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The North-Carolina Standard.
i am neither dismayed nor depressed by the
. I f the party will be more necessary in the
"S I in the past Principle, and not.expe
TZT J retofore, as it will be
f !L and when I Mow principle, I have no
h o'express at defeat so far aslam personally
TeeZlTL would not have exalted over any
TneTf had been successful. I will never, in any
event humiliate myself at the footstool ot the
Destructiveparty.orfusewiththatparty. Nothing
shall separate me from Conservative principles or
from the Conservative party, for . it ia my firm
belief that it is the only party that can heal the
bleeding wounds of the Constitution, protect and
preserve the liberty of the citizen, and secure to
the country an honorable and lasting peace. I hold
the sword in one hand and the olive branch in
the other," the sword for the Destructives, and the
ollfe branch for all good and true Conservatives.
It would be the height of vanity and arrogance in
.. .me that citizens professing to be Conser
JJ1G IV - 3
vatives who did not vote for me are not good
Conservatives, however mucn i may regre. tuC
recent union at the ballot-box of the Destructives
and of many tried Conservatives. It thall not be
my fault if this union is continued and perpetu
ated. If it should be, the Conservative party will
be swallowed up and lost; but if every true Con
servative, forgetting the past, and impressed alone
with the importance of maintaining his principles
in their purity, will dissolve this union, and resolve
to have no political affiliation or correspondence of
any kind with the Destructives, and will so act on
all occasions, whether as a representative of the
people or as a citizen, as to put the Destructives
outside the pale of his associations, the great Con
servative party wjll be restored to its former
integrity and strength, and will be enabled here
after, as heretofore, to confer upon the country all
those benefits and blessings which it was- hoped
would flow from it when it was formed and
organized.
I am a friend to both the Confederate and State
governments, and because I am, I am anxious to
see them ably and honestly administered. The besl
friend to the Confederate government is he whn
submits to its authority, and labors to confine it to
its constitutional limitations ; and the worst enemy
to the government, to the South, and to the cause
of liberty, is he who seeks to exalt that government
above the State?, to'enlarge its powers, and to ren
.der the judiciary, the freedom of the press, and the
freedom and purity of the ballot-box dependent on
the mere will of those who have been called to
administer its affairs. No personal antipathy to
those who may conduct, the governments will in
fluence my judgment as to the measures they may
suggest or adopt I shall judge all measures on
their merits, without regard to those who may
recommend or advocate them. I have already
given proof, by my advocacy of Mr. Badger's nomi
nation for the Convention in Wake County, jn
February, 1861, and by my vote for Mr. Graham
for President of that body in May, 1861, when there
had been no personal intercouse between us for
the space of eighteen years, that I am not to be
influenced in my course as a public man by private,
or selfish, or personal considerations.
With regard to the prosecution of the war and
negotiations for peace, my views have undergone no
change. It is no$ true that I have counseled the
withdrawal of North-Carolina from the Confederacy,
or the submission of the State to federal authority,
or the reconstruction of the federal Union. On the
contrary, I have uniformly maintained, as I do now,
that the war must be prosecuted in self-defence, but
that at the same time the President, the Congress,
the Governors of the States, and the States them
selves should resort to every means in their power
to obtain an armistice, so as to transfer the great
questions in dispute between the two sections from
the smoke of the battle-field to the calm, clear at
mosphere of reason and diplomacy in the civil coun
cils, where alone, in the end, those questions must
be settled. My views are embodied in tbe follow
ing resolutions introduced in the House of Repre
sentatives at the last session, by the Hon. J. T.
Leach, of this State, and laid oa the table by that
body :
"Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate
Slates, That the delegations from each State, acting
in its sovereign and independent character, for the
purpose of adding moral to our physical force, and
placing ourselves properly before the civilized world,
do most earnestly appeal to the President, by and
with the advice and consent of the Senate, to ap
point commissioners whose duty it shall be to pro
fuse au armistice ot ninety days to the proper au
thorities of the federal government, preliminary to
negotiations for peace upon State sovereignty and
independence, and that said commissioners shall re
port in writing to the President the answer received
from the federal government upon the subject
fieSOlted. That shmilri tha nMia malrino nnv.i
f the federal government accede to the proposition
lor an armistice of ninety days, the President be
requested lo convene the Congress of the Confederal'-!
states for the purpose of appointing commis
sioners, by and with the advice and consent of the
senate ; and that he also be requested to notify the
Executives of the several States of the fact, and ask
their cooperation by appointing commissioners,
either by the Legislature or Convention, to co-op-.
rat.e w'th lne commissioners appointed by the PreM
th" tA ne80ti!tte with commissioners appointed by
e federal government upon such terms of peace
s will be consistent with the honor, dignity and
independence of the States, and compatible with
we safety of our social and political rights.
Mohed, That in maintaining the rights guar
anteed to us by the blood and treasure of our Rev
wutionary fathers, and dearest at all times to frec
"n. we desire to be let alone wo ask no man's
J, Perty--we fight not for conquest, but for our
tv . lnoependence ot the states, our equali-
Vl OUr civil and i-ollnln.... l;kiKi
to b v"' nat 6uc!l turns of peace as are agreed
,i T'hecornmissifir.ers ought to be endorsed by
r ! r tes'dcrit and Sem-te, and submitted to the peo
f' tor their ratiacati. n or rejection."
i's my firm conviction that if the views which
Mvanced in the Standard in July, 1863, on the
ject 0f peace, had been adopted and carried out,
. Mn"Stice would have been ohtinr1 and
.doners from the tn ..; a i..
acd when the Congress hat assembled in Rich-
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mond; and it ia also my firm conviction that if
the foregoing resolutions had been adopted by. the
Congress at its last session, measures wonld at this
time have been in progress tending to a final and
satisfactory settlement of the questions at issue be
tween the North and South. But if these efforts
had been made and had failed, we should have been
no weaker either in moral or in physical resources'
at home, while abroad, among the people of Europe
and of jthe North, we should have gained great
moral power by the exhibition on our part of an
earnest disposition to stsy the effusion of blood, and
to terminate this awful conflict in accordance with
those principles of reason, and justice which reflect
lustre on civilized, Christian nations. " We might
then have hoped that the people of the North,
giving heed to this appeal, and anxious as they must
be for peace, would have risen up at the polls and
defeated Ml'. Lincoln's re election in November next,
and thus have paved the way for a settlement of
our difficulties by the Conservative men of the two
sections. As it is, with the temper which seems
to govern the rulers of the two sections, I cin per
ceive no reasonable ground for hoping that Mr. Lin
coln will be defeated, or that the war will cease
until the South shall have conquered the North, or
the North the South. We are not fighting for con
quest, and we should not incur the risk of being con
quered by the North without putting forth every
effort meanwhile to terminate the struggle by ne
gotiations. The Standard will continue to be devoted to the
rights of the people and to tbe independence and
sovereignty of the States. It will maintain the
integrity and independence of the judiciary, the
freedom of the press and of speech, and the free
dom and purity of the ballot-box, without which
our present struggles will be in vain, and our
free forms of government an empty mockery. It
will insist on a strict construction of the Confed
erate Constitution, and on a searching but not un
generous scrutiny of the acts of our rulers. It will
inflexibly oppose any and every attempt to render
the civil authority subordinate to the military pow
er. And it will oppose, at all times and every
where, with the utmost earnestness to the last
moment, all attempts to subvert our present form
of government and to establish a dictatorship or
monarchy on its ruins.
As the elections are now over, and as the Stand
ard will be relieved for some time to come of the
pressure of matter purely political in its character, I
will endeavor to render it a more welcome and en
tertaining vehicle of news, literature and science.
I trust my friends will exert themselves somewhat
to increase the circulation of the paper.
With many, many heartfelt thanks to my friends
and patrons, I am Very Respectfully,
W. W. HOLDEN.
Election Returns.
Orange. Serwte, John Berry, 826. Commons,
Samuel F. Phillips, 927, William N. Patterson 780,
Sheriff, R. M. Jones 652, IL B. Guthrie 623.
Person. Senate, Ghas. S. Winstead 393, James
Holeman818, Walker 106. Commons, John W.
Cunningham 651, John D. Wilkerson 109. Sher
iff; W. H. Smith.
Alexander. A. IL Bogle elected to the Senate
from this district, and Dr. J. M. Carson re-elected
to the Commons from Alexander.
Franklin. Wash. Harris re elected to the Sen
ate, and W. K. Davis elected to the Commons.
Rutherford, Polk and Cleazeland. Senate,
Cleaveland, Dr. W. R. Miller, 902, Col. 0. L. Har
ris 88. Rutherford, Miller 706, Harris 677. Polk
not heard from. Miller elected. Commons, Ruth'
erford, Carson 721, A. R. Bryan 703, Carpenter
600, McCurry 474.
Sampson. Senate, William Kirby 460, Thos.
I. Faison 383, Ward 225. Commons, Powell 825,
Murphy 486, Lassiter 331, Giddens 195, Cooper
184.
Washington. Jesse Stubbs elected to the Sen
ate from Washington and Martin, and Maj. L C.
Latham to the Commons from Washington.
Moore and Montgomery. Senate, Moore, Dr. J.
M. Crump 545, Thomas J. Bright 457. Mont
gomery not heard from. Commons, Moore, Elam
J. Harrington 559, T. W. Ritter 495. Commons,
Montgomery, Jordan 293, Davis 256.
Chowan, and Gates. M. L Eure elected to the
Senate, and L. C. Benbury to the Commons from
Chowan.
Burke, McDowell and Caldwell. Senate, Gen.
S. F. Patterson. Burke, Commons, J. J. Erwin.
Caldwell, Commons, Mr. Isbell.
Yadkin. Senate, CoL W. H. A. Speer 454.
Commons, A. C. Cowles 741. Sheriff, Speer 664
Greene and Lenoir. Senate, Greene, Edward
Patrick 242, J. P. Speight 141. Lenoir, Patrick 75,
Speight 615. Majority for Speight 439. Commons,
Greene, H. H. Best 219, Freeman 158. Commons,
Lenoir, Allen W. Wooten 401, W. W. Dunn 202.
Sheriff, Fields 434, Pope 159.
Hash. Senate, Taylor 412, Jenkins 321. Com
mons, Lewis 357, A vent 318, Matthews 46. Sheriff,
Cooper 276, Morgan 225, Barnes 128.
Onslow. Senate, Sanders 260, J. F.. Murrill 151,
J. H. Foy 125. Commons, A. J. Murrill 852,
Porter 207. Sheriff, E. Murrill, Jr. 440.
CoL L. C. Edwards, of Granville, has been 'ap
pointed a member of the Literary Board of this
State, in place of Rev. W. E Pell, resigned.
Relief for Petersburg. Many of the citizens
of Petersburg, driven from their homes by the mer
ciless shelling of the enemy, are encamped in the
neighborhood of the city, out of reach of the enemy's
puns, but cut off from supplies of all kinds. Their
condition is a sad one indeed, and appeals forcibly
to the citizens of other more favored sections of the
Confederacy. In relieving the wants of other per
sons thus situated, in contributing of their means
to aid the government in this deadly struggle, and
in ministering to the wants of our sick and wounded
soldiers whom the fortunes ' of war had thrown
among them, the citizens of Petersburg have been
exceedingly liberal. They should not be left to suf
fer without aid or' sympathy in this season of sore
trial. Contributions in money sent to P. F. Pescud
in this city, or to the Bank of Petersburg now loca
ted in this city, or to R. Ragland, Petersburg, will
be appropriated as directed. Dr. Hawkins, President
of the Raleigh and Gaston R. R. will furnish a car
to convey supplies of clothing and food, if a' sufli
cient quantity is sent in to justify it Bib. Eecor.
The Pacha of Egypt has lost a daughter aged fif
teen, who was betrothed to one of His Highness' s
aid-de-camps. Since her death the Viceroy has not
left his residence at Ghise, and receives no one.
RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNES
WAR NEWS.
We make some extracts from the Sentinel below,
and otherpapers. Mobile seems at present the
principal point Of interest The news .from that
quarter is unpleasant
Mobile, August 7. Friday night Lieut Col.
Williams, commanding Fort Powell, evacuated and
blew up the Fort The enemy yesterday and to
day are shelling Fort Gaines. Tbe people of Mobile
are all ready for the fray. . Great confidence pre
vails. The people are satisfied with the conduct of
Buchanan, Murphy and Burnett, of the Nary.
SECOND DISPATCH.
Mobile, August 8. I am painfully humiliated to
announce the shameful surrender of Fort Gaines at
half past nine o'clodk this morning, by CoL Charles
Anderson, of the 21st Alabama.
This powerful work was provisioned for six
months and had a garrison df six hundred men. He
communicated with the enemy's fleet by flag of
truce without the sanction of Gen. Page. Page en
quired by signal what his purpose was and received
no answer.
His attention was attracted by signal guns.
Page repeatedly telegraphed " Hold on to your
Fort" The same night Page visited Fort Gaines
and found Anderson on board the Yankee fleet,
arranging the terms of capitulation. Page left a
peremptory order for Anderson, on his return, not
to surrender, and relieving him of his command.
Although Fort Morgan signaled this morning, no
answer was received, except the hoisting of a Yan
kee flag over the ramparts. Anderson's conduct is
officially pronounced inexplicable and shamefuL .
. Mobile bay is an estuary, or more properly, the
mouth of the Alabama and Apalache river's. It is
80 miles long opening into the Gulf. of Mexico by
two channels one, the eastern and main ship chan
nel, drawing 18 feet water, and the other, or wes
tern channel, only 6 or 6 feet Between the two
channels is Dauphin island, upon which Fort
Gaines is located, bearing upon the main channel.
Fort Morgan is opposite Fort Gaines upon a narrow
neck of main land running out some distance be
tween the Gulf and Bay. The main channel is not
more than two or three miles wide, and vessels are
forced to run very near both these forts. The bay
is on an average 12 miles broad and filled with ob
structions of various kinds, and although 17 of the
enemy's vessels have succeeded in passing Fort
Morgan and perhaps the same number are beyond
Fort Gaines also, nevertheless the vessels will have
to pass all obstructions and another bar at the head
of the bay, besides encountering works of great
defensive strength. Mobile itself is situated at the
head of the bay at the immediate mouth of the
Alabama, and 80 miles from the outer forts. With
in Mobile bay is another smaller bay, called Bon
Secours. Vessels drawing more than 8 feet water
cannot traverse the main bay, nor approach the city.
Choctaw Point is a point of land about a mile be
low the city extending into the bay. There are sev
eral little villages upon its shores the principal of
them, Alabama City is on the Eastern side. Dog
river nearly opposite is a small stream, entering
from the west The bay itself is pear shaped.
These are the chief peculiarties of this now inter
esting sheet of water.
Official Account of the Mine. .
Headquarters, &c, August 6th.
Gtneral 8. Cooper, A. and L General :
An experimental mfne was fired successfully last
night, in front of Gracie's line. The enemy ap
peared much alarmed. All quiet to-day.
G. T. Beauregard, General
From the Peninsula.
We learn from the Peninsula that Grant is re
moving all the Federal forces from Yorktown and
Williamsburg.
It is said that Hancock, in the affair of the 80th
ol July lost very heavily.
Great numbers of sick and wounded are collect
ed at City Point
Great activity prevails in the enemy's shipping
in the James river ; and it is believed Grant is sen
ding troops to Washington, as a large number of
transports are passing down the river.
From East Tennessee.
Private accounts from East Tennessee,, represent
the conntry between Bristol and Knoxville-to be in
a deplorable condition. Deserters from both ar
mies, and desperadoes of every kind, are indiscrim
inately robbing and murdering the helpless citizens,fJ
both Uuion and Confederate, the notorious Kjrjii
being the chief actor in most of the notorious cases
committed.
From the Taller.
Tt was reported on the street yesterday that
General Early had again defeated the enemy near
Winchester. Nothing is more probable, though we
were unable to trace the rumor to any authentic
source. That onr victorious forces are entirely
able to hold the Valley from which they have driven
the enemy, we have no doubt The news from that
quarter will be looked for with great interest, as
the last accounts represented the enemy, thirty-five
thousand strong, marching to attack General Early.
Sentinel.
From the United States. ,
Pittsburg, Aug. 5. A dispatch has. been receiv
ed here, Etating that an engagement was fought
yesterday, at 4 P. M., with the raiders, at New
Creek, on tbe Baltimore and Ohio railroad, twelve
miles east of Piedmont, towards Cumberland. The
fight was desperate.
Pittsburg, Aug. 5. Gen. Eelley telegraphs of
ficially to this city : "My forces repalsed the ene
inji yesterday at New Creek, under McCausland
and Bradley Johnson. The enemy attacked our
post to day at 3 o'clock P. M. The fight continued
until late in the evening. The enemy then retreat
ed leaving their killed and wounded.
" Their loss was severe. Ours light not exceed
ng 25 killed and 50 wounded. The garrison made
a gallant resistance."
Gov. Curtain has called for thirty thousad mi
litia. In his proclamation he says :
" I cannot too earnestly urge upon the people of
this State the necessity for the immediate presence
of this force."
Gen. Couch has issued an appeal to the people
of Pennsylvania. He, urges them to prepare them
selves for defence, to put their guns in order, get
in the cover of their cornfields, forests, buildings,
&c, as a rebel raid is not impossible at any time
during the summer.
Habrisburg, Aug. 5. Five messengers from
Gen. Averill have reached McConnelsville, and re
port that the rebels, three thousand strong, were
crossing the Potomac at Hancock. They further
state, that our pickets were being driven in towards
Cumberland.
Later. Intelligence,, just received, confirms the
fact that the rebels occupied Hagerstown in force,
at nine o'clock this morning.
The greatest consternation once more prevails
-along the Southern portion, of the Cumberland
Valley. The "farmers are hurrying from their
homes with their stock, and the population in gen
eral is panic stricken by this sudden, and to them
unexpected, occupation by the rebels.
Later from Europe. .
The Saxia, with dates to the 26th ult, has ar
rived. Cotton was unchanged. Breadstuff's de
clining. "
Lord Palmerston, in the House of Commons, in
response' to an inquiry whether England intended
acting in concert with other European powers, in
endeavoring to bring about a suspension of hostili
ties in America, stated that he' thought no advan
tage was to be gained by meddling.
The Bank of England has reduced its rate of
discount to seven, per cent
It is reported that Mr. Slidell is on a visit to the
Emperor Napoleon.
The Alexandria Gazette of the 1st says :
The differences of opinion between the leading dem
ocrats of the North, which bare heretofore divided
DAY, " AUG. 17, 1864.
them into "War" and "Peace Democrats," seems
to be vanishing. The New York World (war) says :
"The new President to be nominated at Chicago
and elected in November, must be a man ready and
willing to meet any and every overture for peace, a
man who shall represent truly the dignity and
power of the nation, and who will not be unwilling
even to tender an armistice suggesting.a National
Convention of all the States." The New York
News (peace) agrees to this, saying: "The peace
Democracy will endorse a nomination that faithful
ly represents the sentiment here stated. They are
willing to trust to the good sense and patriotism of
the people for the realization of a definite Peace as
the sequel 'of an Armistice and National Conven
tion." It thus seems likely that "an armistice suggest
ing a National . Convention of all the States," will
be the main feature of the platform of principles to
be put forth by the Democratic Convention which
is to assemble at Chicago on the 29th of August
Georgia. '
During the late raids through Georgia the Yan
kees threatened both Macon and Milledgeville. Gov.
Brown promptly retained the State militia at the
former place and dispatched also a' sufficient force
to the defence of the latter, notwithstanding a re
ception by him of a request from Gen. Hood to for
ward on the militia to him immediately. The re
sult sustained the judgment of Gov. Brown, for Ma
con was attacked by a large force of the raiders and
repulsed by the militia.
Most of the raiders have been captured or dispers
ed in Georgia.
Latest NewsFrom Petersburg.
Petersburg, Aug. 10. The explosion (?) of yes
terday is still unexplained. The enemy aro still
contracting iheir lines on our right (their left,) and
receding from the direction of. the Weldon railroad
and3l.owing themselves in diminished force. Every'
thing indicates that the enemy are throwing them
selves on the defensive. Little or no sharpsbooting
and scarcely any artillery or mortar firing to-day.
The Express of the 9th says :
" There seems to be little doubt that Grant is
moving large bodies of his troops cautiously and
quietly from our front Where he is sending them,
we of course do not know, but they leave City
Point in transports and go down the river. His
steamers, loaded with troops, have been seen within
the last two days moving oft He will probably
endeavor to head Early off, and stop the career of
that Confederate General, in bis wild crusade
through the Valley and into. Maryland and Penn
sylvania. The shelling of the city has ceased either for
want of ammunition, or because the enemy has be
come tired of a practice so cruel and diabolical, or
because the heavy guns with which he has been
wont to greet us daily, have been removed from
their positions. The latter reasoii is more probably
tbe true one, for we cannot think of the Yankees
as being out of ammunition, or tired of a barbarous
practice. It is believed that they are engaged in
moving their heavy artillery."
Most of the Northern papers charge Grant's late
failure to the cowardice of the negro troops. A
Washington correspondent says :
"The wounded officers that Lave arrived here
from Petersburg claim that the explosion of tbe
mine was a complete success, and our failure to ac
complish the object in view was owing to the bad
conduct of the negro troops. After capturing and
holding for some time the first line of rebel breast
works, a division of the Ninth corps, which is com
posed of colored troops, were ordered to charge, but,
being exposed to an enfilading fire, they broke and
ran, and pitched pell mell into tbe supports, causing
considerable confusion. Tbe rebels, taking advan
tage of this, poured grape and canister in upon our
forces with terrible effect"
Grant is still supposed to be mining at several
points, but is being closely watched by bur Generals.
From Mobile.
Mobile, Aug. 9. Last night a soldier's train ran
into a land slide between Pollard and Montgomery
and killed 12 and wounded 57 of the 1st Mississip
pi battalion artillery. Last night two white men
and one negro, were arrested for cutting the wires.
Some Federal vessels are crossing into the bay.
The garrison in Fort Morgan are in fine spirits.
Otherwise all quiet below.
There is nothing later from this point, although
heavy fighting is still going on and tie result is ia
doubt
From Georgia.
Atlanta, Aug. 9. Last night and this morning
passed without any demonstration on the part of
the enemy. Some few shells are still thrown into
the city without doing any damage. The enemy
evince no disposition to extend their right further,
which rests near the Cambleton road. A Captain
and Lieutenant, from McCook's raiders, who de
serted from our army last winter, were captured
yesterday.
. Gen. Henry R. Jackson has gone to Atlanta with
orders to take command made vacant in the army
of Tennessee by the death of Brigadier General C.
H. Stevens. -
' A Northern telegram dated Nashville, the th,
sajs:
" Gen. McCook, supposed to have been captured
near Newnan, has come in with 120 of his men ;
500 had previously arrived at Marietta, as reported.
He was successful in breaking the Ms. con road, aud
capturing and destroying a wagon and railroad
train. He captured 72 officers and 85 men, but
was obliged to let them go. His safe return, with
so many of his men, reduces his loss very materially.-
More will probably yet come in."
' Later from the North.
Richmond, Aug. 10. Flag of truce boat arrived
at Varina last night, bringing thirty Surgeons and
two Chaplains. V
The Baltimore American of the 9th says advices
from the upper Potomac represent that the rebels
have again left Maryland. The retreat is said to
have been made with great haste, tbe movement of
the Federal forces on the South side c f the Potomac
threatening their rear. The main rebel force under
Early is reported retreating on Winchester. . Sheri
dan has been temporarily placed in command'of the
department of the Shenandoah Valley. It is re
ported that Averill overtook the rebels, under Mc
Causland, at Moorefield, Sunday, attacked them and
captured all their artillery and five hundred prison
ers. ' The American is much elated by this news
and the reports from Mobile. Nothing important
from Grant Both armies are engaged in strength
ening their defensive works. Telegram from Fort
Smith cla'ming a victory over the Confederates
under Cooper and Standwaite of the 3lst ultimo.
European advices tfnimportant, Confederate Loan
active at improving rates. Latesfgold quotation in
New York 257. .
Garibaldi has been chosen Grand Master of the
Free Masons in Italy.
As an evidence of Gen. Hood's determination to
increase the strength and efficiency of the army,
L was shown to day an order just issued from head
quarters, requiring all able bodied men in the dif
ferent departments to report at once to the front,
and requiring,, whenever it can be done, the heads
of departments to perform their own clerical labor,
and when that is impracticable, the employment
of men unfit for the field. This order is directed
not only to Quartermasters, Commissaries, Com
mandants of Posts, Provost Marshals and Surgeons,
but also to the Generals. Enforced, as 1 have as
surance he intends it shall be, it will bring several
thousand additional men to the field.. It will be
received with great satisfaction our gallant men
pow confronting the enemy, and I trust will not
meet the displeasure even of those upon whom it
is intended to operate. The sentiment behind the
army should contribute to its enforcement. Cor
reupcs.ice Griffin Rebel.
Whole Number 1526.
Thk Dyihg Mozart. Wolfgang Mozart, the great
German composer, died at Vienna in the year 1791.
There is something beautiful and touching in the
circumstances of his death. His sweetest song was
the last he sung the Requiem. He had been em
ployed upon this exquisite piece for several weeks,
his soul filled with inspirations of richest melody,
and already claiming kindred with immortality.
After giving it its last touch, and breathing into it
that undying spirit of song which was to consecrate
it through all time, as his "cygnean strain," he fell
into a gentle and quiet slumber. At length the
light footsteps of his daughter Emilie awoke him.
"Come hithdr," said he, "my Emilie my task is
done the Requiem my Requiem is finished."
"Say not so, dear father," said the gentle girl, in
terrupting him, as tears stood in her eyes. "You
must be better you look better, for even now your
cheek has a glow upon it I am sure we will nurse
you well again let me bring you something re
freshing." "Do not deceive yourself, my love,"
said the dying father, " this wasted form can never
be restored by human aid. From heaven's mercy
alone do 1 look for aid, in this my dying hour.
You spoke of refreshment, my Emilie take these
my last notes sit down to my piano here sing
with them the hymn of your sainted mother let
me once more hear those tones which have been so
long my solacement and delight" Emilie obeyed,
and with a voice enriched with tenderest emotion,
sung the following stanzas :
Spirit I thy labor is o'er I
Thy term of probation is run.
Thy steps are now bound for the Untrodden shore,
And the race of immortals begun.
. Spirit! look not on the strife, -
Or the pleasures of earth with regret
Pause not on the threshold ot limitless life,
To mourn for the day that is set
Spirit! no fetters can bind.
No wicked haie power to molest ;
There the weary like thee the" wretched shall find
A haven, a mansion of rest
Spirit! bow brightts the mad
For which tbou art now on the win(f,
- Thy home it will be, with thy Saviour aud God,
Their loud hallelujah to sing.
As she concluded, she dwelt for a moment upon
the low melancholy notes of the piece, and then
turning from tbe instrument looked in bilence for
the approving smile of her father. It was the still
passionless smile which the rapturous and joyous
spirit left with the seal of death upon those fea
tures. Napoleon too Cautious to be Poisoned. A
Paris letter writer tells tbe followine : .
I was in a circle, a few days back, composed of
ootn native French and newly arrived Parisians.
At last the conversation turned upon the Emperor,
and the late arrivals were full of marvellous stories
of attempts upon the Emperor's life. One " yarn"
tan as follows :
A beautiful young Italian girl was requested to
maKe mm a arms, which she did. As it accident
ally, in receiving the goblet, he contrived to drop
into it a small knife with which he had been toying,
as he sat The knife almost immediately turned
black from the presence of some poison which the
ltanan nas dropped into the beverage probably as
a "flavor." She was quietly sent back to the Or
leanist tribe, whence she came, disgraced.
Another damsel offered Napoleon the larger piece
of an apple, which she cut before his eyes, and while
in conversation with him. (She was French, and a
privileged member in the household.) With true
politeness he requested an exchange, he to eat the
smaller piece, and she the other. The lady demur
red ; she could not each so much. He seized both
pieces and bowingly retired. Next day the lady
consented to " waste her sweetness on the desert
air," of a convent, where she can reflect that the
very first trouble which arose in the world, in the
year one, came from Eve offering Adam an apple
not fit for his mastication at that time.
Thornton, the Missouri Guerilla. The Thorn
ton who figures so conspicuously just now in the
dispatches as a guerilla chief in Upper Missouri,
is personally known to' a good many people in
this vicinity. He graduated at Bethany College ia
1853, and he was then, as he is now, a sort of fire
eating guerilla. He is a brother-in-law of the no
ted Colonel Doniphan, of Missouri, who figured
conspicuously in the Chihmbua expedition during
the Mexican war. . He was known at Bethany, as
be is now in the newspapers, by tbe name of
" Coori" Thornton, and was regarded as ah eccen
tric desperado, his chief delight apparently,, Jaeing
to wear tall boot legs outside of his pants, with a
bowie knife stuck inside, and to use the biggest and
oddest words he could glean from the dictionary.
He was a quiet, moody, pale faced fellow, who
drank a good deal of whiskey at times, and had
very few companions. He was a tolerable sort of
student, and not without intellectual ambition.
Wheeling Intelligencer, July 20.
Traitors in Richmond. The Etaminer insists
that there are traitors in high, places in that city.
We hav'nt the slightest doubt of it, and hope they
will be detected and punished. The Examiner
says:
There can no longer exist a doubt that we have
traitors in some of our high places. The assign
ment of Gen. Jos. E. Johnston, to the command of
our armies in Northern Virginia, and the removal
to that quarter of a large body of his veteran troops,
was not known in this city beyond the circle of the
initiated of the War office. Yet we see the whole
of our plans, as regards our campaign of invasion,
spread before the world in the columns of the New
York Herald. It behooves the authorities to- probe.
this matter to the bottom, and discover and punish
tbe traitor.
We have no doubt but Bennett's gold unlocks all
the important secrets of our government and thus
becomes the means of frustrating some of the plans
of our Generals. It is very well known that the
" detectives" of the various departments at Rich
mond, including the war office, are men of desper
ate characters, geneially gamblers, pugilists and the
like. Cases that occasionally come before tbe Po
lice Court one of them no longer than last week,
prove this. But who is to blame for all this and
,who is to reform existing abuses 7 ' We don't know.
Progress. '
ThePrince Del Drago recently found some beau
tiful ancient mosaic pavement on one of .his estates
in the country, and he has just now exhumed from
the cellar of his palace, in Rome, an exquisite statu
ette of Venus, minus the head and arms, unfortun
ately, but perfectly beautiful as to. the body and
lower limbs. It is about three feet high.
What's tub Difference ? A friend inquired of
us "what's the difference between a government
contractor and a government chaplain ?" Not im
mediately seeing the point, he replied, " One prays
for the government' and the other preys upon it !"
We caved in and left Squibs.
Montgomery Mail.
Franklin, hearing the remark that what was lost
on earth went tothe moon, asserted that there must
be a great deal of good advice accumulated there.'
There is Corn in toe Old Land Yet A corres
pondent writing to the Mobile Register, says : "I
have passed through the biggest cornfield I ever
saw. It stretches from Demopolis to Selma, and
for miles it really does seem to be one vast cornfield.
There is yet an abundance of old corn all through
the country, and I doubt if it can all be gotten,
away in time to make room for a new crop."
A subscription opened in Denmark for the widows,
orphans and. wounded of the war, produced in a
single dv at Copenhagen alone upwards of 300,
000f. The King put his name do.wn.fpr, 12,0 QUI. a
year during a period of ten ye.SJ -
The End or the War. We are asked fifty times
a day, more or less, when we think the war will
end. As we have no right to think, in the absence
of data to think upon, we are sometimes at a loss
for. an answer. However, for the information of '
those who are particularly inquisitive and anx
ious upon the subject, we will relate a dream that
a friend of ours had upon the duration of the Wir.
which may throw some light upon the subject He
dreamed that he awoke from a dream of fifty years,
and found himself upon the south bank of the Rap
idan. He saw at a tittle distance from the spot
where he awoke a Corporal with 17 men and a
wheelbarrow. He approached and asked the Cor
poral what this little gathering inecnt . "This,"
replied the Corporal, " is the Army of Northern Vir
ginia." " W here ate the Yankees ? " inquired our
friend. " They are on the other side of the river,"
replied the CorporaL "They have the advantage
of us in numbers and transportation as they have
21 men and two wheelbarrows but we expect to
get the advantage in position, will whip them, and
then the war will end."
As this is tbe best and all the information we
have about the probable duration of the war, we
ive it free gratis for nothing at alL Abingdon
Virginian.
Quinine as an Antidote to Malaria. From an .
article In the Confederate States Medical Journal,
by Dr. Samuel Logan, on the prophylactic effects
of Quinine in Malarious localities, we copy the fol
lowing summing up of results. The Quinine was
administered in four grain doses, daily, morning or
evening :
Total number who took no quinine, 230: had
fever, 184 ; ratio per 1,000 of fever cases to patients,
582.60, or 1 in every 1 71 patients ; ratio per 1,000
of severe cases to total cases, 218 48, or 1 in every
819 cases.
Total number who took quinine irregularly, 246 ;
had fever, 96 ; ratio per 1,000 of fever cases to pa
tients, 890 24, or 1 in every 256 patients ; ratio per
1,000 of severe cases to total cases, 291 66, or 1 in
every 8 71 cases.
Total number who took quinine regularly, 506;
had fever, 98 ; ratio per 1,000 of fever cases to pa
tients, 193 67, or 1 in every 5 16 patients ; ratio per
1,000 of severe cases to total cases, 326 53, or 1 in
every 8.06 cases.
Teaching Children Rhymes. Some one, in urg
ing upon parents the duty of teaching the children
spiritual songs and hymns, very appropriately re
marks that " there is a chord in every human soul
which is touched by poetry ;" hence the magical
power of ballads, national songs, and religious
hymns. Listen to tbe snatches of popular ditties
which you hear in the street from passers by, after '
you have gone to bed, and you will own that metre
and music have avenues to human souls, and, con
sequently, that they should be largely employed
in religion. 1 here is reason to believe that versified
truth has peculiar lorce upon the commond mind,
as it is certain that it affords aid to the memory.
Luther and the other reformers felt this, and hence
arose the wonderfully rich collection of hymns in
the German language, to which there is perhaps,
nothing comparable on earth. To this stock Luth
er himself contributed mucfau. Ha was aided by
Hans Sachs, the poetical shoemaker. In a later
period came Paul Gerhardt, the greatest hymn
writer of Germany, if not of the world. Wherever
there are pious Ormans- you find them with - their
beloved hymn books ; and, from frequent use they
generally know great numbers of these hymns by
heart It is an error to confine children to the
learning of children's hymns, because when they
become older these will have lost much of their
fitness. Why should wo not fill our children's
minds with the choicest evangelical hymns in the
language? These they will remember after we aro
dead and gone. They should not merely be learned
once and then left for others, but repeated again
and again, and sung over in order to nx them in
the memory, and to lay a basis for lasting associa
tions. The old words and the old tune come back
to us with indescribable tenderness. Let tbe pious
mother, when causing her boy to learn some sacred
song, say to herself, " Perhaps, years hence, my
son will remember the saying truth of this hymn, as
having been taught by bis mother'-'
Cotton as a Substitute fob Lint. Dr. Nolt, of
Mobile, recommends cotton as a substitute for lint,
in hospitals for tbe following reasons:
1. Its abundance, cheapness, and general, dissem
ination. 2. Its value in padding splints, where there are
fractures to be treated.
'3. Cotton has always been used as a soothing
dressing to burns, when the inflamation is of the
highest possible grade.
4. I have used for' twenty years on dressing
stumps, wounds of all kinds, including gun-shot,
cotton and lint, indiscriminately, and could never
sea any. difference, where both articles were good.
5. Buggrave, Surgeon to the King of Belgium,
has written a volume on the advantages of cotton
dressings, and other surgeons in Europe reoom
mend it
6. Under the name of 'patent lint, surgeons hare
been using, for many years, a kind of flimsy cotton
flannel, which is nothing but cotton ; and the pro
fession has, therefore, fully sanctioned its use.
When I was' Medical Director of Gen. Bragg' s
army, at Corinth, I had the hospitals freely sup
plied with cotton ; and after the battle of Shiloh, it
was almost entirely substituted for lint, and an
swered all the indications.
With the exception of Dr. Stone, of New Orleans,
I believe I have done more operative surgery during
the last thirty years, than any man South of the
Potomac; and my experience is too conclusive, to
my own mind at least, as to the value of cotton.
I do not hesitate to say that I would prefer really
well made, fine charplu tor general use as a dressing
if I could get it in abundance, but the cotton answers
so well that it is ridiculous to keep our ladies wast
ing their time in scraping lint Most of the lint
sent to the army is very coarse, and far inferior to
good cotton.
There arc certain ideas which seize on the world
and which cannot be eradicated ; such as bleeding
after concussions, putting irritating substances into
fresh cuts to make them heal ; tieing up the wool
on a negro's head to draw his palate up, &e. So is
the prejudice about cotton, which I hope you may
do much towards eradicating.
Suells. The following from the Richmond
Sentinel should prove a warning to those who are
in the habit of handling shells, or other explosive
niissiles with which daily familiarity' renders
carelesss:
Some old shells believed to be empty, which had
, been sent to Bradley's Foundry, in Winchester, to
be cleaned up, were being taken out of a wagon by
some negroes. Several little white boys were play
ing about tbe wagon, and persisted in handling the
shells though repeatedly driven off. While the
wagon was being unloaded a shell which turned
out to be loaded exploded on being thrown in tbe
pile already collected on the ground. Instantly
fifteen or twenty shells in the pile also exploded,
causing the report to be beard in tho city, and kill
ing almost instantly five negro men and three whit
boys. The victims of this sad tragedy were horribly
mutilated. One of the boys and two of the negroes
were literally blown to pieces.
The fragments of shell flew far and wide through
the town of Manchester, strikinga number of houses
and producing a great excitement It is surprising,
. t;Anlnr tha nnmhpr nf npranna mnviner about
vuiioiuvi - - i' - - -- o
the streets, that the casualties were not more nu
merous. The lojiidry where the accident occurred
is but a short distance from the cotton factory.
A l-JWI! uicuuug av a .
the Council to appropriate 1575,000 to aid in filling
the quota of the borough with volunteers,
A Great Cheese Region. At a Conrentioaheld,
at Rome, Oneida county, N. Y.. representativea were
present from sixty-four cheese factories, which em
ployed 83,670. cows. Of these cheese factories,
31 were in Oneid; county. The others were in
Herklra&r, Chateiooe vid Courlland. counties. Tbe
. . . - . f .- i t..
whtch'h'as .1 V cc-w&'Mu ose in New Woodstock,
which has Vi' V. 'Taare were nine private dairies
reprcsent-.-l, vllih have together 416 ebwev'Tb
system of'm.nufacturing cheese upon .a combined
plan and cn a large scale is one of recent origin,
and ibis lit shows it ha absorbed the daly interest
vf that region.