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THE CONSTITUTION AND T H E A W S--T II E GUAR D I A HS OF 0 U tt LIB
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HILLSBOROUGH, N. C, OCTOBER 5, 1864.
fllEMONT'e LETTER OF WITHDRAWAL.
Tht following it the letter of Gen. Fre
mont, withdrawing hit Rime at a candi
date for the Presidency:
Uniton.Sept. 31, 1864.
Giktlemen: I feel it my duty to make
one itfp mere in the direction indicated
by my letter of the 25th ol August, and
withdraw ray oaroefron the list of candi
dates. Tbe Presidential question has in effect
been entered upon in auch a way that the
njon of tbe republican party has become a
paramount necessity.
The policy tf the Democratic party sig
nifies either separation or re-establistimctit
with slavery. The Chicaio platform is
, ainplr separation. Gn. McClellan'a let.
ter ol acceptance ia re-establishuent with!
Slavery.
Tbe republican candidate, on the con
trarr, ia pledged to the re-estsbtisbjnent of
lbs Union without slavery ; and; however
hesitating his policj may be, the pressure
of hia party will, we nrar hope, lorcc hia
to iu
Uatween these issues, I think no min of
the liberal pan can remain in doubt J and
1 believe 1 am consistent with my antece
dents in withdrawing, not to aid in tho
'triumph of A Jr. Lincoln, but to do my part
towards preventing the election of lha De
mocratic candidate.
In respert to Mr. Lincoln I continue to
sentiments contained in
my letter of acceptince. I consider that
his admiuikiratibn has been political!.
Militarily and financially, a failure, and
that its necessary continuance is a cause of
reret for the country.
There never waa a greater unanimity in
a country thin wst exhibited here at the
fall of Sumter, and the" South waa power
less in the face of It. But Mr. Lincoln
completely paralvied this generous feeling.
He destrovfd the stiengih of the position
and divided the North when he declared
o the South that alarry should be pro
tected. He liaa built up for the South a
urorigth which otherwise the? would hae
never attained;, and this lu's given them
an advocate in In Chicago platform.
The Clcaveland convention was to hae
beeo the open avowal of that condemna
tion which men had been freely expressing
toeacbethrr for the fist to years, and
which had been made fully knon to the
President. But in the uncertain condi
tion of affairs leading men were not found
williog to make public a dissatisfaction
.and condemnation which rosld have ren
dered Mr. Lincoln's nomination impossi
ble ; aad their continued sifrnce and sup
port established for R!m a character among
the people which leaves now n choice.
United, the republican parte is reasons
bly sure of success; divided.'the result of
the Presidential election is, at the lrat,
doubtful.
1 am, gentlemenvery trulv, vur,
' J. C. Hill.MONT.
To Henri. (Jeorgt L.yutrrn an J other, a com
rout, &e.
. CoiiTersatloif of a Hahcmedan Yonth.
RLLATK0 RY A NAVALOrr;t r.R.
la the year ' ISW, Muharoed .Mi, l'al.a
of Kvpt, sent twenty L'gvptiaii youths to
Kngiaiul, in order there t arijuire the art
f hij building. Among their number wis
ne Mahtnoud Klkco, a lad of twelva ears
ol age, ht had been carefully trained to
'Mahomrdan piety by his Gdfcaring mo
ther. He hoped tu be saved by alnwgivi
ing arid fasting, and hated Cki'ist and his
lollowers; for the scandalous conversation
ol nuiYmal Christians in Kgypt had inipir
fie him with disgust at everthing lavorin
efCbristianity. .
Tor that very reason, because he. must
go and live among the wicked Christian
peepls, the separation from his native
country proved alt the mere painfally to
him. When Malimoud was placed undtr
my care this Christian naval architect!
states, " I sotti took nntire f th dirk .lt d I
gloomy state of his mind, and his bitter
""or against everything he considered
Christian. I accordingly improved irrv
opportunity that offered, to point out to
him the difference between true and nom
inal Christians, and explained tu him oc
casionally, in the plainest terms the'doc-
lr'?fMi th,Stt8Pe. doling particular!?
on the doctrine of sin. the corruption of the
human heart, of Christ and the work of re
demption, and especially on the doctrine
or regeneration, which in fact made an
early and deep impression" upon him, and
arrested his attention. Possessed of a
clear spprebeasion, and found judgment,
he was never in a hurry to take up a thing
lightly. - .
" As often as I had submitted a new
consideration, his firat remark invariably
waa : Prove it !" He took particular de
light in conversing and questioning me on
religious topics, his. answers proving the
ardent participation of his heart. He at
tended tbe preaching of the faithful Mr.
Griffin with peculiar predilection, while
his mind and heart apprehended more and
more of the truths of Christianity. Now
he began to be aware that there was a
something in the Christian religion beyond
v hat he fancied to have discovered in it
while at home in Kgypt. All whom he
found to be truly pious were dear to hiss,
and their conversation appeared to him in
creasingly valuable. Every leisure mo
ment from working hours he devoted to
the one thing needful. He olten accom
panied me to the sick bed, sud read the
Scriptures to the patients, now and then
adding a word of seiocs exhortation him
self. A Young female confessed that the
words of Mahhioud had first led her to see
the necessity of a change of heart. This
promising youth began to be failing as
early as. 1832, and in July, 1836, his suf
ferings became so acute that hope of his
recovery could only be derived from the
milder climate of Kgypt.
He accordingly made preparations for
his departure, but was no longer able ta
accomplish it. In addition to his ordinary
phvsician, auother doctor was called in for
the
demanded his caodid opinion; he leplied;
that human aid was out of the question.
His sole business nuw remained, to pre
pare for his approaching end. 'With the
calmest self-pnisesion he distributed his
little property, being specially intent on
leaving a suitable token of remembrance to
all. those that he had been previously at
tached to, especially his' tenJeily beloved
mother and his young Egyptian friends.
I had just retired to bed, Tuesday,
August 2d, when he sent forme. On en
ter jng he thus addressed me: Oh, I should
like for you to stay with me tonight!
Don't leae me!' I staid, and uitnessi-d
the child-like faith uith which fte clung to
Jesus and His gospel. From that time he
had but five days more to live, and the
last words he lisped with a faltering voice
were Othtr rrfugt I have none! Hangs
myhtfrku soulonTftce!'"
It is deserving of notice lhat the other
Kgyntian youths, who the Pasha sent to
England with Mahmoud, also embraced the
Christian religion.
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THE fculF STREAM.
The warm water rushes out of ttte great
Mexican cauldron through the Straits of
Florida having a temperature 82 degrees,
equaling ihatorihe out springs ef Matluck,
an J whote width is a hundred miles .villi
a velocity of fiom three to five miles an
hour. TheIre it passes through the Straits
(if ffil Italia ttsvsi tlsAn e-asola k
banks of Newfoundland, spreading itself
over ine western halt ol tneortn Atlantic,
which is thereby heated in winter consid
erably above the temperature which it
would otherwise hare. Arrived at the
banks of Newfoundland, the Gulf Stream,
as it ia called, is suddenly deflected to tbe
east; and, becoming divi.led, one portion
makes a head southward in the direction of
ihit Anrt an.t l1tr m.iw.i tula id.
great editorial curreut; whilst the other
portitn r?is N, E. or N, N. K. ua :il it
impinges .gainst the western iiinrcs ol trie
Cntifeh Mis, where it his the cfiect cf
charg' g t' e air with niois'ui?. and rcn
s'criuj tht f winters ttnstJcutly wilu'si
than those of the eastern coasts. The
Gulf Stream, in its course across the At
,l!ic brings with it West India seeds,
(Mimosa scandens, Dolicbos urens, c.,)
nd doubtless portions of trees, throwing
them on the coasts of Devonshire, the west
ol Ireland, the Hebrides and the Orkney
Isles. It contributes to give to Ireland its
perpetual verdure, and t make Itnt h.
Isle of Wight of Scotland. A native of
wic ureen isie mignt lancy there was some
thing holy in his fatherland on learning
that a bottle was thrown overboard by an
American captain off Capo Hern, in 1837,
which, after floating about the Atlantic for
some years, was at last picked up in a ha
ven on bis own shores. The water of the
Atlantic on the sputh and southwest coast
of Ireland is not only warmed by the Golf
Stream, but its temperature appears to be
increased by another stream,, known as
RonaelY current, which flews due north
ftusa Spain along the shores of France and
on to our southern coasts. Hence it hap.
pens that the water of Kerry, and some
what further North, is, in June aad July,
warmer than that of any part of the- At
lantic on the same parallel, the surface
temperature ranfing from 54 degrees, or on
the average of fifty-seven and a half de
grees. On the Newfoundland coast, about
8degrees of latitude further south, the fern
perature ranges between 42 degrees and
53 degrees, averaging 45 degrees, in the
sane month. The influence of the Gulf
Stream extends much further North than
Cape Wrath, Scotland. Slowly continu
ing its western course this great genializer
of our climate oasses the Orknevi and the
Shetlands ; ia the former tbe pools are said
nnt In h. I..-.- : ' i kT
w iii wincr. next, ii sweeps
slung the coast of Norwiv to HaimrrWt
(T l ilaarrBAa i a.W I -I - .1 .1
v. - -..i.a u vim uiuuuc,) me neriiiern-
. & . . 1 a . 1
mm town in me worm. Hhirr.
from Lord Dufferin'i Ltt r from Hitrh
Latitudes, the water on a Jul dav, tn
jw. was o ue?rees. exact v thi nmt
temperature Which he had rfrittireil at
Sfprnu.v in ! .1 . !
"v " uwvuiuy, in previous
month. Lord Dufi'erin was enabled, hr
sailing along the " tail of the Gulf Stream,-'
to reach English Bay in Spitsbergen, situ-
aim m Bonn latituue 78 ueg. 9 mm. (on
ly about six hundred and thirty miles from
uib norm poie.j wnere he lound the tem
perature of the water, in Auo-mt. tu be SI
degrees. The nutlike seeds of Mimosa
. .
scanuens nave also brex found thrown on
the shores of Spvitstergea.
Fraztr'i Magazint.
A Ccriops Fact. From the Diarr of a
t a a . a a . . r
ounaed doidier, in the u.blical Recor
der, we extract the following:
"There is this singular cirrumt.in-
connected with my wound. The most of
the pain which I feel seems to be in that
part of my body which has been amputat
ed. Sometimes the lost foot becomes so
very painful thai 'I find myself trying to
clasp or scratch it, before I remember that
it has been cut oft."
We have heard of such feelings. A high
officer now in this State who lost his arm
in Mexico, is said still to feel agonr in
the lost hand an J ana, thougVit is not far
from twenty years since the wound and
amputation. U it so in all cases of lost
limbs: We supple not, but that it is
owing to some peculiarity in the nervous
organization.
From the same Diary we copy tho fol
lowing: ' ff'edncsilay, 18:A. Suffered a great
deal last night-was quite feverish. Call
ed to the nurse several times for water,
but he was asleep. Finally he awoke and
in a very ungracious ir.annergave me some
mlk-warm water out f a greasy tin cup.
During the night the man on the bed next
to me, who was mortally wounded, began
:o talk in his sliep. Sweet visions of
home seemed to be passing before him.
He called his children to him, by name
tried tb tell them of his life as a soldier
spoke of peace having come, and seemed
delighted that he would hive M r t .
no more. Suddenly his voice grew faint
ho uttered a heirtrending groan and all
"Ter wiiii nun, Fey. Cktrttr, j
No. 2266.,
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Thk Proposkd Pkack Conferinck IX
Georgia. We copy from the Macon Tel
egraph the following statement in relation
to the proposed peace conference ia Geor
gia: We have a pretty reliable freport of
of the result of the informal deputation to
Gov.; Brown to iavite him tt a peace con
ference with Gen. Sherman. The latter
had this project much at heart, and sent ai
his messenger a gentleman well known, ef .
high social position in Georgia, to whom at
tendered written credentials, if desired.
He professed great unwillingness to pene
trate further into Georgia and inflict tbe
same devastation aad misery which were
own broadcast in his rear. , Ha seat an
invitation to Gov. Brown and other promi
nent gentlemen tt come up and talk the
matter over with him, and see if seme
scheme could net be devised to withdraw
Georgia from the war and save her people
from further auffering. He would like, if
Gov. Brown desired it, that the latter
should ride over the State Bead to Chatta
nooga, see " the condition of kis people in
the rear, and realize the strong claims up
on his sympathy it presented." The reply
of Gov. Brown, we understand, was Terr
much to this effect: Tell Gen. Sherman
that I understand him to be only a general
of one of the Federal armies, while I am
merely a governor of one of the Confede
rate States. I don't see how we can nego
tiate; or, if we should undertake it, how
our negotiations can lead to any practical
results."
The enemy has concentrated his forces
and eained at the noints of concentration.'
but he has not thus gained as much as be
has lost at the points he has abandoned in
order It carry out bis present policy. He
has a part or Virginia on which Grant's
and Sherman's armies are encamped, but
upon the whole, his lines do not include as
much, certainly not more of that State
than they did when Grant commenced bis
campaign in May fast from the Rapidan.
Sherraaa has taken Atlanta, but he has
drained Mississippi, Upper Alabama, Wes
tern Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas and a por
tion of Eastern Louisiana, while the Con
federates again make head in Missouri,
Western Tennessee and Kentucky, and
tha invincible Forrest bids fair soon to be
upon his communications in Middle Ten
nessee. He has taken the outer Forts at
Mobile, but shrinks from attacking tbt
city itself.
Let us look at the whole field and give
due weight to the gains and losses, and we
will see how in fact what we have gained
in one place more than balances what we
have lost in another, while the general re
sult goes to show that military occupation
is not conquest that advance in one sec
tion must be purchased by abandonment ia
the other, and (hit in fact the enemy sim
ply holds, and only can hold, the ground
over which his camps extend and his guns
ringe.'as long as our people are true to
themselves and to their cause.
Wilmington Journal.
Gold and Greenbacks. A Saratoga letter-writer
records the following novel
mode of paying hotel bills:
Among the anomalies of a depreciated
paper currency, the following it, notewor
thy : There are at present at tht f priogs
quite a number of Cubans never before
so many. They all come laJen with gold,
on which, at home, they have paid no pre
mium. On the liquidation of their Jboard
bills they are allowed tht premium of
course. The practical result is, that when
a Cuban lias been here a month, and has
feasted well, he lavs down one hundred
dollars in gold and" receives, in return, a
receipted bill and one hundred and f fty-six
dollars in cbiea! The Cubans, hence,
are living gratis-, and making mocey by it,
besides! Uf course they are greatly en
joyirjglhciaselvcs at our cxpeuse.
v 1 watanaaMia
Gen. Price is reported in t!ie Yankee
papeii to ha.j cicvicil the Aika.is river
w tb 20,090 50.CC0 Bi5fl.