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.;t-.f.'-VJ' THE STATE JOURNAL: RALEIGH, N. G.i SATURDAY. APRIL 5, 18B2. 1 V. at Sftotc-Jflwraot STATE, tit dT I 4H E R OF THK LAITB vr m. v. TrToftHe State Journal. . a v;na tViafnnr naneris con- e beg to rtiuiu accom- I,.,,.,! on the ciu.il r-.. " v the order in every case. 1iAVcckly,:perannum....i Aveekly j""" .$4 00 .. 2 00 Notice to Subscriberr. The State Jol ie4TA7.n , ,:f,r be sent without the money accom- t . . t i j oon iductea on me vash principle. Nn pap1?!1 '"' 1,11 , . ati ,,ase8 names of subscribers will Will IKTIM pany - . atte of expiration oi meir reusciir ii ,((.r ;uiu i' . i. . it: auu . .. i . i ... , . w rti We are compelled to t,ri-u . ,, . alj cases, and no friend can grumoie t-n'orcc in is l 'cros mark on the wrapper or on the margin of ' , i JenoU that the subscriber's time is nearly out -TthTcTnTIlerate States is an acknowl duty p.r.im .ant and indispensable. To rn-co-iflbn :e .v 1 tnyt, it must not be au outside, hollov .--hearted, profession must be Doia,. wrung, known, felt, diffusive. It must prompt .every ti...H"ht bridle every desire, rcguiaw every tri gvery action. Like faith in Christ, upon which -.nan's hopeofcter.nl life is suspended, loyalty to the Confederacy is justified only by work. As in theol ' y' wliat'ver is ivt . uf Jaith is sin ; so, in. politics, whatever is not of 1 oyaity, is treason. He who is not f.,r mi3 against m, and die who'liatliereth not.with us scattmth'almMd. Faitli prompts the christian to v. ..i . j..,;.,.;,;,, ,n1r-; hi-n a freeman, and en- iiiir.si iim cuaiu.-j w4 on., ... lists him as a soldier of the cross. In the exuberance of his holy feal'y, he counts all things butlos?, so. that he rtmy win Christ. In the object.-of that faith, he . beholds all that is pure, and holyfc and lovely ; and, wrapt in an eastacy of admiration, his 'utterance is stepped by the .significant, thrilling exclamation, "My Lord and My- U " So loyalty to the; Confederacy, prompts the patriot to burst the chains of the tyrant, aVists him under the banner oT his country, resolved to4ic or be free; In the same exuberance of holy feal- - tv; he counts all things temporal but loss so that he may win the independence of his country, establish .its sovereignty, and n itt enjoy, the holy rights of a "freeman, and transmit them unimpaired to posterity.' Loyalty, like faitji. and indeed most other terms, may, perhaps, bo beitcr defined by telling what it is nolh what it does Jiol do, than by telling what it is and .vhat it tluc. . . ' . In defining hjalhj to the Southern Confederacy we - must remember that out of the oidJnited States gov ernment, two governments and two peoples have been formed. These government and these peoples are divi ded into Northern and Southern. With the Northern government and people, this article has nothing to do. -except,. perhaps,' iu a relative or secondary: sense. It is enough for our' present purposo, bknow that we have a Southern government, and v-f course, a bouthern" jMiople. ' The ?nassc of these people are confessedly 1 hjat to their government. Somcni them are confus edly disloyal. Tlic loyal and disloyal have severally their ehaTacte'ristics, but those of the disloyal it is only our purpose to trace. ' " Loyalty, thenis evidently not a desire to see the ' Northern, and Southern governments consolidated, or. the peoples inhabiting these regions re-uniied. liut as we can't c'e'desices;we can only judge of their ex istence by the words which they prompt and the acts : Avhich they perform loyalty, like faith, is proved by ' .its works. True loyally, thendoes not speculate on the necessities of the government or the people. It does nutjask twenty-fi ve cents for bacon. It docs not sell salt-f-.r twenty dollars a sack, which has cost or ca be manufactured at live dollars. It does not sell cloths, or yarns to make cloths for soldiers or citizens, at three or four times th price of pro hieing them. It does not buy gold at 50 'or 75 ' p.-r cent, premium, and call Confederate or State money dirt. It does not sell corn for thej most it can get,y r Hour at tea to twelve dollars a Uii-rel. , It does uoo plant a full crop of cotton and t tl keco, with a yijw to. make money, and' expose out ijrmy and people to the horrors and consequences of famine and starvation. 1 1 rub loyalty .'does mt do any of these thiugs, and yet loyalty may exist in the breast of many who do them but'it is a misguided, -mistaken loyalty, proceeding from igno- ranee of the, requirements ottrue patriotism, and the mode by which the independence ofbiir country must be obtained, and the rights and liberties of freemen secured. . But there is an affected loyalty, which is the effect " of cunning and restraint that sort of loyalty, which prompted Arnold to seek the command of West Toiut. This sort of loyalty prates about two parties which existed in this Stuie, hi November, lsJO one p-irty tseeJcinj to destroy, and the' other skekinu to prk " serve the old union. As liaruside's thievish ruf fians draw near, thi$ affected loyalty tells them that, in February, lS'Ji, a vast imjuri!yi our people de cided against dissolving the Union, bu; the minority were dissatisfied with the decision, and continued to agitate 'for disunion, and for a bloo lj tear. It tells them that, iu -March, -1861, a meeting vf original se cessionists was held in Gld.sboro', by whom it was resolved "that the State shonld bo takja out rf the Union by a revolution jry moccmaif." It teits them that Sputh Carolina tired on Fort Sumter 'in April, and Mr. Jjincolu then drew the sword on the cotton States thus throwiug the South iu the wrong, and -Mr. Lincoln" m the rigUt Joad i:naing South CaroH Una and justifying fOIr. Lincoln." In order that the . leaders of this disunion movernvnt may be known to - Burnside's ruffians and -MrL Lincoln's" hirelings, this ". affected, this coustrai'uod loyalty tells theia "the lion. WeldonN. Edwards, who had presided ovcrlhe (iii- wm'on) meeting at GoilsU-jro', at which tho new (seces 'sion) or States Bights party was formed, was (subsc c .quently) electid President of the State Couventiou" which took the Stale out-of the Union and that Mr. Johnston, of Mecklenburg, voted for Mr. Edtcards, thus identifyiag himself with the States Rights or - original secession'party." It-whines over the adop-; : tion of "Mr. raige's ordinance "of secession" which was adopted by a party vote, and charged Lincoln witai beginning the war, "in preference to that offered by'Mr, Badger," which exculpated Lincoln and charg Wi id the blame of the war upon South Carolina and tho : cotton States. It tells them that it is a Conservaiiie jand, for that, together with the fact that it was an old Union man, is proscribed both at Raleigh and Rich mond, where it is allowed, to hare "no part in the of fices or honors of the Government." It tells them that "all the important offices are in the hands of oce par ty "and hence that it is not responsible for secession, nor the bloody war, no any thing that is done. It consoles itself for the defeats and disasters which our country has sustained, by the fiendish consideration, that the "Qjlonels and Generals" who have been de feated, "belong to the dominant faction who were so useful in producing the reyolutioo 1 " It bears testi mony to the good conduct'of the Yankees in every town which they have captured. It has correspon dents in some of those towns, who say the Yankees ' "behave very well,eed the negroes," steal only "Gov ernment corn," and "say they don't intend to iuterfere with private property." It is very patriotic and wise, but tries to make the "Government at Richmond and Raleigh," very unpopular. It denounces these govern ments and abuses their officers ; but, of course, doesn't do it to impart any moral support to the Yankees, who are prowling on" our borders, as wolves in quest of sheep. It declares that President Davis is morally" and socially corrupt, but never finds any cause of of fence in Mr! Lincoln. It accou,nt3 for all our disasters on the ground of incompetency in the officers. If its own plans are not ad"ptcd and its own behests not obeyed, it lashes itself into a fury, holds itself up as a prophet, but covers up all its new-born'zeal, under the insidious cry that it -did all it could to preserve the old Union. . , We might fill volumes with a description of this spurious, deceptive loyalty which; while it is profes sing friendship for the Southern Confeder icy ,js giv ing all its moral support to the government of that amiable gentleman', whom it never describes by a worse name than that of "Mr. Lincoln." Under "the hypocritical mask of conservatism, it is the ready, volunteer apologist for treason and traitors. If the town in which it live3 were captured, and its entire record, since the war began, were explored, letter by " letter, word by word, line by line,, sentence by sen tence and paragraph by paragraph, even Burnside,' himself could" not find evidence to convict it of disun ion sentiments, and would be led to the conclusion that no better Union man anywhere exists! . This is what we call making a record. iu the face of the enemy. It is time the public eye was directed to those who make it. If ye take nojt warning from the traitors who have already betrayed our armies, composed of our . best blood sons, relatives and friends, we deserve to be subjugated.- The army left traitors behind them iu Washington and ' Newborn who were known to be traitors. Before other towns fall, as lall some will, the traitors and scoundrels should he sent to the rear. Let us look strictly into every man's record, whatever position he jnay hold, however rich or poor, and if "it is not a record for which Burnside's thievish rascals would feel bound, to hang or imprison him, it is evidently one which should commend him to'the tender mercies of the au thorities "at Richmond and Ralefgh," or tbose respec tively in command under them. All Corn No Cotton. In view of the probability of a protracted war, It becomes every man in the Confederacy to consult the good of the cause for which that war has been inaug ated. The result of the war nobody doubts, provi ded the management of affairs be characterized by wisdom, prudence and discretion, Tb secure this, much more depends upon the farmers of the Con federacy than they are willing to admit. They have sent their sons to the field to fight, 'and it becomes thenr to see how these are to bo fed. They cannot eat cotton. They cannot fight unless-they be fed. The history of the world affords us but few instances where a half-clad, half fed army have won. battles or conquered peace. No army in the world, perhaps, 'wa's ever subjected to more hunger and cold more torturing hardships and corroding privations than the army of the Revolution. Their sutferings, their tjils, their nakedness, their perils are fresh in the minds of us all, and the doleful narrative often draws a tear from the school boy of the present day. His tory leaves us ignorant of any remedy by which 'the farmers of those days might have provided against these privations, and. supplied the army with food. But the "history of posterity will not hold the far- meis of the present day guiltless, should the army of the Confederacy bp exposed to hunger and want and 'the sufferings which they entail. We have millions of acres of the most fertile lands in the world, where the enemy's fo t has never, yet penetrated, and never will, and if our farmers neg lect or refuse to appropriate every acre to corn, and such other cereals and vegetables as supply food for man and beast, on him will rest the awful responsi bility of reducing our army tti starvation and want and betraying his country into the hands of the en emy. We will not degrade this question, by examining it in the light of dollars and cents. "The love of money is the root of all evil," and has induced men fo trifle with their eternal interests. That it blinds men to the interests of their country does not admit of argument. Some there'might be, and no doubt are, who would plant cotton or anything else that might promise to bring them1 gain. If honest, ignorant men, they must be dissuaded from their course. If corrupt, intelligent rascals, who care nothing for their country, so they can accumulate riches, public opinion must coerce them into duty and compel them to perform it. If with the prospect of a starving army and a subjugated country before; them, they persist in.; planting cotton, their neighbors and friends, who know them, should remonstrate, and if the voice of remonstrance be not heeded, if the voice of starving soldier and an op pressed country 'do not move them, they ought to be made hear a voice that would take no denial, but compel swift obedience. ' But we. have no idea that, to any serious extent, will the J armors of the Southern Con federacy pursue a course hostile to their country. Almost every far mer in the country, lias a sou or some near relative in the army, and let the hunger pains of that son or rel ative appeal to that father or friend for food. To the pure patriot, however, the voice of country is more po tent and moving than the voice of son or daughter, and ho who would plant cotton in order to make money, is iiic i viable of sympathizing with suffering humauity, though of his own kindred aud blood, and would be deaf to the cries of an invaded country. The shrieks of virgin purity, writhing in the grasp of amatory pollu tion, would not divert his footsteps from the polluted path that conducts to the temple of Mammon. Seed-time has come and a propitious Providence will soon send us harvest. Knowing .that as a man so A-eth, so shall he alscyeap, let the farmer's seed" time be such as will cause himself and his country no regret, when the harvest appears. Now is the time to decide. All corn aud no cotton will insure us a well-fed army, composed of our own sons andpdndred, will'tng and able.to fight our battles and give inde- pendence to our country. All cotton and no corn, or so much cotton as might, by the remotest possibility, produce a scarcity of corn, nd other articles of food which cannot be produced without corn, would doom our. army to intolerable suffering, and our country to intolerable chains. Other views there are which might -be taken of this question, but it surely only requires to be mgnfioned to put our farmers on their guard. On this subject, a late number of the Milledgeville (Ga.) Register says : We are rejoiced to see evidence from all quarters of the South, that the planters are resolved to give all their lands and force to provisons, except a bare suf ficiency to preserve cotton seed, and only enough lint for domestic use. Hitherto the great pride of cotton planters has been in the quantity ot production the more bales the greater the triumph. Now the rule is just the contrary the smaller the production, the higher the reward the brighter the patriotism, and the more enduring the reputation of the planter. We have the names of planters owning field hands by the hundred, who will not plant a seed of cotton, but cover their broad acres in grain and other provision crops for 1862. Were this general, the war would speedily ter Gen. Gatlin. We agree with our cotcmporary of the Wilmington Journal that "the tendency in human nature to go to extremes, is apt to do serious injustice," and to bear down the innocent with the guilty in its muddy cur rent. The thoughtless, the envious and the ardent too seldom examine the premises from which they deduce their conclusions, and are often lamentably misled by their prejudices or passions, seldom taking iime to examine those facts which every case presents, and by which alone the truth can be eliminated. From such tendency none are so liable to suffer as public officers, civil and military, while none are so stringently restrained, by the rules of their profession or office, fronv resorting to the ordinary means, the public press, of making their defence. Soon after the battle of Newbern, we visited Kin- ston, m order to collect such, facts and incidents of the fight, as those who had been engaged in it could impart. ' All were mortified at the result, and none more so than ourselves, and all seemed prompted by the supposed facts, and anxious by inclination, to throw the blame on somebody. As the General in command of the district, the conduct of General Gatlin was the subject of severe criticism and universal ani madversion. We found none to justify, and but few to4)ffer a mitigating cirrumucc or to utter an ex pression of sympathy. Iulluenced by a sentiment which we found universal, m our issue ot the latn ot March, we expressed our condemnation of the Gen eral's conduct in unqualified terms. But while that condemnation was fully j'u.-aiG;d by ail the informa tion we had then received, ' regret the terms in which it wa3 expressed, and shall still regtet it more deeply, if; on further "enquiry," either official or oth erwise, it shall be found that we have done an old soldier and brave officer injustice; and" we 'shall be fotihd" among the foremost and most rejoiced, to give him the' full benefit of that -'enquiry," if it shall have' acquitted him of all blame, and left him in the enjoy ment of i'nc same, unsullied reputation which he brought with him, from the old army, to the cause of the South, after he had sacrificed his all, abandoned his home, and ruptured the ties which bound her whom he loves dearest and best to her kindred in the far West. . We will not harrow General Gatlin's feelings, by repeating the innumerable slanders which appear in the press against him, in order that we may refute them. Not knowing tlic facts, his conduct we don't defend his faults we don't -justify. But nine-tenths of what is predicated of him, we know to be fool slanders. He was relieved from duty, we understand, oh account of ill health, and," at his own request, made of the War Department a considerable time perhaps two weeks before the engagement. Sick ness is alleged as the reason of his absence from the field, and his bravery has never been questioned. He was neither arrested nor sent to Richmond; nor had any committees, male or female, waited upon him; and how 'such sheer fabrications or baseless slanders could haj-e found their way into the press is more than we can conjecture. There j are other slanders equally gross, but out ofj respect to their object we omit to mention them. Judgingfrom what we had heard, and solely on the ground of what we l r .- i had heard, both from military men and citizens, we were the first to censure him publicly, aud none shall be more .rejoiced than we to find that that censure was unjust -a rd unmerited which t ime and an inves tigation of the facts must disclose- and Done more cheerfully than we will refute any or all other unjust slanders which we find iu circulation against him. It only remains for us to inform, our cotemporary of the Wilmington Journal that ice have neither lauded anybody to heaven nor cried down any body to 'tother place. What we have said and all we have said of Gen. Branch is literally true, if men of verac ity, whom we take as our witnesses, can be' relied on. No paper in the Southern Confederacy, the Wilming ton Journal not excepted, has found fewer objects to condemn and more to praise than we have, since this war broke out. We are not eutirely ignorant of the imperfections of human nature, from which, we are. inclined to believe, editors' themselves are not exempt, and we think we might say of the most of them, ta ken individual!', as the Journal says of General Branch "he is no prodigy." As "the statement of the State Journal that Col. Haywood was the only officer who applied steel to the enemy is a mistake," we hope the Wilmington Journal will correct the mistake, and state who else did. The Slate Journal, not wishing to detract from the merits of any man, officer or private, will feel thankful for thecorrectiou. If any body else ordered steel to be applied, he ought to be known, for the truth of history. An Appeal for Bells. The Ordnance Bureau of the 'government at Rich mond has published an appeal to the people for all tthe bells they can spare, to be converted into light ar- tillery to shoot, kill ana capture the thieves and ruf- fians who are invading our soil. We publish this ap- peal to-day, with directions as to where the bells may bJ sent. We hope that every -belUh North Carolina, large and small, cnurch beils, env, shop, railroad, 1 I . . 1 . . . 1 . . 1 It 1 a PV.11. ! XT it. noiciasm panor ueus, anu every sore oi uens in iorui Carolina will be sent immediately to Fayetteville as requested.- Every moment is precious, and we sin cerely trust not a moment will be lost in deliberating upon this matter. Tho toil of the church-going bell is. music to our ears, but the roar of the death-dealing cannon", which these sacred objects will make, will be a terror to vir invaders and help drive them from our soil. Sold :crs of tho cross will not hesitate to srivc tip their bells, and t' eir all' t arm the soldiers of their country. Let them bo melted and moulded into cannon, and let the olessing and approval of God be invoked on the heart-rending sacrifice. God will be honored and cur country defended by the patriotic deed. Mark 1 We are credibly informed that some of our "Union" friends send the State Journal regularly to Gens. Curnside and Foster. We are glad to hear it. for it contains some wholesome truths they ought know. We'll bet a horse they also get the Stnudnd What a contrast the two papers do present 1 fWn fraitnrs or0Kmncriitfn.t.m.,nri s,'tB.. last, from Mathews connty, Va. The President has proclaimed martial lawtoextend over Greenbrier, Pocahontas, Bath, Alleghany, Mon- w v wmwu m m v .uuu'Vuv VViUl C1CS roe, Mercer, Raleigh, Fayette, Nicholas and Randolph counties, v lrginia. Gen. Hcth is to execute laws. ' I Military Formation of Regiments, The formation of regiments goes briskly on at Camp Manguru, nuder the successful management of that energetic and efficient officer. Major -General James G. Martin. Gen. Martin, we believe, visits the camp every day, directing its affairs in person, and seeing that nothing is omitted which is necessary to pro mote the health and comfort of the men, and prepare them at the earliest possible moment for efficiency in the field. There are now sir full regiments formed and in camp. The following have been formed with- io a few days ; The 45th Regiment, composed as follows : Captain May. of tt t ti " tt tt it Rockingham, Guilford, B it Shober, C. D. E. F. G. H. I. K. u It ft it ft Morehead, Scales, Boyd, Winston, Dillard, Courts, Smith, Ilines, Rockingham, u ti Caswell, Guilfod, 46th Regimext. A. Captain Norment, of ' Robeson, B Saunders tt tt tt tt Rowan, C. D.- E. F. G. II. I. K. Jenkins, Stewart, Heflin, Warren, Richmond, Granville, Randolph, Moore," Sampson, McAllister, " Carr, McNeill, Holmes, Bost, it it tt Catawba, 47th Regiment. A Captain Curdup, of Wake, 15. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. K. Lankford, Franklin, WTake, Nash,1 Wake, Nash, Franklin, Wake. Wakcj Alamance, ic ' , M tt tt tt tt Hall, Bryant, Norwood, Harrison, Davis, r' Haughton, Brown, Faucett, Bethel, 11th Regiment. Colonel, C. Leventhorpe, of Rutherford. Lieut. Colonel, Wm. A. Owens, of Mecklenburg. Major, Wm. A. Ehason, of aredell. A. Captain Ross, of Mecklenburg, B. Armfield Burke, Burke, Mecklenburg, Chowan, Bertie, Orange, Mecklenburg, Lincoln, Buncombe, C. D. E. F. G. II. I. K. tt tt u n tt n ti Brown,, Nichols, Small, Bird, -Jennings, Grier, Haynes , Young, t it The 45th elected their field officers oh Thurday, as follows : - . Colonel, Junius Daniel. ' . Lieut. Colonel,' J. II. Moreheid, Capt. Co. E, 2nd Rpgiment. Major, Andrew J. Boyd, Capt. Co. L. 21st Regi ment. The field officers of the other regiments have not been elected. Two Companies, Capt. S. Suow's of Halifax, and Capt. W. Alston's., of Warren, left Ri lcigh yesterday, en route to join the; 12th Regiment Col. Sol. Williams, in Virginia, to supply the place of Captains Kenan and Norment's Companies, whose terms had expired ; but who have again been rc-or- ganized, and now form a part of the '43d Besides the regiments already formed and receiving constant instruction, there 'are companies enough to form two or three more regiments, and the cry is still they come. North Carolina will send her full quota to the field, and have a home reserve that will aston ish her sister States, and may yet give Biirnside and his mob of negro-stealing, grave-robbers considerable trouble. Every man and every dollar for the war, and death to our thievish, invaders, is the rallying cry of the Old North State. The 'Yankees are indulging their thievish propensities with a vim in the region of country adja cent to Newberm They are visiting the farms and m.rvinor nff the necrrocs bV'. hundreds. Mr. Daniel - - J o i Perry has lost all. Mr. Jacob. F. Scott's farm was visited, an officer compelling the negroes to hitc'i mules and horses to wagons and carts, and 25 negroes, all "he could get, were carried off. One hundred of widow Byan's were cairied off in th e same manner 31 from Mr. Oldfield ; 35 from Mr. McDau icl ; all of' Mr. Foscue's, besides those of dozens of geu tlemen whose names we need not record. It will not do to -submit to this wholesale robbery. Some system ought to be at once devised of removing negroes and other property beyond the reach of those thievish scoundrels. We, can only sound the hlarm give the people warning which we now do and have heretofore done, and if the diabolical. Yankees get hold of their negroes or anything else which is moveable, it will not be our fault. It is silly worse than mad ness in any man or woman's attempting to make a crop where contending armies are quartered or carry ing on operations, but more so on any lands accessible to the enemy. All such negroes as are not at once re moved, will soon be in the embraces of the Yankees, and soon thereafter be carrying arms against us. Let the people wake up before aU be lost The Standard will' satisfy the people, no doubt, in its own way, for its having criminally pub lished that Burnside was sending back the negroes, from Newbern, to their owners, and was not interfer ing with private property. The Gunboat Question the Womec Foremost in every patriotic and other good wjrk, the1" women" have resolved to raise a fund for Hike building of a gunboat for the defence of the coast of North Carolina. Ou this subject, we publish to-day the patriotic appeal of Mrs. Collins, who, with Mrs. Ellis, have nobly stepped forward as leaders in the laudable work. While the whole Country owes a debt pf crntitude to the women of the country for whafc thcy jiave aready done, and for what they wold ftU cordially unite with Mrs. Collins and Mrs. Ju (j0jnTj we are happy to inform them that in tbeir contempi.ated efforts, "thcy have been anticipated , bjj Conf(JLier.ate government, which, the Wilmin J m 1J. to rourmiZ informs us.1 has resolved to build gunboats, in this State, to the' fullest extent of the resources timber," iron and other materials, which the State cau furnish.. This will obviate the necessity of private, contributions, but laber and materials cannot be dis pensed with and should be supplied by all who have the means pf doing so. We will allude more fully to this matter in our next, and freely express our opiuiou of that raa who, the Jonrnz.1 says,, asks "fifty dollars a piece for his trees, Urge and small," which m ay be nJin fVio nnfrnrfinn fif these boats ? What Co 1IVVUVU IU vuv vmuv w the women think of him 7 Wc would like to get the opinion of some of them. O, Rolling Machine, what an example you set us ! Fatal Accident on the N. C. Rail Road. On Thursday last, when some five iniies west of the Company Shops, one of the cars on the down tram broke down, by which we-regret to learn, the express to Messengcr Mr. J. A. Bennett, was killed, and several other persons wounded. We hear no particulars, cept that the train, besides its ordinary passengers, had I on board about-500 troops, and it is matter of vronaer V I - - W Witt more lites wen not.lort.,. . ine japrw 8er who lost his. life, has been in the employ of the N- C- B- R- Company for some time, and was on ins t9COna mP lor lDe impress tmpauy. . tha A run Vnndorn and. TefflThomrson were prepannj I nn t'Ua RTiissinrjt river. CU UilJ UiTtwlut vu vmw " 4 i Facts and Humors, , . - Printers in th Abmt. -One of the good jokes of the Mexican war was, that our victorioua army haying taken a Mexican town with a printing office in it, the general wanted to have general orders prin ted, but couldn't find Mexicans able to do it in Eng lish. So he had his troops drawn np in line, and the order was given, "All printers to the front 1" where upon, to his great surprise, about one half of the line stepped forward. A similar infusion of the typographical element ap pears to exist in our armies. Hundreds and hundreds have dropped the "composing stick" to take up the "shooting stick" in behalf of the South. Thero U no profession in life more fully represented in the army than that of the' "typos." '-,- The Newspaper Censorship of the North. The Secretary of War at Washington has ordered a special court martial for the .trial of sundry newspa per proprietors who have "violated the "articles of war" by the publication of movements of the army. The Washington Star says that the Cass of the pub lishers of the Boston Courier and New York Journal of Commerce are the two first to be brought to the court martial's attention. , New Gun. We yesterday examined a model of a new and destructive weapoaof warfare, the. invention ol L-apt, A. George, of North.Carolina. It was trie! on Tuesday last in the presence of the Governor and Council, and was discharged with ease twenty times in fifteen secouds. The great simplicity of construc tion and the facility with which it is ( worked the ease with which it can be elevated or depressed, and the rapidity with which it can sweep in a horizontal direction half a circle must render it a very destruc tive gun in service. We hope the Governor and Council may feel autho-ized to have one or two of them manufactured, and give them a fair trial. A battery of those guns on the field would do immense execution. Charleston Courier. I : ... The New York times exults over the "capture" of Manassas, and pays that it is an end to the war, the Confederates confessing thereby that they are whip ped. How stupid a man can be and yet live ! The dav before the same paper said that McClellan must not be hurried ; he was arranging not merely to take Manassas; but to capture the rebels: they must jiot be suffered to escape! It is not enough tbat they be driven away. :"' The New York Tribune denounces McLellan, and says Johnston has outwitted him just as he outwitted Patterson-. Enquirer. . - r . Bombardment of Island No. 10. TTJhe Yankees have been trying their strength and spending their powder lavishly on Island No. 10. Its fall or evacu ation, ever since the attack commented, has been considered inevitable, but at lasE dates it was still ua hurt. j ' ' - , The Memphis Avalanche, of the 29th ult., Kays: All agree that the enemy's attempt t take Island No. 10 was a failure. They threw shell for nearly two hundred and forty hours, expended over three thou sand 13-inch shell?, and one hundred thousand pounds of p nvder. They did no damage to our para pets, buildings, magazines or guns, and killed but one man. (Vtnmunication with ihe Islaud by Tip tonvillc is uninterrupted. One of the enemy's gunboats '.had been sunk and another seriously damaged, Three Missouri prison ers, at Memphis, reported that the. Federal gunboat Benton had beei sliqt through and twelve of her men killed., They! also report over one thousand Federals killed in the fight at New Madrid. .All the Federal gunboats and transports have gone tip the river out of sight. A few mortar aud one gunboat remain. Hostilities Commenced at New Orleans.- A special dispatch to the Charleston Courier, dated New Orleans, March 29th, says, that two of the enemy's - gun-boats pn yesterday commenced an attack on Fort Jackson, at the mouth of the Mississippi river. There was a good deal of firing throughout the day, but no one was hurt on our side. Skirmish in Virginia. On last Monday night twentv-iiine Yankee prisoners arrived in Richmond from Rappahannock station, captured during a skir- mish on Friday. Wheat's battalion engaged the en- cmy, and drove them back after they had crossed the river. The euemy is reported to 03 advancing in that direction. ' The Loss of the Confederate Steamer Van- -.derbilt, at sea, was reported at New, Orleans on the 27th ult. The Captain, five of her crew, and eight passengers, had arrived safe on the Florida coast. 0-"e boat containing seventeen men, has not bcer heard from. ' Norfolk, April 1. The Monitor is still at anchor inside of Hampton Bar, waiting the approach of her adversary, the Virginia. ' A number of Federal vessels left the Roads yester day, after landing troops at. Fortress Monroe. ' ' Murchison's Cavalry. This company, number in 111 mem from Cumberland, Harnett and Chat harn, xvas organized on Thursday last by the election of the following officers: Alex. Murchison, Captain. T J. Brooks, 1st Lieutenant. John K. Ray, 2nd G. W. Buehmann, 3rd &r . T- 1... ...wl r..-.l-vln n werejn tl ie Bethel JjieUtS. lilOOlvS .Will liuviniiui'i. J Ilc-iment, the former in the La fayrTtt and the latter ltA. of tl"s Pce. And a number of the others served with the same compa- nies in tneir reumsuiai ui""6:' j . n : I ,t,n.i!r.ii l ief vp ir The O-nipany, it is expected, wm leave ior uu.ua boro' ou Tuesday Fay. Observer. Starr's Light Battery." This company goes to Wilmington to-day, leaving in the steamer Hurt at 12 o'clock. The company is a ptcKeu one, num bering in its ranks many of the best young men of this place who served througli.ttie ren.nsu ar . u. naicn m the two r ayenuvmc Mug. rement. Obi. Starr and his ofneers are first-rate Uof tt.P samereirrment. Trie omcers anu vue worthyof each other, and wherever they go men are Will OO liUUU TCI in . . Joscbh B. Starr, uapi. ; i n. v. x- u..v. , - .TnT,n Whitmore. 1st Lieut,, Jun.; Benj. Ktisn, xi Lieut. Fay. Observer. CQLI.ECT THE OLD IboN.-Wc Would PUggCSt to housekeeiers the propriety ot ciiccung u.. n..a in- the iron about their houseiioias, in omc. t it at the service of the Confederate authorities The Government establisbments eugageu m iu ture would do well-to apirtiou the country ylo dis tricts, and in the cities scna wagons u ccy cverv stcet to obtain this valuable material.. The House of Representatives has passed a rcsolu- tion appointing a special com nm . . r- .ii ,."!: svstem of conscription pare a uui ranj"ie.v - -- - recommended by the rresmeut ; - -v.-r mineral resources of the Con federacy. Gen. Shields-Puophect Fulfilled. The Co- lumbia GitardtwKxy Gen. Shields commaodet r, , MW;mPnt. in Mexic. Alter the cam he paid a visit to Coiutnoia, anu - S tta course of . ccC, ,,,. r . ,f one of our hotel, alter appiauu. j(r nnd heroic deeds ot me reimcu., . ' . '.. : : K , t li vnwV if ever he drew In sword substance that he hoped, n e tr v asain st South. Carolinians, bis ami roiguiw. from hie body. .. , , ... -.uv The prophecy or self-maledictwn iuu oee fiulfilled. ' - ' . ' Slave owners may find employment for their ne- ex - groes in .w- ,rol Mint cs of tne oraie. fj avMnmph-' elsewhere, from the Salisbury Watchman one wg BrSSe. from $10 to $1 J . a paragrapa e f j d in that sex- on the Piano, with Singing, ; -20 stating that thousands of acres oi iauu, Kcb.Utin and Greek, each, , . tUC WVrA ; f runtrv will lie mie uurmg i-u jf , Uon or country . g Uborers can be obtained from ttat part ot me d nosedto tho incursions of the enemy. We hope exposcv : i. formation our contemporaries will as onco iay . before their readers, as it may be of mutual and real benefit to all concerned. , , ' " f 'v '. t;' ' mtotto 8UU JoanuL ' . Proceedings of Meeting of Baleigh and iaston Railroad Company, i- f t At a called meeting of the Stockholder of the Baleighv f and Gaston Railroad Company held at the Court, , House, in tU City of Raleigh, oa Thursday the 20th of March, 1862, . v 7 , ' f Hon. Jno. H. Bryan, W motion of George W. ' Mordecai, was called to the Chair, and W. W. Vast appointed Secretary. . f x Hon. D. M. Barringer appeared as the representa tive of the State. , ; , ir V )n motion, the Secretary was requested to asieer- tain the amount of stock represented in person Dd by proxy. .-j-.'-;.. On raotion. the meeting adjourned until 7 o'clock. ; : r 7 o'clock. Ti esdat EviKixo. The meeting was called to order by thcCbairman. The Secretary rported ,that the amount" of stock V represented was not sufficient, according fo the re quirement of tho charter, to constitute a' quorum for the transaction of business, whereupon, t . On motion, the meeting adjourned to meet in Raleigh on Tuesday, April 1, 1862. Raleigh, Tuesday, April 1, 1862. Pursuant to adjournment tho stockholders of thV Raleigh and Gaston Railroad Company met the President resumed the chair, and called the meeting toonhr. Proceedings of tho former meeting read and approved. '; The Secretary having ascertained, reported to the , meeting that of the indvidual stock of the Company there were represented iu persou 1,057 shares, by proxy 3,225 shares total uumbcr of shares repre sented 4,272. The Chair announced the meeting to be regularly organized for the transactiou cf any business. Hon. D. M. Barringer appeared in behalf of the. State. Georco W. Mordecai, at he request of the Chair, stated to the stockholders the object of tho meeting, : when .'' . Dr. E. A. Crndup offered .the following resolution : Resolved. That tho directors of this company be, and they are hereby authorized to subscribe tor 2,000 shares in the Chatham Railroad Cminatiy for and on account of the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad Company. The resolution was unanimously adopted. . K. P. Battle offered Mie following, which passed unanimously: . ' . ; Resolved, That the Hoard of Directors may pay ssia. subscription to the Chatham Railroad Company, in - bonds of this Company, or m any other manner mey. think proper. J o- ' On motion of lion. V. M. Jjarnnger, me rocewnj;.. adjourned. W. W. Vass, Scc'y. - . . .t; LATEST NEWS. Our exchanges briug us nothing tartlinj o sational. Ihe Norfolk Day Book is missing ana wo have nothing from the Virginia beyond the fact that the Express sajs any number of the citizens of Pe tersburg had gone down to Norfolk expecting to co something (leaving that something to conjecture. Latest liortnern jMew. The following items, received through Northern i " -"'T l:l..,......l .m'Uinwl of papers, we gieau uoui uui ihumuvhiu v.i....e--, Thursday: - " Norfolk, April 2. Nerthern papers of the. J 1st have been received. ...,-'.' w There is nothing new from McClellan s department... Fort Macon is still held by a rebel garrison 600 stxon. Gen. But 11 has command of his army in person, and is 15 miles from Corinth, Miss., where the rebels are concentrating large forces. It is tafea that Beau- ; regard expeefs a fight every hour. ; "Firing ou Island No. 10 was continued on Friday and returned with great spirit by .the rebels, who- are making great preparations for a protracted and de termined defence. They arc mounting a largo num ber of heavy cuns. Our iron-clad 6teamcrs were ad vancing down the river. ' .' Active and extensive preparations are going on at tTCu OrWns for the defence of the city.. Gen. Lovcll proclaimed martial law. - Government securities hive ikdmed tn JX. lork. Cotton steady. Sales on Saturday 700 bales at 27fc8j-r jvg that the conspirators in the Fed- ral Oonress arc becoming every day more defperate "and-violent. v - , . . A terriblo disaster has occurred at a pyrotechmo factory in Philadelphia. Sixty persous wre killed and wounded. .. . , . . The owners of flavcs in the District of Columbia arc rapidly removing thehr. f " The Cliattanooga railroad has Wen repaired, and communication between Nashville and Lbuisville re stored:' - , ' ' ' ' . , i ; - The Herald of the 31st has a long money article.--Chase will soon want more Treasury notes, and tho cry will soon be raised sit the North for more currency. T 1TTTT1 KRPM EUROPE. The City of New Yoirk has arrived from South ampton with dates to tl e VXh, U-ing three days later. - There had been a discission mi Parlwnient relative to the arrest of the Lienteant of tho privateer Sumter. It was stated that he ha) not been rtdeised but was -on his way to America, as a p.liticl prisoner. . The London Times anticipates an almost end ess i .i i- a.i tU Villinti will otld in a Jllll- war .ana ininKs iiiav mo ivw :- . tarv Dictatorsl dp. ) arch 17-T he fuuds arc tending stead- LondonvM i 1 OT ily upwards. C..nsu s-3S, - Liverpooi Man W--- two days 12,000 bales, mcliwmt. ouu i for the collators ana cxpone. . . n....r!.l n.,mde i k . Fortri-ss Monbok, iiarui "- " . ho, taken possession of lkau&.rt, N. C without any resistance. No property was burned. The big Lincoln gun has been mounted here. She carries balls weighing 437 pounds They are called Lincoln pills, to be taken by the Memmac. , The American troubles excite great interest m Norfolk, April 2.-A British ship of war anchored in Hampton Roads yesterday6.' . . Nashville. March SL-Hon. Ivlward ll .Last has been appointed SecreUry of btate under me new nessce vjociwu'" Lost at the battle of Newbern. I cwyn, containing all hit r rLZi ; leather, one covered with duck dotn. -tmena. ru?eV .7 . - r,laty on the flap of the lock. are oi riu . th- , the name in lull on . ur- i - .""V,.! the car, an4 .: j u.lirh il luunu. 47 4t NaTICE! Western Kailroad, or on Page'i. J. v. CLEOO. 4t-pd April a, Plantation for Rent. nianution lies on the rifer,.two d su u c aS-SjOSS iuc.ww,, . . in 1 rcuixtm. eUclu of fodder and shacks j will nlso9e u tojne onsaid pUnUtion- . j Address imediatclr, VTlf. M. UOYLAX, Italeish, .V. C. April 2, 18C2. golnmTneTeni semlnarr, ! LElSBtKw, S. U fTlIIE Exe of t hi. Wit. wffl be red -"Hludine wuLiuz, fuel, tc Prenon of twenty .a weeks, v:r '. LizhU 'i wwmng" .. pAment not required in advance, but contidered du- Jmc of eaS .eion, snd when not psid, interest charseL ropU, wUl be charged front the tie of , entrance. SOLOMON LEA. . Principal. ll-trti Jan. 4tb, 1862. t n iTP nn hand from 1000 to 1500 tons ot the tbC . V. VH'Biri ivirmv IV iniisTftxrnrv. 1 '! T TOW.w'jr.?j Pin5u nroAnonrrh of which u clesrea to er . .uo 1 11- ;V thi. 100 cref sre prepared nl reaur or T"g- 1- "