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51 MilMf mm JS5 ON THE K3T SIDE OF TRADE STREET CHARACTER IS AS IHPOBTANT TO STATES AS . IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS, AND THE GLORY OF THE ONE IS THE COMMON PROPERTY OF THE OTHER. per annum tat IN ADVANCE THii YkWMj Editop And 4roprietob. CHARLOTTE, N. C, . TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1863. TWELFTH VOLUME N 0 HI B E K 587. (QPublbhed every Tuesday,) BY WILLIAM J. YATES, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. $ 5 IX ADVA.NL l.. . , . ,t V.o .fr t2T Transient aauu.Hwu,, - ad :f".e. ,4.v dvertiement3 not marked on the manuscript f ,r aVecific time, will be inserted until forbid, and charjrctl accordingly. ' AN ACT IV RFL VHON TO THE MILITIA AND A GUARD l'OU HOME DEFENCE. Sk.". 1. H'" it enacted by the Geueral Assembly of the 's:ate of Nor'h Carolina, aud it is hereby enacted bv the iniihoriy- of the same, That the exemptions i e i" the Militia of the State, shall be for the itne '-.lij-i.-. and to the s-ame extent and no farther, ti .tt are prescribed in the acts of Congress of the (Jon -tclcraie Stales, providing for the enrollment of men lei the public defence and granting exemptions from the -ame, commonly call.;- the conscription and ex emption acts. .See .2 re it further pro.ctcd, That it shall be the v of I he Governor t n;.se to be enrolled as a guard for home defence all while male persons not already enrolled in the service ( 1 the Confederate States, be tween theaj.es of eighteen and fifty years, resident in this State; including foreigners have been residents in the State for thirty days before s'leh enrolment, excepting persons filling the oflices of Governor, Judges ot ttie Miprenic and Superior . ie,:l Courts of Law and Eijuit v, the members of the Gel Assembly and the olheers ot the several I epart meuis J-lt-:U.-d. All persons discharged from the Army from any the Government of the State, M ini.-ters of the Gospel t.aus,N or jv auv autIiority since the last enrollment. All of the several denominations of the State charged w ' " j pi-rsoiis to whom temporary exemptions were granted by the duties of churches, and such other persons asjjj,,. Examining Board, and all persons permitted by the Eii ihe Governor, for special reasons,- may deem proper,,-,,);, (jijicer to reuiaiu at home till further notice; persons subjects of exemption. . exempted or detailed on any work for the State of North Sec. M. He it further enacted, That all persons above Carolina, or any department thereof, will be required to the :o e of iiftv, who may volunteer tor -service in saiUjatteiid and exhibit the evidence ot exemption or detail, guard for home defence, and shall be accepted by a l .iptaiu of a company for the same, shall be deemed to Ik-Ioi thereto, ami shall be held to service therein, .-.iber generally or for any special duty or expedition u-, the commanding officers of regiments or companies, according to the nature of the particular service in pu-sti oi may determine. Sec 4 Be it further enacted, That the Governor sha'i t aus all persons enrolled in pursuance of the two precedin sections of this act to be formed into cnij anies. with liberty to elect the commissioned ofii . .. ,,f .1.. I, iim lvips .-i ml thence into battalions or imenV. b'ri-.nies and divisions according to his dis-jl--'I' ""ly written on one side, with one column of names eu-tion, a 1 he-shall appoint the field otnee,. uf c-j, jnear the left n.argm tin- balance ot the page blank for . , , .,, i k . 0,i ,ii,.:.;n5 nn,iireiuarks. If the Colonels have any reason to suspect that I lU.iiioii-, regiuieiits, brigades, ami ctivi.-ions, ana f , n ,,(;,.,.,. , there are persons holding exemptions irom the Enrolling -;; l- iie commissions in otic form to ail toe oinecrsi ' . . . T) ' . . . , , . ,Qm or tjle Examining Boai d .not entitled to them, ob- a:or-s.M.t. ' .-M-r i ,e ii I inner i- ;u vi . 1:1.11 iu-hmhi; S u-ietv of Friends, -ommo;ii call u vuakeis., 111a. L exenipied from the provision ot tins act by paying the Mm of on- hundi ed d liars -according to an ordinance of the Convention of this State in that behalf, ratified the l'-'lh d.tv of Mav, 1862. Provided that whin, a Quaker sh.i 11 have paid or had levied of his property (lie sum of live hundred dollars under tUe net ol Con gress called (he cousciipt ion law aforesaid, he shall not be lenuired to pay any sum of uiouetf for his ex emption under this act. s, ,- r. rt.-.t tin. sni.l criinrds for home defence mav b called out for service by the Governor in defence of while the officer is in the county where parties reside, the. State against invasion and to suppress invasion, then, if necessary to defer, a time and place will be ap either by regiments', battalions, or companies, tn matse, pointed. All papers and affidavits milst be presented in or by drafts or volunteers from the same, as he, in hi? due form and properly attested, to receive. attention, as the discretion mav direct: shall be under his command, Enrolling Officer will not have time to draw up or correct through the oHicers appointed as herein provided: instruments t,f writing. -All applications for exemption shall serve onlv within the limits of this State, and ini?ntlV. i tor intoniiation must be addressed to the terms of duty "to be prescribed bv the Governor, not "rolling Officer only. All applications for exemption on ev. Umrr ilr.-e o.on.l L Ht one term. Thev. or so manv K1"' 0llut1 of eciitive clemency, on account ot justice, of them as may be at any one time called info service, may be organized into infantry, artillery or cavalry as he may direct, and the infantry and artillery may be mounted if he shall so determine, the men furnishing their own horses and accoutrements and tu 111s, w hen , approved by the Governor, on such terms as he shall rl5Ulul- , mi , aiilitia will return to the Enrolling Officer a Sec. 7. He it further -nacted, That the Governor may of all conscripts who thus volunteer, giving furnish to said troops the arms, accoutrements and:comi,.iny-to w1ieil th,.v have : gone To ava animuiiition of the State when called as aforesaid into 0f ths right, parties must be actually in sen active service, and shall prescribe rules tor their return!regiments on the 20th day of August; furloughs, or per and to prevent the waste., destruction or loss of the'mission to remain at home till after that time, by whomso sume. jcver granted, will be disregarded, and the parties sent to Sec. 8. Re it further enacted. That all laws andicamp as conscripts, without delay. Conscripts sent to clauses of laws coming within the meaning and pur-jcamp will have choice of regiments as far as practicable view of this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. land the exigencies of the service wil! allow. All soldiers Sec. 9. lie it further enacted. That the commissions" ho have. been transferred to Salisbury Hospital, and per- of officers of the Nhlitia, called into service by this act,!""tieu 10 leiuin nome, win piompuy report to ur. iafl, are suspended only during the period of such service. .Sec. 10. 15e it further enacted, that this in force from the tlate of its ratification. Ratified the 7th day of July, 18o:i. act shall be Cotton Cards for sale, but an early call will only se cure a p-air as we only have ten pair. We have on hand and can make to order calf-skin Shoes and Gaiters of very line English leather. Lots ladies' calf-skin. Ilootees. Lot of thick lirogani, large sizes. J. F. BUTT, Mint Street, June 23, 18 U.I tf Charlotte. Is'. C. JUST R5ic3a5IVEIr HLACJC ALl'ACCA, . KLUE FLANNELS, Si'OOL COTTON black and white. BLEACHED SIGHTING. J. S. PHILLirS. June 3, 18G3 tf Copartnei'sixip. WlLffjlViflS Ac OATHS n vve tins day associated with them in the Mercantile ana commission business, LEWIS W. SANDERS liie style of the firm will hereafter be " WILLIAMS. GATES & CO. -,' llv T lKr?ons indebted to the late firm o 111 inns ik vaies win ii 1 ..1 ... , wul please call and settle up, as Dec -9, lfJ ,f WILUAMS & 0ATES. D1L .). M. MILLER nanotte, N. c., Has resumed the Practice of Medicine 1 found at his Office in the Brawlev buildino o Kerr's hotel, or at his residence: 0 PPos.te to Feb. 23, 1862. The History of North Carolina, ruDiisnea in iai ny the undersigned, in its L-ouueueu mm n coniamea omissions unavotdahl 4.i Mate Letters may be sent to me, care of Hon- D. L. Swain JOHN II. WHEELER. mnuy uupfrietuons. a second edition was thcu proin- tonVi T v ' - X1V4"" J ' " V1U ctuuvuittu M1 fc " t time law, ITOUX Itoe necessuj VI : r. ..i! a .... "uu u OrrtAi r t H Sorotci rv rF Traociirv. nil AT - . f ho rlrt vant lamin ixre AinrA Tirrhf mnn Trial. lilt! u ??lcb ?rd ,llpr. Tti now the isth rf 'Tl , ITl'J n, :r zh 10 tnese gro.w oia ,py st. vr - hundred milHoDg more of rnZ ,C I V. "L -iwbo wiUicent Ronds or Cash, o nd not jer cntTondsaa suTed i acquaintances tha, were on.y noteg, coming upon an already a rious cnties of th StaVe- ' 'u-h,n a " tisement. Vp to that time, however, Jrs ago, are now lo grown i en years M Decess&rij sll further ZlTJ?,TLr tb?L tJ101 8 I " -t bond, win be furnished as staled. . Verily, the war "has wrought out great wonders, federate moner. fed .dd to . V1, ,uwv ii ny t uum. eel uuc in nip tiA n tio.M ; a , T r NOTICE To Conscripts and Militia Officers of the tli Congressional District. In obedience-to General Order, No. 14, and General Or- : der No. 15, issued by Col. Peter Mallett, Commandant of Conscripts for North Carolina, Colonels of Militia will on the 2Uth of August. 18G3, enroll all, persons liable to con- I sciintion under the recent. Proclamation of the President of tlie Confederate States, and all persons so enrolled, will report themselves to the enrolling officer and Medical lioaiu, at tne touowing times ana piaces, to wit. Cleavelaxd County 91st Eeeiment, Colonel Lo- hran, Tuesday the 25th, and Wednesday the 2Cth ol Au- r1 FJJiotte. Thursday 27th. inlcrust. UOtli Recriment. Colonel .hill lnl Friday theiWth of AinmsC . Lincoln" County Ssith Reariment, CoVonol Ramseur, Monday :$Jst August and Tuesday 1st September, Gaston County 87th Regiment, Col. Hand, Thurs day 3d, and Friday the 4th of September. Meoklexiurg County 85th .Regiment, Col. Max well, Monday the 7th and Tuesday the 8th of September. Gth Regiment, Colonel Brown, Wednesday 9th and Thursday 10th September." Cakakrus Count v 84th Regiment, Colonel Barn hart, Friday 11th and Saturday 12th September. Union County 82d Regiment, Col. McCain, Mon day 14th and Tuesday 15th. 119th Regiment Colonel Mulhs, Wednesday 10th and lnursday itn September. Rowan County 70th Regiment, Col. Bradshaw, Saturday 19th and Monday 21st September. 120th Regi ment. Col. Locke, Tuesday 22d and Wednesday 23d Sep tember. Catawba County 89th. Regiment, Colonel Forney, Friday 25th and Saturday 2th September. This call includes all who shall have become 18 on or before the -20th of August 186:5, aud all who are under 45 on that diiy. whether residents of any other portion of the i - c not miluNiiized, whojV- or..l,r an' ?!:lU' or f,Ia,u m" a clUi6C".Ui roieigll .-nan; or 1 ovver ail vvuo irtrivvu cacuijihuus as the owner or owners of (20) twenty negroes, us so much of the Exemption Act of October, 1802. as relates to over- . !se-vs has beeu repealed by the act of May, 1863, to which Jtlie attention" of all desiring the exemption of- overseers is This call does not include persons exempted by the Ex amining Board on account of physical disability, (unless specially ordered,) nor persons exempted by the Enrolling Oflict r, at or since; the last enrollment, (except overseers as above mentioned,) nor persons detailed for a limited time through the Conscript Office, at Raleigh, provided the details are in full force and effect on the 20tli of August, and the parties are actually and diligently engaged ill the business for which they were detailed. Colonels will return the Rolls to the Enrolling Officer, made out by Companies, with the full names plainly written, without erasiou or alteration, on large size Hained through fraud or mistak, or that, there are" -persons J ,-u- xempted by charging more than 75 per cent., by i.intiJmr in- iirirl,.'iiii(r tin- busings or nrofessioii forwhieh -.... ... -- r- 1 . - ting the business or profession tor which d, or by engaging in any other pursuit. tnev weie exemprt esoeciallv soecul-ition and extortion, they will make separate loll of them, and have them together with sworn evidence before the enrolling Officer. Reasonable notice, !imlst U(. ohm to all such suspected, persons, so they may produce rebutting evidence, to the.cnd that justice may be done. All persons having business of any kind with the Fn- rolling Officer, must be present, together with all papers and evidence necessay for investigation and decision, equity and necessity, must be presented to the' Enrolling Officer, fortified by the sworn testimony of - at least fhree disinterested and respectable persons persons whose re liability the Enrolling Officer can endorse. All persons lliable under this call, can volunteer before the 20th of Al wJU be urnisbed with transport to Col. Mallett, at Camp Holmes. rtation on re- Colonels ot i'lt'iua niu ii-iuin lj uiu jjiuuiuiJ v-'uuti a tuixiKtc lull lg regiment and rail themselves names must, lie mi-Ium Iv hi Ktrvire with their at Salisbury, or be arrested and treated as deserters E3The Enrolling Officer asks the aid of all officers of the militia, and of all good citizens in executing the law, and in raising men to drive the foul invaders from cur soil. JESSE R. McLEAN, Capt. and En. Officer 8th Con. District.' Javax IIryas, Ass't Sur., C. S. A., ) W. II. IIowektox, M. D., Ex. Hoard. J. Ii. Ellis, M. D., ) Aug 17, ISO: LDGEWOUTII FEMALE SEMINARY, Greensboro, IV. C. The fall session of this Institution will commence on the 4th of August next. TEKMS Foit the Session of 20 Weeks: Board, in cluding washing, lights, fuel, &c., S220; English Tuition, S.3o: Music on the I'iano, Harp or Guitar, $30; Vocal Music, S12 50; Oil Paining, S30; Drawing, 12 50; Grecian Painting, $15: Ancient and Modern Lan guages, each $12 50. " For further particulars applj- to RICHARD STERLING, Principal. June 30, 1863 2m-pd " We have a Tannery in full operation about six miles from Charlotte, on the C. & S. C. Railroad line. It is a first-class Tannery, and we are prepared to purchase, at market prices, Hides of all descriptions, and supply the trade at curr-eut prices. A. H. GRIFFITH, July 13, 18G3 tf C. E. BELL. BLANK DEEDS, Warranta, Ejectments, &c, for sale at this Office. Printing promptly executed to order. TO COTTON PLANTERS. I have been appointed by the Secretary of the T1 m . '. . i' t . c . i t n n l t C . i ' L WVIv. - . ireiisurv, vinci ajji-ui lor me pnrcijjsse oi uoiiou 101 j tne (Jontederate Government, within-the State ot aortn j Carolina, and will pay for the same in 7 per cent Bouda ; or C:i?h. Sub -Agents visiting the different parts of the State, buvintr in mv r.eme. will havp wHiton certificates of i preface'annointtiipnf . i ran tone citiiena nro nTO ffomrl an nnnorlnnitv to aid. the Government by selling to it their Cotton ratuer than to private capitalists. - . . . , , LEWIS "S. WILLIAMS. Clnrlolt. If arch ?i, i gr-.rt tf - dtBlttn Zftmnttnl CHARLOTTE, N. C. NOTICE. Our terms are five dollart per. year in advance. 6 months SiL gy" Individual or local shinplasters will not be re- ceiveu. When sent to lis they win be held subject to the sender's Mil. and not returned h letter Jgjgy" The Democrat will be discontinued to all tubtcri bert at the expiration of the time for which it is paid. Xkoe who want to ponimuemuttrmtmleoThtiJ:. T - - - -. : - 1 and tto.rarther Provisions. There is. an abundance of provision-in the country, and yet those who are non producers are. in want. . Why is this ? is it possi ble that the farmer is holding his grain hack for a higher price? Is not the present price sufficient to satisfy the most avaricious man? If those who have provisions to spare continue to hold on to it and refuse to sell, they will not only bring calami ties upon the county but upon themselves. It is admitted on all hands that the crop of Wheat is larger this year than for many years past, and why is it that flour cannot be had in abundance, and why is the price so high? There is no good cause for scarcity in. market or high prices. 'We can never gain our independence while extortion in that way is practised. - The way they Retaliate. Wherever the yankees get possession of a section of our country, they take the property of true southern men and either destroy it or give it to the disloyal men in the neighborhood. The miserable tories and de serters, after carrying on their treason rather se cretly, show heir hand openly as soon as the yan kees get into their neighborhood and help to de stroy true men's property. Now we submit if it is right to allow these secret enemies to remain in the country until the enemy comes. Should they, not be arrested at once and placed in confinement. The Government established a prison at Salisbury for this purpose, and many disloyal men were, ar rested and Gonfined there, but a howl was raised about military tyranny, and some lawyers busied themselves in getting up habeas corpus writs, un til our authorities abandoned. the effort to suppress disloynlty in that way. It has been compelled tp resort to powder and shot. If no interference had been made with the management of the Salisbury prison, we should not now be compelled to with draw troops from the Virginia army to suppress disloyalty. ASS" Abraham Lincoln, the ruler of the yankee nation, has written a letter to a Mr Conkling in Springfield, Illinois, in reply to one inviting him to attend a Unpn meeting in that city. There are two sentences in the letter to which we invite the particular attention of those who think the war can be closed by proposing to compromise with the enemy. Here is what Lincoln says : "I do not believe that any compromise embrac ingthe maintenance of the Union is now possible. 'In an effort at such compromise we would waste time which the enemy would improve to our dis advantage, and that would be all." This is what Lincoln himself says, and yet we hear men who profess to be true so.uthern men, proposing that North-Carolina shall open negotia- tions with the Lincoln Government for an "honor able peace." Every marilU!n the South is for an honorable peace, but it is plain to any one who is not a tory that the only peace which would be hon orable to southern people, is that based on separa tion from the yankees forever. The Confederate Government has been anxious to make peace on this basis ever since the war commenced. All we ask is to be let alone. If Lincoln will withdraw his thieving, murdering soldiers from our soil, we shall have peace at once. , In the letter alluded to, Lincoln says he is in favor of freeing the negioes, and justifies his eman cipation proclamation. Confiscation of the farms and all other property in the South, and the sub jugation or extermination of southern men is the leading idea with Lincoln, and he is unwilling to make peace until convinced that he cannot succeed in such" schemes. And the only way to convince him that he never can succeed is for the South to show a united front and a determination never to submit. Every man who shows a disposition to stop the war short of complete independence, is helping to prolong the war. - Why Methuselah got so Old. We were upon the streets a few evenings since, and heard a most novel explanation of the astounding great age of the above named character. A number of men were talking of the recent conscript call and its effect upon the people, when an old worthy re- j W itt ,7" f '' ;,V, . ', fi i . iur 1 nav5 siuaiea a tong about it, and just now determined why Methuse- lab t;ot to be so old. : - You see, in his day there . . ' -,. i n - n a a -nv c; im rt lo iff finH flrflitT f i i"m n a n aw 1 1 WflQ . naa 'pv , t jf iuc a uo i made old Methuselah run nis age up Unarea I vears just enough to keep him out of the con- i j script. A heap of men in these days are playing , he same floae. j We could not help thinkmsrto ourselves that such as were not aeen under the.sun before. W are very much afraid some of these gentlemen wiU die of old age hefore they have a turn at a fecond l wife. -1 - : mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 'rata tithjs Law. I tith .The Haleigh Standard has pronounced the tithe law. "unusual, oppressive and unjust." The Fayetteyille Observer, in justification of the law, replies to the Standard in an able and convincing article, from which we make the following extract : I But is the law "unusual, oppressive and uniust?' We Propose to discuss that question with the I f S Standard. Unusual, in the present day, we admit it to be. OpjprcJtsivey too, so far as all taxes are oppress bre, UnjuM, we deny that IC4s, . WaI are not aware that the Standard ha3 stated any grounds on which it contends that the law is op pressive and unjust. So that our work is, not to combat any arguments against the law,, but to show its equality, as compared pith other taxes. But first a word as- to the origin of this system of taxation. That which is now denounced by one of the Standard's favorite candidates for Congress as an "odious Jew law," and by the Standard itself as "oppressive and unjust," is but the same kind of tax as the first one of which we read, either in sacred or profane history the tax laid by God himself upon the Jews. It is true that before that, Abraham had given to Melchizidek, King of Salem, a tithe of the spoils lie had taken in battle; but that was a voluntaryoffering to "the priest of the most high God." The first tax, as we have said, was a tax in kind of a tithe .(or tenth) of all the produce of the lands, of the trees, and of the flocks. See Leviticus, 27th chapter, 30th verse. May it not be one of the causes of the terrible vengeance now inflicted upon this land, that we have not only departed from the original ordinances of God, but accustomed our selves to speak of them with irreverence, as odious and unjust ? - But iti the law unjust? How unjust? We suppose it is meant that it lays upon the farming interest a proportion of taxes larger than is laid upon other interests or pursuits. Let us see how this is. The. tithe law does not reach the poor man or woman at all. Every one is entitled first to re serve for his or her own use 50 bushels of sweet potatoes, 50 bushels of Irish potatoes, and 100 bushels of corn (or 50 bushels of wheat;) also 20 bushels of peas or beans. Here is, at present market rates, tiearly a thousand dollars worth of produce of the farm upon which no tax whatever is levied. It is evidently more than many poor families make, and enough to bread a good sized family; and a3 for meats, the tax is one-tenth of all the bacon estimated at 60 lbs. of bacon to 100 lbs. of pork, whereas 100 lbs. of pork will .make neatly 70 lbs. of bapon besides the parts not cured, into bacon. So that out of every 100 lbs. of pork some 15 or 20 lbs. are unfaxed. On cattle the tithe tax is not laid it is 1 per cent only on the value. ... It is manifest from this statement, (for the ac curacy of which see the law itself,) that the tithe law does not reach the .poorer class of farmers; though from the manner in which the matter is handled by some, it might be. supposed that it was to protect this class from oppression and injustice that the law is denounced and its repeal demanded. The law operates only upon the larger farmers, who make a surplus to sell, and who are not taxed in any other way by the law; ' that is, neither their lands nor their negroes, nor their incomes from the sale of the surplus productions of their farms, are taxed. This tithe tax is therefore the only way in which these well-to-do farmers are called upon to contribute to the support of the govern ment arid the war; and it is the only way in which their land and negroes can be taxed. The consti tution forbids the taxing of lands and negroes till a census is taken : a census cannot be taken' dur ing, the war. Consequently, but for this tithe law, land and negroes, the great wealth of the South, would escape taxation at all. Is this the object of the Standard ? We cannot believe it, however much .it .may be the object of some interested persons who are endeavoring to excite publie prejudice against the law. " Is it oQntended that the amount of the tax is unjust by comparison with the taxes upon other property and business? Let our readers examine the law and see how heavily every other business,, and all descriptions. of property are taxed, and wo think Ihey will come to the same conclusion with ourselves, that the tithe tax on farmers is less than the average of other taxes on property, production and income. And be it observed that these small farmers are the only class altogether exempted from taxation, except salaries under $1000 and in comes un 5500. Everything else, everybody else, is taxed . - The tithe tax is Just to the soldier in the army, because it does not tax his land which is lying idle at home, but only taxes the surplus product iona of those' at home. It.is just to him also, because it will furnish a certainand it is hoped 'adequate supply of food for his support in the army, instead of the inadequate, rations be has heretofore been often obliged to submit to. And only think of it, people at homo are raisinga clamor against a raw which is enacted expressly to provide food for the soldiers in the army ! The law is a wise and a just one for the reason also, that it is part of a system intended to put an end to speculation in provisions. It is well known that men have accumulated princely fortunes by going over the Country .and buying up things which they knew the government was compelled to I ' r, ..' 1 - 1 iL . governmeDt pay enormous prices. This will now nave, ana alter gettiLg a monopoly making me : ' rru: :n be stepped, and along with it, in a measure, the Dr0rressive inflation of thc.currency and of prices, and the temptat;on which so many otherwise good - . f hnxrA on their sunnlies under - , U , VVI II ... n " jne heretofore certain expectation 01 a rise in prices Neither the speulator nor the producer t:,! WMff ha enP. J rt n,,Rtom who .ill be compened t0 buy of them at any price, how- ever exfcraratynnfc- a,:. i-l .t will b ol hv thio . " . , , j. . - f r : - - i is'uiug vue ur two 4 treasury, notes. .1 hose redundant currency depreciate Con-, preceni evils and u-j g.Mj hcaT:er debt, upon posterity. It is the fojerest c every mn to keep down that debt j an(J to put a stop to further depreciation? There- i fore it h the 'interest of every man to sustain this ' e law, which we have shown is not unequal or unjust. Kspecially is it the interest of the pro ducer, whose remaining nine-tenths will be worth more to him than the whole would be if further issues should further depreciate the currency in which he is'paid, and those issues would be neces sary if the Government paid for proTihions. After all, conceding, as doubtless th-3 Standard will, that the expense of carrying oa the war muat be paid, and that a portion at least of it ought to be paid by taxation, we would like to know what ad vintage the farmers would derive from payiog in money the valna of the produce which they are reauired "by the tithe law to pay? Since no unequal pro portion or tne general tax is required of them, it seems to us, as Congress undoubtedly thought, that it would be more agreeable to pay in produce it self rather than to take the trouble to sell the pro-' duce and then pay over the cash realiied from it. But perhaps the strongest consideration of all-is, that the securing of so much food will put it in the power of the government to feed ita armies and prosecute this righteous war into which the Editor of the Standard, with the hearty approval of the whole State, voted us on the 20th of -May 1SG1. NORTHERN ITEMS. &The following is a copy of a "Massachu setts circular." It submits the terms as the least on which the North would submit to stop this war; "Conditions- of Peace required of the Cow federate States. Article 1. Unconditional sub mission to the Government of tho U. States. . Art. 2. To deliver up one hundred of the arch irauora to De nung. Art. 3. To put on tecord the names of all others who have been traitorous to the Government, who shall be held infamous and disfranchised forever. Art. 4. The property of all traitors to be confis cated, to pay the damage. Art. 5. The seceded States to pay all the balance of the expense, and restore all stolen propeisfy. Art. 6. The payment of debts due to North erners, and indemnities for all indignities to per sons, loss of time, life and property. Art. 7. The removal of the cause of all our difficulties, which can only be done by the imme diate and unconditional abolition of slavery. Art. 8. Until a full compliance with all of'the above terms, the so-called Confederate States to be held and governed as United States territory. The above is the least that an indulgent people will accept. outraged as they have been by the foulest, most heinous and gignntio .instance of crime recorded in history. So say the yankees. Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 1; About sixty per sons, chiefly the heads of families and residents of this city and vicinity, who are. believed to be aiders and abettors of the rebellion, or strong sympathizers with it, have been ordered by Gen. Jawing to remove from the District, lhe list in cludes many of the wealthiest and most influential families in jhis vicinity. Their houses will be taken for the families of Union refugees. A number of orders for the removal of leading sympathizers at Westportand Independence are also being made out. Washington Hunt addressed a large meeting at Lockport, N. Y., on the 4th, in opposition to the abolition policy of the administration aud in favor of restoring the Union. A petition was presented lo Lincoln asking him to revoke his proclamation, &c. The proceedings of the nfcetirig were adopt ed with enthusiasm. . The N. Y. World says the crops in the West are greatly damaged by frost. The wheat is all secured, but the corn crop is cut off twenty per eent. Two-thirds of the tobacco crop will be saved, while Northern grown cotton is utterly de stroyed? This last frost will prove a costly disaster to the West. It will subtract ten millions from the wcalthof the country. . Our Seacoast Cities.-!-During the Revolu tionary war there was not a single seaboard city which was rot in possession of tho enemy. Some of them, New York for example, they took and held during the whole seven years. And they might have held them for seventy, without affect ing the vitality of tho cause of independence. The British themselves were aware of this, and, when the war of 1812 began, the Puke of Wellington advised the British Cabinet that it was useless to attempt the conquest of America, that nothing could be done beyond capturing a few seaboard or river cities, and that beyond the immediate neigh borhood of the great rivers no permanent foothold could be gained in the extensive and sparsely set tled territory of the interior. The progress ol the war of 1812 proved the accuracy of the Duke's counsel and the same is true now of the South. It would have been better for us, in our opinion, if we had never attempted to hold Vicksburg, or any of our Mississippi or seaboard cities. We are not certain but it would be true wisdom at once to evacuate those which remain, and at least save our soldiers and munitions of war. Some of these cities have been a positive injury to the Confed erate cause, with their blockade running and Yan kee trade. But we musf economize our soldiers. W:mu?t not suffer any more of them to -fall into Yankee traps and pitfalls. , 'Artificial Siamese- Twins." A curious experiment was lately made at Straaburg to effect the onion of two animals, so that they might, to a certain degree, have a life in common. It was. indeed,' producing artificially what nature produc ed spontaneously in those phenomena, the Siamese twins. Two white rats of the Albino species were selected, for. the experiment. An incision was mf9a 19 llkA 4 rr at1m f U mnA nn t lis ttt of the othr, euWng the ikio and the cellular tisaua under it. The surfaces of the two wounds J were. kr closely together by suturet and banda- ges. until the sixth day, when union by the first io- r tentfofl was" found to have taken place. They then walked aide by side, being united by a fleshy ( band,- Aaj4tesnpt to poisioo both by the mouth i of one did not succeed, hut. an injection thrown i into the jugular Teio of one animal was Tonod to hare entered be superficial femoral veina of the i other, showing clearly that an Intimate vascular ! union had already taken plare between them. SOLDIERS' SENTIMENTS, The aoldiera of the 43th N. C. Regrmetrt, in camp near Fredericksburg, Va.t held a wetting recently and passed reeoiuliotis in opposition to the course of certain -persons at home who are em barrassing the .Government and injuring the Southern cause. There are three companies from . Union county aod one from Iredell in the 48th, Regiment, and we therefore copy the resolutions in order that the people of those counties may see, what their brave men in the fitld ay The reso lutions were reported by a committee cf fifteen, only six of whom were commissioned officers. The privates had a toico in this meeting certain." After the reading of the preamble and resolutions to a Cull meeting; LieuCCol. 3. H. Walkup being called upon, responded in a brief but cheerful speeoh, whereupon the preamble an J resolutions were unanimously adopted by acclamt tion. ... The following are the resolutions : . Whereas. Wo have heard with much mortifica tion that public meetings have been held in sofhe counties in North Carolina, in which resolutions have been passed taking a gloomy and discouraging View of our existing controversy with the NoUh, calling for a General Convention of all the Slates. and somo even favoring a reconstruction of the old Union, and in one county, proposing to resist the collection of the Tax in Kind imposed by tho Confederate Government; and; whereas, we have seen thetre resolationa published in the North Carolina Standard, a paper having an extensive circulation in said State, not only without a dis approving comment by tho Editor, but with evi dent marks of approbation. And, whereas, such action, if suffered to pass without rebuke will place the Old North State in a false position both at home and abroad, and misrepresent her real char acter. Therefore, be it . Resolved, That we, the citixen soldiers of North Carolina io the 48th Reg't N. C. Troops, disclaim and denounce the sentiments expressed in said resolutions, so far as they represent the hopeless ness of our controversy, .the policy of a General Convention with the North, or tho reconstruction of the Old Union, and the resistance to payiog taxes, as unwise and unpatriotic, calculated to pro duce disaffection and dissension in the army and at home, and bring contempt upon our loyal State and among our Southern sister State); that it gives aid and comfort to our enemy, and ' blasts our reasonable expectations of being recognized by European Powers, as a free, united and indepen dent people. Resolved, That we. are opposed to all parties, meetings and conventions that propose peace uporr any other terms than that of a Gnal and eternal . separation of the Confederate State from the United States. W e spurn with scorn nd oou- tempt the proposition of submission and recon struction as cowardly and puilaniinuus as tho act would be disgraceful in tbe eyts of tbe world, who have been forced to look upon us with wonder and admiration. Resolved, That in our late reverses, we paccive uo cause, for despondency, hut so far from con- Mdering our cause hopeless, we feel the strongest iaith in the certainty of our speedy success: that we have an abiding confidence that there aro more for us than against us, for we beliovo that God is with us, that hi guardian angel id encamped about our host, and therefore, that our ultiruatc victory is sure. Resolved, That tbe publication of such resolu tions as is above referred to in journals so exten lively circulated as the N. C. Standard, without a disapproving comment and with apparent endorse ment, is promotive of evil only and evil coriimuMly, cud merits the stern rebuke of every one of the' patriotic sons of North Carolina, who are upernej and misrepresented by sueb unjust and cosardly insinuations upon tneir joy any, tneir goou miia and courage. Resolved,. That we feel the utmost eonu lonco in the honesty, ability, integrity and patriotism of President Davis, Gen. Leo and Governor Vance, and feel assured that the destinies of the republic, ., tho army and State of North Carolina, ate safe io their bands. Pur thli a Names on tux Roll or Ilo.ioa. Mr John Henry Fuller, living eight miles the oth er sido of Lecsburg, on the stage road to Hillsbo rough, is the soldier friend, and carries a heart in the right place. Keeping a dinner housa for ' stage passengers, and his table can't ho beaten, he charges about one-half exacted by tillage ho tela 'that give you nothing to eat. and as for sol- diers, he rarely charges them any thing. lie sometimes sends wounded soldiers to Danville without charge, a distance of forty ctihvt. Mr fuller is the right sort of a manmay God con tinue to bless him. Dr Algernon Coletnin, of Halifax eoanty, Va., is another man found with a heart, and that in the right pjace. He has never sold corn to soldiers families higher than six dollars a barrel, aodwhe&t at 50 per bushel. He has not only done this, but hauUd the grain to mill, bad it ground aod delivered to the soldiers' families at their own doors. This is the way to whip the Yankees and conquer Independence. . Deliver us from the rich Shylock who fattens on tne piooa or tne poor; ana who deserves to swing no the lame limb with Lin -cola. Milton Chroniclt. We wnb the "roll, of honor" coold he awjled np with the names of 60,000 of such men; bat we fear that many are getting .their names orTtat ' extortioners roll. Ohio SrrLLiso.- Among tbe letteri captured 8-VV T"'0n frT Vnk" trI ' ?raeT ,,e! u" lw"ineri 10 raJ T!'e M-owing is an extract: You ort to "See 8ome Rebs Letters that .Torn f Brot hum With him Whar they bio Ritin totfcar j galls aod if i cud get hol of som of thein Bocesh j busses how i woud tar thar bar for Em i am a gad union gal as ever you Betn you ort to Sv how f them Rebel hotkeys Spel you Kin hardly- Rasd it j they Spel tbe Durodeat Ward joo did ever Seen j i mus Klose nomor bat Remain ytrar.iJxPeWJ , 'WiftilDeth. 4 !
The Times-Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Sept. 15, 1863, edition 1
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