The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-07-12
NORTHERN ITEMS.

The Yankee Congress passed the enrolment
bill on the 3D. Tt provides for the reception of
substitutes, repeats the communication law, and re-
qui1es 81 days notice of the draft
Secretary Chase has resigned. Various causes
have been assigned. Chase's friends claim that he
had determined month ago to retire at the end
Of the fiscal year. The operations in gold, on the
30th were extremely wild Prices ranged between
$40 and 249. w Fessenden takes Chases place.
Chase on the eve of his resignation, wrote let
ter urging the raising Of four hundred millions of
additional tax this year
The Yankee Senate has added an amendment to
the bill for Republican form of government for
States now in rebellion, which provides that no
State declared by the President in rebellion, shall
vote for President vice President.
. During the debate in the House on the 25th,
Fernando Wood spoke for peace. He said the war
was unpopular, as shown by the necessity of draft
ing that out and out peace President would be
elected next fall The speech and the Abolition
rejOnders created great excitement
I The editor of the Chicago Times asks Fif it re-
qures million and half of men three years to
reach the defences of Richmond, how long will it
take to reach the Gulf?'
Commodore Wilkes has been sentenced by court
martial to suspension from service for three years,
and to be publicly reprimanded by the Secretary
of War r.
Capt. George W. Russell and J. J. Moore were
arrested in Baltimore for saying "damh Butler"
"damn Lincoln" "dam the whole Yankee trbeI'
And Charles Meeney is under arrest for saying of
some women who were waving flags at passing
regiment, that they 'were not as good niggers."
GRANTS ARMY --Senator Wilson, of Mass ,
Chairman Of the Senate Committee On Military
Affairs, in the of recent debate in the Sc
nate, gave some statistical information relative to
the strength of the Union armies, &c, of very
great value From this official exhibit it appears
that since the 18th of October last, six hundred
thousand men, not including black men, have en-
listed or re-enlsted in the Yankee armies, and
that one hundred and twenty-five millions of dol
lars have been expended in bountles since that Pc
Rod; that within the past year seven hundred
thousand men have been put In the field, and that
slnce General Grant commenced his march toward
Richmond, renforcements to the number of forty
eight Thousand men, exclusive of the one hundred
days men-some <wo thousand more-have been
forwarded to him.
LATER.-The n Y Herald of the 4th says
that Staunton had telegraphed to Gen. Dix that
Kirby Smith was crossing the Mississippi.
Several confused kilograms from Harper's Ferry
indicate heavy rebel forces moving in that direc
ton, in three columns. Baltimore was greatly ex-
cited on Saturday with rumors that rebel cavalry
and infantry had approached near Martinsburg
At last accounts, Gen Kelly had evacuated the town
The Baltimore Gazette, of the 4th, says that all
COMMUNICATIONS between Little Rock and Mem
phs cut off
A great fire had occurred at the Springfield Ar
mory, (Massachusetts,) destroying much machine
ry &c. Congress was to iourn on the 4th in-
slant. Provisions of all kinds have advanced
largely.