The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1862-08-19

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Alabama 10000 Mssissi ppi, 10000
! louisiana, l45,OOU Texas, $4,000
| Arkansas, 10000 Tennessee, 100000
Kentucky, 100000 Missouri, 100000
| Making total of 100000.
| Assuming the census tables to be correct, we
now have, in the fourteen Southern States, up
wards &C two millions of white males between
the ages of Is and So and it is idle to talk about
conquering them. They are not shop keepers,
tailors, factory men, button makers, &C., turned
loose upon the world aud forced to enlist from
want; but they are used to handling the shotgun
and rife from the age Of twelve.
| Grant, however, that this estimate is extrava-
giant. Let suppose that the ages of Is and 40
should govern as the limit. Still this would not
reduce to despair; for, by rule of calculation,
could fighting forces be reduced to mil
| lion of men, This force can be kept in the field
as long the North may assail US; and it will
not interfere with our producing or agricultural
population. When the present crops gather
ed the South will not again feel any want of food
for man or horse. INSTRUMENTATION among her
black population, upon which the North counted
largely, does not exist slaves be safely
trusted to the management of the boys under Is
and the old men and abundant crops be thus Sc
cured, while our ''fghtiDg men" are in the field.
Not so with the North. Whenever she puts
anything like her military strength in the field,
she weakens her power to feed her people; and
though her white population, in 1860, was 49,
100000 against s, 100000 whites of the South
and though she ought, therefore, to be able to send
out two soldiers where we send one; yets we
question much if she send out her one million
as readily as the South can.
The prolongation of this struggle will develop
more of the resources of the South than of the
North.-Richmond Wing.
HoRRID ATROCITIEs-An Intelligent negro
who has been within the lines of the enemy on
the Peninsula, gives a truly horrible account Of
the atrocities perpetrated in Williamsburg and
elsewhere upon our hel pless people He mentions
one case, which makes the blood run cold The
daughter of one of the most prominent citizens
(whose name has been given us) was seized, dis
robed, and then whipped by these worse than
savages Her alleged offence the expression
of some ''rebep' sentiment that offended the mis-
creans. Such are the scenes which have been
inaugurated since the victories Of the South near
Richmond This is their revenge for fair de-
feat in an open field
The negro who brings this intelligence was left
behind by his master, member Of the 21st Mis-
sissppi regiment, when our army retired from
Williamsburg, being sick at the time. AS soon
as he had recovered, and had worked long enough
to repay those who took Of him, he found
means of getting through the Yankee lines,
lie several times narrowly escaped
He says he never wants to dwell among Yankees
agan-he has seen enough Of their brutality to-
wards white and black to disgust him with the
race foreyer.-Richmond Dispatch
SALE OF NEGRoEs.-Ihe following statement
OF the prices brought at the auction Of Donnell
& Hiatt in this place on Saturday last shows that
negro property commands better prices now than
at any former period within several years: Woman
with infant child ST ,425; woman with child four
years old, 81 900; man and wife aged thirty,
81 ,725; boy aged ten, 5000; woman forty, 5000;
blacksmith aged forty and ruptured, s1,5lO.-I
Greensboro Patriot.
THE RETALIAToRY ORDERS OF PRESIDENT
DAvIs.-The New York Herald publishes at
length, the retaliatory orders, issued by President
Davis, in relation to Gen. Pope and his army, but
makes no comment upon it. The "Herald" is
evidently waiting for the cue from Old Abe.
THE CROPS IN NORTH CARoLINA.-A CORES
pondent travelling through North Carolina gives
the most encouraging account of the prospect for
fine crops in that State He says:
The bountiful earth seems to have come up, in
living sympathy, to the aid of our holy cause. The
seasons have been unusually propitious, and appa-
rently out soils are teemins with luxurious
crops of corn and esculant roots But few miles
from the scenes of strife and Yankee desolation
smiling plenty yet covers the land, and the album
dant promise oc breadstus for another year is real
ly cheering to the patriot heart.
TIRED OF THE FIGHT.-It appears that the
Irish are as tired the yankees Of fighting the
Contederates. See the following:
"a dispatch from St. Louis, 24th, says hun
dreds of foreigners, mostly Irish, had claimed the
British Consuls protection from draft. This &C.
casoned great excitement, and the Yankees
mobbed them. The Provost Guard was called
upon to suppress the riot"
Well may the Yankees mob them, for if they
lose the assistance of the Irish, and then the
Germans follow suit, they will have no army.
I A Coop ONE--The Augusta Chronicle relates
the following:
| We have heard good story on Stonewal Jack
son. 1t has come to be commonly said in camp that
no one knows StonewalPs secrets except his old ne
gro body servant. Some talking to the old
| negro asked him how he came to be so much in
the confidence of his master. ''Lord sir" said he,
"massa never tells me nothing but the way
knows is this: Massa says his prayers twice day.
morning and night-but if he gifts out OBJ bed two
or free times in de nigh to pray you see jist
commences packing my haversack for knows
there will be tie depa to pay meet day"