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m ' ill 3 nrtV h V- A. -- . ;". S2 per aiiniirii ON THE .. WEST SIDE OF TRADE STREET -CHARACTER IS AS IMPORTANT . T0; STATES AS IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS, AND THE GLORT OF THE ONE IS THB COMMON PROPERTY OF THE OTHER. ..a... ....... ...... IN ADVANCE J. YJJ5PX3, CHARLOTTE, N. C., T UE S DA APR 1 1 29, - 1862; Editor and Proprietor. TENT H, T 0 L U 31 E--S CUBE R - 614. . 'WW -r dCvWW axj ; ...... zJ t W Al U YtY AtV'A . ' . . v . . w THE rr-Tl 7177171 TlTJ Vl (QPablished every Tuesday, WILLIAM J. YATES, EDITOR ASD PBOfUlETOR. $2 IN ADVANCE. Transient ndrcrtisemeuts mart be paid for in adrance. ... pa?- AdvertiscmcnW not marked on the manuscript or specific time, will be inserted uutil forbid, and dured acrordinglj. CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT. Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, President. Alex II Stephens of Georgia, Vice President. : J. P. Benjamin, of Louisiana, Secretary of State. G. W. Randolph, of Virginia. Secretary of War. C G. Memminger, of South Carolina, Secretary of the Treasury. S. R. Mallory. of Florida, Secretary of the Navy. Thos. H. Watts, of Alabama, Chief of the Depart ment of Justice or Attorney General. J. II. Reagan, of Texas. Postmaster General. MEMBERS OP THE FIRST PERMANENT CONFEDERATE CONGRESS. SENATE. SOUTH CAROLINA, A STATEMENT of the killed, iruunJ.nl and raptured in the sev eral battles and ether engagements in the. year 1801 - F'EI,KRAlsrccks.iEs. BattU-s. 18CI June 3 !'i;illiii, June l.- Hoonville, J tt I r li: KiHi Mountain July 13, St. Ueorge, Atijf 2s;H.ittrr.irf, O.-t ?! Fr dcricktow n Xr 7; Port Uoriil. Dec 3 Dr.iintvil'.o, ( Total. . l.i. 7' 4 4j 13 12 12 43 5 a ! It! o : 3 2 5.' C - 2 jC 3 W X. -c I. "5 c : 5 I" 2o : 551 40 :uo: 2! 41 50! 15 9 :0 10 23 100 ALABAMA. I Win L Ynucy, Clement C Clay. ARKANSAS. Robert W Johnson, Charles B Mitchell. FL.OIUUA. A E Maxwell, J M Baker. GEORGIA. Benjamin II Hill, John W Lewis. LOUISIANA. Edward Sparrow, T J Semmes. MISSISSIPPI. Alhert G Brown, Jumes Phelan VIRGINIA. R M T Hunter. Wm B Preston. George Davis, Wm T Dortch. SOUTH CAttOLtNA. Robert W Barnwell, James L Orr. TENNESSEE. Litngdon C llaynes, Gustavua A Henry. TEXAS. Louis T Wigfall, W S Oidham. KENTUCKY. H C Burnett. William E Simms. MISSOURI John B Clark. R S Y Peyton. Total number. 2C. HOUSE. Thomas S. Bocock, Sjckcr. 180' 27M,124!i I)atj CON KKD El J ATE r. Ifutiles. .VUCCK.-SES. - ' 'lb -C I -3 S J f 5 "3 T3 J; X F.b Mxr A pi A1 Apt Mat My J u ne June Juuc J ii ur lo .S:n Antonio, 12 Fort Brown, I :i Fori Sumter, :f. Fort Blis, 2o In.lianol, i: Sewell's Point,! . 31 Fairfax C. II., j i'Pl''s Point, 1 0'(;. -tat Bethel. I ti :CIIIA, June I 7 ' KtiisHs City, J me l:i Xr Creek, J.m ii ninifv, J ine 2 7 ; lu '. Ui.iS Point, J iy 2iH.iyr.e.-vill.-, J ;. C-ii-tliiie, Julv 17 Sk-:iry Cn-ek, July 18 U.tll "it.iti, J'.ily 2ll.M.ns., July 25lMesill;i, July 28 Fort .Stanton, AiR lo'SpriiigfieM, Ahj 15;U:iMJs Point, A'llJ 20 lliin ki' t-5t. A 27 Bailey ? X fi ls Aitj 27 C'ro.s Lnne?, Sppt 3 Big Creek, Si-pt Id IJauley. Si-nt 1 1 LewinsTille, Sept lliTonev"j Creek Scjit lO'Biirboursville, k-Nrju U iiCIIUglVB, Sejit 25; Ahinies, Oct I .StcniiTr Fann y 3 ; ircriibi it, 5 .t?li ieain.ii'oni'o 9SauU losa, 12 Miss. Passe, 1; Bolivar, 2 1 liepbnrg, 6 Belmont, 8 Piketon, 9 Ouyni!otte, . I ' . n : 1 1 !! I (HUH Illll, H ....I. 1 j 7", 3j i 12! 20O 1 r. ! I .t;5' oo 3... 3 30 150 50 50 3 15 ti 'i 30U 50 ;ou lOtHl 10 150 I O-i 100 coo 0: lo 250 100 150 10. S5 2t)oj 300 150 53 ALABAMA. 1 Thomas J Foster, G W Chilton. 2 Win K Smith. 7 David Clopton, 3 J..hn P Kit I Is, 8 Jnmes L Pngh, 4 J I, M Curry. E S Dargan. 5 Francis S Lyon, ARKANSAS. 1 Felix J Balson. 3 Augustus II Garland, 2 Grandisou D Royster, 4 Thos B Hauly. FLORIDA. 1 James B Hawkins, 2 Hilton. GF.ORC.IA. 1 Julian Hnrtridge, 2 C J Muiinerlyii. .'I Ilines Holt, 4 AH Kenan, 5 David W Lewis, .i . o t iKl Oct Oct Oct Oot Nov Not Nov Nov Nov Nov Nv 26'Ner Vienna, Dec 2'Anan.UIe, Dec 13 AUepliany, Dee 17.Voodonvill. Dic 20 Opothleylmlo, Iee 28 Sacramento, .... , ; t 20! Il 271 Ml 5: 72 31 10 111 371 H -.1 30 1000 1200 5 20 1) 50 2 150j 5 20 50 3D:' 30i lO'i; I 000 or I 750 300 30! ; 5 50! 100 3i 25(; "I 'J 30 120 12 loo! 150 t. 50 500 45 ID it; 0 30 1 IS Falls Church, 22:Pen?cola, To'al, !l 1 .... , . 2' . 2i 4! 21 1 2!. C.;, 10 .. 20 1.. II.. .1 ... 15. 500! 40oj 219' 40j 6 40i 80O GOO -lOo1 5o I ...I loj 4c l-iO 30 !0 "I" 2i 200 45 125 20 72f. 200 JH 3 10 2i 15 h 100 1$ 934 3356 218.4925,7014 8777 Killed Wn tinned, . P rUnners, . Total, R ECAPITl'LATIOS. Cont'cd. Io.-m's 1,120 3.34 i.r.7 0.23 1 Fed. looses. 4 911 7,821 o O, 14 1 21.009 AlTitd Boyd. John W Crockett, H F. Head Gcorsre VV Ewing, J S ( 'hrisinan, T L Burnett, ti Williiim W Clark, uoot i' 1 rippe, 8 L J Gartrell. 0 Hardv Strickland, 10 A B Wright. KENTUCKY. 7 H W Bruce. 8 S S Scott, ! E M Bruce, 10 J W Moore. 11 R J Breckinridge, Jr., 12 John M Elliott. LOU IS I NA, Charles J Villiere. 4 Lueien J Dupre, Charles M Conrad, 5 John F Lowis, Duncan F Kcnner, G John Perkins, Jr. 1 John J McRue, 2 S W Clapp. H Reuben Davis, 4 Israel Welch. MISSISSIPPI. 5 II C Chambers, G O R Singh toii, 7 E Ilarksdnlo. MISSOURI. 5 W W Cook, - 6 Thos W Freeman, 7 Thos A Harris. 1 John Hver. 2 Casper W Bell, 3 George W Vest, 4 A 11 Cunrew, NORTH 1 W N II Smith, 2 Robert R Bridgers, 3 Owen R Kenan, 4 T D McDowell, 5 Archibald Arlington, SOUTH CAROLINA. 1 W W Boyce. 4 John McQueen, 2 W Porcher Miles, 5 James Farrnr. 3 M L Bonhain, 6 L M Ager. TENNESSEE. 7 G W Jones, 8 Thomas Menees, U J D C Adkins, 10 Bullock. CAROLINA. 6 Thomas S Ashe, 7 James R McLean, 8 William Lander, 9 B S Gaither, 10 A T Davidson. 1 J T HrUkell, 2 W G Swam,. 3 4 5 6 W II Tebbs. II L Gardenshire, 11 S Fvote. M P Gentry. 1 John A Wilcox, 2 Peter W Gray, 3 Chuboruo C Herbert, 11 David M Currin. TEXAS. 4 Win B Wrieht. 5 Malcolm Graham, G B F Sexton. SAMUEL P. SMITH, Aitorue) and ComiM-Ior at Law, CHARLOTTE, S V., Will attend promptly and diligently to cilieetinj and remitting ol.tiuu intrusted to his ourc. Spec.;.-', .itteutioa giveu to the wi.t'at; vf Deeds, Coh vejance. Ac. tkT" D iriu; Uours of basiness, ro r be found !u Ihe Court House, O.Scv No. 1, adjoining tLc -'.i-:ks office. Jaanarv 10. lsC2 1 M It H Garnett, 2 John R Chambliss, 3 James Lyons, 4 Roger A Pryor, I homus S Bocock, J:hn Goode. Jr, James P Holcomhe, Dan'l C Dejarnette, Total number 107. If la VIRGINIA. 9 William Smith. 10 Alex R Boteler. 1 1 John B Baldwin, 12 Walter R Staples, 13 Walter Preston, 14 Albert G Jenkins, 15 Robert Johnson. lt Charles W Russell. J. A. FOX, Attorney cvt ' Law, CHARLOTTE, N. C. . GENERAL COLLECTING AG EXT. Office nrrr the Drug Store, January I, ltj2. Irwin's corner, tf H. W. BECK WITH Has constantly on hand WATCHES. JEWELRY, PLATED WARE, &C. Of the best Ejjrlkh and American manufacturers. Call examine hi stock befor purchasing elsewhere. Watch cryMals ut iu for 25 cents each. January, 1862 y John T. Butter,- PRACTICAL and Clock .Maker, Jew cllcr, fcc. &fi Wt stern Brmorrnt. CHARLOTTE, X. C. The 2dN.'c! Cavalry. Maj. Matthew W. Davis of Rutherford county, has been appointed Colonel of the 2tl N. C. Cavalry Regiment, in place of Col. Spruill, resigned. This is an excellent ap pointment. Mr Davis is a regularly educated military man, and was in the U. S. service a num ber of years. He was Aid to Gen. Johnston in the battle of Manassas and behaved with much gallantry. Wc arc informed that after the field officers and many others of the 4th Alabama Regi ment were shot down, he was put in temporary command and led that gallant band forward in the last charge. Ranks. The Merchants' Rank of Newbern is now doing business at Greensboro, having been removed from Newbern to that place on the ap proach of the enemy. The Bank of Commerce of Newbern bus opened an office at the Company's Shops. Salt. The editor of the Statesvillc Express says he has taken some pains to ascertain the pros pect of getting salt at the Virginia Solt Works. It can be had there in limited quantities, 4 bush els or-200 pounds for each horse. I Ti wa Tim Iit hi or cftrtia in bo rinril tn un derstand it is entirely too complicated, and as sessors find much difficulty. It would be just as easy to make a plain law as to make one mystified with indefinite provisos and innumerable words. Inasmuch as lawyers make the laws it would be better to appoint lawyers to take the tax lists, or nuke the lawyers make simpler laws. The following paragraph from the Greeusbcro Patriot may be of use to tax assessors : Hints to Assessors. The Tax Blanks famish ed to the Assessors has a column for "Interest re ceived or due." This may lead to error, because there is no tax on Interest, ns heretofore. The tax is laid on Money at interest; consequently the whole amount of money at interest is to be given in, after making tho deductions provided for in the 12th section of the new Revenue act. The money at interest and the cash nn hand or on deposit may all be given in together, and put down in the same column, as suggested in the Comp troller's card." Watch OrposiTE Kerk'h Hotel, Charlotte, (Late, with, R. W. Beckwitb.) Flue Wa Idles. Clock & Je vr'Irj, of every description, Rtpafcctf pd .Warranted lor months. Oct 16, IEG1. v QOVERNMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA. Hknrv T. Clark. Governor ex officio. Salary $3,000 per annum. . Pulaski Cowper, Secretary to the Governor. Sal ary, erclueive of fees, $300. Kut'uM II. Page, Secretary of State. Salary $800. Daniel W. Courts, Treasurer. Sultry 2.000. W. R. Richardson, chief clerk to the Treasurer. Salarv $1,200. C. II. B'ro-den. Comptroller. Salary $1,000, Oliver II Perrv. Librarian. The Council of State is composed of the following gentlemen: Council Wooten 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 Hillard of Buncombe, Governor's Aids Hon Daul M Barringer, Spier Whitaker. Literary Boaki Henry T Cfark, President ex officio; Arcli'd Henderson of Rowan. Jas B Gor don of Wilkes. Wu J Yates of Mecklenburg. Internal Improvement Bo.wtn Henry T Clark President ex officio; James Fulton of New Han over, N M Long of Halifax, . j The General Assembly commence its "session on i the third Monday of November every alternate year. I The next election fer members, and for Governor, will be held on the first Thursdav of Aucust. 1862. I North Carolina 3IUTUL LIFE IX S CHANCE COMPANY. Thi? Company, the oldest ani . tnost reliable in the State, insures white nervous for a term of veara or ! ! during eoutinuaace of IiJC, on. moderate terra. ". Slaves I insured, for one or five years, for two-tairdsf Ihehrf ? ? ! market value. For insurance apply tQ - ! THOS. yc. DEWEY, .Apt., i . Jan 14, 1C3 3m at Branch Bank N. C I B The 4Gth Anuual Convention of the Pro testant Episcopal Church of North Carolina will be hc'.d at Chapel Hill on the second Wednesday in May, being the 14th of the month. The Enemy at Newbern. We glean some items from the Raleigh Journal concerning affairs about Newbern. Burnside is still there, and is getting ready for a forward movement in some di rectioi., Raleigh probably. Skirmishing between the pickets uve of frequent occurrence. Last week a squad of Capt. Andrews' men encountered the yankee pickets, killing five, wounding six and tak ing one or two prisoners. . No los reported on our side. Several traitors have recently been arrested in the vicinity of Newbern, and 15 sent to the prison at Salisbury. "Hon." John M. Botts. A Richmond cor respondent, speaking of matters and things in that city, says : "John Minor Botts, who claims to be neutral in this war, is to be released (or has been released.) It is said that his liberty will be restricted to his own farm, or at least to its immediate vicinity. Mr Botts has been, confined to the military prison here for several weeks." He ought to have been hung long ago. From Tennessee. The- Memphis Appeal of the 11th, says that a detachment of Col. Forrest's cavalry and a party of Texan Rantrers, under Major Thomas Harrison, 300 strong, were attacked Tuesday after the battle of Shiloh by the Fed erals. The latter were repulsed with a loss of 250 killed and wounded and 43 taken prisoners The Confederate loss was 10 killed and wounded. Col. Forrest was painfully but not dangerously wounded. The capture of Island No. 10 was made on the 8th. The men threw their guns in the river, spiked the cannon and scuttled the floating battery and transports. 1,000 of our mu escaped, anil 2,000 were captured. Should the report be true that General Bragg has command of the Tennessee river below the Federal gunboats, we are justified in confidently hoping for such a blow f the Federal cause as must put an end to it. aggressive movements in the Mississippi valley. Not only will the Federal army be harrassed and ;earfully cut up in its flight towards Nashville, but the large flotilla of Federal gunboats and transports on the Tennessee (said to number ono hundred) must be captured or destroyed by our forces, Or destroyed by the" Federals themselves to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Confederates. i Federal Prisoners. About one thousand Prisoners passed up the river last night, says the Selma(Ala.) Reporter, ou board the steamer St. Charles and Jas. Buttle en route for Montgomery. They were principally from Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan, and were quite free in saying that when they got out of their present condition they would not fight for the abolitionists again. VALUABLE IVECiROCS . For Sale. By virtne of Peed of Trnt fo hie cxecnted on the j 6tb of Feb y, 1S60, oy Joltn u. lunjr, tor certain pur poses therein mentioned, I ill proceed to sell at the Court House door in the towa of Charlotte, an Tuesday of Anril court, (it beinr the 2&ih day of tha mouth,) five valuable likely NEGROES-rone man, three women t and one child.- JOHN" A. YOUNG, Trustee. i By M: L. WatsTox, Atf'y, 'f April 8, 1663 it ' - . - , i MECH ANJCAL SKILL. w f j No people, purely agricultural, can at this.day j maintain a nationality.. . Mechanical skill is' ne cessary to effect that object. It is by this that ' the North has taken our ports. " We, should pre pare to match her mOre fully in that respect. Should she even surrender our ports to us, 'we cotild not hold them against a future attack, with our present mechanical ' knowledge and' means. Let the people of the South put their s boys into work shops, and let the rich especially set the ex ample. Many of the boys who are now idle might ove as useful in some mechanical employment as men. Bonaparte raised his Lat when he met the mechanic, because, by him,' he said he sue- eeeded. And Peter the Great did not think it beneath his royal dignity to devote a number of years to the duties tf a pnetica! tanner, so im portant did he conceive a cultivation of the me chanical arts to be. And it is believed that much of the greatness of Russia is to be attributed to the personal interest which he showed in that de partment of social duties. " ' ' ; We are overjoyed at the late marvellous exploit of the Merrimac; should we not feel equally for promoting the mechanical knowledge by which she was constructed. It is true much glory due to those who led her through the battle, liut how -much is due to the . mechanics who designed and constructed her. ; ' - , ; , i Could not the Governor and his Council dictate something to our people . in jthhvali important tub ject of promoting the mechanical arts in our State? ; J. F. G. Mittao of 8. C The above is to the point: Many parent will long regret the folly and pride which prevented them from learning their children, to work . and devclope their bone and muscle. Instead of putting them to some useful trade,' parents arc crowding their boys into shops and dry goods stores, enter taining the foolish idea that it ii more, respectable., Sensi ble people dott't think so, , In all ages some of the greatest and most talented men were those who learned trades while boys,. In our -own coun try wc have numerous examples. But it takes an iutclligent smart boy to make a good mechanic, while almost any sort of a boy can haudle the yard stick and finger ribbons and calico, or. get a smat tering ol law or physic. ; . - ' .NORTHERN ITEMS. Slaves are 6tampeding from ' the 'Maryland border counties to the District of Columbia since the passage of the emancipation act. '' While the appropriation of thirty millions to pay the two and three years volunteers was being discussed on Thursday, Mr Vallandigham said it was not a deficiency to be met, but a defalcation in the War Department to be provided for. 1 ' The following is a copy of a handbill posted up in Alexandria on Thursday night, and pulled down next morning : . "Grand Confederate Victory at Corinth. - - Yankee Doodle once more defeated." General Prentiss and Brigade Captured. Noble Beauregard, God bless him, sit ill uninjured. Cheer up, friends of the noble cause, and return thanks to Almighty God for our victory over - the base hordes of Yankee invaders, and never, never despair. A StXKSU GlRL."":. Ex-Skcretary Cjlmeron '.Arrested. Phila-. dclphia, April 15. Ex-Secretary . Cameron -was arrested in this city to-day on a warrant issued by the Sheriff's officers, on complaint of Pierce But? lcr, fur alleged illegal detainment in Fort Lafay ette. To-night a hundred citizens,, headed by a number of public officers, visited the residence of Mr Butler and regaled him'with the noise of horos, fiddles and other discordant instruments.; " Mr Cameron had made ready to start for Europe at an early period, and this arrest will materially interfere with his arrangements. ; : ? . . Mr Wall uad friends, of Burlington, N. X, have been in town all day, waiting to castigate Mr Cameron for the arrest of Mr WaH last fall. . The ex-Secretary is guarded by -the United States Marshal, the District Attorney, and others. For the present Mr Cameron has declared ' his intention not to sail for Russia until the case in question is disposed of. s v , The arrest took him entirely by surprise, and occasioned much mortification. . v 5The Hon. Theodore Frclinghuysen died at his residence in Newark, N. J. on Saturday, the 12th ir.st., after a , lingering illness. , lie was Jb years of age. , ,r , , -. Cincinnati, April 15. The Cincinnati Com mercial has information, from a reliable man, who left the battle ground , at Shiloh wi Thursday. He estimates the Federal loss in killed at from 1,200 to 1,500; wounded, 3,500 W 4,000; missing, 2,500. ,. -: s - - ' - Stormy Session of the Caui.net. -The New York Ilerald'a Washington correspondence, ..April 15th, says: ' ., The Cabinet meeting to-day was stormy, and new phases and slumberine prejudices are said to have been developed; but the nrmness ot, the President for what he believed to be the best in terests of the nation, supported by the Secretary of State and Postmaster General, amidst all the complications that existed, prevailed over all op position. - " ' Personal. Col- St. Leger Ureufeil, Capt. Griffin and Mr. Kimbrough, lately reached Charles, ton from abroad. . The .former; gentleman, who was lately a Colonel in the British, army, is on his way to Richmond, desiring to eatc CoufeK erate service. : ' - - ; . '". v Ocr Title Papers The' Richmond Exami ner calls attention to the fact that the yankee vandals are in the habit of destroying court houses wherever they can; and jufers that the object is to destroy the" title lo lands, &c , so that should the robbers get poBsesfcioti, it may be diffi cult for the real owners to show their titlo. ' " ; ATBCTCIOTJS OUTRAGES f ' Of the Yankee in f Onslow conn ty X, C. We are enabled to lay the -following fact, not rumors, before tho public. . Tbey ought-to be sufficient to open the eyes of all to the nature of the enemy to whom we are opposed, and tho character of the contest in which wc are enpged "If these facts, do not show the value of the professions con taincd in the hypocritical . proclamation ot'i Burn side and Goldsborough; if they do not convince all that there ar$ but two, alternatives, victory or ab solute ruin; if. they do uot make the blood of every mania the State ling'e through hi vtina, ad every heart swell with the desire for reveuge, then nothing, can. ; These are tho nnld-mann red saints, the pet lambs that came to revive the Uui-m feel ing in .North, Carolina, and make proselytes to the sway ot Abe Lincoln.. . . ... ... The enemy, in their late visit to Onslow county, brought over one piece of artillery, and ono bag gage wagoo such at leist seems to be the must correct account. In tho neighborhood through which they passed, they committed the most un heard of depredations, carried off all the promin ent citizens ia irons and ropes, and went so far as to paddle Mr.-Henderson, a very respectable man. for having free negroes bound to him. Mr Pelle tier they cowhided, also a Mr Buck. They took off everything of . .value they could get hold of; they broke open trunks took, jewelry, blankets, carpets, towe!s, every thing. In fact they ransackel every house they cam lo, using the most abusive language to all, and the most insulting to the wo men.' 'I hey incited the negroes to fiht against their masters, telling them that in a few days they would have a line of pickets from Newbern and Swansboro', that they would be back in 7 or 8 days with reinforcements. : . ; - - - The robberies committed at the house of Mrs Sanders are fully confirmed. They even ??ole all her gold and silver, gold and silver plate, jewelry, gold. watch, notes, title .deeds, and so forth. In fact, the half of these outrages has oot been told They took everything they could carry oft'. '1 heir only excuse we hear of, was that Mrs Sanders had g yen entertainment to a body of Confederate caval ry some time before. Wilmington Journal. , ... FEELING FOR THE DYING. -A letter from a di.tjnuished Physician to a Friend. 1 Dear Sir: Our friend will make his exit in a few days at farthest. I leg you to remain, with , him. ' 1 know your humanity will, as much as in your power lies, smooth the avenue? to death, ami even in some degree make his djittii -bed easy. In truth, the physical process, of death is generally not very painful; for although the difficulty oi respiratiou sometimes excites a kind of -struggle, yet frequently the dying .obviously Miffor nothing. Iu those especially who die of clir-jtiic diseases, the gradation is slow and dUiiuct, and in reality they appear to languish lor complete dissolution. I have known some to express great uueasinuss when recalled from beginning insensibility by the cries of their friends. Ihe , approach of actual death produces a state similar , to that of failing asleep--sensation is diminished exactly in propor tion to the decrease of the vital functions all impressions are impaired, and the patients enly wish for absolute rest.. Even in acute diseases: a degree of insensibility often precedes death a con siderable time. During .this, interval, b tween in sensibility and. the absolute cessation of mortal existence, be it the task of your humanity, my fricid to prevent, the relations and officious at tendants frutn expressing useless pity: and infJict ing usekhs pain. . Abstain from the cruel custom of forcing liquids iuto his mouth, when hv can no longer swallow disturb him not suffocate him not draw not the pillowi let him pass peaceably :aud when he ceases to breathe, -let the room be kept ns quiet as if. bo were in a transitory sleep. Be uot oyer precipitate iu laying him out; for it is too certain .that in this helpless situation he is sensible of all the cruelties practiced upon him although he has become unable to express his sen sations. The. test imony of many, recovered from apparent. death, leave no doubt upon the subject. Alter two orhree hours, however, the body will have become quite cold, and the limbs begin tc grow rigid the. remains of sensibility will - then have been extinguished entirely, and the windows may be thrown open and the body laid out. It must remain unburied, nevertheless,, until some appearance of. putrefaction has taken place. 'This is the only sufficient. security against .the - revis itings of: life, and indicates the proper timet fjr in termuit,. nt - ! ' ' a: Barbarities While the, .members of Liar, coin's Congress are laboring, to excite.. the horror of the civilized world , by. the invi-stigativn of imaginary barbarities practiced upon their dead at Manassas, we have it in our power lo ven'.iLte a deed more atrocious than any, tliat has eyir before come under puf obicrvation, perlonned by one of Bull Nelsbrs soldiers at tho fig lit at Piken, Ky. This fiend carried to Catlettsburg, after he fight, for exhibition, the gory head, of a former friend, whom be had found wounded, and, demanding a surrender, was answered by a pistol shot liotu the hand of the dying man, which so enraged him that, 'after killing his brave opp nent, l.e t ut ff his head. Having exhibited the trophy until il became offensive, he boiled off the flesh and pre served; the skull. , This statement , is. vouched for by a writer in the Wilmington Journal, who was at the time under arrest, in . Cad. tuhurg ,on suspicion, oi sympainy wun jne. outit, an l re list at dawn Sherman's pickets wcrs driveo rcry lluic 'later Prentiss's were; and tha ACCOUNT OF THE SHILOH BATTLE P ;.tf;. -FROM YANKEE' SOURCES. The (Cincinnati -Times hw a very lengtby ac count of the battle of Shiloh, which the Yankees persist in calling the battle of i.,Piltsburg. .Laod ing." The Times' account is faruished ; by an army correspondent, and bears dste ' April 0.' It will be seen that according' to thV ncnint," the Yankees were terribly thrashed, and they - cannot deny it. The writer strn-rles hard to suppress the truth, but like-murder, it wUl out. - Read tho fjftjving extract, -which must suffice: .,'?. . i. -. TIIP TI 1 TTT V W tl vtllV "' -' "t Aim.- in; a very cneuiy were juto the camps almost as soon ai wrr the pickets tnemseives. .-t IJe're began scenes which, let us hope, will have no parallel iu our remaining unuals otthe,wr. Mauy, particularly' among our officers, weronpt yet out of bed." Others were .dress ing,, other washing, others cooking, a few eatiug their break fasts. . Many vmiis were unloaded, accoutrements lying pell mell, a nmunitioa was ill supplied In short, the camps were completely ,s surpristd--di. gracefully, might be added, uuicsi soma cue ,cat hereafter give some yet undiscovered reuspn to t.ha contrary ami were takeu at alntot cvory possible disadvantage. , . . 1 ,v , .-j ' The first wild Cries fromtho pickets rushing in, and the few scattering shots "that ; preceded . their arrival, aroused the regiments to a senso of their peril; an instant afterwards rattling Volleys of , musketry poured through the tems, while, btlor there was time for thought or preparation, thora came rushidg through the wo'jds, with liues of battle sweeping too whole fronts of the division camps and bending down, on 'either flank, th Sue, dashing, compact columns of the enemy. . . , , Into the just aroused camps thronged the rebel regiments, firing sharp volleys as they name, and springing forward upon our laggards with tbt bayo ' net; for awhile their artillery, already iu position,'' was tossing shells to the further tide .of ths eo campmrnis. scores were, ehot down as tbey wers, running without weapons, hutlcss, coat less, towards the river. The searchiug bullct3 fuuud other poor unfortunates iu tlieir tetit-t, and there, all ur heedt'ig t'ow, they still slumbered, while the un seen foe rubied on. Otliers feil as they were di, entangling themselves from the flap that furiaf thr; doors to their tents; others as they were bick. ling oil. their accoutrements, others as they wsrs vainly try i ig to impress on the cruelly.. exultaul, enemy 'their readiness to surrender. ... Officers were bayoneted in their beds and lafi for dead, who,' through the whole two days' tear ;;ony, and found in their gore in side their tentt., und still able to tell the tale.. Such were the fearful disasters that opened the relit-1 onset on the lines of Buck land's .brigade, in Sherman's division. Similar, though perhaps Jess . terrible in .some of the details, were tu fates vf Prentiss' entire front. . Meantime, what they could oar shattered regi ments did. Falling rapidly bac!s. through tho heavy, woods till they gained a protecting ridge, firing as they fan, and making what reaisUuce mn thus .. situated might, Sherman's men succeeded ia par tially check ing the rush of the enemy long enough to form their hasty line of battle.- Meantime ths other two brigades of the division- (tu the right) sprang hastily to their arms, and had barely don ' so when, the enemy's lines cams sweepiug up against their fronts, tooy aod the battle thus .open ed fiercely along ' Sherman's whole line on tbt right... ... . . . .v. ,,.. Buckland's brigade had been compelled to aban duii their camps without a struggle. Soma of ths. regimeuts, it is even said, ran without firing a guo. Colonel Appier's Fifty third Ohio is loudly com-., plained. of on thisscort and others are mentioned. -It is certain that parts of regiments, both .hert and iu other divisions, ran disgracefuliy, Yst they, were not wholly without excuse, They wsra, -raw troops, just from t the uual , idleness . of our "camps of instruction, ', hundreds of thorn, had... never heard a guu fired ia anger; their officers, , for ti c most part, were equally inexperienced, thoy had bevu reposing in fancied security, and were , awaked, perhaj-, lYoig sweet dreams of borne, and i, wives and children by the stunning roar of -can- N nun in their very midst, uud, the bursting af - bombblull among their tents to see outy the ser ried columns cf the. magnificent rebel advance, . and. thtou-li t'"c blinding, stifling smoke, ths ' haVty retreat of comrades and supports, right and, -left. . Certainly, it is sud enough, but hardly sur prising,, that under such circa mtjocer soma . should run. Half as much caused the wild patriot at .Bull Rutii for which the nation, as one wau bt cuujc a loud-moutfacd apologist. ..... . . . - . But they ran here as in Prentiss's division, of:-, which Wt more in a moment -aud tha enemy did not T-il to profit by the wild dj.rdcr. v. As Bock- i. land's brigade fill hack, JicClrroand thrsw for, ward his left to support it., Meauwiiilsi.i3hrHiaii , was doing his . best to. rally bis troops -dashing along the liuu?. encouraging them everywhere by his pTcscnev1, and exposing his own Hfc.witb? tha 9 same freedom with which he doiu in led the offar of theirs, ho did much " lo sve tht division from . utter destruclti.n. Hildetrahd and MoDuwtdl ' were com period to retire their brigndes f rom. their ;. eatjips across the little ravine behind; but, here, , lot a time, they made a gallant" defence, while. what was h it ot liuCklauct s wrts . IjUui UaQlt 10 who, tiirougn tnc wnole two ful stru-gh:, i i y there gasping in tiu:ir on Monday evening were more fiendish act than this, we are ignorant of the fact. Tkrei Ciieirs for Gen. Kerbt' Smitu! We underjitand the cuizens of Jooesboiouirh, lc it to tckc . their place, an I check the ware of rc&ci advance. . . - , , The JJrttt or JVea ;UivczTfom Gen. Van Dotn's report of the fight at Pea Ridge, Tenn-Vwere surprised last Saturday morning by 1 Arkansas; that 'engagemeot appeals in its trua .. the sudden" appearance !ntheir midst of an armed 1 light- ;Bey6nd a doubt it was a bjilliant aod barJ ' i fought 'laule, resulting in a deotJid victorv for arms. The enemy ha J set oat on a roarcn oi invasion witli the avoweu determiaa appearance force, lwlw) quite unceremoaiously attacked the. j. fought tattle, res liquor establishments and captured two or turee j tle Confeacrate a: hundred trallons of - the . "cood critter!" '.'And I a march "of invasi horrid to tell.thev poured it out into the streets. ; tion to "subjugate Arkansas and capture Fort. J r 1 i- . , .'. .L.t ' c :.i a it... .ft., it. .t..i. ', f L. : This manoeuvre was accomplished without the loss Smithr of a sfngle man!4 But , from the " smell . on the 1 Van Id But after the shock of an encounter with " 9 ' m- - " s ' f '-' m . mm rn De was rurec-a to :;l L.aci into .u- would have onn, leaving lour nunareu prisoners in our Accident. Week before last, pi-irate Wbite-1 hurst of Cart. Cole's company, 2d cavalry,5 near Kinston, was killed by the aeeidental discharge of direction, ;md we eao only ny hit" bim bis own gun while on picket duty. - - ; Bristol Advocate. - ; 1 ctrt 4 fran'rfr na&sinc aloil? thought the town 'was '.'iu liquor." ' f hands, and three thousand killed and wounded 00 : The still-houses and groceries in Carter county ; the field- The total abandonment of their enter were also smashed up. This is a lick iu the right : piie of ubjagatioa is the most MiicJu-iive evi agaio!--- denee in the world that' the ehemy Vis couipfetely" I worsted by Gn.Vao Doro R'chmin'i'WhiQ, ccived it from his guards. If history lecords a ! "bid'er -as it might, aod Ieari.i ,McUirnand' . j Eft If t : t ; ! J t I i ft i i i i 1 f i' t 11
The Times-Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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April 29, 1862, edition 1
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