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Year: 1862

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The Charleston Courier, of the l 1th instant,
learns from participant in the late fight that
the enemy, after firing volley, would imme-
diately fall to the ground to avoid the effects
Of our fire:
Upon their first landing and while the skir-
mishers of the enemy were advancing, our men
were posted behind thicket concealed from
observation ana quietly waiting for the enemy
to get within easy range of their muskets.--
When about one hundred and fifty yards dis
tant gun in the hands of one OF our men went
off accldently, which at once put the enemy on
the alert Had it not been for this, it Is thought
the whole advancing party would have been
killed or captured.


The officer bearing the flag of truce, Lieut..
Elliott, Of a New York regiment, seemed very
desirous of having parely with our men.-
When asked why he was desecrating the soil
of s. c., and fighting against our liberties, he
responded by saying that they came to avenge
the insult to their flag, the stars and stripes
Upon its be intimated that they had thrown
away the most favorable opportunity for redee-
ming their honor by releasing Mason and Si-
dell. the officer said that was foreign to the
subject, and the conversation dropped.


It was rumored that Gen. Sherman had sent
another flag of truce yesterday to>Gen: Lee, in
relation to the negroes Of Port: Royal Island,
asking their removal from the-Tsland in eofrse-
quence the small pox having broken out
Year: 1862

Two SHAD-The first pair of shad of the
season was brought here yesterday by Mr.
Robert Talford, having been caught by him in
the Cape Fear River. They were bought BY
Mr. John Bishop of the Farmers House for
Five Dollars. This is early, but is no doubt
due to the recent warm weather. IFiLmingt0n
Journal


We noticed fisherman on last Sunday
morning passing up the Road with one shad
and trout, or some other kind of a fish strung
on string, for which he asked two dollars
We thought that was high but five dollars a
pair beats it badly.
Year: 1862

There seems to be a providence in the
deficiency of the grain crop in England.
The effect Of this deficiency will be to make
the English Government careful how it be-
haves towards this country, where it must
look for bread for its people. There is
something sublime in the idea that while
involved in The most formidable civil war
of the century, We are nevertheless able
to feed the world. Our own crops are
abundant, and cur surplus is vast almost
beyond human belief. Is not such a land
worth fighting for
Year: 1862

The Missing Boat Of the Golden Gate safe.


The San Francisco Bulletin, Of August
18th, reports the safe arrival of the miss
ing boat Of the steamer Golden Gate at
Manzanilla. Among these saved In this
boat was Richard Henderson, of this city.
Year: 1862

TIE SURRENDER or HARPER's FERRY.-Cur-
rency has been given to several scandalous
rumors in connection with tho above event, by
which it is sought TO cover with infamy the
memory Of as gallant and loyal soldier as
ever drew sword in defence OF the country.
Even the officers who served under him have
not escaped similar ealumnies. When the facts
come to be correctly ascertained, we believe it
will be found that everything was done by our
troops at Harper's Ferry that was possible for
SO small force to accomplish against such
overwhelming odds. The blame of the surren-
der rests not with the officers in command, but
with the War Department. which failed to rein
force this important strategical point when it
knew it was in danger. Mcclellan had too
much on hand at Sharpsburg to spare any of
his troops without endangering his plans 1t
was for the War Department to have des-
patched a sufficient force from Washington to
enable Colonel Miles to hold out until the
rebels in front Of Mcclellan were either COM
peiled to surrender or driven across the Poto-
mac. Thus again to the inefticiency and blum
dcrng of the department do we owe the
loss of the services of from eight TO ten thou
sand of our best troops, and the facilitating OF
JacAson's junction with Lee, which cost us the
lives Of several thousands more. OF what use
is it for us to have good generals if they are
thus seconded.
Year: 1862

effect this essential object We rely upon the
activity Of General Mcclellan, and the sagacity
and corresponding energy Of General Halleck
and the War Department.


Thus anticipating the speedy recovery of our
revolted States, beginning with Virginia, what
is the policy suggested TO President Lincoln !?
1t is to seize the opening, with the recovery of
Virginia, for proclamation to her people, as
suring them, with their submission. of the pro-
lection of the constitution of the United States
Next, as soon a. practicable, with the recovery
Of our rebellious States one after another, let
the President provide for elections therein for
Senators and Representatives in our next Con-
gress; and meanwhile let our conservative
Union men of oil parties, in New York and the
North, combine to return to this next Congress
a new set Of men, in place of our disunion abo-
lition radicals, and the triumph of the Union
and of Honest Abraham Lincoln's administers
lion will be complete.


Then, with our glorious Union reinstated in
full strength, and purged of the disorganizing
elements of Southern secessionism and Northern
abolitionism, we shall be prepared at once to
exact atonement and reparation from England
and France for the insults which they have in
ficted upon us, and for the aid and comfort
which they have given to our enemy in thou
sand devious ways since the outbreak of this
rebellion. Then we shall be prepared to try
the force Of our republican ideas and institli-
tions in Canada, and to see that justice is done
to Mexico.


Such are the grand and comprehensive re-
suits, in our domestic and foreign relations,
ioreshadowed by this great triumph of our
army in Maryland, and their fuiilment is but
question of time This Southern rebellion is
doomed, and with its extinction our redeemed
country will rise at once in The majesty Of the
most powerful nation in the world,
Year: 1862

If Mcclellan succeeded the Union would be re-
stored as 1t was before the war began; and that
was the last thing the sboliticnsts desired.
Greeley had long since declared that every man
killed in this war, unless the object was to
abolish slavery, was murdered, and that he
never wanted to see the Union restored with
the Southern institution in it. Greeley, there
fore, must regard Mcclellan as the greatest of
all murderers for it Is not his intention to libe
rate one negro. and it is his great purpose to
uphold the constitution as it is. and to restore
tie Union as it was. Greeley, therefore, and
tie whole ungodly crew OF political rogues and
fanatics who have assailed General Mcclellan,
ought to be rooted out Of this city and sent into
exile, so that their opportunities for mischief to
the republic may be ended forever.
Year: 1862

CTATE OF County of Cass--ss
y At session of the Probate Court for the
County of Cass, holden at the Probate Office, in
Cassapols, on Monday the eighth day of December,
in the year one thousand eight hundred and
sxty-two Present-Cliiord Shanahan, Judge of
Probate. La the matter of the estate of John e.
Casterline, deceased. On reading and filing the
petition duly verified, of Thomas j. CasteTiine,
praying for letters of Administration the estate
of said deceased.


Thereupon it is ordered, that Saturday, the
third day of January next, at ten O'Clock, In
the forenoon, be assigned for the hearing of said
petition and that the heirs at law of said deceased
and all other persons interested in said estate,
are required to appear at session of said court,
then to be holden at the Probate Office, In Cass-
apolis and show cause, if any there be, why the
prayer of the petitioner should not be granted


And it is further ordered, that said petitioner
give notice to the persons interested in said estate,
Of the pendency Of said petition and the hearing
thereof by causing copy of this order to be pub
lished in the Cass County Republican, newspaper
printed and circulating in said County of Cass for
three successive weeks previous TO said daS OF
hearing C.SHANAHAN,


IA true copy1 Judge cf Probate.
December s. 1862. declI-S4wo
Year: 1862

the house, but our hardships bound us
the more closely together.


All my children proved comforts
and blessings to me. Good took care
OF one for me; as Willie said, swe
knew that it was for the best. The
rest married in the course of time, and
left me; but the prop of my old days,
the one whose industry and manage
ment gave me this plentiful and com
Portable home, has never left me since
the day l gave him away"
Year: 1862

Softly!


Tread the floor


OF the cot by the hill
Softly!


Shut the door


From the sound of the MILL
Sadly


Hear the vesper


As the twilight hours are sped
Gentlyl


Speak in whispers


As you stand by the bed.
Meekly
Bend in prayer


Down by the soldiers side
Gently


Speak words there


To calm the youthful bride.
Brightly
Says the soldier,


81 look o er the rivers tide
Brightly
Did he murmur,


"Once more she'll be my BRIDE
Quickly"
am dying!''


The dying soldier said
Quickly!


To him heighing,


She found life had fed
Year: 1862

STORY OF SoLDTER.-A correspondent
of the Christian Inquirer gives this account
of an interview with soldier who was
wounded at the battle of Gaines Mill:


One of these soldiers said to me: II be-
long to the Massachusetts Twenty-second,
and was wounded at the battle of Gaines
Mill, toward evening. We had been doing
picket duty nearly all day, and were very
tired and hungry. About four o'clock we
were ordered to the front. We charged
down hill and fought the rebels ia a raw
iue. They drove us back at first; we stood
our ground uutil nearly cut to pieces, and
then slowly retired behind kind Of breast
work. Just at that time the Irish brigade
came to the rescue, and charged past us
with a terrible yell. The rebels were un.
able to resist the onslaught. and fed in
confusion. Oh! sir, was glad when that
Irish brigade came in sight! 1t did my soul
good. 1t seems to me that did not fire
my gun more than three or four times;
was shot through the leg soon after the en-
gagement commenced aud then limped to
the rear, aud afterward crawled into an ar
my wagon, and held up my wounded limb
with both hands until we arrived on the
James river" Such was his simple story.
Year: 1862

THERE is a project talked of in England,
which probably has ankee at the bottom
of it. 1t is, instead Of carrying the nine
thousand tuns of Goa required for daily
consumption to London, to convert it into
gas at the coal mines, aud convey it in an
enormous main to the great metropolis, a
distance of two or three hundred miles. The
practicability and advantages of using gas
for cooking and other domestic purposes
are now fully established.
Year: 1862

MIR. Forney. writing from Washington
to the Philadelphia Press, speaks as fol.
lows OF the temper of Congress


"a single days observation and inter.
course among the members of Congress
has led to the conclusion that, with two
or three insignificant exertions, the Sena-
tors and representatives agree in utter
detestation of the whole rebellion, and in
the uncomprouising spirit of putting it
down at whatever cost. Among those
u ost urgent and resolute in taking these
positions are democrats. There is, indeed
good deal of difference as to the means
or manner of giving effect to this policy.
Some are for declaration of emancipa-
ton Of the slaves of the insurgents -
others for the con6scatioD of slave prop
erty; and another class for levying a tax
upon the slave bolders, SO that they may
by such a process feel the heaviest bur
deGs of the war. But on all sides, as we'll
on the part OF Thaddeus Stevens, in the
House, and Lyman Trumbull. in the Sen
ate, as we'll among the ultra Republicans
as among the ultra Democrats. there 10
open expression that the property of the
loyal Shareholders shall be protected or paid
for. A good deal of unnecessary clamor
has been created by mischievous men on
this subject The friends of the Admin
istration and the war have only to keep
their eye on the issue on which they real
ly do agree as above stated and they can
not divide.


One great truth stands out prominent
ly, that the property of the traitors and
that it would be unjust to except proper
ty in slaves from this rule. All loyal
people ask that the houses and lands, and
gold and silver. and stocks aud securities,
and cotton and powder and cannon and
ships of Jefferson Davis and his robber
associates should be confscated, and rath-
er than it should be used to damage and
destroy the Union. it should be anDihila-
ted. Would it not be monstrous if we
excepted from this rule the slaves OF Da-
Wis and his followersl How to dispose
of the slaves, whether they shall be liber-
ated or armeG-wbether the ownership in
them shall ne coDfscated or taken-are
wisely left by the President and Secreta-
ry of War. to tho military authorities -
No doubt Congress will pass some Law By
which these authorities may be guided in
the disposition of this vexed question but
their action in my opinion be regulated
by the suggestions of the President and
the reasoning of his respective constitu-
tional advisers
Year: 1862

The letter that We publish from Franklin
county, lower Egypt, throws considerable
light on the state Of feeling down in the
ninth district on the Peter Funk constitu-
lion. The writer, who is leading citizen
Of that sechon, declares that every seces-
cessionist and rebel sympathizer supports
the Ubiquitous thing, while the loyal war
Democrats are against it. The same diyil-
ing line runs through parties in every
county in the State. Chicago is divided
into loyalists and seeessionists, as well as
Egypt, though the proportion Of the latter
is smaller, and their ayowals Of ftreason1ess
open, but at heart they are every whit as
rotten as their brethren at the other end d


the State. Epe1y secessioaist is hottor TIL
ueso constitution. We submit that this is 6


very suspicious circumstance. They mus
see something in it that will strengthen


their bad cause and enable them to weaker


the Government. What is it?
Year: 1862

perior strength Of the free States, the
invasion and suhjection Of Mexico would
seem but holiday task; and they would
sweep down upon her as to gay and glo-
rious folic. They cannot discover in the
character Of the Mexican people any reason
to doubt that slavery would prosper among
them; and the country is 30 near, access to
it so easy, and the prospect of success so
encouraging, that it would be strange if
she did not become the victim Of these
atrocious and detested traitors, so soon as
they are driven from our midst. The re-
hellion will then be carrying out truly the
projects and purposes which were origi-
na1ly set up by the Knights Of tue Golden
Cirr}e
Year: 1862

ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD,


WILL GIVE FIVE DOLLARS REWARD FOR THE
- capture OF my negro man JOHN, and his confinement
m IN 'ne a OF wake County; will give fifty dollars for


e aetecon conTiction and punishment of any party who
mas naroored or may harbor said negro And will give
one hundred dollars reward for evidence that will convict
ana punish the white person who told said negro he had
much right to be free any body or used language 10
M 70 Inat enectj and thereby induced him to leave the
service OF his master and owner '''


Raleigh, Aug. /, 1852. soExtnd
Year: 1862

The New York Herald has very little tdtoriaIiy ex-
cept puffs Of Mcclellan, wbo it says is master
of the situation and has it in bis power to pluck the
cr6wning victory of the war; The Boston Argus begs
The Philadelphia Inquirer don't feel safe. 1t wants
Philadelphia defended. 1t says:


We have one hundred thousand men here capable OF
bearing arms of e,sffty thousand vigorous and
strong ten thousand have already respectable know
ledge of the drill, and be readily maCG1vred on the
field. In the event of an advance upon Philadelphia
these troops, aided by those which shall have fallen back
before the enemy, would make strong defence.


Positions should at once be chosen at the most vu
nerabe points of approach for artillery light tugs
should be in readiness for receiving with which
to sweep the Delaware, and, above ALL repeat, all
the ridiculous counercaims of commanders and Organi
cations should be set at rest 5y the sending of United
States General here to take command and by forcing
all those who are indifferent dsncncd to take their
places iu the ranks of the defenders as volunteers.


There will not be wanting those who, if the danger
pass will be inclined to laugh all the present prepar
alton and precauton but it will be the vacant laugh
of the fool who could not discern the danger sp be-
cause he escaped destruction The apathy, the conu
sion the want of confidence in military leaders, which
found in Philadelphia to-day, without parallel
and will remain until our advice is followed.


letter from New York, dated the 9th inst, says:


The exciting reports from the upper Potomac and
Maryland are making profound impression upon our
people There is panic it is true, and but little
tua excitement The feeing is too deep for either
Men feel for the first time that there is at least pos
sibiity that the refuent waves of the rebellion from
Richmond may sweep near enough their own hearths
and homes to make them realize what the horrors oil
war really are, and hence whist there is every conf
dence in the ability of General Mcclellan to beat back
the advancing hordes there is O general desire that
more energetic action should be had on the part of
municipal authorities and leading citizens to provide
for any contingency that may arise.
Year: 1862

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The country is speedily assuming the c0cditOn it
cuped thirty years ago, when the service Of Odna
ry female aborer worth more than Lcr TODD aud
clio hing, furnished Of the most frugal kind. While We
are realizing the benefits of practical protective tariff
domestic manufactures are of necessity the order OF the
day. ard this class of labor is devoted to them and it
is only from the inefciency OF the impemen-not the
want of skill in the OF it-hat reduces the value Of
this kind of labor Give Us machinery, no matter how
rude, that will increase the production Of yarns from
great staE e four fold, two told, and VAST
amount Of labor can be devoted TO the production OF
food and real independence exist which cannot be in
tarrupted by speculation or the cupidy OF individuals


While Providence has given as cereal easy Of
cultivation and adapted to the variety of our soil and
climate as to place the supply OF healthtu and labor
sustaining food beyond the power CT eXtOrtlOn and ra
pacty, we have not been fortunate wherewith to
cl0the ourselves. How is it, have departed from
lawful simplicity of apparel serts OF the lords
of the cotton mills? Have we no men cunning to
work - to devise a machine to occupy the middle
ground not too expensive fer tire small planter, not
productive as to empt him beyond the manufacture Of
his household gOods-sOmethDg more ambitions han
the common spinner, but long way of from the whlr
and whrl of the ordly mill


1t is great, universal and immediate want which, ii
supplied will secure to the inventor ample reward
and name among the bene actors of bis kind. 1t is
idle TO say that when the present restrictions upon cur
commerce are removed, household manufactures must
cease The writer has had for many years portion Of
his clothing made at home and with such to
stand the test of inspection and figures 1t is irda
pendepce, obtained, we should never surrender
Could to-day spin with masters bushel Of corn
would be equivalent to six yards of cloth such
servants wear as it i8 a busbel buys yard of CLOTH
In DeBow's Review for 1857, Mr.. Geo G. Henry IL
duIges in very hopeful views OF Revolution in
the Cotton Industry" to be effected By the of a
spinner to be applied to the gin converting the plan
ter's seed cotton into yarn at very slow ratethe
chnery within the scope regards price and simpci
ty) of the planter.


We have had one terrible revolution of this kind
within the few months past yet would gladly hail
another. Mr. Henrys " revolution would be wei
come and bis position, if sustained by true art and
genius, that of q conquerOr. A. PLANTER.
Year: 1862

1t is reported that the reception of the news from
the West that Kirby Smith was in front of Cincnna
IT, two individuals left this State for that city for the
purpose of speculating in western produce &c. Wheth
the report be true or not we hope that the military
authorities will permit no speculation to be carried on
at any Northern city which they may capture. The
army should, a. all events, be supplied 6rst and what
ever can be spared shipped it possible to the South


augusta CoRsti
Year: 1862

engsged, his battalions were brought up


an perfect order, and precisely at the


time and place they were most needed


Uuder such leadership there was no !sl-


toring. BY skillful management one bri.


gadc relieved another and nothing was
lost by delay. AT night, although the
enemy had fought under cover of the
woods, We had gained upon HE position
and held the advantage.


Nor was Sigels management on Sa-
turday any less creditable than on the
previous day, although the enemy had
been heavily reinforced. Unfortunately,
through a mistaken or wilful disregard
of General Sigers instructions, General
Mcdowell advanced improperly upon the
enemy and was compelled to suffer a
terrible repulSe. Sigels orders were,
that our forces should maintain their po-
sition and await the attack but Nc
Dowell, it is ssid, did not heed these in
structions, and thus the repulse of
whole division, the slaughter of Slocum's
brigade, the necessary reinforcement of
Mcdowell from Porter's division, tended
to weaken and disauange our admirable
position at the beginning. Yet the result
OF the days battle was far more salts
factory than was at first believed; and
only slight advantage over MS was gain
ed by the enemy. Now that we have
been so strongly reinforced, even this
advantage is wholly lost to them. For
the delay which our retreat upon Centre
vile occasioned, while it was fruitful of
benefits TO ourselves, was ruinOus TO the
rebel forces, hemmed in as they are, be-
tween our army and the mountains, and
at distance from their source of sup
plies


Our German adopted citizens may well
be proud Of their representative nor
will the fact that he is foreigner by
birth either lessen or chill the native adj
miration Of his qualities and services.
Even if Sigel were at the head Of our ar
mics, the amour proprs of Americans would
not be much disturbed. Tho military
hero of France was a Corsican. The
man who meets most adequately the cris-
IS OF our country in such an hour as this
will have need Of no special baptism 10
be forever recognized as our OWN T.
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