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TnURSDAY:::::::::::::; JANUARY 30, 1862.
V AKSOJf IXSTITUtE.
: I Oof..ro4 jmwUotj rrn
: we Jure just been informed, is to much prostrated
bj psst&cted illness of two months, thai he will
not bo able to take his place here under four or
fivweekaC4 School 'pens'this dsy, the . 27th
"ICTCoI. L. L. Polk requests tbeoficersj com
xnlsiioned and non-commiaaooed, of the bistres
iment, to meet a Piney Grove Church, oo Fri
day, the 7th of February, at 9 o'olock, for the
purpose of drill;
i
ICV: W k the Attention , of the reader, and
especially of our county officers, to our Fort Bee
crreapondc'atyjetter. Ve askibrsn explau
'tdlThii (frajlainof oneouir Ni CKegi
- - meats has requested to be famished with books,
. td,bf loaned to the volunteers for their perusal
ad profits Horal books are the kind needed
books that will teach1, them,' not only how to Uvt
soldiers, are those
who are enlisted in the army of the (rod of battles;
and who; fight, trusting score to His power than
to their4)wa'ejBcietieyI The' people of Anson
art requested to look tip jail books suitabU for this
purpose, ana leave them, at this oacoi to he for
warded .to the cbiplxioRer. Jlr. Powers, who
ririU,ake the j best possible to of them. Do
thuat once, without 'dcla, for'it is an important
' otfcKTr ',,''if -?ur i.'--.t- ;
A TOafr box of "books hare ' alreadr been re
ctiTedi packed, and forwarded but man j 'more
.. miteee4.., T u ,VW14r'"', ' "fc ' :
f. Why it thU? Why pliraty because dlatillert, get.
ting vl.CO per gallon for whiskey a day old, can afford
to boy up tho corn on the spot, thus preventing it ever
geitS atroad to perform IU legiUmau funcllon la inp-
Eoruag urs (applying broad to man and rood for
orsts- - ' :
It is a buriung shame and a heinous sin,, that
it should be so sin that. our. rulers and law
makers will bare to answer for at the bar of God
if not at an earthltribunal. It is an 'txhibl
Uon ofthe basest inxratudeto ;Him who gaire
the people of this State, and the Confederacy such
bountiful crops the past season. Is it right that
Ilia bounties gi ten for the sustenance of the
people, should be converted into poison for their
destruction f lie who knows all things; sends
to this "people, just al a time when; they need
such a favor most when their enemies are strain
log everj nerve to lay waste and destroj and en
slave them when all communication with" the
outer world is cut off, and the means of obtaioing
supplies from other sources inhibited and in con
sequence the people 'subjected to great inconve
nience and suffering st tuck a time a time of
universal distress Heaven sends a, most bountiful
crop of corn ! A supplj so abundant that the
hearts of the poor end the rich are rejoiced and
made glad, and thej send forth their sons to the
battle fieldr;confident of support io their absence
But how is it? Soddenlj there comes arcarcitj!
Prices go up. Flour, which ought to bring from
three and a half to four dollars, brings nine, and
corn, which ought to sell for fifty cents, goes up to
$1,50. Why is it? , Why, it is because the gift of
God has Wn prostituted that which he gave to
noori&h and strengthen them, has been converted
into wkiakejf There are menin the Confederacy,
uwell as elsewhere, who care for nothing but
themselves eo they make money, they care not
how, much wretchedness, and misery come upon
ii
. liZTjR militia of the following counties hare
been ordered out, as we learn from the Raleigh
, Journal: Beaufort Green, Craven', Jones, Car
teret, Onslow,' New ; Hanover, !Duplin; Xenoir,
tVsyne, Halifax, Sampson, Brunswick, Colum
bus,' Bladen, Johnston, Wake, Carrituek, Pas
quotaak, Camden, Perquimans, Chewan, Wash
7ngton,vTrel, Gates, Hertford,.. Northampton,
' Irtie, Jlartln' Edgecombe, Wilson, Pitt and
. Hyde. J When ordered to the field , (says the
Journal) the militia will receive the same pay.
rations, and quarters, as the volunteer or regular
tit wsj reported b Baltimore that five vessels
5 of v the Bornside .Expeditioti had grounded in
Pamlico Sound and were burnt to. prevent them
frotn'falliog into the bands oC the Confederates.
..The Baltimore Sooth says a large steamer with
troops for the Barnside Expedition was wrecked
on' the South Carolina coast and burnt. The
crew and troops were all saved. Three coal ves
Taehj Irere also beached and burnt. It was stated
-at Fortress Monroethat the steamer Louisiana,
of the Barnside Expedition, 'with seven hundred
troops on board, had been lost. ,
VRicnMOn,Jannary 26. Intelligence received
id i oScial quarters, from tVilmington, states that
the British vessel York, had stranded near the
mouth of Cse Fear. . Some Yankee vessel threw
"eombustible material bn board of the York, and
set fire to her. ! Her crew escaped. - r;tt; ::7?''
The ststemenlt thsl a large 'Federal fleeUhad
been officially, reported as having been seen in
Pamlioo . Sonndf is omcislij contradicted
.'" '"KorfolFiijr Book of - the 22d, ssys:
Intelligence hss beeoieonTeyed Jto ':' us hat
SIcCIellan wajf preparing to cross the Potomse j
and when our rorMnteft the
servation, the r neeeesary twiraHons "were very
The Ysnkeer are represented u being about
to make one more great effort," upon which they
-rest their ability to subjugate the South.
: Richmond; January 25. It was stated in
2 Coagriss to dsy,nhst a message .hsd been re-
eeived by ft high offqialof. the Government, eon-
TeVin intelligence of the failure of -the Burn
aide Expedilionv most eC the.vesseis hsviog been
wrecked.., 4.yi ; iAA. -r- ,V
nRTxrtsr jstfc.Pssaeigerif by tbe cars
tart ul-ht, report that there are 10,000 Yankees
focr tles sooth' of the Tennessee river; and
alltcct mHcs OrtS of Paris.' ' -Their hesvy
crilterj if stsck 'ia the mud end unable to be
oovsJ forward. The Confederates are collecting
- there farcrtat points. 1 1-' r ' V:
their fellow men 1 The people pay taxes to Gov
ernment Tor protection I Uugnt tbey not to oe
protected from the mercenaries who buy up their
bread and con vert, it into prison t Who have
gone so largely into this business as to cause a
scarcity amidst plenty! They will they do de
mand it, and the day is not far distant, when they
will call their legislators snd representatives to a
reckoning, if they do not act promptly and give
them relief.
Is it not monstrous, that while the judgments
of heaven are resting upon a people whilst they
j being vwiteoTby khe terrible ecourge, war
whilst our patriot soldiers are' fighting for our
Ubertics -yielding up their lives to secure bur
independence, and all the blessings .'that flow
from peace and good will among men that men
can be found 'so undeserving so recreant to
the cause of liberty so ungrateful to Heaven
so ubcharitable to" their fellow, beings so unut
terably selfish as to prefer their own individual
aggrandisement, to the success of the Confederate
cause? " The fact is, these men are doing' more
to defeat the accomplishment of success, than our
enemies ! ;. They are preying upon the soldier
his wife and children, and the result will be,
that our volunteers, when their time is out, will
refuse ,to leave their families a second time, to
the tender mercies of grain destroyers and bread
speculators. Instead of being all in union-r
each doing his best to defeat our enemiesin
stead of those st home, striving to make comfort
able and assist each other in bearing' a mutual
burden-hese ; m indifferent
to.aH ,;bnt ; themsehefr are preyin
his favor, and we shall become a conquered peo
ple. . God will not be mocked.
AMibpatch, - if eeied; by the authorities in
Baeighfjutes that there are 125 vessels, with
25,000 meo, in the Sbund,sneacaped Pilot gave
the information; and he says. tbey propose to at
tack Newbern, Washington, and Boanoke Island.
4The Principal of the Institution for the Deafj
Pumb and Blind,' at Raleigh, desires to purchase
broora corn. Farmers pay attention
France
porti
J IofBrniaiion has beea(f received at Vashington f
toTthe effect that the English piftf the allied
expedition will soon, or hu already occupied
Metaraoras, ana tnai tney wiu open an wnwi
trade bj way of Brown villewith the Mebels.w
1 is more than .hinted that England joined
ce end Spain for the especial purpose of im
ng cotton. if so,1 look ont for war.
j Two men, : supposed to be British1 sub
jects, were .shot, in the Pariah; of Plaquembe,
la Jewdays'since
owned a small craft, with which tbey carried on
an illicit trade with the slaves along the coast, it
night. . They asasulted a man by the name of
Clement, going to his house for that purpose,
and beat him cruelly , and threw him into , the
river." They then ransscked his house; took all
the money they could, find and departed.' Clement
pursued' them and shot them both.
, a. .- A
McClellan' asserts that the War will be
short but desperate, and that he sees the way
clearly through to lucccs in conquering the re
bellion. He can see a long wsys, if he docs.
But seeing is one thing doing another 1 He
must have very little faith in" the success of
his schemes for faith is the Substatce of things
not $een. '.
t&L E. andJIeoryLillj of Fjyett?yillet
have each presented the Cumberland Association,
one hundred dollars, each, for the benefit of the
soldiers. This is noble. .. v
Forney says there are public men in Washing
ton who favor a peaceful and prompt separation
from the Confederate btates, and who are acting
with a co-operating party in the free States.
.The Prussian Minister at Washington has been
officially informed from Berlin, that tLe seixure
of Mason and Slidell is regarded by his Govern
ment as unjustifiable.- ' :;;
,. Mrs. J. & F. Garnett, of Greensboro', have es
tablished a hat factory in that place. Tbey are
manufacturing hats of any grade or quality.
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Col. C. C. Lee, of the 87th Regt. N. C. Vol.
nnteers, hu been appointed Commander of the
post at Newborn. " 7 '
Richard Hughes, from Virginia, aged about
40 years, a shoe maker, was found dead, a " few
nights since in tbe grog shop of Grandison Rob
erts, in Salisbury, kept by one Mr. Little.
; General 7 jtlxeciUaU: "ark my words, "
Ufcre sixty days aVcrvi's Insurrection will be
rscirjr over tie t!ouii. v Je! know t-e material is
ire for iLand hare sttiied theiaatter.M' "
fhe Smithsonian InstitutVat Wuhinffton h
The Smithsonian lost! tuts at W ubington hu
been prostituted to an anti slavtry engine. All -the
wiokdAliprW' fccf oth'txii ire :
filling the series of lectures there this winter.
! A special dispatch' from Cairo to the VDemo
erat,t y tbat 5,00 trop m oXbeiwsy
there fron jdifferent points. . As soon . as they i
arrive a column of from OjOOO JtijOO,: trpojj
will march from there and PadWa under ,
Gen! Grant, 1 The destination bf this force" Is
said to be Nuhville, vberej if a junction can be
made with Gen; -Basil's eommssd, tbe 1 entire
army fill proceed to New Orleans, .IjThe i more
ment will undoubtedly be made within afaTdays.
3Ir.' Sumner has presented to the1 Yankee
Congress petitions from citizens of New .York
and Brooklyn again.! sending the! slaves out
of the eoonty', but proposed Instead to send the .
slave owners out -of theeounUy. w,i,.,;it'j -..
- The mortality in tbe Federal army since tbe
war broke out wiM 'reach 25,000 men. ' The
number killed in battle, skirmishes, &c, is,'
about ll,(KH, and rthe'immbtr;cf; founded were
tl7,O0O. .. .
wire, with batteries. &o.. have been msde snd
p?at to ihs Co Went army; ti fieKl eperstioni
at a costoif MJG3 :
Tbe manufacture of 'pure Vinegar wpon a
large scale has .jut .Wencoaiqeaeed in Wil-
mington, N. C.ii .? ' v. .
Cspt. John C. McCauley, with three hundred .
other Arkansiaoshsre offered their services toj
the Confederate States for three yean'.
The Federal steamer Hensscols. which lately
succeeded in roaning the blockade of tbe 'Poto-v'
uouse ot jiepresenianves. giving voDgreas u
power to reduce to a tentorial condition nine
Southern States. - Texss, Virginia, and Ken
tucky and Missouri, are excepted from the oper
ation of the proposed meuure. . "
Death or Ex-Presidiht Ttler. Ex-President
Tyler died suddenly, at bis rooms in the
Exchange Hotel, in the city, of Richmond, oo
Friday night at a little past twelve o'clock. V W bile
sipping a cup of tea on the Sunday morning
previous he wu seised with -a sudden fsintness,
and remained indisposed during' the following
days ; but as he bad been at different periods of
his life subject to severe attacks of vertigo,
no serious apprehension was entertaioed until
Friday evening, when he was suddenly taken
worse, and failing rapidly, without pain, died
precisely at fifteen minutes put twelve o'clock.,
President Tyler was 72yesrs of sge, and served
bis country with fidelity and distinction in many
important offices.'
W. J. Hoke; of Lincoln; has been elected Col
onel of the 384Regiment N. C. Troops, O. n.
and needy. Can, we ought we, to expect sue
cess bave we aoy right to expect the blessrngrof
heavon rwiur.irmsi-Are.wowortby-of -it ?
God hu msnifestly shown his favor to s hereto
fore but if We desDise his blessings and mntinn
to'oDoress sndUke ad ran ti ere of each other, and . .:The Confederate authorities are taking meas-
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turn his blessings into nirtes he will withdrswi urcB wr - ,e VUCK1 puon or we loyal
.v-ii W-lJ- - " j. people of Western Virginis.
TheFederai government'is about jbTllevy a
stamp tax to help fill, their empty treasury.
; About 100 men near Wilmington, are engaged
in rriaktng salt: It sells there at 14 per bashe).
and Harnett, to fill the vacancy occasioned by lhe
resignation of Honi WrWinslow:" Tbe vote was a
smalfpne. Mr; McDuffie's majority over Mr. W.
MoL, McKsy wu 78. , ;
It is said that Charleston will be visited by
the French naval authorities to invesjtigajejjhe
mstterof the sttetopted stoneblocksde.4
: t General McCIellao has fully recovered
from his recent illness, and the Yankee newsps
persare oW jubilant rbver his plans for aspeedy
sup'pressien bf tberebeilibnl,.;:'v':." jyyy;:z y
Greet dissatisfaction is said to exist atriong
Tbe entire strebgjh of tbo Federal irmy,
u appears by leturns id the Adjutau Gene
ral's officer foots pTOQPabout 4tlO,OQ6
now reported u fit for service.
Many of the ij treos jo- Galveston are now
bearing a second jtfCj) of figs,' o:t of which sre
nearly ripe, and appear quite u large and fine
u the first crop. . $
issssaM -sa e- ssISjismii i
Ten sad a half miles) of' insulated copper
rels of the enemy. ! She hsi, it Is said, a
very heavy armament. : In addition 1 to her
broadsides of twenty-two nine-inch f shell uo,
she hu one eleven-inch gun, . and two eighty
pounders. It is supposed that she hu jointd
the Burwide expedition hi r t 'iii. st----
t& One hundred and one vessels have arri ved
at Havana from' Confederate ports tince thb
blockade was establisbced This fact st least,
ought to convince foretgn nations that the block
ade is riot effective. .
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; A CosFE88ION,--A Lincoln 'correspondent
of the Chicago Tribune, speaking of the progress
of the war, says : y . .'""--"r '
The fact is, the c,nse of .the Union bTrnoT
f regressed one inch, anywhere, but bu cdnstant-.
y lost eroond'' every where. IV is not in tho
power of Mr Seward in aeeordaoce with Whoso
ut his finger on the spot where the cause of the
n ion has progressed one inch, eitbet in huropo
or . in America."' :--s:
Arrest of BRirox-BukxkRa.2 Lefoi v. F.
Parker, of 20th NtC, Regimetft; got on the trail
Dockety, RicbmefldLtr-Cb
SbarfrOf-Alexanderilajori1
and with a. Sauad of bis men followed them into
this Siate-and arrested them some 12 or 15 ,
miles north of this plaqe at 1 o'clock in tho
mormug.'Jinievtiie iveics, torn. , r; . .
tbe approaching 22d of February, the refma
Malcolm J. McDuffie, Esq.,. has been eleeted
deleeata to tha-Stata'Convestfja froa Csabefland 6Q Ubternrbcr.t of tbe Ccofsderaie Stateiwil?
be inaugurated at luenmona, president JJsvis will
bftJostalledJoMfxeari, ano: ptberiintercjitingl
ceremonies take place.. It will be a memorable
and intefesting occasion, snd a vast concourse of
persons, no doubt, will sseemble to witness the jf
ceremonies of the day.'" ,: - " ' ; r .
... In a speech delivered lut week in the Fcderat
House .of RcpresentsiivuLby MrV-Conklin, of
New York, he stated that besides the defeat, and -the
large loss of arms; andTmsinitionir of war, fr
there wu a sacrifice of nine hundred and thirty
men atihe. battle of Efesbnrj, or Ball's Blut, On, ; '
the Potomao, where the Confederate tibopsunder s
General Evanldrove the Federals under Bsker,