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1 ! Y-Jt 'Vi- 0im mtv i r- MM O 33 ) ON THE V WEST SIDE OF TRADE STREET Q per-annum CITARACTKR IS AS IMPORTANT TO STATES AS IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS, AND THE GLORY OP THE ONE IS TIIB COMMON PROPERTY. OF THK OTHER. invadvance. i fcjjS -III M il I my AM 1 5. YAISL Editor ant Proprietor. (QPuMis.hed every Tuesday,Q) BY WILLIAM J. YATES, KDITOU AND PROPHIETOB. ifjiaid in advance, -$2 00 It' paid within 3 months, - :,0 It pail fter the expiration of the year, 00 Any person sending us five sew subscribers, m-romy-aiiied by the advance subscription ($10) will rr-V:ve a i'h coW St9 for ol,? Jear- Sub-criberj and others who may wish to send Uiuti.y to u.-, cau do so by mail, at our risk. ptf Transient advertisements raut be "paid for in advance. iij- Advertisements not marked on the manuscript or 3 -jx i lfic time, will be inserted until forbid, and Inirj-ed accordingly. SAMUEL P. SMITH, Aitiii')' and CouiiM'loi" at Lmv, CIIARLOTTK, N C, attend promptly and diUgmlly to collecting and p i:;iitiiir ;H danas intrusted to his care. SjuM-iai attention given to the writing of Deeds, Con-V"'.nee-. AC. Diirintr hour? of business, may be found in the Court House. ()!li. , Xo. 1, adjoining the clerk's ofiice. Jr.; ii.irv 10. I.-mJI J. A. FOX, Attorney zx JLamjir, CHARLOTTE, N. C. a i:eral collecting agest. Otli.-e over the Drug Store, Irwin s corner. J:imiarv 1, I I. tf Wm. J. Kerr, A T T O K K V A T I, A V, CHARLOTTE, X. C, YC'.U practice in the County and Superior Courts of M.--kli-nburr. Cnion and Cabarrus counties. (Kt t. E in'llt' Itrawley building opposite Kerr's Ilotel. J an nary J4, lstil y ROBERT GIBBON, SI. D., PRACTITIOLK OF M CDIC1 E Ofik. X". 1 Irtrins corner, ClIARLOTTF, N. C. ja-r.iarv. 1.1. It. W- BECK WITH constantly on hand WATCHES. JEWELRY, PLATED WARE, &CM (tf,!.- r..--t Kiijrlirih and American manufacturers. C.,J! J cx.niiine his stock before pnrchasinjr elsewhere. V. " :t. ii i-ry.-tals put in fur 2a cents each. .I.UIIKMV, 1-'51 J c John T. Butler J PRACTICAL Watch f43iil Clock 3Iakcr, Jew eller, fcc., Oi'rii.sirt: Kkkr's Hotel, Charlotte X. C. (Late with It. W. Heckwith.) rin V:il Ii', C'Irk &. .Ifv Iry, ofccry di-.-eription. Repaired and W'm ranted for 12 i:i.iii!:- .'t M. 1?00. tf J. G. WILKINSON &c CO., DKAI.KRS IN Watclaes, X JfS Kilvcr&platcflWarc S2J AXI) FAXCY fiOOPS, 71 i No. 5, Granite Range, Opposite the Mansion House, CHARLOTTE, X. C. AJtviiii.Jii jrivi-u to Repairing Watches and Jewelry. SepM-iuher S. lfCf). J New Supply of WATCHES, JEWELRY, Solid Silver and Piaicd Ware. T!;e subscriber has lately purchased a very cxtensirr ipply of ;he above articles. His purchases beinp U!A,!e dirertly from the manufacturer, he is therefore enabled to sell at a very small advance on cort, and p. isi.as may rest assured that sill hi- articles are war ranted to be whiit lie represents them to be. Watches and Clocks carefully repaired atid will receive my person 1 attention. R. W. 1JKCKWIT1I. v. vr. 2;, Kc50 tf Charlotte & -S. C. Railroad. md after the First day of October. THRO I" CM ri FivKICii'f TRAINS will run Daily between 1' t:iail..;ts and Charleston, without transshipment, thus a.u.iuiir freirfljis to reach Charlotte in . days or less i; ' ii New York, sn& in one day Jiom Cliarlcston, aud -No. THROUC.H TICKETS will be sold fi or.i Char-l"'ti- to Cliarleston at 5 .-4 Z0t and to New York, via Charleston Steamers, at $1'.), art4 vice versa. The mer- ii.mts and public are iuviteu .o try this cheap and vi'eduious route for freights ad passengers. A. H .MARTIN, t 2. 1S0J. tf Gcn'l Ft- ami Ticket Agent. mi. i:. II. AKDKE1VS, CHARLOTTE, X. C, l.t 'i.f.;nu the public, geuernllv, and the citizens of ' . . . i i . i i eKl i.tiUi particularly, mat uc Jias rvumeu in ( e of DENTISTRY and may be found at his old rarti He is prepared to set Artificial leetn on .i.ohi. Silver, Vulcanite, or on the Cheoplastic process, as patients may desire, and . fill Ttett with , Cold, Tin, Anvijjram or Oa Artificial. IK i .ii-.v .-..a tr. i,ni-fnr.i a ti v n mr at ion belonsr- in e.l t to Dentistry, and need uot say that he will be pleas- wait upon any of his old friends or uew friends :.-v ta that for granted. Tuarv 5, lSdl 3tn Yv NEW GOODS. KOOPMAXX k PHELPS have received a handsome a-iit::u iit of SPRING GOODS, consisting in part of DRESS GOODS, BONNETS. &c, 1 " a hir'i tiicr invite particular attention. i North Carolina MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. ThU Company, the oldest and most reliable in the State, insures white persons for a term cf years or during continuance of life, on moderate terms." Slaves insured, for one or five years, for two-thirds of their market value. For insurance apply to THOS. W. DEWEY, Agt., Jan 8, 18C1 ly at Branch Bank X. C. Dissolution. The firm of FCLLIXCS, SPRINGS & CO. was dis solved by limitation on the 1st January, 1861. The business will be continued under the name and style of FALLINGS & SPRINGS, and they hope, by integritj aud strict attention to business, to merit the same patronage heretofore liberally bestowed by their numerous friends and customers. The present financial crisis and the uncertainty of business, for the future compel U3 to shorten onr time of credit from twelve to six months to prompt paying customers none others need ask it. All persons indebted to the old firm of Fallings, Springs & Co., must come forward and make immediate settlement, as it is absolutely necessary that the busi ness be speedily closed up. "A word to the wise is sufli eieiit."' J(ln 15, 1861. Hard ware ! ! Hardware ! ! A. A, N. M. TAYLOR T ESPECTFCLLY informs his friend? and the pub lie tr'-nerallv, that he ha3 added to his extensive stock of Stovis and Tiu Ware, "a large aud complete stoi k oi Hardware, consisting in part as lollows: Carpenters' Tools. Circular, mill, crosscut, hand, ripper, pannel, prun ing, grafting, tenuoti, back, compass, webb, and butch er SAWS; Urates and bits, Draw Knives, Chissels, Augers, Gimlets, Hammers, Hatchets, and Axes; Brick, plastering, and pointing Trowels: Saw-setters, Screw- plates, Stocks and dies, Planes of all kinds, Spoke shaves, Steel-blade bevel and try Squares; Spirit Levels Pocket Levels, Spirit level Vials, Boring machines, Gougers, and in fact everthtiig a mechanic wants, in great variety and at very low prices, at TAYLOR'S Hardware Store and l in-ware Depot, opposite the ilau ston House, Charlotte, X. C. -May 20, 18G0. tf Blacksmith's Tools. Such as Bellows, Anvils, Vices, hand and slide Ham mers. Buttresses, Farriers' Knives, Screw-plates, Stocks and dies. Blacksmith's Pincers and Tongs, Raspers and Files of every kind. Cut horseshoe and clinch Nails, Borax; Iron ot all sizes, both of northern and country manufacture; cast, plow, blister and spring Steel; &c, for sale verv cheap at TAYLOR'S, opposite the Mansion nouse: Ludlow's Celebrated Self-Sealing Cans, of all the different sizes, at TAYLOR'S Hardware Store, opposite Mansion House. Agricultural Implements of all kinds. Strnn- Cutters C,tm Shfllprs. Plows. HnpR. Shovels. Spades. Forks, Axes, Picks, Mattocks, Grubbing Hoes, Trace Chains, Wagon Chains, Log Chains, Pruning . ti i ci. 1 1 ; . 1 1 ."!'- T ' : .. . anl lieuge onears, i lulling nuu uuuuiug nuives, gul den Hoes and Rakes, with handles: Grain Cradles; grain, i u..:.. o... .i n..,.i, it. i, trrass auu oi lei oey ioe?, u u mi iiuurp, ijuacb, llollnw (iri ncli as tints, ovens and lids, skillits. sni- l.ra steu-.nuiiK and kettles. Cauldrons from 20 to 120 gallons each: Iron and brass Preserving Kettles, Sheep Shears, Ac, at TAYLORIS Hardware Depot, opposite .i it : II.... inc .Mansion uuujc. Tin and Japanned Ware," A large assortment; Block Tin, Block Zinc, Tin Plate, Babhii metal, fee. Stoves, the largest Stock, of all size?, at TAYLOR'S Hardware, Stove and Tin ware Depot, opposite Mansion House aotici:. Taken up and committed to the Jail of Mecklenburg county, on the 8th day of September, 1HG0, a Negro bov about IS or 20 years of age, (black.) about 5 feet 0 or"s inches high. He says his name is JIM, and that he belongs to John Wort hy of Gaston county: that his master moved to Texas early hut Spring, at which lime he ran away from him. Jim appears very dull: can scarcely communicate anything about his master or home with any intelligence. He has a scar on his right fore linger, made by a cutting knife. The owner irequcsted to come forward, prove properly, pay ex penses, and take sid boy away, otherwise he will be disposed of according to law. Oct. 9, If CO. tf W. W. GRIER, Sheriff. BY GOODS, LADIES' CLOAKS and BONNETS, DRESS GOODS and EMBROIDERIES. Carpets cfc3 IEixjs- A VERY LARGE ASSORTMENT OF PLANTATION GOODS. The above will be found to compare in styles and prices wiih any in the town. FISHEZS & niJRKOrCillS Nov is-;o tf rLCTKR It. IMV1S. W. II. UARDEE. i i a i o c ii a i n i: v V A l O IV M il It V Lj PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Potorotourg, "7"a- RF.FER TO Hon. D V Courts. Gen. R Wr Haywood, Raleigh, N. C. ' ' Feb ll, lsGl Cm-pd. RIISD'S, RIISDS. All kinds of EUROPEAN BIRDS: fcl also, a beautiful assoi tment of NEW jSjI3 STYLE CAGES. Thosa wishing a 5EI r..... ...ii.r will find it t e J. D: PALMER'S Variety Store, One door above the Bank of Charlotte. Nov 20, 1S00. Tvmtice. ' A .1,:, Aav ist of Januarr. 1861. we I r roin aim auei - - . t , will be pleased to sell our old friends and customers, and the rest of mankind, for . cah, and cah only, any article in our line of business that we may have on hand. Anv person sending or coming for Goods after thi date, wi hoot money, will please cuse us jf in stead of filling their or'der, we furnish them with copy of this advertisement, tre nr. rfrt.rn.tnrff.cXfo , tcU'atinil article on credit. - , EAr.d thfjse indehtea to n rr.t4 : and pay, as we want the "JJTg'4 WILUAuS. January 1, 1S61 tf CHARLOTTE, N. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST From the New Orleans Delta. ABE'S COGITATIONS. We ought to whip them rebel chaps; I think so, more and more; We've got an armed fleet on the sea And a fleet army on the shore. Yet Madame L., with jocund smile,. Deems it but glorious fun, To call my Bethel fight a bull, And my last a Built Hun. "Bob" threw my message out the cars The reason now I'll tell; That inaugural he though a lore And didn't auyur well. There is no commerce on the sea, All traffic now is dead; Some say this comes from my Hoc7caJe And some from my block head. I cannot reunite the States, That cherished hope is gone, And though the link is severed now The cry is still link on. Fain would I in secret weep 'Twould free my soul from care But rebel Jeff has sternly said, Don't drop a private tear. State of North Carolina Unitm county. Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions July Term, 1861. Benjamin Shepherd vs. R F Stockton. Attachment. It appearing to the satisfaction of the court that RF Stockton, the defendant in this case, resides beyond the lim.ts of this State; it is therefore ordered by the court that publication be made for six successive weeks in the Western Democrat, that he be and appear before the Justices of the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions to be held for the county of Union, at the court house in Monroe, on the first Monday in October next, theu and there to plead, answer or demur, or judgment pro con fess o will be entered up against him and the cause set for hearing. Witness, J E Irby, clerk of our said court at ofiice the first Monday in Jnlj, and in the 85th year of Amer ican Independence, A D 1SC1. J. E. IRBY, clerk. 76-6t pr adv S6 State of North Carolina Union county. Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions July Term, 1 861 . D A Covington, Ex'r of Andrew Secrest, dee'd, vs. Mary Secrest and others. Petition for Settlement. 4t appearing to the satisfaction of the court that Mar j' Secrest, John C Calhoun Osborne, Edward Ritch and Nancy his wife, Evan Lancy and Leah his wife, Robt McCombs and Margaret his wife, and Franklin S Rodgers, defendants in this case, reside beyond the limits of this State, so that the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon them: it is therefore ordered by the Court that publication be made for six successive weeks in the Western Democrat, notifying and com manding the said non-resident defendants to be and ap pear before the Justices of the court of Pleas aud Quar ter Sessions at the next term thereof to be held for the said county of Union, at the court house in Monroe, on the first Monday of October next, then and there to an swer, plead or demur to the plaintiff's petition, other wise judgment pro cotifcsso will be taken agaiust them aud the same be heard ex parte as to them. Witness, J E Irby, clerk of our said court at office, the first Monday in Julv, and the 85th year of Aineri can Independeirce-,-A-lfl8Cir J. K. IRBY, clerk. 76-6t pr adv $0 Confederate Loan. The undersigned having been appointed local Com missioners to receive subscriptions ofltock to the Confederate loan, would respectfully and most earn estly appeal to the patriotism of the people of Meck lenburg, to come forward with their known liberality, and uphold the Government aud sustain the credit of the Confederate States, by such substantial aid which their ample means would seem imperatively to demand. It is no mere gift we ask of you. nor are they empty promises nude in return. V.'c offer you good dividend paying stock, aud a promise ofperpelital relief from Black Republican rule, for your money John Walker, "J John A. Young, Coramissic W. R. Myers,-' J issioners July HO, WAIN TED. Wanted for the Confederate Army, 10,000 pair Wool Socks. YOUNG, WRISTON k ORR. July 30, 18G1 tf The copartnership heretofore existing under the name and style of Shepherd k lorrvnee, of David son College, was dissolved by mutual consent on the 8lh of July inst. Those having claims against said firm are hereby notified to present them at once, and those indebted will please come forward and mate immediate settlement bv caeh or note. G. F. SHEPHERD, H. L. W. TOBREXCE. Davidson College, X. C, July 1C, 1861. 4t PIBLIC NOTICE. At a meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the town of Charlotte, present: Robt. F. Davidson, Mayor, Jas. U. Carson, S. M. Blair, H. G. Springs and S. W. Davis. Commissioners, the following Resolution was passed unanimously: Resolved, by the Board of Commissioners of the Town cf Charlotte, that the town Clerk is hereby instruct ed to cause to be published in the several Papers of this place the following Notice : Whereas, the Atlantic, Tennessee k Ohio Railroad Company has failed to comply with the express condi tions up-n which the Corporation subscription of S60.000 by the town was made to the Capital Stock of that Road, and for other reasons satisfactory to this Board of Commissioners, therefore all persons are here by forewarned from tradintr for or accepting in payment of any claim any of the $20,000 of Bonds bearing dlo j July 1, 16G0, aud issued on the 20th day of Xovember, j I860, to f aid Railroad company, as uiswunienn un said subscription, as the sume will not be paid. ' ; THOS. W. DEWEY, Towu Clerk and Treasurer. July 1C, 1861 3t - C. IS Taylor's VIRGINIA PRINTING INK ESTABLISHMENT. Corner of ,A Jams aq Leiph streets, RICHMOND, Va. O. R. TAYLOR, Printing Ink Mantifactii. rer, take pleasure - in announcing to theSonlhern Press that his Ink Factory is now in successful .ope ration in the manufacture of every description of Print ing Ink, which he is prepared to furnish on reason- able terms. News, Book nd Job Inks of every deecrip- j tlnn always on hand. . . : Orders promptly attended to. "Address C. R. TAYLOR. J Julv 2J. RivbinoDd, Va. . A LESSON FOR LYNCHERS. ' From the Savannah Republican. We have consistently set our face against the practice, becoming far too common in the South for the public safety, of a body of citizens taking the law into their owo hands aud practically sub stituting themselves for the judicial tribunals of the land. Considerations of public policy and in dividual justice have been urged again and again. We have now an argument of facts, derived from recent experience which we desire to bring home to those who are insensible to all other appeals. The circumstances are local, but they are terrible in their significaece, and universal in their appli cation. - Before doing so, however, let us not be misun derstood. We do not mean to say that there are not cases, such as extensive and intricate combin ations threatening immediate or wide spread disaster, in which the tardy process of the law may be inconsistent with the public safety, and perhaps otkers for which the law affords no adequate rent ed?. These, however, rarely occur. Our views are confined to the ordinary crimes committed in the country, for the punishment of which the law and its authorized administrators are ample for all the ends of public justice and social security. In the month of February last, in this city, an altercation occurred in an obscure street, between a white man named Patrick Brady and a negro. Brady received a stab in the breast, from which he died in a few hours. Suspicion fastened upon one Paul, and at that time a runaway, who had been seen in the neighborhood the night of the occurrence. Many became convinced of his guilt; a party of the friends of deceased collected and hunted him down until he was forced to take refuge in a baker's oven, where he was shot. Ilesubsequently died of his wounds, though pro testing his innocence to the last. So great was the excitement against all concerned, that the Mayor was induced to order out the militia to guard the witnesses from the Council Chamber to the jail. Again: some three weeks ago, the'overseer of a gentleman of this county was murdered while" pass ing from the house to the field, about day-light, suspicion rested on one Adam, a negro under his charge., who had but a few days previous been se verely chastised and had been heard to use threat ening language with regard to the deceased. The neighbors collected, Adam was arrested, and be- f-ides the circumstances favoring his guilt, a small negro boy, under the impulse of fear, no doubt, testified that he taw Uncle Adam shoot the over seer with a gun, and then drag him off to t he bush es and bury him. The crowd were greatly incensed and insisted on hanging the alleged murderer forthwith, to gether with several of his fellow-servants supposed to be implicated. A coroner's jury were of the opinion that Adam was the real murderer, which seemed to be enough to authorize an immediate execution of the law. Through the influence of a few more considerate by-staiiders, and with great difficulty, the crowd were induced to -forego the execution of summary vengeance, and Adam was brought to the city, and lodged in jail, where he remains, we believe, at the present time. Here are two cases; a third completes the story. It is as follows: On Tuesday last, a desperate negro, named Totiey. who had been for many months the terror of the city and its neighborhood, after much hard fighting and being shot severely, was arrested Believing that the end of his guilty career was nigh, he voluntarily confessed, in the presence of a large number of gentlemen, that he was the real murderer of Mr Brady, and that the unfortunate Paul, who had paid the penalty with his life, on suspicion was entirely innocent; and ignorant of the transaction until informed of it by others. The confession, alas, came too late. He also confessed that he murdered Mr Wil liams, the overseer of Mr Ilines. and going to the spot where it was hid, produced the hoe with which he dug a pit to bury his victim, by the side of the canal. Adam, he assured them, was guilt less. Comment is unnecessary. All will see in the the circumstances related the terrible danger of substituting the decree of an excited multitude for the dispassionate and impartial arbitrament of the courts. The runaway negro Toney Johnson, alias Thom as Shaw, who was arrested near Savannah, a few days ago, was hung by the citizens of the District, on Wednesday morning, at the Dean Forest Bridge, on the Ogeechee Canal. The following is his confession: I was brought by Henry Tucker from Virginia, when I was seventeen years of age; I am now about twenty-four years old. I was sold to Dr Briggs, in Troupville, Ga., and was sold by him to B. L. Johnson. I ran away from Mr Johnson in December, 18G0, carrying a boy with me to Savannah; said boy has been returned to his owner, having been taken on the feavannah and Charleston Railroad, near the Savannah River. I was captured alao at that time, but mnde my es cape afterwards, and returned to the city of Sa vaunah, and have been in the county of Chatham ever since. On March the 4th, I murdered Mr. P. Brady, in the city of Savannah, in Yamacraw. Mr Brady saw me pass his house several times, and took me to be a runaway. He invited me into his house, saving he would give me something to eat. I went to the door, and he arrested me, saying, '-you j ore my prisoner." I had a knife and tabbed him ! in hi left arm, also his left shoulder, which killed j him in ten minutes. I immediately left his house ; for the woods. I killed Mr Samuel W Williams on or about the 18th day of June, 18C1. I was persuaded to ; do ho by a negro man named Guy, belonging to j Mr James J. Ilines. I saw Guy on-Mr Hinc's j place two or three times, and he persuaded me to kill 3Ir Willhms, and I agreed - to do so. I saw Guv the tame morning I killed Mr Williams; he told me to stand in the bushes close to the bridge, ; and that Mr Wiiiiams would cross tne brulge. Guy "'then went to the ficJJ. After I had killed Mr' Williams I went to the field and saw Guy, and told him I had killed Mr Williams." I then asked j Frank for a hoe to bury Mr Williams, telling him ; I had killed him; he told me I would find one under an old house. I buried Jlr Williams, by myself, about sixty or seventy yards below the 20, 1863. Dean Forest Bridge. He was shot on the opposite side of the canal; he was shot with a double barrel gunloaded with buck-shot. I met Frank, a slave of Mr J. J. Ilines, in the month of March, and told him if Mr Williams did not mind I would kill biui. He replied, " well, if you will, we will take a big drink on it." Adam, a slave of 3Ir James L Ilines, now in jail for the murder of AYilliams, is innocent. - The hoe with which I buried Mr Williams is in the canal, about five feet from where the head of Mr Williams was. .(The hoe was obtained in the spot mentioned.) It was Mr Dotson's gun that I shot him with. Mr Williams, was s.hot about six o'clock in the morning, about thirty steps frotn the bridge. After I left Mr William, 1 went to a camp of Messrs. Bradley and Giles' negroes, eight in number, near Mr Shaw's plantation, but noon left them and went to McAlpin's, where I st&id until the ICth of this month, when I was arrested by Constable Jones and others, and was shot by Mr Mitchell. I have committed various robberies in the county. I robbed Mr Schnider, on the Augusta road; Mr J. W. Wilson, on the canal; Mr Dotson, on Cherokee Hill, of gunpowder and shot; John II. Crawford's smoke-house; and from many others, who I do not know. The above confession was reid to Toney, and he read it himself, and signed it under oath. Ho was a very sensible negro, and could both read and write, and has been, in his own words, the most desperate boy in Chatham county. m .- From the Richmond Examiner. ACCOUNTS OP THE YANKEE ARMY IN WASHINGTON. We have had a very full conversation with a reliable citizen of Virginia, one of Mayor Borrett's police-officers in Washington, who lately escaped from there into our lines in Virgiuia, through im minent perils. "Ve have reason to be entirely assured of the reliability of this, information. Our informant has a family iu Fairfax county, and has a personal knowledge of the outrages com mitted by the Lincoln troops in the country along the Potomac within their lines previous to the fight at Manassas. These outrages ire so dread ful and fiendish as almost to exceed belief but for the attestation of evidence that we have every reason to know to be reliable. The Lincoln forces, in their advances towards Manassas, obtained i guides a number of Quakers living in the neigh borhood of Accotinc Mills, about eight miies from Alexandria. One of these, a man of the nance of Stiles, a New Jersey Quaker, for the sum of.. 3 per day, was engaged to pilot companies of pilla gers to every house where plunder might be ob tained. The house of his own wife's grandfather was pilliged among the rest. There was no place within the reach of the Yankee scouts but what was plundered and robbed. A Mr Haley was robbed of all his stock aud nine slaves, a few of the latter, negro children, who were incouveuieut to be run off, having been left by the marauders. A Yankee settler, near Alexandria, by the name of Gordon, piloted six of the New York Fire Zouaves to the house of one of the most respecta ble married ladies in Fairfax county. She was made to prepare dinner for the party; and, after that had been dispatched, the poor woman, who was within one mouth of her confinement, was violated by two of the ruffians, in the dining room, and in the presence of her own children. The wretched victim of this hellitsh deed was taken care of by the family of our informant, to whose house she managed to escape during the night Houses were stripped of everything fine paintings, wearing apparel, &c; and, for . weeks before the Manassas fight, it was a common occur rence for the plunder to be transported back to Washington city, and divided among the houses of ill-fame there. In many of the brothels of Washington, the finest filk dresses, pillaged from families in Virginia, were displayed by their vile wearers as gifts from the plunderers. Our informant was in the city of Washington at the time the news arrived there of the rout of the Yankee army at Manassas. The first public intimation of the event was early Monday morn ing, as the fugitives commenced to arrive in the city. During Sunday evening, it had been sup posed in the streets that the Federal Army had won a decisive and brilliant victory. The elation was extreme. At each echo of the peals of the cannon, men were seen on the street leaping up and exclaiming " There goes another hundred of the d d rebels." On the .Saturday preceding, a whole procession of carriages had passed over the Long Bridge, freighted with . politicians and women, who reported that they were going on a " flag-raising" expedition to Manassas. Some of them protested that they must lake leave of "the Grand Army" at Manassas before it proceeded on ward to Richmond. - On asking our informant of the scenes he wit nessed on the Monday and succeeding days when the news of the Yankee rout reached Washington, he could only reply that it was "a page lost to history," as no language could describe them. The first intimation he had of the Yankee disaster was about three and a half o'clock in the morning, when he was awakened by the lumbering up of Col. Meigs' carriage in the neighborhood of his house, and the shrill exclamation of the Irish driver, that " they were all murthercd besides himself." As the morning advanced, the fugi tives "commenced pouiing in. One of the boats from Alexandria came near being sunk by the rush of panic-stricken soldiers upon it? decks. Their panic did not stop with their arrival in Washing ton. They rushed to the depot to continue their flight from Washington. The Government was compelled to put it under a strong guard to' keep off the fugitives who struggled to get on the Northern trains. Others fled wildly into the country. Not a few escaped in this manner, compelling the negroes they met to exchange their clothes with them for their 'uniforms. For four or - five days, the wild and terror-stricken excitement pre vailed. . The advance of the Confederate army on Washington was, for a: considerable time Tiotrrly expected. Our informant is eertain In "his own mind that the appearance of a singU Confederate Regiment on the banks of the. Potomac,'tIarin; j the continuation of the Yankee panic, woahl have scattered the entire forces in Washmgtomn flight. ; - Many ff the fugitives, with garments nearly TENTH V 0LC3IE NUMB EU 4'S. """'.. i " torn from them and covered with the blood of their wounds, thronged the streets with mutinous demonstrations. Somo clamored to kill Gen. i Scott, others inquired if they had come to fight ! for " the Government property," as they had been j told, to have it explained what property it -had in "Uull8 Kun." - . . Ti Some recounted to horror-stricken .audiences the bloody prowess of-the Confederate, troops. One told of a canbou that shot missiles resembling in size sticks of wood. Another tuld of. terri bio Mississippi bowie-knives thrown with lassoes sixty feet long. Later rumors from . the field of battle magnified the horror. ". Every conceivable Sepoy -isra and bloody atrocity was told of. " the rebels," and found trembling listeners. Jt was said-, that our troops had burnt the Yankee hospitals and roasted their wounded alive; that the mysterious Mississippi bowie-knives were being omployed in target practice upon the Yaukeo prisoners who were bound for the sport; and that torn and dis sected limbs of the dead bad been nailed upon the branches of trees., -, - . Whon our informant left Washington a week ago, the excitement had -abated, but not subsided. Two pieces only of Sherman's battery had reached Washington, the others having been captured; and two pieces also of the Rhode Island battery had been recsvered, with which the Government had patched up the only battery it has in Washington. The amount of federal forces in Washington and iu the neighborhood of Alexandria was put down at 35,000 .to 40,000 men. Nine Regiments, had left Washington at tho time of our informant's departure from there. Feur . Regiments had arrived from Hampton and four of the Pennsylva nia reserve, which constituted all the reinforce ments that had - reached Washington eight days ago. ' ' . . . , Our prisoners are confined in the old Capitol building an old brick liouse on First street, e6t. They are guarded by a detachment of the Now York 12th Regiment. The building had been arranged for the confinement of prisoners previous to the fight at Manassas, and provision made for the accommodation of at least -1,200. We are assured that there are not more than nineteen Confederate prisoncrsiu custody at Washington. Most of them belong to one of the Alabama Regi ments. There would seem to be some Secessionist ladies left in Washington, from, tho circumstance of a large basket pf boquets having been sent our prisoners.' General Scott was not on the field at 3Iansssns. He is represented as being- in the last stage of valetudinarianism, and , to havo not mado any ex hibition of . his activity on horseback three tim3 in three months. - . PEACE MEETINGS. itC. ., , A marked scene of distrust is tempering . tho public mind of the North, and a show of disaffec tion about the war appears, in various quartets. This does not seem to atise so much .out of any conviction that the successful prosecution of the war is hopeless, though that is no doubt a question with many; but sober reality really has taken tho place of frenzied excitement,, and '.the character, cont and best possible result of the war are things which enter into the calculation of reasonable :nen. Peace meetings have recently been hold in . Mar garettville, Delaware county, New York; War nerville, New York; Schaalersburg, -New Jersey; Danbury, Connecticut; Sangervillej Maine; Owen County, Indiana; Vcnago county,. Pennsylvania; Wayne county, Pennsylvania; .Medina county, Ohio, aud doubtless in many other , places. Tho . following are some of the resolutions adopted : Resolved that a peaceful separation of the States, though much to be deplored, is far preferable to a forcible Union, where harmony and fraternal feeling cannot be maintained. ' - Resolved, That the present civil war, which Abraham Lincoln is waging upon sovereign States, is alike unconstitutional, inhuman aud unjust, unless speedily checked, must end in the complete overthrow of Liberty, aud the establishment of a uiillitarj despotism. Resolved, That we have no sympathy, aid' Or comfott for Northern Abolitionists, or their fanati cal sympathizers, for the reason that the 'principles inculcated by them are principles as much sub versive of the true principles of the Constitution as disunion itself. Wendell Phillips delivered an oration on the 4th July at Farmingham, near Boston, in which he paid Mr Seward the following handsome com pliment: :".' "As for Mr Seward, there is no confidence to be placed in him, if ho lies he tells the truth: if he tells the truth he lies Aud again - , ; - s - . "He has neither the beginning nor the 'end of a principle. His own colleagues know that he is a traitor, and every honest man in the ' country, especially in New York, knows it." . In this oration Phillips ridicules the idea of supposing: the North cn conquer the South : "Did any one believe that within any assignable time wc should conquer the South by our present njeans!'' Did any one believe that Virginia, and South Carolina would stay- subdued? Until ve dfjjopulate the Gulf States tee can never tubdw. them. . IiCt this war go on twelve months ' and England will acknowledge the independence' of the Southern States, and ought to, and the old Union can never be rebuilt.. . t .'. . The Suth arc as uriauimous to-day as the thir teen united colonies were iu 1770, and they4 'are stronger. He disunited, therefore, utterly, the question whether the Gulf States want to secede, and has."..-, ?, - -.? I .r: - ' Travel to iuk Souxn-r The travel- from the North to the South by . the way of Louisvillo; has been of late immense. , f All other , cotamanioatioa haying btcu cut off, the Louisville, add; Nashville Railroad i reaping o rich, harvest, JLf6r.a 'short time, .the . direct tray id - wW:. interrupted,; andi a df ten tiori of u curly jt we U ty yfour hours was cauattl, and a consequent increase, of cxpeusebat w?are glad taharo tliiAkl.iiaJtVMnTCedied(t'P4 eeugera now go thjugU-Tennessee jwuL tho Southas rapidly ,aj before the: War.r NewiiYork 'The Kew H a vcti .Journal says that the 2d Con necticut Regiment brought hotfle ' with them Uj negroes troiu Virginia.