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.! I'-" ' r. i I- 0 IiALEIGfl VEDNESDAY:M0RN1N( MAUCIT 11 18G3 VOL. 1; 1, i :: . ' I 1 IJ I I 1 .117 11' i . ; ,, . ! r ..a ... V::::..-::-M;::Mn-:; ' I V i - -i'l - J ' .... . ,. , .. . i ...... . ! ' : ' -: .-.' " . " " - -'"'- . . - ' "7 ' - " ,-. v ,! . Uawarp'd by party rage to lit like brother.. - RALEIGH C. ;- T SATURDAY MOBBING; MABCjjr86 public conveyances when ha leave tbe- Seat of GoYernmencCTj -official business.; ;f ?? ' Col. Little; cirawa commutatida paf for fo or rooms.- and a kitcheD. ami vet Col. Little has one of the best and most commodious dwel ling in the State."1 and as for fuel we have - 1 , ' . , ... l:ttle doubt he hauls it from 6me piece wood land belonging to him near Italeigh.-r Vttiy, with his Well known -proclivities for the almighty dollar he does not go in for! forage. is a question to be settled by " the Society tar the Diffusion ofTJseful Knowledge.'Vand to it we leave it.' : We have thushown the people-the votiog -people, not the politicians the working in a'siDgle partlgular of the.aysjem of 'Reform and Ketreneoment'' so nnoiuouBiy prwuneu It is d dealt to realua iiow : aunf 'w i tt summer bf ; h! party now in -jiower in ild be snccessfttlly dwguised as Noith-Caroiint. How Loyou like if,"Conser- The most striking war news which we pre sent to-day, Is the successful ; raid , maae ny Gen. Van Pern on FrankUn, Tenn., and the blowlogup by the crew of our lately captured vessel, the Indianola, which fell a victim to a Yankee trick, which we ihoull think ought to "have been detected in time to save the boat. money at par to State nrH.ei. ifi.' in. eioDiunOtlon and speculators,. doing;his Jjon U pacing' u, the credit of the ConJed-, r&ou port aoirit Flit Boat could Friffht .'must have made our men see double. : " Fort McAllUter is holding-out bravely, no damage worth mentiotf og having been, sus tained as yet. ?; .' ; .; . '. - m HOW THE Mpm GOES. . The good people of,th 8ute, who, by their vfltes, placed in power the party styling itself - Conservative,"-will paturaUy ne anx ious to know how its promises to conserve the public interests, .reom" the adminis tration of affairs, and "rerencA" the" expen ditures of public money, have been redeem-. ad. -I! these promises have .not been re deemed; if. on the contrary, the precise op- posite of "retrenchment and reform" hts been tii a nrVWof the dav since tne accession o the ionsevauve,, party to power, then tha pirtyhaa simply lied to and cheated .thd people who reposed co'nfidenfle in it. - Le us look into this , matter. It was charged upon Governor Clarke, by the Raleigh Stan dard and its subalterns, that he kept ifi his employment two Aids, who received high salaries fcr dolrlg nothing in other word?, that they were saddled on tho Treasury as penriontrsi because they had been "original vativ.e" voters t 'You bav ' received n equivalent for your votes--hay'nt you 1 :- .In another issue we may refer to some other particulars in which the "G&nservative" sys tem of ."Reform and Retrenchment" has been most beautifully illustrated,' and in the mean time challenge V3enial of the facts Ve have stated in relation - to Colonels Little . and Barnes. Aids to his Exoellency Governor w w Vance. . : J . ' 1 " IK NOT IMANT TOBACCO. I Asain we urea the farmers to refrain this season from devoting theirandsto the cultiva t ion of Tobacco. If they value the property which they already possess j if they value the liberty for the sake of which they have al ready suffered so much in blood and.tromsure. and whioh they fope to transmit unimpaired I issue, was publisBed in our absence; for the WAR UPON THE CREDIT OF TOE CON r FEDERATE G OVERNME NT B V TH E i STATE TREASURE!- , Of. N OltTH CAROLINA; , ' ; ;:t;!:-::7. . ;We leajrn' npon indubitable authority Jbt Jonathan Worth, j Treasurer of this State, is discrediting "in his office .Confederate money. He will not give ; Treasury notes for it un less he gets 74 per cent premium. in the ex- qhsnge, while, at the same . time, he is pay ing out Confederate creditors in other words, is, in conjunction with extortioners best tp depreciate erate. Goyernment while ho is shaving the creditors of 'the State, i On Wedoesday last a gentleman pre3ented one. or more State Coupons at the freasury Department, f and was offered Confederated . This.hfe JJe dined to take, on ih? ground' that ho vfas a State creditor, and entitled to State money, as the - Treasurer himself estimated it at 74 per cent better than Confederate money. ; Wojrth would not pay in Treasury .notes, and the" oreditor left' the office unpaid. Now, it is perfectly apparent that if the example oi Worth is followed by all the; Treasurers of tatcs composing the Confederacy, the credit of the Common Agent of all the States must be utterly destroyed, end our cause ru ined, j Such a .piece of contemptible, pica yune financiering or State brokerage (!!) is in keeping with Conservative Worth, to whom k matters not how - soon the j Confederate Government breaks down., .r ! i ' : i " ' I i 1 KF" The article copied from the Church Intelligencer, and whioh appeared in. our last aftte. -, Nothing efee : of importance is comm'unl .pecttng tbeseigeof that city, r ' j THB RAPPAHANiTCCK LINES. , J fTba rebels are actively ebgagediriraaking mid ftcredi the .;Eappahannojk. A picket guard of TJnion cavalry were pounced upon o.i the Cban jtiliy.road, a fow inils from CentreTille.on Thars day night; and all but one maf captured, by a torce cf one" bu&dred rebels," after firing two rouads. :. 'tyyi ' t It is also ascertained that a number cf the reb el.&r6sse4.' the river Iha'iatoo nfght, at" Kelly's Focd, a few miles , from - Kappaharinock Statioil, threatening Stafford. Court' House that' quite a. large body i upyVYVrrentorndifcat Stonewall tne v biieyjowards btras- '.) 9. . : i .... SOTil.- TBK TTTTWTTEIl.'B'nfJTlCR.1 H-niTT xBf zn arrival; from Port oval. further infor- tnaion is received respecting the;..dffflcuHy be- .ween , trenerals Hunter aud Fo3tP. Qansral has peremptorily ordered the staffof Gen- Virginra 6's 69: North Carolina". 77; MUsduri; lennessee 63; . 1 Cotton was commanding 90a91 centi. IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS OF THE .SENATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN i RELATIONS. . J n Oa Saturday, Sumner, from the committee to horn were referred the correspondence on, the BU0J9CI oi meciiaonJ:arbitratton, &c , , ff ported the following: " Whereas, it ayienrs that a proposition has been .insuB oy oejDrBperor or me u rencn and prompt ly .declined by the President: and. whereas, me- diatron may be regarded by. foreign Governments as practicable, and tbiughi thh misunderstanding they may be led. to .Droceedinrrs tendincr to ec&- barrass tno.friendly reljftions which novelists be-' twetn them and the United Slates; and, whereas, ia order -to remove all chance of misunderstand irtg, and to secure tne foil eniovment of that free- 1LJ - r: . v m . i - - . T .... . . . North by the first Bteamerl and he bis also-put t,? w 3 k,7 g f J"leMt3r ? f ne .f Ge?a Stefern,- General Ecsrs cbr. !?SJh f Stak '- fit der arrt' f. Hih IT a. B.?it "".S euyuiu utwaro i convictions mere . A .... a ' ' . : . . v O sation with -his brother officers that he objpctei to -iue employment oi negro troops in the Govern ment service, and that he would sooner be beaten than employ -thorn as Boldiers. The Herald adds, that as General FoAer has since gone to Wasli ington for instructions and again returned, tfo Port Royal, it is probable that the difficulty as to the command will be settled, ' t , . "I; v f-.""; FROM THE WEST. " i; ;-i"t y The news from the Woat-isinterostiner. From Kentucky we learn that the rebels fire retreating from the State by way of Mount Bterlirig and Hazle Green, and that Colonel Kijnkle, with'a force 'of 1800 r en, was pursuing. On the other hand, dispatches from Cincinnati loll -various stories of th& progres of, the Kenjucky raid one to the effect that General Breekinsrridfire is advancing on Lexington with 20,000 rebels, and that our. ti oops were falling back on that point." The Yankee transport'ilettey Oilman,, was cap tured with her forage and provision?, at ft point uve miles rom woojaoury, on Uarron river, and raan.was captured with hes cargoof for and rrovi- sions,fears were entertained that the steamer D. B. on : Therefor, .-.l-r --:': : ,-':v 'A'1 Revived,' That while "the United Stated have sought and accepted friendly "mediation for the adjustment of ifiiernaiioiial questions when the United Stales were ona party, and some 4 other Boyereign power the other; and while ttey are not disposed (to misconstrue thei humane desire to aid in arresting "dotnestic troubles which have affiicted 'ther countriesyct Ccngies cannot hesitate to re-, gard every prtposition of foreign interference as unreasonable' and inadmissible, and onlvto'be ex- piainca oy a misunderstanding of ibe real charac ter of the war. v , j . itesotvea, jiaas ine- unuea csates are now grappling with an unprcvoked and wicked rebel lion, which seeks to destroy the Republic an i build's new power on the corner stone of slavery, that.tbey are now struggling to crdsh all the pur-, poses .cf conspirators and reoels, "and while so en gaged, any proposition from a foreign Power, whateverform.it may lake,- to arrest their efforts, is an encouragement tp the rebellion, and is calcu lated .to prolonglhe conflict and postpone peace; and that notdoubtingtbat every such proposition ia ltiimiiAii -i Sw 4Km.aLkaI 5 a. - a. - -r ' Z1 is ii'juuvui vuu uuifiujuai yurusis, vougrefis win carry out j their infamoui -desigres, .would 'defiice the faw Halds of Kentucky, i rtte blood of ber citiaehs, make her rich plactayons, beaullfuLyil- 1 logeavjnd! wealthy . cities, as dce(Iatcr as are the domairn cf the Southern traitors jwitb whom they .are in Jeegue. UnSer tho guise bf .that ood old name, Democrat,1 they i bope ta perfdbt their dc signs j but it will not do. -You aro repudiated by thejeonservaHv Legislature bV their- refusnl to gi ve you the use of their IlquSe. "iTheDampcralic newfcpaDers.- ecorn and .ex-comiunioitQ you.- Democrats in high and low placescajl your leaders . by ibe or.o. nme; traitors.. Tbro is ho us9 in; yur holding conventions id Kentucky, as cone .' but mnn of undoubted loyalty to the United Strf?oa " Government 'will, undr ariy crcumtancc, bo. allowed to run for any office or fill it ' if elected. Such" meetings aa this you sbaH jnot hold withiof th limits of. my command ; .and to avoid diffi !; culty, you will diiperse to jotr ijomes, nr.d desist Jrom all such atreaipfs to precipitate civil war , bpon your StatP'i , ..... , ' jinaing meir ireasonaDie purposes. completely , foiled by itho coolftess, tact, and pairiotism of Col. GilbcTt, the chagrined butjtornuU" gave In , without a struggle. Senator Bulb, however, of- fared soma resolutions, and requested to have them read, bbt Coi." GilbeH was polijel firm, and 'thoy 'r were, withdrawn, afterwhich tho Convention was. declared adjourned .by the Chairman; j - ; . ' The itrfeflrJ of fV! dUhnr uiiVikd lU T - "" -W -mw W i TVBW UIJ HIV ; initiatory step to take the State ptof the Union, , is not only patriotic but hishlr justifiable. ; Uis ' ; conduct was calm and dignified throughout, and it has met wiib the'hefkrty endorsement of every tru loyal memberof the Leeislaiura and citizm of Frankfort. . - ; h ,; His action was based unon the refuail of the Legislature, to hst the! Capitol be- lisad bv the rf b-' els, and upon the common sor.sjrit of the 'people- . and loyal press denouncing them! as such. '.The only complaint I heard madefy the loyal peoplf , ". was. that. Col. Gilbert did not atrest tho entire " Campbell, bound for Bowling Gfeen, had shared be obliged lo'look1 upon, any further attempt 'in Id their posterity they will devote everytaxre of arable land to the production of something eatable by. man or beast. Let any reasona ble man look around him and observe the Snormoos prices which the absolute neoessa- ncs of life now command, and ask himself if bVwill be jastified in the eyes, of eirber Qod first time in cearly jtwo years, from our post, and published at the request of the Editor of the "Intelligencer.' Had it been submitted to our inspection, it would not have appeared in the Register. Wo make this explanation, because the Register is a secular paper, and whatever may be the opinions of fts Editor in i . . or wn, in devoting land capable of producing I matters ecclesiastical, Os, as a paper, noth- Lrei0Disls.s. ' Now, U U1 b. teembr- Ltb,t wiU Mt,i? life P4" ig J.ilh (hen.: ed that daring Gov. Clarke's administration, the whole business of having the troops raided by the State mustered into service, armed and equipped, devolved upon the Gov ernor, -and it was not reasonable to suppose that he, or aur other single individual, eoojd " properly and efficient! j discharge this duty, and at (he same time attend to the other du ties connected with the Executive office, and, therefore. Got. Clarke'waa allowed two Aids, nn . with tha 'rank of Colonel, and another 'with the rank of Lieut. Colonel,' and who did afford the requisite assistance to' the Govern or, notwithstanding the- Standarfg charge that they were filling sioeeure offices get ting good pay and doing no work. Towards the close of Gov. Clarke's official term, the troops of this State were turned, over to the. Confederate Government! and with them was transferred the business j clothing (he troops excepted) theretofore discharged" by the Go v ' "fern or. Such being the ease, was it not natu rally (o be expeoted that the office of Aid to the Governor, which was declared to be use less when that functionary -had a good deal to do, would be abolished when he had com paratively little to 'do, or held, as it was in peace times, as a mere honorary appointment 1 To- (his question,' a plain thinking man one . who wished ta save a State already heavily ' burthened with debt every useless expendi ture would think there could be but one response 7(let.the office e abolished, of let it be a mere honorary appointment true 'Conservatism,' genuine Betrenchment 'and Reform' imperatively demand it." But yet, no such thing has Been done by the powers thai be. Gov. Vance, with not a iy tho of the business on his hands that, was devolved upon Gov. Clarke, has two Aids, wifh the rank of Colonels of Cavalry, who each re-' ceive the. following sums of money' from the- State Treasury : . Pay per month,. 5210.00 Commutation pay per month for five rooms, Ditto for fuel per monh, a ; -1 45.00 17.50 Total per year, o this amount in money is to be padded forage, not commu table, for three horses a peice, each of which, at the present prioe df fontge; would - cost the 3 tate- at. . 'least Z200 per annum, or . Whioh, added to the above items, will make the income of each - 572.50 .53,270.60 600.00 . of thesa Aids, : i 3,870,00 CoL Little, we learn, draws, for everything but foraga,1)ut CoJ.- Barnes goes the whole figure, salary, rent of . quarters, co mmutation "' for fuel, andforago for "three, horses. ; . . Col. Barnes is a batchelor, and when-.not . practising law, lives Tat an totel in Raleigh, j Wbat does he want with .four .rooms and a kitchen and' fuel to match 1 As to the matter of horfts what need' has he 'for one horse, aaeh less t hrtt, in. eonnation with his bffic of Aid to the Governor 1 . These iads are bet- ter mounted than the Chief to whose HtaT" they belong, bumuchas -Governor Vance-is of an article not only unnecessary to the sup port of life, but an article eschewed by. the brute race, and chewed or -smoked or .snuffed alone by the human race, to the great, detri-. ment of the human constitution 1 If no war was raging that required food to sustain ar mies, if our country was in the condition that Ireland and Scotland occupied' in 1 847, the policy of devoting land to the .culture of ia worse thin luxury, when human beings all around us we A suffering from; the want -of bread to eat, would be unjustifiable. . In what language, then, shall we characterize the con- duot ofigen, who, while our soldiers are fight ing for the holiest of oauses, and who must leave -the field and abandon that cause if they are not fed, and while their neighbors at home are threatened with famine, store up corn, al ready I soarce, to 'feed their negroes, for the purpose of making Tobacco and.- Cotton (a Sufficiency, of the latter for all our purposes being already on hand) and thereby make corn and all breadstuff's still soaroer V Is it too mucfr to say,thatjsuch conduct is a combina tion of extreme folly and wickedness Is it at all exaggerative to denounce such conduct as a wicked and mad speculation upon human life and human liberty 1 Look at the phase which this war so ruthlessly waged against us has at last assumed. Lincoln has been in vested with Dictatorial powers.-!. He has the uncontrolled sway of millions of -men, and thousands of millions of dollars for nine months to come. Fe has thepower t9 incar cerate or disarm every man at the North who dares to condemn the war, no mitter how atro ciously it may be waged. It is the declared purpose of his Lieutenants, speaking by his authority,' subjugate us, or exterminate us by starvation, o this. end prohibiting the cul ture of our. land and destroying our ihiple ments of busbaodry. lie- is urged on by a r , fanatioal partj, fighting for its very existence, to finish the war of cur subjugation before a Congress which can control him shall assem ble in the Federal Capitol, next (December. These are stubborn facts and there is nothing to modifjt them buttte very faintest of hopes of foreigti intervention. - What snprcm$ xnad pess.and folly then it is tor men to talk of inaV iog mony and amassing property by a. poli-. by wlioh must cause the joss of all their mo ney, all their property and alL their liber ty; when 7 another course of lotion,' all may, and will he Realized arid enjoyed." . - ; FLOUR IMPKESSMENT. Major Tannahill, the Commissary of Post at "Petersburg, received on Tuesday last an order to impresi'half the extra superfine flour in the pos session of millers and merchants in 'that city. The price specified was $19.50 per barrel, while the market price was from $28 to 29: Noticing since all iha Buporfice flour in that city was impressed.- ' ; . . ; ' ; The' Government has also impressed all the flour in Richmond in the hands of millers and speculators, allowing $19.50 for extra. $17.50 for superfine and - CONSERVATISM IN KENTUCKY. The Yankee offioer who r diipersed the Democratic Convention "lately assembled, at Frankfort, : Kentucky, . calls the tories 'and traitors of that State "Conservatives." This Yankee must have taken his cue from certain folks in North Carolina. . i v LetAi LATE AND INTERESTING FROM THE NORTH. ; ; . The following fill and interesting summary offerthern news is from the Examiner, ol Tties- . i . i. dy:- . Fridkricksbubq, March 2, 1863. Your correspotident has seen-a copy of the New York Herald of the 27th instant, and sends' the following full summary of ljs contents.. . THE CONSCRIPT BILL IN THK NORTH. , There ia no information of the manner in which the Northern people have received the passage of the Uonscrifion Bill,) excepting a paragraph in the Heralds Albany letter, 'which states that it has been received by the puoiic wun less excite- ment than wasexpectea, ana mac tne Jemocrats were delighted that its provisions weald throw into the army all the Abolitionists, who had be- corne very domesticr since Tuei.war. commenced and seemed to have a constitutional antipathy to military life. - , j O . LONG LIVE ABRAHAM 1 1 "PbKSIDZST LlNCOtfHTKMPOBABT DICTA TOR " iTJnder thif head the Herald's leading ed itorial declares that "the measures which have lately passed Congressand others which will be come laws, will pracucany luves juincom with all the : powers of a 1'ictator. . The seopeof his authority and discretion wiil, as President of the United States, hardly be less than that 0t Louis Napoleon. - Our whole political systtm, of the petice eftablishment, itcluding the' subordination 6f thef Federal Government t6 the will of the States knd,thej)eoplet (italic are our own,)' will be revesed." It continues that, !t,he most re maskable revolution is within a few days of con summation," and liiat on the of -March, Vthe' day of adjournment ot the present Con gres?,Jim-. colu will be clothed with dictatorial powers, politi cat, military and financial, over' Stat and citizen, -n'd bytrio action'of Congress, and under the-au thority ot the Constitution: . This" organic instru ment, $ni the laws passed in pursuance thereof, constitute the supreme law of the land.' Nor do we thole "that ft can! be, successfully denied or contested,' that in straining this warlike authority to the establishment of a temporary dictatorship' at Washingtop, Congress has passed the barriers of tha iConstitution." 1 r : "It is possible that with a Napoleon or a OromWell, clothed with this . provisional dictatorship,, there .woojd boan end of our Republican ' Institutions, and the beginning of an imperial establish ment, buCthero is not the slightest. danger of the abase of powers by President Lincoln for ambitious pur rijsesi i f' Mean while, accepting the! ple4 of imperious necessity, we-cheerfiilly consent to this transformatidn temporary dictator. GOOD ADVICE. ; , very ..man, .woman ana : child, at home, says the 'Mobile Register, with a,:jard square cf ground, scratch i an put it in' corn. .Every grain carefully entrusted to the fruftful earth, is a mite '-'of .contribution to the oaUon's.! liberty L Every acre ofottoo planted, is a comfort to our Cnl vn Awa Jw . & li . s . - ay,MaMtJcesriii3setU) . of our' President into . a : 1 ! Win ftin'fiiir in these tar ujoasurea of Congress, from still anotb er view of .the subject, j T"hey will admonish the great'Powers of Europe that intervention against the Unieh'is not. to b& thought of. Thus Louis Napoleon may, perhaps, 'be -convinced that Uhe lime bis arrived whn,jeting upon Mr, Seward's Congropsiuiial peace proposition-, he ui'&f tay to Jeff DivM sind his Coi) federates, "Further resis tance against -the Federal Government ia- worse than useless. Accept .the friendly offices of France in -behalf of your submission, to the Unions -Bat in evry view of the case, we are prepared to sup' port President Lincolar een as a temporary die- 1 and'will Uke out" $400,000 in gold lr... ... : X .ikt. ..t .t)il,.r'M. , tr..-. n..i.. t a tnt6r. Let us siipport tim, and all that we. ' jiave lost may be restored 4 But if ;Wb abandon him, alt that we have, iaype rost,1 - - j . FROM V1CKSBURQ, , ; ; A Cairo disoatch. of !2&ib instant, states that so much buffering is experienced' at Vicksburg. ia j consequence of tho blockade of the Mississippi, that . it i . lhrMi(hm Ira rawa viH rkA iwimrAila ty AvtA. the same fafo. Th Yankees claim a victoryover oar;fdrcos now at Mount Sterling, after a sharp engage ment. ? '. , ' ThS destruction of . a i Confedeaa e steiraer near '."Port Hudson, by the Indianola, ? is re ported. .:' vv'i;-.-; if' , An attack was made on Wednesday, by! a rebel band, on a train of cars filled' With people -going fromi Louisville to 'Nashville, at a.place called Woodbury, twelve miles below Boiling 1 Green, The cars were burned, and the locomotive1 sent ahead, in hope that it would collide witfr an up ward bouna paisenger train, but the plan failed;, THK ALABAMA RUNNING THR. 'BLOCKADE. Theschooner Williams Staiars, which arrived at Halifax, yesterday, from Trinidad, reports that oa February 10th,in latitude 27,IougHudar23,sbe exchangedsignals with the Alabama. . . The steamer Ruby, Leopard and Wagner suc cessfully ran the blockade op Thursday, night at Charleston, without being fired at, an 1 the steam er Douglass successfully ran" out last 'Thursday Tiignt, carrying Hon. .lames a. Ciaya passen- geri ior iJiverpooi.. : FROM; WASHINaTONPROCBR In the Senate, Mr. Powell, of KentuckyV of fered a resolution for a select, committee to inves tigate the conduct of Colonel Gilbert, who lately dispersed tbe. Frankfort Convention. Also,-"a resoluliorof inquiry into the arbitrary arrest of. D. Ai.Mahoney and others. The la'. ter was in definitely postponed by a vote of .21 against 19.? A motion to take up the Bankrupt bill was agreed to. Senate bill for the appointment cf addition al generals was passed. V ' i'f 1 1 . rinM .it A" ri j- . : . 1 1 j:c iuo vouiuiidkuo vi v-MJiiiureuufc! compromise au uiir ferencessrespecting the finance bill, excepting that relating to the Bank tax. The Herald says thaf'the financial measures, aVtbey stand, since the adop tion by the House of the report of the Conference Committee, seem to be but little understood. The general construction is, that Mr. Chase is now authorized to issue, besides the fifty millions of fractional currency, five hundred and fifty millions legal tender currency, all this being' in 'addition to the three hundred millions authorized by tne -iBank bill.'1- '. ":. jJ. ; ! : ' Senator WHson has introduced a new'oegro regiment bill containing a proviso, that no person of African descent shall be appointed to exercise authority over .white officers, soldiers or men in the army or navy service, . j Colonel Percy Wyndham has been ducharged from' artest,, for the purpose of placing Hirn in commaad. of an- important projected cavalry ex- peaiuon. . ; . : i Major General McDowell is acquitted of all charges by the verdict of the recent Court of In- auiryi . '. 't i ': .- It is staed, upon high authority, that ; Gene ral Scott will publish, in a few. days, a letter, ex planatory of his letter to Secretary. Cameron,' and exculpating.General. JUcClellan. ' -The ravages of small pox among" the contra-, bands in Washington are depicted as fearful. Tbfe deaths at the principal station being fifteen a day, "The Herald eay3 medical attendance for' them ,13 impossiDie o oe ootained, '4.he poor. creatures who haya.iettomtortabl homes to en jpy the.boon of freedom, -are . dying litte rottSn seep." , They are half fed, destitute of ; bedding, and almost e very necessary of life. In their anx iety to escape the horrors of their situatSftd, .they steal away from their Quarters and spread f tha loathsome disease in 'every direction over;' the city.. . . ... PORETQN NKWS. . - In an editorial on French mediatibfa, the Her ald argues that "France has shown no disposi tion for friendly interference and not the least sympathy for the l cause,' aud states that "i is highly probate ''Napoleon '"-will not j only accept 'Seward's proposUlon,' but ask ; the other crowned heads of Europe to unite with him icv supporting it." v " ?;;- -; ; ' The ParisAfoniiteu7i contains decrees confirming two nominations to, the rank of 'Kn!ght in the -Legion of Honor" made by. the Commanderrin- Kjme oi me j rencn .army in. xuexico. ' ; -'f"; ,'! M'C LELL AN AND TECS ABOLITIONIStS. The Herald; in an article on McClellan's dispo sition,"Btates that McClellan is to the Abolitionists whajt the shada of Julius .Casar was to Uassius and,' Brutus,- a spirit that -wilt not" down at their bid ding j ,It adds J,bat"j'ist Brutu?, in.tbe dead ot night, saw Cae3ar ttaifc terrihiy netore nun, so waS'Mephiitophe.Ies Stevens appalled by "the seep ter of JVlcGlellan during the debates on the Con scription 'Bill on Tuesday lasrr Tha article 'con cludes tlfat the persecution of he Aboliti mists have immArtalize-i McClellan,' and ha may be President in "1864 if he deairetit,; ; "t - T. ' ,, r'J FROM CALIFORNIA." - ; The British steamer Robert Lowe sails from the same direction as, an j unfriendly act, which it earnestly deprecates', to the end that nothing miy occur abroad io- .strengthen the rebellion, or to weaken ihose relations of good will with foreign rowers wnicu tne uiite -mates are happy to cul tivate.' .;'':" 'A:-. -j. ' " Iletolved, That the rebellion has always been en couraged by the hope of support from foreign Po wers: !i V!. i.jit.. ' .. . -. ' no cuiBis i-uascea.ine wane ox cotton wonm con strain Europe even to Forcible intervention; that rebellion is sow sustained iby this hope, which every sueh.proposition quickens, and that, without tliis life giving support, it mast soen yield to tha just and pa ternal authority of thenational Gtovernment; that the United States regret that foreign Powers hava not. frankly told Jhe chiefs ef the rebellion that the work in which they are engaged is hateful, and that a new Government, with slavery aa, its corner etOne, and. with no other declared object of separate existence,is so far ahocking to civilization and the moral sense of minkind that it must not expect welcome or rocogai tion in the Commonwealth of Nations. Hetolved, That the United States, confident in the justice of their cause, anxious for peace, which shall restore tranquility, Ac, and awaiting, with well as sured trust the final suppression of tbe iebellion, , hereby announce, as their unalterable purpose, that the war shall be vigorously- prosecuted, according to the human principles - of Christian States, until the rebellion shall bisappraSjod, and they reverently ' invoke upon their ' cause tie blessings of Almighty Gad.. - . ' !.-!"- '. ' - . ' j : Jieaolqed, That the President transmit copies of this declaration and protest to foreign countries. Tie above ithe substance of the resolutions. gang of. traitors and send them' intio the rebel line to 'fight for their rights j.'' for,-aim is, they will 'uiu w. tuer -retfpeciii?e places-. oi aooaa , ana set op a howl. -;.' ' 'V -f; j . . j.' The' Louisville Jtrnal,' of thof 19tb, has .the following account of the afftdr : - . - J I ' The train left this city for .Fjankfort'at tbe j usual hour yesterday morning, with about- 150 delegates, a majority, of whom were from the low- '' er border counties Gentlemen with whom 1 we j haveconyersed, who flcptmpp.ied the delegAtin.".. to Franbfon and returned with thorn 'last even-' ing inform- us that the conversation of these . delegates was. exceedingly rcbellm;-that they were as disloyal in their sentiments as if they had ,been devoted subjects' of the arth traitor .JrfT; Davis. Nor were tKeir expressions of disloyalty. .. made in delicate terms ;iut they fere represented to have been bpld, exultant, end defiant; We do 7 not wonder, therefore, that their treasonable purl poses became apparent to the civjl and military " authorities, andhat their traitorous designs were ', thus summarily thwarted by Col. Gilbert. ' . . , Gen. Bpyie,-the .commander cf tha Western District of Kentucky received a dispatch from , Gen. Gilmore last evening under whoso orders v Col. Gilbert acted, informing hioj that ho had' dispefsed the Convention, with the assurance lba7. it could not reassemble fa nis district ; and Gen-, eral Boyle promptly replied to General Gilmoro the Convention sh&uld' meet nowhere in hii dis trict. i"; . '; v. .. I . ; - i We need hatdlv add ihatthfl'cniWi rVml '' Cbl. Gilbert will meet. tho apprpval.ot all loyal s4 ARRIVAL OFF TUE,BAR. . , " The British steam eloop-of wai'Iiiperate,Tfrom( Bermuda, . touched off tho Bf and communicated' with Fort Sumter Friday ; morning. -'"A koaff crew cf ofBcers and -men came tip to the city.' bringing d s,iauk s for H. P. Wtlker.'&q Act ing Brittfch-Oonul,' and the news jof the safe ar rival of Robert Banch, 3sq-., at Bar mud a. after a long put pleasant passage. THE SUPPRESSING .OF THE CONVEH- TION IN KENTUCKr FURTHER PAR; TICULARS OF THE AFFAIR. ' ' The Franfort, Ky-., correspondent of the Cin-; cinnatt OaMtte gives an account of the dispersion of the Convention there,' which, it seems, , was composed of delegates sent to nominate State oQeers in favor of peace. ! He says : ' . At 11 o'clock John Leathew, of Covington, called, tbe Convention to order by-calling ex-GovV Mern weather to the chair, but, he not being' -present, Leathers took the chair pro tem, J. P.: Har rison acting as Secretary.! ( ' At' this stage Of the proceedings Col. Gilbert,' of the 44th Ohio, commander of the 1st brigade, army of Central Kentucky, came forward, and in a caim, nrm voice, reaa toe louowing Headquarters First Brigade, s; - Arniy-ot uentrai Jientucky, - ,1 FrankforX, K.y., Feb. 18. General' Ordefs,, No. 3.Reliable jmformatipn haying been' received at these headquarters that a number of rebel spies andf emissaries are in tKis city, it is ordered that al persons now herewho are not residents, or who are not members of the Kentucky Legislature, 'of ; officers of ,the State Governmentshall forth with.'report their names to thi se headquar.t9rp, accompanied with satisfac-: tory reiereuces as w itreir luyauy jo vno "uroverp ment of the UaiteJ States i , : .-''" By command' 6f v S.A, GILBERT - " 1 Colonel Commanding Brigade. John G. Tilfrd, A. A. A. G. . , - A visible sensation was produced, and several called for another reading pf.the border.- This was done by Lieut Col. Wilson of th. Forty-fourth Ohio.. ' Curses, ' not loud but deep," followed ; but there was a manifest disposition to smooth the. thing over, and to proceed to business with ay the semblance of good faith 'possible ' under the cir- cumstances. , ; . r- rr ;. -j '-'-''.' . ; -'''--u y -V Senator Aaa -Grover,? who had -left his seat in the Senate to a ttend the Convention, arose and suggested that in order ' to facilitate : busi riess - the fall for delegates be mado,' and as the ' lists 'were anded in they could' be submitted to Coldnel Gilbert.-- y'-k -: 7f 7f" ' ; k ?-'.'-: The Secretary Jhen proceeded to calj the coun ties in their alphabetical order : Jefferson, Camp bell, Henry, Olden, Owen' Scott, Sbelbyv 21 son; Oldham; and Woodford counties, and the oity of Louisville, sending the largest number of dele- I Wm, B. Gulick, ia tbe 37th year of her ago. During the : call David ilerri weather arrived in. the baljf, and as invited to. the cbairt He & an 'Ex-Governor of New;,Mexico,'an'bas been a very active Secessionist from the .flrst. , ' 74 It soon became - known that the . place t was guarded by Federal soldiers, and several of the more mid began to levinpe signs of un asioets, and commenced to move toward :the door, but no one was allowed to pass out except be had enr6ll; ed bis name.'' .bomeswore fearfully, and indulg ed in .the moat filthy abuse of Iha President and his "nigger thieves but the majority remained Sueur, ana peni tueir time in ioofeing at their nr"rVl hrira inMmlalintf totahar 1 h axr mar a tn. K Van-Dorn at- miles south of YAN.DORN ATTACKS AND WHIPS THE ENEMY THREE: THOUSAND PRISO NERS TAKEN. : .... Chattanooga, Match 4 GonJ tacked the enemy at Franklin, 18 Nashville, on 'Sunday, with cavalry and. light aruuiery, capturing iJjUuu-.irecieraiP Witn, arm, stores and equipments;' The enemy .capture 1 several fJragine wagons belonging to Wheeler' Brigade; near Wartrace, oh the 1st inst. The "Yankees continue to commit deprecations around Murfreesboro.' A citizen, of Rutherford was taken out and whipped by order of Federal officers. , 7 - SCONB DlsrATCUr , ' Chattanoqoa, March 4. ConMrmatory porta received of Van, Dorn's suciossful raid In Franklin. : He, is now in possession of that place. Thirty-nine wagons captured witp stores.- The federal losa one .thousand killed snd ( woundodi jour loss heavy.:- .The number. of prisoners taken was'two thousand ix hundred., " ' ' j Th,o officers who. came up to. tlo city paid a " friendly Visit to the 'gunbeat Chice'ra and dined in board. - ' ;1 U . . .We learn from a most reliable source that tbe7 officers on, board the Uritod-States man-of-war t New-Ironsides, in a conversation with ihe officer! . of the Desperate, admitted that three of their ves-' $els were missinjg since the late at'ack'of our Iron " -r clads, and that one, a largo propelled, had certain- ly been sunk: - This news accords with Onjralrea- dy expressed belief that the first account cf the fight given by the blockalers were; not to be ro-7" lied upon. , It is also somewhat remarkable that . although we have news from the North up to the . 7 24th instant, so far no-mention has yet been made 7 In Northern jourrais of the arrival, at ariy port of j " thevSteamer Merccdita. 7 The fight took place, it -will; be remembered, on. the 31i of Jsouary,; 7 nearly a month ago.'l We remain, therefore, firm' 7' In our belief that the first sla torn en ts of the block- j adere, In reference to the result of thh attack by the -Palmetto tate and Cbicora, wereiwilfuily. false,' -and got up for foreign effdCt-Cgurir. - ' : ; . . " -77 '7-; . ; lieo At o'clock on Sun dav Morniotr. 1st instant in this -City, Mrs. LUCIB BLOUNT BUK Y dNwife of Capi, '.If ," ' Dglst lr RSoenUv, in this City.' CYRE2TE JirATT in th 12th year of her age, youngest daughter of Sewell aad fiim-UJ'- "ly-rJ'y. - Iu Ooldb?rb', on Saturday morninf, February 28, 18o3,fTjphold fever, DrAtJQ USTUS C. EVAKQ, ..' aged 47 j e'ars 2 moathf aad 3 days lie was surgeon, oi the 03rd liniment K. C. Troops, and while ia the faithful discharge, of 'his-daties in -camp, contracted ' ' the disease which cost . him bu-lifeJ Thus are we -lesinmacy of our best mea . " . ." xf pitn cabolxna'-asuis count v-.' 1 i neighbors, speculating whether they were to-: be tt -usted otno-wr: y 7: ;. 7' 'V-7 ':t777 - ..After tbe- call of the delegates was -coflaplete and the names 'enrolled, Colonel Gilbert stepped Equity. I John luucan, ) ' V - "y-' ' -' "-4 '!- ' Jvsivi f- h Fetitloa for Dtyref. ? 'Elia Duncan, .i'vlv-7 i 'fappearifti that tbe -dofendant, Elita Da - . ine urni&n steamer oert , Xiowe saiirpm-. -Upn the'stage aud addressed nhe Convention as -lication be made in the R.aieigh Beguter for six. . San Francuco on Saturday next for. Hong Kong,- iyuoW9; .7 s; " ' '7. .-- : f week cominftndiflg the' said dtfendant to- be aad ap l f and will take ouf.$400,000 in gold. , ; - .,j hope'n one present will 'create any dUtur-; pearWere Uft?ext4exm of the court of Equity, tob.,.. 9 United States legal tehder n-jtW are selling in .San Francisdo at-fitty cents-oa the -dollar. ; ; . laere were- coatinueo: discoveries of valuable mines of gold, silver and copper in the regionjpe yond the Colorado.. ; - ; ".- ''- ' 7 '''' '. : '- ". i . FtNANCIAL.- :- -. : t -'At the Morning Stock Board gold sold as- high as 172, closing in the afternoon at 172 J-bid. bance, or utlet any s'.-ditioua sentiment, as that will com? bmiie, and possibly may lead to'hear rest of all. No doubt many of you, gentlemen, a?emDiea nere runout any, treasonable design, either present er pToSfeclive.! All auch I invite t quietly depart to their bomes But there are those here . whom we know to be. rebels of the wttat kind; the quiet plotters of treason, whct tol aoi-nJiiHa Lhat tbe defendant, jsiita inncan, is not au inhabiunt of Uia 6Ute, t is ordered that pab-, hM fotheeountv of Ashe, at the Ceurthoiuw in Jef ferson, on the 4th Monday afterhe 4,th, Monday ia i .. : August next, to plead, answer, or demur to the said j getftibn, otherwise Jadgrpent 'ro confe$s& will be en- ' ; Witness, IL F. Fosterf .0. and M. . of la Jwid 4oo r t. the 2nd Monday aftar the 4th Monday i Auxust,'. 1862, ' .. . E. m F03TK11, C M. Kr.'t . faa.JT.ew. ' - k'''-'..r-": I: j- r TTT ,,jT-..ic(,.(by QroTt OS s- -.' '- '"-;"::7 -
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