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MM r ME Q-EEENSBOEOUGH, 3ST. C, JUJSifl 11, 1868. Volume XXV. Number 1 353. wmmm Written fur the Patriot. JVL J H. T y r 01' SHUTHI-HN FREEDOM. I! 1 II A It R T HALL. Friend after friend drrarts! Whu ban hot llt ft friend?" Capt. WILLIAM ADAMS. I ). f.fl.f lu l hrm f.us-Ll. ni(ch( bad come and . n.- aram; the LIuuJ f ihe bra? was seeling .;,' ! ri't-nt among iL turfa and in Ihe toil of 'UrjUnl th kin'At ol the battle was settling ''."! y f i'.wland and on the woods and was cWr v ii itv in ide cloud winch had gathered in the -) lUnk ri femer t, on the part of the enemy, ... i.-j I l.v our picket: ( thwart this design ,r I'fuv w 'i mi injf nlowljr and orderlj back to . 1 1 - ,r if n ir Mn j.lu T'lt'wn ; hundreds of the ,i , .. up l.r n'i .-M of Sh.rj''burjr had fallen .i !- "f il." n l"r iufirnienf, but not 1 f . ;,.-ti ti.il !thiitr water of the beau- ! iuif, th bir A jout hero was borne .., ; hi- anirowiiig ' iii rales toward the . v, ,ii i. 'I i,c. u 'lie rugged ascent i' ,i 'li!.- tiein N, iln tillage of Jheplierds--' , i -w-I ' i ;..v,l it.d ty lut'athiiiig ' in i'r hi t !, iiitj Hrid ensitel y laid , A i' - in 1. 1 a k-rnvr. mi w,, l.,jn ;t i irccn il'iruiih, en the 1Mb, I U iin.fv, : w' mm ciii.'jiiov i was btizux azi'J 1 1 iik' in ervn.l kierance In rrv'inl ni.j.eiirance, he was .. rv nil. hnn'M ! Iicai'li iml strong rnascu- . r i y n- I,.- . u 1 i I rutin m i wau, !'.'. I v. r . 'ii- ' t m jfmiMi, he euueed gret ii 'i .'i l Mjjl.'liriei-i ct rnind ; and, as he 'i - fillip i. ii bonny licyhond, la it buxom, i 'i' int danced urx.ji the p'rram of lite like a ititir.irii i...n filling waters Ilii father, I'eter Ad nil-. I.- j iirr, h", by bin own industry and strong ritr.i .tin ii r 1 ; , trujrlel up, without the d- 1 ii i4,'i - f 14 .'it.rr'kl "l'j'fin. from obscurity to i' an I ihe firvf o-iiioii fit honor which his . .. .rriii.-t .ill I oii' r, fvelinjr continually the iiii u! ni' li rmiitul r iilti vai ioii, tarusstly desired r. iim William' mind by thorough and severe !ii.!;t-tie dihrijiline fur tiYi tlie trials, disappoint ii fi,'- -il,. I tri imj lK-, which might lie along his way i . 1 1 ri,ir,f n in private or public life. M i :. f ft.e pai i.f every life traveler, how im is,M -m-r llir MM'tu-n, or how thrilling and t n tin- h t. w I fade irradiiallr and i" f ' iy ir in ii.it i.im'J ami become, like a if. in ifM ii, diii inrt ; bui tlitre is one period j ! i , in lif-' I'grimage, . n. r t. ri't, iho i'h there wc are forgot," V, i ' pi ti'vl i ( i,r m lionl boy dnys and that place I' 'ii ,r, )., .3 .-poi. How vivid in my 1. 1 , I A Ih in .1 fief i:a-letny, its loved haunts, ; !i'i'i' f.i' i n. Ih.'tt f iilivens'l its benches and ' .N't .ir it tluw.'d the cla.fio stream "i n' ' 1 . ii.l in iis .cinity was that Church i f ' 1 1 1 i.'ni beocnth whoe shadow 'i ' in 1. 1 the t 11 riling IVhIs of the tirit ' n v, :ui. n. 'Ihe old workshop of i' ' i!ii.i r. ri , which slood in his yard, n.v iii'i ti n 11 u tniu. of mechanical labor , f' in in win. ii t-cicni p was to be taught aud ' 1,1. k'i- I 'i t It -iir tied and the large and magnifi- -. wlii .'i 1 -rend out in v mrable and i-'! 1'i iiily li f.r the likbu tttid in which flocks 1 1 li iil t, 11 I brnwed and epnrted from time out I imiid, ' ecmie the cool, .niii-t, rustic study-ground 1 in.- ! n t i t . where, erst rd on th" uncovered '.. .,r r--1 m, i n op. n ) rich green sward, they .id iii.. iiiiiuiiibU t iniiiiitrnriej ol Cs4r, listened . 1 1 1 1 cln j in lire 01 t'icero, imbibed the 11 ni.i. "il lii'ntncit r i t Virgil, eagerly followed s' "") 1 '"' hi. iii-irch", paiKionately courted (he V 1 In i li. rt -I u,r ititiioaticN of Algebra and ' i,.i 1 v , . 1. fd the limpid wit of Horace, and, lf 1 c.r 1 r-liti-- nniijiiiiktioiis, beheld the wild uports ! 1 ' 1 "I; I -s 1 rf 111 the genial spring-light, ' " i : I tnwi us of the Lryads and Naiads ' 1 . il - mi I iin in (; the hriibs which . '" i" '!! i.i'it iinin I ' a.K'Wn the 1 r-i . ' 'ii.i iiIIiij' ho"I w.is ' m i j .'"iiu I hin'.er, ti.e I'.ev ' . .! , Mi. 5; annul II. Wiley, ' ' " u ii' I'un t an enviable rrpal.tion " 1 ; ' "''Ii -ir 'iii'l krlltul disciplinarian. '..I' i Will- 1 in a ,n !,( to make the ncuuaintanr I joi-ii ot aili Uity and to ditch ii. 1 'i' 1 li.:..s.,ph y nml flowing l i(iith. liinl I urn in the'r immor ' ; ii 1 1 tu -i 1. .n i .oit,. l.e und myself w-. Mid i h 1 r ii ruli' utii frit tub I 'i.i win. I 1: t. 1 ; ' 'i-. Mi L i'.creasvj in intimacy ami 1 r' "t In- taithly curcer. 11c y ' ' i n y:t- ul.i, but mu-L was the - -f I. - 1 ii i. that he acquired the I 1 11 1 ii w Kb Kr.-i rase and wonderful J '. 1 ': I'.ctunry. naturally strong, quick and .ii'tiN.. 1.1 bern nun b d.sciplined and improved "' vl: f tniicmoriics. Such was the ease .ii 1 'i 1 id.ty vi nli which be learned, that it was not i.i-v.-us t 't him to l.iln.r lung over his lchsons I -i'i"' bd luin not a little tunc fgr play and out- 1 ' m i. i-c Uc W U.vcr iille, his disposition ' ., tesilcx to br. ik iniictiMty. He loved the i.firctr inn d life of the country where he could roam m II v i.nd ! , !'. y find was exceedingly captivated u-h the Min-i ., ..e.l toil of the farm and the pure .! m : ! " to the heart inipires' ct n il ilrliKbt and joy " ,.', "': I. in del, jilted bini u much as to net the 1 ii i. ii 'he IniuliTiu of wood and rails on the ' '' ' 'i l'r. (ileiin with whom we were then ''' '" ! 'I'" passionately fond ol nice, met 1. "-iir !i "is--, and l.tcd to see tl.sm bend their iii-il, uiol.r il.e stiiiK ,.f the popping whip. Still, i-i !,c whiied i nuli of Ins time away in this . '.t.'..!. when lei tiered the State I'niversity, tie Jivpiiel : r the class to which he was 1 I. v hi" i 1 ik J tn:iny charms for his brilliant 1,1,11 I an. I tray, fiank. Social disposition. So j. 'i'h. sj.ii: vutrounded him, and such i n. ud.it mil of his genius, thitt he too mi' t i' !k r.r ion aid relied almost exclu 1 : : f I j : v .ml ingenuity. Kut highly 1 r i im .jL.tliiy- -if his mind cultivated, ' i'i ' :i '.te Mind of information from i. it v '"Cf, wns presented. Iff was rlurnt t, , - 1 11 m I 1 bus, vpent much of his time ; ' - 1 ' ' 1 e.i- ilea", of mis -eManeous reading ii.i be .is at folUgn there was quite t t'ir -. a! uts He w.-m iniii.i..i - k , . V 1UIW hUC !' Ir.tii,. Thu' pleased bis taste much , the l .ti.-ary Society to which he be- 1 : it ih it age he did not set as hiKh a ' .k- tie atierward did. upon th benel.ts to be ; in u-h an intrlb ftual gymnasium. Dread ,n , t c me tit of the Dialectic Hall and con- tigutlit eti eugt L., rtaiiatii and brilliance of his natural endowment! to win the plmin hit after life, he betook himself to the entertainments of hie club-confreres. Like Sir Walter Sott, "hikrt was an unfailing fountaia, which not merelj the distresses, but the joys of his fellow-creaturea caased to flow like water." And as Preecott has said of that great man in his early life, young Adaane' high spirits and vigorous constitutiom led -brim occasionally to carry his eocial propeuitiM iato convivial excess ; but he never wae in danger of the habitual excess to whieh a vulgar mind and some times, alas ! one more finely tuned abandons itself. With all his conviviality, it was not the sensual rel ish, but the social, which acted on him. He was neither gourm nor gourmand .- but Ifts social meet ings were endeared to him by the free interchange of kindly feeling; with bis friends." His urbanity and affa'.'eness introduced him favorably to stran gers, and his Ltnhomit won the hearts of all who knew him. When he graduated in June, 1868, he left no enemies behind him at his Alma Mater, and he could number scores of frieads, who had gone out before him ani who were eager to take him by the hand and cheer bias on in the race to honorable distinction. His hopes now be.at high ; for be was tired of the narrow and confined preoincts of his collegiate walk and yearned and longed to eater the wider and more inviting arena of the world where , he mipht realize in the highest degree the csrfamtwis ijaui'i'i ir'onti.t. 1'horgh he had neglected some of the hardest and J ryot parts of his University oourse, studies which woi.i l have only trained his mind to close and logi cal thinking and reasoning and then have been for gotten as useless learnii g in the battle of life, yet this pr.rt of his mental training was supplied by the perusal of ouje of the deep and abstruse woiks of: English authors, writings which not simply disci-j pliiic l but richly nourished his mental faculties. Home studies, doubtless, he would not have slighted, had his collegiate race bare been to run again; but in regard to his you'hful omissions he acted, and that is a fortunate turn of mind, up n the wise and philosophical principle of Sbakspeare and paasedi " without regret, things without remedy." He was prepared to meet the future with a stout andbrave heart. He bad the physical strength and symmetry of an athlete; a high order of natural talent; the flush of a becoming pride was on his handsome faee ; out of his eyes flashed the fires of a heroio hope ; and in his bosom kindled an honest and honorable ambition, which was not to be gratified with civic laurels, though he was then wholly unconscious and did not even dream, that he was to be at no distant day one of the champions of Southern freedom. He, too, was the soul of the social circle. At the ban quet of the young and the fair, he moved with a grace and brilliance that drew the eye of admiration from all uround him ; and the fascinating spirit of hilirity, which shone through his dark grey eyes, on such testiva occasions, dispelled the gloom from every f ice whioh came in the sunshine of his way. He was courteous, cordial, affable jocose, hih minded, open-hearted, and had a smile for every friend whom he gieeted. Wherever he went, he left no group of hi.4 associates-unsunned by bis cheer.'ulness and kindness. Like Cowper, he felt that "Man, in society, in like a flow'r lHovrn in its native bud. "lis there alone His lacu'tifs, expanded in full bloom. Shine out, there only reach their proper use." Shortly after his return from the University, he entered the office of Hobert P. Dick, Ksq., as a student of the Law. He read the books closely and discovered considerable loudness for the science of jurisprudence. Though there is much in this noble study, which is dry, abstruse, antiquated and fevcrely logical ; yet his genius was refreshed, ever and anon, in its lucubrations, by some of the rarest and most exquisite beauties, which the eye of the mind ever beholJeth ; and, as a flower, in a desert, or on a barren cliff, is enjoyed much more than when found in a garden or a hot-house, to gems of legal literature, when met in that wilderness of difficult learning, are hailed with a more bewilder ing delight, because they are met there rsrely and unexpectedly. He was licensed to practice in the toanty Courts in December, 1859, and was admitted to the bar at February Term, 18C0. He still con tinued in Mr. Dick's office, and while reading for his Superior Court license, he saw something of the practice in chambers as well as at the forum. In December, lH;n, he was licensed in the latter Courts . but he was never qualified to plead in them, for the reason, that he vras called into the public service as a soldier the week before the first term of t'uat Curt which happened after he was licensed. He had the hor.or to hold the position of first lieu tenant in tii.- Guilford Grays, a company which was formed here just a year before the war broke out, and with liii company he repaired to Fort Macoa on tho '.!-'th day of April, the eighth day after the is-uin of that proclamation which was "the cnu"C of war and all our woes." Lieut. A liuis was Lorn a hero. Though he was educated purely for the civil walks of life, though he had r crved no apprenticeship to the military prolession in any of the Army or Naval academies of the country, still he was a good and accomplished soldier. The alluring excitement of that darino- and advent uresome life captivated his wild and fiery around their camp-fires throughout that " cold, in r.ature. He rapidly acquired all the learning of clement and cheerless season. His love for them that science. His opportunity to do so was excel- threw its mild and cheering and warming effulgence lent. Lieut. Col. tightfoot, an elegant military upon them from a far land, -but was all the more gentleman and scholar, was his instructor at Fort comforting, that it came to them uncolored with the Macon at one time, and, before and afterward, he interests of ambition or the expectation of 'self had the benefit ef the drilling and discipline of other egrandixement. good officers. Before he left there and entered the Aft" the b0 from Newbern, his regi- field, as a soldier he was not surpassed, perhaps, in entwas transported to the half-way house between his knowledge of tactics and the evolutions ot the Petersburg and the capital. In that vicinity, they line by any of the best young scholars of West Point. His grasping and tenacious memory had amassed all the information in the books, and his fertile and inventive genius had, in its prolific crea- uous, fought many imaginary battles under every advantage and disadvantage ; and his restless spirit was chatinir continually for some active and mors extended field on which to illustrate its skill and fearlessness. During the summer of 1801, a vessel was spied Ur out in the waters, but the distance was too great to determine from what country it hailed. Lieut, Adams vomuteereJ to go out in a small skiff, called the Jeff. Davis, and he was accompanied by Capt. le Ferrest, of the Alliance, an English vessel, which was lying in the harbor near Fort Macon, I hey set sail about 3 0 clock in the afternoon. The vss.el was out some six or eight miles, and, as they ueared it, they discovered it to be tne French man- of war, Milan The apprehension, that it might be a Uuited States vessel, was removed, and they gal- Untly bounded toward it. The officers aboard gave them a hearty welcome and expressed great pleas- ure at ceeing Lieut. Adams, who was the first Confederate officer with whom they had met. Both missiles of destruction, a gunboat began to belch out himself and De Forrest were highly entertained and its abafta of death thickly and rapidly, but the crest enjoyed the excursion exceedingly. They returned of the hiUs sheltered our men. Not a single man that night, but never reached the-Fort until about was injured. Next day, Gen. Cooke carried out o'clock in the morning. It was a rough, perilous other companies and watched for the coming of the and bold adventure in so small a boat, and forcibly Taakees, but they came not. Though his company illustrates the intrepid and daring character of that wae not out, Capt. Adams went along a a volon gallaat young offlcer. j tear. Altogether they spent nine day on tha river, After the Grajs Vert" put ia a regiment, Capt. Sloan beinc promoted to tna lieutenant-olonaley. Lieut- Adams waa elected t the oaptaiacy t tnai company. This was on the 6th of Ootober 1H1. Ha had no opposition, and, to popular waa he, that ha was the unanimous choice of his men. All lortd him all had confident in his qualiioations and his valor as an officer. Having now the command of his company, ha waa still mora anxious to gat rid of the monotony of tha Fort. There . nothing eanld be hoped for, that was calculated to enliten the dull lire they had to lead. He even endeavored to hum up a fight along the beach, but he could nerer find the enemy. Late in autumn, a vessel was discover ed to be wrecked near Bogue Island about twenty miles from their headquarters. Though U was quite cool, ha set out with two pieces of artillery and his entire company in flat-boats in quest of it, and sailed from midnight until late the next evening before he reached the island. It proved to be a large French merchant-vetael, but, unfortunately, they could not reach it in flats. They were sadly disap pointed; for they anticipated much excitement and handsome spoils, if not prisonera-of-war. Spending one night on the island, they returned, having bean out two days and two nights. Though disappointed in this ocean scouting, he did not despair af the ultimate consummation of his wishes ; for though a cloud wae resting upon his aeldier-lifW, yet ha took encouragement from that exquisite poetic thought of Longfellow, " behkd the eloud is the sun atill saining" -and indulged the earnest hope, tai it would soon peer through the dark discouragement and gloom that hung over him. As hath been truly said of him by his mend ana law-instructor, "He always looked on the bright side of tie pictures of life." Such was the case when the news of the Roanoke Island disaster reached him. Speaking of it in a letter to his father, he used this language ; " If it has the efeot, that it should have on all true North Carolinians, or, in fact, on all true lovers of their Southern homes and country, it will be a more injurious attack for the Tanhjees than for the Confederacy. It should cause all true men, who are able to carry arms, to rise up in the defence of all that is dear to man." That was a felicitous turning away from the dark side of that disaster to that other and brighter side on which hope told " a flattering tale." But how much better is it thus to live ! bet ter far than to harrow up the soul with dismal fore bodings and even real apprehensions ! better far to enjoy the illusions of hope, though they be as "un substantial as the baseless fabric of a vision," than to people the paths, leading to the brum of time, with "Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimeras direr' Capt. Adams and his command left Fort Macon, on the 27th ef Feb. 1662, and marched to Fort Lane in the vicinity of Newborn; and. on the 1 4th of March, his regiment went Into the fight below that once peaceful and delightful old-town. On that occasion, Capt. Adams acted with the bravery and courage of the Prince of Orange, of whom it was said : H Nome could ever discover what that thing teas which he ftartd." Col. Gilmer, who was then Major of the regiment, bat had the honor to command it on that day, told me, that Capt Adams displayed a heroism conspicuous above all others. As Macau lay hath wrote of that great soldier, William Henry, "he exposed himself like a man who sought death ; was always foremost in the charge and last in the retreat." Personal courage, indeed, rose in Wil liam Adams to the height of fabulous heroism," and to endure fatigues, privations, perils, al! the hardships which beset a soldier's way. he had " a frame of adamant and a soul of fire " He ever re gretted the discomfiture of our forces on that disas trous field, and often said, he would never return home, until he had an opportunity to wipe out the dishonor which rested upon the chivalry and prowess of our noble soldiery. It seemed to him to be a burning disgraoe, and he panted for another field on which to burnish their soiled reputation, nor did he ever seek a furlough, though the asking would have gotten it, before that . mournful occasion on which he shed the blood, which blotted that sully ing spot forever out. On the 1'ind of April, his company re-organixed under the Conscript Act passed only six days be fore. He was re-elected, a mark of tried qualifica tion and of implicit confidence in hia superior skill, ability and courage. He was deeply and strongly attached to his command, and this affec tion waa warmly and fully reciprocated on the part of his brave men. They knew that William Adams was, in natural endowments, equal to every emer gency, and they loved to bestow their honors upon the good and brave. Often, in his letters to his father and mother, he expressed his deep concern for his men, lest they might not be clothed and vic tualed as he wished they should be, he was appre hensive that they would have to suffer during that winter through which "he was not permitted to pass with them. O. that " is a beautiful belief, That ever round our head Are hovering, on angel wings, The spirits of the dead ;" and if that lovely philosophy be true, then, his noble spirit, doubtless, hovered oftentimes and lovinelv remained until the battles began around Richmond. During that trying and memorable week, Gen I Walker's brigade was held as a reserve, and, though not in general engagement, waa marched contin uu7 an1 hardly, that it might beat that place wnr 11 would, in most likelihood, be needed. "On Monday," says Capt. Adams, " we were shelled for bout two hours from the gunboats and two of the enemy's field-batteries. Heaven alone knows how we escaped so fortunately. I Lad but two men wounded, Owens on the knee by a piece of a shell. severely ; McLean in the elbow, slightly; many narrow escapes were made." After MeClellan's defeat, the brigade re-crossed the James and bi vouaced on the south bank of that river to watch the enemy in his movements up or down the James or his attemps at making a landing on that side. One day, Gen. Coeke, then commander of that regi ment, was sent with Capt Adams' and three other companies to the margin of the river below City Foint, where they had the pleasure of attacking the transport, Daniel Webster, which was attempting a passage up stream. They riddled it cruelly, but while they were thus be-sprinkline it with the but only once had an opportunity to bfafaaty bullets d Una with tha enemy. He wrote hia hut Utter to"his fathar aed mother four miles from tha battle-field af Cedar Kan, on the 80th day of August Pop waa retreating with all poaaible haste toward tha Oceoqnan and the Bull fcun ; and our troops, elated with their recent splen did awoooaeta, ware preaslaf forward upon him. Capt. Adams wae In fine spirit, buoyant with tha thought, that our armjr would wintar in Maryland d that tha war would toon terminate in pavma aent peace and lasting independence. Though ha d determined to remain in the service to loaf as bia life waa spared, or tha struggle lasted , still, " MaV GWgraaU tptdf end 0 the wr," waa hia oaaUnt, feirent and earnest supplication. Hie hope aa to the amy waa appointed, and that other and mora desirable oave haa boon so long de farred, that tha patriot-heart hath ofu but as yet, not despaired. In his day-dreams, he loved to revel in sweet recollections of hia home and its endearments, andj in hia night laai 1 1. like Campbell's "war-broken soldier " often. VaiU ofUn. He thought from the battle-field's dreadful array, fr, far he had roam'ed on a desolate track ; Xwas autumn and sunshine arose on the way to tae hoan of hia father, that weloom'd him back." tie loved tha whuperinrs of honest fame: he laved hia country aa am Idol ; but hia lore for his mother as the strongest faaliag of his life. His ardent and lametimeo fiery natr eould always bo subdued to gantlaaaas by that veiaaorhich nans; tha eradle songs of his childhood.' Distance and abeenoe only increased and intensified that affection, and as he wended his way slewly but steadUy across tha streams and over the hills of Washington's 8tate, ha not unfroquently renewed, at tha shrine of hie idola try, the pledges i.f his undying attachment to his christian mother, hia only living aister and her who hath long been in tha spirit-land, but who hath ever stood angel-sentinel at his side. Nor did he forget his young brother. His Utters were almost always taken op, in part, with counsels and anxious hopes as to his education and tha formation of his character. Shortly after his brother entered the University, he thus wrote his mother : " I have written a long Utter to Bud,' giving him the best advice in my power. Ido earnestly hope ha may be come a good scholar and a good man, so that lather may be proud of him. Make him write home often, and tell all he does and how ha progresses in his studies. This will keep him busy and be an im provement in every way. 1 fear he is too young to be in college, though I think he will do welL" Truly, this was the counsel of chastened and affec tionate wisdom, a brother's love for a younger, idolised child ! At the siege of Harper's Ferry, Walker's brigade occupied Loudon heights, and his artillery did ter rible execution upon the enemy and was entitled to the chief praise of hastening - the surrender of the Tankees and of enabling Gen. Jackson's command to fly to the assistance of our men across the Potomac, who were hotly and fiercely engaged by MeClellan's vast army at Booasborough. Of that grand army ... . . .... wmcn jaexson carried over with him, no one was more eager for "the rapture of the strife" than the heroic Capt. Adams. By the night of the 16th of September, our forces under Qen. Lee had gathered and were in line of battle near the village of Sharps- burg, now as famed in history as Marathon, Phar saua, or Waterloo, inousanas or neerts were throbbing with anxiety and deep concern, on either side, as the sun arose on the morning of the 17th and gilded with his earliest rays the hill-tops in that distriat of Maryland. Slowly but unmistakably the dreadful conflict was beginning, that awful Strug gle which witnessed the last of so many noble Southern patriots and soldiers. By 8 o'clock, the hour at which Cooke's regiment went into the en gagement, the fight was general and terrific. For four hours they, pressed forward steadily upon the thick ranks of the enemy, when the order was given to charge him at a double-quick. Then more fierce The conflict grew ; the din of arms the yell . Of savage rage the shriek of agony , The groan of death, commingled in one sound Of undistinguish'd horrors." As Cooke's regiment hurried onward, and still more wildly and fiercely onward, through the high green corn, a fearful shower of all kinds of missiles was falling, like a drenching rain, upon his gallant soldiers. Just about twelve o'clock and in the hot-' test of this arge, leading his men bravely forward, Capt. Adams received a shot in his abdomen, and, falling, was caught by a man in hU rear, and laid upon the ground. Placing his hand upon the wound, he exclaimed: " am a dead man." Some one asked him, if they should bear him from the field, to which he made the noble response : " Leave tne and fight on, let me die upon the field J" In five minutes, his spirit had taken its flight forever. Gloriously did he die ! Like the thane of Cawdor, . Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it." " Rest well assured, that I shall keep perfectly cool; and if we are attacked, I .shall endeavor to do my whole duty. If I did not, I should not hereafter consider myself worthy, in my own estimation, to be called your eon." This he penned to his father previous to his departure from the Fort ; but he bore himself on his last field as if he even then remember ed the proud lines he had indited several months before. Truly, he acted cooly, courageously, wor thily, illustriously as any of the bravest of his pre decessors in martyrdom. Of him Brig. Qen. Jno. R Cooke thus wrote to his father : " It gives me, his former commander, great pleasure, to be able to r inform you, that he stood high in his regiment as a gentleman and a soldier, and died as only a brave man could, fighting nobly on the bloody field of 8harpeburf ." More could not be said of this immor tal youne oflicer. At one stride, he went to glory ! A patriotio and excellent lady of Shepherdstown received the remains of Capt. Adams into her nouse. when they reached there, and,, with her gentle and loving hands, helped to prepare him for his quiet and lone rest in the narrow chamber of the grave. Be fore the lid was cloeed over his heioio form, she cut a lock of hair from bis head, which she kindly . :,.,! w tt'.U n Kin orieTed mother. Her iruiiuiiiicv J - m letter, communicating his death and burial, is full of tenderness, and heart felt sympathy, and eondo lence. Young in years, high in hopes, illustrious in daring and" chivalrous deeds, mourned Dy ms country, immortal in honors, young Adams is now silently obeying that great law of nature, ".vust to dust." on the green and blood stained bank of he majestic Potomac. Heroic sou of tne outn. .-.o more wilt thou be seen in our midst forever ; no more wilt thou greet us with thy sunny smile; no more, cheer the brave to victory and glory ; no never ajrain; but thou wilt live in our deepest aHec tions : there, so long aa life lasteth, will flourish in perpetual freshness, thy nobleness of heart, thy splendid genius, thy intrepid heroism, thy -peerless patriotism ! And oft by that blue gashing stream. Shall Sorrow lean her drooping head. And feed deep thought with many a dream, And angering pause and lightly tread ; Fond wretch I as if hex stap diaturb'd tha dead I A OaNoadlsUx Tiw tlso VaUtuidighsua The Northtro State, are fan workinr eat the destiny of all previous republics, and appear enly to await the advent of him who, with resolute arrasp, shall be bold enough to seise despotic power that Lin ooln has only veo tared to essay. If citi. tens may be teixod, imprisoned, tried by court-martial, after the model of thai which baa convicted Mr. Vallandigham, there is little left to be overcome in the desecration of publie liberty. It is a mel ancholy evidence of the state of the country wbao aaeh things occur with the ordinary appliances of party rindictiveness ; but to And that this raaa was watched and tracked for the purpoa of entrapping hia, and that the spies were officers of the army disguised, and acting ander authority, is so repulsive to the British notion of the free dom of the subject, that we can hardlj con ceive how a people, of late so vaunting of their liberty as were Americans, can be found to tolerate so gross a violation. On no one charge waa there tho slightest ground for conviction. The witnesses spoke of what they remembered to have been said. They acknowledged that they attended the meeting fox tbje purpoao of conviction, and the judge a--Tocate threw every obsta cle in th way Xt the prisoner's exculpa tion. Tbe defence wae as clear and unbU aaed as it was conclusive ot innocence, and the mind of any dispassionate person, after reaaing tne evidence, must be impressed with the conviction that the trial was a foul mockery, and that the sentence, if carried out, is oold-blooded and deliberate murder. Quebec Paper. Thk Recognition Delusion. The DeoDle nf ik. (V.r.J O 1 l' ' v bun vyumcMorate oiaiea nave oeon so deeply interested in the important events transpiring within their own territory for several months post that they have almost forgotlon to speculate on tbe probabilities ! f : " . mi ui luroign recognition tnev nave ceased to care for the opinion of Lord Palmersion or Louis Napoleon on the subject, and have very sensibly concluded that the scknowl. edge ment of our independence will come as sj "n as wo are able to convince our enemies of the utter hopelessness ot the contest in which they are engaged. The people are continent ot final success and ultimate re. cognition, and believing this, tbey no long er leel anxious to learn tbe action of for eign powers. It is an excellent tpjng for uur cause that tbey have arrived at such a conclusion. During the first year of tho war both people and Government most eagerly scanned every item of foreign news in the hope of finding something to indi cate that our Confederacy was to be re cognised. Thirty, sixty or ninety days was tbe furthest point of timo to which such recognition could be delayed, but as the months rolled by and uo action was taken, tbe delusion became more apparent, until now no one believes that recogni tion will come speedily or that it will be very important when it does. Conscious of their own strength and confident of as sured independence, the peoplo have learned to smilo at the hesitation of foreign powers, and to look with feelings akin to indifference on their deli&erations. Montgomery Advertiser. Anecdote or Jackson. In the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, lately held in Columbia, one of the mem 1 bors, Col. Preston, of Virginia, in speaking on the death of Jackson, related the fol lowing : Will the Assembly pardon me. Mr. Mode rator, for narrating an anecdote which is characteristic of him. At the battle of Manassas the victory was decided in our avor by the co operation ot the armies ot Johnston and Beauregard. Johnston's army eaviug their camps, leaving their loe in ront of them, suddenly crossed the moun tains, and by his forced marchos, first gained for Jackson's troop- tho name of toot cavalry. Jackson, that night, ordered out his usual pickets, but the omcer 01 tne guara came to him and told him that the soldiers were all asleep completely exhausted and aaked whother he should arouse them. No,' replied the General, 'let our men sleep 1 will watch tbe camp, and silently he rode round that s.eepinir bost, he the only sentinel, until the day broke in the east. Arrest of an Absconding Clerk Offi cers Seal and Davis, ot the City Police, yesterday morning succeeded in effecting the arrest of James A. Edie, Iae clerk ot James H. Taylor, of Charleston S. C, who absconded not long ago, taking with him 118,600 of his employers funds. Th offi cers found him in a house kept by Jose phine Demeritt, on 10th street. When Edie left Charleston, he addressed a letter to Mr. Taylor, dated on board a steamer about to sail for Nassau, acknowledging tho thoft, and promising to return the money as soon as he was able. Circumstances, however, convinced Mr. Taylor, that this was merely a ruse, and that be was still in this country. Consequently ne causea the robbery to be extensively adrortised, offerine $1,000 reward and one-fourth of the money which mignt oe recovcrou, ior the apprehension of Edie. Our polico re cently got information that he was in Rich mond, and by close inquiry succeedei in tracing him to tbe house on 10th street, and arresting bim as above stiited. Uo will be sent to Charleston at an early day. His remaining funds were found deposited at tbe Powhatan Hotel, but the amount hua not transpired. Edie is a Canadian by b-rth, and about thirty years of ago. Richmond Whig. DIED, Killed At Chancellorsville, in the battle of the 3d of May, Sergeant Joalah Presnell of Co. I, 22d Eegt N C. T. aged 26 years. The deceased was one oi iMinmuuti - , of that numDer 01 oraT uu cuv vwi u nobly rashed to thjpeld or denger w&en our cruel i foe had first inraded our toil. His conduct asaj oldier waa as bu lne nea aiwaja oeen wniie in . . ... t i i v i?e. peaceful employment, emctij nonoraoie ana up right nd while winning the admiration of all the officers of his Regiment, atUacted in a peouliar man ner the respact and devotion oi his comrades in arm. He feel pierced with six minie balls, within a short distance of the enemy's line, hating passed unharm ed through U previous battles. He leares a young and interesting wife loaaoorn his lose, while all who knew aim feel bared of a ganarooa friend. Co. Correspondence of the Patriot. FROM THE SIXTH BEGIMENT. Camp near, Hamilton's Ckossino, June 1, 1863.' Messes. Editors: Sincemy last letter, nothing has occurred between the contend ing armies of the Rappahannock which would interest or amuie the reader. Hook ef seems to be withdrawing his forces from the vicinity of Fredericksburg for the pur- pose, we suppose, of establishing a new base at some more impregnable point, but where this point may be, would be hard to conjecture; some rumors are afloat that he is moving up the river. Should this be correct, perhaps he will try Richmond by way of Culpeper C. H. Another says he ii moving down in the direction of Aoquia Creek. Should this be the case, we would very naturally presume that he was. aiming to try the "Old Peninsula route" and finally wind up bis bloody career by imitat ing his illustrious predecessor, George B. McClellan. We care not what route the Yankee General may decide upon, he will find it by far the hardest, most diflcult and withal the most hazardous road he ever traveled before. Our army is at present in splendid condition, fully as strong and better equipped than it was previous to the recent battles, and we flat ter ourselves that we are fully able to whip tho enemy meet him where we may: Everything is very quiet about camp, nothing occuring to break the spell of dull monotony which haunts the soldier from day to day. We occasionally hear a rumor from Vicksburg, but rumors are so very in credible that we pay but very slight atten tion to them ; the latest news' we have from that quarter is 'anything else but cheering. We very much fear that Vicks burg will finally " go up." Should it fall into tbe hands of tbe enemy, wo are ready every man of us to redouble our erf rts in this State and rather than be conquere l by the insolent Vandals, Virginia shall become a national cemetery. The " old 6th" is in splendid health and spirits, not over twenty off duty" casos in the regiment, and most of those are able to destroy their rations. We arc badly in noed 'of rain to settle tbo dust, which is extremely disagreeable lo-day. More anon. SERGEANT SINCLEAR. - Correspondence of the Patriot. THE ENEMY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. On Picket at Gum S wamj, Juno 4, 18G3. Messrs. Editors: In this great war where tho armies are made up Dot by the thousands but tho hundreds of thousands, and from whom something so torriblo is always oxpocted, many inoidonts, in naore ' quiet departments, that are worthy of note, are lost sight of or entirely forgotten in the great eagerness of all to learn of tho dread ful carnage that marks tho course of the armies of Virginia and of the groat South west. Thus, in Eastern North Carolina, have occurred many events during this struggle which, in any previous war, would have attracted universal attontion, that are un known except to tbe actors themselves, and are without record even in the paper of our own State. Many years hence, when our people shall a?ain be free and happy no longer cursed .with the calamity of war all these incidents of the past, handed down by the varnishing hand of tradition, will be the means of eolivenment around the cheerful fireside, and, searched after with strictest care and nicety, will br. compiled into a separato history, at once attractive and exciting, which will be read with avidity by all. The anxious reader, searching carefully every corner of bis paper, that be may find all the news, occasionally, (much to his surprise,) stumbles on a casual paragraph, stating that "all is quiet bolow Kinston and in Eastern North Carolina, with the oxcoption of a slight skirmish a few days since, in which we had two or three wounded, and the enemy close on to tbe same number." This read, thq paper is finished and laid aside tho reader yawns and in five minutes forgets whether Kins ton is on the Neuso or the Blackwater, and finds his memory very indistinct as to whether it was Newbern that was aban doned to the. Yankees or the salt works below Wilmington. If accounts of the "skirmish" are so meagre as to bo forgotten in five minutes, of course the reader loses sight altogethor of the marching and manceuvering by which it was brought on; known nothing of the wading of tbe troops through nwamps and tbickots, or marching on the main road, choking with dast, suffocating with heat, and some dropping dead in the rants, over powered by all these difficulties; nor does ho imagino that tho destruction of private property and the dooolation lollowing the fooihtepH of the frecboo'.orrt in thin State, in equal, (and in places far greater) than that which has marked tho rjource of Lin coln's grand army in Virginia. Tbo suffer ings of citizens in this particular hero has indeed been so great that it seems k deeper hatred, from some cause, is felt by the hirelings towards the loyal peoplo of North Carolina, than against those ot any other State, (unless it be ouo district -of S. C), where we have had tho opportunity of be coming acquainted since tbo war. No ?;entleman of wealth or position has been ree from persecution for a moment, where they could obtain accebs, until, his proper, tv stolen and Dlantations trampled and . i , . i - r a aesiroyeu, uo eeB i ciugu F m v,uUnjr, leaving hia all in their hands. If he does not thus of bis own tree will, he will hnaliy be compelled to do so, for his presence would be tolerated only long enough for bis roof to be in flames over his head, and his family subjected to all manner of abuse and ill-treatment. No sooner does a refugee fly from his home, than his house is visited by Yankee
The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.)
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