The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-04-28
NORTHERN ITEMS.

/ knights OF the Goiden Circle. Another dlfhc0l-
/ ty has occurred at Danville, Indiana, between the
/ Knights and Unionists. Five persons woun-
ded, one mortally, and the General commanding,
| has issued orders declaring the knights public
enemies, to be dealt with such, and prohibiting
/ the use of Comprehend Badges One of the rioters
/ at Danvie Indiana, haG been removed to George
town, where force organized to resist his ar.
! rest by the military authorities.
Large Union demonstrations hare been held at
Baltimore and New York. Gen. Scott presiding
at the last Among the speakers was Van Buren,,
| and Dickinson.
Gen. Hooker, commander of the Lincoln army
near fredericksburg has issued orders regulating
/ the action of regiments whose terms of service
| will soon expire Regiments re-enlsting will
have furloughs; those declining in body will be
mustered out Of service.
Seward has sent another dispatch to Minister
| Adams, warning Great Britain against allowing
any more Alabamas to go forth to prey upon Am
| erican commerce.
A draft is to be had to fill up the old regiments
| in Hooker's army.
Hon. C. L. Vallandgham is the Democratic can
didate for Governor of Ohio and is making
Espeeches through the State. He addressed a
mass meeting at Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, a
few days since. The Democracy turned out very
strong, with flags, cannons, music, &c. MIR V.
addressed them in speech denouncng Lincoln s
Administration and defying it.
Major-Gen Burnside has issued an order pro-
nouncing the death penalty on all persons found
guilty oe aiding the rebels. All persons sympa-
thizng with the rebels to be arrested and tried
or sent beyond the lines.
There has been serious riot between the white
and negro laborers in New York city The whites
undertook to drive the negroes away from ship
which they were loading.
The New York "Herald" of the 18th says of
the defeat at Charleston "The repulse of IRON
clads from the gateway of Charleston, though al
most bloodess in its results, may be classed among
our most discouroging military disasters"
The Baltimore American is indignant over what
it calls the 'shan,efM abandonment or the SIEGE"
Iron the New York Tribune, April l6.]
The attack upon Charleston has been made
Our force of offence collected during the last
three months, in the waters and upon the sea is
lands of South Carolina, have been fairly tried and
found wanting Instead of the pleasant duty of
chroncling triumph to the Union arms which
had fervently wished rather than hoped, the
thankless harbinger of ill-tidings deyolves upon
me-. We have experienced bitter repulse. The
aron-ciads hare disappointed the expectations of
even the most confident, and We now mourning
over the apparent certainty of an abandonment of
the enterprise of which the country, with more
faith than reason, hoped such good results.
The iron clads which were engaged in the
Charleston fight, to be sent to Farragut to as
sist in the reduction of Port Hudson.
How THEY TALKED TWO YEARS AGo-The
following articles published in the three
leading papers of New York City in the Spring of
1861. That they have not proved altogether pro-
phetic, the authors themselves have been forced
to admit-that they were sufficiently characters
tic, o one will attempt to deny:
from the N. Y. Tribune.l
"They come they come, the warrior braves of
the North, with nudsillS edged with steel! Mark
this, ye traitors of the palm and pine! Mark
this saveocrats aristocrats and kidnappers Of hui
man freedom, the Mortimer come like the wings
Of the wind! In three little months-three brief
sunny months Of Spring-from faint white cloud
which shall be seen lowering over the South, will
be visible the black soul of the Southern Confede
racy, going up to the God who publishes guilt and
treason. Mark it! Take it to your heart Of
hearts! Like some hideous nightmare, your dream
Of utopan, arstocratic life, shall go out it may be
in blood, surely in disaster and disgrace"
From the Herald
"Our brothers of the seeded States had best
act wisely, if they would act we'll. No one in the
North anticipates longer war than one of three,
or at farthest six months. At the end of that Pc
Rod we shall, in all human probability, behold the
carcass of the Confederate States hung from the
dome of the Capitol at Washington, with Davis
and Stephens each side of it, instead of the fly
ing and triumphant folds of the Confederate flag.
We submit the to the rebel War Department.
1t is not yet too late A little grace, little pa.
tence, and great deal of mercy await the re turn
and repentance Of sinners"
From the New York Times.
"The war will end by the 4th of July. One
column of SO, 900 men to Richmond. Another
column of so, 600 men to the heart of the valley
of the Mississippi by Cairo Still another column
in Tennessee and Alabama, via Kentucky, start
ing from Louisville. A gulf squadron at New Or
leans. An ocean fleet before Charleston. Thus,
in three months the anaconda is complete, treason
is squechcd, rebellion crushed, law reestablished,
order restored, the Union reigns and the stars and
stripes float again in triumph DER the land Of the
free the home Of the brave"
A SIGNIFICANT FAcr.-Seated in the Metho-
dist Church, a few Sundays ago, we observed an
item of benevolent character among the colored
congregation which pointed out the easy living of
the slave population and the hard times of the
free colored population. A colored class leader
arose and said to his colored brethren, that one
of their number was very poor-entirely destitute
of the necessaries Of life, and was in fact in
starving condition. He said the suffering one
was free person, and called upon the colered
congregation composed of slaves to be liberal in
contributing of their means to relieve the distress