Southern confederacy. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1861-1865, May 26, 1861, Image 2
SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY.
JFntkera (Mtietatg
J. mmJtLY 9MtTM, Ca-BeUt+r.
ATLANTA. OBOBQIA i
SUNDAY, MAY 2«, 1861.
Kentucky
We had do time nor epeee to make any re
marks on the position of Kentucky, which our
readers hare all learned from Governor Ma
goffin’# froolamaiion, wkieh we published yee-
terday. We look upon it ae most favorable,
and as insuring her early secession. The po
sitien of a Neutral canned be tnaintkined, if
war oonlinuee. The 8tate Authorities have
warned the troops of the world to keep off her
noil. If the North shall attempt to make war
on os, of oourte this warning will be disre
garded, and then resistance and secession will
follow etonoe. If the North stops in its mad
oareer against us, Kentuoky will soon find it
.to her interest, end altogether in accordsnce
with her inclinations, to unite with us, and
will do ffi.
Of course, the warning to ua not to invade
her soil is n ins re metier of form. We shell
not set foot upon it unless she invitee us to do
so. We shall not, in imitation of Lincoln's
policy, try to foroe Kentucky to come with us,
as he is trying to force the Border States to re
main with him.
Kentucky has resolved not to he coerced in
to remaining in the Union, und assisting Lin*
coin to subjugate us. She has cefiantly for
bade the baooon despot putting bis foul feet on
her soil—a thing he claims the right to do.—
We look upon this as setting at defiance and
repudiating all the authority which the Fed
eral Government now claims over the State nnd
people of Kentucky. It is, in feet, n virtual
secession, and will no doubt be speedily fol
lowed by an actual one, let things go as they
may. The State has resolved not to allow her
people to be subjugated, as is unhappily now
the case with down-trodden Maryland. This
Is a wisa determination, and the meinteinaoce
of which necessarily involves a Union with
the Southern Confederacy.
Sixth Regiment Georgia Volunteers.
This Regiment ia now enoamped at Walton's
Spring, in our city. Their tents are neatly
spread, and their arrangements all would do
credit to the most experienced soldiers. At
this writing, there ere only eight Companies
on the ground, as follows t
Baker Fire Eaters, from Baker county, Cept.
A. H. Colquitt—86 men.
Sidney Brown Riflemen, from Hancock coun
ty, Capt. Wm. McJ. Arnold—68 men.
Mitchell Independents, from Mitchell coun
ty, Capt. E. II. Shackelford—69 men.
Butler Vanguards, from Taylor county, Cap
John T. Griffin—86 men.
Crawford Grays, from Crawford county, Capt.
W. C. Cleaveland—84 men.
Beauregard Volunteers, from Houston coun
ty, Capt. Charlss D. Anderson—81 men.
Butts Volunteers, from Butte county, Capt.
J. M. Newton—89 men. We are informed that
this is ths first Company in Georgia that ten
dered their services for the war.
Look-Out Dragoons, from Dade county, Cept.
J. G. Henna—56 men.
Two more Companies are to arrive. The
Regiment will elect a Colonel, Lieutenant Col
onel end Mafor before leaving for tha war.
The Sewell’s Point Affair.
AH our readers know about the attack which
the United States steamer Monticello, or Star,
as sha is now oallcd, and also know how it re
suited.
The following ia the New York “Tribune’s'
account of it, and one more evidence of the
nnscrupuloua lying to which they resort to
keep up the courage of their people:
“On Saturday afternoon, the steamer Star
disoovered a battery at Sewell's Point, mount
ing two gone. Tha Star opened fire nnd soon
silenced one gun. 8horliy after, the Thomas
Freeborn, Capt. Cash, came on the ground, and
bain| of lighter draught, at once upset the re
maining gun. The same vessel, seeing a knot
of Secessionists standing together near the dis
mounted batterv, threw a shot into the group,
the members of which scattered speedily. The
engagement occupied three hoar* and more,
at the end of whioh time the offensive work
was thoroughly demolished.”
To Corinth, Mlsalnalppl.
Two tnoro Companies from Alabama, on
their way to Corinth, Miss., pasted through
yesterday morning. They were the Mountain
Blues, from Jaokson County—Capt. Gunter
—82 men; nod the famous Company of "Rac
coon Roughs,”—Capt. J. B. Gordon, whioh
ourcitisens well recollect.
The following Companies arrived last even
ing i
Henry Grays, from Henry county, Capt A.
C. Gordon—114 men.
Loecbapoka Rifles, Cept John Kennedy-
108 men. %
Hardee’s Tactics.
We invite the ntlention of military men
(and who in the Confederate States, oapable
of bearing arms, is not at this time a military
man ?) to the advertisement. In another col
umn, of Messrs. Tompkins k Co., of Louis
ville, Kentucky.
*. flmlth.
Having just returned from New York, takes
pleasure to the assurance he hee received from
the New York Companies he represents, that
their losses will he promptly paid ae hereto-
fore. Repudiation (of an honeet loss) never
hee, nor never will enter their sows sets. He
also represents els tret cites Southern Com pa
nlee which he can assure tb#fmbllo arsinev
ery respect reliable and prompt ic adjusting
and paying their losses—no better in the ooun-
try. Should any wish to change their risks
into Southern Companies, can do se by salting
at his office, eorasr of Whitehall and Alaba
ma streets, where every thine in tbs way of
Inesrancs is dons on ths square.
Jon* Bull well Flbaibd—The Liverpool
papers congratulate the mercantile interests
of that city npen ths prospects ef a groat la-
ersase sf their "steam trade" la ceaseqssnos
ef the difficulties Is America. They state
that Unts of steamer# to res direst between
Lirsrgoel and •sntltsw perm are sbesi
■pcl.1 t'»rr.p.MiM. of th. to.th.rn Conti
FROM pBNaACOl.A.
A C r «*W TraaHing CWjantote-IpS CtOmneCt
KUHnUe-Tht ffcopa- »»*•( flfpett**—/•tWtl
Work In OOmr IMu—blcut to Km a Ohuil Ate
—Th* War Cloud up Maw—Two InchseqfCsn-
die—Pensacola /tame - Cannon» “Plaiited"—The
Health of the Georgia Regiment at Warrington
—Dirk Haync*’ Recovery Ifopcit for.
Pisnacola, Florida, Mey 23, 1861.
Dear Confederacy: I premised to ^fiy yon
fiom Montgomery, but I made no stop longer
then to change frees owe train to another at
that place; so I wee not able to fulfill my
promise. I am sorry I promised you I would
drop you i line at ell. Not that I have any
objection to writing, but because I find so much
to attract my attention end keep me employed
otherwise, I am afraid I cannot interest your
readers as I would like.
I left Atlanta on the night of the 19th, in
oompaay with our friend 0. G. K. He ie the
most “whole souled fellow” I ever traveled
with, and, if not closely watched, he will get
in ahead of you and foot nil the bills in spite
of you.
[We trust our friend “ Pickens” will devise
some plan by which we can have “0. G. K ”
for a companion the next time we have to take
journey.—Eds. CoarsosnAcr.]
I cannot tell you anything of the crops along
the line of the Atlanta A West Point Railroad.
We passed over the whole of that road in the
night. As soon as we left Atlanta, I appropri
ated, to my exclusive use, a comfortable bunk
that Tim O’Connor, the Baggage Master, with
true Irish kindness, prepared lor me in one
corner of the baggage car, and successfully
courted “Tired natures’ sweet restorer, balmy
sleep.”
When I awoke, I found that we werejusten-
tering West Point, end that the “king of day”
had for a full hour been shedding on all nature
his animating light. Being now fully refresh
ed, I gave particular attention to every passing
scene along the line of the railroad until night
again set in. I never, in my life, saw crops
look more encouraging. Most of the fields
within view of the road are planted in grain,
and where, for years past, we have seen cotton
growing, is now covered with corn and wheat.
The fields of wheat, in many instances, have
already assumed the golden hue; indeed, I
noticed that in one field the reapers had al
ready entered. I hear no complaint of rust.—
Ths corn that I noticed all along the route is
beyond description. I never expect to see finer.
In many fields it is now waist high, and looks
black and vigorous. It reminded me of those
dark thunder clouds which sometimes so sud
denly rise of a summer’s evening, and which
I used to welcome so much when I was at work
in the field with the negroes. I know that
your G. W. A. has also welcomed them often ;
not because of the good they were goiDg to do
the crops, though, but because we wanted an
excuse to quit work 1 [G. W. A. acknowledges
the hoe impeachment; but now our people have
laid aside “de shubel and de hoe,” and taken
up the musket and the sword. The dark cloud
that has now arisen is a “ war cloud.” It does
not promise as much ease and respite from
work, as the thunder eloud used to.—Eds. Con-
vcderacy ] The cotton that is up also looks
fair, and in most of the fields where it is plan
ted I notice that it is being cross planted witl
corn. Our Georgia farmers should follow the
example; and, if they caooot plow it up like
Capt. Jasper 8. Smith, of Cobb county, let them
mix corn with it.
We arrived here at 12 o’clock on the night of
the 21st, having been just twenty-four hours in
coming through. I commenced a letter to you
immediately upon our arrival here, but the
hotel-keeper only gave me two inches of can
dle, and I had just fairly commenced when it
gave out and left the room, (not the world as
Cowper has it,) “To darkness and to me.”—
From neoessity I again de r erred writing.
This is an old looking town—of about 3,000
inhabitants, I suppose. It is perfectly level, as
is the country for miles around. Its streets are
narrow, hut straight and regularly laid off. On
almost every street corner a cannon is planted,
abont half length in the ground, with mouth
down. They represent and stand in the place
of those granite posts which mark our strsst
corners in Atlanta. I thought, when I first
saw them, that they might now be appropria
ted to a better use; but they are very old, and
I learn were in use when we were contending
ilh the British In 1812.
I have just returned from Warrington and
the Navy Yard. I staid with the Georgia Reg
iment last night. Most all the hoys from At
lanta are well; none of them really sick enough
to take any notice of, with the exception of
Richard O. Haynes. I have strong hopes that
he will recover. He is not so sick as I expect-
ed to find him, however. The hoys have given
him every attention at the Camp, hut to-day
Dr. Weetmoreland thought it best to remove
him to the Hospital.
I will return to the Navy Yard to-morrow—
that ie, if I can get a permit again. If I write
you again, I will try to he more interesting. I
will be more particular to give you n history
of camp life, and how it agrees with the At
lanta Volunteers. If I deem it prudent I may
also give you some of the points ns they now
exist around and in sight of PICKENS.
Aixbit or a Bbaxbr cr Dispatches. —The
New York Eipreee of Thursday evening saye :
Mr. Guitavue Holland, a passenger on board
the steamship Arago, whioh arrived here on
Tuesday, was arrested by the Federal author
ities on Wednesday, at hie hotel, on n obsrgs
of being the Usurer of deapatehea to the South
ern Confederacy. The papers of Mr. Holland
were examined, and resulted in hie release.—*
The reasons for this are two fold : first, that
there was nothiog found tending to implicate
Mr. Holland personally : second, that the des
patches were of a semi-official ebaraoter only,
and wars so discouraging to ths Montgomery
Government, that tkeir receipt waa not likoly
t# afford rnoeh “aid er comfort to the enemy/'
Wonrar nr Hanenn.—Hen. Ida nnd Burke,
of Concord, If. H., at n meeting recently Sail
ed In tknt city, for tke purpose ef raising
funds for n Volunteer oompaay, aaid:
"This sir is n wav against our own brotk-
ers. There is ns glory to bo von U seek wsr.
Thom worn both glory nnd bnnor to bn won
In n wnv again* a foreign enemy ? bn) net in
bnninnss of bnieborlng our own
> war avail
■ (•arable
[Written expressly for the U fieuthern Confederacy."]
i LETTER FROM /.itTLA.
The Degenerate race of Daughter $ ef the present
dag—The active Industry ef our Grandmothers
Labor by Women now considered “weyeit-
teer—An Hr ample sf Domestic habits in
High Life »» days gone by -How to cure Gos
sipping Women —How it would affect the Doc
tors—A Young Lady in early times carrying
her gun to the “Wash place”—The “Hanks”
that Ladies could Spin, and yards that they
could Weave tft other days—Their Wedding
Trousseau—The * claims” and the 'fascina
tions” of our Grandmothers—A Law which
was anciently in force at Farmersville that
would be considered a little singular now.
0UB GRAND-MOTHERS.
If one of our ancestresses could rise from her
grave and walk about the streets of our cities
to day, or seven visit our rustic habitations,
what emotions of astonishment would she ex
perience. And doubtless she would carry book
to her spirit's compeers a sad account of their
degenerate reoe of daughters who "toil not,
neither do they spin.” We often hear ladies
wonder why they are in physical stamina so
inferior to those of an earlier age. Would
they but take the trouble to search some rec
ords of biography, they might fiod that one
reason is, the want of that vigorous exercise
and healthful interst in household affairs whioh
our progenitors took. There is, in truth, as
wide a difference between the two generations
as respects systematic, active industry, in the
influence it exerts, as between the rose blush
ing in beauty on its parent stem, and tha same
rose when wilting in the drawing room vase,
between the single wild wood fiower and the
artificials in the rim of s bonnet.
Labor is almost ignored by many as -‘uugen-
teel,” and considered as not far from degrading
by some fair scions of a hardier stock. Al
though so much of the virtue and well being of
society depends upon the right management
of its homes, such ladies, fettered by conven
tional opinion, shrink from the task, and while
they clothe themselves in purple and scarlet,
neither look well to the ways of their house
holds, or eat aught but the bread of idleness.
What would the languishes of upper tendom
say to the followiog record extracted from the
journal of an English fine lady, who afterwards,
as Queen of Edward IV., filled a royal throne?
Here it is, given verbatim for what it purports
t> be, au authentic entry: “Monday morning.
Rose at four o'clock, and helped Catharine to
milk the cows. Rachel, the dairy maid, hav
ing scalded her hand in so bad a manner the
night before, made a poultice, sad gave Robin
a penny to get something from the Apothe
cary. Six o’clock.—The buttock of beef too
much spoiled, and beer a little stale; mean to
talk to the cook about the first fault, and to
mend the other myself by tapping a fresh bar
rel immediately. Seven o’clock.—Went to
walk with the lady, my mother, in the court
yard ; fed twenty-five men and women; chid
Roger severely for expressing some ill-will for
attending us with some broken meat. Eight
o’clock.—Went into the paddock behind the
house with my maid, Dorothy, and caught
Cheerup, the li:tie pony, injs If; rode a matter
often miles without saddle or bridle. Ten
o’clock.—Went to dinner.” The last entry for
the day is, “Six o’clock.—Fed hogs and poul
try.” We venture to say that the blood of
such a stirring woman never stagnated in her
veins from laziness, and that heartburn, nerv
ousness, hysterics, never, in her case, alarmed
“the lady, my mother.”
If parents would bring up their children, no
matter how wealthy they may be, in genuine,
independent, well directed habits of activity,
the world would be a changed sphere. No
woman could be either gossip, tale bearer, or
slanderer, for her energies would fiod other
employment. It is only for idle bands and
tonguei that Satan has work to do. The Doc
tors might possibly rue the change, and ex
claim, "Our occupation’s gone."
We have some amusing anecdotes of life in
the earlier settlement of this country. Tkus,
for instance, we are told of a young lady going
beyond the pickets one spring morning to wash
some linen in the clear stream, carrying her
bundle of clothes under one arm, her gun on
the other, and being followed by one of her
beaux with the entreaty to be permitted to
stand guard over her while she did the wash
ing. We are told that the young women then
did not pride themselves on the finery they
could purchase, but on the "number of hanki
of thread they could spin, or yards they could
weave a day.” Indeed, their wedding trous
seau consisted of counterpanes sod bed quilts
made by their own hands ; and they had need
to be busy, lest they should fail in preparing it
fully before the expected proposal precipitated
ths marriage day. By the way, either our
grandmothers .vere more fascinating, or their
claims more considered in those days than
now. Witness ths following article taken
from the code of a village called Farmersville,
made near a century ago: “If any single wo
man, over fourteen years of age, shall come to
reside in our village, nnd no one of this con-
fsdsrsoy shall offer her hi* company within n
fortnight thereafter, then, in such case, our
hoard shall be called together, and some one
shall he appointed to make her a visit, whose
duty it shall bo to perform the same, or forfeit
the approbation of the company, and pay a
fine sufficiently large to buy the lady thus neg
lected a new dress.” Well done for Farmers
ville !
What would, the gentlemen of our “Confed
eracy” do if such a law were revived in our
village? There could not have been many
“old maida” in our grandmothers’ days.
ZIOLA.
Our Texae Correspondence.
The People a Unit* and for the War—Crop
Prospects-—Advice to Persone Removing to
Texas—Mistakes heretofore made, $c., $c.
Chocksr, Houston oounty, I
Texas, May 8, 1861. j
To tbs Editors of the “Confederacy:*
I send you a few Texts papers, thinkingyou
would be glad to see them. [We roturn our
thsuks for the papers, which cams safely to
band.—Eds CosskskiiacT.J
Lincoln will be much mistaken, if he thinks
to get np a division among tie. There is n
good deal aaid afijut Gen. Houston promising
to aid Lincoln. No one here believes it bat
those who wish he would do so, to get rid of
biui. Texas will do her whole duty, and no
mistake. Every man, woman and child ia for
war.
Our crops are fine—never saw batter. 1 hare
sixty acres of corn now ready to receive Hit
plowing It has some tassels and tilks. Oats
headed out, and are fioe. I have planted about
one hundred acres in cotton, and I have forty
acres to a stand with four to tsven leaves.—
Every one seema to be cheerful at the future
prospects of our country and crops.
Georgians have been much mistaken in lo
cating in Texas. They go too high up the
country—especially those from our section. (I
■till feel glad I was born iu the good old State )
They imagine this is too low and sickly, which
ii a mistake. Although there are a good many
Georgians in this county—touie you know.—
Col. Stell, John Rivers and Judge Smith are
just above me on the River—all large plant
ers, and have beautiful farms. We have good
land, good water, and plenty of timber and
prairie lands.
I will close, hoping I have not tired you.—
With the kindest wishes, I remain yours very
truly, B. F. C.
P. 8. Don’t stop ray paper, I can’t well do
without it. f sent two one dollar pieces in De
cember last—hope you received it. No paper
money in this country. B. F. C.
Prom (lie New York Neut.
COTTON AND TOBACCO.
Abraham Lincoln, without the authority of
Congress, has closed or attempted to close the
ports of the slaveholding States against the
export of Cottou, Rice, Tobacco and the other
products of those States, and against the im
portation thereinto of the products and man
ufactures of other countries. Let us see bow
important an act this blockade (to be approv
ed, we presume, by somo ex post facto law at
the coining session of Congress) is, and what
it will effect, if effectual at all.
Great Britain is the great Cotton Spinner
aud Weaver of the wot Id. Five millions of
her people in the British Isles, men, women
and ohildieo, upon whose daily labor tnmy
other millions are directly dependent, toil in
her Cotton Factories, or are otherwise em
ployed in the trade or manufacture of Cotton.
The following is the total number of bales of
raw Cotton, imported into England from the
United Stales, and from all other parts of the
world, for each of tho last seven years :
From the l\ S. Fi om other sources. Total bates.
1W I,fir,7,9o2 5»4.69i
1,626,US6 lift 1,224
lotfi 1,168,295
1*51 1,4*1,717
1*58 1,$55,840
109 1,0*4841
1800 2.500,848
2,172 598
2 977,810
2,401,768
567.406
742,769
785,741
2,417,58b
2,422.786
2,829.110
8,866,5*6
Coax axd Swbbt Potatoes.—Hoe everybo
dy that has land planted every hill of eorn
that be hee room for? Ie corn planted among ell
of Ibt (bin cene et the dietance of eix cr eight
feet from bill to hill? When tho cane ie too thick
cut out n foot or two width end plant corn ov
ary eight feet. Some of our planters will raiao
nearly a double crop of corn by ibis prooeee.
What Will sugar bring while our porta are un-
dor blockade ? The edict hae gaaa forth that
tha blockade ie to be kept up until we are
eiarvod into aubmiaeion. Give ell your epare
ground to tweet potatoee, and pee para tho
graved ae nans ae ponaihln. Thia is a matter
off vaet important Surplaa worn wlN be
mors saleable next fell than sugar or athe
ees. If thla matter la a#i attended to $4#"*
the aeaeea for |ln(h| will toon have paesed
•♦ay. ’
The prescut consumption of raw Cotton in
British Factories, as stated in a very able pa
per on the subject iu the April number of the
Westminister Review, probably amounts to
51.000 bales per week, of which about. 4:1,000
bales are American. Were prices to prove
this present year as low as they were last
summer, they might demand of the Southern
Confederacy, and use in Britain, as much as
40.000 bales per week. The total crop of the
South for the season of I860-60. reached
4,676,770 bales ; it has not been calculated,
even should peace be preserved here, that it
would rise above 4,100,000 this year. But
Mr. Lincoln undertakes to say it shall amount
to nothing. Is there any mao—oris any Black
Republican- insane enough to suppose Great
Britain will tolerate such a prohibition for a
moment—that the most selfish, grasping, un
scrupulous nation the world has seen siuce lbs
fall of imperial Home, will allow so msny mil
lions of her people to starve and rise in insur
rection, her commerce and manufactures, the
basis of her greatness, to be mined, one-third
of her entire foreign trade to be wiped out,
and her power revolutionized, to gratify all
the Presidents of ell the republics in the
world ?
There can be only one answer to this. Ev„
ery man in his senses cau give that answer. A
persistence in hlockading the Southern ports,
so as to prevent the egress of Cotton, will in
volve the Lincoln Administration in n war
with Great Britain, just ns surely and as soon
as the Colton crop is ready in September next.
Great Britain will say to Mr. Lincoln, with
exceeding blandoess, doubtless: "It is all
very well, sir, to talk about rebellion and tha
rights of belligerents—all very well, indeed,
but it don’t answer our purposes. We must
have Cotton. Open your ports, or els# we
shell open them for you ! You ere not strong
enough for us to be afraid of, now !'*
But let us look, for a momeut, at a siugla
other product of the slaTeholding States—To
bacco.
Upon Tobacco the Government of Great
Britain levies e heavy duty—seventy two
cents per pound. This impost, as we learn
from a tabular statement prepared for this
paper by a gentleman of entire reliability and
correct information, and which we published
a day or two since, brings in one-eighth of tha
entire revenue of the British Government.—
This impost, in fact, amounted in tha year
I860 to thirty four or thirty-five millions of
pounds sterling, levied exclusively upon To
bacco raised iu what is now ths "Rebellious"
Confederacy.
In Francs tobsccoo is n Government mo
nopoly, and Louis Nsplson derives from Amer
ican tobacco a revenue rising $25,000,000 per
annum—about one half of ell hie Government
obtains from duties upon imports!
Several tobaoce-ladsn ships from Virginia
have already been captured and confiscated
by Mr. Lioooln’e blockading squadron. Wa
cannot bat tbiok this capture was deliberate
ly purposed by the Southern authorities, ia
order io open the ejpa of foreigners to the
danger which threatens their commercial and
political interests by means, of thia closing of
the Southern ports. The news ef these cap
ture# will show the tw# grant Allied rowers
•f Weetern Eurspe, together with Spain
(which not only now consumes elbioet ai much
aaseswaaaawoc.
oihar grate atoaaait; of thair enmmaraa, of
•ssrotSSkKBSssx.
by the WaehWm<m<*«»
What will they say I
deubt? winr ^
that great Power which goee to w^r always
for profit, and the other great Power whioh
"goee to war for an idea.” suffer the now
weak. ImpedeQt, United Stales, ehopu of their
Wealth end capacity to resist foreign aggres
sion t# trifle with their .moat materiel later
eels?
Seriously, what particular reason exists why
the great Powers of Europe should b« very
polite and oomplaieant just now toward Mr.
Lincolu’s government ? Much obliged ae they
may be to him for having split his country in
two, and reduced it from the rank of a first to
• fifth Class power, (thereby relieving them
from all apprehensions of Demooralio aggran
disc went and Democratic example in the fam
ily of nations,) they are not likely to openly
thauk him mnoh for this. They aro the mere
likely to proceed at once to take advantage of
his weakness. The foreign policy of his Re
publican party has been particularly vicious
and offensive to them The Morrill tariff, en
acted by that party, sbuta European manu
factures out of the North. Tne blockade
threaten! to keep them out of the South.—
But worse theu this, it threatens to keep at
heme in the South, and away from Europe,
two articles whioh Victoria and Napoleon,
(not to speak of Isabella and others,) eaanot
and will not do without. VVe may rely upon
it, they will have them, even ai tha ooat of a
war with the United States Government.
This it oertainly not among the improbabil
ities if our Government persists in itsreeklees
end tyrannical coarse. Our Union Defense
Committee does well to appoint a sub-commit
tee (composed of excellent gentlemen, but
who nevertheless are not probably the best
military engineers in the world) to examine
into the harbor defenses of New York.
A Truce Agreed upon in Missouri.
The following is the truoe agreed upon by
Geu. Price of the Missouri Slate Guards, and
Gen. Harney, of the United States Army, for
the preservation of the peace of Missouri.—
The St. Louie Republican, a strong Union pa
per, has great confidence in the " arrange
ment,” while the Journal, a State’s Rights pa
per, does not seem to regard it with so much
lavor:
A DECLARATION.
Sr. Louts, May 21, 1861.
The undersigned, officers of the United
Stales Government, and of the Government of
the State of Missourri, for the purpose of re
removing misapprehensions and allaying
public excitement, deem it proper to declare
publicly,that they have, this day, had a per
sonal interview in this city, in which it
has been mutually understood,? without the
•embUnoe of dissent on either part, that each
of them has no other than a common object,
equally interesting and important to every
citizen of Missouri—that of restoring peace
and good order to the People of tho State, in
subordination to tha laws of the General and
the State Governments
It being thus understood, there seems no
reason why every citizen should not confide
in the proper oftioera of tha General and State
Governments to restore quiet; and, as the best
means of offering no counter influences, we
mutually reoommend to nil persons to respect
each other’s rights throughout the State, ma
king no attempt to exercise unauthorized
powers, as it ie the determiuation of the pro
per authorities to suppress all unlawful pro
ceedings, whioh oan only disturb the public
peace.
Gen. l’rioo having by commission full auth
ority over the militia of the State of Missouri
undertakes, with the eanction of the Governor
of the State, already declared, to direct the
wholelpower of the State officers to maintain
order within the State among the people there
of; and Gen. llarney publicly declares that
this object being thus assured, he can have
no occasion, as he has no wish, to make mili
tary movements which might otherwise create
excitements end jealousies which he most earn
estly desires to avoid.
We, tho undersigned, do, therefore mu
tually enjoin upon the people of the State to
attend to their civil business, of whatsoever
sort it mey be; and it is hoped that tha un
quiet elements, which bava threatened to dis
turb the public peace, may soon subside, aud
be remembered only to be deplored.
WM. 8. HARNEY,
nrig. Gen. Commanding.
STERLING PRICE,
Maj. Gan. Mo. 8. G.
To the People of the State of Missouri:
I take great pleasure in submitting to you
the above paper, signed by General Price,
commanding the forces of the State, and by
myself, on the part of the Government of tho
United State*. It will be seen, that tba uni
ted foroee of both Governments era pledged
to the maintenance of the peace of tho State,
and the defense of the rights and properly of
all persons, without distiction of parly.
This pledge which both parties era author
ixed and empowered to give, by tbe Govera-
menta whioh they represent, will be, by both,
most religiously aud sacredly kept; and, if
necessary to put down evil disposed per
sona, the military power ef both Govern
ment a will be called out to enforoe the terms
of the honorable and amicabla agreement
whioh hae been made. I therefore, aek of all
persone in this Stale, to observe good order,
and give them (he assurance of protection and
security io the most ample manner.
WM. 8. HARNEY,
Brig. Gen. Commanding.
Tba St. Louis "Republican” eayt: "As
one Immediate effect of the arrangement be
tween Geu. llarney and Qen. Price, we hear
that tbe tbe prisoners taken by the United
States troopa at Poloti, and sine# confined ai
the Arsenal, will be disohargsd."
Tho Western Corn Again.
A gentlemen of this oounty brought us this
morning a atalk of ooro not a foot high, whieb
had shot out a big tassel, and was evidently
worthless. He said he had a large field of
just such corn, and bad laarned on tha ears
that thousands of sores in Southwestern Geor
gia in no better condition—all of which had
been planted with the Western tack cornu lie
asked us to urfe upon all who have oomitted
this mistake In planting Western corn, to
plough up at once and replant with native
need. Other planters here tell ue that this
trick of Western eorn is se well known among
plautere that it is impossible that many can
have used tbe sack corn for teed.
Wo are puzzled a Utile on this subject. ~
After bearing these accounts, some few days
ago, we went home determined to have our
own little coro-peich replanted, but found It
two feet high had showing no signs ef tfttaer
succor or tneeel. Momover, tke gardener told
ua he planted saok corn last year, and although
it succored badly at Aral, It produced eves ia
that uofavorable eeaaoa fifteen I# twenty b#fh-
shets to tbo nor#—nil of wbiota wo era eeefi-
dent upon recollection, to tae true,
now (about six acres upon poor sandy
looks ae well as oorn eaa, and yet it wi
u. .ill HI. pr»di c. UT gnu. aad all farm
ia ikat oaaditiao Mi b. ^qili I* to
to-*.— Mum
4MTMM.I. r yihhwto Inii-ii w«i—i, —•
rr.lni.iLf
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE L,
xm.iSFZSsi
4»no« .poo Cod, f„l Hhb.,1.
by pari l ui difficulty, it to.
bumble thaaMalraa under tke d„
Write 1'roiid.nce, lo r»»0|»itoL
Oorarnm.nl, to ockoorlrl,, Hi,
tlmto pul, and oupplicote Hi, ,
taction for the future.
The manifest proofs of the Divi
hitherto exieoded to the efforts ef
of tho Confederal* States of AtaertaH
tato and perpetuate public libertt J
rights and National Independent
their devout and heartfelt graiii*? 1
comes.to give them public i
this gratitude, and of their d.
tbe Judge of all tha Barth, aaiu
continuance of His favor. Koouii
butajuetaod righteous cause tu
Divine fever, we would iinpUr* i
Hosts to guide and direct oor f
path* of right, duty, justice aw ,
unite our bearia and our efforts feeij
of our dearest rights; to
weak uses ; crown our arms viike
enable us lo secure a speedy, ji
able pesos.
To these ends, end in coefoi
request of Congress, I invite tke a
Confederate States to tbe observai
of fasting and prayer, by such l.
vices as mey be suitable for the w
I recommend Thursday, the 13tf \
next, for (hat purpose; and tl
on that day, with one accord, J„_ „
and reverential approach lo Utnl
hands we ere, invoking Him t* ta
with n proper spirit aud temper ofi
mind (o beer our evils, to bless as a
vor nnd protection, end to benov 1
benediction upon our Governmeat i
try.
(Signed ) JEFFERSON |
By the President:
K. Toombs, Secretary of State.
Foreign Ministers at Wi
It is stated in the New \
Washington correapondec* that
coin hae notified the foreign dipli
that if any Eurpean power aball
Commissioner or Minister from Ike
ate States, ell intercourse with
will be broken off, end the Mioii
ting it at Washington dismissed!
Wa understand from a gentlci
eently left Washington, that nothing I
can do will bo more gratifying te
ministers. Every man of them
disgusted with tne association th
compelled to endure. They have
accustomed to associating with
men, that the release from tbe
low, dirty blackguards who now I
House aud Cabiuel Departments,
ed with the most ecstatio
very readily appreciate the paiafei i
now ocoupied by the foreign dipl
—Petersburg Express.
The Attack on Sewell’s Point
Tba following letter is taken froafl
ing Chronicle of last Sunday, s
licnn paper published in Wash!
olaiming to be tbe especial
It is represented to be a privets
perfectly reliable:
"U. 8. Fbiuate Mii»i
" Hampton Roads, May 17,1
"We arrived herefrom Boston
and commenced oor assaults oa ikes
We have seized about $300,000 wortkI
and tobacco. 1 went ashore at ikef
terday to see some of the Maeaacl
unleer militia. There are aboot
there,^including the Vermont Rej
arrived a day or two eioce. The,
for a fight and down on the coon
cause he wont allow tbem lo» *
Hampton, where there is s sli
feeling. Th# Harriet Lane is
ahead of us. She leaves to day
too. Ths Star, lets Monticello, Is
miles above ue, off James river,
houtss earns ia yesterday, sad
tain paid his respects to tbs flag
went to aen; destination to os
jW"Ws are anticipating an
part of the enemy to fortify Sot
about three miles above oar set
they do, we aball attnek tbem, they 1
Elizabeth River too well fortified
us to attempt passage up, without
taoked in tbe rear; asd (bore is
enough at ths Fort to warrant '.hat
ICE-CREAM 8/
T HE subscriber ban fitted v
in eonaeotioa with hil (
Whitehall street, where Lsdieessdfi
may procure a firat-rate arttatae* ■*
any heur during tbe day or#
of patronage ie solicited.
May 24.
f eveniag,
F. M. JACK, i
OLD DOMINION 81
RICHMOND, VIRtHRI*- .
I K coDicqu.nc. of tho lecf—ioa * ,
wa ahaU haraaftar offar oar PJ*
eular,” “Croaa cat," “MuloJ, ,
te., at faraitn pricca.
McKACGHTiOBKiW^
•pr J,-Sm.
SILVEY fi DOUG
K0BCB088’ BOILDltt
J unction 'Whitehall to 3
Street a,
jLtl—Utlt, OrOC
H AVE jolt receded, and artit
tha largaat alack af Good. Ik—
atT.rad In onn seuoo. Their' .w*
axaluatTol/ fat Ctoh, and will — r
^Thnp haw atttj wriatp of
DRY GOODS*
from Brown Home.pua. la 1
Sitka; all kind, of froth h
GOODS, a largo aaaortmaal ai
■TAFIjS
including Linen., Lawoi.
Gingham., he.: all kind. «
FARCY ARTICLES. Aloo,ol«f"
ad
JBWMLBY, WA’
la thair Baa.moot Boarti,
gaol and full aappl/ of
Rsady-Mad*
.. .. and GEKTLIMKK-8 TV*™*
TBUKKS, UMBRELLAS,**.
V Uad) „, rW rartk to
SHOES. BOOT
aaihraciag an Mato, aid ai
ffcweajnr
“SK—2f-rS’J
and examine their tioeh s#d r