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. JtALEIGH WEDNESDAY MORNING! AUGUST 5 1863.
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S3jc galcigjri gcsistcr.
JSO. W. SVME, Editor and Proprietor.
" Ours are the plana of fair delightful peace,
UnwarpeJ by party rage to lire like brothers.
RALEIGH N. C.
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SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1, lSf.3.-
-HIE NEWS.".
The item of latest news moat directly in
. tercstiog to the people of this St a' e is the
course and operations of the Yankee raider
who have recently threatened Weldon, and
tho Petersburg and Weldon railroad: It
would feem from the article which we take
from the Petersburg Kxpres8 that there
' were Iwo bodies of raiders one emerging from
Suffolk, and the o'her from Murfre3borough.
The latter body, it will be' seen, have been
met and gallantly driven back with some
los, by. portions of Gen'l Matt Ransom's
Brigade, under the command of Colonels
Clark and Martin. The j fate of the party
from Suffolk, whose destination was evidently
the cutting of the railroad between Peters
: burg and Weldon, -at a pqint soma distance
from the latter place -(probably the bridge at
; VnrA is not known, but we have an
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abiding confidence that they will meet with
a reception similar to the one given to their
compatriots on the more Southern expedition
i. e., be -sent howling back to their gunboats.
' Wo are happy in'the belie that the Kail-
road from Weldon "North, is safe, bat we
.cannot say as. much for the road from Wel
don South. ' I ' . ;
Our northern army seems to have reached
very nearly its old position, and probably it
will there try conclusions with the Yankees
" athird time for the -possession of, Richmond,
and for the third time, we confidently believe
the codfishers will be hujled back discomfited
and disgraced. . j
- Gen. Lee, it will be seen, has issued an
order recalling alt absentees fit for duty, to
their posts.' lie makes a' strong appeal to
their sense of duty ana patriotism.
The attack on Charleston by the latest ac-
I counts "presents no new features of interest
The spirit of the onset 6ecms to vary some-
t,imes being sluggish, and sometimes spirited.
The news from the Southwest does not pos
sess much interest. . t
' "We should feci the humiliation cf the restora
tion of the old Goveramont as profoundly and
. IJiI..T7Ka. ikil ?. Kilt if
acuteiy as wuuiupe iijuui - - -
the people of this Slate, with subjugation or resto
ration stariE them in the face as alternative,
khould sadly and reluctantly j accept the latter, it
would not be in our power to prevent it, even we
would." Raleigh Standard.
"Even if we would .'" Vho believes that
the Editor of the Standard, after counselling
submission rather than resistance, aner en
deavoring to persuade the people" that the
cause of the Southern Confederacy is hope
less, and counselling the acceptance of terms
wuien wouiu luvoive t?siuiuuu v mo
Union, would ever counjel the "peoplo"
to prolong the war to any period, however
distant and indefinite, ratter than submit to
enforced re-union, which would be ther vilest
cqrt-of "subjugation He would "feel the
humiliation of restoration1," and yet he is
willing to be humiliated by the accursed
fiends whose thrico damnable deeds have
been the everlasting disgraceof the.age, and
he is willing, too, to see the "people" whose
especial friend he assumes to be, "humilia
ted by the restoration of the old govern
ment." Out upon such aflibel upon South-
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ern manhood ! !
liut we are glad to.seej that some of the
Standard's "conservative-' contemporaries
scorn tho miserable counsels which it puts
forth. Neither the Fayetteville Observer, nor
Milton Chronicle.noT Salisbury Watchman,
cor IVadesboro Argus, will entertain for a
moment any proposition which lcoks to re-
unon with the vile Yankees'.
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RESOLUTIONS OF THE PEOPLE OF
i WAKREX COUNTY-IIOLDEN DE
NOUNCED AS A TRAITOR.
We publish to-day the resolutions of the
peopie of the county of Warren, in reference
to the treasonable course of the Raleigh
Standard. It is no disparagement to any
other community in or out of the State, to
say that, taking it as a body, there exists not
a more intelligent .county than that of War
ren in the, country. Asa consequence, it
is true and loyal to the South, and fully
alive to the treasonable and disgraceful
course of the Ifaleigh Standard. .v
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Mr. J. R. D. Shepherd has received tre ap
pointment of Aid-dq-Camp and Acting As
sistant. Adjutant General to General Martin,
with the rank of Lieutenant, and is now in
actual service.
The lion. William L.. Yancey died at his resi
dence, near .Montgomery, Ala-, on the' 27th of
luly, after an illness of four wet-ks, from the el
ites of kidney disease. j
Tho Toronto Leader, in an editorial upon the
supposed reverse of Gen. Lee in Pennsylvania,
closes thus: ' . j
There is not the leat ground for despondency.
To concentrate its forces .will, but strengthen tho
Siovitb, and if its recent reverse but tend, to this
viij, iLcre wilrnoi be much cause for regret-
THE RUMORED INTERVENTION.
i Under .the head of "latest news" .we pub
lished ia our last paper the substance of a
letter from' the Washington correspondent of
tho N. .Y. Herald, whjch states that it was
believed in official circles' in that city, that
England and France would 'soon intervene
and put a stop to the war between the North
and the South. We have had so many ru
mors of intervention, and have been so often
disappointed,, that the publio mind has be
come sceptical on tho .subject. Rut .in the
last few'weeks a new feature in the affairs of
the world has been developed, which it is not
improbable will bring about that intervention
and, recognition which has been so long, and,
lookirg at tho law of nations, so unlawfully
withheld from the South. We allude to the
occupation of Mexico by the French. This
occupation will be permanent,' and it is man
ifestly the interest of the French Emperor
that the independence of the Southern Con
federacy should be acknowledged, as he
would find in it a friendly neighbor, while in
the event of its subjugation-by the North, and
the reconstruction of the Union, he would
have next door to him a troublesome and
hostile cation. The North has looked, and
still looks with an evil eye on the operations
of the French in Mexico, and nothing but
the war ia which it is engaged with the South
has prevented it from assuming a hostile atti
tude against the Emperor. The possession
or confrol of Mexico by .the French may
well cause great uneasiness to Yankeedom,
as it foreshadows to it the loss bf California,
Oregon and the Territories on the Pacific.
Holding Mexico, the French will be between
the Atlantic portion of the United States and
the Pacific, and it would betoken great igno
rance of the qharacter of Louis Napoleon to
doubt what use he will make of his position,
So let the Yankee look out for their aurif-
erous regions, in tneir maa crusade against
the South, they have exposed themselves to
losses which will reduce them to- the grade
of a third class nation. They will see the
Pacific' States go under a different rule.
They will see the control of the Mississippi
in the hands of the South, and that of the
Gulf of Mexico in the hands 1 of France,
Spain and the Southern' Confederacy, and
find themselves shorn of the power to put in
practice their propensities' for avarice andf
mischief. This, is a picture' we delight -,to
dwell on.
As to the action of England, it is not im
probable that by this time she has come, to
the conclusion that the United States, a
power which has often snabbed her and given
her trouble, has been sufficiently weakened
for h purposes, and that Jho South has
given sufficient proof cf its ability to main
tain its independence, and;' has, therefore,
determined to recognize her "as one of the
family of Nations, and in, concert with
France, interfere to stop the war, so revolting
to humanity, and so ruinous to the great in
terest of the civilized worloj.
The . considerations' ; above stated incline
us to the opinion , that there ,, is something
more than idle rumor in the report of the
speedy intervention of France and England.
But these considerations should not induce
the relaxation of a single muscle by the
South." All its energies should be devoted
to the prosecution of the war, just as if
France and England were nations of the
moon, and had nothing to do with the inter
nal affairs of this "Planet)' j
In connection with this subject we may
notice the proposition which Seward is said
to be on the eve of submitting, that peace
and reunion shall be offered to the South on
the extremely favorable i (!) conditions that
Missouri shall be a free State, all the slaves
taken from the slave States and emancipated
rem tin free, without any compensation to
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their ownera who have been robbed of them,
and the owners of slaves in States in which
slavery will be recognized bej generously al
lowed to retain their property! All this is to
be proposed, that when peace is restored, and
the Union reconstructed, the armies now on
foot in the South and North shall.be used to
thrash France out of Mexico and England
out of Canada, and thus triumphantly reassert
the Monrc3 doctrine, s&d poetically ex
claim : '
No pent-up Utica coatracUouf powers,
This whole boundless Conticient is ours."
Seward is a genius.- . j
NONE RUT A '.TRAITOR."
Speaking of -reconstruction, the Charlotte
Bulletin says that "none but .a traitor would
ever for a moment harbor such, an idea,"--We
commend tho above sentiment td. the at
tention of the Editor of the Raleigh Stan
dard. . . '
MORGAN CAPTURED.
The Baltimore .'American of the 23th- states
thai General Morgan and four hundred of bis
command were captured last; Sunday, near
New Lisbon. ' A detachment df 350 of Morgan's
men has arrived at Camp Stuart, Greenbrier Co.,
Virginia, havibg crossed at Parkorsburg. Al the
rest of his comma,nd, some 4,009, have been cap
tured. -5
WARREN COUNTY IIOME GUARDS.
On Saturday, tho 25th inst., the adjourned
meeting for the organization of Homo Guard3 as
sembled at the Court-house In Warrenton. A
large number of citizons wore in attendances and
reports were received from every Captain's district
in the county except two. A large number of:
names were enrolled and the. returns of tho num
ber .of single and double-barrelled gun3 quite sat
isfactory. ' There is nd douot,at least twohunilrelr
available citizens, exempt trom all military duty
are roady and willing to organize for tho protec
tion of fheir home and property, it. Milan, Eq.,
was in the cha'r. Aftrr the routine busines was
disposed; t f, th first company of the Warren
II me Guards was ortranizod by tho unanwmous
election of John T. William?, Ef , of AVarron-
ton. as Captain. The folio wing. resolution wg
adopted :
Resolved, That wo respectfully surest to our
'sUicr counties tnrouir'iout the State the immedi
ate formation. of Home Guards for mutual pro
tectiou.
Further proceoaings were then postponed until
Tu3dav. the 28th inst., when the other officers
would be elected.
On motion, Capt. Williams, II. G. Good loo and
W. A. Walsh, were annointed as a committee to
eommunicate with tho Adjutant General on iha
subject of or ganization and a supply of arms and
ammunition, and t tako such other. measures as
mHy be neccessary to place tho company in readi
ness for service.
II. G. Goodloe, Ef-q', then submitted a series of
resolutions for tho consideration of the meeting.
The first resolution, as originally proposed, point-
on out lor censure ''a portion of the press of tae
State," but this not being considered by tho meet
ing as sufficiently specific, it was amended on mo
tion of Dr. Pritchard, and being then severally
read, the resolutions were unamimously adopted.
- Resolped, That a9 citizens deeply interested in
Tor the success of the presntjustand riecesary war
the attainmtnt, of Southern independence, wo feel
called 'upon to denounce in tbestrongest terras the
traitorous course pursued by the Editor of tho
North Carolina Standard, aa disgraceful to North
Carolina and eminently dangerous to the South
ern Confederacy. We therefore reip-ctfuly call
upon the Executive of the S'ato to suppress the i
treason or remove the traitor beyond the limits
of the Confederacy.
Resolved, That if tho Executive of the State
should incur any censure or respansibiluy in car
rying out thoabova resolution we hereby pledge
ourselves to sustain . the act by every means
within our power, as one neceaary to tho dearest
interests and safety of the State.
Resolved, That a3 a portion of the citizens ot
tho Southern Confederacy, wo solemnly pledge
ourselves to sacrifice our "last man and our lat
dollar" tOoner than accept any terms short ofthe
absolute a?id unconditio?ial independence of the
Southern Confederacy; and that wo will consider
any man or tody of men, advocating a course
adverse to that glori( m and necessary consum-
mation, to bo hostile to the i best interests of the
countryj and justly liablo to all the penalties in-f
curred by convicted traitors.
Resolved That the Secretary be requested to
forward copy uf our proceedings-lu.Uio StsXk.
Journal, wfth a request that tho Register, and al.
other papers opposed to Yankee domination nnd
domestic troason, will copy them.
. U. MILiAM, Chair'n:
PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT
OF THE CONFEDERATE STAGES.
Again do I call upon the people of tho Confed
eracy a people who believe that tho Lord reign-
eth, and that His overruling Providence ordereth
allthings to unite in prayer andhumblo sub
mission under His chastening hand, and to bo-
seech His favor on our suffering country.
It is meet that when trials and reverses b:fal us
we should seek to tke homo to our hearts and
consciences tne lessonsr wmcn mey teacn, and
profit by the self-examination for which they
prepare us. Had not our successes on land and
sea mada us self-confident and forgetful of our re
liance on Him ? Had not tho love of lucre eaten
like a gangrene- into tha very heart of ,tbo land.
converting too many among us into worshippers
of gain and 'rendering them unmindful of their
duty to their country, to' their fellow-men, and to
their God ? Who then will presume to complain
that we have been chastened or todespair of our just
cause and theprot-eclrbn of our Heavenly Father?
Let us rather receive in bumble thankfulness
the lesson which Ho ha3 taught m our recent re
verses, devoutly ; acknowledging that t Him,
and not to our own feeble arms, are duo the hon?'
or and the glory of victory; that from Him, in
His-' paternal providence, come tho anguish and
sufferings of defeat, and that, whether in victory
or defeat, our humble supplications are due at His
footstool.
Now, therefore, I, Jefferson Davis, Prresident
of these Confederate Statea,"do jssae this, my proc
lamation, setting jipant Friday, the 21st day of
August ensuing, as a day of fasting, Humiliation
and grayer; and I do hereby invite the people of
the Confederate States to repair, on that day, to
their respective places of public worship, and to
unite in supplication for the favor and protection
of that God who has hitherto conducted us safely
through all the dangers that environed us.
r "j In faith whereof, I have hereunto
SEAL' -set my band and tho Seal of tha Con-
, federate States, at Richmond, this
twenty-fifth day of July, in the year of our Lord,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-throe.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Hjr the President :
J. P. Bemjamin,
Secretary of State, .
LET OUR PEOPLE ROUSE .THEMSELVES
FOREWARNED FOREARMED.
We hear it upon undoubted authority, that a
ahkeo raid on a formidable scale has been or
ganized at Portsmouth, and that if immediate
steps are not taken to meet and crush it, a great
deal ofmiechief will bo done between this city
and Weldon. A body of cavalry, 1,500 strong,
with five pieces of Artillery, reached Suffolk Sat
urday evening, and moved from there Sunday
morning taking the Wbitemarsn road, which
leads directly to Weldon. There was another
body of cavalry, 3,500 strong, in Portsmouth,
prepared for operating in a similar way. . This
information should roasothe people all along the,
lino of railroad from here to Weldon to intani
and vigorous preparations for repelling the Van
dals, which can easily be done by timely and
proper efforts. If our warniqg is not heeded,
thero is no calculating the aipunt of jni;chief
that will be done by the raiders. The'Gover.n
rnent is alive to the exigency, and is doing its du
ty, but the peof lo mu?t also do theirs', which is to
organize as large Tocal forces as possible in every
direction for the defence of their homes and prop
erty. , . . ': '- "
We learn that an immense quantity of hay
has boen accumulated very recently in Ports
mouth, evidently fur the use of tnny thousand
horse3. Petersburg, E.rpres.1.
! if ; PEACE l I .
borne of the Pffesses in our State are discussing.
,tfio propriety of making some effort towards bring
ing about a settlement between the North and tho
South. Nothing in our estimation would be as
desirable as peace t Nelhing, we know,' is so much
uusirwu py grfat mas3 ot jtne people. . jjui we
i would ask, in -.all sincerity and honesty, how is
sucn a result to be brousht about ? Have the au
tborities of the Kingdum of "Lincolndom madi
any oner of terms of peace, cr even! asked for a
suspension of .hostilities with that object in view?
By no meansbut so far as we can see and judge,
uch a proposition is not even e"ntsrtained, mugh;
ls have commissioners been appoint d or .a de
sire manifested for it. Well,- then, by whom is
tho proposiildn to be made ? Not cortajnly by the
Confederate States, for from the beginning of the
contest up to the: present time; we havo been pro
testing our desire for peace, and only asked that
we may be let alone to pursue the even tenor of
our way. This has been the course of events, and
how could weiapproacL them, with any kind of
selt respoct, and fljnjir t,orm3- Are we;ready to of
fv tr lay ldtcpi f;uf ...arms and subriSit to the de
grading" position-before the civilizad world aa
slavea to Abe Lincoln and his niinipn'i for all time
to come? If we know anything of our people,
we do not believe they would for a moment sub-
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uiu iv bucu an insuii oeing vuirea mem, ana iae
man who would a jvocale such a coqrse, would
and should be hooted from society. As an evi
dence of the venom and brutiMiness ofthe eneiny,
a lew days ago, tbo Hun. A. H. StkvenTS, Vice
President of tho Confederate States, was sent as
Commissioner to propose that tho War, for the
future, bo'eb'n ducted on such terms as i9 usual be
tween civilised nations. Who but a savage wquld
have dared to" refuse such a reasonable and chris
tian offer be'ore the world ? and yet, the Lincoln
authorities unceremoniously rejected the proposi
tion, tnereby plainly intimating to us that ihey
intended to pursue any mode of warfare ho iVever
brutal -and savage, by which they can fnslave and
acvomplish ourruih. This is the treatment and
thereeeption extended to Mr. Stkvexs in lis hu
man mission 1 ; How encurasine the prosnoctof
pace, except by atrect submission to the abolition
ists 1 These are tho onlv terms unon which tmese
refined barbarians have as yet held out to the peo-r
pie of the boutn. Are they prepared to accept ot
sucn ojsgracetui and slavisn i,erms l We Delieve
not, and under no circumstances can we recom
mend our people to think of peace, unless the offer
of it comes from tho other side, and with thle dis
tinct and unequivocal acknowledgment of the
equality and independence of the South. These
are tha only terms, any other would stamp1 us
the eyes of the world as base and cringing slaves
o the most lawless and. tyrannical governmenton
earth, k rom tho acceptance, of such a degrading
position before the work!, after two years fighting,
the blood of the hexoes who Lava fallen in free
dom's cause, would cry aloud from the ground,
and the betrayers of our country's honof would
be haunted ana subjected to the jeers and taunts ot
an enraged people, and their' names handed down
as fit to be piaced beside that of Benedict Arnold.
To the people wo only say listfen not tb the syren
song for peace, when there can be no peace with-
ont a vile surrender of every right dear to free
men. From such an ignoble course may:ti e great
Ruler of tho universe deliver tho, people of these
LATER TRCM THE UNITED STATES.
Special Dispatch to-ttie N. Y. Herald. .
WASniKGTONjSjuly 24.
movement, under the leadership of Mr.
Tho
Seward, having for its object the offer of liberal
concessions to tbo insurgents and the'. ending of
the present war, has received an impetus 'from the
news which has just reached herefrom bur foreign
'Ministers in London and Paris. j ;
. It it now admitted by the most sanguine of tho
Administraiion that never were our affairs in so
menacing a s ate. 1 England so the official ad
;vices indicate has determined to fjirnish the
South with an iron-clad navy, including ships,
guns and seamen: It-is equally certani.tbat the
Emperor "of Franco has made up his' blind difi
ni'.ely to interfere in our domestic affairs'". '
The changed condition of affairs, due tolhe fall
of Vicksburg and Port Hudson, and the rebel de
feat at Gettysburg, will not, it is bolieveli, by the
most sagacious of the friends" of tho Administra
tion, alter the character of tho action which
France and England have finally determined to
adopt. The appearance of a flott of Felich ves
sels at New Orleans, to ptotect the interests of the
Creole population at that point, and the sailing of
a very largo iron-clad fleet from11- the 1 English
ports, are certain to take place: Jndeod, it is un
derstood here that tho real peril to the North will
come when it is apparent to the Emperor Napo
leon and the British Cabinet that therej is a .strong
probability of the overthrow of tho Sout.has a mil-.
hary power. i i . ;
VSo long as the contest was an eve one they
could afford to be neutral, and let the matter be
fought.out ; but the moment there is danger'ofjthe
North over-powering the Csoutn, then intervention
France to preserve he-domain in Mexico. There
is no doubt that it the isprth and ooqtn were to
come together, Franco would immediately be com
pelled to relinquish her hold upon Mexico, and
this Louis Napoleon is determined shall not bap
pen. Hence, it is argued, he will take time by the
forelock, and aiding the South against tho North
earn a title to ita gratitude, and thu retain, his
bold upon Mexico, and pursue -big schemes in Cen
tral America. : .-' "
England is also aware that should the Union be
restored it will find both North arid Spujth embit
tered against her and ready for war ; i ' .
.It is a matter of certainty and he English'
understand it well-that the American Republic
will follow the example of the old Roman Repub
lic, which always embarked upon a foreign war
after a civil convulsion, bo as to induce a unity of
national spirit., f ! .'
With these indicat'ons before them, and with
the unofficial dispatches of. our Ministers and Con
suls abroad, Mr. Seward and the Pesident are
convinled that this is the most critical time, ao far
as regarVls our relations with foreign powers,.that
we have had since the enmmencement. of the war.
We cannot afford to permit England to destroy
our commerce, nor allow France, to pursue her de
signs on Now Orleans. This stale of, affairs has
made tho President and Secretary of. State anx
ious to settle up our ; present quarrel.j .They .be
lieve that proper measures taken now( would, re
store the Union and . put an-end to jtbe present
unhaoDV war. From what I hear. I arin inclined
to believe that measures are now on foot looking.
to.thisend.. ' The programme! is that the
Territories, as decided in the recenjt Congress,
shall remain frfce forover thus presenting JLhe
extension of slavery Slaves freed bj? the march
of our armies will remain free." I j j. '
Missouri fs to become a free State, ai she has
choson to be, and Maryland and Delaware may
also be free if they should so decide But the other
slave State's are to retain such cf the slaves as will
ba, under the actual control of the masters at the
end of the war. Mr. Seward arguesjlbat slavery
has received a blow in this country from which it
ean never recover, and that it wtu!d be bttter t'o
leave the natural causes at wo-k to ed it than to
convert te South into a desert by depriving it of
its laboiing population. ) ! '
It is understood that the plan will not suit the
radicals, and the embarrassment of Mr. Lincoln
now is not to bring about a reunion so much as to
know what to do with bis party in case he shcu'd
Consent tofetce. The situation is a perplexing
ona, and will call out all the sagacity and admin-
ittrauvu ayuiiy 01 mo popje-jn powe. -EXCHANGE
OF PRISONERS.
The exchange of prisoners between us and our
enemies seems to be at an end altogetnen Tho
last flag of truce boat which brought Confederate
prisoners for exchange to City Point, arrived there
orl tlVB 4th of July.: linrrTediately' afl'er that, the
Yankee Government' became aware that they
held in thoi-r hands a largo excess of Confederate
prisiners : and they immediately discontinued ex
changes. Tho first7 two or three flag of truce
boats ttat'came emptyTirought excuses raoFe or
les3 ingenious; and our Commissioner, Judge Ould,
not bfing yet aware"cflheirpolicyr and unwilling
to raise-a .fiffal iscue ,ith the enemy, .continued
to fill up their boat wjUh. Yankee prisoners. In
this way they procured tfie liberation bf several
thousands of their men,. and gave no equivalent.
The last flag of truce boat, however," came to City
Point the day before yesterday: empty as usual;
and not so much as an excuse was offered. The
Confederate Commissioner then decned to 6ond
away any of the Yankee prisoners in,dur hands;
and the boat went away enontv as it came. -
This is a plain statomantof the facts. It will
surpri89nobody wh ) had formed a correct appre
ciation of tho enemy with which we have to deal:
aa pernaps tnosa wno nave been disposed to be
lieve that the Yankee nation resembled in sdme
-measu re tho other civilized people of the earth.
wui nave mair eyes opened at la&l.
Uut there is something more to bo told. ' For
many weeks past, arid -long before the'battle of
Gettysburg, there were from four to five thousand
Confederate prisoners confined in Fort Delaware.
That fort is no w crowded to its utmost capacity
with a weltering mass of human beinee. our own
gallant Confederate soldiers,: the sons and the;
brothers of our people, tho stay and tho pride !of
thousands of. Southern families.- Fort Delaware
is the most unwholesome of ihjeirtmany dungeons;
and its scanty supply of water is, especially atthif
season, altogether pestilential. Week after' week
the enemy's Commissioner has undertaken torend
home some of these in his exchanges, but Fort
Delaware is kept always full. Whan prisoners
die other prisoners are brought in rto fill their
places, and to die in their turn. It is the favorite
place of confinement for Confederates, because
there there tey die- fast, or contract diseases
which make them invalids for life. . :
We may as well consider and understand the
meaning of this -new policy of discontinuing
the exchange and killing off Confederate prison
ers by disease. It means that as the Yankees
have more men in their 'country than we havp,
and also possess the facility of procuring as many
tKercenariei as thovr need from foreign countries,
they intend to' wear down our military material;
and, in tho long run, they hopo to get through
with us by this simple method. They judiciously
reflect that we hold fewer prisoners .tlian they
do ; and that even if we had as many, they can
better spare their men than we ours ; nay, that if
we kept (or killedKflve to their onej the balance 1
pwould Btill be against -us. They do not care for
their soldiers, who are chiefly hired foreign mer
cenaries ; and they can always 'fill their ranks
again from the swarming hives of Europe. At
iiiis game me BiaKes are not equal.
; The simple narrative wb have given will suffi
ciently explain the insolent reception which was
given to Mr. Stephens' humane mission;, having
n view some arrangement -which should; mitigate
the horrors of war, and prevent tho necossitv of
bloody retaliation ; Mey desire and intend to "ag
gravate the horrors of war, and to provoke bloody
retaliation.' -.
The same explanation will-serve for the.proceed
ing8 of the enemy in regard to the two officers of
ourrmy, who were recruiting in Kentucky, and
BappenedTtd fall into the hands of the Yankees ;
they were executed as spies or robbers. Our Gov
ernment applied tp the enemy's Governmunt,ask
ing to be informed of the charge against these of
ficers ; no reply was given. Thereupon the Con
federate Government caused two Federal 'officera
of equal rank to be chosen by lot, in order to be
executed by way of retaliatienl- On this becoming
known at Washinton, orders were given to thrust
into a dungeon two wounded officers, General F.
Lee, and Capt. Winder, the sons ol our great
General Robert E.- Lad, and of Genoral Winder,
Chief Provost Marshal at Richmond, in order
that if we dared retaliate for the death of the two
recruiting officers in Kentucky,, those two-men
should be put jo death. Thia is not military re
taliation ; in tho 'first place, the grades are not
equal ; in the'next place,the victims are not chosen
by lot. It is not retaliation, but a cowardly blow
aimed at the, dearest affections of special individu
als ; it is not retaliation, but a deliberate chal
lenge to the hoisting of the Blck Flag along the
whole line; -
There is no use in disguising to ourselves the
purport of the; policy we have here described. It
is war to the knife. Our Government has done
all that was possible to do in order to avoid the
terrible issuU When . we had a large exce.ss of
prisoners, we sent them away before they were.
exchanged. When our army has been in' ike en
though the property of our people had been sysU
matically destroyed, and oui helpless women and
little oriea have been driven out "homeless and
naked upon the world. .All this forbearance and
chivalrous courtesy on our part all this "Chris
tianity and civilization," as General Lee says
has been- thrown away upon such an enemy,
We have been castingour pearls before swine,ia
deed. ' . ' ' "'
What, then, is to be done? The people will
loDk to our
Government for an answer. Rich.
Enquirer;
CouNTzayjEif Confederate Notes. These
notes are being largely imported from the United
States via Nassau.' The Atlanta (Ga) Confede
racy says: " v . '
One of the vessels engaged in runing the block
ade between Charleston and Nassau, brought
through a small box or package, addressed to a
firm, in Macon, Ga., to the care of a commission
house in Charleston. By some means the nature
of the contents was ascertained or suspected, when
it was opened and found to .be some $200,000 of
counterfeit Confederate notes. We have-seen one
bill of this' lot- It is a counterfeit $20, of the
Duncan plate, and is by far the best executed and
most dangerous, counterfeit we ever saw. We
could give the points of difference, but prefer not
to dj so thinking it best for the public good.
We eay this, however, don't take any more of the
Duncan plate,$20'8. unless you know them to be
genuine, or get them . from a man whom -you
know to be reliable and responsible. It is aaid
that the house in Macon to which these counter
feits were directed, is a photograph or picture gal-
rlery establishment, and that the instructions were
to buy cotton with it and ship the same to Nassau.
We hear the members of this firm in Macon have
been arrested.
.Tobacco Thk Climax Clppjei). Two
hogsheads of tobacco were soil in this city last
week, by Mr. Wm. B. Gray, for Mr. R. V. Wat
kins, of Halifax county, at unprecedented prices.
One hogshead, not weight 1,234 lbs., brought four
hundred and twenty five dollars per hundred
$5,244 50; the other, weighing l,32 Jb?. net,
brought' $234 per hundred.-$2,093 43. Total
amount for the two hogsheads, $8,337 98, -This
tobacco was bought by Mr. JohnE.- White, for
Messrs; W. R., Johnson & Bro.. manufacturers.
J Petersburg. Richmond Enauirer.
FOK TjHE RlOl$TIR.
Thalia' Bower.
JulyI2nd. 1863. '
mb,. aoitor : As regards your rimarki ia rferenc
to the "Standard? on RecoHttruetion, we apprwiaU
them highlyt and fiacerelj hope yU will not fall to
make a similar response when he tiries it aesin. He
calls loudly fera peace oonentioni-he even foes far
ther aad says "wemwi hftpeaceop$om terms,-" that
is, we would like to have an honoi'able peaee, but, If
we cannot, then,; of couwe, we eonsider its. great
privilege to return1 qaiUj to the Uaion. I Trilj be
lievesome of these Yankee-layers oall be'pro'od.to
renew the old' constitution, and-bid sireet ood
morning"to every; Yankee in Yaaieedom, and with
a smilen their foe and their kau )0 their iW, be
ever ready to repeat j "7r repei?tfullj your obe
dient servant;" while other more tealous ones woiild :
advance to tha thrjjne of King Jtibrihtm, with an";
air of reverential we, and while bowing the beaded,'
knee, exclaim with passionate demotion, "We adore ,
Thy holy name." j '( ':'
This, Mr. Editol-; id simply 8(aUi g what I honestly
believe. I am well aware that thii subject is worifc
j wwgiiwu eneri oe a leeble one
still I contribute r'the widow's mfte." It b fad to -1
think that while so many of our brave men are bleed
ing on the bloody fiefd . and others) have, long siao'
died in what should le dearest to mko, that there are
those at home whojmake "every endavor to convince
Ul-twtKthe. h79; f0J1ht nd for t
which there, is no hope. Can we believe; that kind
Heaven has ordained that, the bereaved widows and
mothers' should go to the graves f their loved ones
and wep, that they died in vain ! Never; .Is there
net some rich reward jr the Southi-eome return for .
tho many sacrifices she has made in this, her strug.
gle for Heaven's own gift, Liberty Yes fas sure as'
God'i,ju,t. I have witnessed the pangs of jay
heart-broken motker as we stood by the grave of her
last brave boy, and saw his body eoiered with the
clods of t valley. His lasWds wer, "Liberty
will never make my life in ifs f Wession harp, bat
my death will h glorious. In is Just defence." Of
hun it may be truly said : t i
t "He ever ioved'the wreath, I . .
, The soldier proudly wears,
Eat never feared the death,
The wldiefbravely dares.",, 1 " '
May the time soon coma..when that refractory spirit
so manifestly encouraged and cultivated by the ene
my, may sink into oblivion before 'the-resplendent
rays ot truth and .virtue, and Liberty rise np triun
phant, bidding Oppression yieldi and may W Tolive
branch of Peace be perched upon the banners of her
urave defenders, and wave over the grave of ;tbe do- !
ble Southron who has devoted the last drop of his '
heart's bloody protection of an injured peo?le, and
whom we trust is now iu possession of merited re.
ward among the bright beings on the blissful shores
of Immortality, i v A-CAROLINA QIRL.
Ak Entirbly Nbw Vnw.-The London
cprreipondent of jthe Boston Post, discussing in a
recent letter the! probabilities of war between
.England, ana America, says : - j -
It isU very floe to talk of war with Ration '
i 1 Srteo HDdT steamers, mounting
overvl0,000guns, and carrying some 45,000 soa
men ; but unless, you are prepared to see thirteen
inch shells bursting in 'Washington street, and
see the churches, (stores, and mansions In Wall,
street, Broadway, and .Fifth Avenue levelled
with the ground by . vessels clad with seven inches
of. iron, then pause Detenda est Catharao ; it
was the second Punic war, not the first, tbaf
swept Carthage aa a political power from theface
of the earthy and that after the considered her
self invincible. Tou are1 on a volcanic mln :
spring it and you; will witness such a scone ai
never -was before the eyes of any American
whose father or grandfather fought at Banker
HifJ, Lexington, or If sw Orleans. ' This rjstkn .
(England) can go to war at just 'one minute's
notice- She can j jay, Portland, . Boston, Kew
York, and Washington in ashes, and raise -the f
blockade of ever Southern port in six weeks
If you are prepared for tabt, get your shot ready, '
close your port holes, look straight into the wind's
eye, and go ahead . t
MEADE'S BOASTING OFFICIAL DIS
PATCHJ VpptL OEN. LBB.
The following Sspatch from . Gen. Lee was re-
ceived al the Waij Department Saturday : . :
HeaixCus Army NoBTHRirVA-,V 4
J July 21st, 1863, ' . .
Gen. S. Cooper, Adj't and Insp'r Gen'l 0. 8. A', '
I Richmond, Va : V ,' , ' ' .'
General I hava seen in Northern papers what
purported to be art officiaj dispatch from General
Meade, slating that he had captured a brigade vt
infant ry, two ; pieces bf artillery two caissons, and i
a large number of amall arms, as this army retlr
edno trie South bank of the Potomac.oo the I3fth
and l4th,,lnt?N4 i y
This dispatch has been copied Into tha Richmond '
papers, and as its official character may cause it to '
be believed, I desire to state that it 'is incorrect
The enemy did not capture any organized body ''
of men on that occasion, but onlys:ragglara and '
such as Were left asleep on the road exhausted by-;
thefatigueandexposureofone'oftbemost fnclem
ent nights I have ever known ai this season of the ;
year. Jtrained without cessation, rendering tha
road by which our JtroOpa marched to the bridge j
at Falling Waters , very difficult to pass, and cans- '
ing so much delay that the last of the troppa did
pot cross the river at the bridge until I. P. II. oa .
ihe 14th. While the column was thus detained
6n the road a number tf men, worn down with
fatigue, lay down in barns and by tha roadside,
ind, though officers! were sentjbac to arouse them,
as the troops moved on, the darkness and rain pre
vented them from, finding all,1 and many were la
this way left behind. Two guna were left in tha
road. -The horses that drew 3them became ex "
hausted, and the officera went forward to procure)
other's. When- they retarned tne rear of tha col- i
umn had passed the guna so far that it was deem
ed unsafe to send back for them, and they wereV
thus lost.: No : arms, cannon or priaenera were ' ,
taken by the enemy in battle, bat . only auch'aa "
were left behind under the circumstances I have
described. , The number ol stragglers thus lest
am unable to state wilh accuracy, but it ia greatly
exaggerated in thftdispatcb referred to. "L
; 1 am, with great respect, : 1 C
Tpurpbedient lervant, I '"I . '
- Ik E. LKE, General. 1
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Charuestoh SAx.Tbe Charleston Courier
says that all apprehension for the safety of Char lea
ton has' now f passed away, and . the people are J!
buoyant wjith expecitation and strong in confidence
and rejoice in the' assurance that the) foe will be '
drivan from the city. The planters havegepe-V .
rously responded td the call fof negro laboen, "
wno nave already done Important service. , In 4
short time Charleston can- laugh at the foe; come
from what quarter and in whatever . force he
mat? ' I I ' V. ' I , - i . .
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i. A Good Move We learn that the Eichroond
and Danville Railroad Company have discharged '
twenty-five able bodied mn in their employ fand
intend to fill their placosth disabled aoldiera. ';
TbU Is a very proper move, and presents an ';
ample to the fleadsl of Departments and othera.'u,
which deserv&a td
be generally followed. Rich,
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