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IIIE Jil'AY Law. ) to sale the library' at Morganton, (exccp» such ! SOLDIERING IN WESTERN VIRGINIA. AN ACT tt) change ihe Juris>iiction of the Courl« and j books as the judges ot the supreme court shall | A letter from Valley Mountain, V'a., Sept. 2d, pub- t le Rules ^t Pieaanij? iheieou. j direct to be traiisiuitted to the city of’ Raleigh) i lished in the Nashville Whig, says,— feECnoN I. it hy the General Js-j at public auction to the highest bidder for cash On Thursday, Capt. Fields of our regiment, seyn(>^.t!he Stnh-,f Xurth r./roZ/Mri, '.s i and pa.v the proceeds into the public treasury, i while out on a scouting expedition with 14 men I^rtby by the authority „j the s«ime, alter u-payuig the amount advanced by members j and a guide, came upon u .stjuad of about 2U of i hat the several Superior Courts of Law shall of the bar in its purchase, and, the enemy, who immediately fired on them, kill- have exclusive original jurisdiction to hear, try . that members of the bar who have pfaced law ’ ' and determine allcauscs of a civil nature whatever j books in paid library tor the benefit of the court, at the COUHUOK law, which may require the inter- | shall he j)ermitted to withdraw them belore the 1 THE REPORTED BATTLE IN WESTFfRN VIRGINIA. vention qA a jury. Sec. 2. Be it further enacteil, That there shall ; Skc. 15. That all matters and causes now re- be but one term of the said superior courts of law 1 maining undetermined in said court at Morgan- ind equity, open and held in each of the counties | ton shall be docketed in the court at lialeigh, in ing the guide, (^apt F. ordered his men to re turn the tire, but as their guns had been out all day in the rain, the powder had become damp and they would not go oti. He himself had one of (’olt’s revolving rifles and fired every barrel at them. At each of his first three fires a man fell, : . and at each other he heard them yell, and thinks o the btate, in each year, which shall be holden i such order as the judges .''hall prescribe, and shall ^ Jj0 hit them every time. As he discharged his at the titnes and places now required by law for ! be there heard and determined, and the clerk of 1 at them about 20 men from a” North 0 ding the hall Term of said court, and all laws re-I said court in Morganton shall make all his re- Carolina regiment came up and the Yankees run. quiringtheholdingoftheSpringtermofsaidcourts | ports touching all matters referred to him, to the (;»apt. F. then started in pursuit, but on coining are heteby repealed. ; next summer term of the court in Raleigh as ful- up to where the three men had fallen, one of theiu 6. ±fe it/urther enacttd, That all actions , ly and eompletely as the same shall be made to j was not quite dead, told him that about half brought in the said superior courts of law and : the court in Morganton, and that all writs, rules, j ^ ,„iie down the load were 400 men of his regi- , equity the defendent or defendants shall not be , attachments and process ot every kind now re- | menv, who A RESPONSE TO THE TYRANT FREMONT. Head-qrs 1st Military District, Missouri State Guard. Camp Huntkr, Sept. 2, 1801. To all uhom it mat/ concern: ! train brought some new account. The Kxaniin- WherfaS, .^Iaj>^-^jieneral John (J. Fi'eniont. j er of the 17th .>ays, however, that up to a late commanding the minions of Abraham jjincoln, I hour of tho precedinji evening the government in the State ot Missouri, has seen tit to declare i was without any disputcbo I rum thac quarter. martial law throughout the whole State, and has threatened to shoot any citizen-soldier found in arms within certain limits; also, to confiscate the property and free the nejiroes belonging to the members of the Misscmri State fJuard; ^ I Gen.R. (J. Cotton.—We learn that rr I Richmond has been full of reports about the en-1 old vetenin, who must be over scvf.„t ‘ ; gagements between the forces of Geris. Floyd and j age, has raised a volunteer companv ’ j Roseneranz )n the 9th and lOtli inst Every and gone into camp with his men. o! n * commanded a Cltatbam company in ]hj , was stationed, we believe, at kindness to his men and his NohJif-r.- he laid at that period the foundation Jt ■ * ity iti Chatham which has never li, ^ Hut must this venerable old patriot • " wars” on foot!' We tru.'?t not. Let th(- V have no beards upon their chin, stat,.J ' nece.s.sary, to njake room for thi.'^old vt • saw service long before they were bu-ti is ready t*» pour his remaining druj.v ,,t One or two participants in the action of the 10th have arrived in Itieliinond, “with extravagant statements” in regard to it, but the government has not received a word. With this .'•tateuient. to [»ut our readers on Therefore, know ye, that I, M. Jeff. Thonjpson, j their guard, we annex the n)»st particular and Rrigadier-General of the Fir.vt .Military District | ajijxirtntly reliable account, as follows: — of ^Missouri, having not only the military author- I The I’ostmaster at Lewisburg wrote to the the altar of his country. liuUi.iU ity of brigadier-tieneral, but certain police powers, 1 Postmasterot Ricl)ntond,on the way bill as follow.s: ; — 1 granted by Acting Governor Thos. C. Reynolds, j “‘(ien. Floyd had another engagement with the ■ Oll Dnphn Aijmn.—We have jij.^ and confirmed afterward by Gov. Jackson, do I enemy at (iauley on the It.'th, atid routed them, from a friend from Duplin, that o„ mOMt solemnly promise, that for every member of j killing >00, woundin'; 1 niid taking some , teer company has been organized in tlife .^li.•^sou^i State Guard, or ."soldier of our allies, I prisoners. A few h(ur.-, af’ter the enyH"enient he i by the elfctioii of A. G. Mo-elev the armies of the Confederate States, who shall , heard that the other wing ol the «Mieinv had ! Morisey, A. Hrown, and D .M i'. .. , . _ ^ I were lying in ambush for any South compe ed to plead thereto for twelve months turnable to the term ot the court to be held in ; erners wlio might be so unfortunate aa to come i be put to death in pursuance of the said order of' crossed the river a few miles above him, ir; order tenants; and that nijtlur conij.'Hi- trom the return term. Morganton in \ugust next, shall be returned to j within their reach. After tellin*; him this he | (_}en. Fremotit, that I will “Hang, Draw and I to surround him on this side of the river He i plete, and still anothtr comp. ii bEC. 4. Be it further enacted, I'hat in all ea- ; the .Supreme ( ourt in llabngh, to be held on the turned over and died, and (,’apt. F. and his men j C^uarter” a minion of said Abraham Lincoln, ses where suits have already been brought and i second Monday in* June 1SG2. and every failure j returnel to camp. While I am anxious that this unfortunate war are now pending in any ot the superior courts of to comply lierewith shall be punishable by amerce- j We then were furnished with cartridges and ! shall be conducted, if possil)Ie, upon the most aw and ecjuity. it shall be the duty of the said ment or attachment in the discretion ot the . marched uf> to General Lee’s headquarters, where i libera! principles of civilized warfare, and every court, ani it is hereby required to give the de- court: and that herealter all causes what.ioeviT | we remaiiieil till dark. We then got orders to ! order that I h:ive issued ha.') been with tliat object, tern ant or defendants further time lor trial until ; carried into the >upreme Court by appeal, rc- ^ march about 10 miles further, for the purpose of , yet, it this rule is to be abandoned, (and it must comp. then fell back. 'I'hi'; rej>ort is leliable, as it was ■ gre,--iing;—and we are further brought by an otticer engaged Our los^*, one'g;ood ladies of thai countv n iv. the ^all term of ls02, when the same shall stand nioval or otherwi.'e from any of the Superior ^ reinforceing our most advanced picket, whom, we ; first Le done by our »*ncmies,j f intetid to exceel tor trial as other suits, and in all suits which may : (,’ourts of law or etjuity of the counties composing understood, about r)UO of the enemy proposed to thority to make all nei'C>sary ruies and orders for carryinjr into etfei-t this act, and to make the have been heretofore brought returnable to the ' the sixth and seventh circuits .'hall be }>rou;;ht to Fall term of iStil, the defendant or defendants the Supreme (\)urt at Kaleiirh, and that the '*fijll not be compelled to plead or answer therct(» | judges uf the court sliail have lull pow«'r aud au- for twelve months •Sec ,'). He It further tnartet/. That the courts i>t pleas and (juarter sc'^sions of the several coun ties, except the counties of Transylvania, Cby, .^litchell and Alleghany, each of which counties shall have one court of pleas and quarter ^e^sions every year, which shall be holden in Transyl vania on the third Monday in August, and in (May ■ in the last .Monday in August, and in .>litohell ■»n the -second .M’onday in September, and in Al leghany on the fourth .^Ionday in October in each year, shall not have jurisdiction of any civil case in which the intervention of a jury may bf neces sary; and it shall be the duty ot the clerk of said court to make up a record in all civil ca.^es now pending in the said courtjj of pleas and ijuarter sessions, and file the same, together with the oriLfinal papers, with the clerks of the superior courts of law, on or before the fall term of the superior courts of law in their rcspeaivc coun- . ties; and it .>^hall be the duty of the clerks of the superior courts ot law to enter the said caso> upon their appearance docket, and the same shall stand tor trial at the said term of the said superior court as other cases now pending in said court. Stc 6. Bt it further eiuict,,f. That in all ca ses in which judgments have heretofore been ta ken in either the Superior or County Courts, and upon which executions have i.^sucd', it shall be the duty of the sheriff or other officer in whose hands such execution.s have been placed for collection to endorse* a le»y upon the pr >per- t\ of^ the defendant or defetuiant,'^, sufficient to satisfy the .^aine and return sm h cxecntio-is wifh- out making a sale; and upon return it shall hi. the dut_\ ot the clerk to is.-ne a ‘■‘■mlitluni or at the election ol' the plaintiff, re turnable ti- that term of tlie succeeding ci»urt which is held twelve months from the^^test ot capture on Saturday morning. We reached ihe picket about one o’clock that nii;lit, and laid ilown with onr beside u-;. Scouc.s WiTi* .sent out and in about two hour.^ rt'turnetl with information that .^00 of the enemy were bivouaced about cleik at Morganti)n proper alli)wances for the ser- | three-fourth.s of a mi e from us, and that the}' had \ii‘es herein requiictl; and it shall be the duty of j hccn ri'infori’cd with flH,( more, and that jii.-t ibout two iniK-s in their nar wa.>^ encamped a the clerk of the Supreme Court at lvalcii;h to take charge of the records of the court at ,'lor- i^antcm and to furnish copies thereof when re quired in the same manner as copies ol recoids are furnished from the r*‘cords of the Sunreme Court at Kaleiiih. Skc. 1*). That none of the provi.-ions of this act shall apply to the collection of the State or ( ounfy revenue or repeal any of the exi>tini: i mountain, on either >ide of us, not more than modes or remedies provided by law for the col- j one-fourth ol a mile off. in .-ight of their pirkets lection of^the same. .... they in sight of us About two o clock [iro- Skc. 1,. ihat the tax fee upon ju>tices jiulg- , vi.sions were brouudit to us Idiu camp on pack ment.s returnable to the Superior Courf. shall mules, and ri-ht welccme it wa>. for we had been hereafter be the >ame as is now taxed in »he >e- under amns since the day previous about three force of At this news we were moved up about one ijuarter of a mile nearer the enemy, where we could obtain a more advantageous po.'i- tion than the one we then occupied. Here we remained in expectation of an attack until the ftun wa.s about two hours hi^rh, and when the foir cleared up we siw their pickets stationed on the such >tKilli all a/ins executions upon jU'lirments heretolore taken shall be returnable in like n^anner Sec. 7. Bf' further ennctpd. That oo much of the 17th section of the 106th chapter of the Revised Co'ie as subjects sheriflj, to a penalty of one hundred dollars for nit executing anl re turning process, be and the same i.s hereby re pealed,^ as to all penalities incurred since the p.LS- sage ot a bill at the last regular session of the General As.sembly, entitled “a bill to prevent the sacrifice of property, and for the reliet of the peo ple,” and as to all future penalties. Sec s. That rnpms ad sutigfacicndKui ihall issue from any ot the court.s or from any justice of the peace upon any judgment now existing, or upon any judgment wliich may be hereafter ob tained in any of the said courts. ,r before any justice of the peace. Sec 9. That it shall be the duty of all con- «ahles and other officers to levy ar^y executions ■ which may be in their hands i»ued upon jnd-^- ments heretofore issued by ma>;i>trates, and t~o return the same together with ,^aid levies to the justices of the peace who isHied the same, or to some other magistrate in said county. who.>e .luty ' It shall be, upon the application of the pLintifi, to issue a v-nditHjiu eyp',n>is, not returnable sooner than twelve months from the date thereof. Sec. lU. That hereafter all civil warrants i>- be made re- veral county courts. Sec. is 'lhat the operation of the statute of’ limitation be and the same is hereby suspended so li>n^ as this act remains in force. Skc 10. That no provisions of this bill shall apply to the collection of interest on any contract . already accrued or annually hereafter u accrue, except .so far as the same is rendered necessar\ f('r the abolition of one term e\ery year of the superior and supreme court. SEC. 20. That the time of four year> be ex tended to executors and admitu>trators wherein to settle the estates of their executors and intes tates and a further time in which to plead at the discretion of the courts, and all laws "and cl.n-es of laws Coming in conflict with this jirovision be aiel the .same i.', hereby repealed. f>n.r,d,d, rl.at executors be and they are hereby reijuired ti. ijive .security in such .-.um a> the ‘ourt may direct. >EC 21. That the pr"vi-,ions of thi>* .net ex tending the time of pleadin-r .-.hall n-t .-xtend to suit^ a_'ainst citizens of the Cnited State> or to per-">ns who have absconded from this State She. That all laws or clauses ol laws con flicting with the provisions of this act be and the .'ame are hereby repealed, and that ihi.s act shall t effect and be in force from and after it^ ra- > '.i:i' ition ]!‘^ad three finie.s and rutided in General .\v ly ihij 11th day of September. \ I) \V T [M)1{T‘’H, S n’ I fiK.VKV T (’LARK. S S HON. JOHN A. GlLMEIl i i.r-Ureea^borough Pfttnot cL-es an aria-1.. .n he! 1.- , t the .Sfate by whicu Mr. (iilm.-r f.a.s i b.*cu etl.-ciUHily uu.J no Joula purposely fxolu.l*'.! li jrn t’oi.g.e-i, wiih iLe tollowiu^ reujarki We puM.^h !heui as an act of justice to au aK-lean.l p^i.ioiic n.Kii. "If to have fieen lor the |'„i,,n until the IVoc- I lamation, is an unpardonable .>fTence, then at lea>t two-lhirds of the citizens ..f North ’ar..li„;, ...re doomed sinners. All ihe.se have sinned alike- if one deserves .h,ath for this offence, all do; and if one suffers death for it, in due time we all will share the .same fate. presume “If the active, ener-'ctic and s o’clock, had marched upwards of twelve miles over the roughest mountain road ima;inable, and none ('•f U'^ la 1 h;id a morsel of food tor over twen ty tour hours The bread and meat were distri outttl to us by the ofBccrs. and we ate it standing there with our guns in our hands. (\il. Maiiey wouM not let the men lay ilown their guns tj e it. i fearing that they might bo attacked at any nn>- , ment. \\ itli our provisions, came orders for U' ■ to remain where we were until we were rel e\ed ; hy another rc>;imeiir. It we w.'re attacke 1. to ilefend the valley as best we could- to hold our position as long as we could, no matter liowmaiiy attaekcil Us, and by no means fo briiii; on an at- raek if we could help it At dark 'ol. Maney •rdered every other or each alternate mm t > lay i avn where he w.is, with hi.s :;un beside him, and sleep. At \I o'cloi k that nii^'ht th y Were woke up and the other hall ot tht* re;;inient ."K-pt uiitii '■ daylii:ht The enemy did not attai k ns ;tll r ii;ht ''Confs, who had been sent out duriii:; the tii_ht, told us that thr enemy wt-re perfectly quiet in their places .\t daylight we a.rain heard their drums, atid when the fo^' cleared up we saw their [dcket.s in their same places We staid in ..iir position till about two o'clock that day — no hini: I to eat when a .N«jrtfi (,'arolina rei^iiuent ca ne out anl relieved u.s, and we marched back t.> our caiu[>, leaving them to hold and inaintaiii i>ur (fKiiilous, ;.s it so. ined to me.’ po.sition. We reached canip about dark, firetty well knocked up I wa.s as near starved is I want to bt? hi:ain For upward.^ of lorty-eiL'ht hours we only had one meal, and scarcely atiy sleej. at ad (>iir march out on Friday nij;ht was ver\ fatiiruin?. 1 he night was a- dark y- pitch, and exceedintdy cool the road very rouirh, ■•i»me places mu fdy :iiid others rooky 1 reckon there was scarcely •’ man in the rt.'^iment that did not tall down upvsards of a dozen times that ni:ht And then we I a i about twenty creeks ot the coldest kind /f wat.-r to wade throuLrli, s. ine of them upwanls of a I >ot ' and a half ileep. 1 hose two days and ni:^hts W( rc about the toULchcst I ever experienced. thoUirh to-lay I tetl as well as when I started out. At. 'ooii as I L'ot etiou_'h to eat last nmht, 1 went to d (Jencral |-'remont in his exce.sscs. and will make all tories that come within niv reach rue the day tloit adiffenMit policy was adopteil by their leaders. .Mready mills, barn.-. Warehouses anl other privaU’ firoperty has b(>en wastcfiilly destroyed by till- eiieiiiy in this district, while we have taken n(»thin^ except articli'S strictly contraband, i*r ab- solnti'lv nee-s>:iry Should these thin;s be re peat'd. 1 will retaliate t ii-lold, so help me (»oil! .M. .1 KFF. T HO.Ml'SON. l>rig. (icn (’ommanding. i n,r n ir iifi'iii tin l*ii>r >'liissi s of the Xorrh. j—'I'he Xew Vork Daily News sets forth that amoiiir the poorer clashes in that city the burden.s of the w: ir are already bc;rinninr to press with a tearful weight J here is no business, no employ- ment, no ini.'oine, n(* money. The writer proceels: The man w’no witnesses the winter of in this and (*rher Northern cities will have need ' tor a hearr of tnarole and a face of brass to resist the emotion^ of pity and horror whieh must crowd ui on hiin in behidding the fearful scenes , that will j r sent themselves. A ruined and beg- irar.’d [. .[,’e. srru:;i,'iin„' with destitution and ex orbitant taxation at hi>ine, and contending with e.\pensive and bootless war abniad, ha.s bt'On de scribed by hist >r\ unhappily again and again; but the terriide 'jiect icie is now ajiparently about to 1).; ro-produ.'ed here, witli iliustratiiin.s'of ur- u.sual poi^'nancy and t'ffectivene.s.H. 'i’he in;il.ility to pay rent- in summer foreshad ows a »trrifde condition d affairs when cold wea ther shall be U!>on t!,. W'hat must be the state ot tilings in November i>r February, if thi^ is wh.it we are to contemplate in August? it would be ej'V. doubtless, for landlords to evict tenants and re let their premisps, but would the eomern be likely to d . better!' The fact is, the war is ru iiiiiL: New Vork. it i- the X,)rth and not the .Sonrh that is suffering the eff cts of the present hostiiities, .i.s every elear-si:.rhted financier ami stare-man predicted. tr.Hu the beginninj;. would be the ca-i It is we who are blockaded ~iH)t the Cotton States Ther- is },ut little .Miiflcrin:r. comparatively -peakin;r, in Charleston, Savannah or .V-'W )rlean'; but t*iere is a tearful amount of it in New \ork, Host -n tnd i^hiladi Iphi i i h ind!i-tr\ of ihe South is not paralyzed. The ne^ro still hoes tiis cotton, rice or suu'ar field, as he iid b. t.ee the war. but our Northern me- chanie. busiiM-s-. mati, .>r labi>rcr—how does the war utf-'i't him. Hlw lioe., the ca[.italist, of w fiom the New \ ork e'»rre--pondent of m i’liila- dfdpliia Journal teil.s. who'e .Vugust rental roll in this ciry has >hrunk from three thousand doll.irs and upwards to a pifit’ul ninety-six dollar-, like the elii cts of war' Ue predict he will soon be a pe.ici- mati, if he fn- not already eiinveited; and that he wili airee, a>. the whole community —“Ci»n- traitors and epaulette wcarei'. exeepte.l — will, ere loii_', with tbc iieact* oriran, the Xew Vork I killed and eight wounded, j .\n otficer of the GiAcrnment received a post- I .script hastily written on the back of a private i letter, Hi:reeiii>; in its main vfttemenis with liie ' abov«^ but -tatinu the lo'S on our side af about 2;>0 ! men I Th ere is no doubt but that there are extrava- gance.s in the accounts, on both sides, ot the pro- portiotj of rhfdr lo It was furtfier reported la.st evening iti the ac counts brought by passen.'ers from the West, that (ren. Floyd had effected a junction with General \\ ise, bal re-cros.sed the Gauley, eivi-n battle to H>sei)cranz and driven bun back with an immense loss. It is not unlikely that il there has been another action since last 'I’m sd iy. the accounts of the results of the two affairs may h;.ve become mingled and cotifiised, 'I'he i;eneral fact, hfufever, ot our succcsse.s in the West i^ put beyond question by the concurrence of all the testimony that has ■ vet reached us. cieties for the benefit of the these societies will show a (,i ing, lVc., \e. Old Duplin i : rijilit.— WiliitInyton Journal. Aiioflii r i\'i>rtli t’a/ oliini tiii,»^r,, man who is in a position to know j truth of his statenient, informs us t!i; liains, now c >mnianilinir a divi>ioii ' f • ern army in .Missouri, i- a nalive \ i'll,I, having been iioi i> in .\eu eioht t(j fifty years a”o.— Wilml, .,!■ .Vo/,- Sn/./iiis. — \» ny is it ti.:i' - will let the relativt s of' siek iion*‘ t(» be nursed and caivi tor. .oi ; allow it—[iret’errir.g the p...,r '(.loi, ; hospital, enough to kill a well m.in it, or perish in a camp tent;' In ;di the friends of a sick soldier apply t'^ in tlieir charge, they oU!>ht to he al’ . so; it is cruel, inhuman and ba'bjjojj no Officer who ha.s a hfait us hi- see.i. will obj.ct jJut -ome, wl , c the lives ot their men, do object; .m ■ law ouudit to be passed compelliii;^ (»ni render the sick to their frietids w ii r, . .Nfany a p »or soldier would be s.ivod infection in camp be .ivoiiied, bv ti; '.r .y It'I'III t ■, rsiMij ^\'irth in st, rii \ii;/inia —The Wheeliti”: Intelli- oancor (Republican: of the l.Kh has the follow ing p.iragraph: — A skirmish took place at Cheat .Mountain I’ass on Monday, bctwei'n tl.e rcbtd and l’’ederal forces, durin^r which a Xorth Carolina ciptain was kill ed and ei;;ht rebels woundi'd. 'I’wo ot the i'ed- eral forces were wounded. It is quite probable that this sNiry is a fabrica tion. It true, we .suppose the N. C. Captain must be of the t)th (^Col. i^ee a) iieo't of \ oinnteers. The same paper mentions that “two nbels who | S ’. J- 1>. Camj.l had taken the oath of alle^'i incc. and 'S'eie cau.ri.t ' of the X. Journal of h with arm.s in their hands, were taken out and shot Two more men, caught under similar cii- cunistance'’, were to have be en shot the next day. .'laj Slemm- r, in marching throu;:h K. ane coun ty, toiind eiiiht dead men in an nb.seuie thicket. It w.is not known whether the bodies were those of union men or rebeih.’’ S’ ath' tu Rendem —i^rot. Stcliii. d Kdgeworth i->male Se'miriary. lir- n«'W ready f’or the pre.-s, the ist aiei a series of Southern iteadeis. Pie n >w being niii le tor the publication ■ and it is t.oped fo have the/fi rea •. ; 1st of January at leiist, so..ier if*j bespeak for tlo-iu a most coidiai w; i ■ »ur Southern educators, and a e iy .1 ihnrp skii'tnish ne.ir Arllnjton. — .'VI.\.VAS SA.s, Sept. 1*3.—On Friday last an engai;cment took place upon the occa'ion d an attack upon and the burninir of Hall s house near .Vrlin^ton. A detaefiment of the Xew Orleans Wasl iiH/ton \r,ill.r, an.i . ,,„rnon \Vi„der'. ro . 7,en. I '"i " ’ lo .i.e «u.ct! vi..or„usiv j T T,"' - II '11 L. I * 1 1 . * It' i ii pi.iin and narrative-like bistorv of -‘‘ir-l lor a wlnle by the f et erak. The imi.eiuositv nisior\ oi act. ■■ iinp. luosity rontenerare States, the history of eseh introduction into every school in .'ur other Southern Stat. s. where Readeisof i.b.. are used. It 1- the desit;n c/i t.:ese gentieii iti. Mmic: ly after the publication of ihe l>t ans J i V to brin^r our otl.ei higher Xos. while by the Federal.'^. and darirjiT of the attack, however, on the oarf of i i i the »ho ,«.„t i„tu the li„o, the ^ i'i'derals to eff^'ct their pur|.io.ies, struck terror to the enemy .Vfter dgbtinij- their way to their object, and the burnini.' of the house,' the Con federates returned to their camps without the loss | of a man i he Federals in the en:_'a^ement lo't four kill ed and H number woumled, and t,onie eicrht or ten were made prisoners I'UL BllL KlNNKHb that .State; Xo. 5 is to be a rhetoricui containing extracts from our best Soutle tors and statesmen —Si,h'£l,uiy Bi’t„er >poiid(»nt /■/(-» O'/te.-* Tta A-;ain.—Selby Spencer, L I of Lake Comfort, Hyde county, has presentc us some more of the green tea which he has '.uecessful in -rowinr. The seed was giv a iiei-ht, r of Mr. .Spencer's by ao En^lis' • tjin soiue years ago. Mr. S. procured ?,• of th»> ("hnrleston Courier gives th^ following account j bns succeeded very well in rultivatin-^ ot r.oeni oecurrenc^s near Wa.hin^.ou cuv. sho«r,cg ; pa.st year be planted about the 10th of iheir liiiil Hud pro- 1 >a i I > ,N e .V ■ a- I. iU' thi- War iiii'jht tn tdtnr tu itn end. II. favor of the Southern (’onfederacv, are not turt.able for trial twelve months aiVer' thir!i'.‘'//^’- entitle him to some resp.M‘tfnl con issuin^r such warrant and not before- and no Ipition, we had sufiposed that his influence tice of the peace shall have power or jurisdiction ul tlif' ‘Jencral Assembly f..r ten to try any such warrants fK-fore the eipiraiion ot r agricultural and twelve months from the i.ssuin-of the .lime pr> ^ i ~ ”>terests of the State, would, at least. I sleep an.l slept until lun o’clock this inorniii'' the lion iohn \ ('if - i have been doing nothiuL' but me lion. John A. (iilmerfo unite his own triends ^ ‘-stufiin in his district, and in this section of the State ' my eraw Idnd that the defendant , . e . . 'I^ft^ii'lants are -es-.lenti of this State; and all executions is sued by a justice of the peace shall be n.ade re turnable tvvelve months from the is.uin- t},^. same; and upon the trial of such wa.rant. cither ucLTim/fair't next ucceeclin^ tall term ol the superior court of the eonnty where the warrant is fried, by .dvin- -Tity as IS now provided by law, inVa^e of^:p. p al trom ju.stices jud-ments; but if the defend ant or defendants make oath that he or they are i^Mb nenl '"‘''''■‘I'’ th\ a V" with such affiduU urrh^'’ i i,i‘'teresLs when t)n superior court l.f sai,] It"" i*" I ""T ^ ant .hii'l I 1 “"'5; >''» cleti'ii'l- ! i-IRclciilly gtvcti, is [iriKluced and rciid. ,\iid wo ant ^h.,1 c-ntcf l„. plea, and the c..» shall bf con. , tni^-bt aUo add, that hi, l-f:i,la,ivc rooord .Tl! next , prove him to have been anion the most iiatriotic have spared him the cold indifference of supposed Irietids.^ \\ hen he wetit into the State Senat‘. in l'^It’., all the improvements already made in the .•state were in the most latiL'uishing'condition, ihe Ralei^^h and (Jaston Road was substantiallv irone down. 'I'he Wilmington and Weldon Road Was in trouble; and no one was more aetivo in iiiyinjr vitality to these useful improvements than .'Ir. (lilmer and his friends. While he labored so lonr and so succe.s.sfully for Wilmington and for all that she deemed essentia! for her interest, it was not thought that be couM be so soon lor- frotten by that section id'the State; and the same remarks may bo applied to I'ayctteville and the tinued over and not stand for trial until the .suceeeuing fall term of said court. Sec. 11. J liat jf yf,y sheriff, clerk or other offi cer shall vicdate any of the provisions of this act, be shall forfeit the sum of two hundred dollars, to be recovered by any person suing for the .same i’l the name of the State, and shall also be sub ject to indictment, and upon conviction shall be fined or imprisoned at the aiseretion of the court. Skc. 12. That all deeds of trust and mortga'^es hereafter made, and judgments confc.s.sed to se cure debts, shall be void as to creditors, unless it is expressly declared therein, that the proceeds of sale thereunder shall be appropriated to the payment of all the debts and liabilities of the trus tee (this should be trnxtor) or mortgagor, equally pro rata: I^rovldtd, That the provisTons of this Miction .shall not apply to sherifls or other public officers who ina^' make a mortgage or deed of trust to secure securities to their official bond. k.-KC. 12. ihat there shall be but on? term of the supreme court of the State, which shall be held in the city of Raleigh at the usual time for holding the summer term thereof, and all laws which require the winter term of same court to be held are hitreby repealed, and the judges of the said court are not required to hold the winter term thereof. Sec. 14 That the Morganton term of said court shall be discontinued, and it shall be the u y . the elerk of the court held heretofore in ‘he clerk in Mr' ^ ^ pertaininj; to said court n >lor2snton,on orl,ol„rc ,hc j,„„j in June next, and it shall likewise br» ♦ of iLe clerk of the court of .Morga^to"' so are and far-seeing of Xorth Carolina's statesmen, in connection with all our improvements, in’all sections of the State—improvements that have rapidly advanced our prosperity, and which ...c now so indispen.sable in transporting our brave soldiers and the munuions of war. “Suppose Mr. Gilmer had taken the course and had pursued the policy of some who are deem ed so worthy of notice, where would we all he now." hat would be now the condition of Xorth Carolina.' “hor the Xorth Carolina Railroad, no one con tributed more money or labor. For the truth of tins, we appeal to the record itself. After he and his friends had labored so faithfully and suc- ce.ssfully to get the charter, the first meeting held at Salisbury gave poor assurance that this oreat improvement would ever be made. John A.~Gil- tner and D. F. Caldwell, of this place, still held -n; they wrote, they corresponded, they spoke th?y worked al> the time, night and day, and at and desired spirit and determination, a Dill WU.S built. Mr. Gilmer remained ector until the completion of the Jlload was placed beyond douU, and no longer. And the directoi;a for the hrsl few jear.i will bear tcstiuio- Md reconcrr''*!.'^ i" cotapromising ScL7:nhe"Laf‘"-'“-'I i-o^dVrdTttiLt*;:^^^ -he l)eep Ili.era„d .he AlbetnaHe [:p*^:o?er„'::: the .ayettenlle Road; the New River mZovl’. ment, m fact of all the improrements so u.,efu| to us now, and of which we are all so proud, wou“d An Im —'I'he Kditor of the Lynchburi: Republican, who is on »i‘n. Floyd s staff, writes as follows: * ■ •*A most intelligent and reliable f’rien'l related ^ to me yesterday an incident ol recent date, which deserves to be handed down to bistoiy as oi„. ,i| the m )st striking instanee.s on record of teniule patriotism and courage A few days after tiie j fi^rht at Skerry, near ('harleston, i\atiawha. two ! or three Vankee officers vi.-ited the hou.se ot a .'Ir. Fry. who had been driven from his home by , the encjny. A dauirhter (d Mr. Fry saw them i approaching through the gate, and confronted i them in the porch with a demand to know their j business, 'i hey stated that they were lookiiiir l*r secession Hags, iuoi heard there were some there. I Her rcfdy deserves to be hung as an “apph; of ' trold in a picture ot silver.” “Brave men,” .said ! she, in scorn, “take Hags on the field of batlle; I cowards only hunt them at the hou.ses of defence- ! less women. Mine is in the hands of our brave volunteers, go and take it from them ’' The re buke was crushing. “Tom,” said the one to the other, -we had better leave here,” and off they went, with the blushes of shame mantling their cheeks, if, indeed, they were not dead to the feel ings which occasion them.” The Charleston Courier says that preparations are making in that city to manufacture locomo tives for the Southern roads on a large scale. It is a good move, and we wish it success. We sin cerely hope that the South has paid her last dcd- lar to locomotive builders in i^hiladelphia, Fatcr- son and other Northern towns. We can l.ii'ild t^bem at home—if we can’t, we don’t deserve to have a home. Let lialdwin, Xorri.s and others build for their own country—and let us build for ourselves. We suppose two millions of dollars are spent annually at the South for Northern made oeomotive and stationary engines. Let this be kept at home. We hail with delight every etlort making in the South to render us indtpendent in ./act as well as name.—An;/u.sta Chronicle ihst lie have not rtirtif'f I pe;.-i(i»f-: - '' Rich .Ml i.\ i», September 0, lJtil. A iientieinan was here last evening, wl.o parti cipated in the skirmish at .'dun-on’s Hill. He says we had about sixty men entraged in it, and there were three times as many Federal troops. Our troops only fired twice; that the Yankees commenced runnino at the fir.st fire, and when the second came they threw away mu-kets, kiiaps.ieks, ani every thinif, and belt^re they could ^et time lor a third round, the foot racers were'beyond reac h. He said, in riie ranks as they were. I.'iw will Cover at K-ast thne humlnul millions of ‘*tid in the midst ot the enoatrenicnt, shouts of diil/i tiori' /('■ t /’• tuiiiti iii.—Tlris law Was pa.ssed as an ofl -.et t * tie contiscation law and plunder- iiiix orders of the Lincoln authorities .Vll the Vanket* property in the (’oi.federate .'t.»tes of Ainer.ea i^ now under the control ol the (tovern- ment I poll tli3 111 1st a-eurate estimates that can be arrived at now. it is supposed that this II 'ri/t fi! fii-'ijK i ti/. Hence the contisca- I the Liticidn despotism recoil with a pres sure ujon \ ankee maliee;ind cupidity, and tuakes appart lit the blindto .ind tolly of the i^incoln ( abinet. — M'nitijimu n/ \lnil. A’o 7 //(- —I h»‘ X()rthern j>apers art' not halt satisfijd with the brilliant achii’ve- mcnts (d (len. Uutler and (’ommoiore Striiii;- nam. off Hatteras. ’f'liey ridicule both for j;o- iiiiT home to be serenaded and to make speeches, “off on a biir spree.” without penetratin'-- the State. laughter rent the air at their ludicrous appearance as they went tlyin-, casting off their encuml.rances as they ran. 1 hey left seventeen dead on the field and we took eight prisoners. He .says skir mishes are of daily occurrence. He ttdd us ol one young boy, l‘or he said he was but a boy. who had been sick eVer since they went ing the info anti irailit. rwu lu or 12 bushels , This exj erimer.i. it .seema, deiuon : > I »M-eeri tea —the veritable China tea—cuJ. cessfully m«.iwn and tnaturtd in th - . Noifh Carolina. i l is i.s. therefore, an i; ,■ discovery. Let it be tried in everv par’ State.^ We suppose that .seed can be pi . Mr Spencer. We wili aend small pacxu, ^ the leaf — the tea—to any editor in the '•r.: he will sionify to us a desire for it. .o:; tlie postagf-. i he tea is excellent. 'I r, nih‘ii>jfi,n ( X. C. ‘ !./ ■ ’ . Milit.ny ia Baltl,u•lre.—\^x..a^v^. Sept. 14—'i'he i'rovost Marshal at tiay _ .r yesterday, arrested Mayor IJrowii, K W t 'hiu-les and 1'. i..awrence, S. Wallace aii ; i. S(‘olt, members of the ijegislature, aoJ i them to the commander of Fort Mcllm v ' irre.ssman May. and l.e-islators lieniy .\'i M and W. (j. H irri.son are re:>orted to i.a. t into camp, but would insist upon narticinat i ‘ rr. Vl t '•' in every fiuht. He vas in the hospital when ‘,rd'\he IVk battle of iiull i'uin occurred, but‘went out Ir e’sted- .n ' the ranks an-i fought thron-b fb^ i , ’ l^t-nnison Gwintaw - Sk, fouoht throuLrh the whole en- , ga.irement. and took his bed a-ain as soon as it - — I over. Ho did the same thin.; at the battle wx //, th. .Smith.—'i'he Shoe and Ltather | Mana.s.sas, and again at Munson's Hill hrjii.rter .^ay.s that the South had a good stock of i When the long roll beat, callin- them to arms Nortla rn-mad> shoes at the commencement of the | ^*1 that occasion, there were thirty in the hosnit-.l- M-ar, which is not ycf exhausted, and that of the •*’1 arose and took their places in the ranks but SIX thous;ind fannerie.s in the Cnited States, two thousand are in the slave States, their full pro- pt.rtion, coiisi lering for how many other uses than shoes leather is consumed in the Xorthern States. Onc-.seventh of the shoemakers in the Cnited States were also in the slave States. On the wdiole, the RepoUer adds: c.in over seven. b rom the jtosition they occupy thev look the l-'ederal camps'with tlieir glasses, ami they presented a scene of the utmost consternation after the sknuiKsh—men running to and fro. aii- parently without purpose or am, and all bewi’ldcr- So far as shoes, and most of the manufacture.s i around himself, to protect^^hiju'"*and^alhy'^r^^^ of leather are concerned, we reach this conclusion, | anxieties of his President. ’ that although the facilities of the Southern people are limited, still, with a proper iVusbandim'^of | ^ Erped.'tion to the . . * ‘ ^ '>"«^ -FortrkssMo.nroe. Sept 11 Ihe sloop-of-war Jamestown sailed hence last a,'"l Si . t^ frigate Potomac arrived here to-day and will ^ke an active part in the bockade 1 here IS great activity among the ships of war and gun-boats in llamptor prepnraton, to an important naud expedition to the Sout/.eru Coast. expose j extend this article beyoud its purpose.’ Rard on Chira,,o.~\ „ood story is told in Chicago about rents. A party leased a fine house ^ d merchant m good business at 81,200 per year kidlord^w'' T’ Tenant informs landlord he cannot pay such rent “What i-in you afford to pa,?”*^ i.No, half that 1, " \ ery well; you shall have it for gSfiOQ.” To. ward tlie end of the quarter tenant informs the laudbrd he cannot pay that. “What can you pay "v^ry well-^I w"^"t ^ bu»iness.” V ery we I, I want my house taken care of and you may stay without rent.” A short time after in passing by the house, he found the tenant mov! ing his furniture, and asked him v»hat was that for. “Why, you don’t think I am such a fool'as to stay ,n that house when I have found » much better on© for nothing." their resources, there is no occasion f’or any im mediate suffering and that it is the part of wisdom for us to calculate that they will not be brou-ht I to their knees during the pre.sent year in conse- ! iuence of a deficiency in the supply ot leather. There is an old proverb about the dan^^er to inexpert persons handling edge-tools. l" is il lustrated in the attempt of the Yankee to play scddicr, and use fire arms. The following para graph from a Wasbingfjon letter-writer shows that in this attempt they kill nearly as many of oack other as of their enemy; “The careb ssne.ss in the use of fire-arm.s by the J'ederal troops is most astonishing. Since the commencement of the war not less than three huiiared men have been killed or .severely wound ed ly the accidental discharge of fire-arms in the hands of real or amateur soldiers. The apparent incredulity that persons who are green in hand- ing^'uns feel as to their destructive effects is amazing.” Oh! the dangers ihat environ The Yankee ruecMling with cold iron. 1 be promises of the sugar crop in the South are said to exceed those of all former years If no premature frosts damage the crop the su-ar production of the South will, in all probability amount to o00,()00 hogsheads, which is eiXv’ thousand more than ever -Aras produced before; 2o0,000 more than the consumption of the South ern States, and very little short of the entire con- Buniption of the Old Vuion.-Rich. Examiner. Sr. Louis, Sept. 1 1.—Dr. Franklin, Surgeon of (.eneral Lyon’s Rngade, arrived from Sprinf^- neld to-day, and reports that all the Federal wounded remaining at that place have been re amed by order of the rebel commander, and are held as hostag-s for the safety of the Secessionists now in the hands of the Federal authorities. or bun rebel shot or hung under Fremont’s recent proclamation one of our wounded soldiers would be shot. Washinoto.n, Sept. 15.—Several petitions Philadelphia, demanding the expulsion of Mr Russell, the correspondent of the London Times.' The steamship Colutn. bia IS mastly ownedthe South, and L, Sfw^’th'TsouT''’ if"'^he United Slates M.-irshal yesterday under direction fiom Washington, pro ceeded to the several banks and seized the balances therein due to the banks within the Southern is°not amount of the seizure w not definitely known. It will probably amount to some tens of thousands of dollars. Lynch, members t'rom l>.iltimore counts. ,. leading Kditor of the F:xehange, and S - Kditor of the Raltimore South. Ihe Maryland iiCgislature was to have ii 1uesday. Ihe Baltimore Sun sjiys, the citv wa> into a fever ot excitement by the a'lmou;;.; of the arrests of some of the most pro;n:i zens, including Mayor Rrown. 'ihe a. came from Wasliingtoii, and .sp. ci .1 s,.:i. I'edeYai police were detailed for the w u Pens.-vcol.^, Sept. lG._On SuturJav gunboat, with fifteen Federals and a' h crossed from l>’ort Pickens to the navy yur !- fire to the guard boat, with the inteni'i.’n : ' ing the ^lavy-yard. Ihe alarm was given to .save the yard. Our men killed six . f tii • erals. Our loss is one missing and thre. s . wounded. • the cor-espondent (f lii i- ‘lon limes, has contributed ten dollars 1..m, Committee of the Christian Association of> i ^ On the occasion ol tne departure of tie'I : States troops from Utah, much property - federal Government was sold at m.svra - . figtires. Ihus bacon sold for a cent a j which was conveyed hence to I'tah, on war account, at an expense of forty ceii^' pound. A great many other thin gs weu ' con- des- like sacrifices , .says a Xortliern paper. Litton oj the Secretary of Ib/' -^' that the Secretary of War, Hon. i V alker, of Alabama, on Saturday re.sii;iii • office and seat in the Cabinet, in pursuan • intention of’resignation entertained tor s ; past, ilo will probably leave Richiiion'i ' for hi.s home in Alabama. Gen. I'oik. ■ ' Bishop iji the p]piscopal Church, and it i *^' in command in the 3Hs.sissippi Defiartiin'n! generally spoken of as the probable >u>‘‘.i>> '' Mr. Walker’s seat in the Cabinet and his mt- taut public oflSce, as Secretary of War. Richmond A'jithii.i l^*‘cided Rrohability.—The Kast li^^- (Ct.) Journal speaks of the finding of a ®“rb in the door yard of one of the ■ : of that town, and innocently reniarks that "in' ; son to whou) the skull originally btdonged is
Fayetteville Observer [Semi-Weekly, 1851-1865] (Fayetteville, N.C.)
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