The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-12-13
Tuesday, December 13. 1864.

THE NEWS.-We give in another column such
news as we have been able to gather from Georgia
and Tennessee We consider the situation as de-
cidedly favorable to our cause
The march of Sherman through Georgia has been
one grand failure far inflictng material injury
70 the Confederate cause is concerned. So far, the
only thing he has accomplished is the destruction of
some private property and the stealing of few
negroes and horses. If he had captured Macon or
Augusta, the yankee authorities expected him to
do the injury to US would have been severe but he
dared not attempt it, and has been forced to
hurry on towards the coast. If he succeeds in
reaching the coast his army will be in shattered
and dcmoralized condition..
The news from Hood shows that he has swept the
enemy from his route all the way to Nashville
There is no doubt, think, but that the Yankee
army was badly defeated at Franklin. Tenn, week
before last. The enemy acknowledge the loss of
three or four Generals and the latest from
the North say that Hood was in the vicinity of
Nashville.
Georgia. Alabama and the greater part of Ten
nessee are free from yankee rule.
At Richmond and Petersburg last week, attack
from Grant daily expected
CHRISTMAS DINNER.-A friend requests US to
call the attention of the people at home to the i'm
portance of furnishing all our soldiers in camp with
q Christmas dinner. Will not some energetic per-
sons in each county take the matter in hand and
collect few hundred Turkeys, Chickens &c. Our
brave soldiers, who have been standing between US
and the enemy for so long time, deserve something
nice Is Christmas treat. Certainly no one who
raises fowls would refuse a turkey, or q chicken or
tRo for the benefit of the soldiers
Sur. Gen. Warren gives notice that special
messenger VIII leave Raleigh the 18 tn inst. for
the army and will take charge Of boxes for the
soldiers.
There many soldiers in Gen. Lees army. cut
off from their homes in distant States, who ought to
be remembered by the people of North and South
Carolina. fposslbe, send something for them, too.
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1MPRESSAfENTS.-It will be that the House
Of Commas has adopted some resolutions in regard
to i,npressments. We do not agree with our friend
of the Goldsboro State journal, in his remark that
the passage of these resolutions shows the House of
Commons to be "roften.' We decidedly in
favor of protesting against the present impres>rent
operations, but would have preferred that the
language of the resolutions should have been modi-
fled, and two of them omitted, but we cannot
agree that it is sign of unsoundness to for the
resolutions for we know many members who voted
for them to be sound President Davis himself.
Such Patrick Murphy. Ambrose Costner,
w T Ship. j L Brown and many others we could
name who voted for the resolutions, true
ever lived.
lmpresSnents are proper sometimes, and of
ccssity have to be resorted to, but do think the
present mode might be improved. There too
many irresponsible officers agents running
the country harrassing the people. We d" not con-
slider it wrong to protest against the improper
cution of laws. but think it would be best to do
so in such way not to engender bad feeling
arouse the passions of the people.
We presume it is well known that are out and
out opposed to what is called the "Con$erratire
party'-in fact we opposed to any party organ
izatien at this time-a our people should be united
in one body in opposition to our brutal enemies
but not prepared to believe that the House of
Commons is rotten because it adopted the Impress
ment resolutions. The CONSERVATIVES of that
body do and say many things that we disapprove
but disposed to think that with two or three
exceptions, they all true to the Confederate