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MEMBERS OP THE LEGISLATURE OP
M" WORTH CAROLINA.
SENATE.
Iuquotank and IVquimons W II Bagley.
Camden and Currituck D McD Lindsey.
Hates and CliuwarM L Eure.
Ilydo and Tyrrell- Edward L Mann.
Xortharnpt.ni J BUJdom.
II.-i Ifoi d Janice M Wynne.
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Halifax Mason L Wiggins.
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Cumberland and Harnett W B Wright
Sampson William Kirby
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Davie R F Johnston
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Gaston W T Shipp
Gates Richard lioiid
Guilford I) F Caldweli, A Clapp, A S Holton
Granville P P Peace, E Grissom, JS Amis
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Tyrrell,
1'niou, C Austin
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Wilkes, A S Calloway, P T Hurton
1 adkm, A C Cowles
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incy,
D M Young.
Adj't aud Inspector Cicii.'u Office,
Extract., KICIIMOND, Aug 16, 1864.
General Orders No. 67.
V. Paragraph I, General Orders No. 63, (current se
ries) is thu3 anieuueu:
All detailed men, (including those between 18 and 45
year3 of age,) will report to, and be commanded by the
General of Reserves in the State in which they have
been assigned or detailed, who will organise them into
companies and battalions. It is not anticipated that
they will be called out, except in emergencies occur
ring in or near the counties of their residence; nor will
service be exacted of them beyond those counties and
counties contiguous thereto; except that companies
hereafter formed may be required to perform service in
repelling raids along a line of railroad runnlng through
their respective counties, All exempts are allowed,
and invited to enroll themselves with such companies,
so as to be prepared to aid in defending their homes
when menaced by the enemy.
.
Signed S. COOPER, A. and I. Gen.
Oflicial J no. W. Ilinsdale, A. A. Gen. '
IIEADQ'RS RESERVK NORTH CAROLINA, "
Raleigh, Aug. 23, 1864.
General Orders, No. 1.
I. Pursuant to General Orders No. 67, paragraph V.,
Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, dated August
16th, 18C4; Local Enrolling Officers will proceed at
once to organize the detailed men, of whatever kind,
in their respective counties, into companies, reporting
to this office the names aod residence of the officers
elected.
II. All exempts are invited, and earnestly requested,
to attach themselves to companies thus to be organized,
for home defence.
Arms and ammunition will be issued as soon as the
companies are formed.
By command of Lieut. Gen. Holmes.
JNO. W. HINSDALE, A. A. Gen.
Aug. 20, 1S64. 7t
Headquarters Reserve, IV. C.,j
Extract Raleigh, Aug. 1st, 1864. j
G k.n e itAL Orders No. 4.
Captains of Senior Reserves, in the several coun
ties of the State of North Carolina, where Companies
have been organized, will assemble tthem at their re
spective Court Houses, every Saturday at 12 o'clock,
for drill and instruction.
By command of Lt. Gen. Holmes.
JNO. W. HINSDALE, A. A. G.
Aug. 8, 1804. 7t.
Headquarters Reserve, IV. C.
ItALEIGII, iYUgtlSt O, J.OO
General Ouders, .No. 5.
It has been reported to the Lieutenant General Com
manding Reserves, that deserters from the army are
permitted to remain unmolested in certain counties of
this State. It is hereby made the duty of the Senior
Reserves, to apprehend and deliver them to the near
est Military Commandant; and the Captains of the dif
ferent companies arc made and will be held strictly re
sponsible for the execution of this order, in their re
spective counties. -:'
By command of Lt. General Holmes.
JNO. AV. HINSDALE, A. A. General.
August 15, 1804. 7t.
BY J. 15. KERR, Proprietor.
This old established and well-
known Hotel is still kept open for the ac
Sfifil . eommodation of travelers. The table is
uppiied with the best the market and times afford.
Sept 20, 1802 tf J. B. KERR.
WHEAT !
The subscriber is prepared to purchase the new
crop of Wheat at the highest market price. Farmers
will find it to their advantage to call at the CHAR
LOTTE STEAM MILLS before selling.
Jan'y 1, 18G4 tf JNO. WILKES.
ARRIVAL and DEPARTURE
Oi" 1TI ess engers
OF THE SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY
At Charlotte Office, Daily.
ARRIVES.
From Char, k S C. Railroad 7 00 A. M. and 6 P.M
" N. C. Railroad 7 OX) " and 5 00 "
" Wil., C. & R. Railroad 2 45 P. M.
DEPARTS.
For
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N. C. Railroad 7 00 A. M. and 6 20 P.M
Char. & S C. Railroad 8 00 and 5 00 "
Wit r, h. V! Ut.ilriflri 1 SO it
It is desired that all Parcels, Packages or Freight to
be forwarded by cither of the above Trains, be sent to
this Office Oxe Hour previous to its departure.
T. D. GILLESPIE, Agent.
Charlotte, Sept. 7, 1863. tf
Tailoring.
JOHN VOGEL, Practical Tai
lor,respectfully informs the citi
zens of Charlotte and surround
ing country, that he is prepared
to manufacture gentlemen's clo
thing in the latest style and at
short notice. His best exertions
will be given to render satisfac
tion to those who patronize him.
Shop opposite Kerr'sIIotel, next
door to Brown & Stitt's store.
Jan. 1, 1864. tf
Wilmington, Charlotte & Rutherford
rLAlL.HOAD.
On and after Momlav ibe 25th ofMav. 186a. tho Pna.
sentrer Train .i ill run 011 this Un.id Western !"ii-;
siou) daily, Sundays excepted, as follows :
GOING WEST:
ARRIVE: LEAVE:
Charlotte, 7 30 A. M.
8 15 A. XL Tiirkaseptro. 8 90 .
8 55 ' Brevard, 9 00
9 25 " Sharon, 9 30 "
10 00 " Lincoluton, 10 05 "
10 43 " Cherryville. ,
GOING EAST:
ARRIVE: LEAVE:
Gliprrvville. 1 I 3n 4 f
12 15 P.M. Lincolnton. 12 25 P f
12 50 "
Sharon, 12 55
Brevard, 1 25 "
Tuckaseege, 2 00 "
Charlotte.
1 20
1 53 '
2 45 44
Fare, six cents per mile. Soldiers going to and re
turnnig from the army, halff:tre. Passengers are re
quired to make the proper change, as the Ticket Agent
cannot furnish change tor every one
A Freight Train leaves Clu-rVy viUe for Charlotte at
7 o clock, A M, on Mondays, and returns same day.
For Passenger Trains transporting Frei-hts 50 ncr
cent to the tariff rates of freight will be aided
V. A. McBEE,
Master of TrasPortation.
Lincolnton, Jiay 2j, ISG3.
BLANK DEEDS, Warrants, Ejectments, &c
for scJV at this OiKee. '
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"THE PBIVATE IN THE BANKS.
BY MAC.
No tinsel on his collar shines
Nor epaulette, nor Btarj
But calm and firm in serried lines
Amid the crash of war,
The Private stands and gives his life
Foremost of all in battle strife;
While in his soul the holy light
Of Liberty burns pure and bright
Bold Private in the ranks!
'Tia not to win the stripe 01 star
He rushes to the fight;
But strong of arm, and free of fear
He battles for the Right! -He
heeds no voice but duty's call,
He breasts the bullets stand or fall
Our Private in the ranks!
All, all have gone! Our country's moans
Have wrung their hearts so warm;
And mother, wife, and little ones,
No ill shall know, nor harm,
The sire 'with scarce a year to live
The son with all his life to give
Are Privates ia the ranks 1
And when the whispering wordwiog'd wire
Proclaims the battle done;
Shout toddling brat, and boastful sire,
"Iluzzah! our Braves have won!"
We seareh the dead rolls, then with care,
Perchance some kinsman's name is there
'Mong Privates in the ranks!
Tet meed of praise we will bestow
On all who bear the scars;
And care but little what they wore,
Coarse gray, or stars, or bars;
But most our love belongs to those
Who bravely met their Nation's foes,
As Privates in the ranks!
Headquarters Reserve, IV. C,
Raleigh, Aug. 19, 18G4. j"
General Orders No. 6. -
I. General Orders No. 3, paragraphs III., IV. and V.,
Headquarters Reserve, N. C, current series, are hereby
revoked.
II. All Exemptions of persons within the Reserve
ages, will be granted under general instructions from
the Bureau of Conscription, without-reterence to tne
Lieutenant General Commanding Reserve.
III. Applications for JD.etail of persons within the
Reserve ages will not be received by the Local Enroll
ing Officers, until after the organization of the compa
ny from the county in which the applicant resides shall
have been effected. They will then be carefully inves
tigated, and acted upon in conformity with the provi
sions of Circulars No. 3, 8 and 29, Bureau of Conscrip
tion, current series, except as hereinafter prescribed:
First, In cases of approval by the District Enrolling
Officer, a furlough for sixty days will not be granted,
when the party would, within that time, become eigh
teen year3 old. Secondly, In cases of disapproval by
the District Enrolling Officer, if the party be between
forty-five and fifty years old, he will be forthwith as
signed by the Enrolling Officer to the company of Sen
ior Reserves from the county in which he resides; if
between the ages of seventeen and eighteen years, he
will be sent to Camp of Instruction for assignment by
the Commandant of Conscripts, according to county
and congressional district. Thirdly, All applications
herein referred to, required by the Circulars from the
Bureau of Conscription to be forwarded, will be trans
mitted, through the commandant of Conscripts, to this
office for final action, instead of the Superintendent of
the Bureau at Richmond.
Br command of Lieut. Gen. Holmes.
JOHN W. HINSDALE, A. A. Gen.
August 29, 18G4. 7t.
3d Finger Longest.
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD.
Ranawaj', on the 29th June, 1864, my house servant,
JOHN LEE, 21 years of age, five feet 6 inches high,
yellow complexion, slender form, negro features,
pleasant countenance, plausible manners, quick spoken,
the third finger on each hand being the longest. He was
raised in Charlotte, N. C, where his mother and rela
tions are, and he may be lurking in that vicinity. He
had on when he left, a roundabout of puiplc drill, has
also a yellow sumrqer coat; is disposed to dress fine,
and in this way may escape notice. The above re
ward will be paid for his return to me, or lodged in
jail so that I can get him. Any information concern
ing him may be left with S. A. Harris.
R. A. SPRINGS,
Aug. 1, 18C4. tf Rock Hill P. O., S. C.
WOOL CARDING.
I will be ready in a few days to Card Wool. Owing
to the high price paid for cards, I prefer carding at
old prices and take Wool, Tallow, &c, for pay. I wish
the lady of every family to see that the cuckleburs
are well picked out, and send one pound or one pint
of soft grease for every ten pounds of wool.
J. STIREWALT,
June 27, 1864 Mill Hill, Cabarrus county
GRAIIV, LARD, &c.
On the 25th inst., the Medical Purveyor will be pre
pared to purchase Corn, Rye, Barley and Lard, for
which market prices will be paid ; and Sugar, Coffee,
Rice, Salt, Cotton Yarn and Cloth will be given in part
payment when desired.
J. T. JOHNSON, Surg. & Med. Pur.
Med. Pur.'s Office, Charlotte, March 12, 1864.
Stale of i. Carolina, Mecklenburg Co.
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions July Term, 1864.
James M. Hutchison, Adm'r of R II Brawley, deceased,
vs. James Hemphill and wife Racbael, W B Calden
and wife Jane, J M Brawley, M A Brawley, W W
Brawley, Mary S Brawley, Mary Brawley, and the
heirs at law of Hiram C Brawley and John II Braw
ley, deceased.
Petition for the settlement of the estate of R H Braw
ley, dee'd.
It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the
defendants, Jas Hemphill and wife Rachael, Win B Cal
den and wife Jane, J M Brawley, M A Brawley, W W
Brawley, Mary Brawley, Mary S. Brawley, and
the personal representatives of John H. Brawley,
deceased, reside beyond the limits of this State,
it is therefore ordered by the Court that publication be
made for six successive weeks iu the Western Demo
crat, a paper published in the town o'Charlotte, noti
fying said defendants to be and appear at the next term
of this Court to be held for the county of Mecklenburg,
at the Court House in Charlotte, on the second Monday
in October next, then and there to plead, answer or
demur to thi3 petition, or judgment pro confesao will
be taken and the same heard exparte as to them.
Witness, : Wm Maxwell, Clerk of our said Court, at
office in Charlotte, the 2d Monday in Julv, A D 1864.
34-6t WM. MAXWELL, Clerk.
BARLEY AJ HOPS.
Wanted. 1,000 bushels Barley, and a large quantity
of Hons, for which the highest cash price will be paid.
M. MUNZLEK,
- Lager Beer Brewery,
Juno 27, 1SGI Cra-pd Charlotte, N. C,
Cjje WtBlttn SJtraorrnt.
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
Important Decision. -Judge Halyburton, of
tne Gootederate Lourt at-iuchmond, has delivered
his opinion in the case of John II. Briscoe and
the thiity odd Mary landers who appeared before
him, under the writ of habeat corpus, claiming
their discharge from military service on the ground
that their term of service had expired. The
Judge was of th opinion that -4liee men., icing.
Marylanders, and therefore not embraced within
the Conscription Act, could not be held, the term
of Voluntary enlistment having expired. They
wero therefore discharged. Richmond . Enquirer.
The Confederate Congress should pass a law to
makt Marylanders help defend tho country while
theyUveinit.
Operations in Sherman's Rear. A letter
from G?n. Wheeler's command, dated Athens,
Ala , sJates that he has destroyed over 125 miles
of raihoad in Sherman's rear. Also, that 2,000
Tenneiseeans have joined Wheeler. The people
of Tennessee are hopeful and cheerful. Crops fine.
It w ill take Sherman 30 days to repair the dam
ages f the railroads. Several hundred prisoners
and at immense amount of property was captured.
Gen. Kelly was wounded and left iu the hands of
the Yankees.
Geri Forrest captured the garrison at Athens,
Ala., iicluding 1,300 prisoners, 2 passenger trains,
50 wagons and ambulances, and 500 horses. His
loss was only 4 or 5 killed and about 20 wounded.
Our troops are full of enthusiasm and will leave
in search of new victories.
Yellow Fever. The yellow fever is bad at
Charleston. It is also at Savannah, Jacksonville
and St Augustine. It is not among our troops.
Ths Last of the Old Stock. Mrs. Gris
som, relict of Mr James Grissom, of Granville
county, N. C , departed this life about the 15th
ult. Her husband was a soldier in the old Revo
lution. They were married several years before
that war. She was about 110 or 115 years old.
Ral. Confederate.
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A Valuable Labor-saving Machine. Du
ring his life time, Mr. John Lewis, of this county,
invented a number of valuable improvements in an
old cotton picking and spinning Machine. His
wife, who is bis Executrix, applied for a patent
from the Patent Office at Richmond, which he has
obtained. ; Her son, a most enterprising young
man, has one now in this place. We would ad
vise all who have large slave families and others
who are able and have not many hands, to procure
one of these machines. It is a great labor-saver.
One person can pick, card and spin with it as much
cotton as twelve hands can do on a wheel in the
same time. Mr. Lewis deserves encouragement in
his enterprise, and we hope he will receive it.
Greensboro Citizen.
This must be a different machine from that
which Elijah P. Mitchell buih and sold at this
place about thirty years agq. That machine fed it
self, after the cotton had been evenly spread by
band on a cloth apron which was operated on the
top. lhc-carcs were cut on the edge of a flatted
wire drawn on-a drum; and the carded cotton pass
ed between a series of small rollers to draw it out
ready for the spindles (from 4 to 8 in number,)
which were much like those in use in common cot
ton Factory spining machines. We refer to this
old machine thus particularly because we called at
tention to it some months ago and expressed the
hope that some enterprising man would hunt it up
and set to work to building them, thus meeting a
pressing public want. Mr. Lewis' machine is pro
bably a better thing. Salisbury Watchman.
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The Polish Exiles. The Richmond papers
have already informed us of the arrival at the Con
federate eapital of a delegation of Polish exiles,
who came to offer the services of their country
men to our authorities. I hey had an interview
with President Davis, and the result is said to
have been highly satisfactory to both parties, and
to hold out a fair prospect of the forthcoming ac
cession to our armies of a body of gallant and
high-hearted allies of that, warlike race. Ever
true to the traditions of the past,, the sons of Po
land have ever shed their blood iu the defence of
nations struggling for independence, as the battle
fields of Europe and America will testify.
RnnriTTTTM Rvrttt Vo Iron rnsfc wliatnrpr ninst
' V s w&. ' - . " " - - w
be allowed to come in contact with the syrup when
i ! ti . i .-I.:, i l - . :
DOiung. xo prevent iuis, uuwever, lue cast iron
aitlec mnet ho irpll clr:inspd irith wafpr and nib.
bed to a bright surface inside, with corn shucks
and sand, regularly after each day's work is over;
so that the kettles may be thoroughly cleansed for
each no w- admission of iuice. The directions to
strain through a thick cloth the juice, when ad
mitted to the kettles, and again to strain the sy
rup when poured into the coolers, must not be
neglected.
Dying Like a Gentleman. A gentleman
who had been around the world in the old navy
mentioned to us lately a queer custom prevalent,
or said to be prevalent among the high mandarins
in China. They occasionally commit suicide.. It
is part of the etiquette of the country. For in
Etauce, if Mean-Fun is charged with the defence of
the city of LoDg-Tung, and fails in said defence,
he is bound, as a gentleman, not only to kill him
self, but to kill his grand mother and his wife's
grand-mother, and his wife, and bis children, and
his brother-in-law, and his brothers, and his father,
and his mother, and his wife's father and mother,
and his uncles, and his aunts, and his nephews,
and his neices, and his cousins, and a host of other
people, to save them being killed by the common
executioner.
Rut the queer thing is the way the high Man
darin takes to go off himself. He swallow gold
leaf; and, so the report says, he Boons gets as dead
as any Chinese gentleman could desire. We don't
know how it works, and we don't think it will be
come popular in the Confederacy. Dying in such
a-gorgeous style is altogether beyond our means at
the existing premium. We cannot recommend it
on the score of economy. Wilmington Journal.
THE BATTLE NEAR WIITCHKSTER, VA
On Monday the 19th of Srpt.
Correspondence of the Raleigh Confederate.
Tuesday-, Sept. 20, 1861.
Yesterday was a bloody day to us, and bloodier
still to oar enemies. At daylight a spirited attack
by cavalry was made upon Johnson's brigade, of
Ramseur's division, on the Berryville turnpike,
about two miles from Winchester. The attack
was gallantly repelled. But from the continued
roar of artillery, and the constant firiog of sharp
sboote, it aoa beoam pprM4 thai th owy
meditated a general engagement. The main body
of his forces seemed to be advancing up the turn
pike from Berryville, flanking from the road iighl
and left. Gens. Early, Breckinridge, - Gordon,
Rodes and Ramseur, with the Generals of Cavalry,
made their arrangements to give him a fitting re
ception. About 10 o'clock the artillery plajed
furiously. At 11, the action became general and
raged with great fury for the spaco of half an hour,
when our line ot battle being hotly pressed, fell
back a distance of about two hundred yards and
reformed in good order. The enemy continued to
advance, and our troops, though greatly outnum
bered, addressed themselves to the work before
them like men determined to conquer or die. The
Yankee line advanced slowly. Our brave fellows
stood the fire like Salamanders, and plied their
rifles like men who were fighting for all that is
worth living for.
- Such a scene I never witnessed. . Tho battle
field may not be deemed by some a place for pray
er; I think differently, and tried in my poor way
to appeal for help to the Lord of Hosts. Who
would not, when gazing at such a scene as tbisf
The angel of death was reaping a fearful harvest
The Yankee line in a tew minutes began to look
ragged and rent. It wavered, confusion ensued,
and the minions of the tyrant turned their backs
and retreated in confusion. Then the shouts of
victory rang along our lines so as to cheer the heart
of every lover of his country.
Standing on the bloody field I could not forbear
to lift up my heart and say, "blessed bo the name
of the Lord who hath given ua the victory." .The
enemy retired some distance and attempted to re
form. His artillery also fell back. His fire bad
slackened, and everything on all sides combined to
show that our victory was complete. This was
about one o'clock, and thinking the victory com
plete, I was engaged bringing tho wounded into
the city.
A little after three the enemy's cavalry made a
demonstration 'on our left, along the Murtiosburg
turnpike. At this point was a brigade of cavalry
called "Imboden's men;" and although Gen. Ini.
bode n was esteemed when living as the embodi
ment of patriotism and valor, and now when dead,
as the useful and efficient soldier, yet these men,
without being pressed, gave way iu contusion, and
came rushing into the two leading streets of the
"town as much excited as if they had looked the
god Pan in the face, and crying out as they came
rushing along, "the Yankees arc coming;" w hilts t
clouds of dust were rising to heighten the scene.
Wagoners, teamsters, ambulance drivers, uegroes,
boys, skulkers from the battle, and squads loiter
ing about the field, all caught the panic aud fell
into the general rush, until it constituted a perfect
storm of the madness of human fully, boldicrs
threw down their muskets about the fields and the
streets, divested themselves of cartridge boxes,
knapsacks and blankets, in order to run light; am-,
balances just returning from the battle field went
galloping off in this wild whirlpool, filled with the
agonizing wounded, all tending to make "confu
sion worse confounded."
I was sitting in an ambulance- in the street by
the dead body of Brig. Gen. Godwin, which 1 hud
just assisted in bringing off the battle-field, when
looking down the street I saw the frenzied rush
coming on towards me like a hurricane. Dread
ing its contact, 1 called to Hie driver to push with
all speed, and if possible to keep before this cur
rent of madness until we could clear the town,
reach the commons, and thus escape being ruu
over. Upon clearing the town we baited. After
the space of about five minutes the passing, rush
ing mass of confusion had pretty much abated and
passed on. I got out to look for Yankee; 1 took
elavated positions; but, behold! 1 could not dis
cover a solitary "blue coat." None could be seen,
for none had entered the town. Officers who have
seen much that is exciting about battle-fields, tell
me they have never witnessed anything that will
begin to compiare with tho stampede at Winches
ter. The flying brigade ol "Imbodcn's men" com
muoicated the panic also to a portion of McCaus
land's command who fled with them. This break
upon our left, at this period of the day, enabled the
enemy to flank our forces, and Gen. Early deemed
it proper to fall back at dusk. We bad to leave
our dead in the hands of the enemy. We had
gained a decided victory in the field and were mas
ters of the situation, but the part played by a body
of undisciplined troops compelled us to drop the
prize.
Our loss, I fear from the present lights before
me, will run up nearly thrco thousand. That of
the enemy was"Eurtly much greater and may sum
up five thousand. We brought off about five hun
dred prisoners. Tffc prisoners inform us that Gen.
Grant was in command and that Gen. Averill was
killed. I will write you more fully two days hence.
Yours a3 ever, SIGMA.
Old JonN Brown. A correspondent of the
Statcsville Express writes from Charlestown, Ya ,
as follows:
"The jail, some of the churches and especially
the Court House in this town are defaced and torn
ud in sn outrageous manner. The last is tbo
house in which old "Ossawatainic" (Brown) was
sentenced to death. The lower story was used by
the enemy for a horso stable, the upper room,
galleries, &e. well, for prireys. Not a vestige of
furniture, banistering or anything of the aort re
mains. Yesterday, I visited the spot wLcre Brown
was executed; near it grew a largo locust tree, of
which nothing is left but a very low stump every
splinter has been carried to all oorncrs of Vankce
dom and converted into breast -pin., walking cauc,
&c., and preserved as relies of the tree on which
"John Brown, the martyr," wa hung! when in re
ality, the gallow3 on which he hanged sure enough
now constitutes a portion of a certain piazza in this
town
THE FIGHTING CAPITAL OP THE
SOUTH.
Should the war bo continued ona year, five
years, or ten years longer, havo we tho means of
continuing it. By the continued blessings of God
the means of subsisting and clothing abundantly
the army and the people is unmistakably within
out. reach. Have wo the men to keep up an ef
fective army: Let uj see. Wc compile the fol
lowing figures from an editorial article of DeBow'a
Review, written in May of tho present year. Thia
authority is the best we could quoto.
The entire population of the United Sfafei in
1850, between the ages of 18 and 45, inclusive,
was 9,134,009. If the entire population of tho
United States in 1S50 (23.191,870) gavo 9,131,
009 between the ages of 18 and 45, what number
of those ages will bo represented by the 0,000,000
within the Confederacy in 1800? Result 2,3G3,
000 in round numbers. Deducting ono half for
females, which differs but a fraction from the truth,
and the number of males within tho ages called
out by the President wilt bo 1,181,500.
It is impossible to estimate the number of per
sons to be exempted for physical causes, from civil
employment, or in the workshops, &c., but few will
estimate higher than one inaa iu every five. On
this basis, the number capable of being biougbt
into tbo field Would" be rodoced to 915,200; or if
the exempts be one in every four, the number will
bcSSG.100. A'm
A thorough system of conscription, and by nar
rowing down the exemptions, would bring this ar
my into the field.
But this is not all. By drafting, and employing
negroes for a great variety of purposes in the army
which are now filled by white?, the effective (orco
of tho army will bo increased from 30,000 to 50.
000 men.
The calculations above are mado for 1800. Tho
average annual increase of population before that
timo was three and one third percent. It can not
have declined since. This, in thrco years will bo
ten per cent. Ten per cent of six millions will bo
G00,000. Of this number, as before shown, about
one filth will be male9 between jhe ages of 18 aod
45or 120,000. Thia will not. bo fur from ro
placing the actually killed or permanently disabled
by the war up to the present time, and go far also
toward making amends for tbo extra mortality of
the camps, leaving the actual military strength of
tho country as before stated in round numbcri
900,000 men.
The incrcaso of population from year to year,
then, will keep up the standard of the army.
Should it become necessary to call out the males
between the ages of'10 and 18, aa addlTloa will bo
mado of nearly 130,000 to the army.
The President's last call for tho nges of 40 and
-15, it whs calculated, would jicld about 100,000,
We may take it for granted, sums up tho Re-'
view, that in no event during a long war, can tho
military strength of the Confederacy bo reduced
below seven hundred thousand men, if tho pcoplo
are ia earnest to win their liberties arid avert tho
terrors of subjugation and tyrannical and heartless
Yankee thraldom.
Now we ask the timid and faint-hearted to look
at these figures. Figure cannot lie, and hero wa
have them presented upon tho authority of a gen
tleman of world wide reputation one who has de
voted the greater portion of an ordinary lifetime to
their faithful elucidation. Grant is aid recently
to have written to Gen. Washburn, that "nothing
is wanting to crush the rebellion but a determined
unity of sentiment among the people of the North
that the military resources of tho South aro ex
hausted." If Grant knows no more of our "mili
tary resources" than this reported wiying of his in
dicates, he has spent hi lifo to little purpose, and
his future like his past efforts will avail to teach
him littlo more. Unity of sentiment ha been no
less striking at the North than at the Smth. But
wc do not object to its being complete aniutignt our
enemies. What we want amongtt the people of
the South is unity of purpose a universal deter
mination to be free and independent. Let us have
this, and independence will como and peacefully
take her scat amongst us. GolJtboro' Journal.
Gen. Sherman. Sherman belong tb that nest
of vipers which the South had been unconsciously
nourishing in its bosom for eighty years before the
commencement of this war. When it broke out ho
was president of a college in Jjouinfana, enjoying a
large salary, and professing undying devotion to
the South, to its institutions, and to its "people. So
strong did he pretend that this feeling was in him,
that he declared, when war became inevitable, his
determination never to draw his sword against tho
South, lie was treated iu Louisiana with tho un
bounded kindness which that hospitable and high
spirited people always extended to Mrangcra as
long as they had the power, lie was rcctived into
their families on the footing of an old and valued
acquaintance. Every house was throvrn open to
him, and ho had a seat at every table whencrcr ho
thought proper to occupy it. The return bo has
made, while it is not very creditable to himself,
could not have been more instructive to tho South
ern people. . Before the war there wa.4 alwayi on
the part of that people in every State, without
exception, a disposition to prefer Yankee candi
dates for office to those who were born io their
midst, even when the qualifications cf the latter
greatly exceeded those of tho former. By e'eadily
adhering to the policy indicated by this diaposi.
tion, in course of time, and with great care, tbo
South succeeded ia accumulating that nest of, vi
pers of wbicb wo have juit spoken; and if they
now sting her whenever tho opportunity offers, alio
may thank herself for the infliction. ,
Paste Blacking --If you want good Hacking
take a half bushel of ripe China berries well pick
ed from the stems, pot into a kettle, and add thrco
gallons of witcr; boil doWa 'to one gallon,' then
strain the liquor through a hcvc, from tL wed
and frkio, and add as much l ino wood eoot ' (tho
richer the Letter,) a will make apaxtc, and MA
ready for use; a pint of good, or a fiaarl of veik
vfnegor, (or take small beer,) first mixed with tho
soot will make it better, and if you add the white
of aa egg to half gallon of the liquor it will be the
best, and equal to any Yankee blaelu'np. -
The blacking costs little besides trouble, tad we
rtavc seen bootu cleaned with it inferiot to nose in
gfos, aud will not soil a whito handkerchief.
Another. Ripo Elder berries, well boiled,t
2nd treated as above, will make a superior blacking
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