The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-01-26

has introduced bill to amend the law conscribing
those having substitutes, to exempt those who
were engaged 10 raising food or before the LIST
day of January, 1864. We hope the amendment
will pass, though do not believe that many far
mers have employed substitutes. Generally, those
who represented by substitutes in the army, are
consumers and not producers.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.-On Tuesday last destruc-
tive fire occurred in Columbia, S. C. The fire first
broke out in the cotton sheds of Blakey & Co.. and
! communicated to the sheds of Gibbes & Co., and
to three residences in the neghborhood. Some
four thousand bales of cotton burnt, valued
s3O0O,0O0. The value of the residences and other
property destroyed is estimated at 100000. About
800 bales of the cotton belonged to the Government.
the balance to individuals. The residences belong
ed to Capt. Casson and T D Feaster. The cotton
and houses were partially insured. We learn that
the cotton sheds were located only few feet from
a Foundry. A rather unfortunate location we think
1.-The Charlotte Democrat states, and several pa
pers have-caught at the statement with evident graf
ffcstion, that Mr. Davis was recommended to the
President for the Office of Attorney General by Gov
Graham and almost every Conservative member of
our Legislature. The object of the statement is to
produce the impression that Gov. G.. and the Con-
sentative members referred to, preferred the ap-
pointment of Mr.. Davis This impression in our
opinion. does these gentlemen injustice. They
knew that the President would appoint no Conser-
vative to the office, and they signed the recommen-
dation, no doubt State and personal grounds
and not because Mr.. Davis their choice for the
| position. The Democrat ought to have told the
whole truth On the subject."- Raleigh Stamdard.
If the Standard would tell only part of the truth
about the matter should be satisfied. The STAN
dard said that Mr. Davis was appointed because he
Observation-Disclosures stated facts to prove that
the Standards assertion untrue We told
the whole truth the subject, and did not intimate
that "Gov. q. and the conservative members pre-
terred the appointment of Mr. Davs-we know moth
ing about their preferences further than their sigma
lures to the recommendation for Mr. Davis appoint
ment will indicate. But who authorized the Stan
dard to speak for "Gov. g. and the conservative
members and say what motives influenced them to
sign the recommendation. The Standard does
those gentlemen Injustice for wedo not believe they
| would repudiate act which they recommended
with their own signatures.
We merely alluded to the matter in the first in
| stance to show that there abundant testimony
to prove that the President had made good selec-
ton, and also to show that the Standard objected
to it from party motives and blind malice 1tis in
the habit of attacking the President and the Con-
federate authorities generally and unfortunately,
|
the enemy and leads him to hope for our subjuga-
| ton, and at the time causes trouble here at
home. When the President appointed Mr. Burgwyn
one of the Commissioners of Apprasement in this
State. the Standard denounced the appointment
l'although Gov. Vance recommended Mr. Burgwyn.
| If President Davis would pay attention to the
| recommendations of VIM. A Graham, Gov. Vance,
and other prominent North Caralinians, but just ap
| ply to Mr. Holden for advice, and order Gen. Lee
and other officers to do the thing, suppose
there would be complaints heard through the
columns of the Standard, and no calls made on the
people to hold meetings to condemn the admins
tration of the Government. What glorious
peaceable time should then have so far the
Standard is concerned.
We think the Standard might be much better
employed than in denouncng large portion of our
people "Destructives," and concocting schemes
to secure the Offices for its favorites. The yankee
troops invading soil, numbering and robbing
our people, committing inhuman atrocities on the
women and children While this is going the
Standard is fomenng feuds and strife here in North
Carolina. instead of striving to unite the people of
the State against common enemy. Why does it
persist in such an mprudent course !
| The editor of the Raleigh Standard origi-
nal secessionist. he voted into the present war;
and he ught, least, encourage the people to
fight it out. 1t is not right for man to get his
neighbors into difficulty and then back out.
u Some four or FIVE thousand dollars were con-
tributed in this place last week for the purpose of
equpping Morgan's command.
D' A correspondent writing from the army of
Virginia to the Columbia Carolinian, says:
I'm proportion to population, can spare more
men than enemies. 1t is great mistake to sup
pose they (the yankees) have not felt the They
have their skeleton regiments we have. have
seen numerous letters battle fields, in which the
writer's from yankee homes would deplore the
and declare that everybody who could had gone to
the war. saw q statement few days since that
Ohio had furnished 100000 men. Other Northern
States had furnished proportionately. Where are
they? The enemy is going to open the Spring CAM
pagn with one of the most mongrel armies the world
| ever saw !; it will not be as large those he has
brought against the two previous campaigns. If
we meet him firmly, stubbornly, unitedy and hope
fully, we will do so successfully, and the voice Of
the northern ballot box next Fall will declare to the
southern planter, the southern mechanic the south
ern merchant and the southern ship-owner. that
they may govern their interest independent of yam
kee domination and discrimination.
| congratulate you, Mr. Editor, on the cheering
tone you have given your journal. A war against
dependency COMFORTS much more with the patriots
duty, in this crisis, than against the Govern
tment and the Generals of army. What good
can result from the overthrow of all popular faith in
the wisdom and ability of governing agents of the
country.I have never been able to discover. That
errors have been committed who denies, There
foro whom n Snaoal is criticised, no harm EFF