Southern News

NEW YORK, May 14.

News from North Carolina states that Gov. Clark has refused to furnish any more troops to Jeff. Davis, and has recalled all the N. C. soldiers now in the rebel army.

North Carolina has held a convention of its citizens, and pronounced against giving further aid to the rebellion, thus virtually returning to the Union.  In reply to the demand of Jeff. Davis for additional troops and means of transportation for his army through the Cotton States, Gov. Clark said that Davis had received all the aid from North Carolina that he could expect and that hereafter no more troops would be permitted to leave the State, and he has ordered all the N. C. troops home.

Gov. Clark also informed the rebels that they could use the railroads in retreating homewards, and that they would run their own risk of being intercepted by a Union force at any part of the State.

The Tribune has the following:  “We can positively assert that whatever modification may be made in his order Gen. Hunter will not be recalled, nor placed in position necessitating his resignation.”

Fort Darling, where our gunboats were engaged is situated on a bluff, 200 feet above the river, high enough to direct a plunging fire upon the attacking boats, which could not use their guns in response.

A loyal black who left Richmond on Friday, brought the first news of the fight, which was at the time going on.  The Richmond people were very apprehensive of the result.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, May 20, 1862, p. 1

MR. HOLDEN:–

A meeting of the people of Carey District, Wake County, will be held at the Store of Mr. Frank Page, on the fourth Saturday of April, to nominate candidates for the Legislature and for Governor; and we ask this space in our paper to give notice of the same.

MANY VOTERS.

– Published in The North Carolina Weekly Standard, Raleigh, North Carolina, Wednesday, April 16, 1862, p. 1

W. W. HOLDEN, ESQ:

My Dear Sir - As the names of some gentlemen have been suggested to the public as suitable men for Governor of our State at the present crisis, I shall take the liberty also of presenting to the public the name of a gentleman whom I think highly qualified to fill that important station. It is Gen. Samuel F. Patterson, of the county of Caldwell. – He was once clerk of the Senate, then State Treasurer, then President of the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad, and has been Senator from the county of Caldwell several terms. All of these important stations he filled with distinguished ability, with great credit to himself, and to the satisfaction of the public. He was at one time thought of as a suitable man for an appointment in Fillmore’s Cabinet. He is a man of decided ability, of excellent judgment, firmness and energy, and great prudence. He has experience, also on his side, being now a little over sixty years of age. In time of great danger, when it is necessary that our most able, discreet and prudent men – men of wisdom and experience, should be at the head of affairs, I know of no man I would sooner trust in North Carolina, then Gen. Samuel F. Patterson. He is a man of high moral character, and nothing can be said against him, either as a private citizen, or as a public man. There is not a more loyal man to the South in the Confederacy, and no man has been more liberal in his donations to the support of the army, since this war commenced. I am making no idle boast, and using [no] exaggerated language; all that I say of Gen. Patterson is well known to the citizens of our county, and can be substantiated by undoubted testimony.

I am, very respectfully, yours.
CALDWELL.

– Published in The North Carolina Weekly Standard, Raleigh, North Carolina, Wednesday, April 16, 1862, p. 1