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YOLUME10 ~ YORKYILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EYE1TO, APRIL 20, 1864. -MBER:16.
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RATES OF POSTA&E 21? THE
i "*C. STATES OF AMERICA.
l "C^OR the convenience of the public
J- the following simplified statement of the-rates of post
age, under the act of (Jongress of the Confederate States of
r America, ho* been prepared- It must be borne in mind
that the Act Is to go Into effect from and after such period
as the P. M. General may, by proclamation, announce:
' RATES OF POSTAOE.
Single letters, not exceeding a half ounce In weight, to
any part of the Confederate States, shall be each 10 cents.
An additional single rate for each additional half ounce
or less. v '
Drop letters S cents each.
In the foregoing cases, the postage to be prepaid by stamps
or stamped envelopes.
Advertised letters 2 cents each. ?
ON NEWSPAPERS.
Sent to regular and bona fide subscribers from the office
of publication, and nut exceeding three ounces in weight:
Weekly paper, 13 cents per quarter.
Semi-Weekly paper, 96 cents per quarter.
Tri-Wcekly paper, 39 cents per Quarter.
Four times a week, 56 cents per quarter.
Five tiroes a week, 65 cents per quarter.
Six times a week, 78 cents per quarter.
ON PERIODICA!*.
Periodicals published oftcnerthon semi-monthly shall be
charged as newspapers. ,
Periodicals published monthly, not exceeding IX ounces
In weight) 1 cent on each number, and one Cent additional
<vo? each additional ounce or fraction of an ouncg. *
ON TRANSIENT PRINTED MATTER.
The inland postage on every oiher newspdper, and on
each circular not sealed, handbill, engraving, pamphlet,
periodica^ magazine or other paper, which Bhall oc uncon
nected with any manuscript or written matter, and not
exceeding I ounce in weight, shall be 1 cent, pnd for every
, . additional ounce or fraction of an ounce, 1 cent additional
; and books, bound and unbound, not weighing over
L four potteds, shall be deemed mailable matter, and the InF
land postage on them shall be at the rate of'2 cents an
ounce or fraction of nn ounce, and the postage on all such
transient matter and books, shall be prepaid in all cases ex
? cept when sent by officers, musicians or privates of the
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franking privileoe. .
The following persons only ore entitled to the frankinS
privilege, and In all cases strictly confined to official business.
Postmaster General.
His Chief Clerk.
Auditor of the TrcrfSury for the' Post Office Department.
Deputy Postmasters. .
SOUTH CAROLINA'S DEAD.
BIOGRAPHICAL ROLL. OI^ HONOR:
HAYING received frequent applications
from the friends of deceased soldiers to place
in a permanent form and make It accessible to all who might
desire a copy, the "BOLL OF HONOR," on which I am
engaged for the State, I propose to publish a work more ex
tended in it* scope and design than the State Roll, cmbrning
Biographic al Sketches of the officers and men from
this State who have frtllen or died in service during the pre
sent war, and whose friends may furnish me with the ncces
snry materials for such sketches.
The plan Is this. The friends of the deceased soldiers
desiring a place in this work, will forward to mc the necessary
information to make up for publlcatiorfthe biographical
sketches, or send me the notices they wish inserted,
when they will be revised and compiled for publication?
Each biographical sketch must be accompanied by the name
of at tea^t one subscriber and Ten Dollars to defray the expense
and labor Involved In the preparation and compilation
of the sketches, foi which.a receipt will be given entitling
the holder to a copy of the work at the subscription price.
i ? I am-perfecting arrangements with a leading publishing
V house for the publication of the work. It will be published
} in monthly numbers, and issued in the best style of letter
L press printing, op fine white English book paper, and print|
ed with the best English Ink. Each" number will contalu
* * one or more portraits of officers and men who have distinguished
themselves during the war. The twelve numbers
will make four handsome volumes.
Terms per annum or for twelve .numbers, payable on
the publication of the first number, of which dnc notice will
be given. The work will be continued until the Roll is
completed. Those Intending to subscribe or furnish biographical
sketches, should do so without delay, as.tlie first
edition will be limited to the number of sutacribcrs.
I Address .WILLIAM B. JOHNSTON,
k Columbia, S. C.
February 17 7 3t
I SLAVE LABOR FOR THE COAST
I --DIVISION NO. I.
T THE Commissioners of Roads and
JL# the Town Authorities within the Judicial Distriets of
Pickens, Greenville, Spartanburg, Anderson, Union, York,
* Chester, Laurens, Abbeville, and New berry, will forthwith
summon all the slaveholders within their respective limits to
' . deliver ONB-FOCRTH of their slaves liable to Road duty
at the Railroad Denots nearest their residence on MQN
\ DAY^Huetaami dfth inn* Ur *pm pmaMT* 10
o'dtoK a. m., there to await transportation to Charleston
forTUirtvMays' labor on the fortifications.
II. The Act of December requires the arrest of all defaulters,
and that thev be forwarded for a double term of service
at the expense of the owners. This requirement will be
rigorously enforced ; and, that the State A pent may proceed
intelligently and do justice to all. Commissioners of
Rnaijp and Town Authorities are earnestly enjoined to
make, without delay, the Ketuni- called for by the Act re
ferred Jo. They will smte, in every instance, the Names of
owners?District?Number of Kond Hands?and total
, amount of lahor performed. No District in the Division
L now called on has made complete returtftj and in several
I this important duty has been entirely neslected.
III. The Commissioners and Authorities aforesaid are
A " also required by law to impress and forward ONE-FOURTH
of ail male free negroes, between the ages of 16 and 50
W years. r .
J IV. Tbe ONLY exemption recognized by the Statutes is
where the owner has but one Road Hand.
R. B. JOHNSON,
Agent of State of S. C.
Camden, March 17,136-1.
March 23 12 It
MORE TAXES !
I WILL attend at my Office in Yorkville
on the 1st week of MAY, for the purpose of receiving
RETURNS of all profits made during the year 1863,
exceeding 25 PER CENT., made by any Railroad, Manufacturing
or Joint Stock Company, whether incorporated or
not. I will also receive the returns of all profits made by,
BUYING AND SELLING, between let January, 1863, and
1st January, 1864, of Spirituous Liquors, fiouf, Wheat,
Corn, Rice, Sugar, Molasses or Syrup, Salt, Bacon, Pork,
Hogs, Beef or BeCT Cattle, Sheep, Oats, Hay, Fodder, Raw
Hides, Leather, Horses, Mutes, Boots, Shoes, Cotton Yarn,
Wool, Woolen, Cotton or Mixed Cloths, Hats, Wagons,
Harness, Coal, Iron, Steel or Nails, Money, Gold, Silver,
Foreign Exchange, Stocks, Notes, Debts, Credits oy obligations
of any kind, and any Merchandize, Property or Effects
* of any kind, the additional tax, laid by the late Tax Act, on
tbe first clause Is 25 PER CENT., and on the last clause It
Is 10 PER CENT. All persons, firms or Corpotations, liable
on any part of the above, must make their returns to me on
the 1st week in MAY, or suffer tbe penalties of the law.
F. M. GALBRAITH,
Ani0*vu? q r*
A99C9PUIi Ulitl VV1IVVUUII 1/l^UiVl) w> v. |
April 13 15 if
IWILL attend at the same time and!
place to receive the above TAX.
T J. A. McLEAN,
[, Collector, 31st Collection District, S. C.
April 13 * .? 15 tf
f STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,"
YORK DISTRICT.
Rod (ley & Co.. vs \V. B. Dnnlap.?attachment.
TX7"HEEREAS, the plaintiffs did on
T f the 15th day of October 1863, file their declaration
against the defendant, who (as it is said) is absent from and
without the limits of this State, and has neither wile nor
attorney known within the same, upon whom a copy of the
i said declaration might be served. Tl is therefore ordered,
f.iat the said defendant do appear and plead to the said
declaration, on or before the 16th day of October, which
, will he In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty four, otherwise final and absolute judgment will
then be "awarded against him.
(316) S. E. MOORE, Clerk.
I October 15th, 1863.
November 4 41 qly.
" IN EQIITY--YORR DISTRICT.
Stanhope A? Harris, .
r*. .. > Bill to perfect Title.
1 Martha N. Harris, et at.)
IT appearing, to my satisfaction tliat
Alfred ?. Hutchison, Mallnda Hutchison, Joseph M.
Corkle, and Jano, his wife, Mary Wiruberly and
Wimberly. her husband, James Hutchison, Robert P. Hnr
lis and 11 ugh C. Harris, defendants in above stated case,
reside beyond the llmlts_of this State?It Is, therefore, on
motion ot wuuams 6c many, solicitors ior lompiainaw,
ordered, dial said absent Defendants do appear and plead,
answer or demur to Uie bill filed in this case, within three
months from the publication of this notice, or a decree yro
con/esso will then be eutered and awarded against them.?
March 31, 1864. ' WALTER B. METTS,
' _ ($32 *25.) Commissioner in Equity. .
March 23 12 3m
L IN eqijit*?york district?
Mary Rippey, per pro amie, t Bill for Account, Settlement
Edward Blppey, Jr., etat. ) of Estate, \c.
r TT appearing t6 my satisfaction that
JL EDWARD B1PPEY, Jr., one of the Defendants in this
ease, resides beyond the limits of this State. It is therefore,
on motion of Williams St Beattv, Solicitors for complainants,
ordered, that said absent Defendant do appear
and plead, answer or demur to the bill filed in this case,
within three months from the publication of tills notice, or
a decree, pro confato, will then be entered and awarded
I against him. WALTER B. MBTTS,
($32.25) Commissioner In Eqdity.
. March 9 10 . 3m
i t~ Torn m? t tt?t> C T>T? ax"ATM
I AkJ A Ul' XJJUAiJLIlVU -lVJJiUniiXJLi
ING in tlio Post Office at Yorkville, S. C., April 1st,
1864.
W. S. Adams, John Barnes,2; Miss E. J. Byais, J. II.
I Cairey, Mrs. Mary Cooper,Mm. Mary Carrol^Mrs, Nancy
Dowdle, J. J. Garrison, Jos. R. Gricr, J. I>. Gaulden, R. V.
Gist, Esq., J. L. Harris, Esq., II. N. Ilanibrick, Theodore
Kline, Yv. S. Murray, 2; Wui. McClain, MissM. E. McClain,
John J. Miller, Mrs. M. McMahan, E. ?E. McCaffrey,
Win. A. Miner,. Mrs. Mary Mills, Syivanus Moore,
Mrs. Emily K. Moore, Gussey Price, Miss Rhoda Speck,
Mrs. L. Scgriel, Jincy G. Scruggs, Miss Laura 8awyor, YV
E. Sanders, Robert Springs, Esq., MissM. E.Sandlfer, Miss
Catharine Smith, Miss M. A. Smith, Ilenrv. Sarratt, Mrs.
Marv M. Smith, Ml? Julia Verone, Wm. Wright, M as S.
K. YVright,2; Mise Rhoda A. Wood, Miss R. N. Warlick,
Mrs. Esther YY'allace, Yfiae Neny Wilson. 16.
J. R. ALEXANDER, P. M.
| April C . 14 * ' 3t
WOOD WANTED.-TITE SUPERINTENDENT
of the YORK OAS LIGHT COMPANY
wants to purchase ONE HUNDRED CORDS of
I Dry PINE YVOOD. The highest CASH PBICE will be
paid on delivery at the GA8 HOUSE.
T. TANNER, Superintendent.
a March 30 13 *?* >' 4t
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I. TUBAL CAIN.
The First Worker in Iron.
BY CHARLES XACKAY.
Old Tubal Cain was a inan of might,
In the days when earth was young;
I By the fierce red light of bis furnace bright,
The strokes of his hammer rung ;
And he lifted high his brawny hand, ?
On the Iron glowing clear,
Till the sparks rushed out in scarlet showers,
As hrf fashioned the sword and spear. <
And he sang?"Hurrah for my handiwork! ,
. Hurrah for the spear and sword !
Hurrah for the band" that shall wield them well,
For he shall be king and lord.''
To Tubal Cain fnmc many a one,
As he wrought bis roaring fire,
And each one prayed for a 'strong steel blade,
As the crown of his desire;
And he made them weapons sharp and strong,
Till they shouted loud fcr glee,
And gave him gifts of pearl and gold,
, And spoils of-tho forest.free.. '
And they sang?"Hurrah for Tubal Cain
Who hath given us strength a new!
Hurrah for the smith, hurrah for the fire,
And hurrah for the metal true!"
But a sudden change came o'er his heart,
Ere the setting'Of the ?un ;
And Tubal Cain was filled with pain
For the evil he had done;
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He saw that men with'rage and hate, i
Made War upon their kind, - f
That the land was red with the blood they shed, 1
. In their lust for carnage blind.
And he said?"Alas! that I ever made, I
Or that skill of mine shodld plan,
The spear and die sword, for men whose joy
Is to slay their fellow man."
And for many a day old Tubal Cain, !
Sad brooding o'er his woe;
And his hand forcbore to smite the ore, I
And his furnace smouldered low;
Bnt he rose at last with a cheerf&l face,
And a bright courageous eye,
And bared his strong right arm for work
While the quick flames mounted high,
And be sang?"Hurrah for my handiwork!" #
And the red sparks lit the air;
"Not alone for the blade was the bright steel made,"
And be fashioned the first plow-share.
And men, taught wisdom from the past,
In friendship joined their hands, , |
Hung the sword in the hall, the spear on the wall,
And plowed the willing lands;
And sang?"Hurrah for.Tubal Cain 1
Our staunch good friend is he; I
And for the plow-share, and the plow, I
To him our praise shall be. I
But while .oppression lilts its head,
Or a tyrant would be lord? 1
Though we maV thank him forthe nlow.
Well not forget the aword 1"
Miscegenation?What it Means?Remarkable
Confession of a Republican
Journal.
The Yankees are rnnning mad in their
love for the negro. Not content with sacrificing
one million of liveB of their own men
in this war for the negro, (as confessed by
a New York paper)?not content with receiving
them with "marked favor" at the
President's receptions?.pot content with
riding in the same car with them?not content
in having them as pall-bearers at the
funeral of their great public men, (one of
the pall-bearers at Owen Lovejoy's funeral
was, according to their own accounts, a negro,
formerly a slave)?not content with
making soldiers of them, and placing them
on a political equality?not content with all
this, the Republican party, in their wild
love for the negro, has inaugurated a new
chapter in their oreed: "Miscegenation"?
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a wnoiesaie intermarriage oj oiac/cs ana \
whites. This is the last and new phase t
of abolitionism in the North. It is openly
and unblushingly avowed?preaOhed even |
from the pulpit! It is the new test of Republican
faith. To show how rapidly and
alarmingly the infamous and disgusting (
practice is spreading in the North, we copy
a portion of an editorial on the subject from t
the New York Times.
The reader must bear in mind, when read- j
ing the article below, that it is language, {
not of a "Copperhead" journal, but of a j
thorough, out and out Republican journal j
?an open, voluntary confession of a paper
that has. never faltered in its support and (
devotion to the prinoiples of that party, and r
I that has done as much in advocacy of the g
Lincoln administration and the encouragemeat
of this war as any other paper in the
whole North. Now that it sees ruin and
degradation and a level with the negro j
staring it in its face, it is forced to confess t
(and a very humiliating confession it is for ^
a Republican paper) that the only quarter ^
to which the country can now look to be
saved is the Democratic party. But Jet no ,
a fall f r\ rnn f Vi i a nrfmln lrtf if kn aivah .
uuc law iu icau iuio aiuuig icv ib uu wuuu" ^
latcd in every Southern paper far and wide
?let it be read, if necessary, to our army.
If there is a man in the whole Sonth that (
can read this oonfession below without firing
bis heart and cansiDg a feeling of shame (
that we should ever have lived with such ;
a people, then he must be dead indeed to (
every sense of honor, pride and virtue :
WHAT ARE WE COMING 10? I
* * * A rage for marrying black peo- (
pie has lately taken posssession of the He- ,
publican party. The Radicals have carried ;
everything before them, and if things go on *(
at tbcir present rate, it is feared that, in .
three months, every white man who is not |
connected by marriage with a colored fami- |
ly will be. "read out" of the party. The ,
1 gusto with which the abolitionists go into |
the insane movement is something at once
disgusting and alarming. We shrink from
putting on paper the stories which reach us i
. i .1 1 ^ .1 1 TTT *11
as 10 too prevalence or mis evu. vve win
only say that there will very soon be hardly i
a family in the city belonging to the lie- i
publioan persuasion which will not be glory- (
ing in the possession of a negro Bpn-in-law. j
It is said, we know not with what truth, i
that the Union League Club has fitted up a
nigbt bell at its door, and keeps a black !
minister' on the premises who marries all i
couples of different colors at any hour of' :
the day or nigbt. Soon we may expect to
hear of duels being fought about seme black
washerwomag, and crowds of white men i
thronein? tlie basements of these families
who have colored servants in their houses
for the purpose of soliciting the honor (?)
of thdir hands.
It is witfi great reluctance that we speak
out our minds in this matter. But we have
no hesitation in saying that if we had at the
i outset conceived it possible that hostility to
Slavery would ever have led to wholesale ini
termarriage with negroes, the Republican
party should never have received any countenance
or support from this journal. We
owe it to ourselves .and to posterity lo say
that the thing has taken us by surprise. It
never entered our head. We now see and
oonfess our error and deplore*it. .
The question whioh now naturally suggests
itself to every right minded white man
and. woman is, where is the thing to end?
Whither are we tending? What is to be
done to stop this unnatural ^and detestable
movement ? Tor it is as plain ,as a pike
staff that if it continues there will be soon
no whites left in this once great and prosperous
country. We shall all be mulattoes,
and be afflicted with all the peculiarities,
both mental and physical, of that unhappy
mi - r a:. ??i J i. :ui?
racu. J.I16 Higus ui kiiio grct&i auu*
change already begin to make themselves
manifest in oar streets; fbr the most careless
observer who walks down Broadway
can hardly fail to observe. the appearance
on a vast number of faces of the well known,
brownish tinge! Let that tinge once become
general, and then farewell, to all oiu
whiteness. ^
^Mfhere'is bat one qaarter -and we are not!
ashamed to own it?in whioh, in our opin-j
ion, we can look for either help or comfortI
at this crisis, and that is to the great, old na-i
tional Democratic party. It has its faults f
nobody has been forced to call attention tl
them oftener than we; bat it has never yet
proved false to its race, and we are satis-\
fied that whatever can be done now will be V
done by it to preserve the parity of oarl
blood. ****?/
\jjfbrmation to Planters-Sorghum.
-We call the attention of oar agricultural
readers at this time to the advantages of
cultivating extensively the Chinese sugar
cane. We see announced by our cotemporaries
of this city that one of our most enterprising
citizens, Capt. Charles Y. Morris,
proposes establishing an extensive and com- .
plete establishment for the manufacture of
sorghum syrup at some convenient point on
the canal, between this oity and Lynchburg. ,
Circulars will soon be sent round to plantars
along the canal to ascertain the extent
to which each will oultivate this most im
portant crop, and encourage and be benent;ed
by * this enterprise. From bis expe ience
and suooess in refining sugar in this
)ity upon a large scale, and the possession
)f all the most improved maohinery requilite
for such an establishment, no one could ,
>e better qualified for oondqpting and estab- ,
ishing such an enterprise.
The Chinese sugar cane is a native of
Northern China, and of about the same lattude
as Middle Virginia. From experinents.
tried in various parts of our country,
t is found to flourish wherever Indian corn '
fill grow. Its culture l^similar to the 1st- -j
er, and its period of maturity varies from
hree to four months. We have known it I
o ripen at the foot of the mountains when
planted as late as the first of June, though
iarlier planting is advisable. It will yield <
i surer crop if planted on a moderately stiff
slay soil, as its height and weight of seed ,
ender it liable to falling down from winds, u
vhich - greatly injures it, when grown on
nore porous land. -i
Sorghum will yield about five times the '
'orage, per acre, of any other of the grasses,
vheu cut and cured entire. It yields an
squal amount of blades with corn,- owing to
he multiplying of its stalks from a single '
seed. It will yield of grain an equal a- 1
nount to any other cereal we gro^. There I
ire a variety of other purposes which it has
)een found by experiment to subserve in
;he arts, as paper making, dye stuffs, &o. *
But its special value to us at this time is
or the syrup made from the juice of its 1
(talks. According to varying oircumstance
>f soil, seasons, cultivation and facilities for 1
nanufaoture, the yield of syrup may be
lafely estimated at from fifty to one hundred
md fifty gallons per acre. The latter conlideration
is by far the greatest at this time
vith our planters. With rude mills and
rregular motive power, a great portion of
;he juice, and by some persons considered
;he best, the most concentrated and least
ivatery, is not extracted from the canes.
In addition to the advantages of steam
ind improved large sized iron mills, of
:hree or five cylinders, to make a good,
tvnoiesome article or syrup, mac win Keep
without becoming acid, and that will have
* good taste and appearance, filters, clarifi2rs,
a succession of evaporators, coolers,
skimmer?, &c., are essential. Boiled in a
single pot, it is liable to many injuries, and
especially to charring. Experience, only,
can tell the proper amount of alkali to add
to temper it, for which saccharometers are
often called into requisition; also, to determine
the point to which it should be boiled,
[n all these our planters generally are defi- 1
cient. It is to supply these deficiencies '
rod to encourage the growth of Chis valuable
crop, which may be made to a great exLent
to substitute meat in these short ration
times, that the enterprise wc have alluded
to is designed.?Richmond Whig.
6S?* The Piedmont Railroad," as the new i
Confederate Danville connection is called,
will be of vital. importance in the event of i
the lower route via Wilmington and Wei
don being seized, but it is only in the event i
-4 - 4 ? V. ? MM 4 V? rt fnnt flint
[/Licit It t'ttii UC OKJy 11ULLI tuu za\Jb iuai aibUUUgU
it will furnish a double line between Richmond
and Kingsville, it will there unite i
with a single line through South Carolina.
Perhaps, however, the pressure on the roads
might be lightened by bringing all the
freight and produce from Eastern and
Southern Georgia, and Eastern Alabama by
way of Savannah, Charleston and Florence
to Wilmington, and thence by the way of
Weldon and Petersburg to Vireinia, while
all other freight from Georgia and pbints
South would come by way of Augusta to
Columbia, and' so by the Charlotte and
South Carolina Railroad, the North Carolina
Railroad and the Danville connection
and Richmond and Danville Railroad to
Richmond. There is less than ten miles of
the Piedmont road to be finished. '
WiImington Journal.
Fbom Florida?Another Yankee
Steamer Blown Up.?We take the following
extract from letters recoived at the
Savannah News Office, dated
Bivouac, (near) Qedar Creek, E. F.,
April 4,1864.
On Saturday, the enemy,, both cavalry
and'infaotry, advanced on oar line of pick*
eta, and after a brisk skirmish retired.?
What loss they sastained, (if any) cannot
be ascertained. Some,mast have been hart
as they approached to withiB one hundred
and fifty yards of oar men, and a quantity
of blood was seen on the ground.
Camp Fineqan. Anril 4.
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Last Monday night oar company was on
picket duty within t^e enemy's lines. It
Was expected that tb.? enemy would advance
and drive in our pickets. It rained all
nighty and when morning broke we were
drenched wifh'nio, and returned to our
horses, about 1 mile distant. As soon as
we had built a good fire - to dry our clothes,
a oourier oame in and reported that the
Yankees were across Cedar Creek. We
were aoim mounted and feady to make the
attack, and before we could get in line of
battle the Yankees retired. Last week three
Yankee deserters came into our lines, who
report that the reason why so many of the
enemy are deserting, is in consequence of
the Yankees placing negro offioers over the
white troops, and ^naking them drill too
much in the hot sun,
Yesterday afternoon the Yankees pttaok*
ed our pickets. They were about 1,500
ptrong, and after a Bkirmish of about two
hours, the enemy retired.* We lost one
horse and several men slightly wounded.?
The enemy's loss is not known. - It is supposed
that they made this attack in order to
find oqt our strength, before they made a
general*attack. A negro, who belongs to a
lady in Jacksonville, deserted from the enemy
a few days since and came into our
lines. He reports that he heard the officers
of his command say that it was the #intention
of the Yankees to make a simultaneous
attack on our forces at all points daring the
latter part of April.
A torpedo was placed a few days since
in the St.. John's river, and yesterday a
Yankee steamer, loaded with arms and ammunition
for two regiments, while passing
up, ran upon it, when it exploded. It blew
the steamer into fragments, and nearly all
on board perished. The wreck of the
steamer now lines the bank of the St. Johns,
and the bodies of her dead are daily washed
ashore.
An English View of the Last Yankee
Raid Against Richmond.?The
Albion, the English organ at New York,
obw strong and hot vefycottipTimeotary language
to the Yankees relative to the burning
of floar mills and dwellings in the
South. We copy:
No matter in what direction a raid takes
plaoe, arson and plunder arc now considered
to be legitimate orders of the day. Burning
up plantation^ and farms, demolishing
grist mills, and turning helpless inhabitants
out to starve, which ought to bring the perpetrators
of such deeds to court martials?
are triumphantly quoted as proofs of enterprise'knd
valor.
It is strange, too, that this atrocious and
impolitic system is approved by a people
who have not shown themselves, so far, addicted
to wanton cruelty. We have, how
ever, do Hesitation id Btampiog it as disgraceful
to the arms, and calculated to bring
ill will upon the oause of the North, among
the North's moatabiding friends. * * *
It will be held, and rightly, that the destruction
of railroads and of publio stores
and provisions is an entirely different matter
from the indiscriminate application of
the toroh. Does not the fiendish glee with
whioh these devastating prooesses arc described
fully bear out oar oft-made assertion,
that war is not and never can be a moral
purifier ? There is something humiliating
in the avowal that, with hundreds of thousands
of brave men in arms, a nation should
be called ppon to admire flouring mills laid
in ashes and happy homes made desolate.
Neither should it be forgotten that, while
the seeds of eternal hatred are thus deliberately
sown, the narrators of these exploits
contradict all their previous assertions that
the South was universally starving.
The Liberality op the Soldiers.?
Rev. Dr. Lacey recently'stated, in Richmond,
that after religious servioe, on a late
occasion, with the 12th Mississippi Regiment,
the soldiers, by a unanimous vote,
desired him to tender to the authorities of
Riohmond, for the usp of the poor of that
oity, one day's rations in every week out of
their allowance. The soldiers are themselves
on short allowance. These particular
soldiereare far away from their homes, with
no opportunity, therefore, of receiving sup
plies from theft friends. There is no opportunity
to purchase in the vicinity of their
camps. They?have to' rely solely on their
rations. Oat of these, they offer a day's
allowance in the week to the poor of a
strange city 1 They ask to fast, that the
poor of the oity, in whose defence they have
so often braved death, may eat f Truly,
this is charity ! They said that the people
of Richmond bad been kind to them, a?
occasion served, and they wished to express
their gratitude. Only the generosity of a
soldier oould desire to make such overflowing
return! We are pleased to say that
their offer was kindly declined. But it devolves
on the people of Richmond, in whose
name and by whose wishes it was deolined,
to make up the proposed gift in doable
measure to the suffering among them.?
5leanwbile, let the 12th Mississippi be held
iu the most honorable remembrance !
The "Cut Wobm."~*I have been informed
that a farmer in a neighboring State
concluded to try the experiment'of soaking
the seed corn, which he intended to plant
in low grounds, iu a solution of the berry of
the China tree, in order to prevent the
lavages of the out worm, and found tnat the
remedy succeeded admirably.
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[ Yankee Recruiting in Ireland.
A friend has put in oar hands,-?ays the
Richmond Examiner, a recent copy of the |
Cork Reporter, which contains a letter from i
John Teeling, of this city, and Capt. R. G. i
Atkins of the Confederate army, (formerly of !
Wheat's Louisiana battallion,) addressed to i
thaRfc. Re?. D" Mori arty, Bishop of Ker? ]
ry Killarnay. Theletter of the first named i
party introduces Capt. Atkins, who visits j
Ireland on farloagh. He indites a long !
Tetter to the Bishop to engage his inflaence ]
r\ AnlidlmAnf TviaL n%An
bV UlOUUUia^O VUG GUIIOIUIGUV VI J.1IOUUJGU
in the Yankee army. His appeal, what- i
ever it may effeot with the powerful dignitary,
will, at least, with the help of print, 1
not be lost-upon the quick perceptions of
his countrymen. We take the following 1
passage from the letter:
. Is it not sad, my .Lord, to witness the
flower of our peasantry, at this moment in
America, imbruing their hands in eaoh
other's blood ? Why does the Irishman, !
who craves for liberty at home, and who
complains of mis-government here, support, i
at the risk of bisjife, the most degraded
despotism the word has yet seen ? and why '
does he (becoming forsooth fascinated with <
the flowery rhetbrio and persuasive powers !
^of Mr. Ward Beecher, et hoc genus omne) ]
enrol himself under the "abolition banners" 1
of Abraham Iiinooln, and congratulate himself
that he is on a orusade^ to grant an uq- I
solioted freedom to three millions of "Africans,"
who are better clothed, better lodged, 1
and beyond all, better fed than he is hijn- <
self ? I shall answer these questions brief- <
ly. No feeling of animosity against a peo- <
gle "gallantly struggling for liberty" influences
the mind of the Irish pdasant, when
he sails to America; no sympathy with des- <
potism actuates him to'enlist iu the North- '
em army ; no hatred of the institution of slavery
prompta him to join the fanatical legions
of the invader, and makes it the j
greatest objeot of his life to carry fire and
sword, lust and rapine into every Southern ]
home. 4 .
What reasons, then, aotuate him to fight .
for a despotism whioh his soul abhors ? His
own adventurous spirit?the distressed condition
of his native land, and then, by far
the greatest inducement?the 'enormouB
bounty paid by the Yankee Government (
for fighting material. What spirited young ^
fellow, who, perhaps, never saw a five pound
note in his life, can stand the golden bait .
of seven hundred and seventy-seven dol- '
lars ? > As seven was a favorite number in 5
Holy Writ, it is to be inferred that the 1
legitimate descendants of the Canting Pari- '
tans of England regard that number with '
a sort of religious reverenoe. The cotton, !
tobacco and cornfields of the Southeast in- 1
deed, be a much coveted prize to the consistent
worshippers of the "almighty dollar" '
when seven hundred and seventy-seven .
"shinplasters" are to be the reward of tbe
Irishman who "undertakes" to "serve an
ejectment." Why does,not the Red Re
publican of New. England, abandoning the
shelter of his counting-house or factory,
lead bravely to the field of carnage these i
hordes of Irish, Dutch, Germans and free J
niggers whom he so persistently treats to
the sound of that music which has no har- ]
mony for him?that is the whistle of South- ]
ern ballets ? ,
Impressments. . j
Tho paramount and self-defensive power
of Government which exhibits itself in im- j
pressments?which is our soheme of teder- j
nfinn helnncro nrnnerfv to the'States several- .
" O- r*T J T- ? I
1y, but haa been delegated under conditions (
to the common agency and representative
of the States?may be conveniently oonsid- ,
ered under three divisions: *
1. The impressment of military service ,
(conscription.) " ,
2. The impressment of labor. "" ? (
3; Impressment of provisions or other |
property. ,
The power is one of great difficulty and (
delicacy in its exeroise in any form and an- |
der any circumstances, and requires more (
discretion, calmness and moderation than j
have been generally exhibited by Amerioan j
legislators and Governors and Congressmen (
and Executive Agents. Gross abuses have G
been committed within the last year under
all branches of impressment, and it'becomes j.
all good oitizens, without recrimination or t
factions opposition or partizan prejudice,
t.n PAnnr to thfi law and to irreat eroverniner
-w? " * o~ o (j
principles, and to prepare themselves by
proper information to hold all enrolling or
impressing offioers and others olaiming or 0
using or abusing any of the .supposed pre- t
rogatives and seizing powers of Caesar, to
a strict accountability at the right time. D
This is election year with as in oar State j
Administration. It is not too soon for eleo- B
tors to begin to look aroand for tho right 0
men, and to seleot men not beoause the ^
men seek ov desire an office?and perhaps f
an exempting office?but beoause jhe_flleo-. 8
tors need good and true meni h
. Charleston Courier. 0
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The Statesville Railroad.?We are 1
informed that the President and Direotora a
of this Road have generously agreed to let $1
the Government have a portion of their *
iron in order to finish the road from Greens-, p
boro' to Danville. The cars will continue I
to run from here to Centre Station. o
We commend the patriotism of the man- a
agers of the road in sacrificing so largely
their owe interests for the benefit of the
Government. The completion of the Dan- i
vilho Road, it is said, will shorten the ronte 8
to Richmond,'about 110 miles.
Charlotte Bulletin. tl
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t&~ Daring his late fight near Okalona, h
Forrest was approached by several ladies, v
wringing their hands and imploring him to tl
*-.11 *U-n ?kilt In An "Vnrraat- 9(11-7010(1 R
toil tUOUl TTliab iu UUi Jk* w*?ww WW* * vj.vw ?
his line of battle, then looked towards the- v
Yankee line, rapidly advancing about fbur i
habdred yards distant: then quietly re- 1
marked t*> his fair interrogators : "When fi
the bullets begin to whistle, jump in the '
stamps, wave ^onr bonnets and shont hur- 8
raft Sqys /" * 4 " ' t
Sugar from Chinese Sugar Cane.
It has been generally supposed thatsu-'
gar oouldnot be made from the Chinese
sugar oane. We are happy to be able to
state that this impression is erroneous.?
Mr. M. L. Green of "Port Valley, Houston
oounty, ?has made one hundred and fifty
pounds of sugar from the Chinese oane during
the past season.\ A sample of Che sugar
may be seen at this office. Mr. Green
haslindly farnishedjp with an aooountof
bis simple proceed, which is sa follows: The
juice is boiled in the same way as
for syrup'. Continue the boiling after it
has arriVed at that point, but very slowly?
The heat must be steady. Bubblies will
Ua HMAM illA MA afa AA **!%? a!% 1M tftil A?
I/O lUiUJOU UJ/VU l?UO DU1&OVO| WUiUUlU NU VI
fifteen minutte, will burst; when that ocours,
take off the -syrup pat it in cooling
vessels, either troughs or kettles, ft mast
remain undisturbed for two days. Then
pat into drippers, and process is complete.
It is not neoessary to use any foreign ingredient,
either lime or jsoda. The sugar made
by Mr, Green.is an excellent artiole.
This process is a discovery of great
value. Families and the army can now be'
ohCaply supplied with this necessary artiole.
Let 4 quantity of cane sufficient for this
purpose be planted by both large and small
farmers.
Mr."Green states that there are two material
points in his method of making sngar.
The oane must be perfectly ripg,- the stalks
laving began to change their color. The
)ther, that the syrup most be undisturbed
inriog the odoling^rocesa?Southern Remoter.
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Affecting Scene.
A most affecting seene was witnessed at
Spartanburg a few days ago. Rev. W. 0.
KLirkland, a member of the S. 0. Conference
?a man lovely in ohartoter and beloved
frherever he was kho*i\?-died on the
Greenville oirouit, after a short illness, of
pneumonia. His Presiding Rider, Rev.
EV. H. Fleming, who was with him when
le died, took charge of his remains, and
Drought them on to Spartanburg for internet.
About the same time Mrs. Durant, (the
renerablo. mdtber of Rev. H. H. Durant,
leoeased, a member of the same Conference,
vho died from disease oontraoted while
serving the army as chaplain, and whose
nemory wifi' ever be oherished by the
Methodists of Sonth Carolina) also died,
indboth Mrs. Darant and Mr. Kirkland
were fnneralized at the same time and
place. There were two hearses at the church
ioors, and two silent sleepers in the ohan:el;
and a large congregation of sympathis
iog friends listened with solemn attention
boa discourse by Rev. Dir. Whiteford Smith,
pronoaooed with his usual eloquenpe. The
eWorld is still full of trouble and of sin?
but the good, alas ! are passingaway.
The Black Flag?Food Question
[a a recent speeoh at Lexington, Virginia,
Judge Brookenbrough said:
Make no prisoners when you meet the
Dahlgrebs, the' Kilpatrioks, the Averills,
with their gangs of freebooters and thieves.
I am convinced that such a polioy is the
most humane in the end. It will sacrifice
many worthless lives, but it will save many
ralunble ones. It is the only effectual way
>f teaching our enemy that he cannot violate
the laws of war with impunity.
Gentlemen, farmers of Rockbridge, there
s only one danger of a disastrous termina;ion
of this grandest drama ever enacted on
;he theatre of human affairs. I'his drain
created by the presence within our State ofgreat
standing armies npou all the fruits of.
the earth, vegetable and animal, is enormous.
The army must be subsisted, but
Qon-produoers and non combatants at home
must not starve. Bat with wisdom on the
Government, in equalizing tbe drain upon
;he resources of the country, and a wise,
rigid and necessary economy in the nse of
jvecy article of subsistence for man and
>cast on your part, I am convinced that
here is food enough in the country to satisfy
the absolute wants of our population.?
jetavery ~man among you resolve to dediiste
unflagging energies to the prodaotion
>f food. Let him make two blades of grass
;row where bat one grew before, and he will
>e worth more to bis country than the whole
ribe of politicians put together Let Paul
ilant and Apollos water, and God, even our
wn God, will give us tbe inorease.
Army AMuSements.?A correspondent
f the Mobile Advertiser has reoently been
o Johnston's army. He writes back:
The enemy having prudently retired upon
ay approaoh, I continued to advance steadly
inpursuit. Passed several regiments of
oldiers going on the same pilgrimage. Ope
>f them yelled, "kum onter that biledaburt
ou Quottermaater'solurk, you I" Respectally
declined the invitation, and was deriively
apostrophized in the name of Long
lome. "Hey 011,11011811011]*J" Thereup
I assumed an expression of court-martial
d gazed sternly upon the interlocutors.?
?his provoked a laugh, the laugh set fire to
ahont, and broke out into a yell two or
hreeregiments in length. "He's chawed,"
uggested one creature with no seat to bin
antaloous?he's chawed?his fece's red." 1
f a modest man could run such a gauntlet <
f merciless orfticism without a red face, he <
lust be a man of muscle*or of brass. 'I
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The Sjjnken Ironclads went Down !
0 Stay.?A Yankee paper published in <
ioath Carolina, says:
"Nothing has been done towards raising
be ill-fated iron clad WeehawkSn, aqd it
1 doubtful if any measures will ever be taen
to rescue her from the shifting sands in '
rhich she lies imbedded, thirty feet below 1
be water's surface. The task of removing
nob an enormous weight at so great disad** 1
antages is one which neither lioverftment
tor the contractors will willingly updertake.
?be varying onrrents where she sank have
ized her there immovably. The Eeokok,
rhioh went down on the morning of the i
1th of April, 1863, will alsopwbably never '
>e brought up. '
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I What if Grant should Fa1l7?The
New York Herald says, editorially:
If Grant, who hw.neyer-fwJeiin the past,
should fail in the future, it will hebeeaase
there is treachery in Washington: .will be
because in that spirit of ^partisan fary
that forgets all else but its objeotj the. Washington
men have determined to employ all
their pdwer to ruin another man who ctaods
high with the people. At thishoor theen- .
.ergy and ingenuity of the adherents of the
President are intensely oonmntiatod on the
game for the next presidency* No. scheme
that can make capitajfor thesis forgotten.
Wires are polled in tegislatiffe'''halls, in cue
county conventions. Nooneoan fail to see
how-'- indefinitely more- advantageopi- and
.grand is that field npogf*hioh a'successful
soldier like Grant may work for the_ Pnfc>
denoy in the campaigns of this summer; #?
and the public may well believe "that, affile
the politicians work in their.mole-4Ike way
at the North, they will, pot fail to damage
to the extent of their power the cftaqoes. of
the man who has this nobler field. /But let
them take car^. If Grant fails ^through
their treachery, it will not oonduce to the
success of Lincoln. It will ia&ate a Northern
civil war.. It gjjJI, perhaps, destroy ,
the publio confidence in (taut; and the
people thus cast loose from another faith,
confusion and anarohy of the.Worst description
must ensue; or if publio order is still
kept, the hop* of the people will once mate
fall upon General jftoClellap/and 4 grand
tide of popular, enthtttiasm will c^fjhthat. *
hero to the Presidency, . ,
?mii j. *
Mosfiy BATHjto.Otrwirfd^--A vfow
days ago the gallant Mosby, being op a
scouting expedition, captured ai Yankee
picket post with four men; aDd on his return,
halted at a private-bouse, fwaomepnrpose,
leaving the four prisoners, as well as
bis horse* and pistols, in charge of. 1 guard
of one of his men. While the party were
in the bouse, one of the Yankees seked.th
opportunity, mounted the Colonel's hotv.
fired at the guard without hitting him, and
dashed, off beyond $he reach of his captors.
The enemy bad better be on the lookou'
for Mosby will be more tbfoeven with them.
Que of -the late Yankee papers notices
this small affair, and devotes as amah apace
to it as Gen. Lee would to an offiohd report
of a pitched battle.?Richmond Whig} 6th.
A New Value oVSoBGHuk.^hoinestimable
value of thia production, is only1 '
begiuning to be appreciated by our people.
It may Dot be generally known that the grain
or seed constitute an excellent Ind.prolifio
breadstuff. A correspondent 'writing to ns
on the subject, frontrifetabnrg, 'BtyrV f'l #
had fifty bushe|s of the seed which I raised
last year, and a short time ago I took six
bushels to the mill and got it ground into
flour, and have been using it ffimy family
for bread for several ddjs. It makes-reaily
good loaf bread andlight rolls, but still better
batter bread; in thai way it can't be
beat, if baked in the ordinary way of baking
buckwheat Akhs. BBudes it mikes
.fine chop for horses. Mineistihe red seed."
Lynchbvrg, Virginian.
Remarkable.?No one doubts, *ays the
Richmond Whig, that we live under the
best, the most impartial, the most incorruptible
Government fn the world, were it otherwise
there would be no matter o?ljurpri?r
in the fact that we are going to'medtiod ?
As it ifl.it strikes, us as one of the motgremarkable
accidents in the world that not a
rioh man in this city has been' pat lnto-the
army. We say pat advisedly. men
of Richmond, young and middle aged, have
entered the military service vordfitarily, of
ifbom some have died gloriously and others
stiil remain to.fight their country's battles;
bat none of those, opulent citizen^ whose
patriotism induced them to purchase tab- atitutes,
have, since the repeal of the substitute
law, been put in.' They have all been
found absolutely indispensableid^itn&^ions
known to the army as 'sbft places.' It is
very remarkable."
An Intebbsting Exhibit.?We hope .
that some member of Congress early
in the next session, call for Basensasjjf the
number of officers', clerks and1 attaches in" the
employment of the Confederate Government
in Richmond, and at the-various
posts throughout the country. The infer.
>11 # . ' 11 ii*5l : 1
mation wm iorm a vaiaawe msconc reoora.
It will'show the extent of tlie wastefal expenditure
as veil as odrffioriptr'evasion) resulting
from the multiplicity of offices and
subdivision of duties in the various depart
meats and bureaux. The returns 'should
exhibit the age, sex, nativity, pay and'perquisftes
of the various employees, and whe:
received should be appropriately classified
and published in pamphlet form, for the information
of the present and edification of
fntur&generations. Bet us baVe the record
by all means.?Richmond Whig.
The Tax on the $100 Notes.?The
following copy of a telegram is deemed of
general interest to the public:
Treasury-Department/C. S. A.,
Richmond, April 7,1804
The tax of tea p$r cent, per mouth on
the $100 notes commences on the second
day of May, 1864, and is'to be rated upon
the face value. Portions of the month are not
to be charged;- Ton will, therefore,
deduct $10 per month additional from each
$100 note presented on or after the seoond
day of May, and of each, succeeding month. .
C. G. MEMMINGER,
Seoretary of. the Treasury.
JOT" There is s German family in Galena,
who in daily conversation use the English
language. But the mother teaches her
children the same German prayers she used
to repeat in her childhood, away back on
the river 'Rhine. Ooe night, as little Ei y
cel t, a precious chap vof some. four summers,
was quietly going thrdbgh his,even- -J
ine devotions; suddenly electriSed-Am* , -
astonished his mother by exclaitriiug t <?$fa, H|
why do wo alway* ulkr Ttnkfcfe *nd pr*y ^
Strata I la God ? Patofcmta 7" i
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