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F f 1 Cfec H alttgb Scsisltr. " Oar i ar the plans of fair delightful peaee : Unwarp'd by party rage to lire like brothers." RAtiEIGH,. JT C ; SAT URD AY MORNING, MAY IT, 18C2. OLD BUTLER AT NEW ORLEANS. We publish to-daj an account of the pro- ceedings of this old villain at New Orleans. It is a most humiliating reflection that this once justly proud emporium of the South should be subjected to such treatment j but as it is in New Orleans, so it has been and will be wherever the vile Yankee vandals nhmin the ascendanov as invaders, and: it Hoes seem to us that it would be better for every man, woman and child in the South to be buried beneath its roil than to live as the degraded subjects or slaves of the damnable Yankees.- Call it what von will, the condi tion of every Southern citizen in every south ern town taken "by the Yankees is that of a plave, and nothing less. -The heart '' may be uncobquered and. unconquerable, but j still the limbs are manacled with galling chains, and the mouth padlocked, to the utter exolu- sion of that free speech which would fain denounce the oppressor. i TUB KILL AND MAKE ALIVE " MAN AT HIS. WORK AGAIN. Sometime since the Editor of the Raleigh Standard declared that that journal had the power, politically, to kill and make alive,", and it would seem that he is now about to exercise his 41 killing" power upon two worthy gentlemen of the county of Granville, Messrs. C. H. K. Taylor, the former Senator from that county," and Jas. M. Bajlock, one of the former Commoners. Referring to the proceedings of a meeting in Granville, he says: "We told Mr. Bullock more than a year ago, when he excluded our reporter from a Democratic caucus, that the first time the people of Granville county got a chanoe at him, they would lay him on the shelf as an unprofitable servant." s We apprehend that if Messrs. Taylor and Bullock sustain no other injary in Granville than that which can be inflicted by the oppo sition to them of the Editor of the Standard, they will, should they desire if, be re-elected to the Legislature. GOV. GRAHAM DECLINES TO RE A CANDIDATE FOR THE" OFFICE OF GOVERNOR. - j We take the following card from the last Standard: I " - Mj ntvma bariog been mentioned in lever&Jof the newspapers of the State, in the number of those from whom a Qorernor shall be chosen at the ensuing elec tion, and recommended by a public meeting recently held in the County of Wake, I esteem it proper pub licly to announce, that I mnst decline to.be considered a candidate for that office. The reasons for this con clusion, arising out of the situation of my family and private affairs, have been freely assigned te all with whom I. have communicated in conversation, or by correspondence, and need not be repeated. I offer my unfeigned thanks to those kind friend?, and tke con ductors of public journals, who hare been pleased to render me this assirraace of their confidence, and my cordial co-operation in whatever may tend to the safety, independence and good government of the country. ' ! May 9, 1862. . W. A. GRAHAM. We are decidedly of the opinion that Gov. Graham has manifested his usual prudence in declining to be a candidate for the Executive Chair, inasmuch as at sunset of the first Thursday in August he would have been the worst beaten man that ever ran in this State for the office of Governor. Besides j other causes which would have insured his defeat, the endorsation of him by the Editor of. the ' Raleigh Standard would have crushed him witH the weight of a millstone. ' - j WEATHER WISE. , 1 " We have an old neighbor in whose r judg ement concerning the weather, we have the very AigA-est'confidence. Whenever be tells us that it is about to rain, we immediately see to it that our umbrella and thick shoes are in the right place. On Monday last when we apprehended, from the appearance of the sky, that a long spell of dry weather' had set ! in, he told us that it would certainly xain On Wednesday, and sure enough -his prediction was fulfilled, for the rain commenced at 11 o'clock, A. M.J on that day, and continued at intervals until nieht, when it set in stead- ily and continued to fall all that night and all Thursday until sometime Thursday night, when it ceased. . i Raleigh crowded, j.;. This city b at present crowded to reple tion with refugees from Virginia and differ ent parts of this State. . Ou Thursday night several ladies were compelled to sleep on the floor of the parlor of the Yarhorough House, .and one party of ladies were obliged to sit up the whole night for the want of beds to lie upon. - , - il R1C1I3IOND TO BE DEFENDED ALL HAZARDS. - Jf AT - The Legislature of Virginia, oi Wednes- eay last, passed and published a Kesointion acquitting, tn advance, President Davis of all blame in case Richmond should fx shell eQ I on aocount of his. refusal to surrender it. CONVEN. Y In our last paper we promised to expose a piece of conduct which transpired in the Con vention on the e.ve of its adjournment, which we . cannot but characterize as exceedingly imall. We shall now proceed, to t redeem Vi Vrnmis. Dn iVtOy Q.nA "!' ff tht firrft . , ' - . . . -t . . - , . . -A f . . tv k a v i i .. . t j f f of the Convention has been done fat this a . ,. ; V office, and charged for according to fhe gen- . 6. ... . .. ' m, . eral law regulating the public pnntiujg. This . b , e .. - .P: :.- journeymen's wages were two or thrc$ dollars per week: less tnan tney are now, ana wnen the prime necessaries of life could be" bought at one-third of their present cost. Under this law the, printing for the Legislature, journals included, was done for years by Mr. W. Wi Holden, Messrs. Bolden & Wilson, and latterlv by Mr. John Spelman. . When we were elected Printers to the Convention, it was an implied contract between us.nd that body that as long as we did the wok . faith- ally, all the printing required by toe Con vention, the , journal, of course, included, should be given to us, and, on the! faith of this, we added, to the material of our office. It is not pretended that we have not done the work, thus far,' faithfully, for it is conceded on all hands that the, work has been executed with neatness, promptness and dispatch. These being the facts, the delegate from Pas quotank, on Friday or Saturday of isst week, introduced the following ordinance, which was ordered to be printed :' f AN ORDINANCE TO . REQUIRE THE PRINTING i OF THE JOURNAL BY CONTRACT. Beit ordained by the people of North Carolina, tn junvemwTV assemoicu. ana it is nercoy oraainea by the authority of Vie same; That th Principal Clerk of this Convention -shall advertise in the - . ii.j j 'j- i j "Raleigh Register" the "Raleigh Sundard," and State Journal." for the mace of thirty days, for I the printing of the Five Hundred copies 'of the Journal of the Convention; ordered to be printed for distribution among the members of the Con vention, and for other purposes ; and shall award the contract for said printing to the party propos ing to print the fame for the smallest 'amount, upon bis entering into bond with sufficient secu rity to print the same within time, and according to the specifications, to be set forth in jtbe adver tisement for said proposals. . j i Now, looking at the facts that we have above stated at the comparative prices of labor and provisions was not this move ment, which would either result in pur losing me printing oi ine journal oi mg ionveu tion, or "being forced to print it 'for a price lower than was paid tothe public printers in former years, in which journeymen's wages were seven and eighi dollars a week, instead of ten and eleven, bacon eightand ten oents per round, instead of 25 or 30,'and every other article of neoessary consumption cheap in proportion, a most extraordinary one? r . . I Why, then, was it mide ? AS ,lt has not been pretended that wb have not done the wofk faithfully, we c4n come td no other conclusion than that the attempt was made for reasons of personal or political hostility to ourselves. Of the former motive we can- not conceive a cause, as our . relations with the author of the-proposed ordinance have not been unfriendly, nor have we given him personally any reason for hostility to us. We, therefore, conclule that thq movement was made by himself, and others,; because of the faot that we will not affiliate, politically, with the faction -whicl the Editor of the Raleigh Standard is trying to elevate to the dignity of a party, which he would gipgerjy oall ' conservative.' So believing, we hold en this movement to a iust and( indionant nn'blio criticism. Had the attemot been auo- cessful, the result would have been a clear . breach of contract with us on thpart of the Convention, as was plainly shown by Judge Kuffio and Mr. Woodfin. ' While on the subject of the Public Print ing, we may refer to a proposition of Gov. Graham, who proposed, among other amend ments to the Constitution, ono providing that the public printing shall, in ; the future, be let out to the lowest bidder, ow, a brief history of the publio printing in this State will show that if this amendment 'shall be engrafted permanently upon the Constitution, the public printing will cost the State much more man it aoes now., tintii about nine years since, the publio printing the old Whig party having- the ascendancy in the Legislature was let out to the lowest bid der. The cousequence was that the proprie tors of the three offices then existing in Ka leigh tho Stahda'rd, Star and Register would have an understanding amongst them selves" as to the amount of their bids and when the printing was knocked down to the lowest bidder, it. would be let out, as we un- deratand, at a cost 50 per cent rreater than is no w paid : and then the work and compen- f- , . ;. ., ?. v . . ., sation would be equally divided be t ween the tk-aaa ArliAae . fpl r . '. t J A.? t luivo tiuuvOf ' T Xul3 pr&OllCC pic Tall CU U II fell I j ity.in the Legislature, and then Mr l W. VV I Holden, as we have "heard, drew the ideati I cai bill which is now the law of the land, I THE PRINTING FOR THE .. . TION. : hiyec tion printing, had himself eleotePablio Printer, and pocketed ' the whole pompepsa- tion, instead of dividing it cquai is there loiore, witn ma twovcontemporaresr auu this he continued to do until he wascpadi- ated by his own party, in 1860161, and de- prived of the loaves and fishes " which he J had derived under the act which he had -pro- jected. This is the ; history i of the public printing in this State,and if Governor Gra- f , n x. . - - , - ham's amendment shall be engrafted upon the ... . al ' .. Constitution, the-praotioe of combination ' j-j bids will as Burely prevail again as it did prior to the enactment of the present law. 4 EARLY'S BRIGADE INTHE BATTLE OF ;T WILLIAMSBURG. At the battle of Williamsburg, Early's brigade was ordered by Major General Hill to charge a battery on the enemy's right wing, posted in i strong redoubt and supported by a brigade of in fantry and a reserve of cavalry. The regiments at the time under the command of General Early, were the 24th and 38th Virginia, commanded the first by Co. Terry, and the second by Lieut. Col onel Whittle, and the 5th and 23d North Caroli na, commanded the first by Col. McRae, and the second, by Colonel lioke. Owing to tbedimculty of getting through the wobds,onlv two of these reg- iments,tbe24th Virginia'and the 5th North Caroli na, were engaged in the charge. These were led by lien, isany, wno receivea one severe ; ana one slight wound, and whose horse was shot through the head but, nevertheless, both rider and horse bore up nobly, and are both now in this city in a fair way of recovery. . The two regiments suc ceeded in driving them from their position, but the havock in their ranks .was so great that they were ordered by Gen. Hill to retire. An idea may be formed of .the intrepidity of these gallant regiments, and the hot work in which they were engaged, from the fact that, though unitedly numbering only about 1,100 men. they sustained a loss of over 400. The North Carolina regiment that went into the fight numbering 410, came out with only 125. Of 22 commissioned officers 10 were killed and 1 wounded. There has been no heavier casualties in the whole whole war thn this noble regiment sustained. The Lieutenant Col onel, Badham, was .either killed or fell into the l 1 i - i l. ji a i. -r uauut ui tue eneuiy uouij wuuuueu. apt-mus Brookfleld, Mullios, West, and Garrett were kill, ed. Captain Jones and Lea were wounded. The latter watf left at the hospiul and fell into the hands of the enemy. Col. McRae was in the thickest of the fight and nobly sustained ine cnar acter for valor which he has heretofore borne. Col. Badham and Major Sinclair, conducted themselves heroically the latter'a . horse being killed under him. -Indeed all officers and men illustrated the character of the old North State for the steadiest and truest courage. The same may; be said of the 2 ith Virginia. Never was the bearing of soldiers in action finer than iheirs.Richmond Whig. ' j We are sorry to hear that Lieut. Colonel Badham was killed, as his body was found upon the field, a ball having penetrated his forehead. Captain Hamilton C. Jones, of Co. K., 5th Regiment, having received .flesh wounds through his two thighs, managed, under great difficulties, to make his escape to Williamsburg j whence, we hear that, wounded and bleeding as he was, he, by the assistance of his brother soldiers, contrived to rejoin our army, from which he was brought to Richmond, and thence brought by UI ww,iuuhiu v. -"4' irl. w-T- ltL' t 1. - J smry, w mia eny, wueru uo arriTcu uu Tuesday evening; He bore the journey as well a? could have been expected under such circumstances, and is now an inmate of the iamiiy oi Aiirea w miams, x., mwuicn, under the skillful treatment of his physician and kind nursing of his host and friends, he is doing so well as to warrant the belief that he will be again able to meetron the battle field, the invader' of his country a wish we know that he has. ardently at heart. HIGHLY IMPORTANT FIVE FEDERAL GUNBOATS ASCENDING JAMES RIV ER. r .. . , - ;.. We learn from the Petersburg Express that on Tuesday last five of the Federal gunboats ascend ed James river on their, way towards Richmond. They stopped at City Point, 12 miles from Peters burcr. and sent ashore some marines. When our pickets at the Point saw the gunboats approach in g, they "set fire to the depots 'and warehouses, and left on an engine for Petersburg. ; Several hundred hogsheads of tobacco, and .many other valuables were consumed. The Express says : An engine was sect down about three p. m.. for the purpose of reconn'oitering, and it was discov ered that the Hessians had landed, but in what force could not be ascertained. They also had out their pickets la the direction of Petersburg, a distance of two miles. The latest Trom City Point is, that after landing a few omcers ana portions oi tneir crew,- wno cavorted about for awhile and appeared to be da the best terms with a contraband or two who con descended to speak to them, the party re-embark-cd, and steamed up the river, with the prows of their Vessels pointing Richmond wards. - We do not believe that these Yankee thieves con template anything more this trip than a general reconnoisance, but should they see ' enough to justify a favorable report, the inland cities of Jfeteraburg ana xtienmona may prepare mem sel ves for another visit at . an early day. .being forewarned, let us be lore-armed.. , .. - - ' - j r . - .- We understand that there are numbers of Con- federate troops in and around Petersburg, and we presume that an attempt vf the Yankees -to take possessiod of the city will be streneously resisted. God grant that such'resistance may be successful; and that the foot of the-, vandal invader may nev er pollute the soil of the glorious old Cockade. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT ATLANTA. fire Et Atlauiaonthe 11th. Wallace's warehouse, containing eight hundred bales cotton "and two hundred tierces rice, 250,000 pounds goTernment baco( and other , two hundred barrels sugar, X XlJt a M lliAnaanil wwi-na lAAyn ia Oil IDu UlUOt fceu iuvmiuu ajvuuw vmvu, The toul loss iaj one hundred thousand dollars. The Augusta insurance aaa .Banting company toss seriously injured -one thought mortally and under whichjwe have'done the: Conven- , vi o M"teMjouowjne,ema itota the Jsxwamr of.e6esa:Viy THE MONITOR ANDrbuB OF THEENE-1 fflXB YES3ELS IN THE BIVER. $ Infotination.WM reeefired Ibyihvgd'verun' i ast night, and communicated to the. prcsvihat the Monitor and; four otliar: vessels had ascended the river to the neighbourhood t)f City Poih,W and were slowly making' their r way u. Twt'of the four, vessels were wooden men-cf-war, and it' was noi Known whether the- others were i ron -Cs3d or not.; It appears that the enemy's .vessels foHowed closely in thb wake of the Northampton, Which - bad been ,; (so inopportunely for os) sent down Sunday under a flag of truce with a lot of released Yankee prisoners, and which, on its re turn trip, answered excellently well to pilot ithe enemy up the river. DISPATCHES FRO It GENERAL BEAU- IV -;; ; - X REGARD, , Official dispatches were received yesterday sit the War Department from General Beauregard, stating that two of the enemy's gunboats op the Mifsisdippi, heretofore reported ta have been in jured, by us, had been towed ashore to prevent them from sinking, and that the entire mortar fleet, had withdrawn from the 'range of the fire of Fort Pillow. f I ; ; THE YANKEE RULE IN NEW ORLEANS. I TVi frdlnwtnc- ii a. nflnv nf n. Hinlrh rAonfvnH to-day by the Secretary of Stats : ; - - ; UAMP JUOORS, XjJl., May 13. Hon. J. P.Benjamin: m I r ' t V General Butler, oh the 11th, took forcible jkjs- seesion of the office of the Consul of the Nether lands, ' searched the person in keeping of . the Consulate,! and) took from 'him. the key of the Vault. In (hei vault were eight hundred thou sand dollars transferred by Citizen s Bank to the Hopes (of Amsterdam) to pay; interest on bonds. . ' - i ' Butler also took possession 'of the offico of the French ind Spanish Consuls. Id the old Canal Bank, and placed a guard there., i The French Consul tent on board i the steamer Milan and had not returned on Sunday' morning.' It is said the guard bag been removed from the office of the French and Spanish Consuls, i ' . 7 ' He has also seized the Canal 15ank and bamuel Smith's banking house. i He has issued an lnnarrjmatory proclamation to incite tee poor against the neb, and promised to distribute among the poor a thousand barrels of beef and sugar captured in-New Orleans. He is -recruiting in New Orleans, and the poor Will soon be ttarving. , ' 'The enemy sent a force upto. isonnet Carie, marched through the swamp, and destroyed the railroads. 1 :- i- LATER FROM CORINTH-r THE ENEMY ADVANCING. j . " ' Mobilk, May 13. A special dispatch to the Advertiser, dated Corinth, May 12th, says that theehemv are drawing hearer upon . our right, centre and left, as if for a general advance upon oar position. The weather is dry and hot. " i On the 9th Colonel woodward, with the First Kentucky cavalry and a detachment of Texas Rangers, attacked the Federals at Elk river, kill ed, several, captured two captains, two lieu ten ants, forty. three privates and eight negroes. ' The Confederate loss was hva killed,, including Cap- tan Harris of the Rangers, arid seven .wounded This is official. , r ; ; i . ;! , . THE BOMB ADMEN T OF THE FORTS : - T.OVV ORTiAKS. Mobile, May 13. The Register says it has been informed by naval officers that the" et earner Fensacola, wi h. four hundredhxraons ab a d, the steamer Tennessee and two mortar ; boats were sank in the fight at Fort JackBon, below New Orleans. The Federal loss!; was about one thou sand killed. The Confederate loss is estimated at thirty-five killed and wounded. , A large amount of powder and other property Was saved from ortsl'ike ana JScLacomo. LATER FROM THE NORTH. AuatrsTA, May 13. -The Savannah papers of this morning contain extracts from Northern papers of the 9th, brought by flag of truce from Fort Pulaski. , General McCllan savs that, in Sun day's fight at Williamsburg;- he lost no prisoners, but captured twenty-nve. t h ' ! 4 f Accounts from European papers report terri Die suffering in England and Belgium owing to the oeartn or coiwn. , ; i -i 1 THE ENEMY'S VESSELS OFF NATCHEZ, .-;( MISS. , .. ' . i Mobile, May 13.-4-The Vicksburg papers of the 8th report that the Federal vessels from New Orleans are near, Natchez, and say they will have a warm reception. at Vicksburg. 1 THE FIRE AT ATLANTA, GA. j ATLANTij May 13.The government loss in he fire of Sunday is comparatively trifling, being w1 taa. 4 knnas n nrtiin! nf haonn i .' -1 ! FROM THE SOUTHWEST. . Augtjsta, May 124-The Savannah Republi can's special correspondent' at Corinth, under date of 10th inst., says: All q uiet here to day. '; It is believed that the enemy is slowly; advancing to wards our lines by three different routes. ! i t The Confederate loss yesterday was slight, the iFederal loss considerable, j . Federal prisoners say that 40,000 of their troopi were massed behind Seven Mile creek.;" - . : j b Gen. Jeff Thompson has taken commaad of the on federate gunboats in the Mississippi river. They attacked the Federal fleet above Fort Pil low . to day, destroying one mortar vessel and damaging two others.' - The Con federate, loss -was 4 killed and 8 wounded. : . f ; ' ' - " 1 I The Savannah Morning ews says that a Con lederate picket of five men captured a barge con taining fifteen Yankees at white marsh.below Sa vannah, on Sunday. '. v ' i i k , f Mobiuc to be DrMiso. Brigadier Gene ral John H. , Forney, oommanding the depart ment of Alabama and the jWest, has announced to the citizens th it should the enemy make an at tack on Mobile he will, defend it, and expects to do so with succeis.' The Advertiser says: "Geni Forney is confident of his ability to make the de fence successful, provided the people Who . are to be protected in their property, liberty and lives are true t) themselves. It is not proper to divutge the plans ef defence. It 'is sufficient to say that Ihey are formed and being rapidly carried into ex ecution." , 1 Thk Fkkscb IsTiavrMTioir : Sfoar. Late Northern papers contain a talegriphic. dispatch from Washingtdn atating that' there is not a shadow of foundatioa for the story ia circulation 1 relative to French interventioa in affairs on. this continent, and a oposed armistice with the Con federates. We give the report and its contradic tion as we receive it, leaving the reader to form'hu own juogmani h us vuuwuj.ui kiumu-. '- t W From the Bkhonocd . Enquirer of Tuesday. ; cb::virgini a;? The news that the VirgUiaM had been deslroy- ed p-rodaced a fealinrof great sadness in oucity yesteraay. tApan xromtbe hopes connected with future there was' aride fell iu her late won derful aclijeyeeati which gave the good ship a place in the ,. affonaVof the people. 1 lAnd it must .have been apinr to the commander and erew to apply the iokch tp a vessel that had 'won a fame wi Wfdo astha worl, iand had gone unscath ed through war's utaTost appliances. '.I '.' t : v We have gathered from a gentleman who. was on board, the following particulars of the Virgin ia's last days . s- ,;;wf.-vi' '.7 .r It had been determined that the Virginia,after the evacuation of Norfolk, should be brought into the J ames. Commodore Tatnall, her : commander, was requested by Gen. Huger to protect him on the water aide while he remained in Norfolk, with the promise that twenty hour's notice of the in tended evacuation should be given. , The Virginia accordingly lay at Sewell's Point The treachery of Byers, who carried over the Confederate tug boat A. C. White to the enemy, revealed also the dismantled condition of Norfolk, arid precipi tated the coming of Wool's troops and the depar ture of burs. The evacuation was thus effected not only without the. promised notice to Commo dore Tatnall, but he was not aware of it until it was completed. Ah officer who was sent from the ship to Norfolk to communicate with Gen. Huger, narrowly escaped falling into the enemy's hands.. .;' .. ': ' ' . Commodore Tatnall now, at 7 o'clock on Satui da-jr evening, had to choose between two courses. ,The one was to brave Fortress Monroe, and the large fleet there, (iricludinethe Monitor and other iron-clads,) and attempt to enter York River the other was to carry out the purpose of entering the James. "y - ' ,";! The latter still seemed most eligible, and was determined upon. iMeanwbile,. difficulties .had interposed. The treachery , of Byers had caused the enemy to send; gun boats up the James the same day. They i; were also fully aware of the intentions of the Virginia, and prepared to obstruct them. .- ' t r . The pilots required that the Virginia should be. lightened so as to reduce her draught from twenty -two feet to eighteen. At 11 o'olock on Saturday night the crew set about this heavy work. The ship was thereby raised out of water bo as to ex pose her woodwork,' her rudder a nor' propeller. She was therefore left in no condition for fighting. Hence her escape up the James required that she should make the trip that night. ; At this condition - of things the pilots interposed to say that the westerly winds had so reduced the water in the river, and such was the lowneas of the tide, that they could Hot undertake to ear ry the vessel up the -James. Why they reserved this communication to such an hoUr needs ex planation. - ! The condition of the ship was cow such as to render the other course at first entertained, as an alternative,, a simply folly. 'Nothing remained in the judgment of the commander but to destroy her- ' ' ' 1 ' j ' At two o'clock on Saturday.' night,' she' was run ashore near Craney Island,' and the crew commenced debarking in two small boats. At three they were all on land, and commenced their march to Suffolk.: On leaving they fired the Vir ginia. At five she blew up with a tremendous explosion. The crew bent ther course towards Suffolk twenty-twO miles distant, which point they reached at one o'clock or. Sunday afternoon They there took' train for Petersburg, t. whence some of them have arrived in cur city. . I - , The Virginia was provisioned for one. month ; and but for the course induced by the pilots might, have remained longer afloat, and taken the finan ces of escaping or hewing her Way through the enemy's fleet. 'But her offer to take her up the James if the draught were reduced to eighteen feet,, caused the virtual dismantling of the ship for all purposes ; and when it was declaredAhat the low stage ot the water rendered it impossible to bring her up with the despatch requisite under the circumstances, the escape of her crew from the fast inclosing lines of the enemy, who were already at Pigs Point,' allowed no waste of time in 'her de struction', j - ', V - - '. '"'' Since the Virginia had to be destroyed, it is a relief to feel that it was not done in cold blood and by pre-given orders. A cruel fate unexpectedly forced it upon her commander. Strict j inquiry will doubtless be made into the combination of eircumstancf s that constrained this painful neces sity. So far as fault shall de discovered any wb ere it must be vigorously punished. So far as the re sult is due to those accidents which make up so large a part of war, we must submit with equal .nimity. '".,4 ; ' 4 But as we are at present circumstanced, the loss of the Virginia Deed not disturb osinuchj Prac tically it is if small import ; for . we : had already washed our hands of the water. The closure of the James below j Richmond, 1 is all that we were expecting of the Vir ginia. It may be effected without her, perfectly an d completely.! ' We canlmagine no deeper dis grace than will overtake our engineers and our authorities generally, if they fail In this The people are ready to bestow their labor iu unlimit ed amounted at the call of government, j A nar row, crooked stream, with high banks, affords, admirable opportunity for the employment of obstructions, batteries, sharpshooters.etc. Let the fate of the Virginia give renewed energyjo the preparations which are still progressing, and the loss will be repnired.' And let it teach us not to re ly on any one means of defence, however secure it may seem. By some accident it may! fail us. Let us, therefore, take bond of fate by multiplying our barriers and bulwarks, and employing. varied resources. " ' - ;' ' . ! '' " If Ihe enemy's gunboats -should break through our obstructions, and run our batteries and escape our sharpslteMters, there is one. other means of meeting them, that must be employed. .Iron clad or whatever they may be, we' mutt board them j-w . r - . . i 1 ; . "j an not Aicnoaooa, -cannot- uiv gturiwun irmj which lies near by, furnish enough of resolut men for this purpose? We are told (hat the Mon itor can readily be taken ; by boarding. We must do it. - .' :. f 'r ft.;'. l - "' i And in the, narrow James, fire ships, too, can be most advantageously employed. Let us pre pare these for the conflagration, if they 'shall be needed. Let us ; make Richmond glorious both' by land and water, for successful heroism..; : FROM GEN JACKSON'S COMMAND. Tho Richmond Dispatch of Tuesday, in its sum mary.bf new'Sj'sajs f. , ; Th news from MStonewallM Jackson,1 if it be correct, is glorious. lt waf rumored in Staunton yesterday morning, and generally credited, that he had completely and effectually 'dispersed tha army of Millroy( and that they were scattered, paniic stricken, in every direction . portions of them had, taken the route through Pendleton county and these were being hotly pursued and numbers captnred,othera were breaking their guns and'jdi vesting themselves of every articles lculaled to impede their progress. : Ashby ia aald to be in possession of the enemy 'i stronghold - on Cheat Mountain.-'-' :.'":; :, .f'-iH'r', ' Coff7iaMATio-r.--:The ceremony of confirma tion was on Tuesday performed at SL Paul's Epis copal Church, in Bichmond," by tha B. lixt. Bishop Johns.' - Prsident Jefferson Davis was among the nnmbar coafirmed. ';! 11 From tht Richmond Examiner. jTh8 enemy's gunboats entered the James nvir . : in an hour after they saw the Merrimio blown to ' pieces.' This was.a matter of course. The pyro technic eventwaa in fell view.. Since then they 7 i have been sldwljeeling and, aoutding their; Way ' up the river,; ano are nbw believed to be within i! twelve miles of the oity. There is little cause for alarm at present on that account. - We sincerely brieve thalthe obstructions in tha channel are now sufficient to check them. But, for their existenco at this moment, the city of Richmond has to be -grateful to this aewspaper.4 At the risk of lu ex. btence it called! attention! to that fiver some weeks itr, and if it had never doo so there is every rational ground for believing thai the chan nel would not contain a single stone or stake today.- ;f .K.i-..: .. . oW'rJv,,. . If the obstructions placed In the James, with the batteries which are, or ought to be, there pro, tecting them against removal, are insufficient, the guhboat might coma up to Richmond. an4 en dear our to take it by frightening the place Into surrenaer unaer tnreau or .oomoardment. -Dot Richmond can never be so yielded. The Interests : of the Confederacy are too deeply dependent on its retention. If the gunboat can bombard, then let , mem oomoam tiuau is-onre. -janoot an Ame. i t ican city, too, bear bombardment ?' In evtry ' 4 other country of the world cities have supported ' that ordeal to the last with Infinite courage and j fortitude. Even luxurious Venice," of! 1848, shut J uji by land and sea, with a population; eating rata and making soup of old shoes, audi-the bombs crashing through every roof, stood it without the '. encouragement of a purpose or a hope, jlor mouths. '' ' Is Richmond less brave? Are Virginians and ! . Southern men mere cowards T Hare their wo - , men Ins-spirit than ftmn.es gallantesf If the 1 i gunboats come alone the government and the city can and must meet their menaces with defiance, and- retort cannon shot " with canhoh shot. - If the batteries already constructed should be j passed, then drag guns to thei point tib- i dicated on the ffrat day of ihe war in these columns ' of this .Journal to the heights of Cfeimboraxo Hills, It was considered an unan swerable objection then that the place was too near V 'that the shells would reach the town We ho;e that this is no longer considered a final answer. , The tovrn can take and give the shells,' as bun-' dreds Of others have done for less cause and to gain ' ' a' smaller object, . Further, gunboats in a narrow' river can be boarded. .J Bat there is little reason to luppose that any such call will bet mode immediately on the forti tude ot tnis city, uur danger is. rather more re mote. It is this: That McClelUn shosld get ; away from the York without a battle throw his -troops on the James, and come up tof Richmond with the gunboats protecting his flank. When the ' the array and the fleetreach theobstrttctions and the batteries they can, or course, do what they did at Yorktown. Bat here as elsewhere, we have a chanee.a glorious gate to safety. I Hi a great battle. ; If we beat McClellan in battleither on the York or on the James we are still sale. Turn the tables , ad infinitum they still present thai aagle. War means fighting.; But, if we hope to defend our- -' sel ves 'with the manoeuvres of theche6-board,our ruin is predestined. I ' ' i : ' ' ,'; , , , Ui-i ! j ADDITIONAL FROM NORFOLK. i Through conversation and reliable facts from unquestionable i sources, we are additionally ad vised in regard to the evacuationand destruction , of the work at Norfolk," viz : 'Thai the Navy. ; Yard was successfully fired and destroyed by sv' party of eight or too Marylanders, binder com; mand of Lieutenant Spotswood. Th dock wai blown up by pyrotechnics, under dlreetion of Mr". " Thompson, also a Marylander j its gates and end being effectually blown out, so that thedamage may be j considered irreparable. : Every building and . shed in the yard was totally consumed, except the moulding department, which unavoidably was left uninjured,! owing to the want of. proper com bustibles. Having laid waste everything,' and applied the torch wbereverijpracticable,the Vnrlng" '. party proceeded to St. Helena, opposite, destroyed or burnt all the quarters there, and arriving ,at Portsmouth, fired every pound of cotton and to bacco, &o.,' leaving naughT Out ashes in tb'oir wake. . Such was the success of the party uoder Lieutenant Spotswood, that scarcely anything of of value was loft untouched or intait all was complete wreck and destruction. .All steamers and vessels in both purl were burned and con sumed to ashes, the old "United Stales" being , filled with rock and suck in the harbor. After leaving the latter place, a party (of Marylanders, under Lieut. A. P. Butt, burned all the quarters and Government buildings below Portsmouth and . Suffolk. ' Thus the enemy, in occupation of those ' places, will find y nothing but ruins and ashes to. i reward their labors. Weare Indebted tor these ; items to Messrs. Macguire, Hager, and Barr, who wern particlpsnU in the incendiary! duty, and acknowledge our indebtedness for tbefr politeness j and attention." iJMA??o7uf- Dispatch. I , ' " i : ,- ' .411 . "" "!: SPAIN-OUB RECOGNITION. Kuur readers win rememoer mat a weeic ago we SublUhed a telegraph jo dispatch to thei effect that pain had formally recognized the independence of the Confederate States.- This information, it seems, was derived from the Captain of a Spanish - .a ' . a. . . Af t. a. - a vessel, wno atiempieu unsncceasiuiiy to, run us ; blockade at Tampa, and who, to prevent bit ves sel from falling into the hands of the enemy, was i compelled to plow her tip and make hi escape in a . mall boat. -:.' .'-M i - i ' This captain"T3ag&eI lb rough here a . few days since,-and had in his possession a Cadia (Spain) paper of a recent date, in which it was stated that, our independence bad been recognised by the Spanish Government, and that j a commissioner bad been accredited to our Government, and was now pn his way hither. " ,:. ' '.: If this information proves correct (and there are strong, grounds for believing It to be so, as the paper referred to was translated hi iProf- Tuck of our Academy,) It ia of vast importance to us, ait it weiJl enable our privateers to avail! themselves of all Spanish ports tor adjudication 'and sale of their cargoes.'. Also for " refitting and obtaining ; supplies for further operations against the enemy., Bat far above all this, it Will evidence, to cold nd, , heartless . England, 1 and 'aelfUh iind politic i France, that there are hearts that not only beat in unison with our own in our groat btruggls for; , independence, but have the manliness to i avow that feeUng-h 'r'o -: . . No doubt this friendly ac.ion, Involving aa.lt does !great respoasibllitv on the jart -of Spain, ' will be appreciated by the Confederate Bute, aod unless sanctioned by England and France, may embroil her in la war with Lincoln but notwitbv: standing.tbe disUnce at which the two latter Gov-; ernmenu has stood from us, there is good reasoa,' to hope they will, as they did to her Mexican embrogilo, stand by Spain in this matter . . u,' vumcv iria.iiJwSpauw. 4U inai. v. Thi; Firnx-rrH Noutit CiEouKA-We re gret to leara! (says the Lynchburg Virginian)ihiit Col. Henry A Dowd, of the l&th North CaroJina regiment, aad successor of our Umented towns-' man; Col. K. M. McKinoey, was killed in the late fight at Williamsburg. Thus this regimens has. tost two Colonels within three! weeks). : 0?- : Dxath ojr ; ajt Estiujiblk MiJr-Tbe Bicb mond Whig comes to os In mourning for the death of iu chief proprietor, CoI; Thomas -Mi BondorantJ'who was ttiledxbf a tall- from hie hone.' i L- X
The Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.)
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