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mm oAMuviANi nr jkouba. MB m L^Oi ^T, Fla., 0«l. 1184. Mmrb. thank jou for reoalling to my _ T\m LT a A«l TCOolleotioB tbs words in Dr. Hawks’s dedication of tho ^tory of North CaroliDa, “ To the Disjtert td Abroad ” Tho qaotatioQ caused me to re read the Dedication, and I foand in it aentiniaDts and ideas that had eioaped me at the time it was made. “To the Disperjed Ab»*oad ” Will you pardon me if I reply to your inquiry, how iatereatiag it would be to ascertain how niany of the 1308 of Narth Carolina, and how many of the soni’ sons, are engaged in the struggle for liberty and iodep'odeQce in other States, so far ai old Columbia county, in tho State of Fluridt, ia eonoarned. 1 sa; old Columbia, because in the diTision of the county, Suwanee, Bradford and Baker haTe been taken from it. Bradford is named after a natire of Halifax county, N. C., who was killed on the Island of Santa Rosa; Baker •ounty is named after the Honorable J. M. Baker, a natire of Robeson county, and a law student of ay old friend John W. Cameron, and now Sena tor from this State. At the tap of the drum t^e sons of Gen. Wm. B. loss, and the sons of Dr. Z. M. Paschal, and ttie SOQS of Dr. Warrock, rushed to the standard oftheir country; as did Capt.WilUams, Martin Sei gl«, J no. S. Banks, A- T. Banks, Geo. M. Olioe, Le- ▼in Lane, Jr., John L. Doiier, James 0 A. G^rrr and two Brothers, Gen. Loring, Wm. W- McCall, Bichard and Joseph JeflBreys, Charles Herndon, W Harper and Hamp Martin, searly all of whom are native born North Carolinians. Gen. Ross was born in Avarasboro’; the Pas- ehals were firom OxforJ; the Warrocks from Wil- liamston; Capt. Williams from Caswell; Ssifrle from Iredell; the Banks fro* Fayetteville; Lane from New Hanover; Doaitr from Camden The father of the Gerryi wm and from Fayettavule; Loriag and MoCall from Wilmington; ike Jeffreys from Fraoklio; Cline from Lauisburg; Herndon' from Granville, and Harper from Chatkam. Among the first to sufer in the cause was Le vin Line, Jr., who lost his right arm in tbe hat- ties around Richmond, but under his mother’s direction he haa learned to write w’ith his left kand. How well he has learned, need 1 say more than to state his Mother waa an Ashs, a name •f Ravolntioaary memory and repute in N. C. Bsigle and two of the Gerrys fell in Virginia, as did Capt. Williams. Herndon met his fate on the aoil of Georgia. The others above named are doing good and effieient serviee whanavar and wherever required. Subsequently, the army waa increased by other North Carolinians, eitiaens of Old Columbia; by Joseph C. Hooper, a collateral descendant of your Hooper, a signer of the Deelsration of Indepen- denoe; by John JeiTreys, son ef Wm. 0. Jeffreys, ferme^ly of Fayetteville and Wilmingtoo; by William McLeod, son of Ferdinand MeLeod, for merly of Richmond county; by £. J. Lutterloh, formerly of Wilmington; by Thomas H. Lane, fa meriy of New Hanover; and others whose names may have escaped me. Tho3. H. Lane, the father Levin, was killed at St. Mary’s, in an engagement under Maj. Har mon, in rel&uon to whiok Gbn. Beauregard told me the company had illustrated the European theory, that the delay of an advancing enemy for •ne hourj gave twenty four hours preparation to tke party in defence. And so it waa in reference to the battle of Olus- Isa. Poor Tom! I had known him long and well, and whilst he was in line of battle and on hia saddle he addresseda letter to my partner, Ool. F. McLsod, and mjselt In the civil department of the government, al low me to mention a £kt of the names of dit^ parted abroad” who, nhile exempts, have done glorious serviee. Gen. Wm. B. Ross, a ^xative of Arerasboro’, has from his large estate o(fctributed more charity ikaa any other ton m«i iti %e county. As a Jas- tiae of the Peace and as a member oi th« lelwefc .k* a* *mwmr aa. the iook OUt for objects of •Itarity and mercy. Dr. O P. Luther, formerly of Ok^tham and Rlohm9nd, has served our Town as Major Si«r three yearfi; has made his store the headquarters for the reception and distribation of all manner of sup plies for the sick and wounded soldiers. Afcer the battldof Olustae, his services were invaluable. Last year Dr. lather famished to the families of indigent soldiers 100 pairs of ■hoe**. Tnis y^ar he is doing the sime. Who at home will not say of Luwhef, oae of “the 'dispersed a^>^o td” we»l done! CjI F. McLeod, fjrjierly of Kic:imDnd county, is exempt by virtue of bein,:' ConToderatj St.iie3 Attoruoy under tbe Scquestrdtion Aoc, as well as a Rii>roid Director. H^a cri*^ door has been ever open to the wints of tho po >r and needy. As Commissioaer under the suspeusioa of the Habe'tt (Jorpits Act, he rende"ed to the Governjient and theopprcssed, invaluakle service, by an inteliigeat, able and impardal discharge of duty. From pa- ouhar c2U3es existiag, I presume CoK McLeod U^posed of more oases than did the Comroissioner of any other State. Wm. O. Jeffreys, Seo’y and Treas’r of the Laka City & Jacksonville R-^il Road Company, has been instant in ssason and out of season in the discharge of every duty. The labor of disbursing our charity fund for Refugees he has fuithfuily per formed^ and the latch striag of his dior since the Qommencem ^nt of the war has never been palled in. Need I say that the female memberii of all tho«e &milies have been ministering angels, praotiiing, though “dispersed abroad,” the characteristic virtues of the women of the Old North State. In conclusion, so far as Old Columbia in Flori« da is concerned, if there is among ^^thc dispersed dbroad” from North Carolina, a single drone, I do not know it. As to E. J. Lutterloh and A. T. Banks, whose names suggested yojir edicorial, they arc both exempts, yet whenever and where ver there is a fight on hand they are there. I hav« limitea mj reaiarka to 011 09lamb.&; yet I have said eaoo^th to vadioate ttia exptMeicn in Dr. Hawks’s Dedication. Were I to extand my remarks to other Ooniiti«>8 uid lo other 8totcs, legions of aamee would rise up in an- •wer to yonr iaterrogatory When the tiok and the wounded filled our little town te overfldving, and as I vent the rounds of the hospital •ad askel, “What is year nameT" and ihe reapaasa was. “McF*rlaad,” "MoNeill,” “Graham," fto; “Where w«re von bomt” and they. answered, In Moor^ Cumber land, Bobeaon, or Riohmond; I ?«lt ihese had a double olaim on bu by being froa the Sooteh lettUment of the Old North State. One noble fellow answered, “I un ^^>taia John Me^Aeill, botn on the Raft Swamp in Robeson eennty, a« a Mason and a Presbyterian; I know I an dying uid am ready, bnt I want to see my wife.*’ She was telegraphed for, eame, and closed his eyes. In the last raid made on Lake City, after the Qen’l and Staff left, Captain Gilehrist, whom yon may re- mem^r as Dr Gilchrist, and who married Miss Kattie MePherson near Fayetteville, was ieftonr Chief in com- maud; he aososted me by saying, “it was a fearfrl re , eponsibility oast upon him with(m* a moment's notloe; bnt whilst the lives of my men ve dear to me, the defence of the women and ohtUiNn is a more sacred duty. If I fall see sst bnried. Good by«i the Booteh in me won’t let me run ” The eitfssns rallied aronad him, prepared to m'ke fight; the enemy retired to JaoksonvlU^ and the General and his Staff retnmed My iet Messrs. Hale, sinoe I eommenoed this article, and thoughts have orowded on me, I feel Ibave been de relict in my effeotion for the OBsamvan, and tfebat events have passed tefore me interesting to yonr readers; bnt 1 have felt that yonr columns were so mnoh orowded with more interesting matter, that 1 have refrained from writ- Urg Now that yon have sent Holden where the hand of *‘KerarreeUonnever ecn raise him. GXJl OH JMDMOH’I nLAH>. MB zn •MUTXB. Aifsoir County, N. C., Oct. 27,1894. Mesers. Editors: Having just retnmed from a long and almost intolerable imprisonment, I take this opportunity of .fulfilling my promise to the North Carolinians on Johnson’s Island. Being a member of the lamented Morgan’s command, I was captured in Kentucky. When first captured I was taken before “Hell Bur bridge,” (eo called by his men,) who ordered that 1 should be put in irons and close confine ment, to await tri^ by Court Martial. Believing that the Court Martial was convened for the pur pose pf trying Sushwhackcrs, I felt no uneasiness until carried before it, when I found ten charges preferred against ne, by men who I could swear never saw or heard of me except by rumor be fore. There were twenty eight of us, without counsel or even witnesses. During the trial, men identified us, and swore that they had known us for years, that had never been south of the Ohio River two months before our capture. Five ne groes preferred charges, were sworn, and upon tkeir testimony four C. S. officers were sentenced to solitary confinement for six months. Twenty one out of the twenty eight were acquitted, my self among the number. We were tnen sent to Johnson’s Island. This Island is about three miles from Sandusky City, Ohio, and thirteen from' the Canada line. It was near this that Commodore Pei^ won his victory over the British in the war of 1812. The obstructions placed by him across the mouth of the Harbor still remain, exeept ia two places where channels have been formed. The Island is about a mile long, and a half wide^ About three acres are surrounded by a wall 18 feet in height. In this the prisoners are eonfioed. Shan ▲ WAB DIBT UI%T. I . Til PlAOl VIWLIH* IH THB HORTH. Irom the Riehmoad SeaHael. j Ji genileiaan who baa jwt arrived in the Con- TkealsMsntmwt affectiuKthe eredil and th«>’e- I federate lines from the North, and who, frsm his hj the value of our Government issues, u not the position in eonhection with the Government, en- ezesss of circulation, but the distrust of ultimato | joyed more than the u«u*l facilities of aneertain- psyment. This distrust grows in part omt of the | ing the political sentiment of the people, gives us probable magnitude of the debt, and in part out, some very interesting intelligence. His informa- the supposed indispoeition of the people to sub-1 tion is not that of the reliable gentleman, but pos- mit to the re^uiiito taxes Speculating upon i sesses that which makes it the more inin^esting— these two imagined contingencies—the inability | the t'uih or tke unwillingnejw ot the poople ke pay the war j«t}t_8ome men permit themselves to assail the pablio-credit by prophesying repu Uation. Per sons in wh^ee heirts the place due to patriotism IS occupied by a sordid love of the dollar, and others from whom we might reasonably have ex pected better things, unite thus to undermine let^ufidAnee, and to brisg to pass the very ooad&tion (if things whioh they predict, but which needs not If tke debt oi tke Confederacy were to be re- FROM THl ARMT OF HOltelRH TIRCIH^ fM. TMM O: 8d N. 0. Oavalrt, ilN. V., Oct. It Messrs. Editors: This ve^n army has been called upon to give another pXf of its gallantry and unfaltering devotion. Ttt enemy advanced on Thursday morning in th^}rcctii>n of tke South Side Railroad, with a larib force dt i«faif* try, cavalry and artillery. So^risomera taken in the aarly part of the advanee iformed us that Hanceck (2d corps) cemmandJ on their left, Grant the whole movement, andVhat ‘Hhey had sworn to go to the S S Road or & hell." Ho# they succecdcd in getting tobothtiacea’you p« ^apa have already.been told throuA other ekai neis. Gregg’e cavalry moved ouTon their, treme lef^, supported immediately hi the 2d oor It is with this part of enemy’s eelfmn that W. H. F. Lee’s Division, had to eootend. Oar.oavalry corps was separated b; the enemy column, leaving our Division on the extr^on— flank. The enemy’s eavairy advanced up VaTighan road, and on this road, some ten mileslBsing a debt dus by the people to the people, in S W. of Petersburg, we first mat with them, a»i>®® sense it is paid already. Payment would be their colran was passing 8kirmishiD|^ at once be began. The enemy soon bere tathe 'ight in the direction of the Beydton plank road, mand hurried round, and reached the dhnk road nearly as soon as the enemy, 9 miles Ibove Pe- terskurg The Chjimbliss brigade, beipg in front had dismounted and were engaging when ours came up Our R^t and held in reserve and in support of whish by this time had unlimbered orously shelling the enemy’s line, tiilery opened on us Ttie 1st ift had been dismounted and went t» orders to drive the enemy, o’clock P. M , and pattering^ eaemy 2Sd were Batter lerv. their [front ractically, ostlyan adjustment of balances among e citiaeas. We may, conseqaently, dispose of e debt honorably with as little of public distress would result.from a repudiation of it that would ake us a hissing and reproach ameng the nations ay, with loss distress; fer repvdiation would ruin large a umber of worthy citisen«, who have stood the Government in its need, while it would a class, perhaps no more numertus, and less deserving, who did nothing and for the caose. e onimited power of taxhtion possessed by Govenmcnt, wiH enable it to Lay sufficient to provide for the public debt. Let it tid that th^ people will not be able to Our informant a«>ur«i us t»;at, dtupitc aH | statemenzs to tbe oo*)trary, there is a etreng peer'd f^eling in the North. He tells us the way ia FROM L«e- Wednesdiy Gen. Ki?pvtrick w^ qtiMrter- ed at N»|r Hop-> Church, ^'ith over three tl ou- sand cavalry A large cun*^r of Ivjrson’a o- maod wre in the ^amc vijinity, wr.d numrrons skirmishes were occumog d ilj br\w*c^. detisjh- ment.* of both fcrccs*. A cootidt'r».b!e force of our cavaJrv was sest on 1-^=; Toesday tc the r^ar ot Marietta, to on .he cnemf'a souting a (K>i;UBaoua picl et )iae portions of the yar.tee anny, j the larg.',a* povtioo ef •?h«ch was ft Saminf*rvit;e and along tho rosii U) Ci\attAnoo« and Bridga- in this cbaraciier he would De likely to remain in cog. He had not been many days at the hotel when, one evening, venturing iato the reading- ro^, an acciable loeking genlleman eame to him and whispered in his oar.—^*‘Are you not Mr B. from Richmond?” Tke ^uastioa was put so plumply that our infoitaant insfcinctively aeswcr- ed—“yes.” “Hush,” replied his amiable friend, “speak low, two detectives are rpotfing you here, and I heard them whispering atiout yonr name.” Oar informant had been quite onconsoious that he was an object of attention to any one. His friend, for he proved sueh, parted firom him with the promise that ke would see bin again, and permit him to introduce a eertaia gentleman, whose name it would be improper to mention now, but who is known in the Stuth for his brave and early sympathy with the cause of the Con federates. We cannot, fo.' obvious reasons of prud«ioe, enlarge here on the interest of this acqaintance. We may say it was the ooca&ion ef the in^^ue tion of oar isforxnant to is built to aooommodate from two to three hun dred, bnt really one hundred and fifty fill them. This prison is the only one North without a sut- tler. We were allowed to buy tobacco and sta- tioneiy, bat this was all. Our rations for one day for tour men were 2 pounds baker’s bread and 20 ounces of fresh, tough beef, or 10 ois of pickled pork. Three onions or potatoes were allowed once a week. Upon this we were compelled to eke out our existence, iasulted from day to day by a parcel of foreigners who were enlisted for the especial purpose of guarding prisoners. Oa«> may read thia without thinking of the misery it entails upon the prisoners; bnt to see tho wan and haggard beings eating a bard om«t oi bread made one’s heart bleed to think that there was no help for them. To rise in the morn ing hungry, go to bed hungry; to dream of liber ty, and tables groaning with luxuries, was the torturing routine of prisoa life. Those that have suffared can only tell kaw mueh is embraced in that sentence, “A prisoner oa Johnson’s Island.” Frequently the sentinels ire iato the Blocks without tke least provcoatien. One night in July last« sentinel fired into Block 5, fracturing the arm of one, passing threugk the shoulder of another, and at last lodging in tke neck ef anotker. His excuse was tkat there was a light burning, whioh was an unmitigated falsehood. The mem b'^rs of the Block addressed a cote to the com mandant ef the Prison, (Cf'l. Hill) stating the facts, and demanding that the sentinel should be punished. The Col replied, sladag that if he eould find out who did it, that he should be se verely punished. The end of it was, that the sentinel was appeinted a Sergeant, who boasted of the act; and swore that he only wanted an op portunity to de so again. On the night of the 23d ef Sept’r, the Island was visited by an awful tornado, whioh unroofed four blocks, scaitoring tke rafters, beams and shingles in every direotien. The prisoners think ing that tbe buildings would fall, raa outside, when a volley was fir^ iato the Prison, bj a line of kattie drawn up on the ditohes, the walls hav ing been blown dow^ their excuse waa tliaS eav- er»l pri«on«>« eeeepe. AboUt flttj shots passed threogh the Hospital, where our Surgeons were dressing the wouods of those who had been hurt by falling bite of timber. Such acts were almost of weekly occurrence. But not withstanding »11 sais, there still remains an un faltering spirit in tkem -that makes ttiem long to return to Dixie, to Ight for liberty and revenge. Dating the oleotiin for Governor of thia State the North Caroliniai(B were in hot water, the yaa- kee papers claiming that Holden was elected. We at last ri caivel a trw statemeat f/om th'? C*)i3aaa Times, and then a laa;, loud shout of ‘‘V^nee forever” wjh eohoid’fram bl jck to blojk. Daep, b'ttsr, and many ara the curses hc*ped upon the Standard and iti sattelit^s by the brave North Caroliniana And I w'li here stase that I ntsver aw m3re detcrmindj spirits than the N >rth Ci rolinians on Johns^’s island, taey alone being able to say ‘-Not a aao from my State haa taken the oath in this prison.” The tieatjieitof those who take ti^e oath just tho thing Old Abe has issued an order that all the C. S. Offioers who take the oa^h, wera to be kept in prison until after the exchange of all prisoners. Ha does this on aeeou'at of 'so many taking the oalh and retarning to our armies. Tho prisoners are allawed to write twice in a weok, but cnly to Fathers, Mothers, Sisters, Brothers and Wives, and only one page of com mon sized letter paper. Th^y are not allowed to .vrite anything in regard lo their treatment, faro, &c. Friends >'rom the South oi^ly are allowed to send them olothing and food. I would here state that all letters and boxes ohould be addressed in nare of Col. Charles W. Hill, Comd’g Johnson’s Islani, Ohio, designating Bljck. Taose in the South who have friends there should make every endeavor to send them supplies for the winter, for if the rations are not increased, God .only knows how many will live to see Spring. Hoping that have fulfilled my promise, I am, truly and respectfully, yours, W. B. Supre^ Court Decitio'^t.—^The Supreme Court, at its recent special session, made the follow* ing decisions upon writs ok Habeas Oorpus:— 1 Jomis.^a «« MauBTT.—A. member ef the police^ * for the city of Ralei^a is exsmpt from eensoription, He. oanse he is a civil offim, whom the General Afsemhly hai demaad)d aa necessary to the administration of the taws of the Slate. 2 la the matter of McDavibl.—k enbstitute, who heeontee snoh after he wm fifty years old, is not entitled to a diaoharge on aeoonnt of his prineipal having been eallel into servioe. 8. Kauaa v« BaawLST --denior reserves are en titled ucder the act of Congre^ to their discharge, when they arrive at the ege of fifty years. 4. In the matter of Foaj—-One who works fifteen able-bodied hands, between the ages ef sixteen and fifty, is not entitled to exemption, if one of the hands be a free negro—all the haods must be slaves. * 6. The fifteen hands must have ^en within the ages of sixteen and fifty, oc the 1st day ef Januwry, 1864, It ia not snffioient if one or more of them have become sixteen sinoe that time. . ® having less than fifteen hands, who Is deti^ed to work upon oertain tenfis, ia liable to have hw detail revoked, and te be caUed into active serviee, the govynment rarren^eriag his bond to him 7. A foreigner, who oomes to reeido in the State for a longer or shorter time, and who dees reside here 30 days, IS liable to perform military service in the Home On»rda. 8. It w decided by Judge Battle, with the concur rence of tte other Jneges, Uiat a Warden of the poor ie exempt from conscription.—Conservative: Fire.’—We learn the late residence of Mrs M our Bigh*^ at first, and subjeoted us, HUoyntai reserve, to rather an unpleasant fire. soon boys e front The ce in reader rsafim tlanta. during the past two weeks and will have twenty dajs snpp’y A train of two hundred wagons laden with sab- nistenee reached Atlanta one day ?criD^ larst week, having come safely by the highway a«t of th« State railroad. The on*my have contractv'd their oecupstion te tbe inner Itcmi of the fortifications in AtUnta. They ocrcapy the hili on which the City H%Il stands, having strongly posted entrenchmects about it. They have destroyed all the lrac:« hopses, {itables, &o., ia Ihe city and used the ma« terial for fuel and to sccurs a c?e»r range. Tbe f; - male seminary was raaed to the ground and the ma- tsrial upcd in strnn^thening their forts, barracks, and poet# They forage in the ooighboring comi ties with entire divisions for os?x>rts, but lately they have found bat little subsktence and have become very much alarmed for th«'ir prospects of supplies. Their source of supply by the railroad is completely cut off. Oar cavalry destroy tk« ro>td as rapidly as tbe enemy repiir it. * T^r« a^e eight hundred ya;.>ke«s irr Marietta, o5 Jmt that a it. easily vro«t4 S*rxMion ijRera ia the blue jackets began to give way pressed on; our battery moved farther and amid darkness and rain the ight enemy had been driven • eonsiderabl our front ^ About tkis time the f d reg’t (CA Roberts) had s^ng around on the enemy’s e reme left, charg^ their eamp and scatter^ th | in every direction, taking some prisoners and trees, and a quantity of plunder. Hampton ii |he mean time had been operating on a differeni ut of the line, jeininpr our infantry, I believe, i Durgesa’s Mills under A. P. Hill. At intervals, whea our eavairy w d slacken their fire, we could hear the artil f on the plank road below us. This turned out |be A. P. Hill’s forces engaging them. Of theWticulars there and en other parts of the lin^ou have learned from other sources. L Daritg the night we dismounted M went to the front line. The enemy’s artillerjlnd train were taking the back track, as tke runaing, rat tling noise of iron axles told very plaiii. Next morning we followed up, finding tnat |rant and all had became scared, left tkeir dead |ui badly wounded in our hands, together with hand cars they had brought to put upon Js South Side Road, but whiok he had again hiled to reach—but a large number of tkesi {oubtless went to that oi!.er plaee. The loss in our brigade was about killed and wounded. The enly easualty in L. D, of td Reg’t, was Jehn Clark wounded in tbi.breast. Yours truly, i N£S|N£. OvAragtt in WUket —Within a few difs, sajs the Raleigh Uonaarvative, Gov. Tanee hasreoeiv- ed the foilewing letter from a respectable eitiaen of Wilkes County:— WiixiSBoBO, N. C , Oot. SO. To His £xoelienoy 2. B. Vance: I tkiak would not oe amias to give you a short History of Che ooniitlM of th, der and nj^ery, la ^ ~f|yi tones of this oouuiry have formea taernseives iir- to about tour squads. One in tho Brushy Moun tains is under tue eommand of the Youagers— one on Rjariag river is uadsr the Shoemates— one on Maloerry is under Jennings^one in the Fiat VV^oois six mUes from town is under your friend Harrison Cnurcn. Let me tell you the number of eitiasns that have been robbed in the laat ten dayr; MoGraJdy, La/eit, MvGraidy, Ma- .ioa, BfOwA, Bfowa agaiu, Ab'cner, v/yatt. Col. Eller, J*s.-Elier, Fi'aax MoNeil, Wm McNeil, Jas M'jNcil, Jo3 Gray wuo 1hTs,s iHrco mileo tf jm town. Pa'otty large sums of money w^ra laCdo trom several of taem oxides e/erythin^f aikt tho robjcri Wintei. Taei>o bq i:»l:iare lorui d oi' rjjbjrs ir>ai every part of tno Cjatederajj nd sone fVo>a tae yaacoo arcny. A good aiaay at our o.3dt 0i£iz3«i j na/b oaea driven trom their tijmcs aad Uive ui.>vel tacir property, and soaio bavj beju kaled in tha aUcmpt to move. Now cin’t you suggest soma plan oy wnich this can bu brocen up^ Pfom'tUms.—Jonn D. Fam of Warren has oeeu promjte^ to a Oaptu.ncy in tha 33i Regt. N. C. T., and Frank B. Oraige of Salisbury and George H Snow of Raleigh have boon made 1st Lieutenants in tha same regiment. W. Hal. Harrison of Rileigh has been pro moted to the Captainoy of Co. I, 47th Regt. N. C. T., vi^e J. W. Brown daoaased; John W Jon35 of Waka, made 1st Lieutenant, vice Har rison promoted; Benjamin Bann of Nash, and George D. i'uastall oi Franklin, have been made 1st Lieutenants —Uai. Cnuervative. room for this night's seribbliag So ilR write"mSJ 1 ^ HUl, was desttiyrd^bV” &o the nasM ef I sh«U ftiH baA o» ay old Oise •iguf I * ago. Tax«« gold wutohes were lost twvi CU£40Pluri I Jtakigh OmNHHrtAw. able} for every dollar eollected from the people, j to be IntroJudetf to then* gentleaen, he o»r* | on ^ery short allowance of rations and find lt\m- on belulf of tno public debt, will be paid back ried to the fixehange, to banking institutions, to j possibls to subsist off the vioinity. All tlk* fraiM to them the saae year for interest dues, and in re- j the offices of leading lawyers, and, in short, with-1 buildings have been destroyed for fuel emption of the public paper. So fsr as the com* I in the circle of the most substantial man in the | Macon Inteilligenm*^^ las. munity is concerned as an aggregate, it is as if a I city. And the sympathy they had with the Con- man wore to pay out a dollar with one hand and I federacy he was especially interested to find was receive it back with the other. He could not j not that which was founded upon more partisan pretend that any impossible or ruinous thing waa j opposition to the Waehingto* administration*— required of him. If the public debt were held in { mere “copperheadism”—-but tie higher and in equal proportions by all the people, the whole telligent sympathy, which proeeeded from tke debt might be wiped out, and no citisen wouid j oenviction that in the p^esent^contest the Confed-j j-c-— dftstroved One From F'yr-^t —Pabis, T*hn , Qot. tlsl — Forrest has blockaded the Tennessee river. All eommunicationbetween Paducah and Johnsonville is out otf, and the railroad to Nashville is ef na v»... w*-. - Forrest’s batteries were citisen would j oenviction that in the present contest the Confed-1 g*ge»l *11 before yesterday. Two srun Hti an lose anything; for the taxation from which he I eracy represented the cause of constitutional lib- four u.. would be discharged would exactly equal tbe erty and all that was left o^ the traditions of the j o. our cnnboat??, and two o ^ «editofwh.o,hfw.niabe %utm| _ .. J pubUc debt is not thus distributed, it is I “Sir,” said one of these gentlemen to our friend, I ie improvements now on fool n u- - Ir t.v , 'three transports are up tba nver, ant wUl be aap- he pubUc debt is not thus distributed, it is neocessary to make collection and payment in or- j “we feel that Gen. Lee is fight’.ns our own battles j three der to do justice among the eitiaens. This jus-1 as well a* yours: if he sheuld be defeated, if Lin-1 tured tice may be secured, and the community, as an ag-1 coin triumphs, there is nothing for ue in the North but military despotism, and we shall not save even a resanant of our liberties.” Sympathy of this sort is of real value. Anti when su«h is found, even in New York, it is not raah to conclude that there is an undercurrent in tbe North for the oeuse of the Confederates, pro ceeding from intelligant minds, ind^peodent of gregate, will be fuU as wealthy as if the debt had been repudiated^ and will be infinitely m-jre re spected. If we refuse or neglect to pay our lia bilities, we will have taken upon ourselves a gratuitous as well as an undying infamy. Congress ought to adopt measures which will show the people and the world that Government is in sarneW as to the payment of the public debt, j psrty, pure in purpose, that would surprise those The very idea of repudiation ought to be met and j in the Confederacy who have taken their ideas of rebutted at all points AU that is needed is a No’^thern sympathy from thp wretched hypocrisy little boldness of L*gis»ation. of Copperhead partisans and political trimmers, One of the chief reasons for fearing a repudia- who are intent only on the triumphs of party and tioa party, will arise out of the sense of injustice j the divisions of public plunder, of paying ia gold and silver a debt contracted in Our friend had reason to be convinced by ex- a depreciated currency. The plea will bo set up periences, which we cannot repaat here, that th*re that there was not value received. This argu- is a real peace sentisient in the North, which, ment could not, in morals, go further than to de- proceeding from intelligent minds, has the fa«ul- mand a scaling of the debt, wi^h reference to the ty within itee'f cf conatantlv enlar^’ncr its iafiu- denreciation at the time each particular liability I ences, and is, we believe, now rapidly approach- 7rt the matter of CrraotM.—Graved is the pub lic register of Caswell county; Gov. Yanco de clined to certiiy for him; he was arrested by Lieut. Ireland; he appealed to Judge French, who granted a writ, whicn was returned before him at Went«rorth, when his Honor decided, that it did not matter whether the Governor certifiad for the petitioner as an officer necessary to execute tbe laws of tha State: that tho Confederata fiov- ,. ^ ^ „«aea. ™.ld tj, ju., U» gress, take away from the State any officer aeces- sary for the carrying on of the administratioB of the laws of the State; and that no officer was more easentUl to this than the register ot a 03an- ty. He ordered the petitioner to be discharged, and that the Eurolling Officer pay the costs. QreefMboro’ VttizeHf Zd. depreeiation was contracted. But thsre is a far better way of at once securing justice to individuals, protecting the public interest, and fortifying the public hon or against evil. It is a plan that we have hereto fore recommended in these columns, and which was in sutMtance first presented by a distinguish ed financier of the South. Let the Government at once levy a war ddbt tax upoa all the property of the country sdffiaient to offsat (he ptiblic debt, If Uxia tax be assesaed «kt twenty- HTcpSr Ortht more than a thousand millions of dollars. Do not tquire immediato paymant; but leave it optional with the property holder to take credit, it he wiahea, the tax meanwhile attaching *8 a lien up oa the propert7, and following it through ail its owaerbhips. Let tne interest on the ux bo au- auaily required^ and a oer^aia par centaga of the prineipRl. Four per ceni: on tbe property would piy tae iat;)reat and hqaidate tue principal iu eigut yeafii. i'he aivantige of this plan is, that it would naul>^ the pa pic to pay oil me debt la tha de- (>fcoiacsi ca.roooy Efs^ry one ivao chose coaia iber^te liid prjperty frjiu taxation for the pabiic icOt, by paying bii propjrtioaate share in the preaenc cirouuiDU Taoic who migut not have i.ha moaey, w^uld find it greatly to their advan- uige to Sell a purciun of their property at tho present ad/^ncdd rates, in order to cle.ir tho rest. Such as might neglect to avail themselves of the present privilege would be eatitled to no pity in future tim^s. Why not adopt this plan, or something like it? hy not allow men who are anxious tu sustain the public honor, and anxious, too, to protect chem^clvjs agaiust tho hardihip of paying ia spjcie a debt contracsed in depreciated paper, to pay their portions notcf It is not to be doubted Milton^ Dei'royed hy the — We lesrn, says the Montgomery Advertiser af the 27th, by a private letter from below Pollard, that a Yankee force came up to Milton, Florida, on Wednesday last and drove o£F t'^e eavairy eom« pany that was stationed there. They burned tMe town and d''stroyed tho salt works, and property generally The Yankees came from Pensioola, and greatly outnuzab^ red the small Confederate foraa protecting Milton Reported Emcua’ion of —We have been inform'd by a gentleman immediateiy from Wiisoa, tha: our f>roes evaoudted Washing* ton OB bst Monday, leaving it in the hands ef the enejay —Raleigh fhnaerwative. From the North —Richmond, Nov 4.— Northern papers of the 1st and 2i have a Louis ville telegram of the 31st which contradicts the rumor of the evacuation of Atlanta. Anatner, from Louisville, ^f the 1st, mentions a rnmor that Hood, with 30,000 men, crossed the Tsunes- . see River going northward, on the 1st in«t * A telegram from- Na.^hville, of the 1st, says, since his repulse at Deoatur, Hood has moved further west, aloag the south side of the Tenaejt; see ia believed to have crosscd some infan try near Bainbridge, but no part of his force haa 1 moved further north. His purpo.«ie is diffi* ta ascertain. There arc in the city, prepara tions lor movem3nt Hood may maVa. Strong bodies of troop, icoving ia the proper direc tion S'lermia WJi conti;.ue to hold Atlanta. Forrrst with a cavalry*!.,roe, ia reported threaten ing Johnsonviile, where t'kw^r^ arc large quantitiea of government stores. Oc the l3t Gold was 233; ou the 21 235. Errhanije of Fritoner't Savansah, Njv. S. —The prciiminarie^ have baeb arr^n f jr the 9Xoba".ge of 1.00') sick, wjuaded ajd convalcs- o»at 0,*nfedera;.e3, who tiave arrived at Hiiton Head. ing the final development.—Rich Examiffer. Horrors t^f a Yankee Prison —A released prisoner who was immured in a yankee BMtile in the nortkwest for more than two years, and who lately made his escape and succeeded in reaching the South, has called upon us to urge us to say sonaetbiog for our stiffering prisoners in the North. His account reveals a catalogue of misery that we never could have supposed to exist even within What our Pfisoners get to Eat.—Heretofore our prisoners have been allowed to receive any lit tle contrioutions of clothing and food that mi^ht be sent to them by sympathising friends in the North. This permission has been revoked, and oar men now have nothing but the pnson rations, whioh arc as follo^vs: One slice of bread for brcsk- t.»st, oae slice of bread nnd a mors)l of rancii pork for dinner, one slice of bread for supr-er—the sliceff so thin thbt rnc csn aK^cst see through th^'m! Tdose, with a tin cap of stinking ci«tern water, coaipnse tbe entire bill of fare, T'h6 I^t ri-^r nf a Yankee p'^hon—How Di/i’tg Pi-lsmr*'s are *rpated.—It is impossible in our spaca to eaumer»td all the craaltics recited to us A single characteristic instance of discioline will .supply tbe reader with an idea of the extremities of yankee persecution. E^en the vilest criminal, at the point of death is permitted to see his relatives, to oommunicate I corps ha? baen appointed to command Atlanta an^ his last wishes, and to comfort his dying hour {declared Military Governor of Georgia, with the last embraces and tokens o* affection During the canfiaemsnt of oar friend a iellow- prisoner, sick for many loag months, was thought put hope of rcco7ery, and the commandant of tho I prison was asked for permisjiciu for some person iQ to s.e him. At any rate, the oommaadan Ano*h^r B Ijadi^r—PErKRsnuRG, Nov 3.— fit. Cof. Pogram [ )f the artillery] nas deon pro- cooted to B i^^adier Geasral, and assigned to coax* mand Archer’s Bri^da. A New Governor of Georgi'i.—Gen. Logan who formerly oommandnd t^e*16(,h Yankee army (hat the mu‘utuda would discharge the war debt | found it proper to refer to h*s ^'orders from Wauh- tax immediatuly—by re-iigning, if need be, a trifle I ington,” wherein it was stated that a prisoner in of their present goods to save a fourth hereafter. Such a measure, pissed by Congress, would give, too, an assurance of paying i>he pubiio debt that no array of mere preamble and resolves could possibly do. It would be demonstration and ex ample. We know not what Congress may do. We know ^ot what the Secretary of the Treasury will recommend or favor. But it does seem to our view that such a war debt tax as wo have suggested need not interfere with tne ordinary measures of revenae, while, in its effect, it would be an incal«mlabl> relief to the people, by lifting a cloud and a burden from tho future; while it With ail this advantage to the putdic and to individuals, we cannot conceive how it would do injustice to a single citizan. De»trter KMed.—We learn that Dud. Mea dows, the only deserter irom Warren county, and who has escaped from the Guard some six times, was killed in the upper part oi Halifax county a few days ^o while bresJung Into a gentleiaan’s smokehouse.—Raleigh fJonsentatiw. Wkat Oen. Lee tays of North (Jarolinn.-^The Virginia regiments are now very foil. Piokatt’s division is stronger than it ever has been. I am told that G«n. Lm says ^'Virginia haa done nobly in response to the last eall, but North Carolina has done even better.” All honor to tha old North State.—^tc*. Cor. CharlestoH Mercury. Skulker* in S'>uth Carolina.—The Charlaston Mercury says, We learn on good authority that there are upwards cf two thousand sktdkerfi be longing to the Confederate army now in- South (Jarolina. Other Sca^ are worse. Cuuurt our women drive tham oat? The fimpeiQi NapolMB m II ;««■ of In an interview with a gentleman from east of the Chowan river, we learn that the negroes wh > have been decoyed and stolen from tneir masters and kept in confinement at Norfolk, are very I anxious to return to their owners; but are pre vented by their new masters. Until within the last few weeks they received rations from the yankee oomnusaary, but now they are left to starve; and, the larger portion of them b^ing wo- the last extremity of siakae^s might ba permitted to see “h’s nearest rela'ives, if hyaU” One finds himself asking: is humanity stone dead in tha yankee heart, and has the world no conscience! Venseanca sleeps; but Divine justice has all. the crimes of our enemies on its immortal record, and to doubt the day of retribution ia to doubt the power of tha Almighty.—Ib. Wh^t toseml our men -^There is nothing for whioh our prisoners in the North suffer so much as for tobacco. It is even more acceptable to them tiian money; indeed we are told that it sells ia the North in Federal curren7 for as much as it can ba bought iu Riahmond ia Confederate currency. We are requested to say that our prisoners are permitted to receive anythicg sent them by fiag-of-truce, and that any packi^es for warded through that channel will be delivered by the yankee authorities. The box or package should be labelled with the name of the party, his company, regiment, &c.,—just as you would a letter—and be deposited with the After twelve or fourteen m nths of shelling by day and by night, tha Y »nkecs have at last succeeded in doing some daoi'iga in Charles ton. A few nights ago a shell fed inside of a house in the luwer pirt of the city, waere four jffiears were imprud,>ntly sleeping, killed one out right, inj jrcd t«o so that they dtsd uuder ampu- nation, and slightly lujared the fourth- None of the officers were abov/a the grada of Lieutenant. A Horrid Mu '^er.—Oa yesterday week, a man by the name of J O .vens, who had been passing himself as a South C.tfolina soldier on his return to Petersburg, but who had stopped over a few *^ays and was drinking, was found murder ed in a quarter of a mile of the house of a woman by the name of Qdeli, four and a half mileo from High Point. Several persons must have been ®t>oagod in its perpetration. Ajory df inqupst returned that ^'..y.were of opioion that Wm. M. Darden, a priflit of the 30th N. C. Troops, had Been a partioiyatiw ia.it 0» thia finding the coroner committed Darden to jail. Gre -%tshort Citizen, Zd. I flag-of-truce office at No. 83 Pearl street.—76. The Intended Attadc on Wilmington.—Od this subject the New York Times says: l 1 With respect to Wilmington, and the eecapo of men and children, the probability m thrt they Tallahassee, we may say that we do not believe will perish from hunger en mas*e- This is yan- * This is kee sympathy for the neg^o.—Ral. Gont^rvative. Domestic Manufactnres.—Edgefield District S. C., is beooming famous for the manufacture of Confederate pirates and bloekade runners will ever bo effectually prevented from running in and run ning out there until the place, or at least its outer defences, are in our hands. It has not been eon- u X “j i J I f ©»led for some time that oar Government is seri- t^uaful fan^ made of feathers a e ow of intending to try its power against Wilmioij- the goose, and elegant hats and bonnets^made of | have published stot^enta from the the Palmetto, riee~straw and shucks. There hu also been an immense production of sjrghnm in thb District this season. Lincoln a Millionaire.—h. yankeo Demooratic paper says, ‘‘Mr. Lincoln was not worth five thousand doK lars on the dav ha waa inaugurated. now oonfeMwa ihafc ia wovUt ftva niUiona of dol- I rebel papers which show the information possessed by the enemy on the subject. It were well the Government’s purpose in the matter were quickly carried out. If the Halifax news of the escape of the Tallahassee be true, who can tell what the [ delay in attacking Wilmington may have oast us? The Presbyterian Synod of A\^. have inaogu- I rated a plu f(a the aappggrt and eduaaftioa of tha [ahUim rf deeeiii#^ 4i*Wea wMidei. «Ei«£R.%Ci OaD£B9. T!1B Hat Maaifaetarera at SiatssvUlx. M 0 , wish tt pttrehafie 1,000,000 FI7R Sueh as BA.BBIT8, V.U-KR4T3, COON, MINK. FOX, OTIBft. acd BBaYBd, for whioh we will p»y the fcigJ*- est prices eithar in i/safederate Mosey, Baak Bills aed Speeie, or exchaog*! far Cotton Tara or Hats. We kiipe that all those who wUh to enoonrag^ a Southen Enterprise, will exert themaelvcf ia geuiag I OB fUra. Merohaata will p>as9 aet aa Agea>s, bevriag in mind, that we wll pay 25 per c^nt. mor» than any oae else WITTKOVr&KT k SALTZ3£BT. Mr, S. B&ANDT is cur antfecr?a)d A#et.* for C?ii«- I berlaod eouaty to jpurebase Fu's for ns WITTKOWSKY k. SALTZBSRT. NovV 8. 81 2«a A Crentlsman, uniii*»?’wcd, ol eevcial years ex^t^ricnce, d*«ire4a Clatsieal *n4 Matht" matieal ch*^! t r tha tasa'm; yo%r. P »r tervs, Rtftrencetf ^ad oiher particula~s, apply w>*' I mediately ta Gapt B .h t Tait. Uar.a^a^g, Njr. 8 - 81 6 fd WOTICE., Thb Comniittea of ExaaiiP'ttloa of Common Sjaool Teaah^rs f r Ejbe^n coonty wiU avet ^ toa, tbs 12.h dfcy of Norember next, the preaeat year ) AU who expeot to apiJy for Oar««- M, u. R4«.l.d I. art.
Fayetteville Observer [Semi-Weekly, 1851-1865] (Fayetteville, N.C.)
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