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CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY .12, 18(54.
TWELFtn VOLUME K U H B K II COS
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(QPablished every T'aesday,Q)
BY
WILLIAM J YATES,
EDITOR AND PKOPRIKIOB..
10 IN ADVANCE.
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advance. .
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charged accordingly. . .
AN ACT
IN RELATION TO THE MILITIA AND A GUARD
Feat Hume defence.
Skc. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
the State of Nutth Carolina, and it it berebjr enacted
. by the authority of the same, That the exemptions
from service in the Militia of the State, shall be for the
same causes, and to thje same ezteut and no farther,
that are prescribed. in the cts of Congress of the Con
federate States, providing for the enrollment of men
for the public defence and granting exemptions from
the same, commonly . callu i he conscripuou and ex
emption acts.
Sec. 2. Be it further erfluted, That It shall be the
duty of the Governor to ea.se to be enrolled as a guard
for home defence all whi.e male persons not already
enrolled in the service 1 1 the Confederate States, be-
tween tfcc ages of eight Ah and fifty years, resident in
this State, including foreigners not naturalized, who
hnve been .residents in the State for thirty days before
such enrol on' at, excepting persons tilling the ollices
of Governor, Judges of the Supreme and Superior
Courts of Law and Equity, the members of the Generul
Assembly and the officers of the several Departments of
the Government. of the State, Ministers of the Gospel
of the several denominations of the State" charged with
the duties of churches, and puch other persons as
. the Governor, for 'special reasons, may deem proper
subjects of exemption.
Sec. 3.- Be it further enacted, That all persons above
the age of Hfly, who may volunteer for service in said
guard for home defence, and shall be accepted by a
Csiptain of a company for the same, shall be deemed to
belong thereto, an; shall be held to service therein,
either generally or for any special duty or expedition
-as the commanding officers of regiments or companies,
according to the nature of the particular, service in
question may determine.
Sec. 4- Be it further enacted, That tile Governor
shall cause all persons enrolled in' ' pursuance of the
two preceding sections of this act to be formed into
companies, with liberty to elect the commissioned offi
cers of such companies, and thence into battalions or
regimeuts brigade and divisions according to his dis
cretion, ant he shall appoint the field officers of such
battalions, regiments, brigades and divisions, and
shall is:ue commissions in due form to all the officers
aforesaid.
Sec. 5. Be it further enncte.l. That members of the
Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers, may be
exempted fnmi the provision of this act by paying the
sum of one hundred dollars according to an ordinance
of the Convention of this State in that behalf, ratified
the 12th day of May, 1862. Provided that when a
Quaker shall have paid or had levied of his property
the sum of five hundred dollars under the act of Con
gress called the conscription law aforesaid, he shall
not be required to pay any sum of money for Jiis ex-,
emptkiu under this act.
Sec 6. That the said guards for home defence may
be called out for service by the Governor in defence of
the State against invasion and to suppress invasion,
either by regiments, battalions, or companies, en masse,
or by drafts or volunteers from the same, as he, iu his
discretion may direct; shall be under his command,'
through the officers Appointed as herein provided:
shall serve only within the limits of thi State, and in
terms of duty to be prescribed by the Governor, not
exceeding three months at one term. They, or so many
of them a? may be at anY one time called into service,
may be'organized into infantry, artillery or cavalry 8
he may direct, and the infantry and artillery may be
mounted if he shall so dtermiue, thr men furnishing
their own horses and accoutrements and arms, when
approved by the Governor, ou such terms as he shall
prescribe.
Sec. 7. Be4t further enacted. That the Governor may
furnish to said troops, tho arms, accoutrements and
ammunition of the State when called as aforesaid" into
active service, and shall prescribe rules for their return
and to prevent the waste, destruction or loss of the
.same.'
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That all laws and
clauses of laws coming within the meaning and pur
view of this act bend the same are hereby repealed.
Sec. 9. Be it furiner enacted. That the commissions
of officers of the M ilitia, called into service by this act,
are suspended only during the period of such service
Sec. 10. Be it further nucted. That this act shall be
in force from the date of its ratification.
Ratifiedthe 7th day of July. 1863.
Amendments to the above Law.
AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT IN RELATION TO
THE MILITIA AND A GUARD FOR DOME
DEFENCE.
Skc. 1. Be it enacted 'by the General Assembly of
the State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted
by the authority of the snme. That neither the Govern
or of this State, nor the officers acting under an act
ratified ou the 7tb day of July,' 18G3, entitled - An act
iu relation to" the Mili:ia and a Guard for Home Of
fence," shall call ou! for drill or muster the persons
enrolled under said act, oftener than once-a month in
company drill, or oftener than twice a year in. battalion
drill, which battalion, drills sh.ll take the place of the
c ompany drills tor tne nionin in which wiey are up- j
poinied. unless when calleifinto actual service to repel (
invaio.i or suppress insurrection, or to execute the
laws of ihe State. J
. Skc' 2.. Be it further enacted. That the G irernor '
hall have the power, to ue the Guards of Home De- I
fence for the purpose of arresting conscripts and de- I
serters; I'rovitM, they shall not be ordered upon this '
duty beyond the lhnifs of the counties hi which they j
reside or the counties adjacent thereto. J
Skc 3. Be it further enacted, That in addition to the
exemptions contained in the act to which this is an j
amendment, there sliall be exempt County commission
ers appointed under an act eutitled'An uct for the re
lief of wives and families of soldiers in the army," reg
ular millers, blacksmiths who have established shops,
necessity operatives in factories and foundries, the
Attorney General, Solicitors of the several circuits and
counties, physicians of live years' practice, contractors
with the State or Confederate government, one editor
to each.'newspaper and the necesr-ary compositors, mail
carriers, professor? in colleges ancLteachers in acade
mies; Provided, that this exemption shall only apply to
the drills specified in this bill and not to service when
the Guard for Home Defence is called inio the field.
Skc 4. Be it further enacted. That for failure to at
tend the battalion or regimental drill, ouch field officer
shall forfait and pay one hundred dollars; each Captain
and other oflicess who shall fail to muster and drill
ih-. ir companies at the times appointed, idiall forfeit and
pay for each failure fifty dollars, and if a non-commissioned
ofhrer.or private shall fail to attend at any drill,
he shall forfeit and par not less than five nor more than
twenty-five dollars; Provided, that every absentee shall
he allowed until the next muster to make his excuse.
The fines shall be adjndged by regimental and compa
ny courts-martial, and judgments are to be entered tip
and the fines collected in the same mode and in accord
ance with the provisions of the Militia taw of North
1 Carolina, .passed at the second extra session of the
General Assembly,' 1861, - "
"Sea 6. Beit further enacted, That the Surgeon Gen
eral by . and with the advice and consent of the Gov
ernor, may appoint surgical boards, not exceeding
: three, composed of two physicians each, who shall de
: clare by their certificates those persons who shall be
exempt fi oatf service under the act to which this is an
: auieinliufafVon account 6f menial or physical disabili
ty, aud they shall receive the pay of their rank and
! traveling expenses, to be determined by the AdjutanU
j General. , '
! Sec C. Be it further enacted Tbat the. Guard for
home defence, should thev be called into service by
the Governor, shall receive the same pay, rations artd
! allowances as soldiers in the Confederate States ser
' rice, and shall be subject to the rale? and articles of
I war of theCoifederate StHtes.
j Skc 7. Be it further enacted," That when the pressure
! of public danger shall not prevent'the observance of
j such a rule, rue said Guard for home defence shall not
j be called into service en manse, but by drafts of a num
i her of men from each convenient company, so as- to
make up the aggregate force required.
Skc 8. Be it further enacted, That this act shall be
in force and take effect from and after its ratification.
Read three times and ratified in General Assembly,
this the 14th. day of December, A. D., 18C3.
NOTICE.
The Association for the Relief of the Working Men
of Charlotte having opened in the Store opposite the
Court House, formerly occupied by Loewenstein. have
now on ha'nd Bale Yarn, Salt, and Alamance Cloth,
which will be exchanged for Produce and Provisions
on liberal terms.
WANTED Corp, Men, Flour, Wheat, Molasses, But
ter, Lard, Tallow, Uacon, Dried Frnit, &c.
A. GRAHAM, Commissary.
Nov 17, 1K63 tf
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RUNAWAY
From the plantation of Mrs. R. A. Hunter, in Sharon
i neighborhood, a nero man named WASH, about 35
years oldraedium size, and copper color. It is sup
posed that h6 has been persuaded off by some mean
wbi'c person, and may be trying t make his way
to the Yankees. .A reward of $50 will be paid for his
apprehension and delivery fo me, or his confinement in
anyjail. J. W. HUNTER,
Oct. 27, 1863. . tf
Printing Materials Tor Sale,
I des're to sell the Printing Materials connected with
the late "North Carolina Whig" newspaper, published
in this town. The materials consist of a Hand Press
with Inking Apparatus, Loug Primer and Brevier Type,
together with a fair assortment of Fancy and Job Type.
Further information will be furnished by addressing
the undersigned at Charlotte, N". C.
Oct 27, "03 RACIIAEL R. H0LT0N.
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COTTO.Y CARDS A.l) SHOES.
Cotton Cards for sale, but an early call will only se
cure a pair as we only have ten pair.
We have on ' hand and can make to order calf-skin
Shoes and Gaiters of v'ery fine English leather.
Lots ladies" calf-skin Bootees. -
Lot of thick Brogan, large sizes.
J. F. BUTT, Mint Street,
Juni 23, 1863 tf Charlotte, N. C.
SOAP AND ASHES WANTED,
The subscriber wants, to purchase all Ihe hard and
soft Soap he can get. Also,, he will purchase oak aud
hickory Ashes. A gOPd price will be paid.
Aug. 24, 1863. tf L. S. WILLIAMS.
ARRIVAL and DEPARTURE
Of iTIcsse tigers
OF THE SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY
At Charlotte Office, Daily.
ARRIVES.
From Char, k S C. Railroad 5 00
N. C. Railroad . 6 25
' A., T. k O. Railroad 10 00
" ' Wil., C. & R. Railroad' 3 15
. DEPARTS. t
A.-M.
I.
P. M.
and 5
and 5
P.S!
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For N C. Railroad 6 20
M. and 5 50 P.
' and 6 00 '
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" : Char. & S C Railroad 7 00 "
" Wil., C. A R. Railroad 7 30 "
" A., T. & O. Railroad 3 00 P. M.
It is desired that all Parrels, Packages or Freight to
be forwarded by either of the above Trains, be sent to
this Office 0k .Horn previous to its departure.
T. D. GILLESPIE, Agent.
Charlotte, Sept. 7, 1863. tf
EXPRESS NOTICE.
Office Southern Express Company,
Charlotte, Sept. 24, 1863. -In
order to avoid misunderstanding and to make
our charges conform to the liability assumed,' this
Company hereby gives notice that from and after Octo
ber 1st, 186 i, shippers will be required to place their
valuation upon each package before it will be received
Such valuation will be inserted in the Company's
receipt, and. establish the liability of the Company for
the amount. The act of God and the public enemy
only excepted. T. D. GILLESPIE,
Sept 48, 1863 Agent.
TANNERY'.
We have a Taunery in full operation about six miles
from Charlotte, ou the C. & S. C. Railroad Ikie. It is a
first-class Tannery, and we are prepared to purchase,
at. market prices, Hides of all descriptions, and supply
the trade atcurreut prices.
A. n. GRIFFITH,
July 13, 186 tf C. E.ELL.
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Stale of rv. Carolina Clovrlu nd County.
Court of Plens and Quurter Session's.
J B Martin et al, vs. The Heirs at law and next of kin
of J B Harry, deceased. .
Petition for Reprobate of Will.
It appeariug to the satisfaction 0f the Court that
the defeudani in this case, Anna E Bridges and her
children, John L Bridges, Asbury Blalock and wife
Sarah, Washington L Bridges. Edmund H Bridges,
Hamilton A Bridges, Lafayette Benton, Elizabeth Ben
ton, Sarah Harry and Marcus L H Harry, beirs at law
of J B Harry, are non-residents of this State: It is
therefor ordered that publication be made in the
! of Charlotte, Mecklenb.itg county, for six consecutive
I weeks, noiifjing defendants to be and appear at the (
next -Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions to be held j
ror llie county oi leaveiana at me onri nou?e in
Shelby, on the 6th Monday after the 4lh Monday in
November, 18tf3, then nd there to make themselves
oariie to this issue if thev think nroner so t do. ' i
anie to this issue if they think proper so t dp
7i mess, s. Williams. Clerk of enid Court at
i omce,
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the 6tn Jioudrty after the 4th Monday in August
I. .
(adv $10 93-6t
S. WILLIAMS, Clcrk.
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Jj 2 MIIiLKIi
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OqariOtte, N. C,
Has resumed the Practice of Medicine, and -can be
found at hii i Office , .the ; buildin onP0u to
Kerj's hotel, or at his residence.
Feb. 23r 1562
CHARLOTTE, N. C. ' ' : ' '
Our terms are ten dollart per year in advance.
Jgyr Tht Democrat will bt discontinued io all -subscribers
at tie expiration of the time for vhick it is paid.
Those who want to continve must renew before or attkeex
piration of their time.
The Confederate Congress .has passed, a
law requiring those persons who have substitutes
in the arm j, to go into the service themselves j
also, prohibiting the putting any rftore substitutes
in t he army. In "consequence of these Jrieasures,
there is a good deal of grumbling on the part of
those interested, as well asonJhe part of those
who are always ready to find fault with any rnea
sure adopted for prosecuting the war. Some
newspapers, ever since the passage of the first
conscript law, have endeavored, to array public
opinion against those who- have substitutes in the
army, and also against the Government -for allow
ing substitutes; but those very identical papers
are now abusing Congress for passing the law con
scripting those who have substitutes. To ind
fault they are determined upon, - no. matter waat
sort of measures are adopted. It seems to us that
they are williog to risk the overthrow of our cause
and see us all subjugated, for the sake of gratify
ing their malice and spleen against President
Davis and others in authority.
We have never advocated the conscription of
those who bad furnished substitutes; neither fcave
we tried to array publio feeling against that class
of persons. .But we are not at all disposed to
abuse Congress and denounpe the Government
because the principals of substitutes are now re
quired to tuke the field and help save their homes
from the ravages of a'brutar enemy. When ihe
conscription bill was first passed, those who had
plenty of money employed substitutes, while those
who did not havp money to spare had to go in
person. Can any one conscientiously say that this
distinction btween the two classes should longer
be continued, when all are equally interested in
the issue? If we gain our independence, all must
be willing to suffer personal inconvenience and
make sacrifices.
The New Governor of Virqima. Geo
Win. Smith, the newly elected Governor of Virgi
nia, was installed at Richmond on the 1st instant,
lie delivered an Inaugural Address, from which
we make short extracts.
Alter alluding to the causes which forced the
Southern States to secede, Gov. Smith said :
"It is of the greatest moment that our minds
should be trained to allow that the entire manhood
and. property of the country, for the purpose of
this war, belongs to the State. The men who are
called into the field to join in buttle with our ene
mies, the taxes which are .levid and the assess
ments which are made for their support,- ore but
modes of appropriating the resources of the coun-v
try, and should neither excite murmurs ner dis
content. The man who by tricks, evasions or &ub
terluges, eetka to avoid the taxes intended to be
collected from him, is in heart both knave and
traitor. It is the duty of the law-uiuker to pro
vide the amplest punishnjpnt for such malefac
tions, and of every good citizen to bring them to
justice, and to hold them up to scorn aud con
tempt. And what6hould be thought of those who
grumble about the prices paid for articles im
pressed to feed and clothe the army that army
which stands between them and ruin that army,
composed as it is of their own sons and of their
own kith and kin, and which may be disbanded
for waut of the necessary -supplies, while they are
higgling with the Government agents for higher
prices than those established by the Commission
ers, chosen equally by the State and Confederate
authorities. The country must ntit be
ruin fed by the rapacity of the people, ani the.Gov
erumeiit will not hesitate, I am sure, to exercise
all their constitutional powers when necessary for
our safety."
The GoTemor then, goes on to advocate a plan
for fixing the price of all productions of human
industry. He opposes the-auction system, as now
conducted, and says it is prejudicial to good morals ,
and to the country it is an uu mitigated evil.
The following is the closing paragraph of the
Address :
"Virginia entered into this war with reluctance;
but, having entered into it from a sense of duty,
he does not mean to sheathe her sword until she
has won her . liberty and independence, or the
bones of her last sou shall lio bleaching on her hill
tops. Although hundreds of -thousands of . her
people have been overrun by the enemy, their
fields desolated, their homes utterly consumed, in ;
many caes, by fire; their stock devoured, destroy- j
ed, or carried away; their slaves enticed from their J
possession, while the blood of their loved ones I
moisten every battlefield; yet, they are uncon- j
quered, bright, bold, and. defiant; they are still
prepared to puffer. We cannot believe that our !
good God will allow such a just cause as ours to be :
lost. Much as we have done, much remains'to be !
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done. Let us resolve to niake very sacrifice in a
cheerful and hopeful spirit in short, perform, our
whole duty, and then, with the blessings of Heav
en, we caunot be aubdued."
Disease among tuh Prisoners
The'Dan-
ntinues to
. . . . .a ii
ville ltecister says tne small pox con
sDd among the lawk
;ee prisoners
there, and .
there are now about oUU casus in ail. The virus ,
j furnished by their own Goveri.nient having been
; generally admiriistered, the progress of the disease
' may be checked. The fatality among the priso-
jnersfrom this and .other maladies is very great,
. c ,0rmr, l,r! ImnU i,nt t.i tho rrvo
va,d everv day. from the GeVeral 'Hospital, be-
sides those who die of small po.
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From the Fayetteville Observcc
HABEAS COBPUS.
The object of the act of Congress in providing
for the exemption Xf shoemakers, blacksmiths and
the like was, not to confer privileges on glasses,
bill to exonerate from military duty such number
of persons skilled io the various trades &c as could
render more valuable service to their country by
laboring in their respective occupations than by
going into the ranks of the army." To entitle ao
applicant, therefore, to exemption as a mechanic
of any of the classes' specified, be must not only
have been. skilled and actually employed, habitu
ally working for the public at the time be was en
rolled and ordered ; into service, (as two of our
Judges hold the others all concurring, I believe,
in the opinion that "at'the. time" refers to the pas
sage of the act, 11th Oct. 1862,) but he must con
tinue to be so actually employed so long as he
claims exemption as such. The exemption being
based solely upon the benefit supposed "to be de
rived by the public from the applicant's services,
so soon as he abandons hi vocation, of course his
exemption expires, or hfe right fo it ceases to ex
ist, as the case may be. Iu the first case of the
kind, which I had an opportunity f. seei tig a de
cision 'upon, there was tiled an affidavit in .the
handviiting of Chief Justice Pearson -Jy whom
the decision was given substantially as follows:
"D. F. makes oath that he is a miller, skilled &c ,
and was actually engaged as such at the time he
was enrolled and ordered into service, to-wit:
day of
1863, and that he continued to be so
engaged from the date of said enrollment to the
day ou which be was arrested, to-wit: day of
1863." This shows that it is material that
the party should continue at his trade after he is
enrolled, as well as that 'he should have beeo en-'
,aged thereat previously. Nevertheless, large
numbers of deserters from, the army, soldiers on
ttirlough, and recusant conscripts who have been
in the tcoods for twelve or eighteen "months, are
getting off on writs of Habeas Corpus, as such' me
chanics!. The process by which this is done, as
regards soldiers, was explained in a former com
munication. The mode is very similar with re
spect to recusant conscripts. Now the fact of a
.conscript taking the woods does not prejudice his
rights in the eye of the -law, iu certain instances
iu cases of substitution for example like going to
the army aud receiving pay, bounty, &c ; a cir
cumstance, by the wuy, which causes many well
meaning people, wh'o do not understand "the rea
son of the thing," to aay hard things of the Judges
aud the Law. But a mechanic, miller, &c. who
voluntarily withdraws from society,' and as a ne
cessary consequence, abandons bis "regular voca
tion," (that being now to keep out of the reach of
the officers aud shun all honest faces,) thereby as
effectually surrenders his right to exemption as if
he had gone into the army and received pay and
bounty. Especially must this be so in regard to
school teachers and millers. And yet almost eve-,
ry week, of late, numbers of persons from a certain
locality, who have been delinquent that is, In
common phrase, lying, out in the icooifs ever
siuce tlic passage of the conscript act, have been
getting off upon writs of Habeas Corpus, as me
chanics, miller, &c ! An instance could be cited
where a man who was in the army twelve n.oijhs
and afterwards out .of the army, with or without
leave, for ' eighteen months more, was lately dis
charged upon a writ of Habeas Corpus, as a school
teacher, although it is well kuown he had not
taught school a day since he first went to the ar
my; now nearly three years ago. And ancther in
stance, where a soldier who had been in the army
continuously for more than two years, returned
home on a short furlough and was discharged as a
wayon maker. I have not been able to see the pa
pers so as to ascertain the nature of the juggle by
which these astonishing feats were accomplished,
but am inclined to think that the princioal means
employed was hatti swearing. Such frauds could
have beeB so easily detected, too, by Judge Bat
tle's wise expedient of requiring proof to be taken
before a commissioner of affidavits, with notice to
thefenrolling officer. But I must, give one more
example somewhat in detail. A. B C, being un
der 35, and having the least" imaginable idea of
going to the war, took to the woods in advance of
any enrollment. -Being unwilling to press his en
tire subsistence, be would steal a day now and
then, when there were no hunters about, to work
on bis farm; and he was one day captured while
hauling in wheat, and was lodged in j iil. But an
armed band of his cotl 'reres rescued him ' a few
nights afterwards mid restored him to bis liberty
such, as it was. A few weeks ago, hearing of
the miraculous performances of the "great machine
called the writ of Habeas Corpus," .anxious to test
its efficacy in his own behalf, and having 'cobbled
a little in timoon his own shoes, the idea was soon
conceived and the plan digested. The petition
and affidavit were accordingly drawn with all the
skill aud acumen conceivable, but. still the case
was thought doubtful. It would not do to make a
failure, for tBen be might be carried to camp; and
there was the jail breaking too. bo an extraordi
nary effort must ,be made, which resulted in the
following endorsements being mad across the
back of the affidavit:' "Respectfully examined aud
approved. X. Y., Lieut. Dist. No. , Reg't
N. C. M.." aud iuit below that. "Res rect full v con-
9 m mr r a mr
sifjered and approved. O. Q. Z ,-Adj't N. 0.
M fjf Cuuise tbere wag nf further difficulty,
e waa discharged. Atd it may be interesting,
toHhose who esteem official honesty, to know that
these gentlemen, who so '.'respectfully examined,
coli8iuered and approved;' this affidavit, were in
the pay of the petitioner to procure hi discharge
(frullJ tne oustody of one of them) with- a heavy
rjnt:Ment tec nendinff.
However glaring and nefariously fraudulent the
means by which au applicant is discharged upon a
e Yj Z , n 'W"" "
it of Habeas Corpus, under existing circutnstau-
wn
ces there is no remedy after be has been so dis
charged. For our Governor, in his spirited
and highly com eiendable determination to main,
lain inviolate the authority of our Civil Courts aud
Judges, issued an order fo the 31 ilitia officers not
to arrest uor penult the arrest of any one. woo has
been discharged ujton Habeas Corpus by any
! Judge of this Sute. Even where a mechanic has
j beeo discharged in this way, be may quit his
j trade, and, taking shelter under this order from
1 K flnvimr HpfV nnr nrnllinir offieera. I haw
been informed that man who was discharged b
j the Supreme Court as a salt-hand, provided bim-
i - .t - c ' . i. i i -,--;aa v:
self with a copy of his discharge and a copy of
Gov. Vance's order, and has ever since been ped
dling on tobaoco, overly secure from "arrest by all
anrts of military officials And of three millers
successively discharged a keepers of one little
wet-weather mill. '' Civic.
MOBQAN AGAIN IN THE FIELD.
It will be seea by the following order of Gen
Jno. H. Morgan jW be out U,cg going to b
'die : , "
: .4 Headquarters Mo'rgW Cavalry,
Decatur, Ga ,Jn. l,18t4. J
Soldiers: I am voce more among you, after a
long and painful imprisonment. - .
I an: anxious to be again id the field. I, there
fore call oo all the soldiers of my command to as
semble at once at the Rcndctvous which has been
established at this place.
- Your country needs yonr services, the field of
operation is wide, and the future glorious, if we
ouly deserve it.
Remember bow many of your brave comrades
are still piuing in a felon's cell. They call loudly
on you for help. They expect it of you. Will
you disappoint them!
Come at once, and come cheerfully, for I want
up in my eofumand who has to be sent to hw
duty by a provost marshal. :
III.. I- L ' .
-ue wor oeior, ua w,l be arduousand
will
require brave hearts and wUi
T h j v k -V a T 4 ....
r
man lauer or oetay, lor no time is to te f;ost
Every ono must bring his horse and gnn ho
can. IboK'whu cannot will hive them furnished.
JOHN H. MORGAN,
Brigadier General P. A. C. S.
THE YANKEE CONGRESS.
The proceedings of the Yankee Congress on tho
-dd Dec, were somewhat interesting. In the
House Mr. Edgcrton -of Indiana, submitted the
following:
Whereas, The proclamations of th. President of
January, 1863, and December 8, lbb3, in relation
to emancipation, impose conditions of pardons and
amnestyto persons who have participated in the
existing rebellion, as well as conditions precedent
to the re establishment and reorganiiatioW State
governments in the States to which said proclama
tions apply, which, in the judgment of a large
number of faithful citizens, has a tendency to give
the rebellion the advantage of a changed wue.
and to reinvigorate the otherwise declining in-or.
recNon in the South aud to nr.J.ar th.
I YUU rpt - . P " "mm f m .
L . Ijereas, This House caunot but regard with
anxiety the, unprecedented and extraordinary
claims and assumption of high prerogative by the
Preoident in said proclamation, especially iu view
of the fact that the President in hii inaugural ad
dress of 4tb of March, 1861, declared : "I have
no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with
the institutions in the States where it exists: 1
believe I have uo right to do so, and I have no in
clination to do so;'r therefore
Resolved, As the judgtueut of thia'llouse that
the maintenance inviolate "of the constitutional
power of Congress aud the right of the States, and
specially the right of each State to order and con
trol its own domestic. institutions, according to fl
own judgment exclusively, js essential to the bal
aucc of power ou which the perfection and endu
rance of our political fabric of the Federal Union
depends ; and w$ denounce as among the gravest
of crimes, the invasion or occupation by armed
force of any , State, under the pretext or for the
purpose of coercing the people thereof, to modify
or abrogate any 'of their lauds or domestic institu
tions that are consistent with the Constitution of
the-United States; and we affirm the principle de
clared in this resolution, to be a law alike to the
President aud the people of the United States,
MrGrinnell moved to lay it on the table, which
was agreed to. Yeas 90, nays 60.
Mr Smith, of Kentucky, submitted a series of
resolutions, of which the following is the first, vit:
Resolved, That as our country and the very ex
istence of the best government ever instituted by
man is imperilled by the most causeless and wicked
rebellion that the world has seen, and believing as
we do tfiat the only hope of saving the country and
preserving this government is bv the nower of the.
j sword, we are for the most vigorous prosecution of
me war unui tnc UonMituiion and laws shall be
enforced and obeyed in' all parts of the United
or intervention, r mediation. oV proDositioi. for" i
OiaiCK. Mil IO MIIlL Pfirl unnma na ....i.iiA
peaco ironi any, quarter so long as there shall be
found a rebel in arms against the government; and
we ignore all party nsme. 'lines and issues, and
recognize "but two parties in this war patriot aud
traitors.
Mf Cravens mved fc lay the resolutions on the
tab la. wl
The above resolution was than a-r, t !,v .
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was
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v. v jv iu u-t nays..
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tf.M.i7nAi.,fT.- i t.- u . - Mr
Foote of Tenn. ay.,!, himself of his privi-
lege as member of the Confederate Confess to,
making ereechre for ife vankeea - Munh.m
1 l a . a - m . m
mf ' v
newspaper, are w.r;. .jr oote denun-
cation of Presideor I,v the heads of Dep.rt-
ZL"! !B lhVr ?
viwiiwi uupw;:, pr-jieaa to regri ine Uonicuc-
rate cause as desperately bad. only rrnuirin!? a lit.
r.r..rj
7 V t. "u: "us ,,aTe m
made to auffer by the inducretion, the ranay or
the wickedness ot our own people ever fince the j
war commenced. Presumptuously assuming tbat !
people's rights, as against our own rulers, they
' " -w w " viuanicu LUiruitOI ui me
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UI LI1C l
fcave not hesitated to betrat: vital iateraata f tk
UConfedeiacy to tbe cvmruon enemy Sah'sturu '
fyatchmanJ wmj. aatisOurj,
Do NOT LIKE it. We do not lake to see peo- j
pie laying tbe shame of their ex ton ion to Con fed -I
erate money, and at the same time acrambling
worse ua a aog alter a bone to get it all. If
auch people were half as good as Confederate mo
ney they would have some goal.
Paics Coming Down. At a sale near EaUw,
Ala., recently, corn sold at. 55 to-75 eenta per
bushel : peas at 90 cents to SI cer bnaht taMi
potatoes at 50 to 60 cents, sod ground peas at jW)
cents to 91 per posset,
From the Raleifh'Journal
THE NEOBO TBOOFS AT ELTZtBTU
. CITY.
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We have authentic deuiUot the cvndvcr if th
oegrq trout aud their c: tuitoiod i o tne riva-
aion of their lata trip to K'ifctbpili i.u wJO ;.. so l
while on the retreat. '
. JThe expedition was c.uih.mi..hI b li'un r
General Wilde, and consisted iw r rmvHt .t
cegroea, one of which was o uiiunri. d in Kx jv
Todd, of Ohio. They landed at Ehxa' t tti Cry
on Friday, 18th Deceuiber, and apta tu ei'u
days before they returned,duriiitf vhieh ttl"V
. u .. : i : . i l ..... . i i . . .
tank, Camden and Currituck, and u: ia.:M 1
plundered the people- io the uoi h nri.'t n.an.
ner." .Whita in Elizabeth City the ofiWr weie
all quartered oo the most respecuble faaiilirr, in.
diseriminatcly (the commissioned officers bring
white, the non-comtuiuioned blacks.) and did not
pay a dollar (or anything they received In most
cases they compelled the whita ladies to cook and
wash for them Reporting at Wilde'a headquar
ters daily, they were questioned to know if. they
had been treated aa "gentlemen" mad particatarly
if, any of the mala members of the families they
were quartered on talked secession doctrine.
jOo the streets the ladies of the place were jos
tled by the negro troops and bad to permit them
to walk by their side and converse with them, oo
pain of arrest and punishment for insulting United
States Troops !". Any information laid by a negro
agiinst man or woman was received as conclusive
evidence and brought swift punishment upon the
aliened offender. 1 he negroes rsn not daring the
Yankee stay ia the Albetoarle country.
The commands of Capt J. T. Elliott 60th N. C.
Troops, and Oapt Saodlin, came up with these viU
Hans twice and succeeded io killing some forty or
fifty of them and wounding many tuoro, They
fled like wild deer on being fired upon and were
shot as they ran. A bright mulatto was captured
and mistaken for a. white man and sent a a pris
oner to Richttioud, by Capt EliiotL On learning
this. Gen Wilde seized three Isdies, and a relativo
of Capt Elliott and ironed thera and took them off,
notifying Capt E. that if his negro soldier wsa
banged be would hang the ladies, ('apt. K. re
plied that be would do bis duty una wed .by the
General's threat
With these helpless woman a number of men
were also captured. All of them were kept con
fiued iu the garret story of a house in Elizabeth
City in one room the women being made to
cook for the men, and this for several days
une oi Uol J it Oriuiii a men, OZd t.eorgia CSV
airy, was captured and on the bare Muteiim.l of a
negro, was hanged by General Wilde as a guVrilla.
This murder wits ordered and witneed by Wilde
On the Yankee retreat he was tuk 'i. it h it
other prisoners, as far as Hiu ton's T.m r. 1
therein the presence of ihe won-n tl..ov.
gro troops he was harged from a er n Kt nr.
old house, where hi reman. u nt.i i. r'y
ight boars afte'rward by his . .. .mi i.ai
with military honors. On the hack of the mar
dercd soldier was a label with the f.ll..iioif words:
"Here hangs a-guerilla of TVquotm.k oumy,
Daniel Bright, by order of Brig. Gn. WilJi."
The unfortunate man's oam was Daaiel Bright,
Co L, 62d Georgia Cavalry.
Col Griffiin after overcoming many obstacles,
travelled sixty miles to eome upon these murder
ers and thieves, but heariog of bis approach they
fled. The Colonel bad theuielsncholy satisfaction
of recovering the body of his murdered follow sol
dier whose death he still have the gratification of
avengieg by hanging the first Yankee who falls
iuto his hands.
We have not spaee to narrate the many heart
less cases of cruelty perpetrated by thine fi -.d-One
or two cases will suffice as cxtritKi They
entered the bouse occupied br il "tic ui' Captuir?
Elliott's Quartarotastor. As the poor woman at)
at the fire she saw them deliberately cut a hoi- in
the middle of the floor aud build ailie therein to
consume her hou over her. She a-ked 'h'-ru it
they. could do that. They rcplni ,f l.-y could t.d
would. "Then burn," wa the" lady' pa-ti 'ii? re
rponse, "aud .I'll be a airong?r.(.Vil.vkr'ife iln.n
ever." A littlf before daylight the wjuiho j bus
band returned and found hi wife ai.d four cliiN
dren huddled together io the corner a lenca in
sight of the ashes of their lata home I
Iu one other case they fired a residence without
giving any notice to the slreping inhabitants who
lis"
vro nr5! .f'om deth uJ lJ lLo i,J
up of a faithful slave.
We have strung these incidents together with
out regard to their legitimate connection aod from
mcmry. Of their geneial accuracy our reader
may have tu doubt, for tbe facta were received by
u iu peraou from Col. Griffin and Capt. Elliott.
uc pan. laavu oy uirae omccra io the matter gave
lli.m fn inniittmiil. -1 1 . t m I .
'" '.yr;""' ' f"r "M tn" VP
t El.
nvii mu vapi oauuii
Saodlin hung upon the heels of the
BO(millPLl fur m.nv ,;) mttAmA mrkA Ji
J - mmmm a a Val B4 w VUUUWV
""J "pturtd as many of them as their oh com -
Uilllljil COU8i-tcd of. Co! Griffin, in eonsenueoeo
of circum.ucoes that re do oU feel b2JS
j:j . . ICCI " . . V'
iiirill If Jll . UIU II UL aiirrann 1 1W IVMH n mm Mam aawa a aWaaM
or thcr. moud Uye beeo . ?ery different resulk
The Colonel vow. hie determination tiSti 'yZ
blood for that of poor Bright, and b.wUl IZ
i- j -
ui worn.
The force, of Col G. is not aofficieot for the ex-
th-command, aoi w trust that General
Pickett wilUtren-thcn iu . m
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ln corroboration of the above, wo give tbf fol-
lowing received from a ChTplain ia tbe army I
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" Jl'T, Uat Sunday a detachmtut
u Vu y- J wurysunsa wun military non-
fN the MeTU.aoldiert fouad haor.
;n io M o, mM fcof pUcarded oa hif bafl
as follows :
Thi pueriila, Daniel D right, of Pasquotank
county, N. O; i Lung by order of Brig Geo Wilde!
Let this b a warning to all guerilla; if found la
our Hoes they shall share the same fate." .
This ia the hrllish work of that negro regi meats,
who, on leaving tbe dead body, carried sway two
ladies, tied band aod foot; one th wifs ofisui.
Muodao tbe other the Xfa d m pirn of the.
Coufekrte arnjj. . T
vVoudcr if oy reepeotcbU
UUsaajatn this
ftite la williof to submit to Lioeelaiam now'