North Carolina Newspapers

- & .1 OFFICE ON THE T SIDE OF TRADE STREET 2 per ariiaum IN ADVANCE CHARACTER IS AS IMPORTANT TO STATES AS IT IS TO "INDIVIDUALS, AXD THE GLORY OF JIIE ONE IS THE COMMON PROPERTY OF THE OTHER.- 3 YATSlSa Editor and Proprietor. CHARLOTTE, N. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1801. TENTH VOLUM E U MB E R 488. I I 1 1 I If . El 111 www THE fESTEM BEfflBSIilT, iQPubHsIird every Tues(la),Q) WILLIAM J. YATES, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. O !" l i:i :i ' '-'A $2 00 2 50 If :ai'i withia 3 months, If 'mil af:er the expiration of the year,... 3 00 pijg- :v person sending lis five xkw subscribers, conr.):'d by the advance subscription ($10) will receive a sixth copy gratis for one year. jgvj- S .1) -crihers and others who may wish to send m.jnev to u. do o by mail, at our risk. o Transient advertisements must be paid for in advance. Advertisements not marked on the manuscript for 'specific time, will be inserted until forbid, and -harged accordingly. SAMUEL P. SMITH, ,(totni'j and romiM'lor at Law, ('II A 11L0TTE, N C, ,t-:u at:r:id ;' mr'.'.v and iliUorntly to collecting and ri'iitthi ini ! i:as intrusted to his care. :t! jtiiciiti n ivi-n to the writing of Deeds, Con- (Vi'.ill'l,;. ''. faring hours of business, may be found in the Court II.mhc, h!i. w No. 1, adjoiuiug the clerk's ollice. January 10. irl J A. FOX, Attorney zxt JLmzx-w, CHARLOTTE, X. G. a EX Kit A L CO L L ECTlXtt A C. EX T. Cilice over the Drug Store, Irwin's corner. January 1, 1801. tf Wm. J. Kt-rr, A T T 15 . K V A T a A W, CHARLOTTE, N. C, Will practice in the County and Superior Courts of Mecklenburg. Cnioii and I'nl.arrus ountics. Ok kick in th Urawlev building opposite Kerr's Hotel. Jamtarj 24, l$ I ' ROBERT UUIBOX, SI. I).. PKACTITIOSLU VV JlCIUtnC AND Office. S. 2 Lulus eornr, CilARI.uTTK, N. C. January, 18tl. "l W. P,K('KV!Tli Has constantly on hand WATCHES. JEWELRY, PLATED WARE, &C, Of the best Kng-lisli and American manufacturers. Call'sH-l examine his stock before purchasing elsewhere. Watch crystals put in for 25 cents each. January, 18 SI y John T. Butler, PRACTICAL Watch anil Clock linker, Jew e33ei, &c, Opposite Kerr's Hot nr., Charlotte, N. C. (Late with U. W. Keckwith.) Fine lTalclH, Clrki V JVwlry, of every d-scrip: ion, Im paired and Warranted for 12 months. tK-l 1;. 1SC.0. tf J. G. WILKINSON CO., PEALKUS IX i f .juw y ANI TAXCV COOHS, No. 5, Granite Range, Opposite the Mansion House, CHARLOTTE, X. C. Attention - iveii to Repairing Watches and Jewelry. September IS, 1SG0. ' New Supply of WATCILKS, JEWELRY, Solid Silver and IMatid Wart. The subs .'i ibcr has lately purchased a very exteiu-ivr supply of the above articles. Hi purchases being made directlr from the manufacturer, he is therefore enabled to sell at a very small aJvim e on cost, and per.oui may rest assured that all his articles are war ranted to be what he represents them to be. Bjafc. Watches and Clo.-ks carefully repaired and will r.eetve my Phonal attention. BECKWIT. Nr. 27, lsoti tf t'liarloffe & f. BSalSrwatl. On an i after the Tirt d.tv of October. TIIKOCCH KXl'RKSS FRKMIIT I'RALNS will run Duly between Charlotte and Charleston, without transhipment, thus enabling frri-his to tea.h Charlotte i;; ."- days or less fr-jtn New York, and in one day I'tom Clwriystou. 11 Also, TUrvOrC.II TKKF.TS will be sold from Char lotte to (-.harlestou at $P ."0, and to Nw York, via t'liarlestou Steamers, at $ I ' . and rirr r,-ra. The mer ehauH and public, are invited to try this cheap and expeditious route for fi eights and passengers. A. 11. MARTIN. Oct 2, lS-iO. tf Gen'l Ft. and Ticket Agent. DR. E. H. ANDREWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, Would inform the public penerally. end the citizens of M eckienluirg ttart-cularlv. tnai ne uas iMn.i., ractice of DENTISTRY and may be found at his old I stand He is prepared to set Artilici.il leetli on uoiu. YniMiiiii or on the Choouhistic nroccs, as Silv patients may desire, and iiil Teeth with Gold, Tin. Amalgam or Os Artihcial. He is also prepared to perform any operation belong ing to Dentistry, and need not say that he will be pleas ed to wait upon, any of his old friends or new friends you may take that for granted. February 11 NKW GOODS. KOOPMANX k TIIELPS have received a handsome Aisortment of SPRING GOODS, consisting in part of DRESS GOODS, BONNETS, &C.f to which they invite particular attention. April Z.i, 18G1. North Carolina MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. This Company, the oldest and most reliable in the State, insures white persons for a term of years or during continuance of life, on moderate terms. Slaves insured, for one or" five years, for two-thirds of their market value. For in.-urance npplv to THOS. W." DEWEY, Apt., Jan 8, 1801 ly at Branch Bank N. C. Cantwcll'fi Practice. During my absence in the Military service of this State, in Virginia, subscribers and others desiringcop ies of the above work, can obtain them of Mrs. Cant well, Raleigh. All persons indebted to me, by note or otherwise, are requested to pay her. I will hold her receipt good. Price of single copies of the above 5,00 A deduc tion will be made to those who buy to sell nerain. EDWARD CANT WELL. Camp near Norfolk, July HO, 1861. Dissolution. The firm of FULLIXGS, SPRINGS & CO. was dis solved by limitation on the 1st January, lfsbl. The business will be continued under the name and style of FULLIXGS & SPRINGS, and they hope, by integrity and strict attention to business, to merit the same pntrotiajc heretofore liberally bestowed by their numerous friends and customers. The present linam ial crisis and the uncertainty of business, for the future compel us to shorten our time of credit from twelve to six months to prompt paying customers in.ne others need a?k it. All person indebted to the eld firm of Fullings, Springs it 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 wicis suffi cient." Jan 15. lbGl. Hardware ! ! Hardware ! ! A. A. N. 31. TAYLOK ESPECTl TLLY inform? his friends and the pub lic general! , that he has added to his extensive stock of Steves and Tin Ware, a large and complete stock of Hardware, consisting in part as follows: Carpenters' Tools. Circular, niiil. crosscut, hand, ripper, pannel, prun ing, grafting, tennnn, back, compass, webb, and butch er SAWS; llraees and bits, Draw Knives, Chissels. Augers, ;i;i:'ets. Hammers, Hatchets, and Axes: Brick, plastering. a!:d pointing Trowels: Saw-Betters, Screw plates, Stu. ijs and dies. Planes of all kinds, Spoke shaves, Steel-blade bevel and try Squares: Spirt Levels Pocket Levi-'s. Spirit, level Vials, Boring machines. Congers, a a l In fact everthing a mechanic wants, in irreat vari"-; a ".id at very low prices, at TAYLOR'S Hardware tre and Tin-ware Depot, opposite the Man sion HoiiM', Charlotte. N". C. May 2f, tf Blacksmith's Tools. Such as Bellows, Anvils, Vices, hand and slide IT.un-i!K-rs. Dot tresses, Farriers' Knives, Screw-plates, Stocks and dicf. Blacksmith's Pincers ami Tongs, Raspers and Files of every kind, Cut horseshoe and clinch Xails, Rorax: .Iron of all sizes, both of northern and country manufacture: cast. plow, blister and spring Steel; &c, for salt very cheap ,-tt TAYLOR'S, opposite the Mansion House: Ludlow's Celebrated Self-Sealing Cans, of all the dillerent sizes, at TAYLOll'S Hardware Store, opposite Mansion House. Agricultural Implements of all kinds. Straw Cutters. Corn S!n Hers, Plows, Hoes, Shovels, Spaies, Forks, Axes. Picks. Mattocks, Grubbing Hoes, Trafe Chains, Wagon Chains, Log Chains, Pruning and Hedge Shears, Pruning and budding Knives, gar den Hoes and Rakes, wit h handles; Grain Cradles; grain, rra.ss and brier Scythes, Bush Hooks, Wagon boxes: Billow ware, such as pots, oven? and lids, skill its, spi ders, stew-pans and kettles. Cauldrons trom 20 to 120 gallons each; Iron ami brass Preserving Kettles, Sheep Slitars. &c, at TAYLOR'S Hardware Depot, opposite tht Mansion House. Tin and Japanned Ware, A l:i'-:"e assortment: block ini Block Zinc, Tin Plate, Babfit metal, &c. Stoves, tiie largest Stock, of all sizes, at ' TAYLOR'S Hardware, Stove and Tin ware Depot, opposite Mansion House Taket up and committed to the Jail of Mecklenburg county, on the Sth day of September, 1 boo, a Negro bov nhoi.t l.S or 20 years of age, (black.) about 5 feet 6 or b iucb s hih. 1 1 e says his name is JIM, and that he belongs to John Worthy of Gaston county; that his master niived to Texas early lat Spring, at which time he rat away from him. Jim appears very dull: can scarcey communicate anything about his master or home w:;!i any intelligence. lie has a scar on his right fore inner, made by a cutting knife. The owner is requested o come forward, prove property, pay ex pense. and tike, s.-.id boy away, otherwise he will be disposed of atcoidinff to law. Oct. l, IbtiO. , tf W. W. G RIER, Sheriff. r-F.TKll It. HAVIi. W. II . HARDKE. DAVIS & HARDEE, PRODUCE COMMISSION MERC HAMS, REFER TO Ion. D W Courts. Gen. R W Haywood, Raleigh. N. C. Feb 1!, Ifi'A Cm-pd. ! All kinds .f EUROPEAN" BIRDS : ! als... a he;uti!'ul assortment of NEW ' STYLE OAGKS. Those wihtng a ' it" tiniSi.i:'.-irr. will find it at I " J. D. PALMER'S Variety Store, j ! Oie door above the Bank of Charlotte. I Nov 20. Ifsiio. j Notice. From and aftenhis day (1st of January, 1861,) we will be pleased to sell our old friends and customers, and the reft ofmaikind, for ca-h, and cash only, nnv article in our hie of business that we may have on hand. Anv pers..i sending or coming for Goods after this date, without noney, will please excuse us if, in stead of fill'nnr tl.er order, we furnish them with a copy of this advert semeut, a tee are determined imt to sell ft finite artiefe n eredtt. EQSt.And thoseindebted to u? are requested to call and nay, as we ii.t the money. 1 ' f GATES k WILLIAMS. January 1, 1 B'B tf M-li'kO FOR SAI.L I will sell for cih at the Court House door in Char lotte, on Saturday e 3th of November next, a Negro Boy named JIM. Se is to be sold as a runaway to satisfy Jail fees. Jtt, as the law directs. He says that he is the property of John Worthy, and is about 22 'years of aje. ; . J W. W. 6 RIER, Sheriff. 1 Sept 17, 1861. td MANY CHARMS, BUT NO LOVEB. The following lines were suggested by the pa triotic declaration of a voun? ladv. that the irreat- , est sacrifice she could make for her country was . P It I . to consent -ior ah the rcen to go to the war and nerseu to live an old maid : Not a lover yet have I, At my feet to sit and sih For one smile j Yet they've said that I was fair, And my cheeks like roses were, All the while. I have eyes of melting blue, And a warmer heart and true Ne'er Cupid taught. So I really can't divine AYhy this taper hand of mine Ne'er is sought. Yet for song of every bird Answering note is always heard Far above Though his face I never may see, "Well 1 know there's made for me One to love. If the truth must now be told, I am growing r-tther old, Waiting here; And when next you gaze on me Gone the roses all will be, Much I fear. In the happy days gone by, E'er was heard the lierce war cry, bounding wide, I did hope my love would come, Taking me to heart and home, Happy bride ! Now, to meet the invading foe, Kagerly I'd bid him go, Flowers to take ! Should he fall, lesigned am I, Maid to live, a maiden die, For his sake. WHEAT ! The subscriber is prepared to purchase the new crop of Wheat at the highest market price. Farmers will find it to their advantage to call at the CHAR LOTTE STEAM MILLS before selling. Jan'y 1, 1801 tf JNO. WILKES. I have now on hand and am constantly receiving large quantities of Hides, which I will exchange for Leather. S. M. HOWELL, Ct-pd Charlotte, X. C. October S. Is'Gl $75 ISHWARD. RUNAWAY' from where we had them hired, near Chester, in June last, our three negro men. viz : Bill. Giles and Henry. Bill and Giles we bought the 14th of last November at the tate sale of Ed. Leach, on Broad River, in York District. They being brothers and having rela tions in the neighborhood where we purchased them, it is more than likely th.ey have made their way back to their old neighborhood. Bill is about 26 years old, 5 feet 8 inches high, will weigh 150 or 1 00 pounds; is very black; rather sharp faced, speaks quick when spoken to. Giles his brother, is about 24 years old; 5 feet 9 inches high: will weigh ItJO lbs., is very black, and walks with his head up and feet turned out in front. Henry, we purchased Jan. 1, of Col. C. Rives on the Catawba river. He is 28 years old, well set. 5 feet 10 inches high, and will weigh 175 pounds; has a heavy brow and speaks slowly: has some character as a run away. May go to Charleston or Washington city, it is hard telling where he will go as he is a gentleman of travel. They all ran off about the same time. We will pay $75 reward for the 3 men; or $25 a piece for either of them delivered in any jail so that we can get them. These boys may attempt to make their wav North as some others from this place have at tempted. PRIDE &. DUNOVAXT. Chester, S. C, July 30, loOl tf 625 IS E WARD. SAME. ROTHSCHILD having absconded from this place, not complying with his contract, the above re ward will be given for his arrest and confinement til! I am heard from. Said Rothschild was detained in Charleston, S. C, cn the 10th inst., was released and left Charleston on the 17th inst. for parts unknown. It is supposed here he will make his way to Louisville, Kv., or Savannah, Ga. WM TBELOAR. 'Charlotte, N. C, Sept 24, 1PC1 PROCLAMATION BY HIS EXCELLENCY, HENRY T. CLARK, GOV ERNOR OF THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA. Executive Dkpartment, 1 Kaleigh, Oct. 3d, 1861. j In pursuance of the power given me by the It'th section of the Constitution, and by and with the ad vice of the Council of State, I do hereby prohibit the exportation beyond the limits of this State, ot all bacon, pork, beef, leather, men's shoes, woolen goods, jeans, liudseys and blankets except through the orders of the proper officers of the Confederate Government, or of the State Government. The order of the loih ult. is hereby revoked. The Adjutant General is directed to employ all necessary means to carry into full effect this order. Done at the citv of Raleigh, this 3rd da v of October, A. D., lfcGl. HENRY T. CLARK. Oct 8 4t Governor Ex-officio. Notice to the Sheriffs of the different Counties of North-Carolina. All Blankets and Clothing which may be received by you can be sent directly to the several Companies "which went from your county and when your own Companies are supplied, you will then forward any balance on hand to the Quartermaster in Raleigh. You w ill put up all articles intended for your Companies in strong boxes, directed to the Quartermaster in Raleigh with the Company and the Regiment plainly marked on them; and you will have the contents of each box marked on it. Whenever the Companies are on duty in your neigh borhood, you are authorized to deliver the articles to them, taking the receipt or me v apiaiu ior mem, vmiiu receipt vou will forward to this office. October 8, 1861. J. DEVERECX, A. Q. M. QUARTERMASTER'S OFFICE, October 3d, 1861. J Any person or persons who may.be desirous of taking contract for making Clothes for the Army of North -Carolina, can obtain terms, Ac, on application at this office Goods will be issued to any responsible parties, in quantities sufficient to clothe single Com panies which can be made op in their own neighbor hoods, and. !.he uioos nill be paid to the parties re ceiving Die Good- on the return of the manufactured article's. Parties may furnish the Cloth, which will be p3id for byhe State. J. DEVEREUX, A- Q- M. October S L561. - I i THE CONFEDERATE STATES ELEC TIONS. There seems to be in our exchanges a number I of misstatements with regard to the days on which the Lonleuerate elections are to be held. e make, Lr precise and general information, the fol lowing abstract of the act of Congress regulating such elections : The eloction for members of Congress is to be held on the first - Wednesday in November, 1801, which election shall be conducted according to the permanent Constitution ajid the laws of the several States in force for that purpose. In States which may not have provided by law for such election, the game will be held according to the laws heretofore existing in such States for the election of members of the House of Kepresenta tives in the Congress of the United States. The appointment of Electors for President and : Vice President is also made on the day of the : ( Vm rrfsiinn:il fdirtinn x firaf W'pt1tutliiii in I November. The Electors are to meet in their respective States on the fi. Wednesday in December, 1SG1, and proceed to vote for President and Vice Presi dent. Congress is to assemble in recular session, at the seat of Government, on the eighteenth day of February, 1SG2. On the nineteenth day of February, it is provided that the President of the Senate shall open the certificates, and the votes fur President and Vice-President shall then be counted. The President of the Confederate States shall be inaugurated on the iiccnty -second day of Feb ruary, 18G2. Chkertng from our Coast. We received this morning from a friend who has visited New bern, Beaufort, Fort Macon and Washington, a long and very interesting lettter on the condition and defences and progress of that portion of our coast, under the energetic and skillful direction of'Cien. Hill. The information he furnishes it would be improper to publish, but we can assure our readers that it has cheered us 1'ar more than any thing we have heard on the subject. The Lincoln bloekadcrs off Beaufort, are the j Cambridge, currying G guns and GO men, and an other smaller steamer, carrying 2 guns, they keep carefully out of the range of the guns of Fort Ma con. Our correspondent says there was a groat con trast between the appearance of a Georgia regi ment and one of our North Carolina regiments (Col. Jordan's) when he saw them tigethcr at Washington. Our men were well uniformed and presented a fine appearance; whilst the Georgians had no particular uniform, and what they had was the wor-e for wear. Georgia .will not allow that to be said again. Fayettei ille. Observer. ' Operations at Hatteras. The Norfolk Pay Book of the 21st, Contains the following: We learn from a gentlemen, who arrived in this city on Saturday from Boanoke Island, and who was on board one of the vessels of the Confederate fleet, that visited in the neighborhood of Hatteras dining the week, that the Yankees are building something like a wharf out from Haiteras, and are throwing the stone overboard that they have been canying there in vessels, supposed to be for the purpose of blocking up the Inlet. Our infor mant was told by one of the bankers who had been to Hatteras, that they had cut a canal twenty feet wide across the bejich, and that recent high tides had made an island of Fort Hatteras, the canal forming a I most another inlet. It was also the im pression of the banker that the Federals intend ed to block up the Inlet with stone, in order to prevent its being used for privateering purposes, in tht event of their having to evacuate it. Noueoi.k, Oct. 21, 1801. There is now in Hampton Bonds sixty odd vessels in all, coni-ting of o- steamers and the balance sailing vessels. A Federal Lieutenant from one of these ships was taken hist night at Pig's Point. His name is Hale, and he professes to be a nephew of the secretary of the Lincoln Navy. He says he desert ed, having become tired of the service. This is a very good yarn no doubt, but w ill hardly avail him much. When taken he was in a canoe above, making his way to our shore at Pig's Point- no doubt for the purpose of rccoiinoitering, and having been caught, comes forward with a most wonderful batch of information for the Confederate-. He says that the Lincoln forces have no idea of attacking Norfolk; that tiieir object is Beaufort, in North -Carolina. Norfolk, he says, they know to be too strongly fortified, and they are afraid to attempt an attack. Lincoln oifers aid and comfort to Mexico. The New York Herald savs that intelligence has been received from Minister Corwin, in .Mexico, which is regarded as highly important at this time. Mexico is compelled to have money to pay the interest on her English debt, and thus release her from her present embarrassment. The Herald i (tit her states that Lincoln's Government is de termined to staud by Mexico at all hazards, and will protect her against any "encroachments from foreign powers. Pnsi lent Lincoln had addressed a letter to England, Fra.ice and Spain, that those powers might know what his intentions are, but no response from those powers had been received. The Yankees will have about as much as they can do to help themselves, without undertaking to aid Mexico. Imports at New York. A late number of the N. Y. Herald puts down the imports at that place for the week at $G00,000. For "the corres ponding week last year they were over $3,000,000, or five times as large as' they are now. These fig ures tell a woful tale for the "mighty North." Jf A dispatch from RiclMuond dated the 20th says "One federal vessel was burnt on the Poto mac yesterday, and two to-day, by hot shot from our batteries near Evansport." . . . Capt. Alfred M. Scales has been elected Colonel of the 3d Regiment N. C. Volunteers, in place of Col. Pender, who was elected Colonel of the 6th Ret. State Troops. YANKEE EXPENDITURES. The Yankees have already taken the alarm at the enormous expenditures instituted by the pres ent Administration to carry on the war against the South. The Cincinnati Enquirer tells us that six hundred millions form no trifle of a debt for the Yankee nation to bear, whatever President Liu coln may think of it. It adverts to the signifi cant fact that it is more than one-seventh of the debt left upon the shoulders of Great Britain by eight hundred years of war. The wealth of the United States, it observes, is not one-tenth part the wealth of Great Britain, and consequently it will be harder for the United States to bear a debt of six hundred millions than it is for Great Britain to bear her present debt of four thousand millions. The interest on 8000,000,000 at six per cent is 836,000,000, fully as much as the customs yield annually, upon an average. It would be necessary, therefore, to raise the sum re quired for the expenses of the Government by direct taxation, and the principal would have to be paid, if it ever was paid, by an assessment upon the pockets of the people. The-funding of this debt would create an aristocracy, and grind down the poorer classes. Taxes upon tea, coffee, sugar, molasses upon all articles of luxury or necessity would necessarily follow, and would be added to the State, municipal, and corporation debts under which Yankeedom already groans. Such is a Yankee estimate of the consequences dependent upon the creation of a debt of six hun dred millions. But suppose this war should last ten years; what will be the state of the case then ? The Yankee Government is spending at this moment 88,500,000 a week that is, 3442,000,000 a year. Since the revenue from customs is oidy $30,000, 000 a year, it is impossible to suppose that a dollar of the principal thus accumulating will be paid off in the interval. Every year it will be necessary to raise a fresh sum of" 442,000,000. This year the Yankee pays interest on $000,000,000, and he is directly taxed to do it. Next year he pays the interest on $01)0,000,000, the old debt, and a fresh debt of $442,000,000; or, casting up the whole sum, be pays the interest nest year on 1,012, 000,000, which in round numbers is $00,000,000. Thus his taxes are raised every year $30,000,000, and at the end of the ten years he finds his coun try upwards of five thousand millions in debt, and he is taxed to assist in paying an interest reaching the enormous figure of $300,000,000. By the creation of this enormous debt, the Yankees destroy everything of which they have heretofore boasted. They destroy their manufac tures, for the taxes will be so high that they can not a fiord to manufacture. They destroy com merce, for if cannot exist under such a load of taxation. They destroy their cities, for taxation must render it impossible for any but wealthy men to rent houses. They reduce the price of labor fo low that the operatives in the factories cannot live, and the laborers on the farms must be con tent with the coarsest food. They cut up immi gration by the roots, for foreigners will not come to America to be taxed as highly as they are taxed at home. They deal a death-blow to all public improvements; for who will buy railroad or canal shares when they are taxed se highly that they yield no profit ? The wretchedness that must settle down upon all Yankeedom is beyond con ception, and yet the value of these Southern States to them was so great that they are willing to en counter it all, rather than part with them. North Carolina State Hospital in Petkiis m;ito. This large building, capable of accommo dating 250 to 300 sick, is so nearly finished that about a dozen of Col. Ransom's Cavalry regiment was received in it on Friday last. It is said to be the most convenient institution of the kind in the South. It will be under the general management and supervision of the Governor of North Carolina, and the Surgeon General of the State, Dr. ('has. E. .Johnston. The immediate attendants are: Peter E. Hines, Principal Surgeon, Harvey L. Hines, and F. 31. Henderson. Assistant Sur geons. Mrs. C G. Kennedy has been apopinted matron, to be aided by two assistants. ' "The Pressure of Peklk' Opinion. " When this war broke out we had a very respecta ble and gentefl colore! barber here Isham Swett by na-ne who was induced to give up his tonso rial operations here and accompany two of our Company officers to the war as waiter, &c. After about four months of camp life he came home ail ing and declined t'j return to camp But soon he called upon the lady of one of the officers to"'say that he was about to go back, and to ask her com mands. "Why, Swett," snid she, "I understood that you had tired of camp life and had come back to stay." "So I had, madam," was the re ply; ''and 1 have made every effort to st iy, but the pressure of public opinion is too strong for me and I am compelled to return to my duties in the camp." This "s a pretty fair illustration of public opin ion in Fayetteville, which is not 'only thoroughly depleted of its young d en capable of bearing arms, but even a respectable f ree man of color can't stay at home if w ell enough to go. Fayette ville Observer. - Suicide. In this county, on Tuesday m6rning last, the dead body of Sarah Ann Walker, daugh ter of John Walker, was found suspended from the rafter in the garret of her father's house. It appears this daughter kept house for her father, and. a she occasionally visited the ueighbors, her absence in this instance, for a day created no un easiness, until on Tuesday morning her father be came some what alarmed at her protracted absence and instituted search, when her body was found as above stated. We have heard of no cause assigned for -the rash act. The verdict of the jury was that the deceased came to her death by her own hands. She was, aged about 28 years. Salem Press. - - , Coffee. We, learn by the last Texas papers that a train from the Ilio Grande recently brought to San Antonio 500 sacks of Coffee. It is thought that a brisk trade will spring . up in that section of country- coffee will be brought in aud v cotton taken out to Mexico. - . LETTER FROM HON. JOHN C. BRECK INRIDGE. , The first copy of the Louisville Courier, publish ed at Bowling Green, Lentuoky, contains a lengthy and able letter from Hon. John C. Breckinridge. After reviewing the action of the Kentucky Leg islature, and giving a general glance at thedeapo tio proceeding of the Lincoln Government, txom its inception to tho present time, ho concludes as follows: ' - "I would speak of these things with the simple solemnity which their magnitude demands, yet it is difficult to restrain the expression of a just in dignation, while we smart under such enormities. Mr Lincoln has thousands of soldiers on our soil, nearly all from the North, and nioet of them for eigners, whom he employs as his instruments to do these things. But few Kentuckians have enlist ed under his standard, for we are not yet accus tomed to his peculiar form of liberty. I will not pursue the disgraceful subject, lias Kentucky passed out of the control of her own people? Shall hirelings of the pen, recently im ported from the North, sitting in grand security at the Capital, force public opinion to ' approve these usurpations, and point out victims? ' Shall Mr Lincoln, through his German mercenaries, im prison or exile tho children of the men who laid the foundations of this Commonwealth, and com pel the people to exhaust themselves in furnish ing the money to destroy their own freedom? Never, while Kentucky remains the Kentucky ; of old never, while thousands of her gallant sons have the will and the nerve to make; the State sing to the music of t:;eir rifles! Tho Constitu tion of the United States, which these invaders unconstitutionally swear every citizen whom they unconstitutionally seize, to support, has been whol ly abolished. It is as much forgotten as if it lay away back in the twilight of history. The facts I have enumerated show that the very rights most carefully reserved by it to States and to in dividuals, have been most conspiciously violated. And this destruction has been accomplished not by the President alone, but by tho Congress also, and with the approval of the Northern States and people. They have deliberately made the contest a constitutional struggle between so many millions on one side and so many on the other one party fi-htiug for subjugation, the other in self defence and independence. Whatever may be the future relations of the two Confederacies, tho idea of a restoration of the Union under the old Constitu tion is wholly visionary and delusive. If the North should conquer the South (which it will perceive to be impossible after a few hundred millions more shall be expended and a few hundred thou sand lives 1 st, (the character of the Government would be radically changed. It would probably not take the form even of a mixed Government, but would soon end in a military despotism. It must soon become apparent to all thoughtful men that the lar.t hope of constitutional liberty lies in the early recognition of these great truths in an honorable peace and friendly intercourse. You declared your purposes not to engage in the war to subdue the South, and that you . would be neutral and meditate in the interests of peace when an opportunity should offer. This is the re corded will of the State as expressed by tho peo ple. But those who assume to represent you, have violated that will. They have attempted to burden you with enormous taxes to prosecute a war you abhor, and to sustain a govcrment which has trampled under foot every safeguard of a Con stitution which was the only bond of your politi cal connection with it, while they have allowed that Government to cut you off from the only av enues of trade which would enable you to pay these taxes. They have invited a military force of that Government to take possession of the State ai d practically supersede the .State Government, and they have seen, with complacency, theso for eign .soldiers seize, imprison, and pursue hundreds of your fellow-citizens fugitives, without a crime over the plains and mountains of Kentucky. In a word, they have attempted, without consult irfg you, and against your recorded wishes to place you in active hostility to your Southern brethren, and to fix your political destiny , with tho North. '' , For those who, denied by the Legislature tho protection due t the humblest citizen, have been delivered over to the tender mercies of for eign mercenaries, arid hunted like partridges on the mountains, what remains but imprisonment, exile or resistance? As one of them, I intend to resist. I will avoid conflict with Kentuckians, except in necessary self defence; but I will unite with my fellow-citizens to resist the invaders, who have driven us from our homes - To this course we are impelled by the highest scn30 of duty and the irresistible instincts of manhood. ' To defend your birthright and mine, which is more precious than domestic cafe, or property, or life, I ex change, with proud satisfaction, a term of six years in the Senate of the United States for the mukct of a soldier. This letter is written at the first moment since my expulsion from home that I could place my feet upon the soil of Kentucky. I have not been able to see or communicate with my friend and collea gue, Gov. Powell, nor do I , know what course he will think it proper to take. But this you and 'know that his conduct will be controlled by pure motives. Y'our fellow-citizen, ' . "4 JOHN 0. BRECKINIUDGK. Bowling Green, A., Oct. 8, 18GI. . vv In this address, Mr Breckinridge returns to the people of Kentucky the commission of : Sena tor in the Congress of the United States, with which they had honored him. He does not . cen sure the Kentucky Legislature as the cause of any of the evils to the State whioh hare arisen indirectly through the medium of that body. They are not, he says, free. - " 1 " - V Dishonest: Speculation. The practice . of buying up articles of prime importance such as woolen' goods, provisions, ., eoffce, sugar, salt, medicines,' &c, &c, for the purpose of sailing again at immensely enhanced prices, has, vrs 'observe, called forth energetic remonstrances from the highest authorities in many of our States.- The Governors of North Carolina, Alabama," Louisiana, and Tennessee have considered the subject worthy of official attention, and expressed, accordingly, their indignation in public jnossages. Jiichx. S7: