The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1865-03-28

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Company, dated the 18th inst. giving account
of the doings of the yankees in Fayetteville. We
have been permitted to extract the following:
Fayetteville is ruined. All the Arsenal build
ings. the Market House. Court House, Printing Of
fees, both Foundres all the MissCotton Factories
Oil Works. &C., were destroyed. They robbed the
people OF everything in the way of food / have
letter from MIR Mailett in which he says. some
people must starve."
We hear of several dwelling houses being burnt.
The observer printing office was destroyed,
and we find the following card of the proprietors
e. J. Hale q sons) in the Raleigh Confederate:
"Priating Material Wanted.-The undersigned,
having lost their printing material presses &C., by
the recent occupation by the enemy of Fay eteville
desire to be informed where they can purchase ma
teral for fitting out another Office
They want Presses. Type, Cases, Chases, &c;
in short everything needful for the proper outfit of
printing office. E.. j. HALE & Sons,
Pittsboro n. CO.
The office of the N. C. Presbyterian was also de-
stroyed.
From the Raleigh Conservative
We have at length definite ard reliable infor-
nation that the Yankees have evacuated Fayette-
vile. "There are none of them left on the west
side of the Cape Fear,' says a recent letter We
have seen from gentleman, in a position to know,
and who is every way reliable.
We have the most deplorable accounts of the out
RACES and plunderings of the Yankees while there,
and of the wretched state of restitution in which
the inhabitants of that gallant but devoted city, has
been left by the vandals The citizens learn.
not only stripped of all their provisions but
robbed of their money and valuables with which to
purchase the means to prevent starvation, after
Shermans hordes left the city, Their condition
calls loudly for the aid of all those who have any
thing to spare and who have been fortunate enough
to escape sad calamity as has fallen to their lot
There have been till now so many contradictory
reports about the manner in which private property
has been treated by Sherman and his army. at Fay
etteville and elsewhere, that it had seemed to
matter of difficulty to arrive at the exact truth
Some presses in the land msled by false statements
we hope had held out the notion that it had been
scrupulousy respected by Sherman in certain cities
which he had occupied some months ago. But if
such had been his course anywhere, it certainly
not so i'll Fayetteville. And while deeply sympa-
thizing with the people of that gallant place, its
misfortunes ought to wake up people from the
sad decisions into which representations of the
treatment of the private citizens of other towns and
their property, may have led them.
We have been permitted to publish the following
letter giving definite account of their burn
ngs &c, there than we have before met with:
EoYrr, March 10Th, 1865.
TO His Ercellency, Z. b. Tance, Co., of ~ c.:
Dear Sir: The train from Little River arrived this
morning. The following may be regarded sum-
mary of the news from Fayetteville, Wis
All the Arsenal buildings burned; Fayetteville
Observer office burned; w B Wrghts residence
burned; 4 Is Malett ) residence burned; John L
McLean's residence burned Mrs. Banks residence
burned; Branch Bank of State of n. c., burned;
Two warehouses occupied by Rockish Co. burned;
Court house and Jail burned; all the cotton factc
res burned.
John Wadiell killed his plantation about
four miles east of Fayetteville. None of the citi-
zens of Fayetteville were killed. John Mclean,
w Il Horne and Ma or Hawly were all hung to ex-
tort from them where their valunbles hid, but
were taken down uninured. 1t is reported that
about 400 negroes and whites drowned in Cape
Fear River. i'll endeavoring to escape with the Yam
KEGS either from the sinking of fiat the Yankee
officers cutting the pontoons loose.
Private residences. after being plundered. were
guarded to ''protect'' them.
Your E1ceencys obedient servant,
J..
Destitution in Fayctterile.-W take the follow
ing from the IIillsboro Recorder:
I'VE give extract from letter written by a
we'll known gentleman in Fayetteville to his father
in Chapel Hill:
I'VE are in the greatest distress. The Yankees |
arrived on Sunday morning. and have nearly des |
troyed both town aud country. There will not be
left more than fifty head OF fourfooted beasts in the
county, and not enough provisions to last ten days
Many, very many families have not mouthful. to
eat. We have meal aud meat to last US two weeks,
by taking two meals day. Our house and many |
others burned, and everything Destroyed
Even the negroes have been robbed and abused. |
As to valuables nothing is safe in their track. Do
spread the Of our restitution and urge the peo
pie to BRING US something 10 eat. Ii relef does not
come soon many must starve to death.
All the Factories the Arsenal. and the entire
square which the Bank of North Carolina stood,
have been burned. Every store and house in town
and country have been robbed
SENATOR HUSTER.-A rumor has been in circula
ton that the Hon. r. NJ. T. Hunter Virginia had
declared in favor of reconstructid6 He has pub
lshed card contradicting the report, in which he
says:
There H. perhaps, no person in the Confederacy |
to whose feelings and interest such event would
be more repugnant than to mine. have always I
thou ght that we ought to maintain the struggle for
independence so long as there is hope of success
The General in Chief and the President of the Con-
federate States, as the highest military authorities
are best able to understand resources and pros
poets. Whilst they have hope in the contest it
seems to me that should do all in our power to
strengthen their hands. But after ALL it is in the
Justice of our cause that the hearts of people
should be confirmed. and it is to the Chief Ruler of
the Universe that they should look for aid in the
mighty struggle in which engaged"
SMALL POx.--We informed thar returned /
prisoners have spread small pox in some neighbour
hoods throughout the country. We mention the
fact so as to put returned soldiers, we'll
their families, their guard. If our noble men
who are now returning from northern prisons, are
careful they will unwittngly scatter the disease
extensively in the South.
CAsUALTIES.-In the fight Petersburg on