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It bus been urged by a writer in somo ope, of our "Southern exchanges thatjwe will Irivc neace whether I McClellan or Lincoln ii the next President of the Uni ted States ; and he h;;s such foundation as these on which to b:ise his expectation. 5-1 : Inj the Northwest there is an evident disposition lo get rid of the oppression, which a longer connection witlrthe ew England and Middle States will entail; and the 'prominent men of that great sec tion have long favored the ! establishment of a separate Confederacy, feeling assured that their interests will bo promoted by such a separation. And added . to these considerations of commercial interest,! js another. 3he despotism which Mr. Lin-, colnj since llisentranco into the Chief Ma--jestrlicy sem& to threaten their liberties,, und o rcducethem to a .condition of jab solution wlich will be far more abject and debasing than the oppressive fjrahhy of Russia ajnd Austria. u .: . il The Western State have determined thatleither Mr.. Lincoln shall be no loriger their President, or that gthey will retire lrom! that Union, which he has readeithe synonim of all tha5 is oppressive and jun- juSt'.;---"' ' '- They have put General McClellan in' nomination Tor the Presidenc', and arct ex- ertiiig every power to have him succeed the present; incumbent as President: . If jGeneral McClellan is defeated, there can icarcely be a reasonable doubt hat the Government will be again divided, and that'the .tlirw England States will belleft out in the told, while two thrivirg and prosnerous Confederacies; will be estab- lished on the ruined foundations of vthat i ' - i J oncu was the most splendid Republic of modern .times. ; : ; j Rat in case Mr. Lincoln is defeated, as he i4aujurited the war, as he hates Gen. McUlellan ! and his mends, much more heartily than he does the peopie cfjthe South, and as his hopes of a longer politi- 1 cal life will have theij forever fled, that he may cripple' bis successor, and strip him of a3 much glory as he can, and that he may prevent McClellau's success In the accomplishment of a reconstructionj at which he has failed in all his efforts-be t will have hp hesitation' in signinfg a treaty oi Peace with the Confederate Govcrnment before his term expires in March, and will find no cifficulty in having the Senate a large majority of "vhich are his partisans -confirm jiuch a treaty as he may agree to as a basis of settlement Iii any event the independence ofthe 'J i States of the South is a fixed fact. In any cvent-whthtr our arms are victorious or whether ;they are overcome with defeat, the Star of Peace1 will soon rise above the horizon which tho long night of war lias darkened wlith its clouds of strife : and! the glorious surj of mdependence will herald, as it struggles; through the gloom that envi ror.s it, the jcoming day of prosperous hap piness; an(l which -foretells our career which is to j make us the gladdest people, auu tho gVaiiccst nation on the face of the Fi'OM THE jFKONT. A letter to the Register from tha frout coroborates the sti.-ementl that our. infan try struck the Western and Atlantic rail road at Big Shanty Oct. t C. Their de struction, of the road was complete - The cuts were filled uV and embank ments leveled. f A signal corp3 ' lias been planted at the Military Institute-near Marietta. ' Kennesaw Mountain has not yet been taken possession of, although we can oc cupy, it any time. , -j Wheeler'is reported to bare b'.imed the bridge over the Etoivah. Tiii're are said to be a small amount of supplies in Marietta, thef principal depot betwec n Atlanta and Chattanooga being "at. Caitersville, u'hich )is defeuded by quite a formidable chaii of -earthworks and btockades, inside of Which is cooped up a brigade of Yankees! It is supposed by those who are pos ted in military matters; that Stewart will complete the destruction of the railroad as far up as Alatoona' anid perhaps to -the Etowahat least his cotps will be allow ed to amuse themselves sin thisSvay- un til there is some call for thera in the field; ; j Our scouts report that there is ho yan kees between Newnan and Atlanta. : According to the article of capitula tion adopted by Gen- Fcjrrest and Colonel Campbell at Athens, the -Yankee offi cers were to retain all their private prop erty, and be sent to Meridian or some other point in this State, until Gen For rest can communitate with Gen. Wash- ! burn, when they will I be forwarded to j Memphis and parolled. New nan is now the ; central news de- j pot ef the Army of Tennessee, although ; headquarters are some jflfty miles away 1 Gen. Hood has ordered all teamsters to return to their commands, their places to I i " Jbe filled by' negroes5. j i It is said that Gen. Hood has prohibi-j ted the sending of dispktches beyond his Hecs for the present.' j The Coluinbiis Times, says, an officer I who left Newnan on Saturday morning, j reports that Sherman i had evacuated At lanta, after burning the greater portion! of the city, and had moved up the State; road in the direction of, Marietta. He al so reports that Hood's 1 army was at or near Big SJbanty nFriclay morning, and that they would re.ich Jthe Etowah river j by Saturday night. The destruction of the road by our forces is represented to be thorough and complete. The super structure has been burped, the rails bent and the excavations filled up In order; t use it again, Shernan will have to build a railroad 'from ho stump.' "After! the capture of Rore. IWheeler is said to! have struck the State road at the King-; ston junction, and w ass tearing it up in the direction of 1 ;d,on. Forrest is repor ted to have tapped the Nashville and; Chattanooga road and had net grown weary in well doing. ! - - ' Blowing 'em Up. fit is stated that 1 the road at Bachelor's Creek,, in! front of the enemy'js outposts, ' along which, the yankee Cavalry are wont to sally forth to robl hen-roosts, kill pigs and steal negroes it is said, we say, that this roadj has of late be-" come quite dangerous to travel. Beneath it's'sandy surface there has lately been discoveVed an indescrida ble, combustible . distance, which, on the slightest touch of the yankee hoof or loot, explodes with the roar of a volcano, sending horse and rider dr footman emphatically up spout away over the tops j of the tall' pines, .These subterranean fiery balls are equally sensitive tthe touch of de serters. About tep days ago, the story goes, two. deserters from ..the Gth.N. C.. down this road, on their way to the yankees. Suddenly an unearthly noise, a flash, and one of them found himself on his vfay to the moon. The enemy alarmed by the noise, sent out a squadron of caval ry to see what was they "matter" and on arriving at .the fatal spot, old Belzebub againj poked the fire, a ' spark ascended causing another ter rible roar, as if something had explo ded, and four yankjees went up spout," but succeeded in getting down again, only to find themselves scratching in the sand, by the side of a dead horse. Surely the Devil's Ufter the Yankees down about Newbern. , I ' State dournal. A few days ago a'war democrat" met MeClellan, and askect him if he was "still fer war." Mac handed him his letter ef acceptance." A "peace democrat" met him a few minutes after and asked h'm "if his thoughts werp turned to peace ?'' 4LUtle Napoleon' handed hiv the Chi- cago Platform." Both DemoctatB are sat-- lsficd with tbc nomination. Kr- - THE MURDER OF; CONFU.KRATU i SOLDIEIIS AND, CITIES AT! front .royal:! : The i.ichmond Sentinel -haspf received from a gentleman who was tt't e? le-witness of the atrocious acts of the Fedfal troops at IVont Royal, th fcKowing firticulars of "he affair ;," n k The Ynkee cavhlry; undpr jen Tor bert. entered the town; and Sffrovp out the ttw Confederates" on pi-kef who fell !i;ick to Mijford. At this 1h.t point, Gin. Wiokham met th Yankeftforce and repulsed it. 1 fe'l '. A pat of Moshy's mtn. fgfder com mand of Captain Chspann, Hifyed the enemy very 'much on th-ir rctut Front Royal, which, With the mrJicationof their defeat by Wickham, exeii m them such: savage .feelings as to priipt thpir. to murdpr six of ., our; men whl tell inc their hands. Anderson, Ovy, Love and Rhodes' were sh t, nd r ter nd one of her, whose name cur ifrnant did not recollect, were hunt tqr tiMflimbuif a ktree at the entrance of the village, with a card attached, to the bidies reatening with hanging on the same Ht any one wha would; remove thft torpsM from the Jlenry Rhodes was 'quite anutn, liv ing with his widowed mpthes and eup porting her by his labor.' . Helid not be long "to M.osby's command., Jis mother entreated them to spare the Kfe of her son1, and treat him as a prisoner of war, but the demons answered b whetting their sabres on some stone.vaT? declaring they would cut oflf his"-head" iul hers, if she came near.- They ended St shooting him in her very presence. . . ' The murders were commit?fd nn the 22d of September, Generals Togbert, Mfr: ritt and Custar being present? It is siid thai Torbert and Merritt -turn the pris oners ovr to Custer; for thejf f.br, who ordered the execution.' 1 Citrter, one of the two thafrftfe're hunp, dipd the doath of a brave. m$i,' defying bi5! executioners, : and threatening them with the tenfold venjeanc i$e his com rades. If either of, "the thrfenerals in oomtnand on that! day, who ai$ responsi b'e for these brutal-masacre! should be c.jptured, his immediate execution by hanginjr wwuid moetsxhe dema'id of jus tice anu the upproval ot the pqpl? , I -JRichmond 4pntirieL . A Glant Little. Figii - Three i means ot immediate relief that ltis js YVvufk Kh.t.eh a few Two Vorxnkn. i tinahle as an expedient that it wi 1 b? It extremely graUiying toljb'e aide to notice the vigil;in,cp,f activity itid courage that characterise thf- troops this d--; partfnnt. We would not tr to make a mountain out of a'piofe hill, bt it is truly gratifying to read, fef ;uch gcllnt little ex ploits as the following; and - jie more so as they are beginning to bdiof almost daily occurrence. - On last Friday an expedition from the enemy's gunboats, at NevbeiiS, cosisting of about sixt.v. men'with two r-ir;e ne carrying a twenty-four-poud howitzer and the other a twelve pouri gun at tacked a portion of Captain Junes' com pariy, G, 67th regiment, then'-J on picket at. the mouth pi Swift Creek, d4ying thMn back, arid the Yankees succeei'ed in iand Captain Jones, who was wf $ the bal ance of the company,some fejf miles . dis tant, went immediately to theiasistanct-, engaged the enemy, and drWe them to t heir gunboats killing : Cap! fin Gordon, U. S.'Navy, corrimancing thes yxpedition,. and two men ; and woundingfWo others, with no 1ojs whatever on ouriide. j .-. .- Stutegdaurnal. i't The press and the people !nife, says the Riehmond Sentinel, in calling ujon the Gitverrtment to placet aleur able bodied men in thf fiel l. Yetuch is .the strangeness of humun naturejwhen the necessary steps are taken, tls'iy are too frequently rewarded ' with' otpxjuy-'. As fast as the rle hi appliod. t'V& m;i,n on whom it is brought to b ar fet lies a squall, and his friends join. pnd declare that this Is a pecniiflr .".nd should be a special case; , We fti-iy. exptiif a great deal of such outcry; but vve tiiist it will be no further reg;nded shun 1j;e bttut in terests of the service deinat.d If and th it nothing will be yiekltd to mef4? clamor or ij nil u e n tial ... t n en d s. J -Pjj c !flh 4 will find.it a hopeless ui.Hfjrtakitig to please everybody; let tiVemll rather do right, and dispenstqual justice to all. Hi 5 The Yelxow Fever at CHRLE-fON. A. correspondent of the Macc Confider acy, writing from Chariesi on under date of Oct. SjSays the eHkw fevMr is on the increase. 'The taortaliiy ampg children is very lar'ge.1 Some tteighbQioorfs se m to. lie more affected than otllis- e.-p-ci :ill j is thi the case afouna Ihe Arsenal. Its! introduction, I am told, hs been ow ing to the want of proper ptlcaution, in allowing blockade runners tt free ac ess to thn city on arriving from Ifassau and other affected points. JrtMp Chronicle & Sentinel. . ' -n . - i- A dispatch from Washingli says that Maj.Multord, Assistant A of Ex change, will start'witlnn a fr.dajs, for avannah, with ten thousand sick and wounded rebel snidierf!. to he?""! exchansed lor a like number of the worrl - naves of sick and wounded of oui4meh. The steamer Baltic and other vesjiels of like capacity are now preparing !io sail on this expedition. - ' . - f Fire hundred nd fifty irejfroefj captured bj Forest at Athens, Ala,, have arrid at Mobile. They all wore the Federal unifo k. - ; ' - : ; ; t-. i . r. FROM FLOIUDA. ' li.Wp some reiialde particu the late raid iioon Miliaria We lars ofi from Flirid under Gen. Ashbotch. This General .-.paid dearly far his trip. He has got back with three wounds in ins;! person, one in the arm, which is to be der, an; kiioekhi thirty ninej men killed and seventj five were brought back wounded. His spoils Were three-hundved head of cattle. - At Mariana the people fought him bravely, even" the women taking a hantj and firing 'at-iijm from the. windows of the houses and, a church. Ashbotch ordered the first MaittfV cavalry to - charge, and they refused.; He then put -himself at the head of another regiment, charged, and was shot down. He encountered nothing bat, home guard and women" at Mariaoua. The church was bur- ned casualtiaraong our own people 3 1 Mijnannafe5 rorteld t; six killed and seren wounded. v A Bill for Arlixo the Neoroks. A Georgia paper learns froi an authority which it regards as altogether reliable that the fra-tures" of a bill for arming the nc groes and placing them in the titdd is bo ing cajnvaspd by a circl ef politician" prior to the iniroducti jn before the Con federate CojNress. The bid proposes : 1st, ; To q nscribe all the able bodied negroes ef .he coun'ry between the agNg of 18 ai'd 4o,-respectively. 2d;; .To ofrnnizi this frce into regi ments, briadts and divisions, and to arm and ccuip them thoroughly as soldiers. 3d, To officer the forcea thus organized froui'meritdf ious soluiers and subalierns now in the ii Id. ' . And 4, To .offer each negro who serves faithfully to the end oi the war, his free dom ; j. ; . - ' It is assuai,ed by the friends o this measure that its passune will at nre sup ply two hundred and titty thuns nd fie-di troops ' th it it will avert ihe necessity for ai ejensuoh of the existing conscripiory limits, thitt it is essential as the'o-Jy papular. abroad, and. that, in short, it wiil iufeur;-' a suCcr.sful repulse to the swollen a' lnles of the Nortli next Snvin?. WjThe bill will be presented to the House1 by one of, the most eloquent and intiueh- tial of i s niembcr , and 'is likeh) ty form a proinincnt arch to the debates of tiie' session, upon military, affairs. . A new Rebcl Ram. The North Brit ish Mail thus describes what it calls n new rebd ram": "I m Messrs., arojes,iQuiggIn & Co., of Liver pool, hare h.tejy cumpieted the Colonel Lamb, a st d paddle wheel steamship of 1,7""$ tons, old lncasurement. She has been .bud', and fitted with engine power with a vi .w to great speed as a blockade runner. On" Tuesday she wert on her trial tUj,' and took the opportunity of hav ing ;i ;w Hours' iae with the Isle of Man 8Uao!)er liougl.Ms, the fastest boat yet k,n vfn on tve Mersey. In tvvo hours aad tiiir y one minuies the Colonel Lamb beat the Douglas by about four miles. By log the j ship ran sixteen and three-quarter knots, or about nixten miles ah hour, -i - --4 - . From tub Front.2 The Montgomery Mail has the annexed hews : i - i . , It! :ias been rumored that Geh. French s.. divis on was cut off from the main body of the army above Ackworth ou Friday1 arid forced to cut its, vay out with a loss! of six hundred. : That the division was engaged with the enemy we are assured but are inclined to doubt the truti of the statement ;which has passed current. Gen. Beauregard was at Talladega on Saturd i-yy en route for Geueral Hood's heaoquarter s, accompanied by Governor Harris, of Tennessee. . V . The latest A'crapevine" scnsationals re on 'tfip outward bound, and the tntry ol .Cheatham's corps into Ailauta 1 . FAoai Atlanta. The Macon Confed er.cy has! just seen a.cntfeman who left Athiiita oh the 7th. He says that the Ys.n eat, feps liae nothing hut hard tack to that the whp'e ot their army ex onc corps have left the city, and that are very uneasy in referen t to their cent they situation.!, ro traius were arriving. We say s the tales of large quantities - of sup plies having been accumukted tby ths enemy are . without foundation. lie is of. the opinion that the city wis burned on the -nishtj of the 7th, as the light from a large lire in that direction was seen from ion eibor' TRANS-Mississirpi. In the Trans-Mississippi all things look well. Texas, Ar kansas anil two thirds of Missouri are in our t ossessien. Even the great metropo lis of the north-west, St. Louis,'is closely ljelegured by our troop. Tbu has the work of the p 'st three vears been lost to thej Yankees in Missouri andArkansas. The same is true ot Mississippi, save the territory I embiaced by a narrow strip along the river, i where tbejr fieit gives thepi advantages J't possessed by the Confederates. I arapntated, one in the- shoui- . tHl PPonmes oi learning facts state I j i i a. irain conxainin'T twelve hiinnr'i I a-tttirrd in the lower jaw, . , , twe, nunarea cr o it VPrnl tPOth . H lost "'-.V 7 "Ui,ur'1. w a5 CHt UOm "-IDCMS- v. Losses i? $nnriDAf's Battlki Th New York Vorld says : It is a singular cireumstanco that no account has yet been furuislfed trf the killed and wounded in the brilliant fights of Shridan in the Shenauduah Valley. A iHtter firtin a gentleman who lias ici io ii.imumre imi weeK. ..m the new. hospital at Winchester (the .Sheridan hos pital) are two thousand badly wounded Federal soldiers, while there are also At Winchester, sevea hundred rebel wun ded. ' . ? . . ; , ; t Aki ivnn. Two of the Harris (Iisou. ri) line of sieamers have arrived at a Cor federato port. brin?ing consignmentr of cloth for the Conff derate States. , NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. j IPayettCTille, 6ft. S, 1864. To A .MeLie?i. ajayor,,: rilLTh undersigned commissioners named io X-. the Chatter of tbc 'Flomx?e npd Faj etteTilic Railroad 0,V re?poct&Hy ak that a. meeting of the citizens of the Town f Fayette ville ba C nlltdr to take into consideration the importance of at ence subscribing for a sufli- cient amount of stock, to organize the Cm- i pany. and to -pronnnently plae before th Stxte and Confederate GoTernmentithe impor tance of the construction of the Rad. .: 4- WM. McL. MeKAY, f .1X0. M. 1U)SE, h 1). A. UAY, AUG. W. STEEL. ! - A. A. McKETHAX. TOIVIV MEETING. Mtayor's Office, 1'AYETTKVILLB, Oct. 8, l8o4. ( --. compliance with tha above request; I " hereby trive notice that a !feetin of thw cip.zcns o!'-the; To'.-?rwiU be:held at the Town llail on Thursday al'teruosn'tlie 13th inst., at three and a half'o' clock, to which all personi, whether resieltnts or not, who appreciatejthe iinportancf? of the object of the Meeting, are respect t'ailj in ited. . ll-2t jAKCU'D. MLVX, ilayor. Tlie Meeting cnllccl undpr the foregoing notice, U adjourned until Moa- day the Ith iriitznt, o'clock P. M. It. M. OH 11 ELL. lK-tm . ; STRAYED. r X7U10M theraretteville ARSEAL AXI ' .-ARMORY, on thft ?tn is5t., a black raarw Mule , about 8 yean! old, hoH hiyb hpad m harness, 5ji?bt freai marks. A liberal reward will be paid to any one finding aud Diiiging be.r bark. 1 . - . -. Persons are cautioned against trading for her. I . L. ClifLDtf, . " 211 fit Lieut. Col.- Coradg. Observer copy 2 times. ExecstliYoIisirtiMeiit. . C, ADJUTAST 'jrENERAL 3 UKKICK. - Raleigh, Get. 4th, 18C4 jRekesal Osders, ") ' io. 24. 3T-TY having arisen for calliaa j part oft to the field to : the iuard lor Home Uefence in- repel a threatened invasion, to avoid nterferino: as far as pypsible with tha iijdutff rial pursuit of the country, it is ordered that the commanding officers of the Guard fory Home Defence in the counties of iSarrv, Yad kii.. Kowan, Oabarru?, Meckleiibarjr, Lincoln, Gaston and Clea.'veland,-and all the couties ly i.g east of said counties, will assemble" their respective Rrgimcnts or Batalion? without de-, lav, and proceed to devide thera into threa euial parts, to be known as the 1st, 2dy and 3d classes these nunibers to be determined by lot or draft, and the elapses called out in rotatian, when lets tbaa the whofe are required for field service. f - - Coiunitindefs of Rattalions will exclude from the 1st class 'all person? physically incapable of pfrforaing field srvice and they ; will be careful not to include i either class persons not strictly members of the Guard for Home " Defence. - ' When there are less than three comp anies in a Battalion, they will be united and devided into three eqnal parts, and a eoinplimentof offi cers assigned io each. When there are three, y six or nine companies in a Battalion, they . wHi be equalized in numbers by tranfera from one company to the other, and when the number of Onnpanie? is not devisable by three, then it must be made so by breaking up the odd com panies and assigning their members to the oth- er companies., The company or companies to be broken up to be determined by lot. j As soon as eaclv commander) has complied with the foregoing instructions, he will arm and equip the 1st class of hi3 Battalion i and or der it to pjpeeed without delav to GolJi boro ana report to ling. xen. u. ljeventaorge, woo, a h i,h o -t r4eperTirp vrtcnitft tbe tn Into r Regitaenty. '-, '. ": . ' 1 - The Guard ; for ITome Defence belonging to . counties lying westof those above eaumerated, are designed ffor the defence of the 3tountaia l)Ltrict. Their organization will not: b changed for the present. "'- - -' - By order of Gev. Vasce : ! ; R.-C. GATLlXr i oct3-d3t-In3t Adjutant General. AH daily papers in the State copy three times 7 weeklies threi times j AUCTION SALE OF I Planing, Tenguins: and Grooving . MAGIIIXE. y ritllE undersigned will sell at r ublic auction X on Thursday the'20th of October, 1864,: at 11 o'clock, a.' in., at the Fayetteville Arse nal and Armory, a Plaining, Tonguing and , Grooving Machine. The Machine is nearly newj and any one desiring to purchase,' woula.dflT j well to call and see it. Apply to - " f . Lt. Gol. F. L. CHILD 5, ! :l i Comd'g Officer. ' VI IeMIT.I.X A u.-!r ici r. 210 is - WALTER WATSON, GtLN. PISTOL MAKEUt AND Guns and Pistols made and Repaired , : tcilh Dispatch. "jt XEMBKRSof Reserves and Home Guards ! jLVL can have their arms repaired at b&lf i price. All kinda of Machine work done. -1 Hay Mount, FayettevilleTN. C, oppoeite ! the residence of E. J. Ilale, Esq. , 20i lm v .. ' .' "
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