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ilTIw lifkii-- Eri'A lOTfrf VOLxST""- I V RALEIGH WEDNESDAY. MORNING JUNE 24 1863. AAh.-A -S Al', rl-- jxo. w. SYME, Editor and Proprietor. Oar, are the plans of fair dUful JW Unwarped by partj rage to liv hke brother.. ItAIiElGH.lN. C. . - SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, 1863. THE NEWS. The tidings of the recovery of Wjiichea - ter from the Yankees, and. the capture of the latter after a brief engagement, wMbe found under our bead of "Latest News," and will be bailed with joy throughout the Confede-, racy This, we expeot, iaj the begianing of movement! by Gen. Lee wtncu certain events hate for some time past shadowed forth. The old town of Winchester has been during this war subjected to mote variable fortunes than anj Other 'place in the Confederacy, Du whether held by the enemy or by our own forces, its people have always been as true as steel to thl great cause, of the bouth. us hope that the Yankees ; have held toe last time. Let it for Hooker has evacuated j Stafford county,, bat his present whereabouts has not been as certained." It is probable that the Lincoln concern have become shaky in the knees about the safety of Washington, and that the "Ar my of the Potomac" that was to take the Capital of the Southern Confederacy is now held for the protection of the Capital of Yaakee-doodledom." Port Hudson is holding out gloriously, and, unless the dispatches lie egregiously, gives the Yankees more than they bargained for. . Ai we. have no late news from Viokaburg, the inference is that that gallant and world renowned city yet bids defianoe to the vandal host that beleaguers it. - Upon the whole, everything looks well for our cause. TREASURER'S CIRCULAR. We publish to-day the circular of Treas urer Worth to the Sheriffs. Mr. Worth, while adtiiiog others not ,to give way to a 'panic,' has been himself bo "purio' atrick en, as to-advise the sheriffs to set at naught a law which they are"Bworn to obey. The ordinance of the Convention makes all Con federate notes receivable in payment of State taxes, and Mr.;Worth tells the sheriffs not to take the notes issued prior to the 1st of Dec. 1862, until they see the aotlon of l& Legislature; Now, we shonld like to know, if a fax payer tendered to a sheriff Confede rate notes issued prior to Dec, 1862, what right the sheriff would have to refuse these notes ! Would not the sheriff by such refu sal violate the law? Most assuredly he. would, and we should be glad to know by what right a State Treasurer presumes to suspend or nullify a law of the land ? The truth is, the Treasurer has given way to, the same undue fears in regard to the action of (he Richmond Banks, which prompted the Governor to re-assemblo the Legislature. ' HOI THE INDIANS USED TO LIVE. Lawson, in his quaint and interesting his tory of this State, gives us tbe following specimen of the cheer of the InMians : "We found great stores of Indian peas (a very good pulse,) beans, oil, thinkapen nuts, corn, barbacued peaches, and peach bread, which peaches being made into a quiddony, and so made up into loaves like barley cakes, these cut in slices, and dissolved in water, makes a very grateful acid, and extraordi nary beneficial in fevers, as has -often been tried and approved on by our English prac titioners." Peaches made into aMquidony answer to our peach marmalade, and we know wha it is ; but when the historian speaks of "barbacued peaches,"- he gets clear "out of sight, as w,e cannot conceive of, cooking peaches by. roasting them, and basting them while roasting with a mixture of melted but- Ur vinegar, mustard and cayenne pepper. : i- i . MR. VAIiLANDICIIAJI. I The Wilmington Journal of Wednesday eajs this gentleman is -no Jonger within the bounds of the Southern Confederacy. He has gone to Nassau, we sopposo, and thenoe U1 go to Canada. .j , REFRESHING RAIN. We were visited by a most seasonable rain on Thursday evening-. We have fine grow io weather now in this section. We are requested by the County Commu eif.ner, Mr. Thoma Q. Whitaker, to call the at tention of the Awessort to Ifcejiecesaity of mak ing their feturnB to him at a early a day a powi-ble-not later than the 29th iuit., at the fkrtbeai, as on thut day fce will proceed to make the proper etimat for an equitably distribution of the aalt n hand. I Prumotionb. Brig. Gen.! Stewart, (not Stu art) of the Army of Tennesiee, haa receivad hi ommistioQ aa Major General. been BISHOP ELLIOTT'S SERMON. -We have -read with great satisfaction the sermon delivered by Bishop Elliott, in Sa vannah, on the last fast iiajr appointed by thA Praaidant. . Tt .was tmhlished in the "Church Intelligencer," whose editor will perhaps, by his publication, get Bishop El liott into that "preachers regiment," which the "Standard" and "Progress" propose to have raised, in order that'the- members of it may, like the "preachers regiment" from Illinois, be shdt out of the way. Bishop Elliott sees no prospect of peace until the independence of the South is., worthy iu own true heart and strong arm, and turns with abhorrenoe from the idea of making any terms with our enemies until that indepen dence" is fully acknowledged. Bead the following extract from this admirable and I truly patriotio sermon, which wo have no doubt will bringdown on. the Bishop a charge of being "a fighting preaoher," preferred by the ribald editors of the "Standard" and .Progress" : -" j "SAMSON'S RIDDLE.'? ; A SERMON. Preached in Christ Church, Savannah, on Friday, I March 21th, 1863 j being the day of Humilia tion, Fatting and Prayer, appointed by the P - sident of the Confederate States ; by Rt. Rev ; Stephen Elliott, D. D.t Rector of Christ Church, , -and Bishop oj the Vioce.se oj ueorgia. Judges : Cbapt. XIVj vv : 12,13,14. 12. "And Samson said unto them : I will now DUt forth a riddle unto you ; if you ean certainly declate it me within the seven days of tihe feast and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets and tflirty cnange oi garments. ;. . 13. "But if ye cannot declare it me, men enan ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change of gar ments. And they said, unto him,' Put forth thy riddle, that we way hear it. 14. "And be said unto them, Uut or the eater came fotfa maT,and out oi the stroog cams forth 1 A'. weeineM- - " There haa been for some lime past a deep and wide spread yearning for peace. It has exhibited itself in the greediness with which the people ot the Confederate States hare listened to every ru mor of intervention, that has floated across the Atlantic, and in-th credulity with which they have believed that the recent political movements o the United States meant anything more than the customary struggle for power. : It is a natural yearning, especially in a people unaccustomed as we have been to a state or wartare, tor toe Human man mina aenors aozieiy ana aouDiiuinesj, and shrinks from a condition of things whicfi. forces it to live entirely in the proseat and for the present. With a war pressing upon us which is continually- chaneinsr its features and enlarging its propor tionsto-day a war for tha TJnfon, and W-mor-. row a war for emancipationnow waed witb'tbe- power of an ordinary government, and lAon with forces almost unprecedented ia modern history , there is for us not even a conjectural tuture. w e can form no plans af life, nor look with reasona ble probability upon the results of any undertak ing. Oar houiaholde are kept in perpetual agita tion our pursuits are irregular and anomalous our 'feelings oscillate between excitement and depression our affections are ever on' the rack or cruel suspense, u noer conamons use inese ine mind and the heart will both loog for peace; fur rest from an excitement that is wearing theni out: will crave, if only for a little while! a recurrence of those days, when the sound of war was not heard in the land, and when the sun did not cast its 'setting rays upon fields of blood and carnage. : Bat this yearning for peace has no smack of submission in it That has not; entered into the thoughts of anybody. It is really nothing more than a natnral wish that an useless strife should cease ; an earnest desire that a struggle should be ended, which can end but in one way.- When the fteaoe which is longed for is embodied in words, it nvariably includes he ideas, of entire' indepen , dence and complete .nationality independence from all the bonds, whether political, 'commercial er social, which have hitherto kinder ed our ' de velopmsnt nationality, with our whole territory preserved to us, and with no entangling alliances oindingsus for the future. This is its whole scope and meaning, arid is very distinct from any such fainting of the spirit as would precede submission. It is rather the token of a restless energy, which pants to enter untramelled. upon that new career of freedom which it is working out for itself," and which seems to rise before it in brightness and grandeur, and to beckon it onward to glory and -happiness. The courage of. the Confederate States is not failing, but its passive endurance ia sorely taxed, and like a beleaguered lion, it chafes against the restraints which keep it from its native haunt, and rages because it cannot at once strike to the earth all the enemies who encompass and goad it, while they can never either destroy it or make it captive. With a bound and a roar, the lord of the forest will one.day break through, the hosts which surround him, but until hi' opportu nity comes, he must bide his lima and be satisfied with strUmg terror unto hiahunters by the les sons which he may give them, of his fierceness and energy. ' . But God has' thought it best' for us tat this cruel war should endure yet longer and should be waged with an increased ferocity, if not with aug mented forces. -' Our sins are to be more heavily punished, at the same time that our faith U to bo more thoroughly sifted, and. our submission to His will made more complete and perfect. The causes which led to this war many of the circumstances' .which have accompanied it and the marvellous manifestations of Himself which God has made .throughout it the mighty interests of a moral and religions nature which' are bound up In. its results all for Did us from looking upon it as at) mere con met tor power, we must take the Di vine will into all our reasonings about it, and our humiliation to-day must occupy itself in helping us to school ourselves into an acquiescence with His divine arrangements. . We may feel sure, see ing how visibly He haa fought for us how strik ingly He has supported us through our. hours of mortal peril how He has -strengthened us in uud weakness and oomfoued us in our desolation that whatever he may order for us in the conduct of this "struggle, shall be for our ultimate bless ing, and that we ourselves shall one day see it anJ confess it. It may be a bitter disappointment to us that the dove has returned to the ark without the olive leaf in her mouth, thus notifying us that the waters of rife have not yet subilded, but the ark is still in safety and under the guidance of .Him whose eye never sleepeth and whose- love iever.Tailelhl Let us then resume our cncml work of stern resistance ; lot us pray for fortitude, for patience, for endurance, for faith ; let. us bo BSthfled that there are lessons of deep inorad im port which are yet to be evolved frOm the contin uance ot this struggle, and we shall disco 'ver .in God's own time that "out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweet ness: " " ' ' ..' ' Gen. Bragg was confirmed by Bishop Elliott, of Gtv, on the 23d ult. From the Kaleigh: Standard. IMPORTANT CIRCULAR FROM" THE . " ' treasurer: We invite the attention of thq Sheriffs nd citi zons of the State generally to the following Cir cular from Mr. TreasurerWorth, which he has' L -J , m n-iii:, sent by mail to the Sheriffs and Tax Collectors, and permitted U9 to publish." Mr; Worth's expla nations of the condition of Confederate issues are explicit and thorough, and contain in brief the reasons which rohdered it indispensabli that the Lpgiilature should be convened : Trka.suber'8 Office, .Raleigh, N. C, June 13, 1863. To Hie. Sheriff and Tax Collectors of North- Carolina : h- tfmlwrth actr-f the Confederate Cohgress of the 23d March last, relating. 10 the fupdmg of Confederate Vreasury notes, those fundable aredi vided into three classe : 1. Those dated prior to December 1st, 1862 2. Those dated between 1st December, 1862,and 6th April, 1863. 3.. Those dated on and after 6th April, 1863 The. first class is fundable in 7 per cent, bonds until the 1st August next, after which they are not fur.dable.at all. , The second class are also fundable in 7 per cent. bonds until the 1st August next, after which they are fundable in 4 per cents The third class are fundable for one year from the 1st day of the month. printed in red ink across the face of them in 6 per cent, bonds ; after which they are fundable in 4 per cents. . f pledged for the ultimate payment of all of these V . . . . The faith of tne Jonteaeraie uovernmem is issues, and all of them are receivable ia payment of taxes and otbejr .dues to, the Confederate Gov ernment at any time. ; At the time this act of Congrees passed, the vast amount of this currency in circulation bad cheap ened its value, and tne turtnor issues wnicn were unavoidable, were likely to produce ruinous de- preciEtion The policy of Congress to remedy the present and prospective evil, seems to nave Deen, to dimm ish the amount of circulation, and the plans to ef fect this end were: 1. To induce the holders of the issues then out. (to wit, the first and secona classef) to fund them by thelstof;August next,by allowingtillthatdateTloca"ties have adopted a new plan to keep; prices a uoerai raw 01 mieresi. 2. To have a new issue out, the third class, by the first day of August, fundable at a higher rate of interest than the old issues, which would depre ciate the value of these old issues, thus operating on the holders of the old issues to fund them, both by the hope of gain and the fear of loss 2V By the collection of a tax which it is suppos ed will absorb one nuuurea and twenty-nve mil Hons. . 4. To prevent a future redundancy of the cur rency by limiting the new issues to fifty . millions per moLth, and supplying the army with previa ioni by a tax in kind. . ' . The Legislature of Virginia, with a view, as I presume, to co-operate in oarrying out the views of Congress, and to protect her Treasury, iff) me diately passed an act providing that only the third class. of issues should be received in payment of taxes -due to tnatbta.e; and more recently, the Uaoes or liicamoou, no doubt witn tne same ob ject, ik aw resViroa cot to receive oa deposit 4he- usues ot the first class. Tne uancs or Petersburg and Lynchburg, and of the other Southern States, so far as I know, still receive all the issues : but whether they will continue to do so, after the 1st of August, I have been unable to ascertain. The second section ot ordinance Wo. 35, Febru ary session of our Convention, compels you to re ceive any Confederate notes in payment of taxes, and give3 me no power to forbid you to receive any class of it : and as it may turn out that the effect of the act of Congress may be to make one or both the first mentioned classes of notes uncur rent after the 1st of August, whereby the State and County Treasuries may be supplied with un-- available money, the, Governor, with the advice of his Council, has ordered an extra session of the General Assembly to convene on the 30th inst., to consider nd decide what ought. to be done in the premises. It is expected, therefore, that you will abstain from collecting taxes in the old issues until the action of the Legislature shall be known. In the mean time ih ere shoul d be no panic among the people on this subject. All have an opportunity to fund till the 1st of August, and to pay the large tax to the Confederate Government in the notes ; and if the General Assembly should decide to continue to receive the issues of the se cond class, which will continue to be nearly as good as those of tho third class, after the.lst of August, the people' will not be incommoded ma terially, in paying the State and County, taxes ; And it is hoped that the issues of the first class will be nearly all absorbed by funding, and in paying the Confederate tax. This full explanation is made to enable you clearly to undeetand the subject, and to explain it to J tiiers. .' Until you receive further -instructions, you are, therefore, advised to receive oaly in payment ot. fat ate and Uounty taxes, the Ireasury notesjof this State, the notes of all theJJankf of this State, gold and silver coin, and Confederate .Treasury notes dated on and after the.Gth-of April, 1863, an 4 the intorest-bearing. Treasury notes of the Confede ratatates.' Very respectfully, " JONATHAN WORTH, - ', Public Treasurer. . SEIZURE OF A FEDERAL STEAMER BY CONFEDERATE , PRISONERS THEIR ESCAPE. "The Washington Chronicle gives the following account of the escape of ninety Confederate officers from the horrors of Fort Delaware : I On Wednesday last, the steamer Maple Leaf, Capt. Wm. II . Deal, left Old Point for Fort Delaware, having n board ninety Confederates, all commissioned officers, who, it k understood, were not. to be exchanged for the present. Every thing went on quietly until the steamer was just beyond Cape Henry Light, when the prisoners gradually approached the guard, only twelve in numoer, ana suddenly disarmed them, placing them ana the officers and crew under close arrest. and would not 'permit them to sae in what dfrec' tion the vessel wad steaming. After proceeding about 45 miles beyond Cape Henry the steamer was run in near the Virginia shore,, where all hut' twenty-six landed in the yawl boats of tho Leaf. They piloted the steamer themselves and ' attended to ths fire-room and engine, it is said that the muskets of the guard were without bayonets aird unloaded, and each man was seized by four of the Confederates, thus rendering resistance useless. During their iosession of kfae boatthey refrain ed from doing any damage to "the steamer, and treated the otficors aud crew with civility. The ringleaders in the party wtra a son of Semmes, of tbe Alabama, and a man named McGowari, of Texas.- ; ' j . j. i The entirn party were mostly from the extreme Southern SuU', wer4 all dressed in new and; handsome uniforms, and seemed to be in possession ; i a considerable amount of money. Soon aa tne party had effected a landing, Capt.: Deal resumed! ine aoruLuand ot the tttearner, when she put DacK immediately to report to Gen. Dix." The" facts were mad known to the General, who instantly .ordered out a strong detachment of Col. Pierce's cavalry, and it was thought 'they .would be able to overtake the party before they could get beyond the Federal iines. t FJBOM JACKSON. ; From the Mississippian of Tuesday (dtbl we copy Wie following items : ft Kirbt Skrra at Milukbn's Bind After numforlessjrepbrtaastothe movements and where ffJ ! M-r? ''a P ascertained at last that he is at Mihken's Bend, a short distance above the mouth of the Yazoo, xuoio ia ug uouot oi ine irum oi inis.- xib couia not have made a movement which promised pet ter resalts. In his presentjwsition he conitfiaDds the-jOint of the eaemy's debarkation and can easi ly cut off his 8upjjiw,thus relieving Vickslm, g and placing Grant's army in a still more precarious situation. , We expect- to hear good news from him in a few days.' j It.is r positively rasserted that the enemy are evacuting thev whole line of the Memphis and Charlestoniflnroad When Grant asked ior 60, 000 reinforcements a few davs ag. Horlbutlre- Lpliedthathe did not know where they were to come from unless Memphis and the railroad lines were evacuated. We presume that movement has been decided oft So it appaars that the whole Federal army of the West except that under Rosecrahs, and a good portion, of even that, i? to be hurled upon Vicksburg. j The Charleston Merqury of the 15th has the iollowiBg: An officer of a South Carolina regiment; Who has opportunities1 of being well posted, writing to a friend in this cjty, from Montgomery, Ala. on Friday last, the 13 th inst., says : 1 It is more than -probable that to-day all our troops are engaged in deadly strife with the ene my. Just before Jeayjog Jackson on Wednesday, L1 aawaeveral officers of high rank, who expressed I AyxmArtAn Kalitt fhaf flan 1 rr hef An- tttmiIH oH. a confident beli4 that Gen., Jonhston- would ad vance on Fndal or Saturday (to-day or to-mor-. tow). So far si my intercourse with officers and men extenaa, x noara out one expression 91 Be lief, and that wa in the uTtimate utter defeat! of Grant's forces. 'II There is no dsubl about the movement of Oen. Kirbv Smith. He landed on Saturday and Sim- day atMilliken'i Bend,23 miles above Vicksburg, wUh . thoisand men. ' t j ONJS OF THE TRICKS. , We understand that the extortioners in some up to the highest mark. When they find that any article of which they have a quantity (on hand Is declining in price, they put up a lot of it at auction and one of their number bjda it! off at anextravagaqt-prioe; whereupon they all join in spreading the report that that is the "market prico." These land sharks will probably try to keep up the price of flour, and provision's in the same way, now that it is almost Certain thatyiere Will be an abundant supply. They defy public opinion for awhile, but a day of judgment will surely come. - f ! Every man who demands &n extravagant price for what he has to sell, we care not whether be is trader, manufacturer, or farmer, is doing 'hie country great harm, crippling the Government and producing suffering among a large class of his fdiww-niiei(-v xne man wnoiecuamiatea j-teii- es while th war lasts, and while so many of our brave men are suffering and dying in defence of the country, will be a marked man forever here after, because It is evident that no one can get Cich under present circumstances who is satisfied with moderate profits. it j The following paragraph, from an exchange, will afford an idea of how the miserable creatures are operating; : f ! Wheat Sfecuxation. Several of tiur px- changes, says the Milledgeville. "Recorder," no tice the fact, that persons have been ottering ten dollars per bushel for the growing crop of wheat with the design of keeping up tLe price ot floir, to prevent loss on the large stocks which have been withheld from the market in the hope of still higber'prices. It is stated that one firm has 1,500 barrels which cost $60 per barrel. If the price; is brought down to $20, which we think will be tho, case when the abundant crop now ready for har- vesting snail be tnrown upon me maraei, f ne ipsa on that single lot will be $60,000. To obtain monopoly, so as to control prices as' heretofore, these heartless speculators and extortioners are willing to risk a -good deal in order to save tnem- selves if possible. 'Charlotte Democrat. ? - correspondent of the New York iWorjd, who professes to have travelled through Alabama, Georgia, South and North Carolina, to Rich mond, publishes an account of his tripsin, which he says : ' - . 1 ! "At Atlanta, Augusta, Columbia, Kndxvllle and Weldon, our yankee) prisoners were5 greeted with substantiarevidencea of friendly, feeliogi The solid, sober men of the South are anxioujsly aski'nir what terms we can offer and what is tOf be their fatev TheHmpresaontsgaininground in r the Confederacy that we can outlast them ana overrun their country." - The "solid, seber men" spoken of by this ftorres- pondent are only a few miserable tories who Jive in the South, and who are doing all they can to divide and distract our own people and make the enemy believe that our subjugation is possible.' They may escape punishment now, but a day; of retribution will surely come upon themand, 1 in view of their fate when the war is over, they earnestly desire the North to triumph in order that they may escape the ignominy and f disgrace which their conduct merits. The independence of the South will certainly be achieved; then what t 1 ft il - I iL! l win Decomeoi tne irauorsauuyanKeesympainiz erst ' V v The real solid, sober, true men of the South, soldiers and all, are unwilling to see the war stop ped until Lincoln's thieves and murderers are withdrawn from southern soil or driven off. They know that it is not in the power . of the Con-, federate authorities to make peace until, the Lio colcites cease making war upon us. We all want peaces, but we can-never get peace until the ene my "stops and abandons his subjugating schemes. Any man who' desires our Government Jk stop or suspend for a limited time preparations for de fence, while a barbareus enemy is prosecuting Jhe war upon us with all his might, is a traitor at heart if not in act.- Charlotte Democrat. Fractional Confederate Treasury Notes of ths denomination of fifty cents will soon b issued by tbe Treasury Department. The paper is about the yimensions of the seventy-five cent corporation cotes of the city of .Richmond, but of better quality, and bears the medalion portrait of the President ef the Confederate States in he centre, and the figure "50" at each end. Thefportrait is engraved from the model of the plaster of park bust of the President, exhibited on Main street. The work of printing and preparing these notes goes into operation to-day, atd the money will be issued at the rate of twenty-five thousand or more per day, until the amount limited by law is is-ued This is the first fractional currency issued by the Confederate States, and there ia u4 1 proyuioa for any other of a fractional denomination. Richmond Eexaminer, 2d. . ' .. - . : ' : I . : THE MEMORY OF STONEWALL JAOK SON IN ENGLAND. '' ' ; The English press have numerous editorials on the death Of Gen. Thos. J. Jackson. The London Post, (Government organ,) of May 20tb, says: . Jackson, like tbe Puritans, was austere and devout; but whilst his religion taught him hu mility and dependence upon hjs Creator, it did not lead him to confound the true nature of the objects for which both he and his followers were striding, and-to aappose that because their ends were noble, thai, therefore, they were the cham pion of God. If he was occasionally a preacher in the camp, .he was also a skillful and gallant general in the field ; and it ri not surprising that tnose who had so frequently folio wed him to vic tory should have considered him as specially favored by Providence, and have regarded him r with feelings akin to devotion. As a soldier he will hold probably the foremost place in the history. of me great Avxerican civu war. ills name ia in delibly .associated with the most brilliant achieve ments of the Confederate armids; for lo those achievements by his. genius and his courage he more than any one else specially contributed. Strategic ability is the most valuable qualifica tion a General can possess, but it is .not always that' consummate military tacticians command the confidence of their followers, or insure the success of the operations they conduct. It was, however, the rare good fortune of General Jack son to lead men who, whilst their courage was exalted in an extraordinary degree by the convic tion that nothing could be worse than defeat, we.re inspired with an unshaken faith in the genius and ability' of tneir General. To follow Jackson they knew was to march to certain victory.: and, if it .was necessary that success shonld be purchased at the cost of many lives, that reflection did not dispirit them"; for the cause in which they were fighting stripped death of all its terrors. The London Herald, (Derby organ,) of the 27th, says; . . . He was animated by the spirit which rendered the soldiers of the Commonwealth irresistible in fight which carried Havelock through incredible dangeia to the gates of Luoknow in triumph. The Christian and patriot soldier achieved the Last and greatest of his successes in dying for his coun try. He perished dpubly a martyr, and in his last -breBlk attested the . righteousness of the cause which he sealed with his blood. The Northern Republic has produced no heroes of the stamp of Jackson. One such man might be the salvation of. them yet, Blatant demagogues at home, bragging imbeciles in the field, afford a spectacle so absurd, and yet so painful, that Europe knows not whether to laugh or weep at the degradation of her children. The Northerners -want a man to do a man's work. The only great men of the war have been developed in the South. It is very difficult to explain this. Some may call it a fatali ty, some a providential arrangement. That it is a Jact is at present enough for us. AFFAIRS IN TEXAS CONTEMPLATED FEDERAL INVASION. -We have been placed in possession of files of Texas papers as late as the 25thult. Parties who have Arrived in Texas from California state that the Federal troops at Tuacon, Arizona, were under marching orders for tbe Kio Grande. They are to fall 4w&b.QjahjCdvten some- A " sr - 1 : - - ma "v a a. . i r wnere.m j.exas. am ooject 01 iaut expeaiuon is. said to be to cut oft the supplies tbe Confederacy is receiving by the Bio Grande and through Mexico. It numbers about 6,000, including U. S. regulars and New ! Mexico and California volunteers. It is said they expect a force of 6,000 more men can be raised in Texas and on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. This expedition will probably work its way towards the Gulf, with the aid of tbe Union' men (as they say) in Texas, until the boundary shall be entirely in the Federal hands. They believe the enterprise to be easy of execution. Their troops will probably start from El Paso, and take possession of the chain of forts extending towards San Antonio, and make each in succession the base 01 operations against the next, until the army is within easy communication with a oo-operative force upon the Gulf. Residents of Texas say that, even if they should bring 30,000 men which we know full well they cannot do at this time they would not be able to guard a line' like that of the Rio Grande, 1,800 miles long. j Gov. Lubbock, in his message, states that Texas has furnished some 87,000 troops for tbe Con federate army. . He recommends a State conscrip tion law, to em braoe all between the ages- of 16 and 60; and this law had' been adopted by the Legislature, and is now in force. The Governor stated that, according to the closest calculation, this law would add ajxmt 27,000 men to the Southern army. v Gov. Vidaurn, at Monterey, is friendly to the South. . He is warmly attached to Texas'. TbecroDS in Texas promise abundantly. The greatest danger to be apprehended to our crops is' now from an excess of rain, for the present indl- cations are that this is to be one among the few , sThe gunboat Caddoaa-snocessTaTly launched at waives ton eany in juay. j.nis veasei oas oeen built with great dispatch by Captain Carter, Con federate States navy, naval engineer, and her future commander. It is claimed for her all the excellencies of the 'gunboats that have, gone be fore her, with many of their defects remedied, and sundry late improvements added. She is all new and built of oak ; her walls are said to be four feet thick, and then this is. said to be mailed with iron. Her ram is of t he most formidable charac ter. She will carry four heavy guns. A good part of her machinery is now on her, and as soon as she is mailed she will be ready for the service. Richmond Dispatch. ADVENTURE OF GEN. WISE. ; From the pages of a private letter we gather the following particulars of a recent adventure of Gem Henry A. Wise on. the Peninsula, and which is in perfect 'keeping with the past life of this singular man. It seems he had been expect icg an attack from the enemy, and for several nights previous had been in the habit of visiting the outposts alone to assure- himself that this im. portant duty was not neglected. About 12 o'clock on the night in question, on his. return from his usual tour of tbe posts, he came unex pectedly on a drowsy sentinel posted on one of the inner lines. ..: Something peculiar in the gaard's appearance aftraoted the General'aattentionk and wishing to assure himself that the sentinel understood bis du ties, he cantered briskly up to him, unmindful of the latters repeated summons to halt.- . The guard, finding his commands wholly disre garded, and having in his mind's eye unwhole some visions of Stoneman'S cavalry and1 Yankee prisons, brought down his gun, and when the Gen eral was aboat fnjaces from him he fired. The ball passed within an inch of the General's head, and his escape was almost miraculous but, noth ing daunted, he dashed on, and fired his pistol several times over the head of the astonished sot diet ; but be too was made of gjod stuff, and find ing himself unhurt alter the last shot of bis foe, he took a tree and began coolly to reload his gun for another trial. The General however, satisfied that no Yankee could penetrate the camp by that road; made himself known to the sentioel, and while complimenting his bravery,' good humored ly recommended a little mora target practice. S Lynchburg Republican,' 8th. ' ! GENERAL POLK AND v BEARER. I THE j COLOR -A young officer at Shelby villa writes'lbu to a friend in Rich mend : . V, i - h Yesterday I had the honor to ride areubd tbe : . caiupa with Lieut. Gen. Polk ahd Geo. Chealham i all looked in fine order, the guna bright aad the . men in. the very best spirits. - . f . eDrJ 0 j' questioning' Coh McMurray ; i hV1 ' hU entt ,aid where : if the color bear ? ! Sergeant OakIsy;a young man aBout eighteen or twenty years old, stepped out In ' ' butternut jeans, with real modesty and unaflected manner, and took off his cap. General Polk un- . gloved his hand and said : "I must shake hands.1 with you," and Ihea railing ht h0 .-i -.1.1. l great feeling and real- martial eloquence, "I am ! . SC0Ier.10 tha Psencpf so gallant a ; . v T,ba eflf?ct wa tremendous, and a shout rent the air, . . !iJUQ8Wey,' at lha battle of Murfrees- : U 1?$ ,oa lwo uni4 yards i in front of his f egiment undr a terrible lire. A i battery - was playing upon the regiment, ' and it was uncertain whether it as our battery . or ; that of the enemy. This . color bearar advanced in front, displaying his colors In a con spicuous man ner,so as to stop the firing if they were if friends, or to make it .more intense if .they were enemies. The increased severity of the flrinr which immediately.followed determine! thedoiibt and fhowed them to belong to the enemy. He then ; deliberately resumed his placejn the line We silenced their battery and . drove back the opposing column. : The high compliment . whtoh . Oen. Polk paid him made that young man at proud ad a king. It was an honor greaUt tkik , M.iau0r Garter He and the whole-reilraent will fight until the last man fallj. . - ; . GLtrx. There is .one article much used and A greatly needed, which is becoming vary scarce. We allude to Glue. We have been unable, re- ' cently, to find enough to make a roller for inking , type, and we bear the complaint frequency that there is none to be had Char. Democrat. Messrs, Thiem & Frapps have a glue' manufac tory nearjhjs city, but have not yet learned la make a sufficiently hard article to make Printing -Rollers for summer use.. We found it to answer prett j well for winter, but when the hot days came " on our Rollers melted. We were told it we would ; dissolve the glue in alcohoL that it wuld become j, hard enough for our purpose. But no aloobol was ' to be had, so we 'experimented on a subititute f and by dissolviFg the glUe in apple brandy And spirits of turpentine, about a gill of eaoh to orie pound of glue, we have made as handsome rollers ; as we ever saw; and they have stood) the hot ' weather now for two weeks in constant use. . We publish this for the benefit of the Cra rt.Spirit of the Age. j THE FLAG OF TRUCE OVER EXILES. Gen. Bragg has issued tbe following order rela tive to flags of truce covering Federal soldiers guarding Confederate citizen who are sent fri m beyond the enemy's lines into the Confederate ' Hxapq'bs Drx Nb. 2,1 xuuanoma, renn., June 2, 1863. Ventral Orders, No. 18. ; II. The enemy has seen fit to expel from hiV lines and send to our midst'not only those suppos ed to be guilty of crimes, bat non-combatants 4 found at their houses in tbe peaceful pursuits of ; life. In the perpetration of these outrages on hu manity, ahd these violations of civillred warfare, 1 he has prostituted the flag of truce te the base pur- , pose of protecting -the guards who drive forth these exiles. Hereafter that flag will not protect those 1 guards, but they, will be seized . and sent forward ' to be treated as spies or prisoners of war, as the circumstances in each case may require. J5y command of Oen. Bragg. . U. V , VYALTXa, A A. G. i General Maoruder akd th Mkxicans'. - Tht Houston Telegraph,?! the 13th ult ,'announce ' ! the return there of Gen Magruder from the Hlo Grande, i It says: One object of his vUittotheRia Grande wa to cultivate friendly relations with the Mexicans This .he has succeeded admirably In.! He was visiteft by Gov, Lopez, of Tamaulipas-, andrsceiv ed him with all the honors due his siadon. .The General and his staff were invited to a banaiiet in Matamoras, which they attended the next da v. ' They were in return receivad with the most distln guished courtesy, amid salves of artillery,- mur sic, etc. The occasion was a gala day for Mata moras, and nothing occurred to mar the nleasura i .ra. - . . , . . , . . Voluntary Diath to savk a Lcahzr. Ills said that upofflretreatf the.Con federates, at one point in tne lighting, our men were so a ear them as tp plainly dlatingqish Gen,.Hill,ahd at the mo ment a rifle was levelled at him, when one of his ' soldiers was seen le step before the General and fall at the discharge. History has but few in stances of a devotion like thia. During this mel '' ancholy war a similar case Is: known to have oc curred, in the voluntary death of a young man In ! Missouri, who took the place of another who had a dependent family, but who was a total stranger ' to the youth who thus saved him at the expense of his own Wto. Hartford Conn. ' Times, i t - ' - . . NaUs fdjTsalo, ! AT III CII SHOALS IRON WORKS, IK OAITO CODHTV, ST. C. j , : A- i , TERMS CASE. THEV WILL BE DELIVERED AT Iron Dapot, on the Wilmington, Charlotte aad Rutherford Rail Road. , i Address RIQEt SHOALS IRON CO,, Iron, Lincoln County, N. C. . I ' . JaBt20lipd . A Private Sqhpol.i MISS MANGDM WILL REOPEN II ER , SohooLfor Yong Ladles at ike residaaee of her Mother, Mrs. Willie P. Mangun, on the 22nd July, 1863. They will reoaive lastrnetlon ia the EN OW LISH BEANCHES and MUSIC, and find a hoafe la . her mothers family. Parents and 0 uardians, who de sire farther information, win -address I MISS M P. MAtfOUM, T. i Eed Mountain or Flat Rifer P. Jnael38w j r Orange Couniy, N. C. "VTORTU CAROLINA ASIIECOUNTY Xl Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions May Tetsa Gee. W. Bradley, adm'r.l I .: vs. ' 1 4 Pia for sale of laads. James Cooper and'others. j ' , j ' . It appearing to the Court that the defolaats James Cooper and Newton Cooper, are not residebts Ot this -State, it is therefore ordered that publication be made ia the weekly Raleigh Register for six weeks, qwbb- sanding the said defendntato be and appear at tbe next term of the court of pleas and quarter seaelena to be held for the eoanty of Ashe at the court boue in ef ferson, en the 4th Monday in Aarast next, then aJ , there plead, answer ot demur to the said petition, otherwise jadvment pre cwnfesjo will be entered against them, and tbe oase lirbe heard ex. parte as ': to them, i Witness. James Wage, 'Clerk of Oor said. ' doort, the 1th Monday in May, 1883. '. . ' Jtme 20 Ow ' JAMES WAQO, C. C, 'i; A : i it is reported that Bt.g. Qn. Pillow-has promoted to a Major Generalship. I i f " - . - It:
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