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ri 'ii ; 'i i- 1.;- is U ' l - i f -:. It fr 1 i 7 J I V 1 I NORTH CAROLINA ARGUS. This Lrf o'er Um ropls rtxhts dots, aa sUnud vijfl katp V SMtMng strata of AfaU's mm e&a lull kit haa4re4 eyes to sle C. W. FENTON, Editor. ' . Tr adescoro jr. cv TnURSDAy:::::rf:::::::r.::MARCn 12, 1863. i TDK SABBATH WELL SrEAT. , A Sabbath, welfrptnt, . Brings a week of content, And strength for the foils of. to-morrow. A SabLath profaned, YTbatsover is gained, Ii tho tirt forerunner o( sorrow. SSV. Mr. ames Dun, of CribbCreekvtn? -formi us, ihit -LUias oneliandred nod fifty bush els of Cora to sell, bat that none other Ihtn Vol unteers wives and children, can obtain a bushel of it, at anj price. The families of Volunteers caa procure it at one dollar per bushel, and not one cent more. . . . ' JQ Mr.' John S. Littlk, last week, sent to Mr J. A. LileSj at LilcsriJIe,jhrentj fire bushels of Jleal for distribution among the need soldiers' families of that district. We are likewise in formed that Mr. Little will not sell corn for more than one dollar per bushel, nor meat, for more than twenty cents per pound, to needy soldiers' families in his neighborhood. This is noble. We do begin to hope that cnoogh good men will be found in Anson to save the county from tho fate of Sodom. J - 4 ; . . - y , ' Forth Argus.' not God Sent lMi TTar uponVif In one sense he has, in the other, thai of blame, he has not. In his mora government, Ood has ordained that certain sequences or results shall follow certain causes. , With a" nation rfghteou$ neu is followed by exaltation, m by reproach. No form of Government, no " Constitution" no code of Laws, Monarchical, Democratic- or even Theocratic, can dissever this connection, or pre Tent the downfall of a? Government or people where slnttwUsvTwpecialijstr the officiary and high places. Wheu ain prevails among the ru lers and in high places it affects the body gen erally. Neither Union, nor Secession, neither Confederation nor State Sovereignty, neither a Kingdom of Cotton or Spindles nor any other creature xan.jpmtedow.nfaUfropin.Though sin be covered with never bq many excellent laws, with wealth and 'refinement," and though the land be thundered and covered with Statesman's speeches and documents, and though every man be a f patriot," yet all, is but the painting with flesh color the blue skin that covers the mortify ing matter end fever beneath, so loog as there is tin. The" wrath 'of God points through all this to the sin, just as the needle points through the intervening rubbish to the loadstone beneath. The Iaw-Giver has ordained this relation and what he has joined together no man can put asunder. In this sense Godhassent ihewar upon us, i. e. by his decree it follows the condi tion of its existence sin. Wo publish below, for the information of all eon ccrned, (ho Act of the Assembly appropriating ont million of dollars for the benefit and use of the wives and families of Indigent soldiers, that now are er hereafter may be la the senrioo of the Confederate States. ThaJRalsigh Progress says: We hope each county will at once appoint a com missioner in accordance with the provisions of tho bill, that the money may be reoeived and applied ; and let it be honestly applied to the persons for whom Intend ed and not appropriated by those to whom it may be In trusted for distribution tas has been tho ease In soma la sUnces with salt intended for the use of soldiers' fam Ifiesr!f there" ars any "honest men left any -not 4 tirely possessed by tbe demdn of speculation let them b selected for the distribution, of this money that the wants of the wives and children of our bravo defenders may be relieved as far as possible. ". AN ACT for lis relief if tht Win and families if " SoUtert in tht Army, ' .-.. Sc7l72fc it enacted by tht Central Aucnbljt of tht State of Sorth Canlina, and il it Aertbg enacted by tht nmt, That the sum of one million dollars be and the same la hereby appropriated to the use and benefit of tbe wives and families of indigent eoldiersrwbo now . are, or ma y hereafter be in the serf ice of the State, or Confederate States, and all tf the wives and families of indigent soldiers wbojiave been or may hereafter be killed or die in the army or service of the coun try. ' . Sec. 2. Ve it further enacted, That at tho earliest practicable limej it shall be the duty of the Chairman of each. Court to notify the justices of his county to meet in tbe Court House, for the purpose of electing some person,, to be stj-led a county Com missioner, a majority of the Magistrates being pres ent. . . Sue. 3. He ii further enacted, That tbe sum of one million dollars, as aforesaid,, be . equally divided j amongst tne several counties or tbe Bute according to tbe tckilt population, to be ascertained by the census of OFFICIAL FROM GEN. BltAGO -OEN. VAN ' . PORN'S VICTORY, ' - Chattajioooa, March 6. Tho following Oflolsl dis patch of Oeo. Van Dora's lat engagement fcal ha received. : The fight took place at Thompson's Station and not at Franklin,' the enemy making tho attack: "TvLtABOMA. March 6 -i-f CoL jr. 8. Ellt Tho enemy attaoked VanDorn yesterday at Thompson's Station, between Columbia and Franklin. lie drove them back handsomely, and eaptured five regiments of Infantry -twenty.two hundred ofljoers and mea. Our. loss Is not y at reported. . ' t (Signed).. , BRAXTON BRAQO." WE INDIANOLA NOT BLOWN UP OFFICIAL ' FROM GENERAL PEMBERTON. Richmond, Maroh 9. The followler official disnatek tawasi frawaia.J tibial ' ",J "-- -- - .., Wl v, f a trw Jacksox, Miss.. Msrch o 1 Gen. ' SCoprt General Stevenson, Commanding at Vickcl.urg, tele graphs, March 4th, as follows: 'The fudtunol U not destroyed. We are at work to raiseher. One eleven iacb gua was burst. .The others ara not la jured." Signed) t - ' ' J.C. PRMBERTON, 1 " Lieutenant Gneml. - J. Sac. 4. lit il fuTtkeatnacted, That as soon as the VU hA Mn. rtrwf hi7i,nfhT IK An hJv 1 Commwsioiier aforesaid, baU U aUcted and enter into We have tho following additional details in a dis patch from lis). C. 8. ScversoB, a gnllant officer and perfectly reliable source of Information. It was re ctired at 0 o'clock last evening. - ColimbiA, March 1 Generals Forreft and Van Dorny eterdayhad-inr engagemeat-aeitr- Frankiin. Gen. Van porn brought on the fight ia froot, Gen. Forrest flanled in their rear, capturing twenty-thrro hundred prisoners, and twenty-five Lnndred m;i arms. Forrest after capturing ths prUooers punued the enemy, who at last accounts were la full retreat. Tbe prisoners arrived here last aighl. Oar Ions small, Mj. C. S: Savtasox, a. q. m.' Gen. Forrest's Staff. The month of this fight Is very considerable. It checks the advance of tbe enemy in an Important di rection. It encourages a large body of frenh troop-, who were engaged on our side; and it has scntfered a";- entire division of Rom-rans' army. ' . - - xThreo rouing cheers for Van Dorn and Forrest 1 Cnattanoofa flatly) Relet. - permission, lie pernyts moral agents to do rtgnt ortodo wrongrln tbe formet he ttpprorcs with QrWe areJnformed that there is not a man the promise of good, in the later Jhe disapproves in Smith's beat, who will charge the wife of a soldier more than one dollar pej bushel for corn. - 1:. with the threatening of evil. Setting rood and evil thus before men he says "choose,' L e. de cide whether you will do right or wrong. If we do'right we receive the good, if we do wrong we suffer the evil. The doing right or wrong is for tti to determine the result is of Gotl. As the FAITH AND WORKS Inasmuch as faith without works is dead, and sj '" ' ' . inasmuch as we hare faith to believe that the frentlemen who hare offered to rir a certain onan- tiUcs ofCora to the needy families of our soldiers eTU " leM the wrong is done, and Mn the field. Provided a certain irnmW of others M the WronS Wt CXISt but by man S deter wnnM cti'to IIVa fh-ntitv .In,, nnt minatioo, only willing bnt'anxious to perform their part of the bargain, and inasmuch as it has been asserted that; these offers were made iq the belief and hope that they would not be accepted, and that therefore these gentlemen could a fiord to be thought generous, at so cheap a rate, and inas much as we believe all assertions of the kind to be false and slanderous, we call upon these gen tlemen, regardless of what ethers may do or not do, to come forward and give to the poor the sev eral quantities proposed to be given by them. In thus acting, they will not only show their it follows that man is to blame for the existence of-evil. In this view that locates the blame, tre have brought this war on our selves. -We are guiltyi God is clear. The rr la (ion between cause and effect wrong and evil is of God. Tho creation of cause and per con sequence of effect, is of man. , , faith by their works Vbut they will be doio good, and saying to others-!-do as I do, not as I r propose to dor Example is better than precept. But is there no way by which the cause and effect may be dissevered; the wrong being done may not the evil be avoided." The merry of God reveals the only way : " At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation and concerning a king dom to pluck up and to pull down and to destroy whom, I have pro- against t&m Thereare jpme men in the South, who are doing more to subjugate the country than the lankees. The distiller. ' Though the dis tillation of grain is prohibited, there are some that are boiling up the corn, regardless of the law. There are some, who do not distil them- it, if that nation nouneed "turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do untotheuj"J cre miah. So did he with the- wicked but' penitent jSinevitesT " And God saw their works that they turned from, their evil way7doUTepenTed"of the evil that he had said be would do unto them1 and he did it not." Jonah. -; Yet a people mayjfco fill up the cup of their in iquity, thatjudgment must come, though " oah, Daniel and Job" were among them. The in iquity of a land may so overwhelm the righteous- ' selves but get their wiveajand daughters at tbe dirty work, thus thinking to-escape punishment. Do they not know that tbe husband is responsible ness in it, that the hot fire-courting odor in its for the wife? We hope they will find it out. The man who has large cribs of Corn and re fuses Confederate money, therefor. These men are enemies to the Confederate cause. An ex change says : What are the poor soldiers' wives to do? we know they have no other kind of polluting ascension to "the Judge ofajl the earth," shall suck down the vengeance of God. For such God says "pray not for this people neither lift up cryjior prayer for them, neither make inter cession to me ; for I will not hear thee." "Tho Moses'and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind money but tbe Confederate, which their husbands could not be toward this people." What is our send them, of their small.wages; 11 per month, condition? Curalle, we believe, but not as we VhaFwillb things be permitted to pass unnoticed? will it not not have saved us. Secession and Cooperation iiave oaa enect in tbe army of the South ? Who will not do it. Reconstruction will not do it. will be content to stay in the army and fight the I The lint of King Cotton and the panaceas W patues oi nia country, when be knows hat his Queen Quack will all be used on the bruises and wife and children are i uffering ftr bread. They sores of our sins, which-thereby wille nothing will not bear it; they will throw down their arms bettered, and which the halm of G Head alone radme-home-to tberescue of their families, f can curd? - ;,Shall these men be permitted to hold on.to their Had I the privilege I would indite for- our corn, while these poor women are suffering for Confederacy what would have been better as a bread because they have not gotten the Bank motborjheneiUnd.Sute8--RiGnTEOUS, -Botes to-pay for corn? Is there no remedy, we vse eland, Wicked, tceJalU" '94 would ask :-, We think there ought to be. . . . 11 . - tST Our Planters and Farmers hold our lib- Co. B, erties in their hands, and a few days or'weeks will decide the iseue if they plant, largelj of bread stuffs, we are safe, if not, we, will certainly suffer, and may be undone. nnn-r - - ., .-. .' . -. bond with approved ecurity, by the Court, it shall, and may be lawful for tho Treasurer of the State to ray said Commissioner the amount -due his county, . of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated,, and the Treasurer shall be allowed for the same in tbe settlement of his accounts. . Skc. 5. "lie it further enacted, That at tbe Court and at the time of the appointment of the County CommU- .aloner, it shall be the duty of the Court to direct and establish such rules and regulations in the division and distribution of the money appropriated to the use and benefit of the wives and families o-tbe indigent soldiers as to afford the greatest relief and comfort to them, whether the same shall be paid, them in the whole, or in part, in cash or provisions, with power to purchase or receive produce or provisions of any kind, from tbe State, in lieu of money, or such amount as tbe Court shall from time to time prescribe. Sec. 6. lit it further enacted, That all counties that are or may be in tbe possession of the enemy shall re ceive the amount that tbey may be entitled to under the provisions of this act in orth Carolinn Treasury note, and that the raid, counties shall receive tbe money direct from the Treasurer of tbe State without being subjected to tbe provisions of the bill In regard to the action of the justices, tbe said amount of money tabe paidjotbo County Trustees of said Counties, aud to be by them distributed according to tbe provi sions of tbis bill. The said Trustees giving bond to the Sute in double the amount received by them to be distributed. . - : : . Stc; 7. Jit it further enacted, That this Act shall be in force from and after its passage. . Read three times and ratified in General Assembly this 10th day of February, A. I)., 18G3. - ' K. S. DONNELt. S, II. C. ' GILES MKliANE, 3. 3. j . -TATE Or-.XORTM CAKOLlS.l, ' OJ-ce of ' St're'axtf of State: ' If Jno.r7 II, Ku?s7 Secretary of State in and for North Carolina, do hereby certify that the foregoiog is a true copy or toe orioginal on JBle in tbi office. Given under my hand this 6th day of March, 1863. - JarrilTitVtjSTiSecretary-of Stater-r- Tbe Washington Chronicle, of tho SJ instant, raj tbe Government is a heavy loser by the destruction of tbe hip Jaoub Dell, as her duties would have amouDtr ed to $17i,000. . , The London Times ay: .'It Is clear that tbe block ado of Charleston was not rained at the time tt the at tack by Commodore Iorraham vn tho Frlrl fl.rt and that there was not even an intermission of it." The London Post takes a similar view. The Liverpool Post announces the arrival ofthe Confederate steamef Camter In the JIerey. CARGO OF THE JACOB BELL ACTION OP THE KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE. Bichwosp, March .Tho ship' Jacob Bell bad a cargo of twenty-two thousand packages of lea, twenty five thousand rolls of nattinp, five thousand botes of firecrackers, four hundred boxes of fans, eight thou sand mats of cassia, and two bund-ej and ten bowstf eatnpbor, the whole valued at over a million of dollar. Tbe Florid burned tho vesel andtrnferTed the p sengers and crew to Danish vessel,, which conveyed tbe m to St. Thomas. . , The Kentacky House of Representatives have a lop ted thirteen resolutions, reported from tbe Committee on Foreign Relations - ' v The second resolution re affirms the loyalty V Ken tucky to tbe Government; the third reeogofies a mark ed difference between the Government and the Admiu istratioir; tbe tenth recommends a National CunveBtinn iopropofeamendmentetotbeConititotioo; tbe eleventh recommends a MitiMpp Valley Convention with tbe view of consulting bow to preserve tht whole Govern-, ment and preventing one or more Slates from teiiiu i mouth of tbe Aliiirti; the twelfth deelarea tlt ' the law-of tbe State mul be maintained and enforced. The Senate will probably concur. Tho IVorth Carolina ftoldicraY One of the Northern newspaper correspondents. who profS to be Wiked un-tinnrt inatlir and tnmgs in tne coutn undertakes to assert that the 1 r- An army correspondent or a Northern papejLSays that g.Uant soldiers of North Carolina are suspected tbe following lnter-stin scene took nlace in th armT , 1 . . . . v awy of tbe Potomac not long since. A chaplain wanted a j , . In consequence manufactured in the Fife Insurance Companies refuse to Insure tbe life of any individual who is in tbe habit of taking "occa The Vicksburg' irAiy; states' on what it considers good authority thslt Gen. . Ma grader has captured tho Yankee man-of-war liwoktyn. t-"To ray wife," by a private in 3 lit Reg't, will appear in our next :IQU There being-little or no newt tbis week,. horse, and without much ceremony took one belonging to a Virginia larroer, but bis pose.iion or tbe proper ty was very brief, as the following oouversstion show: The chaplain rodp into tho presence of his superior officer, and was Bsked where he got that horse? The chaplain says "Down on the road there." The offi cer remarkeJYiuhnd better take him back again." The chaplain says, .'why Jesui Christ, when he was on earth, too,k an ass from .his owner whereon to ride into Jerusalem." Tho officer repliedYou are not Jesus Christ; that is not an as; you are not on your way to Jerusalem, ' and the soouer you restore that horse to bis owner, the better it will be for you." riz less I oval to the Southern cause than tbe soldiers of other Southern States, and to have soure secret hankerings after the old Yankee Union. .w',.. ' .u.J.:::.jI.CL...... $ . This is only a lankee libel. - Its motive manifest as its malice, and it cau impcue upon no. one but tbe half knaves and half fwl by whom it was invented. It is r-srt and parcel of an 'insidious scheme which the Yan kees havo long. been labor i'ng at, to sow the seeds of jealon.-y and distrust Tn the minds of a portion of our people. and to distract these dually times, we 1 undersUnd W 7 lbc,r.,,r,n,' P W com- m . - "... M am I. L at. . 1. . It' . . Mh v f .a .. puuicu. m ine intelligence or lotin taroJin:t when they expect to deceive thera by "such shal Jbw .tf UfiesMd-tefleot their ajagnahimity indjpatriotisro. We prolefs to be as well informed at least as any Ysnkeo newspaper upon men and things in the South, " and it is news to us that the soldiers" of North . Urt week 105 conscripts were enroled In Forsyth Carolina, or nf any other Southern State, arc look county., .., , . , c -. f. j 4" ' jz-.t. r ed upon with distrust and jealousy bv their Sootb- .Death is the Stage. Alexander Niforig, sick frn compainots. yn tne contrary, we have r.cVvr soldier returning from the army, died in tbe stage be- nard but one voice, and -that ol unqualified and tween High point and Salem, on Thursday morning enthusiastic admiration, of the sacrifices and hc- ls8t:' ''rr--- 'x-t: roism. which North Carolina has manifested in A eprrespondent writc7u7from Burke Counlr that l 'iJ'T Mf.?f BcL t0A some men, who ptofesa to be soldiers from the army o-rwncMDurg tno SOiaicrs of ISortn Uaroiiua are going through that County with their poor horses bave stood in the 'front ranks, and reaped laurels from house to house, takiuir all tho corn the v can find as brltrht and imnerMiihl a rir rrnwnod hu- and leaving tho soldiers' wives and children to surer, man henna Tn .1,:-" u.. i,s It seems that hundreds of broken down cavalrvhoraea I :it 0 . .!.- Lave been sent to his State to be fed : We hae heard . u.uauvuua opinion or tneir gallant preinrt .., of them before, leaving their desolating trial hroogh In arms anf of the whole Southern community, various Western Counties. It would be better to give It Would suit the bose cunning of the Yankees to- lHce;lojitt See first and fourth parw. -. - i , ttrored brfrtTon the 27th-ultr -' en. Sure that tioTVsnceoriiiyiCWBfe evil compUinedi ol.-S(andrd. . ; 1 . V : Tbey wiTTaft why Norlb Carolintlboutd bf look' its-, y l-x-m-.- Jl', is; - . - - I i - ......... .
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