Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1864-02-11
This War News.

The Richmond Examiner of the End inst, under the
above head publishes the following:
following official dispatch received at the War
JACKSON, VIA WELDON, N. Gu
"January Slst. 1851.
yesterday morning engaged the eremy with force of
1.-TWO hundred men and mountain rifle piece After a
flight of two hours in VIII ch engaged twelve hundred
the and three pieces Of artillery the Yankee
I'VE lost Elk men, The loss OF the s3eRy R RHs nPS"'
"Colonel Commanding
Advices of tie most reliable character from North
Carolina leave no doubt that the enemy is concentra
ting large forces at Eewbern and Morehead City. In
few VS. the public may expect the development Of
the crisis.
We are assured by On officer from Gen. Lees lines
that tie popular reports OF the scarcity of meat sup
plies ir the army OF Northern Virginia are exaggera
ted. Although the rations OF meat reduced, the
soldiers are now drawing full rations of sugar and OF
client coffee and well pleased to have these lux
uries in compensation for their scany allowances Of
meat.
The following communication will be read with in.
erest, and the writer has thanks for his kind at
tentious TO cur paper We hope he will keep up his
correspondence
CANT BURewyNE, uear Wilmington, n. Co.
Feb. Sd, 1864.
Mr.. EDITOR Having only one other correspondent
hnd that cannot resist the temptation to drop you
line now and then, order that your readers may
not remain in ignorance of what is going here and
there where have been. In my rsmbes among the
Buff 1os, aud Secesh too, frequently sh up facts and
incidents that will serve to and instruct your
readers. have managed, through the kindness of
friend, to three clippings from the Poets Cor
ner " of the Phiade phia Evening Journal" They
show boldueSS and spirit of resistance that is some
what surprising, when consider at how recent pc
rod euch things would have been considered treasona-
bic and might have cost the writer and publisher both
an Imprisonment within the dreaded walls of Fort La
iayette The journal s the organ of the Pennsyl-
vana Copperheads who to have increased in num-
bers since Lee showed them example of Southern
chivalry. The terms Copperhesd and " Buffalo I"
are Synonymous; the CopPers ing as cordially hated
By The ankees as are the Bluffs by There are not
many Buff llos among there are Copperheads
among the Yankees suppose they will number over
half million at this time. The term Buffalo" took
its origin from the fact that great many of those who
went mad ever red cockade, and b1aled and swore
that they could slaughter many Yankees, pro-
Vded the Yankees would only let them get close enough
the very first to turn tail and the approach
OF danger and below Subjugated! Subugated I" Sol
they were said to have lost their horns and called
Butaos " but this class gradually lost that name and
went by that OF EremPts Conscrapt, while the I'm
ION shEleke and those who volunteered in the Yankee
ervice took the of Buffalo, am not sufficient
IL we'll acquainted with Yankee aoord making to give
tbs history OF the word Copperhead and shall not med
die with it further.
don't know whether the circumstances of the muir
der of Dr. Leavy of Chowan county have yet got into
the papers not At any rate such atrocities cannot
be brought too frequently before the minds and eyes Of
the people, and in this way the Government may learn
of them and be induced to take some measures towards
putting a stop to them in future
Some time last year the Yankees went to Dr. Leayys
house and carried OF all his negroes and his provisions
tnls year. with the help OF bis children, he managed
10 raise sufficient crop for the maintenance of himself
ana family About five or six weeks ago, the Buf.los
oeng on raid in Chowan, went to the Drs house and
ueanuea MS corn He refusefto give bis consent for
them 10 take It, and they told him they would break
4o"p tne door ana take it any how. Whereupon the
Dr. being little excited with passion, told them that
ne would shoot the st man that attempted to enter bis
Darn. Being little ntmidated by the Dr. % snr;tad
manner, they vent of without going into his hern