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THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1861.
Literary Wotlce*.
'• Proceeding» of the Bonk Convention of the
Confederate 8ta«*s.” held in Atlanta, 3d Jane,
lf6t. We ere indebted to Hon. Che*. 0. Bay-
ler for e psmpklst espy. ^
•• Toe Atlnnto Medical end Surgical Journal *
for June. 18M/ Thin weU eooducted Jonroal
i« edited and published by Dr. J 0. Westmore
land in this city, at $3 per annum. Each
number nonU'na f4 page*, aid ie filled with
the beat reading matter for the Medical pro
fea.ion. The number now before na contains
the following articles: “Lecture, Iotroduo
tor/ to the 8e*enUt Assisi Course of Lso-
toree in Atlanta Medical College," by Prof. H.
W. Brown ; "The Etiology and Treatment of
Typhoid Fsvtr," by Dr. V. H. Taliaferro, of
Columbus i "The Address of Dr. H. Coe, before
the Medical Association of the State of Geor
gia, la April last," besides editorial and mis
cellaneous articles.
" Tbs Acts and Resolutions of tha Second
Session of the Provisional Congress of Con
federate States." For this, we aro indebted to
our esteemed friend, Goo. S. W. Kelson, Esq.,
Superintendent of Publio Printing, for which
we return our siocoro thanks.
" Address of tha Right Rsv. Stephen Elliott,
D. D., to tha 89th Annual Convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Convention of the Dio
cese of Georgia." This able and interesting
Address is one of Bishop Elliott’s bsstprodue
Hons. It can be had of John M. Cooper A Co.,
8avaunah.
"The Southern Litorary Messenger” for
June—edited by Dr. G. W. Bagby—published
by McFarland A Ferguson, Richmond, Vi
ginia. The present number contains a most
abla letter of Hon. L. W. Spratt, of South Car
olina, addressed to Hou. John Perkins, of Lou
isiana, on " Tha Slava Trad# in the Southern
Congress." No one can read this masterly
production without rising therafrom a wisar
man. This long established Magasine is pub
lished at $3 per annum. The people of the
Sooth can’t take "Harper’s" now, if they
wanted to do so. The " Messenger" never was
a whit behind “ Harper," in point of merit or
ability.
"The Scriptural Grounds for Secession"—a
Sermon by Rev. Lucius Cuthbert. delivered at
Aiken, South Carolina, December 16, 1860.—
Welch A Harris, Charleston.
"The Southern Cultivator " for June. This
old and well-conducted journal ia indispensi-
ble to any farmer—at least it seems so to us.
By the way, friend Redmond, you have copied
oar report of the proceedings of the meeting
of the Executive Committee at this place, on
the 30th of April last, witboutgiving any cred
it. Howie this?
"The Savannah Journal of Medicine" for
May. 1861, edited by Dr. A. B. Tucker and Dr.
R D. Arnold. This number contains tha ad
dress of Dr. Wm. M. Johnson before the grad
uating class of the Savannah College on the
1st of March last; Clinical Report on the Sa
vannah Hospital, by Dr Julius Haring; a Re
ply to Dr. Ford, by Dr. Tucker, and various
editorial and miscellaneous articles. E. J.
Purse, Savannah, $2 per annum.
Catalogue of the Wesleyan Female College,
Macon, Georgia, for 1860-’6l« Tnia institution
ia one of the best in the Confederacy, and is in
a flourishing condition, notwithstanding tha
war.
Catalogue of tha University of North Caro
lina, 1860-’6I. Tnia old and well known in
stitution, at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, isone
of tbe best institutions in America. It needs
no commendation from us.
Idle Rumors.
We again caution our readers and every
body else against placing too much reliance on
the thousand and one idle rumors Hosting
srouud the community, about battles, burnt
bridges, blown up forts, deaths, blood and
tbundor, Ac., Ac. If you want to be correctly
and reliably informed of everything that ia
going on, take a good newspaper and read it
Subscribe and pay in advance for ^"Confed
eracy," and look to its columns alone for the
news. We may occasionally be misinformed
and led into error about aoma things. This,
however will be but seldom. In the main, our
newv is correct, and may generally be relied
on. Don’t ctnaure the telegraph for tha many
false rumors afloat But few of them ever
touch wires. They are often the dreams of
some garrulous old woman, with lively "im
aginations," who has "a son in the army."
Wa were stopped by twenty-six persons yes
terday on the street—twenty-fiva of whom
wars act subscribers to tho “Confederacy"—to
know if there was any truth about a big fight
and Col. Bartow’s being killed. Once for all,
wa have every facility to gat tbe very latest
and moat reliable newa from the seat of war.
▲11 important dispatches received during the
day are put on our bulletin at our raading
room, where ell can come and read free of
charge.
But the beat plan to be correctly posted is to
subscribe for the "Confederecy"— $6 per an
num. or 8# sente per month. In this wey yon
can b# as well informed ae your mors liberal
neighbors, and really lave money, by saving
tbe time yen now lose ia running ereund end
asking questions, which only expose your
•i my Roily. Try it a month.
The nbldler’e Relief Committee, *d Ward.
At a meeting of this Society, held Jone 10,
the following ladies were appointed a Board of
Managers:
Mrs. P. E. McDaniel, Mrs. W. A. Chisolm,
" J. M. dark, * L. P. Grant,
* B. D. Kile, “ P. E. Coleman.
Also, a Committee of gentlemen appoioted
to solicit work, and forward it to the Society t
S. Boot, Dr. T. D. Thurmoo,
L. Solomons, Rev. M. a Hornsdy,
* «- *■ VMIlil* TmA-lW» Aeift
know jow by your it Util.. T« *ko«ld haw
giv*n u your n*m* I. folk
Iwh«Mn th« C.afMortte Mate.
tbe Britlah rirliMUtl.
^ O. tho *0th *f #*y. Ie the Houto of Ix>i
'fir. Grtfory Midi «• I rcaljy mott
BomoMtub. M Am#
letters which onogentlemau hafifisefitfad from
another geatleinan, on whom he place* tbe
meet implied rolfooon, but wbfc very proba
bly, knows nothing more of the matter tkaa
tbe geotleman who reads the communication
with snob perfect faith in tbe accuracy of its
contents. As to the nousensioel trash of $2fi
being offered by the Confederate Stale* for en
try men put to d«ath on board ah American
ship, the House knows perfectly w#U that nei
ther letters, newspapers nor accredited infor
mation of any kind ean at preeeat be received
from the South, but ia stopped on the borders.
Anything which does see the light ie cut into
slips and published in the New York papers.
Very fkw communications of tha kind hava
reached this country, and they are principally
the State documeeie which have been put for
ward by the Booth. I cannot better evidenoe
the spirit by which they are animated than
by referring to the late address of President
Davie; and I will ask tha Housa whether it
breathes a single one of those bloodthirsty,
wioked, terrible opinions (hear, hear) whioh
my honorable friend is anxious to impress on
the House as being the dootrino of the South
ern States. I beg to take this opportunity of
saying that I shall certainly bring forward my
motion on tbe subject of the recognition of the
Southern Confederacy on the Tth of June,
when, I trust, tbs matter will be fairly diacuss
ed, and, in tha meantime, that wa shall not
throw imputations on one party or tha other.
(Hear, hear.)
Lord Brougham Down on Anti-Slavery
Meetings In Kngland.
A noteworthy aign of tha times is the uncer
emonious manner in which Lord Brougham
snuba the abolitionist# who have been propos
log meetings in London, with a view to give an
anti-slavery cast to the war. Io the House of
Commons, duriDg a debate growing out of a
question to minister* concerning tbe Spanish
acquisition of St. Domingo, Lord Brougham
said: "There were meetings being held in this
country which he entirely deprecated—meet
ings which ought not to be held—meeting! at
one of which, six or *svsn week* ago, he bad
himself promised to preside, but when he
found, after what had taken place in the Uni
ted States, that it was a called meeting on
American slavery, he said on no account, and
by no means whatever, would he have any
thing to do with holding, presiding, or attend
inga masting of that description. He strongly
recommended all whom hit voice might reach
to abstain from holding such meetings. At
tbe present moment it could not fail to do
great mischief in our relations to America, if
anything like agitation took place on a ques
tion whereupon the Americans of the South,
and almost all Americans, were peculiarly
aeniitive and jealous; it would be the worn
possible calamity, and might endaoger tha
peace of the country without serving the slave,
but rather postponing indefinitely his libera
tion. [Hear, hear.]
From the Second Chapter of the Proph
ecy of Joel.
"Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a feast'
call a solemn assembly.
"Gather the people, sanctify the congrega
tion, assemble the elders, gather the children
and those that suck the breast; let tha bride
groom go forth of hie chamer, and the bride
out of her closet
"Let tbe priests, the ministers of the Lord,
weep between the porch and the alter, and let
them say, Spare tby people, O Loan, end give
not tbine heritage to reproach, that tbe heathen
should rule over them ; wherefore should they
say among tbe people. Where ia their God ?
‘•Than will the Lord b« jealous for his land
and pity hit people.
"Yea, the Lord will answer and say unto his
people, Behold, I will send you corn, and wine,
and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith;
and I will no more make you a reproach among
the heathen.
"But I will remove far off from you the
northern army, and will drive him into a land
barren and desolate, with his face towards tha
east sea; and his hinder parts toward* the ut
most sea; and his atink ahall come up, and
his ill-aavor shall come up, because he hath
done great things.
Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice, for
the Lord will do great thiogs."
The Yaukeea Stealing- and Selling Ne
groes.
The Richmond Enquirerasys: "A gentleman
informs ns, from a "perfectly reliable source,"
that a letter wee found on the person of Cap
tain Waldrop, who was slain in the late battle
of Bethel Church, or County Bridge, directed
to bis lister, in which he said that he had not
made much headway aa yet; that ha had cap
tured twenty negroes, and when he had made
•ale of them, he would send her a nice pres
ent.
Magruder’s men express the most extreme
satisfaction with his oonduct,andsay they will
follow him any whara.
The bearer oi tbe flag of truoe stated that
five regiments had taken pert in the battle.—
The return of the watch and aword taken from
the person of Waldrop was requested. The
watch will be returned, but not the sword.
Southern Meoenic Female College at Cov
ington, Georgia.
On account of the war, which has, to a great
extent* disturbed everybody’s arrangements,
the usual Commec cement exercises of this de
servedly popular institution were dispensed
with for thia year. On Friday, Ike Uth in
stant, the following young ladies, composing
the graduating elaae, passed moat creditable
examinations, end received diplomas :
M its Lorn 0. Allan, Miss Lfesto Hill,
Lisaie Hunter,
Liaaie Belcher,
Carrie Belcher,
Mettle Blocker,
Jeeee Carter,
Bmsrtll Daniel,
Heseltine Fowler*
MlfoOibK
jFlf Msras,
MB. Jones,
Fhllira Junes,
Fannie Perry,
MUen*, 1
Lney Prsphit,
Bom Senders,
M. Y. Weaver,
=5a
▼rttt.li KiprMi], for tb. 8oQtb.ro CoflMmo/.
Not— fcy tb. W ay.
.cat. teaea
> tiik bli-js nnxisTun rra - arena."
tb«*r •elect phenomena of tbe Western Con
tinent, ere its Mountains end Rivers. The
Jtoeky Mountains of North* nod the Andes of
Booth Am cries, which ere hi foot tbe greet
bock-bona of the hemisphere, bind It from pole
to pole. Tbe next great breadth is from the
Galf of California to the Gulf of Saint Law-
rants, And bare, too/ we set a range sometimes
traversing its whole extent. The most promi
nent at this eh sin in the Bine Ridge, and in
tbe Northern psrt of Georgia and Alabama the
* JjookuuV " Land,” •♦Taylor’s" and "Chettoo
ge" Riiigee are conspicuous os tbe fingers or
ramifications of the groat Apaiechaiu. The
tone embracing this series, is of the greatest
importance to the country at Jorge. It is, in
fact, the bone and muscle—for here are con
centrated the mineral resources to a great ex
tent, and in great variety. Coal, Copper, Iron,
Gold and various ether valuable metals are
found in great abundance in this range from
North-East to South-West.
LOOKOUT MOUSTAIN.
Chattooga, Taylor’s and Lookout, nearly par
allel, are, of themselves, considerable Moun
tains, though occupying but a mere line upon
tbe general map. Their approximate lengtha
may be put down as twenty-five, fifty and one
hundred miles, respectively, and they are re
markable for their directness and the evenness
of their surface elevations. They are natural
barriers, and make good county lines besides
giving direction to the water courses and the
country roads. Surveys were made for a rail
road from Dalton to Gadsden a few years ago,
crossing two of the Ridges. The first required
a tunnel of one mile in length, and the other
ef half a mile, and it was pronounced imprac
ticable, as other route*, making tbe same con
nections, could be had with but little loss of
distance. These mountains at some placet are
very rugged and broken, and appear to be for
no other purpose than to hold tbe rest of the
world together. For the most part, however,
they are well wooded, having a good depth of
soil, and are susceptible of cultivation even to
their very top*. Tbeir slopes n ight be well
improved in vineyards, and no doubt at some
future dsy they will become the autuiner resi
dences of people who live further South, and
who have heretofore been accustomed to make
yearly migrations to the Northern States.—
They abouud in springs, some of which are
s'roogly tinctured with iron and sulphur, and
would no doubt become "celebrated" if they
were at a greater distance, which, aa a matter
of course, would ,4 lend enchantment ’’
NATURE’S RUTERFLUIT Y.
It is painful to see how lavish is nature of
all her luxuries. Her cornucopia is constantly
flowing over, and were the redundance of her
treasures carefully stored, the wants of the
million would be easily supplied. Oue ia as
tonished at the extent of Ibe " range” these
mountains afford and which has been wasted
on the desert air for centuries gone. Thousands
of acres could, with very little labor, be made
the choicest pastures for cattle and sheep, and
it is surprising that they have been so long
overlooked by herdsmen. Sheep would thrive
for nine months in the year without any care
but that of a shepherd, and subsist through
the ordinary winters with but little attention.
A farmer who has a small flock, tells mo that
his sheep do not cosf him ten cents the head
from one year to another. They might not be
so profitable as upon the broad prairies of Tex
as, but it would be a very certain investment
atone hundred per cent per annum compound
interest. In Alabama, moat of these mountain
lands belong to the State, and there would be
no let or hindcrance to the squatter’s sover
eignty. In fact a partial occupation would be
advantageous to the territory.
CUKROKKK ALABAMA.
Cherokee county, from its location in the
Northern corner of the Stato, has never been
fully estimated in its importance. Its resour
ces are, to a great extent, latent, and there
only needs the wand of enterprise to wake up
and develop their unbounded worth. The Coo
sa River flows through the whole breadth of
the county, some iorty miles, and, in its vari
ous meanderings, makes more than twice that
distance, and a good breadth of tbe choicest
bottom lands. The Indian meaning of "Coosa”
must have been crooked—especially if they had
any idea of adjective—lor nothing conld be
more aignificant. The Lookout Mountain is
parallel with the valley, and but a few miles
removed from it upon tbe North. There are
table-lands of considdrsble extent, upon the
top some portions of which are very well farm
ed. An excellent quality of mineral ooal has
been discovered at various places throughout
the length of the mountain, which will no
doubt, at some future day, be in great requisi-
tion.
ROC HD MOUNTAIN IRON WORKS.
The most remarkable feature of the Coosa
Valley 4* “ Round Mountain,” or Iron Moun
tain, as it might very prororly be called. It is
situated some three-fourths of a mile from the
river upon the North side, and is twelve or
fifteen mile* from the Georgia State line. It
occupies the principal part of a quarter section
(half a mile square) its base being about one
and a half miles around, and its elevation is
probably from six to eight hundred feet above
the valley. It is certainly a freak in itself, and
only lacks a crater to give it the appearance of
having been the effect of volcanic action. The
whole surface is densely timbered with oak
and other hard woods, except a small portion
that is under cultivation, from which it is plain
to be seen that its ferruginous properties are
by no means averse to vegetable productive
ness. The slopes are strewn with iron pebbles
and the ore crops out at innumerable places
around the hill; but that which hoe found its
way to the furnace, thus far, has been quarried
near the top, borne too or three hundred yards
distant Tha ora lays in strata like limestone—
those which have keen worked being from two
to four feet in thickness. It ti easily broken
np, end ia hauled U the works ia picoes con
venient for handling. It might very easily be
delivered by means of oars upon a track, ar
ranged so that the loaded cam weald return
the empty ones to the mines. This would re
duce Ah* expense ono-kelf Ac doubt* though
bow its convenience is each that it ie qnarried
the bed and delivered at the furaoee at
88 to 48 cents per ton. Home openings
have been made even within a stone's throw of
the furnace.
QUALITY OV Til IRON.
The ore is of the fossil Ifsrous, or dye-stone
epeeies, and ha# been very thoroughly and eat
iofootorlly tested for all purposes for which
Iron Ie used. Chiefly it has been shipped in the
shape of pig, though hollow ware and machine
ry of various kinds have been extensively
manufactured at these Works. Mr. Miller, of
Savauuabi has made heavy ©sonon of this iron,
Dome of which pieCes were engaged Itr the re
duction of Fort 8umter. I have been told that
he pronounces it equal to any in tbe world for
strength and good qualities ie general. Messrs.
Gray A Osbura of the American Iron Foundry,
Augusta, have certified that it ie equal to any
American Iron. Mr. Beofield of your own city,
who uses much of the "Round Mountain Iron,"
ranks it aa tbe beat he ean obtain. Mr. Jonee,
of Loudon, Tennessee, who, by tbe way, wee
the fret manufacturer of railroad iron in Amer
ica, aays it is the beat iron in the wbola coun-
try.
[cONCLt'DRD TO MORSOW]
From tb* London Tim*-*.
MR. RUSSELL'S SIXTH LETTER TO THE
LONDON TIMES.
Our own Correspondent'e Observations and Ex
perience* in Charleston—The. Charlestonians
want to be rs annexed to (Jreat Britain—They
want a Prince—The Carolina Notion of the
Yankee Character—Their Love for the l*uri-
tan Fathere—Their Estimation of the North
ern Rabble—The Military Spirit of South
Carolina — Theplanters,the Neoroes, the Crops,
etc., etc.
Charleston, 8. C , April 80, 1801
Nothing I could say oan be worth one fact
which baa forced itself upon my mind in re
ference to tbe semioiems which prevail among
the gentlemen of this Stale, i have been
aaioug them several days. 1 have visited ibeii
plantation*. I have converged with theuiful
ly end freely. 1 have enjoyed that frank, cour
leous and graceful intercourse which consti
tutes an irresistible charm of their society
From all quarters has oouie to uiy ears the
echoes of the same voice; it may be feigned,
but there is no discord in the note, an'
sounds in wonderful strength and monotony
all over tbe country.
Shades of George III, of North, of John
son, of all who contended against the great
rebellion which tore these colonies from Eng
land, can you hear the chorus which rings
through the State of Marion, Sumter, and
Pinckney, and not clap your ghostly hands in
triumph ? That voice says, “ If we could on
ly get one of tbe Royal race of England to
rule over us, we should be content." Let there
be no misconception on this point. That sen
timent, varied in a hundred ways, has been
repeated to me over aud over again.
There i* a general admission that the means
to such an end are wanting, and that the de
sire cannot be gratified. Hut the admiration
for monarchical iustituiions on the English
model, for privileged classes, and for a landed
aristocracy and gentry, is undisguised and ap
parent ly genuine. With tbe pride of having
achieved their independence ie mingled io
South Carolinians' hearts a strange regret at
the result and consequences, and many are
they who ‘‘would go back to-morrow, if we
could."
An intense affection for the British connec
tion, a love of British habits and customs, i
respect for British sentiment, law, authoiity l
order, civilization and literature, pre-emin-
eutly distinguish the inhabitants of this Slate,
who glorying in their descent from anoienl
families on the Islands, whose fortunes they
still follow, and with whose membeis they
maintain not uafrequeutly familiar relations,
regard with an aversion, of which it is impos
sible to give an idea to one who has not seeu
its manifestations, the people of New Eng
land and the Northern States, whom they re
gard as tainted beyond cute by the venom of
“ Puritanism."
Whatever may be tbe cause, this is the fact
and the effect: •' The State of South Caroli
na, wa*,” 1 am told "founded by gentlemen."
it was not established by witch burning Pu
ritans, by cruel persecuting fanatics, who im
planted in tbe North tha standard ot Torque
raada, and breathed into the nostrils of their
newly-born colonies all the ferocity, blood-
thirstyuess and rabid intolerance of the In
quisition. It is absolutely astounding to a
stranger who aims at the preservation of a
decent neutrality to mark tbe violenoe of these
opinions.
“ If (hat confounded ship had sunk with
those Pilgrim Fathers on board," says ons,
♦♦we never should have been driven to these
extremities!" “ We could have got on with
the fanatics if they had been either Christians
or gentlemen," says another ; ** for io the first
case they would have acted with common char
ity, and in the second they would have fought
when they insulted us ; but there are neither
Christians nor gentlemen among them!”—
“ Anything on the earth !" exclaims a third,
‘‘soy form of govoroaent, any tyranny or
despotism you will; but"—and here is an ap
peal more terrible than the adjuration of all
the gods “ nothing on earth shall ever induce
us to submit to any union with the brutal,
bigotted blackguards of tho Now England
States, who neither comprehend nor regard
the feelings of gentlemen! Man, womao and
child we ll die first."
Imagine these and an infinite variety of
similar sentiments uttered by courtly well ed
ucated meo, who set great store on a nice ob
servance of the usagea of society, and who
are only moved to extreme bitterness and an
ger when they apeak of the North, and you
will fail to oonceiva tbe intensity of tbe dis
like of the South Carolinians for the free
States. There are the national antipathies on
our side of the Atlaatio which are strong and
have been unfortunately pertinacious and long
lived.
The hatred of the Italians for the Tedetco,
of the Greek for the Turk, of the Turk for the
Russ, is warm and fierce enough to satisfy the
Prince of Darkness, to apeak of e few little
pet averaiooa among allied Powers and the
atoms of composite empires; but they ere
ell mere indiffereooe end neutrality of feeliag
compared te tha soimeeiiy eviacad by the
“ gentry” of South Caroline for tke rabble of
the North.
The contest of Cavalier and Roundhead, ef
Vendean and Republican, even of Oroegemen
and Croppy, have been elegant jousting** reg
ulated by tbe finest rules of chivalry, compar
'd with those which North and South will ear*
ry on if their deeds support tbeir word*.—
" Immortal bate, tb* study ef reeuage" will
actuate every blew sod never ie the history
ot tke wer)d,porbepe, will go forth eueh dread
ful v * oietis aa that which may be beard before
tbe fight has begun. There ie nothing In ail
tba dork eaves of human passion so eroel end
deadly %s the hatred the Bomb CarsUnlnci
prefeee for pie Yankees.
That hatred bes been swelling for yeers, till
it Ie tbe very life blood of tbe flint*. U bee
eel Booth Carolina to work •*
isc her resources for Ike sti
di
voiWs; nod I am sntisM tb
g deep rooted design, eeecelved la seme toss's
minds thirty years agd, and axteaded gradu
ally, year after year to othere, to break away
from the Union at the very firet opportunity.
The North ie to South Cerollnn e oorrupt
and evil thing, to which for long years eke bed
been bound by burning ebaioe, while msnop*
oHsts and Manufacturers fsd on her tender
lirobe. She bee been bouod in e Mexeothian
onion te the object she leetbee. New Engioud
ia to her tbe incarnation of morel end polltieal
wickedness and social corruption. It ie the
source of everything which South Caroline
hates, and of the torrents of free thought and
taxed manufactures of Abolitionism and of
PimtusterioK, which have flooded the land.
Believe a Southern man as be believes him.
self, and you must regard New England and
Ibe kindred States as the birthplace of impu
rity of mind among men, and of unohaetity
in women—the home* of Free Love, of Four
ierism, of Iofidelity, of Abolitionism, of false
teachings in pditioal economy end lu eocinl
life—a land aaturated with the drippings of
rettoo philosophy, with the poisoooas infec
tions of e fanatic press, without honor or
modesty, whose wisdom is paltry cunning,
whose valor and manhood have been swallow
ed up in a corrupt, bowling demagogy, and in
the marts of a dishonest commerce. It is the
merobants of New York who fit out abips for
tbe slave trade, and carry it on in Yankee
ships.
It is the capital of tha North whioh sup
ports, and it is Northern men wboconeootasd
execute, tbe filibustering expeditious which
have brought discredit on the slaveholdiog
States. In the large cities people are cor
rupted by itinerant and ignorant leoturers; in
the towns and ia the country by an un
principled press. Tbe population, indeod,
know how to read and write, but they
doo’t know how to think, and they are tbe
easy victims of the wretohed impostors on all
tbe ologies and isms who swarm over the re
gion. and subsist by lecturing on subjeots
which the inmate vices of mankind induce
them to accept with CAgerness, while they l«-
•uaie tbe garb of philosophical abstractions
to cover their nastiness in deference to a con
tea.ptible and universal hypocrisy.
•* Wo dll* the butchers' shops with large blue files !”
Assuredly the New England demon who has
been persecuting the South till its intolerable
cruelty and insolence forced her, in a spasm
of agony to rend her chains asunder. TLt
New Englander must have something to per
secute, and as he has hunted down all his In
dians, burnt all his witches and persecuted all
his opponents to the death, he invented Abo-
litionis.it as the solo resouroe left to him for
the gratification of his favorite psation. Next
to his motive principle is his desire to make
money, dishonestly, trickily,meanly and shab
bily.
lie has acted on it in all relations with the
South, aod has cheated and plundered her in
all his dealings, by villainous tariffs. If one
objects that the South must have been a par
ty to this, because her boast is that her states
men have ruled the Government of the coun
try, you are (old that the South yielded out
of pure good nature. Now, however, the will
have free trade, and will open the ooottiog
trade to foreign nations, and shut out from it
the hated Yankees, who so long monopolised
and made their fortunes by it. Under oil the
varied burdens and miseries to whioh eke woe
subjected, the South held feat to her sheet an
chor. South Carolina was tho mooring gronnd
in which it found the surest hold.
The doctrine of State Rights was her salva
tion, and the fiercer the sterm raged against
her—the more stout demagogy. Immigrant
preponderance, and the bloeta of universal
suffrage bore down upon her, threatening
to sweep away the vested interests of the
South in her right to govern the Stales ; the
greater was her confidence aod the more reso
lutely she held on her cable. The North at»
traded '* hordes of ignorant Germane and
Irish," and the scum of Europe, while tke
South repelled tLem.
The industry, the capital of tbe North in
creased with enormous rapidity, under the
influence of cheap labor and manufacturing
ingenuity and enterprise, in the villages whioh
swelled into towns, and the towns which be-
oame cities, under the unenvioua eye of tbe
South. She, on the contrary, toiled on alow*
ly, clearing foreala and draining swamps te
find new cotton grounds and rioe fields, for
the employment of her own industry and for
the development of her only capital—"JnvoL
untary labor." The tide of immigration wax*
ed stronger, and by degrees she sew the die
triots in which she claimed the right to intro
duce that capital, dosed against her, end oc
cupied by free labor.
The dootrine of “squatter sovereignty,"
and tha forcrof hostile tariffa, whioh plaoed
a heavy duty on the very articles which tbe
South most required, completed the measure
of injustioe to whioh she woe subjected, aod
the spirit of discontent found vent in fiery de
bate in personal insults, and in aoorimonious
speaking and writing, whioh inoreaaed in in
tensity, in proportion as the abolition move
ments, and the eontest between the Federal
prinoiple and State Rights, became more ve
hement. I am desirous of showing in a few
word*, for the information of English readers,
howjl is that tbe Coofederaoy, whioh Europe
knew simply os a pditioal entity, haa succeed
ed in dividing itself.
The slave States held the doctrine, or say
they did, that each State was independent os
Franoe or as England, but that for oertele
purposes they chose e common agent te deal
with foreign nations, and to impose texts for
tbe purpose of paying tbe expenses of tbe
egenoy. We, it appears, talked of American
oitizens when there were no suoh beings at
all. There were, iodoed oitistne of the sov-
ereign State of 8outh Caroline, or of Geor
gia or Florida, who permitted themselves to
pass under that designation, but It was mere
ly ass matter of personal convenience.
It will be difioulc for Europeans te under
stand this dootrlae, ae nothing like it baa
been beard before, and no sueh Confederation
of Sovereign 8tetea has ever existed In any
country in the world. Tbe Northern men de
ny that It exist fid bore, and claim for the Qct-
erel Government power not compatible With
•uoh assumptions. They Lavo lived for tke Un:
loo, they served it, they labored for end made
money by it. A nee, ns • New York maa, wee
nothing—os an American oitisen kn wee a
great deal. A Booth Carolinian objected to
lose identity in any deaeriptio* whioh iaeiu-
for several general foua ; ^
torn ember that, when ten fii»
ed from tbeir three#
bnrgeseee of South I
the wandering
e*d bad fiffered
tbe phi:
btoSsfittui
bare been the result
earrfod hie fortune
South Carolina
miles, and u population
tents, ot wbem 286,000 are
tke eld rebellion it woe dl
rerolutiouary principle
dileetlee, end at I«m( #__ _
era were faitktal to George 1]
Coreli*
•ontoine
and the
m-knlf
yield until Wnebtoeten
netagouiate,
•entaa
ded him
Ynukeu eieckmoker ” to tbu
woe against him ; be remember
ed that be eemo from n root ot English gee*
t lemon who find been persecuted by tb# repre
sentatives—for be will net anil them tbe ae
castors—of ike Puritnoe of New Bag toad, and
bfi thought that they war* animated by tbe
bsetlUty to himself. Bn wen proud ef
ten. ned be felt pleasure to tracing toe
with old famine, in the eld eeuu
try. Hie plantation* were bald by eld that-
taxi fit bad bean in tba bands of ton Art here
randlM MW! awtw. •
port tbeir
tbe colony
Ie my next letter I shall ef
count of a visit to some ef '
far os it ean be mode -—«-
ligation, nbick Ik, rilM ui
Inilty '
■k.
ImpoM upon ih,
Ik, bo,I.
IWU
i w,U
Ik,
Tbm f«oll*aen tr,,
ond hoopItoU*. A (M,in,
b»T, lira. U cultiTtl. tbeir
th.Bi.lTM lo politic, tnd i
public offoir,. lh«y tram ,
laid aporU, ruing, .boon,,
log. nr, bold koruaaa „d >m4
oftar nil, tkoir Slat, i, , modtn
nriatocrncj ruling on • h«l«ry
nothing tiro to rut upoo. ,
Although they prafon (and‘l
dead, aiooortly,) t. hold cpiaku
lion to tho opening of tb, ,la n
DoTtrtholou true that th, elu«
atitation of tho Confederate!
hibilod Ibo importation of a. .
einlly and energetically reaiiiad
becauea, aa lb«y tay, it - tlrit ,
admiuioa that alarery > u j ( j,
and n arong. Thtir obola
alnrary, nod aa auob tbty dalbad
entertain vary exaggerated idrai of
Wry atrugib af tbeir little
though uaa may do fulljoati HI(
epirii.
Out of tbeir whole p.palatiea
reckon morn than 60,000 adak a
arithmetic; end u then an ,
plantation*, wbieb moat be,
auparintanded by white mu, a
number of throe adult, maul ~
Ibo Stole for carrice in tkt epra
planter* bout that they can rate
witbont any ioeoarenitBee by I
(heir ncgroca, aod they arern —
tba negrou will work wltkool -
dance. Bui tbu experiment ia rati,
oua, and it will only be triad ia tb
Iremity.
LEATHER! LEA
At Wholesale or
i
WE aro now
to furnish man:
and dealer, with
Hemlock Bole Leather,
While Oak Do.
French Cair Skin*, r
Philadelphia Do.
Morocco
Do.
Lining and Binding 8kia%
Shoe Thread,
Shoe Eyletn,
Laate, Peg*, Salle,
And everything connected wi*
manufacture of Boote and
A large Let ef the tbor*
just received.
And for ante At Wholesale or
OIMICK. WILSON/-
June 20—dAwlm
Leather! Leather!!.
30,0*0 tba. Good Hemlock Wa.
10,0*0 ha. Good White Oek We.
0* doaoo Frooek Calf M 1 "’
broad. . , _
I* doaas Philadelphia CoW-
Shoo Thread, I-»«*.
received by DIMICK, Wlt»*
June 10-diwlae.
oak in military eOyW. ■ - .
bin delivery to J.H. Hi****
Priatiig HN*k Ie *kla *Hy. *
1*. 1001.