North Carolina Newspapers

I GREENSBOROUGH, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1862. VOL. XXIV. NO. 1. V 2 (fu t OTil'W T IIW (Ml ifif I 14 wf Tir (firf - - - &r - ' ' ' ' " U LISIIKU WtLKl.Y, HY W. S. SHERWOOD, i.irR AM' rKOPHUVIoR. 1 MtMb, -J.W A YKAK IN ADVANCE llutrw f , 1 h'J i . i r i and Twelvt ..Miri. lur Ort week, . - - - I I .1 . F AT I. .. r nkr a .quAf- tJ.lCliOO BDJ in .1 Mo.vTN. 0 UTHI. 1 TIA1 f .: .v ' "" 100 Mrr. ;." 10 00 14.00 lo.OO 20.00 otlnn. i u r n ri,u , s:iy tl.r Southern Guar ufi fury "itnriity which they I v:nl li.t in' Ive 'il.liuvo ahown their .. r Ii -: ir.r'! of the lights of private r ry. j. reprinting t their own use ' . v.-r ihhv be u I i 1 to them or auxil . 1 1 tli ' u'tt at rpn-c tlif-y have in view , .; l'!ltl.)Ii lf ll.f So'llb. , I i,c v do not uruplo to tuui lei- .impropriate tvery Bpecies of I ' .,.! ty, their grcal Him in to Be i t j,, t i t'lit miilur ihcir reach. u . t 'ronli ahatid," and pounce . ., !..; with tlio most greedy 1 1,, y want in the first place, to ; r uwn inuiiuturtorii s, and keep i . . . .i : . l ,i' i vr-. ironi starving; inu(iu ui . i. . . .. . . -1 : r , l in:iKU it mi ninn uinciiiuii- i,rv iIm- gmd will and confidence it, .mi nutunm. This 'alter par- j. . , it i. c H.ntr) , will i'Vcii suporscuc ti. tii-t, and the try of Btarving rp.-rativ-s u ill bo drowned in iho more .ip . i urtMit " iu cc unity " to con- . ,u iii lln-( omirifrcial powi-rs vt Kurop", I put hp 'ticy in the I t'deial Ircnsury ! .1 pi- f ut nil the cotton they can tap- It. l,i v.:w ( the chsc, iI'm a wio and -k Mi;iry int-uHurc Unit cnahUM our military luilli' i U.t k iu destroy every hulo oi cotton. -itlirr th:u I Wul it nhrmid l.ill into tl I...i,(U .l i hi- in mv. I. ft nun liavo no hi m. lt t'cit run h prevented, no agency t h m t (mm :ii i him in any diplomacy witli tli i-c riMiiitne w hono intercut demand a iipplv i'I tin ureal utaple. A ti 'l Ik r i)iiMii rut ii'i. uliould have great n.llui M with our phinter1 We have no .; .ul r ilnit, under Heaven, wo will oventu , v win ..iir iiidependenre ; yet, from all .. j ' ;ir!iM e, tin war will bo comparatively 1.14 1. ne, n I reversed may come upon ua T.a.' ii-' pmnts iii the coant of the cotton ire "iir linn I ihtvs hiill ho nccoin I ',. i. W ould it not then ho a most sui- 1. u puliey to plant another crop, which , .-i t.i- nln r given in the torch or iall ;i, 1. audi ol the enemy .' In addition t t . it i. eerily ot an extraordiuary 1 j, 1 I 11 .i l-iulN to feed our armies, the .- i. rat . m jiiHt alluded to should pro , 1 - : i 1 1 u: initial of the great folly of oo 1 1 in. nil r I r t lie hoi I wuli tlio cultivation 1 , p a no li may pi ovo a total Iohs in a feltonly in the necessities for it in Earopo and the Yankee States, where it will not grow, and if tho Soutborn States expect anybcncfltlroniitsinfluer.ee, it most be put out ot reach of all outsiders. This, I believe, cannot be done in any other way but by its destruction in all localities con venient to exportation. For although our people arc patriotic and brave, yet, it ia a lamentable fact, they are Btill more avari cious and sordid, ard if tcmided as they surely will be by foreign gold, many, very many, all along our coast and river, and near tho enemy's linen, will avail themselves of tho waya and means offered, and help their cotton to find it way to meet the noccpitien ot the Government of Europe and tho United State. England and France havo no sympathies for democratic Government, and no doubt would be willing to seo this war continue for a BerifB of year?, or until the result should be something like that of the battle of the Kilkenny cats, if in the mean time they could be auricd they will get the necessary supplies of cotton and tobacco from us. But let tbcmpce in prospect un mistakable signs of the destruction ot those stapled by our Government, they will open their pyca and will thn perceive the ille galty of President Lincolns blockade, arjd feel the necensity of vindicating treaty stipulations and the laws of commerce by raising it and will thereafter take care that the commercial right of their good friends of the Confederate States are not afiin illegally and wantonly abused by the Northern Despot's pretended but inefficient bbekades. W. mint ot view, and inflict upon u if it r r; .11 , i i f id tlm ncverertt blows that it 1. 1 live Let u not havo to repent U t 1 . . ; r 1 and ashes the miery that i P.I.M i l.il policy may bring upon the n n inifi f ion ith thre remarks, and J in harmony with thorn, wo invite i ii ti the following communication 1 t tho ino-t practical minds in the 1'hf wnter is a thrillv and intelli- l.iMur ot this county one whoso u.'! fUil is i.) his country's cause : 11 It N 1 lit. i.rTIM. .: .v i.i fiitly passed by Congress, 1; - '.i f militarv authorities to burn : ' '. tl'.at in.y '..i:n I r ad enough danger of t fall- is not in its reqoire- : v e in ot the enemy 1 a ' .ft. "t. 1 r iail enoucii m Hon en pi 11 red by tbc enemy wry small proportion to the 1 - 'UiM-nted by the newspapers to '1 I liuily n.arke'.N (. f Liverpool and " .v N in k. nnd tho decline in price in m' m unft warrants tho belief that v Xpert a supply without much lur fi uiiin kdty. The question is how do i iy I'd ,t .' " It could not be Pent in such , .fiiiiitich, I. tit by the connivanco of the 1 iviol.tif fiu:ui rmis on our ciast, and v. rv prohahlv they aid in iU transporta- ' fu. It i- feared thai our pucplo near tho i-t utid other places, are selling their cot- :i directly lo the Yankees, aa well as re - ; to other means to send it abroad. A iniever means inav tinve been rcorted in this iiin ii trade, it rdiould now be ; iMinp'lv suppressed by the tlovernment, ami Wi i'. tvin, vith such emphasis and pal ; :il'.r 1I1 'ministrations as will convince lor 1 i i 1 Hint nls that they will get no 1 ;ii'n tioiu tho c o l 1 1 1 1 States until 1: i e mled or at leat until tho v - In i .l troin the blockading squad- i.o.v hoverinir around it. let Con- . ' -s rnpore all tho collon that is iu tho ui i 1 iult'l'oi ts ut tho Confederate and places of shi t)inent on the Mis river, or in 10 utiles of those locali- - i I f vt tilled and immediately burned ' the owners 7 or cents per pound, l".ig them in Confederate Treasury ' r l oiids carrying 0 per cent, inter ''. ai t he option of tho claimants. In 30 i.i) utter, weigh, barn and pay for I'Wf m.nrifr, all the coHon excoplenoogh i r thf .I Muesue uso ot ttie families of the win i s llint an t.e found in 'JO miles of tho Atlantic an t lull t'oa.l, or within the -.i' o' dia'.aiH e 1. 1 tin- M isssiipi river, and . I ' da t Iu r at U-r u ! I ! ('r rl inn of i'i i siil'' i.t, with tho name provision i xi i pt ons, burn nil tho cotton that can 1 ! ' .ii I i: 0 miles ot tho Atlantic and the it From th Raleigh Kegicter. Cieneral Gideon J Pillow. This brave and distinguished officer who daring this war, has passed unscathed through two of the bloodiest and most hotly contested battles ever fought on this conti nent, arrived in this city on Saturday morn ing last, and stopped at tho Yarborough House. In the nftcrnoon ot Saturday, a largo number ol our citizens being exceed ingly anious to see, and hear tho distin guished gentleman speak, assembled in front of tho Court House and appointed a Committeo, consisting of tho Mayor and two or thrco other citizens, to vait upon General I', and request him to addrcps them with which request the gallant officer very obligingly complied. Upon being conduc ted to the Court House, the Court room was in a lew minutes crowded to its ut most capacity by a largo and intelligent audience. (Jen. P. was jntrodocod by May or Hoot, and arose and addressed the hudi enco for about an hour, in ono of the most interesting speeches to which wo have ever listened. Wo should do the speaker injus tice to attempt to report his remarks, as wo took no notes; but we will attempt to give briefly, though incoherently, the substance Of his speech. General Pillow said that from tho first he wascontident that the attempt of the Southern to withdraw troin tho Northern Slates would involve tho country in a des perate struggle. lie did nut from tho first bclievo that secession could he accomplish ed peaceably ; yet, ho bad advocated it and urged it upon tho people of the South as the leBscrof two evils. He believed that it would be better for tho South to withdraw from the North, even though that step might involve '.he two sections is a prolong ed and bloody war. While ho felt confident, however, that the North would resist to the bitter end the attempt of tho Southern States to secede, ho bad no idea ot the gigantic proportions which tho struggle would assume. When Fort Sum ter toll, ho hastened to Montgomery, and offered his services to President Davis, and offered also to bring 10,000 Tennessecans to the aid of the Confederate States if he should desire it. He thought that his cx nerienco as well an his former rank in tho U. S. Army, entitled him to somo consider ation at the hknd of tho President for he outranked every officer in the armies of ei ther Iho Conledorale or United States. Ho was a Major General in the old U. S Army, and when ho tendered his services to the President, bore tho commission of Major General of tho forces of his own Stale, Tennessee. Notwithstanding these facts, when President Ihivisdid tender him upon tho trenches ; and gave a thrilling description of the terrible battle of tho lGth when our gallant soldiers made a desperate attempt to cut their way through the inves ting lines of tho enemy. This part of his speech, though of thrilling interest, was necessarily a repetition to a considerable extent of his Official .Report, which wo have already published. After nine hours of as hard fighting as was ever witnessed on this continent, our forces finally succeeded in op ening a passage through which our army in tended rotrealing on the next morning. All our forces were under arms and prepar ed to retieat lrom the works, when at three o'clock on the morning of tho lGth information was received that the enemy bad been largely reinforced, and had ro oecupied tho ground from which they had been driven the day before. This informa tion instantly changed the aspect of affairs. A r-oiisnltution of the chief officers, consist ing of Getis. Gloyd, Pillow and Buckner, was held lo decide what should be done, (ion. P. proposed that they should again attempt to cut their way out, and that as they forced a passage, they should go on, leaving their dead and wounded on the baltletield. (Jen. Buckner, replied to this proposition that the men were completely exhausted, that they had been without rest or shelter, in iho rain, snow and sleet for five days and nights, and without food, with the exception of raw beef that it would cost the lives of three-fourths of their present numbers to cut their way out, and that no officer had aright to sacri fice three-fourths of an array to save one fourth. Gen. Pillow himsolf did not be lieve that the fiacritico of life would bo so great, but Gen. Floyd, who was chief in command, being the senior officer, concur red with Gen Jiuckner, and consequently this proposition was dropped. Gen. Pil low then proposed that they should endea vor to hold out one day longer, saying that by night tho boats which had gono up the river with the wounded and prisoners would relurn, when tho whole force could bo landed on tho other sido of the river, aud thus escape through tho country. In reply to this Gen. Buckner said (hat the enemy already had possession of tho right wingof his line of defences that ho was confident would be attacked nt daybreak, and that in the then demoralized and ex hausted state of his troops ho could not possibly repulse thorn, and consequently it was physically impossible to hold out anoth- er day. Gen. Floyd concecded with Buck- j ner in this view of the case, nnd Gen. Pil-1 low's opinion being overruled by the opin- j ion of both his senior and junior in com-' niund, no alternative was left but to sur-1 render. Gen. Pillow then'said, 1, for ono, I will not surrender I will die first. Gen. Floyd said tho same thing. Gon. Bucknr. toui mem mat iney were placing mo mat- 1 pnHte willb'e if wo should be Bubjucrated. saying that the Yankee Govtrnment will tax this State $40,000,000 a yer, and they will re duce our State to the condition of a territo ry, and will appoint our Governor, legisla tors, Judges and other officers now elected by the people, and will perform other acts revolting to the feelings of every Southern er. Ho urged our people, if they would escape this condition of affairs, to come np manfully to tho work. He amused, the audience very much by saying that if we bad an "Andy Johnson" among us old Lincoln would make him our Gover nor. Gen. P. was frequently applauded during his interesting address, and was given threo cheers at the conclusion of his sjioech. He left this city on'Sunday morning for Richmond. Dow the Enemy Treat their Pris oners. Tho conduct of the Nottliern population toward thoe of our soldiers w ho are so un lortunato as to become prisoners of war, is oxtrcmely discreditable to tho citizens who practice, and tho authorities that allow it. The prisoners from Fort Donelsoo were carried to Chicago, and iho Tribune of that city admits that they were insulted and abused on their route between St. Louis and Chicago, at a station where they met a de tainment ot Eastern Cavalry, a number of whom assailed tho train with brickbats and stones, breaking the car windows and iu juring thoir inmates. They also chased the cars for some distance after they had star ted, seemingly determined to wreak their vengeance upon the helpless prisoners. Wo have heretofore published tho treat ment received by Generals luckner aud Tilgham in the city of Buffalo, N. Y., as related by the Courier of that city. We reproduce a few sentences : u Buckner steps first upon the platform a tall, muscular, proud looking man, dressed in a gray military coat, and wear ing a genuine Southerner's slouched felt hat. Tf e crowd see him now for tho first time, and t he building rings with cheers for tho Union, und groans and hisses for all reads, liuciuier turns and give them one look, like that of a snared tiger upon his captors, in which more rage and scorn were concentrated than we thought the human countenance capable of, and passes into the car. Right after him comes Tilgham, jaunt ily dressed in a fatigue suit and a foraging cap, a smaller man luan tfuckner; fair, with a blonde moustache, suavity and politeness written in every line of his face. A shout comes from the crowd, "Three groans for the rebel Tilghm-mV He turns and lifts his cap and bows and nrailes, as though appear ing on a naiconv to answer anattennir spr- ter upon personal trrounds that they had at w no right to do 60, and that if be was placed in command he would surrender. Gen. Floyd replied that he did act from personal motives, and that if Gen. Buckner would assume the command he would trannfer it to him, provided ho would allow him to withdraw his brigade, Gen. Buckner con sented, provided ho would withdraw his Brigado beforo tho surrender was made. The South has taken prisoners as many as the North ha9. They were of soldiers who had come as invaders of our homes,, and murderers of our brethren on our own soil. But no Southern crowd, outraged as we all feel, has been found guilty of such dastard brutality as is described in tho above. We trust such a scene will never bo witnessed here. Jt is an offence that it wou'd be an intainy even to retaliate. It Gen. Floyd then turned loGen. Pillow and ! has been customary at the North to sneer said : "Gen. Pillow I turn over tho com-1 at .'Southern chivalry." We have hero an rnacd to you. den. 1 . replied, "1 will not I (.vami,lnrlf.,M! Pnrinr in dailv crowds accept it." Gen. Floyd then transferred j 0f impertinent visitors to badger captives tne commanu to uen. uucitncr, wnen urns, t w,ln insult; their soldiers stoning ti. iw-ii . t r 'ii 7 r ioyu ano niiow. tne iormer accompanieo by his Brtirade, mostly Virginians, left and crossed the river, thereby effecting their escape Gen. Pillow, to show that he was determ ined never to surrender to tho Yankees, incidentally referred to the battle of Bel mont wherj he was Chief in command. At one time during the progress of this bat their soldiers stoning them through the car-windows ! captive generals, whether Buckner, or the debonair lil ghman, successively hissed and booted, by a mob ! What a dep, dark, eternal dis grace to anj- people claiming to be within the pale of civilization! a disgrace to the people individually, and through the gov ernment which allows it, adisgraco to them collectively and as a nation, bucn is We again express the I ... vtAn If a a vVftf I Lui)r k t k a ! tie, vt i iv ii "ui in vii ne ivi vvu uou rv inu OrilCTTl Oil I Vh I ry overwhelming oaas against tnetn, irenerat earnost hope that our people will, under no P. was hemmed in on thrro hides, by tho ' docrrpo nf nrovnrH.i ion imitut a ihia conduct. r .u "-I" . e r " " : it and the Mississippi river. Should " e i' t m t arried wulun any of ihe l . " aiities after the times of their ' i ' . r.ji'tiing, it Khouia bo burnt A 11 it i inprnsiuion to tho owners. It 1 s wul direct a courso of policy I., like the foregoing, 1 havo but I ' il'iM till Mother I-'.n I'luml and I m. i ' i n. I lame wtil very soon feel their a a . o sl s tupathies at ouscd tor tho suffer- i tu:liinsol their old li'ieud iu America, i . " ngHif'-d in tlu unnatural wtr, and ufnii it their imperative duly to inter i is.- tlinr go d oIIkcs to adjust the quar- an 1 lo .settle tho dispute between the tAi n a lions upon principled of jusiico nnd cjuitv, nnd nalislaAUory U thtf beligur- Q its "Cotton is King" and its sovereignty is a commission, he placed him at tho tail end of the Bridgadicrs. If it had bcn Jef ferson Davis whom ho wanted lo serve, he would havo hurled the commission back in his face. But he was not nerving Jefferson Davis, but was serving his country, and fell willing, therefore, to tervc lhat country in any capacity lo which ho might be assigned. General P. ihen went on to refer to the battle of Fort Donelson. He paid that leaving Columbus about tho first of Janu ary, ho returned to hi$ homo quite sick. When ho had yet hard1)' recovered from his illness, ho was ordered by (ten. Sidney Johnson to report to him at Bowling Green, to which place ho lOrtiiwiih repaired. When arrived there, Gen. Johnson told him that ho desired him (Lien. P.) to go to tort Donclson and take command ui tho lorccs there assembled. (Jen. P. demurred at taking command of this Foit, for he said Gen. Johnson mut have known that the Fort could not bo hld ; and besides, he bad no command thero his command was at Columbus, where, he slated lo Gen. J., he would prefer going. Gon. Johnson re plied that Fori Donelsoo must be held lhat he had selected General Pillow lo hold it, and that be must do so. Gen. 1. then urged no further objection, but proceeded to obey iho orders ofhis superior officer. Arriving at Fort Douelson on the 11th of February, bo found that butlittlo progress had becu made in strengthening th. lorlifi cation, and that tho soldiers were greatly demoralized aud disheartened because ot the roceut reverse they had sustained at Fort Henry. He found that ihe defences of tho Fort against the enemy's gunboats consisted of eleven small guns, one rifled oZ pounder, and one 8 inch columbiad, the latter not beiug mounted. Ho proceeded torthwith to mi unt this gun, anci put tho men to wcrk with all their might night and day Blrmiglbening iho works. On the morning ot the llkti of February the altuck commenced. Hero Gen. P. graphically described iho tierco alt&vk of the enemy's gunboata and their signal repule; tbesuc- oesafal repulse of lb enemy id his charge Yankee lorccs, and the fourth side was blocked up by almost impenetrable trees, which had beon felled by our troops lo im pede tho progress of the Yankees, (ten. P. was the only officer who was mounted, his statfand all other officers beine dis mounted by tho enemy's fire. If he had ever thought of surrendering he must havo done so here; but he had no idea of doing so heie, or elsewhere. He was mounted on a beautiful marc, which he called "Fannie Belmont," and saying to her, "Fannie, you must take mo out cf this difficulty," ho turned her head to the open space, when she darted through the tops of the talicn trees like lightning, splitting through those which she could not leap over. The Yankoos seeing their prey escaping from Toe mcanncKs of tho infamy protects it lrom retaliation. Officers and inn of the Confederate army ye see tho treatment, you are to expect, if taken captive in this war! It will notin timidato you, but it will arouse you! Are. you willing thus ' lo make a Northern holiday t" To he an object for the hisses and jeers and Jnsnlts and indignities of the brutal mobs, through which Lincoln's offi cers conduct you unprotected? Nay, to bo assailed by stones and brick-bats hustled by creatures wiio wear uniforms and are called soldiers To be thus treated by those whom you have never harmed, and who are doing their utmost to harm you, and whom therefore you havo every reason to rejrard as men regard tho most diabolical theirclutchos, sent a shower of rninuie balls j encm v i,- not vou mast fight as heroes only light, and yield only when heroes may fight nolenger. Richmond Enquirer. whistling by his ears, but "Fannio" took him out safely. In the taco of tho facts above detailed the President had thought proper to sus- pend him from command, aud ho was now j on bis way to Richmond in obedience to the j order ot his Seccetary of Wai. Though tho President was a man of strong convic tions and somewhat mulish, he did not be-1 lieve that he would do any ono intentional wrong. Ho believed lhat iho President was a sincere man, and a true patriot, and bo was willing to abide any decision that might be the result of the investigation of his conduct. In conclusion Gen. Pillow stated that Gen. Albert Sidney Johnson was now has tening to tho West to form a junction of bis forces with those under Geu. Beaure gard that tho enemy had already landed some 00,000 or 70.000 troops on the East Bank of the Tennessee River, and that in iwo weeks a great battle would be fought on the borders of the State of Mississippi, which would have much influence in deciding the fule of onr Confederacy, lie was now has tening to Richmond with dispatches from Gen. Johnston. If wo were whipped in this battle, iho enemy would take posses-1 sion of all tho lines ot railroad leading into the Cotion Stales, and Texas, Arkansas and Missouri would be sucjugated. But if wehould gain the victory tho enemy will be driven, dispirited and routed, out of the Mississippi Valley, and the success of our cause will bo insured. Gen. P. urged our people as one man to put forth their whole strength in this great struggle, and to cease speculating and trying lo make mon ey, when no mau knows how long ho will b allowed lo retain what ho already has. Ho gave a vivid picture ol what our fate From the Wilmington Journal. Things about Xewbcrn-Facti and Incidents. Evidently the Lincoln government is ungrateful. After tho Reverend Marble Nash Taylor has traitorizod enough to sin hisHtupid little soul away beyond redemp tion or tho hope of redemption, the author iiits at Wabhiif'ton have most shamefully be is a Pariah. Believe us there is hardly a people on earth lhat can help despising such persons, however, they may sympa thise with their treason. The man who, living in a community, woutd betray those among whom he lived or bad lived, would sink himself beneath the level ol Hindoo Sepoys, for however cruet they were pic tured by the English press, it is certain that treachery to each other in the hour of danger and death could not be added to the Uet of their offences. At one time during the late our break in India the British author ities in the neighborhood ol Peshewar or Mooltan, brought forty natives to be blown from the mouths of cannon. They were thus horribly pm, te death in squads often at a time, the others looking on till their turn came, and yet not one turned traitor, although a free pardon w as offredo con dition of making certain disclosures. One man faltered, half turned, then braced him self firmly and placed his back against the muzzle of the gun whose fire was to scatter nis remains to the four winds of heaven, in undistinguiabable fragments. Among the former citizens of this State, who came out with the Burnside expedi tion to Nowbern, was Mr. Calvin Dibble, pretty well known here and elsewhere throughout the State especially in the Ncuse and Tar River sections. A brother of Cal vin Dibble's Frank Dibble, lato of Newbcrn, had some months ago got a pass to go North under flag of truce. He was to run tbo blockade, and bring certain articles much needed, especially leather, for a shoe factory in which be was interested with Mr. Washington. Ho had not returned until very recently, and Mr. Washing ton's 6haro in the venture is in a bad way, as Mr. Dibble is said to have como in the wake of the invaders, and of course the share ofhis "rebel" partner in businees js confiscated. But Mr. Dibble was too ven turesome by halfj and was the other night captured by some of our pic kets, while pi loting a squad of Lincoln's soldiers through tho country, in tho vicinity of Newbern. So strong is tho feeling against Dibble, both among ihe troops and citizens, that it required all tho efforts of those in authority to prevent summary vengeance being taken on him, on his arrtval at Kinston. It was deemed unsafe, in the present excited state of feeling, to s?nd him to Salisbury. Anoth cr brother, Harlow Dibble, a resident of Kinston, has also been arrested, on what precise grounds of suspicion, wo are not in formed. On the person of Frank Dibble, were found papers which led to the arrest ot a Captain Day and another captain, both commanding boats, or who had commanded boats belonging to tho Dibble family. r urn side has aoout six hundred negroes hard at work finishing and perfecting the defensivo works that, the Confederates had commenced below Newbern, but which, aitcr lung iuonins oi n-armni?. were unfin isbcd and imperfect : As for the killed and wounded Federals, ii is certain lhat all the Federal soldiers agree in tne story of their loss being very heavy, and tho concurrent opinion places it at two thousand to threo thousand, but mo?t at twenty-five hundred. The Acade my Green in which the slain were buried, but for the newness of the ir.ounds, might pass for the cemetry in which generations of a populous town had found their last resting place. From tho number of build ings occupied as hospitals for tho wounded tho number ol casualties must nave been very large. It would seem that they havo hauled up some one or two of their gun boats on the marine railway thero and are repairing them. They have the railroad machine shop in full blast, but what they aie doing in them is not known. We can not learn that they have mado any move ments towards Beaufort, or oven thrown out pickets to any distance in that direc tion. A report that Federal troops had been soon at Trenton and at Pollocksville, in Jones county, appears to be without foun ... ., . . a r t dation. 1 renion is tno couniy seat oi juueo county, on tbo Trent river, aboui twenty five miles south of Newbern, and Pollocks- villn is also on tho Trent liver, about half way between Newbern and Trenton. Of the many striking incidents and hair breadth escapes connected with the affair at Newbern. as with almost all combats, is one which might bo called "a close shave Captain Latham, the gallant commander of the field battery which went by his name wnt shot throuph various portions of his &v D I clothes once through his hat, moro than once through his coat and pants, and once through his ichiskcrs, which it appears were long, full and nowing. Happening to turn bis head at some peculiar angle, a minnio ball went whiz ! through his beard close to his chin, cutting out the centre and loaving two forks. By the way, tho battery which Capt. Latham commanded must oi itseii ! have swept off infinitely more men than I some accounts represent, i It is difficult to tell whether Burnside is about advancing from Newbern or not. Thero are so many rumours afloat, that he should havo said ho would do this, that, and tho other thing, that there is no know ing what to believe. As a general th:ng, wo doubt to tho authenticity of any report commander as PrH4v mt ui jfrrtn. MtMtayt from Prttiitmt JJatu m Sccrtt &im The Examiner ol the 20th says: We learn that yesterday a message from the President was sent into Con grew, in se cret session, recommending that all our prisoners who bad been put on parolo by the Yankee Government be released from the obligation ol their parole, so aa to beat arms in our struggle for independence. The recommendaiion was urged as a re taliation for the infamousand reck lee breach of good faith on the part of the Northern Government with regard to the exchange of prisoners, and was accompanied by the exposure oi mis portidy in a lengthy corres pondence conducted by the War Depart ment. We have been enabled to extract the points of this iuteresline corrcanon. dence. It appears from the correspondence that. at the lime permission was asked by the Northern Government for Messrs. Fish and Ames to visit their prisoners within th jurisdiction of the South, our government. .luimuciiHiijj mi permission, sougut to improve tbo opportunity by concerting a settled plan for the exchange of prisoners. For the execution of this purpose Meears. Conrad and Seddon were deputed by our government as commissioners to meet those ol the Northern Government under a flag of truce at Norfolk. Subsequently a letter from Gen. Wool was addressed to Gon. Hnger, informing him that he, Gen. Wool, haduZ authority to settle any terms for the exchange of prisoners, and asking an interview on the -. i. ; r. , 1 it ii v-i i . . ouujcui.. urn. nuweu 1odo was then ap- poimcu ny me government to mediate w ith Gen. Weoi, and to settle a permanent plan ior the exchange ot prisoners during the war. The adjustment was considered to have been satisfactorily made. It was agreed that the prisoners of war in me hands ot each government should be exchanged, man for man, the officers being assimilated as to rank, 4c; thai our priva- tcersmen should be exchanged on tbo foot ing of prisoners of war; that any surplus remaining on either side, alter these ex changes, should bo released, and that hero after, during the whole continuance of the war, priboners taken on either side should be paroled. In carrying out this agreement, our gov ment has released some three hundred pris oners above those exchanged by the North, the balance in tho competing numbers of prisoners in the hands of the two govern ments leing so much in our favor. At the time, however, of sending North the hosta ges we had retained for our privateersmen, General Cobb bad reason to suspect the good faith of the Northern Government, and telegraphed in lime to intercept the release of a portion of these hostages (among them Colonel Corcoran,) who were en route nuu. i ya Richmond to go North under ag fiof truce at Norfolk. A number of these hostages, however, had already been discharged. It now appears that, 'n contravention ot the solemn agreement ot the Northern trov ernment, not one of our privateersmen have been released, and the Fort Donelson priso ners, instead ot being paroled, have beon taken into the interior, where they are still confined. As a indrrment unon this ODen and shame less perfidy of the North, it is proposed lhat our prisoners, who have been paroled by the Yankees, shall be released lrom men obligations. There is as littlo doubt of the honor of such a proposition as there is oi its justness and mecmess as a retaliatory measure for an act of flagrant pernay. in A Itrsmfe trpsUU. k w-tiCwihrorPri itatement the Richmond EiWfn. .- d. 1 Davis hmmioZZrZ poemgU) release ail our w wbSSve captured by the enemy nd sSd2r pwole, from the obligations on. in consequence of the perfidy ofankse government in failing u, car y bKfi?5 rrangement in regard to the exchange 'of prisoners, made between the two irovern- A Wool. Wo traat tht ru. ui- -T:" Yv"roB W1" not dent. It would h tn rrua4V MVV auction thisreoommendaUon of the PreaL . wuuiu om lo nuut ..... i the perpetratioo of a lax jreaWr, wbicu ha. but a remote connection with it. If the E""" 10 "chM t bold I? .k .at Pnw)ner pte from them. If they hang our privaUersmen, or, any tother prisoners, we must hang theirsl Cor coran or others: But because therrefuse to exchange, let us not attempt to set aside he oath which our brave men have volun tarily taken, not to bear arms against the enemy till regularly exchanged. If tbey do so, and are again captored. they are un doubtodly liable to suffer death from the enemy, a penalty mhich no one can doubt that in their present infuriated temper they would inflict. And then would follow on both sides an indiscriminate slaughter of all prisoners. The prsposition of tho President amazes us, and with all our disposition to so stain him and his administration, we cannot for moment entertain it with favorFay. A Twenty ronr Shelter. Dr. J. G. Patterson of this place, has laid upon our table, a Pistol which be has inven-' ted, that we regard the ne plus ultra of re volvers. It is a Twenty Four Shooter con structed upon so neat a seals, that we can carry it in our vest pocket with little incon venience, it has t we tiers of tubes with twelve tubes in each tier, and so arranged that all the chambers can be fired without halting, except to depress tho barrel, which is done in an ai instant, preparatory to the discbarge of the second circle of chambors. Ihe Dr. has determined to put up a Rifle upon the same plan, which in the hands of our army in the absenee of cannon, could never be conquered ! Each soldier mi?ht carry 2 or 3 loaded cylinders extra, in his pocxei and when one round of 24 shots was hred, he could attach another cylinder in a MAH..A - I a! I - mi ... moment, anu continue nis nring. we hum bly trust that our military authorities will supply our array with these wcanona Thei nventor has made application to the Confederate Government lor a patent. Marion (N. C.) Enterprise. rnlin or Yankee Profession and Yankee Practice. The Yankees, of course, when they enter onrcountry make the loudest professions of kindnessnd liberality to tho inhabitants. It is ono of the means by which they hope to lull us while they rivet the chains upon our limbs. What they will do, wbon they shall have succeeded in completely subdu ing us, let the world judge from the follow ing well authenticated occurrence. When the Yankees entered North Carox Una. their General issued a proclamation promising secutity and protection to all tho inhabitants and their property. When they ontered Pasqnotank county, they went to tho houses of that distinguished patriot, Col. Jas. C. Johnston, rifled it, plun dered his cellar of a large stock of wines, brandies, and other liquors, and actually stole and carried off the potrait of his father, Governor Johnston, of Revolutionary memory! Men of the South ! such is ihe ireatment you may all oxpect'at the hands of these ma rauding scoundrels. Plundered youmust and will be, if you fall in their power. Let no man hope for any better fate. You have no hope but in resistance resistance to the lt. resistance to the death and in that The lext Oorcraor. In August next tho people of North Ca- be on hand, if any, in relation to it. Nor do we know who will be breught forward for the office. We havo oar uhoioe, and unless a better man can be produced, we shall urge his claims. We are for General Daniel H. Hill, the bcro of Bethel, and every inch a man. Intellectually he is qualified for any position, and bis record since this war began, shows him to-be a fearlees, talented, energetic man. As a military man, he has no superior, and we need a military man at the head of affairs in this State, as the experience of the past tew months fully shows. In our judgment, - t- r - ii .t . I J is? wen. nut is tne maaiorine crisis, anu u elected, we predict that North Carolina will soon feel the effects of his dauntless energy and sleepless vigilanoe. Under his administration incompetents would soon bo made to "walk the plank, and new lite and energy be infused into every depart ment. As to the dead issues of the past, we do not know to what party Geo. Hill belong ednor do we care. It is enough to know that he possesses the requisite qualifications to give to the State govern meni somointng of the old Jackson lire, firmness and energy. We are for Gen. Hill for Governor. t i 3 it 1 T Confederate Money. The war has swollen far beyond the pro. portions contemplated in tho beginning-, and the necessary result has been a larger issue of Confederate money than was at first supposed probable. All were agreed at the outset that Confederate money was better than any of tho ovidences of debt afloat in the community, and this fact has not Hn changed by the prodigious growth ? i of the war. Ir Confede rate paper is not good, there is no good money in the South ern States. Confederate money ishwud for- the protection of all other property. TSo j l whole operations oi war are carneu j . . . r i . . its means: ana me oojwv oi mc is to there is every hope. .Let us all join our ct onrgiaTes from emanciapation, our nrcugiii, nu n nu,. uvw.uv ' labour sytem irom aesiracuuu, uu What motive can man have, that you have j e-ute confiiCation, and our personalty not: you ngni ioryour wives yojr cm . mmimrm -nd aDnrooriaUon by the ene- il dren, your altars, your firesides, and all your earthly possessions. Who ever bad more to fight for? Richmond Dispatch. that renresents as skillful a Burnside certainly is, as bragging to all I t , Vrvn r est lr At neglected mat. great man, and most unjust- j orts oi peopio wnai u lyfgnored his immense claims as Governor ! any rate our pickets car , stdl go close o ekcgt of the State of Hatleras by tho tumul-j Newbern, as Mr. I rank Dibble is fully tuous acclamation of forty-threo white men aware of to bis own sorrow. and a half, ihe half being a gentlemen sup-, posed to bo not more than half white, but t r ii&st,ay raemb:r of the British Par- i fully two-thirds drunk, as indced.wero the liament in tt iate speech at Tolford, declar-; majority ot the Reverend gentleman a Intel- ; , .of the eleven Confederate States were i ligent constituency upon that "nPortanl determiried to bo free, no power on earth and momentous occasion. I could reduce them again to subjection, no An officer pretty generally known along j fa jriled people, no people of tho Anglo iue toasi. oumi caio ..vr ..n, Saxon race, had ever oeen ueiu uuwu m oi- of the United Status army, and more recent-1 however small might be the area of ly mentioned in connection with iho evacu-1 thefr'countrv or however great the milita ation of Fort Moultrie and the rccupation j thnt'ovrshndowed it." .' of Fort Sumter by Major Anderson, is now j - addressed a "Governor" by tho Lincoln; troops at Newbern. We do not know what s Mkrrimac No. 1. There is now building Mr. Foster's picscnt military rank may be, an(j nettriy ready, a' one of our Gulf ports, but he is said now to be, for tho present ot an ;ron pitted hip of about 250 feet in leaut, military Governor of North Carolina I ienglh and 50 feet beam, which will be sup bv the trace of Abraham Lincoln and tho .je,j wjtb a number ot engines and boilers ; w ........ . r, m. . r i ' consent ol imam ii. reward. J-u-w colnites have not treated their miserable tools in this Stato as well as the tools afore said expected. C. H. Foster is 6Cout?d by tho great majority of the Northern people about as badly as by the Southern peopie , He is always spoken of aa tho man Foster my. uy means oi wuii aro defending all the rest of our property, and our system of labour which gives ualue to all property. Richmond Examiner. Capt. Jobn Morgan Again- frr.m Naah. A raiinuuujuin'v......- . , -;iu tk Momnhia Avalanche of the! PnairioN or EwaLASD. Mr. IJeotioetc, V lllVi OlJ a mw - - , - . 14th. states thatCapt. Morgan was sent out 1 n influential member of Parliament sag on a scout with a detachment oi pis qM und, when she gets ready, it is supposed pho will be quite equal to Mcrrimac No. 1. Charleston Courier. 60 78-tf Barrels Merrlnar. J v JAM B t CommiMtxv N- C. Amy. dron near Laverno, and had a skirmish with the enemy's pickets killing sevon then, and taking about as many prisoners. Capt. Morgan was ontering the turnpike frnm n Inn, and was alone, when he sud denly came in contact with a cavalier, who said to Morgan, "Hah, and dismount!" The reply was "I am Capt. John Morgau, and do not obey Federal commands; draw your pistol, sir; wo are upon an equality." The Federal replied: "We are not, fir" at tho same time making a quick motion with his band to his side when tne vaiianw vopw.i. fired, and "down went a Federal meeting house r He fell dead and turned out to be the veritable Capt. Wilson, of Gen. Uu cll's staff, who planted the Federal flag on the capitol at Nashville ! Morgan is cer tainly the intrepid Marion of the war. Pbisosers. Forty-one Yankee prison ers, captured by the gallant and dashing Capt- John H. Morgan, passed through here last evening en route to Salisbury, N. C. Hurrah for Morgan ! Atlanta Onftd. Amht that n tha blockade was D . ' ,. , . i: m f.Rl not efficient- Jfcngiiso neutrality mount to intervention in favor of the North. There is no douot oi ib. a South is cut off from Europe, and the Yen- I keee have free access, aad sre privileged to T i. .a i...ianf mr ther desire , i ouy aii ww iuipii" "-- .-- ,i,v or are able, ine enec Vnlik nentrilitv equivalent o in ni f.nrd John Boas not to sec it in this light ; ana win nuv it, until we shall bo able to do without assistance. Richmond Whig. hostility. r inKn Ruaaall affects. boever AJvt " ... . Ir lv . . i t a Jk .taM i'i To Wrx vwioTA. 1 his ceieoravvu frigate, that was so badlv peppered by tb tr:?L SnnH.i- th 6tb. we understand ha. been -tripped of all kj'"0 a i i- i i K Horse Sboe, wherei ?he hs, sTnce sank.' This make, three oto m" t "fundable of the Yankee frigate! that have been dea.oli.hed by the Virg.nisj n a few boora, besides the small fry that .K. .m. for." by way of a diversion.- Norfolk Day Book, 18tA twf. 1. i