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) urtji-Ctiroliiui" Mantel : !LLIAM W. HOLDEN, Editok im Propeiito. OF THE WEEKLY. Four dollar per annum, 10 nry miiv CK-M T.OT Shelf 1 .VR; r dnHum ner Hk 1 n'iV lERJis """" c nitm in advance. Bfl ' Terms or Advertising, - Advertisements inserted fur $2 per struare of 14 Hnes or less for first inseition, and .$1 per square, for each subae ouent insertion. Persons .desiring to contract for lii ths. will be charged the above rates with a deduc tion of SS per cent, on the whole amount ill remittances of money at the risk of those send ing it- - ' " t Stanniirii. KALEIf.II: FRIDAY. JUNE 12, 1803. Latest from Vickjsburg. The attention of every one is now fixed on Vicks burg. The Confederates are holding out remarkably well, and the accounts state that they have inflicted heavy loss on the Federals, while their own loss does not exceed 600. A telegraphic dispatcfi, Jackson, June 8, says: t ; dated " A scout just in from Vicksburg reports all work ing well. The men are somewhat wearied by lying in the trenches and being exposed to the sun, but are in good spirits. Grant is slowly advancing by building parallels, which are four hundred yards from our outer works. There has been no general assault for ten days past We have a plenty of am munition and provisiow, and the soldiers and citi zens are perfectly confident of the result Heavy firing of musketry and artillery wa3 heard all day yesterday. 'Artillery firing going on.to-day."- Gen. Pemberton, it is said, has sent word to Gen. Johnston that he can hold Vicksburg, and that he, may take time to organize his forces. A special dispatch to the Mobile Tribune dated June 9th, says that Kirby .Smith had taken Milli ken's Bend and cut off Grant's supplies. We give the rnmor for what it is worth.' ' A dispatch from' Jackson, dated June 9, says : .' Our scouts report the enemy's pickets 10 miles deep and every means of approach closely guarded, and the greatest courage and cafe required to reach Vicksburg. Grant communicates with the fleet in the river by signal lights, which were seen last night constantly signaling, betokening a movement orrenewal of the assault, it is thought The roar of the enemy's mortars at intervals of two seconds, was heard all night, an-1 continues this morning. Nothing from Port Hudson. An officer captured by Grant's pickets-and sub sequently escaped, arrived here this morning, and reports the Yankee army much depressed by the knowledge that General Johnston was massing a heavy force in their rear and certain death in front Their officers ay that certain defeat or annihilation awaits them." . The above sounds well, and we hope there is more truth in it than sound. The struggle at Vicks- the most important conscauences. If our forces should succeed in holding it, or, in other words, if Gen. Grant should be compelled to retire, or if he should be defeated and driven back by the combined movement of Gens. Johnston and Pem berton, our people would hail the result with the most lively joy, and . would have renewed hopes , of ultimate success at all points; but if Vicksburg should fall, it is useless to. disguise the fact that general despondency would take possession of our people. Tne sta&e pi&yea nc M vicssixng ine less than the mighty valley of the Mississippi, with Texas. Arkansas and "Louisiana cat off from th nnnfoderate States if the result should be against us. This would leave us Georgia, Alabama, South-Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi, North-Carolina, Florida, and Tennessee, wjth one-third at least . . , i , j of these in possession oi we enemy ; anu oebiues, the enemy once in possession of Vicksburg, Missis sippi and Alabama would be in great danger of being flanked and overrun. But we have no dispo sition to dwell upon this aspect of the case. Let us hope that Vicksburg will be successfully defended and the valley saved. From the Army in Virginia. It has been known for several days that General Lee's army was in motion, and the impression pre vailed that it was his intention to move forward into Maryland. But it seems he halted at Culpepper courthouse, some thirty miles from Fredericksburg ; and that his movement, instead of being offensive, was necessary to repel an important attack of the enemy. The following dispatch from Gen. Lee shows that a considerable battle tool place on Tues day last, between a portion of the enemy's forces and some cavalry, artillery and infantry under Maj. General Stuart Gen. Lee says the contest was a severe one: w -Culpepper, Jane 9, 1863. To General 8. Cooper : The enemy crossed the Rappahannock this morn ing at 5 o'clock, A.- M,, at the various fords from Beverly to Kelly's with a large force of cavalry, ac companied by. infantry and artillery. After a severe contest till 5, P. 1L,- General Stuart drove them across the river. R. E. LEE. , The following from the Progress of Thursday con tains the latest news from the Rappahannock : Richmond, June 10. -The news from the Rappa - bannock and the. vicinity of Fredericksburg is .un important, except that the enemy maintain their position" near Deep Run. All day. yesterday and ' ftrfe morning heavy columns of black smoke nave been seen rising above the hills on the Stafford side for several miles up and down the river. - It is con jectured that the enemy was burning their surplus baggage stores, eta, preparatory to falling back and joining the main body, supposed to be moving in the direction of Culpepper. Three hundred Yankee prisoners, captured in the engagement of yesterday, on the upper Rappahannock, arrived here tnis aiter noon. . A correspondent of the Richmond Examiner of "Wednesday gives the following information as to the, condition of things at Fredericksburg : Fkedep.icksbdeg, Monday night, June 8 '63. Throughout last night and this morning, the Yan kees have maintained their position ' here without any material change. During the night, a large force was engaged in fortifying the approaches to their pontoon bridge, and this morning revealed a long line of earthworks across Bernard's field, as the result of their labor. .- About an hour after dispatching my letter of yesterday, they moved another brigade across tne river at Deep Run, but this 'morning the num'jr on this side is not visibly increased, and their lines have exhibited hp activity beyond the movement of an infantry regiment this morning, from Falmouth down to the pontoon bridge, and. one or two bat--. tones of artillery, together with a few companies of cavalry, from the immediate front to the field near Pollock's housa all on the opposite side of the river. "An intelligent contraband announces on the testimony of "dese too ise," that the passage of the river is being effected By the enemy at two other" points below Deep run, the one oposite Seddon's farm, and the other at a landing known as Gordon's spout This report has no other authority than that men tioned. This afternoon your correspondent was awakened by the discharge of artillery, and repairing to his post of observation, discovered battery, posted in the plain below Deep run, shelling the road leading w Hamilton's crossing, which, down as far as Far heyhough's house, was occupied by our troops, bnjt. Toi. xxix-No. 25. : RA thetone wall which skirts the east side of fbe road, together with the entrenchments, afforded per fect protection to the men, though tbeshells were tnrown with wonderful accuracy. This occured about 5 o'clock, P. M., and about the same time a heavy column of the enemy's infantry; certainly not less than a brigade, recrossed the river, oyer the pontoon bridge, to the Stafford side, the ar rival of ten box cars at the railway depot near Fred ericksburg, to all appearance evidently an ammu nition train, i little later, closed the incidents of the day. It can be stated with certainty that the enemy have concentrated the main body of their cavalry on the line of the Orange and Alexandria railway, be tween Catlett's station and the river. The horses are reported in very poor condition. The Yankee . infantry forces generally are reported as moving in the same direction. ' -We learn that the battle on Tuesday took place at Brandy Station, on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, five miles beyond Culpepper Court-house. It is said the attack on our forces was somewhat unexpected, and the enemy gained some advantage at first, but our troops were re-in forced, and aftSr a prolonged and bloody conflict the enemy were driven from the field. We regret to state that Col SoL Williams, of. Nash County, N. C, is reported among the killed. A Call for more Troops t We understand the President of the Confederate States has called on Gov. Vance for seven thousand militia, to be ready for the field by the 1st of Au gust, and to serve six months in State defence. This call, we. presume, will embrace the militia from eighteen to forty-five, not conscripts, not detailed by the Confederate government, and not exempted by the militia law of the last session of our Legislature. This will include Justices of the Peace, militia offi cers, and such State and County officers as are not specially exempted by the law deferred to; and if the intention be to include all the militia between forty and forty-five, the remaining conscripts will be taken, for persons between those ages are con scripts in the eye of the law, though no order has been issued to enrol them. -- These militia, when thus " called into the actual service of tEe Confederate States," will be under the absolute command and control of the President It will be his right to order them wherevfr he pleases. The Governor will lose control over them from the moment they are " called into the service of the Confederate States." Though called militia, they will be regulars in the service of tne Confederate government ; and the Congress may, if it chooses, declare them conscripts and retain them until the end of the war. Chief Justice Pearson Iw and Order. We concur with the Salem Press in the following remarks. No State on this continent contains a sounder or an abler jurist than Chief Justice Pear son. He is not dependent on any earthly power for his office, lor he holds it during lif j and he can, therefore, have no sordid motive, and no fear of popular rebuke in the performance of his duties. We, are satisfied that duty is the governing rule with him. v The State was grossly insulted by the Secretary of War, who acted under the direction of the Pres ident, when Mr. Irvin, discharged on a habeas car pus by the Chief Justice, was re arrested and placed in camp. Such an act, if perpetrated by a foreign power, and not promptly apologized for, would have justified a declaflUion of war on the part of the State. The State was also grossly insulted when Enoch Jones, discharged by Judge Kerr, was re-arrested bv order of Cant McCoy. . thrust again . into the Bastile in Salisbury, in which place, from confine ment and cruel treatment, he died. The State was also grossly insulted when this same man McCoy, convicted on an examination had in Salisbury of very improper conduct in office, re ported himself in Richmond, and, after a hearing there, returned to Salisbury promoted to the rank of Major. . . The Press is correct when it says, high judicial decisions must be respected, and the Destructives are the last men who should attempt o inculcate lawless doctrines." Certain prominent Destructives are in the habit of threatening the Standard with mob law. When they find themselves unable to meet our arguments, and when forced to admit in their own minds 'that the people are with us and against them, they say we would not be allowed to- print our paper in -certain localities, and hint that we ought to be driven from the State. To which, in the language of the Press, we reply, "it is only the respect of the masses for law and order which saves, them from the vengeance of an insultetl and slandered people." Time makes all things even. The Pww.says: - . ,. ' " We have witnessed, with pain and regret, the libelous assaults contained in certain newspapers opposed to the administration of Gp. Vance, on - our highest Chief Jostice, whose sole offence is that he decides according to law and the impartiality of . whose decisions are such that the humblest citizen txkRfl his case before him with as much confidence of being protected in- his just and legal rights as if he was the mightiest in tne land, aeitner mreais nor blandishments of power can swerve him from a faithful and impartial discharge of bis official duties. The poor and the humble are protected Jy him the same as the rich and powerful, and no State can boast of a more profound expounder of the laws of the-land. Do not the Destructive patsies known that if they destroy the respect of . the people for law and order, tnat there is no security ior persona or prop erty ? Micht. becomes riirht and no man can call his property ba own. He is liable at any moment to be is doss eased of it bv brute force, and the acts of the highwayman and robber become the law of the land, and liberty win indeed oe nun name i -Hiph iudicial decisions must be respecteil and the Dxtrwtiits are the last' men whoshold attempt in inculcate lawless doctrines. Ther smom re member that they are in a large minority ia this State, and ibat their course generally bas beaoeaw ivlioiM to a larze majority of the peoble,-HM much so, that it is only the respect of the- masses for la and order which caves them from the" ven geance of an insulted pad sUnOeroa petpta." j AtABAaA. There are four candidates for Gover nor of Alabama : Gor. Starter, Bob. T. H. Watts, and Cols. Dowdelt and -GaOott . Mr. Watts, it seems, is not satisfied wiCb his seat in tbe Cabinet, but desires to be Governor , of Alabama. He. is a Yancey. secessionist, but was at one time atf old Hne Whig, and fhe President in calling him to the Cab met, made a great concession to the old line Whigs of the Sooth I. What liberality I The. chief ead of man,!' in. the estimation of the Yanceyites, is office, LEIGH. ff. C, .WEDNESt ' JTJJJE 17. 1863. The Virginia Elections. CoL William Smith has been elected Governor of .Virginia by about 2.000 majority over Thomas Stan hope Flouwoy and George W.-MunfiJrd. Colonel Smith has been heretofore Governor of Virginia, and has", served several terms in the old, and one in the new Congress, fie was an original se cessionist, but, unlike . many of that class, he entered the army and has fought gallantjy, though probably sixty-five to seventy years of age - He was no "peaceable secessionist" in practice, whatever; he 'may have been in theory before the wan We honor the old man for bis consistency and 'courage. The Conservatives of the State, numbering three to. one of the people, divided their votes between. CoL Smith and Mr. Fleurnoy, the latter receiving's. njorityof them. Ihe ko jfyAtiitf feeaessrk tsts generally voted forSmith, together with many Conservatives in and out of the army who were anx- J ious to honor him for his services in the field ; the majority of tho Conservatives voted for Mr. Flpii. noy ; and'the stay-at-home, office-holding secession ists and the dregs of the Yanceyites, all of them b& ing clamorous and interested supporters of the Coif federate administration, voted for Mr. Munford.f The vote of the latter is quite small. Col. Smiths election is, therefore, not a secession and adminur tration triumph. It is the result of peculiar circum stances, and to some extent accidental. If the Cn servativesjDrcper had been organized, as they should have been, and as they were in this State last ytar, and if the Richmond Whig and other Conservative Journals had given to Mr. Flournoy a vigorous sop port, he would have been elected by a handsome majority, notwithstanding CoL Smith's military popularity. - The Examiner of the 9th says it is impossible tji say when the names of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, members of the Legislaturefand of Con gress will be known with official certainty ; but thai paper compliments the people of Virginia on the re sult of the elections in the following strain : '", "The candidates elect are of all'haes and shadca 1 of opinion and character. It has been a confused i scrub race, and the winners are such as might hava .! been expected. The election has been decided net ' only without regard to party, but without the. as sistance of a principle. Whigs and Democrats, old ; submissionists and staunch supporters of State Bights have been elected or defeated where thej lea&t expected. If any genera idea is to be gather ed from the action of the people, it is that they wen ! strongly disposed to vote against every candidatt rendered prominent by position, character, or talent . It has been the apotheosis of the obscure, the bless ing of those who might have, and should have ex pected nothing Most' of the members of the last. Congress and the Legislature are defeated ; where they have been re-electei, with perhaps, a 6ingle ex ception, they wero opposed by men more prominent in late political action than themselves. - The expla- . nation of this peculiarity is not, we hope, to be found in an increasing disposition of the State to monocracy, but to the fact that the neoDle are nn- - happy and distressed, and therefore disposed to be . aiasMisnaa wit ail ihn waim irr habitually trusted. Nearly every voter has lost a son, a brother, or seen them come home cripples, and is glad to gratify his humor in a vote against the public man to whom he has been accustomed to commit his share of public power." The above extract furnishes pretty good evidence that the Conservatives have carried the Legislature and Congress, and have thereby rebuked the selfish ness and partyisra of the Confederate administntfton. New men that is, "obscure" men, in the lan guage of the Examiner have been'put in, and the old hacks, who have disappointed and displeased the people, have been turned out That is good. The people still rule, even in Virginia. Our Eastern People. A refugee from Newbern has written us a com munication vindicating the loyalty of -those who remained there for a time, but were at last com pelled .to leave or take the oath to the Lincoln gov ernment No such vindication is necessary. It is true, the course of certain journals "has led the un reflecting to believe that Eastern Carolina, as a gen eral rule, is but a harbor for "Buffaloes" that is,' sympathizers with our enemies ; but the facts are all the other way. No people could have been more devoted or loyal. Traitors and "Buffalfs" constitute the exceptions. Our Eastern people have suffered deeply and for a long time. The efforts made in the Convention and in the Legislature, to provide troops to defend them, failed through party mahceuverings and party opposition, and in many respects they have been left naked tosheir enemies ; but the great mass of them have preferred the loss of all they had, and to become refugees and wander ers, to doing any thing which would be regarded as. an unmanly submission to a ruthless foe. All honor, we say, to such a people. . Thousands of our Eastern brethren, with their wives and children and servants, are now scattered ' throughout the interior of the State. In many in stances they have ost,all they had. They are en titled in their peculiar condition, not merely to be . regarded as loyal citizens, but they should have the sympathy, manifested in unostentatious acts of sub stantial kindness, of all our people in the interior who have been fortunately shielded from the losses and evils which have befallen them. . Let the fact that a person is a refugee, and a wanderer for opinion's sake, be a sure passport toour kindest - and best attentions; We are all North-Carolinians ; and as we love the old State, the common mother of us all, let us be brethren Indeed, especially towards' thoee who have been driven, in many cases without a meaiy, . from; their once comfortable and happy homes. (Joracn, or State. This body met in this City on Thursday, the 11th, on the call of the Governor. AU the SM-mhers present, to wit, Mr. Satterthwaite I of Stat jfc8tubbe ot Martin, Mr. Eldridge of John- steta, Mr. Diek.ef GoilfordVJir. Hargrave of Anson, Mr. OaOoway of WTIkes, and Mr. Patton of Bon- Weindewitand tbe Council Has been en- ia enrwrtering several subjects of importance: v : " ; ' Psoras! Jjry BuMiiTiJigs.-It is- understood, that, the question, whether under the first conscrip tion law a person who put ia a substitute over thirty-five and undjer forty, is liable as aconscript under the second, law, wilt.be decided by tbe Supreme Court of this State now in session. A case bas b$en made up and will be argued this week. ' " ' The Adjutant-General having decided that forergn ars and persons who have furnished Bubstitule&are liable to militia duty, we understand this question will also be laid before the Court for its-deefcioa,- - 1V1 - - . . The- Peace Xovemeat at the North. - e peace party of the Uriited States, constituted of those who were national Democrats be-. the war, is growing stronger daily. Its increase strength and moral power is evidenced by Jts fearless denunciation of Lincoln's unscrupu lous administration and the manliness of tone with, which it rebukes all arbitrary interference with the Constitutional rights of the people. - . '.- Atjjthe recent Peace Convention held in New York Git$j Fernando Wood was a prominent speaker, and presented strong resolutions which were adopted Withreat unanimity. ; . rvTfese resolutions declare fealty to the Constitu je&4ndthe State, .v.; rjbe Aio-tbe' power of the Federal government They declare that the war is contrary to the Con- stitutiod, and demand its cessation. They characterize " the claim of- dictatorial and unlimited military power, and the trial of citizens by courts-martial, as monstrous and execrable." They protest against the cowardly, despotic, in human and accursed act in the banishment of Vallan digham ; andonclnde by recommending a speedy suspension of -hostilities and a general Convention of the States with a view to reconciliation or other pacific settlement of the controversy. . In view of the .attitude which this peace party has assumed, of its cumulative Influence, and the. strong hold it seems to have taken upon the popu lar heart at the North, we cannot but regret the indis criminate abuse and contumely with which portions of the "Southern press periodically assail the whole Yankee nation. Wholesale crimination and recrimi nation have already intensified the bitterness of both belligerents and protracted the war. Tha advocates of peace, both North and South, are the best friends of nmnanjty and the truest of patriots ; and motives of policy, if others are wanting of a higher nature, should deter us from alienating, by unmerited op probrium, those who seek to. befriend us, for they are our friends whoever they be, and whatever their views, who urge a stoppage of this wasting and ruin ous war. . e ' Ths UurvBRsnr. We are indebted to a friend for the interesting account which we publish to-day of Commencement It is a gratifying circumstance that the University is able to continue its exercises during the war. When peace shall have been re stored, we shall look for greatly increased benefits to ' our young men from this institution. Mr. Vallandighara passed through Petersburg on - Tuesday lastand then went south towards Wilming ton. The Express says during his stay in Petersburg . he was visited by many citizens, who shpwed him every .mark of respect and sympathy. .It would have been much better for the country and for. the cause of human liberty, if the fire eaters of tbe South had heeded and acted on the advice which Mr. Valland igham gave them at Charleston and Baltimore, in 18G0. Yankee Foraeera. ao timely advice about guarding against and repelling Yankee foraging parties, and we think it would con duce to public security to take it into "due considera tion. Some of our up country villages, especially those situated near the Virginia border, should at once look to it Let them organize at least a half dozen scouts.' that could be ordered out at a mo ment's notice, "to mark wh it course they took," and report probable numbeiw, &c Have our villages the requisite amount of powder for a home guard in an emergency ?' If not, it should be procured and kept in a safe place till needed. Our people may expect Yankee cavalry, to make forays during the war, and we should be prepared for them. We taught the Yankees these cavalry tricks. Morgan, Asbby, Stuart, Forrest, Wheeler and Mos by were teaching them for more than a year before they ventured to profit by their teachings. Now . they seem to know, more about the business than we do. Certain it is, that recent cavalry exploits have generally been Yankee successes, while all, or nearly all, Confederate, efforts at raids and dashes have been foiled. If we permit the Yankees to get tho better of us in horsemanship, we are done for. Citizens must no longer rely on the army for pro tection against Yankee raids. They must imitate the bold Georgians, who held Strait af bay until Forrest got in his rear and bagged every man of the raiders. A hundred men, armed with double-barrel shot guns, loaded with buckshot can . do a deal of harm to a party of Yankee cavalry. People who know the country ought to beable to take the raid ers at a disadvantage. Officers disabled from active service, but who hare learned to be cool under fire, ought to take command of organised companies of citizens. Boys of twelve . or fourteen, accustomed tosbooting squirrels, can worry a squad of Yankees amazingly. Duck guns are fine for shooting Yan kees in flocks. A few trees cut down here and - there, and a judicious fire or two at certain points, will be of service; . A number of small mines, con taining a couple of pounds or so .of powder, with trains laid under ground in tubes of reed or elder, to keep them from getting wet, will come in very prettily at times. - TiTese mines should belaid se cretly. - Negroes should, be watched, especially at night The vigilance of the whites should never be relaxed until it is known that the raids now con .lemphted by the Yankees, have been abandoned, and that cannot be ke known, we take it, until, the war & over. We entreat the people in town and country to make ready, keep ready, and suffer, no assurances from any quarter to lull them to sleep and throw them off .their -euard. Gen. Randolph has been , charged with the organization of the citizen de fenders of Richmond. We could wish to hear more of this alacrity. The sloth of Richmond should not be imitated' in" other cities or in' the country. . Before the summer is ended, it is certain that Yan kee raiders will make the most adroit, well-planned and desperate attempts to destroy the James River and Kanawha Canal, the- High Bridge, near- Farm- .ville, the lines' of the Danville, S6u:hside and Vir ginia and Tennessee railroads.-. An attempt will be made to rush a regiment or more through Virginia in two directions first, by way of Farraville, Dan "ville and Claxksville to Weldon or to Raleigh, and .thence to Foster's forces below Kinston; and sec ond, by way of Wytheville and the Salt Works to Abingdon and thence to' the forces that Burnside is-tarowing into East Tennessee. 0ffhot8-from these raids will, scour the country right and left, iBtealihg"iegrbes, .--torses,: provisions, - forage, and owning stores wherever they can be found. The main security against these, raids must be tbe indi vidual determination and more particularly the pre- whole State of Yirjrini shooM he thoroughly , pat rolled and picketed; A system of mguals- should ' be adopted to apprise tne people wbea the raiders coming, in what direction and in what numbers. These signals should7 be guarded as jealously as those in tne army." . ;- . ' - . - Gin. EeECKiNiftDSE's Drv ibios. A correspondent Of tbe tCbatAanooga Bsbel, writing from BraggV :. army, says that General Breckinridge's- Division ba" been brokenup, and the pieces scattered. He and.' hjs ataflwtth'ene of the fragments, have been scmV soother eld of labor. . . Whom Number 1476. A Leasburg (N.- (1) correspondent of the Peters burg Express assumes, and no doubt correctly, that North-Carolina lost in the late Fredericksburg bat-' ties not less than Jbur thousand wien--more than half of all the losses. The State has lost since the war, not lessthan, twenty thousand men. Five thousand widows, twenty-five thousand orphans, civilization and Christianity put back for a quarter of a century, and no good prospect yet of peace f ' 'Is it not time that good men every where were uni ting on some means to arrest this awful evil ? Ne gotiations must be retorted to at some future, pe riod, for to suppose otherwise is to anticipate an endless war; and'the Slates en this continent can never live in peace without some mutual conces- iimu andjeomptorniaea. The. belli lytn. !- ready fought not less than three hundred attles.- If fightiog w to bring peace, and bring it honorably to both sections, surely three . hundred battles should suffice. But Vengeance clamors for more blood, and Pride says fight on. o be it Our feeble voice is as nothing in this hurricane. The " last dollar" says the man who has never given the first dollar to the. cause, and wHq is growing jich out of the blood and treasure of tbe people,; the " last man," says the individual who is very careful not to risk his person "in the imminent deadly breach." And so the war goes on, and blood gushes, and widows mourn, and orphans wail, and debt is piled oh. debt, and the poor unof fending slave is also madea victim, and slavery it self is perishing, and school -houses and churches are closed, and the poor are made poorer, the rich richer, and the morals of the people are sinking to a level where God is forgotten and self alone is orshipped I Such is war. p The War In Virginia. tntrary to expectation, the Yankees on yesterday still remaided on the south bonk of the BappahaD'nock, at Deep Ron.. They occupied tbe angle formed by the'ereek and lie river, and were throwing op a line of entrenchments of a mile in length, extending from Bernard's boose up to Deep Run. By aid of a field glass their dirt digging ope rations could be distinctly seen from tbe hills above Ham ilton's crossing, but it was impossible to form any correct estimate of their numbers. Beside the ditcjiers; only about two regiments were risible, bat there mav have been u-v- -eral thousand concealed in the gorge of the creek and oa- der the river bank. On tbe Stafford hills, just opposite Deep Bun, might be seen about a thousand men, apparent ly cavalrv. There had been no skirmishing or cannonading since Saturday. -' We see no reason to change the opinion -hitherto ex pressed, that this demonstration of the enemv was rfpiitm. ed solely to disconcert or retard some supposed plan of Gen Lre. That it has been a dead failure is already known to the Yankee General. - Where Hooker, with the main body of his forces now ia, is a matter open to conjecture. He maybe at Kelly's-Ford, thirty miles above Fredericksburg at Bijmfries, on the Poftmac, or even so far away a Manassas Junction'. We would most stronly incline to the belief that he was at one of tbe latter places, were he not the great " fighting Joe," and in command of" the finest army on the planet,3 composed of the victorious veterans of Chancellor! ville. But with such a name and such an army he cannot turn bis'back upon a foe he has always pretended to despise Wherever he is, we have no fears but that we shall soon hear from him. Even while we write a' great battle may have beetflbtrgnt Richmond Examiner. Special correspondence of the Snqoirer. Hamilton's Cbossiko, I i .. . June 8th, 1868- M. f 1 be situation is in tbe main unchanged. . Yesterday a shells were fired by tbe enemy towards night, result ing in no damage to us. Our side did not -respond, and the indications at nightfall inclined us rather to the opin ion that the etmmy would leave during the night; but he still -"holds and occupies" this morning in, if anything, increased force. About 3 I'. M., yesterday evening, a flag of truce was sent from our side to the -headquarters of the enemy at Bernard's House. Of the nature of the communication I am not advised. I think an answer .was expected, but up to a late hour I was told none had been received. Towards night the enemjrseemed to be busy entrench ing themselves behind Deep Bun in a line running ' at right angles with the town and about one mile below it. One Yankee balloon has been seen up this morning? in Opposite Fredericksburg all ia remarkably quiet, and the town is sin i ueia oy our iorces do attempt baring been made by the enemy to enter the place. Not a eun has been fired unto the hour of twelve o'elnrk. though there is still a column of tbe enemy on this aide of the river,, near the Bernard House. The enemy may fight, but no one here believesthis to be their' intention. - X. ' ' Northern Sews, Tbe following items of newB are from, the New York Jhruid of the eth instant : The steamship Horning Star, which left New Orleans on tbe. 1 9th ult., bnngs an account of the first days fight ing at Port Hudson. Banks commanded in person, and the fight was still going on at the tune of tbe departure of the Horning Star... Tbe attack commenced on tbe 27th, and tbe Herald' correspondent sava it has been nno of. if not the bloodiest battle that bas yet been fought on the 'wtnliku.1 " Tk rv. f e :.l ... I estimated at from ten to twelve thousand, and the assault is represented by the Yankee letter writer as having been attended with "'terrific slaughter." Tbe attack was made by land and water, Farragut's flvet bombarding the town, while Banks' columns endeavored to storm our fortifica tions. The leading attack was headed by Sherman, who was rigorously repulsed; and had to retire with enormous loss., A negro refriroent, which was put in advance, (a cute Yan kee triek.) lost 600 men out of 900 Sherman lost his leg, Gen. Neal Dow was also wounded.and Colonels Clarke, Cowles and Smith were, killed. Tne 6th Michigan and 128th New York each lost about half their men, and the other regiments sufiered severely. The Bermld's corres pondent says tbe Yankee loss, ia killed and wounded will reach at least three thousand. ' The news from-Vicksburg is rerr meagre. ' A telegram dated Washington, June 6, (at midnight,) states that no official advices from Vicksburg hare been received later than those of the 81st of Hay, tint that " a few additional particulars gave rather a more cheerful in dication of good results." A telegram from Cairo, dated also June 5, says that firing was kept up all of Monday, (1st) At midnight on the same day a conflagration was going on in the city cause unknown.' Jo Johnston was reported to be movmg towards Jackson.- Another dispatch, from Cincinnati, re; ports Jo Johnston as advancing in force on Memphis. An immense meeting of .the "peace democrats " was held oa the 8d in ew York. The Ea-Ad says it num bered orer thirty thousand, people, and the iNew York de mocracy, under Fernando Wood, " bare declared smin ia favor of a rigorous prosecution of peace,' an armistice and separate conventions of the loyal and rebel State," 1 and predicts that this peace platform will be that pf all tbe democracy, and that" with it they will carry the Presi dential election." Chicago. June 8. A special dispatch from the rear of Yioksburg, dated May 81st, says: - . Tbe bombardment of Vicksburg continues. All the guns in position opened fire at midnight and continued their fire uotil daylight The rapidity of the firing was unparalleled, and it is believed- great damage war flicted.' ' . . Geo. Hooker-has -been io Washington to consult with Lincoln upon the propriety, the correspondents ear, ot giving bim(Hooker the control of theatmy without re fcrring to Washington for plans ,' ' i For criticism ob his handling of the arnt Chancel lorsnlle. Hooker bad tabooed tha tf vi ir.u j 7j00fl ieopiea ef that paper were aeisai and burnUat Aauia Creek. The restriction was afterwards removed. 4JSi,1J5atom Jveu.oii commences on j i',, ' rmrj exercises oesapt six hours a day.' followed each aftenunn W;s...iV- 1 i r jerv draia, mortar, prae, arawtlftf qV .eeomiag gone to hi boyto m Detroit. -.' - -VZ -. ' "ofJwi Iobr iatanM with Lincoln at Bf :I"vis was BominaUd j Baltimore, ea etnanofpation proclamation, aad Urgiitg a rtjrnmnrprn eM,was quoted m KewVjo- 'the .olfcjlWs' i ;hich. has five niachinas rakroins dav aad rnxht. and wakd turns out rrom twelve to nneta tranored pan aocxs.a oay ror sowugrt.. Tail ORors.-!Tba',Gelumbia (Ga.) Enquirer of tsW4insVsays- . "We are now tn tha midst of the harvest, and not only does the yield sustahr the most confident sntwipationsof thefarnreTS, rbot- the grain general- ly ts uncommonly rail and fine. 'A number of spo-, clmens-have been sent us from various neighbor- -hoods, but we find aH of theni tacb heavy heads V and plump grains that we come to the conclusioli .' the crop generally in tjrfs section is ft most excel- ' lent one, We CengratuJate ear -people on their , " bountiful harvest and thabondant supply of bread which theh-labors, under the blessing of Heaven, bare secured for the army and the entire popula-. non. Let thorn now avoid the speculator and r boarder as more dangerous foes than the rust or the weevel" . -:. . The Savannah Republican says: M We presume that it will not be unsafe or far from tbe truth to say, that the crop already bar tested in those sections of the South where wheat bas nevcira raistd before,' or only to a very'lnn-1 ited extent, iitbe tggregate of what has here tofore been raised ilrj,, je,TiDg the super abundant crops in thoseiWner6 itbaB uK ways been raised, as a twyS The Knoxville Register says : Never Within the memory of 1 the oldest '.nbalJ-. itant, have there been more beautiful fields of wNbatlhan bless East Tennessee to-day. There has : been more wheat planted in East Tennessee, and by the blessing of Providence, a greater crop tlin ever was known. On every plain, on every bill the grain stands healthful arjd heavy the big cars are crying for the reapers.", , "tif djrection of.LTricoTnTBiirnslao- nil revoked ' -the order suppressing the Tines and World. .' ' The Douse of Representatives of Illinois has unanimously passed resolutions condemnatory .of i Burnside's order suppressing papers, and calling tbe attention of the government to the infringement of .- popular' rights and invasion of the sovereignty of Illinois. ; Sufsxms Court. The Suprente Court of this i State met in tbe State Capitol on Monday last, all j the -members-of the Court being present Tlura . were only rour applicants for CountyCourt licenses, ' all of which were granted, viz : : , j N. L. Williams, Jr., of Yadkin County. tionn u. stoitz, or lorsytne uounty.. Jos. M. Horehead, of Greensboro'. T. M. Argo, of AUbauM. Register. . Oca Cotton Gome to thk Yankies. The Yan kees, while they are redoubling their energies for our extermination, (for they have long since ceased to -hope for the reconstruction of the Union, f are doing a thriving business in obtaining our great staple. What their armies are unabw to steal, as being carried to them at Nassau by ear blockade runners, and exchanged for Yankee goods, which are brought here and sold to our people at fabulous prices. While our. soldiers pre battling agiinet I fearful odds, in the field for the defence ot our ( homes and property while the plundering Lordes of Yankee vandals are. ravaging, burning, dc. troy- ing and murdering is it right that 'our govern- f ment should perinit a contraband trade wi h the enemy, wnicn,-wmierit suppues ana ennencs tne North, is weakening, demoralizing and corrupting our own people ? From, the first we have been op posed to letting our cotton-go from our ports, eith er directly or indirectly, to. the enemy. We were told, that it was necessary for the supply of arms and monitions of war that cotton should 0 to tho European markets. - A few cargoes' of arms were received at a time when they were greatly Heeded. To that extent we were benefitted. But of late tbe supply of tbe government has grown up between the Yankee and Eoglish speculators of Nassau and theblockaiKerun ners of the Confederacy, who, in proportion us they ars8tockingthe Yankee xnd Eoglish market with cotton, are filling the wafe rooius of our own spec ulators with the refuse goods of Yankeedom. wh are held, regardless of the supply, it the inflated prices which have been' established, often by com bination among themselves,' fat 'the auction rooms of. Charleston and WHiaiBcton. While a few of -4-enrssn pevpte are enriched by this unrestricted, unconcroiiea concraoana traae, ' ana tne enemy is .receiving immense advantage in the supply of an ,iuuipcuiMure w iiuid, wivuii, we great mass oi oilf e! peopie are not oenenctea, ana o or cause is not pro moted. Neither is the Belf-reliance and patriotism of our people stimulated. &ttanruth Xeies. , SraonLABiTiES. At Deiuopoiis, Ala: recently, as the cake was being prepared for the wedding of. a preacher,. a mooting-bird alighted on the fitting of the cake, and after singing two or three tunes, . departed, leaving the impress of its tiny feel on it. The Petersburg Express relates the-fcllowing : "A well known gentleman-from iJinwiddio in formed us yesterday that a motherly pussy at bis residence is now nursing several young sqvirrels, which he lately picked up nUhq woods and Drought home for the cat to eat Ee was surprised to find,, on placing the little squirrels before the cat, tliat in stead of pouncing upon them with the natural fe rocity of tier race, she "kindly took them unck r her protection, and has been rearing them up with all the tendea solicitude she devotes to her own brood. And the squirrels have taken as naturally to bur ks though she were their own mother! Che Southern Recorder witnessed rather a novol . sight a few days since,- A hog more than half grown running after a cow, like a calf, and whenever the . cow would stop to eat, the hog would suck her. -Jt attempted the like with another cow, but she drove it off . - ' . If you have the feeljng of hate or revenge, subject it to a severe process-of mental chemistry, examine into its nature, its uses, its philosophy, and, before yon have finished the scrutiny, it will prcbably vanish like a volatile substance into the air. .-'.'. For the Standard. Mr. Editob : Looking to the next Congn ss for measures to arise as important 'to the people and government as any which have preceded it; and no ticing the names of prominent men .in the se veral districts announced in the public journals for can vassing, I take the same method to-make mention of John Xorfleet, Esq., of Tarboro, as suitably qual ified to represent the Voters of the 2d district in that Congress. ' ."'. " He is a gentleman of ability ot sterling worth, energetic, well posted in the political history of the government, and sound on all the issues pertaining to. (he .interests of our commonwealth. A better choice could not be made, provided he will accept the position. A VOTER. June 8th, 1868. ' ' ' For tbe Standard. Col. Griersosa the Yankee Cavalry. There can be little doubt that the ease and safety with which this functionary, with his band of ma- rauders, marched thsongh the State of Mississippi win encourage and stimulate the enemy to make similar and. more destructive raids through other States, As an evidence of this, the Northern pa persatate that 44 arrangements have been completed to, add one. hundred thousand cavalry forces to those ajready in the service." They have evidebtit de spaired of whiDtnne'ns in lair, onen-field fiehw i so large cavalry forces are to besint through tbcatti. .try where no noweTfol and unconaaerafaifrattiies will'bo found to impede" and dispose thefr'sW a,e. xnese will go in such force as to Tenaer vnatrMae cess, as they think, -quite pertainl Fyms will he pillaged and torn up, and the means- raising the growing crops destroyed. I km no alarmist, but it seems to me with tha information that tho enemy -has given us in regard ta (fee (enormous- increase of ' cavalry, that bur State author ities would do well to prepare lor such .an tuer gency. A few thonsana of our militia, well oran- ied, armed "arjd drUtedeipiaWoiJy kkencmpMruled' ly wchliaehi9alrousspi049t our militia olfyettarrimxtn to sjtfgni'aCeBt to meet ad Wr Off a large teoe1 tfie -" Jft the mteyibr., tur' brave militu)MDjeMi4:f Cotoaels appear qrte mfiin'mfoyVea.'rip pagot ami if the wentf timdd make afraid' into the interior r out whyoierv thj;xTai in the tacti --of. ia'tSjireSerr tm?M - iranization foraosMdeferdfsifL'uVTiw te bla'lntuS moyernehttiuf the enemyliiWciy j FM' lint t.,.;..'..i.V.i. fn tH.tijmf irif W.rkiil live as arortn a potina of care. -.5' --,.'. : .-..u--.-..,.v.y; Tadlin, June 8, 18Jl
The Weekly Standard (Raleigh, N.C.)
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