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

ed by command Lieut. Cen Longstreet; also receipt
Feb certifying hundred and ten dollars had beer
paid A. G. Crombie, Assistant Surgeon, signed Jas.
moesy few priv ate letters &C., sc.
to bis friends mention that he was de-
Gently inferred and should they wish to obtain the ABOVE
ntione articles they can get them hY sppyipg 10
Pest Master at Faisons n. G.
Il By private letter from Windsor, BERTHE Co., n
c. we learn that the Yankee force, estimated at from
800 to 200, entered that place Saturday morning
January 3Oth at an early hour hoping to surprise our
troops there. Landing at three separate points, they
surrounded the town. There were Only 100 Confeder
ates there, who, upon bearing of the landing Of the
enemy went out to mill about three miles from town
The enemy finding their camp deserted pursued, when
our little force turned upon them with artillery, and so
surprised our wouldbe surprisers to drive them
back to town. Having failed to capture soldiers, they
took their revenge upon citizens Having carried Of
nearly all the negroes, they arrested and took to New
berne five of the principal citizens among these we've
Rev. Cyrus Waters Recon of the Episcopal Church,
and two of the vestrymen, viz DR.. Turner Wilson,
the only practicng physician in the place, and L. s.
Webb, Esq Had our movement upon Newberne been
successful We should probably have Tecaptured ITEM
AsHoRE.-We lean that the steamer spunkey has got
aground near where the Advance grounded when last
ing in. ia believed that the Steamer and cargo will be
saved
P. g. Since writing the above have heard that the
Spunkey Is likely pieces She is under the OF
Fort Cambel and greater part of her cargo will pro-
badly be saved.
THERE ARE sundry versions of the Guilfcrd county
meeting, the Standard containing account drawn up
by the Secretary in which everything is reported as
passing off finely, including long string of cunningy
devised fables we mean resoutiors-in which The
real aim of TIE promoters is hidden uEder moss OF
words-that aim though hidden is lot abandoned. 1t
is peace at the cost of submission
any other sacrifice or humiliation. mears 10
wards this end the resolutions embcdy bill of ndict
ment against the Confederate Government, and darkly
hint of danger to our rights and subversion to our
liberties through the action Of the Confederate Con-
gress and Executive. the object beirg to make 9
Government cdious to peopIe-to wean their aztec
tons from the Cenfederacy and thus prepare them for
transfer to LINCOLN and Company.
y But as we have already said, there sundry and
variant accounts of the meeting itself Instead Of the
plain sailing reported by the friends Ct the movement
We have heard from outside sources that there
really chance of doirg any thing-tIat the meeting
broke up after lasting not ove halt hour-that if
the resolutions read nobody heard them, and il
they passed nobody knew it. If, as reported by
WIN. NJ MEBANE, Secretary, the meeting was address
sed by ROBERT P. DICK, D. F. CALDWELL and JAMES
A. LONG," it must have been done in dumb show.
SHOT FOR DEsER11cN-We Learn that on the goth
January, 1864, Ransom Baltimore, of the 10th Bat
talon, n. G. T., (Maj. Yeungs,) shot at Fort
Caswell for desertion in pursuance of the finding of
general court martial.
The NORTH CAReLINIAN.-We have received the
second number of tie third volume of The Daily North
Carolnian the publication Of which bas been resumed
at Fayetteville, n. e., by Col. p. j. Sinclair.
The Caroinian is for the times, neatly printed, and
Col Sinclair besides being easy and forcibe writer
has already had considerable experience in the manage
ment of newspaper. He will, no doubt, make an
interesting and valuable paper. $l2 for six months
s. for three months.
THE AaE.-We have, from the publishers, NIessrs
Ernest Lagarde Co.. Richmond, Va, the first num-
Der OF " The Age,' oting that for January 1864 W.
N. Burwell and Ernest Lagorda, Editors The Age
is monthly magazine, containing about Sc pages
Its table of contents give promise of interest Price
81 for three months IS for six months.
The ankee papers do not at all like the tone of the
Pope's letter to President Davis. The W ashington
Chronicle edited by the infamous Forny, envegbs in
harsh terms The Chronicle is Lincon's ditthrower,
and Forney is his lick spttle, and yet Forney
supposed to be white man, and toIerably decent.
WE LEARN from the Raleigh Confederate Of Satur-
day that Mr.. Alfred stany, brother of Edward
Stanly, former bogus Governor of North Carroll
ma, by the appointment of Lincoln arrived few days
since in Raleigh. Mr.. Stany, unlike his brother is
true and ardent Southern man, and thus te7be
rested, thrown into The Jail at Washington, Beaufort
county, from which he transferred to Fort Nc
Henry, where be has been for some months past. He
,as only been released few days by exchange.
that tbs Army Conscrptien is actually
foreigners being enrolled in the North
Carolina for home defence. This wi raise question cal
for the prompt action OF other that will
,ro ably add phaZa to the conflict now raging.
We copy the above from the Bahama Herald of the
3d. We do not think that the laws in this resrect are
ferent in North Carolina from what they are in any
her State.
We are indebted to the kindness of rierd for I
opy of the New York Herald of the Goth ult. We
nd the following iteu, which do not recoect to
in the kilograms published in our own or any
ther paper:
QUEBso, G. E., Jau. %, 1864 :
cers from Johnsons Island and Camp Douglas left here
1is morning by the Grand Frank Railroad for REVERE du
CUP, to take the overland route to Hs'ifax. 81
BIZ the Steamship alice have Nassau dates to the
d inst We find nothing of peculiar importance .
OF anticipated through other channels We notice D
lat the Bahama Herald has received from New York Il
ov1ndar presa which is tho fret of tho bind cot nv,