The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-03-15

We suppose the writer to be Major WINSTON Oh
Rockingham county, n. c., and of the 10th Regt,
who has recently reached his home He says 'it
!. estimated that over three hundred escaped Con-
federate prisoners are now in Canada waiting an
opportunity to get home" Speaking of his ex-
perience in the North, he says:
"To the Confederates, who knows would
speak, cheer up. Our enemies are becoming dis
organized. $4,000 Yankee dsserters are now 10
Canada. AS to old regiments reenlisting, it is all
a humbug Their treasury is failing; when this
takes place soldiers who fight under thousand dol
lar bounties will not fight Cheer up. God with
the weapon Of right will conquer glorious peace
II Several yankee prisoners have recently made
their escape from the trains between Weldon, N. c,
and Columbia, S. c., whilst on their way to their
new quarters in Georgia. 1t would be well for
people everywhere to keep sharp lookout for these
escaped yankees, as they may do much mischief.
Two captured in the upper part of this county
last week and brought to Charlotte. They had on
Confederate coats.
| EXEMPTIoNs.--In addition to the exemptions
particularly named in the Military Bill the
| Secretary of War has ordered that the following ex-
emptions shall be allowed until further orders:
The officers of the Government of the Confederate
| States whose nominations have been made by the
| President and confirmed by the Senate, or who
have been appointed by the Judges of the District
Courts under the authority confded by any act of
| Congress the judges justices of any supreme,
superior circuit court of any States the Judges OF
probate. clerk of any court of record, ordinary,
sheriff, tax collector in each county, and re-
corder of deeds and wills if there be such officer
existing by law; and such other officers of the State
provided by law the Governor shall certify to be
necessary TO the proper administration OF the State
| Government
THE SUBSTITUTE MATTER.--The Virginia Su-
preme Court of Appeals, last week, in habeas
corpus case, decided that the late law conscrbing
| those who had furnished substitutes constu
tiona-a the Judges concurring in this opinion.
Judge Pearson of this State, is the only Judge in
the Confederacy who has decided against the law,
and his opinion will be over-ruled by the Supreme
| Court when it meets in June.
u The General Assembly of the Presbyterian
| Church of the Confederates States meets in this
place the 5th day of May next. We hope our
country friends will remember this. and about that
time bring in their poultry, eggs, &C. anything to
make goodies for the preachers and cause them to
feel good and exceedingly comfortable.
Ey One of the yankee blockading vessels off
Wilmington sunk, last week. while chasing
vessel at the mouth of Cape Fear River. Another
blockader was struck and damaged by shots from
our batteries.
| NORTHERN PAPERs.-To the thoughtfulness of
| Dr. j. HI. Gbbon indebted for two copies
! of the New York Herald. The news contained in
these papers has, of been anticipated, but
| in looking them we find many significant items
and curious revelations of Yankee life.
| According to the Herald the city of New York
| is about corrupt hole can be found in the
world Everybody knows that the Herald is just
| about as corrupt paper as was ever published in
any country, but it sometimes takes a rogue to
catch-a rogue.
These papers contain several letters from CORES
pondents giving accounts of battles and skrmshes.
in every of which it is asserted that the rebels
outnumbered the Union troops two or three to
one. The yankee excuse for every defeat is, that
they we're overpowered by superior numbers. Well
may Lincoln calculate, according to the reports of
his officers and correspondents, that the rebels have
| an immense army.
One significant item find in these papers, is
the statement that by the last of the present year,
the United States will have currency in circula-
ton amounting to sirteem hundred millions of DOL
| Lars and the Herald the people to prepare
| for the approaching crash.
The Herald seems to have poor opinion of Lin
coins administration and the Yankee Congress. and
thus speaks of the Yankee law confscating 'rebeI'
property:
The RIDICULOUS DoINGs IN CoNGREss.-Con-
gress has passed resolution which confiscates alb
soutely and forever all the property, real and per-
sonal, of the Southern rebels. Such resolution is
! in direct contravention of the constitution. and
| therefore is nonsense. The constitution re-
cognzes for the forfeiture Of property ex-
cept treason, and it limits forfeiture even in that
case the life of the traitor But the radicals like
Thaddeus Stevens, insane fanatic of the Danton,
Marat and Robespierre type, go above and beyond
the constitution. Since that instrument gives them
power to crafty their insane spirit of hate against
the South they claim that the rebels outside of
any that the constitution provides for They
90 so far to say that the rebels traitors,
but foreign enemies and that their property is there
fore subject to the common laws of war. Of course
this measure have other effect than to en-
bitter and render still more desperate that part of
the South that still holds out, and to forever pre-
clude the possibility that any portion of the South
people again become good citizens of the
United States. President Lincoln should veto this
measure, if only in justice to his own repeated re-
cogntons that the Souherners are not foreign enc
mics, but domestic traitors. He should also veto it
in justice to that great sentiment of the country
that the rebellion is to be crushed, not by radical
! legislation, but by successful war;
| The Herald is not pleased with the present pros
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