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The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-11-26

power of restoring perfect health TO persons suffering
under nearly every kind disease 50 which human flesh
The following are among the distressing variety OF
human diseascs in which the
VEGETABLE LIFE MEDICINES,
are well known t. be inaili0le.
DYSPEPSIA, by thoroughly cleansing the first an secoLd
Ftomacls and creating flow Of pure healthy bile in
stead Of the stale and Acrd kind FGatu!ency, loss 0t
Appetite. heartburn heaGache Restlessness, lempcr
Anxiety, la, guor ond melancholy which the gea-
ert,l symptoms Of Dyspepsia will vanish &s naturai
coU,Cqe OF its cure.
CoT1vNNEs by cleansing the whole leugth Of the in
teStmes with solvent process sud withSut violence
all yoleut purges leave the bowels costiye within two
days.
}EyERs of oli kinda by restoring the blood 10 reg
MA circulation, through the process OF respiration in
'ns cases ard the thorough solution OF ali iulesn
obstruction in others.
The Lie Medicines have been known to cure 2ueuna.
iSm e'nan2nty in Tires weeks and Iut in half tina;
time, by removing loca iniariaiion from the muscles
and ligamens of the JOINTS
DRopsEs of all kinds, by freaiHg and siren gherns
the kdueys and bladder; they operate most ightuly
on these important organs tnd hence have e1er been
onnd cerain remec.' FOR he worst cases OF Grsve
Also WORMS ty ualodging from the ,uruings of the
bowels the sv oaer which these creatures adler.
SCURvY, ULCERS and lnreterate Sores 10y the perfect
purity which these Lite Medicines to the blood and all
the humorS.
| ScoRBUTlc FRUpTIoNs and bad Compexions by their
Alternative elect upon the fluids thft iced the skin,
| the morbid state Of which occasions all eruptve
plains, sa!oN, clowdy and other dssgreeable complex
ons
The use of these Pills for very short time will effect
an entire OF Salt kheum, and striking improve
ment in the clearness OF the skin. Common Colds and
lntuen2a viii always be cured by one dose, or two Ia
the worst cOSes.
Piles The original proprietor of these medicines
was cured of Pc OF 35 standing by the use OF the
Life Medicines
FEVER ARD AGrR-For this sc0urge OF the Western
| counrv, these Medicines will be found safe speedy
amp certau remedy Other m dcines leave fhe sten
subject eetusn Of the disease cure by these med
cines is pcrmanet-Iry Them be satisfied and he cured
BILIOUS FEvERs AND LIVER OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Debility loss o! appetite Diseases oi Feuaes-the Med.
cnes have been used with the most beneficial results In
| cases Of this description Kings Evil and Scrotua
in its ms Yields 10 the mild yet powerful a,
tion OF these remarkable 1edYinec, Night Sweets
Nervous Debility New Comprarts fail kinds. Pa
pations OF the Heart Painters Co, ore speedy cur
ed.
MgRCURIAL DrsRAsg5-PeTsons whose constitutions
have become impaired by the iudciOua use OF Mercury,
will find these Medicines peicct curet as they nevec
fail 10 erat icate from The system ali the effects OF Mei-
curry infinitely sooner then the NEST powerful prepera
tioH Of SaIsapariIla - -
| Pre- jared Pnd sold bv w. u MOFFAT,
| 21Fyll 2}i BROADWAY. NEW YORK
PuR sALE All DRUGGISTS.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-08-23
Confederate Congress.

This body convened in Richmond on Monday last
a quorum was present in both Houses, and they pro-
ceeded to business. Messrs. Dortch and Davis of
this State, were in their seats in the Senate, and
Messrs. Ashe Bridgers, Gather, Lander, and Nc
Dowell, of this State, were in their seats in the
House. Messrs Davidson, Mclean, and Smith ap-
peared In their seats on Tuesday. si-
Various propositions were introduced on the first
and second days. but none of them strike us as be-
ing more ft and proper than those in the Senate
and House by Mr.. Yancey, of the former, and Mr..
Foote, Of the later to amend the rules so as to pro-
vide Tor legislative sessions with open doors. The
Confederacy is now suffering under disadvantages
and burdens which would never have existed, but
for secret sessions of the Congress Let the doors
be thrown open, and let every Senator and Repre-
sentative feel that in reality, well as in theory,
he is responsible to the people, and Immediately
sponsible, for what he says and does
The message of the President which will be found
in the Standard today, was sent in on Monday
In the Senate, on Tuesday, the Presidents mes
sage was taken up and referred to appropriate CON-
mittees.
The Senate took no action on the subject of Sc
cret sessions, but the House determined, by vote
of 81 to 10, so to amend its rule as not to go into
secret session without vote upon the motion by
yeas and nays. We doubt whether this will amount
to much in practice. The delegation from this State
voted to amend the rule
lnthe House on Tuesday, Mr. Fooe pressed his bill,
introduced on Monday to raise 25O, ,OOC through
the State authorities, instead of by an extension of
the conscription law. That gentleman addressed
the House at some length and with much ability, in
support of his proposition. Before arriving at any
action on the subject the House Adjourned.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-08-23
The Battle of Cedar Run.

There can be no doubt that this was an impar-
tant battle and that the victory was on the side of
the Confederates. 1t was fought near Culpeper
Courthouse, Virginia which is one hundred miles
northwest of Richmond, and about fifty miles
from Alexandria, by the Orange and Alexandra
Railroad. The Northern accounts of this conflict
are confessions of defeat on their part One of the
correspondents Of the New York Times says:
"During all this time the firing on both sides was
terrific and the were falling by the score The
line advanced steadily with the exception of the Sd
Wisconsin, under CALLING fire. and drove the rebels
back. The Wisconsin regiment fled at the first fire,
and it with great difficulty and at great person
al risk that the General succeeded in getting them
into line again. They had hardly returned to their
position, however before they broke and run again
in fact proved worse than useless The remainder
of the infantry charged upon the enemys batteries,
several of which could not be seen until they enter
ed the wood where they came suddenly upon large
infantry force that had lain concealed from the
mencement of the fight This force opened fire up
on our men with frightful effect The slaughter at
this point was very great more than one-haf OF the
men of the 2Sth New York were killed and wound
ed. Colonel Donnelly, commanding, was mortally
wounded; the Lieut. Colonel, Brown, and the Major,
are both wounded, and there is not a Captain Of q
company left to the regiment The 10th Maine lost
about one hundred and fifty in killed and wounded;
the 9th Connecticut suffered similarly, besides losing
Colonel Chapman, who was taken prisoner. The
46tb Pennsylvania had hardly enough men lett to
form full company. Col. Knipe was wounded in
the head and in the arm but not fatally; Lieut. Col.
Selfridge was slightly injured, and the Major was
shot through the arm"
The loss of the enemy in killed, wounded, and
prisoners, was heavy. Several of their principal
officers are among the killed and wounded. Some
of the enemy, while engaged in buryng their dead,
admitted loss of 400 killed, including many off,
GERS and one of their Surgeons incautiously stated
that l, $50 wounded were under treatment. The
Confederate loss was 100 killed, and some to 500
wounded and missing.
Gen. Jackson and Gen. Pope have both been large
ly reinforced, and general pitched battle in that
quarter is looked for every day. 1t is said that
Gen. Mcclellan has transferred the great body of
his forces to that quarter, and Gen. Lee is in Cul
peper, in command of the Confederate forces We
have every confidence that in the great conflict which
is supposed to be near at hand, our brave troops
will be victorious.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-08-23
Our Eastern Counties.

Every DAVIS observation of the war and the tenn
per of our enemy, satisfies that we have not been
at fault in advising our Eastern people to remove
their negroes and other movable property beyond
the reach of the Yankees. Their rage against US is
becoming more and more intense and bitter. If
they fail to conquer our armies, they will despoil
our people on our coasts and water courses and rob
and destroy all within their reach. Let us defeat
their madness by putting our property out Of their
way.
We find in the Wilmington Journal an order from
Brig. Gen. Cingman, in compliance with instruc-
tions from Maj. Gen. D. H. Hill commanding the
Military Department of North Carolina, which
strikes us very strangely. The order requires the
slave owners of New Hanover, Onsow, Duplin, Le-
noir Craven, Jones, Carteret Pitt Martin, BERTHE,
Hertford, Gates and Greene Counties in this State,
to send at once oneourh of their ablebodied force
to be worked on Notifications in the vicinity of Pc
tersburg and Richmond Our Eastern farmers
need ali their force at this time to save the fodder
crop. Besides it is evident that Mcclellan has evac-
uated James River. Moreover we have examined
the Petersburg Express and find no such order to
the slave owners Of Prince George, Surry, Isle of
Wight, Nansemond Southampton, Greenville, Sus-
SEX Dinwidde, Brunswick and Chesterfield Coun-
ties in Virginia which lie contiguous to those
Cities and which have three times as many slaves
in them. What does it mean? We North Caro-
linians have DONE and are willing to do, all We can
for Virginia; but she is better able to help herself
in that matter than we are. Perhaps General Hill,
finding that our Eastern people will not remove
their negroes from the enemy, has determined to do
it for them. But how can the people of Craven,
Carteret and other Counties send any slaves with
ont the consent of the Yankees If Gen. Hill will
send a sufficient force, he can drive out the Yam
KEGS and get 10000 negroes at Beaufort Newbern
and Washington, and our people Will thank him
for it
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-08-23
The President,s Message.

Our readers will peruse with pleasure the mes
sage of President Davis to Congress, sent in on
Monday last Like all his papers, it is Short manly,
and to the point The emphasis with which he
dwes on the barbarous practices of certain Yankee
officers in the conduct of the war, and the determi
nation at which he has deliberately but reluctantly
arrived to arrest such conduct by prompt retalia-
ton, must meet the approval of every Southern
man. 1t is a dernier resort for an enlightened
Christian people, forced upon them by an enemy
who seems lost to all the claims of reason and hu-
MARTY.
The President it will be seen, again asks that
Congress will assume the control of the Railroads
within the States. Congress has no power, under
the Constitution, to do this. If the Railroads are
not disposed to do all they in aiding the govern
ment to transport troops and supplies, and muni-
tions of war; let the military power to it in par
ticuar cases that the cause is not injured by such
assumed indisposition on the part of the Roads;
but let this power when exercised, be limited and
restrained by law. But we do not believe that the
Roads are deserving of censure in this respect.
They have done all they could for the government,
and the wonder is that in their condition they have
done so much. Besides, these Roads belong 70 the
States and not to the Confederate government We
forbear, however, to discuss the subject further.
The President admits that Executive appoint
ments in the army have been sometimes unfortu-
nate No doubt of it. The power, however, to
dismiss incompetent officers without trial is high
and summary one; but that such officers ought to
be dismissed there can be no doubt. This is due
alike to our brave soldiers and to the cause.
We regret to see that the President asks for ali
extension of the conscrption law. If nothing else
WiU do, let it De extended; but we agree with Gen.
Foote that the best mode of raising troops for the
future would be to call for volunteers for the war
through the State authorities. We may hereafter
point out the defects in the conscrption law to say
nothing of its unconstitutionaty. 1t can be shown
that it operates unequally and unjustly and, among
other things tends to foster the spirit of specula
ton and extortion which is doing so much to en-
barrass our efforts for independence. We salts
fed that this State, if called upon for volunteers,
would raise and tender twenty thousand at a much
earlier period than the same number of conscripts
could be obtained. Let the government give boun-
ties, and land warrants, and promise pensions
to the wounded and disabled-and let the yolun-
teers have the right to elect their own officers and
our word for it this State would have twenty thous
and more men Cher full quota, if not more) in the
field in sixty days. The people Of the other States
can answer for themselves
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-08-23
Prisoners EXCHANGED.

Official notice is given in the Richmond papers
that the following officers and men have been duly
exchanged, and are now at liberty to take up arms
again against our invaders
l. All the officers and men who were delivered at
Akin's on the 9th of August 1862.
2. All officers and men captured at Roanoke Is
land
8. All officers and men captured at Fort Macon
4. All officers and men captured at Fort Noun
tain.
5: All officers captured at Forts Jackson and st.
Philip La.
6. The officers and men delivered at Akin's Au-
gust 10th, 1862.
Z. The officers and men delivered at City Point,
August Sth, 1862.
8. Officers paroled at Fortress Monroe, May 18th,
1862.
9. Privates paroled by Brigadier General G. W.
Morgan at Cumberland Gap, July 23d, 1862.
1O. C"ptain Van Benthuyson's Marines.
The officers and men thus exchanged, are ordered
join their respective regiments and corps without
delay. 1t will be seen by notice in our paper to-
day. that the sth State Troops, Col Shaw, have been
authorized TO recruit from the conscripts in this
State.
1t will be seen by an order from the Adjutant
General, which we publish to-day that the Sth and
3lst regiments will rendezvous at Raleigh.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-08-23

GEN. PETTIGREw.-In response to inquiries froz,
various quarters for the address of Gen. Pettgrew,
we have been informed by Mr. Shepard of this City,
that the General is not now in Richmond-or, at
least that any communication to him for the present
must be directed to him at Petersburg, Va, care of
Gen. D. H. Hill. We learned, also, from the same
source, (as stated in last paper that Gen. P had
reported for service though still suffering from one
of his wounds, and though his right arm was still
paralyzed. Nothing can more fully prove, than
facts like these, the noble daring and determined
resolution of our soldiers to give the Yankees q
warm reception.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-08-23
The Latest News.

1t is understood that McClellan's entire force
evacuated Berkeley, below Richmond on Friday night
last and steamed down the river, leaving many
stores and other vauables behind them. 1t is also
understood that the enemy is evacuating Wes-
tern Virginia, and Suffolk, Va, and there are ndi-
cations that Norfolk and Portsmouth will be also.
1t is therefore evident that all the enemys avail
able force is being concentrated under Pope, Nc
Clellan and Burnside to oppose the advance of our
army northward; the idea of ION to Richmond
being we judge at present abandoned, until our
forces under jackson and Lee are defeated Gen.
Lee is in chief command on the Rappahannock line,
and the two great armies near each other,
Whether fight is to come off at once is doubtful
now, since the policy of Gen. Lee has been to wait
until the enemy gets fully ready to attack resist
him. Jackson's dashing policy is evidently the
proper one for the occasion. Were his tactics the
guiding policy, Washington City and Baltimore
would be ours in 80 days.
From the West, there is but little news. The
Yankees, it is reported, with heavy force at the
mouth of the Yazoe river have captured the trans
port Fair Play, with 1000 Enfield rifles and large
quantity of army stores, designed for Gen. Hndman,
in Arkansas.
Fort Cliff, near Hartsvile, Tenn, was captured
by our forces on the 10th inst at the point of the
bayonet
The Freeman Journal, the leading Catholic pa
per in New York, advocates proposition for COM
promise with the South to end the war.
The North is energetically prosecuting the effort
to raise her additional 600, 900 men, What we do,
should be done quickly.
In the Confederate Senate on Wednesday but
little was done. In the House a number of reso-
lutions were offered in relation to substitutes in the
army-to the punishment of deserters, officers as
well as men-the removal of secresy from the action
of the House on the Conscrption bi-to investigate
the condition of the army hospitals about Richmond,
for the increase of the pay of prvates and various
other important matters.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-08-23

The Wilmington Journal says that the chief cause
of the late election result in North Carolina op-
position to the conscription law.-Rich. Enquirer.
The Wilmington Journal is mistaken. The con-
scription law not generally discussed either on
the stump or in the newspapers Ninty-nine hum
dredths Of our people, like the Wilmington Journal,
opposed to the passage of the law, and depre-
Gated the necessity which appeared to lead to it !;
but after the law was passed our people submitted
to it like patriots. "0ppositon to it had nothing
to do with the result of the election in this State
The Wilmington Journal opposed the law, before it
was passed, with more vehemence even than we
did, and it seemed probable at one time that the
Journal would advocate resistance to it. We never
thought of resisting it; and is the only paper
in the State which has made direct appeal to the
conscripts themselves to obey the law and stand by
the flag. The Journal has made no such appeal
That paper, we beg the Enquirer to remember, sup
ported Mr. Johnston for Governor, and we support
ed Col. Vance
We will tell the Enquirer what was the "chief
of the late election result" in this State. 1t
was caused by the proscriptve spirit of the early
secessonists towards the late secessonists and by
the necessity which existed for reform in our State
government The early secessionists, in power
both at Richmond and Raleigh, had not only i'm
peached the loyalty of the late secessonists or old
Union men, through those who spoke for them in the
newspapers and on the stump, but they had studi-
ously excluded them untrustworthy from every
Office of prominence and influence 1t was against
such injustice, which was injuring the common
cause while it threatened to blast the political and
personal character of the late secessonsts that the
people of this State rose up,-and this, we repeat,
with the demand for reform, constituted the "chief
cause" of the result in this State.
The Enquirer very absurdly imagnes that the
old Democratic party is still in existence, and it
considers the Baltimore boilers the Democratic par
ty. Hence the confidence 1t places in such papers
as the Wilmington Journal We may as we'll in
form the Enquirer that the Wilmington Journal is
any thing now but Democratic paper tina! its in
fuence never great, is now confined to a small
locality; and that this influence is maintained
by the manner in which it suppresses and perverts
the truth. If the people who read the Journal had
been thoroughly posted in relation to the issues be-
fore the people in the late election they would have
risen above their preudices and voted almost to a
man for Col. Vance.
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-08-23
The Yankees in Onslow.

We learn from a gentleman, who left Onsow on
Tuesday last, that Friday the 10Th, five Yankee
steamers appeared off the bar near Swansboro, and
that in the afternoon three of the steamers came in
and landed Yankee troops, artillery and infantry,
reported by some to be 3,0O0 and by others various
numbers up to 10000. 1t Is believed, also, that
body of Yankee cavalry from Newbern was co-ope-
rating with them.
Our informant says, that he learned they had
committed depredations upon the inhabitants in that
section destroying and taking their cattle and hogs
and the growing crops-that they had destroyed all
the saltworks at Swansboro, and at all the points
between them and New River. He had heard of no
one having been arrested by them, nor was the OBJ
iect of the enemy understood, farther than to de-
stroy property, steal negroes, &C.
We had three companies of Rangers in the Coun-
ty, who seem however to have offered no resistance,
the idea prevailing that the enemy wasn large force
We incline to the opinion, however, that not more
than 1000 Yankees have been landed We know
not what steps have been taken by our military to
arrest them. The probability, however is, that by
the time we have sufficient force there to attack
them, the enemy will have re-embarked and gone
to other points.
Such raids may be expected in our Eastern Coun-
ties frequently, until some spirited, daring man is
put in command on our coast with sufficient force
to drive the enemy out or to confne him in narrow
limits We hope the common government will at
once relieve our Eastern people They call for help
and they deserve it Otherwise the State govern
ment must do its duty and relieve them.
Our Wilmington correspondent, whose letter is
unavoidably excluded, says the rumor in that place
is that the Yankees have landed 200 at Swansboro
He says the military in that section are on the
qui UiUe
Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-08-23
North Carolina Troops.

We learn from our friend, Capt j. W. Bowman
that the 5Sth N. G. Regiment organized in June
last at Camp Martin, in Mitchell county, by the
election of John B. Palmer, Colonel; W. W. Profit
Lieut. Colonel, and John G. Keener, Major. This
regiment has 10 companies of infantry and three of
cavalry.
North Carolina has, therefore, 5S Regiments in
the field These filled up to the maximum number,
would be $4,000 strong. We are sure we speak
the general sentiments of our people, when we say
that this number could be made up easier with ef-
fective men by appeals to them to volunteer, than
by conscrIption or any other mode.
The 18th Regiment is stationed near Jonesboro,
in East Tennessee, and is no doubt crack regiment,
made up of the hardy sons of our mountaineers.