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Disconra^emcnts oome to us often without «ur
cast» it« sh‘»di)W8 over us, often
I. I-I ■« h-fwen us and the sun.
1 - oiuifuc> ticiEes upon our
11- caQ'*e cgn be assigned
, r, >vp no ht-lp for this. To cure
• .1 r\*;« an ! rush on But G'ld s
110..U «ve a pitseut reuiodj for discourage
ment au«i t'Joom. Their feet need not slide, and
the Word of God standeth sure.
It is not a little remarkable, that without any
material change in the a»pect of our national af
fairs recently, there appears unfortunately to be
settling down upon all claaaes, to a greater or less
degree, the aoirit of discouragement, nol hitherto
felt. It is vain to say that there is no cause tor
this. Bat w« ask, ia the cause, or are the ooui-
bination of causen, sufficient to produce thla? We
think not.
Peradventure wc begin to sec our real condi
tion more vividly thau hertitofore—to feel the
prrssuro of scarceness—of our limited and hamper
ed rfsources—to feel the power and wrath of our
enemy, more than formerly, ^ut to our mind, we
are b-lea^uered with no dimcuIticB which we
■ ght -ot to liHVtj looked for—no surroundings
which might not have been auticipated, if we had
extrei.sed a iiule foreeaste. have not yet
reached the full meatuie of conflict and difficulty
we may eii'eoi. By degrees, Providence put
ting us aiid our principles to the severest test,
that we may learn endurance What God has iu
store lor us, either of blessing or cursing, hoi?
not yet been fully developed.
But shall we sit down and lepine and grow
feeblerfrom stark fear and Inaction? Shall we turl
our sails and take our bertha, and let the'(hip
drive upon the boulders ahead,1)ecau8e the storm
ia high and raging? Never! No, never! Let the
cry, sharp and shrill, frpm stern to forecastle be
heard, “All hands on deck!” It is high time we
bad played the part of men, fully alive to our re-
BpoDsibilitiea and destiny
What greater di.^c »uragements have w« than
our fnthers bad in the seVen years’ strugglo?"
What heavier burdens have we to bear, than
others belore us have shouldered and borne euc-
oessfully? What hardships have we encounter
ed D'ore than others have endured? Have.we
suffered, do not our sins merit it* Are we weigh
ed down, do we not deserve it at the bands of an
insulted Jehovah?
Perhaps our self confidence, our vaunting pride,
our ambitioD to conquer our foe by our own right
arm, our waste of resources, our selfish greed of
gain, may force u? to the brink of the precipice
THE YANKEE AND THE COSSACK.
From the (BnglUh) Saturday Ri*Ti«w.
The great service which a period ef commotion
renders to the cause of progress is that it forces
mon hoaestJy to take their sides. In time of
peace it is easy to varnish over the baseness of an
insincere heart by wordy professions. When no
danger presses the tyrant can talk the cant of
freedom, the egotist can recite th« common-pLccs
of patriotism. But the moment of peril, when
elevated sentiments exact corresponding sacrifices,
teats all such hollow phrases. Men are forced to
choose whether they will cleave to the professions
they have paraded publioly, or to the feelings
they have cherished secretly; and, the alternative
once forced upon them, the choice is naver doubt
ful. It ia for this cause that troubled times ueOTu
more lank with meanness than any other, not
because mankind really become worse, but be
cause ma.sks are torn off, an-d hypocriscs becoitte
untenable, and human nature stripped fairly
naked is DOt a,pleasiint spectacle to contemplate.
Of course the picture is^ all the mure revolting,
the thicker and the fairer the veil by whiuli it
was concealed.
Ic is a gloomy aspect that the t.ederal States ol
Auierioii have presented durinj' the last three
years. For not only has there Iw-’cn a sudden de-
veloptncnt of blood-thirstiness, rare in these later
centuries, and a shameler^s betrayal o luudly-
VMunted principK's, but the disclosure has taken
place in that which used to be pointed out to us
as the chosen Temple of Freedom, tiic shrine ot
thartrue peace which is born of ui*n)ey-.making,
the Paradise of humanity made perfect by trade
But such spectacles, though repeilant. are instruc
tive, and serve to instruct the credulous upon this
side of the Atlantic as to the real tenets ot certain
osten^tious votaries of liberty with whom wc
have to do at home. The ease of Mr. Kverett is
a measure of the value of the noisy patriotism
which has driven on the American people,
against their better judgment, into this inter-
niinal)fe vrar. Few v'ofcos caflet* so eagerly fiT
slaughter as that of Mr. Kverett, and upon f»’w
men does so jrreat a responsibility re.st for the
lialamitics which have bathed the land ia blood,
lie occupied a nosifion from whicli he not only
need not have awakened the lianguiuary passions
of his countrymen, but h« might have done some
thing to st&y them
One at least of those flowery “onUiotss” might
ISave been employed to remind them of the bless
ings of peace, and ot the curses that toliow in tb*'
train ot war. But to the cause of poaco h« whh
not prepared to sacrifii*e a t;inglo iora of influence,
a single ro°and of popular applause. hat wa.'^
he pr- parea to iacritice to the cause of war' H
V •»»»%. W UHV V/* VV«AI* li«
Not until then, we fear, .will "we be willing to | thought it llttie that the western tarmers should
lean upon (rod. Perhaps, rather than be over ] send their sons by tees of thousands to satiate
come, insieau of throwing ourselves into the arras
of France or all Europe, me may then be willing
to cast ourselves upon God implicitly. . When we
are come to that altttrnative, then hava we strong
hope of succcf s.
But ca* Wti exDcct Divine aid unless we be
come a better people? Can we look for palpalile,
direct, powerful Divine interference until we put
away tsin from us? With the coveted Babylon
ish garment and the golden wedge in the camp,
•an W8 prevail against our enemies?
We have high appreciation of our noble ar
my. We have joined in the adulation&ao liber
ally heaped upon it. But it is time we had ceas
ed OUT vain boasting. \\ hat is our noble army
worth without G^od? Our chief commanders and
their subordinates, -as well as the rank and file,
are but as grasshoppers before him. But with all
the boasted munificence and self-sacrifice of our
pcople~all of it not a tithe of the sacrifices of
our common soldiery—with all the skill and
prowess of our leaders and the courage and dar
ing of our men, are there not many Achans both
at home and in the field? Are our statesmen and
legislators free trom the contamination? Are
there not thousands aaong us, who, in spite of
our difficulties, have never yet felt one emotion
or real patriotism—geDuiu* iiupaliie U> serve
God and their country? How maiyr ar» tber-
who have all aiotig'pressed patriot’stAnd duty to
God out ot the wav. .hat they mijht gratify
their Mi«r f r ir^ia. for. po-itum and pla-ie?
'j- I- b'^b am>nj high and low, what
■'••['t: for?
iir .■Hi; uoies, it . j'-nn,: fise, may cura
to
with their lives that reckle.s lu^t i?f empire which
he was laboring to diirnity as a noble aspiration.
His estimate of the valuo ot human blood only
began to rise when the couscrlption called for it
his own home. His son was drawa and he re
fused to let him go. He thus furaii»hed to the
world a precise niea.«Hre of the impo tance which
htj attaches to the pretexts of tue present war
They were momentous euoutrh to require that all
other Americans should bleed tor them, except
only the family of Everett.
The contrast between the words and the deed
wa& a striking one, attd created some sensation in
England. But it was not so striking as that of
which thf mails ot the la.»t fortnight have brought
us the account The eag»*r and passionate aflej-
tioa with which, just at the present crisis, the
representatives of Russia have been received, not
by the mob, but by the rulers of t&e Federal
States, is a revelation of the depths of Yankee
feeling for which even those who loved them least
were scarcely prepared. That their hearts were
receding further and farther from freedom, while
their lips still muttered its formulas, had long
been evident to all dispassionate observers The
j readiness with which they admitted the preten-
I mon that, in prr>s»Doo of insurrection, do law
was sacred, and no excess of prerocative biame-
able, t»etr.*yed sufficiently how liu'je of the true
spirit of I’.bert) had survived in them, llut at
least it was thoughf that the mere recollecti -n of
what they had ©nee professed might still weigh
with them so far a.^ to prevent them from eihfb-
iting any open sympathy with tyranny, except
- i • i ’ 7 -' their own irnm.diate interests were served
T 'lOtl .{.loinpss f.ii.s to lead men to t by it.
r«penr*oce. He does not spare His chastening | The comparison between the Pule, and the
rod. These exi^enc.e., when t..ey become the (^ontederat.s. between Mouravieff and Butler
Wh ■
can e
I is little wonder that those whose national aims
are so marTelonsly similar, and who are at the
same moment compelled to defy the reprobation
of the rest of the civilieed world, should, bo led
both by feejing and policy to draw nearer to each
ether.
tOA THE OBSUVKa.
RocKiNanAM, Jan'y 9, 1^64.
Messrs. E. J. Hale Sc Soi^s: 1 ask a place in
the columns ot your valuable journal for a partial
discu»fiion of the very important quention briefly
touched upon in your issue of the 4th inst. as to
the power of tho Confederate Congress to call
back into the public service those who have fur-
niihed Bubstitutcs.
No one, I think, will deny that if Congress
possesses the power, the exigenciefl of the oountry
imperiously demand its exorcifie To nhow that
it has the pownr is the object of this communi
cation.
I admit in the outset that tke contititution oou-
fi*rs «{on -that body no power to “impair” the ob
ligation of a contract, but I will try to nhow that
the xemption claimi^ by the principals referred
to rests not upon a contract proper, within, iis
couijtituiioual uiitauing, but upon a “priviltge,”
or ail indulgence, and that such stiould be recall
ed, in what you have most appropriately denomi
nated *‘a case of governmental life and death.”
The cuuiract aliuded to was purely and solely
of a ‘‘civir’ character, thoao arisinu between man
and man,, and those iu which pecuniary value was
involved. That this is so, the very fact that the
word “contract” was used sufficiently establishes;
lor the word itaclf presupposes a consiJtratiun
in value, or in natural affection, with the de-
gr&et of relationship establi^ihed to give it efficacy
and make it binding.
.^ueh must be tho circumstance's under which
the main contracting party acta, or the act itself
is invalid, a mere pacttun,” a naked a-
greement.
I hope to show that the exemption claimed by
the principals referred uj ii not only wanting iu
tlK main and essential element of a contract, via: a
coiisiiieration, but that it sustained by the Courts,
wtiioh I have uj idea they will be, they will have
to run counter to their own decisions involving
th« same principle, as well as numerous decisions
of the Judiciary ot other tSiates, is well known
to tho professiou.
Vou will of course understand n^e as alluding
to decisioni made not only by our Judges bat by
those of other States, as t> the «{u«stion “whether
a legia'ativc body could rightfully impose restric-
tiuiis t.ii a bauk already incorporated ’’
There hast buen uo decision iu so u{uuy words,
oi a case similar to the one now at issue, for the
simple reason tiiat it ia the first time the 'jues-
tiun iiai arisen eiin-ir under the old or uew gov-
erniaeui; but the jiritu ipir upon which this case
turns has been weil eit&bliahed by co-ordinate
branches of both.
Bat to return to the question of the Bank-
Tho Supreme Court ot N. (.’arolina, in the case of
the Bank of Fayetteville, a-" to is&uin^; small notes,
ha.s said that a legislative body can impos*^ rc-
striciions. even after a Bank has. been chartered
And they have given the bus* of reasons why
they couid and should do so, and the rea^ims
assigned are that “State necessity” demanded it.
Such a decision would not have b%en made by
the learfied Jurists referred to it there had been
any ‘coutract" which the constitution hai de
clared should remain inviolate, and yet it is easy
to Slow that in uU the essential elements of a
contract, the act referred to was more ot a con
tract proper than was the ciiactnient now under
discussion.
The State act, like the Confederate act, had
parties, but then there was a divergence in a mot
important particular, for in the Confederate en
actment there was an entire absence of any the
least coiiMidernUun, whereas (if 1 mtsuke not)
the Bank paul a bonus at the time the ch«rt#>r
was obtained
Again, to show that the decision ot the Judi
ciary ot N. Carolina was not a noveS one, but that
it »rsis iu the most p«rfect accoidauce with deci
siood again and again made by other States, I
intense concern, in the face of posterity, to throw
ourselves into th« arms ot our unrelenting enemy?
Can we hope tor generosity—jastice with him is
impossible—can .fe hope for m^rcy at his hands?
Let the th jught be banished. Kather, let us fall
into the hands of God.
Lvt all the people, then, hastes to put away all
evi fr'.m us. Let our sins be never so desar, still
they must be cat off Surely nothing is go dear
Ik: and liberty. Let ua bewail and abandon
our -^ud close in with God. When this peo-
p.e sha.i enter on the purpose as one man, to be
free in (jod s strength—whea they cast their idols
to the wind,, and take the Lord Jehovah for their
tfod, then may they hope for deliveraace. Our
army miv be driven into still narrower straits—
ur^eoemif>s like iho locusts of Egypt may fill the
iind y«‘ when (iod undertakes our cause, we
- = ,..*r a-, of oi l. the rus'iing in the tops of
th.; ...ilborry trea«—terror shall seize our fofs
and the victory nhall be ours
It is Sir Hoi^mn mockery «f God, to say we
are in thr nnd iod aiway-. on the side of
Cjr 11^ wiil nurely help us, while we
hu. ,ur ..n. t., our Gad is ,«ureiy on
the si-Ja of right But .vfaile He sanctions 'right
K * righteous cause, he cannot be on
the „de ot the wrong doer. The history of the
world, moreover, does not show that the right
It sh^ws '8 always successful
-oriou/ L yil
'«
«. * ^^>i^ouuded or put t%
patvsage occurs: and true,
bet^k commence with the alpha-
smilfl iJ ** Mother’s love; with a father’s
Sr- ‘ ot reproof; with a
ers in 11 * ' ** ^®*'l>«arenee; with a handful offlow-
nestii > dainty meadow; with bird’s
antB t)ut not touched with creeping
almost imperceptible emmenta; with
dir in shady lanes, and with thoughts
c- iea in sweet and kindly tones and words to
benovelsnce, to deeds of virtue
^ ^ good—to God himself.
-^duel wag fought in Texas between a Mr. 8
^ ^ott A. W. Knott. The result was that
oirrl' Under these
wouKVot rather b« ihott than
upholding their cause in Kurland, and who stil]
had some litJeml deccticies to maintain, they were
bound at least to ».’iow a decorou-i reserve in their
new taste for strong Goverumeat. But the revo
lution of feeling among them is .s • complete that
they have not only ceased to put forward the doc
trines which it Was once necessary to protess in
America, but they seem altogether to have for
gotten that such doctriacs wre ovr avowed.
Mayor Opdyke and Secretary Seward write aii if
their own antecedents and the antecedents of th*ir
country had entirely passed away from their mem
ories. They appear to have no conception that they
are hving in the country which recognised ilun-
gary in ihe very outset of its struggle, which re
ceived and taed Kossuth, which paid court to
Ganbaldl. [t has all pa.sHt>d away like a dream.
Ihey may have protwsed tosympathize with re
bels once, nut that was before they bad rebels of
theit own. Th,y may have a lK.nJ to
Struggling nationalities in pa.st time, but that was
only when they c.»uid embarra...^ an antagonist or
a rival by doing so. Now they look upon m-it
tersmaaifier.‘QiUKht. Experienoe hL taught
^ ““d impjrtanco ot ide.-»s upon
Which they may have idly cast 'iLsoredit in times
gone by. They perfectly understand the value
of a state of siege, and the uses ef an arbitrary
conscription, and the service which an unlimited
power ot arrest may render to a tottering Govern
ment, and the luxury which is felt by thorough-
goiug partiiiano in insulting disaffected women.
They now unior.staud, what they were slow to
comprehend before, that when the lust fo4^rri-
torial cxpansioh has become, a master passion, it
is compatiblg^ with no remnant of human pity-
Those who cuvet the rule of continents, and reck
not of the enmity of the populations who inhabit
them, must not flinch at the sight of human suf
fering, .or shrink from the guilt ot wholesale car
nage.
Russia and the Federal States are the only tiro
countries in the world in which this mania had
possessed the souls of the population, and thrusts
out every better and softer feeling. I a both the
misery of whole nations trampled under toot, the
sacrifice of freedom at home, the loss of esteem and
character abroad, are couivted as nothing in com
parison with tho one great objcct of ambition.
The desolation of territories, and tho extmctioa
of VMt masses ot human beings, are a cheap price
in the eyes ol tae Eastern Autocrat and the West
ern Republic, to pay for extended empire. In both
there is a pretence of higher motives. The Rus
sians profess a special care for the orthodox reli-
gioci, and extirpate Catholics in its name. The
yankees affect a sudden enthusiasm for negro
freedom, and massacre wholo populations of white
men in its behalf. But in each the crusade is a
hollow pretence; in each the greed of empire is
the oue motive to which every human sympathy
and «Tery diyin® law is compelled to bend, it
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TANSIEE ATR0CITIK8 IN NORTH CAROLINA. > PROM THE NOItfii ^vv^s.
We publish below, from the New York Daily Hotoe’t JPropotition to (kmcrihe a MLUiun of h'rum Xurihe.m Yinji„ia Tiic
News, an aocountof Gen. Wild’s late raid through Men.—The New York Time^, commenting on the ! landintr of the Yunkt es* in
the counties of Curritttck, Camden and Pasquo- j bill of Senator Howe, of Wisconsin, to call out a creek is n -t confirmed
tank, North Carolina. It will be’found that our | million of men for ninety days, bays it would j The latest news we haw
report «t ttie
any force- at Actjuia
will mention a precisely analagous case.
In i805 tho Penobscot Bank waa incorporated
by the Legislature of Massachusetta; the penalty
fur a tailure to redeem its notes was (j per cent
In I'^Uy ttie Banking institutions ot that titate
suspended, aud the Legislature ot that year im
po.*ed 2 additional per cent, per month upon all
Banks failing to redeem their notes on demand
A case was made up; the counsel tor the Bank
denied the cunstifcutionaiily of the act ot lb09
coutenuiug that it “impaired the obligation of a
cuntnct;” but what said the cou.t? “The in
corporation ol a Banking Company wx' a privi-
Ixjt couterrcd by tho Legislature;” that punctu
ality and promptness in meeting every demand
on eucn an institution was essential to its exist
cntjo,_and a failure iu. this rcsjiect was such
public uiconvenu:nce as authorised the aaditional
'1 per cent, complained of.
Ttie names of tho parties I have forgotten, but
will lurthcr stale that the books of the protesaion
arc tilled with similar decisious, as is well known
to every lawyer.
But It has been said, that admitting the enact-
n^>nt was only an “agreement,” should not even
agreements bind honorable men? and was not
the plighted laith of tho government pledged to
Carry it out?
To til* first interrogatory 1 answer, undoubtedly
they should, unlc** iuterveniug circumstances
interpose, which go plainly to show that the agree
ment would not have been made if the*circum-
stauccs had been foreseen. (I speak here of'an
agreement without any the least consideration,
Kiinply "ex jrulia.”')
'J’o tho second interrogatory, if not already
disposed of, I answer, no.
Jjct us try it by this teat: A promises B, that
on a given day he will loan him his horse. B
makes all the neccssary arrangements for his
journey, and with urirent business on hand asks
its performance; but ne is disappointed; and why?
Because in the mean time A’a famil_^ waa taken
sick, and a physician must be sent for. The non-
perlormance of the agreement was justifiable
and why? Because it was with A a case of the
greatest emergency.
The government “agrees” with this principal
that he may put lu a substitute and obtain a dis
charge; the exempt claims, that the dischar‘-e
waa tiaal,.but the government says, not ao for
tiuce your discharge, the life or death of the
bod3 politic 19 most imminently at issue in tha.war
1 am now prosecuting for your independence. At
the time I entered into the agreement I had no
idea that this war would assume such gigantic
proportions, still less did I suppose that it would
be prosecuted on the part of the enemy with such
tr.iiii the Northern
accounts of hia infamous proceedings, bad as they : take three months ta get a mill; jn of men mus- j Yankees werr- i»lii„^ buck afv”r
were, were oonsiderably underdrawn, and told | tered into the service, three months longer to | ^^gtVoviuP-a laree amom. i o nr,.r.-rr. ■,
but half of the truth. We invite the attention i drill and brigade them, and require o6,000 offi. .u . ^ . r -n- . \
of the reader to this account: j cers, who cannot Ibe found:
Norfolk, Dec 28, I8(i8
To ffie Sditor of the JNew York News.
The policy of Gen. Nagle*?, during his brief
military rule over the citizens of Norfolk and vi
cinity, was marked by so many courtesies and
kind acts, that it waa apparent to the most casual
observer, had he remained to have controlled this
department six months longer, fourtiiUis oi our
population would, under his mild, beneficent
sway, long sinue have earnestly arrayed ihem-
‘•Considering the state of the South, however,
it would seam wia« for our crusaders to take at
least a million ot sheep with them to cook as they
went along, and it would be well for every man
to -Irivo his own animal.
i They would be ^ure to die like cockroaehe-i
; before tl;ey ever got near the enemy. Aud we
j need hardly &ay, that when they did meet ‘him,
j ten tbojsaed of such troops a®. Lee or Johnston
{ command would
iiad
be a match for oue hundred
selves on the side ot his Governfuent. I'he grate- ; thcuusand of them, and would readily drive thnt
ful resultvs of the law ot kindhesb were everywhere j number off the fi-;ld in utter rout,
made manifet’t. Order sprang out of chaos. No ; The sole result of this ‘‘grand uprising” would,
man appealed to him in vain wiio had grievanceb therotore, prooably b«> the desolation of Kt>uio
a malignant and fiendish hate. I
must not ojly
revoke the indulgence given, by calling you back
into the service of your country, but I must like
wise keep the substitute himself. Who is there
that docs not say, (in the case put,) tHlt the
government as well as the individual has been
released by the force of overpowering circum
stances from carrying out the “agreement?”
The question then simply turns upon whether
It m reality be a case of “political life or death "
as you have most appropriately denominated it.
lo argue this, and attempt to prove it such, would
be an insult to the understanding of your readers
for it is beooming more and more apparent every
Riohmoju> Ck)xjjixv«
to be redressed. Persons and property were held
inviolate, cxccpt for pressing mijiiary purposes;
ac.d justice waa administered with an even hand
to the luyai aud disloyal alike. accorJIng to their
respective deserts. The most humble, without
being kept waiting at the door by official menials,
had a ready audience; aud the mackitiery ot Gov
ernment moved on, as by clo.ck-work. Indeed,
such was the ajvendanoy acquired over iKe people
that upon his removal many hot-headed secession
ists declared they were rejoiced at the contem
plated change, because ho was fast insinuating
himself into the good graaos ot our people; mak
ing thedTfeel that the government, of which he
waa the honored representative, still cherished
for her erring sons a feeling of parental kindness.
But Mr. Lincoln, or his advisers, grown drunk
with power, spirited away this good man, to make
room for another, and now what is our condition?
I speak it in plain truth. I «peak it xs Tnion
men trom the beginning speak it. It ia a Kc»gn
of Terror. Gen. Wild seems to be independent
of Gen. Barne., who, we believe, if he had the
power, would deal kindty and gently with us, re
ports only to General Burler. Ho has visited
the surrounding country v^ith fire and sword,
literally so, and far beyond tho Federal lines de
vastated whole pnjvinces; and threatens that this
is only the beginning of that terrible vengeance
which be purposes to «aU down upon the beads
of defenceless women and children.
In the county ot I’asquotank, Nortti Caiolina,
40 miles from Norfolk, lie hung Daniel Bright
at bis own house, becau."e it was bciiaved he waa
attached to an organiaed, eomiuiaaioned guerilla
company. He seized mo-e than lOU,0(»u dollars
worth ot [>en!ou:il pioperty in the adjoining
counties; stripped the larmere ot every living
thing, ahd brought it ail away, leaving hundreds
ot inhabitants without a pound of meat or a peck
ot meal.
Many of these people, to mj' knowledge, were
loyal, and had been so tor month**; suflering for
this loyalty persecution from their own people.
They had certificates of protection from the former
commandants oi this post; and no mao questioned
their good faith. When ho took the property of
•Mr. Morrisctts, ot Camden county, North Car>
lina, he interposed,his ocrtificatc of loyalty; Gen.
Wild paused tor a moment, took the property,
however, promining to return it when he reached
Norfolk. The old man foliowe I him to this city,
and again pressed to his attention his promise
nnd the shield of a Government manifesto, but
in vain. The gentleman flatly told him this pro
perty belonged to his negroe.-, aud his loyalty
did not protcct him. I saw the tear gush from
the old man’s eye as he turned away, muttering
in the anguLsh of his broken heart, “I am a ruin
ed man; my children are beggars.”
Negroes were permitt«d to curse and abuse de
fenceless ladies, to strip them ot their jewelry
and olothing, and offer them indignities which
would ofleud delicacy to repeat A small Con
federate force captured two of his negroes in a
skirmish, and for this he outraged all the laws of
civilizcd war. He arrest«d two ladies of high
character, permitted a brutal negro soldiery to
tie them hand and toot, {tx I believe and am
credibly informed,) and kept them in this con
dition for two days and nights; brought them to
Norfolk, and bow keeps them confined ia a close
room, 'i'hese he holds as hostages for the return
of his negroes. He visited the farm of Mr.
Gregory, an old man of seventy odd years of age,
who I feel certain never took any part in this
war—set fTre to his dwelling and outhouiies, cf
immense value, and burned them to the ground;
stripped him of all his personal estate, and
brought him a priaioner to Norfolk. The old
man, bowed under tbe weight of many years, in
firm in health, wcep:> iu sorrow on his sad and
melancholy fate, declanug before God and man,
he uevcr had raised his hand iu aid of this unholy
war. He, also, is held as a hostage. I am ready
to exclaim, witu Madam Roland, Ob! Liberty,
how many crimes have been committed in thy
name.
You will a^k mo who ia Gen. Wild? 1 answer,
God knows! Whence or where he came, or wh’at
his I'ueage, the future must disclose. His his
tory IS tainiiy written here in atrocities that make
the blood run cohi. VV hatovcr else he purposes
is not for m* to say. You will inquire further,
does Gen. Butler give his countenance to these
acts of inhumanity.'' I ansvrt'r, in all candor, I
believe not. X saw a letter from Gen. Butler
directing Gen. Wild to make uo arrests, without
specific charges; the prisoners to be sent imme
diately to Gen Getty for investigation; to seize
no property unless under military ncccesity
Notwithstanaing, however, these cxpreas orders,
the property has not been returned—the prison
ers are still in jail. The truth is, each superior
offieer, .including Ihe Provost Marshal, seems to
DC independent in his sphere of action, aud each,
Gen. Barnes excepted, aiibumes to play the petty
tyrant, aud lords it, uncueckcd, over a delenceleas
people.
Our only hope, how, is in Gov. Pierpont. ‘ He
haa been sent for to stay the hand of rapine and
violence. Can he do it? We shall sec. In the
meantime, unless I am crushed beneath the des
pot’s tread, you shall hear trom your correspon
dent again.
hundred thousand Northern itomes, and tbe leav
ing down south iu the handj of Jefferson Davis’s
‘'ragamuffins” one million muskets, one milliou
hats aud coats, and pocket handkerchiefs, several
hundred tons of pie and hard tack, and we were
going to add one million pairsof pantaloons; but, we
believa that our fugitives stick to their pantaloons
as well as their pantaloons to them, even in the
wildest rout lu a word, no force can carry
either food or closing to the Richmond captives
pxccpt a highly disciplined, well ocganized and
perfectly maneigeable one, led by able and expe
rienced officers. The Senate ComBiitteeon Mili
tary Afiairs know this, so they will ot course not
waste much time over the consideration of Mr.
Howe’s bill.”
France and the United Utau* —tu :ne Senate,
on the llth, Mr. McDougaii introduced n joint
resolution in relation to the occupation of Mexico,
which wart referred to the comuiitteo oa Foreign
Affairs:
Resolved, That the occupation of a portion ol
the territory of the republic cf Mexico by the
armed forces of the Government of Fracce, with
the purpose avowed, bj the Govercmentof France,
is an act unfriendly to the repuolio of the United
States of America.
Sec. -. And b« it Jurther enacted^ That it ia
the duty of the proper department of thi.j gov
ernment to demand of the government of France
the withdrawal of her armed forces f*rom th^
Mexican territory within a reasonable time
Sec. 8. And he it further enacted, That in the
event the government of France shall decline or
refuse to so withdraw her armed forces, or shall
tail to take Tieasurefi to that efect on or before
the 15th day of Maroh next, then it will .become
the duty of the Congress of the United States
of America to declare war against the govern
ment ot France.
Hale of L'onfiscatmd i*ropert^.—W.-VBHINGTC.N,
January II.—At the sale of confiscated property
in Virginia to day, A^ington (Gen. Lee’s proper
ty) was bid in by the Government at 826,800.
For this the Government had three or four com
petitors. The Custis Mill and farm was purchased
by .M. E Flannigan at 84,100. There were, in
all, thirteen sales, amounting to 850,000.
The (Japturtut the Liiin^ Aj9.—The Confed
erate mailing privateer Tuscaloosa, better known
as the Conrad, and tender to the Alabama, seems
following up tbe work of her illustrious rival
The American ship Living Age, which has arriv
ed at London from Akyah, reports that on the
13th September, being then in latitude 25' south
and longitude 2° east, she was brought to by the
Tuscaloosa aud declared a priie, but released on
giving a bond for 81t»0,000. The Tuscaloosa is
iu charge of Capt. Low, late of the .\labama,
^nd intended cruising for some time in that posi
tion on the lookout for the homeward bound.
Seisur€.—On the 2d instant the 2,'ew York
police seised six millions of Confederais Bonds
about one million in Trea.‘?ury*Notes, docuiaeata
presses &c., at the office of Winthrop Hiltou, No
11 Spruce Street. Hilton, it is said, had a con
tract with Mr. Mommiager to turaish Bonds.
H’ar.—Hostilities have commenced bctweeu
the Republic of Ecuador end the United States.
I destroying a large amouni o'
at 'h'.' county seat of W«.stmoreland, in whith
j had been rtiortuJ a lar:^e aiu'iuju i.f liacoii,
I burned with its eontert->. »«*i - 11
I also been destroyed by fire.
I The enemy are Siiil to h.ive la-.ded in Mid.ilts x
i fiom gunboats, which UaJ a,-evndfd the Hupj.u
hannoek, amJ di'stroyed ihe provi^ionl^ of tbe
P-ople '1 hey are follMwiri^-^ the exsmple of Luri
Dunmnrv, in the Re\o.utiuii, and of Admiral
(yockburn, during the lust war with Great Britain,
and with thu like result exciting tha bitter hatred
of the people, and bramiing their numea with
eternal iufamy.—Uirh. -S'e»i , 18/A.
Frovi th*- .—MoBiLK, Jan’v
It).—A special despatih to the Evenii^ Naw«
from Summit states that General Tavlor ^as a;,
Alexandria on tbe 15th fortifying.
From 12,000 to 16,000 troops were enuaoiped
Jit Algiers, supposed lo he destined for Mobil#
There is a large fleet in tbe lake for them, wail
ing for coal. A large number of coal barges hare
passed down. Five gunboats are al the mouth
4,f lied River.
Our cavalry dashed into BaybU Sara on the
9th, capturing two speculators.
Mead^ille was packed, and 20 men captured by
800 yankees from Natchez. •
VV^irt Adams is pres«ing the enemy closely at
Baton Rouge, near which he captured a Lieuten
ant and 15 men.
Yankees at MadtsunvtUe—Capture of Scho9».
ers.—Information has been received at Mobile of
the landing of one thousand yankec,infantry at
Madisonville, on the Pontchartrain coast. Some
concluded that it was prelimi>jary to an’advancc
on Mobile, but the papers of that city are ot tbe
opinion that their object is to get timber for some
military object
On the night of the 20th ult, Lieut. Sibley, of
tbe 15th Alabama Cavalry, Col. Maury’s ■com
mand, destroyed Toomey’s Mills, on Pearl river
and captured and burned two schooners undsr
the guns of Fort Pike, and brought off the crewi
ot both vessfls. This was effected without log*
on our side.
&iltiu(j Beef for Samtncr L\c.—For 100 lbs
of beef take 16 quarts tiue Ashton wsack salt and
4 ounces saltpetre; out the meat and pack it in
edgwise, alter rubbing the pieces all over with
the salt; and after a layer is completed, take an
axe or mall, and pound down solid. Then spriu
klc on a little saltpetre and fill up all interstices
with salt, and so on, until the cask is full. Those
who do not like aaltpetre, may amit it without in
jury to the meat.
1 have salted my beef m this way for fifteen
years. It needs no soaking before boiling, and
will be tender aud sweet tho year round. By
this way of salting, it makes its ‘own brine, and
neveri want® repacking—nor the brine scalding.
If the brine should not cover it iu the spring,
sufiicienk may be added for that purpose.
A. Wanzer, Sherman, Ct.
Vessels Captured.—Hunt’s Merchant’s Maga
zine says that up to October 1st, 18G3, as far as
reported, 175 yankee vessels had been captured.
The summary shows 1 U. S. gunboat, 1 iteamer,
steam tug, 54 ships, 42 barks, 32 briga, 47
schooners—«0,99# toas. The AUbama captured
69 el theM.
Fureijn.—European dates ot the 27th have
been received. We annex the few items of in
terest:
Lord Lyons' Prediction.—'i'iie Liverpool Post
gives prominence to the following paragraph:
“We consider ourselves in a position to state
that Lord Lyons, in a despatch to Karl Russell,
from Washington, announces that the war will
be terminated within the next three montiia. The
Confederates being in the greatest extremities
will have speedily to propose an armistice. In
our informant we have the fullest possible confi
dence. It is possible that Lincoln’s proclamation
has reference to the facts on which Lord Lyons
grounded his conclusioh.”
Mr. Lincoln*a last Message.—The synopsis of
Lincoln’s message and proclamation, received per
A.rabia via Halifax, attracted general comment
The London Times looks upon the message as
warhke, and says the effect of the whole docu
meat, amneuty included, resembles that of the
last battle. 'Ihe offer ot peace is on terms that
cannot be accepted. The whole question still de
pends on the fortune ot war. It may be gratify
ing to the North to bo formally assured that the
Government is strong and successful enough t?
offer an amnesty. But it is evident that Lincoln
anticipates no pacific result; nor does the Secreta
ry of the Treasury, who look^ forward stili to two
years' war expenditures. Commtrcial- circles in
Now York appear to share his misgivsEga, the pre
mium on gold having risen Lndcr *' j«auge.
The Daily News awaits the arrival of the full
message before giving an opinion.
» lue iMorning Post thinks Lincoln mustbe“jok-
I'® should have remembered that
a Confederate arn^ was encamped within a hun
dred miles of Washington before h«f ventured to
dictate such terms ol amnesty.
The Morning Herald ridicules the proclama
tion, and denounces the vindictive spirit of the
proffered amnesty, which it says offers nothing
which could be withheld if the laet Southern t^wn
hatl been taken and the last Southern regiment
cut to pieces. The real object is to establish a
pseudo State government wherever secure foot
hold can be found.
Tho Morning Sur applauds the koneaty of Lin
coln, rejoices at his determination to put down
slavery, and says his peace overtures to the South
are large and liberal.
We learn that when Beast Butler saw the large
numbers of men coming forward to take his re
quired oath of allegiance, at Norfolk, he fumed
and cursed at a great rate, and abused them most
roundly for cowardly traitors to their country.
He said he* expected and hoped thby would re
fuse to take the oath, and he intended io take their
property—for this was what he wanted. The pro
perty holders have saved it foi the present but
other requirements still more galling and deed
ing will be exacted of them, and they will *have
to descend to atill lower depths, and after all lose
their property—for this is what the yankees are
fighting tor.—Spirit of the Aye.
Saiwell, of H.arj Co., G.., Ml.br.t-
ed her 99th birthdftj, a few dan ainoe. bjr epin-
oug eight duli oi thi«iad aud reeliag it
154/A Tenne*sf-e Reijinient.—DaLTO."^, Ga
Jan. 14.—An enthu.>dastic meeting of the old
154th Reg’t Ten. Vols.was held to-day,atwhicii
stirring resolutions were unanimously parsed,
tendering their services to' the Confederaw Statei
as long as the war lasts; approving of the 6ontem-
plated action of Congress, and approving cousoli-
dation. The example so nobly set by this tine
honored command, has begun to inspire the wholt
army. The most auspicious results from its patri
otic action may be anticipated.—Rich. Enq.
Afkore—We regret to learn that the steam-
.ship Advance was run ashor« last night not far
from the Western bar. So far the enemy hai
not opened tire upon her, and there are rcasoDi
to hope that she will yet be got off. We trast
that she may be.— Wdminyton Journal^ \%tk.
Th*'. Cohfederate Goceniinent anil Xorth t’a-
roliaa.—It having been stated by the enemies of
the State and the Confederacy, that North Caro
lina was clothing her troops and was not promptly
paid by the General Government, we took occa
sion to inquire ihto the matter, and find that, al
the suggestion of the Confederate authorities here,
the State made her dralts quarterly instead of at
longer periods.
The statement for the quarter ending on the
31st of December 1863 is follows: The amount
has been paid by Major W. W. Pierce, and if in
full to date.
We are indebted for this statement to Mr. Bal
lard, the efficient and gentlemaaly disbursing clerk
of the department:
.\mouiii of clol'ting deiiverea b/ ta« State of Nortk 0*-
roHn^ 10 the Cuufedc-iata States, larough Major W.
W Pierce, Chief U M., C. d. Army, RmUigh i* u*
4th quarter 1803, o?moieaciitg 1st Oot^ltCS and ani-
icg iilst I>doember lStK5:
Jackets 32,482, Paiits 11,550, Shiru 39,UtK), Drawer*
19,212, Blaukeis 17,940, tiats 134t>, Saoes 13,184, Soaks
(pairs) 22,169, Haveroacka 2500, Leather (los.) 2102.
Amounting in the aggregate te 81 ,203,144 80.
Raleigh State Journal.
(■hanges in ^orth {'arolina Troops.—Capt.
Mark D. Armfield, of Burke county, the senior
captain of the Eleventti (Bethel) regiment, died
at John-son’s island, December 3, 1863.
Captain Frank VV. Bird_. of Bertie, has been
promoted to Major of the Eleventh regiment.
Colonel George C. Gibbs, of the forty-second
regiment, has resigned.
Cdlonel Kdward Hall, of New Hanover, has
resigned the colonelcy of the forty-sixth regiment.
Lieutenant Colonel W. L. Saunders, of Kowan,
has been promoted to colonel and Major Alexan
der C. McAlister to lieutenant coloncl of the
forty-sixth.
Lieut. Col. Samuel H. Walkup, promoted lo
colonel ot the forty-eighth regiment, vice Hill,
deceased.
Major Alfred H. Belo, of Forsyth has been
promoted to lieutenant coloael of the fif^j-fifth
regiment, vice Smith, deceased.
Yankee Opinion, of the Condifiotff Arkansas.
—The New York Tribune contains a long Utter
irom its Arkansas correspondent, reciting the in-
cidentif of a trip through that State with a “seces
sion friend.” 3Iuch ol the letter, says the Mo
bile Register, is mere fancy work, but one ilem
deserves copying. The writer says there was a
timt when he believed in the starving out pro
cess, but eo far as that idea applies to Arkansas,
he has concluded to give it up. “IVs a pretty hard
matter to starve a people who have an immense
number of Cittle, a fair supply of hogs, an extra
ordinary yield of sweet poutoes, and oearlj corn
enough to have kept the Egyptians during the
seven years’ famine. The yield of corn is, ag tke
natives of tbis region express it, “powerful’”
The writer states that there are few arms-bearing
men lett in Arkansas, but that women and chil
dren are plentiful, and the latter are taught by
their mothers to believe that a pieee of rMst boy
or girl never comes amiss to a Yankee soldier.
The word yankee has as horrible asiguifioience to
an Arkansas child as “Claverhouse” used te
have to the children of the Soottish Covenanten.
To Hire,
By the month, two first rate NEGRO HANDS. Als«,
to go into tke country, a Boy and Girl, of 10 as4
12. Apply to p McLAURIN.
Jaa’j 18.
2ti
T„„ WcaTem Wanted.
HE EoakfisU Maaufaoturing Compaay with U> eagaga
a few respectable yooag women in tha Waaviag Oa-
part.ment. Applioatlm to be made at tke Factory ta
Mr J. E. VAli AMB8RG, Saperiateadeut, or te C- T.
tIAIGH, Prea’t, in FajattdviU*
l»vo’r 80, 186-^ 98-Ilf
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Bank Stock
PPLY to
Nov 23, 11^3.
ror Sale.
A. MoLSAN
83 itf
Avorv fe. aALEi,
K«rwardifig d €«aiaistiioD MereUaat*
ii'>L s*’** tleapatKsa to ($oodj «•..signed to ki*
ff Partteular attention given to all prxiti4e MBi klM
"oT Bale. o'* Nava! f^toteiL taf aalf ff
mfiagiMi, jMi»y 1% ua mb
m
OBU
FAY
TBIRgBAl
lainaa Near
lar atteotioB ef
#«B. Wild’s moDf
part ef this Stat
than the aooituais
te have beea, the
lorfolk more waa
from this State
Tbar« is en'r 1
paolally werthy «f
Garellaa’e ‘‘laklDi
••4 atteaptiog ta
kees, as threatese
robbery as
•tripped of e
meat aad the last
•erreapondent of t
loyal t« the Uaite(
khair own people-
raay. We have, f
‘iayal” trai'ors;
teaser mereies of
Ike example of thei
fallewers as manif
wculi await them,
Kellj were allowed
in that eeeti
elsewhere. None 1
bW aad eatraged,
IHeada or false to
laboriag to bring
Xarth Carolina! 1
teatable yankees eli
loyalty ef the peo^
party, »nd reveiige
■tolea and carried
koaaes are bnmt
lh«ir women are ini
fUeas, and imprisoi
la a SBoall saetiaB
labors weald resal
whole State. Snrai
will not be gull
Isa PaorossD Hi
Standard uf Tuwda
“li is aot true, «
an, that tbe object
Ike Oenfederaoy, or
haBible the (Itate at
The Standard goe
what a ConveBiloB
Mtkable that its
akoands with evideo
rat* ftvr'nment, but
war vpon th* Lincoi
as imaginary despot
BOt a word against t
aziatiag at Washiug
4anoe that we have
prepotad Conveatio
aftar the plain deck
inai., that, in a oerti
treats as enre lo hap
. “ TIu p*opU of Nor
mto thnr ovn hands,
stmbUd, to vmdieatc t
And agaia ia the i
*‘TUe people of N
jeaty aaa assert thei
to preveat taem froo
ekaraeter who shall
faderate soldiers aga
Carelina will not be
RichmonU or Waihio
beaa from the first,
arek. if that stone
Let Congress be war
This is the langus
iafy tke iagcnuity of
It tkan a threat to ta
federaoy, by means a
Taation not oaJled ti
preuads, but ky tbe
paraoas oo operating ^
avowed tkeir deeire I
aseiaies, the yankeea
nation tkat one of tl
that the objeota of tk
8taadard are, to rem
anuneat, to propose (
of the other Gonfedei
ane«eed, thea to take
raty and make the bet
gtnernment These i
tkis soheme. W« d
tr*aa.>nable, and in I
warn the people of N
Carolina is bound by
oMigation of honor, t
taey. Sha is not lei
eanaient, and to hold
ikooaands of her son
have perished from
invader, cry out fron
an idea as any funhe
aaldiara still la iha fii
aad ahildren, who ki
ikair all, and driven f
* Tbe Standard reao
tepding that it is “U
j^poaa to meet ia C
•lo the peoplo of Nor
Hartford Convention
SB insult t-j the peop
■alt to tht; Jew deeigo
to lead “tko people o
plaage the Stats mto
We repeat that it is ■
Standard and a few 1
as they appear lo thii
dard “knows” ihai “
toa views next Angus
It attainpts to hnmhu
leaded all along that
ty in ts favor. We
returns rona the tw
this is untrue. We ]
one of the Departma
dard could ha*e aooi
wait no longer fur th
as have oeen publish
majority 7a unfounda
In maWmg up the I
najastly to some of
aandidales all whos
Standard hefvr* the e
tke Standard nataed
for whom iu frienda
la ti>e 1st bisiri
ceWed 1440 -totes to
Majority against tha
la tbe Mr Bi
Majority against the
ia the 3i, Messra
2d7V, Ur. Leaoh m
la the 4th, Msbsrs
There waa no oand:
few friends talked ol
la tke 6th, Mr. Q
Majority against thi
8wa of aujotitiai