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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1SC4.
Some time a?o wh thought to "herald an
era of good feeling." Not being able to see
how it was roter, right or expedient to
keep up political part)' organizations in these
times of national trouble and distress, when
our Governments, National and State, are
waging a war against invading armies for
their very existence, we proposed a 4 'ces
sation of party hostilities" and the forma
tion of one grand party of the country to .
"be opposed only by the party of the enemy
"which last, "by no maunerof means, wa3 to be
allowed a footho'd in our midt. We thought,
and fctill think, that the people were not only
ready, but anxious to sec party spirit buried,
and a common fraternity impel all our citi
zens to stand side by side in a struggle which
can be successfully maintained only by a
united and harmonieus action. And we had
reason to hope that the suggestion would com
mend itself to the leaders of former political
parties, as we felt assured it did to the people
of the State.
Bfit while we were indulging this gratify
ing reflection, we were surprised with the an-'
nouncement from the (iovernor's. organ, the
Conservative newspaper of this city, that
"party spirit would b maintained that
parties wure essential," and later, we have
witnessed in the same jaurnal an appeal to
these who style themselves Conservatives, to
keep up their oranizrtion for party purpo
ses. And now that the Legislature has as
sembled, this appeal has manifestly had its
effect, and the fact is apparent, that the spirit
of party, with the majority, continues to over
ride all other considerations. Up to this
writing, the Legislature ha3 made aeveral
elections, and in every case the purpose is
uneoivocal, that no citizen of the Sltle is to
he deemed Jit jor any post of civil trust, un
less he is a member of the Conservative party.
We shall not stop to comment upon the
riggardly spirit which prompts such a con
clusion. It is bad enough in time of peace,
anJJits ruthless operation in ancient times,
v.-us the precursor, as it unquestionably rrai
the origin in no small measure, of the present
calamities of war. Nor do we pai.se to won
der at the strange spectacle presented by this
iuimical manifestation by a portioa of our
ovrn citizens, against others who with them
are abiding the issue of a conflict, in which
tl e property, lives and liberties of all are
alike suspended in the balance. Not having
it in our power to avert, nor control, nor yet
oiisuade from this impolitic, unjust and mest
extraordinary attitude towards us, we of the
minority must no other alternative is left us
accept the issue which is presented to us.
Those who are here alluded to as the minori
ty, are well understood to be that class who
have been fixed with the nickname of ''Des
tructives" a nickname which docs little cred
it to those who arc uow most facile in its
pinployment for it is a borrowed appellation
from oqe who now holds but a slight tenure
upon their esteem. These " Destructives"
:no supporters of the country and of the war.
Ti oy are they who met the necessity of epara
tii a when it occurred. They are they who
hastened from the beginning to meet and faco
the emergencies; and they are they who in
by far the larger numbpr have faced the per
ils of the battle ficl-1 and poured out their
blood in defeuco of the country. Tbey have,
b"cn nicknamed, maligned and persecutod;
but now, if the lists nf names were publish
ed of those who make numbers in our armies,
whenever that list is published, it will be
f!iowu that the original secessionists have
aid continue to outnumbar all others,
among soldiers and oflieers, the stereotyped
Zander to the contrary notwithstanding.
But besides the original secessionists, tliere
are many others, who being true patriots and
t ecessionists- from the day of the secession f
their State, accepted for true the decla
ration by the Convention of North Carolina
of a final separation from the Yankee nation,
who are disgusted with the habitual denun
ciation of those who only preceded them in
perceiving and accepting the necessity f
such separation who sympathize with the
untiring and consistent support given by
secessionists to the war and to the Confede
rate government, a;d who aro prepred to go
with theia into a thorough organfzUion for
tho purpose of mere thoroughly maintaining
the cause to independence. Tho ferce and
power of these concurring and sympathi
sing eUtuenis, have not as yet been manifest
ed ; for.lieretofure true Conledr rates have been
content to select tho le.t material which the
Conservatives presented, to carry out their
purpose of best f-upprrting the government,
and have not attempted political organization.
But now they are obliged to recognize the
fact, tint a party a party of politic- which
deems only its own members to be fit to be
entrusted with any Ht in the adoiiuistratirn
of aflairs, is organiz-d in their midtt, and is
tljtermlned to remain ornr.'zM, for the pur
pose of fastening its prescriptive policy and
perpctuatiug its plitiul power.
K We have not a doubt, that there is at tLit
moment a large .majority of the peorb of the
State, at home and in the army, who view
'this proceeding with disapprobation, and who
would readily unite in the formation of a
counteracting organization, to promote a
catholic, universal, congenial and fraternal
spirit, in which the support of the cause of in
dependence, the maintenance cf the vital con
contiict in which we are engaged, and the dif
fusion of an all-pervadiDg, enthusiastic Confed
erate devotion shall be the cardinal features
an organization wherein party lines, as at
any time heretofore known, shall be oblitera
ted, and tho political society of which now
there ought to bo but a unit, shall be based
on loyalty alone.
Hew this organization should be inaugura
ted, we do net af present suggest. It is in
tke power of the minority in this Legislature
to do vast good. It is potential, if it exer
cise its power aright. It has the material at
band the best in the land for building up a
Confederate party, within whese folds all
wlio cherish our Government, who have de
termined to persevere in the struggle for in
dependence, can come and fid a home. The
people would welcome such aa organization ;
the soldiers in the army would at once swell
its proportions, and in face of a patriotic secie
ty of such dignity and imposing worth, the
petty, narrow-minded, conteiaptible factions
based on spoils and supported by impudent
assumptions, would appear in their shrunk
dimensions, containing only as a remnant,
those prejudiced and constrained intelligences
who havo not sufficcnt enlargement to em
brace wore of country than they find within
the jines of petty partyism. .
lSfo45 rhytical State Phyai- Order War
years uxsaoxixxy jjjicers ciani jsrjiarnnein
Yireii.ia 18 203
1,422
602
2
N. Carolina...23 055
S. Carolina. ...1,571
Georgia 2 653
Alabama 2,235
Jif-issippi 1,022
K. Tennessee 2C7
East Louisiana. ...46
Florida 87
IS 101
10G
979
673
163
39
8
91
956
324
302
495
275
32
93
. The foregoing table of Exempts from mili
tary service in the States named therein, pre
sents a fact not at all complimentary, in one
sense, to North Carolina, and yet not unex
pected by us.
It would seera from this statement, that
North Carolina haa.exempted as State offi
cers, thirteen thousand one hundred and one.
Now on the assumption that this is a true
statement, what earthly need is there for 13,000
State officers in North Carolina ? What
places can they 11 Surely the Adjutant
General's Bureau, laborious as the task is sup
posed to be by the Conservative, will deign to
inform the public. Now we know that there
are many persons in the State who fill more
offices than one "gopher holes" under
pher holes." Some men there are with a whole
suite of "gopher holes" parlor, bed cham
ber, "salon a boire," salle a manger. For exam- '
pie, our neighbor the Chief Clerk of the House
of Commons, is, we believe, on the staff of the
Adjutant General, Justice of the Peace, Direc
tor of the Deaf and Dumb Assylum, and now
Clerk in chief to the Uouse of Commons. It
is to be hoped, with so many "gopher holes"
to spare, our friend Mr. CoItOD, who teas a
true Conservative, will not b.e left unprovid
ed for. Then there is the Reading Clerk.
He is also commissioner of women's claims,"
and when we last kuew, Clerk and Master in
Equity.
There are members of the two Houses, too,
wba are shingled with multiplied 'bomb
proofs" who will appear before the public iu
season. It never occurred to us, (thiscon
selidating tendency) when we suggested our
remedy for doorkeepers, for in, all probability
all the doors would have been piled, as they
are on one or two backs; and if there had
been a dozen doors to keep, our various friends
would not have been allowed any of them. Cal
culating those who hwld to offices and mire,
there mu9t be twenty thousand State offices,
or one half as many as there are soldiers in the
field !
But Mr. Smith, our Representative in Con
gress from the first district, say3 the table is
false. For ourselves, we are constrained to
doubt the accuracy of tho conscription re
turns. We applied the other day to the Bu
reau here, and the number from the Registra
tion was furnished to us as
Whole number of exempts of good
physical condition 14,194
Of bad condition .'. 9,840
Total 24,030
II,ow the discrepancy occurs between the
table furnished to us and that presented at Rich
mond, we catnot tell. Oae would seppose
thai tho Adjutant General's Bureau of the
State ought to be provided with full informa
tion as to the military condition of the State.
How many and who have been put into the
service, and hew many and who have been
exempted, and why tbey have been exempted.
Our effort was honestly made, to supply ac
curate in formation. How successful we havo
teea, will appear from the discrepancy be
between the table furnishfd to us, aed that to
Can-rcss.
Thirteen thousand, one hundred and oas
State ofnVeis kept out of the service by Legis
lative enactmeats, Gubernatorial certificates,
and Supreme Court decisions!
Is it so ?
Tlic News.
The Richmond papers uf Monday, Tues
day's not to hand yet, contaiu no news from,
the lrcnt around that city, Petersburg or
from the Viiiiey,
The Telegraph yesterday brought us intel
ligence that Milledgeville; the capital of Geor
gia, had been entered by a poition of Sher
man's army, who burned the Governor's man
siou, the Fenitentiary and the Store houses of
the city. We presume this was done by a
da.h of cavalry into the place. The news we
give in another column, from the Augusta pa
pers, leads us to believe that Sherman will bo
trapped; and his on to Savannah" be bro't
to grief.
ri4 i! n.t.4.
An extraordinary debate has just tranpir-
ed in the House of Representatives at Rich-
mond, in which Mr. Foote, as usual, (' how
long, oh, Lord ! how long ?) bore off the palm.
At one time the spice and wisdom of the de
bate was a matter of contest between the Ten
nessee veteran and our oi Leach J. T. :
bat we believe it was conceded on all hands,
that the Honorable Mr. Foote outstripped onr
North Carolina Representative. It was ex
pected of Mr. Lach, by all who know him,
that he would, make North Carolira notori
ous at Richmond, if he did not make her res
pectable; and that if he did not elevate her
character, he would at least spread it. So no
one is taken by surprise at his performances.
It will be seen that the height of his ambition
now is to be hung with Gov. Joe Brown, and
Mr. Stcr.hens. and Mr. Bovce. Wc have no
4 ' -
objt-ctiun. Let him behunr.
" The speech pronounced by Mr. Foote, is
" I
.u v -r
rehensible as unfit to have been made or Us-
tened to in tbe Confederate Gongress, and one
which will be ereedilv swallowed bv those
make ''leacus. offensive and defensive, for
the strict enforcement of the Monroe doctrine,"
and thar 44 liberal commercial treaty" which
is to give us " the North American domain,
and perhaps Cuba." In the language of fhe
Examiner, it was a 44 bold defiance flung in
the very teeth of the Confederate Congress,
and of the States there represented-" There
will be bat one sentiment among our loyal
people, and that is, if Mr. Foote has opened
tbe door for summary dealing by the utterance
of disloval sentiments on the floor of Congress,
that the House will rid itself and the country
of his intolerable and inexhaustible jargon.
As for iorth Carolina, it is her misfortune
that of late her defence has fallen into the es
pecial keeping of Mr. J. T. Leach, and such
like. When aught is said of her, and not the
least reflection is made upon her fame, a pre
text is seized by these champions, for an as
sumption of an attack ; and immediately the
good old State is besmeared with their nause
us eulogistics. If it were not that she has a
native, honrst and simple woith, well recog
nized by intelligent people, the ridicule which
her self-coustitutd defenders attach to her,
would be simply unbearable.
'We give the debate in our issue of to-day.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OP NORTH" CAROLINA,
SENATE.
Wednesday, Nov. 23d, 1864.
The Senate met, pursuant to adjournment,
at 10 a. m.
Mr. Warren of Beaufort, introduced a bill
to extend the time for registration of grants,
etc.
It was ordered that the House be informed
that the Senate desired its concHrrence in a
proposition to go into an election for thrco
Engrossing Clerks at half past twelve to-day".
Accompanying the message a list of tbe
Senate nominees was sent the House as fol
lows: Mathew J. Moore, Wm. B. Phife. W.
A Huske, S. S. Goper, J T. Leach, J. Q.
lUrham. Wm. T. Hiliiard, Jas. B. Mason,
Neil McKay. Fred. Phillhs, Nicholas Alston,
Archibald Pierce, E. Ncwpnme, W. W. Dunn,
C. A. Cameron, and S. A. Taylor.
At half after twelve the S?na4e proceeded to
an ejection, Messrs Patterson and Ellis being
appointed to snperinted the voting.
Pending ths declaration of the vote, the por
tion nf the Treasurer's report previously or
dered to be read, was read.
The result-of the election for Engrossing
CleVks was then reported from the Joint Cora
miitre, as follows: McKay 95, Moore 50,
Huske 56. Phillin 51. Austin 36, Dunn 35,
Hill 31, Mason, 17, Pierce 15 L-ach 13, Bar
ham 11, Taylor 11. Cooper 10, Phife 0, Cam
eron 8, Hiliiard 6, Newsom 5, and Ewell 2.
Mr. McKay having a marrity, was there
fore declared elected; and the Senate went
into an election for the two remaining En
grossing Clerks. Pending the announeement
of the result trie Seuate adjourned till 10
o'clock to-morrow.
HOUSE of commons:
Wednesday, Nov. 23, 1304.
House was called to order at eleven o'clock.
M ssrs. Vann of Hertford, Riddick of Per
quimans, Sharpe of Irrdell, and Bond of Gates,
appeared and were duly qualified.
Mr. McCormick of Cumberland, offered a
resolution, that the citizens of the State be
protected, during the continuance of the war,
fro fn enforced payments in specie.
The Committee for that p irpnse reported
Rules for the government of the House. Re
port concurred in.
The ILise branches of the Joint Standing
Committees were then announced as follows :
Finance Messrs. Shepherd, Amis, Brown
of Mccklenbnr;, McGrhee, Murphy, Phillips,
Cunningham and Love.
Miiitarv Affairs Messrs. Grissom, Cowles,
Stancell, Pool and Gaskins.
Public Buildings Messrs. Albrittoa, Caho
and Calloway.
Public Library Measrs. Benbury, Smith
of Duplin acd Stipe,
Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum Messrs.
McCormick, Holton, Joyner, Costcer and
Latham.
Insane Asylum Messrs. Carson, of Alex
ander, Riddick, Baxter, Peace and Smi.thjof
Cabarrus.
S.vamp Lands Mpesrs. Bond of Gates,
Wooten, Ptrkins, Cobb and Carter.
Cherrkee Lands acd Wettrn Turnpikes
Meters. Youn, Gudger, Ashe vorth, Baoks
and Polk.
Mr. Shepherd of Cumberland, introduced a
resdu:ion if enquiry, as to the expediency of
exempting frcni Home Guard duty such
bo'tded agriculturists as were engaged in the
production of grain, &c, for the use of the
Cor federate Government. Agreed to.
Also a bill to provide that dr.r:sg the
years 1865 and 1866, the Judges of the Supe
rior and Sufieine Courts be allowed their
actual expenses while in discharge of their
duties. Agreed to.
Mr. B rown of Macklenbnrj, a bill to pun-L-h
any citizen of North Carolina going over
to the enemy or giving aid and comfort to the
same, by forfeiture and incapacitation, and
makicg it the duty of all to see that the pur
pose of the law be fuifiiled. Referred to
the G:mmittes oa Judiciary and ordered to be
printed.
Mr. Waugh of Surry, moved that hereafter
the House meet at 10 o'clock, a. m leach day.
Carried. ' J
Aiiraurumary ucuaic .
mi t . 1 1 a a. t Vi aft
Pn . r, , ' r ,rI,M mt t H. Hill
j well' ad(Jed tQ tbe ,;8l of
candidates sent in by the Senate. Neill Mc-
Kav was elected on the first ballot; and tae
. a
House proceeded to vote for the remaining
two. Teudirfj i he announcement of the vote,
the House adjourned till to-mcrrow ten o'clock.
From Ihe United Stalfi.
Shf.rman's movement 'the Military
MYifEnr" Speculations or tue Yan
kee Press, ktc.
Tho latest Yankee papers received are
chit-fly occupied with speculations in regard
to' Sherman's expedition, some which, at tbe
risk of repeating what has been' heretofore
copied, we subjoin :
The Cincinnati Commercial of the 12th
says :
There is nothinj t oppose Sherman but
the militia of the southeastern cotton States,
and that will, perhaps, have ample occupation
in guarding the army of prisoner keM in
r i o "i i j .1
inuUitU(ie cf ne-roes huddled into these States
. tl j tf rs t9 k t, out of owr way
ine nfet result of the fighting in the West is
Sherman's victorious army starling trom At-
lanta without a formidable fe in front. The
possibilities of the movement he is making
are stupendous If he should happen to be
going to South Carolina by way of Augu?ta,
he can gather an army of able-bodied negroes
on the road. He may, by the sw(xp of his
cavalry and the rpid march of detached col
umns, release forty houand United States
soldiers without the formality of an ex
change. By holding Chattanncoga and Re
saca, and destroying all beyond, he can by the
time he crosses the Savar.nah river cut off all
communicatioa, by rail or telegraph, betweea
Richmond and Georgia, Alabama and Missis
sippi, and will place hjmself in Lee's rear.
Are we safe in Tennesse while Sherman
swings off southeast? We have no doubt of
it. We must make ourselves safe if we are
not. The army left Thomas is equal to that
of Hood, and with the whole Northwest to
back him we presume he can get along. As
to providing for his army, Sherman's inarch
will be through a country full of com, one
hitherto untouched by the desolating hand of
war. He will start with well rilled trains,
and sweep the country, far and wide as ho
moves. There are no great rivers to pass if
he goes to Suuth Carolina, until he reaches
the Savannah, and, of course, a pontoon train
goes with him.
r roiu Atlauta to Augusta the instance u
one hundred and s-eventy-one miles; from Au
gusta to Charleston one hundred and thirty
seven miles. About three hundred niilrs
havo to be marched, whichever way Sher
man goes, before he reaches a new base.
This is a month's stvere tcork, for there are
points at which he will be annoved. He is
not hkely to find tbe roads and bridges in
good order, nor toJeave thtm so; and his ene
mies are desperate enougrrto imitate the Rus
sians in lajiug waste their own country in his
path, l.ut we presume he may stait with
food in his wagons that may be made to hold
out for thirty days, and he can certainly
gather ten days' supplies on the road. This
would give him forty days to get through.
The principal danger i from weather. If (here
should happen to occur a fortnight of dluge,
such as Ru.ecrans Tabored through when be
moved from Murfreesboro', the consequence
might be disastrous. But the General who
led ihe raid from Vicksburgto Meridian, and
the column that fought ami foraged from Mem
phis toKnoxville, can be trusted to find his
way from Atlanta to the Atlantic.
The New York Herald (whose war news
redacteurs have the faculty of Beeiog further
through a mill stone ttan anybody, else), fa
vors us with the following circumstantial i.a
rativc: On October 23, Hood movelfrom' Gadsden,
through Lookout Mountaiu, towards Guntcr's
Landiug aud Decatur, on the Tennessee river,
nar the lust of which places be formed a junc
tion with Gen. Dick Taylor's army, which bad
meantime quietly moved up the Mobile and
Ohio Railrvad to Corinth and thence to Tus
cumbia, the new base of supplies. He thos
placed himself far in General Sherman's rear
before that officer could take steps to transfer
his army te the front of the rebels on the Teu
ueee. Hood's advance" had probably reached
tbe Tennessee keforc Geuetxl Siieman ptai
tively knew he had abaadoued Gadsden. Un
doubtedly it whs much to his surprise when, on
Oct. 25, he tried tbe gap ad found it aban
doned by Hoed. The position as certainly
startling. He dared sot follow, thus abandon
ing his line of supplies to venture in a moun
tainous country, through which a large aruy
had just passed. It was impossible to transfer
his entire army to Hood's front in time te meet
him and thus bold bis communications intact.
The position demanded resolution and acticn.
He was not slow to resolve aud act.
"Let him go North," he exclaimed to his
council : ,4our business is dowa South."
He rtpresented to his oflicprs that the tiitua
tiou of atiairs justified hira iu considering his
column an independent one, without a foe te
C'nfroct. Rousseau and Weod's cerps, with
M organ's divitiun f the Fourteenth usd Twei-ty-third
carp?, entire, were in Tennessee, alos j
tbe line of the Tennessee river. Tbey more
than equalled Beauregard's forces Slccum's
corps wa in Atlanta, feebly besieged by Ier
son's cavalry. He remained with the flower ef
his army nith tbe cerps that. stood at Cbicka
mauga with Thomas and the corps of Grant's
old army that besieged VickiDurg and relieved
Chattanooga, lyiig in what GoTernor Brown
calls the "heart and railroad centre of the
South," with only the Georgia militia tke
mere shadow of an army to oppose him. He
determined at this important juncture to re
sume his original intention, and, ignoring the
very existence of Hood, carry out his effeneive
catspsugn from Atlanta. He determined to
follon iico i no loger, but bade him ,4rfpeed"
on bis journey North.
"If he wiil go ti the river," he said, "I will
give hiia. his rations," but faded to intimate
that he proposed to consider them rations to
prisoners.
I Tbe resolution was promptly formed aud the
preliminary movements as rapidiy executed.
By November 1 the Army of the Tennessee had
loft Rome and was en route to Atlanta. On
November 4 the five corps the 14th, 15th, lGta
17tb, and 19th had been concentrated at tbe
laat mentioned city, and rapid preparations
were being made to begin the march, Sher
man left in the highest sprits, and telegraphed
his intentions in these remarkable words:
Hood has cro-sed ths Tviinessee. Thomas
will take car6 of bim and Nasbville, while
Schofi-ld will fcot let him into Chattanooga or
Kuoxville. Georgia and Seuth Carolina are at
ray mercy, and I shall strike. Dj not be anx
iou? about me. I am all right.
A 'badly buuged-up Emerald Talar.der, in
respoi.se to th inquiry. "Where have you
been?" said, 'Down to Mrs. Muroony's
wake, and au iiiegant lime we had of it.
Fourteen fights in fifteen minutes; ouly one
whole Lose loft in the house, and that belong
ed to the taokettIe.''
i ne Mouse then nroceeoea to voa- iui
Cheering from Georgia.
From the fallowing article, laken from
Augusta pipers of the 20th, it will be seen
that the people of Georg'u are fully aroused
to meet Sherman's advancing columns, that
veteran troops are pouring into the State, that
Beauregard is at the helm, IIo.hI iu his rear,
another dbtingushed leader with a Heavy
force is en his fuck, and thirty thousand
veteran troops in his front, aud that Sherman,
it is believed, cannot escape.
The Chronicle end Sentinel of the 20th,
says ;
We are happy to be able to announce fhat
our authorities have nt lensth aw. ke, aud
aroused themselves to the task of driving the
foe from the soil of this commonwealth.
Gerna is at last to be defended. A larjre
number "of veteran troops have already nr,
rived incur city, and many more we under
stand areon their way. It was ajwtdeonie sight
to sco.the columns c,t gallant solders as they
wended thur way through the streets.
It is wilh great and unqualified pleasure
that we announce this news to mr country
riders. Tbe foe will now have to pauso iu
his triumrhact march. Instead of overrun
nit g this State at his ease, as he has proudly
bucsted, he will be lortuuatc. if he succeeds la
making good lr.s retreat.
It is stated that a large cavalry forc has
left Greenville, S. C, and is moving across
the country in the direction of Atlanta
probably with a yiew of cutting off the Yan
kee columns which is moving down tho Geon-
eria railroad in this direction.
From the Augusta Constitutionalist , Nor.
20.
Our information frm the movements of
tbe encny in all directions to the front f us
is rather meagre. Our telegraphic commit
nication is Mil) perfect with Macon, and con
fidence in the ability to hold the city against
any advance has settled down into a firm be
lief. From a gentlemen up the Georgia road
who left Greensboro on the 19th, we learn
that Madison has shared the fate of other
places vhdted by the rnemy in bis present
movement. The fire was set to the depot by
the incursion of about oue thousand cavalTy,
who reported the strength of their column at
two corps, about sixteen thousuid men. They
returned to their infantry camp after setting
fire to the town. An engine sfut up the
Georgia Road this morning found the advance
ef the enemy about Buckhead ; iu what force
was not ascertained. Considerable excite
ment existed up this read, aud many were re
moving their effects.
Our city has calmed into a fing feeling of
determination aod confidence.
As we write, the glad and familiar shout of
veteran troops, just arriving from the South
Carolina depot, comes up Irotn tho streets.
We welcome the gallant fellows; and Mr.
Sherman's men, if they retreat this way, will
hear the whistle of budets from the trusty
guns which have often been pointed at fa
natics ou the banks of the Potomac and the
James. The troops are being properly dis
tributed, and before our readers will tee this,
olhee glad shout- will bo hcari in our streets.
Oar Arsenal Battalion with the other local
companies and details, combined with the
veterans already here, should make our citi
zens (who should themselves, nutil the emer
gency is over, become soldier.-) feel compara
tively easy as far as the defeL.ce of tfiis, city
is concerned.
The duty of every man. however, i in lw
prepared to render all tho as:dKtance in his
power to Dot only repel an attack of th ene
my, but to rout, and destroy and capture any
force venturing ibis way.
Wo rouet retard, harra.s, starve, destroy
the army of Sherman. 'J ho opportunity is
ouin. Tho hand of God" is in it. The blow,
if we can give it as it should be given, may
end the war. Yo urge our friends in the
track of the advance to remove all forage and
provisions, horses, mules, negroes and utock
and burn the balance. Let the invader find
the desolation he would have behind him
staring him in tho lace. You must do it
jourelf or the enemy will do it.
Let the ciy of Beauregard who is now with
us go up through the State, to arms I to arms 1
to arms 1
PJtCCLAlf ATIOX FROM UEN. BCaUREQARD.
Corixtu, Nev. 18.
To the People of Georgia :
Arise fir tho defence of your native soil!
Rally kroiind jour patriotic Governor and
gallant soldiers I
Obstruct nd destory all roads in Sherman's
front, flauks and rear, and his army will tojn
starve in your midst.
Be confident and resolute. Trust in tbe
Over-Buliug Providence, and success will
crowi your efforts.
I haateu to join you in the defence of your
homes and firede;-!
. G. T. Beackkgard, General.
APPEAL FROM THE GKoROlA CONGRESSMEN.
RxcHifoXD, Nov. IU.
We bare had a special conference with
President Dayis and tho Srcrctary of War,
and are enabled to assure you that they have
djne and are doing all that can be done
to meet the emergency that presses unou vou.
i et every man fly to arms : rer-ovc your ne
groes, horses, cattle and provision away from
Sherman's array, and burn what yeu canuot
carry, uuru all bridges, and block up the
n ad in his route ; assail the invader by day
and night let him haye no rest.
A
COW AT AUCTION.
At 12 o'cleck to-day, Thursday, we fhall ssll at
Auction a jroodMILOli COW "
CREECH A LITCnFORI),
fcov 24-.JU Co.a Merch'tsand Aucts.
T
O FA It 1M E R S I
150 GRINDSTONES,
'WEIOHIHO FROU 80 TO 3(50
FOUNDS.
. 200 LBS. WIDE DAG ON IKON.
oca, five ahd Eionr iicun wide.
We will Rive four pounds of Pry Virginia Salt
or cue ct 1'ork,
SHAY, WILLIAMSON t CO.,
North State Iron a&d Brass Works.
Raleigh, Not. 2t, 1864. d7t
RUCTION S A L E S
- ON JONDAV. iho 2th, in front of onr Sales
Room, we will cflcr for sale
SIX VALUABLE NKGROlvi
as follows:
1 Buy 1 3 years old, No. 1 Fi. Id hand.
1 Roy 22 jrears old, good diuit room servant.
I Boy 0 jera ld,
1 Woman 20 years eld, with twe cti!dlTn, said
to be a good W afher, Iror.er ana Co k. One or
two more to be added to the sale.
2 Fine Stoves.
3 Fenders.
A lot of Carpets. Stor. .Tor.-.i
TCIMCK1! AVlifl-tVo
1UCKER. ANDRKWS A rh
Auction and Commission Merchants.
nov Zi d2t
TELE G R A. P II lc
s, s ' v,
BBPORT8 OF THE PRESS AH.socJ in",
Entered ccordln.-to aet of rvnrr.
ofth DUtijrt Jourt cf tiit Can) r,,, '
forth. N'orthfrn DlirtH f ,:rt-, S
' '-'Tli
'V
rapture ortlicrapiia"rcr"or.ia
AUGUSTA, N'ov. 2i.-Th, c,nttt, (
Dsviibnro,' rrperti that .'iUvilu. I) '
don were captured v8trdy ,T th- ''
tore h.-u'i, (Jorornor'n Matb !
l. . . . l . . 1 1 ...
rjoIls tbe Wenne bride. Xtbi fr
the tralo went np t (lreeiitir
,( (1st.
pnimr armour In li,im all rm : .1
Milledgeville snd .Vacon, bat tnt'ar r .
known. A icoating partv went Into Atliv ',
the Yinkeen left. They report tint a 1
ness portion of the city was dfstrovtd, "a
From the Vallcj.
XEW MARKET, Xov. 22Two .j;,;
the ne my' cavalry ranie two mile th;
Munt Jarksoa this niorninff. V -ttati .
and drore thete below Ivlinbur;, a ?;.1r
ten or eleren milfs. OurJo.!wa vf
killed and wounded; enemy's Io.m not L
RICHMOND, Xov. 23. TheJoll.. it.,' ,m
cieved thi niorninjr : lle-ulijuartertf,
Hon. J A Scddan . General Karlj report. .,,
rtmny's caulrr in coaniderable fnre, iitv , ,
our cavalry pickcta this inrnio, od idvm.
to Moent Jackson and creeeed over th t,...
It was met by pome iafantrv end on brig,, ,
Rosser'8 cavalry and driven k-ack. Kovir
teed, driving the eewy betoihl Puir.buij
conf union and compelled him lo a.bi?bo ' ""
killed and weunded. l.arly thinks it ...
co&nc.ssance. u. ;. LlK, ai
From Pelmbur;:.
PETERSBURG, Nov. 22. -All ,j,t; Rtl
deep in mud. Strewtus all nmh twoPen. TL
recent actirity of 'tie enc.v t n or ti-ht,
been ascertained to have prrwn tut t f f,.r , ,,
an attack frem ws. TTeathsr cluioly au l culi, in.
dicating (now.
Frem Past Tciinmrc.
BRISTOL, "ov. 21. There U a report f
fijrtt at "Strawberry I'ltims today; tLtco Ur..
dred negrwes kit ed. No official news.
Yankee 'pwr.
KICHifONI), Nev.21.The Philad.ljl ,
quirer ef the 1 1Kb, sas ff'eat t-xcitemeut -rfil,j
at Jemphin the 18th, in c.sequen( of rtprn
that Reaurcpard was anarrhing against it w.ihi
large force from Corinth.
The Chicago Journal savs a furlowghtd cf!r
of Sherman's stafl', states he hrM been otdnd
when his leave expires to rejoin his couimtaJ nt
Savannah.
loc l.uioTii:e journal oi ibe lath, tars llion-M
is at PuUfki with the 4th and 23rd armj to:;.
and heavy details of other corps.
Gold 216.
RICHMOND, Nov. 21 The Paltimore Arerrl.
can Fays Grant, Accompanied ly a portion of L is
stair, arrived at Iialtliuore on Friday on his way
to Burlington on a brief visit to his family. Tl.p
same paper sajs the blockading Ueets will kooh l o
largely increased and rendered s ptrocg that ,t
will be impofrtihh for vessels to runthrou(ta
them.
A St. I.oaiij Telegram avs S"" "!'
consists of four corp, commandt-d by Jeff. C.
Davis, Ofet hauj, RIair and Slocum.
The Washington Chronicle of tha 20th, cnn.
tains nothing of interest except tbe admi'uu nf
a defeat in East Tennessee, and a proclamation
from Lincoln, rahing the blockade at Norfolk,
Fernandina and Ronsacola. Gold closed oa Sat
urday in New York 220.
We received Inst night a lengthy telegrnm from
Richmond, rcntaiting extracts from northern
papers of Shermaa's niovenients known Lere iu
the South a week ago. The telegraphing ofmi 6
old stuff to the Vrcf, at heavy expense, is out'
rageous.
The rnly items ofj.ews the long rigmarole con
tains are the follewing :
Sherman is reported in New Verk and Dahl
ia ore papers te be adTancing tcwards Saramifih
in two columnsr one to go te Mucod, the otler U
A njnsta F.eaufort, S. C, his ultimate desthu
tien, where he intends to tnuke the Suth AtUn
ti i Rlockading Sqntdron his leture base of fcup-
pliis.
Only rach huildiugs at Atlanta as crnld he tf
benefit to the rebels were destroyed. The txten
eive Kolliag trills, stables and store htuirs at
Rome, were destroyed.
New Orleans papers of the 12th state that
Frnch'a troops have evacuated -Vatamoras.
At Brownsville there U a small rubel force. Gen.
Caaby 's wonrds so seriors he will not be able to
take tbe saddle for fix moaths. Evtrvthingquitt
at Little 'Rock on tbe 9th inrt.
A Chattanooga telegram of the 18th aays tbe
rebels attacked our forces at Strawbury pUi'iH
yesterday; tbe fighting continued at interval, a l
dav. The rebels were repaired on every attack.
Giilaui is sate in Knoxvllle. (iold excited, ad
vanced to 22S, aud fell two sixteen and ckscJ at
223.
Confedr rate Congress.
RICHJOM), Nov. 21. In the Senste, Mr.
Strrinns subniitted a resolution, dcclarirg that
the quantity, quality and value of articles i li vr
able as tax in kiad to be ascertain d, in can of
disagreement between tax payer ar.d aith'ir,
by disintervfctf-d referees. Atier a protracted de
bate tho tif ther consideration of tha rtsah'tiwn
was pofti oncd until tc morrew.
The Housf adopted a resolution re afllrn iag th
declaration of Ia.-tses.fion, of the unalterable de
termination of the people of the Confederal
State.-, nercr upon any tci uis t have an lla
tion, political or otherwij?, with the peopi- m
gaged in the invasion of onr soil or butchti ic; of
our cittzrns.
A bill wa; introduced to organize corps rf Ac
tails ceinp(.i-tl cf eflicers without command.
.,.. "ta ,n a personal explanation. Oeiireifd a
pbillipic against the Editor of the Examiner for
a criticism upon his speech ef Saturdav, it. l''-r
of lefeuinjf pcaco propositions if fulmilttd Ly
the Unitl States, to tbe sovereign States.
RICHJO.VI), Nov. 22 -In the Senate. Mr.
Henry fnui the Committee on Military Affairs,
reparted a bill increasing the compensation f
free negroes employed ia tbe arrnv and ainb'iri--zing
the injprrst.mentof foi tv thuusaud slares.
Ibe t ill was placed en the calendar.
A Cfcsage from the President in responce to
tbe resolution of Mr. Maxw II, Hating no State of
the United States had intimated a willingness,
directly or indirectly, to ener into a coareuti n
for the cessation of hostilities, or other rur-
Tho llouse passed the Senate bill, authorizing
an exchange of six per cent, coupon bonds !r
even thirtvnotra ; alo adopted a resolution cf
thanks to Gen. Forrest, oflieers and men, for tbe
victoi ips recently gained.
.lHln?,lr.thcr f interest in open session.
MCHMO.ND, Nor. 23. 'Ihe Senate passed a
bill conferrins the rank of Colonel on the Coai
nissiocer ot Exchat g, Liet. C lonel on his As.
aistant. Henry's declaratien rolutioas were
!K iiSti fr of tLe d for Tuesday, and it
then went into secret sc.sioq.
iJrJ!l i0"8 ainon the hills and rcsolutieos
tJ? 1 C?, .wa" to a,M,!isu thepassport system.
Then went into secret session.