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RALEIGH : FRIDAY, OCT. 21, 1804.
We confess we are at a loss to know precisely
where Gen. Beauregard's army is, and of course its
present object is not known to any outside military
circles in Georgia and Richmond. tIt is supposed
to be at or near Cave Springs, in Alabama, and the
report is that Beauregard is to be joined by Kirby
Smith, General Taylor, and Generals Forrest and
Wheeler. This would swell his army to some fifty
thousand effective men.
Sherman is still at Atlanta. The federal papers
claim that he has seventy thousand men and rations
for several months. We do not know whether this
is true or not His rear communications have cer
tainly been interrupted, if not seriously injured ;
but every rear attack upon him or his lines must
be made by regular troops, as it is now clear that
the population in his rear are not disposed to harass
bim or destroy his communications.
We confess we do no see much if any thing to
cheer or encourage in the condition of things in
Georgia. We wish we could.
The news from Richmond and Petersburg at the
time of writing this !s quite meagre. It may be
that the thunders of battle will be heard again in a
few days. It is not to be supposed that Grant has
been idle during the last few weeks, or that he will
not give battle again before going permanently into
winter quarters. But we can only conjecture as to
events around Richmond and Petersburg, as tho
papers of those places contain but little informs
tion, and the same is true as to the Georgia papers.
We may expect at any moment to hear that Grant
has resumed the attack on Petersburg and Rich
mond, and it is more than probable that he will
move on both sides of the James at the same lime.
All we can do is to express the utmost confidence
in our brave troops, and hope for the best.
Orphan's Fond.
We learn from Dr. Deems, who has just returned
from a visit to the Western part of the State, that
he has raised the following sums for the Orphan's
Fund:
Wilkes County 20,200; Iredell $11,000; Alex
ander $10,600; Ashe $9,300; Forsyth $2,800;
Yadkin $2,800; Surry $1,900 ; Stokes $1,500 ; Ca
tawba $1,000; New Hanover $1,000; State aftarge
$800; Craven $500. The largest donor in the
State is Oscar Martin, of Wilkes, $7,500.
The Ravages or War. A citizen of Cabarrus
County, N. C, informed us a few days since, that
in one Beat or Captain's District in that County
there are seventy-two soldiers' wives, two thirds of
whom are widows. And this is a bird's eye view
of the country generally. What an eloquent dis
course is this for peace ! Hard indeed must be the
heart that can look unmoved on these widows and
their fatherless children and then call for more men,
with the certainty that by such a call more widows
and orphans will be added to this melancholy list
A Nsw School Book. We have received from
Messrs. Sterling, Campbell and Albright, publish
ers, Greensborough, N. C, a copy from stereotyped
plates of " Our Own Primer for the Children,"
which seems to be admirably adapted to "aid chil
dren in their first attempts to acquire knowledge."
This Primer contains 48 pages, and is very hand
somely illustrated with pictures, designed to amuse
and interest the child while engaged in spelling out
and reading the words and lessons. It is much
the handsomest book yet published in the South,
so far as we have had an opportunity of judging.
This Firm deserves the thanks of our people, and
especially oi our educators, ior me persevering in
dustry and good taste with which it has devoted it
self to the noble work of preparing and publishing
for the benefit of our schools. Messrs. Sterling,
Campbell and Albright have in preparation other
works for the use of schools, which will be given
to the public at an early day,
We are happy to state that the,good work of pro
tecting those of his friends who were defeated for
the Legislature from conscription, is continued by
Got. Vance. Mr. W. W. Hampton, of Wilkes
better known as Certificate Hampton has been ap
pointed Quartermaster of the Home Guard; and
Mr. Wellborn, who helped Mr. Hampton to certify,
his been appointed a lithingman, no doubt through
the Governor's influence. The Governor believes
in " fighting it out now," but not by the aid of his
particular friends, no matter how able-bodied they
may be. The "fighting it out" must be done by
the great mass of the people by the mechanic, the
small farmer, and the widow's son. There has
been a more thorough prostitution of our State gov
ernment, and of the Confederate government to par
ty purposes and to personal ends, within a few short
months, than took place during any four years pre
ceding the war under our former system.
opicie. We have received a communication
complaining of the Physicians of a neighboring
county for having held a meeting and resolved to
charge old prices payable in specie, which the writ
er considers improper, in view of their exemption
u mimary ssrvicc. We uecliue to publish
the
communication, because it might lead to contro.er-
"J I0r Which hawa tin rnmn Rnt va Wl
ion to Bay, that we think all buying and selling rr !
"pccie injurious to the cause of tbe Confederacy. j
"S tendencv is to discredit rhn fliirrncv. and wiia:-
Tk' 06S . woakens tbe arm of government.
a uuniting, we have constantly refused er.hcr
W receive or pay specie for anything, except where
e had to purchase it to send out of the country for
vPe.Ac Fay. Observer.
fhe Observer touches the subject with much deli-fcr-
It thinks "all buying and selling for specie
"J Jrious to the cause of the Confederacy." Is that
Nf Is the man who ignores or rejects the Con
trite currency not more censurable than the Ob
wr supposes ? Such a man, according to that
PPer, only pursues an "injurious" course. If the
tner could fasten such an offence upon us, or
"Pon any 0f 0Ur friends, it would ring with the
hfge that we were false to the country and trai
ton of the blackest dye. We think it more than
P'obable that the Physicians referred to belong to
Oherrer's party.
Th heg crop ia Geoigia this year is very hcvy.
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Vol. XXX. No. 33.
Will State Officer Be Conscripted .
We think we can say to magistrates, officers of
the militia and home guards, and others now ex
empted as State officers from conscription, that the
ensuing Legislature will direct the Governor still to
retain them, and not allow them to be conscripted.
This is our opinion, formed after gome observation
and reflection. We may be mistaken, but we do
not think we are.
Why do we Bay this? This State has already
sent one hundred apd eighteen thousand men to the
field. Her detailed men are now being ordered into
the ranks the light duty men and the permanent
ly disabled are again to be "sifted lile wheat," to
see if some of them may not be fit for active ser
vice the junior reserves have volunteered to go to
the defence of Richmond the senior reserves are
liable to be called OHt at any moment, and kept
out the home guard, including magistrates and
other exempts, are already in service? in a word,
the whole male population of the State from 17 to
60, with a small exception, is now under arms, or
soon to be under arms to meet the enemy. During
the last week or two not less than five hundred
mills have been closed not less than five hundred
tanneries have been left, the leather in many in
stances to be lost not less than five hundred work
shops abandoned not less than two thousand farms
given np, no crop gathered, and no crop to be put
in for next year. The members of the Legislature
will assemble deeply impressed with this condition
of things. If they shall sympatize, as they must
necessarily do with the people, and if they shall
have any reference whatever in their legislation to
the future of the Slate, they cannot, it seems to us,
consent that the last scanty remnant of our fighting
men shall be conscripted and taken from us, espe
cially when it is remembered that these men are
officers, a part of the State .governuKnt, and the
only reliance for enforcing the laws and maintaining
order in the various Counties.
Wo have not changed our mind in relation to the
proposition to conscript State officers. We were
the first in this State to second the action of Gov.
Brown, by which these officers were retained. It
may be answered that they are as much bound to
go as others, and that they have had a comparative
ly pleasant time at home, while others have been
required to endure the privations of the camp and
the dangers of battle. This is all true en ough. But
thees men, or a large proportion of them, happen
to be officers whose presence and services are need'
cd at home, this is their good luck ; and besides,
they are all now left to us, and many of them are
farmers, whose labors on their farms will be indis
pensable to save our population not merely from
suffering but from actnal starvation. Some of these
State officers, we admit, deserve to be sent to the
front and compelled to fight in a war which they
were instrumental in bringing on ; but the proper
and natural feeling which suggests this cannot be
gratified, and strict justice done, without sending
all and to send all, as we have shown, would be
injurious and dangerous to the last degree.
These are our opinions, and we are .glad to oh
serve that tho press of the State is coming over to
us on this subject, as it will be obliged to do, sooner
or later, on the subject of peace. We do not wait
or beat about to see what is popular, but our chief
inquiry in relation to a public question always is,
Is it right f We do not desire popularity based on
the advocacy of erroneous principles, or supported
by appeals to the prejudices of any portion of the
people. YY e would be gratified to nave at all times.
as a public man, the approval and the good wishes
of our fellow-citizens generally ; but, after all, we
would rather be right than to be popular without
regard to right principles.
The Washington Chronicle, tbe organ of Lincoln,
thus notices Mr. Davis' Macon speech. We pub
lish it to let our readers see in what light the speech
is regarded by the Lincolnites :
" Davis' passions are strong, and his temper ill
regulated, from which causes' be has often been
known to lose his self command, aud to rave like a
ruffian ; but never until now was he guilty of whin
ing. He is evidently in a state of despair, and he
lacks the true dignity which always inheres in a
great mind, though fallen. He blabs his misfor
tunes and his desperations to the world like the
garrulous old woman. He tells the public that two
thirds of his army are either prisoners of war or de
serters, whom he politely designates as "absentees."
lie affectionately appeals to them to comeback to their
posts, and assures them that with their aid the for
tunes of the Confederacy may be retrieved. He
unwisely insults Joe Johnston and his numerous
friends by an unnecessary and untimely justification
of himself in bis removal, after the successor Hood
had failed to do as well as Johnston. He flies
into a passion when referring to "the man" pro
bably Governor Brown who said he had abandoned
Georgia, and applies to him the epithet "scoun
drel. He admits that '.'you have not any men
between eighteen and forty-five left " and he calls
upon the men and boys to come to his aid. He
admits that to secure an exchange of prisoners he
is willing to recognize negro soldiers as prisoners
of war; and he denounces "Butler, the beast," as
coarsely as the vilest of his Richmond organs. He
apologises for not sending aid to Georgia by admit
ting that " in Virginia the disparity in numbers is
just as great as it is in Georgia."
With these fatal admissions, the affected confi
dence with which Davis promises to drive Sherman
out ef Georgia, and to overwhelm him with the
ruin which befell Napoleon's army in its retreat
from Moscow, will deceive no one. He can never
inspire new hope and courage in the heart of the
Southern people, after telling them that two-thirds
of his armies are either prisoners of war or deser
ters, that he is as weak in Virginia as in Georgia,
and that they have no more men between the ages
i of eighteen and forty-five to call into the field.
We predict that this speech will do Davis and
his cause more harm at home and abroad than the
loss of battle. It will dishearten the people of the
South, and destroy" the confidence of his sy in pat hi
j zers in Europe; and its republication in Europe will
cause the Confederate loan
to take a tumble from
which it can never recover.
Mass Meeting. One of the largest audiences
evar gathered in Columbia, met last night, in the
City Hall, and subsequently adjourned to the Court
House square, to consider the letter of Mr. Boyce.
Speeches were made by that gentleman, Messrs.
T - .. n n .V T t . - n . f TT
Trariewoll, rope, a. m. jonuBton, vapt. o. u.
Adams, Gen. Martin and Col. Cunningham, after
which resolutions condemnatory of tbe policy of
Mr. Boyce, and inviting bim to resign his seat 'n
Congress, were adopted. We shall publish a report
of the proceedings in another issue. Columbia
Carolinian.
We shall give a synopsis of the proceedings of
this meeting in our next issue.
The late Major-General John H. Morgan was an
Alabamian. He was born in Huntsville in 1825.
His parents moved to Kentucky when he was six
years old.
RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNES
WAR NEWS.
Froaa Richmond.
We condense from the late Richmond papers the
following items of news. - Gen. Grant has again
transferred to the Soutbside of the James a large
body of troops with ten pieces of artillery. This
looks as if it portends some new movement in that
quarter, but all else seems quiet, in fact, there is an
awful stillness pervading the whole operation of
the two armies in Virginia. The Yankees have
fully fortified Fort Harrison and thrown into it a
garrison of 800 men. They have mounted a num
ber of guns on the fort in embrasures bnt have
not yet opened on our lines; Every morning at
sunrise they discharge the guns and reload thorn to
keep them in perfect order for use. Our men are
distant in their trenches 500 yards. Butler's canal
is progressing slowly. Some of our deserters hav
ing made affidavit before him that 80 Yankee
prisoners and negroes had been pot to work by us
on the fortifications around Richmond, he has re
taliated by putting the same number of captured
Virginia reserves to work on his canal, and notified
Commissioner Ould of the fact
On Thursday last, the 12 th, the Yankees assaulted
our lines below Richmond, bat tbe Richmond papers
refer to the fact only casually.
All was quiet at Petersburg on the 17th. No news
from the Valley, and no news from Georgia,
Northern News.
The elections in Pennsylvania appear to be in
doubt The Democrats carried the State by a
majority on the' home vote, some say 5,000.
Whether the armj vote will alter the result is in
doubt The commissioners sent to take the soldier's
votes failed to reach Sheridan and Sherman's armies.
Afraid of raiding parties. Thus the Pennsylvania
troops in those armies did not vote. Tbe following
telegram is from Philadelphia to the N. Y. Eerald;
"Tbe following returns are official : First district
Randall's (Democrat) majority, 4,187. Second
district O'Neill's (Union) majority, 4,169. Third
district Myers's (Union) majority, 1,105. Fourth
district Eelley's (Union) majority, 8,279.
From information received here this morning it
is absolutely impossible to determine how the State
has gone until the reception of official returns.
Both parties claim small majorities ; but unexpect
ed results in heavy northern Union counties render
it scarcely possible to overcome the large Demo
cratic gains. In either case, it is admitted the
majority will be small, and can only be determined
by the official vote.
The recording of tbe soldiers' votes is necessarily
very slow, being distributed among various coun
ties ; and from the manner in which they appear on
the tally papers, it is impossible to make an aggre
gate until the record is more complete."
The returns from Ohio show Democratic gains
on Congressmen from the first returns. Ashley,
Republican, is defeated in the Tenth district ; also
Delano, in the Thirteenth district The Democrats
have also elected their Congressmen in the Fifth
and Twelfth districts.
The Northern papers contain accounts of Mos
by's late raid upon the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
in which he captured $200,000 in greenbacks. He
flung the train from tbe track in a level country.
without much damage and no loss of life, bagged
two quartermasters and the greenbacks, with other
valuables, burned the Lxpress car containing an
amount of money and papers, and left. . . Tbe Balti
more papers call for a brigade of cavalry to protect
this road, as they rely upon it for fuel, &c. Some
of Mosby s men have penetrated into Maryland,
and a part have also attacked the Manassas road,
' which the Yankees were rebuilding.
Gen. Price made a speech at Booncville, Missouri,
recently, in which he told the Missourians unless
tbey rallied to his standard, it was the last time he
would come into the State to relieve them. Price's
movements are probably meant to affect the United
States' Presidential contest, by keepipg the Federal
armies of the West so much engaged with himself,
that they can have no time to exert their influence
over tbe ballot-box.
The captured steamer, Advance, is being refitted
in New York as a Yankee cruiser. .
Ohio and Indiana gave very large Republican
majorities.
Maryland gives a majority of 8000 against the
new anti slavery constitution, with the army vote
to near Irom.
The Latest News.
Up to this morning, the 20th, there has been no
news received of very creat interest We mace
short summary of some unimportant movements in
the Valley, at Mobile and in Missouri
A telegram from the Valley dated the 18th, says
that in the affair at Fisher's Hill, fought Thursday
the 13th, we killed from 50 to 75 of the enemy and
captured as many prisoners, who reported the 6th
corps at Front Koyal. This affair was at first mag-
nitied, but turned out to be only a small engage
ment i ce enemy were near strasnurg Friday last,
and a small force of cavalry in the town. We are
just a wepk behind in news from the Valley.
. A despatch pi the lVthfroni Mobile says that on
the Tuesday preceeding, Captain Amos, command
ing a company in the lath Confederate cavalry, en
gaged near Helton, Fia nve hundred Federals. Af
ter a fight of four hours he drove tbein back. Fed
eral loss from thirty to forty. Confederate loss
three wounded.
The New Orleans Timet of the 11th has been re
ceived at Osyka, It claims a great success for Lea's
raid in Eastern Louisiana in the destruction of pro
perry and the capture of prisoners. . All accounts
agree nearly with our own previously forwarded.
It says additionally, that Lieut Arle, commanding
independent scouts, captured a Major en rout to
Richmond with fifteen battle flags taken in the Red
Kiver expedition, together with a large number of
important dispatches for the Confederate war office,
and several prisoners, including a Commissary with
me rang oi major.
Earle reports the capture of Woodville and
number of prisoners by a force from Dana's com
mind.
It is reported the rebels would not surrender' to
colored troops, which resulted in a large number
oeing killed.
lne northern news from Missouri' comes eta
Senatobia and Mobile and is to the 18th inst
Price has retired without attacking Jefferson city
and has gone westward to Booneville. Two thou
sand of his men had crossed the Missouri river to
operate on the Hannibal and St Joseph railroad.
Price was making a clean sweep of the Pacific
railroad. He burned the Splendid bridge over the
Lomoine ; also two bridges east of California. The
invasion is in formidable force estimated at from
15,000 to 25,000.- The condition of-affairs is con
siderably worse for the Federals than at any time
since tne beginning ot tbe war. some papers are
advising tbe abandonment of Arkansas to save Jf is-
souri.
Sandburry is skirmishing with Price's rear.
TbejCouleUerates are represented to be clad in new
cloibes. They are abandoning their worn out
horses for new ones. Tbe men and horses are load
ed with plunder
The Memphis Argut of the 16th has later dates.
which couarra the destruction of a gap of tne lias
conade and Oaire road and two more b rid ires.
Bill Anderson, Tbrallkill Perkins and Thornton
had all joined Price, who had 1,500 cavalry and 19
pieces of artillery.
Burbridge has arrived at Cincinatti. The Com
mercial ad tails that his expedition was unsuccesful.
Passenger trains oil the Kentucky Central Railroad
have been destroyed by guerillas.
Election returns from Ohio and Indiana indicate
the success of the Republican ticket Morton's
majority, probably 20,000.
DAY, OCT. 26, 1864.
Yellow Fever at Newkera.
We are indebted to an entMmed 6-iitnri (nr'th
following list of citizens of Newhern who hava rlid
with yellow fever, as far as can be ascertained, to
wooer luth, 1864. The friend who furnished the
Itstisiua position to know:
List of Citizen of Nevibern, North Carolina, who
nave Aiedwith Yellow Fever at far at can be as
certained, to October 10th, 1864.
Mrs B M Cherrv. Misa Prnrlv Rim
Mrs Sarah Quirk, Charles Hawkins, George Patrick,
W m B Cowerline. and child. Mrs Bradford ftatlin.
James Hutchins, Capt P Hall, Mrs J Hyson, Miss
nn Wallace, Mrs Wm Hutchins, Mrs Susan Willis,
Matthew Marshall. Rohert Hurvev .1 R fWlv Afrs
John Gaskill, Miss Aggie Hall, Stephen Sermond,
rvooerts, aaugnter, Jolin Koberts, Mrs John
Praigg, Miss Sallie Cary, Miss Elizabeth Dunn,
Edward Hurtt J Roberts, (sail maker,) Mrs E
Hurtt, Mrs N Hurtt, Mrs M E Wallace, Mrs Bryan
Williams, Henry Hooker, Becton Davis, Jesse
Cowling, Jsioes W Bryan, Mrs Jesse Cowling, Mrs
PHall, D Y Fisher, Mrs M Willis and daughter,
Susan, George Miller, Mrs Susan Friou, Mrs Martha
Freese, Miss Fannie Hurtt, John .F Jones, Mrs A
Farnbain, Miss Amelia Gary, Miss Ann Shipp, Miss
Styron, Miss J Roberts, Miss Polly Landy, John
Jones, Mrs GifFork. Mrs Morse. Mrs Allen, mother
of George Allen, John Cumraings, Wra Hutchings,
Mary Brmmey, Alonzo Ureen, Mrs George Smith,
Miss Jane Haines, Alex Meadows, Sr., Mrs James
Stanly, Miss M Stanly, daughter, Rebecca, Mrs B
Wood, Miss Hattie Perrat, Jane Lewis and child,
Mrs Mary Phillips, Mr Lawrence, Jenny Hunt Mrs
George Howard, Mr Heritage, Wm P Moore, Jr.,
Robert Dunn, Mr O Cole, Alford Bryddock, col'd,
Davis Kennedy, col'd.
The above list are all white persons except the
last two names. A good many others have died, but
we have not yet ascertained the names, date, &c.
State-Journal.
Are we to Appeal to onr Slaves to Fight oar
Battles?
Had any one have predicted in 1860 that the
war which was then being urged on by fanatics
both North and South would finally be fought out
by slaves, and that in less than four years we should
be appealing to our own slaves to light our battles
and offering them as an inducement their liberty,
he would have been set down as a madman. But
alas I all these things seem to promise an early
fulfillment The slaves of the South have no par
ticular interest in this war ; its whole tendency has
been to oppress and injure them, and had they not
been forced not a corporal's guard of them would
have taken up arms on either Side. Their condi
tion before the war, as slaves, was infinitely better
thau it will ever be again, and the fanatics and
demagogues who brought on and have continued
the war will be held responsible to the civilized
world for all the sufferings tbey have endured or
may endure in its progress. The North has dis
graced itself by arming our slaves and forcing them
to the forefront of the conflict, and any attempt on
our part to use them will only bring us down to
their level ; and besides, we should find the slaves,
with muskets in their hands, an element of weak
ness instead of strength, for their timidity and
cowardice will induce them to seek protection from
tbe strongest side, and hence they would not only
not be reliable in battle, but they would go over to
the enemy, by regiments and brigades whenever
they fonnd an opportunity.
A year or more ago when this thing was first spo
ken of we thought nothing of iff 'because we did not
suppose that any considerable portion of our people
would ever become so thoroughly demented as to
propose seriously, fb fight our battles, and win our
independence with slaves ; but now that leading pa
pers are discussing the propriety of the step and tbe
government is being urged to its adoption, it oeeomcs
a matter for serious consideration, and we do not
hesitate, in the outset, to enter our solemn protest
against it In the commencement we proclaimed
to tbe world that we were fighting for the right to
manage our own domestic attairs in our own way,
which included the right to own and hold slaves ;
but now. if the advice of those who want to raise an
army of negroes be followed, we are to do ourselves
what we went to war to keep the North frew doing
free our slaves and organize them to fiht lor our
independence I Was ever suca a monstrous, such
a degrading proposition heard of before ! Progress.
"Honor thy Father and thy Mother."
Were this divine injunction heeded as it should
be, many a pang might be prevented which other
wise will be keenly felt 1 o those berelt of their
parents, who were guilty of unkrqdness or disobe-
. diencc to them, when they might have contributed
to their happiness, tbe recollection ot their ingrati
tude is a constant source of sorrow and regret
Few among us can look upon the graves of our
fathers and mothers without sad remembrances.
We think of our coldness and neglect, and of the
love that never failed us so unrequited. Gladly
would we offer any sacrifice, could we possibly do
so, to make reparation, and to recall every word
that gave the slightest pain to the hearts so fondly
devoted to us that throb no longer.
One of our most distinguished citizens wanderer,
when a boy, from the home f his widowed mother
regardless of her prayers and entreaties. After a
absence of years he returned to the place of bit
birth, hoping to comfort, during her reclining days,
the mother that had long prayed for, and had lon
yearned to see, her wayward child. He had suffer
ed much and encountered many difficulties in a
foreign land; but his efforts were successful, and he
had accumulated much of tbe riches of this world.
His mother, who had been awaiting his promised
return, died before his arrival He stood by bcr
grave and wept bitterly. Willingly would be have
given all he possessed for one word of kindness or
one approving smile from her who had passed away.
"My father, says Dr. Johnson, "had been in
the habit of attending Ultoxeter market and of
opening a stall there for the sale of bis books.
Confined by indisposition, he desired me oae day to
supply his place. My pride prevented we, and I
gave him a refusal" The wearied old man, whom
this denial must have sorely grieved, and who had
long bravely and patiently struggled to supply the
wants of his family, soon after died. Amid his
conflicts, his labours, bis achievements, his hon
ours, that refusal was remembered by Johnson with
the deepest anguish. Fifty yean alter that act of
disobedience, when the illustrious doctor himself
was aged and weary, he revisited the scene of his
early life. " I went," he tells us, " into the market
at the time of business, uncovered my head and
stood for an hour with it bare upou the spot where
my father's stall used to stand," " The picture,"
remarks Carlyle, "of Dr. Johnson siauding bare
headed in the market is one. of the saddest and
grandest wc can paint! Repentance 1 repentance I
he proclaims with passionate boos,: but only to
tbe ear of Heaven, if Heaven will give him audi
ence: the earthly ear and heart thai should have
heard it are now closed, unresponsive forever."
A request was made by a sick and dying mother
to the writer, but it was not heeded. He was but
a child, and knew not that she was dying, for death
had not yet entered the household, -and he wits ut
terly ignorant of the tokens of its approach. Never
has he forgotten, and never can he forget, his moth
er's look of tender repmvaU When, the day after
ward, he fondly pressed her colJ hands, aud kissed
her lifeless Hps with unutterable sadness be 1 egretted
his unkindncss. Years, many yeara hae since de
. parted, but his disobedience to his mother is still
regarded with humiliation and sorrow.
A correspondent of the Charleston Courier writes,
"I have lately had occasion to give dogwood a full
'trial on chills, and confidently commend it A
strong decoction of the bark and berries is made,
one third the quantity of spirits is added. Dose,
wine glass full three "times daily.
Wholji Number 1536.
From WiurrKoTOK. From arentkman inst from
Wilmington we learn that the blockade of that port
is as effective as Yankee ingeauity and an unlimited
force of gunboats can make it They have now es
tablished two lines of picket boats in the effing to
give the alarm of the attempted egress of blockade
runners, and as soon as tbe litter make their ap
pearance, the boats throw up rockets and burn blue
uguia. ine iank.ee arraneementit Tar hlnnlrmdinir
the port are rood, and Will bold to nerhana a month
longer, when they will all be swept away by the
rude blasts of winter. This North Carolina coast is.
in winter, the most deneerona in th -Mtto- nA
when Winter sets in tbe blockadei-irtand off
to sea, or they win inevitably be blowa ashore and
wrecaeo. jtteunond JJispatch.
Thb Press. We see it staled that Hot. Allen, nf
Aiouisiana, recognizing the powerful and beneficial
iuuikuw ui iue presa, nag imported paper enoogn
to keep them all going a year, and exempted all
uo pnmcre rr am otaw Bervice. l'ttert. japrem.
The French have occupied Matamoras. Thev
have also defeated the Mexicans near Durango, cap
turing or aestoying ail tneir artillery, and killing,
wounding or capturing six hundred and thirty men.
xne rrencn toss was very slight.
Justices Exempt. In the circuit court of Alba.
male county on a writ of habeas torpvt in the case
oi several justices or tbePeaee where the Governor
bad refused to certify in favor of the parties who
were under 46 years of age, Judge Field discharged
the petitioners from the custody of the military.
He remarked that a Justice was a State officer and
a part of the State that the Confederate govern
ment was merely the agent of the States, and could
not assail tbe State organization. That the act of
tbe State Legislature in the premises was not neces
sary to bring to his judgment in the case ; that inde
pendent oi it, ne wouia nave declared in the same
way. Petersburg Express.
A correspondent of the Mobile Tribune, under the
signature of " Chatham," addresses a letter to Hon.
John T. Monroe, in which the writer endorses the
position taken sometime ago, by that gentleman, in
a letter favoring the arming of negroes as soldiers.
Tas Vots in Grant's Akmt. Deserters, Ac, who
come irom urants army ail testify that it has voted
the Lincoln ticket The work was done thus :
The officers circulated among the men the promise
that all who voted the right ticket should have thirty
days furlough as soon as winter set in. Examiner.
Which trickery is precisely the same as that used
in .the North Carolina election last Summer, by tbe
friends of the "loyal" candidate, only that soldiers
were toid mat it they voted for Holden they should
never have any furlough at all. No sensible man
will expect any election to go against the bayonets.
in either section, hereafter, and men who cheated
our own soldiers, detailed men and even citizens out
of their votes in August, should not complain that
toe tyrant luncoln plays the same game in Novem-
oer. Progress.
Military Chance. General Braxton Bragg, hith
erto commanding general, with his headquarters at
Richmond, has been relieved, and coes at once to
take command ofan important military post in one
ot the -more southern States.
WHralngto Market, October ikl 1804.
Beep Cattle. remarket is very scantily sup.
plied with beef cattle. Price on tbe hoof, as to
quality, ranee from 12 to $2 60. net
Bacon. Scarcely any has come in for several
days. The prices from wagen range from $5 50 to
$6 per lb. as to quality.
Beeswax. None of consequence arriving. Quo
tations nominal from 14 to zS per lb.
Butter. MarKet bare. ' Selling from first hands
at S3 to f4l, and retails at 12 to 15 per lb.
Cotton. Sales have been very small and quota
tions nominal at $1 50 for uncompressed and $1 75
per lb. for compressed.
Corn. Supply very smalL Quotations nominal
at $20.
Corn Meal. $20 to $25 per bushel and scarce.
Coftsbas. $4 to $4 00 at retail. --
Eggs $5 to $5 50 from carts.
Floub $270 to $300 per barrel, as in quality.
Fokaoe Fodder, $18 to $20; Shucks, $8 to $10;
Hay, $18 per 100 lbs.
Hides No change. Green $2, dry $4 to $4 60
per pound.
Le ATnER Sole $23 : Upper $28 per lb.
Lard Scarce. Quotations $5 to $6 per lb. by
the barrel.
Nails $2 95 to $3 per lb.
Psas Cow, $20 per bushel
Potatoes Irish, $30 to $85; Sweet, $12 to $15
per bushel.
Poultry Chickens $5 to $7. Grown fowls $3
to $9 each.
Rice 65 to 75 cents per lb,, scare.
Salt Sound made $271 to $30 in bbls. Sacks
$30 to $35 per bushel, as to quality or dryness.
Sugar Brown $7 to $8; white crushed $10 to
$12, as in quality.
Sratrp Sorghum, but little doing, and sales are
dull at 115 to S16 per gallon, by tbe bbi.
Sheeting Fayetteville $3 25 to $8 60 per yard
by the bale.
Spirits Turpentine $5 to $6 per gallon.
Tallow $4 to $4 50 per lb.
Yahh 135 ner bunch by the bale.
Wood Is remarkably scarce, and what little
comes in is readilv taken at enormous prices. Sales
have been made during the week as high as $80
per cord for black jack ; ash $50 to $55, and pine
$40 to $ou per cord.
MONET MARKET.
Them has been considerable business doing in
Confederate Stocks since our last week's report, and
quotations are somewhat higher. The buying rates
by the brokers are as follows:
Four per cent Certificates, $60.
7 30 Notes t65.
Gold $24; Silver $23; Sterling bills $22 to $23
fnr nneL
Bank Notes North Carolina $3 to $4,60; Geor
gia $2,50 to $3 ; South Carolina and Virginia $2,00
to t2.75 for one.
The sellinir rates bv tbe brokers are as follows :
Confederate Bonds $10 to $125, according to
dates.
1 20 Notes 170.
Gold $26; Silier $24; Sterling bilk $25; Bank
bills North Carolina $3,50 ; South Carolina $3 ;
Georgia 3 Id $4 for one. -
OB1TUAUY JTOTIC8.
Died, at the residence of his boa. Dr. W. C. Le-
Mav. in the town of Monticcllo, f&is., the Rev. John
Peacb LeMat, aged seventy-ute years, five months
an ten days.
The deceased wasawtive, of Granville County.
in the State of Nor tb Carolina, where he lived up
to the year 1842, when he emigrated to Marshall
County. Mws. He in. early life embraced religion
and attached hims if to tbe Chcfs'ian Church, and
after becoming an Elder in that Church, exercised
for many yenrF the functions of said omce at a
Church known, hj the name of Ppe' Chapel. He
died as he had lived, in tho full faith of th doc
trines taught in bis Church, and has 'gone to reap
the reward of the faithful He was Eenerally' be-
loved oy all who knew bim and has passed away,
ripe in years and in the hope of a future that shall
know no grief. C
Died, in Fayetteville, on Saturday the 15th inst
in tne (utn year or his Gordon Demiso, J&o,,
formerly. for many vetn Chairman of the County
Court, and Chairman, of the Committee. o.f Finance,
oi iuai uouBty.
OBITUARY.
Deceased, at her residence, in the city of Raleigh,
Mrs. Mart Sbipab, on the 12th, of October, 1804,
widow of the late William Shepard, in the ninety
third (98rd) year of her age.
- Mrs. Shepard was the daughter of Frederick ,
Blount of Eastern Carolina, and was born on the
13th of June, 1772, at "Elmwood" or "The Elm,"
in Pasquotank county, Stat of North-Carolina, on
her ancestral property.
The home of her youth was peculiarly adapted
to develop and mature a life full of natural grace
and beauty. Her mother, whoso maiden name was
Mary Williams, and whose marriage with Frederick
Blount was celebrated on the.5th of April, 17(50,
bad the mien and carriage of a hi eh hmrt lado .n,i
iiiudigca in ids most lavisn nospitaiity, entertaining
(as the author ef these lines was informed by the
late Gov. Iredell), perhaps more than any one lady
in Carolina anterior to the American Revolution,
and possessing manners that would adorn a cottage
or a palace. Her father, Frederick
uiouet, was a lawyer, a plantar and a gentleman a
most finished and polished gentleman of the old
Carolina school, distinguished for bis virtues and
cultivation, an intimate friend of the English Colonial
Governor Tryon, and when on a visit to England
had the distinguished honor of receiving from a
uiucn nigner personage, nis Sovereign, ttcorge tbe
Third, a present, now in the possession of his
grandson, tbe author of these lines; who also has '
an unique piece of furniture brought over bv the
f. V. . u m i i i . J
"a rreuenca, wnen returning from a
visit to the mother country. This Frederick sus
tained tne constituted government of his country
in principle and action, was of a daring and dashing
courage, and witbal of a bold courage too, (of which
tradition gives us an anecdote), and of an unim
peachable integrity, but died before the revolotioa
actually broke out By marriage, his fortune was
such as to enable him to exhibit a most generous
hospitality. His house was the centre of the
highest culture and intelligence of the time. In
tnis atmospnere was the young life of the present
deceased moulded. There being only two children,
and her sister, Sarah Blount, dying at a very early
period, she became an heiress, whose fortune was
afterward much increased by the death of a rela
tive a nepnew ot tne bait blood, whose name was
Samuel, (who was also the nephew of tho present
James Johnston, of Chowan, one of the wealthiest
inuiviauais in Uarelina,) the son of John Swan and
Penelope Johnston, who intermarried on the 4th of
January, 1790. . Samuel was born on the 30th of
November, 1791, and dying on the 11th of February.
1 1 u, u a mrge estate to tne present deceased ;
who nearly two years previous on the 12th of May.
1 1 vt, uaiug just arrivea at the fullness of beauty
and the loveliness of womanhood, became united in
marriage to William tsbepard, a federalist in opin
ion, and by profession a planter and merchant of
iSewbern, where they resided afler their marriage
at " Elmwood." William Shepard was possessed
of uncommon financial ability, and but for an im
pediment in speech would have entered nublic life.
to which he was much solicited u tt.
uncle of the Biddies of Pennsylvania Nicholas,
Richard, William and other, and ol Janus Riddle
all of whom were very eminent and of ih ii
James Biddle, the celebrated McDuffie, of South
Carolina, in bis life of the same, remarked " be is
an honor to his country and has immortalized his
name"
Indeed, the character of Mrs. Shpniird miter .ta
been very decided, for it is said that she could
influence her husband to a great degree, who was
himself a man of singular powers of mind and
research. Nor was it in the things of this world
only that her rare endowments and her intuition in
detecting character enabled her to become the '
adviser of her husband, but in that higher pphere
too where God only can be tbe infallible teacher.
she became tbe gentle and loving guide of her bus
band. True and faithful she was in all the varied
and responsible relations of life as well as in its
most minute concerns. In the dispensations of her
charity her left band knew not what her right hand
r j a -r .
penormeo. jus wiie, aaugnter, mother, Bister,
friend, she was an example for imitation,- and to
wards strangers always affable : her native dignity
of character repressing without an effort any un
meaning puerility. For a long period she had been
a member of the bpiscopal church, adorninir ih
doctrine of God, bcr Saviour, in all things. The
wicked she thought much about and was anxioun
for, while she was accustomed to say that a mean
spirit allied with malice was rarely if ever reclaim-'
able. Her charity, however, was so boundless that
she treated (as indeed the gentleness of her sex
demanded), with forbearance, not only those whose
principles, she could not approve, but also those
whose principles were calculated to excite contemnt
as well as abhorrence. Now residing in Newbern.
where such men as Gaston, Spaight, Donnell,
Graham and Stanly and others were magnets of
social attraction, she became popular by her refine
ment and courtesies, and occupied a distinguished
position.
uut 1st us withdraw our eyes from the outer
world and fix them on that inner circle of home
duties and graces, and tho household of which Mrs.
Shepard was the centre will present a scene of
onmingled interest and loveliness. We find the
unusual spectacle of eight or ten children arrived at
fulness of years forming this family circle. It was
here especially that tbe geniality, the overflowing
giausomeness anu tne chastened cueerfulness of tbe
mother found their most congenial home. But
there are no Edens into which care does not enter,
no charmed circle which sorrow does not invade.
Early marriages first producing separations, death
afterward with no sparing hand invaded this nappy
noma, ami more severe dispensations await d tier
patience and temper. Not one death only but
many occurred in quick succession, and, nature's
order reversed, Mrs. Shepard, at her death, was
surrounded by but few of ber immediate descen
dants. Imperfect as any sketch of the life of such
a woman must of necessity be, it would appear.
unnecessarily so, without at least a glimpse of that
more domestic life which ia none the less beautiful
for being quiet and unobtrusive. Her griefs, various
and multiplied as tbey were, never unfitted her for
the duties of life, lliey chastened ber life without
destroying it Every period of her history was
characterized by the most careful and systematic
attention to the various duties of her station. Her
life affords a most remarkable illustration of bow
such msy be accomplished by system and punc
tuality. But what is mainly remarkable is that
during this same life of domestic care, and grief,
and trouble, and social courtesies, she found time
also to communicate a portion of her Heavenly
thoughts to paper hi the form of prayers, or rather.
I may say, as indicts to prayer.
For several years previous to 1818, tbe date of
tbe removal of Mrs. Shepard from Newbern to tbe
eity of Raleigh, she had ceased to entertain much,
and never entertained afterward to the extent of
former days. Her mind was strong and powerful
as ever, but her physical frame for the last two
years, before death, gradually underwent a change.
Her health bad been feeble for several months pre-
vio8 to her decease. - Her mind, originally strong
and powerful, was retained to tbe last, unimpaired
except so far as sickness necessarily operates on all
alike ; her faculties indeed were remarkable for one
of her age. She bore meekly ber sickness, soothed -
by all tbe attentions that tne tenderest numan
love of dutiful and affectionate relatives could
bestow. After having been for nearly half a century
a member of the Episcopal church, on the 12ih of
the month of October, 1864, her spirit was borne
by the angels to the paradise of God, and on thu
18th of October all that was merely mortal of ber
nature was placed beside the remains of one to
whom she was attached in life by the stYMgesi
ties of afiection oae, who proved herself a daughter
in deed and in truth one, whoso spirit preceded;
her's to the realms of light and glory, while the
bodies of both side by side rest togttfaer in the
joyful hope of a blessed resuMsctioa. - And when
the trump of tbe Archangel shall sound at the last
great day, and the world of good and bad 9haH stand
at the bar of Uod, and before the judgment seat of
Christ to await its final Sentence,; my belief and
trust are that their piety and practice of duty,
under! circumalances, and total relianee for saK
vation on the Messiah, will secure theman entrance
to the regions of aternalay. " ;
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to soioide ;
anguish of body none. This proves, that the hciith
of the mind ia of far greater consequence than the
' heellb of the body, although both are deserving of
much more attention than either of them receive.