Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1861-09-20
LATE SOUTHERN INTELLIGENCE.
From our Southern exchanges Of late dates
ne make the following selections:
MELANCHOLY AcclpENr-A SOLDIER SHOT.

we make the following selections:
MELANCHOLY AcclDENT-A SOLDIER SHOT.
We learn that the remains of a young man
named Lee, n soldier in Captain Cox's compa-
ny of Independent Blues, from Sampson
county. now Company II in tho 10th Reci
ment OF North Carolina Volunteers, stationed
ut Fort CaSWell, reached here today, to be
sent home for intermcnt.
1t would Seem that Mr.. Leo got shot and in.
stantly killed by n gun in the hands Of anoth,
er member OF the company, named Westbrook,
under circumstances somewhat as follows:-
Westbrook had just been on guard, but was
relieved, and had his gun still loaded, but had
removed the cap. Lee coming up, Westbrook
playfnlly halted. him, and, raising his gun
pulled the trigger, not of course expecting il
to go Oft without the cap, but it did 20 off, and
the ball entered Lees chest, killing him almost
instantly.
Some of the decorating powder must have
adhered to the tube over which the cap had
been ; and here We may add that we have
been requested to direct attention to the con-
stunt risk of swapping loaded weapons even after
removing the cap. We never saw any harm
done, but We Eave seen Il pistol 60 off in this
way, and we are told that accidents are likely
to occur at any time.
Tho circumstances are given as VIC got them
we suppose they are substantially correct
Wcstbrook was Immediately placed under ar
rest. Wilmington Journal.
ARRESTED.
The Macon Journaland Messenger says Mr.. U,
B. Harold, of the Americas, went to New York
recently for the purpose of bringing out hi
sisters. While examining his baggage al
Jersey City the cars left, but all was found
right At the starting Of the next train
charge was made against him of his having
been q Captain in tho Confederate Army nj
Manassas, (Which was u~ntrue) and he hurried
off to Fort Lafayette. 1t was thought tina
through influential friends he might soon b.
discharged.
IGHTING AT LONG RANGE.
Rife cannon has q range beyond the power:
OF ordinary human vision. a correspondent
suggests to US q simple process for sighting a
long range with the telescope. He propose!
that strips of tin, forming bands for the side!
OF n gun, may be coupled with n groove, of tr
also, which shall bind the gun. In this groove
you may rest the telescope and sight through
1t, removing the telescope when about to fire
Charleston Mercury.
CROPS IN LOWER ALABAMA.
A gentleman who has recently made q tout
through the lower counties Of Alabama, fount
the corn crop in every section to be- superior
and much more has been cultivated than for
merly. Cotton is much damaged by the re
cent rains which have fallen every da,
for more than a month past. There vii
not be half the cotton that was made las
year.
ANOTHER NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL.
a gentleman who is in u position to know
personally the truth of his statement, informs
Us that General Rains, now commanding ,
division of the Southern army in Missouri, is
native of North Carolina, having been born ir
Newburn some forty.elght or fifty years ago
Wilmington .journnL.
NOT WORTHY or IT.
1t is known, says the Charleston Mercury
that Commodore Barron refused to sur
render his sword to Butler, stating as 8
reason, that his command had not participa-
ted in the fight. The reasonableness Of this
position WAS allowed, and the surrender tool
place OH board the flag ship of the q~uadron.
The Fredericksburg Va) Recorder says
I'VE are in receipt Of extensive information
respecting the autumnal crops of this section
The corn crop is beyond the reach Of harm
and is said to be one Of the most productive
ever known. The tobacco is remarkable fine
and unless an EARL frost intervenes, the yielt
will be abundant and the quality unusually
rich.
\ friend, who has recently returned from 8
trip through this county, informs US that the
agricultural interests Of Spotsylvania are par.
ticularlv prosperous and promising. Among
the instances of extraordinary yield he men.
tons that Colonel j. Mercer Waller, Of Cedar
Point, made from a four acre field, on which
he sowed four bushels Of Booton wheat, the
enormous yield Of one hundred and sixty-fsuI
bushels, or forty-one bushels and . peck fol
every bushel sown, ana that the crop Of corn
on the same plantation, from actual measure
nent, stood eighteen feet in height in whole
fields.
The Washington (N. c. Despatch speaks
of the people on Hatteras or island Banks ms
having taken the oath to support Lincoln's
| Government. The Wilmington "Journal'
says: 1--WE hardly know what to believe
There may possibly be some twenty-five hun
dred white residents on the sand-hills about the
Cape and around, some of them pilots and
fishermen, but more Of them wreckers, with a
proportion Of the faults that the latter pursuit
inevitably entails. There may be truth, how
ever, in the fact that these people have felt
themselves neglected by the State, for they had
reason for so feeling. An isolated, ignorant,
half-civilized population, like a part of that at
Hatteras, would be apt 10 swear almost any.
thing under q pressure"
We learn from the Vicksburg Wing tina!
James Chaplin, Of whose arrest at Saratoga,
New York, and Imprisonment in Fort Lafayette,
We were appraised by telegraph, is Of the firm
Of Cowan 4 Chaplin, Of that city. The Whig
says that Mr.. Chaplin left Vicksburg u short
time ago for the purpose Of bringing his wife
South.
Gen. T.. J. Warthen, IAN old and highly es-
tcemed citizen Of Washington county, has
been elected Colonel of the Goth Regiment
Georgia Volunteers, now cncauped near
Griffin.
The Bank Of New Orleans has loaned the
Southern Coaicderacy $4,000 the State
Bank of Louisiana, 1910. 600 and the South
ern Bank of New Orleans has loaned the State
$l56,000.
The Charleston paper state that Col. Orr's
regiment will shortly be relnoved'to Sullivan's