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CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1864.
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titptvtrfrs OP THE LEGISLATURE OP
MEMBE NOHTH CAROLINA.
SENATE.
Pa-qiiotatik and Perquimons W H Bagley.
Camden and Currituck D McD Lindsey.
i;at.,-a and Chowan-M L Eur.
Hydti and Tyrrell Ldward L Mann.
Northampton J T Odom.
il. itf.jrd James M Wynne.
Jiertie John Pool.
Martin and Washington J R Stubbs.
Halifax Mason L Wiggins.
KJgccomlte and YV ilson J II Powell.
Pitt Dr E J Blount
Ucaufort E J Warren
Cravfu X A Wlutford
Carteret and Jones Dr M F Arcndell
tlreeno and Lenoir J P Speight
X Hanover Eli W Hall
)Plin W U Ward
Onslow Isaac N Saunders
Uladen. Brunswick and Columbus John W Ellis
Cumberland and Harnett W B Wright
Sampson William Kirby
Wayne Benj Aycock
Johnston T D Snead
Wake W D Jones
Nash A J Taylor
Franklin W Harris
Warren Dr T J Pitehford
(Jranville It W Lassiter
p,.rso C S Winstrad
UraiigH John Berry -
Alainanco and Randolph Hon Giles Mebane
Chatham E II Straughu
Moon- and Montgomery Dr J M Crump
Richmond and Robeson Giles Leitch
Ans..n and Union Col W C Smith
Guilford R')t P Dick
Caswell William Long
Rockingham D W Courts
Mecklenburg W M Grier
Cabarrus and Stanly Dr J EMcEachern
Rowan and Davie W B March
Davidson Henderson A Jams
Stokes and Forsyth J E Matthews '
Ashe, Surry. &.c Jonathan Ilorton
Iredell, Wilkes. 5cc A M Bogle
Burke. McDowell, fee S F Patterson
Lincoln, Gaston, and Catawba M L MeCoikle
Rutherford. Polk, &c Dr W J T Miller
Buncombe, Henderson, &c M Pattou
Macon, Ha v wood, &C S C Bryson
IIOL'SE OF COMMONS.
Alamance R Y McAden, C F Faucett
Alexander J M Carson
Ansou A J Dargan, L L Polk
Ashe Mr "McMillan
Beaufort Hon 11 S Oonnell, D M Carter
j;prtiep T Henry, Jas Bond
liladen J W Russ
Brunswick D L Russell, Jr
Burke J J Erwin
Buncombe J M Gudger
Cabarrus P B C Smith
Chatham J H Headen. W J Headen, W P Hadley
Caldwell J M Isbell
Camden W A Dake
Carteret Stephen D Pool
Caswell Montfortl McGehef, S S Harrison
Catawba W P Reinhardt
Cumberland and Harnett Hon J G Shepherd, AD
McLean, Dr John McCormick
Cherokee G W Hays
Chowan LC Benbury
Cloavelaml D Beam, J W Gidney
Columbus Forney George
Craven Win Lane. T H Gaskini
Currituck
Davit R F Johnston
Duplin Zuch Smith. R B Houston
Davidson C F Iwe. Lewis Hanes
Edgecombe David Cbb, L D Farmer
Fni..k!in--W K Davis
r,svth W II Wheeler. W B Stipe
Gaston W T Shipp
tiates Richard Boud
Guilford D F Caldwell. A Clapp. A S Holton
Granville P P Peace, E Grissom, J S Amis
Halifax II Joyner. - A H Davis
Haywood Samuel L Love
Henderson M M Patton
Hertford J B Vann
Hyde Mr Gibbs
Iredell T A Allison. L Q Sharpo
Jackson W A Enloe
Johnston W A Smith. W G Banks
Jones F G Simmons
Lenoir, Allen W Wooten
Lincoln, Ambrose Costner
Macon, J M Lyle
Madison, W 11 Brown.
Martin, S W Oulterbridge
McDowell, W F Craijre
Mecklenburg, John L Brown, E C Grier
Montgomery, Allen Jordan
Moore, Elam J Harrington
Nash. G C Lewis
New Hanover. Saml J Person, J R Hawes
Northampton, S T Stancill, W J Rogers
Orange, S F Phillips, W N Patterson
Onslow, A J Murrill
Pasquotank, W E Mann
lVnjuimons, J II Riddick
Person. John W Cunningham
Pitt. B G Albritton. C Perkins
Randolph. Joel Ashew.u th, E T Blair
Rowan. FEShober. W II Crawford
Richmond, li F Littlo
Robe.son, David l'ethune. T J Morisey
llockingham, Mr Strong, A J Boyd
Rutherford, J L Carsn. A R Bryan
Sampson. L A Powell, Patrick Murphy
Stauly, R Harris
Ptoses,
turrv.
W II Flynt
Mr Waugh
Tyrrell.
Cniou, C Autitiu
Wake, D'G Fowle, G II Alford, C J Rogers
Wayne, M K Crawford. J il Caho
Warren, W T Allston, T J Judkin
Washington. L C Latham
Watauga, Wm Ilorton
Wilkes, A S Calloway, P T Ilorton
Yadkin, A C Cowles
Yancy. D M Young.
SCHEDULE OF PRICES
For Hforlh Carolina.
The period for the publication of the Schedule of
Prices to govern Agents of the Government, for the
next sixty days, having arrived, the Commissioners of
the State of North Carolina adopt the last bcbedule
with the exception of the few changes ehown below,
j The illness of Mr Mordecai, depriving us of bis services,
! we have called in Mr. Wm. H. Jones of this city, who
J has kindly given us the benefit of bis judgment as am
! pire on the present occasion.
1 Apples, dried, good, peeled, per bushel of 28 lbs,
J unpeeled
$5 00
3 50
12 50
12 00
3 00
7 50
10 00
10 00
1 00
50
1 50
3 00
8 75
11 50
Axes, with handles, each "
" without handles, each
Bacon, per pound," hog round
Beans white or eornfield per bushel of GO lbs
Brandy, apple, per gallon
" peach, per gallon
Beef, fresh, nett per pound
" gross, per pound
" salted, per pound
Candles, tallow, per pound
' adamantine, per pound
Chains, trace, per pair
Cloth, woolen, for soldiers' clothes. 1 yd wide, 10
ounces to yard, and pro rata as to greater or less
weight or width, per yard
Cotton, raw, per pound
Coffee, Rio, per pound
Corn, unshelled, pt-r bushel of 70 lbs
Corn Meal, sacks not included, per bushel of 50 lbs
6
1
4
5
5
00
00
50
00
20
80
00
25
Drills, cotton, i yd wIdeT3yas to pouna, per yaru
Flour, extra family, per barrel of IiM lbs
" extra superfine do
" superfine. do
" fine do
Fodder, baled, per 100 pounds
unbaled do
Hats, wool, each
Hay, baled, per 100 pounds
" unbaled do
Hides, dry extra, per pound
dry. per pound
45
41
37 50
33 75
4
00
50
3
5
00
4
00
3
3
2
50
00
50
50
" green, per pound
Horses, artillery, first class per head
artillery, second class per head '
House rent, per room per month
Iron, pig. No. 1, per ton of two thousand lbs
" P'g No 2 do do
" pig, No 3 do do
" bloom do . do
" smith's square or round do
" serviceable Railroad, per ton of 2248 lbs
Jeans, wool, domestic, per yard
Kettleii, camp, iron per pound
Lumber, good, per one thousand feet
Lard per pound
Leather sole per pound
' upper per pound
" harness per pound
Molasses, cane, per gallon
" sorghum per gallon
Mules, first class, per head
I
1,000 00
COO 00
20 00
350 no
314 00
278 00
710 00
1030 00
400 00
10 00
30
50 00
2 75
6 00
7 CO
7 00
5 00
10 00
1,000 00
800 00
500 00
100 00
5 25
4 5d
. 4 00
" second class per head
third class per head
Nails, per keg
Oats, sheaf, baled, por one hundred pounds
" shear", unbaled do
" shelled per bushel
Osnaburgs, cotton, J yd wide 7 oz to yd, per yard
cotton. yd wide 8 oz to yd, per yard
1 50
1 75
8 CO
unions per ousnei . . ,
Oxen, work, first quality per yoke
" second quality, per yoke
Peas, cow. per bushel of 60 pounds
Potatoes, Irish, per bushel of CO pounds
" sweet do do
Peaches, dried peeled, per bushel of 38 pounds
unpeeled do do
Pork, fresh, nett per pound
salted do
" cross . do
1,000 00
coo co
50
00
00
50
00
00
52
40
00
00
fJO
00
Pasturage, first quality near town per head per month 8
" common uo ao o
" first quality in country do 7
common do .do 4
Quinine good per ounce 56 00
liice, new per pound . 50
" old do 40
Rye, good por bushel of 50 pounds 5 00
Sacks, two bushels, osnaburgs, each 3 00
Shirting, cotton, yd wide, 4 yds to lb, per yard 1 30
" cotton, I yd wide, 3$ yds to lb. per yard 1 10
Stripes, cotton, 3 yards to pound, per yard 1 75
Salt, coast, per bushel of 50 pounds 20 00
Liverpool do 35 00
Virginia do- 25 00
Steel, cast per pound 8 00
Shoes, army, per pair 15 00
Shoe thread, flax pt r pound 10 00
Socks, soldiers' wool per pair 2 00
Sheep, fat per head ! 35 00
Sugar, brown, common per pound 3 00
Soap, hard per pound 1 00
" soft, per pound 75
Shucks baled per onejiundred pounds 4 00
Shorts good per bushel of 22 pounds 75
Shipp stuff, good per bushel of 37 pounds 1 40
Tea, black, per pound v 5 00
green per pound 4 8 00
Tent cloth, cotton. 10 oz to the yard, per yard 1 50
Tobacco No 1, extra, per pound 3 00
' No 1 do 2 50
" No 2 do 1 75
" Lugs do 1 25
Tallow, cleau per pound 2 50
Vinegar, cider, per gallon 2 00
" manufactured per gallon 1 00
Whiskey good per gallon 10 00
Wheat good per bushel of 60 pound 7 50
bran, per bushel of 17 pounds , 50
Wheat Straw, baled, per one hundred pouudt; 1 50
" unbaled do do 1 00
Wool, washed perpound 8 00
" unwashed per pound 6 00
Wagons, wood axle 4-horse .new, each 350 00
wood axle 2-horse new, each 250 00
Yarn, cotton, per bunch of 5 pounds 8 00
Hire of Labor, Teams, Wagons and Horses:
Baling long forage, per hundred pounds 75
Shelling JL baggiug corn, sacks turn, by gov't, per bo. 25
Hire of two horse teams, wagon and driver, rations
furnished by owner, per day ' 12 00
Hire of two horse teams, wagon and driver, rations
furnished by government, per day 7 00
Hire of four horse teams, wagon and driver, rations
furnished by owner, per day 20 00
Hire of four horse teams, wagon and driver, rations
furnished by government, per day 10 50
Hire of six horse teams, wagou and driver, rations
furnished by owner, per day 26 00
' Hire of six horse teams, wagon and driver, rations
furnished by government, per day 13 50
; Hire of laborer, rations furnished by owner, per day 4 00
j " rations furnished by gov't, per day 2 50
i " rations furnished by owner, pr mouth 90 00
i rations furnished by gov't, per month 45 00
1 Hire of horse, per day 2 00
' The Commissioners respectfully seggest that if it be
J found practical, the producers should be allowed to re-
tain a fourth part of their surplus, to be sold at mar
j ket rates, to pay for their necessary plantation snp
i plies, which they have to purchase at high market
I prices. They earnestly call upon the farmers to bring
, forward their corn now so ncceseary to the support of
. the army in their immediate front, and which alone
j will prevent the loss to the enemv, of all their crops,
j stock, negroes, Ac, 4c The commissioners would al
: so recommend that the impressment should be univer
sal and uniform, leaving out no one.
tor the miormation of all persons concerned, we
publish the following instructions, with the hope that
they will be strictly obej-ed.
'No officer,, or agent, shall impress the necessary
supplies which any person may have for the consump
tion of himself, his family, employees, slaves, or to car
ry on his ordinary machanical, manufacturing or ag
ricultural employments."
Tbe next meeting of the - Board will be held in the J
Senate Chamber, in tbitfitj pf Raleigh, on Monday,
the 6th day of Feb'y nexn'ortleHs yooner changed. Im
pressing agefcts most furnish good and satisfactory
reasons for disapprovals os appeals, or the award of
local Appraisers will be Iftpprpvei. All communica
tions should be addressed to tba Secretary of the
Board, Raleigh, N. C.
H. K. BURGWYN, Garysburg, N.C.
R. V. BLACKSTOCKtocksville.NC-.
Com.1 lAppnusement for State N. C.
Wm. H. Jones, Umpire. . i -
Raleigh, Dec. 7, 1864. f .m-
CHARLOTTE, N. C.
NOTICE- Our patrons will please remember that
we are doing a cash business. Our rule requires sub
scriptions, advertising and job work to be paid in ad
vance. It i9 better for all to do business on the cash
principle now.
Subscriptions will be received for six or twelve
months, as nyiy be desired.
Money may be sent to us by mail.
Lincoln on Slavery. Those who have im
agined that stopping the war short of independence
will save their negro property, or enable them to
regain what they have lost, will be convinced of
their error on reading the' following extract from
Lincolu's late Message to the yankee Congress :
"In presenting the abandonment of armed re
sistance to the National authority on the part of
the insurgents as the only indispensable condition
to ending the war on the part of the Government,
I retract nothing heretofore said as to slavery. I
repeat the declaration made a,year ago, and that
while I remain in my preseoi position I shall not
attempt to retractor modify the Emancipation Pro
clamation; nor shall I return to slavery any person
who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or
by any of the acts of Congress. If the people
should, by whatever mode or means, make it an
Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another,
and not I, must be their instrument to perform it."
Patriotic Movement. A meetiog of the
farmers of Onslow county, N. C.,t was held on the
Gth inst., and the following resolutions adopted :
1st. Resolved, That we shall sell all agricultural
and other products which we. may have to dispose
of, at Government prices, as arranged in Schedule
by tbe Commissioners of Appraisement, provided,
that a majority of the counties of the State will do
the same.
2d. Resolved, That the chair appoint one dele
gate from each district in the county as delegates
to represent us in convention &$ ,. such time and
place as will meet the approjipn of the other
counties. "jjri J 1
3d. Resolved, That if the.sjshedule referred to,
be not adopted, that we recommend some uniform
and low grade of prices. ;
4th. Resolved, That we invite the co-operation
of the manufacturers and other classes of industry,
in effecting the. object of this meeting by a corres
ponding reductiftn of prices.
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SST" The yankee force whieh started out from
Grant's army towards Weldoo, N . C,, was met at
Belfield, on the Petersburg and Woldon Railroad,
by Gen. Hampton, and defeated. ' An official dis
patch from Gen. Lee says the yaukees had return,
ed within their own lines. They succeeded in
teaiir.g up about six miles of th;railroad track.
It will also be seen by official f report that the
yankee force which advanced tKinston, N. C,
was defeated and pursued by our troops under Lt.
Col. J. B. Starr.
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JF The New York Daily News administers a
caustic rebuke to those Southern refugees who
crowd the hotels in Mew York,; and probably else
where, and make themselves conspicuous by their
ardent word-valor in behalf of th Confederate
cause. The News observes thatthy are, in gen
eral, able-bodied men, and thinks they could give
a better proof of their devotion to Dixie by fight
ing her battles than talking in .New York hotels.
It they have taken refuge in the North from fear,
it thinks they would exhibit better taste to remain
silent.
The censure of the News is "well deserved, and
applies to a class' of people for whom very little re
spect is entertained in either country. During
the panic which prevailed in England at the pros
pect of an invasion by Napoleon, some of the weal
thiest and noblest persons in that country sold out
their possessions and bought property in the Uni- ;
ted States, with a view of making that their refuge.
Such shameful desertion of their native land, in
her hour of need, called forth the iudignant denun
ciations of the British press, and has not been for
gotten to th:s day. We never heard, however,
that any of them sought refuge in France, the ene
my of their country, and compromised with their
conscience by epoutiog John Bullism in French
coffee-rooms.
If it were disgraceful for Englishmen to forsake
their country at a period of merely apprehended
danger a danger which was never realized what
must be thought of those vrho go abroad, either to
the North or Europe, and leave a land struggling,
like this, amid the existing and appalling realities
of the most fearful contest ever waged on this con
tinent? - When a man goes bodily
to the enemy, we call it desertion and punish it as
such. But open desertion is more manly, because
it is more perilous and free from hypocrisy than a
miserable soeaking out ot the contest by the back: j
door under tbe various contemptible pretexts and j
pretences which are so often set up for running j
the blockade. This act baa all tbe meanness of j
desertion without its candor and courage. Rich'
mond Dispatch.
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Insurrection among the Yankee officer at',
Dauvide. On Sunday morning the 11th, the
Yankee officers in the prison at 'Danville, Va., j
n.io n o 1 1 rm Tit to nvprnofcr the miard Thev :
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werefired on, and Colonel Bossier, of New York, '
was instantly killed and others wounaed. ioia
frightened the rest, and the attempt was given up.
The struggle lasted but a few minutes, and all was
soon quiet. .
K. C LEGISLATURE
: 1 ' ; ' Saturday, December 10.
' 8enate. -Mr Warren, of Beaufort, introduced
a bill to allow the Secretary of State a Clerk.
Mr Ward, of Duplin, to impose a tax in kind
(torn per cent, in corn, wheat, rye and porki to be
commuted for bacon at the rates of twenty-four
pounds thereof to every thousand pounds of pork)
for 4 he needy families of soldiers, and for soldiers
widows. - ' ' ."
' The Committee, on Propositions and Grievances
reported adversely on a memorial from . citizens of
Rutherford county in regard to the distillation of
spirituous liquors.
House. Mr Shepherd, of Cumberland, from
tbe Finance Committee, reported a revenue bill and
& bill in relation to tbe State Treasurer. The latter
(which authorizes the Treasurer to sell the C. 8.
bonds received in lieu of the old issue C. S. notes,
directs him to issue no more Treasury notes pay
able in 1866, and orders that the State notes here
after issued be made payable in 1869, and conver
tible into 6 per cent, bonds, redeemable in 1896, and
limits such immediate issue to 3,000,000.)
Mr Shepherd proceeded to state that this bill
contemplated the issual of no new Treasury notes,
but merely a change in the nature of those already
authorized and provided for. Should the present
military system of the State be kept up, and the
other State expenses remain unaltered, the sum of
$10,000,000 would be requited for each of tbe
coming two years. The committee did not think
the people labouring under Confederate, State,
county and often town taxes, could bear this, and it
was therefore proposed to Taise 55.000,000 by
direct taxation, and the deficit in the way pro
posed by the bill.
Under a suspension of the rules the bill passed
its various readings and was ordered to be imme
diately engrossed and sent to the Senate.
Mr Shepherd also reported a Revenue Bill which
passed its first reading, was ordered to be printed,
and on motion of Mr S. made tbe special order for
Tuesday, and every day thereafter, at. the same
hour from day to day until its consideration shall
have been completed.
(This bill, which is quite lengthy, provides for
an ad valorem tax of 1 per cent, on tbe assessed
value of 1863, and seems to be both rigid and well
guarded in all its provisions.)
Monday, Dec. 12.
Senate. Mr Pool from tbe Joint Committee
on Confederate Relations, reported the resolutions
relative to impressments by the Confederate author
ities, and asked that thi Committee be discharged
from the further consideration thereof.
The House bill to establish mileage and per diem
of members, with an amendment increasing the
latter to 50 per day was conenrred'in. " .
The House bill, passed on Saturday, to author
ize the sale of bonds, issual of treasury notes, &e ,
by tbe Treasury, was taken up and, under a sus
pension of the rules, passed its various readings. -
House. Mr Dargan, of Anson, offered the fol
lowing :
Resolved, That all of the Home Guards and
Senior Reserves, assigned to light duty, be and the
same are hereby discharged from further military
service.
Mr Fowle,'of Wake, regrotted to oppose any
thing in favour of tbe classes named, but thought
it not only of no practical importance, but amount
ing to nullification of C. S. military laws, with
which the General Assembly had nothing to do.
Mr Dargan advocated the passage of the resolu
tion and moved it be put upon its several readings.
Mr Fowle moved it be laid on the table. So
ordered by the House.
The consideration of the habeas corpus resolu
tions, being before tbe House, the resolutions were
put to the vote and adopted by yeas G3, nays 20,
the vote being as follows :
Ayes Messrs Allison, Asheworth, Banks, Beam,
Benbury, Best, Blair, Bond of Bertie, Bond of
Gates, Browu of Madison, Bryan, Caldwell, Callo
way, Carson of Rutherford, Carter, Costner, Craigc,
Conies, Dargan, Davis of Halifax, Duke, Enloe,
Erwin, Flynt, Fowle, Gibbs, Gidney, Grissom,
Gudger, Hadley, -Ilanes, Harrington, Harrison,
Ilaesell, J II Headen, W J Headenv Henry, Her
bert, Holton, Ilorton of Watauga, Ilorton of
Wilkes, Isbell, Jordan, Joyner, Lane, Latham,
Lewi?, Little, Lyle, Mann, McCormick, McGehee,
Morisey, Murrill, Patton, Peace, Reinhardt, Rid
dick, Russell, Sbober, Simmons, Smith of John
ston, Waugh 63.
Nays Messrs Austin, Boyd, Brown of Meck
lenburg, Caho, Cobb, Crawford of Rowan, Faiaon,
Farmer, Grier, Harris, Hawcs, Judkins, Love,
Outterbridge, Powell, Shepherd, Smith oPuplin,
Stancil, Strong, Wooten 20.
Mr Shepherd introduced a resolution authorizing
the Public Treasurer to receive partial payment of
taxes due from counties in the enemy s lines.
Resolutions of thanks to certain J unior Reserves
and Home Guards were adopted, as also resolutions
authorizing the payment of bounties to soldiers.
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Death of Col. C. C. Blacknall It is with
deep regret that we announce the death of Col. 0.
C. Blacknall, 23d N. C. Regiment. A letter from
his brother, Dr. G. W. Blacknall, to the Editor,
says
' "It becemes my painful duty to tell you of tbe
death of my brother, C. C. Blacknall, Col. 23d N.
C. Regiment. . He died recently in Winchester,
Ya., from the effects of a wound received in battle
at that place. He fell in the enemy's hands but
was treated with great kindness and consideration.
Nothing was negleeted that could have been done
to promote his eomfort."
Col. Blacknall was not only a gallant officer, but
a noble hearted, high-toned gentleman. He was
a mac of pleasiog address; of fiqe intelligence and
noble impulses widely known and highly es
teemed. He was among tbe very first to answer
the call of his country has braved death at the
cannon's mouth on many a bloody field was three
times a prisoner, and at last, in the fourth year of
the war, fell, nobly doing his duty. Raleigh Pro
gress. Stumps of trees may be destroyed by boring a
hole in the centre of the stump in the fall, ten (
inches deep and filling it with vitriol. It will rot
the stump by spring.
FBACE NEGOTIATIONS.
The resolutions Introduced ia oor Legislature by Mr
John Pool, some weeks ago, proposing to appoint com
missioners on tbe part of the 8tatei to negotiate peace,
It will b remembered ' were" referred ta a-eotnmUtee
consisting of Messrs Pool, Cowles, Caldwell, Ellis acd
J L Brown. This committee could not agree and sub
mitted a majority and minority Report, which reports
we publish below: ,;,
MAJORITY REPORT.
The mnjority of the Joint Select Committee of
the two Houses," to which were referred Senate
Resolutions No. 4 entitled "Resolutions to initiate
negotiations for an honorable . peace," report the
same back to tbe Senate without amendment, and
recommend that they pass.
The majority of tbe Committee believe, that
wbile every effort is being made to increase and
strengthen tbe army by the most severe drain upon
the people, of nerve and means, those extreme re
quirements should be accompanied by some mani
festation of an effort and desire to secure an honor
able peace by all other legitimate measures.
Commissioners heretofore tendered have been
refused by the United States upon the pretext,
that their reception would imply a recognition of
the Confederate Government, as prelimi ory, and
that in case of a failure to agree ' upon a treaty,
such negotiation would nevertheless stand. These
resolutions seek to remove this objection, by ap
pointing Commissioners on the part of the States,
whose civil existence and authority. , have never
been denied ; but at the same time, to make their
tender and all their powers dependent on the action
and adoption of tbe President. It is not proposed
that these Commissioners derive ' any powers from
the States, but only that they be tendered by tbe
President, for a Peace Conference he giving to
them such powers and instructions as he may deem
necessary and proper. John Pool; Cbm.
A. C. Cowles,
D. F. Caldwell.
MINORITY REPORT.
The undersigned, a minority of the Joint Select
Committee, to whom was referred Senate resolu
tions No's. 4 and 12, concerning negotiations for
peace, being unable to concur in opinion with the
majority, beg leave to submit the following report:
The minority of your Committee, cannot accept
as true, the doctrine, which appears to them to be
contained in these resolutions, that one State,
while a member of tbe Confederate Government,
can enter intc any treaty or alliance, with another
State, for the purpose of negotiating treaties with
a foroign power. They recognize the Chief Mag
istrate ot these Confederate States in connection
with the Senate, as the only legitimate and consti
tutional medium, through which peace can be ne
gotiated, ratified and confirmed, and theuinotity
of your committee are unwilling to believe, that
they will delay or omit any opportunity which
may occur for the accomplishment of so uVsirable
an object. -
While the minority are anxious to contribute
aught in their power to the procurement of peace,
they do not feel justified, or called upon to pursue
that course, which might give aid and comfort toJ
our enemies, strengthen their bands and serve to
inspire them with renewed energy. They feel
called upon to declare to our people, that in their
opinion, the only road to pe&ce is to be found in a
firm devotion to our righteous cause, an unwaver
ing support of our government and an absolute de
termination to be free.
The minority of your committee therefore sub
mit the following resolutions, which are respect
fully recommended for your adoption.
J. W.. Ellis,
J. L. Brown, of Mecklenburg,
. Minority of Committee.
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Resolutions Concerning Negotiations or Peace.
Resolved, That the representatives of the people
of North Carolina, in tbe General Assembly now
convened, do not hesitate to declare their earnest
desire for a peace based upon the independence
and entire separation of the Confederate States
Government, from tbe Govern aunt of the United
States, and will accept with ready and cheerful
spirits any propositions which the public authori
ties of tbe United States may make for the fur
therance of such a purpose.
Resolved, That tbe war in wbieh the people of
the Confederate States are now engaged, with the
people of the United States of America, is on the
part of these Confederate States a war of self-defence,
and is both right and righteous, and as such
ought to be maintained with all the power and re
sources of the States, until our enemies shall agree
to be at peace with us.
Resolved, That while the people of North Caro
lina stand firmly by this declaration of principle,
they appeal to tbe Constitutional authorities of the
country in consideration of the sacrifices already
made, the blood-shed and carnage, tbe sufferings
and privations of our brave and faithful soldiers
and our people,' not to omit any fitting opportunity
to negotiate for peace, upon the basis of entire in
dependence, whenever our enemies shall sbow a
willingness to cease from their brutal and unchris
tian warfare.
Resolved, That wo hare the most implicit con
fidence in the ability of our soldiers and people to
maintain, defend and obtain our independence, an
independence that shall bring with it, all the bless
ings of peace, prosperity and civil liberty.
Resolved, That we here declare our unalterable
determination to stand by the flag of our country,
rendered sacred by tbe blood of the brave, who in
battle fell beneath it, defending their birthright to
freedom.
Resolved, That His Excellency, Gov. Vance, be
and he is hereby requested to forward a copy of
these resolutions to President Davit and our Sena
tors and Representatives in Congress.
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Fatal Epidemic amonq Horses. An epi
demic has broken out among tbe horses in this
section which proves fatal in a few Lours
after attacking. The disease seems to attack the
brain. Several persons have lost horses from the
disease, among them Dr Garland, 3; T A Don oho,
1; B M Oliver, 2; John R Bennett, 2, (one of
them a fine Red Eye colt,) Dr William L Stamps,
3 or 4; Richardson Crowder, 1; David 1, Bran
don, 1. All within two weeks. Milton Chroni
cle. . '
THE EXEMPTION DILI. BEFORE CON-
QBES3. "'"
Th general exemption bill, as reported lo'the?
Housa on Saturday tbt 10th, from the Military
Committee, by Mr Miles, is rrry much' the aamo
as heretofore as regards the elasscs, but la very
marked in its restrictions and pacifications.
. . The clause in relation to the press is very mate
rially altered, amounting almost to a revocation.
It exempts "one editor of each newspaper being
published at tha tiro, af the passage of this ace
and such practical printer and. pressmen as said
editor may certify on ostn to be indispensable to
the publication of such newspaper."
The clause exempting tbe owner of "fifteen fiejJ
fiendi", im repealed. .
The bill exempts ministers of religion in actual
charge of congregations, Are nt Um engag
ed in buying and sellivg for profit. Physicians
of "ten years' continuous practice," who hare not
been buying and selling for profit The exemp
tion of teachers is restricted to colleges, theological
seminaries and military academies.
The only new feature in tbe bill is that granting
exemptions to tho officers and indispensable em
ployees of the James River and Kanawha Canal
Company.
The Secretary of War is authorized to grant
exemption and detail to each planters, far mors,
overseers and other persons as he may be satisfied
will be more useful to the country in tbeir several
pursuits than in the military aerviee. -
LINCOLN'S DRAFTS.
All the aigns that usually portend a "coming
draft" begin to exhibit themselves throughout the
United btates. lbese periodical calls for men
baviog been so regular and frequent, and having
always failed to supply tbe amount of troops re
quired by tbe enemy's generals, are now merely
regarded as the spasmodic efforts of Mr Lincoln to
keep his head above the ' waters that threaten to
engulph him. How many weeks it has been eioco
the last call for 300,000 men was made, we can
not say nor can we remember how many calls ho
has made since tbe first of last January. Bat tho
fact that since tbe beginning of this year our ar
mies have recovered all tbe Trans-Mississippi
country, regained control over all Georgia, pene
trated far into Tennessee, and in Virginia hold tho
enemy seeurely at bay in his entrenchments and
all this despite of tho reinforcement oftbrcoor
four drafts should teach our enemy the folly oC
further effort by arms to restore the I'ulon. ' Mr
Liucolu has been recomtaissioncd for the carrying
on the war four years longer, and the Confederate
States have accepted the iuc tendered by the late
Presidential election. . But when tbe next 4th of
March comes it ia uot improbable. that it will fiod
us in possession of all tbe territory possessed by
these States at the tisuo of Mr Lincoln s inaugural.
If Kirby Smith is the general he has been taken
lor. he will recover New Orleans and Louisiana;
and it will be well for President Davis co sco that
energy and expedition, are infused into our Tr&nb
Mississippi army. Now that Steele is reported go
ing to Thomas, and Can by' forces raiding against
the Mobile and Ohio railroad, an opportunity is
offered Gen. Smith for the rcconqucst of all the
lower Mississippi river country. Gen. Hood will
recover Tennessee and Kentucky, and Sherman's
retreat from Atlanta is tho '" confession of a year
lost, and tbe useless sacrifice of many thousand
men.- Grant has done all he could, and littlo it
has been. For the thousands he has butchered,
all that be can show is his artuy at City Point, just
where it might have been transported a year ago,
without tbe loss of a man. . Four years of war!
and what have they accomplished!' A few forU
on tbe coast, New Orleans, ;City Point, Harper's
Ferry,' and a precarious occupation of Knoxvillo
and Chattanooga ?VAoi&nti Enquirer.
HABEAS CORPUS.
IN THE MATTER Of MENuY WILKES.
The petitioner is in tbe custody of Peter Mallott,
Major Commanding Conscripts for North Csralins,
and claims exemption from conscription upon-tbo
ground that he was on tbe 17th of February, 1861,
a minister of the Gospel, in the regular discbtrgo
of his ministerial duties.
Upon the hearing of the case, it appeared -in"
evidence, and I so found tbe facts to be, that in
1851 tbe petitioner was regularly ordained as a
minister of the Gof pel, of the denomination known
a the "Disciples of Christ." - Tbst his ministerial
duty was to preach the Gospel upon all suitablo
occasions, and to observe the ceremonies of the
cburcb. Tbst be continued ki the regular dis
cbarge of bis ministerial duties until the first of
the year 1863, when, on account of certain rumors
prejudicial to his moral character, be voluntarily
abandoned bis ministerial duties until after the
passage of the act of Congress of 17th February,
1864, under which he was conscribed. After '
which he sought an investigation of tbe charges by
his church, which was had some two months ago,
aod be was acquitted cf tbe charges by bis church,
since when be has returned to tbe dischargo of his
ministerial duties. '
Tbe set of Congress, February 17th, 1861, cx-
empts from conscription ministers of tbe Gospel
regularly engaged in ministerial duties IA the time
of tbe passage of the act. It was insisted for the
petitioner tbst, although not actually engaged la
bis ministerial duties, be bsd only suspended them
from a just sense of propriety, and that be rcfumed
tl.em as soon ai tbe cloud tipon his character was
removcu oy nis cnurcu.
If it were proper to enquire Into the tnottvet of
tbe petitioner for suspending bia dnties,lt might
be questioned whether it is not the doty of A min
ister boldly to face tbe slanders of the warld, and
to seek a prompt and fall investigation, rather than .
to submit to reproach upon himself end bis church
for more than a year. .
But however that may be, it appears that the
petitioner had voluntarily, without necessity, aban
doned his ministerial duties for more than twelve
months beforo the passage of the act; I think,
therefore, he is liable to conscription, and is not .
entitled to be discharged. He is therefore re
manded into the custody ef Peter Malleti, tbe eon
script cfSeer.
Tbe Clerk of the Superior Court of Wake county
will file tbe . papers and give copies, and . tax the
cost against tbe petitioner. .
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Raleigh, Dec. 7,1 SCI.
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