The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-11-10

A YANKEE CONFESSIONAL yankee cores
pondent writes from Washington city 10 the New
York Times as follows concerning the retreat oi
the yankee army from Virginia:
! GA great disaster has befallen the army of the
| Potomac If it were possible to cover the Admin
| istration with deeper load of infamy than that
under which it has long staggered, the events of
! the last month do it. Lee has not been .foiled in
his designs, as the Lincoln Government would lead
the people to believe; on the contrary, he defeated
! Meade in eight engagements in as many days, and
compelled him to fall back from Cul peper to
Washington with such precipitation as obliged
him to leave his dead and wounded in the enemy s
hands His weary and exhausted troops only find
rest and shelter under the detences Of the Capital
The country may congratulate itself that the whole
army escaped being entirely cut off from Wash
ington Nothing saved the army from utter an
Inhalation but the good generalship of Meade.
When Congress meets this winter, it will find it.
self in belcaguered capital
The same correspondent says the Federal Gov
ernment will be obliged to make the humiliating
confession that the distractions Of Charleston har-
Dor are Of nature too formidable to be removed
1t is supposed that the yankee writers .prepar
ing the public mind for the announcement Of the
g@g@ Gen Burnside has sent his officers into
various counties in East Tennessee to recruit foy
the Lincoln army. Many of the people of that
section were opposed to the war because they did
not want to GO into the army, and they thought
that when the yankees got possession of the coun
try they would be clear Of military duty But they
are now finding out their mistake; for the yankees
are compelling the East Tennesseeans to join
the Lincoln army So it will be elsewhere when the
yankees get control. Nothing can be gained by
submitting to the enemy--it" will bring peace to
no man. but will certainly add to his troubles.
gasP It is stated that the Federas have evacu-
Eastern North Carolina, and that they are rein
forcing at Plymouth, N. c.
nGa% A sketch Of the life. and military achieve
neuts of Gen John II. Morgan has been publish
ed, in which the exploits of that hero thus
summed up:
"He has fought GO battles and has been success
full in 81; took $4,000 prisoners, killed 10000 Of
the enemy, and destroyed fifty millions dollars
worth of property; taken $4,000 stand of small
arms and % pieces OF artillery, ZU,QUO horses, and
travelled twelve thousand miles"
1t is said that Morgan has not had with him at
any time over 5000 men for duty. His deeds
surpass or equal at least anything in the annals Of
history.
A VALUABLE PLANT.-Fe-ily says the Lynch
burg Republican the sorghum plant is bread and
meat as we'll as sugar and molasses AS witness :
\ farmer told that he gives pint Of the syrup
to his negroes in place Of meat; he it to sweet
en- the coffee drunk at his table, and the coffee is
made from the seeds; and lastly, he feeds his COWS
with the fodder Of the plant, and thus gets milk
to put in the coffee. None but Chinese could
have invented the sorghum, sure enough.
The Western papers say that the late severe
frosts IN the West have demonstrated that
the sorghum, or Chinese sugar cane, is much hard
er than Indian corn, and may work something Of
revolution by the substitution of one crop for the
other by the farmers.
The Atlanta Intelligencer says the sorghum
crop in Georgia has been unexamplcd in her histo
~. Moasses from that species Of sugar cane now
brings only 81 and So per gallon in most parts Of
the State