The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-03-29
WAR ITEMS.

lows: General excitement about Generals Yes
terday morning, Cooper, Bragg, Lee, Longstreet,
Morgan, Hoke and Oracle walk ed out of st. Pauls
Church. In all, there twenty-six Generals of
various grades In town.
What's the meaning of it? Most of these Gen.
erals are on leave, enjoying themselves. Long
street arrived at Lees headquarters unexpectedly,
just as'Lee was about to despatch courier to him
Some say Longstreet has heard news; others say
he has plan All we know is that the President
looks very bright; and that certain baggage trains
have been cut down to one to brigade as if trav.
cling were to be done.
Grant and Haeck have had an interview and
decided that more work ought to be gotten out OF
the army of the Potomac. It is thought Sherman
is already ON his way to Virginia, and hence it is
inferred the consultation between Lee, Lengstreet
and Bragg
FROM 1oNGsTREETs ARMF.-A correspon-
dent writes: The army is in splendid condition,
we'll clothed and shod The ranks are filing up
rapidly, and just system of furloughs having
been instituted the men visit their homes
aud families and always return In splendid spirits.
The different corps have almost unanimously re-
enlisted for the war. Gen. Buckner is here and
n command of Hoods old division; Kershaw that
gallant soldier commands McLaws, old division;
Ransom, of North Carolina, commands the cayal-
Fy
The enemy reported at Morristown with two
army corps-merely feeling their way to what
had become Of US. AS now, can either
advance or 60 off at tangent; to Kentucky or
elsewhere
The Union feeling here is intense. Remember
this town of Greenville is the headquarters of An
dy Johnson and his tribe. The people are the
most degraded | ever saw The women are as
bad as the men-all swear and use tobacco
From NEwBERN, n C.-The Yankees are
l.. til. a. q
Newborn, and have mounted a two hundred poun-
der rife gun at the mouth of Bachelors creek,
Immediately on the banks of the Neuse.
The Yankee force at Newbern is estimated ut
about seven thousand
The LATEST YANKEE ATRoelTY-A cores
pendent of the Mobile Evening News, writing
from Shubuta, Miss. on the 9Th inst says:
Have you heard of the latest and most atrocious
barbarity of the Yankees under Sherman? have
seen 10 auslon to it in your columns. 1t is a
TACT established by numerous witnesses that the
monsters, their return march. rnthlessly MUIR
dered many negro children for the supposed rea-
son that they were troublesome to them Their
dead bodies have been found in the streams and
in the woods, with brains knocked out, or body
through with bayonet More cruel than
this, heard of where a citizen found
some little children tied and bound fast to trees in
the deep recesses of the woods, and left to perish
of starvation. l hear that mothers who begged
for the lives Of their children, had the bayonet
pointed at their breasts with threat of instant
death if they did not cease their opportunities
Poor deuded wretches to fly from the homes of
kind masters, to follow such nhuman monsters |
hope you will not fail TO put this damnable deed
apon record against The Yankees.
~ soldier in Gen. Lees army, writes to
the Statesville Express concerning the late at
tempt of the Yankee raiders to capture and burn
Richmond and murder President Davis, and says
"The question arises, what is to be done with
these scamps who were captured? Are they to be
regarded as prisoners Of war, and treated accord
lnglyf They come to murder, plumber and de-
stroy; and suppose they had succeeded in accom-
plishing their desires, what would have been the
result? The official documents found in one of
their Generals pocket who was slain, convinces
us what the result would have been had they sue
ceeded in their wicked schemes. Thousands of
helpless women and children would have been
consumed In the fames-besides, many others who
suffering for the necessares of life, would have
been deprived of home, and every thing they pos
sessed, and thus made to wander here and there,
with no one to assist them. | think death, in
whatever manner Inflicted, is too good for them
ii they get their dues, it viii be death in the
torturing way possible.
Every soldier whose opinion | have heard, CO.
incides with the above; and they are resolved to
Ee-double their efforts for the accomplishment of
that for which are all striving, and for which
many have sacrificed their lives Can it be,
that there some at home who so base as to
desire reunion with people who without a
particle of humanity? who have sunk SO low in
tire pit of degradation, to regard nothing per-
tanning to humanity and civilization? IF there be
any such / beseech them to reflect on their course
of conduct, and resolve henceforth and forever to
live separated from such people. We are strug-
Cling for natioaaiity and freedom, and it should
be the motto of every Southerner to put forth
every exerton, to strain every nerve, for the &C
eomplishment of an honorable and lasting peace.
We are looking forward to the day when we shall
be declared independent, with the most intense
anxiety;-then the weary, way-worn soldier, will
be permitted to return to the bosom of his family
ard friends, with wreathes Of aurels clustering
around his triumphant brow, and meet with such
a reception by the ladies Gas we'll the aged Of
the land that will cause him to forget all of his
former privations and hardshps."
HARD II TRUE.-The Columbia 6. c.
Southern Guardian of the 18TH commences the
publication of series of letters giving account
Of matters and things in Knoxville, Tennessee
The writer is clergyman, who has been driven
from his home for his devotion to the South, aud
has taken refuge With his family in Columbia.
Speaking of Knoxville after its occupation by the