North Carolina Newspapers

V r i i J&mmZl 4 1 --'4 re MM ..... 2 KALEIGH WEDNESDAY i MOENXNG APIIIL 29 1863. .1 1 rail I II 11 f J.f f ' ' y ' jr ...t-- ,. r - r . , . ' '''I'" .... - . ' i ; '- .-'; 11 1 ' ' i 1 1 ji ' , I I I I I ' '' ' " " ' ' ' ' ' voL-Lxin i :'. -: V .: S'-S ; : i " "" " ' i JNO. W. SYME, Editor and Proprietor. Oars ara tb plaas of f.ir MhJSl KffiL ; Uawmrp'l by party rm U Ut hka brothars. r - RAlVEIGHt If. C. 8ATUEDAY MOBNIlfO, APHIIr J5, J8M. AN APPEAI. FROM A TRUE , PATRIOT We take great pleasure m ju Wishiog tna annexed address or appeal of- Jamea C, Bruce, Esq., of Halifax, Va., o bis fellow citiaeoaof that county. James C. Bruce is as sterling a patriot as ever lived, and all who know him feel well assured, lliat he will "practice what he preaches."' j Too , infirm in health to go himself into the army,, be has given his sons up to the service of his Pasaaaaed of a larce estate, he has proved himself a faithful steward of thetal enUentrustedtq him by akmd rroviaence, and sinee this war began, haa held his wealth but as a trustee for the support of the great and holy cause of the'South. What Mr. Bruce says to his fellowcitixens of Halifax, is applicable to the citizens of every county in the Confederacy. Everywhere men should be content to exisf, and give up everything beyond the means of a bare existence to the support of the 'army. To those who are now hoarding corn to support negroes while they are makfng cotton and tobaccoy-we most especially commend the appeal of Mr. Bruce. Can they not be persuaded to imi- tate his example, instead of pursuing a course -which is at once unpatrioticr and suicidal : TO THE PEOPLE OF HALIFAX! COUNTY, VIRGINIA. In making the following appeal to you, I hope that I shall not be-deemed guilty xf unseemly officiousness. Oar armies in Virginia, are be yond question, in great xetd of supplies. Es pecially do they require corn for eatery and ar tillery horses", and meat Cor the soldiers. The soil of our county has been so far unpolluted by the tread of a hostile foot, and we ought to previda, to the full measure of qur ability, for the support of our army which so far, under God, fea pro tected us. Much has been done by oar people, but not enough. There is unquestionably some scarcity, but it is nothing like so great as many ceem to think. Persons are alarmed by the high prices, without reflecting that this is owing more to a redundancy ox currency man to a aenciency of food. Why sho&d we look any further ahead than to the coming wheat narvest, which will commence on the 10th of next June? We can very safely spare every grain of coraj over, and , above what is necessary to carry us toj the 1st of , July. Prudence in ordinary times is not pru dence now. It is the climax of prudenco to sus tain our .armies, for if they are vanquished by famine, the bounties of summer and aatumn will enure to the benefit of our enemies, and not to us, and our families. . Our crop of Irish potatoes will be fit for use early in June, and in July tee .i iti . v - l. i . . . eariu win ieem wuu ikwi, roans, peasKoq btwj other vegetable.. Even if Providence should de ny to us a bduntiful .wbeat harvest, we have other safeguards against famine. An ; enormous crop of Indian corn will be planted, and this may be used for bread by the 15th of September, after being dried in the sun. Indeed it used to be a common saying among as, that if the corn would "fetch wheat," that is, would hold out to wheat harvaat thit thArn vu nnHncrr Tt m trnalKat while the winter oat in this county, the last year, vai a. matrnlfint c.ron that soared in th Rnrincr was a failure; itis also true that whilethe wheat was of fair quality, the quantity was greatly short. But iis equally true, that the crop of corn, taking all parts of the county together, was a full 'aver ago crop. In an experience of thirty years, I am ture that I have seen tea worse corn yea s, and not twelve better. For our stock we shall have the fruits of an oat crop by the 20th of J una. A great breadth of lant has been sowed with winter oats, and having grown 'this crop for the last ten years, I have never once met with a failure. We may count on it with oertalnty, and : weighinsr forty pounds to the bushel, are we so different, from the Scotchman, that we could not, in. an emergency, use it for bread ? ; On those of my brother planters, who like my self, are kept at home by age or inflYmity, and who have ingloriously slipped In between two wars, without seeing active service in either, It ia peculiarly incumbent to btsur ourselves in this patriotic work of supplying our armies with sub sistence. Let us put our families on the shortest ratione, and make it a point to send to our sol diers every thing that absolute existence does not demand. In 1817, 1 think it was, during a great dearth in England, most of the nobility and gen try of the kindom determined to use no bread on theu table and the tables of their servants. They lived well on potatoes and other vegetables. They were actuated by motives of charity; to charity we have the added impulse of patriotism. An honored friend of mine, now no more, the late Capt. Poln'.ea, of the S uth of Dan, told me that when a youth he visited a wealthy man of his neighborhood. Ho sat down to dinner with, quite a large family of sons and daughters. Oa the centre of the table was placed a huge smok ing wooden (ray or black-eyed peas, garnished with three small .bits 'Of bacon. This, was the dinner. During the meal my friend ventured very tjmidly to ask. for a piece of bread. His host said, or rather roared to him, "Young man, when we eat pea we eat peas, when we eat bread we eat bread; this is pea day." Now, my friends let ns prove that patriotism can endure as much as avarice, atfd that love of country will impel us to as many sacrifices as the love of money. Let us have out pea days and our potato days, and let bread and meat days be few and far between.! Lot no man say that my barrel of corn, or my hundred weight of fodder, or my ten pounds of bacon, will do but litllegood. j An army is sus tained by these littles, and b-them is liberty gained and preserved. One soldier is worth but lit.ie by himself, in driving back an invading host, yet he is a unit, and unit constitute tha great sum of a protecting army, j . Lot us act vrompUy, and, without a day 'a de lay, send meat, cora, au, fodder,' hay andstiaw to our armies, Lolu -trust to Providence, and not look through one harvest to another. Our great ganger just now js not famine, but the fear of famine. We have the men to drive back our enemies, and they are ready and willing, and the question for us to decide is, whether we will ba sparing of Our "food io them, when they . are not sparing o( tfceir blood and- their lives for us. I have lived mv wH.Ia life in all .A -:vv uiu inenasnip witn tne people or Halifax;' I know them welk and connt rnnrfAntlv nil iHniv . uiu unanimous co-operation in -feeding a gallant army, who hare gone forthwith their i . j ;r 7 . r I lirei ln their hmnda, tJ protect oar ftluri and oar firesides from ihethe deioluon or a tarageere - mj.. I giro jou my name for whatit ii worth, belieTiag that the emergency of, the occasion is i .Your Fellow Citizen JAMES 0. BBUCE. ' ASCOJlCHIMGlJSTTEn.. We have been requested to publish the fol lowing scorching letter from Major General D. H. Hill to the miserable "Xankee . honse burner and rogue, J. Q. Foster. GOLD&BOROUOH, N. C. March 24th, 1863." r Major General J, G. Foster, Of federal Army. Sib: Twocommunications have been referred to me as the successor of Gen. French Tti n.imn.rl 4 mm H minA a11 homnlDV and th& ITth N.-C, are true prisoners df war, and if not naroled. I will retaliate five-fold: . In, regard to your first communication touching me earning 01 jriymouui, jou bcou. w uhto iur golten two things. You forgot, sir, that you are a Yankee, and that Plymouth is a Southern town. It Is no business of yours ff wa choos.tp hprn one of our own towns.. A meddling Yankee troubles - 1 hfn,Mif about every oody's matters except his own, and tepents of everybody's sins except his own. We are a different people. . Should the. Yankees burn an Union village in Connecticut or a cod fish town in Massachusetts, we would uot meddle with them, but rather bid them God-spesd in their work ot purifying the atmosphere. ' Your second act of forgetfulness consists in your not remembering that yod are the most atrocious house burner as yot unhung In tnc wide universe. Let me remind you of the fact that you have made! two raids, when vou were wearv of debauchery in your negro harem, and when you knew that your forces outnumbered the Confederates five to one. Your whole line of march has been marked by burning churches, school hoasea, private resi dences, baros, stables, gin bouses, negre cabins. fences in th row, &r, &o. Your men have plun dered the country of all that it contained, and wan tonly destroyed what they could not carry off. Before you started on your free-booting expedi tion towards Tarboro', you addressed your soldiers in the town of Washington, and told tbm that you were going to take them toj i a rich country full of plunder. With such a hint to your thieves it is not wonderful that your 1 rai 1 was character ized by rapine, pillage, arson and nurder. Learn, ing last December that there was but a single weak Brigade on this line, you tore yourself from the arms of sable beauty and moved out with fif teen thousand men on a grand, marauding foray. You partially burnt Kinston, and entirely de stroyed the village of White Kail. The elegant mansion of the planter and the hut . of the poor farmer and fisherman were alike consumed 'bv your brigands. How matchless is the impudence which, in view of this wholesale; arson, can com plain of the burning of Plymouth in the heat ot action. But there is another species of effrontery which New England itself cannot excel. ' When you return to your harem from one of these Union restoring excursions, you write to your Govern ment the deliberate lie that you have discovered a large and increasing Union sentiment in this State. No one knows better than yourself that there is not a respectable man in North Carolina, in any condition of life, who Is not utterly and irrevoca bly opposed to union with your hated and hateful people. A few wealthy men have meanly and falsely professed Union sentiments to save their property, and a few ignorant fishermen have join ed your ranks but to betray you when the oppor tunity offers. No one knows better than yourself that our people are true as steel, and that our poorer classes have excelled the wealthy in their devotion to our cause. You knowingly and wil fully lie when you speak of a union sentiment in this brave, noble and patriotic Slate , Wher ever the trained and disciplined soldiers of North Carolina have met tha Federal forces, you have been' scattered as leaves before the hurricane. . In conclusion, let me inform .you that I will receive no more white fiacrs from vou. except the one which covers your surrender of the scene of your lust, your debauchery and your crimes. No one dislikes New England more cordially than I do, but there are, thousands of honorable men even there who abhor your career fully as much as I do. ' Sincerely and truly, your enemy, , D. H. HILL, " . . Maj. Gen. p. S. Army.' FUNDING, j We Ietrn that about Seventeen' Hundred Thousand Dollars worth j;of Confederate Treasury Notes have been funded in eight per cent Bonds at the office of the Depositary in this city. Up to 1st. of August next Con federate Treasury Notes not yet funded, may be funded in seven per cent. Bonds, and after that time these noteswill not be fundable at all- '. ' 'j-- ': ' ! In connection with this subject, we remark that the Editor of the -Raleigh Standard, never weary of trying to infliot injury on the Confederate cause and. Government, speak ing of funding Treasury Notes, says s 1 ; V We advise the peopleto fund at seven per cent., as these notes may depreciate in value. The State of Virginia has virtually repudiated former issues by providing ibatpoly the issue after the first of this month shall bo received for. taxes in that Stat. . ;j :" ' The above is as silly asifc is unpatriotic. The objec t of the Virginia law was to induce holders of Treasury Notes' issued prior to the 1st of December, 1862, to fund in Confede rate Bonds; and thus assist the Confederate Government in , diminishing the- volume of currency. .The law said j in substance to the Virginia Taxpayer, 'Go forward and fund your Treasury Notes, for if, you keep them they will not be received in payment of taxefl. This Was' the oojeifcof 'the Virginia law, as any man with.a grain of sense mus t see, and as every man with' apartiole of can dour will admit. It was not to "repudiate" Confederate credit, but to assist it by dhnin- SaViint f Via mAnn rt rtf f oVa A n r f. n f a A nvn t i Treasury Notes. j H' : jr 0" The Drily Progress " does not deny, 1 . . finugt,nfle m;ta that if. editorial utt " Wlwttnae, admits that its;c0itonai I " tnpod is sometimes occupied by the emi- neat lawyer whom we charged with a design ta form a neaca and reoonatraction cartv North Carolina. The, Daily Proeress, then, il knowingly and! wilfplly permitting a man who denounces secession, advodates reeon struotion, and says the Yankees have been slandered, and that our own soldiers have in fl;t-rf : r.iWwitrairM An aonthern neople than were inflicted bv tho.A Ug editC(rial 0lumD8 M the means of circula- ting his poisonous and trea-onable sentiments. Thditojr of the Standard, too, makes no J reply to onr charge that this cmineot law- , J ver " wrote the article addressed to "James A Sedclon. Esq . A which appeared in slate "r : number of that paper. A precious pair naDers. trulvto be published at the capital: kt xi n i- 1 ft 'wu Ai&m f fhA of North Carolina ! ! The editor of r the Daily Progress, when he evaouated Newbern, .nd "fell back" iwitb almo,. unpar.lleUd expedition on this place, left behind him his piess and types, which were seized and used jics uu njfoo, nmvu by. a Yankee publisher. The eminent lawyer would comfort the proprietor of the RaldgkX Progress, through, his Own editorial columns, by telling him that this was a slander, that flh ontrflire WM,ever inflicted bv the ' . . . . r m ; . , "ogreas woum ur the editorial would show that ho (the propri I etor.l (could command some of the best talent in the State " ! ! Keally, a newspa- per proprietor who can be thus comiortea has need in his editorial department of better talent than his own, although it is a pity to see "talent" so "commanded, devoted to the injury of a cause which "commands" the sympathies of the lovers of freedom throughout the world. Novel Modk or Growing Squashes. An excellent method of growing squashes, melons, and other such vegetables, where a person has but lit tle room, and wishes to mak. the most of it as a small city plat is to plant them so that they will run on a trellis, bet four uprigiit stages or small posts, about two feet apart each way, in the centre of which plant the melons, squash or hatever ela is wished. As the vines begin to run, support tnem upon me treius Dy nauing across small slats of board, and when the melons set and begin to form fruit, trect,a shelf for it by forming sb?rt pieces of boards across thfl slats previously nailed or. Jfinch on. tne running shoots of the vines, so as not have too heavy a growth, and-as they run higher, place additional slats for the purpoae of supporting ihem. There are two advantages to this plan, and so far as we are acquainted, no disadvantage ; it economizes space in the garden, and the fruit ripens earlier than when upon the ground half covered with leaves. Those of out readers who bave small gar dens would do well Ho make a note" of this plan, and give it a trial another season. California Farmer. . - While planting4 cucumbers the other day IVA (TA in fnrmd hv a. nro hardener thatf a r lie liau Ulteu irecu cuuuuwvra uu vjrujiiua stuck and raised just as pole beans are, and that they matured much sooner than when permitted to remain on the ground. Ed. Beg. ; i ; TORIES HUNG. A letter from Jefferson, Ashe County, informs us that a notorious tory named James Price, who has caused a great deal of trouble in the Western part of Ashe County, was caught last week to gether with two of his Bons and one of his ne phews, and carried to Jefferson and delivered up to Capt. John Hartzog' and some ten or twelve privates who were passing through the town in search of deseitcrs. Capt. II. ordered the three young men to be confined , in jai! and had old Price, the father, carried out and hung. In the afternoon both citizens and soldiers became to much exasperated at. the recital of the depreda tions committed by the ruthless gang that are lurking in the mountains, that they proceeded to the jail and took out one of Price s sons and his nephew and hung them also. CFROM SUFFOLK. Th8 Petersburg Express learns through passen gers, that Capt Sibley's Battery of five guns, at tached to French's Division, and stationed at Keeiing's Farm, . an the Nansemond river, was surprised and captured Sunday night. It is stated that 40 of our men were taken prisoners. Haavv firing wss;heard in the direction of Suffolk on Monday. It istsupp sed .that our artillery was again engaginglhe enemy's gunboats . '"' 'I . " ; Faix in 'Prices in thk South. The Colum bus Sun says that' the prices of tobacco, rice and other articles, have, commenced tumbling in that section since the tax law has passed. Nbw re peal the stay law, "and make speculators pay their honest debts, and they will keep tumbling. . Gen. Whaler is rivalling the exploits of Mor gan with his cavalry in Middle Tennessee. On the 18th he made a raid; upon Hartsville, swim ming the river, and captured 100 prisoners and a large quantity of small arms and commissary stores. A few days ago he swam the Cumberland river near Nashville captured a wagon train, and killed and captured forty" Yankees. "' ; " The Knoxyilie -liigieler announces the death of Brigadior General Daniel S.ponelson, of the Confederate army .after a lingering decline.' He was a nephew of Gen. Andrew Jackson, and wai a prominent man in his Slate. J s :ff." . : U - . . News has been received at Port Hudson from New Orleans, confirming the destruction of the Queen, of the Wes. A shell from one of the Yan kee vessels struck her magazine and blew her up. It is said that our own men burnt the Diana to keep her from falling into the bands of the eae- '.lilJfc CONFEDERATE TAX BILL, m. " ; ' ' ' 1 o .Tb 4bn0wfajf U a summary of the! Tax bill whicU was passed' by the House of Bepresenta- I ve on Mondays - It had previously passed the 10 f onWi and is now a law. Xt imposes a tax of eight per cent.? upon thval- ue or an naval stores, salts, wine, and spirrtuoug liquor looaccotaarnqfattured or unmanufacVpred, cotton, wool, flour,"sogarf molasses, syrap, .-rice and other agricultural producls, held or ownei on the n ' - r.. . ... - .... r8r-J J o J nexi, and hot necessary for fami !-T coonmUon for th a unexpired portion of the JV. 4,.,cutlJg lBB year 40ta ana aisxoi on vww i 4 " j ana noes or otnftr carren t;yrOn haniroCon deposit, on the 1st of July next; aftdo the jrialuo ipf accredits on whic the inter est has notbeen paid and not employed in a busi ness tbe income derived from which is taxed un der ibeprpvisltfaa of, this act ; provided, that all moneys owned, held or dcpoeitediei?ond the lim its OffthwCMnfederate State' shalloe valued at the I -cnrf)at irate nrnrrhanira in f!nnfiaiii Tra.iit. of Inote.?. The tax ;li be assessed on the 1st day of July, and collected on the 1st day of October next, nr a35?511 hereafter as possible. t Section Bth imp03es following taxes fr the yor ending the 31st of December, 1863, and for - IZZZl W .-AiL. dealers, tobacconists, pedlars, caltlo brokers, apoth- I r".1" v"v" ? connonera, do, l and 2J per centum on the gross amount of sales 1 made. ; Wholesale dealersin liquors, $?00, and SIper centum on gross amount of sales. Retail dealers in liquors, $100, and ! 10 per centum on gross amount of sales. Wholesale dealers in groceries, goods, wares, merchandize, etc. $200, and 2 per centum. Pawn brokers, money and exchange brokers, $200. r, . ' V - Distillers, $200. and 20 per centum. Brewers fclOO, and 2J per con'um. ' Hotels, inns, taverns and eating, houses, first cUss, $500; second class, $300 ; third clas, $200 ioarin ciass, ivv; nuo cias3,;$dO. Jiivery nouse where food or refreshments are sold, and every, bcarding.houae where there shall be six boarders or more, shall be deemed an eating ho: se under tots act. Commercial brokers or commisaon merchants $200, and 2 per centum. Theatres, $500 and five per centum on alt re ceipts. Ech circus $100, and $ 1 0 for each exbi biiion. Jugglers and Other persons exhibitin showSi 50. v I Bowling alleys and billiard rooms, $4if for each airoy or tap e rcgisiereu. j Livery stable keepersj lawyers, physicians, sur geons and dentists, $50. i 1 ; : Butohers and bakers $10 and 1 per centum l All perrons engageii, or intending to engage, in any businfss named in, the 5th section, shall, with in sixty days after the passage of th e. act, or at the timeof beginning business, and on the 1st of Jan uary in each year thereafter, register with the dis Irict collector a true account of the name and res idence of eaeh person, firm or corporation engaged or interested in the business, with a statement of the time fur which, and the place and manner in which the same is to be conducted, &c. At the time of the registry there shall be paid the sjecific tax for the year eniiogon the next 31st of De- cember, and Euch other tax as may be due upon salos or receipts in such business. Any person failing to make such registry and pay such tax, shall, in addition to all other taxes upon his business imposed by .the act, pay double the amount ot the specific tax on such business, and a like sum for every thirty days of such fail ure. Requires a separate registry and tax for each business mentioned in the 5th section, and for each place of conducting the same ; but no tax for mere storage of goods at a place other than the regis j tered place of business. A new registry requjired upon every cnange in tne piace ot conducting; a . . . a a -1 registered business, upon the death of any. person conducting the same, or upon the transfer of the business to another, but no additional tax. Every person registered and laxrd is required to make returns of the gross amount of sales from tha passage of the act to the 30th June, and every three months thereafter, i I A tax upon all salaries, except of persons in the military or naval service, of 1 per cent, when not exceeding $ 1 ,500,' and two per cent, upon an ex cess qver that amount. ! Provided, that no taxes J shall be imposed on thesalary of any p-rson? re ceiving a salary notexceeding $1,000 per anium, or at a like rate for another ptriod of time, longer or shorter, the tax on annual incomes, between $500 and $1,500, shall he five per cent ; between $1,500" and $3,000, five per cent, on the first $1, 500 and ten per cent. oh the excess f between $3," 000 and $5,000, ten per cent ; between $5,000 and $10,000, 12 j per cent.; over $10,0.00,' fifteen percent. , subject to the following. deductions: on incomes derived from rents of real estate, man ufacturing and mining establish in nts. &o , a sum sufficient for necessary annual repairs; on in comes from any mining or manufacturing busi ness, the rent, (if rented,) cost of labor actually I hired, ana raw material , on incomes irom navi gating enterprises, the nire of the vessel or allow ance for- wear and tear of the same not'xceedine ten oer centi on incomes derived from the sale of merchand ze or any other property, the prime cost, cost of transportation, salaries of clerks and rent of buildings ; on incomes from any other: oc cupation, the salaries of clerks, rent, cost, of labor'material, &c. ; and in case of mutual insu rance! companies, the amount of loss paid by them during the year.; Incomes derived from other sources are subject to no deductions whatever. All joint Slock companies and corporations shall pay one tenth of the dividend and reserved fund annually.? If the annual earnings shall give a profit of more than ten and less than twentyper cent." oh capital stock, one eighth to be paid ; if more than twenty per cent., one sixtn. The tax to be collected on the 1st of Jan uary . next and of each year thereafter. . j. - ' A tax of ten per cent, on all profits, in 1862 by the purchase and sale of flour, corn, bacon, pork, oats, hay, rice, salt, iron or, tho manufactures of iron, sugar, molasses made of cane, butter, wooU enr cloths', - shofs, boots, blankets - and cotton cloths., This is not to apply to regular retail bu siness. ., ' , , wEach farmer after reserving for his o wo use fifiy bushels sweet and fifty bushels Irish polatee, one hundred .bushels corn, pr fifty bushels wheat, pro duced this year, shall pay and.deliver b the Con federate Government one-tenth of the grain, po tatoes, forage, sugar, molasses, cctton, wool, and tobacco produced. After reserving twenty bush els peas or beans ho shall deliver one-tenth thereof. - ' i Every farmer, planter or grazier, one-tenth of the nogs slaughtered by him, in cuted bacon, at the rate of 60 pounds of bacon to 100 pounds of pork ; one per cent, upon the value of all nett Cbt-. tie, horses, mules not used in cultivation, and asses, to pe, paid by the owners of the'aame"; beeves sold t8 .be taxed as income. . ; ! All hospitals, insane, deaf and charitable asy lums, churches, schools and colleges are exempt from taxation. - ln Monday morning last one of the enemy's blockaderi at Charleston, ' commenced firing on the sunken Keokuk, with a'view. to blow her up. One oCour batteries on Morris Island opened fire and drove her off. 1ATEST FROM THE NORTH. FRECRicKBUKa,! April .20.-1.. have, received Northern papers of the 17th and 18th of this month, from which' I send a; summary ; ' ' ! ;v TH SITUATION AT STTTFOLKl , , The New York Herald, of the'28lh inst., thus sum up thenews,from Suffolhr - The latest news concerning the state of affairs around ' Suffolk- f Y.z U 40 the 1 6th lost.' The attempts of the rebel General Longstreet to crois tpei jansemond river with th aid of pontoons, wrre defeated by the fire of our artillery. One of ur gnn boats the Mount Washington was fired into and disabled by tho rebel batteries while coming down the river on the 14th instant. " She Tag, however, taken in tow and brought safely torougn tne noavy lire qr the enemyr ! With regard to the news from the vfcinitv ct Suffolk, we may state that there is a good deal of feeling in this city relative id the shnotin? of -u:euv. voi. xvimoaii py uen. VJorcoran. i The F4Rrs Monroo correspondent of the same pap5rt writes: IK;'.- KJ' h , The good intentions of the enemy towards us in paying us a friendly visit byway of the -Nan-semond;river; were understood by our gunboats doing, duty in that stream, and thev have nlaced such obstacles in his way that up to this time he nas not made much headway in the advance Twice has Lonestreet , laid down no n toon a. t and each time have qur Parrott guns played such hav- oc in his ranks tbat.the attempt was given up as futilbj and.to all; appearances, he has retired, per haps to batch so m plana to prosecute his designs m a different shane. The follo wing is the despatch of Acting Beat Admiral Loe to the . Yankee Secrettry of the Navy; . . : j . . ;.' j j - Reports from. Lieutenants Cusbing and Law- son just received,. The enemy have not crossed the riven ant tthere is every indication that thev are retreat&g, though they aiiXl have "some artille ry ana sharpshooters- on the -Nansemond. . Our boats shot down a number of their men to day with caniiter. Wo have had three wounded, making in, all five killed and eighteen wounded in our little flotilla, to which, from what I can learn, the fight baa been pretty much con fined.! j- j . . . ' . "Deserlers" .inform the Yankees that Long street' forces number; nearly fifty thousand. It is understood that the greatest portion of the Reb el army has been withdrawn from the Rappahan nock, land are concentrating in Eastern Virginia and North Carolina. ' J Upon this point, the Herald says, editorialy : The escape of the army of Jo Johnson from Manassas ustUl the formost item in the abilition hue. and cry against General idcClellan; but if, after the lessons of Manassas and XJorintb,thereb els are permitted to play the same gsmeatFrede ricksburg, what possible defence can be made available to tho Secretary of War and his right hand man, General Hal leek?- j 'l The country between the Rappahannock and Richmond, having been exhausted of its supplies, is of no further use to 4he army. It may be wise ly abandoned, therefore, to Gep.. Hooker; and ho may be left to choose his own road to Richmond, wtile Lea is clearing out the peninsula and march ing with an overwhelming force upon Norfolk. We. apprehend, however, that the War Office is slill solicitous about the safety of Washington, and hesitated to tnaku a forward moFement,not so much because of the muddy condition of the road? as from a desire to get Lee back again into the Richmond peninsula and out of the reach of Washington. f But let us hope for the best, and that our small detachments Of troops on the peninsula,and on the iilack water and in .North Carolina, wilt not be gobbled up" by overwhelming numbers of the enemy, after the fashion of Harper's Ferry, be fore our Army of the Potomac can, come to the rescue. f . ''' MrSCElXANfiOUS. It was rumored in Nashville, on the 14th inst, that 500 of the rebel sympathizers In that City were to- be arrested and held as hostages for the Union; East Tennasseans who are now confinedjn Southern prisons, aud to be exchanged for fhem whenever the Uonfederate Government shall sic- nwy a desire to cfi so. . , AH the bu.Idmgs at Tyree Spring?, Tenn.Jhave been destroyed by fire. The destruction occurred some four weeks ago, and was supposed to be the ww vi an losecujary. . ; Sy the arrival of the British Queen from Nas sau, in. tr., we learn in at 14 vessels from rebel ports hacTarri ved there from the 1 6th of March to the 1 0th Of this month, all bringing cargoes of CottonVi -' 1 :. Mrs. Semmes, wife of the Captain of the Pirate Alabama, who has beenlresiding all winter in Cin cinnati, haa been ordered, under the recent proc- Hmation of tien. Jiurnsldo, to prepare to cross the ines into Dixie. ' T' Confederate scrip was put up at auction in Hal- fax, N. S oil tho 1 Oih inst., by John! D, Nash & Co., and the only bid that cou'd be obtained fur t was 4 een.B a jound. :; ; v The ! JUondon ximea' correspondent, . writing from Vicksbiirg, Bays : "The only plan to" take YicksbUrg is to land in front and attempt to storm the batteries; but this require; more bravery than the Federals -possesfc' ;'"-: . I . ' :ti Admiral 'Wilkes has been arrested at Havana, and will be held as a prisoner on parole until he accounts satisfactorily for firing on -a Spanish steamer. . . ' - Seward has seat-another dispatch to Minister Adams, to go by next" steamer, warning Greaf Britain against allowing any more Alabamas to go forth to prey upon American commerce s Marquis of Hartington, lately in Richmond, as made a speech saying the lorth can jonly exter minate the Southland that the South Will fightto the last, - . . 1 - ' - j- i- i The London Post hopes by the end of the year,. tne vxmieaerato struggle , wi do crownea wim success and its independence' recognized. ' -j 'A draft is to ba had to fill up the old regiments The British! Albion, speaking of the loan, says it is a virtual recognition of the South. - - . The; iron elads which were engaged in the Charleston fight are to be sent to Farragdtf to as sisi in the reduction of Port Hudson, r " ' k 'sir i " ; ' -i ' 'J5--01!" ':' , : . . u Gold opened strong this morning at 154 It fell in the middle of the day to, 152$, rallied to J53, sold at 153, and 153 in the afiernoon, andclos ed at 5 p. m.v about 1F3. Exchange opened with, some s:gns;jf .strength,-and a good man V bills were sold at 168 ; but on the decline in golcTthe de mand fell oft ...-4.. . , A'WAIfc T&Qil TH2 TBIBUNK. ;. A Hilton Head correspondent of the N. Y. Tri bune writes; - -i. The attack upon Charleston has been made. Our force of offence collccld during the lart three months, In the waters and upon thesep islands of South Carolio'a, baveieeii fairly tried and found wanting. Instead of thepleasanfcduty o( chroni cling a triumph toihe Unioa arm, which I had fervently wlihcd rather .than hopedj the thank less bar bingfer.of ill tidings. devolves ipon na We have experienced a bitter repulsed The iron clads Jtave iditappoinied tlie expectations of even the most cot.fident, and we are now mourning over the apparent certainty oran abandonment of the enterprise of which the country, with more faith tnan reason, nopcaauch good results. ; it A CHAPTER IN HISTORY. A correspondent ef Medary'$ CWsis, of Colum bus, Ohio, revives the miniace'nee that in" V&03, on theT purchase of Lo4iialanai tha following reso lution was adopted by tho Legislature of Mawa' chusetts: ' UuJt'i h .' t "lietoloed, That the annexation of Louisiana to the Union transcends the conititutional jwwer of ' " the Government' of tha United! State-.! It form's a new Confederacy, l hicb tie Slates riitl r by the former compact a'rojnotjbonndltoiidhs i Tho Government is .hefe pr (.pounced a compaci . betweeu the Sutcs, and from it the right effect- i; eion or withdrawal for just cause results he agrees' j - sary logical deduction. . ; ; ; ;:rL ;; . In 1811, on the b'U for the admUioo ot Louiv siana as a SUt. Josiah Qdincyl Sr.stid, and af ter being called to order, committed .hi remarks )' to wrfling : g "If the bill pass, it U my deliberate opinion that it is a virtual dissolution of the. Union, and that it will free the States from .their moral obli gation. e And a It ' will be the right of all, so' it win be the duty of some, dtfinltcly to prepare IW a separation amicably if thev can, violently" if tney .mast."- " - - r r John O.uincv Adams.in detcribinv thn Federal disunionists of Massacbaselts, lays, among other . reasons for dissolving on the annexation ofjsjui-? siana, v. as the following: "That ,U was Oppressive lb the intoreils and'do. sirucuve to the influence Of. the Norihecn section of the Confederacy, whose 'right! and duty it was therefore, to secede from tho body pelitic, and to constitute one. of their own.f "I , 'J The earafi State declared that 'the admission of Texas would relieve her from alt further obliira Iton to remain In the Union. ' First in maintain ing the doctrine of seceesiohl and! first in nullifica tion of the Con.titulion and the law, jit is in per . feet keeping with her character that tbd should be first in making war to the dealtuupon 'any other community which presumes fov solve the "glorious Union.' kriy cauo to dii- THB WHEAT CROP SOUTU. From every quarter we hear the most favorablo reports of the growing, crop. In some parts of Alabama there will probably J ba more wheat made than for the last ten - years together. The breadth of land put in is much greater than was ever knowji. before and the orop is uncommonly promising. The recent cool1, dry weather, Is said to favor it, and unless soma disaster overtakes It, the harvest will be a bountiful obe. Nothing but the fell spirit of speculation jean tesp the price of fiour up to its present rates.. A muctt" less than half the prtsent rates for wheat, the 'farmer will 'make abundant profits - on his wheat crop if it should turn out as ft ow promises to do. In Flo rida , hundreds of acres of cotton have bn nlbw- ed op and are being planted in GQTa.-Richmond uispatcA. MAJtRIED. On Tuesday morning, . April 2 1st, at Christ Church, by Rev. Dr. MisorL Cint. I WALKER ANDERSQNof Florida, and- KATE NASH youngest daughter of the late Cameron, of Fayotteville. 1 -1 Dr. Thomas N. "VTpK I'H CAROLINA--WARRI2JV CO UN JlH i tj Court of PJoas and Quarter fiesaiuna. Fab. ruary Term 1863; l Wm. IL Bartleta, Adm'r, vs ff eiri at taw ef Joloey iiugbss. Petition for a sale of land for thaoarimaaf of dhtm. A It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that Richard Hughes, a defendant, is a nin-rsaident of this State, publication is thsrefose j made loi tha Salaiirh . Register, to be inserted ix weeks, notifying tha said ftiehard Hughes of the filing and that unless he -appears at of the-above petition. the; next term of said Court, to be held for the Conntv !of.Wirrtn. afc tha Court nouae, In Warrenton, on the fourth Monday of May next, and pleads, answers, Or demurs to said pe-" tioo, the same will be uken a confessed, aid heard exparteas to him. Witness, Whliaai A. White, Clerk of said Court, this 10th day of LApril, ISM. ' I WILLIAM A, WntTE, aplS w6w -.,f'-iC.C4 Clerk.'' -VTORTH CAROLINA. -WARREN COUN JL ty Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions. Feb. roary Term, 1863. i l t . t Wot. P.llawkins, Adm'r, vs Heir at Law of Rufas H. Hawkins . i ' J . j. Petition for a sale of land for the payment ofdebts. It appearing to the satisfaction ef the Court that Alexander 2. Hawkins, and Phill B. Hawkiaa. and James Turner, and Anna 8, his wife. diefendanU ta .u:. . zj i .j .i i? f . : . . . . kuia nuts) tcoius irajuuu luo iliflllM VI 1(114 DtaU, pBD. licaticn is therefore mad In thtt Raleigh Rgiter,to be Inserted six weeks, notifvinr thaaald iUtan Hawkins, aad Phill B. Hawkins, and James Turner. 3 a ft t m . ia . . ' ana Anns o, qm wue, or tne nimg or tbe above peti tion, and that unless they .appear at tha next term of' said Court, to b held for the County of Warren, at the Court House, in Warronton. on tha fourth, liund of May next,! and plead, ancwer or demur to said peti tion, the same will be taken as .eonfeifed, aad heard exparte as to them. Witness, Wfiliam A. White. Clerk of Said Court, this, 10th. day of. April, 1863.. i .11 ' ' ' : c,acirk. api5-ww , v h ,. p:.. ' , aoo isaiQB or uotton a SF w-a . , ' M-Vipa L 1 JTIOR SALC, II AO -A MILE PRO Bf A ? Rail Road in the interior and aadet shelter a good and safe investment. Payment taken in Coofed erato bonds or meney. Apply to H. Ki BURQUWYN, ' State Joaraal eopy eod 5 times and SUndari times. ,.!... . .ft . .. . . u 'J.. . .. . . City BattaUion. f. I-AST CHAN CIS JPOtt CONSCRIPTS, . HAVING Bl?13f. AUTUOltlZED TO raise a company to be attached te Major Eiliott's . Oity Rattallion,, (25th Va ,) I invite the attention of ' All persons subject to conscription (beor being . '; rolled) and ethers to this chance of! joiaiog a good -company for special duty in and around Richmond. This Battalion is permanently atatiuaed fa Barracks " at Richmond. $50 fohntr and Brood elothinr rient Qaarters and Rations furnished frooTdav ef ealisu ment ; also, transportation. ' j ; ;v Address WM. IL ALLISON, Captain and Recruit- Ing officer, Pity Battallion, Richmond,! Va. j i - v 1 April 7 wAswO w- pi ShulT! SnulTI: ' C-v-VVJ WE HAVE SOLD OUT OUR .ENTIRE stock of "Carolina , Belle,", to ! Messrs. IH. P. , . RIVES A CO., to whom all orders for the Snuff ahonld ' be addressed.; ; - );?:;:.: --i' ".1, . 1 . ;: - ."; We shall, la a few days convert ot Mill Into a ' Wheat and Corn Mill, and stop making SnuflT. , Our ' patrons weuld d well ti. send forward thehr orders quickly, as the Sapply will oon be exhaasUd. ' -; JAMES M. VBNABLB 4 CO, 2 ! April TIm , . ,:; . Peterabarg, Vav ' . ---f St-Carolina- Bolie S ,S.-r ; , D AVING PURCHASED! THE ENTI1. - X JL stock ef the above popular' brand of 3noS are prepared to fill orders for the same. . , v we i . Jf. JHVJS1 CF Vtngrtetn. April 7lm. Pelrsburg, V. QUARTERMASTER'S DEP'T. I ' j ;Jtaleigh,N. C, Aptll 13 1863. ' A LL PERSONS " HAVING CLAIBIS ' Jt. against this. Department, will present them im-' I mediately tot settlement, aad in future Barties will pre- 1 ' jient their Bjlls lor Payment oa the delivery of the Uoods. . liill for serricea rendered or Ire t houaea, -t Ac, mutt be presented at or before the end of, each. ' month. . . 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