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, however, upon the action of the Administration. A letter received to-day from an English banker, by a merchant here, states that British bankers are ready to furnish the Southern Confederacy with any amount of money required. At the request of the Governor of North Carolina, Gov. Pickens sent seven guns of large calibre to Fort Macon; also, twenty thousand pounds of powder. New York. The tendency to mobocracy in New York has called forth the following proclamation from Mayor Wood: As Chief Magistrate, representing the whole people, I feel compelled, at this crisis, to call upon them to avoid excitement and turbulence. Whatever may be, or may have been individual positions or opinions on questions of public polity, let us remember that our country now trembles upon the brink of a precipice, and that it requires a patriotic and honest effort to prevent its final destruction. Let us ignore the past, rising superior to partizan considerations, and rally to the
Gen. Jackson, of Wood. --The Parkersburg (Va.) News, commenting upon the assertion of Gen. Jackson, of Wood, (during the debate upon Mr. Preston's resolution in the Convention,) that in no event would his constituency join the Southern Confederacy, says: It becomes our duty, in behalf of the people of this county, to express a decided dissent from Mr. Jackson's position, as stated by the papers, and to deny in toto his assertions in reference to our people. We think the resolutWood, (during the debate upon Mr. Preston's resolution in the Convention,) that in no event would his constituency join the Southern Confederacy, says: It becomes our duty, in behalf of the people of this county, to express a decided dissent from Mr. Jackson's position, as stated by the papers, and to deny in toto his assertions in reference to our people. We think the resolution was eminently just and proper, and we have yet to hear a single opinion to the contrary expressed by any man, of any party, in this place. It was adopted by the votes of Union men, and asked nothing more than it was right for the Convention to know. We also deem it proper to state, that if our Union must remain disrupted, and we, as Virginians, must make choice between joining the South or being tied to the tail of a Black Republican, negro-equality Government, the people of Wood count
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.Southern-rights meeting. Caroline Co., Va., April 15. A meeting of the citizens of the fifth Magisterial District of Caroline county, and of the lower end of Spotsylvania, was held at Chilesburg to-day. Col. F. Wood was called to the chair, and Wm. J. Hancock appointed Secretary. The object of the meeting having been explained, it was moved and seconded that the Chairman appoint a committee of five to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the meeting. The following gentlemen, viz: John G. Dickinson, E. D. Eve. Capt. R. P. Smith, Dr. N. R. James, and Wm. J. Hancock, being selected, retired for a short time, and made the following report: Whereas, we have no confidence in a majority of the members of the Convention now assembled in Richmond, and as there are but two alternatives for the Old Dominion — the one to remain in her present degraded condition, a suppliant at a Black Republican footstool; and the other to assume
of Michigan, Bass, Brooks, Brown of Wisconsin, Chanier, Coffroth, Cox, Craven, Dennison, Eden, Eldridge, Edgerten, English, Fiuck, Hale, Hall, Harrington, Harris of Illinois. Hobnan, Johnson of Ohio, Kellegg of New York, Kernan, King, Law, Lazear, LeBlond. Long. Mallory, Marry, McAllister, McDowell, McKenney, Morrie of Ohio, Morrison, Noble, Pendleton Radford, Randall of Pennsylvania, Robinson, Rogers, Ross, Scott, Steele of New York, Stiles, Townsend, Wadsworth, C. A. White, J. W. White, F. Wood and Yeamen--51. The Whereabouts of Thomas's army. A telegram from St. Louis, the 16th, says: An officer from Clifton, Wayne county, Tennessee, where he left General Thomas on Saturday, says no active operations may be expected for several days. The truthfulness of the report that Hood is preparing to make a stand at Corinth has not yet been ascertained; but it is believed that his disorganized forces are still fleecing southward, leaving detachments of their best cavalry
Post Quartermaster's office,Confederate States of America, Salisbury, North Carolina, Dec. 16, 1864. Negroes Wanted.--This Department wishes to hire, for the ensuing year, four Blacksmiths, two Wheelwrights, Six Carpenters, Seventy Wood-Cutters and Laborers; for which will be paid a liberal price. They will be well fed and supplied with good clothing. Those having able-bodied negro men to hire may find it to their advantage to address. James M. Goodman, Captain and Post Quartermaster. de 21--1m.