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For the Western Democrat. WILL THEY PERSIST IN THIS WAR ? PUBLIC MEETING AT SUGAR CREEK. From the Richmond Dispatch. At a meeting of the citizens of several School The Abolitionists proper are the ruling spirits of Districts, held at Sugar Creek Church, on Ihurs- the North. Sooner or later, they always carry day, the 25th of April, Ira Park was called to the their point. chair and Z. L. Morri requested to act as Sec'y. 'J he real purposes and policy of the North are to Dr J. H. Gibbon introduced a proposition for le learned from the few leading Abolitionists, and the formation of committee-men in each neigb- not from the larj:e, loose, masses of population, borhcod for its better protection and safety; and 1 hey cannot be learned from the ephemeral de after gome discussion it was determined to fix the tiioiit-trutiou of popular teuier. aiuiouuctd to us School Districts sis boundaries, and the following trom day to d;.y hv the telegraph. 1 hat unfurl un persons were apioiiited Captains in their several ate people are wonderfully liable to epidemic feel districts, with power to call the citizens together ing. which precipitate them into great and droll at such times and places as they may direct : ! extravagances ot conduct. They are so constitute Distriet number U3, W C. Hodge; HI, J A Can- 'at it u a phv.i logical necessity for them to non ; 3G. Kdwiu Alexander : i7, It A McNeil v; U' -rii-d away periodically by some rage or otli- 61, E C Wallis j On motion, it was resolved to meet again on j Saturday, the 4th day of May, for consultation. It was determined to form u olunteer Infantry Company for organization and drill to parade in the old field uear the church. 11! A PARKS, Ch'u. Z. L Morris, Sre'y. For the Western Democrat. PUBLIC MEETING IN CHARLOTTE. An adjourned meeting of the citizens of Meck lenburg county was held in the Court House in Charlotte on April the ud, 1801, W 1! Myers, lq, in the Chair, and J no E iiiowu Secretary. "1 he object of the meeting was explained by the Chair, in a patriotic t-r-ecch, to he, to recommend to the Justices of this county to tuakeuu aprpii ation of such amount as fcliail be necessary to &up port the volunteers of this county, who h.ive been, or itay be Called into the service of the State. 1 he following rci-olutions were offered by W Joh nston, and, after spei chca from J 11 i sou. A in Johnston, (ajt John Walker, John A Vounu and others, they wcie unanimously adopte.i: Renolved, That the war, whith Abiuh-m Lincoln, claiming to be J'leiideat of the United rfiairs, has de clared again) uur country, in violation of the express provisions of the Coii.-tilution vesting the war making power exilushely in Congress, is a base act of tyranny and Usurpation, and nil! be re.-is led to tut- last extre mity by the freem n of Mecklenburg. Reeolved, That we fully eio'.orM- th-. firra and inde pendent positions taken by the Coves nor ot our State, in his reply to the requisition of Milium I'anieion Secre tary of War, and in Ins Proclamation to the people ol this State, and in lit order-" to the cimeu soldiery, '-to Occupy, 0-5et8 nrid hold' the Forts and AeuaK wilhin the limit;' of North Carolina. Rtsolved, That the Magistrates of ihis ecttnty Lc re quested and hereby authorized to provide all tucesMuy funds to defray the expenses of all the vohinteets from this county, mustered into the set vke of the JState, uu uutil the Lepislature may proiiue for the same. Resolved, Thut the Li-gi.-Iai in e when iijji tnblcd, be respectfully urged t adopt piomptiy that course which will spei dily sever the cotii.t-t-tiou of North t'ar olina from the Federal 1'iuou. nt;d n i : i r- I t r dt.-:in where interest, duty tnd houor lead, w.th the Confed erate States. Resolced. That we deprecate any ilea of a Cent ml Confederacy, and, in case all efforts by an organic act of the State fil to place North Cailiu:i without the pale of Lincoln's authority, we. the people of Mci klcn burg county, will iu.-t-n the inalit m.ble right of -.i-lt-defenou and independents; to the maiutaie.ance ot which, "we hereby pledge our livis, our lotitnes and our sacred honors." The following res lut ions were offered by Gen John A Young. jumI. after speeches from Major I II Hill, Jolm Y JJiyce and other, they wciv Unanimously udopti 1: Rftnlved. That the memory of the patriotism of nnr lathers, and the present call of our coutim for .lie set -vi.es of her cilit n coidicrs in the iii-I't, dcui:iin:s tli.it Mecklenburg and the ijoininpr . osniues, ;it once o-gaii-ize a Jleifimeut of Soldiers ami pliue them at the com mand oi" thv Governor of the State of North Caioiina for such service as the d-.-fe.ice oi" luo State m sy re quire. Revdred. That we iccommrnd to the Stockholders and aitthiritics of the No th Carolina Militny Itistirtite at Charlotte, that they ofkr the same to the Slate as :i point of drill for soldi', is who may be thus ulite!, nd that in order to render it at once ttlicieut for thi purpose the necessaiy e.pct!fe shall le borne out oi the npprnpiiatioiK to be imole by the County Court. Resolved, That the Court is hereby tcouestrd to ap point a military board, to consist of five no mlrs. uli'i 6hall determine the propriety of procurin g arti'iUry ioi the use of the Milit iry Instinite, and f r the deft-nee of the County ami State, and that said military b-ard be authorizrd to procure such atti'l.-ry as in tin :r juog nient may be necessary, out of the aj nropriatiou "made for military defence by the Court. On motion the uieetinr adjourned. W. It. .MVKi;?, Ch'u. J. E. lROVX, c'rt 'y. Orders from nit Macistratfs. It is order ed by the .Magistrates of Mecklenburg county, a majority beiuj: present, that a loan be ith ete! IVom the l'anks in the town ot Chariot .c. nut ext-n ilin fifty thousand dollars, for the purpose of raisin funds to tit fray the expiiises of YoIunJetrs in this county, called out and tohccalltd out it: behalf oi the tate. until they e.-.n be .supplied at the ex pense of the Srate. It isfurtherordercd that I! L beArniond, William Maxwell. John P Koss, naries wverinan ana i ims. I I'ricrt, be appoitit- oi a iointiiiiice to carry into etieet the fotcj:oiiiir Ucptilulions. and th;y are hereby instructed to borrow on the faith of the county from time to time, such atnout t ol'tl:e forep in-j sum as the de mand and necci-itifs of our Volunteer force may require, and they are invested with all inee.srv p.wers in carrin- out the object of the foie-uin llcsolutious. LINCOLN CO. SOUTHERN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION. According to previous aj pointiiu nt a lanre num ber of the citizens of Line hi usst u-Med in the court-house, on the 18th Aj-iil. to rrau:ze the "Lincoln County Southern l!i:hts Association." The meeting was organized by failing i)r M L Brown to the chair. A Committee, eotislstins: of Messrs W J Hoke S P Sherrill and J Uudisill. an pointed to report permanent officers tor the Association, announced the following : , Clark. Win Kamsour, W M Reinh'ardt, li II Su ner, ana li Kd wards. The appointments i f the Committee were con- j curred in, and the officers who wire present cu-; tered upon the discharge of their duties. j On motion, .Messrs L K '1 hompson, W'm Lander, V A .McBee, D Schcnck and W li Michal were appointed a committee to draw up a con-ntutioti and by-laws for the regulation of this Association, On motion of Gen W J lloke, it was made the JJ....:.?..l t O T T r . Tv I ,cor, o ummso-i ; 1 o r , si.t, :s 1, j !t ,his rosiaioll. 'J ie adtnini.tration at Washing- cumcrowr II Ijit.s er. O t I It noeison; frctartr, ! ,u;, .Joes not know its time. Here are a series of' Au. liddy. jr. Lou, J Ib-yle; Tre,.t-rr A S : v!tattv .Mhl ,K. x,!(, tliuk ha, Uu.;r llayei ;(",.,, ..j O.rryrncrJcr ; cuiiar institutions retjuiie that they should have a ' fctowe ,u Lander. I Jhenck, A MeBee. and j tepaIJe Government '1 h. y have a light .0 de- I duty ot the treasurer to prepare a preaiu'oh-, to be Su.iiter. signed by those who wish to become iiirmWrs ; -Hut the question come secondly. 'Suppose we and to receive such sums as they are willing to had a right to interfere, what is the good of it ?' contribute to defray the expenses and aid iu You may puni-h South Carolina for goi.r ,ut of furthering the objects of the Association the I n'iou. Th .t does not bring her u. You 31 r Lander moved that the Lincoln Hrass Land may subdue her by hundreds of thousands of ar be invited to attend and enliven our next meeting mies, but that does not make her a State. There with some of their soul-stirring muic. Adopted, is no longer a Union. It is nothing , but b.-ys Maj J A Caldwell being called upon, reupouded play. .Mr Jefferson Davis is angry and .Mr Abra- in a few patriotic and appropriate remarks. , hm Lincoln is mad, and they agree to 6ght. C. 0. IlKNDKlteON, Prcs!. j One, two, or three years hence, ifthe news 1f the W.M. TlDDT, Jr., 1 geca afternoon is correct, we ehull have gone through a LfM. J. HoYXE, ) ' I war, spent millions, required the death of a hun- cr, to burn at intervals with a consuming fever of home sort whether it be over Kossuth and Hun gary, the Jaj aneese. the Prince of Wales and his suite, or John C. llcenan, or Lincoln and his Uob V Lincoln of a son Their present raije is over the Union and Yaiikie Doodle, and takes a milita ry turn 'I hey are going to overdo the business of soldiering as shockingly as they overdo every thing else they take up with a furore; and the dose of t -uiiooK-ry they are about to inflict ujmh the world will be the most disgusting the world has yet had to bolt at their hands with a wry face The iour is tempting for "the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot" to exhibit his plumes and his enthusiasm, and we shall havu such a matching of troopa, and such a flourishing of trumpets lor a few days or weeks, as would strike terror to the doomed adversary, if that adversary had not learned perfectly well the real nature and siguitieauce of these spasmodic demonstrations. The Yankee people have lost their Yankee na tures, if they in fact have any stomachs for the war they have now inaugurated. They are the lust people in the world to persist in a course of conduct that "won't pay." Of all people in the world they are the ones least addicted to the foliyot quarreling with their bread and butter. This war not only won't pay as a policy, but exposes them to the most stupendous losses What people in I he world have nmre property or larger interests afloat upon the ocean than they? And President Davis has hit them between wind and water with his prompt and pertinent proclamation call ing for piivatters. That proclamation speaks to people ol all nations and tongues, and invites the daring nierprisiug from every quarter of the Com pass. 'I he richest prize ever offered to a belliger ent t-ow r is offered to the South by the floating commerce of the Yankees. The Jairest opportuni ty ever olleied a fleet less nation for improvising a complete navy is now offered the South by the floating plunder of Yankees. A privateer ship is in naval, what a olunteer regiment is in military organization, but it is much more promptly impro vised. In in the fuct that its crew and officers have the incentive of booty to lure them into service; while the volunteer soldier has only the boon of a cause he loves to urge hi in into enl stiuent. Tiie w a th of tho N r.h is in U seaboard cities an I i; ships; th.it of the South in the interior country on their plantations. 'I he Yankee's property, that which he holds dearer than ail things else, is in exjosed situations, where it is liable at every mo lt ent to be pounced upon by Southern privateers. Soiithtrn navies, or Southern armies, whereas, it will cost him more than it is worth to reach the best values of the South. His enthusiastic de monstrations, which we are witnessing tit present, in .New Yotk and elsewhere, and his profuse and magnifier ut profers id men and money to Line-do for aggressive war upon the South, are from ibe fiir inipuhe ofpas-sion. mid are not the dictates of that sober, stcotid thought which rules him in his cooler moments, and inclines him always to oeeide for the profitable side of a measure To watch his various phases of conduct while passing 1 1 ci in his present law head and bloody bones dispo sition towards the South, to those profitable and amicable conclusions at which he will arrive in a few days or weeks hence, will be as entertaining as instructive lo t lie political entomologist. It is not, we reptvit, from the spasmodic demon strut ions of the Northern populace that we are to learn I he policy w hich that section intends to pur sue in the new relations that have arisen between the North and the South. It is rather from the abolitionists proper, who have purpose, will and peisistcncy, that we are to derive this important information. Audit must be recollected that this class of N orthern politicians are humanitarians and peace men. 'll.e most conspicuous exemplification of their eoiisister.v-y as advocates of peace was the conduct of Sumner, who-e bloody shirt and crack ed skull were carried over the ocean for public ex hibition at Exeter Hall, as mute but eloquent witnesses of liis non coinbataticy. 'lhc abolition party proper have never advocated a sectional war upon ihe South. They have de nounced the I nioti and repudiated the Constitu tion ; l hey have cried aloud for dissolution; but they have never advocated a war of conquest and subjugation against ihe Souih. Aecoidingly we find Wendell 1'hillips, the Moses of the abolition movement, the wiiier of the book of Genesis in abolition literature, setting his face against war. In a recent speech at Boston, he is reported as de livering himself of fhe following sentiments dt -cidedly the most catholic and judicious we have ever known him to utter : "To-morrow's breeze, when it sweeps from the N'oith, will bring to us the echo of the fitst Lex ington battle of ihe new revolution. Weil, what shall we say of such an hour ? My own feeling is a double one. It is like the triumph of sadness r joicittg and soi row. I cannot indeed congratu late you enough on the sublime spectacle of twenty in.ll ous ol peoj l. e l uc: ted in a twelvemonth up to being willing that their idolized Union should ri.sk a battle, should risk dissolution, in order at any risk to put down this rebellion of slave States 'liut I am Mrry that a gun should b fireu at ioit J"un,icr, el t! at a uin sin uld be fi.ed from j question wiinoui -.ippc ; A l;iru body of people tudicicut r-i make a nation, I have come to the concluMou that ilu-v will h.-ivn .- ! Government of a certain form. Who denies them the right? Standing with the principles of '7G I t-hind us. who can utuy them the ri-lit '! hat ! is a matter of a few millions of dollars or a few ' forts i It is a mere drop in the bucket of the gn at National question. It is theirs just as much as ours. I maintain, on the principles of 70. that Ahraham Lincoln has no ri-ht to a tidier in Fort I ail ng to vim or me. ! i 1 WESTERN DEMOCEAT, OHABLOTTE, j 1 .u 1 A l. ..tl.. lln bUhsk area tuousaou iiieu, aiiu uc t r.t. ,j ...v. - . -,nen are now two nations ; a little more angry, a little Washington, April 23 About 1200 men, in poorer, and a great deal wiser ; and that will be eluding ihe Massachusetts Rruiment, are quartered the only difference. We may just as well settle it at the Capitol. AH the army and navy officers now as then. from Virginia have already resipied. or will very You cannot go through Massachusetts and re- ghonly. Martial law, it is said authoritatively, emit men to lx mbard Charleston or New Or- wjU not be declared until there is evidence of ap leans. Hie Northern mind will not bear it. You proaching danger. It is estimated that fourteen never can make such a war popular. The first on- or twenty thousand barrels of flour were taken in set ma be borne. The telegraph may bring us (jeorgetowu by t he Government, to-day, and stored news that Anderson has bombarded Charleston, in public buildings. and you may rejoice. Hut the sober second jfEW yOKK. April 23. About one thousand thou-ht of Massachusetts will be, - asteful un- bounJ for Njew 0,-Jeans, was seized christian, guilty !' Ihe North never will endorse , .. , 0f blank registrations, on n such a War. REACTION IMPENDING. The Providence (Rhode Island) Post contains the following striking sentencts: "A war based upon a spirit of revenge, or a ' disposition to subjugate the States now assuming an attitude of rebellion, will not long be tolerated by the people. If we have mi nobler purposes than to gratify our passions, we shall soon witness a sudden and overwhelming -reaction all over the North, and the Governments of Kurope will inter- fere to bring our quarrel to a close. " We mut not long embarrass the commerce of the country. Kugland looks to the South fjr cot- ton, and will not, lor any length ot time, permit the blockading of Southern porta, ' We say, let Congress, 011 the first day of the session, put. the Government right, and put the North right on the questions which have led to this quarrel. Deny it who may, we began this controversy. We began this interference with Slate rights. We hav been for thirty years the aggressors. We have produced, by our own wil 1. we nave produced, ny our own wu- fulness and bigotry; hv our exhibitions of hatred and affected super.or.ty; the very state of things )vC bolin,j fi,r New Orleans, with ion. which the country is now suffering. Le baC)) ,arJ beef nd uther proui1ce. ( ongress turn the tide which is now setting against us in the minds of thinking men. Let a fair, Van Buren, Ark , April 23 An immense reasonable, liberal, honorable compromise be meeting was held here 011 Saturday last, and the offered at once, and let the offer be kept before the Confederate flag was raised. Arkansas is a unit . ' - ' ..... . ' n't i-f ; . South until the controversy is brought to an end The Utica (New York) Observer says: j Of all the wars which have disgraced the ! human race, if has been reserved for our own en- i lightened nation to be involved in the most useless and foolish one. What advantage can possibly accrue to any one trom this war. However pro longed it might be? Does any man suppose that millions of f-ve white Americans in the Southern States, who will soon be arrayed against vis. can be conquered by any efforts w hich may be brought against them ? Lrave men. fighting on theirown soil, and, as they believe, for their freedom and dearest rights, can never be subjugated. The war may be prolonged until we are ourselves ex hausted, and become an easy piey to military despotism or equally fatal anarchy; but we can never conquer the South. Admit, if you please, that they are rebels and traitors: they are beyond our reach. Why should we destroy ourselves in injuring them ? PROBABLE SCARCITY OP PROVIS- IONS. If the farmers are attentive to the signs of the times, there is no need to admonish them to pre pare to meet the demand for eveiything of an edi ble nature, that can be produced 011 their lands. We would advise them to pitch their crops to the utmost extent of their available labor. It is good tiloo tioW to I'lihilipp tho :iro:i tor r-nt-n lottor minis!, the crop of tobacco, or abandon it for the .......i.t ,,! ,L.,-,o.. i .t.. ;.. 1.... ; 1 the growth of something to eat. There is no hu- i c " s proclamation. 1 here are about thirteen man probability ihat tobacco will be worth any- j 1,u,ldrcd ,u the arsenal. thing tor at least another year. The factories ate IIaruisburo, April 24. Hon. Caleb Gushing, beingclosed or worked with a greatly reduced force. I who has just arrived here, says that Col Lee, with and the stock of manufactured tobacco on hand j 5,000 Virginia troops, is covering Arlington cannot be sold at any price. On the other hand j Heights, near Washington. Lieut Jenifer is re thert; is an absolute certainty that provisions w.ll j ported to have deserted. Fort Mifflin has been be high. i;h armies in fhe field more numerous , than have ever been seen on this continent, and the consequent abstraction of a large amount of labor from agricultural pursuits, it will require;,', , . , ., , T. , , A .... -..1:. .1. .1 . 1 .1 .t the people and mob will compel the federal troops everything that bountiful mother earth can pro- i , 1 . . - 1 1 . - . 1 1 1 , .7 f : .1 1 .1 .1 1 1 to "ght their way through the city :tett by step. duc; to sust-iin them and the other noii-producmg : mi , .J , , . J , . 1 i-prod clashes of the community. With all intercourse cut off between the South and the non-slaveholding States, the want of meat will be felt more severely than anything else. We have now to try the experiment of liviic more up-' on our own resources, and we trust every man will be ready to meet the emergency. And we would say to the thrifty housewives of the country, raise all the fowls you can Turkeys, geese, ducks, chickens, will all bring remunerating prices, sucl rs you never obtained before. I'cfrmburti Ex- press. A Spy Hum; Captain William Jones, of the sloop Isabel, has terminated his brief but notorious career at the end of a rope The account we hear is. that on the arrival of the Thursday evening cars at Scooba, a passenger on the train pointed out Jones as boasting tj him of being the person who "provisioned Slemmer," aid that he was then on his way to Washington, with despatches to Lincoln's Government. He was arrested, and pro. 'fs of his treason found upon him, and he was exce lled upon the spot by the enraged citizens Mi -bile A-lrci ti.-irr. Position of General Scott. The Bichmond Dispatch has the following report from Washing ton, which is undoubtedly correct: On Friday, a Virginian here, in company with Bohert Ould, the District Attorney, called on Gen. Scott Jhe A lrginian said: "General. 1 have' here in my hand the evidence of Virginia's seces sion do you intend to support your State?-' Gen. Scott, looking up, very petuiently replied : " No, sir; I intend to support the stars and stripes of my Country."' -m Suicide. John Ponder, a small man. aged from 5 to oO years, a Prussian, committed suicide at the house of Mr Alex. Buis. in this id. tee. Wednesdjiy forenoon, hy shooting himself thion-h the heart with a pistol. Fearing the wi-anoii niioht nt;s fire, he touched it off with a c.-al. which he held with the tongs. lie must have died instantly, as whvn found he still held the tongs in his hand. Letters found in his posses sion ftate, that having been deprived of all his means of support by the absconding of a man to whom he had entrusted his funds, he had no war of making a living, and preferred death as a re- j net trom the trouble which had befallen hi:n He seemed to be a r.-spectahle man, and very well ' 1 ...I I- ! I II- . t J , ed uca ted . 6' lih n rtj I IV tch man. Recognition oi- Virginia's Independence. Hie first official act of the representative of a TOln "ur Country friends, that the wheat crop foreign Government indicating a recognition of ihe throughout York District, presents a mist cheer iiidepeiideiice of the Old Dominion, was perform. ig appearance; aud that with fair seasons until cd yesterday, by Hon. Mr Moore, Her Rritish harvest, an unusually large yield is anticipated. Majesty's Consul at thi port. In preparing the 18 estimated that there is an increase in quanti uual clearance papers for a Dritisl brig from Hal- ' K,,wn s compared with former years., aiuount ifax, N. S., he erased the printed words, "United ig to at least one sixth. We learn, also, that a States of America," and wrote "Common wealth of larger quantity of corn his been planted than for Virginia." When complimented for This sinifi- several yeajs. In the adjoining counties of North cant use of his official pen. he replied that he be- Carolina, we received the same pleasant and re lieved that he had only done hisry. Richmond freshing news. With an abundmt provision crop Dispatch. iour people can defy all enemies. YorhvilU Eng. WAtt JXJSWO. -,,! bound seaward, and which had Lri i n " " been suspected and watched. Washington advices say that the Government has planted cannon on all the heights overlooking the city. About 10.000 men are underarms. Wm IJ Astor has ottered to give tne govern- ni.Ilt 4 millions of dollars and loan it 10 millions. General Scott has not resigned, nor does lie jtcll(j to. , despatch says that prominent border Slate U)C arc. asking for a cessation of hostilities, with a vjeW to compromise. ) j j,e aItin:oreans are actively preparing to take port Jjtlleury, the guns of which are turned on (jJC .',tv j s - , 93. Paners in the interior of Missouri express great indignation at Lincoln for calling so large a military force. There is a good deal of secession feeling manifested in some sec tions, but the private sentiment is unanimous for conciliation and peace. The city is full of rumors, but is generally quiet. No demonstrations have vet been made. The Governor has called the -,tro tn lllPot (ltl the, R,nT( f M.lV. - ,7. . . - ,-.,. r,r o.,(- , ctnnTitA tor immediate secession. ine wai :eeiing is prevalent. Capture of Harper's Ferry Armory. The Alexandria Gazette, of the 20th. says : liy the down train on the Alexandria, Loudoun and lliiniHlire ll.ai,r,,a'!; e have the following : ..... .: ... . 11... 1 1 1 ........... impoitant information : The Arsenal at Harper s verry is in ruins, with 10.000 stand of arms. At 12 o'clock last night, the Horse troops from Fau quier, under Lietitena it llaudolph and Captain T. 11. Ashby, arrived at Harper's Ferry, and demand ed the surrender of the arsenal. A parly' was asked by the garrison, aud in a few minutes flames were seen to burst from the buildings, they having been fired during the parly, by the garrison, which escaped across the river, leaving nothing but burn ing ruins behind them. Ihe troops via the .Ma nassas Road have not arrived. A train laid to blow up ths work-shop failed, and as a consequence Virginia gets the machinery uninjured. A train was also laid to blow up the bridge, but in the haste of departure the retiring troops neglected to apply the match. Nr.w York, April 24. It is reported that the I'altimoriaiis have telegraphed to the Virginians that they will come and support them at Harper's Ferry. Henry Winter Davis' house was entered by a mob in Baltimore, who retreated on finding him absent. The German Turner's Hall was sacked. St,- Lolis' Al'"' 24. General Harney has en usteu seven nunurea men under J'reiUent J,in garrisoned. Raltimore, April 24. The mob element is powerless to act with system. It is believed that The railway between Baltimore and Washington was further obstructed yesterday, and some brid ges destroyed South of the Susquehanna. A.NNArObis, Mr, April 24. Governor Hicks having protested against the passage of troops through .Maryland, General Jutkr, eonnnar.diii. Massachuestts troops, had them landed at the Na val Academy. 'J he Baltimore American confirms the report of the scuttling of the Pensyhanii. Columbus, Pela- ware, It iritan and Merrimac, at Norfolk, by orde r lot" Com. Pendergast. The Mayors id' Norfolk and Portsmouth, on Saturday night, sent a flag of truce to ask Pender gast whether he intended to fire on their cities. Pendergast replied that if he was fired upon or the Navy Yard attacked, it would be his duty to open fire The excitement is intense. Women and childcrn are flying, and men are rallying to arms. Norfolk. April 24. The people have seized the powder house on Craney Island and removed the powder to the city, aud are preparing for a vigorous defence. Louisville, April 23. A private dispnch re ceived in this city says that Cairo, Illinois, has been invested by one thousand Federal troops, and 4,000 more are expected soon. Pn I la Delphi a, Appil 24. Commanders R. L. Page, Arthur Sinclair, J. R. lucker. and Lieuts. Spottswood and Rhegan have resigned. 'Ihe schooner Harriet Morton, bound from Bos-! j ton to Baltimore, and a three-masted schooner bound to Baltimore with provisions and clothing. nave been seized by a Government steamer. Andrew Johnson A despatch from Lynch burg, dated Suudav last, says: Andy Johnson, late U. S. Senator from Ten-! nessce. passed through here ti here to-day on his way Jlom Washington to I ennessee. A large crowd a-M'iiii.iei ami groaned him. and offered him every indignity he deserved, including pulling h'm nose. Every effort was made to take him off the cars. The deiu nitrations were at first suggested by Tenm sseeans. Great circuity was experienced 111 restraining the populate. Johnson was protec ted by the Couductor and others, who begged that he might he permitted to proceed home and let his re"l,,e bun. "c denied sending a message assertin" that T 1. ..I I t 1 ... " Tennessee should furnish her quota of men. m TllE Wheat Crop We are gratified to learn G rru- i.. i., rrrpsft has the following ac count-of the ctindition of things at the Gosport Navy Yard after the fire : It gives us much pleasure to say that the damage to the Navy Yard is much less than was at first anticipated. The large bnek building which occupies the front of the yard, and is used as a sail loft, riggers and gunner's shop, was fired, and all the wood work destroyed, but the walls are standing and still good. Both of the ship houses in the yard are burned. In one of theiu was the seventy-four New York, which has been on stocks forty years. The ship house at the dry dock was not touched. All the ships in the harbor, excepting the old frigate United States, were set fire to and scuttled. They were the Pennsylvania, seventy-fours Colum bus and Delaware, steam frigate Merruuac, sloops Germantown and Plymouth, frigates Raritan and Columbia, and brig Dolphin. Ihe Germantown was lying at the wharf under a large pair ot s an, which were thrown across her decks by cutt.ng loose the guys. The ship was nearly cut in two, and sunk at the wharf. Many of the cannon, besides being spiked, had their truncheons knocked off, thus rendering them useless. But there are yet more than five hundred heavy ordnance still in shooting order. The brass guns taken in the Mex ican war are uninjured. The dry dock has suffered no damage, except to the gates, which can be repaired at veiy little cost. This is a most Jmportantacquisition, as its construction cost over 81,000,000. All of the timber sheds, eight in number, and filled with the be t timber, are yet standing. These houses are about six hundred feet long, and the material contaiued in them is not worth less than 32,000.000. It is peculiarly gratifying to us to have it in our power to say that the several stores filled with pork, beef, bread, beans, whiskey, tobacco, cordage, can vass, spades, shovels, and every other conceivable article, w hich is most needed by us at this time, escaped the incendiary's torch, and is now in our possession. 'Ihe value of the stores at this crisis cannot be estimated. The machine shops, smithing, steam saw mill, officers' quarters, and all other buildings, are left untouched. At St. Helena, opposite the yard, where the coal and cannon were kept, a number of houses ami sheds of little value were destroyed. The damage -done to Gosport amounts to tho burning id' eight houses. These were nut of very great value, aud 30,000 will probably pay the damage. Two young men who were in a boat, rowing about the hirbor, were taken prisoners. One of the officers, in attempting to shoot at them, killed a seaman attached to his own ship. 'Ihesetwo young men were taken to the yard and kept in front of the guard at the gate, so that in case of an attack from the citizens they might be the first to fall. They were kept in this position for four hours Sunday morning, while the work of destruc tion was going on, and then sent aboard the ship and taken to Old Point, where they were dis- 1 1 charged. PRIVATEERING AND PIRACY. That chief of Pirates, Abraham Lincoln, has is sued a crazy Proclamation declaring that it is his purpose to treat armed vessels, sailing under letters of marque from the Confederate States, as pirates, and to hold them, if captured, subject to the laws of piracy This, observes the Enquirer, is an ab surdity, which could only emanate from a misera ble lilack Republican lawyer.- AH the world knows that the law of nations recognizes the "militia of the seas" as a legitimate arm of offensive service. For hundreds of ye-irs tlu p dicy of every nail ui has been to cripple, by all available means, the commerce of an enemy In the last war with Great Britain our privateers swiirmed upon the ocean. Mr Marcy, Secretary of State under Pierce, in an able paper, maintained the right and the policy of privatecring.-and refused to enter into a convention with the European powers to abolish it. The Proclamation will have no effect in stopping priviiteers. Men who go upon such enterprises go with their lives in their hands, and, if the laws of civilized warfare and the whole usage of the United States are to be disregarded, by hanging privateersmen when taken as pirates, the South will most assuredly hang all their Republican pri soners in like manner. The insane threat of the piratical (lovcrnment shows what is their weak spot, and we shall strike home at it with all our force. Plot tfiscoverttf to burn WilllariV Hotel Lin coln mitt Old Scott badly scared. A plot to burn Wi Hard's Hotel at Washington was discovered on the night of the 18th. Fifteen bundles of inflam mable material were found distributed in various parts of the building, with slow matches attached Cassius M. Clay and seventy-five Border Ruf fians were quartered at Williard's, and it is sup posed the plot was to exterminate these scoundrels. Abe Lincoln and Old Scott have been fright ened out of seven years growth. They are hourly expecting that the White House and other public buildings will be blown to pieces. The citizens generally partake of the alarm, and women arc fast leaving the place. All along the line of railroad from Alexandria to Richmond, the troops are drilling and the Con federate flag is flying. 'I he war spirit in Virginia is now thoroughly aroused, and the Capitol must soon fall into the hands of our troops. 1 Tiik Ikisii in tub FlKl.t), It' is stated that ten Irish regiments in the Abolition States have offered their services to President Davis. A T Stewtrt, of dry goods fame, in New York, has -fie red a million dollars to aid the United States Government. Rebels and Traitoh. 'Ihis is the common epithet bestowed by the Lincoln press iijhhi the seceded States. The same title was ap-died by the British and Tories, in the revolution, to our ancestors. Kveti George Washington was styled the "rebel leader. Mr Washington." It took the "rebels" some time to teach the Tories good man ners, hut they succeded at last; nor do we despair altogether of improving the Kepublican mode of speech, and that at no distant day. George the 1 hird never perpetrated a thousandth part of the wrongs tgaint V e colonies which Lincoln medi tates against the Southern States, and there U 110 other difference between the two tyrants, except tb-it the one was a gentleman and the other is a blackguard. Richmond D "patch. THE G R RAT DRAWBACK 10 nersoti eniignitioTTo ihe extreme south and western country, i the tear the? have .. Fever and Aut- 'he untt direful ol all d.-easea. Lvery day we hear oi persons attacked bf ihi duK-ane aim mad helpless in 1 hun lime, without any nieana olaff..d jS rehei. In i-w o the greai d mat d tor a u-nu-dv Di Li'T-r'pf" tPreen,d hiaCELKBUATKD HTOMaCH Bl I I M, whose curative power Ioi all dia asr f the stomaf-h have heti universally at know edged The Bittern , , . -r- r ruoi, nave re- c-ivi 4 ihi encomiums ul ihe moft eminent physicians, aa I well m n claea frm ever part f our count iy. '"o those who d-Mibi ihir many virtue, all we can U 1. ... .1. I and judge Vr thms-lve reaptcnvely. For rale, in Charlotte hv E. NYE HUTCHISON & CO and hy Dnigsima rnerally. .Vpi I Mofc VlotENCE in . Ohio. A NewJpTT ' i,er publishes the following, by telegraph fr? Washington: "A dispatch has just reached W from Dayton, Ohio, asserting that Mr Valan(j: nam, a memoer ui ougitws, nas f mobbed and his house torn down, on account ham, a memoer 01 nits msi congress, has Ur. his sympathies with the secessionists. He pablie. iv n non lined in a sneech in Richmond. 1u Of ic J . , , , - wu. ter, that when the struggle came he would tak via. taL siues witn i iijjwiio. uvviuiniuu probably has something to do with the reported demonstrv tion against Mr Vallaudigham." sides with Virginia. Ihis declarntion protabi. XX" SMITH & CO, (successors to j. b. p. boon,) WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS Itf BOOTS AND Leather, Calf- kins and Shoe-Findings, Cll 4 KLOTTE, If. C. March 26, 186!. tf North (aiolina made DF3 00 ts and Shoos. B. R. SMITH & CO have just reeeiTed and will kee; constantly on hand, AT MANUFACTURER'S RETAIL PRICES, a good supply of Boot and Shon made at Tbomasvillf , N. C Thy are thought by many to be snperior to any Northern-madf Bool ur Shoe. TRY Til EM They are warranted to be of the best material and will not rip. Call and examine this work at B. R. Smith's Boot aud Shoe Emporium op. posite ihe Bank of Charlotte. March 26, 1861. tf BOUT AND SHOE EMPOR I U M, Ch rlotte, U". C. Ja ARE receiving a choice stock of Boots and Short of the best quality (warranted) which they will sell it LOW PRICES FOR ri A FT. March 2Gth, 1861. tf $50O RliWARD! Whereas, the recent fires in our midst are evidently the work of an incendiary, 1 hereby, as authorized by the Hoard of Commissioner? of ihe Town of Charlotte, offer a reward of FIVE HUXIHtED DOLLARS for jiruof to the convic tion of the person or persons setting fire to the property destroyed on the night of the 30th, and nioruing of the 3 1 si of this month. V. A. OWENS, Mayor. T. W. DEWEY, Town Clerk. April 2, 1861. tf. New Family Grocery Store l I. . IWCIIAM, & IO., Wholesale and Retail dealers in Family Groceries choice old Wines, (highly improved by age.) Also, Havana Segars, Tobacco, Wooden and Wil low Ware, &c. Having established ourselves in ChaTlottee, and is consideration of the hardness of the times, we desir and intend to sell lo the entire satisfaction of purcba sers. All orders accompanied with the cash will bt promptly attended to. Store on Tryon Street, one door above Palmer's V. riet Store. March 26, 1861. ioTin:. T'ie TAX LIST, for the year I860, is. now in wy hands, ready for inspection. All persons are requested to inform me of any taxable which may not be listed. All TAX PAYEItS are requested to prepare theniselrei to meet their TAXEh proinptlv. W. W. GRIER, 5Art. April 16, 1861. tf Wils Charlotte 6l Ruth. Railroad WESTERN DIVISION. On and after Monday the 15th instant, the Pnusengfr and .Mail Train will be run on Thi i Road daily (Sunday excepted) as follows : GOING WEST. Leave. Abriti. 1 00 A. if. Charlotte, I 45 " Tuckatiegee, 7 43 A.M. 8 15 " Uevard, 8 10 M 8 40 " Sharon, 8 37 " Liuculnton, 9 00 " GOING EAST. Leavk. Abriti. I! 00 A. SI. Lincoln ton, II 23 " Sharon, " 11 20 A. H. 11 50 " Brevard, 11 4 44 12 17 -P.M. Tuckasegee, 12 15 P.M. Charlotte, 1 00 u liy order, V. A. McBEE. Acting Master of Transportation. Lincoluton, April 4, 1 661 Is hereby given that the place of "M.ister Machinist" for the Wilmington, Charlotte ftiid Rutherford Uuilroad Company, will be filled by the Board of Directors t Iheir regular meeting to be held in Charlotte on tbe on the 2 1 t day of May next. The salary will not ex ceed $1200 per annum. Applications, Mating amount of alarr required, may be addressed to the PrcsidenUt Lincolnton, or to the undersigned at Wilmington. RODT. II. COWAN', April 16, 1861. Irn Secretary. FA KM E It'S, LOOK OUT! Money, Time and Timber Saved. I have the right to scU VANDEM AUK'S POKTABU FENCE, made without posts, in the counties of Al mance, Randolph. Rockingham. Duvidion. Rowan, Ca barrus and Mecklenburg. Chkapnkss, durability,"' convenience are Ms Hiief advantages. Wc recfmmeoi the fence to saw-mill owners, farmers nnd all who bv C ....... ... ... ... .. n'-l li ,r""' uoine. mc win ftii harm or t-ounty nil!"' A circular, stating cost, plan of building, 4c, sentff to any address on a j. plication to JN. J. WHITE, Mcbar.enville, Alamance co., c March 2Gth. 3m ft. IS. II A IS D I IV i , lincolnton, i. Bcg3 leavt to iulorm the citizen of Lincoln and if rounhng counties, Ihat he has pernianeiitly located i the tuwu of Lincolnton, where he will carry on th Watch and Jewelry Business In all its various branches. Strict attention wiH paid to the repairing of Watches and Jewelry, ij fane Watches warranted to give satisfaction, ifeU used, or no charges made. List of price for Work. Mainspring and cleaning watch, $2.50; jewels, P aud foot, each, 75c; cap foot-hold jewel, each, $l.5i hair-springs, $1.25; chain. $1 50; mending chaim, tooth and wheel 50c; pivots, $1; cvliudcrs, $4; St $2.75; virges, $ 2.5o: screw , 25c; "case spring 5f clicks and rachets, 75c; glasses, 50c. All other o will average tbe same prices. Persons leaving w0" can kaow the prices befora it is done. k Persons in the country hav'mg clocks or other of for Repair, will address ma by letter if they can0 come themselves. 1 will attend to work promptlr. All kinds of Gun-smith work done at short toi and on reasonable terms. (iive me a call, and I will guarantee satisfaction. - ' - O. R. II.ARPIG- Liurolnn, T-h. Z", tt tf I
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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