ON THK r-m OF TRAT>E STREET •CT^ARACTER is as important to states as it is to individuals, and TIIS glory of THS one is the CX)MM0N property of THK OTHER. SQ per annum — IN ADVANCE. J* Editor and Propriktoi>. CHARLOTTE, N. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1861. TENT a V OLCHE—NIMHB ER 481. THE SSSTSltM BHfiOEMT, - Published ev*rj Tufsdaj,^) BY WIIETAM J. YATES, r.DiroR and I'uoniicTOH. North Carolina THE CAPTURE OP FORT HATTERAS. MITHI. IIFK IXSri{.U(E COMPANY. gather the followinir itetn;» conccrniuLT the C'-’nijiniy the >liU*et and mf)?t reliulde in the capture of loit Ilatteras by tlie federali't.'*, Ironi 7-^T!' a. I'. ;• I'lf ' rJ iprs i -.a lio ;.i i '!i ■■t'lhe year, • r.'liii^ us five nkw I'li'.T ^i:l) .cription ^iMli tur one year, nd i>th'T? who inay to 0 iiv at our risk. S2 00 2 50 3 'J(» subscribers. ($10) will This C'-’Hii.iniy tin irisurc't wliiti* for a term of years or (luriiip coiiiiiiuaiH e iif liff. on moilerate terms. Slaves iiisureij. fur one or five yt-ar , fur two-tliirds of tbcir uiiirket v.iluc. Fur iii-uram-f avplv to TilOS. W.' DKWKV. Agt., Jan 8. 18G1 1 v at Rraiich Hank N. C. the Cold.'boro Tribune : Retlrn of tijk Fl.4G of Tkl'oe.— It inaldxc carried a fliifr of truce fntru THE BATTLE NEAR SPRINGFIELD. OJficitil rejvrt (>f Gen. Mctulhjuch. Ili;.\DQUARTtp.s, near Springfield. Mo., ) August 12th, 18C1. ) It luted six NORTHERN ITEMS. O^ fnly Dfjiant—The pfopleot Holfast, Maine, Dissolution. send >. » Ivprli. i.meuu mu=t be piid fcr in rt ■_ ncnts not marked m the manuscrijit 'Mue, will be iu.(Tifd until forbid, and - ::nrlv. SAMI i:i. p. SMITH. ( II \U1.0TTE, N c., ' ; . .r . ,’h: u'.d lo collcf’tiiig and i- tru M-d to hit rare. , ■, :\v t,. tiie writing of Deeds, Cod- li . 1.. ■ *. mav 111-fniind in the ' ' 1.'t:iji)ininy the fli.Tk'ii uflii f. Ilatteras on Saturday uiuht and returiicu ye.sterday iiioriiintr. She went to rt-eover the dead and bounded, but was not perniitted tu lufid. '1 lie enemy reported to them that there were but seven killed, and 26 wournJed—one ot the latter died 8inee the buttle. This is verbal news, but it is doubtless correct. 'Ihe enemy stared that the priponer?, wounded distance. Thus ended the battle hours and a half. The force of the enemy, between nine and ten ’ arc greatly agitated by the arrival of a number of thousand, was composed of well disciplined boxes in that city from Boston, containins nius- troopB, well armed, and a larire part of them be- kets, cartridges, and other munitions of war, The steamer Bngtidier-General J. Cooper, Adjutan t-General lonirinj; to the old arn)y of the I nited States which have pone inio the hands of about 2U0 men, Newbern to ‘S’. ^1.: ith every advanta^re on their siae. they have who have openly proclaimed thoir disloyalty Thk Tr.MTOR.—It is rendered certain that a The firm uf i'UIXlNG.S. iSi-’KINCiri & t'O. was dis- ?(ilved by liiuita:ion on thr 1st Jiiniuiry, IHGl. The bn.'ine.s will be continncd under the name and 't^le of FULLIk SlMtlNCiS. and they hope, by integrity and .stri'.-t attention to business, to merit the • i i i > i i i- same {tatronafre heretofore liberully bestowed by their , It^cluded, had been sent to rortre.^s Munroe. nunierjus friend.' and cu^tonlers. 'I'he present fiii.'ineial crisis and the uncertainty of bu.dne.'S, for the future compel us to shorten our time of credit from twelve to six months to prompt paying eustomer-:—ii:)ne otiiers need a?k it. All })ersons indebted lo the old firm of Fullings, Springs & Co., must come forwaid and make immediate ietllenu'nt, a-J it is absolutely necessary that the bu.'i- :ios.« be speedily closed up. “A word to the wi'eis sufTi- cient.” Jan If). 18G1. _ to tlx* Ol.ntleven : I have the honor to make the with a signal repulse. The lojjs of the enemy government, and organized themselve.^ into a com- followini; official report ot the battle of the Oak killed, one thousand wounded, pany, without any authority from the State, de- Hills, on the lUth inst. llaTinjr taken position three hundred prisoners. We captured claring it their object to resist any attempt made pieces of artillery and several hundred stand of to draft any member in their lanka into military small arms and several of thefr .standards. . service and the payment of war taxes. Major Genend Lvon, chiet in cotnni.'^nd, was , killvd. Many of the officers, hiph in rank were j e os on ourter says. - . j o wounde'l. Uur loss was ali>o severe, and we mourn j readers have learned, the I nited States the de-rth of many a gallant oSeer and soldier, i Marshal in Philadelphia .seized all the copies of position about ten miles froui Sprin^'field, I endeavored to i^ain the necessary inlormatiun ot the strength and posjtiuti of lh« enemy, stationed in and about the town. The intormatioii was very conflictiris; and uri?!atisl'actory. I however made up uiy mind to attack the titeniy in their potition, and issued ; orders on the ihli inst. to my luree to start at 9 killed amounts to two hundred and sixty-five, ' o’clnck at ni^ht, to attack at tour different points Ithirty nn.s9in»:. ^ methndist preacher by the name ot i aylor. who A few days before, Gen. Price, in ^ f’’’- your obedient was with tlie J rooi>s «t Ilatteras as a spiritual i i • i m ' ■ i ^ i i- servant \trf'>TTl i MT’nil I . 1 . .1 . 1 coiiimana o] the Missouri turce, turii**d over lus teaefior, acted a fiaitortius pait aImot.t too atrocious : , . , , . i i- .i ‘ ... I coinmand to me. and 1 a.ssumed command oi the tor beliet. As ne.irly as we can come at the tacts, I i - j .u . . •' . . i- ! entire toiee c mprisins niv own brigade, the It apt-ears that i.’i a move ijerit; or the troops from ; i • i i i t. ' i- i n - ’’ ^ I bii|_'ade ol Arkansas C'tate torces. under Oren. Pearce, and iien. I’lice’b Command of Mi>souriana. the New York Dail> News which arri'cd there, as Well those debtined for ulterior points at the South and West. The Marshal also took posses sion of the oflSce of the Christian Observer, in ,1. A. l-OX \ / ZXt rilAllLOl'TE, N. C. I / ’>11. KCTISV, Ad EXT. ■ I>ru.’ re, Irwin'* corner. ^ If Win. J. Korr, \ r T o i: \ i: i i r a w, ( IIAULOTTE, N. t\, ■; Ki th.' (’ ulty and Superior Ceurts of I'!-.; •: n!\.l r.iii.irrui ••ounties. • ■. . bui;ai -ippo.lte Kerr’s II .'tel. Ui)in;uT (iiiiiios, h. d.. 1**1 \ Tl i'lO'% l>K Ol' i:i>l€ I .^E As:i ■ > / - rn r, ClI.VULOTTK, N. C. Hard ware!! Hardware!! A. A. N. M. TAYIAIR UESPKf’TFri.LY informs his fri“nds and the pub lic t,n-uerali_\. that he h;i- added to hi;? eitensive >tock of ritovi-s and 'I'in W'ure, a large and c>iiiipk‘te stoi k of Hardu arc, eonsi.'tinfj in pai t as follow.s; Carpenters’ Tools. Circular, mill. Closscul, hand, rijiper, pannel, prun- in'j. giafting, teiuioii, back, conipas.-, wt ljb, and butch er tSAWS; Brace.s and hits, l»iaw Knives, ('hissel.-;, ■Xuj^ers, (limlet.s. llaiumers, Haichets, and Axes; Brick. pla>lerin*(, and jiuinting Troweli; cS.i'v->elters, Screw- plales, Stocks and dies, Planes of all kinds, Spoke- shaves, Steel-bl.uh- bevel and try Square,'; .Spirit Levels Pocket Level'. Spirit level Vials, Boring machines, tlonger.':, and in fact everthing a mecljanic wants, in pfreat variety an»i at very low prices, at TAYLDR'S Hardware .Store ami Tin-ware Depot, opposite the Man sion House, Clii*rlotto, N. C. M.iy 2'.i, ie*60. tf U. W Bl'A'KWlTU H - c' tMiiflv on hand WATCHES. JEWELRY, PLATED WARE, &.C., (if [h: ' r !’'mli-h :*-iid .\inerican manufacturerB. M .-x 'i:r n-- sto. k bctVre i.nrchrtsiup: c^ewh';rc. fill- y'lt in f'lr L''> 1- ;i T Mil.s each. \V a 10 li John T. Butler, I: K ni.Vri K aL aiKl C'lock TBakfr, Jcw- 1‘iliT, A:f., Ki:uk' IlwTKL, C/i'irlott.c, witli R. W. [{cckwith.) U;il ilo, & .f4 \v- .V, c. H.p tf Irj, and W 'lrauted tVa- 1- J. G. No. WILKINSON 6c CO., DEAr.FHS T.S silver A: plated Wai*o AM» FAN(’V l.()01>-S, 5. Granite Range, .M .u ■ .n ll'.use. ClIAKLOTTi:. X. C. ' licpiiiring \\ at' lics and Jj\''dry. ^ -}0. T New Supply of \ re I IKS, JKW KLRY. Silid Silu r and PIa(rd Wiire* ' h ‘ l^ti ly p irch;',st“,j a very c.xtcnsivc . ..-ii ics. lls' pur'liJ-"-' hr-inp • ii ’iti' uvaut'nctur>‘r, lie i.s tliercf-'i' • ■ , -..ly '’ lall .idvaucc ..n co-t, ,u;ii . . - ' ui c : t ...U all hi' ai ti'!> s ;irc w.v; - . • lii - th- Ul ti; ■ . t , .' Aieluily rcpairc'i an;i >\ ill ' ' ' '' K. W. BKCKWlTif. tf i is^irStiUe A: i\ Kailroad. • .it :’,.V 01 t '■ t ■ -T, TH lU (I't I H i'll.ViN.'' will run I'.iiiy h> 'v.fcn ' iH. \\i!,nMit traut'l:i|i’.!'.c;i!. tiius r- a- SI t iiiiiiiitif ii: :j day.'- nr less 1 ;U day f:oni Ch.irle.'ton. .'uui Blacksmith’s Tools. Such as Ikllows, Anvils, Vices, hand and slide H.im- nuT.-, P.uili c>sc.= . Farriers' Knives. Screw-platt-s, .Stocks and uies. i;iack>niilh’s Pincers and Tong.s. Uasj ers and Files of every kill 1. >'ut horseshoe .'iiid cl’nch Nails, Borax: Iron of all .'izes, both of northern and country manufacture: c;!;:, plow, blister and spring Steel; ic.. for s.lie very ch ap at TAYLdR'S, opposite the Mansion House: Ludlow’s Celebrated Self-Sealing Cans, of all thfi ditlcrent sizes, at TAYLOll’t Hardware St^-ie, oppo.‘.it^- Mansion Agricultural Implements of all kinds. Straw ('utters, Corn Shellers, Plows. Hoes, Shovels, Spades, Forks, Axes, Picks. Mattocks, (Jrubbing Hoes, I’race Chains, Wagon Chains, Log (Miains. Pruning ■uid HetUe Shears, Pruning and budding Knives, gar den Hues an.i Hakes, with handles: Grain (,’radles; grain, ;jra'S and brier Scythes, Bush Hooks, Wagon boxes: H(dlow ware, such as pots, ovens and lids, skillits, spi ders, ste’.v-pans and ketth-s, Cauldrons from 20 to 1LM> irallon« each; Iron and hras,s Preserving Kettles, Sheep .Shears. .«c., at TAYL *R'S Hardware Depot, opposite the Man»iun HoufC. Tin and Japanned Ware, A luree assortment: Biock Tin, Block Zinc, Tin Plate, Babbit nsetal, Ac. StO'Ves, the largest Stock, of all sizes, at TAYLHI'.*' Hardware. Stove and Tin ware Depot, ojiposite Mansion Hon«t i\oTn i:. Taken u{) and committed to the Jail of Mecklenburg county, on the Htii ' ;iy of September. IBtiO, a Negro liov ai)out 18 or 'JO y ars of age. (Idack.) about [> feet or'.S inclie,' lii'jh. He si«ys his imme is Jl.M, and tli.'tt he belung.^ tu Jidin Wio tliy of (iaston conniy: that his master moved to I' .xms f’.iily hikt Spring, at which time he r,in away from him. Jim appears very dull: c;iii scarcely cominunicMte anyt'riing about his master or home wi;h any iuttdliceiice. He has a scar on hi.‘- riglit fore tinger. ninih- by a cutting knit'e. The owner is requested to come forward, prove property, pay ex- peiKJe', and t;ike s.iid buy away, otherwise he will be ilisposeii of according to law. Oct. r>. 18*50. tf Fort ( laik—sonie say letoie the firing: connnonc- ed, while other acci unts would seem to indica’e that it must have been after that event—laL^L^ed behind the troops, till he had fallen a mile atnl a halt* in the rear. lie then jrave ?oiiie signals to the eneniy, pnib»bly preconcerted, who sent a boat and took him to the fleet. It is no woniler that many of our people were slow in 1 elieving this storv. I'aylor is a southern man. a \'irginian, we believe, and iiiiirried a south ern woman, and has a family of children. He is a wretch more horribie, if po,sihIe, than a Lin- C(»liiite The latter may be deceivel anl cheated by their leaders. But this man sinned against his country and his God. surn.niided with the light of truth, and having all the social afTections and patriotic e-notions bearing upon him. He was doubtless hrihoL Depend upon it, the fellow did not sell his-^oul for nothing. [We think there is some mistake about the above, and we learn (since putting the above in type) that the man su.sfiieioned was not at Hat- feras. We know nothing about it only from ru mor.—Ed. Dem ] BEN. Mc("ULLOUGH, Brigadier General Commanding- 1 conse(juence ot a late virulent article on “the un- j holy war.” The Marshal, it is to be presutued, RETALIATION. j acted under instructions from the governmerit. If . 1 r .1 . .• .1- f.i- J .u . i so, we must Bay we are sorry lo see our (jovernment A lesson for tliat pentimentalisni of the day that ' ^ •’ My eflectiv" force was five thousand throe hun- ir,n,„lrj-. fil'.eeu f.iects of artillerv, and sii ' ‘,"4 ■ „i.oncr.,, may be ■ l...rsnn..n, armr.I «nh Ann. ..ck a.u.~fcets, accords .,f our rcv.dulionar. his.urv, rmes and shut-£uiis J here were other horsemen ■ W. W. GUI HR. Sheriff. DAVIS llAllDKi:. PJiOISKE fO,ii.tn,SSIOX Mi:i{fIl.l.NT.S, UICFKR TO—lL>n. I> W Courts. Gen. R W Haywood, Cm-i'd. K -leigh. .N. Feb 1'.', l>'t)l 1 ■ , til TI;'K1:TS win be from Char- ' I h- ■ . ' :i: i-S Kiid to .N'ew York. vi;l and i ji"' r-'The mer- ‘:c i ' iteil to try this cheap and . .W- f'-" f' ' - .'-:id p •s^ct;f;'-r.«. A. H M.VUl'LV, , ’ • Urn'l Ft an,I Ticket Agent. inc. 1:. II. .\^l)Ki:W^, t'MAK'1 IT!’. N. C . ' ;■ rt- nuhU ’ trcn- raily. and the ciii/.-ns of - . . 1- ■jiarly, tiiat !' is re-^uinrvi tin* ■ d:.NTi>TI{Y :v!id may be t'oiui I at his ,,M i: p; : ..red t ' sf't .Vrtiticial I'ceth on G.iid, V . ■ , -..r - I the I’heo -l.istic proco'*, as - iiv . sire. Tei ti'. with G^.’.d, i'u;. '■ ■ I' ,\i tit^ M-1 t., p. ; f - rti ;i:;r oper.ition bch>ng- ■ , .Liid >l -uv ’!int !i«* will he plea.- KIISD^. KIICD'^. All ki.uis of FrilOPHAN BIP.DS: a beaulil'ul .Tsso tmcnt of.NKW SrVLK (’.VGF.S, 'iho'C wishing a line Songstci, will tind it at J. D. PALMKR'S Vniiety Store, Oe.e .j.ior above the Bank ol Charlotte. N '■> v Cl 0. 1 0. TSJotioe. Fr. ni and af c; thi.' day (I >t of J”.nunry. 1 .) we ,\ili be j lf-ase.i to sell our old friends And customer.^, .ui.i the rc,'t o, ntaukind, for ca^li, aiitl i*a^l» only, Hny article in our line ofbusiness that we mny have on hand. Any person sending or coming for Goods after tlii' 'li’e. witlu-ut money, ''iH plea.'C *f.\cuse us it, .'Uad- of tilling their onlcr, we furnish co|>y of thi.*! advertisement. s-:!l n nn ilt o> (irl on crnht. And th.isc indebted to n.! arc reqne.«;fed to call and pay, as we ’.he u’.oney. Nfwbkhn Aff.miis —Many women and cliild- ren, families of our fellow-eitizciis of Newbern, have passed through this place, and others have located here. We learn that on the road below many have come up and taken different routes It would seem that the citizens are thus prepavitig TO resist thp enemy. Whether they will get to that city or not we are not prepared to say.— From what we can gather from the most intelli gent sonree.'S, we are of the opinion that they can not take that town, if our citizens do their duty, ap they assuredly will. The Petersburg Express, speaking of the cap ture, says : A gentleman now in this city, who visited Fort Ilatteras two weeks since, informs us that it was seientifieally arranged and substantially built. The timbers used were of the most 'ttiassive and dura ble kind, and the whole was covered with earth to the thickness of twelve or more inches, and then turfod, the grass being already verdant and luxu rious. ^riie same gentlcnuin informs us that there was an abundance of auiiuunition—powder, shell and solid shot—and that the magazine, located between the fort and the shelter in the rear, was considered byskilliul enginccMs as bouib proof. All accounts agree that the ^ ankoe soldier» now quartered on Ilatteras Island, will have a most unpleasant situation,*.f they can be confined to that locality. It is a dreary, barren spot, com posed chiefly of gand. Duiing the lattei summer and early fall months, it abounds with mo.'-quitoes remarkable alike tor size and blood-tliir.stine.-.s. and during the winter the winds from Old Neptune ."weej) acro.s.5 the island with a fury and keenness, against which the duekes-t ol garments offer but poor and inadequate protection. Another insur mountable obstacle, is the entire absence of fresh water, which was formerly bniught from Newbern. An army to protect Washington, which is situ ated at the head of Pamlico Kiver, and a strong garrison at the mouth ot Neuse Uiver, which com- nrinds the apj roach to NewI.ern. will secure the«e two places from any marauding expeditions wiiich the vandals may attempt. Fortifications have been already thrown up at the nioutl ot Neus*’ Kiver. and there is nothing now to do out to place the guns in battery. 'Ihe vaters of the Pamlico Sound, which wa.sh the counties of Tyrell and Hyde, are entirely too shallow for several miles out to admit the approach of any but the smallest ot boats, and the citizens of those eountie.« need apprehend no danger of mo- : having driv lestation. Fatther down, a distance ot stune 40 or ; Into.-h’s regiim milts are Beaufort and ( aroiina C ity. where the bh ekade has been so repeatedly run without trouble, but the entraiici* to these harbors is cni- UKinded by the guns of 1‘ort 31aeon a fortific:i- tjon of uiuch trreater and more foruiiuable dimen si ns than Foil Ilatteras. With all the lights before us. we think the wiih the army who were entirely unarmed, and instead of bein' a help were continuully in the way. When the time tin ived for the night march, it coiiitnoneed to rain .>ilightly, and tearing from thy want of cartr.dge boxes that my ammunition would he ruined, 1 ordered the moveuient to be stopped, hoping to move the next morning. My men had but twenty-five rounds of cartridges apiece, and there was no more to be had \\ hile still hesitating in the morning, the enemy was re- piirted advancing, and 1 made arrangements to meet him. Ihe attack was made .'•imultanetiusly at haU' [last five A. .M., on our right and left flanks, and the enemy had gained the jiositions they desired. Gen. Lyon attacked us on our left and Gen. Siegel on tmr right and rear. From these points batteries opened upon us. My command wa.s soon ready. 'I he Miasouriaiis, under Gens. Slack, Clark, McBride, Parsons and Haines, were nearest the position taken by Gen. Lyon, with his uiain tbreej they were instantly turned to the left and opened the battle with an incessant fire of small arms. W’oodrufl op{»osed his battery to the battery of the enemy under Capt. Totten, and a constant can nonading was kept up between these batteries duringjthe battle. Herbert’s regiment of Louisiana Voiunteers and 31clntosh’» regiment of Arkansas •Mounted lliflemen were ordered to the front, and after passing the battery ('i'otten’s) turned to the left and soon engaged the enemy with the regi ments dejdoyed Col. McIntosh dismounted his men, and the two marched up abreast to a fence around a large corn-field, where they met the left ot the eneuiy already posted. A terrible conflict of small aims took plaee here. The opposing torce was a body of Regular United States Infantry, commanded by Capts. Plummer and (jilbert. Notwithstanding the galling fire poureil on these two regiment, they leaped over the fence, and, gallantly led by their Colonels, drove the (‘iiemy befrne them, back upon the main body. Huring thia time, the Mi.ssourians, under Gen. Price, were nobly attempting to sustain them- .‘-eivts in the centre, and were hotly engaged on the sides of the heigh: upon which the enemy Were posted. Far on the right, Seigel had oftened his battery upon Churchill’s and Greer’s regiments, and had gradually made his way to the 8pring- fieid road, upon each side of which die army was encamped, and in a prominent po.siiion he established his battery. I at once took two com panies of the ].,ouisi:jn:i regiment, wlio were near est me, and marchetl them rapidly from the front and right to the rear, with an order to C'olonel McIntosh to bring up the rest. When we arrivpi near the enemy’s battery, we fbutid th^t Reid's battery had opened ufion it, and it was already in confusion. Advantage was taken of it. and soon the Louisianians were gallantly charging arnotig the guns, and .swept the cann(»ncers away, hive guns were here taken, and General Seigt r.x conuiiaiid. completely routed, were in rapid re treat, with a sitigle irun, followed tiy some com- aj. viiui CT III I &!«(. til I ui iiic: viav iuuii. r*i« ... i* I , • . .1 V I- 1- m tins respect imitating some ot the most onjee- would reject tfie policy ot retaliating upon the • it ^ .■ ,r , ^ w u i- V I L J .1 J r X . tionable proceedings ot despotism. ()t the tour 1 ankee prisoners in our hands tfie deeds of outrage ^ f /-.t i v- . ; J .. C- I niemorabie ordinances whicli cost Charles A. his throne, the first and most important was that which suspended the liberty of the press, and directed and in the distinguished example of Washington himself. I he conduct of General Washington In the romantic cac of Capt Asgill was perhaps one of the truest exhibitions of a character at once firm and benevolent—tn>t insensible to humane senti ments, but recognizing the truest humanity as that proceoling from the conscientious and unrelaxed discharge of a plain and patriotic duty. 'fhe facts of this interesting and romantic episode in our revolutionary history are as followrs: It was while negotiations were taking place in Europe for the recognition of our indej endence. after the American successes in the Carolinas and Georgia, and the capitulation of Yorktown, that the Tories, maddened by the loss of their property and friends, exhibited the most savage and des- ! perate spirit of vengeance towards the Republi cans. On the 80th of March, 17S3, Philip White, a notorious Tory, was executed by a set of men called the “ Monmouth Retaliators.’' A few days afterwards, Joshua Huddy, a captain in Washington’s army, was seized and hanged by the Tories, a label being affixed ‘.o his breast, stating that !ie had been handed as an act of re tribution for the execution of White. Sir Henry ('Hnton immediately ordered the murderers of Huddy lo be arrested; and Captain Lippincott, their leader, being tried by court- martial, a Tfrdict of not guilty was returned, on the plea that he had merely acted in obedience to the commands of his superiors, the ‘‘ Directors uf the Board of Associated Loyalists.” 1 he application ot Washington for the rendition of the murderer, Lippincott, being refused, he im mediately resolved upon retaliation. The circum stances of the case were peculiar. War had been suspended; yet Washington conaideied that the right of retaliation, recognizcd by a civilized code, still continued in existence. The outrage had lieen cotnmitfed by a Tory organization; yet Washington did not fail to perceive that the murderer had been protected and screenod by the British commander. He instantly gave notice to Sir Henry Clinton, in response to his rofusal to surrender Lippincott, that he would retaliate—and thftt, too. upon the British prisoners in his hands. For the purpose of .selecting an object of ju'^t vengeance for the murder of Captain Huddy, lots were cast among the jirisoners. The fatal lot fell upon Cajitain Asgill, a prisoner taken at York town. He was a son of Sir Charles Asgill, and only nineteen years of age. The rank and peculiar circumstances of young Asgill aroused a strong party to intercede in his behalf. Washington was inextirable. His duty he felt to be painful; but he knew its performance to be indispensable to check and destroy the bands of Tories oat, under the protection of the British Government, were threat- rning to execute the vengeance of assaEeins upon the Republicans. Lady A.-gill, the mother of the unrortan*ite prisoner, had interceded in vain the British Gov- ernnieni. tu whom properly belonged the power to I release her son, by the performance of an act of jiij^tice on their part in the rendition of the mur that no print or journal should be published with out authorization. Are we coming to this? Is every Journal which incurs the displeasuie of the Government to be sujipressed? Rtcoyniti«n of the. SoutJurn Con fuleracy.— The Turin correspondent of the New Vork Tri bune, speaking of the Emperor Napoleon says: Everywhere he is trying to kee[> up division, and thus to maintain the French preponderance. As soon as the tidings of the ruute at. iMana.ssas arrived in Europe, M. Tourencl received the agents of the Confederates, in an unolliciul way; indeed, but one moro victory of the secessionists would at once be followed by the recognition of the Southern Contederacy. The Blockade hy Ilufkm.—The hulks purchas ed at Baltimore for sinking in the entrances of tho Carolina inlets, numbered 20, and ranged in price from S100 to S2,0U0. The latter w.is for largo vessel.^ of deep draught. The total cost of tliis machinery for putting an end to Euroj>oan nier- chantilfl sympathy with «he (’onfederates was •521,000—cheap enough. THE HAVOC OF LIFE BY WAR. It is difficult to conceive what fearful havoc war has made of human lifo. Some of its incidental ravages s^'eiu to defy all belief. It has at tin.es depopulited immense districts. In modern, as as well as ancient times, large tracts have been left 80 utterly desolate, that a traveler raight pass from village to village, even from city to city, without finding a solitary inhabitant. The war of 1756 waged in tho heart of Europe, left in one instance no less than twenty contiguous villages without a single man or beast. Tho “Thirty Vears’ War," in the seventeenth century, reduced the population of Germany from 12,000.000 to 4,000,01)0—three fourths; and that of Wurtem- burg fiom 500,(JOG to 6S.000—more than nino- tenths? Thirty thousand villages were destroyed; in many others tho population entirely died out; and in districts onoe studded with towns and cities there sprang up immense forests. Look at the havoc of seiges—in that of Lon donderry 12,000 soldiers, besides a vast number of inhabitants; in that of Paris, in the sixteenth century, 30,000 victims of mere hunger; in that of Malplaquet, 34,000 soldiers alone; in that of Ismail, 40,0'0; of Vienna, 7D,000; of Ostend, 120,000; of Mt-xico, 150,000; Acr^ 300,000; of Carthago, 700,000; of Jerusalum, 1,000,000 I ! Mark the slaughter d' single b.ittles—at l^epan- to, twenty-five thousand; at Austerlitz, thirty tliou- sand; at Eylau, sixty thou-sand; at Waterloo and Quatrc Bras—one engagement, in fact—seventy thousand; at Borodino, eighty thousand; at Fouto- nay, one hundred thou^‘and;at Arbela, three hun dred thousand of Atilla’s army alone; tour hun dred thousand L'sijjctes were slain by Julius (>88- sar iti one battle, and fotr.* hundred and thirty thousand Germans in another. 'l ake only two cases more: The army cf Xer xes, says Dr. Dick, must have amounted to 5,283,- o20; and, if the attendants were only one-third as them with a rce determined not .'d paiiifs of the 'I'exas regiment, and a portion of j derer of Capt Huddy. She bethought herself of j great as common at tho present day in Eastern Col. .Major’s Missouri cavalry. In the pursuit, ' writing to the French Minister, Vergennes, be- j countries, the sum tolal must have reached near- many ot the oneniy were killed and taken pri.“o- 1 seechin" his interference, as a friend of Washing- 1 ly gjx niillions. Yet, in one year thi'i vast multi- ners, and their last ^un captured. | ton, with that commander. Her aflecting letter tude was reduced, though not etitirely by death, Having cleart'd otir right and rear, it was j being read by Verc*.'tines to tlie'King and Queen to three hundred tl.oU'and fiirhting nicn; and of nece.-isary to turn our attention to the centre, und»*r I of P'rance. they comnii.>«ioned the .Minister to add these , only three thon.nnd escnp>-il destruetiun. Cen. Lvon. who was pre.-sing up"n the Mivsourians, ! their desires to his own, “that the inquietude of! .lenghis-khan, th • terrible ruvagcr tif .V’lia in ,’en them back. To this point .Me- I an unfortunate mother ini^ht he calmed and her I the tliirteenth century, sliot ninety thousand on giim nt, undiT I.iout. Col. Emery, and ^ tpfidt rness reassured. ’ 1 hese letter*, being in the | the plains of Netsa, and mas?>a'‘red two hundred Chnrchiirs regiment, on foot, (Jratoit’s regiment i nature of an official intercession of a friendly thousand at the stunning of Khara'ini. In the and .McRae’s battalion, were sent to their aid. I Government. Washington was prompt to lay be- i district of Herat, he butchered one million six A terrible fire of innskrtrv was now kept up Congre.*;*; and the restilt w;>s an order from hundred thousand, and in two cities, with their de- •ilo-i-' the whole ;ide and top of the hill, upon j ■ pendencies, one million seven h.?ndred and sixty- whicl. the enemy were posted. Mh.vso.s of infantry I That Washington would havo hanged young two th ousui;d. During the last twenty-i-even yearn fell back and ru.-hed forward The*' summit of , of b.is reign, he is said t-j have massacred more fhe hill was covered with the dead and wounded— ' of appeals, to his me re s> mpa- than half a miilion every yc:r, and in the fir.-.t Yankees can be confined to the dreary wastes of sides were fighting with desperation for the ^ thies..where hi« sen^e of duty had been tntereKfed, 14 yenr.s, ho is supposed, by ChitK-.st- historians, t-. Ilatteras Island, where the mu^(iuetoe-«, high ,y (’arroll's and Greer's regiments, led galluntlv admit of a reasonable doubt. If lii^ have dep.troyed not leas than 1^,‘>0U,1)00 a sura rinds and scarcity of fresh water, will speedily Captain liraufute. charged the battery, but the '‘Ction in this instance, as all his actions were, the tot-^! of over 32 millions in forty-one year-1 combine to making them repent deeply of their oc- ,^hole etrent'th of the enemy wete immediately in ' dictate of a judgment at once severe and humane, ! In any view, what a fell debtroyer 'u war. N.i- cupation : rear, and a deadly fire was opened on them. At and not unworthy as an cx-n.pie, what policy otlier polcm’s war« sacrifictd full six millions, and all this critical moment, when the fortune of the retaliation, euoh as hia, can we re- the wars consequent on the French RevolutiOQ >ATE.=: & WILLIAM?. ,Tn:niarv ’S':! tt iMUTii rii lit \oTic i:, All per-ons having unsettled aC''oun‘« on the Looks of GATKS a- W ILLlANiS. must come forward before the first of Sep'ember next and settle by ca'h or note, or thev will tui i tl’.eir account- in the hand^ ol an I'tti- ce;- for colkctiou. OATES k WILLIAMS. AU'r l.T, 1« U 3-.T The Richmond Dispatch says: This invasion will have a beneficial efTect in one respect It will rouse all the States to put forth their lull strength Hidierto some of them have done so only partially. \ irginia has neail}! a twellth of her white population in the field. She has 05,000 volunteers underarms. Her popula tion is about one-seventh ( t that ot the whole ( on- federation. Seven limes sixty five thousand makes nd filtv-five tiiousand, and that is moment, day st emed to be at the turning point, two legi- n.ents of General Pierce’s brigade were ordered to march from their po.'ituin, (as reserves.) to suo- port the centre. Ihe order was oljeyed with alacrity, and (jen. Piercc gallantly rushed with iiis brigade to the re?eue. Rf ad's buttery was also ordered to moTw forward, and the Louisiana regiment was acain Called into action (.11 tlie left of it. The battle then becamc !hr,,un,Wrtrn‘cn“«'rri:ouVd^^ Celd il general, »,.d p,ol,ably n.. t»o of.fosi;..- cor all did as well as Virginia. This aflair will as.-,i.-t fought with greater de=>peration. Inch by inch commend in f'ircum'^tanera «o much srrongpr than p, >nje tiinc or ten luilliona. I he Spaniards are those in which he exerei-e 1 it. It should be eon- p.id to have destroyed, iu forty-two years, more sidered that the present circumstances in which thin twelve miIIion:> of .American Indians. Gre- we recommend ret.'tli.ition arc tho^e of fl igr.-int cian warn ,-acrificed fifteen niillions; Jewish wars war; of act,s of barbnrily committed directly by twenty-five tnillionfi. the wars of the twelve great the puidie enemy himself; and of (;Utrage« which, {.’a;.^ars, in all, thirty millioni; the wars of the Ro- in the’.nselvei. can have no color of retributive riians, befre Julius Cai-sar, sixty million.s; the wars jn-.tiee, from anytliing we have done, to give of the Roman Empire, of the Saracens and the cau.-e or occasion for them.—Ri'-h Fxnminer. . Turks -ixty million« each; those of the Tartars eigh- ♦ ♦ ty niillions; those of-M'riea one hnndred millions. The Fnthriiia%m" e*f A’ejr York.—The New Dr. Dick Hay?* that if we take into consid**ratioa ■1 !1V .>t ■ Id n: itr-.l. :r lu'w f'ien'is- Di (aiilwell’s Practicc. •injr ni\’ jib'ence in the .Militrtry service of thi.-% NKW GOODS. ; ■' \NS' PHF.LP.S hnve received a hnndsomc ■ of SPRING GOOD.S. consisting in par: of GOODS, BONNETS, &c., • I■■ k- invito -jl > r 'tierv« ii State, in \';rginia, subscribers and others desiring cop ies of t ho sihove work, ctin obtain thera of Mrs. Caui- well, Raleigh, All person* indebted to me, bj note or otherwise, arc requested to pnv her. I will hold her reicij't goo HI ri'usint' theui, and we shall soon have that num ber in the field. With an army of four hundred and fiity thousand in the field, we may calculate with certainty on eating our Christniai; dinner in New York. So far from ieeling despondent, we should be glad to see these expeditions. They the enemv rruve wav and were di irou from' thoir York correspondent of the Philadelphia Evening tht number, not Position ■jCrten-s battery fell b«ck Missourians, Bulletin says: battle, but of thr>«e who have peri.shed through Arkan.-ian.v Louisianians and Texans pushed: I am not nure that an arrcy of Confederate* in- the natural oonsequenceso war, i wi n , p.r forwaid. The inces»ant roll of mu.'ketry wa« vading New York would not find a good imoant dcafenin". and the balls fell thick as haitstoties; of their own colors waiting for them. I am net but still our oallunt Southerners pushed onward, #are that the excellent and fashionable ladiea of and with one wild yell broke upon the enemy. Fifth and other avenues are tiot almost as ready split up the torce.s ot pushing them back a^nd strewing the ground with to flutter their cambric for Beauregard as for .Mo- Price of Sirigle copies of the above $5.00 A deduc- yjj these attempted diversii# g'o for nothing, petuosity of our iia 0 jr^e. nemy e _re Clellan. There is a dreadful state of sentiment Of this there is no doabt. It is probably t.-, «,*-i «(r»in ;• 1. • t.iro Aiir and could not acain be rallied, and they were Seen the strict truth that New York sbouW be under Will be made to those who hu\ to se.i ag.^in. P-reat obiect of these excursions 16 to turn OUr ana mjvuu nui *1.- -*• 1 l « J - EDWARD CASTWkLL. , 1 ne great oojt*. Tt »511 not d* at 12 ta?t r^treatirg amenj th« hiL*- the nartiaJ law .. , ,.,,6 Id Btt^rtion frrni Manajs.8« it win not u*. rsp iiaar Ncr . Jr.i) ^ haps, be over rating the deftructioD of hutaan life if we affirm, that one-tenth of the human race baa been destroyed by the ravages of war; and, according to this estimate, more than fourteen thousand millions of human beinga have been slaughtered’in war since tbe beginning of the world. Edmund Burke went still further, and reckoned the sum total of its ravages, from the first, ftt uo lew than tKirty-five th^jusand mxllions.
