True Democrat., 1863-04-22
ITEMS.

March.
 - At a cash sale of negroes in Owensoofo' Ky., men brought fraction over $500, and women about hundred dollars less.
 - It is amusing to see how they keep up thelr courage at the Northby reports of evacuation oi different points. For weeks, they had 1t reporteu and believed that We evacuating Vicksourg A week or two since it was confidently asserted that preparations were being made to evacuate Richmond.
 - On the 3rd of April ali the Confederate prisoners at camp Douglas, Chicago, except l"o in the hospital, were sent South. The Chicago Tribune says that 3 3,S00 were received in January Of these upwards of 7G0 died, 229 were released upon taking the oath of allegiance and the rest were disposed of somehow. At all events, they manage to kill ab)u. one third. - A federal, or tory colonel in Missouri wrote a pamphlet entitled " Voice from the camp" It was . plea against emancipation. It was printed, bat before being distributed, was seized by the provost marshal and that scamp Gen Ben Loan burned the whole edition. The day for ut tering free opinions is past in Missouri, but it will return again.
 
 ing the mouth of Arkansas river, and the Conesto ga and other vessels, the mouth of White rlVer'
 ----- On the l2th of March there were l5,0OO federals in the hospitals at Nashville. There were fortytwo hospitals crowded with men, besides l boarding houses filled with officers As usual with the Yankees, when they meet with a disaster, they vent. their spite on wo- men and children. Capt. Mosby caught the teder- al general Stoughton and sent him to Richmond. 1 Thereupon the federals accused q young lady ot giving information which led to the capture, had her arrested, and notified large number of per sons to go South. They sending thousands of women and children across the lines, and Lincoln said lately that he would send so many women and children to Richmond that beef would be five dollars pound.
 = At Mobile and other stationary camps the soldiers have cleared and planted large regimen tai garden. They will have peas, roasting ears, melons and all that sort of thing
 - Truly Lincoln governs a nation of thieves The plunder act'' passed by the ederal Congress, provides that the secretary of the treasury shall appoint agents to go South, collect all property, send it North and have it sold. The owner get pay for his stolen property by proving his tory ism and paying all expenses. It is a wholesale, systematic, national robbery, with licensed and commissioned thieves
 - They are about 10 have an election in Missouri for members of an emancipation conven- ton. First, they will let no man vote unless he 1 sweals to vote they want him to, and then pa rade it as the expression Of the will of the people Freedom is about played out in the border States.
 - Our citizens remember F. ". Hoadley, law partner of Col. McConaughey. He is BOW in command of one of the lower batteries at Vicks- burg, and has made quite reputation. We have seen honorable mention made of him several times and the Vicksburg Citizen of the 25th ult speak ing of the fight says: All our batteries did excel lent shooting and deserve great credit But the water batteries of Major F. ". Hoadey and the battery of Major Ogden deserve especial mention" Bully for Hoariey..
 - Fort McAlster is on tue edge of q small town called Hardwick. in Byron county, the Ogechee river, above Osabaw Sound, and about twenty miles south of Savannah.
 - The wines of ex President Tyler, were sold at auction lately. Here are some of the prices: Rhensh, $0 bottle; old Sautene, Min Duquense, sll; Madeira, SIP; Ceylon Maderia, Sl5; old Port, $l9; old French brandy $l00 a gal lon. An exchange says: " Ceopatras little feat of drinking pearls i'll wine, not such an cx- pensive luxury after all-the man who drinks one hundred dollar brandy ought to have line or two of history about hm
 - It is a problem we'll worth the study Of IL, ofb to f,- tbr development of official puppysm. You may take a decent, well raised young man and put him as barkeeper in hotel OF cler~ to quartermastcr or commssary, and it is good two to one Bet that he turns into ill-natured puppy. There ard exceptions We are glad to say, but the rule will hold good general one.
 |. - Lincolns first call, under his conscrpt act, will be for .300000 men. In order to induce those 10 stay in the army whose terms soon expire, he offers fifty dollars bounty and their States, coun- ties and cities offer further bounties, amounting in some cases, to one hundred and fifty dollars.
 - The abolition governor of Iowa, Kirkwood sad recently, that if any convicted of assaultng Or even killing a secessonist in that State, the. Kirkwood, would pardon him.
 - A cannon foundry, under the immediate direction of Major F. c. Humphries, is nearly completed at Columbus, Ga
 At Helena, and within mile of it, four thousand federal soldiers have died since the st of August, 1862 To this may be added thou sand negroes.
 Incoln's conscription act does not exempt preachers. The parsons are running around among the faithful to get them to subscribe three hundred dollars to buy them off.
 - The fedcrals crow Justify over the destruc ton of the iron clad steamer Georgana, at Long Island, on the South Carolina coast She was one of the new vessels built in Europe, and it was in tended after she had discharged her cargo to put her armament on board and send her to help the | Alabama.
 - A steamer from Mobile, by way of Nassau reached England about the first of March, with 1900 bales of cotton, and $6000O0 in specie.
 - We are mortified to learn that large meet ings arc being helt in Ireland to express sympathy with the Lincoln government. At Mullingar, West Meath county, 30 900 were present, and resolutions were adopted by exclamation sustain ing the United States. These are the repeaers who, while they profess to be anxious for arepeal of inc union of Ireland with England, want to maintain T union which to us is more hateful than | theirs.