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CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1862.
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TENTH T OlUJIENCUDER 5C3.
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BY
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WILLIAM J.
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
IN ADVANCE.
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advance.
aF Advertisement- not marked on the manmcript
or a specific time, will he inserted until forbid, and
;harred accordingly.
A STATEMENT
of the killed, voundrd and captured in the sev
eral battles and other engagements in the
year 1SG1.
"federal successes.
Battles.
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ISC I
June 3 Phillippi,
June l.s'Koonville,
July 12;ltiri Mountain
July in. St. George,
An 2s'I!titteras,
rt 21 Fr 1 rkktow n
Nov 7 Port Horn I,
Iee 3 Diiiiiitvilie,
I
I Total.
BMW I
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s is 1 1
iy
l 1 ! ! !
7 20 J j 15
4 2o 50; 4; 9
4.1 55 2o So!
J3j 500 4. loj
1 21 C'Jl i I
I i
" 12 " 40 8, 23
43; U3 8 50 100!
i ; ; ! ;
1 8P1 278 124D e; 1
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('ON FEDERATE XV VC K KS.
Dates
IS-
Battles.
Ft-tj j ."?) Antonio.
Mar 12 Frt Brown,
A;.l 13 Fort Sumter,
A1 '5 Fort Bliss,
A 1 20 Iiidiaimla,
May 10 Si inll's Point,
May 31 Fuirti'i C. H..
J ti ne 1 j A uia Creek,
June 5jl'i'. Point,
June 10 !r-at Bethel,
June 1; Vienna,
June 17 Kansiio City,
J lue 1 New Creek,
J uii; J; Romtu-y,
Jiinr 27' J!atli: Point,
.l ily - I I:iy ii-.-villi",
J il . 5 t '.u t li;t-re,
1 7. Scary Creek,
IHjllull Run,
2 I i Iana.ssa-,
J.jiy 2.V Meailla,
July 2f Fort Stanton,
Afi h Springfield,
Aug ISi.Matbia Point,
A'ig 20 ffawks' Nest,
A u -7 Ba i ley's' X Rds
A'i- 27 Cros.-: Lanes,
Sept 3 B r Creek,
Nrpt It) Li.tuley,
Spt 1 1 , Li'winsville,
Sept lllToney's Creek
S.-pt 1 y ! ;.n lioiirsville, !
. t
rM-pi jo lyexmron,
Sept .25! Alanu-sa,
Oct 1 Stcatn'r Fanny
3 1 1 rtenbrier.
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Rosa,
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GOVERNMENT OP NORTH CAROLINA.
Henry T. Clark, Governor ex officio. Salary
.nfMl nor Annum.
i Pulaski Cowper, Secretary to the Governor. Sal
ary, exclusive of fees, $310.
Rufus II. Paz, Secretory of State. Salary $800.
Daniel V. Courts, Treasurer. Salary $2,000.
W. R. Richardson, chief clerk to the treasurer.
Snlnrv $ 1.2(H).
I C. II. Bropden, Comptroller. Salary $1,000,
Oliver II Terry, librarian.
The Council of State is composed of the following
gentlemen: Council Woolen of Lenoir, President,
John W Cunningham of Person, David Murphy
of Cumberland, Wm A Ferguson of Bertie, J F
Graves of Surry, J J Long of Northampton, W
L Ilillard of Buncombe.
Governor's Aids Hon Danl M Barringer, Spier
Whitaker.
Literary Board Henry T Clark, President ex
officio; Arch'd Henderson of Rowan. Jas B Gor
don of Wilkes. Vm J Yates of Mecklenburg.
Internal Improvement Board Henry T Clark
President ex officio; James Fulton of New Han
over, N M Long of Halifax,
The General Assembly commences its session on
the third Monday of November every alternate year.
The next election fer members, and for Governor,
will be held on the first Thursday of August, 1602.
CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT.
Jefferson Davis of Mississippi. President.
Alex H Stephens of Georgia, Vice President.
R M T Hunter of Virginia, Secretary of State.
C G Memminger of South Carolina. Sec'y of Treaa.
J P Benjamin of Louisiana. Secretary of War.
S R Mai lory of Florida, Secretary of Navy.
Thos Bragg of North Carolina, Attorney General.
J H lleagan of Texas, Postmaster General.
MEMBERS OP THE FIRST PERMANENT
CONFEDERATE CONGRESS.
SENATE.
NORTH CAROLINA.
-3 T3
in-
6; lo
5!
150
100
100
C(0
J i!y
J 11 : v
I
15 30
2 3
1
2 12
I0O1 2.r0 ..
50 J 100
150
7
1 u
3
13
2ou
1
53
37t I48.i
3
30
50
3
15
fi
C7
300
50
200
IOdo
10
205
I
3
800
10
S5
200
100
30
2500
150
30! 1000' 1200
Oct
Oct
Oct
Oct
Oct
Oct
Nov
N.v
Nov
Nov
No v
Nov
Nov
IrC
D.e
.1
9; Santa
12 Mi 5. Passes,
16 Bolivar,
2 1 Eee'-hnrg,
i lUlmoiit,
f'.kct,n,
'. i i tiy :i n-!otte,
IT 1'pton Hill.
IFhI!s Church,
22'Pensneola,
2i 'Near Vienna,
2 Anaii'lale,
13 'Alleghany,
Dec 17jV'ool.oiiville,
Dec 2t Oj'otliJeyholo,
Dec 2.vSaorauieuto,
20
yfn
5'
i
2
31
42
10
111
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53
20
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75o
300
30
50
150 250
5 9
20 30
100
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Total,
25
4
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601
loj
20
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20j 30 17
I f I 40 12
5!oj 800 72fi
400 1 tiooi 200
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40! 501 Jl
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7 10
10 2i'
lo; 2'-.
4 15
loo 200
30 45 8
75 125 100
!0j 20 18
9K4 3356. 218 4325,7614 8777
Killed
Wounded, .
Prisoners, .
RKC A PIT l' I. AT ION.
Coufed. losses.
1,12'
:?.:;4
1,477
Fed. losses.
4 911
7,t21
8,777
Total 6,231
21.609
SAMUEL P. SMITH,
Attorney and ComiM-lur at Law,
CHARLOTTE. X C,
Will attend promptly and Jittyntftf to collecting and ;
remitting all claim intrust"! 10 hi? enre.
Special attention given to the writing of Deeds, Con
veyances, Sic.
Eaif During hotirs of business, mav be found in the
Court H ue, Oilic No. I, adjoining the clerk's oftW.
Jani:arv 1 0. 1S62
J, A. FOX,
-flLttornoy eft Xji,wy
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
( FSERAL COLLKCTISG ACKST.
Ofli.-e over the Drug Store.'Irwin's corner.
January 1, 1862 tf
11. W. BECKWITH
Has conjtantlv on hand
WATCHES, JEWELRY, PLATED WARE, &C,
Of the best English and American manufacturers.
Ca-aB u"a,"'nc his stoctfore parcha.ing elsewhere.
N atch crystals put in for 25 csnts each.
January, 1B62 T
ALABAMA.
Wm L Yancy,
Clement C Clay.
ARKANSAS.
Robert W Johnson,
Charles B Mitchell.
F 1,0 K IDA.
A E Maxwell,
J M linker.
OKORfilA.
Benjamin II Hill,
Robert Toombs.
LOI'ISIANA.
Edward Sparrow,
T J Senimes.
stississiri'i.
Albert (J Brown,
James l'helan
VIRGINIA.
R M T Hunter,
Wm B Preston.
George Davis,
Wm T Dortch.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Robert W Barnwell,
James L Orr.
TENNESSEE.
Langdon C Hnynes,
Guslavus A Henry.
TEXAS.
Louis T Wigfall,
W S Oldham.
KENTUCKY.
II C Burnett.
William E Simms.
Missorr.i.
John B Clark.
R S Y Peyton.
Total number, 26.
HOUSE.
Thomas S. Bocock, Speaker.
7 David Clopton,
8 James L Pugh,
!)ES Dargan.
ALABAMA.
Thoma .1 Foster, G W Chilton,
Wm R Smith,
John P Ralls,
J L M Curry,
Francis S Lyon,
ARKANSAS.
Felix J Balson, 3 Augustus II Garland,
Grandison D Royster, 4 Thos B Hauly.
FLORIDA.
James B Hawkins, 2 Hilton.
GEORGIA.
Julian Hartridge,
C J Munnerlyn.
Hines Holt,
A II Kenan,
David W Lewis,
6 William W Clark,
7 Robt P Trippe.
8 L J Gartrell.
9 Hardy Strickland,
10 A B Wright.
KENTUCKY.
7 II W Bruce,
8 S S Scott,
9 E M Bruce,
10 J W Moore.
11 R J Brpckinridge, Jr.,
12 John M Elliott.
Alfred Br.vd,
John W Crockett,
II E Read
(Jeorge W Ewing,
J S Chrisman,
T L Burnett,
LOUISIANA.
Charles J Villiere, 4 Lucien J Dupre,
Charles M Conrad, 5 John F Lewis,
Duncan F Kcuner, 6 John Perkins, Jr.
MISSISSIPPI.
5 II C Chambers,
6 O R Singleton,
7 E Barksdale.
John J MeRae,
S W Clapp,
Reuben Davis,
Israel Welch.
MISSOURI.
5 W W Cook,
6 Thos W Freeman,
7 Thos A Harris.
John liver.
Casper W Bell,
George W Vest,
A II Conrew,
NORTH CAROLINA.
W N II Smith, 6 Thomas S Ashe,
Robert R Bridgers, 7 James R McLean,
Owen R Kenan, 8 William Lander,
T D McDowell, 9 B S Gaither.
Archibald Arrington, 10 A T Davidson.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
W W Boyce, 4 John McQueen,
W Porcher Miles, 5 James Farrar,
M L Booham, 6 L M Ager.
TENNESSEE.
7 G W Jones,
J T Heiskell,
W G Swann,
W 11 TVbbs.
E L Gardenshire,
II S Foote,
M P Gentry.
John A Wilcox,
Peter W Gray,
8 Thomas Menees,
9 J D C Adkins,
10 Bullock,
1 1 David M Currin.
TEXAS.
4 Wm B Wright,
5 Malcolm Graham,
Claiborne C Herbert, G B F Sexton.
VIRGINIA.
John T. Butler,
PRACTICAL
Watch and Clock Jlaker, Jew
eller, Vc.,
Opposite Kerr's Hotel, Charlotte, X. f.
(Late with R. W. Beckwith.)
Fine Yl'atclifn, Clock &. Jenrlry,
of every description. Repaired and Warranted for 12
months.
Oct 1, ISfii. v
M R II Garnetr.
John R Chambliss,
James Lyons,
Roger A Pryor,
Thomas S Bocock,
John Goode, Jr.
James P Holcombe,
Dan'l C Dejarnette,
Total number 107.
9 William Smith,
10 Alex R Boteler.
11 John B Baldwin,
12 Walter R Staples,
13 Walter Preston,
14 Albert G Jenkins.
15 Robert Johuson,
Hi Charles W Russell.
WOOD-WORK and BLACKSjJITDIKG.
The subscriber is prepared to do all kinds of Wood
work and Black6mithing, such as making and repair
ing Wagons and Buggies, Horse-shoeing, Ac. His Shop
is at his residence, nearly opposite Mr W F Phifer's
dwelling, and he also hat 2. Blacksmith Shop on the
back-street in the rear of the Mecklenburg House.
He solicits a 6hare of public patronage, and feels
confident he cau give satisfaction both iu workmanship
and charge. Give him a trial.
J. H. FR0PEST.
January T, 1?2.
&ft 38tsttrn Jhmorrat.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
What they intend to do ? The members
of the Lincoln Congress are discussing the ques
tion of how the Southerners are to be disposed of
after they are subjugated. Some advocate hang
ing, whilst others propose to only confiscate our
property and appoint rulers for us of the "loyal"
stripe. Senator Trumbull of Illinois, appears to
be the roost moderate man in the yankee Senate,
and he proposes to treat us as belligerents so long
as the war lasts, but at the end of the war (after
we are conquered) the southerners in the bands of
the Lincolnites must be tried for treason, and all
southern property confiscated and divided among
the Northern ' brethren" after paying the expen
ses of the war. JMr Trumbull is quite liberal !
Others propose to colonize us like the free ne
groes in Liberia. But a man named Willey, a
traitor who pretend s to represent Virginia in the
Lincoln Senate, thinks it would be too expensive
to transport the "rebels," and therefore proposes
to hang every one of them.
These things show what southern people might
expect if they permit themselves to be subjugated.
So every man had better make up his mind now
to spt-nd the last dollar and shed the last drop of
his -blood in defending his rights, rather than be
brought to poverty and degradation by Abe Lin
coln and his vile people. To arms! to arms! ye
southern men, and strike for your liberty, honor
and property. Now is the time to rally and resist
your barbarous enemies. Allow no traitor to lurk
in your midst he that is not for us is against us,
and must be treated as an enemy.
JBg Watch the Railroad bridees. Watch the
foundries and workshops in the South. Watch
your barns. Watch your store houses. Watch
for incendiaries. Arrest all suspicious persons
and submit them to a thorough examination. If
this had been done six months ago, much valuable
property would have been saved. Act prudently
and discreetly, but firmly and vigorously.
An attempt was recently made to burn the rail
road bridge across Neuse river at Newbern in or
der to hinder communication with Fort Macon.
Pay of Members of Congress. To the
Editors of Oku Richmond Enquirer Gentlemen:
Permit me to express my surprise and regret at
the action of the. Senate of the Confederate States
in passing the bill for the pay of members of Con
gress, aud the oCcers of that body.
The Senate has fixed the pay of members of
Congress at the enormous sum of three thousand
dollars per annum, and twenty cents per mile for
mileage. The Speaker of the House $0,000, and
the officers of the Senate proportionate salaries.
One of the last acts of the old United States
Congress was the passage of just such a bill as
this so enormous that it shocked the sense of
the country. Eight dollars per day is a large
compensation for any member of Congress; and
the people will not, and ouirht not to submit to
such an enormous waste of the public money as
this bill proposes. I hope you will publish the
ayes and noes on the passage of Eaid bill.
VlRGlNIUS.
We agree with the writer of the above exactly.
This is no time for high salaries, and it seems
strange that members of our Congress should vote
themselves such pay when the Confederacy is in
its infancy, and needs all the money she can com
mand foT war purposes. We had hoped that the
Confederate Congress would have set an example
in economy.
Lieut-Col. Cantwell, of the 2d North Carolina
regiment, has been appointed Military Governor
of Norfolk, and Capt. Parham, of Sussex county,
Virginia, holds the position of Provost Marshal of
that city.
m .
President Pavis has called' on Virginia for
40,000 additional troops. Governor Letcher has
issued a proclamation calling upon Virginians to
rally and volunteer at once without waiting for
.he operations of the draft law. The new levies
are ordered to hasten by express to rendezvous.
Every, man is appealed to to take his own or
borrow his neighbor's fire-arm and hasten to
Winchester, Manassas, Fredericksburg, Norfolk
and Williamsburg.
The Draft. In reply to the letter or inquiry
of an esteemed friend at Prospect Hill, Caswell,
we state that the present draft for one third of the
militia is not for two years or for the war, but on
ly to repel invasion. The Convention expressly
refused to authorise a draft for the war. It is be
lieved that the bounty offered by the two govern
ments will be the means, in addition to the patrio
tic feelings of our people, of raising a sufficient
number of men from this State for the war. It is
also believed that the militia who are now being
called out will not remain long in service. Ral
eiyh Standard.
Plant Corn! Every farmer owes it to his
neighbors and to bis country to plant all the corn
he can, and to make as little cotton and tobacco
as possible. The soldiers must have meat and
bread, and their families at home must be provided
for. Plant corn! it is the staff of life. A good
corn crop this year will do more for the South
than any thing else. The time for cotton aud
tobacco will come after a while; but this is the
year for planting cern.
Fatal Accident. Yesterday, Sunday morn
ing, whil the old steamer Johnson, ferry-boat
plying between Beaufort and Fort Macon and the
Morehead City Railroad wharf, was lying at the
Fort wharf awaiting for passengers and freight 00
her way to connect with the up traiu, her boiler
bursted, killing one man, a Mr. Parsons, member
of Capt. Guion's company, and wounding three
others. Xticbera Progress, V)th. -
THE DESTRUCTION BILL,
The following is the bill passed by the Confed
erate Congress pioviding for the destruction of
cotton, tobacco, military and naval stores, to pre
Tent the enemy from getting possession of them :
A bill to regulate the destruction of property un
der military necestity, ttnd to provide fur the
indemnity theretf.
Sec. 1. The Congress of the ConfedetateaStates
of America do enact that the military authorities
of the Canfederate Army are hereby authorized
and directed to destroy Cotton, Tobacco, military
and. naval stores, or other property of any kind
-whatever, which may aid the enemy in the prose
cution of the war, when necessary to prevent the
same or any part thereof from falling into the
hands of the enemy.
Sec 2. Be it further enacted, That the owners
of property destroyed under the operation of this
Act, as well as those persons who shall voluntarily
destroy their property to prevent the same from
falling into the hands of the enemy, are hereby
authorized to perpetuate the testimony of such
destruction in the manner prescribed by an Act
of the Provisional Congress, entitled " an act to
perpetuate testimony in cases of slaves abducted or
harbored by the enemy, and of other property
seized, wasted or destroyed by them," approved
30th of August, 1861, and such owners and per
sons shall be entitled to indemnity out of proceeds
of property sequestrated and confiscable under the
laws of the Confederate States, in such manner as
Congress may hereafter provide.
We are authorized by the Public Treasurer to
state, that he has appoitited Mr Samuel 11. Young,
of this City, to sign for him the N. C. Treasury
Notes of the denomination of Fives, Tens, and
Twenty dollars, authorized by the late Convention.
And we are authorized by the Comptroller to state,
that he has appointed Mr W. T. Wonible of this
City, to countersign the said notes for him. Both
these appointments have been made by and with
the advice and consent of the Governor. Raleigh
Standard.
We must change
As carried on
the Yankees.
War of tiit Right Sort
the whole character of this war.
now, it is a pleasant pastime for
Secure at home from the appreheusion of danger,
they can come down upon us, stealing, robbing,
murdering, burning, and laying waste. They will
never tire of such sport. We must change it, or
be ready to submit to the fate that impends. We
must carry the horrors of war to their doors. At
once, and by concentration of all our means, w4
should throw a hundred thousand men upon Penn
sylvania. Let proclamation be made for that
number to assemble at Winchester, to be led by
Stonewall Jackson or Magruder upon Philadelphia,
and old and young will flock to the standard, and
in thirty days the march to victory and reverfge
would begin. Let the enemy in the mean time,
if they choose, pillage our coasts and burn our
towns. Their strength lies in their cities. Phila
delphia subdued and levelled with the ground,
Maryland throws off her chains, Washington is
emptied or captured, and New York and even
Boston are not beyond the reach of an enterpris
ing General.
If such a crusade were preached, there is no
telling the number of volunteers who would rush
to the field to share in the glory and the spoil.
Richmond Whig.
fig?- Now is the time for action for all who are
in earnest. Rich and poor, old and young, all of
all classes who intend to defend their homes and
families and country against a brutal and insolent
foe, should now bestir themselves. We speak to
the men, for it is with pleasure and pride we state
the women have been and are more generally and
actively awake to the calls of the crisis, than the
men. Those who have much involved in property
may lose all by economy in contributions to the
public defence. One-fourth of the property that
has been stolen from some places that have been
occupied by the enemy, would have provided a
perfect defence, if appiied in time. It is very
well at the proper time to call on Presidents, or
Secretaries, or Generals, or to censure their con
duct, but our defeuce now rests with ourselves.
Let us put all who are for us to work in proper
places, and let us put out of the way of doing us
harm all who are among us and not for us.
Charleston Courier
The Yankees in Nashville. The Knox
ville Register has the following :
Notwithstanding the assurances given by the
Yankees, on their arrival in Nashville, that peace
able citizens should not be molested, nor private
property or personal rights be interfered with, it
is reported by persons just from that vicinity, that
they have already violated these pledges by arrest
ing Hon. Neil S. Brown, Senator Barrow, and
other prominent citizens. The despotic edict has
been promulgated that no one must speak dis
paragingly of Lincoln or hi policy or favorably of
Jeff Davis. All who eo do are to be regarded as
traitors. 4 Thus bad begitw, and worse rem tins
behind." Those credulous Tennesseans who be
lieve they will be exempted from the robbery and
vandalism that has characterized the march of the
subjugating army everywhere else, and have
yielded to the allurements of their specious and
hypocritical proclamation of peace aud friendship,
will realize a bitter disappointment.
TnE Hessians. Rome of the foreign soldiers
at Roanoke Island, v?ho could hardly speak Eng
lish, informed some Confederate prisoners that they
were fighting for the principles of their fore
fathers. This is the literal truth. The principles
of their forefathers,' who were bought up by
George the Third like cattle in the market, were
ninepence a day and their bread and meat. This
is about the same sum that Lincoln pays for their
descendants, and constitutes the only principles
that either ancestors or posterity are capable of
comprehending.
Sale or Negroes. The war has not had
much effect oil the sale of negroes. At the sale
of Carson Black, in Cabarrus county, a few were
disposed of at the following figures: a boy, 18
years old, brought $1,186; a girl, 14 years old,
$1,000; a boy, 12 years old, $810. Thia does not
seem to be a decrease in the price of negroes if
anything, an inertia. Concord Flag.
BEAUREGARD'S POSITIOH..
The retreat of Gen. Beauregard from Columbus
to the point on the Mississippi river known as
Island No. 10, shows the penetrating glance of
the accomplished engineer. Columbus was a
second Fort Donelson, as far as its position was
concerned. It communicated with Tennessee by
a railroad liable to be interrupted by the enemy,
and a retreat by the Mississippi on steamboats was
hazardous, as the enemy could closely pursue our
boats, or perhaps even attack them from the Mis
souri shore, below Columbus.
At Island No. 10 the Mississippi makes a sud
den turn and runs nearly due north about fifteen
miles, to New Madrid, where it again turns and
runs nearly due south to Obionville, whence it
continues its general southward course. It thus
forms a peninsula, on the line between Tennessee
and Kentucky, so narrow that while the distance
by land from the river bank at Island No. 10 to
the nearest point on the river about Obionville is
less than three miles, the distance by water is
thirty. To pass this distance the enemy would
have to Bilenee the fortifications both of Island
No. 10 and New Madrid. This peninsula has
been regarded by very intelligent officers as the
real key of the lower Mississippi, and the fortifi-
canons on ana near u were commenced in Sep
tember last; those at New Madrid were begun
somewhat later.
As we have gunboats at New Madrid, it would
be almost impossible for the Lincoln troops to
take and hold that place, or the western bank of
the Mississippi below it, unless their gunboats
should succeed in passing Island No. 10. A
long as we hold that bank and the Tennessee bank
of the river, the Mississippi furnishes a rapid and
secure line both of supply and retreat for the army
cn the peninsula at the island, and our gunboats
secure us the control of both those banks.
The country about New Madrid is known as the
earthquake region, from the terrible earthquake
felt there in 1811. About six miles west of New
Madrid lies an impassable swamp which extends
southward to the junction of the St. Francis with
the Mississippi below Memphis-, leaving a narrow
strip of low land between it and the Mississippi.
At a short distance east of the peninsula above
mentioned lies Realfoot lake and river, a former
channel of the Mississippi, and separated from it
by swampy ground, thus presenting a strong
barrier to a land attack on out forces at Island No.
10. With an army ia the field in West Tennes
see kept active and moving, to check a land
attack, the passage of the Lincoln gunboats below
the peninsula will be a difficult undertaking; if
they succeed, the formidable works at Fort Pillow
present the next obstacle to their progress down
the Mississippi. Naturally the earthquake region
of Missouri and Tennessee about New Madrid
presents many obstacles to an invading force;
under the guidance of Beauregard those obstacles
will be improved by science and genius, to the ut
most extent.
THE DANGER TO THE SOUTH.
The great grain producing portion of the South
ern Confederacy (says the Richmond Dispatch)
has hitherto been Kentucky and Tenuesseeft The
army supplies of the last year were principally
drawn from those sources. The enemy have now
overrun most of Kentucky and have control of a
large portion of Tennessee. They arc making great
efforts to compel us to withdraw our forces from
the productive valley of Duck River. If success
ful in this, it is difficult to show how our army is
to be subsisted another year, unless the southern
plauters abannon for this year the cultivation of
cotton and devote their fruitful soil to the produc
tion of provisions for the people and army.
Gov. Brown, of Georgia, in a long and" able let
ter lately published, has called attention to these
facts, and earnestly endeavors to dissuade the
planters of the South from seeding cotton during
this year. He shows that if the cotton and tobacco
States raise only grain, we shall be able to furnish
the Confederate army with the necessary supply of
provisions, and defy the combined Federal forces
tor years to come. But if the lands and labor of
the South are to be taxed with the production of
four millions of cotton bags, which we can neither
eat nor exchange during the blockade for provis
ions to sustain life, it is the honest conviction of
Gov. Brown that we are in great danger of being
conquered, not for want of arms or of men to use
them, but for want of provisions. Even if the
grain crop were of little importance, instead of be
ing, as it is, a matter of vital necessity, two cotton
crops on hand, when'thc blockade is removed, will
bring down prices to a figure that would render
the profits of both little, if any, more than the
single crop of 1861, which, from the scarcity of
the supply, would bring all the manufacturers of
the world into competition as bidders for it. Be
sides, if the war continues, provisions of all kinds
will be so high that the grain crop will, in all pro
bability, command more clear money to the plan
ter than the usual cotton crop.
Plant corn, plant corn, plant corn, and save oi.
SnARP-SnooTixo ox the Tennessee River.
We learn that some of our citizens are prepar
ing for effective service on tne lennessee river.
They will not go in squads of more than five or
six. Each man is a practiced shot, with a rifle
at long range, and each will go prepared with not
less than, one hundred rounds. They will take
with them uothing but ground coffee, relying upon
the citizens and their guns for food. They pro
pose, in these small squads to guard the Tennessee
river. They will take their opportunities from
behind trees, logs, and in the narrow bends of the
river, to pick off the Lincoln pilots.. They can
phtnt a Minie ball in a sheet of foolscap paper, at
a distance of six hundred yards; and we venture
the assertion that such a corps of sharp-shooters
will be as great a terror to the enemy's boat as
our gunboat were at Fort Donelson. Let each
county bordering on the Tennessee rier, in West
Tennessee, send a squad of such men 00 this
duty, and the pilots will soon refuse to ascend a
stream where death awaits them behind any big
tree. A man may face a known or aeen danger,
but when he cannot divine how, froai wuat qnar- '
ter, at what moment the arrow may be aped, be j
will shrink from it with an unaccountable
dread. Let our people feel, in this war, that any j
defence is lawful, and oar eaure must be tucoecs
fuL Mcmphi Aralanrhe. j
LIQUOR DESTROYED BY LADIES,
Some twenty ladies of this Town, prompted, by
the noble impulses that usually abound , ia th
female heart, proceeded in a body to the depot .
last Thursday afternoon, and with hatchets and
hammers destroyed five or six barrels of whl?ky
and poured the liquid poison upon the ground; m
fitting libation to the devil and his imps froai the
hands of patriotic women, whose mission, pending
the war is, to 44 go about doing good." The ladies
in performing this act of mercy, but manifested a .
desire to co-operate, at home, with our brave army
in the field to save the country from both external
and internal foes the latter being tbs mora,
dangerous of the two. - Of course, they would sot
be able, if they have the desire, to destroy all the
poison that a thousand filthy ' worms" ere poor-.
ing forth night aud day for the destruction of
Southern men I
Since the breaking out of the war the ladies of
this town, and in other portions of the Confederacy,
have toiled day and night to prepare comforttble
clothing for our soldiers in the field, who, other
wise, would have suffered excruciating hardships
and rendered wholly unfit to encounter the foe,
except to submit to certain defeat and the ladies
cannot in this critical moment of the contest, suffer
an injury to be done their brave defenders in the
field by patriots who remain at home to speculate,
if they can prevent it. If the method resorted
to in the present instance was not altogether
legal, necessity, in their estimation, demanded it
and in time of war the civil laws, ia many
instances, have to yield, especially to the supreme
authority of woman. Statesville Expreu.
The Affair at Winton. A subscribe at
Winton, N. C. (says the Standard,) who was shell
ed out, gives us a few facts of that affair which
may be interesting to our readers. Our troops ia
that quarter, it appears, did not behave as gallant
ly as first stated, but they nevertheless "live to
fight another day." Our correspondent says:
"The Yankees came up to Winton ou Thursday,
with six gunboats and ten transports, and sitsr .
throwing a good many shells, landed about 1,500
men and procceeded to rob aud plunder the place. .
They carried off whatever they could convenient
1 hey stole ladies' and chilJrens' clothing, bed
clothes, and threw beds in the streets and burnt
theiu. They broke up furniture, and then pro
ceeded to bum up t ueh of the buildings as were
iu the lower part of the towu. The prinsipsl
fcuffercrs by the fire, were Col. P. Jordan, Mrs
J110. A. Anderson, Mr James Northeott, Mrs
HaUej and Dr. D. II. Shields. Most of the oth
trs were rifled of their contents."
After such a statement, what confidence can any
0110 have in the pretences of Burniiide aud Golds-
boro', as to their designs not to disturb private
property?
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Spies. There are unmistakable indications,
says the Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, that
the South swarms with Lincoln spies. The in
formation by which the Federal troops guided
their movements in Tennessee could only have
been obtained from spies or traitors. The details
given by the New York Herald of the stock of
cotton 111 Augusta, and othtr particulars relating
to our city, must have been derived from siuilar
sources.
The cotton States must soon become a vast mili
tary camp, and throughout their whole extenl
military law should partially, if not wholly prevail.
Every man should consider bimselr a detective,
whose duty it should be to detain for examination .
all transient, suspicions persons. Especially should
this be dune along the hues vt railroads. Uy
their means almost unrestricted communication
has been maintained Bince the commencement of
the war. It is time some system should be adop -ted
to prevent the conveyance of information to
the enemy. The passport system is more objeo
tionvble iu imagination than in fact, it is of little
incovenience to true men and is very effectual
against traitors. We think the necessities of our
situation require its adoption.
Re-Appointed. Col. Singletary has received.
a Colonel's commission, and has left for Raloigh
under orders to report to the Governor for duty.
His Excellency has selected a brave and true maa
one who will work faithfully and efficiently at
whatever he may be employed. Netobern Frog.
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A Blebsino The North Alabamlaa. pub
lished at Tuscumbia, thinks that the visit of the
gunboats has been a blessing to that section. It
baa shown the people how helpless, the? were to .
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defend themselves against even a small force,
while too many men have gone on blindly depend
me on Jeff Davit, or some, other man, to delena
them, instead of trying to do something for them
selves. It says that five hundred Yankees, at too
time the . recent foray was made, Could have
"cleaned out the whole town,"- but now the
countrv is aroused, and organizations perfected to
such an extent as would make the experiment a
dangerous one to tne vandaw.
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Double-Barrel Suor Guns. We hsva al
ways expressed the opinion that there was no wea
pon as valuable for close fighting as tne double
barrel shot gun. The truth of this convictioa
was fully established by the battle at Fort Donel
eon, where the greatest havoc of the field is said
to have been effected by this kind of weapon. Wo
believe there is so lack of double-barrel shot guns
in the Southern States. If it be objected to then
that they are not so effective as other weapons at
long distances, we reply that the soldiers of the
South are not going to fight at long distances
hereafter. However much we may desire to keep
the Yankees at a distance in time of peace, w
most bring them to elose quarters in time of war,
if we ever expect to equaliso their advantage cf
numbers. ... , - v ..v.
The true Grit. In ths retreat from Fort
Henry, Parson McKaime, of Company A, 15th
regiment Arkansas volunteers,, aged over sixty
years, after being wounded in the neck, was order
ed to surrender. He proudly replied, 'not yet,,
and immediately fired upon and killed a captaia
of the enemy's cavalry, lit tried another barrel,
which missed fire, and the old soldier oi the orosa
fell, as a true soldier of the South should with
his faco to tht foe- . ., . ; r; 7