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J@-The Yankees are establishing government Banks, which, it is stated and admitted, will destroy all the existing Banks of the North. If so we may look out for thocrash!flg^Docs any one know how many there are in the Southern Confederacy who have talked largely about “spilling the last drop of their blood” in our cause, who have remained at home and done nothing but spill” mean whiskey ?Socks Wanted.We see in the Ricemond Enquirer, a call made on the ladies of that place to furnish socks for a portion of the army, which is said to be greatly in want of them. We hope the ladies of this county, will feel it a duty as well as a privilege to help make the noble defenders of our homes comfortable this winter. All who wish to coutribute either socks or yarn, if they will leave them at the Office of the Dispatch we willtake pleasure in forwarding the socks, and use our influence to have the Yarn knit. One pair of socks from each mother and daughter will relieve much suffering.jsrwc are authorized to announce Jos. J. Graham, of Wythe, a candidate for the Senate in the District composed of tho counties of Wythe, Smyth, Washington and a part of Bland, to till the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Col. Peters. Election to take place first Thursday in December.Postage ox Newspapers—By the Postal Law approved April 6, .1863, it is enacted that the postage on newspapers after tho 1st of July 1863, sent to regular subscribers shall be one cent on each paper.— According to that, newspaper postage for the quarter commencing July 1st and ending Sept. 30, will be as follows, viz. Daily newspapers, (six times a week.)79 cents. Triweekly do. 40 cents, Semi-weekly do. 27 cts. Weekly do. 13 cents. All payable in advance.If those infernal fanatics and abolitionists ever get the power in their hands, they will override the Constitution, set the Supreme Court at defiance, change and make laws to suit themselves, lay violent hands on those who differ with them in opinion, or dare question their fidelity, and finally bankrupt the country and deluge it with blood.Daniel Webster.Future of the War.An intelligent gentleman, who has recently visited the U. S.; and has had \inusual opportunities of observation, expresses the conviction that the North, unless some unexpected advantage of great importance shall be obtained by its arms, or some great misfortune be brought upon us by our own folly, will not be ablemuch longer to conduct the war upon its present dimensions. He is of the opinion that the North is much nearer exhaustion than the South. Their blnster and bravado will increase in proportion as their strength diminishes, but if we are true to ourselves, patient, persistent and harmonious, the worst of our danger, with the blessing of heaven, will soon be over. Such at least is tho opinion of one whose name if we could give it, would carry with it no ordinary weight.—Richmond Dispatch.How the Yankees are to beBankrupted.—A correspondent of the Yorkville Enquirer calculates that the siege of Charleston will prove an unprofitable business to tho Yankee nation. He demonstrates how the Yankees are ruining themselves and not hurting us much with the following statement of figures :I have been ciphering a little in regard to operations in Charleston harbor, and have come to the conclusion that if we have the right kind of bomb-proofs in Sumter, that this is the very place where we shall break Abe's back bone,(I mean his credit.) Here are my figures: One thousand shots per day—300 pounds of iron tothe shot and 30 of powder; iron at 10cents per lb., powder at 50 cents--making for one shot a cost of $45. The siege has beeu progressing 120 days at a cost of $5,425,000. In this calculation I have said nothing of the enormous expense required to keep up and pay off the innumerable war vessels, transports, c. Neither have I taken in to account tho guns that are bursted occasionally or rendered useless by the excess of firing. Lot us all keep a “stiff uppev lip, stand by our own Government and its credit, and ere long we shall seo the valueofgold and “greenbacks shoot off in an opposite direction, andseparate wider and wider until the last convulsive throb of the Lincoln Government shall proclaim the independence of the Confederate States, and the return of our war-worn veterans to their happy homes. Down with all who depreciate our money in order to obtain starvation prices.”A week well filled up with selfishness, the sabbath stuifed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee but a poor Christian.— There are many persons who think Sunday is a sponge, with which to wipe out the sins of the week.Major-General Hood has been promoted to a Liedtenant Generalship for meritorious service. He has won it nobly, and will wear his honors well.A gallant soldier was once heard to say, that his only measure of courage was this: “Upon the first fire, I immediately look upon myself a dead man; I then fight out the remainder of the day as regardless of danger as a dead man should be. All the limbs which I carry out of the field I regard as so much gained, or so much saved out of the fire.If thou faint in tho day of adver sity, thy strength is small.
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Hillsville Wytheville Dispatch
Hillsville, Virginia, US
Wed, Nov 25, 1863
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