The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-07-30

cVe Is'ce
er. Lowe Coz wired: .'wii take half
Of steame Advance on arrival here.
VIII deposit half million dollars with
our bankers at Richmond used TO buy
bonds. subject to your contract at once.
and more on vessels arrival. IL you re-
Quire it." Vance replied: Il will ac-
eept your offer"
4 proclamation dated November 30
designated Thursday. December 2. as
a day OF Fasting. humiliation and
prayer"
Flag officer Lynch wrote December
4. from Wilmington. that the gunboat
Albermarle was running from Ed
wards Ferry TO Halifax by order OF
the secretary OF the navy, as a precau-
tionary measure suggested by me. Mr..
Elliott had been paid by installmsnts,
had received more than the contract
would have justified Upon survey. and
the boat was the sole property OF the
government. The vessel was taken out
OF Elliott's hands. / have sent ass. 600
lbs. Of old rails to Atlanta and les, 600
lbs. to Richmond and am receiving the
plates rolled therefrom. Every pound
is being used in the defence OF this
state. 1 car disprove all of Elliott's
statements. When Elizabeth City, his
home. was attacked. February 10, 1862.
he fed and / remained to defend II. His
bills against the government indicate
a keen regard to individual interest.
Your excellency has done me great in
u~stice."
The attorney general. Mr.. H. Rogers.
was asked: Does the opinion Of a
single judge in a habeas coupus case
bind the other judges and settle the
law of the land as adiuticated
case in the individual case?" and re-
piled that he thought it not final and
that the supreme court ought to be
asked to meet and express an opinion.
December IL Vance asked that the
LIST, Sd and 35th North Carolina regi-
ments, which were in brigades from
other states, and the SD from Lanes
brigade, which had 5 regiments, be
constituted a brigade and a North
Carolina ~brigadier be given its COM
mand. He declared that 1.-The desire
of these brave men for this
ment is so great that l urge this
change"
A man giving his name as Captain
SAio -. 4Acoo, - odN SdI
cavalry, came to Governor Vance and
resented an order purporting to be
from Major General j. E. B. Stewart,
Q. s. A, for the delivery to him of John
Mussell, who vas in Jail at Charlotte,
charged with murder. Mussell was
turned owe to Hood. December 5 Gen.
eral Stewart wrote that Hood vas an
imposter and the order a forgery.
December % Vance wrote the secre-
+ q ~ Of u-o that aiyhf ,oorthc haForo
he had lei the confederacy $500 bales
of cotton at the request of Major Cam
eron, Quartermaster at Wilmington, to
load confederate The cotton
was to be replaced or paid for as Vance
might desire. He asked for it to be re-
placed, and a Captain Ardor of General
Writings staff replied, alleging that
he a bought the cotton and coolly
offered Vance 20 cents a pound for 1t,
while it was worth so cents. The cot
ton was bought to meet a prospective
debt, Vance stated. He said he could
not buy cotton for less than so cents in
southwestern Georgia, and that in
fact the government had monopolized
the railways he could not get the cot
ton at all to load his steamers.
December % a letter to T. Andrea at
Wilmington informed him that Vance
had purchased an interest in the steam
ers Don and Hausa, owned by A. Collie
& Co, of London, and that his pur-
chase ave the right of contracts over
said vessels in the ports of the confed- |
eracy. Andrea was designated to act |
as agent for this line at Wilmington. |
He was directed to loa the Hausa with |
cotton at once for Bermuda.
/
Vance wrote Alexander Collie & CO.
Manchester to push the completion
Of the other steamer with all possible |
dispatch: Time is everything. You will
please sell the states interest in the
cargoes Of the cotton and deposit
money to my credit in a safe bank.
Of iron, as you proposed, l pro-
pose to bring in the remainder Of the
states purchases Of any supplies and
the bacon or such other articles as the
state may wish to import"