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He was laid m his warm bed. and they
proceeded to restore wanntb and anima*
tion by cordials, and ry rubbing his limbs
with spirits. But whether their applica
tions were too stimulating, or it was-the
natural effect of his long exposure to the
cold, added to the blow on his bead, fever
rapidly came on, and lor several days, he
lay in a violent delirium. It almost broke
the hearts of those who were watching by
his bed-side, to hear his screams of horror,
and broken snatches of prayer and sup
plication, which showed that he was con
tinually living over again that fearful
night.
The following Sabbath, all the little
congregation of Linn-head joined, as with
one heart, in their minister’s intercession,
that the life, already so wonderfully de
livered, might yet once more be spared.—
Their praj'ers were granted: youth and
a good constitution, aided by the unweaii
ed and judicious care of his affectionate
nurses, triumphed over the disease. That
once subdued, his strength rapidly return
ed, and. on the third Sunday after. Ken
neth, supported by his father and mother,
and followed by his sister, again entered
the sanctuary, and took his accustomed
' place there; and when they all kneeled in
prayer, their hearts burned within them,
as Mr. Cameron poured forth their thanks
givings to the Almighty. Amulet.
—■
Reported Expressly I or the Carolinian.
^Conclusion of jCSor. Vance’s Speech
BEFORE THE CITIZENS OF CUMBERLAND
COUNTV,AT FAYETTYILLK,FRIDAY, APRIL
22nd, 1864.
Mr. Holden tells you that he stands up
on the platform with Guv. Brown of Geor
gia. It is the aim of politicians to make
themselvps appear respectable, and Mr
If. has sought to make the impression
that his view s and plans are the same as
those held by Gov. B., and the Georgia
Legislature. Is this so? We shall see.
lie and his friends have labored to make
the impression thatl am opposed to peace,
and in favor of suspending the writ of
Habeas Corpus ; and after publishing Mr
Stephens’ speech in the Standard, it is in
timated that I am opposed to the views of
this distinguished gentleman. Now fellow
citizens, 1 have proof positive that while I
have favored a vigorous prosecution of the
war, 1 have also favored negotiation for
peace.
Documents.
Last December I took it ‘into my head
that the people thought Mr. Davis was not
using proper efforts to bring about peace
by m gotiation. I took the liberty of
writing to him, and recommended the ap
pointment of commissioners, believing that
lie had nothing to lose, by doing this. If
our enemies refused to negotiate it would
only enable us to hold them up to the
scorn and indignation of the civilized
world. Does this look as if I was opposed
to peace? But being a young Governor.
1 wrote to Gov. Brown, of Georgia,
what I bad done, and urged him to write
to the Piesident and sustain me in the
recommendation I had made [Here Gov.
Vance read his letter to Gov. Brown,
and a portion of Gov. Brown’s reply.]
It will appear that I was three months in
advance of Oor. Brown in urging the
negotiation, and yet it is said that I am
opposed to peace. Mr. Holden, to appear
respectable, claims to agree with Gov.
B., or rather that Gov. B. agrees with
him. Gov. B. is opposed to State action,
thinks it injuditous—impolitic, and dan
gerous. Mr. H. favors State action, and
yet lie stands upon the platform with Gov.
Brown. He forgets that I was three
months before Gov. B ,.who, by the way
says nothing in his message about a Con
vention. Does Mr. II. agree with Gov.
B. in recommending that the General Gov
ernment shall treat for peace ! If so,
why call a Convention ? Why should
tbs State resume its sovereighty—why 1—
Ponder these questions, fellow citizens.
Habeas Corpus.
It is said that I have been backed down
and am in favor of the act of Congress sus
pending this writ—opposed to the liberty of
the press, and in favor of the imprisonment
of citizens, &c. I have an armful of Stand
ards here to prove that Mr. Holden has
time and again endorsed my views, as set
forth in my published addresses and mes
sages. He has professed great admiration
for my course in this matter. I have not
backed down. I have not changed. I
hold precisely the views set forth in my
Inaugural Address, which everybody en
dorsed and read.
In my Wilkesboro speech it is said I
did not oppose the action of Congress sus
pending this writ. I didnoton that occasion
say as much as I wanted to say,and as I will
say in my next message to the Legislature
Why? I went there to prevent the effu
sion of blood. A fellow had raised a com
pany of 400 men, armed then with U. S ,
muskets, and with a copy of the Raleigh
Standard in his pocket, marched them in
to Wilkesboro.’ I went to ease those fel
lows off, but on my return I wrote to the
President and urged him not to exercise
the authority the act of Congress gave
him; and up to this time no arrest has
been made, except near the lines, while it
was a thing of frequent occurrance before
the passage of the act by Congress. So
far from being in favor of a suspension of
the writ, it will appear that 1 made the
first and only protest of which I have any
knowledge—the only protest it was in my
power to make—against its enforcements.
Had the Legislature been in session I could
have done nothing. I was opposed to the
suspension, and so informed the President.
When the Legislature meets I expect it
will make the protet-t that Georgia did.—
That will be legal; but were I to cail a
convention to put the State out of the
Confederacy, posterity would curse me.
—
A Righteous Tribunal.—According to
the “Asiatic Researches,” a very curious
mode of trying the titles to lands is prac
ticed in Hindostan. Two holes are dug
in the disputed spot, in each of which the
lawyer on either side puts one of their legs,
and there remains until one or them is tir
ed, or complains of being stung by insects
—in which case Jjis client is defeated.—
In our country it is generally the client
and not the lawyer, who “pots his foot in
*t.” '
FROM DALTON.
A Brigadier writes as follows to the La
Grange Bulletin :
‘•You need not he troubled as to whether
Richmond or Atlanta will he attacked.—
Only continue to impress the people at
home with the importance of confidence
in our leaders, and urge them to make
every preparation in time for the relief of
the wounden Snd the disabled. Continue
the true policy you have pursued for two
years of condemning despondency and
caviling. r l hose who despond and those
who find fault upjn abstract questions at
this hour, are tares that encumber the
ground. They generate an unhealthy,
aye, a diabolical sentiment, and you do
right to neutralize it by every means, and
no more potent means can I conceive of
than the press. Whatever my opinions
maj 7 be as to.a fight here*amonnt to nothing
I might say to you, by way of friendship,
that i believe the fight will be made here,
yet this amounts to nothing, only as an
opinion of a brigade commander, who
knows but little more than the men he
commands. This much I do know : that
the troops in the Army of Tennessee were
never in a better condition to contend,
for their homes, at the deadly cannon's
mouth.”
Currency, Two Hundred and Thirty Mil
lions.—The President says the volume of
Confederate currency will be reduced to
§230,000,000 by the 1st of July, and re
commends that it be maintained at that
point. The Confederacy may surely boast
I of a feat in finance never yet paralleled
; by |a nation, when they have, in three
I months, reduced their citrrencyby more than
! two-thirds of its original volume. And let
: the reader be assured that such a result as
this cannot be-attained without a vast result
upon all kinds of values. Prices must
fall—fall largely. It is folly to look for
i any other result. We warn all to prepare
for it.
————i
The Wheat Crop, Corn and Fruit.—We
copy the following fiom the private cor
respondence of the Editor :
Taylor County, April 30th.—The crop
this year, although backward, certainly
promises to be one of unprecedented yield.
| The stalk now hears the best of color—
looks vigorous, healthy and ^strong, and
| its tendency to maturity, since the opening
j of the Spring, is rapid and steady, and all
: that the closest observer could desire. The
1 oat crop, from sensitiveness to cold, cannot
make the yield that it would have done
under circumstances more favorable, yet
i it will be far better than is generally ex
pected, because to make a good yield this
crop should satnd very thin upon the
ground. In relation to all the small grains
the old saying of a “good crop after a cold
winter” will be realized. Planters are
inking unusual pains iu the preparation
for a corn crop.”
Merriwether County, April 23rd.—The
wheat crops in this county have improved
greatly for the last week, and now promise
a fine yield. The coru is coming up finely
—still a good many 7 peaches left and ap
pies in abundance—in fact I have never
seen the trees so full.
Who Proclaimed the War.—The New
York Times, an accredited leading Repub
lican paper, and the special organ in New
York of the Administration, in its issue of
the 6th March. 1864, in an editorial taking
issue with Thaddeus Stevens for stating
that the rebel States are beligerents and.
“that they are no longer in the Union,”
writes this down as a fact that cannot he
gainsayed :
“The Confederacy wanted peace, and
sent Commissioners to Washingsoff to re
ceive it. We would not receive them, and
proclaimed war ! They accepted war.—
The question who fired the first guu is
nothing.
A Refractory Ram.—The following is
an account of the behavior of the Ram Al
bemarle at Plymouth:—
“A gentleman who was on board the
Confederate ram Albermarle, says that
she struck the Southfields amidships cut
ting into her about ten feet, the Yankee
vessel sinking rapidly, ai d being fastened
so tightly to the Albermarle as to bear her
bow under till the water ran into her port
holes. In endeavoring to clear her of the
wreck, the crew had a hand to hand fight
with the Yankees, using pistols and cutlas
ses, in which we lost but one man, although
the Miarna was pouring shot after shot in
to them. When the Southfields sunk, the
boats of the Albermarle picked up eight
men, one of whom has since died, which
are all that were saved out of a crew of
one hundred and seventeen. The Alber
marie did not succeed in striking the Mia-
ma with her ram, but damaged her so much
with her guns that she afterwards sunk.—
It is said that one shot from the Albe'iuar
ie killed an4 wounded twenty of the crew
of the Miarna.
Ground and Lofty Tumbling.—A
friend showed us, yesterday, a letter from
an acquaintance in North Carolina, by
whom he had been requated to purchase a
certain quantity of bacon, as bacon in
North Carolina was then selling at ever
six dollars per pound. The letter in ques
tion countermanded the order, aud stated
that the writer had, within a few days
been able to buy bacon in his own vicinity
at §1 7 Ct per pound. One of the most saga
cious provision men in Macon yesterday
expressed the opinion that flour, corn and
bacon would soon rule lower in.Georgia
than they had ever yet been since the first
year of the war. He - said that a man had
but to look at the tithe tax paid in Geor
gia to satisfy him of the great abundance
of food in the State; and to open his eyes
and ears to satisfy himself as fully as to
the scarcity of money and the pinch which
would come, if the tax collectors did their
duty in June. He believed that the joint
operations of the tithe and money tax
would nearly support the government, and
that if we lost no more territory, the food
and financial question was already solved.
Government would be under no necessity
of again unduly expanding its issues, and
food pould be increasingly abundant from
year to year.— Telegraph . -
From the Intelligencer.
ARMY OPINIONS AND C0VEKN03
BROWN.
Wo.have been favored by a highly res
pectable gentleman of this city with the
following extract from a letter addressed
to him, the writer of which holds a posi
tion in the army of some distinction, which
he has won by his gallantry and other
wise meritorious con dec , aud which goes
to prove that Governor Brown’s course as
indicated in his late message to the Legisla
ture does not meet that general censure in
the army which his enemies at home are
vainly striving to make it appear. In fact
the present crusade against the Governor
is hut a continuation of the previous ones
when Mr. Nisbet was his opponent for
Governor, and.when Messrs, Hill and Fur-
low last fall were in the field as Candidates
forthe same position. Wo—ali Georgia
in fact—were then told that the army—
the army—were to a man almost against
Joe Brown, atid that when the army vote
was heard from, it would put a quietus to
Ins preteusions. But !o! and behold!—
when the army vote did come in, his ma
jority was overwhelming on both occa
sions. And so we confidently believe
will be the result, whenever, or should ev
er the question be submited to a vote of
the army hoys, on account of which the
Governor’s opponents are now 7 so zealously
engaged in censuring and abusing him.—
But to the extract below, which is from
only one of many sjmilar letters that
we have bad the giatificatiou of perus-
ing.
“Our Brigade held a meeting a few days
since to deliberate upon the course ofGov-
ernor Brown aud the Legislature of Geor
gia.” .
“The meeting was called by the anti-
Brown party; the whole programme w as
determined upon; everything cut and dried
before the brigade assembled- I cu wiil
doubtless see the proceedings in print.—
There were present at the meeting, accord
ing to the general estimate. betw r eeu three
and four hundred men.
Capt. J. Y". Wood alone addressed the
convention, and there was not a word ut
tered in defence of the action of the Gov
ernor.
The resolutions were introduced by
Capt. Scott, of the Sth, as Chairman of the
committee. They are very severe. The
vote was taken upon the adoption of the
resolutions immediately .after they wercread
and it is almost universally cenceded that
there were no more than fifty votes in the
affirmative 7 Very few voted against them;
the vast majority came through curiosi
ty, being satisfied at the same time, that
it was not proper for us as soldiers to med
dle with politics, and no good could be
accomplished by any such action upon our
part.
The meeting adjourned amid cheers for
Brown, which w r ere taken up and heartily
re echoed by those who remained at then
quarters-
I am satisfied that, if the opportunity of
fered, two thirds, of the Brigade would
support the Governor for the Presiden
cy-”
Present to General Lee.—Several
weeks since, the Misses Se/norr, workers in
»'>I>‘» | 7 pfonHs at Richmond, forwarded to
General Lee a box of presents, including a
set of collar wreaths, sleeve cuffs, buttons,
etc., and accompanying the same with a
lettei-
The ladies are in receipt of a reply
from Gen. Lee, acknowledging the teceipt
of the box, etc. The following is the let
ter:
Orange County, April IS, 1S0L
Misses Sr won: I have received the sets
of collar wreaths, sleeve cuffs, etc., which
you have embroidered for me. They
executed.
Mr. Long’s Speech—The Northern Dem
ocratic Platform.
The late speech of Mr. Long in the
U. S. -Congress is not only boid but
pointed, i he speaker does not con
tent himself with empty denunciation
of the party who inaugurated the war,
and then advocate its ‘vigorous prose
cution’ for the Union ‘as it was.’ He
takes a more practical view of mat
ters. Combatting the doctrine of co
ercion, he says that:
“If it had been understood in the
North as in the-South, that by the
terms of the Federal compact a State
had a right to secede from the Union,
this disruption would never have oc
curred. Had the North so understood
the matter there would have been up
on its part a^fo rhea ranee from the ex
ercise of extreme measures, and a de
sire not to press its Southern sisters
to the wall, that would ever have
maintained the Confederacy unbroken.
It was the prevalence of the idea ol
the Consolidatiouists in the North that
the Southern States had no right to,
and would not, secede that tempted
them and that fatal policy that has
sundered the Confederacy.
It is said that no Confederacy can
exist by a recognition of this principle,
but such, was not the view of the fath
ers of our Government, it was not the
view of Jefferson and Madison in their
immortal resolutions of 179S and
1799.
It lias been said, Mr, Chairman, that
it would make a Confederacy a rc-pe of
sand, but if so it is strange that the
Southern Confederacy, where it is re
cognized, should hold together through
such a bloody pressure as we have ap
plied to it for the last three years, it is
a strange rope of sand that endures all
that.”
He.proceeds from this to show that
the American Union is forever lost,
and that it is beyond any human pow
er to reconstruct it. He says :
“I do not share in the belief enter
tained by tnanv of my political friends
on this floor and elsewhere, that any
peace is attainable upon the basis of
Union and reconstruction. If the De
mocratic party were in power to day
I have no idea, and honesty compels
me to declare it, that they could re
store the Union over thirty-four States.
My mind has undergone an entire
change upon that subject.”
We give the conclusion of his speech
as reported .
The Only Alternative.
I believe that there are but two al
ternatives, and these are, either an ac
knowledgement. of the independence
of the South as an independent nation,
or their complete subjugation and ex
termination as a people, and of these
alternatives I prefer the former.
Mr. Chairman, I take little or no
interest in the discussion of the ques
tion which many of my political
friends would make an issue as to how
this war shall be prosecuted, its man
ner and object. I regard that as worse
than trifling with the great question.
I do not believe there can be any pros
ecution of the war against a sovereign
State under the Constitu’ 1 T do
not believe that - t
Observations on Europe.
The Japanse Ambassadors who vis
ited England last year have published
their diary through the bookseller
Fouryah at Veddo. The following is
some of their “observations,” as given
in their curious style :
The people of the West are very
little different from each other; the
dresses are the same as well as the wea
pons, though one nation manages them
bettar than another; the French,
above all, appear to excel therein.—
Ceremonies and honors are very easy,
and the honors to be paffi to a sover
eign are very nearly the same as to a
person of inferior rank—one takes his
hot oft*, makes a small reverence, and
therewith the thing is finished. All
our audiences with the princes they
were not separated from us by a cur
tain ; even the Princes was not veiled,
and sits as high as the Prince. The
lords were very civil, even too civil,
for they allowed us to eat and drink
more than was in accordance with our
ceremonies. The lower classes were
less civil, and unequivocally demon
strated that they thought us ugly.
Among the women there are many
handsome ones—among* others the
Empress of the French. They run
like a man. In order to appear taller
they wear a high bonnet. Even fash
ionable women dance very much ;—
they hang on flie arm of the men, and
one sees the men frequently run along
the street in the arms of women. We
believe them to be their own wives.—
Women in general enjoy too much
liberty, and the fashionable ones wear
the same dresses as those of the lower
class. The dress of the women, es
pecially at night, is not always decent.
Excepting the Dutch women, all oth
er European women stand below the
French.
The men are stiff, rough, and a lit
tle proud; they wear no weapons, and
very seldom the distinctions of their
rank. It appears that everybody, and
even the fashionable people, frequent
the cafes. High officers, even frequent
the theatres. We w 7 ere sorry we could
not understand everything there.. Al
most everybody had a spying g’ass,
-which, perhaps from distraction, was
always directed at us.
The merchants are proud, and the
shop-keepers do not like me to turn
their articles too much about. It an
noyed us very much to see raw meat
exhibited in towns. Eating meat is
often very healthy, but why exhibit it
everyone? In Paris and London they
run (walk) very fast, just as they do
in our country \vhen there is a fire.
The houses are so high that they must
be destroyed at the first earthquake.
They appear, however, to stand a-
gainst fire.
J MiwogeMIwo- 1 Nixor Nitirait.”
‘Caleb L'urubread,” through !he columns of the CLi
cag., T.mes, makes the mining staking appearance
VU this interesting topic* ■ L
' AH gi*t we need to immediately taut the effect nf ih
practice of the intermarriage ot' lie whileI'a th e blS
is that-the Government ' should take hold of tue mat
ter and encourage and protect uiiscee &n atiou
lu the name ot twenty motions i pray for‘that „„
courugemeut and protection : Wilt Abraham a „rW
ed the habeas corpus—who have fought a b*hT „
Florida who havo given Mrs. Grimsby an inlerest in
a horse contest—who aronow the head of the •< Mmh..
hist Churen South - ’ ana the Baptist too-y^ c *« b “ u
may, you must establish at once “the department
iQUfecgentitiou. r 1
L’p to this very day awaiting the harvest time onr
own beloved Sunnier has remained an untouched
bachelor. And now I may be exposing the matter
prematurely. 1 wilt merely say, by way Jf intimation
that done in animated ebony, there is u bosriu which
upon tne mention ot the name of L'nawles, uudei nte»
tmsuituoeU uke the Black sea. That Bosom is of the
teuuuiue persuasion. Withiu its voluptuous beauties
dwell harmonies, melodies and symphonic■». Slid! 1 —
need 1, be obliged to intimate to an old servant and
descermug pul,he that .Miss Elizabeth Greenfield who
under tjer pi otessi jnai name of the Black 4>wau, has a
tame in the World of music, as undying as the sound
ot music, ns undying ns the sound ot tue sound ot the
sea, nitty, at no distunt dhy, become a party fo a tnela-
leutic matrimonial alliance iu which tne other party
may be a L'uitrd States Senator abobt the size ami
style of the eiegant and accomplished Charles Sum
ner,
■When that‘■Commencement l»ay” in the world’s
progress shall have anved—when Miss Greenfield
shall have become Mrs. Sumner—when the African Jet
and the American l'earlshall have been set iu the first
miseegenetic wedding ring, as typical of our future—
tlieu, at least, if no'before, “tne Government’’ must
move in tins great work for “the interests of God and
humanity.”
A teritory adjacent to Utah must be set apart for
tlm sole occupation of niiscegenatioirists. A special
proclamation, divorcing Greeley, Tilton, Beecher, Jim
Lane, Lovejoy, Wilson. Dick Yates, Nancy Aruold,
Generals Soheuck, Burnside and Beast Butler, must be
issued by our noble President, aud all these great und
good men must immediately marry female “contra
bands," aud set out at once tor the melalcuketic colony
near by the dominions of Brigham Young. Perhaps
forthe earliet testing of the quality of the miscegene
which these alliance wiil be deemed advisable by “the
Government” to legalize poly gumy iu the new terri
tory, and to attain at an early day a large miseege-
netie population that monogamy would ordinarily pro-
duee. •
aro beautifuly executed, and I can • f
return mv grateful thanks ^ . * ~ A
new. and for tie pa™ and , “...nutlona, ... .-an only be car-
have cost you. rted on in an unconstitutional manner,
For the safety of your home in Rich.- j and to prosecute it further under the
When is a man thinner than a shingle ?
When he is a shaving.
mondyou are indebted to a merciful Prov
idence and the brave army of Northern
Virginia, which alone are entitled to your
thanks and gratitude.
1 remain, with great respect,
Your obedient servant,
R. L. Lee.
To Misses Rachel, Rebecca and Emma
Semon, Richmond, Va.
■—
Sending the Garrison to the Front.—A
despatch dated New Y’ork, April 22d,
says :
It is not “contraband of war” to state
that all of the troops in the United States
service, garrisoning the fortifications of this
harbor and vicinity, are under orders to
proceed at once to another field of useful
ness. A fine body of artillerymen, who
have been stationed at Governor’s Island
and Fort Hamilton sin;e February last,
took their departure to-day, aud others
will foljow this evening some’by«railway.
The forts, in their absence, will be gar
risoned. by the Slate Militia, who have
received orders to that affect from Gov
ernor Seymour, the Secretary of War ap
proving '
Significant Political Movement.-*-The
Republican Convention, which was ap
pointed to meet in Baltimore on the 7th
day of Jnne next to nominate their candi
date for President, has under considera
tion the propriety of postponing the time
of meeting This is significant. It shows
that Lincoln is growing fearful of liisre-
eleetion* The call urges, amongst other
reasons ,for the postponement:
The country is not now in a position to
enter into a Preidential contest. It is ve
ry important that all parties friendly to
the Government shall be united in support
of a single candidate,- and that when a se
lection shall be made it shall be acquiesc
ed in by all loyal sections of the country,
and by all branches of the loyal party.—
It is equally clear that such unanimity can
not at present be obtained, and it is not
believed that it can be reached as early
as the day named by you for tbe-National
Convention. Upon the result of the mea
sures adopted by the Administration to
finish the war during the present spring
and summer, will depend the wish of the
people tocontinae in power their present
leaders, or to change them for those from
whom they may expect other and more
satisfactory results.”
The enemy have evacuated Washing*
ton, N. C.
idea of the gentleman from Pennsyl
vania (Mr. Stevens) as a war waged a-
gainst the Confederate Slates as an in
dependent nation, for the purpose of
conquest and subjugation, as he pro
poses, and as the Administration is in
truth and in fact doing, I am equally
opposed.
I will say further, Mr. Chairman,
that if this war is to be further prose
cuted, I prefer that it shall be done
under the auspices of those v^ho now
conduct its management, as I do not
wish the patty with which I am con
nected to he in any degree responsible
for its results, which cannot he other
wise than .disastrous and suicidal—let
the re?ponsiblity remain where it is
until we can have a change of policy
instead of men, if such a tiling is pos
sible. Nothing could be morfe latal
tor the Democratic party than to seek
to come into power pledged to contin
uance of a war policy—such a policy
would be a libel upon its creed in
the past and the ideas that lie at the
basis of all free governments and would
lead to its complete demoralization and
ruin.
I believe the masses of the Demo
cratic party are for peace, that they
would he placed in a false position if
they should nominate a war candidate
for the Presidency and seek to make
the issue upon the narrow basis of how
the war should be prosecuted. For
my own part, as I have already indica
ted, I fear that our old government
cannot be preserved even under the
best auspices, and under any policy
thTlt may now be adopted; yec. I de
sire to see the Democratic party with
which I have always been connected,
preserve its consistency and republi
can character unshaken.
Surplus Wheat and Flour.—Last year,
when flour was held at ninety to a hundred
dollars the barrel, sundry speculators
were nicely caught by the incoming crop
groaned over losses. The same thing is
to be repeated the year. This country is
fell of old wheat, while we think the pro
duct in Georgia is likely to be double
what it was in 1863. We can already
see the signs of an accumulating surplus of
wheat— Telegraph.
In the name of twenty millions, oh, Abraham ! I ap
peal to you, the incarnate “Government'’ of America,
to attend to this vital matter, and at once establish not
only the “department of miecejtnatibn,” but to set-
Hpart the melaleukettc territory: to declare uielaluketio
polygatiy: and call upon all those who woik’in the
interests of God and humanity" to imuiediately“imsceg-
eiiate and replenish the earth" with a copper Coloretl,
copper bottomed,composite race!
Caleb Cork bread.
N. B- The importance of establishing that Mebdeuk-
efie Common w. aitli near the dominions of the polyga
mous Brigham wiil be observed by all who appreciate
the benefits of competition in trade of a spirit of emu
lation in good wotks. If the Hon. Fredrick Douglas
could only obtain a presidential decree and take unto
himself Miss Anna Ib’ckinson, it w uld rejoice ali of us
who work “iu the interests of God and humaaity.”
w C. C.
From Plymouth, X.' C.—We learn from
a gentleman who has just arrived from
Plymouth, N. G., that our forces at last ac
counts were in quiet possession of this
place, the enemy’s water craft not daring
to come within gun shot of our formidable
iron-clad.. Major Tannerhill, the efficient
Commissary for this post, had reached
Plymouth, and secured the immense quan
tity of valuable. Ktorw captured,by starting
them off to a point where they were more
needed. Major T. has also put in opera
tion two large seines, and onr boys are 110114
luxuring on fresh shad, herrings, etc.—
Immense quantities of fish are taken at
every hall, and the surplus, after feeding
the troops, are put into barrels and sent
away. The amount of provisions secured
by the fall of Plymouth, is said to be, far
greater than one had supposed, and the
country opened to r.s, will furnish enough
to feed a large army for many months
to come. There can be nc impropriety
in stating these facts, because the enemy
is as familiar with them as we are.
Between three and four hunhred negro
women and children, who had been taken
from their legal owners, were re-captured
at Plymouth. The men were either kill
ed in battle, or made their way to the
swamps and forests. Many of the latter
will no doubt betaken. A Yankee Lieu
tenant, who was in command of the negro
farces, has, by order of Gen. Hoke, been
confined with the negro women and chil
dren. He is said to present a most ab
ject. bang-dog appearance, and has re-
-vt , , , , -quested to be sent off with the other pris-
North Carolina, vve find the teturns ol onerso fwar, but as lie preferred the com-
Snpplies—What the Tithes Show.—
While there is unquestionably, and
for evident reasons, a real scarcity in
Virginia, vve are persuaded that the
constant and industrious cry of scar
city of supplies iu the Confederacy is
mostly the imagination of the timid,
o.r the interested utterance of specula
tors. The-collector of the tithes has
brought to light vast amounts of sup
plies still existing in different parts oi
tiie Confederacy. .Thus, for instance,
in a single Congresssional district in
the tithe collector are one hundred
and forty-folir thousand nine hundred
and eighteen bushels of corn, and live
hundred and sixty-one thousand eight
hundred and forty-two pounds of ba
con. It is said that the final settle
ment of the collector will show that
nearly one million five hundred thou
sand bushels of corn and over five
million pounds of bacon have been
raised in this single district during the
past year.
There is certainly no good ground
for entertaining ftar» of the starvation
of the South, and the talk about scar
city is pretty much the chaff of the
extortioner. The prospect for the
year’s crop was never better. The
recent rains have brought out the
whea't crop wonderfully, and from all
directions we have good reports of it.
Let us hear no more of “General”
Starvation and the inventions of the
speculators, which are intended as
scare-crows for us, and which are ap
plied as encouragements to the ene
my.—-Richmond Examiner.
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THE .tiilledceville haves.
For the benefit of our friends in Mill-
edgeville, and in justice to the courteous
and efficient Post Master in Macon, we
publish the following note. We hope now
that the evil complained of—the delay in
forwarding the Atlanta papers from Ma
con to the capital and in that direction —
will soou be remedied. We thank Mr.
Poe for his pro;, y. aUcution to this matter.
[Intelligencer
Post Office, )
iMacon, April, 29th 1864. /
Editor Atlanta Intelligencer'.
Dear Sir;—Your article headed “The
Atlanta Papers” lias just met my eye and
I take the earliest opportunity to say, that
the evil of of which you so justly complain
has been by me brought to the attention
of the special agent of the Post Office De
partment some days ago, and he is making
arrangements to remedy the same. The
delay is occasioned by the mails for Mill-
edgeville aud the North leaving Macon at
5 o'clock in the morning instead of 4 P. M.
If you deem it of sufficient importance
please give publicity to this explanation.
WASHINGTON POE. P. M.
Grant is said to have jm army of from
100,000, to 180;000men.
pany of negroes previous to the capture
of Plymouth, General Hoke has deter
mined not to separate him from them
now.—Petersburg Express.
The Exchange at Johnson’s Island.
“Asa Hartz,” a Confederate officer at
Johnson’s Island, ina humorous letterto a
friend, sandwiches iu the following touch
of genuine.pathos:
We vary our monotony with an occa
sional exchange. May I tell you what I
mean by that? Well, it is a simple cere
mony. God help us ! The “exchanged”
is placed on a small wagon drawn by one
horse, his friends form in line in the rear,
and the procession.moves; passing through
the gate it winds its way slowly round the
prison walls, to a little grove north of the
inclosure, the “exchanged” is taken out of
the wagon and lowered into the earth—a
prayer—an exhortation—a spade—a bead
board—a mound of fresh sod—and the
friends return to prison again, and that’s
all of it. Our friend is “exchanged.” A
grave attests the fact to mortal eyes, and
one of God’s angels has recorded the “ex
change” in the book above. Time and the
elements will soon smooth down the little
hillock which markes his lonely bed, but
invis ble friends will hover arouud it till
the dawn of that great day, when all the
armies shall be marshalled into line again
when the wars of time shall cease, and the
eternity of peace shall commence.
An Interesting Incident.—The Rich
mond Enquirer states that Governor
Vance, of North Carolina, “Ina recent
speech, narrated an incident that came un
der his immediate observation, where a
poor widow with three children, the el
dest incapable of taking care of the youn
gest, cultivated, last year, a patch of ren
ted ground, with the assistance of a little
steer not much larger than a calf. Afraid
to leave her little ones at home in her cab
in. she would take them daily to the field,
build for them a small pen, cover it with
leaves to protect them from the snn, and
when she bad plowed a distance from her
little brood, would move the pen to a more
convenient spot, that she might watch,
over then* and nurse her babe at the end.
of a weary row 7 . She raised 367 bosbekf
of corn, had plenty to support herself and
children, and sold to her neighbors.*
“The brow oi that woman (continued his
Excellency) is worthy the proudest laare.s
that ever rewarded the virtue of the pa
t.iot'or testified to the endurance of the
hero,”