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Forty Years' Familiar Letters the Voliinteer'is Hand Book. AAJI w w iiiy y E DIB SEMI-WEEKLY. [VOL. XL] FAYETTEVILLE, N. C.. APRIL 14, 1862. [NO. 1116.] PHIN'TED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS. From ihe Cbarleston Courier. Class of 1833 Daniel Ru<;<;le3. LEGISLATURE OF NORTH CAROLINA. CONVENTION OF NORTH CAROLINA. A B aby ill the Camp.— A correspondent writ­ A LIST OF THE GENERAL OFFICERS IN THE j Class of 18H5 Junes M Withers. SEN.ATE. EDWARD J. HALE & SONS. Alamance— Giles Mebane, Thos. Ruffin. ing from Gen. Price’s army, says: ARMIES OF THE ( ONFEDERATE STATES. Claw of 18oG Joseph R Anderson, Lloyd Tilgh- Pa.^squotank and Perijuimons— J M Wh«dbee Alexander— A. M. Bogle. One of those episodes so familiar in every well El ITORS; a n d TROrRIETORS Tlie following interesting statistica of the Con- | man. Camden and Currituck — B F Simmons Ashe— J. E. Foster. regulated household occurred iu a tent a few even- federate .^ lu y organization are due to one of the j Class of 1837 Braxton Bragg, Wm 11 T Walker. Gates and Chowan— M L Eure rice fur ihc Semi-Weekly O b s e r v e r $3 00 if paiil In Anson— A. Myers, J. A. Leak. lugb siuce, under the medical auspices of that Itichiuond correspondents ol the Courier. In the | Pemberton, Arnold Elzoy, Hyde and '.^^rell— Jones Spencer mlvance; S3 50 if paid during ihe year of safcsarip- Bertie— S. B. Spruill, James Bond. prince ot medical directoi'o aud good fellows, Dr. list ot Bngadier-Generals in the Provisional Ar- | H Sibley, Jubal A Early, Northampton—J M S Rogers Beaufort— W. J. Ellison, E. J. Warran. t ratice. A baby was born t .» tue army— a stout^ ion: or S I afier the year has expired. uiy, the regular order of appointment ia perhaps ! Ckss of 1838 W m J Hardee, Janies H Trapier. tlertford— J B Slaughter Bladen— Neill Kell^'. healthy mule baOy opened ita eyes lor tue first time For the Wes'ily O b s e r v e r $2 00 per annum, if paid in not aiw.'ijs observed, but we believe the lut is , of 1839 Alex K Uwton, John P McCown. Bertie— David Outlaw Brunswick— T. D. Meares. upon tfiis tumultuous world, in a tent, surround- otherwise correct. The dates of graduation tiojj Class of IblO Richard S Ewell, Paul O Hebert, .Martin and Washington— J R Stubba Buncombe— N. W. W'^oodfin. advance; $2 60 if paid during the year of subscrip­ I ed by rough-leatured, but kiud-Uearted men. The W est Point are taken from Gardner’# Diatiuoarj Richard B Garnett. Halifax— M C Whitaker Burke— J. C. .^IcDowell. tion; or i s 00 after the year has expired. j Doctor claimed the privilege ot naming it, which ot the United States Army; Class of lb 4 l Robert S Garnett, Samuel Jones, j Edgecombe and^W'ilson— II T Clark Cabarrus— C Phifer. I Was readily accorded, and in a buuiper of new ADVERTISEMENTS inserted for 60 cents per Generali in ih^. Regular Armjf. Class of 1842 Earl Van Dorn, Gustav us W Smith, : Pitt— EJ Blount Caldwell— E W Jones. rye (for tlie article don’t last long enough here to square of 10 lines for the first, and SO cents for each Beaufort — Frederick Grist 1 Samuel (’ooper, Va, Adjutant General. Mansfield Lovell, James Long- ‘ Camden— D. I). Ferebee. attain any respei table agej it was cUnsteiied ster­ jacceeding publication. Yearly advertisements by spe­ 2 Albert S Johnston, Texas, commanding in street, Daniel H Hill, Richard I ('raven— N II Street Carteret— C. R. Thomas. ling Price MeGoe. il is proper to append the cial oontrauts, at reasonable rates. Advertisers are Kentucky. II Anderson, Lafayette McLaws, Carteret and Jon es— Dr M F Arendell Caswell— Bedford Brown, J. E. W'illiamson. UaUal note, that the motner inu inl'aut are doing requested to state the number of insertions desired, or 3 Joseph K Johnston, Va, oommtnding North­ Alex P Stewart. , (jrrcene and Jjcnoir— J P Speight Catawba— George Setzer. as well as could be expected. Aow, a baby is a ;hey will be coatinu«d till forbid, and charged accord­ ern V’irginia. Class of 1843 Roswell S Ripley, Sam’l G French, i New Hanover — Eli W Hall Chatham— J. II. Hcaden, John Manning Jr., matter in itselt of no very great importance, and ingly. 4 Robert E Lee, Va, commanding South Atlan­ Class of 1844 Simon B Buckner. j Duplin — Dr James Diek.son L. J. Merritt. your eonespondciit bein^ a Uatcneior, is not sup- Onflow— L W Humphrey Advert isements to be inserted oharg»d 50 per tic Coast. Class of 184u E Kirby Smith, Barnard E Bee, I Cherokee and Clay— J. II. Bryson. poaed to Wti'iH to Liidiu vei^ luieiisei^, but thcn^ Wm II C VVhiting. i iiladeti, Brumwick, tkc—J no D Taylor ••Qt extra. 6 P G T Beauregard, Lou, commanding Army Chowan — R. II. Dillard. notwuiistaiiaiiig tlieir laecs iiave iiu more expres- of Potoniac. Class of 1846— Thomas J Jackson, Cadmus M | •’umberlatid and Harnett— Duncan Shaw Cleveland— W. J. T. Miller, J. W. Tracy. siun tliuii a buw. ol iinliv., aiiU the additional faot SPECL\L NOTICE. M'tjur General* in the I^nviiional Arm]/. Wiluox, iv'avid R Joiios, Wm M Sampson— Thomas 1 Faison Ciiluiiibus— Richard Wcoten. that tiuy have a Kuacic ui .'>\v.alj»viiig tlieir fists, From and after this date, no name of a new subscriber Gardner. W ayne— W K Lane (.Iraven— Geo. Green, Jno. D. Whitford. 1 David E Twigg.s, Georgia, resigned. I there is u hea^ ul ouLcumc in ihj lUtie creatures, will be entered without payment in advance, nor will Class of 1848 Nathan G Evans. Johnsttm—-J W H Watson Cumberland and Harnett— David McNeill, A. 2 Leonida^i Polk, Lou, eoiumanding at Memphis. { especially boy babic>, anu we have iiupes that tflis the paper be sent to such subscribers for a longer time Class of 1854 ,J E B Stuart, Wake— M A Bledsoe S. McNfill, M. J. McDuffie. 3 Braxton Bragg, Lou, commanding at Pttusa- ) army-born boy wiii prove worthy the liiustrious than is paid for. N a.s h — A J 'J 'a \ 1 u r Currituck— John B. Jones. cola. GENER.A,Lsi W^UO WERE .NOT URAUUATEsi AT WEST patronymic lie bears Such ofovj old subscribers as desire to take the-pa- POINT. Fratiklin— Vy' Harris Davidson— B. A. Kittrell, B. C. Douthit. 4 Earl V'an Dorn, Mis.'?, Army of Potomac. : Dr. France retjueots us * 0 say, that now hia per on this system Vill please notify us when making The following Generals were appointed to the Warren— T J Pitcitford Davie.— Rob’t Sprouse. 5 Gustavus W Smith, Ken, Army of Potomac. | I hand is in, he offers his professional services to old United States Army, without passing through Granville— C 11 K Taylor Duplin—J. T, Rhodes, James Dickson remittances. Jan’y 1, 1S5S. 0 Theophilus II Holmes, N C, Army of Pyto- all the families in Art^ansas, and the adjacent P' r.son— C L Winstead Edgecombe and Wilson— W. S. Battla, G«o. mac the 'Vest Point Academy:— David E. Twiggs, ap­ States and . erritories. The present revoiutiob f^ T O ADVERTISERS. pointed in 1>512; Wm. W. Loring, in 183G; Thos. Orange—Josiah Turner, Jr Howard. 7 William J Hardee, Georgia, Missouri. requires croj)s ot this kind, even though they are Persons out of town who desire advertisements in­ Alamance and Randolph—Jonathan Worth Forsyth— T. J. Wilson, D H Starbuck. 8 Benjaiiiin Uuger, S C, commanding at Nor­ T. Fauntleroy, in 183G. several years maturing. serted in the Observer, and persons in town with whom Chatham— W S Harris Franklin— A. D. W’illiams. folk. The following Generals first saw service in the we have not regular accouiitp ' ' pleafe send with the Moore and Montgomery — W’ D Dowd Gaston— S. X. Johnston. Lincoln Morality.— A Northern paper informs 9 James Longstreet, Ala, Army of Potomac Mexican war:— M. L. Bonham, Henry R. Jaok- advertisement as mucii mor^ i.;y wish to invest in Gideou Richmond and Robeson— Alfred Dooksry Gates— A. J. Walton. us that the Lincolnites have arrested tne Chaplain lU John B .MisruJcr, V., oomm.ndiNg . t V ork-1 ..'J- it, according to our adverti>. i jis oa the first page ' Chas. Clarit, J nos. C. iiinuman, John C. Breck­ Anson and Union— S H Walkup Granville—Thomas B. Lyon, T L Hargrova, of the Maine b*d Regiment for reproving au officer i town. Guilford— Peter Adams S. S. Royster. for profane swearing. This incident presents the We do not wish to opan aa> more such accounts,— or 11 Thomas J Jackson, Va. oommanding North­ inridge, Benj F. Cheatham, Richard Griffith, Albert Pike, Adley H. Gladden, Maxcy Gregg. Caswell— Bedford Brown Greene-^W*. A Darden, moral sensibility ot Lincolndom in striking con. indeed any accounis The process of collection is too western Virginia. Thtf following Generals participated in the Rockingham— F L Simpson Guilford— Jno. A. Gilaier, Ralph Gorrall, R trast with that of Washington, who, after rebuk, difficult, and we have to pay «aah for every thing we 12 Mans&eld Lovell, Va, oommftDding Coast of Texan wars and the wars with Mexico:— Beu Mecklenburg— John Walker P. Dick. ^ ing an officer for a similar otfence, kindly remarked. ■«e or sell in these times. ! Louisiana McCulloch, Louis T. Wigfall. Cabarrus and Stanly—\ C Barringer Halifax— R. II. Smith, L W Batchalor Oct.
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