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CITARACTEIt IS AS IMPORTANT TO STATES AS IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS, AND THE GLORT OP THE ONE IS THE COMMON PROPERTY OF THE OTHER.
"57. 3. YASI, Euitor and Proprietor.
CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1862.
TENTS T O L U M E X C M B E II 510.
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(Published every Tuesday,'o)
WILLIAM1 J. YATES,
t.uK and rr.oi'Pir.Ton.
I CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT.
J Jefferson Davis of Mississippi. President.
! Alex II Stephens ofGeoreia. Vice President.
: J. I. Reniamin, of Louisiana, Secretary of State.
j G. W. Randolph, of Virginia, Secretary of War.
C. G. Memminger, of South Carolina, Secretary
of the Treasury
i S
t iOfsUrn ISrmorrat.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
A SPEECH FROM MR. YANCEY.
Hon. W. L. Yancey, who has recently returned
' from his unsuccessful mission abroad, made a short
- . speech last .Thursday night at the St. Charles
lication for the present. The editor says all his
R" ?iavrf f fFI,iriJn' St rT-tafyffl M nnrT printers have cone into the war, and, having no
rs. II. atts, of Alabama. Chief of the Depart- j r ...
The Salisbury Banker has suspended pub-j Kew. Orleans. We copy from the Delta
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ADVANTK.
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H advrrti.-'-n-.eiits in lift be paM for in
-fsr :u;ni not m.iikfii oa the manuscript J
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Thos
i meat of Justice or Attorney General.
j J. II. RiKgan, of Texas, Postmaster General.
! MEMBERS OF THE FIRST PERMANENT
j CONFEDERATE CONGRESS.
SENATE.
NORTH CAROLINA,
George Davis,
Win T Dortch.
, the .-'.'
A STATEMENT
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KKbKKAL SUCCKdoKS.
Is
ALABAMA.
i Wm L Yiiney,
- Clement C Clay.
) ARKANSAS,
'j Robert W Johnson,
the sev- c.'l.arl.-s B Mitchell.
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Phi.
IUit!.s.
2-1 15 s U .ijj j ;l I
J .j-,,- i'inl'. i.i.i, I 7
Jim- 1- l'...onvii;c. J
J -.:v 1 K:.-!i Mountain 4.1
J iiy !.: Sr. ;. ;). pc, n!
An !i:iUp;.-s. I'l
N v 7 Port Hovsl, j -:
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. 15
50
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27 lito. f
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I FLORIDA.
A E Maxwell,
J M Iiuker.
OKORCTA.
1 'ctijamin II Hill,
Joiiu W Lie wis.
LOUISIANA.
Edward Sparrow,
T J Sfinnies.
MISSISSI!II.
Albert (I Brown.
J unit s Phelati
VIRClNIA.
II M T Hunter,
Wui'll I're.-toii.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Robert W Barnwell,
James L Orr.
TF.NNF.SSEE.
Langdon C Haynes,
Gu.stttvus A Henry.
TF.XAS.
Louis T Wigfall,
W S Oldham.
KENTUCKY.
II C Burnett,
William E Simins.
MISSOURI.
John B Clark,
R S Y Peyton.
Total number, 26.
It was one year, lacking two days, since he had
Onif. fllir tfii,r..w sin! ho w:i .-rlml In cr-mil mnni?
1 3 aU- 1 ..: l. rr,,o oninnr : . , n P
nanus iu carry on i-uc uuaiUc, c c . UIS eountrymen" again. He came back convinced
himself. J that wg bad no friend in Europe, that we must
The Legislature of Virginia and the Executive fight the battle a 'one, and rely only on our firm
Council of South Carolina have enacted laws ex- ' beans. (Applause.) They looked coldly on I be
erupting the employees in a printing office lruni ; because of its slavery institutions. There
... , ,,. , , " . i was not a country in ii-urope who sympathized
military duty. 1 he ed.tor is to declare by affidavit . wkh us Eyen Uje pr,nc5ples of 'ou; reVfiu.
what number of hands are necessary to his office, j tjon were not understood by them, any -more than
and they are to be exempt. j by the Northerners, who have never been able to
j seize the true spirit of our institutions. With the
JK"The State Journal misapprehends our posi- j North, Europe believed in the unqualified su-
tion when it argues from our remarks of last week premacy of government, not understanding
the necessity for a State Convention to reconcile j that government is made for the people.
conflicting views on the subject of the next Cover- They have, therefore, no friendship for nor sytn-
nor. We think there is no need for a State Con- ! patliy with us; neither have they, however, for the
vention. We would ratr.er trust tne people man ortli. 1 ney regard tlie JNorth as a people men-
' HOUSE.
TiiOMA.- S. HocoeK, Sieakcr.
ALABAMA.
rhomR' J Foster, G W Chilton,
7 David Clopton,
8 James L Pugh,
8 ES Dargan.
I 1
: 2 Wm R Smith,
! 3 John P Palls,
j 4 J I. Jl Curry,
i 5 PiKhcis S Lvon,
I
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.i r i - I'- m 15. own,
A:.l IM Fort S'
A j.l Fort !..;..,
Aji 1 rul i.i ii-
M : v 1 f i 1.'- i'uit.t,
V ij J . , Knit C. 11 .,
.J'iiir 1 A ; t'.-t-ek,
.1 :; T. I'lj's I'oiiit,
.j ,i..- I'- i:- iii-Lliel,
J i. i V .cmi: ,
.f . . i- i ; K.i ! i l l'y,
J . ' Ni-'A ( ':('( k,
J i: . i li.ua .
J-:' M..ii... I'oiiit,
J-:'v -j'lIajiu-.-v.ll-,
J if. (' Mtl::iiro.
J I v 17 S.-.iry 'i'--k,
J ii ' v Is Hull Hun,
.1 'i i ' 'J 1 M .. i i.i-,
J.i.'y :s'Mr-!i!iii,
.1 .1 y L' .S i in I .St in! .m,
A i- ! -) Sj.i 1 1 -1 1 1 i I,
A i. I "' I .i i Ii 1 .is i'l'ir.t,
A.iA -' LJ Us' Xest,
A -7 !Ja!!.-.vV X lt.J
A i 27 I'lii- l.:iu-$,
S-,,t :; It;-' 'r--.-k,
S- ;.t a ;.m!cv.
! I Li-wins iile,
. ! ! I rnrrr's t'r-.-k
I ;: B.it !x.ursvillt
Lexins'on,
2:t Al.mu sa,
Sieiiiu'r Kiniiiv
:: i n-riilo-icr.
'ii !; ill ;U-Oiu'
.'SJiiila Ui.a,
! 2 M i. I' 'm-s.
! Holivar,
J! I.l-r..l jr.
0 Hehiiout,
X Pikl tun,
: tJ IIV:1 H'?o? .
! t' (;.oi, !'.'.!.
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r. -n-s. -,.:..
2', S r Vi. nun.
i: u:-.;.itwv.
1 7 V -o.JsvTi ville
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ARKANSAS.
1 FYlix J Balson. 3 Augustus II Garland,
Grandisou D Royster, 4 Thus B Ilunly.
FLORIOA.
1 James Hawkins, 2 - Hilton.
(iEORCIA.
1 Julian Hnrtridge, ti Willii.m W Clark,
2 C J Munnfilvii. 7 Robt P Trinpe,
8 L J Gartrell.
9 Hardy Strickland,
1U A B Wright.
KENTUCKY.
Ml W Bruce.
8 S S Sei.tt,
0 E M Bruce,
10 J W Moore.
11 B J Breckinridge, Jr.,
12 John M Elliott.
a Convention. V e know that the people ot the
Ssffilo am hnnpsit nnrl if lf nlone are more ant to
i put the right man in the right place than the
j Convention proposed by the Journal. We earnest
i y beg that politicians would, for this one time, let
j the people alone, and let us see if they are not ca
: pubic of making a good selection. Let the news
J papers, if they will, publish a list of the men in the
I State thought worthy by their friends to be Gov
ernor, and then let them "shut vp shop so tar as
the election is concerned, and leave the people to
vote their unrestrained, uninfluenced sentiments.
JSa tzbury Watch man.
We agree with the Watchman about a Conven
tion. Some tiir.e ago v.e expressed approval of
the plan proposed by the State Journal, to hold a
Convention of delegates from each county to make
a nomination, but, on reflection, we think it would
be better to have no Convention, and let the people
vote for whoever they please without a formal
nomination. We hope all will agree upon this
plan, aud thus avoid discussion and turmoil.
' llinr-s Holt,
4 A II K.' ill; II,
r D.tvid W Lewis,
i I Alfred B.vl,
150 I ,"lia Crockett,
.5 II E R. ad
! I Grovel
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; t T Ii Burnett,
W Ewing,
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LOUISIANA.
1 Charles J Villiere, 4 Lucien J Dupre,
2 Charles M Conrad. 5 John F Lewis.
.' Duncan F Kenner, G John Perkins, Jr.
MLSSISsiri'I.
5 II C Chambers, -
6 O R Singleton,
7 E Barksdule.
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1 John J Meliae,
;;;;; j 2 s w ct.ipp,
"V I -i I?euben Davis,
2,,!, ' 4 Israel Welch.
.- I 1 John Hyer,
i c ; 2 Casper W Bell,
I 5" ' :$ (ieorge W Vest,
... 4 A II Conrew,
1 jo .-i.iu'i 1
MISSOURI.
5 W W Cook,
6 Thus W Freeman,
7 Thos A Harris.
12: lo-ii i;u;
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NORTH CAROLINA.
1 W X H Smith, 6 Thomas S Ashe,
2 Kobert R Bridgers, 7 James R McLean,
:i Owen l I iiiiu, 8 William Lander,
4 T D McDowell. 9 li S Gaither,
5 Archibald Arrington, 10 A T Davidson.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
1 W W Ib.vee. 4 John .McQueen,
2 W Porcher Miles, 5 James Farrar,
us j o M L ljoiiliam,
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"iM4 y 7 77
J T H. i.kell,
"o,. 2 W G Swan ii,
Jf i :i W II T.-bba.
i 4 E Giirib-nshire,
"if 5 H S Foo'.e,
Ko C, M 1' Gentry.
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1 John A Wilcox,
2 Peter W Grav,
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4 r 1 1
7 . 1 2 i
s 777
SA Mil I'L P. SMITH,
At(uriii') :tuI "itnk'lr ul Law,
CHARLOTTE, " C,
i II Claiborne C Herhi rt, 0 B 1-
I V!!.;inia
1 M R II Camett.
I 2 John R Chiimbliss,
' '.I Jhuu-s Lyons,
4 Boger A Pry or.
! 5 Tliomits S Bocock,
t John Goodf. Jr,
j 7 Jaui-s P Holcombe,
; 8 Dan 1 C D jm nette,
I Tot.il number 107.
I
i
G L M Ager.
TENNESSEE.
7 G W Jones,
8 Thomas Menees,
! J D C Adkins,
10 Bullock,
11 David M Curriu.
TEXAS.
4 Wm B Wright,
5 Ma led in Graham,
Sexton.
J) William Smith,
10 Ah x R Boteler,
1 1 John B Baldwin.
12 Walter R Staples,
13 Walter Preston,
14 - Albert G Jenkins,
15 Robert Johnson.
I b Churh s W Uussell.
GOVERNMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA.
Sulary
".Vill .utead prom;t!i and ,itlijftnt!y tr collecting and , Hfnry T. Cl.ARK. (Governor ex officio.
rerr.ituatr .1 urn,- intrn-tcd to his c.irc. ;;J.(H)t .,f.r ulimnn.
S; . : il :tr. a:i.,;i given to the writing of Deeds, Coa- , pjlnj Cowpcr. Secretary to th Governor.
".;". Ac rti v. exclusive of fees. ft'MOO.
ii ",if, ;li-- No. I, adjoiuiug the cicik's oflic'.
J.i:n. irr K'. lstJ2
Sal-
J. A. FOX.
' Puttie : Puff, Secretary' of State. Snlarv 800.
Daniel W. Courts, Treasurer. Salary s2,0(W.
W. R. Richardson, chief clerk to the Treasurer.
Snlurv 8L20;).
C. 11. Brogden. Comptroller. Salarv $1,000,
B- The forty-third Regiment of N. C. Volun
teers was organized at Raleigh last week by the
election of Junius Daniel as Colonel; Thomas S.
Kenan, Lieut. Colonel; Walter J. Ruggan, Major.
ttzST We don't believe the report started by the
Richmond Examiner, that President Davis has
proposed to Cungre.-s to release the Confederate
prisoners who were discharged on parole by the
enemy, from the obligations of their oath not to
take up arms until exchanged. It is stated that
in consequence of the bad faith of the Lincoln
authorities, President Davis proposes to absolve all
discharged confederate prisoners from their oath
so that they may again enter the service. Rut, we
repeat, we do not believe the President proposes
any such thing. Tt would be wrong and danger
ous in example.
Whenever a man takes an oath he is bound by
it, no matter what the circumstances are. If he
does not thiuk the obligations imposed by the
oath are right, he ought not to take it.
A prisoner of war is justifiable in gaining his
liberty by obligating himself not to take up arms
until he is exchanged. Rut no southern man is
excusable for taking an oath of allegiance to the
Lincoln Government, as we learn some of the citi
zens of Newbern have done. We consider it an
everlasting disgrace for any southern man to take
an oath to support the Union aud the Lincoln ty
rants. He is not excusable under any circum
stances, and will certainly be an object of contempt
alter the war is ended.
CHARLOTTE, X. C
.hj::AL cor.r.EcTist; age.xt.
onire over the Drns; .Store, Irwin's corner.
Jn:nrv 1, isr,2. " tf
K. Y- Hi:CKVITll
Has constantlv on hnnl
WATCHES. JEWELRY, PLATED WARE, &C.,
Of tlu- hc-u F,n?lish and American iMiinufiu turers.
CM :b.! exum-r.ol.i cto,A before pnrchninjr eNrwfcrre.
W atch crystals p-.t i ;V,r 25 cwats t..,clu
J.nau.irj, lot2 T
JBssT" Dr. J. G. Peterson of Marion, N. C, has
invented a revolving pistol to shoot 24 times. It
has two tiers of tubes with 12 tubes in each tier,
and so arranged that all the chambers can be fired
without halting, except to depress the barrel, which
is done in an instant, preparatory to the discharge
of the second tier of chambers. The inventor is
constructing a rifle on the same principle. He
has applied for a pattut.
teg" The draft in this county passed off very
well. Oniy 110 were detailed, the call lor over 4U0
having been filled by volunteers before the draft.
And of the number detailed, nearly all lave vol
unteered since, so that there will be few if any
going from Rowan as drafted men. Our county
has now furnished more than 1300 men for the
army. Salisbury district has furnished 2 over f plitd emphatically, no. they did not believe
its quota. balmlury WatUiman. j one word he said. They believed the Yankees
The Hannersays: We learn from the Captain's j to be a nation of mendacious liars. It was ini-
i reports of the men that have volunteered, that j possible now in Europe to .get at the truth of things
Oliver II Perrv. Librarian. j luwaii has now in tne neia l.iU men, and over lover nere. 1 acts got there nitrated tnrougn me
Ti.e Council ..f State is composed of the following I 1'U' 01 the,n are in for the war. Has any j medium of Northern papers, and the f,freugth was
gmtlemen: Council Wooten of Lenoir. President, I county done better than this with a population ot j ail gone. JNo Southern journal was aowcu o
Jol.u W Cunningham of Person. David Murphy i about 10,000.'
daeiuus, unjust, aud hypocritical. They do not
believe a word said by the people, the press, the
Cabinet, or the President. Europeans are pre
judiced against slavery, but they do not wish to
deprive men of their property without honestly
paying for it; they have no idea of cutting the
chains of bondage with a lawless sword. They
have discovered the .Northern motive in this war
to be political, not social; not a strong principle
against wrong, but a determination to rule. Hav
ing, therefore, no sympathy foi us, and turning
with honest contempt from the hypocritical Yan
kee, they would look with positive indifference on
the contest, but for their own interests involved.
They desire to cripple a dangerous rival. This
country was getting too vigorous, and they are de
termined that it shall forever remain separated.
They would never allow the South to be subjuga
ted, and would interfere to prevent such a re
sult, but that they feel certiau it cannot be
accomplished. They know aud say the South will
be free. In the meantime, they wish to see the
war drag on until each side is thoroughly ex
hausted aud overwhelmed with a debt which shall
crush its energies for years, or if possible, for ages
to come. To further this policy they ignore the
well established fact that the blockade has been
run at least a thousand times. They set aside,
practically as against us, the plainest behests of
the European treaty which fixes the biw of block
ade. 'Ahcy are determined, in the face of all law,
of all equity, of all huma iity, not to recognize us
until the last possible moment, and will never do
$o until they sec our Li'jod-rcckiiii sword stretched
our a conquered and prostrate jS'orth.
As to the blockade, said Mr Yancey, I don't
know that'we should want it raised, H it con
tinued six mouths longer, he would not, ou any
consideration, wish such a misfortune a that it
should be raised. Ry that time our internal en
ergies will have developed, our manufactures es
tablished, aud he had such coo fid once in the in
genuity aud enterprise of our people as to believe
them capable of attaining, within themselves, all
necessary ends. As to luxuries, indulgence in
them was not becoming to a people laboring in
the very throes of a heroic struggle. Various
causes had hitherto prevented the forcible raising
of the Lluckade. lu the first place, when the
blockade commenced to take effect, immense stocks
of cotton were in the bauds of the wealthiest manu
facturers.. Those meu had the ear of Govern
ment, and it was decidedly to their interest that
the blockade should continue until their stock on
hand was sold at exorbitant prices. Government
too, was the more willing to listen to them, be
cause it was desirous of lostering the production
of cotton outside of the Southern States, even at
the expense ol heavy temporary suffering at home.
Our principal ground of miscalculation here as
to the blockade had been the idea that otton is .
king. If by this it, is understood American cotton,
it is a fallacy. Americau cotton certainly plays a
mighty part in the commerce of the world, but it
has not absolute sway, because the staple is raUed
too abundantly elsewhere. Foi hundreds of years
India has raised as much cotton as the South uow
does-. There is piobably. no one thing in the
world which grows so universally as cotton, Eu
rope, therefore, was willing to take advantage of
the crisis to enfranchise herself from our sway at
almost any cost, but she has found the ordeal too
severe. India cotton is too dear, and the whole
machinery of their immense manufactories would
have to be changed to suit the Maple. Orleans
middling has been found by experience to be the
only thing that will exactly do, and the supply of
that will be exhausted by the 1st of April. Then,
when a starving population rises around their
thrones, with the words, "Cotton or blood," the
blockade will be raised.
Here Mr Yancey was asked by a gentleman
whether Mr Seward s promise to open a cotton
port had not had great weight' Mr X ancey re
u,f CYfiibcrhtnd. Win A Ferguson of Bertie, J F J
) reach fhem, and that indeed it had been so to a
great, extent before the war. People there got
Graves, of Surry, J J Long of Northampton, W OUTRAGE IN KENTUCKY. 1 he heart sickens j their ideas of the South from New York papers
L Hillanl ol Buncombe. at the recital of the wrongs which the laukee us- ai,d Roston literatcurs. They "ave us credit for
urpers are inflicting upon the loyal citizens of the ; bein-r a brave neonle. determined to be free, but !
South. One of the grossest outrages of which we j feckless of life, somewhat inhuman
Governor's Aids IIou Daul M Rarringer, Spier
lataker.
Literary Board Henry T Clark, President ox
oflieio; Arch'd Henderson of Rowan. Jas B Gor-
i iv:n V'... 1 .- . r M.-i.i I
i . . IT , , r county, ry. xjoui a jciict iccencu yesicruaj, uy j Uj, Wi i as paramount to the law. we cannot
Internal !trROVEsrENT Boart Henry T Clark ,,.. t:..,,- t i.t. . . . . F .. . ... ... ... i
Hau- i . " i41 vurmauw ..ni, an. iook ior any sympainy or Deip iroiu auiuau. i c
to slaves, aud
have yet been informed was recently perpetrated , at test, semi-civilized: and tmtt'our sense of in-
upon ao influential and prominent citizen of Wayne fdividua!ity went so far that each mau considered
President ex officio.; James Fultou ofiew
to make the following extract:
i umst rely upon ourselves alone.
John T. Butler,
c - J
rnAmuu.
YV.tlch and Clock 'laker, Jew.
Orro.mrE Kerr's Hotel, Charlotte, A". C.
(I.tie wiiu 11. W. Hfckwirli.)
!' 1Yiif rli'K, dock V Jrw Ii y,
rr every d.verlf-tion, RejiaireJ end IrTjrmnU l for 12
over. X M Ifinrf Halifax.
The Generrl Assembly commences its session on , "The l ankees the other day gave James Rel-f ;
the third Monday of November every alternate year. 1 ther twenty-eight lashes for going into their camp Tke Military Prison.' There are now . 340
The next eh ciion fer Members, and for Governor, 1 after his ruuaway negro." . ' - ; Federal prisoners confined here. Most oT the
v iil ! held on the firsv Thursday of August, ISf.-. : Mt inforniS ng tha, Mr Belcher was recently '! privates are scurvy fellows and by no means as
tate Legislature, and (hat -social-; decent as the last lot sent iroin here
i a member of tb
t .t
rt inong ine
ilUllU wai Uliua , , , . - .-iii-cr ,..-..( I.a ,n.rin-r t. th ., i.i I nlln.i
' ly tie stanus as tugii as any man m iue coumy oi i"u--": -....0.e, - -.
MUITAL LIFE IXSl'liANTE COMPANY. : Wnvne This is another evidence of what we States arm. v, who are gentlemen by education.
the oldest an' most" reliable in the ' may expect if we bow our" necks to the yoke of. The Northern rr.In nicer oCicers, sagas' Corcoran,
e persons for a term of years or Lincoln's infernal desnotisui, and permit ourf elves 'c . are low brea leuows gener::.,j. ...nong the j
of life, on roo-iemie terms. Slaves .j.,, ,.t;.ri:.a rf bk nnrrinoir.L'd hirel- I'n'teJ Sfates'anm offiv't-rs here & Mejor V ode.
Tlii-s Comjianr
Is" t r j . .a.-ui es hii
(1 i ; (.-. :i-;.-. uar.c-
.u.v.;. ..;r.,iav-.' r.vc ytars, ior nvo-uurus ot ii-e.r Is Tifrea Southerner 'whose' t loci does . cajturc-U at Santa lloffl Isiau-j. it. is. , nnceruuu :
m,r. -e. vr .-ttnineelyo mffntlxjn of guch'au- uubaliow- . vt.Su the prisoners will be seit away .- Rich tnoud
Ja i. is-; ?.m ' ' at Praath Bank N.V. j cd and indecent outrage? VA;h;o DhjHitch. . Lnquu-t,: . ., '
THINGS ABOUT NEWBERN.
Among the former citizens of this State, who
came out with the Rumside expedition tu New
bern, wot Mr Calvin Dibble, urettv well known
j here and elsewhere throughout the State, especial-
ly in the Neuse and Tar River sections. A broth
; er of Calvin Dibble's. Frank Dibble, late of Ncw-
bern, had some months ago got a pass to go North
unoer nagoi truce. . He was to run the blockade,
and bring certain articles much Deeded, especially
leather, for a shoe factory iu which ho was inter
ested with Mr Washington. He bad not returned
until very recently, and Mr Washington's share in
the venture is in a bad way, as Mr Dibble is said
to have come iu the wake of the invaders, and of
course the share of his "rebel" partner in business
is confiscated. But Mr Dibble was too venture
some by half, aud was the other night captured
by some of our pickets, while piloting a squad of
Lincoln's soldiers through the country, in the vi
cinity of Newbern. So strong is the feeling against
Dibble, both among the troops and citizen, that
it required all the efforts of those iu authority to
prevent summary vengeance being taken on him
on his arrival at Kiustou. It was deemed unsafe,
in the present excited state of feeling, to end
him to Salisbury. Another brother, Harlow Dib
ble, a resident of Kington, has also been arretted,
on what precise grounds of suspicion, we are not
informed. On the person of Flunk Dibble, were
fund papers which led to the arrest of -a Captain
Day siioi another captain, both commanding boats,
or who had commanded boats belonging to the
Dibble family.
Burnside has about six hundred negroes hard
at work finishing and perfecting the defensive
works that the Confederates had commenced below
Newbern, but which, after long months of warn
ing, were unfinished anJ impe fect.
As for the killed and wounded Federals, it is
certain that all the Federal soldiers a;ree iu the
story of their loss being very heavy, aud the . con
current opinion places it at two thousand to three
thousand, but most at twenty-five hundred. The
Academy Green in which the slain were buried,
but for the newness of the mounds, might pass for
the cemetry i "which generations of a populous
town had found their, las resting place. From
the number of buildings occupied as hospital fbr
the wounded, the number of casualties must have
been very large. It would seem that they have
hauled up some one or two of their gun-boats on
the marine railway there and are repairing theui.
They have the railroad machine shop in full blast,
but what they are doing in them is not known.
We cannot learn that they have made any move
ment towards Beaufort, or even thrown out pick
ets to any distance in that direction. A report
that Federal troops had been seen at Trenton and
at Pollocksville, in Jones county, appears to be
without foundation. Trenton is the county seat
of Jones county, on the Trent river, about twenty
five miles south of Newbern, and Pollocksville is
also on Trent river, about half-way between New
bern and Trenton.
Of the many striking incidents and hair
breadth 'scapes connected with the affair at New
bern, as with almost all combats, is one which
might be called "a. close shave." Capt. Latham,
the gallant commander of the field battery which
went by his name, got shot through various por
tions of his clothes once through his hat, more
than once through his coat and pants, and once
through his whiskers, which it appears were long,
full and flowing. Happening to turn his head at
some peculiar angle, a minnie ball went whiz!
through bis beard, close to his chin, cutting out
the centre and leaving two forks. By the way,
the battery which Capt. Latham commanded must
of itself have swept off infinitely more than some
accounts represent.
Tt is difficult to tell whether Burnside 13 about
advancing from Newbern or not. There are so
many rumors afloat, that he should have said he
would do this, that and the other thing, that there
is no knowing what to bolieve. As a general
thing, we doubt the authenticity of any report
that represents as skillful a commander as Burn
side certainly is, as bragging to all sorts of people
what he is about to do. At any rate our pickets
can still go close to Newbern, as Mr Frank Dibble
is fully aware of to hisowu sorrow. Wilnn'njton
Journal.
The Dibbles are Northern men.
PARTY SPIBIT.
There are evident tendencies among certain
journalists to excite prejudice against the Ad
ministration' and thereby create i party. . With
some men, the success of self and the triumph
of their own views, aro worth more of labor aud
toil, than the good of the country.
The Richmond Examiner, Charleston Mercury
and Raleigh Standard are all complaining aud
snarling and spitting firJ at President Davis.
They doubtless hope to bj put in the frout of the
new party and, having. failed, to secure honor to
themselves by their owh ingenuity and talent, hope
to gain notoriety at last. Or. it may . be they
honestly differ with the President and would haw
his errors corrected. Rut the captbus, dictatoiial
manner of their-'reproofs had to a coutrary con
clusion. . .
The conduct of this war by the Confederate and
State authorities meets with severe maledictions.
With one, Secretary Benjamin is too creduioun;
with another, tooslow,uud with another entirely in
efficient. All the charges may be tru?; and yet
if either of the Editors were in the Secretary's
place,' It would no doubt be an easy matter to lay
more ferious charges to-thtir account. For .it is
far easier to tell another how to do a particular,
thing, than to do it ourselves. Some of the best
theorizcrs are miserable practitioners. He who
makes the most suggestive speech at our agricul
tural fairs, is very apt to be a poor farmer. :
We expect energy, talent, fairness and; honesty
in those who administer our national government;
but to look for infallibility is ridiculous." And if
the President is to be a mere puppet, to be pulled
by the nose "by every Quixotic champion of public
right, then we might expect compliance with the
leaders of the African slave trade question ao
some other of the silly questions of the day. .
We tru"t the day wiil Dever come to our b.;
bved South, when the success of party will over
ride' our hope.?' for the goo 1 of the country, an 1
may we ever have as good a President as Jeff
Davis. Franklin Carolinian. .
A YANKEE BID FOR TREASON, t.
On the 7th of March, Abraham Lincoln tent
: the following message to the House of. Represen
tatives ot the lankee Congress: ,
FeVow citizms nf the Senate and House of
Reprcsentntiver: I recommend the adoption of
joint resolution by your honorable bodies which
j shall be subtsntially as follows: ;
Resolved, That the Uintcd atatea ought to co
operate with auy State which may adopt gradual
abolishment of slavery, giving to such State
pecuniary aid to be used by such State in it di-
cretion, to compensate for the inconveniences,
i public and private, produced by such change of
system. "
If the proposition contained In the resolution'
does not meet the approval of Congress and the
j country, there is the end; but If it does command .
such approval, I deem it of importance that the
States aud people immediately interested should
be at once distinctly notified of the fact, so tbat
they may begin to consider whether to accept or
rejeet iu The Federal Government would find
its highest interest in such a measure, as cne
of the most efficient means of self-preaerva-tion.
The leaders of the existing insurrection
entertain the hope that this government will - be
forced to acknowledge the independence of some
part of the disaffected region, aud that all the
slave States North of such part will then say the.
Union for which we have struggled being already'
gone, we uow choose to go with the Southern:
soot ion. ? . , .
1 o deprive them ot this nope substantially ends i
the rebellion, and the initiation of emancipation,
completely deprives them of it as to all the States
tolerating slavery would very soon, if at fdl, ini
tiate emancipation; but that while -the offer U
eouallv madt to all. tha more Northern shall, h .
such initiation, make it certain to more Southern
that, in no event, will the former ever join the.
latter in their proposed Confederacy. ' I say toi .
tiatiun, because, in my judgment, gradual and Dot
sudden emancipation i bettersor all. In. the
mere financial or pecuniary view, any meaiber if .
Congress, with the census tables and treasury re--ports
before him, can readily see for hiuiatlf how.
very soon the current expenditure of this war.
would purchase, at rir valuation, all. the alavea t
in any named State. ' , -
Such a proposition en the part of the General .
Government sets up no claim of a tight by Fed
eral authority, to interfere with slavery within .
State limit, referring, as it does, the absolute eon
trol of the subject iu each case to the Stale and
its people immediately interested. It is proposed
as a matter of perfectly free choice with them.
in the annual tiicsscuge, last December, I thought
c. ni l-.: ......... i i 11
in lo say; i ue union mum oe preset veu, ami uvueu.
all indispensable means must be employed. I.
said this not- hastily, but deliberately. ,Vr has:
been made and continues to be an indispensable
means to this end. , A practical . acknowledgment .
of the national authority would render . the war
unnecessary, and it would $.t once cease. If, -however,
resistance continues, the war must abjj ;
continue, and it. is impossible to foresee all the
incidents which may attend, and all the ruin.'
which may follow it. Fach as . may seem iudia- -peusable,
or may obviously promise great efficiency t
towards ending the struggle, must and wilt come.
The proposition noifr made is an offer only. -If
hope it may be esteemed no offence to ask whether
the pecuniary consideration tendered would not be
of more value to the States and private persons'
concerned, than are the institution and property in .
it, in the present aspect of affairs. -. While it is ,
true that tlC adoption of the proposed resolution
would be Merely initiatory, aud not within itself a -practicalmeasure,
it is recommended in the hope '
that it would suon lead to important practical re-.
suits. In full view of great responsibility to my
God and to my country, I earnestly ber the atten
tion of Congress and tho people to the subject.
(Signed,) Abraham Lincoln.','. ;
Asa sequel to the message of Lincoln, Mr.
Conkling, of New York, moved for the adoption -by
tho House of Representatives, the resolution :'
sketched in the message. After i considerable
debate, in which Mr Crittenden, as usual, ita-
plorcd and talked about the effect at this time,"
Ac, the resolution was adopted yeas 88, nays 3L
Old Crittenden still sticks to the yankees notwith
standing they have spit upon and spurned his id
vice. .
A more shatuelets Yankee bid for treason has
never yet seen the light of day. It u a woulJ-bo
insidious attempt to separate permanently from the
Southern Confederacy the States of Maryland,
Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri; or,'
iu other words, to break the backbone of the
Confederacy. The rail-fplitting scoundrel's prop
osition to pay for emancipated slivea is an gre-IJ
irious insult to the Understanding" of the Veriest",
simpleton in the States upon which he desires to
operate, inasmuch as it is manifest thit the people
of those States would be taxed to raie funds to "
pay for their own emancipated slates. Such'n"
prorroftition rhows the desperate straits to which
the Lincoln Government is reduced. Despairing
of conquering the Southern Confederacy by force
of arms, Lincoln has betaken himself to a genuine
i'ankee trick." The troth is, the Federal Goreni-" .
rocnt i now waging this war for the parpoao of
recovering Southern trade and making the people
of the South pay the enormous debt which its "
nwtt fully nd - wickedneM Incurred. In other
words, the peoplrf of the South are to ba made to"'
pay the cost of their own (subjugation.
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Sad AcmvKST. A laud slide on the Western '
Extension Railroad, six miles frout here, caused "'
sad accident last ' Thursday morning,';, by which
Jaose Brigg (a- member of Capt; J, ( A. Wood's
company, ef the 4th Itegt. N. C. T.) lost bis life. r
He w is standing on the platform when the traio
struck the slide, and was caught between the' ears.'".'
Roth his leg$ were broken, and he was 'otherwise
badly injured." "He died in about one hour after "
the accident. This, wo believe, is the first ao-'
cident, resulting in loss of life, on this Road.-
Salisbury "chmn1t. ' ' 7 " . '' V'
A Patj-kt t-Mr Vviiliam , Parks, of Wilkes
t-ounfj, j k-'vi corn, to soldiers' families at 60 . '
ceuiP.per.b i:a-l. . lie will not cell corn to. disv
tillers at a:i "price, however large he has refuiti .
from tbeiu ii 25 a bushel.. Mr P. is a true pa "
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