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CAPS MAY OOEAlf WAVE. ' CAPE ISLAND K .1. j J. «. LEACH. Editor, • * PakHtkrr PnyrUJar. OXK DOLLAli PKlt ANNlJSl. • Thnrsday. May 1, 1862 Bailroad Subscriptions. j Th* follow toe pemmt «t to obtain the Hioni--.r W« *ad SiraMWimosD to the Capital J atocq of the Ml la villi aaJ Clambooo' Hail- | mad, forth* cxtciutoa of that ro*d to Cap* UUcd W. V*. Win. nr. J »•- teawiln*, j JL n. ljliouadD, BtehM CrawfoiJ, Mstttww- Marrr, Dr. Voire*. A Aorun Miller. , Vt.K L.B. Wales, , r nT ft Y. Team log. K Weetrott, j Aaron Braarlt. Benjamin Ur. CatcihouM betoken U att-arW to > retry uar, and the auAbrr of stnrrs br written |u jwont*, an'! not In BicurrD, ' 'WAR NEWS-! From present indications, we " may look fftitforStTraritg'rvew^' sokffi, which j seems already to hare commenced. Only a day or two ogo we read extracts ! from southern paper*, defying the inro- ' New Orleans, aqdyiwAhusu p£ j per* report the •OfttureHif that city by ; the Union army andjnavy. Ttiey report that our forces passed Fort Jackson, April 24tb, and had appeared before the city at noon on the 26th,- laat Friday Though coming from only rebel sources, there ciln be but littlo doubt of the truth of the main features of the news. j The Richmond Examiner, of the 2Gth, makes lire following announcement. "Now Orleans Taken — Ureal De«t rue ; i tion of Property. Cotton and Steamboat* — Enough Steamboats Sard U> Uarry Away the Antmanilion— Ureal \ Consternation of the inhabitants " So we judge there roust be some lire , where there is so much rebel smoke. -j The officers of the steamer Boston,! just arrived at New York, from P<yt| Royal, report the oeeupation of Fort Jacksou, six miles below Savannah, by our troops, and that our pickets were wiihln faor miles of the cily. But little information can be obtained from Yorktown, and probably will not be potil there is something definite. Gen. McClellan seems confident .of sue•ess. Our impressio.n'is, that he is weiting for Banks end McDowell to advance ao as to cut off the retreat of tho rebels v toward Richmond, with a view of bagging a targe army, and we shouldn't wonder if the did h. which would nearly break op their army, or at least rid Virginia of them. Bank* and McDowell are advaftcing. and the rebels' retreating before them. A Union sentiment is sprigging up as , they advance, and .large numbers of the rebel soldiers are deserting, aud coming into our lines. Last Satorday morning a company of the First MaamhnsettK Regiment look a rebel battery, at Yorktown, at the point of the bayonet. They received the rebel fire srilhout returning it, bnt advanced over a ditch 1 and parapet, seeing which, the rebels ° ' broke and ran. Fourteen rebel prisotj-p* crs were ..taken.- Our men Lrev^qr I , killed, and twelve wounded. / There is a report, which has every . « appearance of- reliability /that Beaure- ' gard hdk evacuated Corplh, where it | ■ was thought another great battle was : 1 impending, ind gone to the defeneo of ' Memphis. Gca. Mitchell having taken , possession of a long 'an go of the j , (Tharieifor end Memphis Railrond, thus | , culling off she rebel communication 1 I with the east, was now makicg a rapid | i tank movement on Corinth, while Hal- i ' . leek's main army was advancing on 1 them from the north, which canscd the 1 evacuation. _ J |JT"Gen. Charles Ferguson 8mlth, 1 < who displayed such valor and skill at f theJjalUe of Fort Donelaoa, died, on Fri- j ' last, at Ravaunah, Tennessee. His loss j 1 wjjl be deeply fell in the army. He was | ' • PbHadeiphian. t^TWs ksvi heretofore omitted to j | notice the passage, and signing -fey i i the President, of the bill for the aboii I - tion »f slavery in tha District of Co. < MaU, !' - — - - [ ' Oca i*mi as Bitanma, , Lieut Gen. Winfirld Scott has rettr- [ , sd to Lis home in Elizabeth City, N- J. , I

OUR RAILROAU. | ' Although negotiation have been in pro{j ret*, for a number of months past, which j | we had rrason to hope would resolt in the ; •j construction at tha railroad from Millville ; to this place, yet. lor prudential considers- j lions, we have deemed it best to say little ' or nothing about It. through our columns, ( I until those negotiations Sad readied such a { j point aa would preclude a reasonable doubt i ol Ike speedy success of Hie enterprise- ; | That point, we think, is new reached ; hence we may venture to stale some Lets I and make tome snggestion* on this subject, j iso vitally important to the interests of our ' county. I It is not our present purpose to attempt ! | to convince our readers or the necessity! j and benefits of such a work ; and; indeed, { j-sucli an attempt is hardly called for at any j i time ; Tor we believe the people generally j 'are already convinced. on that point, aud ' have long been: hence such an attempt | | would almost savor of insult to the good \ sense of the people. It is true-there is now I [ and then a mug — one of a thousand per- j 'haps — who professes nt least, to believe I i j Ihe.cbatrary ; but these are either the men ,,! who are unwilling to assist in the work, -j making this as an excuse for tbeiFitsttoih- * ! iiigistn, or that other class, who sigh for the 1 ! good old dsjr* of yore, when their fathers j ' ■ went to mill on horseback, carrying the >. grist ill one end of the bag, witb'n stone of equal weight in thb other, to keep the; balance true, and after one trial of the ' improved method of dividing the grist in' ! both ends, saving half the weight, returned . | to the old stone, proclaimingdoudly against , ! such umtfnriral innovation*. 1 Hut such -cases are very rare in our 1 j enmity, in regurd to the railroad question. | ^ The people, we may say unanimously, or > so nearly so that the disorders may be read- 1 I , ily numbered, want a railroad, ar.d they j have long wanted It, though they bake, ! for the last few 'years, been more fally ! I I convinced of its necessity. Arid wan- j . ling it, they havff tried various expo- ' I' dients to secure it. all of which, hith- 1 'erlo, have proved futile. And why ! .Sim- ]" i ply bocaese the people found that they . were not abl, o build it; or. at least,-, thnuglit tliey were not, end could not olitatVi tyliicient outside aid to secure Ihe • completion of the work. Had, however, 1 all the people manifested the willingness : which a pari have -done, with whet outside aid coald have been obtained, the work would nave been accomplished years age. Bat, in all communities, there is at- ) ways a rises of people, who feel an interne t interest in all such mmttefc, but sontohow, they always manage to make a grand blun- ' der, and never feel in the right place— in 1 their pockets. Taking tb# people as they; run then, in the gross, they were not able ; : for those people who have tho mean*, and will not use them for aooh ohjeol*, are always the poorest people in creation. llal dating the past fow months there has been a mte'risl change in ttfe aspect of . sfUiqi : and we are convinced that all the ' people require, to satisfy them that the | railroad is' now entirely within their reach. ' without ever-straioiog a single nerve, is to l«arn the true state of afiwirs, as they really exist ; and to do this, is the object of I the farther remarks we are about to make. , During last Summer, this railrosd question was brought to the notice of Charles • : B. Ilungan K«q., of Philadelphia, who, for ! years past, has spent the Bummer's at the j -V island, at his b«aniifal Bummer residence ; [ and consequently is well known in this vj. j i ciuity ; and needs bnt to be known to b« I confided iu. And it is proper here to re < i mark, that Mr. Dongsa has been, and still j I is. extensively engaged in contraeia iSrnuT- , ! road eonstraction, and necessarily under- | stands sneh instters. Mr D. was informed ; • hat the Camden i Amboy and Ihe Mill- ; i rilfe St OUssboro' Railroad Companies bad i made certain offeis or assistancn, on certain conditions, butjfest the conditions had not 1 cotnplielfvmh and consequently th'e j mailer was virtually ^oid. MK D., think- j « ing there was still hope or success, made , it a subject of inveellgation, and final- , |y coine to the conclusion, that if the m abort named companies would render I the afsislsace tWy had offered — SI 00, • j I 000 each— making a starting point of $20».- I I ; and the people would do what they , < appeared willing to do, the work could be i accomplished, as fie was wilHng to take a ; interest himself. In the outset, however, in a conversation -with as, his remarked that he did not wish his name coupled with the enterprise, i through the prase, until the whole waiter ; i I arranged, beyond a reasonable doubt | I i of ultimata saccesa. And farther, tlm be : i ! should not undertake the work, until he , i ! coald -see the end from the beginning J ' consequently we hrve remained perfectly j ' ; siltnt in the matter, through oar column*. I ' until recently ; wheu, by bis paraiisaioa, j I

I we haTe began to by the matter before the t ! public. I Id the early part of last Antamn, Mr. ; jD. commenced negotiations with the - com- < Ipahies above refered to ; and though they °.i have been provocated with all diligence i i ever since, were net consummated until i very recently, owing to various causes of i delay. Those negotiations have, however, i ; been cousum mated, by which the aforesaid | j companies are obligated |p furnish, in cash, £200 0UU ; aud nothing now .remains but fur the people to come up to their own help, fulfilling their promises, and doing what can reasonable be expected of them, | I and what each mdivid jal is really able to . , j do j and what, for their oun Interest, they , i should do. - — . i ■ i- . - j 1 - The road will cost, all completed, stodked I , j and in running order about 8 100.000; 8200.j 000 of which is secured. A reasonable i share of the bahince will be taken by Mr. , | Duugan, who will briogin other private aid, : not heretofore secured ; so that to one can | have a reasonable doubt. tliaClltir railroad i» new entirely within our reach : and if we let thiwoppnrldirity slip, we ileserve to live and die without1, it; leaving oorthildron and children's to lament our snpincoess and folly. But we believe tbe people will not i let it slip; for, su faros we have bad intercourse with them, ibey have the uljnost | confidence in the pre^eut position of tho enterpriDU, aud are ready to pal their shoal- [ der to the wheel. ' Bul.it tuay he -aKed. what is expected , of the people of May ? to which we ! answer, in snbstispcc, as Mr. I). answeredi the saaie queslioa. nt a public meeting i held here lust Thursday. Ue said he w,in- i , , ted every uian to do what be was really , j able to do. and nothing more. He did nut ' want a dollar mure than ho behoved indii viduols were able to pay. Hot let no one suppose from lhi«, that be may gel clear.' with little or nothing,, lor business men are | abhs to judge, pretty nearly, what a mm' | | munity is able to do ; especially wheu llicy , j are as well acquainted, with that commuuj Ity as .Mr. D. is with Cripe May ;. ami if the {.people do net come up manfully and liberI ally, Ihey uiaj- look for feiluro. Heretofore . j the matter has n^ver come within the range : ! of our ability; but now it bin. I -el us im- ( ; prove the opportunity. i | , Engineers aro lo be put1 upon tho route ( ; this week, and «ie presume uru already at , , ' work. The line will he ready fur grading ; ( j ina very short tlhn', and if, in the mean , ( { time, the imoplegive the right-of-way. subj scribe liberally to llie capital- stock, the ' work will go 'immediately forward; bat if; they do not. Mr. D. will pocket the loss of j ( j the survey, and there the matter will- end | , I for let no one suppose that tbe road will l>e j bsill for us, without a liberal effort on our ' ( | !»«• At the public meeting above refered to. , . Mr. D. plated that if the people should || ) come up and do what be bolieYed Ihey ( coald do, the entire work would be cample- ( ted, at or before the first of June IHG3 i Let us have it. We believe we shall, be- | j cause wa have coafiduuce that the people | will take hold of it in earaest. ode beporteki article. 1 " In this and in our next issue wc shall ! give some incidents of our recent trip : which we trust will be interesting. They ' will be Classified antler different he jhs. Paraon Drewnlww In Pklladtlphla. ( On Thnrsday, the I'th Inst., while, we j ' were in rbiladelphis, the morrring ire»s 1 j snnoonced that Tarson firowhlow would | arrive from Pitlsborg at 11 j o'clock in the , ! evening Having bail, for some years, a <fe- j siae to scojbe notable editor of the Knox- ! villa Tfitg. that JeiTre^Yas been ty' no" j means lessened since Mr. UrowBlow hss so boldly stood up for tbe Federal Union rand j on hearing that he was to arrive, we repair- ' ed to the L'onlinentnl Hotel on said evening. Long before the hour Tor bis arrival, tbe main-way of thehelel was filled with persons, met for the same purpose that had < called us there. "Has Brownlow -come ?" was a q'eestion that continually passed through tha crowd. At 11 j -o'clock the I doors at the entrance on 9th Street were -thrown open nod in came passengers. Then there was asaddmi move of the bj slanders | towards the office, aud as each new-comer ! walked up to register his name, the uyslau- . ders would gaxe in his countenance and* , ; then look at his autograph. Shortly it waa announced that these were the Baltimore passengers, and that the. PitUbnrg' train had not arrived. A few minnte* sped < away, when there waa a grand rash for the | rotraoce on Chestnut Bt„ and no sooner ; had we turned oar attention that way than i ; stepped tho Parson, supported by two t i gentlemen. His presence enlivaoed all . i hearts, and a loud aud beatly three cheers I won given bit tbe distinguished visitor, i 1 Ho was oscorlod by tho city couhcils. who I him op stain immediately, cot giving t

the anxious crowd a chance tu take a good J ■ look at him. N'ot contested with a mere ! t ■ glance at the Parson, in company with oth- I ers. entire strangers to us, we obtained ad- r mltlance to his room, where were tbe c'ty 1 i eooeciW and reporters. We learxrd that "1 be would speak at Independence Ball that . « morning, (tor it was bow past midnight ) ^ • and alter shaking his .band, we bade him j 1 good nighty and made oar exit. A description of Mr. Browelow might j ' be read. Ho is &9 years of age, 6 feel tall, very slender built', complexion dark, cheek ! ' bones high and cheeks sallow, and eye* I ' and perceptive. lie is quite ems- 1 r imed from his imprisonment in Knoxville, . and looks like a person tottering aoder cun- 1 sumption. When he entered the Continen- j • | tal he looked like a criminal being marched j ' ! before a court, charged with somefgnomin- I I ions crime, and had we riot known of his 1 1 , expected arrival we should have taken him | 1 lo be a person unjer arrest. At 10 A. M. Friday wo found ourselves I standing near a speaker's stand, erected op- 1 posite Independence Hall, where some two j 1 ur three thousand people were assembled, ' .From this stand Parson Brownluw spoke ? f about three fuurltn of an hoar, recounting 1 the suffering he had ensured in "his war i 1 fur tbe Union,"' and portraying In vivid | and sarcastic language, the wickedness * and barbarism of tbe unmitigated and , 1 Godforsaken traitors. We shall only refer i ' | to souio parts fif bis speech. He said thai he fought for^lfiie Union and poured hot shot into the rebels until December last ' when his paper was snpprcated and lie was 1 ' thrust into S prison, to Knoxvilld, with 1 soina InO others. "Bo true as (>ud is my | judge,'' he said "there was not room in the 1 . prison for all the intuatus to lie down, aud u •i part would have lo sleep while the others ! ; stood up." Most of those coofmed acre i 1 •| merely arveat-d for expressing Union sen- ' ; tiinents. and one man was incarcerated sim- ; ply because he was u brother-in-law of Ins. ' Be fd re lie was liberated many of Ihe prisoner* had been hung. They were tried by J a secret court, aud some h.-wl no notice of r] ! their aenteoce of death ootii an hour or two 1 . ; before banging. Tim rgrsuu's case mud j j tried, and llin vote of on* uiau saved inm j 1 ! from be i«g hung. This vote, the I'araun j , said, "was given by. nu unmitigated, tliiei. | ( ing. drunken and lying scoundrel and rebel, ' . j Those executed were his iajiniate friends. ' ! One case of banging was tharuT a jpan ond . ! son, sentenced Tor cheering for the Un- i j j ion and denouncing the -bogus-Confederacy | j lo the morning s wugon drove up with two i j poplar Collins. A gailows was erected in > I front of the .'ail. They did uot know who j {vulo bo hung, and all hearts were throb- . | bing when the authorities entered and todk I I out a father and eon. They beheld the sonj t 1 hung, while an immense crowd cljeered 'hO| | | ael^ond cried, "there diet a d n ' ! Uoion-sbriekeTr*t^B&A tho women waved tbeir handkerchiefs. The father uas made j lo look at bis son as be struggled in the ag- j ' onies of death, ond as'snon us dead, tho old j ' was executed Tin tbe ssmo gallows— | ' Another case, was that of a talented, noble { young man, sentenced for bridge-burning. "* An hour before bis execution lie was ap- | • prised ol it; ai^, on asking for a certain minitter to pray with him, be w«» Aafnsed , He was led to the gailows, aad'just previous to the rope bciog adjusted, a rebel chaplain 1 arose, aud supposing the culprit would not | I dare .-peak, he told the audience that he, ' wbq was now abonl "to pay the debt of nu- j i | tare," bad several tiaiea expressed h(t re- 1 r-gret for the crime committed. Jn face of I | death, and in tones most thrilling and pathetic, The brave young heart denied tbevej n.tti ks of the chaplaia, ond said that all Lo ! " Vllj illll fit dlfi BoU"BUHl bridges months sooner, aod be felt proud to know that was to die for hU Country, lis®hy other instance* of banging were cited* bat we will only name on* more. It was that of - two persons, charged also with bridge burning ; bnt who, Mr. Urowolow said, were innocent. They were taken out of the city, along a railroad, near, we believe, wbpre.Uie bridge wet burned. They > ware hung on the limb of an oak tree, by e traitor colonel, bora in Maine, who was Ift i yeers in tbe U. B. Army. He delivered speech and directed that the corpses should hang Ore days, end that tbe cars, in cumiag that way, should slacken their spcelT) and, s is pawing by, give tbe pneseagers e'chencu I o' armor kick the bodies. This waa actually done, be said. When the Mack-cap hod 1 been drawn, the ery was ottered by the cruel, marderoas specte^m, "Tkera goes the j Uoion-bridge-buroers to h— I !" j Tho prison was an unhealthy place and , maoy in it sickened aod died. Tho i'arsoo j neer losing hie life by typhoid fever. t 1 A heart-reading circumstance of a person j j dangerasely ill, Im related. The wife , hod heard of her partner's sickness. She I five small chddveo el botne, and walked 1 miles, -with n sucking babe ia iter

arms, to the pnvon. She asked admittance ' ^ | see ber dying hatband, bat was abruptly refused. Bro willow pleaded to have ber admitted, aod they at last consented to give 15 minotes in the prison. Mr. Brownheld the infant, aod he said that the meeting between tbe husband, and wife was ' enoagh to move the rtonteat heart. The i 15 minutes expiied and they coldly drew the wife from the embrace of her husband. | was their lust parting, ax lie soon died. ' Troly, it ts a lamentable fact, that AmeriI cans have beeome'so fiendish, barbarons and | so callons-fiearied. 1 - "» Mr Hrowntow,_was released by Jeff. Ds1 riofanlFaijb nod ko go North, llis wife and j mmghirirs woro kept aa hostages- for his { good ohhsviour, which means, he said, that ; he should "tid tih ink., speak or write in op- | posuiotri'-TTr-sHu^^roogna-Conlederalioa," so when aboulMo leave he told bis wife she n.ust prepare u> be executed. Ber reply was, "Nevcf mind me. Go on, and hot shot intp the rebels from every A I stump !" One of hia tons ataid to take i of bie mother, and the other came ou ! and joined Fremont's army, and said be was ; going to- fight hia way back to his mother. { Hroxnlow remarked ; "1 wonld sooner See son lorn to ribbons at the cannon's, | mouth or gibbeted - for fighting for tha American ensign— the stars and stripes, — than le hare him' come out victorious un, ' der that rebel dish-rag— the stars and bars." lie sntil that TonncHpe would give 50,- ; tlOO majority for the Union whan Andy J Johnson calls an election. To aubslaattalo this, he gave an account of an eisction held in knoxville. just before be left, fur Mnyus. One candidate was called a "southern right's man." and tho other, a I. incur it. i The letter wa* elected. Mr. | It. said, "We carried the War. we carriedand wo rarried the Chicago plat- , form The part of the speech which we have ref w* fered to is the serious portion. Almost evi ery remark of tbe i'arsoo brought forth npr! .plauso. His style of I an guace differs from ; that uf any vKber man in the Country.— ' is famous for bitter sarcasm against bis ] enemies. 'Hie Government has no bolder 'defender than this same Rev. \Vm. ><i. Ho lays, the lihigth of his am- ' bitiol is to enter Knoxville with tho Union W-susrilate his suppressed paper, and denounce tlm bell deserving traitors ill itrongorlteriiM than ever. When he closed bis' sjieecfceHuuaidience said they "could- | have heard ,b im all day.'" REPORTER. | 0dr congressman's speech. ( Had our columns permitted, the eni tire speech of Hon. John T. Nixon 1 should have been published. It ought Le read bj every man in llie district. I We copy a (fanigraph of the speech, | whLh ia n high tribute to our Stale, i n A | people nnd to those from this State who- ! are enlisted In the war. It reads as foli lows : I "Sir, 1 represent anil intelligent, cons^rj -votive, Constitotioo-loving constituency, j It is not much afflicted with the nnracroax ' i»ms which now-a-duys torment the busy brains of so many men. It loves tho aneier.t patba and ueaires to wulk in them. The ."lata of New Jersey was the (ir«l of the Old Thirteen that suggested the idea . of a general revision or tlm Articles of Confederal ion, and she was among tha first .j to adopt the Constitution, in the maturing j and perfecting of which ber statesmen conj tributcd so large a share, ana love* that j Constitution and clihgs to it with an everincreasing affection. Traitors to It. and sympathizers in secession die, politically, I who attempt lo breaths her ah-. Her heart i»*i ii this contest. . One out of every* eight -.of hci pnpnlnlian rmpqhl* nt haarpvw stands in the Tanks of tho Union army today — ber best young blood ; the deaiaens of her cities, and the pride sod flower of her rural population. Thev bare enlisted lo fight. They have no mefcopotitsn presses to chronicle achievements which were never performed; bnt' tho words "Roanoke" and "Nowbern." cmblfioned on the banners of her gallant Ninth, are only an earnest of what ber other regiments will accomplish if permitted to udvonce to the shock of battle. She wants the war to go on i until every inch of tbe national domain "is wrested from tbfe hinds of traitors She cannot nnderstaod how it is possible to maintain peaceably a divided country. She Teels that it cere better for the race of mankind that ail this generation shoald perish, than that our experiment of free government. now pat to its last great trial, should fail. She knows oot what bows of dark- , a ess aud trial bang in the fatore. She would evecbn willing, rather than succumb to •reason that every sontbera plain should be desolated, every so* thorn rily riised to the , ground, and every southern rebel destroyed; but now in the hopeful present, when no such dire necessity seems to exist, sire conthe Representatives of tb# pfiwMe. through me. one of the humblest- ef her ' to abandon tbe discaasioa of every a ' tople which divides tbe loyal baurt of the country, and draws away the public rifled t from the trap object and purposes or tbe , wsr. • i ' ' = ;ri.