The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-04-19
NORTHERN ITEMS.


quotation of gold was 1903.
The Gazette says a battle took place at Cain
river near Shreveport, the lst instant, but the
military authorities have vouchsafed no infor-
nation concerning the result of the battle. The
New Orleans correspondent of the n. Y ork World
admits the Federal troops so badly handled that
the expedition will be abandoned. The brigade
of negroes was entirely broken up in the engage
ment, which resulted in their capture.
The Washington correspondent of the N. York
World says preparations for the grand movement
on Richmond going forward with energy
Smith will command the I'd army corps, and push
up the Peninsula, while the army of the Potomac
keeps Lees army vigorously occupied. Burnside
will attempt to hold the route from Goldsboro.
party of Confederates recently took possession
of the lighthouse on Cape Lockout and blew it up.
Farragut confesses Mobile cannot be taken by
the feet without Simultaneous move of the army
paT The Yankee Senate has adopted joint
resolution proposing amendment to the consti-
tuition prohibiting slavery, 81 to 6.
Carrot Darts on Lincoln Garret Davis, Of
KY, made speech in the u S. Senate a few
days since, of which Washington letter says
He began by denouHcing, in most bitter Ian
guage, the policy of the Administration, and ar
raigning Lincoln as tyrannical usurper He attri-
buted all the present difficulties to the spestifer-
Gus States" of Massachusetts, and South Carolina,
and believed change of Administration the only
safeguard against utter destruction. His decara-
ton that Kentucky had more to fear from the pre-
sent Executive than from Jeff. Davis, and that he
would support for the Presidency any man on the
face of the earth, "excepting negro" in prefer
ence to Mr. Lincoln, occasioned something of a
sensation, WHICH, however, quickly subsidized, the
Senate settling again into studied air of inatten
ton and indifference
The Collapse Of Yankee Finance-7Ae End
of the War-An editorial in the New York Times
of the I'd, speaking of the extravaganza that pre-
walls in the United States, says: "This ostenta-
ton is kept up mostly by foreign fabrics, which
only gold can buy. The specie basis, which alone
can sustain currency and credit, is being more
aud more largely drawn away; and without cur
rency and credit, no war can be effectually prose-
cuted. The disproporton between gold and paper
cannot 90 on increasing for great period without
producing financial collapse. And should that
collapse come, the war; may be sure, will straight
way end. Our Government can practice no such
repudating shifts as the rebel Government is now
essayng There is too much moral principle yet
left in the Northern people to tolerate any nation
al turpitude Of that sort. When it comes to the
point that this war demands reputation, the war
will be abandoned, and all the sacrifices our SOL
SPLIT AMONG THE MoRMoNs-Therei is Sc
rious schism in the Mormon ranks The seces-
sionists declare against po4ygamy and content
themselves with one wife-at least one at time
An organization founded on this idea has been
formed in Cincinnati, under the leadership of
Joseph Smith, Jr, and Isaac D. Rodgers They
say that they have missionaries operating in Brig
ham YOungs domnons, who are very successful
in making converts. This present rendezvous is
10 the vicinity of Chicago but they have purchased
80 900 acres of land in Missouri where they in
tend to settle when the war is over, and build up
CITY for the habitation of the faithful.
LATER
RICHMOND, April l5.-Northern papers of the
18th p. m., have been received. Gold in New
York on the 18th was 1851.
The Yankee vessel Minnesota was seriously in
jured by the torpedo explosion. The steamer
Maple Leaf, from Philadelph for Jacksonville,
Fla, struck a torpedo or the lst inst The ex-
ploson tore off her bow, causing her to sink in ten
minutes
In the Yankee House of Representatives resolu-
tons for the expulsion of Long of Ohio, for sup
posed disloyalty, still pending. During the
debate on Saturday, Harris of Maryland said {:
"The South could not be subjugated. God Al
mighty grant it never may be. l hola you never
will subjugate the South" A resolution for the
expulsion OF Harris was onereo out faised Tor want
of two thirds vote j.
Four thousand Federal troops occupy Eagle
Pass, 400 miles above Brownsville, Texas.
The French are marching on Matamoras, and
fight has taken place in which the French we're
victorious. Cortinas had issued proclamation
ordering all the troops to be concentrated on the
Rio Grande to resist the occupation of shat place
by the French
European advices to the 9lst have beea received.
The Prlssians attempted to carry the Danish for
ti6cations at Duppel by storm on the goth. After