The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-08-04
NORTHERN ITEMS.


Confseation.-A Washington despatch of the
3d. says: 10 day, in the District Court, decree
was granted confscating the personal estate of Dr.
Garrett, son-in-law of Ex-Governor Wise, during
his lifetime while his real estate is an absolute
forfeiture. The same principles affect seventeen
other cases. in which similar DEGREES were ordered
| to be issued. There are two other cases on the
docket, to be continued until the next term of the
court.
/! The draft IN the Wcst-The New York
"World' learns from its Western exchanges, that
for the present there will be no enforcement of the
draft in any of the States North and West of the
| Ohio river. 1t will be noticed that Colonel Fry,
in announcing the resumption Of the draft, men
toned the Middle and Eastern States as those in
which the CONSUMPTION was to be Immediately en-
forced. There is, doubtless, some reason for this
discrimination though we do not see its justice.
| The New York Tribune asks for an explanation
of the of General Grant in parong the Off
GERS who surrendered at Vicksburg. Previous to
that surrender it says, the Rebel Commissioner of
| Exchange had been notified that this government
meant TO protect all officers and soldiers under its
flag actlout regard to color, and since the rebels
have persisted IN refusing to exchange COL Straite
and his officers, under the preence that they were
in command OF negro troops, our government has
stopped all exchanges .:
Hon. John j. Crittenden died at Frankfort, KY,
on Sunday last, from general debility, without a
pain or struggle. His age was seventy-seven.
The Baltimore American of the 28th says there
is no longer any doubt but that Lees army has
eluded Meade again in nearly the old position in
and around Culpeper and Goraonsyille.
Bas~ There would seem to have been some more
rioting at sundry places in the Northern States,
and SO far as the larger towns and cities are con-
cerned the draft will be apt to have only pecu-
mary result, the city councils municipal govern
mcnt paying the $500 head necessary to pur-
chase exemption for those not able to pay for it
themselves. But in the country districts and
smaller towns this will not be the case but on the
contrary the draft will be personally enforced.
RETALIATION.-The reader will see that the
Northern papers state that Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and
Capt Wnder are to be executed in case the two
yankee Captains now under sentence of death at
Richmond are hanged. The circumstances are,
that two Confederate Captains were captured in
Kentucky while openly recruiting men 10 that
State, and were hanged. This act called for re-
taliation, and the two yankee Captains were seec-
ted by lot. Whether orr government will regard
this present yankee threat We cannot tell. 1t is
a most deplorable thing to contemplate the prob
able results of the system-cach instance of hang
ing serving justification for another, till every
captured officer in turn shall have been executed.
But what alternative have we? If we admit that
an officer be hanged for recruiting in Kentuc-
ky, SO in Tennessee, Virginia, any other State,
for Lincoln claims that they are all parts of the
United States. 1t is a horrid business, but our
government is not to blame.-Fuy. Observer.
1sy~We learn upon good authority that our
entire loss during the expedition into Maryland
and Pennsylvania in killed, wounded and prison
ers, will not reach $4,000 men at the outside, and
some good judges put it as low as twelve thou
sand Quite number are slightly wounded, and
Will soon be in the ranks again. There cannot be
doubt that the enemy's losses far exceeded ours.
MoRGAN's INDIANA RA1D.-Morean has not
yet been caught, though for the last ten days he
has been "entirely rounded, and his escape i'm
possible" according to the Yankee papers. The
Washington Star thinks his raid the most de-
structive in every sense ever undertaken by the
Confederates. He has draw troops from other
States to hurt him; he has destroyed almost every
thing in his track, and has introduced the sterror
OF war into country never before visited by
hostile troops"
How THE YANKEES FIGHT THEIR NEGROES.
An officer who was present, and took part in the
last battle Morris Island, accounts for the
rage displayed by the negroes in the assault on
Battery Wagner. The black prisoners were frss
drenched with whiskey, and then told to 60 for
ward, that ten thousand were close on their
rear, and every negro that faltered would be shot
down or run through with the bayonet. In this
way the poor deluded wretches were hurried for
ward to certain destruction.
CHINESE SUGAR CANE.-As there is a consid-
cradle quantity Of this article planted the present
season, we warn our readers to be careful how they
leave it exposed to stock. A valuable young
horse died near the depot on Saturday last, it is
supposed from having partaken of it in the green
state The stalk is said to contain flint, and
operates on the intestines like ground glass Whe-
ther, or not, our farmers and others, should
investigate its good and bad qualities for stock is
too valuable to be exposed to danger now.--Tork-
ellie Enquirer.
AcTs OF NORTHERN ABoLITIoNIsTs AT HOME.
The New York World thinks it quite strange,
that, under free government that claims, to be
fighting for liberty, that paragraphs of the charac
ter ofthe following should be continually met with
in the newspapers
The Muscatine (Iowa) Journal says there was
tir1n fl,o e