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W tJ YAHtS, Editor ahd Proprietor. THIRTEENTH VOLUME N U II B E It C45. CHARLOTTE, N. C , TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1864. 4 ,1 I! 1 THE TOTEM BM0GMT, Publihed every Tucsday,o) BY WILLIAM J. YATES, KDlTOll AND PUOPR1ETOB. pus zKJiyjc IN ADVANCE. Transient ad vertiinents must be paid for in "Vuvprtiscmcnts not marked on the manuscript f .rT.nV. :ific lime, will be inserted until forbid, and charged accordingly. l3 - . J-'li'-i' i. 20 aid L Mann. MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE OF MLnii IiOIlTII CAROLINA. SENATE. l-.iwotank and lVrq.iimoiw W II Hagley. LViiden an'l Currituck--D McU Lindsey. r.iLt-s ana oiinw.iii HyduiidTyrn-H-LJwart v..,il;im!)t-.u J H Odoin. il.-rtf.ird James M Wynne. j;crtie John Pl. Martin and Washington J R Stubbs. ilalifax-Mason L Wiggins. K,Ic.nbe and Wilson J II Powell. Pitt Dr E J ttl.mnt JJcaufort E J Warren Craven N A Whitford Carteret and Jones Ur M F Arendell (Jreene and Lenoir J P Speight N Hanover Eli W Hall )u;.li.i-W II Ward low-Isaac X Saunders w Iikdcn lirunswick and Columbus John W LIIis Cu'rr.b.-rhuiu and Harnett W U Wright Sampson William Kirby Wayne lij Ay cock Johnston T 1 .Suead Wake W DJoi.es . Nash A J Taylor Franklin W Harris Warren Dr T J Pitehford (Iranvilb It W Lassiter lVrsou C S Wnitead Orange John Herry Alamance and Hand'dph Hon Giles Mebane Cliatliaiu E H Straughn Moore and Montgomery Dr J M Crump liichniond and Robeson (Hies Leitch Anson and Union Col W C Smith Cuilford Kobt P Dick Caswell William Long Koekiiighain D W Courts M.-ekh-nburg W M Crier Cabarrus and Stanly l)r J E McEachern Jlowan and Davit- W 11 March Davidson Henderson Adams Stokes and Forsyth J E Matthews Vl.e, Surry, &o W II A Sneer (dead) Iredell. Wilkes. &C A M IJoglo Iturko. MeDo-.vell, (.Vc S F Patterson I ineohi (laeton, and Catawba M L McCoikle .Uutherf-.r.l. Polk, A;o Dr W J T Miller r.uncomhe. Henderson. A:c M Patton Macon, JI ay wood. Ac S C Hryson HOUSE OF COMMONS. Alamance Ii Y McAd.-n. C F Faucett Alexander J M Carson Anson A J Dargau, L L Polk A-he Mr McMillan Beaufort Hon 11 S Donnell, I) M Carter Hertie P T Henry, Jas Bond P.ludeii J W liass Brunswick D L Russell, Jr Burke J J Erwiu BuncouiW J M Gudger Cabarrus P P C Smith Chatham J II Deaden. W J Ileaden, W P Hadley Caldwell J M I shell Camden W A Duke Carteret Stephen D Pool Caswell Montford McGeher, S S Harrison Catawba W P Iieiuliardt Cumberland and Harnett Hon J G Shepherd, A D McLean. DrJohn McCormick Cherokee G W Hays Chowan LC Benbury Cleaveland D Beam. J W Gidney I !ol u in b us Forney G eorge Craven Win Lane. T II Gaskins Currituck p ivie 11 F Johnston 9 Dunlin Zi.cli Smith. It I Houston 1) i id-on--C F Lowe, Lewis Danes Edgecombe David Cobb, L D Farmer Franklin W K Da is For-yth W II Wheeler. W I) Stipe Gaston W T Shipp (iates Hit-bard Bond Guilford D F Caldwell, A Clapp, A S Ilolton Granville P P P-nec, E Grissom, J S Amis Halifax II Joyner. A II David Haywood Samuel L Love Henderson M M Patton Hertford J B Vaun Hyde Mr Gibbs Iredell T A Allison. L Q Sharpo Jackson W A Enloo Johnston W A Smith. W G Bunks Jones F G Simmons Lenoir, Allen W Wooten Lincoln, Ambrose Costner Macon, J M Lyle Madison, W II Brown. Martin, S W Oulterbridgo McDowell, W F Craige Mecklenburg. John L Brown, E C Grier Montgomery, E II Davis Moore, Elam J Ilarringtou Nash. G C Lewis New Hanover. Sam) J Person, J R Hawes Northampton, S T Stancill, V J Rogers Orange. S F Phillips, W N Patterson Onslow, A J Murrill Pasquotank, W E Mann Percpiimons, J II Riddiek Person. John W Cunningham Pitt, B G Albritton, C Perkins Randolph. Joel Ashoworth, E T Blair Rowan, F E Shober. W II Crawford Richmond, B F Little Robeson, David Bethune, T J Morisey Rockingham, Mr Strong, A J Boyd Rutherford, J L Cars..n. A R Bryan Sampson, L A Powell, Patrick Murphy Stanly, R Harris Stokes. W II Flynt Surry. Mr Waugh Tyrrell. Union. C Austin Wake. D G Fowle, fj II Alford, C J Ilo ayne, M K Crawford. J M Caho Warren. W T Aliston, T J Judkins Washington. L C Latham Watauga, Win Horton Wilkes, A S Calloway, P T LT'Tton Yadkin, A C Cowles Yancy, D M Young. rers - CONPBDBRATE qoVEFlAdENT. Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, President. AlexH Stephens of Georgia, Vice President. J. P. Benjamin, of Louisiana, Secretary of State. James A. Seddon, of Virginia, Secretary of War. G. A. Trenholm, of South Carolina, Secretary of the Treasury. S. R. Mallory.of Florida, Secretary of the Navy. Geo. Davis of North Carolina. Chief of the Depart ment of Justice or Attorney General. J. II. Reagan, of Texas, Postmaster General. The President serves six years. MEMBERS OF THE SECOND CONGRESS. SENATE. ALABAMA. NORTH CAROLIXA. R W Walker Wm A Graham Kobt Jemison W T Dortch ARKANSAS. . SOUTH CAROLINA. R W Johnson R W Barnwell CB Mitchell J L Orr FLORIDA. TENNESSEE. J M Baker L C Haynes A E Maxwell (Vacancy) GEORGIA, TEXAS. H V Johnson W S Oldham B II Hill L T Wigfall KENTUCKY. VIROINIA. II C Burnett R M T Hunter (Vacancy) A T Caperton LOUISIANA. MISSISSIPPI. Edw'd Sparrow J W C Watson T J Scmmes A G Brown MISSOURI. (Vacancy) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Thomas S. Bocock, Speaker. ALABAMA. G Wm P Chilton 7 Daniel Cloptoii 8 James L Pugh 9 J S Dickinson. 1 Thomas J Foster 2 Wm R Smith 3 W R Cbb 4 Marcus II Cruikshank 5 Francis S Lyon ARKANSAS. 1 Felix I Batson 3 Augustus II Garland 2 Rufus K Garland 4 Thomas B Hanly. FLORIDA. 1 St. George Roger 2 Robert B Hilton. GEORGIA. 1 Julian Hartridge 2 Win E Smith 3 Mark H Blanford 4 Clifford Anderson 5 J T Shewmake 0 J II Echols 7 James M Smith 8 George N Lester 9 II P Bell 10 Warren Aiken. KENTUCKY. 1 Willis B Machen 7 II W Bruce 2 George W Triplett 3 Henry E Read 4 George W Ewing 5 James S Chrisman G Theodore L Burnett 8 Humphrey Marshall 9 Ely M Bruce 10 James W Moore J 1 Benjamin F Bradley 12 John M Elliott. LOUISIANA. I Charles J Villere 4 Lucius J Dupre 5 B L Hodge G John Perkins, Jr. 2 Charles M Conrad 3 Duncan F Kenner MISSISSIPPI. 1 Jehu A Orr 5 Otho R Singleton 2 Wm D Holder G Ethelbert Barksdale 3 Israel Welch 7 J T Lampkin 4 Henry C Chambers MISSOURI. 5 George G Vest G Wilkes 7 Robert Hatcher. 1 Thos L Snead 2 N L Norton 3 John B Clark 4 A II Con row. NORTH CAROLINA. 1 Wm N II Smith 2 Robert R Bridgers 3 J T Leach 4 Thomas C Fuller 5 Josiah Turner 6 John A Gilmer 7 James M Leach 8 J G Ramsay 9 B S Gaither 10 Gorge W Logan SOUTH CAROLINA. 1 Jas M Witherepoon 4 Win D Simpson 2 Wm Porcher Miles 5 James Farrow 3 Lewis M Ayer G William W Boyce - TENNESSEE. 7 James McCollum 8 Thomas Menees 9 John D C Atkins 10 John V Wright 11 David MCurrin (deed) 1 Joseph B Heiskell 2 William G Swan 3 A S Colver 4 John P Murray 5 Henry S Foote b E A Keeble TEXAS. J John A Wilcox (dee'd) 4 F B Sexton 2 C C Herbert ' 5 A R Baylor 3 A M Branch G S II Morgan VIRGINIA. 1 Robt L Montaeue 9 David Funsten 2 R H Whitfield 3 Wm C Wickham ITS Gholson 5 Thomas S Bocock 6 John Goode, Jr. 7 Wm C Rives 8 Dauiel C Dejarnette 10 F W M Holladay 11 John B Baldwin 12 Walter R Staples 13 Fayette McMuIlen 14 Samuel A Miller 15 Robert Johnson 1G Charles W Russell. STABS AND FLOWERS. - When Eve had led her lord astray, And Cain had tilled his brother, The Stars and Flowers, the poets say, Agreed with one another, To cheat the canning tempter's art And teach the race its duty, By keeping on its wicked heart Their eyes of light and beauty. A million sleepless lids, they say, Will be at least a warning ; And so the Flowers would watch by day, The Stare from eve" to morning. On hill and prairie, field ind lawn, Their dewey eyes upturning, The flowers still watch from redoing dawn Till western sties are burning. Alas, each hour of daylight tells A tale of shame so crushing, That some turn whito as sea-bleached shells, And some are always blushing. But when the patient Stars look down On all their light discovers The traitor smile, the murderer's frown, The lips of lying lovers, They try to shut their saddened eyes, And in the vain endeavor, We see them twinkling in the skies, And so wink on forever. 57 old members and 40 new members. EXPRESS NOTICE. Office Southehx Express Compaxt, 1 Charlotte, Sept. 24, 1863. In crdcr to aroid misunderstanding and to make our cLarges conform to tbe liability assumed, this Companv hereby gives notice that from and afterOcto ber Ist,-! 863, shippers will be required to place their valuation upon eachpackage before it will be received. Such valuation will be inserted in the Company's receipt, and establish the liability of the Company for the aruoont. The act of God and the public enemy only excepted. T. D. GILLESPIE, Sept 28, 1863 Agent. Heacrqrs Reserve. IV. C.,") Kaleigh, Oct. 17th, 18C4. ) General Orders, No. 16. All Chiefs of Departments or Bureaux and Superin- i tendents of Government Works in Xorth Carolina, w ho. j in couipliauce with General Order No. 77, A. and I. G, O., current scries, forward to this office certified listci of men in their employ who are experts, or whose ser- j vices are indispensably nectary, will, upon forward ing the list, notify the partu s so certified to, that such certificates have been made. Enrolling Officers will respect tnese notincauons, ana will not molest men holding theiu pending revision of their details. By order of Lieut. Gen. Holmes: JN0. W. HINSDALE, A. A. Gen'l. October 24, 1864. 3t. LIST OF LETTERS Remaining in the Post Office at Charlotte, Nov. 1st. Persons calling for any of these Letters will please say they are advertised : A J1I AlpTiindpr mrs Crnthia M Alexander, mra Mar garet Alexander, miss Minnie Alexander, miss Mollie J Alexander, miss JNannie J Alexander, mrs Aiary Atcui son, John R Asbury, Josiah Asbury, H L Austin. B Drury J Barner 3, Miles J Berryhill, miss Lizzie Brown, John M Bond 2, mrs A P Beach, miss Martha J Roolo 9 flrnan llonit mica Snsfin Rrr.im fl VV RrafTv. Lydia Blanchord, E L Burnette, E Baemald George 'W . . , i - w r in i r.o -1 T , t i- a oauaru, James u ukick, u ouiu i iuuiuaniu, ouscjm a Blackwclder, Joseph W Brown, X! D Batenjan. ,C Mrs S A Campbell, miss Mary Cnpps, E J Caldwell, M Cronly, mrs Matilda Cathey, mrs Mary Colly, mra Mary Carrow, Dr E G Clay, D H Chandler, mrs Marga'. ret M Cook, Chamich Cox, miss Martha M Cox, Wm Culpepper, miss Sarah Chamber, F W Conner. D Ephrim Duncan, P J Davidson, mrs Eliza J Deaton, Mark Dougherty 2, James H Davis, John Davis, C Dix on, P C Deaton, J R Daniel, miss Adaline Ddlin. E Miss Lizzie Elliot, Wm Elliot, J W Elliot, Clarrissa Etheridge. P Overton Flippin, James M Flemming, John Freeman, miss Maggie Frazicr, James Foster, mra Martha Flenni- gan. G Magaret Griffin, IIC Graham, II II Glover, mrs Laura flnnlfiin mra Marv -T Clpnn. mra Snllie fiaston. A M Grigg, Wm E Green, miss Margaret Gordon, miss Nan cy Harris, J K uraves, itev f u urea, jpt r w God win, miss Alice uray, t,-nas lv.uaiiagncr, miss oaine Gingles. II W J Hasty, mrs Ibby Hoover, J L Harris, Martha Hobbs, C C Harris,L A Honeycut, Isabella P Hoover, r,nrini::i JTnnter. V W Flart. miss Lott.v Hare. Prof S A Harris, miss Annie E Hunter, J N Hays, S H Harris, John J Helms, mrs Mary J Harrison, mis Molly Henry, miss Mary A Hoofman, mrs Mary Hinson, mrsSjL Hays, H R Hayes, J Holderby, mr3 F A Harron, miss Eliza beth Holmes, E M Howard, Jas N Harris, H D Heath, mrs M C Hartgrove, mrs Jane Hunter. J A Johnson, miss M E Johnson, mrs J W Johnson, W II Jarrett 2, B C Jones, mrs S L Jamison. K John A King, mrs II S Kerns, mrs Sarah J King, Wm Kennedy, L II Kimbrel. Xi M D Ledwell, B Lanier, mrs Mary Leonard. M W C Moore, miss Mag Moore, J M Moore, mrs M C Moore, miss Martha Ann Means, mrs Esther Means, Jo seph D. Means, miss Nancy J Means, W Y Martin, mrs Elizabeth Martin, D Miller, mrs Elizabeth Miller, John Melborn, miss Jennie Milton. -Newton Mandcrs, miss Adaline Morris, John T McN'eely, T H McNeely, miss Harriet T C McNeely, Joseph McDaniel, ntr McKeuon, Rev. D H McKenon, mrs Cynthia McCorkle, mrs John M McKnight, Mary McClay, Isaac JicGinn, E C Mc' Lure. N G W Nevillle 2, Hamlin Nolen, miss Hettie Nichol son, Chas H Newbold, mrs Major Norris, H Norsette, Gen W H Neal. O Silas Orr, J G A Orr, John C Oates, B II Oates, mrs L W Osborne. P miss Annie E Phclan 2, P H Pbelan. mr Elizabeth Prickett, mrs Martha C Prickett, Ham Proctor, H F Peterson, Sam'I Partee, W Perry, Jr, mrs Mary A Pettis, George S Pool. B W B Robertson 2, miss Bettie J Robertson, Irving Robertson, mrs M E Robertson, mrB Susan E Robert son, S C Robertson, mrs Margaret A Robertson 2, miss Margaret Reid, Dr J L Ricker, mis Charlotte Roberts, mrs Elizabeth Roberts, mrs Jane E Rodden 2, lieut James W Rogers 2, mrs J R Rea. miss Nancy Rea, mrs Mary L Rea, mrs Catharine Rnssel, lieut Washington Rew, Thomas Read. S W A Smith, Martha P Smith, Wm A Summerville, J S Saunders, James H Smith, mrs M A Stewart, mrs Sarah S Springs, mrs Caroline Sharp, A P Spratt. Sarah A Sanders, miss Henrietta Stilwell, Dr F Scott, mrs Fannie Steel, miss Harriet Sacber, J F Scott, Wm L Scott, Jas H Shnman, Hezekiah A Sechler, mrs Sarah S Stephens, H L Sloau, J B Stinson, miss Virginia Sutton. T Hascle Turner 2, H n Toy 2, John Taylor 2, Wm Taylor, miss Martha J Taylor, serj't J H Todd 2, miss Maggie Todd, miss Curnov Talley, R A Thompson 2, miss Mary H. Tall, mrs G C Torbett, miss Francis Thomas. W Cspt J Warned 2, J D Warner 2, H J Walker 5, miss L J Wood, mraC A Word. Wm Warwick 2, J S Wil liams, L R Watts 2, miss Moley Weante. mrs Sarah Watson, mrs Susan Wanton, miss Mary VVearn, miss J L Wilson 2, miss Margaret E Wallace, MargnreJ Vil son, mrs Sarah J Whitehurst, mrs Lucind'a Warmice, C Watters, E J Waisner. !8f stern Drmorrnt. CHARLOTTE, N. C. BOMBARDMENT OP CHABLES-1 suffered greatly. But, even this aspect of the caso An Important Truth. The Government and the people are one in interest and one in destiny. If the Government fails, so do he people. The securities of the Government, - whether they are in the form of notes or bonds, are simply the in debtedness of the people created in their struggle for independence. The Government is not a dis tinct organization from tbe people, nor has it sepa rate interests from theirs to subserve and advance. IStlUsLury Watchman. Well and truly said; and the sooner all our peo ple understand this matter the better it will be for all. A southern citizen who cheats or injures the Government, simply cheats and injures him self. If the Confederate Government fails, it is a failure of the people, and their personal interests suffer. If the Government profpers our people will proper likewise. J6g? We learn from the G reensboro Citizen that the Synod of the Presbyterian Church in this State adjourned on Saturday nigtrt, Oct. 29th, af ter a session of three days. The case of the Rev. Mr Graves was not re-investigated as he had ap pealed to the General Assembly of the Church, and not to Synod. The next Synod will meet in Fayetteville in October, 1865. : Skilled Labor in the Workshops There being some misapprehension on . the subject, we take pleasure in calling attention to the fact that the receut General Orders to strengthen our ar mies in the field, do not contemplate the with drawal of skilled or trained mechanical labor from the Government workshops. On the contrary, the policy of the Government is to attract to the Confederacy and to retain this valuable element in a nation's prosperity. While it is necessary that every able-bodied man should be sent to the front, it is equally necessary that skilled labor should be retained ia the service of the Government. We are led to these remarks from a prevailing misapprehension on the subject, and upon inform ation that steps are in progress to withdraw per manently from military service .those now in the trenches. . The zeal and excellent conduct of our mechanics in rushing to the front in the hour of danger is worthy of all praise, but that hour has passed, and it is evident to all thinking men that the best in terests of our cause require their permanent servi ces in the arsenals and workshops of the Confede racy. liichmovd Enquirer. No one can raise objection to detailing skilled mechanics for the workshops such men are as useful at home to the Government as they could possibly be in the field in fact, the cause could not be maintained a month without the aid of me chanics in the workshops. But the difficulty has been that men who never worked a week in all their life before the war at a mechanical trade, and who would have disdained to have been known as a mechanic, have palmed themselves off on the Government as mechanics for the purpose of keep ing out of the war, while the really "skilled me chanic," in many instances, has gone into the field. In that way a fraud has been practised on the Government. It is necessary to detail some men to remain at home, both for the purpose of raising provisions and manufacturing materials of war, but it is well known that the - detail system has been badly and unfairly managed heretofore. THE TON. A correspondent of the Southern Christian Ad vocate in writing about the bombardment kept up by the Yankees on the city of Charleston says: I was summoned to the bedside of an old gen tleman and hi? sister, both in the neighborhood of seventy years when a shell them. of age, who entered the were at their fireside apartment and struck They soon died in irreat asonv. csneciallv the lady, and I buried them. Fit subjects for the malignant fury of a-people who profess a purer Christianity than ours ! - These messengers of death have been passing thick and fast among the inhabitants of the city, tearing up the streets) cutting gas-pipes and plung iog us into darkness; thundering against churches and dwellings and creating a great tumult; but, bow few of the citizens have been harmed in their persons 1 Yet, what hair-breadth escapes have been made! 1 saw, but a few days since, tho interior of a gentleman's residence which a shell had entered cutting the tester and passing through the pavil Iion of his bed, it penetrated tbe opposite wall and lodged in the adjoining room. Both himself and his wife were in the house at the time, and he re mains there still. In another instance a similar missile entered a chamber, and passing between the slabs and bed clothes of a crib in wbic4 an in tent was lying, left the little creature unhurt, bui lost in the convolution of its bedding! Some months ago whilst our intrepid firemen were making every exertion to subdue the fast spreading flames in one of the lower wards, the Yankees opened as usual upon the locality; a shell in its parabolic descent entered an engine which a number of firemen were working and which was surrounded by a large ctmcoursc of others. The mute friend of our homes was blown to atoms, the men were dashed to the ground, and with the ex ception of a negro who had just taken the place of a white man and who lost an arm, resulting after ward in his death, and a very slight wound inflict ed on one or two others, none were injured. Meet ing our worthy Mayor some time subsequently and in conversation with him in reference to this cir cumstance and the general deliverance of our citi zens from ghastly wounds and horrid deaths, he threw up his hand and exclaimed, "It is the work of God! The history of Charleston fur months past has most wonderfully illustrated Divine Prov idence. There never was anything like it!" and this, at that time, was a very general sentiment. It is hoped that it may yet be said to be the case. The Yankees, it ii believed, burst those immense guns. 31y own impression is that they were ex perimenting, first with time fuse shells, which for a week or two, preceded the heavy shelling alluded to, lor the purpose of ascertaining the accuracy with which they could calculate upon cxplodiog them in our midst, but, alas! these, like beautiful rockets, invariably burtst high in the air, making a startling and portentous noise, scattering their harmless fragments and illumining the heavens with a brilliant coruscation. Then, they under took to cover the whole city with their guns. Guns were no doubt manufactured for the express pur pose and mounted in the most scientific manner, but there is reason to believe that after having been strained to their utmost capacity, they cith er burst one after the other, or became otherwise disabled and useless; and, by the grace of God, we are here yet with enough to eat, enjoying undis turbed repose and permitted to wait upon Him in His sanctuary where very' largo crowds of our citi zeus of all denominations meet to worship. This, however, may be but a brief respite. Madame Hu mor says thunder-storms are gathering. -Passing through the lower wards of the city you would be particularly struck with two things: first, the sad desolation.. The elegant mansions and familiar thoroughfares once rejoicing in wealth and refinement and the theatre of busy life the well known and fondly-cherished churches some of them ancient landmarks where largo assemblies were wout to bow at holy altars, and spacious halls that once blazed with light and rung with festal songs are all deserted, sombre and cheerless; and this is enhanced by the foibidding aspect of that vast district of the city which was laid in ashes three years ago, and which remains in unmolested ruins as the 'monument of Charleston's long and dreary pause in the giand march of improvement. Here, you perceive her humiliation. Bnt, move on, and from her lonely wharves and once beauti ful White Point Garden, youwill see her head lifted in proud defiance, as she every day challen ges her vaunting foes to attempt the desecratioo of her sacred soil with their polluting tread! This, is her glory. Strange to relate, families hare all along con tinued to reside sporadically amid the desolation, in the most exposed regions, even as far down as Queen, bear Church street, some of whom have had tbe ground plowed up around them and their dwellings struck several limes. Tbey must have supreme contempt for Yankee .barbarity or implic it faith in a particular providence or else have yiel ded to stern necessity. At all events they have fared about as well as thoso who consider them solves "out of danger." The streets in this part of the city are overgrown with grass and in some Horrible , Affair. Our community were I Pace wun long itunei, waisi nign. icw aays shocked on last Tuesday morning to learn that tbe j 8luce a f"end on a visit from the Army having wife of Col. Joseph Y. Bryson, of Henderson bce told that a rabbit was seen somewhere in tbe county had been brutally murdered, and bia two j vicinity yf Broad street, went down to take a hunt, daughters severely wounded, on Monday night but fearing snakes, he returned before he could The circumstances, as we learn them, were sub- ms game : stantially as follows: at an early hour on Monday Fires. A destructive fire occurred in Mobile on the night of the 30th ult. About 500 bales of cotton were burnt, besides a valuable building and a large number of grain sacks and osnaburgs. The loss is estimated at one million dollars about 8300,000 of which falls on the Government. Several fires have recently occurred at Wilming ton and other towns. We verily believe that the most of these fires are caused by incendiaries sent out from the North or by yankee emissaries residing in the South. It is important that the police of our towns should be more vigilant. A man was arrested last week on the train between Raleigh and Weidon, who was recognized as a persecutor of southern meo and women in Memphis after the yankecs got possession of that city. He edited a Lincoln paper. We suppose he was visiting North Carolina for some devilish purpose. He was delivered over to Gen. Holmes' eare, and we hope he will receive swift punishment. called at Col. Bryson's gate, You would, in the second place, be disappointed in not beholding the - ruins which might be sup- mrs M S Young. C. OVERMAN, P. M. BLAXK DEEDS, Warrants, Ejectments, A:c for sale at this Office. 1 Exchange Notice IVo. 13. Richmond, Ya., Sept. 20, 1864. All officers and men of the Vicksbarg capture of July 4th, I8G3, who reported for duty at any parole camp East of the Mississippi, prior to Sept 10th, 1864, are hereby declared exchanged. RO. OULD, Oct 10th. 6 Agent of Exchange. ntinin pitrht men and asked for him. He happened to be asleep, j posed to have resulted from a bombardment that and his wife and daughters, and a negro man, has cost the enemy about fifty-five guns, the re stepoed out on the porch, when the men at the J mains of which have been seen near their batteries gate fired on them, killing Mrs. Rryson instantly, on Morris bland. It must be admitted that the and infliction painful and dangerous wounds upon j city has suffered. Brick and mortar and broken tKn nn(r lfdies las along the streets attest the severity of tbe or- ho the men were, or 'their motives for such j deal to which it has been and still exposed, but, ; an act, we suppose is ndt certainly known. But tVio fart that Col. Brvson isan active Southern man, will, it is presumed, give a key to the. motive Whilst the shelling hes been of the character Ji&ooinany? Reduce it to figures, and let Ol see for this dark and atrocious deed. Mrs. Bryson ' above stated, another enemy more formidable and tnere are not 25,000 too many. Savatnak was a lady highly esteemed by those who. knew ; more to be areajeu nas oeen mvauing our uonii nA h 2irl fate, as well as the sufferinsr con-' cils. Artny officers, surgeons and unacclimated indicates the goodness of God towards na. Child hood's exit from the worU Is bat its sure transit to Paradise. Parents may mourn the loss of children, but not with the apprehension that their souls are lost. How many adults exposed to tho disease -have been spared, whose 4c part are would not have been like that of blessed infancy. God prolongs the days of tbe former to save them." QUANT'S LOSSES. The entire force which lias been brought to? bear on Richmond daring tbe campaign is stated by a northern writer in the New York World . at 350,000 men namely: 200,000 directly voder Grant, and 00,000 in tho Valley, being the ag gregate of the armies under Siegel, ilunter and Sheridan. With these immense hosts, confronted by more (as he estimates) than 76,000 men under Lee, including as well our forees in the Valley aa the army immediately under his command, the great Confederate commander has been able to keep Grant at bay. "With this littlo force," says the World's correspondent, " Ocn. Lee, for seven months, has baffled and defeated the designs of Gen. Grant with his 200,000 troops on this line and the 20,000 troops operating in thft Val)ey." Two of tbe Valley armies, under Seigel and II ca ter, he says, have been badly "defeated," and tbe third, under Sheridan, completely "baffled" while "in the four months before Richmond and Peters burg," with his 260,000 men, Grant has made "no progress whatever towards the capture of either." Of more than 200,000 meo, not 100,000 rem ain, making a loss of over 170,000, while tbe Valley armies have sustained a loss in the aggregate of 65,000 men, making the entire eost to Grant, of an unsuccessful campaign, over two hnnJrnl and I went if -Jive thousand vim; while Lee, as this cor respondent believes, has sustained no loss that has not been replaced by the young men arriving at military ge and entering bis army. 'Lee's army,' he says, ' is substantially tbe 6anio as in May when the campaign Opened. We have no reason to question the accuracy ia all material respects of these extraordinary state ments. It is yankee authority. They make Grant's campaign against Richmond one of the most stu pendous and diastrous failures recorded in history. THE NEWSPAPERS. In an able article on the indispensable impor tance of the Press to the country and eeeiety, es pecially in our great pending struggle for indepep dence, the Augusta Ga. Register remarks: "Our honest opinion is that no class of our coun trymen, except our soldiers, have done more for our success than newspaper men. This is our candid opinion after maturely considering tbe sub ject, ibcy have given tone to public sentiment,' and aroused the patriotism of the people to every demaud made upon them. Iu the emergencies of our country, many harsh and grievous laws have been passed, many orders and regulations hard to be borne have been adopted. In some cases de signing men, in others well meaning ones, suppos ing they were doing their duty, have dono much to arouse all the feelings of prejudice and opposi tion by. tho people to these supposed usurpations and tyrannies. Just here the press have cotno in and by their daily pleadings, their patriotic ap peals, reconciled apparent differences and allayed all opposition. They have educated the minds of the people to every great and important change in the policy of our Government, and hare, with all their powers sustained tbe cause of our coaa- try Blot out the newspapers of tbe country and you will have no general policy among the people. There will be as many opinions as there are indi viduals and as many leaders as there are communi ties. Rumofs will be rife all over the land and ia the absence of reliable information, as now obtain ed, tbe people will be subjected to imposition and will always be depressed by dangers real or imagi nary. Newspapers form a kind of bond of anion a common medium of the interchahgo of ideas, and next to our organized armies are the most pow erful engines within our country for the attain ment of its independence, by holding up tho duty of the citizens on the one hand, and the rights of the Government on the other; tbe grounds for en couragement on the one hand and the necessity for endurance on the other. .From tbe President to the humblest citizen from the General to tho. private tbe high and the low, tbe rich ani tbe poor, would all feel the need of this common source of information and of comfort. Woe be unto oar country when it is destroyed !" Exemptions under the "Meat Law." One hundred and fourteen thousand exempts from ' active service, each bonded to famish not leu than fifteen hundred pounds of bacon and fifteen hun pounds of fresh beef. Many are under obligation to give two, three or four times that much meat, but we wish to make a calculation, at the mini mum figure 1 14,000 multiplied by 1,500171, 000,000 pounds that for (he bacon; and a similar amount would be the product in frcth beef. Thus the Commissary-General has now subject to bis or der, 342,000,000 pounds of beef and bacon. Now, for a little calculation as to hi wants. Say wc have 400,000 men in the field to feed; al lowing half a pound of bacon to tbe ration, and s pound of fresh beef, which is ample, as our troops will affirm, by issuing bacon two days, and beef one day, and in this way alternate the ration, Col. Northrop has full meat rations for twelve hundred and eighty-two days, or untill the end of 1867. Besides this, the tithe is to be counted, and such surplus as can be bought. If there be any troth in figures, we are so strong in food, that we can de fy the Yankee for all time to eome, if tbe oommU sary department makes itself felt. Why talk of the possibility of arm log negroes, when next April. 114,000 arms bearing meo caa ha sent to Lee and l!enre'ird? Cfconot some OU when peace comes, it will not by any means have make an estimate of the number of men necessary' te rise out ot us anes. for c.a- t doe. not appear that ZJoJDOv diti'ou of her daughters, will excite the liveliest j persons of high character and eminent usefulness emotions ot sympainy. owiii auu icrnoiu tcu- , mucu v - v.jiutt -;n rtrnhfthlv overtake the mnrdercra. towns: but its ravages have ben chiefly amonsr Asheville Keics. children. Up to eeven years these innocents have Republican. A foriegn legion, consisting of nearly two regt meet, mainly Irish Catbojics, sworn into our ser vice by a Catholic priest, has been formed in Richmond &D is nearly ready for tho field.
The Charlotte Democrat (Charlotte, N.C.)
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Nov. 8, 1864, edition 1
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