The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-08-13
Especial Cor. of The Messenger.)
Messenger Bureau, Park Hotel.

lions of COlOnelS MdcRae and IverSOn
with Endorsements Of Generals Lee and
Jackson. Recommendations of Lieu
tenant Colonel Johnson, with indorse-
ments Of Lee and Ewell. Recommend
ations of Colonel Scales, with indorse-
ments of Generals Lee and A. P. Hill.
Certificate Of the secretary of war
that no recommendations of Colonies
Garrett or McElroy could be found in
9he war department.
March 21st General Whiting directed
the enrolment of all free negroes in
North Carolina and Virginia between
the ages of IS and As, (for labor on for
tiications, etc.
April 18th in a letter to Thomas Bragg,
confederate state commissioner, the
governor said he had heard there were
many citizens under arrest at KinstOn;
that he desired to know the causes of
arrest and to have a speedy trial Of
them.
April 10th the secretary Of war was
begged, for the present, at least, to
suspend the enrolment and cOnscrip-
zion Of the state reserves in North Car
DINA, from II to IS and from As to
50 years. Their enrolment now, with
the present prospect of being called to
the field from the crops, causes the ut
most CONSERVATION and gloom, and
would be followed by the most Distress
ing consequences. Besides the state
would be left pOWerleSs and without a
militia organization. 1t cannot be the
purpose Of the confederate government
to reduce a sovereign state to this dan
gerous and humiliating condition. 1t
would be to the professions
of the government"
April 18th a telegram to Secretary
of the Treasury G.. c.. Memminger, at
Raleigh, said: I'm pursuance of a con-
tract mad last December with the
holders Of North Carolina cotton war;
rants in Europe the new steamer
Edith has arrived at Wilmington to
carry out the cotton due on the war
rants. Can she do 500"
April 18th George V. Strong wrote of
the Eli Swanner case that "%although
it is evident that Swanner is a very
dangerous and disloyaI man, yet 1 do
not see hat he can be convicted of any
overt act Of treason and shall not
therefore prosecute Vance found that
Swanner was in prison at Salisbury
and requested his release. The COM
mandant replied that Swanner had
been discharged.
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April 18th the secretary of war was
written: IF it is possible send at least
one regiment of regular trOOps to Col
9nel Palmer in western N. G. / beg
you to read the Endorsed letter from
Brigadier General McElroy Of the
North Carolina militia. The condition
Of that country is truly deplorable and
If the militia could be depended on
starvation must ensue by the whole
sale if they are kept from their corps,
in a country where there are no slaves.
Time will not suffice to tell you of all
the horrors to which they are exposed.
l beg you to relieve them quickly by
sending some troops there
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The government stuck to its demand
for one-half the storage room of the
steamer Advance.
April 9th General Whiting ordered
the removal of the state salt works
from M~asOnboro sound. Vance asked
the reason and what right Whiting had
10 interfere and control these important
state works. He also wrote D. G..
Worth to repair the works and get to
work again.
ADIIl LlSl, III a ltllcI lIOIll INlCIllllOIu,
dated Headquarters armies cOnfeder-
ate states, General Braxton Bragg
wrote to Vance: Il have pleasure in
c~ongratulating you upon the recent
brilliant affair at Plymouth under the
leadership of that gallant young North
Carolinian, Brigadier General Hoke.
The president directs that the negroes
captured by our forces be turned over
to you for the present. If any of them
belong to citizens of North Carolina
Fave them restored to their owners. If
any are owned in other states give me
their number and the name and resi-
dences of their owners and retain them
until the presidents views in reference
80 them may be conveyed to you. To
avoid as far as possible all complica-
lions with the military authorities of
the United States in regard to the dis
position which will be made of this
GLASS of prisoners, the president res
pectfully requests your eXcellency to
take the necessary steps to have the
matter of such disposition kept out of
the newspapers of the state n in
avery conceivable way to shun it's OBJ
tanning any publicity as far as consist
cut WIN 'he
April 23rd the president said there
was grave doubt of the expediency Of
suspanding the execution of the con-
script law in the northern OF
the state, as it would be an apparent
yielding to the disaffected classes
which Vance had said existed in that
district. The president hoped the Or
ganization of the reserve forces"
when brought into unity with he &C
tive army. would give defence without
interfering with agricultural pursuits.
April 18th a pardon was granted
Alice Tice, Esther Tice, Martha
Thompson and Martha Brown. who
had been convicted of riot, in forcibly
taking corn from a depot in Blade
county and sentenced to five months
imprisonment.
Collie & Co. gave notice that the
steamer Constance was sent to Will