Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1865-02-02

Who last heard from he safe at C0rDtb, his
was ia good condition., and hs was engsged repairing
the MUDie and Oao railroad. What have the authors
Of the Nashville sensation teleg TO coy ior them
Selves 60. that tier Infamous attempts to deceive the
ceunry by fJodDg it wish false dispatches are ex-
posed
Tie Richmond Examiner thus relates the latest ex-
pesicDct OF Mr.. lgerd A. Pollard while under 1an-
kee GuEaGce The l!ce concludes with some interest
lag results Of that geneman's observ atlons at TIE
\ 3rth. Mr. Pollard reported at Fortress Monroe On
che lO4h last fJr exchange, and without any
known cause, placed there IN solitary confinement
il guard pO1, where he lived for weeks withOus
space 10 walk in, and sheltered from the weather only
by shell Of boards, lila ed through half on
itch wide. This in consequence OF dirt ct order
from Secretary Stanton, who, II thls lnsauee as ID
OF the oppression of oar prisoners is directly and
pEsn,iy responsible. Strange to say, Butler relieved
NJ. Pollard en- situation in which MIR. F. says that
an officer ct tic guard at Fortress Monroa declared
that could not reasonably be expected to sur
vive for two weeks.
As 1t is tbs last act which Batter can probably ever
DO Confederate prisoner, it may be mentioned for
his benefit. For We learn from Mr. Pollard that on
Sunday last Gen. Batter WAS removed not only from
Tie command Of tue army OF the James, but from all
other command, and ordared by the Adjatant-General
as - ashmgtoE 10 report himself at Lowell Massachu
sets, watch is his eidence The terms Of this order
were construed to the Cf ct that B F. B. had been
noved 10 disgrace. Maj. Gen. Ord takes command OF
ths Department Of Virginia and North Carolina but
s is supposed - &c only an arrangement "a aAter1m
La any event, Butler is shelved tor the war; and 1t -
hOugh not Improbable consequence that we may
atxt of that individual declaring war against
The politicians in " flashing
During Dir. Pollard's term as a prisot er--eight
mon ha-he had On interval Ct paro account of his
aea!th ia which he had oppor unNes o. visiting many
OF The Northern cities-New York Boston, Brooklyn,
Baltimore &c, end thus gathering much OF The true
public sentiment and political designs OF the North lie
says generally, that while there ia not the st hope Tor
he South in any present political organization IN t1e
ort there ounds of encouragement IN the mil
tay situation Of which the people OF the Contederacy
nothing Ike ADEQUATE ideas that the military re-
Sources of the Norh, although superaouadaat and I'm
pressing at the FIRST view, not practically available,
AID are fast being contracted by certain moral forces
which the newspapers do not take into their cacu-
ation that their system of draft, hitherto patched
by foreign enlistment, negro enlistment and ooun'
ties is nearly at the point OF exhaustion That the
draft of l. st summer fog $780, 900 men, furnished but
70 600 ef ctives that the expedient of bountles
cannot be carried much further, counties having
already been taxed this actually in of
the value OF all the real and personal property within
their mi;s come, for instance, in New York State
having accumulated debt of million and he OF
dollars the single account Of military srgeeses and
that i1ay, oil Intelligent men in the North are given
to the opinion that when tha necessities of the are
pushed the point of enforced draft Of an actual
conscpOr that it is precisely at that period and pre-
es9ly from that cause that the war will and must break
down. Thus the conclusion may be drawn that indie
peodence Of the Contederacy s to be achieved more
surely by the sheer force of endurance than By anything
Use, and that should fell to accomplish it by
The signal strokes of military fortune it will be worked
cat at the last and that much more speedily than is
generally supposed by simple competition of the real
resolution Of the South with c0nf1e in the North,
now boated and swaggerug, but really the verge of
the last and fatal necesstyWhch ia not finances, not
political revolutions any of that bosh OF the prophets
OF peace, but simply CONSUMPTION.
| The CONTINENT AN ICEBERe.-Prof Agassiz in tia
ATLANTIC MONTHLY, comes to the conclusion that the
continent OF North America at one time eon7ered
with ice Rile in thickness The proof ID that the
slopes of the Allegheny range of mountains glacier
worn on The very top, except few points which we're
so owe the icy Mount Washington for instance
is ak hundred feet high aud tbs rough unpublished
surface of its SUBMITS, covered with loose raements
just below the level at which glacier marks come TO an
md, tell Us that it lifted its head alone above the
dss3late sste Of ice and snow. La this region then
lie thickness OF the sheet cannot have been Rach lsss
than six thousand feet and this ia keeping with the
kind Of evidence in other parts OF the coEntry for
wherever the mountains are much below six thou
sand feet the ice to have passed directly over
eD, while the few peaks rising on the nights ore left
untouched The glacier, be argues was Gods great
plough and when the lee vanished from the face OF the
land it left il prepared for the hand of the husbandsn
The bard surface OF the rocks ground to powder
the elements OF the sell were mingled in fair proper
uons granite Iaa carried into the lime regions lime
was mingled with the more arid and nnproduelire dis
riss. and soil was prepared Fit for the agricultural
ass OF man. There are evidences all over the polar
regions to show that at period the heat of the rop
100 extended all over the globe The Zee period 10 SUP
posed 70 DO suh quent 20 this and next to last before
the advent OF this earth.