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i - i . SINCLAIR, TpItob. Office 'So. 17 Markel SqttaM-, .'K'r,ill Marriages, Obituary j. funeral and fiaU .,utief. Company and M litary Orders fer Meetinz, lrilU. Ac, Lnd; and Society Notices andi 'Saraijnonses, Want?, Lo?se and Fiadiigs, Exhibition and Concert Notice, all country, transient and foreign! advti "thing, o whatsoever nature -or character naust be paid for when left at or sent to the otji'ce for publi xutioq. This arrangement will be strictly e, forced. Such' cash adverasem ?nt?, as they Appear, will! alway i b marked iy an asterisk or !Ur thus ). t f J F1YETTE11LLE,N. C, OCT. 11. IS64. ! paOnr &nbseriters in town will confer a eciirar, when they fail to) get their ; pa per, bv informing; us immediate y ot the tact. Of ceur'se wo cannot know when it occurs un less this be done. I k , 0PARTici?tAR Attention is Called to the :FoLLoWiro.-f-The publishers bf this paper desire that their terms be fully un ders'tood. jAZsubscriptionsmustbcjDa: in adtance. Payment must'be made at thisj office,! ovy 'it to a collector, ten per . cent additional will be charged. Our Collector wUl call weekly on' delinquents and make! collections, when, in ettry m gtance, the' above rule will be adhered to "Collections made every Monday. K i 'J - , ; . : . ' Notice. C. C. McCrummis, Esq., is our au thorize4 agent to receive moneys and receipt forj us in! all, business matters con ;neci'ed with this office, which relates to "subscription and advertisirs-i Peace Propositions. i - ; . .. 1 . Kvci t nfiw and then a new candidate ifor popular favorite w.ilk3 tlie boards of urinationiil theatre. Seme eliciting the wild huzzas of the pit- others iending a Ithrill through the dress circle .and par- queue, areihailcd with a delicate flutter ing !of handkerchjief, and flattering smiles ' such smiles top, sa are apt to quicken the.bloed in oneV veins witK sensations of delignt, and fill the bosom with emo , tiorls of sef-fcati$fying pride.- "While an I other hears the ominous hiss ring out the aeatn notes to amDiuou aspirations, anu learns to realize! that he is hot ' the star his presumption had taught him to bc olieve. And ns this is the day of proposi- tioBS-prdpositions for filling the armies- proposition? fornegotiatiohspropeaitions forftonventionH-J and whispered proposi- ) tions for submiBsien, (tor. what, else caa reconstruction rnean ?) We are infected with the iprevailing contagion we too have a pijopositien to our readers we tod have resolved to try our lortunes on this stage where the great dramma of Re volatioa is being tmcted-anxious only to play the part for our own satisfaction. caring little whether aurrendition is 'damri edjwith feint praise," or whether we make thi welkin resound with thunders of ap- nlause as We make our bow to the audi-. enee, or wliether the galleries, the circle, the parquette, the boxes, and even the filthy fellows in the pit drive us in dis grace to tho green roera War direfiil fiendish, vengeful war, iiithe play the pacificator is our role; and now that the curtain has risen and the dancing lights flash out in all their effulgencej out eyes dimmed with the splendor x our surreundings, but our hearts nervea wim tnai stimuxawng ex citement which the presence of an appro- ciative audience anoras trie player, we begia. s . (Ours is a proposition ; fos?f icace we temmeTtdthe rapiitrrteTrt of delegates we insist on a Convention. . We propose these terms for the settle " ment of our difficulties : That the armies of oar enemy immediately vacate, evacuate, decamp, take up tho line of march, and leave the country which they have invad ed; hat they no linger continue to occu py ouirvUlagesi, our towns, our cities, and our States; and that they give up the possession ef our rivers and bays. ' In a word, that they no longer pollute our soil with their hated presence; that they leave lis unmolested to prosecute those avoca tions of business in the pursuit of whicli ; happiness may be attained, and honor and wealth, and national prosperity may be acquired.! That they no longer interfere with those domestic concerns ia which they have no interest; and for which, if 'contrary jto the laws of Almighty Gcd they are Jiot responsible. That they do jcknowledje !eur right; divmo and natur-d- to gorcm cnrselrcs in vhatsoerer man- . i rier may seem to upmost proper and ox pedient; and that for themselves and their posterity they do in all solemnity pledge that hereafter, even unto the end of time, they will hot under any circumstances' claim or demand any "right, whatever, or of any kind to dictate or suggest any poli cy either for the purpose of controlling or inftaanciiig the action of the States, or the delegated powers of general govern ment for the Confederacy at large. ' And: Turther,that tlie States of Maryland, Ken-1 tueky, and the other States that recognize the rights of property in slaves to hold a free, unrestrained, una wed, and open el ection that the question as to where they will go and with, which, section they kill unite themselves may We decided. i To put these propositions before the Yankees, and to influence their minds in. such a degree as will caose their vaecop iance by tham, we would suggest .that a delegation to consist ot Gen. .' Rob rt E Lee, ofTa-V Gen. P. G, T. Beauregard, -ef La., Gov. Wm. Smith, of Va., Gv. Z. B. Vance, of N. C-V Gov. MrL. ' Bon-, ham', ot S. C, and the Governor of the other Southern States, be appo'irfted , t o counsel with them and let their (cannon speak in the thunder tohs thatfascend jfrom the field of battle; and prove, through the irrefutable arguments which bayonets and minnie balls advance, that their safest polioy lies in the acceptance of the basis of settlement which we hare proposed, iWe further suggest that each and every one of the gentlemen alluded to in the above connection, bo permitted to take jwith him to the Convention of negotia- ition, such a retinue as will be Tniting to the dignity of taeir severalstatious, the jduty of which retinue will be, to perform all lawful and just commands of the ne gotiators with whom they are sent the retinue of Uen. Lee, to .consiStof all the couieueraia troops in me ai&ies 01 Vir ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida; that of Gon. Beauregard to con sist of all the Confedeiate troops in tlie 'department to which he has been lately jcousist of as many of the abU bodied men of the State ot Virginia, aa will on a pro blamation from him, invit'ng them to join the military serviee of the States volunteer !for the period cf ninety days, to go with ihim wherever it may soem that negotia- itions looking to the acceptance of the sproposition nforeaid, will be most likely jto prove effective these men to be asaur !ed that at the expiration of tlie term: of Iservice.ior which, they entered, they will be permitted to return home- that of Gov. Vance to be "ised, in a like manner,-and on similar conditions, with the same as suraKces, in the limits of the State' of Carolina those of Gov. Bonham and the I governors of the other States to be raised in the same manner, within the limits ef their respective States. Perhaps.it may he said that' it will be impossible to enroll a sufficient number of men to form a retinue equal to the digni ty of Buch an occasion. We think other wise, and are confident that it is only neces- jsary, for Governor Vance to issue a pro clamation callingjn the men of North Carolina to rallylaround him, to secure the services of,at least five thousand men I who in point of good looks, powers of jendurance, and capacity for such diplo jmatic feats will be demanded, will equal lany that-have ever been engaged in such service inco;the incept ion of the war in a lO.!'' a !' April, loot. Amvitioub men men of bnsiness portly alderman and venerable jmayors knights of ti.e quill and rolhckin typos pettifog gers a 1 1 d . armers--r ich men and men in rags-H ugly menandiuujitme jbeaux salaried i men and speculators stage drivers and government contraCt- 1 ors captains of stsamboat and loafer ! generally; will all be delighted to secure fadmissioh in such ( an honorable ? corps, j. where all the accumu aied stains of vice j that three y ears and more have pltered i rTi h o n n c i n a f r or ir'ir.w j UIVl Lkt.Wi fcUMV VUbfc HUE ViViii, tlxilj UC washed out in the purifying waters of Peace. -: . - : Such a proclamation" lrom the Governor would' notX)nly call thesj men'to his side, but it would relight the embers ef that pa ; triotic fire, which three years ao burned : so brightly on oar altars, and a blaze i. would be kindled whose' flames Would ; spread ' till Jthe whole State would catch ! the inspiration, and even the flinty Uars of cur people wculd flah fire when trick en by the steel of Vance's "eloquence, anu contribute to the general conflagration uf j all sordid feelings and mean, selfish eiao i tions. j " Aud vrhc can doubt that. the eiawnlc cf North Carolina wouIJ be e.nnlated if she 1' foremost, thus far, in all that has tfeen noble and self-sacrificing in Itlis war ' would take the initiative stepi ; inihus p eace movement. I " ' At any :raie it might W expectcland would not icertaialy b amiss for the'iCoa" federate authorities to afford even the white lice1 red poltroons who haveeen ensconced in nicer coi)aforlable band; box quarters about the couif.ry,. to go'forlh under one lor the oUier of our eminent di-pIomatisU-Lee or Beauregard to re tlie fun ip listen to thu merry. music ojf the shelljej' or mark the shrill whistle ef the minstrel bullet as they lend their Jeneh'.uit meat to the glad?day-of Peace which ftitrst cointe when thesa conferences are'eom menoed. V .-.. ' : ;j ' And when these 1 Pacificators are tpre pared to open the negotiations, & two conjventiond be the other at Ricl lllad--iJne at Atlanta, mood. Each delegate to enJ the' privilege 5 if attending either, of these convtntH?nS5?tiily the proviso that General Liae iali., bV'President- f that at .Richmond, ana ueneraj l.auregra of that at Atlanta. llut suppose that delegation and tthir retainers meet Jour, ebennes in. conversion, will their deliberationsrcsult in anything of more iuiportancetuan we have already been enabled to secure ? t Indeed such ;a nieitmg must be pro ductive of benefits,1; but they ' would be required to use their bayonet ehergej-i-cally they shbuld go into close quarte-s and poke the Yank e in the ribs---play--fully oi course to ain a familiar footing if they would succeed ; or they should essay the gme by which popular elections are oftimes controlled make the enemy drunk with their owuTblood, and therewith jclubbed muskets-beat them into measures. Or if it shouU becone necessary, -ifythey should require rough play, our delegates njight rosort to firearms Itmdpd, iiot with fat I meat, nor with pens, for these are scarce but with real multen lead run into deaden bullet If such a dycided 1 course should be puraufd there is "not a re;onable doubt but that in less than sixty days a settlement would be had of the; qutstious at issue. Our ' eheniies would soner, accept the alternative of the defeat of their long cherished schemes than contest any longer a proposition for the 1 estJibHshment f which the tljlojod thirsty Southrons would employ auch. tel ling arguments and such, ungainly figure of d ebate. t H When tho terma of Peace were settled it might 'not be improper for qiit corps diplomatique to conciliate thtAn, by the preaeiuawou j v o r. a'.- irs in the shape ot wooaen legs, uroKon pates, and sabre g&shes, as could be easily bestowed in the snort time we would Kava for the discussion, while it bizht seem more brotherly and anectionite, if - 7 s we retained as mementoes of theniA and the amicable relations which; once siibsist ed! between us, such amputated toefing- ers. arms and legs, and as many scattered brains as iwouls? serve to bring back to our minds the recollection of the halcyon days of their stay with us. ; If these tokens could be applied ito -no ier useful end, at least ihey might -serve io fertilize the soil which ' their ravages have devastated turning what we're ence green fields, rank with luxurious ffegeta tiea,. into desolated; barreu wastesv;This is lour plan for a Peace conference JWhat iiay our people ? The Alabama Leisiatukb. Vp find the following in the report of thejpoceed-4 I nf fhft Alabama House of RprMsHntzl liveWnlsayiap t 1p Tfaj. iri irAil tins in faver.of opeftilignegotUtillhfor peace, and Mr. annin in favor of a Con vention of the States, jvere postponed-till It is stated than Geh. Hood is i: tearing up the tracks of the Georgia) Macon and West Point roads. Seventy miles it is stated, on the Georgia road will be torn up, and the Macon read toGrifn, andthe' Wrest Point road to Kewnan. e t i- The Macon Intelligencer--states it is rn- jet----- i- i mored that Hood had captured a whole corps of jthe enemyambunting t 0 0 , in the rear f Sherman s araav. i A Ceri ederate force of five ' hundred . men have crossed the Cumberland;! river below Fort Donelson, . and are Proving rapidly towards iventneky. Mohtt. A.d: vertiser. . j Gieat exciteilifiut prevailed ifc Kew! Orleans dh-th'e 26th ultf, the Confprates; Wimir : r xitl pia?er; Correspondence of the Carolinian. Goli-b mo Oct. 7, 136L , Deak CAK(LixiA;j: Arrived at this point at-5 orciock 5iis inorningIaud as there w but one train of cilrs pe daj'ritn ning between henrund Green-sboro', I will have to remain ovjr unul J P. M. Should any of our Fayettcvillof.ilks take this route ta go ito Petersburg, they should, bear ia miud tu take the lG A M. tran at Wilmington, unless .they desirs t' be bored by layinjs; over se entesii hours tt the city of Guldsboro'. Thisphcefis at present very dull, but it " is. to, be;tioped"that it will be mote lively in a few days, pis the Moore Coun ty DvtlUtiti" has "Me' ordered by" Gov. Vance, to be published near this town, by. wa of competition to that sprightly iittl sheet already established at this point, the Slate Journal. I regret to learn that the patron of the aforesaid Balleih will be expected by Gov Vance to follow the pilgrimage of that ably cenuuete paper. I lenn that thevellow. fever is efill raging in Newbern,, and thar our own people there are sutfering for inaJftal at tention. In view of j this, Gen. Baker has eoxamnnicated wit h' the Yan'ietf,''. 'toiifr certain i,: they il4hpermi a" Kflrgecth to pass into Ibeir lines tor theurpose of at tending t. our suffring people: " H i te ' be hoped that this vary commendable and humane step taken by Geh. Baker may be responded to in a Chri-tiart manner t ni that our suffering p4pple will not be pei niitted to die i'oi lack of medical asii: -tance. . v F-; - 1 ; ' ' I had almost forgotten to state Uat oa "Wednesday; night, when near Wilmng tou, on the North Carolina," a young boy lell oil into he wattr and was drown ed. Having fallen ofi ea ly at' the door o: t eogibie rom, itjis supposed that tne suction ot tho- wiieal carried him under th boat and that'ht was killed by the paddles. Capt. Luttwrloh made etery ef fort hi hii power to roscue him, but all proved fruitions j His: name is said to be (Jrawfoid- .that he liyed twelve uiifesliom F.:yettevi!le.. wan -seventeen j;e rs old, and just going lo join the Junior Reserves. Soldiers are Lop vnturtfsme on these boats at night, and it is a surprise that uijny more have not been lot.' ' AYhat makos this negHgerict! more criminal, io the fact, that Capt. Lutterloh had,i otone hour before the occurrence of the accident, warned and entreated. the men to kep ou the centre of the boat. .' You will hear at an early day from lours. " SIGMA." WAR NEWS. The Richmond Sentinel ariv's th fol lowing particulars of the battle near Rich mond oa Fridajrt last,; Yeaterday niruing; at an carlj hour, Gea. Gary's brigade of eavalry and a force of infantry attacked Kautz cavalry. which, supported, by Biraey's tenth. corps, occupied! .a ( posittoa about five mi les from the j city j Vwhile the main bedy lay in the neighborhood of battery Har rison. The whole force of tho enemy on he nerth side of the river Was supposed to exceed forty; thousand men. Geh. G. tUVLc.k the enemy's tight resting on the Charles City road. ! The Yankees made 1 but teeble resistance, fleeing to their en- trenchments, a shert clistaaco in their I . , i : i ; rear. Our trek ps attacked and carried the enemy's works, "capturing nme pieces of artillery, one hundred artillery horses, and i number of prisoners The eayalrjj pursued Kautz some dis tance : aad our infantry steadily - pressed back t)ic tntn orpt1' ' some three miles, to their main jbe.jy.hcar battery Harrisou. The batttle-fienl was between the Darbv town and; Charles City roads; and ia a southeastern directien '.from the city. .Our loss Was imall, though we regret to tmong tWkilled is the gallant Gen. Gregg, of Texas, v ' General Bratton and Col. Haskell were wounded; I ; . ' ' ' The.latest we havefrom the front is that our troops eaptured to lines of the enemy's entruchmetits, but being much exhausted by the heat of the day, did not push forward any further. Subsequent M the engmjtauJLame forCiatUoiUtedrie retake the works hfcld by our meu, hut was repulsed;.; IThe loss ef the enemy in I klUed a:ttd w?"ded 18 said to be Te heavy The Sentinel says that the operations of last week on the north side of Richmond, j were conducted Jon "the. part qf tlie enemy by General prd, commanding; the . tenth corps ; Gener41; Bifney, ; commanding the eighteenth corps, and by Kantz's cavalry. -A mong the casualties reported by th e Yankee Utter writers' wo find the follow ing: General Burnham,?commandiBg a di vision in the eighteenth corps, was killed in the engagement on Chafnn's farm, and his bbdy ils now t at Bermuda Hundred, wrhereit is being enbaimtd, preparatory to being sent Kerth, ' . : lBthe attack on the rebel lines, on' Chaffiu's- farm,' Butler's, colored trodps are said to have fought with desperation, aad they suffered severely in- killed " and' -wounded;- y ;j . Tr- .. .. T" ' "''':'' " Gen. Ora, who received a flesh wound in the leg" in this engagement, came 'down to Fortress Monre Fridiy, oa the Hor gae. oe his iTray te Bxltjmore. There is very little, news from tVe Val ley. A dispatch from Peneraf ;Earljr te Ganieral Lee, dated the Cth iast.,' says : Sheridan's whole force commenced fal ling back, down" the Valley- lait; night, along the Piko.' ? V ..j As the Yankees are said to be rf pair ing the Manasas Gap - railroad and the Irrange and Alexandria, ready it "ni"ay': the purpose of Sheridan to come this side of the mountains ; but we cAnnot see' that he will b benefited by the" movement. ' ' ' . - - - We received ysterdayfr lloiuUn j(Te x as) p ipeis cf the 2Tth ult, -They Contain no uews. The T ezans are at far from N ew England as Mexico. There are ae Yankees asBoni'them. They) can work up their cr-pin pease-. But ' wei hope that their present blessed condition- wm net prompt them to forgat their struggling bretfrreii eat of tt)e Mississippi ' rivers ,Mobile;Tnbune. j V h- ;. ; : NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Exec ut 1 Ye eirart men t , 7f . C.;; u'a QmoM. . ,y ct. 4ta, 1864. ,) CtxsaiL OaDsasV A NKCES81TY havin-r ariaan for eallintf- a J:X. part of the Gaard Jer Homepeftaee la ta in field to rebel a threatened .intuUn, to avoid interfering a far at pegsible'Wltk tae hidttitrial puritdu of the eeaatry, it it ordered that the commanding officer 3 of tap 0iM for Home Defence in the eountia of barry, Yai- kiu, Rowan," Cabsrf ut, atecklenaarXiaB, Gastoa an Cleav.land,; and alUhe aoatie ly ing eait or aid countisr wilt atseoibU their respective Regiment or Batalionswithoat de lay, aad proceed to devide thra into taree equal parte, to be known aa the 1st, 2d, an 3d clzMits theje number! to be determined by Ufc or draft, and the cltssct called oat in rotatiei. . wken less than the whole are required for flthr service." - 'r .A ' ; .: j .'-. . Commander oi3attalios will exclude from', the lit clasi 1 pereons physically incapabl of performing fiald rfiee, and they will be carefal Jiot to include ia either elais persoaa nutftrictljr aember of the Guard for ilarao . Defence; . j . j . :: When there are less than taree eoHpaniesIa a Battalion, they will be united and de"vidd . into three equal parts, aad a compliment of oQf -eers assigned U each. When there are three.' six or niu companies ia a Battalion, they will be equalized in numbers by transfers. from oae company to the other; I and when the number of companies is not devisable by three, then il Bttst.be made so by breaking ap the odd cere panies and assigning their members to the othi er companies. The company or Mmpanies te be broken ap to ba determined bv lot. i - As soon as each commander has complied with the foregoing instructions,' be will arm and equip the 1st class of bis Battalion and orf der ij to proceed without delav to Ooldiboro', and report to Brig. Gtn O. Leenthorpe, who; as the troops arrive, will organize them into Kegiments. ; ; ,1 ' j , The Guard fnr Home Dofenos belongiaf t eouitlUc 1 ring west of those above cnutntr ted, are deaed for the dei'ence of the Mouataia Districts v Jhcix . ra-anixatioa i wtU uotU cnangea lor toe present. By order of Gv. Tikes : i' ' . M B. C. GATLIX, oct3-d?t-lB3t VI A distant General. All dailv papers in the State copy larce times j' weeklies tnree timet. AUCTION! SALE OF Planing, Tenguing and Grooviag M ACHINE. . . ... I rfiriE uadersigned will sell at public auctiea on Tburdy the 20th of October,' 1S64, at 11 o'clock, a. tn.at the Fayetteville Arse nal and Armory, a Plaining, Tonguinr aad Groofing Machine. .The Machine it nearly a-w and any one desiring I to purchase, weala de well to call and see it. i Apply to : . Lt. Uol. Y. L. CHILD.?, ! !! Comd'g Omeer. ! II. McUILLAX, Auct'r. i 2lBtr j: ... I WALTER! GUN. PISTOL WATSON! MAKER'. AND Guns and Pistds made aiid Repaired . with Dispatch. ' j "jlTEMBKRS'of Reserves and ITorae Guards. Y can have their ; arras repaired at half price. All kinds of Machine work done.. ... , Hay Mount,; Fayetteville, X. C.f opposite the residence oi" . J.iHalc. Esq.t ins hi - ' ' 1 ., Clsoice Tobacco I , L THE UXD EUSlGNED has 'just received a choice lot of superior eheWing tabacee, which he ofl'ers forsale at reasonable price!.' Some of that A NQM chewing tobacco still on band. ISAAC UOLLINGS WORTH i' 19C-lra "-. - " p: -' v-r?. I'- fti J. G. GODFREY, -. ; akd :- -' ,v .' C0)IM48SI0N MERCHANT, Keeps Cotton Yarns Fer a ale. Fayetteville;' N. C.J ' - ' r' 19U-tf ' :j! ... - No. 17, Market Square ! ' Resin ixip3r of ix$i:eso THE PROPRIETOR of the above wtahVfia - ment haviag retaraed ufrtm tvf'; peace naving Deen declared a Moors Caenfr, , resuectf&Hr fcoliitslh cus torn ers. Th tj , will find a choice selectioa ef . Cocks, Tooth Brushes, Taacr Sosp; 'OidVVindiarr'djo.,NeedUi, ?ias, Spool . Cotton, Bl'k -Flax Thread, Blaek , Silk, do.; .Hooka C - i ad.j5yeav. Stationary confcistingof Xote, Letter and Fools 'cap Paper. Plaia. 7aa- cy and Commercial Envelopes, Peaces, Pens, Pea Holdew, Ac, lo. . Aloso a new . and ejarefnHy soleted stock ef the latest Music Pieces published;., -i t..''. r . Choice Smoking Tobacco for Sale. ; OctO-tf. ; .. - .L' SA AC HOLLINQSV ; vrocer and CtQuuiaiu ' . fAYETTCVILLE, H. C.
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