Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-03-20


prudence to avoid firing the town and weud sag
gest 20 the military civil an hores urge the citizens
of this town, and necessary compel the action of remov
their contrabands into the country to avoid the contain
mating influence of Yankee soldiers If the owners of
give their services the farmers for three
months for their board Lodging and advertise to that
effect your paper would great extent, accomplish
the desired object. P.
IT, solutions
adopted by He Committee Of Safely, March 18Th. 1862
ResoUed nat in view of the unprecedented invasion Of
the Of Wilmington. it is the imperative duty of every
citizen CT the aid in its Defense and that
citizen who physically competent the performance of
military duty should forthwith enroll himself in
of the military companies of the town. and perfect himself
in the drill of the se!der.
ResoUed That citizens of the town be requested to
close their respective places IF business during the after
noon ofonday and Thursday each week, enable ali
persons able to bear to perform military service
s, d. WALLACE, See'y.
To the Farmers o South the Border
COunties Virginia and North Carolina.
Permit who is well acquainted with yoCr condi-
tion and who has often partaken of your hospitality
bring to your notice bject well worthy of y0Er at
tention but the importance which may not have &C.
Cured to you
You have bus little idea how highly you have been
favored in not having amy Of nUaSson to devasate
your farms and lay waste your dwellings nor one OF
defence quartertd in your midst but your sons and
neighbours who have visited Manass and the PenlDsu-
la can give you some faint conception OF the destruction
which large army must necessarily occasion.
There both Virginia and Carolina many fami-
IS which have all their live been accustomed to the
comforts and Injuries that you have enjoyed but
which, by the nroads Of liz ssians have
dered homeless and houseless but blessed be God, not
friendtss long your hospitality left alive in the
land Let it be said 10 alter years that i'll the
sunny South the and cHd of refugees al
lowed to suffer for the nece:saries OF life whilst South
ern farmers had enough to support them. 1t is abso-
lutey necessary that something shOld be done or the
refugees, and done promptly.
Let each hOuseketper at write to minister
of the gospel, either il Richmond Petersburg \ 0rOik
Weldon, Newborn or Raleigh, stating how mauy Ter.
sons he immediate, and rquestlng him TO let II
be Known to some who are seeking temporary home
Let tue refugees in the write to some min
lister in either OF the above named places to aid them
i'll procuring home.
Let false pride prevent either the che party iron
Offering or the other from accepting this kndness.-
There which those seeking shelter WOulC
greatly prefer being allowed to pay board and there
may be some housekeepers whose circumstances woulC
render them eXcusabe in charging it. If So t them
put the board as low as possible and state how many
they can accommodate. Many families anXousiy
seeking board along the line OF the Richmond and Dan
vile and the North Carolina railroads. and unless ht
farmers in tie counties accessible to these railroads
willing to receive them they may IN some cases become
the vic inns of the avarce which is rife in the land
The ministers Of the Gospel always ready to pro
mote every such object aud will gladly perform their
suggestion Will cheeriuy make it through their columns
The sinking of a splendid frigate in fifteen minutes
settles point hencetorth, wooden war-Shlps
obsolete and Iron will rule the sea- The Yankees have
at grasped this great esson aud will act upon i
with all the energy which their longing desire to gail
the mastery OF our harbors spire. Probably, be
fore these words meet the eyes OF readers, the tim
bers for of Aerrimacs being hewn n North
erO Navy Yards, and thousand anvils shaping
iron plates which the shot and shell OF our batteries
penetrate Iron-c!ad vessels cannot be built in
day OF week bat it would he madness to dsg us
the fact that enemies will have aoat large mum
Der Of such vessels in short time the 0
their construction will allow.
Unless we mean to give up seacOast to the inva
der, we must be ready to meet iron with iron. w
must bull MerrmaCs for every Southern harbor, ant
build them at once. We have everything that is re
quired for the work. We have the live oak, the tar
pitch and turpeDne the "copper" the iron, and the me
who, from these materials, can build the boats. II VI
find it diff cult to obtain the iron plating in sufcien
Quantities, we should send to Europe without mo
ments delay, for the plates readymade We til
ling nothing new to the enemy when say that th
blockade IS farce. With proper energy we nigh
have all the plating require delivered in the Coaed
crate States within seventy days and before it arrive
the steamers might be ready to receive it.
We can only blame ourselves if, months heace, whe
the ankees bring against their mailed fleets, the
} find Us still unprepared,- Charleston Mercury.
General Mcclellan has divided the grand army of tn
Potomac into FIVE corps de armies He has also ordere
the following tariff OF exchange of prisoners of
For General Commander in Chiet-sixty men.
Lieutenant-G eneTa-forty men.
Ma -GeneraI-thirty
Brgader-G Extraordinarily men.
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