The Greensborough patriot [June 19, 1862]

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VOL. XXIV. GREENSBOROTJGH, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 19. 1862.
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NO. 1,203.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY
Wl S. SHERWOOD,
ITOR A\» FROPKIETOR.
.OO A YEAB IN ADVANCE
Does the history of the Democratic par-1 as our fathers did, with our lives our fort*
1 tv move that it ought to be abandoned \— i nes and our sacred honor. ......
••By their fruits shall ye know them."— I But it is said that you must disband the
Sectional parties do not achieve Union tri- | Democratic party "to support the Govern-
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Important Political Document.
L'bo Baltimore Sun of the 9th instant,
We find the subjoined political ad-tbo
National Intelligencer, and
oi the current history
nobs l-'or sixty years from the inaugu- inent." \N e answer tbat tne .uemotr.mc
'ration of Jefferson on the 4th of March, ■ party has alwa> s supported the Govern.
: 1801 the Democratic party, with short in-! mem; and, while.t was in power preserved
tervu'la controlled the powar and the poli- the Government in all vigor and integrity,
federal Government. For e.ght not by force and arms, but by wisdom,
democratic man : sound policy and peace. But it never tlitl
led the country; for fifty foar years and admit, and never will, that this adminjstra^
i T*AB. ' eieht months the democratic policy pre- j tion, or any administration, is "the Govern-vailed
Durin" this period Louisiana, Flor-mcnt." It holds, and ever has held, that
ida Texa"Vew Mexico and California i the Federal Government is the agent of
were successively annexed to our territory, | the people of the several States composing
with an area more than twice as large the Union—that it consists ofthree distinct
thirteen" States together. I departments; tho legislative, the executive
•readmitted under strictly I and judicial—each equally a part of the
part
- in
-;. it as a
.
Democratic Members <■' ' ingress
/ mocracy oj " United Stales.
/: UowCitizi ns -.—The condition of our
try demands that wo should reason to-
Party organizations, restricted
within proper limits, is a positive good and
I , ential to the preservation of pub-lic
liberty , ,
Without it the best governments woulo
-encrate into tbe worst ol tyrannies.
■ urns tho chief use of the power is
r party opposition. In our
,- . the experience oi too last
iths proves, moro than any
. the i ecessity of party organ
ization. The present administration was j
n by s party, and in all civil acts and ,
appointments has recognised,and still does, j
ii4 fealty and obligations to that party.—
ro must and will bean oppositicn. The
jiubJii ' \ and good demand it Shall it
now organization or an old one? The
itic party was founded more than
sixty yearsago. It baa never been disban-ded.
To day it numbers one million five
Ired thousand electors in the States still
L'nion. Its recent numerous
in municipal elections in the Wes-tern
and Middle Slates prove its vitality.—
.. lasl ten months it hashed State
ention and nominated full democratic
ts in every State in the Union. Of no
a ty opposed to the Republicans can
tine be said
HIE DEMOCRAT! PARTS' IE NOW IMS-all
the origins
£iif lit States weiu
democratic administrations—one under the Government and equally entitled „
administration of Filimoro. From five , confidence and support of the States and
millions the population increased to thirty-1 the people ; ar d that it is the duty of every
one millions. The revolutionary debt was ; patriot to BQStain the several departments
extinguished. Two foreign wars were sue-: of tho Government in tho exercise
ecssfdtly prosecuted with a moderate outlay . the Constitutional powers of each
and a small army and navy, and without , may be necessary and proper
the suspension ol the habeas corpus ; with- preservation of the Government in its pun-out
the infraction of the constitution ; with . ciplea and in its vigor and integrity, ana
oat one usurpation of power ; without sup- j to stand by and defend to the utmost tne
pressing a single newspaper; without im- flag which represents the Government,
prisoning a single editor: without limit to ] the Union and country.
the freedom of the press, or of speech,
of al
which
for the
In this sense tho Democratic party has
>. Congrccs.'but in tho midst of the I always sustained, will now sustain the
grossest abuse of both ; and without tho i Government against all foes, at home or
arrest of a single "traitor," though tho j abroad in,«ho North or the South, open or
Hartford Convention sat during one of tho j concealed in olLce or out ofoffice, in peaco
wars, and in the other Senators invited the ! or in war.
encmv to "greet our volunteers with If- this is what tho Republican party
I bloody hands and welcome them to hospi- ! mean by supporting the government, it is
Uble graves" a" idle thing to abandon tho old and tried
Donne all this time wealth increased,' democratic party, which for so many years
l.nHiness°ofall kinds multiplied, prosperity ! and through so many trials, supported,
smiled on every Bide, taxes wore low, wa- preserved aad maintained the government
ges were high, tho .North and the Sooth of the Union. But if their real purpose be
furnished a market for each others pro- ' to aid the ancient enemies of domocra-ducts
at good prices; public liberty was cy in subverting our ancient consli-secure,
pruaterights undisturbed; every totion and form of government, and
man's bouse was his castle; the courts, under pretence of saving the Union, to
were open to all; no passports for travel, erect a strong centralized despotism on
no secret police, no spies, no informers, no ' its rums the democratic party will rests.
bastiles : the right to assemble peaceably; them as the worst enemy to tho constitution
the right to petition, freedom of religion, and the Union, and to free government
freedom of speech, a free ballot, and a free everywhere.
press and all this time the Constitution We do not propose to consider now the
I \ MlKI)
ould it'.
wrong? Why
maintained and the Union of the States
preserved.
Such were the choice fruits of the dem
causes which led to this unhappy civil war
A titter time will come hereafter for such
discussion. But we remind you now that
Are its ancient pnnci-are
they 1 Let its
■ ir thirl y j "ars speak :
-/,. / That the American Democra-cy
plac their trust in the intelligence, the
ID, and tho discriminating justice
o Amci:' an i i oplo.
« i j, ., iv ■ regard this as a dietinctive fea-ture
in our political creed, which we are
itain before tho world, as the
r i! element in a form of povern-ment
springing from and upheld by the
. and we contrast it With the
i practice of Federalism, under
ne or form which seeks opalsy
..ill of the constituents, an I which con-ire
too monstrous for tho
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• ! Federal government in one of
lim b wer, derived solely from the con-ihe
grants of power made
ther i lit to be strictly conBtrued by all
.. id agents of the govern-
. and that it is expedient and danger-ous
Li ie doi littill constitutional pow-
■ i - '
A i ' :anat.ory of these tho foliow-i
Mr Jefferson's inaugural:
rt of the State governments
ghtsas tho most complete ad-ition
of our domestic concerns and
urest bulwarks against anti-republican
i
■i rvat on ot general govcrn-whole
constitutional vigor, as.
anchor oi our peace a', homo and
. abroad.
••-\ alous care of the right of election by
the people.
• I he supremacy of tho civil over the
ii v authority .
Economy in iiio public expense, that
may be lightly burdened.
•1,1 honest payment of our debts and
II nt the public fr-ith.
•I dom id religion, freedom of the
- and frocdom ol persons under protec-tion
i-t tl c rptu, and trial by juries
led e.l
Sue crats, aro the principles of
your party, essei tial to public liberty and
I ie stability and wise administration of
i\ eminent, alike in peace and war.—
ihepri ciples upon which thecon-
:: and the I uion wore foun Jed; and,
Irol ofa party wbioh adheres
constitution would be
ned and the Union could iut hodis-
• »licy of the demrcratic party
it should bo disbanded ?
- stent with its principles
ime 1 up, from the begining,
support of liberty as against ;
r; -it tho people as against their j
its; and of State 'ights as
tion and central zed des-government,
no public
« taxes; no high protective tariff;
-> m ol uternal improvements
•ity: no national bank;
j for the b ederal public dues; no
• . expansion of'ter-m
"it for tbe Territories,
j to the c institution; ho abso-j
of the Union of .he States,
part free;" the admission
lh orwithont s.avery, us
• ; non-interference by the
i<>ut n ith F)la\ erj in State
: i he District oi Columbia;
th in the Cincinnati
ls55,and re-affirtaed in I860,
■' • ■; pudial fall uec-o.
me i >i eerning do-
;. which seeks to embroil tho
■i: ai noed i esis-
Perritorics, and whose
, sos, if consummated, must
. and disunion."
Soeh was the ancient and the recent poli-mocratic
party running through
a perio I of sixty years—a policy consistent
win. the principles of the constitution, and
absolutely essential to the preservation of
tne Union.
ocratic principles and policy, carried out compromise fifteen months ago would have
through the wholo ncriod during which saved it. Repeated efforts were made at
the Democratic party held the power and ! the last session of the Tnirty sixth Congress
administered the Federal Government.— gre
Such has been the history of that party. It of the South, with the whole den
is a Union parly, lor it preserved the In- nartyofthe North and West un
to this end. At every stage llio great mass
democratic
led in
ion with wisdom, peaco and compromise favor ofcertain amendments to the coneti-for
mure than half a century. union—and chief among them was tbe well
Then neither tho ancient principles, tho known "Crittendcn propositions," which
policy, nor the pest history of the Demo- would have averted civil war and maintuin-cratic
party require nor would justify Ks ed the Union. At every stage all proposed
disbandonmeni. amendments inconsistent with sectional
Is there anything in the present crisis doctrines of the Cnicago platform were
which demands it? The more immediate strenuously and unanimously resisted and
igsue is, to maintain the Constitution as it defeated by the republican party. The
is, and to restore the Union as it was. '•Crittendcn propositions" never received a
To maintain tho Constitution is to res- single republican vote in either House. For
pect the rights of the States and the liber- the proof we appeal to tho journals of
ties Ot the citizen. It is to adiiere faith- Congress and to the Congressional Globe,
fully to the very principles and policy We scorn to reply to the charge that the
which the democratic parly has professed i Democratic party is opposed to granting
for more than half a century Let its his-tory,
and the results, from the beginning
prove whether it has practiced them. Wo
appeal proudly to the record.
The first step towards a restoration of
•he l'nion as it was is to maintain the con-stitution
as it is. So long as it was main-tained
in fact, and not threatened with in-fraction
in spirit and in letter, actual or
imminent, tho Union was unbroken.
To restore the Union, it is essential first
to give assurances to every Stato and to
the people ot every section that their rights
and liberties and property will bo secure
within the Union under the constitution.
What assurance so doubly suro to the re-storation
to power ofthat ancient organ-ized
consolidated democratic party which
for sixty years did seen e the property,
rights and liberties of the States and of tho
people; and thus did maintain tbo consti-tution
and preserve the Union, and with
them the multiplied blessings which dis-tinguished
us above all other nations?
To restore tiie Union is to crush ntu sec-tionalism
North and South. To begin the
great work of rot-loraliou through ii.o bal-lot
box is to kill abolition. Tho bitter wa-ters
of Secession liowed first and are fed
still from tho unclean fountain of aboli-tionism.
That fountain must be dried up.
aid and support to tho Federal Govern-ment
in maintaining its safety, integrity,
and constitutional supremacy, and in tavor
of disbanding our armies and succumbing
to tbe South. Tho charge is libelous and
false. No man has advocated any such
proposition. Democrats recognize it as
their duty as patriots to supporc the gov-ernment
in all constitutional, necessary and
proper efforts to maintain its safety, integ-rity,
and constitutional authority; but at
tho same time they are inflexibly opposed
to waging war against any of the States or
people oi this Union in any spirit of op-pression.
Or for tho purpose ot conquest
or subjugation, or of overthrowing O'- iu
terfering with the rights or established
institutions of any State. Above all the
democratic party will not support the
administration in anything which looks or
tends to the loss of our political or personal
rights and liberties, or a change of our
presentdemocratical form of Government.
But no democrats, it is not the support
of the government in restoring the Union
which the party in power requires of you.
You are asked to give up your principles,
pour policy an I your party, and stand by
the administration of tho party in power,
in all its acts. Above all, it is demanded
of you that you yield at least a silent sup-like
policy pursued H the threatened war ' his four years,and graduated with the claaa ' pimps and operators in money who seek to
with France, in tbe time of John Adams, of 1846, tbe same in which McClellan grad- depreciate ibe currency of the government
and with the same u.tiniuto purpose. Bat uated. These people worship at the shrine of the
in two or three years tbe people forced j The young graduate was ordered off golden calf. The success of o«r straggle
them into an honorable peace with France, immediate y, with tbe rank of Second may depend upon the confidence of the
rebuked tho excesses and abases of power, i Lieutenant, to join General Taylor's army people in the currency provided by the
vindicated the constitution, and turned in the Valley ot the Rio Grande. Mo ar- government; yet if they can gaiu anything
over tho Federal governmontus the prin-1 rived alter the hatties of Palo Alto, Kesaca by destroying that oonhdenct, they do not
ciples and policy ol the Democratic party, de ii Palma, and Monterey, and before that hesitate to do it They are as ready to
To the#'sober second thought of the people,' o/Buena Yista was ordered to join Generai speculate on faith of the people and the
therefore, and to the ballot box, we now ap-' Scott before Yera Cruz. At the siege of patroism of the country, as an honest man
peal, when agaiu in like peril with Our i this.latter place he commanded a battery, ! would be upon the products of the land,
fathers. . aod attracted attention by his coolness and Place the success ot our caase in on* si ale,
But if every democrat concurred in the tho judgeu em wi.h which be worked his and greedand gain in the other, and they
policy .of pros.cuting the war to the guns, and was promoted First Lieutenant, j would not be long in deciding which t bey
utter subjugation of tbe South and the For bis conduct at Cerro Qordo, he was would take.
subversion of her Sta- Governments with ! breveUed Captain. He was in all Scott's Tho man who tears up h.railway track is
her institutions, withe u a convention of the : battles to the city of Mexico, and behaved , no greater enemy to the public than the
States, and without an overtuie for peace, I so well that he was brevetted Major for bis ] one who destroys the oil by which tho
wo should just as resolutely resist the dis-' services. Un one occasion he commanded ' machinery is lubricatod and without which
bandingof tho democratic party. It is tho ;ft battery upon which the fire of tho enemy it cannot bo operated. So, too, the man
only party capable of carrying on a war; was so severe that half of bis troops, who who destroys the confidence of public in
it is the only party which has ever conduc- wore raw, incontinually ran. Jackson was the currency of the government is as much
tod a war to a successful issue, and the advised to retreat, but ho said if be could | an enemy as tho spy who carries inteili-only
party which has done it without abuse i get a reinforcement of fifty regulars, he ; gence to the adversary.
of power, without molestation to the rights i would- take tho enemy's oattery opposed to Such aro the enemies to the Confederate
of any class of citizens, with due regard to him, instead ot abandoning his own. Ho j cause. Let them be watcbod everywhere.
sont for tho named reiuforcoments, hut j They are the aiders and abettors of the
before it came ho had already stormed the ! North, and should be so regarded and trea-obnoxious
battery. j ted.—Memphis Appeal.
Jackson's health was so much shattered
by this campaign that ho was compelled to
resign, lie accepted a professorship at the
Military Institute, where he continued un-til
the secession of Virginia. In height, bo is
about six feet with a weight about one hun-dred
and eighty. He is quite as remarkablo
for his moralaas he has proved himself to bo
for his fighting qualities—being a perfectly
conscientious man, just in all his ways, and
irreproachable in his dealings with his fel- j devoted to the support of the
low men. it is said he is a fatalist, as Na> | Voluflteers in the war, tightinf
polcon was, and has no fear that he can be
killed before his time comes. Ho is as
calm in tbe midst of a hurricane of bullets
as he was in the pew of his church at Lex-ington,
when ho was professor of the In-stitute.
Ho appears to be a man of almost
superhuman endurance. Noither heat nor
cold mak.s the slightest impression npon
him. He cares nothing for good quarters
and dainty faro. Wrapped in his blanket,
ho throws himself down on tho ground any-where,
and sleeps as soundly is though be !
were in a palace
C»l. C. T. H. Darts.
ww
rJS^gy*** thntCol. Champ
uavis, of Knihcrford, was killed
y
economy. All this has it done; all this, if
if need bo, it is able t" do again. If suc-cess,
then, in a military point of view, be
required, the democratic party alone can
command it.
Toconcludo: Inviting all men, without
distinction of the State, section, or party,
who are for the Constitution as it is, and tho
Utiion as it was, to unite with us in this
great work upon terras of equality, we in-sist
that—
Tbe restoration of Union, whether
through peace or by war, demands the
continued organization and success of the
Democratic party ;
That tho preservation of tho Constitution
demands it;
Thomaintainance ef liberty and free
democratical governmonl demands it;
The restoration of a sound system of
internal policy demaolfl it;
Economy and honesty in the public
expenditures, now attau rate of four mil-lions
of dedlars a day, demand it;
The rapid accumulation of an enormous
and public debt already ono thousand mil-lions
of dollars, and ec'ial, at the present
rate, in throe years, to England's debt of a
century and hall in growth ;
The heavy taxation,direct and indirect,
State and Federal already more than two
From the Fsyetteville Obuerver.
County Affairs.
The County Couit of Cumberland is in
session this week. A friend has kindly
furnished us with the annexed statement of
the Taxes laid, ltwillbe seon that the
taxes are very heavy, but it will also be
seen that nearly two thirds of the amount is
families of
g the battles
of those who can remain at home. It is not
necessary therefore, to say that the taxes
will be cheerfullj- paid :
The Committeo of Finance recommend to
the Court to lay the Tax for tho County in
the following manner, and iu the same rela-tive
proportions as the Tax imposed on the
same articles for Siato purposes, as required
by Act of Assembly :
On $1,055,047 valuation of Real Estate,
50 cents on the $100. $n,775 -^
On $1,826,880 valuation ol Slaves, 60
cents on the $100.
Ho lives as tho soldiers i Oe $795,800, Debt due, and Cash on
hundred millions of dollars a year, eating
out the substance ofthe people augmenting j personal scrutiny. Ho can
every year demands i , | caught napping nor whipped
Jieduced wages, low prices, depression
of trade, decay of busim ss, scarcity of
work, and impending ruin oil every side,
demand it.
And finally, tho restoration of tho con
cord, good feeling an ] prosperity of former
years, demand that tbe democrats party
shall be maintained and made victorious.
W. A. RICHARDSON, of Illinois,
A. L. KNAPP, of Illinois,
J. C. iioniNSON, of Illinois,
JOHN LAW, of Indiana,
D. W. VOOKUEKS. of Indiana,
W. ALLEN, of Ohio,
C. A. WIIITT, of Ohio,
WATTF.N P. .NOBLE, of Ohio,
<ito. H. PEMBERTON, of Ohio,
JAMES B. MORUAN, of Ohio,
C. L. VALLANIHGIIAM, of Ohio,
PHILLIP JOHBSOK, of Ohio,
S. B. ANCONA, of Pennsylvania,
CEO. K. SUIEL, of Oregon.
NOTE.—The names of tho absent mem-bers
concurring in tho above will be
affixed to tho pamphlet edition of this
address.
live, and endures all the fatigue and all tho '
suffering that they endure. His vigilance
is something marvellous. He never seems
to sleep, and lots nothing pass without his
neither bo
when ho is
wide awake. Tho rapidity of his marches
is something portentous, lie is beard of by
the enemy at one point, and before they
can make up their minds to follow him ho
is off at another His men have little bag-gage,
and he moves, as nearly as he can,
without encumbrance. He keeps so constan-, offifa
hand, 50 rentson tho $100.
On $J3,">02 valuation Household Furni-ture,
50 cents on the S100.
On $407,450 Taluaiion ol Corporation
Stocks, 50 cents on the $100.
On 938,810 va'ution of Bonds, 50 cents
on the $100.
On $137,208 amount of Bank Dividends,
10 per cent.
On $40,2"'.i amount of Salaries and Pees,
'.'A percent.
On $16,600 valuation of Gold and Siiver
Watches, -i per cent.
On $'.V.'48 valuation of Plate and Jewel-ry,
2j per cent.
tly in motion that he never has a sick list
and no need of hospitals. In those habits, On $S" assessedion Studs and Jacks,
and in a will as determined as that of Ju- ! 250 per cent, oc the amount of State
iius Cssar, aro read the secret of his great i
success. His men adoro him, because he
ges, aj per cent.
On S7 Pianos, $3.75 each
, ; On $600 profits ou Note Shavers, ^o per requires them to do nothing which lie does cent
not do himself, because he constantly leads . Qn $11,750 amount of Collateral De-them
to victory, and because they see he is scents, 7J per cent.
a great soldier.
'.'.126 Stj
t,tn in
267 61
J,037 ■■>
104
13,720 80
1.006 '-•7
til 75
•J48 70
f,98 60
105 00
326 16
160 00
881 47
Hiehmond
in t|ie
... Tk.f «'«n«nona on SSaattburrddtay
mn law., Nv. yvvNiWx"o,nft, dE^spqa.t0ah l0 hi" f"i»K Ppw, „ ,*,
V\ ilmington Jonrnal of Tuesday last:
it t\ . SB _ •
ng nis reg.meot against tbo
enemv s batterr.es. ft, was left on I the
field He was wounded thre- umes before
holell lim conduct was gallant and jrlorious
beyond all praise."
"Ui* conduct was gallant and gk» IOIIS
beyond all praise." Let this be lnsc. it .1
upon the tomb. Wounded three time, *,
still led his regiment on, until he fe I
rise no moro.
Col. Davis was a
ty, Va.and
native of Halifax I *
us about 35 years of age Me
studiod the profession of tho law, and tvt-tled
in Burk County, in this State, whlre
he soon obtained a strong hold on the conti-denco
of the people. Ho represented the
Burke district for ono term in the State
Senate ; and, having Mubsequently removed
to the County of Rutherford, he was elected
to the Uouto of Commons of the Legisis-lure
from that County.
Soon after this State bad separated fron
tho old government, he volunteered as.a
private in a Rutherford company, and wlta
nade Captain. As Captain of company
ill tV
m
C, ICth regiment, he encountered
perils and privations of the campaign ia
Northwestern Virginia, during the j* *t
winter. On tho reorganisation of i» is
regiment he was elected Colonel, «n,i it
*»« while leading the regiment in he
battle near Richmond, that he lost HI
life. We knew him well. He was a noHe-hearted,
gallant gentleman, fiobasfaiyn
with bis face to the foe, in tbe full perform-ance
of his duty as a soldier and patriot.
The recollection of his numerous virtues
will long be fresh in the hearts of his coun-try
men and friends.—Standard.
Armies may break down tbe power of tho j port to their wholo policy, and to withhold
Confederate government in the South ; but I all scrutiny into their public conduct of
tho work of restoration can only bo carried j every kind, least you should "embarrass
on through political organization and the i the administration." You are thus asked
ballot box in the North and West. In this
great work we cordially invite tho co-ope-ration
ot all men of every party who are
opposed to tho fell spirit of abolition, and
who, in sincerity, desire the Constitution
as it is and the L'nion as it was. Let the
to renounce ono ofthe first principles and
tho chief security ot democratic govern-ment—
the right to hold the public servants
responsible to their masters, the people; to
render the representative accountable to
the constituent; the ancient and undoubted
dead past bury its dead- Rally lovers of; prerogative of Americans to canvass public
tho l'nion, tho Constitution, and of liberty.
to tlte standard of the democratic party,
already in tbo lield and confident of victo-ry.
That party is tbe natural and persist-ent
enemy of abolition. Upon this ques-tion
its record as a natural organisation,
however it may have been at times with
particular men, or in particular States, ii
is clear ami unquestionable. From the
beginning ol tho anti-slavery ag tation
to the period of .the last Democratic -Na-tional
Convention it has held but one lan-guage
in regard to it. Let the record
speak.
"Resolved, That the Congress has no
interfere
measures and public men. It is this "high
constitutional privilege" which Daniel
Webster declared he would "defend and
exercise within the House and out of tho
House, and iu all places, in time of war, in
time of peaee, and at all times!'' It is a
light secured by tho constitution—a right
inestimable to ti.o people, and formidable to
tyrants only.
It ever there was a lime when the exist-ence
and consolidation of the demoeratio
party upon .is principles and policy was a
vital necessity to public and private liber-ty,
it is now.
Unquestionably the constitution gives
ample power to the several departments of
the Government to carry on war, strictly
in case of
From the Richmond Dispatch.
Memoir of Uen. T. 3. Jackson.
A friend of this illustrious warrior whose
deeds are now resounding from one end of
the Confederate States to the other, has
enabled us to to give the following sketch
ot his life previously to his acceptance ofa
command in the Confederate army. Since
that time it has become a part of tbe history
of tho country.
He was born in Clarksburg, in the coun-ty
ol Lewis, in tho year 1825, of highly
respectable parents", both of whom died
during his infancy, leaving him without a
cent in tho world. During his early child-hood
ho resided with an uncle, whose narao
we did not hear, and at the age ol sixteen
ho had conducted himself so well, and pro-duced
such a favorable impression of his
energy and integrity that ho was chosen
constable of tho county. In tho year 1»42
a cadet bad been appointed from his dis-trict
to West Point, who declined to go.—
Jackson immediately conceived the idea of
tilling tho placebo had left vacant. Our
informant says, that one day, whilst it was
raining exceedingly hard, he burst sudden-ly
into bis office, the rain streaming from
bis clothes,and '.old him that he must give
him a loiter to Mr. Hayes, at that time
representative in Congress from the Lewis
dislrict.
Upon being asked what ho wanted with
such a letter, he replied, he wished to go to
West Point. His friend pointed out to him
« hat be regarded as tbeabsurbity of_sach
a
Enemies.
The Confederate States have four distinct
classes of enemies :
1. The government and people of the
United States aro our enemies. But thoy
are open enemies. They meet us upon the
field with aims in their hands, and make
war upon us. Thoy shoot down our soldiers,
burn our houses, they destroy our proper-ty,
and steal our negroes. We know where
to find, and how to deal with such an ene-my.
2. Tho second class of enemies aro the
croakers—tbe long-faced men . of faint
hearts and weak nerves, who/ go up and
down tho country, seeking to impart their
own despondency and cowaidice to all
with whom they come in contact. Every
thing goes wrong according to these Dismal
Jemmies. The government is weak and
negligent! our officers aro lacking in skill;
and the army is destitute of con rage. If
the government had done its doty, this or
that thing would not have happened. Iftho
ofliccrs had possessed a grain of foresight,
they could have held this or tha . position
against the enemy. Nothing is t ono right
On G47 white and free colored Polls, $2
each
On $60 receipts of Ferrien sad Toll
Bridges. 7$ per cent.
1,294 "»
8.70
The above amount
applied as follows :
For County use*.
Jury
Mutes,
Rail Road
Poor Tax,
$44,296 IT
|44£96 17, to be
$8,160 Oo
1,000 no
Vi 00
7,000 oo
4,000 00
$10,-.00 00
For the support of families
of volunteers in army. S-7,720 17
$44,220 '"
To tbe above is to bo added tbe State
Tax, about 819,000; and the Town TUN
(upon a portion of the abovo property, |
perhaps 812,000 moro.
OfR LINFS IN FRONT OF K[<IIMOM>.—Hav-ing
demonstrated our ability to drive the
Yankees from their entrenchments, our
troops occupy ground from which they can
watch and counteract the apprraches of the
foe. A view of tbe country around Rich-mond
is highly encouraging for defence.
Toe ground is broken by ravines and so
covered with foliage, that the position and
movement of troops is easily masked.
procured immediately, an army would be . ., , iseBM to have
improvised iu the twinkling of ar eye ; and
the enemy—McClellan, Buell, Halleck,
and all—would bo driven out of ;he coun-try
the first pleasant day that came. Na-poleon
would be sull tho "little corporal"
by the side of those wonderful warriors—
these mighty men of valor.
Weak'of purpose, faint of heart, and
cowardly in spirit, thoy would destroy the
confidence of everybody else, an i abandon
everything to tho Federals.
roper judges oi everything I civil war, with perfect security to citizens , country, the roads
io their own affairs not pro-lot the loyal Stoles. Every act necessary are muddy nowher
constitution ; that all efforts ; for the safety and efficiency ot tho govern- j of. Jackson arrtv.
power under the coni-titulic.i to
with or control the domestic institution of
the several States, and that such States are j subject to its provisions, and,
the sole and proper judges
appertaining io
hibiieu by the
ot the abolitionists and otlers made tt> in-duce
Congress to interfere with questions
Ot slavery, or to lake incipient steps in re-latiun
thereto, are calculated to lead to the
most alarming and dangerons consequen-ces,
and that all such efforts have an inevi-table
tendency to diminish ti|' happiness
of the people and endanger .no stability
and permanency of tbe Union, and ought
not to be countenanced by any friend of
ou
a scheme, seeing that ho was very deficient suggest to have petticoats put cpon these
in education, and would, therefore, proba- miserable creatures, and curls h mg about
bly not be able to stand the preliminary ' their craven foreheads, but for tbe insult
examination. He acknowledged tbe
leged deficiency, but said be was suro
had the perseverance to muke it up.
obtained tbe letter without further
al- I
be
Ho!
difficult
been ra'ther played out. A bravo man can
choose his own distance when guns become
equal and bayonets bring tho best and
worst armed troops on a pa:-.
With our right well protected from gun-boat
advances, and the linos well and vigj
lantly guarded, tbo Yankees will find their
advance beset with unexpected obstacle.-.—
The cambats of Saturday and Sunday so*.
.Vo'wouldii tained the confidence produced by the
these i repulse at Orewry's Bluff, and encourage
' the belief that the linos around Richm-md
will prove imprcgnablo to any foicc the
Yankees can bring ngainwt tl.em — Whuj.
,-, and that very evening borrowed a characters operate upo
horse, under promise to send him back by a the country. They are interested in tho
boy whom be eanied with him, and rode to | war, insomuch as it enables them to make
Clarksburg to take the stage. It had been I money. Beyond this, they care but little
raining lor weeks as it can only rain in that, who wins or win loses. They set no fixed
c roads were muddy as they I price apon what they have tost 11. lheir
reel-e lhatever vve heard j price is all thoy can get. The purchaser
ivedintime; but on ac may be a poor man, a needy woman, a
mentTandWacoinpieteand .Dost° vigor- ! count of the muddy road, tho Postmaster I f^^^nfjtv'h'd'f dle^t UtUe wUh
ons trial of its strength, is yet wholly con- ' bad famished the mail an hour before time brave fellow w...» had fallen in '"^V ^
sistent With the observance of every i and the slag- was already gone. W.U. his feet to the*«v*£.■«K^bashel
provision of that instrument, and of the characteristic fide :i:y to his promise, lack-, can grml out ofdicr fire^£"l"i™££
laws in pursuance of it, it the sole motives son sent the horse back ...stead oi riding fora.lt. he takes
ofthose in power were the suppression of him on in pursuit of toe stage, and took it
the "rebellion" aud no moro. And yet i on toot through the mud. Afteaarun ot
the history of tho administration for tho thirteen miles, he overtook the stage
we should thereby offer to our jravo wo-men.
3. The speculators and extort oners con-atitntp
the tbiid class of enemies. These . ■ n the necessities ot rous imprisonment she has beon sub,octed
W ashtngton
The Yankees at Corinth.
The papers at the North West and North,
among them the Chicagi Tribune aod tho
N.w York Journal of Commerce, complain
that their army beforoCorinth is"ab.olute-ly
meltit g away" from sickness, and 'bat
If o prostratiou of tbo troops is very ^ roat
from the intense heat of the weather uid
the malaria of the district where they Vtro
encamped, in tho neighborhood of the T .nn-essec.
It seems to bo the programme of
the Federal commandern'not to stuck Bean-regard
until their flotillas havo fore-da
pa8~:igo by Vicksburg and Fort Pillow thus
enabling them to flank him from tho Mis-sissippi,
or by a column moving from Mrm
phis, which they calculate must fall a i soon
as they have been enabled to effect a junc-tion
between the gunboat and mortar squa-drons
above and below. It is hardly,prob-able
that lieaurigard will await their
movements, at least such i* not belief od to
be his intention. Itightly or wrongly,
ticn. Level enjoys but little il any share
ofthe confidence of the people, in the Itotes
or on the lower Mississippi. Although
ranking <ien. Smith at Vicksbuig, l.e de-clinincd
interfering with tho arrange-ments
of tbaf officer for tho defense of
Yicksburg, or witb tho defense i;«oli', and
wa", when last hoard from, at Jackson,
Missississippi.
m m ^ -
COTTON SBED.—The Washington COffTCr
pondi-nt ofthe H. York Herald wr tes 04
the 1st ult:
Fifteen hundred bushels of cotton seed
from Newborn, V. C, arrived yes.erday,
consigned to the agricultural Bureau of
the Patent Office. Moro than a h indrod
women havo been employed by Mr .New ton
io pack the seed for distribution with all
possible dispatch, in order that the experi-ment
ol its culture in tho grain growing
region may be fairly made. The North
Carolina seod has "been selected as best
huod forth-1 soil and climate of the border
and Western States.
The Secretary of tho Interior sent a
communication to the House to elay, in
reference to tho disposal of tho appropria-tion
of three thousand dollars lor astHM
seed. Walter Collins, of Virginia, has
purchased lourieen hundred bushels for
I »ur hundred dollar*, in General Burnside's
department, which arrived bore on the
_"9th. D. C. Don. hue wa.- sent to Teaneesse
with 810O0, and purshnsed 300 bushelu,
which lias boon distributed in Illinois,
Indiana aud Ohio, through Stato agr eU|-
tural societies. Five huudrod dolla**
more havo been forwarded to enable him
to supply Iowa and Kan—S Nineteen
hundred have been paid for s-ed,:tnd
'no remainder is needed tor transporta! on,
fee, __^^___- _ r'
A Nf.w PHASE IS YANKEE Tacnc —A
WOMAN AITOINTKI. MAJOR—The Yankee
(iovernment of Illinois has paid a rather
unusual comp.imont to Mrs. Kiymldi,
wife of Lieut. Reynolds, of the Seventeenth
Illinois Regiment, conferring or iVr the
appointment of Major. The Peona (lll-non)
Transcript says: .
Mrs. Reynolds has accompar ic-1 ner
husband through tbe greater .part .f
ARRIVED.—Mrs. Croonhow, whose ■•
has been rendered historic by tho barba-
"and ; presented her with a commission a
ustory
vo moi
to be a history of repealed usurpations of
twelve months past has been and continues i jumped in went to Washington all muddy
" as he was, presented his letter to Mr. Hayes
union of despotism, can bo maintained in and benious tor tho calm uarrative which
this country; aud this last we will resist, we propose. Similar acts were done; and a
indomitable spirit overcame every obstacle
Ho was never marked for a demerit during
two
and reflected her own dauntless sol
Mrs. Greonhow is a Southern lady by birth
and was suspected by Seward of having a
contempt for the vulgarians who now I rd
for salt, he takes it; if ten dollar,, be ta^s ^^S^0^^Z^^
it: if a thousand dollars, suU he wood,a^e -^« "Jg,*" ghead of his braVe troops
it. As between him and a Lin o «.«,*. Scwd*.U!l probably right in this, bat.'
hare infinitely moro respect for ifeejattor. » P^t^liou only 0I *bat
The one .a an open enemy, and neets you ^ conBidered_. gon.
on tho field ; the other is a secret foe who . i t , ,d t hBV0 objected ber to
takes advannsge «3~*E~£J*\tt -«-;
ae. kstouunnddeerrm.n.innoo ttho cause by ccppprit.-rs.ensj,s..ngtK» w c«o.nncgrrr*attuullaaltoe hheerr aannd
tbe people and sapping tne inundation, of ^"P^/^ having £ ,„t g()t boyon
the rei
Whig.
our strei'glh.
4. The fourth and lastclass of the ene-mies
to the Confederate cause are those
compL
the reach of the loathsome creature.—Jticri.
Mu. SiMo.vrov—<>f t'-oio who
the bite battlo near Richmond, none
fell m
was
tne late oaitio ■■*.«. . 4u..i„m more worthy or gallant than % bsalom
K. S.monton, of U**?","^ J^S
w.-f«rmerlv a Captain in the 4th re,Mno.n 'I d :<•
.7 as a
edell
was formerly a Capta
State troops, but had been p
Major in the same regiment. He
member ofthe last Legislature ro^
county, where, in common withiW„ »i
crous friends in other parts of tbi Stato,
his death will be deeply lamonted.-V, .if... ft
Sandard. ^^____^—^M
liIce, aiticle, for sal*• bby
a f. GARRi.IT
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