The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-11-08


of Gen. Hoods army, in letter to the Selma APP
peal, speaks of the dscouragements he and his com
rades met with while passing from Hoods to For
rests command, through eorgia and Alabama. lie
says when he left Hoods rnly he was cheerful ane
buoyant' not the least spark of dependency was
lurking in his bosom. but when he got to Griffin ane
Macon and Montgomery, and saw SO many useless
shade officers in those places and so many men
longing about the streets doing nothing, and heard
! SO much gloomy foreboding uttered by those who
are staying at home he began to feel gloomy and
discouraged himself. After describing what he saw
and heard, he closes his letter thus:
1T is such influences as these that operate upon
the minds of the soldier. He leaves tho army hope
full and returns disheartened. Let me say to you.
men i'll the rear that we who do the fighting not
whipped, and if they viii have confidence in we
will whip the fight. Be cheerful. be hopeful, and
with ALL let each man be determined, whatever his
position may be. to do all he for the cause. We
will win. Napoleon's veterans waded thro gh
fields Of greater carnage than have done lin pro-
portion to numbers and which willing to do
again. Then, in the name of all you hold sacred.
whether in money, love life. conjure you to act
like men. To the old men | would say, speak in
the presence of soldiers hopefully and encouraging
ly. Let no croaking be heard in our land, whether
from males or females"
70 $500 Shares of stock in the Columbia and
Hamburg Railroad were sold at auction in Augusta,
week before last, at $40 and $50 per share of $25
The road is now in progress of construction
e. The Raleigh Conservative says that Z" it is
rumored about town that several persons who were
about to be made liable to CONSUMPTION to be
sent off in the Home CT ard have disappeared, and
the presumption is they have gone to the yankees
1t appears also that number have run off from
Randolph Guilford, Davidson and Forsyth, who
were liable to Home Guard duty" And the Con-
servative very properly remarks " it is high time
that those who are among as who are not willing to
discharge the duties of honest. patriotic citizens
should be known and sent off at once. No such
person is entitled to the privilege of citizenship any
longer"
A law should be passed, as recently suggested by
the Greensboro Citizen, to confscate the property
Of persons who abscond to the enemy. Sales made
just previous to leaving should be considered void.
From the Winston IN. c. Sentinel.
ANOTHER COOP HAUL.-We learn that batch of
thirty persons-dsloy alists-were forwarded Rich
mond from Wytheville, and incarcerated in Castle
Thunder one day last week. These persons were
captured in Southwestern Va, while tryin, to make
their way through our lines to the Yankees. An
of this character would ordinarily excite
especial interest," but in looking the names of the
party captured find that they partly from this
county. we'll as from some of the adjoining counties,
and constituted portion of the party tina, dccamped
from this section of the State few weeks since, and
whose leaving briefly referred to week before last.
We give below list of these runaways. Those
mentioned in the first paragraph believed to be all
from this Forsyth county the others are supposed
to be mostly from Guilford. They secure, not
within the Yankee lines, but in Castle Thunder where
they will remain until tried by cour-maral.
David Shields J. H. Reid, James Browning, James
Crews, w. E. Spaugh, A. J. Masten. J. II. IDOL John
D. Holder, B. F. Bundy H. Canp bell, Frank Mickey,
L. Smith, y. A Stafford, J. Smith, John Smith, Elwood
Smith. Smith Frazer, J. P. Reed.
J. Q x. Conner, J. G. Armfeld, ". Watson, J. R.
Stephens, II Husse Peoples George Freddy, VIM
Hyatt Hyatt J F Ledbetter, John Stafford Men,
der.
We also have obtained and give herewith a list of
those captured in this county last week:
D NJ Brown H H Case, VIM Robinson, F Harvey,
Thos Wilson, j High6eld Thos Price, B L Lee,
Lewis, W Linve, H L Raye, Franklin Rayle,
cid, Lamb, David Oakley, S Ogburn Jesse Hyatt,
phillip Jean, HaIworth. Gardner: