 lb, fair quality 44 lb, good 44 lb. 44 lb. lb. 44 100 lbs ".I00 lbs " galloa " galloa 44 ton. The undersigned baring earnestly endeato!"" ences that bare hitherto existed oet ff is si' VMS Query's P. WANTED, One , hundred ponnds Cantharis ViKaia or POTATO FLY. It resembles tbe Spanish Fly, but is staaller is usually found on sweet potato Vines about the end of Jdlv or "beginning of Angus4. Is collected In the morn- ting an-d evening by shaking tbe insects from the plants lIO bOt waier. iuc io iucu lurciuii uiiru iu luc sun A liberal price per pound will be paid .for them. O JAS. T. JOHNSON, Medical Purveyor, May '26, 18C3 tf t Charlotte, N. C. State of N. tTairollna Wecklssbursi Co. Court of PUas Quarter Seiiion April term, 1863. - i Isaac N. Alexander, IdmV of John T. Raid, decd, rs. James f. lienaeron, wue, . Petition for settlement of the EiUte'of John T Reid. It appearing to the satisfaction' of the Court that N. A McCombs and wife Jane, one of the defendants, in this case reside beyond the limits of this State, It ia therefore ordered by tbe Court that publication be made for six weeks in the Western Democrat, a news paper published ia the town of Charlotte, notifying saiOcfendant t be and appear at the next term of this court to be held for tbe county of Mecklenburg, at tbe court bouse in Charlotte, on the 2d Monday in Jul next then and there to plead, answer er demur to the petition, or judgment pro confesso will be taken and the same beard exparte as to them. Witness, Wm. Maxwell, clerk of our said court at office in Charlotte, tha 2d Monday ia April, 1863. MHf.adT$ WU, WAXWrUVsJerk.. jnst tbe differ the Agents of tbe Goreronftnt and tt holders plies necessary to carry oc a war for ibeir on fr'4 do now, most earareatty and serloofly. call P4,B. 7 m..Tmv tKa (lAr.rnm.nt of their OWB CDOlC, kf i j - f .....ri. this Its life struggle; upon all who woum themielres and their families from the licnl,,0,f:T: pot urn of.a malignant foe; on all wbo would ' "14 own lire, their own liberties, and their own pwi"' from tb band of aa unprincipled, dsvili-b avl bi"" enemy, (wbo hare already declared the enure vonsica tion of nil their estates, and even i heir very astertnis tioo.Ho coma forward at once, wiib oil tky cao spar, to the support of their bra. sons a i brothers jot the fieldand with al! theif .M - 'J". J' jj Gorernmcnt of tbeir own mjng. and 1UU i.j o. beset witJfmanr and great .diflicuhies and dangers, and to.Te tbisw.rof eitort a .g.in.t tbelr owa 1 AUmceful to its cilitens, and so Ureatte faU'ft in. contest ia .bicb their. is at stake. n. K. BCROWTN. R. V. BL.ACKSTOCK, Comrolsfloners of Appralset'ient for North CaroJinsV June -1,1863. 3t Stale oCfl. Carolina MrcklenbiirsT C Court of Heos end Quarter 8tion$ April Ttrm, Jea P. Smith, Adta'r with the Will annexed ot P" Alexander, dee'd, rs. The Heirs at Law of Dsa AJ' ander, deceased. Petition to sell Land to pay debts. It appearing to tho satisfaction of tho Court Marcos S. Alexander aad Wm F Alexander, two ftk heirs at law of the sail deceased, are ,,bb,,ka of this State, it Is therefore ordered by the court w publication bo made for six woeks In the WoswrtH v mocrat, a newspaper published in the towa ct Iotte,.for said defendanU to appear at tbe ' J . this court, to bo held for tho county of Mackloabf' . the court houae in Charlotte, on the 24 next, and show eans why tbe lands de4"4.;" petiUoa should no ho sold according to tho 7 tbe pelitio&or. , . al Witness. Wm. Maxwell, clerk of or ssM Sc. in Charlotte, U p Ua'&2r. 404 ) WM.. MAXWTI. ofSc H J ft 5.
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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