4 pages. Excellent, detailed account of the 1861 Baltimore Riots. Passage of Federal Troops Through Maryland Resisted by the People. Thrilling Account of the Scene. Barricading the Track. Troops Resolve to Brave the Storm. The Hirelings Greeted With a Volley of Stones. Baltimoreans Killed and Wounded. Hirelings Killed and Wounded. The Hirelings Bad Marksmen. Stones Better Than Bullets. Terrific Assault Upon the Hirelings. They Run For Their Lives. A Piteous Appeal For Mercy. Thousands Gathered at the Camden Station. Fearful Scene. The Inhuman Butchery of R.W. Davis, Esq. Appearance of the Corpse. Particulars of the Murder. Estimable Young Man Shot Dead. Rushing to Arms. The Military. Incidents of the Battle. Correspondence From the Office of the Mayor of Baltimore. The Run to Washington.

Numerous military ads for the Cape Fear Light Artillery, Wilmington Light Infantry, Cape Fear Riflemen, 30th and 39th Regiment N.C. Militia, German Volunteers, etc. (Future Confederate General) Major D.H. Hill and the North Carolina Military Institute announce their third session. Ads for cotton, railroads, land, goods, services, hotels, restaurants, education, and much, much more. Plus early war news.

VOLUNTEERS WANTED! I Propose to Raise a Company of One Hundred Men, to be tendered to the State, or Confederate Government, for service during the war of the Black Republican Administration upon the South. Persons wishing to join will please have their names at my office on North Water Street, near the corner of Market. This will be a good chance for young men from the country who want to see service.
Wm. B. Flanner, April 20, 1861

State of North Carolina
General Order #3
Adjutant General's Office
Raleigh, April 20, 1861

The Volunteer forces of the State not already ordered into active service are commanded to hold themselves in readiness to march at an hour's notice. The officers are requested to send to the Adjutant General's Office a roll of the members of the Companies. I am directed by the Governor to call for the enrollment of thirty thousand volunteers. Organize- send in the rolls. Commissions and arms will be furnished. Be in readiness to march at a day's notice, drill by day and by night, let the citizens equip their men. Some of your brothers are now in the field. The State has reason to be proud of the promptness with which they rallied at the call of your Governor. The decree for our subjugation has gone forth. The time of our trial has come, the blow will soon fall, we must meet it with the whole energies of the State. We must show to the world that North Carolina will maintain her rights at all hazards.

By Order of the Commander in Chief
R.F. Hoke, Adjutant General
Every paper in the State will please copy the above.

General Order #1
Head Quarters, Provisional Forces
Wilmington, N.C., April 23, 1861

I. Major Wm. H.C. Whiting, of the Army of the Confederate States, having been appointed Inspector General of the State, and vested with full powers to take charge of the defence of the Cape Fear and Beaufort Harbors, and the coast generally, by his Excellency Gov. Ellis, hereby assumes command.

II. Capt. F. Childs, C.S.A., having reported for duty in North Carolina, is appointed Actg. Asst. Adjt. Gen. and all orders coming through him will be obeyed and respected accordingly.

By Order of the Governor,
Wm. H.C. Whiting, Inspector General

Also includes Slave advertisements for the sale and hire of negroes, rewards for runaways, and an ad for the hire of an over seer who is well acquainted with the management of negroes. Front page medical ad with vignette for Cherokee Remedy! An Unfailing Cure For Gonorrhea and all Diseases of the Urinary Organs.

Another interesting front page ad in the medical section reads: Young Men who have injured themselves by a certain practice indulged in when alone, a habit frequently learned from evil companions, or at school, the effect of which are nightly felt, even when asleep, and if not cured renders marriage impossible, and destroys both mind and body, should apply immediately. What a pity that a young man, the hope of his country, the darling of his parents, should be snatched from all prospects and enjoyments of life, by the consequences of deviating from the path of nature and indulging in a certain secret habit. Such persons Must, before contemplating Marriage, reflect that a sound mind and body are the most necessary requisition to promote connubial happiness. Indeed, without them, the journey through life becomes a weary pilgrimage, the prospect hourly darkens to the view, the mind becomes shadowed with despair and filled with the melancholy reflection that the happiness of another becomes blighted with our own.

Great early war North Carolina newspaper! Excellent condition.