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CHARLOTTE, N. C, AUGUST 8, 1865.
Volume 14 Nambcr 678.
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LETTER FROM GEN. HAMPTON.
From tbe Colum'bia Phoenix.
Sin Numerous communications having been
addressed to me, proposing to form a colony to
emigrate, I take this method of answering them,
DOt only on account of their number, but be
cause of the want of all mail facilities. - The
desire to leave a country which has been re
duced to such a deplorable condition as ours,
aud whose future has so little of hope, is doubt
less as wide spread as it is natural. But I doubt
the propriety of this expatriation of so many of
our best men. The very fact that our State is
passing through so terrible an ordeal as the pre
sent, should cause her sons to cling tbe more
closely to her. My advice to all of my fellow
citizens is, that they should devote their whole
energies to the restoration of law and order, the
rc-catublishment of agriculture and commerce,
the promotion of education and the rebuilding
of our cities and dwellings which have been laid
in ashes. To accomplish theso objects the
highest that patriotism can conceive I recom
mend that alt who can do so should take the
oath of allegiance to the United States Govern
ment, so that they may participate in the resto
ration of civil government to our State. War,
after four years of heroic but unsuccessful
htruggie, has failed to secure to us the rights
for which we engaged in it. To save any of
our rights to rescue anything more from the
general ruin will require all the statesmanship
and all the patriotism of our citjzens. If the
best men of our country those who for years
past have risked their lives in her defence re
fuse to take the oath, they will be excluded from
the councils of the State, and its destiny will be
committed of necessity to those who forsook her
in her hour of need, or to those who would glad
ly pull her down to irretrievable ruin. To guard
against such a calamity, let all true patriots de
vote themselves, with zeal and honesty of pur
pose, to the restoration of law, the blessings of
peace and to the rescue of whatever of liberty
may be. saved from the general wreck. If, after
an honest effort to effect these objects, we fail,
we can then seek a home in another country.
A distinguished citizen of our State an honest
n:a.n and a true patriot has been appointed
Governor. He will soon call a convention of
the people, which will be charged with the most
vital interests of our State. Choose for this
convention your best and truest men; not those
who have skulked in the hour of danger nor
those who have worshipped Mammon, while
their country "was bleeding at every pore nor
the politican, who, after urging war, dared not
encounter its hardships- but those who laid
their alt upon the altar of their country. Se
lect such men, and malce them serve as your re
presentatives. You will then be sure that your
rights will not be wantonly sacrificed, nor your
liberty bartered for a mess of pottage. My in
tention is to pursue the course I recommend to
others. Besides the obligations I owe my State,
there are others of a personal -character which
will not permit me to leave the country it pre
sent. I shall devote myself earnestly, it ailowed-
to do so, to the discharge of these obligations,
public and private. In the meantime, I shall
obtain all information which would be desirable'
in the establishment of a colony, in case we
should ultimately be forced to leave the country.
I invoke my fellow-citizens especially those
who have shared with me the perils and tbe
glories of the last four years to stand by our
State manfully aud truly. The lloman Senate
voted thanks to one of their generals, because
in the darkest Hour of the Republic, he did not
despair. Let us emulate the example of the
.Roman, and thus entitle ourselves to the grati
tude of our country. Respectfully, yours,
Wade Hampton.
IMPORTANT FROM TEXAS AND
MEXICO.
A correspondent of the New Orleans Times
writes :
Brownsville, July 8. Lieut. Gen. E. Kir
by Smith, Maj.'Gens. Magruder and Price, and
Brig. Gens. Jo Shelby, Douglas aud Jacknian,
with four hundred men and officers, two pieces
of artillery and in large wagon train, -are moving
from San Antonio, Texas, towards Eagle Pass,
with the intention of entering Mexico. This
information is from a gentleman of integrity,
who traveled with the party, and who arrived
at Ringgold Barracks on the 5th ipst. Ex
Governors Moore and Allen, of Louisiana, and
Murrah and Clark, of Texas, and a number of
lesser dignitaries, are in the party.
Brownsville, July 13. Maj. Texxier, of Cor
tinas' staff, has just arrived from above, bring
ing intelligeuce of the capture of Gen. Kirby
Smith and his entire party. Ele was intercept
ed by the Governor of Saltillo on the 4th of
July, at Piedras Negras, Mexico, about fifty
miles below Eagle Pass, and compelled to sur
render. The victors got four pieces of artillery, nine
hundred new rifles, and a train of seventy-five
wagons loaded with ammunition and provisions.
The officers and men were paroled.
The Washington Chronicle publishes a long
letter from Texas, in which tho following 'para
graph appears :
"I am now lying at the mouth of the Rio
I Grande, opposite to Bagdad. The Mexicans
under Maximillian guard the opposite side and
our troops this. The respective pickets are not
forty yards apart, and there is a good deal of un
friendly feeling between the two armies, so that
they cannot- long refrain from blows. On the
4th of July our officers went over and many
rows occurred. 1 heard this morning that Gen
eral Brown the commander at Brownsville, yes
terday had an interview with President Juarez,
and promised him the assistance of the United
States troops, and had ordered the 4th Indiana
regiment to cross the river. General Steele, the
department commander, went up by a dispatch
boat to counteract the order if possible, but
even if he succeeded, things cannot long remain
as they are.
Warlike Rumors from Mexico. A
dispatch from Cairo, dated the 20th ult., con
veys the following warlike intelligence :
The Galveston correspondent of the Houston
News writes under date of July 1, as follows:
Orders have been issued to the officials of
Matamoras, to prepare accoutrements for thirty
five thousand troops of the empire, the troops t.o
consist of French, Austrians and Belgians.
The reason given for this collection of troops
is because the United States has a similar num
ber at Brownsville and adjacent points.
French officers assert that there is no reason
why the United States should send an army of
eighty or a hundred thousand men to Texas, un
less it was designed to make aggressive move
ments upon Mexico.
The spirit of the two armies is described as
being exceedingly hostile, and there is no affi
liation between our officers and those of the
UErapire.
TnE Shenandoah. A telegram from San
Francisco of the 20th. says:
"The whaling bark Milo has arrived, in twenty-eight
days from the Arctic, with th'e crews
of several whalers destroyed by the pirate She
nandoah last month. The whalers Edward
Casey, Hector, Abagail, Euphrates, William
Thompson, Sophia Thornton, Jireh Swift, and
the Susan were captured, and the most of them
burned. The Milo was bonded for the purpose
of taking off the crews. The Shenandoah was
continuing the wholesale destruction of whalers,
and would probably soon destroy another fleet,
numbering sixty vessels. Her commander was
informed of Lee's surrender and of the collapse
of the rebellion but did not believe it. He be
lieved in Lincoln's assassination, for he expect
i edit. The Shenandoah was manned by Eng
lish and Irish sailors. Some of the captured
whalemen joined her.
It will be remembered that tl Shanan8oah was
war steamer of the Confederate Government.!
An Unfortunate Occurrence. We
learn from a gentleman just from Newberry,
that a most unfortunate shooting affair took
place near that place' on Saturday last. It
seems that a watermellon patch of a Mr Hare
was depredated upon by some persons unknown,
and that Mr II. employed 3 gentleman by the
name of Reynolds, (a Confederate soldier,) to
stand guard and see tbat no one intruded upon
the premises, and while Mr Reynolds was ful
filling his contract, two soldiers of 'the 56th
New York regiment, on provost duty at dew
berry, entered the place and commenced plug
ging melonsfor the purpose of getting ripe ones,
t. en they were fired upon by Mr Reynolds and
one of them mortally wounded. Tbe other sur
rendered' himself up, - and was taken to head
quarters. Our informant states that both Mr
Hare and Mr Reynolds were arrested and lodg
ed in jail.
Mr Hare's dwelling house, at his plantation
hear Newberry, was subsequently burnt down
bj some of the' comrades of the wounded man,
in retaliation, as was told us, for the shooting of
the soldier. Winnsboro News.
The Congressional committee on the conduct
of tbe war have exonerated Gen. Benj F Butler
from all blame in connection with the withdraw
al of his troops after the first attack on Fort
Fisher below Wilmington. We see it stated
that Butler and Col. Mosby of Ya., are going to
form a copartnership for tho practice cf law.
From the New York World.
MAGNANIMOUS TEMPER OP THE
SOUTHERN PEOPLE.
The bearing of the southern people under
their defeat and the immense loss of property
involved in the emancipation of their slaves, is
more generous, manly, and self-respecting than
we had any reason to expect. From the Poto
mac to the Rio Grade, there is not a guerrilla
band, nor any demonstration of resistance to the
federal authority. The influential statesmen of
the South, and their trusted military leaders,
are disposed, to. a man, to acquiesce in reunion
aqd make the best of the situation. General
Lee, whom the southern people revere, is an
open applicant for pardon and lends his weighty
example to a sincere and faithful submission to
te laws. General Johnston, who stood next to
Le in southern consideration, has publicly
given as rational! advice to his fellow-citizens as
could have been dictated by the etanchest
friends of the Union. Mr Boyce, of South
.Carolina, Governor Brown, of Georgia, and
other southern statesmen of equal distinction
have made addresses counseling acquiesence in
the abolition of slavery, anil fealty to the federal
government. The southern newspapers are al
most universally conducted in the same admira
ble and manly spirit. There is no contumacious
sulleness, no captious refining on the Constitu
tion, no refractory assertion of state sovereignty,
no baish criticism of the policy of President
Johnson, none of the hasty tone of self-assertion
once so characteristic of southern public men.
And yet there is nothing servile or craven in
the general tone of acquiescence and submission.
It is the simple manifestation of good sense and
manly feeling, which accepts the inevitable
without womanish petulence, and seeks, in a
straight forward manner, to adapt itself to the
actual situation.
As Americans, the South has given us no
reason to be ashamed of our countrymen. They
made, to be sure, a terrible mistake in going in
to this contest, but once in, they bure them
selves with a resolution, gallantry, -persistence,
and fidelity to each other, which did no discred
it to their public spirit and soldierly qualities.
The herculean and protracted exertions we were
compelled to nialm to subdue them attest their
vigor and valor; and, after so tough a contest,
we cannot deny them the possession of great
qualities without humiliating self-disparageiuent
But the frankuess of their submission, when
they saw they were beaten, is as conspicuous a
proof of magnanimity as the chivalric determi
nation with which they fought against superior
odds. It adds to our sense of national strength
that, in future wars with foreign powers, we
shall have the support of men who understand
so well the duties of soldiers and citizens.
'Considering their present admirable bearing,
ought we to treat hem as friends or as enemies?
When we separated from Great Britain, we pro
claimed to the world, in the Declaration of In
dependence, that we should bold the Britons,
like other ioreign peoples, "enemies in tear, in
peace friends." Shall we treat our own repent
ant brethren with less magnanimity than foreign
nations practice toward each other? Having
treated these brave and misguided fellow-coun-
trvmen as enemies in war, shall we refuse to
treat them as friends in peace? Why should
our newspaper s teem with calumnies on their
character? When they so frankly accept the
new order of things, and the mighty revolution
in their social system, what sense, what magna
nimity, what decency even, is there in subject-
ins: them to needless humiliation and indigni
ties? Nobody fears a new rebellion; nobody
believes that the frank submission of the South
is feigned; and it is unworthy the character of
a great nation to practice a -mean, suspicious,
and irritating surveillance over a proud and
spirited community, who bear themselves with
such self-command under one of the greatest
trials through which any people was ever called
to pass.
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Internal Revenue Decision. There has
been considerable misunderstanding between
the internal revenue collectors and certain law
yers, claim agents and others, the latter con
tending that the Internal Revenue act did not
require them to take out individuals licenses
when they were members of firms, their copart
nership licenses being considered .. sufficient.
The collectors took the opposite view, aod the
matter wa referred for adjudication to United
States Commissioner Osborn, who yesterday
rendered his opinion, deciding that persons of
the elasses in question are required by the law to
have individual as well as copartnership licenses.
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The Postmaster Ge'neral has arranged the
compensation and other preliminaries for the re
sumption of the mails in the South..
THE IMPORTANCE OP LABOR.
Many of our young men and young women
seem loth to go to work. Too many young
men are looking for clerkships, or for seething
to happen by which they can live without man
ual labor. Young men, you are burning, wast-
ing precious daylight. You will have to work,
and the sooner you begin the better. A popu
lation will soon crowd in here, from tbe North
and from Europe, that will outstrip yoa, and
leave you as drones in the great hive, uuless you
go to work now. By beginning now you can
place yourselves in a situation to compete
with the population referred to; but if with
your habits, and your ideas of labor, you wait
until that population pours in, and you thea
take only an even start with it, you will be left
hopelessly behind. t"
No owe should be ashamed of labor. It
heightens the btoom of the young woman, and
is a pledge that she will make a good wife. The
habit of labor tbus formed, she will impart to
her children, and they will be "jewels" indeed,
if reared in the practice of industry, temperance,
and the fear of God. Diligence in business is
a.crown of glory to the young man. He may
be humble iu his circumstances, and may feel
at times that no one thinks of or regards him;
but let him toil on, conquering by labor,, and
maintaining a good character for integrity and
morality, and applying himself, whenever he
can, to his books, and a measure of success will
at length be his, for which he had not even
hoped in the outset. Poor young men, strug
gling to better their condition, often think that
they are not noticed or appreciated by the lead
ing, substantial men of the community. In
this they are mistaken. In almost every in
stance they are known, and talked of, and the
time at last comes when they are taken by the.
hand and led up higher in the sphere of life,
and in the road to success. Labor is invincible.
It conquers everything. The power of applica
tion, physical and mental, made Benjamin
Franklin, iioger Sherman, Henry Clay, Thomas.
Ewing, Nathaniel P. Banks, Horace Greely,
Francis P. Blair, Abraham Lincoln, and An
drew Johnson men of great usefulness and great
renown. Whenever .we hear that young men
are complaining of hard labor, and that they are
disposed-to regaid it as dishonorable, we fee!
like saying to them, "Look at Abraham Lin-,
coin, the rail-splitter, and Andrew Johnson, the
tailor, and at Gov. IJoldeH, the printer; and go
thou and do likewise."
Slavery has been abolished, and our young
men and young women cart no longer depend on
slave labor. If they will realize at once their
situation, in this and other respects, and will go
to work, and cultivate habits of iudustry and
self-reliance, it will turn out, in the end, that
the abolition of slavery has been a blessing rath
er than an injury to them. But work they
must, or they will become the inferiors of the
thrifty and energetic populations that will soon,
pour in; and instead of controlling society and
the affairs of the land of their birth, they will
find ' themselves poor and without influence.
This is the truth. We feel that it is good ad
vice,1 and we trust it' will be taken and acted oq.
Rale.iyh Standard.
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Seduction and Murder. A telegram
to the N. Y . Herald from Nashville, of the 27th
ult., says :
One of the most horrible tragedies ever re
corded was enacted here this evening, resulting
in the murder of Captain M. S. Allen, by H. B.
Payne, and the wounding of a citizen named
Cochrane. The circumstances are as follows:
About one year ago Allen seduced Payne's
wife. . Last winter Payne sued for and obtained
a divorce from his wife, but swore he would kill
Allen. About six o'clock this evening Payne
met Allen at No. 64, South College street,- and
immediately drew a revolver, firing three times,
the first shot taking effect in Allen's shoulder.
The second shot missed Allen and wounded
Cochrane severely in the hand atd thigh. The
third shot broke Allen's third rib on the left
side, passing through hi& heart, and, of course,
caused instant death. The afiair caused great
excitement, a? both parties were among the old
est and wealthiest citizens. Payne is in jail
awaiting his triaL The coroner's jury, rendered
a verdict according to the above facta. .
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Ton Wes- ocatainine over 7,000; AmnestY
oaths, were received froc eoRgia. in, Wasbing
toa, on the 2&th; and two; other containing
oaths from Yixeania. The.
clerical work of registration . very heavy.
Hna firm in London advertises, to the amount
of S200,0Q0. per, annum. Of course all the part-.
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