The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1862-08-26
FROM THE NORTH.

| From the latest Northern papers received we
get some interesting news:
The clerks in the State Department at Wash
ington under As are, upon the Recommendation"
of Secretary Seward furnishing substitutes for
the war.
Brig-Gen. Casey has been appointed to receive
the new troops at Washington.
Senator Chandler has contributed 81 900 to
the prosecution of the war.
Gen. Frank Paterson, of Philadelphia, is under
arrest (by McCellan's orders) for, not holding
Malvern Hill in the recent skirmishing there.
\ FAILURE-A Northern paper gives the fol-
lowing account of the negro brigade raised at
Port Royal S. c., by Gen. Hunter:
The negro brigade, organized by Gen. Hunter,
has proved an unmitigated failure. Out of eight
hundred contrabands on the muster roll, there
were some 500 who "skedaddled" and many of
the remainder felt so uneasy under military con-
troll and discipline that they watched for opportu-
mites to escape. On Saturday afternoon last
rumor prevailed around Hilton Head that the
famous negro brigade would be disbanded that
afternoon The rumor of the disarmament proved
correct, for Gen. Hunter had dispatched an Adju-
tant and several officers to Eliiotts plantation
where the brigade was in camp.
On the arrival of these officers their purpose
soon spread through the camp, creating the wild
est JOY among the "soldiers" The fragmentary
remnant of the brigade fell into line and
were officially disbanded. They were delighted,
out not more so than the white troops. The ex-
soldiers rushed to and fro and were soon busy in
making preparations for their homes in Beaufort
and other places.
The discharged negro regiment was STYLED the
LIST regiment South Carolina volunteers" and,
on being dlsbanded, were furnished with papers
declaring them free forever, and also their wives
and children.
ESCAPING THE DRAFr.-The Philadelphia
inquirer gives an amusing account of the sailing
OF the packet Zered from there for Liverpool. and
the capture of number of persons attempting
to escape the operations OF the draft. 1t says:
Late Monday night and early on Tuesday
morning, numbers Of old, infrm, and decrepit per-
sons might have been seen vending their way to
the vessel, and casual observer would have sup
posed that all the halt and manned cripples in our
city hospitals were about to be transported to the
Flying Islands, where crutcbes are super1ouus
1t was a pitiabe sight to witness men whose
boards had been black as Congo contraband's !
the day before, suddenly turned gray, not with
grief, but with the application of magic dye;
men with stalwart forms resemblcd trembling
"Uncle Toms" on the stage, and men who were so
clear-sighted to see their way out of scrape,
were blind as bats. But they soon saw "stars'' on
the coats Of policemen, and found their mean
of no avail.
When the police visited the vessel about nine
o clock in the morning, just as she was about to
leave this Il" distracted country" they found pas
SenSers slowed away in every conceivable place of
Some-like the renowned Henry
b. Brown, who was sent up on the underground
road, from Dixie, in box, labelled, " glass, this
side up with CARE" and rode, by mistake, most of
the way upon his head-w6re neatly packed in
boxes, others were hid under piles of sails, and
some of them were so sick they couldn't leave
their berths. After great care and considerable |
searching on the part of the officials, the cowardly
fellows were all ferretted out, and the vessel |
allowed to- depart, minus over one hundred
Is British Subjects as most Of them claimed to be-
The steamship Northern Light was boarded at
her wharf in New York last Monday just previous
% sailing, and every man unprovided with pass
port hurried off Several other vessels bound
or Europe were searched and men to the number
If about a thousand were brought on shore
The Detroit and Chicago papers state that the
ush for Canada is tremendous. At Milwaukee,
90, grea: many arrests made daily of persons
solng to Canada to avoid draft