Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-04-05

it seems necessary to adopt that course at present
| The whole amount of national bank currency au
thorzed is $500 OOO OOO and it is not all yet issued
while there are over $42O, 600 900 of non-interes
bearing government notes in circulation. AS it Is
in these that the banks are allowed to redeem
their gradual reduction must force those institu
tions nearer and nearer to specie payments with
tie government itself, all credits based upon the
faith of the government approaching in the mean
time Eventually the peculiar and extraordinary
powers and privileges conferred upon the banks
in the anomalous condition of war, will probably
receive that attention which may be necessary to
adapt them more equitably to the condition of the
country in a state of peace-that is if the national
bank system is to be permanently continued.
The Soldiers Cemetery at Winchester.
The effort now being made by the ladies of Win
chester to collect the remains of the Confederate
dead and inter them in suitable and appropriate
burial ground, is one that will Recommend it.
self to ALL and to none more than to North
Carohnians. Of the thousands of dead who lie
scattered over the many battle fields in the lower
Valley no State can number many noble sons
as North Carolina. From Harrisonburg to Mar
tinsburg and Shepherdstown, management, how
ever unimportant, was fought without the aid of
troops from this State and they now lie with no
memorials to mark their resting places, and, alas
too many fill unknown graves. Their ashes should
be gathered together and placed in consented
ground, which in all times to come, may be a
Mecca to which gratitude and affection will ever
turn.
The noble women of the Valley of Virginia have
inaugurated this labor of love, and we know of
none who can more properly call upon their sisters
of the South for assistance. We have witnessed
and been the recipients of the inequalities of the
people of that section, and many gallant men who
followed the waning fortunes of the Confederacy
to the end, and who now look back, through
the terrible ordeal of blood and carnage
that has swept, as with bosom of destruction,
over the fairest inheritance of God, with emotions
of gratitude to the refined and lovely women of
the Valley, and who remember as bright spots up
on their cherries existence, the genuine hospi-
tality of the homes of noble old Virginia, will re-
cognize in this effort the last as it is the only one
left, of the kind Offices to be contributed by these
noble women, amid the disolation of their own
lands and the destruction of their own homes to
those who gave their lives for their protection.
We are informed that the ladies of Winchester,
in the furtherance of their noble purpose have
requested the Rev. A. A. Watson, Rector of St.
James Church, in this city, to act as an agent for
them, and he has kindly consented to do so. All
contributions left with him will be promptly for
warded, and we feel sure that our people will not
be niggardly in their contributions for an object
that appeals feelingly to their gratitude Other
communities throughout the State and the South
have already made liberal donations, and we are
fully persuaded that object, conceived in the
warm and generous impulses of grateful woman
will be rewarded by the full fruition OF an accom-
plished labor.
In this connection, we append the following ar
ticle from the Raleigh Sentinel in reference TO the
"Noble Old Valley"
A correspondent of the Biblical Recorder, of this
city, writing from the Valley of Virginia, gives an
interesting account of matters in that section of
| country. Abiding to the many melancholy evil
dences of the war that abound throughout that
stricken region, the writer feelingly observes:
cit has been frequently remarked that among
any other State Dear North Carolina Brave od North
State! The tears of Vrgnias daughters are mingled
where thy heroes lie sleeping and has been their ssd
privilege to administer to the wants of many of them
It was the fortune of large number of North
Carolina regiments to be attached to the Corps
that principally operated in the Valley; and one
who has passed, or may travel, up and down it,
VIII Uc Win the truth OF the
| statement of this correspondent. Everywhere along
its length the heroic dead of North Carolina lie
| sleeping, many of them in unknown and unmark-
ed graves. Near the numerous villages, however
that dot the country, in most of which hospitals
were established, the cemeteries have been at
tended with pious care, and bear touching testi-
hmony to the beautiful devotion of the daughters
of Virginia Many bereft ones in this State, whose
kindred lie Wondering beneath the sod of the
Valley, owe debt of gratitude to the noble wo-
men of that region, though they may know it not
They ,coud recognize it, in all its force, could the
lips that silent tell of the gentle ministra-
tons that soothed their last hours and brought to
the dying couch such sweet memories of home
Noble old Valley! Scourged and desolated land!
Home OF hospitality, of social refine
ment and of high moral culture! It is the earnest
aspiration, we are sure, of all who have ever had
an opportunity of cultvating the acquaintance,
and testing the virtues of its people, that the
deep scars on its bosom may be speedily healed.
and it again become what by nature it was de-
signed to be, and what before the struggle IL was.
the very garden spot OF the world!
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN DARLINGTON, 8. C.-We
regret to learn that on Sunday last the village of
Darlington, in Darlington District, s. G., was WIS.,
tied with very destructive fire. between three and
four O'Clock in the morning. The fire commenced
in the store of b. A. a T. IT, Earlv and some