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. 1 t f- - VOL. 1- " 'ijj- , IVASHINGrTON, C. THURSjAY, AUGUSr 14, 1862. - : ! ' " Our Nation's Honor the Bond of Union? ' ' if" Cjrr Mm Bxn IS FCBttSHXD thues r ax moeni NG of each week TERMS : Single copies fire cents,1 in wrappers at the pQce of publication. Unioa Alley. ' Letters and communications are respectful- iy solicited. t .; A limited number of Adrertisements will be in- .sertea at me rate or two dollars per square of fif- wrcB iiuea or teas ior me nrst insertion, and twenty- nve cents for each succeeding insertion. - Adrertisements must be marked with the number or insertions desired.. I1 : Epitaph, on a Caudle. ! A wicno one lies buried here, f l Who died in a decline s j He nerer rose in rank, I fear. j xnougnne was nornto Ain. He once wasa, but then, Indeed, Grew thin as anj griever ; r He died, the doctors all agreed. ' I Of a most burning fever. - j If e'er you said, 1 Go out, I pray . i He much ill-nature showed; On such occasions he would say, . 4 Vy, if I do, I'm blowcd f t In this his friends do all ajrree 1 Though you may think I'm jokin When going out, 't is gaid that he j Was very fond of tmoking. ; ; Since all religion he dispised, i Let these few words suffice : Before he ever was baptized, ! Thfj dipped him once or twice. Tho Bebgj Slanderer. our commn. ".SjE wMch appeared in tha Wilmington Journal from base vituperative artic a corresponaent in vn piace. i l s v4 ?t worth, lit has noneV but that our readers may compare the reply with I its base lieu ww 9 . . slander, j ' : , . , . ' i ' -' WASHlioTOiT, Territory of N. C, July 5, 1862. It is not often your correspondent is driven to the necessity of venting his indignation on pa- ier but Ithins are in such a fix in this village 1 It r.riftrt that a loval Southerner cannot ex- press his sentiments without danger of being in carcerated in Potter's Dungeon (otherwise known as Frank (Haven's warehouse), there to remain until it pleases 4 His Excellency our new Gov ernor, to release him ; so you see all such talk ing is alxut played out' in the .family circle, or in the presence of negroes, cr 'on the streets, in the company of many of our new Governor's dd political friends. Scarcely a remark has been made in this Umn, hostile to the Lincoln government, since these marauders have been here, but what has been faithfully reported at headquarters. This is truly a reign of terror, and God grant that my eyes, may never behold another.1; No tongue can tell, no pen lean de scribe the scenes of marauding, house and store breaking, thieving and plundering, licentious ness and beastiality that have been enacted by Stanly's! glorious army of noble patriots' since their advent in Washington. I will not attempt it for fear that I should be thought to resemble a noted I old character, called Uncle Ben, who lived somewhere in Nash county. He was an . incurable stutterer and horribly profane, proba bly could outswear any man who ever tried, ex . cept our new Governor's bSot black, D B bs. who I am inclined to think can equal him In ihoi line at this time, particularly when 1 betakes hia text on the Confederate government, :. or the Confederate money ox Jeff .Davis. ; Well, nnon a certain occasion Uncle Ben was compell- ed to haul a load of wheat in bulk. 'While go ing up a hill the tail-board of the cart dropped k'i-..,;-,:.;.l out, and 9 pilled - all his wheat on tne grouoa. . Uncle Ben never discovered his mistake until he' .' arrived at the top of the hill,1 and his attention was called to1 the accident by a troop of mischief- loving boys who had followed hi in for the pur pose of! teasing and annoying fyim. One of the "boys cried out, ' Why don't yon swear, old fel . ; low!? 'I w-w-wonld,' replied Uncle Ben, 4b-b but I f-f-fear I c-c-could n-n-not d-a-do th-th-:: the s-sisubject J-j-justice., Your corre6jondent is like Uncle Ben, he fear, he can't do the subject .Tjusticej.'.. -. ';.:': a'.;" ' ."f. j : ;; , : k . , . ; Sooit after "the Yankees. arrived,-they appoint : 21th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, Pro-v .ea one; Xiieui. jame a, turner,, vutapujr I vost Marshall, and declared; martial law. Then commenced a scene oi - wholesale robbery and pluuder never equalled on this continent. Stores were opened and stripped of their contents, eve- ry nouse, in town leic vacant oy lis owner was I I A I 1 . ' A 1 J entered, and everything portable and valuable taken, packed up and sent North. ' Portraits; faintings, Daguerreotypes, j engravings, private etters, account .; books, writing desks, libraries, croqkery, plate, iu truth everything belonging to a wen iurmsnea nouse, was either taen away, destroyed or given to the I negroes. Not even iufanrs apparel (they took Mrs. Burbank's dead oabys clothes) ors sheets, towels, or bed furni ture was spared in the general scene of devasta tion. : In every instance ofj house-breaking the negroes were their informants as well as aiders and abettors. They did not respect even the tivawjr ui iftuica uurcdus, uu. uro&emem open and distributed the wearing1 apparel to the negro women or sent it Worth. Ihe letters purloined from ladies' writing desks j would! afford them great amusement, and often elicit a brutal, vul- gar jesi. it ii supposed oysome or tne privates rWitoVp, haa Wka and applropriated to his private bse, property to the amount of ten or fifteen thousand dollars. ' When they first commenced their works of plunder, complaints were Invariably made at neaaquarters, but without receivine anv satis faction, only a promise that ' it would he-attended io ; nuauy, we ceasea to complain , and submit ted, with curses not loud bvX deep, and this curs- 2 m.' t . I . ing was not ana is not nowconnned to the stern- er sex, tor even the women and children ven- their anger , in words that ! sound .very much like oaths ; for all loyal Southerners! seem to act and speak as though theyj were entitled to a furlough from the Good Being to vent their an ger in the first words that come uppermost in their minds, and not be held accountable there for. . , r -. I j,- Yet, with these outrages patent to all the com munity, Mr. Stanly calls them ' a noble army of t"wiu, uu eajra j uiey arej nere io proiecc us from the robbery and plundering of the Confed erate soldiery ; and also savs that the ororjertv destroyed by them is a tithe of what was destroy- wi.wy wo euiuiera lorraeny Biauonea nere. suppose ne alludes to tha burninff of cotton very tall, fino looking" fellow, aDd stand, oxer .gh ; Ho, has p,ayed . tad havoc, not on I oniy wnn private pn?pen.jri uu w uB hearts of some of the 4 Union ladies ' of both col ors. Soon after his arrival he enticed off Capt.- Joseohus Wallace's mulatto servant girl Theresa, and having htted up the directors room oi me Bank of Washington in the jmost beautiful man ner, with stolen goods, placed therein his dusky stolen bride, arrayed in stolen babiliaments, taK- en Irom the tne oureaus oi lauiea wuo uau iciv on the arrival of btanly s ' nohie army ot patri- ots Keport says that mrner wun nis nana- some face and stately form had played sad havoc with the heart of J Miss S. P., but Missiberesa Wallace interfered with her matnmonal pros pects. : The handsome and chivalrous Massachu- setts Lieutenant was heard to say ne mougn he was in love with Miss P.", but he never knew what love was until he met with Miss Wallace 1 She was the sweetest, most intelligent 1 lady he had ever met." Ctt..'a friary A a an 1iTi?15ncr ftmnnor them- Ti uffiL. nr ZnA nfif Olrl Mr. R- -n is to be theTostmaster ; E. H., Col lector of the Port; Col. Ti S., J. P. and J; R. fshio carbenieri are7 the Uniori dinner givers. uv.1 x-w mm., .wvi - r-- . D. B has taken the office of U. S. Provis Distributer &ud Secession curser. J. n. T . TT ion J Court House bell ringer and gas lighter, and stamper and clapper when the 'Governor makes a speech. Bill H. and B'j h b are the Union Gassers and Blowers, and ,J. R. B. Speech distributer! ' -I : . : . I have enumerated the principal ! offices j al ready filled, but there are many applicants on the list for offices to be created. . '. Amid all this display of rampant treason to the South there is quite a large party who have straddled the fence. Some of , then state that they are tired of the war and think the South ought not to prolong a useless contest. That she will certainly be subjugated. That the U. S. will certainly take every place they go to, and that we bad better submit now ere it be too late. At the same time these people call them selves Sece&siouits. There is another class who disclaim the name of Secessionists, but say they are 'John Bell Rebels lln this class can be found one j He is, according to my way of thinking, a curious kind of a South erner,' fcr he spends his whole time in the pub lic and private exercise of abusing Jen Davis, Jos. B. Johnston and Beauregard, 'except so much as he takes up in the work of praising Ed. Stanly. He says that Jeff. Davis is a second rate politician would probably make a second rate Brteadier General; that Jos. E. Johnston, is nothing but a ditch and spade clEcsr, and that Beanresard is a ''darnqd hnobng.1 The! is another class who most reliriouslv I obey tl apostolic injunction of being all things I to all an, for thev are "both decided Unionists as wells Secessionists. i; Io these raiks Meyer the Jetller, is high priest j but high up, above them a) is our Isaiah Bespess. He rides around town oon a horse stolen from John Grimes, which I bouizht from a neero (Austin Blount) and: wlih, report says be attempted to pay him againstf 5ecebing tlis,' be says, Vis what all dis heriiamd Seceshing has fetched us to.' i He is nowMdinz his vessel fori the West Indies. ueau esTj uay. . j -, .. i Batihauks l e to the eirer of every good and perfect there are ten righteous, yea, three times tc yet to be found in Wasmngton. But the risleous' ones now are mute as mice. But with c coed nanus ana ciosea ups tney piae 4 " 11- .1 m A I their t 6. ' 1UU WU ; UBIC UU iUM VI IU6 IbQI fuln nna tVmt ftoitAta tbem. and their dee'n nTtP ttfed Amdg the Union ladies, the most rampant are oldj&Irs. G bs and her batch of females, Miss Si me, Mag. W 11, old Mrs M e, S, P h,ir3.E , Mrs. B. S dm and Mys R n. who,Teort says, is engaged to be married to one of tja Yankee officers. Mr. J. P me takes particutr pains to impress on the minds of the ffi.s hat h Visa o.4 mtmiMh a , HanrrVitof I Miss SP h says the Yankee officers ar tnooh more iuemgent man me secesa oiucera, auu j.j . . it ' . i - i : l f i resrets pat she was born at the South. . We all regret OA same acciaenr, ana can conaoxe wim Ucr. f J . ' I We fear that it is frequently asked iniPitt and Edkecombe why did the people stay in t Wa8hifcton7 y Why don't they burn the cursed hole anil leave it? All such remarks betray either a"Sendish spirit Jot a deplorable ignorance of the of affairs here. There are hundreds of poor people here who have not the means of living aroaa, ana ii iney , naa, idbj wouxu noi be allowed to take their effects away. And all who bf&e the means are compelled to stay by , We'suplv of Job's patience 0f thePpeople of Edlecomb. to stand the combe and Pitt, and nlsrt tin ! p.normouslv loriff Durse to nav their, ex- tortionate demands. We are between two tres. Persecuted ! at home by traitors and Yankees, and abroad bur motives misjudged and our loy- ftltv rtuesttoned- All I can say is. that tit is either a sudden death or a long sickness to any man who darea.to call my loyalty to the South in Question.1 These Yankees would evacuate this place, put for the reason that tneir aepariure would meet with decided opposition from many in our town and county between the ages of 18 and 35, land in truth they have been solicited to stay. So l am informed upon Tanitee authority. , T snnnoaa voti have seen the published copy of the speech of ' Our; Governor,' (as J - S-ll loves to call him). It is as much like the speech delivered as it is like the 10th chapter of Keve lations. It does not abound in all those start ling, clan-trap, "school-boy. specimens of: elo quence so peculiar to Stanly, neither does it con - tain so mucn joruiai aenuncmuou, muw wwrcp-. i 4in rsii atruiniio T i uohrwi m o nun save that of a Wendell Phillips or a Win; Lloyd Garrison could do justice .to the speech as deliv ered. In truth it is without a parallel,! unless one could be found at a meeting presided over by Fred Douglas. I shall not attempt to give you a report i of his whole speeen, oai oniy a few of his ideas and; his mocle of expressing them. j He said 'That glorious old tune, Yankee Doodle. Which was dome on angeCs wings from Bunker's Heights ana is now chanted in Heaven, was as much the tune ; of. the South as of the vr.u TJ- m11aI nfh Hirnlinft rprmifa for Lincoln's army ' an army of noble patriots ' Looksaid he, 'at that peerless soldier McCIel- Ian as he floats midway m a balloon, oetween "f" DAr: ?J'";" IS! vanca on the already beaten and retreating foe.' ' Can von my fellow citizens, withstand such an army i commanaea oy sncn a-.man i -ao my frienda. the combined powers of bell cannot withstand the. United States He . styled old Lincoln ' that noble old patriot 'he called Ma pruder a drunken fool.' ButI caunot follow the sickening detail of the expressions he made use nf. Ala, that he should nave been oorn in North Cirolioa. - Bnt nw I must close this badly written epts - tie Pravine that the God of Justice, Truth. and Liberty may baveyda and yours in his holy keeping, 1 am as always, Your friend, $ JIots. Since the date of thialetter we have information : from Washington to the eSTect that Terns? is no Jenssr Provcst Marshal, ncx the favored friend nf Ml W1Wr tnr.inriA Tht enterprising ypung female has sought another affinity Whether Turner has committed sui cide or taken to sperits is more than we know cf. ,- - - - ', '- ' , ' The Anonymoti BIar.3crcr We crave the indnlMuea of onr reader in calling th?i attpntint, im'ilmmAMn.:A l?ierDai acnce oi oemg conepcxea more than one muddled brain), which disgraced the eolnmn nf th Wilmtn ingfon, Territory of K. C. July, 6th, .U62. As for the tyranny .of the United States Gov ernment in confimnz traitors and. mica in Havens' Wharehouse. no ereater toroof of th "t i w leniency of the authorities can be found than uimtcu tnucrs uuu ttucktora 'vrere sruzerea to co at large, eaves-droppiDg at windows. nd erca pumping children and servants, dogging their neighbors and' every United States c&cer who set his foot on store or left his quarters. - Not content with 'pursuing' this' contemptible and despicable line of conduct themsejrej they tet -.- VuJ ; a-.J . i - - ; . . . : work and yet they Were suffered , to t escape from ' durance Vile as their mental calibre was known to be bo much below par, that they were considered .too contemptible to notice.,, jBut we kniTK tit. ait!.rn!ut W'..!. il.a .lit. .t. "-ri T . uuwiug at, iiimouga ne leniency and loiDearance or tne United States Government is not appreciated by the deluded secessionists; vet bv fora! Pnwp fnll rrr??t is given to the heads of our Administration for . . . . i ..... . : . i . - I, their noble and generous conduct ; All .Europe stands in wonder, amazement,1 and ad miratiop at the sublime spectacle presented. to the1 world since this rebellion began for, though exteudV privateers or, rather, jnntf--who roamedjthe t- il.L i'i'Vi ' ' 1 'J j ' .. - ni gD way oi n aiio n s, anxious r ana re,aa to rel and murder all who. fell, into their relentless nanas, were numaneiy sparea. We acknowledge that , the late Provost Mar shal ahused his authority; but he has been re moved from ofiace, and is no longer .connected with the army. . Can this kind of retribution be said in relation, to certain Confederate officers who unwarrantably assumed a ' hectoring and domineering spirit with our, peaceable and tnof fensive citizens? No: they were suffered to escape with impunity. . We ; can assure all the loyal citizens who have been so unfonunate as to lose by the . arbitrary cdurne of any United , States ; functionary, that . they shall and will be compensated for their losses; .and also tbs the conduct of Mr. Provost Turner, Is condemned 1 and reprobated in the strongest terms by all united States: officers who i are. aware, of tat course he pursued, f , - We can appreciate and honor the courage of . a man who, when he draws his sword. againxt the Government, throws away the . scabbard ; but words cannot express our ineffable loathing and contempt of the wretch who, skulking in : darkness, plunges his poisoned dagger inta thd j hearts of defenceless females. This cowardly villain, who never dared to look an honest rnaa in the face, threatens a sudden death or a long aickness to any man who dares to call my, (his) loyalty to the South in , question.. Be ; not aigrmed, gentle reader 1 , he is perfectly harm m.H known to hurt my ons . cept poor, helpless wretched negro slaves, who, bound hand and foot, were subject to his tcsdsr i mercies. . . L . , r v t, r-v- , i;; :v,;.b 7'- ! We also beg leave to remind tha Jocrnal'secr respot deiit that, if he and his brother sscssion ists had oeen sunerea to nave earned cm incur infamous and nefarious designs, the who! of tha eastern part of the Old North Stats frosld kit5 l wh.vm,,.:i . . I ally introduced Into the Convention rfsr-inl purpose ; that it i was ccrnstly npcrt:;tbit ft committee of iscendiarirs , ttss ' sppcintcd to bum the town of 7athi5tca i and, thty rcra caly d:trrred by th tlr f:srs : V, . .... kwf
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