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i - - ' , . ! : . : I - , . . i :.;-r-'- 1 i . . ' , ,-. i v- .:.: v ' . -''. ! ':..7:J.:'' '' !!!';. : i i i 2 4 ' TUESDAY, DEC. 27, 1864. CoMPOsitORS Wanted. Thrtc Good GoscpftsiTORs granted at thi office imme dktelj, to'donewipaper work. . Two Dol jiiRS and Fiptt Ckkts per thousuid eins paid. . . ' ; OUB SXTBSCBIBliHS " Will please notify us in crfl thoCar- rierg fail to deliver their papers. , i ' ! , " . . i V 5rTi Our -readers wiU; please bear i in mind 'that our paper is! issued Sunday morning. We issue no paper on jlondaj. '.' . - - .... - --5 v We have been informed that the news boys charge one dollar per copy, for the iorth Carolinian.' Should this be prac tised, we trust our. citizens will apprise ,us of it immediately. We do not allow it: : Single copie s of the paper art sold at EOcts. I H ;-; f-"V- Mthe Danville Railroad. For the last ten days it has ben pretty generally understood both in the United and Confederate States, v that our city was about to be attack ed by a formidable naval and'mili tary force. The grand object of the Washington ' cabinet was,; firs!,' the , effectual closing up of the only open port in the Confederacy to seal hermetically the only inlet through ' which we could obtain supplies frm foreign countries for our armies in the field, and secondly, to remove, by closing our port, every cause of disagreement with the cabinet of St. James which was about to get very ? restive on the hands of Seward, that , astute diplomatist and wily politician m relation to . the . paper blockade- v wh i oh h h n,d Aflta.bl i sh &( . hn t wh i oh the enterprising Britons have been , constantly violating. To close the tack on Wilmington was determined on. The cabinet at Richmond was well aware of the facts, and had made every preparation to meet the emergency. .Gen. Whiting, with his characteristic promptitude, on the : 1 first appearance of the fleet, tele I graphed to Richmond for re-inforce- ments, and was at once responded ' 4? by forwarding the necessary num- i . Der ot menito the District of. Cape Fear. And yet up to last night,' but r a meagre; moiety of the force sent ! lVllA 1 J' 1 1 . - . I j -m guv cruiueuniaa maaeits appearance- Wilmington. We have carefully ' enquired as to the cause of this strange and unaccountable proceeding in regard to the troops so much needed here, and regret , to say tat we are forced to the pain 1 conclusion thnt the ": whole 'fault : lies at tlie door qf the authorities of the Danville railroad". shrink . ) from charging them with:feason, arid yet had they been the hired minions of Seward, they could not have acted more to the- injury of the common cause than they have done. Tliey may not be disloyal, we do not say that , they are, but they are certainly criminally remiss in dis charging their official duties. There is jt now a miserable spirit of sel fishness, a greed for gain, a love for filthy lucre maifesting itself among our people, day by ay as this strug gle moves along its 'blooody path f way,ithat is truly heart-sickening to those, who have one spark of love of country hi their bosoms.-Wc know of ; a certain railroad in "these Confed-' erate States," not many miles from Danville, and npt many days since, pooped to receive a bribe from an - officer who offered money in order to obtain . quicker disnatch i than was provided by the authorities for the regular government business. This is shameful and a stop ought to be jmt at once to the nefarious trices of these miserable railway shylocks. It is all Very well for them to exact their pound of flesh from the quiv ering backs of a patient? public, but when their unholy avarice, imperils the life of a. great and gallant nation struggling amid:an ocean of blood, it is time, we think, for the govern-' ment to interfere and: bid these gen tlemen retire; j Let them be employ ed at something where they will not destroy a whole nation by their criminal neglect of their duties as railroad officers and citizens; Let them be detailed, for instance, to raise tobacco for the soldiers, or any other money making avocation, but never let them have anything to do with the vital interests of th e ; iState. ' -y ' h ; " .;i Let the cabinet at Richmond at ; at once seize unon,the Danville road until the present crisis: is past. No matter what officers the government may place over the road, or how in competent soever they may be, it is impossible for them to be more unsuccessful or give Jess satisfaction to the public than the j present in cumbents It is all very well when disaster occurs, to make a scapegoat of some gallant officer or other, and crush hini; to the earth with'vituper ation and slander, and no doubt if Wilmington' should fall, we would hear that; Gens. Bragg or Whiting was the cause of its fall. But we warn the; public now that if such a, disaster should happen, which God forvid, it is 1 neither - Gens. . Bragg nor Whiting, who have both ably and faithfully discharged their duty, but tnei JLfanvilIe railroad that is to FROM THE FORTS. Sunday - Dec. 25. Early in tho day the fleet opened fire again upon Fort Fish ! . Th r?POTt of thir heavy guns was uiiunctiy audible m the city. Fort Fish er has thus fair. reserTed her fire waiting r me opportunity that .they all go ear- fnestlj wish for closs quarters. The Fort thus far remains in act, not having yet been injured at any material point. LANDING Or THE EXEMT-j C4JT5'CRlt 01" BAT . TJBRT ANDERSON. . ' . .!.- Between ' three and four o'clock in the afteraeon, a regiment of the enemy suo ceeded in landing near Battery Andersoa, mall two ! gun work situate about 3 miles orth j of Fort Fisher; and about a mile and a halfJ from Sugar Loaf, on the Cape Eearnyer. General Kirk land is sta tioned at the latter place,1 and, we learn, 18 expected to attack the enemy. Battery Anderson was garrisoned bj all or a nor- tion of Oapt. Southerland's company of 10th N. C. Troops, who wero captured, by .the enemy. Tlie work itself is of no im porUoce, but the position gained may eventually gi?c us trouble if not recovered by us. Should j they be able to "hold this point they may eventually land sufficient force to commandOie neck of land lyinr uetireen me uape fear and! thbaeh,in the rear- o-Fort Fishtr., Steps have doubtless been taken ere this to drive the enemy off. . . j. : ' . ': LATER. ' ; We have been unable to gaia anything ofan official character up to th;. (tfl-a P MO except that the enemy haT. "". gues at . Battery Ander son, and were still iiiidino. w u wo Gen. Kirklandhas been them during the evening The darkness of the nirhV engaged with and night abte to thew movements, and we meet ihat by morning they will have landed a WlU be favor. vf j jyn.c ak mui point; : Monday, I'c,2G.- Very! little 'firing ;can be heard to-day, and but little news jis obtainable from below. We under- hstood semi-officially that an attack was maae upon host x ishek by the enemy's land.focet which was repulsed with heavy loss to th enemy. In confirmation of thU, General Kirkland telegraphs' that du- nng last night he j heard heavy musketry firing, in the dirtction of Fort Fisher, and soon afterwards grtat checringon the part of thejgarrison. Ererythingv has been 'hurried to the front, ah4 it is expected that there will be hot work inert to-day QoTernor Vance and General Bragg re at the front. The gallant Whiting com mands at Fort Fisher. .We expect far ther news during the afternoon, as com munication with Fisher has been re-es tablished. ! . , LATER. ' I A Yankee Lieutenant' captured by our forces, says that he belongs to the 142d New York Infantry, Curtis' Brigader Ames' Division. This is the Division that landed near Sugar Loaf on yesterday. It jissaid td be cemposed .of three brigades J of fourtregimonts each It is a portion of . i$atier corps, said to be ! th tioenty-Z fourth (we presume one of their conseli 'dated corps.) Butler, has not yet landed. r Weitselhe says, commands a negro corps, flot ytt on shore. Tbewholoforco -is 4 commanded by Butlefl o additional news has eeri received up to this writing, 6 o'clock, P. but we understand that figh ting had been going on at intervals all day. Cemmunication has been re-es tablished with Fort Fisher, on the le ft bank of ;he river Everytliing is going cn well: Wilmington is yet safe. Gen. Bragg telegraphs that there is no cause for alarm. Tho enemy have as yet gain ed no advantage, and by this j hour to morrow evening, we think matters will look still more favorable, j J i We team that the enemy's fleet suffer ed severely in the bombardment of Sun day. our gunboats were disabled. .Pris oners report the loss of two gunboats on the Roanoke. ; ' . ' ? . - i " " : j, J THE V1RY LATEST. ; 10 a'cZocX-, P..M. -General Bragg" tele-9 graphs that .the enemy are busily engaged fortifying their position on, the boach near where they . landed. Everything looks brighter and-more cheerful than on yes terday. Heavy firing commenced at o'clock last night and continued at inter vals during the night. ' ; . v For the Carolinian, j ' c '' ' casualties: v " j Editor Carolinian :yoo will please men received into General FWnfif Nn 4, Sunday. December tXth rru JIZ were wounded on yesterday : Private Benj R Merritt, Co F. 36th N. C. ixienry juaulfcsbv, B, Morris Channel H (I Hi Geo WBritt, J F, J Mathew Hale. ? TT i ( it t i i k t it ' K U i( - a u John McLaughlin, II, Charles Grimsle, B, r TVashHon Regan, B, 1 " J W Ward, F, i JH Johnson. R 10th B R White; C. 7th Battal. Privateilerrife has left arm amputated between tho shoulder and elhlJ rest are comparatively slight G C Mc ' ' Dec. 25th, 18G4. k : i T AxAixxN x at the North. The Fall River -Mass. JNews in speaking of the present cotton supply at the North says : ! The Pocassoit MnJjfinnf .wiw:' nee and Robirisnn milla KaA t. stopped for several weeks : th a Trmr y - . :. 7 V "AV,y vv v uuwanuns, IU.G iVXeta- I comet, we nnrifirstnnH -nri'n I and the TTnion CliiAn-neXk Jzvi I - wttyucim mills f are working nn wlmf Kfrt .they have- on hand,- nd w11 close t vj toanuuay iiigiit aiSftlie-l larges , stock of .cotton on hand, and will probably continue opera- tions a tew weeks loncrpr Tf ionnnr , , - 1 runnmg;on half time. The prospect WVA".1C vuLtuu uperauves tne I,13 cumin? winter, we, are sorrv to sav. is not very cheerful. 1 Inauguration of Gov. I Vance. jAt 2 o'clock; yesterday the Gov- uijuui t3 uiauguraieai in tnc pres erice of thp mpmKnr nf fWn A coAm ' Wlirr t,i,i. r 4.1. c Cpurt, and a large number of spec- i J mt.. n ' 11. r, 1 tutors, ine jrovernor aenverecl a hifief address.--Progress, 2Zd inxt. j 4 Hv,s&ALTiEs.-&crg't 4 uious. 42nd NfO Begt; hand slight : Priyate John P Graham, Co E. 1st N C Bat, hand alirht: Seaman J F Hoggin, C S steamer Chick, wnauga, thigb amputated. TAB NEWSPAPER PRESS. N' Tlwefiect bf the bill nbwjbeore ; thelHous e of RepresentatiTes, to V regulate details and exemptions, 'will be if it becomes a law, simply to destroy the press of the coun try, The plan proposed by the President did not involve the ab solute annihilation of the . press ; it only proposed to place all the new papers under the control of. the Secretary of . War. But they were suffered to breathe, and to live after. a certain fashion; which continued vitality, the ' 3ilitary Committee of the Confederate House of Representatives sae anxious to get rid of in" a.summa ry. manner. ! There was some sort of reason and Ionc at the bottom of the Presijdent's planQr rather on Jhfocft ofit; Clagii legfsla i tiob: and special legislation are, in tie main' object ional things, and to get rid of them is, consetjuently, a vejy desirable thing. - The Ex eciitixe'mind seems to have been incapable of' resisting this captiva ting! syllogism i and hence the Ex ecutive recoujmendation for placing edjtdrs and pther newspaper folks on t ie general conscription list, so that they might seem to be perfect equality before the law- If the Pres ident's design was really to incr ;ase thej effective strength of the army by such additions as he ouljd get fr6m the various newspa per bstablishments, his object would fall very short of attainment We assert, without fear j of contradic tion! that a decent battalion of arm-b earing men ' could not" b wrupg out of all the newspaper of fices in the country. Yet, should 'the jserviees of all the editors "and thei subordinates become necessa ry, we presume they would very will: rigly take the field. Only let it b i fairly. stated that1 this is the motive ; then there ' would be no one! to demur or. refuse. "But the consequence of this course ' would be tb destroy, the Press a eoncluf J ' : "LiMn,'; nPCeSSar t0 aWe llue President annears to -hav fore 3een this difficulty, and hence does not insist On sending the news paper into; the field.. He only wanp to haye the privelege of put ting them back into their offices, or. such of them as he may' deem worthy of that favor. That the ef feet j of this measure would be; to annihilate the liberty of the press, $Z?m Mnt ' bUt the be?f the Pess V does not any jone can see in a moment : but seem to have suggested itself "as an 1U lf u-iguiueni. . j-nueea, although supposed to be jealousey element in the argument. . Indeed, - guarpeu Dy i sacreel constitutional guwjuiMWB, it is not so mucH as hinted at by , the President, sino a d4 consideration of tnis point would" have sadly marred the gen- eral svmtnetrv of flip InmaV- Ai. nee which wab ?nTsfriifari nn'is niucli ingeiiuitv bv . the ExaL ' ;Y . ' I 1 !o1U1C1CSB, Jl me liDertv ot thA nrpos io ten h thin m at nil. it i nnrtalnW rivi. . ; at 7 r- - vVi tu,imj uitii theeicmntion from rnilitnv-w vice lich is essential to its pre- "v,i;M,fiv") njapxteui me violence wnic4 mignt tnereby be-offered to ;ism, as to.spe- ThMlitary Committee of the House ef Representatives seem not .to lirtMor-an-A -"Touui me suniecieitner one way dr tire other. The President notnmg, if not logical. The Mih tary Committee are nothing no even logical. The object of the Committee is to increase th numerical strength- and conscy- Hucnuy tne ettectiyeness of the ar my. To- accomplish that object, revoke-all. exemntions. with certain x 7 i ' ai? 7 this means may gather from cWltn.Ul J x.l. ij vnai juesiws ana composmg ca8 K score of awkward squads with which to recruit our veteran arniiesi for the struggles of the next campaign. But in orrlPF s.va thelibertv of th cred legacy t which even- Confder- ate Congresses are forbidden to uf editor and sucfe8 operatives . as hemay certify tp 1) euhecelsay. Uniier tMs system, Cweekly pa. per might be conducted in a coun try village ; but the city journals, with tlieir indespensable corps of associate 'editors and reporters, and clerks, would be compelled to sus pend. Perhaps the -members of .. ine military cuiuuiiiiee imagine that any one of their number would ; be . quite competent to conduct a.;; aaiiy metropou tan newspaper -write the! editorials, do 'the local reporting, make up the news, report tue proceeamgs oi congress, ana the StategisJainre, mailjhd txer and i kefptt he books, Without any sort of assistance. -We do not ' pretend io dispute the pretension. But we Tcannot' help thinking .that vfolr-tHe inestimable liberty of the-; presifjis avgreat pity that these 4 accomplished gentlemen squander their talents : in." -Congress. They would certainly make the most re markable editefs on record, "lit -may be i aid that the power of detail ' remains ueuiuu,. auu uia, sucu as-, sistant editors, reporters ard so on, as may be requirexl, can be obtain ed by gace of the Secretary of f War. But this admits that the exemptions are not sufficient fa8 the. purpose contemplated; r If it i-, necessary to go to the War Depart . merit fir assistance to' publish a newspaper, thatj newspaper is to all intents and purposes, under the absolute control of the Government. It isf simply absurd to talk about exempting one editor as; a sufficient security for the independence of the press, if you deprive him of the means of conducting his paper, or. make him dependent for necessary assistance on Government favor or caprice. The literal fact is, that it the plan. of tho Military Commit tee be adopted by Congress, either the city press of the Confederacy. will be destroyed, or it will own its lease of life to the grace of Gov- ; erment officers exactly as would be thej case under the President's A Warlike World. -The Opin- : aliori of a recent date, gives ? this, dismal picture j.of the present belligerent condjtion of the world r If there be a'dead calm in rmK. ics, as well, as business, among us uyuac same in all parts of the little panet we inhabit ? Three quarters of humanity, in fact, are . living in the barbarous state of war. There is: war in Poland.. ' War in Algeria. . '' War in Tunis. ; ' ' . j War in Mexico. War in the -United States. War in New Zealand. f . War in China and Zachgar. 1 War in Japan. r t War in Afghanistan. ' War in twenty, counties in Afri- ca. 4 , .. v ::- This is unfortunatelv. HJscoipage the friends, of universal . ' PS ai who can say they will eet with still greater ; disap- " Olntnient next year ? Italyf Hun gary, ' Poland, Denmark, and' the ; ' blovonian population of Turkey, are not it must be confessed, in' the s ' most pacific humor, and to thps ' who study the general situation of r our continent, it is quite evident that the general situation, instead of get- : ting better, gos on from, day to day getting more &d more complicated, j AvomiMG the Draft: Tha T)aii News rejoices over the following : ; Of three hundred substitute have been snt to the front from Colom bus, Ohio,' under a stronar narH. th bet who had escaped on t the war kn, the city to Louisville, Ky., is said to have reached one . hundred ! ,The remain or at all events those of " them not have run off before they reach Nash.. yiu. wui, we presume, take the,- earliest opportunity of finding tho;way within the hnes off the Conftdertes. ' Tho war haa - ' ' remonstrated no truth so clearly as the ennscription of hundreds of thousands of unwilling men, will add but little to the " numerical, aad nothing to the physical strength otour armies. . ' , - Thi List, of GABVXi:rrv,iAt lw It will. anrPr -J ? - t I t f i our next. ' " ' " - -t n
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