True Democrat., 1863-01-14
ITEM s


 - The official statement of the loss at Ere dercksburc by the abolitionists is l3,500 killed and wounded, of which 900 were killed.
 - Nine columns of the New York Herald are devoted to whatit calls great victory in North Carolina. But the papers generally admit that Eos ter's campaign was failure. About the 2Sth ult., the abolition army again left Newborn. One ac- count says they are moving Kinston; another that they were aiming w eldon.
 - There were two hundred and fifty men on board the abolition gunbott Cairo; only six were | saved. The abolitioni>ts at first denied that any | were lost. They now admit that over two hun dred '' went under"
 - The St. Louis respOndcnt oi that rank | abolition paper the Burlington, Iowa, Hawkeye, lets US ito some secrets concerning Gen. Curtis. It seems that Curtis is unpopular; the people of St. Louis detest him; Phelphs, the would be gov ernor of Arkansas, hates him; Steele and other. I officers despise him. Curtis is q rank aholitionSt while Phclphs has to wash down L.ncoln's procia- nation with huge draughts of rye whisky, and the making of many wry faces. Besides this there IS an old political grudge between them. The peo ple hat. Curtis because they believe him to be
  yheard of him, is quite gentleman for federal officer, and has natural aversion to such men as Curtis The letter above referred to shows that there is bitter strife between the military feeders i'll Missouri.
 - The Indian war threatens to break out again in Dacotah terrtoy. oJOJ Indians were marching Fort Pierie.
 - James Gordon Bennett. has sold out, or given away his interest in the New I ork Herald. His son succeeds him as nominal editor.
 - Several of the Northern States enacted what are known as personal liberty pills. lhese were designed to prevent the return of runaway negroes, and went on to make 1t felony to arrest any person and carry him off or to ccntnc or inn prison him without due process of law. Judge Hoffman, of New \ ork, at the opening of the court of sessions charged the grand jury to this effect and showed that the arbitary arrests made bv Lincoln and his officers, came under this act and that any order from the President or other ot- fcer. would not constitute legal defence. 50 the grand iury of New York are bound by their oath and the laws of thelr state to indict Lincoln, Se ward, Stanton and others, as kidnappers and II the law is carried out, these gentry are candidates for the penitentiary. If it could only be carried mo effect, we would have the abotionists punished by law of their own making, which was designed to rob southern men. It is useless to hope to see these engineers lifted by their own petlrI," but l they richly deserve it.
 - In addition to the teegraphc dcspatchcs, we have various rumors ofimportant events. There is one to the effect that the governors of seven
 l. 6.nl h,co In bat wi withdraw the troops of their respective states from the army upon certain contingencies W hat those contingencies are Madame Rumor fails to inform us Seven of the governors of the northern states, some of whom took their seats the first oi January are conservatives. The radicals at the North are playing bold and desperate game, and to bring direct pressure on Lincoln; several of the abolition governors notified him that unless he issue his emancipation proclamation they would withdraw their troops W presume. that this has been met by counter threat on the part ot the conservatives, that if he does issue 1t, they will withdraw the troops from their states. That this is the state of case is sustained by the fact that northorn dispatches of late date intimate that Lincoln is about to defer issuing his proclamation until the 4th of March.
 - We have rumors of riots in New fork; oi an attempted arrest of John Van Buren; ot the arrest of ValIandingham, etc. We do not put much credence in these, q. arrests for political offences at the North, are pretty we'll played out. The people are ripe for revolution and spark in the cunpowder may produce terrible explosion.
 - President Davis has issued proclamation declaring Butler, the Beast an enemy of the hu- man race, and making it lawful to hang him when aver caught. All officers serving under him are not to be exchanged or paroed. What post But Tor will fill. now that he has been removed from New Orleans, is unknown, but it is to be hoped he will take the field where he may be caught.
 - Persons just from Memphis say that they talked freely with the federal officers, who were despondent They said that if Vicksburg was not l taken at once, the game of war would end. One half their army would fight no longer for the ne oroes and the other half would fight for nothing sese | - At Newborn, the Yankees broke open the vaults in the burial grounds to obtain the silver plates on the colias on which are engraved the names of the deceased. Among the collins thus robbed was that of the father of the recreant Stan ley, who is Lincoln's military governor of N- '. | They rihed the tomb of the sister of John Mar shall. They stole the very gravestones at James, | town
 - President Davis proclamation concerning Butler the Beast referred to in another item, is little different from the statement therein made. After declaring Butler outlaw, he goes on state that no federal officer hereafter will be paroled, until an exchange is effected.
 l - The abolitionists had six pontoon bridges across the Rappahanneck. Three of these they carried off and three remain in our possession.- | The enemy are falling back to the Potomac.