Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-02-04

Des Moires on the 22d of February 1864.
The representation of each township in said
County Convention is as follows st. Charles
IL, Floyd 10, Rock Grove 8, Rockford 4, u
ster 8, Union 10, Scott /, Riverton 6, Niles 8,
Cedar 4; being one delegate for every 10 votes
and fraction over cast for Gov Stone.
S. b. STARR,
.... Chairman County Committee.
The Great Rebellion. rv"
1t 10 evident that the strength Of the
Rebellion is weakening that starva-
ton and distress are sorely trying the
endurance of the sorrow-stricken sons
of the South. There are unmistakable
omens that the last scene in the nigh
ty drama is about to be enacted. From
oil parts Of the territory under the
domination of JEFF Davis and his CO.
adjutors, we hear weeping, and wall
ing, and gnashing of teeth" The peo.
pie have lost oil confidence, both in
their leaders and in the success of
their schemes, and openly denounce
the tyranny which Expresses them.
Gloom and dependency, mingled with
fear and alarm, gil the minds of the
great mass of those who have hithe rto
been attached, to greater or less de.
gree, to the cause Of their chiefs. As
they witness the armed hosts of the
North, slowly, it may be, but yet sure
ly advancing from almost every side I;
as they see their territory becoming
thus steadily circumscribed as starv-
alton and death stare them in the face /;
as their own armies are becoming de-
moralized and essentially weakened
by assertions and the allurements of
President Lincoln's Proclamation of
amnesty /; as these and mighty host
of other circumstances confront them,
they must, a. they are rational beings
begin to feel that the day Of their Wis
litation 10 at hand. 30
| A letter before US. from . friend il
the Union army in Texas, written two
or three weeks since, from 1ndianola
says that the people of Texas have NO
faith in JEFF Davis, and are not loyal
subjects of his government. General
Magruder is carrying CONSERVATION
through those portions of the State
through which be passes, by wholesale
CONSUMPTION and hanging all those
who refuse to join the rebel army.
The Richmond Wig, in speaking Of
the destiution which prevails, states
that there are three thousand barefootet
men in Longstreet's corps alone. Al
appeal, earnest and piteous, comes VI
from Johnston's (late Bragg's) army
for blankets and clothing. Lees army
is also in need of blankets. The pa
per says that if more men are put into
the field it will be impossible to feed
and clothe them. The future looks du
bious indeed.
Papers in North Carolina are out
spoken in their feelings. We make
a few extracts to show the spirit of thu
Press in that State and the Press, j,
will be remembered, is almost iDvari
ably an index to the sentiments of the
people. The Raleigh Standard, pub
lished at the capital of the State. in an
article upon the leading men of the
the Confedcracy, makes use Of the fol-
lowing language:
Trust them no longer. Remember
their fair promises. The jewellers in
the garden Of Eden, when they listen.
ed to the tempting promises of Satan.
were not worse deceived and ruined
than were the people of the fair, hap
Ply and blooming South when they lis
tened to the fair promises of these
arch deceivers. =
How have they deceived Us | The
blood of hundreds of thousands of our
poor children smoking from the many
battle fields, and the cries of starving
women and children tell the tale. Will
our people be longer deceived by those
false prophets and arch deceivers !?
Or will they not command the peace,
and stanch these rivers of bloodI
The North Carolina Progress in com.
menting on speech in the rebel Con-
gress advocating the enactment Of a
still more stringent CONSUMPTION act.
makes it the text for a lengthy article
10 which it says that the people of the
State are a sovereign people and new
er will be slaves that North Carolius
is the keystone Of the Confederacy,
and If that stone falls from its situa.
ton the whole fabric will fall in ruins.
In speaking Of the character of the
people it says:
They will not submit to military
despotism. They will not submit to
tho destruction of their rights, person
al and civil, in this or any other war.
We say what we know to be SO. A
vast majority of our people are rest
less aud excited on account Of the
threatened encroachments upon their
liberties by the Congress at Richmond;
and we most respectfully aud earnest
ly warn the members Of that body not
to kindle fame which no effort can
extinguish.
The Rerse~, edited by Mr., DeRow.