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k 5L THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL. COW K. EOATK STATES OK AMKRICA, YTILMISQTON, N. C., THPBSDAY, JABPABY 7, IMA. ... h - ' - : MISSIS tS. Hi foiicwire copies of onr WeeKly Journal are missing r 6 am person tavfcg them will confer 4W we wiUp.yM cents to? t ir. op of each date : October vvyico, 26th, 1863-2 it A growing impression prevails that during the pres ent year, 1661, the destiny of the country for good or for evil, eo far as the present war is concerned, will be definitely find, ccd that tharefore upon the efforts 'end the sacrifices of this year more will depend than upon the w bole time that has preceded it eince the com mencement of the war. With this year the present Confedtrate . currency mast asume another form or .finally pass away. The war cannot be carried oa at the present hfgh prices which are the result of our deranged and depreciated currency. Congress cannot set a newer and better cur- rency efloat, or make efficient or permanent arrange ments for funding until the present mass of paper is somehow retired and got out of the way, and the prea ent Congress has only got about si weeks to work npoa. They will decide upon the preliminaries in ee. cret scFsion, tad we presume condaot the debate with los d doors. If Corgress be enabled eatiafactorily to arrarjge the currency and the army before the 17th of February it will certainly b2 entitled to tie credit which is doe t itJu3try and hard work. Bat of course no meas ures that would meet the existing emergency could give eatlsiaeticn, since any measures either of taxation or of fuodiu;,, calculated to restore our finances, must be com puJscry in their character and heavy in amount. They mast and will bear hard upon very many people, ea. pecul'y persons in the army or compelled to go into it. It ia in regard to these that we feel the largest measure of concern. Wilmington. :D3 of a Wictpr cempago on the coasts of North and South Tarcliaa. increase, and the deep-laid plot which be gan with tiratt's re'reat from Kinggold developes Itself rapidly. The Yankee preparations are bo nearly complete Lat we may took for tie first blow within a week or two. Cr.ar'.ec-t.r'n and bavannah are both menaced, bat the opin ion 1 at tf lmiDgton h to be the point ot main attack Rains atrerg h daily. " The President and the War Department are nut asleep. They know that the enemy's fleet is now large encngh and en nga of his.troops idle to enable them to make a combined, Bimaltaneons attack on the three n:i,rg named. Many men and great vigilance will be re ri;red to ensure the defeat of all the assaults. It is no &e cret that proper dispositions have been decided npon. This nutter was, no doubt, tally disoosaed when Gen. Lee W u tho city. Wi mipgtoa is of special Interest to bath parties. It is the amy port of any importance left us, as the enemy is well aware. Ria blockading fleet has been largely increas ed, and imports are becoming of rare occurrence, but the pe culiar approaches are Bach aa to forbid hope of a com plete stoppage of 'blockade running, save by the capture of tie city. TLis haa been definitely agreed npon by the Cabinet at TVasLiiigton, and already the premonitory symptom- r.re visible. It is believed that Butler had coccsmra ted 10 000 nen at Washington, N. C, and no longer than Sjuliy ldst tiie e3it wo fcs oms twenty m-les irom Wil mington were destroyed. Thti fleet, rumbling now twen ty sss Hi!, awai s only the arrival of the Dunderberg and other i-on cltds, and addi ional men to commence opera tions. If Wilmington in taken, Charleston falls by an at tack ho rear. fVrt-inatoly we have no ab'e and vigilant General in oom rnaLd at Wi mlugtoa. We take it for granted that the Pre tiJcm haa lutein d to-his suggestions, and that forces am piy tufricient to hold the place are ia position, ready to be c oiicciitratc-u at a moment's warning, Past experienpe has tiQ.zbt toe t.ecu'iva not to repeat the delays which cost us fe? -r.cana, Donelson, Roanoke Island, and other P'i m. A di' story ccutbs now would bring down upon him tho c- zn muca condemnation of the people. Confident ttiaiiJ w:ii uo Lis whole duty in the approaching crisis, w.; a wjii tho at;ack on Wilmington, Charleston and tia-viuua:-j with lirrnriees atd hope. Ike above, which appeared as an editorial in the Iiiclimjiid IVu's of Saturday, the 2d inst., caused not a littb talk end excitenient here yesterday, as it was very Lateral that it should do. The idea of an attack wiihia a certain limited number of days ia sufficiently Etartllcg to arous3 epprehensions in the minds of the firmest. No?', although, this article assumos to speak so defin i':!y ad positively on the subject, and although I1 the protwbili lies seem to indicate the approach of ao live operations upon our coasts, still we feel assured that tLi j 11 hig's Eurniists are based upon no clearer (lain than those in cur possession and upon which our own reo.arks tave recently been predicated. "We think that our authorities both here and at Richmond looked noon a rnureajent a3 likely to be made at au early day. lbs best information from the enemy's lices in North Carolina represents the atrnal of heavy reinforcements. They have an arin.'d cs well as a transport fleet easily disposable Inlcrmation from the North goes to show that an expe ditioa is m course of preparation. If any new attack is io ha nude at ..ny point on the Atlantic coast.it won d fipp. r ia it w UuiiPgton or Savannah would be that point T;.i ia -Ai we know about the matter. The n tjiy ev u ii..y ccnttmplates some movement on the e.'is:. li s p.'aai have not vet baen developd. and nf coarse ttuiil ihey are, what movement he will make must re-main a matter of conjecture. The times are certainly thrtuietitg, lh1 we know not what a day or an hour may briirg t i th, We trust that when the hour of trial corncs, we m iy be prepared for the emergency. Daily Journal, Ath. A correspondent who signs himself " Private," re monstrates against tho propositions urged upon Con grpss by sundry gent ra's of the army of Tennessee. H? icista that the gofernment does not safficiently feed ta2 soldiers already in the field. That this should be E-.tn to before additional levies are ordered. He also thicks that Coiigre.-s should raise the pay of the pri- vatis, and coutondj that if furloughs are stopped jis Las b eu reeommjud.d, the tffjet will ba to increase de- sertioL.s. If the men can get furloughs, he thinks they wul not oesert. 1 f they cannot, he thinks they will. Attention is called to General Orders No. 6, issued by Gen. Gustavcs W. Smith, while his headquarters Were at Goidtboro', on the subject of furloughs, &c, which the correspondent says was a welcome document to the Eoldier.a of his command. No doubt it is exceedingly desirable that everything should be dene to make the rask and file of the army satisfied wiih their position end treatment satisfied that their country esteems them and appreciates their services. This is certainly the sure3t way to- stop de eertiozs. Hon. J. Belton O'Neal, Chief Justice of the State of Scuth Carolina, died at Newberry, in that State, on the 27th ult. Judge 0Xeai. must have been eighty years oi age, or over. Appointed. It will be esen by our telegraph to day that Hen. Geo. Dath, of North Carolina, haa been appointed by the President and confirmed by the ttenate Attorney General of the Confederate States. . Daily Journal- ith. Firing. There was heavy firing Sunday after noon in tho direction of Shallotte. It was said to have proceeded from the enemy's blockading vessels firing at a new steamer called the Roslin Jaatle, bound for Wil mington. We do not know the result, but we suppose that the vessel was Icst-or run ashore. t..TnEf Sp1 Service Hero, Self Detailed, ia the title ot a rbym'ng Baire printed at the offi f Southern Punch ,Iflchmond) y prIc8 0ne DoUarJ CaPEeLi" office Southern PuncbJRjchmDI1d. Va. 4 T?f-82i0r Jdit0r 0f the Obmter en ters this M - rear's upon tbe fortieth year cot section with that paper. v The Exemption Qwsilon. -TUf Th8 Military Committee of ti e House reports a bill repealing all existing exempt-ops except such as are ex tended to the officers of the Rate ar.d Confederatf Gov ernmenta. The whole question of details aid exemptions is, by this bill, virtually turned over to the President. We do not know whether this bill greatly affecta the uestion. csome txampiions mere must ana wm oc, and fime details also. At firet blosh.it would lock as though the Ilonsa shrunk from- the responsibility in volved in the settlement of this question and was dis posed to cast it all upon the Execuiive, but, upon re- fiectio, we do not think that tuch is the motive at the bottom of the proposed legislation. The great difficulty with all laws asd Bvstems has tver beu their abuse cr defective execution. All hu--nan laws and institutions administered by human agency muat be liable to abuse, and are abused to a greater or ltea extent. There are evils and abuses likely to be developed in ihe operation of any law, which no human prescience can anticipate or provide for, and which practice alone can make manifest, and practical remedies alone can remedy or prevent. By leaving the regulation of this, question of details and exemptions within the power of the Executive, perhaps it is thought that the appropriate remedies can be promptly applied to any abases or evasions as soon as tfcey dev elope the mselvc3 and are brought to the atten tion of the Department, which probably could not be the case were the whole matter fixed by positive enact ment, as it has been heretofore. It is plain that a good deal might be said for and a, gaiiat this bill, cs we tbiuk we tave shown above, but since quite as much, if not -more can be said for than a gainst it, we naturally incline to the favourable side to believe that the bill has been gotten up io good faith.with a view to meet the present emergency of the country and not to evade responsibility by castirg it upon a co ordinate branch of the government. The truth is that the action cf all cur authorities de mands fif ni e very fat riot not only a fair but a liberal eonsti action. It would be folly to deny that this yean whi'e it held? out to the eye of hope, the chance of a fav- -fable end honorable conclusion of the war, also contain? the elements cf a nicst severe and trying crisis, to mt-tt which will require that all the available ener gies of the Confederacy sLali be pat forth, not reluc tantly, not evaaively, tot standing upon the mere letter, not stiekling and haggling and quibbling, and invoking'1 the sanctity of the law aud the spirit of the constitution to defend not liberty but personal ease,heaped up gain or cherished speculations. We reverence the constitu tion we oppo33 invasions on the rights of the people as much as any one. We have an instinctive regard fot law and order. But neither Johnny Ccpo in his cry of beef ! beef 1 nor Rhylocir. in bh attempted exaction o his pound of fljsh come up to ctrr ideate of law and or der ; nor, we confess, e!o seme in the present day who seek to embarrass the government and certainly do jso- pardiza tha cause by legal q-iibbles, show to us in a much better light. The utmost nerve the fiimeet front, tho most un daunted courage, will be required during the coming twelve months f:om all who are charged with the man agement cf tffairs in our oonntry, or whose position gives them any influence in formicg or guiding public sentiment. Moral courae thi power to resist the approaches of despondency, and the faculty of commu nicating this power to others, will neeJ greatly to be called into exercise : for we Lave rSached that point in our revolution which is inevitably reached in all revo lutions, when gloom and depression take . the place of hpe and enthusiasm wh drspair is fatal and des pondency is even more to be dreaded than defeat. In such a time we can understand the profound wisdom of the Roman Senate in giving thanks to the general who had suffered the greatest disaster that ever overtook the Koman arm, " be ea'e he bad not despaired of the Republic." . TTe do not mean that we should shut our eyee to the dangers that threaten us, and thus render them doubly dangerous by neglecting te use of the proper means to avert tLem, neither do we advocate any servile adtv lation of our governmental authorities, or any unrea soning approval of all their measures. We only contend that where any measure admits more readily of a favor able than of an unfavorable construction jastics ad good faith to public servants straggling under innum erable difficulties demand that it should receive the for mer construction. We contend also that the leaders o a people those possessing it-flucnce in moulding or gu dirg public opinion ia an hoar like this, are as great ly to be blamed for publishing despairing views and de- P'eacirjg public firmiicis, as Military officers would be .vho told their forces ia tLe presence of an enemy that they were already whipped, aad they had better run away or surrender. But buck, we regret to say, is the tone of tco maoy papers, especially in North Carolica ch a tone is Euicidal, and we confess we think it is xt to moral treason, if not worse Wk. understand that the firing heard here Sunday and yesterday came from the direction of Lockwood's Folly, where the; Steamer Beodigo had run ashore. It would seem that in the doubtful light of Sunday morn- log, the Bendigo mistook tee wreck of the Steamer Elizabeth for one of the enemy's blockaders, and in en dcavonng to rua between Lcr and the shore got aground. The Bend-go is a small vessel, and we sup pose wcutd hardly drpw ever C or C feet of crater. It was the Betdigo, inerefore, aod not the Rcslin Castle, as reported by us yesterday, that was aShore cu our coast, although, at the time we reported it, the general impression here was that the vessel fired at was the Roslia Castle, probably based on the fact that she was to have left Nassau on such a day as would have drought her on cur coast at the time when the firing occurred. We have no information about the Roslia Castle, and do not know where ehe is or whether she is safe or not. Thkbb s no news to-day by telegraph of special im portance. The enow storm in Virginia necessarily puts a Etop to military operations la that quarter. The House debates its financial measures in lecrct session. The policy and justice of this is somewhat doubtfdl. No doubt the ohj ct is to keep speculative characters in the dark and prevent their making such a disposal of their- property ak would bo calculated to evade the law. But these people are most apt by hook or by crook to find out what is coming, and the inno cent holders of Confederate currency, bonds, or other property, or bona fide dealers, are the persons whom the storm is likely to overtake unprepared, and who will thus run the risk cf beiDg left out in the ecld." Any sudden change, for which people are unprepared, must work serious loss, inconvenience and suffering. When people are forewarned they ere said truly to be at least half "armed. If not forewarned, people are thus far liable to be taken-at a disadvantage, and these so liable are leldom those upon whom the country could reasonably wish that the loss should fall. There is little from any other pornt, and perhaps where there is little to comment upon it ia safest to in dulge in few comments. Let cs, before concluding, have a word to add npon that very original topic the weather. Ever since 1S64 set in we have had weather of the most trying kind. Cold, creeping, depressing, suicide-suggesting, cold-pro ducing, sniveling, nose-weeping, throat-chcaking, head swelling, sneezing, snorting, nigger-tiring weather Weather characteristic of the esagoo, which, to pur dall notions, is the mo3t unpleasant of the whole ymr, and which even Christuits, in tLe b.-st of tim-is un able to red eja or even render tolerable. IIow much the cafe is cgravatrd now we oetd bardh soy. H'l are indebted to tne county vi t uoi l-ubcbt, w me Staamahiu ' w-.U D-irreM," froia Na-., lor ov-pks of the Liverpool Poat and Merc y ( the 15 h and vember. H their most ia-perust nrive La ted by more i:i-tc arrivals eeu atiticpa- Thb Eight Instant. Frjday next, the 8:h LiSumt, will be the anniversary oi the gloncus " Victory of Chalmette," achieved by Jacksos and his gallant vol unteers, over the flower of the British Regclars. 1'he Louisianians, now denizens of the Town of Wilmicg nn T.rnrrsfi to celebrate the occasion by a dinner, to which we acknowledge the honor of &u invitation. Do nob to whom Hosob, u dce --.We have b; fore ua more than one communication expmsive of sitcere thanks to Mr. McGbsal, Police Officer, by parties whose goods (a.tolen from their housef) and been le covered by the energy atd perseverance of that ttlL-cr, who refused to accept aDy pecuniary atk io lodgment. These parties, unwilling to parade thtir namr:s in p-i&t, yet wish that some proper acknowledgment sbouM be made. In compliance with wuhes so expressed, we in sert this brief notice, which, from tb? fucta placed be fore us, we presume to be amply merit d- Thi Alexandra Cas-.. The case of the Alexandra seiz-d at Liverpool by the authorities of tho British government ta the'grcund that he was built for the Confederate government aLd in tended to do war service for the South,, was tried be fore the Chief Baron of the Court cf Exebs qu. r, aud a special jury. The verdict of the jury, .in uccordaace with the ruling of the Chief Barcn, was against the gov ernmett, and in favor of the claimants of fee vessel. It is known that the Crown lawyers took exception to the verdict, and that a new trial was to ba had be!o;e the full Court on the 1 7th of November. The result of the new trial has not reached this couatry, at least it is not jet known in the Confederacy. Perhaps the day for the trial was further postponed. In the meantime the ground taken by the Chief Baron ia the first tiial may not be uninteresting. Wa fiud them gjvcti or stated in the supplement to tho Liverpool Post of the lGih Nevember : " The case," sa'd the .Chief Biroa to the jury, " you have to decide on the present occasion is.no doubt oe not merely of great importance, but rcaily i& a momen tous questiaa. It is a question - tne importance ot which it is impf SoiDie to exaggerate, ani wnicn one approaches with varied sentiments. OJe ceriuudy is a eehng oi tne aeept-st regrei mat suca a question tuonia ever have arisen ; and 1 caanct help exprcsamg tbe deepest, almost anguish, that o-r; let Is that such a qaes- tion should nave aris n Dy asstnsion amongst tnose who are connected with ua by the dearest possible tie3 that can bind nation to nauon : a common lineage, a common language, common laws, ardi common iitera tare, and above ail 1 say. above ail these a error:;? desire for coustifutional freedom." His lordship ob- served that should mere ce a coteitmnniiou oi ihe v; t sel, certain partita would be guilty of a ni!sivin3aajr. The law of the case was to be ioucd in the tn section of the Foreign EuliiJUient Act, aLd that section wi:s"as bllows : "And be it lurlr.er enacted, that it j;ny person with in any part of the United Kingdom, or in any p:irt of his Majesty's dominions beyond tbe seas, shall without the leave and license of his Mijjsty, for the purpose first had and obtained as aforesaid, equip, ruruiar!, he out, or arm and procure to be equipped, iari ished, filled out or armed, or snail knowingly aid, assist, or be con cerned in the tquppieg, furnisbug, luting oat, orlirui- ine any ship or vtel with intent or iu oukT th.it luc.i ship r vessel shall be employed in tbe servic.; ol any loreign prince, and so on, mai person is gu;,i o: a m s demeanor, is liable to fine and imprisonment,'' avd t; vessel is forfeited and may be seized " "Now," continued his lordship, "the q-tcsno-i that i shall propose to you is this, whether you taink that tnii vessel was merely in the court? ot cu-mg Kr i;.e pur pose of bsiiig uciivered in pursuinee oi a c. a ract, wnica 1 own I ininii Wia periecuy vviu:;-or w-tui r there was any intention that in tne port of Liverpool or any other English port (ud thtra is certainly no et dnce of any other) the v.sel should be equipped, fktcd out, and furnished, or armed for the jjurposu of aggres sion. That is the question." His lordship continued : 1 will 6tate to you why I put the qaes'icn 1 if d to the Attorney-General. I said, "Do joa m aa to b..y that a man cannot make a vessel iatet.ding to sell it to either of the belligerent powers that ri.q,ures to have it to that one wmcu will give hn the largest price ior it? Is that unlawful." Ihe learn; d Atiorney-Gexe-rol, I own, rather to my surprise, declined giving an answer to a question which I thought very pluiu and very clear. Yoa siw what passed ; I must leave; yu to judge whether there was anything improper ia tne manner in which I (so to ex oread if) ccmmau.d v.i,h the AttorneyJral on tho law, t-o that v,u iaihL really undarsT ch other, and taat I mibt Lase my mind instrucrewKd out, eepaipped and faruitiod, i! you picas, by the contents of Lis. Geutiem.-n, tLe learned Attorney-General declined to ar.s vn thutqits tioc. But, I think by this time, having rear! to yoa these matters, you are lawyers eocifgb. to a-i-rvr it yourselves. I think that answer ought to be, " Yts ; a man may make a vessel." Nay, more, according to the authority I have just red, he nny make-a vec-s-l and arm it, and then cfier it for sle. So Story lays down. But I meant, gentlemen, as I said then, it I had got an affirmative answer to tbat que tion to put another. If any man may build a vessel :cr the purpose cf e tiering it to either of ihe Delligerent powers who is minded to have it, nny he not execute an order tor it ? Because it seems to me to follow aa a matter of course, if I may make a mstl and then say to the United Statea, "I have sot a capi tal vessel, it can easily be tnrned into a ship of w.-ir; of course 1 have not made it a ship of war at present; w.ll you bay it?" it that is perfectly lawful, surely it is lawful for the United States to say, " Make us a vessel of Buch and such description, and when you have made it send it to us." Now the learned counsel certainly addressed themselves very much to this view of the matter. It was said Bat ilyeu allow this you repeal the statute. Gentlemen, I think nothing of tiia kiud What tbat statute meant to prov.de -for was I own, I think, by no msans tbe protec tion of tha belligerent powers. I do not tnink their protection entered into the head3 of those who framed this statue, otherwise they would hare Baid You shall not sell gunpowder, you fchall not sell guns. There are places that now and then explode in different parts of the kingdom, and which would have complained very heartily if they had said, you shall not sell gunpowd-r, you shall not. sell arms. Why all Birmingham would have been insseas. . . . The vessel was clearly nothing more than in course of building. I do not ;know what ccpclusion you would have come to as to what service she was in tended for- If it became a matter of importance to decide that, it would be a question for you to decide whether ifr amounted to more thaa a strong suspicion, or whether it satisfaction direction. was so made aa to justify out to your entire a verdict in that direction. Bu gentl , gentle- men, I ao not propose to put that to you. . . The offence against which this information is directed is the " equipping, furnishing, fitting out, or arming." Gentle man, I Jaavs looked, so that 1 might not go wrong (as we have the advantage of having it here,) at Webster's American Dictionary, a work of the. greatest learning, research, and ability. No cue can complain that I re fer to that. It appears there that to "equip" is "to furn ish with arm3." In the case of a ship especially is "tofurnish and complete with with arms," That is what is meant by "equipping." "Furnish" is .given in every dictionary as the same thing as "equip." "To fit out" is Mto lurnish and supply," as to fit ogt a priva teer. And 1 own- that my opinion is that ' eeiuio." "furnish," -'fit out," or "arm," all mean precisely the same thing, I do not mean to say that i3 is absolutely necessay (and I think that the learned Attorney-Gen eral is right in that,) it is not perhaps necessary that . t 1 t t 1 A 1 I " " we vessel auouia De armea si an points. Io conclusion hia lordship said : But the question ia, wa8 there any intention that in the port of Liverpool, or in any othei port, she should bein tne language of the Act of Parliament, either equipped, furaiahed, fitted out, out or armed" wiih the intention of taking part in any contest. That thsre was a knowledge that very likely she would be so applied mere can De no uoudi, aa mere is wnen persons sends powder. I take it for granted that there are agent on both J aides. Ocq opsolj buying eyery Bucitioa of war (and J bty have a right to do itand rhe subjects cf this coun r have a i h?ht to sell to them.t and openly carrying them a vay the other buying whatever they can, and probably endeavouring to run the blockade, or to smuszie in some way or other the same description of mnrjiMens orwnr. wentiemen, n you iuidk tue oujeci was to equip, mrnish, fat out, or arm that vessel at ljiv. emool, then that is a sufficient ma.ier. But it you think ih1 o' ject really was to build a bh p in obedience to an order, and in compliance with a contract, leaving it to those who brought it to mki wit use they thought.fit of it, then it appears to me that the Foreign ljustmen Act b a not ben in any r'egrte broken. For tha Journal. " Hamiltox, N. C, Jai. 3rd 18C4. Mksrs. Ed:tobs : If tbe enclosed oath ncl parole will, in yocr Estimation, be of interest to your readers, you can publish them in order to show the citizens ol North Carolina and Virginia what they rray expect should tl ey ever meet with the unparah-Led misfortune te ccmo nad.-r the rule ol B?ast Butler." The .oath is Lincoln's and the parole is added by the Beast himself. The time set far the people of Eastern North Carolina is the 19th of January, inst. All per sons who do tiot come forward and take the oa:h and give their- parole withm tbat time are to be seized and held rs prisoners of war, and their property con fiscated to the use of the United States Gov ernment. Persons can leave their lines within tbat time, bo they will be allowed to bring nothing with them except fifteen pounds of meat to each member of families. These things which I have mentioned atove. are not in the extract, but they are in the General Or der No. 49, with much moie, which 1 will endeavor to give you at length as heerly as I can recollect Having been engaged in scouting in the lower coun ties for sometime past, I have h id. frequent opportuni ties cf observing for myself the way in which the citi zens of Eistern North Carolina are treated by tbe Yai.kee vandals. Near the post3 rf Plyaoutii and Washington they have established trading stands, and their trade ia carried on in this way : Any citizen can pass the outer post, provided they crry anything to rel!; ai the next post, half a mile distant, is tbe trading na:t where their produce is bought by the Yankee soldiers at their own price They pay a Buffalo twenty cents to carry the order to Mi.jer E U. Wiiiis, in Plymouth, a miserable old Bufli'.o, who for maoy years has been & citizen of the place and tad the esteem and confidence ol the peo ple. He,knowiog every man in the country, signs the order, it he is a good union man that sends i, and for this he receives twenty cents also. The order is then carried to Brig. Gen. VVessels for approval, wbc also must have h;B twenty cents tor writing Lib name. The order is then carried back to tha picket stanc' and be lore the owner can get what be wants be must give a Buffalo, appointed for the purpose, oce dollar to co and get the articles. Frequently the amount of one man's sales will not reach a dollar and sixty cents, and in that case he must go back home and bring something elie io order to get his request through the proper channels. I merely ment.m.uus in order to show to what impose tions the people in the ecemy'aliocs are subjected - General Order No. 49 ia stuck up on the tree3 at the inner trading stand. Ia addition to what I have before mentioned, is an order to "all persons between the ages of 18 and 4a, both white and black," to report to the Commanding General without delay. Another order makes it incumbent upon all peisons to enconrage the blacks to enlist ia the service of the United States. This bu3 been the order of things up to the present ii ,k ; what it will be after tbe 19th January, God alone can tell. '1 his section of country might have oeen easi ly defended, and would have amply rep-vd the Govern S:ent fur its defence. Before the fall of Roanoke Isl and the counties lying on the Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds lurnishtd nearly all of the provisions conFumed by tLe Army cf "Virginia; now they serve to feed an ar my of our invaders. Roanoke I'ROVOSX .HAGSIHL'a OPP1CI P ICE. ( 183. f Plymouth, N. C, I) jc. 2'at, 1 Extract from General Ordr No. 49 dated Head quarters Dei'artniaiit ot Virginia and North Caroiiua. r o:t (our.v, V.iM Dec. 10th, ISfcdj: it having Lec.nie necessary in the jadgme:;t of he Coin tra:dirjg General, aa a 'jiublio exigency," to distinguish tr.03J who are Icy til hcd -well disposed towards the (Joveru ui 'Ut ot tli United St&teu, ironi those who e;ill hold alla kia'iico to ths Confederate Btatea, and Rir.pl' time having bv-m given to all citizens for reflection upJn this enbjact, aud full protection to personal property of every i aw-abid-ius citizen within ih;8 District, hiviug "beea alibrded; and iia there cin b ho bnch thing aa neutrality in this war by ar-y cit zeu cf the United states : aad as no enemy c? tho United fcHatis ought ta remain within the protection of the tiuvo.1 i:ia?nt, xt-pt aa a prisoner of war, on paro'e or in eoL&ut-iaeni ; ar.d as no good and loyal cinzsn can eVeire to do auy-hLp lather thin thoae things set out ia tha follow- jcg .';tth uiid rarolc : te uc-ideicd; That all persons ever heretofore cit'ziE3 ol tiie United btatea, asiting cr receiving anyiavor, protec tive, riviiege, passport, or to haya &uy money paid theai, propert-, or oiher va uable tning whatever delivered to them, or i-ny beuefttuf the power of the United HtatSB ex tended to tLem except protection ircra jjersonal violence, Eiu-t talie at'd eubscribe the following Outn and Parole, be fore their reqees: can be heaid, or any act done ia their iavor by any officer ot the United Butts within this Dis trict, or they can pa;Bus, directly or iudi.ectly,- any trade, uumesa or cslhng, (except manual labor '"f r their own support,) and ail contracts, eaies, conveyances, acts and transactions ?, tevsr, made or dona by and with persons wh J, h;iiog boen oitzecs of ths United btates, and living in the Eastern part of the State of North Caroiiua, or either of the States in rebellion at ihe time of their secession, sha'l refubs cr neglect to take aad sabscriba said Oath arid Pa role, shali be void and of no effect, or to be heard in any e;u:t, cr to have his rig&ts of property in any way protec ted, must tak iv;d autiocribe tbe following O.ith, set oat in the. proclimat.- . by tie President, of December 8:h, 1863, aa 1 Parole : l I do s oudy swear, in presence cf Almighty Go3, ihat will i ice;orth faithfully support, protect aud de fctd ths Co- ;.titution tf the Uuired dta:;s, and th? Union of the states thevec.ndjr ; and that I v i iz li'&o manner abide by an 1 faithtully support all Acts of Coagress passed duiing tna cxistinr rebellion, wlch reference to slaves, bo long and bo ir eo net repealed, modified, or held void by UotfgrebS, ;r by decuion cf the Hapreme Court : and that I will in like manner abide by and faith fully support all proolaoi&tions of tha President made uuiirg the existinsr rebellion, having reference to tdavea, bo long and . so tar as not modifi-d or declared v.id by decidica of the Supreme Court, to help me Gcd ; and we give our solemn parole of honor, (to ue erjf creed according io military lai7, (hat we h9ld no cor respondence with, or afford any aid or comfort to any ene mien or oppo&ers of tho United 8tate?, save b an act of hu manity, to adojinister to the cecessilies of individuals, who ne i i uickena or distress, and we solemnly declare that this Ua'.h and Parole are taken ana givea ireeiy ana wit iiagly, wiilou'. aty mental reservation ot evasion whitever, and with JuU lnteuiion io aeep me same, iiy coa,mnd of Brig. General H. W. VVessbllh. - blEPHEN MUPFiTT, Provost Mdrtha!. For . tie Journal. Atiiiy Lictters ami Pcp;it. Near Orange C. II., Va., ) Jecember 29ih,1863. f Messrs. Fulton Price, Editors Journal : Please request through your Journal the "Foalma3t- ers" 01 JNorih Carolina to send all of our mail matter direct to tbe A.N. V., (Army of Northern Virginia.) By so doing we can get ic at least one day sooner. Oar correspondents are requested to address us as above. .Vtry respectfully, &c, M. Ins Currency (Question. This question, upon which are hinged so many vital interests, is new fairly before Congress, the special committee ,to whom the question was referred m the House of Repre&cnta- lives caving EUDmutea meir report, as this report was received and read ia 3ecret session, of course vry lit tle is kcowa to the public of its provisions. This much we nave learned, however, that the scheme of the committee 13 embraced in two separata bills the one providing for the final disposition of the existing currency, and the other proposing a scheme of 4 taxation upon which to oase me new system to be inaugurated. As stated, we have little knowledge of the provisions of either of ttese bills, but have some indirect informa tion that the first conttmplates a rapid and complete absorption of the present circulation by a judicious sys tem ot funding. Of the latter, we may confidently Dre- dict that the taxes will be piled on heavily enough to give sausiacuon to tae most liberal and patriotic eup pcrter of the Government. R kh. Dipatcti. Murder 0? a Dwarf. Th? little dwarf of Wvthe county, William Waters, who was only three feet aad t70 Inches high, and forty years old, was murdered in tn?t county a few days since by a man named Kooerts. Taey were returning from a Still feouse together, and Roberts ascertaining that bis victim had a considera ble amount of money in his possession,' murdered and robbed him. The murderer has not been arrested, though it is thought that be cannot long elude the grasp of the officers, who are on bi3 track. The Temperance Cause. The temperance men of Richmond are arousing themselves from their torpor, and preparing to renew the fight with their old enemy. Arrangements are being made for public meetings, end distinguished speakers are to address the public. In tpmnprnnee is fearfully on the increase, and can only be checked by earnest appeals to the intelligence ot the public. GEJf. HALLSCILM CRITICISMS OF TI1K YAJIK.EK CAMPAIGNS OF TUB PAST "SEAR TllSf EFFI CIESCY OP HlSGESEttALS. The Yankee Commander-in-Chief .General . Halleck, has made . a long report of the Yankee campaigns of the past year, in whiob he most successfully hf a all blame from ht3 own shoulders and neatly distributes it upon the backs of tbe ccmraanding Generals. Nothing failed that he ordered, and nothing succeeded that he did not order. His vanity is equalled by nothing but his falsehood. The New l orfc l imes, in commenting up on his report ayS : fn. Bnrnside. cn his own admission, is shown to have proceeded cootrery to the wishes of his surperior io his march on Frederiksburg ; the famous blunder ol the "pontoons" is put deliberately on nis snouiucrs, juq to pfofttof Fredericksbarff is attributed to the failure or disobedience of Gn. Franklin in his flank attack.-- m lnAnW tin TTnnircr'fl nnfortnnate camnaizn is quickiv uiu nntaiftf fha responsibility of the General in-Chief, from the fact that no reports were rendered io aim '-y w. X . - , , L this officer. Gen.Dix ia sharply rapped over tne ruckles for hia camoaisn aaaicst Richmond. In tne hftttte rf fJpfireririrrr wf discover, to oar EurDrise, that an "error" of GeD. Sickles' nearly ruined us.and Gen Meade himself cets but faint praise for his victory ; tfrhile tbe escape of Lee over the Potomac calte cut some words which, thought not directly assorting, simply the strongest censare of the inaction of that General. Gen. Pope is convicted of a gross blunder in his opera tions against the Indians. Gen. rfanks received no nraisp. and it is estimated that Port Hudion could have been taken much earlier ha;! w3 known its weak ness. Gen. Grant's camnan aloce. in the rqar of Vicks burs, is spoken of with enthusiasm, though here tbe great merit of that officer spems to be that he always obejed every order from, VV ashing ton, and never com plained ot want of reiniorcements. ii, Dy tnis lauma ticn. the War Office or the General-in-Chief intended to take any of the glory of his campaign to themselves, it must be remembered that we have the honest confes sion of the President, ever his own signature, tbat he never had faith in tbe practicability of the rear attack oa viCKsburg. The review of Rccnnz's and Barnsid's campaigns for the possession of Tennessee is, of course, severe ard searching. If we m y take their owri statement, the Department was exceedto'y dissatisfied with the delay of Geu. itosecranz after the battle of Murfreesboro' and were constantly ursrincr him forwaid toward Geor- cii. The latter, from over caution, and probably not believing that he had a sufficient number of men for so frreat aa advance, waited month after month to strength en his position and to or?an;z?. Gen. Halleck claims that he ought to have advanced during the siege; c Vicksburg. fie admi's that when at length he did move, his combinations wtre ot the moat remarkable and brilliant nature, fordo? tha enemy cut of Tennes see wittiotu a battle or any especial loes oa our pare. The fhnkiug and taking of Chattanooga he is forced also to admit as vory efficient military movemeiita - The telegraphic Dispatches embodied in the report cer aitily prove that the General-in-Chief hael at the ticie & clearer idea of the dangers to which both Roseerar z and Bumside were exposed than either of those offi cers. Iurn9ide was ordered to cormeot hi3 rishi with Rof o- crar.s' left, acd, if possibie, occupy Dalton and the pass e3 into Georgia and North Carolina, eo that the two armies might act as one body, acd support each other. uosicrans was noto cdv-anca into. (Georgia cr Alaba ma at present, but to fortify h!s position and connect with Burnpide. If his weak point his right and the communications wi!h Nashville - were' threatened, he was to haod over Chattanooga to Burnside, at.d swing around to cover that flank. At tbe sanw time forces were ordered up from Memphis and other quarters to guard thtt side, as well as his long iine ol conimucica tiocs. Gen. Baroside, we are curtly-informed, entirely di&obeyed or neglected his orders, and did not connect with the Army of the Cumberland, leaving a great; gap oetween tne two armies, and r-xpowrg his outlying de tachment?, sa that several were cut to pieces. It can not be doubted, that Lad the insSrucnons of tbe De partment been strrctly followed, ihsdisarter of CUca mau? would not have occurred otii! it must be nmcmbsred that wo haw but one etde of the csc. TI12 officers so severely criticized are net permitted by military etiouotte to answer. Ko doubt Gei. Burnside could Ehow various satisfactory reasoos for bis want cf concentration of which the pub lic know nothing, and possibly Gen. Rosecracz could furnL-h equally plausible reasons for his six months' delay. The defeat of Gn. R-nurrmrVsi nht vjimr is attributed primarily by Gen. Ilalleck to two causes to his adv?.Eciog with so wide a line, (forty miles in length) and to atnistake of Gen. Woods' in the battle, who wae ordered to strengthen nnothejr portion of the hne, and did it, not by closing up, but by a march around to the rear, thus leaving a gap for the enemy's attack. Gen. Thomas's resistance on the left wing is characterized for a wonder with warm praise. This defense of Geo. JJalkck against the imputa tions of the public, in regard to liosLcrarz's campaign, ingeniously ignores the especial point of the public cen sure, wliich was thattfe reinforcements so hurriedly sent to the Army of the Cumberland in September, were not sent a month or two months earlier, when re leased from the siege of Vicksburg. We demand na turally, of a General-in-Chief, th.it heehculdlook over the whole firld, and cot act spasmodically or sensationally. If Roaecrarz was not strong enough when be entered Georgia in September, the department knew it before hand as well as then, and ought to have supplied the needed strength. They knew tbat Bracrg might at any time be reinforced from Virginia, and they should have provided agait-st the contingency. They had the men on the Mississippi. Why were they scattered off over Aikan3as, Mississippi and Louisiana ? What was Ar kansas to us for a mo.neat, comoared with a decisive march to Atlanta ? These telegrams of Gen. ITallp k da not telieva him. The earliest, ordering reinforcements, is one to General ITarlbut, in Memphis, dated September 13. The fatal battie wes fought in ooe wek from that day. and ol cource he knew it would take weeks for GenSberman'e comma to reach Chattanooga. The public have tbe right to Bay cf the General-in-Chief, as he has said of so many or bis subordinates, that here was a "fatal error, a gigantic blunder, which has delayed our decisive cam paign, even with all Grant's splendid succeea forced froai fortune eince. at leasL six months, and prevented the capture of Mobile and Charleston for eome time to come. EcjnomSzo the Force. " Put every man into the army " and " prepare for a long war," are counsels frequently issuing from the same moutn, but tbey are irreconcilable- Some pro pose to put the who.'e hazird of the Confederate cause upon a single cast of the dice, and marshalling " every man wno can crry a gun " into the Confederate ranks, aceept the chances of terminating tbe war by a e'ngle campaign, whhh will elcive the enmy beyond the O ;io river If we failed to drive Litn beyoad tns Uaio, or it he would not " stay driven," or reiu3ed to make peace as the result of the dnv ing, the experiment would have miscarried, and the con sequences would, iu all probability, be fatal. But we can at least comprehend such a proposition as tbat it is iuv uuej;uL.g vi au laipaueni aesperation wnica is willing to repose the final issue of the struggle upon the late ot a single campaign.. It proposes to concentrate every energy m one grand, desperate blow, which, it it hits, may be fatal; but hit or mis?, will leave us exhaust-' ed and powerless. It 13 a part and parcel of tbat ag gressive policy so pertinacious! pressed by a part 0 the newspapers, but which has brought us, in fact, well n;gh to the brink of ruin. But the other idea of putting every man into the ar my, while, at the same time, we propose to weary ot the enemy oy a protracted, pertinacious resistance, uaa no consistency or coherence about it. If we count upon a long war, then, es the very first measures of common prudence, we must maintain an tne proaucuve resources and industrial orgenism of tbe country in full vigor. Asthf? stringency of the blockade increase?, our me chanical resources must be developed. To curtail them farther, or to destroy them, is to cripple tbe army. As our territory diminishes, it becomes increasingly impor tant that its productive capacity should be fully main tained, and, it possible, increased. Aa money depreciates, eo increases the necessity for tax payers and tax paying resources, w hat we need, then, instead of crying out to put every man in tbe army, is to economise with' those we have. There i3 hardly a fourth of the mea on the army rolls in active service. Gather up tbe strag glers. It 13 stated to ua that there are sixty or seven ty thousand men doing provost duty. Ye hardly be lieve it, but the number is great, and might be reduced or wholly substituted by local organizations of men unfit lor active service- Economy, whether m manage ment of the finances or the use of troops, is the" grand condition of a protracted war. Use it. - Macon Telegrtpk. A Bbab Killed. A Bear waa killed on the Wateree Swamp, S.O.,recentl7 by W. F. Turner, which weighed 4GO pounds Tbe menater Lad beea a visitor to tha niohVnrl hood tor the past tn years, feasting luxuriously upon hogs, own, pumpkjM etc. Frtfti thf. Molii ltfgvt Ctipfa'n Pos'y' tepe. A lady of our city bs rceeived a brief totter f.-, t-i up. "sii. uauc a viini-u iiuui oumfri"rvi:iH Morgan county, Alabnma, on t e lCtlt of D.ceni the day wten he croised the Tui,-frec r;ver. .-'hof, -' mshes it to us lor purJiciirn, uu (bpt. Pesy, 'm has bimeclf arrived earlier thin l.c ex:cHd. iin,'..,:,. ns a full report cf hia adventurca &od t scaof. ,,r..i ,.'1- the fight of- Clayton's brigade on M;s. binary R;oV,-. Ibis wPl te in banday mormcc s pajwr. Ti,i! 1 rtfn,.f furnished us is ea lollowe : I avail myself of the first cccisioo to icforrM r, my dear friend, of my successful pf-Ciit e from my Vim! Kee captors. 1 was capiurea, ns 1 prc-suni'i you .. aware, on the 25th of November, on Misnonir llih-. 1 nave no time, now, iu give yc ua i occount of i sad, shameful and disastrous affair. I bludb to tbir.-c f it, and of tie stigma there placed upon Ali't.-au trocps and the Confederate army. uul cf mj cfiti.n;. ny ecgaged, aad the greater part of ry regimen 1 w', ,,. there captured. Fourteen officers, out of hy-, ( j present, were captured. I conld ne t Hfcertr.itj i! 0 r !n). Per 'of men captured, as the Yankees refUsc-d persi t , .,t . ly tQ let me see tbe men. TLe number c: 1 fliccrs t , tured w? ab-.ut one hundred hd fii'ty, and of t-o! about three thousand. Our ke3 in killed and wounded wasvry t!i.:V. Capt. Wright, of tbe 30lh, was severely v,-c: d i, i d was doing well, and Lieut. Anderson wr.s slightly w u .. ded. Captp. Heariu, Jackson and Wrigiit, nv'i L:. j ... Anderson, E. Holt, cf Mobile, Lf.ckctr, "Girard, ol ,r. bile, Youtg, Lee and Pegues, Jorda i and J 00 Fi nr, were captu-ed. 'oue were hurt except Wri;Mt ..ij Anderson. Capt. Hazard, if Mobile, wj.3 a, o , tured. jJis coat was torn by a bullet, bat he w hurt. Lieut-Col. Ioxcr, of the &Sth Akb.inn, Ni j r Henigao, of the 36tb, Alpjor Fergus1, of the 42J, :-i,d many captains and lieutenants of the various Alai .m.t regiments were ako captured, but I cmnot reni,rtJUvr many of their ntjmts. Alabama troop3 maJc u,) tl laiger part' of the captives, but there wcrefome i. u all the States .Mapr Wilson, A-ljutant-Gcn to General Brcckloridge, Lieut. J. C. Brcck:nrid.', h-s son und Aid, Major Winches er, Gen. BaU 's, m'j.ua..-. genera!, Major Webb, of Botue general'? s:?Q, I, t. . Hons;, of Gen. Stcwl'a stall, are the stall tf.i r-s whose names I remember. There v',as a Col. M.i.v.v; :!, mtunted dragoons. Also the Mt.j r of sam? regim m. There was another Colonel, wh. es name I foig.':i. Serg't-Major Larkir-s, cf the SSth, was al. b capmnd. I c leo remember Capts. Couch ajd Leo of stuu Ala bama regiment. We were kept iu Chattanooga fr.;ci V'cdnev;:j evebipg, Novecnber 25th,' cnfil Alon.lay tvening -vember oOth, v.'hen we wer? ftarkd to Nao'ivi!l-. .V.j were in box car?, with six Yunkej Fo!d;s ia ea.i, e..r as a guard. Oa the night of December 21, v-hn .;;:) ia fourteen miles of Nasbviil'?, I Jorccd open .iv d .. ; the car and jumped cut, h.le the cm wur' i.i.i.. j. A soldier named Evans, njy cook, j luijed uUer i.j. .- We now had one hundred and foriy uhIo lo truv.l ,;: strange country, full of Yankees p.nd trai'oid, i.i, i knew no human being in it. At n'g-if-, ti.i .u'j -v : and flvldd, briars aud thorns, wo icilvel 00, ci.t l.d , . by the stara of heaven. Daring the day, we Lid ia thi iii-jtu'u.'ns t x 1 forests and traveled all night. On the t'.i.-d d .y v were pursued by a Yankee picl.ct, who t'uA at us ....a. times and caught the soldier wilh mo. Fur eleven and. nights I waa utterly alone, hut I k.-pt on a'.e i. and patiently pursuing my solitary way, HWctirnU 1.) the sun and. sometimes by the beccjn t-!r. At iin.-i, these were Cbscured by cloud3, lind 1 whs I :ftkr dyi and nigh s in bitter bewilderment. (X:c : I )v a ,u -roanded by a company of Yar k.'-j Civiry, w!:6 pa.- i in thirty yurds ol me, tut I managed to tla l.: fh.-m - -Again, I ran aimost into a camp o? three hunt i Y kees waa in a mile and a hall of tium brfu'e 1 1 it. - I revealed my secret, on the Luttli d .y, tj p y ' lady, who gave mecitiz3ii3 clothing, a u t of it see and Alabama, and oa Ample fuopiy oi provi ; n Noble girl 1 Heaven bless her 1 '1 o htr 1 bjli. : ; : . ; I owe my escape. It took mo fo'irteeo d.us io k ! 1 tbe .Tennessee river j the boundary eluT.rn YuMi ' an 1 "Dixie. 1 was not sale uotil ibid cos 1 i Tennessee. I hai al-:o to crcsj t!w Dir k uA K.le ii -ers, both troublesome streams. This morning, '..1 ; 1 1, at 9 o'clock, 1 leaped on tbe south bunk of t:.c T-- n -see. Au old negro, "uncle Nid," ;u! ir.? (,v . r 1 "dugout." You can imagine the ecstatic tl.n.i r ; liverance which I felt whea my foot nuf.ii i prj.i. t . unconquerd soil of my native land. 1 sc.it up a i. ;" that pierced the heavens, and I fervently tha'ka; Al mighty God for his infiaite PKrcy ar.d j:o:i : i u through so many dangers. I felt "uhiioit peiavi 1 : 1 be a Christian." I have tad co rest, -.ir.d liu'c : !e-;i for fourteen days, my flsb ia torn and b!e.-d;ag by b.i ars and thcrne; exposure and 'hardship li..vo brou;. it 0.. a threatened attack cf jir cumouij. I sj l.y r.e. .1 r. and Dursirg, but iny impatience to reach hoina n ili ;.oi allow me to take it. bo soon a3 I cm ra; and tu, ,. j my lost clothing aiid baggage, I will return lo : i- m y. Thank God I havo slid a etrong arm, a w:J;i::.; 1 1. ', and ao untarnished sword to wieltl in toy cou.Urj'-j cred cause. Yours, fai.hluily, Br.N. Laxk Fo.siir. P. S. I send this by a courier to B.v.'g'a army, w;o prom's.s to mi: it at Dalton. - B. I. i Kxclu In tb.3 matter cf xcbango of pr Sonera, tho United :! Concmiasiener haa been driven ly iir. Ould irom tjji-.t j poiur, from petition to position, until fl..ally th-Jt. ?.-.,. di"h atd Hitchcock have Abandoned cveiy point ii .i j.-.r., except the treatment of negro pris .nera. J h j " ;i ; ' of fiotiJcnt Div.a, of Jauu iry l'2:h, id uow raaJu tti 1 .. ') of suspending cxchiirge, noiilh&liadiug that ircia J .1,1 v ry to July, thia "Message" had beea m lorce, and iv ..1 never once referred to as Bcfihieat cnuio for 6Lo,p 0 g tl.i operations of the cartel. Tbe enemy cow rest tiu-ir c upon thia iMesaane." Ve have already fhuwi Hi .t tl.-; lav of Congreaa for doliverirg all nerjes and their whi o cfiijer, captured iu arrrs,to estate authorities, tor tral u ; der S ate Uws, waa too wida iu its la .guage, aac coverr 1 matter that ia not within the proviuco or ouo nil ion to d c tato to aco'.Ler. No ration bus tiie rigU to cny ttdt its enemy shall not employ in its armies a cortaiu cUsh if in people, lha compoeition cf armies id a roa'tcr b loni;, exclusively to the tuthori'ita of the u,itkn its-elf. 11 r.h s Yankees like negro tioopa, they have tho rigitt 10 eu.j.'uy the free negrees of the United Htatea o their arui.. s i they Lave the right to d:niand f jr thcru tha prop r f r. meiit ea prisoners of war. Jf a Daiiou e:i.ploj a b.ivag".-, in its armies, retaliation ia proper and juatiLUolo, nut In c u.! of tha-f mploymant of the savagep, out fur any act j c t:: mitted by the boldiry not ia accoidanca w i! ti ib la w ' 1 war. Bo, if the negroes employe i b- the Unite I u ab compose a pert of the people ot taoso bt ites, itu4 -j regu larly mustered into their Betvioe ; if, ctur c,ij;t re-, ih y caa bo proved guilty of acts not roc pcize-d as withm ih . rfilfs of civilized warfare, they are Eot eUAied to the rifjh i of priaoLera. -And ao of te white trovps clor Ux-iu i thing to do wiUi soldiers. liot the case is oilleicut at to tl;.ve 1 ar:d fue nc-rru ij (1 thcs 8tatest cigtu cd ia the ra:.ks ot the tacra "". 'in -i-detention ia jmtiued by tha Jaws of war; th ir pan -hm we caa pnvid9 for, ihinh we ahuull not likj to 0 . rr eaforce 1 f jr tho poor wrttchea h ive no will o" th'ir r. and bei' g fofced ir. .0 the ranks are cot ro.-pca;.ib:c .' -n their C'Hi'iuct. CoriKte-a, then, should so modify the law as tiaply only to ti e sUvea acd free negroes of tlio'eciatej cupturc i in tha ranks of the enemy. Lot in plactj oursolvrd ii -h; under the laws of war, and lcaye taa conscfiTjaccs to hike care of thems'lvee. If the enemy think proper to leave thoir po'di -rs h:n in prison because we wi 1 col give up our light, aiuh r i..o laws of war, (to continue tk-jir soldi rs Li unnoa for tur t laves and free negroes,) wo can do wnhi.n but accept the issue aud meet Ls icaponiibihty. Thj inw aa it row fctanda i not wiihin tho spirit of the iawa 01 war, aad tince it is made the list and on y cause for fUdpetdirv? tho ex chang, we hope that it will be amended, aid in proving: conflaed to the case of slaves and freo ne groei of t.;,e- HtAtpa captured ia arms. Jndcect, wo bee no ne-oKsi'v f r any law tn the sat jict. TLe Yankees ate not ci r r send their negro troops iato tha field they ku.,w aa w. ii i-.i we do that no reliance can be placed neon them in -; depot guards, prison guards, &c, they will relieve t'--ir white troops. This 13 the use that will be mado r,t ... Should they be sent to the field, ani be put ia batil.-, t'o . wi l be taken priaoners tur treons uidaratand what u. :u in auh cases, if any nejiroes have (tea caLtuie turn .. the war, aa soldierB ir, tha er.mv's raalra. '.? hnvn r hsard of them. We do not think that cue a u -jaB i han h. Pn reported. The law is, thcrelore, useless. Jiichhiond Enquirer. General Msade on his late Movement. The" fol.'oirg is an extract frcm a letter of Gen. Meade to a friend in Newaik, N. J., written just before the last movant of the Army ot ths fotoraac: I am fully aware ol the great anxietv i:i tho public mind that something should bs done. 1 in ivc.ijil cf many letters, some from persons in high position', eiucg me 1 naa Detter have rsy army d- stiov; l at.d and the country filled up with tbe noddies of tbe 50! ders than to remain inactive. Whilet I do not an'.L-c myself to be influenced by such communication?, I ;v.n and have been moat anxious to eSct noichiug, hut am determined, at every hzird, not to attempt any thing unless " my judgmcut, iuuicates a proba?i!ity of ac complishing some object commensurate with the d'. struction ot life necces3iri!y involved. I would rather a thousand times be relieved, chargedjwithtardin' nnl imcompetency, thaa have my conscience hardened with a wanton slaughter, uselessly, of brave mn, or with having jeopardiaad the great cause by doing what I thought roug."
Wilmington Journal [1844-1895] (Wilmington, N.C.)
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