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TxpoRTASr LECTURES DArLY-FoR GENTLEMEN
only, ~ the New York Museum Of Anatomy sls Rrosa.
way Parties unable 70 attend these Lectures can have them
forwarded receipt OF ten cents By addressipa sesmu
sf Kew York Museum Of Anatomy
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EXPRESSES.

DURNHAMs FuRNTruaH EXPRESS. il5 IVES
- Eleventh street. between fifth ani SIKH avenues.
Psnofortes mirrors &C. boxed and shipped. wagons 70
moving families In city Or country.
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FURNITURE.

4 SUPERB ASSORTMENT or H2vsSH0Lp rcn.
fs.ewood Pisnofore Eassrs CARPETS Hsrors faihtnss.
rt sss diver Chamber Furniture, So A sacrifice.
np ma west twenty third street, near sisth avenue.
,,rpxtruRE ROB SALE Two PARLoR SETS
and one Bpryau for sale Inquire at is2 East Nins
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q FOR HEnBsR OF ASSEMBLY.
HON. ALEXANDER WARD.

22D WARD, 18th AssaaBLY pIsrsicaT;tkru M !. a.,;t. uo.
Tel corner Of Fotysecond stree, and Ninth avengs on
Yhursday evening pursuant 10 cal OF Tan nany ha ne
Hon Asxander Ward received the ios, mop ps.on
Tor Assemby, Judge FLORENCE MCCARTHY, I'm.
PsiiIp HAxxivAR secretary.
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FCAMPAIGN PINS, BAD DGES AND MEDALS. in VARI
~ ety At who esae For sale by A. N .. WOOD manu-
fact,ner at "Whites the Hattcr.n 2l6 Broadway, n
The trade and clubs literally treated.
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STARS AND FLOWERS.

When Eve had led her lord astray,
And Cain had killed his brother,
The Stars and Flowers, the poets say,
Agreed with one another,
To cheat the cunning temptcr's art
And teach the race its duty,
By keeping on its wicked heart
Their eyes of light and beauty.
A million sleepless lids, they say,
Will be at least warning;
And SO the Flowers would watch by day,
The Stars from eve to morning.
On hill and prairie, field and lawn,
Their dewey eyes up.urning,
The flowers still watch from reclining dawn
Till western skies are burning.
Alas, each hour of daylight tells
A tale of shame SO crushing,
That some turn white as -bleached shells,
And some are always blushing.
But when the patient Stars look down
On all their light discovers
The traitor smile, the murderer's frown,
The lips of lying lovers,
They try to shut their saddened eyes,
And in the vain endeavor,
We see them twinkling in the skies,
And so wink on forever.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-11-08
GRANTS LOSSES.

The entire force which has been brought TO
bear on Richmond during the campaign is stated
by a northern writer in the New York World at
$50, 600 men-name!y: 100000 directly under
Grant, and 10000 in the Valley, being the ag-
gregate of the armies under Siegel, Hunter and
Sheridan. With these immense hosts, confronted
Lee, including as well our forces in the Valley as
the army imm ediately under his command, the
great Confederate commander has been able to
keep Grant at bay. "With this little force" says
the Worlds correspondent, "Gen. Lee, for seven
months, has bafled aud defeated the designs of
Gen. Grant with his 100000 troops on this line
and the 10000 troops operating in tho Valley"
Two of the Valley armies, under Seigel aud Hun
ter, he says, have been badly "defeated," aud the
third, under Sheridan, completely 'baficd' while
Gin the four months before Richmond and Peters
burg" with his 100000 men, Grant has made 'no
progress whatever towards the capture Of either"
OF more than 260, 900 men, not 100, 900 remain,
making a loss of over 10000, while the Valley
armies have sustained a loss in the aggregate Of
$4,000 men, making the entire cost to Grant, of
an unsuccessful campaign, over tsoo hundred and
Twenty-Five thousand men; while Lee, as this cor
respondent believes, has sustained no loss that has
not been replaced by the young men arriving at
military age and entering his army. Lees army
he says, is substantially the same in May
when the campaign opened.
We have reason to question the accuracy in
all material respects of these extraordinary state
ments 1t is yankee authority They make Grants
campaign against Richmopd one of the most stu
pendous and diastrous failures recorded in history.
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THE NEWSPAPERS.

In an able article on the indispensable impoY-
tance of the Press to the country and society,
pecally in great pending struggle for ihdepep-
dence, the Augusta Ga. Register remarks:
"Our honest opinion is that no class of our couu-
trymen, except our soldiers, have done more for
our success than newspaper men. This is our
candid opinion after maturely considering the SUBJ
ject. They have given tone to public sentiment
and aroused the patriotism of the people to every
demand made upon them In the emergencies Of
our county, many harsh and grievous laws have
been passed, many orders and regulations hard to
be borne have been adopted ln some cases de-
signing men, in others we'll meaning ones, suppos-
ing they were doing their duty, have done much
to all the feelings of prejudice and opposi-
tion by the people to these supposed usurpatons
and tyrannies. Just here the press have como in
and by their daily pleadings, their patriotic ap,
peals, reconciled apparent differences and alayed
all opposition. They have educated the minds of
the people to every great and important change
in the policy of our Government, and have, with
all their powers sustained the cause of our coun-
try.
Blot o1t the newspapers of the country and you
will have no general policy among the people.
There will be many opinions as there are indi-
viduals and as many leaders as there are commun-
ties Rumors will be rife all over the land and in
the absence of reliable information as now obtain
ed, the people will be subjected to imposition and
will always be depressed by dangers real or imagi
nary. Newspapers form kind of bond Of union
"a common medium of the interchange Of ideas,
and next to our organized armies are the most pow
erful engines within our country for the attain
ment of its independence, by holding up the duty
of the citizens the one hand, and the rights OF
the Government on the other; the grounds for en-
couragement on the one hand and the necessity
for endurance on the other. From the President
to the humblest cilizcn-from the General to tha
private-the high and the low, the rich AMI the
poor, would all feel the need of this common
of information and of comfort. Woe be unto our
country when it is destroyed !"
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-11-08

EXEMPTIONS UNDER TIE "MEAT LAW
One hundred and fourteen thousand exempts from
active service each bonded to furnish not less than
fifteen hundred pounds Of bacon and fifteen hun
pounds Of fresh beef. Many are under obligations
to give two, three or four times that much meat,
but We wish to make calculation, at the mini
mum fgure-ll4,00 900 multiplied by 1,500-l7l,-
000, 900 pounds-that for the bacon; and similar
amount would be the product in fresh beef. Thus
the Commissary General has now subject to his or
der, 342 900 pounds Of beef and bacon.
Now, for little calculation as to his wants.
Say We have 100000 men in the field to feed; al
lowing half pound Of bacon to the ration, aud
pound of fresh beef, which is ample, our troops
will affirm, by issuing bacon two days, and beef
one day, and in this way alternate the ration COL
Northrop has full meat rations for twelve hundred
and eighty-two days, until the end Of 1857.
Besides this, the tithe is TO be counted, and such
surplus as can be bought. Ifthere be any truth
in fgures we strong in food, that we can de-
fy the Yankee for all time to come iF the commia-
sary department makes itself felt.
Why talk of the possibility of arming negroes,
when next April 700 arms bearing men can
be sent 10 Lee and Beauregardy Cannot some one
make su estimate Of the number Of men necessary
for State officers. 1t does not appear that J5yeOO
is loo many? Reduce II to figures, and let as sec
if there are not $4,000 too many.-S0raRndh
RepuLltcaa.
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EXPRESS NOTICE.
OFFICE SoUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY.

OFFICE SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY,
Charlotte, Sept "a, 1858.
In order to avoid misunderstanding and to make
our Charges conform the liability assumed, this
COMPANY hereby gives notice that from and after Octo
Der ist 1863 shippers will be required to place their
valuation upon eachpackage before will be received
Such valuation will be inserted in the Company's
receipt and establish the liability of the Company for
the amount. The act of God and the public enemy
only excepted, L. ID. GILLESPIE,
Sept %, 1868 Agent
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suffered greatly. But, this aspect of the case
indicates the goodness of God towards US. Child
hoods exit from the word is but its transit to
Paradise. Parents may mourn the loss Of children,
but not with the apprehension that their souls are
lost. How many adults exposed to the disease
have been spared, whose departure would not have
been like that of blessed infancy. God prolongs
the days Of the former to save them"
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CIR Wtstern Dfmofrat.
CHARLOTTE, N. G.

AN IMPORTANT TRUTH.-The Government and
the people are one in interest and one in destiny.
1t the Government fails, so do the people. The
securities of the Government, whether they are
In the form of notes or bonds, simply the n-
debtedness of the people created in their struggle
for independence. The Government is not a dis
tinct organization from the people, nor has it sepa-
rate interests from theirs to subserve and advance
salisbury Watchmam.
Well aud truly said; and the sooner all our peo-
pie understand this matter the better it will be
for all. A southern citizen who cheats or injures
the Government, simply cheats and Injuries him
self. IF the Confederate Government fails, it is
failure of the people, and their personal interests
suffer. the Government prospers our people
will prosper likewise.
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Headers Reserve. ~. c.,
RAIEIGu Oct l7fb 1864

General Orders, No l6.
All Chiefs of Departments or Bureaux and Superin-
tendens OF Government Works in North Carolina, who.
IN compliance with General Order No. H. A. and l. G.,
u, current series forward this Office certified lists
of men in their employ who are experts or whose SER
vices are indiSpensably necessary will upon forward
ing the list. notify the parties so certified to- that such
certificates have been made Enrolling Officers will
respect these notifications, and will not molest men
holding them pending revision of their details
By order of Lieut.. Gen. Holmes
JNO. W. HtNSDALE, A. A. GenI
October "a, 1864. st.
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Exchange Notice No. ~.
mrs VI S Young.

Richmond, Va, Sept. 90, 1854
All officers and men of the Vicksburg capture of July
4th 1868, who reported for duty at any parole camp
East of the Mississippi prior to Sept 10th, 1864 are
hereby declared exchanged. ko. OULD,
Oct 10Th, St. Agent of Exchange
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-11-08

A foreign legion, consisting of nearly two regi-
mentF, mainly Irish Catholics, sworn into our ser
vice by a Catholic priest, has been formed in
Richmond and is nearly ready for the 6eld
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- We learn from the Greensboro Citizen that
the Synod of the Presbyterian. Church in this
State adjourned on Saturday nigm, Oct goth, af
ter session of three days. The of the Rev
Mr. Graves not re-investigated as he had ap-
pealed to the General Assembly of the Church,
and not to Synod.
The next Synod will meet in Fayetteville in
October, 1865
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-11-08

FIREs-A destructive fire occurred in Mobile
on the night of the 30th ult. About 500 bales of
cotton were burnt, besides valuable building and
a large number of grain sacks and ospaburgs. The
loss is estimated at one million dollars-about
$500, 900 of which falls on the Government.
Several fires have recently occurred at Whining
ton and other towns.
We verify believe that the most of these fires
are caused by incendiares sent out from the North
or by yankee emissaries residing in the South. 1t
is important that the police Of our towns should
be more vigilant.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1864-11-08

HORRIBLE AFFA1R.-Our community were
shocked on last Tuesday morning TO learn that the
wife of Col. Joseph I. Bryson, of Henderson
county had been brutaly murdered, and his two
daughters severely wounded, on Monday night
The circumstances, as we learn them, were sub
stantially as follows: at an early hour on Monday
evening, eight men called at Col. Brysons gate,
and asked for him. He happened to be asleep,
and his wife and daughters, and negro man,
stepped out on the porch, when the men at the
gate fred on them, killing Mrs. Rryson instantly,
and inflicting painful and dangerous wounds upon
the young ladies.
Who the men were, or their motives for such
an act, we suppose is not certainly known. But
the fact that Col. Bryson is an active Southern
man, will, it is presumed, give key to the motive
for this dark and atroeious deed Mrs Bryson
was lady highly esteemed by those who knew
her, and ber sad fate, well as the suffering
dition of her daughters, will excite the iyeliest
emotions Of sympathy. Swift and terrible ven-
geance viii probably overtake the murderers.-
4sheuiHe News.
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sSz- Transient advertisements must be paid for in
,ivance. - 49, ou.o-;.
--acifc time will be inserted until forbid, and
CHARGED accordingly.
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coNrEDDRArE GOVERNMENT.

Jefferson Davis of Mississippi, President.
Alex Stephens Of Georgia, Vice President
j. P. Benjamin, of Louisiana, Secretary of State.
James A. Seldom ofVirginia, Secretary OF War.
G.. A. Trenholm. of South Carolina, Secretary
of the Treasury.
s. R. Mallory. of Florida, Secretary ofthe Navy.
Geo. Davis of North Carolina. Chief fthe Depart
ment ofJustice Attorney General
J. II Reagan. of Texas, Postmaster General.
The President serves six years.
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BLANK DEEDS, Warrants, Ejectments, &c,
for sale at this Office.
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s9 A man was arrested last week on the train
between Raleigh and Weldon, who was recognized
as a prosecutor of southern meu and women in
Memphis after the yankees got possession Of that
city He edited Lincoln paper. We suppose
he was visiting North Carolina for some devilish
purpose He was delivered over to Gen Holmes
care, and we hope he will receive swift punishment.
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SKILLED LABOR IN THE WORKSHOPS
being some misrepresentation the subject, we
take pleasure in calling attention to the fact that
the receut General Orders to strengthen our ar
mics in the field, do not contemplate the with
drawal of skilled trained mechanical labor from
the Government workshops.
On the contrary, the policy Of the Government
is to attract to the Confederacy and to retain this
valuable element in a nations prosperity While
it is necessary that every able bodied should
be sent to the front, it is equally necessary that
skilled labor should be retained 10 the service Of
the Government.
We are led to these remarks from a prevailing
misapprehension on the subject, and upon inform
alton that steps in progress to withdraw per-
manently from military service those now in the
trenches.
The zeal and excellent conduct of our mechanics
in rushing to the front in the hour of danger is
worthy of all praise but that hour has passed, and
it is evident to all thinking men that the best 10
teress of our cause require their permanent scrvl
ces in the arsenals and workshops of the Confede
racy-Richnaond Enquirer.
No one can raise objection to detailing skilled
mechanics for the workshops-such men are as
useful at home to the Government as they could
possibly be in the feld-in fact, the cause could
not be maintained month without the aid of me-
chanics in the workshops. But the difficulty has
been that men who never worked week in all
their life before the at mechanical trade, and
who would have disdained to have been known as
mechanic, have pancd themselves off on the
Government mechanics for the purpose of Keep
ing out of the war, while the really "skied me-
chanic, in many instances, has gene into the field
In that way fraud has been practised on the
Government. It is necessary to detail some men
to remain home, both for the purpose of raising
provisions and manufacturing materials of war, but
it is well known that the detail system has been
badly and unfairly managed heretofore.
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J. P. Benjamin. of Louisiana, Secretary of State
James A Seddon, of Virginia. Secretary of War
G.. A. Trenholm. of South Carolina, Secretar!
of the Treasury.
| s. r. Mallory. of Florida, Secretary OF the Navy
Geo. Davis of North Carolina. Chief ofth Depart
/ ment of Justice Attorney General
J. Fl. Reagan. of Texas, Postmaster General.
! The President serves six years.
MEMBERS OF THE SECOND CONGRESS
! SENATE.
| ALABAMA. NORTH CAROLINA.
r w Walker VIM A Graham
Robt Jemson w Dortch
ARKANSAS. SOUTH CAROLINA.
r W johnson II w BarnweH
C B Mitchell J L Orr
FLORIDA. TENNESSEE.
j NJ Baker L G Haynes
E Maxwell (Vacancy)
GEORGIA, TEXAS.
Fl V johnson w S Oldham
B III Hill L T WigfaH
KENTUCKY. VIRGINIA.
HI G Burnett RM T Hunter
(Vacancy) T Caperton
LOUISIANA. MISSISSIPPI.
Edw'd Sparrow JWC Watson
T. Scmmes G Brown
MISSOURI. (Vacancy)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Thomas S. Bocock, Speaker
ALABAMA.
l Thomas Foster 6 VIM Chiffon
2 VIM r Smith z Daniel Clopton
3 w r Cobb James L Pugh
Marcus H Cruikshank 8 J Dickinson.
Francis S Lyon
ARKANSAS.
l Felix / Batson 3 Augustus II Garland
Rufus Il Garland Thomas Hany.
FLORIDA.
l St. George Rogers Robert Hilton.
GEORGIA.
l Julian Hartridge J H Echols
VIM E Smith Z James M Smith
Mark II Blanford George Lester
Clifford Anderson 9 H Bell
j L Shewmake 10 Warren Aiken.
KENTUCKY.
l Willis B Machen w Bruce
George w Triplett HUMP phrey Marshall
Henry Read Ely NJ Bruce
George w Ewing 10 james w Moore
James Chri<man II Benjamin Bradley
6 Theodore L Burnett II John NJ Elliott.
LOUISIANA.
I Charles Villere Lucius J Dupre
2 Charles Nj Conrad 5 l. Hodge
3 Duncan Kenner John Perkins, Jr.
Jehu Orr Otho R Singleton
2 VIM d Holder Ethelbert Barksdale
3 Israel Wech j T Lampkn
Henry C Chambers
MISSOURI.
Thos L Snead 5 George Vest
2 n L Norton - Wilkes
3 John Clark Z Robert Hatcher.
A Fl Conrow
NORTH CAROLINA.
/ VIM n RI Smith 6 John A Gilmer
2 Robert r Bridgers James M Leach
3 T Leach 8 J G Ramsay
1 Thomas Fuller s Gather
5 Josiah Turner 10 George w Logan
SOUTH CAROLINA.
l Jas Witherspoon VIM Simpson
VIM Porcher Miles 5 James Farrow
3 Lewis M Aver William w Boyce
l Joseph Heiskell James McCoum
t2 William G Swan Thomas Menees
3 A S Colver John d Atkins
John Murray 10 John Wright
5 Henry S Foote IL David Currn (decd)
6 E A Keeble
/ John A Wilcox (dec'd) Sexton
2 C Herbert A r Baylor
3 A NJ Branch S H Morgan
VIRGINIA.
| Robt L Montague David Funsten
2 II II W hitfield 10 FW NJ Holiday
3 VIM Wickham IL John B Baldwin
4 II Gholson II Walter r Staples
5 Thomas Bocock 13 Fayette McMullen
6 John Goode, Jr. IA Samuel A Miller
7 VIM Rives Is Robert johnson
8 Daniel Dejarnette 16 Charles w Russell.
III
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Taxes Due ON Lands.

STATE OF NORTH CAROLYN COUNTY
Court Of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Jas 7erm 1864.
c. Austin Sheriff. returned to this term the follow
ing Tracts of Land for order of sale for arrearages
Of Taxes for the years 1856, ST, 58, 3d. go and 62
viz
One Tract belonging to James Orr, lying Duck
Creek containing l75 acres, for 1856 tax due ST. 40.
One tract belonging to Joel Horne, on Gour9 Vine
Creek containing SO acres, for 1857 tax due 81 IS.
One tract belonging Jonathan Ross, on Richard
Creek, containing acres for 1858 tax due $4 so.
One tract belonging to T Davis, on Brown Creek,
continuing 357 acres, for 1859 lax due 81 so.
One tract belonging Gulledge, Brown
Greek, containing 80 acres for 1859 tax due $4 so.
One tract belonging to James Plunket, on Lanes
Creek, containing 200 acres for S59 tax due ST 80.
One tract belonging ThoS Smith, Lanes Creek,
containing acres for 1859, go & 90 due S5 ID.
One tract belonging to r Barino, on Negrohead
Creek containing l53acres for 1860 62 tax due S5 As
One tract belonging to VIM Head on Grassy creek,
containing acres, for $50 and '62 due So O6
Que tract belonging to J Coson on Grassy creek,
containing $50 acres, for 1862 tax due So 95.
One tract belonging to James Hinson, on Grassy
creek, containing II acres, for 1862 tax due So g.
One tract belonging to the heirs of VIM Hinson on
Grassy creek containing 42 for the year 1859
tax due $5 78.
One tract belonging. to Edmond Green. Lanes
creek containing 49 acres, for the year 1860 and 62
tax due So O9
One tract belonging to John A Green, Beaver Dam
creek, containing 81 acres, for 1862 tax due 81 II.
One tract belonging the estate of Thos Cureton
Waxaw creek, containing 377 acres, for 1860 tax
due $50 80.
Notice is hereby given that application will be made
the of this Court for order to sell the
above lands for the above arrearages of taxes.
Witness. J Irby, Clerk of our said Court at Office,
in Monroe the lst Monday in January,'A D, 1864.
Feb % }. L. 1RB4, Clerk.
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AN INCIDENTAL Yankee taken prisoner at
Lake City, says q correspondent of the Enquirer,
stated that he saw q negro boy, about IL years
of age, refuse to FIRE, and replied, IL cant shoot
thar; my young master is thar; and played with
him all my life, AID he has saved me from getting
many whipping would have got, and can't
shost thar, for loves my young master still" De
was then told If he did not Ere when the word 70
FIRE was given acaio, that he would 6e shot hun
self He still refused to Ere on his young master,
when Yankee officer drew pistol snd shot him
down.
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Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Jan Term 1864.
H Stowe admir- of Harbert Stowe, dec d. VS.. VIM Fl
Nicholson and wife NJ. H., and others
Petition for Settlement of the Estate of Harbert Stowe,
deceased.
1t appearing the satisfaction of the Court that
Nicholson and wife VI. H., defendants in this
reside beyond the limits of this State 1t is ordered by
the Court that publication be made in the Western
Democrat newspaper published in the town of Char
ote notify ing said defendant be and appear at the
next term of this Court to be held said county
the Court House in Charlotte. the I'd Monday in
April next, and plead, answer demur to this petit
ton, judgment pro confesso will be taken and the
same heard exparte 20 him.
Witness, VIM. Maxwell, Clerk of our said Court at
Office. in Charlotte the I'd Monday in January, 1864
FEB % WM MAXWELL, Clerk.