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I Illt, \.C . E. Olina. Oliiia. »Liiia. Forty Lears ?i:. i illt, \.c . •se -inJ 11 i> now Ati .1 Th AN- >* I;., h . pa; i to , iiJar 'T inH H E (BIBSIK IBT -Olp.i 'o iM iiiy . SBM l-W BEKL, Y. l.e --!.l Kt Auc \i ’K.,= .K^n el .g to ih^ nsi.-!i: ^ -.f «ou„ [ V O L . X I . ] »' 'ipaiiy, win, FAYETTEVILLE. N. C., JANUARY 30, 186*2. [NO. 1095.] i Hil n»’- >ry i.s niOTe:i hj I ‘J* - . W rk. Iick-^n ' h I’ .,1, ruiNTF.D MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS. From the Charleston Cotirier. Class of 1833 Daniel Ruggles. ' LEGISLATURE OF NORTH CAROLINA. CONVENTION OF NORTH CAROLINA. NORA 11 McCARTEY. ■ooi ht. ana A LIST OF THB GENERAL OFFICERS IN THE Class ot 1835 Jones M Withers. SENATE. I V.rip;;. ,,t tin Alamance— Giles Mebane, Thoi. RufEn A REMINISCE.NCE OF THE MlSSOl Hl CAMPAIGN. EUWAKD J. HAiE & SO»S. ARMIES OF THE .'ONFEDERATE STATES. Class of 1830 Joseph R Anderson, Lloyd Tilgh­ ijiii-. \l,i. hitip*. Pasquotank and Perquimon.s—J M Whedbee Alexander— A. C. Stewart. louring the stay of Col. Jones iu Nashville, we HI IT0K8 AND 1‘ROPRIETORS The following interestiog statistics of the Con­ '• 'I' i iug. man. Camden and Currituck— B F Simmons Ashe—J. D. Forbes. federate Army organization are due to one of the had the pleasure of many fireside talks with him * 1' ^ be Price for the Seuii-Weekly Ubsekver S3 (X) if paid hi Class of 1837 Braxton Bragg, Wm 11 T W'alker. (iates and Chowan— M L Eure Anson— A. Myers, ,J. A. Leak. upon affairs in the West, which he discusses with •ry , orti.niiy Kichniond correspondents of the Courier. In the Jno C Pemberton, Arnold Elzey, llyde and Tyrrell—Jones Spencer Bertie— S. B. Spruill, James Bond. ready frankness, interspersed with many anecdotes r- ''I Vi; : :i''vaiice; S>3 00 if paid during the year of sabsorip- list of Hrigadier-Generuls in the Provisional A r­ Henry H Sibley. Jubal A Early, Northampton—J M S Rogers Beaufort— W. J. Ellison, E .J. Warren and illustnitions. These stories have led us to - ' ..odl my, the regular order of appointment is perhaps iuii: or SJ after ti-.e vear has expired. Class of 1838 Wui J Hardee, James 11 Trapier. tiertford—J B Slaughter Bladen— Neill Kelly. believe that, thus far, Missouri has the better ot not alway.s observed, but we believe the list is For the Weekly Ubskrv kr 00 per aiiuum, if paid in Class of 1839 Alex R Lawton, John P McCown. Bertie— David Outlaw Brunswick— T. D. 5leares other seats of hostility for the real romance of otherwise correct. The dateS of graduation tioin Class of 1840 Richard S Ewell, Paul () Hebert, [ Martin and Washington— J II Stubbs Buncombe— N. W. Woodfin war. Most assuredly the light there has been Hdvaiicc; i'J '>0 if paid during thf year of subscrip- West Point are taken from Gurduer’a Dictionary Richard B (jarnett. Halifax — M C Whitaker • Burke— J. C. McDowell waged with fiercer earnest than almost anywhere tiun; or j>o O'* alter tlie year has expired. ot the United States Army: o* Cla.ss of 1841 Robert S Garnett, Samuel Jones. Edgecombe and Wilson—H T Clark Cabarrus—C Phifer. else. The remote geography of the country, the -ALtVLKTl. IMK.NTS luseried fo) tiu ceut» per nerd/s in thf Rttjiifi.tr ■ Ar-niy. Class of 1842 Earl Van l)orn,(3rustavus W Smith, , Pitt— E J Blount Caldwell— E W^ Jones. rough unhewn character of the people, the inten­ »quare of 1*> liiie< f'>r the firsii. and 80 cents for each 1 Samuel (’ooper, \'a. Adjutant (general. Mansfield Lovell, James Long- ' Beaufort— Frederick (irist Camden—D- D. Ferebee. sity and ferocity of the passions excited, and the jucceediiig pubMcaiioii. Yearly adverti8ement.s by spe­ 2 Alb(;rt iS Johnston, Texas, commanding in street, Daniel H Hill, Richard Craven—N 11 Street (Jarteret—C. R. Thomas. general nature of the complicity reduced to a war­ cial control is. Hi reasonable rales. Advertisers are Kentucky. 11 Anderson, Lafayette McLaws, j Carteret and .Jones— Dr M F Arendell Caswell— Bedford Brown, (one vacancy.) fare essentially ^artizan and frontier, give to its I!V re.jue-j'vd to «tute the uuniber of insertions desired, or 3 Jo.^eph E Johnston, \'a, commanding North­ Alex P Stewart. (Jreene and Lenoir—J P Speight Catawba— P. C. Henkle. progre.ss a wild aspect, peculiarly iusceptible to ihev will b¥ continued li'il forijid', and charged acoord- ern Virginia. Class of 1843 Roswell S Ripley, Sa*n’l (J French, New Hanover— Eli W^ Hall Chatham—J. H. Hcaden, John Manning Jr., deeds, and suggestive of thoughts, of romantic Li ■ ■ . iu/'v 4 Robert E Lee, Va. commanding South Atlan­ Clas.'? of 1844 Simon B Buckner. Duplin — Dr Janies Dickson L. J. Merritt. interest. None ot these struck us more forcibly .\ lveriisements to be iu>>.'fled imuJt. chargud aO per tic Coast. ('lass of 1845 E Kirby Smith, Barnard E Bee, Onslow’— L W Humphrey Cherokee— A. T. Davidson. than the story of Norah McCartcy. e. «eut txira. f) P (I T Heauregard, Lou, commanding 'Army Win H (' Whiting. f^laden, Brunswick, &c—.Jno D Taylor Chowan— R. 11. Dillard. ’ She lived in the interior of Missouri—a little, of Potomac. Class of 1840—Thomas J Jackson, (^admus M ^ (,’umberland and Harnett— Duncan Shaw Cleveland— W^. J. T. Miller, J. W. Tracy, [ pretty, black-eyed girl with a soul as huge aa a ii- ijl’EUi-'.- NOTICE. M'ljur (Jeneruls in tht t*rocUio»al Arini/. Wilcox, i.'avid R Jones, Wm M : Sampson—Thomas I Faison Columbus— Richard Wooten. ! mountain, and a form as frail as a fairy’s, and the From and after iliisr dal. no name of a new aubscriber Gardaer. Wayne— W K Lane Craven—Geo. Green, Jno. D. W’^hitford, j courage and pluck of a buccaneer into the bargain. ect t.,d 1 *David E Twiggi, (xcorgia, resigned. will bt entered without paymont in advance, nor will ^ ass of 1'<4X Nathan G Evans Johnston—J W B WaLson Cumberland and Harnett— David McNeill, A. 1 tier father was an old man— a secessionist. She » 2 Leonidas Polk, IjOu, commanding at Memphis. '£ the paper he sent to siu-h kubacribers for a longer time of 1''54 J E B Stuart. ! Wake— M A Bledsoe S. McNeill, M. J. McDuffie, had but a single brother, just growing from boy- 3 IJraxton Hragg, Lou, commanding at Pensa­ than is paid lor. Nash— A J Taylor ('urrituck— H. M. Shaw. cola. G»-NER-\LS WHO WERE NOT aUAUUATES AT WEST I hood to youthhood, but sickly and lamed. The Such ofoi.r old mibscrihcrs aa desire to take the pa­ Franklin—W Harris Davidson— B, A, Kittrell, B. C. Douthit, family had lived in Kansas during the troubles 4 Ear! Van horti, .’Vliss, Armv of Potomac. POINT. ' yer on this liysieiu will please notify us wlien makin){ Warren—T .J Pitchford Davie.— Rob’t Sprouse. o f’57, when Norah was a mere girl of fourteen, .) (lustavus W Smith, Ken, Army ol‘ Potomac. The following (Generals were appointed to the remittances. Jan'y 1, 1856. old United States Army, without passing through Granville—C H K Taylor Duplin—-W. J. HousboD, J. T. Rhodes. or thereabouts. But even then her beauty, wit and %;a l : !■ . i 0 Theophilus H Holmes, N C, Army of Poto­ Person— C L Winstead Edgecombe and W^ilson— W. S. Battle, Geo. devil-may-care spirit were known far and wide; mac the West Point Academy:— David E. Twiggs, ap- t e a r TO ADVEUTISERS. Orange—Josiah Turner, Jr Howard. and many were the stories told along the border 7 William J Hardee, (leorgia, ^Hssouri. poiiiced in 1812; Wm. W. Loring, in 1830; Thos. Persons out of town who desire advertisenients in­ Alaiuance and Randolph—Jonathan Worth Forsyth—T. .J. W'ilson, D II Starbuck. ot her sayings and doing. 8 Benjamin Huger, S C, commanding at Nor­ '1'. Fauntleroy, in 1830. serted in the Observer, and persons in town with whom : Chatham— W S Harris Franklin— A. D. Williams. Not long after the Federals came into her neigh­ G ■ 'Mi'ANV folk. The following Generals first .saw service in the we have not regular accounts, will please send with the i Moore and-Montgomery— W D Dowd Gaston— S. X. Johnston. borhood, and after they had forced her father to s .*•:■ ' ■ ,-;in . 9 .fames Longstreet, Ala, Army of Potomac. Mcxican war:— M. L. Bonhani, Henry R, Jack­ fi.- i. i-. ftdveriisemeni much money as they wish to invest in i Richmond and Robeson— Alfred Dockery (iates— A. J. Walton. take the oath, which he did partly because he 10 John IJ Magrudcr, Va, connnanding at Vork- son, Gideon J. Pillow, Samuel R. Anderson, n .i IL it. according lo our advertising terms on thM tirst page, i Anson and Union—S II Walkup town. Chas. Clark, Thos. C. llindtuan, John C. Breck­ (Jranville— A. W, V'enable, T. L. Harjjreve, wa.s a very old man, unable to take the field, and ■1 e do not wish to ot'en any more such accounts,— or | Guilford— Petor Adams S. S. Royster. 11 Thomas .J .Jackson, \'a, commanding North­ inridge, Benj. F. Clieatham, Richard Griffith, hoped thereby to save the security of his house­ indeed a/iy accounts The process of collection is too i Caswell— Bedford Brown Greene— W. A. Darden.
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