The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-06-02
RESENTMENT.


At a-recent meeting Of the Confederate States
Court the grand jury made the following present
ment against the practices ofspeculators.
The Grand Jurors of the Confederate Court for
the District of Albermarle, North Carolina do
most unhesitating1y condemn in the strongest
terms, the practice of many of our people in this
our day of trial, of specializing in the necessaries
Of life, as Though not intended by many) high
crime against the best interest of the Confedera-
Cyl as dangerous and destructive in its effects as
the worst efforts Of our enemies; and to all ntents
giving aid and comfort to the enemy, and thus
assisting them in their nelarious wicked and cruel
war against us. Such conduct should be frowncd
down by all patriots and honorable men, aud every
friend Of his country should strive in every way
possible to arrest this great evil SO we'll calculated
to produce discomfort among our brave soldiers by
fears of the probable suffering of their families
caused by enhancement in prices Of every article
necessary for their support. We therefore pledge
ourselves and call all good citizens to aid u.s. to
make every effort to arrest so great an evil, the
tendency of which, if not arrested, is to do our
country go much damage and to give to our ene-
my the aid they desire.
X II Lewis (Forcman), H b Fitzpatrick
Thos N Aston, Kader Biggs,
John Long, Turner Bass,
John Throp, John j Hayes,
IA I
John NJ Moody, + 2 Powell,
W Heptinstall, j t Lawrence,
A NJ johnson, James G Wynne,
VIM Boone, j S Barrow.
CONFEDERATE MONEY.-We learn that some
persons are pretending that after the 1st of Au-
gust next Confederate Treasury notes will be-
worthless. This is of course either mistake or
pretence They will be just as good after August
as now--and perhaps better-with this exception,
that after that date one kind of those notes. viz
those dated Sept. l, 1861, will not be fundablc
that is, holder Of such notes will have no right
as he now has, to invest them in Confederate
bonds. The effect of this will be- not to make
the notes worthless, but that they will not crcu.
late, as people will prefer to take notes issued
since Dec. lst 1862, which by law are lundable
The Government has made notes of prev ;ous date
uncurrent, (not worthless, because it wished them
all Withdrawn from circulation by funding before
August 1868. From present appearances they
will be mostly funded by that time; and the alarm
III regard to them will do that much good
Let us hear no more about the worthles>ness Of
Confederate notes. lfanything in the Confede-
racy is Of worth, these notes are DESTROY the
Confederacy and you destroy the value of Confed-
crate notes Maintain the Confederacy, and you
maintain the value of its notes He is an enemy
to both who depreciatcs either.-Fny. Observer
GuNRoAr RAID To MURFRREsBoRo'- We
learn that three -gunboats came up to Murfrees-
oor' n e., On Friday the 22!, and landed par
y VINO tore up things generally. They stole TO-
ooo lbs. OF bacon belonging to our Commissary
department. They went to the Methodist Female
College in the village, Hoke up the Furniture and
took the pianos belonging to the Institution aboard
and carried them off. The Yankees prowled
about town and had everything their own vav
.
Rg~Six privates belonging TO Capt Barring
teas company, Maj Whitford's battalion, boarded
and captured, on Saturday last, 40 miles below
Nowbern, Wilkerson's Point, on the Neuse
River, where she had grounded, Yankee .Schoo-
ner, (the Sea Bird,) 100 tons. burden, and her
entire crew, consisting of eight white men and
runaway negroes from Norfolk. The Sea Bird
was loaded with coal from Philadelphia, bound to
Newbern. Our men burned the boat and cargo
and took the crew as prisoners--,Roleigh Jour