The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-02-24
NORTHERN ITEMS.

The New York Herald of the l3th says
that the movement to settle the present dficul.
ties is progressing in the West. The Illinois
Legislature has appointed committee TO confer
with those of Indiana, Kentucky, and the other
States, to meet in Louisville in March. In Ohio
eminent Republicans are on the committee The
measure was opposed by the Aboitionists II is
expected that Ohio, New Jersey, PcnnsylyaLia
and New York will combine in the movement
The Illinois Legislature invited the cooperation
of sister States in the fraternai mission. The
President of the United States is requested TO
furnish commissioners, with such safeguards as
are necessary to enable them to carry out their
mission. Resolutions of opposite character were
also offered, and caucus held to determine the
policy to be adopted.
The New York Post says parties have been
identified iu New York who have organized them
selves into body to dcmoraiize the army and tho
nation By diffusing journals and literature Of
peculiar kind. The rich men Of New York
furnish the money and the reaction editors Of the
World, Express and Journal of Commerce., the
brain. An enormous fund is to be raised for un-
dermining the confidence Of the soldiers in the
Government.
John Van Buren,, in speech bcfote the Demo
cratic Union Association in New York in view
Of the determination Of the seeded SiItes not 10
return to the Union, said: our friends, the Demo
Gratis, in Illinois, who propose to hold Conyen-
ton, will find il barren task, because the South
IS determined not to return, and until their
armies have power 10 resist and put us down,
this must go on and those who would attempt
to stop it will be carried by the torrent:
Gov. Sprague has been elected Senator from
Rhode Island.
The FRENCH PRoPosITIoN.-Mr Seward, in
his dispatches to Mr Dayton, U. s. Minser to
France, dated the 9th inst, says: What Druyn
do sfai haf
''ths (Lincoln's) Government shall appoint Com
missioners to meet commissioners from the nsur.
gents on neutral ground" Aud Seward remarks,
lift were possible for this Government to COM
promise natural authority far as to enter into
such debates il is not easy to perceive what good
results could be obtained by them. The Commls-
sioncrs must agree in recommending either that
the Union shall staud or voluntarily dissolve; or
else they must leave the vital question unsettled
Seward closes by remaTkinG and enforcing the
idea that the Congress Of the United States Gurn-
ishes the constitutional forum for debate between
the alienated parties
Articles published almost simultaneously in
several French official papers, show that France
is exceedingly anxious TO bring about Peace in
America. The new Arch Bishop OF Paris, in his
Pastoral Letter, attacks Russia and England for
refusing to join Napoleon in his f.st effort at me-
diatiOn.
DREADFUL CARNAoE.-Statistics of the pres
ent war go to show that the carnage on both sides
has rarely been equalled in the history OF the
world 1t is estimated that Of the killed and
those who have died from wounds received ia i
battle and sickness engendered in camp, there are
not less than 325.O00 of the Federal army and
10000 of the Confederate arny-making au
AGGREGATE of halt fnillion men since the wal
began.