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VOLUME 23.
In conformity with a resolution of the Board of
Directors of the Virginia and Tennessee Rail
road Company, adopted on the 30th day of Oc
tober, 1862, notice is hereby given to the follow
ing delinquent •Stockholders in said Company
that unless they come forward and pay the ba
lances opposite to their names, with the interest
due thereon, on or before the 1 4th day of March
1808 I shall, on that day. in front of the Mar
ket-house. in the City of Lynchburg, proceed to
sell at public auction, to the highest bidder, to
cash, the unpaid shares standing in their name
on the books of the Company. __
NAMES OF STOCKHOLDERS. | %a.
John L. Adams... '• 1 §■** 00
Orville Anderson | •*<> Oj
Jabio.B. Alexander . lj ™<> 00
N- F. Barley ; }
B.D. Barley I h «8.00
Marion Bridges j J 294 00
Wm. G. H. Bingham , 2 1% 00
Thomas J. Brown | J ■« 00
Orville P. Bell 8 150 00
Robert Battle ; \ M JJO 00
Robert Blund.4! ! Jj 180 00
Wm. M. Brown, dec'd,.....! j V, J»
Thomas J Barnes... ; -j 188 00
William Blair... I 100 00
Charles B.Brown \*\ y « ( "'
Richard X! Crallie ;....;10i 900 00
John M. Clarke... ' J] 8o °°
J. P Curtis ........j. 1! .* 0U
Robert A. Clement... ~ j *j 804 -D
Joseph Covey '•-. j W«0
Jacob Clark s -v..! 1 to 00
..' l|fe&2
G. A. Crockett.. 12i1,120 JO
Archibald Clayton, deed..... | |*?
Bennet M. Dewitt , 1| 90 .00
, David G. Douthat j 1| 80 00
R. A. Davi* F-|i' 42000
George Deav< ; r " 3 800 00
JohnC Elliott h 75, 00
George W Fox - j ? 94 00
Thomas E Franklin lj 98 00
William H. Fizer. ."...-....■ j 8| 105 On
Jacob Fizer :.... i ! *} # : 'M f0
Joseph Fisher *. .; 2l 500
William C.Fiouruoy J 2! 150 00
Christovher Fviek ' lj 60 00
Course'R. C. Floyd. ......! 6. 440 00
John D, Gibson, • ! lj <» °°
Charles C. Glacken ....i.2] 190 00
William Hayes ...' lj 04 00
William P. Hayes lj 98 00
B. Hylton ..—• \'i*\ 50 00
Esom Huff -j l\ 98 00
William H. Hortou ...,..i M 892 00
Henry HajJewood i *j 45 00
* William L. Holt | 2j 70 00
James W. Hcrtenstine, deed i 1| 100 00
Peter Hoback„ i Sj 800
Ambrose Hall .'. | l| 78 00
Richard J. Ha11er...... j 1| 41 00
Michael S. Ireson. .....I 2 ISB 00
David Jones .....j 8 282 00
John Jackson .1 8 900
Vincent Kelly -| 2 80 00
David F. Kent aM 9*o 00
Feter Klllinger ..-..., 5 300 00
Alexander M, Lewis.. j 1| 98 00
H. M. Ledbetter ; lj 100 00
William H. Lowry » ; W 21 68
Milton Lowry *.. j & 370 00
Lilburn Lowry ; 5| 175 00
Henry Lowry ..!.5| 175 00
Lunsford Lowry ! 5J 175 00
E. W. Lockett . - j 6] 455 00
Robert E. Manaoa ••! 21 20 00
John Morris, .L' j 1|- 80 00
John A. Mobr j "lj 94 00
Dabney Martin • j 1| 100 00
Jacob Morton •• j 1 80 00
gam". D. MeDe.arma" |-'5: 490 00
Arthur J. McCorkle \ 1 28 00
George Percival .' 1 1.98 00
Richard W. Petty v! l \ 98 00
Nelson A. Patterson , 1 6< 210 00
James F. Pendleton ill? 800 00
Edmund Rosser ■■■] 1 90 00
Simon Ramsey — : ! 1 25 00
Je.se Repass.... .*.... ...1:1 25 00
Agatha M. Smith..... ! 1| 98 00
Samuel M. Smithson, Jr , 1 98 00
William M. Sears. j H 75 00
William Steptoe, deed j 1 58 00
M. &E. A. Scott... '. 5' 350 00
Thomas T. Saunders ~ d * 1»0 00
Jacob Shufflebarger « i 8 50 00
John Steele . I 1 100 00
Tazewell Taliaferro I 1 ■ 90 00
JohnO. Taylor .| 8 184 00
Abrara B. Trigg I 1 94-00
Francis S.Trigg.: j 1 94 00
Henry Tay10r...... j \ 100 00
James Wade , '• -\ 1 s°o
John H Whit ! 1 98 00
. James L. Yost |1 100 00
f¥IHE following named members of my Com-
JL pany are required to send up certificates of
disability from a surgeon connected with the ar
my, or they will be reported as deserters, and
treated accordingly:
Samuel E. Fleenor, Charles B. Dixon, Wm.
Fields, Geo. W. Lewis, A. G. Thompson.
DANIEL HUMPHREYj Ist Lt.
ABINGDON, FRIDAY,FEBRUARY 6, 1863.
For the Virginian.
Mr. Coale & Barr—
I've bin so bissy since I rit my second lef
rßu't don't despair, for-I'll "cut and come
! agin" if it kills me as ded as a mitten. I've
i bin ffoin about like a snow-ball, which gits
I bigger and bigger the more it rolls. I've got
i a heap of pints in my walles, and when I let
! 'em out I'll make some people think bin
a young earthquate in these parts.
I got a letter from Bednigo tother day, and
! as it has some useful biuis in it, I send it to
i you to print,. He's a leetle hetter schollard
| than I am,' but, God 'willin, I'll do my best,
1 1 and you may look out for squalls in my next
' ' letter. Yours til death,
MESHACH HORNER.
I , Camp near Richmond, V
! Dear -Brother—l take the opportunity of
) riting you a few lines, "to let you know how
) I'm dofns away down here, where I never ex
> peeted to be: but a body dorf*t know one day
j where they'll be the next, tliese war -times.
> I've bin fitin like a bulldog, or like daddy
» used to fite in the old wars.. The old man,
) t you know, couldn't be whipped, and bro-
Kther, if I hold out faithful-a little longer,
» i I'll come home with the fame of victory over
5 our enemies. I've bin sufverin for clothin all
> J winter, and you uiont as'well try to draw
I I blood'oaten a turnip a* to git anything here,
' only as we Whip the Yankees and take it
from 'em. There is so many speculators
*1 (Mid extortioners down here, that you can see,
? i 'cm every, day by hundreds—that is. when
,1 there's no expectation of a fite—and they all
''have something to.sell. But only ax the
! I price if you wantto be made as mad Us an
\] old ben after you've sucked her esgs. They
q i ax $20 for briiohes. 40 for bouts. 20 for shoes,
(j 0 lor shirts, and from 50 to 75 for coats. 1
i) tell them thry can go to— -never mind
lt where, with their things—for sometime or
0 ; other they'll git paid hack for their meanness.
0 ' Y"U know, brother, when I left home, I sold
ft i all my things down at the old honest price, to
0 that old whelp that's axiu daddy §3 for corn
0 and 50-cents a pound for meat, when if he'd
0 : bin a gentleman he'd a sent me some clothes,
0 i for I reckon he made 3 or $400 on the things
PI sold him before I started. But the time is
comin. I hope, when I'll git to see him, and
then I'll make him smell frost even if it
'■':! should be in dog days.
0 I looked a' good while for you to send me
f some clothes, but ynu rit you had bin to Abr
} ingdon two or three and couldn't git
"I j anything without payin*about a dozen prices,
? and wouldn't be skinned. You was right
about that. lam fat and sassy as usual, and
|q can fite awhile longer yit, if I «m barefooted
, 0 and ragged, though the weather is mighty
in cold. But 1 was raised in a cold climate, and
(0 it don't go much hard with inc. Some of the
10 boys is compiainio, and say thpy won't fite
10 ito do*much good, if things aint put down
10 l agreeable to what they are gittin for their
10 I services. They say they know-it wouldn't do
18 j for the Government to raisp the wages of the
10 ! soldiers in proportion to the prices that ex
-10 i tortioners. ax, because it would bust it up in
K> | a month. But a soldier can't work- for $11 a
>0 j month and give $10 for a bale of cotton.—
10 They think, and I think too. it would be just
W as easy for Congress to say that cotton is
){) worth one dollar a bale, and domestic a nine
pence a yard, as to say that a soldier shall fite
M> i for eleven dollars' a month.
J°J- I see Gov. McMullin professeses to be the
JV \ friend of the soldiers, and I suppose he is,' but
!? I he's rong in one thing—that is, in lowering
)(i i 100 per pent, on all leadin articles. That
>n won't do, if I know what per centage is, and
)0 you know we both, kr'nt in Pike.. One hun-
X) dred per cent is,-double. It may Borne
10 things, but on others it won't do at all. For
X) '. First cost of cotton per bale $1,50, for 500
)0 bales clear gain of £7,50. First cost of cotton
30 25 cents per yard, on 2,000 clear gain of §500,
")0 First cost of tobacco 50 cents per lb., clear
M) gain on 5,000 lbs. $2,500. First cost of sugar
)0 20 cents per lb., on 10,000 lbs. clear gain of
30 $4,000. Coffee, rice, shoes, boots, hats, sad
-30 'dies, iron, salt, and so proportion.—
30 These'are what I call standard articles, and
30 you see 100 per cent, won't do at all on these
3° things—-10 per cent would do very well. Jt
00 may be that Gov. McMullin calls i'iboas, but-.
tons, needles, pins, hooks and eyes, louse-
XX traps, and so-fortb, standard articles, and if
!!? he does, 100 per cent, would do, if they didn't
haye to go through the hands of the fellers
that sold jeans, and crocks, and louse-traps
"~ Brother, I was in hopes you would be as
good as your word, j saw two of your letters
m " in our friends Coale & Barr's paper. I thought
theoa letters would give the extortioners a
,r j hint of what would become of them; but you
D say some of them got mad—if so, the madder
m they git the harder and oftener you ought to
i I'm afraid you're cittifi lazy about ritin to
Coale & Barr; begin agm, tor 1 oeueve tney
will print all the letters you s»nd em. And I
want you to rite to me soon and tell me how
daddy is, and how all my old acquaintances
is comin on. If I- don't git in a fite and
lose my paper or my life. I'll rite you seve
ral letters, and give you all the uews.
So no more at present,
but your affectionate hmther.
BEDNIGG HORNER.
From the Richmond Enfiurrer.
i Northern Dates to the Twenty-
Sixth.
i The attempts to cross the Rappxiumnock— Yan
kee army stuck in the mire.
Fredericksburg, ."'an. 28, 1863.
j I have just received dates of the twenty-
The special correspondent of the New York
"Post" states that for four days last week.
beginning with Tuesday and ending with Fri
day, the "Grand Army" attempted to cross at
Bank's Ford, just above but
that such was the condition of the roads, it
was compelled to fall back.
Accounts represent that on Friday the
greater portion of the army was back incamp
before Fredericksburg, Burnside, Hooker,
Sumner, Stoneman, Griffin, Slocum, Svkes,
Humphries, Franklin and ail tbe other offi
cers labored hard to get themen across, but
the mud prevented. Pontoon? were brought
within one hundred rods of BfcH's Ford.
The difficulties df crossing fre thus narrat
ed by a Yankee correspondent:
"At every turn or rise on the road a
or caisson could be seen sticking fast in the
mud: horses and mules we're down in the
mire, unable to rise. In every gu.lly batteries
caissons, supply wagons, ambulances and pon
toons were mired; horses aad mules up t
their bellies in mud: soldiers on the marc
sinking to their, knees at almost every step
It was impossible io draw an enipty wago
through the dreadful mud. The whole army
was stuck fast.
"Within a space of two miles the scene o >,
j confusion was greatest. In a deep gully, and ;
Inn a hillside, where the road*ascended, were j
I stuck fast more than a dozen guns, caissons, !
1 brigade and great wag- f
| ons° The guns and pontoons were three days j
in reaching the ford, and-hrftl to be dragged j
by united labor of men and'horses, when it J
! w"as discovered that approaches to the river ;
\ were impracticable. The nmd in the freshly !
■ cut roads was too deep. The men got in ;
sight, they said, of rebel can.p fires."
Letter oiCJen.iL.ee.
i To the Editor of the Whic :
Will you oblige an old subscriber.of the;
Whig by publishing the enclosed letter, ad- j
dressed by Gen. R. E. Lee to Dr. Orland Fair-«
fax, on the occasion of the death of his son,
Randolph Fairfax, a private in PoagueV
Rockbrkige Battery, who fell in the battle
near Fredericksburg. I urged the father for
its publication as a tribute due the memory of
Iris noble son—due his noble comrades in
arms, and as illustrating a noble feature in
the character of our illustrious leadef —thft
! being in the midat of so ma>-y cares and dv-
I ties, he is not unmindful of £he noble youths
j who surr-.mnd him.
I niav also add, young R. Fairfax behaved
! with distinguished gallantry in eleven regular
j battles, and innumerable skirmishes.
Camt Fredericksburg, • )
.My Dear Dr. :—I have greived most deeply
) at the death of your' noble son. I have watch-
I edhis conduct from thecommenepment of the
war, and have pointed with pride to tbe pa
triotism, self-denial and manliness of charac
ter he has exhibited. I hoped that an
opportunity would have occurred for the pro
motion he' deserved—not that it would have
elevated him, but have shown that his devo
tion to duty was appreciated by his country.
Such an opportunity would undoubtedly have
arisen; but he has now been translated to a
better world; for which his purity and piety
had eminently fitted him. You do not require
to be told how great has been his gain. It is
the living for whom I beg you will
offer to Mrs. Fairfax and yowr daughters my
heartfelt sympathy; for I know the depth of
their grief. That God may give you and them
strength to bear this great affliction, is the !
earnest prayer of your early friend, j
Rrlando Fairfax, Richmond. j
Fright at Washington City I
Jew York correspondent of the Liver
lercury" says, that after the removal
ellan the President and Cabinet were
i km wjiicitous lest Washington should be cap
tured, that a fast steamer, with steam, up was
kept t • carry them and families away at a j
- ———— ■ —»«»■« ' ■ — —
Another submarine cable.
j A submarine cable is to be laid between
New Orleans and Fortress Monroe. It will
j touch at Fort Macon and Beaufort, N. C, Pott
Royal, S. C Fernandina and Key West, Fla.J
No; 44.
Dispatch from Curtis.
The following despatch has been received
in Washington:
/ St. Louis, Jan. 24,1863.
Maj. Gen. H. W. Halleck, ' •
General in Chief;
General:—Gorman telegraphs from Dd
vall's Bluff, on the 18th inst., that, aided by
three gunboats, he ascended White River to
Duvall's Bluff and t>es Arc, taking about one
hundred and fifty prisoners, two columbiads
and about two hundred small arms.
Tanderbilt has gone to Fortress Monroe to
'tow the Weebawken South. After getting
) out, she will start in search of the Alabama.
ftew York Militia Ordered Out.
Gen. Wool has ordered all the New York
militia to report to him. Upon hearing this,
Gen. Hall, commander of forces, en
tered a vigorous protest. This step has creat
ed great excitement. The prevailing opinion
is that it is the design of the Administration
to take the militia under its control;
The British ship Vesuvius took one and a
half million of. dollars from Mobile to Eng*
band.
THE ALABAMA AND THE EUROPEAN GOVERNMENT;
The Washington correspondent of tbeNew
York "Tribune" says Fiance has remonstrate
eJ with England about fitting out the Alaba
ma; that M. Drouyn deTHuys claims that it
is in direct violation of the spirit and lettei
of the treaty of Paris in 1856.
The Case of Fitz John Porter.
General Fitz John Porter, as already an*
■ nonnced, has been found guilty on every one
i of trie charges preferred against him and dis
missed from the service in disgrace: We
give the charges preferred in a nut shell:
Specification 3—ln that the said Majo*
General Fitz John Porter, being with his ar
i my corps near the field of ba*tle of Manassas
j on the 29th of August, 1862, while a sever©
I battle was being fought by the troops of Ma
jjiir General Pope's command, and being in
! the belief that the troops of the said Major
I General P«>pe were sustaining defeat and re
! tiring from the field, did shamefully fail to go,
[ to the aid of said troops, and did shamefully
retreat away and fall back with his army to
the Manassas Junction, and leave to the di§
a*ter of a presumed defeat the said army, and
! did fail, by an attempt to attack the enemy,
to aid in averting the misfortune of a disaster
that would have endangered the safety of the
capital of the country. This at or near Ma
nassas station, in the State of Virginia, on
the 29th of August, 1862.
f . .—» •» ♦ -.
| Difficulty Between' Negroes and Soldiers near
Norfolk.
» Petersburg, Jan. 21.—Advices have been
received from Norfolk up to the 18th inst. A
serious row occcurred amongst the soldiers
and negroes at the fortifications below Nor
folk, which was finally quelled by two regi-
ments from the city^
A dispatch from Old Point annonuces the
j arrival of a few transports with troops, whose
! destination is believed to be to strengthen
[Newport News and Yorktowr. Corcoran's
brigade is believed to be in the vicinity of
j Windsor, <»n the Norfolk railroad.
Three prominent Union citizens were as
sassinated on the night of the 17th inst.
From Corinth.
Daily skirmishes take place in front of Co
! rinth, and an attack is looked for.
Another raid was made to Holly Springs
! on Monday, and a number of negroes captur-.
I cd.. The Yankees say the Confederats oom
i mitted many depredations.
Gunboat Sunk.
A Yankee gunboat is reported to have been
! sunk by a Confederate battery off Port Hud-
The Yankees say that Jackson,, with forty
I thousand men, has reinforced Vicksburg.
Commodore Wilkes.
The Bahama "Herald" has it from credita
ble authority that the British Government
I has ordered the commander of the British
war steamer Galvcta to capture Wilkes wher-
I ever found, and take him to Bermuda, Bttb-
I ject: to further orders.
A correspondent of the London "Times''
says a child would instinctively rush to Gen.
I Lee in a'crowd, as a friend and protector, so
I fascinating is the beauty of bis countenance;
| and adds, that General Lee dreads a news
-1 paper panegyric worse than he does a wound.
I He says Lee is a hero, bat Jackson is a saint.
A huge Western paymaster was recently
! introduced to Lincoln. By way of saying
something agreeable, the Hoosier remarked :
"I have called, sir, to pay ray respects!"—
"Yes" responded Lincoln, "from the com
plaints of the soldiers, I guesa that is about
all you gentlemen do pay."