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U. $ YATSS, Editor and Proprietor. CHARLOTTE, N. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1862. TENTH T OlUJIENCUDER 5C3.

THE GOVERNMENT OP NORTH CAROLINA. THE DESTRUCTION BILL, BEAUREGARD'S POSITIOH.. LIQUOR DESTROYED BY LADIES, Henry T. Clark, Governor ex officio. Salary &ft 38tsttrn Jhmorrat. The following is the bill passed by the Confed- The retreat of Gen. Beauregard from Columbus Some twenty ladies of this Town, prompted, by .nfMl nor to the point Annum. CHARLOTTE, N. C. erate Congress pioviding for the destruction of on the Mississippi river known as the noble impulses that usually abound , ia th i Pulaski Cowper, Secretary to the Governor. Sal Island No. 10, shows cotton, to pre-Te- nt the penetrating glance of female heart, proceeded in a body to the depot . fees, tobacco, military and naval stores, (J5)Pablishcd every Tuedaj,(o) ary, exclusive of $310. ? members the accomplished engineer. Columbus was a last Thursday afternoon, and with hatchets and Secretory of State. Salary $800. What they intend to do The the enemy from getting possession of them : BY Rufus II. Paz, second Fort Donelson, as far as its position was hammers destroyed five or six barrels of whl?ky Daniel V. Courts, Treasurer. Salary $2,000. of the Lincoln Congress are discussing the ques- WILLIAM J. YATES, A bill to regulate the destruction of property un- concerned. It communicated with Tennessee by and poured the liquid poison upon the ground; m W. R. Richardson, chief clerk to the treasurer. tion of how the Southerners are to be disposed of der EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Snlnrv $ 1.2(H). military necestity, ttnd to provide fur the a railroad liable to be interrupted by the enemy, fitting libation to the devil and his imps froai the after they are subjugated. Some advocate hang- indemnity theretf. and a retreat by the Mississippi on was hands patriotic women, whose mission, pending I C. II. Bropden, Comptroller. Salary $1,000, steamboats of Oliver II Terry, librarian. ing, whilst others propose to only confiscate our Sec. 1. The Congress of the ConfedetateaStates hazardous, as the enemy could closely pursue our the war is, to 44 go about doing good." The ladies of America the or . IN ADVANCE. The Council of State is composed of the following property and appoint rulers for us of the "loyal" do enact that military authorities boats, perhaps even attack them from the Mis- in performing this act of mercy, but manifested a of the Canfederate are authorized souri shore, gentlemen: Council Woolen of Lenoir, President, appears to Army hereby below Columbus. desire to at home, with our brave army nt in stripe. Senator Trumbull of Illinois, j3?-Transie- advertisements must be paid for John W Cunningham of Person, David Murphy and directed to destroy Cotton, Tobacco, military At Island No. 10 the Mississippi makes a sud- in the field to save the country from both external advance. Cumberland, A of Bertie, F be the roost moderate man in the yankee Senate, and. naval stores, or other property any kind den turn and - of Wm Ferguson J of runs nearly due north about fifteen and internal foes the latter being tbs mora, aF Advertisement- not marked on the manmcript W Graves of Surry, J J Long of Northampton, and he proposes to treat us as belligerents so long whatever, which may aid the enemy in the prose miles, to New Madrid, where dangerous of the two. - course, they would or a specific time, will he inserted until forbid, and it again turns and Of sot L Ilillard of Buncombe. as the war lasts, but at the end of the war (after cution of the war, when necessary to prevent the runs nearly due south to Obionville, whence be able, if they have the desire, to destroy all the ;harred accordingly. Aids Hon Danl M Barringer, Spier it Governor's same or any part thereof from falling into the continues its general southward course. poison a thousand filthy ' worms" ere poor- -. Whitaker. we are conquered) the southerners in the bands of It thus that hands of the enemy. forms a peninsula, on the line between Tennessee forth aud day the destruction A STATEMENT Literary Board Henry T Clark, President ex the Lincolnites must be tried for treason, and all ing night for of B Gor- Sec 2. Be it further enacted, That the owners and Kentucky, so narrow that while the distance Southern men I the killed, voundrd and captured in the sev- officio; Arch'd Henderson of Rowan. Jas confiscated and divided among of Yates of Mecklenburg. southern property of property destroyed under the operation of this by land from the river bank at Island No. 10 to Since the breaking out of the war the ladies of in the don of Wilkes. Vm J eral battles and other engagements Internal Improvement Board Henry T Clark the Northern ' brethren" after paying the expen- Act, as well as those persons who shall voluntarily the nearest point on the river about Obionville is this town, and in other portions of the Confederacy, year 1SG1. President ex officio; James Fulton of New Han- ses of the war. JMr Trumbull is quite liberal ! destroy their property to prevent the same from less than three miles, the distance by water is have toiled day and night to prepare comforttble falling into the hands of the enemy, are hereby thirty. To pass this soldiers in the field, who, other successes. over, N M Long of Halifax, Others propose to colonize us like the free ne- distance the enemy would clothing for our "federal The General Assembly commences its session on authorized to perpetuate the testimony of such have to Bilenee the fortifications both of Island wise, would have suffered excruciating hardships I November alternate year. groes in Liberia. But a man named Willey, a destruction in the manner an No. 10 and New Qi Cj V ' the third Monday of every prescribed by Act Madrid. This peninsula has and rendered wholly unfit to encounter the foe, BMW- -- -- I tj ? e is t3 The next election fer members, and for Governor, traitor who pretend s to represent Virginia in the of the Provisional Congress, entitled " an act to been regarded by very intelligent to and the ladies i- ' to certain defeat - T2 i-- - - jj r s-- officers as the except submit i f 1602. will be held on the first Thursday of August, testimony in cases slaves or real - Battles. Lincoln Senate, thinks it would be too expensive perpetuate of abducted key of the lower Mississippi, and the fortifi- cannot in this critical moment of the contest, suffer harbored by the enemy, and of other property canons on ana near u were an injury to be done their brave defenders in the s is 1 1 CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT. to transport the "rebels," and therefore proposes commenced in Sep- ISC I iy seized, wasted or destroyed by them," approved tember last; those at New Madrid were begun field by patriots who remain at home to speculate, l 1 ! ! ! Jefferson Davis of Mississippi. President. to hang every one of them. 30th of August, 1861, and such owners and per- somewhat later. if they can prevent it. If the method resorted j 7 J 15 Alex H Stephens of Georgia, Vice President. people might June 3 Phillippi, 20 These things show what southern sons shall be entitled to indemnity out of proceeds As we have gunboats at New Madrid, it would to in the present instance was not altogether 4 2o 4; 9 R M T Hunter of Virginia, Secretary of State. June l.s'Koonville, 50; expect if they permit themselves to be subjugated. of property sequestrated and confiscable under the be almost impossible in estimation, demanded Mountain 4.1 55 2o So! C G Memminger of South Carolina. Sec'y of Treaa. for the Lincoln troops to legal, necessity, their it July 12;ltiri laws the in July in. St. George, J3j 500 4. loj J P Benjamin of Louisiana. Secretary of War. So every man had better make up his mind now of Confederate States, such manner as take and hold that place, or the western bank of and in time of war the civil laws, ia many 1 i I 2s'I!titteras, 21 C'Jl S R Mai Florida, Secretary of Navy. d Congress may hereafter provide. the Mississippi below instances, have to yield, especially to the supreme An lory of to spt-n- the last dollar and shed the last drop of it, unless their gunboats I i rt 21 Fr rkktow n " Thos Bragg of North Carolina, Attorney General. should succeed in passing authority of woman. Statesville Expreu. " his blood in defending his rights, rather than be Island No. 10. A Nov 7 Port Horn I, 12 40 8, 23 J H lleagan of Texas, Postmaster General. We are authorized by the Public Treasurer to long as we hold that bank and the Tennessee bank Iee 3 Diiiiiitvilie, 43; U3 8 50 100! brought to poverty and degradation by Abe Lin- state, that he has appoitited Mr Samuel 11. Young, of I ; the river, the Mississippi furnishes a rapid and A subscribe at i ; ; ! The Affair at Winton. MEMBERS OP THE FIRST PERMANENT coln sign him C. 1 8P1 124D e; and his vile people. To arms! to arms! ye of this City, to for the N. Treasury secure line both of supply and for the C. who was shell- 278 ; ' retreat army Winton, N. (says the Standard,) Total. ' CONFEDERATE CONGRESS. southern men, and strike for your liberty, honor Notes of the denomination of Fives, Tens, and cn the peninsula at the island, and our gunboats ed out, gives us a few facts of that affair which XV VC K KS. SENATE. Twenty dollars, authorized by the late Convention. ('ON FEDERATE and property. Now is the time to rally and resist secure us the control of both those banks. may be interesting to our readers. Our troops ia ALABAMA. NORTH CAROLINA. And we are authorized by the Comptroller to state, The country about New Madrid is known as the that quarter, it appears, did not behave as gallant IS- -- Wm Davis, your barbarous enemies. Allow no traitor to lurk 3 T3 L Yancy, George that he has appointed Mr W. T. Wonible of this earthquake region, from the terrible earthquake ly as first stated, but they nevertheless "live to Clement C Clay. Wm T Dortch. is in your midst he that is not for us against us, City, to countersign the said notes for him. Both felt there in 1811. About six miles west of New fight another day." Our correspondent says: Dates Battles. s ARKANSAS. SOUTH CAROLINA. these appointments have been made by and with Madrid lies - Robert W Johnson, Robert W Barnwell, and must be treated as an enemy. an impassable swamp which extends "The Yankees came up to Winton ou Thursday, the advice and consent of the Governor. southward in- Charles B Mitchell. James L Orr. Raleigh to the junction of the St. Francis with with six gunboats and ten transports, and sitsr JBg F 1,0 K IDA. TENNESSEE. Watch the Railroad bridees. Watch the Standard. the Mississippi below Memphis-- leaving a narrow throwing a good many shells, landed about 1,500 Ft-t- j j 150 A strip of low land between it and the ."?) Antonio. E Maxwell, Langdon C Hnynes, foundries and workshops in the South. Watch Right We must change Mississippi. men and procceeded to rob aud plunder the place. . Mar 12 Frt Brown, 100 J M linker. Guslavus A Henry. War of tiit Sort At a short distance east of the peninsula above your barns. Watch your store houses. Watch whole war. They carried off whatever they could convenient A;.l 13 Fort Sumter, OKORfilA. TEXAS. the character of this As carried on mentioned lies Realfoot 100 lake and river, a former 1 hey stole ladies' and chilJrens' clothing, bed A1 '5 Fort Bliss, Benjamin II Hill, Louis T Wigfall, for incendiaries. Arrest all suspicious persons now, it is a pleasant pastime for the Yankees. channel of the and 1 C(0 Mississippi, separated from it A 20 Iiidiaimla, W S Secure at home from the appreheusion of danger, clothes, and threw beds in the streets and burnt 6; lo Robert Toombs. Oldham. and submit them to a thorough examination. If by swampy ground, thus presenting a strong May 10 Si inll's Point, LOI'ISIANA. KENTUCKY. they can come down upon us, stealing, robbing, theiu. They broke up furniture, and then pro May 31 Fuirti'i C. H.. 5! this had been done six months ago, much valuable barrier to a land attack on out forces at Island No. Edward Sparrow, II C Burnett. murdering, burning, and laying waste. They will ceeded to bum up t ueh of the buildings as were J ti ne 1 j A uia Creek, 10. With an army ia the field in West Tennes- T J Senimes. William E Simms. property would have been saved. Act prudently tire of We must change iu the lower part of the towu. The prinsipsl June 5jl'i'. Point, never such sport. it, or see kept active and moving, to check a land t fcuffercrs were Col. Mrs June 10 !r-a- Bethel, I0O1 2.r0 .. stississiri'i. Missorr.i. and discreetly, but firmly and vigorously. be ready to submit to the fate that impends. We by the fire, P. Jordan, I attack, the passage 50 J 100 Albert (J Brown, John B Clark. of the Lincoln gunboats below J110. A. Anderson, Mr James Northeott, Mrs June 1; Vienna, was recently made to burn the rail- must carry the horrors of war to their doors. At 17 City, 15 50 150 150 James l'helan R S Y Peyton. An attempt the peninsula will be a difficult undertaking; if June Kansiio 30 once, and by concentration of all our means, w4 HaUej and Dr. D. II. Shields. Most of the oth J lue 1 New Creek, 3 7 VIRGINIA. road bridge across Neuse river at Newbern in or- they succeed, the formidable works at Fort Pillow were rifled of their contents." , should throw a hundred thousand men upon Penn- trs J uii; J; Romtu-y- 2 3 15 R M T Hunter, Total number, 26. der to hinder communication with Fort Macon. present the next obstacle to their progress down 1 fi 10 After such a statement, what confidence can any Jiinr 27' J!atli: Point, Wm B Preston. sylvania. Let proclamation be made for that the Mississippi. Naturally the earthquake region .l I 2 12 C7 S5 53 0110 have in Burniiide aud Golds-- ily - I:iy number to assemble at Winchester, to be led by of Missouri and Tennessee New the pretences of . t li;t-re- , HOUSE. To about Madrid J il 5 t '.u 1 u 2ou 300 200 Pay of Members of Congress. the Stonewall Jackson or Magruder upon Philadelphia, boro', as to their designs not to disturb private 1 7. 3 1 50 100 Thomas S. Bocock, Speaker. Oku presents many obstacles to an invading force; J i!y Scary Creek, Editors of Richmond Enquirer Gentlemen: and old and young will flock to the standard, and property? J 11 : v IHjllull Run, 13 53 3 200 30 20 Permit me to express my surprise and regret at under the guidance of Beauregard those obstacles - - I i , 2500 1C.0O in thirty days the march to victory and reverfge 2 Iana.ssa-- 37t I48.i 30 IOdo ALABAMA. the action of the. Senate of the Confederate States will be improved by science and genius, to the ut- Spies. There are unmistakable indications, J.jiy 2.V Meailla, 10 .1 G would begin. Let the enemy in the mean time, Thoma Foster, W Chilton, in passing the bill for the pay of members of Con- most extent. says the Chronicle and Sentinel, that July 2f Fort Stanton, 75o Wm R Smith, 7 David Clopton, if they choose, pillage our coasts and burn our Augusta 205 800 30! 1000' 1200 300 gress, aud the oCcers of that body. with Lincoln spies. The in Afi h Springfield, John P Ralls, 8 James L Pugh, towns. Their strength lies in their cities. Phila- THE DANGER TO THE SOUTH. the South swarms Aug ISi.Matbia Point, J L M Curry, !)ES Dargan. The Senate has fixed the pay of members of delphia subdued and levelled with the ground, formation by which the Federal troops guided A'ig 20 ffawks' Nest, I 30 Congress at the enormous sum of three thousand The great grain producing portion of the South- their movements in Tennessee could only have 7 i Francis S Lyon, Maryland throws off her chains, Washington is A u -- Ba ley's' X Rds dollars and ern Confederacy (says the Richmond Dispatch) A'i- 27 Cros.-- 3 50 100 ARKANSAS. per annum, twenty cents per mile for or New been obtained from spies or traitors. The details : Lanes, emptied captured, and York and even has hitherto been Kentucky and Tenuesseeft The Sept 3 B r Creek, Felix J Balson, 3 Augustus II Garland, mileage. The Speaker of the House $0,000, and Boston are not beyond the reach of an given by the New York Herald of the stock of enterpris- army supplies of the last year were principally Nrpt It) Li.tuley, 150 250 Grandison D Royster, 4 Thos B Hauly. the officers of the Senate proportionate salaries. ing General. cotton 111 Augusta, and othtr particulars relating 1 1 5 9 drawn from those sources. The enemy have now Spt Li'winsville, FLORIDA. One of the last acts of the old United States such a crusade were preached, there is no to our city, must have been derived from siuilar Sept lllToney's Creek 20 30 50 If overrun most of Kentucky and have control of a o Congress was the passage of just such a bill as sources. S.-p- t 1 y ;.n lioiirsville, ! 50 .... James B Hawkins, 2 Hilton. telling the number of volunteers who would rush large Tennessee. . t this so enormous that it shocked the sense of portion of They arc making great rM-p- i jo lyexmron, 3D 120 350',) GEORGIA. to the field to share in the glory and the spoil. The cotton States must soon become a vast mili , efforts to compel us to withdraw our forces from Sept .25! Alanu-sa- 3oi the country. Eight dollars per day is a large whole Julian Hartridge, 6 William W Clark, Richmond Whig. the valley Duck tary camp, and throughout their extenl 1 i 45 compensation for any member Congress; and productive of River. If success- Oct Stcatn'r Fanny C J Munnerlyn. 7 Robt P Trippe. of military law should partially, if not wholly prevail. Oct 3 1 rtenbrier. 31 12, loo: 150 the people will not, and ouirht not to submit to fig?-- Now is the time for action for all who are ful in this, it is difficult to show how our army is j Hines Holt, 8 L Gartrell. Every man should consider bimselr a detective, Oct i !iu aiiiacoin o 32 J to be subsisted another year, unless the southern .1 A Hardy such an enormous waste of the public money as in earnest. Rich and poor, old and young, all of . Oct 9; Santa Rosa, 20 42 20j 30 17 II Kenan, 9 Strickland, whose duty it should be to detain for examination David W Lewis, 10 A B this bill proposes. I hope you will publish the all classes who intend to defend their homes and plauters abannon for this year the cultivation of Oct 12 Mi 5. Passes, ! Wright. all transient, suspicions persons. Especially should I Eaid a cotton and devote their fruitful soil to the produc- Oct 16 Bolivar, 10 I f 40 12 KENTUCKY. ayes and noes on the passage of bill. families and country against brutal and insolent this be dune along the hues vt railroads. Uy 1 Eee'-hnrg- , 5!oj tion of provisions for the people and army. Oct 2 111 800 72fi Alfred Br.vd, 7 II W Bruce, VlRGlNIUS. foe, should now bestir themselves. We speak to their means almost unrestricted communication Nov i lUlmoiit, yfn :573 in 400 tiooi 200 the men, for it is with pleasure and pride we state Gov. Brown, of Georgia, in a long and" able let- 5' 2i:" John W Crockett, 8 S S Scott, We agree with the writer of the above exactly. has been maintained Bince the commencement of N.v f'.kct,n, i ioc II E Read 9 E M Bruce, the women have been and are more generally and ter lately published, has called attention to these be adop Nov '. i i tiy :i 2 40! 501 Jl This is no time for high salaries, and it seems the war. It is time some system should (Jeorge W Ewing, 10 J W Moore. actively awake to the calls of the crisis, than the facts, and earnestly endeavors to dissuade the Nov IT 1'pton Hill. i 3d strange that members of our Congress should vote ted to prevent the conveyance of information to No v IFhI!s Church, 21. 7 10 J S Chrisman, 11 R J Brpckinridge, Jr., men. Those who have much involved in property planters of the South from seeding cotton during the enemy. The passport system is more objeo Nov 22'Pensneola, 6' . 10 2i' T L Burnett, 12 John M Elliott. themselves such pay when the Confederacy is in lose all by in this year. He shows that the cotton and tobacco . may economy contributions to the if tionvble iu imagination than in fact, it is of little 2'-- Nov 'Near Vienna, lo; One-fourt- 2i LOUISIANA. its infancy, and needs all the money she can com- public defence. h of the property that States raise only grain, we shall be able to furnish incovenience to true men and is very effectual IrC 2 Anaii'lale, 4 15 Charles Villiere, 4 Lucien Dupre, has been stolen from some places that have been the Confederate army with the necessary supply of D.e 13 'Alleghany, 25 601 loo 200 J J mand foT war purposes. We had hoped that the against traitors. We think the necessities of our Charles M Conrad, 5 John F Lewis, occupied by the enemy, would have provided a provisions, and defy the combined Federal forces Dec 17jV'ool.oiiville, 4 loj 30 45 8 Confederate Congress would have set an example situation require its adoption. 75 100 Duncan F Kcuner, 6 John Perkins, Jr. defence, appiied in time. is very tor years to come. But if the lands and labor of Dec 2t Oj'otliJeyholo, 12 20 125 in economy. perfect if It Dec 2.vSaorauieuto, 1 !0j 20 18 MISSISSIPPI. well at the proper time to call on Presidents, or the South are to be taxed with the production of Col. Singletary has received. John J MeRae, 5 II C Chambers, Lieut-Co- l. Cantwell, of the 2d North Carolina Secretaries, or Generals, or to censure their con- four millions of cotton bags, which we can neither a Colonel's commission, and has left for Raloigh Total, 9K4 3356. 218 4325,7614 8777 S W Clapp, 6 O R Singleton, regiment, has been appointed Military Governor duct, but our defeuce now rests with ourselves. eat nor exchange during the blockade for provis- under to to the Governor for duty. Reuben Davis, 7 orders report E Barksdale. of Norfolk, and Capt. Parham, of Sussex county, Let us put all who are for us to work in proper ions to sustain life, it is the honest conviction of Excellency has a brave and maa RKC A PIT l' I. AT ION. Israel Welch. His selected true Virginia, holds the position of Provost Marshal of places, and let us put out of the way of doing us Gov. Brown that we are in great danger of being who will work and efficiently Coufed. losses. Fed. losses. MISSOURI. one faithfully at that city. harm all who are among us and not for us. conquered, not for want of arms or of men to use whatever he may be employed. Netobern Frog. Killed 1,12' 4 911 John liver. 5 W W Cook, m . Charleston Courier them, but for want of provisions. Even if the , Wounded, . :?.:;4 7,t21 Casper W Bell, 6 Thos W Freeman, President Pavis has called' on Virginia for grain crop were of little importance, instead of be- pub Prisoners, 1,477 8,777 W Vest, 7 Knox-vill- e A Blebsino The North Alabamlaa. George Thos A Harris. 40,000 additional troops. Governor Letcher has The Yankees in Nashville. The as is, a of vital necessity, cotton A II Conrew, ing, it matter two lished at Tuscumbia, thinks that the visit of the issued a proclamation calling upon Virginians to Register has the following : on hand, when'thc blockade is removed, will Total 6,231 21.609 NORTH CAROLINA. crops gunboats has been a blessing to that section. It rally and volunteer at once without waiting for Notwithstanding the assurances given by the bring down prices to a figure that would render W N II Smith, 6 Thomas S Ashe, .he operations of the draft law. The new levies baa shown the people how helpless, the? were to . R Bridgers, 7 James R Yankees, on their arrival in Nashville, that peace- the profits of both little, if any, more than the themselves against even a small force, SAMUEL P. SMITH, Robert McLean, are ordered to hasten by express to rendezvous. molested, defend Owen R Kenan, 8 William Lander, able citizens should not be nor private single crop of 1861, which, from the scarcity of while too many men have gone on blindly depend r Every, man is appealed to to take his own or personal be interfered with, it Attorney and ComiM-lu- at Law, T D McDowell, 9 B S Gaither. property or rights the supply, would bring all the manufacturers of on Davit, or some, man, to fire-ar- m me Jeff other delena borrow his neighbor's and hasten to from vicinity, that Be- CHARLOTTE. X C, Archibald Arrington, 10 A T Davidson. is reported by persons just that the world into competition as bidders for it. them, instead of trying to do something for them Winchester, Manassas, Fredericksburg, Norfolk they have already violated these pledges by arrest- sides, the war continues, provisions of all kinds Will attend promptly and Jittyntftf to collecting and ; SOUTH CAROLINA. if selves. It says that five hundred Yankees, at too and Williamsburg. ing Hon. Neil S. Brown, Senator Barrow, and will be so high the grain crop will, in all pro- remitting all claim intrust"! 10 hi? enre. W W Boyce, 4 John McQueen, that time the . recent foray was made, Could have Special attention given to the writing of Deeds, Con- other prominent citizens. The despotic edict has command more clear money to the plan- W Porcher Miles, 5 James Farrar, The Draft. In reply to the letter or inquiry bability, "cleaned out the whole town,"- - but now the veyances, Sic. M L Booham, 6 L M Ager. been promulgated that no one must speak dis- ter than the usual cotton crop. During hotirs of business, mav be found in of an esteemed friend at Prospect Hill, Caswell, countrv is aroused, and organizations perfected to Eaif the paragingly of Lincoln or hi policy or favorably of and save Court H Oilic No. adjoining clerk's oftW. TENNESSEE. we state that the present draft for one third of the Plant corn, plant corn, plant corn, oi. such an extent as would make the experiment a ue, I, the Jeff Davis. All who eo do are to be regarded as Jani:arv 1 0. 1S62 J T Heiskell, 7 G W Jones, militia is not for two years or for the war, but on- one to 4 dangerous tne vandaw. traitors. Thus bad begitw, and worse rem tins SnARP-SnooTix- o W G Swann, 8 Thomas Menees, ly to repel invasion. The Convention expressly ox the Tennessee River. ' 1 4' W 11 behind." Those credulous Tennesseans who be- TVbbs. 9 J D C Adkins, refused to authorise a draft for the war. It is be- We learn that some of our citizens are prepar Double-Barre- We hsva A. lieve from robbery and l Suor Guns. J, FOX, E L Gardenshire, 10 Bullock, lieved the bounty offered by the two govern- they will be exempted the ing for effective service on tne lennessee river. was no wea 1 1 that expressed the opinion that there -- II S Foote, David M Currin. vandalism that has characterized the march of the will go in squads more than five or ments will be the means, in addition to the patrio- They not of as tne double-barr- el flLttornoy eft Xji,wy M P Gentry. everywhere else, and have pon as valuable for close fighting CHARLOTTE, N. C. tic feelings of our people, of raising a sufficient subjugating army six. Each man is a practiced shot, with a rifle shot gun. The truth of this convictioa TEXAS. yielded to the allurements of their specious and each will ( FSERAL COLLKCTISG ACKST. men from this State for war. is at long range, and go prepared with not at Donel-eo-n, A Wilcox, 4 number of the It was fully established by the battle Fort e John Wm B Wright, proclamation of peace aud friendship, Ofli.-- over the Drug corner. also believed that the militia who are now being hypocritical less than, one hundred rounds. They will take havoc field is said Store.'Irwin's Peter W Gray, 5 Malcolm Graham, will where the greatest of the January 1, 1862 Ral-eiy- h realize a bitter disappointment. with them uothing but ground coffee, relying upon tf Claiborne C Herbert, G B called out will not remain long in service. to have been effected by this kind of weapon. Wo F Sexton. and food. pro- Standard. the citizens their guns for They believe there is so lack of double-barr- el shot guns VIRGINIA. TnE Hessians. Rome of the foreign soldiers small 11. pose, in these squads to guard the Tennessee in the Southern States. it be objected to W. M R II Garnetr. 9 William Smith, Every to his at Roanoke Island, v?ho could hardly speak Eng- If then BECKWITH Plant Corn! farmer owes it river. They will take their opportunities from they are not so effective as other weapons at Has conjtantlv on hand John R Chambliss, 10 Alex R Boteler. to all corn lish, informed some Confederate prisoners that they that neighbors and to bis country plant the behind trees, logs, and in the narrow bends of the long distances, we reply that the soldiers of the WATCHES, JEWELRY, PLATED WARE, James Lyons, 11 John B Baldwin, he can, and to make as little cotton and tobacco were fighting for the principles of their fore- river, to pick off the Lincoln pilots.. They can &C, Roger A Pryor, 12 Walter R Staples, principles South are not going to fight at long distances Of the best English as possible. The soldiers must have meat and fathers. This is the literal truth. The phtnt a Minie ball in a sheet of foolscap paper, at and American manufacturers. Thomas S Bocock, 13 Walter Preston, were by hereafter. However much we may desire to keep Ca-a- bread, and their families at home must be provided of their forefathers,' who bought up a distance of six hundred yards; and we venture B his parcha.ing elsewhere. John Goode, 14 Albert G Yankees at a distance in time of peace, w N u"a,"'nc stoctfore Jr. Jenkins. were the George the Third like cattle in the market, sharp-shooter- crystals put in for 25 csnts each. James P Holcombe, 15 Robert Johuson, for. Plant corn! it is the staff of life. A good the assertion that such a corps of s to elose in ninepence a day and their bread and meat. This most bring them quarters time of war, January, 1B62 T Dan'l C Dejarnette, Hi Charles W Russell. corn crop this year will do more for the South will be as great a terror to the enemy's boat as is same sum Lincoln pays for their if we ever expect to equaliso their advantage cf 107. any thing else. The time for cotton aud about the that each - Total number than our gunboat were at Fort Donelson. Let numbers. ... , v ..v. John tobacco will come after a while; but this is the descendants, and constitutes the only principles county bordering on the Tennessee rier, in West T. WOOD-WOR- that either ancestors or posterity are capable of Butler, K and BLACKSjJITDIKG. year for planting cern. Tennessee, send a squad of such men 00 this The true Grit. In ths retreat from Fort PRACTICAL comprehending. will soon refuse to ascend a Henry, Parson The subscriber is prepared to do all kinds of Wood- Accident. Yesterday, Sunday morn- duty, and the pilots McKaime, of Company A, 15th work and Black6mithing, such as making and repair- Fatal where death awaits them behind any big regiment Arkansas volunteers,, aged over sixty Watch and Clock ing, whil the old steamer Johnson, ferry-bo- at Sale or Negroes. The war has not had stream Jlaker, Jew- ing Wagons and Buggies, Horse-shoein- g, Ac. His Shop aeen danger, the much effect oil the sale of negroes. At the sale tree. A man may face a known or years, after being wounded in the neck, was order eller, Vc., is residence, nearly opposite Mr W F plying between Beaufort and Fort Macon and ' at his Phifer's few were but when he cannot divine how, froai wuat qnar- - ed to surrender. He proudly replied, 'not Opposite Hotel, Charlotte, 2. Railroad wharf, was lying at the of Carson Black, in Cabarrus county, a yet,, Kerr's X. f. dwelling, and he also hat Blacksmith Shop on the Morehead City may be aped, be j back-stre- boy, 18 ter, at what moment the arrow and immediately fired upon and killed a captaia (Late with R. W. Beckwith.) et in the rear of the Mecklenburg House. Fort wharf awaiting for passengers and freight 00 disposed of at the following figures: a He girl, 14 old, will shrink from it with an unaccountable of the enemy's cavalry, tried another barrel, Yl'atclifn, Clock &. solicits a 6hare of public patronage, and feels her way to connect with the up traiu, her boiler years old, brought $1,186; a years lit Fine Jenrlry, confident he cau give satisfaction both iu workmanship Thia does dread. Let our people feel, in this war, that any j which missed fire, and the old soldier oi the orosa of every Repaired and bursted, killing one man, a Mr. Parsons, member $1,000; a boy, 12 years old, $810. not description. Warranted for 12 and charge. Give him a trial. is lawful, and oar eaure must be tucoecs-fu- L as a true soldier of the South should with months. of Capt. Guion's company, and wounding three seem to be a decrease in the price of negroes if defence fell, J. H. FR0PEST. j foe- . - an Concord Mcmphi Aralanrhe. his faco to tht - ., . ; r; 7 Oct 1, ISfii. v January T, 1?2. others. Xticbera Progress, V)th. anything, inertia. Flag.