Fayetteville Semi-Weekly Observer from Fayetteville, North Carolina • Page 3

Txxxs, After a fortniarht'a absence Favettfcrille Water VVorlfSr i front our table, we have received the Ralefoh flnn- LATEST FROM THE NORTH. The Richmond papers have received the New York Herald, of Saturday, the 15th instsnt. It Is quite significant that the Herald has not one word in it about the bloodv which the Yankees sus FROM and after the 1st day of October 1864 the following rates will be charged for the use ef the Hy-1 rant Water, to-wifc' Hobbibli Otrri.f a. The onster who is at tie head of the yankee amy in the TnHey, MaJ. Gen.

P. H. Sheridan, officially reports to Gen. Giant that np to he 7th inst; i "I have destreved over two thousand barns Hied with I servative of Tuesday. In Its leading article on the PAYETTEVILLE For Hotels, S150 te 1200, per annmm.

OCTOBER 20, 1864. currency, we Sad the following paragraphs: "Why should the gevemment demand produce- la bor at a less prioe than It own oitizsns pay! Can any one show that it is more patriotic to sell a barrel of flour Barents ot rasas assoeianon- "From Loui9iana-VLouA, Oft. 19. The. New Orleans Times of the 11th claims great suecess for Lee's raid in Eastern Louisiana for the destruction of properly and capture of prisoners.

It says that Lt Earle, commanding Independent scouts, has captured a Confederate Msjor on the way to Richmond with 15 battle-flags taken from the Yankees in the Bed River expedition and a large number of important dispatches to the JO. S. War Dept. Earle is reported to have captured Woodvflle and killed a large number of rebels. we government at 3u than-to a poor widow, a poor manor a soldier's family, in fact to any bodf who it a friend to the government? It is impossible.

The credit RMoWKu9Tio.wThe lettw of Mr-'Boyce, the South Carolina emboldened the recOMtractioniflts to show their Jiands, which they had beeU afraid to do. We baWhad no doubtof the taeUnatioh of the, Ralegh standard and its eeho, bat tad BUf SUblss. too, Bar Rooms, either connected with Hotel At otherwise, $100. Eatiag Houses, 'v 150, Beaks, 7S, Private Berdiag House, 75, selling Houes, 30 to $50, Shops and Stores, $30 to $40, c. $60, Barbershops, $80, Lawyers' and Doctors' Offioes, wheat, and 'hay and farming Implements, over seventy mills filled nith flour and wheat, have driven in front -ef the army over four herd of stock, and have killed and issued to the troops not less than three thousand sheep." Other accounts state that in very many cases the dwellings and all other bouses have been destroyed along with the barns.

Two thousand! families? probably 20,000 men, women land children, ere thus deprived of all their crops of grain, all their cattle, sheep, hogs and horses, even all their fowls, with oftentimes tained before Richmond on Thursday; nor do its readers know that there was a fight on that day. i 8orae deserters' from our lines below Richmond having made oath before Beast Butler that eighty Yankee negro soldiers were out of Castle Thunder and carried down to work in the trenches, has sent the following let-W to. Commissioner Quid: I Heidquabticrs, Oct. 12. Sir: I enclose herewith an' affidavit showing the employment of one! hnndred-and ten (110) United States colored soldiers by the military officers of the Confederal forty in the trenches near Fort, Gilmer a practice justified by no rule of war or claim heretofore made by tbe Confederate authorities.

I have ordered a like nnmlwr. 6T the officers and soldiers captured by us. (preferably, as many of the Virginia 01 me government has been made by our unfortunate financial system to rest solely and alone upen te good opinion, confidence and ability of our people. Tf this be so, does not every one see, that just In proportion as the wanea to collect the evidences of public j': Junius i nome are oppressed ana discouratreo. It ope- nome are and discou oniniAn v.0i-..! FT--I pqasTS its sKill in doing, rates adversely upon the government? If our people are And aU other -parties, in whatsetver braseh of trade Frm Florid: Mobilb, Oct.

19 On Tuesday 4ast.Capk Amos, commanding the 15th Confederate beggarod'by high taxes and high prices, who is injared business, wi'l be charged la tie ewe as tLe rates ro shelter for their heads, with a dreary winter be aheve set forth. All persons using tbe wsier rrcra ay cavalry, engaged near juuton, lonaa, ouu eaeraiB, fouirht them four hours and drove them back. The mr. letter is public opinion, the Standard will find as much of a mistake as. the' peace meetings and convention, achetne whih laid ont its Hydrant, wherever located, are subject to sn uaf far this tsx.

Wafosers from the country ai all transient persons are privileged to use the water gratis Bills Federal loss was from 30 to 40: Confederate loss 3 Hiram uy wnom tois outrage is being done as I have captured); into the canaat Dutch Gap. and put tbem at hard labor, and shall conMnne to add to their wounded. payable semi-annually in advance twit? nj ii wan roe government? "It 1,3 now well known, that eo soon as the titha law was enforced, every article in demand in the country weaa up at once One hundred per cent? Is it not patent to every mun tht every time the Commissioners of prices reduce; the value of products sold to the government, that there is immediately a correspondent rise in the same articles sold to the people Look' at the recent redaction on the article of flour, which has been kept Up all the time far beyond its proper valne, di Butler FereeiivA turn tin' Serev. Butler There is an abundant surrlv of wwsf at rcua'-ia Head, and if the parties interested vr'll give me thsrr is determined not to be outdone bv Grant and Sheridan. fore them, and many months before they could make another crop, even if the monster had left them any agricultural implements to work with, or seed to sow! They must look to the mrcy of heaven and the- eharity of man to save them from starvation.

What must Grant and Sheridan, and Lincoln look for? Sheridan reports further: "The people here are getting sick of the war." But he contradicts him-self in the same dispatch by saying: While thev content themselves with burning barns and astiitanee in preventing wanton waste. will fa'rs te mills, be wreaks his spite upon the bodies and souls of their benefit as well as te that cf the Pmrr-'rs i am determined to eut eft the supply of trom Hy flVio the late Section. "One swallow doe, fiot make a and one Congressman does not make public! Mr. Boyce-like the Standard, was. fitting sessionirt as Ion as that doctrine paid.

They both advocated secession as justifiable and necessary upon the bare elector abolition Wesident-the Standard in 1806 ir Fremont should be elected, Boyce iff 186a numD8 mmi this practice is stopped. 1 Wry Bkxjajox F. Ectlkr, Maj-Gen. Comd'g. Teennsylvama election revms to be still in doubt A dispatch from Harrisburg.

lvanla, on the 1Mb, says that returns received there secure the State to the Democrats on the borne vote by about ten thrnsand majority. The Herald savs: If the of the counties gain In the samel proportion, thefDpmocmtic majority on tbe un nappy Confederates who chance to tall into nu drasts In private enolosures whioh t.rs permiiua to waste water. i hands Some of his lying spies having reported to him that we had sent one hundred and ten captured negroes to work on the fortifications below the city, he immedi ately ordered the same number of commissioned officers J. BAKER, Jr oefr i. nu y.

yj Negro Girt at Auction- of the Confederate army to be put to work on the Dutch Gap canal, and there they are at this dav toilinjr like naa been elected. But the majori- the none vote wiH be between fivg and six thousand. A-fclegram from Philadelphia Tom information re-0lved here thi mornine it ia absolnttlv imnoFsible to A ontederacly, certainly in North galley slaves. This he dignifies with the name of retaliation, as if the employment of' prisoners were a new ON Saturday lha 29tb fast. wll be bli at Amotion, 1 NEGRO GISL, 13 jsaru of fi rati ttress and hea servant? rectly by tha interferenee the government With a fine crop tof -wheat just garnered, te low prica which the government pays "for it, compels the rite when sold to anybody.else, and hence it is that although wheat is abundant in the and the government is paying a merely nominal value for it, flour has "gone up all over the land to price beyond the reach of almost every one.

VThe whole principle upon which the.povernment is actio is wroag grossly wrong. Congress attempts to con-, trol the laws of trade, bv giving the country a fictitious currency, atfdr then forcing the people to take it not at its value, bat on its own What more could a highway robber do? it is plead that necessity, compels it, But it is a ceressity which "the Congress itself creates and persists in, to the damage of the cause and the country. "Why is itthatthe government does not go into the wnuei they thought think the mere election of an it a wrcng, did rot abolitionist sufficient "Sines I cameintb the valley from Harper's Ferry every train, every small party and every straggler has bash-whacked by the Glorious people! who are only made the' more determined and active by the outrages with which they have been visited. are. cast down, but not destroyed, oppressed but not subdued.

Their day of retribution will come. la the same, dispatch Sheridan thing under the sun, and reliance could be placed in the reports ot his cowardly scouts, who, like Edward D. Greenwood, never -venture within catmon-raiure of our v-TO lvr separation. DWEI.LI50 HOU3B isf fewer evHlc -oscnaUd by Jobnsonwill be rrted fc 6 er IS moalks peesie fL'jt lis- i 30HS COOK. ce'r.

Oat20. 17 -21 4 lines, and at the first intimation of danger. Even if we had set yankee negroes to work we would be but following Northern example. It ia a-' notorious fact that determine hew the State has gone uaHl the reception of official returns, Bo'h parties claim ero-U! majwiUes. Tna returns from Ohio nhow gaiss on Con-grsmeo from the first returns A telegram, dated Cih-cinoHttU the 14tb, ssys: Tbe Uuion majority in Ohio on the home i atout thirty-flve thousand.

The soldiers Voie will probably increase it to eighty-five thousand. SeventeeSt Unioi CongreHinen are elected- The following in 'the Ilerald is givn as the lateatuawa frpint Missouri: s. "Prtws oTtbe rebel Price's forcesln the State are iAw pillaging and conecripting in' the country north of the our prisoners at Camp Chase have built hundreds of "Lieutenant John A Meigs, my engineer officer, was murdered beyond Harrisonbursr. near Da ton. For.

miles of macadamised turnpikes in Ohio. A Southern nenlleann baa bw totaty kmi tM erCyrWBO geolafea this atrocious act a1! the- houses within an area of fiv The fubceriber wit! iJt4'lot sale u-t rn tn'a- berlon, on Thursday Beo. st, a of LND ea- rerent when Lincoln called by proclamation in April 186i for troopa from North Carolina to fight her Souhern eaters, ber neighbors jandfrienda, identified with her in institutions and interest That was a sufficient to the iiDBufficient reason of Mr. Boyce and the Star dard. But after; having gotten the country iuto the te pnbiid mind to war, and inaugurated war, Mr.

Boyce and Standard are the first back out from the figh Mr. Boycei the first, and the Standard the first paper, vit is peculiarly and emphatically their fie-ht. andthev should tainini; 0O aere. adjiniBg the lt.ii A. jliasouri river.

1 i'nee himself, with tbe main portion ot his army, is said to be still at Booneville. The Union and Aroh'd MoNill rurria, ahoct frosv market like its own The government is precisely aa able to pay for any article it needs' as its own citiaeas are, ajtoi ptUa- iVahmid therefore be placed on: the same footing." The government is here placed on a. footing-with the highway robber. And'who is this highway The Congreas of the Confederate miled were buroed." '-'hat is, Meigs, and two men! attempted to capture a Confederate soldier, -who fired, upon killed Meigs, and made his escape. is called murder and the house of every innocent person within five miles is destroy id in revenge.

The JBaleigh Standard's modesty manifests itself About 75 ors of ft.b&-e Lni are e5re-" and haveiicrrvemets of f-v -rra quarteA Terms aSle J. O'DORT that he worked on ose of these roads for six months. It is further stated that Butler baa notified the War Department that for every captured negro remanded to bis' lawful master, be would hold a Confederate officer as hostage and subject him to all the hardships oY slavery. But the climax of atrocity was reached when Butler ordered the deliberate murder of sixr Confederate soldiers in retaliation for the alleged killing of four negroes-Eye-witoeesw declare 'that this diabolical crime was perpetrated no later than but week, and within speaking distance almost of the outworks below this city. How St PanrsP O.

FAYF.TTEYILLE AUSE31L ASD ABVOSr.) Foundry Iff an WaaUd. in the following: troops garrisoning several small detached locations have been withdrawn1 and concentrated at Macon. In a speech which Price recently made to the' people of Booneville, he told them that it they did not now rally to-bis standard, it was the last time be would come into the State to 'Telieve" them, but that if they came promptly forward to his support, he would remain among them. Stringent orders relative to he approaching election have been issued, by Gen. Rosccranz." Rapid Rise it Geld In New York, on Friday, gold jumped to ill and closed at 2154.

The Herald, in ia ommercial colomn, saye well known operators in the gold room failed to respond to their contracts to-day, and the demand for gold created by these failures assisted the'effortsoftha "buUa" "A Urge majority of the Democratic party cw the Stat favored secession on account of Lincoln's election. WANTED gioi Mfnldsr tad mj- est Su'-er'nfcnd, as well a Wrk-. mooooy now ine earlier policy ot the Congress in issuing notes without, taxation, was a mistake'. But it was a mistake which everybody of Qongress "rs well as iajit, and out-side of the Confederacy as well as in it. It was the mistake of not foreseeing the gjgantip proportions to Whicjti'lthiswar has grown, and the long and weary years over which it has extended.

So little did any one anticipate this, that when Concresa did actually initiate the 'system which the Conservative complains nun, find steady tnpleyinat r3. long will our soldiers continue to give quarter to Butler's assassins? ould they capture mad-dogs and moccasins, and treat them well? As well do that aa make Butler's men prisoners of war. i Our news columns containiag Northern dates of the 16th, confirm what is stated above, and give in full Butler's correspondence with Ould on this subject. Rchna4 Examiner. and the old Whig leaders desponded and were about to give up the contest, when the Standard rushed to the front, displayed the banner of the and at leant delayed the catastrophe from Fabruary to May', 1801.

The Observer acted as an ally of the Standard, in the Atply to Lt Ct-l 03t17 77 6t a- 1 leaet ood by the gallant nvn who are fighting it for them, even to the redemption of the Standard's pledge of Vthe last dollar! and the last man" to iu maintenance. They both did, indeed, in the earlier part, of the fisht, stand up and cry out, "hur rah, boyBfc fight on; your cause is a jusand glorious one, atid yon must and will triumph; you can't afford to be But no sooner did their champions whom they had induced go into the fight get an ugly blow or two, a knock-down occasionally, though gallantly struggling to rise again, than Mr. Boyce and the- Standard say all manner of discouraging words to them, anti set about to inakfi friends with IMiava en Hand, contest, and in that capacity did some effective service." Tnis is blowing one's own trumpet, of a surety. Firt. A fire broke out last night about 1 0 o'clock.

CED4R FALT rsd'COI-TJMBjXPHESTIfG3 and COTTON YAKS; wbio I wol xoSrg VvPco-1 I due- Jittiri KILE The truCk is, that the Standard had been advocating on the wharf above the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, which.destroyed a quantity of Rosin and secession for years, as we have, shown by numerous Oct 1T 77 Z'. the suit Works, the latter belonging, we believe, to in some diegree.1 Rumors, too, of unfavorable news from Grant's army. were said to be current in Baltimore. After 3 o'clock, a report was circulated to the effect that Richmond 'was captured Gold fell soon afterwards from 217 to 812, but recovered again. The stock market at the second board was also excited ty the report, although li'tle credit was attached to it, -No rumor of however improbable, fails to exercisa at least a momentary effect in Wall street." quotations from its own files, bnt when the time to was not adopted, -by passing the first direct tax law, some of the State Legislatures, including that of North Carolina, nullified it, in effect, by assuming and paying the tax for the people.

The tax, jf paid by the people, wouhi bo- far have diminished the fief Vol. Fremont. We suppose the loss is about 4 per cent. Certificates. act came it found all the whigs and a large minority, probably a majority, of the Democrats opposed to 000 Wilmtrigtwi Journal.

)R ea. iu 4 per etnts, wkka nil be sou at '1' ptr, i of the fact secession, forming a majority against it; therefore The Vote in Orant'tArmy. Deserters, Ac, who come from Grant's army ail testify that it has voted Apply tXtBOtt.oe Oot'r 20 the Standard strucK its secession colors which it had the Lincoln ticxet Rtchmond 18fA- Conscript Office, been displaying in thai front, and raised sion colors, with the Bame facility with which it has The prise steamer Ad-Vanoe is taking in her Oct lit Ralsioc From Richmond. The most important news from the lines below Richmond is, that on Sunday' night the enemy transferred a heavy body of troops to the south side. Ten pieces of cannon went along with this column.

I To jdge by "past experienee, this move voriends some offensive operation against onr armament, as yankee cruiser, in New York harbor. rraouiA, Fo. BSr TP 3 Imni'd ate atfion of Fnrorieg OiSierf is called to Qenfrat f1 "7, oJant atd la I. The French have occupied Matamoras. They st ctor GearVs Omo ourrat ter, Wucu eupar- have also defeated the Mexicans near Daxango, capturing or destroying all their artillery, and killing, right, on the south of the town of Petersburg; or it is a feint, designed to induce us to weaken our lino made numerous other changes or tronu Une lees conceited than the Standard might have said, the Standard acted as an ally of the Observer, since the I latter had always opposed secession, and the former was a new How much advantage the alliance secured the old Union men may be judged by ncdes GaEral Orltr 78' titious currency of which the Conservative complains.

But the States paid it in their issues', so that the currency waa nbt diminished, but only divided between the Confederacy and the States. And by this course the State Legislatures virtually signified their reprobation of this taxing policy by tbe Congress. It is easy to see nu) that Congress was right and the State Legislatures wrong; but is it wise or useful now complain of a mistake which everybody made, especially since Congress is now certainly doing all it can to remedy the evil? The Conservative asks, "Why should the government demand produce or labor at a less price than its own citizens We answer: Why should government require the services of the soldiers wounding or capturing six hundred and thirty men. It is directed by th Dsrtireni tb th Msohaa'M and persons of rci-ttifle sMii'! In Panarapjf The reach loss was very slight sa11 be OHwrrued to Tib raw nnir snoii as ara em- fronting Fort Harrison, it has. been rants practice only to move- when about to attack.

He moves and" strikes without delay. But, twenty-four hours having already elapsed since this last movement, and nothing having come of it, it may be he has sea tks esaiavaa. p'od en Govarnmest work the result of the Standard's late small experiment Railroads are set eoaudereu as U-vrssnt inswa-. The next meeting of the Young Ladies' Knitting Society will be held at Mr. Hinsdale's residence on f.r Governor.

i tloes the enemy. Brave men would regard this as the very moment in which encouragement and support should be given to their own men. Nat so Mr. Boyce and the Standard, They were- bravej when brave words only were reeded. Their hearts' fainted when brave deeds were called j' -j Ki'' ihi yfe adopt, fully and entirely, the following remarks of the.

Savannah Republican on the letter of Mri Boycei i' "For pne, we shall not. at this jlate day argue the i subject reconstruction. It is no question now, for it has been wiped out in blood.1 We belief with Oen. Cobb that meaner and more detestable man than tae yaukees, is he who is iready to go back, hake hahds epd live'wifh and especially we approve and applaud that noble sentiment of our XceUenti President, uttered in a recent ppeech at and worthy to be engraved not only in gold tutQn the heart of every man of this Confederacy, thati "wj are not engaged in Quixotic fight for the rights of man; our struggle is for inherited righu, and who would surrender tlemt Let every paper guiranty possible be given, and who would submit? jfrom the grave of many a fallen her the blood of the slain woald cry out against such st peace with the iriurderers. The women of the land, driven from tneir homes, the children lacking food; "old age, hobMin train f' i 'r The Standard denies that it has at any time taken afternoon at 3i o'clock.

A full attendance II It is fortnr diretei Utffcrt'M lnt empisy tired of his old strategy and is about to try something new. It is also possible the movement was intended to meet some apprehended attack from us; ground for the restoration 'of the old government. requested. Oct. 20.

of maeureluriBg cstablialim-h's, )n eoa-tracts Hh tbe Confederate anl Ute Govern mfnts. The Juvenile Knitting Society will meet at the re shall not be molested. Wi'l it deny that Mr. Boyce's letter takes such ground, and that the Standard endorsed that letter, without reservation or exception? We should re Ill It is unneoa-rr le rerea' to Ono'M sidence of Banks on Saturday afternoon next the tarn-Et inlurosion to carry out the jr? ilifi cf this for, belt known, since the recent occasion whisn our troops swooped down on Kautz and Birney, and drove them from the Charles City road to Fort Harrison, the yankees have not had an easy moinsnt, so great is their dread of a repetition of the movement. This we know from yankee deserters; and also from oraar wits tie untiring energy wniaa vs unponanM cs- at 4 clock.

i VAYETTEVILLB MARKET. OsL 20. joice if the Standard could deny either fact, for we as. erdev of R. i-'cLsax, 1 Aat'c Commandant Conforip's i would give much to have the Standard opposed to reconstruction and true to the cauBe.

in the fisld at $11 month when they could get $50 or $100 a mouth, and others do get such prices, from private individuals? Why should the government have tt-e right to take private property upon a just compensation, when its own citizens have no such right? Simply because it a a government, created by the people themselves for their own good, their own protection and safety. It eatails hardships, in- KKVD5W Of Til MARKKT. TS. J. 3 A.RDI5, TT lw yankee pickets, who do not hesitate to declare their apprehensions.

complete and formidable character of omr for Baeea 6 60 to 00. Pork M. Lard SO US 00. The Standard asks: Beef 1 0 to 2 40 per souad, retail. r-r-.

What will the Observer aay whea we inform it, a.Je tifications, running from a point ODopjilaJFort-IIa- ADJ'T AND IN3FE GEN'S TITTE, Rioeaif sd; Va OH 9, 1864. te lta Cifwlt 69 now uo. tnat Ooy. Vance, la a eoaveraaaon iew.aa lo tMy'H'" CeUon Yarn SO 00 te 40 8 per baaah m. wiui urauk a wiuiurawins: iorces Imad Tjtfi nnme ffsnHsruTiiirmiiliniililll frTffrrln- syce i from their front.

He assailed them repeatedly and deed. but the people wnrtnra ifrffl fryrtf toiterr'-- Copperas, retail $4. Pried Frail 1 00 ret lb. Gikisal Oansss, No 77 THE folleviag will eup.rode General Ordm eriev, wkIh are hereof rek4J tax is a hardship, but is it not better to pay every tax cheer Kxtract Jjegvaod 10 00 per lb, retail Plour Baser, $2, FajeJly, 2ft. hiding in your railroads, all proclaim a sea of blood I AU details, heretcfere eraated, unec So hcrv rf The Observer says it docs not believe Oov.

Vance did any such thing. Gov. Vance may have spoken i of the ability with which Mr. Boyce advocated that freemen cUiuiot afiford to bridge." Grain Cora 20. Wheat fU 00.

29. Oats the War Tpartsent, to ptrsoas between the of 18. asd 45 years, are hereby revoked; eid all net i men, tofther with those wit kin the tail'afce who hold' desperately last Thursday, and must feel convinced they are impregnable. This being the case, any advance on Richmond on the north side of the James mutt be by some route avoiding these works, which route can only be found by making a circuit of twenty-five miles. He must go -back to New Market, and thence strike northeast across White Oak swamp How wiix Pkack Cox? Of course Peace will 10 reas 1(00 Hlde-rsea Irea Swedes tiUia proposition, and he may favor a Convention of all fully, even should take all we have, rather than to let the detested yankees take it? We think so, and therefore pay our taxes cheerfully, jwid urge all others to do so, furnishing one of the means by which the government can be" sustained and the war carried to a successful issue.

We are neither oo- fori -n VPS or teTorary exenr-tinns by ras cf rn- icome, sooner or The war cannot last always. the States, for consultation, and without any power fjdder, sev, $7 to S8. 10. Hay S5 SO to S. lng apnlicatione for details.

wiM be pr-9ip-3y to commit the sections or the States, as Mr. Ste saajiis 0 so phens proposes; but that he 3ver spoke in terms of ue tuap ei instruouoB man aripropi iaiij aaiignsa aesonr the armies for tbs-t isea dstrl and noweotnatly employed as a tiiAas, meoaauios, or persons of ecijctifio skill, and thewdf Uiled end new engaged ia the vd frrwardia Fiexseed 8 00 te 10 00 per ba. Greta Apples IX 00 te Is 00 per bushel. Egg a 60 ti I 00 ft dosea. Leaor Upper 26 00, Bob) 20 00.

commendation, warm or otherwise," of Mr. Boyce's reconstruction views, we do nt believe indeed are UqaersCora Whiskey f0 09. Apple and Feeeh or indispensable supplies tor the army ai.d avy, will bs continued ia their present employments uuil isir re-' perfectly sure that he did not. MASSI10, speotive de'aus be revised. Even Lincoln may recur to first principles, and remember his! sensible remark at the beginning of the contest, about the folly of fighting for a cause which must at last bo settled in peace, Pity that he had not sense enough to follow his own sensible advice.

But how will Peae come? it 'requires a higher wisdom than that of man to answer. Oar own impression that from some cause, perhaps some causethat may seem iflins: iu the signt of man, it will be 'brought about doubtless In a way to 6how the finger of (iod. The following historical reminiflcence Vhich we copy from the Savannah Republican, shows that Lineo1n would furajsh a new pressed nor discouraged by the large taxes we pay, nor do we see how any thoughtful' or patriotic 'man can he, so long as he feels and knows that they are necessaryfor his own and the public safety. Again, the Conservative asks: "Can any one show that it is more patriotic to sell a barrel of flour to the government at $30 than to a poor widow, a poor man or a soldier's family, or in fact to anybody who is a friend to the government We don't think it II Ti Heads of Departments aad Chief rf Bnreaux III immediately forwArd to the Q-C9r rf Reervee 1 Ue reveral 8(atej, lis's of a'l detoiled is their em In Montgomery county, on the 16th October, by Noah Auman, B. F.

LAisITER to Miss MARY A. HO-GANS; both of Montgomery county." to tne Williamsburg road, at Bottom bridge, lie is hardly prepared to make this trip. The yankees have at length completed to their satisfaction the defences of Fort Harrison, and have thrown into it a gafrison pf 800 men. A numoer of guns, have been mounted on the fort in embrasures, but they have not yet opened upon our lines. It was reported yesterday that the enemy, on Sunday night, attempted to throw a pontoon bridge from Cox wharf to the south side of the" JameB, but were driven off by shells from our gunboats.

Cox wharf is immediately this side of Dutch gap, and it is likely the enemy would desire very much to put a. column across the river at this point, as by eo doing tbey woulcHnenace the left and rear of the Howlett house battery. We have no fear they will succeed in sucn an undertaking, were they to attempt it. We have gunboats and other things wcicn are all-sufficient to keep the waters clear b.tween Dutch Gap and Bich- nraeoy oo w. Mslasses, country mads, IS 60.

Rioe 60 eask. 8ugar 8 00 per bbh retail 10 CO. Soda 6 00 per lo. per keg, 8 03 retail. Nails 8 0J to 4 00 per lb.

Oniaus 25 OOper bushel. Potatoes Irish $10 to Jit bush; sweet $8. 4-4 Sheetings, 62 io 8 69. Salt 40 00 to 45 00 per bushel T-Jiaw 4 00 Wool te 7. ployment is the.

said Btat's, ccrtXylS.z een ease af a person batwe-nlft and those wae are experts and absoletcly indispensable for fe; juNH8 r- ail, i In Montgomery county, on the 10th Inst, Mrs. wile of fidmood Andrews, aged 65. requires much sklil to show that patriotism does not" enter at all into a sale to any of these parties except vioe the trapsj E.fc5t of easa icdivi 'nv; aal all detild meployets. w'id arf betwan th of 1 a'd 45 so can. fi.d.

wili befo-th-it j.ieizfil tj the arsy. A darUuate of the above at the lint tint be furnished to.lhe Adjaiaal al Iespeour General for action of tne Secreury of ar. Ill Al rersous cilled out by these r.rs wh claim PLAKTi.T101Y with Crop. Stock. Vzcon.

Mules. excipptioa ou ae -oaat ef physioal dissbility. wjU ex thereon, late ItfajortJokii T. amined ry select Medical sards at tbe Gasps cf muuu. Butler's canal is believed to be progressing He has put to work in it some prisoners recently taken from us, in retaliatija he says, for our pitting negro captives upon our fortifications.

We taiuiiore7, 10 dc sold at fubltc Auction. In Montgomery cojaty, on the 15th of typhoid fever, Miss BONN, youngest daughter of the late Col. S-H. and Mrs. Eiraa Christian, aged 17 years.

At Kelly's Cove, Bladen- county, on the 4 id Sept last, of bilious fever, Mrs. LOUISA ALLEN, wife of Alston Allen, in the 25th year of her age. The, deceased was a native of Moore coauty, N. but had resided in Bladen for several years prior to har death, where she leaves a bereaved husband and a large circle of friends and connections to mourn her premature decease. She waa a loving and dutiful wife and an affectionate friend, and was beloved and reepecte4 by all who knew her.

In all tbe relations of life she sustained tbe most pure and unblemished character, and was an example of Christian purity combined with a cultivated intellect and refiaed deportment, which rendered her an ornament in the society in which she moved. She is gone, I. IT 1 nva fcuai fit for lk-ht duty, aa 1 wbo r.i- the government. Patriotism would induce a gift of part of the value to the government, bnt it benevolence or charity that, gives to the poor widow, or abates a part of the price to the'soldier's family. Bat the Congress.

has provided, in the case of the "bonded as well for the families of soldiers as for We do not agree with the Conservative as to the effect of the tithe law. If prices went up one hundred per cent, because -of tnat what Inn since brought down prices'' nearly as much, wnilst that same tithe law is in operation? Instead of having aoaifsed. wU touosMpar' TIL abave proprty will be eftarei for sale ou tbe pi enures eu TUDaY the 29 hb Nteuber 1604. las LaoJ is in one b-df, and contains 48 acrs, nearly under the penalty of tesng tts think he will find oar men neitner willing nor efficient allies. Ricn'd Dispatch, 18tk aelive forces By orden i S.

COOPER. A. A I O-s. instance of history repeating itself if he she old make Ii is encoarag.ng: 1 "We think Mr. Boyce, and all who contend that no honorable peace, it any at all, can be obtained of Mr.

Lincoln, arue most illojically. Why Lincoln has fought us for four yews and Issued many foolish and arbitrary edicts, but that any reason why he should not agree to a peace when he shall find his- armies wbipped and all prospect of our subjugation vanished? Rest aiiuro rat no party at the Nortb will let us go La aay o.ber contingency Is Lincobi now any more resolved 6a our corqaest than George III and tue majority of the, British miaistry Were in 17821 The Parliament assembled in Kovember, and at that late day the speucu fruni the throne breathed a settled purpoee to continue the war un'il the rebels were brought into sub-jecipn; whilst the addresses from both houses, frchoiDg the same sentimeut, were carried by immense majorities. Feace seemed afar off; the Government was united, much more so than the political household of Lincoln, and the prospect was dairk indeed. And yet, the spriit of peace 1 was silently at work, and in spite of the open committals of every branch of 'Government, In three short mo'nths thereat ter the fearless Con Way moved In the House of Commons for with America was carried by a respectable majority, together with a cor- 9 ExecntlTO Department Xorth Ajwttast times, Raleirk. Uot.

11, 1664. ill of wmoau v.iaauie ovasop load, tbera being B0 iorci well drained, oieared aod uader euluvaticB, yieid-iBg 'te orcpa of any laad ia this 'aeetioa of the -tai4. Ti ara is also about 00 aarea of Swamp Land qully good as ibat usler eoiuvatioa, to beelearrd, such Hi-v be easily drained, (some of waic is already and partly oleared;) tae 'ejaainJer is uaed tor pafturo itt'i wood Tea souses and buildings are a aveUtat distadfroia the farnUnc lands ahava desonoei, oa a htauhy, a ga and. dry part cf the tract, GrursasL Qsds 1 From the Valley. Passengers by last night's train from Stauaton report tuat inform a tioa had reached there of a fight which had occurred at Sick-ley's shop, beyond Wisher's bill.

detachment of our men, hiving goae down the Valley to that point, were attacked uy the Yankees wb, supposing that it was only a cavalry force, attaciod tusm witn some impetuosity. The horsemeu fell basic, and the eiier my following, soon fell in with our infantry, who fell upon them with a vengeance, killing and r-aptaring a very large number. It is said that out of one whole brigade of Yankees only 12. were left lb. THE 1 't paragraph cf OrJtr.

aseu-r. -ed re to red but we mourn not as tnose tnat nave no hope." T. J. The Wilmington Journal will copy and send bill to French's Creek P. O.

1 In Lexington, on the 8th AMELIA EMMA, wife Benj A. Kittrell. Kcq and only daughter of Robert and Sarah Foster of Lexington, in ner 35th year. gone. up all over the land since the crop of wheat came in, flour has generally "gone down.

It sold here for $325; it is now doa to $250. Corn sold here for more than 40 per bushel; it is now down to $18 to $20 It was not the tithe law which put np prices, but rather the inflation of the currency which-diminished ita value, and other causes CV8iAaadiJt eti if 9'f Pi3xJe Ft' c'aat i wita goad waer. Tae buudiace are good repair, 1a- ef Yi.i;:, AtttttK-y 8-. tV wtv-fttl Cir'aiif, Coun'j, cy-pairt est eatiiled "a a.H (, r.l'rf 'cf riT f. eaf" eluiag.

a eanfortaois dweibsg nous eouveaiai and ecldiere i the ansy." (mi cash cxw 1 ait eiaae ver the'ave cf 'fc'rty yrtii. 1 ra an i 4cr the wu ananged nerj faouus; jaionos etecies, barsa, orlD. lots, gardaas, ets Taa plaa-aUoa ti from Payeuevilie, ea tae ast side ef tae 0p River, about and a half the River, and cjabrioee waat is kaewa as SOllxator Swamp, aq)9ts JataB and eUrs, aad Is not very far. from the mouth ADJUTANT RUFFIN T. ASicLK.

Lieut. Ruffin Y. Ashe was killed, in the 29 th year of his age, in the fight at Reams' Sta'ioa on the 29 tn day of June last. He was the youngest son of Pasqual P. Ashe, now of Greene County.

Ala, "but formerly of New Uano--pr County in this State. Lieut. Astie at the commencement of hostilities was attending a eourse of Medical lagt meyer? lyve t'c in; af a-liccox f.ractia or taair (Vat ti.a -13 dea Bt appty te" det.ilj't bc'1 rr o-j-i ft-or. three yrfji. ri and J.vo eler- ch aewrpr, cue editor an.1 tbfe ns- fxu- wnicn need not do stateo.

ine auninuuon or currency, by the taxes of widen the Conservative complains, is now curing that evil to some-extent, and this is not the least of the advantages of these taxes, for the nigh prices are an evil to all to the government and to the people of ail cl'BsesI From Mistouri. Lata news from Tennessee Bays that, on Taursday last, a steamer going from Memphis to Oineinnati- was fired into by oUr troops when near Island from tne Missouri sido. The eagineer, a deck hand, and several horses, were kxPed. The yankees estimate the force posted along the river and interfering with their commerce at two thousand, and say that they are stragglers from Price's army. Price would hardly have stragglers now; bnt if the yankee account be true, they are straggling to some purpose.

-lb. wekly re rt ptper, one 1ir -d two to r.aca weekly sd tar rirrg 'jit to t. oh srn a tor, are exerrpt da'y in lis 'laird for Horns Diesae, rxst watn the in wiOTtfey reside aaord Lectures in Lexington, Kentucky, and at the first note of war. hastened home and volunteered his services to his country, together with a number of young friends and relatives in Mirengo County, many of whom, like him, now fill patriots' graves. His Compauy formed a part of the 11th Ala.

Regiment, of which, for several years, he has been Adjutant, and has Cedar Crojk aad the residence ef Mr. J. sleeker. JLt earns time and plaoe will be offered far sale, tke folio aing personal prprtyt 1S00 to 2000 hujhls Coin; Tae orop of JVder, Bhuoks, Peas, kof 8Uek et Cattle, Hogs, jets, Ai; 4 Valuable Males; One Barrel Vut; OSe Jeanst: Babkingcb's Cavalry Bekiadk. A letter from an oificer in the army says that Barringer's Brigade is now in a hign state of 'efficincy, is rapidly increasing in numbers, has always come up to tne full responding address to me lung, ana in a lew weeu, to the surprise of the world, peace was declared and these States stood forth a free and Independent nation," "Let the South (adds the Republican) rally all her strength and drive back these tavaders, as we hope soon to do, to their wn soil, and then we shall be in a position to demand peace at the bends of even Abraham Lincoln, and to get it too, for then he will have become for war.

Peace, too, consistently with our own-constitution and without laying violent handsroa our own, offspring under tbe pretext of necesnty. We regard the recent movements on the part of certain distinguished citi-tens of the South in behalf of peace, as most unfortunate, ill timed and pernicious in their effects upon eur cause. They but eerv" to weaken -us when our greatest struggles are at hand, aryl to inspire the enortiy with afresh a I dence in our eirly destruction, i lat Heven's came, let i us discard, for the present at Icsast; alt euou thoughU, uud unite in one solid phalanx to expl tlie foe from our, bonlt-ri and-f the from threatened disaster. by the enemy Prcwidtd, i the eaa of 'l a or. e'orre aad newspaper ctuM eitcienU tktre bovthat numt er of pcseci te.pl yed i i Btnro or estaclukmcni Ha Military Change.

Oea. Braxton Bragg, hitherto bit to doty ia th Gu-rd fcr Dfa-e Bv crdv cf Qjv Oas 4 Hons Wagon; one Timber Cart; with all the measure of duty, and has mat with no repulse, no disaster, no surprise. "Your townsman Major Mc 77. 8t IQn commanding his headquarters at Richmond, has been relieved, and goe at once to take command of an important military post ia one of the more Southern States' Rich'd Dispatch, 16th. 1 ,1 OFFICIAL.

snared the fortunes and dangers of that gallant band, in all ite numerous engagements with the Lieut. A. was constitutionally brave; he was high toned, frank, generous and sincere, constant and devoted in has friend-chips, ardent and impetuous iu temper, and yet aa gentle as a woman in his affections. General Sanders, wtio commanded his brigade, and who- has himself since up his own brave spirit, another sacrifice noon tire a' tar of his country, in communicating the sad intelligence of Lieut. Ashe's death to one of his friends, thus writes con-cernlng'him: i Farming Tools and oiaer artistes ea the premise Terms will Bade knew before salt A.

J. BYRNE A MoLKAN. l-Ex'r'. FaeUevUle. 5 0 Oct 11 77-U Neill baa made tne oth in u.

Uavalry one of the very best Regiments in the. service. He is one of the most promising officers jin tne service and we all hopeere long to see him rewarded with its HIlDqiJABTilW EZSKUTX, PAtsion, ucu 17. iSdS. Gsssaax Posas; Ti.r tr, ujt about tieaoe will be aenwoie, practical ana No.

17. Daily WiL Jcufnal aad Daily Carolinian ones a week Vxrt, Lr. ii- jjksccb vv nave seen a tetter from LL Chifi of Drarimnts er Bart sat asri 8upra From Newbern We learn from our Kinston Correspondent, that Yanked deserters from Newborn say that the enemy's lleet is now rendezvousing in force at Beaufort preparatory for an. attack upon Wilmington. Sixty vessels of various classes hate already arrived, and more or less are port every aay.

Our corresoondent writes uU aaleaud send aeoouats to A. uoueen this officer of the 8th whorwas captured at Fort Har Undets cf Owreaett norha in North raruliua. Further Sala ot ttie Qiloaore Estate. who, in oonpliance with G-neral Osdr No. 77, A nd Wii.MiaTos.UvVe are e-fceedingiy.

graunea to ma Exaotftors will sell at the Market ia the I Q. eurtrat aeilcs, rotrard to tmce eerunid Uls cf men in tbeir employ are exrtrts. cr whose "About 3 P. the 11th Alabama, with Genl Hinni-gan's Brigade, having gotten on the flank of the together with Gan'l Fitz Lee's cavalry, charged the ene? my and routed them, lt was in this charge Adj't Ache was struck; the ball (a minie) entering the. front and left of his neck, cut the carotid artery, thus ceasing his death almost instantly from hamorrhage.

He fell as 1 Town of'Fayettevilla. oa Saturday tks 29th Oct. rison on the 30 cn ult. It is dated at City Point, Oct. 3d.

He was well, and expected to go North soon. There were with hinV, prisoners, D. L. Beard, W. A.

Beard, S. Berryman, H. Paircloth, and HiiliaH, of his ccmpany. Also, Mi. 'A this as xankee news.

My opinion is, that? this movement of the Yankee fleet in Beaufort 1864, One fine Barry aal Harness; aerviees are indjpeuably neeenarj, wtil, uroa for--ardir th lit, nit fy the pards to. that suoft eervnoates nave Djeasaaaa. croMC mz.3srs Oae nae Geld Watoh with fiat ohai being a Lady's harbor is not intended for an attack, upon Wilmington, bat merely to" relieve the -blockade squadron now off the mouth of Cape Fear. However, we shall soon see what we shall see." will rApeet thess notifiaiieus, aa wh! not molest men. i waUth isud a very fiat aad baudsens aruele; One fi'st rats Double v-ral Gun; Sogers, sl'gVtly wounded, Capt.

Gregory, Lt. M. L. Barnhardt, Lt. Thad.

Batt, Capt. C. 'I. Barrow and I Lt. J.

Barnhardt ia Hospital wounded. holdirg them pending revision of iMir ditaus. Bv ecer 01 Lieut, ea Jlcuns. 8tlver Sooaas: Laile. aal seme Ktlvts and fio f.

the Wljwing, as well sis from private tet ter, th tbe eilow feTer has disappeared frm; Wil- Hi.vri..T: 1 i On Sondav, we' had warm, aornmerish weather, and men shook their heads thought it too warm, and so it wa," if there had been any IV; vcr about, but fortunately there had been no cases and there were no oH ones. MoLday, the weather in the morning was cool en. ugh to make Bres pleasant and all fears were Wriu cool weather on tbe 18th of October, fc' 1 the di'ase. wholly disappeared, we think we may fill (I ai ireely aa we choose. Tnat i3 removed.

Tne fever could not be propagated JNO W. BIS8DALB, A. Ge. 77 8t -Ffrks: Uae large Kttle or Ceoldroa; and other small artiolaf soon as he was struck, and never spoke, only uttiang one sigh or groan It is sad indeed te sa one so young, in the full vigor of manhooL with all of life before him, struck down so suddenly. Through all the previous engagements in which his Regiment participated he had passed unscathed.

The deaths ot few members of tne Regiment have been so deeply and generally lamented. In, all prior actions he had acted with great especially so in this campaign, i By his known daring, and tte encouragement gave to others, he commanded the respect and- esteem of alL Amongst the old citizens of Newbern who have fallen victims to the yellow fever thafja now rairing in all its fury at Newbern, Beaufort and -Morehead City, our correspondent gives -the names of James Ward, Isaac Ramsey, Jones and Henry Clay Jones. The latter; is well known ass? lawyer of Newbern. He left that place on its occuoation Bbtosmkd Nokth Cakolinians. The last flag of truce boat brought the following C.

ofioera: Lieufcs. H. Bingataff, 43d; W. Arrington, 36 th; JT. D.

Cuthbertsou and Thus. 0. Miller, 53d; Si O. HyWn, 35 st; M. Lowe, a.

K. W. Pharr, ft7th; P. Williams, 13th; Anna Id, 1st; J. G.

A. A. McLarAN, i-Ex'rs. F. MOOSE,) Ool 19 77-ts 150 FOU SAJLE.

B0XF3 NOFttJlUBED TOB KCCO, vsilaos Crad's; 1 1 600 BusLel superior eld Salt la bsgi and hi la. 6 Bbls Brawn Sogarj 8 Bigs Blank Periwr; lODot Fraaah Calf Exits. A small amount of Cold or Sii-! by the enemy, and a year or so einoe returned under disreputable circumstances, it was said; since which time be has been practicing Yankee law before the er and Bank bills wanted, The highest ssarket prioe inrougn tne trying oraeat or the last years he served hi oountry with a seal rarely enuJilef. By his soanly viitaee and spd wmuj in the nrent atmohpra and at the present tem-1 Jenreys, iui; mcvoy ana o. j-.

pprrow, hbtn; pVfeyeirtrer.w a LIHXBSBJtT Jt COv By rated, and ran rJ 4 1 mm uiiipd,.