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Effects of the shell in Charleston.
A correspondent of the Augusta Consti
tutionalist, writing from Charleston, thus
describes the effects of the bombard
ment:
The God of Justice reigns, and from
the day when our flag was flung to the
breeze on Sumter till now, the marks of
His favor have been unmistakably in
the preservation of the lives of the peo
ple, and in the success of our efforts for
defence. The limited destruction of pro
perty by the protracted rain of shells,
was as wonderful as the small loss of
life. I walked through the streets where
the effect of the shells is the most ap
parent. Here is a cornice knocked off,
there is a small round hole through the
side of a building, and a remote inter
vals the earth is torn where a shell ex
ploded, and looks like the worker in
search of some hidden treasure.
Venders of the staples of the market
sit serenely by their little stores, un
mindful of the pyrotechnic salutation of
their Yankee deliverers.
I bought delicious apples and cakes
at one-fourth the price charged two hun
dred miles away in the interior, where
abundance and extortion seem to go
hand in hand.
In reply to a question if she were not
afraid, one of these old women replied,
“ Lor, mars, we no feerd now; we’s
risen to 'em. Dey make big noise and
throw trash all about —dat all ;. de good
Lord perfects us!” Thus is the reliant
trust of these people exemplified even j
in the spirit of this simple African. I ’
confess that I could not feel thus ind if-1
ierent to these missiles of destruction,
as they come screeching across the bay.
I felt an instinctive inclination to change
my base of observation.
Extending my rambles to other por
tions of the city, tho track of shells
were here and there discernable, but
they have not effected a tithe of the in-1
jury sustained by the great fire of two
years ago, whose’ blackened outline
•'tretches across what was once the
heart <>f tho city. In only two or three
have tires bebn occasion by them, and
the loss wi»s trifling. In localities most
exposed to the shells the old tide of bus
iness is suspended. Here and there a
pedestrian moves hiirridly along, and
the rattle of a cart or dray is heard for
a whole square, Tim blinds are closed,
vaseS of rare exotics droop anil wither
upon the lonely window-sill, because
there is no tender hand to twine or nour
ish them. The walks glisten with glass,
rattled thither by the concussion of ex
ploded shells, and little tufts cf bright
green grass are springing up along the
pave, once vocal with the myriad tongues
of busy trade. If this be food for ex
ultation to the malevolent foe, lie is
welcome to the tender morsel. Ido not
mean to say that any part of the city is
abandoned ; here ami there stores are
opened, machine simps are active, and
labor incident to the public defense is
p>. >1 rd vigorously forward, ev-a in the ■
most exposed districts ; still, many |
branches of ordinary business, and most
of the residents, arc removed, because
it would Lie foolhardy for those not im
pelled by special duty to remain. The
31 ids House, and Charleston Hotel —
those princely abodes of comfort ami
good cheer —are closed. Ihe Pavilion
still invited the sej -nrner to its hospita
ble roof, and most of the habitues of
jlayne and | arts of Meeting and King
streets abandoned the merci.ants’de-k
for the camp, or transferred their wares
to points secure from Yankee guns, that
part of the City to which the cowardly
vengeance of the !■ e “is a mass of busy
life.” The newspapers, pestcffice, ex
press office, banks and many business
houses are in successful operation, and
the streets present a scene not at ail
suggestive of sieg’e.
1 trust the allusion to tho effects of
the bombardment wdl not be contraband.
I have penned them for the eye of those ;
who have known UharlestO’.i in other
• lays, and who feel an interest in its des
tiny. It cannot aid or gratify the enemy
to know how fruitless arc his efforts to
destroy a place which has so nobly
foiled all h's efforts for its conquest.
The New Orleans Times us the
24th says:
Our news from Gen. Sherman's expe
dition is highly interesting, and gives
abundant prom se that we shall shortly
have stirring news from the Southwest,
when these moving columns impinge upon
the rtbelpositioneat which they are aimed.
Elsewhere is given the text of General
Butler’s letter to the rebel Commissioner
Ould, before referred to in the despatches.
It is spicy and characteristic of the author,
whose contributions to the literature ot
the war are unsurpassed in their line.
He offers to exchange mau for man and
officer for officer of equal rank; declares
that no outlawry of individuals by the
rebel authorities will be regarded by the
United States; and states that, unless his
(Butler’s) flag of truce is recognized, all
further communication by flag of truce
niust cease.
[From the London Correspondence of the N. Y-
Times.]
Loudon, Saturday, Jan. 30, 1864.—
i J ail Russell has resigned again. Such
is tio tumor to-day. He has placed his
I resignation in the hands of Her Majesty,
■ ln * o,n e I’ickwickian fashion, I presume,
and will retire if she can spare him —
htiglauu has determined to defend Den
vi il* l * lG v Y orst COln es to worst, and
Earl Russell is committed to the Ger.
man side of the quarrel. An English
13 said, has been lent to the
Adriatic, to act against Trieste and Ve
nice, and another is ready to leave Jor
the Baltic. Ibis looks like war— so
does the gathering of the Austrian and
I inssian troops on the Elder ; but the
general opinion still is that peace will
be preserved, and, threatening as mat->
teis have seemed for a few days past, I
am still in that belief.
Hie Emperor Napoleon is busy, per-
I haps at home. There is a small but
troublesome minority in his model Par
liament, which talks about finances, i
-Mexican expeditions, liberty of the
pt ess, and such matters. Possibly, he
'■as had scarcely time to think of Den
mark. Possibly, he is thinking of tho
left bank of the Rhine. Possibly, also, I
he is in toll accord with the British gov
ernment, as its organ asserts. That he
is strong enough in Fi ance to do what-I
ever he may wish to do is evinced by
the tact that the subscriptions to the re i
cent loan were ten times greater than
the amount required.
A few days more and the session will
open. Lord Palmerston has issued cards
for his full dress dinner to open the ses-1
sion, ami Mr. Disraeli, the conservative
leader, will soon do the same. Nothing !
can be begun, carried on, or ended here 1
without eating dinners.
As the premium on gold goes up in j
New York, Confederate stock rises in
London. It has been down to 30. It is
up to 60. There are some quiet move
ments going on here that are producing '
confidence in those who “ sympathize
with all rebellions but their own.” The ■
speeches of Mr. Spence, published by
Bentley, are sown broadcast. Active j
agents are going round arm mg the bus-1
iriess houses of London, and cvei v com- .
inercial town in the kingdom, getting j
signers to petitions to the Government \
to do something to stop the war These '
petitions, I believe, are signed by almost
every one who is asked. I w.ts told a
few days ago in a business house in
Lecester Square, that two or three him- ;
fired signatures were obtained in sing! ; !
establishments. There is a hard pinch !
now on commercial and manufacturing
classes. The cost of cotton i- draining j
the country of specie; the discount rates
have gone up to e'g it per cent , which (
is simply min to men trading with a
small margin of profit. lam more ami
more convinced tiiata far stronger effort,
will be made at the coming - session than
heretofore for recognition. Even Mr.
Scholefield, the colleague of .Mr. Bright, ,
in the representation of Birmingham, is j
an officer in a “Southern Imie; emleucc i
Association,” where le figures with the 1
most noble the M irquisses if B ith ami i
Lothin,*with Lords Robert ami Rustace
Peril, with the Right Honorable Lord
\Vhariidiffe ami Campbell. 'This
and sinr lar associations had not been
idle dming the recess, and I shall be •
much disappointed if a very strong!
pressure is not brought to boar upon the j
Government, in which case the resigna
tion of Earl Russell, should it bo accept
ed, will be no common misfortune. No
d uibt he is one of the most unpopular:
of ministers, but he is also one of the
most respected, and his dogged obstina
cy of character is nut easy to get over.
Great efforts are now making to stop
ti e emigration from Ireland to the United j
States, so far, at least, as its object is
to strengthen the Northern arin’es. I
mentioned the letter of John Mitchell to
a leading paper in Dublin. The letter '
of bis holiness the Dope, though but a
pious expression of a wish for peace
suitable to the head of the Church, also
has its influence, as it seems a recogni
tion of Mr. Davis’s official position.—
And now* we have an otlicer of the Con
federate army in Ireland, with letters to
several Bishops, whose mission is to in
duce them to use their influence in favor,
at least, of non-intervention.
Cotton. —lt is remarkable, says the
Boston Traveler, that notwithstanding all
the avenues we have opened into the
planting States; most of the cotton re
ceived is that which has run the blockade
or been captured iu tho attempt. In the
first three days of the presout week, of
2,110 bales received at New York, 773
bales came from Matamoras, 383 bales
from Cuba, 105 from Nassau, 72 from
Carthagena, &c., and only 571 bales by
railroad from the interior, and 250 by sea
from New Orleans. Wc are importing
from foreign countries much more than
wo are exporting, and notwithstanding
the price of the staple keeps pace with
that of gold, the exports from New York
are merely nominal.
j Southern Items. -A bill to appoint
, an agent of the Treasury Department for
|t e * rans 'Mississ'ppi Department, with a
; . «alary oi 84,000, has passed the House of
■ Representatives.
The Greensboro’ (Ala ) Beacon states
io! en ‘ Hardee was mnrrisd on the
13th ult. to .Miss Mary T. Lewis, of that
place.
Ibe steamer Advance, which recently
an the blockade, brought 10,000 pair ot
i-hoes, 12,000 blanket-, nnd 8,00(1 packs
: >1 cards. *
In the Confederate Congress on the 6th
, inst., a communication was presented
from the Secretary of the Treasury, en
closing a statement from the Commis
sioner of Taxes, furnishing statistics of
the amount collected under the first sec
i tion of the tax law iu the cities of Rich
. mond, Mobile and Augusta. The amount
thus collected is given at S!»7J,O9Q. “It
is estimated by the Commissioner that the
revenue which will be collected in these
cities will not fall short of 83,000,000, of
which Richmond will pay $1,150,000.’’
Ihe Examiner of February 6th says:
“We are well assure 1 that the Confederate
Senate has passed the Currency Bill in
secret session, and that what is known as
Oldham spl tn —a tax on tho currency —
is rejected. I tie Ho'isi biilj has been
radically amended, and wj tre disposed to
believe that the ground of compromise
between the two Houses will Le the con
stitution cf a new currency, limited to
8200,000, and sustained either by a pledge
of co’ton or a special appropriation of fu
ture revenues Tho fact is, Congress has
got to <ea again on the currency, and be
fore the two Houses can aceju^p■ > late
their differences, it is not unlikely the
session may expire.”
A late number of the Nashville
Union says: “A gentleman recently re
tiir; cd from the South says he saw John
Be ! and Neil Brown not long since, down
iuti’orgia. The former took hit daily
morning strolls through the little town in
which ho has sought repose from the
“tyranny »ud oppress! n” of the United
States Government, his walk as stately as
ever, ami “that umbiella” under his arm.
Brown was a personification of misery,
confiding iu no eno and no one coafidir'"
in him.’’
From Riciimoku.— Rich m< nd, F:b
10.—At auction to-day 8 per cant. Con
i'2 krate bonds brought 115 to 121, and
interest 7 per cent. 106]; bonds of the
fifteen million loan, con [ions, 173; ditto
registered, IGO: cotton lorn bond-, 175
flat.
One hundred and nine officers, includ
ing Stroight, escopel from the L bby '
Prison last night, through a tunml sixty
feet 1 .ng openi - g into a vacant lot or the
opposite si lo of the street. N > bl.une is
attached to the sentinels Only one ot
the officers ha 1 been recaptured.
lit >. - i Charle-ton. —Charleston, Feb
!). —Ab mt daylight tbH morning a large
force of the enemy, supposed to be about
Live to our one, advanced from B< - abruok’f
Islirnl with ar'illery, rifled pieces, and
infantry. A skinut-li ensued aud out
pickets on J din’s Island fell hick.
At ’J o’clock the enemy had advanced
one mile and a halt from the harbor on
J tin’s I-Ijii 1. Some few of our men
wine wounded. Ctp* MU’pby wis woun 1
ed and had Lis horse sh it. No further
patticu'arr received. Only four shots
hive been fired nt the city tj-day. No
change in the f1.«.-t.
OBlTrAilY.riNDßxapJ
Died at Washington, Ark., on tho 4th of
January, 1864, Mrs. Makv F. Carrigan, wife
i f Cap’. Robert A. Carrigan, in tho 27th rear
of her ace.
The deceased was daughter of C 1. Stephen
Moore, formerly of Hillsborough, N. C.,njw
of Hempstead County, Ark.
She was in life a consistent and devoted
Christian, and in her protracted illness calmly
resigned to tho will of her Heavenly Father,
being sustained by tl at hope which is as au
anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast.
Whilst the church and her bereaved family
mount the loss of her bright an 1 amiable ex
ample, they have the consolation to expect a
re-union with her when the redeemed of God
shall dwell in his “presence, where there is
fullness of joy, nnd at his right hand where
there are pleasures for evermore.”
Died on tho 3d of January, 1864, Lieut.
William M. Carrigan, aged 31 years.
The church at Washington, of which he was
a ruling elder—the community in which he
lived—and the army iu which he was n pa
triotic and Christian officer—have sustained
no ordinary loss iu the death of this truly ex
cellent man.
In the church as a private member, a ruling
elder, an I superintendent of the Sabbath
school, be was a model of Christian character
— sincere, zealous, aud fervent in spirit,
esteeming all things but loss for the excellency
of tho knowledge of Christ Jesus his Lord.
In social life his highly cultivated miud, sweet
ened by meekness and controlled by integrity,
secured to him the confidence of all who knew
him.
As a soldier in his country’s cause, he joined
the anny, not from vain-glorious or malicious
motives, nor from the desire to win laurels on
the blood-stained field of battle; but from a
sense of duty, iu defence of the South, when
an invading army was on our borders.
His spotless example as a Christian, and his
efficiency as au officer, both on the battle field
and in the camp, will bo long cherished by the
company aud regimeut to which he belonged.
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His disease was contracted by exposure on
picket duty, in the cold of December, and in
fourteen days removed him from this world of
war and confusion to climes of peace and
glory, where “the wicked cease from troubling
and the weary are at rest.”
yocal and Inntrn naantai
y" CONCERT.
/pROF.GED E. SMITH with his
J “Female G.'ee Singers, ’ rtesisfed by Gen
fappan s Brans 4 String Band, will give » grand
t ocai ami Instrumcntxl Concert in Washing
ton on I I’ESD Ki EVENING, 15th in-t., in
some suitable Hall, of which due notice will
bo giVßit.
, The Piojramme Will Boh«ist nf the most
choice selections for instrumental performance
varied with glees and melodies. The strictest
regard will be had for good ''rder and decorum
and nothing will be produced which should be
offensive to the most fastidious.
Concert to commence at half-past seven pre
cisely. r
Admission §2. No half prices. Tickets at
the door.
March 9th, 1863. 8-11
H’i> Qr’s Com'd’t Conscifts. Disr. Aiik.i
Washington, Ark., 'larch 8, 1881. J
GENERAL ORDERS No. 2.
I. All details of conscripts for service in
the Quart-rmsster’s, Subsistence, Ordnance,
or Medical Departments of the army, granted
by orders from these Headquarters, are hereby
revoked.
If. Iho attention of all who are concerned
is direetc I to the following extract of General
Orders, No. 36, from Department Headquar
ters, last scries:
Extract.
• I. All Clerksan 1 employees in the Military
service liable to conscription in the Depart
ment Trans-Mississippi, will bs immediately
enrolled, ant within twenty days thereafter,
’•.•nt to camps of instruction in their respec
tive districts
All able-bodied men (except artificers and
mechanics), who are now serving in the seve
ml stiff departments, will be relieved and or
der* 1 to join their proper companies and regi.
iiieiit’, unless especially detailed by the Dis
trict Commander, upon proof of necessity of
s. rvice, their places will be supplied by those
who are not capable of active rervice in tho
field, whether by age, sex, or physical disa
bil.ty.
By command of Lt.-Gen. E. Kirby Smith,
H. S. ANDERSON, A. A. Gon.
TIL All E-rolling officers in the District of
Arkansas arc charged with the strict enforce
ment of these orderp; and such as may be
found delinquent in executing the same, will
be immediately distni-sed from office, and, if
li ible, c ascribed; or, if army officers, charges
preferred against them.
B. F. DANLEY,
7 4r Cotnd't Conscripts, Dist. of Ark.
IlßAtiqi.- aiitkus Bins w or Conscription
Dspai.tjif.nt, Tuans-Miss.,
Mar.~h.all, Toxas, March sth, 1861.
.-I’ECI \L ORDER NO. 36.
I- I* ir»graph 111, General Orders No. f,
last series, from this Bureau, is so mo-iifie.| as
to require the applications therein specified.
’ v.incii cmne IroHi the Staten of Louisiana and
Xvkansas, to be forwarded by the Enrolling
Officer to the Comrnan l.iuta of their respec
ts’. ft »’es
11 The Common 1 int will endorse on sncl»
applications their approval or disapproval,
with their reasons therefor, .and forward them
to this office for final actio*.
By command of Brig.-Gen. E. Greer,
W. STEDMAN. A. A. Gen 1
(Official.)
B. F. I'osi.r.i, <'omg't Conscripts.
Dist. of Ark. 7 Iw
Enrolling Orrica, I
Washington, Ark., March 9, 1861. j
\ I.U’.N T. BELLER, a conscript, has de
fl sir' I, and, as 1 understand, ia making
his way to the Jordan Saline, in Texas, and
prihnp.s he may endeavor to estab'iah himself
there as a salt maker, and claim an exemption
thereby He lias endeavored to evade the
service in every way, and will doubt'ess con
tinue to do so wherever he may stop. He is
ab ut 41 years of age, about 6 feet high, gray
hair and board, weigh* about 140. pounds,
presumptuous in his bearing.
S3J Will be paid for his apprehension and
delivery to me at my office in this place.
ELIJAH.FEKGUSON,
Capt aud Enrolling Officer,
7-lw Ilempatead Co., Ark.
PTIJITIC MIJITIAG.
A m.a~s meeting of the citizens of Arkansas
s requested to be held at Washington, Arkansas,
oi the <lay or March. I*i64,
for the purpose of taking into consideration the
situation and exigencies of the country, and
c<>n~iilting upon tho liest mode of repelling Fyd
eral ■ invasion, and sustaining the Southern
Cons d< racy.
Public speakers will be present, and a free
expression of opinion had. Let everybody at
tend.
Wanted,
AT my Tanvard, near Washington, ONE
HUNDRED CORDS GOOD WHITE OAK
BARK, with alt ross off, for which I will pay
Fifty Dollars per cord. If the bark is delivered
as above, I propose furnishiug gratuitously
poor fain livs whose husbands ar* in the army.
Two Hundred sides es Leather during the
months of October aud November next.
D. R. WINN.
March 9, 1864. 7-3 w
SIOO REWARD!
LOST in or near Cnmdcn, on th* 7th January,
iny POCKET BOOK, large size, home
made, and containing four one hundred dollar,
ono twenty dollar and some smaller bills Con
federate money. Also, several certified ac
counts against the Confederacy, viz: one given
to J. M. Scott, for an old copper still and
spout for seventy-five dollars, purchased by
Ed. Smith at Washington. Also, a cert'fieate
showing that the undersigned had passed the
Annv Medical Board oa the 27th January,
1864.
1 will give the above reward for the recovery
of said book and contents.
J. J. WHITMORE.
Ceutre Point, Ark., Feb. 10, 1863. T-Bt*