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All persons subject to the provision? of the act of Congress entitled "an a t further to provide for the Public Detente," approved the 10th of April 180.2, and known as the Conscription Ant, are hereby ordered to appear at their regular Regimental muster grounds in their re.-peetive counties, on the 8th day of July, prox. H. The Conscripts after enrollment are hereby or dered to appear at the Courthouse of their respective counties, on the loth July, proximo, prepared to pro reed forthwith to thi.s camp of instruction. III. The enrolling ollieers u ill have instructions to frraut exemptions as prescribed by law. hereto append ed. IV. Officers commanding regiments and companies of the Militia of this State, will immediately notify their respective commands, and w.iru all persons liable to Conscription to comply promptly with the above order. N03. 1 and 2. V. All persons subject to enrollment, who may wish to Volunteer, must join companies in the Confederate fervicc on the 15th April last, according to law; and consequently ure prohibited from recruiting or organiz ing new companies or regiments, Partizau or Rangers excepted. Hv order: PETER M ALI.ETT. junior aii'i r i cien i, i . o. -i. WAR DEPARTMENT, AlUl'fAST ASI) IxslECTOlt GENERALS OfnCK, Riciimosu, May l'J, lh'01. CrsEKAi. Okheus, No. J. I. The following act and regulations in reference thereto, arc published for the information of ail con cerned. An Act to exempt certain persons from enrollment f..r service in the armies of the Confederate Ktstes. SEC. I. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That all persons who shall be held fo be unfit for military .-crvirc under rules to be pre scribed by the SccrHary of War all in the service or !.;. h. of 'In- '.!il'- krate .Slates all judicial ami exe cutive olfi ers of the ( 'onleder.ile or State Governments the members of both Houses of Congress and the ; i-'i.ti ures of tilt- s- v.er:i Elates and their respective i ojli"i-rs ail deil.s .f the ollicers of the Stale a:id i Coiile. It-rate Governments allowed by law all engaged j in carrying the mails all ferrymen on post routes all , piloU and person engaged in the murine service on I . . 1 .... " ...... . I l.: . i river ami tauroa.i routes in transportation ieie 1 a jm u operators and ministers of religion in the regular discharge of ministerial duties all engaged in work ing iron mines, furnace:', and foundrie s all journey man printers actually employed in printing newspapers all presidents and profesos of colleges and acade mies, and all teachers having as many as twenty scholars superintendents of the public hospitals, lunatic asylums, and the regular nurses and attendants therein, and the teachers employed in the 1 ntitutins for the deaf and dumb, and blind in each apothecary Hole now established and doing business, one apothe cary in good standing, who is a practical druggist Ftipc riutendenta and operatives in wool and cotton factories who may be exempted bv the Secretary of War. hall he, arid are hereby exempted frem military service in the armies of the Confederate Slates. Ap proved April 21, :m;2. II. Iy the above act of Congress, the following clashes of persons are exempt from enrollment for military service : Justices of the Peace; Sheriffs and Deputy Sheritrs: Clerks and Deputy Clerks, allowed bylaw; Masters and Commissioners in Chancciy; District and Stale Attor neys; Attorney General; Postmasters and Deputy Postmasters, and Clerks allowed by law; Commission ers of Revenue, and foreigners who have no; acquired dumicil in the Confederate States. foliowin CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT. Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, President. Alex II Stephens of Georgia, Vice President. J. R 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. IJ. Mallory, of Florida, Secretary of thersavy. Thos. II. 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. NORTH CAROLINA, George Davis, Win T Dortch. ALABAMA. Win L Yaucy, Clement C Clay. ARKANSAS. Robert W Johnson, Charles B Mitchell. FLORIDA. A E Maxwell, J M Baker. GEORGIA. Benjamin II Hill, John W Lewis. LOUISIANA. Edward Sparrow, T J Semmes. MISSISSIPPI. Albert G Brown, James Phelan VIRGINIA. R M T Hunter, Win B Preston. SOUTH CAROLINA. Robert W Barnwell, James L Orr. TENNESSEE. Langdou C Haynes, Gustavus A Henry. TEXAS. Louis T Wigfall, W S Oldham. KENTUCKY. II C Burnett, William E Simms. MISSOURI. John B Clark, R S Y Peyton. Total number, 26. HOUSE. Thomas. S. Bocock, Speaker. 1 Thomas J Foster, 2 Win R Smith. 3 John P Ralls, 4 J L M Curry, 5 Francis S Lvon, ALABAMA. t W Chilton, 7 David Clopton, 8 James L Pugh, 0 E S Dargau. I Felix J Balson, ARKANSAS. 3 Augustus II Garland, 2 Grandison D Royster, 4 Thos B Hanly. 1 James B Ilawkiu 1 Julian Hartridge, 2 C J Mumierlyn. 3 Hines Holt, 4 A II Kenan, i) David W Lewis FLORIDA. s, 2 Hilton. GEORGIA. t) William W Clark, 7 Robt P Trippe, 8 L J Gartrell. 9 Hardy Strickland, 10 A B Wright. I . 3 4 r j Alfred Boyd, John W Crockett, II E Read. George W Ewing, 'l.risman, T L Burnett, 1 o I 3 KENTUCKY. 7 II W Bruce, 8 S S Scott, 0 E M Bruce, ID J W Moore. . II R J Breckinridcre, 12 John M Elliott. LOUISIANA, Charles J Yilliere. 4 Lucien J Dupre, Charles M Conrad, 5 John F Lewis, Duncan F Kt nner, G John Perkins, Jr. MISSISSIPPI. 5 II C Chambers, 0 O R Singleton, 7 E Barksdale. Jr. John J McRae, S W Cltipp, Reuben Davis, Israel Welch. 1 John Hver, 2 Casper W Bell, 3 George W Vest, 4 A II Conrew, NORTH 1 W N II Smith, j 2 Robert R Bridgers, 3 Owen R Kenan, 4 T D McDowell, ." Archibald Arlington, MISSOURI. 5 W W Cook, G Thos W Freeman, 7 Thos A Harris. CAROLINA. C Thomas S Ashe, 7 James R McLean, 8 William Lander, L B S C. aither, 10 A T Davidson. SOUTH W W Boyce. W Portlier Miles. M 1a Bonham, are not exempt : III. The Military Officers not in actual service; persons exempt by State laws, but not ly the above act: foreigners who have acquired domicii in the Confederate States. IV. No persons other than those expressly named or properly i-iiplicd in the above act can be exempted, ex cept by furnishing a substitute, from military service, in conformity Willi regulations already published, (General Orders No. 2:,j and such exemption is valid only so long as the said snh.-titute is legally exempt. . Persons who have furnished substitutes will receive their certificates of exemption from the Captains of Companies, or the Commandants of Camps, by yhom the sulxtitute have been accepted. Other cer tificates of exemption will be granted by the enrolling ollicers only, who will receive full insti nctions in regard to the conditions and mode of exemption. Ap plications for exemption cannot, therefore, be consid ered by thf War Department. S. COOPKR. Adjt.aml Insp. General. CAROLINA. 4 John McQueen, 5 James Farrar, C L M Ager. TENNESSEE. G W Jones, Thomas Menees, J D C Adkins, Bullock. 8 f 10 11 J T Ileiskcli. W G Swuon, W II Tebl.S. E L Gardenshire, II S Foote, M P Gentry. TEXAS. John A Wilcox, 4 Wm B Wright, Peter W liray, 5 Claiborne C Herbert, 6 VIRGINIA David M Currin. Mulcolm Graham, B F Sexton. 1 MRU Garnet t. 2 John R Chambliss, 3 James Lyons, 4 Roger A I vnr Thomas S Bocock, John Goode, Jr. James P Ilolcombe, 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 Johnson, 16 Charles W Russell. OF TO AM.. r a per. ATTHXTIOX tiOO Reams of Writing 100.000 Envelopes, Just received at the store of KOOPM ANN k PJU.LPS. May 27, ls.:2 tf NORTH CAROLINA. fcalary ."r.uuu per Salary, Wil., Charlotte &. WESTEUN Ruth. Railroad DIVISION. GOVERNMENT Z. B. Vance, Governor annum. R II Battle, Secretary to the Governor. exclusive ot fees, 300. Rufus H. Page, Secretary nf State. Salary $800. Daniel W. Courts, Treasurer. Salary $2,000. W. R. Richardson, chief clerk to the Treasurer. Salary $1,200. C. H. ifrogden. Comptroller. Salary $1,000, The War. S The Campaign in Maryland. A condensed and correct staltncnt of the opera tions of the Confederate Army. A correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch gives the following statement of affairs from the time the Confederate army first crossed the Poto mac into Maryland until it returned to the Yirjri nia shore : Winchester, Sept. 20. f, I proceed to give you a condensed statement of the important events which have occurred on or near the upper Potomac, within thelastfew weeks. On Saturday the Gth of September, the Confed- ! a. prate army reac bed Frederick Citv. in Maryland. 'aX - j j encamping, fur the most part, a mile or two south east of the city, on the side towatds Washington. But few forces actually entered Frederick until j Tuesday the 9th. On that day and the next, our J whole army took up the line of march, passing ' through Frederick westward, on the turnpike lead- ing to Ilager3town. A part of the army proceed ed to the latter place. A few days after, one portion crossed the Poto mac river at or near Williamsport, and marched to Harper's Ferry via Maitinsburg. The yankee forces at the latter place fell back to Harper's ! Ferry, which place was invested by our forces on ! both sides of the River. The attack was begun on Sunday the 14th, and on Monday morning the ' loth, the entire Yankee army capitulated j commanded by Gen i I) S Miles was killed j soners, 1,000 runaway negroes, 13,000 small arms, ! 50 to 70 cannon, and a quantity of stores and ammunition. The prisoners were paroled, and i the captured negroes, arms, and other property, i sent back to places of safety. On Friday the 12th, (two days after our main army had passed westward from Frederick,) Gen. McClcllan approached Frederick with his grand army from the direction of Washington, his first object being the rescue of the Jederal army at J la rye r' s Ferry. In this he was completely foiled by the genius of our noble chieftain, Gen. Lee. lie had so ar ranged that Gen. Longstreet, we think it was D H llillj with his command, held McClellan in check until the yankee forces at the Ferry had capitulated, and this almost in sight of McClellan! Longstreet then fell back to unite with Jackson and A P Hill, who, having finished their job at the. Ferry, marched to join him. On Tuesday the 16th of Sept., the two grand armies encountered each other near Sharpsbur in Maryland. The scene of conflict was a valley about two miles wide, running south from Hoons boro to the Potomac river near Sharpsburg, the latter place being near the Maryland side of the Potomac, and some miles up the river from Shep herdstown. This valley is divided by the Antie tam creek, which runs down it into the Potomac a few miles below Shepherdsfown. On the east of the valley and of the Antietam, lay McClcllan, with the abrupt Blue Ridge mountain behind him. On the west side of the Antietam lay Gen. Lee's son's and Ewell's divisions ere thrown to the left of Gens D H Hill and Longstreet. The ene my advanced between the Antietam and the Sharpsburg and Hagerstown turnpike, and waa met by Gen. D. H. Hill's and the left of Gen. LoDgstrect's divisions, where the conflict raged, extending to our entire left. The enemy was re pulsed and held in check; but prior to the arrival of the divisions of McLaws, Anderson and Walker, who had been advanced to support the left wing and centre, as soon as they had crossed j the Potomac on the morning of the 17th, that portion of our line was forced back by sup-rior numbers. As soon, howerer, as these forces could be brought inte action, a severe conflict ensued. The enemy was driven back, our line was restored, and our position maintained during the rest of the ! INCKEASING DISTRESS IN THE ENQ- j must be greatly improved. It is very suitable, ; IiISH MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS. however, to coarse fabrics, and with coarse fabrics j The London Times has been sending a special ! we be co?lenl lnntil 8ufch time " America 1 correspondent into th manr,f,;n i;...;. I 8end her proaace here again, or the cotton cf ascertain the truth in reeard to th Inffeiin and I oer countries improves in quality as well as in ing out of a atoppaee of af-i". . , . .i l privation mere, growing out of a stoppage trade, consequent upon the American war, the j loss of the cotton supply, &c. His first report ! appeared in the Times of the 26th ult. From him we learn that - in tne afternoon the enemy advanced on our right, where Gen. Jackson's division was posted, and he handsomely maintained his position. The bridge over the Antietam creek was guarded by Gen. Toombs' brigade, which gallantly resisted the approach of the enemy; but their superior num bers enabling them to extend their left, they crossed below the bridge and forced our line back in some confusion. Just at this time, between 3 and 4 P. M., Gen. A. P. Hill, with five of his brigades, having reached the scene of action, drove the enemy immediately back from the position they had taken, and continued the con test until dark, restoring our right and maintain ing our ground. When the battle closed, after haviner raeed y In Preston alone there are 23,000 persons re ceimg ..parochial and charitable relief; The population is only 83,000, so that more than one fourth are steeped to the lips in misery. In addi tion to the 23,000, there are thousands endeavor ing to subsist on half-wages, or less than one-half. Half-time does not imply half-pay, for the use of Surat cotton renders it impossible for the hands to earn their customary wages. The amount lost to the operatives by the failure of employment is calculated at 13,000 a week. The slight com pensation to the suffering amounts to little more than 1,000 a week; so that, in point offset, 1 is made to do the duty of 13. "In one court I found a poor woman with three children, whose husband had three days' parish work and an extra relief of 3s., in all 6s. a week for the five. All their furniture was gone but a table and two chairs, and all five slept in one bed. which waa placed in a dark hole with not a ray of ugiii unuing its way into it sucn as we should hardly think too good to Btore coals in. All their clothes had been pawued. and most bitterlv of all kee army capitulated It was j Wnen tne battle cW9eti &ite having raged . CB Imu ueeu Pawueu. an '"si; Ditteny oi an White The federal General furiousty during the entire day, we retained pos- dld the Poor woman lament a good black suit of We took over 11 OOtf pri ' 8epsion of the field and the enemy retired to his ,1,er ""sbond which was "iu" for 10s., and which y negroes, 13,000 small uLj I fornier T?on. h00 "T ,' ."redeem,'" . . id a quantity of stores and 0ur loss was considerable. Gen. Branch of N. A?ot1her ,(ami1 fJof SIX people, in the same C. and Gen Starke of Miss., were killed, and Gens II II Anderson, Wright, Law ton, Armstead, Ilip ley and Ransom, wounded, though not dangerously. We learn from persons who left the field, that Gen Lee held the field on Thursday, and took measures to renew the engagement, but the enemy had disappeared from his front. After removing the wounded and burying the dead, Gen Lee re crossed the Potomac and established his head quarters at or near Shepherdstown . On an.l after Monday the li.tli instant, the Pa-Fencer una Mail Irani will be run on this Iloail daily (S execptcl) as follows : (.10 1 NT. WKST. army, witn uign mountains in his rear. The battle commenced on Tuesday afternoon, was renewed on Wednesday, and continued till the night of that day. At that time Jackson had driven back the enemy's right wing for several miles, while Hill and Longstreet had also forced back his centre and left we holding the battle field, but McClellan still holding a position be tween the. Antietam and the Blue Pudge. The battle was one of the hardest fought of the war. The lion. Alex. Boteler, in a speech made at Winchester, just after his arrival from the ar my, stated that it was estimated our losses would not exceed in killed, wounded and missing, 5,000, while that of the enemy was estimated at 20,000. There was no fighting on Thursday. On that night our army crossed, without molestation, and in good order, to this side of the river near Shep herdstown. Of the plan for their future move ments I know nothing. The two weeks across the Potomac has been so full of success and glory that every southern heart should feel full of pride and joy. The capture of the whole Harper's Ferry army the greatest cap ture of prisoners, &c, ever made at one time on this continent was sufficient reward for crossing the Potomac. One word as to the reception of our army on the Maryland side. Many may be disappointed. Recruits came by hundreds, when they were ex pected by some to have joined us by thousands. But we must take into consideration that the army remained at Frederick but three days; that the whole route through which we passed was that part of the State considered most strongly Union; that even the southern men of that section, before joining our aimy and risking their all, wished to know whether the movement was to be a mere temporary raid or an effort for permanent relief. Even as things were, large numbers were on their i way to join our army at the time it left. Mnce we left, every man, who made any show of open ; welcome to the Confederate army has been arrest i ed by Lincoln's minions. (uiii!ay NOKTHERH ACCOUNTS. From the Richmond Enquirer. Late Northern papers state that Gen. Reno was killed on Sunday evening, the 14th, in the battle near Boonsboro, or South Mountain, as the Yan kees call it. He was shot dead while issuing orders, about 7 P. M. Gen. Miles, who was struck by a shell, just as he had ordered the white flg to be raised at Harper's Ferry, on 'Monday morning, had his leg immediately amputated, and died that night. Gen. McClellan has been again disgracing him self by false dispatches. He is a mighty hero according to his own story, but the falsehoods are worthy his Chickahominy fame. The fight at South Mountain on Sunday he telegraphs as "a glorious victory!" and he quotes Gen. Hooker as authority for saying that Gen. Lee admitted he "had been shockingly whipped' And as if Gen. Hooker was not enough, he quotes rumor as stating that our loss in that battle was seventeen thousand men. No'v the truth is that General Lee has dis tinctly said that the battle referred to was a re pulse of the enemy, although he had his whole force, and we but a portion of ours. The state ment of our loss is absurd. We had hardly that number engaged. Surely, McClellan is the last man who can be excused for resorting to rumor. His most chastened dispatches are themselves as reckless as ordinary rumor; what must his rumors be! One of the enemy letter writers says: "I estimate that two thousand will cover the list of our casualties. I think that the enemy's loss in killed and wounded will not exceed our own. Altogether we captured two thousand prisoners." As there seems to be considerable confusion, even in some of our own papers, as to the time and places of the late battles, we will state them: At Harper's Ferry, on Sunday evening and Mon day morning; at the Blue Ridge or South Moun tain Passes, near Booncsborough, on Sunday; and at Sharpsburg on Wednesday. After the battle near Boonesborough closed, Gen. Lee, as we have heretofore stated, withdrew his forces the same night to Sharpsburg. On Monday McClellan slowly followed. There was no fighting on that day, and none the next except a short and harmless cannon.ide in the afternoon. Wednesday was the day of the great fight, which lasted until night. The next morning the enemy had retired, abandoning to us the battle-field. THE MOUNTAIN BATTLE. We copy the following description of the battle field of Sunday from the army correspondent of the New York Times: "The Rebel position was on the sides and sum mit of the Blue Ridge Mountains, on each side of the Gap known as Frog Gap, through which the main road, or the turnpike from Middletown to Hagerstown passes. The Gap is distant from Middletown about three miles, and from Frederick twelve miles. Boonsboro, the ' ext important town to Middletown on the turnpike, is two miles from the Gap on the other side of the mountains court had to live on 8s. a week, that is, Is. 2d. per wees or z$u. a day lor each. "In another house, I saw a sight which will be before my eyes for many a day to come. It was a little low stone-floored room, its only furniture a table, a stool and a bed. On the bed was stretched an object I could not tell whether it was a man or a woman worn to the bone, a very skeleton; in fact, her body covered with putrid sores, with not a rag on her, literally naked but for the coarse sheet, which was spread over her. The bed on which she lay was a rough brown sacking stuffed with a handful of straw. She had lain there I don't know how long; her husband had lain there before her and died on the same Ded. She was the mother of two girls, factory operatives, who earned or were relieved with a few shillings I forget how many, for I own I was too much shocked at what I saw to listen to figures. "Even among a somewhat better class the suf fering is hardly less extreme, and sad were the tales to which I had to listen of the gradual descent from comfort to utter destitution. In one little house, huddled all together, was a family of eleven, all of which had been twenty-eight weeks out of work, and for fifteen of these they had ex isted on something less than Is. per heafr. The Relief Committee had just raised their pittance to 16s. for the eleven. Before the bad times the family earnings had been about 3 15s., and they had had to part with nearly all their furniture. A man, his wife, three daughters and two sons had only one bed among them, and only a dirty blanket and a dirty quilt, one to be under and the other over them. Of course the childen slept on the bare boarda. " But perhaps the strongest illustrations of the distress actually chargeable on the present crisis are the cases of respectable men who have hitherto kept themselves in comfort and endeavored to pro vide for old age and infirmity. There was no difficulty in finding plenty of these. At one house I visited a young couple, not long married, who between them had earned 2 a week. They had both been out of work for some time, and when their savings were exhausted they had at last applied to the parish. Their present income was exactly 5s. 6d. a week, out of which their rent was 2s. 7d , leaving them 3s. a week for sub sistence. "Another young couple had 2s. a week from the Relief Committee; but, living with their parents, they had no rent to pay. In the next house there were four grown-up people living, whose united incomes amounted to Us., out of which they had to pay 2s. rent. "Little further on I came on an overseer with a family of five children. His salary had been 39s. a week, and though he had been out of work more than a twelvemonth, he had managed to struggle on until about a fortnight ago, when, all his resources being exhausted, he had been com pelled to apply for relief, and was now receiving, from one source or another, about 9s. a week. "An old woman and two daughters, both of them over twenty-one years of age one employed half time, the other receiving relief had among them 4s. 6d. a week. A highly respectable reed-hook maker whose wife cried bitterly as she told me her story is earning, with the aid of one of her boys, 7s. a week, which has to keep four of them, by dredg ing stones from the bed of the river. They had pawned all their clothes and much of their furni tnre before applying to the Relief Committee. The average amount derived from charity, the parish and half-time, when distributed amongst all the claimants, amounts only to Is. 6d. a head per week. Many, of course, are living for less. The I.KAY K. rt A. M. 8 15 ' 3 40 M. Leave. 1 1 o A 11 23 " 11 50 12 17 P. M. Charlotte, Tui-kHdojice, Hrevar.l, Sharon, I.incohunn, GOINU KAST. Aiikive. 43 10 37 00 A. M. I.i; S tvoiaton. Arrive. Oliver II Perrv, Librarian The Council of State is composed of the following ! THE BATTLE AT SHARPSBURG- jrentlemen: Council Wooten of Lenoir, President, ; T. , , T, . . ciin,ntr T - . -. ,i Thf Ilirhmnnd Knnnirer nives the lollowine John Cunningham ot i erson. uaviu rP'iy ; nr tln fi uf ctj 11Prr Md ' The mountains in the vieinitv of the Gap are steep ! Is. Cd. is not given in money, the Relief Commit- of Cumberland. '"i er"-"n lf " - : urt'ier particulars of the &cMt at Sharpburg, Md, d d rendered dffficut to ascend un- tee distributing their bounty in bread, soup and I Hillard ioSi:JJUS WhamrtU' j o September 16th and 1 , th : j ,egs b;the ordinary thoroughfares, on account of j coffee." - ? c have the gratification ol being nDie to an- , numerous ledges and loose rocics which anora no j The cotton question is disCuSBed by tho Londan nouncc that the battle resulted in one of the most , permanent foothold, irom base to top they are , , . J onmnlMn victories that has vet immortalized the ! covered with a thick wood, thereby sivin- rrotcc- Dal,J :Sews ,n a desponding spirit. It say: Confederate arms. The balfwas opened on Tues- I tion to the party in possession, and making the ! "The supply of American cotton is rapidly be- Governor's Aids David A Barnes, Esq., George Little, F.sq. LiTEttAKY Boari Zeb. B. Yance, President ex officio: Arch'd Henderson of Kowan, Jas B Gor don of Wilkes. Win J Yates of Mecklenburg day evening the 16th, about six o'clock, all of our progress of the attacking force dflubly hazardous, j coming extinguished, and these exports have con- "We have shown how small is the present stock of cotton, and, looking to the immediate future, the prospect is gloomy in the extreme. Chief reliance is placed upon the supply of Surat sorts, bui t is not by any means encourag. ing to find that the total quantity from this source cow afloat and on tne way" to England is only 90,000 bales more than it was at this time last year, being 390,000 bales against 300,000 in 1861. , From no other source can the deficiency now indicated be made up, save with time. Assuming that the American crop is not released, and allowing for the probable supplies from every other quarter, competent authorities estimate that during the next six months there will be only sufficient cotton to admit of the operatives having two days' work a week, and this is upon the sup position that not a single bale will remain in etook at the end of that period. The latter anticipation, of course, will cot be literally fulfilled, but there ia too much reason to apprehend, as we have already hinted, that tha pressure oh the cotton manufacturing districts will become yet more intense. A well known Mao-. Chester firm have given publio expression to an opinion that its severity will be the greatest dur ing the autumn and winter months, from October to February next." JBgyThc Peace Society of London has issued an address to the people of the United States, urging that the time has come when an attempt should be made to arrest the destructive conflict that is now being carried on. It deprecates any interference with American affairs, but such as would prove acceptable to Americans; but says: 'Sorely, the idea of friendly meditation may be entertained without any derogation of national dignity." It argues that there are only two alternatives to issue out of the war either the utter extermination of one of the parties to it, or some form of accommoda tion and compromise between the contending sides. It asks : "Is it not better to have recourse to the latter at once, before the feelings of the North and South become hopelessly inflamed with the most bitter an mi unity and vengeance t INCIDENTS. "Persoune," the army correspondent of the Charleston Courier, mentions the fact that our sol diers were iu the habit of supplying their own ur gent want of shoes itc., by stripping them from the feet of the dead yankees, who certainly had no further use for them. Personue says, "If you could see our bare-footed and ragged men, you might think there was even a virtue in stealing from a defunct enemy." And he adds: "Among the amusing occurrences of this kind, it is related of a soldier belonging to the Eight Alabama Regi ment, that he found a yankee in the woods, but , being separated from his regiment, did not know what to do with him. ' While soliloquizing, tho officer who gave me the incident rode by, and his advice being asked, be told the soldier he bad bet ter let the prisoner go. "Well," said the Alabatn ian, "1 reckon 1 will ; but look here, yankee, you can't leave till you've given me some of them good clothes. Strip! I want your boots and breech es." The yankee protested against any such indig nity, and appealed to the officer to protect him. . The Alabamian also plead his cause. "Here's this fellow," said he, "come down here a robbing of our people, and he's stayed so long it's no more'n right he should pay for hi board. I don't want him to go round in his bar legs any more'n he wants to; and I mean to give him my old clothes." "A fair exchange is no robbery," replied the officer, "and as you have no shoes and a mighty poor pair of pants, I reckon you had better help yourself.". "Now, yankee, you hear what the 'boss' -says, do yer; off with your traps and let s trade. The last thing my friend saw, as he rode away, was the two worthies, in their "bar legs," stripping for au exchange." W&" A correspondent of the Washington Star, speaking of the conduct of some of the people of Maryland after the Confederate Army withddrew from Frederick City, says : "That there exists a strong Onion sentiment in Maryland, Capt. David says that there can be no doubt. After the rebel army left, and the Federal army had entered, farmers came ia voluntarily from all sections of the country around, and . gave information as to the whereabouts of the Con federates. That was moro to tho point, uud pfst evidence of their Unionism, they told the truth iu every instance. The citizens of Frederick City, too, made preparations to receive and entertain the Federal soldiers to the best of tbeir ability, and spread before them such food as they had, and had water ready to allay their thirst. All the stores that had beea closed on the approach of the Secession Army were opened to the Unionists, and the only question that appeared to concern the people was whether the Union army was strong enough to prevent the Secessionists from retakiug the place." We do not think Maryland will ever belong to the Confederacy, aod tbcre'a do uve of fuaiiog about it. A Co.nkpiracv The New York Herald baa discovered a conspiracy among politicians of the Abolition stamp to depose the virtuous aud. patriotic Lincoln, and place John C. Freusoot at, the head of affairs. We venture to predict, than if they could succeed in their purpose the Herald! would be the urst toawing its bat tor the new-comer :i.iron. 1'rev.trd. Charlotte, A. M. P. M. 11 20 11 3 12 IS 1 Oo Bv order. y. A cnV.V. Acting Master ot Transportation .. ... 0 . uay evening, IIIC JUIU, iiuuut sia u iiuij , iuisk vi i tic niio,iHg ji Mfj .- o ,0 , Jtl IKr him ailk lr"t- ll Internal Improvemknt BoAnn-Zeb. B Vance, ! available force, about sixty thousand strong, com- ! Bolivar, a village boasting of six or eight dwell-: sequently risen during the past week no less than j A"ltSlff 4ht ttjt ,Sfc. J l, . .-.. ii.. ' , ti i a i:. i . thn -. .i : l..tn..n I id to nd . tier nnnml For the fnf ur A ti.oriran I ObsCHHty Ol private life. ihat there Will 09 4 Lincoliiioo, April 4. l$U ll W. BECK Has constantly on hand WATCHES, JEWELRY, PLATED WARE, &C., Of the best English and American manufacturers. Oil aadxaniine his stockbeforc parchajicg elsewhere. M' ttcli rrystals put in for 2." cunts ea.ch. President ex officio; James Fulton of New Han over, X M Long of Halifax, The General Assembly commences its session on the third Monday of November every alternate year. VESUVIUS FURNACE IRON WORKS. 1 he subscriber informs the public that he is manu facturing Pig iron at his Fiirimce in Lincoln county, five mills north of Sharon Station on the Wil., Char. & liuthcrford Railroad. He is also prepared to cast Machinery, such as Mill Gearing. Thrashing Machine Irons, &c; also Hollow-Wore and Salt Pans. J. M. SMITH. manded bv (ien. Robt. E. Lee in i enemy about one hundred and fifty ! strong, commanded by Gen. McClellan beinjr eujra'ied. thousand in person, j n -Kt nna I,ir: cotton, as beinir nuit a "fanv" artiele. will com- i cunoiumvj tuc wm uitiun ii iiuu i.HK iriiii, nuu ouuul i". j o i j j , , , - ... , . miles from the latter place. - mand a "fancy" price indeed, just such a price j depose the NVashington despot. j The early position of the In ion army, or i On the afternoon of Tuesday the 16th, the ene- where the line of battle was nrst tormed was on my opened a light artillery fire on our position. ! a piece of rising ground on the right and left of 1 Early Wednesday morning it was renewed more ; the main road, between Rolivar and the moun ! vigorouslv, and large masses of the enemy, who tains. As the day advanced and our forces moved i i i . i .:. .T.t akT-on.,,- position, forward, the nosition was changed, but never for i ":LIZT : M l.ft. Thev advanced in three the better. The nearer we approached the moan- j the wealthier classes of society. Tho Hiruinna m lipnerala 1 xl ' uiu, me mure euiccuiuut vuuiu ure cuciuy uiiiij; - r " y i. i . ii ne amsioos oi ueucrau . i . . ... J , J 6 . . : L.:Ans hni mun whose reason had bean oomnletelt t u.ii ...4 tv.lUr who his art! erv tn hear on our columns. No matter , cnieny nwnus.. mm wupumuouii vauuui. ue vv -, x """" . . . . .n .t- . i th Wr Art nf mA Ji. driven from iu tbrooe OT loTtous Damons ntmi i ..j i v.. nn tne wnat position we neia. tne oiue luorre mountains wo"c -w., ,..M bWvD, . , . -" L ' a . . .,. . . . . . i m V KUn 1V1M7 'iirnnrp p. O. Jnlv IS. 192. v-! ; compact lines. I Anderson. McLaws, ! n-r.ro xnrrte( in have ioined Gen I previous night, had not come up. Gen? Jack- ; commanded that position. day or other tof we do not doubt as the limited number of holders may choose to tor the Iresn succession ot disappointments an demand for it. Accordingly an interesting revo- disasters, which inevitably awaits the profligat lution is taking place in the manufacture. Amer- ! Administration of the United States, canuot fai ican cotton passes out of consumption, and the ' to bring his demented subjects to their sense. small quantity remaining will be husbanded and ' Their only road to deliverance lies in the over ! ued only in those fine articles which are worn by i throw of the cabal Which is exhausting them o their DlOOa auu treasure w uaifY . uu a tvucuio t The cotton of Surat the description now . subjugation, wnicn is impracncaoie, ana wujbu into before it will become available for them its quality i ever have attempted, .