Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1863-04-10

it he should be lef. at Petersburg he would
know where he could lind a warm breakfast.
dinner or supper, aud where he could stay all
night Without it costing him anything. Such a
house, with one hundred beds. could be kept
up without much expense by having elderly
LADIES in charge oft, and if any men are need
ed letthem be over fifty years old or men who
have lost limb ia the good cause a one arm
ed or one eyed man would make Just as good
.cominissaFies, clerks or stewards as foreigners
or those who will not fight for the South aud
who fiji these places. | know there are per-
sors Swao will say let them go to the Hospitals
in Petersburg. These men have been dong
all .n their power tor weeks or months TO ex-
tricate themselves from Hospitals, and they DO
not feel disposed to enter others /; their object
is to 20 home and take their little mite of mon
ey 70 their naked aud half starved little nnes.
Others will say let there be y.side Hospi-
tai. No, many of them wonla sooner die in
the street thae enter any Hospital ard | am
sorry to say from my observations that they
show their good seuse. 1t is ,rue there have
beer ard are still some we'll directed lIospi-
tails but now they are ont OF a Hospital, and
what they wish is tn GO hume aud take their
monay with .hen. 1t was only tne other day
that | saw III Petersburg poor young fellow
who was looking the picture of death, ard who,
Mister, | have been left by the cars, and if
had rot been | am too sick to travel, | have no
money to pay the high Price Of beard, and |
am told must 60 to hospital lie was one
OF hunoreds who are daily in the same situa~
ton. Such hoose as | have spoken Of could
be kept up by private contributions from all,
the different States, the House wouid he
for the beneGt OF any soldier ,r distress. I re-.
peat that it could be kept up at little expense
for the reason that there would be no Physi
clans, Medicines, Clerks, Book keepers, &c, as
at Hospitals and Hotels. w. |. M.
The Feeling at the North Since the change
of base OF Jotlu Van Buron, probably owing to
some bargain and sale looking to the next Pre- S
id-nzy we,lav seen li,t!.esas1s,l,. the ropro.
sitonto the Lincor administration and the
further prosecution ef the war, that we had fear
ed that opposition was dying out instead Of in.
creasing. But the latest New York Herald
gives reason to believe that such is not the fact
1t says, editor a'y,-
''Noisy peace agitators, claiming to lead the
consef vative Democracy ARE seen ON every side
saving the air and on the stump and in the
Legislative assembly. are heard preaching peace
ailnistices and conventions and the most de
grading concessions to jeff. Davis, and armed
resistance against Lacoin for the sake of peace.
Anu the l1efdl0 cnQeaVOrS TO divert THESE
noisy peace agitators from their purpose by tel
ling them that the South s'spits upon their
peace offerings 1t urges Lincoln to execute
the conscript laws. as his only choice. 4 g
As to the Northwest, tho j ackson (Miss.)
Crisis says that,
Judging from publications in number of
newspapers now before us, issued at different
points in Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, the nnder
current Of feeling is most intense, and the pop
ular excitement is daily increasing. In some
cases, the conservatives have been assaulted in
public places and number of homicides have
resulted in other cases, abolition preachers
have proposed from the pulpit To murder all
the democrats in gveI county! In another
case, all abolition Governor (Airkwood of
Iowa) annouhce5 that he would pardon any
man for assaa!sing, knocking down, etc. any
ether man who sym mpathised with rebellion. :
The conservatives begin to see, an6 TO appre-
cate faily, v hat has becn 50 long patent. to
those who look beneath the surface of things
aud reason correctly upon gwen data that Il
revclutiol--terrlble,s bloody, wide spread and
exhausuve-must inevitably occur at the
North. It's time approaches. Moral justice
Willtwork out its own orders"
The Heraid's money article Of the 26th OF
March, speaking of the rather singular and un.
expected decline of gold, gives as. reason that
there is an expectation ct peace II says9:s4gg
S The fdea-tr perhaps we should say the de-
lnsive expectation--of an early peace evidently
rl;oS tts art af hich tha GecIna