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ISv Joseph Clirby.
MAOON, FRIDAY; 3 O’CLOCK, P. M., MARCH 28, 1862.
“WOK 'IO 1 UK CONQUERED.”
Ti c action ami talk of the Lincoln Congrtt-8
leave* little (loubt of the fate impending ovtr
the Smlhcrn people, if unhappily they should
suffer themselves to be conquered. We fay
o; r i!i msetves to be conquered! For does
any man of common sense believe that ami's
lion and a half of such fighting tnen as we
have, oo'ild lie whipped into slavery and chains
third their number of Yankees, if we
w, re in dead earnest—if each were resolved to
he in his tracks, rather than suffer his neck
;o bo uampled on by ihe invading abolitions
i>ts v No! No! It could not be. How long
would it hike every man in such a case to arm
/tin,.'If fiotn his own gun hooks, or the near-
t t Mm ksinith’s shop, and taking his own pro
visions along, trample down the atrocious in
vader an i cut his throat over his own car.non.
tV •• have known Southern men to knife each
other to pieces—to fight to the last gasp, hold-
■ig tin dissevered fi» jioents of their bodies in
|, ,n.| while they wielded their blades with
t o-r. and Ibis over some miserable family
or nei ddmrbo'id quarrel of no consequence—
and is it possible that such a race of fighting
men will suffer themselves to bo driven out
houseless and homeless fugitives and vagabonds
bv not a third of their number of lawless inva
lid- and usurpers? Tur-.ly it can never be, if
fori warned and forearmed. Not all the inanity
t-»cr cone- ived at West Point—not all the
shackles of military rule and etiquette could
i-yir i.inrt such men as victims to the lender
of a few invader a. They would gather
,ies—txul mobs, if you plea.-e, and
their knives and
ad -rs to pieces,
ul 1 marshal his
lie conqueror, il
■ pie arc deluded
Due way or other,
OTtupstible with
wever, are can-
what is coming.
iner
in v;
with no ' otter weapons]
their axi s. Would m
be-lorc a legiil
'pin.ron- in order i
help;, s under iho^
«ill l>e simply J
into the belli
peace and .-ate
sub mssioii to Peal
The I. NColn Govl
did eiiou h to furi-waf
I hey speak i ow only of universal confiscation
I he expenses of this war are to he paid out of
the estates of the conquered. Their land is to
he x-rved and portioned out and sold in lots of
li.o aeres to “actual laborers”—and every oth
er species of real property belonging to the
rebels wjll go to indemnify the government for
the expense of reducing him to subjection,
■flip ea> iy threats of the Tribune, that the in-
su:.tents shmiid fi e trorn the field of battle to
gaze in despair upon the rags and poverty of a
h niM-lcss and starving wife ano children are
already embodied in a hill before the Lincoln
'on gress.
I i no man lie deceived as to the fate which
i- probably before him if we fall into the hands
id the Abolitionists. Some of our speculators
h ive been making a good thing out of the war
a,nl others have I ecu exhausting every dollar
they could raise. Both will fare alike, and the
speculator will find he has but toiled tor his
oppressors. Let the people dismiss -all hope
e\ei pi in success. If every man knew his ti-
to his all, he it more or less, hung upon this
,|lict, we should see a much more earnest
Lei him know and feel it now, in time
ny how much he will venture to save it
t.OV. SHORTER ON LIQUOR.
Shorter, of Alabama, has issued a pro-
inn ordering the discontinuance of ope-
hy every distillery in the Mate, by the
if April. The Colonels of regiments or
military officers, are commanded to seize
i s not stopped by that time; and they
n be placed in charge of the sheriffs
the respective counties until further ordc.
ardent spirits will be allowed to be sold
li ten miles of any military camp.
J-ifRi-v. I'. 1’. Smith, of Florida, in a letter
the Southern Christian Advocate of Charles
says that the planters in Florida are haul
lihcircotton into the open fields, away from
[ r I uses, to burn it, if the Yankees sbouliT
?>ach.
MR. YANCEY’S SPEECH.
A New Orleans paper furnishes an unofficial
report by .Mr. Yancey of the result of his mis
sion to Europe. It will be seen that he gtves
but a sorry account of the state of feeling in
Great Britain towards the Confederate cause.
It may he summed up in a few words:—No
friends—nothing to hope
If all he says be true, t le Confederate States
can but the more deeply deplore the extraordi
nary statements and admissions of Messrs. Yan
cey & Co., made in the fatuous expectation of
conciliating a fanaticism as blind and malig
nant as a snake in August. They stand false
ly on the record to no purpose. No good has
come of the gratuitous admission, now placed
on official records by duly constituted agents
and organs of this government, that the Con
federate States had really little cause of com
plaint against, and nothing to fear from, the
reckless, incendiary abolitionism and “irre
pressible cuiifi.ct” doctrines of the Black Re
publican party ! ! F irlhcrmore, somebody
should explain, in the light of these do
lorous revelations by Mr. Yancey, all the
encouraging reports, letters and statements
which have been published in Confederate pa
per.-, as from him, up to within a recent peri
od. Was the astute Mr. Yancey so long la
boring under a total delusion in regard to the
toolings of thc'Britisli government and people?
Did it take hiui full nine months to fiud out he
was or a vain, useless and impracticable er
rand, when even a kitten gets its eyes open in
as many days ? Really, Mr. Yancey, any man
who has no single friend in a crowd should
find it out in less than nine months 1 You
have gone through a deal of suffering experi
ence to learn tiul a little, and that little no very
[From the Peten»tmrg(Va.) Kxpreea, March 17.]
THE FIGHT AT NEWBEBN.
If we sink down ' profitable or pleasing knowledge !
tie
A FIGHT ON THE COAST,
lairs look promising for a speedy tight on
/Carolina coast. We rfecr to several ex
its from the Sava on n papers, by which it
1 l>e seen that the enemy is landing in force
Bli.ffton, probably with a view ol moving . ,
an the line of the Charleston and Savannah 80111 ' 0 Lrln K> car >
, lroad, and cutting off the communication
rei-n the two cities.' We are really glad to
that since lighting must come, sooner or
r, the long suspense is about to be broken.
If the enemy will gel far enough away from
Gunboats to permit a decisive tight, we be
re he will get one more to our satisfaction
Ihau his own.
IV S. Since the foregbing it will bo seen the
L-nemy is off' again,
SALT WITHOUT THE PETER.
The papers are publishing very strenuous ar-
,-les aisiut the manufacture of saltpeter, but
plain salt without any petir toil, troubles our
min 1 still more. If we bad nota grain of gun
pleader, ami still were determined-to fight as a
in in would for his life, we should end this war
sooner than we shall. Our army can get along
better wiring powder than they can without
salt. We sco the Governor and Council of
South Carolina have appropriated $50,000 to
-■ t on foot salt works on the coast ol that State,
but what is Georgia to do ? The only chance
w c can think of, is for the people to go down
to the coast and f oil sea-water, and thousands
should get about it so soon as warm weather
srls in.
•Another Requisition.— We learn that an
other requisition for 12,0o0 men will be made
in Georgia during this week or next. The
ranks of cpmpanicg B, Macon Volunteers, and
Floyd Rilfcs, should be ‘filled at once. W’e
should anticipate the call at once.
RAGGED BILLS.
Our cashier tells us that every day he is
compelled to rcmail to parties remittances of
b ink notes sent him so ragged as to be worth
less. The banks will not receive bills on which
the President or < asbier’s name has been cffV
red, or from which they have been tdm, nor
will our cashier receive a lyllao ragged that he
is ashamed to tender it to any body else. The
cost and tiouble, however, o$ returning these
remittances is every day a considerable item,
and if parties persist in sending them, after
this notice, the bills will be retained subject to
their persons! application
It is most unfortunate that all this long time
Mr. Yanecy was in vain search of a single
ftlend, his constituents on this side of the vi
ter were stuffed, by some means or other, with
tfie notion that recognition and a breach of the
blockade were events to be reasonably and in
fact almost certainly anticipated within a very
short period. We were looking forthe.se events
hopefully last August, Store confidently in Oc-
tolier, witlr almost perfect certainty in the
month of February. There were numerous
assurances from all kinds of correspondents,
even of the Yankee papers themselves, that
these grand events were so rapidly maturing
that development nij^ht be confidently antici
pated in sixty days.
Under these circum-tances, that spirit of self
reliance which Mr. Yancey now truthfully in
vokes as out only dependence against utter ruin
from a hostile world, languished—volunteering
abated—the Confederate government lelnxed
its energies—the troops which should have
b-.-en marshalled into service were never raised,
and as a consequence the heart of the Confede
racy has been pierced by hostile armies, and
her cause if not in jeopardy is, at least, retard
ed for an indefinite period. •
O that then, when this well-nigh fatal delu
sion was fastening itself upon us, the presci
ence of Mr. Yancey had enabled him to assure
us—“You are deluding yourselves with a vain
expectation. These people hate you and do not
mean to recognize you or raise the blockade.—
You must rally every energy for self-d fence
against a world of enemies.” 0 that Mr. Y’an
ccy’s talk now, had been his talk then. We
should have never liccn ignominiously driven
from Tennessee. We should have had half a
million men in the field to have taught the
Yankees to look to their own safeU and let us
alone.
But none of these notes of alarm came from
across the water. Everything heard from that
quarter was siuoothe anil dulcet! If Mr. Y.
had discovered, at that time, we had no friends,
he did not uplift the warning voice. T he truth
must be spoken—we were fooled, and who fool
ed us ?
In the name of self-respect, if Mr. Y. now
speaks the honest fact, call home the Diplomats
who are lounging about—pin-feathered, yet ex
pectant Ambassadors—round the purlieus of
hostile Courts, begging for God's sake to be
spoken to by somebody—pariah's, vagrants
and beggars among the tinselled representa
tives of Dutch seven by nine principalities, with
a commerce in crying dolls, wooden tops and
penny whistles! Shall a vast empire like tie
princely revenue to
whoever will trade with her, go whining and
begging and intriguing for notice and recogni
tion ? O, that our brood of unhatched ambas
sadors in Europe, were recalled and allowed to
chip their shells at home.
An Efficient Arm.—We witnessed last week,
a trial of Mr. Carl Laququist’s self-loading and
self-capping gun. By a -simple and ingenious
mechanism this gun carries Irom ten to fifteen
charges—twenty-five being perhaps the most
convenient number. The charge is placed in
position by a t ingle movement of a lever, and
the gun is capped i.> ,i. > i coea.ug. It is
no doubt the gun of the present age. Mr. L.
at a distance ol 310 yards, with it, penetrated
the boatd of a target li inches thick, and the
board of a fence cue inch thick, making excel
lent line shots. Out of 25 shots, some 20 per
forated the target From what we saw of its
wonderful performances, we are inclined to be
lieve it a formidable and efficient arm. Two or
three regiments armed with this gun, could
scatter a large army of the Lincoln marauders.
Oh, that we had them now I Will not our
military au liorities make an effort to have
soiue of them made ?
FROM TENNESSEE.
We hear gratifying accounts from several
sources as to the feeling in Tennessee. The
people there are rushing to arms with enthusi
asm. The Federals, so Ear, have utterly failed
to revive any Union sentiment, but, on the
contrary, the invasion has excited a bitter and
vindictive hostility to the Lincolnites, and a
determination on the part of the people to
vindicate the dignity and character of the vol
unteer Slate.
Tennessee will be true to herself and to the
South. Even in the East there is said to be s,
far better feeling thau ever before during the
war.'
Fate or “Uwon Men."—The Richmond Dis
patch says the Federate have carried off a pris
oner, the venerable Mr. Janney, President of
the lata State Convention of Virginia, and eve
rywhere knows an an aidant Union man.
REPI LSB OF CONFEDERATES THE TOWN PARTIAL-)
LY BLENT DESTRnCTHIN Or COTTON, BRIDGES
AND NAVAL STORES.
We had a long conversation yesterday with
Mr. Charles O. White, Manager of the Confed
erate Minstrels, who, with his men, command
ed a battery near Newbern, In the recent fight.
Mr. W. had charge of Union Point Battery,
the nearest fortified post to Ncvbern, but dis
tant from the most advanced fortification of
the Confederates four miles. He is therefore
unable to give usthe details, hut relates many
incidents and particulars which will be found
interesting,
The. enemy's gun)mats first appeared in
sight on Wednesday afternoon, at a point
known as Slocum’s Creek, and commenced
shelling the woods in - very direction. A com
pany of cavalry, Capt Evans, commander, sta
tioned here as pickets, were forced to retire.
Two of his men were wounded—one in tbe
heel.
Thursday the fleet advanced aa far as Fort
Dixie, a strong fortification, mounting tour
heavy guns, distant from Newbern about five
miles. This fort was surrounded by a breast
work, and though shelled for three or four
hours during the afternoon, by the enemy’s
gunboats, was manfully defended until dark,
when the enemy’s fire ceased.
At night it was discovered that the enemy
were landing in heavy force. One estimate is,
that they sent ashore 20,000 infantry, a squad
ron ol cavalry, and 30 pieces of field ani lery.
It was deemed impossible to held this post
against such a force, aided by the gunboats, so
the guns were spiked and tbe position aban
doned.
Friday morning the fi-firing was commence i
at early dawn, and continued until half past
10, when our forces, being almost completely
surrounded by an army outnumbering them
three to or.e, splendidly armed, disciplined,
equipped and officared, were compelled to re
treat. The retreat, we hear, was well con
ducted at first and in good order, but finally
became a rout, the men throwing away their
am sand everything else that could possibly
impede their progress.
FoYt Thomson was the most formidable for
tification on the river. It was four miles from
Newbern, and mounted 13 heavy guns, two of
them rifled 32 pounders.
Fort Ellis, three miles from Newbern, moun
ted eight heav.) guns. It was commanded liy
Capt Edilm’s Company B, First Maryland
Regiment. Finding that the other forti'ica-
tions had fallen, Capt. E. ordered his guns to
be dismounted, (having no spikes,) and they
were throw n down tbe embankment.
Fort Lane, mounting eight guns, two miles
Irotu Newbern, was blown up, Capt Mayo los
ing his life by remaining to tipe the magazine.
He was kilivri by the explosion.
Union Point Battery, one mile from Newbern,
mounted two guns, li ua- manned by the
Coulederale Minstrels, under the command of
Charles O. White, Manager. This battery
tired but twice, ami then with but little effect,
the enemy being out ol range. Three of the
Minstrels are missing. Il is thought they
were taken prisoners. Their names are given
us as Prof. Irailella, James Wood and Frank
Heinctnan.
Col. Campbell and Lieut. Col. Haywood, the
latter <Jf Raleigh, are known to have oeen killed,
l'he loss in killed ami wounded is believed to
be small, but it is thought tuat a large number
were taken prisoners.
CoL Z. U. Vance’s and Col. Avery’s regi
ments are said to have fought with great brave
ry, taking a battery ot six pieces at the bayonet;
but it was afterwards regained by the Yankees,,
who had been uiucli strengthened by heavy re
inforcements.
Capt. Latham’s battery of six guns was lost,
and nearly all bis men killed by the enemy's
sharpshooters. Capt. L. escaped.
Capt. Brannin’s battery of six guns was also
lost, and about sixty horses.
We have been unable to learn who command
ed. One account says Gen. Lawrence O’B.
Branch was in command. Others say that
Gen. B. was sick, and that- tbe command de
volved upon Col. Hill.
We bad but UOO'J men in the field and at the
batteries. Our loss in killed, Wounded and
prisoners, it is though; will not exceed 1000.
The rail road bridge over Neuse river was
not burnt until after all our troops had crossed,
except those whoso escape flail been effectually
cut off by the Yankees. The rail road bridge
is said to have been an elegant structure, and
<f a most substantial character. It was burnt
by a raft, upon which was piled two hundred
burrels spirits of turpentine and one hundred
and fifty bales cotton. The torch was applied,
the raft set adrift, and in » few moments it lay
alongside tne piers of the bridge, and the cost
ly fabric was wrapped in flame from end to
en<L
The turnpike bridge across the river was also
burnt by our forces.
Tbe Uas’on House, the Washington Hotel,
many churches, and th- greater portion of the
town is in ashes. A lad who left Friday night,
and reached Petersburg yesterday morning,
says the Yankees were busily engaged in en
deavoring to check the progress of the flames
and it was thought that some few houses would
be saved, at least enough to shelter tho demons
who have invaded the place.
All the Cotton, about 200 bales, and 1,000
barrels of rosin and turpentine, besides naval
stores, were destroyed.
The theatre, it is said, escaped destruction.
Here the Yankees secure ab-ut 25 kegs of gun
powder, which had been stored there for the
manufacture of cartridges.
The steamer Post Boy was destroyed by the
Con!cderates,but the Albemarle with a schooner
in taw, loaded with commissary stores, was
taken by the gunboats of the enemy.
It is said that Burnside sent in a couple of
officers, under white flag, to declare to the peo
pie that they would not be molested, nor
would their property be interfered with. It
was stateil, however, that all soldiers or other
persons with arms in their hands would be
arrested.
The Daily Progiess falls into the hands of
the enemy, but the proprietor, Mr. Pennington,
had thrown all the types into pi, and so dis
abled the prQ-s that it could not be used.
Seven trains left Newbern for Goldsboro'
Friday forenoon, all crowded to overflowing.
A shell from the enemy's gunboats fell within
25 teet of the last train as it moved off.
All the rolling stock of tho railroad was
saved, and but few persons remained in the
town. Women and children were overtaken
by the trains many miles from Newbern, some
in vehicles of various kinds, and many on foot
The peoplo, with but few exceptions, say they
prefer death to living in Newbern under Yan
kee rule.
Eight miles from Newbern, a member of the
27th North Carolina Regiment, named M. M.
Hunter, was found lying on the track, with m
portion of his head blown off by an exploding
shell. He had walked that distance, when he
fell from loss of blood. He was taken up,
but died on reaching Goldsboro’.
Another soldier, who bad been shot through
the head by a musket ball, was walking about
Goldsboro’ Friday evening, with the blood
streaming from both sides, in pursuit of a
physician. He complained but little, and said
his paina were not severe.
The obstructions which had been placed in
Neuse river, gave the Yankees no anuoyanoe
whatever. They had skillful pilots and thread
ed the channel with aa much facility as our
own boats,
TUE TOWN OF NEWBERN.
Newbern is the capital of Craven county,
and is situ .ted at tho confluence of the Neuse
and Trent rivers, one hundred and twenty
miles South East of Raleigh. It was for many
years the capital of the State. The Neuse riv
er, which is only two miles wide at Newbern,
is navigable for vessels the greater part of tho
year. Newbern had a considerable trade be
fore the war, and contained about 6000 inabi-
tan Is. Its chief articles of export were grain,
lumber, turpentine, tar and naval stores. Be
sides its court bouse, jail and other public
buildings, it contained several churches, two
banks and a theatre. There were also elegant
stores, and many very handsome private resi
dences.
But one newspaper survived up to the pres
ent stage of the war—the Daily Progress—and
that is now -.iscuntinued of course.
The taking of Newbern throws Beaufort and
Morehead City, distant about 42 miles, into
the enemy’s possession. We fear, too, that the
supplies at Fort Macon will be cut off. It is
stated that the garri-on have been provisioned
for a six month’s siege, but we think this
doubtful.
Beaufort is the Capital of Cartere’ county,
has a populate n of some 2,500, and contains
besides the county buildings, several semina
ries of learning, and two or three churcucs.
Morehead City is a new settlement, but con
tains one or two very fine summer resorts.
Tub Ghouls Outdone.—The New Or’“%ns
papers say that certain speculators in that city
were trapped in the act of buying up nnd mo
nopolizing all the “mourning good*" to be
found, in anticipation of a sudden demand for
those on account of a great battle now expect
ed to take place in the West, in which Jlew
Orleans will have a great many troops engaged.
That * speculation” beats all we ever ht-ard or
read about
AN ELOQUENT APPEAL.
We received a copy of a speech delivered by
Judge John W. Brockenbrough, at tho Court
House of Rockbridge county, March 3d, on
the state of the country, wntch is calculated to
wake op the spirit of patriotism in all who pe
ruse it We make an extract Irom the conclu
ding portion *
Young men of Rockbridge! let ino address
you a word of parting counsel. Your country
needs your services in the tented field.—Your
own Virginia calls, and you have your election,
either to spring forward voluntarily, eagerly to
obey her maternal summons, or be dragged to
tne field where an empire is to be won or lost
—uiider compulsion ! Oh ! d > not wait till the
hated conscription tears you away from the
dear ones at home. Are you husbands ? Then
you cannot so well attest your devotion to
your wives, os by rushing to arms to defend
them from pollution and dishonor! Are you
lovers? Your sweethearts will buckle on your
armor, and bid )uu go where glory waits you,
and spurn you if you hesitate. Are you sons ?
1 heard a noble woman say the other day : “I
have tour sous in tho service, and if one of
them were ta hesitate to re enlist for the war 1
would disown him, disinherit him ; he should
lie no son of mine never more, never more!
Oh 1 how I loved that Spartan mother for that
noble sentiment The mothers of Rockbridge,
I know, will emulate her example.—Then, my
young friends, wait not for the draft, but vol
unteer! Oh, how 1 love our noble volunteer^!
With 400,000 volunteers in the field, we cap
defy the world in arms !—Go forth, then, no
ble champions of freedom, and sheathe not
your avenging swords till the hatred foe is
driven back from the sacred soil his presence
pollutes!
TIIE NASHVILLE TIMES.
The publication of this paper has been sup
pressed On the 18th instant, it made its last
appearance. We have the number now before
us, and from it, extract tbe following :
TO TUI* J-r": ' V
On yesterday, Gov. Johnson, who had re
quested an interview with the publishers ot
the city papers, stated to the representatives
ot the Times and the Patriot the terms and con
ditions upon 'which the publication of the pa
pers in this city would be permitted. These
terms and conditions are such that it will be
impossible to comply with and make an inde
pendent journal, such as the Times was intend
ed to be, and we, therefore, submit to the “mil
itary necessity” which terminates its existence
with this issue.
Tbe Times was established in connection
ith one of the publishers of the Union and
American, in order to furnish employment and
a means ot subsistence to the employees on
that p« per. It had no other conne ti n with
tho Union and American; it sought only the
path of independent journalism, and for this it
has fallen under the ban of the Military Gover
nor—who seems not to coincide with Thomas
Jefferson, that “error ceases to be dangerous
when truth is left free to combat it”—and
“down it goes,- until such time, if ever, we
can rint a free, independent journal
It is thus that the traitor Johnson begjus his
dirty work in Nashville. .Let the thing go on l
L'here is a day ot r. tritirriou in store for him,
which God grant, may prove an early • nc !
Atlanta lutclli<jenccr.
NO FIGHT.
Augusta, 2lab—A private despat
ceived Irom Savannah, says that i
returning from South Carolina, thd
tag left Blufflou.
Fcdkuals Landing at Rep Bluff, S. C.—
Early yesterday morning the report of heavy
guns was heard in this city from the South
east. As thi sc reports have of late been often
heard, little attention was paid to them. By
the arrival, however, ot the Charleston train
last evenining we learn that Federal troops had
been landing yesterday forenoon at a point in
South Carolina called Red B.uff, some eight
miles from this city. It is said that they lamb
ed some seven thousand men under cover of
their guns. Our informant, who came to this
city last evening, states that he saw a Cantina
regiment proceeding to Red Bluff, and that cv-
tey preparation had been made to give the Fed-
erals a suitable reception. Bluffton is but
twelve miles from Red Bluff, and it is impor
tant that tho railroad between this city and
Charleston should be protected. If Carolina
needs the assistance of Georgia, all.she has to
to is to call on us fee assistance, and it will be
willingly and cheerfully rendered. Our desti
ny is the same; sink or swim, our fato w ill be
enrolled together, whether for weal or woe.—
Sac. Rep.
Tns Privilege or tub Press in South Caro
lina.—On the 18th inst the Governor and Ex
ecutive Council adopted Ihe following resolu
tion :
Resolved, That the editors and owners of
newspapers in this State be informed, that if
any of their employees shall fall under the con
scription, the Adjutant and Inspector General
will be instructed to withhold from Confederate
service such of said conscripts as the editor or
owner of such newspapers shall declare by atli
davit to be absolutely necessary to carry on
their respective establishments, and that the
work canuot be done by workmen within their
command otherwise exempt; Provided, Tho
number withheld shall not exoeed seven for the
Charleston daily papers, five for the Columbia
daily papers, and two for each country paper;
And provided, The conscripts withheld from
Confederate service shall be subject to be de
tailed to such local and special duty as may not
seriously interfere with the business of the re
spective offices.
FORM OF A LICENSE TO STEAL.
A picket belonging to Gen. Evans’ Brigade,
on the Carolina coast, captured a Federal sol
dier the other day with the following regular
license to steal in his pocket It is the only
regular license we ever saw written out, and is
a beautiful commentary on Gen. Shci man’s
promise in his proclamation that private pro
perty should be respected. Gen. Evans sent
it to the Charleston Courier for publication j
• [copy.]
Headquarters, U. S. Resident- Agent,
Hilton Head, S. C., February 8, 1862."
Mr. Renj. Willis, Port Royal—Sir—You will
proceed to North Edisto Island with Co'
ble, and assist Mr. Gideon Reynolds and
Braitou in collecting cotton and other
ty on that Island, and performing such
service as they may require.
Veiy respectfully, your ob’t sei
[Signed] Wm. il. Reyxoi
Lieut. Col. 1st Reg. R. I. Artillery, U.
ident Agent.
From tbe New Orleans Picayune, 1
Arrival or Hon. Wm. L. Ifaocey.
We have the pleasure of announcing the arri
val in our city, last evening, at iialf past five
o’clock, by the Opelou>sas Rail Road, of Hon.
W. L. Yancey, one of the Conk-' ierate States
Commissioners to Europe. He came from Ha
vana, as announced in a special telegraghi
despatch in the Picayune a tew days
the schooner Wide Awake from Havana.
Mr. Y’ancey is i.i excellent health and spirits,
though somewhat fatigued by his voyage, lie
is at the Su Charles Hotel.
He was received at the Opeloussas fen
ing, by a number of his friends and fellow
whom he was accompanied to
ing tlt.e rotunda of the Hotel,
ill dinner, about ten o’ch.ck
large crowd mat Mr. Yan
his addressing them, wf
:h of about half an hour.
He remarked on rising that it was
days of a year since he left tbe coun
representative of the Confederate States, to en
deavor to procure the recognition of that inde
pendence lor which his countrymen were gal
lantly contending.
He should undoubtedly surprise his auditors
when he told them that they had no friends in
Europe; that they must depend for the accom
plishment of the end for which they are striv
ing, upon themselves alone.
And what he had said of European feeling
with regard to this Confederacy was equally
tiueol us feeling towards the North, whose
people, whose government, and whose press,
the statement and writings, they believed to
fie altogether mendacious.
The sentiment ol Europe was anti-slavery,
and that portion of public opinion which form
ed and was represented by the Government of
England, was abolition.
' ’ the same time it is very well understood
and believed that tfc pretexts upon which this
war was inaugurated, and is carried on by the
North against us, were utterly false. They
would .lever recognise our independence until
ah our conquering swords hung dripping over
the heads ol the North. Their opinion of the
character of the people of these States and of
the cause in which we are engaged was derived
ai together from Nortnern sources. They nev
er see the journals and the periodicals of the
South, and all the accounts they rec' ive with
regard to us comes to them filtered through
those of the North. They believe that we are
a brave and determined people, and that we
are resolved upon obtaining our independence,
by the most unyielding devotion to the cause
in which we are contending. But they would
like to see the two Confederacies crippled by
the war, and so would give aid to neither.
He alluded to the erroneous and hostile opin
ions en'ertatned in England with regard to the
people of these States,which has been sedulous
ly inculcated by the North, Fy whom we were
habitually represented as cruel, lawless and
oppressive; that the owner had the liberty to
treat his slave without reference to the laws of
society or nature, and th it the slaves were bred
as the English breed their Durham cattle, &c.
As to tho blockade, he said that tbe nations
of Europe would never raise it until it suited
their interest In his own private opinion he
believed that that necessity would occur by a
very early day. He said that it was an error
to say that “Cotton is King.” It is not. It
is a great and influential power in commerce,
but notits dictator. lie alluded to the depen
dence which British statesmen placed upon the
probability of obtaining cotton from other
sources than America, and showed that this,
to any practical extent or purpose, was impos
sible, and that the idea was a fallacy.
He thought, he said, that the blockade was
a blessing to the Confederate States, for it was
teaching, nay, compelling us to depend upen
ourselves, and to do that for ourselves for
which we have hitherto been depending upon
others, and thfy our deadliest foes.
Mr. Yancey then counseled a firm, united,
and generous support of tho Government
which has just been inaugurated. The chosen
and the choosers were both in the same boat.
The storm was raging, the wind was howling,
and the waves were beating upon our bark.—
Wo had placed them at the helm. They might
commit errors, but all history teaches that
when there is mutiny in the crew, tho bark
must go down.
He concluded by expressing the strongest
confidence in the final success of the cause in
which we are engaged, and at the close was
greeted with the most enthusiastic cheers.
After a few eloquent remarks by Dr. Holland,
in the same vein, and in the course of which
the speaker bore testimony, as an eye-witness,
to the able and faithful manner in which Mr.
Yancey discharged his mission to Europe, tbe
assemblage separated.
THE GALLANT 0AP1
The Louisville Journal of the 15th,^
following account of Morgan’s aitc
ture Gen. Buell:
“It is said that an attempt was mi
Lebanon, Tennessee, a fev
gan’s cavalry, to capture (Jen. Buell i
three members of his staff The
that (Ten. Buell was on horseback,
approached a toll gate the keeper warned
of the close proximity of the rebel cavalry.-^
Subsequently the cavalry approached the gate,
after Gen. Buell and his staff had retired, char
ged the keeper of the gate with disclosing their
jilans to Gen. Buell and then killed him.”
The Atlanta Confederacy says that “we are
in possession of information that the Yankee
General was invited by a Union man, some dis
tance from Najuville, to come out and dine
with him ; that Morgan, by a contrivance o(
his own, which nobody else could have ooncoc-
ted, was made acquainted with the fact of the
itation being extended, and of its acceptance,
~ jwas, with his men, pasted at a point where
Id have begged him and his staff, but
te keeper, who knew Morgan was
proved to be a traitor to his coun-
ie swift judgment visited upon him by
"organ for his treason was a right one.”
il despatch to the New Orleans Pica-
le 11th, from Decatur, Ala., gives the
.ucidents :
revious Sunday, Capt. Morgan en-
neiny on the Murfreesboro pike
les from Nashville, and after a bril-
t.h succeeded in capturing ninety-
prisoner.-, among whom was one of Gen.
ichell’s aid. He also destroy ed il large pro
vision train. I'lnymeiiiv being re
inforced, recapi^^^BUxj>[^|^^^^^^Pwho
were under
Morgan sue
NO DANGER.
A gentleman from Tennessee informs us that
the roads are so bad between Knoxville and
Jackboro’ that it is impossible for a wagon of
any kind to go over them, much less the Fede
ral army. Some 20,000 Yankees are said to be
in Jackboro’, preparing to advance upon Knox
ville, but as we have a Urge force immediately
on their route, and the condition of the coun
try is such to prevent their obtaining supplies
as rapidly as needed, there is no danger of
Knoxville suffering tho fate of Nashville.
Atlanta CmmoMMlth.
Pikrpont Drafting.— We have it from are-
liable source, that the miserable abortion of a
Government which holds its sway in North
western Virginia, and is now temporarily lord
ing it over a portion of tho Valley, has ordered
a draft for troops in the counties of Berkely,
Jefferson and Clarike, to fight in the Lincofn
army. As an inducement to parties to enter
their service who have a spark of treason to
Virginia still unextinguished in their bosoms,
they are offering a bounty of $100 and a three
months’ furlough to all who will volunteer.
This is another means resorted to fer the sub
jugation of the South. Is it not manifestly the
duty of the Government, under these circum
stances, to contend to the last for the occupa
tion of every inch of Southern soil.—Rich.
Dispatch. .
■ ■■•#»■■■ ■
A Federal Deserter.—A deserter from the
Federal army Ct Feraandina—a Jerseyman—
came into our liftea below a day or two since,
and was forwarded to this city yesterday. He
gives much interesting information concerning
the enemy, and alleges slow-pay and bed food
aa the causes of his desertion.—Sav. Bop.
Bsttar look out for tfc«t it dmrtar.”
attack
miles
undred
nty of
captured,
in this
COUPLE OF SECRETS,
nd Evans, of the Milton, N. C., Chroni-
faving been obliged to suspend for three
s for the want of paper, which his friends
adsenthim by “Express,” but which, he says,
instead of being left at Hillsboro’ was sent" to
Charlotte or to Texas, lets off his pet-up wit
handsomely. The following, however, is rath
er more true titan witty :—Standard.
“We want to tell tl.e people of the South a
couple of secrets, and briefly narrated, they
are these: You will never achieve Southern
independence, so long as one half if not two
thirds of our Southern men fit for the field hold
back from it and wait for a draft; and, when a
draft comes, dodge, squirm and try to get off.
If we get liberty and independence, every man
able to kill a Yankee must manifest an anxiety
to pitch into the fight, and his cry should be,
“let me at the enemy,” instead of trying to
avoid the field. The other secret is equally
important to our success This desire of one
half of our people to make fortunes out of the
war by earing the other half up, must bo stop
ped. Men having the necessaries of life to sell,
must let them g" at moderate prices, and he
willing to give them away to the poor and nee
dy unable to buy. The rich man must hiius ..
pitch into battle, if he is physically able, and
generously throw open his pocket book, corn
crib and meat house to his poor neighbors, in
stead of skulking the battle field, locking up
his money and throwing the key away, and
demanding the most exorbitant prices(tn cash)
for everything he has to sell. We have too
many Stiylocks—too many Southern Yankees,
meaner by far than a Northern Yankee ever
dared to be. l'hey must be put. down -crush
ed out—or all our struggles for iudopendcnce
will be vain. The farmer who has corn and
meat to sell, and wno studies how to make
people pay him tlnee prices for them, thinks
that that is helping along to whip the Yankees.
He is a fool, and is doing more to defeat the
cause of ti e South than a whole Yankee regi
ment can do. Ttie same may be said of the
merchant, whose patriotism consists in asking
enormous prices on his goods. To get inde
pendence we must study how to make sacrifi
ces—how to help each other along—and not
how big a pile of money we can make by ex
tortion, gouging, gaffing, robhing or stealing
from each other. You must throw open your
corn cribs and meat houses to the poor—you
must open your pocket books and generously
shell out your dimes to the families of poor
men fighting for ymu. You must not promise
to do great things for a poor matt's family to
get him to do that which you arc afraid to do
for yourselves, and when he has gone to the
battle field refuse to half fulfill your copious
promises. We speak as unto wise men, judge
ye what wc say.”
Rev. J. R. Graves, who for years was de
nounced and reviled by Brownlow, and charged
with abolitionism among other offences, has
been compelled to abandon his post as editor of
the Nashville Baptist, and has published a card
from which we quote :
My business destroyed, my home in the pos
session of the enemy, and myself a refugee, I
feci it my duty to offer my services to my coun
try in this hour of her imminent peril. I have
been urged by several prominent citizens of
my own State to raise a Regiment, Battalion or
Legion ot true and tried men willing to bear a
pike to thrust the vandal foe from our hearth
stones. Believing it to ! e a most formidable
weapon in the hands of men determined to be
free, I am willing by both word and deed to
encourago our people to seize it with prompt
ness and rush to the conflict.
’Tis Ca-sar’s right, in a crisis like this, to call
to the field every man able to bear arms, nor
has Christ absolved bis ministers from this tri
bute to Ciesar.
Soon as it is ascertained that President Da
vis will accept a regiment, battalion, or even a
company of pikemen for service in the West,
I shall offer my service to assist in raising it,
willing to lead or to follow it upon the fieli
I have said this much to apprise nty patrons
throughout the South that I did not “passively
submit” in the fall of Nashville, and have by
no means despaired of the Confederacy. It is
in our power to be free if we only prove our
selves worthy of freedom. J. R. Graves,
Editor Tennessee Baptist.
P. S.—Will the Southern press confer a fa
vor that will be appreciated by copying this
card, as my patrons ate in every Southern
State?
Brownlow, through a miserable delusion of
courtesy and a mistaken policy of conciliation,
has been permitted to retire and to join the in
vading fee. It is time we should learn that all
are not friends who- profess devotion to oar
cause, or who denounce others for tbe accident
of birth.
—The Cotton Manufacturers of this State
are making a rich harvest from tbe necessities
of the war. With tbe raw material cheaper
than it has been for many years, they bare ad
vanced the price of the cloth most exorbif
ly, charging 20 cents a yard for cloth whi<
previous to the war, they sold at 10 cents
yard. When peace again blesses us, we ’
that these greedy fellows will be rememr
and re
.FROM NORFOLK.
Norfolk, 21st—Nineteen large transpofl
steamers and sailing ships came into Ham(>|
Roads, yesterday, and mostly leit this i
ing, supposed to be loaded with troops.
SL Lawrence is at anchor in the Roadjf
the Minnesota. Tho old Brandywine, j
the Union gun was place, is not from!
Yesterday several ships went up to Nei
News, it is supposed to land troops,
then departed.
FROM THE WEST.
Memphis, 20th.—The Federals comment
helling our works at Island No. 10, on Sa
lay, the 15th, at a long distance, and renewing
it on Sunday. On Monday the Federals brought^
down eight gunboats and six mortarbo^
and commenced the attack again. Three i
boats were lashed together, and made a i
rate attack on Capt. Rucker’s battery. It
terrific. Lieut. Clarke, of Capt. Rucker’s '
tery, was killed. No others. The battery i
t-iined considerable injury during the f|
day’s bombardment. One of the Federal |
boats was disabled on Monday, and towe
back. The other boats were struck, but the
extent of the damage done them is not known.
Our troops conducted themselves with great
spirit and resolution.
Tho river iff falling slowly at Island No. 10.
A special dispatch to the city papers says
that Sergeant Kittle, of McCulloch’s Brigade,
having escaped from the Yankees, reached
Fort Smith, on the 19th. He reports the Fed
eral loss in the battle at Pea Ridge, at 2,000
killed and wounded. The Federals captured
390 prisoners, mostly citizons. The Yankees
are preparing for another attack. Gen. Siegle
was slightly wounded in the arm. Two Texas
regiments sent out to bury the dead, were tired
on by tho Federals. 3,000 Yankees are en
route to itinforce Gen. Curtis.
Memphis, 21st.—A steamer from up the riv
er brings ti.a intelligence that the Yankees are
slowly movi i - down the west bank of theriv-
Inforiu i.jn received here this morning
from Curin’ii, Mississippi, states that the Yan
kees arc ;tr- ing to the Tennessee River.
, HE x HY’ILLE lia CAPES
Augusta, 22 ! —The Wilmington Journal, of
Friday last, says that the Nashville went to sea
on Mond. y last. She passed between two
blockading vessels who fired thirty shots at
her. She is no doubt now safe from the Lin-
colnite clutches.
LATER FROM THE WEST.
Memphis, 22.—Tbe steamer Meant from up
the river, reports that the Federals are at Old
River La e, six miles below Tiptonville, build
ing rafts, hoping to be able to put bodies ofin-
lantry on tho east side of the river. The ene
my shelled Island No. 10 yesterday, but did
no damago. They never stay long enoug
within range of our guns. They hope to p*
Island No. 10 jorne foggy night
LATER FROM THE WEST.
]Special totheMemphU Appeal.]
Fort Smith, March 16.—Official intelligence
has been received here that Col. Hebert, of
Louisiana, is a prisoner, uninjured, and will be
exchanged in a few days.
The water courses being so high, and such
stormy weather, has prevented the reception
of late intelligence from the enemy, who re
ported to be retreating. He is, it is said, ....«•
at Bentonville; and still falling back on Casse-
ville. Our army is in fine spirits and ready for
bnother fight Osobola.
CONGRESSIONAL,
Richmond, 23rd. A. resolution has been
adopted in the House of Representatives, di
recting the Secretary of War to pay out of the
Contingent Fund, money for the aid and relief
of Confederate soldiers now in the hands of the
enemy. ^^
[From the Atlanta Intelligencer.]
Atlanta, March 18th, 1962.
Maj. John S. Rowland,
Superintendent W. & A. R. R. :
Sir:—1 am informed that certain specula
tors, mostly citizens of Tennessee, who arc be
lieved to be enemies to our cause, are purchas
ing large quantities of cotton, for shipment to
points in that State, with a view, it is suppos
ed, ot placing it within the reach of the Feder
al troops.
Yon are, therefore, hereby directed to sus
pend the shipment of cotton over the W. A A.
road rill further order; anjj_tQ_sflfeufrlicj~~
tice that the Road will
shipment As it is 1
main upon the pi|
to receive any u|
storage, in any <
ing to the Road.
Tennessee.—The
very confidently of al
says:
As already intimated,^
enemy will be able
further. We do not
the grounds of
our belief; an '
the invader i
driven beyo