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jgjgsjsjsjMMsMs ft m - . ju n $ My Ay Ay Ay V y A 8 Ay Ay li 1-1 GREENSBOEOUGH, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1862. xxiv. NO. 1,193. lit Ayy'y Ay a T.I.IMIKI wkt.kly. r.Y M. S. SHERWOOD, 'I'KKMti, .00 A YKAK IN ADVANCE. I in.- in Half or AdrerlMlnr. . r.. iKa firtt weidc . '-.r-. 1'eJuciieu wad. in .;, 1 t.(f r:i''fT J'jUow : 3 M.STHi. ' 1 " i f ..ro fs.oo l.VOO 2D. 00 uinorC mi retrv t War npon lu- VfKtU!loni lorlbe Enhance l lrl-.nr Was Ph ahtmfv r, March 17th, 180:.' - In tr report made to you at tbj rrrnfflt eeSHlOD, WIC contained : havo re- . i" .,. 1 oTi l.rintre ol in iiJir" " '!! j ar- m t yet entirely con.- "... It - anV I t j avoid turthcr Jtrmy nil be prt'asnieu at prisoners of war. It is however, bo ex tremely unsafe to rely on newspaper state ments, 'that it will be well for you to request . ftiril assurance of ibis fact from Messrs. Ames and Fish,' in order that the prisoners held by as as hostages bo at once relievod from tbeir exceptional condition and comprehended in the general ex change." D. Form a letter sent to Gen. linger, to be by him addressed to Gen. Wool, and which was datod at Norfolk on tho 9th February, and forwarded to its address. K. The answer ofGen. Wool to Gen. Huger, dated at Fort Monroo on the 13th February, stating that ho alone "was clothed with full powers for the exchange of prioners;"that ho was "prepared to . r r. n im fnt f rtatoration ui all the priso- p : nam to then homes on fair terms Ot OX the safety and proper treatment of the pri vateers were discharged from close confine ment and ordered to be sent home. Colon els Leo,CoTswcll and Wood, and Major .Reverse were sent to their own country ; the remaining hostages were brought on parole from distant points to Richmond on their way to bo delivered up, at the expense of thisGovernment, and their surrender was only suspended on receipt of intelli gence from General Cobb that bo saw rea son to suspect bad faith on the part of the enemy. While this prompt and loyal exe cution of the agreement was in progress on tho part of the Government, the enemy was South. At the rate at which the war is now proceeding, it will take, not ninety days, but ninety years, to crush this rebel lion ; and the respective grandsons of Gen eral McCIellan and General Beauregard may at last tight out the battle of Man assas. Wall street begins to Bee all this nure clearly. It was worth a costly experiment to retain that rich Southern business, and New York will be hard put to either win it back or to do without it. But tho capitalists have now come to tho conclusion that- the game is up, and that that tbe experiment is passing out ol tneir nanas. ine sug conveying the prisoners captured at Fort j gestion to raise $150,(XKiO?Q yearly by r i .o.ft.rnt ol t p ra-sajo ..t on with the rcmy .rrr, rid ' ;h. rf port, they wi U,r i.otiaf.n-ha?- now hicn codcIb m a m.r.rrr -ipected and I , r,..rt a rrr.tf tf the act.on of this ..,artmrt..nlh J"Ct. , r, C .rK"- hrt d trrmiad to ais , , if rrif'l for lh pablio d- , ... , t r I'rd'nt of the United States . i ,f.ri rnrer.se t" treat our leaaen on k -'is as pirates. No apprshsnsion ,. k. mtrrtamed r,fr.j attr rapt to put this ,r .krci if eierution Tho potties? to t. priieers of war is regarded as ,. ..J.r .t all nttliitd nations, and it was Ir red i rtaio that lh jarlgTaeot of .til'l mffico to deter tbo ( inch enemy a snnm. );., i.'mn'l t. ,,m the i fimm ion ,rn .f( r, some of otir Mlow citnens w. r rarturr.1 on pmateers, they ti.-i'f.l s Moms, enrnrte d tn the jails were and one of them v. . i.,llv nnni ictd for no other f rime ih.m tibtmHt sr in th defence of his ift f nrUr thtnft i pc ii m it ances, the ,'nwir (r order wa is'ied by the Depart- 1:1- nt . irHt6fr, .Notember 9, 1101. ii. Y u are hereby instmcted to chooss ! v !m lrm arnonjj the prisoners of war of i, !,. rank, ine who it to be confined in i . i appropriated to convicted felons, and a.i, to tnatidin all m speets as if such v , ') r, hel l for ciecution in the same : ,,,fn p may b adopted by the enesny tf ii cutton of the uris' ner of war, :h, rmntiy condemned to death in I'h ladlphia. V ki also (elert thirteen other priso t - r of war, th highest in rank of those aptured bf "iir ttrcea, to be confined in '!,- r. 11 reserved for ".risoners scon sod of M.itni u crimen, and will treat them as Donelson to Chicago and other points most distant from tbeir homes, and was para ding the officers whs fell into their power through the entire breadth of the land, TV arren r hn if o man fnr man and officer for officer I from Western lenneejeeto rori of eiualerade, assimilating the grade cf to lioston i.arrjor, wnerc toey are uu iu- offlcers or the army and navy wtien ncces- carceraieu . auu up iu ... ... on, l .ri.,.irff niu.n r-Huitab e terms not a sinsio orncerianen at run. wuc.bu, iwr tuvu.iiuuci i mouvi viu.vi.ii - - i ... f . long the enemy shall continue front lb" I ko namher of prisoner of i spmrcd by them at sea and now held ' l in New York as pirates. rf' me spires aro intended to repress rfm.iu :ltempt now made by the nv tf fmmit judicial murder on priso : w'. yon will eecate tkera strictly mole'boet clrn!ited to prevent the ii. i --.nn ct o heinioas a crime. Yinr obedient servant, v ...r d) J. P. HKNJAMIN, Acting Secretary of War. I '.i In r ' irc-ial John Jl. Winder, h, nt:d i :ii t tiid nc( vssary mrasore of r v ' I'll' d the desired effrCt. Af . ah: .. v , enemy released the ' f-r. r ni corvine mont a felons. a ft II I reratea irom ;ofell, aiul " re .ttccil pr(;ftsedly on the l' other pr.sonfrs ot war. tion '. me ihc Ltw Secretary of I niM'd Suites made to this t I he r.ovel proposal that two of grade to be exchanged for any of higher grade when the occasion pball arite. ' Aiso"that all the hurplUB prisoners on sither side bedischarged on paro.e, with the agreement that any prinonerb of war, taken by the other parly, faii oe returneu in eichacgsas fast as captured, nt.d th's system to be continued while hostilities continue." General Wool further gave assurance 'that the prisoners taken on board of ves sels or otherwise in raantime connict, oy the forces of the United States, have been put and are now held only ir. military, cus tody, and on the same footing as other Briaonera taken in arms." ... .. .. . i . i i i ir Finally, tieneral ooiucciareu huiimmi ready to confer for the purposes of arrang ing the exchango, either with (Joneral Hiigeror with Messrs. Sneddon and Con rad, or any ojhor person appearing lor that purpose. Before proceeding with my narrative, I beg to call your special attention to tho fact that the letter of instruction to Messrs. Kerldon and Conrad, a CODY of which was enclosed to Gen. Wool, contained the iden tical proposition just quoted from his letter; thai oar proposal to the enemy was thus accepted in the fullest and most ex plicit manner ; and 1 plac prominently in view the further fact, that at tho time nhen the proposal was made by the Iov ernment that all surplus prisoners held by either party should be delivered up ard allowed to go home till exchanged, and that this system should continue in lorce during this war, the Confederate Slates held in their possession a lajsjo surplus of prisoners who were to bo restored to the snomy by this stipulation. The principles and terms for a general exchange of prisoners having been thus finally agreed on, there remained nothing to be done but to settle tlie details of the time, place and manner of its execution. For this purposo civil c-ommiseioners wore not necessary, a military ofliccr had been properly selected by the enemy tor execu ting mere military details, ai.d in accor dance with their example, Hrigadier- Gen eral Howell Cobb was selected to meet (Jen. Wool and execute tho contract: F. Letter of instructions dated lth February, to Gen. Cobb, suggesting details of execution deemed fair ami equal, but adding, "any fair and eqirul rule will be satisfactory, provided you can see your way cloar as regards its practical working. I desire only to impress on you tho necessi ty ot extreme caution in avoiding any rule or any arrangement which could possibly rive rise to dispute or controversy in its restored 10 his home, whiio the united States have kept possession of the hosta ges given up in reliance to their honor. The document G. herewith submitted is the report of General Cobb, containing a statement of his proceedings and copies of his correspondence with General Wool, ard the document 11. contains the letter of General Wool, dated the 5th of the current month, from which it is apparent that the Governmentof the United States adhere to the refusal to perform its agreement. 1 make no comment on these proceedings further tiiau to remark that it seems scarce ly possible that there should bo any fur ther exchange ot prisoners during tho war. We can parole no prisoners with any expectation of reciprocity; and can have no reliance on any promisee inai may bo ma Jo bare justice to ourselves to doelare dischar ged such tl'our own citizens as aro now subject to parole, and so to inform the enemy, and thereafter to entertain ne pro positions on the subject of exchango of prisoners exceptor delivery of those held by the enemy and proposed for exchange. I am your obedient servant, J. P. BENJAMIN, To the President. Secretary of ar. i i.' I. I.Pl i a im- "Mould lie permitted to travel iure through our tountry, visiting I ii- n r- i f ar held by n and minis !,' their supposed wants. As it was I. . m I prdiaM- that thm proposal was . : with any ei prrtation of its accep i e. tf.f purpose really entertained by the .in wih aonght for, and from certain ,,, ii vhtftiii d in tho letter, tho c!nn ii wa reached that an exchange ; j( ,.,, ,.f. was intended. The letter vf . i ii i .i Mat's ecrttary ol war was !. Illicit treiktod as proposition for . 'i.iii.'e, and answered a audi. 1. 1 tlii- iir.-iMT tho enemy was informed I....1 h; i f ! iH-ti was "cordially wol ii.fd i." hi ,n;' "in n 1 1 1 o accordance I, Uie i Wf. a! Ta s eiit rtaincd by this s f in rit." My ci in mu meat ion stated . m language mo oasis ol llie ngree- in e xc hancc, "iiihii far man and ,Vi i r d cqja! grad-, nssimi- i ; radoi of the From the London Times lt inst. The War .Must be Ended. "This war must bo settled somehow." The world lias been waiting to hear these words. The present moment is, perhaps, rather earlier than ono one expected, but alnady we catch tho expected phrase, borne in confidential whispers across the Atlantic. It has found birth in Wall street, it sdiis gently in its cradle, and it is Bwath ed in unconvertible rags. No one yet darea to own it openly. Tijo thousands of vul tures who are living upon their prey would scream horribly, and attack with beaks and claws any or.o who should, without adequate power, interfere with their ban quet ; but still tho phrase is heard, and it is growing intu mote potent voice 'Tn some way or other this war must be settled." "Wait awhile; wit just ninety days, and the rebellion wi'l be crushed," is still the cry ; as it has been fur thrice ninety days, the cry of the contractors, the Gov ernment officials, the fanatics, and all who find power, or profit, or distinction in this civil war. The merchants, and trading classes have waited, and what do they see? They seo the Atlantic cities wither ing from hour to hour; they seo tho ware houses empty, tho larger dwelling houses untenanted, property valueless, and trade practical operation. Let the arrangement bo ! dying. 1 hey see u wasteful and corrupt equal ; and let it be simple, plain and 1 expenditure ot halt a million sterling every cloar. All else is h it U your di-cre- ; day, and-no results except an accelerated i pace towards national .nsoivency and gen : eral ruin. Still they are told to wait anoth j cr ninety days, and all will be well. It i may he well for thoo smart individuals t who, by ths-t time, wiil have gathered all i they can hope to gain, have realized their plunder, and lodged it whero waste paper is . not a legal tender. I liut will it be well with the owners of ' house property in tho East, who uro i:ow letting their stores rent, free to any one S who will pay the races Wiil it be well i wth the i.oci and thrifty producers of the direct taxation, does noi' deceive them. They know very well that, even if the sovereign people would submit to endure a taxation as heavy as that of England, Amer ica could not continuously raise more than 10,000,000 sterling annually. The rough calculation has always been that in capaci ty of taxation tho proportion betwoen tb two countries is that American dollars are equal to English peunds sterling. If we raise 50,000,000, exclusive of our customs Amoraca probably could, if she please, raise $50,000,000 or 10,000,000. Such a possi ble revenue, even if it were not based upon the wild improbability that the Western States will consent to pay any such tsxes, would be a very poor security for half the debt which has already accrued. In this state of things the commercial adage, ''the flrotloss is the best," comes into play, and the capitalists of New York are now watch ing for tho first opportunity when it may be sate to say openly, "This war must bo settled somehow." This "first loss" is indeed bad enough. There are all the profits of the Southern agencies gone. The coffers are all drained by a disastrous loan of man v millions. Hav- I submit, however, that it is but i ing suspended specie paynienis, ui course they cannot borrow any money irom abroad, and they havo a Government so recklessly manufacturing paper money that there is no hope of keeping up for any leneth of lime tho delusion that it is of vhIuo Still there would be some hope if they could slop whero they now are. Peace might restore to them some trade relations with the South, and while the more indolent Southerners have wealth, the sharp Northei nor may always hope that bo will et somo of it How tLe frightful current expenditures can bo stopped or how the war can be set tled, it is, perhaps, premature to speculate. Nor do we venture to calculate that tho power of capital is immediately felt as the decision on such a question. America has such imperishable advantages iu her great unbroken wastes of fertile soil '.hat no more financial difficulties can strangle her. She may borrow and repudiate over and over again, and ruin every capitalist sho has, and yet rise again a id thnvo. But as euch as this the interest of moneyed men are likely to be.! great influence upon events. We are much misinformed if the commer cial body in tho great cities of Federal America has not recently veered round, and if there be not, all up ami down Wall street, a general disgu.-t and antipathy to that ninety days' bill, and an unanimous resilutionto piotest it when it next comes to matui ity. Gallant Capt. John II. The .Host liailng Feat Morgan. Yet ! In the same letter General Cobb was toid 'that the aurance contained in tho letter ot General Wool that our privateers ' cap tured on tho high feas will in the future bo considered in the samo Iirrht as prisoners takon in arms on land, ami will be conse quently exchanged like other prn-oner, is entirely ratislaclory, and you aro requested to inform General Wool that as soon U3 this assurance was received, orders weie hjsued placing the officers hitheitu held as hostages tor theso privateers on tho same footing as all other prisoners, and they will at once be sent homo on parole under the proposed arrangmcnts for exchange." General Cobb proceeded on his mission and arranged with General Wool all tho details of tho exchange on the basin id the agrroment above staled. Two of the de tails suggested in the intrui turns by this Department to General Cobb were not accepted by General Wool. For one ot these no proposed a tuuMituio winch was promp tly accepted West, who aro condemned by the terms of the Constitution to b- taxed in a ratio pro portioned to population, and not to pro perty? Will it bo well with the holders of Stato bonds, which are hijrbeito holding The newspaper fraternity owe a heavy debt of gratitudo to that gallant partisan leader, Capt John II. Morgan, of Ky., for furnishing them, during the war spicy para graphs and interesting articles, by his many dashing exploits against the Yan kees. Ho is incessantly on the move, appearing suddenly and unexpectedly at one point, and within the next twenty four hours quite aS suddenly and unexpectedly at 6ome other place more thin a hundred miles distant, lie is a perfect terror to the' Yankees, raid !:a inspired them with greater fear t ban all the army of General Johnston besides. Hia last feat we are just i apprised of by a gentlemen direct from Louisville, and is tho m;st darirg a:id succosnlul we havo yet recorded. J OnSunJ.i V. llu Itith inst., I 'apt. .Morgan I with tortv ! Ms nvn, suddenly appeared at (iailatin. I'.iui ol -ashvil men in the guard house, (.. apt. .Morgan, dressed in a Federal uniform proceeded to tho telegraph office al the Depot, a short distance from had run eight hundred yards the accumula tion of steam caused it to explode, shivering u into a tneusana atoms. Capt. .Morgan then started southward with his prisoners and made his way safely to the Confederate army,. The bridge over Barren River beyond Bowling Green, has not yet been rebuilt, and tho Federals had only one locomotive and one train of cars, with which to do all their business between Bowling Green and .Nashville. The serious damage inflicted upon tke Federals by this dashing exploit may bo appreciated from this fact. Atlanta Confederacy. ii e Partial Legislation. The Act of our State Convention ex empting the publishers and printers of the Daily papers of the State from military service but failing to includo the weekly semi and tri weekly press, is an outrage that calls for scathisg rebuke. We would like to soo the yeas and nays on the vote we desire to spot every man that oted for this shameful and unjust act; unjust because it is partial ; parctical because it coafers privileges on the pampered few which are denied toothers equally deserv ing the benefit of tho act. We call upon the weekly and semi weekly press of the State, to denounce, indignantly, the con temtible act, and not only to "spot" every man that voted fsr it, but to put a flea in his year that wiil torment him even in bis dreams. Upon what meats hath the daily press fed? What "exclusive privileges'' are they entitled to over the weekly press? Of what more 'importance' are they ? What greater benefit are they ? And where are they and what are they ? Who knows one outside of the county in which it is printed ? Hardly one man out of five hundred. There are but two or thre dailies in the Stato ; of . ... ' meir importance we Khali not speak: but we may say they went the w hole hot: fo precipitating the rovolution that they stand out of; and a kind nd considerate Con vention has graciously conferred "exclusive privileges" on them. The "Chronicle" opposed precipiluntey or revolution first and preparation afterwards, but it asked for no law to shield its publishers fron a participation in the battle fiold. Indeed, ai inenrsii.ir.sioi me oukie one ot us Editors shouldered ihe musket (not epau lets!) and hied to the battle field; that musket ho still stands by never bavin" sought to 'dodge it by slipping in a soft or fat placo the Chronicle and all other weekly papers in the State, maintain that they havo as much right to share in "ex elusive privileges" conferred by acts of legislation as tho pampered and "favoied few" daily papers in the State. We shall expect tho sage Convention, on reassembling, to put all the papers in the State on the same platform, by abolishing tho act or amending it so as to include the weekly press. A wise head and unpatriotic heart might see at a glance the propriety of exempting the whole press, for "the press is more powerful than the sword." So thought and spake a wiso man a states man, who did not mean two or threo ob scure daily papers. In the crisis of a rev olution the press is the power that wields the sword. A t the sounding of its voice, men rush to arm, and the sword leaps from its scabbard. But our grave Conven tion throttles the press Lushes its thun dering voice save the feeble cry of two or three "privelcged ' daily journals ! Out upon thai conventional act! Change your law, and mako '"exemption" optionnry with tboso connected with the press. Prin ters as a class, need laws to hold them back frmi the battle field, in a just cause They require no statute enactments to push them forward and when convinced that they can bo of more servico to tho Country in the field lhnn by publishing papers, laws can't hold them, unless they are stronger than hooks of steel. Jltlton CLronMc. tcnn.,? milt the other side .. .1- ii. i I-- .o. Aiut catciung an me union place, and conhnini! them in a . . :ln...t. U r , t , . i . t t It .-t TTl r.il T It SI Till IA VU a respectable position as securities, but 1 " . musl now bo o erlaid bv the mountain 0f i ing conversation took place between Cap- telet'rapluc operator, I navy U.gt in accordance when necessary, or w ii.' :..!,. I ' 1 I -" I I I i, CI c him to bo wo cificors of tho substitute but asked to obtain authority with from his tiovernmcnt, 'as he dei !ar. d him and I self to bo without instructions. This uu- equitable ten.is lor the num. thority was not granted to him wnerctipon lit crs of interior irrade. to General ( obb waived his proposition, thus having completo and perfect all the details requisite to tno execution i i llio previous oontuct. But pending these arrangements our arms had been uniortunate ; tho enemy had captured a number of prisoner? at Koanoke Island and rort Dcnoison; the condition of the parties was reversed; the United States now nold a surplus of prisoners, anil the execution ot tho agreement wis for tLe For the other, adimtitcd by the reality that thsir property rthy of ar proval, he offered no I delusion and a dream ''. 'Ibis is At it I i'i- any oincer oi iuimht iccas.on rhall arise lor Additional proposals were the fame letter, and for a l r-tandinc ot ail that occur- ." On- h nor to annex copies ot the i 1 , at lollo A-H : i .1 Hon. P.dwin M. Stantou, v t War ,,i the Foiled States, da 1. .'anu:u. t;', addressed to Allies Ml I l',-.h. hh inatriiPlirma ' - - -" -th.r-kaiavuu aiu oy tue national debt '! Federal Slate securities and the possessors of paper money, who will look around in vain lor some sources whence their claims may be met, and will awuko to is but a all those who wait w ill ever see. 1 ho very joy and exultation which the "uuceesses" of the last few weeks have caused in the. North show how little the promoter:1 of this war really expect that absolute conquest which they promise. Tho capture of an earthwork on the Ten nessee riverevon if it be followed by thecap ture of thy stronger neighboring fort upon the river Constantino, is only one of the lirst of a loug series of military preparations lor a campaign in Kentucky and Tennessee. If the invaders should obtain this success its use will only bo to enable them to feed the army which has advanced through tain jMoriiaii ana toe a blustering fcliow : Capt. Morgan. ' Good day, tews have vou sir! What operator. ''Nothing, sir, except it is A Speech from 3Ir. Yancey. Hon. W. L. Yancey, who has recently returned from his unsuccessful mission abroad made a short speech last Thursday nichtatthe sH. Charles Hotel, New Or leans. We copy from tho Delta tho follow ing sketch ol his remarks : It was one year, lacking two days, since he had qu:t our shores, and he was glad to stand anions? his countrymen again. He came back convinced that wo had no friends in Europe, that wo must fight tho battle out, and rely only upon firm hearts. (Ap plause.) They cooked coldly on the South because of its slavery institutions. There was not a country in Europe who sympa thized with us. Kren the great principles of our revolution wero not understood by them, any more than by tho Northerneis reported that that d d rebel, Capt. John ; who have never been able to seive tho true Morgan, is this sido of the Cumberland ! spirit of our institut'ons. Wh h (h- North, with some of his cavalry. J wish I could yet siirht ef the d d rascal. I'd make a hole through pleasant. While him laiu'er tha'i be would find Europe believed in the unqualitied uprem hcv id I'uvernment. riot understanding U'.ut " " J rs govern ni'' not understanding lit is oi.uli- tor tho people. They , m- r.r, 'rn ishi;. :r r.o; times. They set aside, practically as against us, the plainest behests of the Eu ropean treaty which fixes the law ef bloc ade. They are determined, in the face of all law, of all equity, of all humanity, not to recognize us until the last possible mo ment, and will neirrdo so until they see our blood-peeking sword stretched over a eonquer and prostate iVorA. As to the blockade, said Mr. Yancey, I don't know that we should want it raised If it continued six months longer, he would not, on any consideration, wiah such a mis fortune as that it should be raised. By that time our internal energies will have been developed, our manufactures established and he had such confidence in the ingenuity and enterprise of our people as to bepevc tbem capable of attaining, within thm selves, ull necessary ends. As to luxuries, indulgence in thera was not becoming to a people laboring iu the very throws of a he roic struggle. Various causes had hither to prevented the forcible raisins of t' e blockade. In the first olace. when the blockade commenced to take effect, im mense stocks of cotton were in the hands of the wealthiest maaufacturere. Those men had the ear of Government, and it was decidedly to their interest that the blockade should contiuue until their stock on hand was sold at exorbitant prices. Government, to-f was the moro Willing to listen to them, because it was daiirous ol fostering th products of cotton outside of the Southern States, even at tho expense of heavy tem porary sufferings at home. Our principal ground of miscalculation as to the blockade had been the idea thai cotton is king. If by this it is undei -u. ul American cotton, it is a fallacy. American cotton certainly piays a migbty part in ties commerce of tho world, but it has not ab solute sway, because the staple is raised too abundantly elsewhere. For hundred of years India has raised as much cotton as the South now does. There is probably no one thing in the world which grows so uni versally as cotton. Europe therefore, was willing to take advantage ot tho crisis to enfranchise her-elf from our sway at almost any cost, but she has found the ordeal too severe. India cotton is too dear, and the whole machinery of their immense manu factories would havo to bo changed to suit the staple. Orleans middling has been touna by experience to be tho only thing that will exactly do, and th supply of that will he exhausted by tho 1st of April. Ihen, when a starving population ris around their thrones, with tho words, "Cot ton or blood, the blockade will bo raised Here Mr. Yancey was asked by a gentle man whether Mr. Reward s promise to con . i i . i., . . . - a couou pori nau great weitmi r .yjr. i ao- cey replied emphatically, no. They be lieved the Yankees to be a nation of mcn dacious liar. "It was irunooiblo now in Europe io get at too irum oi tuings over here. Facts got there filtrated through the i : -i v .i i .i rueuium oi oriuern papers, anu me strength was all gone. No Southern jour nal was allowed to reach them, and that indeed it had been so to a great extent be fore the war. People there got their ideas of the South from New York papers and Boston literateurs. Thoy gave us credit for being a brave people, determined to be free, but reckless of life, somewhat inhu man to slaves, and at best, serai-civilized; and that our sense of individuality went so far that each man considered his will as paramount to tho law. Wc cannot look for any sympathy or help from abroad. We must rely upon ourselves alone. Andy Johnston at his Dirty Work. The publication of tho Nashville Daily Times has been suppressed. On the lth instant, ii made its last appearance. The Alanta Intelligencer has the issue ot the 18th, and from it extracts the following : TO THE I'UBLIO. On yesterday. Gov. Johnston, who had requested an interview with the publishers d the city papers, stated to the represen tatives of the limes and the Patriot the terms and conditions upon which the pub lication of the papers in this city would be permitted. These, terms and conditions are such that it will be impossible to comply with them and make an independant jour nal, such as the Times was intended to be, and we, therefore, submit to the "military necessity" which terminates its existence with this issue. The Times was established in connection with one of the publishers of the Union arid American, in order to furnish employment anditmeansotsub.sisler.ee to the lomur employees on that paper. It had no other connection with the Union and American. It sought the path of independent journal aism, and for this is has fallen under the ban of tho Military Gov. who nee mi not to coincide with Thomas Ji.lfcrson, that "error ceases to b dangerous wLtn tru'.h is left free to combat it," aou "down it goes" until such imo, if ever, as Tecun rintan .ndept rulent j M:rnai. ll is thus that : he tiaitoi Andy .Id the earthly salts is probably held in solution by a common weak decoction of the rye ; and tf the whole grain was swallowed there would only be the medium amount of phosphoric acid contained in wheat and other cereals, juBt about enough to make bone instead of destroying it. The, effect of rye, or the phosphoric acid ton, 0D utere-gestation, is equally fallacious, and quite as grave an error. It is the ergot of rye that produces abortion, oot the common, healthy Srain used for coffee. It is a long, black stinking mln easily distinguished from the other and only occurring under certain unfTorable circumstances. The common rye i. as innocent as wheat or coffee in t his res pect. "? din.-on r i r i .u i u mis, on. h February. 1S5J, t otiiiiunding at Hagjr, from For- com- t! id 1 Wou 1 A " m - c. 10 .wajT lien .' Ni'i ioik, enclosing copy of the . I ..... . i . , I .. . I. . .. e - iiwii- ii . 1 1 n u 1 1 1 u , ..SMll jop d.. ir the two comiiibhioners and ! ;: i .pun al right of visit to us I' tiirotbih id Kbruary, 1G2, :a i.i.dcrMnkd. Secretary of War. .Mesrs. James A. Seddon and -M inraJ, Commissioners selected : . : t tins Government, giving them ! ' iii to meet Mes&rs. Ames and s .. ..nd i egotiaic u general exchango ol ii r, with specific detail ot tho basis i x i.mi'.','. In closing this letter the i: :t 1 1 nark wero ma ie : ., n.i.e Sii'.d iiotntiig on the subject of r j, tiviitiers recently treated as fulons, I h;.ve be.-n gratitnd to find from s'.a; e Under I Kentucky, and to keep it in working order moment disadvan'.a'zeous to them. theso circumstances tho Government ol ; lor operating on a theatre 500 miles distant the United States did not hesitate to vio- j Irom the opposing armies on the Potomac. late an engagement universally considered j A year of successes would only trive them u ue one oi peculiar saneiiiy. Men. ooi military possession or iwo years which after writing On tho 13th of February that were never among the most zealous in the he had "lull powers and alter agreeing southern cause. As to the de-cent upon "that all surplus prisoners on cither side be j ihe east, they are annoyances rather than i i i i Uiscuarged en parole, witu the agreement that any prisoners of war taken by the i o.her party shall bo returned in exchange as last as captured, and this system to be coutmuod wiiilc hostilities continue, was compelled by his Government to write, on tho -ith ot tho same month, that "it is pro ber to say, thai my powers are exclusively limited to tho oxtbaniro of prisoners as presented to Major General, on the 13th of rebruary lfcb-; and then propose certain special exchanges of individual officers. In the meantime, not distrusting lor wounds. I hey are but like the burning v O darts which the Spaniards thrust into the flanks ot a sluggish bu.l to sting him from i Hs defensive poplure. A hundred such victories and such in roads as these tell nothing towards the conquest ot a country half as iargo as Eur ope, it that country ba really earnest in its own ocfense. The Southern States, before th-?y revolted, must have expected all this, and much more. We have always in Eur ope given the Nor th credit for first successes very greatly superior to these, and have I reckoned that their real difficulties would r. moment that an pnimirptiifiiit ni an ... 1 .. . . l : --e-is - u ' -v , I I I I.M II II I I..H . 1 .L..1 -V . I I . . .. I . ... iiiii, mat, i o'luraeier wuuiu ue i-f..ieii u.-itii tirfAi... I nniv r-r. mm tk.. . v, u . .4 . , - f ,1, . ,1, --- - v k, , 1 vsu.j ... ... ...... v rt uvu .iiiry uu uiaBiercU ae cJ. iiS henceforth to be treated I the prisoners hold by us as hostages for the great strategio points throughout the peaking, the operator drew a fine navy revolver and nourished it as to satis fy his visitor how desperateiy he would use the instrument in case he should meet with the famous rebel Captain. "Uoyou know who 1 am !" quickly re marked Capt. Morgan, continuing the conversation. ..- . "I have nut that pleasure," remarked the operator. Well, I am Capt. Morgan," responded that gentleman. At these words the operator's checks blanched, his knees shook, the revolver dropped from bis hands, and ho sunk to the floor. He literally "wilted." Alter the frightened individual had recovered himself sufficiently, Captain Morgan required him to telegraph some messages to Louisville, among Gibers, one to Prentice, ol the Journal, politely offering to act as his escort on his propesed visit to Nashville. Then taking tho operator with him as a t ris,uer, Capt. Morgan With his men awaited lite arrival of the train from Bowling Green for Nashville. In due time the train came thundering in. Capt. Morgan as. once seized it, and taking five Federal officers who were passengers and the engineer of the train prisoners, he burned to cinders all of the cars with their contents, and then filling the locomotive with turpentine, shut down all the valves aad started it towards Nashrile. Before it paihv with us neither have they, however toe the North They regard the North as a people mendacious, unjust, and hypocriti cal. They do not believe a word said by the people, 'the puss, tho Cabinet, or the President. Europeans are prejudiced against slavery, but they do not wish to deprive men e'l their property without hon estly paying for it, they have no idea of cutting tho chains of bondago with a lawless sworoT i'hev havo discovered the North ern motive 111 this war to be political, not begins his dirty work in Nashville. Let the mattei go on. There is a day of retri bution in storo for the villain, which Cod. grant may prDve an early one. Rte Coffee. Dr. K. M. Pendleton, of Sparta, Ga., communicates tho following to the Augusta Sentinel. It completely refuses the theory of the LaGrango physi cian which wo published a day or two since : An extract from in your daily of 1 n no- social; not a strong principle against wrong, j Tuesday, signed L. J. Roberts, M. D., taken but a determination to rule. Having, i from the LaGrange Reporter contains two therefore, no sympathy lor us, and turning 1 ftucn grave errors mat wo cannot retrain with honest contempt irom the hypocriti-; irom currecuug uium, parutuiary as many 1 v., .h..r wou d loot with nositive persons wno use ryo as a suosiuuto iur V I A4iJlv.v. -v, a a . .. . indifference on the contest, but tor their own interests involved. They desire to cripple a dangerous rival. Ibis country was getting too vigorous, and they are de termined that it shall forever remain sepa rated. Tiny w"iild never allow ihe South to be subjuga.ed. and would interfere to- pre vent such a re.-al', bu'i that they feei certain it cannot be a-cc-mpiished. Tbcy know and say the Swulh wiil be free. In the meantime, 1 hey wish to see the war drag on until each Hide is thoroughly exhausted and overwhelmed with a debt which ehall crush its energies for years, or if possible, for at-es to come. 10 runner mis pmj they ignore the established fact blockade has been run at least a that the thousand eoiTeo might be frightened out of an cent beverage. Tho extract says that, "Tbo grain when burnt contains fitty percent, of phosphoric acid." Now unscientific people would suppose this to mean when parched. We suppose tho doctor intended the ash of the grain. What is the true analysis of rye according to tho best authorities f 1,000 pounds produces only 10 pounds of ash ; and of this 10 pounds only 0 40 of a pound is pbosophorio acid ; not quit half a pound to 1.000 pounds of the grain, arid n..t quite 5 percent cf ihe ash instead of upwards of 5U per cent., be;ng not quite the one fifth ot one per cent of the solid grain. Besides, the doctor forgetB that not one particle of From the North. The following iote.esting statement of the great naval battle in Hampton Roads was famished to the N. Y. World by A. Ii. Smith, pilot on board the Cumberland at tbe time of the battle, and is far the most candid accconnt that bas yet been received trom a Yankee source. THE BATTLE OF HAMPTON ROADS. On Saturday morning the U. S, sloop of war Cumberland laid offin ihe Roads at Newport New, about 300 yards Irom the shore, the Congress being 200 yards South of us About 1 1 o'clock, a dark looking ob ject was descried coming around Craoey Is land, thro Norfolk channel, and proceeding -straight in our direction. It was instantly re cognized as the Merrimac We had been on the lookout tor her for sometime, and were as well prepared then as we could have been at any other time, or as we have been during the last six months. As sho came ploughing through the wa ter right onwards towards our port, bow, she looked like liko a huge half submerged crocodile. Her sides seemed of solid iron, except whero the guns pointed from the narrow ports, and rose slantingly from tho wator like tho roof of a house or the arched back of a tortoise. Probably the extreme height ot the apex from tha water's odge, perpendicularly, was ten foeu At Aier prow I could Boe the iron projecting straight forward, somewhat above the water's edge, and apparantly a mass of iron. Small boats were slung dr fastened to her aides, and tho Confedorat j flag float ed from one staff while a pennarit was fixed . to another at the stern. There was a smoko stack or pipe near her middle, and she was probably a propeller, nosido wheels or machinery being vissiblo. She is prob ably covered with railroad iron! GETTING READY" FOR ACTrON. - Immediately on the appearing of tho Mcrriuiac tbo command wasgivru to mU ready for instant action. All hands were ordered to their places, and the Cumber land was sprung across tho chanuel, so that her broadside would bear on the Mornmac. Tho armament we could bring to bear on the Merrimac was about eleven nino and ton inch Dahlgren guns and two pivot guns of the same make. Tho gunners were at their posts, and we waited eagerly lor her approach within range. She came up at the rate of four or five knots per hour. OPENING THE BATTLE. When tho Merrimac arrived within about a mile we opened on her with our pi?ot guns, and as soon as we could boar upon her, our whole broadside commenced. Still she carno on, the balls bouncing from her mailed shies like India rubber, apparently making not the least impression, except to ' cut off her flag-staff and thus bring down the Confederate colors. Noneofher crew ventured at that time on her outside to replace them, and sho fought thenceforward with only her pennant flying. She ap peared to obey her helm and was very readi ly handled, makingall her movements and evolutions with apparent facility and readi ness. We had probably firod six or eig.'it broadsides vvhon a shot was received frjin ouoof horguns which killed five ot our marines. It was irnpossiblo for our vessel to get out of her way, and the Merrt'tyad'Hio'on crashed her iron-horn or ram into the Cum berland just starboard the main chins, un der the bluffof to port bow, knocking a hole in tho side, near the water line, as large as tho head of a hogshead, and dri ving the vessel back upon her anchors with groat force. Tho water came rushing into tho hole. The Merrimac then backed out and discharged her guns at us, tho shot passing through tho main bay and killing five sick men. The water was all tbe while r ushing in the hole niado by tho ram, no that in live minutes it was unto the sick bay on the berth deck. In the mean time her broadsides sw.pt our men away, killed and uiuimed, and also i-etour veseel on fire in tho lorward part. That fire was extin guished. I cannot tell how. many woro wounded. The aick bay, berth deck and gun deck were almost literally covered with m- n killed and wounded, but the sur viving ones srill fought well, and every one, offlcers and men, displayed the utmost heroism. Tho fight lasted about Ihreo-fourths of an hour, tho Cumberland firing rapidly, aud all the time the water pouring in the bole, and by the ports, as her i'Ow kept sinking deeper and deeper. Near the middleof the fight, when the berth deck cf the Cumberland had sunk below wnter, ono of the crew of the Merrimac came out of a port to the outside of her irOD-piated roof, and a ball from one of our guns instantly cut him in two That was the last and only Confederate that ventured within sight; the rest remained in their sate, iron-walled en closure. We fired constantly, and tbe Menimac occasionally, but every shot told npon our wooden vessel and brave crew Her truns being without tbe least elavation, pointed straight at us along the snrface of the water, and her nearness, she being much of tho time within three hundred yards, made it an easy matter to send each ball to its exact mark. Probably her guns would be useless at s considerable distance, as it appears impossible to elevate them. Finally, after about three-fourths of an hour of the most severe fighting, our ves sel sunk, tho Stars and Strtpes still waving. The fltg was finally submerged ; bot, after tbe bull grounded on tbe sand, fifty-four feet below the surface of the water, our pnant was still flying from the topmost 1 4 I f 1 ;l A. f i,
The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.)
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