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' ' . - 50 abcrIptlons to either Dally or Weekly receiyed for a tongfer.ttme ffaan -UToonthg. , J- ; , - yNESDAY : , j ; - NOVEMBER -9 1 864 u Ths k kgboes of tub Squto, brought on (he pfes X tzX "isolating wan B allowing an institution purely municipl a "creature of the "'-Slates," to be ujixei up with National politics to be made the point between Jpaities enhtending for power apd place in the' Congressional arena, the South has been forced in defence of her lights to unsheath the 6vrord and wade through peas of blood; to maintain what in the infancy of the Republic, was always con ceded apd never called in question. And now the same .restless, agitating spiiir, is likely to force jupor the South, a contest among parselve3 to divide us, involving the identical principles -and elements which ignited the match of discord in the old Union', and &e t.tb o jatioauu a -blz. The reader-wtiruh derstand at once "that we refer to the proposition to trm and free the slaves to fight our battles. . Sjme days ago, in rerjfy to the Richmond Enqui. rer't positions on this subject, w e presented the fol lowing objections, which we reproduce, in order that those who are inclined to favor this wild scheme, miy consider and answer them if they can; AVe siid : , ' " 1 . We oiy'ect, because as a race they are doficient In natural courage, and in tlo qualities of mind and heart to maki soldiers for the South. In point of courage aryl injellect, one white mm, such as com pose our ainles, is equal, taking an average of our. Southern negroes, to four. Excite their brutal pas eions by liquor or lust, and they are dangerous for the time. Sj they are under the- ir fluenca of anger. But they an incapable of rising to the higth of moral courae demanded in a Southern soldier Their moral feelings also wholly unfit them. For whatever may be said of their attachment to their owners, &c, there is not, one in .a thousand, if in ten thousand, who believes that the whites have the -Cioral right to hold them in bondage. 2. While as soldiers, it will" take every four of them to equal one .white man, as laborers in corn and rice fields one of them is an equal of every white man, and in some cases equal to two. We need men, but we need'biead and meat us well as men. At one time, the politicians of the Enquirer 8 school, assumed that the whole of our white population could go into the war, and the blacks could furnish all the food and clothing needed. Now, they would take both white and black. u. We object, because the proposition fixes upon us and our children a large addition to our free ne gro population the most thriftless, corrupting and profitless population taken-as a whole, ever entailed upon a people. " 4.- We object, because-it proposes to cut o2 the chief source of wealth in the South, upon which wc must mainly rely for the payment of the ar debt, and the recuperation of the country afiev the war. 5. We object, because the object of the North be ing to destroy slavery, the plan would furnish an additional argument to the Yankees for the perpeN uation of the war. In what we have heard or seen from the advocates of this measure, there is scarcely an.atteroptto meet the foregoing objections. Most that has been said is in commendation-of the advantages to ba gained 4 by it, viewed from a partial and one-sided stand point, without so much as a serious notice of the lormidable obstacles in the way of its inauguration. Its advantages when carefully Rifted, Twill be found to be more imaginary than real, while the dangers which environ the question, are of the most serious' character. - The proposition, that the general government shall buy one, or 250,000 slaves, or that it'shall conscript them, and in cither case, that.those who discharge the duties of soldiers shall be freed, in every part and parcel, is unconstitutional, being acts for which there is n) warrant in the spirit or letter of that in strument, and directly violative of the rights of the States. Piior to the war, and during that long contro versy which agitated the country from the. Lakes to the Gulf, on the question of slavery, there was no political doctrine -upon which Southern statesmen were so entirely agreed, as they were that Congress had no jurisdiction over the question of slavery , in the States that in all its phases the institution was entirely within the province of the States themselves. The right of Congress to purchase flavcs for the ue of the' government, so far as we recollect, was never agitated: Its introduction into Congress would have at any time excited the Northern mind be-ond meisure, while on the other hand, a pro position to impress, conscript or tree-them for any purpose of the government, would have set the S6uth on fire. Why this certain effect, if Congress had the right to buy, conscript or free them? Was it simply a question of sectional interest? Certainly not, though this would have added to the fire. Such a proposition would have been regarded as laying the claim of jurisdiction over the question, which the South uaniruously denied, and for which the North never once contended during the fit st fifty years of the Republic. All pretensions to this claim wero of a later date, when the virus? of abo litionism had Spread thtoughout the North, and the Congress. had become infected with it. Strange as it may seem, some of the most violent in their opposition to the interference of Congress ' on that subject befote the war, are now warm advo cates of the proposition. Has the question changed its aspects, and hence the parties change, or has the character of the Constitution of tne Confederate States been so materially changed on this point from the old Constitution ? TnE Supreme Coukt, at its recent special session, made the following lecisions, upon writs oi Habeas Corpus: 1. -Jobkson vs. M allett. A member of the police for the city of Raleigh'is exempt from conscription, because he is a civil oQicer, whom the General As sembly has demanded as necessary to the adminiss tration of the laws of the State. 2. In the matter of McDaniel. A substitute, who becomes such after ho was fifty years old, is not en titled to a discharge on account of his principal hav ing been called into service. ... 8. Ivesler vs. Brawley. Senior reserves are en titled underrbe act of Congress to their discharge, when they arrive at the age of fifty years. . 4. In the matter of Fort. One who works fifteen able-bodied hands, between the ages of sixteen and fifty, is not entitled to exemption, if one of the hands he a frea negro all the hands must be slaves. 5. The fifteen hands must .have been within the ?es of sixteen and fifty, in the 1st day of January, 164. It is not sufficient ifwone or more of them have become sixteen since that time. 6. A farmer having less than fifteen hands, who is detailed to work upon ceTtain terms, . is liable- to have hisdeUil revoked, and to be called into active service, the. government surrendering " his ; bondt to him. ';,);;"" ; v -:x.:". 7. A foreignef ..who comes to reside iru the , State for a longer or shorter time, and who does reside here thirty days, Is liable td perform military service n the Home Guards. ; - '.. 8- It decjided bir Judge Battle," with the con currence ofthebther Judges, tha a Warden of the poor is exemptj frojm conscription. i i ' v : The Presbyterian Synod of Ala.1 iave inaugurated plan for the support and education of the children w deceased and disabled soldiers. t- 1 - " -. 1 ' i 1A lr,l Mi 1 MI 1 I I r- I V-, r;i I '- f il I I l ?- j i n L:.l l i 1 I I I I I - - I II I 11 - - Mi, ii; m m .-. rrn"; -; iv n.: ,-o r. r, Date r-c,.,, ' - Ypl. L BALErQH;- " The more we beflect upon -the history' of this war the spirit -vhich- has alwayaV controlled our Northern foes, and the manner in which, tbe:w,ir has been conducted by them, the more are we settled in the conviction, that any attempt to bring the dominant party at the North to anyiher peace terms, than our utter subjugation, by n3s of negotiation, would be utterly hopeless; - p - " - Since the period of the issue of Lincoln's emanci pation proclamation, and; for' some time - nrevious. there has not been the slightest relaxation or abate 5 ment in the demand of the ultra-abolitionjsts: who evidently control the UrS. government, for . the en tire wiping out of slavery upon the continent, and the appropriation of. the land; and, property of the Southern people, to the uses of the freed slaves'and to defray the expenses of the wan v Their. subsequent treatment ot tne slaves, nowever, has- snown that the Yankee nation so ar frorn. looking to the benefit of the negro race on this continent have really purpos ed to effect the abolition of-slavery not only by de stroying the institution in the- South, but by the utter extermination of f the slaves themselves as well as their owners This is, manifestly shown by their horrid treatment of the slaves whom they have captured or who have run to them, at BeauFort, S. C, at Roanoke Island, Newbern and other points in this State, indeed both East and West, forcing the men into the army and leaving the wjsmen and children and old men to starve or die from exposure. Thousands of them have ptished already, and un der the inhuman treatment of tho Yankees, the ne groes in their possession arc melting away like snow before the sun. . . - Moreover, there has never been the slightest man ifestation on the part of the dominant party North, for pence on any term, short of the entire subjuga- lion orour people. If any friend of negotiation or. or reconstruction, will point out a single well attested fact, which goes to show that the Lincoln party de- sire peace at all, until the South is subjugated, we shall be obliged to him: There is not a particle of evidence to support the idea, that if the South to-day were to propose, to abolish slavery and reconstruct the Union as it was, that'the dominant party North, would assent to it. They do not want peace they do not desire a re-union with the Southern people as equals. Their hellish madness will be satisfied with nothing short of our entire subjugation. Even Andy Johnson, a North Carolinian by birth, and a long resident of Tennessee, and a slaveholder, de sires no peace with us short of subjugation. He, tho Lincoln candidate for the Vice-Presidency, opposes ali propositions for peace in any form, aH conven tions wTich look to peace, and actually requires cv ery Tennesseeanyby the connivance if not theoider of Lincoln, in order to enjoy the right of suffrage in their own State to take and subscribe to a test oath, which embodies among other disloyal and wicked sentiments the following: k That I will cordially oppose all armistice or nes gotiations for peace with rebels in arms until the Constitution of the United States and all laws and proclamations made in pursuance thereof shall be established over all the people of every State and Ter ritory embraced within the national Union, and that "F will heartily aid and assist the loyal people in whatever measures may be adopted fortheatainment of these ends ; and further, that I takcthis oath free, ly and voluntarily and without mental reservation So help roe God." Nor baa Andy Johnson perhaps, gone beyond most "of Lincoln's Military Governors, in their madness against the South and their hostility to peace, except upon our subjugation. This same spirit pervades the bosom of every Lincolnite, whether found "North, or in the Southern States. They want no peace will have none, short of our subjugation. Nothing can be more idle, than to build hopes of peace upon propositions coming from us, either made, by the President, or a Convention of States, or by separate State action, or by a direct proposition for reconstruc tion. All such propositions whenever made will be spurned by them, so long as they are in power until we can oonyince them by our arras that they can not subjugate us. Let the Souuthern people look closely to this mat ter. Let them look at the facts as they res.lly are, and forever cast aside all hopes of reconciliation, till we create them by the sword, or until God in His providence directly interferes. Our only chance for peace is in our own arras under the blessing of God, and a change in the political rulers of the North. We doubt if Fuch a change could bring an ea-ly peace, apart from the success of our armies. Such success would bring it speedily. The indications of a change, in the rulers are more encouraging than at llrst. MoClellan's- prospects are bnghtning and if there be any foundation for the rtmwtf- whickwe doubt, that Lincoln has interdicted tFie voting of th6 army, the evidence favor of McClellan's success. Let us not however rely upon so frail a hope. The election of McCIellan would certainly "give us a more honor able contestant, and would go far to settle the idea, that the masses North are tor peace, yet the strong desire of McCIellan and bis supporters for a re-union, which we apprehend the South will never assent to from choice, forces us still to insist upon it that our great reliance, if not our-only reliance for peace, is in the success of our arrosand the' blessing of Heaven. Let all the people therefore, rally to the cause. Let derisions and strifes, and complainings cease. Peace and independence must be insenbed on the banners -of the South every where, and let all our people, every where, resolve that these shall be plant ed upon the ramparts of the foe and shall float tri umphantly, wherever the foe confronts us, until the great object is obtained. In an interview with a gentleman from east of the Chowan river, we learn that the negroes who have been decoyed and stolen from their masters and kept in confinement at Norfolk, are very anxious to return to their owners, but are prevented by their new mas ters. UntiWwithin the last few weeks they received 'rations from the Yankee, commissary, but no they are left to starve ; and, the larger portion of them il-children': the nrobabilitv ia that they will perish from hunger en -masse, Yankee sympathy for. the negro. ' ? . W This is The Mercury and the Southern Field & Fireside have been united into one, W. B. Smith & Co., hav. inc purchased the latter. The interests of the two papers being consolidated, only one paper will . pe issued hereafter, and will take the name of the Southern Field & Fireside. The first number un der the new, arrangement will be.issu.din this city next Friday. We wish the proprietors" much suc cess in tho enterpriso. ' . , VVe learn that Mr. Hinton Franklin who was severely wounded in a light with Mr. James Penny, a few days ago, has since died. .Mr. P.' will be committed for trial or bailed until the next Supenor Court. We learn that the evidence obtained jy the Coroner would not convict Penny of jnuider in the first -degree ''m " - -; .' ' . ' lVri Col. J. R. Cobb of this State Who was wound ed in the late 'battle of Winchester and was sup posed to be deal, we are glad to laarn is alive" and doing welL . .; : . -- ..... . . - Wb leabn the lata residency of Mrs. M. Hargraver in -Chapel Hill was destroyed by fire a few nights ago xnreo goiu waicuc iva. . N..-0,, ,WEM?ESDAY,'NOyEMBB ; Proper respect for the decisions of the Judiciary when made in due form of Uw,"basialaysvben'Te garded in all free countries is i a test ormark; :"of xivl-f .lizatiun, andof the superior force of law and i order in opposition to licentiousness, upon-well-regulated society. A community, aposvW n tindiYidual can give no higher proof of the Teignff demoraliza tion, than is exhibited, when theicivil law? is disre garded and the decisions of the Courts are set at naught. There aie times howeverwhen a nation is invaded or iiisurrectionreviIs,4indwhen-the pow er of martial law becomes necessary in an emer-c gency, that the civil law: may t adjourned over, not ignored, for the want d timo, andwhen the exigen ctesoX,ih,ese require it-fc' the'pbKc8afefy.'-iBat we contend ihat evenjin such cases the same prinv ciples which control In the executicn-of the civil law, must be : regarded in' the enfore;racnl of mirtial la wV and equally so:when the code enforced is purely niilitany. -We can conceive of no possible exigency,' under the rule of mihtary power, among a Civilized people, when. the principles of the civil law may' be ignored, and the divine code of equity and justice disregarded? ". -.':-." The oider nation's of Europe boast of their; supe rior refinement, literature and civilization, but let this ba the boast ol the freeroen of the Confederacy, that the principles of law and the requisitions of an orderly government rule us. Our people have al ways manifested thi reverence for the law, and; the official decisions of the Judiciary, have thus far operated as a re-enactnent and confirmation. of the law. - I - . ' : L- The decision of Judge Battle in the case which: we published on Wednesday, although the publis has Tianifested but little interest in it, contains doctrines hwhich we consrder cardinal and of the highest; im portance to the people and the cause. . j , i AVe ventured a few days ago to express an opinion in opposition to" the right of Congress to instruct the. States or -to specify j the. persons, whom they shall employ in their service. That body had so far' trenched upon the States in some of its enactments, aso authorize the Governors of the States to desig-' nate who were necessary to the State service. Somes of the members of the late Legislature were anxious; that the matter of exemption for State service, should be left wholly-to the discretion of Gov. Vance. This responsibility Gov. Vance steadily refused to assurBe,' and would. not consent that it should be imposed on hit j." In that he exhibited his usual sagacity; and his reverence for the constitution and the laws, and the rights of the State. ! j We are glad to find our position so strongly sus tained by Judge Battle. in his opinion yesterday pub-j lished, and by Chief Justice' Pearson, in his concur rent opinion on the f ame case, and by the Supreme Court of Appesls in Virginia. That learned Court says: 4 -. 1 "The State governments are an essential; part of-ourpolitic.il system; for upon the separ ate and independent sovereignly of the States the foundation of our confederation rests. All powers not delegated to the Confederate States by the Cod siitution, nor prohibited to it by the States, are re served to tho S'ates respectively .or to the people thereof; and tho Confederate States guarantee to each State a republican lorm t government. Itis absurd to 'suppose thaMKe governmient oflmjnflr deserters and other duties, and now when the Confederate States can ngbttally destroy the States which created it; and all the powers? conferred on it must be understood to have been given with the limitation that in executing them nothing shall be done to ir.terforo with the independent exercise of its sovereign powers by each State. Congress can have no right, therefore, to deprive a State of the services of any officer necessary to the action of its government. "And the State itself is the sole judge as to the officers that are necessarj (or that pur pose." His Honor Judge Battle, after a careful review of of the law in the case, meets the question directly, in the following'clear and forcible manner: ' Has the Legislature of the State the right "to de mand" these exemptions ? It is very decidedly our opinion that it has,; and that it has it to the exclur sion of every other department of the State govern ment. It is clear, beyond all question, that within the limits of the written Constitution, which the peo ple of the State have imposed upon the govern ment, the legislative power is the supreme power in the State. Among vs vast powers of legislation which are unlimited and unrestricted except by the 'Constitution that of ascertaining what oCQces,in ad dition to thoss specified -in the ' Constitution, are necessary for the efficient management of the affairs of the State, and th'tn of appointing the officers and presciibing their dufic-s. The powers of the other two great departments of government aro very dif ferent. To the judiciary is assigned the power of expounding the constitutional laws, while the elec tive bus bolely the power to enforce their faithful ex ecution. From this it seems to us to follow as;a logr ical sequence, that it is shown that each State is the sole judge as to the officers that are necessary to the action ot its government, its Legislature, and its Leg islature, alone is the organ by which its judgment is to be ascertained and made known. j. Equally clear arid forcible is the concurrent opin ion of His Honor, Chief Justice Pearson, as publish ed in another column. Upon the Legislature, therefore, rests the sole duty and responsibility of defining who shall be exempt from the military service of the Confederacy, because it is the proper judge of what the Stale needs, for the ex-rcise of its legitimate power its preservation and defence Were the power lodged in. , the general government, the States who created it would be at its mercy, lo be controled or crushed as that govern, ment might determine. ; " L Several days a-go we alluded to the outrages committed by deserters in Wilkes County. : Some weeks ago a meeting of some of the citizens of the County was held at which we learn Col.- A. C. Galloway- and other opposers of Gov. Vance in the late election? made speeches affirming that Wilkes Coun ty had been slandered. - The said meeting passed a resolution affirming that there were no-deserters in the Courtly, that they could defend themselves, and requesting Gov. Vance to remove the troops from the County. Within a few days Gov. Vance has jo ceived the following letter from a respectable citizen of "the County, which it wi!l be seen puts quite adf ferent showing upon the condition of this County, Facts speak louder than profession. This nest of trai tors alluded to by the correspondent should be broken ud at once. Read the letter : '. . T i WitKSEOBO,VWiLkES Co; N.lC--: - . . October 30, 18G4; r To His Excellency, Z. BVaxce: ; - . ' . I think it wouia not be amiss to give yon a short history of the condition of the countrybere. j Rape, LiZr. nd rhhhhe.rv. is the order of the day. The tories of this country have fornthemselves -int dbout four squads, une miu;iuu; u" under the command of the YoungeVs-one on Roays 'i.: '. nrr fhe Shoerostes 'one on Mulberry is t nder Jennirrgs-on in the Rappds ;8nileS' from town is under yonx nena laamsoAuurcn. Let me tell you the, number of citizens that ave. t - KkQ.i ; fhA lRt ten jdays : McGrady, Loyett; uir.dr MaVonUSrowiv ; Brown again, Abscherr Zt?M Jas.-Eller, Frank-McNeiL Wm, McNeil. Jas, McNeil, Jos. Gray who liyes three miles mtowPrttylarga SOT. irom several y - w !-ilC-k: robbers wanted. These squads are formed hf robbsrs' fronj every part of the Confederacr and some fam the Yankee army; -"A good many oCodr best citizens u yccw ui iTu.jruni meir; nom their property and some have be tempt to moveNo w canVy ou ,-i by which tbis can be; broken nn ? t i Yours with' the highest'f egard, 1 " v v ' J ' -a ' . i t TbetlawVf .TBE:lleaisiIiTimK feemptrog the mHi tia; officers of the IState " from ithevop'eration 'of the Ctohfederatebnscriptioa has -been a roost fort una tei one-.; Equally so was tbV law ' passed at "an; early period of " the war . reorganizing the militia by which the regiments were defined anil filled up and - the' officers commissioned; But for this "organization, the Confederate government would have encountered great difficulty in enforcing the conscription. .Great credit has bees accorded to North Carolina by-pres -idcht Davis for the thorough manner In which the conscript law has been enforced in this State. ' No where else has it been done so effectually. Con fed, erate "officers likewi.s have appropriated to them selves much of the credit. "But is it so? Let the facts 'speak.'" r' ' ; " ''- - " ' -J. ; AV hen the conscription law was first passed, to no people in the Confederacy was it more unacceptable than to North Carolina. At that time, no State had so large a number of volunteers in 'tho 'field jn pro portion to population as this State. At once, the apparent necessity "for the law, neutralized greatly the objections to it, arid hence no difficulty was ex perienced in its enforcement. 1 The Stnte authorities gave it their sanction. "But who executed the law ? Who performed the ' most important service in its enforcement? Confederate officers? By no means. Orders were immediately issued to the militia offi ce! s of the State to bring those liable in the ' several regiments to" the Camp of Instruction. The order was obeyed with alacrity.,: The Colonels of the sev eral" militia- regiments and their- subordinates'; did Lthe work of enrolling and examination promptly, and every one vecouects, wnnwnat expedition me men were brought into camp and placed Under the in struction of Confederate officers.- To.thesjB. same officers has the service been greatly indebted for the assistance they, have rendered ever since in this work. What difficulty would have been experienced without them?' How could the Confederate service, even now well dispense with them, if the Legislature had placed them under the conscription. But not only have they done signal service to the government in enforcing the conscription,-but in other respects they have shown a rcaCdiness to work for the canse. Many of the militia officers are ex" empted from service under the fifteen negro Jaw and many of them arc exempted as magistrates, yet they have retained their offices to serve the country. Upon the organization of the Home Guard, they have quietly submitted, many of them, to the sus pension of their commissions, and have cheerfully gone in as privates and are now doing the work of .regulars in the service. ' It IS saia inai me uiuuia oiuctra aim uwgisuaicB of the State, are -making as good soldiers as. there are in the Confederacy. . That is Vhat we; expected. Thev have done much service eettinc uo conscTints. the State is threatened with invasion, to prevent the drawing off; of Confederate forces from other points, the milftfa officers and magistrates r rally to, the rescue, and the Home Guard does the work, 'and they will do the fighting too of regular troops. We are proud of them. Tbe State is proud of them, and moreover, she will retain them in-the service as long as she needa them. Men who talk about putting a slop to the war, by propositions of peace from us made by the proper authority to Lincoln, or by a Convention of the States, or by separate State action, or even by out spoken reconstruction, may be honest, and doubtless many of them are honest, but the evidences before the world, are and have been, for more than a year, so positively contradictory to all such hopes and ex pectations, that it is difficult for jus, when we hear men ring the changes upon upeace, peace, fighting will not end the war," -and such like stereotyped phrases, to attribute to them any thing' else but a voluntary blindness to the real aspects' of the sub ject, or to a demagogical spirit, which dejudes the ignorant and unwary, and keeps up a spirit of com Dlainins and real opposition to a war, forced upon us. in North Carolina at least, by contingencies which we could not avoid. We are not- or loose however, who charge nfen with intentional disloyal- ty or brand them witn opprooious epitueis, ior words or acts which exhibit the spirit of discontent or complaint," or even for those imprudencie?,' which, of course, without their intending it, 'give aid and comfort to the enemy 3" Treason or disloyalty to one's own country, we regard not only as a'; high political crime, but an offence of high moral ttfrpitude, which ought to be punished rigorouslyi But:that is a crime , w Inch words or acts even ot an ordinary cniraccer, are not sufficient to fix a man's guilt beyond a doubt, hnt thre mu be alone with these words and acts. the evident intention, - otherwise, in a j ldgment of charity, we cannot fix moral turpitude 10 the indi vidual. Moreover, the accused ,is always entitled to the benefit of hi3 surroundings, in .making up a udament" When an individual, 4 nowever, wnose course nas oeen one 01 comiami rjk-w. tion to the cause, Tearful of results shirks the re sponsibilities of a citizen altogether, and being of nroper age and health to serve his country in the active duties of the war, 'abandons the'eountry and flies to the enemy, or enters into collusion with him, gives him information' and otherwise damages his country, his treason is palpable. Such -an one deserves the penalty of death, or should he make his escape to the enemy, be should be forever expa triated, v Perhaps our approaching Legislature tfoutd not do the cause a better service, tnan to pronounce ; all such,-outlaWs, and to bar them forever, from cit izenship in the State, The idea has been suggested; that the property of all such persons should be t-m-fiscated. We are not prepared tov lavor Mhat idea, without qualification; In seme cses, such persons leave wives, children and relatives who are-truly loyal and who are needy, ft would be unjust and crueV to deprive the loyal representatives of such persons of what the law. would give them, if the es caped bad remained and died.' Serial cases have occurred of the most bare iaced ir justice under he .i-ii.taifnn'tM-Vii understand.- One cage in which an unworthy man married an excellant woman with property; lived with her two- or three years and went off to the Yankees. The confiscation act seized that whieh was hers-thean had none efore his marriage and she, a loyal -woman and her infant child, we learn, were deprived of the property. ,Sucb injustice is too appareo$;to every one, and it -calls for correctioo. . : v , yy' -Wb regret io learn that Lieut.-' James. -W Huske of Fayetteville was killed in the late, battle near Pe tersburg. He was highly esteemed by bis. f nenda and (mrades as an excellant iQung man andaJbrave soldier. ' . . The Emperor Napoleon m is fifty-sif J"" of WE E KLT.C ONSE RVATIVE. ; The rollowtng rates will be charged lor all adTertlMmentala ertedinth Datlt aad.Wjsaii. OoxaaaTATrv. . , v ' OKC BQVAIUI or zit UHXS, OB IXBW . One day, r.' 'si Two-daya, . -- . . T oo Three dav; .i o m we1t, : flSOd a W 45 03 ra oo 144 CO Two weeks, , Three weeks,- -One xacrath, -Two month, - . Foot days. - y- 1 ia co r Tfhen sent by letter,' tho money ntnst accompany th adrer- 4 tieemenU Obttoarfe, rellgioBR- find other notlcea chared as " ' sdrertlaements and most be paid la advance it--? Maky riksoss .-perha'pSk' have not yet done making sorghuni. - The following fetter from Mr. Long to ih& iConfedcrate,,-mill-be valuable and ' worth. pre- serving Mbssbs. . Eorroas': As moat persons have' pressed . -eir cane,il regref that I could not have igiiren, their ltbrough'jour! coloinns, to the public, before . this" - time, tne results ui in ejioFjuicms wjiu meoorg- bumHor:Chmts &ugaruano4 riiut l hope iris not too late for. some this year,, and jt may be of us to. -, aII . next y ear. );i,-rv-.i ?.';v(:Vl :.; ;f,-""vI'; ' .' : ! I flind tlaty a simple ajtidchea p process, a good . ; . y1eldkcllent browstoak can te inade I will state my process now, in as few words 'as possible, , and. promise .at some leisure time to make 'a more ' full statement. ! The juice j contains starch' and: gum or Jelly, which it must be- cleared of," before it can , make good syrup or sugar,; ' and this must be done before it boils For these purposes, I have a receiver under my iron' mill, sufficiently large to hold enough to fill ray boiler. Into this I pour a half gallon of clear lime water to 50 gallons of juice T'ldtend to -V, pressin iL The juice being pressed, and the starch "; havirg settled io the bottom, I draw it off through -i spile hole near the bottom, leaving the starch on bottom, below the epilO It ia nowcarried to the ' clarifier 'Which is a sbeetron bottom boner, on a flue so high that a' tube may , "run from near the bot tom to'the top of the boiler proper. " In this dariV fier I simmer three hours.! It must not b6il Dn-": ring the last half hour ofj this 'eimmering, I coyer tbe surface of the juice with bits of charcoal, chop' ped up to about the size of the thumb ends. When it has simmered three hqtirs, I put out the fire and allow the juice to get co2d, the colder the better. Under moderate heat, the, lime has done its work, a thick jelly has formed on the bottom below the tube, , the coal has precipitated j the'lime" and floats on the top, with the scum. I now draw off the Juice, 1 through the tube, from under the -scum and from over the jelly J into the b i!er, and boil the now , clarified juices is rapidly ksj possible until- It foams and assumes a! beautiful -yellow color ; then diaw out my fire and boil slow, until. ijt has puffed steam for some minutes, then meanwhile stirring with a. wooden paddle.1 Jl.- x - . ' . . '-.r 1 1 The syrnp is now removed to some open vessel to cool and granulate. If made properlyrit will gran ulate'before it is entirely cold, but it may take two or three days, or even more. If it, does not in 24 hours, I sprinkle a little' sugar over it. After it has granulated, -it may be ppt in. leaky barrels, or into a bag to drip, j I have haji it to turn,toasolld lump of sugar as soon as coldj jj : I I find that 100 pounds of cane will yield about 80 pounds of juice, or 8 gallons, which will make about, say, from o to; 8 pound of sugar, and from 4 to 6 pounds of good molassei far superior to the syrup ' that is made without extracting the jelly. j f If any person Who haifjboUed his syrup in tho or dinary way desires to ee the effects of not getting . clear of the gum or j el! t let him attempt to make Icahdy of it, and when h$ pulls or eats it, I think he will besatified that if. akin to gum elastic. . I would liketo write tporerminutely iOn the, fiUb ject,but fear I amalrea'air too tedious for your. col-' 2 umns. I need only sayj jfhat if any peraoh will. fol low the principle above,! indicated, he will most as suredly fucceed in makfpg sugary But I will fur ther add, if he will have the fixtures and follow my process he will find that he has made a good article of -ugar, by a cheap and ea3y process, that has cost nim out miie more man. me cojomou oyrup iuuo has been making. W. S. LONG, Yancey ville, N. -0. - 1 1 m 1 1 . ... . jl From the Progress. CONCURRING OPINION OF CUIEF JUSTICE R. M. PEARSON IN-THE CASE OF JOHNSON . 7 vs. MALLETT. jv " ' k cuutur tuny in iuo uuv;iaiuii in mio mo ivi tiww reasons .. .'...'' "". . ;'i,"V 1st. What officers are necessary and proper for the administration of thp Government, ia a matter confided to the wisdemj of. tbe Legislature by-" the Constitution of the State, except in respect to the offices created or recognized by that instrument It self. Whenever the Legislature creates and fills an office, "or authorizes a county or municipal corpora tion to do so, it is to be taken conclusively asa pre sumption of law" that such ; office is necesfary and proper, for'. otherwise the folly of creating and continuing a useless office is imputed to the Legisla . J ;,, -.:'- j-'-' 2d. The Governorr members of the Legislature, Judges and other officcrslof the Statet are not luxblato conscription, by the force and effect of the Constitu tion and ot our form of govern ment, and stand in no need of exemption either by an act of Congress or the certificate and claim f the Governor, or an act of the Legislature. Fori the power to conscript is jestricted by the condit that it does not hdttd officers of the States, otherwis-3, the existence the creator, would-be madd tk depend on the w7of the creature, '.; ' . , '. H 'r-- :v t-rt . So that part of the act pf Congress which - enum erated among the pet sor&i exempted, " The members of the several -State Legrsiatures, and. such other Sute officers las the Governors of the respective States- may certify to be jrWessary for the proper ad ministration oi the Slate'of ernroenta, act 17 Feb 1864, see. 10, clause 2, h matter of supererogation. : :, The ccTtincate of .ttie uoyernor tnerein requireu nas, no legal tffeet, and the r1soluuon 'ot the Legislature, , whidh demands the exeition of Staie'ofScere, ia in ffect a protest by that bjcidy against the right asBcrtr- t edon the part cf Congress to conscript officers oi;. the State by -enumerating! them, among tne persons whom in its wisdom it & deemed expedient ioex- IL M. . 'PEARSON. empt. Exebptioks Under b . Msat Iaw.v Qat ' hundred and fourteen thousand exempts from ac-J tive servicej eacli hundreyl to'. 'furnish not leas than" fifteen hundred pound $J bacon and fifteen hundred -pounds' 61! fresh beef llAny are uhde obligitiona- to give two tbree.or fout; times that much mtat bat we wish "to make a clcplstion at the mintoiuak x ) ores 1 14,000 multiplid by 1500171,000,000, -pounds that for the'biin : and aaimilar amounV would le the product inVesh beet- Thus tha Com missary "General his nojit subject to his order, 842,- 000,000 poundaof beef alfd bacon. -ii -, - Now far a littlecalcnilition as to hti vit'a. '--aJ. . we baye 40,(00 men in; She; field to Isedr awtag halt a pound oL bacon to the ration, and a ot . fresh beef; which ia amplk as our troops a.i2ra, jtelffeltf9f. by issuing oacon two u-p, "' j '.' - - s this way alternate thejUaUon. Northrop hs fall j meat rations for twelv faundrtdand ei Shty-twa daysrdr-uhtil theend ht 1867. ? Besides thu, rth , tythi Is to be counUdlSf and such surplui ciA ba; -"bought If there be ariyratMO. Cnrcs, tro ara eo : strong in looo, uj wo Mtjr . t;m come if the Confmissary Dsr-ltst niiica , ; . - - V f ".u ' ' - SecreUiy 'Beojainin .pub!i;hed a circular gir- - ine a statement of theficl a zzZ cation,- volume and rate of increase df.the ietfcf the. United States. The argumenU used.-ia discussing the n Federal ; .. fibance. are addressed- to the capitalists of Larepe,- showing that byains the United Sutcs in ; thewar, , -against the Poath. theyare aadenamios tfcsir own investments. I r1
Weekly Conservative (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Nov. 9, 1864, edition 1
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