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Year: 1865

NV YORK AND THE FUBLIC DIET.


The loyal States of the North, New
York for example, in addition to its share
of the burthen of the national debt, is
burthened with many millions of State
Year: 1865

would be conclusive evidence that th'


people of such State were truly loyal
and in accordance with those ideas which
control the legal mind of the othe
States. and by which the future of tn
country is to be governed.
Year: 1865

The first time you are walking with
your arms at liberty, stop moving them
and hold them by your side. You will be
surprised to find how soon your compan-
ion will leave you behind, although yon
may hurry, twist, wriggle, and try very
hard to keep pup. One reason for the slow
walk among girls is to be found in this
practice of carrying the arms metionless.
Three miles an hour with the arms still is
as hard work as four miles with the arms
free.


/ have seen the queens of the stage
walk have seen few girls and women
OF queenly bearing walk in the street and
drawing room. They moved their arms
ia tree and graceful manner. Gould this
habit become universal among girls their
chests would enlarge and their bearing be
greatly improved. See that girl walking
with both hands in her muf How she
wiegles and twists her shoulders and hips!
This is because her arms are pinioned.
Give them free swing, and her gait would
soon become more graceful.


Indeed, if I were asked what exercise I
thought most effective for developing the
chests of American gifls, should reply at
once, swinging the arms while walking.
Year: 1865

Peaoe!" spread through the city at the top
of all voices. No one stopped to enquire
about "free trade and sailors rights. I"
No one enquired whether the national
honor had been preserved. The matters
by which the politicians jhad irritateds the
nation into the war, had lost all their i'm
portance. It was enough that the ruinous
war was over. An old man on Broadway
attracted BY the noise to his door, was
seen to pull down a placard, "To Let, "
which had been long posted up. Never
was there such Joy in the city. a few
evenings after, there was general illumi-
nation, and although the snow was foot
deep, and soaked with rain, yet the streets
were crowded with men and women, eager
to see and partake of everything which
had in it the sight or taste of peace.
Year: 1865

81 Imust pass the lines, Colonel"


Il am sorry, my dear madam, to deny
your request; but our orders cannot be
departed FROM" was the answer of the
grey-haired officer who sat before the
camp table and addressed a young girl
who stood just inside the tent.


"And can it be possible that men who
profess to have human sympathy can issue
such Orders7"


Certainly, young lady. Why not ?
The soldier has every attendance, and the
presence of an amateur nurse could not fail
to iritate and trouble him, thereby retard-
ing his recovery"


"ColOnel, this is no argument, but sOph-
istry. have asked permission to pass
that might seek one whom your surgeons
report as mortally wounded Do you in
tend that he shall die without a friend by
his side who can carry his last message TO
his far-off home, and to the poor old
mother who will prize it beyond all other
words that will be spoken to her in this
life?"


The old man leaned his head upon his
hand to conceal the tears that were trick
ling down his cheeks, but in q moment he
,roused. himself "The case is very hard, ("
said he, slowly, "but the good soldier
wants only his comrades about him when
his life is going out. Some one among
them will bear his dying messages. You
must not urge me, young lady; am a
soldier, and cannot depart from my or
ders. have no discretion


The girl turned away with white face
and clenched hands, and walked silently
out of the camp. Many a cap was
touched respectfully to her as she passed.
for her errand was known to the soldiers.
and however much they must have ac-
knowledged the necessity of the harsh Or
der that shut her away from the wounded
man whom she sought, there was many a
one among them that would have laciet,
the firmness of the old Colonel. when he
denied the passionately worded plea of the
blue-eyed girl who had just gone away.


The SMOKE of the terrible battle at Muir
freesborohad not yet cleared away, and
though week had passed away since the
day of the battle, order had not been
wrought from the terrible chaos. The
dead were buried, but the living were
scarcely yet the recipients of the care ne
cessary to keep those who were struggling
between life and death on the right side.
The hospitals were or )wded, and the SUI
geons knife, that testing steel to the brav-
cry of a soldier, busy in every ward.


As invariably occurs Immediately after
a battle, crowds of civilians, bent on every
imaginary errand, hocked to the camp.
Relatives seeking the dead apd the living,
newsmongers and paper correspondents,
ANXIOUS to pick up anything of interest to
feed the hungry appetite of the public;
peddlers and camp followers, thieves,
gamblers, all in one heterogeneous mass,
sought entrance into the federal lines. 1t
was this influx that brought the order BY
which Eleanor Price had been denied the
privilege of seeking in the hospitals Lieut..
Frank Gordon, her playmate in childhood,
her unflinching champion in schooldays
and affianced husband in manhood.


In the long roughly constructed shed
improvised for an hospital, with dying
men On every side, with horror and dis
order, so that it could not be shut away
from the sight, lay the figure of man,
Year: 1865

destroyed by agents and with but very little
danger


Messrs. John Potts and Nathan Rier of
the War Department testified that to the
best of their knowledge the endorsement was
in the handwriting OF Jefferson Davis.


Other witnesses were examined


The n. Y Post says We have informa-
ton that note or despatch in cipher was
found in Booths pocket. A paper in cipher
had previously been found jeff Davis
house in Richmond This paper was not
supposed of Importance until one in Booths
pocket was compared with t and by the use
OF 1t was read. The precise contents of
Booths note We do not know, but our lnfor-
nation is that that note proves he was N
communication with two Of the men in Can
ada for whom rewards have been offered and
the subject Of correspondence was the pro-
posed assassination which 1t is distinctly as
serted Davis favored. The same men were
associated with Booth when he
was in Canada.
Year: 1865

President LNooLN's SPEECH AT GEITYs-
sUEG.-Fourscore and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth upon this continent
new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedi-
Gated to the proposition that all men are
created equal. Now We arc engaged in a
great civil war, testing whether that nation
or any nation so conceived and 30 dedicated
can long endure. We have met on a great
battlefield Of that war. We have come 20
dedicate portion Of that field as final rest
ing-place for those who here gave their lives
that that nation might live. IL is altogether
fitting and proper that We should do this.
But in larger sense We cannot dedicate,
we cannot cOnsecrate, we cannot hallow
this ground. The brave men, living and
dead, who struggled here, have consecrsted
1t far above our power 10 add or detract.
The world will little note, nor ilong remem-
Der what We say here, but it can never
forget what they did here. 1t is for US. the
the living, rather to be dedicated here TO the
unfinished work which they who fought
here have thus far so nobly advanced. 1t is
rather for US to be here dedicated to the
great task remaining before us, that from
these honored dead We take increased devo-
ton 10 that cause for which they gave the
last full measure Of devotion that we here
highly resolve that these dead shall not have
died in vain that this nation, under God,
shall have a new birth Of freedom, and that
the government of the people, by the people,
and for the people, shall not perish from
the earth.
Year: 1865

We learn that Major W. W. Pierce, Confederate
Quartermaser for this State, Office at Raleigh, has
been dismissed from Office. If there has been gross
msmanagemeut as reports say, why do not some
Of the Raleigh papers inform the public This
is no time to conceal official msmanagement-
Charlotte Dem.


Better not credit all you hear. We have heard
it asserted here that the late fire in Charlotte by
which so much government property was destroy
ed was the work of officers of the post who de-
termined to destroy their books and papers so their
peculations could never be discovered, but as the
Charlotte papers were silent came to the concu-
sion that there was no truth in the reports.


Major Pierce has been relieUed from duty, and
his successor has taken charge of the Office but
this is the first time have heard anything about
his being dismissed the service A Court of En-
quiry is now sitting in this city, and learn that
the case of Maj. Pierce IS being investigated; and
when the investigation shall have been concluded
we doubt not but that the result will be made pub
lie by the authorities And until the result ef III
investigation shall be made public we presume the
Raleigh papers have discretion enough to keep si-
lent on matter Of which they are entirely igno.
rant. To give currency to the extravagsnt charges
against Major Pierce, by newspaper publication of
the many rumOrs ahOat before investigation has
proven any guilt, would be doing, as we conceive,
great injustice to that gentlemAn.-PrOgress
Year: 1865




1t seems that the injunction of secresy mas re-
Gently been removed from the subject Of finance
and taxation, which has been so closely occupying
the attention of the House of Representatives in
Richmond, when it was discovered that the body
had been considering tax bill to cover an error
that has been detected in the estimate of the
governments liabilities. The present Secretary
Of the Treasury, it seems, was led into an er-
ror by his predecessor in stating the amount of the
of Indebtedness in his report at the opening
of Congress to be one hundred and fourteen mil
lions of dollars Additional liabilities in the nature
of cash transactions have already been ascertaned
to the amount of nearly four hundred millions OF
dollars. To provide for this increase of debt, Mr.
Trenholm advises that the required sum be chiefly
derived from taxation that the present scheme of
taxation be adhered to with the amendment recon-
mended in his report Of December 7th and that one
hundred per cent, be added to the existing rates.
and in the application thereof to the tax in kind
that by assessed upon the value of the same, and
be paid in Treasury notes. The additional revenue
that will be raised by this means may be estimated
at three hundred and sixty millions of dollars
Leaving deficiency to be obtained from other
sources of thirty-sx millions of dollars.


A mistake of four hundred millions in the esti-
mates of the treasury Such thing has never
before happened in the administration of the finances
of any people. Not four thousand, nor four mil
lions, but four hundred millions !! Where is this
money! Who has stolen it ? Who has it2 Where
is it Who is responsible for it2 In the language
of friend who has written US on the subject that
this deficiency should be alleged to be merely an er-
ror, Is direct insult to the people, for the sum is
too large to be thus accounted for. Four hundred
millions of dollars to be purely error and that
on the debtor side, dscoses system of book keep
ing 80 vague so loose and negligent that it stands
forth as q Just rebuke to the head of the depart
ment. If the tax law which is founded on this al
legged deficiency should be enacted, then are We,
the rich and the poor, at once bankrupted. Cry
aloud and spare not the miserable wretches who
have thus swindled the government"


A small mistake of four hundred millions, and
the soldiers not paid for the last six nine months
Whittier are we drifting, or rather, where are we
The peoples substance, to the amount of four hun
dred millions, must be taken to make good deficit
in the Treasury, which is unaccounted for, and
alleged to be merely an error. This, with othel
taxes that will be necessary, will absorb nearly al
the property in the country. North. Carolina, as
one of the few States yet unoccupied by the enemy
will have to contribute probably as much as one
third of these vast amounts; and the burthen viii
be placed upon her, and pressed down by the vote.
of members of Congress from Missouri and Ken
tuckV.
Year: 1865

We violate no confidence in saying that at con.
sultation between the members of Congress from
North Carolina, and the commissioners recently
sent by the Legislature of that State to confer with
recommendation of the Congressman, and the united
opinion of all, that no movement for State Con
vention be instituted or sncouraged.-Riehmond
Sentinel


And we "violate no confidence in saying" that
of the twelve members of Congress aud four COM
missiOners from this State referred to, nine were
for Convention. When and where did the Rich.
mOnd Sentinel obtain authority to speak for Oonser-
vatiVe members of Congress from this StateH Two,
thirds of the people of this State today in favor
of . Convention.
Year: 1865

"Tbe doubt has been dispelled. The truth is
made manifest and the startling conviction is now
forced upon ALL The invasion of the State has
been commenced u


The above is the opening paragraph of the recent
proclamation of the Governor of South Carolina
The Governor seems to be surprised-surely he is
not appaled-at the invasion of his State Gov.
Magrath is an original secessionist of the purest
water. His State is the hotbed, the very fountain
of that admirable doctrine of secession If there be
any thing good glorious in secession, South Car
olina is entitled to it all. The time has come for
her Governor and her people to show themselves
n1en If her people will rise and fight the invader
as the Spaniards fought NaPOleon-if they will be
as ardent, as bold, as courageous in meeting the
enemy as they were prompt and determined N their
sct of secession in December, 1869, they will main
tain their ancient character in all its lustre, and
will cover themselves with glory as with mantle.


Yes, "the doubt has been dispelled." Secession
meant war. We said so in 1860, but we were
laughed at for it and called traitor. The truth
is made manifest" 1t is. Time proves all things.
1860, 1s65-what will 1866 reveal? Who can
tell 2
Year: 1865

The Governors organ, the OonserUGtiUe, speaks
of the North Carolina Army" Where is that
armyH We thought those of our toops that consti
tute the "army" were in Confederate service
We concur with the Progress, that


"If North Carolina was an independent power,
and was at war, with a hundred or two thousand
men IN the field, she would want no more "Wai
Department" than she has got The whole thing
is q nuisance, humbug, aud the Legislature should
have broken it up; and but for the influence of the
Executive, who desires to keep up all this parade
for his grRti6cation we doubt not but it would
have been done. The cotton cards, scythe blades
and blue stone distributed will hardly justify the
debt of ten millions which has beea created, and
which those who have mSmanaged our State affairs
will be responsible for transmitting to children.
There is probably small brigade of men connect
ed with this North Carolina War Department"
more men in the bomb proofs than the State has in
the field, State troops, and the annual expenses
amount to several millions. And what does 1t all
amount to i-where is the good accomplished? All
the extravaganza and corruption is not to be found
at Richmond, our people will find to their cost
when the debts now being created, have to be paid.
With the whole management Of the in the
hands of the Confederate authorities, North Caro-
lima has no moro use for q War Department" than
she had in peace times, and had We been in the
Legislature we should have insisted on abOliShing
the whole concern and such position We are sure
would have met the appreciation of the people of
the State"


The expenses of this war department are con-
stantly increasing Not long since a number of its
shade officers were Proaoted not for services in
the field, but il order to increase their pay and
the las Legislature allowed the Adjutant General
the pay of Major General. As the result of the
existence and management of this "army," the
Confederate government is now in debt to the State
some two or three millions of dollars for expend-
lures incurred months ago, and which debt is not
likely soon to be paid Meantime the currency de-
preciates and the State is the loser by the depre
ciatiou, This "8ar department" ought to be re.
duced to its former dimensions, and the ardent and
able bodied men who, as a special favor from the
Governor, enjoy bomb proofs under it, should be
sent to the front An Adjutant General with one
Aid and two or three Clerks, would be auply sufi
cient for the control and management Of the mill
tia and home guErd- We surprised that the
Legislature did not aE4iy the knife to this excres-
cence on the body polite. 1t will not be too late
to do so at the next session. 1t is never too late
thens of the people. The immense State debt con-
tracted during this war; and now increasing by the
million, must be paid in full in specie or its equiv
alent or scaled or repudiated If the extravaganza
which has marked the administration of our affairs
for the last year or so should be continued repuda-
ton is inevitable. 1--WE speak as unto wise men
let them give ear"
Year: 1865

PEoPLR FLYING FROM CoLuHR1A.-H there il .
buster place than the Charlotte Depot, we have 70
search for it beyond the limits of the Charlotte De-
pot The necessities of the hour have, as it were,
crowded the maximum of every mans business in-
to minimum Of time, and morning, noon and night,
the trains literally besieged. Rural life has
suddenly become fashionable, and the desire for .
change of air is epidemic Amid the avalanche
thus begotten little credit is due the officers of
the road for the rapidity, system and prOmptness
with which they dispatch business; and not less
gratitude is due by citizens for the spirit Of ac
commodation and courtesy with which their de-
mands have been met Hon. VIM. johnson, the
President of the road in the city making especial
arrangement for those who expect to become refu
gees while Messrs Anderson, Bouknight Wolfe
and assistants act as able coadutators in anticpa
ting and providing for the public wants.-South-
CdrosiniGR.


1t seems the people are fleeing from the enemy
in South. Carolina, as many have done in other
States. This is bad policy. If the enemy should
continue to advance there will soon be no place to
escape to, so as to avoid his presence. Experience
should admonsh the people to remain at their
homes. They have nothing to gain and every
thing to lose by becoming refugees. This is sell
fish world, and especially SO towards poor refugees,
many Of that unfortunate class can testify. The
houses in the towns and villages are all occupied
and there is not sufficient in the small area of coun
try which is now left to sustain the inhabitants
and the large number Of refugees crowding into
that area Let the people remain at their homes,
and take their chances with the enemy. They will
inevitably, in nine cases out of ten make their
dition worse by leaving their homes to wander
through the country in search of new places of
abode,
Year: 1865

We lack space to-day for the proclamation Of
Gov Vance, dated February 14th, 1856, but it shall
appear in our next


It seems the Governor could not m axe this final
appeal without going out of his way to strike con-
siderable portion OF the people Of the State he says


"Many, however, of our people, who advocated
peace upon such vague and ill-defned terms as to
cause doubts of their good faith and loyalty, con.
tinued seduloasly to disseminate the opinion tGat
our own government alone was to blame for the
continuance of the war, going SO TAR IN some IN
stances as to threaten revolutionary measures 4or
wrestling the treaty making power from Its hands,
and negotiating with the enemy. ourselves, alieg
ing that we could certainly get suca terms II the
States would act in their sovereign capacity, as
would secure our property and slaves, oy recon-
struction."


Admit, for arguments sake, that the above IS
true. and what then Beyond all question if Gov.
Vance had gone with the Editor OF this paper IN
August 1863 when he began to advocate peace on
the basis of the independence and sovereignty Of
the States, tour property and slaves" could have
been saved, either by temporary separation or by
restoration of the old government; and not only
could our slaves have been saved, but hundreds of
thousands of precious lives would have been pre-
served. But the Governor hardened his heart and
stened his neck, and urged aoGr as the only means
for saving slavery, and now behold the result! 1t
is true when he before the people for re-elec-
ton, and when he wanted votes, he was peace
man. In February, 1854, he approved Mr.. Bogles
resolutions in favor of Convention, which looked
to the very sovereign action of the State which he
denounces in this proclamation. In his Fayetteville
speech he declared that the State would be justified
in seeding in the event Of any great disaster to the
Confederate cause. And in all his speeches, made
to get votes, so much was he devoted to peace
measures that he gave 1t as his opinion that before
the leaves then green should fall peace would smile
upon the country.


So far as "good faith and loyalty" are concerned
we have been as true to North Carolina as it waE
possible to be. We have preferred her prosperity
her glory, and honor above every thing else; anG
we are proud of the fact that have never at any
time, countenanced the idea that she should, fol
any cause or in any event. be coerced and dragoon
ed BY her own agent, the Confederate government
Gov Vance cannot say that He has been truer t
the cotton States and truer to the Richmond gov
ernment than he has been to his own State He il
welcome to all the credit he has gained by suct
"good faith and loyalty"


The antipathy of Gov. Vance towards consider
BILE portion of our people appears to be mortal
He can never forgive them for voting against him
In this respect though the head of the State ant
therefore bound to treat all our people with courte
sy and Justice he has exhibited less lberality anC
less magnanimity than is shown by the Confederate
the organ of the original secessionists.
Year: 1865

TIE END OF THE WoRLD-Sundry people much
given to the Interpretation of prophecy and deeply
Versed in biblical lore of the opinion that the
end of the world at least of the present dspen.
sation, is at hand. Either event would, we think,
end the present war. We hardly think it could be
carried on in another world nor would its contin-
uance be consistent with the coming of the millen
ium-the supposed thousand years Of holiness
and happiness which is to prevail before the pass
ing away of the present physical world and the ad
vent of now heaven and new earth.


DR.. Cumming, of London, who has had spite at
the world for some time, and has tried to bring it
to an end on several occasions, will have it that the
close is bound to come next year. certain sure, and
no postponement on account of the weather. New
ton and some others are disposed to give an extern
sion of time and consent to spare it until 1857
There may be something in all this, but we do not
know ything about it.. We have always thought
that the scripture was clear intmating that the
happening Of the last day was thing which no man
could find out or anticipate-that Judgment when
it did come, would come like thief in the night
and we think so still


But to hundreds the end of the world comes ev-
cry day. To the soldier who pours out his hfe-
blood on the battle field, or sinks more slowly in
the hospital-to the wife or mother, removed from
all that the heart clings to-to all who die-.his
world ends as eectually as though its last day had
come aud its last hour had struck Va. Journal