THE 'GiSMS
STOEO
OT PATRIOT
Volume XXV.
or
SOUTHERN FREEB8M.
T HAKIT HALL,
Friend after friend departs!
Who has not lost a friend?"
THE OUILPORD DIXIE BOYS.
jr9lt ASIiERSOS MQXTOOMKBY.
'Mmugh the mild lustre of patriotic devotion lin
kers about the bumble but proud names of hit an
' -''ry ; yet the noble martyrdom-of Jesse Anderson
M'ititgotiit-rjr need no borrowed honors to inter-
rent he U- laurel chaplel that encircles his
v iftiful brow, lie npired to nothing great, he
n'T ' -tired to enjojr the conscioumeM of baring
ii-i Lti ged hit whole duty to the cause of his native
ti'jn. I'll it he nobly did, but at the cost of his
frlily budding lite.
1 lut )'itijr soldi, r was born in the county of
ri.gp in 1 1. it State, on the 2 1st day of October,
Mi great grandfather, William Montgome
ry, v-n a private noldier at the Kegulation battle at
Iamane and was aid to have fired the last gun
ik! thr troopi of Gov. Tryon; and his grandfather,
l ihn Moftgoiuery, wi in the militia service in the
.q p K?r country and was in some slight skirmish
it!i thr ikiilking and marauding Tories.
Ili father, Mr. Jete Montgomery, moved, during
In- boyhood, to the county of Guilford, where Jesse
v'rew up t young manhood. His education was
limited, iff read very well , could write a fair
h in I but did not compose with ease and fluency;
ur, I hud advanced in arithemetic only as far as the
-'rii'li' rule of three. He lived with hit father and
tirir.g bun in the rultivation of his growing
cr.j . w h.n ,tif bided to enlist in defence of our
ti.inoii coin, tiy against the arbitrary despotiim
wh-h wt thin priuging up in the Northern wing
I the ..Id U public If was not eighteen when
in- became i fIuiit'or-olilier. No doubt, he wsh
I n i jiti I by is spirit akiu to that of his two patriot
i .u.'-trt. when he proffered to lay his life down
in i v i ih. on the alur of human freedom. Though
tin if i- " tliinjf painfully sail in seeing one so
! t. fill iin.l v ith kui L an ripectaney of happiness
! .-('it.- him pouring out hit life-blood fox the cause of
t - otihtry . y i t u-h it the libation, which inde
nt, lint liberty n-'juirrt to si-cure the riches tnd
iii of her ble"itig,
which lar
tiittuirie the wealth of Ormut a nd of Ind."
After he had been lor xevrral months in the scr-
ii-i-, ut natural for om; of his years, he had a
i"tigmg 'Ic-ire t u i.nt home and see the loved ones
f hi lather hoiito, though he was not disposed to
1 u' the army. Hut
There comes
Korever something between us and what
We deem our happiness. ''
No tuilotilit for even a few days could be ob-
laifinl. Th'.ith ui-h a course did not seem to be
ill. t iled by wi.tdoni. yet it was at rigidly and gruffly
. . i i I, ,1 u,i ,kv . kj i,i tie soiuiert cop-
t.-nted and pi rle tly happy. Still he did not let this
litmb " the even tenor of his way." Hewaslive
! it, I i heei -Jul in hit liepnition, of blaud manners,
ii, I km I hc-wtel, always looking on the bright side
I ! lung.
Me ut mu. h 'li-snti.tfied with the course pur-
. I by ('..tigress an I the Liecutivc toward the
v'.!l,mt twelve months volunteers in conscribing and
- 1 1 1 llmg them to remain iu the public service,
while ilmiisandt of others had not Buttered and en
I i.. l anything in ctablihing their own indepen
!. -ii. mu I wcie accumulating private fortunes to
!! . injury of even the very cause for which he was
I .r'.t.g lie would have cheerfully staid six
. !, h Imiger in the army , while the raw recruits at
' n, " were drilled and inured to the soldier life,
m i'. ut uny cntnpi Itory law, if a disposition bad
I I n nruiiiesied by the government to treat them
ii h tii t jutire .m l generosity, which were due the
mi n tii if le.i e l to our detence nt the first call and
i t ie the iroveriiinent all that it was. He could not
no li refund that it was necessary to clothe soldiers
in the habiliments of servitude, in order that they
i. ;.'-:t' :ic.ir the right to wear the garments of
i i . . u iieii-hip. Still be acjiiietced in the hard
tern, nt tbii new l:w which was sprung upon the
i ountry, ,ii .1 went with the daring and impetuous
I .. 'lethri'iigb the brilliant campaign of Jackson in
i., re.it valley of Virginia, participated in the
h.n I loo'lii t attb s of t'otil Harbor and Malvern
Mi'.!, einliited the hardship of some of the severest
i iichei ,.f the war, Wat under a terrific cannonade
ii S 'i-ik'li'er Mountain, and lost his life in the sharp
. iv ii tiient win. h I'.rig. Gen. Trimble had with the
.1 . i . i ii i
1 1,
ti
re iy Millie i.fk oi naei arui .torm ivappanan
. Kivi-rt on the '.'Ju l il.iv of August, b2. The
in nt had jost rttcende I a email knoll w hen they
ti Hik-ht of at., I were tired upon by the enemy.
ti a- t'-.i-v delivered their fire, they dropped to
'I-. .
hi. I whue loiiding his iiiuaket, young
M . ' ri.inery .i- -ii.,i through the head and breast
i'vit. il t rw ud in li-u'li After they gallantly
ire, -mi I lf(.e tin iitikee across the Ka-pa
I I'm hi , mii rn -le burricil him with the rest
v ! i i-i i. del there In abmutiful dell near the
iiih- ,. -he ,(un tlv tniif murriug llaicl.
I !, i-. live. I hu died he. never more c.n hiin
. . 1 1 . w Ivht, .r pain He wat not made
i , i . , i w-1 1 V' " or nmoii lh inner weight to bear
U I, u Ii i-ol li-r lie.irt i in line till thev are laid
I.
S if
in c.irl Ii
1U.I ! ai !1 MMKR4.
Hi'! t ii l.lwml . born in (Itiilfoi I county,
i t'ar.'lii.'k. 'ti tbo l-th of June, ls;i'.. He is a
,.i . ' tbe Wtr .bd Su!iiineii. Hit fattier died bc-
-f ,f reiritrl hi edii atinn : but hi mother,
1 pt'li rv I'm r, i, in if 1 to keep him at school,
a I tie . , u'. l ie. id, write, cipher and givti t very
'.i mI !e d i ijiiicn of the earth.
r f iriurr, and, ir the Spring of lS'l.he
, 1 in with Mm Mii e to tuake a crop on her
I ,' i' ti. Ill ground were prepared, and his
i ",o t irrow. whett he determined to rujh to
' ! !,. lu rountry. Like Cini mnatus, he
'. i. ' iii i. :,v, ' lu field muHt go untilled this
i in i i forwarded to the field where honor
I !u . I in wi n- t,, bo won or lost.
II,' :f. t t.e tune, at the head of the cooking de
y li t , i t' ' i t lie oi .j my He took a great interest
in. i n ir.g '-n i bat depart met.t a nicely at possible,
:u. I.e ue l .ill hi fK;ll in prej atmg tbe siufjde
r Ure in 'ood ai.d palatable Mjle.
II. . good uat.ireJ. mil l, amiable young
ti, an inli a lut mu ari'1 gallant private. He
I r :i!l the bur Iklnj of tlie cauip and march with
ui. . i., on pat eiKO and liveliness ot heart After h
i, I h. k It otu Muaau n. 1 Crntreville, ebi-
i t I tor over a month ou the banks ot the Rap
I v ,.., , Win all the rain, muj, snow and cold
, : - ii '.y Marrlt. The cxpusur made hitu
- He i i. ot naturally tout and could not stand
, nHH vUafigc of that itaiva. Kaily in. April,
GHEE3STSBOROTJGII, 1ST.
he wm sent to the hospital at Camp L nr Rich
mond and remained thert until he died onth7thof
Ot-tober, 182. 'TU. passing strange, tkat ha was not
furloughed home when it waa known that an incur
able malady was eating out his subttanco and con
suming the taper of his life. It would have.somt
what soothed the agonies of his departure from this
world to have been encircled by the friends of his
youth and affection in the rude cottage-home of his
mother. But this felicity is often unnecessarily and
cruelly denied to the noble and chivaloric soldier of
our country. He was burried there by stranger
hands in that strange land which he had gone to
defend ; but the eye of Him, who is ruler of all ar
mies, was upon him, and Hit sngels will guard the
spot where he sleepeth !
' BOBIBT lASKIN COBB.
Richard Henry Wilde, in his inimitable little
long, The laat Roe of Summer," hath uttered
the sad and touching lament :
" My life is like the autumn leaf
That trembles in the moon's pale ray,
Iu hold is frail, its date is brief,
KesMess and soon to pass away."
This was literally and strikingly true of young Ro
bert Rankin Cobb, the eldest ion of the late Samuel
Cobb, who was born on the 6th of May, 1 843 in the
county of Guilford.
So soon as he was large enough and whenever an
opportunity presented itself, his mother sent him to
school, until he became a fair and respectable Eng
lish scholar. He was a nice, quiet, unastumming
and modeit boy, and was a great help and joy to his
mother. He was never wild, nor inclined to disipa
tion. Even before he made a profession of religion,
be bore hinteelf so meekly and circumspectly, that
he then seemed to all who knew him to be walking
with God. At the age of seventeen, he connected
himself with the church at Frieden, in which
he walked uprightly and safely so long as his tender
life was ppared.
He was a little less than eighteen years old, when
the war broke out ; but he determined to volunteer
his services as early as May 1C1 in defence of the j
.Southern Confederacy. It was exceedingly nnfor- i
tunate for his mother, for he was just at that age,
when he waa becoming very useful to her and his
younger brother and sisters. But, no doubt, it was
best, that he should have taken the course he did in
the matter, though it is not possible for short-sighted
human wisdom to understand and justify the ways
of Ood.
His life, as a soldier, was entirely unblemished.
He was kind, cheerful, hopeful and exceedingly af
fectionate in his disposition; and he always did his
duty promptly and ungrudgingly. On the field of
battle, -he was cool and brave. He was never at sick
hospital ; but he was at one time suf&ienlly unwell
to have gone thither. He prefered to be with his
fellow soldiers in their catup Though he waa ap
parently rather a frnil tenemeat, yet he was stout
enough to go all the rounds of his gallant regiment
up to the . memorable battle of Fredericksburg.
There, after a splendid and fucces(ul charge by his
regiment, on their retreat by the orderof the General
in commnrd. he received what was thought to be a
slight wound in the soft part of his palm. He was
. .r . .. . j tmt iu A - ---
ervsipelas on the 2Sth of January, lfe')3.
His mother sent alter nis remains, mu uu mc ou
day of March they were interred at the church to
which he belonged. -
" Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew,
He spwkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven."
Written for the Patriot.
NORTH CAROLINA IN THIS WAR.
North Carolina was tho last of the Old
Thirteen Colonics to enter tbe Union, and,
slow in her action, because wise in her
councils, sho was the last one to leave it.
Sho seceded at a lato hour in the crisis, and
so little tho good feoling for her on the
part of tho other Southern States that not
a gun was fired nor a bell ropo shaken in
honor ot that event, or to bid her welcome
into tho young sisterhood of States. No;
the remark was too common : " The old
Tar State is sleeping; her people are not
tbo sort to fight let them slumber on,
ioined totbeir idols." But Noith Caroli-
lina did sccedo, and her" children aroso at
the cry ot their old mothor, and armed
themselves for tbo struggle. Virginia was
the scat of war. and thither they repaired.
( )ti the low marshes of tho I'enmsula tbo
hated vandals are beginning that couiso of
raomo and idander which, since, tboy have
carried to many of the fairest portions of
tho Confederacy, rlashod with tho nopo
of an eauy victory, they como up frotnthe
ill fated Hampton to thrash out tho N. C.
rebele with corn-stalks, and force them to
neck a hiding place along the banks rf tho
York and in the depths of Cornwallis cave.
Here, for the first timo, small arms open in ( makes tho attack. Tho South in figbtirfg
this war for independence, and, amid tho j to bo let aloneaaud it acts on tho defen
rattlo of musketry, tho cowardly "Yankees j 6ivo. Tho South therefore cannot stop
are driven back in terror and confusion, j the war; bat tho North fan.
The tirvt vandal who yields upliis lifo on It is generally conceded by military men
the field ot battle, falls at tho crack of a N. i and admitted by most persons who are
C rifle, and Great Bethel makes berocn of familiar v ith Trans-Atlantic affairs, that
that tirrt Regiment of N. C. soldiers. Ha I the North cannot overcome and subdue
old Uip Van Winkle is awaking, and here
i? tho beginning of her glory, but where
is its halo extending ? Yo shall see!
ManaoHas! tho trial for supremacy the
test of strength between (be f resh and lin-
tried armies of Lincoln and tho Confeder -
ncy ; and, proud Cay lor the bouth tor it
wn the testimony ot bouthern chivalry
..; ... 1, .n,l.,:,n Tk
triumphing over Yankee audacity. There
N. C did her whole duly, and, whilo Geor
a ... .
gia gave the generous Bartow, she yielded
up tho intrepid risher, as tbe first of her
oflenngs on the altar ol liberty.
Hut, shall we speak ol tbo dead 7 Yes
wo will
Speak of the dead ; let their names be heard
There is a tuournlul magic in every word;
A buly i harm that thrills the heart,
Tho' the sigh will come, and the tear will start."
Then, not Fisher alone go back to the ; the embarrassments with which that party
lVninsula; McClellan with his host is com- can surround Mr. Lincoln, and all the dit
ing on like a billow of tho ocean ; and, ficultuies that it can throw in tho way of
though our littlo army can make no stand, j tho war party in tho North, operate di
yet N. C. soldicts can go out and confront rectly as so much aid and comtort to the
him. At Dam No. 1, another namo is . South.
added to our list of martyrs, and now that
boil is tasting the blood of our soldiers. At
illiamsburg, what single .Regiment,
alono and unsupported, drives back, with
tho lury of a whirlwind, a young host of.
Philistines No answer from Richmond,
but read, (and it is not the least of their
glories,) they extort truth Irom a liar Mc- this road to peace, and, consequently in
Clellan tells it in his dispatches ! The fifth our favor, notwithstanding these military
N. C, although her gallant Colonel in set reverses.
undo Irom promotion, becomes first on the Notwithstanding these, tho war is bo
roll of honor. ' coming more and more urpopular in the
We stop not with tbo fifth Regiment North. In proof of this I point to the con
come nearer the Capital. At Seven Pines, duct of tbe Pennsylvania! during Lee's
tho enemy must be checkod; his strong
works matt be stormed and ho mast find no
resting place, onlj beyond tbo Cbickabom
iny. North Carolinans are chosen to this
work, and how do they attend to its execu
tion ? Let tbo grave at the brink oftboee
ditches let the bones whitening in the
un light all over that marshy plain, be the
only answer to the question, isow, indeed,
has this soil of Virginia taken a doep
draught ot the blood of Carolina soldiers, it
is good blood, and pure its taste is deli
cious : and, for the seven terrible da s 10
succession, that -soon followed the first bat
tle on tho Cbickahominy, Virginia driiks
down deep of that blood, and has not, even
yet. her fill sho gloatingly cries lor more.
Ah ! how much better tor the thousands
apon thousands of tender orphans, the did
consolate widows and weeping Rachels,
whose wails go ap from oar valleys and
mountains, had God in his mercy spared
them, and had those red, swimming gob
lets, which give life and annimation to the
1 . . I r . . T Tf; l . . I
oaiiie least in v lrginia, never oeen lasieu.
We will dwell no longer on the fearful
scenes of blood and carnago, beginning at
Mechanicsville and ending at Malvern Hill,
bat will go with oar army from the Cbick
ahominy to tho Hapidan. At Cedar Moun
tain, North Carolinians again b'como he
roes, and, under the r invincible Jackeon,
move on to new fields of glory. On the
Plains of Manassas, blaze again the fire it of
battle, and where one year before was left
Fiaherjpierced with the deadly missile, now
fights bis immortal old Regiment, with
hosts of their brethren, who drove the dis
comfited enemy like chaff before tho wind.
The groans of the dying are bushed amid
such shouts of victory, and wo have no time
to think oi the dead. On to tbo Potomac
in the enemy's own country, and with
the best blood of the land, North Carolina
sealrt her devotion to oar cause on tbo soil of
the stranger.
Back from the Potomac to tho Rappa
hannock, and, at Fredericksburg, her name
remains untarnished indeed, additional
lustres are added to her glory. At Chan
cellorsville, where the dead and wounded
He in great heaps through every thicket
and on every hillside, while fire and smoke
consume them, two. thirds of the slain alone
are North Carolinians.
Shall we go again across the border ?
Mast we behold her gailant Regiments
swooping on in tho mighty charge see
her brave sons meeting death with a calm
ness which sbows only a regret that ''they
have but one life to give to their country."
Must wo look on these scenes of horror to
prove that the old North State is true to
ber trust? Mast we see among the slain
those lor whom, not N. C. ulone, bat the
army and tho whole- Confederacy, mast be
draped in mournicg? Then see the gal.
lant Pender, whose daring and skill has
won the day on moio fields than one, re
ceive his death wound, and but stay,
cruel hand, pare us that one, the soldier's
fai"iJ "i iS"xJetiigrow, tue lust aiiu uestoi
all ; ho, too, is falicn
Then no ono shall doabt the fealty of
North Carolina to the cause of. tho Con
federacy, for who mistrusts her soldiers in
tho hour of danger? We do not claim that
ho has achieved more honor than hur tes
ters that would bo ungenerous ;but, we
do claim that North Carolinans in this
war for independence, have won a name
that shines like letters of gold on the roll of
fame, and, though they may havo scurn
ers and rovilers, yst ihoy are not prepur.
ed to blot out that name by a single act ol
dishonor, nor do they believe that the State
which it i their prood boast to ropix sent,
will ever bo guilty of an act that will cause
them to hang their heads with shame and
disown their old mothor. And may wc
not also claim that when the Monument to
theUnkkown shall havo been erected,
that as pure marble as builds that struc
tute, and as proud a shaft as rears itself
aloft, shall bo to tho memory of the dead
from North Carolina. EUSEBIUS.
From the London Times.
LETTER FROM COM. MAURY.
So far from the prospect of the Soulh
looking "bluo," they wore never brighter.
I think 'ou will also so consider them
if yoa will for a moment occupy with me
the only blandnoint from which a correct
view may bo had of tho American struggle.
In the fjrht place, what, let us inquire, is
the object of the belligerents in this war?
Tho North is fighting for conques. aud
tbe South. All the world k nows that it is
no part of the programme of the South to
attempt to subjagato the North. This it
neither would, should nor can do.
Again, almost all tho statesmen, either
( of England or of tho continent, who have
! watched the progress of events Binco the
i war bogan admit that the Union, the bond
r i i i . r
of which was voluntary fraternization,
cannot be restored by lorco of arms
Since, then, the Union is gono, and neith
er party can subjugate the other, it follows
that the war is not to bo ended by the
sword.
Other agents have to bo called in play.
What are they ? Let ns inquire. They
are, divisions in the camp of tho enemy,
dissensions amodg the people of the North.
There is already u peaco party there. All
1 As as offset, then, acainst tho tide of
military reverses which in the first weeks
of July ran so strong against the South,
and Irom which our friends in England
seem not to havo recovered, let us look to
those agencies that aro to end tho war, and
inquire what progress has beca made on
i invasion ol that State, to the riots in N . Y.,
C, SEPTEM BEE
to the organized resistance to the war in
lowa, and to other circumBtancei with
which the English public has been made
acquainted by tho newspaper press.
New York is threatening armed resis.
tance t the Federal Government. New
York is becoming the champion of States'
rigths the North and to that extent is
taking Southern ground. Mr. Lincoln has
not only jadged.it expedient to unmuzzle
the press in New and deemed it prudent to
give vent to tre0 apeech there, . but he is
evidently afraid to enforce the conscirption
in the Empire State." The Conscription
act itself, moreover, sooms to be so abor
tive throughout Yankee land generally that
be cannot now muster forces enough to fol
low up his J uly suocesses. Grant has be
come afraid of Johnston's decoy, which
aimed to entice him off to the swamps and
canebreaks ol the Mississippi. He has,
therefore, given up the so-called pursuit
and taken to his darling gunboat.
Banks has left Port Hadaon, to be rout
ed., it is said beyond the Mississippi by
Taylor, with severe loss.
itosencranB has not sufficiently recover
ed from the blow that Bragg gave him
last Christmas in Murfreesboro' to follow
up thatn-etiring Confederate, while Bragg
has forces in the Federal General's rear.
In the attack upon Charleston the ene
my is losing ground. He is evidently giv
ing way. He has boen driven from Jamos
Island, and we are planting batteries there
which will sweep Morris Island, which is
nothing bat sand beach. So Charleston may
be considered safe.
As for Meade, he simply stands at bay
behind Leo.
Thus the military tide which set in with
so much Federal promise on the young
flood in July, and which has so damppen
ed tbe bpirits of our English friends &nd
depressed Southern securities, and appears
suddenly to have slackened, and to be on
the point of again turning in our favor,
and that, too, under auspices which seem
moro propitious than over.
Vallandigham waits and watches over
the border, pledged if elected Governor of
tho State of Ohio to array it against Lin
coln and war, and go for peace. What the
result of the election there will be 1 cannot
tell ; bat the canvass is goingon, and we
know that opposition to Lincoln and his
wjr party is growing more and more pop
ujar every day, and throughout tbe whole
North. Witness Burnside's decree, put
ting, in violation of all legal right and con
stitutional power, tho State of Kentucky
under martial law, and that, too, jast ns
tho elections are coming: off in that Stato.
no orders the commissioners of elections
to lot none voto but friends of Lincoln and
the Un ion ; and fhe last steamer brings tho
announcement, in the jubilant rhetoric of
toe ranKeo press, "The Union ticket has
boon elected in Kentucky by a large ma
jority. Well it might; there was no oth-
)t 11 . Ulli 1UI IUIO l;iO I UK. uvrwwitit, .-
Lincoln and the war, put Kentucky under
martial law At this lato day at all : Simply
becauso of tho growing activity and in
creasing energy of those influences which
uro at work in tbe cause of peace, and
therefore on the tide of the sword of the
South. These influences are doing more
towards bringing the war to an end than
nil rho battles that have been ioagut Since
tho war began havo done.
Indeed, t,o straightened is Mr. Lincoln at-
.. . ' . . ..
this moment that his partisans are resort-
ing to a desperate ganre. lhey aro endeav-
onng to raise tho war cry against France
and England, hoping thereby to rally the
people to arms, and intending, if success
f , ' , . n . . .i u,u
lul, to send tuo dupes to fight their breth-
ren T tho South.
Nay, more; thero are rumors of a peaco
party in his Cabinet, and of a proposition
there to revoke tho emancipation procla-
, . . o .u
mauuii mm piutiuo0 toi mo vu m jvutU. Wcrc jovous to me-ten years ago.
The leading newspapers of the North men
tion this, and not with disapprobation. But since then a wild cry has been made
Nor aro these all the agencies that timo A cry from enenne- our country to invade,
and events aro bringing into play on the So .away with thePast-l.e it mine to forget
i l c ,i The hopes, the fond hopes that in darkness have set;
side of peace and the fcoutll. My country is blerding, my fcllowmen are slain,
The tajl of Vicksburg and Port Hudson While fighting for rights, our freedom to maintain ;
was, according to those who were Stirring Oh: may the time conic soon when war will be o'er,
tho 'Northwestern people up to War, to So I may realize the hopes of ten years ago.
open the way to market for them. Every , that time has g0Be by am, , ralIy asailli
Klighsh hotlSO in the Amencap traao As a warrior in battle whose brave sons are slam
knows that the broadstufFs of Ohio and the Oh! "Heaven," I cry, my bleeding country save,
Northwest had, for years before the war, May it be known there's a haud to shield the brave,
npnrkM. to nass bv New Orleans v,n
" i v j rpk..- .(
the way to markets abroad, lhey went
up to the lakes, and so, via canal and rail,
to Boston and New York for exportation
tn fnri(rn countries. Can any one in tho
trade nrett nd that England would kavo
taken a shioload moro of American flour
had the Mississippi been open all tbe war? ham Lincoln, recently presented a Cenled- through the laud, and all have felt, in a greater or
Chicago, and not New Orleans, fras for orato jack to tho gunboat Huntsvillo, at Mo-; ie8s degree, the iron hand of war. A great and
ye:trs boen tho grand graillnarket 'of tho i0 . ' glorious nation is strugg'iug to be born and wonder
West, and, except London, it is the great- Jt .g ft felrng0 fact t ;)at nearlv, if not all, i.,g kingdoms and distant empires are stilled with
est tnlbe world. ... of Mrs- Lincoln's relatives, aro heart and 'listening a.pe an 1 admiration, watching this great
There was on tbo lower Mississippi a goJi of the cuug0 of Southern indepen-' c: of human events. Let them not, I pray you
largo trade in breadstuff's and provisions dence Tw0 0f nCr brothers have fallen in ; be shocked with the spectacle of domestic strife and
Irom the States above. This trade was defengQ 0f tne South, and another was : pctty, malignant feuds. Let not our enemy be re
cbiefly with tho planters of tho "South. taken prisoner at Vicksburg, where, at tho joiced to behold our strong arms and stronger devo-
LSUt tno- navo ueou ucbjjuiicu, t
tationslaid waste, their stocK taten away,
their bouses burnt and they themselves
banished. In short, those fighting farmers
of the Upper Mississippi are likely soon to
fi rwl nut
i hat it is Lincoln and his heuten-
ants and nobody elso who nave Kiuea toeir
imnsnnf tho trolden eggs. Those cute
"IWh-Pves" "Suckers" and "Hoosiers,
na thr li.-nizens of Ohio and
hr sister
States aro called, aro bound b-foro long to
discover this.
rthis. .A"?"?
kcly to incline ui - . F N- .
moro li
or to revive in tnem uiu
the latter, Certain y
This disappointment .
uuu
. : . ..i f u..
these farmers with redonoiea orce u
oi tne
ibundant harvest here. This is a pont o
wbich I wish yoa would dwell
view upon
with mo tor a
moment.
!. .. ,v,; tho Sooth sent annum
- I
uri1 ii r luio
ly to England some 1-UW or
I Oil
1 of stuff, consisting cnieuy aa
known
ot
cotton, rice,
toDacco, navai
.tn.an.ii iii hkn. ine war puti oiui
SB I O UUU vv - ft .
all this. But hince the war tbe crops have
been short until now-so snori a -j,--
employment to nearly the whole flee
ships in brining meat and bread here to
your peopl- irom the Northern Sutes.
.Notwubstandingino wunarw. "M.tZ' n .tnhhnrn ristance. forced to yield,
' . . . r,n
n-.rolar bun nessol tho immenso uuiuuu.
!,?.. r,;n., vcl.ir li vas reauired annually to
get the Southern crops to market, and noU
17, 1863.
withstanding the loss to commerce of t.f
trade, neither tbe custom-house receipts of
tbe nation, nor iudock revenues, show any
corresponding falling off in its great busi
ness of -fetching and carrying by sea. The
receipts from the Liverpool docks, from
the Bristol docks, and from all the docks
on the island, I believe, show larger fig
ures this year than over before, and that in
despite of the very considerable reduction
in me rate ot charges. ,
Now, this shows plainly enough that
while tbe trade of tbe South has disappear
ed it has been made up from other quarters
and that more ships have been docked in
Liverpool and other British ports since they
lost the Southern, trade than ever before.
And it is to be accounted for in this way. By
a rather singular coincidence it so happen
ed that as tho markets in the South wore
shut off from the world, the harvests of
trance and England fell short, and the
cotton ships were required to fetch bread
from the North. As a cotton freighter
from the South the samo vessel eould not
carry more than two cargoes a vear, bat,
as a Drovision ship from, the North, she
could make five or six trips. Thus deck re
ceipts were increased. Moreover, ham and
ggs, butter and cheese, meat and bread,
paid more duties than cotton, and tbuscus.
torn house receipts wore also enlarged.
l hu8notwitbstanding the shutting up of
the Mississippi, which the North-western
farmer did not use for sending his grain to
sea, your short crops opsned a market for
him in which he did get something for bis
grain, and by reason of which tho North
had wherewithal to pay for importations.
Hence the Yankees, profiting by scarcity
here, have not felt the war as grievously
as they aro about to do.
Tho full harvest horo inTrlnnl
France, and the like of which has not been
known for many yoars, will mightily re
duce this corn trade of the North T, -t
ready a losing business, and the grain which
is to come will bo in the category of coals
to New Castle.
Hence 1 infer that, notwithstanding the
opening of the Mississippi, Northwestern
people will find a poorer market than ever
for their corn. With tho falling off of this
trade the Now York merchants will bo no
longer ablo to pay off their British credi
tors in grain ; they wilt, therefore, have to
part with their gold ; it will go up, and
greenbacks will come down, and so raise a
voice from th lower levels of society that
will be trumpet tongued for peaco. To
smother that voice, even now, Mr. Lincoln
has to keep an armed force, not only in
New York and Kentucky, but in Ohio, In
diana, and other States. He is even now
marching one up into Iowa, to put down
thero a cry for peaco. He is likely to have
occupation for all the recruits his conscrip
tion will give in keeping down his own
people.
Never were tho nmsnort. nf c...u
&nd striko whonovcr thero is an opportuni-
-y ior a goou strode, eune witn me swora
or with the pen. F. M. MAURY",
Bowden, Cheshire, Aug. 17th.
Written for tke Patriot.
X)j YEARS AGO.
Ten years ago when I was bu,t a boy,
There was a brilliant glow in my pearls of joy ;
There wa9 muic swf l- oa,t!.'e "phjr's wing,
In strains with wnich wild birds did sing ;
There music . , . .
Unruffled and bright as an eveni ng dream ;
And o'er my thought sweet visions.did float,
Like the melody of a spring-bird's note,
Ten years ago bright hopes had I then,
rj b?an tmusc Q the ture unseen
Fancying many pictures of pleasures to come,
Dreaming only that sweet flowers would bloom,
To sparkle around my pathway through life,
And make pain and pleasure both sweet alike ;
The autumn breeze and the winters snow,
let though destruction sweeps o er our plains,
ruse, ieiiow-men, our country reuiaius :
thatdear name vehe 8Word on high,
And gwear for her t0 nve with her to die.
j. T. M.
Rsilsville, N. C.
xir8 Clem White, a sister of Mrs. Abra
htad of his company, no Uia eiiecil7f
. aeajnst lD0 Yankees sent by his
brother-indaw to enslave us.
Atlanta Intelligencer.
; keep tilence before Him.
Somebody says : Thero is Ono perccp- , Instead of engaging in this unholy and unpatri
tion that a borSO pOSSesS, that but little otic strife and threatening to resist the laws of the
attention has been paid to. and that i the Unj anl endangering the peace of society, let u.
. i - : a ' . i -i i. t.
OOWCT to SCOtit. W Ith SOmo Iiorees u an
acute a
as a Clog B, tiiij i'ji uwm uu -'
I tlmpp wfiO nave to une muw,
and others, this knowledge is
;nValuablo I never knew it to fail, and I
hundred of miles on dark
Uiirhts ; and in consideration of this power
i , ,.;fl mvs mne advice: never
- - . . , , -
-f enpn . tnts is mv BU,,,-V
ri - . . but ive him a
i cuctik --- " , ,
free head, a..a you may reet acuaU
w,U never pa o '-5. -(o
UU V A 1 v-. . v. j v-
the. bower of scent in a horse, 1 once
irnrtei.ii
- r
I. r . irioi mng
stolen, and
, ' . ni&iny by tbc track made by his
. d ,jeen tt0sent BIX or
i iu,
--o
etnht nours.
a. 1 I.HM1I. VjUI. -
r ... 'i i. Minn n .i oil 9
(formerly editor of tho N. O.
cav- y off jn lhe dii
Kentucky, while attempting to
t.o, , & HQperior force, and,
AT I uftPP .1
v -
with atout -iv'v' men uau uuitvio, r.
i . n r 1 4 .1 (XX so a Q TT 4
ners.
Number 1,267.
BY THE GOTERNOR OF NORTH
CAROLINA.
A PROCLAMATION.
wans, A number of pubHo tneetinp have r
wnUy be held in various portion, of the StaU, in
wme of which threat, have been mad. .f combined
reaistance to the execution of th. law. of Congrwa,
in regard to conseription and the collection of tax.,
thereby endangering th. public pe.c. and tranquili
ty as well as the common cause of independence,
which we have .o solemnly sngaged to defend: And
whereas, it is my sworn duty to see all the law. of
the land faithfully executed, and quiet and order
maintained within our borders.
Now, therefore, I, ZEBTJLON B. VANCE, Gover
nor, of th. State of North Carolina, do issu. tail my
Proclamation, commanding all such peraons to re
nounce such evil intentions, and warning them to
beware f the criminal and iatal consequences of
carrying such threat into execution.
The inalienable and invaluabl. right of the peo
ple to assemble together -and consult for th. com
mon good, together wim its neessary ooncomitanU,
the freedom of speech and the press, are secured to
you, my countrymen, by the most sacred compact..
They shall never find a disturber in ai. Yet you
will remember that the same instruments which
guarantee these great rights, also limit you to th.
exercise of them, within the bounds of law, and im
pose upon me the solemn duty of seeing thai the.,
bounds be not transgressed. The Constitution of
the Confederate States, and all laws passed in pur
suance thereof, ar the supreme lawofth. land; re
sistance to them by combination is trttuon, and with
out combination, is a high crime against the laws of
your country. Let no one be deceived. So long as
these laws remain upon the statute book they shall
be executed. Surely, my countrymen, you would
not seek to cure the evils of one revolution by plung
ing the country into another. Tou will not know,
ingly, to the present desolating war with the com
mon onemy, add the horrors of internal strife and
entire subversion of law and civil authority.' You
must not forget the enviable character which you
have always maintained, as a sober, censervative
and law-abiding people ; nor would 1 have you to
forget the plain, easy and cotutitutional method of
redressing your grievances. Meet and denounce
any existing laws if you think proper you have
that right and instruct your representatives in
Congress or the State Legislature, as the case may
be, to repeal lhm. Your own chosen servants made
those obnoxious laws they cau repeal them, if such
are your instructions. If you regard them as un
constitutional, our Supreme Court sits ready to de
cide upon all cases properly brought before it. Its
your Executive to enforce any law. There is no
grievance to redress and no proposition to be made,
but can be most beneficially effected in the way our
fathers marked out by the ballot b?x, and the other
constitutionally appointed means. In times of great
public sensibility like the present, any doparture
from this legal channel is revolutionary and dan
gerous, and tends to the division and distraction of
our people.
It is uiy great desire, and, I hope, that of all good
citizens, that our people should remain united, befall
us what may. Should we triumph in the great
struggle for independence let no feelings of revenge,
no bitterne'3 mar the rejoicing of that glorious day.
Should we fall, and come khort of that object for
which we have struggled so long and bled so frely,
let not our strifes and domestic feuds add to the bit
terness of defeai.
Attempts suddeuly to change the existing orderof
things would only result in bloodched and ruin. I
therefore implore you, my countrymen, of all
shades of political opiniou, to abstain from assem
bling together for the purpose of denouncing each
other, whciVr at home or in the army, and to
avoid seeking any remedy for the evils of the times
by other than legal meand and through the properly
; constituted authorities. We are embarked in the
i holiest of all causes which ean stir the hearts of pa
; triots the cause of liberty and independence. W.
I arc committed to it by every tie that can biud an
' honorable people. Multitude of our bravest and
I bt have already sealed it with their blood, whilst
others, giving up all worldly possessions, are either
languishing in dungeons or are homelesd wanderers
tion wnich have jlten m'ie mm iremuie, lurueu
against ourselves. Let us rather show that me uoa
of Liberty is in His Holy Temple the hearts of
freemen and bid all the petty bickerings of earth
. 1 s 1
T,re,jltre diligently ana witn uopeiui neiru, ior me
hanSinps ana kuumuja i "6 -
Heaven tas ijieJseu us whm nuun-aaui. nujo, uui.
thousanJ-of .he poc
us beirin in time and
oor are unable to purchase. Let
i i- :l r
us begin in time ana use every enon 10 proviso ior
theiu and secure them against suflfenng. ; And let us
exert our-.elves to the utmost to return ti duty the
iudiiy brave but misguided men who have left their
country flag in the hour of danger, and God will
yet bless us and our children, and our children'
children will than us for not despairing of the
Republic in its darkest hour- of disaster, and still
in. .re, for adhering to and preserving, amid the fiery
trials')! war, conservatite sentiment and the right
and civil .iberties of theyoung Confederacy.
In wi-nes whereof, Zkbilox B.
( ) Vance, our Qovernor. Captain tienera)
'ZJLl j and ('omuiauder-in-CVief, hath signJ
tnese pre-nt and caused the Grwui eal
of the Suite to be affixed.
Ione at the ciy of Kaleigh, this .th uay oi
tember, A. L., &'l and m the year
of American
IndepenJence the bbth.
Z. B. VANCE.
By the Governor
It. II. Battle, Ja.,
Private Secretary.
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