The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1861-06-04
WAR ITEMS.


graph says: "From party in position to know
we learn that the military plans OF President DAVIS
are but partially disclosed even to Congress ITSELF
The President reposes perfect confidence IN the
capacity and qualifications of Gen. Lee. Men are
proffercd in abundance; of money, there Is enough
for the present, and if the should be protraet-
ed which it is believed will be the case favorable
prospects are opening for the future The utmost
confidence exists of maintaining Southern honor
and independence.
OuTRAGEs IN ALEXANDRIA.-We have heard
accounts of outrages upon women at Alexandra
which almost transcend belief. In Europe such
cases sometimes occur in the sack of fortified
town; but they almost unprecedented IN the
case of a town. like Alexandria that makes no re-
sstance to an enemy. If these accounts are true,
we devoutly hope and trust that an organization
NAV be formed to take the direst vengeance that
human Imagination can conceive upon the persons
of Lincoln, Seward and the prime movers OF war
which is to be the avowed intention to carry on in
the most horrid and purely devilish spirit-Rtch-
mond Dispatch.
Mr. Jackson, the proprietor of the Marshall
House. in Alexandria, Va, who recently shot Ellis
worth of New Yok, and was butchered by the
Zouaves, of whom he was Colonel, was the same
gentleman who cut down the Lincoln and Hanln
pole, at Occoquan, Prince William county, Va.
during the last year, and prevented Its be-
ing hoisted again. He was Jealous Southern
Rights man, and would have shot Ellsworth if he
had known that if would be his last act.
SAVANNAH, May 29.-The British and Rus
sian Consuls boarded the Federal propeller Union,
off the Bar to-day. The Captain notified them
that the blockade of Charleston and Savannah had
commenced on Tuesday, with the Minnesota, Wa
bash, Union and another vessel. Neutrals will be
allowed fifteen days to depart, but vessels will
be allowed to enter either port.
Sr. LOUIS, Missouri, May 29.-Bird's Point
is occupied by Federaliss. Harvey has author
lied the formation of Home Guard, and the
Union men at Hannibal and St. Joseph, Kansas
City and ether places to be furnished with arms,
and mustered into the service of the United States.
All the State troops have left Jefferson city but
two hundred, constituting the Governors Body
Guard
WASHINGTON, May 2s.-Eli Thaycr has been
made Patent Commissioner. Gossip says that
Gov Banks favors throwing 800, 900 men into the
field. The Secretary of War has requested the
New York Seventh Reg ment to remain three
days longer Conserving, they eft to take posses
ion Of Acquia Greek
BALTIMORE, May 2S.-An officer bearing Chief
Justice Taney's attachment for contempt Of Court
against Gen. CadwalaGer, was not admitted into
Fort McHenry.
RICHMOND, May 2S.-Ex-Governor Wise has
been commissioned by President Davis to raise
legion in Virginia. Several companies have al
ready enlisted to serve under him Capt II. Clay
Pate, of Kansas fame, has volunteered to serve
under the Governors Legion, and has raised
company.
Gen. Lee and Staff are now at Manassas Gap
The Confederate troops are making extensive pre-
partitions, and anticipate grand attack.
lorro Of ode
of Hampton. 1t is supposed they will march
down to Richmond.
A gentleman here has letter written by
a friend in w ashington, and sent on by private
conveyance. 1t says that Winfield Scott is rapidly
failing under the combined influences of Father
Time and disturbed mind. His step is feeble,
his voice tremulous, and his whole system greatly
enervated. guilty conscience is evidently lash
ing him with great fury.
PLoCKApING New ENGLAND We are glad
to see that the Confederate Congress adopted the
wise measure Of prohibiting, by special enact
ment, the expectation of any cotton by way of the
Northwestern railroads and rivers This will SUBJ
ject the North to most greivous disappointment;
for she had promised herself harvest of gold
from this flow of cotton up the Mississippi into
her borders, there to keep her spindes at work
and her commerce from the fatal collapse which
she knows this war will bring upon it if she is
deprived of this great staple.
The news of the invasion of Virginia has given
stimulus to the military spirit in South Carolina.
Five Regim have already offered themselves.
They are ready and equipped, and will move at
once. If South Carolina was prompt in beginning
the revolution, she will not be slack in carving it
on.
The most civilized Indians on the continent are
the Choctaws. They generally wealthy; in
fact their average wealth is greater than that of
the people Of any State in the Union. They have
a Legislature, Newspapers, Schools and Churches.
Like all Southern Indian tribes they are slavehold-
ers. Next to the Choctaws come the Cherokees
more numerous and more heard Of but somewhat
less advanced. The Chickasaws are also civilized
Indians and shareholders. AS men. intellectual,
morally and financially, they are much the superb
or of the class of white men brought on from the
North by Ellsworth, Wilson, Murderer Sickles,
and other conu.ed scoundrels These Indian ma
tions will join their fate with the South in all
honor and sincerity, and we do hope and trust
that their devotion may be duly appreciated and
that at last a remnant of noble race may vet be
preserved in the bosom of the Southern Confeder-
acy and Of its States.
AFFAIRS IN PHILADELpHIA.--An intelligent
gentleman, just from the city of brotherly love,
(save the mark reports the state of affairs there
as distressing in the extreme. The business of the
city, which whilom was thriving and active, is now
nearly or totally suspended, and the streets, which